VOL. I NO. 7
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TO REBUILD
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FAIR BUiLDlNQS.
. At th meeting of the stockhold
ers arid directors of the - Jackson
County Fair Association held here
Saturday afternoon it was definatly
decided t9 rebuild - the; grandstand
and exhibition buildings that were
burned last fall. ' " . . v
The President was authorized to
appoint a committee "whose duty
shall be to work out the prelimir
nary details and have charge of the
building work. The homes of the
members oh the committee other
than that of the Secretary, Mr. E.
L. McKee, have not been announced;
but the committee wiil be complet
ed in a few days.
The work on the new buildings
will beigin in a short time and it is
believed that the buildings will be
finished by the first of May.
The next annual Jackson County
Fail, will be held on the last three
days in September and the first
day of October. Giving four days
just after the busy season and be
fore the unpleasant weather begins
Tiie management of the Fair ; will
begin at once and work until the
opening day in the effort to perfect
- aji the arrangements 4 looking to
ward making, the Fair everything
.thatit should be,- A number o
"wholesome amusements will be ; s.e-.
cured and nothing Jbtiohal wU
De aiipwea on tne grounas. xne
loporianiDniT m WijJfl
Fair, the -exhibits, he with the pec-Twe
pie of Jackson county. At each ;
succeeding Fair,, therev has' been a j
marked improvemeiit in the quality
of exhibits on dispia and it is ex-
pected that those this year will far
surpass anything of previous Fairs,
All together. Everybody. Let's
begin now and havea, Fair that is
a Fair. .' " . :-: . :'...
SWAIN Wat $100,000 IN BONDS AT
FIVE PER CENT
The Swain Highway Commiss
ioners met last Saturday aud de
cided to issue at once $100,000 five
rqer cent thirty year bonds, On ac
count of the European war aud the
uncertainty of the future inoney
marketi the Trustees! thought it
best to dispose of a block of - bonds
-while the bportunity . was ; good A
r portion of this money will be
placea on time aeposiiau iuc uau
;and will draw; fourr;per cent mte-
rest, so the district will pe but little
loser by the transaction. , '
v J Next regular . meeting of the
Trustees will be held : April 2nd, at
-whir timp. timft r. an 1 ?en5mesr to
have general supervision , of . the
road building will be femployed, ;
v Bryson City Times. ls i.;
DR.
f DrlGharlSs
Torest, sent iastt weelfe-Cliairm
wMt Jones i',fioSofiT.'
teess formal of the
videlot ltigebHege, Uiis
Vaiin wiUl
PresklenteMilheTO
meneas will; Dr. " Brewer , contmue
isiMvnhh I hisf new
woiSee
AUEStvSBOt
KILIF.D AT VIOLET
v. . v. . v.- i-, .
Dock Alleii . was shotl Tuesday
night near his ho'cne at VJolt-.
- ,Mr; Allen With his sju aab But
Hippsj discovered a fire in the Hat
maker hotre near the Allen home
fn the first part of th night; land
went there aud put the fire out, as
they were , leaving some One was
seen near theu aad Mr. Allen. call-
ed to him to stop, the p irty auswei-
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ing by shootiag ivlr. Alien and fir
ing severalothers who ran. Lr. - All
en was shot in the -aaiansa, the
pall beaetrating the liver. Dr. Pat
on of Murphy was Called to see
ths wd aa lei man and did every
thing pD33iple for his restoration
Mr. Allen died Wednesday nihr a:
abut 8 o'clock.
e are told that the party who
did the soatiui is uakaowa, but
an inquest was to be held yester
day and something may be brought
out at that hearing that will throw
some light on the affair Mr,s Allen
was a quite and peaeable man and
stood well in his comunity and the
tragedy is much regretted.
Cherokee Scout.
MOONLIGHT" SCHOOLS
According to the 1910 Census Re
port, 15.3 per cent, of the native
Dorn wniies in jaciison county over
ten years of age cannot-reab , and
write. fn this respect ''Jackson
coupty -heid thej -Ttn place
i&uniiesj iathfiState 1
Wair .perceni ; uiueTaiesnaa
do. lue vierae of the- htate
is .J per cent and mr the United
btaies it is 3, per cent. There are
Jvo states m the Uniui: which
have a larger percent of of uatlve-
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norn wnire illiterates tnan noes
North Carolina. We see, therelore,
hat North Carolina is very . much
behind the other states in this re-
spect and we also see that Jackson
county is very much behind North
Carolina.
Snmethind must h rtnno W
canuot afford to remain among the
most ignorant of the United States. anQinannuyo jnanugean u.e ue
tniL'ii ..hih ik partments of the Lords work. I
ing and sacrilicing to educate our
boys and girls and I believe that ren to seieci a ...an .or an -Jackson
county, according-to her past. Will jou help me through
wealth, is raising as much money
locaUy-by local tax and private
in,.tinn, fnr cnhnnU a,nrln.
Vv in th Si atp and I nnr rflarl tn
say that today our number of boys especially I want hirp to be some
and girls under twenty-one years what acquainted with vocal music,
j 4 sufficient anyway to haxe charge
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is indeed very small. :
Since practically all cur boyslahd
girls can read and write (and we
are going" to ; continue teaching
tneny tne proDiem oi; reuucing ine the sentence, pronounced against
per centage of pteracy in Jackson jessie Upton for the killing of hih
son county is to be met in men bronher-in-iaw. Mariley jBrendle, on
and women who have not yet iiad Christmas day, 1911i Judge Cline
the opportunity of learning to read 8sed the aBoye sentence last Fri
andwrite 1 :P : . - day aud immediately Jllpton's legal
When we remember that North adviser gave jnotice of an appeal to
Carolina sent into; the civil rw the State Supreme Court, The ap-
! thousand more inen than she had
yotera and ieh we thinkv of the
afdnebf the stru
returhing home iyefi to llyi; wek
nptvbhder so, mi
the orphan sons and daiterrwere
not taught to read and write.
maiuIaxiM
proutfof ieirily
literacy.';
frbmtfie: tihdD
nienive pruicipal isufferers,
dadVltlstriie that a "great many'
of their heads are getting white and
they vrtll soon oe taken away,1 but
sham e be to ns if we stand idly b v,
waning iot iuem: to totter - mtq md
grYiehVliwefpthcn to live
live!a fuUer Ufenotvwit for them
todier A ; -' r
In KentupkX; the "Moonlight"
Schools are;- very rapidly reducing
adult illiteracy Cmd these schools
are being established in ' many
places in North Carolina , These
I schools; werefirst organized in Row
an County; KentUcky,;in 1911 and
the first Vear almost one-third of
the county wai.ehrolled.LThe teach
ers of thedistrict schools hold night
sessions where the men and women
come, some tftjadd to the very lim
ited education ieceived in the very
inadequate tscnopls of their child
hood, others to take their first les
son iii any; chool. f .
Next August vvhen schoph begin,
I hope that these4 Moonlight'' schools
will be starred in ah organized": and
systematic way. But there is hi rd
ly a district in the count in which
a teacher does not live . or at least
some one vho is capable to and I
believe a great deal may be accom
plished before time for school to
start. I am glad to say that one of
these schoo'sl basalready" started
and a nianT foity years old who
knew neither his letters nor figures
has been taught to read- and write
and add any Jnuniber; 1 hope to
hSar in, $ Wm that these
oeishavlfe
ther couniylifelBRO -
Bibficai Recorder, March 17.
Pastor T. fc Dei tz wrote us from
,,urcws " ' "S,,: ".. ; I 0trt
nn vatv wftll in mv nftw. fiftW. Wfi
w" 'r v " ' "
are having good crowds and snlen-
am ,meres"; wf e . mjvu-
uu,u"8 L"c uuuaj .
Tbiilis "a is& ?eI? and t0
me !n,crease DUSinesatauu luer
taDllsnmeni oi ma uu i ac i ur nig
Pnts, the intlux ot population is
considerable. Feeling my weakness
have been authorized by the breth-
ule Kecoer! 1 wa.u a young, ucuve
man wuo can yreau.. wuu
good at orgamzing and leading pee-
P'fia Y. P..U. Work, etc. And
or the caurch choir.
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JESSDFTOS APPEALS TO SUPREME
r ; COURT
Four yearsat harb labof was
neai Was Granted anb defeudaht
released bh $,000 bond. , 7 :
1 firyson City Times. .
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BIG' SLEET;
s:of a.big sleet jn
section last; wee;
FRANKLIN FJAN
BILIS SEIF.
Dewitt Cunningham a prominent
young man of Franklin , was almost
instantly killed, Saturday afternoon
when his pistol was accidentally dis
charged and, the ball entered his
brainy : 'Young Cunningham - was
oriving along ths -road in a buggy
and took his pistol from his pocket
to examine it He wa3 loaking ; in
to the barrel when the bnggy ran
into a rut ani the jar discharged
thepistoL;
SliHOOLCLOSING
The Graded school at Dillsboro
will have its closing exercises on
the 20th, 21st and 22nd of this
month. V
Saturday, night, the . nineteenth,
.there vVill be an entertainment given
by the children of the lower grades
Sunday morning at eleven
there will be a sermon in' the
school auditorium. Monday after
noon, at two, there will be aa ad
dress in the auditorium. Men of
interest will deliver the sermon and
address and everybody will be wel
come to hear them.
Monday njjght, beginning at eight
o'clock, the final entertainment will
be given.; There will? be a ; small
admisswn fee chariea ; i Eyerybpdy
is cbrdiaUxv invited to
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The Ladies of the Woman's Mis
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sale at the auditorium on Friday
fivpnin Anril 2nd.
Voh mpmhor nf tho SnMatv wi 1
y ' - 7 ' i' I
ing articles of needlecraft or home-
-A A uiu ..,:n v;
xt in ii .
tPnts nf thA naokadft hut thftm ia
more than a dimes, worth. an each
...;t,.r-.0w
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A utile Willi itiuico, uicuu udius i
and pretty waitresses where a
Green Tea" will be served, will be
orrandoH
A program consisting of music
and readings will be rendered, v
More extensive notice will- be
given next week.
Helen Cathey Seat
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fFNSHS niRFCTflR RIlfiFRR
Hon. Sam. L. Rogers left his
..r , . iA tx ri u ' , r
watuu, y.
Director of the i Census to whicb he
wasrecently appointed by Presi-
aeni Wilson. , , .
ivir. rv-ugers ims lism sseverai poi -
tions of importance; having 'been
Collect or of Internal Revenue un-
der the second adminstration of
President . Cleveland and - having
served fortwelye years on' the Cor-
poration Cpmmissioaot NortbCaro
i912.wheniMr.' Simnipn4wasV opl
posed for the Senate by QhieH Jus.
tice Walter -aark, and Governor
Kitchen. vv,;
Thomas Moore returned Wednes
dayjrom; Raleigh where; he has
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iTOlORIi lltlBY
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J. J; Willi was hereTuesday en- ;rW
rdhte to Ruby City. Mr. Wiid states
mines aref contemplating benning Mf if
worlf up there, at once-v New ma-
ehmery for the:. corundum works ';'r
has been shipped and ia expected
daily. 'A number of-men- will be
It is the intension of the exploit-
jers to construct t"an electric railway - j
he pjwer oh bark Ridge creek.
COL CROOK DIES
Washington, t)., March 13.
Cot W. H. Groqk. disbursing ofilcer
of the White House, who was Presi
dent Lincoln 'suiwdy-guard, and who
has been intimately acquainted
every President since, 1 died today
at his home J here. He had been
suffering from :pneumonia for more
than a week.
CLENVILLL
Editor of the Jackson Co. Journal
pear Sir--Fsee in the Journal
the adverti.8evment 6i an a ony
mous Author'who writes without
giving his name, or address, says he.
is 08ryears6l was lorn in Jackson,
fie' thinks ,tKre isnp oneJiere wha . ,
can ghess' who , he is2 L amtten !
pears hilinioeihh v'
Juaje Cannon!and others-la f Judge
Uaniion si titpe. Tt -I
remeitfr a m an that 5 visi ted
Webster b the name of Jack Cog
I think about the time that Swain
wa organized. It was said
mat ne anurms. son - nan eone . to
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owam Vouaiy. i guess jaCK, iX)g-
Hill ia hi rn An in I MAttnAf HnI w
ol"?r u,aw uia uus u e unPuua ,
xne auuuysuuus aumor as ne aa-
I O 4. A. , T .- . .t. I 1
oo uian uiay uui ue miner ie
uluuo ua 10 mi mau
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vvim Dest wisnes to qjq journal.
NEW HOSPITAL FOR ANDREWS.
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at nuuic wi, iui suiiucii uuu uuicr
cases which will be modern and . (:
thorougblyrequipped'and .managed
in everyday.
aii pnyrtcians m wis section wui
l ' 'irit ..-i ...AA' .
institution or tins' sort is badly-
needed;an will be greatly appref
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. In acknowledgment of the gift of r t , j
;reai4zeu; lruui me piay out
1 xvicpiuuiuiuaua -.1 uuu picscutcu w
the Missionary Society of the ME. h
urchlladieV of ; the Baptist
Auxiliary;' to be applied to the build- -
I mg fund, of the 4 new . church, - the -
j society wishes to extend heartfelt
thanJorthe5 same; . as .well
" V r-vMrsVM; IX Cowan '
L ;i!lt ;;IMrs? A: S. Nichols ,
: T " 'tes. W. a Rhodes, :
.V J; iXavehahl Was t here yester - J
i'kdtias was here Tuesday:!, '
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