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r aHl ?i MURPHY Vol. IIIL.?No. 26. I U. S.MO Roosevelt ALL 1S~!IN READINESS Rj FOR BALLS Main Affair To Be Held At Regal Hotel; Square Dance At Gym A huge and gay throng of dancers is expected to attend the two Roosevelt balls to be held in Murphy tonight (Thursday). All arrangements have been completed by W. M. Mauney, general chairman, and everything is in readiness for an evening of fui? and frolic. According to advices and accepta rl inuifatinno Mr Vnnnnu ontirinn. tes the attendance of many out-of town guests during the evening. The main ball will be held at the Regal hotel where appropriate decorations have been effected by the Junior Womans club of Murphy. The admission will be $1.50 and dancing will last from 9 o'clock until 1 o*. clock (Central Standard time). The square dance at the Murphy gynasium is in charge of Abe Hembree and will last during the same hours. The price of addmittance is set at 75 cents. John Davidson, local boy, has been in Asheville during the past week practicing his newly acquired band, the Casanova orchestra, for the appearance here. Earl Johnson and Hi? Boys, one of the very best strng bands in the country, will make mer. ry at the gym. The Junior Womans club of Murphy and the Konneheeta club of Andrews will act as sponsors of the affair and the ultimate in 1936 (lane, ing will take place when the music begins. The preparations have been lavish in nature and everything has been done to insure all who attend the balls here the very best in an even ing's entertainment. Mr. John Davidson who is in charge of the Presidents ball has asked members of the Junior Woman's club to serve on various committees tonight. Hospitality, Mrs. H. Bueck, Mrs, Tom Mauney, Mrs. H. A. Mattox and Mrs. 'Catherine Martin of Andrews. Decorations, Mrs. Wade Massey, Mr^. Paul Owenby, Mrs. H. E. Bishop and Miss Adella Meroney. Tag and Ticket committee: Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mrs. Glen Bates, Mrs. Walter Mauney, Miss Mary Nell Williamson and Miss Dot Heighway. Directing ladies to cloak room Miss Sally Kate Baker and Miss Grace Barnett. Members of Konnaheeta club ol Andrews are assisting in sale oi tickets. o Dental Desensitizer Now Being Used Here A new type of dental desentsitizer, recently discovered, is now being used in the dcr.tal office of Dr. E. L Holt here at no extra cost. f 'Dr. Holt is high in his praise oi the pain-killer which was discovered and made practical by Dr. Hartman, of the Columbia University department of dental research. The new medicine, Dr. Holt says: is used only in fillings and does entirely away with pain which usuallj accompanys the drilling instruments. o MR. H. C. ELKINS So rapidly is H. G. Elkins, manager of the Southern States Powei company, recovering from serious in. fection caused by a dog bite, it is believed he will soon be out again. Many people have called to see hirr during his illness and expressed theii deep sympathy at his misfortune. tf< 'eddy Netospmper u* Western North I YES TO C Dances T EXAMINATIONS TO I BE HELD FOR P. O. 1 OPENING LOCALLY The united States Civil Service COiumiSolwii aitr>CU?CCS au CpCu CCITi petitive examination for the position of Substitute Clerk Carrier, for fill- L ing vacancies in the Post Office at Murphy. Applications for this position must be on file with the Manager, Fourth j ; U. S. Civil Service District, Washington, D. C., not later than February 15, 1936. * The examination is being held to ^ . fill a vacancy in the Post Office Ser- j vice. | Competitors will be required to re- c port for written examination, which p will be held approximately 15 days after the date set for the close of re- t ceipt of applications. Full informa- c. tion and application blanks may be , obtained from the Secretary, Board s of U. S. Civil Service Examiners. , Pose Office, Murphy. ? ANDREWS MAN ; KILLED WHEN ' TRUCK WRECKS! ! V Two Others Injured, One " Seriously?Following | Accident f ll One Andrews man was killed and j two others injured?one seriously? ^ when a trrfck they were driving to j Knoxville skidded and turned over on ' an icey highway near Caulderwood, j Tenn., Friday. The dead man is Huey Robinson, 20. Chaney Webb is in the Mary. ^ ville hospital in a serious condition i with an injured back and Pearley t Matthewson, of the Andrews Builders e Supply company was only slightly injured. Robinson was severely torn up in ^ _ the accident and lived but a little c while at the hospital. Webb is still ^ . in danger with severe back in j uric-. e . Evidently the truck, loaded with lumber, went around a curve too fast j and in an attempt to straighten it up v I the truck turned over. | ^ Funeral services for Mr. Robinson ' ^ were held at the Methodist church g I at Marble Sunday afternoon with the ( Rev. E. F. Trout man, of Andrews, of-1 ficiating. Interment was in the 0 church cemetery. Mr. Robinson is survived by his I wife, and infant son, his mother, Mrs. W. E. Robinson; five sisters, . ' lite, Walter Witt, Mrs. B. Flowers, i Mrs. N. Millsaps, Miss Beatrice Robinson, and Mis. Bill Waldroup, and r three brothers, William, Louie and ' Carl Robinson. o? ( Church-Joining Day ? To Be Observed Here t f All Methodists who now live in I , Murphy and who hold membership i : elsewhere are urged to attend the t . Methodist church Sunday morning at 11:00 and unite with the church here, c The Methodist church has adopted t [ the slogan: All Murphy Methodists t , in the Murphy Methodist chuch. The c pastor will be glad to send for any n church letter, or in any other way help those who desire his services, t The church doors will be open Sun- t 1 day for the leception of members on f , profession of faith as well as by | e church letter. A wclcme is extend-I o ed. o MR. J. A. RICHARDSON ? t Mr. J. A. Richardson has unfor- t . tunately been confined to his home c here with illness, it was learned e i Wednesday. He is the popular man. s ager of the Cherokee Hardware company. r Zarolina., Covering a Large and Pot Aurphy, N. C. Thursday, . ONDEMN o Be Held JOCAL CLUB 2 TO BACK LOAN ASSOCIATION J Jons Tenatively Plan To fl Have Cherokee Coun- i< ty Dinner Soon J, ti After two committees reported a & "ederal building and loan associa- a ion was an ''absolute necessity" e lere, the local Lions club secretary Tuesday night as instructed to eet ! n touch with Washington officials n order to have a representative 5 ome here to further explain the p Ian. p For more than a month now the e wo groups have been surveying the ommunity's potential investing and u lorrowlng powers to determine if f uch an institution would be feasi- b >le; and in view of the building pro- f pram that is expected to be started i c vhen work actually commences on I he Hiawassee dam the club decided J o back the move at its regular meet- t ng here. Tenative arrangements for the anlual Cherokee county dinner which s sponsored by the club every Febuary were outlined and an attempt will be made to have district govertor F. G. Heath here for the oc- p asion as principal speaker. r Yearly at the banquet every known product of the county is placed on he table. Last February more than 25 varieties of food were used. A committee on arrangements of Chairman W. M. Fain, Peyton G. di vie and Virgil Johnson was named. C In its drive for a fund to feed un- w ernourished school children of Mur- ol ?hy a hot lunch daily, $16 was re. w orted to have been turned in so far y the Rev. Stewart H. Long, chair- ai nan of the committee in charge of ne drive. That amount was obtain-1 to d, he said, from an amateur broad- j m ast made here recently. During the meeting Dr. E. E. ar Ldams resigned as secretary of the W lub in favor of Dale Lee, who has \\ een acting in that capacity for sevral months. bi It was decided to have Edward W Ibner Thompson, of Boston, Mass.. <i fho is expected to visit Mrs. E. G. P Vhite in this county soon, give a >ublic reading at some early date bi ind donate the proceeds to the un- m lerpriveleged school children's fund. T K. C. Wright was placed in charge \\ f arrangements. F o si, Mr. Edd Madden spent the week- ca nd in Asheville. B J. M. CRISP RECEIVES L HOFFMAN ON HAL Mr. J. M. Crisp, of Murphy, <1 Cherokee county surveyor, and an rt irdent follower of the trial of Bruno ti iauptmann for the kidnapping of a he Lindbergh babv. received tbA ollowing personal letter from Gov. iarold G. Hoffman, of New Jersey, R n realation to his recent reprieve of ri he defendant: st "I appreciate having your word of N ommendation and encouragement at cl his time when popular clamor seems <ii o eall for an expedient course in m onnection with the case of Haupt- fi riann. [ so "Regardless of the outcome, or of ec he consequences to myself, I know Jc hat I shall never^ regret heaving ollowed the dictates of my conscince, and having responded to my uj wn sense of duty. H! Expected It. \v "I expected it. It is typical of the p< ditorial abuse I have received since tli November 1934, when I committed Li he unpardonable sin of being elect, cr d, when the Trenton Times and sev- ai ral other New Jersey newspapers ti aid that 1 couldn't. tr "If impeachment is the price that ol nust be paid for daring to follow the > 0r?D tntially Rich Territory in This 5 Jan. 30, 1936 LAND F I Tonight ARE FROZEN TO DEATH IN RECORD COLD WAVE HERE Two persons were said to have rozen to death in a record cold spell hich had gripped Cherokee Countj ?r the past week. Although details could not b< jamed a man, believed to be namet lollinshead, was found frozen t< eath in the extreme lower end o! be county at Appalachia He wai aid to have fallen in the river an< fter crawling out to have succumb d to the intense cold. An old lady was also found frozei ? death near Warne, it is said here The mercury Tuesday morning a o'clock dropped to one degree be >w zero?the lowest official tern erature that has ever been record d here. Since the TV* A siirvovnrc Vinvo soi p their instruments the closes igure to that was a temperature o! wo degrees on New Year's Eve. Oi December 12, 1934, there was a re orded temperature of five degrees. Ui OFFICERS IN BANK HERE REAPPOINTED "ifty Per Cent Increase In Deposits Noted During Year More than a 50 per cent, increase in 1 posits in 1935 over 1934 in the itizens Bank and Trust Company as recorded at a series of meetings f the stockholders of the firm, it as revealed recently. me i?ank operates both in Andrews id Murphy. At the same time reappointments > all offices in both banks were ade. The directors of the institution, e: W. T. Forsyth, Z. L. Whitaker. D. Whitaker, P. B. Fcrebee and r. F. Forsyth. Reappointments to the Murphj *anch of the institution were: W, r. Hyde, cashier; S. C. Patton, as stant cashier and Miss Sara Rutl osey, Bookkeeper. The personnell of the Andrew; ink through reappointments re lains: P. B. Fer^bee, president; W . Forsyth, vice-president; Z. L Whitaker, vice-president; W. F, orsyth, secretary.treasurer and as-j stant cashier; W. D. Whitaker ishier, and Miss Mildred Barker, ookkeeper. Better from iptmann reprieve ictates of my own conscience, T an ?ady to pay it. A good investiga on of the Lindbergh case might bt healthy thing?ir ar. investigatior t started, I will not run away. "In granting a reprieve to Brunc ichard Hauptmann, I exercised a Rht that the framers of the Conitution gave to the Governors of ew Jersey?an act of executive emer.cy that has been exercised ice time immemorial by many of y distinguished predecessors in of. ce. It is never exercised until perns condemned to die have exhaustl their rights in the courts of New frsey. Gave No Opinion "I have never expressed an opinior Don the guilt or innocence oj auptmann. I do, however, share ith hundreds of thousands of out ;oplo the doubt as to the value of ie evidence that placed hini in the indbergh nusery on the night of the ime; I do wonder what part passion id prejudice played in the convicon of a man who was previouslj ied and convicted in the column: r many of our newspapers. I do (Continued on hack page) lit I TODAY tate I [ $1.50 YEAR?5c COPY OR DAM PETITION FILED 1 IN U. S. COURT AT ASHEVILLE Seeks Acquisition of 907 Acres Of Land In County Asheville, Jan. 28?Preliminary ? Eteps toward the acquisition of 907.?> 1 | acres of land near Murphy for the } I purpose of constructing the Riaf I wassee dam of the Tennessee Valley 5 Authority were taken in United j States district court here yesterday. . A petition for condemnation of the lands was filed with the clerk of I he 1 court. The Hiawassee dam is to be nl structed as one of the storage is of the TV A on the Hi&was^ce rHer, . a tributary of the Tennessee rrver, . near a point known as Fowler Bend dam site. It will be located approil mately 75.8 miles upstream from the t mouth of the river and will b? a f $10,000,000 project. 1 The petition states that the act'oo _ . is bv the United States of Am.n,n upon the relation and for the ui,o of the Tennessee Valley Authority, vs., Southern States Power company, Mountain Land company, W. T. IV; wland, \V. T. Rowland, Jr., and .? A. Campbell, as trustees in dissolution of the Mountain Land company, the Cherokee Land and Development | company. Julius C. Martin, Jultus C. Martin, II, and W. V. N. I'owelson, a. trustees in dissolution of the , Cherokee Land ami Development company, John G. Matthews, Amy L. Matthews, Standard Trust company of New York, Guaranty T rust company of New York, Garafiliu VanDeventer, James VanDeventer, Hen1 rietta VanDeventer and Louise V. VanDeventer. ' The petition states: "That the corporation is author; ized by the TVA act to exercise *n the name of the United Stater, of j America the right of eminent domain, and to condemn all real estate i 01* any interest therein deemed necessary by the corporation for carrying out the purposes of the TVA act. The lands the government seek.o to acquire are for purposes of flooding I for the dam reservoir, for construction camp sites, roads and other wrs ' in connection with the dam ami lis . \ construction. -1 The petition states that the c r.. 1 1 poration has negotiated with own'os j of the land and has "offered a estimated by TYA to be not less than the fair and reasonable value of said lands, but said respondents have de~ (Continued on back page) i CAMPBELL FOLK i SCHOOL TO GET I PART OF ESTATE The John C. Campbell Folk school 1 here is to receive an endowment fund from the estate of the late Miss Doris 1 Ulmann, of New York City, it has been learned here. After making a number of specific i bequests in her will, Miss Ulmann directed that the re.-idue of her laige > estate go to the folk school in. the i form of an annual income. Mrs. John C. Campbell, director of the folk school, said Tuesday she does not know the amount the school will vooo.". - ..... out sne is unuer the impression it will be sufficient to pay one-third of the expense* of I operating the school. The value of 1 the Ulmann estate has been estimated at around ?400,000. Miss Ulmann visited the folh school a number of times in iteeent i years while engaged in making phor tographs of mountain people and - places to be used to illustrate Allen Eaton's book on Southern Appar lachian handicrafts which is to bf ? published by the Russell Sage .foiu> dation. i Miss Ulmann, a native of New . 1 York City, was a noted art photor I grapher. She was a contributor of \ I pictures and portraits to many lead,' ing magazines and other publications.
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