, Thurs., April 16,1936. MR. R. L. MARTIN, OF POSTELL, DIES: IS BURIED FRIDAY Funeral services for Mr. Robert L. Martin, 54. of Postell, a brother of Mr. A. L. Martin, of Murphy, superintendent of the Cherokee county county schools, were held at the Turtletown BaptTrt church Friday after, noon at 2 o'clock. Interment was in the church cemetery. W. D. Townson was in charge of funeral arrangements. Mr. Martin died Thursday morning at 6 o'clock of pneumonia. He h%d t^-en ill only a short time. He was a member of the Baptist church and one of the leading churchmen of his community. Surviving besides his wife and small son are four brothers, A. L., of Mumhy, W. P., of, Duck town, Tenn., " of Shelbyville, Tenn., nit .'la, n, vi -.u.ij, cnc mree sisters, Mrs. Sherman Montgomery, of Postell, Mrs. Myrtle Burger, of Isabella. Tenn., Mrs. M. H. Bass, of Copperhill, Tenn., and a half-sister, Mrs. James Harris, of Wild Cherry, Ark. o Suit Demonstration Club is Organized On Friday, April 3, Miss Paulina Lentz, met with the ladies of Suit, at the home of Mrs. Ida Pope and or. ganized a Home Demonstration club. The following officers were elected: President. Mrs. J. F. Wood. Vice-president. Mrs. Nora McNabb. , Secretary, Mrs. Lexie Wood. , Foods Leader, Mrs. Frank Sparks.]] Cothing Leader. Mrs. Fdna McNabb. The next meeting will be at the School house, Tuesday af'ernoon, 1 May 12th, Miss Ler.tz is going to demonstrate cheese. IUDGMENTS?Continued from page Item Maker, Endorser and No. Collateral 174 John Walker 175 J. W. Walker, W. P. Walker 176 L. C. Ward, B. B. Palmer 177 Andy Whitner, S. F. Taylor TOTALS STOCK ASSESSMiE Item Name No. 179 W. M. Axley 180 T. N. Bates 181 J. E. Coburn 182 Mrs. Grace P. Cooper 183 Mrs. R. E. Deweese 184 A. B. Dickey 185 Mrs. John E. Fain 186 Porter Fain 187 A. J. Gurley 188 Mrs. Florence Hill 189 G. A. Klein 190 J. R. McLelland 191 A. J. Martin ... 192 Mrs. Florence Moore 193 Dr. Frank R. Sherard 194 Mrs. T. J. Sword iyo J. M. Vaughn TOTAL : REAL ES Item No. 196 COPE ORCHARD PROPERTY: Known as Hennesa Cove. Located Highway No. 28 about three miles taining 40 acres more or less. Fo 111,, Page 301. 197 FAIN MOUNTAIN ORCHARDS: Lying three miles due North from according to Grants, 575 acres act orchard. Orchard altitude 2,500 t Orchard Settings: APPLES 1500?Starks Red Delicious .... 100?Starks Red Delicious 1500?Starks Staymen . 100?Starks Staymen 150?Starks Grimes Golden, D. W. ... 250?Starks Golden Delicious 250?Starks Senator 50?Starks Golden Delicious 100?Starks Jonothan 20?Starks Staymard 200?Varieties from other nurseries .. PEACHES 150 trees. Varieties. CHERRIES 100 trees, Red and Black, Varieties* BLACK WALNUT At least 100 trees fringing the East POPLAR (Second Growth) Around 2,000 trees from 6 inches L These are estimates by very eonservati Dated January 12, 1933 The above information secured from sig owner. Deed recorded Book 113, Page All taxes on Real Estate paid, includin This the 14th day of April, 1836. GURNEY P. H S s: G. OWENS', .c.osnV -of Murpl Gray & Christopher. *. jftid'yg', Murphy, N. C. / S' JJB|Biyn The Ambulance Is Loaned Tornado-Struck Area Mr. Peyton G. I vie. Murphy funeral director, donated his services to the Gainesville tornado area last week by placing his combination hearseambulance at the disposal of the | victims. ! Mr. Ivie spent two days and one night in the storm section helping to care for the dead and injured. PRIZES TOTALING $80 TO BE GIVEN CANNERY YIELDS For the largest yield per acreage each of tomatoes and beans under Murphy cannery contracts, $40 will be given in prizes, it was announced this week. The $40, it was pointed out, would be over and above the revenue obtained from the ! the produce of the acreage at the Mountain Valley Associated Cooperative Cannery. The largest yields will be determined from records kept at the cannery and the biggest acre of tomatoes will bring $40 to its owner and the best acre of beans will do likewise. Thirty dollars in prizes will be given by the cannery officials, $30 by the Cherokee County fair association and $20 in trade by W. M. Fain, Murphy wholesale merchant, a cannery director and a fair official. These prizes are being offered in order to stimulate more interest among the contractors for the Murphy cannery. A Gumsey cow owned by John F. Maley, of ast Putney, Vt., gave birth to quadruplets. Three were females and the other a male. nine Principal Int. to Total 4-1.36 206.02 152.44 358.46 700.00 188.77 888.77 91.36 18.46 109.82 49.50 13.75 63.25 $24,039.05 $10,871.70 $34,911.05 NT JUDGMENTS Principal Int. to Total 4-1-36 59.18 10.21 69.39 296.82 1.76 298.58 500.00 86.50 586.50 1,100.00 189.60 1,289.63 250.00 43.25 293.25 350.00 60.55 410.55 150.00 25.95 175.95 50.30 8.45 58.45 500.00 86.50 586.50 400.00 69.20 469.20 400.00 66.80 466.80 900.00 155.70 1,055.70 100.00 17.30 117.30 154.30 34.49 188.79 400.00 69.20 469.20 250.00 43.25 293.25 50.00 8.65 58.65 $5,910.30 $977.36 $6,887.66 j iTATE about 1-4 mile from North Carolina from Murphy, North Carolina, conr complete calls see Deed Book No. Murphy, North Carolina, 490 acres :ording to survey. 105 acres are in o 3,000 feet. 10 to 15 years, ' 3 to 0 years, 10 to 15 years, 3 to 0 years, 10 to 15 years, 10 to 15 years, 10 to 15 years, - 3 to 0 years, 10 to 15 years, 3 to 0 years, 10 to 15 years, side of orchards. > 20 inches in diameter. I ve. Signed, A. A. FAIN, Owner. 3ied statement by A. A. Fain, former ! 310. g 1935. Purchaser to pay 1936 tax. OOD, Commissioner of Banks of the tate of North Carolina. Assistant Liquidating Agent of the ijr, Murphy, N. C. Chcrolqfc Scout, Murphy, I | NEWS PICK-UPS -i ; 1 tt Henn theater manager Jim Mc- e Combs, in an ambitions mood last week, decided to do a little extra ad- ^ vertising for his film, "If You Could Only Cook". So up and down the ^ street he went painting it on the side- y walk. h And doesn't know until yet that he t once picked the front door of the Murphy Cafe for his speil. v a One of our prominent men the a other day said it must be the weather, but for some reason he couldn't even sleep in church anymore. We * don't like to give this fellow away but both his names are synonamous 3 with a poet's conception of a plain a old cow pasture, the first one rhy- t( mes with "Jail" and he works for his f father-in-law in his father-in-law's JJ department store. So there. '* Sugggested slogan for a newspaper: '^Covers Dixie Like the Jew c] (covers New York). 1< Our dream almost came true the other day. Fo: a long time we have ^ herished the thought of what would ^ happen if a fire alarm was turned in ^ at noon on Monday when they give ^ the fire whistle its weekly work-out. P An alarm came in Monday at 11:47. ^ Darn the luck. . Fred Beatty the other day said he ! guessed in the olden days women ' must have laid eggs. Else there 1 wouldn't be so confounded many of ) 'em. ! Don Gentry's two-months-old boy ' set the house on fire the other day. 1 He was smoking a cigar in bed and | when his mother refused to hand ' him an ash tray, he just knocked the ashes off in the covers of the crib. < It soonds kind of goofy to us, but ! Don said so himself. Wonder if he ' cried when they wouldn't give him a ' bottle of beer to put it out with? We still laugh out loud every time 3 we think of that bunch of soaks that ian iniu a iciepnoiie poie one night, y They swore up and down it was right X in the middle of the highway. Any- v how a couple of months later one of X them decided to find out about it. 3) He went back to the scene of the wreck and asked a bystander if he Y knew where a pole was that a bunch & of boys had knocked down several A months ago. E3. . . : Shore , said the old man furious- y y. "And if I ever ketch 'em I'll A knock their dad.blamcd ears off. It y was in my backyard!" $ And, of course, that brings to mind the boy who was so unfortunate as to X drop off to sleep in the cafe. His y buddies piled about 40 beer bottles X around the table and then called Fred Y Johnson. That was over a year ago and the poor devil hasn't been able X to act sober yet. 0 ' ? MR. BARRETT, 78, $ OF THIS COUNTY, ? BURIED TUESDAY | Funeral services for Mr. Kelsey Ba-r y rett, 78, of Cherokee county, were X held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock X at the Hangingdcg Baptist church S nnilt 4-U ? n rr. .. 1 - - fiui uic ncv. i nomas iruen 0111- X dating. Interment was in the church cemetery. W. D. Townson was in *5 charge of funera1 arrangements. Mr. Barrett had been ill several months and died Monday morning at 2 o'clock of a general breakdown. He was born in Buncombe county, but moved to this section about 40 years ago where he became a member of the Hangingdog church. He was one of the leading church workers and citizens in his comunity and was a member of the Odd Fellows and K of P lodges. Surviving are his wife; four sons, John, of Murphy, Willie, of Rockford, Tenn., George, of Akron, Ohio, and Henry, of Alcoa, Tenn.; two daughters, Mrs. Leila Fox and Mrs. Sue Parker, both of Weaverville; three sisters, "Mrs. Ben Lovingood, of Grandview, Mrs. Luther Dockery, of Chattanooga, and Mrs. Vemie McLamb, of Walthamville, Ga., and two brothers, Henry and Prentis, both of Weaverville. To Acquire Forests In Cherokee County Immediate steps for acquiring the land for inclusion in Southern nation, al forests, approved for purchase at a meeting of the National Forest Reservation 'Commission in Washington, on April 2, will be taken by the Southern Region of the U. S. Forest Service, according to an announcement by Joseph C. Kircher, Regional j Sforth Carolina UED CROSS ... * (Continued from front page) I aise yet," Mr. Fain said Tuesday, and I hope the amount is subscrib- ( d soon. I The Red Cross is an unqueston- j ble organization and has done a | Teat deal for Cherokee county. They ave given us yearly contributions of east for pallagra and the like, and . ave given Cherokee county more . ban the citizens have put into it. . "During the Red Cress drive last sinter there were only 26"members nd half the money raise remained , t home." ^ The Andrews chapter of the Amer- ,j 'orester. The Commission, Mr. Kircher said, j uthorized the purchase of 83,000 cres of land in the South unsuitable 0 agricultural use at a cost of $300,- ' 00. Acquisitions were authorized 1 ten Southern States and also in the > erritory ot Puerto Rico, where the 8 aribbean National Forest is located. NORTH CAROLINA?Land pur hases for three national Forests in ' forth Carolina will be made as fol f iws: 7,77i acres to cost $34,500 ! or the Sumter National Forest; 1, s 38 acres at a cost of $5,000 for the ' fantahala National Forest; and 2,68 acres at a cost of $7,400 for the I isgah National Forest. Total ex- < enditures for the purchases in North t arolini will amount to $46,900. t Henn 1 Murohv Monday-T uesda "LITTLE FAUN1 ?Stan Freddie Bartholomew Mickey Rooney, C. Au bee, Henry Stephensoi THE PICTURE THE WORLD lta rich entertainment will enfol Freathss life into these world-bel? turc that will stand as one of the Matinee 1 Wednesday, April 22 "KIND LADY" With Aline McMahon? A Metro Picture Saturday, April 25 Charles Starrett, John Perrv. in? "THE MYSTERIOUS AVENGER" Matinee I Going Str Ev Western Carolina Muti is gaining hundreds of ?our friends from all taking advantage < PROTE< If you have not joined s< atives?He will expla you.?You can't mal coming a Fastest growing Associi the State. WESTERN CARC BURIAL AS! W. D. TO FUNERAL DIRECTOR?EMBALX Ffiorie 114 ran Red Cross, one of the ft* co^ I nunity units in the organization, ^ d $200 snd sent two csr loads of rroduce to the Gainesville area. I (Meanwhle Gainesville and oth?f & itorm-stricken towns had buried their K lundreds of dead and are no* loot I ng to rebuilding. Federal and state telp have been offered in all vases E The following wire was recently K cceived by Mr. Fain: "Reports corn. B ng in from chapters in N. Carolina K ndicate great interest of people in E omado sufferers. Latest estimate of necessary relief to meet basic needs )f those people who have no re- I sources is considerable in excess of I ne million dollars. New reports from B levasted cities, towns and counties I testify to shocking loss and wide- I ipread need. In Tupelo alone 60 city I ilocks of house demolished, more I ban 700 homes destroyed with manj I nore badly damaged. ft "In Gainesville 750 homes demo!- I shed. Urge vou to continue vigorous M olicitation." 2 When an officer told J. J. Hsl- I ord of Yazoo City, Miss., how much B lis taxes were, he collapsed. Phy. f icians diagnosed the cause as heart I ittack and said he had little chance B ;o recover. 9 J. W. Linder, proprietor of a pool tall in Royal, Neb., won a bet he K ould put a billard ball in his mouth. I >ut it took him an agonizing 15 rain. I ites to remove the ball. oonioon$o$onmo$oo$$ii I Theatre I ?N*c _ j. I y, April 20-21 11 LORD CLEROY" j ing? Dolores Costello, | brey Smith, Guy Kib- | i and Jackie Searle. + i WILL TAKE TO HEARTI id your emotions as the screen V >ved characters ... It is a pic* ? rare experiences of the screen. $ Vlonday X Thurs. and Friday | APRIL 23 *nd 24 X ?Sin|in| sweetheart I back \ .(.in! JEANETTE McDONALD | NELSON EDDY! ^ "ROSE MARIE" ! ?With Reginald Owen, James v Stewart, Allan Jones, Alan ^ Mowbray, Gilda Gray. ^ Y A Metro Picture ? Matinee Thursday | onger er y Day! ial Burial Association members every day over this section are >f this wonderful :tion. ;e one of our representin the advantages to Ice a mistake by bemember ition in this section of >UNA MUTUAL SOCIATION wnson if IMG?AMBULANCE SERVICE Murphy, N. C.

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