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t- V0L.-IN0V7 SYLYA, N. C., APRIL :16 1915; $1.00 THE YEAR JM ADVANCE Ml JACKSON MAN LIE UN TAr loo-- t r rouan -muier iu can tne uia gentle-.r" We learn that John Bryson , formerly of Cunowheeahis;County,' s ted was shot and allied Saturday at i and : Uas; S6t, e Comanchee Texas. At this time we are unable to learn any of the par- ticulars of Mr. Bryson's deatht i Mr. Bryson wenj: from this county ' to Texas a number of yeare ago an 1 was one of the leading citizens of n ; '-, ., - Comanchee county where he had lare interests. OWninrf RftVerfil rtattlfi rancj ihes and being the president ot uims;u "ierM01 unuay qanncr mt ccmii .nrfnrt;nrf in.nfKn;you on t w molested.' After a bank as well as engaging in other enterprises. He was married and leaves ten children. Mr. Brysen was prominentlyconnected vin " JacksQn county and was a brother of Mrs R. M. Keller of Cullowhee. STORE EN INTO W. F Holn of filfinvillf. was in ! town Tuesday and informed .us charged me with the authorship of that some person, or persons, iter- this series of letters. To which ed his store Saturday night, April chare 1 be3 t0 Plead "I10t uilty 10th. Mr. Holden said he did not 1 wisi Icpuldive evidence of my miss very many oods. ' ' characteristic modesty in the face. This is the second store m Glen ville which has been broken into and robbed within the past six moths, Sometime last winter the store of W. M. Fowler was entered ' and a few goods stolen, Mr. Holden offers a regard of conviction of the penoior;pons ; who broke into his store. ; : ..1 ... The Girls Pome of the Hay wood Institute at -Clyde, together- with ! the wearing apparel, books . and a large portion ".oi the furniture, was destroyed by fire last Sunday af- ternoon. The building -was-a 14 room structure and was valued at settled on Caney Fork and who about $3,000 ' with.; insurance ! married Elizabeth Bryson; and old amounting to $2,000. ! Billy Cochran who settled near Wil- The problem of caring for 22 j-fnot and whose wife was a Jen girl students was "solved by" the ; nings. young men-giving the boys' dormi tory and moin0ri'the:5i)rr F. M. Davis house, a summer 'hotel near by. The persoriaIpiesJ Sustained by the girls will be Venly felt as they had prepared their commence ment dresse3, all of which Were lost except what they -were wearing that day. But the people of Clyde and community have contributed liberally of money and clothing for the relief of the losers. . ' 1 is announced that a modern brck building will be erected be fore the opening of the fall term of the school, to take, the r place . of the wooden one, the work is to start soon after the commence ment exercises which will be held the first of May Canton Observer, TU TBE FARMERS The present number vof the Far mers' Market Bulletin contains articles of interest to farmers who have cotton, corn, potatoes, butter, or eggs tov market ; The work of the North Carolina Division of Markets isv outlined, in a special report which was written ifor the Department of . Agriculture of the State of Missouri. " This re port show.s how farmers, merchants bankers, md' railroads rhayj operate with State yisiohbf Markets. The co-operation of especially needed at .this irae ; to develop Market for r Northl(Jagfc lina pro Act when the State is in some m asu s , shifting from the product!, n o cotton to that of food and feed crop . . "file correspondent who styles himself "The Old Man", but whom I ujecre awa , inere 18 0111 y one thing more cu'10f and enquiring than a turkey nd that 18 a man' Not a oman ut a MAN' If yu wish your young Johnme Bright to break into your i i . rrv'1 rri at- oil hnrrrrnwri ,, h" t v V ' J - 'CaSUal y mn y0U nye SOme- that with Johnnie its pie or die. ai . . . . j t lattlm is p.nnnsitv run man. in- . ... quismveness witmn bounds is a j virtue. Its the key to knowledge. ; No onewill fault the peop e of ; Jackson fIor bein itchy to know urVtA i-ha IllH rlnntlnmnT. iif -hk IMl T- Inal is, but they need not be im ! Dosed on bv a nativ e. x Numbers of my friends have Ul uie mwiuiduic uLUli cut i can t ao u. i am miiucenue .1. f . 1 at nome n ever mere were n. But my venerable friend you are being excruciatingly -analysed here in your nativity among the ural and the ivy and the honey- 1 .sayir lend at the least for you.are a.nonogeiiaaau jacKson meother of my grand paps or gran mes You certainly ought to know a whole lot about old Jim Conley who settled Conley's Creek, and p0Jy Si errill his wife; and old B n (Allison who settled near the Fork 0f the Rive , whose -wife was a Miss Wood; and old Billy Cathey who! Narrate to us something of Squire John Love and his tribe; the old Fishers, Dillses, T Ensleys, Minguses and Cowans; the Halls and Stall cups. Some anecdotes about Wilse Tritt and Levy Love, old Bobby Bryson, Daniel Bryson; the Cogdills and Marrs on Scotts Creek; the Aliens and Corn Jim Queen, Tell about old Abraham Enloe and US his clan. And the Hyatts, Sherrills, Conleys, Farleys, Gibsons, Rabys, Gibbses, Keeyers. By the way you knoW, ofcourse, that the Gibbs family are the only -people of pure ly English decent who ever lived in Jackson. Everybody else are Scotch and Irish with a little - Ger man and Dutch, here and there,. for example, the Minguses, Wikes nnH Rnm darners V'-. Oh; by the way, we boast one Welsh American Citizen in Jack son." Tell us your recollections of him. He antedates Dr. Tompkins by nearly a half century as a citi zen of Jackson. ' Well, my dear old Gentleman, if you are ninety eight you were; born in 1817. You were born in what is now Jackson, then Haywood. - You were eleven years old when Macon county was erected. : You Jave lived through a period which has wtassed tie organizatiori of six Untaih" (imtiesyrestrof the ; Bal sart, namely, Macbn Cherokee" Jackson, SwainClay, and Graham: pyrwereaV)UDtlejsis, t the" or ganization of Jackson in 1851. From what your daddy told you, wmamiimimtessasni iJta Jackson and John jp: Calhoun who once came tirouh this&jclion ibok- v remember the h rse race between old Col. Love and old Bickor iu rwhieh Jackson rode his own horse. You remember also hearing your daddy talk of the duel between Sam You remember also Y Car on and Dr. Vance, and the duel between Thomas L. Clingman and Win. L. Yancy, as wells that be- tween Mark Erwin and John Baxter, nt vvii . You were familiar, dpubtless, with h WPfltprn r!nrnlinn Wr nuntain Bar Defore the civil V&r-ithe Hen A"-2Ji.x3--:rA ,A, ,c. A t i ; Woodfin Grady from whom the : . .... . ; . . ? . "... brilliant bouthron mhented his ora - tory the Baxters theaithers the J Franceges and Davidnk You remember the? famous visit matchless wiiillead. r and the :. best-loved man the United Stales Buchanan who gave out with rheu : has yet produced, Henry Clay, to matism about Turn Pike? And North Carolina and ,hs great speech from the East portico ol the Capitol at Raleigh. Recount these events, Tell us about the old Zacharys who settled Cashiers; the old Wilsons, Hendersonsj Watson's and Mosses who settled rlamblirg; the oi i 2ons and Brysbns and Rogers who tettled Cullowhee old Billy iShelton and "Boriie Hooper who jonfeered Canada t0nship. , Qld Boon Hooper made a - . A f a . , g0Qn 3 or soon pter, ana reported -Jroore nearly it sourceha A Boone adventurous old cuss. ' r Tell us about thebld Cowards and I Queens of Caney Fork. Tell us about old John R. Queen and Jimmie Nale Bryson who in the latter part of the j last century fought with many of their compsers the nonest hstieuti after the true Irish fashion. Tell us about the old musters with fife anchdrum. Tell us about old Bobby" Brown, the daddy of all the Browns and a big Irishman, who, when he was ready to ride at the races, would call out to his man: "help me on urn Geor-r-rge:" Tell us about old John Davis a natural wit and the father of Doug lass and Bill Davis, and genial Wqod- ford Zachary; tell us a whole hea&J about Jack Allison once she;riff of Haywood, and the inimitable pract- icaLJoker Joseph Keener. Tell us about the old MacMahones, Messers and Turpins and whether the latter are descendants of old Dick Turpin the English Rob Roy. Old Sam John son Boswells' Bear said our Col onial sires were "a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hang ing." Thais was old Sam's private opinion of our grandsires publicly opinion expressed. It "was a fine thing for old Sam's hide that there rolled the "deep and dark blue" - Atlantic be tween him and old John R . Queen when he blurted that ourof his old Popocatepetl. ( But old Johnsonxvas never out of that provincial wide place in the roadknown a& "London. He was once as far as the Hebrides and he adventured across the channel to a place called Paris, the only time lie was iever out of smelling distance of old Miss Williams' teapot, ? & I am: satisfied if, one were to search ililigently enough one wbuM find where; in some tonguely tourna ment he allowed, with the sarcasm of Swift and the thunder of Jupiter (Contipued on page 8) FR1ZZELL ANB "M OLD, BOY Beta, N. C. April 12. journal - wen uia coy you are; ajjretty harp! one to read. You seem to-be one of the Biblet sort' of names "Without beginning of days or end of time". You say you left Webster nout the time Haadersdh was hung. At that time I lived at Webster and was acquainted with Pvpi-v mnn warn an anH nTiilH that - lived around here; arid of course; rriA t-. . - A.A - , T : did you not? Did you and I not . . - attena a federal Court together at Asheville, before there was any Rail Road there when people, Jiad to walk to court? And did we not have in our crowd, old uncle Bill " you got down from an iron gray mule and let uncle Bill ride through jto court and you had to limp I along as you also had a crippled knee. Now "Old Boy" if I am not guessing right, teil in yonr next letter a waoie lot more ot your j Webster experience, and let me ! gue?s again. . Our neignbor Mr. Thad Beard is very sick, but we all hops he will soon be well again. . . . The farmers are hurrying their work to be ready to plant c corn. Mr. Dillard Bryson has finished up his new home; and since Mr. Gl art has oone. his, rart thehjyfe madea daauy oufof it; - i Good luck to the Journal and all its readers. Respectfully Tom Frizell WAK AT WE IT A play of unusuol interest is to be given by the high school pupils TIT 1 m . i at weDster ocnool auaitonum on the evening of Tuesday, April 20. This play deals with colonial North Carolina and the first armed resistance to British oppression. It portrays real characters of history, enlivened by the glamor of romance Admission 35 cts.; children 20 cts. THE CULLOWHEE -WEAVE't COLLEGE DEBATE WAS BY CDLLOWHEET The representatives of Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School, Messrs. Bird and Wood, acquitted themselves admirably at Way- nesville on last Saturday- evening They delivered their speeches in an excellent manner ana were tne re cipients of many congratulations. They won by a vote of 2 to" 1. The Weaver College boys also did excellent work They had" fine speeches and "presented them well. Waynesville gave the boys a cordial reception. , frof. Everett, of the Waynesville City Schools; acted as Chairman of the meeting andv the orchestra of the Waynesville High School furnished delightful j and inspiring music. Rev. O. y. Joyher, Rev. 0. P. Ad ers and others showed the debaters special courtesy. STOCK BAISEBS UET Monday of last week the stock raisers of Haywood county met at the court house and organized a Stock Raisers. Association Iliere was a large crowd in 'attendance. n 0i mmamt ! I. Special to the To.jvp, !aker Ore. ATthe Lorehz-jtQihizig house on First street SundW fevening;Occur- at Long, a resident of this c for the past eight; years, a soirpt Mr. and Mrs. 4jC. Long. TheSfefeased had been ih poor health fofrfsdme time and had for three Wes j preceding his death had failed ipir41y. Besides his parents,' he fU survivedj by a wife and one soi5!f6ur years old. Mrs. C. D Zachaifl of the Humboldt mme is a cousm : The funeral sef icejs will be held this afternoon a o'clock from the Welch and Comrihy chapel, Rev. Geo. T. Ellis officiating. t -vr JAMES ;W IIOX TO SERM'SENTENCE. Raleign, Apriiflg-The cry of a mother's heart, te heart that is al ways constant, the oilly voice raised againsaferdon for James Wilcox, coavictJliiurderertof Nell Cropsey at Elizfcfi City, but that mothers crv is id with justice and Wilcox: wiltlibt fie pardoned, according to a a vision readied by Governor Craig. day. . In explanatiofjf his refusal to issue a pardon f this man, con victed of one 01; the most tragic crimes that eveftshocked the .state, .... -i the goyernor h;4i issued an eight pageaieni3atSSviewtng in detail the ckcumstan of the association of Wilcox and 11 Cropsey as, lov ers, the lively ai attractive per sonality of the 3fated girl and the events of the fa$l evening at the ropsey home. 'Je governor, also reviews- the ' circumstances sur rounding the disappearance of the girl and the coil net of Wilcox to gether with features of the trial and the final dispoioa of tha casa by the Suprem 3 i 'mh, after it had been bfouut before that b:iy oa appeal, and 5dch decided that Wilcox must sfe the thirty year's sentence implied by the lower court. '. :: j - cpp ' " ' 1 GOVERNDRpRAIG'S VIEWS. The govern 64ays .among other things: "To release the defendant would, in my pinion, ten'd to les sen the contidace m our courts to do justice andilould not :be in ac cordance withpie well considered judgement of .iis state as express ed by statute rid judicial precedect. "Wilcox haieen dealt sternly with, but hotigconsiderately. Jie has been tiefBded by the ablest and most killl lawyers. He has been tried befe just and impartia judges, with tilery advantage in selectionof aJljury. Two juries have pronoum1d him guilty beyond a reasonable rfubt. The Supreme court set asifcthe first verdict on the ground thjt was influenced by theHfeelingf a community out-, raged by a hppible murder. After ct careful anftMbst deliberate con sideration 6f feiast trials the"-- Su premeuf firmed" the judge-mentJ-Asheile Citizen. A SLUGGBl4CLIVER need Let . your t iver, get torpid and you sa4jM- a", spell of misery. li'irAvtrlwulif vim nff aaV va SUNDAY thenffods'ofple, keep their Sve and healthy by nsing :pt.y8 NewOfe Rib Fine for the; Hbmach, too. Stop the Dizzines 3, Coltipation, iBiliousness Indigestion, jtear the blood Only 25c at yoiif Krnggist v ' . . . J , J i J J "-V J'r e . 1 i. V 'Ays-
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