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Vol. IIIL.?No. 46.
92ND BIRTHDAY
IS CELEBRATED
BY MRS. KEENER
Four Generations Present
At Dinner Given
In Her Honor
Four generations of Mrs. Harriet
Admonia Keener's family gathered
here Tuesday at a dinner celebrating
hi 92nd birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Keener has 150 grand children,
great-grandchildren and greatgreat-grandchildren.
Mrs. Keener is the widow of John
S. Keener to whom she was married
in April 1861. Mr. Keener was a
local Methodist minister and school
teacher, having taught school in Cherokee,
Graham, Jackson and Swain
counties. He was a soldier in the
Confederate army and was captured
and held prisoner by the Federal
troops until he close of the war. He
died in 1880 in Chrokec county.
Daughter of Pioneer
Mrs. Keener is the daughter of G.
W. Hayes, one of the pioneers of
Western North Carolina, coming to
Cherokee county to reside in 1835
and establishing his home near old
Fort Butler, the site of which is tiow
In the town limits of Murphy.
Mr. Hayes assisted in the removal
of the Cherokee Indians from Cherokee
county and surrounding counties
in 1839 whn the government took the
Indians to Indian territory, now the
state of Oklahoma. He spoke the
Indian language fluently.
One interesting event that took
place while the Inlians were being
removed concerned a family of Indians
who had been taken in custody
in Jackson county by Federal troops
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100 - Year - Old
Marble Woman
Dies Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha
A. Moss, who had lived nearly a century
in Cherokee county, were held
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
Marble Baptist church with the Rev.
Alga West officiating. Interment
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was m t-ne oia moss cemetery near
Marble. Peyton G. Ivie was in
charge of funaral arrangements.
Mrs. Moss, who nenred her 100th
birthday, was born in Cherokee county
and had lived here all her life. At
the age of 16 she joined the Methodist
church. Later she changed to the
Baptist church. All her life she was
a great-- Christian supporter. She
died with a stroke of paralysis that
had kept her bed-ridden for two
weeks Saturday aftenoon at 2:25 o'clock.
Surviving are four sons, C. W., of
Murphy,, and Henry, Mack and Richard,
all of Marble, and two daughters,
Mrs. Quincy Earwood, of Marble, and
Mrs. Martha Webb, of New Jersey.
Refreshing Showers
Aid To County Crops
Intemittent showers during the
past week-end nrnved nnt nnlv ro.
freshing to the county but a life-saver
to crops as well.
Reports coming to the Scout from
all over Cherokee indicate that crops
were in bad need of rain and were
facing ruination until several hard
thunderstorms provided moisture enough
to keep them going for a while
yet.
The ground is still dry, the reportIers
said.
Woman Recovering
From Snake's Bite
Mrs. Grace White, of the Postel)
section, was said to be improving this
week from the result of a bite inflicted
by a Copperhead snake last Saturday
evening.
Mrs. White was cutting grass in
her yard with a knife when the snake
hit her, the report said.
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5 Weekly Neuspnper m Western \t
Mu
Will Begin Paving Mi
Blue Ridge 1
The Georgia State highway department
has ordered the paving of about
10 miles of highway from the North
Carolina-Georgia line at Culberson
eight miles below here to a point
where the road leads into a stretch
of paving three miles north of Blue
Ridg, Ralph Manning, of the highway
department, said here Tuesday.
This link of paving, sought for the
past several years, will permit
through traffic over a paved scenic
route between, the Great Smokies
and the East., and Atlanta and the
South.
Mr. Manning, who has been in
charge of a crew of men paving a
highway between Dahlonega, Ga., and
Dawsonville, Ga., said one crew of
men would be sent here within the
next three weeks to begin quarrying
operations to provide a macadam
base for the road.
When the project gets under full
sway about 50 men will be needed to
do the work and possibly 25 of them
will be hired locally, the construction
superintendent said. They will
ho nnnvtoroH ?% "I"""
eral Bluff, he added.
Mr. Manning was accompanied here
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MARBLE TO PLAY
WARREN TEAM AT
HOME SATURDAY
The Marble Blues buck the Warren
Company team from Atlanta on
the home grounds Saturday afternoon.
Marble lost their game to this
same team 5 to 2 in Atlanta on May
9th.
Thee Warren Company team is one
of the strongest class "C" teams in
the South having lost only one game
to date?to Oglethorpe university.
The Columbia Marble Baseball association
made public a financial
statement the first of the month
which shows the boys to be still some
in debt. They want to pay up all
their bills and anyone that wants to
see a real good ball game will get the
best to be had Saturday.
First Vet Rnnrk
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Arrive Tuesday
For Distribution
Distribution was begun here Tuesday
of the first bonds received in
payment of the soldiers' bonus that is
estimated to bring somewhere around
$100,000 to ex-service men in -Cheookee
county. About 200 veterans
here will receive bonus bonds.
This week there was nothing much
to ordinary conversation except the
"bonds" while the ex-service men
speculated gleefully on the manner
in which they would use their moneyBonds
arriving this week will be
delivered in person only to the addressee,
and this delivery will be made
if at all possible on the same day they
arrive.
The bonus will distribute bonds
worth nearly $1,650,000,000 to some
3,000,000 world war veterans. When
the job is done, the 38,000,000 bonds
will be in the hands of the nation's
three and a half million ex-soldiers
with the size of individual payments
ranging from $6 to $1,500.
The bonus payment has been heralded
for months by the predictions
of its advocates that a tremendous
upsurge in business would come when
the million of dollars start flowing into
the chanels of trade.
The American legion estimated
that merchants and retailers would
receive $623,615,793 from the payments.
President Roosevelt last week took
cognizance of the expected appearance
in circulation of the bonus money.
He urged cooperation in cashing
the federal checks in order that
"funds to be disbursed may begin to
flow through the channels of trade
without unnecessary delay".
Mrs. R. F. Pierry, of Andrews was
a visitor in town Sunday.
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Immediately
Saturday Last
Day For Filing
Work Sheets
Saturday being the last day on
which work sheets can be filed foi
crop payments under the new Soil !
Conservation program, Dean I. O.
Schaub had the following to offer
as a last word to farmers:
"Due to the unfavorable seasons
caused by the dry weather, many of
the farmers of the state have lost
some of their legume crops such as
lespedeza, especially where it was
sown late in the spring, and a good
many of the other legume crops have
not been planted due to the unusual
weather conditions. These crops are
necessary in order to qualify for the
soil conserving payment under the
Soil Conservation Program.
"We would like to stress to every
grower the importance of seeding,
before it is too late, a sufficient
acreage of conserving crops in order
to qualify for the soil conserving payment
and as large a soil building payment
as possible.
"In this state we are allowed, for
the year 1936, to use soybeans and
cowpeas as conserving crops even
^ ough the hay is cut. This is a very
<j?beral interpretation of conserving
crops.
"Realizing that legume seed is
scarce, if peas or beans are planted
in 2 1-2 to 3 feet rows ar.d cultivated
once or twice, you will generally
make as much hay as if the peas or
beans are sown broadcast. This will
certainly make the seed go further
and will enable th grower to receive
his payments under the Soil Conservation
Program.
"The question frequently arises as
to whether sorghum or Simian grass
.sown with peas or beans for hay is
soil conserving. If beans or peas predominate
the acreage will count as
rnnspi'vinrr hut if th?? cnrn-lmm "? Bn.
dan grass predominates and is cut
for hay the acreage will count as depleting.
"Provision is being made in the
classification of crops to provide that
sorghum and rye left on the land and
not harvested will be classified as soil
conserving for 1936.
Local Cannery
Will Begin On
Berries Soon
The Murphy cannery will begin
operations for the season within the
next week by canning all available
blackberdies, E. R. Thompson, cannery
manager, announced Wednesday.
Tomato canning will begin imme-i
diately after the berries run out, Mr.
Thompson said.
Wednesday a shipment of tomato
plants was received here for farmers
whft ViQ/1 onntrontn/1 '
VU.IWBUICU lumaiu atica^V
and then had their plant beds fail.
The cannery is still signing up
bean acreage, he added.
Th volume of business to be done
by th local cannery, a member of the
Land 0' The Sky Mutual Canning
Association, could not be estimated
by Mr. Thompson Wednesday, but he
expects operations to eclipse those
of past years.
Peachtree Gets
Singing Banner
As 3000 Watch
Betweeen 2500 and 3000 people
were present at the Peachtree school
house Sunday afternoon to watch the
Upper Peachtree class carry off the
banner at the annual Cherokee county
singing convention.
The scores of the teams competing
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Potentially Rich in This 1
18, 1938.
RELIEF BJLL'S
PASSAGE HOPED
FOR THIS \\ EEK
Frssage in the Senate of the
huge relief bill, which contains a
$3,337,228 appropriation for the
Fowler Bend dam, is expected to
materialize within the next few
days.
If passed upon favorably by the
Senate, which appears imminent,
it will require the signature of
i President Roosevelt. But it is also
supposed that he will sign the bill
as soon as it is put before him as
he is the sponsor of the giant relief
meaure.
Congress adjourned last week
during the Republican convention
at Cleveand and convened again
Monday to wrestle with the new tax
bill and the relief bill before final
adjournment.
Before adjourning prior to the
convention the Senate subcommittee,
which passed favorably on the
relief bill, referred it back to the
Senate but i{ had to go back to the
House for the adjustment of several
minor amendments before receiving
the final Senate account.
The president's signature upon
the bill would authorize immediate
construction of the Hiawassee
TVA project.
MARTIN'S CREEK
TO OFFER 3-ACT
PLAY FRI. NIGHT
"A Fortunate Calamity", a comedy-drama
in three actc be given
at the Martin's Creek School Building
on Friday night, June 19, at
7:30 o'clock. This play is sponsored
by the Ladies Aid Society of the
Martin's Creek Baptist church. The
proceeds will go for a singing school.
The play is good, clean corned},
with strong situations and interesting
climaxes ami has everything that
a good play has: a little romance
a little tragedy, and a whole lot o1
humor. The two drakies furnish fur.
throughout the entire play. Every
body come. Th* admission will be
10c and 15c.
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About 65 Meet
To Organize All
County's Clubs
About 65 representatives of Cherokee
county social, civic and religious
organizations met in the Fair building
at Murphy Wdnesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock for the purpose of organizing
into a council of social agencies.
The meeting was under the direction
of Mrs. Margaret LeMay Mauney
Chrokee County Case worker, and
was scheduled to hear Mrs. W. B.
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tion of State Board of Chaiities arid
Public Welfare, of Raleigh, and Miss
Victoria Bell, Field Representative
of Public Welfare, of Asheville, as
guest speakers.
The representative planned to organiz
in an effort to serve the citizens
better and more efficiently in
the matter of welfare work. Mrs.
Mauney explained.
"We feel that so much more can
be done for the county in welfare
work if all our clubs organize and
work together with regular periodical
meetings and a cooperative plan",
she said.
"For instance", she added, "sometime
ago Cherokee county could have
been provided with a full-time child j
welfare worker. The county commissionrs
were asked to put up $36 !
per year toward the worker's salary
but felt that they could not afford !
it. Thus Cherokee county was deprived
of a child welfare worker j
which it needs very much. If these j
clubs could have been organized then
they could have probably provided
the money themselves. It's things
like this that they could help with so
very much".
As the Scout went to press it was
unable to obtain the remarks of the
speakers and a full account of the
organization with the names of the
different officers and representatives
present.
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Inquest is held
into death of
waldo scroggs
Opie Clayton, of Bi asstown,
Under $1010
Bond; Funeral Held
A corner'* jury here Sum.';.. ?
turned a verdxt that Walt "> S : oggs
du-year-old prominent Rrasstowi
farmer, who died in the Petrie hes
rital at 5:110 Saturday eve.ting
"came to his death by blow*- < r? the
head at tie hands of parties un
known", and Opie Clayton. 2d, als<
of Bmsslown. was hound over to Superior
court under a $1000 ' o' d for
"assualt with a deadly weapr n with
intent to hill" in connection with the
case.
Mr. Scrogps was found lying on
the edge of the Brasstown highway
near the homo of Gay Johnser. ?i\
miivs east oi ncre, aneut II <> lock
Saturday night. May 30. with cot* ii
his hack and neck and h;s fr.c? and
head bruised.
He was brought to the Petrie hos
pital here and returned to hi- wom?
Monday. The following evening h
was returned to the hospital v.ter*
he died last Saturday.
At the joint inquest?preliminary
hearing conducted by Coronei K. C.
Heighway, Dr. R. W. Petrie testified
that Scroggs was in a bad condition
when he was returned to the hospital
Tuesday and that he was evidently
gaining until Saturday noon wi.en his
condition steadily grew worse until
he died.
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Mrs. J. Rogers 88,
Dies In Cal.,
Funeral Is HeM
Funeral services for Mrs. Ja.-.c
Rogers, 88, who died last week at
Bakersville, Cal., after a long illness,
were held at the Antioch* churel near
Blairsville, Ga., Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock with the Rev.
Thomas Truett officiating. Interment
was in the church cemetery.
, Peyton G. Ivie was in charge of iu*
neral arrangements.
Although she died at the home cf
relatives in California, Mrs. Rogers
' had lived here* most of her life and
had been in the West for the past
1 nine years. She was a member of
the church from which she was buried
for 72 years.
Surviving are five sons, Orville,
of Blue Ridge, Ga., Juan, of BJairsville,
Ga., Victor, of Marietta, Ga.
and Joe and Grady, of Bakersville.
and four daughters, Mrs. S. S. Kissleburg,
of Culberson, Mrs. Stiles, of
Struthers, Ohio, and Misses Maggie
and Julia Rogers, of Bakersville.
j Change Registration
Piace Of City Election
The place of registration in the
special town election on the pool
room question has been changed
from the Courthouse to Candler'*
Department store. Dale Lee, registrar,
announced this week.
The registration books will be
open Saturday, June 20; Saturday,
June 27, and July 4. The election
will be held at the Court House on
Tuesday, July 14.
To register and fail to vote
counts as a rote against permitting
pool room operation in Murphy under
the supervision of the local
post of the American Legion.
Court Convenes Here,
Dismissed In One Day
The regular June term of Cherokee
County Superior Court convened and
adjourned here all in one day Monday.
Judge John M. Oglesby presided
! over the short session that did not
even require the calling of a jury.