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Intern Attractive f uLWIL J That'#? I murphy |r,^, Vol. WL?No. 17. Nearly 900 Ai By WPA In payroll amounts ro approximately $16,000 per month Nearly 900 persons, comprising every unemployed member of the Cherokee county relief roll.-, is at work , n Cherokee coun'y WPA projects. anil approximately S IOOO is being spent weekly on their payrolls, it wa.- announced Tuesday. The administration is now in full swine all over the entire county. Most of the labor is being used to reE5u paii cccndary roads in Cherokee anil improving farm.to-market high, ways. C. 1. Calhoun, manager of the North ' arolina State Employment commission for Cherokee county, said. Unemployed women have been put to work on sewing room projects. L E. Barnett, assignment clerk ' working directly from the WPA head. quarters in Asheville, is plac ng .he ! workers on the various projects. ' From all over the county this week came reports of greatly increased travelling facilities, many of the secondary roads having been practically impassable during bad weather. Local merchants are also tasting the fruits of the payrolls that are bringing around $16,000 per week into the county coffers. Unskilled workers are being paid {19.50 per month while the superintendents' salaries range from $45 to $65 monthly. ! The work will last until the middle of march, according to present WPA plans. CRACK OF RIFLES, DOGS BARKS USHER IN HUNTING SEASON The long looked forward to bark of dogs and the crack of rifles usher, ed in the fall hunting season Thanksgiving day as practically every sports, man in Cherokee county took to the woods and open fields in search of the elusive quail and rabbits. But they may not be so elusive as is generally supposed because John Hall, game warden, announces a ^plentiful stock of game this year. License sales have been heavier this year than in some time, he also said. nowever warnings came irom ine North Carolina department of conservation of game to adhere to the bag limits and protect the game every way possible; and from the department of forestry conservation to pro' teet the woods. local farmers will market six acres of burley Six acres of burley tobacco, the capacity allottment allowed under the AAA, is being prepared for the market by Cherokee county farmers. The weed will average 700 pounds to the acre, A. Q. Ketner, county agent, said, and is meeting in quality with that all over the state. Practically all of the burley will be shipped to the Asheville market which opens Thursday. hurley tobacco was still in its experimental staiges in this county and was fast becoming a main crop when the AAA forced the farmers to cut | down the acreage. ?Iohn S. Queen and W. A. Puett, of the Culberson section, were the biggest raisers of the weed. Others who will place quantities of tobacco on the market are: Walter and Wade Anderson, Elbert Reid, T. L. Martin, J- L. King and U. S. G. Phillips. Afternoon Mails To Be Delivered Here Daily With the Murphy mail carriers now mounted, Mrs. Thelma Dickey, Postmaster, has announced that there be a complete distribution of oity mail of all classes every day ex*ePt Sundays and holidays. Heretofore it has been impossible to deliver the evening Southern and & N mails. There are times, though, she point?d out, when it may be impossible to do this if the trains are late. ntO * (r?% Weekly Nmspape; in irextern \orlh Ci ~ Mil re Employed Cherokee Co. MAYOR GRAY IS I LIONS SPEAKER TUESDAY NIGHT Committee Appointed to i Act in Behalf of County Taxpayers. A talk by Mayor J. B. Gray, of Murphy, on highway safety was the feature of a meeting of the local Lions club in the high school auditorium here Tuesday night. Mr. Gray remarked that "we are extremists in our driving and substantiated his statement with facts taken fom a booklet recently published by the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill that indicated oract. cally all highway fatalities are due to reckless driving by sober drivers on straight, clear, dry highways. He appealed to the club for a united movement to curb rising of fatal, ities in this state. Plans were discussed for the pres. entation of an ' amateur radio hour" j from the Murphy school auditorium at 7:30 Friday night. The performance is being sponsored by the Lions club in their drive for funds to feed undernourished school children. The club unanimously voted to invite Richard J{ Osonbaugh, Lions International president, of Denver, Colo., to attend a local meeting when he makes a journey through Georgia the first part of December. At the suggestion of Lion W. M. Fain, a committee was named to work with W. A. Adams, chairman of the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners, in an effort to have federal J funds so appropriated that citizens of this county who could not quite meet their taxes might be given an added income so as not to lose their property through a large number of foreclosure suits that are coming due. Those named to work with Mr. ' Adams were: George W. Ellis, W. M. ] Fain and Virgil Johnson. . ti. . ai- r-_:_ v -: ? Aucn .ur. ran, cnainiiaii ui wie Murphy chapter of the American Red Cross, made an appeal for funds to fill the quota of 100 subscriptions i set for Murphy. The amount sought, , he said, had practically been assured Letters of regards from the Rev. T. S. Higgins, Methodist pastor who was recently transferred to Charlotte, and Bryan W. Sipe, former owner of the Cherokee Scout, both members of the club, were read. The Rev. W. 'A. Barber, new Methodist pastor here, was a guest of the club. Miss Lentz Cancels County Engagements Mi-s Pauline Lentz, Cherokee and ; I Graham counties demonstration j j agent, announced Tuesday that she j had cancelled all engagements in I Cherokee county this week and next. | Miss Lentz has unfortunately been ! confined in the Petrie hospital for several weeks and upon returning to her work had to make out several reports an as she must fill engagements in Graham county this month, she was forced to call off the meetings in I Cherokee. MRS. CANNON IMPROVED i The condition of Mrs. Guilford Cannon, Sr., of Dalton, Ga., who was I seriously injured in an automobile ! wreck near here last week, was said I to be much improved by officials at jthe Petrie hospital where she has been confined since the crash. CLIFF PASSONS VISITS HERE Cliff Passons, former Cherokee county boy, and a member of the state highway patrol, is spending three weeks vacation in Murphy. Having been with the patrol for about six months now, Cliff has one of the finest records ever made with the patrol. He has been in charge of the Charlotte office for several months. o Mrs. Frank Justice who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. E. S. Miller , reurned to Clayton, Ga., last Friday. rtrtJ&tt irolina. Cotrrin* a Large and Poten fZ rphy, N. C. Wed., Nov. 2 Thanksgiving C'assic j Tc Bi pia>cci Thursday The Murphy High School Boomers, unbeaten and scored on only once this season, wiil meet ths hardest test of the year Thanks- ^ 1 giving day when they .angle with r the Andrews Wildcats on the local J field in the annual classic between thes'- two teams. | While Murphy has presented i ore of the finest elevens to appear on the gridiron in Western North Carolina 'his fall. And- . * rews has not been so successful. But the Wildcats coaches have spared no preparations and claim their team is ready for the big battle and out to upset the dope. Andrews is the only team that i f ha* managed to push over a 1 ri touchdown against the Boomers > and plan to display a brilliant of- ' fensive attack before the huge I 1 crowd that is exoeeted ? %??n I out for ihe game. C Ruth Deweese To Sing Mr. Moore's New Song j u . r Mis* Ruth Deweese'* rendition of J. B. Moore's new song, "Somewhere a Heart is Calling", which was recently published by the 2 Ted Browne company of Chicago, 2 and which is winning a wide re- I putation through national broad- ' casts, will be a feature of the ' Amateur "radio" hour to be pres. I ented through the auspices of the < Lions club fund for undernourish. ' ed school children at the audi- I torium Friday night. The song is written in waltz J time and Miss Deweese's inter- < pretation will be the first publi- ' cally heard rn Murphy. ! Mr. Moore, the author, is a lo- S cal jewelryman, who composes I songs in his spare time. BIRCH RESIDENT SHOT TO DEATH IN TENNESSEE i Birch, N. C., Nov. 23.?Word has cached here of the fata] shooting of ] Mr. John Rich, a resident of this dace who has been staying in the 1 Dry Creek section of Tennessee. , No definite information has been received as to the manner of the shooting. But the report said that x man by the name of Sullivan did the shooting. He shot Mr. Rich three times instantly killing him. Mr. ' Rich had been staying with the Sulli- 1 van family and the shooting was . done in the yard of the Sullivan , home. It is understood that Sullivan is in jail \ ending a hearing. Mr. Rich had been living in thi.eetion for a number of years. He is survived by h.s wife, Mrs. Kate Rich and one daughter and three grandsons of this place and one son in Tennessee. Interment was in the cemetery near where the shooting took place. Subscription List Largest In History The Cherokee Scout, your county paper, gives you again this week 16 pages of the county's news. For nearly 50 years the Scout has served this section continual- 1 ' ly winning favor until it now has the LARGEST SUBSCRIPTION LIST IN ITS HISTORY. It proves one thing?people j ' the SOUT; and the increase in ! subscriptions prove conclusively that it is THE MERCHANTS' CHOICE FOR AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN THIS SECTION. Eighteen pages in your county ! : paper?go through it carefully, read the news, the editorials and the advertisements. The Scout is the CATALOG of i the CHEROKEE COUNTY MERCHANTS?the fact that it is now j larger than ever in both size and paid subscriptions proves but one thing ? THE SCOUT GIVES MORE NEWS TO THE READER AND MORE CIRCULATION TO | THE ADVERTISER. t $TP Holly Rich Territory in This Slate 7, 1935. j riiawassee Dai Is Named By WiATEUR RADIO lOL'R PROGRAM [0 BE OFFERED Nearly 30 Acts Lined LA Fcr Unlernourished School Childs Fund Xearly 30 acts have been arranged or Murphy's "amateur radio hour** performance ?<> be given from the tage of the Murphy school auditorurn here Friday night at 7:30. Oscar iunt, of Murphy, is in charge of the irogram and will act as master of eremonies. The performance is being sponsor, d by the Murphy Lions club in their Irive for funds to adequately feed indernourished school children in he local school. A sound system has been placed ?n the stage of the auditorium and Major" Hunt will preside and guarintees he won't "spare the gong" as imateur artists from all over Cherocee county offer a wide program of nelodies and everything heard on lational radio amateur hours. Others appearing on the program ,re tho Hill Kill* Brumby, tap dancing; "Jack Barnett, )iano; Daniels sisters, singing and lancing; Miss Hilda Fuller, Saxaphone \llen wise, comedy; Jane and Car)lyn Cai^er, acrobatic dancing; Richard Mclver, imitations H. Danels, tap dancing; Porter Raper, K?ngs; Murphy High School orchestra. J. B. Moore and family, saxaphone quartette; Doris Mclver, songs; Chares Henderson, songs; Glenn Ellis, piano; Lawrence Johnson, harmonica Jordan and Mai Ion ee, comedy; Mounain buccaneers, string music; Mary Frances Shields, dancing; Barn Dance trio. G. L. Led ford will act as the announcer. Piano accompanists will be Mrs. Emily Davdisop and Miss Marnell Williamson. HUNDREDS VISIT, DONATE TO LOCAL LIBRARY MONDAY Many Cherokee county people ami1?and contributed?to the Murphy library Monday, the 100th birthJay of the late Andrew Carnegie, who has given millions to libraries throughout the world. "Open House" was conducted b> the local library committee and tea was served to visitors. Miss Josephine Heiglnvay, librariar. reports hundreds of books, of all nature, were donated during the daj and they were arranged in attractive display. The Carnegie foundation sent Miss Heigh way 25 colored illustrations from Carnegie's Anthology this week An accompanying letter stated these were sent becav.ee the library here had shown a special interest in the Carnegie Birthday celebration. A large picture of Mr. Carnegie was received last week. The picture and illustrations will adorn the walls of the library. ONLY 23 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT BEFORE CHRISTMAS COMES Old man statistics got down his pencil Wednesday night and figured tin onlv 23 shonnintr davs before Christmas. In line with a brisk trade Murphy merchants have been enjoying during the fall season, a sharp upturn in pur. hasing power locally is being looked forward to. The Murphy tradesmen have stock ed their stores with a complete line of winter and holiday goods to meet the demands of the people of Chcro kee county. Better crops and prices throughout the county improved roads and WP.A payrolls will figure heavily in the increased business between now am Christmas. I TODAY 5150 YEAR?5c COPY i Engineer TVA Officials ACTION IS SEEN AS SPEEDING UP : WORK ON PROJECT i . ; - - m \ r Cherokee county's j * s coi.-l: r tion on the | Hi:r.va&--e?? ; ?:i . . . the appointment i Svr.d,of ? I-reine K. Biee as actI r.^- t ra. eor ' the $13.0?h),0. 0 proIject by Carl A. Bock, assistant chief engineer of the TVA. Blee. for the past ten years, has been associated with the British Columbia Electric Railway company, Ltd., Vancouver. The action is being generally look td upon as meaning actual construction is closer now than it has been during the pa?t 20 months since surveying operations began locally. Since the decision to include funds fo. the Hiawassee dam project in the TV A program was made three months a^c. local surveys have been going on steadily, roads have been improved into the s.te at the Powelson location on the far side of Fowler bend and it is understood TV A is making preparations to buy up the necessary land. news dispatch Tuesday said that the TV A question of legality would to before the supreme court on December 16. At the time of Blee's appointment. Bock also named I^ee G. Warren, who has been employed on Tygart dam in West Virginia as construction engineer for Chickamauga dam another TVA project on the Tennessee river; and Verne Gonwer, for years on the engineering staff of the department of public utilities of Tacoma, Wash., as construction engineer for the Gunters.ville dam, the second TVA rroje<.t on the Tennessee river. DIES OF BROKEN NECK RECEIVED IN AUTO WRECK Funeral services for Wilbur flTXite, 23, of Mineral Bluff, Ga., who died Monday of a broken neck received in an automobile wreck Sunday night near here, were held at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church in the lower end 1.. r r>i 1 *-- ?' J- * * ~ \>L county wcunesaay ai z o'clock with Rev. Milton Ross and the Rev. Manuel Henry officiating. W. D. Townson, was in charge of funeral arrangements. ' White was injured at 6:30 Sunday 1 evening when the car in which he and two other CCC boys, two were enr route to church services, plunged head. 1 long over a bank on the Copperhill road seven miles below here, t He was rushed to the Petrie hos1 pita] here where is was learned his r neck was broken and his face was ' badly crushed. Paralyzed from the neck down, he lived less than 24 ? hours. The other occupants of the ; car. Fred Dye and Willie Little, of Sweetgum, CJa., were un :njured. : White is survived by his parents, : Mr. and Mrs. Andrew White; one : brother, Rufus and four sisters, Mary Belle, Thelma, Ruby and Preal, all of Mineral Bluff. i RED CROSS DRIVE FOR MEMBERSHIP BEGINS IN EARNEST The local drive for Red Cross i funds began in earnest this week as a committee of 13 ladies from the Woman's club and W. M. Fain, chairI man of the Murphy chapter set out to reach their goal of 100 members. The drive will end Thanksgiving day and the officials feel that from early canvassing indications the quota v;ill be reached. Those appointed on the \v? v- pn club committee last Wednesday were: Mrs. C. W. Savage, chairman, Mrs. Kenneth Wright, Mrs. Tom Axley, Mrs. H. Bueck. Mrs. J. B. Bailey, : Mrs. Cyrus White, Mrs. II. W. Ban com, Jr., Mrs. Julia Martin, M?>\ U.C.f0* Mattox, Mrs. R. S. Parker, Mrs. A. K. i : Vestal, Mrs. E .B. Norvell. Mrs. John . H. Dillard. Anyone wishing to join the 1935 1 Rod Cross drive may do so * y contacting any of the above.
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