A"" (S it Attractive Ji | murphy ' _________The Leading Vol. IL.?No. 7. CONSTITUTION TO ! BE OBSERVED IN j SCHOOL LOCALLY Prominent Local Attorneys Will Speak On Anniversary 1150 anniversary of the Consti tut n of the United States will be observed locally with ceremonies in the M ,hy High School auditorium Fri' day morning at 8:30 a. m., Mayor .J. B. > i ray, of Murphy, chairman of the lo committee, announced Tuesday. This will be part of a nation-wide movemeent to observe the constitution all over the country. At the local meeting, four prominent Murphy attorneys will give short talks on the constitution. They are. J. N. Moody, M. W. Bell, J. D. Mallonce, and D. Witherspoon. The entire community is invited to < attend. I 11. Bueck, superintendent of the schools of the Murphy unit, said Tuesday that every high school student J w pving in Murphy, he said he planned 0 ,stay one week, "and the fact that 1 1 H am now staying on my fourth week i H *^eak pretty well for the opinion I < f>?* your fine mountain country i ? e 88he planned to return next i Voar. I i Asselin, 88-year-old former 1 fif ;.m eijlack of Pinewood, Canada, ( n ' cutting his third set of teeth. \t !fi ; (T eekly Newt paper ut If ester a No Murphy Team To Open Season With Athens On Friday Coach Julian Pitzer was looking closely through his ranks of football stalwarts thiJ week for a starting line-up for the first game of the season which will be played in Athens, Tenn., Friday night. When the whistle blows in the 1937 season for the locals, the lineup will read something like thi*: Hob Taylor, left end; Queen, left tackle; Jce Miller Elkins, center; j Hall or Crisp, right tackle; Palmer, right end; Oscar (Snowplow) Tay- i lor, quarter-back; Wells, left half; j Townson, Newman or Allen, right half, and Junior Barnett, fullback. The coach is undecided as to who will fill the guard positions. A large crowd is expected to accompany the team on its initial trip of the season. Besides providing the first game some members of the team have ever played, a night game will be something new for the team as a whole. SECOND BOAR HUNT PLANNED NEAR TELLICO Announcement Comes From Fish and Game Director of Tenn. (Front Knoxville Journal) Wild Prussian (or Russian) boars "anting the Cherokee National forest vill be the prey of hunters again this fall. Fish and Game Director lloweli Hun tin announced in Nashville a soc>nd hunt will be held in the wild counry near Tellico Plains, while front VIrs. Frances Stanley, who shot one if the animals in the first hunt last November, came the prediction the diooting would be "much better." Until 1935 the wild boars had not been protected and the natives had shot them at will. Now, howevei Hunting is permitted only durng a brief open season. Mrs. Stanley said she undertsood this year the privilege of hunting will be "drawn," that is, from the applications submitted only a certain number will be permitLed to shoot the swine. Both Mrs. Stanley, who is editorial assistant, agricultural extension service, University of Tennessee, and Prof. W. W. Stanley, her husband, said they hoped to hunt again if thei.* names are selected. The date of the hunt has not been selectedi, Mr. Buntin was quoted as saying. Plans will be worked out soon and arrangements made in conjunction with the U. S. forest and park services. PLANS TO TV nr*/i a. ixie r'rvi Tn .civ?ruuiv New Store To Be Opened In Murphy Dec. 1 A branch store of the Farmers Fedjration, Inc., with headquarters in \sheville will be opened in Murphy by December 1, officials announced here Wednesday. R. C. Crowell, vice-president of die corporation, and Vance Browning, ?dcuational director, were in Murphy this week making arrangements for he new store. They said the new store, which will i)e one of the largest of the Federa;ion's chain, will serve Cherokee and urrounding counties in three states, rhey have been contacting business nen throughout this territory for the veek. A mass meeting will be held in the Murphy court house Saturday morning it 10:30 o'clock at which time James j. K. McCIure, president and general nanager of Farmers Federation, of \shevillo, will be present to give an iddress. The public is invited, they aid. At present the Federation, which las been established for 17 years, conducts 15 stpres in nine Western ^'orth Carolina counties. rth Carolina? Covering a Large and , N. C. Thursday, Sept. 1 TOURNAMENTAT MARBLE IS SET TO GO SATURD AY Expected To be Most 1mj p o r t a n t Diamond Event Ever Held Here What is expected to be the big-j gest baseball event ever held in Cherokee county will take pla.e Saturday and Sunday and the following Sunday when an eight-team tourna ment will be held at Marble. Tom Coggins, manager of the Columbia Marble Blues, who is promoting the tourney, announced Tuesday that all plans for the local diamonc ,.i i?J ? * nitu oeen periected. The eight teams competing for th< $125 in prizes and two trophies are Marble, Murphy, Canton, (Ja.. Enka Hayesville, Aquone CCC camp Athens, Tonn., and Coppcrhill, Tcnn The tournament will get off to < flying start Saturday when four elim ination contests will he held. Oi Sunday two games will be played and the finals will he held on Sunday Sept. 2(1. All games will be playe< on the Marble field. Mr. Coggins said each team ha< turned in a list of players to whrcl no player could be added after th< tournament began. Each team is re quired to post a $10 entrance fee. According to the pairings as select |ed last week, Enka will play Canton Marble will meet Hayesvile, Murph; | will entertain Aquone ami Copperhil j will scrap it out. with Athens 01 the first day of play, j Sunday the winners of the Enks | Canton match and the Marble- Haj esville game will meet in the firs semi-finals. The two winners of th other two games will also meet o that date. The winners of thes two games will meet on the follow ling Sunday for the championship. Much interest has been manifes 1 in the tournament throuhout. thi | section. Nothing of its kind ha j-ever been held here before. | **We have scraped the best eigt iteams together we could find withir L 7R.mi1n r./lin. ;n i u iiiiic iwoiua vi .Hill uh , nil . \ vj J gins said. "Every indication is ths we will sec some of the best ba played in this tournament that hs ever been seen locally. We believ a number of scouts will be around t look over some of the players." There is no restrictions as to whic players the teams may use. TT only requirement is that each teai turn in its list of prospective playei before the tournament starts. o Men's Beauty Show Will Be Offered Her What Murphy has in the way c masculine beauty will be put on ei hibition at the school house Frida evening- at 8 o'clock when the ladic of the Methodist church will stage beauty show using their lesser halve as principals. Proceeds from the show will go t< ward the church ladies' orphanag drive. Mrs. J. H. McCall, Mrs. E. C. Ma lonee and Mrs. W. Arthur Barbe who are in charge of the presentatioi announce that a variety of aniateii numbers will be presented during th evening. W. G. Owenby Here On Business Visi Mr. W. G. Owenby* former membe of the board of aldermen and promin cut citizen here who is now living ii Marietta. Ga., was a business visito in town this week. Mr. Owenby and his two sons, I?i] and Frank, have reestablished wholesale grocery business in th Georgia town, and Mr. Owenby re reports that he recently built a r.e\ two-story hornb there. They live on Mr. Owenby's farr about two miles out of Marietta. t Hwi ! Potentially Rich Territory in This S 16,1937 I More Than Half In Hiwasee D Organized i M. C. Stiles Claims He Has Champion Hog I . .. -? .. . ' ! Mr. M. C. Siilv?, geiucii St-Oul correspondent from the Postell community, claims the champion hog of Cherokee county this year. He says the porker is six months old and weighs 325 pounds. Mr. Stiles did not state whether or not he would bring his hog to the fair which will be held in Murphy Sept. 28-Oct. 2. 1 County Fair To Be Staged Sept. 28-Oct. 2 | Every preparation for Cherokee n ; county's tweltfh annual agricultural * exposition had been prefected this ' J week, A. Q. Kctner, county agent, and members of the board of dir ectors of the yearly exposition an 1 'announced. 1 i The event will be held on the Murl' | phy Fair grounds beginning Tuesday, * iSept. 28 and will last tbrought Saturjday. Oct. 2. About $1 500 in premiums will be (riven away to the exhibitors in the different classifications, and V a biff midway show of 50 rides, shows I'I and concessions will be on the n grounds. Mr. Ketner was making last minute i- appeal to exhibitors calling particular attention to the general farm exhibit ;t which carries prizes totaling nearly e j$100. Complete information is given n in a fair booklet which can either be e obtained from the county agent or at the Scout office. Huge crowds are anticipated in t Murphy and everything for a royal is reception to visitors from all surroundis ing sections has been provided. QUESTION BOX l I 1. How many living Ex-United, it j States senators in North Carolina and 11 j who are they? IS j 2. How many judicial districts are e there in North Carolina? ? j 3. How many congressional districts are there in North Carolina? h 4. Who is congressman from the ie eleventh congressional district, in m North Carolina? rs 5. Who is judge of the 20th judicial district in North Carolina? (Answers to last week's questions) 1. Thad Eure. 2. A. A. F. Sea well. 3. Seven. 4. Walter P. Staccy. 5. Three. They are 0. Max Gard0 gner, John Christopher Bulcher Ehringhaus and Cameron Morrison. o ^ Theater Owner Goes > To Brother's Funeral is Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Sherrill, of a Murphy, last. Thursday attended the s funeral of Mr. She) rill's brother, Wesley Newman Sherrill, 58, of >. Hickory, who was instantly killed G Monday, Sept. 6, when he fell from a coal chute at his ice and coa' plant 1 there. j. Mr. R. W. Sherrill is owner of the 1" Strand theater here. j MISS POSEY ELECTEE OF YOUNG DEMOCR Miss Sara Ruth Pnsf-v of Mnmhw Cherokee county's delegate to the t North Carolina Yocng Deuocratic convention in Winston-Salem last Thursr day through Saturday, was named vice-chairman of the group in the tl eleventh dongressional district which r comprises all the counties west of Ashevifle. II Miss Posey attended the meeting r on Saturday. c Other eleventh congressional dis, trict officers named were: Jerry v Roberts, Canton, chairman; Miss Ella Mae Smith, of Asheville, s cond viccn president; Adam Mosc-s. Syiva. secretary; Irving Crawford, Bryson City, ^ Largest i 4 Circulation | IJMI1 Any Paper ^ "N Ever Published Here. tale 51.50 YEAR?5c COPY : Of Employes 'am Area Are in Labor Union Burton Zien, TV A Field Representative of CIO, Working Here OFFICERS NAMED Seventy percent of Workmen, 50 per cent of Office Men Signed up With the ultimate aim of organizing every TVA worker in the Hiw as see dam area, iiurton Zien, TVA field representative for the United Kederal Workers of America, announced Tuesday that more than half the employes had joined the ClO-nffliated unions during the past three weeks. At present the skilled and unskilled workers and laborers are being organized, and Ernest Jvey, a night driller whom Zien says has had 20 years experience in labor unions, has been selected as their chairman. Zien said 90 per cent of the workers on the night shift had signed up, ami that about f?o per cent of the workers on the day shift had joined. He also stated that 50 per cent of the office workers in the Hiwassee area had been organized. Their personnel, Zien declared, is composed of: E. L. Weaver (warehouseman), president; W. E. Chambers (pubic Service division), financial secretary, ami O. D. Johnson, (recreation division of training section) secretary. Zien said Tuesday that the TVAV policy of labor relations was not opposed to organized working conditions. At a general meeting in the comj munity building at the dam on Mon!day night, Zien. Ivey and Bill Rogers, of the personnel division of the TVA. Cuontinurd on back page) Club Discusses Cannery, Hiring Of CCC Enrolles A drive to employ CCC enrolles who will soon be dismissed from several nearby camps and a further discussion of the club's efforts to raise funds for the Murphy cannery were the main topics of the Murphy Lions t lub at their regular meeting in the dining room of the Methodist church Tuesday night. Walter B. Wilson, pnst president of the Miami Beach Lions club, who has stretched his visit in Murphy this summer from one week to four, and joe Ray. manager of the A & P Tea store here, were visitors, their nionic meetings for the summer The club decided to discontinue and move the meeting hour from 6:3G to 6 o'clock. Lion K. C. Wright was given a membership key for distinguished work in the club. IJon H. G. Elkins. who presided in the place of Mayor J. B. Gray, announced that a committee would be appointed to seek the marking of streets in Murphy. The club also decided to apply for a booth at the annual Cherokee County Fair next year. ?VICE CHAIRMAN ATS IN THIS DISTRICT i treasurer, and Miss Thelma Price, Asheville, publicity chairman. > WINSTON-SALEM, Sept. lbNorth Carolina's Young Democrats heard Senator Josiah William Bailey assert Saturdav that, "the luUr leader that rises to capture our party should be repudiated from one end of the country to the other" and then elected Archie T. Allen of Raleigh a; president. { Bailey, saying he usually did not 1 call names but sometimes thought it ! advisable, charged that "John L. ! Lewis is setting himself to either cap(Continued on back page)