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jj.M A YEAH IN ADVANCE IN THE
I Great Crowd
I David M.
a great throng of sorrow fa"
^B friend* crowded the ,'Sylva Afctnodist
church, Sunday afternoon,for ?ijr?
H fun nil services of David McKe0
^B j^l, and hundreds of them followed
ed his body to the place of intcr^B
oicnt, in the WebMter cemetery. The
a P. K at lodge, pastor of the
Iftt*. ?- Sylvi
Methodist church, conducted
T|ie services.
The pall b-;a?ers were: E. L, VViJ*on,
Hal McK< e, John H. Morris,
Pan M- Allison, W. R. EnJoe*, W. E.
^ril dstidf, I Lc.v-r Scott, ar.u T. F.
Burn at WeMer in 1887, a son of
th?- 'hate L. Cc*. v -. n Hall and Hannah
McKee H *li. Mr. Hall was a
member of families that have b?>n
prominently aHi-o in the aff'/r* < f
jsokaon county throughout its out're
i;?turv'. Educated at Webster. CuJiv
vj. ,f>f and State. College, Mr. Hall
cair.c to Sylva as soon as he was out
,i school, and i :nered business here.
In Lh), upon the death of his uncle,
tfcl&ta Jarn.es W. McKee, Mr. Hall
:.sumod the management of the
>"r!va Supply f - irpany, and jus abi?
str mmediaiely won him re?ogniuoD
as a busije*.? and civic leader
*f Svlta. Jacks< n County, and West
|H
jjn Xorth Carolina An lnriefatig- i
H able worker, Mr. Hall engaged nc- I
t rcfy in i t!\uvrc...? business cnterpnsis,
and hi;- services were InvaluH
?ble to any can: e in which he U trrestr-d
hEroself. A farmer and dairy- i
ill ail himself, bom and li:vd on the
l?rmv and eduentid in agricultural
knowledge ez Mate Colleg3, Mr.
daii was espcolaMv interested in the
H ^nus and far. .ers of tl^e cowry,
endoavored in many ways to bet
Itr conditions on the farms and to
promote bettpi agricultural methods, I
I kith in'product-on and 111 market*:,*1
W 'he results of his- labors along this f
iut' will be felt .in the county for |
many years. Hr believed in good I
iarraa, good homes, good c-0)?s I
?ood stock, good marketing, and I
hird. iiuelligtrjand telling work. I
+ nd that in them lay the future
jnrity ot't ho v-i oty, for he reap ze<l
the intcrdepe.idmce of the r-unple of
die town and the county.
For many years Mr. Hall f'vved
I x< 8 member of the Board of A */ r<
*a?i of Sylva. As president, h ? w..:*
I ietive managei of The Sylva Supply
I Company, the Mercantile Supply
I toapany, Sylva Supply Ma*'?ft.
I nrlthe Sannybroolc Daiiy. He was
m dvributor for Pure Oil Prodaets jji
-ivk.soii, Swain Mid Macon cou.A'e*,
I and had many t l her business and
tarring interests in the countv.
That Mr. Hall had attracted to |
I himself a great crowd of friends ill
I ill walks of tife was attested by" the
I ihior.g of people who came to fcylva
I from all parts cf this and from adI
joining connt:es to pay their tribute
.H ?' respect to iuir.
I Hr. Hall married Miss K'JitV
I J ?ore, a daughter of the late .Judge
I ?| d Moore, one of ttbe youngest
I a ' most beloved jurists the State
,1 ever tad. Mrs. Hall suprvives him, as
I do two daughters, Mrs. C- N. DowI
die, of Franklin, an^d Mi^s Lola
I ^?ore Hall, of Sylva, two sons, J).
I f- Hall, Jr., and Robert Hall, an 111I
a-t grandson, his mother, Mrs. H-?-n
^ Hall, two sisters, Mrs, Florence
I togV, of Canton, and Mrs. David
I Hrown, 'of Cullowhee, and one
I /other, L. c., Hail, of Hattiesburg,
I ^r. Hall, passed on, last Friday
I Dl?ht, after an illness of about two
I *t'(ks duration
i jac^SON boy gets honors
iC!KHATlU?lVBR8I'lY 1
ti, Ohio, Oetobrt
>11 be palf^ 8tudent
brown, Cullowbee, - I
iversity of Cin^1' intol
nitiatcd on 0ot? 1
Pi> national ity
society, at ^
on opening n<er 1
inuing tbrotigb c - gTown 1
i is a son of D. * .
?, apd a grEt Xc class otl
hool tbere op tPe cu*
le is a senior in tte J
ommercial course m , ' ^ I
es College of Engineering |
em\ . *ina i
i Kcita Pi is to the engmee g |
what Phi lieta Kappa 18 t0
it aTts field, ? ,t
itiation ceremonies *?* p.
be conducted by Ts,u ^ |
tywi officers, 4 A
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Hall Funeral
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
Washington, October 5-?War in
Europe would have upset political
and economic conditions in Anu ria
in so mapiy ways and with such nn
portant results, that practically
nothing was bfeing done or consider
ed by Administration officials with
out bringing up the question:"What
will be the effect of this on America
when Europe goes to war?"
Nobody herq anticipated that this
#dountry would be drawn into the
threatened European confilict; certainly
not in its earijy stages. For
that matter, the Government and
the people of America did not anticipate
in 1914, when the last great
European JV&r began, ihat we v.oijld
j be taking part i# it in' less than
| three years. But precisely that ex!
perienee of twenty-odd years ago
' makes many high officials doubtful
whether it would have been possible
!or the United States to fce$p entirely
out of a war involving Great
Britain and France,
It is not stretching the fa<jf to say
that everybody in the Adm in id ration,
from the President down, was
fervently praying that America
could keep out of the situation presented
by the latest European embroglip.
A* the same time, the lessons
we iearond from the last War
are being applied to tftp national defense.
If we should b?, by failure
of diplomacy, or the pressure of
public opinion, forced to tase part
in another great war, we will be immeasurably
better equipped to take
nfFnptine i>art than in 1917.
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- IJijs natural antipathy to war aud i J
its attendant horrors and miseries,!1
coupled with ih# effect that a great I
Euporean eoniln.gr:v* i.h w^uid have
upon the government and of .'
the Uniited Stai is, In;h --e ?nonijf idly
flhd politically, and : he evirprcs J
ent da^gey that this coimuy might
be drawn into the vortex as an ac- *
Hve participant, many hours }
of anxiety to the State 0> (Heboid '
and to the White House, and prompt J
ed President Koo*ev?!t *o send his <
messages to Hitler, Mussolini, and '
other governments, which move is 1
credited here aitf] in London with
having, almost at the efaypnth hour, ^
snatched the world hack from tft.e }
abyss into which civilization seemed I'
to be inevitably plunging. 1
The tactf^i intervention of Preai- '
dent Roosevelt, inspired as it was by
the deepest humanitanyij. motives, I
is generally credited with having | f
been a masterful stroke of diploma- J J
cy. It opened the jvay for the conn-l
tries of the Old World tp save Eu J1
rope, and perhaps the >yori4 fP'o?4 3 I?
devastating war. It suggested tfyyt I
America was interested, but, at theI
game tirow, committed this nation to I
no course of action. It, fot the Mmc I
being, at least prevented the outel
break of a World War, that was bytj
a few hours away, ami which might I
well have resulted in the complete I
an,d utter breakdown of civilization J
as we know it.
Everybody here looks for the presentation
to the next Congress of I
prpposa-b for still greater increases I
in the national army, navy and mili-1
avmtinn ermi nrnont. t,0 Hint if |
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the nation shouLd be mallei vu to"
fight again it would iol have to
start from scratch with practically
no weapons, no plains, no at my and
no transport service.
The personal sj mpatbios of official
Washington are almost unanimously
anti-Hitler. That docs not
mo&n thait the Administration is necessarily
pro-Britis?) or prji-Frei ch.
But that personal leaning would
have a bearing v.pon offieit.l f:. ts of
the Government, although technical
"neurtality'' would be preserved un
til and unless a situation developed
in which American public opinion
wfiuld be aroused to demanding war.
There is no for.i j agreement between
this Government and those of
Great Britain ajnd France by which
W - ?/* 4-n +/-v Uioir lioln
" ^ MrX|C? jUUll^Atl'U fj%J IV juv?tj^r?
That will not be believe# by many
persons of pro-German or antji-British
sentiment. If war had come, they
would have read in the daily i.ewSn
papers and have heard over the radio
from Washington so much news
thai; h favorable -to England and
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SBE JAOKSOX COUNTY J0TJBK
Funeral Held
For Cro
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Funeral services for Homer 4.sb?e.
37 year old Wilmot man, were couduoted
at/Wilmot, Monday afterLion
by Rev. J, L, Hyatt. Mr. Ashe
v. as fatally injured when an atwmo
JlflO 'in which he1 and his wife vvrp
riding was struck by Soutiern |?asXTlO
/\? 4-U.'k oHrtndn
BP/1igVl tITtJLIi iiu, JLVj yu IUC gljpiHV
wthing at Wilmot, Sunday mom
ing, October g.
:tig, I
Mr, Abhe an)d his wife were
brought to the Community hospital
in Sylvu, where Mr, Ashe d^ ?, yit
7:46 o'clock, Sunday night Mips.
Ashe is still in the hospital, rutd^s
bhuI to ho in B fiprious condition, ?
Mr. Ashe is a 'son of Mr, and Mi*.
L. M. Aehe of Wilmot. The Ashe's
have no children. Mr. Ashe is aar*
vivcd by his parents, three brothers
Wade Ashe, Murphy, Louis Ashe.
Wilmot, and Cornelius Ashe, Barker's
Creek; and by two lister-;, Mi's.
Gertie Messer, Qunlla, and M>. 01Jjo
S?.kag!e&* Wilmot.
nutpnipbilp wpts depml'sliefl.
and cj iriecf ?6jQ yards by thp |p<*?r
niQjtivc. Mrs. Ashe was thrown from
it when d was _st ruck.
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TURKEYS SCARCER FOR TAR
HEELS' THANKSGIVING
Raleigh, Oct. 5? There 'wi?i l.?
fewer T'urkeys avfiJnb'j: this se;u'u"
for the Thanksgiving tables in North
Carolina. That's what W. 11
Rhodes, North Carolina Department
; Agriculture's ch'ief statistician
tonnfl in a survey of Stato-fedefal
Tpports indififliincr n tan UOI' OOo, /In
T ' ' . T7' X~r~?rri5 *7' rrr
crease in turkeys this year compared
with 1037.
While North U&rojina fafpieys:?>port
a ^deortase in their turkey pe^>
uiatiou, growers throughout the Uni led
'States as a whole indicate an
increase of 3.7 per cent over last
i car.
Reports from Tar Heel turkey
raJtserfe indicate that considerable
Tljury to^flocks has been experier.c*
?d this year because of adverse
yeatber conditions," Rhodes sa'd.
'Heavy rains and the extended wet
reason during the spring months
saused a heavy loss of young tm<eys,
while complaints of heavy loss
from diseases were general.
"Some giower reported that nr.-,
favorable prices last season had
caused some (reduction in the ?i?,e
*?f flocks, but praqticaUy al], of thoi-i
itated that the numbers were deftni- j
elv decreased this ve,*
Approx?mitely 90 per cent of the
turkeys in North Carolina air pvofnoed
from flocks jof less >tha<n 100
jiitfs, the survey revved.
A United' States Bpreau of peolomics
report indicated that *row
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[T]he PAY^TTwe Coy
mjCN VOUR EXHIBIT "T?
IKI UoRTlCULTURAI- VlAL
VOUR. PICTURE- TAKEN At
THE REPORTER FROM
AMD VOO KU?KE A -HfcWjC
AMD TV4C CMVy OF ALL V
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All, SYLVA, NvO, 00T? A WW
^"M"^MM^*T"?wSr^SS5S5SSS5SS5t^^^^
At Wilmot
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I TODAY and
! TOMORROW
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( By Frank Parker Stockbridge)
DISTRIBUTION . middlemen
Here in America we hay" (level
. oped methods of production wjiich
I . i ii
i pnfwoiie us to turn out more, better
and cheaper useful goods than can
j be produced auywbore ols^ in the
world. At the same time, the productive
industries of America pav
higher wagc4j than workers of any
other nation get, nod only in dollars,
but in the purchasing power of their
wages.
IWe haven't got so far in perfect
ing our national1 system . of distnbu
tion exf the products of our soil and
factories. There is still too much lost
; motion in getting goods from pro
ducerto consumer* Too npHi' Middle
p^U fakptoll tjic route.so that
the copsun^er ^ dollar does not buy as
much as it could buy if ways were
:,lound to eliminate unnecessary ppd
dleipop nnc( T^dpce ^he cost of c(istri
button.
What makes the distribution oiob
fern particularly difficult in Amenc.i
is the gnqat size of the country and
the long distances oyer which goods
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j rave w> oe transported. tint long i
steps have been taken townid solv (
[ ing the problems, of distribution '
[ and if the procefehes of business a:-e ;
not interfered with by polices. tp.e
^imp wiJJ pome tjie consumer's
? dollar will not pay for uunecessary 1
; distribution costs.
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A~c business Circle of the Baptis1 I
Missionary Society met in the home 1
Miss Evelyn Moody on October 3, ?
with Mrs. H.E.Bryson, circle leader, i
presiding. fifteen members and two
visitors were presenj. j
Mrs. Ji. M. Jtiocntt and Mrs. Bry- r
son rave a review of the work
dene in runs ens in Palestine. Tne ]
meeting was then turned over to Mrs (
J. V. Hall, >vho hjic( been selected to
teach the "Basil Lqcke.tt, The j
Loved Physician. }
The Circle paid for a memWr- t
! ship in the Hundred Thousand Club. ]
and voted to buy Imjng tor a qu/,It
being made by the SQoiety. j
Ajlter the business hour, delightful i
refreshments were served by the
hostess. fi
: j
ers throughout the counjtry intend to
market about 21 per cen^; of this J
year's tprkey crop in October or ?
earlier.
lied Letter Days
>ok riast prize- <mzk / .v
.L, ANDvbo HAD 1
4b WERE IM1BBWIEW6D ^1?[
we Cooper Cbourv Clar?om/?<^^
> TO VoUR FAMIUV,
?or ncwbors ??
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MBS. & L, WILSON HEADS
CATHEY CHAPTEB, T7. D, C.
Mrs. Ernest L. Wilson wtw chosen
pjTbU tiit of the B. H? Catbev Chapter.
l?iHC(i Daughters of the Coined
iracy, at the meeting held at 'be
horu'3 p? Mrs, T, Q. Wilson, Wed lies
do.? afternoon, Other officers elected
were: Mrs, Dan Tompkins, first
v?ea o.vsidewt; ^tr8, Herbert imj*
son. fceeond vice president; Mr> S.
\V. Bryson, treasurer; Mra. Jehu II.
Wilson, seoretar-y; Mrs, J. R. Long,
h^iQi;arr, and (Mjrs. T. O. WiiKi. i
org to than of crosses,
A committee was appointed to
ho in charge of Confederate Flag
Pay, which will be celebrated on
Saturday. November 5.
Mi*. Walter Jones had charge of
thti program and presented Mrs.
Hugh Afonteith, who igave an Interesting
talk on Ft. Ralegh, and the
work thai is beipg done there hr the
W, V. \,
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QUALltA ^
(By Mrs. J, K, Terrell]
Rey. Ben Cook, assisted by Rev.
Oscay Beck and Rev. J, L, Hyatt, is
conducting very interesting revival
fcoryieeB at the Baptist church.There j
have been several conversions. The
meeting is well attended.
Rev. McRae Crawford announced,
fcunday morning at the Methodise
church that his salary, with all the |
other church assessments, har? h?u?n 1
wti-s. "T-1?' """ j
paid ip full for this conference ycuv J
by. th$ church at Qnalla,
On Sunday afte^^iQ^ at the Baptist
chuwb a very large audience was i
entertained with
bo. Quartet; Addie Qitartet; Wh'tiier
Choii; Bryson Quartet; lloek
Springs Choir; and Cherokee Quart
;et. An all day scjnging was aniio;;ac
?d for the First Sunday in October,
1939, at QuaUa,
^ey. ?I. b. Hyatt conducted IJjc
Pnneiai of Mr. Homier Ashe at \\ilnot,
Mnnday afternoon. V,
Married on Sept. 10, M*&s. Annie
iC,n Owen of GlepyiRe to Mr.Ho'iiee
B?v. J[. L. Hyatt officiating. ' ,
Mr* G. T. Cooper of On.,
Vf. iiol, spent the week end-with 1
Jsriin. *ye,-.l the v-jk rv'l W'lh
heir parents, Mr. and. Mrs. Yorkk
iowcll, and other relatives. | |
Mys. p. L. Oxner who has been ill f ^
Jur the pa^t two wieeks, is slightly j
raproyeyd. { \
Mrs. Grace Johnson of ChcrokcA, ^
aid Mrs. A, :Q. Hoyle called on Mrs.
r, g. Hughes. | (
Mrs. J. IG. Hooper and Mr. and j
drs. Oscar Gibson attended thojj
ttatfton reunflop at Scott *8 Creek, 11
and Mrs, Carrolll Trull of|
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ide Cases f
Grand Jury 1
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With two important homicide
eases to be presented <to the grand
jury, and perhaps to be placed on,
the docket for immediate trial, the
October term of Jackson County Superior
Court convenes Monday mom
Vug, October 10, with Judge Felix K
Alley presiding, a^d Solicitor Johnj
M. Queen prosecuting the docket*;
. Burl Moss is being held in connection
With the fatal shooting of AU - ij
Stewart and Fred Pruitt, in a shot
gun battle on a Sunday night) -on
Pine Creek, last summer. Moss yrga
dangerously wounded in the affray, ?9
and spent some time in the hospital
here, under guard, before he was removed
to the jaiL
Fred Cope has been in jail for two
weeks, following the shooting to
deUth of Palmer Hance, near Wttlets.
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Bills of indictment charging murder
in the first degree *** expected
to be presented to the grand jury by
Solicitor Queen.
When bills are found by the grand < '
jury, the solicitor will have the defendants
brought frnto court and Ur?p*gned.
Attorneys will then probably
move for continuances until tha
February term of court. Then tha
question of whtether the triala wijl bo
^t this term will he a matter for tha
decision of Judige Alley; unless tha
solicitor should agree \o contizmances.
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balsam y
(By Mrs. D. T. Knight) \ J
Mr. and. p. G< ?. C?a*fotd and
Rutherfordton, last week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Knightt of Ri?h '
mond, Va,, Mrs. Harry Rotha o?>
Waynesville, and Mr. Harry KotLa^
Jr., of Clyde, visited the Knights,
Sunday. '3
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harrison, of
of Canton, were quests of Mr. and
Mr. toijd Mrs. R. L. L. Ptearton.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Lowe have
moved to Bryson City.
Col. Chester Wilson and Mrs. Wil
son arrived Monday from Daytor>n
Bdach, Fla., and will' spend some !
time in their cottage in Pallough ;
Hill*/
There are ten families hern? fro.n
South Carolina, Georgia,, Klrr ?li* '
und New Mexico, who have hi f-n k
here nearly all summer. and e
loath to leave this "Brisrht B!ue Oc- J
k?ber Weather" an i will pji>bnhly
remain until November. IH hers aie
pxpecred soon
Mrs. Annie * i of % anion s *
here with her r\ >ther, Mrv. Hinder-. ;
jrn Jones, who is very stek.
Many from here attended tbe ftrs j
ie^al of Mr. D. M. Bail, in SyF^
Sunday. , < J/
BAPTIST SOCIETY MET, PIFTJt V
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The Woman^ Missionary Society
if the Sylva Baptist chprch^c^ k?*.
the home of Mrs. J. V. Hafl,^ last , - ~
SVednesday afternoon . The meeting
va<s, opened by singing "Faith of
mr Fathers". The devotional
conducted by the Society president.
Mns. H. M. Hocutt ledjin prayer.- 1 ,
A committee reported that some
equipment has been bought by mc<a>efs
of the society, for the new Sua- <
lay Sehool trooms at the church. .
Mrs. H. M. Hocutt invited fho
h^mjbe,rs of the society to have in
ill day meeting at ,her borne, <??
Wednesday, the 12th. Daring .- the .
lay a quilt will be flnishe^ for a
missionary who works with the Jndi " ' -f
ins; and Mrs. Hocutt will teach Uie '
look on missions, "Following, ill , r
fins Train". A pot luer dinner will;k ^
?e served. ^ ..
Following the business hour, the
mutesscs, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. B. C. Altiion,
and Mrs. H. E. Brysoii. served
ol oWV AoVia ?nU ?A#M
VHW| VV**.VV? k?.
METHODIST WOMEN TO MEET $
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The Missionary of the SylvaMt-ih ;
dist chnrch will meet Wednesday ^
iftfcmoon at thekojoe of 0r, Baify ^
>t<nJuire.
lethel spent the week end at Mr.
K Ferguson V ^wk
Qualla school has closed for a f?v%
reeks on account of construction.