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Murphy. North Carolina.
BUSINESS LOOKS G<
Murphy looked a little hit h
ever has before. I here was a lai
he- ?.t ears whiz/iny around and si
\\ # wonder just how many otl
size eon Id have boasted of as muc!
W by ? Building. of course.
What with the dam and its s
T\ A and private construction wo
for.
And this summer business sr
work will reach its peak. Muc
forward in the town. The new pi
way. Sooh we understand, consti
theater.
Some see dire da\s ahead w
feel that if every advantage is tak
that has come over the town, the ft
If the possibilities now at ha
ful planning is tak*n toward th<
"the boom" should last, at least i
futune welfare.
POISONS EASING
Newr and important developm
relief of pain were described 1?n D
recent report to a leading scientil
used are the poisonous venoms <
reptiles.
The use of such poisons in vai
improvements in technique promi
ferers through "blocking off" ci
: J r n ? ?
in-Mvm in |)ariiauy oeauentng Iti?
to relieve pain hi ???i part of the
As tin- result of \eais of resear
siblc to treat extremely painful <
in proper dos?*s directly into the i
These animal poisons are sa
allaying pain than opium or mo
heen administered principally to
fers from incurable diseases.
The new treatment i* dcscribi
method of blocking the nerves eitl
spine*'. with great accuracy in
nerves. This rounds rather in\sleri
of alleviating pain is always weleu
MILESTONE OF AVI.
\\ ith the establishment of regu
States and F.urope this summer, a
the history of aviation will Ik; n
pioneering flight in one of the new
began at Baltimore a few days ago.
The route lies by way of Hor
gal: Marseilles, France; Southam
land. Stops may also be made at
leg of the course, between Bait inn
mile*, was made on the maiden tri]
For this service, the world's i
boat will he used, the Boeing 311.
a hull 106 feet long, and can carr
test flight a crew of 21 was carried
Pilots for the new service art
poricnce in command of overseas t!
bean and the Pacific. Kach has tin
flying boats," the highest centifim
attain.
in licing the first to establish
States further increases its lead in
After using its present stale :
have one of new design, lieai ing a
principal rivers. The Daughters <
new seal, asserting that the preser
signed by a carpetbagger."
The picture of a eat that nev<
postage stamp issued in 1930 hoi
portrait of the flyer, his plane ar
erroneously rumored that l.indhei
mascot on his Paris flight.
Government bureaus are crack
ers of beauty preparations who ma
\ertising. One indignant beauty <
don't want women to be beautiful.
P Alabama magazine reports an
Parley and Senator George. Farlej
him that most New Dealers were
all. file Chief (Roosevelt) is his
is said to have shot back: "Not v
Thinking war had biviken or
Kinston, N. C.. rushed out to buy i
boy ran down the street shouting
later that "Extra" was the name ol
, 1939 Thei
ikr? fs>tant
?h\ and Cherokee County
Carolina
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lurphv. North Carolina as second
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usier to us last Saturday than it
rgo crowd in town and tin* numtrect
activity was almost amazing.
icr towns in the L nited States thill?
subsequent work in town in both
rk. we have much to 1m* thankful
lould be even letter. The TV A
h mote building work will go
ison camp at Peaehtrec is underruction
will l>e started on a new
hen it i< all completed. But we
en of the business transformation
iture won't have to be feared,
ind are handled wisely and care
future, what some refer to as
n a measure that will assure our
UN
ents in the use of poisons for the
r. M. B. Greene of Now ^ ork in a
fir I" iv. Among the substances
jf s. tlesnakes and other deadly
rious ways is not new. but recent
se to he of great benefit to sufrrtain
nerves or sets of nerves,
* whole nervous system in order
body.
ch and experiments it is now posonditions
by injecting the poison
icrves of the patient,
id to he much more effective in
rphine. hut heretofoie they have
make easier the last days of sufmI
by Dr. Green as ua fractional
ler on the side or in front of the
results by deadening individual
ions to the layman, but any means
med by suffering humanity.
ATION
lar air service between the United
new and important milestone in
ached. The first trans-Atlantic
r planes to be used in this service
ta. in the Azores: Lisbon, Portupton,
England, and Foynes, lreIh-rmuda.
The. first and longest
>re and the Azores, about 2,500
p in 17 hours and 32 minutes,
lewest and largest type of flying
These planes weigh 42 tons, have
y 74 passengers. On the initial
, but no passengers.
: all veterans, with years of exransport
planes, flying the Caribe
rating of "master pilot of ocean
te of ability which an aviator can
regular trans-Atlantic the United
overseas flying.
?Mil lor 71 years, Alabama is to
map of the state and showing its
if the Confederacy sponsored the
it one, adopted n 1868, "was deer
existed appeared on a Spanish
roriog Lindbergh, also bearing a
id the Statute of Liberty. It was
gh had' taken a black kitten as a
ing down on certain manufacturike
extravagant claims in their adexpert
told an official, "You just
alleged conversation between Jim
r tried to placate George, assuring
against the purge, adding, "After
own worst enemy." The Senator
rhile 1 live."
it, or something, citizens of West
r paper early one morning when a
'ISxtia! Extra!" They, discovered
' his dog.
Cherokee Scout, Murphy, Norl
NOBODY'S
BUSINESS
BYGEEMcGHEE
deer mr. edditor:?
the inhabitants of the town of flat
rock are worried put nigh to death,
mr. slim chance, sr., who vissited last
week in the county seat, says he
heard the sheriff up there make a .
statement that herr hitler, a german j
of europe is going to annex all the
teritory in the world to germanny
where as many as 5 germans live,
that, means that flat rock will be no
more.
we have 5 germans liwing in our I
vizzly: otto gottschalk, mrs. fredia ^
gottschalk. and their 4 children who
sneers to the names of gustav, mien- J
gott, obstrox and kazer wilhelm. we ^
don't know what in the world to do. ^
if we move away we might land in
another place whero there lipe 5 ger- I
mans and we wouldn't be anny better v
off. our 3 je*vs pulled out of town
last night n? soon as they heard that v
the germans were a-coming ansoforth.
J
mr. chance said that herr hitler
(meaning his ma's hitler) has aired- (
yd took oper memmel and czechy- t
slovaky, surayton land, roomaney, the
Ukraine, jugger slovocky, part of it
lay, the hind leg of turkey, nail 01 .
lithunia, part of poland, and was
making a drive on danzigg. he done
that so's the germans who reside in
them countries could live happily ev<
i after under ihe rule of a german s
heel, and eve time they meet u nazzi,
thy will have to hold up one hand
and one leg and bellow: "heel, heel!'*
he allso took austia and hungrey.
we will rite to the f. b. i. and the
s. e. c. tonight to stop hitler if pos
sible, and ask england and great brittain
and franco to help them if they
have got over the scare ansofotrh.
we do not want to live under herr
hitle and have to work for nothing
and board ouselves and not have anny
monney except some marks, a mark
as long as main street is not worth
nnnything over here, but are square .
. . who can't ite name makes a cross
mark that has benn good at the bank
for as much as 2$.
there will be no sleep in this town
from now on. our poleesman thinks
we ought to export our germans and
save our county, herr hitler won't
have excuse for annexing flat rock
if he can't find anny gemans in oui
midst, our greek resterant says he do
not care who rules flat lock just as
long as he can get a nickel for a hot
dog. we have another furriner here,
but as nobody can upnderstand annything
he has said up to now, we don't
know whether he is as spanion or a
ui u jappciiiees ur is irom
london. if you hear annyboddy hoi- 1
lering for help, it*s us.
yores trulie,
mike lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
deer mr. edditor:?
plese make a few orrections in the
way yore liner-up opperator set up my
colyum last week and got hair had *
pulled so were still sore, me in dutch
with a great manny of my one addmiring
friends. t
the operation on mrs. skinner catt t
which was hell by dr. hubbert green 1
at the county seat hosspittle did not i
kill her as per yore paper, she would i
of died anny way, so he says, and he
used his knife and saw as a last resort.
(
it was mrs. slim chance, jr., instid ]
of mrs. slim chance, sr., that enter- (
tained at bridge to a host of friends
last thursday, p. m. betwixt 5 and 6 ,
with russian tea and crackers, the
latter do not allow cards in her house,
being the pressident of the missionnen-y
society.
it was not mrs. will waite, the pas- * 1
ture's wife, as was reported, who 1
said that the moores who live on main i
street would soon be put out of their 1
home for non-payment of the f. h. a. <
It was some other lady whose name 1
is now unknown to +hi-> riter but they 1
havp honn nut- ?-U~ ?
rM.v uuv i uoi hue aauiv. rev.
waite desires this corrected in big |
type.
mr. torn head was not arrested for
being drunk, as per this column last
Wednesday, he had took a dost of
cocaine in town for the headache 1
and that is why his car wobbled so '
much and ran over a fence and bump 1
ed into old mrs. winner and killed a
calf and fell down a embankment and
knocked him conscious. plese send
him a copy of this correction: he
weighs 210 lbs., and used to be a
boxer.
ash yore fellers to be more particular
in putting down what i rite up.
the folks in flat rock are all high
class people considering everthing
and they certainly want to stand at
the top in the newspaper, we will
stick to the general news in the future
instid of refer too much to personals
and socials, our head is getting'
better where it was struck and you
will hear from us right on as usual,
thank you in advance, but print this
at once.
yores trulie,
mike lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
%
th Carolina
NEWS PICK-U
Burt (May Flowers) Savage wants
us to change the name of our darling
paper to the "Gazette."
"How come?" we asks pulling ourself
to our full five feet, eight inches
and reaching his shoulder.
"Gazette ain't got nothin' in it",
he barks. And we don't argue the
question?not with Burt. So "Gazette"
it is; if that's the way you
want it. We really don't like to take
a stand in such matters anyway? as
long as we only come tot a guy's
shoulder.
Reporter?5-really-do-get-around (on
foot) note: Monday, being our day
(as if practically everybody doesn'*
lave one these days) to gather what
here is in the line of newspapers and
>rinted establishments in Andrews,
ve were forced to make the trip or
*oot, or through the milk of humar
cinaness.
This condition was brought about
>y the fact that old "Pea Thrasher"
vas jacked up fore and aft (and slung
n the middle) by one Dave McCluie
chr> investigates the mysteries, the
ntricacies and the whys and whereores
of any piece of gasoline-propcll
d mechanism when it goes haywire
or when same is needed to hold it
ogether).
So while we left Dave buried to his
inkles in the greasy depths of the old
'Struggle Buggy" (which is ours b}
irtue of a tea-cup full of gasolin*
md a boat-load of credit) we began
iketching a thumb-nail route to tht
air city nestling in the hills of Valeytown
township.
First to accomodate us was Tom
Terrell, the demon salesman, who
vas headed for Graham county. No
ooner departed his genial companion
thip that we met "Uncle Billy' Hyde,
he 81-year-old erstwhile preacher and
justice of the peace at Andrews.
"Ah, it was a fine day, 58 years
igo today", he said. "Just like today.
iVarm, cloudless?just about as near
jerfect as could be expected".
"How come you remember that paricular
day, Uncle Billy", we asked.
He looked at us out of his sly, old
jyes and answered: "That's the day
was married".
Well, a fellow should remember
hat, shouldn't he.
Saw Frank Conley riding the top
)f a telephone pole; while brother
?eb heid it up?or maybe he wai'
eaning on it. You just can't figure
hose things out some times. Anyway,
Ahile Frank proceeded to fix the
maize of wires about him he told us
>f the colored bov who cot. u? in ?
jole in front of Cover's house the
ither day and couldn't get down. In
act it was all so funny that Franh
Turning Back ir
FROM THE SCOUT FILES OF
District Governor Roy MillU:an, of
iorth Carolina, member of the Greeniboro
Club, was the guest of honor
it the regular Ladies night of the
ilurphy Lions Club Wednesday nigth.
E. A. Savage, 91 years old, affecionately
called and better known
o his friends as "Grandpa", died at
ris home at the Regal Hotel Monday
light, April 22, at 11 o'clock .after an
l(ness of a little more than a week.
Word was received here several
lays ago that S. B. (Bud) Rhea, of
Doming, New Mexico, former citizen
if Murphy, and only brother of Mrs.
\llie Bell and Miss Mary (Sis) Rhea,
if Murphy, died at his home on April
13th.
Tho gates were closed on the Midway
dam on Hampton park, four miles
[rom Murphy this week. When filled
it will be Murphy's first amusement
lake. The Midway Golf Course was
opened the first of the month and
has been drawing golfers from all
over this section.
TIMELY TOPH
Thl'PP VP5)T? Qr*A Pli?oWU C"
ner of Cortland, N. Y., dislocated a
vertebra in her neck while doing a
head-stand, as required by her calisthenics
teacher. She sued the school
for damages, which were recently
awarded in th sum of $3,000 by the
appellate division of the state supreme
court.
Exercise doesn't help much in work
ing off fat, according to Dr. C. C
Sturgis of Michigan. He admits that
a walk up the Washington Jdonumenl
might work off the equivalent of a
pat of butter, but adds: "I think it's
simpler not to eat the butter."
The Wisconsin legislature passed a
bill withdrawing state support from
tho Wisconsin Development Authority,
a quasi-public power project ret
up by the LaFollette regime, .->r
which a state appropriation og ' V
000 a'year had been provided.
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PS ?By SAM CARD I
almost feD out of the pole laughn^ I
about it.
Came home with Si BirchfieM, tb. I
forest warden, and believe me, brotr I
cr, ht's one man who knows how , I
beat around the mulberry bush, or I
any other kind of bush that might I* I
in the path of a forest fire. Lots c!
careless fires and lots of arrests r? I
SULTING these days, he reports. I
Some time ago A. C. Lunceford. I
the Post Toasties man from Chatta' I
nooga, subscribed for our paper.
Making his trip through here lav I
week he reported that on one occat- I
sion he left a copy in the back seat o; I
his car when he sent it to the filling I
station. The colored boy cleaning j I
out discovered the Scout and ins epts I
tan to the corner where we regular- I
ly print "The Weather Vane." 9
No, the boy wasn't ir.tr B
iota in the weather over here. But I
those numbers?well, they just wov, 9
a spell over him like the South Aire I
ican (or is it African) Voo-doo. In I
those few little figures, his supersti- 9
tious mind saw great possibilities in
the Butter and Bgg Mar'aei .vum
bers"; and city colored fnlb. ire verj I
susceptible to any combination o! 9
numbers whether they come nff -i
Santa Fe line Box cars or the week I!
ly "Gazette" (darn it)! I
That was six weeks ago when the I
boy's eyo first opened as wide v I
watermelons. Today he's actually foai I
hundred and some dollars richer, ALr. S
Lunceford reports.
"Yeah man! It's the Scout (or
Gazette) fo' me f'm now on!", the
boy smiles showing hi^ white teeth.
What the combination is nobody
knows but the colored boy; and he's
one of the choice few of the million!
in the cities that have "lucked into"
a combination that spells profit.
There's a thousand that "don't" tc
every one that "do's". '
Burgess Bailey grabbed ahold of a
2200 wire accidentally the other day,
and while it knocked the fire ou; of
him (with no damage except as hers
inafter designated), thank goodness
we learned something. The charge m
so "hot" that it made his watd
screwy. h
"Some days it would gain three
hours?and the next it might lost
four", he stated. I
So the talc mine manager took the
watch over to Bunny Moore where ht
dangled some kind of apparatus over
it- that took all the juice out of it "
and it runs just as good as before, j
(Darn. I wish I had some of tte:
in the "Pea Thrasher". 1 wouldn't I
care whether it went backwards or m
forwards?Just as long as it go: |
mere).
iistory's Pages
* TEN YEARS AGO
The Home Demonstration Clubs of
Brasgtown, Marble and Peachtree
held their regular monthly meeting's
during the past week, ending the
course being given by the extension
service of State college.
The Murphy High School team
romped with the big end of a 1'
12 score against Hayesville team on
their diamond Tuesday afternoon.
Barton, Hensley and Martin were the
big sluggers for Murphy.
Mrs. M. L. McFee, 60 years old.
of Persimmon Creek, died last Wednesday
night, April 10th, after an illness
of several months. Mrs. McFw
had been in bad health for the past
two years.
The members of the B. Y. P. U.en"
joyed a weiner roast at Junaluska
last Friday evening.
Mrs. D. M. Birchfield, of Tomotla,
who has been ill for some time b
better, her friends will be glad 10
learn. _
cs
r r? -w*t - ?- "<
j. t>. vviggs, 01 uenton, icx., rim?
about in a "goatmobile,"' the po**1
being supplied by a goat. When one
tires, a spare goat carried in a cage
is substituted.
Charging extreme cruelty Joseph
C. Manning, 94, obtained a divorc*
from his wife Jessie, in a five-minute
hearing at Las Vegas, Nev., after nin?j
years of married life. He celebrated
his freedom by dancing until a late
hour at a Townsend pension ( ciu&
party.)
Indiana's only Civil War nur?e,
and one of three surviving in the entire
nation, is Mrs. Mary E.
of Logansport, who recently celebra*'
ed her 96th birthday.
Stein Kiel and Hull arc stcaint>??|
inspectors on the Great Lakes f?r
bureau of navigation and stoamo