HHHB Active || And jaVfljl II Attractive (|^rW IK MURPHY |~ 1 The Leading Vol. ILL.?No. 6. TOWN TO HONOR NEWCOMERS ON TUESDAY NIGHT Business Men, Civic CluSs Sponsoring Entertainment Program A large group of TV A employees in Murphy, local merchants and school teachers in the Murphy unit will bo jointly honored and formally welcomed to Murphy Tuesday night at the Fair building. Tom Case is in charge of the general committee The program, which will be marked by a speech of welcome by Mayor J. B. Gray and acceptance by J. D. Blagg. head of the TVA engineering department here, is being arranged by a committee of Mrs. H. Bueck. Mrs. Harry Bishop, Miss Martha Nell Wells, K. C. Wright and Sam Carr. Music and several other forms of entertainment will be provided as part of "the program to bring the merchants, the business men and the professional men into closer contact with the newcomers to Murphy. The refreshment committee is composed of Mrs. Neil Snecd, Mrs. Harry P. Cooper, Mrs. Wade Massey and W. Arthur Barber. In honoring the TVA men, the merchant*. and the school teachers a long list of those to be invited has been drawn up by the invitation committee composed of Mrs. C. W. Savace Miss Margaret Witherspoon and Harry P. Cooper. Nearly 200 are expected to attend the affsvr which is being sponsored by the business men and the civic clubs of Murphy. The finance committee is composed of A. E. Browning. Walter M. Mauney and Abe Hembree. The fair building will be opened at 7 o'clock at which time the guests will be registered and receive their identification cards. The following invitation is extended to all Citizens of Murphy by the invitation committee: The Civic Organizations, and the business and professional men of Murphy will hold open house at the gymnasium, Tuesday Evening, September 15, at 7:30 o'cloi*;, for the purpose of getting acquainted with the members of the Tennessee Valley Authority and their families, the teachers, and any new residents of Murphy. All citizens of Murphy are cordially invited to be present and get acquainted with our new neighbors. ?Invitation Committee. ?Mrs. C. W. Savage, Chrn. ?Mhts Margaret Witherspoon ?Harry P. Cooper. BARTON REUNION The Barton Reunion will be hel? Sunday, September 13 at the home of H. A. Barton two and one-half miles eaJ^t of Murphy. YOUNG DEMOCRAT* 1Z5 1U ANDREWS J Frar*c Forsyth, of Andrews, was elected chairman of the Young Democratic committee of Cherokee county at a banquet-rally held at the Junaluska Terrace in Andrews Saturday night. Miss Sara Ruth Posey, of Murphy, was elected vice-chairman, and Ralph Moody, of Murphy, was named secretary. Abe Hembree was selected chairman of the general finance committee. Following the dinner and a number of speeches lauding President Roosevelt and the New Deal, general lans were laid by the club to perfect their organzation for the coming fall elections. A series of meeting will be held in several different preIcincts in the county, it was decided, The only definite meeting was scheduled to be held in the Regal hotel in Murphy Saturday night, Sept. 19. Principal speakers on the progran" which was attended by about 12c Democrats from Cherokee, Clay. Graham and Swain counties were Harry P. Cooper, Murphy attorney, and Edwin Whitaker, Bryson City attorney. A number of other shorl talks were, given it visiting Mrs. Vesta Hansley. Bill WTiitaker, the president, preided. 1 rrpte Carolina, Covering a Large and P y, N. C. Thursday, Sep County Is Refund . Acqui ^alsor Day Quietly Celebrated Locally Labor Day was celebrated in a juiet fashion here Monday. Only the bank, the po-t office and he TV A offices closed down to cele>rate the day. The only entertainment furnished vas a ball game at the fair grounds >etvieen Murphy and Franklin, the ccals winning the event 3 to 1. CLUB IS ASKED TO REFUTE HIGH PRICE FALLACY : n: A.L I L>ibtu?s winer important Events Here Tuesday Night Hans for the entertainment of real TV A employees, school teachers ind local merchants were generally Isicusscd at a meeting of the Murphy Liona club here Tuesday night. It was also decided to extend Rov ft. Phillips, advertising director of he Asheville Citizens-Times, of \sheville, district director of Lions fnternational, an invitation to attend i meeting here at an early date. As pointed out by D. V. Cnrringer, local merchant, and other member? r>f the club, a false impression has been created in towns competing for he business Murphy is assured by the building of the Fowler Bend dam here, that rents and merchandise prices have been greatly reived. This was branded as n fallacy by Mr. Carringer and he asked that the lub cooperate in giving the correct impression that trade might not be hurt locally. W. M. Fain reported that the secretary of the Miami, Fla., Lions dub passed through Murphy recently and said he was interested in visiting the home place of one club that tvuu amic-wiue recognition I or its activity. Several standing committees, including one appointed by President G. W. Ellis to plan the offering of a "best citizen" trophy at an early date reported. Details of the dispensation of the trophy have not vet been completed, but it was announced that all residents of Murphy would be eligible to receive it. The next meeting of the club will be the final picnic supper of the season. It will be held Tuesday night, September 22. GARDEN OF FINE DAHLIAS BLOOM ON DEWAR FARM The Valley River Dahlia Farms lave a beautiful dsplay of flowers it Woodville along Highway No 10. The garden is on the right of the ugh way between Murphy and And ews at the dairy and cattle barns of ?. A. Wood. This is the largest dahlia garden n North Carolina and one of the argest in the south. Several enirely new varieties of dahlias have een grown from seed. There is one particularly beautiful new variety of pink that is a seedling from the famous .Jersey Beauty dahlia. This lew dahlia has been tested five years md there are one thousand of this variety in the gardens. Visitors are welcome in the garlens at any time. From now until frost the flowers will be at their bect. some or.e will be in the gardnes Frilay, Saturday and Sunday of each iveek. The fine gardens are owned and cared for by R. A. Dewar of Andrews. t 0WI otentially Rich Tern tort in This Stat t. 10, 1936 1 Asking $8? For Count; red By Stal CREAMERY DAY TO DRAW MANY TO BRASSTOWN Annual Celebration Program T o Attract Many on Saturday About 500 persons are expected to attend the eighth annual Creamery Day at the Mountain Valley Cooperative at Brasstown Saturday. \.. K. Tuckwiller, crcanvry manager, ha^ announced. A program of speaking, games music and contests has been arranged. About 300 attended the all-day celebration last year, and the evient pleasure they were afforded a much larger crowd this year. As a feature of the meet will be the cattle judging contest in the morning at which 4-11 club members are invited to take part. After they juugr Lin- otrcsy cauie snow. rv. n. Farnham, of the state college extension division, will award three prizes to the best judgcrs. The winner* will ha\e their choice of a sack of feed given by Security mills; a sack of meal given by the Mountain Valley Associated cooperative, and a bushel of grain given by the Folk school. A large speaking program, featuring talks hy a number of notable persons, has been arranged. They i ; elude Col. M. \V. Bell, Murphy at" : ney; J. Ed Campbell, Tennes-eo Val ley Authority cooperative director. ??f Knoxville; Mr. Farnham; and Mr. Land ess, of the TVA. All of these distinguished men have spoken in the Brass town community on previous occassions and are very popular with the citizenry there, j As the meeting is an enjoyable all-day, affair all those attending are, asked to bring their lur.ch. However' the Brasstown Woman's club will serve dinners on the grounds at very nominal sum and the creamery will give its famous buttermi aw;,y free. Beginning with a small collection of friends of the Brasstowcommunity 1928, the Creamery !h\y celebration has been held yea'ly a: ,Brasstown. Due to the interesting i and instructional nrneramc and the general am ruble feeling of friendship among those attending, the affair has turned into the most popular annual gathering in Clay county. Attendance is expected from surrounding counties in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. SAYS THERE IS RICH IN VALLEY RIY MARSHALL ALLEN DIES AT HIS HOME TUESDAY MORNNG Funeral ervi.es for Mr. Marshall Allen, son of Hob Allen, of near Murpy. who died at his home Tuesday morning a! 2 o'clock, were held in 'he Andrews funeral building | Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. \Y. T. Tructt official *g. Interment was | in the Andrew cemetery. W. P. Town son was in charge of funeral arrangements. The young mar. had been sick about a week with pneumonia. Pallbearers were: Jack Hall. Zacl: Ramsey, John and Rob Hampton.! Austin Arrant and Xeal Johnson. Besides his father, Mr. Allen is survived by three sisters, r\ ie. .Alice and Flora, and four brothers. Arch, Bill, Robert and John. Rev. R. D. Reddinger, ofAshev^le visited Rev. and Mrs. S. H. Long en route to Hayesville where he spoke at the Predbytcr'an church Sunday. \xt J TODAY >1.50 YEAR?5c COPY >0,000 y Roads te In 1931 Will File Claim With Readjustment Board On September 26 PETITION IS DRAWN Commissioners, Witherspoon Acting On County's Behalf. Cherokee county through Inerd of county commissioner* and Don Witherspoon. county attorney is seeking the refund of approximately $850,000 expended here since 19C9 in hu'ldir.g highways which were recently taken over hy the state. The 1935 session of the le^isl* ture named an invcttigating and edjuftment committee to recommend refunds to 70 counties in the state who spent money building roads prior to 1931 at which time the highway board placed the roads under state property. Appeal having been made. the claim, Mr. Witherspoon said Wednesday, will be presented to the committee when they meet again at Asheville Saturday, Sept. 26. In the* claim laid before the board it is alleged that; 1. The typography of the county is of such a nature that road building in Cherokee has been "an exceedingly expensive construction" < eginning in 1909 and continuing until 192a when the "various township and district commissions were merged into a County Road Commission. 'J. A general county road system was constructed with roads leading from Murphy to the outer limits * i the county as follows; Murphy to j (Continued on back page?This Sec.) i TWO ARE BOUND OVER TO COURT AFTER COLLISUON Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Heath, of Atlanta. (ia.. were nlaced i vet r S>l-r. 111)0 bond Monday by Justice <: the Peace (x. A. Hcmbree, of Grandvic w. and bound them over to the next term of Superior court here on charge |crowing out of the collision between the ear in which they were riding and another car in which Di. W. C. Mason, of Culberson, was riding on August. 22nd. Dr. Mason is in the Petri* hospital with a fractured hip Mrs. Mason suffering f i.m injur i**\ was discharged from the hospital last wed.t VEIN CF GOLDr rER VALLEY SECTION | There is anywhere from ten to | twenty million dollars worth of good | spendable gold, the same kind of I glittering rocks that have driv* n men 'to the frozen north cr.intrv. driven ' them to the burning desert a d driv i en most of them crazy, J. ?.. Fore man. a gold specialist, who ha* been .working in this section ?f the county. declared this week at the kiveiside hotel in Andrews where he has I been stopping. Mr. Foreman says he lias "spctted" the entire valley and a- such , he could not guarantee the gold's worth, nor that it could be mir.t d profitably, but that he is willing t? , wager that it would net an average | of 30 cents profit on each square i yard of dirt in the valley. Placer gold, the kind tha* ? r? ii.-l in the valley, can be mined rt 20 cen's per square yard, Mr. Fur* n???i j said. an