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M ?! The Leading ft Vol. XLV.?No. 17 " DEFENDS CO. BOARD AGAINST JURY REPORT ?. C. moore, Cuairiucn o? Com in is* sionrrs. Issues Statement In Reply This Week Declaring that the jaintor was instructtd to secure additional help to keep the court house clean and saniury during court week, E. C. Moore, chairman of the county board of < mmissioners, in a prepared statement on Monday of this week defendthe board against presentments of the Cherokee county grand jury, and iid that he and t?ie superintenden of the county home some months ago had -ught Wie advice of Solicitor John M. Queen relative to illigitimate ; ;ldren beinsr at the countv homp and the solicitor was unable to tell them what to do about the matter. Mr. Moore's statement was in re.o criticism of the board in prentments returned la^t week ano vhich Judge* Felix E. Alley ordered ,-erved upon the commissioners, and aid if some action was not taken by t o next April term of court to reme dy the conditions pointed out, that th attention of the solicitr be directed to the matter for action. I he grand jury criticised the commissioners for failure to provide sufficient funds and help for keeping the court house clean and sanitary, s pecially during court week; for faili ie to fix the transom over the grand uiy room; and for failure to rectify : e condition relative to two iligitiate children being born at the couny .home, the parents of whom are inmates of the home. The report was icned by J. S. Keener, foreman, and said that these conditions had teen complained of before by that body. Mr. Moore's Statement follows in r.,11. "For the August term of court the janitor was furnished an extra man for the full term to help keep the ourt house in a clean and sanitary c "ndition. He was also instructed to get help for the present term if needu. We t.iink that the county court house is as well kept as the taxpayers ure able to pay their taxes, and would like to say that we are not working for the courts alone. The courts ars the only place that we have not ben able vo mak<* reductions in expenses as in every thing else. "As to the county jail having lights broken out, this is something we knew nothing about and it has not been lepcrted to us. 'We do no-t have time 0 vosot the jail and county home weekly nor monthly to see what is needc. The jailor should report the needs to the commissioners. "The needs of some of the taxpayers are much greater than at the i ounty home, court 'house, or jail. If the grand jury would visit the homes of some of the taxpayers they would find that some of them are living much harder t han prisoners at the jail or inmates at the county home. "With the county badly in default on its past expenditures, and numbers 1 citizens scrambling to exist, we do rot feel that this is the time to add more indebtedness. "As to the condition which has existed at the county home for a number of years, and which was inherited by the present board when it went into office in reerard to the illigimate children, if the grand jury will provide a sensible solution we will be filad to carry it ou?t. The superintendent of the county home and I went to the solicitor, Mr. John M. Queen, many months ago for advice. He told us that he could not advise anything that could be done." hillraises^ large potatoes W. F. Hill, of Shoal Creek township, recently brought to this office two large sweet potatoes, one weighng four and a half pounds and the other three and a half pounds. They were of the improved Porto Rican variety. Mr. Hill said he planted a half acre and used stable fertilizer on the land. They are the largest sweet potatoes we have se-en this year, and we wonder if any one else can beat the record. box supper There will be a Box Supper at Shady Grove Saturday, November 25t.\ It will be for the benefit of church. Everybody is invited. Boys bring yo.r money and girls bring a bOX. 3. L. SHIELDS - . .. L 11 if reekly Newspaper in Western North Murphey, T FUNERAL RITES MAYNARD ALLEN LAST FRIDAY Funeral services -or Maynard Allen, 26, were conducted last Friday morning at 11 o'clock from t.'-.e Hanging Jog Baptist church by bne Rev. J. L. Muikey, and interment wa.- in the churchyard. Mr. Allen died Thursday morning at 1 o'clock at the home of his father in the Ebeneezer community about 6 miles west of Murphy. He had been tick about six weeks. Flu and its complications were the cause of hi' death. He was a member of the Ebeneezer Baptist church for more than I years. He is survived by his father, J. C. Allen; one brother, Glen Allen, and six sistsrs, Mrs. John Kephart, Mrs. Ernie Dockery, Mrs. Vesta Kent, Mrs. Jim Cornwell and Miss Minnie Allen, of -Che.ake County, and Mrs. Elsie lohnson of Akron, Ohio. NORTHCAROLINA WOMAN WINS AT WORLD'S FAIR Mis* Lucy Morgan Drives Wolf From Door Of Mountaineers?Conquers for Penland Weavers Chicago, Nov. 13.?(AP) ?The wolf was gone from the doors today cf a group of North Carolinr. mountaineers and strangely enough it was the World's fair hundreds of miles distant that drove it away. The story of these people, banded together ip an organization known as the Penland Weavers, is t?ie story of Miss Lucy Morgan, whos: courage and optimism overcam. obstacles that at fiist seemed insurmountable. She arrived in Chicago last spring with pottery and weaving from the hands of the Penland Weavers. Sheasked officials of the -Century of Progress exposition for space for a concession, but she had no money to pay for it. They's have to take a chance on her. They did?and in a little, inconspicuous bo?th known as the "Carolina Cabin" she set up business. Society women became interested in her and by word of mouth the story of Lucy Morgan and how she was attempting to save her mountaineer, neighbors from destitution spread. Today she was ready to return to Nrth Carolina. She said profits of the "Carolina Cabin" were enough to pay off all indebtedness of the Penland Weavers hard hit by the ^ h-nc. nf - tilYlPft But before she left she was a guest of honor at a reception and tea given by her newly made Chicago friends.?Raleigh News and Obsrver. Miss Lucy Morgan is well known in Murphy. She is a daughter of the late Alfred Morgan, and is a sister of Mrs. Ben Warner, and Mrs. Esther Freas of Murphy. FOREST FIRES DO MUCH DAMAGE IN THE COUNTY Rain which began falling about dark Tuesday night proved an effective aid and weapon in fighting forest fires. Forest iires have been raging for the past two weeks in sevtral sections of Cherokee county, and thousands of acres have been burned over and thousands of dollars damage wrougi to the timber and fences. Nearly every night last week, one could look out over the mountains from Murphy in several directions and see long slowly creeping streaks of flame zigzaging across the moun tains. Similar scense have been wit nesses in other sections of the county 1H the Damon mountains south west of Murphy in Notl? township hundreds of acres have been burnec over. In th: 'Will Scott mountains aast of Murphy, the Fain Mountain^ on the north ana the Poorhouse moun tins on the south, and the Lovers Leap mountains on the west, hun dreds of acres have likewise beei burned over. Large areas have alst been reported burned over in th< mountains west of Tomotla betweei Murphy and Marble, in the sectioi ' /arming the headwaters of Marble Mill and Wagon Timber creeks. Damage reported so far has beei to standing timber and fences, am is fstimrtted ait around' $25,000.00 Alt efforts at control of the fires havi teen confined to owners of the land in the fire districts, and the rail Tuesuay night was a welcome aid ii 1 his respect. Carolina, Covering a Large and , *1. C., Friday, Novembei FACULTY BLACK ! FACE SHOW TO BE TUES. NIGH' 1' School Benefit Minstrels Promise 1 Have Plenty Of Fun And Laughs I On Tuesday evening: Nov mb 28th, the people of Murj.'iy will ha the opportunity of seeing one ol tl .utstanding lueal enteivainment a fails of the year, when the "Bla< and Wtiite Minstrel' will be stagi in the local school auditorium at o'cloc by the school faculty ai several players from the vown large, according to announcement 1 iho.-- in charg.- of the ministrel t. week. Frcf. H. Bueck, supeiintendii principal of the Murphy unit, will a as inteilocuter. B. R. Carroll, N Sneed, Sam Akin, J. H. Axl.y, C. Dannls will 'take the parts of ei men, and Miss Aduie Leatherwoc Miss Emily Sword, Miss Lois La1 I man. Miss Ruhv Cnnrtnpv \lic-- p. |lin. Mo&er, will act as end ladi Uihcr numbers of the minstiel c tie incluue Miss tannic lluhcoc vliss Margaret LcMav, Miss Mart Mayfi.ld, Miss Dair McCiacken, M t. A. Case, Miss M.iry Nell Willia son, Mies Ruth Holshauser, M i.oucine Wells, Miss Guna 1'adge and Messrs. Kentish Wright, A. 1 I.^vingood, W. H. Murray. Sid H uiaw, R. W. Gray and Joe Dyer. Mis. H. Bucck is uirecting the pi duction of the minstrel, and t chairman of the various commiiu are: Miss Kstelk Mauney, iickei Miss Margaret Hall, stage; Miss B. vha Maytield, publicity; Mrs. Hvel i'atton and Mrs. Leila Axley will i eist with tne make-up and stage bu ness. The first Dature on the progri will be 'the minstrel circle prop" and will include Jokes, songs a dances. Then will follow two ski "Past Feet,' and "Barnacle jBil "Deviled Crabs," a short farce, f lows, and "Airport Airs" will be t after-piece closing the- evenings < tertainment. Practice periods are 1 ing held each night, and an advar licktv sale will begin Friday aft noon when a number of the ehildr will work for free tickets. Admissi will be 10 and 25 cents. The proceeds form th? minst will be us-d for purchasing supp men tar y readers for the grades of < elementary department. The sis and seventh grades have already pi chased supplementary reading s' with money realized from a Halle e'en party sponsored by Mrs. Hai Lahn, grade mother. Mr. B'ueck s; V.at about $100 would be necessary finish bqying ?.he supplement* readers lor the elementary d^pa inent and any proceeds above t would be used to purchase some pi" cf needed equipment for each h i school room. The entire evening's performai will be 1 ill id with good clean, wh< some entertainment, its sponsors s and the young and old will lav end shake off t?ie depression by <n i'ig out. Thei-3 will be pknty of i *nd no ore should miss it.. ' Higgins And Carper Returned To Murpl The Rev. Thomas F. Higgins was turned to Murphy Methodist chu this week for .h:s third year by Western Noivh Carolina Conferc: 1 which was held over the week-end J Charlotte. The Rev. J. H. Carper ^ ' returned to the Murphy circuit. I Higgir.s and Mr. Carper are b popular men in t?he county and tl 5 returned for another year to II charges here is a cause for rejoic 5 by their many friends. s Other paators in this immedi " territory are: W. G. McFarland, d ' drews; H. R. Cornelius, Hayesvi L. B. Hayes was returned as pre: ' ing eider of the Waynes ville Distr ? Former pastors of the Murj ' church were sent to the follow 5 churches; H. P. Powell, First chu Marion; E. J. Harbison, Mocksvi J. E. A'beraatAy Central chui ' Mooresville; D. H. Rhinehart, ( vary church High Point. The Rev. 1 M. Pickens, former presiding el > turned to Winston-Salem district 2 of the Waynesville district, was 1 presiding elder. 1 o t The Ladies Aid Society of Ha ton Memorial M. E. church will j a box supper at the church at 6 3 clock Thanksgiving evening Nov ' Ler 30th. There will be a few r 2 utes for a gi-neral "sing" before s supper, ani a short program i Thanksgiving and humorous num) i will be given. Everyone is invitee come and enjoy the occasion with t Haw Potentially Rich Terri lory in This Stat< 24, 1933. 5 JAIL BREAK ( IS THWARTED V BY OFFICERS I An attempted jail break was thwarted last week when officers - izcd a hack saw and two extra bliue?, a pair of pliers and a screwdriver, 1 which they believed were smuggled into the jail by accomplices. Sheriff cr L. L. Mason said. ve Last Tuesday night about 7 o'- vi lie clock, Sheriff Mason said he heard a if- sawing noise coming from one of t: ck the cell sections on the second floor, it! ed He and two deputies investigated et 8 8nd found the saw and other tools hid- cc 1(<- den under the bed covering on one at of the bunks. All prisoners denied x ^ any knowledge of the sanw and blad- ^ es, and becaus of their refusal tc tell, ownership of them couid not be es- 2 n& t* blished. An investigation is being lC* conducted quitely into the incident, :! he sheriff said. Th: prisoners had shortly be tore " n!' i een locked in the cell cages for the 54 ' night, and only a slight cut was made ? in one of the bars. Thirty-two pris- c; oners were confined in the jail at P the time of the attempted break, one ? of whom had ju?t been sentenced to S ha ' to ? in States prison, while a Is two others ?had received sentences of P m* IS months. a jss H. L. Thrasher of Andiews, was the 3 year man, and Sheriff Mason t< ' iid he had seized 5 hacksaw blades in* inly last week which had bten found a in th. cell occupi d by T?uaasher. c J PARK GUIDE ^ FEATURES GREAT yn SMOKY SCENES c ?s- e sl" A guide to the Great Smoky 3 Mountains National Park has rt.ently been issued from the inland nj Press, Asheville, by George W. Mc- w Coy and the late George JVfasa, both a j ?! of whom are well known in Western y 0"|. >orhH Carolina. Mr. McCoy is state 3 ije r.tws editor of the Asheville Citizen ? ,n_ and Asheville Times, and Mr. Ma&a 11 Je_ was for many years a leading photo- 0 lce urapher of Ashtville and an authority J er_ on the Great Smoky Mountains. ,cn The guide contains 141 pages of on pictures and information about ths National Park, with maps of highways ! rel in and near the park and trails to !' le. scenic points. A general d.seription 1 ;hc ol the area is given together with 1 ti;. the principal, elevations. A detail J or- of seven tours through the park J ets a*"ta forms a valuable section, while ?w another section treats of camping. 1 try hunting: and fishing in the boundary J aid with rules and regulations promul- . to gated by the government park 1 try authorities for use of the park by c irt- t?.e public. his Other sections treat of t.he history ece of the r:gion, plants, flowering seaigh sons, wild life, geology, inhabitants, * accomodations, etc. In fact, it is a ' ice complete treaties on the Smoky Moun " >le- tains National Park, and has been * ay, haiUd far and wide as one of the j igh most valuable tourists guides to the >m- area yet published. :un The guide sells lor 50c a copy, and ( may be obtained from the Inland 4 Press, Asheville, N. C. The Regal j Hotel at Murphy has been instrument I al in distributing a number of the fry guides in thig section, rd o the Peachtree Health Club uce Goes To Brasstown in On Saturday afternoon rrtembers oth ?* *he Peachtre& Healh Club met at I iejr the school house and were carried by bus to Brasstown, as guests of t?he 1 j Brasstown Woman's Club. Upon arrival, the club was met by Miss Jane * ate Chase, and shown to the gracious 1 kn_ living room of the Keith House, where ! the "Belleview and Martin's Creek 1 sid- health Club's were already assembled ' t Miss Kidder, x Health nurse of the 1 " Folk School and leader of the Health 1 ing du^s, welcomed the members and ' reh irtroduced the members of the Folk ? jjfc. School. Miss Butler told of how the 1 , ' Folk School was started, and why, < ^al- wbic.h was indeed very interesting. ~ q After being shown all the interesting 'der *bings about the farm, refreshm nts I were served at the farm house which is called ti'ie -center of the Folk school re~ .^n excellent time was had by all Those attending from Peochtree w:re Mrs. Edd Howard, pres. of the club, n?p" Mrs. F. Watkins, Mrs. John Shanks, rive xr ii ci i? \t &?ii r? 1 ' , kijis. n. onaims, -"viLiiui ooyu, j 0" Mr?. Noise Leatherwood, Mrs. Plem"m" mons Mrs. R. C. Pipes, Mrs. H. B. nrn- p.uiott, Mrs. Dixie Arrowood, Mrs. 'he Waiter Witt, Missfs: Opal, Oval and I Dale Suddorth. Hazel Watkins, Addie :ers Donley, Lilly Brooks, and Myrtle ' t0 ! Foster of Marble, and Mrs. Dillard us IMcComb?. 4 ^ hJsiaB wt m 1.00 YEAR?Sc COPY :0URT ENDS SESSIONS ON NOVEMBER 19 riminal Docket Takes Up Entire Term?Few Civil Motions Heard Saturday Given the privilege of choosing iluntary banishment from his native ate for 5 years or strving 6 years in 5 prisons, J. M. (Bose) Fain acceptI voluntary banishment in superior >urt her. Saturday on a plea of guilr to house br3a!cing anJ larcenv in rnncction with the robbing of the tore of W. B. Dickey & Sons here st August. Judge Felix Alley, who presided ver t?ic court, sentenced I ain to 3 > 5 years for house breaking, and to 5 years for larceny, ;he latter entence to begin at the expiration f the first. Judge Alley ordered a apias to issue on November 20 to ut the sentence into effect if Fain ra.> found in -the st ate. Fain left unday, the 10th, for his siiter's hom t Blue Ridge, Gp... from where he lans to go west and "start all over gain." Allen Wis- nt Murphy, who enered a plea of guilty with Fain t? the ame ( Sarg-st was given 12 months, nd Judge Alley directed that the ounty commissioners hire him out o someone who will pay him a laborr\s wage, that $10 of that wage be aid to W. B. Dickey, whose stor ras broken into and robbed, enough f the wage be applied to pay the osts in the action to the extent necsstry to save- the county (harmless, nd any other wages left to be paid o his father. On a count of house breaking, Wise ras sentenced to 3 to 5 years, and on count of larceny he received 3 to.5 ears, the latter st<hH3i?e to begin t the expiration of the former. Howver, the sent^ices for house breaktig and larceny were suspended upn condition that he not violate the tate law against larceny or kindred iws during t.he next five years. Hubbard Acquitted Victor Hubbard in whose room the tolen good- were found on the morn tig following the robbery and who mplicated Fain and Wise in the afair, was acquitted by a juiy on his ilea that he was so drunk he did not tnow what he was doing 01 what was lappening. Both Fain and Wise tisified that Hubbard was not a party o '?n crime when its execution was >egun, but he was later brought into ts commission when they had to rhange their plans about storing the itolen property aft r removal from .he store. Witnesses testified that the goods tolen from Mr. Dickey's store consisted of ten 100-lb bags of sugar, 200 lbs of coffee, 5 lbs of tobacco, tnd about ten cartons of cigarettes. Most of this was recovered by Mr. Djckey, tiny said. The case was of wide interest because of the prominence of the principals involved. Bo-e Fain, who admitted that he had already served two terms on the roads for like offenses, is a son of the late A. A. Fain, a former clerk of superior court. Allen Wise, a star player on the Murphy football team, is the son of Irving Wise who for the rast forty years has been in the employ of Mrs. Nettie Dickey in the operation of the ffljYiniia Tli/?Vov T-T /\+ <-1 A/ in*?-??- U..U bard is closely related to S. W. Lovingood, former mayor of Murphy and at one time State senator from this district. In passing sentence, Judge Alley said tJie court was showing mercy because Mr. Dickey, the man whose store was robbed, had asked that mercy be shown and the boys given another chance, and it was this plea of Mr. Dickey and their friends that the court was heeding. The Judge told Fain that there seemed to be something radically wrong with his make up, and it appeared that he could not keep his hands off of other people's property. Judge Alley said be did not believe it would do any good to send Fain back to the penitentiary because he had been there twice on kindred offenses. He told Fain if he would get out of Murphy ana stav awav from the influence of associates here, he believed it would do him more go<xl than going to prison, and he was gating that chance. Because this was his firs* offenso **ud he was only 1G years old, Judge Alley said he though Allen Wise should be given another chance. "If he violates the law during the next five years," said Judge Alley, (Continued on paft 5)
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