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Vol. 1L?No. 26
ABOUT $100 IS I
CLEARED HERE
AT 2 DANCES
Presidential Balls Bring
f araiysis Funus lulu
County
Approximately $100 will he cleared
from the two Roovcsclt dances held
in Cherokee county Friday night, P.
J. Henn, general chairman, reported
T uesday.
He said that around 300 tickets
had been sold for both dances at Murphy
and at Hiwassee dam.
Seventy per cent of the clear profit
will be used for local paralysis
victims, and the remaininc 30 ner
cent will be sent to national headquarters
for the war against paralysis,
Henn stated.
About 150 couples attended the
dance in Murphy which was held in
the gmnasium. Bill Stringfcllow and
his Buccaneers from Ashevillc furnished
the music.
Members of local clubs decorated
the gymnasium appropriately for the
Presidential celebration. A Grand
March, which was participated in by
all clubs in Murphy. Andrews and
surrounding towns, was held just before
intermission.
The dance at the Hiwassee village
was held nt the community building
and was sponsored by the Hiwassee
Dam Woman's club and other organizations.
Nearly 150 couples danced there to
the music of the Southern Aristocrats
from Copperhill. There, too. Unbuilding
was appropriately decorated
and a grand march led by Mr. and
Mrs. 0- E. Blec, construction superintendent
of the Hiwassee dam. was
held.
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Medical Group
Meets Here On
January 26th
The monthly meeting of the Cherokee
County Medical Society was held
in the parlors of the Regal Hotel
Wednesday evening, Jan. 26. All the
members enjoyed dinner together
previous to the meeting.
The program, in charge of Dr. B.
W. Whitfield, was a presentation by
Mr. Johnson, of the Park-Davis and
Company Drug Manufacturers, of the
newest method of typing the germs
that cause pneumonia and subsequent
treatment by hypodermic injections
with anti-pneumonia syrums. Mr.
Johnsons remarks were both timely
and interesting and elicited many
questions and remarks by the members
presentDr.
J. N. Hill reported that the
movement started by the Society three
months ago to secure improved tele
phone equipment has been succes-1
ful and that the committee had been
assured by the Chairman of the State
Utilities Commission that the installation
would be effected as soon as
possible. The committee consisting
of Drs- Miller, Whitfield and Mitchell
was appointed to draw up appropriate
resolutions relative to the death of
Dr. N. B. Adams, a member of the
Society for thirty years and President
for the last eight years.
Members present were: Doctors
J- N. Hill, J. G. Faulk, F. V. Taylor,
S. C. Heighway Harry Miller. B. W.
Whitfield, Z. P. Mitchell and Edw. E.
Adams. Dr. E. B. Glenn of Hiwassce
Dam was elected to membership.
Dr. Mose Howard of Hiwassce Dam
was given the courtesy of associate
membership. Dr. J. N. Hill was elect- '
ed president for the ensuing year,
Dr. B. G. Wehh of i.j .. -i? '
_ - ? TTua cietv
ed vice president and Dr. Edw. E.
Adams eras re-elected treasurer A
paper on "The Ambulant Treatment J
of Fractures" will be read by Dr.
B- W. Whitfield at the next meeting !
of the eoeiety to be held on February .
2S, 1938. 1
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Muri
DISAPPEARED
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Benefit Bridge
Party Will Be
g^\ m *ii
wven tonight
All preparations for the Murphy
Lions benefit bridge party have been
completed and a large crowd of citizens
are expected to attend the entertainment
in the Woman's club room
of the Murphy-Carnegie library tonight
(Thursday).
Arrangements are in charge of
Chairman H- Bucck, W. M. Fain, and
T. A. Case with their Lionesses. Mrs.
Peyton Ivie and Mrs. Kenneth Wright
have collected a number of prizes to I
b?' donated at the party.
Members of the Charity League of |
Murphy, young womans social organization,
are selling tickets. They reported
to I)r- E. E. Adams, secretary
of the Lions club, Tuesday that practically
all the tickets had been sold.
Proceeds from the party will be used
for Lions club charity work for the
blind and near-blind in this area.
DR. E. L. HOLT'S GOL
HAS MOTHERED E
By Harry R. Ward
Desdemonia wore the latest swagger
style fur ensemble when she celebrated
her eighth birthday anniversary
last week. The exact date of her
celebration is unknown as the time of
her birth was never officially recorded,
but one day last week she reached
the ripe old age of eight years.
With feline simplicity, she gathcr?,i
?v,? ' i r-:<
?.u HIV iuob vjunibui'icu ciuji U1 Ilti CHH- I
uren about her and probably indulged
in a birthday cake of canned deg and
cut food- Her remaining 77 children
did not attend the annual affair.
Desdemonia is a large composite
cat of four species, and is owned by
Dr- K. L. Holt, prominent Cherokee
county dentist, now practicing in [
Murphy.
About this time two years ago a
newspaper account recoided Desdemonia's
celebration of her sixth
birthday. At that time she had moth-1
ered 54 kittens. Since then, the stork
of the feline world has let the cat out j
01 the bag 2b times and Desdemunia
has brought them all home. She is
now the mother of 82 kittens.
In addition to being garbed in a
prize coat of gray and white fur. she
still modestly displays her sparkling
dental jewelry that has been a source
of much popularity for the past five
years.
When Desdemonia was three years
old, Dr. Holt crowned her two upper
canine, or eye teeth, with gold crowns
?? ? i|uuitci ui an men long. 1 oday
they still remain intact, glistening
brilliantly as they extend below her
lower lip resembling small tusksWhen
she smiles, masculine feline
"golddiggers" and giglos rush to her
as though they were spellbound, while
curious canine snoopers d -op their
tails and flee for other vicinities.
In her smile lies her person; lily,
and Dr. Holt said that accounts for
her spectacular rise to fame.
She has given birth to numerous
all white and all black kittens, and
three times she filled her baby cribs
with half Persian beauties.
Desdemonia has not been a dullard"She
has fully paid her dental bill",
Dr. Holt said. Local citizens are eager
to purchase her offspring and some
of the long-haired Persian children
have been sold for $5 each. All of this
is little worry to the taciturn mother.
ttpkti
Carolina, Covering a l^ar^r ana i
phy, N. C. Thursday, Fe
Survey Shows
Cherokee Has
1,439 Jobless
Figures of the federal unemployment
census released recently ini
Washington list 1431) jobless persons
in Cherokee county.
Based on the November registration
and the 1030 census, the unemployment
in North Carolina was 2-9
per cent of the total population, as
compared to 4.5 per cent for the nation
as a whole. On the same basis
the unemployment in Buncombe county
is 5.1 per cent as compared to 3.3
per cent in Forsyth, 3.2 per cent in
Guilford, 3.7 per cent in Mecklenburg.
and 2.6 per cent in WakeA
breakdown of the 94,711 "totallj
unemployed and wanted work" ir
North Carolina, as reported by thi!
national unemployment census, shows
the following distribution by counties
in the Asheville area:
Cherokee, 1,439; Avery. 659; Bun
combe 5.053, of which 2,500 are ir
Asheville; Burke, 904; Clay, 457
Graham, 387; Haywood 1,167; Henderson.
978; Jackson, 986; McDowell
1,064; Macon. 1,154; Madison, 324
Mitchell, 551; Polk, 293; Rutherford
| 1,241; Swain, 1088; Transylvania
662; Watauga, 639; Yancey, 695.
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Episcopal Services
To Be Held Sunday
I The Rev. Arthur Firniiin. of Ashe
! ville, wiil hold services at hte Episco
j pal church in Murphy Sunday even
I ing, Feb. 6. at 7 o'clock, it was an
I nouneed Wednesday.
The public Is invited to attend.
D-TOQTHED CAT
IGHTY-TWO KITTENS
TWO MORE RARE
DOCUMENTS ARE
DISCOVERED HERE
Two more unusual old document
I were unearthed in the Cherokee Coun
ly files in the register of deeds offici
this week by Walter Dockery who i
refiling all the old deeds there.
One is a report from the state audi
tors office in Raleigh addressed to thi
clerk of the county commissioner
in which he gives the amount of ap
I ropriations given to Cherokee coun
ty schools from the year 1861 to 1864
The amounts specified were: 1861
$402-18; 1862. $941.64; 1863, $2,082.
72; and 1864, $1,301.69.
The other was a contract signed i?
I 1867 wherein specifications are givei
j for the building of a cage in the Mur
I phy jail. It was signed by Comission
r ers Samuel W. Davidson, It. O. Mc
| Combs, D. Ilennesa and W. T. Tay
| lor. Contractors were: Thomas C
| Latham ana J. n Kennesa.
FORUM AND BOOK
REVIEW MEETING
HELD AT LIBRARY
An informal book review and forun
was held in the Murphy Carnegie
library in Murphy Tuesday night. It
was the initial meeting uf a series tc
be held here on regular dates and h
number of local citizens attendedIt
was decided to hold the next
meeting on Tuesday night, Feu. 15. at
which time it will be decided on what
dates to hold regular meetings. The
topic, 4 This Changed America", will
be discussed from sociological and
economical viewpoints by the group,
according to Miss Ida Belle Entrckin,
regional librarian, who arianged the
meeting. A book review of Josephine
Lawrence's "Sound of Running Feet"
will also be given. Am a subsequent
date Mrs. W. B. Richardson will discuss
"The South Grips Reality".
The meetings are open to everyone,
MLss Entrekin stated. They are limited
to one hour in length and will be
held from 7 until R
Once the children are old enough to
walk and obtain their own food, she
ignores them as if realizing there'll
be more to come.
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Potentially Kich Territory ir This Sta
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NEW STORE TO
OPEN SATURDAY
WITU PRA/1PA Ml
nuiu livuiinju
Sixteenth Unit Of Farmers
Federation To Be
Located In Murphy
The Farmers Federation will open
its sixteenth warehouse Saturday
February 5, in Murphy.
i Starting at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing. there will be a short program in
> ihe new warehouse with music by the
; Federation string band, and brief addresses
by James G- K. McClure,
Federation president; Guy M. Saies.
i general manager; Vance Biowning,
; educational director, and others.
J. K. Bagwell, who has been ap?
pointed manager of the Murphy ware- J
bouse, has been on the round since j
the early part of January, preparing ;
. for the opening. The Federation has
| leased the W. M Mauney building on
Hiwassee Street near the public
square. Fixtures and a large stock
of goods already have been installed
T and Mr. Bagwell is putting on the
finishing touches for the opening.
To Serve Large Area
This warehouse will serve the larg- !
- est area in the Federation's territory,
- as it will draw trade from and handle
farm produce fo farmers in Cherokee.,
, Clay and Graham counties. North fm-_
olina. and Towns, Union and Fannir.
counties* Georgia.
> Mr. Bagwell was selected as mana
ger of this unit because of his long
experience and successful record as
a Federation employee. For several
years prior to going to Murphy he
A I was manager of the Federation's ;
warehouse at Morganton, Burke coun
ty"
Many Subscribe To Stock
L? Organization of the Farmers Feder- j
s j ation unit at Murphy has met with an
j unusually hearty welcome from the
_ farmers of Cherokee and surrounding 1
e counties. At last report more than
s 300 persons had subscribed to stock
_ shares, and payments were coming in |
. as well as could be expected. Those j
i who have not paid their stock sub-1
^ j scriptions may do so at the meeting i
_ j to be held in connection with the opening
of the Murphy warehouse. Mr.
. Sales will be prepared at that time to
l issue stock certificates.
R. C. Crowell. Federation vice-pres
idc-nt who launched the organization
- work at Murphy so successfully last
- last fall, is planning to attend the
. opening if nis health permits. Mr.
Crowell, who suffered an attack of
appendicitis shortly before Christmas,
is now out of the hospital and is j
steadily recuperating, but he doesn't I
know whether his doctor will permit;
r him to make the trip to Murphy.
' LIONS GROUPS TO
HANDLE AFFAIRS
; ANNOUNCED HERE
Committees to be in charge of the
Murphy Lions club's annual Cherokee
county dinner, to be held Thursday
night, March 8. have been announced
by Dr. E. E. Adams, secretary of the
club.
They are: arrangements, the Rev.
W. A- Barber, chairman, Walter Colo
man and Virgil Johnson; entertainment,
Peyton G. Ivie, chairman, and
W. A- Sherrill; favors and decorations,
Park W. Fisher, chairman, Mr. Barker,
Sam Carr and Quay Ketner, and
reception, H. G- Elkins, chairman, W.
W. Hyde, W. M. Fain, Tom Case and
their Lionesses.
The committee to be ir, charge of
the Lions colored ministrel to be held
in the Murphy high school auditorium
Friday night, Feb. 25, consists of: K.
C. Wright, chairman, T- W. Kindley,
W. A. Sherrill and A. **.. Hclver.
Largest
I j^Tl" Circulation
ti|L ji, Any Paper
~ Ever Published
Here.
le
>1.50 \EAk?5c COPY
:e Gray
e Fruitless;
early 2 Weeks
Is Well-Known 24-YearOld
Son of Mayor and
a* i n
mrs. j. d. vjray
DISAPPEARS JAN. 21
Is Attending U. of Md.
Medical Scool; Last
Seen In Cab
Mystery continues this week to
shroud the strange disappearance of
Thomas Burke Gray, son of Mayor
and Mrs. J. B Gray, of Murphy, from
his rooming house in Baltimore, Md.?
last week. The popular 24-year-old
student is enrolled in the University
of Maryland medical school at Baltimore.
He disappeared Friday night, Jan.
21. From that time an intensive
fruitless search has been promoted
to seek his whereabouts. Fred Christopher,
law partner of Mayor Gray,
is in Baltimore, where he is conducting
the search with Harry P. Cooper,
ot the department of commerce, Washington,
D. C.. a former Murphyite;
Loftin Mason, a brother of Sheriff
L. L. Mason formerly of Cherokee
county, and Baltimore and Washington
police and detectives.
Mr. Christopher was back in Baitimorc
Wednesday afternoon afier having
attended law business in Raleign
ihi day before indicating thai tin
so;., th ?s still being carried on
Salesman Not Gray
Keports in Murphy Tuesday that a
young magazine salesman in Andrews
was believed u> have been Cray were
discredited Wednesday when it was
learned that the same youth, unkempt,
apparently in a daze, with no samples
or salesmanship ability and bearing a
strong resemblance to Gray, was
; found to have previously canvassed
several families in Murphy who positively
state it was not him.
Mrs. Gray had been informed Tuesday
that a magazine salesman in An*
J drows bore a strong resemblance to
her son, and she sent Chief of Police
Fred Johnson to Andrews to investigate.
Mr. Johnson upon his return
said that several citizens of Amurws
had positively identified the salesman
as Gray from pictures carried in daily
, papers.
i Gray, a brilliant medical student,
I who got his B. S. degree from, the
! University of North Carolina at
j Chapel Hill and finished his first two
(Continued on Society page)
Cherokee-Clay County
Ministers Will Meet
The Cherokee Clay County
terial conference will meet in regular
monthly session Monday, February 7,
at 10 o'clock in the Ki?si l'?nv< .
?"l*^"
church at Murphy.
The devotional service will be led
by the Rev. C. J. Rogers, of Andrews.
The subject of stewardship and how
it affects the church work will be
the general theme for discussion. The
Rev. Robert Barker, of Peachtree,
will lead the discussion Other Ministers
will follow in a round table
discussion. A business session will
be held just before adjournment at
noon.
Weather Vane
Listi'd below are maximum and
minimum temperatures for Llie past
week compared with temperatures
for the same period last year.
Temperature.
1938 1937
Date Max. Min. Max. Min.
26 26 16 53 42
On ? -
<.1 26 10 58 39
28 35 7 50 43
29 61 15 61 41
30 59 28 55 44
31 56 32 51 43
Feb. 1 58 23 53 46
Rainfall?Inches
1938 1937