K if IT ISN'T IN I THE SCOUT jt irS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T S KNOW IT S The Official Organ of I vol .i-miTxxxvii. X.,. 14. I DOCKERY FAVORS H AN EQUAL CHANCF | FOR SHOAL CREEK Request Thai Town?hip? Sord De!e r gate* to Mut?*hy First Monday K In May To Urge Com mil sioners to Call Flection "I certainly approve of a legalized election." states J. T. Dockery in a lettl r : The Scout this week. Mr. Dockery also states that he is in favor f pivinj: Shoal Creek an equal chance with the other proposed r.i Jtes A mass meeting of the people of F." verdant Township i* to be held Apr 10th. to select representatives " i Murphy . n tho i"irsf Monin May to ursre the In,. f Commerce and the committee could not ' with him. However, he returnAsheville the first of the week . . when he is to see the committee was not learned. 5 Dodtery't Letter Mr. Dockery's letter, with a numotl em followk: GRANDVIEW, N. C. March 29. 192fi. Sditor Cherokee Scout: I certainly approve of a legalized Section in liva Of a straw ballot in i rtlng on the State Highway problem ting us with the State of Tcnssee and feci sure this is the senti-l nents "f my Township, since it has : the approval of the other contending Townships. Will say that 1 ras in conference at Unaka Saturday, i ihe 27 of this month with a number] citizens relatixe to this last plan, f votinc nnd it h;?s their heartv no-I Jroval and we are perfectly willing, 'or the Shoal Creek route to have| ?qual chance with the other Town-1 ihips in this election, I want ouri fiends Mr. McNabh with the other j lood citizens of that Township to | mow that we have no unkind feel-j ng against their Townshin. It was Kir el y from the statement of Mr. Vabater that the former proposition fas stated as it was. We have three graded roads leadng west into Tennessee, hut we can't ;et but one of these taken over at i time, so lets look for the most nrac-l :eal route and so cast our ballot. Beaverdam Township will meet in i mass meeting Saturday, April 10th > send representatives to Murphy the irst Monday in May to ask our Coun-! y Commissioners to order that thisj lection come in connection with the irimary in June. We request that our, Mphhorinp Townships do likewise and ets pet this all important question ettled. J. T. DOCKERY. IJitor The Scout: I read with much interest Mr. Mockery's plan for locating: the State lighway from Murphy, to the Ten-( .essee State line. While there is, hat about it to commend it, still it .13 its weak places. We are all more >r less selfish and would be consider*, >d fools if we didn't vote for the road > pass through our community, which 10 dpubt. each of us will do. regard-1 es of the cost to build and hard sur-, face > If I remember correctly, our locatEngineer, several months ago. ifter making a careful survey of the then three proposed routes, recommended the Hothouse route as being the shortest, easiest to our people as a whole. Now, if all our-citizens knew this to be n fact, or believed it to be so, then they would roll uo a great majority for the Hothouse Route. In studying the locating Engineer's argument for the Hothouse Route. I find every point sound, with still ethers not mentioned in his recommendation, which have since develop-; ? i (Continued on page 5) 1 m Murphy .M.d Cherokee ??*??i? ! hh?- '. t~- I i ? ttb " r flow UTS xe m \~ fri? NE*r STOC WILL JE AT NAPAM FlFi* ^ 1fiP PREM> MAKER.y AhC> THEN THE / our i n if 1 Young Harris Woman's Club To Build Club House Unique and interesting Program Carried Out At Recent Meeting Young Harris, Ga.. March 30.?The Young Harris Woman's Club is planning t erect a long cabin club house n the campus of Young Harris <~-i. lege in the immediate future, officers, of the club announced this week. Meetings have heretofore been held in the parsonage, and the announcement that a permanent club house is to be- built is hailed with enthusiasm by club workers here. The club recently held a meeting at which a rather unique and interesting program was carried nut. ?n ? , B. Tolar. President; Mrs. Harvey Caldwell. Vice-President; Mrs. Maude! Potts. Secretary; and Mrs. W. S. Mann. Chairman of Publicity. Contract Let For Filling Station On Wells Cornet It is learned this week that con-J tract was let for the erection of a filling: station on the Wells corne j by the Standard Oil Company, the! building: and equipment to cos* ap proximately $20,000. The buildi^j which now stands on the property ha^-! been sold to John H. Hall and will J he removed at once. It was not j lea rued who the contractor was. ! i>?OUt f>-.ion "*tern Ne OLMSTED'S NOVEL AT i OP OF TOBIN,' READY FOR SALE ateit Book of Former Murphy Boy"? Pen Depicts Many Scenes Of Childhood Home "At Top of Tobin" is the title of the latest creation from the pen of :tanley Olmsted, former Murphy boy d author and writer of wide renown. Many of the' scenes of Mr Olmsted's novel are laid in and around Murphy and his friends here will scan its pages with keen interest Mr. Olmsted visited in Murphy las summer at which time he announced that the book was in the hands of the printer. It was published at New York by Lincoln Mac Vcagh of the Dial Press. A descriptive folder sent out by the publisher for advanced publicity purposes gives the price at $2.50, which includes a wood cut showing the likeness of the old Methodist church building upon the hill. The book contains 497 pages. The short description given in the folder follows: "At top of Tobin,* by Stanley Olmsted, Author of 'The Noncha1aute/ The Emotionalist/ etc., A c i of the North Carolina mountains which combines the most modern photographic realism with a pronounced at 1 abiding sentimental appeal. Mr. Olmsted preserves a whole country side and a whole county full of people from the change that modern life has brought to the land of his boyhood. He has written an American novel on a grand scale. The peculiar charm of Stanley Olmsted's 'At Top of Tobin/ the big novel of the North Carolina mountains, comes in part, at least, from the fact that the novel is autobiographical. Chester is Mr. Olmsted, of course. He never grows up in the novel, but ahead of hint lies Mr. Olmsted's varied career. Pa Nat is the elder Olmsted, who started as a government clerk at $60 a month and became director of the Cuban census first statistician of his time lu Am?n ca and honorary Brigadier General in the Army. In the novel we see Molly. Chester's mother, insisting that Pa Nat go to Washington to begin th s career. Molly is the central character of the story. To her is largely due the charm of the novel, which radiates to all the characters and scenes. She is a definite creation in American fiction, an individual and a type, the lovely, canny, tenacious ambitious, dominating Scotch-It ish woman of the hills whose husband and children are inevitably moulded to her aim of bettering themselves. "Tobin Mr. Olmsted insists is no particular town, t?ut let it stand for Murphy, X. C., of which it is undoubt. edly the type. The Tobinities of the book are the mvellets or the .Murphy hills a generation or so ago, before the coming of the railroad. The society recorded is that of an older America surviving quietly in an isolated spot while most of the continent resounds with the clamor of progress As the story telis, the family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, when Chester was six years old, returning for happy interludes at home. Thereafter, Chester steps out of the novel? is no longer the character, but the author. Two years at George Wash ington University, four years music study in Europe, Director of Piano Depaitment at Ithaca conservatory Prof essor of Piano at Syracuse University, author of two novels published by Holt and Apple ton and of short stories in twentyfive magazines, atcor on Broadway writer on the Morning Telegraph and the Evening Mai:. Moving Picture! Title Writer for the Yitagraph and then Scenario Editor, author of *'The Posturer," a novelette published by Mencken in the Smart Set, and final Iv retired to his native hills to write the story of Tobin,?such is the story of Stanley Olmstt-ad "At Top of Tobin' will appeal to all who love the memories of childhood and all who delight in perceiving new aspects of the American scene, as yet so far from exhausted in our literature. It is pleasant to note the American novel turning away form the drab cynicism of the recent years. The disillusion which experience ha? brought to Mr. Olmsted does not extend to fundamentals. There is no bitterness in the tang of his irony. He knows life does not have to be prosperous to be sweet." ?<~ ADVERTISE IN THE SCOUT "IT WILL MAKE YOU RICH" 'dii Carolina 6c COPY?$1.60 PER YEAR FRAUDULENT BOOK AGENT IN MURPHY Had lamr.'ei and literature that Ap* Spearrd Genuine?Several Murphy People Victim* ; A letter received last week from J. A. Richaids, Inc., prominent pub] Iisher of New York, confirmed the growing fears of several Murphy people that they had been taken in by a ; fraudulent book agent who passed through here on Jan 20th purport, ing to be an agent of the above named I company. The man traveled under the name of J. L. Mason, although ; he endorsed checks made out to the J. A. Richards Company as J. A. i Richards and cashed them at local ! banks. Mason bad all the paraphanelia of I an agent. He displayed large pros! pectus sheets to likely customers, showed the bindings and titles under the books would be bound, possessed a supply of printed contracts in the Richards name, and when his right to represent the company was o.uestion ed, he readily showed letters addressed to him from the company. This all tended to disarm those who were , inclined to be suspicious. Mason was in Murphy on January 20th and is known to have taken orders for several sets of the books and to have collected money for them. He apparently had come down the Murphy branch from Asheville and , claimed to have taken orders for i books in all the intermediate towns It seems that he worked school principals, teaehers of English, and others in similar positions. When here he stated that the books would be delivered in three or four weeks. When this time had passed by and nothing had been heard from the books, a letter was addressed to the publishers making inquiries about the agent. The letter above referred I to disclaimed any responsibility for the actions of Mason and stated that 1 enmuanv had been on his trail fbr some time in an onutd?... apprehended and brought to justiee. Nothing has been heard of Mason since he left here on January 20th. Chero-Cola CompanyErecting Plant Here j Work began last week on the new plant of the Chero-Cola Bottling Comnays plant on Depot Street adjacent Gid Iainey's and the blackj smith shop of F. E. Palmer. The pillars were set up this week, and the building will be completed early In ! the spring. Bottling equipment will be installed for mixing Chero-Cola and other soft drinks, and the investI mcnt will be about $10,000. WILL PLANT PERMANENT GitASS j PASTURES IN CLAY COUNTY County Agent W. R. AndeTsJ.ft and J. R. Sams plan to cover the bulk of the open land in Clay County with a heavy sod of grass, according to I plans which they have begun to put [into operation. Nine permanent pasj ture demonstrations were placed a? a result of a recent visit to the couni ty by Mr. Sams. Some work was also begun in the renovation of old pastures. Mr. Sams, is advising for the county a grass mixture composed of Kentucky. Blue grass, Orchard grass. Tall Meadow, Oat grass, Timothy and Herds grass. With sweet clover and Iespedza. On the low soggp lands. I some Dallis grass will be tried. Mr. Anderson states that the Clay 'County Farmers Co-operative Associa, tion has been capitalized with a paidin capital of $1,000 with which to do ! business during the coming year. In a semi-organized way, this association | has saved over $2,000 for its members j in the last six months.?Extension ! News. Rev. Dickey Pastor At Williamston, N. C. Instead of Lagrange The Rev. C. H. Rickey is pastor of the First Baptist Church at Wiliiamston, N. C., instead of Lagrange. Ga., as was stated in an article relative to his gift of hooks to the library three weeks ago. This statement is gladly corrected.