JACKSON ca JUIINAL
DAlf TOMPKINS, - - Editor
Published Weekly By the
JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL 00
Entered as second class matter
at Sylva, N. C.
We democrats might be in better
shape for the campaign if some of our
more pestiferous candidates should
"choose not to run."
These "air hops" the headlinere
keep talking about must either be n
newfangled dance or a servant on the
passenger air lines. y
After all is said and done about
Irish politics we will still insist that
DeValcra is a most peculiar name for
an Irishman. J ?
And another thing: Why do newspap
ers devote so much space to golf when
so small a percent of their readers
care anything about itf
Asheville's municipal tax rate is
$1.60 and so is Sylva's. It's just a
question as to which place your
rathers draw you.
The way to keep the price of cot
ton high and still higher is to pass a
federal statute against selling it and
let the farmers bootleg it out. 1
Alabama progresses. Down there
they have sent several floggers to the
penitentiary and killed an anti-evol i
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1 A roof garden has been erected on
the White House. Now add to the
electric hobby horse an artificial
brook, and a can of synthetic worms,
and the place will be completed for
occupancy. .
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Over in the state of Wilkes, last
week, the farmers ordered more than
3000 dairy cows in one day. We
thought Jaekson was making progress
along dairying lines, and it is; but
Wilkes will put us in the piker class
unless we speed up the business..
Speaking of highways, we can't
think of a better time than this fall
to pour concrete on 106 from Sylva
to Cullowhee. The implied contract in
the original highway act, providing
for construction the state institu
tions, has not been fulfilled. The
county has loaned to the state to the
extent to which it should be expeetcd
not to exceed, and still there is no
hnrdsurface between Sylva and the
only state institution in trans-Blue
Higde country. ;
North Carolina leads the Southeast
in the number of automobiles, with
one car for every 6.6 persons in the
state. North Carolina has registered
441,650 cars, while Florida has 374,
757; Virginia 229,948; Georgia 257,??
843; Maryland 245,070; Alabama 224,
843; Louisiana 210,000; Mississippi
198,500; South Carolina 174,523. AH
of which proves the wisdom ofl North
Carolina's road building policy. The
roads will be completed and t|$ 'peo
ple will use them, getting gTeatcr
mileage out of the gasoline, tires and
cars, thus saving more than the 4o
gasoline tax the state exacts. The tax
thus painlessly taken pays the bonds,
the interest and the maintenance. So
we really have a real highway system
without it costing anybody anything.
TO ASK NATIONAL ASSISTANCE
The people of North Carolina and
the people of Tennessee have raised
?a million dollars by public subscrip
tion for the purchase of the lands of
the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park. The two states have contribut
ed four million dollars more, by gov
ernmental donation. Now the park
commission is asking the people of
the nation, as a whole to contribute
as much as have North Carolina and
Tennessee.
It is well that it should be so. Of
i course North Carolina andl Tennessee
will derive the greatest benefit, and
should pay the most, as they i:avs
done; but the people of the nution
will also greatly benefit and should
4>e willing to duplicate the sums raised
by the two states.
The Great Smoky Mountains area is
to be preserved as a national (>ark
for all the nation. The whole nution;
especially Eastern America wi'.I have
a great national park, as a recreation
?centre, and the whole nation should I
assist in the preservation of this, the1
last great area of primeaval forest fin!
ti* east. ?
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We North Carolinians have fre
quently boasted of the primacy of
our state in many matters, sometimes
rightly, and sometimes without reas
on. The State Department of Agri
culture announces that North Caio
| lina will be the first state to be free
I from bovine tuberculosis. The work
has already been completed in Jack
j son and most of the counties of the
1 state. Now Ashe, the last of the one
hundred counties to sign the contract
j for the eradication of tubercular eat-,
| tie, and the work will be finished
sometime next year, freeing the state
of tuberculosis among cattle, and
placing North Carolina far in the
lead. This is something of which we
can be justly proud.
Mr. W. A. Graham commissioner |
of agriculture, stated in regard to the
gratifying campaign:
Our State already has been free J
from the cattle tick, and this present
forward movement ought to give us
a fine showing throughout the coun
try. When I was in Washington re
cently I was advised that Federal of
ficials there had told newspapermen
North Carolina would be the , first
state to be free from bovine tubercu
losis, but I am unwilling to make the
announcement until all the counties
had actually agreed to participate in
the work,, which is carried on by the
State Department of Agriculture, in
cooperation with the Federal Dejmrt
ment and the counties themselves.
They have all now come in and. we arc
on the road to the achievement of
quite a distinction in the agricultural
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"Work already has been completed
in eighty five of the counties," con
tinued Commissioner Graham, and is
in progress in twelve. In the remain
ing three, it will begin very shortly.
I am extremely gratified at this show
ing
"The next.State to us is Michigan,
where the work has beenf done in
?bout half the counties. We have a
decided advantage of any other state.
As it is, North Carolina has for some
time, hfid more free territory than
any o;hcr State.
"Th2 last time I looked at the fig
ures already compiled, i found that
since 'he work was started in 1918
approximately 620,000 cows hav? been
tested. Of these, 3,412 were found to
be tuberculous." >.
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THE CASE OF JOHN EARLY
During the Spanish-American War
one John Early, a North Carolina
mountain boy volunteered ^and served
his, country. Soon after..?! his dis
ally it was decided that he was a leper
puzzled the doctors for months. Fin
home county of Polk, and it appears
suffering from the disease contracted
during his service in the Phillipines
and Early was confined to the gov
ernment sanitorium for lepers at Car
ville, Louisiana. From then until now
Early has been a perplexing problem
to his keepers. Time after time he has
escaped and returned to Western
North Carolina. Only last spring he
bought an acre over in McDowell
county and pitched a tent; but, ac
cording to his usual procedure, he re
turned to Carville peacefully, when
the government became serious about
it.
However, he escaped again a few
weeks ago, and has returned to his
home county of Polk, nad it appears
that he is about to make serious ob
jection, this time, to going back :o
Carville. His brothers and other
members of the family are backi.ig
him in the movement, and it is nu
thoratively stated that they have al
ready prepared a writ of habeas
corpus to serve upon the federal
health authorities and deputy mar
shals when they appear to take him.
It appears that his brothers are ani
ply able to care for him, and that they
want only the opportunity of having
their sick brother near them and un
der their care. One of them has of
fered to make a bond assuring that
John Early will be well eared for,
will be confined on the farm of his
brother and will not become a menace
to public health.
The matter will probably-be heard
before Judge Walter EL Moore, under
the habeas crpus proceeding.
It indeed looks like hard lines
that a man who gave his health to
his country should be denied the right
of living in his native mountains, and
that his own kinsman are not allowed
to give him their care. If they can
keep him at home and give him prop
er attention, they should be allowed
to do it, for he would most certainly
be less a menace to the public there,
than he has been through the years
that he has periodically escaped from
Carville and wandered about the
country at will. All this is true, eveu
if he is a leper, which has been fre
quently and vigorously denied.
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Last week? .
Charles Grooms, the thirteen yes J
old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Grooms
departed this life on Friday August
12th and was buried in the cemeteiy
at Qualla on Sunday morning. Fun
eral services were conducted by Rev. |
W M. Burnett of Ravensford. Sym
pathizing friends covered his grave
with flwoers. 1
Mr. P. C. Shelton is making a trip
to Washington and Baltimore.
Mr. and Mrs. George Moody and
family of Knoxville spent awhile
among relatives.
Mr. H. E. Battle of Sylva visited
Mr. W. F. Battles. / '!
Prof, and Mrs. Rowe Henry ot
Gastonia and Prof. J. D. Parker of
Sylva called on Mr. J. 0. Terrell.
Miss Clem Hall visited Miss Fran-1
ces Mashburn at Andrews.
Mrs. A. C Hoyle and family spent
the week end with relatives near
Murphy.
Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Coggins were
dinner guests at Mr. Homer Tur
pin's. Mr. Coggins preached at East
LaPorte in the aftenroon.
Messrs. P. V. McLaughlin and Hil
liard Howell are gone to Akron, Ohio.
Mr. J, K. Terrell was guest at Mr.
C. A. Bird's.
Miss Martha Heritage has returned
to Ashcville, Mr. P. C. Shelton and
family, Mrs. J. L. Hyatt and Mrs. J.
E. Rogers accompanied her as far asl
Waynesville.
Messrs. H. G. and P. H. Ferguson,
and Miss Ruth Ferguson attended ser
vices at Camp Free, Connelly Springs.
Mr. T. T. Varner and family of
Whittier and Mr.. Horace Howell and
family called at Mr. ?!. M. Hughes .
Mrs. J. E. Rogers of Whittier spent
the week with her daughter Mrs. P.
C. Shelton. >
Mr. Lonnie Crisp and Misses Es
sie and Bonnie Anthony and Miss
Claudia Hoyle visited Mrs. Dewey
Ensley at Beta.
Mr. S. P. Hyatt spent the week
end with home folks.
Mrs. J. G. Hooper called on Mrs.
D. M Shuler.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Martin and
daughter, Miss Jessie, of Cherokee,
and Mr. and Mrs.' Beard were dinner
guests at Mr. C. M Martin's.
Mr and Mrs. Lynn Queen, Mr. and
Mrs. Vivian Nations of Barkers Creek
and Misses Sadie and Elsie Hovle,
were visitors at Mr. Allen Ward's.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Kinsland and
Mr. Sevier Keener called at Mr. J Iv.
Terrell's.
Mr. Bill Howell has purchased a
ear.
Mr. D. L. Oxner is repairing his
residence. ? ? " t
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Farm organization representatives
from every part of North Carolina
are expected to gather at State Col
lege on August 26 to decide on the
organization suited to this state. i
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Calcium arsenate is giving fine re
sults in controlling Mexican bea:i
beetle this summer.
Laredo soybeans are reseeding them
selves on many farms in piedmont
North Carolina and the farmers are
well pleased with the variety.
PARKER CHIEF WARDEN
F. E. Parker, Dillsboro, has been
appointed chief forest and game war
den for Jackson county. District
Wardens appointed follow:
^J. C. Reed, Green's Creek; R. L
Elders, Whittier R. 2.; Douglas Brad- j
ley, Cashiers; J. C. Monteith, Sap- ]
phirc; W. C. Jennings, Glenville;j
John A. Hooper, Tuckaseige; B. H.
Hooper, Speedwell; K. Howell,
Whittier R. 1; Lon Ashe, Wolf
Mountain; S. L. Parker, R B. Shular
Sylva R. 1; C. P. Dillard, Willets;!
and R. J. Crawford, Sylva R 1.
I The Journal is in receipt of the fol- j
lowing eltter from C. N. Mease, Chi;*f
Warden, Black Mountain with request
for its publication:
I would like have you say in your i
paper that the Forest and Game War j
den organization has been establish-,
ed and completed in Jackson county.
I completed the oiganization Satur
day with the assistance of F. E, Par-'
ker who has been appointed County
Warden for Jackson county.
These men have been appointed
State Forest and Game Wardens andj
their literature and instructions will
bo furnished by the N. C. Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment and delivered to them by F. E j
Parker, County Warden. Tools arej
being placcd in Dillsboro in the hands'
of F. E. Parker, County Warden to I
be distributed among his District,
Wardens.
I would like to say for Jackson!
county that it is a wonderful county
for timber and is to the place where
the county should have the utter
; most protection. I believe at the pres
ent time there are being more tele
phone and telegraph poles, cross ties
pins, pulp and cord wood and lumber
cut in Jackson county than any one
county I have seen in this section and
a splendid crop of young timber com
ing on. I want to request the co-op
eration of each and every citizen Ji'
Jackson county in, preventing and ex
tinguishing forest fires that may
hereafter break out
In a bank vault in Tokio lies $500,
000 worth of solid gold, nobody
knows who owns it, nobody claims
it. Many a young man will say, "I
would anything to get that $500,00C
gold, that nobody claims."
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Young gentlemen should remembor
that in their own brains, in their
resources of patience, common sense
and energy, $500,000 in real monev
and more may be found if they want
to work. They needn't do "ANY
THING" to get it, just work an l
be stcadv.
The average young flapper quite
often gets mad, quarrels and cries?
but they soon "make-up."
Prohibition Chief Lowman says
Uncle Sam has Cnouh whiskey on
hand td last seven years for medicinal
purposes, which is still news for the
bootleggers.
Expert Watch and
Jewelry Repairing
RAYMOND GLENN
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NDTHINB BUT
It isn't just luck. Our Used
Cars are so consistently
good because we handle
NOTHING BUT.
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M. BUCHANAN, JR. GARAGE
A USED CAR IS ONLY AS DEPENDABLE*
AS THE DEALER WHO SELLS IT
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Women's Banking
Department
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS
for ladies are a feature of this bank's
service to its depositors. In our lad
ies' department every equipment and
comfort is afforded to the ladies who
have business dealings with us. If
you are not already a depositor in
our bank we invite you to open an
account.
Tuckaseegee Bank
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"The Man of the' Foresi"1
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You are assured of a good evening's entertniniM. >
to see this picture FRIDAYi and SATURDAY, jk '/?
author of the story, needs no introduction; nor <io
Georgia Hale, who play the leading parts.
"'Puppets"
A gripping drama of New York's East Si<|.-.
young Italian called to war on his wedding day. i , ?,...ii"
he swore to have revenge on the man who should u' ?
his return, and the fight in the burning theatrp?ti ..
up the picture which is considered one of tlifc lic>:
Milton Sills has made. MONDAY rind TUESI). "/ aiy*.
22 and 23rd. , , **"
"Lovers
Ranion Novarro?hero of the Midshipman ;i id |;. jj. .
story portraying the tragedy which can be catM-. j. ;"
Grundy" with her clattering tongue of gossip ??,.! ,
ger of suspicion. A story of modern Spain, and ...: :
sword duels, with Alice Terry as leading lad v. WEDNESDAY , ?'
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 a^d 25th.
Lyrie Theatre
FOR WHITE PEOPLE ONLY
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Carbonated Bottled Oris
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Tlie Coca Cola Bottling Company Of Ashe
ville, is pleased to announce that we arc car
rying a full line of all carbonated bottled
drinks, including Bevo and , Budweiser, in
our distributing Station in the Basement ui
the Jackson County Bank Building.
Dealers not located on our regular truck
route can get service by seeing Mr. Reed.
THE , <?
BOTTLING
COMPANY
OF ASHEVILLE >i >
W. E. Reed, local mgr 'Phone 4, Sylva
WHERE COFFEE IS till
A real good cup of real coffee with a
real meal at a 'real restaurant?TJI ATS
what you get at
Hawkins
Cole Building?Mill Street
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Brand New
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Merchandise
....We have just received one shipment "t'
our Fall Coats and Dresses. They are beau
tiful. Medium in price. We have also just
received a wonderful line of ladies 'pumps
and oxfords in the very latest style. Otu*
prices are in line.
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SEE OUR LADIES DEPARTMENT BE
FORE DRESSING YOURSELF
FOR FALL
Sylva Supply Co.
INCORPORATED