V0LIN0.7 5$0Q THE YEJU m AJCE OLENVILLt ITEllS. CD Messrs. John Clayton and James Cunningham were in our little vil lage last Saturday, tn business. '': Superintendent Davi& H. Brown of Webster, despite ate cold day held" a very successful teachers' meeting Saturday. Misses Amy Stewart and Fne Zachary wery visitors in Gienville Saturday. Henry Moss of Sylva. is visiting his hbme'folks at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Pola Long of Cullo- yhee are visiting Mrs. Long's "moth r, Mrs. Mary Bryson. Messrs. Preaulo Stewart and Ar ley McGuire were seen bird hunting Saturday mwning and "deer hunt ing in the afternoon. ' a. 'b, Allison, of Asheville, spent the night at "The Heights" last week, Wiley Galloway returned Monday from an extended trip South. A house is being repaired loi Rev. Waae Mchdlson, who will move here from Salem, S. C. He is a ereat evangelist, and we will be glad to have nim in our midst Wolff L. Allen went to Cashiers last Saturday. Claude Wilson is running a steam saw mill here. A. J. Monteith7 and three sons, Walter. Lee and Lawrence, started to Fairfield for a deer hunt, on top of the Blue Ridge; they came' upon a bear's tracKi uicy soon traced n inio "sheep wiiti cutei," who they gave up the chase. .urumtner Juvit; was nere on una ness last week. Mrs. b. A. bamgirner was here shopping last week. Mrs. W. A. Fowler, has gone to Spruce Pine to visit her daughter, Mrs. T. A. English. . A "Wolff's" track was seen all all the way from Cashiers to Glen ville early Monday morning. (?) Owing to an incessant rain Thurs day and Friday the people weie disappointed in not getting to ob serve "Community Service" days as they had quite ad extensive pro gram arranged A Reader. NOTICE To the old Soldiers and widows of Soldiers. This notice is to explain to you the- delay in gettiDg your pension checks. The State-"AiiStor sent them but as early as usunl this year or a little earlier, but he mis directed the" package containing the checks and Hf went to Webster instead of Sylva" It" was a Tegis tered package ahd therefore did not reach me for "several days. Trusting that " your checks have, all reached . you by this time, and wishing each of you a merry Christ mas and a happy and prosperous New Year, I am Most respec ti v eiy y ou rs, W, L. HENSpN, Glerk Superior Court. Moving pictures . a"t the audito rium tonight, benefit of school. Because of lack of sjpace. " We could not publish the letters to Santa Claus, but we assure the lit tle friends of the Jpurnal that ' the: o PlSaint will get theirjetters- Oscar Lovedahl was here Wednes- To AH 'top' leaiirl ' E. M. JfflEIT KILLS V. B. Asheville, ff. C. Dec. 22. William B. Grant, aged 72, was shot and almost instantly killed at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday morning in the store of the Blue Ricge Mercantile company, on $outhside avenue, by E.M. Jarrett, who at once surrendered to Patrolman Charlie Pinner, on duty at1 the Southern Railway passenger statipn and is now without bond in the city jail. It seems that Grant was in the establishment of the Blue Ridge Mercantile Co. discussiiig a note, containing vile and threatening language, which he had found under the door of his shoe Shop, when Jarrett entered and took part in the discussion. Fiudliy, -ccorajngio cie witneses, i jrant ana Jireii staru -:i argu ment, which became more heated as it progressed and the two men began to curse each other, Grant advancing on Jarrett. At this time Jarrett pulled a pistol, the witnesses say, and stepped back, when Grant told him to hoot, to which Jarrett replied that he did not want to shoot him. Mr. Grant had his hand in his hip pocket, bystanders maintain, and advanced on Jarrett the second time when the latter fired three shots, each taking effect. One of the bullets entered about the mid dle of the chest, another in the left shoulder and the other in the chest He was placed in a chair in which he died without ever speaking a word from the. time he was shot. Jarrett walked out of the store, through a ide-entrance and went at once to Patrolman Charlie Pinner at the passenger station, anpl sur rendered. He was brought to the city jail and locked up. . . . The deceased conducted a shoe 'shop at No. '270 Southside avenue for several years . and was well known, in the city. He was a large man, standing more than six feet and weighing 200 pounds. In other days he was noted fpr his enormous strength. Mr. Jarrett is well known in Syl va, being a native of Dillsboro and having a number pf relatives in Jcksonxontyr He is a brother of fostmaster M. Y. Jarrett of Dills boro arid has been living in Ashe ville for four nr five "years, where he has been connected with ' the Southside Furniture company and other enterepnses. He is married and has three smalljchildren. "'Jy' GRIT iN ASHEVILLE is (From the New York Sun.) We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication jelow, expressing at the oame time our great gratifi cation that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: "Dear Editor I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says 'If you see it in The Sun it's so'. Please tell me the truth is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINIA O'HANLON. '115 West Ninety-fifth street." Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skepical age. They do not believe except they see. They think think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their minds. All minds, Virgin ia, whether they be men's or child ren's, are little. In this great uni verse of ours man is a mere insect, an ant in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge, . -Yes, Virginia; there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist . and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be; the world if there were no Santa Claus? It would be as dreaTy as if there were no Virginias.- There would -be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this ex istence, We should have no enjoy- menf-excent m sense ana sigui tThe eternal Ught with which child hood fills the world would be ex tinguished. Not believe in Santa Clans! You might as well not believe in fairies! You mi 4ht get your papa to hire men to Watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Saaa Claus, but even if they did not see S?mta Claus, coming down what Would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Sana Claus. The most real things in the worl I are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies danc ing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not th ire. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what- makes the noise inside, butere is a-veihcov ering the unseen World which not the strongest man not even the u. i-ed strength of f,ll the strongest that ever lived, could tear apart. Only i mh, fancy, poetry, r.unauc'1 j; ,Uoh aside ih.i curtain and vfew and picture the supernal bueaty and glory beyond Is it all real? Ay, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus." Thank God.. He lives and He lives forever. A thousand years from now, Vir ginianay, ten times ten times ten thousand years from now He will continue to make glad the heart of ehildhood. PROHIBITION AMEND MENT IS LOST V The proposed Constitutional amendment providing for National Prohibition, lost in the lower house of Congress, Tuesday, it failing to receive the necessary 2-3 vote. The amendment did receive a . ma jority, however, the vote being 197 for to 189 against. The prohibitionists state that the vote that this measure received was fully as laage as tney had expected. Seven of the North Carolina Congressmen voted for thelmeasure and two, Pou and Small voted against it. It is likely that a similar resolu tion which lias been introduced by Senator Sheppard of Texas, will come up for a test vote in the Sen ate during the present Congress. The recital which was to have been given at the auditorium last Friday, was postponed on account of sickness. The date will be given later, There will be given at the audi torium Saturday night, a Box- Sup per, for the benefit of the graded shcool. Pou! Wast itlSmall? ! Chrittnm entehninrnrnt of tfca Methodist and fiaptict 3undb noon and Thursday evening respect ively. ' " " , ': The public is invited taptt present 2ome goca musi( recitations anx other air1alef '''iirjea'' "' ISto . been arranged. Miss Myrtle Keller passed ihrougb Sylva Wednesday enroute to her home at Cullowhee. vtilas 'arker of Go warts,, was in the city the first of the week or DusineM- Misses Hattie and Ruth Proffitt have returned to tneir home, at Webster, after a visit of several days at Black Mountain. W. C. Hill went to Asheville Sun day returning Tuesday. Kobt. L. Madison Jr. is spending tiie noliuays ai Webster with hid mother.- TO PRESIDENT! The Common Carriers .Ask for - R lief President Wilson Dfrects2 " Attention or Puoiictp The committee of railroad exeem tlves, aeaded by Mr. Frank Trumbull,; representing ..hirty-nve ot the leading railroad system b ot the nation, recenVj ly oresented Lo President Wilson & memoriindu.r briefly reviewing the dif-. ncwties now confronting the railroad of the country an. asfcin0' for :.tip co operation or the governnifcULal dutnori- ties and the public in supporting rail road credits and recognizing an emer- gency which requires that the raiK roads be given additional revenues. The memorandum recites that the European war has resulted in general depression of business on the Ameri-i can continent and in the dislocation! of credits at home and Abroad. Witht revenues decreasing and interest ratesfc increasing the transportation systems of the country face a most serious crisis and the memorandum is a strong presentation 6f the candles burning at both ends and the perils that must ultimately attend such a conflfigration when the flames meet .: is apparent to all. In their general!' discussiom the railroad represents tives say in part: 'By reason of ieg-r islation and. regulation by the federal) government and the forty-eight states acting Independently of each other, asi ell as through the action of a strong! public opinion, railroad expenses "hii recent years have yagtty inajeaseft No criticism is here made of, the gen-r eral theory of governmental regula-t tion, but on thW other hand, no in-, gehuity can reneve the carriers of ex penses created thereby." President Wilson, in transmittingr the memorandum of the ' railroad presidents to the public, character- izes it as "a lucid statement of plaiij-truth.'- The president recognizing) the emergency as extraordinary, con tinuing, said in part: , -- ;.; "You ask me to caU the, attention of the country to the imperative" n'eed that railway credits be sastainea and, the railroads helped in every possible way, whether by private co-operativef effort or by the action, wherevert feasible of governmental agencies, and! I am glad to do so because I thinkt the need very reaL" The conference was certainly at fortunate one for the nation and the4 president is to be congratulated for: opening the gate to a. new' world of; effort in which everyone may co-operate.. ; ; ' There are many imnortant . nroht . lems in our complex civilization thatj will yield to co-operation which wilU not lend themselves to arbitrary rul ings of commissions anil ; financing, railroads is one of them. The manj: with the money is a factor that cjan Biot be eliminated from any business transaction and. the public. is an inter ested party that should always be con- . sulteti antf happily the president hast invited an to participate in the sdju- uon or our railroad problems., w RAILROADS APPEAL '..ft" ! 4 i

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