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The Leading Weekly Newspaper in Western North Carolina, Serving a large and Potentially Rich Territory in this state VOLUME XJ/-1X. NUMBER 23. MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1928. 5c COPY ? $1.50 PER YEAR LADI$ NIGHT AT LIONS CLUB WELL ATTENDED Music furnished For the Occasion By Artss Anderson and Her High School Orchestra , Ladies Night at tl*> regular semi 1 monthly meeting of the Lions Club i Tuesday night was well attended, I some thirty-five members and guests f being present. J The meeting was held in the par j lors of the Methodist Church, and the ' ladies of the church served their usu i al bounteous feast. Music for the oc I casion was furnished by Miss Ander son and her high school orchestra, consisting of about twenty-five in struments. Several special numbers were rendered by quartets, and es pecially good was the violin trio. Miss Andcyson is to be highly com mended for the splendid work she is doing iji training this orchestra. Following the luncheon, several speakers were introduced. Mr. E. B. Norvell was the main speaker of the occasion and his theme was a brief history of Cherokee County. Other speakeres were Mr. l>. Witherspoon, B. W. Sipe and Mrs. E. C. Mallonee. Mr. Witherspoon, chairman of the Lions Good Roads Committee, report pw ed that a delegation of Lions from I iTellico Plains, and Government rep I Mresentatives, headed perhaps by Mr. IkPCharltrn, Superintendent of the Chef II okee National Forest, would meet 1 1 her.' with the local Lions and County |% luficials sometimo after the 13 to ?MLdiseuss the faesahility of making i g^vonnection with the road from Tcl 9fl|ic(> Plains up the IV.lico River to the ^Ktate line. This road, connection of which is I .ought by both people of North Caro lina and Tennessee at Red Log Gap, 1 ads out through Grandview, up Da ws Creek to the Allen Gap, then wings through Harshaw Gap, cros sing a prong of the Teilico Rover cal led Tipton Creek, then swings around , point of Chestnut Mountain to the Teilico River, then up the river to the nouth of what is known as Peeker jpood Creek, another prong of Tclli ? River. It then courses up Pccker L*ood Creek, swinging into Ked Log tap on top of ihe ridge forming the line between the two states, where the intersection of roads is desierd. The road in Cherokee County back ^out in the mountains is narrow and ieds widening. The grade is good, ^according to Mr. J. I . Fain, who is Jalso interested ir the connection, and f about the only thing for Cherokee County to do is some grading in the rform of widening the road. *lhis meeting between the. people of both states is expected to work out some i plan by which travej jgaii.bfi. earned [ through, to Te'ttco, Knoxville, and i other Tennessee points as well as 1 bring travel from th^se points through 1 to Murphy and the South. It is said Ito be by far the shortest route from tfurphy to Knoxv.lte. Mrs. Mitloiue. who appointed ? select the pia? tt>.b? given by the 3ub at scire early date, announce \ ; the comedy entitled, "Teal 'Em : r," Had been selected and books been ordered. Baker, who pub | is this comedy, says it is '.he fun it play in print. Although M!)?l I u Over," ?s suggestive of card play* g? no cards are used in the play. '^Tiose pra*?it were: Rev. and Mrr. & Pow-11, Mi J. r. WarricK. x r. Mrs. I*. W. Sipe, Mr. and Mrs. r. Elkins. Mr. and Mrs E. 1! N?*i Mr. mi Mri. C. K. llooveb, Mr. , Mrs. W. Fai;.\ Mr. and ?ee, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hyde, & and Mrs. D. Witherspoon, Mr. [ Mrs. E. C. Mallonee, i>t? and Edw. ?. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. ~~ Gray, Misses Nannie Dixon, Serine Thompson, Mrs. Robert blay, Mrs. J. W. Thompson, Mrs. Bayless, Mrs. H. P. Cooper, |ra. E. C. Moore, T. L. Sasser, T. ftes and C. W. Bailey. FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY FOR JAKE DEWEESE Former U. S. Deputy Marshall And Well Known in This Section Funeral services for J. F. (Jake) Deweese, "45, former U. S. Deputy Marshall and for many years deputy sheriff of Cherokee County, who died at the home of his sister-in-iaw, Mrs. A. G. Deweese, widow of the late State Senator Dewetefse^ Monday morning at 10:10 o'clock from pneu monia, was held Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock at the home. Rev. T. L. Sasser, pastor of the Murphy Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. H. P. Pow ell, pastor of the Methodist Church, and Rev. J. P. Anderson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church conducted the funeral services. Burial was in Sunset Cemetery. Mr. Deweese was well known in this section as a citizen and as an of ficer of the law. He was in the ser vice of the Federal government as deputy marshal for five or six years, retiring a few months ago. Ke never married. Surviving are the following brothers and sisters: N. G. Deweese, of Riceville, Tenn., Mrs. A. H. Colvard, of KobbinsvilWi, N. C. ; Mrs. G. M. Spurlin Lousiville, Ky.; Mrs. Martin Kinzel, of Atlanta, Ga. ; Mrs. Joe Bell, of Sweetgum, Gp.; L. H. Deweese, of Akron, Ohio, and Miss Hazel Deweese, of Atlanta. ASHEVILLE CITIZEN REACHES MURPHY IN EARLY MORNING Nothing seems to be too good for The Abbeville Citizen to give its readers. Last summer a truck ser vice from Asheville to Murphy was put into effect and then the people here started receiving Western North Carolina's only morning newspaper at about 8 o'clock. Now a still fur ther improvement has just been made and The Citizen truck is reaching Murphy before 6 o'clock in the morn ing. This new arrangement allows am ple time to make connection with all rural and star routes out of Murphy each morning,* thus making it possible for everybody in Cherokee and Clay counties to get The Asheville Citizen the same day it is printed. Wm. J. Mintz starts delivering The Citizen to Murphy homes imme diately upon arrival of their truck and it is now possible for many Mur phy residents to read their favorite daily paper before breakfast instead of waiting until afternoon. In short, thfc average Murphy resident is read ing his morning paper as early as the people in Asheville. Rose From Ranks ed secretary of _ . Electric Company, who bep^n 25 years ago as office boy fcr Westinghouse. OHIOAN TO DEVELOP BIG MARBLE MINE AT ANDREWS i J. A. Martin Will Produce Metallic Magnesium As By-Product In A?h?ville Citizen ANDREWS, N. C., Jan. 8 ? Ex tensive development of marble prop erties is now under wa*y half ?t mile east of the town of Marble, in Cher okee County, following the recent purchase by J. A. Martin, Ohio met allurgist and lawyer, of 210 acres of marble lands from John Palmer, farmer of this Section. The consid eration was not announced. Mr. Martin, it is understood plans to use the marble he quarries not onlyy for the ordinary uses to which marble is put, but the making of metallic magnesium under a process he h as perfected after eight years of research. This metallic magnesium is said to be two-thirds the weight of alum- . inum, more durable, can be manu- 1 factured cheaper and can be used as effectively as aluminum in the man- ! ufacture of airplane bodies, automo biles and other products. The marble property developer, who is stopping at the Juanaluska Terrace hotel at Andrews with Mrs. | Martin, refused to divulge his plans j for the development of the property, ' saying that the time is not yet ripe for publication of the details of the project, but he intimated to a Citi zen correspondent that later on he would have a story to tell which would make very interesting reading ? to people concerned with the devel opment of the resource* of Western North Carolina. Although he would not divulge the particulars of his plans, Mr. Mar tin did say that he has completed recently two scientific papers which he will read before some learned society in which he has recently been elected to membership. He intimat ed that these papers deal with his studies of the marble resources of this area, and with the scientific as pects of the new process for the making of metallic magnesium. Mr. Martin and a force of men are now busily at work on the quarrying and construction operations in the ?-acre tract near the town of iviarble. The pulverizing plant is half-way completed, a spur track PEACHTREE Mrs. John McTaggart of Andrews is spending several days here with relatives. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hommer Ferguson, December, 30, a fine boy. Messrs. Glenn and Ephriam Crisp left for Ohio one day last week, af ter spending, the holidays with home folks. Miss Mae Sudderth of Marble spent Christmas with her iJarents, Mr. and Mrs. H. S? Sudderth. Messrs. Carl and Lloyd Hendrix returned to Boonie, N. C., and Frank Walsh to Chapel Hill where they a?*e attending college, after spending tfceir vacation with home folks. Misses Elizabeth an Susie Fergu- ! I s<j| entertained a few friends with { a party Saturday night. I Two weddings of interest took ! place during the holidays. That of ; Mr. Harrie Ferguson, formerly of ! Peachtnee and Miss Juanita Evans of Murphy, and Mr. Posey Crisp and Miss Glrace Allen, both of this place. ] Their Hiany friends wish them a long and haj>py married life. v I Mrs. .Summers, the new Methodist; minister's wife, preached an inter esting J sermon at the Methodist church (Sunday. Missis Elizabeth and Susie Fergu son ai*d Edith Sudderth and Messrs. Dock &nd Paul Sudderth and Glenn T connecting with the Southern Rail way, has been built, and air drills are busy at work getting out the marble, which is in three main types, regal blue, white, gray, with 14 var iations. Within a few weeks, Mr. Martin said, the output of the pulverizing plant will be 150 tons a day. The material will be used in the making of terrazza. Mr. Martin states that he has pur chased the equipment of the bank rupt Regal Blue Marble company, at Regal, four miles east of Murphy, and will move the machinery to his present scene of operations. Application has been made by Mr. Martin to the town of Andrews, it is stated, for the use of surplus pow er generated by the municipal hy dro-electric plant, said to be the largest municipally owned power plant in North Carolina, with an output of 3000 horsepower. The surplus, it is estimated, is 2000 horse power. The plant is located on the Hiawassee river, 1 1 miles from An drews, and was completed in 1923 at a cost of $500,000. Alone In Enterprise Mr. Martin states that he has no associates in this enterprise, and took occasion to spike the statement that the 20 or more Northern bank ers and financiers, who visited Mr. and Mrs. Martin at the Junaluska Terrace hotel during the Christmas holidays were here in relation to the financing of the project. The state- ! ment was matte here that these Northern visitors were backers of the proposition, but Mr. Martin took particular pains to state that such was not the case. The Andrews area is underlaid with marble, the belt - extending ail the way from a mile or two east of Andrews to below Murphy, more than 14 miles away. Thi width varies from a mile to two or three, and no one, it is said, has ever bored to the bottom of the deposits. An estimate made by the State Geologist shows that the Martin property is 320 feet wide, with a depth of 1500 or more feet, afford ing enough marble to supply gener ations yet to come. Accomplice of Hickman Crisp motored to Jefferson, Ga., last week to visit relatives and friends. Mr. Raymond Hendrix of Foone, N. C., was a guest of Messrs. Carl and Lloyd Hendrix during Christmas. Mrs. John Shanks and son spent last week in Atlanta with relatives and friends. Mr. John Hall's Duroc brood sow broke the record of this season by bringing a litter of fourteen pigs. Welby Hunt, Kansas City youth , who has confessed his part, with j Edward Hickman, in the hold-up and murder, on December 24, 1926, . of Ivy Thorns, Los Angeles drug gist Hickman is the confessed kidnaper and slayer of Marian Parker, 12-year-old Los Angeles girl. LOCAL TALENT RECORDS MAKE BIG HIT HERE Okeh Records Out Featuring Sacred Singers, Unc'ie Tom Collins and Moore Sisters Records recently made by the Okeh Company featuring voices of looal people, have made a big hit in this action, according to a statement this week by Mr. W. D. Townson. lo cal furniture dealer who is handling them. One record made by the Murphy Sacred Singers, composed of Henry Barton, Vance Wilson. Jack Roberts and Oscar Adams, is entitled, "I'll Be Ready," and "That Beautful Home." Mr. Townson said he ordered one shipment of 24 records of this num ber and when they arrived, were sold within one day. He has ordered an other shipment of about twice this number of records, he said. This is only one of six records made by these sacred singers. Threb records by Uncle Tom Col lins, banjo artist, have made their ap pearance. and Mr. Townson says that he has sold several shipments of them. The three records are entitled, "Lit tle Brown .Tug.' "Tain't No Lie," "Chicken, You Can't Roost Too High For Me," "Every Race Has a Flag But the C oons," "Every Dayll Be Sunday By and By," "The Four Son of-a-Guns." The Monro Sisters, Misses Ruth and Mavy Moore. Clay County, also ha\ ? niuik /c. of .t.ovrtr, one of which has made its appear ance, entitled "Memories," and "Dai sies Don't Tell," which Mr. Townson says, is proving very popular, so much so that he can't keep a shipment lon ger than a day or so. No doubt the many friends of these local artists are looking forward to the appearance of other records, if the rapid way in which the first rec ords went can be taken as an indica tion. The Okeh people are coming to Murphy again this year in search of local talent, and Mr. Townson stated that he had already secured several people in this section for try-outs. DEATH The Death Angel claimed Mrs. Ar tie Ash, wife of J. M. Ash, of Et owah, Ttnn., on January 2, 28. She lt*aves a family of six children and husband and a host of relatives to mourn her departure. May the richest blessings of God be with J. M. and his family. A FRIEND To The Scout: With the passing of another year, parses our beloved friend, jn other and wife, Mrs. Amanda Deal Hayes, Just a year ago I had such a nice letter telling me how nice it was to be remembered by a friend so far away, referring to letter I wrote the Scout in regard to the death of my life long friend Miss Anna B^al and she made the remark to me at that time. "I wonder if I will have a friend so far away think of me as you have Anna. At myy death With these, thoughts buried in my mind, I feel the loss of a true good friend, wife and mother, taken from our midst, while Miss Anna was very close to ail her sunday school students, we could never replace her, we all feel Amanda Beal Hays loss, in fact one never has had a truer and dearer friend than a Beal. Nothing I can say would lessen the grief of the family. I just want them to know they ell have my sin cere sympathy in this their hour of grief. "God's will be Done." He knows best, and we know she is in a happy home where there are no trials and tributations, so if it were in our power we would not call her back to this world. May God's blessings be with you. LOU MERONEY SUDDERTH
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