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n i The Best Advertising Medium In Haywood County Published At The Eastern Entrance of The Great Smoky Mountains National l'ark Head by Thkiking People VOL. XLVII NO. 47 VVAYNESV1LLE, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933 849 PUT . TO WORK TUESDAY 0N.WPA JOBS J. Liner Given Contract To Build Junior High School Work To Get Underway By De cember 15th. Building To Have 12 Rooms And Gymnasium A contract for the Junior High School building has been let by the schoel board to Jerry Liner, for $40, 253, with the provision that work get underway by December loth. The new building will be two stories-, and will contain 12 class rooms, and a gym, The building will be of brick and steel. The plans now are that Mr. Liner will complete the building by May or June. This new building will be built al most in front of the present gym, which will be converted into class rooms for the vocational agriculture department. The contract for plumbing and heat ing was awarded to Young Plumbing and Heating, Canton. This contract was for $5,000. The WPA has agreed to furnish $21,581 of the amount needed to con struct the building, and the county board of education the remainder. Thi i the third building to be built this year by the school board. The Rock Hill school is being completed this week at a cost of about $19,000. The Allen's Creek building was com pleted some time ago at a cost of over $4,000. Colin Mclnnes Is Promoted, And Will Go To South Africa Colin- Mclnnes, head of the Stand ards Department of the local plant of the England-Walton Company, has been transferred to another depart ment, and is at present at the plant in Winchester, N. H., taking some special instructions relative to his work. Around the first of the year he and his family will leave for Port Eliza beth, in the Union of Africa, where he will buy gheep skins for the company. This is a distinct promotion for Mr. Mclnnes, who has been with the EnK" land-Walton Company for the past five years. En route Mr. and Mrs. Mclnnes and two children will go by way of Scot land, where they will visit the form er's parents in Dunoon. They expect to reach their destination in Africa , betwee.i five and six weeks after leav ing here. Set Of Triplets And Twins Born The stork seems to have been kept rather busy in Haywood county dur ing the past few weeks, according to the record. About a momh ago twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cogdill, of Waynesville, Route One. .''.-. ':' And on Tuesday afternoon of this week, triplets were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Singleton, of Canton. Three boys, weighing four pounds ' each. ' - It is quite unusual that a set of twins and trmiets are oorn in ine same community within a few weeks ; time. Haywood Teachers Are All Smiles The teachers of the county are all smiles this week why?. Football game? Maybe. Things going smoothly? Perhaps. Not much cold weather, as yet? Might be. Pay day. You guessed it. Blood Transfusions Made At Hospital When a request was made Sunday morning for volunteers to give blood for two transfusions at the Haywood County Hospital, about forty responded.- The blood for a transfusion for Mrs. Robert Snyder was given by Lester Poteat. -." ;; ".; : Another transfusion was made, with George Stentz giving the blood. 110 HEAD OF CATTLE SOLD AT CLYDE THURS. A total of 110 head of cattle were sold at tlie Clyde Stockyards last Thursday, bringing a total of $2,250. The prices were in line with those of the past few weeks, in comparison with the brand of cattle offered for sale, officials stated. ! Haywood Native Dies V i I i A I . THUS. V. XOI.AMI (Cm Courtesy National Hanner) Rev. Thos. Noland, 75, Passed Away In Nashville Tenn. Native of Haywood County, Spent Active Life In Metho dist Church In Tennessee Funeral services for the Rev. Thomas W, Noland, 75, a native of Haywood county, and who for 47 years served conspicuously in the Middle Tennessee conference of the Methodist church. South, were held oft Novembar 11th, at his home in Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Noland passed away early Sun day morning following an illness of almost a year. His career as a Methodist minis ter began in the pioneering days of circuit riding and continued until last January when he retired because of ill health. Either as pastor or as presiding elder, he served a majority of the churches of the Middle Ten nessee comerence ana ms devotion u j pastorial duties was marked for its , single-mindedness. He was known and loved': through out his district, and widely recognized j in Methodist church circles for his unusual service. A son of the late JamesHardy and Sarah Owens Noland, he was born in this county, He first went to Tennessee to enter the old Univer sity of Nashville in 1880. After graduating he came back to North Carolina for a-fthort- period to teach school. It was at this time that he met Miss Emma Webb, of Kinston, N. C, also teaching school, and married her. here in , 1885. Mrs.1 Noland survives him. Soon after his marriage, he return ed to Nashville and entered the theo logical .seminary of Vanderbilt Uni- ( Continued on back page) WOMAN CHARGED WITH KILLING TWO COWS Mrs. Minnie Shepherd, of Pigeon was bound over to Superior Court Wednesday afternoon by Magistrate frank D. rergusOn, under a 5d00 bond, charged with the poisoning of two cows belonging to J. C. Burnett. It was brought out in the evidence that Mrs, Shepherd put out a substance resembling sulphur, and said to have been sheep dip. It was alleged that the cows ate! this and died as a re sult.;. ,.' '.'' The stomach of one of the dead cowg had some of the substance in it, witnesses (jeclared. The Burnett pasture is near the BDuapiAa aq; 'p.iaqdaiig -sift jo ujuq also revealed. Massie Opens 'Radio Service Department Massie Furniture Company announ ced yesterday that they were opening1 a radio repair department in charge of L. F. Gebo, a well known raido re pairman. : Mr. Gebo is a graduate of a ra tional radio school and since his grad uation has been continuously engaged in radio repair Work. New equipment for the repair shop has , been received, and is of the lat est type available, it was explained. Funeral For Dee Clark, 49, Held Tuesday Morning Superintendent of Lights For Town, Dies After Brief Ill ness. Buried at Fines Creek Brief funeral -eivii.es were held at the Garrett Funeral Home at 12 o'clock on Tuesday for Dee Clark, 40, who passed away on Monday morning at tho Haywood County Hos pital, with Dr. R. S. Truesdale, Rev. H. W. Bauom, and Dr. K. P. Walker ofiiciating. At 2 o'clock services were .con ducted by the pastor, Rev. A. I.. Kay'e, at the lower Fines Creek Meth odist church. Interment followed in the cemetery nearby. Ac. ive pallbearers weie nephews of Mr. Clark and were as follows: Roger Ferguson, Hen Wright, Paul Ferguson, Rankin Ferguson, Claude Rogers, and Paul Ferguson. Honorary nallbeai crs were: Hugh J. Sloan, Milas Noland, Reeves No- land, Prof. F. L, SalVord, O. L. Brlggs, (i!enn Palmer, Norman James and Grovel- ('. Davis. Mr; Clark was born and reared in Haywood county, and was the son of Mrs. Rachel Ferguson Clark, and the late Dallas Clark. For more than twenty years he was the chief operator of the gener ating plant of the Haywood Electric Company. He took a prominent part in the religious and civic me oi nis com munity. At the time of his death 'he was superintendent of light.s for the town of Waynesville. While he had not been well lor sometime, his death was unexpected, and followed a brief acute illness. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Nellie Rav Clark, his mother, seven children; five sons, Robert, Hugh, Jack and Ned, of Haywood county, Ray Clark, of San Pedro, Calif,; two daughters. Miss Maoie ana mis iviar- garet Clark, also of Haywood coun ty; one brother, Grover C. t iaiK, ana the following sisters: Miss Iva Clark, of Lake Junaluska; Mrs. Sam Queen, of Waynesville, Route 2; Mrs. Frank B. Davis, of Canton; Mrs. K. w. Teague, of Dade City, Fla.; Mrs. v, W. McCracken, of Ledger, Montana, Mrs. T. B. Allen, of Toledo, Wash. Business Men To Meet Tonight To Discuss Stadium A special meeting of all liusine-s and professional men in Wayiicsvillu. Hazelwood and Lake J jr.aius.Ua. has been called for Tlwr'd:i nii.rht, at seven-thirty -At the (Chamber of Commerce office to discussed with school authorities the new stadium which has geen started at the high school field. . A group of foiij't-vn met Tuesjjv evening and formn'atid plan.s for the meeting . Thars'(I4y -.night-.-'-- A '? n!nti tee composed of (iuv Massi:', Jelf Reeves, and Sam Knight will nave' charge of the meet ng. M. If. y Bowk's, ' .-un.'.'int.'ivlein of schools, present."1!! the plans for 'l.c Stadium, ar.d tho value of it 'o '.he community. It i.; believe J 1 hat aft( r the stadium is c mipl".(d ihat college football game- cn be brought to Waynesville .several times ;. year. The committee said: "It will lie to the interest of every business man in the community to be present Thurs day night. It is one of the most im portant things to come up in some time, and must have our immediate attention.' . I Two Football Games In County This Week-End Football fans of this section should look on this week-end as ideal for their favorite sport, as the annual Haywood gridiron classic between Waynesville and JCanton, which is always outstanding in the football season, will be played at canton on Friday afternoon, and on the next aiiiernoon, the Catamounts, from Western Carolina will meet the Bull dogs from Biltmore College here for Haywood's first college game, 1 : Both games are being looked for ward to -with a great deal of interest. Hundreds of fans will be in Canton Friday afternoon to see the Moun taineers meet theix- ancient foes, the Black Bears. Canton and Waynesville have only played against the same three teams this year. They i were, Mars Hill, Christ School, and Hendersonville. Against the?e three, Canton scored 39 points, and the opponents 46. Waynesville scored 38 points and the opponents 32, but that means little or Next Week's Paper To Be Published On Tuesday Afternoon In order iluit die reader may get their imiH'r before TlmiiU--giving, this aH-r will lie pulIi-li-eil n day oui'llcr next week. The new schedule for Hie com iiiK week will mean thai (he paper will have to go to prcs hi noon I lie-day. Those having news and advertisements are urg ed lo co-operate for ihis change in publication date. 20-Tons Of Coal At Clyfle School Found To Be Slowly Burning After searching frantically for two days, "the mystery fire'' at the Clyde High School was discovered early Monday afternoon, just in time to prevent the sl'read whii-h would have undoubtedly burned the building to the ground. Smoke was not iced in the rooms, hut effort, to lo'.-ate the source was futile until by chance it was discov (rod as coming from the coal storage room, where some twenty tons of coal were stored. All of the coal was shoveled out, and at the bottom was found the smouldering fire. It had burned a hole the size of a barrel and was working upwards. 'School officials .said if the blaze had once gotten to the top of the coal, it would have caused such a hot fire that tho. entire building would have been doomed. Criminal Court Will Convene On Monday Morning will pre8i(le over tbe-Wm-of crim inal court, which will convene here On Monday, November the 25th. While the docket is a heavy one, there are no capita! cases. Outstanding on the calendar will be the case of State versus Ruff, who is charged with running over Sam Snyder, who was fatally injured in a automobile accident some few weeks ago in front of the Baptist church on Main street. The other cases, while numerous, deal for the most part, with Viola tions of the prohibition laws, public drunkenness, and minor offenses. Two $5 Prizes Are i Being Offered For The Best Essays ( ould you use five dollar.-. '.'' Tlie merchanU's 'division of the Waynesville Chamber of Commerce have two such bills which they are going to give away on Hecemiier tenth, and for just, a little effort. . In connection with their 'Tradc-At-Home" campaign, they are offering a five (ioila 1 'prize to ttie adii'TVT i ing the. best letter Or essay oh "Why it; is (ioo'l Business to Trade at Home." "To a school ( hiid, of any grade or sc'nool in the county, another prize of five dollars will be given fur the same thing. Details of this will be an nounced by Supt. Messer. ; The letters should be mailed to "The Contest Manager," care of the Chamber of Commerce, Waynesville. The letters must lie in the hands of the judges by noon of December tenth. The campaign is well underway, and every effort is being made to bring before the people of thiV community the value of trading at home. To Draw Many nothing in a Canton-WaynesvillG game, as the teams forget records, except those of the past years be tween the two teams. For the past several years Waynesville has been the victor of the battle, but this year some rate them as the underdogs. Nevertheless, they are practicing hard and will fight to the finish to keep their record for the past few years against the Black Bears clean. The first college game will bring back to Waynesville High School C. C. Poindexter, who is now director of athletics at Western Carolina. He has turned out such players as Fred die Crawford, Jack Phillips, Lee Davis, Don Hyatt and a host of others. His team will meet a strong team, and several Waynesville and Canton boys will be in the line-up.: The game gets underway at 2:30 Saturday and the Catamounts go into the affray as favorites. The game is being spon sored by the high school athletic asr (Continued on backpage) Robert Snyder, 28, Wounds Wife, Then Takes His Own Life Tragedy Takes Place At Home Near Hazelwood Early Last Thursday Night The community was shocked be yond measure early last Thursday night, wht' n 'Robert Snyder, 28, sue-ce-sful young business man here, sent a load of gun shot int.) the abdomen of his estranged wife, seriously wounding her, and then turned the t ten o'clock last ni-Jii, Mi'-. Mi) tier was reported to In- "kci. liny uIoiik fairly well, and about llie saine; although lier condl llon i still considered M'tioiis. . -he is vonu'uhat improved oci that -lie ua- the ,il the tC'k." gun oil: himself, committing suicide. A 20-guarge shot gun wa.s used. The parents of three small children, had been separated -'about four months, and he was staying with his parents, Mr. and .Mrs. J. P. Snyder, near Saunook. He left his parent's home with the intention of gomp hunting, it was said, and stopped by hi.s home, 'which was on. Highway No. 10 just beyond Hazelwood, .presum ably to see the children. Funeral services were held at two o'clock SaturHay afternoon at the home of his parents, with the Rev. 11. W. Baiicom conducting- them.-- The Junior Order was in barge, and in terment was made at (Ireen Hill cem etery. Mr. Snyder was a partner of J. W. Killian in the Waynesville Laundry here, they having bought the business some three years ago. For five years prior to that time he held a position in the laundry, and before that was employed at the Swannanoa Laundry, in A'heville. ' ': " .: ' Mrs. Siiyd?r is from Tennessee. The det'eased is survived by his widow arid three small children, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Snyder, and one brother, Jack, of Waynes ville, and seven sisters: Mrs. Irvin Sims, Ashcville, Mrs. Vaughn Plott, Mrs. Dewey Hrendle, Miss Wilsie Snyder, Mrs. Uichard Carringer, Mrs, 1). j. Dean, and Miss Ruth Snyder, all : of Waynesville. funeral For Mrs. Max Bryant, 90 To Be This Afternoon l-'uneral services will be hchi a1.. 2 o'clock this afternoiiM at tile Massie Fuheni-'i : Home for Mrs. Sarah Au gtisla Bryant, !M) year- 'of age, who died at 1 :.'i.r Monday afternoon at. her home in Fast Waynesviile. Dr. It. I Walkcl-, pastor of the "Presby terian church, .-'will conduct the last i il.es. Interment will follow in (Ireen Hill cemetery. 4-. -' Mi'iLJiXX-di) U - UiuL: bceii u aciidctif here coin, bajit deai for more' than III ve.-n-- hnvine' 'I lo Wayne.-.ville with her bus Mr, Max Bryant, , who has been for .several years. She had been living at. her home near town With a companion, Miss Mary Russell. Mrs. Bryant's sin. Professor Max Bryant died a few weeks ago at his home in St. Louis. The only sur viving member of htf- immediate family, is htr daughter-in-law, Mrs. Max Bryant, who is ill in St. Louis and was unable to come here for the funeral. : New Features Added To This Paper. Biff!Swavne:er Horse Serial Begins Today A new northern woods story, filled to the brim with romance, adventure and thrills, begins in today's .issue of The Mountaineer, and will be con tinued from week to week for some time. Before buying this story it was read by several local people, and it received the hearty endorsement of each one. Another feature that has been added to the paper at a considerable expense are the news pictures which are now being published. Also the "Old Home Town" feature which will he found oni the editorial page week ly. This is one of the best known comfc-; cartoon.? avaijablei Many daily papers,; have, been using this cartoon and, the : same news picture service for year-'. FINES CREEK NEWS At the Fines Creek gymnasium on Friday night the Fines Creek girls defeated the Spring Creek basketball team 39-9. The Fines Creek boys de feated the Spring Creek boys 33-10. Mark Ferguson coaches the boys and Harriet Boyd coaches the girls. - Weekly Pay Roll In County To Be More Than $5,000 Farm To Market Roads, Streets, Stadium, Painting Bridges And Sewing Rooms Included Fight humliv.! and JV rty.nine. peo- (" n on relic went t,i T, ..,..!.. m -mm.c- at ,.,Kht ,.'cUk k on VP projects in every township in Hav ood county. Hius j-iving a job to at ci.s. 0ne r.,rson from every relief lamily m the counly, cr, a:ir.g a pav 'oll ot over ?5,0OO weekly. I he S i:) pe,.pt. i,u.ude ,mlM . , Wiien. and the pmje iU,, ,',., e sewing r,,,,,,,,. to ,.,, , ( market roads. Work on the fo rm i,, ,.,,.! .. , . - ' oe in iikki m-Jaiices the plac- ing oi crushed stem-, a old CV.: widened m:i ti v and built drains. -...-s ci'ews il lull-1" of t he roads oi.n a.s one road is completed, Mle crews will vc to .UMtllC)-, hiu t here are nro- Jects )n eVM.v towibhiii now heinir woi krd on. it was learned. Other' pr-.ij.rts en which some of ihe .S-1: are working, include: I he city nark, Waynesville. C.'ii t ruction of a sladium, Waynes ville, Painting three In idges, ('anion. Street re nail i rig, Canton. Sewci- line project, Canton. Two and a half . miles of streo' work, Clyde. The farm to market roads are a! dil l roads, and tlii . program is to las for '.two years, it was learned fron the ic-einployment cflice, in charge: of Mason Swcaringer. The total payroll for these S 19 people will be over $."i,000 weekly. From tjme to time, as the projects are completed, the worker' will he moved from one place to another. WORK STARTED ON STADIUM AT SCHOOL Work got underway last week oil the $7,700 stadium at the high school athletic field, with D. V. Phillips, fore man and in charge of construction, Some 1.") men have been given work on the project, which is another if the many WPA projects now on in tin's county. The project will he completed in February, as the WPA officials have allowed three months for completion. The WPA officials are to furnish the labor, -which will amount to ap proximately $."1,000, The nbm.: .-all; for ;v stadium 2(10 feel long and about 12 . tiers high, seating some 1,200 people. The orig inal plans ' have been changed, and instead of a concrete stadium, one- of wood and steel will he erected. Strict economy throughout' the school . year, will be adhered .to by the -students, and they have already cancell ed ' the annual Junior-Senior baiiouct, .and win donate the money to the-sta- . liuni. :. Fx pensive commencement graduation program- will also be done away with and the funds given ; to the. stadium. ; A large n um her of . students have . . promisee t won-; alter scliool ainl on . Saturday on the DM, II cl . . I he stadium wi.il h" one of the, hi st high school sta'dium's in the stare, iiid is expected fir st i mutate much inter est in athletics. . MANY MEN AT WORK ON HIGHWAY NO. 281 Approximately. J 50 non-relief nien have been, given jobs hy the con-true-'-. tion of ..approximately', four miles of road from Bethel towards Springda'e. The const rut tion . . includes two river bridges. This is a PWA project. Electrocuted B y Underground Wires A horse belonging to Pink Swan-, ger,; of Ifazclwooi!, was instantly killed when he walked- over under ground electric wires; which due to th excessive rain.- of Tue.-day; and Wed nesday of last week, had shorted an( charged the ground with . high vol tage. .. The horse was being driven by a grandson of Swanger, Louie Cock ran. The horse was pulling a wagon at the time. The driver and another boy, Ralph Calhoun, jumped when they felt, a slifht shock. : ' The incident " happened near the Unagusta Manufacturing Company. " Electricians worked on the wires dur ing the week-end. . THE WEATHER Nov 14 15 10 17 18 19 20 1 Max. 52 ',2 ' Cl . 49 44 ''54'; Min. : 37 33. 40 .. S8 81 : 37