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VOLUME XXXVIII. NUMBER 22.
MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1927.
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ANGELICOGAP
CONNECTION
elcgram From Commiwioner B??s
Sug?e*?a H Other Connection
Dftircd It Be Temporary
Mr. O. u. nicr >n, of Culberson,
member f the Cherokee county Road
Commission, received a letter last
?week from L. K. Kimsey. of Duck
tow.!, Tenn . ):- which Mi. Kimsey
gav? telvurams < xchanged ?ith Mr.
C. N. B^nS State Higl way Commis
si m .? of Tenne? - e, to the effect
th;; Vennessee would meet North
Carol*. i.-' with a state highway at the
Angela " Gap. and that if any other
eonnertinn is r. uie in the vicinity
that it only he tmporary.
Mr. Anderson displayed the letter
to meirf' -rs of the County Commis
sion in iiH ' ting here Monday, but no
acti ;i was taken, as it was desirable
to await Mr. Stikeleather's decision
in the matter.
T1 ?? t<>: -lection at Angelico Gap is
what i iinown in North Carolina as
the Ho ouso route. Mr. Stikeleather
stated i' making his decision here last
week l' it he prefejffc~&d the Shoal
Crock R utv, but that if Tennessee
would ii" I connect with this road he
would necessarily have to take the
Hot House route.
It was pointed out that this seem
ed to be final with the Tennessee au
thority - No in t urination was forth
coming tr nn the North Carolina com
nu-.-iorur ,t a late hour Wednesday.
The ti egram a^r.t Mr. Bass by
Mr. Kirisey follows:
"Are \ou still wi.'ling to nfttK* high
way connection with North Carolina
at AngfclL.- Gap? Wire Collect."
Mr. Bass replied as follows:
"Am willing to make North Caro
lina v ; r.ection at Angejlico Gap.
IT,~V- - A " ired Mr. Stikeleather, also
L that if any other connec
l ' vicinity is made, that it
W t-nnsacting the regular
^ P iness, W. Ii. Martin, of
reefa, was seated as a member of
commission from Beaverdam
? wKii?hip. Mr. Martin succeeded
Gtorge Oawford, who resigned to
accept the wardenship of the county
jail.
WHY FARM BOYS
LEAVE HOME
KALRIGH, N. C., Jan. 6. ? The a ver
ve farm boy wants some money of
ka own. He must either make this
tt?ney or ask his father for it and
&s largely explains why many of j
lie stunfeest boys reared on farms J
We the home place for the city and I
Wn.
"Therefore the farm boy should be
Ude a partner in the farming busi
es and be given an opportunity to
*n money of his own," says L. R.
4rrill, club leader at State College,
"ienerally the most successful busi
>68 men take their sons into the
*nness and give them certain re
tmsibilities for which they are paid,
kn the young man is made a man
ifer or an assistant manager and the
Vs learns to lorve the business and
believe in its future. But com
Ite that with the farm life which i
*sts on the average farm. The boy j
^requied to labor for the father and
Is little r?tnw? except such as hia
*her doles out from time to time."
?^r. HarriH states that the great
? gift that the father can make to
I farm boys is responsibility, be
*se in this, the boy has the oppor
^ity to develop himself. He may
*er become a good farmer but he
J at least have the opportunity to
V himself and to learn what he cfm
?best. He will never do this until |
*hes the chance to think and act'1
J himself. Fully fifty percent *f
i g farm boys leave home without '
THE KNOXVILLE CONNECTION
Map shows two nearest eonnections from Murphy with highway No. 10
and Knoxville. One leaves No. 10 at Topton, and the other Near Whittier
and Bryson City. The Topton connection gives travel from the South wish
ing to go to Knoxville a direct connection with that city and to build another
connection over the Beaverdam route from Murphy would not materially
shorten the distance to that city, was one of the arguments advanced by
Mr. Stikeleather when the Beaverdam route was eliminated.
THE CHATTANOOGA CONNECTION
This map shows the connection with Chattanooga now being sought by
both North Carolina and Tennessee, which has been selected in Cherokee
County by the State to the junction of Hothouse and Shoal Creek roads.
At Chattanooga the route would intersect the great Dixie Highway, runn
ing north and south, which is one of the most widely known routes in the
United States. This connection would also open a route from the Mississip
pi Valley, and South and Middle West sections into Western North Carolina,
making Murphy the southern gateway and clearing point for a vast amount
of traffic entering and leaving Smoky Mountain National Park. With a
connection already to Atlanta and the South over the Appalachian
Scenic Highway, this connection with Chattanooga will undoubtedly
mean much not only to Murphy and Cherokee County, but all Western
North Carolina as well, and is being sought by the highway departments of
both states.
knowing of the advantages of the
farm and country life, and it is not
always the boy's fault.
Club work offers young men on the
farm an opportunity to learn facts
about farm life that they can get in
no other way, states Mr. Harrill. Club
work does for the farm boy what the
boy scout organization does for the
city boy with the addition that it
teaches him facts tbout his calling.
In club work, the boy is taught lead
ership, initiative, skill and citizen
ship. He is given practical informa
tion about farming "and he is more
ready for a partnership in the farm
ing business because of such train
ing.
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH BEING
RENOVAIED
?
The interior of the Presbyterian
Church is being thoroughly renovated
this week. The wood work is being
repainted, the plastering repaired and
the walls doubled calcimined, and the
floor finished. This work is being
done during the interim while the
chruch is without a pastor. E. G.
Clary, who has had charge of this
pastorate for over two years left the
first ;of December for Smyrna, Ga.
Dr. Anderson of the Cherokee Pres
bytery of North Georgia is coming
on the fifth Sunday in this month to
look over this field and may be called
to fill the pastorate.
NEW AUTO
PAINTSHOP
BEING BUILT
A new automobile paint shop on
Hiawassee Street on property of C.
B. Hill is now nearing completion.
The building is of frame construc
tion, covered with sheet iron and is
being built by Messrs. R. S. Parker
and Edward Hyatt. The latter ex
pect to conduct a general paint shop
in the building, giving special atten
mw PB *v . HHHMH mSsmSSnSm
Mvai vv nut. VI aukvtuwwuvo
by the DOco process. Ths is the
only busness of its kind in Murphy
and should be a successful venture.
Miss Thelma James and little broth
er, of Louisville, Ky., spent the holi
days with their aunt, Mrs. Florence
Moore, of Murphy.
Taachar: "What is the nreaning o t
the word 'matrimony,' Robert?"
Robert: "Please, mis*, my father
says it isn't a word; it'i a sentence."
N. C. DIRECTOR
REHABILITATION
WORK HERE
Ccrpening Makes Tour of Inspection
Cases Under State Supervi
sion in Cherokee and Clay
Counties
MURPHY, N. C., Jan. 7. ? Assis
tant Director N. C. Corpening of the
Division of Civilian Rehabilitation of
the Department of Education has
been in Cherokee and Clay Counties
this week following up cases now un
der training in this department and
investigating any new cases that may
have developed since his last visit
late in the summer. After spending
several days in the county Mr.Corpen
ing stated that he had the following
cases under his supervision at this
time:
F arris Bryson of Unaka, for whom
an artificial leg was purchased. Mr.
Bryson is getting along very nicely
with his new limb, it was reported. It
is expected that it will increase his
efficiency in earning a livelihood.
N. N. Clark of Murphy, R. 3, the
lower part of whose leg has been dis
eased and giving trouble since the
age of twelve years. Mr. Clark is
now 45 and has a large family. Some
time ago he was sent to the clinic al
Waynes vi lie for examination and then
to the Mission Hospital at Asheville
where he received treatment from
Dr. Edward King, orthopedist. Mr.
(Mark was cured without a surgical
operation.
,A recent case is that of Frank
Woody of Marble, who is deaf and
dumb. He is about 25 years of age
; and "operates a water-driv ja >orrc mill.
? which he designed and built himself.
1 The Rehabilitation division plans to
j give Mr. Moody a special examination
I in the hope that his hearing may be
?improved and then it is proposed to
?send him to the deaf and dumb school
at Morganton to be taught lip read
ing, etc.
There are a number of other indi
viduals in Cherokee County who have
been given new limbs or medical at
tention and trained for occupation in
which they could better earn a liv
ing.
Mr. Corpening stated that there
were four cases now under observa
tion in Clay county. Three of these
are cases which have received pre
liminary attention. Hiere was one
new case in Clay, Fred Moore of
Haysville, who is now a senior in
the Haye?ville High School. He has
lost a leg. The State proposes to
give him an artificial limb and then
when he has graduated from high
school to send him to Cecil's Business
College, where he will take training
for secretarial work. By means of
this training, Mr. Moore thinks he can
later work his way through one of the
colleges of the state and become a
teacher in the public schools.
John Rhinehart and Fred Dale are
waiting 'until there is available space
in a hospital, so that they might enter
for treatment.
The fourth case in ?Clay is
Rene Hall, now a student in the
Warne High school. She expects to
continue in school and then be given
vocational training of some kind.
Mr, Corpening stated that his divi
sion had no money for conducting
clinics or providing hospitalization for
cases. The clinic which has been con
ducted at WaynesVille on the fourth
Saturday in each month was made
possible through the willingness of
Dr. King of Asheville to give his ser
vices free. It was announced that the
clinic at Waynesville had been dis
continued for the present, however,
and those who need such attention as
the rehabilitation division can offer
should attend the clinic in Asheville,
which is held at the Biltmore Hos-?
pital the fourth Saturday of each'
month. It was stated that it was ex
pected that another clinic would be
opened in Bryson Ciy early in the
summer. i
The only hospital space now a vail J
BANNER YEAR
IN 1927 SEEN BY
PRESIDENT
Coolidge Is Confidence Nation Faces
Another Twelve Months of
Unbroken Prosperity
(Written especially for The Cherokee
Scout, by Robert Fuller.
Presidetit Coobdge believes 1927
will be a banner year and that the
business of the country is fundamen
tally sound.
His information, coming from the
Government sources, leads him to see
continued prosperity during the com
ing year. All the signs, as he reads
them, arc favorable.
Among the things leading him to
this viewpoint are increase in employ
ment recently reported in New York,
Pennsylvania and some of the indus
trial states, the plentiful supply of
capital for manufacturing enterprises
and the low surplus of manufactured
articles.
IAt present prosperity exists in all
parts of the country except the wheat
i and cotton sections, the President
| fiinds, and he believes the South will
I be able to emerge from the presnt de
! pression resulting from low cotton
prices.
Work in general in plentiful, the
President understands, and the peo
ple are receiving high wages which
are being spent generously so that
production is being stimulated.
Railroads are in good condition, he
thinks, and contracts for new equip
ment next year will aid business.
Manufacturing, the President is in
formed, is producing at far better
than the average ratl*.%
But the President recalls that dire
predictions of business depression
made by some at the begin
ning of 1926 were never realized
and points to this as proof that pre
dictions do not always materialize.
But the signs, as he sees them, poinl
to continued good business in 1927.
AMERICAN MONEY
GOES ABROAD
American investments abroad in
1926 yielded a return of nearly
$600,000,000, Federal Reserve Board
and Commerce Department figures
indicate.
Dividends and interest on foreign
holdings in 1925 were given by the
Commerce Department as $520,000,
000, and the securities, industrial and
governmental, publicly floated in this
country as $10,405,000,000.
The figures for 1926 indicate an in
crease in American holdings abroad
of about $1,250,000,000 in publicly
floated and private investments, mak
ing the total mount to about 5
000,000,000.
One of the most significent .
tures of these foreign holdings is J
the heaviest investments in
ventures are in Latin-./
cials regard Latin-,
tially the best