^150 the ,Year in Advance in the County S Sylva, N. C. Thursday, November 10. 1927. $2.00 the Year in Advance Outside County
ARMISTICE DAY
SPOOLS T?'
* SERVE ARMISTICE DAY
?rjje public sclwols c,f Sylva and
Artoghout. the county will observe
Sice Day with appropriate ex
^Ls it is stated at the office of the
superintendent qf education.
TO CLOSE TOMORROW
The Banks of Sylva will be closed
ill day, tomorrow, Armistice Day, it
keiug a leSal holida-v
fOOTBALL TOMORROW
gylya Collegiate Institute and Hay
gviHe Hijih School will meet on the
tbe Sylva High School gridiron, to
aorrow, Friday, ofternocjn at 3:00
c'lwek tor the Armistice Day foot
hill game. A large crowd and a good
game are expected.
P. D. K. TO GIVE DANCE
Invitations are being sent out by
members of the P. D. K. for an
Armistice Day dance to be given in
the dining room of the New Jackson
Hotel tomorrow, Friday evening.
SYLVA MAN HAS WALKED
88,352 MILES
Nelson Parris, night watchman at
the Parsons Tanning Company plant,
aeeordinv to authentic records, has
valkcd 88,352 miles in the past de
ten years, during which time he has
been ?i the job, seven days in the
week, at the Tanner}'.
If Mr. Parris has started walking
ritund the worffl, when he 4>egan
the job he now holds, and had walked
the same distance each day, he would
have circled the globe three times,
aud would be a little more than half
w?y aromid again. He could have
made the trip from New York to
San Francisco and back thirteen
times and would be about back to
his starting pqint again.
PRESENT FLAGS AND
BIBLES ARMISTICE DAY
The Junior Order United American
Mechanics will present Sylva High
School, Sylva Collegiate Institute and
Sylva graded schoql, with flags and
bibles,-at 10:00 o'clock tomorrow
morning The exercises will be held
*t the High School auditorium, and
the public is invited to, be present.
chamber of commerce
TO MEET TUESDAY
The Sylva Chamber of Commerce
?ill have a dinner meeting Tuesday
evening, at 7 o'clock in the Chamber
Conuncice rooms. Officials of thfl|
body state that matters of importance
?ill be taken up and discussed and it
's hojted that u large attendance will
k there.
Chief Ducket of the Asheville Fire
Apartment will be at the meeting
fa tbe purpose of discussing matters
Pertaining to fire protection and the
*?rk of the local fire department in
^nectisn with the state fireman's
^iatiw.
Day*s abernathy wedding
ioston^Salem Sentinel.
The wedding of Miss Irene Davis
^ Willard Bryan Abernathy was
^?ll"2cd Wednesday evening at
?38 o'clock at the hopne of Rev. V.
Swaim, the officiating pastor, in
Presence of a few intimate friends
^ relatives.
Abernathy is the daughter of
'_r, ?nd Mrs. W. V. Davis of Beta
^r- Abernathy is the son of Mr.
i*. M. F. Abernathy of Newton.
?y will make their home in Win
^?Saleia.
Rood that the seals do last
the year, and renders
jT,b,e the carrying on of the fight
taring and preventing tuberculo
id other diseases,
STATE NORMAL OBSERV
ING EDUCATION WEEK
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Cullowhee, Nov. 9?National edu
cation week is being observed at Cul
lowhee State Normal school, a very
inclusive program, arranged by the
| officials qf the school is being car
ried out, and every department has
been assigned some special feature for
discussion.
? The faculty has been divided into
committees for the purpose of pre
paring education material for the pap
ers. These articles will appear all ov
er the st.ate.
Thursday, which is Known Your
School Day, the grammar graces in
the demonstration school will be "at
home" tq the Community Life Club
and to the pirencts. During the day
the guests will be shown the work
that is being done by the children
and a program by thechildren them
selves will be presented in conclusion.
The Yodel, the newspaper publica-j
tion qf the Nonnal School which will,
make its first appearance for the ses- J
sion on November 15, will be a Na |
tional Education Week issue. The
staff is offering two prizes of one
year's subscription each 10 the Yodel
for the best Education poster furnish
ed by the Art Department and flr
? he best 250 word article on any
phase of Education Week written by
any student of the school. Another
article will receive honorable men
tion and both will be published in the
Yodel. The judges in the poster con
test are to be Missees Gladstone,
Camp and Rhodes and those judging j
the articles will be Professors Bird
and Madison of the English Depart-J
ment.
SEEKING MARKET FOR
" fcAMBXJTRQ CABBAGES1
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Raleigh, N. C. Nov. 9.?Mountain'
farmers of the Hamburg section in j
Jackson county, in cooperation with
the extension workers, are making
an effort in working out better meth- j
ods of marketing fall cabbage. X1 j
The growers have started at the
bottom of the ladder, realizing that
the standardization, of p variety that
will produce a good tonnage per acre
of 4 to 6-pound heads is first to bo
accomplished before they can create i
a steady demand for their porduct.
A program of this kind was presented ;
to a group of cabbage growers last i
year, and a good strain of Danish
cabbage was tested by tyie grower.
This strain of cabbage proved su-i
perior to that being growi*, '/even
during a year qf unfavorable weath
er conditions. The cflopf was uni
form, consisting of small compact
heads with a minimum of bursting.
This year six other growers tried
out this seed, and have reported be
ing highly pleased with it, and state
that it is the variety for their section
and market. One grower planted it
in a field with , three other strains
of Danish, and stated that it excelled
i any one of the other three. He al
. sq commented on the high germina
tion of the seed. i'** (
The cabbage wag followed to the
market. An average size head simi
lar to the kind of cabbage the house
wife usually buys, was purchased,
i along with a similar size head of an
other variety that was trucked in by
another mountain farmer.
The growing of late cabbage in
Jackson and other counties of higher
altitudes, and peddling the crop
among the markets of the Piedmont
sections of this state and South Caro
lina, had been, for years past*, a
source of income for many mountain
farmers. The coming of the auto
mobile truck and good rqads have in
a way simplified the <netfy>ds of
peddling; however, competition with
northern cabbage, whleh isoftpn ship
ped tq, our local markets by the ear
load, is making the marketing of our
fall cabbage more difficult each year.
The growers in the North can ship
in cabbage at the same price or even
less than what the mountain farmer
is willing to sell his from the truck.
For example, three carloads were
sold and delivered to wholesale deal
ers in the Piedmont section during
the first week in September of this
year at $1.80 a hundred. A mountain
fnnncr was trucking to the snme placo;
and . asking $2.00 a hundred. Thej
dealer who was buying this cabbage
at two cents a pc,und and taking on
ly the small heads front the truck
load, stated that lie was compel le i
to buy a carload of Northern cab
bage so he could sell as cheaply as
his competitor, who had been buying j
carloads at $1.80 laid down at delivery j
point. The grower in the North hak!
a constant supply, and can deilver a!
product properly graded to fit the
market as the (dealers in this section
need it. o
Our growers can meet this competi
tion, however, if they will produce a
volume of solid marketable size heads
and distribute it to the dealers as
they need it. The present and future
production will be absorbed threjueh
our local markets distributing the
cabbage by means of the automobile
truck, since the dealers, according to
interviews, prefer mountain cabbage.
A small start has been made'in
Jackson county in educating the farm
ers tp the needs of a production pro
gram to meet market requirements as
well as getting a better tonnage per
acre, so as tq lower cost of produc
tion and meet competition prices
from other cabbage-growing sections.
The next step will be in providing
adequate storage facilities in e(rder
to have a steady flow of cabbage by
truck from the grower to the dealer
as he needs it.
When a program of this kind is
under way, i. e., standardization qf
the variety, grading and proper stor
age facilities, it will be a means to
ward cooperative marketing.
TWO APPLE CROPS ,
IN ONE YEAR
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Mr. A. V. Washburn brought tha
Journal apples from two crops from
the same tree, this year. The apples
came from Cleveland county, and the
first of spring crop, is a large, weli
develciped applet while the second
crop, white as well developed as the
first, with good shape and colorintr,
are vest-pocket editions of the spring
crop, v they might be classed as
bantam apples of the same variety.
These apples are on display in the
Journal office.
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Forty cars of demonstration fed
hogs have been shipped by farmers of
Chowan County this year. Plans are
I underway now to increase these shio
j ments next year.
DONT WORRY ABOUT
OUR SPORT URGE
(By Dr. Frank Crane)
Many say that lite country has gone
"lootball crazy."
Thcv point out the fact that
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Home's downfall was preceded by
the gift toj the jicople of games and
bread.
The parallel between the bloody
amusements of ancient times, how
ever, and the football of today is i
not very close.
Football is a clean sport and the'
more energy people put ciut in sport
of this strenoous kind the less energy
they will be disposed to spend in war.
Footbal calls fqr the last ounce
of physical strength, together with
intellectual alertness.
Last year there was an attendancf
of 79,500 at the game between Stan
ford and Southern California. Fifty
I five thousand saw the Harvard play,
j 70,000 watched Ohio State and about
i 75,000 seat wsere sold for the U. S.
| C.-Notre Dame game in Los Angeles.
| Many applicants were rejected for
lack of space.
| The attendance of large groups at
football games is a good omen and
those who gather from this that the
country is going to the dogs are mis^
taken. .
One difference npted between other
countries on the one hand and Eng
j land and the United States on the
I other is that England's people play.
Sport is an institution and to be a.
j good sport is a synonym of having
j a fine disposition.
j The children , of France and Italy
' and Germany need to be taught more
how to play, for play is the natural
i outlet of youthful exuberance and
the more a nation plays intelligently
the better off it is.
' One of the excellent efforts of the
Y. M. C. A. and similar organizations
abroad has been4o organize boys and
girls into play groups. Play of child
j ren abroad seems to take a more de
structive tendency. A movement has
made considerable headway in the
United States to have teachers upon
the play grounds, and to instduct the
children in healthy sports as well as
the three R,s.
Altogether play is a good thing, and
( should be encouraged.
j The mere, the principles of fair
j play play are introduced into business
i the better off for business, and the
; more business becomes a sport the
J more it will attract folowers.
CLEMMER COMES TO SYLVA
ROBBINS TO WINSTON
Rev. G. B. Clemraer was appoint
ed to fill the pulpit of the Sylva
Methodist for the next year by Bish
op Mouzon in the closing hojurs of
the Western North Carolina confer
ence in Asheville Monday. Rev. W. M
Robbins, who has served the local
church for the past three years was
given the appointment at Ogburn Me
morial church in Winston-Salem. Mr.
Clemmer, who has been the pastor
of the Ogburn Memorial church in
Winston-Salem fon the past four
years and. Mr. Robbins, who has ser
ved Sylva for three years, exchanged
appointments.
Presiding elder P. W. Tucker, was
returned to his work in this district;
but every pastor in Jackson county
was sent elsewhere and new ones ap
pointed to fill their places.
The complete list of appointments
in this district follows:
Waynesville District
P. W. Tucker, presiding elder; An
drews, J. R. Curch; Bethel, J. C.
Gentry; Bryson City, D. V. Howell;
Canton, A. C. Gibbs; Cherokee Mis
sion, William Hornbuckle; Cullowhee,
J. S. Folger; Dellwood, E. W. Need
ham; FrankUn, R. F. Islock; Frank
lin circuit, J, H- Strickland; Fines
Creek, H- C- Freeman. /
Glenville, C. C. Totherow (supply);
Hayesville C. S. Plyler (supply);
Haywood, Van B. Harrison; High
lands, C- E. Williams; Jonathan, G.
N. Dulin; Judson, L. H. Hipps (sup
ply) ; Clyde-Junaluska, Frank Siler.
Macon, T. S. Roten (supply); Mur
phy, H. P. Powell; Murphy circuit,
Winkler (supply); Sylva, G. B. CJem^
mer; Waynesville, J. T. Mangum,
Webster, F. W. Kiker; Whittier, R
L. Bass, . ? 'f;
Other appointments in which Jack
son county people will be interested
are: BiltmOi-e, M. B. Clegg; Weaver
ville circuit, L. T. Cqrdell; Peachland,
J. A. Fry; Pineville, Elzie Myers;
Thrift-Moores, J. A. Peeler; Weding
ton, T. B. Hunneyoutt; Elkin, L. B.
Abernethy; Albemarle Central, T. F.
Marr; Smyre, A. W. Lynch; Goodson,
F. W. Cook; presiding elder, States
ville District, J. E.'Abernethy; Cool
Springs, John Cline; Davidson, O. J.
Jones $ Mockville, R. S. * Howie;
Thomasville circuit, D. R. Proffitt.
20,000 tuberculosis Christmas seals
have been received by Mis. J. C.
Allison, chairman, for the Twentieth
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Annual sale in Sylva and throughout
the state.
NEW LYRIC THEATRE
WILL OPEN TOMORROW
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The New Lyric Theatre will open
Friday morning, with the showing of
King Vidor's Masterpiece, " The
Big Parade".
This handsome new theatre, whieh 1
is just being completed, is located
next door to the Tackaseegee Bank,
and is said'to be one of the best, if
not the best motion picture theatre
in all Western North Carolina. Peo
ple coming through Sylva Lave been
lavish in their praise of the new Ly
ric, and have expressed great sur
prise that a theatre of this kind is
being erected in a town no larger
than Sylva. It xsan be truthfully said,
that while there are mueh laxytr the
atres in some of the big cities there
isn't a more pretentious or a better
equipped one anywhere and it is as
large as is to be found in most towns
and cities many times the size of
Sylva.
Completely equipped throughout
with opera chairs, with new and most
modern screen and projection ma
chines, with air-cooler, with Ameri
can Radiators and boilers, built of
brick and finished with decorative
plastering and with native North "Caro,
lina marble, the Lyric presents a most
pleasing appearance, and could take
its place as a first class theatre^ any
where.
Mr. Harry E. Buchanan is the own
er and erector of the new building^
Mr. H. 0. Curtis is the contractor and
Holder Brothers, of Murphy have
been in charge of installing tho
plumbing, radiators and steam fit
tings.
It is thought to be most appro
priate that this new Theatre should
open on Armistice Day, with the
"Big Parade," written by Laurence
Stallings of North Carolina, conceded
by critics to be the greatest war pic
ture ever filmed. It is expected that
.some three thousand people will see
The Big Parade on PViday and Sat
urday during the eight showings at
the Lyric.
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BIO LIQUOR CAPTURE MADE
Franklin Press. 1
Two automoble8, one man, and 168
gallons of liquor were captured by
local officers last Friday morning
abojut 2 o'clock.
Four other cars, believed to have
been loaded with liquor, escaped, af
ter engaging the officers in a gun
battle across the Macon-Jackson ooun
ty line.
The man captured gave the name,
officers said, of Frank Mease, of"
Canton.
The officers gave chase when the
liquor ears passed through Franklin,
and six miles east, on Highway No.
285, near the foot of Cowee Moun
tain, the pursued, putting on a burst
of speed, rounded a curve too fast
and both liquop* cars went over. One
driver escaped, the other being capr
tured, when he returned a short dis
tance to recover his cap. The man
was drunk, the officers said. ,
Leaving Deputy Derald Ashe u?
guard the capture, Sheriff C. L In
gram and Deputy Fred Ca'be drove
on to the top of the mountain, whieh
marks the eounty line. Just as they
rounded the curve at the top, they
declare, they observed four ears
waiting, and from these there eame
a volley of shots. The officers, in
turn, emptied both their guns. Thero
were no casualties, so far as couM
be learned Friday. -
The liquor runners then macty
dashed down the highway through
Jackson county, and the Maoon comi
ty officers were halted by the eounty
line. ' ' , ' (
In one captured car, a Nash, were
j 240 half-gallon fruit jars of whiskey
while in the other, a Dodge, was
found three 16-gallon kegs.
Just any kind of pecan tree is not
suited to North Carolina oendftiona.
Only the best will grow and yield
well.
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Magnesium limestone pats quality
into" the tobacco crop and
the yield par