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Vol XLIII.? No. 16. ?i il ? j a Carolina , Covering a Large and Potentially Rich Territory in This State Murphey, N. C., Friday, November 20, 1931. $1.50 YEAR? 5c COPY truia"wtJ * * i-ii c Married In 72nd Year r?j ole Thought Eeach Other Dead Until A Few Week, Ap. Each thinking the other dead, un fill a few weeks ago, Theodore Kil iitrick am! Mrs. Russell Postell, each 7? years aid, were married near Mur- j phv Saturday. The aged couple was {tired in 'h1, same home in Cherokee county. As they grew up, about the lime "f the civ'' war> "le years ear ned them far apart, and, until re cently. n< ither knew of the other's whereabout- In the meantime, each had been maii auu uociu ^ many times. Some weeks ago, Mr. Kilpatrick, who had been living alone and doing his own house keeping, found out that Mrs. Postell was living in Zion City, 111. A letter went forward and soon an answer came. The corres pondence became more frequent and Friday the 72-year-old bride-to-be arrived in Murphy. After a 900-mile journey, where her Z2-year-old hus band-to-be was waiting for her. Arriving here over the L. and N. railroad, after a 36-hour journey, from n'ar the Michcigan lir<e, the bride looked a little tired, but, after a brief nap in the home of a friend, she wa> prepared to entertain Mr. Kilpatrick for the evening. He is a substantia! citizen of the Unaka com muni'y. He was dressed in a dark coat and wore his overalls. Not hav ing seen each other for 42 years, there was much to talk over as the evening wore on. Flans rapidly ma tured and Saturday afternoon they left Murphy for a point just across the eGorgia line, where th?, price of a marriage license is cheaper. They vere man-led just as the sun went down. They will make their home at Unaka. where the groom has farm ing interests. Each hopes to be 100 years old. and, judging by the way they looked Saturday, tihey will. FUNERAL RITES CONDUCTED FOR JACOB PALMER Funeral service for Jacob Franklin Palmer, 74. well known resident of Macon county, and brother of the late James Palmer, of Murphy, who died at his hejne on the Highlands road at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon was held was held Wednesday after noon at 3 o'clock at the First Bap tist c'nurhn at Franklin. The Rev. Eugene R. Eller, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiat ed, assisted by the Rev. H. C. Free man, pastor of the Macon circuit of the Methodist, church. Mr. Palmer was born in Cherokee county, hut moved to Macon county during his early life. He operated a blacksmith shop at Franklin for some time. Surviving are his wife and the fol lowing children: Jim and Joe Palmer of Franklin; Frank and Fred, Akron Ohio; Charles, of Texas; Mrs. Gra ham Grindataff, of Keene, N. H.; Mrs. Roy Mize, of Clayton, Ga. ; one brother. John Palmer, of Hayesville; two half brothers, Felix and Robert Palmer, of Murphy; two half sisters, Mrs. Charity Fish, of Andrews, and Mrs. McTiger, of Murphy. PROGRAM OF MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE Following is the program of the ministerial conference to be held with the Liberty Church Saturday and Sunday November 28th and 29th 1931: 10:15 ? Devotional. 10:30 ? Business session. 11:00 ? Sermon by Rev. W. T. Truett. 12:00 ? Adjourn for refreshments. 1:00- ? The Promotional Campaign, ? Rev. Fred Stiles and others. 2:00 ? The responsibility of the church to its non-attending members ? Rev. C. F. Conley. 2:45 ? The standards of church progress, how maintained ? Rev. 4 W. T. Truett Adjourn. Sunday, November 29, 1931: 9:30 ? Roundtable discussion of Sunday schools as a means of extending Kinkdom work. 11:00 ? Seimon by Rev. C. F. Con ley. Adjournment. Children's Books Now On Display Miss Josephine Heighway, Murphy hnranan, lias received a consign ment of children's books from the "?na Library Commission i?r display - Book Week. These book.i r *>e seen at the ?J>?rary by parents a 1' thee i* ed in children" the objects of Boc 7eek is w children to read u;Oie books of ?wldren 0f other lmnda. nungry Souls!" From Small-town Musing*"' Hy I Charles H. Dickey, in The Raleigh News and Observer. (Mr. Dickey is a native ot Cherokee county and spent several days here this week. He preached at the Bap , tist churh here Sunday night.) "Hungry Souls," ? what a term to ronjiire with*. StatvinJ; minds nn 1 hearts! Y earnings for the beautiful. Hunger for -the finer things in lif;-. I The other cay hack in the woods in Western Carolina I talked with a fine character ? the Aunt of Tv PaKK sne was. 1 have known her all my life. I went to school to her as a youth. I have seen her through the the years, now and hen, since. 1 have liked to keep up with hei, just because ahe's worth keeping up with. And when a man goes back home and finds the younger generation is all grown up and knows nothing of him, it's good to find some one who still remembers, and greets him with high glee. Such was the case with "Miss Nora," as we always called her. It 'had been a good many days since I ha*l seen her; it had bien longer still since she had taught me. And now we had met up, again. She told me about a great many things ; what she was doing, what she wanted to do and all. Then ditecily, with tears rolling down over hut cheeks, she saici. "But 1 get .-oj hungry sometimes.** Then she went n tc tell me what I already knew ? how that she had given her best days l>< 'teaching th mountain boys and girls there in her native hills. She had served them, I knew, nolly for two or three decades. Most of the older ones had taken their training unde! her, some of them had gone on to higher itis'.i tutions ot learning, then tak< n their places in the world, and hadn't come hack anymore. She was talking about that. She said that rl seemed that the most of I them, ami the best of tiuni. left so soon as they could. That if they had remained with her to fight the fight ri. would have been more bearable. B*ut when she had done all for them that she could, they generally went away, and she was left again to be gin with a younger group, and so on to ti* (add. Having spent all her life there do ing that soil of thing, and having cared so long for a blind husband ? a gifted musician he is ? and having stayed at the old home place and kept it going, she found that life was lleeting and that after all she hadn't seen so much of k. "I get so hungry sometimes," she said, "I want to hear a pipe organ or go to Grar.u Opera." Then she went on to tell me the things she wanted to do. She didn't want to get away from her hills and from her mountain boys and girls. She just wanted a little breathing spell, in which to look around, and feed her oul, and refresh herself for the rest of the journey. Well, at that, moment I suppose there wasn't any pipe organ within fifty or sixty miles of her. And one can't go every Sunday that far to hear an organ. And as for Grand Opera ? well, she'd have to go to At lanta as the nearest point. And precisely th:* is \what sh* does do. Now and then she goes on off somewhere and hears a pipe or gan to her heart's content; and ever so often ? and it is rather frequently ? she bundles up and leaves her task and goes to Grand Opera. I think she told me she had attended six times in Atlanta, alone. It all rather gjt close to me some* way. Maybe it was because I had I known her so well, and knew why I her heart, got hungry'. But it seemed to me a fine thing that here was a heart, buried back in the hills, which was capable of getting hungry for some of the finer things! Some pro pie live oil in ine woods like that and never know there's anything be yond. Some of her neighbors are like that. Xot so wkh her. There fare few points in literature to which !she has not traveled already. She' knows music and its history. And | her soul and heart are innately fine. ; P Come to think of k, I suppose a I Treat many persons are like that, j Regardless of where they are ? down in the swamps and marshes, or buried j away in the hills and mountains ? , there's something about them ? many of them ? that makes their hearts look up when they behold a rainbow in the sky. ?iling Up m Surplus and I attend to our evening. It is more eco- j ., dear?" j ?*t)y tne time we get it balanced, t is too Icte to go anywhere." AN ULTIMATE CONSUMER ?? ?? This baby in a drought stricken section of West Virginia was one of the ultimate consumers of the foodstuffs given by the American Red Cross in the past year. Mere than 2,750,000 persons were fed by the organization. RESULTS OF CORN DEMONSTRATION j "Increased corn yields is one meth od of getting a profit out of torn," said County Agent R. \V. Gray. Kent jof land and labor costs art approxi mately the same on an acre produc ing 20 buihuls as on an acre pioduc jing 10 bushels," h?? continued. ! "To help in bringing out this point land to study fertilization need.;. Mr. J. M. Lovingood, of Marble, agreed last spring to cooperate in e corn demonstration. This corn was harv e.-tcd a few days ago. The area re ceiving .'500 pt;und> of acia phosphate and 40 pounds of muriate ol potash gave a yield of 22.3 bushels per acre. The area receiving 300 pounds arid phosphate, 40 pounds of poia^ and 240 pounds of Chilean nitrate gave | a yield of 4.'J.D bushels per acre. This ' increase of 21.6 bushels per acre at a cost of $G.U0 for Chilean nitrate rave M r. Lovingood a profit of at ; leas: $2.00 for each dollar invested j in Chilean nitrate. This demonstra tion showed conclusi\ely that quick- ; acting nitrogen, applied when corn ! is about five weeks old, pays a good j protit. A field meeting was h?ld ni this , demonstration and those present made estimates as to the yields ol the! two areas. Mr. W. H. Arrowood won! first place and G. H. Davis and James Baxter tied for second place. . Tht prizes won were given by the Chil ean Nitrate Educational Bureau. "Such demonstrations as this," said Mr. Gray, "are conducted to aid farmers in determining the best fer tilizer practices and to show that by increased acre yields the farmer can lower the per bushel cost. The thrif ty farmer will put his crops on the best acres and properly fertilize them and leave the poor acres to soil im proving crops sirch as vetch and les pedeza." Oyster Supper The Junior Woman's Club is spon soring an oyster supper at {he library huildinj; 'ijfcsdav, November 24th, a: fifty certs a plate. The proceeds will be ttted by the club for the different rhairity projects. The sup per will start at 6 o'clock, and the public is t-ked to bear this in mind and lend their support to a eood cause. o f'HetTM'i Sake "Haven't you heard? Mary ;u married Bill Hendricks." "BUI Hendricks! Not really! Viny '?> tJ h iiuui she was engaged to!" POWELL GOES TO MARION CHURCH I The Rev. Howard P. Powell, pas |tor of the First Methodist Church at ! Murphy for the past four years, was J assigned to the pastorate of the First ; .Methodist Church at Marion by the i Western North Carolina Conference I which met in Asheville last week. The Rev. T. F. Higgins, pastor of | the Haywood St. Methodist church, Asheville, comes to the pastorate of the Murphy church. A. A. Somers, pastor of the Mur phy circuit tor the past two years, was assigned as a supply pastor at Glei nville, while the Rev. J. H. Car per, of Rowland, N. C., recent grad uate of Duke University, comes to the Murphy circuit. The Rev. C. M. Pickens, presid ing elder of the Waynesville district for the pa<rt. year, goes to the Dil worth church, in^harlotte, while the Rev. L. B. Hayes, pastor of the Cen tral church, Charlotte, comes to the Waynesville district as presiding el der. Former pastors of the Murphy church were given pastorates as fol lows : I). H. Rhinehart, Sylva. E. J. Harbison, Race Street church Statesville. Brasstown Clubs Hold Meeting On November 14th Saturday night, the 14th, the Men's and Women's Clubs of Brass tcfjvn held a joint meetir.g at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Near ly 40 members were present to hear a splendid talk by Miss Fanny Dunn of Teachers' College, New York City. Miss Dunn is recognized as an authority on rural education. Aft er her speech, everyone adjourned to the dining room to enjoy pies, coffee and conversation together. Then there must be singing ganre f before the meeting should end. So in the community room "Pop goes the ! Weasel," and other favorites wesre played until everybody was breath less. Finally, as usual, came the i Danish Grand March, which con cluded a '*ery interesting and happy evening. j The Women's Club will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, the 26th pt Mrs. Virge eLdford's home. At the Proper T?n? 1 -'s all right fcr a woman to hold Ion to he- you^h but not while he ii. uri.ing." > JURY FREES TEACHER IN DEATH CASE A verdict of not guilty was return ed in the Cherokee County Superior Court here Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, by the jury in the case of the State against Franklin Smith, 22, -chc ?1 teacher and Sunday school worker of Cherokee county, who was charged with manslaughter in con nection with the death of Miss Ruth Ha The inrv hoean if.? <Jr?lihr>mtir?n<; about 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. Miss Hayes was killed on State highway No. 28 on the night of Aug ; ust I. 1930, as she was walking along the road with others who were leav ing a church service. Smith, who was driving a car, was going in the direction of Murphy. Witnesses, who testified during the trial, said that I Smith passed several persons ??n "the road before approaching Miss Hayes, who was walking with another girl. Smith, who took the stand in his own defense, said that he turned his car to pass the two girls, and just as he did so Miss Hayes became ex cited and ran out in front of the car when it was only three or four feet away. He said he was going about 20 miles an hour. State's witnesses said that the car ? was -traveling between 40 and 45 miles an hour, and that ' he driver lid not slow the car down. Witness es for both the State and defense agretd, however, 'that Miss Hayes 'an in front of the car, seeming to be excited nr confused. Gets Two Year* Willie Phillips, charged with cut ting Alvirt Oliver to death last Aug u-V enteied a plea of guilty of man slaughter and was given two years in the state penitentiary. His father who was also implicated in the mat ter came clear. The fight took place at the Glade church about three miles out of Mur phy last August. Oliver was stab bed six times about the body and liv ed several hours after the fight. Phil lips was also cut and bi ui.-ed about ithf hea l and neck. The tight is said to have followed n quarrel between the two boys who were outside the church where re vival services were beans? conducted, ed. Godfrey Goes On Trial Buck Godfrey, charged with slay ing Mrs. Flossie Clark, wife of Mol lis Clark, of Andrews, was called for trial Thursday. A number of wit nesses have been summoned for both ti e state and defense. Godfrey is alleged to have killed Mrs. Clark by striking her with an automobile while traveling on Sta'le highway No. 10 in the west end of Andrews last August. o Two Union Services Here For Sunday The churches of Murphy will unite Sunday in two union services, bid ing one pa&or farewell and another pastor welcome. Sunday mornig the services will be held at the First Methodist church the occasion being the last service the Rev. Howard 1*. Powell as pas tor of the church here. Mr. Powell goes to the pastorate of the First church at Marion. The Rev. Higgins will ariive in time to preach at the Methodist church Sunday, November 29. Sunday night, the churches will join in a service at the Baptist church welcoming the new Baptist pastor, the Rev. Claude Turner. Mr. Turner comes to Murphy from the First Church at Beaufort, S. C. Girl Instantly KiUed When Car Overturns Miss Annie Lou Martin, 18, daugh ter of Tom Martin, who lives on Sweetwater in Clay County on the old Murphy-Hayesville road, was kill ed at 12:30 Saturday night when the automobile in which she and a Miss Yates, 20, were riding struck the cor ner of the bridge over Brass'.own creek on the Cherokee-Clay county line and turned over into the creek, crushing her chest. Miss Yates, who was driving, was not injured and was able to get out from under the car. The body of Miss Martin was taken to Scroggs store just over the line in Oherokee coun y and Dr. Sullivan, of Hayesville, CL y county coroner, and Dr. S. C. Heighway, of Murphy, Cherokee county coroner, were called Der Sullivan performed the autopsy There is a very sharp turn in the roau ttr'.ering a narrow bridge from the Clay county : : 1,4 and several ac cidents have occun . *his point. "Hey, papa, there's a i?. my soup." "Veil, Ik. . -,t the soup u?. come to the fly. Then tell the x and he'll give you another plau.. '
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