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Active | Attrlve H|[ murphy _ The Lead u Vol. IIIL-?No. 7 Fair Will demonstration agent of two counties here Miss Pauline Lentz Began Work In Murphy Monday Morning M Tauline Lentz, of Salisbury, Monday began her duties here as demonstration .agent for Cherokee and Graham dounti.s. She was recently appointed to this capacity by the North Carolina Agricultural Extension department and at present plans to have her h adquartirs in the county agent's office in the court house in Murphy. However, as two w.eks out of every four will be spent in Graham county. Miss Lentz expects to arrange for an office in Robbinsville in t: n car future, but this will probably i e s me time after the Cherokee county fair closes here on Sept.nibar 28. As her work will be directly con r.ected with farm households she is taking an active interest in helping * housewives picj/are for displays at jj the fair in Murphy. The 4-H club work in connection with the exposi. tion will it aire much of her time a til the d e of the fair, she said. Her duties in he two counties will be primarily roncerned with the organizing of clui arid the planning of .projects for h ?usewives anil he: work in tthe hou hold will be comparable to that ? f the county agent in the field. Miss Lentz said she was now arranging to contact the women in the differ nt communities of the two countiv s. TO SEEK ROAD INTO DAM SITE AT CLOSE DATE A committee of local citizens will j confer with the state highway comirissi n in the ear future in the interest <>:' having a road constructed from Murphy to the proposed Hiawasiee dam, 18 miles below here, it was learned following a meeting of the directors of the local Lions club Tuesdav nicbt According to the .proposal the road I would follow the contouis of the lake w ioh will be formed upon completM ion of the TVA dam. The tenativc committee will be composed "f Chairman Adams of the H Cherokee County commissioners, 8 Major J. U. Gray of Murphy, and B hale Lee. a director of the Lions S o Inspecting Vegetable B Crops In 3 Counties fl A. G. Roberts, marketing specialist, and E. R. Thompson, local cannery manager, were in Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties last week investi Sating vegetable crops that have M teen grown here and those that could X b? cultivated. H More particularly they were takS ^ data an cauliflower, broccili, late B t n?lisfo peas and celeiv in an at ? ?mpx 5j find if these vegetables had Wen raised successfully in. this secH tion. Anyone ever having eoqperimented 9 *ilh these crops is asked to get in tonth with Mr. Thompson as it will fi materially aid him in his work. Marble Defeats Sylva ^B Masterful pitchnig by Earl Robin^B 500 was largely responsible for Tom ^ grins' Bat Busters taking the sylva II te*m into camp by a 11 to 1 sore a" Marble park Saturday afterHI Tcon legion to meet ^B Commander Henry Hickman of ,'e '^o:' Miller Elkins .post iof the *. Legion has called a meetH n^in th0 Scout office Tu^day The purpose of the session ' "e to discuss plans for a booth H e and discuss membership. Iff M ig Weekly Newspaper in Western Nort Murp Open In > Murphy Will Play Last Game Sunday ! J The Murphy baseball team will ( 1 play its last game of the season here Sunday afternoon. At press time the game had not j ben officially scheduled but it will j i in all probability be with Gaines, j ville. IT WO METHODIST MINISTERS TO BE TRANSFERRED SOON The Rev. T. F. Hicc'ins, local Meth minister, an<l the Rev. Johnnie Carpel-, Methodist pastor of the Murphy circuit, upon the txpiiation of four years of service to this community. will be transferred when the Methodists hold their annual conven- ! tion in Salisbury next month, it was annuocned Sunday. i Appointments to these pastorates | will not he learned until after the convention. For their upstanding: and wholehearted work in behalf of their churches, both the popular ministers will be greatly missed when transfer! ed. THREE-ACT PLAY WILL BE OFFERED ON FRIDAY NIGHT Andrews Chinson Owen dies. He leaves a million dollar estate. "Mine", says on . "Giavy*\ srfys another. 'Oh. yeah", says still another, and so on down the line. They a.l thought the old man was j icracKcu, out? It all comes out in "The Strange Bequeath", a three-act play to be pros : tod by the Young Woman's Ciicl. of the Methodist church Friday ! evening at 7:30 o'clock in the school I I auditorium. The cast includes: Mrs. E. C. Mai- | : onee, Mrs. J. H. McCall, Miss Martha Nell Wells, Miss Winifred Townson, , Miss Ru' ye Courtney, Miss Fannie1 ; Hathcock and Messis. H. Bueck, , Harve Elkins, E. V. Dtans and Sam i Carr. *. w Local Cannery Director At Waynesville Meeting Mr. W. M. Fain, a member of the board of directors of the local can. , ncjy, Wednesday attended a directors meeting of the Land O' the Sky ! Mutual Cooperative association at Waynesville where poblems confronting: canners were discussed. Now late in t'he season, the local cannery is opeiating only two or ' three days out of the week and will close one its most successful year in | the near future, E. R. Thompson, i cannery manager said Wednesday. GOD F( The Ethiopian?Ilali i war, i or, international compl, lion?. If it doe? this country will be i The world war will he only a to the next one. Hhere is what the world war ? Butler in a recent issue of the "Rca< WHAT I'RI THE WORLD WAR. all to lives?100 billion dollars. Wit built a S2500 house, runished it placed it on five acres of land w home to each and every family Australia. England, Wales. Irel; Germany and Russia. We couli 20.000 inhabitants and over, in million dollar library and a ten of what was left we could have that would provide a $1000 ye 125.000 teachers and a like sala nurses. As a friend said the other day the suffering and anguish is unloli Shall we subject our nation to For God's sake and humanity" again lest it be in direct defense of A Carolina, Covering a larpr and ?hy, N. C. Thurs., Sept. Murphy 1 j BRISK TRADE IS SEEN BY LOCAL ! BUSINESS HOUSE; Special Inducements Ar Being Offered Here During Fair Week. Murphy merchants are expectir a brisk trade here during fair wee and are looking forward to the ft trading season.as one of the best years. Every line of goods and mercha dise have been made up-to-date a the special values being offered i over town is looked upon as t opening of a season of trade th has never been duplicated here I fore. 1 I With fair crops reported all ov the county and a general upturn business every indication is that mo money will 'be spent with the loc merchants this fall than during past number of years. Market prices ate on about "ti same level this year as last year at in view of the upswing in businer most of the merchants have ne compUted their fall line which is e pelted to draw ttade from all ov the county. Special inducements are being < ft red during the next week with view to acquainting county resider with the town stores and add great to the nucleus of business which being drawn to Murphy. Popul prices for quality goods will pievi through the winter, however. Guaranteed satisfaction backs eve I purchase from the Murphy merchan .and they cordially invite inspicti* , ( i their goods and solicit patrona; I during the coming reason. Four TV A Engineers Transferred To Teni I Four TV A engine, rs. who have bet connected with the authority h, for the past several m nths surve I ing on the dam site, were tiansfem to Chattanooga Monday. The men were: Charles T. Oa Russell A. Strong, Jr., James ' Bishop anil Charles S. H nnessee. o Mr. McMillan Raises 14 Ft. Stalk Of Cor I Mr. J. W. McMillan has on h: ! play at his garage a stalk of coi measuring 1-1 feet in lmgth whit I was grown in his corn field. This is believed to be one of tl tallest stalks of corn grown in tl county this year. He plans to put on aispjay at uie ran-. The patch, Mr. McMillian said, hi been seeded in coin every summi for the past 50 years, always girin a Rood yield. 3RBID! n the opinion of experts, will take called on. pygmy in destruction as compared ost according to Nicholas Murray lers Digest": CE GLORY Id. cost?apart from 30 million h that money we could have with S1000 worth of furniture, ortli S100 an acre and given this in the United States, Canada, ind. Scotland. France, Belguim, 1 have given to each city of each country named, a five million dollar university. Out set aside a sum at five percent arly salary for an army of ry for another army of 125.000 ?Nicholas Murrv Butler. . that is only the INITIAL cost? 1 and inconceivable this and more again, s sake let's never lake up arms our own nation ! ! ! 1^1 t wwi Potentially Rich Tcrntonr in Thit Stat 12, 1935. j Wednesday Thousands Are To Take Part Greatest Anr e FOOTBALL TEAM ' i PLEASES COACH i DURING PRACTICE I in ?? Boys Shape Up Pretty ,i Good As Schedule Is 1,1 ? Announced e. Coach O. W. Deaton seemed much oleased over his football team this er week after he had seen them work jn out in uniform. re There are about 25 boys on the a! squad and most of them are new and a light, but P. at on has several las: year's men to build his team around, he and with the boys willing to give [id their best, the coach has a definitely ?s, better look on things than he had iw last week. x. The return of Allen Wise to the er local gridiron brought a sigh of relief and he is expected to be one of |>i- the team's main stems with his bone-1 n -1...?j--'? : ' - wu-i.iiiK ptuii^iicg anu nts as; tensive its tackle work. h T oy Millsa; s, also It ft over from I last year varsity, U stacking up good ai and when the panic is called he may go the rackfield as quarterback in- | stead of a half-back as he was last iy year. Ils Henry Luckett and Hayes Loath, erwood aie two of last year's le:t over er.ds and Hayes is being tried out at tackle this year. Robert Conk, {Tyson Smith and Marvin Rhodes had ! i*x; urience i the line last year. 1. Xew m n who are s-howing up well I ' ar : linesmen, Oscar and Roy TayT r, Quentin Wood, V. C. Hughes. .1. L. Abernat'hy, and Max Ferguson. Xew backt'ield men ate: Junior Barnett. Jack Hunt, Lawrenc. Johnson, Cecil Newman and Richard Maunoy. The t-enative schedules is as follows: Oct. 4, Haycsville here; Oct. 11, Sylva 'here; Oct. 18, Andrews at Andrews (tenativ ); Oct. 25, Cheroke here; Nov. 1, open; Nov. 8, Haycsville at Hayesville; Nov. 15 and II 22. pen; Nov. 28 (Thanksgiving) ,_j Andrews here. rn ! Deaton is now trying to schedule ;j, gam s for the ojien dates with Swan,nonoa, Copperhill and Franklin. ? CHEROKEES WILL 11 j MEET IN MURPHY ON SEPTEMBER 27 3r ^ A mass meeting of all Cherokee , Indians in Oheroke county will be held in the court house here Friday mooning Sept. 27th, at 10 o'clock, 1 Sibhald Smith, of Patrick, has an. nounced. The pui?po6e of the meeting, he j said, was to discuss the general welfare of the people and to discuss the r proposed new constitution for the , tribe. Others interested in the program are asked to attend the meeting. Five And Ten Store Head Visits Murphy i I Mr. Paul B. Lay, president of Lay and Company incorporated, of Cleve- v land. Tenn.. was in Murphy Saturday 11 in connection with five and ten cent i stor ^ he is planning to open in sever- t al weeks and directing the work of i redecorating the former Bristol- 1; Johnson building where his store will be located. ^ The company row has similar r stor s ir: Athens. Cleveland and Day- n ton and Mr. Lay says he will have a t wide variety of five and ten cent ar- b ! tides on disolay when the formal < | opering is affected. [TODAY) e 51.50 YEAR?5c COPY Morning Expected In County's^ lual Exhibition HUGE PREMIUM LIST AND SHOW ARE FEATURES Th pates,will swing wide open on the greatest fair eve: helil west of Abbeville Wednesday morning when thousands of people fr m Cherokee and surrounding counties will swaim to Murphy t- partake of the four, day exposition as prepared by the Cherokee county Fair association . The Tenth Annual Cherokee county fair, the result of years of experience of promoting similar successful occasions by the officials, will he worth more than a thousand dollars to exhibitors and will offer the Greater Krause Show as th. 'midway alt i action. Directors of the fair have b*cn actively working for the past eight months to bring to Murphy the biggest celebration ever offered here and the festival, from all indications, will climax even the brilliance '.?f the one h Id here last year. *\\ . i.M. Fain, president of the association, has announced completion of ev ry detail and in the opinion of A. Q. K.tni-r. ( hot Loo * , ......... who has ardently fostered its at tivitits from the beginninir, mote interest is beinjr shown .11 th annual fair this year than ever hefore. All indications are that it will attract thoutands fiwm this territory at tV.iy session and t. e largest ar1 ay of exhibits ever see;, here will be placed I, fo: f the judge-. Fair Bnllding Remodeled Under the direct inn ?> ' Mr. E. P. Hawkins, ?more than -S'oOO hasji ntly h en expended improving the fair building both insid? and out so that it. will l>e in perfect c??: dition l'oi* the arrangement and am; !o facilities of the displays. Mr. Ktt er at this time is especially ir.te!esied in having all persons who intend to enter calves in t. c calf ulub shK \v division to get in touch with him or his assistants, Sam Mtndenhall, ar.d It. B. Wooten, to have their animals fitted for the sh3W. The staff 01 w :ker. have bien active the past several weeks trimming ami shaping calve- for this tie] artmen t which is provir.g of unusual interest to Cheiokee farnnrs. He has also announced that entries in this division should be made other Tuesday afteinoon < r before 8 o'clock Wednesday morning as this class of cattle will be judgtd early Wednesday. All cattle in the other classes will he judged Thursday. "Liv stock and poultry, outside of the calf club show, should be entered WediiAc/t ?*.* ?? " T" , ?ur. ivetner said. "I know a lot of people are planning to enter calves in the calf club show that have not yet been in t uch with ny department to have them fitted md I wish they would do so uivr.iedtaely". All entries in the other depaitnents of the fair will be judged Wedlesday. Speakers Engaged He also expressed the opinion that Wednesday would be the biggest dayis ariangements have been made to lave R. F. Farnum, dairy cattle speialist, and R. L. Han-ill, 4-H club eader of the state, deliver addresses it 11 o'clock that morning. It is also important that anyone vho plans to haw an entiy in the general farm exhibit make reseivatons for their booths immediately as he space is limited and there may lot be room for this exhib:t at the ast minute. ;The general farm exhibit ca ries tn prizes totalling $i>2, the irst ?rize heirg $25. It must consist of nor? than 100 articles produced on he farm or in the home and it will e judged on appearance, vanity and ivality. This exhibit will take the (Continued o.i ' a-k page)
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