The Cherokee Scout
Official Orvjan of Murphy and Cher
okft- County, North Carolina
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Number of Private
Fish Ponds Being
Built in County
A number of people in the county
are building private fish ponds or
preserves, most of which are intend
ed exclusively for raising fish for
family consumption.
A year or so ago. the Scout be- 1
gan urging the people to build such!
private fish ponds, and it is encour- 1
aging to note that a number have
been built this year, and that the
parties have in their application for
fingerling.s with which to stock them. 1
Hampton brothers of Midway
Lake and K. Moore of. Murphy are
the pioneers in this movement, and ;
th;- efforts they have put forth in
this respect will be bearing fruit in
another season. Midway Lake will
be open for fishing next year, while |
M:. Moore's lake will not be open
until year after next.
Both of these lakes have been
stocked with game fish, and when i
they open to the public somebody is [
going to have some mighty good fish- '
mg ground and somebody else is go- '
ing to have a source of ready cash'
during the fishing season.
And, by the way, we are told that
an acre of good fishing will produce
more food in a week than a good
acre of land will in a year ? to say
nothing of the spoit and thrill of
the catch. Somebody told us several
days ago, taking eognizance of the
fact that we have l'i.shed, and fished
and fished and wished much this
year without yet having a real mess
of fish ? they said we ought to put
us in a trot line. We told them there
was no thrill to catching fish on a
trot line, besides we onjoyed fishing
whether we caught a while or a min
now.
Arid that is aside* from the tali- wi
started to tell here. The ponds re
cently built and now being built are
as follows: J. H. Ellis, Martins
Creek section, pond covers about a
quarter of an acre, and cost about
$20.0o worth of material and labor
t<> build. W. H. Hughes, also of
Martin's Creek, nearly completed,
covers about a quarter of an acre,
and cost approximately $25.00 to
build. Bob Hughes, Martin's Creek,
lake finished and now filling, size
not known but probably larger than
the two hereinbefore mentioned.
These three lakes are in about one
half mile of the other, in the same
community. When they are stocked
with fish, and get two years growth,
somebody is going to have some fish
? just like they have corn, taters,
beans, chickens, hogs, cows, etc. ?
? and who is there with soul so
dead that does not love fried fish
and good corn bread?
About two miles on over in the
Belleview settlement, \yalter Ander
son has built a lake that covers about
an acre, while down at Suit, near
Friendship church, Andrew Barton
has built a small private fish pond,
so we are told, while down at Cul
berson Lee Shields has built one
? and we'll bet our last year's sum
mer straw hat somebody else is go
ing to have some fish. And the
beauty about it is the stock is furn
ished free upon application All that
is necessary is to prepare a pond
and keep yourself from fishing in it
for two years after it has been stock
ed ? if you can. While when you
farm you've got to prepare the land,
buy the seed ^nd cultivate it. If
you raise cattle, you've got to pre-,
pare the pasture, buy the stock and I
wait a year or so for it to grow up,'
and while it is growing watch after I
it. doctor it, feed it and keep it prop- 1
erly housed, etc.
Wonder how many fish ponds there
are in the county ? we mean private
lakes or ponds The Scout would
like to know. 'Write and tell us the
size, approximate cost, where locat
ed and to whom it belongs, as well
as the kind of fish it is to be stock
ed with ? we are looking for fishing
ground.
That is one of the county's great
est assets anti tourist attractions ?
fishing ground ? and when this field
is properly developed, times will be
better, taxes will not be so hard to
pay ? tourists will be plentiful, and
the owners of the lakes, track farm
A TRIP TO PALESTINE
KK-X-X* By K?*. Howard P. Powell -X-X^X-X^X
The train trip from Kantara to
Cairo. Egypt wa- a more pleasant
? >ne than the one from Ha'f? to Kan- i
tara. The train pulled in just a few
minute.- before dark and brought
?.vith ?t hundreds of passengers for
Cairo. We had our supper on the
tram, and while the f >od was good,
the dining car was not to be compar
ed with those of our American
trains. We h p'd the prices were not
t?? be compare 1 with our prices eith
cr. I
Wr arrive i in Cairo about l>:45.
The 5ms took us to Victoria Hotel
where we had our reservations. We
found this hotel to be one of the
n^.st comfortable of any through
out our journey. The rooms were
weil furnished and well ventilated.
The dining ro m service was most
excellent. We found ip the hotel a
; very interesting elevator boy, or in
< airo, the boy who ran the lift. Th^
1 oy was fifteen years of age. and a
Moha^ medan by religious faith. Hi
i parents must have had great ambi
tions for him; for they named him
; Mohammed. At the time of our visit
i he was not making the progress that
j one might expect of one bearing that
! name. However, he had shown some
! remarkable cleverness in picking up
| the languages of the various of the
guests of the hotel. We were told
that he had never been to school,
but was able to speak five different
languages well enough to serve the
guests. This boy wore white robe
with a red belt and a red fez. as did
most of the men and boys of Cairo.
We found in Cairo the greatest
museum in the world. Our visit to
this museum was just for one mom
ers, hotel keepers, restaurant owners,
garage and filling station proprietors
and fishing takle merchants and oth
ers will have money jingling in their
pockets.
One hundred good fish ponds in
the county, four or five acres large
and smaller would be worth a hun
dred thousand dollars a year to the
county during the three months of
the fishing season.
ORA LEE NELSON
The death angel paid visit to earth
on .June the twent> -ninth anil took
form us a very dear and precious
friend. .Mis- Ora I-*-" Nelson. Ora Lee
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pry
? r Nelson both of whom have preced
ed her to the grave. She loaves here
to mourn her loss one brother, Butler
of Asheville. N. and three sister?.
.Mrs. Vtsta Hensley and Mr-. Kmily
Christopher of Murphy .md Mrs. Lu
la Jones ?.f Turtletown. Tenn. Re
sides these she leaves a whole host of
friends.
Funeral service* were conducted
hy Rev. W. A. White of Ducktown,
Tenn. Pall Hearers were Messrs. Deyo
and Floyd Kimsey. Luther and Ri
mer Taylor, Bill Wallace and Fred
1 Hensley. Iterment was in Zion Hill
Cemetery.
Our hearts are bowed in sorrow
and an overwhelming loneliness
j steals over us when we think of the
days and months and years that are
to come and go with no loving smiles
nor cheery words from Ora Lee.
Good l>y until we meet again.
Dear friend so kind and true;
Good by until that day shall come
When we shall go to you.
Between us rolls death's cold dark
stream.
You've crossed its rolling tide;
You're safe at home with Jesus,
With him to e'er abide.
Sometime we, too, shall cross that
stream.
We'll join you over there.
In that land that's free from parting,
Free from sorrow and from care.
'Tis hard to say it, Ora Lee,
It costs a tear ? a sigh;
But until that glad afterwhile,
We say again, Dear Friend, Good by.
A Friend.
WOLF CREEK
W. A. Burgess with some help
thrashed out the rye grown here or
the major portion of it last week.
Our farmers were more Hun pleased
with the whole crop.
Deputy Sherriff A. L. Cole, assist
ed by A. J. Simons, broke into the
place of a bunch of loiterers and
"Neckers" Sunday nite and as a re
sult four of them were landed in Mur
phy jail.
W. M. Ballew has been making
some tests for mineral on his farm
and beleives that he has found a rich
gold mine. Some samples from the
same veiu are now being assayed
and it is the hope of our people that
something valuable has been discov
ered.
The Sunday School at Macedonia,
after hibernating for about nine
months showed some life Sunday by
a nice crowd being present.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davis and chil
dren visited at the home of Mr.
Charles Davis at Ducktown station,
Sunday.
inc. which was a'l to sh- rt to becin :
to see all tlit' collect! r- of relics. !
The most interesting f .t . ? there
, most of us were the 1 hi ? ' from th<"
Itnmb of Kin* Tut. We -aw t?; of,
|h-- caskets a- they Use three. These
two were the second and the third.
?The first one. in which h.> bodv was
I placed, ha> not b?ei mo.< <! from the
? tomb in Luxor. We found null: ns of
dollars worth of jewels, ?' *1 those
rooms where they had ' la-.-eti their j
i findings front this *on ?? Ne found.
| his golien ?-.-??l'ien im- I
jjere. We that - were I
I for his use in the othe? worid.
It was inter- -ting ;>t this;
'remarkable man. v. s: a- just a
; young man 'i-.irim: the " me of _ his
, reign* We found that he (,nly lived
to be about twenty : -ur years of i
age. It is a rr.y.-tevy : :: any people |
i how he could gather ;i him so;
many admirer- .in::: a short;
period. It must ? a\ n the ambi
| tion of these admirers t.. contribute
something- to the t n.-? in which his
body wa* placed.
Cairo is the capital ?>: Egypt and
'its largest city. It is ituated near
| the right bank of the Nile, at an al
; titude of 62 feet above sea level. It
j covers an area f 11 square miles, di
j vided into separate quarters named
? after the nationality <>f the inhabi
tants, and is surrounded by a low
wall. The old part < f the city has its
narrow streets with few of them pav
ed. The modern part has wide
streets, well paved. The homes are
built of stone and are very comfort
able. They have ga electric lights
land tramways.
"The cheif interest in Cairo lies
i in its numerous mosques, of which
j some are regarded as the best speci
! mens of Arabic architecture. The
; Gami-ibn-tulun. erected about 87V . ;
lis the finest. It- site i- said to have
I been chosen on the spot where God ;
was supposed to have conversed with
( Moses." We visited this mosque.
! which is a mohammedan place of wor
ship. During our visit we were told
by the man who was directing us
I through the place many of the inter
? -tim: tbintr- t ? ? : : 1 ? i i n tr . 11
pointed to the gallery and saH, "Wo
used to let the women no to the ^al- I
lery and worship and to pray, but I
now we do not allow them to come at :
all. They are asked to do thi'ir pray- j
:nir at h >me." This aeain brings our j
attention to the fact that when Jesus
? hrist is left out of life, womanhood
i.- denied the place of respect and
honor.
During: our visit t- Cairo in the
:v. nth ?* May they had their Christ
ina. Th usands of people came to
the city for the celebration. Some
came t iding: camels, some ii< carts. :
others by train and automobile. The
Kinir all his irlory was there. We
were told that he w-iulcl pa>> the ho
tel about three o'clock in the after
noon and we pla ? j our-?lv< ?> to m-1
him as he passed. S?nu? time before
he was to pes? the street was cleared
by officers. The party started by an
officer riding on a motorcycle, then
I two otners riding just in front of a
car filled with officers, which was
just in front of the car in which the
King was riding. His car had an of
ficer in the front seat and one . n
either side in the rear seat beside
him and was followed by a car filled
with officers and that car followed
by two officers on motorcycles. It
was almost impossible tt) get a glim
pse of the king with his party cov
! ering him.
I We are now leaving for a trip to
! the pyramids.
(To he continued )
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
SPECIAL EXCURSIONS
AUGUST 15, 1931
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J $25.90
BALTIMORE, MD. _ 19.15
BUFFALO, N. Y. . ... ........ . 31.00
CHICAGO. ILL. 25.75
CINCINNATI, OHIO - .. 19.35
CLEVELAND, OHIO - 24.85
DETROIT, MICH. 25.05
EVANSV1LLE. IND 23.3S
LOUISVILLE, KY. 19.3S
NEW YORK, N. Y. . - 25.50
N1AGRA FALLS, N. Y. 31.00
PHILADELPHIA, 23.40
PITTSBURGH. PA. ... 28.30
ST. LOUIS. MO 26.15
TOLEDO, OHIO 23.0o
WASHINGTON, D. C. 17.40
LIMIT: 21 DAYS
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J. H. WOOD
Division Passenger Agent
Asheville, N. C.
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