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^ lil ll Attractive l^J J | > 1 That'smurphy ' The leading W I Vol. IIL -No. 48. FIVE PURE-BRED BULLS PLACED IN COUNTY BY BANK Institution Spends Over $1000 To Aid TriQuunty Farmers In a cooperative move to promote and encourage the rearing of a better grade of beef cattle in Cherokee, Clay, and Graham counties, the Citizens Bank and Trust Company has placed in two of these counties five thoroughbred hulls purchased from some of the foremost farm in the country and selected by the beef cattle specialist of North Carolina. This work has been done largely through the work of P. B. Ferebee, president of the bank, and has been done in a cooperative spirit to assist tne farmers of western North Carolina. The bank has nurchased th?.<o animals at a cost of over $1000, and is loaning them to the farmers without cost. They are to be used for breeding purposes by all of the farmers in the community in which they are placed, and are under the protection and care of the farmer with whom they are placed. Five Bulls Bought The five bulls that have already been purchased have been placed in : Cherokee and Graham counties. Those i in Cherokee county are of Hereford j stock, and have been placed with { Clifton Dadford at Beaverdam, John j Odell at Grand view, and W. A. Frank lin at Andrews. The remaining two j have been placed with responsible farmers in Graham. The bank also j plans to buy two more bulls to be sent to Clay county. Th? bulls tame from E. H. Harrison in Salisbury, J. C. Townson in Cherokee county, J. T. Frazier, Jr., in Chillrowie, Va., Bonham Estater i (Continued on page seven) | ?TWO ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING wfmc - IA Arrested near Brasstown Tuesday afgternoon for allegdly stealing chickens, two Cherokee county men were landed in jail facing charges in the next term of Superior court. Ed Ashe and Garland Frankum were the two men arrested by sheriff L. L. Mason, and deputies Ezra Price, Abe Hembree and Bob Robinson. Frankum was caught on a truck at Brasstown by Deputy Price.' Eleven hens were found in the truck and Mr. Price said that five of theni were recognized by a woman who claimed they were stolen from her. Ashe was apprehended by Deputy Hembree and Sheriff Mason in Fires Creek in Clay county. o Still Is Captured By Three Officers | A 25-pallon still and 200 pillions of beer were captured on Snider's creek in the upper end of Cherokee county last Thursday by sheriff's deputies Bob Robinson, Ezra Price and John Jones. Two men ran from the still as they approached it and no arrests were made, officers reported. BIRCHFIELD POND, C GARDEN PRODUCT One of the most unusual fish ponds j i in .the state is to be found on the farm of D. M. Birchfield, Cherokee county's high deputy, game warden, fire warden and outstanding tiller of the soil. About three years ago "Mr." Birchv f ield dammed up a lake about 60 ; rards by 40 yards close to his spring, j Winter before last "he" threw in an issortment of 54 bream and pond catfish. Today, 18 months later, he walk? out to the edge of the pond, jauntily i casts some of Mrs. Birchfield'* swell t>rcad into the waters and literally millions of baby fish come tearing in to get in on the fun. j There are so many small fish in the pond, in fact, that the water cfiurns up like a black volcano was it. nip eekly Newspaper m W e stern North O Murphy Stores To Close In Murphy On Monday All stores and business Houses in Murphy will be closed all day during Monday to permit employes to celebrate the Fourth of July, according to an argrcement this week The court house and other couning the day, it was announced, ty offices will also be closed durWhile a county-wide celebration has been planned in Andrews and Marble on the phantom "Fourth", a ball game will also be played here. Most of those getting the day off are planning to either take part in the day's festivities or maybe do a little "fishin." W. 0. ADAMSK BURIED SUNDAY | AT HANG1NGD0G Prominent Murphy Cits zen Passes After 10 Days Illness Friday Late rites for Mr. Walter Oscar Adams, prominent Murphy citizen j and former Cherokee county commission!', were impressively conducted' from the Hangingdog Baptist church j Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with h the Rev. .J. M. Amnions, pastor of the First Baptist church of Murphy, officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery. Peyton G. Ivie was in charge of funeral arrangements. Mr. Adams, who had been seriously | ill for ten days, passed away Friday i [evening in a local hospital at 5:15 o'- I clock Friday evening. He was 59 years j of age. Although born in Cherokee county. | Mr. Adams moved to Copperhill, | Tenn., while a young man, but return- | ed to Murphy 12 years ago. He was a mason and served as clerk of the ! Baptist church. Surviving are: his widow; four sons, Ernest Adams, of Copperhill, and Idris, Ross and Buel Adams, all of Murphy; one daughter, Vaul, of Copperhill; his mother, Mrs. JamAdams, of Marble; four brothers. Dr. N. B. Adams, of Murphy, W. A. Adams, of Hangingdog, J. E. Adams, of Copperhill, and A. J. Adams, of Etowah, Tenn., and two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Mulkey, of Marble and Mrs. J. L. Mulkey, of Grandview. Honorary pallbearers were: Neil j Davidson, Dr. R. S. Parker, Rollin Lovingood, Joe Axley, Don Wither: spoon, J. M. Stoner, the Rev. J. N. Lee, Bass Ferguson, E. P. Hawkins, H. Gentry, F. P. Singleton. Noah Lovingood, John Lovingood, Fred Davis, W. P. Elliott, H. R. Dickey, the Rev. J. M. Amnions, K. V. Weaver, J. B. Gray and George Ellis. Active pallbearers were: Sheridan Dickey, Cyrus White, Clyde Gladson, Lorin Davis, Tom Axley and Winslow Mclver. Mr. Richardson Mr. J. A. Richardson, who has been in the Wessley Memorial hospital in Atlanta, has been improving steadily, it was reported yesterday. However, they were uncertain when he wauld be returnetd to his home in Murphy. ORNCROPAND rS OF "HARD WORK" erupting under it as the fish fight for the food?and what a man, let alone fish, wouldn't for some of Mrs. Birchfield's bread. Neither any of the Birchfield family or any other can estimate the countless thousands of small fish in the pond. "I don't know what I'll do in a couple of years", Deveraux said Tuesday. "I guess they'll just get big and push all the water out of the pond." "Mr." Birchfield also has on his farm what is considered as the best crop of ?corn in the county. It has been estimated that "his" 23-acre I field will average about 100 bushels of corn to the acre (which is equivalent to 40 gallons per acre). (Continued on page seven) V I - x rrofa irolma. Covering a Large and Pole , N. C. Thursday, July, 1 BLAGG ASSUMES ]' MANAGER DUTIES OF LOCAL TEAM With Four New Players j Will Play 2-Game Series 1 Sunday, Monday Monday morning Messrs. Wilf Mauney. Fred Johnson, Bo Brumby, Sam Coffin, Henry Hickman and j Sam Oarr marcheed into th?> office of one John L). Blagg. Two minutes later Mr. Blagg was shaking hands around "Boys", he aid, "It's a deal.'' But mind you I've | got to have cooperation with those ' guys if I'm going to manage the team. ? "In fact if they'll listen to me, ! I'll have one of the best teams in Mur- i phy. I'll have plenty of new and good j players on hand and we'll have a real j ball team. We might lose some games at first?but we'll win plenty." Thus in two minutes Henry Hick man resigned as chief executive of Murphy s turbulent hall team and had turned it over?lock, stock and barrel 1 (of headaches)?to Mr. Blagg. the ! nenial TV A engineer. Rifht nwo.. \i.. mi il ? ?j mi. ""IKK I'trnuitU'd "Lefty" Nichols, Murphy's favorite 4 hurler, signed him, and arranged a ? two-game schedule with the Chatta- 1 nooga All-Stars for Sundavr ami Mon- * lay. The Tennesseans will be remcnv jbeied locally as one of the best outfits to ever play as visitors on the Murphy field. i With Mr. Blagg's acceptance new h life blood seemed to be injected into j Murphy's favorite passtime. Baseball \ locally had hit a slump. Henry Hick- 1 man, who has managed the team off ! and on for the past three years, and who has at times got some of the best baseball out of the boys this town can ever expect to see, said things were going wrong, and gladly resigned to help'muster support for the new manager. Four new players, including two moundsmen that rate among the best arc only part of the promise of Mr. [ Blagg. But he can't do it alone, the new mentor declares. He wants the support of the Murphy contingent, and already a substantial sum has been put up by local enthusiasts to get him | well under way. Wednesday as this issue was going to press, Manager Blagg had his porteges out on the field putting them through their first paces. THREE WELFARE AGENCIES WILL OPEN ON JULY 1 j Welfare Superintendent Asks That Scheduled Be Followed Applications for old ape assistance, aid to dependant children and aid to the blind may be made at the office of the superintendent of welfare at the county courthouse after July 1, Mrs. Marparet Le May Mauney, an- ' nounced this week. ( Preparatory to the increase of I work in the office of the department ' for welfare and additional case worker is being added to the present staff 1 of workers. Due to the fact that the | (Continued on back Daire) Two New Courses To Be Offered Students 1 During the next school year there will be a course in shorthand and typewriting offered to the Murphy high school pupils v.-anting to take such a course, it was announced this week. It will be necessary to charge a laboratory fee of $1 per month to cover the cost of the rentals of the typewriters, it was said. In order that those in charge of the course will know how many typewriters to have on hand, all pupils interested are asked to send a card to II. Bueck whose address during the next three weeks will he Cullowhee, N. C. t #C0! ntiallj Rich Territory in This State I, 1937 $ Baseball Celebrity 11 Will Be In Marble 1 A celebrity in the baseball world will be in Marble on Sunday and Monday July, 4 and 5, to witness the Tubby Walton team of Atlanta This gentleman is no other than [ Branch Rickey, vice-president and v General manager of S t.Louis Card- 1 inals. I 1 Tom Coggins said that Tubby Walton called him and said thatMr. Rickey would be with them and that he would stay for the game on Sun- f day, and also the two games that S will be played on Monday during |( the big "fourth of July" celebration ii there. b COUNTYIOTOIN i; HANDS IN GIANT ; FETE FOR "4TH'i Dignity Taboo As Towns ; 1 Unite For Parade And Carnival. h By Victor Olmsted Fat men and slim girls in silken ? 'shorts"; athletes and languid guys; ! >ld men with long whiskers and tous- . ed headed youngsters; business men h aid loafers; noise; more noise! and I ? till more noise, in ? v?>r.. ' rendu of Hip-Hip-llurrah! Such, in I few words, is a preview of the un- s oarious carry mes on planned by ;11 rherokeu County to celebrate Uncle . Jam's birthday next Monday. The 1 fact that July 4th happens to be Sun- n day forces the celebrants to delay t their whoopee twenty four hours?but: that merely means extra time to stoi ' up extra pep. 4 A General Get-Together | The hctic doings start in Andrews,; hut the liig Pay really is a County- r wide affair. Andrews conceived the , iilea. Marble played a big part in , preliminary arrangements, and will be j the scene of an Athletic Fiesta which | will include two baseball games, fat ,1 men's races, one legged races for ^ girls. climbing the greased pole, catch- 1. ing a greased pig, and a general carnival. Mountain folk from all over i Cherokee will arrive in autos, on , foot, or in ox-carts?any thing to get , there! r Murphy will he represented not ; only by crowds who will drive over to ( help make the weklin ring, but also . by the leading business men of the town who will enter floats in the big parade that is to start that day. And that parade is going to be i > something to talk about. Starting ?> in Andrews at 10 o'clock A. M. East- r ern Standard time it will wend a col- i orful way to Marble, where it will ar- c rive in time for the morning baseball game, set for 10:30 E. S. T. Floats i and paraders on foot; paraders in 1 bunting and flowed draped automobiles?and maybe a couple of Kiddie | (Continued on page seven) CORRECTION The Scout was in error last week < in stating that the small daughter of J Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simonds, of 4 Wolf Creek, was t aken to the Petrie 1 hospital in Murphy when it was dis- < covered she had swallowed a pin. Hos- i pital officials stated this week that < they had no record of her being there. 1 JOHN SHIELDS BEGINS GOLDEN GUERNSEY BJ Having won the distinction of i r being chosen as a distributor of Gold- c (*n Guernsey milk, Mr. John Shields ; t announced this week that he was eroing to begin the sale of his milk n immediately. n H. C. Bates, field agent for the ^ American Guernsey Cattle club of At- ^ lanta, Ga., was here to inspect the s dairies, and awarded Mr. Shields the * right to the trade mark of Golden Guernsey. Only one out of the three applying for the trade mark was c deemed eligible to use it, and there * are only about 12 or 15 dairies that I are permitted to use this trade mark!* in North Carolina. 1 Mr. Shields began specializing in fine dairy work several years ago, , and since that time he has bought a t ^ Largest i Circulation 1)1 II Any Paper v ^ Ever Published Here. 11.50 YEAR 5c COPY m SOUGHT ON MURDER CHARGE IS APPREHENDED Clifford Sisson Wanted In Connection With Nix Death 8 Months Ago Sought on an indictment of murder or the past eight months, Clifford isson, about 20, of the lower end of Iherokee county, was apprehended ? Jasper, Ga., early Tuesday morning v Cherokee county officers. He was lodged in the Cherokee ounty jail in Murphy by sheriff's eputies Ezra Price, Bob Robinson nd Abe Henibrec who made the ar. i'st after Georgia officers had advised hem where Sisson was staying. Since the death of Charlie Nix, 20 t his home at Culberson, on the night f October 23, county officers have eon searching for Sisson. Deputy 'rice said Tuesday after the arrest hat Sisson had been farming near asper which is about ,10 miles from ere Nix died in the Petrie hospital ere of a fractured skull after what ffi *ers termed as an affray was held t the home of Nix on the night of ictobet* IS. Nix v.n- hit over the end with a pole which witnesses told oley Bell, who was then deputy sher"f w?tt held in the hands of Sisson. /.. C. Ramsey, who was then sheriff tarted a hunt for Sisson after the ffair ocoured hut he couhl not he ound. Upon the death c?f Nix an ndictment of murder was drawn up ,nd the search for Sis>r?n was cxended into surrounding counties. Sisson wi'f. ho tried at the next crni of Cherokee County Superior :ourt here, ofTi vers stated. NOCUI.ATIONS FOR rYPHOID FFVER TO tE OFFERED FREE A schedule of typhoid vaccine :linics in Cherokee county has been irranged f?r next Tuesday by Dr. Z. \ Mitchell, newly-instituted district lealth officer. hese* clinics. Dr. Mitchell sa'd, an<l Inoculations will he given free at ill who call will be given treatments. )j\ Mitchell said his office in Mur>hy was open very Saturday mornng and those who ailed would be ven inoculations. He added arrangenents for inoculations could be made t other times. The schedule is as follows: 9 a. n. Toniotla school house; 10 a. m., iVcst Brothers store in Marble; 11 a. n. at Wood's daiiy, and from 1 p. n. to 3 p. m. in the high school buildng at Andrews. All hours are Eastern Standard time. One case of typhoid was reported r the Tomotla community last week le stated in announcing the clinics. Methodist Circle To Sponsor Picture The Strand Theatre is showing >n Thursday and Friday, July 1 and 2, a remarkable picture entitled 'Sins of Children". This picture is aeing sponsored by the Circle No. 2 :>f the Methodist church, and they will run a matinee each day. Selected short subjects will also accompany the picture. rSALE OF FAMEDRAND OF MILK HERE tumber of fine, purebred Guernsey attle and added many improvements o his cattle barns. To receive this trade mark the cows lust be registered Guernseys, and nust be inspected regularly by local lealth officers and Guernsey Cattle -lub engineers. Also the barns and urroundings must be of the highest ypc and stand rigid inspection. Mr. Shields said that he was be:inning to sell this copyrighted brand >f milk immediately, and that this >rand usually brought a much higher >rice than ordinary brands. He stated that it often sold for as high as four cents more per quart that other brands in the cities. This grade of milk is nationally adretristcd, and Mr. Shields said that there was always a demand for~it.
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