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The Leading Weekly Neuspa Vol XL1I? No. 50. Muiphey, N. C., Friday, June 15, 1932 $1.00 YEAR 5c COPY COLUMBIA FIRM WILL DEVELOP VAST DEPOSITS Namb" Of People Will Be C.ven Employment lo Quarry and Mil! At Marble Me.* ^ Harnett & Witt began work June 29th, on their contract with the r.?!unibia Marble Company. Marble. North Carolina, to strip and rciviov. trie overburden from one of tbf* 1 ' quariy sites at Marble A steam shovel and a lot of othei nece* contracting equipment have alnatiy '? ? n placed on the job anc tinder way. Ti . rge quarry site, containing miv and finest marble de p0<;- part of the country tt: ipletely stripped of over to facilitate the quarrying nt North Carolina marble for use in the nt*v '.nt of the < olumbia Mar* b!eC'-?:i: ;in> Marble, North Carolina a. well a in the plants of othei marble manufacturers all over the count r> The deposit has been thoroughly corded and tested, and ha* been found to contain a vast amount of beautiful white, grey and Hue marble, the latter representing the famous Regal Blue, so well known throughout the country. It is esti mated that it contains enough mar We to last for many years, sufficient to take care ol the needs of the build ing ami ;ro! umental trades for ma:iy year> :? come. The quarry will be completely stripped and the nece.vsa ry qua? '? y nir equipment installed to enable th i ompjjny to begin quarry- 1 inp nwbh- <onu? time within the next | ninety ilays. I i i types of marble quai - rvine s ii nery will be installed and the ?? : will be operated in close , I com:. th a finishng plant. The neartu the plant to the quarr> will ii ? '\ save much time, but will a!-o eliminate freight costs on the .-t efc, greatly improving the ser vice to the trr.de and reducing the ! cost of the finished p'roduct. The new building, which is to house t marble cutting machinery, has been completed for some time. A trooii part of the machinery has al ready been installed and will be ready about the middle of this month. Two additional carloads of machinery lave ju*t been received and as the foundations have already been put in for this equipment, the latter should be completely intsalled and ready to run by August 1st. The plans of the Columbia Marble Company are to begin operation of the plant by August 1st. The com pany has a lot of nice ordeVs on hand for both monumental and building work, and will therefore be in posi tion to start off in a real way just as soon as all of the equipment is ready. The plant will be thoroughly modern in every way, completely equipped with the latest types of marble p utting and handling, machin ery, with everything electrically driv en. The buildings are fire proof, being w steel, brick, and concrete con struction. The foundation is of mar ble. quarried from the nearby quar ries and milled on the sita, ready for u?c. The buildings consists of a main central structure, with an open area about feet wide between the buil i Hjf , to used for loading and un loading marble. , The plant. when finished, will represent an outlay of ?Proximately $125,000.00. Electricity, which is being supplied T the Nantahala Power and Light Company, will be used to operate the project. Two huge cranes, both elec rically operated, will be a part of ? ^Htiipment. Water will be fu'rn !?r ky.* gravity system for use in ne machinery, including the rub rog beds and polishing machines, racks with concrete bases will fa f' ltatf the handling of freight cars ?n and out of the plant. 9h i ?r equipment consists of two P. a H. electric traveling cranes, * ven jrang saws, two diamond saws, . no carborundum saw, an air com pressor. a,,d a complete machine shop, mill *8 built near the f- Th,e Columbia company quarries. biTLr 5 an<* se^s mar^le f?'r both ani - P an<* monumental purposes, af ?* 1S? ono of the largest concerns oiJ S- *n the United States. Its Alol?168 are l?cated at Marble, and in ama, Tennessee, and Georgia. mftJkianionp: t^ie l^Vgest producers of United marble products in the Good Shipping Facilities t?aJV facilities for shippng marble Sontv, m tJle Plant are good. The ern railway line Vuns adjacent I TAKING CHERO KEE MARBLE FROM THE EARTH A View o fone of the marble quarries of the Columbia Marble Company at Marble. N. C., where a new a?l--teel marble-cutting: plant of the most mo lern machinery has just been completed, which assures the development on a large scale of this county's vast deposits of marble. Inset, C. Comolli. vice president and treasurer of the company and one of the leading marble and granite authorities in the South. Below: View <?t the huge plar.t. to the plant, and eight miles away at Murphy, is a connection with the Louisville and Nashville railroad. The < 1 lant is also near Highway No. 10. one of the most importnant thor- 1 oughfares in the mountain region. ' Officials of the company, therefore. I say they arc convinced it will be rel atively easy to quarry and market the vast deposits in the marble area. Regarding employment and plans of the company, one ot its members has announced that "we are going- 1 ahead with our work at Marble, and , are confident it is going to be worth I while, not only to ourselves, but | to the community. It will mean em ployment for a lot of people ? directly! and indirectly. We will use local people except where experts are needed and these will be brought from our other plants. We will ex pand the plant as needed. o PROGRAM OF SUNDAY SCHOOL DAY METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JULY 17. 11 A. M. THE GOOD SHHPHERD Characters in the order of their appearance: The general superintendent of the Sunday School. K. V. Weaver. A Young teacher. Eloise Fain. A Shepherd. Sid Hinshaw. A little girl (8 years old). Mary WillaVd Cooper. A mother and her daughter. Mrs. E. C. Mallonee. A Young girl (sixteen years old). Mildred Akin. An old man. R. R. Beal. A group of boys (ten years old). A foreign-bo'rn girl or boy, repre senting foreign ^missions. (Mary Weaver. A young man representing home missions. Robert Weaver. A business man. Sam Akin. Offering for confe'rence board of Christain education. Oxford Orphanage Singing Class Coming The singing class of the Oxford Orphanage, the State Masonic In stitute will make its annual appear ance at the School Auditorium, Wed nesday night, July 20th. Everybody invited to come. No admission. A free will offering will be taken fol lowing the program. Sculptural Term A cycloglyph is a comprehensive composition in iculpture comparable to i cyclorarnn or panorama in psintine MISS MARY ANN RHEA DIES Miss Mary Ann (Sis) Rhea died] at her home a t last Thursday I morning following an illness of foui months. Had Miss Rhea lived until Saturday, July !?th, she would have been 82 years old. She was born and reared htfre and spent hei e:itiie life here and was iamiliarly knowr ? as, Miss Sis Khea. At the age of 1C| she lost the sight of one eye ana had I been totally blind for he past 10 01 ! 15 year?. Funeral service w is con- 1 ducted at 2 o'clock, Thursday ai j noon by the Rev. T. F. rip-gins i>as*or, of the .Murphy Metho?!i>l church as* j sisted by Rev. John Carper pas; or j of the Murphy circuit. At Misij Rhea's request the f uncial was hcid in the old Harshaw chapel which was; used by the Methodist congregation here until its now church was com pleted about S yi-ars ago. The bell ' was tolled by J. 0. Rector who was) sexton of the old * hapel for many yea'rs and she was laid to rest beside! her father in he old church yard. Two sisters survive, Mrs. Allie Bell , of Murphy, who is also blind and Mrs. Dora Hubba'rd of Dalhart, Texas. Active pallbearers were, S. D. Akin, W. M. Fain, P. < Hyatt, Tom AxUy. Hadley Dickey, II- rornry pallbearers t were, R. M. Fain, I . E. Mauney, \Y. 31. West, J. 1). Rr< tor. R. C. Matt ox, j R. R. B?al? K. V. Weaver, A. A. Fain,. Jasper Fain. George Abbott, E. B. ; No well and C. W. Savage. LITTLE INFANT OF MR. AND | MRS. GEORGE WILSON DIES The death angel visited the home ! of Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson, Sun- j day, June 26, and carried away their ) darling baby. Betty suffered with ' colitis for a period of five weeks and ( at the age of eight months and one | day, God saw fit to relieve her pain. < She leaves a father, mother, and three | b'rothers, one sister to mourn her} departure, also a grandmother and grandfather. i Interment was in the Peaehtree , cemetery. Brother Howard Hall con- ' ducted /the services. Our deeptest 1 sympathy goes out to Ihe bereaced ' We had a little darling once. Who was our joy, in life. We loved her, oh, perhaps t o well For soon she slept and died. All is da'rk within our home, Lonely are our hearts today. For the one we've loved so dearlyj Has forever passed away. AUDIT REPORT FOR TOWN OF MURPHY, N. C. Prepared by W. Bo wen Henderson,! Certified Public Accountant, Ashe-; ville. North Carolina. May 27, 1932. Honorable V. I. Butt, Mayor and Board of Aldermen. Town of Murphy, North Carolina. Honorable Sirs: 1 have audited the record* of the Town of Murphy. North Carolina, f??r the period from July 1, 1031 to May 5, 1932, accepting balances - i record, as of July 1, 1931. Re port is herewith submitted consisting of exhibit* and schedules shown in index hereto. Certain employees of the Town of Murphy were not available for the necessary time to furnish aid and explanation further than that shown by the records. Operations for the approximate ten months period audited show a surplus of $2.894. ti4. This surplus is influenced most largely by 1031 tax levy and does not provide reserve j for lo?f? of any 1931 taxes nor does1 it provide lor loss of water revenue i accrued in this period. License tax es of the period are $313.50 compar ed with $439.65 shown for the 1930 1931 fiscal period. Taxes receivable are summarized as to levies in Exhibit "E" page No. The 1931 levy is 52.21 percent col lected and abated a: May 5, 1932. Continued on Audit Report page 1 O Mary Ella Fain Bit By Dangerous Snake Little Miss Mary El'.a Fain, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Fain, tff Tellico Plainst, Tenn. was bit twice last Monday morning, June 27, by a nang?rous Copper Head snake ( while out at play. Mr. W. M. Fain a Deaf Mute who happened to be ! present claims by Dr. Rodgers to have done a very wise deed by open ing the wound of the bite with a | sharp knife and sucking out the | noison wit his mouth, tfien went after the snake with a pistol. Mary Ella , was then rushed to a doctor at once and we are all hapny to say, she is I improving very nicely at this writ | in*. ? Jii,n ? mine, ?1. *?:??.? this ? ? :>:mri ?oin BY OM: MAN Ml'RMIV III- SKI F "Wt'il, wt- are back a- .11. Ami with a chip '?n ou'r .?houl<k?r! | And How! ^ hat are the Cherokee County Commisior.t rs supposed to do? What they think best, in all their lack of wisdom, or what the majority of , the j eople want them to do? We art* talking, of coui>c. about their peculiar action in respect to lour County Agent Gray. Aftei | holding an opt n meeting t<? net the idea of the people, which meeting was attended by five opposing his* i reelection, and by >ixty-five favoring Ihis reelection they dismiss the meet 1 ing without taking action. To meet agan, and give the people even another chance to express them selves, which was deemed unneces sary by all we heard express them j-elve?. And then what? Announced a meeting for a certain time in the Court house, and then slip away to Marble and have the meetng. at which they decide in al! their wisdom not to employ Mr. Gray for aonother year, and discontinue the valuable work ne has started. And then have ! : ho nerve, affrontery, audacity or ! what-have-you to announce t?> in terested persons that there could be ii ? further hearing officially, that :hey may condescend to hold i meet ! ing out ?<f nit*-- courtesy but leaving I the strong impression that it would ? do no rood. Ami courtesy w i- men tioned. Why ;;11 thK anyway. Economy? Rathtr late, are they not? Both party nominees running on an, out lined program of economy. Why .-hould they pet so interested at this late date? Why apply all their econ omy to one feature of County ac tivity? Why give the County Physician a contract at $100.00 a month, when his calls at both jail and County Home average loss than fifteen per month. Particularly, when all pre ceding Boards of Commissioners had allowed only $25.00 a month, with the exception ot the brief period when we had a full time County Health Officer, whose salary from the County was dul plicated by the State? Eco nomy? We hardly think so. Mr. Gray's salary from the County was S75.00 a month. Doing away with his work is a step to the rear, which step is particularly fitting to the present Board of Commissioners, it would seem. Many of us are thinking of a Coun ty Wide Tax Payers League. Many of us a're interested in ascer taining from each ot the nominees from both parties just what is their attitude toward the work of the County Agent. They are going to be asked for a signed statement as to whether they favor 'retaining, or having the County Agent work con tinued. And their statements will be published, with their permission. People will then know for whom to vote. Why not a Tax Payers League? Such a League, with members from both parties, may be able to elect some nominees who a're really inter ested in tax reduction, and "in a way that woul not be false economy, such as doing away with such pro gressive work as that of the County Agent, at a salary of $75 a month. No more CHEROKEE COUNTY FAIRS, say the present Board of Commissioners! Keeping the Cher okee County Fair, in the estimation of many, many of us, is worth the entire yearly salary to the Agent, and worth far more than any thing, or group of things, that the present I Boa'rd has accomplished. I What do you think? And have you ever wondered from whom most of ( the County supplies are bought? Well, do a little wondering. May be healthy for you. You do not have to go further than the Court House to find out. Legal question attached to this. And wonder if the purchas ers of County supplies call for com petitive bids? Coal, for instance?
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