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Vol. IIIL.?No. 41.
Approval
Citizens Vote i
Assumption Of
District Bonde<
Majority, 99 to 1 Against
Move Piled Up In
Special Election
Cherokee county citizens Tuesday
voted down a move to have the county
assume all township and district |
bonded indebtedness by a huge ma- j
jonty estimated by one public of.
ficial at 99 to 1.
According to law the county commissioners
will canvass the county
for resutls in the special election
Thursday and present the exact figures.
A strong indication of the trend
of the vote was given in Murphy
r ownsnip wncn tne oou persons tnat
had registered, 247 voted against the
move and only four voted for it.
The figures also show that very
little interest was given to the election
as 2911 of those registered did
not even vote which automatically
become a vote against the move.
Reports reaching here Wednesday
indicated that similar majorities
were rolled up in other voting precints.
A complete tabulation of the voting
will be given next week in this
publication.
The election was ordered in the
last session of the general assembly,
and Don Witherspoon, Murphy attorney,
and W. A. Adams, chairman
of the Cherokee County Board of
Commissioners, who sponsored the
move, said it woul facilitate in outtin
f expenditures and bookkeeping.
In some sections of the county,
however, principally in Andrews,
where bonded indebtedness had been
bought up, the citizens felt that this
would only be an additional expense
in the form of taxation to them.
Mason Now Buying
Sheep In Cherokee
I.. L. Mason, former sheriff, of
iVa-htree, who has been sending aj
great deal of cattle off all winter
lias now turned his attention to
sheep.
Only recently he has sent off 200
or 300 head of sheep and is now looki
around for some more high-class
young sheep to ship to out-of-town
markets, he said this week.
STUDIES ROCK FORMATIONS
Dr. Corin, eminent Belgian geolowas
in this county Thursday and
i V hi iday examining metamorphic rock,
HBh'1 *s an authority, in this
section. He will be in this country
j about six months and will study rock
[ formations from here to San Fran.
I rienn U? I 1 -? J ^ ?*
. xiv nas cumpieieu two liiomns
of his American survey already.
EXPRESS APPRECIAl
FOR HELP IN PR
Murphy. N. C.
May 13, 1936.
To the Editor of the Scout:
Many citizens of Murphy, and
Cherokee "County have extended to us
kind expressions in apreciation of
our efforts in aiding the procurement
?f an appropriation for the Fowler
Bend Dam, all of which we apprei
cjate, but, we do not wish the impression
to prevail that the appropriation
was procured by us, and believe
that due credit should be graven
our Congressman, Honorable Zebulon
Weaver. It was through the efforts
of Mr. "Weaver, ably supported
by Senators Bailey and Reynolds,
that the appropriation was procured.
Tlie morning after our arrival in
^ ashington, when we met Mr. Weav*r?
he assured us that he had every
hope that the appropriation would be
made and never for an instant doubted
that the appropriation would be
jnade. We found that Mr. Weaver
had every detail fully in hand, and
oo furnished us with information and
< ata verifying his confidence that
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Ir?t/y Nncipaper m if rslrrn North
Murj
Of Dam A
\gainst County
Township and
d Indebtedness
TWO NEW MEN j
j ELECTED INTO
| LIONISM HERE
Many Other Matters
Brought Before Club
Meeting l ues. Night
Two now members, the Rev. H.
W. Baucom, Jr., and Winslow McIver,
were elected to the Murphy
Lions club at their regular meeting
in the banquet room of the Methodist
church Tuesday night.
Mr. Baucom is the Baptist minis.
tcr of Murphy, and Mr. Mclver is
connected with Neil Davidson in the
mercantile business here.
Dr. E. E. was unanimously
elected to asrve as corresponding
secretary of the club.
At the suggestion of Lion Tom
Case the secretary was instructed to
wiite Governor Eugene Talmadge
of Georgia, and W. E. Winhourne,
chairman of the Georgia highway
commission, on behalf of the club in
an effort to have a stretch of road
extending from the North CarolinaGeorgia
state line to Blue Ridge,
Ga., paved in the near future.
Gov. Talmadge has assured C. W.
Continued on page three)
DEMOCRATS TO
NAME CHAIRMAN
HERE SATURDAY
A new chairman of the Demoicratic
party of the Cherokee county
will be named at the party convention
to be held in the Murphy court,
house Saturday morning at 11 !
o'ciock.
By order of Dr. J. X. 11-11, the
present chairman, meetings were
held in every precinct in the county <
last Saturday afternoon to select |
precinct committees and the chair-'
man of those committees will select
the party officers for the coming
term.
Dr. llill was named to the post a
year and a half ago upon the death
of Mr. C. 15. Hill, his brother, who
was chairman of the party at the :
lime of his death.
At the recent convention when
candidates for the county offices
were elected Dr. llill announced his
resignation saying he had to devote
more of his time to his profession !
than the job wouid allow him.
According to the new rules the
vice-chairman of every committee
must he a woman.
ION TO WEAVER
OCURING DAM HERE
his efforts would be successful.
We found, in consultation with i
other Congressmen, that no member
of Congress stands higher in his
character and official duties than Mr.
Weaver. Wo wish to quote from a
letter written by a member of Con- j
giess from North Carolina, on March
25th. of this year. In speaking of
Mr. Weaver, he says:
"He occupies an unusually strong
position here and is so highly respected
and regarded by the Membership
of the House, generally, that '
he is almost always successful in his
efforts, but at the same time we will
gladly support him to the limit in
anything that he undertakes.
We also that Senators
Bailey and Reynolds had every detail
at hand and gave willingly and active
support to Mr. Weaver. We feel
that the citizens of Murphy and
Cherokee County should ever be
grateful to Mr. Weaver, and our
Senators.
Respectfully,
C. D. MAYFIELD,
EDMUND B. NORVEI1.
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Carolina. Covering a Ijargv and P
phy, N. C. Thursday, May
Lppropriati
THOROUGHBRED I1
CATTLE BRINGS
BIG PRICE HERE
Successful Sale Held Saturday;
400 Attend; 3
Head Kept Here
While pure bred Guernsey cattle
was selling at an average of $154
per head, 400 Cherokee county farmers
met here Saturday and amiably
* talked shop" about raising thoroughbreds
in the county from now on.
The sale was sponsored by the
Cherokee County Breeders association
in cooperation with the county
agent's staff and the state extension
department.
With ten of the finest head of
Guernsey cattle in the state placed
on the auction block through the generosity
of five of the largest breed- <
ing farms in the state, those gather
cu at me iair grounds listened to
talks from \V. M. Fain, Murphy
wholesale merchant; J. A. Arey,
dairy cattle specialist with the extension
department, and the Rev.
Mr. Compton, of the Eliada orphan- j
age.
Many buyers were her from surrounding
counties and districts in
Western North Carolina, and in
spite of the money that flowed freely
during the day, three of the
prize Guernseys remained here in !
the county permanently. j1
One heifer calf, Charm's Rosebud. ;
of the Eliada farms, was sold to !
Don Withersppon, Murphy attorney. |
for $155; another heifer calf, lies-,
ter of Garden Creek, from the II. A. j
Osborne farm, at Cmton, N. C.. be-j
came the property of John Shield.-;
for a cold $150 and a pure l?**ed j
bull from the Valkyrie farm- at i
Ashevilie was auctioned to Burt
Shields for $75.
The top price paid for a heifer '
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BETWEEN 10,000 AND
RECENTLY HATCb
"We'll have chicken and dumplins I
when she comes"- with plenty of I
chicken.
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j'ur v^. nriiin , v. ucnnvcv 11ty
agon;, says that the county has
suddenly become chicken < ns.ious ,
and between 10,000 and 15,000 little i
chicks are now seeking roost in this :
territory. I
Most of these have recently been \
bought and ave being raised <?n y, m- |
eious farms throughout Cherokee
while several thousand ot* them have !
been hatched, mainly through incu- i
bators. I
The most important, poultry raiser i
right now seems to he Mrs. C. 15. i
Woods, of Andrews, who has placed
6600 eggs in the incubators and <
should have, Ketner estimates, 70 i
per cent production from them. <
A number of other Cherokee farmers
have been buying the birds |
hand over fist and every day hun
dveds of new chicks are coming into
the county.
Principal among the raisers and
the number they now have are: Mrs.
T. D. Hickey, Suit, 400; Clois j
Keenum, Suit, 300; T. D. Montgom- j
ery, Suit, 300; the Woods Brothers, j
Suit, 500; Lawson Lnnsford, Peach- .
tree, GOO; H. L. Kobinson, Peach-!,
tree, 400; Hilary Hampton, Murphy,! x
300; John Shields, Culberson, 700,
and Frank Gneringhelli, Brasstown,
375. 1
Not only are these progressive
farmers and many others taking an (
especial active interest in chickens j
now, Ketner declares, but that are 1
having very good success with them; ^
and with the program now under t
way, as it is, a mighty fine strain y
of birds is seen in the offing. i (
Howard Moody Becomes1 i
Postmaster At Murphy
Howard Moody formally became | i
the post master of Murphy Tuesday. ' ;
Members of the post office staff ' ]
held a banquet in honor of Mrs. i
Dickey and Mr. Moody at the Dickey i
House Tuesday night.
t HhflPi
otrntially Rich Trmtv, m This Sti
' 14, litob $
on Is Expe
jr. Mcdonald ro : i
speak in murphy j
on monday night
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, Candidate
for governor and former
Winston-Salem school teacher will
speak in the court house in Murphy i
Monday night at 7 o'clock (CST) '
it was announced this week.
A series of 14 addresses have
been scheduled by Dr. McDonald
in Western North Carolina and will
mark his first campaign in this section.
Dr. McDonald has won wide appeal
throughout North Carolina
for his vigorous stand against the
sales tax and other forms of taxa?:
u- t* ?
we i?, oy siraw pon maication,
leading all sections of the
state by a nice majority except
Western North Carolina where he
is trailing Clyde Hoey 2 to 1.
J. M. BARNK1T
DIES SUDDENLY
ON THURSDAY
F uneral For Popular Citizen
Held On Friday
Afternoon
Funeral services for Mr. Jam<4-*
M. Harnett. 81-year-old Murphy resident,
who died suddendiy at his home
here last Thursday morningj were
conducted from the Murphy Baptist
church Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock
with the Rev. H. W. Baucom, Jr.,
the pastor, officiating assisted by the
Rev. W. A. Barber, Methodist minister
of Murphy. Interment was in
Sunset cemetery. Peyton G. I vie was
in charge of funeral arrangements.
Mr. Harnett's death came suddenly
and as a shock to his many friends
throughout Cherokee county and sur(Contir
ued on back page)
15,000 CHICKS
IED IN THIS COUNTY
rWO REPUBLICANS
FILE CALLING FOR
PRIMARY VOTING
Two Republicans who were not in
. hided among the regular nominees
for county offices at the eonventioi
Saturday a week ago filed for offices
Saturday, i: was learned thi^
.veek thus necessitating a primary
for these two offices.
Sam Voyles. of Murphy, said he
tad announced his candidacy foi
epic-ontative and will run agairst |
Ed Hyde, of Andrcfws, incumbent
A'ho was selected for the office bv (
he regular delegation.
lack McMillan, Murphy township
onstable, has also announced hinomination
against Ed Davis, the
ihoice of the party convention.
RUMFORD GETS VER
SUDDENLY FIP
V
This is the story of Rumford.
Rumford is a very, very unfor-1
lunate CCC who got payed off last!
Friday night and befell the beguil- j
ng practices of the downward path |
jnd now has no money and not even
'moking tobacco to look forward to
jntil the first of next month.
As we said before, Rumford, whom i
)ur friends tell us they believe is one
>f Uncle Sam's fire-eaters, got paid
tff and came to town to do a little ,
celebrating.
He did just that in a big way. In
fa'_c he celebrated so much that the
*irst time anybody gave him any par- i
licular attention last Saturday was
vhen he folded up like and ac- !:
ordion, got as limp as a jellyfish,
and decided the sidewalk was just as
jfood ?* mattress as any other.
The usual crowd gathered around
ind decided tc call a doctor. No,
hat wouldn't do at all. They would
just cany him to the doctor's office.
But Rumford didn't like being moved
so well, so he took a few lusty
swings at those would-be helpers of
his and wandered on off his own
It!
TODAY
It
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1.50 YEAR?5c CORY
cted Soon
PRESIDENT AND
SENATE YET TO
APPROVE FUNDS
[f Passed Will Mean Immediate
Construction
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wi! niawassee oilf
A deficiency bill carrying ao ap
propriation of $3,337,228 f< : "nn
mediate" construction of the H?awasseo
dam awaits only the :et?on
of the Senate and President I ? t?
it becomes law.
The bill parsed the House I y a
341 to 38 majority Monday.
The funds for the Fowler Rcml
project are included in a dc ficiency
bill providing $2,3(14,229 fm ?ir?
measures which was submitted froFederal
approval last week.
Leaders forecast a quick tin
the bill to the White House sir ?l it is
not expected to meet any cpr osi- B
tion either in the Senate <u ;,t the
presidental desk.
However an effort was made F??day
hy House Republicans t tnke
the provision for construction < f the
dam out of the bill but it failed hy
; vote of 102 to
The attack was led by Kcgnsn .
tative Tabor, ranking Rvpub:.cao on
tb house appropriation con.mittei.
who sai<l the dam was ieirg huilt en
a "branch stream".
No provision has 1 en made io the
bill for construction of a TV A dam
at Fontana on the Little T? n?;?see
river in Swain county whic Lo A.
V.. Moi'.an, chairman ol' tb* board
of directors id* TV A. reicu mended
for construction heiYue the Hji.w.too
pecteil wit. .- tr? in xt day . ??.
This s,.m will i ? added t. : ? $!.
(ip.ooo that was appropriated hy
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imp'ii- ? l ;?< ! :i! t w.!l
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COUNTY FAIR TO BE
HELD !N MURPHY 4
DAYS, SEPT. 23-26
The Kloventh annual M.eickco
County Fair will he ! '.?! in M .n'.September
23-2d, it was utiimtch
ar ?ioi.:iu t lo \Y. M. Fair,
of the a^-'ciati'Wi, Tuesday.
Mr. Fain ai- j-aid that the then!
er Krause Shows. win : . l.iud
their carnival tents h* ; :< : !?>..- i
three years, had accepted a .(ntj.ct
to a; pear hi re on that <i: '? .
The Krause shows has p: \< ?i th<3
most p pular carnival outfit *. fan
has been able ; rt m-:.;.
Aho work ..as been ? egu:: - 1 Mu
Fair catalog which should bo ti th?
Scout press within ti.e next month
and which w.'.l be distributed free
upon publication.
if DRUNK AND
^DS HIMSELF BROKE
ay.
In the middle f the street ere
man grabbed him. "Hi fa:". h<
said, "wanta go home?'* The othei
man was sitting behind lYi wheel
racing the motor impatient!*. "Ba? rfsk",
said Rum ford, and : iled into
the car.
The next thing Rumford ; i any
body else knew Rumford was back
in town a very sober and a very sick
Rumford indeed who had woke up in
a clump of bushes just out side of
town nothing much particular to his
name but his hat and other clothing.
All Rumford knows i somebody
got his $29.50. Who it was he r?or
nobody else knows although he would
probably give his next pay to irnd
out.
Whoever it was is keeping tightlipped.
Twenty-nine dollars and 50
cent, is pretty (tood fare to the olgi
of the city.
Rumford will probably tontrol
himself a little better the next time
he decides to celebrate, and be might
pass this warning on to those who
get drunk before they spend their
money. That's a bad policj stne.
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