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The Leading Weekly Newspaper in Western North Carolina, Serving a large and Potentially Rich Territory in this
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VOLUME XXXVIII. NUMBER 25.
MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. JANUARY 28, 1927.
6c COPY? $1.60 PER YEAX
C.-T. POWER CO. I i
ADVERTISING FOR1
MORE INDUSTRIES
Campaign Being Conducted in Na- ;
tionally Known Magazines
Feature Opportunities of
Murphy
T it t!-i' Carolina-Tennessee Power
Company, owners of large undevelop
ed electrical power rights on the
,t: ^.ee j{U i.r near Murphy, is con
I' ducting an advertising campaign in
a number of nationally known and
circulated magazines for the sale of
large blocks of hydro-electric power,
wn8 ieal this week in a letter
M. Fain, f >rmer mayor, from
Mr W. V. N. Powelson, president of
ith main offices in
\
, , . . || any seeking: to attract 1
corporat ins of I gh financial respon
sibility to the opportunities offered |
manufacturers in this section. The I
advertisement appeared in the De- 1
cember issue <?<" "The Iron Age," and
'.rill sp?cr.v ::: the January issues of j
three other magazines of national j
cirri! 1st'" n
The letter from Mr. Powelson fol
lows :
January 15, 1927.
Mr. W. M. Fain,
Murphy, X. C.
Dear Mr. Mayor:
I onc!??se herewith, as an example
of my tirort to bring Murphy to the
attention of industries, a reprint of
an advertisement that appeared in the
IRON AGE of December 30th. A
similar advertisement will appear in
the next issues^ of the following na
tional magazines:
Iron Trade Review
Industrial and Engineering Chem
I istrv
Chemical & Metallurgical Engi
neering.
I remember the very attractive
folder that you got out advertising
Murphy when you were in office. The
enclosed advertisement of Carolina
Tennessee Power Company supple-'
ments what you did. It has in it,
however, a punch that you and the
Board of Commissioners were not in
a position to put in yours in that it
contains a definite proposal to fur
nish power to large industries of the
necessary financial responsibility. I
am putting in a great deal of time on
this w< rk with the heads of industries
rod I hope that a great deal of time
*ill n ; pass before the skies clear
and the people of Murphy get what
wey hav< been looking for so long a
time.
With b< st wishes to you and yours,
I remain
Sincerely your friend,
W. V. N. POWELSON,
The advertisement is 7x11 inches,
and featured the possibilities and
opportunities of Murphy and this sec
tion. It follows:
LARGE BLOCKS
? HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER
I FOR SALE
I In the Heart of the South
Unusual Opportunity to Secure
Blocks of Power for Electric j
Furnace and Other Operation* I
Molina-Tennessee Power Company I
the owiier of a large undeveloped j
power on H:awassee River in
Western North Carolina, in Cherokee
C?unty near Murphy, North Carolina.
will be prepared to develop this
|Po*er to supply new industries who
M*iay desire to locate in that vicinity
f!*Soon as an 'n*ti?l power market has
created of sufficient size to jus
jr*y ^ie investment in its initial de
jplopment.
R Murphy is on the Louisville &
(?ashv.lle Railroad and on the South
Railroad in a line drawn from
oxville, Tennessee, to Atlanta,
about 100 miles north of
Uanta and 60 miles south of Knox
^vDe.
*AiLMurPhy t*l?re are lar8e deposits
ore, quartzite and limestone,
It; SKHMWVttC-'StMfe. X
Seventeen years ago Lilly M.
Hansen obtained a position as
stenographer at $10 per week in
the Kimbell Trust Co. of Chicago.
Working by day, studying by night,
her reward came last week when
she was made vice-president.
Signs Going Up
Rapidly On N. C.
Routes 10 and 20
RALEIGH, Jan. 17. ? Road gangs
of the Noith Carolina highway com
mission are fast completing the task
of erecting new and permanent high
way signs on loutes No. 10 and 20.
The new signs, made of metal and
painted with waterproof paint, will
take the place of the old wooden mark
ers used for two years. The new ones
are made of iron plates about one
, eighth of an inch thick. The letters,
i figures and borders on the signs are
; die cast, and raised.*' Black betters ap- ;
pear on a yellow background.
Curve signs are placed on all
curves of four degrees or more; "S
I curve" signs on all series of curves
with a tangent distance or straight
section between curves, less than 300
feet long; and route numbers are
placed one-half mile apart, alternat
ing from one side of the highway to
the other.
State trunk highways which be
come units in a national highway are
assigned Federal numbers. For in
stance, No. 20 routed from Wilming
ton through Charlotte, Gastonia and
Shelby, to Asheville, Marshall and Hot
Springs, becomes No. 74 in the na
tional system. No. 10, from Reau
ford to Murphy, is designed No. 70
in the national system of highways.
No confusion will result from this
double designation, officials stated.
National markers will probably be
placed on federal highways. They
will be finished in different colors
| from the state route signs.
and nearby at Copper Hill, Tennes
see, are large supplies of copper, sul
phuric acid and iron sinter, a by
product of the copper smelters which
contains about 68 per cent metallic
iron, free of phosphorus. Near Knox
ville are large coal mines and many
coke ovens. There is an abundance
of intelligent white American born
labor in this mountain region and
good concrete roads. North Carolina
is one of the most prosperous and
enterprising States in the Union, the
laws of which encourage and protect
sound business enterprises.
The combination of pujwer, labor,
water, raw materials and climate at
this location offers most favorable
opportunities for the establishment of
industries for the manufacture,
among other commodities, of
Alloy Steel ? Electrolytic Product?
Electric Steel ? Ferro-alloys ? Elec
tro-tliermal Product* Textiles
Corporations of high financial respon
sibil'ty who can use large blocks of
electric power to manufacture any of
the above products are invited to
communicate with ? W. V. N. POW
ELSON, President.
CAROLINA-TENNESSEE POWER
COMPANY
40 Wall St. New York City.
WHO HAS I
READ THE SCOUT ;
LONGEST?
Several weeks ago a proposition1
was made to give the five subscribers ,
who had read The Scout longest with
out interruption a year's subscription
to this paper. A number of letters
have been received, some have al
ready been published, and other- fol
low. How lone- havg von bven read
ing The Scout?
Postell, N. C., Jan. 22, U>27.
Editor Scout:
1 have been taking The Scout for
thirty-six or thirty-seven yuars. 1
subscribed to the Bulletin and The
Scout at the same time, one a Repub
lican and the other a Democrat paper
at the time. The Bulletin was run
by A. A. Campbell and The Scout by
Don Towns. Campbell died and when
he died the Bulletin just stopped, but
(Continued on page 4?
CLAY
CHIMNEY
TRAIL
O
Gripping Story of
the Early West
By EDWIN L. SABIN
Former books by this zreat Ameri
can writer are " Circle k. ' 44 The City
of the Sun.'9 44 Bar H." and 44 White
Indians. Yon will enjoy 44 Clay
Chimney Trail. "
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BEGINS NEXT WEEK IX
The Cherokee Scout
Slio stared, round-eyed.
"I reckon you're a gambler!" she
accused.
"I am seeking health in the West,"'
I said, "where the climate is high and
dry."
"My Gawd!" she blurted. "High
and dry! You're goin' to the right
place. For all 1 hear tell, Benton is
high enough and dry enough. But
laws sakes, you don't need to go that
fur. You can as well stop off at
North Platte, or Sidney or Cheyen
ne. They'll sculp you sure at Benton
? unless you watch out mighty
sharp."
"How so, may I ask?"
"You're certainly green," she ap
prised. "Benton's roarin' ? and 1
know what that means. Didn't North i
Platte roar? 1 seen it at its begin- j
nin's. My old man and me, we were
there from the fust, when it started
in as the railroad terminal. My
sakes, but them were times! Gambl
in\ shootin', drinkin' and high-cock
alorums night and day ! 'Twasn't no
place for innocence! Easy come,
easy go, that was the word.
See Next Weeks Seoul and Go On
With the Story.
to Fortune
IA^tocavtep)
George Young, 17 year old Cana
dian swimmer, who by his preat
feat in the Catalina channel swim
won $25,000, is now besieged with
theatrical, movie and athletic offer*
which promise to net him a fortune
far beyond his wildest dreams.
Clay County Coming
To Forefront With
Road and Schools
(The Asheville Time#)
Hayesville, Jan. 1">. ? Though the
little county of Clay has for years
been greatly isolated, tho advent of
good roads and the establishment of
the county unit system of schools has
not only drawn attention to this pros
perous and progressive section, but
has actually awakened Hayesville citi- |
zens to a realization of the fact that J
prospects for future development in |
Clay will compare favorable with
those of most of the counties in West-,
ern North Carolina.
According to Mr. Allen J. Bell, |
superintendent of the county schools,
there is a general awakening among
the people of this county on account
of road construction work now being
done here by the state highway com
mission. Highway No. 28, leading
from the Cherokee county line
through Clay to the Macon line is
i practically all graded. This road
passes through Hayesville, the county
seat, and from this point No. 9 leads
to Hiawassee, Ga. When it is com
pleted travel may be directed around
through Franklin, BVevard, to Ashe
Iville, to return on No. 10 via Frank
lin, Bryson City or Murphy.
Beauties of Clay
Mr. Bell, who has held the position
of county superintendent for the last
-ix years, said that, though Clay is
one of the smallest counties in the
state, it is in a position to get more,
proportionately, from highway con
struction and in the county unit sys
tem of schools than any other county
| owing to the unique geographical sit
uation it holds. The beautiful Hia
wassee river traverses the county, and
the large warter courses of Shooting
i Creek, Brasstown, Tusquittee and
i Fires Creek con-join in such a way
as to make Hayesville an ideal loca
tion for a county metropolis. Indeed,
the 220 square miles of beautiful high
land territory, with the high moun
tains of Tusquitee, Bald, Stumpy Gal,
Hightower, and Standing Indian,
which has a 6,000 feet elevation, sur- \
round a picturesque valley of fertile
fields and gently sloping divides. From
this springs the popular saying here
abouts, "All county roads lead to j
Hayesvilie." j
Splendid Schools
Clay's population is only 4,646, but j
her property valuation is $2,389,397. !
The school enrollment is 1,543, scat- |
tered though thirteen public schools. I
The three schools doing high school 1
work are: The Hayesville high school, .
which has twelve teachers under the ,
direction of A. H. Shuler; the Shoot
ing Creek ^school, under the direction
of Parks Prickett; and the Ogden
school, of which P. C. Pipes is prin
cipal.
Clay count was established in 1862.
It was named in honor of Henry Clay,
and not as many think, for the fin^
variety of clay that is known to be
in rich deposits in the Hiawassee val- i
PUBLIC HEALTH
NURSE FINISHES
SURVEY HERE
Miss Hobbs Examines 350 Elementary
Pupils and Reports To Parents
and State Interesting;
Miss Cleone Hobbs, public health
nurse from the state department of
health Raleigh has just completed
an examination of the school child
ren lu the local schools and made her
report to the parents and the school
officials. Miss Hobbs examined the
eyes, ears, teeth and throats of the
children and tested we'ghts with the
standard height-age standards for the
country- as a whole.
Miss Hobbs examined only the
children of the elementary schools.
A summary of her findings follows:
Number of children examined 350;
hearing defective 7; vision defective
76; throat defective 213; teeth de
fective 182; other defects 74; under
weight 87; overweight 11. The na
t onal rate of underwcightness is
about 20 percent, 'ihe rate here is
nearly 25 percent, or nearly five per
cent hijrher than for the country as
a whole.
A ca^d stating the defects of each
child i/xn mined was sent to the pa
rent; >y the children in the hope- 4 hat
the ? nrents would have the dele
renu ed. As the report shows, the
greatest numbers of defects was with
the throats; usually caused by l>atC
tonsils and adenoids. It is compara
tively simple operation to correct
these defects and Miss Bobbs express
ed the hope that the parents would
have the corrections made.
i The Mission Study and Social meet
ing of the Methodist Missionary So
ciety met Tuesday afternoon, Jan
uary 18th, at the home of Mrs. J. H.
McCall.
The devotional services were open
ed with a prayer by Mrs. McCall.
Several members of the society made
very interesting talks about the Mex
icans, Cubans, and Italians, after this
Mrs. E. S. Miller sang several solos,
she was accompanied at the piano by
Mrs. Koios.
During the social hour a delicious
i salad course was served by the host
I ess. She was assisted by Mrs. Holt
I and Mrs. Miller.
Five silver trophy cups will be
j awarded by merchants and bankers of
Halifax for the greatest production of
; corn per acre in the upper part of
Halifax County this year.
This will be a good year to know
more about how to grade tobacco.
I The State College of Agriculture is
offering a free short course on the
[subject on February 8, 9 and 10.
ley. Hayesville bears the name of the
county's first state representative,
George Hayes.
Illustrious Citizens
This county has given to the state
many illustrious citizens. Dr. George
W. Truitt, noted Baptist minister, was
born and reared a few miles from
| Hayesville. Col. G. H. Haigler, a re
spected citizen of the county, has
spent 51 years here. He organized
the Clay County bank 17 years ago,
and has been its cashier and a direc
tor since that date. He is now 73
years old. He was one time county
superintendent of schools. He mar
ried Miss Mollie Pass of Clay. They
have nine children.
Sheriff Ed Kitchen is one of the
most fearless and popular officers in
the western part of the state. He is
40 years old, tall and erect, with easy
bearing, but he possesses a natural
firmness which inspires confidence.
He was elected sheriff four times in
succession was out one term and was
again re-elected last November. His
duties are manifold, as he is ex-officio
tax collector, and jailer. At the
time, however, his work as jailor is
"nil," as no one has been imprisoned
| for some time.