January 16, 1930.
$2.00 Tear in Advance outside the County
TO HAVE TALKIES
AT LYRIC THEATRE
llarrv E- Buchanan, owner of the
IjVrir theatre, is installing Vita,
phone and Western Electric eqnip
llMfnt throughout, nuking the Lyric
,,n # parity with any picture thoa
;ir iii the State.
beginning with t'lc mi<inisht show,
Ht 12.01 next Monday morning the
kvric will show aiy talking, singin
and dancing pictures,, giving the peo
ple of fi.vlva and thifir region aecess
to a< g??d productions, and mnsie
the theatre world affords.
As the opening show, which will
l,,. at 1- 01 next Monday morning,
th?. management has chosen "The
KoIImw 1^" a Fox Movietone
production of singing, talking, and
,lancing. including bevies of pretty
..iiN. and a ??st of over two-hundred
* f i
JtfOpIc.
,\Mrai'tion number two, on the
|j,( ot showings for the winter and
spring, is "The Cockeyed World",
? sequel to What Price Glory."
This will be shown all next wek,
liegiuuitig Thursday and continuing
through Saturday
BALSAM
Mr. William Oscar Giessler, 81
years of age, passed away in the
Hauvnod County hospital, Saturday
the lltli, of pneun:onia. Funeral sen*
ices were inducted by Kev. W. L
Hatchings, pastor of the Methodist
I'huivh in Wayncsville, and his bo<lvj
was laid to rest in Green Hill cem
etery by the side of his wife, Mho
preceded him several years ago
He i survived by one daughter,
.Mix Anna Dock Boice of Balsam
lodge ami Winter Park, Fla. with'
wlicin lie made his home, and one son,
William (Jiessler, of Newark, K. J.,
hoth of whom were with him wtvn
the cud came. His grandson, Le Roy
Dock. ot New York City, also
l?rf?eiit. He was a member tf the
Prpsbyteriau church,
Vrntrmsl f*Mer of G?
Newark, N. .f., his former home. Hp
was an unusually activc man for bis
age- was a good citizen and kind
neighbor, and he will be greatly infos
ed.
Tnesday morning, while Mr. Wil-,
liam Crawford was hauling lumber,
on N'orth Fork, onq of the horses
kicked him <m the leg and broke it.
He was taken home and given med
ial aid at once, and he is resting as
comfortably as could be e\))ected.
There is much sickness in and
around the community.
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BETA ITEMS
!!cv Western Reed filled the pul
pit, Sunday, and gpve uf? a power
i'ul Gospel message, the thing he can
do at am* tin:e. We all enjoyed him.1
Mr. ami Mw, W. T. Deitz visited j
"Rev. T. F. Deit/. and family, this
week. ^ v
Ono of the twin babies of Mr.j
and Mr-. Bedford Knsley is seriou*-;
ly sick of ]Mieumonia. t
I'n?f. Jonathan Brown, Mr. and]
Mrs. ]>. (i. liryson, Mr. and Mrs.
T. C. Kry mod, Sr., and Rev. Thad
F. I Kit/, attended the Sunday School
Worker's Conference, in BrySOtt Cit
on Mondav night,
Kev. and Mrs. Thad F. Deitz mo^
t?red to Ashevillc with Dr. Creal ,of
Hry-zm City, Tuesday, to attends tb?
Ministers' Conference of Western
North Carolina. While in AsheviHe,
tlu-. will visit tlieir daughters, Mrs.
Fowler and Mrs. Totherow.
Mr. and Mrs. Malone are on an
extended visit to their daogMex,
Mrs. Uixou, in Chattanooga.
Rev. Thad F. Deitz conducted the
funeral servie of Mrs. William Blan
lon, Monday afternoon.
Misses Mary and) Volabellc Cow
an, of (lreen 's Creek, spent the week
fnd with relatives here.
Miss Iter Davis is at home for a
few days. She has accepted a posi
tion in Nashville, Tenn. We regret
to Mr her leave our community very
much, as she is one of our moat ef
ficient Sunday school teachers, and
is :i favorite with all who know hej:
We are glad to hear that Miss El
r '*e Crawford, who has been ill with
M'at'let fever, is. better.
Mrs. Dan Bishop visited her daagh1
Mrs. Milas Ward, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Bryoon went
to Mars Hill, Tuesday morning.
Rev. (reo. C. Snyder is holding a
Meeting at Wiluiot.
^ W. A. StiUweU visited hex
daughter, Mns. W. O. Dillard, Tues
day.
LOCAL HARDWARE
STORES MERGE
A business transaction of much in
terest to the people of the county
was consummated early this week,
when the Jackson Hardware Comp
any bought the stock of the Sytva
Supply Hardware Department, with
the exception of heavy hardware,
such as farm machinery, field seed,
and the like.
The Sylva Supply Company is
: moving its wholesale dep&iljment
to the Main Street floof, and is mak
| ing extensions along this line, and' iu
the heavy hardware department.
The interior of tho Jackson Hard
? ware Company V store toujldiug ,is
i being remodeled, tw make room for
the additional stock, kuid to e-lre
for the expected increased volume
of business.
W. C. T. *0. STUDENT DIES
Miss Helen Rhea. 1/, student at
Western Carolina Teachers College
died in an ambulance, iu which she
was being brought from Cullowhee,
just before reaching the local hos
pital, early tonight.
Miss Rhea, who is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Rhea, of Whit
tier, was 17 years of ajee yesterday,
and became ill, on her birthday. This
evening hemmorrhages under the
skin began. An ambulance was sum
moned, and she was being rushed to
the hospital nt the time of her
death.
Funprnl arrangements have not yet
been made.
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PARIS CLOSING OUT MEN S
STORE DEPARTMENT,
The Paris Department Store inau + \
nrnted a close out sale of its men's
store department, last Friday,
Commenting upon the occasion
for this sale, Mr. A." M. Simons, the!
owner, said that he has decided to
?tier to vacate that btmaiag m ?|
consolidate his business into one
store-room and bargain base
ment. He added that this will en
able him to offer even greater val
ues in the future. This firn: now oc
cupies two adjoining store-rooms
and a basement opposite the Post
Office. After thtf change, it will oc
cupy the side where the ladies'
rea':ly-f<3-wear department now is,
and the basement below. ?
Sullivan Sales Corporation, of
Charlotte is in charge. This firm
conducted the Paris' 12th Birthday
sale, last July. The same man who
was hen' at that tiir.c is again in
charge, having returned from Flori
da for tho occasion,
The shelf-emptying campaign Jof
The Paris continues in full force.
SECOND IN SERIES AT !
METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY
Large and interested congregations
are hearing the pastor, Rev. George!
Clenmer, at the Methodist ehurch'
in a series of sermons 011 practical 1
and timely themes. The subject Sun-\
day morning at the 11 o'clock hour!
of worship will be "Marriage. "
The question of marriage is always
an interesting one. Ttl has been said!
that marriage is the mattjerhorn j
in the whole range oij social privi-j
lege." It is the Gibralter of the
home, and home is the mainstay;
of civilization. In these modern days
marriage i* almost as often a fail-'
hi* as it is a success. What is !
wrong with marriage? Or is the;
trouble to be found otheiwhere than1
in the institution?
Sunday the sermon will attempt
to deal with these and other aspects
of. the question in a fearless and
straightforward manner. Sunday
schools meet at 10 a. m. both at
Sylva and Dillsboro. Epworth Hi
League in. the evening at 6.30 at
Sylva. The evening service at Dills
boro will be conducted in the Bap
tist church by Rev. Jtf. C. Reed.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all services.
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COUNTY TAX COLLECTIONS
ARE GOOD, THIS YEAR
The people of Jackson county
are paying their taxes better this
year than in several years ac
cording to Sheriff M. B. Cannon,
who states that collections on the
county taxes are tweoty_five per
cent better at this time, than jat
the same period of any year since
he has been in office.
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Calvin Goolidge, former President of the United States (center) with Alfred L Smith, former Governor
of New York (lef<) and Julius* Kosenwald, eminent Chicago merchant and philanthropist. The three hav?
been acting since last June as a committee to pick the institutions which are to receive a fortune of more than
six million dollars left by Conrad ;Hubcrt of Jersey City, a German immigrant who invented the p?cket fla?h?
light. These famous citizens have met every two weeks and were unanimous in their decisions.
SYLVA HIGH AND 6. C- I
TO CLASH TUESDAY NIGHT
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| The Yollow Jackets ol' S. C. I.'
will be at home to their old rivals
of the court, the Koberts coached
dan of Nylvai high school, Tuesday J
night at 7:30. 2sot since the days
of Baldy liigdon and big J- V. liar
ringer in 1923-24, has. nil S. ('. I.
team carried off the bacon in a]
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basketball game with .ilie highS|
school, in that seasoq thelligh I toys*
led by Fincunnnu and Kalpli SultonJ
defeated the Collegians twice during?
the regular season, only to be down-]
ed in a hair-raising battle for th|!
cup at the Oullowhee tournaments?
20-18. Since that year the roost haSt
belonged inore or less securely to thej
state school. During the same per-1
>dthe S, C. I. girls have
WkajwrfVof the contests from the
high school lassies.
CARTER BRYSON MAKES BOND
Catrer Brysou, Balsam man, who
id charged with the slaying of Ad
am Cope, at the home of Bryson,
last December, has been released
from the Haywood county jail,
where he has beeu in custodp, since;
he went to Wayncsvillc and sur
rendered, on the night' of the slay
ing. The release from jail came wlien.
Judge T.. B. Fiuley issued an order,
irv a habeas corpus proceedings, in
stituted on behalf of Bryson, in
which Judge FinlcV fixed bond for
Bryson's appearance at the next term |
of Jackson crwnty superior court,'
at the sum of $4,000.00:,
LOCAL PREACHER DIES UNDER
MOVING FREIGHT TRAIN
Rev. R. (). Vance, former pastor of
East Sylva Baptist chtirch, was al
most instantly killed, when his body
wns crushed beneath a Tuckaseigee
and Southeastern Railway train, at
Cullowhee, early last Friday morn
iiief. Besides being a minister, Mr.
Vance was employed as a train-man
on the T. & S. E. Railway. While
shifting ears in the yard at Cullo
whee, he was knocked from the train
by a telephone |>ole, falling beneath
the moving cars. Death came almost
instantly.
-feev Mr. Vance was for some time
pastor of East Sylva Baptist church,
and is well known in this commun
ity, having moved here several years
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i Surviving Mr.- Viyute are his wid-1
raa. ant* 12 ^hrttftcri/lwrae of whom
are grown and married.
The funeral service was conducted (
at Lovedale Baptist church by Rev.
.T. IT. Stanberrv and Rev. Ben Cook
DEITZ HEADS BAPTIST PASTORS
The election of Rev. Thad F. Deity,
of Beta, as president, and the selec
tion of Sylva as the next place of
meeting, marked the close of a two
day session of the Greater Western
North Carolina Pastors' Conference,
at Calvary Baptist church, in Aslic
ville, Wednesday.
The Hev. J. M. Justico, of Black
Mountain, was re-elected secretary.
Tho conference includes Baptist
pastors from all counties in North
Carolina west of and including
Burke.
TWO GAMES AT CULLOWHEE
MONDAY NIGHT?TEAMS GO
TO SWANANNOA SATURDAY
The Cullowhee Yodclers have two
hard games Saturday night, both the
hoys ami girls going to Swanannoa
for return games with Beacon Mills'
In the first contests on the Cullowhee
court the W. C. T. 0. girls lost and
the hoys won. /
Monday night, Jan. 20, the Cul
lowhee teams will stage a double
contest on the home court, the boys
playing Young Harris, and the girls
the strong sextette from Appala?hkvu
State Teachers College of Boone.
The girls' game will be called at'
7:3i>, with Ralph Sutton officiating. j
Coach Plemmons has announced j
that additional seating capacity taf
been added to the gymkia8ium
*taike care of the larffc crowd?,
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SCOUT MOTHERS TO MEET
WITH MRS. E. L. WII^ON
A meeting of irothers of Boy
Scouts will be held next Thursday,
January 23, at 7.30 in the evening
at the home of Mis. R. L. Wilson.
The meeting has been called by of
ficials of the Scout organization for
the purpose of discussing various
phases of Scout work. Mr. Clemmer
; will be present and talk to the moth*
ers about the work and plans for
the celebration of the twentieth An
niversary of Scouting in America,
| and the heeond in Sylva since the
' organization of the present troop,
j A letter of invitation is being
' sent to each mother urging a foil
I attendance.
| If No One Lets Go They May Get Somewhere Ry Albert T. RM
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EXPECT HOT RACE
FOE SOLICITOR IN
JUNE PRIMARY
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The political waters are really be
I ginning to boil in the 20th Judicial
1 District, as the time for the Demo
cratic State <fnd county primaries
draw* nearer.
Almost every day set* new entries
in the solicatorial contest. The an
nouncecent of Solicitor Grover C.
Davis that he will; not be a candid
ate to succeed himself bas somewhat
complicated the situation, that *aR
already somewhat mixed. Most of
the counties have a man in the field.
Across the mountain in the big
county of Haywood, Jair.es W. Fer
guson and John M. Qaeen are both
avowed candidates. Mr. eiguson han
served as solicitor of the disricfc be
fore, and is well known. Mr. Qneen,
while not so well known outsida hi*
own county, knows almost everybody
there, and there is where the Demo
cratic votes arc. He walj Judge of
the Reaordcr's Court of Haywood,
until an unkind legislature aboltoh
his court; but John was far froui
abolished, and is a formidable can
didate.
Down in Swain, Thad. I). Bryson,
^Tr., is making a bid for the place,
and should run strong. He is n son
of Judge Thad D. Bryson, who I?hh
not only been elected as solicitor of
the district; but -has also earricd it
for the superior court bonch, when
ever he wanted to occupy it.
In Cherokee, the Mayor of Mur
phy, Harry P. Cooper, is a-runntng;
And there arc rumors that Gilmer
Jonos, in Macon, will also be a can
didate. Mr. Jones served out fhe un
expired term of his brother, (I.
Lylc Jones, when Lyle decided to
move out of fW- dishiut, afew yearft
move out of the district, a few yc#r?
LEADER SKJJNO ABHEVULI
STOCK nr 8YLVA 8ALB
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The Leader Department Store,
which recently bought thq stock of
the Bon Ton Shop, in Abbeville, has
moved the goods here, and is dispos
ing of them in u'' Disposal Sale' \
TO HAVE COUNTY SINGING
The Jackson County Singing Con
vention will be held in the court
house in Sylva on Ja nuary 26. The
public is invited, and all choira an*
urged to be present. There will be
a discussion of operation of choir
districts.
QUALLA
j Mj'h. J. G. Hooper ?|>eiit part of
last week nt the bedside of her
' mother, Mrs. Wni. Blanton, wlio
passed away at her hrjie n.i
Scott's Creek, Saturday, lllh
! Mr. nlid Mrs. Clyde Mim-un y.c t
to Murphy to attend he funeral of
i Mrs. Martha Mass, who is a si? i< r
1 of Mr. Marcu*.
Miss Jewel Swain visited school,
1 Monday.
; Soire of our people arc nttcmHiw
revival services ftt Wilcrt.
Mr. A. I). Parker called at Qtinllfi
school, Monday.
Miss Phyllis Mood>, who in at
tending school at Sunbuist, ! pc t
returned Sunday, aeeompanird by
her brother, Mr. fluy Mo kIv.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Im Hyatt caild
at Mr. P. 1L Feijruson's, Sunday.
Mrs. J. K. Hovle visited Mr !i.
?T. Beck
Mr. Lee Snyder, of Whittier, stt p
ped with Mr. N. K. Snyder, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mm, J. M. Hughe* r?v*l
Mr. and Mrs. 0. A. Kinsloml, t;C
Cherokee, sj?ent Sunday at (^uullu-.
Mr. R 0. Ferguson 's, Sunday. ..
Mrs. Dona Gass visited Mrs. Mar
gie Battle.
Mr.. W. F. House and facily eul!
ed at Mr. J. ?. Hoylc's.
Meuri J. G. Hooper and W, II.
Hoyle spent Sunday at Scott Y .M
Creek.
Miaa Mary Ertna Feignson was
? guest of MiM Polly Boyle, Stttt- %
day*
Mr. D. C. Hugbee is at Cherokee,
where he is employed as a carpenter.
I Miss BirdeU Hoyle. rUted Ml*.
| Elsie Ward.
Mesdames J. H? and D. C. Hnpfhes
and children, Wilma and-J. K? Were
fwte of Mia. J. fc. Ml, Tm+
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