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Sylva, N. C: Thursday, October 31, 1929
$2.00 Year in Advance outside the County
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Liquor Cases Feature
Recorder's Session
\s usual. liquor, in its various ram
ification-. occupied most of the time
I the Recorder's court, Monday and
Tuesday ?
,1. T. l !ai k was found guilty of
r,vklt-> (hiving, and was sentenced
toM'rvf .! months on the roads, which
sentence was suspended upon pay
Ilt.nj oi ;t line of $50.00 and the costs
o! the <?;?>??. :*?ul the payment of some
?S.yflO damages to another man's car.
David (iolden, convicted of operat
ic ;i|i :;iu>mobiie white intoxicated,
,v;ls sentenced to serve three months,
i,..; rlie -cnteiiee was susj)cnded upon
Kivmcut ot a tine of $50.00 and the
fo-ts.
I'm. i t'ope was found not guilty of
o}H*rat iinr an automobile while intoxi
cated. lie ami L. Ii. Cope were con
virtftl m au affray. Tom was fined
jln.iMi ami 1-- the costs, and the other
man wax ia\cd with 1-2 the costs.
Mrs. Mary Norman was found guil
jv oi selling wine.
Don Alexander, convicted of dis
turbing a >erviiv, was sentenced to
throe months, and the sentence sus
pended upon payment of a fine of $25
and tin1 costs.
Cunt Alexander was found guilty:
o! heim: intoxicated, and prayer for
judniiH"! was continued for two
mouths.
l'lovd Hrown and Vick Shelton,
found -ailt\ of transporting about a'
jint Ht liquor, were sentenced to serve4
three months, and the seuteiiees were
suspemlf I u|H>n payment of the costs.1
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Mrs. Carter, in whose posession a
very svia'l ((uantity of liquor, in a
little hut i If, was alleged to have been
found, v. hcn a car in which she and
so!::c mi. v - were riding, in Sylva, was
stopped In officers, was found guilty!
of transporting, and judgment was
suspended ii|?ou payment of the costs, j
Liban I in hl> was found not guilty |
.'of trans|>ortiiig and posession of liqu
or. \
Kulina Wood, convicted of a satu
atcry oii'mse was sent to the Samar
(.uid school for girls.
Willant Davis was convicted of a
bandomrent, and prayer for judgment
was continued for two weeks. I
Porter limes, transporting, 4 month'
Carter Ilryson, manufacturing liqu
or, 3 months, lie appealed to the su
perior court.
SYLVA HIGH DOWNS YODELERS
By rc-orting to the ancient dead
!? in j l.iv. with Pluto .Tones lying
Out on t lio sidelines, in the first play
aliii' the kick-off, a beautifully ex
(?'iiuil |i;',vS ami a run of sixty yards,
Svlvsi lliuli defeated Western Caro
Teachers' College in the first
minutes of play, on the local grid
lron, Friday afternoon.
Kylva scored the extra point, and
th(' icaine >| oo< I 7 to 0 in favor of the
fy'kn lads, neither side being able tp
Ci! the I,, i| over the goal afterwards.
Both sides played good ball, most
ly ami if was a snappy game. Once
or twice f ullowhee came within
strikimr distance of Sylva's goal.
t lie end of the game the Yod
r'?rs were dangerously close, within
lpss than 1(1 yards of a touch down,
ail?l going strong with line plunges,
#hcn a cost ly fumble, which was re
covered hv Cogdill, kept Cullowhee
ffom scoring, and probably prevent
0,1 the Teachers from tying the score
SHOWING in two big rooms.
Two <>i i he largest rooms in Sylva
av? Wen placed at the disposal of
1:1 licials of the Livestock and
Poultry Show, to be used as exhibit
10,1 buildings ' . ?
The livestock is on display in the
*arehouse of Mrs. Love, across the
ra'lroad I'rotn the Southern station,
Illxt dour to Knsley 's Feed Store.
The poultry is being shown in the
nscti cut that was once occupied by
Wk's < a t o, under the BtwhaBW*
'ariuacv. Jt has entrances from
(l'" ""d Mill Streets, and is only
? distance from the exhibition
?Qlldil^ of the livestock.
THE WEEK
(By DAN TOMPKNIS)
Dr. John Roach Straton, noted as
a militant fundamentalist, foe of Dar
winism, and one of the leaders of the
Protestant- fundamentalist- Anti-Sa
loon League-Ku Klux Klan revolt
against the candidacy of Al. Smith,!
a year go, died, of a heart attack, in
a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, N.
Y., Tuesday, after having been ill for
a month. Dr Straton, a native of In
diana, was' pastor of Calvary Bapitst
church, in New York City, for many :
| years, where he was a stormy fjetral, !
I both insidb and outside his church,
j He was 54 years of age.
Senator Theodore E. Burton, of the
State of Ohio, Republican leader, died
on Monday at. the age of 77. Senator
Burton was for years a leader of the
Old Guard Republicans. He was not
a member of, but rather a foe of the
"Ohio Gang". It was his refusal to
stand for reelection in 1914 that
put the toga upon Warren G. Hard
ing and brought him into national
prominence.
The tremendous shake down on the
Wall Street Stock Exchange has con
tinued for a week. Saturday, and
again on Monday and Tuesday, the
market prices of stocks plunged wild
ly downward, amidst an orgy of
panic-stricken selling. It had been be
lieved that the week-end would end
the terrible downward trend of the
market; but evidently the manipulat
"or discovered, over" Sunday, that !
there were still, of the comparatively^
small operators who had weathered
the storm, a remnant hanging on. It
would never do to allow any except
the elect to permanently profit off
the stock market, so these had to be;
shaken loose from the remains of
their cash, and the decline went mer
rily on until big bankers had to cast
huge sums of money into the ex
change, to avert a national disaster.
That 's Wall Street gambling as it is.
And yet they still continue to send
little, ignorant Negroes to the chain
gang for shooting craps!
Judge Ponder A. McElroy, of Mar
shall, has been directed by Governor
Gardner to go to Gastonia and open
court, as a committing magistrate, on
November 4, to investigate the shoot
ing of Ella May Wiggins, alleged com
munist, by a mob. From appearances
at this distance, it would seem that
whoever shot Mrs Wiggins to death,
when she was on a truck returning
from a frustrated meeting of strik
ers, is guilty of murder in the first
degree, on the theory of general mal
ice; which the law books tell us is
someone opening up with a deadly
weapon on a crowd of people, and
not giving a whoop who gets killed.
Albert B. Fall, from the State of
Xew Mexico, once the handsome Sec
retary of the Interior, under Mr.
Harding, as a broken, old man, heard
a jury in Washington return a ver
dict branding him as a receiver of a
bribe and a betrayer of public trust,
for his part in the transfer of the
naval oil reserve to the Doheneys I
and Sinclairs. The mills of the gods
grind slowly; but they grind exceed
ingly fine '..MB
The jury trying former Governor
Catts, of Florida, on a charge of
counterfeiting, failed to^agree, and a
mistrial was ordered. This thing has
been in the courts long enough. It
; is one of the drawbacks to our sys
tem of jurisdiction in this country,
that trials in which there are vitaf
matters at stake, are often drawn
out until the public patience isv worn
to a frazzle. We are not passing up
on the guilt or innocence of Catts;
but it is a well known fact, taken
into consideration by shrewd law
yers, that the surest way to. get a
rascal off from paying the legal pen
alty of his rascality, is to baffle the
final decision of the courts until the
publio becomes disgusted with the
whole matter. The public is forgetful,
both of noble deeds and rampant ras
cality. ^ ? *
Joseph R. Grundy, veteran mantr
, facturer and eollector of Republican
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FARM AK D TOWN
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The Journal, on behalf of itself and
all the people of Sylva, extends a
most hearty and cordial welcome to
the folks from the farm who are at
tending the Livestock and Poultry
Show.
It is a splendid showing of the
kind of stock* and poultry that the
Jackson county farms can produce.
And we are all glad you came. ? - j
We want you to feel perfectly at
ho*f:e. We have turned the town over
to you. It is yours anyway. The seat
of government of Jackson county be |
longs to Jackson county folks, and
we want the people of Jackson coun
ty to always feel that Sylva is their
town, our town.
The present show is a splendid ex
amplo of what can be accomplished
by proper cooperation of town and
country. When Jackson county folks
make up their minds to do a thing
and all of us, those who live on farms
and those who dwell in apartments
or on town lots, work together to a
definite purpose, that purpose will
be accomplished.
The Journal feels that it can speak
freely along these lines, because it
does not represent the town, neither
does it represent the country; but
it is the servant of and the spokes
man for the whole of Jackson coun
ty. ' * -
If Sylva is a good business town,
and times are good here, the whole
county will prosper.
Inversely, if the country is pros
perous, and the people of the farms
eoHU&ted*- Sylva wili?to
a prosperous, happy town.
Neither can make the grade to tha
plains of prosperity without e*rryi?g
the other up with it. The interests of
all sections of Jackson county are
mutual and indissoluble. They are
so intermixed that none of us can be
injured without hurting all the rest,
and noe of us can prosper without a
part of that proserity filtering
through to the rest.
The truth of the matter is that we
are all country folks in North Caro
lina. There arc no cities in our State;
and this is especially true of Jackson
county. We are just country folks,
and those of us who have sense
enough to be, are mighty proud of it.
The basis of all prosperity in Jack
son county must be agriculture and
its allied pursuits. We can't get away
from that fact. No matter how many
stores, shops, factories, we may es
tablish in Sylva, the farms will con
tinue for many years to be our main
source of ifeatlh.
The best reason for building a
good town at Sylva is to provide a
ready market, at hofce, for the prod
ucts of the farms Of "th is county.. -
Agriculture in * Jackson county,
while it is our oldest industry, from
a standpoint of development, is but
in its infancy^ There are so many and
so divers means of making farming
pay in this county, that it would take
many volumes to tell the whole story
of what can be done with our soils,
from the plateaux, mountain top, and
valleys of Hamburg, Canada, and
Mountain, down to the lowlands of
the Cullowhee valley, Caney Fork,
about Webster, and down in Qualla.
However, the basis of farm pros
perity in this county, no matter what
other crops mayj>e produced, is live
stock, including poultry. They ' pro
vide food for the family, keep the
boys and girls properly nourished,
and feed the soil.
Sylva stands ready to do anything
within its power to further the inter
ests of the farms of Jackson county.
It means money to Sylva to build up
a solid agricuture in the county. The
Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants
Association, and other organizations
and individuals have more than once
shown their readiness to lend a hand
and give a lift.
Sylva and the rest of the county,
working hand in hand, can do won
ders in Jackson county within a sur
prisingly small space ol time.
wftfflay, and dtv.have our
differences of opinion on some mat
ters ;but we are all friends and neigh
bdflrs, and have at least- a selfish mu- i
tual interest in the development and
prosperity of Jackson county
We are headed toward better
things, better living conditions, and
more money in Jackson county. One
way to do it is by trading with each
other as much as possible.
Another is to be less suspicious of
each other.
The best recipe is for all of us to
get the county spirit, live, work, plan
for Jaekson county.
The Master spoke a profound eco
nomic truth, when He said: "No
man liveth to himself alone".
There is no longer any room in
Jackson county for drones.
Altogether, now. E)vrybody on the
job!
Let's go!
BUSINESS AND ART TO ,
BEGIN AT S. C. I.
According to principal B. L. Mul
linax, a new commercial and art do-1
partment will . be opened at Sylva
Collegiate Institute, November 4, with !
Miss Rose Cox, a teacher of wide
experience at its head. Classwork in
shorthand, typeing, bookkeeping,
principles of drawing and painting,
commercial art, printing, and design
ing will be given daily and on Mon
day, Tuesday, apd Thursday nights.
Roth class and ' private lessons will
be given in the different branches of
art. About fifteen have already sig
nified their intention of enrolling in
one or more of the classes.
Miss Cox has had fourteen years
teaching experience, including two
years at the Arcadia High School,
Arcadia, Fla., three years at the Live
Oak high school in the same state,
one year at Lexington College, Lex
ington, Mo., two summers at the Uni
versity of Florida, and six years in
her private studio in Asheville. She
is a junior college graduate of Ox
ford College, has attended Pratt In
stitute, Brooklyn, N. Y., one year,
Boothbay Harbor Art School, Booth
bay, Maine, one summer on a schol
Campaign funds told the senate com
mittee that 'the small revenue pro
ducing States should not have so
much voice in the passive of a tariff
bill; and that the constitutional pro
vision of two senators from each
State is "unfortunate." That sounds
like doctrine of the school of politics
to which Mr. Grundy belongs. Give
folks with the most money the most
say in the affairs of the.government.
In other words, govern America by
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BREAKS BOTH LEGS IN JT7MI |
FROM COURT HOUSE WINDOW;
After having beetl cortvicted on
minor charge of assault, Lawrence
Griffin, young white man, juir.pped
from a window in the second, story
of he court house, hehre, landing in
a coal pile and fracturing both legs, in
an attempt to escape from the offic
ers, soon after Recorders Court open
ed, Monday moring.
Griffin was carried to the hospital
and given immediate surgical treat
ment. He had just been found guil
ty of a minor assault, and the court
is said to have had, in mind the mini
mum of a suspended judgment upon
payment of the costs in the case,
when Griffin made his spectacular
attempt to es&ape.
arship, and has studied under several
prominent art instructors, notably
among them being Professor Henne
n?an, 'of- New York City, the eminent
Belgian landscape gardener, besides
having dOne special work in design
ing, china painting, weaving, rug<
making, pine-needle work, tooled
leather, moulding and firing tile, and
commercial printing. She has also
done an extra period of intensive
commercial work at King's Business
College, Charlotte, and is highly re
commended by that school as a teach
er of a general business , course. Her
art students have won prizes wherev
er the work has been exhibited. She
has taken first prize at the Florid*"
Jjtate Fair, and recently she was
awarded first prize at the Kenilworth
Art Exhibit in AsheVille for the best
hand painted china. Tuition in aU
the courses will be very reasonable.
Clemmer, Tuttle, Kiker
Returned To Pastorates
Rev. Geo. Clemmer was returned to
the pastorate of Sylva charge, M. Q.
Tuttle .to CuffiJwhee, F. W. Kiker to
.Webster, L. E. Croson to High
lands, R. L. Bass to Whittier, W. E.
Moretz to Wolf Mountain, J. W. Hall
to Glenville, and Wm. Horn buckle to
Cherokee, by the Methodist Confer
ence, meeting this week in High Point
Rev. 0. J. Jones, former pastor of
Sylva chureh was moved from David
son to Bryson City.
Rev. C. M. Pickens is again pre
siding 'elder of the Waynesville Dis
trict. Other appointments in the dis
trict are: Andrews, C. M^McKinney ;
Bethel, C. N. Dulin; Bryson City, 0.
J. Jones; Canton, Carlock Hawk;
Cherokee, Wm. Hornbuckle; Clyde,
Junalnska, F. 0. Dryman; Cullo
whee, M. Q. Tuttle; Delwood, T. S.
Roten, supply; _ Fines Creek, R. K.
Brady; Franklin, R. F. Moock; Frank
lin Cirucit, H. C. Freeman; Glenville,
J. W. Hall, supply; Hayesville, O. E.
Croy; Haywood, R C. McCleemrock;
Highlands, L. E. Croson, supply;
Maeon, C. F. Farris; Murphy, H. F.
Powell; Murphy Circuit, A. A. Som
ers,, supply; Sylva, Geo. B. Clemmer;
Waynesville, W. L. Hutchins; Web
ster, F. W. Kiker; Wolf Mountain,
W. E. Moretz, supply; Whittier, R.
L. Bass.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The feature "Forty Years Ago",
which was commenced Jast Springs,
and which has been omitted for a
little more than a month, will be
resumed in , The Journal^^next week.
A number of the readers of The!
Journal, have expressed themselves
as being much interested in the fea
ture, and it was a matter of regret
to the Editor of this pa per that we
were compelled to omit it, once we
had started its publication ; but there
were a number of copies missing
from the files of the Tuekaseige Dem
ocrat, from which the feature was
compiled. However, beginning with
the issue of November 6, 1889, the
files of the Democrat are intact for
several months, enabling us to resume
the publication of Forty Years Ago.
JACKSON 4H FOLKS GO TO
GREAT STATE FAIR
By E. V. VESTAL, ASST. CO. AGT
On Monday, October 14, Ned Tuck
er of the Cullowhee Valley 4H Club,
John Sharpe of Seott's Creek 4H
Clubhand I arrived in Raleigh to at
tend the second annual N. C. State
Fair. As the boys were to give a poul
try demostration on Wednesday morn
ing, we spent Tuesday in preparing
for it. However, we did take time
enough off Tuesday morning to see
some fine jerseys, shorthorns, and Po
land Chinas judged
Wednesday morning the boys put
on a splendid Poultry demonstration
in the 4H Club booth. They outlined :
best methods to use m starting a
farm flock and put special emphasis
on -proper culling and sanitation.
There were three other 4H Club
boys' teams trere and four or five
girls' teams. Johnny Sharpe and Ned
Tucker carried off frst prize for dem
time watching the demonstrations on
time watching the demonstraions on
corn, swine, home economies, etc. All
the teams showed plenty of ability,
but none more than the two boys
from Jackson county.
To visit a Fair like that in our own
State causes us to realize that North
Carolina can grow as .good livestock,
and as good crops as anywhere. We
just need to realize that we must get
good, pure-bred livestock and good,
pure-bred seed. The North Carolina
Crop Improvement Association in its
booth at the Fair, put it plainer to
us that good seed are esseitial.
The sheep at the Fair were the best
yet. Sheep growers who attended their
show could get a real vision to oarry
home with them. The necessity of
using a pure-bred ram tor most profit
able result with sheep was shown
even more than has been realized
heretofore.
The Hereford showings along with
Friday and Saturday *
To Be Big Show Days
^ Friday and Saturday are the two
| big dgy8 of the Jackson County Live
stock and Poultry Show, which open
ed here this morning.
Experts are of the opinion that
some of the best beef -cattle, sheep, ,
dairy cattle, hogs, and poultry ever
exhibited in any show in Western
North Carolina, will be on display
before 12 o'clock today.
The stock placed on exhibit today
will be shown today, tomorrow, and
Saturday. Judging of all classes will
be held tmorrow, Friday.
From reporst of entries already
made, there are some excellent class
es of Herefords, and Shorthorns, in
beef cattle, and Jerseys, Gurnseys,
and Holsteins, in the dairy breeds.
Hampshires, and Shropshires predomi
nate in the sheep classes; while Hamp
shires and Poland Chinas are the
leaders among the hogs.
The Barred Plymouth Rock classes
will be the largest in the poultry de
partment, with some excellent Rhode
Island Reds and White Leghorns.
It is freely predicted that the Jack
son County Show will prove to be the
best exhibit of all classes of livestock
to he shown in Western North Caro
lina, this year.
A large number of folks from all
over Western North Carolina, who
are interested in Livestock, Poultry, _
or Jackson county, are expected to be
in Sylva on Friday and Saturday.
The program entertainment, furn
ished by Sylva business men headed
by D. M. Hall of the Sylva -Supply
Company, assisted by i Simon.,
of The Paris, Reed of the
Jackson Hardware Company,. J. S.
Higdon of Higdon Motor Company,
and J. D. Cowan, of Buchanan Phar
macy, is full of interest and fan, as
well as those features that , help to
make everybody feel welcome to Syl
va and enjoy the shpw. - ; .
There will be as much fun as -< a
barrel of monkeys, this afternoon,
at 2.30, when numerous contestants
will take a try at climbing the greas
ed pole, for the prize of $10.06. Be
sure to be there. Don't miss it:
Tickets for this contest will be sold
at 25 cents each.
The Fox Race, of wh'idlr N. Don
Davis, is master of ceremonies, will be
staged on the streets of SyTva at 10
o'clock tomorrow mofhing. The fox
hunters have been busy for the past
week, tiying to catch a fox to be the -
main actor in tomorrow morning's
star performance.
Bring your fox dogs and join in the
fun. If you have no dogs, came
along anyway, and take part in the
chase.
As one of the attractions of the
livestock and Poultry Show, two
crack teams from the Qualla Reserv
ation of the Cherokee Indians, will
play Indian ball, on the athletic /ield
of Sylva Central High School tomor
row afternoon. ?'*. .
The entire town and 'all lin%f of
business have been to
the fullest extent with the^^^ftmtfers
and stock raisers to make this show
an outstanding success. The show Irst
attempted three years ago, haST'teen
growing rapidly, and is: fast"*fte<?m
ing one of the. leading shoWfi '-fft *its
kind in . the State; :
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shorthorns and Aberdeen-Angus were
evidence of good nfenagemetit and
the best of breeding otflit1l& part of
beef cattle men. The Wrltfe of pure
bred sires for the la*gw#i*t*in? frihn
beef cattle was just ftB plain as it was
with the sheep. - -
The Jersey, Guernsey, and Hols tein
breeds of dairy cattle were wrtl rep
resented, with the ?ost interest in
Jerseys and Guernseys ,aa Usual.
It was an inspiration* to see* the 4H
Club boys showing their p&rt of both
breeds. They were not lacking in win
nings, either, because a number of
the blue and red ribbons given in
the two classes were to be found in
the stils of cattle belonging to Clubb
members.
Since all of us cannot attend the
State Fair, we should make every
effort to be at our own County live
stock and Poultry Show. , ?