North Carolina Newspapers

SYLVA HIGH SCHOOL COM MENCEMENT STARTS FRIDAY ' \ \ The closing exercises of the Sylva Hign School will begin with a .re cital by the music students in High School Auditorium Friday *April 13th at 7;45 p. m. The program will he miscellaneous, containing, solos, duets trios, and readings. Both hisg school and elemen tary students wilj take part. The program will be given under the direction of Miss Mattie Angel, Director of Music in the Sylva Hig!. School. The commencement sermon will be delivered by Rev. P. L. Elliot, Past- ?r ot the Cullowhee Baptist CJhurc!., Sunday April 15th at 11 o'clock in the Sylva Methodist Church. The closing exercises of the elOr mentary department will be rendered Thursdav evening April 19th in the High Sehool Auditorium at 7:45 p.n. The graduating exercise of the seven th grade will be given in connect' on with this program. The Hik'h School graduation ex ercises will occur in the High School Auditorium Friday evening; Apr'.l 20th, at 7:45, at which time Dr. N. \V. Walker, dean of the school of \ education of the University of North Carolina, will deliver an address, and the diplomas will be presented by Superintendent W. 0. Hampton. At 7:45 on the evening of Satur day, April 21, the senior class will present the senior play under the direction of Miss Mary W. Jones. o ROY EARLY IMPROVING Roy Early, superintendent of the Dillsboro and Sylva Electric Co., who was seriously injured, following the fire Friday morning, when a chimney fell upon him, while he was repair ing the electric lines, is doing nicely, and is reported to be steadily im proving. Mr. Early suffered a broken leg, and severe bruises about his body, when he was completely buried un der the debris of the falling chimney, and it was at first feared that his injuries might prove fatal, but he has recovered sufficiently to "be re moved to his home in Dillsboro. ? . n TO BEAtTTIFY CEMETERY The committee in ehare of beauti fying the Keener Cemetery has com pleted it's work and has the ceme tery in (vc'.eat condition, and v, sown throu^l. The coiunuticy ;; u questing that all persons ? Jiin^ pnvutt lot; in the emcteK' set ?>: evprpreens j.nd ot.u-i shri bb< < ^ theit iota as soon ks possible. d<! ? tc ih?- buiiity of th- burying 41 .1. *1 ? o- ? - ? , AGED CITIZEN PASSES The venerable 1 tic m ' 1 of the oldest oil* section, d;ed *?i " ' ? list ree* ?: b-. j; M. A/'K r.n, . . Mr. Fin'tcr vr;> ? 4 and if* survived Fisher awl r>e d i>. ' r. Mallonee, b^th . f 'Ad:';- ' brother;, -J. v.- ' r and WllUt!:. Fv ' v ? ? several, griind-cV: !v ; ? ?? ? lativea. CARD CP TII VKS We wish to thiink ( ar neigh'? r *nd friend? of Add'e iind*t' .? si roundin- c - r; >' and d ir rtU-I ?! ; t ? ? i \?ur ? ir.indi.i'1 ?r R-.ll. F.18?TFJ: .?n<] TWiii; m-A i- r mat 1/ vj:;. o CARD OF TIUNKB p % Through the JOURNAL we wis1 to express our many thanl-s lo the friends and neighbors whr? wi're s kind nnd hrlplnl during the illtte and deaf j of our dear w*-.fe nw! mother Cordelia Bnchannn. ... COIX BUCHAVAN and famtl*. LOCAL BANK HAS NEW OFilCAl H. W. Hoffman, of Waynesville, has accepted the position as assistant cashier of the Jackson County Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman arrived, Sun day, and will make their hr?ue in Sylva. 1 \ ? ?V A well laid out and well tilled garden is one of the most attractive WEBSTER HIGH SCHOOL ' COMMENCEMENT The close of another school year at Webster is marked in the school itself by the usual routine of review, examinations and practice for the commencement exercises. The com munity is getting into the spirit of the preparation period by making graduating dresses and costumes for play." and by giving parties for the taior class. Saturday evening at 8 o'clock the grammar grades/ have their exercises. Sunday evening at 7 :30 o'clock at the Methodist Church the commencement sermon will be preached by Rev. Van B. Harrison. School work will be resumed Mon day morning and continued through Tuesday. At 8 o'clock Tuesday evening the graduating exercises take ;>!ace. The speaker of the evening is ' Jr. C. S. 'McOlellnn. The members r are, Misses M.7?hic Ashe, Buchanan, Elizabeth Davis and J 7 j .Carrie Evans and Mr. T.uke y -eng. ?A'cdnoiday evening at 8 o'clock' <> ?mmencement play, "Green 1 Slockings" will be given. Full of fun and of considerable fame itself, the play gives a chance for a dis play of the best dramati<? talent among the students. All exercises take place in th High School Auditorium. The public is invited to be present. o i 3US SERVICES STARTS TO ASHETPLL" i The Jackson County Bus Line has j been established and is operating at Hudson Touring car from Cullowhee, via Sylva, to Asheville daily. Con venient schedule ,as announced m the advertising of this company, in the JOURNAL this week, has b?en arranged; and the operators expect to put on additional cars, and ex tend their service to other points, radiating from. Sylva, as fast as roads and conditions admit. WILMOT \ I ' All tire farmers are b&y' ^ cir crops. Mrs. Elizabeth Cagle of Brj.^ it City, is spending a Tew days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Nation. Talmadge Sherrill passed through here Friday. Mrs. Wilburn Messer and children spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Ashe. Mrs. Mae Bumgamcr has moved to t; wn. Mi s Lillie Nation has returned 1 heme after a long stay at Tucka ?eeigee. Edwin Biuvgnrner ''as retnrned fr ? i A^-ir n, r>lil-"., w' ??re he ha5! , Vvn isitin * friends and relatives. V. <0.-; T "Hie Nation nnd Bessie S ? s- r . . nd Messrs John M. Queen ' '? 'iV" fcj-' n rvtored t"Br' =? n . . \ \o. n . i! * AT.' j.iieft. Q.;alla, wa< 1 iV.-:: i y % m business. \ .]<??? ?? Pari ." hits ^vtiiriPii ] cr r. h rt stay at (iar.ton'i. j >o Iim- and 1 v.v Ward*andj ?' ? ? p r r dburn, Glenn nor.; >* -'II a" . . . v~ i ' . . >V d i ii I' rd ? d \iwi-. *v, ??*'. ? ?. i* h;: afi'f ? r Syittjn, f ' Barker's . ' f '.y. <? Sunday. '?'Iks Brown visited . at her fjr's Mr.. J. T. Revis, Sunday > ?o n. ?'?srrr Gibr,cn was in town " r: ']'l V: ' "*t ' -1 Lewis, ? f Whittier, % :->"d her br' tlipr, Mr. John I.-cw:3 nnd familv Sunday. Mr. Kanse Howell of Qnalla pa^-* cd througrh here Monday enroute ? Mic Pig T nnrcl. Mrs. Hattie Gibson was in t< at M^ndav shopping. Miss Grace Davis of Camp CrroV was in town Saturday shopping. Bessie Sellnrs and little daughter Vorna, visited' Miss Cora Gibson Mondav afternoon. Miss Maggie Worley was in town Af^ndav sh^ppiner. Hrwrd Ouictt nnd little brother i TInbert. were here Sunday. n TOWN ELLECTION CALLED An election for the town of Svlva has been enHed to be held on the oi<r''th dav of May for the purpose of electing a Mayor and a Board of A'dermeri. (i Pen ^tieen has been nppnin* 1 wr:ster of the election and. the ' - ?oa ww opm at lu* ?toxe? . c ...M. H. MORRIS IS 'DEAD. M-H. Morris, one of the best known and best loved citizens of Sylva, died at the Biltmore Hospital, early Saturday morning, following an ill ness of several months duration. The bt^ly was brought to Sylva, Satur day, and the funeral services were conducted at the Methodist church, Sunday afternoon, Rev. 0. J. Jones, pastor of the Methodist church, and Rev. \V. Ross Yokley, pastor of the Baptist Church, having charge of th3 ? obsequies. Following the services at tlie church, the Masonic fraternity, of wiiic'i Mr. Morris was a past mas I ter, took charge of the body and con | eluded the scrvice at the Webster cemetery. ? < I Mr. Morris was a native of Jack ron r ::ity, was 61 years of age, and was blessed with a large circle of i friend"1 in Jackson county and throe ?ut -Western North Carolina, and t ? large concourse of people, and ? many and beautiful floral o -V attested the esteem in i win. . was held by the people | a. <?'.*' m he lived. AI "ris was a well-informed and citizen, was an active ' v the Sylva Methodisi | c'.u a member of Sylva L* .i ; j A. 1 . & A. M., and leaves a ? nd two sons, W. J.. Morris, : i ! 7i J.I .rris, both of Sylva, and iiiCi ru>?iti\es and an unusually ! r*c circle of friends. BALSAM Mrs. 0. J. Beck and children have returned from a pleasant visit to her aunt, Mrs. Geo. Hoyle, in Webster. Her cousin, Mrs. Bryson Smith ac companied her home and spent the week. end. Mr. and Mrs.Roy Bro#n are. spend ing some time in Balsam. Miss Emma McKay, of Hazelwood is visiting relatives in Balsam. Miss Addie Crawford is visiting relatives in Addie. Miss Ethel Jones visited her m. titer, Mrs. Oddie Jones in Bryson Citv last week. Mr. Corbelt Enslcy went to Can t - > < ? '? -r ? - . Duncan wen; Ilazci- j 'aynesville, Mo.. Jay. His accompanied him home. Mr. Ehie Ensley spent th6 *cek end in Bryson City. Miss Sallie Christy is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W; E. Christy In Ashevillc. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson visited in last week. N James "ii ?. ' .? ' and family the weo\ en . in Cant< n MARIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Cadlo Mosier to Debbie Hooper. I D. Bentley to Gertrude Watson. A -iM:r Trantham to Octie Buch anan. i,:. man Allen to Beatrice Blak !er ccii.red.) - iir; STREET WORK Tho < Mills-Williams Construction Company, the contractor on ti e street I and road work in Sylva and from | Sylva Ito Dillsbor'o, hav6 resumed i operations on the work, wliich .was suspr iod during t'ie winler months, 'aying the curbing on tli?!' So. t\ "r'o of Mr. in . street, pre ppr?. to beginning p Hiring con er-.-t-' I' ? tractors hope to bo^in th-.*; i cont' work Monday, and to push i th' to completion, as rapidly as I r ' ey expect to finish thf v out interruption, as laig<; ! qr. 1 of material are now on 1 . distributed at convenient [ i .? the highway. ! . \ ? ? ? ? ~ -!?: the soil or subsoil of ? ? when too wet. The soil will be injured as a result. ? - ? ? o n e v. r v to save moistre for the .-ard -n is to keep the soil loose on top by frequent, shallow cultivation, o County Agent Grover Falls of Pasquotank County helped his farm ers to buy 150 rolls of wire fencing for pastures at a net saving of $480. o One good picture that you can't live without is better than a dozen on the walls that you oughtn't to live with. Spring time means home beati fication time ? a few vines and flow ers planted now will make a vast differenehce this summer in the ap the house an 1 * -rd, eavs . ... astration wcr! of tho extanaion aervitte. . ? I ? i - ; ? X- / " 1 , VOTE OF THANKS The First Baptist Church voted Sunday morning as a body to thank the fire department and all others . for their successful efforts in keep ; ing the fire from destroying the church building Friday morning. | REV. W. ROSS YOKLEY, in behalf of First Baptist Church. o FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH > W. ROSS YOKLEY, Pastor There will be no preaching ser vices at 11 A. M. Sunday, owing to | the commencement services of High School. Sunday School at the usual hour and preaching at 7 :-30 P. M. how ever. Special music. A welcome extended to all to j worship with itfc ? ^-4 SHUFORD JJjKKINS AT CI-Aii TON, GEORGIA j On the first of April, ?vc. star! <1 ! a tent meeting here, in Clayton; Tiie) interest has beai highly pleasin The weather has been bad, but the j people have attended splendidly ? they have surprised themselves. 'I lie merchants and business men are clos ing their stores and places of bus iness daily and coining to the tent. If any of my Christian friends lvrid these lines, I want to beg you to pray for us as you have never prayed be fore. Pray, pray, pray! Pray that not only Clayton may be taken for God, but pray that Italian County may be made a new county. SHUFORD J KX KIN'S. o SHOAL CREEK We hoar many expressions of re gret and sympathy in our com munity on account of the fire disaster in Sylva. Rev. J. R. Church preached an up lifting sermon to an attentive audi ence, Sund:?y morning. Mr. Lucius Hipps, of Olivet, vas' a visitor at Shoal Creek, Sunday. J4r. John BatUG-spcnt^i?day~wiiii relatives, at . Sylva. Mr. J. O. Terrell is teaching in our. school instead of Mr. Wayne Wells, who has entered school at Cullowhee. Miss Delia Owen returned- home , .A Saturday, after finishing up her school near Winston-Salem. Messrs David Plott and Glenn Campbell, of Haywood stopped at Mr. R. F. Hall's Friday. Prof, and Mrs. C. R. Bird, Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Church and Mr.and Mrs. Terry Johnson dined at Mr. J.< C. Johnson's Sunday. Mrs. Grover Wiggins, Miss Lacy Wiggins arid Mr. Garland Oxncr dined at Mr. Charles Hyatt's Sun day- ? Miss Hazel Fisher and Miss Geor gia Snider of Beta spent the week end with Mrs. James Freeman. Miss Annie Howell was a guest at Mr. G. T. Cooper's last week. Mrs. H. G. Ferguson spent Rim day afiern:'' 11 at Air. ^ or:". How: !! 'p. Mr. and Mrs. K. Howell spent the ^ ne' end with relative.: on Dick"; I Creek. ' _.i i Te'ia Doyle called ot Mr. J. j H. Hughes' Stiiiihy afternoon. Mr. B.B. 'ilpiisoii, of Whittier stop prd :-t Mr. .1. K. Terrell's Saturday. Miss Grace il.-ylc e;;llr<! at Mr.'Y.'. H. Hoyle 's, A^n.Ly. Mrs. Chnrlrti ? t .spent Sat urday with Mrs. A. C. Hoyle. Mrs. Nancy AntJift'uv, of Bush .c'1 is visiting at the home u) her son Rev. W. A. Anthony. Mr. A. M. Gibson stopped at Mr W. F. House's Sunday. Misses Winnie Cooper, ('v:x: Hoyle, Fannie Anthony, Addi< Freeman, Essie Anthony, Hazel !? ;s!i er and Messrs Charles Enslcy, Car Hoyle and ftonnie Crisp tpok a walk on the highway Sunday afternoon. Music in the home of Mr. J. E. Hoyle, Monday night. o Of the 1310 students at the North Carolina State College, 551 are tak ing some of the agricultural course-. This is oyeis.42 percent, and looks good for the future of progressive farming ill North Carolina. 'i > ' Much of the garden work can be done at odd hours that otherwise might be wasted. - # If allowed to roam at will, chick ens soon learn that a good garden is a regular pie counter. Fence them cut and save the pie for youiscli suggests C.R. Hudson, State Farm Demonstration Agent i ? / ?' . i. * ONLY TWO FINES MONDAY The Recorder's court imposed only two fines of $5,00 each, at the sit ting Monday, and a number of cases were continued until next week, be cause of the absence of Mr. Walter E. Moore. Charles Lominac and Dud Frizzed each drew $5.00 and the costs for failure to work the roads, after hav ing been warned. Dexter Ashe entered' a plea of guilty of disturbing a baptising at Sol's Creek, and when the evidence was adduced, tli.it of t lie preacher and dea'-on of the church, there wa? no incrii. limiting evidence against him, and upon recommendation ot the preacher .judgement was su.i pc.uled upon payment of 'costs. Queen plead guilty of be ing dri':i' and proved a jjood chair.c tev and ti iit t hits was his first drunk, and his (iv-t apperrunce in court, and jii'l.i tv.r nt was suspended upon .payment oi rt.o costs. - * ? BARKER'S CREEK I Mi*. W'. -W. Joufcs is very ill with niK,umoira.\\\? liopc tor her a speedy rec;?\ er v. ? * "Mrs. Richard Patterson and son visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Gunter Sunday. Mr. Johnson Thomas, of Alarka, spent a week with home folks. Mr. Robert Jones has crectcd a new home. Mrs. Joe Messcr and little daugh ter, Pauline called at Mr. John Brooks' Monday. ' Mrst R. JT. Fisher is ill witli flu. We are glad to see Misses Nell and Myrtle Thomas out again after a serious illness of flu. Mr. General Jones spent the week 1 cn<l at the Thorias home. Mr. Jewel Revis is working at the JWtfjaVf Will.... Xv_ _ , Mr. Mcjvinley Davis has purchased a Foid*fcar. Mr. Lee Elders has moved to the Parris place. Mr. Dallas Jones of Franklin, was on our streets Sunday. Miss Birdcll Sutton made a bus iness trip to Sylva the first of the week. { Mrs. O. A. Sutton is very ill. We wish for her a sj>eady recovery. Miss Nannie Mae Nations attend ed the commencement at Whittier, Thursday. Mr. Dewey Beck left Wednesday for Washington. Mrs. J. T. Jones called at Mrs. Joe Brooks' Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Sarah Jano Gibson visited Mrs. Jno. Davis Friday. Miss BcssieBrooks made a business trip to Green 's Creek last Monday. ifr. General Jones made a business trip to Sylva Saturday. M J. C: Jones, of Vliittier, call ed r-i I r> Brooks' Sunday. 5 Xe!l and Myrtle Thomas r>rc t>e' for a fishing trip t< ikt-jvC: -He I ! : c*. first of May. We vo gkwl to see M:;s Bertha Jones . ? ? again after a serious ill i ii'?s? ( : , Mr. '? ('. Jorc.s made a business tr?p (,> ; ? . i-n Citv, Saturday. Mr;. "S. Aliiaon called at Mr. Lyb J<t::?-V ii .>;day. . -4 (I r ? C*RS BURN ... Zrjvv Oity Tivn-'S.? On l?.st Fri day n; riiiii;^ at o'clock the glaiy dI a fiie, was notii v] one-half mile v t ol the depot at 7!ryson by em-, pl yee.; of the Southen 'ail way who] Ii.i ;l to be working near the depat at that time. The fi ? ay>pear ed to be neare the storage t: cks of the Southern Railway whicii are located near the junction of li r Alarka rail road These employee, at once investigated the fire and found that three freight cars, of a train of thirty cars which had beer: set ol'i on this . track an hour earlier, were burning fiercely. A locomotive standing in the yards at Bryson was pressed in into service and the cars at cither eud of the burning core I were pulled away and stored on an { other track at a safe distance from the fire, saving the railroad company much damage. The extent of the damage amounted tOMhe complete destruction gf two box cars, :? num ber of switch ties, 100 feet of track, and slight damage to a car load cf lumber ? amounting in all to fifteen or eighteen hundred dollars. M. H. MORRIS I had an acquaintance with Han ly Morris extending over forty-five years. He was never a person whom even a "friend for votes" would presume to slap on the shoulder. Rather one would ' stop with the familiarities of a gentlemen. But, personally, we were schoolmates and I always reserved a comfortable chambcr in my heart for him. We ad dressed each other by our household name."!. I never told him of my pe culiar esteam for him. I wish J had but 1 believe he was conscious of it. lie' was several years my senior and, as a small boy, I craved to imi tate his upright example, llis de portment was never under one hun dred. In his lessons lie stood at or near the head of his classes. He literally bunted the midnight torch. In liis youth he possessed a musi cal voice, a natural ease and?grace of delivery, and the people used to attei.d the "exhibitions" for miles around to hear him declaim. He barely .missed a public career, but hit upon that which is far more im portant ? the making of a first class private citizen. He was _ not an ieoncelast. He would have been the last j>erson to unsettle the sacred be liefs of another, but in thought and action he was sometimes original and always free. In the best sense he was intel ligent. On his desk, in his store, might be found the best current perio/licals representing all shkdps of opinion and subjects of modern thought. He knew his Bibje jand his Christianity was based -upon its teachings. He made no proclamations front the housetops. He was indeed his relation. His case might be prc sonal relations, but particularly in his religion. His case might be per sented in three words ? a humble Christian. He was happy to serve in the ranks. I was in Sunday School, off ami on, with him for a generation, and 1 never knew him to intrude himself or show any inclination to assume the reiutv When, the rest of us men sat dignified and dumb, like tins "Village Blacksmith", he sang with the little children and with a zest and abandon which could not mis take the heart. lu his business he was just, and he did many a deed in which the Christly reserve, the hand sustained toward the left, was kept inviolate. I wish I might stand his chance at the Judgement. The crowd of old acquaintances grows smaller \hene; and life more lonely as the years ad vance. .TAMES H. CATHEY. 0 DEGREES CONFERRED IN WAYNESVILLE Wayncsville Mountaineer The MarkMaster degree was con ferred hv tho team from Cahton 'Chapter in a very impressive manner. Many visitors were present for the degrees. Valuable assistance in the conferring of the degrees was n: 't!f? red by tho ladies choir com p.??ed of Miss Fredericka Quinlau organist, Mrs. L. E. Green, Mi:-* Alice Oninlan and Miss Ida Jesii Brown, sopranos., Miss Nancy Killiau Miss Mildred Crawford and Mrj. Frederick Brcoks, altos. % TheCommandery degrees were con ferred on Wednesday on a class of eleven. Those receiving the degree* wenxDr. Chas. Z. Candler and- D. (I. Bryson of Sylva, Arthur D. Hul leti of Sunburst, S. F. Robinson, T. ft; Boyd, J. P. Swift, I)r. .Tames M. Wellbourn of Waynesville, J. W. Combs of Mnrphy, A. D. Wood, ot. Canton, W. .1. Green of Dillsboro o SMALL BOY DROWNED ( Waynesville Mountaineer "April 5. ? Ulysesj the eight-year old sou of C' ;roncc Gaddis, whose mother is ??*<d vas playing along the banks of KlrMr.iid Creek yesterday afternoon with a mall soil of Jarvis Campbell. The last srea of him while alive vaa about five o'clock when the Car.pbelt boy left him. FI** was throwi*-^ roeka into the stream at that !une, He was missed at supper tini' and search, was made. His dead bo?iy was frond on a shoal below W. P. Farmcr'a blachsmith shop about eight o'clock. He had probably fallen Into the creek and was drowned with no one pres ent to save him or give an alarm. Funeral srrvices were. hehf this afternoon atltiehiand Chapel by Rev. R. II. Herring and the burial was luipm'g fihapel. .