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INDEPENDENT
PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL
VOL. LIII, NO. 52
FRANKLIN, N. O. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938
$1.50 PER YEAR
forest office
changes
R. V. Miles And W. B.
Wise Transferred To
Other Sections
The following changes in forest
- service personnel were announced
i today by Paul H. Gerrard, super
visor of the Nantahala national
' forest :
v K. V. Miles, Jr., who has held
the position 6f senior forest rang
er in charge of the Wayah ranger
district for more .than three years,
, will be transferred to the Hiawas
see district of the Cherokee na
' ' tional ' forest this month. The new
1 . assignment represents a promotion
and will require added administra
tive responsibilities for Mr. Miles.
" t The Hiawassee district has a large
volume of . timber sales and its net
v acreage is much larger than that
. . of the Wayah district. Mr. Miles'
successor on the Wayah district has
not yet been announced.
W. B. Wise, who has been on
the; Nantahala National forest for
more than a year, is being trans
ferred to the Sumter national for
est in South Carolina. John E.
v Hamer ' from the Florida national
forest will assume Mr. Wise's po
' A sitipn as clerk in the' Nantahala
office. . .
Both Mr. Miles and Mr. Wise
have been popular with the .people
v. of Macon county during their 'resi-
dence here, and have made many
friends who will regret their leav
ing. ': .. ' .
' School Lunches
To Be Furnished Needy
Children In County
' ' It is announced from Washing
ton that a WPA project was ap
i proved op AuguSt 2, providing for
, .- the' expenditure of $5,406.00 for the
furnishing of School lunches with
out cost to needy or undernour
ished children in - Macon county.
This project ' will operate through-
, out the county and will be under
the direction of the county board
of education.
The' Press received notification of
the approval of this project through
the office of Congressman Zebulpn
Weaver '
Eminent Musician To
Sing At St. Agnes
v Mary Pickens Opie,' wife of the
Rev. Thomas F. Opie, of Washing-
' tonwill sing thev offertory at the
evening service at 8 o'clock on
Sunday next. Her selection will be
"Sun of My Soul," to a setting of
her own composition. , '
l Mrs. Opie is well known in North
Carolina as musician and composer,
having served as first chairman of
music of the North Carolina Par-
v ent-Teacher. Association, and while
resident in this state was active
in , the North Carolina Federation
of Music clubs. More recently her
work has been recognised in her
home state of Alabama in the sec
ond volume of "Musical Alabama,"
(f3 and by the District of Columbia
branch of the League of American
Pen Women, of which she serves
at co-chairman of music, from
' which she has received a national
award for her composition, "Holly
hocks". Mrs. Opie has had the hon
or of singing several of her com
, , positions for Mrs. Roosevelt this
year, and has received wide recog
nition for her music and poetry
compositions. t . ,
Mrs. Opie is ' the gcest of Mrs.
J. W. C. Johnson at Trimont Inn.
Funeral .Conducted
For Sanders Infant
Funeral services for Leroy' San
y (tiers, three-months-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Lee Sanders, of
Prentiss, were held Sunday after-
1 noon at 3 o'clock at the Pleasant
I Hill Baptist cemetery. He died
Friday night at 11 o'clock.
New Pastor
Of Local Baptist Church
Assumes Duties
The Rev. C. F. Rogers, newly
elected pastor of the Franklin
Baptist church, and Mrs. Rogers
moved to Franklin from Andrews
last Friday, and Mr. Rogers con
ducted' the morning and evening
services here Sunday. .
The new pastor and his wife
come highly recommended and are
being given a cordial welcome to
Franklin.
v Mrs. Rogers was honored with a
handkerchief shower by the Young
Woman's Auxiliary 6f the Andrews
Baptist church before her depar
tue for Franklin. Mrs. Rogers is di
rector of young people's work in
the Western North Carolina Bap
tist association.
FRANKLIN MAN
DIES SUDDENLY
Avery Cunningham Passes
In Moultrie, Ga.,
Sunday
W. Avery Cunningham, 31, of
Atlanta, Ga., formerly of Franklin,
dropped dead in a drug store at
Moultrie, Ga., af 7 o'clock Satur
day night.
Mr. Cunningham was, in Moultrie
looking for work. Unable to secure
work, he was planning to return to
Atlanta when he, was stricken.
Death was belieyeOue .toa heart
attack. The body was identified by
Major S.' A. Harris, of Moultrie,
formerly of. Franklin.
Mr. Cunningham left here in 1931,
going to Clayton, Ga., where he
was in the mercantile business.
Later he moved to Atlanta.
Surviving are his father, W. C.
Cunningham, of Los Angeles, Calif. ;
his mother. Mrs. B. A. Lowe, of
Clearwater, Fla. ; one sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Nix,- of Atlanta; one
brother, Edwin Cunningham, of
Sandersville, Ga.; two children,
Barbara Sue and Buddie, of Atlan
ta; his grandmother, Mrs. E. K.
PiinnirKrliam- of Franklin, and his
VU1UQ"HHI 1
grandfather, James Jarrett, of Clyde.
The body was taken to Clear
water, Fla., the home of his moth
er, for funeral services and inter
ment. ,
One Prisoner Escapes,
Another Gets Stuck
Mifo Sanders, charged with viola
tion of the prohibition law, escaped
from the Macon county jail Sunday
night, and Emory Day, held for
housebreaking and larceny, made
strenuous efforts to get away, but
when halfway through the window
became so tightly wedged that he
was unable to move, and it requir
ed hard labor on the part of Deputy
Sheriff John Dills to get him out.
Both Sanders and Day, it is said,
had recently completed terms on
the road and were being held for
trial by the superior court."
The men prized apart some .bars
on - the second floor of the jail
where a previous jail break had oc
curred, and Sanders went through
easily, but Day was too large for
the hole, and was dangling help
lessly in the air when John Dills
came upon the scene.
Robert Smart Killed
In Washington
Wilson Smart received a mes
sage Friday night of the death of
his brother, Robert Smart, who was
killen in an automobile accident in
the state of Washington.
Mr. Smart, who had been mak
inghls home in Washington, was
hurt Friday v morning about 9
o'clock, dying' at 3 o'clock the same
day. He was the son of Mrs. Joe
Smart and the late Mr. Smart, of
Franklin, '. '.
SILER REUNION
HELD AUGUST 4
Family Gathers In 88th
Annual Meeting At
Jones Home
The 88th reunion of the Siler
family was held qn August 4. at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gilmer
Jones on the Georgia road.
A perfect setting for this gather
ing of the clan of Siler, which
takes, place each year at the home'
of the family in JMacon county, the
beautiful Jones home welcomed
four generations in the hundred and
fifty in. attendance.
The widely sweeping lawn, with
superb view of the Fishawk mourn
tains, was the gathering place of
the voune bovs and girls erowine
up to take the places of the par
ents and grandparents who assemb
led on the spacious terrace and
oorch while manv of all aces
prepared delicious viands for the
picnic dinner under the white pine
trees in the sunken garden where
long tables and inviting seats had
been built for the occasion.
A table for the "older folks on
the terrace was nresided over by
"Aunt Hattie" Moore, mother of
Mrs. A. B. Slagle, who remembers
attending the first reunion, carry
ing her 96 , years lightly, and who
received the homage of all at her
seat with the older members on
the broad veranda. The youngest
of the new generation were the
three-months-old twin girls of Mr.
and Mrs. Phil McCollum. Mrs. Jen
nie -Poland, who- .also attended the
meeting in 1851 as an infant, was
present.
The large grounds accommodated
cars from the Carolinas, Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee and Texas.
Among the out-of-town members
attending were Mrs. Kope Elias
and her son, Dr. Lewis Elias, with
Mrs. Ellas and their son; Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Weaver and Miss
Florence Gray, from Asheville;
Clifford Harrison, of Texas, who
had not attended a reunion for 24
years; Miss Harriet Kinnebrew, of
Atlanta, and the Rev. Rufus A.
Morgan, of. Columbia, S. C.
As it is the custom to invite the
ministers of the community and
the county newspaper representa
tive, these were present and taken
into the family with the hospitable
greeting of "cousin."
After the feast of "food and fel
lowship," the family meeting was
called to order by the chairman,
Carl Slagle, and the minutes were
read by the secretary, James bray,
of Washington. James Gray's fath
er, "Cousin Tom," was secretary
for over 50 years, the son filling
the post faithfully since his father's
death, having missed only one
meeting when in South America.
The reports of family happenings
and history were read the record
of those who have passed on since
the last meeting, of birth and mar
riages, of young people who . have
graduated from school and college,
and of those who have done any
thing worthy of note.'
The Rev. Rufus A. Morgan, son
of Fannie Siler, opened the meet
ing with prayer, and the meeting
closed with "Blest Be the Tie That
Binds." -
So happy was this reunion at the
beautiful home of the Joneses, that
the clan decided tljat "whereas"
"Cousin Maude" entertained them
this year, they would meet in the
same place as the guests of
"Cousin Gilmer" in 1939.
To Clean Coweta
Cemetery August 27
People who have relations and
friends buried in the Coweta Bap
tist cemetery are urgently request
ed to helpi( clean off the . cemetery
on Saturday August 27.
It will belan all-day affair, and
the people are asked to come early
and bring bakket lunches.
Eighth Annual Macon
County Farm Tour Made
Wednesday-Many Attend
Seventy-Five Cars and Trucks Garry Farmers, Farm
Women and Others On Trip; Holly Springs
i j: o tr u . i i
More than 75 cars and trucks
left the Agricultural building Wed
nesday morning to go on the farm
tour, sponsore'd by ' the Rotarians
of Franklin.
The motorcade left Franklin at
9 o'clock and. traveled the Cat
creek road, entering the Cat creek
and Rabbit creek watershed area.
This area is a 'special study area
under the supervision of the Ten
nessee Valley Authority and the
North Carolina extension service,
with the farmers cooperating' for
the purpose of tbetter. homes and
soil improvement. .
The first stop of the tour was
made at the home of E. V. Am
nions, where a" flock of 172 New
Hampshire Red pullets were shown.
Out of 306 chickens bought the lat
ter part of April only seven were
lost. Here was also shown a new
brooder and laying house.
A trench silo has recently been
built in connection . with the barn.
Twenty-five head of Poland China
hogs and pigs were shown along
with 23 Shropshire sheep, seven
Guernsey and five Hereford cattle.
An inspection of the pasture, a
four-acre project, was made next.
During the past winter the soil was
tested to determine the shortage of
lime and phosphate. As a result of
this test, 1,000 pounds of lime, 200
pounds of triple super-phosphate
per acre was used. The land was
lightly plowed and a mixture of
the following was sown ; six pounds
of orchard grass, six pounds of
herds gras; six pounds of blue
grass, two pounds of white Dutch
clover and 10 pounds of lespedeza.
This mixture was seeded, the first
of April and will remain unused
the remainder of the year. An un
usually good stand of the mixture
was obtained, and is therefore
rapidly choking out the broom sage.
Leaving the Amnions farm the
next stop was made at the farm
of C. A. Bryson, where a timber
stand improvement demonstration
was inspected.
The attractively landscaped yard
of Turner E. Breedlove was next
viewed. This work was not all
under the supervision of the home
demonstration agent, but a consid
erable amount of work was given
by the agent.
The last stop was at the home
of .Silas J. Dean. Here an ideal
country home was found in a ra
vine with rugged slopes on either
side.
The beautiful yard was landscap
ed three years ago, with the walk
and steps made of rocks and sand
off the farm. An attractive rock
garden has also been made. The
stream which flows down by the
house is to' be widened, and by
this an out-door living ' room will
be built soon.
FoUowing the lunch a very inter
esting program, arranged . by Sam
W. Mendenhall, county agent, was
given in dedication of the new
Agricultural building.
Those taking part were: Gwynn
Denton, area supervisor of WPA
of this area; Carl S. Slagle, who
spoke on the benefits derived from
the using of triple super-phosphate
and the need of improving pastures
in Macon conty ; Fred S. Sloan,
who made a short talk on the im
provements of the farms in the
county and the advantages of hav
ing a new 'building to house the
county agents, thus enabling them
to do more profitable work. Mr.
Sloan also introduced the principal
speaker, Dean I. O. Schaub, direct
or of agricultural work in North
Carolina, and dean of the school of
Agriculture at North Carolina State
College. He spoke in ' regarl to the
ipecial work which is being' car
ried on by the" farmers and farm
women of the Cat and Rabbit
creek watershed area, in coopera
tion with the agricultural exten
sion service and the Tennessee Val
ley Authority.
This was the first special study
area selected in North Carolina
and only one more in the state,
which is in Mitchell county. This
study is to be continued oyer a
period of years, and involves each
individual farm "and home pertain
ing to the operations, such as prop
er land use, crop rotation and home
and community improvements. He
also pointed out the fact that be
ginning with George Washington
and other great leaders, they had
all worked toward a better land
use program, to preserve and
maintain the fertility of the soil
so that the future generations might
carry on a profitable agriculture
over .a long period of years.
It was this realization which
brought about, the present agricul
tural conservation program, spon
sored bys the federal government
and handled through the county
agents' offices by local and county
committeemen. With good pastures,
good land and good livestock; a
better farm income is produced,
which brings about improved homes,
a higher standard of living and a
better educated future generation.
Other short talks weremade by
A. E. Perry, chief engineer -of-1 the
WPA, and George B. Patton, may
or of Franklin, who spoke on the
advantages of Macon county hav
ing a building suitable for the
county's necessities.
The lunch was served by the lad
ies of the Holly Springs coirniiin-
ny to approximately juu people.
This tour was considered-by many
to be by far the best tour ever
held in Macon county. '
Bus Drivers
Appointed For Franklin
Schools
Principal J. R. Wells of the
Franklin school, announces the, ap
pointment of the following drivers
for, the seven buses which serve
the school:
. No. 1 To the Georgia line, Park
er Norton.
No. 2 To Tellico, etc., George
Byrd.
No.. 3 To Burningtown and Wal
lace, Dover Duvall.
No. 4 To Rainbow Springs, etc.,
Wayne Rrodes.
No, 5 To Middle Creek, Tesenta
and Clark's Chapel, Ted Blaine. '
No. 6 To Gold Mine, , Sugar fork
and Ellijay, Everett Mashbufn.
No. 7 To Brendletown, Rabbit
Creek . and Bryson' sv Store, James
Max Raby.
. Bus drivers are required to re
port to the principal at the high
school at 10 a. m. on August 24, to
receive instructions. They will also
get their buses at that time.
.;
Young Family Holds
Annual Reunion
The annual reunion- of the Young
family was held at the home of J.
L. Young on Route 2, Sunday,
August 7.
All of the children were present,
as well as the following out-of-state
visitors : M. N. Long, Amity,
Ga., father of Mrs. Young; Mr.
and Mrs. H. H. Graham and H. H.
Graham, Jr., Naraga, Fla. ; Mrs. G.
W. Moody and daughter, Naraga,
Fla.; Miss Clara Frances Sayers,
Redland, Fla. , ' '
A , picnic dinner was served in
the" grove. ' . . ( .V. j