$1 50 the Year in Advance in the County,
Sylva N. C.. ..Thursday, March 15. 1928
$2.00 the Year in Advance Outside Count?
fflD SENTENCES BIG DEnft
GIVEN TO MANY IEM cB
Sentences on the roads and in the
county jail, totaling 7 years, were
handed out by Judge Sutton, in the
recorder's* court, Monday and Tues
day, for various offenses.
Homer Brown was sentenced to
serve 10 months on a charge of man
ufacturing and possessing liquor. Ho
iip|H*:ded to the superior court and
bond was fixed at $500.
.1 uliiis Sutton was sentenced to
Vive 4 months on a charge of car
rying concealed weapons and <i
months additional ou being found guil
tv of assault with a deadly weapon.
He :ip|)caled to the superior court
.?tint Imiul was fixed at $500. (
l.ilc Wood and Scott Wood were
ioiiihI guilty of the larceny of a sid*5
of meat and sentenced to serve 4
months each. j
Scott Wood, Leonard Wood and
Z? l> Wood were indicted for the lar |
ecity of a hog. Scott was sentenced
to serve 15 months. Leonard's caso
was continued. f
Charlie Yonng, Flem Wood and
Leonard Wood were charged with
the larceny of chickens. The cases
against Young and Flem Wood were
remanded to the juvenile court, and
I^onard Wood's case was continued
Scott Wood appealed in each case
as did the other convicted defendants
in all the cases.
Albert Messer was tried on ;i
charge of retailiug, of resisting an
officer, and of injuring personal
projn;rty. He was found guilty. An
old fine against him was found to bo
unpaid and he was ordered to serve
months in that ease. An old 2
months sentence, and an old 4 months
sentence were ordered served, and he
was given 6 months on the retailing
charge and 6 months on the eharge of
resisting an officer, making a. total
ot' L'O months,. _ ; \
La wrench Griffin-was found*gaiftr
of possessing and transporting li-J
<|uor, and was sentenced to serve 3
months in jail. J
Nelson Gentry pjead guilty to op
crating an automobile while intoxicat
ed. He was sentenced to serve 6
months, which was suspended upon
pavineat of the costs, and a fine of
$50, and he not to drive a motor vc- '
hide for a i*eriod of 1 year.
Glen Norman plead guilty to op
erating an automobile while intoxi
cated. He was fined $50 and the costs
and ordered not to drive a car in 4
months.
R. C. Queen plead guilty to pos
sessing aiul transporting, and judg
nient was suspended upon payment
of the costs.
Mitch Lindsay was convicted of po
scssing and transporting and judg
went whs suspended upon payment of
the costs.
Dee Angel plead guilty to being
drunk and was fined $15.00 and the
Co>ts.
Albert Keever was found guilty of
nr nssa .lt with a deadly weapon and
sentenced to serve 6 months on the
mnls. He appealed to the superior
court, and appeal bond was fixed at
$500.
Sammie Bcck, Thad Green, Clyde
Styles and Roy Thompson were found
guilty of transporting and possession
s unci were given 4 months suspended
sentences.
Harley Sims, Ansel Leopard, Jim
Bryson, Orville Gibbs, Jones Fowler
and Clayhurn Bryson were found not
guilty of being drunk.
Leber Biddix was convicted of va
grancy and sentenced to 30 days iu
jail, which was suspended upon con
dition that he get a job and go to
work.
Bill Corbin was convicted of public
drunkenness and prayer for judgment'
*as continued for 30 days.
DR. FRED BROWN TO HOLD
MEETING IN ASHEVILLE
Asheville Citizen
Rev. I)r. Fred Brown, pastor of
the First Baptist church of Knox
ville, Tenn., will conduct an evange
list meeting at Calvary. Baptist
church, West Asheville, beginning
April 1, it was anonuneed last night.
Rev. Dr. Brown is a graduate of
Mars Hill and Wake Forest colleges
Pud took his seminary work at the
Baptist Seminar}- in Louisville.
l>r. Brown has had extensive exper
ience in evangelistic work and is well
Jwowo ij? thja section.
A Democratic Mass Meeting has
been called to be held in ti.e court
house in Sylva, on March 31, at 1
o'clock. Every democrat in Jackson
county is invited nnd urged to at
tend the meeting, as matters of great
importance to the party in the com
ing campaign will be taken up.
It is understood that all the pres
ent officers of the county organiza
tion will present their resignations
at the meeting, and that the demo-,
crats of the county will elect their!
successors, reorganize the party and ?
prepare for the coming battle for the i
control of the county in the Novem
ber elections. An invitation has been
extended to O. Max Gardner, of Shel
by, next governor of North Caro'ina,
to be present and to deliver an ad
dress, and it is expected that the
meeting will be largely attended by
by democrats front all parts of
the county.
"To the Democrats of Jackson
County: Every Democrat in Jackson
County is invited and urged to at
tend the Democratic Mass Meeting
to be held in the Court House in
Sylva at 1 o'clock, P. M., Saturday
March 31. Please soc to it that your
township and your voting precinct
are largely represented at the meet
ing.
"The purpose of this call is that
the Democrats of Jackson county
may reorganize the party organiza
tion and prepare to win the control
of the county from the Republicans
this fall.
"This is a Democratic county.]
This is a Democratic year. The Dem
ocracy of Jackson county, as well
as of the whole nation is militant.
There is a great victory ahead. Wo
want every Democrat to have a pari
in choosing the chairman and other
leaders that will lead the party to j
victory. The Deuiocnjc^ am redeem
-Jackson comity.
"Be sure to attend the meeting
This notice in the paper is the in
vitation to every democrat ft* bo
there.
Don't let the date escape yon.
Make your plans now to attend th<;
greatest Democratic love-feast ever
held in this county.
Democratic Executive Committee
John H. Wilson, chairman
Dan Tompkins, secretary.
MUCH REALTY AC
TIVITY EVIDENCED HERE
The gift of the Rockefeller Founda
tion of $5,000,000 to the purchase
fund of the Great Smoky Mountain; !
National Park, assuring its early es
tablishment, coming directly after
the location of the Sylva Paperboard
Company's plant in Sylva, is thought
to be responsible for the real estate
activity in the town, during the past
week.
I. H. Powell has purchased the
Keener building, at a price said to
be around $25,000 and will begin re
modeling the building within the next
few weeks, it is authoratively stated.
Mr. H. R. Queen has purchased
the Tuckasccgee Bank building from
the Banking institution.
The Tuekaseegee Bank announces
that it will immediately begin thy
erection of a handsome new home.
The Sylva Lodge of Masons is con
templating the erection of a business
building and Masonic Temple in the
very near future, and is negotiating
for prpoerty. The committee that is
working on the matter is said to have
several desirable pieces of property
from which to make a selection.
Mr. Harry E. Buchanan announces
that he will re-open the old Lyric
Theatre, April 1, for the exclusive
showing of Western pictures and will
charge popular prices of 10c and 15c
Two new bungalows are being erect
ed at Oaklyn Hills, other develop
ments are contemplated, immediately
by the owners, it is understood.
TO HAVE CHICKEN
SUPPER TONIGHT
Members of Circle Number One of
the Methodist Missionary Society will
serve a supper of chicken and other
good things, in the Chamber of Com
merce hall tonight, the proceeds to
go into the treasury of the mission
ary society. <
BETTY NEgi HENSON
Betty Nell Henson, oue of the prize winners in the baby
parade, held during the recent Orange Festival in Win
ter Haven, Fla. Betty#Nell is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Henson of Winter Haven, and grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Henson of Sylva.
PROSPECTS GOOO FOR JACKSON
COUNTY FARMERS THIS YEAR
(By C. W. Tilson, County Agent)
There is a real back to farming
movement in Jackson County this
Spring. All over the county old fields
that have been idle ever since the
' World War arc being ploughed up to"
! cultivation. New pastures arc being
-?own and new fences built, and every
body Mid his brother are plantifflf
good garden. Inquiries are pouring in
to the County Agent about good seed,
the best fertilizer to use, when and
how to plant, where to get young live
stock of all kinds for future breeders,
and questions as to the market out
look for all kinds of crops and live
stock are asked.
AH this is a wonderful sign of bet
ter times. We are just now getting
back to our real senses since the war
took so many of our best young farm
ers away and lobor prices on road
building, construction work, timber
work and public works of all kinds
took so many away from the farm.
And many say that good roads and
automobiles have helped to nj>sct our
farm working, and no doubt tlicy did
help do that to some extent; but
lots of the Jackson county farmer
folks have fouhd themselves this past
winter and are going to get back to
the business of making and having a
good living from the farm a^ain.
| We have had the winter weather so
far that prepares the way for n good
fruit crop, for good pastures, and lor
securing a good stand and growth of
elover, grasses and all kinds of crops
grown in this section. Spring is com
ing right with its cold spells, sunshine
and rain to aid the fanners in pre
paring the land for saving plenty of
moisture and growing good crops this
year.
The market outlook for most all
Jackson county cash crops is good.
? According to forecasts reeicved by
the county agent from Raleigh made
by State Agricultural College experts,
from State and government reports,'
the market prices of poultry, eggs,j
dairy cattle, buttcrfat, beef cattle,!
sheep and wool should be good for
this year aTfd the next two or three
years at any rate. The forecast for
hog prices arc no.t so good this year
due to the export market being cut
off by other countries. However, we
will continue to grow hogs and have
them for sale when our market come3
next year or the year after.
Now that so many of our - farm
folks are turning to the farm and
with nature favorable and the mar
kets at our door Jackson county farm
era are sim of a living at home on
the farm and u reasonable cash in
COML
Bertie county farmers vaccinated
291 head tf hogs last week in an at
tempt to control an outbreak in chol
k . *
PARK OFFICIALS MEET
TO EXPEDITE WORK
Asheville Citizen.
i Preparations for purchasing the
glands to constitute the Great Smoky
MountmcNAtional Park will be mad*
rtlinn Park voinmission who will meet
there this morning, it was announced
yesterday.
Tomorrow surveys of the land will
be resumed by engineers, and every
effort made to have the results ready
in the near future. ,, j
While officials were planning to
proceed with the immediate purchase
of the territory, Governor Angus W.
McLean was yesterday extending to
the Rockefeller Foundation the deep
gratitude of the people of North Car
olina for the gift recently announced.
"The deep and grateful thanks of
an appreciative people," the Gover
nor said in a letter to Dr. Beardsley
Ruml, director of the Laura Spelman
Rockefeller memorial, "are extended
to the foundation for the tender of
a sum of money equal to that secur
ed from other sources up to $5,000,
000.
"1 know of no more useful and
constructive way in which the mem
ory of Mrs. Rockefeller can be per
petuated than through tho completion
of this great project which will be a
permanent and abiding memorial as
well as a blessing to millions of peo
ple through out the generations to
come," the Governor wrote.
The group which will meet here
today to lay plans for purchasing
the land in the North Carolina area
of the Park are: Mark Squires, of
Lenoir, Commission Chairman; Judge
L. R. Varser, of Lumberton, Commis
sion Attorney; and Senator Plgto D.
Ebbs of Asheville, treasurer.
Since Ihe announcement of the
Rockefeller Foundation gift, pay
ments on subscriptions have been
pouring iuto the treasury, Senator
Ebbs announced yesterday.
Park subscriptions in North Caro
lina totalled $500,000 and were pay
able in 1927, 1928, and 1929. A week
ago unpaid amounts were about $380,
000 but this has been coming down
rapidly with the assurance that the
park is now a certainty.
CONTRACT LET FOR
CANTON ROAD LINK
The contract for the paving of the
link of Highway No. 10 from Can
ton to the Buncombe county line was
awarded to Pennell and Harley for
$79,116, by the state highway com
mission, Tuesday.
A 11.34 link in highway No. 10,
in Catawba connty between Conover
and the Catawba river was awarded
to Geoxga R. Martin for fOOl^OMO.
REPUBLICANS TO
HOLD MEETING
The Republicans of Jackson county
will meet in convention on March
24, at 2 o'clock, according to the call
that has gone out from Republican
headquarters in Sylva.
The notice calling the convention
follows : .
A Convention of the Republican
party of Jackson county is hereby
called to meet at the court house in
Sylva at 2 o'clock p. m. Saturday,
i March 24th for the purpose of elect
ing delegates to the State Conven
i tion which has been called to meet
in Raleigh, April 11th, 1928, and to
transact such other business as may
come before the convention. Town
ship Committeemen will please take
notice and sec that their townships
are represented as required by our
state plan of organization. .
Every township is urgently re
quired to send delegates.
This the 12th day of March, 1928.
J. B. ENSLEY,
Chm. Rep. County Ex. Com.
HUGH E. MONTEITH, Sec.
RETURNS FROM TULANE
Dr. A. A. Nichols has returned
from Tulane University, where he has
been for several weeks. Dr. Nichols
has been taking a post-graduate
course in some specialty work of his
profession. v
SAVE TOUR JOURNAL
The coupons in The Paris advert
tisenicnt in this issue of The Jornal
are valuable. They will be taken as
cash money at The Paris during that
institution's Coupon Week. This uni
que sale, at which the Journal cou
pons will be taken as money, will be
gin tomorrow, Friday morning, and
.wilL^Aose at 6 o'clock one week from
23. Mr. Sim
ons states that it will positively be
necessary to bring the coupons clip
ped from this week's Journal, in or
der to secure the prices quoted in
hiB advertisement. There will be no
circulars, and the only way to obtain
these coupons is from The Paris ad
vertisement in this issue of The
Journal.
AN HOUR LONG AWAITED
Raleigh News and Observer
For more generations than his
tory records the magnificent towering
peaks and ridges of the Great Smoky
Mountain range, with its wealth of
flowers and shrubs, has kept itself
grand and beautiful, awaiting the day
when its grandeur and sublime sccn
ery would be accessible to the peoples
of the earth.
That the hour has come, thanks to
far-visiohed men of this State and
Tennessee, to the legislative bodied
and to the beneflcient trustees of
the Laura Speilman Rockefeller Me
morial.
The great Rockefeller fortune, be
ing used with more wisdom for more
good purposes, is insuring the open
ing of the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park. It must give large
satisfaction to the two Rockefellers
to make the five-million donation in
the name of wife and mother and
thus associate her with the loftiest
of God '8 creations, which for all
time will be the resort of those who
seek sweet communion with nature.
SUP'T. OXFORD OR
PHANAGE FALLS DEAD
H <
Mr. R. L. Brown, superintendent
of the Masonic Orphanage, at Ox
ford, dropped dead on the campus of
the Orphanage Monday. Mr. Brown
has been superintendent of the Or
phanage for many yean, and was
well known throughout the state. He
had been in his usual good health.
He was 65 years o t age and is sur
vived by his widow and one daugh
ter, Mrs. Gregory of Richmond.
SYLVA HIGH WINS
WESTERN CHAMPIONSHIP
Defeating Union Grove, Tuesday
night in Hiebory, Sylva High School
finished the basketball season and
won the Western Championship Cup.
The score in the last and deciding
(mm was Sjriva 47, Uniflft Gsor# 29.
COOUDGE MAY
FISH IN JACKSON
It is definitely stated that Presi
dent Coolidge is giving favorable
consideration to the iriVitation ex
tended to him to spend the summer
in Western North Carolina.
Mr. James G. Stikeleather, owner
of some'of the finest trout water in
all America on the head of the Tuck
aseigee River, in this county, has
written the president, offering him
the use of his fishing preserves. Mr.
Coolidge is a devotee of trout fish
ing, and the invitation of Mr. Stike
leather is said to be having great
weight with the President in making
i his decision.
Mr. Phillip S. Henry has offered
his niagiiificient mountain residence,
near Ashcville, for the summer White
House, and a similar offer has been
made by Mr. Fred L. Seely.
Governor McLean, Senator* Sim
mons and Overman, Congressman
Weaver and other North Carolina
people and organizations have urged
President) and Mrs. Coolidge to eome
to the North Carolina mountains for
the summer, and both Mr. and Mr*.
Coolidge are said to be greatly in
inclined in this direction.
Two summers ago they wera in
New England, last summer they had
their vacation in the Dakota Black
Hills, and it is believed that they
will come South this year, to the
North Carolina Mountains.
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TO HATE STATE
FAIR TBS TALL
The North Carolina State Fair will
be held again this year, it was defin
itely decided by the State Fair
I Board, Tuesday and the week of Oc
tober 22 set as the date for the Fair
The board decided on the date af
I ter debating all morning whether to
1 undertake an exhibition next fall 01
. to wait until 1929. It had been pi*
viously urged by Governor MoUan to
ptar ft?vorifr this year. Added m*'
couragement was given today by At
torney General Brammitt, who in a
written opinion furnished at the re
quest of the board, said a 1928- fair
would be in keeping with the ipirit
of the legislative enactment setting
up the enterprise.
W. S. Moye who was yesterday
named general manager of the Fair
at a salary of $6,000 was officially
placed in charge of plans for the
event today. Mr. Moye takes the job
with the backing of many years ex
perience in directing promotive imdei
takings requiring a capacity for or
ganization.
Although registering dissatisfaction
with the site set apart for the f?ir
grounds the board today found itself
unable to do anything about it so it
moved to make the best of what it
has. The tract of 200 acres laid out
by direction of the Governor and
Counoil of State is located near Meth
od, three miles West of Baleigh, and
some distance back from the main
highway but with a narrow strip to
permit egrees and ingrees.
NEW HIGHLANDS GOLF
COURSE NEAR FINISHED
Franklin, N. C. March 13 ? It vm
learned here today that Highlands is
making rapid progerss on ita golf
course owned by influential citizens
of Atlanta and elsewhere. Scott Hud
son, Carelton Smith, Samuel N. Ev
ins and R. F. Adlcr, all of At*
lanta; Donald Ross, golf course
architect of Pinehurat, N. G.
and A. M. Hutchesou of Chisago*
spent Friday and Saturday of la*t
week at Highlands in the interest o '.
the new golf course and to locate the
site for the magnificent club house
it was planned to build during tlift
spring.
While there they survey the lait
nine holes of the course, the first
nine holes having already been com*
plcted. Smith opened the seasoc,
there by playing on the first nine
holes and pronounced them in excel
lent condition, though there are atill
a few finishing touches necessary
here and there on the course.
PRESIDING ELDER TO
PUAOH AT WISHES
Rev. P. W. Tucker, presiding elder
of the Wayneeville District, will
preach at the Metfcediat ekanb in
Webster next Sondagr im/m*