actaon L YEAH IN advance in the county SYLVA, NOETH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1M5. 12.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE OUTSIDE THE COUNTY 5 P. M Closes Successful Journal Campaign. Candidates Are Close jjjghway Commission Is \ieeting In This County ** > /*.?!.<? . . hhI ^aliii'day, the ? . jjja'j,' !J:-' ?' ? ?'' ' I'l'l'lif Worki 1 Hijfh ifiinij) tiVi/'V1- ' Valley, ami will -lining tlm time !'.<-.irniif ill- Waynes I '*? ' ? itmnnl, aiccoixliii^r ' ? 4 ? ?' 1 ii. i *'?' u w . I"1 I : i . 1 M. \\ aynick an. I ( umimi-.*" ? U . ( .. W'ooilanl, loft 1 "? :l } Wcstori: \?r'h i* " "nl |.mke<l over ?? itiu'-r i4 re ? <?m invr to l.irs ,.<iwy Jfciw "? till ,|I;; fi?i; ?? s V.! '? ("V' ' i, .and, it m>es wit It" 1 1 idiwrtv 10H, daek i hijjhuviy, . m leiatiiui Ky "Hie ;i its nietnhiji-ri \vi?! i. ! ,>rn?atioii as !'? y- ' >jt !:i"! ?' ? * 1 " ?'!' D?C0-Urii).H AT CULLOWIIEE NEXT Si.XDAY. AUGUST 25TII n 1 : ,,1 iWoration Da.. , \i Sunday, Aufi'u i i . v. ? . ' \| : with a;?propria!? , - h.i> liri'oiiie an an . i nilowhoe ruininin ,-i ...? I lie enslom \va ?> ? Si'i ii \\i I ail ill ni . .i ;? i !ia; i> has I) !.i! i-; pars ii*i|?ate ! . .immunity. IVope ? ? .it We- tern Xcrl '; m :* a and Smit \i ;i t V nl' thrill ['<>. 1 ' ?'.vjirr. | ? ! Vi ill's t l.r Inisk- ; ?I ? ?? i| i- ra ! ded. 1 his . ?!? l iilril 1 1 ? revive til.1 a-k all \vliu eiKisr . f ? i ! s;-rea I dinuei iri ?. -?!i: of !*??] I< iwslii 1 1 ; . .!!. 1:1, . < ii^ard. \- i ? . ? w ill m?'t#t at one i . .. flowers to dee-' i ? i ; ?- x | A'|| I. ?? :!r will /Isselllh' ? ' !.' ' i whrre t.tyr ? v ' . "In- iduirch ?hoir . f.' >i Ila/.elwood (|tia. i .'* . i i ! v. ill be spread on tli .1,;: , ; ? sc. A' ' : ? 1 iii lie music led hv ?' M. !'? i . *. i. j :;???! 11*4 liy men f i'l ? ' i. ?... \;y, and adilresse ''.v ?' ? I.. \ i'-t., Ilazelwood, Hon. 1 ? '"A . i. ; 1 'tli ti'.lllTS. 1 T - in. 1 11 on at ra linemen ts > iiiU'hnr/in, K. 1' \ ? .iv. lord, 1.. A An I' !' 1 1 and Kd. Hattlr. QuaHa. | .. m i j.; Terrell) i " i I. r |' .'nil i?.issetl MVV:J 0, . w. 1H. Sill- was 74 VrM- ;? .. i-inTes-"-.'.! \l\Wh i?? ; n ,i , :? , , ii, joined the j li' ' ! 1 \I.MI- of a^'e ?U(l| ' ? n.f tin- riuht thro ^ I ' . ; rl. mu-\?\ disposition ' . ,? Vur several y<'nl'-*? ? ;,??? ? i ? i.ifiuU wi'l> a ^mil' - : ' i ? '.n-.c them visit and ..... her hu^haml I, Ire::, Mrs. Dix??-* i ? . M. A., ai?'I II ,,v ' '? iJtinlM. Mrs. W'i? ? ?V . i \|,S. Texas Mas ! ?yv It * a: li Mr ? K,l_ , '? . I u> Vu'ieeal serviee . !.Vv. .1. L. Hyatt, j ?' ? r W. f!; v ;, . i Kev. .) .T. <inav. ! i i t ? j . < -? ii .i ii it distance at | * "?! -! ,? in. v. !. Inter.ivnt w.ts in <? :i.i- ? - v ?t (}ua*la. 1!u* |\i" . 1 1 >;?, Hi luiiiily desires to ex t' ' it > V : . ? . 1 . through The Journ t'l llii.-i- w \ 1 1 ? aided tln-ia. in .1 ? 1 ?1" l.vi a* :>cvc.iVeiuei?t. 1 v I. I limy of Ans?er, acconi- j Mi-, t',. {'. t on|>er from Svlva, j "i'-'l i'i>-it!<u-te(| tin- devotional and j ?'ir.in it... < .<? i ; 1 1 address at Qua't.t j ^tiiiidl, M hhi In y ittin ni iitc. I M,<- i. 1 1 ya 1 1 , Mr*. ?!- G. Hoojv ,'1' ?H'l Mr. rail llovle ?t KmkUmI the J*kM'iu!Mih at Savannah, lust week. ?m.l Mi.. C. C. LctUn't-ter ot ? Micvi'f,. in- ,t s ?t Mr. P. II. liir-'iii'.,, s?u(l;,v. ,,^ls 1- 1 i > ' '.?iMv.ell ..I Millie, N. 1,11,1 ^ Mildred Ulnke of An Vi-I . \" ile.l at Mr. H. o. 1 I. 1 J:- " V s'"'il?r >iiH nt last week I ii K i-p ( reek. 40 YEARS AGO Tuckaseigo Democrat, August 22, 1895 Miss luez Brwin returned to her home in Ashcville yesterday. Miss Mat tie Pender, of Brvson City, is visiting friends here, this week. Wesley Shelton has movwl back to .lackson l'rom Haywood county. Mr. (inrland and the Misses Garland of Macon., ?pent Monday night here. V.t* Mr. .) alley, of Mncon, was here tins week, >he guest of Mr. Woodfin's family. Dr. Fred Siler and Miss Lela Enfoe were over from Webster Tuesdnv evening. v Dr. J. II. Wolff went to Whittieryes terday, returning this morning on the freight train. Messrs. .J. D. Zachary and J. F. Coward each shipped a ear load of ralile to market Sist week. Miss Saflie Pollin-k, of Kindlon, came over from Canton, Monday, and will spend some tint- with Mrs. J. H j Wolff. i Mr. \Y. ,1. Kim-aid, agent for th.? Southern i{\\, at Dillsboro, returned home today, after a few days' trip to Florida. There wi*] lie a silver medal contest at the Academy at Svlva, Au'rn*?t 27, : under '1"' auspice* of t.he \\ . C. T. I . of Sylva. All are cordially invited to j attend. A collection will he taken. for the benefit of the work. Today, i. i ? our of liidwcll & Co. V four horse wagons, loaded with corun ilum, w.is crossing t lu* ln*i< ln'i* across the cnvk, near the corundum wheel tactory, the bridge gave way under the weight and settled into the creek. Moth of the si .'is of l.lie bridge broke at the same time, and lef the bridge, with w.igon and allt down Fort mi - 1 ately, the water was shallow, or the: .?incident woufd have been much more serious. As it whs, il resulted in the serious crippling of one horse, whose lei; was at first thought to he broken, and the breaking of two of the wheels of the wagon. Thw bridge was not long ;o condemned as unsafe and I he use of ii ( v:)sed to the public. It was (hen repaired and again open ed to travel only a few weeks ago. A ?e eh'ld of Mr. and Mrs. .James Fisher, of Rabun. (!a? who are visit ing ?t Mi. .\. AY. F'irnier's, sotro three or four years of aye, wandered off in t he mountains last Sunday, which caused great dishvss and const erna- j tion, until it was found about sunset,' at a considerable distance from the house. Mrs. Fshej- told the chiM tl.ev would go out after a wjiile and get some apples. The little one did not ! wait for its mother, but first providing itself with a kii i a *1 satchel, went on* alone. Mrs. Fishop soon missed the J eliilil md sought'- it llrsj about tJi" ! house. Not tindiug it. the neighbois ' soon organized searching parties and after looking the greater part of the day, it was found lrpon-tJie mountain- _ side. It had traveled over a great deal | ?f ground during its wandering, and when found, there was naturaflv grenr rejoicing. I Miss N'ellie E. Bird, second da ugh- j ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bird, 01 ' Quallatown, aged ]."> yews, fell a.sfecji in .Jesus, Sunday evening, August 11. while at Candler. Misses Mary "BattFu and Ruth ftirk; visited Mrs. D. C. Hughes. Mrs. A. C. Hoyta and Miss Edna Jfoyle were guests of Mrs. J. 0. How j ell. Miss Gertrude Ferguson' went to Foittaim, .vhere she will liegin schoof, Wednesday. Mis. J. If. Hughes called on Mrs. L W. Cooper. Mnrgarot Johnson of Ela., spent l<i*l week with Mi's D. M. Shufer. ! Miss \lai.V Emnvi Ferguson ?iperi i Sunday with relatives at ?la. Jackson Will Have Labor Celebration Plans have boon perfected for stag ing Jackson county's second annuo' Labor Day Celebration and Progress Exposition, Monday, September 2. The event, which is being Sponsored by the Sylva Rotary Club, promises to be even bigger than. that of last Labor : Day, when some 5000 peopje were at- ' fradted to Sylva. The Community Ser- ' vice voQiimitt(H%. of the Rol'ary Club, composed of Cy Rasm|usso<n, Bill E'i sor and C. C. Poindex'tei^, is in char**} of arrangements. C. C. Poindextcr, Director of Athletics at Western Car olina Teachers College, is in. active charge of working out the details of the program. The program will get under way at 9:30 in the morning, with running, jumping, throwing, and other wthletic event* at -the Syiva lligh school. There will he evemts for boys, girls, j men, women, fnrge, small, young and ( old. Mr. Poindcxter will be in charge j ? I -\ ' ot these events. At 11:30 a lug paivule "will be held on the streets of Sylva, featuring al! . kinds of Jackson county product*. J There wil? ,< he a baby division in r!var?re of the Junior Club; a mutt ; dog division in charge of t'.he girl scouts; a school children's division, and any other group or organization I hat cares to entei. The parade wifl assemble and form at the high ccihool. All day at the High schoo? building, tin-re wil? In- on display agricultural j a I'd other farm, garden and facibrv j products of J.icji -on eountv. County j Agent (r. R. Larkcy will be in charge of these oxhitiits. There wilf he a special flower ex l'.ibit in 1 1. arc, e of the 20th Centurv Club. This division is open to tlower|| of my and everyone. Mrs. Kerrt?iK, ( hapmau is president ot the club. At .1:00 o'clock in the afternoon there will 1><- a baseball game betwten the Sy?va Athletic Club and tihe ( herokoe (ndiaiis The day's .idniiirs witl be topped otV with a strirrr band contest and old time sq-iare dame at the high school gyniluasium. Then- will be a. siualS> ad mission cl?a -*gf l'- t It is event, toi the benefit of the Svlva High school aih It tics and to defray expenses of t lie day. All players of siring in-tru meiits are urged <i?o attend, and the public is invited. Blue ribbons wiJl be awarded wi i4 ners in a!"! events and exhibits. One of i he special feat-urea of the celebration wi '?} be w iudow decorations ol the store* and business houses of Sylva, displaying products of merit from the farms, yards, gardens and factories of .Jackson county. The committee in charge of arrant ments appreciates the splendid co-op eration they are receiving from the various organizations and individuals. Constructive suggestions are request ed and always welcome. The big idea back of the wliofo program is a general good time foi .nil, .along with a display of some of the products of the county. Sylva Schools Start Friday, August 30th ' I / i1 ? S.vlvn and IVlfshoro eliilklron will end Kihoir vacation, and get them hack to their pJass-roonis-and pViv-grounds of their schools, Friday of next week, August. .{(). The building at the high schood will be used for exhibits, in connection with the Labor Day and Progress Ex j osiitiou that is to be hefd under au spices of t/he Svlva- Rotary Club. All atlier ?ounty schools, except th> high school at CuUowhee, opened on Monday morning of tlijs week. The CuUowhee high schooi will open on Tuesday, August 27th. i TREE KILLS O.O.C. LAD The body of Charles E. Lassiter, 19 year old C. C. C. enrollee, who was t'atafty injured, last Friday^n the Great Smoky Mountains, when a idl ing- log knockcd him over a cliff and fell on him, was sent to his home in Morrisville, near Raleigh, Saturday. I The young man was brought to the C. J. Harris Community hospital here, but lived only a few minutes after' he ' was received. Congress Anxious To Go Home Soon ' ' I I ' - Washington, August 21? Two! things stiimnlated the auxietv of Sen-1 a tors and Representatives to pet through uht* session of (.'?ngrcsa and go home to inspect. their political fences. One of these was :the resuft of the by? election in Rhode Inland la.si week, when what was supposed to '><? a safe Democratic district in a Demo cratic state elected a Repnlueai:. Con gressman on a strictly New Deal is sue. The other was a public demand by former President Hoover for tin disclosure by President Roosevelt >>f his 'indentions as Unamending ite Con stitution m order to further centralize power m Washington. Those two strictly political events caused even more of a turmoil tlvm 4 he rejection by the Senate Finance Committee of the tax bill drafted by the House Committee, and ; lie substitution for it of a bilf which conformed very closely indeed to the I.n Follette pian ?rf spreading the income tlax down farther in the lower brackets itJian it has ever been. That proved to be a flash in the pan when it became evident that Admini stration lenders would not go along but it has complicated the tax* bill sit nation so that no one can guess what will1 happen. The Rhode Island election brought home to Administration partisans, who have been sonoewlia.! skeptical about 'the tales of rebellion on the Atlantic Coast, the realization tiiat there might be something to those storiett. Strip ped of other complication, the Rhode Island campaign was chief ft on the issue of the cotton processing tax nn der the AAA. Rightly or wrongly, voters in the Rhode Island mill towns bFamed - tb# processing tax for tln? shutting down of litany eottom mills. To their opposition to t.liis phase of t-h*' New Deal was added the v.-V of the wealthy Newport residents, who were becoming nervous over the President V avowed desire to impose much heaviei taxes on great estates and inhers tances. Politicians, being human, always try to lind a scapegoat on whom lo lay the blame for untoward happenings. In this instance the fingers of Demo eratic spokesmen are pointing at See ( Continued on page 2) Final Rites Are Held For Coot Woods I Cowarts, August 17 ? Final rites fo Coot Wood, 48 of Cowarts, wore hol?l Sunday afternoon w?t 2 o'clock at the Balsam Grove Union church, ?f which he was a member. Mr. Wood died. Friday nigh't in the C. J. Harris Com munity hospital, following a major operation. Rev. Merritt Hooper, pastor of the church was in charge of the service, and was assisted by Rev. Ben Cook, pastor of John's Crock Baptist church Mr. Wood was a prominent citizen of J'ackson county, and one of .the leading fanners of Cnney Fork. He ,1km -1 engaged in 'the mercantile, wood and lumber business, afso, and at the time of his death was employed as purchas ing agent for Simmons and Welch, of Clayton, Ga., who operate a stave niiN at Sylva. . , Surviving Mr. Wood ore hi? widow, his mother, four brothers, Dill, H. L. and J. Wood, all of Cowarts, and O.F. Wood, of Crossviife,Tenn., four sisters Mrs. Flora Mason and Miss Lyda Wood, of Cowarts, Mrs. Xellie Park er, of SpeedweH, Mrs. AnnabelJe Phil lips, of Rockport, Washington, ,*wid r host of other relatives aud friends Adtive pall bearers, nephews of Mr. Wood, were: Clifford Hooper, Jack Phillips, Ethan Hooper, Howard Wood, Dillard WJood, and Corl Wool Honorary pall bearers were: John Painter, Diltard.Hooper, J. T. Snyder. Dillard Coward, Jr. C. Z. Gander, Dr. D. D. Hooper, Dr. Sam Stringfield, Milas Parker, Gyrus H. Nicholson. Hugjh Monteith, E. P. Stillwefl, and F C. Hennessee. The flower girls, all nieces of Mr. Wood, were:Ora Blanche Honson, Jou nita Hooper, Sal lie Hooper, Elenor.i Phillips, Christine Mason, Ijciz.cIIo Wood, Biaceha Wood, and SJabra Hoop Every Minute Until Vote TODAY and i TOMORROW i ! ' - (By Frank Parker Stockbridgi) ' ' MARGINAL" questioned r. We have been hearing a lot in lat years about "'marginal lands" am! the foltv ot fanning t hem. I wondet sometimes if that is not a false l>oirt of view. Around my country l#oine in th. Berkshire's there are plenty of f>aim [which my economist would class :e ?'mlarginai." They do not and cauiK.' produce cash crops big enough t ' bring in mue.'i more than the tax' Vet they are occupied, for the gre.atr psrt, bv contented, even happy far:: families. They get a living. and"V good one, from the land. Fanning, '? these folk, is not an industrial 01 commercial enterprise, but a mode i.l living, in" independence and secure;. I know of 110 fanner who looks id his problems that way, even on these decidedly "marginal'* New Eng-lam' faring, who is iu real distress. MINES swimming hole Last Sunday I drove over to \ork Slatft, pa?t the remnant of a distine? ly "marginal" enterprise. That wri the old Williams iron mine. Back before t lie Revolution the Colonist? were digging iron ore out of the u;our. tains of western Massachusetts. Th* mines were opeiated and tiie on smelted at nearby Richmond fumac for more than ] 50 years. 'I hen Ili' cheapest iron oie in the world wa discovered in Minnesota. The old Williams iron mine is fiiN I of water now. Local tradition has :? that there is no-lmttoa*. That isn true, of '-onrse, iml there Is '200 feot or more of wafer uiider the boys who swimming there. I'nlikc a marginal farm, nobody en.) get a living out of a marginal iron mine. CHANGE will come Auv plan of social-economic plan nil'? which would fix eveiything as i' js would no silly. 1 go* t(> thinking over the changes on one Xirw fjiigland county. A mrle from my farm is the olo Freedfvville marble quany which produflfd most of the building stone for IheRastern cities when 1 was a l>oy. It shut down forty years ago, when bigger veins of better marble were found in Vermoint. Two or three miles away the first wood-pulp paper was made the year 1 was born, mid for a century almost all the writing i paper isod in Aax>rica was made in our valley. We no longer make v.i?xl pnlp, and half the writing paper mills! are shut down. ? ? , . ! Up to five years ago we went -hip ping a quarter of a million .l?dlar?: worth of lime every year. Now we don't ship a oartoad a month, Better limestone and easier to quarry, m other places, is the answer. One of the reasons why 1 have Hit!'* faith in the permanency of ?ny pla ot building moth! towns around par ticular industries is that 1 have seen too many communities fall into decay when the march of progress move? in another direction. MEN ?*>ir.e loargina1. I wonder if a good deal ot tin world's troubles is not dm- so awh to "marginal" agriculture ai d "mar ginal" industry, as to what might be (Continued oa page 2 1 1 J FIRST VISIT IN 36 YEARS Mr. Jeff Rhea, who is lion* for his first visit since he moved to Arkansas, nearly thirty-five year*, ago, expressed h>m?e?f' a.s beir.g ?t torlv amazed at the change and progress in Sylva ami Jackson county. Mr. Rhea believes that his old home is desfcnod to he the coiuiiu* riegion of America, and says tihat he knows now that it Ls tlk> Ijest *part of the country. Mr. Rhea is a son of Major W. M. Rhea, a former prominent cit izen of Svfva township, wlio died in 1908. He is \isiting his brother. Mr. S. M. Rhea, and other relatives and friends. i 5 Is Valuable Period Ends Each candidate made her last re port Wednesday tu the Camjxiig.i i Manager. Saturday's rejx>rts must be | placed in the Hallo! Box at the Javk j son (.'oil: y Hank, bv to re 5 I*. M. If ! you fail to do this you lose all votes thai are in your last report. Reiuoni i ber this. Now i> th?* tinw* to really find out who your ivaf friends are. A five years subscription counts 15(1, (KM) votes, and votes alone will win. No candidate .Oiould hesitate to go to her friends for a five year subscription, as there are many thai are .so close, one 7) year subscription may mean a new Chevrolet . Think of driving this wonderful new automobile, and please hear in mind, as staled early in this pai>er. that there js no occupation where one can make "uousih money by only working spare time for six short weeks to buy an automobile like this. IxM us slate once again that this campaign has been, and wit) continue to be ab solutely oh t? < square, so, with this thought, in mind, the Campaign Man ager will say? "0.0 TO IT! KEEP GOING, AND GOOD LUCK!" REMEMBER Ail reports must be in the Bal lot Box at the Jackson County Bank, Saturday at 5 p. m. Cash only w,ili be counted, when the Judges and the Campaign Manager open the Ballot Box and check the records. Then someone will be glad he or she DIDN'T SLOW UP DUR ING THE LAST DAYS. LAST RITES FOR MRS. BRYSON WERE HELD AT WEBSTER Funera? services for Mrs. Hattie St ill well "in sou were held at (Jin Webster Bipiisl ehureli, Sunday, ;it fhree .j'el. vk in the afternoon. Rev. W. C. Ree-1 of Syfva and Rev. I. K. Stafford of C allow live officiated. In terment was in (lie St ill well cemetery .'it Webster. The pa?l hearers weiv: David Srillwell, Alvin Sutton, .Tames Cook. Carl A tl man, Roy Cowan ,and Mr. Staiicup. Mrs. Brvson was horn at Webster, Xov. 29,1872; and died August 17, 1935, -it the age of 63 years. She had heeu afflicted with paralysis for more than two years.. She was married to Mr. L. F. Brv :son in 1911, and they made their home i in Birmingham, Ala., untif the death of Mr. Brvson, in 1934, since which time Mrs. Bryson has been living with her brother, Mr. I. E. Still well at WebSte.r. Surviving here are two sisters, Mrs. W. X. Cook, Webster, Mrs. Geo. \\ . Sutton, Syfva, three brothers, E. H. j Sillwell of Western Carolina Teach jers Colft-sr, E. P. Stillwell, Sylva at ; tornev, md I. E. Stillwell, of Webster, . two stepsons, Kichard and FVed Bry 1 son of Birmingham, and a host of other relatives and friends. BETA. j (By William Dilfard.) Our school opened its regular ses ' tjion with a large enrollment mid i i number of parents present, despite th" i bad weather. j Miss Hilda Keener, of Olenrille. is ?visiting ner/iunt, Mrs. Ed Fisher. Messrs. .1. R. ami Pauf Snvder hava j . t 4 returned to their home in Georgia, j after a month's visit here, ; Miss Bonnie Freeman has been visit ling her aunr, Mrs. Sallie Freeman, i Several new buildings are being con j structed in our community. Resi j deuces ure being erected by V. V. .Hooper and Ed Erwin and a wood wort shop by Monteith and Dean. Mrs. J. E. Latta and daughter, Mad eline, who have been spending the sum mer here and at Webster, have return od to their home near Durham. The Hovie Demonstration Club of Beta held an all day meeting at Mrs. G. C. Snyder's, Wednesday of last week. Th"1 women of the community canned many fruits and vegetable* under the sujvr>rvision of Mrs. Mamie Sue Evans. Around 170 quart cans were filled. The annual cfeaning and decorating of the Old Field and Dills cemeteries will be ]>eid tius week. i

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