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i i0z =====?-=_. I -ft year in advance in thi f I ewnT^S AFTER LONG ILLNESS I Mr- r. H. Evans died at his home' | 3t?e Bove's Chapel community, to-1 f tiSht Thursday, after an illness' ex- I I jewiins ever a long period. He had I afttjally HI ft* three weeks. I Mr- Evans, a farmer in this county Ha wny years, was 78 years old 1 I Jfc is survived by the widow, four *rry, of Blairsville, Ga, Harry ?? rr?ries. of Sylva, and George of and five daughters, Mrs. gptest justice, of Biltmore, Mrs. S. j. and Mrs. A. K. Orr, of Ashejfers. Herbert London, of Roaand Mrs. Paul Lovingood, puaenrf services will be held at Chapel at 2 o'clock Saturday with interment in the cemetery. The services will ^ rcwtotted by Rev. E. C. Price, of iQvde. farmer pastor of the Methodist jjjgjrch at Love's Chapel, and Rev. ^ .V ffovis, the present pastor. QUALLA TV children and grand-children Iks. c A. Bird attended a birthday reception given in her honor # Mr. H. G. Bird's Friday, Aug. 5. Mns Gertrude Ferguson spent the leith relatives at Concord, Tfcfigiss Etta Kinsland, who teaches y IXaweith, North Dakota, is spending a month's vacation with homeMrs. Martha Plott and Mrs. Mamie Monterth, of Oregon, are visiting Their former home was ^ Oualfti. Mr^ K. Howell is reported to be Senotisftr ill at this writing. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Terrell, of Juiz De Fora, Minas, Brazil, visited it Mr. J. K. Terrell's Wednesday. They aave been missionaries in BrarB fbr the past 35 years. They pbdxt to return to South America in U3L C. R. Bird and family of gtwitovd College visited ,at Qualla week. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Hughes, Mr. and barton Bumgarner and Mrs. J. E. kittle spent Sunday at Clingman's Miss Lenora Nicholson, of Johns ?neefc .-pent the week-end with Miss Jrene Raby. Mrs. Joe Bumgarner called on Mrs. $5es?e Worley. Mrs. J. G. Hooper, Mrs. Ruth Gibson and Mrs. W. H. Hoyle called on J. H. Hughes. Mrs. J. P. Kitchen and daughter, iCate, visited Mrs. J. K. Terrell. Miss Annie Lizzie Terrell spent tbe week-end at Willets. Mr. T. W. McLaughlin is visiting Natives in Asheville. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Green and Mrs. Kmma Preston, of Asheville, -Ifcev.. J. L. Rogers, of Sunburst, Mr. m Mrs. W. T. Shelton, Mrs. R. L. Mr. R. B. Hyatt, Mrs. Georgia Hyatt, and Chas. Ray, of Waynestille, Rev. McRae Crawford, of WhitIrer, Hazel and Gene Edwards, of ^tuteside, Mr. L. L. Shaver and family, of Glenville, Mrs. W. D. Miss Lois Wike and Mrs. X&lph Sutton, of Cullowhee, Mr. and' Mrs. A. D. Parker and Mrs. Lewis Buxngarner, of Sylva, Mrs. F. I. Watand Mildred Watson, of Dillskoro.. Mrs. Locke Woodard, Mrs. EmWoodard and Evelyn Nelson, of ;j Mr. D. L. Oxner visited relatives $1 Balsam. Mr, J. E. Hoyle, of Thomasville, is! Siting at Mr. Chas. Wards. I Mr. and Mrs. Kern Noland, of S*'4nranoa spent the week-end at Mr. Dun Oxner's. The "'Forgotten Road" is now beremembered. Several hands are improving this road. Mr Taft Kinsland is building a Miss-, Annie Terrell visited Miss | ^Gertrude Ferguson Sunday. fe. D. M. Shuler visited Mrs. J. Terrell. Several Qualla folks attend Sunday sehool at Olivet on Sunday aftrrrvxtns. Mrs. Harriett Lamb, of Rockwood, who is stopping with Mr. and L. A. Hipps was a Qualla visitor StiZKlHy. Mr. and Mrs. Terry Johnson, of ^fcerafeee, called . at Mr. W. H. Several parents accompanied their <*hUcbren to the opening exercises of ^ndla school Monday morning. i Mrs. J. E. Battle, Mrs. Fred Sut- j ***. Mrs. Qolman Kinsland and Mrs. <3* M. Hughes sailed on Mrs. J. H., D. C. Hughes^ Jack S COUNTY THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON Washington, Aug. 10. (Autocaster) ?These are the "dog-days' in which the steaming, breathless Capital City spends its energy in trying to keep cool and doing little else. Everybody who can do so leaves town, and those who have to remain here amuse themselves with speculative gossip about what is going to. happen when the vacationists get back ?and afterwards. * As an example, the latest explanation for President Roosevelt's seavoyage down the Pacific Coast to the Galapagos Islands, as if the desire to go fishing were not explanation enough, is that he went to make a personal inspection of that group of islands off the coast of Colombia, with an eye to their acouisition hv thi* TTntfpH States no o site for a naval base to protect the Pacific end of the Panama Canal. Those who circulate that yarn point out that the President has shown signs of trying to emulate his distinguished relative and predecessor, 'Teddy" Roosevelt, whose greatest exploit was the acquisition of the Canal Zone and the initiating of the Panama Canal. The Galapagos Islands The United States has taken in no new territory under the Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, except to hoist the American flag over a few little islands in the South Pacific which were, in effect, nobody's property but which might be useful as refueling stations for airplanes | flying the route to Australia. If he could acquire the Galapagos Islands, where the big seaturtles jcorae from, it would be a feather in 'President Roosevelt's cap, the gossips say. How valuable an acquisition they would be is another matter. Doubtless the islands would make an excellent outer defense for i the Canal, but it is pointed out that the approaches to the Atlantic end of the Canal are strewed with islands under foreign flags. If the policy of guarding all approaches to the inter-oceanic waterjway were to be pursued, we would | have to find ways to hoist the Amer lean flag over sucn tfritisn lsianas jas the Bahams, Barbados and Jajmaica, the French island of Martinique, the independent republic of 'Haiti and San Domingo, the Netherlands islands of the Curacao group, to say nothing of Cuba. The silliness of the notion that this nation will try to get more territory in or adjacent to the Central and South American countries is obvious when the efforts to bring about a closer understanding between the United States and our Latin-American neighbors are considered. No Need to Expand There is more likelihood, say those who claim to have inside information of what the State Department thinks, that this country may give up a silver of territory, than that it will try to acquire more. Up in the northwest corner of Maine there is a tract of a few hundred square miles which, though a I part of the United States, is inhabited by citizens of French-Canadian extraction, who speak French, think in French, and have to do all their trading in the French Province of Quebec, because their region is cut off from access to the rest of Maine. They are good farmers, intelligent and industrious, but all of their racial and economic , ties are with Quebec, not with Maine. . And when they buy a tractor, a purebred bull or a sewing machine in the only trading centers they have access to, they have to pay duty on such merchandise as they need on their farms or in their homes. These Maine farmers have sent a petition to Washington asking that their section of Maine be ceded to Canada. They have also petitioned the Canadian government to the same effect. The State Department is looking into the situation, and Washington gossips are wagering even money that eventually Canada will get that little chunk of Maine. Whether it has any bearing on the present Maine-Canada border or not,4 it is a coincidence, at least, that the National Archives office has just sent to the International Geographical Congress at Amsterdam a photographic copy of the award to the United States by the King of the Netherlands, 107 years ago, of a strip of land along tne eastern our- j der of Maine, but which is still in Canada. Rev. J. L. Hyatt, John, Jr., Hyatt and Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Hyatt visited relatives in Canton. I ^ , r' ;' ' SYLVA, NORTH CARO 1,000 ATTEND FARMERS PICNIC With an attendance of 1,000 people, the third annual Jackson county picnic sponsored by the Farmers Federation was held Saturday, July 30, on the Sylva School grounds. Farmers and their families who had come from all sections of the county listened to addresses in the morning by Federation executives, spent the afternoon participating in or observing athletic and other contests. The Federation served watermelon and lemonade to supplement the pic* nic lunches brought by those attending. Addresses were made in the morning by James G. K. McClure, presiJ i. -J n * | uem 01 tne iarm cooperative, and Guy M. Sales, general manager. During the afternoon the Hev. Dumont Clarke, head of the Federation's religious department, outlined the work of the Lord's Acre Movement. Principal event of the afternoon was a singing convention participated in by three choirs, six quartets, three trios and eight duets. Prizes were awarded to the Wesleyanna and Addie choirs for first and second places respectively; to the American Snuff Companys and Hooper family's quartets for first and second places respectively; to the Blanton sisters' and the Shelton brothers' trios for first and second places; to the Woode sisters duet for first place and Haywood and Newman Shelton for second place in the duet contest. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hooper won a prize of $1.00 for having the largest family present at the picnic, and other prizes of $1 each were awarded as follows: To Mr. and Mrs. Manley Gibson, longest-married couple; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ward, shortest-married couple; Robert Jones, for bringing the largest truck-load of people to the picnic; J. W. West, baldest head; G. W. Nicholson, longest beard. Athletic events consisting of relay races and a tug-of-war were won by the following teams; Junior-beys1 relay?Ray Coward, Dee Garrett, Bill Childers, Wallace Coward, J. R. Womack and John Garrett; Junior girls' relay?Joyce Cabe, Bonnie Tolley, Alva Hein, Rachel Buchanan, Katherine Moore; Young men's relay?Bernie Pyatt, Oliver Gibson, Charlie Mills, James G. K. McClure, III, Woodrow Dillard, Chas. McMahan; Older Men's relay?A. L. Smiley, James G. K. McClure, Alvin Deitz, Joe Bishop, Hampton Hall and C. J. Brendle. The final winners of the tug of war were the Sylva All-star team consisting of Jim Crisp, Woodrow Dillard, Dick Greene, James Sellers, Comer Beatty, Bernie Pyatt, Chas. McMahan, Wayne Stanford. BALSAM Mrs. Pauline Bryson Hudson, Mr. Arthur Koepp, Miss Edith Koepp and Mr. William Hutchison, of New Orleans, are guests of Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Bryson. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn McHan, of Hazelwood, and Mr. Dean Lee, of Waynesville, visited Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. G. C. Crawford Sunday. Mr. Earl Ramey and family have moved to Whittier. Mrs. D. T. Knight and Miss Nannie Knight went to Waynesville Friday. Mrs. Alice Richer Newell, Mr. and Mrs. George Richer and little Miss Bettie, of Beaufort, are occupying their summer cottage here. Mrs. Finley Carson, of Milwaukee, Miss Edith Christy, of Greenville, Tenn., and little Miss Ann Duncan and Master Ralph Duncan, of Glade Springs, Va., are guests of Mrs. W. S. Christy. Dr. and Mrs. G. A Klock have returned from a pleasant visit with friends and relatives in Washington and New York. Mr. and Mrs. Folk, of Washington, accompanied them home and will remain for some time. Parris Family To Have Reunion The Parris Reunion will be held at the old Parris place, near Dillsboro, A Ct 1 All nnlotivoc Ion Sunday, August zi. ah I ciau v wo j and friends of the Parr is family are [ invited to be present and bring a basket of dinner. Attend Meeting In Raleigh Mrs. Paul Womack, Mrs. J. H. Deitz, Mrs. Don Fisher, Mrs. George Painter* Mrs. Ray Cogdill, of Sylva, and Mrs. McHan, of Whittier, attended "Farm and Home Week', Stat* vCollege, Raleigh, last week, going* down Monday and returning Friday. \ ~v* Vjjjf 1 *? * y * - "" v 'flunlg UNA, AUGUST 11, 1938 Appropriatio Among L D. BRADLEY PASSES AT HOME L. D. Bradley, well known farmer and cattle man, died at his home , at Dillsboro on last Saturday, after j an illness extending over a period of < several months. Mr. Bradley who was a son of the late Harrison Bradley, was born on 1 May 25 ,1878. He was married to j Miss Lola Hall on November 14, 1901 j and to this union were born seven ^ children, five of whom survive. They j < are Jim. Georffe. of Hazelwood. and Walter, and Miss Mae, of Dillsboro, ' surviving also are four brothers, Kelly Bradley, of Barkers Creek; Harrison Bradley, of Savannah; Theodore Bradley of Glen Rogers, West < Virginia and Alonzo Br^dlay,> Colorado and four sisters, Mrs. Callie j Grant, and Mrs. Belle Barker, of j 1 Grenville, South Carolina, Mijs, Annie Buchanan of Canton, and Mrs. Lora Hall ,of Savannah. Funeral services for Mr. Bradley were conducted at the Old Savannah Baptist church by Rev. W. C. Reed of Newton, on Sunday afternoon and interment was in the church cemetery. It was estimated that two thousand people attended the service 1 attesting to the popularity of Mr. * Bradley. 1 i Looking Backward * - ? - ^ in Jackson County 49-30-20 years ago ( Tuckaseigee Democrat ] August 7,1889 3 Winston is to have street ears, as . jj the parties who have been negotia- , 1 ting for The electric lights have about , completed all arrangements, and will . take charge soon. They are to be , run by electricity. --Divelbiss Ho- , tel had twenty for dinner a few days 1 ago. ? Rumor apparently well found- ( ed says that the nickel mines near Webster will soon be in full blast. . 4 Recent tests of the quality of the ore , are said to be very satisfactory, showing as they do the great value 1 of the property. We hope soon to be , able to record that regular work in j in these and other mines in the county are proving a source of profit to the owners and incidently of great benefit to our people.?While we are sorry that the arrangement will deprive us of the constant personal association with Mr. Robert L. Madison in consequence of his employ- 1 ment as Principal of Cullowhee High ( - * * ii -i. xi C School, we are glad to Know tnat me "lines have falen in pleasant places", { and that he will be near enough to * continue his work as Editor in Chief c of the Democrat. We commend him J to the people of Cullowhee, as a gen- ( tleman well worthy their highest esteem and confidence. We are satisfied he is among people who well know how to profit by the advantage \ they enjoy in having secured his services, by upholding and assisting him to make the school a complete success. ?The following jurors 1 were drawn at the August meeting of the Commissioners, for service * at the September term of the Superior * Court: A. W. Bryson, J. W. Bucha- ^ nan, W. B. Gribble, J. F. Watson, J. A. 2 Wiggins, J. M. Smith, H. B. Hooper, * W. R. Blanton, J. W. Cowan, Elbert c " Watson, T. C. Encley, W. A. Fisher, 2 John Ashe, J. C. Jennings, W. P. * Shelton, L. F. Norton, T. G. Bryson, c W. J. Miller, Kelly Allen, T. S. c Monteith, A. L. Ensley, J. M. Sutton, W. C. Pierson, F. M. Bryson, Z. B. r Alley, F. P. Pressley, R. H. Brown, s Coleman Cowan, and H. B. Wood. ^ v Coffee Shop Leased To ^ Phil Stovall ii h The Coffee Shop, popular eating d -i? end of Main street, c piclt'C at vv.?. which belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Frank t( Bailey, and which has been under c their management for a number of ^ years, has been leased to Phillip Stovall. Mr. Emerson Phillips will v be in charge. Mrs. Bailey and chil- j. dren, Frank, Jr., Herman, and Pat- a sey, are visiting relatives in Virginia c and Mr. Bailey,y who is a sufferer , I from asthma, has entered a sanatorium - for treatment t c Belfast, North Ireland, has refused j to open its Art. Gallery on Sunday. , v.. o i \ ~ ' * 1 '/ ' : < . . B (a yeah in J UHMHaaaii n For Cullo1 Three Larg S, S. CONVENTION TO MEET AT LOVEDALE ! 1 i The Tuckaseigee Baptist Sunday < school convention will meet with < Lovedale Baptist Sunday school next j Sunday afternoon, August 14th, 2 1 P. M. This is the last meeting before i the meeting of the association and it ] is hoped that every Sunday school { in the county will have a delegation j present The following program will i be given: ] Congregational singing Devotional, Will Painter j Report of Secretary I Pnll poll of Snnrlov onVioola AvvAl VWAt VA. i^vuiviu^ | Special music, by quartet from < 3ylva Baptist church i Talk, The Sunday School Worker Bis Opportunities His Duty and His j Reward, by Rev. R. F. Mayberry \ Special music Sylva Quartet j Business Adjournment T ( Parris Family To Hold 1 Reunion ___ < The annual reunion of the Parris 1 ramily will be held August 21st at ^ ;he old home place on the Savannah Road. All relatives of the family are 1 nvited to come and bring a picnic A iinner. I Methodists To Hold Bible 1 Study Class i At the August meeting of the Methadist Missionary Society, which was held at the church, Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Harry Hastings led the devotional, and Mrs. D M. Hall was the program leader, She was assis$e4 by Mrs. A.D. Parker in presenting the subject for the month, "Educational Work in Brazil." It was announced at this meeting that a Bible Study Class will be held fori, three days next week, under the direction of Rev. A. P Ratledge. The first meeting will be held on Monday afternoon, August 22 at three o'clock 1 at the home of Mrs. Dan Moore. The September meeting will be on the second Wednesday in September ' and it will also be at Mrs. Moore's _ aome. J Cathey Chapter Broading Tonight ] ( The B. H. Cathey Chapter United \ Daughters of the Confederacy will j broadcast a program tonight (Thurs- . lay), from station WWNC, Asheville, \ it 9:30. Mr. E. H. Stillwell of the j iepartment of history in Western Carolina Teachers College, will speak . )n the subject "The Constitutional < \spects of Secession", and Miss Dorathty Moore, soprano, will sing. \ TODAY and TOMORROW I ' I ( By Frank Parker Stockbridge) BICYCLES .... peril There are more bicycles in use in ' :he United States today than ever . jefore. That is the report of the j iowa Director of Motor Vihicles; ^ md he is talking about ordinary , oot-propelled "bikes,' not motor- , rycles. Trade statistics bear out his r issertion, and every motorist must lave noticed the increased number if bicycle riders who add to the perils ^ if motoring on the highways. I remember when bicycles were a ^ are novelty. I rode one of the old- g tyle high-wheel bikes in my boy- r iood. The present type of bicycle, ^ vith pneumatic tires, did not come ? nto use until I was through high n chool. There were no automobiles ? a those days, but cyclists scared f( torses and farmers used to set their ? logs on us. Around the cities and uburbs special "cycle paths" used t d be built to keep the wheel-men a ff both sidewalks and the main j j horoughfares. 11 If bicycles continue to multiply it a vould seem like good sense to go >ack to the old practice of putting ] i narrow strip exclusively iur cy- x :lists' use along each new road built. ( One of the highest paid women in j he executive end of radio broad- ' lasting is Miss Bertha Brainard who s program director of all the NBC ' letworks. . ,v V- ' 4r* .. &L. .r-T|.. -|ir|r ADVANCE OUTSIDE THE COUNT* ' J kvhee Is 1 est In State I (By Dan Tompklna) Raleigh, August 10?With Western Carolina Teachers College at Cui* owhee having the largest single eg* iropriation of any educational la* ;titution in the State, with the tintfe exception of the University of Korth Carolina, friends of the school here ire delighted with the appropriation bill that was prepared by the Ad* risory Budget Commission, and which has been adopted into by the Mouse of Representatives. And the appropriation for the Jackson county institution is only $46,000 short tit , the amount appropriated for perf&a* UCill iIll|l&UYCJXimw C&V IUV The bill makes possible the in* mediate launching of a building pre* gram at Cullowhee that will be IP excess of half a million dollars. The ?200,000 for the training school built* ing has already been provided for; md the present bill has an appro* sriation of $381,000, Which will make the total building program there ?581,000. This, of course, is the largest single /enture in permanent improvements ;ver attempted at Cullowhee, and epresents really more money than las been spent on the plant there ih ill the history of the school, which s the oldest teachers training ins till tion in the State. The State will pay $223,050 of the lew appropriation, and the PWA vill put up $157,950. Every dollar is earmarked in the Dill for a specific purpose, and contemplates the following permanent improvements at Western Carolina: Completion of physical educatioh building $23,000. Dormitory for men (capacity 100) 123,000. Dormitory equipment, 7,000 Student Union building, 30,000 Equipment for student union, 6,000 fteiq^ding old;, training giIjpl; J 4 Ouilmng for class rooms 24,000 Auditorium (capacity 900) 68,000 Equipment for auditorium, 7,000 Infirmary, 30,000 Equipment for infirmary, 5,000 Extension of water system, 25,008 Renovating and enlarging betting plant, 20,000 Of course, this was not all that was asked; but no institution got all that it asked for. The university ot North Carolina requested $5,000,000, and got 427,000 at Chapel Hill. State College received $386,000, and Woman's College at Greensboro $325,00*. While other institutions may not like the idea of Cullowhee stepping aut in front in the hmoUti\ to be spent, it is admitted on all ;sdes that the apportionment of tM amount that the' State is to spend s fair, as Western Carolina has bean leglected to some extent in the past, and the friends of the school have at last gotten a real hearing from the State authorities. The State hospitals for the Insa&e, those institutions that are charged with the care of the unfortunate people of the State, came in far a targe snare 01 me appropriations, as they are crowded beyond Uittir capacity, and D. L. Ward, chairman of the House Committee of Appro* priations stated that the buildi&ti are now in such condition that they institute a dangerous fire hoard; and Chairman Victor Bryant of th* finance Committee said on the floor hat he believes that it is only fay in act of God that there has not been i catastrope that would shock the lation. New buildings are to be erected at these institutions, and the >ld ones made fire-proof. No appropriation is made in the bond isue bill for roads and highways; but Governor Hoey stated, in his mesage to the General Assembly, that iot a dollar of highway money has leen diverted this year to general und purposes, *and he expects to lake sufficient money available rom the highway surplus to care or the present pressing needs on he roads and highways. The bill does not issue bonds to he full limit of the constitutional uthority to issue bonds: and the iudget Commision is of the opinio* hat a margin should be left in COM t serious emergency hould arise. The first thing that the HouM 01 Representatives did was to pass O esoluting limiting the introduction )f bills to the purpose for which the General Assembly was railed into Special Session. This gag rule MM lotion however, can be broken hf unanimous consent, and was in tact 3 (Continued on last page) < ;..j|