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ONCE IN A BLUE MOON NAME OF LIONSCOMEDY QJrrctcrs Arrive Af?d Practice Be gins ? -P. oceed* Go To As sociated Charitie* \\\... Evelyn Speas and Mamie Hurra; '?> *<> select cast anJ direct play. Once In A Blue Moon. ?Wit' tin arrival of Misses Speas and Murray of the Southern Arts Studio. ?f Winston-Salem, N. C. who cct toe production of Once In A H!'i' Moon, which is to be pre Hnt the high school auditorium n Oct u' 20th and 21st, under the ypors r-h:?' of the Lion's Club. Plans for the production are already map jted ou The proceeds from the pro lac! ; " to be used for charity. Tht ?-on tract for the production of ,nd those who have learned of the depi-' : ,5 the Southern Art Studio One* I A 151 ue Mooi^was signed with Mr. F. > Fry, .head ol the dramatic I naturt ,, ;h'_ piay are very enthus iastic y garding it since it promises ?r? h< in. of the most appealing and oelightful productions given here in recent years. The play is a consum ,d comely drama, in three acts with a cast of twelve major characters and tw choruses of local young !adii'. addition the opening scene will [ rt-ent 150 local children in a wng which is staged in a beautiful Kiting. The costumes used in the product i n arc new, having been used only once before, and arc made of triplex, leading costumer maker of the I J. S. Once In A Blue Moon is truly a North Carolina product for it was written by My. W. A. Koyall of Goldsboio, X. C. a former member of the Carolina Playmakers, and at pre f^nt a leading member of the Wayne Community Players. The play was A-ritun * -specially for Mr. Fry by Mr. Royall, who is also the author of When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder. This i;..- 1 named production was en tereti n the Belasco Cup Tourna ment in New York a few years ago. and was acclaimed by a member of dramatic critics as one of t.he most entertaining productions they had re newed in years. The story of Once In A Blue Moon revolve* around a costumed ball given in an exclusive club and con cerns itself with thoughts and actions of .several characters, with whom life, has not dealt so gently. The characters attend the ball in the dress of famous characters of history and fictions, some of them allegorical. They put themselves into character and their actions and conversations arc those whigh you would expect from the characters they represent. Among these are Diogenes, Death. Toreador, Pierrot, Pierrette, and others. The two coaches have ?had a num ber of years of experience in drama tic work and come to town highly recommended by virtu're of their ef ficiency and thoroughness. A larere. as well as an apprecia tive audience is expected to greet the Presentation of the play. In view of the fact that ie has been given for a worthy cause, and that it is far above the usual run of amateur pro dnctions, being more along t?he line of plays given by Theater guilds and professional players. Weaver And Ehringhaus To Speak Here Zebiiidn V. 'Weaver, Democratic nominee for Congress, and J. C. Ehrin^hausj Democratic nominee for governor, will address the voters of Cherokee county here, according to announcement made this week by local Democratic leaders. Mr. Weaver is scheduled to speak 'n the court house October 17th, at 'o'clock P. M., Cehtral Standard "me, which is next Monday night. On this date, the Young People's Democratic Clubs of Che'rokee Coun ty will meet for a chicken supper in the vacant store room of the Grant wilding at 5:30 P. M., C. S. T., and j*tire to the court house at 7 :00 to hear Mr. Weaver's address. It is ex **ted that a large number of young People will attend tjiis suppeTr, which *fll be 35c a plate, and all youn* peo of the county are invited. Mr. Ehringhaus is scheduled to here on Thursday, October 2?th, at 7 P. M., and efforts are be 'nK made to secure Robert. R. Rey Democratic nominee for Unit ** States Senator. x I t The now Pan-American giant Sikorsky ??o-passcnm?r amphibian piano as it was placed in ilu* water for ihe tirst timi' al Bridgeport. Conn. It has four motors <-apabl?' ??f developing -,W> horsepower and ran attain a sp???l ??f 145 njil?*s per hour. The ?hlp, the \ery latest in construct ion. will he used fur South American passenger service. Huge Plane fc:- Scr'vi A"? MURPHY SCHOOL; NEWS The system of grading this year is a little* different from that of last year. A equals 1)4 t.o 100; B equals 87 to 0.'?; C equals 77 to X6; I) equals 70 to 7fi; E equals failure. Students making the IIonor Roll have to make 1 not les.j than B and be present every j lay. They are: Senior: Mary Withej^poon, I^aura Hamilton, Budgie Brendlc, and Grace! Bell. Junior: Frank Hensley. Sophomore: Aileen Hampton, Ruth ] Hampton, AVreta Franks. Essie Led- j ford, Jennie Lee Spivia, Hayes Leath erwood, and Pruden Davidson. Freshmen: Anne Hill. ? CtKACK BKLL. ' ] j The Western District Teacher's l^ieet will be held in Asheville Friday I and Saturday. Several teachers are | planning to attend. School will be ; dismissed at 1 1 o'clock Friday morn- j ing in order that they may avail themselves of this opportunity. Tht time thus lost will be made up at the end of school. ^ I Two basketball goals were built! Saturday on the Murphy school grounds. It was through the work and co-operation of Frank Hensley, Ben Gartrdl, Harry Fain, Buel Adams, and Mr. Deaton that these were secured. Basketball practice will start soon, and t.here is a prom ise of a good basketball team this year. ROANE HAMPTON. At the regular Glee Hub meeting j Monday the following officers were | elected: Grace Parker, President;. Fanny DeWeese, Vice-President; "Budgie'* Brendle, Secretary and Treasurer; Grace Bell, Accompanist; Ruth Aiken. Assistant Accompanist;! and Wayne Townson, Publicity Ag- ! ent. The Glee Club will meet Thursday | night at 7 o'clock, and Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. i Mr. Bueck is to exchange chapel ? programs with Mr. Stone, of Andrew*, in the near future, and the Glee Club, of each school is to accompany their respective superintendents to aid in the prog'ram. ?BUDGIE BRENDLE. The second grade made an attrac- 1 tive poster and placed it on the main | bulletin board. It was an invita tion to come to the P.-T. A. meeting on Thursday. The second grade is making a news- , paper each week. It is about their room and they call it the "Citizen." This is very appropriate since these boys and girls are lea'rning how to be good citizens. The Parent-Teacher Association met Thursday afternoon at 3:30 in the school auditorium. The meeting was opened by a song by the P.-T. A. Mrs. J. H. Hampton gave the his tory of the P.-T. A., after which the P.-T. A. Creed was given by Mrs. W. B. GartrelL Mr. J. J. Stone, Superintendent! of the Andrews High School, address ed the organization. It was the desire of the organiza tion to have a one hundred percent attendance of all parents who send student* to the Murphy school. Mr. Fueck asked the association to furnifJ) the office rooms in the hJgh school building for a first aid froow. ?ROBBIE WI LLI A>MSON. Fourth And Ninth Grades Win la Attendance Contest For September .Miss Emily Sword's section of the fourth grade won the attendance ban Congress Candidate Crawford F. James, of Marion, Re publican nominee for Congress from the newly created 1 1 district, who spoke at. the oourt house here last Friday night. Jake F. Newell, the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, also made an address at the same time. ner for the first month of school. Miss Sword said that she ran a con test between the boys and girls to see which -had the smallest number of absences. The girls hud only one ab sence, while the boys had five. The grade's average was 09.3 % ? The girls* section of the ninth grade, under Miss Courtney, won the high school banner. This section had nine absent. The grade average was l>9.09%. ?HAYES LEATHERWOOD. HONOR ROLL OF THE ELEMENTARY GRADES first C^rade ? Miss McCracken: Mamie James, Gardia Nelson, Mary Bell Hali, Roy Hickey, Gar Hood. Fiist Grade ? Miss McCombs: Harold Hall, Paul Hill, Ellis Keen er, Mary Helen Bailey. Second Grade ? Mrs. Patton: Andrew Fain, Mack Campbell, Wade Decker, Raymond Cai'roll, Carl Palmer, Amra Sue Wells, T.homas Hickey, Dorothy Dockery, Willard Dockery, Forest Plott, Bonnie Ke phart. Second Grade ? Miss Mayfield: Horace Keener, Melba Holder, Frances Hampton, Betty Fain, Mary Porte'r Fain. Fourth Grade ? Miss Sword: Helen Hampton,. Mildred Hampton, Eliza'beth McClure, Mary Lee Rob erts, Hoyt Hembree, Wiley Kinney, Jane Hill. Fifth Grade ? Miss Leatherwood: Eva Nell Cunningham, Hallie Mae Hinshaw, Josephine Howell, Louise Mauney, Rosemary Queen, Dorothy Sneed, Ruby Townson. Sixth Grade ? Mrs. Axley: Joe MilleV Elkins, Richard .Mclver, Frances Calhoun, Mildred Hill. Billy Jackson, Sara Sword, Sarah Wither spoon. Seventh Grade ? Mr. Stephens: Juanita Vestal, TJielma Rice, Mc zelle Moore, Nat Kinney, Rhodia Cable, Juanita Dyer, Elizabeth Gray. ? KERMIT DWENPORT. FOOTBALL NOTES Murphy played Brvson City in a football game last Friday and won 13-0. The outstanding stars were Gartrell and Derreberry. The team is to clash with Copm rhHl Friday at Copperhill. Come, gr? w th us, fans. There has been talk about the admission to he games. We | charge because it tr'ce* ? o-iey to play football. In the two R.mtj we have! played this year u. :va caken in 1 FARES REDUCED i ON MURPHY LINE New Rates Will Be Put In Effect November 1 To January 31 J Southern Railway passenger fares I between Asheville and .Murphy and ? all intermediate points will be re ' duced from three and six-tenths cents per mile to one and one-haif cent per mile between November 1 land January 31, 1933. "The new rates av.- experimental I and are being adopted in an eflort to see whether a reduction in rates I will bring people back to train trav el,'* J. H. Wood, division passenger I agent, said. [ "Some time ago l.'ie Southern Kail way secured permission from the in terstate commerce commission to put in experminental rates of one and ( one-half cents per mile between all stations between Winston-Salem and : Goldsboro and between Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tenn. As a fur her experiment along the same line, j the experimental rates between Ashe- 1 ville and Murphy are being adopted." I The tickets to be sold a> one and one-hall cents pe'r mile are coach tickets and are not good in parlor or sleeping cars. They will be sold only on the Asheville-Murphy line. The present rate from Asheville to Murphy is $4.44. The new rate will be $1.85, a difference of $2.50 ? The Asheville Citizen. MISS DEVERS MET COUNTY TEACHER LAST SATURDAY Miss Nancy Devers of Raleigh, State Supervisor of Schools, met with the Cherokee County teachers at the Murphy school auditorium last Saturday at 9 o'clock, central time, to discuss school arganization and im provement of instruction. Miss Devers is spending three weeks visiting the counties of Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Macon and Jack son. She will attend the state meet ing in Asheville on October 14 and 15, and in Greensboro on the 21 and 22. Stalcup Reunion The Stalcup reunion will be held the first Sunday in November, the 6th, six miles south of Murphy on Highway No. 10, at the J. H. Stal cup place. All Stalcups and imme diate descendants are invited to come and bring well filled baskets. Hicks' Students to Meet The students of John O. Hicks Academy and Prof. Fessenden are cor dially invited to the annual reunion Saturday, October 15th, at Hayes ville. $55.10. We ^iave spent $34.30 for footballs and other equipfcnent and have $20.80 on hand. The Athletic Association, at the beginning of the j yaar, had accumulated a debt of $275.50 in the last three years. The J present coaches did not make this bill but are going to make a great effort to pay this debt off this year. They have paid a debt of $19.70 off al ready. ? QUENTIN TOWNSON. Better Live Stock Good stock needs Lespedeza, switch canes and carpet grass. These don't grow on burned range. j ? - . H" ?' DOLLAR DAY TO BE OBSERVED BY DEMOCRATS Murphy Man Appointed Director For County ? October 22 Set as Day For Drive J. I). Mallonee. prominent Murphy attorney, has bet n appointed Direc tor of Finance f r Cherokee county 01 the Share H-lders of America, a campaign by the national Democra tic organization for raising funds to support the national campaign. Air. Mallonee was appointed by M. L. Shupinu. chairman of the Stat? Com mittee. Saturday, October 22nd, is to be "Deniccracy s Dollar Day," accord ing to the announcement. On that ilay in every county, city and hamlet throughout the United States an ap peal will be made for dollar contribu tions in ^pport of the campaign to elect Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner. F.ach contributor <?F One Dollai [will receive an official Roosevelt - ! (iarner Medallion and a Membership I Certificate in "Shareholders in I America," a nation ? de movement in support of the n;. i nal campaign. Members of "Shareholders in Ameri ca ' a ret pledged to work and vote for Franklin Roosevelt and Juhn N. Garner. The friends ot Roo?evelt Club.-, the Roosevelt-Garner Women's Club League and other organizations of Democrats, Progressive anil Lib erals are cooperating in the plans for making "Democracy's Dollar Day" a nation-wide success. Plans for the "Democracy Dollar Day ' are under the direction of the state and county chairmen, working with the various Democratic Clubs jand local organization.-. A Roose velt-Garner Club is being organized in the county, and all contributors toward this campaign become mem bers of this club. The drive in the county will be made by the Young People's Democratic Clubs, Tinker the direction of Mr. Mallonee, County director, and A. W. Mclver, presi dent of t?he young people's organiza tions. The Woman's Division of the cam paign is sponsored by the Roosevelt Garner Women's League, of which Mrs. William Randolph Hearst in national' chairman. Ten thousand | dollars in ffrize awards, contributed I by Mrs. Hearst, is offered to the womtn of America who secure tho ' largest number of contributions to the national campaign fund. The awards are arranged so they will be distributed in the smaller counties and eommitties as well as in the larg e'r cities. Full particulars of the com petition may be secured from t?V county director, Mr. Mallonee. Federation Of Woman's Clubs Meet At Cullowhee The meeting: of the first distVict of Federated Woman's Clubs was held at Western Carolina Teachers Col lege at Cullowhee 011 Monday. T?hc meeting was held .n the parlor of the Moore Dormitory at 10:30 o'clock Eastern Standard Time. Mrs. D. H. Tillitt, district president, presided. The welcome address was made by Mr?. C. H. Allfn, president of the Cullowhee Community Club, and Mrs. Branson, of Canton, made the re sponse.. H. T. Hunter, president of the college, extended greetings in be half of the college. ?Mrs. Hobgood, of Farmville, State president of the Federation, deliver ed the main address. An address by MVs. George E. Marshall, of Mt. Airy was also heard. Music was furnish ed by Mrs. Gulley, of t?he college voice department, and by the fachy quartette. Following this reports from the different clubs of this district were given. Luncji was served in the col lege dining hall. Mrs. Farber, of Waynesville, was elected president of the district, and Mrs. T. Lenoir Gwynn, of Waynes ville, secretary. Those attending fro-m Murphy were Mrs*. H. Bueck, MYs. M. W. Beli, Mrn. T. S. Evans, Mrs. C. W. Savage, Mrs. H. H. Keener, and Mrs. Ralph Moody. Minstrel There will be a minimis] show at the Martin's Cre?k School auditori um Friday evening at 6:45, and the pi/blic ii- ctfrdially invited to attend. A small admission charge will be made.
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