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PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL; LII, NO. 10 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937 $1.50 PER YEAR v It FARMERS WILL MEET SATURDAY Farming, Business And Religion to Have Part In Meeting Farming, business and religion will all have a part in an all-day Farmers Federation meeting to be held here Saturday! Farming and business will be dis cussed at a meeting of stockholders and other interested persons at a gathering in the Federation's ware house on Palmer street, while re- , ligion and religion in a very prac tical form will be the topic at a Lord's Acre meeting to be held at the Presbyterian church. ; The meeting at the federation's warehouse is to open at 9:30 o'clock. Reports will be received on the farm cooperative's business dur- . ing the, past year and a county ad visory committee elected. James G. K. McClure, Jr., president and gen eral manager of the federation, and Vance Browning, in charge of the federation's educational department, are expected to attend and make short addresses. Mr. McClure has announced that ' ' he will bring with him an outstand ing tobacco farmer to discuss the growing of tobacco in this county ' as a means of increasing the cash income of Macon farmers. The fed eration is endeavoring to create wider interest in tobacco culture in the western . counties and is en couraging farmers not now grow-' ing tobacco to try planting small experimental plots this year. Plans for Lord's Acre Meeting Under .Way Plans for the . Lord's Acre meet- ing in the local Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Saturday, 'March 13th, for representatives of all the churches in Macon county are well ,under way, according to the Rev. J. A. Flanagan, chairman of publicity. The Lord's Acre meeting will fol low the meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers' Federation which is scheduled to meet at 9 :30 a. m. The Rev. Dumont Clarke will pre sent his lecture by means of "stere ? pptican pictures portraying the de velopment of the , work among the churches of Western North Caro lina. Mr. J. G, K. McClure, presi dent of the Farmer's Federation, will also speak on the program, as will Mr. Vance Browning, educa tional director for the Federation. The .Rev. ! O. E. Croy, general chairman, will preside at all the " services. The meeting , will begin with a devotional period led by the Rev. W. B. Underwood, pastor of the local Baptist church. . A play, "The Lord's Acre," will be presented by the Young People of the Union Methodist church. Other speakers are exepcted to pre sent testimonials to this plan of financing the work of the Kingdom, (Continued on Page Eight) Franklin Protluce Market LATEST QUOTATIONS (Prices listed below are subject to change without notice.) Quoted by Farmers Federation, Inc. Chickens, heavy breed, hens - 13c - Chickens, light weight, lb. . . 9c Eggs, doz. .................. 17c Corn, bu $1.00 Wheat, bu. ........... .$1.15 Potatoes, No. 1, bu. $1.25 Field peas, bu $1.60 i.Crowdcr peas, bu. $2.25 Yfellow Mammoth Soy BVans, bu. ...$1.60 Loriaa Beans, ibu. ......... .$2.25 OnionV bu. . ." 80c - Walnuts, per 100 lbs...... '...$1.20 Quoted by Nantahala Creamery Butterf at, lb. ............. . , 30c Theatre Fire Blaze Saturday Morning Does $800 Damage Franklin ha.d its first Main street fire in several yeafs early last Sat urday morning when a blaze was discovered in the rear of the build ing occupied by the Macon Theatre. The . firemen responded promptly to the alarm and had the fire exv tinguished within a few minutes. Damage to the building and the atre equipment by fire and water was estimated at about $800. The projection equipment was not dam aged and Charles Ingram, manager of the theatre, was able to. start the usual matinee performance at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The origin of the fire was not definitely determined but itj is thought that some one had been sleeping in the theatre and had thrown a cigar or cigarette butt among inflammable material. This surmise is borne out by the fact the the back door was ajar and the lights on when the firemen arrived. This blaze was in a dangerous location and had it gained greater headway before the arrival of the firemen might have swept the en tire block. DATE SET FOR TOVN ELECTION Mayor and Six Aldermen To Be Chosen On Thursday, May 4 . At a meeting held last week the mayor and aldermen set Tuesday, May 4, as the date for the bi ennial election for a mayor and six aldermen for the town of Frank lin. No new registration was ordered and it will only be necessary for those who have .not heretofore reg istered to register for- this election. C. A. Setser was appointed regis trar and Gus Leach and George A. Mashburn were named as judges. The registration books will be open in the town . office beginning April 10 and closing May 1. The official notice in regard to the election will be found elsewhere in this issue. Conservation Checks Coming In County Agent S. W. Mendenhall states that agricultural conserva tion checks have started coming in to Macon county, and that person al notices are being mailed out .to the farmers whose checks have come. Farmers receiving these cards should ' bring them to the county agent's office in person and sign the receipts for the checks. Mr. Mendenhall states that farm ers who do not receive cards need not ask about their checks at this time, as notices will be mailed just as soon as the checks arrive. Local Basketball Team Defeats Burton High The Franklin basketball team team closed its season Monday night by defeating Burton high school of Georgia, 39 to 18. All members of -.the team saw action in the contest. Henry was high scorer for the evening with 16 points. .The team has wan half of the high school games scheduled and on several occasions the boys show ed ability to come from behind to nose out their rivals. A hard fought game was lost to Lakemont high school last week by the close score o 32 to 27. With only . one member of this year's squad graduating, the pros pects for. next year look encourag ing, ASSEMBLVWILL QUIT MARCH 18 Wednesday Was Deadline For New Bills; Many Local Measures With March 18 definitely set as the date for adjournment, the General " Assembly is rapidly clear ing its calendar of important mea sures and committees are closing up their work. Wednesday was the deadline on the introduction of new bills, ex cept under suspension of rules, and all that remains is to clear up the important measures remaining to be acted upon and the mass of local legislation pending before various committees. Local Bills Representative Patton introduced a bill to protect the trout streams of Macon county and the bill has been passed by the house and sent to the senate. It sets up penalties for unlawful fishing in Cullasaja river above Buck creek and in the Nantahala river, the first offense $10 to $50 or 30 days, subsequent offenses $25 to $50 or 30 days. The house Monday night con curred in the senate amendments to Mr. Patton's bill bringing Ma con, Clay, Cherokee and Graham counties under the provisions of chapter 364, public laws of 1933, re lating to absentee voting. This chapter prohibits the withdrawal of an absentee ballot once it has been delivered to the precinct rgistrar, although the voter may be in the county and wtnt to vote in person on the day of election. The house also passed Tuesday Representative Patton's bill to re peal a law passed in 1935 which fixed a maximum of $1 on the $100 valuation for taxation and hamper ed the efforts of the county . au thorities in working out a settle ment of . is bonded indebtedness. The senate calendar cominittee reported unfavorably Mr. Patton's bill to regulate mutual burial asso ciations in Macon county. Passed and ratified was the Cabe and Patton bill changing the term of superior court from the 'twelfth to eleventh Monday after the first Monday in September in Haywood county and the Macon term from the eleventh to thirteenth Monday after the first Monday in Septem ber. The house concurred Monday night in the senate amendment to Representative Patton's bill to place a bounty upon the scalps of coy otes, wildcats, crows and chicken hawks. As originally passed by the house it was mandatory upon the Macon county board of commissioners to pay the bounties; the senate amended it to make it discretionary. The measure provides the follow ing payments: $10 for the -scalps of coyotes, $3 for scalps of wild cats, and 25 cents for scalps of crows and chicken hawks. Patton Presents Names For Board of Education In the omnibus boards of educa tion measure now before the Gen eral Assembly for approval Repre sentative Patton has substituted the names of D. R. Davis, Roy Phillips and John Norton instead of W. D. Barnard, Frank Hill and C. W. Dowdle, who were certified to the education subcommittee as the party's nominees. Final action has not been ' taken on the omnibus measure but the recommendations of members of the assembly are usually followed, and it is presumed 'that the men named by Mr. Patton will be chosen. . Earl .Bryson of Boise, Idaho, came in last week for a 'visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bryson, at their home at West's Mill. Mr. Bryson expects to re turn to Idaho the first of April, Store Burglarized Thieves Raid Wholesale Co. Friday Night . Burglars entered the premises of the Dowdle - Wholesale Co. last Friday night or early Saturday morning and escaped with ciga rettes, cigars and tobacco valued at about $800. It is thought that entrance to the building was gained by means of a skeleton key. On Tuesday Sheriff Slagle was notified by a deputy sheriff at Murohv that a oiiantitv nf ricm- j - -n" rettes and a car had been seized at Maryville, Tenn., and he immje diately left, in company with M. H. Dowdle, to , investigate. The cartons were identified and brought back to Franklin. The goods re covered amounted to about $400, and evidently the loot had been divided between the burglars. The cigarettes were discovered by an officer in Maryville, Tenn., who arrested one of the men for peddling without a license. The man escaped while being taken to jail and is still at large." This establishment has been rob bed several times within the past few . years, the goods taken being always something easy to handle and dispose of and hard to iden tify. DEATH CLAIMS MRS.GE0.RA6e F u n e r a 1 Services Held At Baptist Church Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs.-George Ramey, 27, were, held . Wednesday afternoon at, 3 o'clock, at the Frank lin Baptist church. The Rev. W. B. Underwood, pastor, officiated. Mrs. Ramey. died at her home on Bonny Crest Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, following an illness of several months. Death was at tributed to a heart attack. Mrs. Ramey was a member of the Franklin Baptist church. She was, before marriage, Miss Mary Elizabeth Jolly, from Florida. Pallbearers were A. B. Slagle, Harley R. Cabe, Samuel J. Murray, Ben McCollum, George Dean' and Ralph Welch. , The deceased is survived by her husband and four small children, George, Jr., Marshall, Mary Ann and Paul Edward; her mother, Mrs. James Jolly; one sister, Mrs. Martha Crispe, and four brothers, Robert, . Pete, Allen,, and Sam, all of Florida. Deputy Sheriff Captures Liquor Car and Men Deputy Sheriff John Dills cap tured a Ford V-8 roadster and 72 gallons of whiskey and arrested the occupants of the car, Willard McKinney and Charles Hoyles, said to be from Balsam, on the' Georgia road about four miles south of Franklin . Monday morning. The men ' were locked up but were later released upon furnish ing bonds of $200 each and $200 for the car. Piano Recital By Macon Girl at Berea The many friends of Miss Vir ginia Slagle will be interested to know that she gave a very delight-: ful and entertaining piano recital in Gray auditorium of Presser music hall at Berea college on Sun day, March 7. Miss Slagle, who is one of the most talented music students- in Berea college, gave in her concert a niirhber of choice classical selec tions from Bach, Handel, Debussy, J,uon, Palmgren, and Hayden. The skillful playing of Miss Slagle provided an hour of worth while entertainment for approxi mately three hundred students and faculty members. AGREEMENT ON COUNTTS DEBT Refunding Arrangement Made In Conference At Raleigh Macon county's bonded indebted ness will be refunded on satisfac tory terms if an agreement reach ed in Raleigh this week between county officials and representatives of about 50 per cent of the bond holders is agreed to by a sufficient number of the remaining bondhold ers to represent 85 per cent of the indebtedness. The county was represented at the conference by E. B. Byrd, chairman of the board of commis- si6ners; C. Tom Bryson, clerk of the board, and George B. Patton, county attorney. The agreement provides for pay ment of the past due interest at 50 cents on the dollar and the is suing of new bonds to replace those now outstanding, the bonds to be for 30 years at an interest rate of 4i per cent. . The bonds of Franklin township will be included in the refunding agreement and the township will get the advantage of the lower in terest rate. . The interest is to be payable in January and July, and it is esti mated that at the present property valuation it will be necessary to increase the tax rate only about four cents on the hundred dollars to take care of the county's bonded indebtedness. As the sinking fund accumulates the bonds are to be retired, and owing to the fact that the pay metns from the state repayment funds, which amount to about $24, 000 per year, go into the sinking fund, it is thought that all the bonds can be retired in less than the stipulated time.. ' . If the remaining bondholders sub scribe to this agreement the county will be in splendid financial condi tion and the bonds will probably be quoted at considerably above par value. - GEORGE DOWDLE FUNERAL HELD Service Held at Home Friday; Burial In Rush Cemetery Funeral " services for George Dowdle, 60, were held last Friday afternoon at 3:30 at the home. The Rev. J. A. Flanagan, pastor of the Franklin Presbyterian church and the Rev, O. E. Croy, pastor of the Macon circut, officiated. In terment was in the Rush cemetery. Mr. Dowdle died at his home near Otto -Thursday morning ; at 4 o'clock, following a short illness with intestinal flu. He .was a mem ber of the Asbury Methodist church. The deceased is survived by his , widow, the former Miss Sally Camp bell, and eight daughters, Mrs. Floyd Brooks, of Harriman, Tenn.; Mrs. Lewis Hargett, of Washing ton, D. C; Mrs. Fred Vinson, of Scaly ; - Mrs. Richard - Bingham, of ; Franklin ; Miss Ellen Dowdle, of Louisiana; Misses Georgia, Shirley and Annie Lee Dowdle, all of Franklin Route 2, and three sons, Ralph Dowdle, of the state of Washington; Arehur and Fred, Dowdle, of Franklin Route 2; one brother, T. C. Dowdle, of Grundy, Va. ; one sister, Mrs. Bragg Cowen, of Webster, N. C; one half-brother, C. M. Moore, of Franklin, and two half-sisters, Mrs. James Poindexter, of Iotla and Mrs. .Alva Love, of Franklin,
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