THE CHEBOKEE SCOOT
Established July. 1W
Published every Thursday at Murphv, Cherokee County, N. C.
' JERUE BABB Publisher
PHYLLIS B. BABB Editor
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
r-*? la Cherokee County One Year. S2.M. Six Worth*.
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117 Hickory St.
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of Wagoo Trail. This article Is written by Mr. Lores Davis.
I960 Chairman of the Wagon Traia Committee. Murphy. N.C.)
By LORE.N DAVIS
1%6 Chairman of Wagoo Traia Committee
Having lived all my liie in Cherokee County. I feel free to
t)g{k about our great County and its history.
? Since our main interest at this time is the Wagon Train (toad.
1,. would like to say what I think this road is. has been, and what
could ?e
ja Long before the white man knew about America, this Irail.
we will call it. was used by the Indians. In history, one reads ?f
the Watsisa Trail. It is found that this was the trail coming lorth
through what is now Cherokee County into Tennessee and passing
through "he Tellico Plains country.
After the white man came, this historic trail was used ly
Harmon and George Washington Lovingood. who settled ?n nhat
is now Hanging Dog Creek. These settlers mined and forged
iron on Valley River and Hanging Dog Creek. The iron fcas
hauled over the Watsisa Trail ' now Wagon Train Road1 to ?e
used in the War between the States. As the years moved on. Ihe
people of this section used the trail as a supply route going to
Tennessee for salt and supplies not available otherwise.
In a growing country, things come and go, but this famous
trail became more important rather than being forgotten and In
used. The Babcock Lumber Co. improved this road for its tse
while cutting timber on Tellico River. In the years around IS07
to 1910 an Englishman improved this trail more in order to move
animals to Hooper Bald where he built an enclosure keeping
these animals for a few years For the same reason, the English
man left Hooper Bald, and the animals were left to go their two
ways. The wild hoar that has made the Tellico Mountain tountry |
famous for its big game was among these animals.
Again this road grew in importance as the only means lor
hunters and fishermen from both north and south to penetrate
the hi Ids of the Tellico Mountains.
After the First World War. the need for timber brought ?bout
a new use for this road. The Whking Lumber Co., going in trom
North Carolina and Jess Brooks coming in from the Tennessee
side used the road for trucking and railroading logs.
At the beginning of World War II the demand for chestnut
timber to be used in making acids was in such great demand
that the Champion Paper and Fibre Co. again used and improved
this road for trucking chestnut wood to Murphy.
Thinking back over a short number of years, famous land
marks such as Fort Butler, the old Indian Villiages. the tld Indian
trading post, iron mines and forges, the old water mills, the ?ne
famous Drummer's home, the passenger trains, the old jails, the
whipping posts, and court houses have come and gone, but the tld
Watsisa Trail is here, now in greater demand than ever in history.
Three years ago. some young men in the Tellico Plains Kiwan- 1
is Club realizing the need for a modern road between Tellico
Plains. Tenn.. and Murphy, N.C. came up with the idea of l
Wagon Train to promote this road. The Wagon Train in the period
of three years has grown much larger than these young I en
ever dreamed it would. It is now known ali over the country, tt
is new and unique, and older than anyone living. It is tomething
not many of us have been able to realize how big it is. how *ell
known it is. and how much it is worth in advertising the lections
of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
Tourists from all over the United States want to travel this
road. On the Tennessee side where the road is paved to the North
Carolina line, tourist are turning around at the state line because
North Carolina is asleep. These people or a large per cent, kould
come on to Murphy except for the fact that the road is loo
rough. We have been asked by many people to try to get the
road in a good condition so it may be traveled and we have teen
assured that guided tours will start. These tours should help put
some emphasis on the need and importance of a good road. When
this road is built, there will be hundreds of thousands ?f extra
automobiles coming into Murphy and our state.
Think what this will mean to all of us'
i Kidd Brewer's
Raleigh Roundup
THE WRITERS . . . Of all way?
lor a man to be elected to office,
write-ia it the most difficult,
musi underhanded, and the moot
negative.
We are glad to see that Dr. L
Beverly Lake of Wake Forest?
who at the last reckoning had
spent 130.000 of his own funds in
his race for Governor? is having
no part in the write-in business,
says the move is none of his do
ings. and pledges to vote for
Terry Sanford on November I.
AT ITS BEST . . . This is ?
purely personal observation, and
you may not agree, but:
We thought television was at
its best in its coverage of the
Republican National Convention
in Chicago. Of all the flock ot
cowboy boots flopping across our
scrqgn. there are not three pro
grams in a whole week we look
forward to seeing. But the Re
publicans held us. Let's admit
it? their convention was about
four times as entertaining as tbe
Democrats'.
Like television, the Republican
Party was at its best in its recent
conclave. Indeed it may never
reach those heights again in our
lifetime? at the polls or other
wise.
We have heard few better
speeches than the one of Thomas
E. Dewey, the Republicans' Adlai
Stevenson. Of course, too. Judd
?an old pro? was in rare form.
We thought Nixon's acceptance
speech plumbed greater emo
tional depths than Kennedy's, but
somehow lacked the fiery zeal . .
It is hard to say how much
hurt the Democrats, but the
Gopsters hurt themselves not at
all in Chicago. They learned
from the Democrats' mistakes of
two weeks earlier. And. planning
it all? directly or indirectly? was
that nemesis of the Democrats:
Richard Milhaus Nixon.
PURPLE HEART . About 40j
years ago the closest thing to the!
torture chamber for a kid was tlw
dentist s Mux . and nobudj
seemed to care.
But bow that the children have
taken over the country, thing*
have changed I do believe that
parents now privately dread the
dentist more than their young
offspring
For one thing nowadays, den
tists are just naturally smarter:
They have found there is no
shortage uf novocaine They have
new machines Many of them
have learned that a little knowl
edge of child psychology can
sometimes be more important
than D.D.S.
A friend of ours the other day
took his four-year-older to the
dentist He admitted be sat in
the outer office listening with fear
and trembling to the "open-wid
ers" and "this - might - tickle-a
little" from inside. Hie son and
dentist, he finally concluded,
were having a jolly good time.
Finally, when the son came out,
he was proudly carrying an im
portant-looking yellow paper. It
wasn't a bill. It read as follows:
"For outstanding bravery in the
doctor's office. FREE, one 11)
double scoop of ice cream."
This certificate, carefully sign
ed by the dentist, was presented
to the local drugstore? a neat bit
of cooperation by druggist, dairy,
and dentist.
ABOUT TO REMARRY? .
Dorothy Kilgallen, New York
writer, said in a recent column:
"Late last January the popula
tion of North Brunswick. N.H.,
was shocked by the murder of
Mrs. Francis Clarke, two ser
vants and a taxi driver. The
crime is still shrouded in mystery.
Now the neighbors are a-buzz
with a rumor that the slain wo
man's husband. Dr. Clarke, is
about to remarry? if he hasn't
already . . ."
Dr. Clarke has relatives living
in Roanoke Rapids. Edenton,
Plymouth area, and the Outer
Banks section of Che State.
Inndiarilly, Kllgalkn doeaa't
say so, but a Hungarian refugee
was arretted a few day* ago (or
theee murders.
HOW IT'S COMING? . . . .
Among Raleigh * new buildings
is one going up (or Pint Federal
Savings * Loan ... an the site
of the famous old Academy Build
ing at the corner of South Sa lie
bury and Mania Streets and just
across the street from the old
Bland Hotel > renamed Andrew
Johnson and revamped and up
dated several year ago by the
late Josiah William Baile> . . .
and still in the Bailey family i.
Wachovia o?uul owned the
property for many years, sold it
to First Federal recently, and
vill build later where stands the
soon-to-be vacated City Hall.
They have all sorts of gim
micks on the wall surrounding
I the construction site for the new
I savings and loan building. Peep
holes have been cut through tbe
fence for little bears, mama
bears, and papa bears. Reminds
one gently of the old sawed-out
I toilet seats. But they also have
| on one corner of this project a
nice, white, modern wall tele
I phone The sign nearby suggests
i you pick up the receiver for the
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Soil
Conservation
News
Bv JOHN S. SMITH
In the latter part oi Apni. Wii
lard Taylor, ot the Beech Creek
Section, planted an acre of Wil
mington Bahia Grass on his farm.
The seed for the planting was furn
ished by the Plant Materials Sec
tion of the Soil Conservation Ser
vice. This grass is a very deep
rooted plant which grows well on
light, sandy soils. The grass is
up to an excellent stand and ap
pears to be making good growth.
This is the second planting of
Bahia Grass in Cherokee County,
the first one having been made
on the Harshaw Farm by William
Norman three years ago. The
planting on the Harshaw Farm has
been cut for hay one time this
year
Bahia grass is not as palatable
as either Orchard Grass or Fes
cue, but it is readily eaten by ail
types of livestock. The chief ad
vantage of the plant is its very
deep root system which allows it
to thrive on soils that are too dry
for either Orchard Grass or Fes
cue. It isn't unusual to find the
roots of Bahia as deep as three
to four feet in light soils. This is
in contrast to the other grasses
which seldom put down roots more
than six to eight inches.
The Bahia Grass on the Harshaw
Farm was planted as an experi
ment to determine if the climate
in Cherokee County was too se
vere for it or not. Two plot*
were seeded, one being pure grass
and the second being mixed with
Sericea Lespedeza. We have found
that the climate is not too severe
for the grass, but we learned that
it should be planted in pure stands.
The plot with Sericea Lespedeza
has made very poor growth due
to the competition from the Ser
icea. It has almost completely
disappeared from this plot. In
NOTICE!
MURPHY TAX PAYERS
Pay Your 1959 City Taxes on
or Before August 15, 1960 and
Save Advertising and Sales Cost
Charles E. Johnson
CMy Clerk
Mtffphy^ N? C.
the plot where the grass was
planted alone, it is making good
growth and the stand is becoming
thicker each year. Bahia Grass
has not been tested in Cherokee
County in combination with Ladinc
Clover, but it would be my guess
that Ladino would soon crowd the
grass out too.
Another plant uliich has i>een
planted experimentally here is
Tick Clover. An acre plot of this
legume was seeded on the Mc
Combs Farm in the spring of
1938. It produced a large quan
tity of very high-quality hay last
year, and has been cut once this
year. This is a plant which grows
naturally in this part of the coun
try but is generally considered to
be a noxious weed. The McCombs
brothers do not consider it a
weed however.
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OUT TO KILL ... A terrific
fight is brewing on the compul
sory auto liability insurance law
in this Slate. Allstate Insurance
Co . now makiig news around
the country with its cancellation
proof auto liability policy, says it
will never bring it into N.C. as
long as comfHilsory insurance
stays. We hear the entire insur
ance industry is out to kill it. I
They say it's killing them.
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