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$2.00 YEAJt IN ADVANCE OUTSIDE THE COUNTY
STAVE mill will
BE LOCATED HERE
IN NEAR FUTURE
\V. i 'i 'I ' Company have <Uf
?j, |\ iNviiiul to locate a stave m 11
? , Svi\:i i'i Mu* in:liiJ?diat .? future.
|.i M and Brviisn
:i! ??" making il sill", Py rf the
( v. limrg up 11 sufficient s.uppiy
i( , ;.ji. ik limber to keep the mi 1
, |!i!i"!: ? Tin" company expects to have
i in operation w'thin ."0 days,
|i ! Mates.
Tli,. jic?v mill will mar.::fa<*iiiro
. r l/t ? ; k:>},'s i'rc.n whitivoak.
j' ; . ii,.'!! wiil be employed in tluv
il i i .?p i 7"). ii? 100 mo'i wi'l be
,.jv, i mployment in ih > woods g -t
Hi ? lit bet. and in tinnsport
j,. '!,? ;iinbr 1o the nil1. If suf
? ? imb?r is secured to supply
. iri is) fall capacity, two shifts
h given cmplovm nl, inev^ine:
i!- i: umber of men in th? mi'l from
?<) ."Id. It is estimated that the
c,iM|?any will sp:-nA- $.">,000 a month
in Jackson county.
The home office of the company i-s
in Nashville, Tenn., and is :;i eharg.
?f Mr. (lea. \'. Welch. Mr. Bail's
1m?;i ?? is in Albany, Ky., where a sim
ilar mill is operated.
40 YEARS AGO
Tu kaseigc Democrat. Aug. 30, 1893
Cl :irii" A 'It ii open.'d school at the
idiiilciny fiu-day.
t\w wmk - I- grading and improv
\w;S\\v;v'- -1 reels will begin at once.
Mb.v.' V.lWn Cowan and (Icrhude
/JncliaiiflU Weill to Abbeville th s
uioMiiiiif.
U'c ;uc i-hi ,1 In liear that Prof. H.
L M.iili.siiu, alio has been quite sick
is iiii/iroi iiiy. ? >
I'm1'. K. 1'. Maugnm, Principal of
(lie Xonnal Dcpai imcnl of the Cul
lowhce 1 1 iirli Kcli.ud, was lu re yes
terday evening.
Some n;ie lias removed the teacher's
? hair from l lie academy, without au
thority. Il i> a cane-seated chair,
with c'li nlar back, and can be easily
icri^'iii/iil. It is liop.'d that it will
In- |umii|?tK- returned to its place.
'?'"in ear loads of stock have been
-lii|>|nil from here the past week.
,1. S. 1 1 miter, J. F. Coward
?inl J. 1). Brown left tor Charleston
?'?ml Augusta Thursday, with cattle,
unit ,1. I), /achary went to Richmond
Tut'Mlav with sheep and cattle.
Missis, .la van Davis and Chas. A.
Iliril have been appointed storekeep
ers and guilders by Collector Klias.
I.ike the most of his appointments,
iluse are good men. Only a meager
i'llowaiiee of "plums" has fallen to
?link son's share so far, but not for
tin' lack of good material.
Tin- storm of Monday was wide- J
1'ii-ail and disastrous. Comiiij? from
i hi' ' ; 1 1 1 it shuck the Southern coast
it' <Mui.jria and South Carolina and
northward up the Atlantie
???mm, destroying crops and causing
v?*t injury to property of all kiiids
its path. At IV.rt Itoval, S. 1<(0
,'iviN .in. said to have hi en lost. At
K' iiiti- villi , near Winston. X. C.,
dieif was a cyclone which killed one
iv"iu,in, hlew down the Bapt'st church
??i l l other houses. Charleston, S. C.
?iM.-iiiti'd grea! loss from both wind
' at<i,.B(i!ipr on th'* very ont
yl- ill' ill-, slorm, we suffered hut
I. n|i- in coin| >n rison hut crops have
'"'ii injured seriously in some local
We have heard of tolmeco leaves
;l ;|l fodder stripped from, the stalk
'? i lit' wind, a ii 1 a great deal Of corn
lilown down, n iich of it being
'?li-kiii ;?ff. The rainfall was light.
flu ie are evidences of iniprovemeiit
'lie financial situation. The vol
iiine of currency has been largely ili
i-i'iaM-d and easier times are at hand.
PRES8LEY REUNION
The annual reunion of the Prcss'ey
'!,,iiilv will he held at the home of
?Inn Pr.ssley ?f Speedwell September
1". All relatives and friends cor"
dinlly invited to attend,
Office Opened Here
To Aid Unemployed
Uecmployincnt oil ices, with H. \V.
Ramsey us ol'fi re inaiifigev, have op
ened in Syivn, r,.i U.e [ ii );?..;(? of
tnrcliing ihid el:*s.?i i yinj? IK!: in
ployed labor in the comity, wit li pre
termit bi-iag given io viieians with
dept ;id< lit families.
Mi. M. I), Cowan is chairman ol'
till' committee, which is <o: pos. ?! of
Thomas A. Cox, ('. B. J'ob'.nson, R.
F. Hall, I'. X. Piioe, Mrs. E. L. Me- 1
Kee, am! NV. ('. Ke d. Mrs. Ma^
Thompson Evan:* is . ::upnvL:or of
Vr 'V -.a' Ko'.*flip'oyr.?cnt agencies in
Xorth Ctmdina.
ll has Ik. it point, d out thai it will
ho of especial b.iufi: l?:i all unr-iu
I 'oyo'l Jill)':: in tlih territory to be j
cnnd-hd, as t ho wi.ik hi tin* (IreAl i
Snuky Mountains' National Park and :
the T 'iiU.:iSfr Yallty projects w'l '
>o:'ii be catling for lah.'r from tl.cj
mountain counties thai are contiguous
to the vast undertakings.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
TO SELECT EMPLOYEES
The TchnesM'e Ya'lev Authority
will ??>;?? the facilities ol tho CMitrd
Sla'.-s Civil Servi? e Con 'mission in
selecting its p?rs: on; I on a merit
lie is eh.si'lv comparable with the iv
quiri men's pivva:!in? in the I'Ydeia'
Civil Service, acc.otding fo announc.
ment mail" by Ait bur Iv Morgan.
Chairman <?' the Hoard if the A:.)
thoritv. Th 1 Board's I'-onest, directed
to the Civil S1 Tvice Commission, has
li: en approved by flu- latter ?irot:p.
According to the terms of the ap
pi. veil an an;.; meti!:., the facilities
ol' the Civil Service Commission will
? f J *
be used to admi lister i xaminat ions tc J
all non-proft s.siona! applicants I'M
i mp'o.vmeni, including skilled, un
skilled, and clerical groups.'
Applicants of professional grade
will not hi' required to take compet
itive exaniiiiations, but will be held
to meet detailed requirements' approx
imating at least the minimum stand
ards |nrvailiiig in the vaiious pro
fessional classifications of the Fed
eral Civil Service, with such addi
tional technical and character prere
quisites a< the Authority may decide.
Following the ahnoii:icen< -lit of this
plan, applicants will not be inter
viewed by the Division of Personnel
and Training at aay of the Author
ity's offices in Washington, Knox
ville, Chattanooga, or Muscle Shoa's
unless requested to n ppi fi r by the
Authority. Interviews will be limited
to those of the professional groups
who are considered within reach of
appointment by virtue of their qual
ifications and the immediate ntcds
of the Authority. )
THE ROTARY WEEEL
Rotary is backing 1 lie consumers'
N'lfA . mowment in full force. Mr.
Walter W'ai roil suggested t lint the
Syhji Ifot.iry club t;? k?* flu* lead in
tlii' movement l?or<- and tin* club
unanimously accepted his proposal.
We 11 1 1 hope tha< t ho citizens of
Sylva will join in with us in back
ing this project.
Tui'silny's 1 1 of n rv program wns ta
ken up by a ili.vnssion of the class
ification ]of its nmiib.TS Dan Moore
and Andy llcvcnor bad prepared n !
n novated\ list of classifications of
the Notary members and a'so those
claxsofications which had not yet
been f iled. Dan thoroughly Explained
the obj -cts which Rotary Internation
al had pbniiie l to (over in f>r?>pariu<r i
their rules for classification. .' It is'
exported that our club will abide
more closely by these rules as ? re
sult of their bettor understanding of
them.
(Jarlaud l ackey nporltd that the
Rotary pi." bred by Jo ? Fisher is.
ready far disposal and lie piopos.'d
I lint this pig lie tinned over fo the
Parrs boy at B;>t;i who was anxious
to breed this stock. The proposal was
accepted nnd Lackey given the au
thority to disjmso of the pigs ns he
saw fit. l.nckey also reported that
the Rotary corn crop which ho had
inspected was in fine condition.
Florida was represented at our
mooting by Mr. Miles Storm. Mr.
Storm was kind enough to add to our
program by giving us a short talk
mostly aboul the slate from Which
he comes. Franklin had their usual
delegation at our meeting and Mr.
Ariail, the new cashier of the Jackson
County Bank, wns the truest of Bill
Fisher,
NOTES FOR TUITION
TO BE ACCEPTED AT
TEACHERS COLLEGE
. Cullowhee, Aug. 2!).? TV Board of
Trusie.s oi' \\*(st;m Carolina Teach
j :t.s (oilege has authorized President
<1. T. Hunter to aeei-pt d tiling' t^2
wonting college s;\a.sft)ii the personal
n.'-' of as many a; 20 p?r cent of
the students instead of direet ca?h
! payment as u means of taking cai*c
of the new tuition charges of $24.00
that wi'l he mavle bv the institut on.
(he makiug of the tuition charge,
which will amonnt to .*8.00 per <|uar
tcr, was tirade mandatory by the ac
tion of the last North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly.
This arrangement to take care of
tuition is a part of the rather wide
spi\ad progiaui of financial aid to
students that is being adopted with
'he beginning of the 1933-34 session
by the Cullowliee institution. Presi
dent Hunter announces that far more
than a hundred students arc expect
ed to be ?iven fiancncial aid of some
kind during the coming session.
Approximately GO students will be
given self-hc-lp positions on the
campus, fn -this group will he both
young mci and young women. Among
lli:' typ:s of work that will be done
are: grading papers for instructors,
acting as assistants to instructors,
wailing on tables in dining room,
washing dishes, woikiii? an colleg.*
farm, caring for grounds, acting as
I brary assistants, and doing several
other types of work. Many applica
tions for .jobs have already been
made and several of them have lnvn
assigned.
It is planned to aid a|*proxin ate'y
J0 students with the college loan
funds. In the matter of both the loan
funds and self-help jiositions it is
the decision of the college admtnis
ts at ion to give financial a'd in small
er amounts but to a larger number
of- students.
The decision of the college t oju'
eept from 20 por cent of the student
body personal notes in the place of
immediate cash payment as a means
of taking rare of tuition charges
will (r've financial aid to a consid
erable number. Western Carolina
Teachers College, which is a standard
four-year college and grants tin1
bachelor of science degree, will o]>en
its new term September 19.
LOANS NOW BEING MADE
f . * ' ? >
i
Columbia, S. C. ? To eliminate l?s(
mot ion as much as possible and lo
[?xpcdite final eonideratiou of appli
cations, one application may be exe
cuted by tho applicant or applicants
requesting either a Federal Land
Hank loan or a Land Bank Commis
sioner's loan, or both. This announce
ment was made today, by Frank II.
Daniel, President of the Federal Land
Hank of Columbia. After appraisal
is made of the security offered, it
will be determined: (1) if a Land
Hank loan may bo granted, (2) if a
Land Bank loan and a Land Bank
Commissioner's loan may be granted.
(?'{) if a Commissioner's loan only
may be granted.
The Land Bank appraisal fee of
$10 must accompany each application
together with a p'at of the property
offered as security for the loan. If
it is possible for the bank to make a
loan, the borrower will be advised
of the amount and at the same time
the national farm loan association in
the territory where the farm is lo
cated will be appraised of the fact.
The association will be requested to
expedite consideration of the applica
tion as the loan will have to be ap
proved bv it before the bank will
make the loan.
Thus, applicants s< eking loans from
<hr bank will not have to pay asso
ciation fees in cases where the bank
is unable to make a loan. If ami
when a loan is granted through an
association the association loan fees
may be deducted from the proceeds
of the loan.
' Wherever it is possible, it is con
templated that all first mortgage
loans will be made by the Land Bank,
but should it develop, upon investi
gation, that the funds desired can
not be supplied by the bank but may
b<> provided by the Land Bank Com
missioner, the application and all
supporting information, including the
appraisal report, will receive the
prompt attention, of the Agent of the
Land Banlk Commissioner.
Man Loses Life In
Mill Explosion Here
Matthew Brendle, .'15, employee o"
the Sylva Pa]x?r hoard Company, lost
his life, Sunday, when a heater in
the boiler room exploded, wrecking
part of the inside of the room, and
scalding Brendle so seriously that he
died, Sunday night, following the
explosion at 10 oVJock that morning.
' Mr. Brendle earue here from Ma
con county some five years a?P, and
has been a good citizen and a faithful
employe. He is survived by his widow
and three children.
CATAMOUNTS TO OPEN GRID
PRACTICE SEPTEMBER 11
(By Grayson Cop?)
The candidates for Western Caro
lina football machine will report to
Coach Poindexter Monday, Si'pt. 11.
40 or more men, including 21 letter
men are exacted to try for berths.
Among this number will also be sev
eral of last ycai^ reserves wl\o will
give much competition for a berth.
The Western Carolina Catamounts
will play four Xorth State Conference
teams. This will be the first year for
the Cats to play Conference football
games. Thev will face only one Junior
College team this season, that being
their opening ?am?* with Lees-McRa?.
Fourteen n en of last year's squad
were from Jackson county. They
were:. John. Hooper, Darrell Mitchell,
Alvin .Sutton, l.avv^on Allen, Alvin
FuMbright, Mack lligdon, James
Moody, David Still well, fiurch Alli
son, David Brown, Herbert Bryson,
Karl Collins, Marshall Cooper, and
Ned Tucker. Several other Jackson
county hoys are expected to join
their comrades when the grid prac
tice opens. ' :J
Three glaring vacancies of Captain
Harry Sams, Walter Thomas, and
Paul Buchanan, in the baekfield, and
Morgan, Watson and Guy Sutton,
linemen, will hold the Catamounts in
check. Th^re %r? six baekfield aftd_
'fifteen line letfernien to fill tht4n va-' '
cancies. ,
Coach Poindexter said the outlook
was good but made no further state
ments. If all thp letteruien return,
with the reserves and the new ma
terial expected, the Catamounts wi'l
open its tough schedule on September
2.1, with a formidable team.
The (letteruien expected to return
Back field ? John Hooper, Tuckasei
; Wilso-i Lydav, Brevard; Carrol
Vlillcr, Abbeville; Darrell Mitchell,
Sast La Porto; Everett Simpson,
irevard; Alvin Sutton, Sylva.
Linemen ? Lawson Allen, Sylva:
jRwrenee Hn nihil I, Asheville; Blaine
Denton, Robbinsville; Joe Dyer, Mur
?hy; Mark Ferguson, Fines Creek;
Ittis Freeman, Clyde; Alvin Full
jright, Webster; Maek Iligdon, Syl
ra; Marvin Hudson, Biack Mountain;
hfnbert Justice, Henderson ville Fred
Lyda, Weaverville; James Moody,
Sylva ; Woodrow Moif.an, - Blaek
Mountain; David Stilhvell, Cullowhee
uid Wayne Terrell, Bethel.
Reserves exjjected to make bids for
Varsity are:
Backs- ? Bnreh Allison, Sylva; Da
i'id Brown, Sylva; Woodrr.w Hague,
Columbus; Hall Miller, Candler; Had
ley Williamson, Murphy ; Tom Wood
ird, Bryson City. ?
Linemen ? Herbert Brvson,, Sylva;
Karl Collins, Sylva; Marshall Cooper,
Sylva; Ralph Goforth, Henderson
ville; George Lewis, FJeteher Eugene
Riddle Black Mountain; Xed Tucker,
f'ullowhee; Hyatt Walker, Clyde.
The Catamounts' fall schedule fol
lows :
September 2.'1, Lecs-McRae College
at Cnllowhee.
September 30, Carson -Newman Col
lege at Jeff erson City, Ttiin.
October (J, Lenoir-Rhyne, night
game at Hickory.
October 14, Appalachian State
Teachers College at Cullowhee.
October 21, Catawba College at
Salisbury.
October 28, Tennessee Teachers at
Johnson City, Tenn.
November 4, Elon College at Eton.
November 11, (Home Coining
game) Marvville College jit Cullowhee
November 18, Piedmont (Ga.) Col
lege at Sylva.
November 30, Paris Island Marines
at Paris Island, S. C.
Excellent yields of wheat and rye
are reported by farmers of Avery
Countv who have recently completed
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their threshing.
Reverend Thad F. Deitz
>
Nominated For Delegate
By Dry Forces Of County
WEEK By WEEK
(By DAN TOMPKINS)
One by one the l?i?r industries are
canine: tind.r Hi" XRA. The move
ment is spr.- a-.lin^ lhio;:gl:o:it the
country, ami it is a groat fight, a i
battle of the American people against
depression and despondency, a fight
to give every man a ehniiee for a de
cent living. All patriotic citizens
should back the movement in every
way possible; and the easiest way for
the consumer to increase the general
prosperity of business and laborer
is to trade with the people who arc
displaying the Blue Eagle, and abid
ing by the codes adopted for the va
rious lines of endeavor. It will take
us a!', emp'oyer, employe, and buyer
to make a go of this most noble ex
periment in bettering the general
conditions of the people of America.
The government is again trying to
extradite Sam Insult from (Jreece and
put hin' trial for his connection
with the collapse of the vast power
empire, which shook the financial
foundations of the middle west and
East.
Texas botame the 25th State to
vote repeal of the 18th Amendment,
joining the repeal parade, on Satur
day, last bv a majority of 100,000.
This wasn't such a big majoiity for
Texas, and drvs express gratification
at the result. Eleven more States are
accessary to effect repeal. The
Amendment will, in all probability
bo repealed. If North Carolina should
give a latere majority for repeal, the
next step would be to re|K*al the dry
laws of the State. In fact wet load
ers are already asserting that if this
State goes wet by a large majority,
fl^^jUltJjetition
call a special session of fne TTenoraT
Assembly to change the State pro
hibition laws. On the other hand, if
North Carolina irocs dry, or if the
repeal majority is small, the chances
are that our State dry laws will re
main as they are.
A Texas mule had been plowing
eotton for so many yea is, being care
ful not to trample the plants, that
his master was unable, after a days
hard work, to induce the animal to
pull the plow that was to plow under
the cotton, in conformity to the agri
cultural recovery program. It is hard
to change the habits of a lifetime,
overt in a mule.
;; Raymond Moley, intimate adviser
of President Roosevelt, lias resigned
as a member of the "brain trust" to
accept the editorial chair of a nexv
we.'klv paper. Most weekly editois,
while they lore their work, would be
willing: to accept most any kind of a
job these days, for financial reasons;
but Mr. Moley 's paper will have the
backing of Vincent Asfor, which, of
course makes a difference. He will
probably be able to draw a salary,
and a good one.
Any observer of the trend of the
times will note that one thing1 that
is holding up the march of recovery,
under the Blue Eagle, is the fact that
credit is still frozen. There is hits of
money; but legitimate business can 'I
''ret it, especially the small business
man. Kase up credit, and then watch
the wheels turn more rapidly.
DAVID FRANKLIN OF CANTON
PASSES , AT FAIR VIEW
David Franklin, (55, died Tuesday
I irerning, at the home of his daughV-r,
Mrs. .T. B. Wright, at Fairview, fol
lowing a six months' ilhiess. Mr.
Franklin, a native of Sylva, had
been in the employ of the Champion
Fibre Company in Canton p0| 12
years.
Funeral and interment were in tlx
Dillard cemetery in Sylva, yesterday,
at 2:30 o'clock, with Rev. A. V.
.Toyner, pastor of the Canton Baptist
church officiating. Mr. Franklin had
been a member of the Canton Bapt'st
church for the past ten years.
H?> is survived by three son-- and
four daughters, Raymond and Ransom
Frank'in of F.yIva*Mi?s Vet tie Frank
lin, Pittsburgh. Pa., Mrs. J. B. Wright
of Fairview, ?rs. W. C. Brown, Can
ton; and Miss Carrie Franklin, and
Rev. Thad F. Deitz, veteran Bap
tist minister of Western North Caio
lina, was nominated by the dry* ns
their candidate for delegate to the
Constitutional convention, in Decem
ber, in case the people of North Car
olina vote on November 7 to call the
foimiition on the repeal of the 18th
Amendment. The convention of the
drys was held in the court house in
Sylva on Saturday afternoon at 2
j'elock.
John R. Jones was named as coun
ty chairman, I)r. W. P. McGuire, vice
chairman, Mn. D. G. Brvson, chair
j
man for women, and Prof. Robert L.
Madison as secretary of the county
executive committee of the united dry
forces ot' Jackson county. Rev. J. G.
Mm iav was appointed chairman of
the young pi oph Vs. work.
The dry forces are planning to or
ganize every voting precinct in the
county and to wage a campaign from
now until the polls close on Novem
ber 7.
The convention expressed the opin
ion that the criming campaign is nob
a political one, and selected the of
ficers from both political parties, Mr.
E. P. Stilhvell, for the nominating
'committee statins' that the committee
line! boon cnroful (o soo that both
political parties were given represcn
lation in ihe ofliees. Mr. Deitz, Mr.
Jones, and Prof*. .Madison are demo
crats, while Dr. McGuire, Mrs. Bry
son are Republic:! ns.
There will be no absentee ballot*
cast in the election, under the act
calling it. There will be no markers.
The registrars who held the election
in the several precincts last fall will
again serve; but two judges, a known
dry and si known wet, will be ap
appointcd for each precinct in the
county, by the county board of elec
tions, which is composed of Aaron
Hooper, chairman, Hugh Montcith,
and Dan K. Moore.
ESTIMATE TIMBER STANDS
BEFORE SELLING TBEES
Sflli.iijr timlxM- stands by guess hns
boon disastrous to many a landowner
in North Carolina.
U1 know of one farmer in Caswell
Comity who so|?l $10,000 worth of
timber for $1,5(10 and another man
in Randolph County who sold $8,000
worth tor $2,000," says R. W. Grae
ber, extension forester at State Col
lege. ''These two eases may appear to
lie exaggerated but they arc true.
Kven worse cases have been reported.
The trouble is that these men did
not know the true stand on their
woodlands and sold by guess."
Mr. Graeber has been trying to
offset sueli losses to farmers by hold
ing a nun her of timber estimating
demonstrations in various parts of
the State. Such meetings were recent
ly held in Vance, Yadkin and Wilkes
counties. Here the men attending the
meetings w#re given log rules and
asked to measure trees and to figure
the stand of timber on a given area.
There are several of these log rules
but the two -principal ones used in
North Carolina are the Doyle and
Scribner. Sometimes the use of these
rules will not give accurate results
but it is better than guess work.
Owners of timber land can avoid
heavy losses in selling their standing
trees if I hey will use the "tree
scale" stick, mcasuiiug the diameters
a;id luights of trees of salable size
and then leading the volume of the
trees in board feet of lumber. The
sticks are simple to understand and
are sold in sets at a small price,
Graeber says.
Those who are doubtful about the
amount of timber in a given area
and are notable to measure it, should
consult with their county farm agent
before selling the timber by guess, he
says.
RAISES REAL POTATOES
MY. John A. Hooper, of Tuckasei
<;ee, has produced >orne j>otatocs this
year. Out of six bushels, Mr. Hooj>er
picked 20 potatoes that weighed 30
pounds. Two of the 29 weighed 4
pounds. Xo fertilizer other than sta
ble manure was used in producing
these potatoes, Mr. Hooper states.
Carl Franklin, twins, of Pittsburgh
and Canton, respectively. Surviving
also are two brothers, Ira and Sam
l-Yanklin, and one sister, Mrs. Idrt
Shular, all of Sjlva.