valuable prizes
to BE GIVEN AWAY
IN UTTER CONTEST
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l!et:in:iing with this issue the J.ack
County Journal is inaugurating
;1 :U'i -writing coii'iost.whivh ii-;\ open
t,, . very man, woman ami child i i
tlu> section. To those' who write the
hi v Inters tolling why they like to
it ado with the business linns whose
.ulvcri -meats appear in the ceiKoi'
section of tiie pa)>er, will he given
mi in valuable prizes.
All is necessary to win one ol
tli ? prizes is to write a letter of not
more than 100 words >ro The JacksoU
County Journal setting forth your
: .a .ons for patronizing the different
^ iivius who have made this contest |)Os
>il)l?'.
A complete list of the vales and
pii/.es will hu found elsewhere in
li .ilav's isstie. The advertisements will
:i]i; u'ltr again \ next week, and you ?
have uw.il January 14th to get your
letters ill.
The whole idea of this little con- j
t,?l is to stress liie importance ot
t raoliiifi' in S.#va. We feel that our
local merchant > should have lin-. con
sideration, as it is they who keep,
our town alive. If we do not patron
ize th?m and spend our money well
them, we cannot e\p"i t them to pros
per; uud nnlc^ '!t< > pros]>er Our
town vil! ne-r V.
Tl:;- >' H.iwi-i ?: "i ? ins have joined in
ti>i- ri 1 I'll ;?< give publicity to Sylva,
.Miis.-!,- Fiii-niiure Co.; Sylva Lau.i
?!r? and Dry Cleaners; SchulmanV
Department. Store; Lyric Theatre;
I 'oplill Motor Co.; The Leader Dept.
Store; The Jackson County Bank;
lhiildei' s Supply and Lumber Co.,
Coco-Cola Bottling Co.; Moore's Dry
Cleaners; Sylva Supply Co.; Hale's;
1 !iekas?f:gee Beauty Shop; Jackson
Chevrolet Co.; Gulf Ik-Pining .Co.;
Jackson Furniture Co.; Sylva Phar
macy; Blue Ribbon Shoo Shop; Eck
enrod's Studio; Waynesville Laun
dry; Western ..Carolina .Creamery,
I nc. ; Cannon Brothers; * " Storall1?
Fruit Store; Dillsboro and Sylva El
ect ric Light Co.; Hooper Motor Co.;
Central and Shell Service Stations;
Cable's Cafe.
QUALLLA
(Written for last week)
Our teachers, Mr. Gj C. Cooper,
Misses Geneva Tuipin and Jonnh
Cathey, gave an afipropriate Christ
mas programme in Qualla school.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Cook, of Be.a
wore Qualla visitors.
The subject from which Rev. J. L.
Koger.s preached an impressive ser
mon, Sunday morning, at ihe Bap
tist clu>ro!i was "The Word was made
flt-h am1, dwelt I among- us".
.Vi.lu,' :he young folks who are
?>|?i-ii'liiig ;lic holidays with home folk
an- Mi. ; r ? i ' I Mrs. S. P. Hyatt and
>- ; ? d Miss Louise Hyatt, Miss
Etta Kii slund, Miss Noll McLaunga
hu , Mi-m-s (itrtnide and Kivi.h Fer
guson, Annie Lizzie Terrell, Mo/.ellc
ami Phyllis Moody, Marly Emma For
giison, Messrs. J. O. and- C. B. Ter
rell,
Wayne Ferguson, Jack Battle. I
and Miss Irene Uaby.
Mr. Norman Turpiu and family of
Philadelphia, are visiting among rel
atives. (i
Mr. I.e.* London of Axhoville was
a Qualla visitor, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Campbell of
Waynesville and Mr. and Mrs. Mil
dred Ferguson of Crabtreo called on
> Mrs. J. L. Keren son Sundav.
Mr. P. II. Ferguson was guo-.t at
Mr. J. K. Terrell 's Sunday.
Miss Annie Lizzie Terrell visited
Miss Gertrude I'Ylguson Sunday.
Willard Freoinan of Beta is visit
"Va at Mr. Will Freeman's^.
DEPUTY MARSHAL ILL
I'eputy ('nitcd States Marshal, N.
>:it.',6u, is quite ill in a Franklin
. h?^pi:al, whore he has l>een a pationt
1"' ??!!?! e than a week.. Mr. Sutton,
a form,, sheriff of this county, has
many friends in all Western North
Carolina, who will hope for his speedy
i' ' "very. His home i--- in Sylva.
earthquake felt here
I
Kesid* uts of Sylva and Jackson
'?<?unty, as well as 'those of other
places in Western North Carolina,
felt slight earth tremors -at 3 o'clock
Tuesday morning The shock was so
slight that it did not awaken anyone,
un|<i the only persons who heard the
roaring or felt the tremors were I
those who wore awake. No damage
vvus reported.
NEW SPEAKER OP THE HOUSE
JOSEPH W. BYRNS
TODAY and
TOMORROW
CALENDAR . . . another year
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We ai'v skirting a New Year. Ev
; ryhody gets mure or los> of a kick
(?ill of the idea of putting another
milestone of time behind us. We ap
proach i he New Year lull of fresh
hopes and good resolutions. But why
. hould we leel that way ill midJ Will
ie r .' It (has always seemed to me tha;
the In ginning Spili.i<$ w:us it he
right time to celebrate the coming of
i lie new year.
Curiqasly enough, up to less than
LidO years ago in England ami Ameri
ca and^ only 350 years ago every
where else, the New Year began 011
?.hi' 2 1st if March, following the cus
tom that came down from the earliest
trilutl traditions of hun^aimy. The
New Year began when the leaves be
gan to hud and vegetation sprouted.
l'oipe Gregory Xlll introduced the
present calendar in 1582. All of the
Catholic, ^countries, including Soot
1 n7^4fhttre?tiAtel ity ?nS -be
gan 'to calculate the year from Jan
uary 1. But it was 1752 before it
was. adopted by England and her col
onies. That was the year that Sep
?leniber had outy 19 days, for to
eatch up with the rest of the world
England had to drop 11 days out of
the year.
CHANGES .... four parts
r It begins to look now as if, begin
ning January 1, 1939. we would have
another calendar. The great Protest
ant church bodies of the whole world,
f he Church of England, the 1'o|h- and
aost of the important national and
international businc.-s organizations
have agreed with the calendar com
mittee of the League of Nations for
:i new international calendar, in
whioii the year will be divided into
four equal quarters, each containing
two months of 30 days and one of 31
dtiys, with an c.vlra holiday, or ""Year
Day" between December 31 and Jan
uary I, and in Leap Year another
in.eivalary day between June aid
July. * ;V
E'istvr would always fall oil April
8, and every month would always
begin on the same day of 'the week,
every year. New Year's Day would
always be Sunday, the Fourth
of July always 0:1 Wednesday.
FORECASTS .... on business
Nothing is easier than to make pre
diutioiis; nothing is harder than to
make pivdictons come true. I have
seen ii great variety of forecasts for
but most of them seem to me to
be inspired by "wishful thinking".
Sensible moil are more cautious
than ever in attempting to predict
the rourse of events. That is why so
lAuny of the published forecasts are
p.'ssiniii-itic. Nobody likes to be blam
ed for having made a rosy prediction
that didn't come true, especially if
it may have encouraged somebody to
take unnecessary finacial risks.
Col. Leonard Avers, of Cleveland,
who has the highest score of all fin
ancial forecasters over a period of
years, doesn't think there will be
much improvement in business con
ditions in 1935. Making allowance for
his ''playing safe" wtate of mind, 1
inn still inclined to agree with th
1 Colonel. v ? ^ '
COTTON .... the votc
Walter Lippman, who runs a col
umn in daily newspapers under the
same heading a-5 'this one of mine
.stuck a pin into the Secretary o
Agriculture's toy baloon the oihei
day. Washington officials have been
j jubilant over the 8 to 1 vote of cot
ton in favor of restricting
production fr>i higher prfic**, and
NO TRACE RNND
OF FRANK AiUSM;
MISSING 3 WEEKS
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Although large numhejffr of men
from Sylva, from the C. G. C. camps
in the Smokies, and Indiana from the
Sooo section of the Cherokee Reserva
lion, .combcd the Plott. Beteata moun
tains for days in seareA of Frank Al
lison, who disappeared- 011 the morn
ing of December 18. from a hunting
camp, while his coDlpanions werb
away, no trace of him has been found
lapd members of. his family and the
people generally are at as great a
lan over the mystery as <ihey wore
in the beginning. ;
Roy Dillri a vonng fanner of a
prominent family, Charles Knox and
Canary Shepherd, Negroes, who were
I ' ? * ? ?
Allison's hunting eoui)wnions, were
held for questioning, but were dis
ehaiged when 110 evidence developed
that would implicate theru in any
way in the disappearance of Allison.
According to officer^'; who ques
tioned thenty they stated 'that they
left Allison at the camp; fire on Shut
in Kidge, when whey followed the
bavin? of the dogs. believing that a
coon had been treed, and that when
they, returned to uhe camp Allis-on
was ijone, leaving n pair of shoes be
hind.
Frank Allison, who is in his early
thirties, is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carv Allison, and a member of 011c
of Jaeki 011 county's oldest! families.
The country in which he disappear
ed is exceptionally rough, and the
Shut-in laurel, covering many acres
with a well nigh i. i penetrable wild
erness of rhododendron, i.s nearby
the place where thy camp was pitched
OLD AGE PENSION PETITIONS
Prof. R. L. Madison, who i* ohair
man of the county organization Seek-,
ing the enactment of >ihe Old Agfa
Pe:ision law, has issued the folloVinaS
old-age pension petitions in this
county will please take or send the in
to the Hooper Drug Store or -Ihe
Sylva Pharmacy on or before Tues
day, January 8."
FINAL DIVIDEND PAID TO
TUCKASEEGEE DEPOSITORS
Depositors of the defunct . Tuck'"
soegee Bank, have this week receiv
ed their dividend checks of 2 1-2'
of 'their deposits.
This is the final dividend thar will
be paid, and makes a total of '42 1 2
% of their deposits.
The affairs of the ba:ik have been
wound up and the assets liquidated.
BAPTIST SOCIETY TO MEET
The January business meeting ofj
the Baptist Woman's Missionary So- j
ciety will meet next Wednesday af- (
ternoou at 2:.'50 o'clock at the home
of Mi's. CJ. K. Be-s, on Clayton
Street. Mrs. Dillard Coward will be
joint hostess.
COWARD BACK AT OLD STAND
Dillard Coward, who has beiwi as
sociated with Ijewis Moore at the
Sanitary Barber Shop, has returned
to his former position with the Tuok
asoegee Barber Shop. ? .
keeping newcomers from starting to
grow cotton. " r
"What else was expected? "asks
Mr. Lippniau, in effect. "Put the
name question up to makers of ladies'
underwear or anything else, and
wouldn't you have an overwhelming
ma jolty for nionojxiyl and high
prices?" ,
The only kind of a majority that
should have a right to vote on any
s '-"'ect wliich affects the pooke>
h s of the entire people, is a ma
j y- of the entire people.
Jo4S . . . . still important
A thousand workers in a woolen
f ? ' #
mill in my home state of Massaehu
< were thrown permanently out of
? .a week or two ago, when, the
ers of the mill decided to go out
msiness rather than be bothered
l strikes accompanied by violenee
It. ,-XM'rns to me that the mi II -own
ers did the only sensible thmg, so
long as they could afford to quit. I
an* sorry for the people, wlk> were
foolish enough to attempt to intimi
date the employers and onlyfonwd
themselves out of their jobs. Bat i:
seems to me the height of folly,' in
these rimes of distress, for folk who
have good jobs to quarrel with them.
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EF UNIT TO Bb
ATEC IN SYLVA
*
offices and headquarters foi
rgqncy relief diArwt eom
the counties of Haywood,
JackMn, Swain, and Macon, will be
locajeji in Svlva, it has been an?
no?
J. <E. Lancaster; of Macon has been
seized as emergency relief admin
istrator for the distrtet, and will be
in char go of <the office here. The
transfer of all business offices from
Wayncsville, Bryson City, and Frank
lin to Sylva will be made within a
short time, it is stated.
Mrs. Margaret Morrison will bo
secretary to the administrator. H. .B
BroWjping of Swain will be in ehaxge
of rrihil rehabilitation, and Mrs. Jo
sepijino A. Que. mi will be in the dis
bursing office. Miss Ettawa Dixon
will be supervisor of case workers. ?
Tlie entire personnel of 'The new
set up for the district haw not hscn
Nunonnced; but it is expptved that
upon' the return of Mr. Lancaster
froia K.iiit^gli, announcement. of when
the office* aiv. to o|?cn and, 'the list
of wcik'r.s in all the eouutio.j nil!
ha available.
It p understood that the ap'.rUit
mfentv that have been made , and
?aujl jtho.se to follow, are u)>on rec
oiqCnHation of Columbus Andrews,
fi^d ^representative of the State em
eijreqry relief office in Raleigh, of
which Mrs. Thomas CBerry is thj
K&<U
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BALSAM
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Christ inns Ls over and we hope
everyone is happy. Tlio day hei?e, was
?l4e a cool day in Spriug.
Ok 'Sunday afternoon, the 23rd,
ic Methodic:. Sunday school, after
songs and
'kb^gOns, enjj^^mP^ of candy and
?raogavs,
iiUerajlieg
Mrs. Sara Bryspn, was siv.-n a>t the
Baptist churoh. There was also a
k?vely tree for the Sunday school.
Many gifts were distributed and each
member received a bag of candy and
oranges.
Miss Freda Jones entertained :he
young people Monday evening. Games,
radio music, gay repartee and deli
cious refreshments .constituted the
enjoyment of ':he evening.
There was quite a display of fire
works during the holiday* which was
enjoyed by the old as well as the
young. There were no casualties, bad
behavior or disturbances here dn|dinj
the holidays.
Mr. Hubert. Knsley and children j
spent the holidays in Hendersonville
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. |
A. H. Mehaffey.
Mr. and Mrs. Finly Carson of Wis
consin arrived Monday and staid |
nntil Wednesday when they left for.
Lakeland, Fla. Later nhey will return f
to Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Jones spent)
.Christmas in Waynesville.
Mrs. Lillifli Duncan and sister, Mrs.
Allen of Ilazelwood spent Christmas
with their sister, Mrs. Randall at
Brysion City.. a v ? ? ? -
Mr. Julius Kenney of the U. S.
Navy was guesi of his fathor, J. K.j
Keiuiev last weck- ,
Mrs. J. E. Long and little Cecil of I
Addie were here T min-day.
Mrs. Bettie Jane Hughes of Cullo
whee visited her sister, Mrs. GeOrg" |
Coward last week end.
Mrs. Burl Callam, who was called
here by the deith of .icr oroiher,
John Kenney, has returned to her
home in Cygnet, Ohio S.:e apeni
Christmas Day with her sister. Mrs.
W. T. !'?-.vcy in Ashev-.'V where)
quite a rair.i'y reunion wa> held.
Miss Dixie Warren, Miss l^ouise
Raines, Miss Beulah Beck, Mi s Vir
ginia Lindsey, Mr. Charles Hyatt and
Mr. Ernest Jones visited Mrs. Iiliau
Duckeit in Asheville in the afternoon
of Christmas Day.
Miss Annie Mae Lyle of Atlanta
was guest of her couein, Miss I?uise
Arlington lasi week. >
News has Ljust been received here
of the death of Mr. George Kixer in
John Hopkins Hospital. Mr. Kizer
and his mother lived h*re quite a
number of years. He married, a cowan
of J. K. Kenney, and .they moved to
Willets where his mother Idled. Then
he and his wife moved to Maryland.)
Mrs. George Knight and children I
were guests of Mrs. J. L. Long inj
Addie several days ihis week.
A waitchnight party at Mr. Imu
Many Problems To Come
Before General Assembly
In Raleigh During Session
40 YEARS AGO
\ , ' >rm
(Tsdcaseige Democrat, Jan. S, 1895)
Mr. W. H. It Hughes of Webster
?fraa heer today.
" Miss Mamie Steel mail is visking in
Bryson City this week.
Holl. C. C. Cowan of Webster was
here a short while Monday
^ Mr. J. W. Divelbiss and Master
JfYank Visited relatives at Biltmore.
Miss Ella Potts went to S. C. last
week to visit Miss Lela, who is teach
log at Mitford.
: Miss Annie Gibson returned from
U?or^ia, Sunday, after an abs?nc? of
;&Out two months.
M Miss Haitie Hampton returncl
from Ashevillc today, after spending
some time with relatives there.
Misses Hallic and Mary Love, of
the A. P.' College, Asheville, cam,,
home for the holidays, reuirning tc
Asheville/ today.
Geo, Hampton has removed his fain j
ily to Asiievilfe. We regret to give
them op, but hope o:ir loss will b?* |
their gain.
Mux K. A. Enloe and Mis?es Salii?
aud leie M;uor* ^pent the holiday.* j
at Mr. Moore's, returning to Whit
tier, Tuesday.
Messrs. J. J. Hooker and A.
J. Long, Jr., were over from Webster
Saturday evening after the mail, thv>
rafcil boy having failed to make the
trifL
Mr. R. M. Davis carat out from Ash
ville Monday to visit his family. H
returned next day, while Mrs. Davi
and Roy' remained u:rtil today.
Mr. W. C. Smith, Capt. Bridge
and other gwtlumen conneeted wich |
a reocit large deal in real estate ii:
this county came in a few days ago.
Messrs. E. A. Wolff and Ben. Hofl'
man came home from their mining
camp near Brysoa City, Friday, and
are waiting for the weather to mod- [
erate before returning.
Mrs. D. J. Allen spine several of
thp holidays in Waynesville and
.since ber return, we regret- to heai
has been suffeing with a severe son
throat.
Prof* B. B. Brown, Principal ot
the Normal Department of the Cul
lowhee High School, went home to
Bunco.abe to spend Christmas and.
n?turning, pave us a pleasant call.
Mr. E. M. Shelton, son of Mr. S.
Pt C Sheteon, and old citizen of Jack
son, now living in Texas returned in
time to spend- the hobdays with rela
tives and friends m the county.
Judge D. D. Da vies was here Wed
nesday to wee his daughter, Miss OteJ
ia, off to Rsfeigh to enter school at
St. Mary's. Mr. T. A. Cox went with
her as far as Salisbury on his way
to Greenville, S. C.
Christmas Day with us was as
quiet as Sunday and the weather fine.
Since then, we have had some sharp
touches of cold, the mercury last
Saturday going down as low as 1?
degrees below zero, and again Tues
day morning to 4 below. Such in
stances as these are rare, however.]
and of short duration.
Many of our readers, but perhaps
not all of them already know that
Capt. Sam Davis, formerly of this
county, but now of Uiltmore, has
abandoned the state of single blens
odneefi aud become a benedict. He
was married Nov. 22nd to Miss Lil
lian Derarid of Aaheville, by Rav.
T. F. Marr. Thtogh late in doing so,
we beg to extend our congratulations
and besrc wishes.
McCall's, the discharge of load guns,
blowing of whintfes and born a and
tfdki ringing of clmnrh bells closed
the holidays here of 1934 and wel
comed IMS.
(By DAN TOMPKINS)
The General Assembly of Norta
Carolina will convene next week in
Raleigh, and will meet with several
major pdoblems for solution It is
generally conceded that opi>osition to
the sales tax has melted away, unti!
there is little likelihood of its re] teal
at the coming session.
There is a surplus in the highway
department of som<> six and a haV*
million dollars, and many eager eye*,
are looking that way, according to
reports coming from down about the
capital city. The school teachers, who
have been complaining that their sal
aries are too low, it is said, will make
a powerful effort to get that money
diverted for the use of the schools,
and the North Carolina education
Association, which organization al
ways maintains a powerful lobby in
Raleigh, it is believed, will lead the
fight for the diversion oi' the funds.
The surplus came about by rent-on
of the money having been impounded
by the last General Assembly, when
it forbade the construction of new
highways in North Carolina for two
years, with State funds, seeking i.uis
to slough off of the payroll the youn?
army of engineers that was living off
the State, make sure that the lionds
of >ihe Slate for highway construction
would be paid, and save the credit of
North Carolina. The money is there.
It was paid by the jk-ople into l he
highway funds in gasoline and license
tags sale. As a result of the action
of the la-st General Assembly, many
of the roads in the State, esj>'? iaily
those in the country districts that
are not trunk highways, have degen
erated into a deplorable condition. At
any rate the State has that surplus
in its highway funds, and there i? .
going to be a scramble to see whether
the highways arc going to keep it,
or whether it will be diverted to
IBihu' pHfpMH?nj ?
Another class that is seeking' part
of that money is the m unicipalkies
of the Siato. They do; *t advocate
direct diversion hut des ire that I he
State add to its highway system,
streets in towns and eiiies, thus re
lieving the municipalities of the hid
den of upkeep, and in effect divert'
isg the money from the present high
wav system.
Perhaps other agencies of the Stat ?
and other interests are also cabling
covetous eyes at that highway sur
plus. That remain- to be seen and 10
develop, if there is lo he any such
movement. It eould develop into a
situation <r.nat the folks wishing to
have the job of spending l!i?; money
might pool their strength, try :o
overpower the Highways and Public
Works Commis.-ion, a. id divide tlr
money among them, much in the
fashion i hat the Alii, s once di-meni
beml Poland.
Then' is a feelintr in Hal. i^h, .iow
ever, that the people who paid the
money, and they an- the North ' ar.?
lina folks who own and ?!ri\e cars
and tracks, coupled with fh.- people
in the country, who have been v.adiug
the mud this winter, and ,-om.: of
them unable to g. i from their lunes
to the highway in nn\ manner ex
cept to walk across fields, or i Me
horseback, will oppose any riiver-'o'i
whatever, and there may be a ma jor
batile over the hiiriiwav -urplu-.
Other battles that are looming 'ill
the horizon are changes it. 'the elec
tion laws, movements to repeal tha
primary law and go back -to tlf con
vention system of nominal ? utr offi
cers, a large appropriation tor
schools, and a general inomiiPiit
from all front.s that are affected for
increased appropriations for nearly
every institution and agency of the
State.
Politically, some important things
may develop before the Assembly ad
journs, and it is believed ?hat they
may materially affect the situation
in tie Assembly. G< '?"">%'? Ehring
haus is said in .some |u s to ba
looking with longing eye.-; to -ard tha
seat in the Senate now occupied
Josiah W. Bailey. There is a long
liat of men who would like to b?
Governor of North Carolina: but
none of them will move until some
body lets it be known whether Farmer
Bob Dougbion or Clyde Hoey or
both are to make the gubernatorial
race. It they do fhrow their hats mim
the ring, the lists may be ratbM
limited. If they hold aloof, then i|
HUffi to be anybodj't fight