Bellv'ew School Won
First Prize at Fair
The Bellview school won first prize
on having: the best county exhibit at
the Fair.
The variety and originality exhibit
ed in the work won favorable com
ment.
CULBERSON SCHOOL
MONTHLY HONOR ROLL
First Grade: Virginia Watson. Har
old Watson, Sheridan Watson. Cleo
Collins. Uva Lee Bailey. Vvangeline
Shields. I
Second Grade: Charley Cearly.
Sylva Keasler.
Third Grade: Florence Collins.
May Nichols and Willard Elliot.
Fourth Grade: Maggie Anderson.'
Howard Bailey. Jetter Cearly. Thur
man Cearly.
S.xth Giade: Bessie Mason. Clar- 1
ence Collins. Wilford Loudermilk.
Seventh Grade: Fraiuis Hawkins, j
Evelyn Shields and Glenn Owenby.
Eighth Grade: Madge Collins and!
Edith Shields.
Ninth Grade: Xola Collins. Willie j
Owenbjj. Glenn Ellis. Lot en Collins, j
Porter Mo?ont Bonnie Hyatt ind Inez j
Hyatt.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
TO CONVENE AT HOPEWELL
The Inter-denominational Sunday
School Convention will be held at
Hopewell church on Hothouse. Sun
day. Nove. *?th. at one P. M.
The following problems will be dis
cussed :
Why do the majority of adults show
little interest in the Sunday School
work? ? A. N. Kilpatrick.
The Sunday School a nursery for :
the church. ? K. V. Weaver.
How can we hold interest and
maintain normal average during the j
winter months? ? B. L. Fox.
A model program tor the Sunday
school hour. ? -C. W. Bailey.
The Sunday school an asset in the
social life of a rural community. ? B.
R. Carroll.
Election of officers.
MRS. E. G. WHITE. Pres.
li. R. CARROLL, Secy.
MEETING OF BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF LIBRARY
A meeting of the Board of Trus
tee.- of the Library in the office of
M. VV. Beil on October the twenty
first. Members present: Mesar? M.
W. Bell, C. M. Wofford, J. l>. Storey,
also Mesdames .1. H. Dillard and E. B.
Norvel..
A committee from the Woman's
Club was present consisting of Mes
dames C. W. Savage, R. M. Moody
and Edw. E. Adams requesting the
trustee.- to give them the Assembly
Hall for the use of the Woman's
Club.
It was resolved that the trustees
take over from the Woman's Club
the room on the second floor of the
Library building, and in exchange
for it turn over to the Woman's Club
the assembly room on the ground
floor.
CULBERSON QUINTS WIN
OVER MOUNT PLEASANT
The Culberson basketball team won
an easy victory over the Mt. Pleasant
team last Friday afternoon on the
losers court. The game was enjoyed
by all. Lack of practice on the los
ers side gave the advantage to the
winners. Foster and Mason starred
for Cjlberson.
Line us as follows:
Culberson ? Mt. Pleasant ?
Mason, 22 R. F. Curtiss
Foster, 18 L. F. Anderson, 2
Styles, 4 C. Shields, 10
Owenby L. G. Harris
Collin & Anderson R. G. Monday 2
Total: Culberson 44; Mt. Pleasant,
14.
Referee Guy Hyatt, Scorer, W. M.
?Collins, Timekeeper, L. W. Shields.
TOPTON
Mr. John Nelson came very near
loosing hi.-, left eye- the other day by
a pick handle hitting him. and Geo.
James got a bad cut on the leg with
an ax. ?
The construction work is getting
along fine on No. 10. They will
finish within four weeks.
There w?.s a bad car collision be
tween Topton and Robbinsville Sat
urday night Two cars were torn up,
but no one hurt.
Bud Bryson. of Marietta, Ga.. is
visiting: relatives at Topton and
Marble.
Tim May passed through Topton
yesterday.
Arthur Matheson visited his father.
Mr. Joe Matheson for the week-end.
HALLOWE EN PARTY
A Hallowe'en party at the Metho
:ist church Monday night will be
inn nt* the social events of the sea
son. as the following? invitation at
tests:
Whether you're you ner or whether
you're old
Whether you're shy or whether you're
be Id
We want you at our Hallowe'en
party.
Ii you like to laugh and play
Join us on the gala day !
It you wish just to eat
Come along andtake a seat !
There'll be for you a nice little nook
So come and bring your pocket-book.
Time: 7 P. M.. Monday.
Place: Methodist church.
Admission: 10 Bents.
Signed Up
He (at art exhibit I : Ah, Joan
d'Arc.
She (also there): Join it yourself,
I'm a Kappa.
FIRST PRIZE FIRE
PREVENTION ESSAY
The following article is taken
from The Albany (Ga.) Herald, and
will be of interest to the many
friends of Miss Mayfield. who is a
iece of Mrs. A. M. Brittain, and form
erly resided here:
Following is the essay which was
awarded first prize ? $15 ? in the
Fire Prevention Week essay contest
conducted at the Albany High school
this week by the Albany Fire Preven
tion Week committee.
FIRE PREVENTION
By Martha Mayfield
"Fire! Fire! Fire!" These words
gave me an awful thrill of alatm one
night while ! was visiting in Murphy.
X. C. The whole sky was flaming
red; the city looked as if it were
bursting into flames.
We were all up and dressed in
fewer minutes than it takes to tell. I
Cars were racing behind the fire
truck as it" whizzed down the street.
We followed and found that these
terieble flames were leaping from a
large four story building on Dillard
Street. The fire was swiftly scat
tered by the wind and, before the
firemen could do anything, wild
flames had already caught two other
buildings in their terrible clutches.
All that the firemen could do was to
keep the neighboring buildings from
burning. Nothing was saved; thous
ands of dollars were lost ? just be
cause some man was careless with his
cigarette.
Are you that careless? Do you
keep matches near the fire within
children's reach? Is there any flam
mable trash around the house? Are
the chimneys in good condition? And
do you ever build bonfires? Now,
stop and think.
Fire is certainly one of the most
terrible, cruel, and wasteful enemies
of modern mankind You haven't
forgotten, have you, that five hun
dred million dollars worth of prop
erty is destroyed by fire each year;
fifteen thousand persons are burned
to death and seventeen thousand are
injured by fire annually? Surely
you don't want the demon lurking
around your house: then surely you
will prevent it.
Protect your own home by seeing
that the fireplaces, chimneys and gas
stoves are in good repair. Keep ex
plosives and matches away from fire
and children. Electric wiring, if
done by some one \<ho does not Know
his business, is also very dangerous.
Putting hot ashes in wooden boxes,
or piling up wood or paper near a
scove frequently causes a fire.
All large public buildings should
be fireproof; automatic sprinklers
should be installed; the aisles ought
to be kept open ; doors, open outward ;
and there must be plenty of fire
escapes ? all plainly marked and made
of some metal. Schools must have
fire drills, so that every one in the
building may get out in the quickest
and most orderly fashion possible.
Albany has won the Grand Award
SEAL FUNDS
REDUCED T. B.
51 PERCENT
Sale This Year Directed by Mr. E. E.
and is From Thanksgiving Tiil
Christmas
Purine: the past years the tuber- j
culosis death rate in North Carolina
has been reduced 51 per cent ? over!
one-half ? a result attributed mainly
to the campaign of education, pre
vention and treatment financed
largely by Christmas Seal funds, ac- j
cording to a statement given out to
day by Mrs. E. E. Adams, chairman
for the Seal Sale in Murphy.
The North Carolina Tuberculosis i
Association, with which the local
health association is affiliated, co- 1
operates with the State Sanatorium, j
the county sanatoria, the State De
partment of Health, the Department |
of Agriculture, the State Education
al Institutions, the Department of
Public Instruction, tin- American Red
Cross, the State Teachers Associa
tion, the P. T. V.. the American-Leg
ion, the Womens Clubs, Farm Bureau
Labor and Commercial Organizations, i
etc., and maintain a staff of workers
in the fields at all times. Its work,
however, is carried on without state
or federal aid. and its support has
always been of a voluntary nature.
The sale is from Thanksgiving to
Chiistmas. You are helping your
self, your state and your country,
when von buy Tuberculosis Christ
mas Seals to help to conquer tuber
culosis.
Mr. Stikeleather
Corrects Statement
Made at Hayesville
In the road meeting held at Hayes- 1
ville last Tuesday, Mr. J. G. Stike
leather, Commissioner from this dis
trict, made the statement that Chero- j
kee County had not asked for any im
provement on the road between Mur
phy and Hayesville. and his attention
was called to the statement. In a
telephone message to the Scout Wed
nesday, Mr. Stikeleather authorized
a retraction of the statement, and '
the following letter from him writ- 1
ten after the telephone conversation
i- self explanatory?
"Asheville, N. C.. Oct. 2<i, 1027
"Editor, Cherokee Scout,
"Murphy, X. C.
"Dear Sir:
"My attention has been called to
the fact that I made yesterday at
Hayesville a statement that can easily
be misunderstood, and might cause
hard feelings between the citizens of
Clay County and the Town of 1*1 ur
phy.
"The statement I made was quite
casual, and I did not realize its full
import when I made it. The state
offered by the United States Cham
ber of Commerce for progress in fire
prevention. It knows the value of
preventing fires, it has collected
dividends in money and in satisfac
tion on its efforts to prevent destruc
tion of property by fire; and it also
enjoys lower insurance rates than any
other city in Georgia.
We have in Chief Erosnan the fin
est fire chief in the United States and
his methods of fire prevention have
won, not only fo- himself and his
"fire fighters," but also for Albany
the respect of every city and insur
ance company in the whole United
States. ? Albany <Ga.) Herald.
As We Grow
Older
Proper Kidney Action Is M ore Than
Ever Important .
AS we grow older, there is
L apt to be a gradual slow
ing up of bodily functions. The
kidneys are the blood filters.
If their action becomes slug
gish they do not thoroughly
cleanse the blood of poisonous
wastes. This tends to make one
tired and achy, with often
nagging backache, drowsy
headaches and dizziness. A
common symptom of imperfect
kidney action is scanty or burn
ing excretions. Elderly people
recommend Doan's Pills. This
tested diuretic is endorsed the
country over. Ask your neigh
bor!
DOAN'S p'^
Stimulant Diarmtic to the Kidney m
Feater-MUbura Co. , Mfg. Cham . , Buffalo, N. Y.
Road Meeting
Repudiates Charges
(Continued from page 1)
3. He explained the matter of
pro rata and that since the Counties
had made loans to the Commission
that the laws governing pro rata had
been changed and that he was well
niirh fofced to follow this in distribu
tion of funds and proceeded to show
that Clay County had drawn its pro
rata and that the money now coming
to Clay County, under the laws,
must be used in repaying its loan to
?he commission. $79,093.25 of which
has been recently repaid.
4. That Cherokee County was
largely overdrawn ana that he had
no funds with which to do construc
tion work between Brasstown Bridge
and Murphy. He further stated that
the question of the location of this
road had never been determined and
that it was an important question
which could not be decided until fur
ther and careful study and full con
sideration of all the facts and needs |
of the section to be served by the !
road. Mr. Stikeleather then dealt
in detail with the many problems
which confronted him and the great
difficulties under which he was com
ment was that there had been no re
quest by Cherokee County for the
improvement of the road between
Murphy and Hayesville. Technical
ly and probably officially, this state
ment was true, because tl ere had
been no such request by the road
people of Cherokee County, e'ther of
ficially or otherwise, as best i re
member. There was. however, a
meeting in Murphy the last of April,
called by the Lion's Club, which meet
' Ing was attended by citizens of Hay
esville and Murphy. I was invited
to attend and requested to use my
best efforts for the improvement of
the ro ?d between Hayesville and Mur
| phy.
"I stated that I would use my best
' efforts in the matter. It was purely
a question of finances, and I wrote
the Raleigh office to make an esti
mate of what it would cost to put this
road in good condition. Their esti
mate was in excess of any money I
had on hand, and I could not arrange
to have the work done this year.
"I make this correction of my state
ment at Hayesville yesterday because
it is due the citizens of Murphy that
I put them in the proper light to
ward their sister town.
"I was more than pleased with the
outcome at the road meeting at Hay
esville as I am sure it brought a bet
ter understanding of our mutual
problems.
"Yours very truly**,
"J. G. STIKELEATHER".
FOR SALE ? One six-room house and
lot on Hilton street; house contains
all modern conveniences; unusually
large lot. Price $2,500.00. See Mrs.
E. E. Davis, 208 Peachtree Street,
Murphy, N. C. (12-3t-d)
^"cu 10 mnor' assured T
body that he had and stii| Would
every effort within his po?er w **
u'" he couid with the mean, ?
command and without injustic
other parts of the district to to
N'o. 28 and give us a better ,u^
on it and explained that bv J,
1st. his distriet would be vi-p*"1"1
out cf debt and that he hoped to fc'"
funds in li>28 with which to v ?rk
He then asked that the me?in
on record as to its feeling on the ,,a7
:er in view of the facts, h,. exnr^
and requested that it either affirm it
former resolutions or rrtruci th"m '
Mr. Gray then stated that hi, ?
preme interest was road conditions?
Clay County and (hat if there ??
any controversy to let it be between
.him and Mr. Stikeleather and assUt
ed Mr. Stikeleather that he only hJ
the kindliest feeling toward him anJ
that he did not stand in the way
the meeting going on record as s,,
porting him and that he hail .lothia.
I to add to nor subtract from wfcat he
j had stated at the outset. Mr. 0. L.
. Anderson then voiced a number of
! criticisms which hud been made by
j the people; that they had doubtless
been misinformed as to -.>me of the
, matters with which dissatisfaction
J had been expressed and assured Mr
| Stikeleather that the people of Clay
I County had only the kindliest feel
ing toward him.
| The large body gathered were not
in a critical attitude but had only
the kindliest feeling toward Mr
j Stikeleather and appreciated his dif
! iculties and expressed their confi
j dence in him. Mr. O. L. Anderson
j then submitted the resolutions as
j follows:
In view of the explanations by Mr.
' Stikeleather of the new laws which
( restrict both us and the Highway
Commissions as to loans, I move that
all who are in favor of the approral
of Mr. Stikeleather, of his manage
ments and methods and in road build
ing and especially his efforts on No.
28 and pledge their hartv support and
cooperation in his work as Road Com
missioner, make it known l>y rising
to their feet.
Practically every person in the
audience rose and the motion was de
clared unanimous. After the meet
ing Mr. Stikelpathers many friends
assured him of their continued sup
port and cooperation antl especially
their appreciation of his efforts and
of their appreciation for his coming
here nnH explaining the faeis ihereoy
removing much misunderstanding.
Mr. Stikeleather assured the peo
ple of Clay County that he was al
ways at their service and a letter or
phone call at any time would hate
heretofore and still would bring them
information they might desire about
the road matters.
Messrs. W. M. Fair, C. W. Bailey,
George Ellis and Dr. E. E. Adams
S. D. Akin, H. G. Elkijis, and othen
were present and showing the inter
est of Cherokee County in Clay Coun
ty getting a better connection with
Murphy. ? Clay County News.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
OCTOBER 28 AND 29
Mr. E.. B. Mathews, with the Storrs-Schaeffer
Company, Cincinnati for the purpose of taking
orders for
MEN'S CLOTHING
MADE-TO-ORDER _
All the latest fabrics and high grade wool'
ens. Step in and examine the samples. Wear
Distinctive Clothes. The highst standard is the
only standard.
J. W.DAVIDSON
The Store of Quality" MURPHY, N. C.