(' ? '\ } A ? ? * 1.50 THE YEAR IN ADVANCE IN THE flOI.'WTV ,'t? . .. SYLVA. N. C . SFPTEHTRFR oqioo. ' , f ? ' *HE YEABINADVAKCB OUT SIDE THE OOTOTJ SOUTHERN WOMEN ?> ENDORSE PARK The Southeastern Council of Wo-' men's Clubs, meeting in*Chattanooga >! ti week, unanimously adopted a .iviion favoring the establishment ;.t' the National Park in the Great " Smoky Mountains of North 'Carolinr ( ;iH>l Tennessee. Mw. El L. MeKec, of Sylva, Pres of the "North Carolina Federa .troii of Womens Clubs, presented tin V. it or to the council, in a sptfec' s!ie delivered on the subject a introduced the resolution, 'plac im; the. dub women of the-' Soutl ,|h\ i-tly and actively behind tht I'llU'Ilt. The Hesolution follows: "Whereas that portion of the Uhit vd States cast of the Mississipi' i. \;ir:iily devoid of national parks: ? Tlierefom be it resolved that the .S.'itliiMstern Council of Federate* ( hil) Woineu endorse the establish ment by' congress of the proposes jfif'tioiial parks in the Shenandoa) \ ivlley of Virginia, and the Grca Smoky .Mountains of North Carolint ami Tennessee. vAnd that the presidents ant representatives of the several staft leilerations included in the South eastern Council urge their respective congressmen and senators to do (al ijriiu-irpnver to expedite the estab lishjii'ent of these parks." PROGRAM MINISTERS' CONFERENC. Pr lor Western North Car Una Mil. Asters' Conference to be hQ. ,'iii vVa vnesville Baptist churc' ?i-iy and Wednesday, October l" ,;ii !4. (ieilcral Subjcct: The Pasto; li..! iv 11 to the Present Work Tuesday afternoon , ! ;)ov6'vnal, W. M. Pruett :>. Wayne.-vilie. ? .? v:i S jutliem Baptist Situ:i j ' In the pulpit, P. T-. Elliot! M?rs Hill. a citizen, A- S. Solesby Vaiiklin. 2:.'!() Funerals and marriages, C. T -s\v. Waynesville. . v ?:00 The pastor with other pastor 'A. \V. Williams, Black Mountaiii ? pastor and his denomina ?. B. Grice, Ashevillc. V.'F.: At this meeting the of ;'or the ensuing year will be i-wtwl. Come and bring other pastor: v tli vou. If f or any reason any who are or Hie prota^m can not attend, please notify \v. Ross Yokley, Sylva, N. C. ^lOHWAY SYSTEM IN CLUDES 6,444 MILES Figures recently compiled show fl.ait mi July 1st, the State Highway -^v.u. iudiujed "?> dv to Kitter Dills. * ' T?: d " WS to Hester Henson f- ? % ''wood. ^""'t Allen to Eva Buchanan. Oscar Daves to Eva Price. > . ?? 'OREST FIRS RAGES IN WHITESIDE COVE The -whole of the Whiteside Cove V ' ? " ' * iountfy has been ablaze during th< v } -r ? . ast of lats week and the first of thi: jntailing thousands of dollars less i imberlands, according to report ?oming in from the ufrper, Jackso aunty country. The fire is said to have been of i.. endiary origin, and undoubtedly wa j it broke out at three distinct plac:: everal miles apart, and raged o K>th sides the Chatooga river. On re started near the Zeb Alley plac nother on Little Terrapin, and ai ther near Greenland Creek. 'A large portion of the lands af.ect d are the property of M. Bucha.ian v. A. Rexford, and others. Largi orces, augmented by the government -restcrs of the Nantehala National orest, liave been com batting the iames since Friday, a.-d now havi hem under control. ( - , , > The burned area is heavily timber (1 and sparsely settled,,being one of le great forests of the-countv.The pro >nged drought has dried ojlxihe land nd the st roams contained little .ater giving the fire every advantage j gain headway. )0 FALL CHICKS PAY AS LAYERS? The increased interest in poultry 'is caused some of our fanners to insider and plan to buy or hatch all chicks for layers. Some one may lve eni/kludcd they will pay because icy cr aviieighbor had two or three ill pullets that were good layers in ie altc spring and summer. The ?ouble comes because those late >r*ng and summer eggs sell so cheap icy sold at a fair price this year ecause vegetables were so scarce to t/> a very abnormal year. We lould buy our chicks or hatch them i the spring having Rhode Island eds, Barred Rocks, Wyandotts, etc. ;ine off February 15 to March 15 id Leghorns and Anconas, etc. come T March 15 to April 15 for layers. 'ien if our pullets arc properly oused, fed and eared for they will tart laying in late September and lve us the greates production hru ' the fall and inte? month hen eggs sell high and there is a ;al profit. If some one wishes to have early nd late broilers and friers to eat ,nd sell, the fall hatched chicks or jnuary hatched chicks are all right, ?ut don't plan to make layers of ?cm. Most of the money anyone akes with poultry will be thru sale f eggs. The broilers and frier? just >me along in the process of raising o help pay expenses and feed the reacher. TEACHERS HOLD MEETING ,n Saturday, September the nnie uith, a county-widi all-day's teach ' meeting was held at Pyha for ;C purpose of getting before the chers the general plan of work v tlic yem\ win* the iuct:tu.? Iirough which ,tl}C objectives tor the v.r will be accomplished and the O'tV d (ef procedure. Thuc wcu> one ndred and one testers present '-.e program was very interesting and lost effectively carricd out through ?^operation and support of the teach rs. \ \ A fine school spirit was outstand :ig through the day and the teachers willingly participated in the activities f the program. The discussions by 5rofesso^ Reed, Watson and Bird /hich were so effectively giver were lighly apprecatefj by present. Below is a copy of the pro gram .of the ffoy: , . ' '. Devotional BJxerpises,' Mr. A. i>. T ovelcoo. Stunt Singing, All. ? Welcome To The Teachers, Mr. Wilsdj?. ?; .S .,. ^ Calendar fo? the Near--- > Supervisory Program for the Year Miss Tullye Borden. The Standard fo? a WeH " ed Room, Mr. Bijd. ( . ,, The Requirements of a Workable Daily Sqhedule, Mr. Watson. 1 Noon Recess. Teaching^Vupijs Hpw tP Mr. Reed. Departmental Meetings-T - | Intermediate Department, Mf-t A1' ' exander in charge. , Primary Department, Miss Bord ? General Session Announcements. / Dismissal. r; V| V; ? % \ A / \ * " ' ? ? v.. mrs.-varner sells EGGS FOR $300 . Mrs. Fay Varner of Whittior community bought 260 White Leg torn, baby chicks in March of last ear, 1924. From these 250 chicks ? * fc I V'* ?'! . 00 pullets were raised and started laying some the last of September ai j 'months old. These chicks wero .aised in a brooder house with 1 brooder and less than 50 of the 250 lied. Of course the 200 left were half ;ockerels, leaving 300 pullets. These ?ullets were placed in a good stand :d layin ghouse at 5 months old and jd on laying mash and scratch feed ?^ularly with some butter milk and een feed. It has been about twelve onths now since these pullets start 1 laying. Besides an abundance ol Cgs for home use Mrs. Varner has ready sold o^er $300 worth of eggs. County Agent Tilson says the pure red hens and the proper housing and ved are the main factors in >Mrs. arnors' success. Right now she is planning on start ?ig half dozen dairy cows in ejdi. ) sell cream and market the ski ilk thru her hens. An abundance ot 1 * ' am milk will' cut down the/ feed : ?st tremendously and increase the ( rg production of any flock. ROUGHT HURT STATE CROPS j Raleigh, Sept. 10.--A summary of .?onditions on farms in North ^Caro lina (taring August and the fnv't days, in September show the prolonged drought very intensive and the lon dit ion of corn on Septem ber !-t v.:.s 09 percent of normal as compared with a past ten year ave rage condition at this date of 82 j>cr jent. This represents a decline of 3 points since August 1st. This con dition indicates a crop of about 41, 314,000 bushels compared with 44, .514,000 bushels harvested last year. The condition of the National crop declined 1.9 points from the 77.4 percent condition on August 1st, but indicates a crop 18 percent larger than tlic 1924 j)roduction. Generally throughout the South and in a largo part of Jlie .corn belt, the crop is not o 'promising as it was on August 1st, dry weather being the principal cause of deterioration. While potatoes look promising as to , growth of plants, the potatoes show very poor development and in the western countics farmers rei>ort Jiiat very little is to be found where digging has been iij, progress. The condition of sweet potatoes in North Carolina was reported as 69 percent of normal on September 1st, showing a decline of 9 points during August indicating a crop of 8,884, 000 bushels, a decline of ab ut 10 percent from the crop expected on August 1st. The condition of Irish potatoes was 60 percent of normal, reducing the yield to 64 bushels per acre and indicating a crop of 3,402, 300 bushels, just a little over half of last year's crop. The dry weather has damaged pas tures and hay crops in the western :;ouiitios almost to the point of ex terntination. Many farmers state that they have been feeding their live :tock as they do through the winter nonths. Last year the yield of tame ' ay was over a ton per acre. Reports at present sdiow an average eondi tiou of nb'out 58 percent of nt rmal, indicating a yield per acre of 1400 oounds. Willi grasses anflj meadow hays will yield about 1200 pounds ->3r acre. Clover hays, with a con dition 55 percent.^ yield .0 tons per acro- :A> ??? '.' 'v ? Sov beans showed about the same condition as on August 1st, due to the more favorable pjospegts in the eastern comities. Cowpeas declined from 66 on Auerust 1st to 58 percent on September 1st, and velvet beans also declined 10 points from the 79 percent condition on August 1st 'A ' ) WEEKLY PUBLISHERS EN THUSIASTIC OVER PARK The publishers of the weekly news papers of Western North Carolina, arc enthusiastic boosters of the Smoky Mountain National Park. Each member left the meeting, at Lake James, Friday, pledged to sup * *v) ? port the park and cooperate m every way with the movement, following a general * discussion of the project, led by the president of t\ie Weekly Press Association, Mr. Dan Tompkins who is al a a member of the com nittce aj minted to organize the state park movement. President Atkins, of the North Carolina Press Association was pres ent at the meeting and expressed himself as heartily i nfavor of the park. The weekly publishers met at Lake lames, between Marion and Mor gan ton, Friday afternoon, as the quests of the Marion Lake Club, at their club house. The business session .vas held in the afternoon, and the publishers were addressed on various subjects affecting the papers, by B. Yrp Lawrance, Lee B. Weathers, F. A. Carr, Miss Beatrice Cobb, S. E, vVhitten, and others. In the evening they were guests of Uie Marion Ki^anis Club, at a ban quet given at the Lake Club House. Mr. J. Q. Gilkey, who presided as toastinaster, welcomed the publishers In1 behalf of the Lake Club, Senator Giles, for the Kiwanis Cub, and Mr. fames for the people of Marion. Re plies were made by Mr. Tompkins, Mr. Weathers, Miss Cobb and Col. Weathers, Mayor of Shelby. Running through all the talks was ? * Ihe enthusiastic note of the coming ?*Teat prosperity for all Western North Carolina. -i fHE PARK OURS FOR THE TAKING Ashe.ville Citizen.v-There are so uany different ways of financing tho ostablshnient of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park that delay in accomplishing it is inconceivable, tiack of the 'project is, first, the nat on-widc campaign to enlist moral and .inancial supjwrt for the two parks, Jne in the Smokies and the other in the Shenandoah region of Virginia. This will be started Octobe^ ~l hy the Bankers' Service Corpora won, em ployed for the purpose by J the joint efforts and contributions of North Carolina, Tennessee aud Virginia. Secondly, theve is the North Caro lina campaign to raise funds and arouse public sentiment for the park in which' this State is primarily in terested. This also, it is announced, will begin October 1, The State money ean be raised en tirely *by voluntary contributions from the citizens or by purchase of any given number jot acres in the park area and presentation of them to the government. Or a part of it may be appropriated by the North Carolina Legislature, the remainder being given by private citizens. Or, a third possibility,, the sums secured from individuals and the legislature may be augmented by an appropriation by Congress from the Federal Treasury. It has been argured that the Federal appropriation is improbable because the United States has flevey before bought land foy a pattfHial pftrk. It iias, however, donated for park pur poses land whi^h the government al ready owned; And in the long run, there is no real difference between the donation of land that is worth money and the donating of money to buy land. All this relates to detail, The main thing now " is that the .people of all North Carolina shall show by their words and their works that they ap preciate the stupendous opportunity offered them in the park proposal. It is particularly essential that the people of Western North Carolina prove their enthusiasm for the pro ject With our people making a eon vincing demand for the park, with sentiment in support it aroused throughout the eeuntiy, with the Legislature and the Congress impressed with the people's desire for it, there is no donbt of the out come. The Great Smoky Mountain National Park, certain to bring to our people an added annual income of $40,000,000, is ours for the taking. TRAIN WRECKS CAR LEFT BY PEOPLE v, ' A serious accident on the detour from Governor's Island to Bryson was fortunately averted Monday night as 19 cable into town. Mr. P. 0. Bujflingame and his family were coming home form a ride up the road and his engine stopped just as he made one of the crossings. The fam ily was fortunate enough to get the i ' . * car off the track before the train came.Thecar was demolished,and the tendeij torn from the engine. The tijain was delayed only a short time. The detour, which everyone is forc ed to use as they come into town, is a very dangerous ohe, as people are forced to cross the railroad track four times from Governor's Island here. The crossings arc blind and one is very steep. The road is narrow and nothing has been done to the detour to make it more passable. It will be in use for . ome time as work fi Mr. and Mrs| B. E. Nicholson and little Billie, of Brevard, spent last week end with Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Queen. > ?, Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bryson, September 9, a son, Clyde. Born, to Mr. an4 Mrs. G. B. Cow ard, September 21, a daughter, Katie Lee. Mr. T. M. Rickards, Jr., of West Palm Beach, Fla., is spending some tinie with his family in their summer home here. Their daughter, Miss Catherine, who has recently returned frpm Europe, left Monday for New fork to enter Vassar College. The following enjoyed a picnic lunch on Jones' Knob Sunday: Misses Hettie, Faye, Evelyn and Pauline Bryson, Messrs. Rtoe Henry of Sylva, Claud Porter of Lake City, Fla., Glenn Bryson, Shirley Watson, Delas Park er, Miss .Marie Coward and Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Lee Hoxit. Mr. Odell Queen made a business trip to Sylva last week. Mrs. A. H. Haight of Capital Heights, Md., is visiting friends in Balsam. Mrs. Maybelle Perry is having her stores, boarding houses and cottages painted* / j This 1ms been a good season f&r tomatoes in Balsam. Mr. John Cow ard planted about six hundred plants and has gathered about twenty five bushels of ripe tomatoes and the vines are yet quite full of green ones. Mr. T. M. Rickards and Miss Kate Rickards went to Canton Monday. CULL THE HENS NOW If you have* not already culled vour- hens avd rold them ^jwith the small cull pullets ar.J cockerels don't put ot off any longer. To keep the oull hens longer is a loss. They an stealing the,. ?, profit you could makg with your good layers. You need the money out of the culla to buy baby chicks next Spring or to help feed your layers this win ter.. > _ A Your County Agent will be glad io help you cull your hens. Flocks are being culled in Whittier and Beta communities this week, and will be culled in your community with the culling demonstration at your farm if you will ask your County^Agent or let him know yours are to dc culled. KEPHART THINKS PARE ASSURED That North Carolina now has an exeelcnt chance to secure one of the great National Parks proposed for the Southern Appalachians, is the opinion expressed by Horace Kephart, who is at the Kenilworth Inn. Sixty thousand acres of virgin for est lying along the crest of the Great Smoky Mountains, which form the hotmdary line between North Carolina and Tennessee, containing 14 peaks of more than 6,000 feet, several of which are within a few feet of the height of Mt. Mitchell,has been final ly agreed upon, to the exclusion of other proposed sites, Mr. Kephart de clared. A fund of 5,000,000 will be raised for the 'purchase of the lands required in a campaign that will, according to present plans, be placed in the hands of a financing corporirfto^ in New York. ? ? North Carolina's share in the mon ey required to finance the earlier stages of Such a campaign has al ready been made available, and a ten tative program adopted, at a pieeting of the Commission in Ashevile. Mr, Kephart gave a very vivid de scription of the site of the proposed )ark. In it are the remaining acres jf the virgin forests that once.clothed the, entire highland. There are hun dreds of trees in it that measure ten and eleven feet in diameter, and seven peaks of more than 6,000 feet that have never been named. The country is exceedingly wild and sparsely in habited. The lands have a wider va riety of flora than any other place in the woifld, he says.-Asheville Citizen. SHOAL CREEK On Tuesday 15th, Prof W. C. Reed with the other teachers, manifested their interest in the National Park by taking their entire school to the highway, where they were joined by quite a number of the community folk, to witness the passing of the motorcade. What more could we doT Shoal Creek joins hands with other sections of the country for any kind of building up or improvements. In the procession we recognized the Ed itor of the Journal and we presume several other Editors, and perhaps Governors, Senators, Congressmen, with many ' other gentlemen and ladies of renown, all of whom, of course we could not _jecognize so readily. But by far the most striking feature of the occasion to us was the friendship, fellowship and good cheer i that prevailed throughout. Tho' the majority were strangers to each other, it seemed like one band of Brotherhood. On Saturday night the school gave an entertainment and ice cream sup- * per for the purpose of raising money to buy Library books. Prof. Reed stated in an earnest appeal the need of raising three hundred dollars for < that purpose. Over two hundred of the amount was subscribed within a short while. We have hopes that we will, soon have a fully equipped, Standardized High School. Our teach ers and patrons are making a strong, united effort to this end. Rev. P. W. Tucker preached Satur day morning and Sunday afternoon, dinner on the ground Saturday and the Quarterly Conference held in the I affternodn. A B. Y. P. U. was organized at the | Baptist church Sunday night, with Mr. Carl HovIq as president. Our teachers attended a Teachers' Meeting at Sylva Saturday. Rev. J. W. Bennett and family of Webster stopped at Shoal Creek Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hyatt were quests at Mr. York Howell's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Golman Kinsland, Mrs. A. C. Hoylc and Miss Edna Hoyle called at Mr. J. Hj Hughes' Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hoyle and Miss Grace Hoyle were guests at Mr. .T. 0. Howell's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Candler Childers of Whitticr called at Mr. G. A. Kins land's, Friday evening. . Miss Maggie Kincaid of Mui*phy is spending awhile wth Mrs. L. W? Cooper. Mr. Will Frpeinan and family were guests at Mr., Weaver Freeman's Sunday. Mrs. J. G. Hooper and Mrs. A. C. Hoyle visited Mrs. J. 0. Howell last week. ?? i ' Please correct! The stalk of com bearing six ears as described in last week's Shoal Creek news, belongs to Mr. D. M. Shuler. Mr. Golman Kinsland has purchas ed a car. * 1 1 , ?'( ..