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would interest oth- |
that would helfl upbuild I
^E, ^owunily. .end it in.
I The Lea<
? BmC XXXVIII. Nl'MBEK 18.
:KlBLE FOUND
: IFOR BUILDING
" I NEAR MURPHY
if
)jj ft, Will ?jet Stone For Big Striae
^ ^ tare. From Own Quarries.
MB (Aiheville Timet.)
^ iJeijrh, N. I . Dec. 6.?Since the
I ^Eehcn the use of various kinds
7 fttfone has erne into vogue in
I ^|tn>ction work, it hns been the
in this state to import a
flb part ?f tiit -e materiels ol the
It quality and in sufficient quanto
meet virtually every demand.
|gge sum*, runing into the mil,
c{ dollars have been sent into
m state f"i various stone proh,
when thi- money might just
nil have taxed within the bori
of North Carolina; have saved
the builder- and have built up
K indust i \
his information is imparted in
mteznent issued yesterday by
it H. Phillips, director of the deMerit
of conservation and develpt
following a report on deposit
Birble tern North Carolina
be vicinity of Murphy by II. J.
HB of A heville state geologist,
his survey shows that marble exis
sufficient quantities in whut
town a the ".Marble Belt" to
i|jr the nerds of the entire state
in in<l? iti period and oY such
ity as be suitable for most
In* pin l oses in which stone is
L Althnuuh the existence of
hie has been known and it has
i quarried intermittently most
tombstone purposes, for years,
extent ?.t the available material
not I" a fully realized until
It test- had been made.
Alone Valley River
ffag along the basin of the VnlRivci
bout 3 1-2 miles east of
fly, the marble strntn is con tly
located. This is tapped by
Southrrn Hailwny and the new
Iwhln scenic Highway,
rings have been made in which
* found that tl ere Is almost a ,
MlGU mass of the niaterinl over
Rritorv of ton miles in length. j
i wen sunk in a strip of 300 >
wide and in some places to a \
k of 200 feet. The belt of which
feposi is a part extends in 11
toast-.- ithwest direction almost
th?- Western end of North i
Ins
i qua y. the investigation rei
that ti e marble is oi the highirade
and one of the best buildmat.
mis. Its color varies in
It frcm white to the south side
tie deposit to deep gray-blue on
Hortl: vide. The deep blue has
I used several years for tomb-|
? and some of it has been wideAipp,.
Never Exploited
'tcparations arc being made to
*?t th. marble from this terri1
on the most extensive scale yet
mipted. Other uses for which the
m will be sold are for road mad
anil .rushed stone for floor
purpose .
torn the office of the State Geo>*
a great deal of information is
"t sent to large companies which
desirous of developing marble on
tofe scale. One firm asked for
W horse-power supply of elecfty
the year round, which indi*
* Peat development for that
don of the state should it locate
CULBERSON
t v, eok a large number of pa*
and patrons enjoyed a very inThanksgiving
program ren-|
Jd by the primary' and grammar
The entertainment consiitsongs,
dramatisations and fav*
poems, all 0f which were apWate
for the Thanksgiving sea
tiry Nichols, who is a teachrral
Bloff, Go., spent the
with her parent*. Mr. end
l. Nichols.Hawkins,
Culberson station
1 Mrs. Hawkins spent Montilmta.
M,r. Coleman of
>nn., came Sunday ni*ht to
for Mr. Hawkins.
Nichols, Ouy Hyatt, and
re Hyatt, students of Ep
?lff 1
ling Weekly Newspaper in
NEW OFFICERS
i ASSUMED DUTIES
LAST MONDAY
Three Democnti and One Republican
On List?Others Succeed
Themselves
The recently elected county officers
assumed their duties Monday
morning, among them being three
j Democrats and one Republican who
i began their duties as new officers.
P. C. Hyatt, clerk of the court; j
\V. Axley. chairman. \V. T. Holland
land W. J. Martin, commissioners,
I took the oath of office before J. II.
McCnll. W. A. Boyd. Register of
Deeds, was sworn in by T. W. Axley,
| anu i?. 31. Hi re Wield, sheriff, was
! -worn in by P. C. Hyatt. A number
j oj deputy sheriffs were also sworn
in, Hayes Leatheiwnod being sworn
n as chief deputy.
George Crawford of lrnaku is
warden in charge of the jail, and
moved his family in the warden's
quarter's Tuesday. Kx-sheriff .Morrow.
who will remain as tax collectot
to collect the 19211 taxes, moved
his family into the Dickey residence
at the corner of Depot and Tennessee
streets.
Dr. .1. II Ciawford is said to be
the first Democratic coroner ever to
e elected in the county.
Wins in Maine
" m
i
Arthur L. ' Gould, 73 year old ?i
senator-elect in Maine, piled up n
big majority over his Democratic
rival In the recent election, despite v
the allegations that he, like Vare h
of Pennsylvania, and Smith of i
. Illinois, were charged with illegal f
campaign expenditures.
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Nation's Youngest? <i
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Margaret Joyce of Alma, Nebr.,
is the youngest school teacher in
Nebraska to hold i state certificate.
Only 15 years old. Miss Joyce is a h
graduate of high school and is now ..
* .LI.. !_ ~ I it
know of a younger teacher this *
newspaper would r like to receive ^
name and age. ?
<1
worth Seminary, Ga., visited their i
parents during the past week-end. j c
Miss Aileen Sherrill, a teacher in 1 h
the Culberson public, school, spent I u
the week-end in Knoxville, visiting a t
friend.
Singing is a popular recreation in ' f
this village. Within the last week ; t
two very enjoyable evenings were v
spent at the homes of Mr. John ?
Loudcrmilk and Mr. Jo Forester, I
where a large number of villagers 1
gathered to sing favorite hymns. <]
itftsr?
Western North Carolina
MURrilY, NORTH v'AIlOLI
| THEFAVORIItl WIN !
'JV
? OHAPIW ?
rHE GROWING
DEMAND FOR
HIGH CLASS
DAIRY COWS
ly V. W. Lewis, Senior Marketing
Specialist, North Carolina Department
of Agriculture, Division cf
Markets,
Being by nature well watered and
da pled to the growing of grass. it(
necessary that Cherokee and admning
counties remain interested in
ive stock.
With the advent of better roads and ,
he advance in thy price of labor and i
and it is necessary that these eoun-.
ies change their old system of ntareting
their crops, feeding hay and |
ther feeds to milk cows.
The old system of grazing a few
attle. growing a little grain and hay
s not furnishing the proper income
or meeting the obligations of the
armors of this section. While the
miking of cows is not entirely new.
miking cows for a commercial pur-'
ioso is somewhat new. The dairy
ow is u machine lor making greater!
so of the feed grown and the kind
rhich the farmer is accustomed to
rowing.
While we find the cow wherever
mn is found in the highest state of
iviliza'.ion; in most sections of the
ountry, we find the milking of cows,
11 a commerecial way. only when the !
(lhabitar.ts finii that a greater income
an be had by so doing, or are forced
o do so.
There are many sections of the
outh that should be milking cows
or the sale of milk and cream but
here are other than feed crops (
rown anil labor conditions are such
hat it is felt the handling of extra
ows would not be profitable. The
rnctiee of milking cows even in those '
ections is proving profitable; howver,
the one crop system practiced
as remained a barrier to the industry .
ip until the present time. It seems
0 me that the territory including
'herokee and adjoining counties has |
1 very bright future for the dairy inlustry.
If the farmers of this territory had
>een accustomed to the growing of
otton and tobacco, it no doubt would
lave been much harder to have built i
ip the interest that is now found in
he dairy industry in this section.
In going into this new industry,
armc-rs may be asking themselves
he question; what is going to happen
rhen every farmer in the south be- '
[ins milking cows? I have just reated
the fact that certain barriers j
imve 'obstiucted the growth of the .
lairy industry in a large portion of
1
?
?
iferr I
, Ser .ng a large and Pcrte
N'A I ! '.- .V. I.KI K.MBKI: 10. 1826.
LH SPORT
] j ' '
^ ?*>
. William Bcebe
iir^pi
vvnen Jules vcme stretched his
imagination and wrote 20 Leagues
under the Sea, people said unkind
things about his sanity. Now Win.
Bee be, Director of Research in
Now SVi'U Zoological Society plans
to dive down one mile in the Atlantic.
He will use a cylinder 8 feet
long, 3 feet in diameter that will
with-tand a pressure of l1* ton*
per >?iuare inch.
For Sale
Believing thnt sne can attain the I
heights of stardom in movie wor.d, j
but lacking financial booking. Char- ?
ler.e Mereditn of Los Angeles has i
incorporated herself for $50,000 and
i: selling stock. Dividends will de- I
pond upon her suecesa.
the south and farmers of Cherokee
and adjoining counties need not fear
that *at any near future time will
the> be confronted with a serious
problem of marketing either surplus
milk or cream.
The dairy industry in the south is
less than twenty years of age. In
North Carolina only one pound of
butter out of 1? needed for per capita
consumption is manufactured in
North Carolina is creamery hutter.
^rotrt
ntially Rich Territory in th
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ton pounds is farm butter, the other ?<l
six pounds being imported from out- j i
side the State. Ic
One of our problems in this State I
is to assist in convening a larger part 11
of this farm butter into a standard ' *>
: product, even before we are able to ^
' produce an extra quantity to take I '
I care of that now imported. For this :1
reason the creamery recently open- [ '
cd at Franklin, North Carolina, should '
be a great service to the farmers. It
will afford n market for much of the *
butter fat that has been going into *
farm butter.
As for selling good surplus cows, *
there is no need to worry as to the
market for them. Only this spring
Eastern Tennessee shipped several
cars of good milk cows to Wisconsin, 4
a state that has been engaged in the
dairy business for a number of years |
I on a very large scale.
Since the average North Carolina
I cow produces annually less than 2800
pounds of milk, which would be re!
yarded as unprofitable, one of the i
1 problems of the milk producers of 1
this State, is to raise the standard of f
i the average cow which will take con- (
siderable time. It takes several years
to build up a good high producing s
herd. , <
In many sections of the State the 1
farmers are not waiting .to breed up
their present native cattle but are dis- (
posing of them and buying better r
cows. This kind of procee<turc is |
making a market within our< own
State for large numbers of milk cows ^
each year. ^
It is hoped that such rapid progress t
will be made in Cherokee and ad- ^
joining counties that it will be im- a
possible to buy milk cows in that ^
section within a few years.
Farmers of Cherokee and adjoining
counties are to be congratulated on t
the tine start they have made i n S
dairying. Properly handled milking t
cows on the farm should mean the 1
following to the section: j e
1. More hours of profitable labor j
per day. ' b
2. A gt enter income per farm.
8. More fertile farms.
4. Better homes. '
5. A fuller developed life on the
farm.
Darkness
(By Howard HalL)
The night lies dark upon the land,
And though our life is but a span, .
Yet through the darkness we must)
travel,
If ever a mystery we should unravel. {
Life is not as sweet as a rose bed.
At length, through the darkness we're
led.
And what is it as goodness seems to
say
In our hearts and lives each golden
day
And leads us on to the life of day?
?= ==5S! AGE xhkee
MURPHY i. lb. JolAi ,
Eitrtnc Wrat.ro Nor North
Goorgio oaag Ea^ Ttna
ng i, Sarr.g br Two %PO^
iloooo ]
o -f3ur- |
tis state
6c COPY??1.50 PER YEAR
12 MONTHS OLD
HOG NETS HAYES
600 LBS. MEAT
Three Others Killed By Tomotla
Farmer?600 Pounder Was Of
Poland-China Stock
Mr. J. T. Hayes, of Tomotla, last
reek killed n hog which weighed GOO
icunds, at nearly 22 months old.
Three others were killed, which averted
200 pounds each, being only
ibout eight months old. They were
f the I'oland-China stock.
The meat of the 22 months old
tog was as tender as those which
irere only eight months old, Mr.
layes stated, nnd the finest meat he
ver tasted. Mr. Hayes is having
pnre-ribs, etc., three times a day
iow and, says that he is being re?aid
for the several hundred miles
ie walked in feeding them, the pen
ein about 100 yard from the
iouse.
The hogs were given no special
ation, but were given all they could
at "It certainly goes to show that
;?.od stock is best after all," aid Mr.
layes.
Vlashburn Boy
Died At Andrews
ANDREWS, Dec. 7.?Ned Mashturn,
seven years old, son of J. A.
ilashburn, died Monday morning
ust before dny, after an illness of
>nly a lew days. He went to school
Thursday, and took his bed on Frilay.
Complications setting up with
incumonia is said to have been the
ause of his death.
Funeral services were, conducted
it the Methodist Church Tuesday
ifter noon by Rev. J. R. Church and
V. H. Ford. Six boys of the Royal
Embassador Chapter, acted as pall
carers, as follows: Steve Adams, A.
I. Chandler, Bruert Hyde, Mac*,
iarker, Miles Henry Abernathy, and
Elbert BollumyJB Many beautiful
lowers were sent by the school
trades.
He is survived by his futher, J. A.
dashburn, five brothers: David, Jess?
lr., Milton, Ed. and Fred; two sis,ers:
Mary Willie and Annie Laurie.
Andrews Church
Adopts Unified
Budget Plan
ainuklws, uee. 7.??ln making
jlnns for the coming year, the First
Saptist Church has adopted the united
budget plan of finance, and an
svery-member canvass will be made
toon, according to information given
>ut by officials of the church here
his week.
The church has made great strides
>f progress during the past few
nonths under the leadership of its
Mistor, Rev. W. H. Ford, who has
>een here a little over eight months.
The church has received new memvers
every Sunday for the past sixl
een consecutive Sundays, 140 being
eceued during this time. The Sunlay
school has grown from 200 to
iround 400, all past records being
troken two Sundays ago with Jill
resent.
The First Baptist claims to have
he biggest prayer meeting in the
louth, attendance having gone over
he five hundred murk several times.
The highest attendance record reachd
thus far has been 532.
The prospects for this church are
right for the coming year, officials
taied.
EARLY HMfT,
Christmas
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