Jl50 the Year in Advance
$2.00 the Tear in Advance Outside County
ifBERN RAILWAY COMPANY
I
nt first schedule change of any
lent on the Murphy branch of thj
flora Railway System, that has
ton pl'?cc in ? S?1 ?m,1.v -vcars>
6 * which will result in greatly im
"" ved <?'ru( <1 and timC savin? fov
C^ers in the section served by
JTrailrou'l. will become effective
jo 01 o'clock Sunday morning,
V r*29, according to announcement
!lfby.T. H- Wood, division passen
ger a?ent
'for sover.il months the Southern
RaUway has been busy on that divis
? baiidni',' new bridges and culverts
2 proving track conditions look
. (? the day when the people on
Js lino might have faster servicc
?nil better equipment, Mr. \\ ood said.
Under the new arrangement, and
fjth the improvements and qu^cken
Ui, 0f nil schedules, passengers will
jc able to travel to and from points
the Murphy division with much
yore comfort awl faster than they
wv? done heretofore.
It is understood that new engines,
toaches a nil passenger car equipment
will be furnished for all those trains
Hid it has been suggested that Trains
No. 17 and No. 20 be formally desig
nated as the "Great Smoky Mountain
Specials.
Beginning Sunday morning, May
39, Train No. 17 which has heretofore
left Asheville at (>:00 n. ni. (7:00 a.
n. Ct. Time) has arrived at Mur
phy at 12:^0. On and after the
dunge in schedule it' will arrive at
Marp.iy at 11:30 a. m.
Train N'o. 19 leaving Asheville at
3:00 p. m. (C. T.) has heretofore ar
rived at Murphy at 9:55 p. ni., and
will on and after May 29, reach Mur
phy at 8:50 p. m.
N'o. 20 which iias- been < leaving
Murphy at 6:00 a. in,, and arriving
it Asheville at 12:10 will leave Mur
phy it the same time and arrive at
Asheville at 11:30 a. m.
Train N'o. 18, which has been leav
ing Murphy at 10:10 a. m. and ar
ming at Asheville at 5:00 p. m., will
leave Murphy 12:45 p. m., and arrive
it Aheville at 6:30 p. m.
A number of regular stops and
flag stations have been cut out of
the whcdnles of Trains N'o. 17 -and
So. 20 enabling the running time of
t^se trains to be reduced otijo hour.
The fast trains or through trains
Xo. 17 and No. 20 will stop in b^th
diif-ctions at Canton, Clyde, Lake:
Jinaluska, Wayncsville, Hazelwood
Sylva, Dillsboro, Whittier, Ela Bry
6oii City, Bushnell,' Almond, Topton
Andrews and Murphy and will stop
to flag to take on or let off passen
6w at Hominy, Candler, Turnpike,
Msam, Addic and Marble. Trains
S?. 18 and No. 19 will make all stops
? heretofore.
United States mail for non-stop
stations will be handled bv mail crane
uraDgwnents.
Train No. 17 leaving Asheville at
6:00 o'clock in the morning will tako
passengers and mail from East Train
^ 35 and during thq summer months
from train No: 3 from Atlanta, Mac
03 awj other Southern1 points.
Train No. 19, leaving Ashcville i t
^ o'clock in the afternoon will take
twil and passengers from all trains
?rriving in the atternpon from the
Wont and South.
Passengers from the Murphy divis
^ arriving in Asheville on train Nc.
^ will ooni^'ot there with trains
wing for the East and South.
Train No. IS arriving in Asheville
^35 p. hi.,' will connect with the
Carolina Special for points west and.
^nth, and during the siunmer months
conned with No. 4 at Alshevilio
^ Atlanta, Macon, Montgomery,
obile, New Orleans auw other Sou
l]| * points.
It- was stated that the Southern
**y' Company has gone to a
expense to give this improve.!
faster service to residents of tue
!nti? solved by the Murphy di
v<ioa. ?
8 C- I. FACULTY REELECTED
.Principal W. C. Reed and the en
of the faculty of Sylva
tiat* Institute were reelected at
"went meeting of the board of
' "1 of that institUttdtL
. >
P.
GOOD ROADS HELP
EASTERN TRUCK GROWERS
Raleigh, N C., May 17?When rail
! roads fail to give satisfactory service
in handling perishable truck crops
' growers find that they can use the
good rqads of North\?arolina to ob
?\ aits.
<n early cabbage and gar
den peas iq the territory around New
Bern are using tmcks to haul their
crops inland. Some farmers bring the
crops to New Bern where they are
leaded on railroad ears for quick
shipment to eastern markets while
others rely entirely on trucks to| ship
their products directly to the con
I tsumer. Some of the leading growers
| of the New Bern section state that
they can get their crops into central
North Carolina in; less time and with
more profit by using fast tracks.
Several of these tracks loaded high
witii cabbagc and j>cas were observed
recently making their way inland to
such towns as Wilson, lfocky Mount,
Raleigh and Durham. Some of the
shipments have been made.Oven far
ther west to Greensboro with profit
A fleet of trucks has been in op
cration cut of the Chadbourn straw
bony section this spring. One man
ro{>o*ted that lie was able to leave
the vicinity of Chadbourn late inj the
afternoon and have his berries on
the markets of Richmond, Washing
ton and Baltimore early the next
day. In, many instances the buyers
paid at least one dollar a crate more
for berries so delivered. ,.a
The comity agents of the State
College extension service are encour
aging thffi form of quick marketing
and they find in many instancesi
that farmers aire overlooking the
good, local market which exists for
early truck crops right in North Car
olina. Harry Shriver of New Bern
disposes of nearly all the \ produce
from his 400 acre farm by track
shipments. He states -i*at it is more
profitable to ship in this way than
to depend on oarlot shipments to tn<*
large eastern mark jts.
(
WILMOT NEWS N
Mr. Allen Jonas lias returned from
Smokeniont where he has oeen work
ing for some time. *
Mr. and Mrs. John Bumgarri|er vis
ited Nations Creek Sunday.
Mr. Horshol Parris find Iimon
Brooks motored to WilmOt Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. Richard Jones, Jr. attended
our Sunday School Sunday.
Mr. Ralph Nations iias returned to
his (work at Ocona Lufty,.
Airs. Callie Hensley was a visitor
of her mother Mi's. Z, V. Nations
Sunday.
Mr. John Jones made a business
trip to Ravensford rSaturday morn
ing. 1 , : ? C>
'Mr. Bill Cockran was a guest/of
Mr. Frank Nations Sunday.
Mr. Jack Parris and Limon Brooks
were visitors of Nations Creek Sat
urday night. o
Mr. John Jones rnd Misses Ollie
Myrtle, Bonnie Nations motored to
VVhittier Sunday.
Mr. Eddie Honeycutt was a visitor
of Wijniot Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Jackson Jones, Miss Vinnie
Jones and Misses Lucy and Nellie
Parris were visitors of Barkeife Creek
Sunday. N
Mr. Robert Landen; was the guest
of Mr. Theodore Hensley Sunday.
Mamie Nations was the guest of
Hazel Hensley Sunday.
Mrs. Stella Green was in Wilmoi
Saturday.
Mrs. Essie Corner of Smokemont
was a visitor of her grand mother
Mrs. Rhoda Jones, this week.
Mr. John Jones motored to EU
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Janie Oxncr and three daugh
ters were the guests of Mrs. Joan
Jones Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Wib Nations has returned
froin Akron where he has been work
ing for some time. V.
Mr. Lee Raby went toi Wliitlier
Saturday.1
Mr. Nelson Dills was the guest of
his sister, Mrs. Grady Nations last
FtijLiiA ?" ? .
IC. I
START FRIDAY
? <?
The final exercises cif Sylva "Col
legiate Institute started with a re
cital by the music department, undu
direction of Miss Mattie Belle Jones,
last Thursday evening.
On Monday evening of this, week,
the operetta "Snoiv White ? waf
given by-the school, at the graded
school auditorium.
The exercises will continue through
Tuesday evening of next week. The
schedule for the rest of the com
mencement follows:
Friday, May 20th at 8:00 p. m. Play
"At the Wishing Well," Present
ed by the seventh grade at the
Graded School Auditorium.
Sunday, May 22nd at 11:00 a. m.
Special U. Y. P. U. Program at
Baptist church.
Sunday, May 22n(] at 8:00 p. m. Ser
mon by Dr. Paul Bagby of Wake
Forest, at Baptist church.
Monday, May 23rd at 11:00 a. m
Class Day Exercises on Campus
just back of Boys' Home.
Monday,'May 23rd at 8:15 p. m. Ad
dress by Dr. Brunei- of Jefferson
City, Tcnn.
Tuesday, May 24th at 11:00 a. iu.
Recitation Contest at Sylva Graded
School Auditorium.
Tuesday, May 24th at 8 :lf>. p. m.
Piny, '' Because l.Lovc Vou" at
Sylva Graded School Auditorium.
Everyone is eardially invited to
attend all these exercises.
LOTS OF VALUABLE HEIFER
CALVES ON OUR FARMS
) (By C. W. Tilson)
There rte lots of wonderful dairy
ileifer c U'res on the farms of Jackf
son ooujty this spring. These calves
sired b> the Piuebred dairy bulls
placed in the various communities of
the county last year are attracting
lots of attention. Due to the unusual
1 lv high milk and butter production
back of their sires these calves will
when they become cows produce from
1-4 to 1-3 more milk and butter than
their mothers. The laws of dairy cat
tle .breeding assure this and their
looks already show that they should
be better cows than their mothers
Those calves are not for sale at
any reasonable price whatever. And
when they grow iii^to cows and fresh
en two years from right now one
mindred dollars in cash will be the
market price for one of them. Folk
the demand for good milk cows i?
only half what it)will be two years
and four four years from now. It
you raise more than, you want yon
sure will be able to sell them at vo ir
own price. As sure as you and I live
dairy cows are coming into all west
ern North Carolina just about as fjv.t
for the ne?t' five to ten years as the
automobile has come during the past
ten years. We have a cream market
now that pays well aityl cows pay we'll
with chickens and pigs, and wo are
going to have jjood cows arid lots if
them on practically all Western N.
C. farms.
Don't wait but start now to have
your heifers by breeding your cows
this season, to the purebred dairy
bulls in your community and you
will raise the heifer calves at a real
profit. Heifers from scrub sires pro
duce from 1-4 to 1-3 less milk and
butter than their mothers and no
body wants them.
i V
SEVEN MARRIAGE
LICENSES ISSUE!
Last week was a marrying week in)
Jackson county, the register of deeds!
office issuing seven licenses or .an
average of one a day, Sunday in
eluded.
Fred Crain to Lizzie Taylor.
Hugh Buchanan toJessie Wilson,
both of Haywood county
Fred Ashe to Martha Locust.
?T. F. '/Shipman of Transylvania to
Nellie Parker Prince.
Clarence Jones to-Bonnie De Hart
Indians.
Russell Hornbuckle to Stacy Crow.
Elsie Love to Rose Allen.)
Mrs. Henry M. Middleton of War
saw in Duplin County won second
( prize in the southern garden contest
' conducted by the Southern Ruralisl
of Atlanta last year. Mrs. Middleton
was awarded a cash prize of $200.
ENOS JONES
At a preliminary hearing Monday
before Esquires R. A. Painter and ft.
P. Potts, Eiios Jones, charged with
the elaying of Lee Conley, Col. was
held to answer to the charge at the
October term of the Superior Court
of Jackson county. The amount of
the bond was not fixed al the hear
ing. (
Jqnfes did not go on t!ie stand, nor
did . he offer any testimony, though
lie insists that the killing, which Re
curred last Wednesday in the waiting
room of the Dillsboro railway sta
tion, was entirely accidental.
Four witnesses were produced by
the state. Dr. A. S. Nichols testified
that Conley's death was caused by a
gunshot wound in his left side, which
entered on a level with his body and
ranged straight in.
Louis Jones, an uncle of the do
fendant, stated to the court that
Enos had borrowed the shot gun froi:
him, the morning of the slaying at
the bridge across the Tuckaseigee
river, on Highway 235 and that Enos
then went in the-direction of Dills
boro. He testified that Enos asked
hili ^jl'or shells for tho gun, but that
he didn't get any.
Guy Leatherwood swore that Enof
came into the store where he was
clerking, a short time before tie
shooting and asked for some shells,
with NO.' 3 buckshot; and that bein;;
told that there was no bu??k shot ii
stock he said that any kinu would do
purchased 3 shells and lett in the di
rection ,of the railway station.
Sheriff C.innjon stated that Jones
had told him that he shot Conley, bnc
that he insisted that it was an acci
dent. He said that was tho story
Janes told hira on; the day of the
shooting, and that he still asserts
that it was purely accidental.
UNION MEETING AT LOVEDALE
The Jackson County Union^ Meet
ing will convene with tho Lovedale
Baptist church on Saturday before
the fifth Sunday in May. Below wc
give the program:
Saturday, 10 A. M. Prayer and Praise
Service. Organization.
11 A. M. Sermon by Rev. I. K. Staf
ford.
12 M. Dinner.
1 t c*
1 P. M. "Things thta make a churcn.
strong," opened by Mr. T. C. Bry
son.
2 P. M. "What is th preacher in hi*
prime in ministerial efficiencyf'
Opened by Rev. John Hoglen.
2 P. M. "When is the preacher in his
cal?" Opened by Rev. A. W. Dav
is. ??
Adjourn at will.
Sunday, 9:30 A. M. Prayer and
Praise Service.
10 A. M. "Teaching the Sunday
School," by Rev. W, C. Reed.
Contribution.
11 A. M. Sermon on "Soul Winning'*
by Rev. T. F. Deitz, selected by the
pistor and deacons of the Lovedale
Laptist church.
12 M. Dinner.
1:30 P. M. Evangelistic sermon by
Rev. R, L. Cook, .selected by the
above committee.
T. F. Deitz,
R. L Cook,
J. D. Sitton,
(P. G. Morgan,
Committee.
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS
AT CULLOWHEE
Cullowlce, N. C., Mnv- 16?The
1927 Commencement at Cullowii-1;
State Normal begins Sunday morning
May the 22nd. On this date the An
nual Sermon will be preached by Rev:
A. Paul Bagby, D. D., pastor of tne
Baptist church at Wake Forest Col
lege. The baccalaureate address lo
the Senior Class will be given Fri
day morning, May the 27th, by Dr.
H. A. Webb of George Peabody C > -
lege for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn.j
Dr. Webb is well known in Western
North Carolina, having been one of
the speakers in 1926 before the West- J
ern District meeting, which was held
at Asheville, of the North Carolina
Education Association.
Records kept in hog feeding dem
(GBistrations are teaching some men
the value of keeping farm accounts.
PARK SURVEY 10 START SOON
COMMISSION WILL TOUR AREA
CULLOWHEE PAGEANT IS
COMMENCEMENT FEATURE
Cullowhee, May 13th.?Practically
all the preparations for the Com
mencement Pageant to be staged at
Cullowhee are nearing completion
tfow except for the necessary rehears
ing for the final presentation.
The general pi ah for the pageant
is similar to that pursued last year.
Five distinct episodes were prepared
and presented- last yea/} whereas
only three will be given this
year. Students of the school have
prepared these episodes under* the
direction of department heads. The
first two episodes this year will con
sist of short three-act plays. The
first play deals wiih the Cherokee
Indian removal of 1838 to what is
now the state of Oklahoma. This
play, wiuch is a tragedy dealing with
the well-knoWn story of an old Indisn
named Tsali; was written; by Miss
S Leila 'Cowan. The story is touching
and is well written.
The next episode deals with a mod
ern. school problem involving a school
election for special taxes and a family
rovij. It hojds a dramatic injterest
throughout and promises to be enjoy
able to the audience. Thifc play is
entitled "As She Had Planned" and
deals with the ambitions of an at
tractive mountain girl whose father
could sec ii,o good in a local higa
school that would take out all the
money in the community in the foim
of taxes. It was written by Miss
Mary Louise Russell. r 4
The third episode consists of a
May day festival with, music -and
dancing. It is to be aspecial feature
of the Pageant, representing the work
of the graduating clasp in May. iu
fact, the Seniors are presenting:tlii;
in lieu of the conventional gradua
tion exercises given at school and
college commencements. This pageant
will be given out in the open as It
was last year, provided the weather
will permit. The whole performance
promises to be enjoyable.
MADISON HEADS
WEBSTER SCHOOL
Monro B. Madison, who for the
past session, has beeu principal of
Lake Junalubka Graded School, has
been clccud Principal of Webster
iligh Sciiool for noxt year.
Mr. Madison is an A. B. graduate
of the State University, class of 192-j,
and has had three years' successful
experience in teaching.
CULLOWHEE GRADUATES
LARGE CLA6S
Cullowhee, N. C., J4ay 17, 1927
The Graduating Class at Cullowhte
State Normal this year will be the
largest in the history of the Sclio >1
The May Class will number twenty
five while the August Class now eon
sists of thirty, making a total of iic
ty-five. One will get .ap^impressiua
of the growth of the Nor&al Schoel
if he compares the above figures with
the number of graduates in the Nor
mal School for the past four years.
The Normal graduates for 1922-23
numbered 8; for 1923-24, the number
rose to 13; for 1924-25 to 16; in
1925-26 to 35. It will be noted th*u
the number of graduates this year is
exactly seven times the number fin
ishing in 1922-23.
The fifty-five Seniors in the Nor
mal department this year represent
25 counties in North Carolina, while
one of the Seniors from South
Carolina, two from Georgia and on<
from Virginia.
WESSINGER NEW
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Mr. V. E. Wessinger, who for sev-j
eral years has been principal of the
high school in s Rosman has been
elected as superintendent of the S "!
va public schools for the next ses
sion, and will mo^fe to Sylva within a
short time. .
Cotton, dealers and manufacturers
must be delighted with these cotton
festivals all over the state since the
farmer has sold his corttoan to them
at a very cheap price.
. A mo B. Cammerer, assistant direc
tor of the national park service of
the department of the interior,, ar
rived in Asheville Monday prepares
tory M meeting a group of park lead
ers frc Knoxville,, Tenn., Wednfesday
or Thursday to begin a survey of the
proposed Great Smoky Mountains* Na
tional park area. k
Mr. Cammerer and Senator Plato
D. Ebbs a member of the North Car
olina park commission are to leave
by automobile Tuesday moropng to
visit Bryson City and other towna
surrounding the park area. Repre
sentative Zebulon Weaver expects to
be with the park leaders during their
survey of the North Carolina portion
of the park area, the congressman
announced Monday.
The officials who are expected to
meet Mr. Cammerer at Knoxville to
begin an inspection of the park area
include H. W. Temple of Pennsylva
nia, chairman of the Appalachian
Park commission; Col. Qlenn Smith,
secretary of the commission: Maj.
William A. Welch, Harlan T. Kelsey
and W. C. Gregg. The latter three
are members of the commission.
The purpose of the survey, Mv.
Cammerer said will be to determine
what lands will be available and ac
ceptable to the federal government
for inclusion in the park.
"I came to Asheville a few days
before the beginning of the survey in
order to visit some of tie cities and
towns surrounding the proposed
park," Mr. Cammerer said. "You
know, the national park officials arc
going to be in pretty close relation
ship with Asheville and the other
western: North Carolina towns from
this time forward.
"I am delighted at my first direct
acquaintance with Asheville. The
manner in which this portion of thd
state and eastern Tennessee haft
gone after this national park proves
ihe prOgressivcness of this region. A?
a man who has devoted much of his
lifp,to city planning, I was delighted
at-the manner in whieh Asheville is
developing a civic center."
Mr. Cammerer met Senator Ebbs
and othefr leaders in the[ national
park movement Monday. Together
they arranged for the trip they "Will
start Tuesday to Bryson City and
other townis near the park area. They
expect to stop in Canton to call on
Reuben B. Robertson, president of
the* Champion Fiber Company.
Representative Louis C. Craittton
of Michigan^ Representative Joeeph
W. Byrne of Tennessee an<j other
members of . the appropriation com
mittee of the house of representative*
expect to devote two or ifeee daya
to an inspection of the pJDfk are* this
summer or next fall. Mf. ^Gsmmerer
said. "' ' ?
"They will not have time to make
an, extended tour of the park area,'1
Mr. Cammerer said, "but I want theta
to go to the top of Mount LeQonte
and there, as I did, look over the
whole region."
"I was in Washington about- a
week ago and conferred with Colonel
Glenn Smith, of the U. S. geotogwal ?
survey, and he told me the party
would start work in Tennessee, this
week," Representative Weaver said.
"I told hihi it would be a pjftwure
to accompany the party ovfer some nf
the beautiful western North Carolina
territory to be Included in this ex
tensive survey and to give them any
information of statistics I might be
able to furnish.
<' Colonel Smith will notify m?
shortly of the exact time the party
will fipish work in Tennessee aad
told me the park officials would make
their headquarters in Bryson City.M
START TRAINING CLASS
AT BARKER'S GREEK
There will be held at Barker's
Creek Baptist Church, beginning 8otlr
day night and running through Fri
n Sunday school revival
or training class for Sunday school
workers. It is hoped that all interest
ed in Sunday School work will take
advantage of the classes.
A. V. Washburn, Sunday seboot
and B. 7. P. U. field wwrfear^ witf
have charge of the work and tha
Sunday School Manual will be thq
text book used. " if