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- .1 a I J Year in Advance in The County fll _ __ ????- y va, N. C., Tnursday, September 4 1930 <fe9nn v A j % $2.00 Year in Advance outside the Countv ? GEORGE SUTTON'S RITES ATTENDED Bt IMMENSE HMD Kiiiii i.'I services of Judge George iy >11; ii?n, who was struck and in stantl\ killed on highway No. 10, ,?>t tin! -nit' the western city limits ,",l Svlv :i Sunday night a car driv i>\ Mill Moo?IJr, son of Mr. and Jlrs. I' l'- of Sjylva, were foinlii?'i?'d at t IfcO First Baptist church two o'clock Tuesday afternoon by ^ ,1. (I. Murray, the pastor, assist ed Ifv lu'V. (ioorgc B. Clemmer, Rev. F. IK'ii/. |Vrli.i|K the largest crowd of j?eo ?I,. th.-ii over congregated for a fu neral in aekson county, came to pay iis |a-t tribute of respect to Judge Sutton and to show the profound ,vi?|kiiIi\ that the people have for ail who are suffering because of the trajric affair. Not one fourt-h of the ,.>ow?l ?*ould find nooin inside the church. and hundreds stood outside, waitim: to tile sadly by the casket, when it was opeued, at the close of the service. * Interment followed at the Keener! reim'ti n with Unaka Lodge of Mas ons ami 1 lie Local Junior Order I'liitcd American Mechanics, of which1 Judirc Sutton was a member, in ohartrc. < Active pallbearers werc\ all the* members of the Jackson county bar, with the exception of E. I'. Still well. brother in law and law pM.rt ner of lu<l?e Sutton. Honorary pall hearers were J. B. Ensle, C. J. Har ris. M. I>. Cowan, Prof. Robert I.. Madison * W. W. Bryson, Dr. 11. T, Hunter. Dr. ?A. A. Nichols, Dr. A. S. Nichols, Dr. C Z. Candler, Dr. D.: |). Hooper, Dr. drover Wilkes, Dr. 1 William Madison, Dr. W. P. Me- i (iuiiv, S. \V. Knloe, E. L. McKee, 1 H. Powell, Thomas A. Cox, I). (I. Brvsoit. I. ('. Cannon, W. C. Queen, R. F. .larrett, A. II. Weaver, M. B.j Cannon, J T. (Jribble, J. N. Wilson,, J/P. Reed, Judge Waiter-i???Moore, A. I). Parker, J. E. Keener, H. R.1 tyueen, Walter Dean, J, M. Worley, W. 1). Warren, John R. Jones, R. C. Allison, T. K. Reed, D. M. Hall, E. L Wilson, C. W. Denning, S. II. Monteitli, A. .1. Dills, R. P. Potts, R. A. Painter, B. L. Madison, J. D. Cowan, Dan Tompkins, Prof. W. H. Rhodes, M. Buchanan, Sr., Dr. .1. II. Painter, W. W. Watt, A. D. Cowan, P. F.. MoodV and Prof. B. L. Mullinax Perbaj ?s never in the histoijv of j Sylva and Jackson county have the entire people been so appalled and Sorrowed as they have been over the, trasie death of Judge Sutton, and so moved to sympathy for the fam- j ilie.N oi two of the best known men ' in the eountv. ?ludire Sutton had been to Dills I boro to fill an appointment in the t Methodist church there, at the re- i (jupst of the pastor, Rev. George B.: Clemmer, and was returning to his ^ home in Svlva, iir company with hid i son, Richard Sutton, at the time he wax struck % the large car driven {jy voung Moody.* Both of h;s legs were broken as were both arms, his hack and his skull wa* crushed from the impact. According to the best in formation obtainable, Bill Moody had| been traveling toward DiHsboro and, meeting the two Suttons, drove some, distance further to a convenient place, and turned with the intention of picking them up and bringing them to Svlva. He swerved to ttei left to pass another car, it is said., and had gotten by when he struck Judge Sutton with the left fender and left headlight of the car, carry ing his bo<^y some distance. ?Iiidge Sutton, who is a native of Jackson County, was 47 years ot age. He was serving his second term as Judge of the county Recorders c-ourt, and was the nominee ot tbe K< l?ubliean party for a third teim. having been first elected to the. of in 1926. He served in the lower house of the general assembly o North Carolina, representing this '?oiinty. He was-.educated at Wake ''"rest, as a lawyer' and returned to his native county to practice his pro '<>-ion, locating at Webster and mov inir to SVlva when the county seat was changed in 1913. He was the senior number of the lajv firm of Sutton and Stillwell and identified himself with the civic and pol'tical liie of the county, having, served :,s Mayor of SJylva, as an otticial in -Svlva Chamber of Commerce and *as au active leader in the Repub lican party in this section ^f the State. He was a member ot tho board of deacons of the First Baptist church of Sylva, and was active in the re ligious life of the county and com munity j was a member of the board of trustees of Sylva Collegiate Insti tute and greatly interested in the welfare of the school. He is survived Ijy his widow, Mrs. Sadie Stilfcw?'ll Sutton, four children, Jlichnrd, Alvin, Lillian and Hattie Hilda Sutton, by his father, Mitchell Sutton, several brothers and sisters, and a large number of other relatives. 40 YEARS AGO Tuckaseigee Democrat Sept. 3, 1790 Married at the residence of .1. li. Hall on Scott's Creek, August 28, by Esq. A. J. Hall, Miss Matilda Henrv and C. G. Moon. Messrs. J. E. Divelbliss and Jud son Allen made a hurried trip to South Carolina last week. Mr. H. Bryson who has recently returned from Florida with his fam ilV, has settled in our town as a * * permanent resident. We had a visit from I^ee Hooper who had the Democrat sent to his wife who is visiting in Alabama. Miss Pauline Morris returned last week from a visit of several months duration at Quallatown. Jackson county is rapidly becom ing au educational center. With-great pleasure we*invite attention to the advertisement of the Dilshoro Acade mv in this issue. Hon. R. I* Ix*atiierwSdd Wits the permanent chairman of the Demo cratic congressional convention, which was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. <}. C. Rankin. The Democratic state convention in Raleigh adopted the political principles of the Farmer's Alliance as part and parcel of the platform of the North Carolina Democracy. Now, what are you going to do about it T A William T. Crawford of Haywood was nominated as the democratic can didate for congress on the 14th bal lot, in the convention held in Ashe ville on August 27. Other candidates before tlu* convention were Genera^ Robert B. Vance, placed in nomina tion by H. A. Gudger; M. Edger ton of Henderson, proposed by T. D. Johnson; Koj?e Elias, nominated by J. Frank Itay; Col. Frank Coxe, pro-j JH)scd by Mr. MeBraycr of Polk; J. If. Merrimon, named by Locke Craig; J. M. (iudger, placed in nomination by E. D. Carter, of Yiancy. Mr. Har grove of Haywood, made the nomi nating speech for Crawford. METHODIST PASTOR RE TURNS TO PULPITS, SUNDAY After an absence of three weeks, Rev. George Clemmer, jMistor of the Methodist churches of Sylva and Dillsboro, has returned and will oc cupy the pulpits of his charge, morn ing and evening, Sunday. I At 11 o'clock the pastor will preach j in Sylva and the sermon will be a j Labor Da^ message. The theme is suggested by Labor Day. The mes. sage will not bo exclusively for La | bor; but men who toil are especially inVited. ! In the evening at 8 o'clock Mr. Clemmer will sj>eak at Dillsboro, us , ing as the subject for the sermon: "Divine De]>endcncy." Church schools of the charge convene at 10 a. in. The Epworth Hi?-"League.meets in the evening at 7 o*%ii?ck. the pub lie is cordially invited to all services. SHULER REUNION The relatives and friends are uig cd to attend the Shuler reunion ; wlr'ch will be held at the home of R. B. Shuler on Sunday, September 7th, 1930. All are requested to bring well filled baskets. TWO HELD FOR K. Privett, alleged driver ? of i the car underneath winch Mrs. Had-' lev Brown was, burned to death near Woif Mountain Frida\ l^gCit and! liadiey Bioivn, hus.ninti ?i the dead woman, were both bounu over to the October term ol Jachsou County Su perior Court at a preliminary hear ing here Tuesday afternoon before Lsquirc If. . Sutton and Esquire! K. P. Potts. Privet I 's bond was j placed at $1,004) and 111 a t of Brown at $500. It is stated tluit Mr. Brown - had: see, u mi Privctt, with his ear, to! bring himself and family to Canadaj lor a vsiit with Brown's brother, coming irom Sir Mile. The ear over turned and the gasoline ignited, burnini; beyond recognition, Mi's. Brown, who was pinned underneath while her 17 year old daughter work ed frantically to rescue her mother. The funeral and interment were held at Wolf Mountain, Saturday.! Privett was immediateh phnod un der arrest by officers of this county and brought to jail in Sylva. According to evidence brought out at the. hearing il e car m which the prtrty was riding from Six -Viile, S. C., to Wolf Mountain, did in. nlunge directly olf tlie road, but left it gradually, filially turning otf an embankment and pinning Mrs. Brown beneath it. There was evidence to the effect that a pint bottle containing a s|m?oiilul of liquor was found under the car, and a quart fruit jar nearh full was found nearby. Lucille Brown, 17 |\ear old daugh ter of the dead woman, testified that she saw Privett take one drink' dur ing the afternoon and that her piotli. er admonished him about the, waj the car was being driven, (cllind hin. that if he was drinking like hi war driving she was afraid thai j\lie.* would not reach their desfnation. She testified that after the car! turned over and while she was at tempting extricate her 'mother, j Privett went a few feel nom the car and struck a match, igniting I Ik' tras- > oline in the tank, and burning her i mother to death. She said that her father was engaged in getting the vonnger children Irom under the car and caring for them. Tom Ashe and Will Crawford, who live in the neighborhood, testified i that they came up while the car was hunting, and Privett and Brown were standing in the road some 40 I feet from the blazing machine, and j that one of them asked if anyone i was hurt and that Brown replied "in j one seriously but nijy wile is under neath the car." v. , il antes Wood, who lives in the township where the tragedy occurred testified that hc(had come upon the partv earlier in the 'fright, and that he found the car crosswise in the j road and was told that it wouldn t run. Ife stated he drove it some dis tance for them and that, in his, opinion, Privett was drinking. Brown went upon the sttind and stated that he knew nothing about there j being ariy liquor in the party, orj that Privett was driuk/ng. MB CANADA CITIZEN PASSES Funeral services were conducted | Friday at las home in Canada town ship, for Jas. A. Wood, 84, one of the oldest citizens of the county, andj a member of one of the pioneer fam ilies of this section. The rites were conducted by Rev. I^awrence Craw- j ford and Rev. A. C. Queen. Mr. Wood who was in Irs eiirhty-' fourth year, suffered a stroke ' of | paralysis early Wednesday and died J at 11 a. m. Mr. Wood is survived.'by two sons, and four daughters: .lames A. Wood,, Jr. and Clete Wood, both of Wolf, Mountain; Mrs. George (toward of Eagle Lake, Fla., and Mrs. Norman: Nicholson, Mrs. Mack Nicholson and Miss Mary J. Wood, all three of Wolf Mountain Affectionately known to all of his friends as "Uncle Jimmy,"- Mr. Wood had lived in Canada township ince his parents moved there while lie was still a babe in his mother's arms, not quit-.- one year of age. He bad literally grown up with the country, for when his parents moved j to Canada township th.ev went in j over the Indian trail on horseback. : Mr. Wood could remember days i as a small boy, lie watched the In1 dians come into the region where his parents lived every spring and leave it^every fall. All summer they hunt ed over the mountains and lished in the headwaters of the Tuckaseigee I and its tributaries, Wo!Creek, Ten-: nessee Creek and Slickem Creek. ?Th*y fished a great deal more than thev hunted," the late Mr. i Wood told the writer of this article; ?iilv a lew weeks ago. "There were; plenty to fish for in those dafys, too"j he added. "Streams were all full of; trout." "Tlie Indians always marched in i single file. Tin re would be 20 or 30 i of them in-a train, the- braves march-1 ing in front and the women lollow ing with the baggage,, I or the braves did not carry a;vthing except their j^ins or bows and arrows and fishing poles. None of them would speak to von except" the leader. As a boy, I was in mortal fear of them. Tlqv wuold staj- for three or four days in one place and then move. Sometimes th^v would go clear across the Mine Ridge to the Cane brakes in search of good fishing poles." Uncle Jimmy delighted to tell rem iniscences of those early days and fishing parties were always furnish ing him with new audiences wlio heard him with the greatest pleas ure, for he had a very shrewd mind. He continued to work ac tively on his farm and in looking after his kindred interests and until the very end was vigorous of mind and bo^v. Tn his long life he bad seen forests grow up on lands which in bis youth he had helped to cultivate, a notable one, a fine body of poplar woods of which he was immensely proud, trevs tall and straight like himself. Throughout the . egion where he lived hi" was held in the highest respect, anft there are many who will learn with sorrow of his death. County Tax Rate is $1.68 ? The general county' tax- rate for i the year has been fixed by the county I commissioners at the same figure it I was last year, $1.68 on the one hun dred dollars valuation of property, j To be added to this in many of the special tax districts, is the special tax for schools and roads. The coun ty rate is divided: general county, 23e^ schools, 71c; roads, 26c; and debt service 48c. There is a slight reduction- ranging from 2c to 10c in some of the special school districts. The debt service is raised from 36c last year to 48c this, an increase of 12c, while other rates are lowered, but the total general rate remains the same. In no other county in Western North Carolina does the rate remain unchanged, except in Cleveland, with a rate of 73c this 'year and last. ^Fifteen of the Western counties have reduced their rates; while four have increased them. Swain and Buncombe have the greates reduction. Buncombe .cut th* rate from $1.51 to $1.20. Swain took A reduction from $2.11 to $1.87; Burke from $1.12 to $1.06; Caldwell from $1.13 to $1.10; Catawba from i $1.25 to $1.23; Cherokee from $1.48 to $1.28; Clay from $2.52 to $2.32; | Graham from $1.00 to $7 nO; Hay wood from $1.45 to $1.29; Henderson from $1.87 to $1.67; Macon from $1. 64 to $1.40; Mitchell from $l.y6 to $1 .HT^JfoIk from $2.15 to $2.10; Tran sylvania from $2.13 to $1.94; Yan-" cey from $1.98 to $1.78. 1 | Rutherford raised its rate from $1.39 to $1.75; McDowell from $1.24 to $1.35; Avery from $1.84 to $2.00 and Madison from $1.92 to $2.05. A bank failure involving a consider-1 able amount of the county's funds,, is assigned as the reason for the tax raise in Rutherford, while the cost of criminal cases growing out of the j Marion strike troubles is sai<T to bej the reason f<lr McDowell 's increase! i The total saving ta taxpayers in the fifteen counties where the rates ! were reduced is put at $750,000.00, while there is an additional saving!?, in many of these counties, due to reduced rates in, the special | tax districts. SAY POSEY STILLWELL SAW HARVEY FRADY SLAY NEGRI SCOUTS TO MEET WEEKLY Troop number one, Boy Scouts of America will resume its weekly meet ings Friday vening of this week in the Cham be rof Commerce hall, at 7.30. All members of this organiza tion are urged to be present and rcdy to fall in with a bang into the fall and winter activities. WEEK By WEEK "(By Dan Tompkins) It i.s a sad commentary .011 human nature that souvenir hunters so dam aged the plane of the Frenchmen, at Roosevelt Field, that there was dan ger that they couldn't get it repair ed in time to win the aditioual prize of $25,000.00 for a flight to Dallas. As distasteful as is grandstanding to ladies aiid gentlemen, yet, in this day, it is the spectacular that brinys t he b:icon and the cash. Most men who toil faithfully, day by da,y, are get ting a poor living out of it. Two Frenchmen, Coste and Bellonte, flew from Paris to New York, and will receive the arise of two million dol lars for their stunt. Who is doing tlie more for humanity, the man who works at his simple task, 01- the men who flv across the Atlantic? France has expelled William Ran dolph Hear-st. lie, with great wealth and hearty zeal, was, as a young man, the most promising newspaper pub lisher in this country. Yellow journ alism, practiced through a period of years, loosened bis hold upon the Amercian people. Repeated attacks upon France have resulted in his ex pulsion from that country. A big Ego, a selP others, and eternal knocking will al ways result in greaterr injury to the knocker than to anybody else. Last year, bright tobacco prices in Eastern North Carolina were so low that there was a great protest, and appeal was made to the government. Mr." Hoover's farm board sent an in vestivator( our /government seems to be better at sending investigators than it is at anything else) and we saw, a few days ago that a report is to be made soon. This year, with the opening of the markets, down i cast, the prices are from 5 to 7 cents below those of last year. Great dis tress and depression of business in Eastern North Caorlina resulted from j the low prices of last year. With bright tobacco selling at an average of 8 cents, and cotton around 10, it is impossible for the most optimistic to predict the return of good times to a great section of this State, de I spite the fact that Mr. Hoover prom ised that the meek should inherit the earth and poverty would be abolished. Senatorial Candidate Gporge M. Pritchard has been raising consider al noisl? in the State, asserting that the Democrats were preparing to be unfair to him in the election by hav ing hut one Australian ballot for the State officers and senate. The attor ney general stated that the State board of elections had been given the power, by the general assembly, to consolidate the ballot. Th?-board saw a saving of $3000 which is a considerable amount in these dajys of Hoover -prosperity; but deferred to Mr. Pritchard's wishes, and are going to have the ballots printed just like he wanted them. Wonder' what Ihe next great conspiracy among the! wicked Democrats, to steal the elec tion from hiint will be found by; Mr. Pritchard? ALLEN TO RUN DAIRY L Mr. W. O. Allen hits assumed the management of the Sunny brook Dai^1 ry, near Webster, and is installing electrical and other ecpipment nec essary for the production of "A*' grade milk. Mr. Allen expects to be reac^v to begin delivery not later than Sept. 15. Mr. Ham Bryson has succeeded Mr. Allen as manager of the Syjva Supply market Officers of JackgDn county arti seeking Harvey Frady, young whit* man and son of Reubin Frady, fo: investigation regarding the death i Fridajy. afternoon of Ed Blakley negro of Webster township, wfo | was found shot to death in the roa? j on Little Savannah, a sliort distane j above the home of A. R. Stillwell. 5: ? According to information in th I ; hands of officers, there was an ey | witness to the shooting. Mr. Pose, I Stellwel?l who is a citjzen of th community, is said to have seen th ! entire affair and, according to in formation that officers have now, h was with Frady at the time th j shots weer tired, and is said to hav | attacked Frady, who, according t the stoify told officers, vrst Ired a j Blaliley's legs, as he rushed upo i Frady, and, when the Negro thraf his hand into his pocket in threatening manner, Frady fired i to his body, according to the infc mation brought to officers reganln 1 Air. Stillwcll's testimony as to ho' ! the slaying hap]>eiicd. ; The dead negro and his wife wei! i going up the road, it is said, whe1 ! the wife stopped at the home of son j white peope to sj>eak to the lady < ! the hones, and Ed Blakley proceed* j up the road. In a few minute* a nun ' ber of reports believed to be pist 1 shot* were heard, and shortly afte ward the woman found the body ? her husband. Blakley's body wh? found, was lying on his back, h head in the edge of a cornfield, ai j his body was stretched half wi j across the little and unfrequenti ? road. Three wounds from gunsno ; were discovered by the undertaltt who prepared the bidy for burn One had entered the bacn of 1 head, to the left and ranged dow wanl toward ehe right, through l braiik A second had entered his U ,c shoulder almost 0H -'top, and * como. out just afcove his should blade, at the back. The third had entered the left side of hia bot below the heart, and from It was stated that there had b* some difficulty between yon; Frady and Jule Blakley, father 1 the dead man, and with Ed Blakh two or three weeks previous to t rj shooting. Other negroes stated tl,i Blaklqv had said Frady had thre^'* encd to kill him, and Frady is sa, I to have been seen in the neighbj hood a short time before the si j were heard. Officers believe ; there is strong circumstantial f*j 1 dence pointing toward Frady as h 1 ing been implirated in the affair. SYLVA SCHOOLS ENROLL &1 Five hundred and fifty-five puj - enrolled in the public schools of eity,' Monday and Tuesday, for Opening of the fall term. At the Central High School, which Mr. W. C. Reed is supfci tcndont, 215 boys and girls staij on the school vear. In the Elemtj ? ary school, with Mr. W. Carr Hcj er as principal, 34<) pupils werej rolled on the opening days. ^ The schools started on the iyear under favorable auspieea,! number of the citizens of the e> munity, and parents of school eti ren, assembled at the schools for j opening exercises, at which som^i the prminent people of the citjT livcred short addresses. PBESSLET EEUKIOK The Pressley reunion will Ipe at William Prcssley's in Macon ty, two lilies beyond Franklin Sunday, September 14, Friends relatives are invited to come bring well filled baskets of There will be interesting talks.' MAN STOKE MOVES The Man Stoer, has moved old location ni the Dills be the Bryson buiding, postoffice. Mr. Cathe^, the the business states that he ceivi'ng, daily, new goods for line of ctothing, shoes, hats, and ther wearing apparel and boys. j '
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