"Silent Night" Sung First To Guitar Accompaniment; Story Told
Rogers Rites Held
At Suit Church
Funeral services for William
Hoyt Rogers, 35, who died at 8:20
p. m Wednesday, December 8 in
Bakersfield, California, following
a week's illness, were held at 3
p m Monday in Friendship Bap
tist Church at Suit.
The Rev. Lester Stowe and the
Rev Edward Altland officiated
and burial was in the church cem
etery.
The body lay in state in the
church for one hour prior to the
service.
Pallbearers were Jewel and
Ixrwrey Whitmore, Lloyd Kissel
burg, C. C* White, and Robert and
Lake Potete.
Flower girls were Miss Maggie
Belle Klsselburg, Mrs. Irene
Stowe, Mrs. Sally White. Mrs.
Dorothy Sue Klsselburg, Mrs.
Alice Thompson, and Mrs. Gennett
W'esL.ore land
Rogers, a native of Blairsville,
Ga? moved with his family when
he was two years old to Bakers
field. He served in World War II
from April 1941 to September
1945. and was In the European
T h e a t er approximately three
years. He was a member of Bak
ersfleld Baptist Church.
He was married last July 27 to
Miss Annie Lou Keenum, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Keenum
of Suit, who survives.
Other survivors are his parents,
Mr. and iMrs. Henry Grady Rog
ers of Bakersville; two brothers,
J. G. Rogers of' Bakersville, and
Dan-ell Lee Rogers of Rio De
Janeiro, Brazil; and two sisters,
Miss Willa Mae Rogers and Mrs.
Melvtn Griffith of Bakersfleld.
He was employed with the Sou
thern Pacific Railroad system In
Bakersfleld and his wife served
with the Bakersfleld city school
system.
Ivie Funeral Home was In
charge of arrangements.
Fall output of commercial truck
crops is expected to be about 4
per cent larger than last year and
9 per cent above average. TTie
increase is supply probably will
be accompanied by moderately
lower
Automotive Buying Is
Leader In County
(Special to the Cherokee Scout) .
NEW YORK?President Truman's call for a study by the
l ederal Trade Commission to determine how the consumer's dollar |
is being spent, draws* attention to the current copyrighted survey
by Sales Management, which shows that in Cherokee Count)',
sales of cars and other automotive equipment take the biggest
bit: out of the retail dollar.
In the county in 1951, in places'
selling new and used autos and
trucks, tires, batteries and acces
sories. and in outlets handling
(arm machinery, motorcycles,
boats and the like, expenditures
were equivalent to $530 per fam
ily when divided arithmetically
among the local population.
This represented 28 percent of
all the money spent in the coun
y's retail stores in the year. It
was more than the proportion'
spent for automotive equipment |
elsewhere in the United States.
The national average was 18 per
cent of the retail dolTar In th^
South Atlantic States it was also
18 percent* and in North Carolina,
20 percent. ,
The automotive group of stores
in Cherokee did business in the
amount of $2,321,000 in 1951. This
high activity is attributed in the
main to better earrnings. With lar
ger incomes, people spend more
on luxury items. As a result the
per family purchases of autos and
ihe like have come to be an index
of economic well-being.
Healthy conditions were also
'ound in Cherokee County in the
other classes of retail business
covered by the survey. The local
purchases of food of all sorts came
i'o $1,839,000, accounting for 22
percent of each retail dollar.
Places selling general merchan
dise. Including variety and depart
ment stores, had sales of $532,000.
amounting to another 6 percent.
The stores handling furniture,
household supplies and radio
equipment had a sales volume of
$619,000, or 7 percent.
The total retail volume attained
by the local stores was $8,368,000.
This was ahead of the 1950 fig
ure. $7,953,000.
Stanley Hamby
Dies In Unaka
Stanley Hamby, 69, of Unaka, a
steel rigger, died at 10:30 a. m
Monday in a Franklin hospital
following an illness of several
months.
Funeral services were held at 1
I p. m. Wednesday in River Hill
Baptist Church. The Rev. Sam
Wolfe officiated and burial was in
the church cemetery. Nephews
were pallbearers.
Hamby was a member of New
Prospect Baptist Church.
Surviving are the widow, the
former Miss ? Minnie Johnson;
three sons, Charles Cecil and
Thurman Young Hamby of Wav
erly, Tenn., and Paul Stanley
Hamby of San Diego, Calif.; six
daughters, Mrs. Virginia Good
man of Columbia, Tenn., Mrs.
Margaret Runion of Clinton,
Tenn., Mrs. Hattie Co is Shearer
and Mrs. . Lorene Moore of Far
ner, Tenn., and Misses Imogene
and Loretta Hamby of the home;
six brothers, Marlon of Copperhlll,
Tenn., Harry of Ducktown, Tenn.,
Dewey, Ambrose and Mead of
Marietta, Ga., and Pickens of Can
ton, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. Ida
Morrow of Unaka, Mrs. Cora
Moore of Hampton, Ga., and Mrs
Clara Taylor of Unaka; IS grand
children and eight great-gramW
children.
Ivie Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Pasture conditions on November
1, 1952 were at their poorest
since 1934.
Hymn Composer's
Great Grandson
Tells Carol Story
"Silent Night, Holy Night", has
been sung in Cherokee County i
with great fervor for many years. |
as it has all over the world. But '
now, the county can sing the fam- j
ous Christmas hymn with greater |
feeling for knowing that there is
a connection between a Cherokee
County woman and the composer
of "Silent Night".
Mrs. Zeb Chastaln, of Murphy,
formerly of Danville, 111., is a for
mer pupil and member of the
chorus of Otis Gruber in Danville, I
' great grandson of Franz Xaver,
Gruber, composer of "Silent
I Night".
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I carried the story of the writing of
the carol and portions of that
I story, as told by Otis Gruber, are
printed here:
THE STORY
The night was still and the stars
were bright over the high Aus
trian Alps. It was such a night as
might have been when the shep
herds watched their flocks and
saw the star In the east. On that
right in the Alps "Silent Night"
was born to celebrate the birth of
the Babe in the manger at Beth
lehem and, with an immortality of
its own, to be sung around the
world at Christmas time.
The composer of the hymn was
Frans Xaver Gruber, son of a lin
en weaver, who, after learning to
play the organ against his parents
| wishes, became so accomplished at
the instrument that his parents
soon became very prond of their
musician son.
He was organist at the Church
cf Saint Nikolas, where he had
the respect of all the people, sec
ond only to the reverence that
they paid to Father Josef Mohr,
priest of the ,Church of Saint
Nikolas.
Came then the day before
Christmas eve in the year of 1818
and Father Mohr was distressed
because .the organ had broken
down and, thbugh be had tried,
he had not been able to get a man
to come through the storm from
Slazburg to repair It. That night
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a call came for the priest to come
to a house in the village where a
child had been born. He went and
bestowed his blessing on the new
born babe.
THE WOKDS
As he came away from the cot
tage he looked up at the stars.
The thought came to him it might
have been on such a night, except
for the Alpine snow that covered
the ground, when the Babe of
Bethlehem was born, such a silent
night as this. "Stille nacht," he
mused, and "heiiige nacht," for
what had come to pass in the
Obendorf cottage was holy, too,
as the birth in the Bethlehem
manger was holy.
As he trudged home through the
snow, under the stars, words
came to him as if by inspiration?
"All is calm, all is bright." then,
though it was not his planning or
intention, the verse in Its fullness
and beauty.
At home he feverishly set down
the words that had come to him as
he walked through the night and
added to it line upon line.
Early the next day Father Mohr
hurried to the home of Franz Gru
ber and laid before him the words
that he had written.
THE MUSIC
"Could you, my son," he asked,
"make them into a melody?" And
Franz said he might if so be that
such inspiration might come to
him as had come to Father Mohr
in writing the words.
It was too bad that the organ
had broken down because he need
Jack Stewart Is
Valedictorian At UT
Mr and Mrs. Jim Stewart left
Andrews Friday afternoon for
Memphis. Tenn., where they will
attend the graduation exercises of
the School of Pharmacy of the
University of Tennessee.
Their son. Jack, is valedictorian
of the graduating pharmacy class.
Following his graduation, he will
go to Elizabethton, Tenn, where
he has accepted a position
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ed it for the melodizing, but his
wife played the guitar. That would
be help. Franz wrote the notes as
the words "Stille nacht" and
"heilige nacht" sang in his sou)
and his wife played them on the
guitar.
He listened and was satisfied.
The melody that he had written
was worthy of the words that
Father Mohr had written. "Silent
Night" had been.born, to live on
and on.
Early on Christmas morn, the
organ being silent, Mrs. Gruber
sang "Silent Night" to the accom
paniment of her guitar. It was
very beautiful, the people said,
as they went away.
Fram then on "Silent Night"
traveled by way of the organ re
pairman and journeying troufca
dors and finally to a command
?performance at the Cathedral of
Leigzig after which it was pub
lished, to be sent and sung all
over the world.
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