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The Official Organ of
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VOLUMh^'l^VL NO. 27.
OKN ERY
IS ASSURED
FOR MURPHY
Farmers arc lifning contracts to
frrow To"i?to?i for this
Enterprise
Murphy is asurred of a cannery f r
the coming? season. Arrangements
for locating this new enterprise
were worked out this week between
J. A. Pollard, Jr of the J. \V\
Gillaspie & Co. and officials of the
Chamber of Commerce. Interested
parties here have been in toueh with
this enterprise for more than two
years and have only this ".vc k been
able to bring the matter to a head.
The cannery will start out by canning
only tomatoes. It is possible that
in a few years other vi ^ tabic-- and
farm products will also bo included.
Contracts ate now luing signed with
the farmers f< r the growing of tomatoes
for sale to the tannery. As
announced some days ago. the cannery
will pay 40 cents per bushel for
the tomatoes' which will make the
yield per acre a'on?t seventy-five or
eighty dollar.-. Seed for planting
will also be supplied by the cannery
at wholesale cost. They will be
bought in bulk so that they may thus
be obtained much cheaper than other
wist. Thi* seems necessary in order
that oil tomat- es ?"1?! to the cannery
will be of a smooth uniform
size are variety. There are no hard
conditions in tie contract. The farmer,
merely agr ?s to grow a certain
number > r acres >f tomatoes
from seed bought from the cannery
and sell all the products to the cannery
at a given price. The cannery
binds itself to buy %the tomatoes to
the stipulated price. The Clay County
farm demonstration ha- agreed to
secure 100 acres among the farmers
of Clav. W. M. Fain. \V. \Y. livde.
J. B. Story and B. W. Sipe are signing
up farmers in Cherokee County.
Those farmers in the county who arc
intreestcd in growing a ready money
crop should see one of the above
<menticred as early as uossible and
sign on.' t . the contracts ><> that
the acreage can be assured the cannery
at once.
This is to he a fairly large enterprise.
Some eight or ten thousand
dollars will bv expended in building
the factory and making toady for
the coming season. About ?25,000
will be paid the farmers of the rnunty
during the summer; months for tomatoes.
and some eight or ten thousand
dollars will be paid out in v:?g"s during
the canning sensor of r:::*.y r
ninety days in mid summer. !' is
estimate:! that forty frti.ht car- lead
of tomatoes will be canned at this
plant this season and that the
i amount will increase with time.
! This will mean something like forty
thousand dollars turned loose in the
county this summer by the cannery
This is no mean sum.
While the price of forty cents may
seem small to some, yet when it is
reflected that many times farmers
are unable to s. 11 the:r tomatoes at
Any price, it seems quite good. Also
when it is realised that under tomato
cultivation around seventy-five dollars
can realized to the aero whereas
only about twertty five or thirty
; ear 1 e growth of
corn or .
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farmers will be glad to avail themselves
of this opportunity to grow a
r casn crop.
Number Detours
On the State
Highway System
Raleigh. Feb 8.?The monthly detour
bulletin, issued by the State
Highway Commission, in the Februjiseue,
shows chat there are thirty
Tgtours on 18 state highway
routes, ajhe detours named in the
bulletin this immediate section
include 10: Canton to Waynes
ville; City to Andrews; and
Andrews to JVIurphy.
Acute No. 285: Dillsboro to Frank?lin;
Route No. 286: Franklin to the
Georgia state line.
33 The detours are announced monthly.
ly for the benefit of motorists.
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Murphy and Cherokee
DEMONSTRATION |l
WORK IN CLAY
SUCCESSFUL
County Agent*# Report Show# Gain
Of More Than $5,000 To <
Farmer# Of County ! I
Hay> viJlc, Feb. 9.?In his annual j
report to the County Commissioner^ ,
Willard R. Anderson, County Agent, ,
summarized the work ar.d progress
of Clay County farmers :<?r the ,
net pain to thy farmers of Clay tc |
bo $">.362.70.
His full report tto the County
Commissioners follows:
To Clay County Commissioners,
, From Willard K. Anderson, County
Agent.
i Subject: Annual Report, Con- j
dinsed.
The agent began his work in Clay
i County lanuary 1. 1924. Th?? first
thinir that confronted him was the 1
iliowcg handicaps* First, the agent
had to make out his report and ]
begin hi- work without personal in- '
..rrm: "in i-r guidance of reprosentative
citizenship, in that the agent's i
program was past due in the district
??i i i. e. - condly, there were n?? records
of county -gent work previously
' c'< nc and results obtiir-ed. t'hird.
that the people had the whond idea of
a county agent, in that they expected
hiir. to spend his time personally
visirii g. Fourth, that the ng.-nt felt
that there should be an entire new
> vsem cf agricultural practices established.
The first thing the agent did was
to seek out the local leaders, try to
gain their friendship, and needed information.
Next, call community
i..lutings, discuss community prob!.
ins and attacks to be made. These
problems being, as the agent saw it,
changing the cash income of Clay
County, from what he considered
non-dependable to dependable cash
incomes and a self-sufficing agriculture.
He sit his efforts to further
the production of horticultural products,
for the present year, he entered
his energy on potatoes and ap-.
lot king forward to the expansion into
general horticultural products. In
trying to arrive at these goals, the
agent took as his slogan:
J
i "A Purebred Cow. a Sow, find a Hen i
' !s Best For Ciuy County Men."
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He gets cream shippers in each of,
his organized communities as demonstrators.
He organizes a eommcr
cial potato club (carload lots) in
five townships. He takes two ori
ardfl in each of hit organized communities
or townships, as demonstration
orchards. He takes other projects
that aie necessary to the success ,
ot . h urogram.
The agent".- work in livest A: ha
been indirect in that the cattle of
the county are inferior and unprof
itable. Work done was to rid the
; county of this inferior and unprofit|
able slock in every way possible. |
making room f<r better beef cattle j
or dairy cattle. To do this the agent i
has co-open?ted with the Cherokee
County agent, and shipped out 10
carloads of veal calves, inferior cows,
and beef cattle.
Considering that dairying was the'
most profitable industry of ail live-.
stock, crops, or any other industry, [
for the greater mass of Clay County |
j farmers, greater stress has been laid J
! on this projet. There has been purchased
three purebred registered i
Jersey bulls, and placed in three of!
the organized townships, the fourth1
had a purebred registered Jersey bull, i
Individuals have been encouraged to
purchase high-producing Jersey cows'
for* the purpose of shipping cream. ;
There have been started in the county
thirteen cream shippers in the orgainzed
townships and five creaib
separators, one or more in each organized
township. From March to
November 30th, there have been
shipped 3072 pounds of butter fat,
at an average of above 35c, worth
$1,075,20.
The prevalent sentiment in Clay
County was that there was no market
for any farm products t*nt they
might produce, as we are 20 to 35
miles from a shipping point, and 125
miles from any substantial market, i
The fact1* in the case are that there
is a market for all kinds of farm
products, but the trouble is -these
farm commodities must he handled
right, that is, there must be volume.
!
Cljcrc
County, and the Leadir
MURI'HY, NORTH CAROLINA
L. M. SHIELDS
BUILDING GARAGE
Mr. L. M. Shields of Culberson is [
. onstructing in the western part o?
:6wn two business houses. Oneis to
)e used as a garage, while the oth-. r:
will probably be rented. These buildings
are located near the interaction
>f the Ranger Road with Hiawassess
Street.
Three Msnibsrs
Are Added l,o
Local School Board
The ii"t passed at the special session
of the Legislature last summer
affecting the loeal school board was
amended a few days ago providing
for six members of the Board instead
jf three as at present constituted.
The members added to the Board arc
Messrs. ('. B. Hill. R. R. Peal and S.
D. Akin. The present members are
Messrs. i>. Witherspoo'n. ('. M. Wofford,
and Mis. M. \V. Bill.
Smith Ard Sasser
Exchanged Pulpits
Sunday Feb. 8th
Th" loeal congregation of the
Baptist church rcvoicod a supri e
Sunday morning at the eleven o'clock
service when Rev, L. 1*. Smith of
Andrews stepped into the pulpit and
lelivere 1 the morning sermon, while
ihe | aster. Mr. T. L. Sasser conducted
the services at the Andrews church
vi.,. tv-0 pgrtsrs exchanged pulpiU
for both morning ami evening services
without their congregations
knowing of it until the eleventh hour.
Rev. Smith delivered two mighty good
sermons.
standardization, grading and a system
of entering the market. To
prove this fact, a volume of potatoes
were grown, a potato grader was purchased,
and under this system was
easily sold. Worthless calves were
sold, poultry was sold at a better
price, a cream station to sell all possible
cream was put in operation.
To show further that co-operative
effort would solve ail our difficulties
fertilizer was bought by groups,
making a great saving. In the spring
fertilizer was quoted to dealers at
Sltbf-0 f. o. l>., Hayesvillc, less 0
percent general settlement, or l"
percent cash, moaning the farmer
should have paid $1.05 per bag for
16 percent ncid. The f.?r??er ws?
able to buy co-operatively for $1.65.
Really, this co-operative purchasing
caused competition to put it to $1.60
per hag for 16 percent acid, a saving
of 35c per bag on* over 4.000 bags.
In the fall a like saving from a quoted
price of $2.20 to $1.00 when
bought co-operatively.
The work of marketing has all
been done to accomplish two things.
One, the organization of a growers
association of different kinds to ship
all surplus products in Clay County,
and second, and more immediately.
>he creating of a sentiment that the
"The farmer grow the product, and
the county agent will sell it or organize
some system to sell it," overcoming
the prevalent idea that there
are no markets for farm products
in Clay County, or an outlet for
them.
Tangible financial returns to the
farmers from County agent work is:
Ground limestone, 175 'Jons, increased
yield on 80 acres 10 bushels
per acre or 800 bushels, at S1.50 per
bushel. $1,200.00.
insn (comnii rciaiiv i
acres average 75 bushels, or 2.175
bushels at 90c or $1,957.50. If in
corn, average 20 bushels to acre or
580 bushels at $1.50. or $870.00:
$1,957.50 minus $S70.C0 equals
$1,087.50.
In the spring co-operative saving
on fertilizer of 35c per bag on 4,000
bags, amount shipped to Hayesville.
equals $1,400.00.
In fall'co-operntive saving on fertilizer
of 30c per bag on 2,000 bag.-:,
ammount shiped to Hayesville, $500.
Cream shipped from Clay County,
considered a net profit, 3,072 lbs
butter fat at 35c lb, equals $1,075.20
Net gain to Clay Coanty from
County agent work. $5,362.70.
(Signed) W. R. ^IDERSOX,
County Agent.
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. KKIOAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1225
BILL INTRODUCED j
AM ENDING
TOWN CHARTER
? i
Will iu>t a*feet pre?ent Mayor and
Beard of Aldermen Chamjo
wanted by many
A bill has been introduced in th?
Legislature by Representative Swan
amending the Charter of the Town (
oi Aiurpnv so as to put the Town's!
affairs <?n a better basis. The Mayor!
and Board of Aldermen requested the
a mendment after many citizens had
requested that the change be made.
The amendments art- two.
First. The term of office of the
Mayor and Board of City Commissioners
is made two years instead of
one. hut three of the comm"s?ioners
"ill retire every year and three commissioners
and the Mayor alternate
years. This will keep in office all the
time three members who are familiar
with the Town's affairs. Thi" will
net affect the term < f office of the
present Mayor and Boa^d of cnm-i
ntiss oner . However, at the election
in May. three commissioners will be
elected for two years and three for
one year that three will retire every
year.
Sc ?nd. A second amendment.
pi n-ides that the Mayor and Board of
Commissioners may elect a city clerk
and tax collector who shall keep all
records, collect ail taxes and other
revenues, supervise all the detailed
work of the Town -uch as street Improvements
water and sewer extension--.
ard any other construction
\\ ?rk the town may undertake from
time to time.
At present the Chief of Police i
must be tax collector, which duty h*
does not always have tin - ' perform.'
The members of the Board of Aldermen
cr the Mayor under the present
system canr >t giv the Town's,
affairs the attentiro they deserve, it
is pointed out. If this intendment
is enacted, the Clerk that the Mayor'
and Board would elect, would maintain
an office so that any citizen
"could call him at any ti during th
lay; also, the fiie alarm > ! - connected
with his office, which. : is
j understood would lower insurantrates
on city property? . 'io
present arrangment the < ity ' lerk
.. ?u.? n_. ..-.I ..r \
i men and is paid a salary ??f s*_?a
: imrnth to keep ixie records, act as:
Treasure:, carry on correspondence
etc. Under the new amendn: nt, n.
member of the I- >ard would a?".
clerk. All would serve for tne
per month salaiv. Th. clerk that ti.? y
and the Mayor elect * i.i-1 i> ?<;: '
salary of nor ?? <s: >ioo .
so that he colli 1 pive all of I: :
to the duties of the Town.
The Town handle? about $40.^?o
a year. Us duties include the k- eoinjr
of records and a set of books, the col.
lection and expenditure of taxes and
other moneys, the building of water
and sewer lines and extend io-.s. the
buliding, repairing and cleaning of
streets. the purchase of
suppilcs, supervision of cemetery,
parks and public grounds, and countless
other duties. A business >f th's
magnitude and ratine of duties certainly
demands the full time of one man
it is pointed out by the proponents of
the change.
Mrs H. M. Clegg
Delivered Lecture
At Weaverville
Mrs Horton Willams Clegg, author
and lectures, delivered her lecture,
"Bock Agent Friday" at Weaverville
Monday night under the auspices of
the Parent-Teacher Association of
that place.
Those who have heard Mrs. Clegg
I do not need to be convinced that she
: is an interesting speaker. She has
the rare faculty of combining fun and
! pathos to get ideas worthwhile to her
hearers.
With her strong sense of hoatnnr
j her knowledge of humon nature, her
' ability in character study and her
genuine love of people. Mrs. Clegg
! has gathered many striking, amusing
jand helpful things for those to whom4
she speaks. ?Ashevilie Citizen.
Mrs. Clegg is the wife of Rev M.
B. Clegg. former pastor of the
Methodist Church here.
>cout
ieouon of Western i>i
COL. OWENBY
DISAPPOINTED,
TO LEAVE U. S
Disappointed Over Confirmation C
F. H. Stone
By H. E. C. BRYANT, in A,he%il
Citixen.
Washington, Feb. 8?.?Color
James A. Owenby, the game <
fighter who started the controver?
over the Stone nomination for tl
> up rem Caps bench, is going i
quit the United States; he is disa;
pi -Ited over the action of the Se;
ate. He left here today.
"Deprived of my right? to sta
my grievance? before a committee ?
the Senate, ami hounded by the Roc
cfeller and Morgan mining interest
I am done for here," he said today
Seventy odd years ago I was boi
in Cherokee County, North Caroiin
and fought mv way from a povrl.
stricken orphan of a Confederate u
ficer, who fell at the battle of Chi
amauga. to the State of Coh.rad
millionaire miner and engineer, i:
stead cf the million fl^SHliAlf jfl
move I should have I am able to mu
ter a few thousand dollar:-, a mei
bagatelle to miner who root iv..d ;
high as $75,000 a ; , :u f r hi.- e
vices as an engineer.
Colonel Owenhv is a ph turcscp)
westerner. In si it. u" his three *e<?
and ten years he i- tall, straigh
lithe and alert. Ilis sandy hair
turning grey, and he wear- ? mu
taehe about the size and shape ?
Senator Walsh, of Montana II
fighting blue-grey eye? flashed tod;
as he told of hi? w.?ngs.
Colonel Owenby, lone and hop
ful. went into the golden West
the age of 11 av 1 commenced li
as a messenger boy for railroad co
tractor?. He had never been
school but n? hi w.ukei his way i
he realized that hi must learn
r< . and write and speak well. 1
drifted into ; g.dd mine, -hr.vc-lis
rocks and debris ? ut of the wa
Then he t 'ok up the study of mi
ing and became an engineer.
< olonel Owenby d he was i
lated th Y ung-s of Cherok
and > t '.sntie?. li. \ather w
Jentka Owenby. He r , ?!N Jnsp
Young and .-thors. His old hor
was n Brasstowri Cr ek. a!
may be in what is known mrt- "CI
C:unty now."
Coi. Ow:rly e?'{s thn. th? fa
that Mr. St . :.? uvi\.a..s an Assoc:.;
Justice of the Superior Court do
not v. b him - f money in hand, but t
Y-V-t made on hi, . by the Morgs
estal - and R- -yiVik-e might inU
est !iv.poireii k* not shattered \
repulati' engineer and expert.
' l bid r. y duty in calling the :
. of the Sc-ratc to the fact th
I ibvu^hv Mi. SU>m- had been grid
unprofessional conduct,'* said M
Owenby. "I brought. the court i
cords and laid them b fore meriibc
f the -lucii. i.i'y Cmnniitt.-e. My pr
perty, valued at $l,a0i>,000, has b;.
taken away m inc."
It was mv g.a.d fortune to meet
Catholic j.'ii-st who taught nve at o<
hours.'* saiti Col. Owenhy. "Scon
became an ex. ett miner and was u>
by men of wealth to locate profit
ble properties ami to bay the
That i> the way 1 became connect
with tie Morg.is."
The opening -f the Wootte La:
and Fuel Comjmv, with Owenhy
general manager and owner of o
324 shares, market the beginning
the Owenhy and Morgan relatioi
This company. M . Owenhy con ton
was put in the hands of a recciv
against his will by the Morgan est:i
The trial over this receivership w
finally carried to TViaware, whe
Mr. Owenby lost. Mr. Stone argti
the case foi the Morgans in the S
preme Court.
The Morgan estate asserted tl
Col. Owenby owned a large de!
This he denied.
"My row with the Morgan a
Rockefeller people commented wh
I refused to join in the movement
fund to hire mine guards to she
down strikers." he added. "I testi
ed in th strike investigation condui
ed in Colorado by a committee
congress.
"As a mining engineer 1 would r
up against the Morgan and Rocl
feller interest wherever I tried
| operate in America." said he todi
"Therefore, I am going to Old M<
ico. Chili, Bolivia, Siberia or son
l where else to regain my fortune."
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6c COPY?$1.60 PEK YEAB
! STORY SAMOAN
PEOPLE TOLD
i. BY DR. RAWEI
)f New Zrlandrr, who has spent fifty
years inSamo&n Islands, tello
of their customs and arts
Doctor Wherahieo Rawei, a native
of N'ew Zeland and for many yettf
the only practicing: physician on the
Samoan Islands cf the Southern
Pacific, r.rtsonted a eraDhic oicture
_ of the customs, relipi?-n. devotion,
t,_ . i .... ......_e..i ?i
^ .. .v.iMtc aim wunuvnui auvancemtni
of the people living on
th ->; South Sea possessions of the
I United States. Dr. Rawei appeared
^ under the auspices ? 1* the Redpath
Lyceum Bureau and as the fourth
' number of the local Lyceum Course.
"n! His pleasing manner and extrente
modesty and humility captivated his
audience f>.>m the very beginnig.
r Doctor Rawed in an hour and a
half sketched some of the fine qualities
of the S;u?nan Islanders. He
;i Im _:;n l?\ explaining the location of
the islands in the Pacific and describES
ho\v five ?them had conienundcr
_ th- control of tin United States. A
fiiuparatively few years ago the
inativ were cannibals, he pointed out,
but under the training of mission,
arks they were soon brought to a
state of religious fervor and devotion
, to Christianity such us is found in
j" but few countries today. Again and
t!_! again he used these islanders as n
b? living example of the great value of
^ i miss:? ntu y work. The evolution of
lv the mode of dressing and the making
of clothing from the bark of trees,
c_j the building of churches, the marriage'
;it customs, the loyalty and devotion of
; the ) their teachers and
M missionaries, together with some of
li( the natives music and songs, all injp
terspersed with humorous stories of
( _ the nativ wit of these people, combined
to make this number of the
Lyceum one of the most informative,
y inspiring, and worth-while numbers
* _ yet appearing.
Unfortunately the travelling bags
c_ ?f the- speaker failed to arrive in time
,.0 and he w is unable to appear in the
as costvmc of the natives. The fifth
r nun ir of tin 1924-25 course will
:r . ? .! here i.n March liith.
he
> A Well Rendered
Program At School
Auditorium Friday
ht> ' The l?I:?V s(:iL'l?d :lt tbo AlldUAriim/
?n on hist Friday evening were interim
Mi - Martha Candler looked well
tin part of the New lork society
it- woman in "Fourteen". Her intera;
pretation showed an unusual play
ty of feelings wmie unravelling a
lr. i disappointing dilemma intu a most
e- satisfactory ending. Rloise Fain cariv
tied the Butler's part with striking
0_ ] abandon and case, while Emogene
BR Axiey's indifference to distracting
conditions was quite fitting.
a Tift- artist was made especially
,jv{ strong l?y Mrs. Elbert Mallonce in
I "Famine and the Artist." Her
etj> despair by her intonation: as
a_ well as her acting was appealing.
m> Winifred Burns entered into the
e(j character of Famine in a manner
[that deserves high ommendation,
IU1 while little Louise Walker made her
as'part so pathetic that the hearers
3 _ were held in rapt attention.
?f Mrs. Mallonee and Miss Candler
. ! displayed much versatility in their
t . j rales of the "Mouse Trap". Their
er j rendition evoking ripples of laughter
ikC;fronj the audience.
as I The Cor.stumes of the six young
,rc. ladies presented avaried mass of color
(.,j in the Rose Drill and their move;u.
ments to the strains of the violin
'were rvthmically beautiful.
iat Mrs. White's experience in charact
!>t.'or s^udv was forcibly demonstrated
j in her adaptation of character selecn<j
J lions *?nd she put the performance
en jover as if she were to the "Manner
or Born"
ot
ii- Honor Roll Peachtree
Third Grade: Wcldon* Davis,
Claude Berrong.
Fourth Grade: Irene Johnson,
un Vonah Lunsford and Florence Walsh
to- ; Fifth Grade: Thelma Miller and
to Cannon Robinson.
?y- Seventh Grade: Inez Johnson,
Edgar Robinson,
le- Eighth Grade: Mertie Johnson.
R. C. TIPES, Principal. )