That'sMURPHY
| The Leading I
Vol. IL?NoT28
NOTED PASTOR
TALKS TO CLUB
TUESDAY NIGHT i
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Lions Discuss Number Of
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lyivic i rujcvis ai
Meeting Here
Tho Rev. W. L Hut chins, of Concord,
was tho principal speaker at the
Murphy Lions Club meeting in the
Methodist church on Tuesday night.
The minister was formerly pastor
of the Methodist church in Andrews,
and at present is making a tour of
churches in Western North Carolina.
I>ater in the evening he spoke to the
Methodist congregation on the "Aldersgate
Services**. Mr. Hutchens has
travelled widely in the Holy Land.
Fred O. Scroggs, Brasstown merchant
announced his resigination from
the club stating that his business
would interfere with regular attendance
at the meetings in the future.
Mr. Scroggs has been a member of
the Club for the past four yearsLion
H. G- Elkins, who presided,
named a committee to seek improvements
on the local golf course. Those
named were: Tom Case, chairman;
Sam Can* and Peyton (J. Ivie.
Committees reported having made
arrangements for the annual Cherokee
County Dinner to he held by the club
on March 8. and the ministrel show
to he given on February 2f?.
A report on the benefit bridge
party held last Thursday night was
deferred until the next meeting by
Hie committee in charge, hut the club
went on record extending appreciation
*o all who attended and took part in
the arrangements.
At the suggestion of Lion Ivie, a j
committee was appointed to appealbefore
the town aldermen at their
next meeting to seek a beaut if ication
program in Sunset cemetery here.
Appointed on the committee were: W.
M. Fain, chairman; Mr. Ivie, Walter
Coleman and A. Q. Ketner.
Traffic violations in the town of
Murphy were also discussed by the
club.
CROP OF TURNIP
GREENS IS WORTH
$241 TO FARMER
John Deal, prominent Brasstown
farmer, has set a record in growing
'urnip greens, figures filed at the
Mountain Valky Mutual Canning association
here indicate.
Mr. Deal planted slightly less than
two acres of the crop in April, 1937,
and gathered 19,696 pounds for the
cannery.
This was turned into 1000 cases
of turnip greens, E. R. Thompson,
manager of the cannery, has estimated.
For this crop Mr. Deal received
$240.94.
Mr- Thompson said that the cannery
was planning to contract for
bout 20 acres of turnip greens this
season, and that about 12 acres had
already been signed up. Farmers who
are interested in growing the crop
aro TPniioctpH *n crnt ir? fniipVt uiitVi AT**
Thompson at the cannery.
HealtfTof ZhTciub
Members Is Checked
Physical examinations are being
given to the 4-H club members of the
county. Results of the boys and girls
in Andrews and the girls in Murphy
have been revealed, but results of the
tests on boys in Murphy have not
been announced.
Scores were: Murphy girls, Marcella
Hall 91. E. Clark 89, Mary
Frances 89 and Agnes Stalcup S8 and
one-half; Andrews boys, Edgar Wood,
Jr., 92, Burke Wood 90, Joe Brown
90 and Leroy Baldwin 90, and Andrews
girls, Willa Be'1 Chambers 88,
Betty Wyke 86 and Marie Taylor 86.
Next spring another physical examination
will be given club members
to note improvement.
The tests were conducted by the
county health department.
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Teekly Newt paper in Western North
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LOCAL CANNERY
STOCKHOLDERS
TO MEET HERE
The annual stockholders meeting
of the Mountain Valley Mutual Canning
association cf Murphy will be held
in the Murphy court house Saturday
afternoon at 1:30 p. m.
John fcj. Harr, Tennessee Valley Associated
Cooperatives administrator
and head of the Land O' The Sky
Mutual Canning association of Waynesville,
of which the local cannery
is a unit, is expected to be present
to direct the meeting.
Scheduled for the meeting is the
ciection of officers, annual report by
E. R. Thompson, manager, and a general
discussion of operations for the
coming year.
Mr- Thompson stated the cannery
realized the best year financially and
productively in its history during th?'
1937 season.
DEMONSTRATION
ON CANNING WILL
BE HELD FEB. 16
A demonstration on canning will be
given in the Murphy school house
Wednesday, Feb. 1(?, at 1 p. m. to
homemakers from Cherokee, Clay and
Graham Counties, according to Miss
Aline Richardson, home demonstration
agent
The demonstration will be conduct
eel by Mrs. Kosina K. Maxwell, of
Indianapolis, Ind-, the announcement
stated.
The regular meeting of the Grandview
demonstration club on that date
will be suspended, and Miss Riehavdson
is urging all members to come to
the canning meeting in Murphy.
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Moody Attends Meeting
Of District Postmasters
Mr. Howard Moody, Murphy postmaster,
attended the meeting of the
postmasters of the eleventh congressional
district in Bryson City Monday
night. He was the only postmaster of
20 in Cherokee county attending.
On the program were: V. T Davis,
chairman of the association, of Forest
City; Wythe M. Peyton, state chairman,
of Asheville. who discussed the
activities of the association; Major
Howell, of Waynesville; Postmaster
Martin, of Bryson City, who presided;
Mayor T. D. Bryson, Jr-, of Bryson
City, who gave the welcoming address
and other town and Swain county officials;
Postmaster Eubanks, of Ilendersonville,
who gave the response,
and the Tryon postmaster who gave
an account of his trip to the national
convention in San Fransico, Cal.. last
summer.
There was a total of 76 in attendance.
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Weather Vane
Listed below are maximum and
minimum temperatures for the cast
week compared with temperatures
for the same period last year.
Temperatures
1938 1937
Date Max. Mill. Max. Min.
Feb. 2 59 21 50 22
3 57 43 54 26
4 69 42 49 35
5 65 35 44 22
6 71 44 39 20
7 66 38 65 37
8 60 26 70 58
Rainfall?Inches
Since February 1 0.10 0 77
Since January 1 3.78 10 29
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Miss Dair McCracken and Mrs.
Evelyn Patton are spending this week
observing the schools at Andrews, Culln\vh<a\
Canton, Waynesville and
Asheville. Roth Miss McCracken and
Mrs. Patton are teachers in the Murphy
Graded school.
F M Johnson, sanitary engineer of
Cherokee County, returned Monday
from a ten days' vacation.
WORKING AT COURT HOUSE
Waited Dockory has been hired by
the county commissioners to index all
marriage licenses and vital statistics
in the office of Register of Deeds B.
L. Pad 'ett. A number of interesting
old docuaients have been found.
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FUNERAL HELD '
FOR MRS. HALL,
99, OF KINSEY
Aged Woman Buried At i
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ucacu v^rcciv uapnoi
Cemetery On
Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Elmira
I IT.. 11 f?n f ? ? " ' " "
11ian, w, wuc oi tne iaic I3od Hall, oi
Kinsey community, were conducted
I from the Beach Creek Baptist church
Saturday morning: at 11 o'clock with
the Rev. Fred Stiles officiating:.
Interment was in the church cemetery.
\\\ I). Townson was in charge .
of funeral arrangements.
Mrs. Hall, who was almost as old j
as Cherokee county itself, died at her
home Friday morning at 8 o'clock, j
She had been ill a few days. Mrs. Hall |
was active until the Wednesday before 1
her death. Although she is believed
to be the oldest woman in the county,
her health was never impaired, her
faculties never dimmed and she walker!
three miles to church meetings j
I' prior to her death.
Born Miss Elmiria McTiggert. she '
I lived her entire century of life within
I three miles of the homenlace where |
she died. She was married to Bob'
hall. Confederate veteran.
Although she had novjchildrcn ol
her own, Mrs. Hall is surviw 1 by a
large number of nieces and nephews
She reared a large niunhei of the j
i esidents of the Kinsey section which
is located three miles from Murphy j
on the Xotla river.
j New Store Is |
Opened Here j
On Saturday
Approximately 300 persons from |
this tri-state area attended the open-j
mg oi me r armors Federation's new
warehouse in Murphy Saturday morning.
A program of music and short talks
was heard. The Rev. Dumont Clarke
explained the Lord's Acre movement
as sponsored by the Federation; and
Guy M. Sales, general manager of the
organization, and Paul Raper. of the
poultry department of the Federation,
gave short talks.
Officials introduced were: Sam
Nave, of the implement department;
Frank Colvard. Claude Fisher, and
Johnny Bagwell, manager of the local
store.
A committee of five men were elected
to represent stockholders. They
were: Dillard Orr, Graham county, F.
Waid roup, Clay county, and W. A.
Adams, Clyde McNabb and J. 11.
Hampton, ail of Cherokee. They planned
to meet for a general discussion
and to lay future plans on Saturday
afternoon.
Previously another committee of
five had been elected to serve with
the latter group. They are R Bruce
Slaughter. Robbinsville, W. B. Bumgarner,
Clay county, and B. P- Grant,
D. Witherspoon and U. S. G. Phillips,
all of Cherokee county.
The meeting was in charge of
Vance Browning, former state senator
and educational director of the
Federation, of Bryson City. James G
K. McClure, president of the Federation,
ami R. Church Crowell. vice
president who organized the local
unit, were unable to attend due to illness.
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LEGAL PHASES OF LAND ACQUISITION
At the Tuesday. February 1, 1938,
'rooting of the group on Legal Phases
of Land Acquisition, it was decided to
change the meeting date from Tuesday
to Wednesday of each week. Accordingly.
this week' meeting will be
held in Mr. H. L. Mynatt's office at
held in p7nl HbtO,.nuilodarthesshrd
the Knitting Mill at 7:00 P. M. Bring
last year's notes. All who are interested
are invited to attend. Please be
on time.
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otentially Rich Tern tonr ir This Su
eb. 10, 1938 $1
DEMONSTRATION f
CLUB SCHEDULE L
IS ANNOUNCED
A schedule of home demonstration
club meetings throughout Cherokee
county have been arranged by Miss
Aline Richardson. demonstration J
agent ^
it is as follows: Friday, Feu. II, Andrews
at home of Mr? R. C. Andrews,
at I p. m.; Monday, Feo. 14,
Bellview, at 1 p. m.; Tuesday, Feb.
15, Suit, at 1 p. m.; Wednesday, Feb.
10, Grandview at home of Mrs. Fred (
Davis, at 1 p. in.; Thursday Feb. IT. w
Tomotla at school building, at 2 n. 2
hi. imii; r rid ay Feb. 18. Mar- o]
tin's Creek in school building, at 1 n
p.m.; Thursday, Feb. 24, Bellview a* la
home of Margaret King, 1 p. m., and
Friday, Feb. 25, Peachtree in school y
building, at 2 p. m- (EST). fi
Four-H club meetings were held in
Murphy Tuesday and in Andrews on u
Monday. C
ROLLER SKATING
IN POPULARITY !I
SPOTLIGHT HERE
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These changing fads: Once it was
bycycles?and now it's roller skates
Everybody from the "young'un" It? '
Aunt Kate is usin' 'em. Her.* they
come and there they go. flitting by
with ali the ease and acrobaitc abd- j
ity of a professional performer.
Although skating is not new locally
it has become exlremely popular in ?
the past few weeks.
No clubs have been formed yet (as
was the case with the bycycle-yv rating
group) but snake dance;-* aw '
formed almost nightly to entevtn:.i j
j those who aren't wiley enou ; i to par- i
1 take of the popular passtime.
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Teachers Given More <
Time On Certificates
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| Cherokee county teachers who wish I
I to raise their certificates to class "A" I
have had the time limit extended until (
I September 1, 1929, A. L. Martin, ?
superintendent of public instruction
ill Cherokee ennntv hnc- *
The date had previously been set . s
for September 1. 1038. *
"This action will give teachers who a
wish to raise their certificates an
ixtra year in which to complete the J
necessary work and will be of great
benefit to them. A pood many teachers
can not find time under present
conditions to complete work for class
"A" certificates by September 1 of
this year. The added period will give
them time to complete correspondence 1
and summer courses necessary to v
work", Mr Martin said.
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75-Gallon Still Is ;
Captured In County n
A 75-gallon still, believed to be the
largest ever captured in Cherokee K
county, was confiscated by th^ sher- a
iff's department at the KamLy Emu
section of the Hiwassee river, one- si
half mile below the TVA's Hiwassee r:
dam project, Friday. h
Officers reported finding about
2000 gallons of beer and two gallons o
of liquor at the site of the stili. Al- n
though officers kept vigilance over n
the place all day, no arrests have been h
made.
Those participating In the capture (
were: Sheriff's deputies Cliff Radford,
Cliff Rose, Ezra Price and John
Crowe.
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Representative To Aid
In Filing Tax Returns
A representative of the state treas ^
ury department will be at the Regal 9
hotel in Murphy Friday. March 11. according
to an announcement from the to
internal revenue service at Greensboro.
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The duties of the representative I will
he to assist taxpayers in filing |-v
their income tax returns it was explained.
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COMMISSIONERS MEET
The Board of Commissioners ot| ^
Cherokee Countv met in tho rnnrti ^
house in Mu.phy Mor.ilay in roprulftij l>:
session. Only loutinc ma ters were
attended to.
Largest
| Circulation
Wl II Any Paper
^ Ever Published
Here. 1
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!50~YEAR?5c COPY
iURKE GRAY IS
STILL MISSING
IN BALTIMORE
red Christopher, Law
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Returns Hpro
Tin- third week after his strange
isappcarance in Baltimore. Md?, the
hereabouts of Thomas Burke Gray,
4, son of Mayor and Mrs. J. B. Gray,
f Murphy, remains as much of a
ystery as it did the night he was
ist seen.
Fred Christopher, a law partner ot*
layor Gray in Murphy, has returned
rom Baltimore where he conduced
wide-spread search in conjunction
ith Maryland and District of
olumbia police and detectives. He
lid a telephone call to the Baltimore
olice department Tuesday revealed
hat "there are no new developments
l the case."
Mr- Gray, a popular student in the
iodic;,l school of the University of
laryland 111 Baltimore, was last seen
n the night of Jan. l!l in the company
of several strangers. He had
pent the early part of the evening
rith friends, and was preparing to
elurn. to Ids room and resume his
tudies for oming examinations wneii
le was last seen.
All efforts of police ana lricnds to
race him after he was -een in Ho.
ompany of the strangers has failed,
jid hopes for his recovery have been
iradically abandoned.
\ OUI1LT Ml. Cv.v tv-i. > I...... . i
...n an?a) j I I'K'llU y
and well-dressed. If is pleasing ap>earance,
i; is theorized. may }>aV5
fad to foul play, or he may have sufered
an attack of amnesia from
>vi*r-study.
Mayor Gray, prominent Western
Korth Carolina lawyer, is c alined to
he sanatarioum in block Mountain,
lie will be joined next wet a by Mis.
?ray who will spend some time with
?im there.
All details in the case have neon atended
to by Mr. Christopher who has
pent several weeks in Baltimore and
icinity conducting the fruitless
earch.
^ARGE MAT IS
CONSTRUCTED IN
LOCAL FACTORY
A huge wrestling mat, measuring
6 square feet and two inches thick,
/as recently constructed in the Murihy
Lions Workshop for the Blind
ere. Frank Taylor, who is in charge
f the work, said he believed it to be
he largest mat or matress to ever bo
iade in this section.
The mat was built for the Andrews
ymnasium to be used for wrestling
nd tumbling.
Mr. Taylor saiu lie it<ta iiiquirvu oi
imilar shops in Asheville and Georia
towns but none of them report
aving made a larger piece of goods.
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inr. xayior ana sam McUlure, both
f whom are partially blind and who
tanufacture and rebuild matrosses
\ their little shop on Sycamore street
ere, spent a week making; it.
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Chicago Family Are
Visitors In Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. William A Weeks
nd son, Billie. of Chicago, II!., are
isiting relatives in Murphy this week.
Mr. Weeks, who is connected with
he sports department of the Associata
Press, left Sunday while his wife
nd son will remain here for somo
nr.e.
Mrs. Weeks was the former A.liss
ielen Dickey, of Murphy, ayd is a
sicr to Mrs. Fred Christopher and
Irs. Neil Sneed.
ALDERMEN TO MEET
The town of hoard of Murphy will
old a regular meeting in the town
all tonight (Thursday). Charles D.
layfield is serving as mayor In the
ace of Mayor J. B. Gray who is conned
to a sanitarioum in''Black Mounts.