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vol. iv no; 7 COUNTY BOARD OF APPRAISE RS0 RG ANIZED 1 v . - . i i The County Board of Appraisers for Jackson county was organized at the meeting of the board of county commissioners Monday. Mr. J. D. Coward of Cullowhee who has recently been appointed to that position by the State Tax Commis sion is theCounty Supervisor, and H. R. Snyder and former sheriff James W. Buchanan were appoint ed members of . the revaluation board and assistants to" the super visor by the county commissioners. Being recommended by the county snnervisor nan inmnkins was in- nnintPrl Hprk tn thp smnpruionr onVi revaluation board by the county I commissioners. N . , The work which this board will take up is provided for in an act passed by the last General Assem bly, the design being to value all the property in the county and the state at its true value. The super- least six months in every year, and visor and at Leastone other mem- that alsoall misdemeanors commit- ber of the board will visit each . . u r io nrm n( . Mt.nt.A .u 1. ed by minors under the age of 18 piece of real estate m the county in , . . . . , . order to be able to arrive at an sha11 bQ within the jurisdiction of opinion as to the value of the prop- i the clerk of the superior court, who erty. The first thing the board will ! is constituted a juvenile court in do is to mail out a questionnaire to leach colmty for that purpose, each property owner to be filled in I ri M1 u by him.and if all the property ! Mr-Cowan wlU e.nter uPn hls holders will have these properly duties at once, filled out and ready to sign when the supervisor arrives it will save much unnecessary delay as well as considerable expense to the county. The legislature does not intend to increase the amount of the taxes that are paid; but to put the pro perty holders of the state on an equal footing as to the taxable val ue of the property. At present,! properties of equal value are listed ; at glaringly unequal amounts on the tax books in the state, and it is to put the taxable property on a more equit ible basis that this -work is to 'be done v Mr. Coward recently attended a meeting of the county supervisors of the state who met with the state I Tax Commission and the Governor in Asheville, at which time all the work ahead was thoroughly dis cussed and instructions given to the county and district men by the Tax Commission. - '. Annou ncement We wish to annsunce to the public that we have bought out the stock of the Sylva Millin ery Co. and will conduct the busines s under the firm name of G. M. COLE & COMPANY. . We Will soon have a full stock cf first class goods, and will sell for a close margin of profit as we are going to con duct our business strictly on the cash basis. " We will leave for market the first of .the week to purchase goods. We solicit your trade and assure you the best of treat ment and will appreciate any business you may give us. GEO. M. COLE A. F. CLOUSE T.B. COWAN APPOINTtD ATTENDANCE OFFICER, At a joint meeting of the county commissioners and the county board of education, Tuesday, Mr. T. B. Cowan, of Webster was appointed attendance officer, unrer the com pulsory school attendance act of the General Assembly, and welfare officer of the juvenile court. Mr. Cowan's duties will be to see that the legislation relating to school at tendance is enforced in this county, and to be the officer of the juvenile court. Where he learns that the parents or guardians of children are unable to furnish the child with necessary school supplies he will arrange for them to be paid out the public fund. The act provides that every child in the state within the ages of 8 and 16 shall attend school for tt PARTNERSHIP RETURNS Collector A. D. Watts of States ville, N. C, has the blanks for part nership returns and will be glad to send them to all who apply for them. He has not a list o? partner- ships and it-will be necessary for application to be made to him fcr blanks. Under the present Revenue Law it is thjiuty of all partnership?! to make returns, but as partnerships. they do not pay taxes. It would be well for all partnerships to im- mediately apply to the Collector fcr these blanks, as the time for n ing rpniriis pxnires on June loth, aher ! which time penalties will be exact ' ed for failure to file returns. : : " : . ' '""S . "W4JX7'j SYLVA. N. C... JUNE 6, 1919. " " $1.50 THE YEAR ADVXNtfe" ' vl . . , : - ';. Not a smile illumines the face German financial delegates leaving representatives. At the left is shown . ' i- " ' ' , , . FIRST REPUBLICAN SPEAKER IN EIGHT YEARS. First photograph taken of the Hon. Frederick Huntington Gillett, new Speaker of the House of Representatives at his desk on the rostrum. Mr. Gillett is the first Republican to take the gavel in eight years. WILLIAM ELSIE DILLARD BY JAMES H. CATHEY Read at M. E. Church South Sylva, N. C. It is not with unmixed emotions that I approach the task assigned me in this program. I share in the profound sadness of all who realize jthat our young soldier is one of the immoital number of unreturning dead; and at the same time I ex perience, a solemn satisfaction in adding my poor mite to the sum of praise which he so richly earned. No one not occupying the position of mother, father, brother or sister can appreciate the poignant grief and loneliness of such a passing as that of our young hero. Without solemn and deep le flection we shall fail to grasp the awful significance of death for any cause or under any circumstances. Our Savior himself dreaded death as is shown by his agony and pray er in Gethsemane. Man has but one natural life. He . 1 1 m 1 passes tnis way out once, ine tender ties.the familiar scenes of this beautiful world are his to cul tivate and enjoy, and they become a part of his very life, his food and his drink. Ah, the appeal of life in tie bounding tide of youth with all of its manifold and mysterious re lations: The old home with her to preside who is dearer than all the world beside, the ancestral home with its hedges, of boxwood arid "white pigeons fluttering down;" the ancient oaks and smiling uplands, how it must tear the heart of youth NOT ONE OF THEM IS SMILING. of a;.$mgle one of these men. Good enough reason why. They are the Triason Palace at Versailles, following the military chaperone furnished : t3 to look upon these for the last time. Even the. iron hearted Napoleon said he loved the very smell of the soil of his native Corsica. Sometimes we speak in eloquent terms of the glory that attaches to the death of a uero for his country. Genuine vicarious sacrifice is glori ous. "Greater love hath no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friend." It is equallv glorious to die for the oppressed. The immortal Frenchman, Lafay ette, headed a few unselfish patriots and rmhlv noeiQl-pH Wh5ndtrn in , f t. relic of a barbaric idea in govern delivernul our colonies from the . f r, r tu- j tyranny of German George Third, . . . , , rp but it remained for the Twentieth . 1 i u nu , Century to behold a Christian na- tion of the first magnitute lay all of its fabulous resources, men, mon ey and time, upon the altar of Lib erty in a foreign clime, across three thousand miles of sea. Never be fore had the human race gazed npon so singular and sublime a spectacle. : For the first time in history a united nation threw itself in the breach between the mailed fist and the spirit Oi liberty, that the latter might continue to live in the world, without thought of the immemorial rewards of conquest. No nation not Christian would have dared so momentous an , adventure. Indeed you, soldiers, were actuated by the first law of life: self-preservation the perpetuation of our free institu tions from the thralldom of German military cult in full operation, but the motive that impelled you and a meeting with the Allied financial the Teutonic delegates by the Allies J- your dead comrade whose gallant spirit we honor and revere today was the liberation of France and j Belgium and the other oppressed i peoples of Central Europe '. from the yoke of German oppression. Yes, young Dil lard died for an ideal and more, he died for a sublime principle that men might live and that little children and defensehss women and helpless age might be resued from the nightmare of ultra savage force (and fiendishness. Sol4 diers, you offered your lives, and your comrade died, for the .well being o i alnture genefalioas Men living ten generations, aye, ten centuries from now will be as mu h your debcors as we .who proudly look upon your manly forms todav. Your task has been nobly perform ed. You have sown the seeds of liberty and enlightenment through out the Eastern half of the world and the harvest may be indefinite, but is none the less sure. The sac rifice of your immortal dead their rich, young life-blood moistening an hundred ensanguined fields from the Argonne, to Mehiel, Metz and Verdun will perpetually ascend to our God, who is the final conserva tor ana aaministrator 01 justice, righteousness and peace among nations, as among men. Where is the American today who would wish a return to human , slavery? Who among us, however wise or simple, would advocate a disruption of the Union of these States? Just so it is in Europe and the far east. From now henceforth there will be' no place on earth. much less in the Sun, for an auto cratic simpleton or tyrannical ego tist like Nicholas Romanoff or Wii liam Hohenzollerm They were the ment. mey were not aeiuaea. iney . . , . were vicious and presumptive from ... , . , . . . ages of evil and false training. The , , , . . ..., ! worm nprnmp fiirlr snrl tirori r,f all ; . 1 sucu anu. uiroujm your saennce. ni s " J il :jL C f made good riddance of them. And now Soldiers, in the soldier death of Elsie Dillard every one of us and every one of . you are re committed" to the task of citizen ship. D(Lit ever occur to ypu that .. i 1 j- 1 . 11 snouia oe as gionous 10 live as to die for a just cause? Often it re quires all the finest qualities of the best soldier to do right. In fact, the men whom you have Known in public or private life, who have been of the greatest value to mankind, have evinced the courage of the martyr when occasion called. That .great apostle to the gentiles and prince ariQng men St. Paul was always ready to be "offered up" for Him whom he served. Ah, the transcendant, all-inclusive place of service in the life! .The real heroes are those like Garibaldi; Kossuth, Lincoln, Lee and our own great President, who exist in their ohysi- cal bodies, but in reality live out of themselves and for all humanity. for all time. To briefly paraphrase Lincoln at Gettysburg: "Ms for us. civilians and soldiers, to be here dedicated to the task remaining before us that from our honored dead, we take in creased devotion to the cause for which he gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that our young friend and comrade shall notliave died in Vain ana mat all nations, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, tor me people and by the people 3hall not perish from the earth Soldiers, it grieves our hearts that the hale and happy form of Elsie is left tO Sleeb in Fls.nrlpro' IKoM. where poppies blow, but. like the young lover whose heart was in the highlands a' chasing the roe. our hearts are with our dead young lover of human rights as he awaits "Hm olast of the hero's reveille on some golden morning in God's good time. If the war had continued there would have been other gold stars on that white background. You have been of all men the mnat fnrfu- nate. You have come back to your native land and to us almost as from the grave. You have come back, most of you, strong.and hopeful and full of the joy of livhg. You come back home with -something the Grecian, the Roman sol dier with his chariot wheels laden with material and human trophies, never knew. You come back with the best physical and moral health of all, the soldiers of history. -"Your personal conduct, your con versation and intercourse mark you as sons worthy of chevalier sires. You have shown the world that a soldier can be a Christian and a gentleman. We are proud of you and feel reassured in the most live and liberal prophecy of a glorious citizenship among us. While you were suffering from cald and hunger, or on the' field of battle we suffered 'Vith you, our hopes and prayers fol lowed you by night and by day. and often sleep was stranger to us, but now we have you and we are happy. May you never again have to per form another such errand, but may you ascend the Eastern side of the hill of life in prosperity and go down the Western slope in peace. SENATE ADOPTS EQUAL SUFFRAGEJMENDNr Washington, June 4.ActibD by congress on equal suffrage subject of a fight of forty years .duration ended late today in adoption by the senate by a vote of 56 to 25 of the historic Susan B. Anthony con stitutional amendment resolution. The proposed amendment, adopt ed by the house by a vote of 304 to 89 May 21, as the first act of the new congress, now goes to the states, ratification by the legisla ture of three-fourths of which is required for its . incorporation in the federal constitution. Ther roll call today showed two votes more than the necessary two thirds for the resolution", which was drafted by Susan B, Anthony in 1875 and introduced by Senator Sergent of California in 1878T Count ing paired and absent members, the senate actually stood 66 to 30 for he measure. MOVES OFFICE. Brown and Brown have moved their office to the office recently occupied by A. J. Dills, next doorp to M. H. Morris and Sons, on Main street. When you are interested in insurance you will find them on the job. t i t n 8 I r ...;-Jv'
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