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VOL. I NO. 7
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HOME OWNERS. f
First amon th Scfvantags poi
sessed by this county is a citizenship
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Lome owners ratl,cr than tenants. ;e O,lleje twenty-five years a,o,
In many counties mis is not the case .WTlth a Ffrm Life School such as
but rather the opposite. Many coun- f ,ynfer luisu told f ; :follt t0
ties have larrf, te.iant clan. Ilere uc;! e fa b f g'f- teach
the people nearly all own their own m! theni sc.euce of soU, plant,
homes and . uitivate their own land. f nl.. and food and inspiring
K This is an ideal condition in a dem- tirieul- Wlth ,v,sl0"s a,ld hifth idei,ls
ocracy-Smallfas owfbMpied ff ntry life Jackson County will
..?! -.nlivntd hv nermmmht ,-iti -lead -WeStCru N. C. ill wealth and
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zens produce the ; best : industrial
community. In this respect Jackson
County is exceptionally fortunate, r
HOME FOI.: s - i
But better still these farmers are
native North-Carolinians: The for-
ions the ancestry of' the, present'
population jol; the county, has lived a destructive fire only a few days
and wrouifen the old North State. ao, is already rebuilding. Consider
la fact perhaps: the vast majority , able work has been done on a new
nf mir Torrl nrp HpsppnHpH from i
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ancestors identified with the State
from colonial times. This means we
have a population of good, true, pure
North Carolinians. Hence, our tradit -
ions are more inspiring in county
nd stite building. , : ,
A COUNTY OF WHITE FOLKS.
In Many Counties of the State
a majority of the people are negroes.
But in: this county the negro is a
yarcspecimen I am told that only
' four out of the fifteen townships of
the county have any negroes in
: them. Eleven are white townships
and in the four, exceptionsonly a
few colored people are to be found.
These are said to be industrious
peaceful and law abiding. In this re
spect the county is very fortun.t )
indeed. '.
NEITHER IDLE RICH NOR
PAUPERS. ' '
Our people belong almost exclus
ively to the gieat middle class.
There are few extremes, very rich
people are not found here, and
paupers are too scarce to mention.
These conditions mean-much in the
general development of the county.
Under these conditions jve naturally
find a small precentage of criminals
No statistics are at hand but I
doubt if any county tin', the state
makes a better showing than Jack
son. The lawyers say; they , would
starve to death on the criminal
practice of the County. ;
THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS
The valleys are rich,; the springs
are numerous and cold the moun
tains are high and "present pictures
of scienc ; beautjy and loveliness.
While untold wealth is sid to lie
buried in the " forest covered hills.
The best and richest of -Western N,
C. has not ' been seen until the eyes
feast upon natures . riandiwork in
Jackson County. The commonplace
in this county, in nature surpasses
the far famed hevilie Scenes.
HEAlTH ANMETf
Here many fatal diseases that
terrify the; lowlands are unknown.
A minimum of sanitation; gives
maximum returns. Hardly a' county
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in the state could more easily secure
absolute health for all the- people
than this county. . , ' -AN
ERA OF :TRANSITPN
On every hand changes are taking
place looking to the. development of
County good roads are nearley here.
re nearlev here,
Intensive farming- displacing the
old method 6f scratching;-all over
mnrwT PanyasnegHgeht in its' duty Foreit throughout. tte entire yeat .'-
money, toproved macruae
introduced rapidly. Better stock Ver-pf Andrews, Sc0-"1. ; ' " !J- ',1 ?r-:r.?.y ;r-r
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. wA uisnc are me . pride ana
Jie-tvTlVEa 1 the very
gra work whicK cbmparjes favor-
work done intheaver-
prosperous happy homes.
Chas. H. Utley
WORK OF REBUILDING
ALREADY GOES FORWARD
t Spruce, the mountain town 16
miles from here which suffered from
hotel and next week the Champion!
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Lber Company will start work;
on a new office building All new;
- buildings will be improvements up-
on the old ones, and are to be con
structed along more modern lines.
A new business enterprise has
been started at Spruce, the firm of
Moore & Knott having opened its
doors this week. Both members are
well known business men of this
section, Mr. Knott was formerly con
nected with the Carolina .Supply
Company atlSunbuistaiid Mr. M65re
came, here from Swain County. The
latter is known throughout Jackson,
Swain and Haywood counties ' as
"Big Abe," being six feet three in
ches tall arid weighing over 300
pounds. This firm will also open
another store just below Sunburst,
in the near future. Courier.
TO BE AT WEBSTER
Dr. J. Y. Joyner, State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction will
address the people of Jackson coun-1
t j at Wtts iT on the first Monday
u Marcn on eaucational matters
and especially upon the establish
ment of a farm life school. It will j
be worth while for any one to hear
Dr. Joyner as he is an interesting
speaker and a man that talks from
his heart on educational matters.
February 11, 1914.
Rev. Chas. H. Utley,
Webster, N. C. .
Dear Mr. Utley: Uuless provi
dentially prevented, I shall be with
you in Webster on the first Monday
in March, ready to do ' all in my
power to aid in securing the estab
meht of a farm life school lor Jack
son county. . -
I am glad to hear such encourag
ing reports of the educational in
terests of the county.
Witli best wishes,
r Very truly yours, "
; ; . , J. Y. JOYNER,
State Supt. Public Instruction.
. A meeting of parties interested in
the Hiawassee Valley railway was
held at Haysville Feb. 4thand the
plans v for- the v proposed road dis
ciissed. A committee was appoint-
- ed cf the following well Known men
to confer with the L, &N, with the
: to confer.
view, of their taking over and corn-
pleting the . road, .viz Capt. R.: t
immmmmmm$mmimt n J S Fill
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governing subsections. 6 Below' 1 1
ire. the decisiohsf the Supreme
Court of the Urtei' States on
the subject: 'tlf V --;
'Subscribers ifeido not give1
express ; notice f the contrary
are considered as: Wishing to re
new their subscriptions.
' "If subscribers order a discon
tinuance of theirf periodicais the
.publisher may continue to send
them until all dues are paid.
'If the subscriber refuses to
take periodicals from the post
office to which they are directed
he is responsible until he ! has
settled, his bill and , ordered the
paper discontinuedia ;
If subscribers move to other
places without informing the
publisher, and the papers are
sent to the former - address, the
subscriber is held responsible.
'The courts have.held that re
fusiag to take periodicals from
the postofiice or removing and
leaving them uncflled for is
pinna iajm oviueuca 01 intenuorl
to aeiraua. f
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'If subscribers pay irt: advance
they are bound to giyenptice at
the end of the tinfe ipthey do
not wish to ; continue faking it. J
otherwise the pubiisherllis au-'
thorized to send it nhe-sijb:!
scriber will fejepfriil
express notice with payment . of
all arrearages is sent to the pub
lisher. SYLVA LOSES
LAW SCHI
It was learned with regret all over
this part of the State that the trus
tees of Wake Forest College had de
cided not to move the Summer Law
School from Wake Forest to Sylva,
this summer.
Sylva made a good fight and pro
duced some splendid inducements
to the Wake Forest College author
ities and for ia while it certainly
looked as if the Summer law school
would occupy the buildings of the
Sylva Collegiate Institute however
the trustees think it not advisable
to make the move at this time and
the law school will be held at Wake
Forest this summer as usual under
the efficient instruction of Prof. N.
Y. Gulley and Prof. E. W. Timber
lake. ' - ,
CHURCH DIRECTORY
Methodist Fpixopal Church South
Rev; L..B. Abernethy, D. P, Pas
tor. Preaching 2nd and 4th Sun
days at 11 aJ m. and 7:30 p. m.
. Sunday school every Sunday
morning at 10 ocbck. Chas. L.
Allison, Supt.
. Baptist Church
Rev. L, P. Eningtdn, Pastor.
Preaching ! st and 3rd Sundays at
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x m." nd 7:30 p.
nndav scnool every, Sunday ; mom-
ing at 10 o'clock "-T SC. Brysor,.
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Few readers 6wpapei-f ully
and clearly j
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1GKS0N coram
; Al message was received here to
day from Jackson couniy'to the ef
fect that: the grand jury has found
true uills against Joe Zachary and
pick Alexander, charged with killing
John Brown a short time ago. The
trial of the two men promises to be
a very interesting one as it is under-
Stood that the men nrawpH k rinWn
thrl
ughout Jackson countyJ f i x
According to information that can
e received here of the killing, the
three men had beenlito the com
mencement exercises of, the Canada
township school, in company with
several others, and when they were
leaving Brown is said to have miss
: ed. his purse and suggested f that
I those ih the party be searched. This
j suggestion seems to have incensed
'Zachary and Alexander and the
shooting resulted. Further details' of
I the affair cannot be learned at pres
1 eat. Gazette,
ELAY OF THE COURTS
j . Judge Carter, in speaking from
j the bench at Webster, Tuesday after-
noon, in reference to the delay . of
; the Courts, said that he believed in
j brushing aside ecnicalities as far
as possible and trying cases on their
i merits. He spoke of the remarkable
records the English courts have
imade in these matters and in con-
trastingit -with the American courts
V specof a casenifeyool CoUnty
! that has been in the courts for two
: generations and which the Judge is
! now attempting to settle; He refer
red to the Westfelt-Adams case,
which has been tried before the
Superior Court, appealed to' the
Supreme court, set jack to the Sup
erior court again, and again appeal
ed to the Supreme Court has been
through the-Federal District Court,
the Circuit Court of Appeals and to
the Supreme Court of the United
States, and is now pending in the
Superior Court for "decision. Judge
Carter said the political and physi
cal geography of the world has been
changed, empires have arisen and
fallen into decaf, we have taken
that strategic point, the Isthmus of
Panama, from a sister nation, the
canal has been cut through a moun
tain range, the continents have been
severed and the oceans have been
united, changing the course of the
commerce of the world, in less than
half the time our courts have been
trying to decide where stood a cer
tain chestnut tree. The most of the
parties are dead and the costs have
been piling up, running into tens o
thousands, and the courts are, furth
er from a solution than they were
at the beginning and we call that
justice, No wonder the' people are
beginning toHfeel a contempt I for
court and it may "sound strange,
coming from the bench, but I : am
beginning to lose my cbnfidencd in
courts. Is that anarchy fro
bench, if that be treason, make the
most of it t
ne torn now a man in tne pnme
of life went ont on on - Atlantic
Coast line train, one Sabbath' morn
ing and as he was stepping from the
train he was shot through the body,
he brought suit against the Rail
road for not giving him proper pro-,
tection. The courts v for seventeen
yearalhavebeen txyinjgto decide
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wucuier ur uoi me - xuuiruaa uom-
THE YEAR. IN- ADVANCE S "
Mail Penny now tottering to ?his : v h , i
rave an! the vaV! oo .:n - L - : r , t .
collected from his estates And I we
call that - justice,: ho wonder I the
Courts are jailing into contempt "
with the people I am losing rriy-re-'
spect forthem'. Gehtlemen, we must
find a way, but I fear that I tahV
too much.' This" was, on my-heart -and
I have spoken jt." - x ...
XOUNTV :COjaiBNGEMET
The County Commencement "will
be held at Sylva this year about the
first of April, We want to make
the Grand Parade a feature of 'the
exercises. Specimen work from' all
the .schools with the name of the
pupil and teacher attached will be
on display. A;
In addition to the contests in :
Recitation, Spelling and Declama- -tion
as awarded last year, we are
offering this year two prizes, a soiid '
gold pin and a solid silver pin to be . -awarded
to the two numls who
show the highest proficiency in En
glish: Grammar, and Composition.
These prizes are given by RowPe
terson & Company, publishers of
the adopted text of English in the 1 :
county to be governed by the fol
lowing regulations:
1. Only pupils who have been
regularly enrolled in a public school
of tie County during the year and
have used the State-adopted book ' '
in English, Bobbins and Rw, Book ,
11, Grammar and Composition, shall
be eligible to compete for the prize.
In valuing the work of , the '
contestants, not more than one. half , . ,
ieoible
lowed for technical grammar " y ? '
: 3. All the details of the composi-
tion of the County Superintendent
of Schools.
4. Let us all work together and
make the County Com
the great Rally Day of the County.
imvid ti. Brown,
County Superintendent of Public
Instruction,
BBYSON CITY.
The following news notes are
aken from the Bryson City Times-
The many friends of Miss Bertha
Marr will be sorry to learn that she
is quite ill.
Mrs. R. J. Roane came down
fromWhittier Wednesday and re
mained over night to attend East
ern Star Chapter. While here Mrs
Roane was the guest of Mrs. D. K. .
Collins.
A telephone message; from Bal- ;
sam Saturday morning announced
?he death of Nina, the five-year old
daughter of Mrs, Jack Seay, The (
little one was sick only a few hours ,f
of bone hives.
The Bryson City Bank will give
away $150 in gold to the! best corn "
and potato raisers in Swain county - ,
are you going to get your part of 1
the gold? .See Mr. Long at the
Bryson City Bank and he will give
you printed rules governing the
.contest It does not cost you any
thing to enter. ' d
' The Baptists and their friends . -in
the hustling, and hospitable town
of Sylva were very anxious to have .
the Wake Forest Summer r Law. , " '
School locate there during thehaat-.
ed term and they sent Pastor R. P; ' i
Ellington last week to lay the" mat- ;"
tet before the the Trustees. - How- Va v
eyert:with due appreciation of their i ! "i
genen)sity;;and after giving the V
matter , through cdns'derationi the C
Trustees concludedlt would bVbest Y''i
for the school to:-remain at Wake "
Forest throughout the entire yearj
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