VOL I NO. 7
- SVl-VA, K. jAKlUkY 31, 1313
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.$1.00 'THE YEAR IN-ADVANCE
HASTINGS-KELLY.
a vprv auiet ana impressive
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wedding was solemnized, .at the
home of the bride at Dillsboro,
Thursday afternoon January at
5:00 o'clock, wnen miss faauie JLUcy
Hastings became the bndeLOi Mr.
Kelley. Only the farnUy of
the bride and a few close s iriinds
Were present, amongom were
Capt and Mrs. W. A. Ealoe, -Mr. &
W. Enloe, Miss MarycTahef,
f;cflFffift McDade, Miss 'Florence
Copening, Mrs. C. B. Neal and Mr.
& B. McDade. Tha bride was "dressh
edin a beautiful brown traveling
suit and carried a bouquet of carH
nations. Rev. C. H.- Neal performed
the ceremony. i r
Miss Hastings is the attractive
and attractive daughter of Mr. Thos.
H. Hastings, of DiUsboro. The groom
js a prominent Lumberman and is
well and favorably known through,
out Western Carolina. The young
couple left immediately for the
east. . V :'- -r.r -
REVENUE
Murphy is to be headquarters,
for revenue officers that will , work
Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon
Jackson and Swain counties from
this noint The . officers stationed
here or Geputy Collector V r Al. Jol I
ly Deputy collector T. D. Shelton
otIhti S Tlpniiiv'-Marsiiai J. Jl Mc-
Donald. There is said to be much
woik to be done in this section and
Mmnhv is the best point irom
which to do thework, hence" the se-
wtirm of this rx,int over others
Scout.
MUST SERVE SENTENCE
The Supreme Court held that
Charles R. Hicks, former president
of the American Sugar Refining Col,
must serve his sentence of 8 months
in jail and pay the fine of $5000
HEADQUARTER
imposed upon him by the lower around the neighborhood request
court for Ins participation in the ing assistance. It was a bright,
sugar weighing conspiracy ; to de-
fraud the government -
F. E. Alley
; c. c.Buchanan
llleu & Buchanan
Bttorneus-at-lluw .
Webster; N. X). r
While Mr. Alley has moved tolreult of extensive lumbering
Waynesville, he will contmue ,to
take active part in the practice of
law at Webster.
COLEMAN C. COWAN,
Attornev and Counsellor at Law;
WEBSTER, IT. C
DR. DAISY Z. McGUlKt
DENTIST -
Office : Harris Building, -BTLVA,
N. O. 3 : -
JOHN fl. PflRElS
JEWELR
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N. C.
W. R . ISH ERRlLLt
Attobney at Law,
Office In Court Hous
WEBSTER. N.O...
CHILD'S BODY FOUND
NEAR HIGHLANDS.
"Hie 'distressing circumstances
I attending the death of the five year
old motherless son of Mr. John R.
Owen,;pf Pinej M(mtaih,; Gaias
attracted widespread attention? :
As many r mistaken arid some
cruel; rnmors have been circulated
concerning the case, we, the near
and life-long neighbors of Mr: Owen
have thought best to send you Cthis
statement; that the friends and rel
atives may know the facts;
The child was lost on December
24th, 1912, when he went about 200
yards from his home just outside of
the cultivated field with - a brother
of six years and an uncle of 'eight,
to play and drive up the cows late
in the .afternoon. r
About 4:30, p. , m., the two older
children came with the cows and
went back to play. About 5 p. m.
they were called to supper, and the
family now saw that little Leroy
was -not with them. The older
children on being questioned said
that whenjthey were bringing the
cows, Leroy would not cross ' the
branch outside the field, that he
wanted them to put a log for him so
that he would . not wet his' feet.
They told him to go J;o another
place where lie could cross on a log
and that .he refused, saying -with
childish petulence that he was go
ing to Grandma Davis', a great.aunt
who lives about a ! rnile
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er oi tne jammes live on tae puoiic
road which lies about hJf way
between the two places, plain trails
iromeacn piace going direct ro
puuuu iuciu. iricyiuu una x.c-rt
had twice tried to run away to Mrs. ;
Davis and knew the way. As soon
as tne oiaer cnnaren naa toia tneir
story Mr. Owen hurried to Mr. Reu
ben Davis' and found to his con
sternation that the child had not
teen there. Going back to where
the older children had last seen tlje
lost child, he searched in the oppo.
site direction, the whole family join-
ingin the search. Finding no trace
of the lost boy, messages were sent
moonlight r&lht and about thirty-
five men and women searched
through the night The next day
fully one hundred people joined in
the search through the almost im-
passable rocky, mountainous, woods,
which are in many places greatly
obstructed because of dense thick
ets and the tops-logs and brush, the
D orations of the "Three States
Lumber Co." a few years back,
much brush with briars and vines
having grown up among the refuse
of the lumbering.
. The third day of the search, at
least one hundred and fifty persons
were engaged in same, some coming
from as far as twenty- miles away
and from three states North Caro-
Una, South Carolina and Georgia,
For seven days the large force of
men worked faithfully, with no
result Then many gave jup ae
8pairingly; but the family and' im
i mediate neighbors, still kept up the
search. A reward was offered, but
with little hope; and indeed ncr re
ward could have Igot more ready
active :- assistance " than was given
by the public, their reward in this
respect havmg pernaps never Deen
equaled in the history of oimtain
' phnahUnyox," ::H:i:M0k X
On January.a iyi Artnuruw-
en, a sixteen year -oia ooy; ana a
FATHER
:'!
;The ;cselofki', Qwenby and
Lee Qbyohcfand's charg-j
son Acquitted.
k- -IVV rU. S. Commissioner, G.s H. Valentine
"fot: four prominent rrchants V of
.3 A. H. ;Hawkins M. jfc
Monteym ! Shepheard, F. E. Tipton and ;Al (X
W.Deweestwr
It
eSffltewam0121101 ine,umiea oiares,.iaw
was
that time,!
diaqnie Itaian
e?Y a $1,000
bonaVvther?io
snMrcsented ;
cRtf?? aad
they reHedujnt
es to mate out i tneir . case. . After
hearing nil thevidehce, that could ,
ue Becuregj .. fuire:,ueweese aeaaed ; the prize. v
that ther father and Jgjrwere justi- The men were held under $200
fied dpingattfiey did, andjbond each for their appearance at
order4he: loose, j preliminary hearing hearing to be
Theeyjdenccus - . x :
had writtenletterstnVea -z
lifd of MOwenbyad hisi
at.Ql30ade.reajtd -ieTed
along 1 tSe road jbn hb way to Owen-
byfs house; itw;4k;iihown"-
that Owenby ll iSedevery
effort., possible Soleep" "the Italian ;
away iroui jlus uqusu ana oil ms i
premise&ttaV
to warnings givenhinx along the
road. Quite 'a crowil was Lin the !
court house and heard the -trial. ' It !
Hs said that the Italian is getting
along nicely and his; recovery is as-
sure3AScout - ? ::tzz
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cousin of the lost boy, who .follow-!
ui
around ovej and over agian on
count of high cliffs, rocks briars and
brush. Arthur went in an opposite
direction from the one taken by the
searchers, going towards the Owen I
nome, insteaa oi irom it. ne iouna
the body of the child which was ly-
ing. party submerged in the mouth
of a small stream known as the J.
M. Burrell Branch, near the west
fork of the Chattooga River and
about two and a half miles from
his home in a southwesterly direc
tion. His head was out of the wa
ter. His hat was lying about twelve ;
feet away at the foot of a cliff fifty j
or more feet in height. Some of ;
the men who came later climbed;
this cliff wifh great difficuluy, find-
ing what seemed conclusive evi-;
1 .1 . - .1 ! a - f 1 1.1-
aence mat tne nuie i enow naa
fallen from it There were scratches
on the child's body which were pro
bably caused by the fall, otherwise
it was well preserved.
We were among the first called
to the search and were with the
few who saw the child, before he
was removed from where he
was
found.
We will note that Mr. Owen's de-
deased wife, who died about two
j years ago, was the grand daughter
of Mr. Horatio Ford, her maiden
name being Grady Ford. She had
relatives in Jackson countyr N. C.
The John Owen Of this narrative is
a near relative of Rev. John Owen
of Jackson county, N. C.
Signed:
Ashbell W. Wilson, Highlands N. C.
T. W. Smith, Pine Mountain, Ga.
John A. Nip, Pine Mountain, Ga
When you want a reliable medi
cine for a cough or cold take Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. It can
always be dernded-'upon anb! is
pleasant and safe to a , For sale
by AU.DealerSii'j r Adyt
fflDERSONVIL-
LM INDICTE1
A Hendersonville dispatch: to the
1 Asheville Citizen, dated ' January
27, tells of the' indictment before
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dar0f chancfir drawings.
It seems that the game" was! to"
with every purchase of payment on
accounts ' and the merchants W
a dupUtecket,lt' '"being
thp intpntii, .
of the manipulators i . - . - , -
Meroney and Heighway r attended -th(83
the winner ofi , f , ,
to draw from
FROM WENATCHEE WASH;
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I have been thinking for some
time ' I would write a letter to (he
Journal in fact ever since I read
the accout oflthereat NorthenrRai
uuauo m1 at uawu
1 kn0w uits and etc.
were fine for I live in what is said
to. - be .the finest fruit section . in the
United States, the Wenatchee Vah
-.ley, 1 have seen apples weighing
lover two pounds, but the fine fruit
is?not alhoX, itix and when Lget
through dear readers you will say-
. of ;aQd
most aU great wenatchee Val-
iev - so in-chJan Co.. say that better
ac-ithan nine tenths of thi3 0f the
ranches including 5 and 10 acre
ranches are mortgaged heavily. I
want tin tell vnii that mfin nnmp
here from and
$2,000 to $4,000 and it dont go very
far in buying 5 or 10 acres of bear
ing orchard especially apple orch
ard when it sells at from $1,000 to
$3,000 per acre and I have known
some to sell as high as $5,000. per
acre. Well some men make as
high as $1,000 per acre from their
apples, but the majority run from
5R1 00 tn $5Wn and whp.n vnn fiditrft
CQSt Qf growing-ami cost of
iiving wmch is double what it Js in
Sqq interest on you
iQVestment you havn't any left
will tell you something oC the cost
every year that costs from $2,50 to
$4,00 per day for that and then j
you must spray twice or three times
which will cost at least $15.00 per
acre and some times more, and lots
of years m tact most years you
have t0 your fruit that will
cost $5 or $10 an acre and you-pay
3 and 4 cents fdr picking per 'box;
and 6 and 7 cents for packing, your
boxes costs 10 to 12 cents -each,
your wrapping paper' costs about
$3 per 100 boxes and Jhen there are
some extras. Your food and clothes
costs almost as high again here, as
j there and winters vare colder " and
you have to have warmer clothes
your fuel, is high, Coal' 8 to 10 dol
lars a ton and wood is 9 " dollars a
cord. Your taxes oh 5 acres -full
bearing orchards will ' be 40' to 60
dollars and you pay eight 1 per cent
interest on your debt so you can
see where you get off buying orch
ard lands and the wheat , lands
dont pay- much, I'm told most of the
wheat ranches are mortgaged. ky Our
Southern people who have good-f
homes dont ; know how'" well they
SUNDAY FIGHT;
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' . Thel quietude of ; last" Sundays
I afternoon was broken by a dlsinr--
bance near the post - office. The
parties engaged in ithe fight" werc-C
Jesse Bartlett and Albert CampbelL-;
it seeuis mat rarueu-ooiectea to c: -
statement made some time' ago by
Cainpbell in the r, Mayor's ' courts -Simday;alteinopn
they met for.ther- a
first time nearthej jpost office bit .
just wharpassed ;: between "them Is -
not known. Howeven" ; BartletV-
struc&mpDell "a terrific ; blow ; oiK K
the side of the face, faiocking ! hiia. .
down and breaking Jiis jaw - bone v .
and loosening' many of his teetlL-. ,
He also struck Campbell the-second.
time, the latter being too badly4
tne wounaea man, wno was carnea
into Parker's drug store i and later
moved to his home in East Murphy. -It
is said his condition is serious
Bartlett is a flagman on theL&. N
his home being at CopperhilL Camp-
f bell moved here last fall from nean
Kinsey. Mayor Deweese put Bart-
lett under a $200 bond for his ap
pearance at the trial tomorrow
(Saturday), which he rnade?--Cher---Okee
Scout.
are fixed to live until they sell out
and take a long -'move and buy:
some of the high priced western -
lands, you can't buy raw lands with '
water right for less than $350,00
per acre. Now I want to tell , of
some of the good lands we have
fiereiuidof'rif-' Carolina can vj ust
as wen nave tnem. une ; is tne
compulsory school law all children
between 8 and 15 are compelled to
go to school 8 months each year or
a full -school year which vhere is 8
to 10 months, while I'm proud of
the progress North Carolina ha
made and is still making alonjg;.
the lines of education, yet if she?
had compulsory educaticn her rur
al districts would greatly benefit by
it And another good law we have ;
here that North Carolina with
many other states need is the Aus
tralian Ballot law. I saw it in
working force for the first time
this fall and it certainly is a long.
step in the right direction. Anothsrr
is the Eual Sufferage, I'm aware;;
that mo3t Southerners are prettjr
conservtative on this question but:
if they could see womans sufferage
in force once most of . them would!
turn over the other way, I've heard:
it argued that the . good women-would-stay
away from the polish
while the loud women would go
and vote and this makes politics "
more corrupt, but here the reverse
is the rule our best women go and
vote and-this make politics purer"
the local option vote in Wenatchee
was three to one . against whiskey
where before it was very close, t .
can say I was on the pollFn ,
grounds two or three hours and
never heard an oath -sworn while
the" ladies were present One good
-thing! can say for this part ofT
Wash., I have not seen more than
two or three mien drunk enough ta
tell it on them, since I have been.
here and I have been here twa -yen
sarad 6 months, we are hoping
for State wide prohibition; soon.
Wishing the Journal and all iV
readers greatsuccess ;
5 ' W. A McLaughlin..
An official, birth record. is i the 1
best proof-rbf , legitimacy, of (the -f
right to inherit, : and of the , rightu
f or schooling, for : work, for voting-,
and for marriage, v V - V , -
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