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GERMAN ARMY IS
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I War? with German trmU,
I Warsaw, with British ships ,
| with eight million Fr.nchm,
I frontier, the world hat ttapj
I fi3hting the tamo old year ,
I Hitler, the loader of ||
I with the invesion of Pol
I nearly the entire civilized
I France took up the cheMen
I I Again the world it n
I I millions of marching men,
I I with thundering gum,
I balsam
I Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bryson,
I a girl Saturday morning.
I a very large crowd attended the
I reunion of the Jones familiar Sunday
I at the home of Mr. Jim Jones. The
I graves in the Jones family cemetery
I were decorated with pretty flowers.
I Rev. C. O. Newell baptized MelI
burn, the little soil of Mr. and Mrs.
I George T. Knight, and Master Wil
liam Balfour Knight was received as
n member in the church Sunday. This
was the first service of the kind held
I in the Methodist church here since
I the unification of the three Methodist
I churches.
I Rev. O. J. Beck has just closed a
I very interesting revival at North Forte
I Baptist church and baptized six SunI
Seven Balsam boys and girls went
I to Waynesville high school Tuesday
morning. y V i
I Mrs. Rachel Cathey and daughter^
I Misses Alma and Madith, of Candler^
I were guests o( Mr. and Mrs. G. C.i
Crawford. Sunday. ; I
Mr. Glenn &itherberfi*v of Way-J
W' nesville, spent the*" wi8c-ehd
I Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Christy. |
I Miss Nannie Knight, Mr. and Mia.
I George Knight, Mrs. D. T. Knight,
Mrs. George Bryaon and Mr. J. K.
I Kenney attended fourth quarterly'
I conference at Elizabeth church near
I Waynesville Sunday night
' The revival at the Baptist church
closed Wednesday night Six per*
I sons were baptized Sunday.
Miss Maudalene Bryson fell off
concrete steps and dislocated her
arm. She was taken to Waynesville
for medical attention. I
Horse kicked Junior Bryson and
fractured several ribs.1 He received
I medical attention at Waynesville hospital.
,
I Mrs. Lee Roy Dock and children
I arrived last week from Orlando, Fla.,
and are occupying their summer cotI
tage. f
Mrs. Henderson Jones has returned
from a visit to her sisiter and other
relatives in Tennessee. |
I Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coffey and
I children of Lenoir arrived Sunday,
to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I
A. C. Bryson. i
I Fair To Be Held "
At Glenville
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I Glenville, North Carolina, August
I 14,1939. Premium lists have been isI
sued for the Blue Ridge Fair to J5C
held at the blenville School House,
I September 7, 1&3SL. . Cash, prizes.*are
to be awarded for the beat exhibits
frnm school. This
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I fair is an annual event and the only
I one of its kind held in Jackson counI
It is sponsored by the Glenville
Parent Teachers Association. The
executive committee is as follows:
I Mrs. j. m. Cunningham, Chairman;
Mrs. Kate Bryson, Secretary; F. S.
I Griffin, Principal Glenville high
I school; David Pruett, Principal CashI
iers school; Mrs. Mamie S. Evans, G.
I R. Lackey, S. C. Clapp,county agents;
Mrs. Oscar Monteith, Lyman SteI
Wart, Norton; Mrs. Sam Bryson, Mrs.
Oscar Monteith, Lyman Stewart,
I Norton; Mrs. Sam Brysoh, Mrs. Bryson'
Big Ridge; Mrs. John Long, El
bert Moss, Pine Creek; Miss Jessie
I Pi'essley Double Springs school; and
I Mrs Madge Merrill, Mount PleasI
ant school. The program will be
ann?unced soon.
I Interested
I to This year rnore ***** W percent of
I m?rth Carolina'g farmers attended
eeUngs or demonstrations held by
reveai^Unty agenta? 8 ***** surrey
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wMl.My b* a great
thundering at the gate* of
mt, and
n in bafll* amy along the
pad back to 1914, mid it j
he German state, started it, t
and, over the protest of
world> and England and
ge. 1
seking beneath the feet cf
and the air reverberates
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Visitor Gets Back
Valuable Watch
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The Journal is in receipt of a let- a
ter from Mr. James F. Schmidt, who q
lives at 2032 Maryland Ave., Indianapolis,
in which he highly com- p
mends Chief of Police W. O. Allen c
and Mr. Walter Bumgarner. Mr. Q
Schmidt was touring the Smokies a a
few weeks ago^and stopped at the r
Shell Station in Sylva, where he left p
his Bulove watch in the wash room.
As soon as he returned to his home, p
he wrote Mr. Allen about it Mr. ^
Allen went to the station, and Mr. r
Walter Bumgarner had found the p
watch and was holding it for identification
of the owner. He mailed it to
Mr. Schmidt and the owner is very
complimentary of Sylva and her
people, because of the kind, honest
treatment he received here. v
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Young Democrats e
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Jennings A. Brysdfc was etectea ?
president ot the Jackson County Club
ford, Cullowhee, was elected vice- u
president, and Mrs. Walter L. Jones,
secretary- treasurer. q
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Gets Publicity for WNC n
Raleigh, Aug. 24.?The Soco Gap s<
dance team from Western North f<
Carolina, most of the members being
from near Waynesville, obtained a
a lot of publicity for the entire state
when it went to Washington to dance c
for the King and Queen of England
when they were guests of President ?
and Mrs. Roosevelt, it was pointed 0
out by Chas. E. Ray, Waynesville, f.
member of the Board of Conserva- j
tion and Development.
a oiirmincrs received by
AUUUlUlllg w wurr
the news bureau of the bureau of the P
advertising division, pictures of the ?0
Soco Gap Dance Team anci stories v
I about it, appeared in hundreds of ^
newspapers throughout the coun.
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| Cippings have been received from s
| such widely scattered cities as Washjington,
D. C.; Aliance, Ohio; Oklahoma
City; Boise, Idaho; Cohoes, N.
Y.: Long Island, N. Y.; Miles City,
Montana, Lowell, Mass.; Dayton,
Ohio; Utica, N. Y.; New oYrk City;
Dallas, Texas; St Paul, Minn.; Tren- "
ton, N. J.; Asbury Park, N. J.; Nor- ^
wich," N. Y.; Danbury, Conn.; Chillicothe,
Ohio; Brooklyn.; Little Rock,
Ark.; Waterbury, Conn.; Port Huron, 0
Mich.; Dunkirk, N. Y.; Savannah, 8
Ga.; Charleston, S. C.; Beaver, Pa.;
Lonft Beach) Calif.; Tampa, Fla.; Pat- *
terson, N. J.; Buffalo, N. Y.; and ^
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' Bordi Allison I
Hurt In Wreck
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Burch Allison suffered a concus- 1,
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sion of the brain, when his car crashed
on the highway west of Hazelwood,
Friday night Mr. Allison was, ^
taken to the Haywood County hospital,
and brought to Sylva, Saturday.
Sunday he was taken to his
home in Webster, and expects to re- '
turn to his school at Star town, Catawba
county, next Monday,
j . Mr. Allison was enroute to Web- ^
, ster, where Mrs. Allison is teaching, {
when he went to sleep at the wheel, t
and the car crashed. \
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Imrover
W. S. Richardson, of Bellair ir
(Craven County, believes there J* ,
nothing that hnproves land so much
as a crop of velvet beans plowed un-i'
der, says Assistant Farm Agent Paui'M
Cox. . J1
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SYLVA, NORTH oAfeOI
Rites Per War
Veteran Held Here,
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Enterment of the body of W. H.
thodes, World War Veteran Mid.
3iief Statistician for the North Caroina
Department of Agriculture, was
t Sylva, last Friday afternoon, with
lev. A. P. Ratledge, pastor of the
lylva Methodist church officiating.
Mr. Rhodes died at Rex hospital in
taleigh, Wednesday morning, flowing
a short,illness, t Funeral series
were held at Edentoh Street
Methodist church in Raleigh;
Born in Kinston, ahd- reared in
jenoir, Jones, and Orange counties,
At. Rhodes came to Sylva wheii a
roung man, just graduated at !the
Jniversity of North Carolina. He
aught in the schools of the county,
ind made his home in Sylva until
ifter the World War. Shortly sifter
he war he became connected With
he Department of Agriculture, iand
vas promoted to Chief Statistician, a j
:ew years ago.
He served in the War in the H3th
"ield Artillery, 30th Division, Since
he war he has been connected ^ith
he North Carolina National Guard,
iand was an officer in the Reserve
'orps.
He was a son of the late Prof. W.!
I. Rhodes and Mrs. Rhodes, beloved
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itizens of Sylva; and is survived by
me brother, L. B. Rhodes, of Raleigh,'
ind two sisters, Mrs. Richard L. Pat- >
ick, Atlanta, and Miss Carolina
thodes, Raleigh. j ;
Pall bearers were W. E. Reed, Ben
I. Cathey, H. P. Cathey,J. Claud'Alison,
Dan Tompkins, John H. Motis,
Commissioner of Agriculture W.
Lerr Scott, and Louis Hair. ,
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QUALLA |<
There has been an interesting revival
at Olivet conducted by Rev._
Ir. Stikeleather. Several Qualla
oiks attended the quarterly qjjpfeg;
lice at Olivet church on SitfHtoSt
vening, conducted by Rev.
^Oth^the M^thod^t
re to have electric lights installed
ci the near future.
Mr. J. TV Shelton, of Los Angeles,
California, is visiting at Mr. J. L.
lyatt's and Mr. C. P. Shelton's and
ther relatives. Qualla was his forler
home. .
Rev. R. L. Bass and family spent
everal days in Qualla. He was a
armer pastor in this section. v
Several tourists attended services
t Qualla Sunday.
Several employees from Cherokee
ailed on Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs: C. A. Everhart, of
angsport, Tenn., Mrs. Nina Mitchell,
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1 Durham and Mr. Miner xiau. (uw
amily, of Whittier, visited at Mr.
. K. Terrell's.
Mrs. Martha Rhinehart has returnd
from a visit at Swannanoa.
Mrs. Roxama Carter with several
ther relatives from South Carolina
/ere guests at Mr. W. F. House's Sunay.
Mrs. Sara Ann Gibson has returnd
from a trip to Virginia. She is
topping with Mrs. Dona Davis.
Epwortli Union Meets
The regular monthly meeting of the
iwain-Jackson Epworth League
inion was held Monday night in the
Jylva Methodist church. The presilent,
Miss Aileen Sigmon, of Bryson
'ity, presided. Miss Mary McLain,
?f Sylva, was in charge of the pro-am.
George Swearinger, of Waynesville,
ind J. B. Ivey, of Charlotte and Lake
unaluska, were present and made
alks. Mr. Ivey, an amateur magi-j
ian, also entertained the group with |
t magical?;ji>erf ormance following the!
usiness. Session.
It was defcitfed to hold the next I
neeting :ai\. Whittier on the third!
Monday night in September. I
There will be plenty of cranberries!
? as turkeys for an earlier!
iO Vt w
.'hanksgiving Day in November, at
ording to U. S. Department or Agri-1
ulture officials.
Trench Silo I
Like an increasing number of Nort1 I
Carolina farmers, % Harvil Harrif J
jouisburg, Route 4, is making plans
o build a irench silo to supplement
:attle this winter.
.An order by a nation-wide grocery
:hain for 2,500,000 flour bags was
tailed recently by the Cotton Textile j
institute as a "major victory" in a j
:ampaign to boost the home consump- j
ion of American cotton. j
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Sylva's Oldest ?
Citizen Passes
T-r-?? ?Wilburn
Bumgarner, 91, Sylva'j
eldest citizen, and one of the oldesl
i^tizens in the county, died at hif
I lome in this township, Friday mailing.
He was an active man up until
ilmost the moment of his death, and
iad performed his usual chores about
kn +U r.4
lit- piatc uiai> iiiuiiiuig.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday afternoon at the home ol
us brother, John Bumgarner, by Rev.
Ir. A. Hovis, and interment was in
the family cemetery.
Mr. Bumgarner is survived by the
following children: Cole and Estes
Bumgarner, of Sylva, Mrs. Eli Cooke,
of Asheville, and Mrs. Etta Robinion,
of Sedro Woolley, Washington.
He leaves also his brother, John,
23 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren.
Mr. Bumgarner was the son of
George and Eliza Bumgarner. He was
born March 23, 1848,. in what was
then Macon county but now is in
Jackson county. .On October 26, 1871,
he married Miss- Margaret Talitha
Parys. He was one of the chainbearers
in the survey in which the
townships of Jackson county were
laid out.
Cnuntv Teachers
Meet Here
The teachers of Jackson county
not in the elementary school in Sylva,
met Wednesday morning, for a
general meeting, with Superintendent
A. C. Moses, presiding.
Talks were made by Miss Julia
Weatherington, of the State Department
of Education, Mrs. Ruth Dick
Everett, Field Secretary of hte North
'Carolina Education Association, G.
C Cooper, John's Creek, A. C. Hoyle,
Cullowhee, and Mrs. Dan Tompkins,
Sylva. vV'
Apple Worm Control
Begins With Harvest
\ The apple harvesting season is at
jum$t;&iid it is the time to reduce
MMSn tflttltiigtr1 if llttlrt trnar'e nrnr>
advises' H. R. Nlswonger, horticulturist
of the State College Extension
Service. He explained that the
worm of the codling moth which attacks
apples hibernates after leaving
the apples they have ruined, and
re-appears the following spring to
infest the next year's orchard crop.
"The first measure in trapping these
moths is to separate the worst culls
fiom-the good apples," Niswonger
stated. "If the culls are to*be saved
for ready sale, they should be piled
cn a layer of old hay weeds or other
litter at some distance from the packing
or storage shed. The worms will
hide in the litter as they leave the
fruit, and the litter can later be
raked up and burned, destroying the
wrorms.
"Culls saved for sale during the
winter should be stored in a tight
Building from which the moths cannot
escape to the orchard the following
spring. This same type of storage
construction should be used even
even when holding the good fruit
for winter sale.
"Provision should be made for the
storage of harvesting crates and
containers in a tight building since
many worms crawl into the corners
and crevices of the containers and
hibernate. Some growers dip their
harvesting containers in a vat or old
barrel containing water heated to
near the boiling point. . "Other
measures being followed
by progressive growers include picking
up of fallen apples from under
the trees and hauling them out of
the orchard. This is very important
because the worms will live all winter
in piles of rotten apples left in
the orchard," Niswonger declared.
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President
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Mrs. L. ?. Fisner, rrwmcm w
North Carolina Division, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, will
be the guest of honor at a luncheon
jy the B. H. Cathey Chapter, at the
Community House, Sept. 7.
An informal music program is beag
arranged by a committee of the
hapter.
Schoolmasters To
Meet Friday
I The first meeting of the school year
of the Jackson County Schoolmasters'
Club, will be held Friday evening, a1
Stovall's Cafe, in Sylva, it was announced
today.
The value of poultry and eggs produced
in the United States in 193?
was nearly a billion dollars, or aboul
112 percent of the total farm income.
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ONE MlllUOl
Sylva has a million doll
in its history. Last week, <
R L. Ariail, cashier- the a;
Bank topped a million dolh
? Starting with $10;000 c
steadily through the years,
dollar institution, .
1SYLVA SCHOOLS OPEN|
It was back to school for the young
1 nonnlo rvf Svlua fltld TJillsbOTO. ThUTS"
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i day August 31, for the school bells!
i rang, the doors were opened, and!
the call to books came forth at 9l
o'clock in the morning.
(All other schools in the county
have been running for a month, except
the training school at Cullowhee,
which has to run coincidentally
with the College. The school
there will probably open a month
from now, when the huge building
program is expected to be completed.
The teachers for the Sylva schools
this year are:
Sylva high, J. Louis Hair, principal;
Mrs. Mary Scott, Edith Buchanan,
Elizabeth Ammon, Sue Allison Bryson,
Louise Henson, Leonard Huff,
* Dan B. Cook, Sallie Mae Monteith
Campbell, Claude Henson, and W. A.
Hatfield.
Sylva elementary, F. M. Crawford,
principal; Mrs. J. F, Freeze, Annie
Louise Madison,, Rhocfa Cope, Louise
Mason, Mrs. Beatrice Parker Gibson,!
Belzora Holden, Norma Painter, Eve-I
lyn Parjrer, Mrs. Emily Tompkins,i
and Berina Cunningham. |
CBOP MARKETING
WILL BE PUSHED J
Raleigh, Aug. 23.?Commissioner I
of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott toda^I
announced the appointment of W.H I
I Darst, veteran agronomist, as farn I
'crops marketing specialist for thil
[North Carolina Department of Agri-|
culture "to develop a broad program!
looking toward better preparation o |
farm crops for market with emphasis I
on better handling, storage anc I
'grading."
Employment of Darst is anotheil
step in the Department's program tc|
increase much-needed services foi I
farmers in the field of marketing!
Commissioner Scott said.
Darst has had 29 years experience!
in agronomic work with state anc|
! federal agricultural agencies, hav-|
ling served agriculture more than 161
| years in North Carolina prior to
leaving the state two years ago tr
work on his doctor's degree at Cornel
University.
He is a graduate of Ohio "StaU
University, B. S. degree in 1910, ani
received his master's degree fron
Cornell in 1925. From 1920 to 193r?
| he served as professor of agronomj at
State College and from 1929 to
1937 was director of the North Carolina
Crop Improvement Association
and seed sertification service.
In addition to his work in the-state,
he has been Extension agronomist at!
Ohio State University, professor of
farm crops at Pennsylvania State
, College, executive secretary of the
.Federated American Farm Bureau at
"Chicago (seed Service) and senior;
agronomist with the United States
Department of Agriculture. |
While' at State College as professor
J of agronomy,, he was in charge of
I farm crop teaching in the school of
| agriculture, assisting in Extension
and Vocational work, and was also
'in charge of the seed certification
(program. Camaign
A campaign has been started among
. Polk County farmers, in which they
i will be asked to plant five pounds of
I "rimsnn clover on their pastures this
'fall.
Food
It is estimated that for every in.
crease of $100 in the income received
, by families whose yearly income
, is $1,500 or less, from 20 to 30 percent
of the increase would be spent
for food.
Going Up
, J. T. Daniel, Oxford, Route 1, made
104 bushels of corn on his demont
stration acre in 1033, but this year,
t with continued favorable weather,
, he expects to make 125 bushels.
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lar bank, for the first time
according to a statement of
neb of The Jackson County I
apital the bank has grown
until now it is a million
DEATH RATE IN STATE 1
BY DROWNING HEAVY 1
Raleigh, Aug. 23.?North Carolina's i I
epidemic of deaths by drowning un- rj
abated, figures released by the State I
Board of Health Show. The total - v 3 I
for last month was 33,as compared
with 21 a year ago, while the June, g
1939, total was 35, against 21 the cor- Mr
responding month in 1938. fl
The State's total death-toll from B
drowning in 1939 stands at 104. Dur- .
ing the first seven months last year, ;'-B
it was only 66.
The Board of Health's iVtal Sta
tistics report for July, this year, B
shows a total of 115 deaths attributed 1
to preventable accidents, as compared I
with only 107 a year ago. There was
a noticeable decrease, however, in I
deaths from all causes, the total for
July, 1939, being 2,453, against 2,635, I
last July,, the death rate for the
niunm dropping from 9.0 to 8.3,
while the infant mortality rate for
the month dropped from 82.5 in July /
1938, to 57.8 for the corresponding
month this year?the total number,
from 505 to 373. ....
There was also an upturn in the
number of births last month; wheh
0,454 were reporter, as compared * _J
with 6,120 a year, ago. This is in '
contrast with the general trend so ^
far this year, up to July, which'has
been consistently downward.
There were only nine deaths from
typhoid and paratyphoid fever thruout
the State last month, against
twelve a year ago, and only 2 from
measles, compared with 23 a year
ago, when an epidemic occurred.
There were no deaths from infantile
paralysis, compared with one a year
ago, while deaths from pneumonia.
dropped from 113 to 73 and from
diarrhea and enteritis among chil- . >jj
dren under two years old from 174
tr? 113. Tuheroulnsis deaths dronned
from 137-to 119, while * pellagra
claimed 25 victms, five more than in
July of last year. 1
Prosposed Lecture Discussion
Course lor Sylva
An introductory lecture on "The
World's Insecurity and the Outlook
for Peace" (or "The Modern World
and Its Problems") is announced to /
be given Tuesday evening, Sept. 5,
at 8 o'clock in the basement of the
Sylva Methodist church by Dr. Willis
A. Parker, Professor and Director of
Extension Work of W. C. T? C.
The purpose of this lecture is to
bring together all persons in Sylva
and vicinity who would be interested
to support a series of lecture discussions
during the coming fall and win-*
ter.
Dr. Parker is especially well informed
on these subject and already
has classes in three other communities ' &&
in Western North Carolina. He has
lectured contenuously to one group
in Aeheville fo reight years. f
Dr. Parker announces, that teach- ',V
ers and other persons interested in
the proposed Extension Courses of " .
Western Carolina Teachers College
will meet on Tuesday, Sept 5, in the
Sylva high school building at 4:30
P.M.
It is important that everyone interested
be present because the subject
or subjects to be taught will be
decided upon and enrollment will be
taken. Persons who can not be
present should have some one authorized
to express their preference of
subjects.
Fly-Killer
By sprinkling acid phosphate
every few days on manure piles
around his dairy barns, A. C. Basefoot,
a Harnett County farmer, has
practically eliminated flies about his
placed
. Profitable ~
From a recently completed project
begun with 200 baby chicks, James
Lee, a 4-H Club' member of Four
net profiit of nearly $30,
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