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The Leading Weekly New.p.pe, in We.Um North CoKna, Serving a ^ PotentialIy Rich Te?itory ? ^ state VOLUME XXXVIII. NUMBEK 30. MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 4,^19277 6c COPY ? SI. 60 PER YEAH C.-T. POWER CO. GIVEN CHANCE TO BUILD DAMS | Communication From Chairman Sut ton Made Public ? Review of Hearing Given Word ?as received from Raleigh ' la*; Friday that the Committee on Judiciary No. 2 of the House of Rep resentatives had decided against the proposed legislation which would have required the Carolina-Tennessee Pow er Company to begin actual construc ts work within twelve months and to prosecute the work to a rapid com pletion or subject itself to an action looking to the forfeiture of its char ter. This decision, according to the I chairman, was predicated upon the | opinion of the Committee that the I power company should given an il other chance to make pood, and in I tfmated that if it failed to do so by I the next session of the General As [ sernbly, proper action could be taken I at that time. Th(? decision came as a result of a hearing in Raleigh, Friday, February l?rh. on a bill introduced in the Hon < to amend the Charter of the Carolina-Tennessee Power Company by requiring it to begin construction of its dams in Cherokee within twelve months and push the work to a rapid completion, or subject itself to an action in the Courts of Cherokee for repeal or forfeiture of its charter. Petitions signed by many citizens of Cherokee along with numerous tele grams asking for this legislation were presented to the Committee. Mr. \Y. V. N. Poweison* president , i of the power company spoke to the committee for some minutes, and cit ed the lack of a market for electrical power in this section as an excuse for not going ahead with the devel opment. Mr. Poweison stated that he had contracts with northern bank ers wherein they agreed to furnish the capital for the building of these dams upon his being able to show them that he had contracts for the power. He stated that he hud had engineers in the south to make cer tain reports and investigate the prob ability of disposing of a part of his power to other near-by power com panies, etc., and that th^se power companies would not agree to take any power. Mr. Poweison informed the committee that he would begin actual construction of his dams the minute he was able to secure the necessary contracts for power, and that in an effort to secure users of power, he had inserted advertisements in several magazines. (Some of these magazines were sho\tfn members of the Committee, mos^t of them bear- j inj; date as of December, 1926. ( Mr. Powelson wa^ followed by one J of his engineers who stated that he had been instructed) by Mr. Powelson , to investigate the J possibility of dis posing of a part ou the power that the Carolina-Tennessefe Power Company toight produce, ito other southern Power companies^ and to investigate lie demand for flower etc., and that lie made these investigations and filed a report with Mr. Powelson in April, 1925. He was asked why it was that Mr. Powelson had waited from the filing of his report, April 1925, until December 19^6, to begin advertising for prospective users of power. The witness state j that he did not know. He was theri asked how many horse power woulj have to be contracted before the company would be war ranted in gjing ahead with the devel opment, ai,d replied that fifty thou sand horstpOWer would be necessary. \-ked if -.here ^"as any one concern m North Carolina using that much, he xtate<; he did not know unless it Was th<; Aluminum Company of Americ:,. He stated that such a con cern as the Aluminum company or i thirty Dr thirty five of the larger sized [ c?tton mills would have to 1 sate in i (Continued on page 8) | POULTRY CAR AT MURPHY ON MARCH EIGHTH I North Carolina Department of Ag-j riculture, Division of Markets, Ra leigh, N. C., Feb. 28th, 1927. Dear County Agent: The following are poultry prices cash to farmers for loading week end ing Saturday March the 12th: Colored Hens, 23c per lb. Leghorn hens, 21c per lb. Cocks, 10c per lb. Stags, 15c per lb. Ducks, 20c per lb. Geese, 11c per lb. Turkeys, 22c per lb. Guineas, 35c each. Eggs, subject to market quotations. We have by-laws for forming a poultry association also by-laws for forming a farmers exchange or busi ness organization for selling or buy |ing for fcjrmers. COPIES SENT ON REQUEST. The exchange plan is simply a service organization, the cost of operation being placed on the commodities handled. County Agents having such an exchange havewon dered how they got along without it up to the present time. Something! of this kind is absolutely necessary to properly handle eggs, the organiza- 1 tioii being responsible for receiving, I grading and packing same. Selling will then be comparatively easy. Yours very truly. V. \V. LEWIS, Senior Marketing Specialist. | TELEGRAM Salisbury, N. Car., 1. L*.. W. Gray, County .\yont Mur pttf , X. C. ? Scheduled next loading, ,fffease advertise point, your county: j Hayesville March eighth to one i\ M.; Murphy all day Tuesday. March pick up Andrews, Topton, Almond ; local freight Wednesday morning; Bryson City afternoon Wednesday; pick up Whittier Thursday morning local freight; Sylva balance day Thursday; Franklin forenoon Thurs day, send Sylvia by truck; prices: heavy fowl 23; light fowl 21; cocks 10; ducks 20; turkeys 25; eggs 18c dozen cased. L. C. SALTER, State Division of Markets. | A Punk Fight Nevertheless -Above is Jim Moloney, latest Boston strong boy, with a black eye and a $40,000 smile after beating the famed Jack Delaney in a very punk fight of Tex Riekard's 'tourney to find a sujnmer opponent for Tunney. Maloney is bound to Ike in the news, therefore we thought yon would like to see what he looked like. Insert,* Delaney taking a left on the jaw. URGES PATRONS TO COOPERATE IN CITY DELIVERY Postmaster Dickey, In Statement, i Says It Is Necessary That Every body Be Ready April 1st The Post Office Department has authorized delivery service to our city, effective April 1st, on the fol lowing: conditions: That each family on streets where delivery will be made have slot cut in front door or recept acle on porch. If your home is more than fifty feet from the street, you can erect a box on the street, or with in fifty feet of the street, and the car rier will serve you. Also the patrons are required to register at the Post Office and give the names of all the parties who will receive mail in your box; also give your street and number of your house. It is necessary that your house' be plainly numbered on front door, if possible. Any one liv ing in the vicinity where mail is de livered by the carrier can be served if they erect a box on the route. It seems the patrons are indifferent in this matter up to date. There have only four families come up to the Post Office Department's require ments. It soeins this is a very im portant matter and that all tin- people should pull together and put this mat ter over. It will largely depend on the first month's showing. The Post Office Department has or dered our office to keep a str ? t count of every piece of mail that i- handled by the carrier during the month of \pril and report May 1st. I am confident the people <?f our town want city service, hut tin y are c areless. It is less than thirt days I until the service is efft ctive and only \ four families are ready. Let every body get busy and get ready. If we do not, in my judgment, the Depart ment will discontinue the service in May. It is something to be proud of. as there are only thirty cities and towns in the state of North Carolina that have city delivery. You see we are right up with all the best towns in our State. If the patrons will co-operate with me and my office force, we will put this delivery service over in grand shape, but it will be a failure unless everybody gets busy. Mail for all business concerns will be delivered in their places of busi ness. The following routes will be served by carriers: Through East Murphy as far as Col. D. Witherspoon's residence, and the street by A. H. Brown's A. M. Krittain's and others. Tennessee street to W. P. Payne's and then to Fain's Mill, and to the old home of G. M. Laney in Factory Town. Through Beal Town to Ed Killian's near Sycamore Lane. To Hospital and returning by Dr. W. S. Mc Comb's, P. H. Sword and others, com ing in Valley River Avenue near James Palmer's, and all business sec tions of the city including the near in > streets. I I will he greatly disappointed if at| least one hundred and fifty families j do not register their names with me 1 next week . A. B. DICKEY, Postmaster. SISSTER OF W. M. WEST DIES IN TENNESSEE, Mr. W. M. West was called to Ath ens, Tennessee, last Friday to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Octava Welch, who died in the hospital in Knoxville, after a brief illness. The defused was a native of Cherokee coMty and has many friends and ac quaintances here, but for many years has been a resident of Athens. She is survived by her husband, S. O. Welch, who is now and has been for several years the city marshal of Ath ens, also a son, Elmer Welch, now employed as druftpist in Knoxville. Funeral services were held in the M. E. Church in Athens, after which the body was interred in the city cem CHEROKEE MFG. CO. CONDUCTING UNIQUE SALE Bargain Sale Announcement! Im mediately one thinks of dry poods, clothing, shoes, notions, etc., with clerks busy waiting on customers, darting in and out from behind count ers gayly bedecked with such goods and placarded. One would never dream of a bargain sale where the mustomer had to march from shed to shed, in and out among stacks of lum ber, doors, windows, roofing, etc. No sir, one never imagined such a sale, much less dream of one. The Cherokee Manufacturing Com pany had never heard of one. Who ever heard of one? But this company is conducting just such a sale, and R. F. Williamson ? "Bob", as he is more familiarly known ? the manager, says he is well pleased with the results ob tained during the first few days of this unique undertaking. "A sale of this kind may be new , to you," (the public) read their ad vertisement, "but we like to be dif ferent." And different it is. It also stated that they were not "going out of business" and did "not have to make room for new spring stock," but merely wanted to "glean a littb* cash" while their customers were j given a chance to make some "actual i and visible savings." The sale began j March 1st, and ends March l~?th. I Mr. Williamson says he has had no I "rush" for the "bargain counter" and has hired no extra clerk help, but re sults are being obtained just the ! same, and the customers :;re getting j some bargains they had n ? hitherto ! looked for. ..>? GRAHAM COUNTY HAS NEWSPAPER The Graham County News made it^ initial appearance Tuesday, March 1st, under the management of C. B. j Lane as Editor and Manager, and | promises to "tell the world" of Gra ham county's advantages and oppor tunities. Graham county, often referred to as the "lost province," and long iso lated from the rest of the world by mountain barriers, is "lost" no more, and the people are rejoicing that great strides of progress are being j made, and that the county is now in the front ranks of the extreme west ern counties of the state. Millions of dollars are pouring into the county as a result of the large developments of the Alumnium Company of Ameri ca in building dams, reservoirs, elec trical energy, generating plants, etc. The progress of the county has been remarkable. A few years ago the first step was taken, when the State highway system penetrated the fastness of Graham, and built a road j from Topton to Robbinsville, a road offering scenic effects of grandeur and variety hardly equalled anywhere in ' all Western North Carolina. Then came the railroads ? almost simultaneously lines entered Graham from Maryville, Tenn., and from Top ton ? the county's first railroads. It is the Topton road, however, that means most, for it goes directly to the county seat. Next came the county's first bank, opened a few months ago, with de posits ? in coin and ciirrency ? of $15,000 the first day. And, along with its other progress was the build ing of two fine new school buildings, together with consolidation as rapidly as road and housing facilities would permit. The latest step is a newspaper ? Graham county's first. It was felt by progressive citizens cf the town of Robbinsville and of the county etery, attended by a large concourse of friends and sympathizers. J. N. West of Chattanooga, and I. M. West of Patrick, N. C., were also in attend ance at the funeral of their sister. LOCAL FIRM BUYS STOCK OF A. J. BURNS Payne And Wofford Assumed Charge This Week Contemplate I ncor porating Payne & Wo f fori purchased the stock of goods of A. J. Burns at the L. & N. depot, leased the building for a number of years, and took charge this week, it was learned. They will continue to operate the business on the same basis, handling proceries, feed, fertilizer and crossties Payne and Woflford formed a part nership the first of the year and ' J erate a wholesale and retail store across the Valley River, also. Both stores will be operated, and it is un derstood that they contemplate in corporating in the near future. Messrs. Payne and Wofford are well and favorably known, being among the leading business men of Murphy. Mr. Payne has operated successful general merchandise, feed and crosstie business across Valley River for many years. Mr. Wofford was formerly president of the Wof ford-Terrell Co., wholesale dry goods and produce merchants, having sold his stock and resigned from this com pany about a year auo. Mr. Burns who came to Murphy several years ago, is contemplating retiring. lie and Mrs. Burns will spend several weeks on a recreation trip to Eastern Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennt >see, and on their return will continue their residence in Murphy. Mr. ari>i Mrs. Burns have many friends 1 e who will ! e glad '?* ? *? ; i ti. . v, i!l i ,' lea\ ?? for good. LETTER FROM JACK LLOYD U. S. S. Jason, Manila, 1\ I., Feb. 1, 1927. Editor. Cherokee Scout, Murphy, X. (\ Dear Sir: 1 received you notices stating that my subscription to your paper had run out. So 1 am having my dad to pay you for a new subscrip tion, if that is satisfactory with you. I sure do miss the paper and I would have looked out for the matter he fore now but 1 didn't know. You ask me to send you a story of my trip, well I did in a previous let ter. I suppose you have received it by now. (No. we haven't received one. ? Ed.) I have something else to s*?y about China that might interest you. Since arriving here over 100 Amer ican missionaries have been brought here from China on our ship. We are training every day with machine guns and rifles, expecting to be called to China to guard American property and people from the Chineese revolutionist. Who are raising around near Shanghai at present. I may get some adventure after all. I imagine it would be fun dodging Chinaman's bullets! Wouldn't it? like ? But don't worry about me. If I should go to China and get out alive I will write you all about it, I must close, before my line gets strong enough to hang clothes on. Hoping to get my subscription fixed up O.K. JACK LLOYD. P. S. How's this? "Do you believe there is a devil little one?" "Naw, nor a Santa Claus either," said the kid, "it's papa." that the time had come to advertise the advantages of the town and coun ty to the people of GraTiam itself, as well as to the world. And such the Graham County News will seek to do, its management announces, and julg ing from its first issue, it is being done well.
The Cherokee Scout (Murphy, N.C.)
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