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. Vear in Advanced tlie County ' Sylva, N. C? Wednesday, August 25,1926 $2.00 the Year i:i Advance Outside County
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TRIUMPHANT
\ ,,i (Jeonrians and Caro
nvo triumphant pro
si:i n injr at Aslieville and
" i Atlanta and being1 au??
j/ll
(\>t\ town and village
'V*
y
' 11 headed tor Mur
-aanhy. to celebrate tho
;,i North Carolina's part
' \ iiiii tiian Scenic lliuhwav.
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,u;?' many notables there
.; 11s oi tin1 South, and
V . ni ^Voplo who have been
. .... ?;t ,j in tiu- completion of the
ioad, which starts at!
y\. ..t ) ,?!i tlit* St. Lawrence and
./N, \v Orleans on the (ink' ot
r - "r
Wi.Hi'i' < Murphy {fathering was
:? proportions,, it was bat
:ner oi' the great motoreade{
!? next year. The 1927 mo
:ii(| to traverse the entire;
i-iii.iU'iy alter completion,
;ii Montreal ami end in;
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t'i' fi lchrated in .Murphy,
o'uct iiing loYoiebrato. Tlte
tlu* Nantehalns .have"
In fore the ciuiiue^rs and
ot' iho state hhrhwsM
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aiui 'now il.e state is
Mn!iv (b Mante>?. with
oft.Murphy and Ch< ro
Ji,, i'wd prepared n sumptuous
h,; >eived picnic siyio: but
lj',. '? i-::i*>e r.lid 1 he 1 lood- <ic-:
hi!'? paured i:i liitcla ? -tiu*
1:_: 4S llaf.!ir,l the ll.iiid. ? < roii
t.,i? roared : but , the dement
.. '? d:!tuptd tile ardor not
i- '!.?? holiday spirit of the tiiod?.
>r* ? ?'?' -Murphy folks just re-.
, i ilin.uer to the interior cf
(l), >??'. building, and served i
texpediency, smilingly
plate alter plate'to t
luttUl'U crowd,
ftou >v..ic Tit-- ^ peaking, With !<<?>
m Mv.vv '. -ident pf the Appal.j
rliiaa S.u.'v ilicbway Association
?? iA ,
,bri .1. thet most hope cm:)
.'.'utile: ; . , ire gathering is th.t
i:.i-**;ir ? . ,incd are not ready to
???-; it"'. ?: ' !i laurels and say <j*tit -:
? but ??in* ; y oi'iiciaU ate pian
Vi:t ;.,;>i'i^ to eajTV on the
domi viwk ??; !i ashling and improving
dm1 especially those tluU
iin- it:-i;-T;'c yi'n their courses..
Ui';u;(: . : t|i N. Holder of tie
'i^i: r L^liwrv rommissiii't
<(i-ltiv ?! '..:*t i/iv board expects
, hi;:j 111 ? ,ii in r-oniplvte pavir.g!
t" Atl.in'.l t;.i- i.iji.wav ieadinu' iroai
X(?.'"t!i < :????li?,:t |- .Mil; phy. lie
;i?'-ijl/jli.,; iiv lii I-;, ;;, th'eiv
In ;i .ii ni.tji Atlanta to
v.:;i lit ;t j
lliivn !:?
year later' there
j, W(!j? -M- .-i | - .1,1 i.iiiiwav tr??m Ma<'oii
F!i.ti.!;i ;
w ll"' h r :.!>o announoi d
/ t..;'i "iHn'-ji:] highway hoard wiil
/ K. ii ?-i:1 ;:s?-t thi* \( ar to pave, tiu*
< lf:yti?ri ^i^hu'ay. This t horough l ar?
tm:'-,i - .V.M i/h Carolina at a point
t"':ir l'r:iirklin and passes through
? 'Ik.V',,!). sO Atlanta. Nortii Carolina
iW' y Jias completer jkivii>?^ its
>ei-ti??i: i?!.' this highway and a oeh'
l'i;fti':i ,,i ii^ opi-nin^ is to be held'
' !"i
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10 completed,
i1 lank I'; '_;c, of the Stale
( Iti'i ?
ffl, 0;,r
'jitiut ,,f Xoitli Carolina" at dyy
!'!'?!. i) to arrive at the other e^d
? 'M'|' i -' ie darkness falls, .lames (J.
j oi Ashevillc, Stat,'
II' ? ?
1 'oiatnissioiier of the ninth
r'' 1' K.Jiii Sept. 1").
> u- .*> , . .')
:i iiii/hwav No.
< 'utiiminsiou, is tletermin?'d
i 1 one end of this "Main
ii,i,:
,Mi
;ai>?meed.Ten miles bevon l
!i*?: i/nue (ml ql^'that "Main
1 u?l i he other end is at
! 4!) ::y. Mime (>00 miles away,
, " pointed out. And not
det< rmnied to mahe
."-.in trip lroni tip to tip'of
;?ie, liuL Mr. Stikeleather
O 5 ill 1 !i*(t the c iiiiiiiissio'M
? O 'ii^v.,- ii,;;.;J| district is ^i.'in^'^o
t'-V'l '.viiji |i!(. cluiiinian.
' O*" ::0i;??i!isf-t-d that in the last I'ou'i
"ith Carolina has spent more
'"i1 highways and has built
' lailc.-, of highways than has any
0 iii'o in the union. Declaring Ith
JV'-hi.l coi-|,.,.t statement made
'> :i.*i t . . i< r ,sp aker, Mr. Stikelealh
?d that the Federal (Jov
contributing $1,750,000
r^ :::!'.v' t?"> aid highway construction
1,1 M|'''^Carolina and that the total
|'u,i ^utrdiiaed is more than $0,000,
? As compared with this sum, the
PAGE WILL ATTEND
HIGH CELEBRATION
It is announced by \he committee
I on arrangements that Chairman
j Frank P:?go, of the North Carolina
Highway Commission, wiU attend the
celebration of the completion of
North Carolina's Vnd of the Asliv
ville-Syh a-Franklin-Atlanta Short'
limit c 011 September 15tli.
The pi: us for celebration include
a motorcade from AtlaiHa to ,Ashe
ville, which is being i sponsored by
the Atlanta Constitution. The Car
olina deb'jration will meet the Geor
gia ns at the state line, and escort;
them to Franklin* where" luncheon |
will be served and addresses made
bv a* muiiber of the bii?* men "of the
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two states.
?Fryin Franklin the trip^will be
made to Pillsboro, Svlva, Waynes
villi^ .aitd Cant oil, wi11v J>tojw and
appropriate ceremonies at each place;-:
then on to Asheville where the mem-!
lies# of the motorcade will be guests
of the Asheville Chamlyrr of Coin-!
merce at dinyer., J
It is expei;l/'d that prominent North.
Carolinians making the trip will be
i). .Max (iardiier, of Shelby, Former,
(iow riior' Cameron Morrison, CoL1
Wade 11.' 1 larrijy. editor of the Char
lotte1 < 'bserver and-many others.) i
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OVER TELEPHONE
lle.Mt; beatwere succes dully re-i
co:d?d recently over a distance of
\nit?. mill's by the aid. of telephone!
wires attached to a cardiograph, say^j
tin North and South Carolina I'nleve
I liliiv Information IJuivan. 'Ihere
is a record of a similar attempt made
iii Ivji'.rland but t ::e results were uii-^
sat'isl.jntoiy and 'is success in the
I'liiieij States is'believed to be.'the
first.
;!' ?j'M!dtngrj!p'o is a delicate ma
chine ti*-Vd for the purpose.ol obtain
in I lie' ftircesOilid intervals ot hen it
actions. It is {operated electrically j
and is one of t|he most recent inyen-]
tioi/s used by physicians in the t'reat-i
riieiili, of heart disease.
I.'eeonily. a noted physician desired
in ob,rain, a record ol heart be.\ts
from a parent who was too ill to be
moved to the laboratory containing
tiiv cardiograph equipment. I tie
piivsiciau approached the New ^ ork
Telephone Company with his prob
lem amh the ?company 'officials were
Qjuick to cooperate.
The nature of the ease required im
mediate action and within an hour
the/circuit was completed between (
the patient's house and the labora-|
tory containing the cardiograph. The
wires were connected to the machine
and the physician's assistant was
sent to the*patient's home with the
necessary lead pads which were at
tached to the body.
When a lew minor changes had
been made in the ^circuit the machine
was put into operation and two com
plete sets of heart beats were satis
factorily obtained.
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IMPORTANT MEETING
A ver,v important hliurch meeting
1 is called for next Sunday evening at
7 :lf>. Every member is urged to be
: present at,,this meeting.
? Svlva Baptist Church
By .1 no. B. Jones, Clerk.
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State itselj' has s]>eiit $85,000,000 on
1 improved highways, he said. , i
There is, lie said, a dependable j
highway every mile of the way trom
Montreal, Canada, through Western
North Carolina and on to New Or
leans and to Miami, Fla.
Charles A. Webb, coputylisher of
The Citizen, made a pleas for in
' creased federal aid for highway
building in North Carolina.
Other speakers included Congress
man Zebulon Weaver, Frank T. Rcy
i Molds of Atlanta, Col. John S. Cohen
of the Atlanta Journal, Former Gov.
| Charles H. BVough, of Arkansas.
1 Charles A. Webb, Don S. Elms and
' ilarlee Branch. ( A large number of
Sylva, Dillsboio arid Cullowhcc peo
ple attended the/celebration.
GET YEAS EACH
FOR STEALING JUDbE
j , Way Cross, Ga. Aug. 24?Seven
men were convicted here yesterday
of mob violence in connection with
the recent attack upon county Judjce
Henry Johnson of Charleston county.
Five of the defendants were sen
tenced to one year each in the peni
tentiary. A! year's sentence or a $1,
000 fine was imposed upon the other
two. ?
Judge Johnson, seized at a store
in Folkeston after nightfall, was
taken by a group of men in automo
biles out on a country road. He Es
caped without injury when citizens
in pursuing cars overtook the party.
The judg? had been active in en
forcement of the prohibition laws
by inflicting sentences upon liquor
selling offenders. His assailants were
brought to trial, uj>on his identifica
tion.
The men' convicted yesterday
pleaded guilty. J. 1). Hunter, X. 1L
Hughes, W. G. Brooks, 8. A. Lucas
and J. L. Aldridge received the pri-l
son sentence without alternative.!
John Stephens and J. C. Herrington
were'given the choice of a year in
the penitentiary or tlie $1,000 line.
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STATE HEADS DEATH LIST
North Carolina ag:iin/rc*]M>rted the!
largest number of person's killed 1)4;
accidents during the week/ with 12,1
exceeding the previous week's total!
by,i 'one. Georgia, Tennessee and>
Louisiana reported, six persons killed ,
each. Louisiana lead in the number
of per.-?>ns reported injured with 52.'
Georgia was second with forty and,
Florida :hird with'.'18.
v Traffic' killed 5tf prisons and in- i
jilred in eleven southern states
during the past week -it was iv-j
ivealed tod&y throflglj a survey cdn
dueted by The Associated Press.!
The totals represent an increase ofi
three in the.number of jx'rsonk killed
and a dee lease ,0,1' five in the number1
j. .i. ?)>is inj ' ed in eo!!:*n?.r:son1
t ?? t,
with casualty figures for the week
previotis. < *
of the peivons killed and over
i! s/miv of t host*. injuredi .were vic
tiiii:^ iof grade crossing accidents.
Three Georgians were killed in grade,
crashes while Alabama and Tennes-j
see jeported two each. Three per
sons'were killed in Yirgiiiiq vester-j
day in an accident involving two au
tomobiles. and an electric car near
Richmond.
Tabulation by the states follows:
State Killed Injure'
Yiruinia .... .... .... ....4 1 23j
North Carolina ....12 35,
South Carolina ...... 5 7 7
Georgia 1 6 40
Florida.... 4 48 >
Alabama.... ... .... f 4 25 y
Mississippi .... ...; ... 3 ]3|
Loltisiana .... 6 52'
Arkansas ...! 3 241
Tennessee .... ^ ... 6 22
Kentucky... .? 3 351
Totals 1 .;:v. .... ..|,r)G . V- 208
WHY ADVERTISE?
.'."Banks are far more liberal in
their terms to companies that have
been regular advertisers than toward}
those that do not advertise," Frank:
L. Blanchard of Henry L. Dohcrty &
Company^ New York told the Public
Utilities Advertising Association at
the Twenty-second Annual Conven-1
tion of the Associated Advertising
Club's of the World"."
"They rightly feel," he added,]
"that a company that has, through
advertising, won the good will of
the public is more likely to retain
its position in the community as
an im]>ortant business enterprise than
a company, that does not advertise
and therefore does not have the
hold upon the residents of th0 city
that the former company lias."
STATE BLUE LAW
TESTS FOREGONE
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V.Ashcville, August 21?The bluej
la\vs of North Carolina will probably
i-eiriain untested and unattacked, of
ficial of the association opj>osingj
the bine laws have disappeared. Linn
' A. K. Gale and other officials of the
association who recently came to
Asheville and announced prepara
tions to make a test of the blue laws
in North Carolina, have faded into
oblivion and have apj arently left
AUTO RIDE FATAL ,
TO Clin YOUTH
Canton, N. C., Aug. 21?Fred
Moore, prominent young man of this
place, was killed about 5 o'clock this
j morning and W. 0. Murr and New
j mail James also of Canton, were in
I jured when the car they were riding
in left the highway at Walnut Gap
i and plunged 100 feet to the bottom
i of the cliff. Moqre was driving the
machine.
Murr was seriously, but no dan
gerously hurt, while Jaines was only
slightly injured. The latter walked
ten miles to Marshall to summon aid.
A brother in law of Moore hi Can
ton was advised and he with friends
went to the sevne. When they arrived
they found Moore (lend. Murr was
carried to a Marshall hospital and
James was given medical attention.
The three men. all popular in Can
ton, were ;on their way to T'm.essce
points for a week end rest when the
accident hapjiened. The automobile
badly wrecked. ^
Moore, who was 25 years of age,
is survhed by his widow and two
children, .:is father, Homer Moore of
Canton, and several other re'atives.
SENATOR FERNALD DIES .
West Portland, Me. Aug. 23?Un
ited States Senator Bert M. Fernald,
died at his home here late Monday
evening after a short illness with in
tcstiual poisoning and heart trouble,
lie was in his 69th year and has
served in tlid senate since 191 (>. Sen.
Fernald had suffered a relapse dur
ing the night and early today, and
I)r. W. G. Hoster, the attending phy
sician had announced that death was
only a matter<of hours. The senator's
son, James H. Fernald of this town
and daughter, Mrs. Norris T. E/.e
letli of Kennebunk, were at his bed
side when the end came.
Fernald, a native of West Port
land, had been identified with State
and national polities many years. In
19U!> In- wivK elected governor of
Maine on the republican ticket and
served one term. 1909-1910. In 1910
he was chosen I'nited States Senator
(o Till the unexpired term of Ed
win C. Burleigh. Fernald was elected
to a full term in 1918 and again re
elected in 1924. Ilirf present term
would have expired in 1931.
'PHONE COMPANY GOES
TO PAY IN ADVANCE
Jackson Telephone and Telegrap'i
Company announces^ that the com
pany will on September 1st, change,
to the pay in advance plan, in col-j
lectins lei-phone rents. On that date,
in order to effect the change, it,will j
be necessary to bill e^ery telephone!
subscriber for two mouths, those of;
August and September. Then the'
hill mailed subscribers on October
First will he for the month of Octo
ber, and so on through the year, pay
ing the first oC each month for that!
month's'-, service.
Mr. Murray stated that this change
has been made necessary because of
the increasing transient population of
Sylva and environs. "The old plan
worked all right," said Mr. Murray,
"as long as the population of Sylva
stayed put; but now,'when we are
becoming more and more a tourist
center and the number of transient
j?qpulatibii is steadily increasing, the
new plan is the only one that will
work to the satisfaction both ? the
people and the company."
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GIRL INJURED ? DRIVER
REFUSED BOND
Hendersonville News, Aug. 24.
Buf'ord Nelson was ordered held
without bond pending the outcome of
the injuries of Miss Thelina Bowen,
whom he is alleged to have' run over
and painfully injured late Sunday
afternoon as she in company with
Morris Shipinan were walking down
the Willow road.
Buford, the driver of the ear that
struck the couple, is in jail without
bond, committed by Esquire Milward*
upon a charge of driving a car whiie
under the influence of liquor and as
sault with a deadly weapon. . '
j Miss Bowen was taken to Patton
Memorial hospital where injuries
were pronounced to be slight, con
sisting mainly of bruises and cuts
aboat the head.
THUS LOOKUP IN TOE
MOUNTAINS OF WESTERN N. C.
ASHtVItLE WILL HAVE
REPUBLICAN WEEKLY
, "The Blue Ridge-Republican," a
Weekly organ for and in the interests
of the Republican party in Western
| North Carolina will make its first
i appearance Friday, September 3rd, it
(lias just been announced from Ashe
j ville by Hubert F. Lee, Asheville
newspai>erinan, who will be editor
and publisher.
The new publication will take ait
! active part in the congressional and
county elections in tli? Tenth district
during the next two months and for
this purpose will establish its offices
temporarily in the Tenth district
headquarters over Scruggs' Drag I
Store in Asheville. The organ will
,also take a large part in activities or'
the Ninth district and in a few coun
ties of the Eighth.
' Plans for the publication have been I
quietly going on lor some time. Lead-j
el's of the Republican party in j
Western North Carolina were prac-|
tically unanimous in the belief that
this organ will fill a long felt need j
-of the party and will urge all indi
viduals in the G. 0. P. to support it,'
it is said. i
COUSIN Of SYLVA
PEOPLE KILLED
Mrs. M. I) .Cowan and Mrs. M.J
Buchanan were called to ItockwooJ, |
Tenn., to attend the funeral of their
cousin, B. L. McDarris, who was in
stantly killed by a live wire last;
week.
The following >account of the ac
cident which occurred near Kingston
is taken from the Knoxville Sentinel;
of Alugust 20:
"B. L. .McHarris, 2"), manager in
this section for the Southern Cities.
Power company was instantly killed j
bv a live wire this morning. Follow
ing a heavy storm yesterday, some!
wires were reported down. Current j
was off at Kingston Knitting, Mills
and Mr. McDarris had gone to inves
tigate. He came in contact with a
wire carrying 3,500 volts and was
electrocuted. The accident occurred
in front of the home of W. C. Hart
sell.
Mr. McDarris was a popular man
ager. He had charge of the cori
pany's interests at Kingston, Ilock
wood, Spring City, and other points.
Surviving him is his widow, for
- ? . '
merly Miss Jeanne. Smith of Spring!
City, whom he maVred only abouitj
a inouth aj^o. Also his parents, Mi',
and Mrs. Lee McDarris, of Cleveland
Tenn. / ^ , )
The bod}- was sent to Roekwood.j
Funeral arrangements will be au-j
nounced later. 1
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TENT MEETING DRAWS CROWDS;
>
, Large crowds of jtcoplc arc being i
attracted by the tent meeting being I
conducted on Cullowhee road, by Rov.|
B. N. Rogers who is dong the preach-j
ing and Mr. L. Glenn Sumner is lead
ing the fine congregational singing.j
The meetings will continue for some J
days longer, it is announced.
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CULLOWHEE PRESIDENT AND
PARTY FRANKLIN VISITORS j
Fran Win Press.
Dr. H. T. Hunter, president ofj
Cullowhee State Normal, accompan
ied by Mrs. Hunter, Miss1 Eliza,
PoWell, dietician at the institution,
j and Mre. Walton, assistant matron,
were visitors in Franklin Tuesday,
having motored over from Jackson j
county to see Franklin, Macon coun
j ty, and the new road connecting the
two counties.
Dr. Hunter expects to have ap
i proximately 150 normal school st.i
j dents eniolled when the institution
| opens the fall term on September ti,
' he said. Later as the short term
schools end, additional normal
j dent^ will enroll, as many teachers
; complete their teaching and then go
J to Cullowhee to continue their stud
ies. ,
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The Charlotte Observer gives usp
from the pen of Col. Wade Harris,
the' following article, showing that
the "boom" did not hit Western
North Carolina, why it didn't come,
and why there should be general re
jjoicing that it didn't; and at the
I same time proving that the substan
tial growth is in progress.
That the speculative "boom" so
widely advertised for the mountains
of Western North Carolina was not
l realized this summer is a well known
I fact. Those who set out to repeat in
I that region the real estate gambling
| of Florida were defeated and disap
j pointed and it is to the credit >t
tiie region that they were. The ed- ?
itor of the Charlote Observer w'io
: has recently visited the region, pre
sents the situation as he found it
and1 heard it:
I "Then a real estate operator in
i person gave The Observer some in
formation. It was to this effect:
There has been 110 'boom' in the
: western part of the slate; no boom
! had been desired and it was purpose
ly held off by joint action of the
! real estate boards of Asheville and
| Hendersonvillo in the early spring,
when Florida promoters' began
swarming in. Hordes of speculators
were driven from the field but 110c
' until much harm had been dono thru
operation of the ' opionist.' These
had seemed options on about all the
desirable properties in the vicinity
of the towns and when the prospec
tive buyers began coming in they
found these lands held at exorbitant
prices?at figures which they could
not look at?and they went on, in
stead of settling down as investors.
But the contention is ' that Wester i
North Carolina is all the better foi
that because affairs in the invest
ment fit Id have settled down to a
[ sound and sensible basis, and within
; the ]>;tst three weeks there his been
r.riiii Testation tof a marked revival
in . Mi (state activities, not of the*
subdivision kind, but largely in pur
chase of homes. ,As an example there
has been no check in building ac
tivities iu and around Henderson
ville, new homes and business houses
ii'id nients completed and in
course of Completion being there on
all sides to show for 11. imsclves.
, ?' Development, work in t*:e nioun- >
lain sections got off to a late star,
hut it lias started in a direction that
means steady progress and on plans
against which there is to be 110 reac
tion. Vciy much more money Iris
been safely and profitably invested
in Western North Carolina towns
and projects than is generally imag
ined and that this section of the
state has been going at a pace fast;
enough is indicated in the fact that
the mfmey invested ;tt Lake Lure, at
Try on and vicinity, at Brevard, Sylva^
Murphy, Andrews, Bryson City,
Waynesville, Asheville, in the Sap
phire, district at Ilendersonville,
Spruce Pine, Little Switzerland, in
the Marion and Black Mountain dis
trict, an 1 at Lenior. and Happy Val
ley and Roaring Gap now foots up
around $39,000,000; As a starter for
the first year, that ought to be re
garded a i an encouraging index t.>
the future.
"Things are 'looking up' in the
western section. The man inclined t?
doubt it has only to go up there an i
cast about 011 his own hook."
MRS. MONTEITH CELE
BRATES BIRTHDA/
?t
The celebration of ill's. Ilicks
Monteith's G7th birthday was at tho
home of her son, Mr. John Hix
Monteith Sunday, August 22, 192(5.
There were about fifty'friends and
relatives present who wish her many
j more happy birthdays. Mrs. Mon
i teith has six living children all ? f
[whom were present except Mi's. I>.
E. Hunnicutt of Akron, Ohio, and
Mr. Jim Monteith who was gone i.o
visit his father in law.
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Pannel, Mr.
John Pannel and children, Mrs. Julia
Jones^-of Addie, Mr. and Mrs. R. P.
Bradley and sou of Wihuot and Rev.
J. C. Gibson of Barkers Creek were
present. Mrs. Monteith received many
beautiful and useful gifts. A boun
jtiful dinner was served on the lawn.
1111 the late afternoon Rev. J. C. Gib
son preached an interesting sennon
to the remaining crowd.