1 aH. Ml That's? ^5^ ^ murphy tke ltmduf w Vol. IIL.?No. 43. w. CHRISTOPHER DIES ON FRIDAY OF LONG ILLNESS Rites Held For Prominent 70-Year-Old Citizen Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Mr. Wesley Christopher, 70 prominent Murphy resident and merchant, were conducted from the First Baptist church of Murphy Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the pastor, the Rev. J. C. Amnions, and the local Episcopalian minister, the Rev. George Lemuel Granger, officiating. Interment was in Sunset cemetery. W. D. Townson was in charge of funeral arrangements. Mr. Christopher died at 7:20 Fiiday night. He had been very ill the the most of the past year and much of this time was spent in bed under the care of physicians. He had been , critically ill for the past three weeks. He was born and reared in Union county, Georgia, but moved to Murphy at an early age when the town was in in its infancy. He became , connected with the 'mercantile busi- < ness here and at one time was the leading merchant. For 18 years prior to 1028 when he moved to Atlanta, Ga., he served as United States Commissioner. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. 1 Lana Christopher; three sons, Fred and E. O., all of Murphy, and S. S.. of Atlanta; two daughters, Mrs. L. E. Harnett and Mrs. E. A. Browning, |i both of Murphy; two brothers, N. C. I Christopher of near Gastonia, N. C., and Sandofrd Christopher, of Missouri; two sisters, Mrs. Amanda Poindexter of near Gastonia, and Mrs. Kate Abemathy, of Copperhfll, Tenn. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. J. Axley, Dr. E. L. Holt, Bill Brandon, Elbert Mallonee, Hayner Rogers and Walter Mauney. Honory pallbearers were: Dr. J. N. Hill, Dr. B. W. Whitfield, Dr R. S. Parker, J. M. Stoner, Dave Simmons, P. H. Sword, J. B. Gray, L. E. Bayles?, Howard Moody, Tom Mauney, A. L. Martin, Dave Car ringer, J. W. Lovingood, Neal Sneed, W. C. Parker, C. M. Wofford, Paul Hyatt, E. B. Norvell , M. W. Bell Don Witherspoon, Harry Cooper, W. M. Axley, J. D. Malonee, F. W. Hubble, Harve Whitaker, Dr. J. W. (Continued on back page) June 12th Last Day For Signing Work Sheets June 12 is the last day on which North Carolina farmers will be allowed to sign work sheets for the 1937 soil conservation program, county agent A. Q. Ketner, said Monday. The county offices have been in- ! structed from Washington not to accept work sheets after that date, he pointed out. ' However, growers who have signed i work sheets in time will be eligible 1 to earn soil-building and diversion < payments hv rnmnlvino terms of the program this year. ! Those who signed work sheets for ! 1936 are not required to sign again for 1937, the county agent continued, i hut if they have bought more land ' or otherwise made changes in their farms, they should notify their county agents at once. Work sheets are used in preparing information that will help farmers plan their farming operations so as , to take part in the program and get ^ all the benefits possible. I The work sheet is not a contract, Ketner added, and when a grower . signs one he does not place himself ( under any obligation whatever, j But a work sheet must be filed with , the county office if a grower is to ^ I receive any payments. He pointed out that there are two f reason-, why work sheets must he signed on or before June 12. First, information prepared from work . sheets signed after June 12 would be too Kate to be of use to growers this year. Second, the task of shecking up on growers' compliance with 1 the program will start in June in ' some counties. ' It ff eekly New paper w Wester* North . Ball Game Postponed; To Play Here Sunday Due to the death of Mr. Wesley Christopher, the Sunday afternoon ball game here with Armour company of Knoxrille, Tenn., was postponed. Henry Hickman, manager of the team, said he had scheduled a game with Englewood, Tenn., on the home grounds this coming Sunday. GRAY IS NAMED LIONS HEAD IN CLUB ELECTION Other Officers Named; TV A Man Selected To Club Membership Mayor J. B. Gray, of Murphy, Tuesday night was elected president of the Murphy Lions club for the coming year. He suceeds G. W. Ellis, Gulf corporation distributor here. The annua] elections were held at a regular meeting of the club in the dining room of the Methodist church. Other officers elected were: Dr. E. E. Adams, reelected secretary; Tom Case, reelected treasurer; H. G. Elkins, first vice-president; Park W. Fisher, second-vice president; Sam n... *.u:?i - v/an, vuiru-vice president; K. C. Wright, tail twister; Walter Coleman, Lion tamer, and directors, W. M. Fain, A. W. Mclver, D. V. Carringer and G. W. Crawford. The retiring president and officers of the club also act as directors. At the meeting W. R. Rogers of the personnel division of the TV A here was elected to membership in the club. The club voted to promote interest in the appearance of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan chairman of the board of directors of the TV A, who will speak here on the "Aims and Purposes of the TV A" in the court house Friday, June 4. A committee was appointed to petition all business houses to close during the hour of the talk (which has not yet been definitely set). They are: Mr. Crawford, Mr. Carringer and Mr. Mclver. Mr. Fisher announced that he was carving a huge image of a Lion at the John C. Campbell Folk school, where he is a member of the staff, and that it would be presented at the state convention. Reports were given by several committees seeking improved roads in this section. Visitors at the meeting were: R. W. Graebar, of the North PovaK* Extension division, Raleigh, and the Rev. S. M. Bailey, of Cotulla, Texas, who is spending the next six weeks at the Methodist church here. Will Experiment With Brood of Baby Chicks Mr. S. C. Dickey, owner of the Dickey Feed company, in beginning another experiment with chicks this week. Several months ago Mr. Dipkey conducted a demonstration of feeding ordinary baby chicks as reommended by the makers of Purina chicken feeds. At the end of the six weeks period it was found that the birds had grown twice the size as jet by the U. S. Standards. ^ It is this experiment that he is uniertaking again to demonstrate the retae of the feed. Strand Theater Ha* Been Renovated Here Work on the interior and outside 3f the Strand Theater was completed this week, R. W. Sherriil, owner of he show, has announced. For the past several months Mr. Sherill has been having work done an the theater. The outside has jeen completely rebuilt and repainted and the stage has been attractively enlarged and done over. The stage is so equiped that the, nanagement plans to have vaudeville shows there regularly. o VISITS KNOXVILLE AND NORRIS Mr. Kenneth E. Bartlett, of the training section of the TV A here, spent last Sunday in Knoxville and ({orris, Tenn. While at the latter place le inspected the stage of the commun\ MfMrrfn erokn Carolina, Covering a Large and Pole Vlurphy, N. C. Thursday, 1 Girl Believed j Lost Is Found At LaFollette ; Missing: since Saturday night from 1 Murphy, Miss Olga Bell Huckaby, daughter of Mrs. Lora T. Huckaby, beauty parlor facial specialist, was reported Wednesday night staying with her aunt, Mrs. W. Tallant, of LaFolletq, Tenn. The pretty 16-year-OKI girl disappeared Saturday night after a quarrel with her mother who was working in Murphy at the time but went to Andrews Monday. The information was learned through word from Mrs. Tallant arriving here Wednesday nignt. DALLY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL TO BEGIN ON MAY 31 A community daily vacation bible school will be conducted a the Methodist church in Murphy from May 31 through June 11 the Rev. Stewart H. Long, pastor of the Presbyterian cnurcn announced Tuesday. Classes will begin each Monday morning through Friday for two weeks at 8 a. m. and be continued until 11 o'clock. Saturday has been designated as registration day. All who plan to attend the classes are asked to register at the Methodist church at 1 p. m. that day. The daily vacation bible school is conducted here annually under the sponsorship of the local churches. A new feature of the meetings this year will be the innovation of competitive and singing games under the direction of O. D. Johnson of the recreational division of the training section of the TVA. "POPPY DAY" TO BE OBSERVED HERE ON SATURDAY, MAY 29 Saturday will be "Poppy Day" in Murphy. The sale of "poppies" is conducted every year at this time by the posts of the American Legion, and this year the local Joe Miller Elkins post is soliciting the aid of the Good Will club to sell the "poppies". Mrs. Virgil Johnson is in charge of a group of local girls who will sell the "poppies". They are: Misses Martine Moore, Virginia Franklin, Lucille McDonald, Billie Jackson, Mary Willard Cooper and Ruby Townson. Ed Studstill, commander of the loral Legion post said that Sunday us the regular "Poppy Day" this year, -but that it would be observed on Satjurday. The sale of poppies is an an;nual nation-wide event for raising money for the aid of local charity. The "poppies" generally sell for 10 cents each (or as much more as the buyer wishes to give) and about 80 percent of the funds from the sale are kept at home to be used for charity. 2 ONE-ACT PLAYS TO BE GIVEN AT HIWASSEE DAM , Two one-act plays recently given i by the ^Murphy Community players on two occasions in the Murphy school j auditorium wiii be presented at the Hiwassee dam site Thursday night, June 3. | The two plays to be offered will be I ""i^ioey" a dr^ama of ole Winston- Salem, and "Ca'line", a comedy of Eastern Carolina. Both are directed i by Kenneth E. Bartlett, of the train ing section of the TVA. Those having parts in the play are: I Miss Billie Jackson, Mrs. E. C. Mallonee, Nettie Dickey, Mrs. J. H. Mc- ' Call, Miss Catherine Coleman, Miss ' Mildred Hill, John Parron, E. C. 1 Mallonee, Jr., Homer Ricks, Sam 1 Can- and Mr. Bartlett. They will be given in the cafeteria at 7:30 p. m. i ity building built by the TVA there and drew ideas for a similar community house stage here. Mr. Bartlett is interested in draniatics being lirect-1 or of the Murphy Community players.' ) / i 1 fF| A f wt? ntiallj Rich Territory in This Stmt) May 27, 1937 """ Two Escapes From Gang Remain Uncompreh'ded Jo? Cole and a man named Revis, ,vho escaped from a Cherokee county oad gang in the lower end of the rounty on Tuesday, May 18, were still at large this week, officers being unable to apprehend them. Several reports have been given to Roy Plemmons, who is in charge of highway work in this county, of the whereabouts of the men, but they were found to be misleading when traced down. The men slipped off shortly after the gang went to work on May 18. TO SHOW fREE FOREST FILMS OVER COUNTY Sound Pictures Will Be Displayed In Cherokee School Houses Preparations are being made for the showing of free moving pictures in all the schools of Cherokee coun ly. int sound pictures will oe presented by the Tennessee Valley Authority in cooperation with the North Carolina forestry service. J. J. Shomon of the forestry division of the TV A, was here Tuesday making arrangements with D. M. Birchfield, forest warden of this section, and A. L. Martin, superintendent of the county schools, to begin showing the pictures this week. Complete equipment for showing the pictures is conveyed on a truck to the different school houses where they will be shown. The pictures are of an instructive nature treating phases of forest conservation and i game preservation, i At present, Mr. Shomon said, eight ' similar programs are being carried out in Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia. The schedule is as follows: Johnson school house. May 27; Hothouse school house, May 28; Grape Creek school house, May 31; Ogreeta school house. June 1; Unaka school house, June 2; Beaver dam school house, June 3; White church (Grandview), June 4; Boiling Springs school house, June 5. Banger school house, June 7; Suit (Friendship) school house, June 8; Peachtree school house, June 9; Martins Creek school house, June 10; Posted school house, June 11; Hill school home, June 12. Further arrangements for showing at other school houses in the county will be made at a later date, they All pictures are scheduled to show at 7:30 p. mv. Central standard time Mr. Jim Artman. also of the forestry division of the TV A, was with with Mr. Shomon Tuesday making arrangements for the showing of the films. Carl Townson Building 2-Story Brick Structure Carl Townson, owner of the Murphy Ice and Coal company, is building an attractive new two story brick building between the ice plant and his home in Bealtown. Mr. Townson said that when the building is completed he will use the lower storv for hie J vxi,i.c aim snow rooms for refrigerators and that the upper story will be rented out in apartments. Regal Lo-Price Store Opens Sales Campaign O. J. Oscher, of the Regal Lo-Price Department store, will conduct an unusual sales campaign beginning this week-end. He will distribute circulars bearing numbers, five of which will jcorrespond with articles in his store. Those taking the circulars to him will be given the prize if it corres. ponds with the number on the circular. TO CLEAN OFF GRAVEYARD The grave yard of Lower Peachtree will be gleaned off on Saturday, May 29, and decoration will be observed there on the following day, it has been announced. Professor B. R. Carroll will make a talk at the services, according to plans. ^ ^ Largest {i .6 L\1' Circulation [illII Any Paper Ever Pub( Iished Here. $1.50 YEAR?5c COPY PLANS BEING MADE FOR DR. MORGAN'S TALK Chairman of Board of Directors of TVA To Here On June 4 Dr. Arthur E. Morgan's speech here on Friday, June 4, will be one of a series of three to be given here by TVA officials within the next six weeks, authorities have announced. The chairman of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority will open the series of addresses on Friday, June 4. Complete arrangements as to the time and place of the address have not been formally confirmed but it is believed that Dr. Morgan will speak about 2:30 p. ni. (CST) in the Murphy court house. Mr. T. T. IJndsey, of the TVA training section here, said Wednesday that Dr. Morgan had been out of town (Knoxvillei and that ho did have definite information as to the hour and place of the talk but that arrangements would be made within the next few days and the citizens of this section who are planning to hear him advised. The fact that Mrs. Morgan will speak to a group of TVA ladies at a luncheon at the Henry House at 12:30 that day practically assures that Mr. Morgan will begin his address about 2:30. In the case of extremely warm weather and an exceedingly large crowd the address may be given over a sound system on the outside of the court house, Mr. Lindsey said. The next address in the series, Mr. Lindsey stated, will be given about two weeks after Dr. Morgan's speech. It will be delivered by Dr. B. L. Bishop, of the health and safety division of the TVA. The third will be given still two weeks later by William McKenzie Landess, of the agricultural division of the TVA. All three of the distinguished speakers have been heard by Murphy gatherings before. Dr. Morgan spoke to a group at Knoxville several years ago, and Dr. Bishop and Mr. Landess have both been in Cheerokee county on business on numerous occasions. Mr. Lindsey said Tuesday that in all cases (except that Dr. Morgan (Continued on back page) Many Will Hear Cooper Speak On Social Security Col. Harry P. Cooper will talk to i no county council Friday, May 28th, at 2 P. M., at the club room in Murphy library building, on the provisions and administration of the old age pension law and assistance to dependent children passed in the last legislature. Because a number of persons in the county over 65 years of ago and a number of parents with dependent children will be affected by the law, it is hoped that Mr. Cooper will have a large audience to hear him. Every one who is interested in the operation of the social security program in Cherokee county is especially invited to attend this meeting. Mr. Cooper waa a member of the legislature and helped to pass the law providing for public assistance to aged persons and dependent children ana is perhaps better able than any other person in the county to explain the law and the plans by which aid for dependent children and aged persons can be secured. It is hoped that every community in the county will be represented at this meeting of the county council. The first few minutes of the meeting will be given over to the regular business of the council. o BAPTIST CHURCH IS PAINTED Workmen this week were repainting the Baptist church in Murphy. The attractive, comparatively new Iorick structure is located across from the court house. The Rev. J. C. Ammons is pastor.