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I Vol. 50. No. 3.
J Scout's <
I Poblicatio
Of Larges
MUCH TIME IS
I REQUIRED IN
PRINTING SCOUT
Work Of Various Departments
Requires
Many Services
With ' issue of the Cherokee
Scout, f century of journalism
in Cht i county has been com\
pleted.
j Few i ;'ie realize, off-hand, the
work. Je and amount of laboi
I and exp? dituro that goes into 50
years ing the news in a community.
Ev? - familiar with the late
Will K statement; "All 1 knowis
what I ra?l in the papers." Will,
| who - philosophy was intended
to < tin the world rather than
instruc viggerated the truth, of
; course; we people who put out
newspa; day in and day out, week
in and week out, and year in and
yearout, tVel that there is some part
<> ' fact in the statement.
For writinp for newspapers i* dttfernt
"sending the news from
home".
Mo.-? ']?le think of the presentation
oi as a process of periodicaiy
glea bng a few facts, like picking
thou, a tree, and setting them
up in i
Wh i 't realized, without delving
in - facts of the manufacture
of wspaper, is the patience,
foresigh . ?l tact that go into their
make-up. There is more to "getting
out" u v than merely getting
I facts an. porting.
The j w at ion of any single issue
of wspaper, no matter how
small, . i ig business.
Whei, .m reads the expression
"all of he news", one can be assurI
ed in a all measure that he is being
mi *.. ;i. There is no such thing
85 "publication of all the news", for
i every pe. sun's every action is news,
i no matter how important that aci
don might be.
I on Pagc two. This Sec )
Many Subscribers Have
Taken Paper For Years
Professor L. E. Mauney and WM.
West, both of Murphy, are with?ut
docbt the oldest subscribers
to the Cherokee Scout, having sub cribed
for the paper since it was
published in 1888.
Professor M auney says he can
" member when people said,
That* what 1 read in the Bulletin
. (The Bulletin was the pre^e,?or
of the Scout.) Now the
People all quote what they read in
toe Scout.
A. E. Sudderth, H. B. Elliott,
4 Brittain of Peachtree and
N. Elrod, of Patrick have each
een *nbscribing for tl e Scout for |
*?* forty ?
To these men and to hundred* of I
ethers all over the county the 1
Scout has become almost a necestlXV
1* would be missed from their I
|*0mei ?? much as would the old |
or?e that has been in the family
*sce it was a colt; or' perhaps a I
thful dog, guarding the children I
through their growth into adult- 1
hood. I
Scout has become in its 1
1 years of existence a neces- |
M*T institution in this county. j
L
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Teekly Neutpaprr in Western North
Murp
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PUBLISHER
L. A. Lee, the present publisher
of the Scout has had many years experience
in newspaper work in Geor- I
gia an<' North Carolina. He came to I
Murphy after ^purchasing the Scout j
in 1034. A little over a year ago he j
married Miss Fannie Hatchcock,
Murphy high school fWfther.
Campaign Is
Conducted Here
By The Scout
In an effort to give everybody a j
chance to subscribe unci opportunity j
to receive the cash bonus of $100.00 j
for subscribers only at the end ot
our circulation campaign, the pub- :
usher oi the >cout have iormuiatcu i
the "Anybody Plan."
Many oi" the contestants in oui
diive have met with people who just
"didn't have the money light now"
but would be glad to subscribe a little
later. It is to these people and to
everyone, that the Scout now offers
this plan.
t)n the back page of this section
will be found a note and application
for subscription which anyone who
gets a paper can use- By filling in
this note any person will be eligible to
receive the Scout for GO days without
payiJig a red cent. If you wish to
pay up a subscription before that
time it will he all right but just remember?you
don't have to!
If you don't happen to have the
money right now it won't make any
difference. You can go light ahead
and subscribe and pay any time you
like within 60 days from date of
note. At the low subscription rate
on this paper this offer will make it
possible for everyone to subscribe at
the very minimum of cost.
In addition to t!ie opportunity to
subscribe and pay as you please, you
will also be eligible to receive the
$100.00 cash bonus now being offered
by this paper.
Post Offices' Bicrfirest
Customer Is The Scout
If a business can be judged by its i
volume of mail, then the Scout is a I
leader in the community.
It is estimated that more mail is
received by the Scout than is by any
other business or person in Cherokee
county, and certainly the entering
of the Scout in the post office each
week is the largest volume of mail
entered by any other firm or individual
in the county.
trota
Carolina. Covering a Larpe anA Pott
hy, N. C. Thursday, Au
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CORRESPONDENTS
MAINTAINED IN
33 COMMUNITIES
Sccut's Coverage Of
County Is Full And
Complete
The Cherokee Scout's news cover
age of Cherokee County is complete
ill every respect in that the remotest
part of the county is represented
by some correspondent of the
paper without discrimination of any
kit.a.
Little do the people who read the
Scout ( and that is almost everybody
| m tne county) realize that this paper
has the cooperation and aid ol a>
many people as it does. All ovoi
i the county of Cherokee there art
thirty- three newspaper writers who
|contribute every week with tile lat
est news about everything that goes
on in the home, business, churches,
l schools, clubs, etc., whether urban or
rural and this news is carried to the
bull. Of" the IHMII.Ie 1 Iirolltrli thi?
of the Scout.
In covering the news for this paper,
thiity - three correspondents report
for over forty-five communities j
I and towns throughout the section ami
I virtually bring their personal and
'social thoughts, activities, and civic
movements right to the door as if
seen or heard from the very persons
involved.
These correspondents do i?ot in any
wa\ try to make for themselves a
name or reputation unless they come
r\ it justly in serving their county
in any way they possibly can. Rather
do they go about their work
week in and week out and many ot
them remain obscure from the greater
part of the inhabitants of this
county but their work is shown every
week through the columns of this paper.
For this reason we wish to
bring these servants of the public to
the light in order that the readers
may realize whom are responsible for
the service they receive every week
hrough this newspaper.
The correspondents now serving
this community are as follows:
Nellie Hendricks, Peachtree; Irene
(Continued on back page. This Sec.)
Feature Secti
In Each Issu
One of the most select and fascin- 1
ating features of The Cherokee Scout j
is the "Feature Magazine" that comes 4
out regularly every week with the i
paper/carrying the very best efforts t
of the leading writers of faction and (
specialties and comic cartoonists and t
illustrators. r
This eight-page magazine is a t
compound of the very best in literary
works, containing everything f
from history to modern romance in c
fiction, fact and comedy I
"Hairbreadth Harry", [he comic t
that has been among the leaders i
through the years of comic pages, t
and "Billy Make Believe", one of the S
most popular comics of today, espec- v
ially with the children, make the cov- ?
ers for the magazine. These comics *
are in four colors and fully illustrated
by their authors. '"Hairbreadth '
t Hw
ntiallj Rich Tern tor* ir This Sta
g. 18,1938 "1
ary Is 01
Has Given H
Of Service Tc
us uoitien Anniversary!
This week marks the 50th birthdi
A half-century of unstinted senleading
enterprises has been completed.
It is with ?rreat pride that the st
this issue of the Cherokee Scout to the
the past 50 yeais. a small part of which
From its beginning: in 1KS8 as ji
present day, each issue of the paper has
the best interest of the communi:y. Mi
been dependent get Liit* Iu? I1I.V1G]
EDITOR
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Sam Carr, the editor, came to Mur- |
phy in 1934 with Mr. Lee to serve as ,
editor and advertising solicitor. Born
in Wilmington, Del., he lived in Georgia
for a number of years where ht *
studied journalism at the University ^
of Georgia and later worked on a {
daily newspaper.
Cherokee Scout Goes
To 32 States in U. S.
i
Many subscribers will be surpris- (
ed to learn that the Scout, "Just ,
a little old weekly newspaper",
has a circulation that reaches into
32 states of the U. S- and 1 outside
territory.
During the entire life of til.- paper,
there have been subscriptions
from several foreign countries,
not to speak of every state in the
Union.
Junius Posey, nephew of Mrs.
Nora White, of Belleview, receives
tho Scout in Panama, where he is
located with the U. S. Navy. On
his visits home, Junius says that he
just "couldn't do without the old
Scout."
At one time the Scout had a subscriber
in China.
on Carried
e Of Scout \
Harry" is the product of F. O. Alex- j
tnder, noted comic strip artist and
'Billy Make Believe" is the result of p
If. E. Homan's imagination. These
wo comic pages are syndicated in
>ver a hundred papers throughout ^
he country and are chosen from
nany otners as the best lor enterainment.
t
On the first insult* page you will ^
'ind the seventh of a series of arti- .
les on the brave deeds of Border g
^trolmen in their battles to prevent
he smuggling of aliens into the Un- r
ted States. Those articles are writ- ^
en in interesting story form by C. j,
>. Van Dresser, noted author and t
niter who has studied this situation nd
is well prepared to bring it to.
he public.
The third page of the section is *
[Continued on back page. This See.) '
i*4 IDEAL
1)1 jl VACATION
RESORT
1.50 YEAR?5c COPY
bserved
alf P pntnrv
, * m ? * ^ * J
) Community
ay of the So- lit and i'.- predecessors,
ice t<? the community in on? of its
aff dedicates this small M i'ion of
valiant work that has been dene in
has been done by the ] ? sent force,
i littc "hand-spiked" journal to the
; been devoted to better ideals and
uch of Cherokee county's success has
ry has be v n uccumtcly rcCvi'ti'j'J in *'.
At present the Scout fields are
lighly valued. Its pages w? ek by week
iave been filled with the events, the
>rogress and the trend of the comnunity.
Many have r?-marked that
'ew papers in North Cniolina have
?een consecutively printed f??i 50
rears, and that few of those li>v. kept
he prestige that the Scout has.
As far as the present matiagi nn-nt
ran ascertain the first j aper printed
in Cherokee county was th? .Murphy
Herald which \\a- ow ? d and upi iited
by a Mi. .1. !. Morgan. Tin 11 the
Buletin sprung up lr va.- published
by Mr. A. ('ampb. d.
A few years latent!.' first issue of
he Cheroket Scout appeared with
\. 1/ Town- and .Mr Mo -an as t h?iublishers.
Tin Herald v. as new exLinct
and the Scout and the Bulletin,
bearing different political stand...d<#
merged under the ownership of
Messrs John Meroney and Town.-.
Since that time there has been sever
ll other publishers, the most reeciil
being Mr. Bailey, Mr. Biyail \Y Sipw
irui Miss Hattic AI. Bcrrv.
*
There is evidence that the .Scout
twitched its political affilutb-n and
rhanged its principles a numhi i oi
imes, as. all papers did in ' < old
lays.
During the first ?'l(j or so years of
its publication the paper was com
plctcly "hand set". That means each
etter in the paper, a separate and individual
piece of type, had to be
gathered by ham! bofor? the papci
L*ould be printed Then tht Lint-type
made its appearance in Murphy and
the work of putt ing out the paper
was greatly facilitated.
The earliest ct >pies, now yellow and
faded with age, indicate unusually
good workmanship 1?>i theit day
which shows that nun : tint- was
used in its presentation an : the printing
methods used here v. < r- the most
modern of their day. Few communities
have been as fortunate as Murphy
in maintaining a good wee kly
newspaper.
On several occasions it has been ^
learned that the Scout was given
nation-wide citation for appearance
and ger?eral excellence.
Always the Scout has had complete
circulation in Cherokee and surrounding
counties in the states of
North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia,
and at one time it was the only
aaper printed in North pjn-^iiw.
>f Waynesville, and five countie?
vere dependent upon it for local
lews.
The old issues present some starting
arrays of type which may seem
raudy today but "were really the
tuff way back when". Advcrtiaenents
appeared regularly on the front
>ages, and news stories were carried
font all over the nation.
There are few passtimes that are
foresting as thumbing through
hese old copies which at present
las been sent off to the North Caroine
Historical society and which will
oon be bound.
The history of the county has been
ichly preserved in its pages. Many
icrsons in different occupations find
t helpful occasionally to look through
he old files for information.
For generations the sons of Carr
tave been railroad men. Sam Carr
II is the only exception.