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AS. That's? MURPHY I rhe Leading fl Vol. IIIL.?No. 28. Plans For Ann County Dinnc Lions At Rei Subscription Drive Foi Building Loan Funds Is Begun Extensive plans for the greates Cherokee county dinner ever spor sored by the local Lions club wcr discussed by the (croup at its meel ing in the high school Tuesday nighl Vice-president George Ellis pre sided in the place of President P Bueck, who had gone to the bal game at Almond, and he postpone committee appointments until the rc turn of the regular president. W. M. Fain is chairman of th general committee in charge of th affair and he reported having mad initial preparations for the event. The exact date of the dinner ha not yet been set and it will denen on the committee's plana, and the ai rangement of a suitable date to hav P. G. Heath, district commander, t be here as principal speaker for th occasion. A specal meeting will be called t make the committee appointment within several days, it was decided. The Cherokee county dinner (sponsored every February by th Lions club of Murphy, is an endeavo that has become reknowned through out the state. It features the preparation o every product raised pr grown ii Cherokee county, and last year th list exeeded 150 varieties of food. Plans were also made at the meet ing to have the proposed building an loan association here referred to it committee composed of W. W. Hyde J. B. Gray and K. C. Wright for ini mediate action. Subscriptions to the local amoun of capital set at $2500 will begin a once and it is hoped to have th amount tenatively raised by the tim ix special speaKer irom Washing to: appears here to further explain th plan. Under this program the fedcra government, if it finds substantia credentials locally, will treble the a mount and offer this county a med ium through which local citizens wil be able to borrow under the Horn Owners Loan corporatin set-up Lion K. C. Wright reported tha arrangements had been made to hav Edward Abner Thompson, Bostoi dramatic artists, appear here for reading in the school auditorium nex Thursday night. His appearance is being .-ponsore* by the Lions club and the Woman club and the proceeds will be devotei to the undernourished school chil dren's fund now being raised here t feed hot lunches to a number o Murphy school children at a mini mum cost. me Kev. w. A. iiarber, new Meth odist minister, was elected to mem bership by the club. The Lions also went on record a willing to cooperate and support : public subscription fund for the sui vivors of the Johnson family whos home was demolished here last wee] when Midway lake dam burst. No Ruling On TVA Yet By High Cour The Supreme Court had still failed to rule on the TVA's constitutionally to sell surplus power to municipalities Wednesday morning thus creating something of a record in the time it takes for that group to hand down a decision. Those closely connected with the question believed the ruling would be made Monday but a packed gallery at Washington found nothing but disappointment, the Court's only decision being invalidation of a law made by the late Huey P. Long taxing newspapers and adver. tising. While the Supreme Court usually hands down its ruling, within three weeks they have po..dered the "yardstick" measurement for more than two months. Expressed public opinion ex. pert* a "olit de-* Iff (Up Weekly Newspaper ui Western North Cart Murph; ual Cherokee tr Discussed By *ular Meet Here r Midway Lake Gives Up Record Catch Of Fish Glorious Midway lake, once a shimmering haven for bathers and >t fishermen, was nothing but a mudl dy, burnt-out stream this week C following the bursting of its dam 1- and literally thousands of fish? t. big bass and bream?flopped for life in puddles that wouldn't fill | [. a teacup half full and died. " Many people who had gone there c' to view the wreckage found the fish by the basketful!?the same fish that they might have spent an ^ ? entire day without getting a few t* days before. ^ e More than one frying pan was graced with the acquatic delicacy s here during thep ast week. C4 After looking at the sea of fish s, Walt Mauney still claims he j e; e caught the graitdaddy last summer. ? O 0 . 0 SENIOR CLASS " o EXERCISES TO y BE HELD TODAY 1 ci o By Winifred Townson i- The Senior class day exercise* will ^ . be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock in the auditorium. It will be ^ I* conducted in the form of a class ^ n meeting with Anne Hill the president w o presiding. Other officers are: vice- y. president, Winifred Townson; Secre. tary and treasurer, 'Moselle Moore. tj ^ Elected to appear on the program s are: The class poetess?Katherine "n j Coleman; the historian, Ellen Cooper 0 '* Axley; the last Will and Testament, ^ Winifred Townson; the statistician, Moselle Moore and the prophesy, v< 'J Blanche Grant. ^ * The class song, to the tune j1 a e ''Red Sails In the Sunset," was com- y e posed by Katherine Coleman, Ellen I n Cooper Axley and Moselle Moore. c The class yell was selected by Blanche Young and Winifred Town 1 send. I It is not customary to have class - day so early, but due to other ar rangements for commencement this i year we are having it sooner than ** e usual. Everyone is cordially invited, t o * FOUR IN AFFRAY a ARE BOUND OVER > 1 TO HIGHER COURT ' Clifford Allen, Walter Allen, Wil- la J lard Clark and Bill Wall were bound J( over to the April term of Superior Li 0 court Monday for allegedly engaging a* c in an affray at the Davis Creek school T house in Cherokee County. Each sa made bond in the amount of $200 for w his appearance at court. ei The affray took place the night of rc December 19, 1935, but was only di mcu ui mis time Decause, in tne ex- b< s citement, one of the men allgedly a stabbed S. T. Cook with a knife and e< he ha-" been under treatment at the c Petrie hospital. He is just now able to cc ^ be out again. He attended the preli. V minary hearing which was held be. h< fore Justice of the Peace D. M. pi Reese. ta * Swollen Rivers Keep bl TV A Men Busy Here The recent storm and raging rivers di have had their purpose after all? lo they provided the TV A with a lot of data they have been anxious to get ar for a long time. di Especially have the hydrologies! pa engineers been interested in a good to flood-but none came. They scanned old newspapers for records?but Co there were none. Then they scratch- fa fed their heads. in But when the rain beat the snow ei into the creeks and the rivers jumped cc their banks the engineers had plenty to do, and, no doubht, they learned is a lot. bi o tl MRS. FRED DICKEY INJURED tr Mrs. Fred Dickey was confined to pi the Petrie hosptial here thu week suffering from a broken leg sustain- S ed in a fall at her home Saturday S night. F wfen )lmat Covering a Largr and Poten y, N. C. Thursday, Feb. REV. M. O. ALEXANDER iPECIAL SERVICES iT BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. M. O. Alexander, a worker of le N. C. Paptist State convention jnies Monday to begin a series of jrvices in our church. He will speak ach evening at 7 o'clock. The puro.-e of these services is the deepen, ip of the spiritual lives of the Chris- | Wiitig Brother Alexander \v>a for several ears the pastor of the First Baptist hurch of Thomasville, N. C. In this onnection he was pastor to our rphans boys and girls. He is a harming personality of deep con cration. While this is a Baptist meeting, it by no means confined to Baptists, hose of the other denominations are elcomed to join wth us in these serices. Brother Alexander will be with us trough Sunday night, February 23. nd will bring his message, beginning ext Monday, each evening at 7 'clock. To get the greatest benefit iom these services, make your plan.** > attend every service. However, if du miss one, do not let it keep you .ray from the others. :anneryplans to operate on larger scale >28,000 Budget For Local Organization Is Set By Barr Plan for a "considerably larger peration program*' at the local canpry were laid out by officials at a leeting in the county agent's office i Murphy Saturday A budget of $28,000, the same as st year's, has been approved by )hn E. Barr, general manager of the and O' The Sky Mutual Canning isociation, of Waynesville. but E. R. hompson, local cannery manager, tid that much of last year's budge: hrch was used up in buying machin y and organization can be put di:ctly into the canning business here jring 1936 and a larger profit will i noted. The contracts, which will be hand X uut iu iiu imi-i.i .>uvn, ai t jjicn.iiilly the same as that for 1935 exipt the profits from the Mountain alley Mutual Canning association >re will not be pooled this year as ans call for direct buying of vcgebles. Mr. Barr said the products were eing sold "real well" on the market id that there should be no fear of a tilure to market any amount of pro. ice contracted for and brought in cally. While the price of tomatoes, beans id berries?the three principal promts bought here can not be anticiited at this time, they are expected be even better than last season. The contracts will soon be ready ir distribution, Thompson said, and rnieiv that are interested in signg them are aseked to get in touch thcr with him or A. Q. Ketner, the mnty agent. Last year the local cannery furnhed its growers with tomatoe plants it this practice will be abandoned lis year, Thompson said, and conactors will have to grow their own lants from seed. Included among the officials that tiended the meeting were L. D. taples, assistant to Mr. Barr. and red Sloan, extension horticulturist. t 0fhi tially Rich Territory in This State 13, 1936 $1.! Section's Worst i Leaving Bodies Wake; Details A Left Ill-Fated House yj. Doesn't Know Why Dennis Hampton, a son of Fred Hampton and a nephew of Mrs. Blaylock Johnson, recalled rather ^ frightfully that he had had a very -tm narrow escape when the Johnson bat* home was washed away after Mid- Clti; way lake dam burst last week. dea Dennis, it seems, was a visitor, inti as he quite often was, of the family mot Monday night. 'It was raining a her torrent and he was invited to spend 1 the night, as he quite often did end But for some reason, and he still thei can't understand why, he preferred thei to walk a half mile home through 1 the storm?and, luckily, to safety. of I "I usually stayed when I visited of | there at night. 1 had taken off my old< I shoes to go to bed when I just de- I dl'O ciaea to walk home. Why? I buf don't know*', he said, his eyes dim- jam med with tears. red o ute NOTED DRAMATIC ARTIST WILL BE PRESENTED HERE The people of Murphy and vicinity | next week will have an opportunity ^ to hear one of the country's foremost * j dramatic artists, Mr. Edward Abner [Thompson, of Boston, .Mass., who comes here under the auspices of the Woman's Club and the Murphy Lions Club. 4 Mr. Tohmpson will {rive a program at the school auditorium Thursday J night, February 20. One half of the proceeds from the sale of tickets will go into the Lions' fund to supply lunches to undernourished school an^ children. sei^ Mr. Tohmpson, who holds the do. uree of Master of Arts from Amherst College, of which the late Calvin Coclidge was an alumnus, teaches expredion in the famous Curry School cjqs of Expression, Boston. Each year ^.o2 during the winter season he has a ^ three months leave of absence, which time he devotes to appearances at the larger colleges and universities throughout the country. to I Murphy is fortunate in being able I to secure this outstanding artist for an appearance. This is possible because he will be visiting in this lo ^ cality for a few days. At Murphy . he will be the guest of Mrs. E. G. 1 f White. Some of the local people, who re- ^ member Mr. Tohmp.son from another , . , rosi vis.t to this town several years ago. ^ recommend him highly as a man of sparkling wit, with a marvelous repertoir of dramatic readings. Tickets will go on sale Monday }iei through members of the Woman'- ^ril club and high school students. Ad w]1( mL-sion is 15 and 25 cents. the o cor H. G. ELKINS ON THE MEND hor Mr. H. G- Elkins, ill now and con- the fined to his home and ho.-pitals for and the past several months with a hand thr infection as the result of a dogbite, lonj is said to ho still f?r? tlio mr?r>H nr?/l i.' I ? -- " I*"-v is hoped he will be out again soon. FUND STARTED FOR J His wife and son dead, his home away by a sweeping torrent of water dam burst there Tuesday morning a w Blaylock Johnson is in dire straits. It is also said that many in this se< or otherwise, to the unfortunate cities family, who has always cheerfully give in time of need. Therefore it is the aim of The C for the Johnson family. Arrangmenti cash donations with the Citizens Bank of produce or clothes donations to sen will be called for. This drive will last two weeks an names and the amount published in thi The Cherokee Scout will initiate is understood that money has been col and that Murphy merchants have giv collected this money will get in touch i donor's names will be published. We urge everyone to give what I any amount will be greatly appreciated Bank. 30 YEAR?5c COPY itorm Ends Of 6 In Its xe Recounted iree Drown In Floods, Three More Are F rozen is the Hiawassee river and other am i* Cherokee county lolled k in their regular beds this week, zens here sorrowfully counted its d numbered at six as a result of nse cold and icy floods during the >t disastrous storm ever known e. 'raffic resumed once more, swollrivers calm, residents her bowed ir heads as victims were borne to r graves. lampton Memorial church, scene the last rites Thursdty afternoon Mrs. Blalock Johnson, 58, and her ?st son, Dewey, 28, who were wned when Midway lake cJam st early Tuesday morning, was irned with sympathizers as hunds stood around outside, la-t tribs hardly audible. Vll during the week persons vt n ed nut to tbo >c4imip i\f th.. .iew nothing but bare rocks where e the house had stood. )thers attended the Grape Creek reh Thursday afternoon as anoth victim of the racing river, Blaine ore. 22, was carried to his grave. !e was drowned Sunday night a k ago when he tumbled into the talent waters one mile below e. Two Ar? Frozen it the same time fragmentary rets reached here of the death of men at Appalachia in the very er end of Cherokee county, hey were: Charley Holland, -i-0, Charley Bowen, 17. Funeral ices were held for them Monday, lolland is said to have fallen in river. He dragged himself out. austed he lay down on the shero sub-zero weather froze hi in to h. The Bowen lad was fouu l e to hia home near Liberty also :en to death. dding to the grief of the results :he storm were reports received i that an elderly lady of the rne section had been found frozen death in her bed, no fire, her idbox empty. itreams that were suddenly swollto record heights by a downpour rain all day Monday and Monday ht a week ago which washed an rage of four inches of snow off mountains and lowlands into th ek , receded as quickly as they ? Kii* +..1-C? *..>i LT <IV?. BMIUUl lia W1 life and halting traffic several os. seriously interfering with the ular transaction of business here Vs the bodies of Mrs. Johnson and son were lifted from biers of ftwood and silt that were left sn the snows had washed away and river had receded from their 11 field, Murphy looked at its most rible tradgedy in awe and sorrow. Scattered about were fragments of house, torn to hits as the water I ice of Midway lake tore its way ough a gorge a quarter of a mile r and swept the frame dwelling > the surging Hiawassee that had (Continued on back page) OHNSON FAMILY " and all hit possessions washed from Midway lake when the eek ago, it u said that Mr. :tion wish to give aid, financial !B, a respected mate of the n all he could spare to others herokee Scout to start a fund i have been made to leave all & Trust sorapsnjr, or in case d word to this paper and they d aft donors wit! have their s paper two weeks hence, the fund by donating $1C. It lected for this purpose already en donation<;. If those who with the Scout represntative the :hey can for this worthy cause, I. Just leave it at the Citiaen** .
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