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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.
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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
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