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The L'"'h"S ,reek'y Keuspaper m ITestern , Vort h Carolina, Covering a Urge and Potentially Rich Territory in This State
Vo'. XLIV. ? No. 10. ~~ '
Murphey, N. C., Friday, October 7, 1932
$1.00 YEAR? 5c COPY
CHEROKEE FAIR 1
IS SUCCESSFUL
Fine Livestock, Farrr and Flower Ex
hibits Win In Annual
Display Contest#
Th, ninth annual Cherokee county
fair i Saturday after enjoying j
a large patronage for four days. The
fail, as usual, opened Wednesday i
morning in the rain, and showers
and drizzles continued up until aft
er the noon hour, when old Sol put
forth and drove away t?ie clouds and
lifted ?hijrh the hopes of Jie fair of
ficial. The rest of the week was
jair weather.
Whik exhibits in most departments
wet not so large as in previous years,
th- fair, a- a whole. w$s a very suc
tt--ful event and did much to inter
e>: and encourage the farmers and
farm families of Cherokee in their
vai i<us lines of activity. All exhib
it- \ver< of fine quality, and made
up fur "he deficiency in quantity.
Fine Dahlias Shown
Sworal beautiful collections of
rlnhlias featured t.he floral exhibits.
R. A. Dewar,~of Andrews won first
prize on the best individual dahlia,
the best decorative dahlia, the best
collection and sweepstakes over all.
Mrs. M. \V. Bell won first place on
show dahlias. Mrs. Dixie Palmer won
second en best individual, best decor
ptive, and best colection of dahlia*.
Mr-. Palmer also wpn first on roses,
anil Mrs. E. A. Davidson, second.
Mr. Dewar won first place in the
gladioli class, and Mrs. J. O. Mc
Curdy, won second prize.
In the ?chool exhibits, the sixth
grade ?f Andrews school won first
prize for ftie best school project on
display, and the Wolf Creek school
won second place. Ebenezer school
won first place in crayon work and
Wolf Creek won frist place lor the
best po-ter.
LIVE STOCK
In the live stock exhibits, Don
the J erst y class, Bob Rayetaoinnoo
Will crspoon won first senior cham
pion and grand champion prizes with
his showing of Hereford beef cattle.
In the Jersey cattle class. Bob Ray
won first prize and Frank Coleman
won second prize. In the Guernsey
sire class, N'oland Wells won first
prize and R. R. B"eal won second
tfrize. In the Guernsey cow class,
V P. Payne's entries won first sen
ior champions and grand champion
places.
Taxpayers League
Adjourns To Meet
First Mon. In Dec.
A meeting of the Cherokee Coun
ty Taxpayers League was held in the
court house here Monday with a large
number present.
The meeting was opened by the
president, Prof. L. E. Mauney. The
minute? of the last meeting was read
and adopted, and constitution and
by-laws were adopted. Mr. Mauney
and Mr. W. M. West made talks be
fore the meeting.
The league now has a membership
of more than a hundred, and indica
tions are that this number will be
s:reatl\ increased by the next meet
ing. No fees of any kind are requir
ed of members.
The meeting adjou'rned to meet
on the first Monday in December,
which is December 5th.
Singing Convention At
Hangingdog Oct. 9th
The semi-annual meeting of the
Cherokee County Singing Convention
jjH be held at the Hangingdog
Church on October 9th.
All music classes and singers from
all over the county will be in attend
ance to compete for tie banner
which is awarded annually and semi
annually to the class making the best
music.
The cfccasion has always drawn
?a^e crowds and no exception is ex
ited at this time. Everybody is
??rdialiy invited to come out and
some good singing, and all the
??S.ers and singing classes are urged
^ come prepared to compete for the
oanner.
dni? ^"gers, quartettes and singing
2?*** ?f adjoining counties are in
?k at*end and take part, altho
will not be privileged to com
for the banner.
tli rnest Trantham is secretary of
e county association.
Widely Separated
hc wean distance between the sun
the earth Is about 93.000,000 miles
Largest Ship Built Since the War
Tin? lies. fi-hOOO ton supprl^.nT ami tlio largest ship built sint c the Worlil
war. is the newest of the Italian line's modern lleet of passenger ships. She
is feet long ami has a ro?piire<l speed of more than 27 knots.
TEACHERS MEET
IN ASHEVILLE
Cullowhee, Oct. 1. (Special) ?
The meeting oi the Western Dis
trict of the North Carolina Education
Association will be held in Asheville
on October 14-15. L. E. Spikes of
Rutherfordton, District chairman, |
says that he expects two thousand i
Western North Carolina teachers to
attend the event. Air. Spikes and the
officers associated with him have ar
ranged an excellent program and have
secured some nationally known
speaker:1.
The 1'i'rst program will begin on
Friday afternoon^ Oct. 14, at 4:30
o'clock. At that time Dr. Kandall
of Columbia University will address
a joint session of the primary and
grammar groups. Other groups will
hear speakers as follows: I^atin, Dr.
HuLert Poteat of Wake Forest Col
lege; English, Dr. W. K. Green of
Duke University; Mathematics, Prof.
Munch of the University of North
Carolina; French, Pro!. Rene Hardre
of North Carolina college for Wo
men; home economics, Mrs. Chase
Woodhouse; scierice. Prof. S. J.
Manon of Lenoir- Rhyne college;
Library, Mrs. Mary Peacock Doug
las; commerical. Dr. Carringer of
Charlotte High School.
Other outstanding speakers who
will appear on departmental and gen- 1
eral nrograms are: .Honorable San-j
ford Martin, editor of Winston-Salem
Journal; Dr. A. M. Proctor of Duke
University; Miss Nora Beust of the
University of No'rth Carolina; Miss
Nila B. Smith, author; L. E. Browne,
State College; Superintendent A. T.
Allen; and Dr. J. Henry Highsmith.
A banquet will be held at Ashe
ville High school on Friday evening
for all teachers, members of Parent
Teachers Associations, and chair
men of county and local boards* who
wish to attend. Officials are anxious
that every teache'r in Western North
Carolina attend the convention.
Young People's
Democratic Club Is
Organized at Ogreeta
A Young People's Democratic Club
was organized at Ogreeta Tuesday
nip.ht with Fred Martin as chairman;
Miss Effie Johnson, vice chairman ;
Glen Chambers, secretary, and Purl
Johnson, treasurer.
A recent organization meeting at
Notla a club was organized in that
township with Tom King as chair
man; Mrs. Etna Kiloatrick, vice chair
man; Miss Estello Mauney, secretary,
and Fred Kilpatrick, treasurer.
At a meeting of the Young People's
Democratic Club held at Murphy in
the court house last week, constitu
tion and by-laws were adopted for
the county organization. The regu
lar meeting date**s were selected for
the first and third Fridays of each
month, at 7 o'c'ock P. M., in the
court house.
At this meeting, Judge Frank S.
Hill was the principal speaker. Oth
er speakers were C. B. Hill, Ralph
Moody and Harry P. Cooper, of Mur
phy, and Harlan Enloe of Andrews.
The meeting wa* enthusiastic and all
speakers commerded the young peo
ple and endorred he work they are
doing.
The county ^rfranization is now
nearly complete. The object is to
have a strong central c/rganization at
Murray with branches in each town
ship.
CLYDE HOEY
TO SPEAK AT
MURPHY, OCT. 11
Clyde 11. Hoey, of Shelby, one of
th< outstanding Democratic leaders
in North Carolina, will address the
voters of Cherokee county on Tues
day night. October 11th, at the court
house in .Murphy, at 7 o'clock, Central
Time.
Mr. Hoey's address will be on the
important issues in the present polit
ical campaign, bot.h state and nation
al, and the public generally is cordial
ly invited to come out and hear him.
Me comes to Murphy on the joint
invitation of the Young People's
Democratic Club of Cherokee county
and the county democratic organiza
tion.
Republicans To
Hear Newell And
James Here Fri.
?lake F. Newell, of Charlotte, Re
publican nominee for United States
Senator, and Crawford F. James, of
Marion, Republican nominee for Con
fcre?s, will speak in the Cherokee !
county cou'rt house here Friday eve- 1
MARK GRAVES
GERMAN SEAMEN ;
AT ASHEVILLE
Asheville, Oct. 1. ? Tlie generous
recognition extended t<? their fallen
foes, by members of the American
l egion in A?ieville, will be brought
t<? the atteni' n of an international
radio public throunh the networks of
the National Broadcasting Company.
S. veral month-- ago. members of the
Kiffin Reckwell Po^t of the American
Legion in Asheville, decided to erect
a sui'ablp marker and provide for the
perpetual cart* of the graves of IS
German seamen buried in the River
fide Cemete'ry. The action of the
Legion members immediately at
tracted wide attention and the Nat
ional Broadcasting Company ?Tias
announced its intention to broadcast
the dedication ceremonies over the
national networks of the chain and
by short-wave to Germany.
The IS sailors, buried here, were
members of a crew from a German
-hip interned at Charleston, S. C.f
early in the war. The crew was
transferred to Hot Springs, N. C.
An epidemic of typhoid swept the
Hot Springs prison camp and the
afflicted men were transferred to a
government hospital in Asheville.
The IS men who lost their lives a?
result of the epidemic were buried in
the Asheville Cemetery. Until the
American Legion took action in the
matter, the IS graves had remain
i d practically unmarked and neglect
ed.
ning. October 7t.h, at 7 :.*50 o'clock,
central standard time, it was an
nounced this week.
Mr. Newell is making the race for
United States Senate on a dry plat
form. opposing Robert R. Reynolds,
of Asheville, Democratic nominee, who
is making the race on a platform
J calling for the repeal of the 18th
Amendment. Mr. James is opposing j
Zebulon Weaver, the Democratic 1
nominee for Congress.
Both of these men are said to be
clean cut gentlemen, and are expect
ed to address the people on the is
sues of the campaign, which will be
of interest to every voter in t.'ie
County. The public is cordially in
vited.
COMMUNISTS FIGHT FOR PLACE
ON NORTH CAROLINA BALLOT
Determined efforts are being made
by a communist group in this state
to have the names of its presidental
electors printed on the official
North Carolina ballot to be used in
the general election of November
8th.
The first legal skirmish was lost by
the communist on September 16th,
in Raleigh, when Judge N. A. Sin
clair denied a plea for a writ of man
damus to fo^ce tho state board of
elections to place the names of the
communist electors on the ticket.
The state borad of elections has tak
en the position that names of electors
other than of the Democratic and
Republican parties will not be printed
on the ballot unless lists of candi
dates of other political parties a?e
accompanied by declarations signed
by 10,000 voters of the state certify
ing that the reputed parties are such.
It is understood that the commun
ist organizations intends to carry the
fight to tfie supreme court and J.
Frank Flowers, Cha'rlotte lawyer, at
torney for A. W. Keller and others
of Charlotte, said to be candidate
n the communist ticket are await
ing instructions from the group to
take the case before that body.
The communist national ticket i
headed by William Z. Foster, of
New York City, secretary of the
Unity League, candidate for presi
dent of the United States and James
Ford, negro, of Pratt City, Ala., can
didate for vice-president. Foster
was arrested in Kansas for burning
the wheat fields to shorten the food
supply in order to handicap the
Amercian forces in France during
the World "War. At that time he was
a high official of the I. W. W. Ford |
is said to have been very active in
aiding in the defense of the nine j
negroes arrested at Scottsboro, Ala.,'
and convicted of the rape of two I
white girls for which they Jiave been
sentenced to execution. They are
now in Kilby Prison at Montgomery,
Ala. The American Civil Liberties
Union, an organization affiliated
with the communist party, it is re
ported, has raised $180,000 to fight
the death sentence. The creed of
the communist party is: "No God,
No Country, Social Equality." ? Jeff
Palmer, Charlotte, N. C.
STATE FAIR
OPENS MONDAY
AT RALEIGH
The North Carolina State Fair at
R&leigh will open its gates next
Monday, October 10, for the fifth
annual exposition under direct state
control. It i? now operated under
the supervision of the State Board
? f Agriculture, composed of Commis
sioner William A. Graham, ex officio
? .'lairivan: I). H. Bridgers. of Warsaw;
George Waits Hill, of Durham; I).
Reeves N^land. oi Crabtree; J. G.
Stanton, of Williamston, and Charles
S. Young, of Shelby.
Admission | rices have been great
ly reduced this year. Single tickets
foj* adults will he sold for 50 cents,
instead of 75 cent^ as formeidy, while
th< se dtsiring to do so may purchase
season tickets before October 8 for
$2. These tickets arc good for 12
admissions and may be had by ad
dressing T. B. Smith, secretary- man
ager of the Fair, at Raleigh. Also,
there will be on sale block tickets
good for four admissions, at $1, while
children will be admitted for 25 and
1 5 cents.
The erWhits, to feature every
phase of North Carolina's agricul
tiftal. industrial, social and educa
tional lite, will be on a larger scale
than before, while the amusement
features will yclipse anything ever
seen here before. The free acts,
which may be seen form the grand
stand day and night, are much as
visit ors to New York often pay sev
eral dollars to witness in the great
metropolitan playhouses. The mid
way will be mrn.h larger than ever
before and there will be forms of
amusements there for old and young
alike.
Premiums this year will aggregate
$15,000 or $20,000, while the ho'rse
racing will be especially attractive.
The Fair will be open day and night
between October 10th and loth, and
transpiration companies operating
in and out of Raleigh will give at
tractive rates to the Capital City
this year. The biggest crowd of any
Fair week in history is expected.
Additional features, which will
embrace some genuine surprises, per
haps, will be announced from time to
time.
BOGUS CHECKS
BEING PASSED
Somebody is passing out bogus
I checks on the State Highway Com
mission, it was discovered this week
when the Bank of Murphy refused to
honor three because of irregulari
ties of the checks. Those who cash
ed them discovered they had been
victimized by a clevt'r ruse when
they carried the checks to J. T.
Knight, district engineer, of An
drews.
These checks have been discovered
so far, one having been cashed by a
merchant at Andrews, and two by
merchants at Murphy. The checks
were all on the Bank of Murray. A
hand-set rubber stamp was used to
print "State Highway Department, of
N. C." at the top of the checks. All
three were made ?ut for $21.43. and
hand-set rubber stamp was also used
for printing this on the check. All
checks were made out to A. F.
Young and signed by J. C. Walker.
Of course, a fictitious name was us
ed and the signature is forged.
One of the irregularities lies in the
fact that the word "Department" was
used, and all checks on the State
used. wJhen it is "Commission." An
other irregularity is a rubber stamp
Highway Commision are printed.
The merchants are asked to be on
the look out for such bogus checks*
in the future and report immediately
to local officers. The amounts se
cured by the person or persons who
passed these checks are losses to the
merchants caching them, and not on
the Highway Commission.
Cook-Hatchett
Miss Gertrude Cook, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cook of Murphy
and Mr. Harold E. Hatchett of
Murphy, Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Hatchett of Belleview were married
September 21st at Blairsville, Ga., by
the Rev. W. B. Mills, pastor of the
First Methodist church of Blairsville.
After a short honeymoon the couple
returned to Murphy to make their
home. Mr. Hatchett is owner and
operat-or of the Murphy Cafe. Beth
are popular among the younger set
and their many friends wish them a
long and <happy married life.