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OFFICERS SEEK~
MAN ON CHARGE
OF MURDER HERE
Clifford Sisson is Soughl
After Death of Charlie
Nix Friday
Members of the sheriff's depart
ment of two counties were seeking
diligently Wednesday night for Clif
ford Sisson, about 20, of the lowe)
end of the county, who was charge'
this week with the murder of Charlie
Nix. 20, of Culberson, following at
affray Sunday night, Oct. 18.
Nix was brought into the Petri'
hospital the night of the allege
fiEnt and remained there until hi
died last Friday night.
Sheriff Zack Ramsey said Tues
day n:gnt that warrants of assault
had been sworn out for the arresi
of Sisson, but that he and deputy
sheriff Foley Bell have been holding
a murder warrant since the night oJ
Nix's death, and that they had no
only searched the lower end of th<
county thoroughly for Sisson bu
they had also employed the service!
of Fannin county officers.
Deputy sheriff Bell said Monday
that according to witnesses' testi
mony Nix was hit over the head witi
a hickory pole about fivo feet long
and about 3 inches in diameter whei
he walked out of his home after hav
Ing a "row" there with Sisson.
Nix, Sisson and several otheri
were in the house when the figh
started, Bell credited witnesses witl
saying, and Nix had threatened t(
hit Sisson with an ax. Sisson ther
left the house, the witnesses told th(
deputy sheriff, and then when Nil
walked out of the house, Sisson ii
alleged to have hit him over the heat
with the pole.
Nix was taken to tho hospita
where he was found to be suffer
ing from a fractured skull.
Mr. Bell said witnesses told hiir
that the two men had been drinking
wine.
Mr. Bell said as soon as he learn
ed of Nix's death he obtained a war
rant for the arrest of Sisson on i
murder charge but that when he went
to look for him, Sisson had pre
sumably gone over into Georgk
where he occasionally resides.
Mr. Bell said he had officers o:
_r.il _ . . ?
x.cner counties on Sisson's trail.
"We are doing everything possibh
to catch Sisson", sheriff Ramsey sai<
Tuesday night.
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Sen. Reynolds,
Pou To Address
Democrats Here
The Democratic party's drive foi
votes in Cherokee county will com*
to a colorful climax Friday whei
they stage 'a rally in the Murph;
court house at 7 o'clock . Centra
Standard time.
Robert R. Reynolds, junior sena
, tor of North Carolina, and Georg*
Ross Pou, Democratic candidate foi
I auditor of the state, will headlin*
k the list of speakers. Candidates foi
I county and state offices will be in
1 troduced and give short talks, A. W
I Mclver, chairman of the executiv*
I committee of the Democratic part]
I of Cherokee county, who is in charg<
I of the program has announced,
fl The meeting is being extensivel]
B advertised and a large crowd fron
Cherokee and adjoining counties ii
crpccted to be present at the meet
B inc.
h all day singing to be held
There will be an all day singing
H at Martin's Creek Baptist churcl
H ?n Sunday, November 1. All singer;
Harp cordially invited to come, ant
^ everybody bring their lunch.
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repared To
Scout To Broadcast
Results Of Voting
Following its policy of giving
all the county news first to its
1 citizens, the Cherokee Scout has
arranged to broadcast elections
i results direct from the Scout
building Tuesday night as soon
as the returns are tiicd.
Details are being completed to
have representatives at every polling
place in the county report to
the Scout office as soon as the
J total figures are made available,
and they will be broadcast from
i an upstairs window in the Scout
1 office over the Hcnn theater
2 sound system.
1 Elections officials will make
this office their headquarters that
evening, and as soon as the returns
J are brought to them they will be
> tabulated and announced over the
microphone.
The results from all five tickets
I to be voted will be announced as
^ soon as the returns reach the office
and they will be given in
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r ^ vvmpicie idouiatea rorm in next
^ week's paper which will be off
^ the press Wednesday night.
The citizens of Cherokee coun~
ty are cordially invited to be
present at the Scout office about
7:30 o'clock when the results begin
coming in, and they are asked
' to cooperate with the publishers in
giving out the returns.
1 Special representatives will be
> maintained at each of the coun1
ties 24 voting precincts to bring
the returns in a. soon as they
are computed.
A corps of workers will be at
t the Scout office to give out indi5
vidual poll returns on county, state
> and national tickets, and total
1 calculations will be announced as
- rapidly as the returns come in.
i LOCAL VETS ARE
! PLANNING TO GO
TO CELEBRATION
:
Andrews Legion Post To
[ Be Host T o Three
t Counties Nov. 11
1 Representatives of Murphy's American
Legion post won't be lacking
when veterans from three counties
gather at Andrews Armistice day to
: celebrate the "reign of peace of
1 1919".
They may fight the war all over
again, they may get together and
confab on the ticklish and humorous
situations that confronted them "over
there , but their solemn respect for
the occasion will be interspersed1
with a gala program that is being
! sponsored by their hosts?members
of the Leslie Stillman post of the
American legion at Andrews,
r Nearly 300 veterans and members
i of their families from Cherokee,
i Clay and Graham counties are exf
pected to be present, Bill Whitaker,
1 publicity chairman of the tri-county
affair, anticipates.
At least eleborate preparations
j for that many people are being
r made, and the Andrews merchants
; will shut down their stores for that
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Season Opens For
r 'Possums On Sunday
Sunday will mark the opening of
r the season for trapping opposum,
I mink, raccoon, otter and muskrat,
j and it will remain open until Feb.
15.
While quail, rabbit and tnrkey
hunters will have to wait until Nov.
20 to bag that game, those more
adapt to risking their lives against
! old "Bruin's" began hunting bear on
l October 20. Several bears have been
3 shot in the mountains sinco the seaI
son opened, acording to reports
reaching here.
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TALKS TO LIONS
TUESDAY NIGHT
Club To Observe Ladies
Night At Its Next
Meeting
Seven members of the Murphy
Lions club are planning to attend
a regional-Ladies night meeting at
Asheville Monday night.
The invitation was extended club
members by Roy Phillips, advertising
director of the Asheville CitizenTimes
and a member of the Asheville
Lions club, who spoke to the
Murphy club at their regular meeting
in the Methodist church dining
room Tuesday night.
Mr. Phillips reported that Lions
International was stressing the importance
of regional and district
meetings and asked the Murphy
Lions to attend the first of series
of such meetings in this section in
his city Monday night.
Those planning to attend from
here are: Dr. E. E. Adams, Tom
Case, Harve Elkins, Dr. R. W. Petrie,
W. Arthur Barber, K. C. Wright and
Sam Carr.
In his address before the dub
Mr. Phillips stressed the interest in
blind work his club had taken. He
said that one institution had been
perfected for the employment of the
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Man Is Buried
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After Accident
Funeral services were held Friday
for Mr. James Clifton Ledford,
27-year-old Shooting Creek resident,
who was injured about three weeks
ago when a log fell on him. He died
Monday morning after a 19-day illness.
I
Rites were held at 10 o'clock in j
the morning at the Union Hill !
church with Peyton G. Ivie in charge
of funeral arrangements.
Relatives acted as flower girls and j
pallbearers.
Surviving are his wife, his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Obie Ledford,
and a brother, John.
TV A Power Line
Offices Are Moved
The division of the TV A employed
in running the power line from Rhymer's
Ferry in Graham county to
the Hiawassee darn site moved their
offices to the Parker building in
Murphy Tuesday.
Work on this project has gone
rapidly forward and construction
was centrally shifted to the Hiawassee
dam end of the line this
week.
O. A. Waldroup is the construction
engineer in charge of the work
I and William C. Hargrave is the office
manager.
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party Issues
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New Deal To Be Put To
Strong Test Over Nation
Next Week.
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BY SAM CARR
This whirligig of pditk- has got
everybody going and crazy. But it
will all he over Wednesday.
Bight now ems the woild could
1 : e coming to an end and still we'd
hear John Smith being highly tootMi
and masterfully directed into
seme offi e which he s ands only a
**."?. 1-5?T* chance o? getting. Around
and 'round she goes and which '*50pcr
cent ' comes out heie everybody
thinks they know, hat they really
don't.
Perhaps in no . ampaign which has
ever reached from the turrets of
the capitol in Washington to John
Farmer's Cherokee county corn
patch has ever been quite so shaply
defined.
Last autumn about this time there
was plenty of talk about "middleaisling".
But a lot can happen in
a year?and it has.
No longer arc the people suggesting
any indication of a zig-7.ag method
of marking ballots. Now it's
either "New Deal" or "No New
Deal."
There arc those, of course, who
will seek to combine the best of the
two. But leading political writers
and close adherents see no such
balancing of the one against the
other as beir.g strongly prevalent in
this coming election Tuesday.
Parties Well Defined.
The issues are clear cut. The
Democrats are mincing no words in
backing Roosevelt "to the limit" in
their orgy for "New-Deal-out-of-thedepression"
votes. And no Republican
in the last ten months has so
much as intimated that he would
confer with Candidate Landon in
easing the pain of a Republican victory
that would send every New
Deal issue down the chute of oblivion.
Heretofore campaigns have been
made up of platforms and plan)c9
that had their own purpose; but
never in such sharp contrast as they
are in this grand and glorious campaigning
year of 11)36.
This county which swings back and
forth politically like the pendulum
on a grandfather clock has seen some
of the most able speakers on both
sides of the political fence come into
j its confines for the vote of the peo|
pie.
While state and district speakers
| have confined their efforts to meetings
and rallies in the two principal
towns, no candidate has missed go
ing integrally and vitally into every
| settlement to carry his own camI
paign and his party's.
Checking up to see how the registration
figures star.d, registrars
just look at the inquirer with open
mouths as if to say, "If there's one
we've missed, we don't know who
it is."
(Continued from front page)
Boomers Will Meet
Hayesville Friday
Friday afternoon the Boomers
play another home game.
They will meet the Hayesville
high school team for the second
time this year in an effort to add
the fourteenth to a string of "unlucky
13" victories.
Murphy defeated Hayesville 13
to 0 in their first game this year
at the letter's grounds, and while
the locals have displayed some
brilliant football playing climaxed *
by a 14 to 0 victory over Cuuiowhee'i
"B" team, Hayesville has
also picked up strength during
the seat on and should make it a
good tussle.