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The Leading Weekly Newspaper in 'r',""n Carolina- Covering c Urge and Potentially Rich Territory in This Slate Vol. XLIU.?No.l9 Murphey, N. C.t Friday, December 11, 1931 $1.50 YEAR? 5c COPY Lions Hold Meet Tuesday Night Depaiting somewhat from the usual the Lions had their regular Second Tuesday Night dinner in the main dining room of the Regal Hotel, after which they retired to their Den for a short business meeting. The Lions had as their guest on this oc casion Rev. Hiffgins, the new pastor of the Methodist Church, who made a short but appropriate talk that was much appreciated. Lion President Fain read a letter from Miss Marguerite Butler of the Jobn C. Campbell Folk School, Si Aoo town, stating that the hour for the joint meeting of the Brasstown Com munity Club and the Murphy Lions Club was set at 7 :30 p. m. December 12th (Murphy Time) instead of 6 p. m. as previously announced. Lion Fain also read a letter from Lion and Lioness H. P. Powell of Marion expressing thanks and ap preciation of the letter of resolutions sent them by the Lions, a copy of which appeared in The Cherokee Scout of last week. A letter was also read by Lion Fain from Bonnell H. Stone, formerly of Blair- ville, (la., in reality a citizen r>f both North Georgia and Western North Carolina, a worker in every progressive movement for both sec tions, and a member of the Murphy Lions Club, the only non-resident member. Lion Stone expressed re trrets that the pressure of business r.cces-^iated his moving to his new homo, Oxford, Ga., and wished to be remembered to all old friends. Marion, N. C. December 3, 11)31 Mr. \V. M. Fain, President Murphy Lions Club Murphy, North Carolina Dear Fellow Lions: This will acknowledge and thank you for the resolutions, which came ! to Mrs. Powell and me in yesterday's mail. It is true that one often learns j better how to appreciate his friends after he has to leave them. This is true in our case. 'While we have al ready found our way into the hearts of some very fine people here in Marion, we find ourselves thinking often of the old friends we have left in Murphy. Personally, I do not feel that I contributed very much to the Lions Club 1 know I received far more than I gave. However, it was a pleasure and a privilege to have been a part of what I believe to be a group of the very finest men in the little city of Murphy. Praying God's richest blessing up on you individually and collectively, and thanking you again for Mrs. Powell and myself, I pledge you my continued interest in all you under take and all you realize as a Lions Hub. Sincerely yours, Howard P. Powell December 3, 1931. Oxford, Ga. Mr. W. M. Fain, Murphy, N. C. Dear Mercer: When my father offered to give me the old family homestead here in Oxford we realized that we could not afford to miss this opportunity to live in a more central part of the State, so we are only 35 miles from Atlanta on a new paved highway in to the Capitol. My father's health is not goon and he needs me near hirii, while my own work with the Forestry Association requires more attention in South Georgia and my children are now the fourth generation to live in this old college town and get their start in life here. I am not going t# try and express my Gratitude to you and other friend? ?n Murphy for the many kindnesses shown my family and me, for it is impossible to tell you all how much pou mean to me and1 how much I love that mountain country. After 18 years and 8 months of life in your section it was no easy matter to leave it, so we had to make a rush job of it and keep busy to hold down the home sick feeling that continues to return each night for the mountains. Please remember me to friends in Murphy, especially the Lions Club, for I appreciate the honor extended "J the invitation to join and regret that I could not be with you on the evening of Nov. 24th. With best wishes always, Cordially yours, Bonnell Stone The many friends of the Rev. Claude Turner, pa^or of the First ? a 54 Church, who was operated on * States ville recently, will be glad to know that he is getting along fine *nd ?s expected to return to Murphy JJJout the 18th of this month Mr*. *?rner an<J son returned frer .-is b*1?de last week. The many frisnds af Mr . Fran!: ( ?toiwueker who raffered a stroke o: , Saturday will bt rl*d know that he is slowly improving. J Lions Meet With Brasstawn Clubs Saturday Night The Men's and Women's Clubs of Brasstown will hold their usual monthly joint meeting on the recond Saturday of December, the 12th. at 7:30 p. m. Central time. At this time they have invited the Murphy Lion's Club and their wives to meet I with them. An interesting program I has been prepared by both groups. | PERSIMMON CREEK i Itev. J. P. Decker filled his regular ! appointment Saturday and Sunday, j Rev. Ben Reese preached an in j teresting sermon at Persimmon Sat- , urday night. Miss Gertrude Laudermilk spent the week at Belleview. Miss Vesta Rogers spent the week j with Mrs. Hester Watson at Murphy. ( Mr. and Mrs. Ben Re?*-< sptnt Sat urday night with homo folks. We are planning on organizing a B. Y. P. U. at Persimmon Creek , church in the future. Mr. John Voyles spent the night with Mr. John Stiles last Friday. Mr. Russell Sneed has returned home from Lenoir City. Tenn. where lie has been employed for sometime, j Mrs. S. J. Cearley has returned 1 home from Murphy where she has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Hes ter Watson for the past two weeks. Miss Pear! Rogers spent Saturday {night with Mrs. Maude Stiles. Has Entrance Forms For Frigidaire Contest Entrance forms for the $6,000.00 Christmas prize contest new being conducted by the Frigidaire Corpor- 1 ation are available in the showroom of Walter Coleman, Murphy repre sentative of this General .'Motors ( subsidiary, he announced this week. I The contest is being staged over a nation-wide radio hook-up of 50 i stations, every day of the week ex- 1 cept Saturday and Sunday, at 4:30 in the afternoon. Mr. Coleman will be glad to furn ish blanks and explain the contest to anyone interested. Seal Sale Sponsored Woman's Club The salt- of Tuberculosis Christ- ' mas Seals is now under way, snon- i sored by the Mnrphv Woman's Club, with Mrs. C. W. Savage as chair man. Dr. George R. Salisbury bought the first dollar's worth of seals and war I also the first one in Murphy to join ; the Red Cross. Money from the sale of the Christ- ' mas Seals last year was used to buy ' milk for undernonrished children in j the Murphy public school. The.-e children pained in weight and show ed a decided improvement in theii ! class work and attendance. Money j from the sales of the seals can be! used for the treatment or preven tion of tuberculosis. Conservation Letter j Mr. D. M. Birchfield, county game ' warden for Cherokee and Clay and Graham, is in ceceipt of a letter from J. W. Harrelson, Director of the De- j partment of Conservation and De- 1 velopment, which in part follows: I i Your record shows that you are working hard for conservation. How ever, in the present serious situation the public looks to the department for greater work. All wardens are 1 conservation wardens and must work for the protection and law enforce ment in fisheries, game ana forestry. ' The incentive to "pot hunt" will be stronger during the next winter. No efforts should be spared to bring into the courts all persons who vio latelate the conservation laws. Violators of conservation laws rob you, your friends, your neighbors and your county of tJieir rights to enjoy the natural resources. Please impress upon all citizens that they t>co have a part in the cor servation program. The dangers ! ?vhich row confront our fish, game, | And forestry call far the rat-Wic r->nrice on the part of all Htiie-u. f'ri- intenrifrrs to your local new> "r -er retarding- tonrt ->rotectiea and law observance in fishing and hunt ing. MINNESOTA FARM PLAN SPEAKERS FREDERICK K. MURPHY rnbJiKlirr of The Minneapolis Tribune, director of the U?n. rlnted I'rcss .unl sponsor of fhc Minnesota Plan which revolu tionized Northui'slfin agricul ture .mil iii<rt*as<*d farm rcven ,,rs nearly three-quarters of ? billion dollars in seven years. ?* CIIARI.R8 F. COMJSSOV Farm editor of the Minnc. ? l?oli-. Triliunr and authority on vgricultural cordit ions in'tJio Northwest. \* it lecturer and writer he is telling the country how the so-called Minnesota plan increased farm rc\cnucs nearly $700,000,000 in vvven FARM PLAN IS BASED ON SUCCESS EXAMPLE STUDY Murphy Explain* How Idea Wat Ap plied In Solving Problems In the Northwest | I ho Minnesota Farm Plan," spon- I soled in thi Northwest with marvel- ' ou success by F. K. Murphy, pub- I usher "f the Minneapolis Tribune, ' who will address a nia.'s meeting of! farmers and business men at the Plaza theatre, Asheville, on Decern- | her 14th, already has aroused inter- I ested study in North Carolina, Wash ington, Texas, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi and other states, accord ing to an article published in the Asheville Citizen of December 8th. ! The article in the Citizen contin ues: In several sections, definite agri cultural improvement campaign*, uniting business leaders of the cities behind farm rejuvenation, have been 1 launched under fthe inspiration of the successes in the Northwest. Mr. Murphy continually reiterates his slogan, "Unless the 29,000,000 Americans who live on our farms prosper, the nation cannot prosper, what we have accomplished in 10 j years in the Northwest, Minnesota, I the Dakotas and Montana can be ap proximated in other regions. Our j particular cure, which was to get away from wheat growing and into dairying, live stock, and general farm j ing, may wot be the correct solution in every region. Study Successful "But the gist of the Minnesota plan can be applied. We started in 1921 by studying the methods used on the 200 most successful farms in each region. Then we urged the spread of those methods to the rest of the farms. "In 1921 Northwestern banks were failing in waves. We formed a loan corporation and its moral effect was to stop the failures. Then it financ ed individual farmers in the purchase of cows, live stock, sheep, and en abled them to shift over from old style cash crops to farming which paid them income every month through the year. We loaned the farmer money with the live stock as our sole security. Yet from the live stock the farmer earned the money to pay off the loan. Fourteen thous and farmers have been helped by loans already. And when the country banks saw the loans were safe, they began making them and thousands of additional farmers were helped over the hump to business-like farming." "One of our first steps in the Northwest," he continues, "was to get the farmers to raise their own food. Thousands of our wheat farm ers weife without cows, pigs, and chickens. And they didn't even have a garden. Yet the average grocery bill was $800 a year. That's all changed now. Make Large Gain "In eight years our four states gained 228,000 cows. The rest of the country put together only gained 283,00 cows. We've raised our dairy income 66 per cent since 1921 until it's a three hundred million dollar income producer. Oa.* "ow-sow-hen income boosted farm profit. 71 per cent since 1921, an average of ninety-five xr;!".;on dollars a y And in 193C. spite of low fr.rr prices, our farm income held 32 r - cent above 1921. "The beauty of the Minnesota Plan is that th<- farmers, instead of being paid unskilled labor's wages, tepiesented by wheat growing, get .killed labor's pay represented by proper breeding of live stock, scien tific farming, and proper marketing. And instead of taking the beating which the varying price of raw crop.-, as wheat or cotton, they get the rel ative steadier and much higher prices tor finished products, butter, eggs, meats, fruits, vegetables, and gen eral crops. Wheat Farmer Lower "Because our farmers own most of their creameries the farmer receives 91 cents out of every dollar paid for wholesale butter. Compare that with the wheat farmer who gets 28 cents out of the bread dollar. "And dairying and scientific farm ing enrich the soils from natural fertilisers and crop rotation. So even where we still raise ^rheat and cash crops, we increase our per-acre pro duction and cut per-bushel costs way down. So the farmer gets the break all around." The committee from Cherokee county which has been named to co operate in promoting the Minnesota Plan, known as the Western North Carolina Organized Farm Movement, follows: W. W. Hyde, assistant cashier the Bank of Murphy. Bill Whitaker, assistant cashier of ihe Citizens Bank and Trust Co, An drews. E. A. Wood, farmer, Andrews. Wayne Walker, farmer and cattle raiser, Andrews. N. W. Abernathy, farmer and mer chant, Marble. Mrs. P. J. Watkins, poultry, Mur phy, Route 1. Mrs. C. B. Wood, poultry, An drews. Mrs. H. B. McNabb, poultry. Suit. Mrs. J. H. Ellis, poultry, Murphy, Route 2. Wm. P. Payne, merchant and poul try. Murphy. A. A. Fain, orchardist. Murphy. W. M. Fain, ^whcAesale grocer, .Murphy. Chas. Brown, wholesale merchant, Andrews. J. A. Richardson, wholesale hard ware, Murphy. Mrs. Olive D. Campbell, manager the Folk School, Brassrtown. Noah Lovingood, merchant, Mur pby. o Bankrupt Stocks Are Bought By Andrews Men George B. Hoblitzell and Lee Wat kins, of Andrews, were the success ful bidders for the stock of J. W. Davidson and Griffiths, Inc., bank rupts, here last Saturday. It is un derstood that the stock of both stores brought a little over $2400.00, in cluding fixtures. The stock of Griffiths, Inc., has been moved to the building occupied by J. W- Davit*. -mi will be sold during the r *eek?, the sale beginning tcx?%.y J. W. D<?'. ' zted an ex clusive ir r. shop, while inf:*iths, in vtc an exclusive wo men's anil c>:ldrer/s shop. OLD BAPTIST CHURCH BELL TO TOLL AGAIN The old Baptist Church bsll will toll again, but not to call the boys and girls Vvnd their fathers and mothers to church and Sunday school. It will ring out the Christmas tide and ring out the old year and ring in the new. It will also be a clarion call and siren for a section of the city ?vhen fire breaks out. When the old Baptist church was corn down, the bell was discarded, it iay arounu ior aevertu yt?i? In the grass and bushes, which have since grown up, on the old church site, exposed to the elements, corrod ing, rusting-abandoned. Several weeks ago, promient members of the Baptist church gave the bell to Mrs. Nettie Dickey, and now she has er ected it between two big poles in the front yard of the Dickey Hotel. Mrs. Dickey -aid it had a wonderful tone and she was glad to get and swing it up in the yard so that it could be heard again. However, she said that when it did ring, it would mean that fire had broke out in town, or that it was Christmas, or the ?ld year going out and the new year coming in. How old the bell is no one seems to know. It was the first Baptist church bell to ring in Murphy, and history -hows that the First Baptist Church of Murphy was constituted about 1845. Mrs. Dickey says she has been in Murphy more than fifty years, and it was used by the Baptist church when she came. Dramatic and Glee Clubs To Entertain On Tuesday evening, December lf>, at seven o'clock the Murphy High School Dramatic Club and the High School (Jlee Club will present an entertainment free to the public. The dramatic club will present "Bird's Christmas Carol", a play which is based on the story of that name, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. The cast of characters will include Virgina llirwuul iAlf^* i. Trotter, .1. H. Brendle, Jr.. j ra^1 Ferguson, Laura Hamilton, Margaret Mauney, Mary Witherspoon, Cecil? Alattox, Mary King Mallonee, Mary Alice Bristol, Ruth DeWeese, Fain Weav er, Ruth Hampton, Horace Keener, Vivan Cearley, Vera Cearley, Pauline Allen, Louise Axley, Helen Warner, Pearl Baker a id Mary Catherine Hensley. Appropriate Christmas music will be furnished by the Glee Club under the direction of Miss Kathryn McCall. Christmans Bargains Awaiting Public The buying public and Christmas shoppers of Murphy and vicinity have an unusually large number of bargains and Christmas gift goods awaiting them during the next 13 days before Christmaa. Last week, we carried an adver tisement of Lahn's department Store, offering a wide range of dry good.; toys and novelties. Also, a **pecial lot of drygoods and Christmas gift suggestions were advertised by the Leader Store, While Virgil John9on had some mighty good prices on meats. This week, we are carrying a page advertisement of the Cherokee Va riety Store, offering a large assort ment of Santa Claus gifts for the kiddies and grown-ups, as well as an advertisement of the Davidson ar?d Griffith bankrupt stocks. These folks are offering some bar gains that are really bargains, ana indications are that business and trade will be greatly stimulated dur ing the next few days. STATEMENT OF DEFUNCT BANK TO BE FILED Auditor's statement of the Chero kee Bank which closed last October 3rd will be filed this week, according to E. F. Gill, liquidating agent in charge. The statement came in last Friday, and Mr. Gill said that Frank S. Hill, attorney, was looking over a copy for some information and as aoon as he w?s through with it, the statement would be filed, which will be sometime this w*ek. In connection with this statement, Mr. Gill said that he w:-he* it under stood that anyone having claims of any form against the Cherokee Bank must call at the bank and prove their claims. All claims must be filed on or before the 28th day of January, 1932, according to an ad vertisement which appeared several weeks a^o in this paper.
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