5150 - Year ^ AdTCe "L^6 County .Sjlva, N. C? Thursda, Sept. 15.1927 c $2.00 the Year in Advance Outside County
journal's Trade at Home
Prize Draws Attention
K
T|u> Jackson County Journal's ot
lfr ot .fA'.OO i? 1 >11/08 for the best1
jrIic|,.s on tin' subject of why it!
pjvs to(l?'.v 1,0111 ,lollu> "H'rehants, (
^ civil[<??' :i groat deal of interest j
smorn: rlic Renders ?>' the pa|>er, and!
it is^e\|M'1'* ? "I
that there will be a'
laa'c till!"1"'1' entries in the eompe
,i;!OU lor i lie best puj>er. j
TIhti' is 'ft time to put-.your ideas
en i?i|H'r :inil >harc in the Journal's
prize offer. Any merchant will be
sftitl to '-'ivc vou any assistance thai
I,,, can in yet tins? together your facts
fiie Inst dato for entry of papers
In thec . om i?ct it ion is October 15.
XliCi Journal is offering $25.00 in
pes lor tire best {tapers telling why
it jiiivs to Im) locally. $12.50 in easii j
vij| lie p;iiil for the best imijkm-, $7.50j
tor tlii' second best, and $5.00 for
third prize. In addition we will give
om year's subscription to the Jour
nal, Jackson County's own paper, to
tlrwriter of every article that is sub
luiltiil iiinl published.
Knit's:
Tlie contest opens September 12
sml I'loscs October .15..
Each article must be not more than'
M words in length.
Write only on one side of the paper
Style, ideas, neatness and' original-'
ill will be taken into consideration. I
Three judges, to be announced lat-i
fr, will irrade the ]Ni|iers and award
ibe prizes. j
Anyone in Jackson county and Syl-!
o'j trade territory is eligible to on-'
tir the contest.
N'o ono connected with the Jackson:
ll'iiuty Joiirmil or any mercantile j
Ktablishmcnt in this county will b^i
allowed to submit a pajier.
Even article submitted must be in
tkcotticcof The Journal by (J P. M.
?Wolier 1"). i
STATE HAS WIDE
VARIETY OF GEMS!
llaleiuh X. C'.. Sept. 7.?NoriJi Car-'
olina bas /jiroduced gems and prec
ious stones in wide variety, siiys J I.
?I. Brvson, State (ieologist.
"These range through the various
varieties of quart/, and opal; the dil
krent varieties of bervl and sjH)d
^ *
uaeiit; srurnet, particularly rhodo
iite; /.iivon, futile, cyanite, epidot?
tou.THali!ie,v- lie says
"Trucvtlininonds linye been found,
these have been widely scattered ill
the different counties of the Pied
"W" am! mountain sections of the
V v<,
toate: Alc$imder, Burke, Cleveland*;
ifHlell, .lackson;1 Lincoln; Macon;
Mitflidl Transylvania, Warren and
Uafev^lia\(; all been prominent pro
wits from time to time in the past.
"Tliwv i.;is never been anv svs
Uiiiatu* |.;os|k cling or mining' tor
Itwid.'s stones in the State, Most
the discoveries have been accident
a'> but some valuable deposits have
"?Mound, and for a long time North
.Varoliua was a> regular producer of
wius. (f>
Mr. Bivson says oidy recently, re
int(icst has been aroused at
ftiddenitp, Alexander county, by tho
^ispovorx- of new dejxisits of the inin
1^1 bitldwiite. This mineral is a vel
'w t? lyjecn variety of spodument
"^?'iatcil with the aquamarine and
^wrahl. It is mined in veins occur
^ ?*' the hiotite gneiss, the gcol
finds, the only known deposit
#f s??'b mineral.
Mych pro.-,)Acting and ore-drilling
carried on to locate other
pOMits. As it occurs only as crys
a's '"'bedded iq quartz veins it is
* a matter of cliancc that new
are found.
A bu\'c mass, valued at several
' ousaiid dollars, was ' reported to
'V< destroyed by the discharge
d>n?"iitc (Viler the explosion the
^Trials were examined ami broken
o^ciystals were found in a
i|lll('a"('5 near the place where the
^ burred.
l.i 'l ?f precious stones
!'?'j?orted in North Carolina.
A NOTICE
p" ttbo wish to take a Business
vOQJnja t
?. at S. O. I., please write me
??* week. A f
W. c. REED, Prin.
TWO WOMEN CUIW
MOWS BONUS
Two Mrs; John Taylor CochraiisJ
are claiming; tin* VfWim's Bonus'
money due at the driatjli of Cochran, j
who;was killed in all automobile!
wreck, on Sunday Sept. 11, near WiU
mot. i (")
Mrs. Annie Robinson Cochran, who
states that she was married to Coch
ran on October 25, 11)09, and has one
son, claims that the money is hers,
as slic is the lawful wife of Cochran,
there having been no divorce. The
other woman, Mis. Nora Cochran,
who lives in ftdgemore, Tenn., also i
claims the money and to be the wife''
of Cochran, bavin"; one soil
From the advices reeeived from tlic
Veteran's Bureau, it appears that the,
bonus was made to the Tennessee jwro-l
man, Who the North Carolina Mrs.1
Cochran, claims is not the wife of
Cochran, or! if she is that she is y!
bigamous wife.
The matter is ]>eudin^ .before the
Veteran's Bureau, and Mrs. Cochran,'
of North Carolina lias solicited the:
aid of Congressman Weaver in the.
matter. She states that if she is suc-j
eessful in recoyeriinr the bonus, she'
will divide with the Cochran sluld
in Tennessee. f
MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS
WITH, MRS. ENLOE
The Woman's ^Missionary Society
of the Methodist church was enter
tained, at the September meeting, ?
Tuesday afternoon by Mis. S. \\J
Knloe, at her home in Dillsboro.
A nunober of members of the soc-j
iety attended the meeting.
The program, which presented
4'Home Missions," was under tiki
direction <> 1? Mrs. David Hall.. During
the social hour which followed the
program, Mrs. Knloe, assisted by Miss
Mary Knloe and Miss Elizabeth Dan
iels, served a delightful salad course
and iced tea. \ ->
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MOB SEIZES
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A Franklin dispatch to the Aslie
ville Citizen, dated Tuesday night,
says:"' \ ; ? ,
Jolm Baley, 15-year-old negro, was
taken tonight from an ^utonjobile
driven by Derrell Ashe, taxi-driver
and deputy sheriff, by a group of
masked men, and placed in another
ear which promptly disappeared.
The kidnapping occurred about '
9 o'clock less than half a mile from
the center of Franklin on a streo:
which was well lighted. The car bear-'
ing the masked party- ran around
Ashe's automobile blocking the road
and a big man with his features mask
ed by a white handkerchief, according
to Ashe, threw a gun in the deputy
sheriff's face and with an oath or
dered- him to "sit still" Three nfcgroj
boy's who were riding in the deputy's!
j car with the Baley negro jumped ou:
and tried to get away. They agreed
later that there were six tor eight
in the masked jarty.
Ashe told officers later that he
was watching the man with the J
gun and - that he did not sec any-1
thing else that occurred. One of the
boys, however saw Braley being es-j
corted toward their car by two meo
and janother of the boys saw him
shoved hurriedly into the machine.!
Ashe according to his story, at-!
tempted to follow the car that was
spiriting the negro away but soon
lost it and returned to Franklin re
porting the matter to Sheriff C. L.
Ingram. Sheriff Ingram immediately
organized a party of officers and
deputized citizens and made a search
on the roads leading out of Franklin
but the car bearing the kidnapped
negro had completely vanished and
no persons who saw it roaring out
SEEKS DIVORCE
Asheville Times, Sept. 13.?Robert E.
Reynolds, Asheville attorney and pol
itician, lias filed suit in superior
court for divorce from his third wife,
Dcnice Reynolds, on grounds of &
five-year separation.
The divorce suit marks the close
of a'romantic marriage that thrilled'
the entire eatsern half of America
six years ago. Mrs. Reynolds .was a
French woman. She was visiting in
Xew York at the time she met Km*
husband. It was in 1921. Their meet
ing was extraordinary.
Mr. Reynolds was speeding toward
Central Station in a taxicab which
struck Mrs. Reynolds while she was
crossing the street. Mr. Reynolds pick
ed the woman up, placed her in the
cab and took her to a hospital.
It was a cas'c of love at first sight.
Before he had left New York, MrJ
Reynolds had married the woman his
taxicab struck. The two made their
home, in Asheville for only a few
^months, but Mrs. Reynolds became
well known here for her-striking
beauty. . i
The bill oi complaint said the;
couple were married in New York,
Oct. 6, 1921. It chargod that Mrs. !?
Reynolds "abandoned" Mr. Reynolds'
al>out May 10, 1922, and that they
have liyedseparate and apart"
since.. V ..
The romantic marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. Reynolds six years ago was ear
ned under giant headlines in the
i eat u lie sections of metropolitan news
papers throughout the cast. Mr. Rey-!
nobis unsuccessfully opposed Senator
Overman at the last election.
BETA VALLEY
I?ev. T. F. Deitz precahed an inter
esting sermon Sunday.
Born to Mr. ami Airs. .Joice Frei
. \ V
ville, a daughter, llillard Lee.
Miss Sara Reed, Mrs. Elsie Cooper
and daughter visited Mrs. Carry Mills
Monday.
Mrs. Uoyt Parris,. Miss I'Verna
Lee Hams, called on Mrs. Robert
Snyder Monday. < * 1
Miss Cora Chambers dined with I
Miss Anna Lua Buchanan, Sunday 1
Mr. Paul Rogers spent Saturday'
night with his cousin, Ray Fisher.
"? Mr. Joe Ensley lias completed his,
: ^ .
of town could be located.
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'?At midnight the negro was Still
missing and Sheriff Ingram had just
returned from his first search am!
was preparing to throw largei t irtie.s
into the mountains around I lanklin
and out along the highways in an ef
fort to find trace of the missing
?Jy . ?
negro. '?
The three liegr?es who were,in the
car with Baley, Charlie Hays, Booker
T. Ingrain and Koscie Gibson say tliac
as they Were looking at some phono
graph records in a focal drug store
they were approached by two white
men, taxi-drivers, who offeited to tako
theiii for a ride for a comparatively1
nominal sum. A third offer made by j
Ashe, according to their story, that^
lie would takei them to the Gibson
[ ?' '* f ,
negro's home for a total of 25 cents
was accepted. It was during this ride
thajt the car was blocked and the neg
ro dragged out.1
The masked man that approached
the car with a Revolver in his hand,
according, to Ashe grabbed the In
gram negro and looked at him intent
ly, finally turning him loose to grab
the Baley negro as he was about to
get out of the car.
Neither the deputy sheriff nor tin
negroes were able to identify either
the car or its occupants. The machine
was big and the men had handker
chiefs tied over their faces and their
coat collars turned up close around
their necks with their hats well down |
The transfer of the negro from onel
car to another was just a matter of
seconds and then the machine bear-j
ing the masked party was bearing
away into the darkness to disappear!
as completely as if the earth had!
opened and swallowed it up.
Sheriff Ingram refused to discuss!
the case tonight and would not com
ment on the discussion in the drug
store in regard to the fares. He stated
that he was determined to make a
thorough Search and to locate the
missing negro if possible.
GAMS TO
PREACH TUESDAY
Rev. Jacob Gartenhaus, tlie oiily
missionary of the Southern Baptist
Convention, to the Jewish people,
will preach at the First Baptist
chinch here, next Tuesday evening,
September 20 at 7:30, according to
announcement made by the jmstor,
Rev. J. G. Murray.
I Key. Mr. Gartenhaus is the only
[ Jewish evangelist of the Southern
Convention and the purjiose of his"
mes.;a^es is to bring about a better
understanding between the Christian
| ai;d the Jewish people.
He now makes his- home in Atlanta,
I Ga. He was born in Austria in a Jew
ish home of wealth and culture. It is
said to have been the cherished am
bition of his*father and mother that
he should become a Rabbi, and at the
agS o i 15 he entered the Rabbi's
Home in the rapacity of confidential
attendant, or Gabba. In this positio.'i
he e,.joyed the advantages of compan
ionship with his teacher and exten
sive travel. He says that lie was un
settled and discontented and at length
sacrificed his place with the Rabbi,
wamkring aimlessly from city to city
and filially decided to try his fortune
in America.
Before sailing, he visited his broth
er, who was a student in a Hebrew
sqminarv pre] taring t<? become a Rabbi
but who had obtained a copy of the.
New Testament, and had professed
Christianity. His brother urged him
to actvpt Jesus as the Messiah; which
>ie later did. Since then, he is said
to have led hundreds of his Jewish
brethren to become Christiana.
The pastor, in announcing the ser
vice, Sunday, expressed the hoj>e mat
the church would be crowded to hear
Rov. Mr. Garteuhaus.
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OPENS RECORDS
TO NEWSPAPERS
American Press.-, e , <
( 'J1 lic right of newspaper reporters
to inkpeci "privileged" court records
was upheld by a remit decision of
Judge Fin lev of North Carolina.
Com men tin<? dn the case, the North
Carolina I'ress, official publication of
the state press association says:
"When the sheriff of Alexander
county refused to give the names of
parties he had arrested and was hold
ing in jail, after being asked by th-i
Charlotte News, Judge Finley issued
an order to the sheriff forcing him to
disclose the identity of tjie youhts.
"This is the first case of this kind
we have known of in the state. So far
as we know there has not been a like
case in another state. This sheriff
told the reporters that they did not
give out information to the local news
papers and would not to the News,
but Judge Finley's order brought the
information. Newspapers are suppos
j ed to serve the public, and they
\should have the right to look into the
public records in order that they
might serve the public.
"The precedent set by Judge Fin
| ley when he signed his order puts ,1
| legal stamp of approval on newspap
i er investigation in North Carolina. It
serves direct and, impressive notice
on all sheriffs that their records can
not be concealed legally from the re
sponsible representatives of the
press." .*?
Beardless barley, oats and vetcii
grow winter corn for feed next sum
mer, say those farmers who have trie*,
the mixture.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
John 0. Shelton, 26, to Fitta Owen
17; both of Jackson County.
| new barn. r
Misses Cora Chambers, Mae, May
! me Monteith, Anna Lua Buchanan
Mr. Hobston Monteith; George Barn
| cs, Roy Sellers called on Miss Leona
I Mills, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Billie Ensley visited at Shoal
| Creek, Sunday.
i Mr. Enley Buchanan of Carlile,
S. C., visited his sisters here last
! week.
j Mr. Bennie Thompson spent Sun
day with Mr. Carry Mills.
Mrs. Clyde Fisher spent Saturday
with Mrs. Hoyt Parriss.
Telegraph Company and
County Court Crossfire
DRY OFFICERS
SHOOT MACON MAN
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Cecil Holt, Macon county man, is
j in a Franklin hospital suffering from
1 gun-shot wounds and three Macon
^county officers are held under bond
I charged with the shooting, following
an affair that happened between
Franklin and the Georgia line, Sun
day night.
The officers, Deputy sheriff Frank
Norton, Constable Charlie Oliver and
Raleigh Norris, especially deputized
for the occasion, are under bond and
were to have been given a hearing,
Tuesday; but the case was postponed
because Holt and Mrs. Harry Shep
herd, two state witnessees were un
able to be at the hearing.
The Franklin correspondent to the
Ashcville Citizen says:
Two versions of the affair are told.
According to Harry Shepherd, who
with Mrs. Shepherd, was in the car
with Holt, the officers blocked the
highway and as their car approach
, ed from the south and halted at the
barricade after thtey had crashed into'
it, the officers opened fire without!
warning, wounding Holt and badly)
frightening Mrs. Shepherd,, said to1
have been 011 her way to the hospital
for treatment.
The officers declare that while f
they were looking for a liquor carj
they did not block the highway and
that they placed their cars about 50
feet apart in the road. They say that
when the Shepherd car approached
and stopped, they recognized the occu
pants and that the car turned around
and disappeared down the road later
returning and crashing into the barri
cade while the occupants opened fire
on the officers.
Search of the Shepherd machine
failed to disclose cither liquor or .1
weapon of any kind it was stated
tonight. Feeling here is intense
against the officers, as a result of
the affair and while there is no sign
of violence, it is expected that the
case against the officers will be push
ed to the limit as a result of the pres
sure of public opinion.
BIND 2 ON SENG
Everette Wilkes and Farnell Cun
ningham, two young men of the Beta
section were bound over to the super
ior court, by the recorder's court,
Tuesday, on a charge of the larceny
of ginseng and golden seal from the
beds of W. C. Mills and Dr. W. P.
McGuire.
The defense was not allowed to put
up any evidence as the case is not
within the jurisdiction of the record
'er's court that court sitting on the
j ease for the purpose only of finding
whether or not there was probable
cause for the action.
There is a special statute against
the larceny of ginsenfi from ?a bed
under fence, which carries with it a
minimum penalty of 2 years in the
state prison, it was stated at the trial.
The chief witness for the state was
Mr. Mills, who swore that he was
working in the ginseng patch, when
the two young men came toward .t
from the woods, and that he heard
one of them ask the other whether
lie though^, they could get it and get
away without being seen; and that the
other replied that he didn't think
they could, as there was always some
one about the beds. Mr. Mills stated
that he called to the two, as they left
the vicinity of patch, and asked them
what they were doing there; and that
one of them said that they just want
ed to see how growing golden seal
looks, liaving never seen any.. He
stated that he warned them, that if
they wanted to see the growth, they
must come up the road, and not thru
the woods. It developed that the next
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The Western Union Telegraph Com*
pany rules and the recorder's court
order had a fight for supremacy in
the court Monday. The case of Wilkes
and Cunningham charged with the
larceny of ginseng was on trial, and
a subpoena has served upon Misa
Ruth Moore, local manager for the
Western Union, requiring her to como
into court and bring with her a tele
gram alleged to have been sent by
"John Doe, or any other person to
? Cunningham, at or near
Kings Mountain, N". C., on or after
August 18." The officers reported
j that Miss Moore had refused to come
to court and had instructions from
her headquarters not to do so.
J Attorney Felix E. Alley arose a..d,
proceeded to say what he thought
about the Western Union. "If your
honor, please" said Mr. Alley "I do
not know the young lady in question;
but I do know the policy of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
to evade the laws of North Carolina
and to defy the courts." He stated
that the Western Union will send a
telegram from Sylva to Waynesville
all the way around by Murphy, At
lanta, Spartanburg and Asheville in
order to evade the laws of this state.
He insisted that he had the utmost re
spect for the operator; but that it was
her duty to obey the orders of the
courts of the state rather than the
rules of the Western Union Tele
graph Company. He requested that a
capias ad testificadum duces tecum,
instahter, be issued for the Western
Union Telegraph Company and tho
young lady. The writ was prepared
and a deputy sheriff carried it down
town and served it upon her, bringing
her back into the court with him.
But the telegram was not along.
Court adjourned until Tuesday morn
ing and still the telegram has not
been produced. The recorder found
probable cause in the action without
further testimony and it was unnec
sary to bring it into court at this
time.
Miss Moore stated to a representa
tive of this paper that she did not
refuse to come to court; but that she
did tell the officer, when he tele
phoned her several times that he
would have to come for her; and that
she did refuse to produce the teia
gram unless the writ made it more
specific as to what telegram w-s
wanted.
QUALLA
Last week?
Quite a number of Qualla folks at
tended the funeral of Mrs. Vance
Dillard, whose body was brought
from Florida and interred in the cem
etery near Worley's Chapel Sunday
afternoon. Qualla is Mrs. Dillards old
home, she has many relatives and
friends in this section.
Rev. J. C. Coggins preached at
Swananoa Sunday.
;
Misses Christine and Francie Cog
gins, Clera Hall, Annie Lizzie Terrell
and Mr. Marshall Gass went to Cul
lowhee Monday to enter school.
Misses Bessie Martin and Harriet
Hall are attending school at Whittier.
Mrs. Von Hall and children and
Misses Frazier of Claremont . were
week end guests at Mr. J. C. John
son's. - ..
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Messrs. C. A. Bird, R. F. and James
Hall motored to Cullowhee.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cooper
on Sept. 5th a daughter, Sarah Es
tcll.
r .
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bird were
guests at Mr. H G. Bird's.'
Mrs. James Raby. of Canton is vis
iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jm*.
Bradbum.
Mr. Jake Beck of Lufty visited as
Mr. J. H. Hughes' and Mr. W. H.
Boyle's.
Mrs. J. G. Raby called on Mrs.
D. C. Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Woriev made
a trip to East Laporte.
Mesdames A. C. Hoyle, D. J. Wor
ley, H. D. Howell and J. H. Hughes
called on Mn. J. M. Hughe*.