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COURT ADJOURNS
AS JUDGE'S WIFE i
IS REPORTED ILL!
Most Cases of CriminalCivil
Term Are Disposed
of
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Receiving a wire Monday morning
that his wife had become seriously
lii, .1 uu?u "W. V. Ward inc. of Charlotte,
adjourned the August term
of Cherokee County Superior court
in session for the trial of criminal
and civii cases with most of the trials
scheduled to conie before his disposed
of.
With bills of indictment drawn at
the last minute against Glen Johnson
and Boyd Brendle, the trial of Opie
Clayton, of Brasstnwn, who was under
bond in connection with the
death of Waldo Scroggs, also of
Brasstown, who died of wounds allfgedly
received in a fight with Clayton
the night of May 30, at a remote
spot on the Brasstown road, was continued
until the next criminal session
of court.
Witnesses at a corner's hearing in |
ine r.cam 01 ocroggs sain Clayton, in
the company of Johnson, Brendle and
Aster Green, also of Brasstown, was
fighting with Scroggs and left him
injured on the road side. A week
later Scroop.!; died in the hospital
here of a head wound.
The jury decided Scroggs came to
hin death at the hands of parties unknown
but had Clayton placed under
bond for assault with a deady weapon
and intent to kill.
The case against Mrs. Mel! Trammell,
of Topion who was released
under bond for the shooting of Gus
Nelson, also of Topton, at her home
July 4, was also continued. Nelson
recovered from a pistol wound in the
chest at the hospital at Murphy.
One other important case, that of
Sylva Gaddis, of Isabella, Tenn.,
brother of Emmett Gaddis, former
Polk county deputy, who is under
bond in connection with the slaying
of D. W. McFadden there, May 19,
was dropped, the peace warrant against
Gaddis for allegedly "disturbing"
road workers near the North
Carolina-Tennessee line June 25, being
returned to Magistrate Fred
Bates, who drew the warrant after
road officials had made their complaint.
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Shooting Story
Is Called Hoax
Reports made to ..the ..Asheville
sheriff's department that an automobile
owned by David S. McFadden
was fired upon early Friday morninp
on Biltmore avenue near Victoria
road, were branded as false Friday
nipht by investipatinp officers.
Deputies found three bullet holes
in the McFadden machine, but said
they were put there by Marion Mulvaney,
26 Pearl street, who had borrowed
the automobile.
At the courthouse Friday, Mulvaney
told officers he borrowed the
automobile, fired the bullets into the
car from McFadden's pun. and then
returned to the McFadden home with
the story of the attack. Officers
said Mulvaney had been drinkinp.
Younp McFadden. questioned by
.Sheriff Laurence Brown, also pave a
different account of the shootinp he
reported at his home Tuesday nipht.
In his revised version of the inci- i
dent, he said when he and his broth-'
or Frank came home, members of the |
family reported someone had been;
prowlinp around the house. The two
boys then went into the yard and
emptied two puns, but said there
were no shots fired except the ones
from their own puns.
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHEROKEE
SCOUT?$1.50 A YEAR
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Weekly IVesotpaper m Wester* Sort
GRACE MOORE'S
PARENTS VISIT
IN THIS SECTION
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Moore, of
Chattanooga, parents of the famous
radio, screen and opera coloratura
soprano, Grace Moore, were visiting i
relatives and friends in Cherokee |
county Sunday.
Mr. Moore now owner of Lcveman
and Company department store in
Chattanooga, was reared in the
Peachtree community where he still
has many close friends and relatives,
^ when he resided at Jeliico,
Tenn., he married Mis; Jane Mokeley,
of Newport, Tenn., and it was
here that the famous Grace and her
brothers and sisters were born.
Congenial Mr. Moore said Sunday
at the Regal hotel in Murphy where
his family had dinner with Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Savage and Mrs. W. A.
Savage that Grace had visited in Murphy
once when she was two years old.
And long before she became famous
here and on the continent.
OBTAIN RIGHTS
TO BUILD LINE
TlTmA rv A -mm nwmw^
11V1U DAM Silt
TVA Gets Almost All of
Title For Fowler Bend
Project
Bryson City, N. C., Aug. 20.?
Ninty per cent of the rights of way
have been obtained for the construction
of the electric transmission line
from the hydro-electric plant at
Lake Santeetlah, owned by the Nantahala
Power and Light Co.. an
Aluminum company subsidiary to
the Fowler Bend dam site on the
Hitvasseo river, it was announced
here Tuesday in a special report
front Llewellyn Evans, chief electrical
engineer for TVA.
Materals for the line are being
unloaded daily at Andrews, Murphy
and Robbinsville, N. C.
In the report, it is revealed that
the major part of the construction
including all of the high mountain
reaches, will be finished before November
1, and before the bad weather
season sets in. The line that will
supply current for cor-struction work
on the dam will H*? in ?>/)
vance of schedule, according to Mr.
Evans. This sets the date about
Jan. 1, 1937.
The line passes through the Cherokee
and Nantahala National forests
and lands owned by the Nantahala
Power and Light Co., of Bryson City.
The distance is about 35 miles. TVA
is in charge of construction, in cooperation
with the private power
company.
It appears that the actual construction
of Fowler Bend dam will
be stepped up by about 30 days.
The surveys are now a^out complete
for the power line, according to the
report.
It was learned also that the construction
work on the highway to be
constructed from Turtletown, Ter.n.,
to the dam site will be pushed with
all vigor before the bad weather
periop.
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Arrangements Made
For Annual Foxhunt
Arrangements were begun this
week for the annual meeting of the
Tri-State Foxhunters association convention
to be held in Murphy sometime
in October.
The "fox hunt of fox hunts" will
be held somewhere in Cherokee,
county, Walter Witt, of Peachtree,
president of the association raid.
A bench show will be held at the
Murphy Fair grounds the day before
the first race. Numerous prizes will
be given the winning dogs.
Other officers of the association
are: Bruce King, Topton, vice-president,
and Mrs. Rob Foard, Murphy,
secretary-treasurer.
k Carolina, Covering a Large and F
Murphy, N. C. Thur
| First Casualty
On Dam Project
Occurs MondaThe
first casually resulting in
death t?? a worker on the howler.
Bend dam project occured Monday
when Guy Yates, 22, employed by the
Codell construction company, contractors
for the principal access road
to the dam from Turtletown, Tenn.,
was fatally injured.
Yates, whose home was .la.kson,
Ohio, listed as a shovel oiler,
died in the Petrie hospital several
hours after he was struck by the
machine. The accident occured early
in the afteroon and he died at 8
o'clock that nijrht.
The body was shipped to his home
where burial services will be held
by Peyton G. Ivie, Murphy funeral
director.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Artie Damorin Yates, and a sister,
both of Jacks-on, and a brother, T.
R. Yates, who is employed on the
same project.
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TVA Moves To
Acquire Land
For New Road
Condemnation proceedings were
filed in United States district court
at Asheville Friday by the Tennessee
Valley Authority on land in Cherokee
county to be used as a right of-way
for a road leading to the proposed
TVA dam at Fowler Bend. The petition
seeks the land of A. G. Bryant,
near Vests, in Cherokee county, and
in support alleges:
"That pursuant to the authority
contained in the Tennessee Valley
i authority act as amended by public
No. 412, the corporation has determined
that a dam for the purpose
of improving navigation on and promoting
control of the flood waters of
the Tennessee river and its tributaries
should be constructed on the
tributary of the Tennessee river
known as Hiawassee river in Chero
I Rfc county saiu clam to be constructed
at or near the point known
as Fowler Bend dam site and located
approximately 76.8 miles upstream
from the mouth of said river.
"The corporation has caused surveys
to be made of the aforesaid
Hiawassee dam site, of such land
which will be flooded as a result of
the construction of said dam, and of
the other lands which the corporation
will need in connection with
tho construction of said dam and
building of construction camps and
other uses incidental to the construction
and building of said dam.
CANNERY PAYING
MORE THAN CITY
MARKET PRICES
The Mountain Valley Cooperative
Cannery at Murphy is now running
7000 cans of vegetables daily, it was ,
estimated by officials this week.
It was also stated that contractors
were being paid about 15 cents per
bushel more for Xo. 1 beans than Atlanta
and other c ity markets are paying.
Beans are bringing 45 cents
per bushel delivered at the cannery.
Also, it was pointed out, farmers
I who have contracted with the cannery
are finding a ready market for
their products, thus saving shipping
j costs and time utilized in sending
| their vegetables to the city markets,
i As yet the Murphy cannery has
I not shipped any vegetables as their
time is occupied in canning them.
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CAKE AND ICE CREAM SALE i
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j The ladies of the Methodist church '
have announced that they will sell
home made cake and ice cream on'
the lawn of the church Saturdaynight
from six until 9 o'cock.
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*otentially Rich Territory in This Stat
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HONOR OLD FOLKS '
AT M. E. CHURCH
HERE ON SUNDAY
I A very unique service was held
j at the Methodist church last Sundax
a: 11 o'clock, honoring elderly people
of the community. I
The church was lavishly decorated
with garden flowers and rocking
chairs v.ere provided for the hv>ncr
guests. Mis. Elizabeth Mayiieid, So.
was given a book by Stanley E.
James as honor guest prize for being ;
the oldest persons present. Mr. and
Mrs. A. McD. Harshaw received two
boules for being the couple,
their ages totaling 15b, one for being
married the longest.
After a short message by the pastor,
testimonies were given by several
honor guests. Nine persons
over 80 years old were present and
all old folks sang old-fashioned '
hymns unassisted by the choir with :
much spirit. 1
ROOSEVELT TO
VISIT W. N. C.
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SEPTEMBER 5
President Will Pass
Through Robbinsville
On Trip.
Washington, Aug. 13.?President
Roosvelt will spend the night of
September 9 in the Great Smoky
Mountains National park area, drive
to Asheville the next morning and
take his special train from that city
to Charlotte, where he is to address
the Green Pastures Southern Democratic
rally on September 10. he told
Representative Robert Doughton t day.
It is undecided as yet whether he
will go to Charlotte via Spartanburg
I or will take the route through Sal is ,
bury, and it probably will not be
! known until a short time before his
; departure from Asheville. After his
conference with President Roosevelt
this morning, however, Representative
Doughton said he had suggested
that he come by Salisbury, as this
would era: !e him to travel over more
of the Tar He. 1 state.
Doughton's talk with the President
concerning hi North Carolina
visit followed his tax conference at !
the White House this morning. Asm ri
if he thought the President would
hold to his announcement not to
' uiiibuaa puiua> at V aiU'iOlU', UOU?* j
ton said he tu. so 1 this matter
with Mr. Roosevelt and he could as- ;
sure ihose who attend the meeting I
that they will hear a wonderful j
speech.
The congressman winked, as he j
said this, indicating that Mr. Roosevelt
will strike back at his Republican
and ai ti-New Deal critics in his
Charlotte address. The speeches in
the drought area will be strictly nonpolitical.
Doughton pointed o - ;* to the President
that the meeting was being
staged by Young Democrats and the
thousands \vh were coming would
be disappointed unles.- he made a
political speech, in art at least.
Doughton. alor:r ' . ? other pro <
| inent North Carolinia . will
the President, on in- special train a
| Asheville.
The conj ? man th Pre. '
dent expre -d keen n* > . ati 1
over his vi:- *o Ner'h " " j 1
was expecting to enjoy every n-inute | :
of his stay in the *
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Masons Here Invite
Visiters to Meeting
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Masons of Cherokee Lodge No.
116, A. F. & A. M. will meet for a
regular communication Monday evening,
September 7, at 7:30 o'clock
P. M. at the Lodge on Tennessee >
street. All members are urged to be '
present, and a cordial welcome also
will be extended to tourist brothers,
and to all Masons hen with the TV A. '
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U.DO YEAR?DC CU^Y
LAX VALUATION
IS AT LOWEST
POINT IN YEARS
County-Wide Rate of 90
Cents Is Set By
Commissioners
A. M. Simonds, Cherokee county
accountant, has given the following
report on taxation in the county: ..
"Cherokee county's tax valuation
is at the lowest point in many years
due to the fact 01 reduciiwu !;y the
tax comnr.<isoncion puberty darr.
Rgod by high waters during the past
winter and the Government taking
over several thousand acres of land
in Cherokee county, mostly in Reavcrdam
Township, which is non-taxable
when owned by the Government.
"For the year 1936 the total valuation
of ail property, real and personal
amounts to $7,21-3,996 which
compares with a valuation oi about
#9,500,000 in 1926. This hows a
loss in valuation of $2.291" 1.
"The tax rate for 1920 was $1.70
for each $100.00 valuation \v?th a
total revenue derived from taxes for
the year 1926 being $23*\434.92.
"The county-wide tax rate tor this
year is $.90 on the $100.00 valuation
which produces a revenue ?.f
$100,752.25 revealing a loss in revenue
of $1:14,082.07 below t e income
nine years ago. The earlier amountincluded
funds for the maintainoiue
of roads and operation of schools.
"At a recent meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners a
levy of 90 cents on the $1G0 valu;
tion county-wide rate was set for
the fiscal year. In several Township
the rate was reduced. Ir. Beavcrdam
Township the tax rate was reduced
10 cents on the $10o valuation; in
Murphy Township it was reduced 1
cents on the $100 valuation, and in.
Hot House Township i: wa- reduced
15 cents on the $190 . n. w;ti.
the fact of reductio t : tax valuation.
ar.d a reduction c f revenues
derived and with much of 'taxes
falling into tax sale certify ales foi
tho past few years due * the fast
that the public was not aide to pay
their taxes. The Bind : County
Commisioners have retired approximately
$140,000 of hondtd indebtedness
in the past year. This amount
was purchased for approximately
$75,000 by buying this indebtedness
below par and means ;i sa. ,g to tho
tax payers of about $65,000. By this
means of buying the county'.- indebtedness
for around 50 per cent of par
value and by economy the county in
a few more years will be out of debt
and the County tax rate can still Inlowered.
"The Bearu of County Commiss
ioners have retired the amount of indebtedness
a> above stated and have
maintained a bank account dur ioK
the year of around $20,000, and at
the end of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1036 they had a bank account
of $20,000. By kvc: i l ;v
bank account of a: ound t XL- amount
will enable the B< ard to take a-.'
vantage and buy County >.d? He
ness at a saving to the :a
Seventh Grade Exam
Will Be Given Herp
All boys and girls - t: > ?- -rssity
who expect to attend *1 : hy High
School next term be ihnin - <l igus*
>1. and who have : taken the
Seventh grade examinavVn required
Sy the state will please report to
he High School building Friday.
August 28th at 0 o'clock in rdej to
take this te.c : efore * --ning ol
school.
SLIGHT FIRE REPORTED
The local fire department was
.-ailed Friday night to a house own:*d
by Prod Bate* in the Hollow that
had caught on fire from its flue.
The fire was put out before any
damage was done.