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Vol. XLV.?No. 45.
C0LEMA1
Voting Ru
Political Guns Boomed S
Voted For County Offi
County Commissioners
I Th- politcial pot boiled over Saturday
when L-emcciats and Republicans
held \ rknaries and nominated candidate.-^
o carry party standards in the
county. As the Republicans selected
tlu r candidates late in April, only
mmissioners were chosen on the
> Rt is lican ticket in Saturday's voting.
T. closest and "hottest" voting on j
t was for the office of sher-|
{ iif, _ . .::g L. M. Shields an offical
29 v ?tes i ver the pre sent
,ii. . L. L. Mason. Th? voting foi
th - office tan pretty close both in
the town and county polls giving
neith - r candidate a large majority
the other. TJie only big differp
ence came at Shoal Citek where 53
... \T*> QUiftlda find
5" ball ts were csu>i, xv* a.**,, ?
Mr. .Mason drw none.
J Due probalbly to bad weather the
voting came in slow during the morning,
picked up in the afternoon, and
reached a heavy crisis Saturday night.
The ballots were slow coming in from
the diffferent precincts accurately,
and were not officially announced
until Tuesday morning. A great deal
of confusion and anxiety reigned
among the voters during the week-end
cs they attempted to approximate
the conclusions. As counts from the
out-posts poured in the excitement became
more feverish until the final
' announcement Tuesday.
On the judge's ticket for the 20th
district, Felix E. Alley, drew bigger
majorities from the larger towns giving
him 1557 votes for a majority of
900 votes.
At j ress time official returns had
not been received all over the state,
but it is believed Cherokee county was
lining up along with the rest of the
district in indicating how the voting
would go for congrssman from the
11th district. Zeb Weaver had a large
majority, while the other candidates
votes were varying throughout the
district.
V. A. Browning, candidate for
senator fiom the 33rd district, eked
out a 101 majority over R. A. Patton
in voting that fluctuated prety widely
on the ticket all over the district;
and likewise in the eountv. P. A.
Mauney had gained a majority of 129
votes over Fred O. Scroggs.
In another close race, featured by
uneven voting in the city and rural
precincts, S D. Akin got a 96 vote
majority for clerk of the court over
J. T. Hayes, and about 150 votes more
than Jc?h .Johnson.
Indicative of the voting all over
the state was the local victory of S.
Winborne over E. C. Macon for the
office of utilities commissioner.
At the same time of the voting in
the Democratic primary, the Republican
county commissioners were chosen.
The voting was close giving the
highest man, W. A. Adams, just a
little more than a hundred votes oyer
the lowest. There were four men in
the race. W. A. Adams, J. M. Payne
apd E. A. Voyls were selected on the
ticket.
I Compared to lie Democratic primary
votes cast, the Republican ticket
for county commissioners was
weak. In both wards at Andrews, and
especially in the north w?Td, very few
Republican ballots were - cast. At
Ebeneezer the tables were turned, and
where there were only four voters on
the Democratic ticket, the Republican
vote was unusually heayy. Grape
Creek and Hanging Dog also voted
heavily on the Republican ticket.
At Liberty no votes at all were
ost on the Republican ticket. At
??reeta and Tomotla the Republican
v?te was again very light. Very few
rotes were cast at all at Upper Beaver
Daim and Vesta.
The Republicans nominated their
ucket for connty offices at the court
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Complete Return Of
Primary Election
First Page Second Sec.
Feeklr Newspaper in Western North (
Murphey, N.
H D AM BI
ns Heavy Ii
turday When Democrats'
cers; Republicans, For
GRAHAM MAN
KILLS WOMAN!
William Lane, 35-year-old Graham
ccunty farmer, was bsing held
without bail pending an investigation,
for the murder of Mis. Essie Johnsen,
3(>, who found hacked to
rieces and scattered ever a wide area
in the lonely Yellow creek section
neat Rofcbinsvilk last week.
Also being held for v.e murder
was, Sherman Johnson, the woman's
husband, who was released whn
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^anv cigucu a awwiii siatcincui mm
he committed the murder.
Mrs. Johnson's body was found
near the Stecoah road in Graham
ccunty at dawn last Friday.
In the statement, Lane said Mrs.
Johnson asked him to kill her. He
said that on the night of Thursday,
May 17, they were together in the
woods and that Mrs. Johnson told
him she loved him more than anyone
elsfc in the world, but that the time
nad come for them to par:. He said
she further told him that since she
could not stand to go on living without
him she wanted him to kill her.
Lane said he then cut a stick from
a tree in the woods and struck M^s.
Johnson ovei; the head. No reference
was made in th statement to other
wounds found on th body by officers.
Lane said that after striking Mrs.
Johnson over the head one time with
the stick, he left the scene and returned
to his home.
Mrs. Johnson had been missing for
several days when her body was
found by Fred Welch. Part of the
toiso was said to have been dragged
out on the road by a dog. The body
was gathered together and taken to
a coroner where it was identified, by
Mrs. Bertha Brown, daughter of the
slain woman. Identification, it was
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'ul ! ???: l.liui'nn LCCII1 1JI LI1U .
lower jaw bone.
The gruesome murder evidently
caused no violence in that section.
TEACHERS FOR
MURPHY UNIT ARE
ELECTED
<The names of 26 teachers who 1
compose the faculty of the Murphy
unit of public schools was announced
this week by Prof. H. Bueck, super- !
intendening principal. Seven of these
teachers are in the high school. Nine
in the elementary department of the :
Murphy School proper, while 10 compose
the faculties ol the other five '
schools in the unit. 1
The list for the Murphy schools
proppr, includes Prof. H. Bueck, Sup- '
erintending principal; High school, B. .
K. Carroll, of Murphy; Miss Ruth
Holshouser, Salisbury, N. C.; Miss
Ruby Courtney, Williston, S. C. Miss
Fannie Hathcock, Concord, N. C; O.
W. Deaton, Roiribinsville, N. C.; E.
V. Deans, assistant in the botany department
of the University of North
Carolina for he past four years. Chapel
Hill, N. C., and K. C. Wright, MurPhy.
Elementary department: Miss Margaret
Hall, Newport, N. C.; Miss Estelle
Mauney, Kinsey, N. C,; Miss
Dair McCraaben, HayasvSlle.; (Mrs.
Lelia Alley, Mrs. Fannie Witt Case,
Mrs. Evelyn Patton, Miss Addie
Leatherwood, Miss Emily Sword, Miss
Martha Mayfield and Miss Clara McComlbs,
all of Murphy.
(The faculties for the other five
schools in the unit are: Grape Creek,
Frank Walsh, Miss Mary Nell Williamson,
and Miss Bessie Crain, Murphy.
Tomotla, Mrs. McFalls, Andrews,
N. C.; Miss Lelia Hayes, Tomotla, N.
C.; Miss Elizabeth Kilpatrick, Mur- ]
phy. Bates Creek, Mrs. Franklin :
Smith and Miss Loucine Wells. Mur '
phy. Texana (colored) George L.
Henry and Lanra Ella Jones, of Murphy.
J. B. Gray, chairman, resigned the
first of the month when he was elected
mayor, which necessitated a reorganization
of the Murphy board of
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Carolina, Covering a Large and Po
C., Friday, June 8, 1934,
JNG CON
i Primary j
BAILEYSELLsT
SCOUT TO LEE
A MESSAGE FROM MR. BAILEY
In severing: our connection with
the Cherokee Scout, we d > so with
a degree of regret. Many things enter
into this sentiment. We have
Ken with t.he Scout for 12 years
and durimr that time we have come
to call Murphy home?wi'.-r all
the endearing charms that the word
c nveys.
\ However, in the new manuge!
ment?Mr. Lee as owner ar publisher,
and Mr. Carr as editor?;
| Murphy, we believe, has two young j
| men who arc in every sense of the ;
J word gentlemen. They are young j
) and ambitious, and unless they give J
; Murphy and Cherokee county a .
better newspaj r than the retiring
editor, we will be- greatly disappointed.
Murphy Ls in the dawn of a new
day. With the coming of the TVA,
great things are going to take
place in the future. Already feigns
of the times ahead of this town and
section are plainly discernable on
tih?. Ijorizon. And as Murphy sees,
grasps, and tjakes advantage of the
opportunities that are immediately
ahead, progress will go foiward
into that new day.
We do not plan to leave Murphy.
We have a job whereby we
hope to live, and as we work at it
we. will still mingle with home
fokls. Then too, we are far
behind with our fishing. We plan
to catch up on it. Also, we have
teen kept pretty busy for the past
twelve years, and very few times
has the Scout made its appearance
duiing that time without the re(Continued
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(Fiist Section)
Mrs. Mary Fain Dies
At Her Home Here
Funeral se:vices for Mis. Mary
Fain, 74 yeaiol' ag<-, who died at
her home here about 1:25 o'clock
Thursday morning, were heli at 3
o'clock Thursday afte:noon at her
residence, with Rev. T. F. Higgins,
pastor of the Methodist church oliiniaKnn.
T n t ?r ?Vtor? t WHS mflHf in Sull
set cemetery.
Mrs. Fain was born in Tennessee
and had lived here most all her life
where she has won a host of friends
who will mourn her passing. For past
25 years she has been a merpber of
the Methodist church and has always
been active in its work which has endeared
her in the hearts of her Tillow
workers. She wa? also a member
>f the Murphy Missionary society.. ;
A large procession and many love-1
ly flowers accompanied her to the |
?rave. Honorary pallbearers were:
George Abbott,. Willard Axley, Joe
*xley, Dr. B. B .Meroney, Ralph Heal
r. A. Richaddson, R. ?. Mattox, R.
\. Akin, S. D. Akin, A. MfcD. Harihaw,
J L. Fain, Neil Davidsan, and
SV. D. Townson.
Active pallbearers were: Tom Axey
Harve Elkins, Paul Hyatt, Porter
\xley, Sheridan Heighway and Hadey
Dickey.
Surviving are her husband, R. M
Pain, and three daughters, Mrs. R.
2. Hajnbrighf, Shelby, N. C. Mrs. K.
V. Weaver, and Miss Lula Fain of
Murphv
education. T. S. Evans, the oldest
member in point of service, was elected
chairman, and H. Q. Elkins was
elected a member to fill the vacancy
made by the resignation of Mr. Gray.
The board as now constituted is composed
of T. S. Evans, chairman; H.
Bueck, secretary-treasurer; R. S.
Parker, Dr. J. X. Bill, S. D. Akin and
H. G. Elkins.
"We Want The Dam
Here", See Page Two.
First Section
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tentially Rich Territnrv in This Stall
SIDERED
House Makes Appropri
Hiawassee River; CoI<
Surveyed For $13,000,
Weds Friday
revereneTlong
now in florida
to be married
Of cordial inteiest throughout this
section is the announcement of the
marriage of Miss Esther Margaret
Hansen, of Daytona Beac.h, I'la. to
Rev. Stewart H. Long, pastor of the
First Presbyetrian church of Murphy,
to ba solemnized at Daytona Beach
Friday June 8. The ceremony will be
performed in the First Presbyterian
church of Daytona Beach with the
Rev. Dr. John E. Abbott, Presbyterian
minister of Deland, Fla., officiating.
Reverend Long left last Friday
morning for Florida and said he intended
to be gone about tihree weeks.
He announced there would be no
services in the church but Sunday
school would be held regularly until
he returned. He was to have stopped
in Atlanta and meet his biother who
will act as best man at the marriage.
Miss Hansen, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Hansen, of Daytona
Beach, is an attractive and cultured
lady of rare blond beauty. Havinir i
i lived in Florida for many years she
was educated at Stetson Univeisity,
in Deland. Her many and varied accomplshments
should make her quite
as popular as her young husband
when she comes to Murphy to live in
the Presbyterian manse.
Reveiend Long is the son of Mr.
and M s. J. 0. Long, of Sanford, Fla. j
He originally went to school at the
University of Alabama for two years.
' He then transfeired to Davidson
where he finished with the class of
1929. Two more years were spent in
the theological school bfore he rcleturned
to Alabama to preach at
Guntersville before coming here last
February. Mr. Long fine cultural
' background and well-rounded school!
ing has given him a pleasing personality
that has won him a host of
friends during the rJiort time he has
been here.
When they return Mr. and Mts.
Long will live in the attractive
two-story bungalow behind the
Presbyterian church.
Singing Convention Will
Be Held' At Peachtree
The annual sinking convention of
I the Cherokee County singing convention
will be held at Peachtree school
[auditorium on Jun 10th.
Music classes and singer r form all
over the county will be in attendance
to compete for the banner which is
awardd to the class making the best
music.
The occasion has always drawn
large crowds and no exception is expected
this yea-. Everybody is cordially
invited to come out and hear
some good singing, and all the singers
and singing c'asses are urged to
come prepared to compete for the'
bonner. j
All singers and singing classes of
adjoining counties are invite 1 to attf
nd and take pact althoug-i they will
not be privileged to compete for the
bsnner.
ERNEST TRANHAM, Secretary.
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~ TODAY
e
11.00 YEAR?5c CO-'Y
BY TVA
iations For Dam On
;man Dam Site Is Being
000 Project.
The people of Murphy and Cherokee
couinty were greatly encouraged
by news dispatches from Washington
Tuesday relative to $13,000,000 burg
appropiiated by Congress for the
erection of a dam by the TVA on the
Hiawassee river, and that one of the
two posible sites being considered is
in the Murpy area.
A delegation headed by city and
county officials is being oigar.ized
to go to Knoxvilh for a conlerenee
with Di. Arthur E. Morgan, director
ci the TVA, anc: < fforl- are being
made to ?have Ms. John C. Campbell,
head of th. Folk School at 13 asstown
and a cl -c :1 cr.d of I)r. Morgan,
jci:i th. delegation. This delegation
being orga.nir.d to officially
a-soie Dr. Morgan that the people
of this sec'i n wish t co-operate with
i th. 1 \ A in :?il of its iiefLient raimI
fi cation.-.
Considerable signilicar.ee is at:ached
locally to the visit of George
L>. Whitmoxe, dir. t r i survey.-* for
<e i v.\, wno nnve-i in Murphy Tuesday
night to inspect the work of the
engineers now making preliminary
surveys of the Hiawasse river in
Cherokee county.
Four TVA field parties aie now
working along the Hiawassee under
C. F. Shalibo, unit chief field engieers,
with headquarters at Murphy.
>ne party is making surveys in the
immediate vicinity ci -Murphy, while
the others art examining possible dam
site.* between Murphy and the Tennessee
state line.
The site being considered in Cherokee
county is known as the Coleman
dam site, 16 miles below Murphy in
the Fovyler Bend section. Local sentiment
has long favored the erection
of the Coleman dam, the basin of
which when filled will back water to
within the limits of Murphy. This
dam site and water basin is now owned
by the Southern States Power
Company, largely made up of New
York capitalists, and very little of
the land to be flooded is considered
valuable lor farming purpose*.
A second dam site is located at the
Axley Shoals about a mile above
{Murphy, while a third is at Appalachia
on the Tennesse line. All
three of these dam sites have been
survyed a number of times by army
engineers for the government and by
private enterprise now holding tJbe
power development lights.
Several years ago army engineers
made an aerial survey of the Hiawas
see and its trfbutanes, and later a
corps of army civil engineers spent
several months in the area collaborating
on the topography and elevations
of the photographic maps.
Older residents say that every square
rod of the territory for a mile or more
on both sides of tie Hiawassess from
one end of the county to the other has
been surveyed at least a dozen times.
Mr. Whitorme and Mr. Shalibo
both declined to comment on the
possibilities of the construction of the
Coleman dam in the immediate future,
and said that any public statement
would .have to come from the
information division of the TV A at
Knoxville.
I .inn* C.lnVi Members
To Attend Convention
Five members of the local Lions
club will attend tie 31st District convention
to be held in Salisbury, N.
C., June 7 and 8. Those attending
the meeting will be: W. M. Fain, retiring
president of the local club; H.
Bueck, next year's president; H. G.
Elkins, treasurer; G, W. Ellis, first
vice-president, and Dr. Edw. E.
Adams.
Besides business sessions and elections
of officers, there will be a to.ir
of the ctiy, golf tournament, theater
party, bridge party, luncheon, banquet
and ball, with favors and special
attractions for the ladies attending.
It was announced that the local
club would nominate Mr. Fain as a
district governor on the stregth of
his fine record here. Mr. Fain is
now a state director, having held that
post for several years.
The local cluB alsd hopes to win
the governor's achievement trophy
which was given them several years
ago for their outstanding work and
personnel. One year the Murphy club
tied with Durham for the same honor
and was runner-up last year.