Vol. XLIII. ? No. 5.
Murphey, N. C., Friday, September 4, 1931
$1.50 YEAR? 5c COPY
HARDING GIVES
? SENTENCES OF
4MOST030YRS
Many Fine* Also Handed Out
During Two Week* Of Criminal <
Court Here
J-.iiL" ^ F. Harding, who presided
over 1 in rokeeV Superior Court, Aug.
term. a>s?.-d out sentences to the law
breakers in lumps of from 4 months
to th' >' years, a perusal of the min
ute ri- > ket of the court reveals. The
court was- scheduled as a combina- '
tion criminal and civil term, but the |
criminal docket was so excessively |
heavy 'hat the entire two weeks
were taken up with the trial of crim
inal cases, and many cases had to be
cortinut'd. No civil cases were taken 1
up at all, heinp continued until the
next term of court.
Tom Iflackwen, colored, charged
with murder in connection with the
fatal stabbing of Lewis Fuller, an
other colored man, in Texana the lat
ter part of July, drew sentence of
thirty years upon his plea of guilty
of murder in the second degree.
Mary Best, Charlie Beal, Bos;* Fain
Llc Kllcn Harbin, Hazel McMahan
Mary Best, Charlie Beal and Bose
Fain received the next heaviest sen
tence^ at the hands of Judge Hardin.
In the first count, Lee Ellen Harbin,
Mary Host and Hazel McMahan were
found guilty of receiving stolen
goods. Lee Ellen Harbin received 3
en. Lee Ellen Harbin received three
years. Mary Best, two years and Ha
zel McMahan two and a half years.
They served notice of appeal through
attorneys, and appeal bond was fixed
at Jlno.OO, with appearance bonds
fixed at $2500.00 each. The court
took cognizance of the fact that Mar
v lies* had already spent one year
ami three days in jail, and Hazel Mc
Mahan had spent six months in jail,
and allowed credit for the time to ap
ply against the sentences.
In another count where the three
women were tried with Carlie Beal
and Bose Fain, the defendants were
found guilty of house breaking and
receiving. Charlie Beal drew sent
ence of two and half years; Fiose
Fain two and a half years; Lee 7-Jllen
Harbin ihree years; Hazel McMahan
two and a half years and Mary Best
two years. The sentences in this
cai-e were dircted by the court to
run concurrently with the senten
ce in the other case for the women.
Defendants served notice -of appeal, I
which bond was set at $100.00, while
appearance bond was set at $2500.00
each. Bonds for the three women
were not to be more than this a
mount in both eases however. They j
are at liberty pending appeal. .
23 Road Sentences
Twenty- three prisoners, who re- [
ceived road sentences, were carried !
to Raliegh to begin serving sentenc
es upon the roads and State's prison
the week following court. They were
carried off in a cage like jail mount
ed on a truck, sent here by the state '
for this purpose.
Those carried off and their sen
tences follow:
Garland Brown and E. L. John
son, 2 years each on the roads for
breaking and entering.
Dan Williams, six months for man
ufacturing whiskey.
Karnie Young and Onie Beasley,
2 years each in State's prison for
larceny of gensing.
Thomas Hester four months for vi
olation of the prohibition law.
Con Chastain, and Jesse Rich, four
months each for disturbing public
worship.
Fred White, six months for viola
tion of the prohibition law and driv
ing while under the influence of
whiskey. Sam Rose, six months for
manufacturing whiskey. Lonnie Chas
tain, four months for resisting offi
cers. Tom Blackwell, colored, 30
years on plea of guilty of murder in
the second degree.
Arthur Mason four months for vio
lation of the prohibition law; another
?1 day 9 to start when first term ex
pires for driving while under the in
tor-, six months each for manufac
turing whiskey.
Crawford Kidd, four months and
cost for manufacturing whiskey.
Vernon Gibson, four months for
forcible trespass.
Hoyt Hampton and Hiram Hair.p
ma??f*cturing whiskey.
Clifford Taylor six months for as
a deadly weapon.
. ,eaTl Loudermilk, four months for
violation of the prohibition law.
John Cole, four months for viola
tion of the prohibition law.
"d Pendergrast, four months for
Jur^pxiy.
^nrley Lovingood. six months for ?
^L'rJacturing whiskey.
Teetuskee, fou*- months for
olatior. of the Tirolvbi4 ??*> '~w.
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Townson Awarded
State Contract For
School Tables
W . D. Townson, Murphey furniture
manufacturer, was on:- of\he two ?.r
three successful bidders c?n school
furniture for the state of North Car
olina, according to news dispatches i
coming from Raleigh. The Division
of Purchase and Contract awards!
Mr. Townson the state contract tor j
building library and utility tabl< .
tor use in scnoois of the state.
Mr. Townson is making some :
mighty good school furniture. He
is now working on a contract for aj
school in Georgia and another school ]
' in North Carolina. He has built a
school desk of his own design that is
said by school authorities to be one I
of the best they have ever seen. He
hes built several hundred of tKese
desks and delivered them to schools, i
Marion Factories Are
Running Full Time
Mr. Vance Wilson, who is working
in a furniture factory at Marion, N.
C., spent the week-end at Murphey
with his family. Vance says that
there are seven or eight mills at Ma
rion and all of them are running full
time, with several of them working
two shifts. He said wages are not
as high as they used to be, but ac
cording to the cost of living, they
paid enough to let a man live.
Testing Cattle
A. A Husman, veterinarian of the
State department of agricultuie. is
in this section this week testing cat
tle at the John C. Campbell Folk
School at Brasstown.
Union Service
All the churches of Murphey took
1 part in a union service Sunday
I morning at the First Baptist church,
this being the last service of the Rev.
J. LeRoy Steel, who, two weeks ago.
tendered his lesignation as pastor of
the churchc. Mr. Steele left Sun
j day afternoon for Sylva to enter
( upon his duties as teacher of Bible,
athletic director and field represen
tative of the Sylva Collegiate Insti
tute. Mr. Steele is scheduled to
preach at the First Baptist church,
Andrews, next Sunday night, at
which time he will baptize several
members of the Murphey church.
n
Birthday Dinner
A real old fashioned dinner party
was given Mr. Wiley S. Green last
Monday at noon, by his wife, sons
and daughter at their home on 108
Dillard Street, August 31st marked
Mr. Green's 77th birthday. Mr. Green !
is a native of Gainesville Ga. and j
has lived in Murphey and Western
North Carolina over fifty years, j
Those present other than his sons i
and daughter, who are all "home- 1
town" boys, Fred. C. of New York I
City and Mrs. Frank Tate of Duck- j
town, Tenn., were Mr. Ed Davidson, !
R. H. Hyatt, J. M. Stoner, W. B.
Dickey, and Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Hall ,
all of Murphey.
Annual Creamery Day
The third annual Creamery Day
will be held at the Mountain Valley
Creamery, Brasstown, on Sept. 7th.
There will be speakers, races, and a
banjo and fiddlers contest. Lunch will
be sold on the grounds by the Wo
man's Community Club. Everyone is
welcome.
WEHUTTY
Our community is being blessed
with rain and crops are fine.
The revival at Shoal Creek that
has been in progress the past two
weeks closed Saturday night rathei
unexpectedly.
Messrs. Oscar and Pat Collins of
"Wehutty left Monday for Graysville,
Tenn. to enter school at the Grays
ville Academy.
Several auto loads of people from 1
our community attended the singing j
convention at Mobile, Ga. last Sun- j
day and report some fine singig. ]
A series of meetings will start Sun
day Sept. 6th at 11 o'clock at the
Seventh Day Adventist Church just
across the road from Shoal Creek
Baptist Church. Elder R. G. Strick
V?rd oastor of the S. D. A. church of
K.ioxville, Ten. will be in charge of
the services a part o* the time. Ev
eryone is cordially in?*ted and will
be made welcome.
From Manteo to Murphy
BY JOSFPHUS DANIELS
Secretary of the Navy in Wilson's
Cabinet and publisher of the Ral
eigh News and Observer. Editorial
Correspondence of the Raleigh News
and Observer, August 26, 1931.
M :rj>hy, N. C.. Aug. 22.? Last
Tuesday I was writing from Manteo,
capital of the county of Dare, the
! or iginal land settled on this conti
nent. and about the exhilaration of
mi iMiaiiunK In Atlantic Occan. I
' was then in the extreme east county
I >eat of our big state. This letter i?
| being written from Murphy (or
; hould it be spelled Murphey). the
I mountain girdled capital ot Cherokee
; (bounty. It is a far cry from Roan
oke Island to this beautiful city, al
l most at the western extremity of
! Western North Carolina.
You never fully realize how big
and wonderful the state* of North
Carolina is until you traverse it from
ocean to mountain top within four
davs with anly a stop at Raieigh
where vou miss the sea breeze
and Ion g for the cool moun
tain air. It i* a Ion* state
geographically ? the distant^ from
Manteo, the county seat of Pare, to
Murphy, the county seat ot C heroRee.
In fact, it is so long that time changes
for vou gain a whole day, recalling
happiness of Jules Verne who won
his bet that he could travel around
the world in eighty days only because
h? hail trained a day, am. didn t rec
ognize it until he thought that he
had lost. You gain also in Altitude.,
for while Roanoke Island is only a
few feet above sea level you rise to
the height of 5,000 feet or more as
vou motor in sight of Mount M'10*1'
ell and the peaks in the Great Smoky
Mountains almost as high as the peak
in Buncombe and Yancey counties
when the claim was made that Guyot
or Clingman in the Great Smokies
had reduced Mt. Mi.chell to second
place in the altitude of North Caro
lina mountains I resented theintius
or the attempt to take from Mt
Mitchell its fame as the loftiest peak
in the state. Neither or any other
Mountain climber *>r naturalist had
I pioneered so early and made such a
supreme sacrafice as hlishn Mitchell
for science. When big Tom Wilson
found his body in clear water into
which he had fallen. Dr. Mitchell
won the light to the eminence which
could be only be given by bestowing
his name on the loftiest peak east of
the Rockies. 1 had a sort ot inexplic
able satisfaction, therefore, and some
thing of a thrill when the geological
survev in its recent measure proved
that "Mitchell, being 6.711 feet high
topped ill rival- This of course
docs not detract from the glory 01
the Great Smoky Mountains for while
the mountains of which Mt. Mitchell
is the apex, have only one peak over
6,000 feet high. The Great Smokies
havj many. Fortunately, you ma>
now climb to to the t<^ of Mt. Mit
chell and. like Moses, "view the land
scape o'er" ami W> uplifted by the
panorama around you. Unfortunate
ly yet unless you have something of
the powers of a mountain goat climb
the towering peaks of Mt. Guyot and
other tall mountains (16 of them o
ver 6,000 feet in height) in the
Great Smokies, liut you can see them
from Haywood county from Cove
creek gap, from Srookctown in Swain
and from No. 10 (Main St. Highway)
some miles west of Bryson City.
There are roads leading to the
Great Smokies, but a modern hard
surfaced road is yet to be construct
ed. It is the next great piece of con
struction for North Carolina to und
ertake. Thousands of visitors have
come to the mountains this year ex
pecting to drive up to the top of the
Great Smokies, but were disappoint
ed, so ex-Senator Fry e, of Bryson,
tells me, because no good road has
been completed over the North Car
olina entrance, whereas Knoxvillc
and Tenessee have provided a road
from the western entrance. To be
sure, the delay in getting the land
ad other things have stood in the way
but now the one outstanding duty of
North Carolina is to provide ways
without delay to get into the heart of
the Great Smokies and on the brow.
What boosts it to invest millions in
the Great Smokies if the people can
not enjoy the scenery and the flora
and fauna (the most remarkable in
the world) for lack of a great road.
It is coming and is the great com
mand to the Highway Commission,
not alone from Western North Caro
lina but the whale State and in fact
from the whole country. If visitors
Ket the habit of entering from
Tenntssee for several years it
will be difficult to change the route.
The approach from the North Caro
lina end, entering the state at the
Virginia line and coming by Grand
r and thence through Ashcville
an . Waynesville and Bryson City is
a ti-Jt. -i i - times more beautiful than
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GARDNER SEES GOLDEN
OPPORTUNITY IN PARK
Evangelistic Services
Begin Sunday At
Methodist Church
,
The Rev. Howard P. Powell,
pastor of the Murpey Methodist
Church, will begin a scries of
evangelistic services Sunday
morning. Throughout the two
weeks, fhe pastor will preach
from Chrikt'* Sermon on the
Mount.
Miss Kathryn Danforth, of
Augusta, Ga., will assist in the
meeting, having charge of the
young people and the children.
The public is cordially invited
to all of these services.
0
Murphy Man Juror
At Trial Of Bankers
E. C. Ramsey, of Murphey, is one
of the twelve jurors selected in the J
United States district court. Ashe- j
viUe, this week, to try Wallace B. |
Davis, president; and William B. {
Hams, vice-president, of the Cen
tral Securities, Inc.. who are charg
ed with having used the mails to de
fraud in connection with the opera- -
tion of the company.
WOLF CREEK
A crowd of IS ranging in age from
2 years to ~?4 went to Blue Ridge and
Morgan ton, (la. Sunday and spent a
very pleasant day. They learned that
while the dam at Blue Ridge backs
the water up the river almost seven
miles that the contour line is 105 mi
les and that in one place the lake is
[ nearly four miles wide. The crest of
j the Lake is about 17 feet below the
[contour line.
Mi h Omega Garren R. N., who *s
employed by the Patton Memorial
Hospital. Hendersonville. N. C.
spent last week here with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Garren. She re
turned to her work Monday her par
ents and bother Howard accompany
ing her as far as Murphey.
Several of our citizens attended
the trial oT Deputy Sherriffs Craw
ford and Waldrop at Murphey, Mon
day, charged with kidnapping B. H.
Harris from our community last
; spring.
I Mr. Calvin Garren of Ellijay, Ga.
I is spending this wek with his brother
J. M. Garen.
Messrs. Bert Led ford and Edgar |
Withrow visited relatives and friends 1
in the Ivy Log, Ga. section, Sunday. 1
: "All is well that ends well", said j
j an old sage. The revival meetings at j
j Pleasant Hil ended rather abruptly
Sunday night. One poor sinner ? "ail
I have sinned" ? got partially scalped
I and is now a fugitive from justice,
j We trust that some good may re
? suit from the service.
The public school began work here
i -Monday morning.
Open Season on Doves
Under a recent ruling of the Bio- 1
logical Survey, as requested by the
North Carolina Department of Con- i
servation and development, the sea
son to shoot doves in North Carolina
is as follows :
The season opens September 1st j
and closes September 30th, and then .
again opens November 20th and clos- j
es January 31st.
Doves are a migratory wild fowl
and therefore, to change the season .
in North Carolina required by ruling '
of tfie Biological Survey to make the ]
change in season valid in the State j
of North Carolina.
The small mouth Black Bass sea- j
son for mountain counties has been ,
extended by the board to include i
September 30th.
This information came to D. M. i
Bfirchfield, local game and fish war
den for Cherokee, Clay and Graham |
counties, from C. H. England, state !
Game Warden, approved by J. W.
Harrelson, Director of the Depart
of Conservation and Development.
o
Miss Frances Williams entertained
with a party at her home on last
Thursday evening. Those present
were Misses Polly Davis, Ann Can
dler, Lois Hill, Betty Bailey, Annie
Mae Townson and Messrs. Bill and
1 Buster Bayless, Charles DicVev. T.
H. Brendle, John Posey Jr., and Mr.
Hale.
Urges Western Counties
Unite in Developing
Smokies Project
Governor O. Max Gardener Fri
lav night advised the counties in and
lojacent t<> the Great Smoky Moan
:ains National Park to advertise the
park and reap the benefits *' the
stupendous opportunity which this
[iark will bring to Western North
L'aiolina." .
The state executive was speaking
to an audience ?f county commision
ers, mayors, business men, civic lead
ers and park enthusiasts at a Smoky
Mountains Park banquet and mass
meeting in George Vanderbilt Hotel.
The Governor declared that Wes
tern North Carolina was not the on
ly section of the state which will be
nefit from the park but that the en
tire state will profit by the $f>0,000
000 tourist business it is expected to
attract each year.
Problems before leaders of this sec
tion are to let the world know about
the beauties, the charm, the appeal,
allure of this great region; how to
advertise the attractive and delight
ful ways of entering this area thru
North Carotin**, u??w to get North
Carolina, and this region in particu
lar, ready for the jrreat change in
this section which the park is going
to bring about, the governor told
his audience.
The text of Governor Gardener's
speech was as follows:
"Western North Carolina is just
now on the threshold of the realiza
tion of the dream of years and the
fruition of many months of expect
ant hope. The consummation of our
labors and hopes of the creation of
the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park we can see now just around the
| corner. Today we face the problem
| of preparing to reap the benefits
and opportunities of this realized
1 d ** Ui" .
i "Since 192-1 North Carolina has been
I working in an official and organiz
j ed way toward the aquisition of
[ parks and 'recreation facilities
in the Great Smoky Mountains. To
day we see the task almost com
pleted. Last reports show that only
53,000 acres remain to be acquired
| in the park area to bring the total
to the miimum of 427,000 requir
I ed by the federal government for
i a national park.
"It is appropriate on this occa
sion to acknowledge th ? great
debt of gratitude which we owe to
.John I). Ro.ckefelhtr, Jr. whoso
gift of $5,000,000 from the Lau
ra Spellman Kockefelier Foundation
matched the combined sums furnish
ed by the States of Tennessee and
North Carolina and their other priv
ate donations.
Extends 60 Miles
"The heart of the Great Smoky
Mountains National park is of
course the magnificent Great Smo
ky range which meanders through
the park for more than sixty miles.
Continuously for more than 28 miles,
it is more than one mile above
sea level. The highest peak is cling
man's JiJome, 6642 feet in altitude.
The highest mountain above its
immediate base is Mr. LeConte,
which in five miles rises 5,300 feet,
or more than one mile.
"In general it may be said that the
Tennessee side of the park gives the
impression of ruggedness and the
North Carolina side gives the
impression of vastness. Nowhere in
any elime is there such a variety of
trees, and shrubs. There are 152 var
ieties of trees. Doubtless more will be
added when a thorough botanical
survey is made. The park contains
the finest stand of virgin hardwood
and the largest and finest stand of
red spruce in the United States.
There are 202,000 acres of virgin
forest. Much of the remainder, log
led years ago before the ruthless op
erations were the vogue, is now at
tractive forest. The annual rainfall
of 84 inches is exceeded only by that
of one locality on the north coast.
As the dense forest insures a gradual
runoff, there can be no finer streams
Many Trout Streams
i There are approximately 600 miles
of trout water in the park. Adequate
I fishing ?aws and a comprcheiisibe
stocking program will provide ex
1 cellent fishing for all. The park is a
paradise of wild life. Restocking and
zealous protection will insure t* it
iall visitors will see the iarger game
animals such as deer bear and elk.
"An evidence of the exquisite and
unique charm of the Great Smokie*
lis the fact that enthvia?tr fr< m o'h
er states have been so prominent in
the sucr#*csf?l effort "-'relish *hj
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