I M- IT ISN'T IN E THE SCOUT I ITS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T : I KNOW IT I The Official Organ * JJol.l'ME XXXVII. K 2 CAD MEETINC AT ANDREWS STRIKES OPTIMISTIC NOTE P 3 OVER COMINC MOTORCADE . Lpreirntntives From Western Caro; I lina ?n<* North Georgia Attend; I Jud-e Bryion Speaks For National ^ 3 Park in Great Smokies . I Tho beautiful little city of Andrew?. " r Buated at the southern gateway to Be Nar tahala Canyon, was r lat j Boaday evening to one of the most j BichJMasUc meetings : the Murphy- I Bbeville division of the Appalachian I ' Ber.u- Highway ever held i- this sec-'0 ' B r., at which representatives from .| Bhcville. Bryson City, Sylva, Rob-1 w lir.-v Murphy. Blairsv 1; ar.d Hia- f Ba-sce were present. n I Tht meeting was in re.-p. r- ? to in- * Station* sent out several days ag ? by ^ lay W. M. Fain, of Murphy, calling tl jpre.-entatives of the differ, rt tow s n nd along the route f r th> pur- ^ osc t discussing plans for the recep. ci or. :it the state line of the t?.ur being jr r nsor?%d by Th? Atlanta Journal on tpteniber 14th-loth, between Atlanta w r i Ashcville. ' Jadtf T. D. Bryson, of Brys ?; . City, ? : ai ai the principal speaker . !' the oc- r and his remarks were confined q it!-, proposed Smoky Mountain Na-'hi onal Park and its meaning t.i th's T1 Tht meeting was oprmd by Mr. D. ?' L Ttliitt, prominent attor. #y and tjiient of the Andrew- Chamber f C -inmerre, who presided. " After a lew preliminary r marks, di t. Till it introduced Mayor \V. ("Bill") Wlii taker. ?,f Andrews,j*" h welcomed the visitors on behalf 4' th.1 town. Mayor Whitaker spoke fry n'husiastically of the coming pi otarcade, and stated that An.lr.ws, vv the southern gateway to the great ft' anttihaui Canyon, was making eat plans for the entertainment of ? t urists when they past=. The next speaker on the program i> Mayor W. M. Fain, of Murphy, h.' railed the meeting. He stated at it? object was to foster good 10 ill and co-operalion among the difrent towns of Western North CarNorth Georgia, and Fast Tenssee, and gave assurance that Muriy was not seeking aa advantage vc other towns in this section but willing, anxious and ready to vc -operate in any movement for the htilding of thi< entire section. He an >o -tatcd that what would help one *t. would help the others, and pit ad ?f r a friendly spir.t ot co-operation th part of all the town? in this hi.ction. Hi Mr. Fain sugg^ted and urged that jut mane nt organization of all the Su ' and towns of Western North irolina, North Georgia and East A1 nnessce be effected, to comprise 0 or three members from each Kri wn or county, who would form an ffanizatlon that could htielie speed- oti any matters coming up that would of interest to this section. Ch H, also spoke of the coining tour lich is being sponsored by the Alita Journal over th- Allantu-Mur- Sol y-Asheville division of th,. Ap|?a- thi hian Scenic Highway, pointing a f $ the vast amount of advertising is .-ection is receiving as a result Wi the motorcade passing this way, 1 urged that the civic organiza- Dc n* in the different towns along the Qte co-operate with Murphy in vei icging pressure to bear upon the ' p Governor, senators, representa- S'r es and other high oficials of North irolina, to join Morphy in extending welcome} to the motorcade when reaches the State line. 19; Mr. B. B. Fite, prominent banker J citizens of Blairsville, pledged ^ui c co-operation of Blairsville and lion County, Ga., to every move-1 for the upbuilding of this 1 >'Jntain section- cof AttorneT, R I Phillina mnH Choir m T. M. Jenkins, of the Graham "^ei unty Road Commission, of Rob- 2?' l*ville, were optimistic over the J a * w road being constructed that 1 >uld give Graham County an out-!fr0 into Tennessee, and spoke very | Pr< t^usiastically of the coming Jour- *'n I motorcade. ^r* D. R. Bryson, president of e Bryson City Chamber of Com- nt who* explained that they ^ (Ccnlimied o? paje 6) h< of Murphy tnd Cherc 'RELIMINARIES COMPLETED 1 FOR CITY DELIVERY HERE Post Office Inspector W. B. Gar-! ison of Washington Division was here j his week conducting an investigatm concerning the proposed establish-; lent of a city delivery as petitioned v citizens sometime ago. A map f the city was furnished him by city uthorities and the proposed Lrri-j ry was thoroughtly gone over by j nsptctor Garrison and Postmaster )ickey. Impression is gained that onditions met favorably with the inpector's views and it 'is belit ved bat some kind of a delivery service ill be instituted w thin thc near uture. if conditio.-s are such as to leet the approval of the Post Office epartment. The names of all the reets have b on nosted and th?? ousts numbered and it is thought -.at the 'requirements of the depart lent have been met. and that Mr. iarri son's report to the Post Office epartment relative to the proposed itv delivery will be heard from withi the near future. It s understood that Mr. Garrison as here sometime ago and made a torough examination of thi) local 1 ffice, and found Postmaster Dickey nd his corps of able assistants ndering highly efficient service, mite a numb: r cf remarks have bet n jard from tint* to time upon the, rompt and courteous service accordi by all those attached to the local fflce. Mr. I)icl;? y, the city authoiities and cal Chamber ->f Commerce officials e to be commended upon the sple d co-operation shown on every end with the Post Office Departent in the matter of securing city 'livery. Everything on this end tht. proposition has now been cometed, and it is likely that the report ill be acted upon within the next w weeks. ROGRAM FOR SHOAL CREEK SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Program for Shoal Creek Sunday! hool Convention, Aug. 29th, 1925. he held with the church at Mount j ?rnon, near Wehutty, N. C. 9: A. M. Assemble at Church for rvotional Exercises. 9:15 Election of officers for conntion. 9:15?9:20 Singing by entire conntion. '. 9:30?10:00 Roll call of delegates,1 d short talks from the Superintend' nts of the various Sunday Schools ' the townships. 10:00?10:45 Speech, subject of ; . own choosing, by Col John H. | Hard. I 10.45?11:15 Speech by County < pt. A. L. Martin. 11:15?11:30 Essay by Miss Lc-xie len. . ' j] 11:30?12:30 Dinner on the ? uund. 1 12:30 Ressemble at church, D^v- ] ,onal by Bro. W. S Simonds. < 12:30?1:00 Talk by Rev K. G.: i ?ry. alternate Col M. W. Bell. It 1:00?1:15 Singing by convention. ( 1:15?1:45 Talks from Sunday r liool Superintendent??Subject: the ngs which have done most to create } rood interest in my Sunday School.. 1:45?2:15 Talk by Rev. W. A. : tt. j 2:15?2:45 Talk by Rev J. P.! f cker. 2:45?3:0o Singing by the con- 1< ition. c 1:00?3:30 Talk by Rev W. S. } nonds. a 3:30 Assignment of Committees. t 3:45 Dismissal. v Second Day, Sunday August 30th. *5. ! t 9:00 A, M., Assemble in churuch' ilding. 9:00?9:20 Devotional by Rev. wt Marr. f 9:20?9:30 Three songs by entire v lvention. a 0:30?10:00 Talk by Rev. Carl|s utelle?Subject: Some very im- t font fnrtftp* in fhp rnndnrti of ' t iuccessful Sunday School. \ 10:00?10:15 Roll call of delegates A .m the various Sunday Schools h sent and report of Committee on f ie and place for next session of this . ly. etc. 10:15?11:15 Special exercises by t difft rent Sunday Schools. 11:15?11:45 Speech by Prof, scorn R. Caroll?Subject of his own S 30 ing. Ctjen >kee County, and the L MURPHY, NORTH CARC Striking Scenes -211111 ^J%vA -v-'V't-r %- --=^ '* Rifi?^-- V.; ,^v -: NO HIGHWAY EAST OF TI the new Appalachian Scenic Highwi miles of it traverses mountains, ' Memorial bridge- a lew nvU-s nortl in ?K ? v? tv:. ing the mountains toward Neel Gap the highway, which was blasted ou journXl~m6tor caravan for scenic highway jaunt will be five miles lonc All indications are that the Atlan ta-Asheville tour va Murphy will have more than 150 entries with be tween 400 and 500 tourists. Up tc rhursday the entry list had reached 110 with around 50 assurances oi additional entries, according to dis >atch of the Atlanta Journal, which uaper is sponsoring tht. tour. The ntry lists do not close until noon Saturday. September 12th. It is estimated that less than 2." percent of those entered will drop >ut; thus it appeai-s that this tou- will 3e one- of the largest and most important ever conducted. A statistician has figured that allowing an nterval of about 100 yards between he cars the motorcade will wretch >ut for a distance of more than five niles. three cars have been entered from Jurphy and it is expected that others will be entered from hire before he entrifs close. The entries from Murphy are as ollows: W. M. Fain, Mayor; E. P. Haw:ins, local Hudson dealer, car to he ficial car of the city; Mr. E. C. loore, local Willys-Knight, Overland nd Dodge dealer, car to join moorcade at Murphy and go on to Asheillt. iew school bus bought by county Mr. E. C. Moore drove a large bue rom Asheville Monday to Murphy - hich has been purchased by county uthorities for use in transporting rhool children of Andrews district o school at Andrews. It is understood hat the bus will be used between larble and Andrews and Topton and Lndrews. It is a Graham ^us built y Dodge Brothers. and will seat rom 28 to 30 pupils. 11:4I>?12:00 Singing by the inire convention. 12:00 M. Adjurnment. Dinner served on the ground iatur^nv opIt. it. L. KEENUM, Township Pres. jfeft ?5 .ead ing Newspaper in ti )LINA FRIDAY. AUGUST 21, 1923. > on New Appah ''Sly Sr^.; iirtST IF ROCKIES OFFERS SO MUCH WC ly between Atlanta and Asheville, via talleys and gontej. Top picture show i of Cleveland, Ga.. and the lower picl picture the Journal's Studebaker Stan [>, which is just a few mil s ahead, t of the side of the mountains.?Cut BEAL HURT IN ACCIDENT; NUMBER OTHERS REPORTED | Mr. L. F. Real is confined to his home this week with injuries thought [to be severe as a result of the collis ion of his mail wagon and a Ford > automobile driven by Carl Bates, at I the L. & N*. Station Wednesday niirht : Several other occupants were in the 'ear. at the time, including Arthur, i son of Mr. Real, and all escaped with; out injury. No one was in the wagon i but Mr. Beal. I It st cm? that the young Mr. Bates, i who was said to be driving the car. i turned to the left to avoid some I pedestrians and before he could get . the car over on the right again van . into the wagon bring driven by Mr. Real. It is thought that the high i i springy board seat, upon which Mr.; Beal was sitting, had a tendency to throw him from the wagon to the ground when the sudden compact of the two vehicles came. The leg of one of the mules hitched to the wagon was broken, which necessitated that the mule he killed. Mr. Beal i* said to have sustained i severe injury to the chest, and it is 'thought that a number of ribs were ibroken. Other Accidents Quite a number of other automobile accidents have happened during (the week, according to information J rt aching here. j The letter part of last week. the| j Ford car being driven by Leonard j I Walker, turned over at Bates Creek I on the Hangingdog road. The car, was torn up but the five occupants j escaped unhurt, with the exception of j lone lady who received a few cuts and] | bruises about the head. It is under-! ! stood that he was making a turn a-1 round a short curve, and the car went off the road. On last Sunday afternoon, it ae.mn .that the Chevrolet car being driven by ' Milt Johnson, who it is understood was learning to drive, was turned over Sunday afternon on Hangingdog road when he cut the front wheels under too suddenly. No one was hurt but it is understood that the car was rather badly damaged. Another serious accident happened in East M :rpl y Sunday evening. The >cout I his Secdon of Western tchian Highway 1 ? . I " I NDERFUL SCENERY AS DOES |' Murphy. Approximately 200 s the handsome new Roy Head ;ure is of a scene on the highway daid Six Scout Car is seen climb- | Note the width and smoothness of j courtesy Atlanta Journal. SEVEN CAR LOADS CATTLE SHIPPED OUT THIS WEEK Seven car loads of cattle wire sntoivMi li^m Murphy this week to Richmond, Ky? for grazing j purposes, and three more are scheduled to go Friday. These cattle! some 340 head were bought by Mr.. J. W. Adams, of Richmond, Kv.. from a number of cattlemen in Cherokee and Clay Counties, at n cost of more than $7,000.00, it is understood. Among those who sold to Mr. Adams, arc the following: J. L. Fain. Harry Atms, A. Z. Roberts. Geo; l.ovingood, S. C. Gentry, J. L". Far- < mer, L. I). Garrett, S. C. Sevier, an-1 , others. Tht. prices paid for the cattle run I from 4*ic to 6c per pound. Mr. j Fain's lot of some 21 head bringing) more than $000.00, or the high cattle i they wish to dispose of should see Mr. R W. Or*v r?..ntv U will be in touch with Mr. Adany; 1 from time to time, or other cattle a markets. j. cars, both Fords, driven by Virgil a McClure and Mrs. Tom Mauney collid. ) ed on the highway near the home of B Mrs. Dickson. Occupants of both cars escaped with a few minor bruises t and scratches, but it is said both car.- t were completely demolished. The $ cause of the collision is not known. 5 Information also comes here this r this week to the effect that the Ford car being driven by a Mr. Lambert < (Continued! on page 8) ADVERTISE IN THE SCOUT j "IT WILL MAKE YOU RICH*' North Carolina BcCOPY?$1.50 PER YEAR BAPTIST REVIVAL TO BEGIN SUNDAY Roy Bri^anc^ Will Lfad Singing and Paitor Will Do the Preaching According t, announcement seV-a! v. eks aj. hv the pa?tor. Rev. T. L. Sasser. th r- vival ot the Baptist r-.areh will rwgin Sunday August S.ird. and extend over a p. ri d of two A-e:ks. On: service will be held Jaily at the v ening hour. Mr. Roy Brigance, native Tenness an. has been secured to 1 ad the singirg. He ha? a great tenor voice, and ha shad extensive experier.ce In puartet singing and eh >ru-? work. Mr. Brigance is a capable leader and an - lien* Christian gentleman, and with his leadership of the already xcvllent choir of the Baptist church supplemented by a number of proirir. r.t singers from the other churches of th town, the success of this feature of the services is assured. Preparations for the meeting have ex:ended over a period of several ve ks. and Mr. Sasser announced at :h. mid-week service Wednesday night that everything was in readiness. He has been ti.voting much time to prayer and study, and with he co-operati n of the people and the help of the Lord feels that a zr.-at spiritual revival will be had. A cordial invitation is t xtended : everybody regardless of denominu affiliations t" participate in the 'vices tj the etui 'hat great and lasting good will be accomplished. MURPHY COLLEGE TO TO OPEN SEPTEMBER IS Mr. Geo. A. Hubbtll and Mr. Tom Taylor, of Asheville Univeisity, w? ie here several days this week in the interest of the establishment of a Murphy College branch of that University. While here they met * with a number of the husines and \ . professional men of the town in the ftss. inbly hall of the Library Tuesday afternon and with a number of the ladies of the town Tuesday evening. At both meetings thc keynote was optimism for the proposed branch of the IInivp*???e ?" ' Uiiu iujurnnccs ' were given that sufficient quarters for housing and facilities for teaching would be provided and that the college would open the fall term on September 15th. The college will offer courses in first and second year college work, and such special courses as deemetf practical or become necessary. Their advertisement on another page carries full announcement. While here, Mr. Hubbcll gave out the following statement: "It s. emed good to the business and professional men of Murphy u* provide the advantages of higher edueution for young n?en and women r?J his part of Western North Carolina To this end. Murphy College, to be conducted in co-operation with Asheville University, will offer its advantages to students with tht opening of the fall term of twelve weeks September 15th, 1925. "Instruction will be given as required in the first two years of a egular college course, together with such instruction in law and business ',11 hioct u ac 3 "The teachers employed are men tnd women of unusual power and training, called from some of the est institutions in the land. Expends are reasonable and there i.-i ev ry prospect for a fine year for th" ichool." UDGE BRYSON SPEAKS on national park Judge T. D. Bryson, who is holdng court here this week., spoke at he Court house Thursday afternoon it one o'clock to a large audience on he subject of the Smoky Mountain National Park. Judge Bryson spoke it a gathering of citizens from Vestern North Carolina at Andrews Monday night on the subject. A committee was also appointed it the meeting Thursday afternoon o draft resolutions urging that tbe tate take steps looking toward he icquiring of he proposed area for >rcsentation to the government. The full text of Judge Bryson'a ipeech at the court house here Thurs'ay afternoon will be published io ext wick's issue of the Scout.