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The Leading Weekly Newspaper in Western North Carolina, Serving a large and Potentially Rich Territory in this state VOLUME XXXIX. NUMBER 25. MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JTNUARY 27, 1928. 5c COPY' ? $1.50 PER YEAR LIONS SEEK BETTER UPKEEP COUNTY ROADS Meeting Tuesday Night Enthusiastic and Well Attended ? Four New Members Elected A discussion of a better mainten ance of county roads and the elec tion of four new members were fea tures of the regular meeting of the Lions Club Tuesday night, at which some sixteen members and sev^ml visitors were present. The upkeep of local county roads came in for considerable discussion. Speakers pointed out the condition of the county roads, many of which can hardly be traveled now with a team and wagon. The road commit tee was instructed to ask the county road commission to fix a certain mud hole in one of the highways leading out of Murphy and eliminate the ex horbant fees charged by people near by for pulling cars out of it, and to see if the commission would not see that better maintenance was given to all the roads generally. It was pointed out that the main tenance of the eouny roads was being poorly done. In some places there were great mud holes which remain ed full of water and mud for days and weeks at the time; also that very little system of drainage was main tained on any of the county's roads; while most of the sand and gravel that had been placed upon the* road beds had been allowed to wash to the side and into the ditches, and in many instances shoveled out upon the bank or into the woods and field. One speaker pointed out the fact that the court costs the county had to bear amounted to about ten thou sand dollars annually, wlrch was in curred in convictions carrying road sentences worked out in other coun ties. Of course, the county gets a small renumeration from any coun ty to which prisoners are sent, but the court costs attached to convic tion must, be borne by the county. It was suggested that steps be taken to get the county commissioners to reinstate the convict system of work ing county roads. The new members elected at this meeting and who will be welcomed at the next meeting were Messrs. G. H. Cope, J. B. Moore, Virgil John son and Rev. H. P. Powell. H. P. COOPER ANNOUNCES FOR MAYOR! Announcement that his '*hat was in the ring" for Mayor of Murphy in the election to be held in May, was made this week by Harry P. Cooper, prominent r.eal estate, loan j and insurance dealer. Mr. Cooper stated that thi3 action on his part had come as the result of the urgent requests of friends who pledged their support in case he decided to run, and after a careful survey of the situation. Just who will comprise the ticket for aldermen headed by Mr. Cooper is not yet known, as it is rather early for Murphy's annual city political pot to begin to boil, the election be ing some ninety days off. Miss Margaret Pruden returned this week to her home at Rome, Ga., after having spent several days the guest of Mrs. J. W. Davidson. Dennis: "What was old Judson| worth when he died?" Dan : "No man is worth much | when he is dead." Dennis: "I know, but what did h*-j leave?" Dan: "Everything he had." ^ LEE WIGGINS OF ROBBINSVILLE, IS KILLED ON ROAD Graham County Sheriff Seekj Robert Rogers A. Slayer Of Man ROBBINSVILLE, X. c? Jan. --I Lee Wiggins, who lived at Sweet gum, near this place is dead from a shotgun wound in the head, and Sheriff G. W. Schuer, of Graham County is making an extensive search n the mountains for Robert Rogers, whom he expects to charge with thj killing of Wiggins, following an al legation on the public highway, six miles from Robbinsville, this after noon at 2 o'clock. ?Teff Rogers, brother of Robert 18 bcinK hcW '? tho countv j,j| rJ a mc'Irial tf tn?. Wiggins was -i years of age and had been a lab orer on pub ic works in this section. Robert Rogfcns, th? alleged slayer ? s a. so a young man, an, I was em !> oyed at various works in this tion .luring the past year. If,. js'thc ?n of Fames Rigors and resided about four miles from Robbinsville "!"'ents .WiKuin - .lied some years ago. According ?? tho .-tor- brought to the Sheriffs Office by neighbors amund the scene of the shooting. ? Wins and the two Rogers, met earner in the day on the highwav, net far from the Place where the *'"!"* Wiirgins is alleged to have accused the Rogers men of having sto en some money from him and upon meeting them, drew a gun on them and searched the brothers. r this incident. ,t is stated. Rob ert Roger hurried to his home, got shotgun and started out to hunt for Wigmjas. Co-niiuMtnon Wiggins in front of -he home of W. x. Colvard, he is ?Mid to have aimed the shotgun at tho man and fired, the load of buck hot taking effect on the left side "I Wiggin s head below the ear and " the neck. Wiggins was instantly killed by the shot. Rogers then fled trom the place and a sheriff's posse was organized to pursue him into the mountain fastnesses of Graham county where he is believed to be in hiding. The victim of the shotgun was found a short time later, Iving in the m.d^e Of the road, by members ? ? ,bllhwly niaintenance crew who I called the sheriff. When the officers reached the place several women were excitediv walkiiTg the porch of the Colvard home ringing their hands and from them a different version of the mo tive back of the affair was obtain ed received here from Others who had heard about it. They ttnd;.aCC?rdinK t0 the sheriff, hat both men had guns and that a dispute arose between them over an automobile. The body of Wig Kins was lying just at the rear wheel of his automobile, which was headed towards Topton. There was no ?11? near him, it is stated, and the sher iff was unable to find any definite evidence that the d->ad man had been armed. The body of Wiggins is >ing held I here pending the outeonj of a cor oner's inquest an-J the search for Kogers. Rogers. ? Asheville Citizen. (Since this article was written, Rogers ,t ,s understood has given himself up to the sheriff.) Mrs. Mary E. Bell from the South ern Shorthand and Kusiness Univer sity of Atlanta, will teach a class in shorthand and typewriting at the Hijrh School here, provided a suffi cient number will take this course. If you are interested, phone or see her Saturday or Monday evening between 6 and 8 o'clock at the Hen r^Ho^se, phone number 178. (1-t-p.) Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Davidson left Thursday for Lake Wells, Fla. LOCAL H. S. GIRLS HAVE CHANCE TO WIN SCHOLARSHIP # Knowledge of cookery, food val ues, selection as to quality, or other phases of the subject of meat, may bring local high school girls within reach of a university scholarship or cash award if ? they can transfer this knowledge to paper. High school home economics teach ers have just received formal an nouncement of the Fifth National Meat Story Contest. The contest is held annually in high schools of the United States under the spon sorship of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. It has the indorse ment of college home economics heads and other leaders in the field who 'ook upon it as a valuable edu cational project. Interest in the contest has in creased each year, it is said. Last year approximately 14,000 girls from high schools in every state of the union competed and the Board expects that even a larger number will be enrolled in the present con test. As in the past, the distribution j of prizes is arranged so that girls in every state will be among the win ners. Miss Rose Gertrude Schmidt 01 Moorestown, N. J., w<n the na tional championship iast year. The present contest will close on March 15, according to tlv announce ment. Judging of the stories will be in tho hands of a committor which is to be selected from college directors of home economic s and oth- r author ities on the subject. It is explained that the purpose of the contest is to stimulate more interest in the study of home econo mics. Tho scholarships offered are for home economics courses. These and the cash prizes furnish an in cent for the ,'nt.uo housewife to tu\e part in the event which, it is ho| 1, wi',? better fit her to assume the re sponsibilities of home manager. Local and Persona! Miss Elizabeth B'rittain was hostess Sunday evening at a dinner party at her home in East Murphy. A four course dinner was served. Covers were laid for the fol'ownig: Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. Dale L*?e, Mrs. Mark Brittain. Misses Catherine Thompson, Nanie Dixon and Elizabeth Brittain. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Leo entertain ed Thursday evening with three tab les of bridge complimenting Miss Margaret Pruden of Rome, Ga., the housa guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Davidson. High score was made by Miss Pru den who also received the guest prize. A delicious salad course was served. Those invited were: Mr. and Mrs. C. K Hoover, Dr. and Mrs. E. E. A ams, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry David son, Mrs. J. W. Thompson, Mrs. A. M. Brittain, Misses Margaret Pruden, Nan Dixon, Catherine Thompson, Elizabeth Brittain and Eve Ne'l Mau ney, Messrs. Edd Studstill, W. W. Gudger and Erraest Gibbs. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Meroney have taken the apartment at The Maples recently vacated by Mr. and j Mrs. C. K. Hoover. Remember the program by the Music Club at the Library Friday night, January 27, (tonight) at 7:30. This will be a sort of social and get toTgether meeting and it is desired that all members be present. An ef fort is being made to have a radio installed in .order that the Club might hear Galli Curci, noted opera singer, make her debut over radio, which takes place at 8:00. Refreshments will be served. WORK UNDER WAY ON LIONS CLUB PLAY | 'Deal 'em Over" is Title of Comedy, With a Cast of 12 People Work of rehearsing the play to be sponsored by the Lions Club at an early date, entitled "Deal 'em Over," got under way this week. The play is in three acts and is full of laughs from beginning to end. The action of the play takes place in the living room of a .Mr. Fowler's country home, "The Nest," near I* airfield. New York, and the time is between nine and eleven-thirty o'clock in the morning on a day in early summer. The cast of characters follows: Charlie Montrose, Rob Austin. Ralph Keller, Ralph Moody. Samuel Fowler, Mr. Gibbs. ' Daddy" Nichols, Dr. E. E. Adams. Belhani, .. C. W. Bailey Travers, H. G. Elkins. Bill Clark, E. C. Mallonee. Ivy Phillips, Eloise Fain. Virginia Lawrence, Mrs. It. Meroney Evelyn Clark, . Rosemond Cooper | Mrs. Middlcton, . Jeness Cox Petunia Peachblossom, Mrs. E. C. Mallonee. G. Of WALKER, EX-SENATOR, OF I ANDREWS, DIES Pneumonia Claims Stockraiser and Legislator of Cherokee County I I ANDRKWS. Jan. 24. ? George B. Walker, former state senator. Dem ocratic leader in Cherokee and Gra-| ham counties for many years, and a stockraiser and a la:ge land owner, died Sunday at his home in Andrews, lie had been severely ill of pneumo nia for several days. For twenty years Mr. Walker was chairman of the Democratic execu tive committee of Graham and lat- 1 | er he served eight years as chairman j of the Democratic executive com mittee of CherokeL? county. He was for six years a member of the board of directors of the state hospital for insane at Morvanton. Mr. Walker was elected to the state house of representatives from Graham county in 1883. His most notable political victory, however, was achieved in 1923 when he was elected to the state senate from the thirty-third senatorial district, which is normally Republican by a major ity of about 1,500 votes but which gave Mr. Walker a majority of TOO. Mr. Walkers friends, speaking Monday of his interest in the cause of improved highways, recalled he often had given to the state highway department and to the county com missioners rights of way through his lands. Mr. Walker was born in Cherokee county in 1855, a son of William and Margaret J. (Scott) Walker. In early life he moved to Graham coun ty and was a merchant there for many years. In later years, howev er, he moved back to his former home here. In 1884 Mr. Walker married Miss Martha Barker, who survived him. Mr. Walker left also three sons and two daughters; Miss Ethel Walker, a high school teacher in Asheville; Mrs. Marjorie Friel of Canton; W. W. Walker of Knoxville, Tenn.; Wayne Walker, of Andrews, and Gernld Walker of Savannah, Ga. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. J. R. Church in Andrews Monday afternoon, and burial was in the Andrews cemetery. Mr. Drew Wright of Topton, {eft Tuesday for Eiizabethton, Tenn., to take a job as engineer for Worth Paynton Co. far:/i power PROGRAM BY CHEROKEE CO. Motion Pictures Show Process of Tractor Building From Mines to Finished Product A program both interesting and educational, showing the different poet ssi* in the manufacture of the Farmall tractor, from the time it left thc mines until it reached its usefulness upon the farm, was stag ed by the Cherokee Hardware Com pany last Tue? lay in coo* eralion with thc Kno>:v:lle agency of he In ternationa! Harvester Company. Vno program began at 11 o'clock, wit! dinner t? a number of farmers and business men at the Murphy Bakery Cafe. Following the dinner, the guests retired to the H'onita Theatre for motion pictures and speeches by local people, afte r which they retired to the Cherokee Hard ware Company for a demon>t ration of the Farmall tractor and i.s use in power farming. Thc pictures shown were interest ing and educational. ' The process of manufacture of the Farmall trac tor was tal. n up at the mines and followed through the furnace where it was melted from the rough state, or tue, into pig iron, then through different processes until it became pure -'.eel. The different executions in n ,\ufaeiure, such as forging, rolling, mo.4i :lng the different parts, a: >enil !;ng iaie machine, leaving the i ? ^ r . in trair.load lots, on the field 'performing t' ? different operations, such a pulling mowers, reapers. I lows, ha i row?, rakes, loading hay onto wagon.-, etc., wag shown in de tail, and gave one an excellent idea I of the la >or-saving devices of mod tin farming. It was stated during the cours.. lecture that Internat ional Harvester Company's policy was to bv.iM an<! manufacture ma chinery that w Hild eliminate thc la bor problem or reduce it to a mipi mnw, and thi policy was carried out in the process of manufacture also. One of the tractors was delivered t<? Mr. Tabor, of the Peachtree sec tion. Editor Cherokee Scout: ? Will you be kind enough to allow nit' a little space in your paper in behalf of the citizens of Grandview community, we are not all dead nor all asleep, but we fee* like we have been somewhat treated unkindly by the Highway Commissioners and the School board. We don't feel like we have had our share of the road mon ey expended heretofore by the Road Commissioners. Therefore it makes a hardship on the patrons' of our dis trict or community to get our chil dren to and from school. I don't at the present time know of any oth er section that has not a school bus to take the children to and from school except this one, although it seems almost impossible to get a car much less a school bus over our pres ent road, and we as citizens of Grandview do hope that we may wholly share if not a little over our part of the road mon<?y expended during the coming spring and sum mer, so if not any more we may be able to secure a school bus for the next approaching term of high school and we are all still living in extreme ly good hope that the new proposed State Highway will come through our 'section and thereby will give the patrons of this section a good roda to get their children to and from high school, and all of this section the citizens are eager to !end a help ing hand in getting the proposed route this way. We feel like this is the most practical route that could be established for an outlet for Cher okee county as a whole, Yours very truly, M. H. PALMER
The Cherokee Scout (Murphy, N.C.)
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