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Ii^ai i resort H [__ THE LEADIT 9 Vol. 50?No. 9 ICHER0K1 I Three Killed, I Highway Wi P Truck Load of Warne t[ People Were Returning j From Singing Meet Three persons were killed, several an- in a serious condition and more than a score received medical aid following one of this section's wor=t highway fatalities last Sunday when an open-bed truck carrying 50 people from an aii-uay *uigiiiK iVioeting at Haycsville overturned three miles this i?i<* ??f the Clay county seat. The dead are: Mrs. W. E. Brown and h ?" daughter, Clara Bell, 18, and Ethel Carter, 12, all of Warne. Mi Clarence Fleming, Mrs. Elbert i; id. Miss Olive Reese and Guy Cart< were still in the Petrie hospi^ tai h- Wednesday suffering painful injur < | All the people on the truck involved in the accident were from the Warne section of Clay county. Tom Bedford, of Brasstown, drivel of the truck, is under $2500 bond pending further investigation into the cause of the accident. Patrolmen E R. Quinn, Jr., who investigated following the wreck and issued the warrant charging manslaughter, said j & hearing would be held for Ledford as soon as most of the witnesses sur-1 lived the shock of the tragedy. W. E. Brown, husband, of the de ?wr.i wuiimu, was given Iirst aid following the wreck. Tuesday he was readmitted to the hospital, but returned home Wednesday to attend joint funeral services for his wife and daughter. Miss Carter, daughter, of f Mr. and Mrs. John Carter, of Warne, j was buried Tuesday- j Following the accident at least 40 persons riding in' the truck were I brought to Murphy where treatment ] was administered in both hospitals, j in various doctor's offices in town. ' The facilities of all were crowded the H According to several of those rid j ing on the truck, the accident occur- j cd about three and one-half miles this side of Hayesville about 4 p. m. The [ truck, belonging to Bob Anderson, pulled over to pass a truck coming in the opposite direction when it suddenly turned over an embankment and landed in a creek bed. Screaming (Continued on back page. This Sec.) SPEAKING, MUSIC TO FEATURE FIRST I P A MMrni' " fiLINlL A -peaking and music program ha* been arranged by J. B. Shields, manager oi' the Mountain Valley Mutual Canning association here, to feature th< fir>t. annual picnic of the cannery to be held at the cannery on Wednesday. Oct. 12. Games will be played by the young People- All persons are invited to bring a basket of lunch and attend. hi case of rain the picnic will be be)<J in the Fair Building, Mr. Shields I stated. I The cannery has just completed its _MM ' Weather Vane Listed below are maximum and j minimum temperatures for the past week compared with temperatures for the same period last year. TEMPERATURES 1938 1937 ?al'' Max. Min. Max. Min. I 22 66 37 85 56 | 22 72 40 80 53 , 22 81 44 81 45 2r' 83 43 80 45 26 86 47 71 57 84 53 72 48 2S 96 50 73 48 8AINFALL INCHES 1938 1937 ; Since Sept. 1 1.44 2.73 j mce J?n. 1 ... 50.93 44.71 iff 1G WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTE Murphy, EE C0UN1 , 40 Iniured in reck Sunday ir | Young Democrats To Holds Meetings The Young Democratic club of Cherokee county has scheduled a series of meetings to be held in the county during the coming weekThe meetings are as follows: Andrews, Monday night, Oct. 3, 8 of EST; Marble. Tuesday r.ight. Oct. 4 8 o'clock (EST); Peachtree, Wednesday night, Oct. 5 7 o'clock (CST); Murphy, Thursday night. Oct. 6, 7 o'clock (CST); and Waiker School House, Friday night, Oct. 7 at 7 o'clock (CST). E. C. Malloiiee, chairman of the Cherokee County Democratic Executive committee, announced that young Democrats would accompany party candidates on a series of county-wide meetings to be held later. Man Electrocuted At Fair Grounds Earl White, 36, of Cumberland, j via i.:n-j - ? wiu? iwiiuu msiaiuiy at the fail grounds here Monday night when he came in contact with a 2200-volt wire in the Keystone show's portable power plant. He had been employed by the show company, holders of the Cherokee Fair concession this year, for a number of years as their chief elec\ tricianImmediately following the accident he was conveyed to the Petrie hospital where all efforts to resuscitate him were of no avail. His wife, who was living with him at the Fair grounds, told Chief of Police Fred Johnson Tuesday that $450,' 'a year's savings that he always , carried in his shirt pocket", was missing. Mr. Johnon questioned several persons connected with the new show hut has been unable to shed any light on the matter. White was in the rear of the powei truck when his right thumb touched | the wire about 8:30 o'clock. The only marks on the body when viewed by j Coroner Dr. Fred L. Herbert, of Andrews, were a slight burn on the light, thumb and a dark spot on each heel. Dr. Herbert, after viewing the body at the Ivie funeral home, said I no inquest would be held. The body was shipped to Cumber- ' land, Md., Wednesday morning. I Surviving besides the wife are White's .step-mother, of Pittsburg, Pa-, and several brothers and sisters, of Cumberland. Local TVA Offices Change Location Tho Murphy offices of the Tenne?-' < see Valley Authority were moved j Tuesday to the Regal Hotel building s here. Two compartments of the building r formerly used as a department store and a bank have been remodelled and now house the legal division, high- ^ way division, engineering and engi- f neering data divisions, the geology j division, the rehabilitation, training division and electrical offices. 1 v Dr. Heighway Observes * His 82nd Birthay Here [ Dr. S. C. Heiirhway, one of this en- ?] tire section's oldest practicing physicians from the standpoint of service, quietly celebrated his 82nd birthday S1 at his home here Wednesday. pLnst Sunday while calling on a pa- j1' tient. Dr. Hcighwoy received several n minor injuries in an automobile accident but they have not been enough ^ to keep him from attending his pa-' tients. |C1 ftttltfi RN NORTH CAROLINA. COVERING N. C. Thursday, Sept. 29. T FAIR 1 CONVENTION IS | HELD WEDNESDAY BY FOXHUNTERS Seventh Annual Meet Said To Be One of Best Ever Held The Tri-County Foxhunteis seventh annual convention, one of the best ever iit.*id. conducted a business session and a bench show adjoining the Murphy Fair grounds Wednesday afternoon and later retired to Granny Sciuirrel flan when- the annua! I chase was held. The exhibition of dogs was declared to be the best ever shown at any previous convention. People from far away ss Ocoee, Tenn., attended to enter more than <?() fine-looking hounds in the bench show. Opening the meeting officers were [elected. Those named were: John Douley, president; Wayne Battles, liiyson City, vice president, and C. f Calhoun, Murphy, secretary and treasurer, lb. W. (). Tallant, of Copperbill, Tenn., and Fred Moore, ol Murphy, are the retiring president and vice j resident. Mr- Calhoun was reelected. Directors of the association as named at the meeting are: A. M. McAfee, ti. C. Mauney, J- E. Stiles, W. C. Witt and W. B. Wiggins. More than 150 people attended the bench show and business session and aeveAl hundred took part in the night's chaseThe chase began at 7 o'clock neat Granny Squirrel (Jap, two and one* , half miles east of Andrews on the! Ashcville highway. Prizes for the best dogs went to | their owners as follows: Mrs. J. N. I Arthur, Ocoee, Tenn., first; Ed Bar* | nett, Murphy, second; A. M- McAfee. Blairsville, Cia., third, and Wayne j Battles, Bryson City, fourth. Thi , first prize was a 20-inch blowing I horn; the second prize, an lX-inch blowing horn, and third and fourth | prizes, a set of belt, lead and collar. For the best pups, the following 1 owners were given prizes; J. E- Stiles. Ducktown, Tenn., first and third; A. M. McAfee, second, and William P. Payne, fourth. Prizes were also a set of belt, lead and collarRibbons were awarded to all winners. The judges were: H. C- Cantrcll. j Tike, Ga.; M. T. Stiles, Ducktown. j Tenn-, and George Kanittel, Murphy j JAMES B. WARD IS DISCUSSION GROUP i SPEAKER HERE James B. Ward, TVA geologist of Murphy, was the speaker at the meeting of the Library Discussion group at the Murphy Carnegie lib- j rary last Thursday night. j Fifteen persons attended and heard Mr. Ward's talk on "The Mineral Resources of Western North Carolina." following the address ? lion was held. Mr. Ward's personal collection of ninerals were displayed at the meetng. The program lasted only an hour. jut the group discussed the* subject or another hour following the meetng. Miss Ida Bell Entrekin, Regional ibrarian, arranged the program. It iras another in the series being held emi-monthly here. .unch Rooms Open ri 6 County Schools Mrs. waiter I". Witt, womens WPA 1 upervisor of Cherokee county, has 1 nnounced that lunch rooms have cen opened in the following schools ' i Cherokee county: Andrews, Mar- 1 le, Peachtree, Tomotla, Martins i reek and Posted. Lunch rooms will be opened in oth- ? schools at a later dates, she stated } 1 A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH , 1938 S IN FUL Murphy High To Play At Ducktown Friday Murphy will play the Ducktown j high school football at the new Ducktown field Friday afternoon at 1 :30 p. m. as the highlight of an afternoon of festivities at Kimsey-Guinn college which will include the dedication of the new field. This will be the second game of the season for the Boomers and the third for the Ducks. Murphy won 20 to f> 1 over Cherokee in the opener here last Friday. Previously Ducktown and Copperhill played a scoreless tie. It is reported that Hob Taylor and Junior Johnson have been added to the Murphy Mr.? -ui? and wiu mobabi.v see action in the game. Clay County's Last Civil War Veteran Dead Funeral services for Clay county's last veteran of the War Between ! the States, W. Benjamin (Uncle Ben) Fleming, 0~> years of age, of Brass- j town, were conducted from the Green Cove church near his home ' Tuesday afternoon- Interment was! in the church cemetery. Peyton G. j lvie, of Murphy, was in charge of t funeral arrangements. Mr. Fleming died Sunday after-' noon at 1 :J0 o'clock of an illness he had suffered for two months. Born l, v.. .11.:? * 111 i Miiiviii luuiuy, no moved to the Brasstown section as a youth with his mother. Following the War Between (he States, he returned to his home where he became one of the section'* most outstanding citizens Pallbearers were: Loy Payne. Paul Ledford, Aud Wilson, Jim Wil- j ^>n. Will Mason and Jim Mason. Surviving are: his widow, Mrs. Susie Stanley Fleming; a daughter, I Mis. Lillie Adams, who resides in j Oklahoma, and three sons, K. F (Bob), of Brasstown, R. K . *?f Mar-j tin's Creek, and I). Fleming, of Post,1 Texas. FOUR CHARGED WTH ATTACK ON (LOCAL CONSTABLE Three men were placed under bond j Wednesday and a warrant has been issued for another on charges grow- J ing out of an attack on B. C. Walkei Murphy township constable, at ? tourist camp neai Murphy last Satui| day night. Those arrested and amount of bond are: Oliver Gregory, $1000; Otto Newman, $500; A1 Roberts. | $200, and Mote Anderson, who ha* not. yet been arrestedThey will be ti < .! before Justice of the Peace D. 1\I Reese here Saturday morning. The warrants 1C; a number of j charges growing out of the affair. ! 1 Mr. Walker said he started to arrest two of the men when he was hit ovei the head with an automobile crank. Local Lions Attend Canton Charter Night Three Murphy Lions r.r.d two Lionesses from Murphy attended the Chovt?? ~ V..i?vn meeting oi me Canton Lions club Tuesday night. Those going from here were: Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Adams. Mrs. H. G. Elkins, Park Fisher and W. A. Sherrill. Speakers on the program included V. II. Duckett. president of the newlyformed club; Wesley Brown, of Ashelille, toastmaster; Mayor Paul Muv- 1 ay, of Canton; Dan Stewart, of * Asheville; Carl W. Greene, deputy ' listrict governor, of Asheville, and ' Rnb< ?rt II. Cooke, district governor. J * >f Shelby. A number of local Lions are ex- * ected to attend a similar meeting at iVaynesville next Thursday night. c .mn--lJ-''ww wl a~ MURPHY TERRITORY 5c COPY $1.50 YEAR ltwing FINE DISPLAYS BEING SHOWN AT EXPOSITION Huge Midway Attracting Many People r* t-i * r rom I nis Area A number of unusually fine exhibits and large attendance marked the opening of the thirteenth annual Cherokee County Fair in Murphy Tuesday It will close Saturday night. Wednesday judges in all fourteen departments of the Fair covering exfijhitc ni all farm, home and field products and livestock, wen1 busy making awards of more than $1200 in premiums. Only results of unusual exhibits could be learned by Thursday morning. Excellent weather greeted th? grand opening Tuesday, but Wednesday the skies clouded. In spite of the apparent inclement weather. fai> officials are anticipating a recordbreaking crowd during the rcmaindei of the fair. Th?r Keystone shows, holders of the concession for the midway, arrived over the week-end with the largest array of rides, side shows and concesions that has ever been seen at a previous fair. Two free aerial acts are given , nightly. Fine Displays Made ] Inuring the early part of the week j i. number of unusual booths were arI ranged by various county agencies j Of unusual interest were a miniature j ideal poultry farm and a farm management project arranged by It. It. Wooten, assistant county agent, and J displays by the John C Campbell Folk School, the Regional library, Murphy ami Andrews schools, Cherokee and Clay coun| ty 4-il Clubs, the Cherokee counl ty Health department, hand-made : pewter and copper work by Miss ! Helen Warner, various Cherokee 1 county home demonstration clubs, 1 the Nantahala National forest and 11. A. Whitman, who is here in tin- inj terest of white pine blister rust control. i Murphy's new information booth, j which was constructed through local 1 (Continued on back page. This Sec.) Shotgun Wound Proves Fatal To Graham Boy George Collins, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. ('. Collins, of Santeetlah, Graham county died in Petric hospital in Murphy at o'clock Tuesday morning of shotgun wounds in the stomach. Graham county officers are hold| ing Ed Carver, 23 of Santeetlah. {without bond in the jail at Robhinsville pending a hearing on charges preferred in connection with the shooting, it is understood. Officers said that young Collins, Carver, and a young man. by the name ol Urr were returning last Wednesday from a squirrel hunt when the vhootini1: orrnrwl. They said Carver and On* engaged in a dispute over the driving of a car and that during the scuffle the shotgun held by Carver, was discharged. The load struck young Collins, who was not a rarticipant in the quarrel, officers said. The accident happened in ih< Vellow Creek section of the county. The body of young C??l'"ns was aken Tuesday to Sunteetlah. The runeral services will he heid Wed lesday morning at ID o'clock at the .one Oak Baptist church in the Sineetlah section. W. I). Townson was in charge ot uneral arrangements. The body is survived by his par nts and several brothers and sisters.
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