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?1 The Leading Vol. XL1V. No. 52. LEGION BEAUTY PAGEANT TO BE MONDAY NIGHT Winner To Get Loving Cup and Free Trip To Wrightfville Beach One f the really big events planned for the summer season in Murphy will be staged Monday night, July 31, at the school auritoiiu.n when the Amercan Legon beauty pageant, sponsored the Joe Miller Elkins Po>: No. 116, will be presented to the public. The curtain is expected to rise at 8 o'clock. The managament has announced t?ha: the winner in the pageant will bi designated "Miss Murphy," and will be prist nted with a ioving cup, and be given a free trip tp Wrightsville Beach n lake part in the state-wide contest of a similar nature. There will be out of town judges. Entries sponsored by business hou.-'s, manufacturers and clubs, are as follows: Cherokee Motor Company, Lois Snced; \V. M. Fain Grocery Co., Inc., Mildred Akin; ttofford-Textell Co., Frances Dixon; Cherokee Hardware Co.. Inc., Woodfin Posey; Coca Cola Bottling Co., Kathleen Axley; The Maples, Katherine Abernathy; Regal Hotel, Margaret Savage; Walter Coleman, Mary -Witherspotm: Candler's Department Store, Sam Ruth Posey; Murphy Beauty Shoppe, Polly Davis; Lahn's Department Store, Helen Moody; Davidson & Carringer, Elizabeth Franklin; Ideal Cleaners, Grace West; IMurphy Service Station, Mae Cornwell; Murphy Cafe, Lucy Warner; A. & P. Tea Company; Leiia Posey; Mauney Drug Company, Edna Patton; Whitaker's Bargain Store, Mary King Mallonee; Southern States Power Company, Margaret Witherspoon. Murphy, Theatre, Sara Padgett; Dickey Chevrolet Company, Cecil Mattox; Cherokee Manufacturing Company, Pearl Baker; Standard Oil Company, Laura Hamilton; Johnson's Market, Helen Warner; Marie's Cafe, Dorothy Heighway; Don Witherspoon Mary Weaver; Moody & Moody, Edith Crawford; B. L. Padgett, Grace Parker; The Cherokee Scout, EmOgene Bates; The Lions Club Carrie Moody; The Woman's Club, Irene Meroney. ? Legion and the Junior Worn; a Club sponsors the following: Louise Axley, Ruth Padgett, Ruth Akin, Pauline Allen, Mariam Moore, Gladys PalmeV, Mary Katherine ucnsiey, i-.ucy juioya, rommie <^oppenger, Wilda Mason, Cleo Ramsey, Eva Nell Lauria, Mark Price, Mabel lassey, Adella Meroney, Carolyn cvir.good. T following are boosters: Esso Service Station; R. S. Parker, Druggist; Gray & ChritopheT, Attorneys. The program includes piano selections by Miss Mary Nell Williamson, the Grand March Ensemble, Instrumental and vocal trios by Mary Katherine, Leon and Tom Axley Jr., and vocal solos by Mrs. Emogene Dates and Miss Dorothy Lahn. Junior Shakespeare Club Has Picnic The Junior Shakespeare Club enjoyed a picnic after their meeting at Cool Spring last Monday morning. Those present were: King Lear Club: Mildred Hill, Nick Tosey, Sarah Witfierspoon, Elizabeth C-ray, Hubert Wells, John Brittian, Charlotte Trotter. Dorothy Lahn, W allace Riccamore, Mary Willard Cooper, Sarah Swcfrd. Romeo Club: Mary Port r Fain, Ella Jean Wells, Tesamin Vestal, Margaret Meroney, Sue Wells, Katie Higgins, Juanita Healey. JAMES-WINKLER Miss Annie James and Rev. Oscar W inlcldr -were marrid at Blairsvill, Ga. July 23rd, 1933. Their many friends wish for them a long and happy married life. Mr. R. F. Williamson and daughfiers. Misses Mary Nell and Robbie Williamson and son, George Tate, 'Pent the week end with Mrs. M. J. Tate at TeUieo Plains, Tenn. Mr. Williamson and daughter, Mary Nell ana ton George Tate, returned home Sunday and Misa Robbie Williamson remained with her grandmother, Mrs. M- J- Tate for a viait. If t ff Weekly Newspaper in Western North Murphey, P We are still taking produce, and though it is advancing on V. market daily, the price of The Scout still $1.00 a year. How long we will be able to continue at that proce we do not know. We would like to have some beans, potatoes and tomatoes. What have you? Decrease of 41 per cent In Relief March to June Raleigh, July 20?A decrease of 41 per cent in the number of North Carolina families aided in June as compared with the peak load in March was reported to day by the Governor's Office of Relief. The number aided during June was 92,272 as compared with 164,000 during March. This total represents a denae.se of nearly 13 percent be low the 111,778 families aided during May. Ronald B. Wilson, acting director of relief, attributed the decrease in ? ? iictucu iu tin re causes: improved business conditions, a logical seasoned decline, and the faci that many families are now dependent upon their sons who are enrolled in the Civilian ! Conservation Corps. Despite the improved conditions generally, there are six counties whose relief load during June was hig.her than at any time since Federal Relief funds became available. They are Cherokee, Columbus, Dart, Franklin, Hertford and Swain. Two of these counties, Cherokee and Swain are mountainous and located in the extreme Western section of the State; two others, Dare and Columbus, are , coastal, and Franklin and Hertford are Easterly inland counties. Thus . every section except the Piedmont is representor among the six counties whose rate of destitution has not decreased. I For comparative purposes the num\ ber cf families aided during eaoh of j the months since Ma'rch, the high month, by counties in this immediate section is listed below: County March April May June Cherokee 1.116 3,106 1,135 1,160 Clay 691 783 515 407 Graham 454 425 410 353 Macon 546 1,100 1,100 400 Swain 505 494 422 529 The total relief expenditures for June for Cherokee and adjoining counties, follows: County Amount Cherokee $6,100 utay z,u,)u Graham 3,054 Macon 1,842 Swain 2,678 o Lions Enjoy Picnic Outing Tuesday Night Card Of Thanks The Murphy Lions Club enjoyed a >icnic outing Tuesday night at River side Park, the occasion being the regular meeting night, and was participated in by both the Lions and Lionnesses and Cubs. Supper was snread picnic fashion unde'r the pavillion, and hearty appetites were appeased in bountiful : fashion by the great variety of eats was cooked on the ground, prepared by the ladies, some of which Following the supper, a short business session was held, in which the Lions voted to extend an invitation to the Andrews Rotary Club to bring their ladies and join the Lions in a picnic at Riverside Park on the second Tuesday in August. The Lions also voted to sponsor a young lady in the American Legion's Beauty fageant next moriuay Ui^nt, and George Ellis, W. W. Hyde and Virgil Johnson were named a committee to deal with this matter. 'Harold Hatchet:, proprietor of the Murphy Cafe and prominent young business man of Murphy, was elected to membership in the club. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. George Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Elkins and little daughter, Elizabeth Anne, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Fain and little daughter Mary Porter, The Rev. and Mrs. T. F. Higgins, Mr. and Mra Virgil Johnson, Mrs. C. W. Bailey and little daughters, Mary Helen and Carolyn, Mr. E. C. Moore, and Dr. Edw. E. Adams. The Lions and their ladies are to be guests of the Blairsville Lions Club at a barbecue and picnic some- I time in ugust. | erpktt Carolina, Covering a Largr and Po i. C., Friday, July 28, 1931 Seek Completion 1 Highway Projects In Cherokee County Dr. J. N. Hill of Murphy and P. B. Fe'rrebee, of Andrews, attended the i meeting of the new North Carolina ^ Highway Commission at Raleigh Monday and asked that some of the federal funds allocated this state be 1 spent on definite projects in this sec- ( tion. I Dr. Hill asked for the completion the Culberson-Mineral Blnff link <ii Vie Georgia connection, and also for the completion of the unfinished portion of the Joe Brown Highway . between Unaka and Tellico Plains, link of the Tennessee connection. Both projects have been called to the _ attention of the highway commission ' before, and are both old projects, as 1 well as being inter-state ennections ! which are highly desirable by the people not only of this section, but | other sections of the .-late as well. Mr. Ferrebee asked that dangerous curves on Route 10, between Wesser and Almond, in Swain county, be eliminated and this portion of the road be relocated. The stretch of road referred to is seven or eip?ht miles in length, very narrow and is so crooked that it passes one man's i house tree times, and Mr. Ferrebee said motorists were nauseated while making the bends, and many of them drove miles ojit of their way in order to avoid this link. Dr. Hill said that Frank W. Miller, of Waynesville, commissioner fo this district and several other members of the State Highway commission indicated they would visit this western ection of the state within the near future and inspect these projects Roth Dr. Hjjl and Mr. Ferrebee said they were hopeful of favorable reports on the p'rojects after the highway commissioners make their inBesides Dr. Hill and Mr. Ferrebee, spection. I other members of Jthe delegation ifrom this section included State Senator Robert Patton, of Franklin, and State Senator W. R. FTancis, of Waynesville. This delegation was one of the hundred* which pa'raded before the State Highway-Public Works Commission Monday presenting arguments they are anxious to have included in for patricular road projects which the $11,000,000 federal aid highway p'rogram for North Carolina which igets under way this surrem. A ceaseless string of delegations paraded to 6:30 p. m. and represented rural before the commission from 11 a. m. for the repairing and rebuilding of lis funs) A n/Jr?TTto 'r<w>r!vinn> mnnov districtsMurphy and ndrews will share in its main street, while Murphy is expected to get a new and wider bridge over the Valley River on Route 10, and the street widened from Hiawassee river bridge to the intersection of Route 28 at the West End Filing Station. Just when thest projects will get under way is not known, but reliable sources said tfiey were assured. o Delphus F. Graham Died July 21st. Mr. Dolphus F. Graham, of Wehutty died at hos home July 21st, after a brief illness. Interment was in Zion Hill cemetery. Funeral service wwas conducted by Rev. Sam Kolfe of Farner, Tenn. and Masonic order. The deceased being a member of Ducktown Lodge No. 241 F & A. M. The wife and relatives wish to thank all friends friend for their kind ness during sickneasand death of Mr. Graham. TAYLOR RLUIN1UN The Taylor reunion was held last week at the home of Mrs. Mattie A. Taylor of Topton. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Grozier and five children of Bridgetown, Tex. Miss Pearl Taylor who returned home with t&em after having spent the past year and a half a*t her sister's home in Bridgetown, Tex., Mr. and Mrs.J. E. Nelson and five children of Topton; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Taylor of Topton and Mr. Frank Taylor of Topton. Mr. and Mrs. Grozier and family are on their vacation. After spending a few days at Topton the y left Saturday morning for Flofrida where they will visit Mr. Grozier's parents, and brother and sister be fore returning to Fridge town, Texas where Mr. Grozier is holdink a position in the oil fields. The many friends of Mr. W. P. Brittian of Peachtree will regret to hear that he had a stroke of paralysis Tuesday. tentially Rich Terri tory in This Sti r Vlallonee Appointed Attorney For Home Loan Corporation J. D. Mallonee, county attorney ind prominent Murphy lawyer, this week received his appointmnt as atorney for the Home Owners Loan inder the federal recovery act for Corporation, an organization set up :he relief of rome owners from mor;gages which are 011 the verare of :>eing foreclosed and to aid and assist :hem in saving their homes. Mr. Mallonee will serve for Cherokee County under the district office it Asheville, which district conmpris?s the 17 western counties. He will assist home owners in filling and making applications, examine titles, and do such other necessary and similar work as an agent for the borrowers as may be granted relief from to time. Loans made by and through him must be on home.-* of the owners, either outside or inside corporate limits ow towns and cities. However, loans cannot be made on rental property, vacant lots, farms, new construction, second mortgage, nor if dwelling is for more than four families, no'r if the value is in excess of $20,000. The interest rate tor the lonns 6 per cent for cash, and 5 per cent on bond xchange basis. Not more than 40 percent of the value of a home can be secured on a cash loan, and not more than 80 percent of the value can b scurd on the bond exchange basis, and not over $14,000. Son Of Late Cherokee Chief Recovers Old Census List And Jeff Davis' Letters After moi-e than a year of effort, Rev. Sibbald Smith, son of the late Nimrod Jarrett Smith, cheif of the Cherokees, has just recovered the original roll of the Cherokee nation used by the Confederate government in caring for the Indians during the War between the States. The roll, written with a quill pen, and contain- j ing 1,865 name* together with a biief biography of each person listed had been loaned by the Rev. Smith to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, but the agent now dead to whom it was entrusted for delivery claimed he had bought it. Fortunately tip: Rev. Mr. Smith had saved all correspondence relating to the loan of the precious 4ocumentt and thus, after a yea'r, has been able to regain possession. In addition to the roll, the minister has all the correspondence between General William H. Thomae, commanding the western North Carolina Legion 01 i.la southern army, ana President Jefferson Davis, relating to the taking of the census, probably the first ever listed in this country. General Thomas had formerly been federal Indian agent for the Cherokee nation, but cast his lot with the Confederacy. The Cherokees followed him, and the Federal Government therupon declared t?he Indiana treaty abrogated, and 'refused to extend further aid. General Thomas took the matteT uo with the Confederate Government, at Richmond, and the southern congress voted an appropriation, and instructed Thomas to have a census taken, for its distribution. General Thomas delegated this work to Lieutenant John Smith, C. S. A. a half breed Cherokee, grandson of Chief Yonauski, who ruled the Cherokee nation in 1800, and grandfather of Rev. Sibbald Smith. At the conclusion of the War Between the States, the list was returned to Gen eral Thomas, who, in turn presented it to Lieutenant Smith. It has been in the latter family ever since, save for the time it was loaned to the Smithsonian Institution. Rev. Sibbald Smith, a Methodist minister, is a half-breed Cherokee. His great-great-grandfather, a white man, was adopted by Cheif Yonaguski when he was 20 years old, and later married the cheif's daughter, Salie (Indian for Sarah), who was 20 years his senior. Cheif Yonaguski had no sons, and so a son, a grandson and a great-grandson of the white man's were elected to that office. The Rev. Mr. Smith believes that the white ancestor, who was adopted by the Cherokee, John Smith by name, was a descendant of Captain John Smith, of Virginia Colonial fame. The old minister says he plans to have the roll printed for distribifttion througHoult the mountains, that Indian descen* dants may learn something of their forebears.?Atlanta Journal. lit I - ii $1.00 YEAR?5c COPY CHEROKEE AGENT DEFENDS USE OF RELIEF FUNDS A petition was bunt: circulated throujrhout Cherokee County, addressed to the governor and asking the removal from office of County Agent R. W. Gray, distributor of Red Cross rt lief. THe petition sets forth that Mr. Gray wrongly used Red Cross funds to hire an attorney to aid a girl 17 in prosecuting her father, a Baptist minister. now h*dd for th*- grand jury on a serious criminal charge. It also charges Mr. Gray has refused to extend aid except in return for work, whereas many of the recipients are physicallly unable to pt'rform any labor. According to the county agent, the entire matter is "a tempest in a teapot." He said: "In t%he first place the governor hasn't anything to do with my job. I'm hired by the Red Cross in Washington. and am responsible to them only. It is quite true that I engaged an attorney to aid the girl. She is an ignorant count'ry girl, who, 1 am convinced, was telling the truth. Without k?gal counsel, the defense would have gotten her hopelessly confused and a serious crime against decencv might have gone unpunished. My job i" to distribute food and funds for the ai d of the needy, in my discretion and I have no apologies to offer. "As to making people work for the help they receive, I intend to keep right on doing just exactly that. Of course 1 don't requfre work from any one physically unable to perform it. The trouble with too many on the charity list is net that they are unable to work, but that they are unwilling to do so. Two or thiee have flatly told me that some body has got to feed them and Chat they don't intend to lift their hands. And about these 1 can do nothing?for, of course, 1 can't sit and watch them sta'rve. 'The basis of this whole complaint, I believe will be found in a recent shipment I received, of 1.670 dozen fruit jars. I've made everybody work in payment for them, and that made some of them mad. But what made them madder yet, was the fact -that I have been keeping tabs on the folks who got them, seeing that they filled them with fruit or canned vegetables* instead of corn liquor."?Atlanta Journal. Barber Catches 72 Pound Cat Fish' "Barber" Fox hove into Etowah Monday morning carrying what looked like a cross between a river fish and a whale. Examination showed it to be a yellow catfish, but much larger than the ordinary. It weighed 72 pounds. Fox caught it on a trotline in Hiawassee river, some two miles above Reliance , near the Hood place. This is the biggest fish yet caught in Hiawassee river, according to old fishermen interviewed by our representativess. The first report was that it weighed over 94 piunds, but Dad Owenby said he would have to see it weighed before he would believe that. It was also reported by "sandhouse" lines that the fish had been washed into Etowch by last week's "flood" and was found in one of the drug stores. Dick Owenby purchased the giant catfish, donned his apron and began deftly to cut up some fish meat for his pasrons. J>oon it was pone to that bourne from which no fish ever returns and satisfied fanciers "licked their chops." Other fishermen in this and adjoining* counties will have to set their stakes higher now.?Etowah Enterprise. o??? Legion Speakers at Shoal Creek Friday Speakers of the American Legion well be at Shoal Creek Friday night, July 28th. continuing the campaign of the Joe Miller Elkins Post for explaining the economy cuts and regulations, as well as the purposes of the Legion, and its fight for the veterans They will appear at Walker School House Tuesday. August 1st, and the public is cordially invited, while the veterans a're urged to come out. Last Friday night, the meeting was held at Ogreeta School House, with a Iarce crowd uresent. The buildine was not large enough to hold the I drowd, and many sat in the windows The meeting at Suit Tuesday night and stood on the outside, was rained out, but a good number braved the storm to meet with the Legionnaires.
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