We,t'" N?rth y Rich Territory in >H, MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11, Vxll . 5c COPY ? $1.50 PER YEAH MURPHY TO GET CITY DELIVERY ON APRIL FIRST Fight Extends Over Period Of Two Years ? People Are Urged To Take Service City delivery service for Murphy ha.- been authorized by the postoffice department, according to informa tion 5,'iven out last v/i^ek by Post master A. R. Dickey. This news is hailed with enthusiasm by the people of Murphy, and comes as the result ot the efforts of both Postmaster Dickey and local civic organizations anil city officials extending over a period nearly two years. The service is authorized to begin April 1st, and will require one full time carrier and one part time. The carrier service affords salaries ap proximating more than $1700.00. and applications are now being: received for the places. Five letter boxes will be placed at the following points: intersection of Peachtree and Hiawassee streets; Peachtree and Terrace streets; at The L. & N. railway station; the i Southern Railway station ; and on Valley River Avenue near the Metho dist i hutch. These boxes have been shipped by the department and will be erected as soon as received. The sen i e will be under the direction and supervision of Postmaster Dickey. A census of the town two years ago showed* that Murphy had more than 2100 individuals required to secure j the service, and over 2700 patrons of the ffice. The department required that tW leeefpts oi the local office be ::t least ten thousand dollars. Other requirements such as naming streets, nun ring houses, etc., were met and ti. ?rtment given the report. Hinee then Postmaster Dickey has been c. instantly in touch with post v.i'ict* authorities, and it was due to his untiling efforts to a large extent that the service was secured for Mur phy. The local postoffice has long been I in the second class column, the re ceipt- last year being $11,385:00. IJe siil Mr. Dickey, it employes three clerk.- regular time, and daily aver age of 6,000 letters and 2,000 pack age- are handled by them. The offi- > ce handles an average mail order bus iness of $<5,000.00 per month. In connection with the announce-! ment, Postmaster Dickey stated that it was desired that the people of (Continued on page 8) murphyboy" :s ADMITTED TO BAR Howard Moody, 23 year old Mur phy hoy and son of Attorney and Mrs. J. N. Moody, successfully passed the ,-tate bar examination held in Raleigh last week and was granted license by the Supreme Court to prac tice law in North Carolina. According to nwmWrB of Ihe local bar association, the examination was one of the hardest ever given to ap plicants, and is attested to by the fact that only fifty-nine out of one hundred and twelve applicants passed. Howard is a graduate of the local li>Kh school. He also attended Wake Forest for several years, and for the Past two years was a student at the University of North Carolina. He *ill enter as junior partner of the ?aw firm of Moody & Moody, at Mur Phy, which firm is composed of his father and brother, J. N. Moody and Ralph Moody. Howard is a popular young man ?"<1 his many friends wish him suc cess in his chosen profession. 1'wo other Twestern North Carolina k?ys were admitted to the State Bar along with Howard, B. C. Jones, of ?Tscn City, and Edwin Bryson, son of .ludge T. D. Bryson, also of Bry son City. | And George Did It WW George T. Swearinger, of Tren ton, S. C., is "Cotton King," win ning the crown and reward for having raised more cotton per acre in 1926 than any other planter in I the state. BLOCKADERS FLEE AS OFFICER MAKES RAID Four Men Recognized By Rose j Leave Still, Beer and Sugar Behind A twenty-one gallon outfit, 600 pal- ' Ions of beer and 300 pounds of sinrar were left behind by four men when Deputy Sheriff J. I,. Rose raided their) quarters in the Whitrier settlement. t eight miles below Murphy last Satur day, according to information given out this week. The st 11 was in full operation, and at the approach of Deputy Rose, four men fled. However, they were recog nized by the officer before they got away, and arrests in the case are ex pected to follow. This is the fourth large moonshine manufacturing outfit taken by of-i ! ficers within the past month or so, j in which the officers are waning an aggressive campaign to rid the county of prohibition violators. Scout Installs Four New Fyr-Fyters The Scout received and installed this week four one-quart Fyr-Fyters fire extinguishers purchased through Mr. J. W. Axley, agent for them at Murphy. Three have been placed in the plant of The Scout and one in the home of the editor. We are not contemplating any fire, and hope we will never h a vv to use i them, but there is nothing like being i prepared, and feeling a degree of pro tection in such matters. . Mr. Axley has placed quite a num- | ber of these extinguishers in the coun ty and contemplates placing many more. They are approved and in spected by the Underwriters Labora tories. PRIMARY DEPARTMENT OF METHODIST S. S. TO GIVE PUBLIC VALENTINE PARTY Keen interest is centered around the approaching Valentine party which is being sponsored by the teach ers of the primary department of the Methodist Sunday School, Saturday ev ropy it. The copying was done by himself, by placing a typewriter upon a -t ???1 be side bis bed or on the bed. He it4 contemplating having it p'i; ii-ht-d in pamphlet form. They arrived from Greens! ???ro last Saturday and expect to leave *" >r At lanta the latter part of thi- week. Talks Hard Surface Road From Toxaway Over To Hayesville Franklin, Feb. 3. ? That section of || Highway No. 28 lying between Haves- j ville and Lake Toxaway :.s n. t only going to be completed as to gi...ii:ig, j but is to be hard-surfaced. That is the firm conviction ? T ( . ! R. C?be, chairman of the Mar. n county board of commissioners, fol lowing :i conference in Asheville a ;l few dr.ys ago with I (J. Stikeleaiher, ninth district state highway commis- , sioner. No. 28 extends from Murphy to ! Rat Cave, via Hayesville, Franklin. . Highlands, Cashiers, Lake Toxawa.v, Rosrnan Brevard, and Hendersonville, connecting with No. 10 at Murphy and No. 20 at Hat Cave. The major part of the road between Hayesville ; and Lake Toxaway is either unim proved or only graded; the highway | commission forces are now at work on the grading at two points in this county, west of Franklin toward the Clay county line, and to the east to- ? ward Highlands. It was a report to the effect that the grading work being done in this county was to be discontinued that sent the board of county commission ers, accompanied by Gilmer A. Jones, county attorney, to Asheville to see Mr. Stikeleather. They returned con vinced that not only was work on the ' grading not to be discontinued, but | that the road is to be completed and ! hard-surfaced. Mr. Stikeleather promised the com missioners, they said, that the crews of men would not be taken off the road; and, while his statements with reference to completion of the pro- j ject were guarded, pending action on j highway legislation now before the I general assembly, he gave the com- j missioners sufficient assurance that they have no fears for the road's com- \ pletion, they said today. When completed, Highway No. 28 will traverse six counties, and con nect five county seats. It will tra verse some of the most beautiful sec tions of the western North Carolina mountains, including the far-famed highlands and Lake Toxaway coun- j tries. The route has been top-soiled j from Murphy to a few miles east of Hayesville, and is graded to Shootincr Creek, Clay county. The section ly Sepalla and Togo .-eh- J' inSS^ j Leonard Sepalla and his lead , dog "Togo" of Nome fame again proved their class by winning with case the Poland Springs, Maine, iinnuul sled classic last week. BATTLES JAILED I CHAREDWITH CUTTING BRO. Lax Battle? is in jail charted with cutting his brother. Bruce Buttles, in ?-? fracas last Monday night at the home of Vic Curtis two miles east of i Andrews. Bruce Battles is said to have receiv ed serious knife wounds, and is at his home ill Andrews in a serious con dition He was .v ported to he some better Thursday. Lax would discuss the affair but little, savins: that it was forced upon him. lie has retained Dillard Hill to defend him, it is understood. CLAY COUNTY LUMBER COMPANY CHARTERED Hayesville, Feb. '.'.?Certificate of incorporation has been received here from \Y. X. Kverett, secretary of >tati-, lor the Clay County Lumber Company, of Hayesville, to manu facture and deal in forest products of all kinds. The authorized capital is $50,000, with subscribed by C. Smart, R. L. Long and S. K. Hob good, all of Hayesville. Dairy For Clay County Is Aim Of New Agent Franklin, Feb. 5. ? A primary ob- 1 ject he will keep in mind in his work in Clay county will be the establish ment of a dairy in that county, J. V. , Arrendale, Clay's new county agent, announced here this week. Mr. Arrendale's plan is gradually to increase the production of cream in Clay county until the quantity pro duced for sale is sufficient to warrant establishment of a dairy. Mr. Arrondale, who has been em ployed as county agent in the neigh boring county for the next 22 months, held the post of county agent in Ma con county for the past four years. Asheville Times. ing between Shooting Creek and a few miles west of Franklin is yet to be graded, as is the section lying be twent a point a few miles southeast of Franklin and the Jackson-Transyl vania line. It is paved from the coun ty line to Rosman, and from there to Bat Cave. The road has been im proved, either oil-treated or top-soil ed. The road's completion will mean much to Macon county, for 28 will traverse the county, east and west, as 286 already cuts it approximately in half north and south. No. 28, also, will bring Highlands ? not only into communication with Fi^ankiin, Mar con's county seat? -but back into Macon county and North Carolina. At present, the easi-st method of ap proach to Highlands is from South Carolina. ? Asheville Times. LIONS CLUB ENDORES NEW CITY DELIVERY Postmaster Dickey Requests Member# To Help Put Service Over Will Be Benefit To Town Thi* Lions Club went on record at the regulat meeting Tuesday night as favor: ng the free deliver service for Murphy, and pledging their support both individually and as an organiza tion to assist in every way possible to put the service over. Mr. Dickey appeared before the club at the invitation of members and outlined the plan and gave out infor mation relative thereto on questions asked as the discussion proceeded. It was brought out that the service would be a great benefit to the town from many angles. For instance, mail would be delivered early in the morning to the home, and outgoing mail collected and gotten off on the outgoing noon t.rnin?. It was ai6u pointed out that numbers of business houses sent out direct-by-mail adver tising matter that was intended for the housewife to sec, and on an oc casion they had gone to the postof fice and found any number of their letters in the waste basket in the corner of the postoffice building, hav ing been taken from the box and thrown there by whoever got the mail. This would be eliminated, and more than one member of the family given a chance to look the advertising over. It was pointed out that many towns the size of Murphy had been striving t? secure i-ity delivery "but few bad postoffiee receipts sufficiently large to merit the service. The service would also be a great advertising fac tor to the town, would help to relieve congestion at the postoffice following the arrival of the mail trains. Many other angles of the service to the town was discussed, and the meet ing was an enthusiastic one. He sides Postmaster 1 'it-key , Mr. S. R. Coffee, of Dahlonega, Ga., addressed the club. INCOMF. TAX DEPARTMENT TO HAVE REPRESENTATIVE IN CHEROKEE COUNTY Representatives of the U. S. Inter nal Revenue Department will be at the following places on the dates given to assist taxpayers in filing Federal Income Tax Returns: Andrews, Feb. 10-17. Murphy, Feb. 14-15. MOORE PRAISED IN LINCOLN Lincolnton, N. C., Jan. 30, 1927. ? Judge Walter E. Moore of Sylva, N. C., presidede over the January term of Lincoln County Superior Court at Lincolnton for the trial of both crim inal and civil cases. His Honor made a favorable impression upon ilie court officials and citizens generally of Lin coln County, and the court officials and bar of Lincolnton took special j notice of the court's impartiality and fairness. This was the first term of court over which His Honor presided since being elevated to the position of Superior Court Judge. The fol lowing resolution was passed by the | Lincolnton bar and Court officials: i "Resolved by the members of the Lincolnton Bar and officers of the Court, that we express our sincere ap preciation of the able, humane, and dignified manner in which His Honor Judge Walter E. Moore, has presided over our Superior Court at the pres ent term. His able charge to the grand jury, his kindly and dignified demeanor on the bench, and his im partial judgments have procured a profound impression on the communi ty and made for him as a man and a judge a warm place in the hearts of our people." ? Jackson County Jour nal.