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SYLVA, N. C SEPTEMBE . 11 1914
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ATE OF FAIR.
The directors of the Jackson
County Fair have been compelled
to make a change in the date of
commencement of the Fair, so as
to begin on Tuesday Sept. 29th,
and have four days instead of
Wednesday Sept, 30th. and have
four days instead of three. This
was considered necessary because
the Carnival Company secured for
the fair would not come for three
days. This Carnival Company
alone furnishes the Fair more and
better attractions than it has ever
had before.
It i? hoped and beleived by the
Fair managers that the attendance
this year will be as large as their
efforts to prepare and secure a record-breaking,
show; full stables full
chicken and hog pens, full exhibit
rooms and a full midway.
Program First Day Of Fair.
Grand Parade of School Children
and Veterans,marching to the music
of the Royal Italian Band.
Short Prayer by Rev. Ellington,
Short Address by Prof. 0. S, Dean,
Balloon Ascension with free dis
tribution of prizes from the clouds.
Professional races trotting and
pacing; amateur races trotting,
running and pacing.
Slow mule race. Purses each
day.
ILICITCXfilBI
The following men have been ap
pointe 1 to canvass their respective
communities and encourage their
neighbors to make exhibits at the
County Fair. Remember we make
no charge for entering exhibits.
S. W. Enloe, H. R. Snider, S. C.
Allison, T. C. Jones, J. M. Worley,
Henry Holcombe, Grady Cooper,
Glenn Ferguson, C. E. Moody, W. H.
Jones, J. J. Cowan, W. L. Cowan, J.
W. Davis, F. H. Brown. T. . A. Cox,
J. A. Hooper, R. L. Knight, B. M.
Peek, W. M. Fowler, T. R. Zachary,
Milas Parkes, Ralph Hunter, C. B
Zachary, W. A. Clayton, G. C. Sny
der, Fred Bryson, W. J. Cogdill, W.
B. Farwell, G. C. Crawford, A. M.
Fry, S E. Varner.
The following ladies have been
appointed as workers to secure ex
hibits in their respective communi
ties for the coming Jackson County
Fair to be held on Fair Grounds
Sepiember 29 and 30 and October
1 and 2, 1914. These ladies are re
quested to see ladies in their com
munities and encourago them to
wake entries, as premiums will be
Paid on anything of merit.
Mrs, Perry Shelton, Mrs.'E. C.
Moody, Miss Maggie Worley, Mrs.
s- C. Allison, Mrs.6,iW. ;Enloe, Mrs.
W. C. Cannon, Miss Rebecca Allison,
Mrs. J. J. Cowan, Mrs. Eugenia Al
lison, Mrs. W. L. Cowan, Mrs. M. C.
Brinson, Mrs. T. A. Cox, Mrs. F. H.
Brown, Mrs. Nellie S. Hooper, Mrs.
L. Knight, Mrs. M. L. Coggins,
Mrs. W. M. Fowler, Mrs. B. M. Peek,
Mrs. John Henderson, Mrs. B. Nor
ton, Mrs. George Call, Mrs. H. R.
en, Mts. Albert Brown, Miss
Maggie Hunter, Mrs. J. D. Mallonee,
Mrs. J. J. Kenney4' Mrs. Kaiser, Mrs.
G. Snyder, Mrs. D. G. Bryson, Mrs.
M. Buchanan, Mrs. L. P. Allen, Miss
With Hooper, Miss Jessie Enloe,
PRIZES FOR hl
LUCKY ENVELOPES
$
At the time of the ascension of
balloon at the coming Fair, when
the arednauf is 500 feet up he will
throw down advertising envelopes.
each envelope to be numbered with
a separate number. For each 500
envelopes thrown down as each
merchant who participates will be
allowed 500 envelopes each day-
there will be a lucky number;
the holder of this lucky number
will be entitled to a prize worth from
$3.50 to $6.00, which is offered to
the person who secures the lucky
number, by the merchant on whose
advertising matter his lucky num
ber is found, and will be paid on
the day the lucky number is picked
up, or during the week of the Fcdr.
IOST POPULAR PLACE
IN N. C.
Mrs. W. F. Cavanaugh, Miss Mar
garet Cavanaugh and Pat A. Cava
naugh returned last night from Syl
va, N. .C, where they have been en
joying a delightful visit of several
weeks, Mrs. and Miss Cavanaugh
having gone to join Pat, who was
was in Canfj? Jackson. The San
fords' camp has been one of the
most delightful summer institutions
that Augustans have had the pleas
ure of enjoying in a long time, the
accommodations, the facilities ifpfe
everything necessary to make a
camp satisfactory in every way
were such that next season, should
the Sanfqrds again go to North Car
olina, applications will have to be
semVin weeks ahead for it will be
quite the most popular place in
North Carolina next summer. Au
gusta (Ga.) Herald.
SINFING CONTEST
AT THE FAIR.
The singing classes of Jackson
county have been invited to hold
their annual convention at Sylva
on Friday, October 2nd. The Fair
management has offered three pre
miums this year, for the best, second
best, and third best, singing done
by the different classes. J. Matt
Crawford, C. G. Crawford. Z. V.
Watson, B. H. Hooper and R. N.
Deitz have been appointed as a
committee on management, with
Geo. P. Miller, Fair manager of
contest. A. J. Dills,
Sec'ty J. C. F. A.
No charge for entering exhibits
at the Fair this year, but they
must be entered and in place
before 2 P. M. Tuesday, September
29th, the first day of the Fair.
Last year exhibits were not re
quired to be entered before the
second day of the Fair. People
who came the first day went home
and told their friends that there
was nothing to see at the Fair,,
which was the truth. Many did
not come back and others were
not interested enough to come. This
year everything - and everybody
will fee there the first day, which
will be as big a day as any of the
following days.
BURNS
AT WILLETS.
The store of James C. Fisher at
Willets was burned, Welti? high t
and the building and gpodswerea
total loss except 5 far; insurance
amounting to $1000. TlS stock
was worth about $2000X : f .;
It is thought that the tire was
due to work of incendiaries as traces
were found where articles of mer
chandise had been carried from the
building. The theary is that: the
store was robbed and then burned
to hide the evidences of the robbers.
The matter has been taken up
with the State Insurance Depart
ment and every effort will be made
to bring the offenders to justice.
ASHEVILLE TO ATLANTA
WESTERN COUNTIES TOJOIN IN
CONCERTED MOVEMENT
Waynesville Courier.
One of the good roads propositions
in which Waynesville, Canton and
Haywood county generally is vit
ally interested in this that of a
great highway from Asheville to
Atlanta through Turnpike, Canton,
Clyde, Waynesville, Sylva, Andrews
Frankliti and on to Atlanta.
Haywood county would have very
little expensive work to do in order
to make its' portion of the highway
good. Entirely aside from the high
way proposition it is generally ad-
tmitted that the road" from W aynes-
ville through Canton to Turnpike,
connecting with the Buncombe
county roads, should be placed in
good permanent conditionas soon
as possible. Last winter it is de
monstrable that Waynesville and
this section suffered the loss of
considerable winter tourist business
chiefly on account of the fact hat
tourists from Asheville would not
take chances on the roads of this
county in their machines. While
Grove Park Inn and other Asheville
hotels were full of guests who were
making continued excursions to
nearby tSwns Waynesville was
practically isolated.
To join in the proposed highway
movement would therefore only
give this county what it needs re
gardless of the extension of the
highway to Atlanta. But there is
assurance that considerable good
roads feeling has been aroused in
the counties to the west of Haywood
and that if this county will take
the lead in doing its part of the
work the others will fall in line.
This from the Biblical Recorder
will be of interest to the friends of
Rev. Fred F. Brown.
Rev. Fred F. Brown sends to the
Baptist World this good word from
Harrodsburg, Ky.: We are ail re
joicing at Harrodsburgv over the
close of the greatest year's work
our church has ever known. This
morning when our associational
letter was read we found that our
contributions to missjons had more
than doubled that of any previous
year. At the same time we have
lifted a church debt, installed and
paid about $600 on a magnificent
pipe organ. Greater than all, we
have had about eighty additions to
our church Without any special
meeting -Baotiied ven last Sun
day evening. So you know that
we are iiappy in our work.
STORE
WOMEN VITALLY
CONCERNED.
"Women are more vitally con
cerned in the good road movement
than are men" declares Mrs. Robert
Baker, Chairman of the Woman's
Department of the American High
way Association at Washington.
"The isolation and loneliness of
farm life, cut off for months each
year from communicatioii with the
outside world, because of impassable
roads, falls most heavily upon
the
women of the household . The
young escape it by moving to the
cities but the wives and mothers
must endure it. Schools and
churches can only develope their
field of usefulness when . they are
made accessible to the contiguous j
population. Next to the home, the
women should cherish and upbuild
most of all the church and school,
and as a means of accomplishing
this, good rbad roads are almost
paramount."
A conference of women from all
the states has been called to meet
in Atlanta, Georgia, on November
10 to consider ways and means of
making the organized efforts of
women most effective for the bet
terment of the puolic roads. Many
distinguished women will be
pre-
sent, among whom are Miss Julia
Lathrop, Chief of the Children's
Bureau, Mrs. Daisy McLaurin-Stev-ens,
President-General of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. by peter radford, national lecturer
Thomas M. Owen, Chairman, j farmers' co-operatine union of
Country life Committee, Woman's i America.
Departniej!rpll the National Civic r The need M the rural cmmuni
Federation, Ivlrs. Chas. J. Haden, of ties to-day is intelligent and conse
Georgia, and Mrs. Oscar Hudley, of crated leadership.
Alabama, The National Advisory , The farm is the power house of
Board of the Woman's Department all progress and the birthplace of
includes, among other dis anguished
women, Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs.
William Cumming Story, Miss Mary
Johnston, Miss Julia Lathrod, Miss
Jane Adams, Miss Elizabeth Gentry
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin-Stevens, and
Miss Maude Wetmpre.
AGED LADY DIES
Mrs. Rachel Hall, one of Jackson
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county s umesi lauies. uieu at me
home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W.
Fisher, near Webster, last Saturday.
Mrs. Hall was 90 years of age
and had been a member of the
Methodist church for 76 years, hav
ing professed faith in Christ and
joined the churcfc at the age of 14.
She had been ill for several
months. The funeral was conduct
ed at Webster Monday by Rev. D.
R. Proffitt and Rev. J. J. Gray. The
interment was in the Webster cem
etery. WHISKEY AND PISTOL
AGAIN CAUSE KILLING.
A most deplorable tragedy oc
curred last Wednesday night in
Fines Creek when Tom Ferguson,
the young son of Mr. and Mrs, Gas
ton Ferguson was shot and killed.
Hob Cook is being held in the
county jail charged with the mur
der. A half dozen bovs were in the
crowd and all are said to have been
drinking more or less during the
day. About eigljt o'clock they
were m ine . puniic roaa near me
r erguson Home wnen me snooting
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occurrea. 10m r erguson was snoi
through the left breast, the bullet
going through the heart and causing
almost iintnediate dathWaynes
ville Courier.
C01EIEDM
OF THE WAKi
After having made the continous
march through Belgium and France
to within sight of Paris, winning
practically every fight against the
allies, the stupendous German arrny
is being driven back and the allied
forces of France, England and Aus
tria are believed to be winning the
i first decisive battle of the European-
war.
England has rushed every avail
able man to French soi snd has
transported 250,000 Russians to the
scene of the big battle around
ris. The French have succeeded m
turning the right wing of the Ger
man army, while the Russians are
said to be attacking them in the
rear. Thus the great battle rages
around Paris.
Little is known of the movement
in East Prussia where so much
heavy fighting hats been done
! tween the Russians and Austri
Emperor Francis Joseph oj
Austria is said to have died about
two weeks ago but this knowledge
has been kept as secret as possible
because of the fear of demoraliza-
' tion that it might cause among the
Austrian troops.
FARM FACTS.
all that is noble.
The farmer asks no speeial privi
leges. The business of farming
only wants the same opportunities
afforded other lines of industry.
The farm is the nursery of civili
zation and the parsonage,s of all
religious denominations.
It is as much of a duty of the
' couuntry Past"r t0 own
while on earth as it is to
a home
inspire us
to build a mansion in the skies.
The rural press, the pulpit and
the school are a trinity of powerful
influences that the farmer must
utilize to their fullest capacity be
fore he can occupy a commanding
position in public affairs.
OLD FIELI
Those who have friends buried
at Old Field graveyard are urged
to meet there the 24 and 25, to do
needed work.
Cicero Beck of Greer, S. C, was
here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Henson
wire Sunday from Beja.
Mrs. J. B. Sherrill is in Atlanta
buying the fall line of millinery for
the Syya Millinery Co.
Dock Bryson of Cullowhee was in
town Tuesday.
Holmes Bryson and Mrs C. H.
Daniels leave this week for New
York to buy the fall millinery, la-
. dies ready-to-wear and other goods
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for the new season.
Miss Georgia Miller of Waynes-
fvDtei thA of her
j cousin, Mrs. Carrie McKee.
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