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Tl,e Leading W~k.y N?w.p,per in WMlm NorthCa^, Serving a |arge ^ Potenlia?y ^ T ^ VOLUME XXXVIIL NUMBER 24. ? ? ' 111 lIUS s*aie MURPKY, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927. 6c COPY? $1.60 PER VfcAh A. L. SIMONDS, AGE 66, DIED AT LETITIA A. L. Simonds, prominent Cherokee county citizen, and father of former Register of Deeds, A. M. Simonds, passed to the great beyond at his home at Letitia, N. C., Saturday, Jan uary 15th, with leakage of the heart, having died suddenly. Mr. Simonds had been in ill health for a (Treat number of years but for the last year had suffered with the disease that proved fatal. He was 6G years of age, had been a Metho dist since early childhood but recently joined the Persimmon Creek Baptist church. Funeral services were held at 'he Union church. Rev. W. D. Hogsed and Rev. K. A. Beaver conducting the ser vice. Interment was made in the Union church cemetery. Besides his widow, seven children survive him. Mrs. J. R. Atchley of .4 "ens, Tennessee; Mrs. R. V. Stiles, of Etowah, Tenn.; A. M. and Miss Klla Simonds of Muiphy; C. J. and E. L. Simonds of Akron, Ohio, and Miss Bertha Simonds of Letitia. two broth ers, Rev. W. S. Simonds of Wehutty, N. C., and J. J. Simonds of Klamath Falls, Oregon and one sister, Mrs. | Eliza Pickle.s mer of Cleveland, Ten- 1 nessee. Bank of Murphy Stockholders Meet The annual stockholders meeting of the Bonk of Murphy was held on Jan uary ..5th, in the director's room of the bank. Tb<e i*sisal ten percent dividend was declared and all officers re-elected. It was shown that the year just passed was one of the most success- i ful this bank has enjoyed, and the ! stockholders were well pleased with the prospects of the coming: year. The officers are: A. B. Dickey, president; John A. Corn and A. H. Brown, vice-presi dents; L. E. Bayless, cashier; W. W. Hyde, assistant cashier. Directors: W. W. Hyde, Porter Fain, W. M. Axley, J. E. Coburn, J. M. Vaughn, M. W. Bell, L. E. Bayless, John A. Corn, A. B. Dickey, A. J. Martin, A. H. Brown. FARMERS CO-OP ASSOCIATION MET SATURDAY On Saturday January 15th, forty four members of the Farmers' Co-op crative Association met in their an nual meeting, discussed their past year's work, the ensuing year's work and made plans to carry out a very aggressive program. Besides the discussion of the work that has been and is to be done by the members themselves, a most in structive and inspiring lecture was given by Mrs. John C. Campbell, head of the John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown. Her talk was along lines of co-operation, special ) stress being laid on the business side I of co-operation. She explained to j the association that co-operation j was the best form of business and ' Christianity. It is the best form of ! business in that it is a working to- 1 gether of the masses for their indi vidual good and also for the advan tage of all. In other words, it is the pulling together of every citizen for his individual interest and also to | benefit his neighbor. It is placing together the small capital of the in- , dividual and the small wants of the individual making capital and a big ' business which will operate for the | benefit of all. ? Clay Co. News. Father of 34 President Cootidge recently con gratulated Reuben Bland (above) of Robersonville, N. C., who claims U> be the champion father of U. S. Mr. Bland is papa to 34 children. ANDREWS BOY KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT SUN. William Dills, of Andrews, was kill ed in an automobile accident Sunday night between 8 and 9 o'clock at a point about seven miles below Rob binsvillc. He had carried two men to the Hal lahassee Power Company dam and ! was return'ng alone. From some cause unknown, the car in which he was riding turned over and caught him underneath' A short time later. Sheriff George Shuier of Graham county and another man came along and found him dead. He was identi fied by the sheriff through a notice in his pocket from the Merchants and Manufacturers Hank of Andrews. Sheriff Shuier notified Mr. Dills' family, who brought his body over Monday. Burial was held Tuesday. cw ^v^ibumt Secretary i Pboto thows Carl T. Sehtmeman. the aew assistant secretary at U. S. Treasury. He succeeds John, B. Winston who has retired. BUILDING & LOAN NEWS WHAT IS THE BUILDING AND LOAN? The Building and Loan Association is a joint stock company organized i under the laws of North Carolina and t supervised by the State Insurance Commissioner. A new series of stock >s soIJ-evc.^ six months.* The stock is j paid f<?r on the installment plan, at the rate of 25 cents per week per j share. A share has a paid up value j of $100.00. It takes slightly more than one year for a share to mature. J If a share holder allows his share to ! mature they will earn on an average I approximately six percent on the , average amount of money paid in. Its Purpose The purpose of the Building and Loan Association is primarily to build \ homes and business houses. Only stockholders can borrow of the Assor , ciation and they may borrow only up to two-third of the value of the real estate and improvements they in tend to put on the real estate. Those who do not care to build will find this a good plan for saving. Funds are paid in from week to week and are scarcely missed by those who pay them in. And almost before one realizes it he or she has accumulated a neat sum. At the same time that such a person is saving, he is also helping someone else in the commun ity build a home or a place of busi ness. This increases the value of everyone's property and creates more taxable value to help support the va rious institutions of the community. Its Wisdom Is it safe and wise to invest in the Association? The Association lends only on improved real estate and then only up to two thirds of the value of such real estate. To secure the Asso ciation the stock of the person bor rowing is made over to the Associa tion; also a deed of trust to the pfop erty and an insurance policy payable to the association is taken out by the borrowed to cover the loan. There is no possibility of loss to stockholders. It is just as safe as anything in town. Real etate continues to enhance in value and the loans become safer and safer. Stockholders in the Association not only earn six percent on their invest ment in the Association, but such in vestment is not subject to taxation. Thus funds so invested in Murphy actually earn about ten percent. What other investment offers the same degree of safety and the same high rate of return? Murphy Association Three Years Old The local organization has built or (Continued on page 5) OWNERSHIP OF HOMES BETTERS CITIZENSHIP Building and Loan Association Will Help More People Become Home Owners Home owejrshm make for a better citizenship. The ownership of real estate and of improvements on that real estate causes one to take a great er interest in every movement, civic, nioial and religiops in the community because he realizes that he is and will continue to be a part of the com- 1 munity. He, therefore, wants the community to be a better place in which to live. Dr. E. C. Branson of the faculty of the University of North Carolina ex presses this idea will in the following: words taken from a recent article of l?is in "The World's Work": He says in part: "The ownership of land tethers a man to law and order better than all the laws on the statute books. It breeds in him a sense of personal I worth and family pride. It identifies him with the community he lives in and gives him a proprietary interest in the church, the school, and other organizations and enterprises of his home town or home community. It enables him to hold his family to gether, makes him a better father, a better neighbor, and a better citizen, mainly because it makes him a stable, responsible member of society. Land less men, white or black, in town or country, tend to be restless, roving, and irresponsible; and the restless, roving, irresponsible multitudes of America are a fundamental menance to society. "These are some of the things we had in mind the other day as we jour neyed into a mid-state county of North Carolina to study the criminal dockets of the two court sessions of the last twelve months .... Of the eighty criminals convicted in Chat ham, the county we studied, sixty-six were tenants, owning not an inch of the soil they cultivated or a single shingle in the roof over their heads. The tenants are nearly one-third of the population, but- they committed more than four-fifths of the crimes. I "All assaults with deadly weapons were made by tenants, all second-de gree murders, all illegal disposals of mortgaged property, all crimes of false petense, all injuries to prop erty, all fornication and adultery, all prostitution, all cruelty to animals, all moonshining, and all reckless driv ing of cars. The tenants furnished three-fourths of the convictions for larceny and illegal recefving, four ( Continued on f>age 5) WHAT OTHER ASSOCIATIONS ARE DOING: ANDREWS B. & L. HAS BIG ASSOCIATION , With a total of 1 177 shares of i 'stock in force, representing: $117, | 700.00, Andrews has one of the larg est Building and Loan Associations in Western North Carolina, and records of the association show that the re sult of its activity is the building of a larger and better Andrews. Since it was organized in March, 1924, the association has loaned $54, <?00.00, to 30 different stockholders. Two loans in the amount of $12,000. 00 have been made on business prop erty which has added as many new business buildings to the town. Eleven loans have been made to the construction of as many new homes, n the amount of $29,100.00. The remaining loans represent money i loaned for repairs on homes, and to take care of outstanding mortgages on homes. The association has a paid up stock of $21,500, representing 215 shares, on which a dividend of 2 1-2 percent is paid semi-annually. The association has a total of 100 stock holders, and no loan on business property is made unless the building is made fireproof. "Numbers of business men- in our' town subscribe to the stock with no intention of ever borrowing," an of ficer of the association stated the other day, "but they are doing it be ! caiKe they realize it is a good thing I and that it is building the town. "We began business March 1st, I 1924, and during the time from then lo now we have never but once miss I ed having a quorum at our regular [ meetings of the board of directors. | We meet once a month on the second Monday of the month," he said, o The officers of the association are: G. B. Hoblitzell, President; C. H. Jarrett, vice-president; D. H. Ttl l!tt, secretary-treasurer, and attorney for the association; with the following as directors: W. W. Ashe, J. W. S. Davis, D. W. Swann, W. T. Holland, Z. L. Whitaker, L. B. Nichols, F. S. Wilhide and T. M. Worthey. LENOIR ASSOCIATIONS DO GOOD YEAR'S BUSINESS LENOIR, X. C., Jan. 16. ? More than $80,000 in dividends was paid to stockholders of the two building and loan associations here the first of the year. Both of these institutions have had a splendid year, and are starting out the New Year with prospects which indicate that 1927 will be an (Continued on page 4) KESLER THANKS W. N. C. BAPTISTS FOR FRUIT Rev. T. L. Sasser, secretary of the executive committee of the Western North Carolina Baptist Assoc:a;io ii in receipt of a letter from M. L. Res ler. General Manager of the Thoiuas v'lle Baptist Orphanage, thanking the people of this section for the gift of a carload of canned fruit recently sent to the orphanage, amounting to around $1,000.00. The 'Orphanage authorities are grateful for this and want the people of this section to know it. The executive committee of the as sociation is composed of T. L. Sasser, J. M. Stoner, W. J. Martin, .ind Geo, F. Hendrix. The letter from Mr. Kesler follows: Rev. T. L| Sasser, Murphy, N. C. Dear Brother Sasser: I delayed writing you until after the car of fruit arrived. It came in the other day. This is the finest thing of the kind that has ever been don*3 for the orphanage, and I want you and the other friends of the orphan age to know how we appreciate it. I wonder if you could give us the list of all who contributed to this? I know it is asking right much of you to gi\e a list of the people and the churches and the postoffices, but we would be very glad indeed to have the opportunity of thanking them for 'this splendid thing they have done for the orphanage. Perhaps you could turn this over to some one else who could do it and let us have the list. Brother Johnson is saying some thing about it this week in CHARITY AND CHILDREN. I would be glad if you would have it clipped and put in your local paper. That would help some. Most sincerely yours, . M. L* KESLER.. The clipping from Charity and Children, the Orphanage paper, fol lows: We are indebted to the churches in the Western North Carolina asso ciation around Murphy for a great gift. They asked us to furnish jars which they proposed to fill with can ned fruit. The jars were sent, and a few days ago a shipment of more than a thousand dollars worth of various kinds of fruit and vegetables arrived. We heartily thank these good friends for their splendid contribution. The pastor of the Murphy church, Rev. T. L. Sasser, is largely responsible for this fine scheme. NEW MOTOR COMPANY FOR ANDREWS The Ideal Motor Company, Inc., opened its doors to the public at An drews this week. They have secured the agency in this territory for the popular Chevrolet cars, and in addi tion to this will do repair work on all makes of cars, with special service to Chevrolet owners. The Company is headed by D. H. Mauney, of Lincolnton, N. C.f as pres ident; C. A. Rudisill, of Cherryville, M. C., vice president, and M. L. Mau ney secretary-treasurer and general manager; R. S. Porter, saleman. Mr. Mauney has moved his family to An drews and taken active charge of the jnew business, i ? T)iey have installed a complete line of repair tools which are recommenid ed by the Chevrolet people, which will make their Chevrolet service a special feature. They will also be equipped for Duco Painting service, and carry gasoline, oils, auto acces sories, etc. Henry Hullendtr,: a mechanic of about 12 years exper ience, be in charge of the repair de partment.
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