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Activ* ! Attractive (fl | That'*? ^ murphy The Leading J Vol. ML.?No. 11 500 FOXHUNTERS ' EXPECTED HERE FOR 3-DAY MEET Officials Anticipate Biggest Hunts In Years; Looking For 1 50 Dogs The Tri-County Foxhunters association is looking forward to the best (has s in its history when it opens its thtee.dav meet at the Murphy fair grounds Wednesday afternoon. Officials estimate that between 400 and 500 people will ibe present and expect more than 150 good firstclass does to be entered. A uec-u .-hew -:!! be or fair groi nds at 1 o'clock when the dogs will be judged and it will be followed by a barbecue free to those who have entered dogs. The entrance fee this year will be "0 cent, per dog. Anyone is eligible to enter his dogs. Following the barbecue selections will he made for the Dlace of the first night's hunt antl subsequent ? t>nt of the hunts will be chosen following each evening chase. tint.:arts will be here from this corn r of three states end the largest park of hounds to ever take the trail is expected to be entered while inter'"' :s manifestly much g:e-Her over the hunt this year than ever before. R. H. Foard is president of the association; Walter -Wiggins, Graham county agent, is treasurer, and Walter Witt, of Peaehtree, is secretary. lower"peachtree singing class is winner of b anner T: riu-rok e County Semi-Am* lal Sirl *i_ Convention was held at the Mar; Baptist Church October J J. The Convention was call d to or ivi and presided over by the Presi ; ?. B. Elliott. Mi i interest was manifeste<l by thi> SI vtlirt i rtnl- no ft o??/l t ?m A to i ike the Convention a success. Several visiting singers from otii-r counties attended. The > were only four senior class, es t. sirg in competition for the banner as follows: Junaluska Class, led by Ernest Trar.tham, grade 97 2-3 percent; Wolf Creek Class, led by John Donley, grade 97 1-0 peicent; Lower Peachtr;e class, led by John Donley, grade 99 ; ivent; Upper Peachtree class, led by Bill Barker, gnvide 98 1-3 per. cent The Judges of the sing-in'g contest v r: Prof. Clark, of Canton, N. C.; Prof. Matthowson of Clay County; Pro,'. W. A. Tilley, who makes the teaming of music his hobby. The Junaluska Juniors who made a good hit and a grade of 95 percent but had no competition. SEVERAL RELICS FOL TREASURE TUNNEI By Alden Coolie Macedonia ? Seeking fabulous treasure in an ancient tunnel near "fre, workmen have made several inwresting discoveries. Am?ng the most unique results be finding of a stone with a cross Wved on it; a shone containing a r'aP of tho tunnel showing several ecret places, in which one was u Juden tunnel leading out some where me shaft, and an old wooden p tucket that had fallen to staves, but 8 ? Perfect condition. B Some ores were collected and sent to be tested. These ores were found h ^ be rich in copper, silver, and gold. m c0 far, mining ihas been done *on a M small scale. The hope of finding mdden tieasure seems to spur the B Workmen on. B The inside of the tunnel looks very B cd. The walls are smoked from the nse of torches during the early digB ?f the tunnel. B i tke back of the tunnel is a * "'f s'out six feet in diameter and B ' 'o'y filled with water is about K ' deep and very cold. B tht e is a small passage around ft leading to a small room ft dfl Weekly Newspaper ut Western North MUR] Married Men To Meet Single Men Here Sun. Following up the hilarious "Lean vs. Fats'* game here Sunday, some of the "boys" feel that they haven't had quite enough, and the married men will meet the single ' men at the fair grounds this coming Sunday. The proceeds of the game will go toward expenses of the regular i ball club and a large crowd is ex- I per ted to be on hand for th. second "feature" game of the fall season. Interet shown so far indicates that this typo of game will become very popular around Murphy. BOOMERS DEFEAT SYLVA HIGH HERE | 13-0 LAST FRIDAY The Murphy High School football "cam won their second same of the .ear hoie Friday afternoon by defeating: the Sylva High eleven, 13 to 0. Troy Millsaps galloped off right aeklc from midfield in the first quarter to score the fiist touchdown and bucked the line for the point after touchdown. Early in the fourth quarter he again laced off tackle \e yards for another six points and h point after touchdown failed Murphy passed occasionally during the game for the first time this year ut none of them took -effect, whil ^he lighter team from Sylva spent most of their time during the last art of the game passing in an effort to push across a score. Several of hem took effect but only for short ains. The Boomers showed a new offen. .e and defensive game that prorises to put them among the lorenost teams of Western Noith Carona and showed great improvement v.r their first game. The new men ecmed to have the situation well in ind. MEETING OF GOOD SAMARITAN CLUB TO BE HELD SOON A mass meeting of the officers ind members o: the Good Samarita. iganization will be held in the court house in Murphy Monday, Nov. 4 a; I o'clock, CST, for the purpose of reorganizing and making plans for me coming: year, tne icev. \>. H. urah m, president, announced Wednesday. The organization assisted in furnishing 'hospital treatment for a number of patients duiing the past year who unable to afford proper tar.*, and recoveiy was reported for a number of cases that seemed hopeless. *1The officers of the association will appreciate any expression of sentiment favoring the continuance of this v/oik from the public. A post card will carry the message to me," Air. Graham said. IND IN ANCIENT J NEAR MACEDONIA l.ke place which is the back of the tunnel. Only a few people have been to the back, as it is very dangerous. TMiere are numerous traditions and beliefs relative to the old tunnel. Some of them proWDiy date dbck i before the white settlers came here. 1 The most accepted vne relates how ' the Indians found gold there by dig. 1 Ring a tunnel. Then white men 1 came, discovered the secret tunnel allegedly ran the Indians away and ! dug the tunnel farther into the hill. ' Later, the Indians again gained possession of the tunnel by killing all the white men and taking their gold, according to the story. After this, they secretly hid all . the gold in three places, namely, in ^ a secret tunnel some where near the ( war of the main tunnel; in a special prepared room at the bottom of the shaft, and in an unknown place. After the Indians had hidden the gold it is said they completely filled the tunnel with soil from the shaft to the mouth. For this reason only a few people really; knew where the tunned was. Carolina, Covering a Large and Potei ?HY, N. C. Thurs., Oct. 17 IVA AND AAA"-7 TO BE TESTED IN HIGH COURT Surplus Power Sales Involved In New Deal Test Suits The supreme court agreed M >nday 1 to measure the New Deal's farm andl Tennessee Valley programs by the! yardstick of the constitution which I already has ruled out NRA. In mapping a heavy schedule fori r. .potentially historic term the tri bunal received simultaneously the t I unprecedented action of a state at-1 I tacking a Roos=velt administration | law. Georgia, whose Governor Eugen< Talmadge is a Roosevelt foe, a?ked permission to challenge constitutionality of the ankhead cotton control act. Chief Justice Hughes said the rourt would consider Georgia's re oues*-. The tribunal agreed last spring to review a Texas F.nkhead cotton pinning tax. But of moie immediate importance to the administration was the high court's formal "consented" by which it. agreed to pass on the constitution, ality of the AAA's 1'gaily-harried procfssinp taxes. Should these taxes be outlower. Piesident Roosevelt has in- : dicated congress may be asked to levy new taxes to supply th? $500,000,000 estimated necessary to : ufill existing benefit payment contracts. Involved in the TVA case was gov. crnment sale of surplus power?a keystone of the New Deal's police t. of setting lip a gov rnment standa.d tor measuring private power costs. Both the AAA and TVA laws were mended at the last session of con- t press with the intention of bolstering the statutes agains* constiiuti : J c 1 attacks. j Attacked By Milling Company C Special note was taken the AAA ( amendments in a motion filed Monday y lb. Washbu:n Crosby com. puny of Kansas City which had oh- v tuined a district court judgment or . recovering processing taxes paid rrioi t their enactment last August 24. Contending it was entitled to a j : uli.ip on validity of the basic act. ^ tile coinpaz.^ a/ui that by limiting the right to bring suit to recover processing taxes, the amendments a would woik inv,parable injury. The ^ district court had held that imposi-j tion of the taxes before the amend- ^ ments became law involvtd an ilie- , pal delegation oi legislative authority-?grounds on which XRA also was found lacking. "Dry Spell'' Broken IH By Light Rains Here d Slight rains weie reported all over the county during the middle of thii 0 week appeared to be breaking up a f 30-day drough that has seriously effected dnops throughout Cherokee County and has dried up the creeks ^ and rivers to new low levels. ? Older citizens recall this as the i "dryest spell* in many years and have cited a general need for rain for many weeks. o ;r * Large Still Found t< n . rvfr* ai oy county ^rricers v Sheriff Zack Ramsey and depu- in ties sheriff Roy Rector and Foley gj Bell brought back a 45-gallon still, j{ one of the largest seen around here bi n a long time, from somewhere up se on Coleman cretk last week. The still was complete when found ^ ind 100 galons of mash were poured ,v ?ut. No arrests were made. _.j TO VISIT NEW YORK W. R. Pinkei-ton and Carl Dobbs J ,vi 11 catch a plane this week for New i'ork City where they will spend the .veek.end on business. They will return by the way of Indianapolis. BLAGG AT MEETING J. D. Blagg, unit chief in change s of the TVA forces working on the a lliawassee dam, left Wednesday for cl Birmingham, Ala., where he will at- e; tend a meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He exec ts to return Friday. Ll k xtially Rich Territory in This Stale r7t9357 "iT ireat Gains In ^ In Cherokee C By Commerc ??65 Murphy Will Meet Andrews Saturday The Murphy high school Boom cr*t wi'h a clean slate having let ' 1 no opposing player cross their I p goal line in the two games they ' I 1? have played to date against Hay-' I f csville and Sylva, will meet the 11 Andrews Wildcats on the latter*s \ I C field for the first "away-froir.- , t home" game this season Friday. | |1 Murphy conquored the boys ll from Oav county 6-0 here in the < 1 first game of the season, and Hay- < esville set Andrews back 13-0 recently. wp a "projects of! this section are approved monday Three WPA projects affecting: Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties lave been approved and work on will begin in the near future, \Y. E. Breese, director of the eighth district office in AsheviJle, announced Monday. Cherokee county: forest fire pre. -ention; federal funds $.'1,773. 35 and ounty $74. Robbinsvilk, Graham county; treet improvement and beautificaion, federal funds, $2,842.85 and ponsors contiibution $954.50. Hay.sville, Clay county: street , nd sidewalk improvements; fedet-.l , unds $5,342.85, sponsor's contribu- 1 ion, $2378.50. | v!R. W. S.? CLAYTON DF BEAVERDAM IS JURIED ON MONDAY A Funeral servic.> for Mr. William, hernian Clayton, 08. of ihe F.av. iam communit .. were held at Grand. I \v M-r.day aft-moon at 2 o'clock ith the Rev. Hamilton, of Earner, nn., officiating. Peyton G. Ivie H as in ch. rjre o: funeral arrange. I n t.-". Mr. Clayton died Sunday evening j { t 5:30 o'clock after having been N ick about two weeks. i ^ A member of tin Mt. Nefco church.: 'j e had lived in the Beaverdam town- ( hip for about 25 years. Pailbiarers were: Fred Radford, 1 lob Hembree, James Roberts, Lewis larrett, Garland Radford ar.d \V. B. i i -? lunun. Surviving are his wife; two aughters, Mrs. Ross Lovingood, of * lunphy, and Mis. W. A. Rose, of i kron, Ohio, and four sons, Bill, Lon nd Lee Clayton, all of Akron, and ? red Clayton of Los Angeles, Cal. o t Mr. Arthur Galushie of Bryson i ity was a visitor in town Monday, j 5ALL PLAYERS OF GA UNIFORMS; LEANS "Schoolboy" Mauney's third pitch | c i 16 years caught T. V. A. Adams s >mewhere in the short ribs, the lat- t ?r claimed, (it was probaibly a kink) I rid he started for first. Col. J. N. I [oody, the umpire at the time, stand- ' ig somewhere around third bass, t ive the only sign he knew, a quick \ ;rk of his lean left thumb, and l rother Adams suddenly found him lf nut "" r Thus started the big ball game be- t ceen the "fats" and the "leans" i hich ended 44 to 16 in fiavor of the g im men at the ball park Sunday at", rnoon to the dslight of a very large r owd which pitched in something j. Ite to help defray the regular j am's expenses. > Dressed in all kinds of uniforms, te old game of the "90's" was reviv. f 1 here, some of the boys donning 1 te gloves for the first time in 30 1 ears. And they're still showing it. < ome hadn't appeared Wednesday nd those that did nursed sore musles, couldn't work and laughed at ach others antics. 1 Christopher "Dies" On Third Chiisty Mathewson Chistopher was r.e second nam up for the fats. He fc .50 YEAR?5c COPY Agriculture ounty Found e Department ENSUS OF~1935 SHOWS INCREASE OVER 1930 MARK Gains of 27 percent in farms. 1*2 ercent in cattle, and IS percent in and from which crops were narvestd in Cherokee County, North Caroina, during the last five years indi ate a rather marked expansion of igriculture, according to the 1935 Federal Farm Census preliminary report released today by Director ^ illiam L. Austin. BnrMii rvf the C'en.-us, Department of Commeice This trend in Cherokee County has been similar to that in other counties located in the mountainous section f North Carolina. Farms increased from 1.958 in 1930 to 2,490 in 1935. Land in farms increased about 10 percent during the last five y ars. The development of atrial! farms is indicated by a decrease of bout 11 a. res in t-V.o - . aae in iamis, and about 1 a re in the average acr? ape of land from which crops wcie harvested. Catile tot I d 8.140 in 1035 as com., arcd with 4,231 in 1030. Cows increased fr m 2,401 to 4,053 and hogs, Irom 2,063 to 2,808. Land fi m which ciops were harvested totaled 2U,386 acres in 1934, ( an avei%ge of 12 acres per farm as compared with 24,964 acres, or an f?verac of 13 acres p*r farm, in 192L-. During: the last five yeais, torn in .-reused about 2,500 acres, a heat * 00 a. .s, rye 1,300 acres, [lis!; potatoc - 300 ac:es, sweetpotaes 150 acres, while hay decreased J00 acres. Preliminary figures, which give elected it.'ms only, for othei counies and the State may be secured, ritfrout ch tee, from the Bureau of h. Census, Department of Commerce Vashington, D. C. (See Table# Back Page) BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES MEET FOR DINNER The Men's Sunday scho< I clashes >l the first Baptist church of Murhy gave a free oyster supper that vas attended by approximately 200 lersons in the church Monday night. The ladies prepared fried and stcwd oysters and steaks. The meeting was presided over by v. C. \V:ight. Those giving short alks were: Xoah Lovingood, superniendent of the Sunday school; A. Z. Browning, president of the young kftns class; Mrs. Thelma Dickey, achcr of the class, E. O. Ghristoh.?. o??.i c? n? Following the meal, several solos ir.<l group singing was enjoyed by nil. There are about 300 members in he Sunday school department and it s one that the Baptist can well be )roud of. lY NINETIES DON LICK FATS SUNDAY aught one of Mauney's curves quarely and knocked it clean out to he river. He went to first like ightning; to second like a cannon >all, and to thrill like a lame horse. 'I could have run aronud the has- s hree more times before the ball mas thrown in if my legs and lungs tad held out", was his comment. He claims he could have hit bhrec nore home runs off Mauney (which le wouldn't take $500 apiece for) f he wasn't so weak from the t irst allon. Then Wade Massey laid one in the iver. He too pulled up at third lowing like the L & N's pride and oy. On the next play he started for lome; got half way and went down, ut on hands and knees with unlaunted spirit, and fighting for th ats like the best of them do at Po?o Perdue, he slapped the dust-covered home plate fo the second run. Ed Barrntt got t> first on an error. Hits Home Run Then George Mauney hit a home run, rounding the bases in the record time o ' 11 6:2-5. The next man up, Dennis Earr.- tt, 1 a home run. (Continued o.. page 4)
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