North Carolina Newspapers

year in advance in the county W ? J"- ? rK' '?M, \ ? , THURSDAY, NOV, 22, 1984 .. jtW 98.00 YEAS If ADVANCE OUTSIDE .THE COUNTY funeral service held ON TUESDAY FOR H. P. GREEN ! ,i,r?:tl services for II. P. Green 'sylva, who (litd early Mondn\ Harris hospiiul hen- following i illness, were held Tuesday I(|j, : nixi at 2:.'5? o'clock at tli-i I , , . ie Haptist church. The Rev , , i, of llazelwood, pastor o! I .\nlale ehureh, the Rev. \V. (' i ml I lie Rev. T. F. Deit/ eon ,j. . i !u' -crv ices. Interment was i: .j, licit cemetery. tin-in was a member of th | ,. I.- I'?:ip|is| church, and was : ,i;, > 11! iIiin county. ? i\isig *i re the widow, (wo chi! Mi?. My: tie Green Hoglen aiN* \|. liminie (ireen, ol Sylva, tw; !ii!.lt is, \ ieu and .lohitny Ho. I,!, Syjvfl the parents, Mr. and \| George Green, of Gastoui;: ?I. - : - 1 e i Mrs. I? "id A ill honv,. o! i; ... Airs. Maggie Wright, of (!m? I,.: .ihd Mrs. Cassie Aldiidgc, <?' i i ,, six brother-, Tom Give ?t ! -ftriiri. and Five, Rtihiti, Join |>, i ami R-dp'i, all of Gastoui'; large n;imhcr of other rel:; li\. ? DODSON WILL SPEAK I'rof. C. 1 . Dodson ol' the faculty it' Western Carolina Teachers Col it ? e will sjH-ak to the young people ;tl Speedwell Methodist church Sun (!::;? evening, from -the subject "Re r v* i ? ? h Growth." QDALLA I' x I. '.. Hyatt conducted the V -vui >'i Mr. .1. I'. Whitesides at WhWvft, l'hursday, and the funeral of Mr. Uu.. Kav at Olivet, Saturday. \ Hve. I. U. Ilipps preached at the Mellioili-t ilmtili from, the text: "1 whs not disobedient unto 'the heavenly vision." Rev. C. W. Clay roiiihicfed a i-eiitmiiuion service Sun iln.\ afternoon. Mr. ami Mrs. 1). L. Oxner an Uoiiure the birth of their grand dnu: liter. Mary .Ivan Xoland, born to Mr. and Mrs. Kerin Xoland nt Suainiauoa. ou Nov. 8th. ?Mr>. Ohcd Anthony has returned tu California after sending several uit?illi> :t Kev. W. W. Anthony's. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Passtnore of lla/i hvood and Mr. .lames Pass more Mi.l family of Brevard, were guests it Mr. .1. A. Moore's, Sunday. MrAaiui Mrs. C. M. Hughes of UimilrHV, and Mr. and Mrs. \\ eavei Kivittutn visited at Mrs. 1*. V. Me bn. 'Ill in's. Mr. Milliard Howell has moved, near Whittier. Mr. 1). K. Battle lias moved to Cherokee. ; Mr. Dixon Ilyatt i> employed at Hnson Cjtv. Miss Louise Hyatt returned to Cul W after Si vi.-ii with home folks. Mi- Charlulte Queen of Olivet Mm'.. i M s; K tit h Turpin. Mi.- I, Ina lloyle of Cherokee s ,: ,v Qualla. M v iijfc' Childers of Whittier .Vi) her -i-ter, Mrs. Mary Kins- ? !;? r-'J-'la ? w.-ek. i;-. i I:;. ?>. Ray of Waynesville I.-r a mil, Mrs. .1. L. Fergu Miv \ \|. ( i ib-s?>ii and Mr. Ernest lin kers Creek were guests 1,1 Mi. < ;trlni;d Oxner's Saturday. MrNIMclle Webb of Cooper's ?V" I; .m-.-m tin- week end with Mis* 1 '"I Xi-Uon. 'Ii. ( l.iir h Crowell of Asheville ' ? ? ' 1 r. W. T. McLaughlin's. Vl.' . I.!':. Sf.ulcr of Clyde spent I" ' i-'h i nil with her pa rents, Mr. I Will Sprimrer. M. 15. I leiison of Whittier ci ! ..I" Mrs. I*. II. Ferguson, vl 1 . I!;il?i-rl lilanlon visited Mrs. '' L K i -l-itid, Thursday. F. M ill., Mi's. .L A. Moore, M|N I! W. Matthews and Mrs. Ullie called on Mrs. Hastings ^I'l'inv'.-f who has recently moved t" ";i I'. I\. I'.attle place. " ii. - I). M. Shuler and J. K. '*> 1 ' 'Hi I on Mrs. (lolnian Kins lit? i , I >|1 I ;? li t!* Hay. . ?>.! .Mis. Clms. Ward spent V|-li e.m| with friends on Dix t ? k. M. It. lien son, Rev. L. II. '"I'l* and Mr. L. A. Hipps "'(?'."'tv in Mr. .1. K. Terrell's. M i- -? >. . \ormn Knloe and Char "t|,i Queen of Olivet were Qualla Sinulay, M,s- l>. M. Shuler visited her fa 1 -Mr. M. L. Blanton, Sunday. TODAY and TOMORROW (Hv Frank Parker Stockbridge, ^ LAND . . . soon in demand > It' I am any hand at reading th?? signs of the times, then the country is in tor another big era of land '. peculation. And when you stop to think of it, the whole history 01 America is a history of speculation in real estate. The urge that brought most of our ancestors to America was the chance to get land cheap and sell it at ;> profit, except such as they needed to subsist on. George Washington was the greatest land speculator oi the 18th Century. In an old newspa per iu which his death was reported 1 saw :ui advertisement of lands fo: sale along the Ohio River, "Address George Washington,1 Mount Vernon Virgini.a" . 1 have lived through many land booing, including the rush of home steaders into the West, the opcniii? tip of Oklahoma and the Cherokee Strip, the great rush of settlers inir Southern ^California, inmuuerabl:' I suburban booms aronnd a .dozen | cities, and the great Florida spern i tut ion which collapsed in 19l2(>. It look< to me as if the combiiia tiow of better highways, cheaper cars, Federal encouragement, , higher city j taxes and the beginning of a return j to prosperity is certain to stimulate | the demand for land farther and far i thcr away from urban centers. I IiOok;for the next big land.booai 1 to set in around the end of next year J and reach its peak in, say, 1927. TREES . . . good investment The cliiapest crop to grow and the one that assures the greatest re turn in the long 11111 is trees. Up my, way the annual harvest of the tree crop is beginning now. Down by the river 011 my farm Bill Howland is cutting birch, beech and maple from cordwood. My share will go a loug way toward the 1935 taxes. ? , Just below me, Will Seelcy has moved his portable sawmill into^Ko blo Turner's pine grove next to the old burying ground and will saw out maybe a hundred thousand feet of boards, scantling and slabs, worth forty or fifty dollars r thousand rough-piled 011 the lot. There are, I guess, ten acres of woods to every acre of cleared land over most of Berkshire county. Count ing household fuel and merchantable timber, the annual crop pays big in. to rest on the land value. Five dollars an acre is a good price for most of the pine-covered mountain tops. Trees are a pood investment for a man who is content to stay put. Not so good for the nvan who is always on the move. SUGAR . . . from maple trees Down East when I was a boy few country folk bought "store sugar." Unrefined brown sugar cost five or six cents a pound in the 1870 's 1 remein,ber that granulated sugar was ten cents and more a pound. We bought some "black . "trap" molasses, but there \ was better sweetening right in our own woods. Maple sugar A farm wasn't a real farm in those self-contained days unless it had its "sugar-bush." Up on my hilltop, where the land levels off before you get to the slopes of Tom Ball Moun tain, jiossibly a hundred huge sugar maples remain of the old sugar-bash. They haven't been tapped in years. Store sugar is too cheap and farm labor too high to make it pay. I a-ked for maple syrup the other day in a city restaurant, where I had ordered a plate of buckwheat cakes. There wasn't any more maple in the syrup than there was buck wheat flour in the cakes. I've a good notion to ask the head of the CCC camp over at Lee to send a bunch of the boys over next March to tap my sugar trees. It would be an education for them, and maybe 1 could get some real maple sugar once more. HORSES . . . still with us Sav what you please about the "vanishing" horse, I notice more rea Interest in horses and more of them in use, in the East at least, than for a uood many years past. 1 went to the National I Torse Show in New York a couple of weeks ago, and was specially interested in the handsonu six-horse tea:n exhibited by one 01' the big milk distributing companies. It used to be the "brewers' bi? horses" that were the last word^u horseflesh; but now it's the milk man's. ' , ' (Continued on Page Tv;o) ~ Rooseveit at Southern Home of Andrew Jackson NASHVILLE, Tenn Ia Us swing through the South to perao> ally inspect the government's hog* Tennessee Valley development pro ject* and a stop at Harrodsburg; Ky., President Frahklin D. Roosevelt paused here to visit ' ' The Hermit age ' ' state owned shrine of the Old South, the home of Andrew Jackson, built in 1823. Photo shows the lovely old mansion where lived the former President Andrew Jackson. Insert is of President Roosevelt who has fol lowed in the steps of other Presidents in visiting the shrine. The President, enroute to Warm Springs, mads stops in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alfe bama and Mississippi. 1 . Jackson Farmers Construct 38 Silos In Last 2 Years i V A . ' : ' 15-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLS BEAR J)r. (i rover Wilkes brought ' lo town, from over in Graham county, a ham of a big l?oar, which lie go' from Pat Williai The boy killed ly large .- one, w out, and tii'd l( Tho boy came upou the . lx-.M ?; accident, and fin* I three times, each shot taking elicit in the liend, as the hoy fired *?!:<! Irad'd hi one-* shot rifle. RECAPTURE PRISONERS Last Wednesday two pri.-oncr from the Whittjer 1 Crimp, Frank Nichols, in for live years, and llt'iin Hill, for from 5 In 7 years, cscap.*d from the guards while at woik. Sat urday Nichols was recaptured in Canton, and Mill c.-uije to camp and surrendered. A prisoner named V'.irre*:/ in. for six months, made his e cape 1 two and a lialf months ago. He was re taken on Xoluud's ("reek in Swain ooufrity, Saturday. WILL HOLD THANKSGIVING SERVICE AT CULLOWHEE (By Robert M. Hardee) There will he a special Thanks giving service at the Cullowj)ce Methodist church Thanksgiving morn ing at eleven o'clock, for the yoimp people in thi- cormiinity and coun ty who are over fifty years old. The young people over fifty are joiii'n^ hands in this service and both church es are working together. It is a joint service and it is hoped tha' it will be made an annual service for the young people over fifty, who live in this community lo gather together evw'v Thanksgiving in wor-ihin and * ' - . . thankfulness lor God's blessings to them and to all. All ministers are Cordially "invited. The services will begin promptly at eleven o'clock at the Methodist church. , ' - The tentative program is as fol lows : Thanksgiving song, congregation. Scripture lesson and Thmiksgiviii? prayer,, Rev. I. K. Stafford. Thanksgiving hymn. Special music, Mrs. Gulley Introduction and recognition of couples who have been married 30, 40, 50 years, Professor R. L. Madison. Thanksgiving offering. (Goes to Baptist and Methodist orphanages). "Mean in? of Thanksgiving," five i minute talk by Dr. II. T. Hunter, president of Western Carolina Teach ers College. Thanksgiving song. "Let us be thankful," 15-minute serm|bn hv Robt. M. Hardee. Hymn ? Do\e'\gy. Benediction, T. A. Cox. Possibly never b.-fore haw the fanner? of JacLson or any other North Carolina county taken such in t.'H'st iu any phase .of fanning a;?| the {'anmrs of this county have ta I ?: ty Agent Lackey, iu this county two years ago. Wi:re only two, one 011 tho farm of K. C. Hunter ami th? other 011 the faun of Tyre Davis. One of these was a very small ont j having :< capacity of only one ton. This .war, according to Mr. Lack ey, theer are a total of 40 trench I silos in the county, the largest of j which has a capacity of approximate ly H') Ions. This large sijo is located on the Black Rock Stock Farm, near Addie, and Is owned by A. J. Dills, of Svlva. The trcnch silo is proving very popular with farmers because of the low cost of construction. After the trench has been dug and filled with the feed mixture, generally composed of corn and cane, it is covered with straw or sawdust and dirt. One farm er in this county has covered his with 3pwdust alone as an experiment. Most of tha farmers who have feed cutters are using the dry feed left over from the ensilage used in filliig the silos, cutting only a few days' supply at a time so that it will not spoil. Besides the many trench silos built i.his year one upright or Btave silo has been built and filled. This silo is on the farm of Coot Wood on Can^y Fork, P.T.A. TO HAVE PROGRAM A program, to be rendered, by Beta Graded school children, will be given at the school building Wednesday night, Nov. 28, at seven-thirty o'elook In connection with the program given by the children there will be special music after which a sandwich supper will be served. The proceeds will be used by the P.T.A. for the benefit of the school. CRAFT SHOW ATTRACTS MAST] One of the most interesting ex hibits displayed in this section in recent years was the quilt and crafts show, sponsored by the Twentieth Century Club, on last Saturday. A variety of exhibits, old and new| quilts, handicrafts of various kinds, and a demdnstartion op the old time methods of carding, spinning and weaving by the Misses Watson, from Wayehutta, attracted many people to the display rooms, and ?pened the eyes of people who live in this cMl tv to the great amount of work tftal is being done in the crafts and wood work by people in their homes and small shops in vari^? parts of tbr county. * 1 ? ' '?> ' usass ? ? Political Observers Ponder |?-Olrer Next Steps President I Iiikely To Take In Program { I Washing* on, Nov. 21. (Special)? Sow tfcat there has been time to take a long' breath and analyse the elec tion returns, political Washington ? and tl&re isn't anything in Washing ! ton thpt ian 't political ? has resumed its favorite pastime, which is guess iny what is going to some next. The three ^brain-teasers over which the soothsayers and self-appointed proph ets arq puzzling at the moment, are: Whqt will the Administration try next in its effort to get workers off the relief rolls and the wheels ol business rolling full speed again ? Will the new Congress eat out oi the. President's hand like the old one, or. will it take the bit in its teeth and jump, over the traces? What is there ahead for the Re publican Party? % Curiously enough, the answers to .that last question are easier to gue.-s than the others. The in tbo street is saying that the Republican party is dead. The saue unthinking folk were saying the same thing about the Democratic party in 192*' ?not to go any further back ? and again in 1924 and 1928. Cut the w' students of politics point out that great, political parties are not u killed'- by One or two or even ;i i dozen national defeats. The wise ones are pointing ou that, although only 28 of the 47 mi: lions of registered voters went to tli pylls on November 6th, 12 million of them voted the Republican tick*' pretty nearly straight. And then are plenty county and town board that are ylill solidly Republican. 1 is from, local units that any nation:) I party derives its strength. The root of the Republican party are still pretty deep in the soil. It was only the upper branches, including a good many, dead limbs,' that were killed i>v. *he Democratic landslides of 1932' and 1934. In ?he inner eirele of forward looking Republican leadership then are few tears being shed over the defeat' of Senator Reed in Pennsy! vanity and of several other members of the "Old Gua^d," elsewhere. Their^leas simplifies the job of re organizing the party. ! 1 Wh^re the leadership will be J lodged it is too early to predict. At the moment the "white hope" of the Republicans i* Arthur H. Van deubu?g of Graud Rapids, Michigan, just re-elected to the Senate. In the party ranks this newspaper editor has made a name for himself. He was the party's candidate for Pres ident Pro Tem when the Senate of , the 73rd Congress was organized, and is chairman of the legislative committee of the Senate ntinority. He jis distinctly a Liberal in his pol itical outlook, and he has the geo graphical advantage of hailing from the Middle West ! The fact that Republican leaders j are. pinning their faith on Senator Vandenburg is sufficient indication of 'their realization that the party must throw the "die-hards" and the COWAN1 IMPROVES Chairman J. D. Cowan of the Couu ty Bonfd of Commissioners, who hta been quite ill at a Franklin hospital, followi^ an operation for sinus trouble, last week, has recovered aufficiffljtly to return to his home here, Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Boyd Parker went to Bryson City Monday to atteud the funeral of hu $ephew, Huff Stevens. Mr. Henderson Jones celebrated his 66t? birthday Sunday. Also, Mr. Jim Joyes celebrated his 5?th birth day, and his son, Dillard, his 20th birthday, Sunday. Mjs8 Marie Coward and several friends from Canton spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Coward. Mr. Tom Shytle is conducting a singing school here in the Baptist church. T' There, will be all day singing at. the Baptist church Sunday. Every body & invited. . Xa Sara Bryaoe and Mn. Geo. etleei the ladies' ba/aar in Sylv*, Saturday. We wold be glad if mom one would cape Balaam: and apeak in safari tke OW Eastern "big business' interests' overboard if it hopes to survive an effective Opposition party. Ami sueh examination of the personnel of the new Congress as has been ]>o.s sibJe thus far indicates that there | will be plenty of Radical proposals for Liberals, by whatever party name they call themselves, to oppose. The indications are tha^ there will be stronger "blocs" than have ever been seen on Capitol Hill, urg ing inflation of the currency, gov ernment control of credit and bank ing, wild universal pension schemes (theer are expected to be 10 million signatures on the petition for the adoption of the Townsend plan for giving everybody over 60 a pension of $200 a month) immediate pay ment of the veterans' bonus, tax schemes of the "soak-the-rich " va riety, and, of course, projects for vastly greater Government spending than have yet been dreamed of. The President's major task, ]?oli tjcal wiseacres predict, will be to control the tendency to run wild on the part of Congress. Reports cred ited here are that he would like to see Representative Rayburn of Texa in the Speaker's chair vacated by the death ot Speaker Rainey. Mr. Rayburn is regarded as a strong character and a sound politician. He was the President's right arm in get ting the Stock Exchange Control bill and the Securities Act through the last Congress. But back-slapping Joe Byrns of Tennessee has a lot of mem|>ers pledged to himself. It looks like a scrap. The latest "trial balloon," sent up by the Administration to sound out public sentiment, is the project for a series of intermediate credit bank* to lend up to two or three billions to small industries on five-year terms, to enable them to start up and put men back to work. How to reduce the 18 millions now on relief to three or four millions is still the greatest problem Mr. Roose velt faces. There have been sugges tions that Government guarantees of profits in the staple industries might, stimulate private capital to 'start t he wheels turning again. The banks have plenty of money and are willing to lend it; the troubfc is that few comp etent businesses are willing to take the risk of borrowing until they gvt some assurance from Washington that the government 's financial and business policies have been stabil ized. And the Administration is be ginning to understand that its great housing program, intended to be financed by private capital, can't get very far until people who want homes are back on reasonably stable payrolls. Senator Borah 's demand for an in vestigation of waste and graft in the distribution of relief funds is being taken seriously. The investigation is to be made by Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, who stands out as one of the high officials who does not let political considerations warp his integrity or his judgment. MBB. BUMOAENER PASSES Mrs. John B. Bumgarner, G8, d'ed Monday morning at her home ne/ir Speedwell. Funeral and interment were at the home and the Bumgarner cemetery, Tuesday afternoon. Rev. I). C. Hooper and Rev. Robert M. Har dee conducted the services. Mrs. Bumgarner, widow of the late John B. Bumgarner, who died July 29, last, is survived by one son, R. V. Bumgarner, three grand children, two brothes, Robert Hol den and Miles Holden, one sister, Mrs. W. A. Still well, and other rel atives and friends. She was a member of the Baptist church, and beloved by rer neigh bors and a large circle of friends and acquaintances. BOX SUPPER AT SPEEDWELL There will be a box and pie sup- * per at the Speedwell Methodist ehraeh, tomorrow, Friday night. There will be a short program in the church, after which the supper will be enjoyed around a bon fire in the church yard. The proceeds will be used for buying new song book*, and everybody in the community invited to pttMpfe