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? t' ? QUALLA Last week:? (V / : |j/v On June 30th Miss Birdie Ward was united in marriage to Mr. Vivian Kation of Barkers Creek. Messrs. H. G. and P. H. Ferguson, VJ. K. Terrell and Mrs. J. L. Feigu son attended Quarterly meeting tt Olivet. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Blan^on and Mrs. Ed. Nprman of Scotts Creek spent Sunday at Mr. J. ?. Hooper's. Messrs. Decator Connoi? and Jim Beck and Mi's- Eva Connor anjd two grand children visited among rela tives at Qualla. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hughes and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes were dinner guests at Mr. C. M. Martins. Mr. Oscar Martin and family of Bryson City visited at , Mr. J. C. Johnson's. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ivinsland, Miss Ruth Ferguson and Mr. Jack Battle were dinner guests at Mr. Horn er Tnrpin's. ( . y <4M Prof. C. R. Bird and f-amilv left Sunday afternoon to visit relatives at Cullowhee. Mr. and Mrs. James Beard were visitors at Mr. D. M. Shuler's. Mr. and Mrs. It. G. Feiguson were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Marcus Sunday. Miss Sara Belle Bird and brother, James of Marshal! are spending a while with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Crisp were din ner guests at Mr. Weaver Freeman's. Mr. and Mrs. Golman Kinsland called at Mr. J. K. Terrell's. Mr. J. C.. Johnson visited at Mr. Fred McLean's at Whittier. Miss Mary E. Feiguson was guest of Miss Evelyn Kinsland. Miss Gertrude Ferguson visited Miss Annie Lizzie Terrell. 0 Misses Essie Anthony, Grace Hoylc Messrs. Bill Ensley and Lonnie Crisp viited at Mr. W. H. Hoyle's. Mrs. J. K. Terrell spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. L. W. Cooper. Mrs. A. M. Gibson is reported im proving since being taken to Candler Tidmarsh Hospital. Several picnic parties were formed and went to different points of inter est to enjoy "The Fourth." ONLY MAINTENANCE FUNDS FOR MURPHY HAYESVILLE ROALj Cherokee Scout. Declaring that he had no funds available other than maintenance for spending on highway No. 28 between Haycsville and Murphy) Commission er J/S.' Stikelcather told a gathering of citizens of Cherokee and Clay counties, sponsored by the Murphy . Lionp Club Tuesday night, that it was his intention to give this road an oil eoating surface which would put it in condition to stand the traffic this winter. The meeting was held in the' par lors of the Methodist Church, and followed a sumptuous banquet pre pared by the Methodist ladies, it also being the regular roaring night of the local Lions Club. Commissioner J. G. Stikelcather oj> ? ened his remarks with the statement ; that about all the money he had ,to spend in his district now was the t .maintenance fund, and that he was spending it whenever and wherever needed and was doing his best to get value received for every dollar spent. The reason for this condition, he stated was due to the fact that a num ber of counties ink his district had loaned the Highway Commission sev,: eral million dollars for construction of roads in their borders and in pay ing back these sums, which was man datory under the law, the portion of the recent bond issue alloted his dis trict had been practically expended. This, he stated left his district with only the maintenance fund. He stated that it was his intention to put an oil coating binder on No. 28 from Hayesvillc to Murphy, and put this road in smoother and better shape this summer. He said he would be glad to put down a concrete sur face, but finances of the district pro hibited any such surface, as funds for Cherokee and Clay were now very KiKch over drawn. Highway No. 10, between Andrews and Topton he stated of necessity had to be fixed and put in better condi tion. Tlys link would receive maca dam with a bituminous binding, and v.'ould then be as good a road sur face as that through the Nantahaia Gorge and other links between there and AshcvUle. This, he stated, would cost about eighty thousand dollars, and would have to be done as main tenance betterment. With reference to the Tennessee . connection, Mr. Stikeleather stated! ! that this road had been officially . adopted by the State Highway Coni ? piission as a state project I ' h , / ' ^ - W^ c" k h?m???*?????* n ' ? n w ?? SAYS MECKLENBURG DOC^ MENT WAS DATED MAY 31 "I believe that the North Carolina flag should bear the date of May 31 inseead of May 20, 1775," said Pro fessor E( H. Stillwell of the Cullow hee State Normal School, anjd author of a History of Western North Car olina, when addressing the summer school at the Fourth of July patrio tic celebration Monday'morning. "I am quite convinced that the '' date, May 20, is based oni the Old Calen dar. The difference between the old and new calendars accounts for the, discrepancy in dates which has given rise to the controversy ovbr the Mecklenburg Declaration of Indepen dence," he said. "I have no doubt,?in fact, I think no one doubts that there was a Meek Icnburg Declaration of Independence The controversy rages solely around the question of genuineness which the eleven^ days difference in dates men i tioned brings up. Moreover, I think that the only reason the Continenta Congress in Philidelphia did npt for I nially or officially recognize the Dec ! laration in question was that the Con gress was composed of strong-minded men who had not yet come to see the necessity of such an extreme step and who were unwilling to accept the judg ment of a remote county in the "backwoods" of North Carolina." Mr. Stillwell gave a graphic account of the origin of the Meeklenhuig do cument and traced the rise of the dis crepancy in dates. He lauded the courage and wisdom of the originators of the Mecklenburg document, which, he said, would always reflect glory and honor on the state. "This declaration," said Professor Stillwell, "in general purport, phras eology and substance was very similar to that one which we honor today. "More than ? year before the Con tinental Congress in Philadelphia drew up the National Declaration" lie said, "one connty in North Carolina, Mecklenburg, (which then constitut ed the territory now included in Mecklenburg and Cabarrus) had al ready drawn up and signed a Declara tion very similar. "This paper had been drawn up in North Carolina when petition after petition to England to lighten the load 011 the colonies had failed. Col onel Thos. Polk, head ??f the North Carolina military force in Mecklen burg County, had sent oat orders that each of the nine comi?anies should send two representatives to the little hamlet of Charlotte to consider griev ances and ways to bring about relief. Citizens not delegates were so inter ested that they also attended. The as semblage with fire and enthusiasm drew up the Declaration and unani mously passed it. "Captain, .Tames .Tack was delegat ed to journey to Philadelphia and present the document. There he met with nn official repulse from thai body, who, while complimenting the North Carolinian^ on their zeal, told Captain Jack that they had acted prematurely. The Philadelphia news papers suppressed the matter, but a number of other Northern and several Southern papers published detailed accounts of the saction of Mecklen burg county. "These newspaper accounts were discovered years later and stand now to prove the genuiness of Mecklen burg's claim. "A misfortune occurred. John, Mc i . v [ Ivnitt Alexander, clerk of the Cliar j lotte meccing, kept "the records at his home. In April, 1800, the home buri ed down. With it, the records were destroyed. "Years later, Alexander died. His son found, among his papers, a half sheet of paper on which was scribbled all that the former clerk had remem bered about the meeting and the Dec laration. The scrawled half sheet bore the date, May 20, 1775. "But," said Mr. Stillwell,, "an other paper, written in an unknown handwriting was also found. The two papers^ were separate attempts to reproduce the burtied documents. "The record on the full sheet found its way into the Italeigh Rc^ ister on April 30th, 1819, and wa? accepted by the people of North Car plina as a genuine copy of the orig inal document, which it could not have been, since that was burned in April 1800. "In 1838, a Pennsylvania news paper was discovered containing ^res olutions adopted at Charlotte on M ty 31, 1775. Also some years later, 1847, a full list of resolutions were, found in the South Carolina Gazette giv ing the proceedings of what occurred in Charlotte on May 31, 1775. Dis cussion immediately arose as to the genuineness of the Declaration, of May 20.; Still further interest was given the subject when just recently a copy of the North Carolina Gazette was found bearing the date of June 16th, 1775, and containing the He solver of May 31, 1775. There is but one conclusion ^o reafch, namely i Ther': Waa but ?iii) meeting at Cliallotte, but one set of resolutions, and these were those of May 31, and that the reproduced copies found among "the papers of John, McKnitt Alexander were at tempted reproductions of what had been done on May 31 instead, of May 20. But I believe that eleven! days' difference in the old and new( calendars will clear tliis question. I think that the only Mecklenburg Declaration was written on May 31, 1775. Therefore, our flag should bear this date instead of that of May 20. The patriotic program included, in addition to Professor Stillwell's address, discussions of the writing of America, by Miss Dorothy Davis, of Buckhead, Ga.; of the Star Spang led Banner, by Miss Hnrriette Brcn dlc, of Franklin; of America, the Beautiful, by Mrs. C. W. Kittreal, of Try on; of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Miss Gladys Tweed, of Marshall. The Declaration of In dependence was read by President H. T. Hunter. James Osborne, as a | student from Waynesville, spoke ? i i the Spirit of America. A faculty | quartette, assisted by Mi's. H. F. | Burley, of Ravensford, who sang a soprano ohligato gave Kiplinvr's Re cessional. Revs. I. K. Stafford and A. W. Lynch offered prayers. , lv' *>. \ i ; ' CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all the good people for their heip and kindness to our sister. Mrs. Toni Clavton during ) * 'l her loiur illness and death and wej pray that God will continue to pour| out his richest blessings on every one who so faithfully ministered to her sufferings, and to her children in their great sorrow. C': Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clavton. W. C. ROUNTREE, M. D. 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