North Carolina Newspapers

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Sl-hl l i i f>f : hi* old j ?I' ? i ; hi* N'i'W J f ? liav ? n-rcnllyj ! i-ii'il i?>n i.f-t v. : 1 1. ; 1 ii vi ry !.?' I'll j ? a' y I'YiiLr. ** 1 1 !;?? baiMiiij?. . :i! JliiMiticai ??r.nyil by I . ; !ii* |>:isior,| no insur-l : Jill | i i i . and ? i-ibuililinj;. | 4X1 TO EAR ..'i i ht- Infill liar, | : li!:C. Si-S ?t till" i i ! rii-i liar As i : i Bl'V-iOtl City, ?l . I ? ? r Solicitor John < '> lord :i!i(l (it'orRPl was held in the ??!;> .snip Lodge, ? 'i <1 by t li<' I * ryson heads p. t. a. 1, j , I !? :i t'h'Hrd president '* 'I'i'.'icJicr Associa !!-.?! ii;?r h:-M on Tuesday ? ? W. |>pd was pho !"" ills nt. M isk> Edith ?"'ft ;r.my, jjnd Mrs. H. E. ? ? ?!???*?*. Prof. .1. S. Spy ?i'm Cnmliiia Tpacher? ? HI* 'iili-rc timrlv on the sub ' J|1' " vi ? ? , . , I j ' . nir, winch will be itf 1 I He held in the evening, i.,k?. w B rd ,viU bc th'' 40 YEARS AGO Tuck-iseige Democrat, March 7, 1895 The vontraetois sav that they are % 4' about to sub-let several contracts for grading and trackiuying on the Hen dersonville and Brevard road, which is twenty- 1 wo miles long, extending between the i>oints mimed in North v arolina Kev. (J. W. Spake and Capt. \V. A. ' nloc were up from Dillsboro, Tues !ay. .Mrs. Laui'a Heile Cooper left Wed nesday to join her hu.-band in (laines ille, Texas, whither he went >a few inv.it lis ago. Her lather, Post Master !.ong, of Webster, accompanied her s far as Asheville. ( Persons who will take boarders for lie summer would do well to furnish dr. K. L. Mclvee, agent for the Southern Railway Company here, the :eees?-ary information as to how aanv tjiey will take, distance from ,-iation, rates of hoard, etc., in or ? er io gel the benefit of the free .'dvertising the railroad company will ive them. J Oil. No! The Asheville Citizen says: Canton, on the Murphy branch, is a ?;ivat station lot" salt. It is the o'.dx one of the small towns on the roads hiding from Asheville that gets sab in car load lots." On the contrary, there are only a few stations on the Mur"hv branch that do not get salt in car load lots, one firm alone here having handled four car loads in the last three months. t / , . \ . ? ' ' V The Senate yesterday went into executive session. The (Governor with drew v the nomination of (ieorge II. Smathers \ Director of the Western Hospital^ a. ' Moiganton, and nom inated .fame-! R. Love, a Populist, of! Jackson coimtv. He was promptly confirmed. The withdrawal of Siuath ers was due to objections offered by Western Republicans. .Lu some quart, lets he was charged with being a Democrat. The (Sovernpr, when ob jection wa* made !>y the Fusionists, withdrew hi- name, and substituted a Populist, who was accepted. ? News and Observer. ' /' \ > t. When the flection law was pending in the Legislature,' an amendment, introduced by a democrat, {hat judges of elections should be men. of good m'ora! character, was defeated, the republicans and populists generally voting against it and the democrats tor it. Then, another amendment, that t lie judges should nt least be men of moderately good character was de feated by a strict >4 try vote. 1 K If, wbeif t ho Legislature adjourns, which it is expected to do 011 next Friday, and ended its own official ex -!cn<e, if it could obliterate from : he sMtutc I) ;oks all the -acts that it ' as i>;i> cd, it wo\il<l prove of great advantage to the State, for the evil 1* what it has done, we believe, \v 'hen it ad-;, with their effects and influences shall become known by the light of experience, will far outweigh I lie good., The desire for helping for ward the material interests of the people of the Slate has been sub ordinated to the gratification' of an unworthy spite against the party which has so long and so successfully administered the State government, and the controlling spirit which has .ovenied the ninjority has been to ? et and to, hold, as many offices a,s i >?>-, si ble. even creating new ones for their benefit. 'I hevel'e.re, the act of adjournment will afford more gen eral satisfaction to the people of the j S.'ate than any oilier of its acts. ' 3EGINNEES DAY MARCH 28 AT SYLVA GRADED SCHOOL 'imrsday March 28 wiil be begin ner's day a! Syh a Klemeiitarv School, .(voiding t(? plans announced by the IVrent-Teacher Association. All pa iinis who have children old enough ;? enler school next year, are request < d to have (heir children at trie school : f !) o'clock in the morning of that 'a* e. There will be entertainers to care lor and amuse the children. Nurses ! r'.'tn the h?ri!fh department will be on hand to give them free physical ex amination1;, (o ascertain whether there are any physical defects that can and Ik .'.lid be corrected. A 'toy baloon will be given to each child, and a good time is in prospect for everyone. f-a-t year o:i Peg:n!;er's Day, 33 children were present. - \ ?' " Legislature Not Likely To Change Prohibition Laws During Present Session (By DAN TOMPKINS) As the time approaches for a test of strength in the Senate on the Hill Bill, providing for a referendum on whether or not the State is to set 1 1 ? < up a dispensary system of legal dis tribution of liquor to those who de sire to imbibe, it becomes more and more apparent that the Hill Bill, or any other art seeking to change the status of John Barleycorn in North Carolina, has little chance of passing the Senate, and still less chance in the House. There Aire two reasons for believing that. 'I lie first is that many leading North Carolinians are constitutionally dry, and believe that prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and transport ation of liquor is the best plan yet evolved for dealing with the problem; and they have a majority of 183,000 less than a year and a half ago, to strengthen their arms. Another potent reason is the light1 which history sheds upon the effect that tampering with liquor laws has upon the political party in power. Tt never fails to work adversely against the majority party, when the liquor laws are changed. In I i)0S the Democrats sponsored the movement to put liquor out of the State, and won a victory in a referendum on the subject. Liquor went out, but, at the next election j three Democratic Congressmen went ^ out with it, and three Republicans took their places in Congress from this State. That was the worst defeat thai the Democivnts had in the State between 180(5 and 1028; and in 1028, when liquor was much discussed, al though the State is generally believed J to have voted anti-pope and not so much anti-liquor, yet liquor was an issue in the campaign, and A1 Smith, , the Democratic candidate for Presfe, < dent it?t. the Hlate to Herbert Hoover, , this district lost a Democratic Con gressman, although he is a lifelong! dry, and general up-scts and up turns in politics in the State fol lowed in the wake of liquor taik and prohibition repeal piv,|>osals. Tampering^ with liquor laws, whether to provide prohibition or to repeal it, always costs the majority , party :> plenty, and this is a mos' j |M>tent reason, frankly recognized bv, many Democrat is leaders, as to why : fhev are oppiw-d to the enactment , of the Hill Bill. ^ j The appropriation bill and the fin- i a nee bill, are both expected to emerge from committees in a short time, and then the real business of th-^Cicueral j Assembly will come to the fore, and j the real fighting over clashes of opinion will begin. ( j . Bills introduced : To exempt hospital nurses from taxation. To permit delinquent special assess ments, with interest and penalties on the same, 3s well as assessments not yet due, to lie api>ortioned in cases in which the land is divided into two or more parcels. ^ To exempt from taxations real es tate, up to $2,000 belonging to blind ners'ons who have been residents of the State tor four years, when the property is used exclusively as the home of such blind person. To require the State to refund 5c of the 6c gasoline tax bought by counties, cities and towns, in quan tities of more than 10 gallons at a time. To regulate the purchase ot sup plies. materials, ??d equipment by c unties, cities and towns, and to require ccwnpotetivc bidding.) ^ To allow cities and towns to levy a license tax of not more than $o0 on motor buses used for transporta tion of passengers, opiated on routes entirely within city or town. To extend the time for instituting foreclosures on taxes for 1032 to December 1, 1035. To crcata e prohibition commission, with a ""mmissioncr. two agents in bumgarner is improving j Oscar Biraigiarner, who has been "<Oii fined to his home since he was in jured, while working at a filling sta tion here, several years ago. returned | Monday, from an Asheville hospital, j where he underwent an operation, and i s improving, at his home. Surgeons . mow believe that Mr. Bunigarner will ! -egain the use of his legs and will be I :ible to walk again, as soon as he has; completely reoov: ret' fpcui the effects of the operation. j Vftch judicial district, and twelve ?gents at large, with the duty of enforcing the prohibition l.ws. The commission and enforcement agen<*v would be financed by taxing an ad ditional $5 in the bill of costs in ?very case where a person is con futed of violating the prohibition jaws or driving while intoxicated. To extend the time for payment oi special assessments, and to allow them to be paid in ten annual in stallments, beginning the first Mon lay in October following the resolu tion of extension. \ ? To make robbery with fireaims punishable by life imprisonment, 'i To allow only citizens of the State to bring suits as paupers. To provide for repair and improve j tncnit of city streets, by the Highway and Public Works Commission, when the streets are a part of or connect ing links in the State Highway sys tem. To allow the use of deposits in banks to offsot debt to the. bank owed by a depositor, whether the de posit is personal or as trustee of a ?fund for which lie is bound nad must account. To broaden the power of the State Forester to appoint county \rtu-dens. The bill would authorize the mainten ance of lookout towers, broaden the fire patrol laws to include woodland as well as forests, and require the counties to pay cnehaH', not to ex ceed 5 mills per acre, of keeping war dens appointed for their counties. Fo authorize the State Hoard ol HctoJth to use anyavailhifle funds to establish local or district health de partments in counties, cities, 01 groups of such. To make it a misdeseanor to induce to leave, earn* away or ;ic?ompany. Except bv , permission of ; roper au thoriiy, any inmate of an invitation duly committed by a court. To permit voluntary si -rilizatior. under certain conditions ard to pre scribe the procedure in such eases. To provide for licensing court re porters. To rej)eal the laws which rive jx?wer to the State Board ol' Kh '-lions to hear petitions alleging 1- iluiv of county officials to comply with the election law, to remove sue!: officials, and to make rules regr-laiing and' governing the conduct of primaries! and elections. To allow obligations due by b:tnks to be used as set-offs against obliga tions due to the bank in paying off judgments, assessments and executions in favor of said bank To increase the State's preemjrtory challenges in capital cases from four to twelve and in other cases from two to four. To allow appeals to the superior court from all rulings of the Indus trial Commission in cases arising un der the Workman's Compensation Act To provide that in counties am5 cities in which realty has not been offered for sale for taxes for 1932 1933, the governing bodies be author ized and directed to advertise such property not later than the first Monday in May, 1935, and to brin'. foreclosure proceedings 'for such taxes not later than 90 days after the sale To require marriage licenses to designate each licensee as "widow," "widower," "single" or "divorced." To eliminate the requirement that the Holy Gospels be kissed when oath is administered. To require the petition far restor ation of citizenship to be posted at the court house door for 30 days, and published in a newspaper once a week for four successive weeks, pre ceding the term of court at which the petition is to be presented. To repeal the act providing that prospective grooms file a health cer tificate of an affidavit attesting the fact that he has not active tubercu losis or any venereal disease. HASTINGS BUYING POLES John J. Hastings states that he has just been accorded the largest order for chestnut poles that has been placed in this territory in several years, and has begun btving po8eh from the wagons and trucks. Mr. Hastuigs has been employed on the Southern Railway for several months, during the lull in the pole business, but has returned to Sylva, his home, and will make his head quartern hase. indicted For Three Capital Offenses ? The Swain county grand jury, on , Vedm'sdav, brought in a true bill : i-Uazging Ed. Nelson and Jesse Cline, ! -'O.year old Ela youths, with three of j : he four capital felonies, murder, ar i on and burglary, in connection with j i he death of Tom Cline and the burn j '.<ig of his store at Ela, a few weeks So Young Nelson and Cline have been held in Bryson City jail since Jan. 14. It is expected that they will be tried at the present term. CHILD LOSES LIFE SAVING SISTER'S DOLL FROM FIRE Franklin Press, Feb. 28. ? Mary Ijouise Conley, eight-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ingram Conley, who live near Otto, succeeded last Thursday afternoon in rescuing her small sister's doll from a fire but in o doing she suffered bums which re i suited in her deatr the following day. Mrs. Conley went to the barn to milk, leaving Mary in the living room playing with itwo younger sisters. One of the smaller girls dropped her doil in the fireplace and Mary Louise j pulled it out. When she reached into j the flames her clothing became ig I nited. She ran to the. barn and her mother succeeded in tearing tin; burning clothes from her child ; bui | her body already was badly burned. She was taken to Angel hospital. ' where she died Friday morning. Funeral services were held Satur day at Dryman's Chapel in the Te senta section. MRS. M'KEE SPEAKS AT ZONE MISSIONARY MEETING Mrs. E. L. McKee, of Syka war. 1 one of the speakers at 'the Zlone meet- 1 ing of the Woman's Missionary So cieties of the Methodist churc-h, ii. Wlaynesville, on Tlucsday. Her sub ject was "Requisites of a Good Of ficer". Mrs. Robert Howell .presided a*, the meeting, and Mrs. F. E. Branson the district secretary delivered a.. { address. The nest Zone meeting will be held at Cullowhee, next fall ; and the an nual conference meeting will In* in Concord on April 9-11. The Svlva society wars represented bv Mm. H. Gibson, Mrs. M. D. Cowan, Mrs. E. L. McKee, Mrs. S. H. Hilliard and Mrs. Dan Tompkins. Representing the Cullowhee society were Mrs. Thomas A. Cox, Mrs. David H. Brown, Mi>. Henry Bryson, Mrs. W. I). Wikc, and Mrs. L. H. Amnions. QUALLA Rev. C. W. Clay preached at the Methodist church Sunday morning oil the evils of intemperance. His text was "1 will seek it yet again." He, with Mrs. Clay, were dinner guests ft i Mr. J. W. Cathey 'a. j Born to Mr. and Mi's. Lawrence Cordeli on March 3rd, a daughter. Miss Ruth Ferguson, who has been j teaching at Fairfax returned home j last week. Miss Faye Roper of Solola spent the week ?id with Miss Etta Kins land. Rev. C. W. Clay and Rev. J. L. Hyatt attended the Ministers' Con ference alt Culltowhee Monday. Misses Jennie Cathey and Geneva Turpin, teachers, ?md the entire stu dent body of the Qualla school were given a dinner' reception by the prill cipal, Mr. G. C. Cooper, at his homo at Sylva. Rev. J. L. Rogers of Sunburst and Mr. ' Stevens of Hazelwood called al Mr. T. W. McLaughlin's, Saturday Mrs. Lottie Mclaughlin spent Sun day with Mrs. Taylor Bridges uf Olivet. Mr. and Kerm Noland ofj Swanannoa spent Sunday at Mr. D L. Oxner's. (?? Miss Viola Webb visited at Mr. Jim Keener 's. Mr. Weaver Freeman called at Mr. Horace Howell's. Miss Nell McLaughlin returned to Cullowhee Sunday after a visit with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hyatt and Mrs. C. P. SheKon called on Mrs. Albert Reagan who is seriously ill. Mrs. Rufus Johnson and children of Ela, called at Mr. D. M. Shuler's Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bird of Sylva and Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Terrell vis ited at Mr. T. W. McLaughlin's, Sunday. Haroiu iccLaughliit visited Charles Mnlanghlin, Sunday. GOLD STRIKE IN STANLY CAUSES BIG EXCITEMENT Stanley News-Herald, March 5 ? The village of New London was in a high stale of excitement today as news spread that gold was literally pouring from "them thar hills" 011 the western side of towity known as the Parker mining property. Gold was really "struck" here, according to confirmed reports ? and in such quan tity that it is plainly visible in a poorly-lighted tunnel where the rieh vein was discovered early this morn ing. solid nuggets from the size of the end of a linger, to gold-coated rocks larger than a man's head, rolled down the side of the tunnel when the vein was uncovered by a workman's pick. A frenzied excitement ensued, and all work in the tunnel was ordered stop ped by E. M.' Scott, .superintendent of the mine, while the site of the rich J vein was placed under guard. The work was suspended in order, to pro vide housing facilities for the gold producing ore as it is removed from the shaft The newly discovered vein, .accord ing to first hand estimates, has a tonnage value that will run into thous ands of dollars, -lust how far the . vein extends has' not been determined, I but rich deposits were located ncai the source of some valualWc and far reaching veins that were discovered when the mining property was first worked, some thirty years ago. It was 111 the course of reaching one of these old veins thai today *s discovery was made in t lie tunnel thai is bein<* dug to what is known as the old crib shaft. The find, however, was over 150 feet away from this point, and was made after reaching a depth in the hill of some GO to 70 feet past the open cut work. The vein in this tunnel was jjossibly struck by work men 011 the midnight shift, as the dirt taken from the cut during the ;ime, was found, when examined this morning, after l!;e existence of the valuable strata lje< -a me known, to con tain rich deposits of gold. FIDDLERS' CONVENTION ATTRACTS LARGE CROWD Wliittier, March G. ? The Whit tier school auditorium was crowded to capacity Saturday night for (he sec ond fiddlers' convention in manv ' *? ! months. The program was more asuc j cession of lentil res than a i- erics of contests ? features ranging from the singing of Scott 'Cooper, Edd Styles, and Gillian Lambert to the "flat looting" of Ham Childers and the harmonizings of Luke Shuler's har monica. The $25.00 in prizes was divided among these musical)-;; flam Childers, ' Paul Childers, Sent! Cqojirr, Gillian Lambert, Bill Pennington. Garth I Heed, Frank S!m!er and Edd Style-. BALSAM Mrs. H. L. Kvaii*. Home? Demonstra tion Accent, visited several families here Monday. The next meeting of the Club will be with Mrs. Loranzo Crawford at Willets next Friday. Miss Harriett T.on :- of .Vldie >pe>it Sunday night with tjie 1\ ; i i ' ? ! ; ' - . Miss Louise Arlington, who is inp at Majrgie. f;?ent !;> -f v. e>, I at her home heie. Mr. and I\F rs. (Uwrju Knhht and ^liss Harriett Long motored to Del wood, Sunday afternoon. We are triad to say thai Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Jones. Mrs. Lily Bryson and A I i s Daphne Pol's, who ligve been on the very sick list for some time, are now' iir.provii -r. Mr. and Mrs. Cllenn Bryson and Mr. and Mr.-, fieorire T. TTn it_lit went to Asheville Tuesday. MISSIONARY SOCIETY TO MEET The Woman's Missionary Society of the Sylva Methodist ehuroh will meet at 3:30 next Wednesday after noon, at the home of'Mrs. J. Robert Loner. Mrs. Walter L. Jones will be is charge of the procrram. Each member of the soeiety is re quested to brin'r to the meeting1 a dresser scarf and a small vase, to be given to the ('. J. Harris Commun ity Hospital. Tliere will be an ex ecntive meeting of the society at the home of Mrs. Dan Tompkins, the president, tomorrow, Friday, erening^ when reports for the quarter will be made out and plans for the future will be made.