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MORE ABOUT
Liner
(Continued 'from Paje 1)
In the Satcliffe Cove Cemetery.
Pallbearers were the following
nephews: Fred Ratcliffe, Algle Rat
cliffe, George Ruf us Liner, Gene
Liner, Amos Medford and Jack
Edwards. Nieces were In charge
of flowers.
Mr. Liner was the son of the
late Henry R. and Minerva Owen
Liner of Haywood county and lived
here until he moved to Charlotte
about thirty years ago.
- He was a charter member of
the Enderly Park Baptist church
and served as its first pastor.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Mary Hyatt Liner; three daugh
ters, Mrs. Ralph Freeman of John
son City, Tennessee, Mrs. A. G.
Robertson and Miss Catherine
Liner of Charlotte; five sons, A.
G., Loy, H. H., and Noel H. Liner,
all of Charlotte and Chauncey of
Columbia, S. C; thee sisters, Mrs.
John Snyder and Mrs. James Rat
cliffe of Waynesville and Mrs.
Larry Justice of Canton; and four
brothers, George, Charlie, Hardy
and Sam Liner, all of Waynesville.
Arrangements were under the
direction of Garrett Funeral Home.
Long's Chapol
Bible School
Began Today
The annual Vacation Bible
School of Long's Chapel Metho
dist Church began today, and will
continue through Friday.
Mrs. Jerry Liner is directing the
school with the help of the follow
ing departmental teachers and
helpers:
Kindergarten, Miss Sarah Long,
Mrs. Garrett Reeves and P. H.
Duckwall; Primary, Mrs. Flora Bal
lenger, Mrs. R. H. Terrell, Mrs.
Ed Jaynes, Mrs. Carroll McCrack-
en and Miss Dot Liner; junior,
Miss Louise Ballard, Mrs. Edna
Burress, Mrs. Rufus Reeves, Mrs.
Bruce Morford, and Miss Catherine
McCracken; and Intermediate, the
Reverend P. H. Duckwall,
Mrs. Dudley Moore Is heading
the music department and Mrs.
Ruel Noland has charge of recre
ation.
FINDS BUNS TASTE BETTER
IF BAKED BEFORE EATING
FLINT. Mich. (UP) Cliff Mit
chell, his wife away on a trip, went
to the store for groceries.
Jle picked out some buns, took
them home and ate two. Then he
tdok the others back and com
plained they were underdone.
"How long did you bake them?"
the grocer asked.
"Not at all," the astonished Mit
chell replied.
He hadn't realized that the buns
were "in the raw" for home bat
ing. .
In Johnson County, Wyo., in
1887 saw mills produced 4,856,378
feet of first-class lumber, 2,381,235
of second-class, 1,994,275 shingles
and 270,810 laths, all used for
home consumption, University of
Wyoming library archives depart'
ment files show.
Methodist Meets
Scheduled For
This Week
The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service of the First Metho
dist of Waynesville, will meet
Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
The Spiritual Life Group will meet
at 3:00 o'clock.
The Wesleyan Service Guild
meets Tuesday evening at 7:30 at
the home of Mrs. H. H. Plott on
Maple Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Martin of
Charlotte spent the week end with
the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan Medford.
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Smathcr
(Continued from Pate 1)
County Bar Association and the
Knights of Columbus of Asheville.
Mr. Smathers suffered a broken
hip Saturday, March 18, when he
fell in Longchamps Apartments,
where he resided.
He failed to recover from the
injury and his condition grew
gradually weaker until his death
Friday afternoon.
A native of Turnpike, the vet
eran attorney was a member of the
widely-known Smathers family of
Haywood County. He engaged in
the practice of law for 62 years
and was employed by Champion
Paper and Fibre Company as land
title counsel from 1905 to 1944.
Smathers was one of 13 children,
four of whom arc still living: Wil
liam M. Smathers of Asheville and
Mrs. S. C. Satterthwaite; of
Waynesville and Atlanta, Mrs. Earl
Moffett and Miss Eleanor M.
Smathers, of Atlanta.-
After opening his first law office
in Waynesville in 1882, he was
elected mayor here (1886) and
served two terms. A decade later,
he and Maj. W. ,W. Rollins were
elected the two State senators from
senatorial districts then composed
of Haywood, Buncombe and Madi
son Counties.
He served as chairman of the
State Judiciary Committee (1897)
and at the request of the Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians, was ap
pointed (1899) Special Assistant U
S. Attorney for the Western Dis
trict of North Carolina
The son of John Charles and
Lucilla E. Smathers, he was born
January 29, 1854.
His father, who died In 1919 at
the age of 92, had purchased prop
erty on the old Turnpike Road
(west of Asheville) on both sides
of the Haywood-Buncombe line.
When the first toll gate west of
Asheville was established at the
line, the name Turnpike was adopt
ed and a few years later a post
office was established.
John Smathers built and oper
ated a store, blacksmith shop, saw
mill, wagon works, cabinet factory,
a grist and flour mill, a hotel,
and other establishments there. He
also built another mill and a store
at Clyde and a hotel at Waynes
ville... . .. V;;
George Smathers was educated
by a private school teacher named
Girl's Stato
Representatives
Roturn Home
Waynesville High School's two
delegates to Girls State, Betty
Noland and Lillian Medford, re
turned home yesterday.
The girls spent Thursday in
Raleigh, leaving Woman's College
at 7:30 a. m. by bus. They stopped
at Duke University, visited various
State offices and buildings in Ral
eigh, had lunch at State College,
tea at the Governor's Mansion, and
returned by way of Chapel Hill,
where they had dinner and were
guests of the University at a plane
tarium show.
Thursday night they heard an
address on the State Legislature
by Robert F, Mosley, veteran leg
islator from Greensboro.
The week s program was con
cluded Friday evening at a ban
quet session, featuring an address
by Judge Wilson Warllck of New
ton.
In i farewell address the girls
were told to return to their homes
and schools and use the informa
tion they had gained. ,
Both the Waynesville girls will
be seniors next year at W.T.II.S.
WNC Safety Group
To Meet Friday
The Western North Carolina
Safety Council will have a busi
ness and educational meeting on
Friday night, as the group meets
at the David Millard Junior High
School in Asheville. ;
Tom Mason is president of the
organization, and a large number
of industrialists from Haywood are
expected to attend the meeting on
Friday.'- ;:';;
The featured speaker will be J.
Frank Husklns, chairman of the
North Carolina Industrial Com
mission. - -
first act levying a tax for road
purposes west of the Blue Ridge.
As special U. S. attorney and
later as attorney for the Cherokees,
Smathers engaged in more than
14 years of litigation which re
sulted in the Indians securing title
to what is now known as the
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Ttln Oie collision were Eofczd
Jones,- 577" of Waynesville, driver
of one of the cars; Mr. and Mrs.
Harf5l)S Crawford .and dauchtrr.
GlorU 'Jfrfa.ti .iH dfj r.hkesfimp.
g .jiic'eiy'.ahii bflt'ijf iiifei wrif
:triJ.'!i.-l.'"..i 'ill tL. tt'Xt ' rfiL'Lti-
anil u430s jand:'; Released 'btt!'Sat-
Pa'trilaX p. Llndsey, inves
tigating officer, said the three cars
fitiiolYisd. included the following
anver;,;. james a. neea, oz, ot
Sylva; Jones; and Charles J. Cope,
21, of Sylva.
,irjie triple collision occurred
where the railroad crosses the high
way near the Moody Bottom sec
tion.;. No estimate of damage was reported.
Corpus Christi
Procession Held
In Raleigh
The diocesan Corpus Christi
procession honoring Christ in the
Holy Eucharist was held at Raleigh
on Sunday, June 4, at 3 p.m.
Attending from St. John's church
here were: Sister Mary Cordca and
Sister Mary Dolora, Mrs. William
Heinz, John and Ann Heinz, and
Regina Nakutis,, who took part in
the procession on the grounds of
the Catholic Orphanage at Nazareth.
Preceding His Excellency, Bishop
Waters, who carried the Blessed
Sacrament, were a group of school
children dressed in the religious
habit of their teachers. Ann and
Regina wore the garb of Sisters of
St. Francis.
Qualla Indian Boundary, comprls-
Mary Ann Hutsell at the Old Bricking approximately 77,000 acres of
Academy on the present William land in Jackson and Swain Coun-
Randloph School site, at Sand Hill
Academy near what is now Enka,
and at Pleasant Hill School House
near Turnpike.
After leaving school he joined
his father In his various business
enterprises, often making trips
with livestock movements or wagon
trains to the railroads at Spartan
burg and Greenville,
He decided to enter law practice
(1880) and attended the law school
of Dick and Dillard at Greensboro,
securing his license to practice the
following year and opening a law
office in Waynesville the next year.
While serving in the State Seri
ate, he and Rep. J. W. Ferguson of
Haywood secured passage of an
act providing for levying of a tax
to help maintain public roads of
Haywood. Previously, they had
been maintained entirely-by pub
lic labor.
This was the General Assembly's
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Cplorado, America's Alpine state,
has 34 ski courses equipped with
State News Head
Here on Week-End
Charles Parker, head of the
State News Bureau, spent the
week-end here gathering material
and photographs for use of his of
fice. He was accompanied by Mr.
Somners, photographer of the de
partment. ' '
While here Mr. Parker confer
red with Charles E. Ray, chairman
of the N. C. Park Commission, and
Mrs. Edith P. Alley, secretary of
the W.N.C. Tourist Association, i
Mr. Parker has consistently pre
dicted a banner season for West
ern North Carolina, and was elat
ed to find the area preparing for
such a season. . ,
The Belgian Congo is the world's
leading diamond-producing area.
that weeand iff !
The matter wa ";
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Gordon Schenrt . 1 1
Betsy Lan oi,.
The group heard 4 dp
Port on the recent moto
upper South riJ"'01
that. signs owned by' t'hel
.uHimerce Were betn
ed and erected.
The Cathedral of VibJ
". uuiu m the 12th
was rebuilt in the 1860s
To shape a veil so that it doesn't
press the nose when covering the
face, place piece of veiling over a
padded bowl or other round sur
face, place a slightly dampened
shelters and more than 50 tows orcloth on top, and press. The veil
lifts. ' . j will then have a rounded shape.
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ties, and to part of 68 scattered
tracts in those counties and in
Cherokee and Graham.
Before completing his work for
the Indians, Smathers was em
ployed by a number of large land
owning firms and individuals in
land matters and litigation over
Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Macon,
Clay, Cherokee and Graham Coun
ties. In fact, it was said there
was hardly a large timber tract
west of Buncombe with which he
had not had some connection.
So much of his time had been
devoted to 'land matters by this
time, that he decided to specialize
in title work and land litigation;
since 1930 he confirmed his work
largely to those lines.
In February, 1905, Smathers met
Peter G. Thompson, Sr., of Cin
clnnatl at the Dickey House in
Murphy. The Ohioan was looking
over the country for a site for
a large pulp mill and upon learn
ing of Smathers' wide knowledge
of spruce boundaries and other
timber conditions he engaged him
to aid in location of plants, se
curing of timber tracts, and land
title legal work.
After selection of Canton as the
site. Thomson organized (1907)
Champion Fibre Company and
Smathers remained as legal coun
sel from that time on. The name
of the company was later changed
to Champion Paper and Fibre
Company.
Smathers handled the litigation
Involved in condemnation of 100,
000 acres bought by Champion
(1916-20) in Swain County and
Sevier County (Tennesse). The
firm was finally paid $3,000,000 by
North Carolina and Tennessee for
the holdings, which were trans
ferred in the same year (1933) to
the Federal Government for In
corporation into the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park.
After settlement of this mat
ter, Smathers retired from general
practice but continued as attorney
for Champion.
Smathers was one of the, 100
distinguished delegates to a con
vention held here in 1899 at the
old Battery Park Hotel.-The con
vention took the first steps toward
creation of Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park.
, Employing the wealth of knowl
edge he had gained in his pro
fession, Smathers wrote a book en
titled "The History of Land Titles
in Westenr North Carolina," which
was published by Miller Printing
company ot Asheville in 1938 and
hich is considered a highly au
thoritative treatise.
In January, 1938, Smathers was
elected president of the Buncombe
uounty Bar Association.
ssmathers marled (1892) Daisy
Rice Glaze in Montgomery. She
was the daughter of Judge Samuel
f . Klce, widely-known . Southern
lawyer who prior to the Civil War
was made chief justice of the Ala
Dama supreme Court at the age
oi oo.
5urvivor8 Include a daughter,
Mrs. James S. Wiley of Westport!
Conn.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Henry
i. uaruett, who resided with
bmathers; a grandson and a great
grandson. Mrs. Bartlett has f
daughter and a granddaughter.
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