50 the Year in Advance in the County Sylva, T C., Wednesday, August 24, 1927 $2.00 the Year in Advance Outside County
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With ul' "1(> teachers' berths in th<?
tv lilKti. cxccpt for one vacancy
DillsUoio ami one in Cullowhee,
^ was made, this week at
be ot'tici' of the county superintend
'at ot\ schools, that the long term
^hools of the county will open o?.i
**mber Fifth. The short term
sehools ot the county opened on July
U and will close December 24, hav
ir been in session for nearly two
months, atr this time. - ,
Preliminary to the ?P?mufr of the
schools, there will be a principals
(ont'erence held at the Sylva Central
ggh School on August 31 at which
?ill the principals of all the public
*hools of the county will attend.
' September First and September
(ton,! a conference of all the teach
er ot the, county wil . be held in
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The roster of the teachers of tho
county follows:
Sylva Ccjitral High?V. E. Wes
singer, L. I) Shealey, Mary Jones,
Han Allison. Nellie Cowan, Helen E.
Jhywood.
Sylva GradedJ. U. Gibbs, Lacy
Youiitr.'Maty Sue Hemphill Barbara
Haire Kva Joluison, Sue B. John
tson. Mrs. K. U. Sutton, Mrs. J. Ft
Frt-eze. Ma ye Boone.
Quail#?r Coggins, Iva Hipps
Llewellyn Khodes, Lou Ella Brown
Uis Edwards Vivian Jones.
> Olivet?F. M. Alley, Myrtle Hen
,on. Elizabeth. Moody.
Wiluiot?A. I). Parker, Tallie Pain
tor, Kubye Alley. (;
Barker's Creek?Daisy Stewar
Ethel (Jrisp.
v Diet's. Creek?Albert L. Allison.
Dillsborlo?F. I. Watson, Mrs A
D.Parker, Mrs. F. E. Parker, Eula
Mae Farmer.
Beta? W. G. Dillard, Oberia Wild
His. Pat Cole, Beulah Padgett.
Addie?T. W. Ashe, Gertrude Al
lison, Lazelle Henson.
Willits?S. Jerome Phillips, Mi>..
1!. J. Snyder, Dixie Henson
Balsam?B.. B. Long, Louise Par
ker, Mary E. Bridges.
Cane Creek?Dana Lanning.
Webster?Monroe Madison, Louis)
Buker, Mrs. Ruth Allison Morris
far %ysoii, Annie Louise Madison,
Bertha Buthappn Miss Timmons, Eve
IvJ Morgan.
Greeny Creek?C. B. Terrill, E?a
Estes.
View Point?Mrs. C. J. Worley,
Markaret Freeze.
Fast Fork?Margaret Cagle
Day-Mrs. Louise Cagle, Carrie
Cope, .lanie Hooper.
Zion Hill?Mrs. R. 0. Higdon
Cullowlu-f?D. T. Stutts, Nita Gar
rett, Frahcos Wright, Fannie Good
^u. Isabel Martin, Helen Saunders
Vienna Cloyd. Clenunie Casey, Ger
trude Rhodes, Alva Queen.
Wayeliutta?Mrs. 'L. V. Moss.
Osc.tr? I.cla Norton.
Tuckasei ?;ec?James Osborne, Mrs.
?1'iiie Brown.
Koeky Hollow?Adam Moses, Aza
lee Harris.
Fast Lal'orte ? S. E. Robinson,
St}"a Cowan, Sue Allison.
Moses Creek?Ila Bumgarner.
John's Creek?V. L. Cope Enoln
Arrington, Robanna Griggs.
Balsam Grove?A. F. Arlington
'li'abcth Johnston.
toasstown?Et'fie Matthews.
^?1'6 Creek?Mabel Thompson.
WoJf Creek?Cora Painter.
Parley's Creek?Carl Hoyle.
Bridge?Lucy McCracken.
M Kidsrei-T. F. Middleton.
^ne Creefc?Lenna Barker.
ouble Springs?Norman E. liall.
Yellow Mountain?Dora Dillard.
Glenvillt?J. D. Parker, Jr., Lillie
??D? Maude Mitchell, Kate Parris
'S' Cotter.
'? Ridge?Maggie Parris. ?
Ushiors?G. C. Cooper, Edith Pick
!?er> Ada Moss.
easant Grove?C. E. Ellenburg.
hiteside Cove?Mabel E. Bum-'
Writer.
n't put it off, put it on, say
ension agronomists in referring to
m ** of lime this falL ^
GETS FOUR MONTHS
ON WHKf CHARGE
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Roy Owen .was sentenced to serve
four months on the roads after being
found guilty in,recorder's court Mon
day on a charge of transporting and
possessing. Owen promptly appealed
to the superior court and appeal and
appearance bond was fixed at $400.
Jerry McMahan was convicted of
transporting and possessing liquor
and prayer for judgment was contin
ued until the 4th' Monday in Novem
ber, it being shoWn to the court thus
since his arrest, McMahan had suf
fered the misfortune of having: his
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home and contents destroyed by fire.
John Hensley, assault, fined $20
and the costs.
Glen Stewart, drunk, $20 and the
costs. '-*) o
Glenn Duvall, drunk, prayer for
judgment cotninucd to second Mon
day in September.
Carlisle Coggins, drank, judgment
suspended upon payment of the costs.'
Carlisle Coggins, operating an au j
tomobile while intoxicated, sentenced
to serve four months, but this sen
tence was suspended upon the pay
ment of a fine of $75 and the costs,
and the defendant not to drive an
automobile for twelve months.
J. L. Albert, operating an automo
bile while intoxicated, not, guilty.
Tom Patton and J. L. Albert, af
fray, $10 each and the costs.
Jewel Kevis, operating an automo
bile while intoxicated- Sentenced to
serve 3L month, but the sentence sus
pended upon the payment of a'fine
of\$75. and lie not to drive an auto
mobile for three months.
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Charles A. Fortune, operating an
automobile while intoxicated. Called
and failed. Judgment ni si sci fiTand
capias issued. Z I
Johnny Miller, abandonment. Pray
cr for judgment continued for JO
days.
Bessie Smith, Dovie Smith, Myrtle
Smith, Hettie Smith and Lizzie
French. Operating a disorderly house:
Bessie Dovie and Myrtle were tried.
The other two had not been taken.
The court sentenced the three to the
Home foi- Wayword Girls at Samar
cand. All five of the girls are said
to be Cherokee Indians, or mixed
blood.
FALL TERM TO BEGlfo AT
SYLVA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
The fall term of the S^cjva Colle
giate Institute will open on Tuesday,
August 30th. All students wlvo ex
pect to attend this session should
arrive in Sylva either on Monday
afternoon or Tuesday morning so
that they may be registered and as
signed to their rooms. rj
All of the ministers of Western
North Carolina, the patrons and the
friends of the school are urged jo|
be present Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock for the formal opening. Lev.
all of our friends, take this afternoon
off and get an insight into what" we
are doing here.
From all indications this will be
by far the greatest year in the his
tory of the institute. When our stu
dents have arrived, practically all
of the rooms in the dormitories will
be filled.
The Sylva Collegiate Institute, sit
uated as it is in one of the most
beautiful and prosperous towns In
Western North Carolina; and favored
with as nearly an ideal climate for
study as can be found anywhere '.n
the world, should grow by leaps and
bounds. We Baptists have never fully
realized how great an asset we have
in this institution. Let us awake and
support this school with our prayers
and our means^and make it what it
is destined to become? one of the
foremost preparatory schools of ths
south! v .
W, C. Reed, Principal.
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WHITE WOMAN AND NEGRO
Mi HELD UNDER MANN ACT
* Jim Whitmire, Dillsboro Negro, ami
Mrs.--<Maude Hensley, white widow,
arc being held in Asheville, awaiting
trial at the November term of the
United States District Court, charged
with violating the Mann White Sla/
ery Act, and with conspiracy to vio
late the statute. They were given a
hearing before a United States Coin
missionety in Detroit, a few days ago,
and remanded to the Asheville court
for trial, and being unable to make
bond are being held in iail.
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Some months ago Claude Hensley,
young white man of Dillsboro section,
died under what are said to be rather
suspicious circumstances. Jim Whit
mire, Negro, whose home is near Dills
boro, and who worked for the Sylva
Tanning Company^js said to have
been a "verb doctor," and, accord
ing to the report, was treating Hens
ley. Young Hensley died, and a short
time thereafter his widow disappear
ed, taking her infant daughter with
her. At about the same time Whit
mire also was missed on the streets
of Sylva and Dillsboro.
Mrs. Jane Hensley, mother of
Claude, and grandmother of thq littln
girl, wanted her grandchild back. In
formation began to trickle through
from Negroes returning from the
North 'that Jim Whitmire and the
ADVOCATES VOCATIONAL
TRAINING IN STATE
\ HIGH SCHOOLS
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^ Cullowhce, August 23?Advocating
increased attention to the desirable
forms of vocational education, and)
stressing other provisions which will!
make for I efficiency in the high j
schools, Dr. J. Henry Highsmitii,
director of the Division of School
Inspection, met with the high school
principals of Jackson, Macon, Hay
wood, and Swain Counties at Cullo
whee State Normal School today.
, He discuscd the course of study,
organization, and daily schedule of
the three, four, five and six teacher
high schools, stressing) the need of
more economical and efficient work.
In addition to advocating increased
attention to vocational education ?
a phase of education which is receiv
ing special emphasis in North Caro
lina recently, he advocated the defin
ite provision for directed study as a
means of increased scholarship on tlw"
part of high school students.
From Cullowhee Dr. Highsniith goes
to Murphy where he will hold a con
ference on Thursday with the prin
cipals from Clay, Cherokee, and Gra
ham counties. On Fri'day he will meet
with the school men from Transylva
nia, Polk and Henderson counties
in Hendersonville. He will spend Sat-^
urday in conference with principals
from Gaston county in Gastonia.
The conference was entertained t
, lunch in the dining room by the
school. President Hunter introduce!
the guests, who were as follows: Dr.
Highsmith, Miss Tullye Borden, Sup
ervisor of Schools in Jackson Countv,
County Superintendent W. C. Allen,
Waynesville; Superintendent J. J.
Stone, Wayncsvile; Superintendent A.
J. Hutchins, Canton; Principals H.
W. Cook, Bethel; R. C. Cannon,
Clyde; Blackwell Lunsford, Rock
Hill; E. J. Robeson, Waynesville.
County Supt. J. N. Wilson, Culiow
hee; Principals, D. T. Stutts, Cullow
hee; J. C. Coggins, Qualla;V. E. Wes
singer, Sylva; M. B. Madison, Web
ster; J. D. Parker, Jr. Glenville.
County Supt. M. D. Billings. Frank
lin; Supt. G. L. Houk, Franklfn.
County Supt. N. E. Wright Bryson
City; Principals, G. T. Windell, Al
mond; E. Warrick, Bryson City; C.
G. Hanson, Whittier.
Over 1,600 club members in North
Carolina have taken part in the 30
club encampments and tours held so
far this rammor.
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young Hensley woman were living in
Detroit. The matter was taken up,
it is said, with the government, by
Jesse Cunningham, at the request of
Mrs. Jane Hensley. A special agent
of the federal department of justico
came to Sylva and Dillsboro seeking
information, and evidently he got '.t
?for soon after his departure from
these parts, another federal agent,
openly appeared and, in company
with the sheriff of Jackson county,
visited a number of people, "whose
names and addresses -he had. lie
left fbr Detroit taking with him Lew
is Dorsey, colored and Sarah Pickens,
colored, who were the witnesses pro
duced by the government at the hear
ing in Detroit. It is said (that when
the government agents raided the
home of Jim in the Michigan city,
they found the Hensley woman there.
Jim has a wife living in Philadelphia,
it is said.
The young daughter of Claude Hen
sley was ordered placed in the temp
orary custody of her grandmother,
Mi's. Hensley, and it is believed that
the court will order that she be the
permanent custodian of her grand
child. At any rate, that is what Mrs.
Hensley wants, and what she has
been fighting for. _
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' , QUALLA
Last week.
Several of our people attended ths
funeral of "Uncle Jim Hipps", at
Olivet.
Mr. James W. Hipps brought a
ehoir from Asheville and had singing
at.the Methodist church Sunday af
ternoon. A large audience enjoyed
their splendid music. Several visitors!
from Whitticr and Olivet were pres
ent. Mr. Hipps is beginning a sing
ing school at Qualla to- last ten ev-i
eiiings.
'Mrs. G. C. Ledbetter and Miss An-:
nie Hampton of Asheville visited :.t
Mr. C. M. Martin's.
Mrs. Belle Riddle and children of
Gray Court, S. C, spent the week end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
M. Shuler.
Prof. W. E. Bird and family spent
Sunday at their Qualla home.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dowdle of
Franklin and Misses Nell> and Net
tie Campbell of Georgia visited at Mr
C. A'. Bird's.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Oxner, Mr. Gar
land Oxner and Miss Nora Ward re
turned from a visit with relatives at
Lenoir.
? Mrs. P. V. McLoughlin is reported
improving after an operation in Angel
Hospital. ? .
Mrs. Frank Owen was taken to
Candler-Tidmarsh Hospital for an op
eration.
Mrs. J. E. Hoyle has been serious
ly ill 1'or several days.
Mr. and Mrs. John Norton of
Whittier visited at Mr. R. F. Hall's.
Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Coggins made a
trip to Asheville.
Mr. Winifred Hughes of Asherille
Was a guest at Mr. W. H. Hoyle's.
Mr. Penn Keener is making a tru
to Elizabethton, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. J., H. Hughes and
Mr. and Mrs. T T. Varner were
/guests at Mr. Horace Howell's.
Mesdames Minnie and Mary Kins
land visited Mr. Thursinan Fisher at
Cherokee.
Mr. Bill Ensley of Beta was a Qual
la visitor Sunday.
Mr. Frank Battle is visiting his
sister Mrs. J. M. Hughes before re
turning to Asheville Farm School. "
Mrs. Jim Chambers of Bushnel!,
Mrs. Ras Chambers and Mr. Clint
Chambers were guests at Mr. J. E.
Hoyle's,
Mrs. Troy Turpin visited her par-j
ents Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Oxner. !
Miss 7da Battle was guest of Missj
Jennie Cathey. '? i
HOLLOWEL STARTS
Hollowells Mountain Farmer, a
new farm journal which announces
that it will limit its main activities
to the various phases of agriculture
in Western North Carolina, makes
its appearance as a monthly publi
cation filled with the news of the
most successful farm practices and
the agricultural opportunities in
Western North Carolina.
The publication has the endorse
ment and cooperation of the agricul
tural promotion and extension forces
in this section and the first number
contains contributions from such
authorities as John
trict agent; H. R.
W. Goodman, dis
Niswonger, dist
rict horticulturist; Mrs. Sarah Porter
Ellis, district homo agent; O. B.
Jones, Henderson
James G. K. McClure, president o t'
the Farmers Federal;ion of Buncombe,
Henderson and Rutherford counties;
John Ewbank,' seen tary to the Hen
derson County Road Commission. Scv
eral other items of interest bearing
on rural life in this section are includ
ed.
county agent;
The ne wfarm journal is published
! at Hendersonville by Noah Hollowell,
who recently sold his paper, the Hen
dersonville News, which he published
for several years, to the Hcndersou
ville Times. Mr. Hollowell was a farm
er before entering the newspaper bus
iness and his sympathies for the
farmer were evidenced in his news
paper.
Mr. Hollowell is hopeful of suc
cess because of the unique field his
journal occupies, a vast territory
which can claim no farm paper as its
own, a home publication devoted ex
clusively to the development of rural
life in Western Carolina, where agri
cultural advancement is making won
derful progress but needs a medium
for its own publicity, says the far.a
journal editor.
)UNTY
JACKSON COUNTY FARMERS
TOUR OBSERVATIONS
sheep and werej
i have been kept
told us the sheep
By C. W. Tilson ' .
Some of the things Jackson Coun
ty's 35 farmers found in Southwest
Virginia and Eastern Tennessee will
be worth while for most all of our
farmers to practice. In Virginia we
found approximately 75 percent "f
the land, hills mountains and all in
grass for hay, corn or good grass pas
ture. We found the farmers all busy
mowing, sprouting and cleaning up
their pastures. They told us th-w
worked just as hard through July ami
August on their pasture to keep them
clean and good grass growing as thav
worked on the corn crop in May and
June. They say we have to work our
pastures the same as any other crop
to have good pasture. We saw hun
dreds of steers and
on farms where bot
for years. Everybody
paid them best always and was more
dependable cash crop than cattle, j
These men grew early lambs and
their lambs sold the first of June for
14 and 14 1-2 cents iper pound at the
local scales.
We found the cattle and sheep
mud fat and in grass to their knees.
Every farmer making the tour decid
ed it ^takes good graffs and lots of it
to grow good livestock.
In East Tennessee we found the
farmers feeding lots of hogs with
corn and tankage or fish meal. They
were making money and told us they
absolutely would not grow one hog
for home meat or market now unless
they could buy fish meal or tankage
to feed with their corn. They say the
100 gains lm hogs with corn and flsn
meal is only approximately half the
cost of 100 lb. gains when corn alone
is fed.
We found the dajry cow and hen
along with the hogs in East Tennes
see. And the farmers told us they
were averaging making over $200 per
100 hens clear of feed cost. The
dairy cow has been paying them $75
mm TAX RATE
RAISED TO $1.75
The general county tax rate will be
raised from $1.70 on the $100 valua
tion of property, last year's tax rate,
to $1.75 for this year, according to
information from the office of the
commissioners of the county. '
This does not include the special
school or special road taxes in thd
different local tax districts of the
county.
The rate is made up as follows:
General School 74o
General County 15o
General Road _ 03o
General Health 03o
Special Purpose 05c
Indebtedness 75c
Total f _ $1.75
CULLOWHEE INVITES
CITIZENS TO HEAR DANIELS
Cullowhe,e August 23?The citizens
of the county are invited to attend
the August commencement exercises
at the Cullowhee State Normal
School on next Tuesday morning at
12:00 and in the evening at 8:00. The
morning program printed in last
week's Journal, will feature class tla
ent, and will include the presentation
of the class gift by Mr. Morgan Coop
er.
Hon. Josephus Daniels will deliver
the commencement address in ths ev
ening as recently announced . The
class numbers twenty seven graduates
the largest class in the history of the
institution.
All friends and patrons of tha
school are cordially invited to attend.
W. O. W. TO CELEBRATE 14 TEAR
The local camp Woodmen of the
,World will celebrate the 14th anni
versary of its organization on Aug
ust 29. Dr. Ashley Chappell, pastor
of Central Methodist church, Ashi
ville, will be the principal speaker.
Starting with a small membership,
14 years ago, the oamp has steadily
grown until it now has more than one
hundred members, it is said.
The East Sylva Male Quartet will
render a number of selections.
The celebration will be held, in th<;
auditorium of the Sylva Graded
School, and the public is invited to
attend the exercises.
to $125 per oow above her feed when
good cows are kept and cream is sold.
They impressed the fact on us that
the oow with cream selling and feed
ing skim milk to pigs and chickens
was a safer and more profitable cash
crop system than to keep cows and
sell whole milk. Record for the past
five years at the N. C. State Test
Farm and Tenn. State Test Farm told
us this on our visit to them.
We found Tennessee pushing their
cow, sow and hen program of farm
ing more than ever for it will always
pay they say.
We saw fields growing 3 times tli3
grain and legume hay they did six
years ago according to the owners,
two and three tons of lime applied
per acre was the main reason for this.
We found Tennessee farmers art?
fast turning to sweet clover for pas- j
ture and for hay and qping lime on
all their land. They told us cow pens
and soy beans particularly were the
best hay to grow for feed and for
building up land.
We found them using Tenn. Beard
less Barley for winter pasture and for
feed instead of rye.
There are worlds more we could
tell about but will have to stop bv
saying that we allacame back homo
determined to do our best and got
our farmers to do all they can to get 1
ten times the good grass growing
that we 'now have and our county
stocked up with high quality cowsr
sows, hens, sheep and beef cattle an?l}
grow the best and grow the pastors*
and feed to keep than.' f
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