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RED CROSS FUND J
OF $600 RAISED ]
IN THIS COUNTY
Clothing, Food Are Sent
To Flood Victims,
41 Volunteer
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Nearly $600 has been raised by two
Cherokee county Red Cross Chapters
for flood relief victims in the MidWest.
W. M. Fain, chairman of the
Cherokee county chapter, of Murphy,
said Tuesday night.
The Murphy chapter has exceeded
its quota of $300 by almost another
$100, Mr. Fain stated, and two shipments
of food and clothing have been
sent to the relief fronts front here.
The Andrews chapter has raised
nearly $250 and also sent two loads
of food and clothing to the victims,
according to Mrs. Luke Ellis, of Andrews,
who was in charge of the
drive there.
Forty-one Murphy volunteers offered
their services to the Red Crosts
but were not called upon.
One check for $300 has already
been sent to Red Cross national headquarters
from Murphy, Mr. Fain revealed,
and another check for $100
is expected to be sent 4'within a few
days."
Rural communities of Cherokee
county have contributed heavily to
Murphy's quota, the local chairman
said. Amonn outstanding contributors
here were; the Brasstown community,
$124; the Murphy school,
$93, and the Murphy Lions club, $2.
Members of several ladies organizations
in Murphy were in charge of
the direct canvass here. The Rev.
E. F. Troutman, chairman of the |
Andrews chapter, placed several women
in charge of the canvass there.
4,1 have never seen people respond
to needy call so generously in my
life", Mr. Fain declared concerning
the success of the drive here. *Tt was
remarkable at the number of dona,
tions we got from the rural communi|
ties of the cou lty where no canvass
or direct appea. was made."
Although the floods had greatly
subsided Wednesday and it appeared
that those towns not already affected
would be spared the ravages of
the surging waters, the Red Cross is
still asking for aid for flood victims.
POSTAL RECEIPTS
HERE REACH HIGH
PEAK OF $10,710.80
Receipts totaling $10,710.80 for
1936 have beei. announced from the
Murphy post office indicating the
most prosperous year here since 1927
when receipts reached a high of $10,968.11.
Howard Moody, postmaster, said
that a large part of the 1936 business
was transacted during the month of
December.
The current figure represents a
gradual increase from $7,174.73 that
was recorded in 1932.
MARSHALL BELL RETURNS
Mr. Marshall Bell, member of the
faculty of Clemson college, of Clemson,
S. C., returned this week to renume
his duties as a professor of I
mathematics at the institution after
orion/liwe.
? nccfc? vacauon nere with J
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. BelL
OLD MAN GROUNDHC
JUMPS BACK ?
The weather cleared up here Tuesday
long enough for Old Man GroundF
hog to come out of his hole, see a very
Ije and very ominous shadow starhim
in the face and scoot back
his underground retreat for six
re weeks?of very bad weather.
Those who believe in the lowly
tundhog as a true prognosticator of
ather conditions saw everything in
to of the chipmunk Tuesday. For
ter days and days of warm, wet
ather which made January one of
; darkest and dreariest months in
ars the sun shone brilliantly Tuesy
morning just long enough for
en the latest-rising groundhogs to
t a good peek at their likenesses.
AD the old-timers in this section
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Weekly Netospmper u> IT ester a Mori
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Aldermen Will Meet
Here Thursday Night
The town board of Murphy will
meet here Thursday night with W.
M. Fain acting as mayor in the place
of J. B. Gray who has gone to Raieigl:
to attend a session of the Supreme
court now being held there.
The naming of a successor to W.
G. Owenby alderman who recently
moved to Marietta, Ga., is slated to
come before the group along with
other matters.
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Eastern Star Is
Organized Here
Thursday Night
Mrs. Haltie Gray has been installed
as the worthy matron of the newly-organized
Murphy chapter of the
Order of the Eastern Star, according
to an announcement by Mrs. Ann
Phillips, secretary.
The local chapter was organized
Thursday night with Harold R Mm.
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worthy grand patron, of Greensboro,
officiating. He was assisted by Mrs.
Nellie Wynn Carroll, grand deputy,
of Bryson City.
Other officers named were: W. A.
Hembree, worthy patron; Mrs. Flo
Mallonee, associate matron; Grady
Crawford, associate patron; Mrs.
Phillips, secretary; Mrs. Marcella
Smith, treasurer; Mrs. Cora Carter,
conductress; Miss Hattie Palmer, associate
conductress; R. R. Beal, chaplain;
Mrs. Myrtle Evans, marshal,
and Mrs. Ida Savage, organist.
Star Points installed were: Mrs.
Louise Rogers, Adah; Mrs. Kate Axley,
Ruth; Mrs. Roberta Dickey, Esther;
Mrs. Fleta Browning, Martha;
Mrs. Dixie Palmer, Electa; Miss Ada
Harshaw, Warder, and Franklin
Smith, sentinel.
ReDresentat-ivpc n# ?
?. ?? ux xjucilc XH Ot*Tchapters
from Dillsboro, Waynesville,
Bryson City, Franklin, Andrews and
Hayesville were present.
The local chapter will meet the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each
month.
TWO LARGE STILLS
FOUND IN COUNTY
BY SHERIFF MASON
Two large stills were captured by
Sheriff L. L. Mason and deputies in
Cherokee county Tuesday.
One still was found in the McClellan
Creek section of Valleytown township
Tuesday* evening. Six hundred gal- J
Ion of beer was poured out. and a small ]
quantity of liquor was confiscated.
Those making the raid were: Sheriff
Mason and deputies Ezra Price,
John Jones and G. P. Robinson.
The other still was found in the
Shoal Creek community Tuesday
morning by Sheriff Mason and depot-1
ies Price and Robinson. About 200
gallon of mash was found at the
still.
No arrests were made.
MISS MALLONEE IMPROVING
Mii>s Mary King Mallonee, attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Mallonee, of Murphy, who is a student
at North Carolina State College
for Women, at Greensboro and who
has been suffering with a fractured
ankle received in a sports contest
several weeks ago is greatly improved,
it has been learned here.
XI SEES SHADOW
1 HOLE FOR 6 WEEKS
seem to agree with Jim Miller, of
Robbinsville, that this section will
continue to witness the same kind of
winter it has been experiencing so far
?wet (not to wet), moderately warm
and dark.
"The Weather Vane" reveals that
Cherokee county has not experienced
as much rainfall this winter as was
recorded last winter, although murky
skies have been in evidence more continuously.
Too, the figures show that during
this week last year Cherokee county
was experiencing sub-zero temperatures?the
coldest weather of 1936
?and it was this freeze that led to
the disastrous floods expe--jrreeC here
last winter.
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SENATE FAVORS
REPEAL OF BLUE
LAWS IN MURPHY
Cooper Measure To Regulate
Train Crews Is
Introduced
Raleigh, Feb. 4.?The senate committee
on counties, cities and towns
Thursday approved Representative
j Harry P. Cooper's bills to legalize
Sunday baseball, Sunday movies, prize
| fights and poolrooms in Cherokee
(county, but directed the sponsor and
Senator Kelly E. Bennett to work
out certain restriction to be incorporated
in the measures before their
passage.
Cooper and Bennett were conferring
this week on the restriction, which
will include provisions that prize
fights cannot be held and pool rooms
operated on Sundays or in any objectionable
maaner; and provision
that Sunday movies and Sunday baseball
must not interfere with religious
servipos
Raleigh, Feb. 4.?Representative
Harry P. Cooper, of Cherokee, is the
author of a bill desinged to "promote
I the safety of the traveling public and
iemployees of railroads." The measure
| is before the house committee on
| manufactures and labor headed by
Uzzell, of Rowan.
The measure would require that
only regularly examined firemen be
permitted to assist the engineer in
locomotives on main lines. His bill
follows:
"Section 1. All locomotives, or
other devices used to move a train in
this State, which require the use of
a locomotive engineer and locomotive
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Daily News
In Review
The news of the expulsion of sitdown
strikers from the Fisher Body
plants which hundreds of automobile
workers have occupied in Flint,
Mich., since Dec. 30. seems to ho
crowding the flood news from the
front page of the daily press. Not
that the strike situation appears more
valuable than the flood situation but
it is the reading public's demand?
"we like our news like our eggs?
fresh and cooked differently now and
then".
The strike involves the livelihood of
some 60,000 persons while flood concerns
a million families left destitute
and still running as the swollen waters
! crack against the levees of the Mississippi.
The strike that has crippled General
Motors for over a month seemed
no rearer a solution Wednesday night
than it did when it started.
The story behind the strike is the
old question of "can labor unions control
labor". While William Greene,
head of the Federation of Labor;
| John L. Lewis head of the commit!ee
for industrial organization and chief
strategist in the strike, and seere
tary of labor, Francis L. Perkins, '
seek to iron out the difficulties of
the the automobile workers union, Alfred
P. Sloan, head of the General
Motors corporation, stands pat on his
contention that there is no other
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Weather Vane
Following are maximum and mini- ;
mum temperatures for the past week
compared with temperatures for the (
same period last year: j
TEMPERATURES 1
1937 1936 1
Date Max. Mtn. Max. Min.
Jan.
26 58 42 34 28 !
28 50 43 30 1
29 67 41 31 17 1
30 55 44 30 23 '
31 51 43 24 4 '
Feh.
1 *3 46 40 4
RAINFALL
1937 1936 1
Since Jan. 1?9.62 in. - 11.49 in.
? #?0
'olcntiolly fiicn Territory m This J
nary 4, 1937
TVA Sends Men And
Equipment For Floods
Hiwassee dam equipment ar.d workers
made up part of the TVA's personnell
and shelter units dispatcher
in large quantities to flood victims
last week.
As the Ohio and Mississippi river*
:ose officials at the local dam site
were called upon to send a crew of
men and equipment consisting of 19(J
cots, 300 mattresses, 2000 blanket?
and other bed clothing to Memphis.
Dynamite Blast
Set Off At Home
Of T. C. Gray
Hayesville, Feb. 4.?A charge of
dynamite, believed to have been placed
by someone seeking to intimidate
T. C. Gray, Democratic political leader,
was exploded in the front yard of
the Gray home here at 8 o'clock
Thursday night. No one was injured.
Mr. Gray, a brother of Mayor J. B.
Gray, of Murphy, had entered the
house a few minutes before, having
just roturnfH
, .1UII1 Aknittgu W1IC1C lie
went in behalf of the Bennett bill
which would increase the membership
of the Clay county board of commissioners
to seven by adding four
Democrats. The board now consists
of three Republicans.
Threat* Received
Mr. Gray, in commenting on the
blast, said he could assign no reason
for it other than that it was an attempt
to intimidate him for political
purposes. He also said he had received
a number of threats recently,
but did not say who made them.
Mr. Gray is a prominent Hayeaville
attorney and was a Democratic member
of the Legislature from Claj
county in the 1935 session. He is al
so a former county attorney and :
former chairman of the Clay counts
Democratic executive committee. Hi.
home is on Gray street.
Following the explosion, Mr. Graj
left his wife and child in the houst
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COMEDY-DRAMA
TO BE OFFERED
ON FEBRUARY 16
"Eyes of Love", a three-act comedydrama
will be presented by the ladies
of the Methodist church Tuesday
night, Feb. 10, in the high school
auditorium.
Rehearsals began Monday nighl
under the direction of Mrs. Mar\
Cobb, talented member of the Mur
nViv K!i?U ~ 1 ' * - *
ociiuui sciiooi iacuity, ant
will continue each night at 7 o'clocl
until the production is finished.
A partial list of the members ol
the cast include: Miss Martha Nel
Wells, Elbert Mallonee, Jr., Mrs. J
H. McCall, Mrs. E. C. Mallonee, In
B. Jones, Miss Miriam Stillwell, Johr
Jordan, Miss Laura Overton ar.d San
Carr.
SHIPS CATTLE
Sheriff L. L. Mason of Cherokee
county, erstwhile cattle dealer, reported
this week having shipped 95
head of cattle to Plains, Va., lasl
The sheriff will ship three car loach
of cattle which he is now buying: tc
Kentucky Saturday, he announced.
9-YEAR-OLD TENNES
MIXED BLESSING
Sneedville, Tenn., Feb. 4.?Shy
Eunice Johns, nine-year-old bride oi
two weeks, alternated between smiles
end tears today as her scripture-reading
mountaineer neighbors bestowed
mixed blessings upon her marriage
to a man 13 years her senior.
Rawboned Charlie Johns, the sixfoot
bridegroom, sat by in nervoudlence.
But not his 33-year.old
mother-in-law, who had plenty to say
in defense of the union.
"The Bible says not to disturb those
peacefully getting along, and I don't
believe in going against the Bible"',
firmly declared Mrs. Lewis Winstead.
"If they love one another, then
Setting married is the th-rg to do.
If they have to live together and he
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SEEK WPA FUNDS
FOR ENLARGING 2
COUNTY _SCH00LS
Three Cherokee County
Men In Conference With
Breese Wednesday
Assurances were given three Cherokee
county men Wednesday that any
future available WPA funds for
school building purposes would be
put at the disposal of the Andrews
and Murphy schools providing the
county could meet their part of the
obligation.
The information came iro:.i W.
Breese, WPA director at Asheville,
in a conference with 1. B. Hudson,
superintendent of the Andrews admiistrative
unit; H. Bucc;:, ru.ierintendent
of the schools of the Murphy
unit, and D. H. Tillitt, county attorney,
of Andrews.
Neither the Andrews nor the Murphy
schools are adequate to care for
all the pupils attending them, it is
generally realized, and civic leaders
have long sought a means of enlarging
them.
On the trip to Asheville, Mr. Tillitt.
said, the group inspected the new
Alarka school recently built of mountain
rock with WPA aid. The cost
of the eight-room school was about
$40,000 of which. Mr. Tillitt estimai
ed, $9000 was made up of local
funds. Mr. C. F. Carroll, superinendent
of the Swain county schools,
of Bryson City, accompanied them
on the inspection trip.
Due to the influx of TVA families
into the county and general dilapidation
of the schools, the need for improvements
is a long felt want, Mr.
Tillitt stated.
He added he believed the county
' was in sympathy with the movement
and would go any reasonable
1 part toward improving them.
The group also inspected the new
J 12-room Webster school which was
built of creek bottom rocks with the
' aid of the WI'A.
"Mr. Breese assured us that if
another appropriation was given the
WPA and the county could put up
1 their part that we would b? given
aid providing the rules for dispensation
of the funds are not changed*',
? Mr. Tillitt added.
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; County Votes To
I Give Funds For
: Fire Prevention
1 The Cherokee County Board of
c Commissioners Monday voted to cooperate
with the state Forestry serf
vise in providing funds for the pre1
vent ion of fires in th?? mnnfu
L. B. Nichols, the chairman was, ini
structed to sign a contract with the
i forestry service appropriating them
i S600 to defray the county's part to
July 1, 1937. It was also voted to appropriate
$1000 for the 1937-3K
period for the same purpose.
Other routine matters were taKcn
! up at the regular, session.
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i MAYOR GRAY IN RALEIGH ,
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Mayor J. B. Gray, of Murphy, is in
i Raleigh this week attending a terrr.
i of the Supreme court now in session
there.
SEE BRIDE GETS
S ON HER MARRIAC.F
' happy, then people should leave them
alone".
i Herself married at 16, Mrs. Winstead
is a grandmother and has another
daughter who married at 13.
i "Charlie is a good boy", .said Mrs.
Winstead, beaming with pride as she
talked of her new son-irvluw.
i "He's a hard worker. He oought
I 40 acres a few days ago so they
could have a home. Of course, understand
I haven't brought my chil'
dren up to many what men has got
; but to marry for love".
Mrs. Winstead heatedly denied Eu
nice, bright-faced hlue-eyed little girl
! is interested in dolls.
"Cbsrl-e bought her a nice, tig
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