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Official Organ of Murphy and Cherokee County,
North Carolina
PUBLISHED EVERY FRID4Y
Entered in the Post Office at Murphy, North Carolin
as second class matter under Act of March 3. 189/.
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Murphy. North Carolina. Thursday. January 17. 1935
THE PRESIDENTS BALL
On January 30, the birthday of Franklin Delanc
Roosevelt, a number of dances will be held in all parts
of the country. The proceeds from these dances are tc
be used in curing and fighting infantile paralysis generally.
n
Seventy per cent of the proceeds this year will be
kept at home to he used in worthy instances of people
who are suffering from the malady. The other thirty
percent will be sent to national headquarters where it
will be used in research for a possible prevention for the
disease.
! he editor of the Scout has been appointed chariman
of the local committee and has chosen the following to
serve with him on the general committee: Mrs. H. Bueck,
of Murphy: Mi? Josephine Bradley, of Andrews; Mayor
W. V>\ Ashe, of Andrews; Mayor J. B. Cray, of Murphy;
ami Col. Harry P. Cooper, Murphy attorney.
Since the editor has taken charge of the affair the
que lion has been brought to his attention several times
as to just whe;e the money will go. This year, the cornmill
?e decided, the seventy percent that is to be retained
here will be added to the Mar\ Jo Davis fund here which
fun I is now- in charge of the ^ oung \\ omen's Cliih of
Murph).
In making lliis decision the committee took into
consideration ether cases of paralysis in the count!. Although
thcie is believed to he several more cases in the
county, there is no evident- that any funds have been
rai-ed or efforts to enter the victims at Warm Springs.
Moreover after the task of having the patient entered
and examined there i- a post ?,f m.ir. il> > > e in
week to keep the patient there. Tlu- Mary Jo fund now
amounts to more than a hundred dollars anil it is hoped
that tho local dances will lend substantially to the sum.
The Junior W oman's Club has pone forward in their
efforts to have Mary Jo entered at Warm Springs and
even Mrs. Roosevelt has offered her assurance. It is
believed that Mary Jo might go there at a gieatly reduced
fee of about twenty-five dollars per week.
The local clubs have cheerfully helped in raising
this sum that 011c amongst us. whom all of us love, might
be freed of the malady. The people of this section havt
generously cooperated in raising this fund.
That the people of this section are more than willing
to lend their assistance and time in helping to put ovet
the two dances to be held on January 30, is significant
Everyone the chairman has sought help front has cheer
fully lent their aid. Such work and spirit is greatlj
appreciated.
With lite aid of the committee this should be one o
the most brilliant affairs ever held in the county. Practi
callv all arrangements have been made for both dance
?the square dance to he held in the local gym and tin
round dance to he held in the Andrews gym.
Lavish plans for decorations in both halls have beei
started by the committee and a number of surprise dance
and local talent acts will be presented. Door prizes wil
he given by the merchants of both towns.
Cooperation from Graham and surrounding countie
has been assured and the chairman is deeply indebted t
those who are taking an interest in the work.
In making the arrangements for the dances the com
i miltee has tried to be fair in taking both sides of ever
question into consideration. Plans have been made fo
a SUCCESSFUL enjoyable set of dances and every on
will have a big time, more than their money's worth, am
at the same time contribute to a worthy cause.
There will be no complimentary tickets given out
Everyone will be asked to pay the full price of admissioi
Which will be well within reason. Tickets will be print
ed and put on sale within a week or two.
The Cherokee Scout, Murphy, No
MURPHY STEPS Ol'T
Murphy's regularity of increasing industry and
business seems to have become a habit and almost weekly
new firms are locating here, department stores an1
enlarging their floor space while building has been evia
dently on the upswing.
This is apparently a sign of better times. That
? others should come in and locate here at this time is der
finite proof that this section has the possibilities of be'r
coming one of the most industrious centers within a
? radius of hundreds of miles.
0 Within the next few weeks another furniture firm
q will open here. Plans have been made for the opening
of a new five and ten cent store and it is our understand?
ing that even more buildings are being contempleted in
the immediate future,
i, In running back over the past year, a number of
local firms have increased their business and there is
half again as many business bouses here as there was
last year at this time. More money is being turned
. loose here now than there ever has been at one time hcref
| tofore.
... ? |/.?wu mil, I.VIIIUC9 W Jill
s another car, or attempts to heat a train across a grade
1 j crossing.
For careless driving there are simple and effective
s remedies if the 6tates wotald apply them. One is to reo
strict the driving of automobiles to persons who have
been given licenses after se- re tests of ability to drive.
There are still many places where anybody may drive a
y car whether licensed or not. Then, every licensed driver
r should be required to carry his license with him at all
e times, and every arcident involving violation of traffic
j rules should be noted on the license by a police officer
or other authority. After three of four such citations
the driver's license should be suspended or revoked.
j In case of a death due to a motor driver's negligence
. there should be prompt, swift and severe punishment,
and permanent revocation of the driver's license.
Our increased business has not been an ordinary
. happening. It has come about through the foresight of
the county's leadeis. Our new business has come through
the untiring efforts of those who have always wanted to j
see Cherokee county forge ahead.
Potentially this county has always been rich and
when the a vakening once started it was eviden tthat is
would go steadily forward. The move has now been
started and even greater changes aie expected during the
current year.
If the TV A sees fit to build tbe Hiawassee dam
somewhere in this vicinity even more industry will be
added.
Murphy is stepping out. There have )>een slubstantial
leductions in our debts. And even a greater increase
in business can be expected within the next year if we
trade at home and protect the business we have here now.
A YOUNG FOLKS' W ORLD
More than half of the people in the world at any
| given time are under 30 years old. In the United States
only 35 per rent of the population enumerated in the
Census of 1030 wete more than 21 years old.
Seventeen years ago tbe World War began, resulting ill
soeial and economic upheavals so widespread that it is
fair to say that since 1911 no part of the world has returned
to its former normal conditions. More than half
: of the people of this cctimlry have never had any conscious
experience of the world that older folks knew and
lived in.
It is hard to teach the young to see through the
spectacles of the old. Men and women of mature age
look back to la background totally outside the experience
of youth. Young people who are now arriving at voting
age have had no contact, since childhood, with anything
but economic depression, Since they were fifteen or so
they have heard little from their elders but inoans of
anguish over vanished prosperity, u prosperity which,
so far as the young are concerned, is entirely mythical;
they never experienced it.
It is not to be wondered at that young folks are
easily led into belief in economic and social experiments
which older ones depiccate as impractical and unworkable.
We don't know w hat anybody can do about it. It's
; their world, and they have to learn from their own ext
perience. And maybe, somehow, they'll find ways to
' make it a better world than the one upon which the old
folks look back with longing and regret for the "good old
, days".
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END THIS A'EEDLESS SLAUGHTER
More than 36,000 peisons were killed by automo'
biles in the year just ended. The figures of motor fatalities
show a steady rise from year to year, but the jump
f from 1933 to 1934 was the largest yet, an inerease of
- moie han 16 per cent.
For nine-tenths or more of these deaths there is only
one cause. That cause is careless driving. It is rarely
the fault of the machine; it is almost always the fault
a of the driver who erit? a ? 11:J? ?u.
ueputy tionector J. B. itnsley, of j
Jackson County, was here Friday on I
official business.
Samuel B. Coffin, manager of the
furniture factory, leaves Friday for
a business trip to Durham.
Gen. E. R Hampton, an attorn-y
of Bryson City, was here severr.i
days last we?k on legal business.
Dr. J. R. Collins, of Culberson, was
here Saturday on his way to Unaka.
Jasper L. Fain was in town last
week and told us that when he left
'Teiiieo Mountains Tuesday the snow
was 20 inches" deep on the level.
Rev. T. M. FoTe and Luther Burgess,
of Aubrey, Tex., who have been
visiting relatives and friends in this
county since Chrstrnas, '.aft Wednesday
for their hrtirte.
40 YEARS AGO
Tuesday, January 15, 1895.
Hon. Kope Elia, of Franklin, was in
town on legal business last week.
A. J. Phillipe of Andrews, expressed
us another wild turkey last week.
Mrs. C. B. Hill, of McOays, Tenn.,
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
parents.
Clennie and Walter, sons of Rrv.
Mr. Mallonee, left last week for ftfchhifiTii
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lETS TURNBACK!
10 YEARS AGO
Friday, January 18, 1925.
Mr. Frc?d Johnson made a business
trip to Robbinsville Wednesday.
Mrs. W. W. Hyde will entertain two
tables of bridge this afternoon at her
home in East Murphy.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Peniland and
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Penland, of Hayesvilic
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Gander last week.
Mr. A. K. Dickey, of Wiashingfcon,
iGa, is a bupsiness visitor here ths
week.
Col. W. V. N. Powelson, of NewYork
was here last week in the interest
of the Carolina-Tennessee Light &
Power Co.
Mrs. Jim 'Bell, of Struthers, Ohio,
spent the week end with Mrs. Margaret
Bell in East Murphy.
Mr. R. H. Hyatt is out after his
recent ranees.
Mi s Hattie Axley has returned
from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Fisher
Hub bell in Atlanta.
Mr/. J. W. Thompson will go to
Blue Ridgo Saturday to attend the
dinner party of Mr. and Mrs. O. W.
Hondricks.
Mr. and Mrs .J H. Phaup spent
Wednesday in Atlanta.
Mr. R. A. Dewar of Atlanta and
Andrews, was a visitor here over the
week enid.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie West and
Charles, Jr., are living at the Dickey
House.
After a pleasant visit here with relatives
Mrs. Roy T. Campbell ?and son
have returned to their home in Newport,
(Tem\.
Misses Sara Cook and Annie Mar?
_? 1 ?1 T1
garei rtjipy rtiuincu iuuiamj ilvlu
Greenville, S. C., where they have
been visitinte Miss Cook's relatives for
the past two weeks.
Mr. Ruberl Brown of Andrews,
dpent several days in Mutphy this
week with his grandparents, Mr. ar.d
Mrs. R. JT. Hyatt.
Mrs. John Sessoms is visiting her
paremts, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Moody.
Dr. Davis of Blue Ridge, was a visitor
in Murphy the latt r part of this
week.
20 YEARS AGO
Tuesday, January 18, 1915.
G. W. dandier went to Atlanta
Sunday.
Dr. J. N. Hill left Sunday for Oklahoma
City.
C. M. SlagD. tf And:-*.*? spent
Friday night here.
W. S. Patterson, of Englewood,
Tenn., wus here Saturday.
Prof. J. H. Harwood, of Andrews,
was in town a few hours Saturday.
Jno. H. Carter, of Asheville, was
hot*J Saturday at the annual meeting
of the banks.
Mrs. E. S. Miller and children reft
Tuesday to join her husband at Modford,
Oregonj which place th!ey will
J nuke their future home.
J. A. Lance, wife and three childrend,
who live near Etowah, Tenn.,
and who have been visiting relatives
t Marble and Hayesville since the
day 'before Christmas, returned Saturday
to their home.
M. W. Bell returned Friday night
from the Grand Lodge of Masons at
Raleigh.
30 YEARS AGO
Tuesday, January 17, 1905
Pat Turnlbill left yesterday to make
Texas his future home.
John Akin has acsepted a position
with the furniture fartory.
Attorney M. W. Bell went to Asheville
Sunday on legal business.
A private letter says that Roscoe
King is at Honolulu on his way to
Japan.
Thursday, Jan. 17, 1935 I
-IISTORYS PAGES" I
erford College.
W. B. Ferugson, a prominent attorney
of Waynesville, spent Thursday
in town on business.
W. H. Woodbury, our clever lumber
dealer, made a business trip to A
Ellijay the first of the week.
R. L. CotXpcr, Jr., of Peachtree is
thought to be some better at this
writing, but is yet in a critical condition.
Our well known Tom McCoy, after
a pleasant stay among his friends here
has returned to his home at Asheville.
A. M. BVittain returned last week
f T> : ? J
jHum iviciniiunu.
W. H. Clark and family, of Peachtrt'e,
leaver this morning for Nowato,
I. T.
IW. G. Payne, of Hout House was
in town Thursdoy.
C. W. Fore and family, of Grape
Creek, left yesterday for the "Lone
Star State".
I NOBODY'S I 1
| BUSINESS f !
* BY GEE McCEE 4
FLAT ROCK 100 PER CENT FOR
THE ADMINISTRATION
hon. harry 1 wallis, 1
seeker-terry of agger-culture,
Washington, d. C. I
deer sentaro:?
i just want to let you know that
flat rock went sollid for the bank
bead bill, all except hoteum moore
and art square, but plese don't pay
anny attention to them, they do not
amount to a iota in the agger-culture
world; it took both of them to make 1
bale of cotton last year and it weighed
only 365 pounds.
plese send melO$ at once on my
rent, i have planned to let you and
the government have 7 akers this year
insted of 5 last year, and this will
make you owe 35$ insted of 25$ as
hcretofoar, but if you will send me
10$ as above requested at once, i will
not charge you anny intrust on the
ballance you will owe me.
i worked verry hard for the bank
head bill, as that is the only thing
that has ever hope us poor dirt farmers
out ef a hole, the following
Clarks voted for it: mr. mike Clark,
rfd, scudd dudd, lud and mudd Clark,
they follow n?e in pollitick9 as well as
in questions of state and we are dimmercrats
from the bottom of our hart,
scudd says send him 5$ nlonlg with
my 16$ the other boys have not got
a farm yet, eo don't send them anny
money, i will keep you posted.
it is very much cheaper not to make
cotton and get paid for same than it
is too make it and get c!2 for H. a
farmer do not have to pick and gin
government cotton, and that is why
all farmers should be in fawor of this
fine bill, it would suit us ok if the
gowerriroent would rent all of our
land pay us twiste as much (per aker
and then cotton woud go higher and
help cverboddy. think this over.
i have benn informed by out poleesman
that the gowernment will soon
send all of the cotton farmers a parity
check, i don't know what this is, but
plese send mine and scmdd's at once
and make it as much as possible as the
f. e. r. a. wedges have been cut very
bad. if you have anny other checks
due us for a anything kindly forward
them to me by return mail.
i thought you would like to hear
how flat rock voted and that is why
i have TOte you this letter, don't Jail
to send me part of my gowernment
rent at once, by the way, will we get
another check dor rdowinc un? i hssre
got only 2 so far, but it looks like it
is time for third one, a9 it has benn
might night 2 yr. since we plowed up
our sorry cotton and left all of the
good cotton.
your friend,
'mike Clark, rfd,
farmer.
IMRWSQREEK
Mr. Bob Hdghes was the Stasis;
evening visitor of Mr. and Mrs. Boas
Hughes.
Misses Gna, Ola and Carrie Stilea
spent Sunday with Miss Pearl Sogers.
Mr. Ellsha Birch was the guest of
Mr. Glenn Stiles Sunday.
Miss Carrie Stilek spent Sunday
night with Miss Pearl Pamh
Mr. Dill&rd spent Saturday night
at Persimmon Creak.
Rear WU1 Heddec will fill Ws regular
appointment Saturday night
and Sunday. Everbody come.