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MURPHY
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Vol. I1L.?No. 1.
FIVE COUNTY
SCHOOLS ARE
YET TO OPEN
County Superintendent
Names Teachers for All
Cherokee Schools
Twenty-five of the 30 schools in
Cherokee county under the county
supervision of A. L. Martin have opened
as a list of 48 teachers was announced
with one more to be selected
for each of the Friend-hip Martin's
Creek and Peachtree schools.
Mr. Martin said that Unaka, Martin's
Creek and Peachtree have not
opened yet as transportation facilities
to these schools are handled by
busses that will not begin running
until the Murphy high school opens
on August 31.
The Friendship and Shields schools
have not been opened as yet, Mr.
Martin declared as one teacher must
yet be selected to each of these.
Although the Friendship school
will open in the church, Mr. Martin
said a loan was being asked for the
erection of a new school there.
The list of teachers is as follows:
Ranger, first district?Jim Harris,
Stella Ma-on, Bertha Hogan, Geneva
Chaistain.
Culberson, first district? Irene
Kisselburg, Tabitha Moore.
Macedonia, first district?Alden
Cooke.
Sunny Point, first district?Louel(Continued
on back page?This Sec.)
Couple Living
Outdoors Sent
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Sheriff Zack Ramsey said Tuesday
that he ordered an unknown woman
who has been staying with her husband
along the road from Murphy
to Copperhill out of the county after
it had apparently developed that her
husband had left her and they had
let three cows they have been keeping
with them die of starvation and
remain unburied.
The sheriff said that Dr. J. X.
Hill, county physician; Carl Townson
county commissioner and himself
went out to "Deep Cut" one mile
south of here on Highway 19 Monday
night to investigate the case.
For several months the couple
have been staying on the side of the
road with no means of shelter day
and night. Both the sheriff and Dr.
Hill said they did not know who the
couple was, but that they gave the
name of "Brown" or "Smith" and
that they were originally from Etowah,
Tenn.
Their apparent disregard for any
means of shelter has attracted the
attention of many local citizens and
tourists lately.
Sheriff Ramsey said he ordered
the two cows, a calf and a dog to be
buried.
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TVA's Biggest Customer
Removes Its Surcharge,
Corinth, Miss.?The Alcorn Conn-1
ty Electric Power Association, now!
TVA's biggest customer, Saturday
removed its 10 per cent surcharge to
commercial and industrial consumers.
The action will mean a saving of
$6,000 annually for commercial and
industrial users of power in the
county. Until removal of the surcharge
it had been a part of the
TV A rate structure in all territory
served by TVA except in the city
of Tupelo.
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Buildings Here Being
Repaired, Remodelled
A number of local buildings and i
residences are undergoing repair?
and remodelling at this time. A new !
restaurant will be opened under the I
David ;-?ii building adjoining the bar-1
her shop of Red Hall and Claude
West. They plan to add several
chairs to their shop, they announced.
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Weekly Nactpmprr in B"tstern l\iorrl
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TVA To Have
Offices In Mil!
On September!
The Tennessee Valley Authority
has contracted with W. M. Fain, of
Alurphy, to provide them with 17
offices and a storeroom in 1:1s k! itting
mill here.
Mr. Fain said the TVA would
move all of their Murphy offices to
the new location on September 1.
At present he is arranging to remodel
the interior of the building,
which is located across the street
from the Murphy postoffice, to meet
TVA specifications.
For the past year and a half the
building has been used by 13. Brumby
as ? Iinaipiir ""a
where he is hiring 31 regular workers
at present.
In view of the fact that Brumby
does not need but half of the mili
for his operations, Fain said he could
partition it off and have plenty of
room to meet the TVA's demands
for offices here.
At present seven TV A offices in
Murphy are scattered to the four
corners of the town.
MRS. CHAMBERS,
OF CLAY COUNTY,
BURIED RECENTLY
Funeral services for Mrs. Rose
Henson Chambers, 36, of Hayesville,
were held at the Lcdford chapel
Methodist church Monday afternoon,
July 31, with the Rev. J. L. Underwood
officiating. Interment was in
the church cemetery. l)jytx>n G.
Ivie was in charge of funeral arrangements.
Pallbearers were: Leslie Crawford.
Millard Cassady, Ernest Smith,
Claude Moore, Charles Foster and
Frank Moore.
Mrs. Chambers, a life long resident
of Clay county and a member
of the church from which she was
buried, died the morning she waburied
Surviving are her husband and
two children, Robert and Henson.
! Last Rites Held
For Mrs. Barton
j 42, Of Letitia
! Funeral services for Mrs. W. W.
Barton, 42, were held at the home
! of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
i Taylor, Friday afternoon. July 31,
with the Rev. C. F. Conley officiating
assisted by Rev. Fred Stiles. W.
D. Townson was in charge of funeral
arrangements.
Mrs. Barton had beer, a member
of the Baptist church for 24 years
and had taught in the public schools
of Cherokee county for 12 years.
Pallbearers, her former students,
were: Truman Burger, Clifford McXabb,
Wayne Walker, Hay den Hickey,
Abe Hembree, Guy MeXabb and
Cicero Calloway.
Flower girls school chums of
her daughter. Pearl, were: Lillian
Elster, Winona Clonts, Gladys Dye,
Eliza Wright and Arzela Clonts.
Surviving are her husband and
five children Pearl, Glenn. Ray.
Mark and Frank; her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Taylor,
two brothers, Luther Taylor, of
Turtletown, Tenn., Elmer Taylor, of
Harbuck, Tenn., and two sisters,
Mrs. W. C. Walker, of Letitia, and
Mrs. W. K. Johnson, of Athens,
Tenn.
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OPENS USED CAR LOT
Jim Franklin, who was formerly
connected with the Dickey Chevrolet
company, in Murphy, now has a used
car lot on the square in Murphy
where he is selling and buying all
makes of used cars.
COUNTY TAXES PRINTED
This week the publication of delinquent
1935 county taxes begins.
The list will be run four weeks and
sale will start on Monday, Sept. 7, j
by Z. C. Ramsey, tax collector of i
Cherokee county. '
ttvfot.
\ Carolina, Covering a l^argr and
phy, N. C. Thursday, A
MRS. WEST IS
BURIED HERE
ON TUESDAY
O d Murphy Citizen
Passes at Home Here
Saturday P. M.
Amid rites that exemplified a quiet
and deep respect for a beloved old
lady, Mrs. Nora Cecilia West, 70.
of Murphy, was buried Tuesday.
Mrs. West, a friend to all, passed!
away Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church Tuesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock with the church
pastor, the* Rev. W. Arthur Barber,
officiating. Interment was in Sunset
cemetery. Peyton G. I vie was
in charge of funeral arrangements.
Hon >rary pallbearers were: W. M.
Fain, Bob Fain, Neil Pividson, Ralph
Moody, G. W. Cami :nd R. R.
Ferguson.
Active pallbearers were: T. W.
Axley, Henry and Paul Hyatt, Bill
Miller, Winslovv Mclver and M. L.
Gentry.
Flower girls were: Cairie Brittnin
Mrs. W. M. Fain and Mi>. T. \V.
Axley.
Mrs. West was born in Murphy and
was an active member of the Murphy
Methodist church all her life.
Surviving are her husband, William
Marcus Wo t, and four children,
Benjamin Brittain West, Hettie
Elizabeth Hickman, Nannie Bell West
and Marcus Victor West.
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Court To Open
The regular August term of Superior
court for the trial of both
criminal and civil cases \yill be opened
in Murphy Monday morning.
Judge W. F. Harding will preside
over the two weeks term.
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Murphy Team Will
Meet Franklin Here
A ball game has been scheduled
here for Sunday afternoon with the
Franklin team, Henry Hickman,
manager of the team said Tuesday.
I-as' Sunday Hickman's fast-stepping
outfit was eheduled to meet
Ducktown but the game hail to be
called >n account of rain.
COUNCIL TO MEET
The town council will moot ho??o
Thursday night to decide on the
validation of the pool room election
held here several weeks afro and to
hear a petition for Sunday moving
pictures.
SCOUT BRINGS TO
ITS READERS 20
PAGES THIS WEEK
Twenty pages this week in your
county paper!
That's the way the mast head
reads.
For the past two years the
Cherokee Scout has brought its
subscribers from 16 to 24 pages
each week chock full of local*
county news and features by a
county-wide staff and nationally
known group of writers.
Today the Scout's circulaton
rot only COMPLETELY covers
Cherokee county but it reaches
deeply into the surround communities.
The primary objective of the
publisher is to give all the county
news first: then a condensation of
interesting state and national
news.
But with its wide circulation
and its popularity it means much
to local merchants by reaching
EVERY family of means in their
trading territory and carrying
their messages forcefully to them.
And that isn't all. EVERY
week the Scout will strive to bring
its readers MORE and BETTER
coverage of interesting events to
its subscribers.
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Potentially Rich Tern tor-v ui This Si
ug. 6, 1936. $
Clay County
Man Is Killed
Near Candler
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One man was killed and another
slightly injured at C:(>."? o'clock last
slightly in jut ed at G:05 o'clock Satin <iay
on the Asheville-Ciihton highway,
at Candler Heights, nea: Candler.
W. 1*. Crawford, .r?l. of i ate No.
' ), Hayesville, Clay county, a superintendent
for the T. M. Stiider
bridge construction company, of
Nashville, Tenn.. died within :{<
minutes after the accident from a
fractured skull and internal injuries.
He did not regain consciousness after
being hurt. He was brought to a
hospital here but died within 1(>
minutes after being admitted.
Following a coroner'.- investigation
in Buncombe county which showed
the. accident to be "unavoidable",
funeral services were held at Hayesville
Monday. I'eyton G. Ivie was
in charge of funeral arrangements.
George Whitaker* 21, negro, of
Louisburg, N. C., chauffeur for Dr.
A. I). Wilcox, president of Louisburg
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FARMERS SHOULD
GRUB PASTURES
AT THIS SEASON
Cherokee county farmers are advised
to grub off their pastures during
the slack season by K. 1?. Wooten,
assistant Cherokee county agent.
According to Mr. Wooten about
50 per cent of the pastures in this
area are grown up in bushes or
weeds of 110 value as feeds or erosion
control. All they do, he says, isap
the real value out of the soil,
and eventually they will crowd out
all grasses.
He declares that many farmer,
would realize a great deal more value
front their pastures if they would
grub them off.
"A pasture crop must be cultivated
just like corn or anything else if it
is to be any good", he said. "A
worn out pasture is no more than
iust. soil with U fnm n arAnn.l ??
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Mrs. Sawyer,
33, Of Graham
Countv Is Dea l
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Fun; rai M-rvvv- for Mrs. Charles
Sawyer, .'Id. . . Koubinsville. were
held Sunday nu ruing at 11 o\l? k
at the Robbinsville Baptist church
with the art. v. the Mev. Vv. F. .v:iclair,
officiating. Interment was in
the Kobir.sville com- *ry. \V. D.
Townson was in chair. f funeral
arrangements.
Mrs. Sawyer, one : the outstanding
citizens of Graham crunty, d - d
Friday t-terno -n at .it aft; i
an illness lasting only several days.
Pallbearers were: Horace Denton.
Clyde ("olvard, E . i.unsford, .1. A. ,
Earwood, W alter Wiggins and Paul I
Rodgers. I
Fiower girls v. re: Willa Ma*
Rodgers, jliv. Martha ' V\sp, Helen j j
Gh? mley and Lillian Cubic. .
Mrs. Sav.yer had bee:: a r.cmbv! j ,
of the Robi' rville church ?i a num- ,
ber of years. :>h- v. il be greatly ,
missed by the church and her many J .
frie ds.
S rvi i:.g .'-re: her husband; .one j
child; hr. ; are.. . Mr. ..." M-.
Ma? : Sharp; two : . ?i.-. ;: j
j Her. ley and Mis. X rn:a p. an ,
I six brothers. Hardy. Dee. Dewey..
J Lou s Wesl* y and San:, all < f Gra- j
ban- county.
L MP POST KNOCKED DOWN
S : .c time 'hiring w.-ck-end j <
a t !. racked into and kr ?cke<i 1 <
dow. he city la: :p ; ost on the co j i
or Pari.or s Drug s re. It was '
ren. ved for replacement Tuesday. :
NEW POLICE ON JOB
Messrs. Press Gentry and Law-1
rence Bryson have been working j :
quite regularly lately due to the in- .
creased crowds in Murphy day and \
night.
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TODAY
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.1.50 YEAR-5c COPY
TVA PERSONELL
EMPLOYEEHERE
TO BEGIN DUTIES
W. M. Rogers Outlines
Procedure Cf Hiring
Workmen for Dam
\V. ? !. H-ge.-, ol' the personoll
c'-'.nrin'cr.i ?>. th? Tennessee Valley
Auth'ii it v. :! in MarjJiy Monday
t ? up his dutie connected
with hiring workers for the Fowlers?
Hone! dam project.
Early th,- work he had not definitely
located an office and said
that the number of workers to be
used on the job would "depend on
the construction plans".
In any event, only a few would be
hired, he asserted, until the access
road to the dam was constructed
and machinery could be moved in.
The order of procedure of hiring
skilled arid unskilled laborers and
workmen will depend on the exami
nation taKen here last winter.
Many apj licants took the tests at
certain places in each county within
a 75-mile radius of the project.
Their grades were based accordingly
and the onc^ making tiu highest
mark will he put to work firs!.
It is estimated that about 1200
workmen will be used when the project
jrcts under full construction.
It will be neccs aiy also, it is
said, to hire a number i f skilled
workermen who do no: re.-id* in the
county.
Hall Building
Model Dairy
Barn On Farm
A com ire lal ?i;.i y ' .en, hi i
built uj . St ate Hoard of (bade
"A" retail :a. k specifications, is bein^
erected y . Hall? of Miirphy.
R. F. Farnham, state ilcpi <iai.
extension sp< ; -t. . o hen on
July 24 to stake off ti e model dairy
barn.
Mr. Kno has been fnlshii i; a
portion of the i?t t. : in Mm
? ... a:..I . h.c? i he in
stalled -evt i al ; : c > ..v worn
out 01 cxttnr, he divided ti
h iiid t)1' moclt ! . .. y a cost of
i bout .v." : >.
At the ; rot lit : ? :?? ai t* two other
3ar? mrnon. . dairy barns in the
com. y !? . helont :nir to Noland
Well-*, ? Murphy, and the othei now
under construction by h\ A. Woods,
of Andrew-.
In a : the remodelling that
has . en poire an all over th? county
ai.d pai .cularly in the towns, Mi.
Fanuiair. h:;s planned these units to
meet the requirements of the State
Boa i: < : Grade "A" retail milk.
The requirements fcr such a barn
art very strict an I rijod in their
?p* -If ations for clean, wholesome
milk to e consumed by the public.
The model unit buinp erected byMr.
Hall when l-m pitted w 'I <en
?i>t of a lounging bam, a new milkin
jr house with 14 . >"anc :"ii' an.:
idditior.s o the milk house oX three
ooms, r.e of which w '.l he u .1 loi
- i:\ the the. it..
oiinjr ar.*l Lc-t:!i."g th. rmik ami
he third for wash!: , ; -t- i h. .
ha: n.
. 'r. Hall fca.- *. >i<. !2 ij-1 ; '
r ey f.r.d iuvini-'y v :\s in his
ierd.
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Infant Cornwell Dies
Funeral services were held hV.turiay
afternoon f-a Dorothy, I ycar?M
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil
?or;.v e:i. of TomotU,. at the Me-tho'.st
v.urch there. Interment was
n the church cemetery. \V I>.
I'twRsTi was in charge cf In.*.era 1
11 range menu.
FRAME NEW ORDINANCE
The town council at their last
meeting here passed an ordinance requiring
all bicycle riders to adhere
to the same driving laws in town
motorists.