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MURDER USE:
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SYLVA, N. C, SEPTEMBER 10 , 1815,
$1.00 THE YEAR IN ADVANCE
On Tuesday M. Dillard of Murphy j
associated with counsel W. R. Sher- i
rill and J. H. Harwood made a mo
tion before Judge Ferguson who is
trial Judge at Robbinsville court to i
have the case against Hardy Wig- I
gins and Merritt Miller for themur-1
der of R. L. Phillips of Tulula mov
ed from Graham County to Chero
kee. The trial of these two defendants
will draw a great crowd to Robbins
ville, if the motion made before
Judge Furgeson is overuled. The
murder of Mrs. Nancy Phillips, her
daughter Mary Runyan and son
Charlie on May 1st and the am
bush of the husband and father R.
L. Phillips on Aug. 24 th has creat
ed more excitement than anything
that has occurred in that county
for many years.
Former friends and relatives of
the defendants have taken little in
terest in establishing the innosence
of the men, because all reports of
the evidence is of such a strange
strong and convincing character as
to discourage and repel them.
STUDENT'S REUNION.
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Jackson County Journal,
Sylva, N. C.
A few months ago I suggested,
through the columns of the Journal,
that we have a reunion of the stu
dents, patrons and friends of the
Dawson-Hughes school of East La
Porte Academy. A Committee was
appointed to arrange a program,
but nothing definite has been ar
ranged, or rather, been announced.
The time has arrived when we
should "get busy." If agreeable with
the committee, and if no other
arrangements have been made, I
would like to suggest that Saturday,
September 25th, be set apart as the
date for this occasion; since that
would give those who are at a' dis
tance an opportunity to attend both
this reunion and the Jackson Coun
ty Fair.
Would like to suggest also that
each one interested make an effort
to notify the students at a distance
of this occasion.
Lela Potts Hagan.
No. 12 North Pack Square, Ashe
ville, N. C.
Program Unveiling Monument.
Chairman. W. L. Henson, Clerk Superior Court.
Edwin R. Harris
Maryland, My Maryland" By Choir
Address of Welcome
Hon. Coleman C. Cowan.
4. Response
Prof. A. C. Reynolds, Pres. Cullowhee Normal and
Industrial School.
(Music by band)
5. "The Sword of Lee"
Miss Beulah Dills.
(Music by band)
6. Presentation of Monument
James H. Cathey, Chairman Monument Association.
7. Acceptance
Hon. Baxter C. Jones, Member of General Assembly.
(Music by band)
8. Solo -"The Flag of Dixie"
Miss Luc ye Grindstaff.
(Dixie by band)
9. Unveiling by eight little boys and girls dressed in white
and grav, assisted by twelve young ladies dressed in
rea, wnite and blue, bearing twelve State Flags. .
"Dixie" By Choir
Introduction of Orator
Corsey C. Buchanan.
Oration,
General Theodore F. Davidson.
(Music by band)
"The Old Nort State"...... pvpw,
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14. A Living Flag -
By Young Ladies of Qualla Graded School.
DINNER.
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REMEMBER
The Confederate Veterans will
have the freedom of our little city
at the Monument unveiling on the
18th of this month. Every privi
lege and pleasure are yours.
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12.
THE FAIR AN
ASSURED SUCCESS.
The Fair which will begin
the 28th of this month and con
tinue until Oct. 1st., promises to be
one of the best fairs yet. From the
number of inquiries that
Especially are the Confederate in there will be one of the largest
Veterans, their wives and daughters j exhibits of live stock, poultry, agri
invited to the unveiling. We do culture and horticulture exhibited
not wish a single one to be absent. ! in the western part of the s ate
This is your day.
Every precious widow of a Con
federate soldier you have the
warmest welcome of our hearts . at
the unveiling the 18th.
Let all the sons of Confederate
soldiers turn their faces toward Syl
va soon on the morning of the 18.
We want you. We need you. We
cannot get along without you.
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Let no person in Jackson Countv
or anywhere else feel "slighted."!
ivery man, woman or child in all
these happy mountains is cordially
invited to be present at the unveil
ing and the management will feel
slighted if you are n.t. Sylva has
but one big gate of welcome for all
that day and the htch-string will
be on the outside and a baby can
pull it.
LETTER FRflH - MB'amm':M
WASHINGTON.
Mr. D. L. Robinson,
Willet, N. C.
Dear Sir: As I have been living
in this country for quite a while, I
will write and give you my honest
opinion of this state as I see it, re-' promising but the business
Dinner will he abundant and ah-
preFererice in their work. When I so,utfely free' on the "dayofCthe un
veiling. Sylva will do her part on
me suDjects ot eats." but tht
COURT HOUSE GROUNDS
TO BE IMPROVED
The County Commissioners have
employed men to clean off and
level up the grounds on the court
house hill. This work will be done
before the unveiling, and i n the
spring they intend to have a lot of
work done on the grounds, such as
setting out trees, sowing it in grass
and a number of other improve
ments. When this is done Jackson
bounty will have one of the most
beautiful county seats to be found
any where. v
questing you to have it published
in the Journal for the benefit of my
old friends of Jackson county.
This state is going to be a pauper
state in the near future. It has
been growing worse for the past
five years. I should not advise any
oue to come to look for work or for
a home. The state is overrun with
both classes. You tell all you see
who are thinking of coming west as
soon as the war is over, thinking
there is a better chance for him, he
will be sadly- disappointed. For the
classes who will in a short while
make this the hardest country in
the united states for the laboring
you go in a camp now and see an
American born citizen, you may
say they are short on foreigners,
because he cannot fill his job if
they can fill it with one of them.
This is why I say this must become
a hard country to live in.
The milk industry did look very
is on
the decline and going fast. It's a
fact tha a dairy cow that once
soldi for $150, now brings only $75;
the steer that sold for 11 cts. per
lb. is now 7 cts. per pound; and the
same is true in proportion of pigs
and sheep. So you can see at once
how it has gone. But if you want
to buy a beef steak it costs from
18 to 25 cents per pound.
That goes to prove that a class
is fast getting a hold that will make
this the northwest the hardest
place in the United States to live
in.
So tell all our bovs who
thinking of coming to this
to just keep their money and buy
some young live stock, for they
have not even a gambler's chance
and also of ladies work.
The management has secured
one of the largest carnivals that
has ever been in this part of the
state, consisting of a number of
shows, merry-go-round, ferris
wheel ocean wave and a large
number of concessions consisting of
almost every kind of amusements
that are moral that can be gotten
together.
In fact it looks now as if every
thing was going to. be full fron the .
pigpen to the midway.
Friday Oct. 1st. will be Educat
ional Day. There will be a parade
ot 1200 school children led by the
brass band and old soldiers. After
the parade will be a short address,
and then the contests by the
students of the county schools.
WORDS OF PATRIOTISM.
man to make an honest living, have , in this country.
ine umoer in trie northwest is
all we ever could boast
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Bring your exhibits to the fair
and show the people what irou are
doing along this line.
Sept. 18 is the date for the un-
veiling of the monument f
got the hold in this country.
The time has been when a good,
steady boy could Jsave some money
here, but it will never be again. I
have been in this state and other
surrounding states the greater part
of 16 years, as you all who know
me know, and I think I know what
I am talking about. When the
home seeker comes to buy land he
must pay 50 cts. in the dollar for
climate.
The idea of the war bringing pros
perity is a foolish one so far as the
Pacific coast states are concerne
These states have had their boom.
They rose, but fell never to rise
again. Land that sold readily at a
a good price, three years ago, must
go begging now, simply; because it
will not produce as it once did.
If a man comes here to work in
the lumber industry he must cora
nete with the chearjest labor nf
Europe. All the big lumber camps
crowd will be so big and happy and
healthy on that day that little old
Sylva will need some rescue and
we modestly, kindly, earnestly re
Hucat an uur countrv cousins to
bring a box or basket from their
rural, rich abundance and let us all
have one square meal in mutual
beseeming, old time moutain,
camp-meeting hospitableness and
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ciieer. rree Dinner. Free and
Dinner at the unveiling will be ver
bal partners. They will be the
best of friends, the chummiest of
sweethearts wherever you look
you shall see Miss Dinner hanging
on the arm of Mr. Free' chattering
in the most approved and delicious
fashion about Chickamauga and
Gettysburg and Seven Pines and
the bronze man renrflspntind th
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mart in gray and the tottering vete
rans and the sweet children and the
beautiful girls, the gallant "sons"
and the spic national guard land
any and everything the eye :may
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much and forest fires are burning i : 1 . wngm may utter tha
it now, as I write this letter by the f ls mteresting ani timely, romantic
millions of feet and the Vast wealth
of our country going up in smoke.
Many of our poeple would den v
this, but if you doubt it, come and
take a look at our hills after a fire.
I have worked in the wood since
1 came here, 16 years ago, and
after the timber is gone 3-4 of the
land is absolutelyorthless.
As I see it the Jout is the one
country that must dome to the
front, It grows the things that all
the world must have, cotton, grain,
live stock Bnd many d6ther ithing$ I
could mention. I,; ' - K
If I was a young man looking for
a 'home, I would setfljfr the South
and especially westemlfetlr Caro
lina, frtfm what I have seen.
For fear my letter is too lengthy
I will close. With ibest wishes to
my Jackson county friends; I re
main, Yours; truly,
Mann Biantov.
Hamilton, Wash. -
and reminiscent. Say, cousin, if it
clouds up a Kttlethe morninii nf th
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eighteenth don't you beat a retreat I and li behooves us ail if we hope to
Followin. is an extract from a per
sona letter from Hon. T. D. Bry on of
Brysca City which Ltake the li' erty
to publish. It is the feeling of a
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vorthy son of a noble sire express
ed in SUCh terms of natrinsm a
well as beauty of diction that I
feel it would be a distinct loss for
the public, especially the young
men of Jackson, in the face of our
duty to the Confederate soldiers, to
lose it: -"I am unable to tell you
how much I appreciate your kind
ness in allowing me to be of some
small assistance in the erection of
this monument. There is no cause
that is nearer to my heart, or ia
which I feel a deeper interest than
I do in keeping green in the mem
ory of the generations to come the
noble achievement, heroic valor and
patriotism of those who march
ed under the flag of the Southern
Confederacy
They fought and died for an ideal
Their devotion to the cause that
they deemed just is written in let
ters of blood upon many battle
fields, and the rear guard of that
grand army is now rapidly march
ing to the last roll-call and soon
taps will have sounded. To those
of us who have the honor to hp
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sons of those who once wore the
grav is left the precious heritage
and one not lightly to be regarded,
but you order a charge.
Jas. H. Cathey, Chairman
BRIDGE CONTBACT LET
The County Commissioner award
ed the contract of putting in a
bridge across Scott's Creek on the
Sylva-Dillsboro Road near the fair
grounds to W. M. Brown and H. O.
Curtis.
The contract price is $1500 and
the work is to be completed before
Sept 28th.
This will make it much more
convenient for the people below
here to get to the fair grounds dur
ing the fair.
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De considered worthy sons of our
valiant sires to keep bright their
memory and by pur tribute of
words and example burnish bright
er. if possible, the shield of their
valor."
Jas. H. Cathey.
HEALTH AND HAPPNESS DE
PEND UPON YOUR LIVER
That sluggish liver with its
sluggish flow of bile is what makes
the world look so dark at times TV
kKing's New Life Pills go straight to
me root of die aifficuly by waking
up the action of the liver and in
creasing the btie. fir Jong's New
Life Pills cause the bowel tn Q
freely aid drive away those
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r uays. ooc. a bottle.
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