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NEWSPAPERS ARE THE BASIC ADVERTISING MEDIUM SHft fiwut KEEP POSTED ON' WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR COUNTY, BY READING YOUR HOME PAPER VOL ME 59 ? NUMBER 42 MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MAY 5. 1919. EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK W. I) Townson Attends Funeral Directors Meeting D Townson. vice-president of hi North Carolina Funeral Directors Association, left Sunday io attend the annual meeting which is beinf! held in Fayetteville this veek Officers will be elected at | litis meeting. Mrs. Townson ac- 1 lOinivanied Mr Townson on the I trip. Funeral Services ; Held For Mrs. Laura Holloway Mrs. I*aura H. Holloway. 80. j died in her home in Graham coun- ' 2 a ni Monday. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p m. in Old Mother Church of which she had been a member since childhood. The Rev. M. G. Chappel officiated and burial was in the church cemetery with Town son funeral home in charge. She is survived by two daugh ters. Mrs. Arnold Slaughter and .Miss Leila Holloway of Robbins- I I ville. PaLlbearers were: Jim and Ed Slaughter, Wilson Blankenship. j MaicoLm George. Henry Wiggins and John Oolvard. John Shelton, 81 Taken By Death Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon in Sweetwater Bap tist Church for John Harrison Shel- 1 ton HI who died Monday in his Home at Hrasstown. Route 1. The Kev. Willrad MeCray offi- 1 ciated and burial was in the church cemetery with Ivie funeral home in charge. Surviving are the widow. Mrs. Annie Owen She'.ton; one daughter, Mrs Km ma J<ano Carson of Pic- : kens. S C.; o?v? s< *? Oi"? Shelton of Toxaway. Pal fearers were Hubert Coffey. Charli'- and Frank Hill. Wayne Anderson, Til man Curtis and Frank Dills. Martin Infant Dies Here Funeral services were held Fri (ia; i' 2 p m. in the Church of Shooting Creek for the nfant twin daughter of Mr. and ?Mrs Henry Martin of Hayesville who died in a local hospital Wednesday night. Burial was in the church cemetery with Town >"n funeral home in charge. Surviving besides the parents Me a brother, Johnny: the paitemal grand pa rents. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Martin of Murphy, and the mater nal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. C ?J Filer of Hayesville. Men with a Future A doss of Aviation Cadets listens intently as an instructor explains ?he function of the C-l Automatic Pilot. Single or married men with two years of college (or its equivalent), between the oges of 20 and 26Vi, may apply for Aviation Cadet training now. Classes start every six weeks. Dayton Gentry Host To Plymouth, England, People Dayton Gentry, seaman appren- 1 tice. USN. of Route 3. Murphy, i N. C.. was host to 22.136 people of Plymouth. England, aboard the | heavy cruiser Columbus, during the | British Navy Days. The Columbus. flagship ot ! Admiral Richard L Conoll.v. Com mander-in-Chief of Naval Forces. Eastern Atlantic and Mediterran ean. joined warships of the Royal Navy in the entertainment of British civilians during the annual Navy Days observance The visiting citizenry of Ply- j mouth, home port of the Columbus, i were conducted on inspection tours of the ship Conlev Dies In Calif. At 98 The body of Jasper N. Gonley. I 98. who died in the home of his | son. L. H. Conley. in Richmond. ! Calif.. April 23. arrived in Murphy I Saturday. Funeral services were held at Peachtree Sunday at 2 p. m.. with the Rev. Robert Barker officiat ing Burial was in Peachtree ceme tery. with Townson funeral home < in charge. Nephews. Dock. Paul. Willard. Aude. Neil and Bob Sudderth. served as pallbearers. Surviving are two sons. L. II. of Richmond. Calif., with whom he had made his home for the past twelve years. Don B. Conley of I Seattle. Wash : and one daughter. | Mrs. Blanche Young of Maryvillc. Tenn. A native of Cherokee County, he was one of the oldest farmers in the Peachtree community and made his home there until 12 years John Wingard To Speak Here John Wingard. student at Colum bia Theological Seminary, Deca tur. Ga . will preach at the Pres byterian Church here Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sunday school will meet at 10 o'clock, and Youth Fellowship at 6:30. Lt. Col. Wrinn Called For 16 Days Of Service John Jones Wrinn of Murphy, j Y C. now a Lt. Colonel in the ] Organized Reserve Corps, has 1 been accepted by the Department ' of the Army for 16 days active duty training with the Command- ; ing General Fort Benning. Ga.. it was announced by Col. Norman ! McNeill. Senior Instructor for the Organized Reserve Corps in North ' Carolina. Upon completion of the training j rt Fort Benning. Ga.. Lt. Col. | Wrinn will revert to an inactive j status. M. Y F. To Have I Special Program The Methodist Youth Fellowship ' will be in charge of a special ser- 1 vice in keeping with mothers day' at the church school hour on Sunday. May 8 Also, there will j be special services at the morning j and evening worship hours at First Methodist church. NEW TRAINING t'NION A Baptist Training Union was I organized at Valley River Baptist | church last Sunday evening Miss i Ruth Bagwell taught a Training Union study course there last) week in preparation for the organi- 1 zation. Loftin West is director | Elkins And Fain Attend Lions Luncheon H. G. Elkins and W. M. Fain attended a Lions Cabinet luncheon meeting of District 31 A at Hotel I Charles in Shelby Sunday. They ' were accompanied by Mrs Elkins and Mrs. Fain. Patrolmen To Enforce State Law On Overloading The State Highway Patrol began j this week enforcement of the ' amendment to the Motor Vehicle 1 Laws of North Carolina which provides for an increase in fines ' from ?3 to $10 per thousand pounds for overloading of trucks. I the Department of Motor Vehicles announced today. The amendment was ratified Saturday and became effective upon ratification. I Trucks with overloads will not be charged a penalty if the over- j load is under one ton. but if the overload exceeds one ton. $10 per thousand will be charged for the first ton. The new law also makes non residents subject to the same pen- j alty provision. If the gross licens- ' cd weights of non-resident vehicles cannot be determined, such ve- j hides will be subject to the over- ' load penalty if the maximum gross allowable road weight is exceed ? d by more than one ton. North Carolina violators also must pay additional license tax tor overload up to the maximum permissible weight. The law has been amended to allow for the following maximum gross weights, but trucks still are subject to the axle weight of 18 - j 000 pounds except on highways de- j signaled as heavy duty, on which i a five percent tolerance is allowed. I making 18.900 pound per axle: j Truck 'single unit), two axles, j 31.500: three axles 46.200: four axles. 46.200. Tract or- som i -tra i 1 er co mb i na - lion). three axles. 40.200; four axles. 58.800. fixe axles. 58.800, Truck and full trailer, four axles. 58.800 All figures include five percent tolerance. Presbyterians To I Have Rummage Sale | The Women of the Presbyterian Church will hold a Rummage Sale on the square Saturday morning. | beginning at 8 o'clock. Any mem- ! hers of the church who have artic- j les to contribute to othe sale are requested to leave them at the' church Friday or if they have no way to take them, to call Mrs. E. H. Brumby or Mrs. Jim Gibbs and they willl call for them. Farm Families TakejjPride In Homes Since Demonstration Work Started In 1911 Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon | In1 came North Carolina's first State , Home Demonstration Agent. She j lei Is the story of the growth of the work in her book. "Whew We're j Green We Grow", published in '945. In those days of un paved roads the home agent was a combination "f errand girl, family counselor, i < mergeney nurse, and instructor in | h i >use- keeping techniques. Fortu- j nately these pioneer agents were vomen of under standing and com mon sense. They realized that as- ! si stance was needed rather than 1 domination, that "it is letting I people run their own affairs that counts." Discouragement and hard i work they found aplenty, but not ! monotony. The tasks they were j tailed on to perform were various '?nd often surprising: Mending a hole in the floor of an olfl couple's ' cottage, or taking a boatload of children on a hundred-mile ocean trip to a tomcil clinic. But with 'he difficulties, there were com- ( Pensations: "There was something m the people with wtiom we work ed. out there in the country." says Mrs. McKimmon, "-that let us know that spirit \va> stronger than any obstacles which could be plac ed in our path " From its small beginnings in the five southern states of South ' Carolina. Virginia North Carolina Tennessee, and Mississippi, home; demonstration work has spread to every part of th. nation. The story of its growth an be read in j millions of farm ! ' ? s and bank I balances and in people them , selves. , In the sumnian ? i< r book Mrs. \ McKimmon say> "As I look back ;>n what may have been accomplished in the | years of home demonstration work, three pieces of machinery of real value to farm people stand out as , the creations of that work: the great body of resourceful project leaders, the organizations known1 as the North Carolina Federation of Home Deimonstntion Clubs, and the girls' clubs. Together they are , the media through which a far reaching program of adult and j youth education is and has beer, taking place in the farm homes of ; the state, as the reader has seen I them in action throughout these page*. i "There is 110 one thing, however, responsible for the step forward rural North Carolina has made in effecting changes in her standard of living. It is all tied lip with her good roads, automobiles carry ing citizens to see what others are doing, the broad program of home advancement of the North Carolina federation of town women \ clubs, the State Board of Health, the State Department of Education with its high school training in homemaking and agriculture, and l he institutions of higher learning which train men and women for life. Bes't of all is that spirit of' emulation in the citizen himself which enables him to take the J good things done by others and apply them to his own problems. 1 "I have been able to enumerate here some of the practical things done in homenvrking which show the comfort and order resulting therefrom and how it has spread from home to home, but how could I tabulate the spiritual values that have come out of the acquisition of these things ? the pride of at tainment. the development of a ' love of the beautiful, the satisfac tion of living and dressing like other folk, the pleasure of the boy or girl in bringing friends to a home of which he is proud, and the creation of an ideal toward which the farm family may work in the future? "It has been a ready and recep tive people with whom I have worked, a people who were green and ready to grow; and I have seen the sap rise, the leaves put forth, and a multitude of blossoms bring fruit in its season." Mrs McKimmon's real satisfac tion in her life work is in the people and in the work which help ed them to help themselves. In 1937 Mrs McKimmon was followed by Miss It nth Current as State Home Demonstration Agent. I nder Miss Current's efficient leadership home demonstration work has gone steadily forward until each county in North Caro lina has one or more home demon stration agents with a strong coun ty organization. "The Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs", composed of the various clubs in each county. TO SPEAK HERE? Miss Beat rice Cobb, publisher of the Morgan ton News-Herald, who will be guest speaker at the dinner meeting of Murphy Woman's club at the Methodist church on Tuesday eve ning. May 17, at 6:30 o'clock She will give a lecture on the trip around the world that she took recently. She travelled by Clipper x.nd was away several weeks, visit ing many countries and gaining first-hand knowledge of conditions that exist in them. She has been in demand for talks by civic clubs and other groups in this and other states since her return. Last January the North Carolina Press association presented her a plaque for outstanding reporting on world conditions. Miss Cobb will be the guest of Miss Addie Mae Cooke Mrs. L. W. Shields, club presi dent. announces that this meeting will be observed as Men's night by the club, and the members may invite their husbands or other guests. Reservations for the dinner may be made by calling Mr* Shields. Spring Federation Of Clubs Held Here In spite of the downpouring rain on Thursday. April 28. 110 Home Demonstration club women and guests gathered in the court room in Murphy for the annual Spring Federation Mrs. Clyde Mc.Nabb. president, opened the meeting with a word of welcome Mrs. J. F. Smith led the group in their club song. Hail Club Women". The Collect was repeated by all. The Rev. J. Alton Morris, pastor of the First Baptist Church, led a most inspira tional devotional on the "Family Altar", which introduced the topic of. "Family Living", for the guesit speaker. Mrs. Corrine Grimsley. .specialist in family life. State Col lege Station. Raleigh. Mary Cornwell. Home Agent, ypoke briefly on the observance of National Home I)emon.*tration Week and praised highly the Lead ers and their work in this county. Awards were made as follows: Electric Roaster given by the Everhot Corporation to Mrs John Queen. Slow Creek: G. E. Iron given by Murphy Electrical Shop to Mrs. Hoyt Kilpatrick. Ranger Club: Waffle Iron given by Cole man Electric Shop to Mrs. O'Neil Crisp. Peachtree Club Following the meeting the ladies of the Ranger and Murphy clubs served refreshments. Final Rites Said For Mrs. Bell Funeral services were held at 11 a. m Tuesday in Unaka Baptist Church for Mrs. Rachel Dockery Bell. 79. who died Monday at 2 a m.. in her home at Beaverdam The Rev. Mr. Graham officiated and burial was in the church ceme tery with Townson funeral home in charge. She had been a mem ber of Unaka church for a number of years. She is survived by five sons. I Melligan. and Charlie of Beaver dam. Renter of Marble Hill. Ga.. ' Marshall of Fairmont. Ga.. and ! Lawrence of Kannapolis: four daughters. Miss Art ha Bell. Mrs John Walker. Mrs W M Roberts. Mrs. Clayburn Radford, all of Beaverdam: three brothers. George Dockery of Beaverdam. Nelson of Chattanooga. Tenn . Noah of Tell i - co Plains. Tenn . 34 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Mrs. R. D. Chandler spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Chandler in Atlanta. Derreberry Elected Mayor Of Andrews At an election held for Andrews* town affinals on Tuesday May 3 Democrat Arnold Derreterry was reelected mayor of Andrews, over Republican Thomas C. Day by a majority of 124 voles. The new ijoard of aldermen all Democrats, are J E Greenwood 112: K. A Wood Jr., 317; Ty Bur nette. 310; and Cleve Almond. 284. Republican candidates received these vote R. a. Dewar. 149, U, | A Hyde, lti;; Jack Ledford, 137; T. Hobliizell, 129. Annual Tar Heel Bov's State Is Set For June 12-19 The American Legion's ninth Annual Tar Heel Boy s State will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. June 12 1". it Is announced by Wiliam W Staton. of sanford. Committee Chairman Boys' State is a chance to study government ? world, na tional. State and local "? Chairman Staton said "It is by no means a vacation, but is a week of hard intensive and interesting study". To attend these programs, out standing rising high school seniors selected from all over North Carolina, are sent to the Univer sity s. Institute of Government to ileal* lectures and disci isions by public officials faculty members and leading Legionnaires. They organize their own citiies. counties and State and elect their own of ficials. Boys attending Boys state may be sponsored by individuals as well as organizations. Auxiliary L'nils. I 'a lent -Teacher Association, ser vice organizations, civic clubs fraternal orders and schools spon sor attendance of boys in addition to those sponsored by Lesion Posts However, all sucn sponsor ships and contacts must be handled through American Legion Posts. Two outstanding delegates to the Tar Heel Boys" State will be chosen to attend Hie National Boys' Forum at Washington. D C" . with all expenses paid Hiwassee Dam FHA Make Plans For Convention Hiwassee Dam Future Home makers plan to send representa tives to Ihe Southern Regional < onvention at Memphis. Tenn.. on June 14. 15 and 16 Representa tives from ten other states and Puerto Rico are to be there. Five members of this chapter plan to attend camp at White Lake Camp near Elizabethton rhey will go the week of May 30 to June 5. Callie Stephens Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 i>. m. in New Hope Baptist Church for Mrs. Callie Williams Stephens. 47 who died at her home at Mineral Bluff, Ga.. Thursday morning. The Rev. E M. Henry officiated and burial was in the church cemetery with Townson funeral home in charge. Surviving are the husband. Otto Stephens: three sons, James. Tommy and Donald; two daugh ters, Dolores and Tennie .loo, all of the home: the mother. Mrs. T. \V. Dean of Mineral Bluff; four sisters. Mrs. K V. Bramblett of Holly Springs. Ga . Mrs. 11 B Walls of Cannon. Ga.. and Mrs. B. I,. Ross and Mrs. R. II. Harris, both of Mineral Bluff, one brother. H L Dean of Mineral Bluff. Rev. Penny To Conduct Services The Rev. Wililam B Penny left Wednesday for Brevard where he will be in charge of a series of services on. "Religious Emphasis"', through Friday. May 6. Fred Bagwell of Gainesville, Ga.. visited his sister, Miss Ruth Bagwell. Saturday. Two Murphy Girls On Student Council At Young Harris YOl'N'G HARRIS GA ? A spirit ed and heated election for student council membership held the spot light at Young Harris College this week. Douglas Sasser, Millen, was cho-i a to head the student body as President ot the Council after a week of campaigning and politics unmatched at Young Harris in recent years. The strong campaigns of the nominee resulted in the following persons receiving other offices: Charles Francis. Atlanta, vice president; Terry Blair, Romej sec retary; Gerald Williams, Lake City, Florida, solicitor general. The newly elected council mem bers are: Lettie Lee Westbrooik, Evelyn West brook, Doris Cash, 1 Lizabeth Ledford. Nancy Carter, Louellen McDade, Juyne Harris, Sarah King. Mary Francis Axley, Sara Datson, Ralph Coker, Bob Kerr. Eugene Dunn, Frank Sum merour. Travis Barnes, Theodore Wood. Maurice Scott, Guy Sharpe, William Ritchie. Charles Warwick. Murphy Church To Entertain The Regional Baptist Training Union convention will meet in Murphy with First Baptist dburch as host next April 21^22, the dele gates having accepted the invita tion extended by the Rev. J. Alton Morris, pastor, at the convention held in Franklin last Friday and Saturday. The youth che'r of First Baptist church made a Lop rating in the hymn festival and will compete with other regional winners at Fruitland Institute during the summer. Patsy Derroberry, Bobby Conley and Wynona Dupree of Andrews church were winners in the Junior Memory Work contest, and Doris Raxter of Andrews in the Intermediate Sword Drill, and they will compete at Fruitland. Among officers from this asso ciation to serve next year are: Mrs J. Alton Morris, Murphy, story hour leader; the Rev. T. Earl Ogg. Andrews, pastor advisor; Mrs Clay Rogers. Hayesvillc. adult leader: and Mrs. Ogg. An drews. intermediate leader. Episcopalians Make Tour Of W, N. C. Diocese William Bolton of the Church oi The Messiah. Murphy, left Mon day to join a three-day tour con ducted by the Right Rev. M. George Henry. Bishotp of the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina. This tour is designed to inform the clergy of the work, condition and needs in the diocese as a whole. On Tues day the group was in Murphy and the Women's Auxiliary of The Church of The Messiah served luncheon to them. Hiwassee Dam Girls Attend State Rally V Four members of Hiwassee Dam F. H. A. chapter attended the state Future Ilomemaker's rally at Hugh Morrison high school Ral eigh. on April 23. They were Eloise Dockery, Marcella Thomp son, Mary Kil pat rick, and Betty lladfoVd. Mrs. Marion J. Wilson and Miss Maggie Belle Kissel-burg rccompanied the girls. Miss Kilpatrick modeled a date dress in the revue. There were 775 registered at the rally representing 50 counties. The girls were guests of Mrs. Kerr Seott at the governor's man sion for tea on Saturday afternoon.
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