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The Leading (V eekly Newspaper in W e$t?rn North Carolina , Covering a l,art:r and Potentially Rich Territi Vol. XLII. ? No 34. Murphy, N. C., Friday, March 27, 1931. in This State $1.50 YEAR? 5c COPY 60 GALLON STILL, 1 7 GALS. LIQUOR TAKEN IN RAID O One f the bluest haul* since his indue : >n into office was made last Frith v about noon >y Sheriff Frank Bri?t" and four deputies In a raid on ? still about three miles above Andrews. ugs |&H The still was in operation, going full btr.^t, when the raid was made. Tw<? men were working at the still, hurn- ily made their escape into the mountains. Th? outfit was of about sixty gal lon ?? a city. Nine 60-gallon barrels of i" ? t were poured out, and the equipment destroyed. A shotgun, si a . mattocks, and other tools were conf'-cated. TV operators had run off about 17 if - -i's of whiskey before the of ficer. : aided the place, aiid this was nl T:koP. While the work of de jt c the furnace and equipment | wa ' ST <>n, someone of the offi- 1 nr iified the jug out from under' th< " fin and about a gallon of the j outlawed fire water poured out on th'- jrround. Ti ? place was located in a rocky cove -iown among the cliffs, and was ideally adpted to the manufacture of whiskey. It had two approaches. One was ? veral hundred yards away, and anyone approaching could be seen from that, distance, while from the other, one could approach to within several yards. When the officers discovered that their quarry* niight escape in the op posite direction, two of them went around to cover the other approach. After they had been gene for some time, the two left to make the raid cam< out upon the operators. One of the two was Sheriff Bristol and when the men saw the officers, teniae f them ran for a shot gun clo.-t bv. However, Sheriff Bristol cut him off and he thought better . f the attempt and ran for the bush is, Thr gun wr; found to b*. load ed with' buckshot. The two officers M.-nt to cover the way of escape failed to cet there in time, and the men got . way. The still outfit and liquor were hroijgh: to Murphy. The officers taking part in the raid were Sheriff Bristol. Deputies Fred Johnson, Lee Crisp and J. L. Chambers. W. R. ELLERSON IS TAKEN BY DEATH ? o? Clay County Banker's Body Taken to Hot Springs for Burial The body of William Roy Kllerson president of the recently reorganized Hank of Clay County, and former j vice president of the Citizens Bank of Marshall and Hot Springs in Mad ison t-ounty, who died at his home in Hayesville shortly after midnight Friday night, was taken to Hot Sprii ? his former home, late Sat urday for funeral and interment. Mr. Kllerson, who was 46 year? old, suffered a stroke of appoplexy late Friday afternoon. He had lived in HayesviHe for three years. Mr. Kllerson, who was a former busini s associate of the late Dr. E. W. Grove, Asheville capitalist, was superintendent of the North Carolina Tennessee railroad which has offices in Hayesville. He was also general manager of the Boice Hardware and lumber company which has extensive holdings in Madison and Haywood pour.ties. At one time he was inter ested with Dr. Grove in vast real es tate holdings in the Laurel River section near Pisgah National Forest on the Marshall-Hot Springa section Highway No. 20. He was born in Madison county and for many years was promirently identified with var ious business enterprises in Hot Spring and other sections. Mr. Kllerson resigend his position with the Cititzens Bank several years ago and went to Hayesville to take charge of business interests there. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jean C-arrett Ellerson, and by a daughter, Elizabeth Carmichael El lerson. He leaves also two brothers, ** ? H. and B. G. Ellei^on, of Rich mond, and two sisters, Mrs. Armr strong Thomas and Miss Roberta El lerson, of Baltimore. His first wife was the former Miss Nell Carmichael 0 -XsheviHe, who died several years ago. Miss Mary Joe Davis Is Much Improved The many friends of Miss Mary Havis, who is in the N. C. O. f*ospitai at. Gastonia, will rejoice to 0Vv" that she has had her casts tak New Filling Station and Garage For Murphj ? ? ? H A new filling station and garage arill he open in Murphy next Monday under lie name of Murphy Auto Repair Company. The new business vill be operated by W. A. Cook. J. S. Cook and J. N. Watkins. of Cart ;rsville. Ga. The latter two will be n charge of the repair shop. The building of the old D. & D. Nfotor Company is being put in con lition this week for this new busi ness. The front portion of the build ing is being torn down, and a drive wffay and filling station are being built in. The company will handle Che well known Sinclair gasoline, leases and oil. Mr. I'. H. Owenby, of the Com munity Oil Company, which company handles the Sinclair products in the Murphy territory, is here supervis ing the construction on the filling station. Mr. Owenby will be in this territory for some time in the inter ?st of promoting business for this concern. Murphy welcomes this new busi ness and these new citizens to our town, and we bespeak for them suc cess in a large measure. o Goats are Winners In Lions Contest The uions Club Goats were win ners over the Sheep in a member-hip contest which elosed Tuesday night with the regular meeting, and now the Sheep must pay the Goats the spoils they are due. The contest lasted over a series of >ight meetings, and was the source of much fun and pleasure between the contestants. The losers are to erTtert&in the winners at a special banquet on April 28th. Following the announrement of the winners, the Sheep not *o be outdone, immediately challenged the Goats to a resumption of the contest, when, how and where the Goats pre ferred. The Goats declined until further consult -.tion could be had with the Chief Goat. Mrs. Leila Dickey, proprietress of the Maples, 'has invited the Lions to be her guest- on their first meeting night in April. President Fain reported that pros pccts for opening the hosiery mil) were good, and that the mill was now in better shape financially than it had been in some time. The meeting was well attended, and all members were enthusiastic ? especially the Goats. HARRY CARRINGER BURNS FACE AND HANDS WITH TAR Harry Carringer, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Carringer, is suffer ing this week from burns on the face and hands caused from a can of tar exploding and covering his hand and face. Harry was heating a can of tar the other day to repair some leaks in a boat when the tar became too hot and the can exploded. His faee and left hand was badly burned, and he has been suffering considerable pain. However, the burns though badly painful, are now healing nicely. HOSIERY MILL 1 NAMES OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS' i ? o ? i Meeting Well Attended? More Than Three Fourth* Outstanding I Stock Represented i ? o | < At a meeting of the stockholder- : of the Nu-Fashion Hosiery Mills, Inc. I1 last Monday night. officers and dir- \ ectv>rs were named and approval was given of the purchase of the stock ' of (I. T. Whitlock. VN . M. Fain was named president; W . K. Matheson, vice president : P. J C. Hyatt, Secretary -Treasurer. The following were named as directors ? J. B. Storey, E. C. Moore, G. W. i Fllis, W. M. Fain. Wm. P. Payne, W. i I-.. Mathe-on, G. W. Candler, and P. C. Hyatt. An offer from a well known hos iery mill man was considered but no action taken, as other offers arc being considered and stockholders re served action until the otheis could be heard from. 1 The plant is now in the best Si.apc financially it has been in for some time, and indications are that a sub stantial payroll will be created. Old employee* are making- applications , for work, and plans are being made t" start operation as soon as suf ficient collections have been made on outstanding stock subscriptions to guarantee sufficient working capital. Reports coming before the meet ing were highly encouraging. Several requests for sample- and prices were reported. Demand has already been created for the product of the mill, and old customers have been making inquiries as to date deliveries may be resumed. Reporas were to the ef fect that hosiery mills throughout the south as a whole were enjoying good business, and the demand ap poars to be increasing. Complete control of the Nu-Fash ion Hosiery Mill has now passed into ne hands of local business men, men who have the interest of Murphy at heart and who went into the venture primarily to create a payroll for the town. Products Now is a good time to make a safe investment and at the same time help j create a payroll for the town. It is j a project that every citizen should be interested in and under present i capitalization every dollar invested is j j safe. The present stockholders are , ? be congratulated on carrying on j j during the depression and should be j encouraged and assisted by others who are interested in the welfare ot j ! the town. It is a community project I from which every one will directly, or indirectly benefit and every one 1 should rally to the call for sufficient) capital to operate the plant which is equipped and ready to start making i hosiery on almost a moment s notice, j o Mr. Harry P. Cooper returned home Tuesday from a trip to New i Orleans, La. ? o ? Mr. C. M. Wofford returned home Tuesday from a week's business trip to Florida. CENSUS FIGURES SHOW GAIN OF 909 FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY By Bryan W. Sipe, Statistician, De- 1 partment of Conservation and Development Final census figures show that ' Cherokee County had a population of 1 16,151 on the first, day of April of last year, which represented a pain 1 of 909 persons over the 15,242 re- j ported in 1920, or a pain 2,015 over the 14,136 reported in 1910. During 1 the ten year period from 1920 to ! 1930 North Carolina pained a total ' of 611,153, or 23.9 per cent, giving the State a total population of 3,170- j 276. North Carolina now ranks 12th. among the states of the union in tot- j al population. During the same de- j ade the population increase in Cher- ; okee County was a fractiop less than six per cent. North Caroli.ia as a whole has 65 inhabitants per square ' mile; Cherokee County now has 35.6 : >eople per square mile of land area, j The towns in Cherokee county ! showed greater gains in population j than did the county as a whole. Mur? , nhy showed a gain ?.i population of 298, Andrews of 114, Marble a gain, of 138 and Culberson a gain of six. j In 1920, there were 3,304 people en off and braces and shoes put on. ? She has shown wonder lul improve ment since she entered the hospital several months ago. She was strick en with infantile paralysis on August 29th, 1630. | ? living in the four incorporated towns i of the county and 11,938 people liv- j ing in the unincorporated places and j rural areas. /The excess of births ov- ' er deaths in the county is 18.6 per . thousand of population per yeor. j Thus, during the 10 year period from I 1020 to 1930 there should have been] 997 moi4 births than death? in the j incorporated towns, and 1,888 more; births than deaths in the rural areas j of the county. On this basis, the population of the towns should have been 4301 whereas the population actually was only 3,860. Likewise, the population of the rest of the county should have been 13,826 whereas it was only 12,291. not counting any increase from immigra tion from ether counties or otjier states. It appears from these figures therefore, that even though Cherokee county actually gained 909 inhabi tants from 1920 to 193?, yet the number of births is considered, the county suffered a loss in population of 1,976 persons. In other words, if the county had been able to hold only the persons within ber borders, the population would have been nearly 2.000 greater than it was at the end of the decade under review. The town^ did better than the rural areas in holding their population, for they lest only 441 while the rural areas lost lrv-r> persons. In other words, the to v i- lost 44.2 per cent of the (Continaed on page 8) Vlurphy Pastor Aiding In Statesville Revival The Rev. Howard P. Powell, pastor ?f the Murphy Methodist Episcopal 'hurch. South, is in Statesville as sisting the Rev. Dr. A. L. Stanford n a two week-' revival meeting. During Mr. Powell's absence, his ] mlpit is being filled by visiting min sters. The Wednesday evening pray *r service was conducted by the "Rev. E. F. Troutman, pastor of the An irews Lutheran Church. Sunuay morning, the Rev. W. J. Miller, pas tor of the Andrews Methodist church had charge of the services. In the evening, the congregation worship ped with the Presbyterian and Bap tist churches. Prayer service on the 25th was in charge of the Rev. Dr. J. P. Anderson, pastor of the Pres byterian church. The services on Sunday morning, March 2'J, will be conducted by Professor T. J. Lance, president of Young Harris College, and. in the evening, there will be a union service of the three churches at the Presbyterian church, the Rev. ?F. LeRoy Steele, pastor of the Bap- ; tist church, preaching the sermon. SUPERIOR COURT CONVENES HERE NEXT MONDAY Cherokee County Superior Court convenes here Monday morning. Mar. ?loth, for a two weeks term for the trial <>f both criminal and civil ca.-es. with Judge Walter E. Moore, of Syl va, presiding. The criminal docket contains forty five cases for trial on warrants, and more than fifty cases continued and on good behavior, etc. There are sev eral cases to be tried for murder in various degrees, while the greater portion of the cases is for violation of the prohibition laws. The civil docket is rather heavy, and is comprised of the following cases : Monday, April 6, 1931 ?18. Gentry vs. Gentry. 61. Watson vs. Nichols. 62. Watson vs. Stiles et als. 63. Ideal Motor Co. vs. Piercy 72. Radford vs Woodbury-Mauney Lumber Company. 79. Graham vs. Taylor. Tuesday, April 7, 1931 83. M. & M. Bank vs. Quiett. et al*. 88. Walker vs. Quiett & Coburn. 89. M. & M. Bank vs. Pace, et als. 90. Almond vs. Oceola Mills. 93. Woodbury-Mauney Lumber Co. vs. Dean Lumber Co. (Pro tested). 94. Padgett vs. So. Ry. Co. 95. Dailey vs. So. Ry. Co. Wednesday, April 8, 1931 96. Holloway vs. Railway Co. 97. Hall vs. Hall. 98. Hamby vs. Teague. 99. Leatherwood vs. Holder Bros. 100. Rice vs. Rice. 101. Tat ham vs. Cope. 102. Wofford-Terrell Co. vs. Dean et als. Thursday, April 9, 1931 103. Dickey vs. Martin, Admx. et als. 104. Dickicy vs. Martin. A dm. et als. 105. Candler-Nichols Hospital vs. W. J. Barton. 106. Mount vs. Meroney et als. 108. Lenoir Fair Association vs. LaMance Attractions and Geo. W. LaMance. MOTIONS 3. Bryson vs. Bryson. 53. Hackney Co. vs. National Tie & Lumber Co., et al. 57. Graves vs. Dockery et als. i 59. Sterling Lumber Co. vs. N. W. j Abernathy, Sheriff, et als. 60. Moore vs. Rutherford et al. 65. Meroncy vs. First National Bank, et als. 69. Meroney vs. First National Bank, et als. 70. Meroney vs. First National j Bank, et als. 75. McLean vs. Hardwood Co. et al. 81. Brown vs. Cotter. 82. McDonald vs. Kilptitrick et als. 84. In re Harben, <t als. 91. Walker vs. Walker 107. Pearl City Veneer Co. vs. Tri-County Lumber Co. Meace vs. Commercial Credit Co. ? o The many friends of Mrs. Allen Lovinprood who underwent a minor operation at John Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, Md . will be glad to know that she is getting along nicely AGED MARTIN'S CREEK CITIZEN DIED WEDNESDAY O Funeral of Ephriam Keener, Father of Clerk of Court, Held Thur*d.ty Bphriam Keener, 86 year? old. ?'ether of Jol.n E. Keener, Clerk of Cherokee County Superior Court, died Wednesday morning about 8 o' clock at his homo on Martin's Creek, after an illness of about a week. Mr. Keener was born in Lincoln county, N. < .. and when he was about ten years old hp moved with his par ents to Catawba county. He came to Cherokee county about thirty ago. lie was a member of the Metho dist church for more than fifty years and beloved and respected by all who knew him. Funeral services were held Thurs day afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Hampton Memorial church by the Rev. .1. I.. Steele, and interment was in the cemetery clo-e by. He is survived by his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Sarah Wilson Williams, and two sons, John E. Keener, of Murphy, and Anvos Keener, of Dallas. N". <\, three broth ers, Mike, David and George Keener, of Maiden, N. and one ssiter. Mrs. Frances Parker, al?o of Maiden. Funeral Is Held For George H. Luther, 77 The funeral of George H. Luther, 77, who died at his home six mile* west of Andrews, Sunday, was held at the Whi taker's Baptist church Monday morning at 1 1 o'clock. Inter ment followed in the church ceme tery. The service was conducted by the Rev. Walter J. Miller, pastor of the Andrews Methodist church of ?vhich the deceased was a member. Mr. Luther was born in Buncombe county in 1854 and moved to Cher okee county in early manhood. He is survived by his widow and nine children, J. W.. S. S., H. L., J. M., and B. M. Luther, and Mrs. Mary .lane Adams, Mrs. Ella Lunsford, Mrs Laura Lunsford, and Miss Julia Luth er. Five brothers also survive, John Luther of Buncombe county. Andrew Luther, of Andrews. Farmon Luther, of South Carolina, Oscar Luther, of Greenville, S. (\, and Gaines Luther, of Danville, Va. MOUNTAIN GUILD TO HOLD MEETING New Hampshire Man Making Study Of Handicraft II M. Rugg, of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H., who has been vMting schools in the Sou thern mountains, learning about handicraft, spent a few days at the John <\ Campbell Folk School at ffrasstown. Mr. Ruggs plans to de velop handicraft throughout the state of New Hampshire. Before coming here he visited the Allanstand Indus tries, Asheville. Wood Novelties at Waynesville, and various other indus tries. Mr. Rugg will attend the con ference of Southern Mountain work ers in Knoxville 'nis week, and go from there to Gatlinburg, Tenn., to the spring meeting of the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild, which originated by Mrs. John (\ Campbell. Mr. Allen Eaton, of the Russell Sage Foundation, who is especially interested in arts and crafts, and Dr. Willard. of New York, spent Sunday nnght at the John C. Campbell Folk School, iind joined Mrs. Campbell, Miss Margurite Butler, and Mi^s Jane Chase, on a trip to Knoxville to the Conference of the Southern Mount ain workers. To Attend Meeting Miss Louise Pittman- who has been in Chicago for some time, aoing pro motion work for the Folk School, iretting in touch with people who are interested in building up rural adult education, and acquainting them with the principles and efforts of the school, will meeL them in Knoxville, and they will all attend the Guild meeting in Gatlinburg. While in Chi cago. Miss Pittman stayed at the Al lerton House, official alumni resi dential headouarter? for 102 univer sities arid college*. It is located with in six blocks of Chicago's business and theatrical district. George Bidstrup. manager of the Folk School farm, has gon etc Den mark for a two months' visit with relatives. This is Mr. Bid^rup's f.rst crip back to Denmark sine- coming here to take charge of the Fclk School farm about four years aro.
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