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il.c Senate on, ;i II three j
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, v ? ::tijt in nnient of the
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Hi, hi is. the Senate hope to
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yii !<? r::t ?'} ?'? ?fereuiluin to put
flu i" ' i: !C ' ' to
ih(im ami M''"' '' haek to the
j|,. >. I'm i r.-iire. li is doubtful i
v |? |, i i'v ll"i>e "u.-.M concur in ?
,i-v .-it'll :'!l" That the vot
i!. Mire in the Senate
? :i?' is certain. If the
? i.po-nl of Senators
i ('!iil?e, Kamsey of I
I!: ? vimim; of Swain,
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Bhnti'H i*' ??" 1 ?
Yiiutv all et ^ iuMii have stood sol
:?? measure, hoWs to
ii< gnus il" v"'1' w
t!if *?''? However, if one of
fV ???natiH's should shift his
ncw'rioH riif result would would be a
and the d ut v would fall
njv.n Lieu:. nan: ilmeruor Graham to
brrak the tie.
In tit.-* approjiriations bill passed
the tivirhiT- got their incmise of pay
of 20 per m ut aih?ve the present sal
an -cheduli' for the first year of the
bieiiiunin ami '2"> ]????* eeut for the see
ojiiI vtflr. Many xnators. .however,1
I expr?-s die oaiiron that the purport*
cd itserea-e i> !:>?: worth the paper
that it i" written on. asserting that
there i? not -ntrieiciit provision for
nvi-nue to meet it. It' the liquor bill,
passes, this will lie one of the bie:
I argument* of 'ho wots, that the rev
enue from the liquor is necessary to
meet the inerea>e in the appropria
tions for the school* and to pay the
increase in the vie- of the teaeh
ei's. thus maneuvering 'he school peo
ple and tlie teacher* into a rather un-l
enviable position.
There have Ik-ci: repeated attacks
I up* >n the -chn,,! machinery act, from
1 all quarter- in : l?. <tate, on the as
l^r. ml ground rhat ii brings too great
| eenUanza: ion of authority, in the pro
vision that county -iijierintendeivts
( arp ityiireil in f.htiiit lists of eligible
priiu-ip.il>. and the principals iit turn
ft"""it n-t< i,i i-t i?_j: t?|?? teachers.
The hill provides that the school
teaclh-r-s he h,,t r' i|iiired to attend
sU!iinier -.-hintl : h: s year or next in
order to - ? -n-j r certificates ; but
' at tuc rci'tii Jin- autoniatic
A n : e\vi i| !,. .,(.j ()j- j]1(; (;on_
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Town Election To Be
Held Next Tuesday
Syiva ji uiiicipal flection will
In-Ill tu x; Tiit ? ?!;i v. Democrats and
,? entered complete
tifk'.-N fur i||,. ,-i, i-iion, ami workers
both jKtvic- l.nvc been bending
J tinir tffuis i-j t ting voters regis.
t'Tci! atiii ring for the contest.
flu- iK ir.ti:-; ;i: - renominated Mayoi
' ? t. Hui-1i:ui;!'i and the hoard of al
'I'lmtMi cmi-i ?{? J. 0. Allison,
V I.. liriuUtaft'. |)r. (J rover Wilkes,
*"*? ^ ? A lli ,ii ;i ) 1 1 { Krm-st Wilson.
t icket is, for mayor,
'? '? (inii'iif, lot* aldennen, Paul
(' w llcusley. J. V. Hall,
^illanl Coward and Velt Wilson.
riii' | 'ill : will open at- sunrise ?nd
:it >u>i-i t.
" 1 '? li .nis is regitrtrar and S.
1. Moiiii-;i], an,j 7)?n Tompkins judgea
1,1 'In- el,-, ti,,n
entertainment to be at
COLORED SCHOOL MONDAY
T1" ''let- Chili of the Allen High
Muml \slifvillo will give ft variety
;t! tV Colored Consolidated
Mum! M?i?iav, May 6th *at 8 P. M.
I he | >1 ti^ratii will consist of negro
?"i'ii'.'i u;il secular solos and sextet
Mitn.i", ,, tlll,i oiu'iaet folk pl&y>
' Tin- Ilt.wl of the Wolf."
I In- c,i,.,. ciui, consists of thirty
On,, hour and a half of high
? <|ss I'ntcrtaininent will be given by
s wt'll-t mined group for a small
"'hnission f,r.
niusicnl director is Isabelle R.
Jon*.
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40 YEARS AGO
Tuckaseige Democrat, May 2, 1890
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Mr. Thos. WHlson, of Big Ridge,
was here. Sunday.
Mr. W. E. Norton anil little soil
were in town yesterday.
Mr. G. S. Ferguson ret onwd to
Wavnesville yesterday.'
Mr. C. S. Fuilbrighft, of Alexander's
came over Monday to visit relatives
here. < ^
Col. A. T. Davidson, of Asheville,
tended Court at Webster part of
iliLs week.
Mr. Jno. T. Wike and daughter, of
biast La Porte, were here Tuesday,
^hopping.
Hon. W. T. Crawford eame over
,;i terdav enroute to Webster, and
ivti.\rned home today.
Mrs. W. J. Fisher and Miss Antiie
libson were down from "Happy
Valley'' this morning.
Mr. Sheppard Hoinans, of New
York, sjKMtt Monday night in Sylva
the guest of M. Patten, Esq.
The first strawberries were offered
on the Wilmington market Thursday
at 35 eents pen qo_ant.
The first State convention of the
Christian Endeavor Societies opened
at Winston on Friday.
Mr. J. S. Jarra/t, who is well remem
bered here, came in from Greenville,
S. C., Tuesday, to attend Court.
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Dr. J. H. Knight returned from
Richmond Medical College, Monday.
He bad been absent several months
Among those returning from Court
Tuesday, we noticed Messrs. Gilmer,
Smathers and Stringfield of Waynes
ville, and Fry, of Bryson City.
Thos. Bracken, of New York, ar
rived Monday, to look after his in
terests in the suit of McKenzie vs
the Equitable Mfg. Co., which is be
ing tried this week.
Hearn-Stedman : The prettiest cere
mony ever witnessed in Ashburn was
that at the Methodist church Wed
nesday evening which made Mr.
Francis E. Heam and Miss Sallie
Stedman one. At 8 o'clock the church,
which had been tastily decorated by
the friends of the yorjjig couple, was
thrown open to the spectator. Hardly
an available seat remained unoccupied.
Rich and poor, high and low, young
and old, had all turned out to wit
ness the first church wedding in the
history of our town. The happy cou
ple have the best wishes of ithe Ad
vance and a host of friends who
throw their old shoes after them as
they sail for Port Eternity. ? Ash
burn, ('Ha.) Advance. ? The Democrat
begs to tender, in its own behalf and
in behalf of the other friends of
Miss Sallie in this neck o' the wtoods,
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Outline Program For
Better Rural Housing
The state advisory rural houBinc;
committee of the FHA has worked
<ij.t a plan for stimulating the better
housing- program in each of the coun
ties.
The plan calls for the establish
ment of county rural housing com
mittees to carry on the work locally
with the help of A. K. Robertson,
whose headquarters will be alt State
College.
As farm representative of the FHA
in this State, Robertson will visit the
different counfties to assist in the de
velopment of a better housing pro
gram where it has not been started
and to do follow up work in counties
?vhich have already been oigan'ized.
The purpose of the program, said
Dean I. 0. Schmb, of State College,
ohairman of the rural advisory com
mittee, is 'to stimulate the makkig of
permanent improvements to far? j
homes and buildings and to hi.ip
families secu/re credit on reasonable
terms when necessary.
Tentatively, the county committee
' would be composed of the farm and j
home agents, represembatives of vo
cational teajchers, representative farm ,
men and wbmen, NCERA represent*- j
tives, Grahge representatives and
leaders of other agricultural oigan
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COMMENCEMENT
OF SYLVA HIGH
STARTS SHHDAY
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The commencement exercises of
Sylva high 9chool will be initiated at
8 o'clock Sundlay evening, when the
Rev. Paul Hardin of Wayncsville will
deliver the annual sermon.
On Thursday evening the declama
tion-recitation contest, sponsored by
the B. H. Cathey Chapter, U.D.C.,
for the Gertrude Dills McKee medal,
will be held, and a number -of boys
and girls have entered.
Class day exercises will be held.
Weaver Allen will deliver the address
of welcome; Ruth Dillard. the proph
ecy; Hayes Watson, the class poem;
Elmer Green, the last will and test
ament ; Janlie Reagan, the history;
Asburv (harden, the gifts. The mas1
cots are Betty Ann Queen and Arthur
Sutton, Jr.
Graduation exercises will be held
Friday evening. Miss Evelyn Gibspn
is the salutaitorian, and Miss Bonnie
Monteith, the valedictorian.
On Saturday evening the class play
will be presented. The (Hast is being
coached by Mrs. Chester Scott, and
is composed of Evelyn Gibson, Glenn
Cook, Weaver Allen, J. W. Patterson,
Ruth Dillard, Lcona Dillard, Olin
Reed, and Asburv Garden.
The senior class is com poised of'
37 boys and girls:
Weaver Allen, president, Willard
Allen, Kathrvn Brimer, Edith Bum
garner, Herinie Lee Bumglarner, Pearl
Bumgarner, Asbury * Canlen, Virgie
Clayton, Alvin Cogdill, Bail Cope,
Hazel Crispe, Fannie Katherine Da
vis, Leona Dillard, Ruth Dillard,.
Diane Ensley, John H. Ferguson, Jo
seephine Garrett, Evelyn Gibson, El
mer Greene, Marjorie Grind staff, Elva
Harris, Girlie Henry, Clay well Hyde,
Bonnie Monteith, Hazel Allison Mqore,
Essie Parker, Sain Billie Parker, T.
W. Patterson, Janie Rpagan, Olin
Reed, Elizabeth Sherrill, Kathryn
SMtiton, Jan'iveve Thomas, Haves Wat*
son, Dorothy Patton and Ruth Connor
Log Community House
Soon To Be Completed
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A new log community house wall bo
ready for use within a few days in
the Cullowhee M<t/.nfaiii section.
This unusual community project has
been inspired by Miss Ida Smith, of
CudloAvhee, who a year ago went
on the mountain " to conduct a night
school under the Federal emergency
relief education program. The social
and, welfare work of Miss Smith has
reached far beyond the strictly edu
cational realm and the new commu
nity house will serve as a place for
worship as well as for a place foi
school.
It will be the scene of all the or
ganized educational, religious, and
social activities of the neighfatorlraod.
The community house, which will
have one large room and is being
bail* at the mouth of White Rock
Creek, lacks only two "workings" be
fore being finished, Miss Smith said
this week.
Miss Smitih has furnished the mlooey
needed in the project and the men
and boys of the community have fur
nished logs and labor. Each family
will make its own seait and bring it
to the new oomntonity house.
It was planned to have the new
building ready for use by Easter bat
the men of the Culkrwhee M|ounitaiii
community could not find quite
enough time from work on their hill
side farms to accomplish this.
A Sunday School that was formed
by Miss Smith will be one of the out
standing organisations to 'use t<he
little civic building for its meetings
Preaching and old-ttime mountain
Singings will also be held in it. The
building, which will be the only
structure for public use for miles
around, will seat about 100 persons
when finished.
The log building is lpcated about
two miles from the former home of
Teester, the "rattlesnake minister,'**
who has recently mOved to Hender
son ville.
izations.
TK functions of the committee are
ro be . outlining a better housing pro
gram, holding meetings to ae<f^aint
farm people with the prtgram, to en
courage commercial firms to adver
tise material which can be used ifl
house improvements, to ancoorage
financial institutions to cooperate with
,rhe program and to arrange demon
strations. in installing water systems
and similar activities.
Motorcade Stops
In Sylva Saturday
A large motorcade from Chatta
nooga, stopped in Sylva, Saturday
afternoon, enroute to Asheville, on a
good will tour, and stressing 'the need
of opening up a highway through
Sylva from Chattanqogoa to Ashe
ville.
Drinks and other refreshments
were served to members of the .Motor
cade while in Sylva, with girl scouts
and members of the Junior Club do
ing t.he serving. ,
The Junior Elks Band front Chat
tanooga entertained the peop'e with
several musical selections, ' in tho
Streets, and everybody seemed to be
having a great time.
Mayor C. C. tijphanau today re
ceived t.he following letter from offi
cials of the Chattanooga Mo'.;>r Club,
sponsors of the motorcade, expressing
appreciation of the cordial recopt io.i
given in Sylva :
' ' We wan* to thank you for your
most cordial reception of our motor
cade last Saturday.
| Every member of cur parly was
most enthusiastic over your cordial
recept'ipn, and we hope for an early
completion of the water level link in
our highway system, in order that
we may be closer neighbors.
"Will you please convey ??.r thanks
to all of those in your city whfo con
tributed to our most pleasant trip."
T.he letter is signed by Hu*:h L.
Thatcher, president ot the Chatta
nooga Motor Club, and Stanley Sach
man, chairman of the motorcade com
mittee.
Jackson Youw* People
Will Organize Union
The young people from the differ
ent churches in Jackson county are
asked to send delegations to an all
day meeting of the young people of
the County at Cullowhee, Sunday, May
19th. The purpose of the meeting i.i
Jo form a union between the denom
inations for better and closer cooper
ation of the young people. All B.Y.P.
U.'s and Bp worth Leagues are invited
to send delegates.
Miss Mildred Cowan, chairman of
the Baptist Young People's work in
tJils county is asking every clivch to
be represented. All of the Epwtorth
Leagues and other young people's or
ganizations from churches in the
county are expected to be represented.
The county young people's union
is expected to be to the young people,
the same as the county Ministers
Association is to the ministers. It
believed that a county iyiion will
stimulate the work of the B.Y.P.U.
and the Epworth League in the
county, that it will help to draw the
young ixtetple into the church, in
stead of away from t.he <*hurch. It
will give the young people of the
county a means of expression for the
church of tomorrow in the vounc;
people of today, and n county union
will help train and stimulate church
pride, attendance and loyalty.
All delegates arc asked to bring pic
nic lunches. The program will begin
at 10 o'colck in the morning at the
Methodist churoh in Cullowhee.
Dr. H T. Hunter will ffive a brief
address of welcome. Miss Mildred
Gowan will introduce the delegates
and delegations. Rev. Robt. M. Har
dee will preach at the eleven o'clock
hour
Picnic lunch will be served at
twelve on the campus of Western Car
olirta Teachers College.
A short afternoon session will be
heM, with voCal music, and an orianiz
ation will be perfected.
U. D. 0. CONTEST THURSDAY
Eleven boys and girls will contest
for the Gertrude Dills McKee medal
offered by the B. H. Catfiey Chapter,
U.D.C., at the school auditorium
Thursday evening of next week.
Mfosic will be given by the Chil
dren's Chapter, under direction of
Mrs. J. L. Dillard.
The contestants and their selections
Harriett Holland. "Rattlm' Joe's
Prayer"; Annie Ruth McLaughlin,
"Maud ' Mailer"; Helen Queen.
"Paul Revere 's Rdde"; Wild* Moore,
"The Soul of the Violin"; I>?rothy
Patton, "Being Beautiful"; Susie
Ben Tatham, "The Blind Man";
Maggie Dillard, "Sellin' the Farm";
Jannette Dillard, "Bk,d's FVury
Tale"; OUie Hall, "Lasea"; Harold
Cook, "Soldier's Reprieve"; and.
Claywell Hyde, "The N m South.
Chamber Of Commerce
Urges Completion Of 106;
Resolutions Are Adopted
Queen Of The May
Will Be Crowned
Miss Edna Patton, of Murphy, a
f ur-year seinor, and winner of second
tj !ace in the 1933 State-wide beauty
contest of the American Legion, will
be crowned Queen of the May, at
Western Carolina Teachers College,
with elaborate ceremonies, tomorrow,
Friday, afternoon. Miss Elizabeth Da
vis of Charlotte will serve as maid oi
honor; and the court will be compos
ed of Misses Betty McFarland, oi
Tryjon; Ruth Burch, Canton; Rcbsi
McLawhorn, Vanceboro ; Evelyn
Shields, Murphy; Margaret Coward,
Cullowhee; Helen Patton, Swannanoa,
Dot Higdon, ' Sylva ; Anne Barnett,
Charlotte; Amyrillis Knight; Brevard,
Marjorie Young, Brevard; Christine
Cogging Blair, S. ('.; Catherine How
ell, Burnsville; Osceola Everett, High
lands; and Winifred Xicholson, Bre
vard.
The coronation ceremonies will be
gin at 4 o'clock.
Tin- folk dances will incltade rep
resentations from England, Spain,
Sweden, Hungary, Scotland, France
Germany, Ireland, Norway, and Am
erica.
A Held and track meet, and inter
class event, will be held on the ath
letic (ield, prior to the coronation, and
will be directed by Coach C. C. Poin
dexter.
Jackson County Joins
W. N. C. In Advertising
Jackson county ami Sylva hav<
joined in the advertising can*paigi
to be conducted by the Park to Park
Magazine. The huge advertising Zcp
pelin trailer, covered with advertising
and line<l inside with photographs oi
Western North Carolina, will leave I
this area on June 10, and will make
a, trip through the middle w<>st am'
the east, as far as New York, carry
ing advertising of Western North
Carolina.
Thousands of copies of t In* maga
mine will be distributed to Chambers
of Commerce, hotels, gas stations ami
the like throughout 'the sections of
the country reached.
Jackson county, through the efforts
of the Chamber of Commerce, the Ro
tary Club, and by individual sub
scriptions, will have a i?ge of adver
tising in the magazine, in additon to
much free space.
CHAMBER TO ELECT OFFICERS
The Jackson Conflity Chamber of
Commerce will elect officers at the
next meeting, which will be held dur
ing this month.
A nominating rommittee composed
of M. Buchanan, Sr., Dan Tompkins.
S. C. Cogdill, Sol Sditdman and H.
E. Mo:xteith, w* 3 appointed at the
meeting Tuesday evening, to make
nominations for president, vice-pres
iderut, secretary', tresnrer, and nine
directors, to be submitted to the
ehamber at its next meeting, an to
be vcted on as officials of th<> body
for the ensuing year.
Elementary School Will
Close Friday Morning
. Tomorrow tlic Syiva Elementary
school will celebrate the closing ot
the present term, ami a large class of
boys and girls will be given certifi
cates promoting them to the high
school and signifying their completion
of the work of the elementary school.
The progrtttii for the exercises,
which Itegin at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing and will conclude at noon,
Processional.
Song to the 7th grade, by Kbe sixth
grade.
Salutatory, Alice Dills Weaivcr.
Address, Prof. Robert L. Madison.
Piano Solo, Luicilc Smith.
Prophecy, Prances Wolfe.
Class History, Marion Cooper.
Class Poem, Paul Messer.
Gifts, Richard Dillard.
Toast to Mascot, Lou Elsie Parker.
Last Will and Testament, Ray
Clark.
Valedictory, Lneile Reed.
Presentation of diplomas, Mr. F. M.
Crawford.
Preston Henn, Jr., is the maseot
of the class.
The Jackson Comity Chamber of
Commerce, meeting Tuesday evening
in the Masonic hail, unanimously
adopted a resolution calling upon tho
State Highway and Public Works
Gonimijsion to construct Highway 106
at the earliest possible moment.
The resolution was offered immedi
ately upon a report on the situation
of highway construction in the coun
ty by Mr. Dan Tompkins, chairman
of the chamber's highway committee,
and a report by Mr. A. J. Dills, who
with Mr S. C. Cogdill formed a special
Committee, that went U> Aaheville
last week to confer with District En
gineer Walker on the subject.
Perhaps never in the history of the
duj,nty has there been such readv
and enthusiastic response among the
]MK)ple as has been evidenced regard
ing Highway 10(5, following the two
articles concerning the highway sit
uation that have ap]>eared in the last
two issues of the Jackson County
Journal.
The resolution reads:
Whereas, it is now apparent the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission will soon be in position
to spend a considerable sum of money
in the const ruction of highways with
in the State, and,
Whereas, there is a great need Cor
certain highway work in Jackson
-?ounty in order to provide for the
expected tourist travel to the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park:
Now, therefore, be it resolved by
he Jackson County Chamber of Com
fierce in session duly assemble! on
'his the 30th day of April, 1035:
First: That we respectfully request
'he State llighwav and Public Work*
Commission to immediately construct
Highway No. 10(5 and repair such
?*th<T highways as the Commission
?nay seem expedient.
Second: That the mfttitcr of location
>f Highway 10(5 or any other highway
vithin the county be left to the sound
discretion of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission.
Third: That we urge that highway
"onstitytion be. begun in Jackson
county at the earliest ]>ossible nio
?ncnt.
The secretary was directed to for*
wiard the rcsohit ion, together with a
letter of transmittal and tho minuter
'>f a meeting of The Western NopUi
Carolina Commit ten for t lie Develop
ment of the fi'rc.i! Smoky Mountains
Vational Park and Approaches There
to, held at t h<* F rvemont Tnn, in Bry
?ion C?tv, on January 4 of this year.
The minutes of the mteting of that
committee, composed of members re}>
resenti-ng the various civic bodies in
'lie Park area, say:
"The various projects recommended
in the resolutions which were passed
it the initial meeting were carefully
reviewed and reports made on their
4tat?s by {informed delegates that
almost all of the objectives sobght
in the Committee's original program
have been attained. The only excep
tions of importance are Highway 106
in the Cashier's Valley section of
Jackson County and the completion
of Xo. 107 from Ela to Cherokee."
? Another paragraph says:
"The committee is grateful to the
X C. Highway Commission for the
progress which has been made on tho
great majority of the projects recom
mended in the resolutions adopted by
the committee at its initial meeting.
It. notes with regre.t, however, that no
action has been taken to improve
Highway Xo. 106 from Cullowhee to
Cashier's Valley and supports the
view of many citizens of Jackson
county that this project has not re
ceived the attention by the Highway
Commission which its importance
merits and which the efforts expend'
ed bv the citizens of the county war
rants. The Committee respeotfnlly
requests that the Highway Commis
sion devote earnest consideration to
early inauguration of work on this
project, and wu.Jd call to its atten
tion the fact th it a former Distriet
Highway Engineer stated that North
Carolina would make every effort to
meet South Carolina on Route 106
the. State line."
Members of the Chamber of Com
merce expressed themselves as feel
ing decidedly more optimistic over
the prospects of earlv action on this
highway than has been felt for s(orae
time. It is generally believed thai
Chairman Wavniek is now entirely
familiar with the situation here and
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