THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941-
PACE SIX
THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HiCHLANDS MACON 1 AN
Aquone
By RUTH STEPPE
Mr. and Mrs! Burges, Virginia
Burges, GraCie Roper, and .June
Roper visited Rabun Gap, Ga.,
Sunday.
Employes of the Utah Construc
tion company Will receive a three
day holiday over the Fourth of
July. ,
There were over 2,000 people
at the Homecoming here Sunday.
Dinner was served on the grounds.
Mr. Billy Forsyth and Lee Wat
kins gave one hundred watermel
ons free.
Mr, Lee Dillard has been very
Lee Russell moved to the CCC
camp Monday. '
The CCC boys here went back
to the main camp at Otto. They
left here Saturday.1
Good Food Is
Good Health
hEnjoy Good Food and,
Good Health
DINE AT
CAGLE'S CAFEi
A. G. CAGLE, Owner
FRANKLIN, N. C.
Classified
Advertisements
FOR SALE Six volt light plant
in good condition. Cheap.
Wom&ck'a Radio Shop
WANTED Dry 44 Oak lumber,
3-A and better. Cash paid. Write
Box '187, Robbinsville, N. C.
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SALE!
All straw hats going at one-half
price. Must make room for Fall
felts. Bargain prices.
Mrs. W...L. Higdon,
Ashear Building back of Baptist
Church.
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FOR RENT r- Furnished, four
room cottage, 2 miles from Otto
at Valley View Farm. See or
write Mrs. Louis D. Marchetti,
312 West Cedar St.; Florence, S. C,
or Otto, N. C.
2tc Jly3 JlylO
Automobile tires recapped while
you wait at. a fraction of the cost
of new tires. New tire mileage
guaranteed. Wl Model Electric
automatic equipment. Roy's High
Top Service Station 4 1-2 miles out
on the Georgia Road.
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WANTED Experienced timber
cutters and bark peelers. Steady
work for a long period of time.
Job guaranteed to all who report
on Sunday, July 6, at office of
Bemi9 Hardwood Lumber Com
pany, Robbiasville, N. C.
FOR SALE 12- 28- 32-acre
tracts of wooded land less than
two miles from courthouse. Rich
cove land and good spring in each
tract. Also tree-covered lots 1 to 3
acres on Windy Gap Road. Prices
reasonable. Easy terms.
M.-D. BILLINGS.
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SATURDAY SPECIAL SALE
800 Baby Chicks, each . .......... ..................... 9c
Cart Rings, 3 packages 10c
Mountain Honey, half gallon ..85c and $1.00
Lipton's Individual Tea Bags, 8 for 10c
Lipton's Tea and 4 free glasses, 1 lb. 95c
Super Suds, 4 lb. 5 oz., free dish cloth........ ' .59c
Camay Soap, 3 cakes 15c
Fine Art Soap, 4 cakes 16c
FARMERS FEDERATION
Palmer St. h. t. nolen. mp. Franklin, N. C.
We, the undersigned, hereby agree to close
our respective places of business all day July
4, 1941, and observe it as a legal holiday. Re
specting the wishes of the President of the
United States in his proclamation:
E. K. Cunningham & Co.
Macon Furniture Co., Inc.
Reeves Hardware Co.
Western Auto Associate Store
Jack Sanders
Frances Shop
M. Blumenthal
Polly's Store
Maxwell Home
A General Review Of Its
History
On Sept. 10, 1910, T. S. Slagle
and wife, Laura Siler Slagle, deed
ed to the Home Missions Com
mittee of the Asheville. Presby
tery a large tract of land upon
which "they .agreed and promised
to establish a home and school for
the needy and destitute children
of the white race to be known and
called the Maxwell Home and
school."
On October 15, 1931 the Ashe
ville Presbytery in its semi annual
session held at Highlands voted
to suspend support of the Max
well Home for boys. ; At this
same meeting after much discus
sion this action was amended to
permit continued operation of the
home at least until the close of
the school term in June, provided
friends of the institution could
raise the funds necessary for its
maintance. The vote in the pro
posal to discontinue the school
after Dec. 31 was 18 to 16.
Following this action, through
the hard work ot Kev. . K.
Crockett, manager of the school,
and his wife; the support and
contributions of the Franklin Meth
odist, Baptist, Episcopal, and
Presbyterian churches ; the Frank
lin Rotary Club ; and friends of
the school he home was kept open
through the winter.
The following statement was re
leased by Dr. Campbell, D. ,D., of
Asheville, chairman of the presby
tery Home Missions Committee to
a representative .of the Franklin
Press on Nov. 31, 1931 regard
ing . the committee's attitude to
ward Maxwell Horn, "I wish to
assure . the good people of Ma
con county that the Presbytery of
As"heville has received the splen
did gift of Mr.' and Mrs. T. S.
Slagle has a sacred trust which
will be carried out. The Maxwell
Farm Home has been suspended
onlv temnorarilv.. Anv reports
about . the contemplated sale of
the property are absolutely, false.
At this time there was no de
finite statement whether the school
would close on Dec. 31 or June 1.
The December 24, 1931 issue of
the Franklin Press carried a
copy of a petition signed by many
citizens of Macon , county express
ing confidence in the management
of the Maxwell home by Rev. S.
R. Crockett and tn his ability to
continue the operation of the
home and expressing the hope that
the Asheville Presbytery would see
fit to continue operation of the
institutution. : 1 .
On Jan. 14, 1932, Dr. Campbell
in a statment to the Asheville Ci
tizen disclosed that the Missions
Board had decided to "suspend
operation of Maxwell home tem
porarily, but that it was intended
to reopen the school on a more
permanent basis in the future."
The home was at this time still
open under the management of
Rev. S. R. Crochett and had, ac
cording to Rev. Mr. Crockett,
through the cooperation and sup
port of the church and civic organ
izations of Ma'cQn county been
able to reduce the indebtedness of
the school, even though the Ashe-
Jess' Shop
Pearls Beauty Shop
Macon County Supply Co.
S. & L 5 & 10 Cent Store
Darling Beauty Shop
Jo's Beauty Shop
Jos. Ashear
J. B. Pendergrass
REV. J. C. SWAIM
Pastor of Asbury Church and
Macon Circuit.
REV. W. L. HUTCHINS
Waynesville District Superinten
dent, who will have part in
' Asbury dedication.
ville Presbytery had discontinued
.support. Contributors to the Max
well home expressed a willingness
to continue their support to the
home.
At the 72nd session at the West
Asheville Presbyterian- Church the
Asheville Presbytery in April, 1932
by a vote of 27 to 17 decided to
close the Maxwell. Home and to
remove the, 16 boys there at the
time to the Mountain Orphanage"
near Black Mountain. Dr. Camp
bell stated that the home was
closed for financial reasons. Rev.
S. R. Crockett, superintendent,
made a strong appeal for its
continuance and showed in his re
port concerning the operation of
the school that since the previous
fall the school had reduced its
indebtedness $500 and that it had
about $700 more to apply on this.
Following the action of the 72nd
session. Maxwell Home was closed
and no attempt has been made by
the Asheville Presbytery to re
open the school since.
Recently v T. M. Slagle, one
of the donors , of Maxwell' Home,
has filed suit against the Home
Missions Committee of the Ashe
ville Presbytery demanding from
the defendant an account of the
trusteeship and asking the court
to appoint a new trustee to carry
into effect the provisions of the
trust. The plaintiff further asks
that a decree be enterd to have
the property operated under . the
terms of the contract entered in
to November 10, 1910.
County Public Assistance
$31,571 For Year
Public assistance Davments for
Macon county's aged, needy and
dependent children totaled $31,
572 for the fiscal year ending this
week, according to Nathan H.
Yelton, director of the public as
sistance division of the State Board
of Charities and Public Welfare.
Yelton said $21,180 was spent
during the year for old age as
sistance in the county with 243
persons receiving grants from this
fund during the month of June. In
addition, 11 widows of Confederate
veterans received $3,350.40 for the
12-monrhs period, making the total
spent for needy aged $24,530.40.
Dependent children received $7,
042 during the year, with 125 be
ing given checks during the month
of June. Grants in both categories
were paid from combined federal,
state and local funds of which the
county paid one-fourth the cost of
grants and administrations, with
the state making up another
fourth and the national govern
ment providing one-half the total
outlay.
The public assistance director,
who has managed the program for
four years and two months leaves
the state welfare department this
week to take over as secretary to
the State' School Commission.
Mrs. W. T. Best, state welfare
commissioner, announced the ap
pointment of R. Eugeue Brown,
assistant to the commissioner since
1930, as acting director of the pub
lic assistance division effective
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CHARLOTTE E. CON LEY
PUBLISHES POEMS
"Poems," by Charlotte E. Con
ley, is the title of a little booklet
containing twenty-one poems by
Miss Conley, and recently pubi
lished by the Franklin Press. "To
My Mother" is the simple inscrip
tion in the booklet, which the Au
thor is selling personally and
through the help of friends.
Ellijay
By HAZEL AMMONS
Many people of this community
attended the funeral of. Theodore
Gregory at the Mountain ' Grove
Baptist church Wednesday, June
25-. ' . .'.';
Crop's and pastures in this sec
tion are looking good after the
summer showers.
Vance Jennings has been ill for
the la&t week but is" improving
rapidly. ;
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Coggins
and family were visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Stiwinter of Cullasaja
last weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Haze Beasley and
family , and Mr. and Mrs. Troy
Shephard anci family, of Sylva
were visiting their aunt, Mrs. Alex
Ammons Sunday, June 29.
Mrs. Vance Jennings was called
Sunday to the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. Joe Hurst, of Leather
man, who is critically ill.
Mrs. Dewey Dillinger, of Gas
tonia, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Mincey.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis, C. Carey
and daughter, Katherine have mov
ed back here from Washington,
D. C, for the summer.
Death Of Waynesville
Teacher From Macon
Mrs.' Emma Dawson, 61, former
ly Emma McDonald .of Macon
county, for many years a teacher
in the colored schools of Frank
lin and Waynesville, died last week
at her home in Waynesville, and
funeral services were held from
the A. M. E. church in that town
last Sunday afternoon. She receiv
ed her early education at St. Cy
prian's Mission school in Franklin,
under Archdeacon Kennedy and
and studied until she had a first
grade certificate. She wag an ex
cellent teacher, having taught for
more than 40 years, and an out-
standing citizen of her race. She
was organist and an active worker
in hef church.
Surviving are four sisters: Car
rie Stewart, Aline Mingus, Leena
McDowell, Virginia Sisk; three'
brothers, Harris, of Waynesville,
Frank, of High Point, and Charles,
of Cheraw, S. C, and a large num
ber of nieces and nephews.
Job Listings For Govt.
Skilled Workers
A Job-Opportunity List is cur
rently published by the U. S. Civil
Service Commission at semi-month
ly intervals showing the skilled
workers needed , by Government
agencies for National Defense po
sitions.
The latest issue of this "United,
States Civil Service Commission
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WHITM1RE-WHITE
WEDDING IN NEW YORK
The wedding of Edward Jordan
Whitmire, Jr., and Miss Geni
vieve Helen White, both popular
teachers in the Franklin high
school faculty, took place in St.
Thomas Episcopal church, Brook
lyn, N. Y., on Sunday, June 22,
at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
The bride wore a lovely gown
of ivory satin with train and long
veil of tulle, and carried 'an arm
bouquet of sweet peas. She enter
ed the churcll on the arm of her
father, Frank White, who. gave
away the bride.
Mrs; Amelia Bush, of Brooklyn,
was matron of honor, and Miss
Eleanor Akelaitis, also of Brook
lyn, was bridesmaid. Both wore
long gowns of nile green and
maize net, designed with bouffant
skirts, and carried arm bouquets
of talisman roses. The ushers were
Dr. Algrid White, brother of the
bride ; and Edward John Valen
tine, who- was the groprh's best
man.
Mrs. White, mother of the bride,
wore a sheer gown of navy, trim
med in white, with a corsage of
talisman roses.
The wedding party entered the
church to the strains of Wagner's
wedding march in "Lohengrin",
while the recessional was Mendels
shon's wedding march. Soft organ
music as played during the cere
mony. The chancel and sanctuary
were decorated with palms. .
After a wedding trip.,- Mr. and
Mrs. Whitmire arrived in Frank
lin on Tuesday, and are at home
with Irs. W. W. Sloan in East
Franklin.
Consolidated List" as it is offi
cially and pomnlptplv i-allpH tchnwc
I that shore establishments of the
Navy, and arsenals, armories, and
air depots of the War Department
need workers for such varied erh
ploymenls as aircraft engine test
operators, instrument makers, lens
grinders, gage makers, gage check
ers, aircraft electricians, parachute
mechanics, ordnancemen, procure
ment inspectors, harness-machine
operators, ironworkers, tool-grind-'
ing machine operators, and bomb
sight mechanics.
Positions are now open at yards
and arsenals throughout the United
States at such varied locations as
Bremerton, Wash., Pensacola, Fla.,
San Antonio, Texas, Springfield,
Mass., and Dayton, Ohio. Over 100
qualified machinists are needed at
Watertown Arsenal, Mass. almost
200 lens grinders could be employ
ed immediately at Frankford Ars
enal, Penn., 200 shipfitters are be
ing sought for the Yard at Brem
erton, Wash., and over 150 air
craft sheet-metal workers are need
ed at San Antonio, Texas.
Written examinations are not
given for any Federal positions in
skilled trades included in the Con
solidated List, but aoDlicants are
"passed" on qualifying experience)
and training as shown , in theirf
All of the grocery -stores in Franklin will be
closed Friday, July 4th with the exception of
one store.
We, the undersigned Grocermen do not feel
that true American citizenship is being observ
ed when cooperation is not given for the pur
pose of this holiday.
WE WILL BE CLOSED
Swafford's Market
Dixie Store
Baldwin & Liner
Market
A & P Food Store
BLACKBERRIES
Wanted
We will start buying blackberries Thursday,
July 10th, paying 15 cents per gallon delivered
to cannery or to truck routes. Will cover same
routes each day as in the past on about same
time schedule. Berries must be delivered same
day as picked in good clean condition.
Prentiss Food Products Co.
notarized applications. Application
forms are available at any post
office. i '
A
Bryant Furniture Co.
EVERYTHING FOR
THE HOME
AT REASONABLE PRICES
Phone 106 , Franklin, N. C
"Better
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Better
Coffee"
Free Premium Coupons In Every Bat
Macon Theatre
Matinee 3:00
Night Shows 7:30-9:30
FRiIDAY. JULY 4:
(Front 10 A. M. to 8:00 P. M.)
HOPALONG CASSIDY IN
"Hidden Gold"
(After 6:00 P. M.)
FRED AST AIRE
PAULETTE GODDARD IN
"Second Chorus"
Alo. No. IS
"DEADWOOD DICK"
SATURDAY, JULY 5:
No. 1
"Ride On Vaquero"
With: CESAR ROMERO
ROY ROGERS IN
No. 2
"The Ranger and the
Ladle"
MONTUES., JULY 7-8:
TYRONE POWER
LINDA DARNELL IN
"Blood And Sand" '
IN TECHNICOLOR
WED.-THURS., JULY 9-10:
Louis vs. Conn
GUY KIBBEE
DICK TROUT IN
"Scattergood Baines
Pull the Strings"
City Market
C L. Pendergras
Roy F. Cunningham
Farmers Federation
Macon Grocery Co.
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