GOIPERS
CITY POLITICS
WAXING WARM
IN CHEROKEE
Three in Rare For Mayor At Mur
phy ; Three at Marble; With
I\r nihility of Four at Andrews
Cilv politics arc warming up in
Chriokee County, and the voters
will "ii to the polls Tuesday, Mav
7th. at Murphy, Maiiile and An
dre. with plenty, of candidates to
pick mayors and aldermen from.
A coincidence of the races being
made in the three towns is that the
elections are to be held on the same
date, with three candidates out for
mayor at Murphy, three out at Mar
ble. and three out at Andrews, with
a possibility of another candidate
entering the race at Andrews.
The candidates seeking the office
of mayor at Murphy are Harry 1'.
Cooper, present incumbent. W. M.
Fain and \V. M. Axley. The ticket
headed hv Mr. Cooper includes all
of the old board with one new mem
ber added, as follows: R. B. Fergu
son. L C. Moore, J. W. McMillan,
J. A. WcJuih. c. B. Hill ?nd G.
?. Candler. Mr. Candler is the new
candidate.
Tho ticket headed bv Mr. Fain
foll<?,.: W. J. (Bill) Adams. A. A.
Fain. \ . M. Johnson, and W. S.
Dirkev.
The tigj;et headed bv Mr. Axlev
follows; C. M. Wofford, B. B. Fer
suson. C. B. Hill and J. W. King.
Ferguson and Mr. Hill are
members of the present board and
J, -'"Pear on the ticket headed bv
Mr. Coopet>.
The name of Wm. P. Pavne an- !
ljpi's on the ticket headed by \fr. j
tain, but since the tickets were !
Printed Mr. Payne has withdrawn
Iron, the race. B. R. Carroll's name
also appears on the printed ticket.
j. <?>? Mr. Axlev. but Mr. Car
lo I'.is likewise withdrawn from
^e race since the tickets were print
Three Out At Marble
'"ree candidates are seekin2 the
W'"* of Mayor of Marble, with as
rickets. One ticket is headed
"j H. Mintz with A. L. McHan,
' . " ^est and J. W. Dockerv for
^ '?finir". Another is headed bv
T ?\, , ^ampheII for mavor and H.
? cHan and B. E. Robinson for
f '' And R. L. Anderson
jjads one ticket for Mavor with C.
" ? n'll and B. B. Palmer for al
dermcn.
four Likely At Andrews
of \f " oarw^ 'dates for the office
ayor have entered the race at
* ? rews w'lh the possibilitv of an
er announcing before the dead
ni* closes the entries Thursday
did ' " :lunt'own- The three can
/ a'fs alreadv announced are out
' office individually and ar'
/ '""Ported bv separate tickets
7 a?*rmen. D. S. Russell, the
anj^ir' 71a>or- 's out for re-election,
?WH. H. Hyde and Dr. J. E. Tid
0 rYr a'so seeking the office. L
LSS Wel1' W' D Whitaker, L. B.
c j0* and B. L. Robinson ai<e the
alt! ' a' s arinounoed thus far for
A third candidate for
Andrews was said to be a
' ' "''? hut at a late hour Thurs
fjjj ^ter?ioon, had not been certi
^ A. Wood and J. A. Tatham are
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Western Xorth Carolina. Covering a fxirge and Potentially
[MURPHY, !MmfH~(r\IU)l iNA, I RIDW. M W 1929!
Rich Territory in T>ii* State
v COPY *1.50 PF H \ RAK
ANDREWS POWFR
PLANT IS SOLD
TO JUPOLLO CO.
Sale of the municipally owned
hvdro-electric plant of Andrews was
authorized Tuesday by the voters by
a noil of 335 to 92.
The plant will be delivered to the
Jupollo Public Service company of
Cleveland, Ohio, by the town board
of aldermen for a price of $450,000
as a result of the election held Tues
day.
The election was the second held
on the question of the power plant's
sale, the firsl having been protested
by a group of citizens who were op
posed to the sale and who took an
injunction to the Superior Court.
Hie reason given for the injunction
was that the Australian ballot was
not used.
The secret ballot was used Tues
day and the majority of votes cast
being in favor of the sale attests the
willingness of the people of the city
to stand behind the action of their
mayor and hoard of aldermen.
The Andrews plant is one of sev
eral which have been bought bv the
Jupollo inteiests, sales in various
other Western North Carolina towns
having been confirmed by referenda.
Making Last Drive
For Murphy Cannery
The Murphy Lions Club is mak
ing the last drive for tomato acreage
for the cannery this week. There are
about thirty acres yet open for the
farmers.
The Lions Club as a group have
subscribed thiity-two acres and a
number of individual members have
taken several acres apiece to the
afnoutfu of about twenty acres. So
determined are the members of the
club to put the cannery over that
they decided to get in on the profits
to be derived from growing toma
toes in older to help out and demon
strate that tomatoes can be grown
profitably.
The acreage for fifty acres of
beans is now open, the seed having
arrived and is being distributed.
The cannery is an assured propo
sition. The iiiuiiiiiiery is already in
town, and during the season of oper
ation about sixty people will he em
ploved by the cannerv company.
Outside of the payroll for labor, the
cannery will bring about $80,000.00
into the county which will be distri
buted among the growers.
candidates for the office of members
of the Andrews Power and Light
Commission, a member* of which
will also be named in next Tues
day's election. ?
At Murphy a mayor and six mem
bers of the board of aldermen will
be elected: at Marble a mayor and
three members; and at Andrews a
mayor and four members of the
board of aldermen and one member
of the power and light commission
will be named.
murphy school'
closes Tuesday!
JUNE THE FOURTH
Twenty-Eight Mm Oppose
Largest Class U History Of
the School
______ i
posing exercises of tho Murphy
I ublic Schools Kill be held i? ,|le
school auditorium on Tuesday eve
ning June Uh. according to an.
nounceiiionl made litis [>v su
perintendent B. W. Si,,,. Dr. Hu
bert P?,eal of Wake Forest C ge
has been secured to deliver the
Commencement address on this oc
. Tru ., , Wln" ,,ut a cs
jablished here several \ear- ago of
laving an outstanding member of
tiie faculty ,,f one of the leading
colleges of (he Slate speak at Com
i mencement. I, is expcc.ed
twenty-eighl rnenil>ers of the Senior
cla>s will receive diplomas and cer
tificates making the largest class in
the history of the school.
I lie ( omniencement sermon will
l"ra'nh, '] June 2nd by Rev.
M. I i. kens. Presiding Eldcr of
the \\ aynesville District. O'her ex
ercises are scheduled as follows
S-n.or Class Play, Friday night,
May 1/th; Graduating exercises.
eachers Training Class. Thursday
night. May 23rd: Exercises, P,i
mary ^ Department, Friday night.
Mai 2 III,: M?slc Recital. Thursday
night. May 30th: Exercises. Inter
( mediate Grades. Fridav night. May
V1"': ?/'?"moil on Sunday evening
June 2nd: Junior Class plav, Mon
,dav evenig, June 3rd. and Graduat
ing exercises on Tuesday evening,
i I une 4th. The exercises will all lie
jheld at 7:30 o'clock. Recitation
I Uec tarnation contests will be held
(luring the ehaocl hours of the final
dav>s of school.
Members of the Senior Class ex
pecting to receive diplomas and cer
tificates are as follows: Salla Kate
linker. Fannie Kate Coker. Ida Lou
Cole. Ethel Mae Davis, Merle Wil
liam Davis, Mary Elizabeth De
weese Frances Elizabeth Dickson.
John William Donlev. Susie Feipu
?"?n. Bessie Hampton. Noah Webster
Hembree. Nellie Warden Hendrix
| Norma Lee Hogan, Eila Pauline
Kisselberc, Llovd Luther Kisselberg
Sarah Salena Kisselherg. Ruby Pol
lv Mason. Talitha Elizabeth Moore.
; William Porter Raper. Vesta Vienna
Roberts. John Franklin Smith, Marv
Ha/el Sneed, Trov Theodore Sud
derth. Myrtle Vesta Trull, Hattie
Virginia Walsh. Tabitha Marie
i Ward. Cxrtis Columbus White. Mar
tha Nell Wells,
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ELLAS-HOLDER
Miss Flonnic Ellas, daughter of
Mr. E. E. Ellas, of Br\son Citv, and
Mr. C. H. "Shorty" Holder, ?f
| Murphy, were happily married at
(.layton. Ga., last Sunday at 3 P.
M.. by Ordinary Will Smith.
j The wedding of this young cou
, pie came as quite a sui prise to their
many friends who extend them best
wishes for a long and happy life.
CIRCULATION DRIVE MEMBERS
AND VOTES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION j
MRS. T. P. CALHOUN, Murphy 88,000
| ? MISS GENEVA LOVINGOOD, East Murphy 88,500
MISS MENNICE PAYNE, 103 Walnut St, G",CC0
MRS. C. W. ELLIS, City 89,003
: MISS NETTIE HOUSTON DICKEY, 202 Hill St, 87,500
MRS. D. V. CARRINGER, 428 Hiawassee St., 86,500
MRS. J. V. BRITTAIN, City 86,000
MISS HAZEL BARTON, Marble, N. C. 87,500
LAST EXTRA VOTE CLUB OFFER
ENDS SATURDAY NIGHT. LAST
MINUTE EFFORTS COUNT LITTLE
HARD WORtTNOW WILL WIN
JINX FOLLOWS
THIS LAD OF
FIVE YEARS
Little Robert Davis Has Had World
of Trouble Crowded Into Short
Span Of Life
A jinx is a jinx ? a super natural
something tliat seems to dog the
heels of its victim supposedly with
bad luck arid causes all things to go
wrong.
And little Robert Davis, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Davis, of Shady
Lawn, Murphy, is convinced that the
jinx is on his trail. And if trouble,
scrapes, accidents and the misfor
tune which has followed Robert
for the full five and a half years of
his existence can be taken as any in
dication. the Jinx has certainly been
dousing his heels.
The latest accident which happen
ed to Robert came Sunday when he
and some boys were playing ball,
and one of them batted it into his
mouth, knocked out two teeth and
mashed his 1 ips painfully. The
doctor has patched him up and he is
getting along nicely ? and the old
Jinx is sitting back smiling and
waiting until he gets well again to
make another strike
The story of Robert and the dog
ging Jinx is a hard luck story, but
it is interesting as well. And per
haps no pcreon his age in Cherokee
county has seen as much of old man '
Trouble himself as Robert. Here is
his story: I
Robert was born Otober 8, 1923.
and at the age of six months was,
vaccinated for small pox. This vac- .
cination kept the smallpox away J
but it seemed to have let the bars
down and the gate open to old man
Jinx.
When he was a vear and a half
old he was toddling around on the
>?orch in a habv walker and walked
down to steps about five feet to the
ground. This didn't hurt him veiv
badly, fust shook him up good and
gave him a scare ? as well as his
parents ? and Old Man Jinx was
gently beginning his work.
A year later. Robert was plagued
with a stye on his eye. At this time
he was down in the blacksmith shop
watching his grandfather. James
Palmar, shoeing horses. Mr. Pal
mer threw a led hot horseshoe clown
and Robert jumped in and caught
the hot shoe across the eye ? the eye
on which he had the stye. It took
more than a month to bring Robert's
eye back to normal.
A year later, (which makes him
three and a half) h ? was playing
with some boys and one of them
threw a rock which struck Robert
on the head, cutting a big hole in
his scalp. It took about a month
for this to heal, as every time it
seemed to get better, another lick on
the head in the same spot would
open the wound.
Three months later, he was [.lav
ing around in the kitchen, fell
against a hot stove, and burned his
irm so badly it took three weeks to
heal.
At the age of four, he and another
boy were playing around the black- 1
shop on an old road scrape
which was being repaired bv his,
"r.?nd father, the smithy. Robert
fell of and in the fall knocked an
iron rod off with him. The rod fell
across his leg and broke it. This j
trick of the Jinx caused Robert to
be laid up for six weeks before he!
was allowed to touch his foot to the
floor.
I And ihe accident last Sunday ?
and the Old Jinx now planning what
I is to happen next!
Saturday night ends the last offer
of extra vote? for $30 clubs of sub
set iptions. The workers have been
advised by the management that this
weeks "830 club offer'' i< lb#* last
one that will bp made during the
rare. And realizing that the time
for real effort lias arrived the
"wise" members will give good ac
count of themselves this week.
Members should exert everv possi
ble effort to collect a!l their prom
ised. and every possible subscrip
tion and get them in this week, and
the real earnest ones will see to it
that they have a good report to turn
in Saturday night.
"Last minute efforts" will count
little in the Circulation Drive, as
then subscriptions will have reach
ed their "zero" point in vote value.
And those who might be working
along "halfheartedly'' while the big
votes are "oing. and doing more
"sleuthing" to find out what the
"other fellow" is doing than work
ing, depending on a last minute
rush to put them over the top. will
be doomed to disappointment. Too
much importance cannot be plat ed
on the present offer ending Satur
dav night. Votes and votes alone
will win. And those who have the
foresight and initiative to "hit their
best licks" and work har?l now.
\*hile the big votes are in effect will
be the ones to take away the beauti
ful shiny new Pontiac and the best
prizes on the night of May 25lh
when the votes arec ounted.
Onlv a comparatively few more
days remain of the Campaign. The
end is in sight! Just eighteen more
working days after this week and the
l?eaiitiful prizes will be in the hands
of their new owners.
Xolhinu in life worthwhile is
pained without effort. Neither wilf
there be anything gained in the Cir
culation Drive without effort. Hut
some member who has the foresicht
and initiative to put forth a real and
determined effort while the big
votes are going, and builds for her
self a reserve vote while the present
offer is in effect will ikcly be the
one w ho will driv away the Pontiac.
PURE BRED BULLS
BRING $320 EACH
AT AUCTION SALE
! SALISBURY, May 1.? ' Twenty
one pure bred Guernsey bulls, from
the Brant Rancho, Owensmouth,
Calif., were sold here today at an
average price of $320. Cattle breed
ers from a number of States were
present for the sale. Buyers from
North and South Carolina and Vir
ginia secured the animals. J. A.
Arey head of the Dairy Extension
Service of North Carolina Stale
College, said it was the finest sale
of cattle ever held in North Caro
lina.
Knitting Mill Is Now
Ready For Operation
The Nu-Fashion Hosiery Mill is
now ready for operation it was an
nounced this week. The machinery
has been placed, adjusted and
threaded, and operation is expected
to begin next week.
This means that the hosieiy mill
will begin training help and pro
ducing hosiery. Forty six machines
have been installed and others will
be installed from time to time as
rapidly as help can be trained to
operate them until the full capacity
of the building is reached.
Ten cooperative carlot shipments
of sweet potatoes have been made
from Granville county this spring.