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MAN IS BEATEN j
: ROBBED OF $65
BY2UNAKA MEN!
Jim Bryson Brought to
Murphy For Treatment
On Sunday
Two Cherokee county men were in
th> Murphy jail this week on charges
of "hifthway robbery" and "assault
and battery with intent to kill" on
Jim Bryson. of Unaka, last Sunday
morning.
Those arrested by deputy sheriff |
Clifford Hose shortly after the occurance
and placed in jail without
bond are: Dee Coleman and Floyd
Stroud, both of Unaka.
According to deputy sheriff D. B.
Birch field, Coleman and Stroud met
Bryson near his home just beyond
Unaka gap early Sunday morning and
an argument ensued.
The two boys are alleged to have
asked Bryson for his money and he refused
them. Later, it is said, when
they threatened hini he told them he
would give them the money if they
would leave him alone.
Bryson, who is past middle age,
was severely beaten and says that $65
was taken from him by the boys. Mr.
Birch field said $53 of the money had
been recovered upon the arrest ot
the alleged assaulters.
Bryson was brought to Murphy to
Dr. J. N. Hill and later removed to
the Petrie hospital for treatment Sunday
morning.
He was dismissed Tuesday.
SEASONED CAST
TO PRESENT NEW
COMMUNITY PLAY
An unusually talented cast will be
presented in the next play to be offered
by the Murphy Community
players, the majority of the members
having had previous stage experience.
Miss Leuna Tatham, of Andrews,
who takes the lead in the show as a
young lady torn between love and a
Ward-Belmont and has appeared in
political career, studied dramatics at
and coached plays on numerous occasions
since. Several of the local
plays she has produced were original.
Mr. William Walker is also
a seasoned actor having been a member
of the dramatic clubs of the University
of North Carolina and North
Carolina state. He has appeared in
a numoer of presentations in Andrews.
Mrs. O. E. Madden has not only had
a great deal of dramatic and stage experience,
but she is an accomplished
pianist and vocalist as well.
Kenneth Hayes appeared in the
Community players last show. "Apple
Sauce", and Ralph Moody is wellknown
to local playgoers.
Mrs. W. Arthur Barber has also
had stage experience and Miss Gladys
Brinkley was a former dancer and
model.
Other members of the cast are
Mrs. Tom Case, Buel Adams and
George Dyer.
Tentatively the first show will be
Riven in Murphy under the auspices
?f the local library on Tuesday, Oct.
and will be sponsored by some club
in Andrews the following Friday
*" night.
Thirty-Five States
Have Visited Damsite
THE HIWASSEE DAM, Sept.
9-'?The Hiwanee Dam Public Safety
Service reports that 35 states
have been represented at the dam
this summer besides visitors from
the Virgin Islands, Japan, China*
and Mexico.
The largest number of visitors
Wer< reported during the month of
when 2,476 were registered,
*nd^!5 states represented. Last
~?.ioay 151 people visited the dam
from the following states: Tennes,ee<
New York, New Jersey, North
C?rolin?, South Carolina, Ohio.
Florida, Georgia, and Kentucky.
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1000 CO]
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Weekly Netctpmper u W e stent Norti
Murphj
Clothing Specialist To
Conduct Demonstration I
Miss Willie N. Hunter, extension I
specialist in clothing will be in Mur-1
jphy Friday to give a demonstration!
! to the ladies of the county on chil- j
, drens clothing.
The meeting will be held at the i
court house at 2 o'clock Central
Standard time. The ladies of the
towns and of the rural communities
are invited to attend, Miss Alline
Richardson demonstration agent
said in making the announcement.
Future programs will be discussed
and outlined at the meeting, Miss
Richardson added.
BLUES WINNER
OF CHEROKEE
COUNTY TITLE
Marble Takes Three of
Five Games From Mur
phy's Boomers
By virture of three victories out
of five games over the Murphy Boom,
ers this season, the Columbia Marble
Blues Monday became champions of
Cherokee county.
Blasting out a 13 to 3 victory
over the locals on the Murphy diamond
Labor Day Morning, the big
blue team ran their number of victories
to three and copped the title.
Monday evening Murphy, played
their best ball of the season, grabbed
of victory.
Sunday Marble jumped into the
lead by taking the first of the final
three-game Labor Day week-end series
10 to 1.
Previously both teams had won
one game, Murphy winning the open
er earlier in the season by a 7 to 3
victory and Marble coming back the
following week to romp on Murphy 2
to 1.
In Sunday's game when Marble
downed Murphy 10 to 1 to take a
lead in the five game series, Jerry
Davidson held the Blues to one
hit until the sixth inning. In the
next three innings Marble collected
nine hits for as many runs. Williams
made Murphy's lone tally in the
eighth scoring on errors.
Big Hoyle Bryson let Murphy
down with three hits, and Morris Carter
got a double and two singgles out
of four times at bat. He scored
j two runs.
Bennett, pitching for Murphy in
| Monday mornings game, held the
Blues to two hits until the sixth inning,
when again the Blues bat's began
spelling out defeat. Marble
made ten hits more off Bennett and
Slim Hensley during the remainde\
of the game to grob 13 runs to MurCoontinued
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Kermit Davenport is
Improved after crash
Kermit Davenport, of Blairsviile,
Ga., who was injured last week when
an automobile he was driving collied
with another on the Copperhill
highway just in the town limits, had
improved sufficiently to be removed
hogie.
He suffered a broken nose and lacerations.
Football Off To Good
| Start Under Pitzer
Football practice was in full swing
this week under the direction of Coach
Julian Pitzer.
Several games have been recently
scheduled and the boys are working
hard as the coach -looks them over
for the various positions.
The (tame schedules are as follows:
September 17, open.
Sept. 24, night game Canton, there.
October 8. Franklin, here.
October 15, Sylva, here
October 22, Copperhill, there
October 29, ?P''nNovember
5, Wayncsvillo, here.
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November 25, Andrew?, here.
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EIGHT TEAMS
WILL PLAY IN
TOURNAMENT:
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Finest Teams In this Section
To Compete For
Prize at Marble
Complete arrangements for an
eight-team baseball tournament to be
held on the Marble field Saturday
and Sunday, Sept. IK and 19, with
| the finals being played on Sunday,
Sept. 26, were announced Tuesday !
night by Tom Coggins. manager of tftr J
Marble team.
The Columbia Blues will be host to
the following teams during the tournament:
Enka, Canton, Ga., Hayesville,
Copperhill, Athens (Tenn.),
Aquone and Murphy.
To the winner of the tournament
will go a first prize of $100. The runner
up will receive $25, and both!
teams will be given a trophy provided
by the Marble club. Each team will
bear its own expense while playing
and will pay a $10 entrance fee.
The only stipulation is that each
earn give Mr. Cogginse a list of 15
men to be used by that particular
team. At no time during the tournament
play will the team be permitted
to use any player whose name is not
on the list.
Tuesday night the parings were
made by Mr. Coggins, Maurice Gentry
and Sam Car, The teams were
listed, put in a hat and drawn out so
there could be no criticism as to the
pairings.
In the preliminary run-off, two
elimination games will he played Sat
KiviiuuK ??i tne iirsc day ol the
tournament and two will be ployed in
the afternoon. This will eliminate
(Continued on back page. This Sec.)
CHRISTOPHER'S
BARGAIN STORE
HAS FALL OPENING
A mammoth fall bargain event is
is being conducted by Christopher's
Bargain store l<x*ated on Tennessee
street near the Dickey hotel.
Mr. E. A. Browning manager of the
store, announces that he has a complete
stock of fall goods at low sale
prices. The popular store was established
by his father-in-law, the
late Mr. W. Christopher, about 40
years ago. and has always enjoyed a
I wide patronage.
Chief among Mr. Browning's Jail
snowings are nis une qi rewrs sn^n
and Arrow shirts. Other quality
goods is carried in abundanre.
Mr. Browning is advertising this
special bargain event extensively
through this paper and carries two
full pages of advertising elsewhere in
this issue listing all his bargains.
The sale starts Friday.
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Motorists Warned To
Keep Out Of Cornpatch
"WARNING?All persons are
hereby notified to refrain from
wrecking their cars and turning
them over :n my corn patch near
Tomotla on Highway No. 10, six
miles above Murphy, or else suffer
the consequences. I can't get
good accrage out of my corn patch
if people persist in turning their
automobiles and trucks over in it."
Such was the advice handed
down by D. D. Birchfield, county
..high deputy sheriff, game warden*.,
forest warden and prominent farmer
this week.
To date since Mr. Birchfield has
raised his corn patch, at least a
dczcn cars or vehicles of some description
have wrecked or run off
the road into it, he reports.
"I've worked hard on that com
patch", he said Wednesday, "and
I'd have got a hundred bushels to
the acre if cars and trucks hadn't
plowed up about half of it. Last
night another car took down a
j swath of about 30 yards and had
I it pulled out and gone by the time
I got up at daylight."
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p ?>s?,
otcntially Rich Territory in This Stc
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School News To Be
Carried In Scout
With the opening of school this
seek, the Scout is repeating its policy ,
:.f carrying ;ill the news of the Murphy
schools. Not only will this provide i
good training for the students who1;
write the material, hut it will also:
keep parents and the general public ,
notified of what is going on in the !
school.
This year the journalism class will .
be under Miss Dot Higdon.of Sylva, |
who was former editor of the "West- j
era Carolinian" at Western Carolina j
Teachers college where she attended
school.
BODY OF INDIAN
WORKERFOUND
WAR HPir.HWAV
iiLuiu nuiuii urn |
Coroner Herbert Says j
Fatal Accident Result of
Hit, Run Driving
Tho body of Clyde Brady. 26, Indian
WPA worker, was found near
the highway about a mile from Topton
early Monday morning.
Examination of the body, Dr. Fred
L. Herbert, Cherokee county coroner,
> said, disclosed that Brady died as a
result of being: struck by an automobile,
the identity of which has not
been established.
Three Indians were walking along
the highway about R o'clock Sunday
night when the accident occurred.
One of the Indians, Ed Jackseon. was
knocked down and injured and he was
taken to the hospital at Cherokee, in
the Cherokee Indian reservation, foi
treatment.
Policemen Kimsey Wyke said officers
were first advised of the acci
h'iil 2>unuay when an Atlanta.
Ga., motorist told him that there had
"been an accident up the road and one
was killed and several were injured."
He and Patrolman E. B. Quinn, Jr.,
made a fruitless search for the body.
Mr. Wyke said that Jackson told
him and Dr. W. C. Morrow who treated
a bad gash on Jackson's leg, that
j lie and Brady were walking on the left
side of the highway with Jaskson
walking on the inside when the accident
occurred.
A search for Brady was unsuccessful
Sunday night, and his body was
found by a resident of the vicinity
earlyMoiiday. It was believed at first
that he had become frightened and
| left the scene of the accident unins
jured. The other Indian of the trio
I was Nicks Saunook.
The body of Brady was found about
i 30 feet from the highway and it was
; virtually hidden in weeds and bush|
es.
Funeral services were held at Red
Marble Wednesday morning with
Peyton G. Ivie, of Murphy, in charge.
Brady, the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Boh Brady, of Rhodo, is survived
by five sisters, Lida, Lizzie, Sallie,
! Flora and Unie and three brothers,
Arthur, Luther and McKinley.
Opens Farm Implement
Showroom in Murphy
An InternationaJ-Harvester farm
machinery show room has been opened
in Fred Johnson's garage with Silvey
P. Pen land in charge.
Dan Allison, of Sylva. is the distributor
for this famous line of machinery
in this territory.
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Pearl Early Better
After Lec A
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Miss Pearl Early, of Turtletown
Tenn.. is improving at the Petrie hospital
here where she is suffering
from a leg amputatioin and a broken
jeg which she sustained when a truck
on which she was riding was sideswiped
by a local bus near Murphy
j last week.
j Mrs. A. S. Solesbee, of Franklin,
has beer, visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Robert Reid.
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HUNT HOMES FOR
HIWASSE HAM
FARM FAMILIES
McCaslan named to Help
Rehabilitation Folk
In Cherokee
By Robert L. Kultz
Some 275 farm families who must
move out of the Hiwassee Dam area
in Cherokee county are looking: for
new homes?hut they have not beers,
left to shift for themselves.
A broad social and educational
program to help re-establish these
families in other communities has
been instituted by the N. C. State
college extension service and the
Tennessee Valley authority.
The dam is part of the TV A waterpower,
flood control, and soil conservation
project.
i Legally, the TV A fulfills its obligations
when it pays for land these
families own in the area, but this
alone would not carry out the broader
social objectives of the program.
<". L. McCaslan, former assistant
farm agent in Gaston county, has
been employed as extension specialist
i?i farm readjustment to direct, the
work of re-establishing the displaced
families.
lfe will have the assistance of a
home demonstration agent to be
placed in Cherokee county and ot
TV A representatives and extension
agents in nearby counties of this
state. South Carolina and Georgia.
| Cooperation of the Soil Conservation
service and other agencies will also
be sought.
(.Continued on back page. Thi* See..)
| DEMONSTRATION
WORK IN COUNTY
IS OFF TO START
The work of the new home demonstration
agent in Cherokee county has
been started, Miss Aline Richardson,
who was recently named to the position
by the Cherokee county commissioners,
has announced.
She said that women's clubs an<l
1-H clubs throughout the county will
soon la- organized, and that interest
is being shown in her won. all over the
county.
Miss Richardson reports that her
j first project will be the establishment!
of a resting room in Murphy for the
convenience of the women of the
rural communities who come to town
to shop and to transact business.
"Inasmuch as they must now sit
in the street in hot cars, lounge* in
stores and on the streets, 1 think sich.
a room would be very beneficial to
all and I am asking cooperation iri
making them as comfortablee as possible
when in town", Misss Richard
be located in the court house and will
son stated.
The new resting room will probably
contain cots, chairs, magazines and
other articles for their convenience,
according to plans.
QUESTION BOX
(This Weeks Questions)1
1 . Who ic tho
uvvivwij VX U1V
state of North Carolina?
2. Who is the attorner general of
North Carolina?
3. How many members of the
North Carolina Supreme Court arc
there?
4. Who is chief justice of the
North Carolina Supreme Court?
5. How many ex-governors of
North Carolina are still living and
who are they?
(Answers to last weeks questions>
1.Thc 350th anniversary of the
birth of Virginia Dare?the first
child of English parents born in
America.
2. Cherokee and Ashe.
3. Nathaniel Macon. James Knox
Poik and Joseph Cannon.
4. Dolly Mason?wife of President
James Madison.
5. Joshia William Bailey and
Robert Rice Reynolds.