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?~~~ ? ? ' ? Wedncdky^Attgust 11,1926 ?Metb.T,?h.AJromortdd,nnm,..
MWL MONTHS
m Mm UOfi
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lit! For*-- "I * fork, was con
I r;(teJ ol ki': ! - :l and sen ten cod
L serve i:h?iiMis on the roads
n.svK ?? 'i:' county in the re
ftju?sylwi:<i.- ..
court Monday.
jjn^bili indictment chained
I fori' B''1' ,i: killr ivi,1('d a do?> the
aoperty ol' i ;U,.v ^'ood> which dog
fa luitl li> ? ?i '??? tlt^s- It devel-j
j th.it tl < .log was a hound, a
Ifcar ?lpr- v;,llu>tI at ^>0.00 on
Ae u-\ b<H?k- I'd if admitted killing!
lie dog. l?iw,?l. of his|
pruj^y. siaijiii: that depredations)
waiiiit l'i> property had been com-!
jiiiit'il iiv?|in:iily. dogs overturn^ngj
iii tuilk a"'l l^titlt'r and that he saw j
doir ??"**?!inir his iionse at the'
| (judo*, :iiui tired, killing it.
frum liit- nidgiiieiit of the court
fore took .-in appeal to the superior
Wiirt, ami > I'*' case will probably be
j,jnJ ill Ocloi.-er.
Oilier ca.-is .iisj>osed of were:
IkH-k Me?< 1' and Albert Moser, as
iuit. runl in ued.
L L (o[v, transporting and po
gsiou! continued.
Ckreim' Hi roll field, selling cwr
liilwiit liilt. tiol pros with leave.
Jim Cunningham, drunk, $25. and
a
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I
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Jim Cunningham, resisting an ot
:lYri, 4 nHH'.i iis suspended sentence,
I ^poii go6tl Ih havior.
Hobert, Brnom, transporting and
| puifssioii >">'?< and the costs.
Hubert l>!t??in, drunk, $25 and the
I '?j ?
Joe Bipum Stanley, jjossession,
#1 and'tlit- costs. Appealed to the;
?|iej-ior courts
Gilbert Moss drunk, $25 and tlie
cuti .
Gilbert Moss, disturbing a religious
rougregation, 3 months suspended
sentence. u|?>n ~ood behavior.
Ura Cairlc, -1. W. Cagl^ and Bur
Cattle. ijhuisjK>rting and posses
V v '1 ^
Mon.eonliiuu'tl. I \
Chris>PussMioro,, assault, not guil
tv- \ , '
t'liris Pas>iiibnv drunk, $25 and the !
costs.' > i
H;i\ Suvms. C. C. W., $5 and the!
eosts. J /
Hul Stevens,1 A. W. D. W., eon-;
tiniMtf. / '' /' .<j
Hut Nicliolsou, drunk. (iO days.
Appealed to snjierjor court. ->
Hut Xicliolsoi).. C. C. W., nol pros. j
Albert Misscr. drunk, $25 ami the
costs.
Lelw Wood, drunk, $25 and the'
costs. ' |
Clihs. Brv.Mui, W. _ months.!
Jim I'anitcll, (Jamie I'anncll, Cleve'
"igiriiis, tt'aii.s])Oi'iiii^ and jjossession,;
$iU ;uit| the costs, each.
(rt*o. Hill, drunk, $25/and the;
costs. \
Leslie Brooks, putting sawdust in;
stream, -judgment suspended upon
payment of the costs.
BACON BANDITS MENACE
HICKORY FOOD SUPPLIES
Avhnillc Citizens.
Uieicoi;y,S N. C. Aug. !)?What ot'-j
ficcrs here believe to be a sizeablej
ainl wi ll organized band of " bacon j
buiidis'' hvs been preying on smoke-j
houses in this community to such an,
extent that its activities are causing'
serious alarm. j
Tin- gang's ravages reached theiri
I*ak last Friday night when five,
siuokoiioiiM-s in the Lutx neighbor"!
Iiood wi re looted in the order in j
*iii<*li they stood on the thieves'j
?track. Hemuniiii; at the home of Mrs.1;
J- H. Lui/, thifc theives took every!
piwc 01 ii.-at contained in the well-1
stocked -linage place, including
quantities <>l hams and bacon. iAp
Jwirentlv traveling in automobiles, the
(thieves |i, weeded to "clean out 4
?%r |>l;nes in like nianner.
l'uriii- i hi. |WS^ week 75 ehickens
^re stoleii from the home of Arthur ?
Hunt in Windv City and at one
plaee a eahbaue patch was cut down
a"d the entire lot carried off.
TO CLEAN OFF . i
KEENER CEMETERY
Tlie people having friends and rel
aUv<* hiniirl in the Keener Cemetery
meet there on Thursday before
,1|(1 Fourth Sunday in August and
't,a" oi l the cemetery.
NOTICE
is to be a very important
"Hating ?| the church next Sunday
Jminc. Every member is urged to
e present ;it this meeting.
Sylva Baptist Church,
^ U. Jones, Church Clerk.
GLENN REM ON
Ntt-MMX IMFHOVtS
Raymond L. Glenn, young jeweler,
: who shot John S. Nance, highway
j contractor lour times, early on the
morning of July 30, was released on
a $3000.00 bond, furnished by Sylva
business men, last Thursday, fdllow
; ing a hearing before Judge W. F.
Harding, in Bryson City.
. Mr. Glenn is now at the home of
his brothei-s in Hendersonville await
ing trial at the October term of the
Superior court of Jackson county.
John S. Nance; who was shot at
first thought to be fatally wounded,
,is recovering at the Bryson City Hos
pital, according to reports from at
tending physicians.
The shooting occurred in the down
town business district of Sylva .'.bout
8 o'clock on the morning of July 30,
when the streets were crowded with
people going to their daily occupa
tions; and is said to have followed
an altercation, relative to the es
trangement of -Glenn and his wi?e,
who was ;Miss Rebecca Blythe of Bre
vard a few weeks previous.
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MARRIAGE" LICENSES
Amareette Stillwell to Nancy
Toonie, Indians.
Roosevelt Ward to Minuie Brown.
HOlD highway meet
a r? 1
A meeting oft highway officials of;
North and Soutn Carolina witii mem
bers of the Wallialla and Sylva j
Chambers of Commerce and boosters,
of the Wade > Hampton Memorial |
Highway liuiti the .>Carolines and)
Georgia, is being planned to be held!
at High Hampton in Cashier's Val-J
ley, Tuesday of next week.
A meeting of the committee ol' the
Sylva Chamber of Commerce wasj
held, last Friday and invitations s>ent;
out by Mr. C. C. Buchanan, secretary j
of the 'committee, to the members of
the hig!Va\ of lite
two Carolines, and other prominent
Carolinians and (ii-orgians.
Special ; > arrati'-remeiils have 1>jeii j
made viflh .the ma:ii'gc.iieni ol Hiiriij
1 lampion Inn to .mmye lunch :s! $1.00 1
plate, and all persons exjiectilig to j
attend ait; urged io send in t heir j
ii-sorvat :uus t?> Mr. (\ C. Buchanan!
secretary of the committee on ar
rangements, or to Mr. K. ft". Brown,!
secretary of the chamber of com-,
me tee, at as early a dale as |M>&*ible.
The plan is to. build the Wsidcj
Hampton Memorial Highway from
Wallialla to Cashiem, where it will i
connect with Highway No. 10U lead-:
?ing to Sylva, thence by No. 10, and
other roads thorugh the Great Sir., kyi
.Mountains National Park to Knox-]
viile, giving a direct route for travel j
from Savannah. Augusta, Jackson-,
ville and Charleston to Knoxvile and}
the park.
'There is great ihterest in the pro-!
jeet throughout parts of the two|
Carolinas, East Tennessee and the |
Augusta section of Georgia.
State Has 1,909 School Bosses
Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 5?North Car
olina ranked fourth in the country in
the number of children being trans
ported to schools at the- end of the
last school year, points out a current
issue of School Facts. This state af
forded transportation for-69,295 pu
pils. Only Indiana, Ohio and Miss
issippi surpassed it. '
Reports from school officials of
Indiana showed that state in the lead
operating '2,790 busses and transport
ing 122,926 children. The vehicles av
eraged over 52,000 miles daily and
operated at a cost during 1924-25 of
$3,790,181.57.
Ohio used 3,942 vehicles for pub
lic transportation, 1,547 of which
were horse drawn and transported
109,280 children during 1924-25. The
cost for the year was $2,432,901.
Mississippi ranked third.
North Carolina ranking fourth op
erated 1,909 busses, transported 69,
295 children at an annual cost of
$14.92 each.
Other states transporting- children
to schools are Georgia, Iowa, Louis
iana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ok
lahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ala
bama, Michigan, Nebraska, Tennes
see and Texas.
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Tom Tarheel says he is going to
grow all the hay this winter that lie
needs for next year.
THE BALSAM ROAD
IS NBW OPEN
Highway No. 10. is now open from
Svlva to Balsiitn. There !'are no de
tqurs. There is concrete all the way.
This announcement, made last
week by the state highway commis
' sion has greatly stimulated ? traffic
throughout Western North Carolina.
The Balsam mountain, bugaboo of
autoists for many months, is now
their delight. Crossing one of the
highest ranges of mountains in East
ern America, the traveler can skim
I along on concrete and never know
that the mighty mountain Carrier is
there, except for the feeling of ex
hilaration that comes with the rare
and pure air, and the magnificent
mountain scenery that stands before
his delighted eyes.
Last Sunday, the first week end
that the road has been open the
people of all Western North Carolina
toook advantage of it to see with
their own eyes the magnificent high
way that has been heralded through
the press of the state and of the
South for many months. Hundreds of
visitor sfrom Asheville, Henderson
ville and other points cast of the
Balsams made the trip to , Sylva
some on to Brvson Citv and others
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across the Cowees to Franklin and
the Georgia line. Never in all the j
history of this town has there been
so much traffic on the roads of i
Jackson county, as traversed High-,
way No. 10, on last Sunday. Among!
the hundreds of pleasure seekers on
the now road, wore ears from almost!
every state in the Union, the largest |
proportion bearing license tags fromi
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, j
in the order narnedJ
With the completion in the next]
few days of No. 10 t'rom Brvson City
to Almond, the amount of through
traffic on this/ route into Ashevitle
is expected to ^largely increase and
it is anticipated that when Rabun J
county, Georgia,, completes the road
to the North Carolina line, near
Fntiiklin, that, the greater part of
the t ;ucl from ^tlant* /o "the moun
tains and the W''*t, come thin
Fratiklin, Svlva and AsWvillc.
QUALLA
Let lie Aim House >departcd this
life Sat unlay evening,' August 7th at
the aire of ">9 ) rears.
Sin* was a J)iithfu| member of the
Baptist church and dived a consistent
christian life for about, forty years.
She j)ossessrdf a very kind and sym
pathetic nature. Her heart went out
in deep sympathy to all those who
were sick or in trouble. There was
rarely ever sickness or death in any
of the homes- of our community but
that she was there to lend a helping
hand and she was always welcome j
because of her kindness, help and (
sympathy. ?
She was patient and cheerful thru
about five years of affliction. She
expressed herself many times as be
ing ready and willing to depart and
be at rest, when it was the Lord's
will to take her to ,her heavenly
home.
She leaves one son, Mr. W. F.
House and one grandson, Edgar Joe,
and one brother, Mr. J. H. House of
Balsam Grove, besides scores of
friends who are made sad because of
the vacancy left in the home and
community by her going away.
Funeral services were conducted in
the Baptist church Sunday afternoon
by Rev. W. C. Reed and her re
mains laid" to rest in Thomas Ceme
tery underneath a beautiful profus
ion of flowers, surrounded by a largo
crowd of homefolks, also friends
from Whittier, Wilraot and Olivet
who came to view last resting place.
Interesting revival services closed
at the Baptist church Tuesday night.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bird
August 3rd a daughter.
Rev. J. R. Church and family re
turned to Andres after a short vis
it among friends.
Mrs. R. C. Colcord has returned to
Jacksonville, Fla. after spending a
week with her sister. Mi's. P. C.
Shelton. -
Mrs. C. R. Bird of Cullowhec is
spending awhile at Mr. C. A. Bird's.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Crisp and Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Crisp and children of
Georgia spent the week end at Mrs.
A. C. Hovle's.
Mr. and Mi's. IT. G. Ferguson call
ed at Mr. Golman Kinland's Thurs
day evening.
Mr. J. E. Battle was guest at Mr.
J. H. Hughes' Sunday.
?VILLE-FIM?
ATLANTA HIGHWAY
The chambers of commerce from
Franklin, Sylva, Waynesvjlle and
Canton met in Sylva Friday night1
and held a veiy enthusiastic meeting
for the purpose of co-operating with
Franklin in carrying out an extensive
advertising campaign to acquaint j
tourists and other travelers with the
new highway, connecting Sylva and
Franklin.
?This new highway shortens the dis
tance between Asheville and Atlanta
thirty two miles and in the opinion
of the writer, the exquisite scenery
along this route is second to none in.
Western North Carolina.
The result of the meeting was tho1
formulation of plans to holct a cole-!
bration in Franklin on September 15,
1926, with all the towns along the
line having a part in the celebration.)
Franklin proposes to meet the Geor-j
gia delegation, composed of represen
tatives from various cities in Georgia
especially interested in tliis highway,
at the Geoigia line and after a cere
mony of welcome all delegations will
repair to Franklin where a picnic
dinner will be served. From Frank
lin the delegations will go to Ashe
ville, stopping for an appropriate
function in each town along the way.
The entertainment program for Ashe
ville is still tentative, but it is known
that there will be an elaborate one.
It is hoped that the committee will
be able to secure the services of
Thomas H. Dixon as principal speak
er, along with other notables.
A pleasant spirit prevailed over!
the meeting and it was decided to!
invite Murphy, Andrews and Bryson
City, as guests of Franklin. The ob
ject of the meeting was not to d.
rioct tourist from these latter cities,
but to impress upon tourists the
greater advantage of scenery by ?? th
er entering via Murphy and existing
via-Franklin, or vice verse. ;
A very descriptive name was sug
gested by Mr. Ernest Withers snd j
after* vote th*> name of "Asheville-1
Franklin Atlanta'' highway was 'up-j
nniino'isly adopted.
?f. ]j. Wilson of Sylva was elected'
chairman and C. C. Poindcxter of
Franklin was elected secretary of the
celebration committee. The following
committees were appointed to repre
sent (lie various towns along the;
highway in staging the celeb it lion; |
Asheville, Holmes Bryson and lfog-j
cy Miller; Canton, 1). J. Kerr, Ji. A.
Osborne and W. E. Jones; Waynes
ville, C. M. Dic.cus, Ernest Withers
and Frank Miller; Sylva and Dills
boro, J. H. Wilson, 1). G. Bryson and
.T. F. Freeze; Franklin. John S. Trot
ter, T. W. Porter and 0 C. Poirtdwfr
ter; Clayton, Dr. Dover and Claude
Derrick; Cornelia, R. C. Brooks and
Henry Stovall; Gainesville, H. H.
Estes and \V. C. Mealor; Atlanta, to
be selected.
Mr. Fred Sutton of Ela was a
Qualla visitor Sunday.
Miss Winnie Cooper called on An
nie Ten-ell Wednesday afternoon.
"Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oxuer arc visit
ing relatives at Blowing Rock.
Mr. W. It. Henry of Delwood was
Friday night guest of Mr. J. 0. Ter
rell.
Miss Mary Battle was guest of
Miss Mozell Moody Sunday.
Messrs. J. K. and J. 0. Terrell and
W. R. Henry motored to Bryson
Hospital Saturday to visit Prof. W.
F. Bird. They report that he is im
proving.
Messrs. H. G. and P. H. Ferguson,
J110. Battle, Orvillc Terrell, Mrs. H,
G. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. Bill How
ell Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gibson,
Misses Gertrude and Ruth Ferguson,
A. L. Terrell and Harriett Hall at
tended services at Franklin Sunday.
Mrs. J. L. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs.
H. G. Ferguson and daughters, Mary
Emma and Lillian were dinner guests
at J. K. Terrell's Sunday.
Mr. Clyde Marcus is erecting a
residence.
Messrs. W. C. Martin and J. A.
Moore have recently had theft resi
dences painted.
Two threshing macliines are now
"running at large" in the Qualla
section.
Tuesday, August ^LOth Mr. Troy
Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Shuler,
Mrs. J. G. Hooper and Mrs. W. H.
Hoyle motored to Franklin to attend
revival services.
PAVING SUITS
ON SYLVA STREETS!
The actual pouring of concrete on
Sylva's four miles of new paved
streets began yesterday morning the
contractor, W. M. Brown, completing
Balsam street north of ? Majn-and a
part of Jackson Street.
It is the intention of the city of
ficials and of the engineers and the
contractor to rush the work with all
dispatch, hoping to complete the v.x
tire job before cold weather and as
suring that Sylva will be one' of the,
best paved towns in the state beforj
winter. I
The board of aldermen has ordered
the contract advertied for the con
struction of a concrete bridge on Al
len street across Scot's Creek, he
bridge to be 50 foot span, 22 feci
driveway and sidewalks on ear
The entire paving program in
cludes practically every ? princiml
street of the town and comprises
more than four miles of paving to
gether with the necessary water and
sewer lines. ' !
Not only will Sylva have a great
amount of paved streets connected
with hardsurfaced through roads
leading in 'every direction to the
principal cities of the South, but will
have some of the most beautiful
streets iji all North Carolina, it i-?
stated by engineers and city plan
ners.
punsImtil here
It is announced that Dr. II. W.I
Tidmarsh, ol' Whittier and Dr. C.|
Z. Candler of Sylva have selected
lots and arc making plans for the
erection of a modern hospital in Syl
va. The work is to start immediately
and it is expected that the new build
ing will be ready for occupancy by
January first. * f
Dr. Tidmarsh now has a hospital
in Bryson City, but it is in a frame
building and the North Carolina law I
requires that all hospitals now in
frame buildings shall vacate them for
brick or other tire proof structure
before the first of January next.
It is said that the central location
of Sylva, by reason of the converging
of principal highways here, is the
reason for the selection of the town
as the site for the new hospital..
The lots selected for the purpose
are located on Courtland Heights,
along Ridgeway Street, and are ad
mirably located for the purpose, be
ing in the heart of town, and on a
paved street, with water and sewer
age advantages, and yet away from
the noises of the business district,
and being on an elevation, that af
fords a magnificent view of the
Plott Balsam and Great Smoky
Mountain ranges.
In addition to the main hospital
building, nurses cottages and a mod
em laundry will be erected, it is
stated.
The city of Sylva has agreed that
it will take one ward in the new
hospital as a charity ward, for peo
ple of the town, who are unable to
pay fa/ hospitalization and will do
nate the taxes on the hospital for
a period of ten years, in paymentj of
the charity ward.
A similar proposal will be made
to the commissioners of Jackson
county it is understood.
JOHN GARRETT
KILLED BY BERONG
Reports reaching here are to the
effect that John Garrett, young mam
of Clay county, was killed Sunday
night at a church just across the Clay
county line, in Towns county, Geor
gia, by Bill Berong, son of "Wild
Bill" Berong, well known character
of Clay county. ,
It is said that the affair occurred
?
at the church, Berong cutting Gar
rett across the abdomen. It is not
known what was the cause of Be
rong's act. I
Friends started with Garett to the
?hospital, but it is said that the truck
got stuck on the road, where new
excavation work is being done, and
that Gaarett died, before the convey
ance could be gotten out of the mud
and started again.
It is reported that Berong has not
yet been apprehended, though North
Carolina and Georgia authorities are
searching for him.
DR. MORRISON WILL
DIRECT SCHOOL SURVEY
Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 5?With the
appointment of Dr. Fred Merr^son of
the faculty of the North Carolina
College for W*men to supervise the
compilation and interpretation of
data dealing with financial phases
public school operations. Governor
McLean's educational committee has
effected a staff organization for what
is expected to prove the most ex
haustive and thorough inquiry ever
made into the subject of public school
finances in North Carolina.
Dr^ Morrison has just begun his
work with the commission under a
year's leave of absence from N. C.
C. W. He is regarded as an authority
on school finances, particularly the
equalizing fund. He received his Ph..
D. degree at Columbia University
last year and his degree thesis, which
has been published and widely cir
culated, was on the equalizing fund.
There has be?n considerable spec
ulation as to the character of the in
quiry the commission will undertake !
particularly its possible relation to
the proposal for a State wide eight
months school term. The commission
lias legislative authority to go into
pvcry phase of public school finance's
but there has been no indication as
to whether it would confine its ef
forts to a study of financial prob
lems of the existing six months
school or whether it would also con
sider ways and means of financing
an eight months term. Dr. Morrison
is said to be a staunch advocate of
the longer term.
The commission was authorized by
the 1925 General Assembly and it is
cxpcctcd to make a report to the
ne?:t session. J. 0. Carr, oi Wilming
ton is chairman and Dr. J. Y. Joy-'
nor, former State Superintendent of
Public Irsi.vctioH is e'.cutive sec
retary. (/?? Jorm-r lias b<vn giving
practically his entire timo to the
work, wliile the full membership of ,
the committee has been keeping in
close touch with the major phase of
the inquiry.
The work of the commission is ex
pected to deal particularly with t'i<
equalizing fund. The State now np
propriates a million and a half dol
lars annually to aid the so called
weaker-counties operate their schools
for six month's. There has been wide
advocacy of a substantially larger
fund as a means of more equitably
distributing the burdens of support
ing the pnblio school among the coun
ties. It is regarded as certain tliut
the commission will seek ways and
means of "casyig and equalizing tlie
burden." But whether it will contin
ue its efforts to improving th efinan
cial structure of the six months
school or propose a method of equi
table financing for the eight months
school is uncertain in the absence of
any definite statement from mem
bers.
Besides Mr. Carr and Dr. Joyner,
the commission is composed of Win
gate Andrews of High Point; C. E.
Teague, Sanfonl; L. D. Robinson of
Wadesboro; Mrs. J. A. Brown, Chad
bourn; Charles A. Webb, Ashevjlle;
Edgar W. Pharr, Charlotte, Mrs. E.
L. McKee, Sylva; Mrs. J. G. Fear
ing, Elizabeth City; and Sam C. Lat
timore, Shelby.
TUCKASEIGEE ASSOCIATION
MEETS TOMORROW
The Tuckaseigee Baptist Associa
tion will convene with Old Savannah
Church tomorrow morning beginning
the three days session with a devo
tional service at 10:00 o'clock.
The association comprises all the
Missionary Baptist Churches In Jack
son county. Ivev. Thad F. Deitz ; is
moderator and Hugh E. Monteith is
associational clerk.
The delegates from Sylva church,
elected to attend the association are
John B. Ensley, J. T. Gribble, Hugh
E. Monteith, Geo. W. Sutton, Mrs. I.
H. Powell, Mrs. Chas. L. Allison,
Mrs. Roy C. Allison and Miss Sadie
Luck.
The Association was formed near
ly one hundred years ago, the pres
ent association being the 96th.
? With an adequate quantity of salt,
grazing animals develop better than
they would otherwise, are more eon
tented and are more easily handled,
say livestock