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? ? ? - ' . * 4 ? ? ? fl T it it Svi v a ? Tf [r i? a f n ^ aiw.,. Jt JLA I 2j kJ 1 Aj ? Jr\> H Uj XV 1\ XJ U i7i2TZ?d. "* AND RURALITE ? CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943 =? VOL. XVIII NO. 39 _ SYLVA, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1944 $1.50 A Year In Jackson and Swain Counties? 5f Cvpj Jackson Within Sight Of Reaching Its Bond Quota By .Week - End ? Five Townships In County Are Over Their Quotas; County Quota Is $225, 0C0. Indications Saturday night were that Jtfckson county would reach the $225,000 War Bond quota by Tuesday night, according to R. L. Ariail, chairman for the county. Through Saturday night, the bal ance to go was only $17,682.20, Mr. Ariail's report showed, which also revealed that five townships of the county have raised their quotas. With sales of Monday and Tues day to be counted, the chairman felt the quota would be reached. A telegram from the state chairman also pointed out that all sales mad* during February would be counted on the Fourth War Loaq quota. > Mr. Ariail is urging all town ship chairmen to push the sales oi E bonds during the remainder oi the month, and there has been a lag '? (Continued on page 5) John L. Wood, A Veteran Of War I, Buried Last Week John L. Wood, 60, veteran of World War I, died at his home on Friday morning following a long illness. Mr. Wood was a member of the 30th Division and fought through all the battles in the breaking of the Hindenburg line and on through France. He was severely wounded on October 18, 1918. He spent three years in a veterans hospital before his discharge from the army, ^nd since that time he has had to report back to the hospital from time to time. He was totally dis abled. . Mr. Wood was a loyal member of the Wm. E. DiHard Post of The American Legion, and his death will be felt deeply by all the mem bers. He was a leader in his com munity and was liked by everyone, and was always willing to help anyone. Funeral services were held at the Moses Creek Baptist church Rev. Ben Cook and Rev. C. V Brown officiating. Burial was in the Stevens cemetery at East La Porte. The American Legion had charge of the service at the ive. He is survived by his \v:fe, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wood of Cullowhee; two sisters," Mrs. Oscar Lovedahl, of Cowarts, Mrs. Finley Arrinjfton, of Cullowhee: two brothers, Ernest, of Glenv'lle and Ed of Wintson- Salem. Alice and Pfc John Davis Buchanan, his niece and nephr w, whom he rais?d Barbara Ann Buchanan, of Jack, stfnville, Fla., Claude Buchanan, A. S. U. S. Navy, Sampson, N. Y., ard Pfc. John Davis Buchanan, A P. Mechanic, U- S. Army Air Corp? were called home due to the death of Mr. Wood. Cullowhee 4-H Club Has Meeting The 4-H Club o f the Cullowhee high school was held Thursday, February 10th, at the training school. The meeting was called to order by the president, Daphna Nicholson. Mary L. Crow, secre tary, read the minutes of the las' meeting. The program was a round table discussion on the subject, "How Young People Can Win the War on the Home Front." The mem bers taking part in 'this discussion were Daphna Nicholson, Anna Nor ton, Dennis Norton and Luther Norton. After the program Garland Lackey, cofinty agent, ?nd Miss Margaret Martin, talked about the various business subjects and 1944 Record Books were given to the girls. Eighteen members attend ed the meeting. Bishop Purcell Coming On 29th Bishop Clare Purcell will ad dress a mass meeting of all of the stewards and church officers of the Methodist church in the Wayn?s ville district on Tuesday night, February 29th. This dinner meet ing will be held in the dining hall at Western Carolina Teachers Col lege at seven p. m. Two to three Inmdred Methodist laymen of the district are expect ed to be present at this meeting. It is intended by the leaders to make this an annual affair. ) Dies From Accident HAY COCDILL, .JR., who was fatally injured last week, when a bullet from the gun he was clean ing penetrated his head. Funeral Held For Ray Cogdill, Jr., Last Thursday Popular 12- Year-Old Boy Died From Rifle Accident; Was Cleaning Gun. Ray Cogdill. Jr., 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cogdill, of Sylva, died at the Harris Com munity Hospital at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday, February ninth, as the result of a bullet wound in the head. Hfc was apparently trying to dis lodge a jammed bullet from a .22 rifle and the gun exploded and the bullet penetrated his brain. Funeral services were held Thursday, February 10, at the Syl va Baptist church with the Rev. W. E. Pettit officiating. Active pallbearers were: O- E Brookhvser, Harry Ferguson, C G. Midaleton, Robert Phillips, W. T. Wise and Claude Campbell. Honorary pallbearers were: Dr. A. A. Nichols, Dr. A. S. Nichols, Dr. C. M. Hooper, Raymond Sutton. Paul Ellis, Oscar Bumgaraer. Grady Henson, Csrl Allman, E. P. Stillwell, W. C. Hennessee, How ard Ball, members of the Lions Club and members of the Fire De partment. The! teachers of the Sylva Ele mentary school and Ray's school mates had charge of the flowers. Surviving are his parents; on? sister, Jean, one brother "Sammy" rnd his grandparents, Mr. and Mr*. Sam Cogdill and other relatives. Interment was in the Keener cemetery. Moody Funeral Home had charge of arrangements. ?r Glenville Club Holds Meeting The Glenville Power House Dem onstration Club met last Thursday it the home of Mrs. Beatrice Bry *on. The program previously planned by Miss Martin, demon stration agent, was not carried out 'Jue to the illness of Mr. Lackey who had planned to bring some helpful suggestions on gardening. The soil in Glenville is of a dif ferent type and does not produce a large variety of vegetables. Miss Martin gave the club mem bers booklets on Gardening, Pood Waste in the Home, Vitamins from ^arm to you, The Farm and Home Small Fwiits for Home Use, and i National Nutritution War-Time Guide. The hostess served a delicious sweet course. ? Schemer On West G Funds From Mother Mrs. Fred McClain, of Sylva, re. ceived a telegram on Thursday T>f5Iumal>Iy from her son James . who is in the Navy. The telegram was from Portland, Oregon and requested that she send $50.00 im mediately. Mrs. McClain was sus picious from the beginning as James is working from the Atlan tic Coast. She went to the Western Union and prepared a list of questions to be answered in Portland by who ever called for the money. A man in civilian clothes came to the Ice And Snow Keep Schools Closed Two Days Old man winter descended again on Jackson county Sun day night and left a 6-inch snow, which prevented all schools in the county from opening Monday and Tuesday. Monday's rains melted some of the snow, and Monday night the slush froze causing traffic to be held to a minimum be cause of the icy streets and sidewalks. < Slowly climbijig tempera tures Tuesday indicated that much of the snow and ice would melt by late Tuesday night. Soldier Passes Away While On Furlough Home Pvt. Waynes Jones, 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jones, of Whit tier, died at his home early Thurs day morning. A coroner's verdict returned Saturday afternoon at tributed death to a heart attack. Pvt. Jones, who was home on furlough from his station at a Florida airbase, recently suffered an attack of flu, it was brought out at the inquest. He has been in the Army about one year. In addition to his parents, he is survived by six brothers, Aus Jones, of Newport News, Va.; Shafter, of Long View, Wash.; Garland, of Whittier; Pvt. Donald, of the Marines m California; and one sister, Mrs. Ethel Welch, of Arizona. Funeral arrangements are in complete pending the arrival of relatives. Methodists Will Dedicate New Roll The Sylva Methodist church will dedicate a new Service Roll at the adult service Sunday morning, Feb ruary 27. The roll will be dedicat ed to all of the young men in ser vice who have been connected with the Methodist Sunday school and church but are not members of the church. This is in addition to the Service Roll dedicated to the men in service who are members of the church. Anyone knowing of anyone whose name should be on this roll please notify Rev. R. G. Tuttle. Malcolm Brown Is Made A Captain Malcolm Brown, who has been in England since June, 1943, was re cently promoted to Captain. Cpt. Brown as pilot of the "Knock Out Dropper" recently won a race with "Hells Angels" in get ting the 50th mission, "Hells An gels" came in second. ATTEND FUNERAL Among the out of town people attending the funeral of Ray Cog dill, Jr., were Miss Nannette Dil lard, of Canton, John Phillips, of Canton, and Burl Henson, of Cher, ry Point, ? I Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fisher are visiting their 9on, Thomas G. Fisher, S 2/c, and their daughter, Mrs. Mike Teague, in Newport News, Va. Judge Alley To Preside Over A Week Of Court A week of mixed criminal and civil cases will be tried in Jack son County Court, beginning next Wednesday with Judg? Felix E. Alley, olF Waynesville, presiding. One murder case is on the docket and a manslaughter case. The following: men have been drawn as jurors for the February term. oast Fails To Get Of Local Navy Man Western Union office in Portland *rrd ercTrM~ net answer any of the questions. Mrs. McClain was right in beinsr cautious in this matter as there is a ring of men all over the U. S. active in getting money from the parents and wives of service men.? By being sure that no one but her son would have received the money Mrs. McClain haa twarted one thief, and there are many more trying every conceivable trick they knew to get money from families of service men. Leon E. Sutton, Sylva; J. B. Blackburn, Hamburg; W.L. Jones Sylva; E. W. McCoy, Hamburg: F. C Carden, Sylva; J. R. Dawson. Caney Fork; J. F. Kenner, Ham burg; W. H. Cowan, Webster: C. P. Shelton, Qualla; Eugene Fisher, Sylva; Joel Whitmore, Greens Creek; Beck Henderson, Hamburg; Hobert Messer, Sylva* Homer Jones, Gay; Meritt Merrill; Vaughn Shook; Frank Wil?on Hamburg. Luther t Stephens, Caney Fork; R. L. Bryson, Sylva; Sam T. Crispe, Dilhboro; T. B. Gunther, Barkers Creek; Edgar Moore, CullowVee: Brag# Buchanan, Greens Creek ? Bragg Allison, Greens Creek; Ed Middleton, Balsam; D. M. Blanton Sylva; W. E. Bryson, Greens Creek; J. O. Parker, Sylva; Fred Wood, Cullowhee; H. S. Queen Qualla; Homer Passmore, Cishiers. W. C Adams, Sylva; W. M. Har ris, Sylva; Roscoe Lewis, Webster: R. A. Still well, Webster; Lloyd Hooper, Tuckaseigee; W. T. Rig don> Canada township; Thomas Seigle, Barkers Creek; W. Mid dleton, Canada township; Walter Bradley, Qualla. Prominent ^Citizen Dies CHARLES JOSEPH HARRIS, 90, passed away at the home of his son in Biltniore Monday afternoon. Jackson County Gave $692 For Paralysis Campaign In January Serving Overseas RVT. EARL C. McCLUCKIE has arrived in Italy, according to information received by his grand mother, Mrs. Florence Buchanan, of Webster. Pvt. McCluckie en tered the army April 31, 1943, and received his training at Fort Mc Clellan, Ala., and Fort Meade, Md. Pvt. Tom H. Kelly, of McClellan, Ala., is spending several days with his wife and young son and his grandmother, Mrs. T. H. Hastings. Jackson county .should feel pride in the result of the Infantile Para- | lvsis drive," ? said Mrs. E. L. Mc Kee, county cha'rman as she again ?JjVreKffWf ^er sincere thanks for 'he snlendid cooperation and re sponse which the campaign met through the county. "Those who headed various nhascs of the campaign are to be heartily congratulated for th^ir splendid services," Mrs. McKee said, as the county total of $692 wa< announced. The following are the chairmen '?vho helped make the drive a suc cess. Ritz- Theatre, $163.93, Hilti^, Tallent, chairman. County schools, $116.33, A. C. Moses, chairman. Sylva business men, $05.00, R. C. Alii son, chairman. Mead Corp. and employees, $50.00, Roscoe Poteet, chairman. Rotary Club, $50.00, J. C. Alli son, chairman. Cullowhee, $30.85, Mrs. Ruth Hinds, chairman. East La Porte, $30.00, Mrs. Jos eph Keys, chairman. Dillsboro, $25.00, Mrs. Mont Can non, chairman. Lions Club, $20.00, B. E. Harris, chairman. Tannery employees, $19.13, W. T. Wise, chairman. Business ard Professional, $19.00 Dr. Noracella McGuire, chairman. Tag Day, $17.26, Mrs. John Par. I ris, chairman. I Government agencies, $16.00, G. C. Madison, chairman. Speedwellfi $13.65, Ed Bryson, chairman. Barber and Beauty Shops, $14.50, Dillard Cowartf, chairman. Collection jars, $1.35, Mrs. John H. Wilson, chairman. Total for county, $692 00. Le?Hon Assisting: In Filling Out Blanks The American Legion now has applications for mustering out p^y for boys of Worltf War II, who have been discharged from the ser vice. Anyone wishing to make applica tion may ccme to the office of the Adjutant of the Wm. E. Dillard Post 104 at the County Court House on Saturdays from nine to one. Mr. And Mrs. Charlie Stephens Have Three Sons Serving In Armed Forces Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Stephens, of Cullowhee, have three boys serv. in? in* the armed forces. Charles D Stephens of the Mer chant Marines, who took his train irjT at Sheephead Bay, N. Y. He joined the merchant marines in October, 1943. Charles Stephens has been visiting his father ?nd mother and also his wife and small child at Hazelwood. S<?t. Stephens took h*s basic training at Fort Brag?- Then be went to Camp White, Oregon, be fore going overseas. He is in th? medical corps. Sgt. Stephens join ed the army in June, 1940. Pvt. Harry L. Stephens, who is now serving overseas, took his basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and was then sent to Camp Reynolds, Penn. He is serving wi*h the Army Engineers. He was inducted in June, 10*0. C. J. Harris, A Noted Industrialist Of This Section, Passes Away Mail Carrier Dees Outstanding: Job Of Selling Bonds Horace B. Hyatt, rural mail carrier of Whittier Post Office, has gone all out in his effort to do his part in the Fourth War Loan Drive. He has not only bought bonds; but has sold them too. While carrying the mail on route one and while waiting for the 12:30 train; on Thurs day, February 10th, he sold $1,800.00 worth of bonds in one hour and twenty minutes. He would have sold more but the train came in tfnd he had to take the mail out on route one. Mr. Hyatt fought ,in France in the last war and al though he isn't in uniform in this war he is still doing his part toward winning it. Mrs. John Jones To Continue With Insurance Agency Mrs. John R. Jones is a licensed agency for the Jefferson Standard Insurance Company, carrying on the work of her late husband, John R. Jones. Mrs. Jones will maintain the agency here, writing both fire and life insurance. Jefferson Standard Life Insur ance Co., of Greensboro, which be gan business in August, 1907, and is now one of the trongest life in surance concerns in the South has been granted a license to do busi ness in Illinots and, as of Jan. 1, 10*14 will open a Chicago agency. From its inception more than .'*6 years ago, this company has made a fine record of growth in the volume of its business and de velopment of financial strength. With $1,0|>6,700 insurance in force at the end of its first five months in 1907 (it began business on August 7 of that year) the company had a total volume of $163,270,273 on the books twenty years later. At the end of 1930 the total in force was $370,766,903. ' lrv~the next 10 years insurance in force rose to $422,319,191 and at the close of 1941, it was $450, 627,700, while on December 31, 1942, the total was $470,330,637. These increases were all large and with the half-billion mark in plain sight, the company and its sales organization, operating in 27 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, set its 1943 goal at $500,000,000. This figure was reached and passed on December 10th. In the 36-year period, total ad mitted assets grew from $504,576 to $115,016,016 at the close of last year, while now the total is over $125,000,000. Capital stock on December 31, 1942 was $4,000,000, surplus was $4,500,000, reserve for real estate depreciation and fluc tuation was $100,000. Policyhold ers' surplus was $10,000,000, against $8,400,000 at December 31, 1941. Two FBI Men To Be On Program Of Conference ?X~ Edward Scheidt, special agent in charge of the Charlotte office of FBI will be one of the speakers at the FBI La# Enforcement Confer ence held in Sylva on March first. Besides Mr. Scheid^, there will be James E. Wallace, also of the Char lotte office, and Jud&e Felix E. AHey. \ A large percenitafce of all law enforcement officers west of Ashe ville are expected for the one-day conference which will be held at the Ritz Theatre. Funeral Services Will Be Held Thursday Noon At Biltmore Church. Charles Joseph Harris, 90, resi dent of Dillsboro and prominent Western North, Carolina capitalist, died Monday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock at the home of his son, Robert J. Harris, in Asheville. Known to thousands of persons as "Colonial C. J.," the varied fi nancial interests of Mr. Harris touched every section of this moun tain area. He developed a large clay mining industry, had w'do banking connections, and for a time was president and co-owner of The Asheville Daily Times com pany. In 1901 he was the Repub lican candidate for governor of North Carolina. Though always reluctant to dis cuss his financial affairs in a per sonal way, it was known that Mr. Harris was a man of sizeable wealth. The funeral service has been set for noon Thursday at All Sou7s Episcopal church, Biltmore, of which Mr. Harris was a member. The Rev. Isaac Noycs Northup, rector, will officiate and burial will be in the family plot in Rivers;de cemetery. It has been requested that no flowers be sent. Mr. Harris suffered a broken hip in 1935 and another one in 1938. Since that time he had been bed ridden, spending his last years at the home of the son in Biltmore Forest. However, he considered Dillsboro his official home. The main T>ffice for his business interests is also at Dillsboro. Mr. Harris was president of the Harris Kaolin company, the Jack Spruce Pine bank, the Harris Granite Quarries with headquarters in Salisbury, and the Harris-Woodr bury Lumber company. He was vice-president of the eld American National bank of Ashe ville and was a stockholder in the Wachovia Bank and Trust Com pany, In 1903 he gave Jackson county Its first industry of any size, estab lishing at that time the C. J. Har ris tannery at Sylva. He operated the tannery until 1916, when he sold it to the Armour Leather com pany. He buiflt on the Tuckasseegee river at Dillsboro the power plant for the Sylva and DiUsboro Electric Light company in 1912. Coming to Jackson county in 1888, Mr. Harris and his brothers purchased the Carolina Clay com pany. Then was launched the clay products industry which has oper ated in Jackson, Swain, Haywood, Mitchell, Yancey and Avery coun ties. He at one time owned 76,000 acres of land now in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Th is land was sold to the Norwood Lumber company and the Champ ion Paper and Fibre company. Mr. Harris was of a beneficent nature and turned some of his for tune into philanthropies. An example is the C. J. Harris Community hospital here. He Urk over the facility and financed its completion. Mr. Harris was president of the Builder's Supply company here at the time of his death. He was interested in the Sylva Supply company for many years. | He provided $30,000 for the erec tion of the Elisha Mitchell memor ial tower on Mt. Mitchell. He gav? | it to the state of North Carolina unconditionally. Hafris high school at Spruce Pine is named for him, a citizen who did much toward the industrial development of that sec tion of the state. Mr. Harris was a staunch Re publican. He was a delegate-at large to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1908 and attended every national convention of his party from 1892 to 1936. From 1898 to 1902 he was a member of the U. S. Industrial commission. A native of Putnam, Conn., he was the son of William ^rjd Zilpah Torrey Harris. He attended the schoohr of htq home town and grnd uated from Yale University in th? class of 1874. At the latter insti tution he was a fraternity brother of William Howard Taft, who late* became president and chief justice. Taft and Harris were relatives end corresponded with each other until the time of the former's death. From Yale, Mr. Harris went to the St. Louis Law school. After completing' his work there he took a job as teacher in a Kansas high school. Then, he went to Denver ? ? (Continued en pact S) ?
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