North Carolina Newspapers

flYEARS AGO jlfCKASEIirE democrat " ? 18S!) jrsi : \f,v \ in k legislature has ap (fll} a poinini'lt'o to consider and on the nuiii?*r of extending* the Knits <>t' NV"' v,il k ^0' so as to in vade Brookvln a nil'olhor neighboring gaaifipnlit'? The jury 'b try 1. It. Me Dow for jiunit'r oi' >. IV. Mawson, editor of j^fluirlpston, >. News and Cour ^ rus drawn, nnn teen out of the liirn-six in the panel being: negroes fir Cherok. Mining Company is ^doping i's la*"'1* a,ufy ???cralg in Western North Carolina. ?j-jjf 100th celebration of the organ i?lion ot' the lit mid' Lodge Aneient froenia-??"^ Soutfi Carolina was ^uiifiuoiate'l at Charleston. Mrs. FIhiviii-i' Atkinson was arrest ?jat ltla. lv S. C. lor bigamy and ^ over to court. She ereated a jtfsation 1*> niontlis ago by marrying i [fomon in ten days. ' The forests ot Charleston county, ?, C. were stripped of their leaves by rtterpillars. The state debt of thirteen south nil states w;i> : Virginia, $23,550,696 ; North Carolina, $4, .100, 000 ; South Carolina, *7, t?12, 741 ; CJeorgia $8,752,-1 Alabama, *!>,- 14,300; Florida, $1 275,000 ; Mississippi, $1,105, 150; Louis una,$lUw-.l>-l ; Texas, $1^37, 730; Arkansas, s I 1 00 ; Kentucky ,$674 (HX*; Teniussre, *'-\f>000,000;Missonri 19. 525,000. Hie average state tax in mills was4.07. i A tcrriftie wind and hailstorm was reported -in Rowan county, hailstones from the size of a hie kory nut to a nun's list falling for fifteen minutes with great damage to crops and other property. Miss Lena Smith has been visiting fronds here, this week. S. T. Kelscy, of Highlands, the tow builder, passed here Saturday, going east. ~ Spring chickens amj strawberries are coming in freely; chickens selling J ?t ten cents each a ndstra wherries at twenty cents per gallon. The Sylv!' Democrat has improved more than any paper we know of ? franklin I'rtas. Thanks, brother. A growing patronage is the cause of it. A strawberry and ice cream festi val pven at Webster by the Literary Club, wa> a "howlingsuccesB',from which >t0.0ti was realized. A long drought was broken by a ?4 hour rain, cold wiiids and' frost following the rain. In Macon county heavy frost and ice "about as thick ' knife blade" was reported* The I'rosjH'rts lor a good- corn crop is ex ttilent, a large yield of wheat is as SurC(l? without further accident, and loaches and apples are abundant in many orchards. When completed the Equitable Company's buildings will present an imposing appearance. The main build H will be 160 feet long by 60 feet between this anfl the railroad be a building 40 In- 100 feet, in *Mch willbe stored day a ; it is pre-( for shipment. At the upper en,l will be the engine house 40 by 40 fat, built of brick and covered with to. At the lower end will be clay *heds. The smokestack of the engine j *>'1 be 80 feet high. At a joint meeting of the commis sioners and justices, June 3, R?v. * N- Queen, Rev. E. H. Hampton and aPt. .1. \\\ Terrell were electedj to t0"ipose tho County Board of Edlu ?ti<m. A bargain was made with the Chero *** Indians, the Indians "surrendering l^ir claim to their proportion of the whool fund in return for exemption from paymtr.t 0f poll tax. A tax o? 6 2-3 cents on the $100 ^ a'ik. .mount on the poll was levi for a bridge across the river at -?ilmot s..ij the total amount of tax A tired but happy bunch of young sters (Irove into Sylva yesterdhy after noon from a trip that they will all remember to the end of their days. TVoop 1, Boy Scouts of America, of Sylvn returned from a 10 day motor and camping trip, which carriod them through the Valley of Virginia, by Natural Bridge, Endless Cavenis, and to Washingotn, where they saw the sights of the National Capital and heard the President of the I'uited States deliver his Memorial Day ad dress in Arlington National Cemetery They returned by Frcdericksburg, and Winston-Salem. Making the trip were: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Clemmer, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Allen, Mr. Hugh Monteith, and Ralph Morgan, Willis Cook^lohn Par ris, Lyndon McKee, William Curtis, John Wilson, Edmund Brown, Frank Askey, Tom Wilson, Ford King, Mar shall Cooper, ,T. T. Gribble, Ernest Wilson, Roscoe Askey, Tom Kelley, Lyndon Carden, Mack Hooper, .Tames Moody, Herbert Bryson, Edgar Moody William McKee, Bill Edwards, Alvin Sutton, Charles Raines, .Earl Moody, Mack Higdon, Clyde Brown, Frank Watson, Alden Coward, Earl Collins, T. K. Guthrie, Malcolm Brown, and mascot "Buddie" Hall. NEW FRUIT FLY WILL BE IN N. C. Raleigh, X. C., June 5.? The Med iterranean fruit fly about which such a furor is being raised at this time will in all likelihoodj become n resi dent of North Carolina and we shall have to learn toi, live with it as we have with the boll weevil, bean beetle, potato bug, San Jose scale and other costly insect pests which now affect the agrieuiture of this State. "There la no armistice in the war between man and insects," says Dr. Z. P. Metcalf, headi of the depart ment of entomology at State College. "We have other serious pests ap proaching the State, such as the corn borer an<\ the Japanese beetle, both of which are dangerous and costly. The fruit fly was first recognized as a pest in tho Azores about 100 years ago. It has now become es tablished in nearly all the tropical land areas and until tlhe present time, the North American Continent was about the only, large lan(V area which has remained free of infest ation. Spreading from the 11 coun ties in Florida, it has been found in fruit shipped to Georgia, Louis iana and North Carolina." Dr. Mcjtcalf says that we shall have a horticultural industry in spite of the fly. There are poisoned* bait sprays which may be used for its control and then the fly will not likely become a sorions pest where the monthly meant temperature falls to or below 50 degrees of tempera ture for four consecutive months dur ing the year. The average mean tem perature from December to March in Raleigh is 43 degrees, and for Wilmington is 49 degrees. In those parts of Europe having equally as low a temperature in winter, the fly is not a serious pest. Even in the citrus regions of Spain and' Italy,; it causes damage to ripening oranges mainly during September and Octo ber, and this is of short duration. In Hawaii where conditions are ideal for propagation of the fly, the 'farmers still have a horticultural in dustry. Parasites have been developed which live on the fly and help to hold it in check. I 1 i ii es levied was 991- 3 cents on the $100 valuation. Mr. W. L. Fortune, of McDowell, addressed! the people in advocacy of the Farmer's Alliance, at different points in the county. A county Alli ance was to be organized at Webster on Saturday, June 22. Governor Fawle has commuted the sentence of J. S. McMahan, who was to be hanged at Webster on June 7, for the murdjpr, last fall of Emilie Buchanan, to life imprisonment.' The Democrat severely criticizes the ac tion of the. Governor, and! predicts that a petition for the full pardon of McMahan will be circulated in a fewi Q B$ard Give^ Slight Increase To County Despite the largely increased state equalizing fund for schools provided by the last general assembly, for the lowering of taxes in the weaker counties, the state equalizing board has given Jackson county an increase of slightly more than $5,000, accord ing to newspaper dispatches from Raleigh. Last year Jackson county got, in round figures, $3.1,000. This year, under a present allotment of $4,889, 304 of the$6, 500.00 equalizing fund provided by the last general assembly Jackson has been awarded -36,790.19 : The board reserved -60,000 of the i six months term fund! to be used later ' ,in paying the state's share of rural su(>ervisiou. In addition, the $300,000 emergency fund appropriated, rfad the $1,250,000 fund for districts with eight month terms remain to be ap portioned at a later time. The largest beneficiaries of the six months term allocation are: Robe son, $112, 631.85; Johnston, $110,221, 46; Sampson, $109,496.65; Union, $105,491.03; and! Columbus, 104,076. 44. The non-participating counties arc Buncombe, Durham, Forsyth, Guil ford, Mecklenburg and New Hanover. Western North* Carolina counties will receive aid from the fund in the following amounts : Alleghany, $18,626.55; Ashe $69, 384.24; A vorv, $50,444.16; Burke $40,850.68; Caldwell, $58,102.70; Ca tawba, $83,260.31 ; Cherokee, $49,201. 40; Clay, $21,939.87; Cleveland, $82, '06.17; Graham, $2,849.86; Haywood, $59,453.23; Henderson, $49,658.18; JACKSON, $36,710.19; Macon, $46 408.87; Madison $43,196.14; McDow ell, $27,558.67 ; Mitchell, $28,813.53; Polk, $31,595.54 ; Rutherford, $90, 178.64;, Swain, % $17,013.16; Tran sylvania, $19^,815.00 ; Watauga, $>17 765.45; and Yancey, $41,903.12 ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT TO START WORK MONDAY On next Monday, June 10, Mr.! E. C. Vestal will be here to start to work us Assistant County Agent in Jackson County. Mr. Vestal grad uated and receives his, B. S. degree in Agriculture this week at North Carolina State College, at Raleigh. Only one nr two of the outstanding men in each graduating class are se lected each year by the Agricultural Extension Division of State College and started in training for County Agents as Assistant Agents. Due to the progress fanners in this county are making in organized marketing, definite demonstration work, andj the volume of work going on in general agricultural develop ment, Mr. Vestal is coming here a>. the expense of the State and Federal Extension Division to aid with the work and acquire the few months experience necessary before taking the work as County Agent in a moun tain county. SYLVA PEOPLE ON STAT*i SUNDAY SCHOOL PROGRAM | Miss Kato Allison, Miss Willa Mae Dills, and Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Washburn, and A. V. Washburn, Jr., are on the program for the Sta .3 Baptist Sunday School conference, to be held at Meredith College, Raleigh, Thursday June 13 through Saturday, June 15. Other Tiembeia of the party from Sylva who. will attend the conference are: Mr. J. T. Gribble, Miss Pansy Ezell, Wade Hall, Mr. and Mrs. R E. Chambers, Mr. Jonothan Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse C. Smith, and probably some others. GOLFERS NOW ON SYLVA COUNTRY CLUB COURSE Golfers are now frequenting the course of the Sylva Country Club, al most daily, and pronunce the recently completed course a good one. The date for the formal opening 4? I of the Country Club has not been an [ nouneed, though it will be about Junt' 16. , - ?" - i ccasin Bend way Taken Over By State i ' ?<' 'A* ? I* < n According to Raleigh dispatches to the jdaily press, the state highway commission has taken over as a part of t|e state highway system, the road Highland to the Georgia state line, | towardi Walhalla, S. C. Th(8 is a substitute road} for 106, Sylv% to our neighboring county seat Jin South Carolina, and leads one 91 to and across a corner of Gcorg ia and back into South Carolina. The new Ninth District roads in clude one in Buncombe and Madison fromj Trust to Marshall a distance of 21 miles in addition to the Macon | county road. The contract was let for about 2 miles of 20 foot concrete paving in Beaucatcher tunnel. Th? only other Ninth District proj ject jthat of draining, grading and preparing for surfacing seven miles in Graham county from Yellow Creek to thje Tennessee river, was left open for further investigation. i COUNTY AGENT SAYS SYLVA SBtOTJLD BE PROUD OF DAIRY | \ (By ?. W. TILSON, County Agent) Few towns in the Sooth have a dtftiry plant better equipped to produce and) supply pure, wholesome milk and eream than the Sylva Dairv. Since the dairy has been in its present plant at the old Fisher place over oa Savannah, few of our town folks have seen the excellent conditi ons under which our milk is produced and prepared; for us. The barn is built exactly accprding to the North Carolina State Dairy Division plan for producing the very highest qual ity of milk. The floor is solidi concre te throughout with stanchions, feed biMj| drainage gutters, etc., so ar that it ia^ all easily washed clean twice or three times' egcH'w^ck The cows in their stanchions every night are on clean, fresh bedding, and they are all thoroughly curried and sprayed as soofr as they come into the barn. Mr. Brown, the proprietor of the diairy, along with his busy force is always doing everything they can to improve the quality of their dairy product. They have recently installed and are using a Delaval Milking Ma chine, which is the most efficient way now in use for producing the cleanest and highest quality of milk. Each cow's uddjer and teats are thoroughly washed and, dried clean before walk ing. The milk is taken from the milk barn directly into the dairy house where it is strained1 again and! pour ed over the cooler. It is then bottled cold and. placed in a clean, cold ice box for the short time it has to stay be fore it is removed and' delivered to your door. The dairy house is thoroughly eq uipped with a high pressure steam boiler used for producing the scaldf ing water and high pressure steam used in thoroughly cleansing every milk container ' used. It has the hot and coldl water washing sinks, the milk cooler, electric churn, and spa cious ice box all so essential for the produeiton of high quality milk. There are no mud holes noy com post piles around thedairy barn, as all wastes are hauled away daily and placed on the land where they belong The entire surroundings are kept clean and attractive, and} the fine herd of high producing cows spend the day on a green pasture with ample shade and clear water. Sylva folks have an invitation from Mr. Brown to drive over on Sunday or any other afternoon to see the cows prilked by the electric milker, and in spcet your town dairy plant. ADDING TO JARRETT'S HOTEL Mr. R. F. Jarrett, owner of Jar rett Springs Hotel, Dillsboro, is build ing a new fining room, adding to the kitchen and laundry space, and con-| structing a number of well-appointed bed rooms. ' EPISCOPAL SERVICES, SUNDAY { Rev. Albert New rector of Grace church, Waynesyille, will conduct services in St. John's chapel, in Sylva, Sunday morning at U. * | f . , V . ' - .) GET TOP PRICES IN WOOL SALE (By C. W. TILSON. County Agent) On Monday, May 27th, the Sheep Growers of Jackson and neighboring counties, Haywood), Macon and Swain held the largest wool pool sale in their history. This was the fifth year Jackson county sheep men have pool ed their wool in a cooperative sale which has always enabled them to get top prices. The cooperation from neighboring counties, particularly Haywood and Macon was good this year. This came as a result of the excellent prices Jackson farmers have received- each year by cooperative selling, and through the organization of the farmers by the County Agents. According to the records of C. W. Tilson, Jackson County Agent in charge of the sale the buyer paid the sheep growers $5,818.70 for the 14,821 pounds of wool they had in the pool. Eleven of the best buyers in Eastern United States were gladj to bid on this quantity of good wool.' Thq successful buyer paid the sheep men 40c per pound for good quality clear wool, and 37o to 38c for light burry wool, an<^ 35c for burry wool Over 90 percent of this wool brought the top price because these sheep growers have learnedi through ex perience and through demonstration teaching of County Agents how to j care for their wool to produce the highest quality. These sheep men received from 3c to 5o per pound more for their wool by cooperative selling in a large poo than they could get by individual selling to any buyer. This gave them several hundred dollars by coopera tive selling this year, and they have the satisfaction of knowing that their wool brought a top price like the pooled wool in Tennessee and Ken tucky and] other states with organ ltedabeep me&T" ~ ~ The following tonnage of wool was furnished by each county selling in this pool. Jackson County 7,224 lbs. Haywood County 3,382 lbs. Macon County 3,269 lbs. Swain County 910 lbs. Total 14,785 lbs. Farmers of this section with County Agents as leaders are making won derful progress in building up their markets and increasing their cash incomes permanently by cooperative and; orderly sales of their hogs, poul try,, eggs, butter fat, etc. as well as with their wool. CANADA ROAD IMPROVING ? CANADA DOINGS THIS WEEK Great progress is being made on the Canada highway since the State has taken charge of it. The people of this section are hoping to have a good highway in the near future. Mr. Oliver Matthews is home from Nashville Automobile College for a week's vacation. He has as his guest Mr. Cyril Fisher of Fillmore, N. Y. Mr. G. C. Moss of Cullowhee was a business visitor here the past week. Mrs. Ellen Matthews and children, Roswell and Lenore, and Mi's. James Poole andj little son, of Greer, S. C., spent the week ent^ here with Mr. and Mrs. M R. Matthews, leaving Roswell and Lenore for the summer months. A large crowd attended the funer al services of Mrs. Ibbie Shelton at Wolf Creek cemetery Sunday, con ducted by Rev. L. H. Crawford. Mrs Nan Dunn of Cherry field was a recent visitor here. Mr. Tinsley Brown of Gloucester was here recently. . Misses Effie and Lenora Matthews who have been teaching in Winstom .Salem are spending a few week's va cation here with home folks before attending summer school at Cullowhee - c ** . . . / i v . . . BAPTISTS CHOOSE DEACONS C. W. Tilson, Lawson Allen and fj. C. Moore were elected to serve as members of the Board- of Deacons ? by the First Baptist church, in con ference, following preaching services, Sunday morning. They succeed J. T. Gribble, John R. Jones and Geo. W. Sutton. BALSAM f*t? . ? * ' *? ? . i?t - t ; Mr. John Blanton was called to Brushy Creek last Week'tof'ftfc' his brother Frank Blanton, wboi is very ill. Misses Faye Bryson and Evelyn Green spent last week end with Mrs. Elsie Green in Asheville. Mrs. F. M. Breeee and Miss Hol^ Loster were dinner guests of Mrs. Mary Rabb in Haywood county, last Sonday Mrs. Bessie Bain went to Asheville Tuseday to remain until her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. L Cope return from the Railroa^ Fire men's meeting in Florida. Mrs. H. P. Ensley has returned from Tampa, Fla., where she spent the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ensley of Waynesville and Mr., Eu?ece"*I3teley and family of Asheville Were guests of Mrs., H. P. Ensley, Sunday. Mr. andj Mrs. James Balloagh have returned from theit winter home in Daytona Beach, to spend the sum mer in their homa *helre ili' B&ifeugh Hills. Announcement has been received from Mrs. Julia Glantz and husband of Salisbury, of the birth of a'tfine daughter. Mr. A. F Arrington attended the singing convention at Sannook last Sunday. ? -w Mr. and Mrs. E. King, who spent the winter in Daytona" stopped in Balsam ennctte to their summer home in Toronto, Canada. DISTRICT FARM AGENT AND SWINE SPECIALIST HKRE WKEK I . Mr. John W. Goodman, District Agent for the Agricultural Exten sion serviee of North Carolina State College will be in Sylva thia week for one day to confer with County Agent C. W. Tilson abontr ttiti work in Jackson County. Sehed^cdea., for the Specialists furnished by the cai- _ lege to aid % carrying out tholFiaflf in this county will to wnW- oat , to suit our needs for the dadt. few months while Mr. Qoodman is tore. Mr. W. W. Shay, in chaige of Swine Extension Work for State College will be here with J MlC Good man to check up on the part the hog is taking in increasing the in come of Jackson County farmers. Over four hundred car loads of bogs were fed out in this state' last; -year according to Mr. Shay's directions far feeding. These hogs were shipped, alive, in cooperative earlo&:A mar ket and topped the market almost 100 percent the days they were sold. Mr. Shay 's records, however, like records he has on hundreds of cars for the past 20 years, show that tho cars of hogs sold in March and ApriJ^ and August and September tfrooght the farmers much higher prices than hogs sold during any otter ? ithw in the year. The two cars of live hogs sold, co operatively by Jacfcson and Macon farmers in March and" Apri^df^ this Spring to an Asheville packing plant at Chicago top prices nfaWHP evident that we have a good market nearby. Shay says that with the increased amount of skim milk, Jackson ed&nty farmers are getting from milking cows and selling eream and the way corn grows in the Tnckaaeegee river valley, lots of farmer^sBMM feed out a few pigs for markfet' at two hundred pounds in August andr Sep tember or March and April. Even though we have some high priced corn, hog prices for the next year or more are bound to be gbotf accord ing to Mr.Shay's experienced calcu lation. SOTARIAN8 TO 00 TO AlfXy^WS The second inter-city meeting of the Rotary Clubs of Sylva, Waynes ville, Franklin, and Awtews wg be held in the latter ~dn Thursday evening of neirt wOekT The princij Sutton, sujf schools in Atlant Rotanan and spt will respond to the address of Wl come on behalf of The first of 1&?n was in Franklin It is probable that d of the . kind ; wall 'be ?wiafinii tUtf