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Sylva, N. C. Thursday, -November 29, 1928
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside County
iUN DRIVER OF DEATH
CAR M AKES BOND OF S500Q
liur Mil'" 1'Oinl in the sum)
ikHI H'i i.? ?" api?earauec at the
t. r ?)( the Jackson eoti'i
FfbriwO !'
fiirt, to answer charges j
:...r tl!.: the killing of Email
" l ii,Hi|m-i. highway put rollniau Sat
'|.|V ;il?ii'i' ;i young woman,
|? i name u< Annie Fortner,
;:ml allowed to return J
lion" in Bryson City.
fb,. aii!??!i!?t t?i the bond was fixed
ilV Jutliif Walter K. Moore, resident
?'ji.,. of ti i- judicial district, who i
... in Svlva at the time.
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\|r. Iloe.vr, with his son and an- 1
,,tlu-r num. v- as working on Highway}
y in, jit-; above the Fisher Creek!
fcriil'.'O. h,,;u' S.v,vsl an<' Beta rnd }
j^oriiiii- -i' niH'its, Hooper was!
(Oininir ovn' ('l? ?*phalt that!
,he other two men were ]iouring and:
|iiO'iiilii!U front the left side of;
(i. fi r ii_i lit . when Hie young i
nnmaii. in tin* ear, cut across)
jhi? si.!, from which Mr. Hooper |
rominv. probably expecting him1
io nv? <>a over, which ho did not j
,K iind the car struck him, carrying
!iim joint- ili*i:mce, and Then pitching
in tin- i'i?:hIw;iv. lie was rushed
. in rhi' lii'^I'M id in Sylv# but expired
hdoro ivM-iii'j: medical aid.
PatroHtun!! Hooper lived at San
i??k, her ween Balsam and Waynes
lille uid had been in charge of the
Maintenance of that section of the
riwd tor a time. He was a native
m( comity, and a son of W.
If. lino].. : 1. 1 Canev Fork, a mem
ber oi a 1'iiMiiinent and pioneer fam
ily of thi- county. He is survived by
),i- iviiliv.v ;unl eight children. Tim
i'uncnil an.! interment were at Pleas
ant Bal>:tui church, near the homo
ni the ileeeiued on Monday.
A taivi' number of relatives and
ifirniN nt I he family from this coun
ty attended the obsequies.
HOLD FEDERAL COURT
IN SWAIN COUNTY
The tu-t >e>sion of the United
Jtaus liiMriit court tor the new
vi?triit, recently established by act
??1 emiuress, began in Bryson City
?m Monday, with Judge Webb prft
<idint?.
The new district comprises Jack
*on rtiil all the counties west, in this
>-tate.
SINGERS WILL MEET
IN WAYNESVILLE
TIm' 1 1 -i \ wood eounty singing con
vintion will meet in the coiul house
in Wayne>villc, tor its regular quai
t'-rly >iii'.'injj, on the Second Sunday
in Dei-ember, according to a state
ment made todav by M. J. Smith, sec
'j ran i.t i he convention.
New o!;ieer< will be elected, and
? iii'/ni'^ r|as?,es and quartets from ad<
.'??inin- i-minties are invited to he
I '-??nr.
COUNTY INAUGURATION
MONDAY
Hie newly elected officers of
?' "k-f>ii i (unity will be inducted into
"Uii-e, Mondav morning, December
-i~wm
slieriit Cannon will take the oath
' ' office for the second time, as will
1 "idt;e Suitoii and Register of Deeds
^ l!iy>on. The other new offi
' v- hi? will assume office on Mon
day are: Finance Commissioner, J
V Keener, Commissioner of roads,
H. H. i^ueeii, commission! r of wel
A. I). Parker. >11 the officers
if re i lifted on November t?, and all
: 1 ?' liepublieaiis.
?SH0RT SESSION OF
RECORD COURT
Tl??- recorder's court of Jackson
'""iiiy held a short session, Monday
ll ft"ii"T, and adjourned for the term,
order to allow the attorneys and
?lie jiuhye to attend the federal dis
court in Bryson CSty.
SYLVA WOMAN HEADS MEET
Mrs. K. L. MeKec of Sylva is P1"0"
aiding, this week, at the meeting, at
'?rove |\irk Inn, of the Southeastern
<'ouiiei| of Women's Clubs, of which
body she is president.
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN
STATE BY COUNTIES
A re-eheek of returns tabulated by
R. C. Maxwell, secretary of the State
Board of Elections, shows that Stan
ley Winborne, elector from the First
district and high man ou the Demo
cratic ticket received 288,008 votes
as camparcd with 286,407 given Clyde
R^ Roey, elector at large and top
man on the ticket.
Stuart Cramer, who led the Re
publican ticket both 011 the ballot
and in votes received, obtained 349,
795 votes, a plurality of 63,388 over
Hoey and 61,787 over Winborne.
The vote by countics as tabulated
by Mr. Maxwell follows:
Hoover Smith
Alamance ....
Alexander
Alleghany ...
Anson
Ashe ...! .... .
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie .
Bladen
Brunswick
Buncombe
Burke
Cabarrus
Caldwell
Camden ...... ..
Carteret . .
Caswell ... ...
Catawba
Chatham
Cherok?f
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland
Columbus ....
Craven
Cumberland
Currrtuck ....
Dare
Davidson ....
Davie .
Duplin
Durham
Edeeombe
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates ..... ....
Graham
Granville ....
Greene
Guilford
Halifax .... ...
Harnett
Haywood .
Henderson
Hertford
Hoke ...: ...
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston ...
Jones
Lee
Lenoir
Lincoln ..... ....
Macon
Madison
Martin
McDowell ?
Mecklenburg
Mitchell
Montgomery
Moore ....
Nash
New Hanover
Northampton
Onslow
Orange
P:*mlico ... -
Pasquotank
Pender
Penpiimans ...
Person .... ....
Pott ....?
Polk ....
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockinham ....
Rowan
Rutherford
Sam)>son ....
Scotland
Stanly
Stokes
Surry
Swain .... ?
Transylvania
Tyrrell ..
Union ? ? ?
Vanro -
Wake
Warren
Washington
Matanf, - ?
6,810
. 2,605
... 1,368
726
... 4,337
.. 3,273
... 2,521
..... 374
1,911
... 1,931
16,591) 12,432 1
...5,108 2,885 1
6,548
4,207
215
3,133
749
7,556
3,318
.. 3,239
352
1,106
4,766
... 3,533
... 2,237
... 3,534
.. 166
814
... 8,960
2,959
2,911
8,723
977
13,258
... 729
9,702
558
1,260
858
542
16,541
890
4,740
4,472
... 5,210
393
.... 311
6,712
3,512
... 7,696
... 658
1,416
... 1,311
... 3,930
... 2,903
... 4,776
411
... 3,423
12,913
.... 3,436
2,653
... 3,290
2,066
4,248
456
1,253
2,564
1,09!)
.... 814
... 1,300
... 600
... 1,123,
.. 1,395
.. 1,873
. 7,414
2,045
....2,767
.... 5,585
... 7,957
.... 5,762
5,579
588
.... 4,597
3,759
.. 7,015
.. 2,484
.... 2,165
. 505
.. 2,448
... 1,449
. 6,720
... 379
.... 1,183
.... 3,150
1
Flying Reaches 25 th Birthday on December \7th
Orville Wright was the first of all men to soar into the air, 25 years ago. With the late Wilbur Wright,;
his brother, he invented the airplane. This picture shows Orville and Wilbur Wright, and the plane that they ;
?ust flew. Contrast this Wright plane with the modem Fokker passenger plane, shown below it, and the tre- i
t lendous progress of aviation in 25 years can be seen at a glance The original airplane of the Wright Brothers j
?which is really only a niotor<<! glider ? is on exhibition at South Kensington, London. The first flight of i
Orville Wright took placc at Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N. C., on Dec. 17, 1903, when be flew 120 feet in U 1
secoudi , ? -
SLASHES trlRL IN BRTSON
CITY; MAKES ESCAPE
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Officers of Swain and the adjoin
ing comities are still searching for
an unidentified man who lieat and
slashed with a knife, Mies Ronnie
C;>.glc, office assistant of I)r. W. H.
Tidmarsh in Bn son City, Sund;iy
inoniing in the physicians office.
After the attack, the assailant is?
said to have eseaped in a Ford cou]>e,
but Miss Cagle was ;ible to give thw
officers an accurate description of
him, and it is believed that lie will
soon be taken into custody.
Miss Cagle was at work in the
physician's office about 8 o'clock I
Sunday morning, when a stranger!
walked into the room and asked whin
Dr. Tidmai>h was expected to* re
turn. Miss Cagle replied that the phy
sician was making calls on several
patients and probably would be ab
sent for an hour or more. The stran
ger then announced that he was seek
ing "dope" and ordered the young
woman to bIiow him where Dr. Tid
marsh's supplies were kept.
Miss Cagle insisted that she did
not know where any narcotics could
be found.
The intruder then seized the young
woman, who is only 18 years old
and unusually slender, and Struck
her several times with his fists. He
then choked her until she was too
weak to struggle further. Suddenly
whipping out a knife, the man then
slashed Miss Ca*rle across the lace ,
and forehead, one of the gashes be
ing more that three inches long.
Producing three white tablets from
his pocket, the stranger then forced
Miss Cagle to swallow them. Thi?
young woman immediately became (
violeentlv ill. Officers have not yet,
been able to determine what the
pellets contained. I
The stranger then fled. Miss Cagle ?
collaj>sed on the floor of the office. >
Recovering consciousness some min
utes later, Miss Cagle ertiwled to
the telephone and called Dr. Tid
marsh at his home in Whittier. The
physician ndtified officers and hur-j
ried to his office, where restoratives
were administered to his assistant.
Miss Cagle was taken to the homo
of Mr. and Mrs. Rawlins Thomasson, j
with whom she has been boarding.
No one in the vicinity of Dr. Tid-j
marsh's office saw the young wo
man's assailant enter or leave the
building, and until Miss Cagle 's con
dition permits officers to question
her fully searchers for the fugitive
are working on meager clues.
Miss Caglc's arms and body were .
covered with bruises inflicted by the;
man during the struggle in the oi'-j
tice. Although she suffered several 1
cuts, the three-inch slash across her
forehead is the most serious wound
Miss Cagle sustained.
Officers are working ou the theory
that the assailant was a drug adr
iict, lemwirnrilv crazed by his in
ability to I'ind a supply of narcotics.
Apple growers of Jackson and
Swain counties are selling their aj>
pleti in bulk lo a commission firm
which pavs rash on delivery to the
car door.
Wayne 4,340 3,720
Wilkes 7,808 2,809
Wilson 1,933 3,535
Yadkin 3,878 761
Yancev L L 2,712 2,408
340,795 288,108
| HIGH SCHOOL TO PRESENT "CYCLONE SALLY"
The students of the Sylva Central Ilit^h School will present a comedy,
j "Cyclone Sally," in tlie Lyric The.it re, on Friday evening, December
( 7, at 7 :30.
The cast of characters is as follows:
.Jack Webster, owne,r of the Webster estate Jlyman Sutton
Ikggie Manners, a young Englishman .... Charles Camller
I Jim Jenkins _ Hayes Kitchen
Willie Clump, Sue Bascom's beau .... Edgar Moody i
j Sally Graham, "Cyclone Sally" ... .... Alva "Carden
Jenny Thatcher t " Virginia Cuny
Ruth Thatcher, the teaeser, Kate Allison
Effie Varden, the neighbor Bees "Curtis
Vivian Vernon, the belle of Cedar Point Elizabeth King
The proceeds of the play will gotoward paying for the clock system.
FISHERS HOLD REUNION
i > ; ?
I The Fisher family reunion wan
iield at the home of Mr. T. J. Fisher,
Nov. 22. the occasion being the 77th
birthday of Mr. Fisher.
All of Mr. Fisher's children, ex
cept one- were present. Those are:
Mrs. Ellis Painter, Mrs. S. H. Mon
leith, Mrs. Cole Aiken, Mrs. J. A.
Reid, Mrs. J. C. Jones, Mrs. Tha<l
Reed, Mrs. T. C. Ridley and Mt.
Guy Fisher. One daughter, Mrs. How
ard Fisher of Blackfoot, Idaho, ?a?
unable to be present, but was repre
sented in the bountiful diuner which
was spread on the long table in the
yard just after noon.
There were 115 present and after
all these had eaten to repletion, the
ladies re-packed the baskets while
the rest of the crowd gathered around
the porch where Rev. T. F. Deitz,
acting as Master of ceremonies, call
ed 011 the following for talks: Judge
Walter E. Moore, Prof. V. E. Wes
singer, lie v. R. L. Cook and Rev.
J. G. Murray. After these had re
sponded, Mr. Deitz led in a prayer
of thanksgiving for Mr. Fisher and
his long life of usefulness and asked
God's blessing on him in the years
to come.
This happy occasion was the 17th
birthday dinner given Mr. Fisher by
his devoted daughters, the custom
having been established on the occa
sion of his 60th birthday. Many
grandchildren were also present, as
well as numbers of friends to wish
him "many happy returns of the
day" and he was recipient of many
useful giTfs.
JACKSON COUNTY FIRST IN NORTH CAROLINA TO COMPLETE YEAR OF MODIFIED COW
- " ING WORK
Summary of Modified Cow Testing Work in .fackson County from July 1, 1927 to July 1, 1928
Those records were kept by the following farmers and their wives on the number of eows indicated:
F. H. Brown, Cullowhee, 7 cows-; L. A. Amnion, Cuilowheo Normal Herd, 9 cows; J. E. Tritt, East Ia
Porte, 5 cows; W. A. Hooper, Speedwell, 3 cows; H. G. Ferguson, Whit tier, 3 cows. The owners names and
records of the ten best cows are as follows :
OWNER OF CCW
H. G. Ferguson, Whittier,
CuHowhee Normal, Cullowhee, N. C.
W. A. Hooper, Sj>eedwell, N. C.
Cullowhee Normal, Cullowhee. N. C.
Cullowhee Normal, Cullowhee, X. C.
Cullowhee Normal, Cullowhee, \\ C.
Cullowhee Normal, Cullowhee, \\ C.
.1. E. Tritt, East LaPort
.1. E. Tritt, East LaPort
J. E. Tritt, East I^ijKjri
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Roxie
Blakie
Nellie
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$268.91
$229.21
$229.81
$231.81
$196.12
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$86.25
$91.61
$98.14
$102.74
$91.37
$90.63
$88.39
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$37.47
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$181.60
$137.60
$131.67
$129.07
$104.75
$121.85
$116.15
$112.79
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The a\^-rage value of products
shove food cost which is tlie profit
above iced and pasture cost for 20
of these 27 cows tested ran $104.43
for the year. However, l\yo of the
i other 7 cows did not pay for their
feed, so all cow's do not pay for
tlicir keep. The $104.43 profit made
per cow on the average for the 20
out of 27 cows on live farms shows
that a Jackson county farmer with
good cows properly managed ran
make $100.00 above feed cost per
cow each year.
i These are actual record facts and
I not what somcono thinks these cows
i will do. The records were kept by
the farmers and farm women weigh
ing their milk night and morning,
from each cow) and keeping feed and
pasture cost s, under supervision of
County Agent 0. W. Tilson
During each month a sample of the
milk from eaeh cow w."s carefully
! taken and sent in to Prof. Frank
J H. Brown at the. Cnllowhee State
; Normal Laboratory. This milk was
carefully tested for each cow whose
name was on the. tattle and the test
carefully recorded by her name. At
the close of each month the milk
record and the milk test for that
month and the amount and value of
feed and pasture eaten by each cow
were sent in to State College Dairy
Division at Raleigh. Here each cow's
record was carefully worked ont at
the end of the month and kept ac
curately.
The hutterfat in the milk was val
ucd at 45c per lb., the average price
paid for one year by the creamery.
The skim milk left was valued at
7f)c per 100 lbs., which is its proven
average value for feeding calves and
pigs and chickens. Any feed that
could take the. place of skim milk
would cost the farmer over 75c per
100 lbs. The pasture was valued at
$2.00 per month per cow and feed
at market price. The manure pro
duced and calves, were not valued
but allowed the farmer for his labor
besides the cash income.
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Jackson County is the first N. C,
connty to complete a full year of mod
ified oow test work. Lots of other
counties have taken this work sine*
Jackson started. It has been largely
through the unselfish service of Prof.
Frank H. Brown and his testing work
in the Cullowhee State Normal lab
oratory that the farmers have be?*n
able to get these records. The farmers
of this county should highly appre
ciate this service given by Prof.
Brown at the Normal Science De- J
partment Laboratories. These records jfi
show Jackson county fanners alwo- *
lutely beyond any question what
profit there is in the dairy cam. They
also show that some cows are very
profitable end other* will not pay ex
penses. Farmers doing this demon
stration work, and fanners in the
same community are) learning fast
that good cows aro not only neces
sary but good pasture and lota of
legume pays, are also the main fasts
neeeaaaiy to profit with sow*
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