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Th? Official Organ of Murphy and
Cherokee County. North Carolina
BRYAN W. SIPE. Editor Manager
MISS H. M. BERRY. Aeaociate Editor
PUBLISHED EVER\ FRIDAY
The New Power
Company
The coming of a commercial power
company into this section as an active
product r of power holds out great
hopes f ir section. Private enterprise
is much more responsive to
... the needs and demands < f the pubiic
than is :iubJicly owned busnesse. The
new owners of the Xotla Power plant
have expressed a desre to co-operate
wth the pubic n even way and
have bound themselves ! v contract
to take steps to supply addtonal power
on demand. Not only tnis, but
they are interested ::i creating a demand.
This new company, therefore, will
be an ally of the progressive itlzenship
of the town, which is striving
to brin : in new enterprise and stimulate
business and prosperity in thi?
section. It has already brought considerable
money into the town and
county. More will be added from time
to time a.- the need arises.
The more busines of all kinds that
can be brought heet; the more money
that can be jut in circulation in a
community, th emore prosperous it
becomes. The community welci mas
this new company Murphy, as was
shown by the <- approving the sale
of the plant to it, and \ ledges it every
co-operation to aid it in its desire
to supply l-cht and power to
the community.
The Road
Situation
In another wlumn we publish a
letter of complaint about the condition
of the road from Murphy t<' Andrews.
Then- is no denying that th?
road is in a deplorable condition, it
s to bo l oped that the public will ac
cept the situation in the right attitude
and give the State an opj runitv to
build us a first class road.
?No one is to blame for the condition
of the road. As s one one ter^c ly
remarked a few days ago. "The
contractor shoveled the dirt and the
Almighty sent the raid." The road
In question is a State highway. It
has been under state control for several
years. The County Highway
r Commission has nothing to do with it.
The rond is in worse condition now
than it has been in the past. But foi
a number of years it has been almost
impassable at some time during the
winter season. And if something
had not been done to it. this c >ndition
would have prevailed through
out the future. The road is almost if
not quite unusable, but if the people
will make the best of the inconven
ience thus occasnioned. it ?* prebah!;:
that this link will be surfaced before
? another winter comes. i his will
mean that it will be an all-year road
for many years to come. Before the
road could be surfaced it had t be
graded. It is unfortunate that it i?
necessary to pass through a winter
without a surface on the road. But
this is due to a lack of nionoy and to
the fact that the load has not been
rady for a surface. It must be allowed
to settle first.
In order to make sure that this
road is surfaced, the people of this
county should write Representative
Swan and Senator Robertson and any
other members of the Legislature and
urge upon them the necessity of passing
a bill appropiiating additional
funds for state highways. It is only
in this way that this section can hope
to get any funds to surface this link
of road. This western section perhaps
more than any other, needs additional
road money. The Legisla
tare alone can make it available. Aic
should be sought there.
Sugar from artichokes may ye1
cause cane and beet sugar to take 5
back seat in the museum of curiosi
ties. According to Dr. R. F. Jackson
j the Bureau of Standards of the De
partment of Agriculture has devolopec
a process for ihe extraction of suga:
from artichokes. The process is sim
pie and cheap, and the sugar obtainet
is one and one-half times as sweet a
the present product. Furthermore
th* artichoke is easy to cultivate ant
yields more to the acre than eithei
cane or beets.
rkar?iH?rwin? imarii-* ma !?? wnv)
hop of the world, "with four yeari
of uninterrupted opportunity to wort
I ahead of it," cCharles Schwab, Chair
man of the Bethlehem Corporation
pood let* another arm of prosperity
Wbat'i more, the facta seem to b<
with him this time.
fihfc.
LETTERS FROM THE
PEOPLE
When I Was a Boy
Editor The Scout:
1 just thought of railing to mind a
few things of forty years ago when
1 was a boy. I have wondered many
times what would be the results?
the crying, the confusion. th?t uproar?over
our community, if the
people* of today could go back to
conditions as they existed forty year*
ago. I want to impress on the mind?
: of the young people of the rising get oration
a few of the thing? which
we oldt-r brothers and sisters had t->
undergo. We fought the battle r f
i ft without culture, without educa'
tion. or refinement; but as we lived
we foresaw the need of these thing?
and realized that we must devise
some means to educate and better
prepare our children for a better life.
So we have sacrificed our time and ,
means to build better schools and
churches, which havt b en ar.d arc
the means of advancing our land and
community and the uplifting . : the ,
Kingdom of our Lord and Master.
Hearing in nrr.d that we older peo- '
pie have done these things. I want '
:<> impress on the minds of the young
folks a few of the hardships we forefathers
and mothers ur.dnwent in the!
I
past. ].
The first thing I w try to .ic-1
I scribe is the humble. 1 ttle cottage on j'
*he hill where the happy days of my j
' hildhcod were spent. The house j'
happened tc be a pir.c hewed U g
building 16x18. one story, door in
side, porch across the front, a rock !
chimney at or.e end built by "Old
Man" Bennie Johnson, with whom
inany of your teadtrs are personally
acquainted. The kitchen was a separate
building about twenty feet
away from the living room. This
was a Kg rlructure also. The chimney
was what we called a stick and
(lay chiimuy. with a fire place about
four feet wide and eighteen inches
'deep, where my mother cooked rations
in kettle- and baking ovens. Our
light was a pine knot split open and
laid on the sh vol end the handle of
j ti shovel placed in the jam of thi
chimney, with the blaze and smoke
ending the v.all, and you can imagine
when the wind blew the smoke
I filled the room and aim - stifled
I > v? rybody in the house. The next
J host light we had was the tallow canMile
run from heef and sheep tallow
'{These candles were run in tin molds
atound cotton wicks. When drawn
out. they were ten or eleven inches
iong. They were placed in what we,
j called candle stands and when light |
ed would burn about five or six hours
and would scarcely make enough light
to read or spell a word in Webster's
Id Blue Back.
The next thing we had for n light j:
; was a small brass lamp burning coal j
joii. That was much better. So the;
improvement on the lighting system;
up to the present is wonder ful.
I In <11, riLino- ,if th.. ..1.1 ti.iw... fir.
I~| place it makes me think of something]
J like this: When the young folks 1
1 were cirtirig the young man would!
j come t<? see your daughter and would
'sit in one corner and the girl in the
other, the "Old Man" in a big arm
chair in front looking on. An old
fashioned weight clock on the mantle
seemed to say, 'Go slow. Go slow."
Nowadays, things are altogether different.
They have narrowed the fire
i ? ~
STOP!
I
i CO!
1 It is dangerous to Go, when the :
signal says Stop! To heed warnings is
I to save life.
The Stop 1 signals for health are such |
5 warnings as backache, shooting pains* <
, recurring headaches, chilliness, dizzi]/
ness, drowsiness, irritability, morose- 1
. ness, rheumatic twinges, swollen joints, I
gout
These signals warn you that there is
ft "traffic jam" in the lfidn?v?- and ?lie I
' "Go" signal can't be utilized until die |
i clogging poisons (uric add, mostly) j
t1 are Hushed out.
i Drinking a glass of hot water each I
morning is effective and before each 1
j meal take an An-uric tablet (anti-Uric- j
Step into any drug store and obtain
An-uric tablet*, discovered by Dr. 1
, Pierce, Pres. and made at the famous I
! Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Or. I
^ send Dr. Pierce 10c for a trial package.
j 1^
THE CHEROKEE SCOU
place ."even to eighteen inches and ^
and one chair is all the sitting room
they care to have, and a little round
faced clock on the mantle seems to
nay, "Get together, get together, get
together."
If you, Mr. Editor, can find space
in your columns and think this will
be entertaining to the young folks..
I will write something for next week' j
paper, describing something of the j
kind of tools we had to use.1 ard j
how our mothers toiled at home at
looms to clothe the family.
J. C. MOSS. |
fKurphy, Route 1.
"Good Roads"
Editor The Scout:
North Carolina is boasting much in >
the press, both at home and abroad, j'
way about "graded roads. Rood
roads." and brags that she has the
road? of anv state in the Union,
except perhaps Maryland. and on '
which she has spent many million?
i>f dollar?; and we are squeezing the
legislature now in session to Rive u?
thirty-five million? more for our
"celebrated** "pood road?."
State Highway No 10 i? one of
these widely advertised throtiRh high?ay?.
connecting up Wellington. Asheki'.'e.
Murphy. Biairsville, to Atlanta.
This is the road leading from Andrews
to Murphy. My, my! what a
disgusting mud hole it now is! It's
absolutely -niras ible?much of it t.
I think it? a down-right shame f ?r the
State of North Carolina, with her engineers
ar.d contractors, to treat us
Valley River people this way. For
we had a very good road leading from
Andiews down Valley River to Murphy?and
Valley-township was keeping
this road in good travel repair
until tht new road law took it
uway from theiiv. The state then
came in, a? nb< ve ?tnted, and
ploughed our road up. filled it in with
red clay, and the late rains fixed it
up to a mini-master's best taste?it
is a long impassible mudhole now
much of the way from the old Nnth
Hyatt place up to Andrews.
And nobody woikingon it now ?
neither tin- state nor the township;
we art just left ? we Valley Rivit
people are?"in"' the cruel fate of
mud-holes, and then more mud holes.
This is what I call a down-right*
shanve: for us to suffer such treatment.
Who do 1 blame for it? The
State Highway Commissioners, of
course. Who else can I blame foi
ploughing up our good road and filling
it in with Valley River red and
black mud. and leaving it impassible
nnkinlii . .-L-in.r it" .,11
J ?'|
long?
If anybody who is responsible for
this condition, or feels themselves responsible,
gets mud ab >ut this letter,
we of Valley River have this consolation:
They arr no madder than we
are about our miserable road. So.
there, you have it.
I ftin very much in favor of real
good roads, and am anxious for inej
legislature to give us another thirty-I
live million dollars, if it takes the I
whole to hard surface our road ftoni'
Andrews to Murphy. We deserve it. j
VALLEY RIVER CITIZEN, j
Editor The Seout:
If you have space in your paper fori
a few lines from Haywood County
from a subscriber and frioi 1 td
Cherokee County, I wish to say that
as I become better acquainti d with
the people of Cherokee County we
are convinced that you have song? of
as fine people us North Carolina affords?men
who stand for the right, |
for the couse of Christ's Kingdom in '
this world. But we must pray for;
more laborers in th* vineyard of our :
Lord's Cause.
As we pass into the new year, the ,
one resolution that we should make!
is to abide by the golden rule. Soma.
people think this a pretty close rule,
but the pure and undefiled religion
Of JesUS Christ surely will make us
follow it. Let us all try this plan
for the new year and we will see
the church of Christ reach thi top
and many souls led to Christ. And
sin will not cause so much sorrow in
this land of liberty and freedom.
Sirl brings so much disgrace and
shame on many homes and sorrow to
fathers and mothers.
The writer was called on to conduct
the funeral of Mortimer King,
who was electrocuted on December
5th for the murder of Major McLeary *
last September. Oh, what a task it
seemed to us to have that large host
of people to speak a few words to as
the dead knew nothing. The last
words of this poor dying man were
that ai nhad brought him to the electric
chair.
So, young and old, take warning
by this and let us fight sin witn all
our might and power. If we follow
Jesus all the way we will have a
peaceful hour when we must deet
T. MURPHY. N. C.
FAULTY NUTRITION
Many of the ailments of grown
people may be traced to faulty
nutrition. Well-fed children or
adults withstand weakness better
than those who are indifferently
nourished.
Scott's Emulsion
supplies the weakened child or
adult with food-factors that
other foods often fail to furnish
in needful volume. ,
Not a great deal of Scott's
Emulsion is needed?but a little
regularly often means restored
vigor and strength
to those who arc rundown *" It
in vitality or who arc weak.
Sc.it & B B'.ousifidd N J. 24-24
jeaceful hour when we must meet
ing. lie host above.
REV. L. F. CLARK.
Canton. X. C.
Suitor Scout:
I will appreciate it very much if
<;U will allow me space in your paper
o discuss a few things in regard to
tur school.
I have been living in the ne'ghhoriood
of Grape Creek for t?n years,
ind I am proud to say that we have
tad the best school this yea rthnt has
een taught here since I have been in
his community. Mr. Martin and Miss
3dom. wh i ha\ charge ofthe school,
rave succeeded in reforming the
tchool to a great extent, wh:ch was
reeded very badly, and not only the
t-opU- of ii.Is. district know about thi?
natter but people fro mother places
rave noticed a change by only pnssng
the road.
Miss Odnm is to be congratulated
rery much for the great work she ha?
lone for the little folks. She is a
fine primary teacher. Mr. Martin
s a man of considerable school experience.
He sems to know exactlv
".ow to govern n school. He has nn
pets, uses no partiality. He will, if
necessary, correct the committee's
hildren as quick as the others.
There are n few of the parents in
this district ns well as in other district
who do not mrtect thoir chilIren
at home and get up on their
launches if the teacher corrects them
n school. What kind of a citizen
.v II a boy or girl make when their
parents allow them fipht an duse
ill kind of bad language and even go
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Being PI
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Cotton Checks. ill :c
Men's and Women's
Umbrellas
inn R nora1r?T*r A nrnn
* * ?f-"
$1.50 and $2.00 Men'
$1.50 Women's fine
Slips _
Women's Undershirts
Pants, each
Childern's $1.25 155
50 New Spring wool i
Dresses at Won*
Candler's
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on the teacher for correcting them
for these things? ,
We have had cur school house shot
up by drunken men and boys who
j have probably gone to school at th:s
j place in the past, and what will the
; future be, if the rising generation is
' not taught better?
j There have been schools taught
here that were not safe for children
to attend unless they were experts
with their fists, and parents have
I ben known to accompany their chl
dren to and from school to protect
them.
The best citizens of Grnpe Creek j
would be- glad to get Mr. Martin end
Miss Odom to teach the school next'
year, but under prevailing circumstances
have no idea that money (
would get them back again. I am
not only expressing my opinion about i
these things but it is the opinion cf j
the majority of the people of thi*
community when the true facts are J
known. s
Very respectful';*.
SAM M. CAITS.
Fat Man's Corner
First Maid?"H w did you 1 ke ,
working for that college professor?" ^
Second Mnid?"Aw. it was a rot- {
ten job. He was all the time quar- (
reling with his wife, and they kept
me busy running between the key- ,
hole and the dictionary."
i
I He?Dearest, will you marry me?
She-?John. I can't marry you, but
I shall always respect your good
taste. i
j "Agms is looking as young as
ever."
"Yes. but she says it costs her
more every year."?Boston Tran- (
script.
, 1
| Kma nut 1 Jackson, mule tender, appeared
one morning on crutches. I
i "I.awsy!" exclaimed a friend, "Ah |
thought yo* was one 0* dc bos' mule .
han'let.s in de business."
I "So Ah is," affirmed Emanuel
; proudly, "hut we done got a mule ia '
dis mo'nin' dat didn't know mah roppitsiicn."?Legion
Weekly.
Daughter?What makes I'a look
so mad?
Mother?He got a cindir in h:?|
eye on the way to churc h and it kept?
him awake all through the sermon.? j
Country Gentleman.
I
First Hunter?Killed anything? j
j Second Hunter?Not a thing- Wish J
I I'd e'ine motoring now.?London By-i
1 standi r. i
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ith Wonderful P
aced On Sale Ec
[OW GOING O
liors^cT^c omen s an
Up to $ I.
$1-50
i-b----98c Mens $3.00
s 69c Brown Shee
Sateen ., ,
93,. Very best g
yard
49c $1.25 Men's
25MSE!
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MURPHY, N. C.
Friday, January 1928
Complete in Itself
Sharpens the blade in the
razor without removing it.
Quick. Convenient. Easy
to clean. Complete
razor, with strop and
blades, 31.00 and up. j"
\hlet AitoStrop Raior
Mistress?Who broke that china
ujr?
Maid?The cat, mum.
Mistress?What cat?
Maid?Why, ain't we got one??
Capetown Caper.
Tommy?Is that a iicn or lioness,
)apa?
Father?Which one, dear?
Tommy?The one with its face
icratched, and The hair off its head.
Father (with a sigh)?That must
>e tnt lion.?uumin ineiepenaent.
A woman was crossing the street
vhen a big dog ran into her with
uch force that it knocked her down.
Fust then a light car nearly ran over
ter. A man. witnessing tht accident,
ante to her assistance. "Did that
log hurt you?" he- asked.
She locked at him ? little dazed
and replied: "No. the dr?g didn't
turt me. It was the tin can tied to
ts tail."?Detroit Flivvc r.
"What's the matter now. Crumps?"
"My daughter is wearing knickers
end my son is taking a girl's part in
he college play."?Louisville Courer?Joornal.
A woman once cant tn Dr. Bunkum
with the announcement: "Dr.
Bunkuni, the Lord has acr.t me to you
r<?r $300."
"That must he a mistake, madam,"
ie responded instantly, "for the Lord
knows 1 haven't got $300."?Boston
Transcript.
"Is there any particular sport you
are fond of, Miss Effic?"
"No,?hut- or?I like you very
much, Mr. Sn::. gs."Scribner'a Magazine.
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Sale
4ew Bargains
ich Day.
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id Misses Hats,
50 values 25c
all-wool Shirts, $1.98
ting, yard 8c
/omen's Hose, pr, 10c
rade Gingham,
12?/2C
id Children's Coats
it $2.98 and up
Rajr^Coate^_^J^j!M$ '
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