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Vol. IVL.?No. 8.
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PREMIUM"LIST '
ATTRACTIONS
BEST IN YEARS
. Thousands In This Section
Will Attend Ninth 1
Annual County Fair.
The iloors will swing open 011 the |1
L ottannHr- Ninth Annual Chemkcr* i
County Fair Wednesday for four11
day. plans having been completed ,
i in detail for a large list of prizes t?>
i be given away for exhibits, and the c
' best of midway attractions assured
% the thousands expected to attend.
One of the most comprehensive x
programs of premiums in years has
been perfected, the committee an- ?
nounced.
\ L'nder the personal and capable di-'
recti*ri of W. M. Fain, local whole-;
sale mercnant, president 01 tne ran*
i A.-.-ociation, a program that will delight
i Id and young in every hour
of tin day nas been worked out.
Much of the credit for the sue- 1
ct ' l the huge exposition should 1
p> to A. Q. Ketner, county agent,
who 1 :i worked diligently to adver- J'
tis fair and foster keen compe-j
ti* among the exhibitor.-'.
ess of the Cherokee County '/
1 *: ciation are: W. M. Fain,
I '; R. A. Dewar ami T. .1.
vice-presidents; F. O. Chris- "
.. ui r, an i T.
a native co mrrvc 5- com- "!
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I." /'i.innea.
one connected with the As1
1 this section one of the bigR*
' best fairs that i? n:?sible.
T!- k educational value of the fait
- u mited and every child and 1
R! . -Up js urged to be present o
?very day and every night of the
fair the members of the Association, t;
mars hill school '?
draws 8 students
from this section ?
Mars Hill, Sept. 17.? (Special!?A '
r?port from the registrar's office1
,h?s a total pf 468 students enrolled
at Mars Hill College at the close '*
?f the first week of the 78th session '
"tieh opened September 6.
7o this group Cherokee County
* contributed a total of eght, They J
*re: Gerald Almond, Jack Benson, _
Gectva Colhoun, Ben Grant, Sarah E. H
arrett, James Mulkey, Harold Mc- |<
G?ire and Clyde Terrell. All except _
?n'*r* from Andrews. "
The statistics show further seventyjjec
counties of North Carolina, six- d<
~J? states, and threo foreign conn- e<
tea represented among the students, cl
r *tatm represented are: North st
^rolina S48, Sonth Carolina 36, G
?nwaee 31, Virginia 18, Georgia 5,
, 'otk, Florida, Louisiana 4 each, n<
i na 3, Michigan, Kentucky, Texas, th
_ j,**'1"- UaryUnd, Mew Jersey, New
,.tPCT- Coimecticut, 1 each. The lo
I c?nntries represented are: I It
Cuba and Brasil. I in
.
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Murphy, N. C.,
\ Wide Open
lir Wednesday
rVA OFFICIALS ARE
HEREON BUSINESS
DURING PAST WEEK
M. H. Dill, B. A. Batson and Dr,
VI. F. Langston, all of Knoxville, Tenr
icting in official capacity for the
Tennessee Valley Authority, weie ir
Murphy last week looking over tht
'lousing and hospital facilities of tht
iity.
Dill and Batson are connectec
,vith the land planning and housing
department of the TV A. while Dr
Langston was preparing data to see il
lecessary medical attention could be
ind in case a number of worker.'
vere sent here.
The men are said to have obtaintl
favorable information.
George I). Whitmore, director ot
urveys of the TV A, was here Tues
lay night in connection with the surveys
on the local site.
*EV. R. ESKRIDGE
DIES FROM HEART
ATTACK TUESDAY
Rev. R. S. Eskridge, 62, tor tht
ast three years pastor of the Presby
enan church of Andrews, droppec
lead in the postoffice here lrom i
leart attack at 3:45 Tuesday after
toon.
He had been spending the after
toon here and was talking to a loea
hy. ician -if .1 heart ailment when thi
itfcv-1 struck him. He had been under
nodical .ate for a weak heart for
omc time.
Mr. Eskrid^e was originally > i
Iwanannr: nd NshevtHe, W C
ij-' C: Y, AI ' -FMS-I
T \ rt t> ~o pest AT
POS'1't.L.L ML-^XTAX
- : . S. Y. Allen, 77. of IV. ,? !!.
i at hi: home Sunday morning a:
1 :.">0 o\! >ck after he had suffred
ne day from a stroke of paralysis.
Funeral services were held in the
mnily graveyard Monday afternoon
t 3 o'clock with Rev. E. A. Reavers
fficiating.
Mr. Allen was horn in Cherokee
Punty and had lived in this section
11 "his life. Kc was a member of
le Methodist church for 40 years.
Besides .his widow, he is survived
y five children: Ed and Quince Allen,
nd Mrs. Add'e I'ecples, of Duskiwn,
Tenn., Mrs. Oscar Tayloi) Suit,
nd Mrs. Louisa Johnson, Postell.
Jonas Homeb:ooks was in charge
f tue funerah
RESIDENT ENGINEER
5 TRANSFERED TO
OCO GAP TUESDAY
J. T. Knight, state highway resifnt
engineer, who has been stationi
here for the past eight months in
large of local road and bridge conruction,
was transferred to Soco
ap, out of Sylva Wednesday.
W. T. Reagan, of Weaverville, is
jw acting as resident engineer in
lis section.
sir. Knight has worhed 02
cal large projects and he and his
snily had made many friends durg
their stay here.
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Carolina. Cowinw n ! nnr! Po
Friday, September 21, 1
.COUNTY SEEKS
TO RETAIN CCC ;
CAMP AT UNAKA
Numbers Of Petitions,
Letters Forwarded Following
Removal Order
Strenuous efforts are being: made by
j citizens of Cherokee county for the
. retention of CCC Camp F-ll, located
, near Unaka. 20 miles west of Murphy,
which has recently been ordered rej
moved to another section,
r Already efforts have been made and
. protests against the removal of the
If camp have gone forward to North I
Carolina representatives. The order
for removal of Camp F-ll has already
. been made by the authorities, hut in
. the face of unanimous protests by
the citizens of Cherokee county it is
' hoped t.'iat the camp will be retained.
Petitions Forwarded
Petitions and letters have gone forward
to Senator Robert R. Reynolds
and Cf.ngrres-man Zebulon Weaver,
to protest the removal of the camp. ^
A letter from Senator Reynolds to
K. C. Moore, chairman of the Borard
p of Cherokee Commissioners, said in
part:
"When Mr. Rcbei t Patton and Mr
B. 11. Morrow called upon mc in re
j card to this matter, 1 immediately
^ wired try soctctary. Mr. McDonald in
Washington, to see the proper ant!
oities there and make vigorous protest
against t't removal of this eai?p In
I t.'ie presence of Mr. M- rrow and Air.
Pattern 1 also wi>ed General Mosely,
Atlan t G:?
"After Mr. Patten and Morrow 1< ft
I called ove 1 nu a friend of
, ??d . A ior l.-.e, . iijj, at ! ' >rt
MePherson. All; ' r. Ga.. and requested
him : Gene: . Mosely and jto
'
, od ^
le ' . an ! as soon a I
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!couu:y >et; i.i : t ? iv:i l:\vay
he; r!;v In \Y:. ngt -.n, I). . Wed
ami ; mounted-ho mec:;r.;_
ias successful in every v. v.
Those from the county a:; .ding
were: Harry I*. Cooper, C. W.
Bailey, K. C. Moore, J. B". Gray and
Charlie May fi el J, of Murphy, and S.
E. Cover and daughter, Frances, of
Andrews.
Following is an account of the
meeting from the Asheville Citizen:
For more than three hours Wednesd*ay
afternoon Secretary of the
Interior Harold Ickes listened intently
while a dozen orators from North
Carolina and Tennessee renewed
their pleas for preference in selection
<5f a route for the Southern Appalachian
parkway to connect the
Great Smoky Mountain^ National
park and the Shenandoah National
p?rk. |
Tennessee insisted that the parkway
swing westward from Blowing;
Kock and touch at Roan mocr.tair. I
and Iron mountain and thence * to j
Gatlinburg- to enter the pirk from
the west on the Tennessee side.
Speakers for North Carolina urged '
that the road be routed by Grand- j
father mountain, Mt. Mitchell, the j
Craggies, Mt. Pisgah, the Balsam j
range and into the park at Soco Gap. |
Ths Tense***? wmt* advocates favored
a southern spur or small "loop" |
of the road branching off at Hart- i
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Huge Delegatio]
For Knoxvillc
FIGHTS FOR DAM T
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Jill
ZEBULON WEAVER h
INVESTIGATION OF j"
HIAWASSEE SITES
IS NOT COMPLETE '
Drumnu rs may come and drum- . *
me is may go. but some of them can j
uiiiM' an awful fuss. (
Flourishing a Chattanooga news- p
taper I'lie.- lay, an Athens Tenn., a
travelling salesman, declared the pa- 1
j.ei* carried a . . ry to the effect that
i oe IA A wo.ul i build a dam in the ,
lliawa. ee with FaUier. Tenn., as a "
hi, ping point. The logical conclu- 1
i n \va i: Would be bliilt at v
thi' C oK :iia site. f
A wire w a forthwith dispatched
i i iii The rout to the TV"A Bureau
i'ii( . ...... Kno\vi!b-*and the
low. . -a a .1- dved: "cng.
niiirai oi" dam sites jl
n - ii , .1 no
v Va.iey Aiitbdilty would'
I'arvK.- as the ?fti p .. .
It is until- sic- ii .ha, a ry I
exempt from any in .
.
--how: d : hat vc-y little surveyi v:; was '
hed ji.t- on the other ; n tin- '
Bhnvassec. h
g. w.~covter7iii?
ANDREWS INFANT
L>'ES WEDNESDAY ?
Gilo- \Y. Cover, III, infant --"ii
Mr. and Mr.-. G. W. Cave:. .V |
rew-, died Wednesday morning m Ill,
o'clock ( E. T.) from whooping
cough. He had been sick two weeks.
Funeral services were held at thejA
home at 5 o'clock Thursday evening |
and at the graveside in the Andrews
ceraetary at 6 o'clock. W. T. Forsyth
was in chaige of funeral arrangements.
Rev. H. J. Geiger, arch-bishop of ?
the East Tennessee Episcopal church ^
of Kr.oxville, officiated.
The baby was born at Copperhill, x\
Tenn., at the home of his mother on
July 29.
The father and mother survive
P
Andrews Youths Are
Entertained At Fair b
e<
A party of 13 Andrews boys was a
entertained by heinjr taken on a trip
to the Cherokee Indian fair Wednes- ^
day by Capt. F. W. Swan and G. B. j.
Hoblitzell. y
Those in the party were: Billy
Hoblitzell, Edwin, Bill and A1 Swan,
Bill Patton, Bobby Caldwell, Walter
Whitaker, Clyde Jarrett, Jr., Colntn- p
bus Anderson, Joe McKehirey, Gibus p
Prevost, Lionel Wrijrht, and Vernon .
Kin*. p
lit pAGts
TODAY
51.00 YEAR?5c COPY
n Will Leave
i On Thursday
1EARING BEFORE
DR. MORGAN SFT
FOR 10 0!CL0CK
,ity, County F.xpei'ed
To Turn Out '00 Perrrn*
I o Impress Mo. gan
Excitement ran High this week as
undreds in Cherokee county and
urrounding communities were procuring
to go to Knoxville for a hearen
the Hiav.aasce dam Thursa
v.
Rallieg have been held throughout
county and adi ining town? to
tir the people into action to form
large delegation to leave Sept. 27.
Locally plans were being made t"
ave the large motorcade leave hero
t 0 o'clock' in the morning w.Yich
k'ould give everyone time to drive
t an average rate of speed and give
mplo time tr? appear before Dr. Moran
at 10:30.
The hearing will probably last about
we hour , if wjp said.
Senator Robert U. Reynolds and ?
nere-sman Zebulon Weaver have
lann< d to hi ad the delepnti n :n ;ts
ppeal before the TennoM e Valley
tuthorify oflicia's.
li Must Be Done
With crii of "bi-t chance" and
'if must be done" unpin p in the ai\
oral uy)port< of the drlcpa'ion
vi"e a?k?n;r one hundred percent ?T<
fiance from Mm nd Cbero'
i* c * ' a J1-*' ?" . * ' * ven
. rt " * -1 ' r '
*<' > for f li** ay i * al y
' *' ** y
iv'a *' hi vi- dele ^
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rt.
r iI?m<I A ???i ??
JTV.rry P. C . , r. ] lawyer,
t fo: miliar ? large a -eh-a" :'?n a<
o-sible. this week is ued the :ol]o\viir
Mat* n.ont:
"F an> amaze*] and aMonished to
arn there are some people in our
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IOOD SAMARITAN
ASSOCIATION MET
TO NAME OFFICERS
The Cherokee County ,Good Samaritan
Association met in the court
ouse Monday and elected W. H.
rraham, president; L. B. Nichols,
ice-president, and K. V. Weaver,
?cretary and treasurer.
The meeting was held foi the purose
of explaining the by-laws and
aming a committee be in charge
f the funds that are to be gotten
y popular subscript on and devotd
to the hospitalization of the sick
nd distiessed.
The following were named on the
oard: K. V. Weaver, L. B. Nichols,
>. M. Reece. W. H. Graham, and J.
[. S toner.
The meeting at first was presided
v r by temporary chairman Revernd
Troutman who named Rev. T.
Higgins, who went at length to
xplain the purpose of the Associaion,
and Rev. J. H. Carper as temorary
secretary and treasurer.