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ISLSLi That's? ' murphy r4t u^t ( Vol. IL.?No. 11. I-H CLUBBERS TO BE GUESTS OF LIONS CLUB Civic Group Will Select Outstanding Murphy Citizen Soon I The Murphy Lions club will be host a group of 4-H club boys and girls at a future meeting, it was agreed at a r< gular meeting of the club in the oining room of the Methodist church Tuesday night. Announcement was made by A. Q. Ketner that Cherokee county 4-H club tattle had been exhibited in Asheville Tuesday and that nearly $100 in first and second prizes had been won by the group. Also exhibits at the local fair and at the state fair have also brought a number of premiums to these boys and girls, and it is Mr. Ketner's wish that these prizes be awarded formally by the Lions club, adding prestige to the occasion and encouraging the 4-H club members in this work. The club also decided to award a ; by in the near future to "Muri! Most Outstanding Citizen". All al citizens and club members will :igible- The club will make a sur\c; of the town during the coming . At the next meeting they will nominations, and at the followi: !_ meeting, the one to whom the \ is to be awarded will be select cd by club members. It is the club's intention to make this an annual trof hy. I.ion Harve Elkins. who nr. the place of the president, Lion !. B. Gray, named a committee to appear before the town board to seek a means of having: all streets in Murphy marked and disignated. They are: Mr. Kike s, I'eyton G. Ivie and W. A. Shcrrill. Discussions on various means of advertising Murphy and Cherokee iounty were held, and reports were given by the finance and attendance conunttees. New Building At Dam To Be Opened Oct. 22 Preparations are now underway for j the official opening of the community building on Friday, Oct. 22. Open House will be held from 7:30 until 9 o'clock in the evening, at which time all facilities of the community building will be available for inspection. At 9 o'coek a floor show, consisting of local talent, will be presented in the lounge, after which the dapce will begin in the gymnasium. The dance 2s being sponsored by the Worker's Council and the music will be furnish- j ed by George Rougers orchestra from j Chattanooga, Tenn. j K very one is invited to attend. In-1 vitations have been forwarded to the I Board of Directors and other TVA officials. The community building houses the post office, the camp manager's office, police and fire department, recreation director's office, the school rooms, library, a commissary and soda fountain, a large gymnasium, and a j lounge attractively furnished with red maple furniture upholstered with brown leather, several indirect readlng lamps, a radio, a nickelodeon, and combination bridge, chess and checkerboard tables. Drapes of brown, rust and cream homespun are hunc at tha ?? ? windows, and brown tufted rugs 1 are spread about on the floor. Varsity Club Will Have Dance Friday The Varsity club of the Murphy! high school will sponsor a dance at the j gymnasium Friday night beginning at 1 k:30 for the purpose of raising funds| to buy sweaters for the 1937 Boom- | ers. ? An admtsison of 50 cents will be j charged. The public is invited. j Music will be furnished by various orchestras in the form of a nickel-1 odean. ft k Feekly Newspaper its Western Snrth Murphy, IS Bobby West Bitten By I Dog Thought to be Mad Bobby, three and one-half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude I West, of Murphy, was bitten WedI nesday morning by a dog believed to have been mad. The black and white spotted ! feist, which bit Bobby while he was playing in front of his home, later 1 attacked one of T-om Taylor's dogs. It was finally shot by Chief of Police Fred Johnson and its head j sent off to Raleigh for inspection. | LOCAL LEAGUE TO HAVE MASQUERADE BALL OCTOBER 29th The Charity League of Milrphy will sponsor a dance Friday, night Oct. 29, at the Murphy gymnasium. Jimmie Cinciolo and and his orchestra, of Gainesville, Ga., will furnish the music. j The dance will principally be a mas- , ! qucrade affair, but costumes arc op- \ j tional. Everyone, however, will be | I lequired to mask in entering the I dance. ^Prizes will be awarded to tl * j j best costumes. I Tickets went on sale by club members this week at a specially reduced j j price. Librarians Attenr' ng Chapel Hill Meeting The Regional Libiary Service, which , was created by a contract between the Murphy Library Board and the Ten Jiuss.ee Valley Authority for the pur| pose of providing librarv spit;.-, c... I the Hiwassee Area, is making it possi- | hie for all the librarians working foi it to attend the biennial meeting of the North Carolina Library Association, which is being held in Chapel j Hill, October 14 and 15. Miss Josephine Heigh way, Librarian, of the Murphy Carnegie Library, j and Mi*. Kenneth Hayes, Camp Librarian at Hiwassee Dam, left here i Wednesday morning for Chapel Hill. I They were joined at Andrews by Mrs. A. B. Chandler, Librarian of the Andrews Carnegie Library, who is accompanying them to the conference. '18 New Non-Fiction Volumes In Library The Regional Library Service has just received 38 new books of nonfiction. Over half of these new books j are available at the Library in MurI phy, and the rest are being circulatI ed from the Camp Library at Hiwassee Dam. The new books include both new, popular titles such as Carl Crow s j "400 rttillion Customers", and Otto Eiscnschiml's "Why Was Lincoln ! Murdered?", and standard reference J works on this area such as Horace I Kephart's "Our Southern Highland1 ers", and Howard W. Odum's "Southern Regions." Fire Results When Gas Shovel Backfires The Hiwassee Dam Fire Depart- j ment answered an alarm in the construction area at the dam where a ' gasoline shovel had cught on fire. The fire was caused by a back-fire from a truck which was refueling the gasoline tank on the shovel, and was quickly extinguished with chemicals. The damage to the shovel was slight, consisting of approximately $100. The shovel was used in excavating in the coffer dam. Cooper Interviewed Over Radio Network New York. X. Y., Oct. 6?Mr. Har- \ ry P. Cooper, of Murphy, X. C.. a lawyer here on business this week, was anions the group of persons interview on the NBC Vox Pop program. conducted by Parks Johnson and Wallace Butterwerth. The program originated in the lobby of the RCA building in Radio City and w:\ heard over the R?d Network of the National Broadcasting Com- \ p any. S 1 Ho /\iter losing the first two games to | Athens and Canton the Boomers cam" I back strong to eke out a 7 to 0 conquest over the Franklin outfit last week. Murphy shows the effect of the open date of fair week and the addition of Mr. Cobb to the coaching staff. Many mistakes and rough edges were remedied and smoothed off during the two weeks intervening between the Canton and Franklin games. With another week to polish up on i the new plays the Boomers should still be an improved ball club when the whistle bows for the opening kick off I Friday. Last week's exhibition rei minded one more of a baskethal game than a footbail contest. The Boomers* ! tossed the pigskin about at all times | to give the fans some new thrills ' Franklin took the hint and proceed ed to do the same thing. This Friday j promises to see more passing and flij ping the ball about by tin- Murphy ggregation while it is a well known i fact that Sylva has orte of the fastest 1 ackfields in this end of the state. .Sylva invades Murphy after an i overwhelming 25-0 victory over the (Cherokee Indians, and Tuesday's 12-0 j conquest of Franklin, a team which the Boomers were barely abb to defeat by a 7-0 count. In Painter and I'lcmmons Coach Huff has two of ! Western North Carolina's best backs, j and in Wilson Huff has an able field ; general. (Continued on back page) School To Hold Pep Meeting At Bonfire Tonight I Tonight (Thursday) at 7 o'clock j the students of the Murphy High school will hold a Pep Meeting at the Senior Oak for the purpose of inflaming a fighting spirit into the football squad and the school for Friday's important clash with Sylva. Cheering will be loud and long, preceded by a parade through the streets of Murphy. The parade will begin and end at the Senior Oak on the west school ground. Following the cheering there will be short pep talks by members of the faculty, the student | body and perhaps from the coaches and several members of the team. Afterwards there will he more cheering and enthusiasm is expected to be at a high pitch when the meeting adjourns. Everyone ? townspeople included ?is invited to take part. Stunt Artist Killed After Leaving Here D. D. Roland, world-famed stunt artist, who thrilled thousands here at the Fair last week and scaled the outside of buildings in Murphy and Andrews, provided an even greater thrill in Grec nvlle. Tenn.. several days later when he plunged from the top of an 80-ioot pole to his death. Many stood in awe at the Fair grounds a< Roland scaled the 80-foot j pole, "did handstands on top of the . -waving ; "'c and provided other:, thrilling stunts. At. h s in xt performance in Green-1 ville. the 4 -year-old acrialist t\ i who: he wa- attempt ?? to leap p >r.~. * ill'- u>|' Tra j?ez? - ; i IIi> wiK. wh assisto<I him he . -.kir . pictures *r:r when r> v.a-1 The fatal leap, accoruing u> i: i tion received here. rrokei Carolina, Covering a larer and Pot> I. C. Thursday, Oct. 14, 1 j BOOMERS MEET SYLVA FRIDAY ON F AIR GROUNDS Murphy Seeking Second Win of Season; Line-Up Change Announced I Th.. VimU ' ' ' - J..... l.U>MIIVI Js V? III lie ilUXlning for their second victory of the j season Friday at 2 o'clock when the I strong Sylva eleven invades the Fair I grounds for the annual tussle with the pigskin. Wade Kocae, Lee Watkins, and Zcb B. Con ley. The honorary pallbearers were: Dr. Fied Herbert. \V. I). Whitaker, Dr. W. C. Morrow, Mayor I'. M. Iteag;nn, I*. l>. Ferebee, J. Fiank Bristol, J. M. Boone, John H. Christy, J. A. Morgan and H. L. HiirdonSurviving are six sons, Z. V. and C. J., ' f Bryson City; Paul, of Hendersonville, and G. S., F. 11., and W. H., of Andrews, and two daughters, Miss Frances Mehaffey and Mrs. R. THeaton. Mr. Mehaffey was a member of the Oconee lodge of Masons at Bryson Ci*y. MRS. SCRGGGS IS TAKEN BY DEATH; FUNERAL MONDAY Mrs- Dona Scroggs, 77, who lived at Brasstown for many years, died Saturday evening at 6 o'clock at the home of her daughter. Mrs. F. B. Hampton, in Canton, N. C. Death followed a long illness. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Hampton, of Canton, and Mrs. T. E. Johnson, of Skyland; three sons, O. M., of Canton, C. C., of Richmond, Va. and H. F., of Canton, Ohio; 18 grandchildhen, and five great-grandchildren. The funeral services were held M day morning. 126 CCC's Entrain For West On Pullman Murphy had its first glimpse of 14 shining Pullman cars with white-jacketed butlers and all Tuesday noon when 126 enrollees and officers from the Tellico camp boarded the L and N train here for Oregon where thpv will enter a new camp. More boys were placed on the huge (rain at Blue Ridge, Ga. A number of CCC camps in this section are being discontinued and the boys < r.veyed to the WYsi Toast. VJorr's Miller Is FJected To Sigma P; 1 M?: < Milk". . f M;i n-h? - a inedcal student :it I. I iiversity. ' T.:-;. Ga.. has be* -ictted to the s IS Pi ' at entity ti: aecordinp to ar. announcement r.- ived front the unr-ersity. 1 11 4 Circulation f 111 11 Any Paper ^ Ever Published Here. le 1.50 YEAR 5c COPY MYHIlNTKtN t H>?fl ntially Rich Terri lory in This Stai 1937 $ Old Clothes Wanted By Welfare Department The local welfare department is issuing a call for all used or discarded cothing of any kind. M rs- ret LeMay Mauney, J of the local welfare department, f.aid Tuesday that she was seeking any old clothes including hats and shoes that could possibly be mended and used or used to mend other clothing fnr y*r in the department. Members of the sewing rooms will put the clothes in wearable condi* tion and they will be distributed to the needy, she said. Clothing can either be left with Mr*- M nuno.. ? ?l 1 j ... >uc murpny court house or with Mrs. W. W. Ashe in Andrews. O. F. MEHAFFEY, OF ANDREWS, IS TAKEN BY DEATH Andrews, Oct. 11.?D. E. Mvhaffey 70, of Andrews, banker, merchant, and lumberman, long prominent in this section of Western North Carolina, died at 12:45 o'clock Monday afternoon in the C. J. Harris Com munty hospital at Sylva. Death was due to blood poisoning, lie had been ill two weeks. Mr. Mehaffey. a native of franklin, was the founder and first presi dent of the Citizens Bank and Trust ? ompany < : Andrew' He was j esi ilen! ol the Chain (iron iy eo:? puny here and was a 1 i.iihernianThe funeral service's were held in the Andrews Funeral chapel Tuesday afternoon at i o'cloek with the Ke\. C. F. Rogers. pastor of the Andrew Baptist church, officiating, assisted by the Rev. \Y. ('. Smith, pastor of the Methodist church here. Liurial was in the Andrews eemetery. Active pallbearers were: Jack Herbert, C. < . Crane, Woody ilaninton a Vi&llf K KJWWJ WILLCONVENE ON OCTOBER 20 Three-day Tri-state meeting Scheduled For October 20-22 The hunt will soon be on! It was announced this week that the sixth annual Tri-State Foxhunters convention would begin a three-day meeting in Murphy on Wednesday, Oct. 20. The announcement was made by Fred Moore after he conferred with other officials in the association. The three-days hunting convention will begin with a bench show on the Murphy Fair grounds on Wednesday. The bench show will begin at .'1 P. M. Officials stated that a reasonable entrance fee would be charged, and that prizes would be awarded the winning dogs. Names of the judges have not been announced. The place of the first night's hunt will be designated at the bench show, and the places of hunt the following nights will he decided at the- end of the* chase each preceding night. Other officers besides Mr Moore \ie: A. M. M * A fee, Blairsvillc, Ga.t vice president, and K. Bruce King. Topton. secretary-!reasurer. Mr. Moore also states that anyone having a resident hunting license is permitted to enter dogs in the chase and that spectators do not have to have license. i ; < meeting will open at 2 P. M. at the Murphy Fair grounds on Wednesday, and a short business session will I be held preceding the bench show and j'li" first chase. At this time offi.-ers fir the coming year will be elected, and financial and other reports will be given. Of the past five annual meetings of the Foxhunters Convention, last year'* wes considered one of the best. Although hampered by rainy weather, ?> - r * ?. RfflW m poii rnascs were conducted near Andrews. Several hundred people from < lierand communities in North Carolina, okee county and surrounding towns Tennessee and Georgia are expected to be present to take part in the chases. The most extensive preparations for a convention that has ever been held is being: planned by officials, and the finest fox chases in the history of the county are anticipated. Many Singers AtSemi-Annual Meet Sunday The Bell view singing class, with ^ high score of 99 and one-third, whs awarded the Cherokee County singing banner at the semi-annual convention at Marble Sunday. Described as "one of the best conventions ever held hero" by President John Donley, of Murphy, four idngirg classes and a number of excellent quartettes took part. It. was one of the largest, crowds to ever attend at event in this county. The Valleytown class wes second with a score of J9 and one-sixth; Murphy was third with 98 and two-thirds, and Hangingdog was fourth with 96 and two-thirdsVisiting quartettes which provided some excellent singing were from Maryville, Tenn.. Coppcrhill, Tenn., Canton, N. C., and a number of local groups. The annual meeting will he held zt the Poachtree school house the second Sunday in June. Officers will be elected at that time. Present officers besides Mr. Donley are: Lawrence Anderson, Andrews, vice president, and Krnest Trantham, Andrews, secretary-treasurer. Judges at the contest were: C. C. Hughes, of Union countv, Ga.; W. L. ... wii. *.i v lav county, and I>. BWrizht, of Topton. o MASON TO BUY CATTLE Ij. L. Mason. Cherokee County Sheriff, has announced that he will huy cattle <-f at Frank Dickey's aralos Murphy on Saturday Oct- 1G.
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