,* , ; i ?1 00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE IN T] SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLY TO BE HELDJN SYLVA plans are being completed for ? Sunday School rally of itje Baptist Sunday Schools of. iLirom County, at the Sylva ! I jjj'h School auditorium, Sunday I of.ernoon, April 14th, at 2 I o'clock. j. N. Barnette, Associate SecI rotary of the Sunday School I I Board will be the principal I speaker. More than one thousand perI sons are expected to attend this I meeting. The full program wiH appear I in next week's Journal. I . Ila Jean Owens Passes I Ila Jean, four months old I daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd I Owens, died last Saturday, after* I an illness of pneumonia. Funeral I services were held Sunday afterI noon by Rev. G. A. Hovis, pastor, I * and Rev. W. N. Cook, pastor of I the Webster Baptist church, and I interment was in the cemetery I at Webster. 1 The little girl is survived by I her parents, two sisters, Love Tmiise and Nancy Anne, and by | a small brother, Jimmy. DR. JESSE C. OWEN TO PREACH AT GLENVILLE, APRIL 14 Dr. Jesse C. Owen, a native of Jackson county, will preach at the Glenville High School building. on Sunday, April 14, from the same ,text he used fifty years ago when he began to preach, at the same place. A letter, received from Dr. Owen a few days ago, from .which we " quote, extends an Invitation to the public and especially to his old friends and schoolmates to be present. Dr. Owen says: Hon. Dan. Tompkms, Sylva. N. C. Dear Friend and Brother: On April 14th of this year I am to go back to Glenville in your county where I began tryI 'm to preach fifty years ago and I preach again pn the same text I I had then. My subject this time I will be "After Fifty Years." i wonder, if you will do me the kindness of extending through your excellent paper, an invitation. especially, to any friends and old school-mates in your county to come and be with us 09 that occasion. I believe the arrangements are for the service to be held in the High School building which is on the site of the old Hamburg High School in which I preached then. Come and bring your friends. During these fifty years it has been my privilege to serve as City, Associational, State, Home, and Foreign Missionary; Corresponding Secretary-treasurer of one of the states, pastor and school man. Nearly 26,000 people have professed conversion in connection with my work, for which I am profoundly grateful. t am Willi CWCLy gUUVl nwu, Yours very fraternally, J. C. Owen. Swain-Jackson Union Meets At Bryson City The Swain-Jackson Methodist Young People's Union held a Meeting, Monday night, at Bryson City, the meeting being presided over by the president, Miss laleen Sigmon. - Plans for the banquet to be held at the Community House here, on April 26, were made. The theme of the program to be pre- ' sented at that time is "Spring." Committees are at work on the , details of the affair. Southern Station Gets Coat of Paint The Southern Railway station here has just received a new c?at of paint and other repairs, adding to the improvements in | the business district of Sylva. ? 1 4 I n)t % IE COUNTY ___ *?: . % Local Students Named On Teachers College Winter Honor Roll Cullowhee (Special) ?Of the 501 students enrolled at Western Carolina Teachers College during the winter quarter, 4.7 per cent were named on the Alpha honor roll and 9.5 per cent were named on the Beta honor roll. ^To be eligible for the Alpha honor roll, a student must make a minimum of 40 quality points; for the Beta hohor roll it is necessary to make a minimum of 32 quality points. According to an announcement by Miss Addie Beam, registrar for the 6ollege, the following students are on the Alpha honor roll: Helen Leaks Adams, Marshall; Betty Ammon, Statesville; Mildred Atkins, Asheville; Evelyn Carpenter Bowman, Robbinsville; Mrs. Viola Bryson Breedlove, Glenville; Mrs. Mary Louise Buchanan, Webster; Mary Delle Davis, Andrews; Mary Kathryn Garnef, Asheville; Jane Greenlee, Spruce Pine; Ruth Havnie. Asheville; Johnny Keenum, Suit; Arthur E. Leake, Marshall; Mattie McGinnis, Hamlet; Charles McLauglin, Bryson City; Lucile Meredith, Guilford; Osa Belle Middleton, Tuckaseigee; Bill Peek, Mars Hill; Pauline Pressley, Speedwell; John Reynolds, Enka, Jas. Rhodes, Asheville; Roxanna Shaw, Black Mountain; Nina Silver, Henderson ville; John Sloan, Cullowhee; Bill Troutman, Asheville. The following students are listed on the Beta roll: Ruth Elizabeth Andrews, Bryson City; Gladys Bradley, Edneyville; Craig Brigman, Walnut; Katherine Brown, Cullowhee; Ty Burnette, Murphy; Claude Carpenter, Robbinsville; Gertrude Carter, Zebulon; Ruth Cherry, Haynesville; Alwayne De Lozier, Enka; Lucille Dills, Beta; Edna Dinkins, Louisville; Barbara Dodson, Winston Salem; Ernest Elliott, Long Island; Guy Ensley, Sylva; Bill Ferguson,) Spring Creek; Deane Frazier, Canton; Anna Jean Grant, Murphy; Pauline Hart, Fayetteville; Mae Rene Hauser, Pinnacle; Brawdus Hill, Swiss; Pearl Hill; Edneyville; Alma Jackson, Waynesville; Joe Lance, Marshall; Lela Belle McKeithan, Fayetteville; Lora Alice Long, Cullowhee; Henry Lee Miller, Cullowhee; Charles Moody, Waynesville; Elaine Moses, Glenville, Zelda Murray, Wilson; Melba Nanney, Swiss; Allen Kimrey Perkins, Goldsboro; Mabel Orr, Robbinsville; Thurman Perkins, Goldsboro; Lee Phoenix, Cane River; Lyda Brownlow Ray, Micaville; Annie Lucile" Reed, Sylva; Ialeen Sigmon, Bryson City; Elmer Stahlman, Mt. Sterling; Beatrice Stein, Sylva; I Lawrence Stewart, Robbinsville; Genevieve Summers, Moore Haven, Fla.; Hattie Hilda Suttnn Svlva: Page Sylvester, Black ~"l ? f - _ Mountain; Evanell Thomasson, Bryson City; Mae Wilkinson, Gastonia; Billie Williams, Bat Cave; Louise Varner, Whittier. Baptist Sunday School Class To Have Social The Young Men's Class of the Baptist Sunday School will have a party in the Sunday School rooms, on?next Tuesday night and Rev. H. M. Hocutt has been named chairman of the entertainment committee and Paul Womack chairman of the committee on refreshments. . 9 .. uhscti SYLVA, NO: _ % ' MUCH INTEREST IS SHOWN IN McKEE MEDAL CONTEST At the meeting of the B. H. Cathey Chapter United Daughters of the. Confederacy held on Tuesday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. John H. Wilson, it was announced that fifteen girls and I seven boys had entered the preliminary contest for the Gertrude Dills McKee medal, offered annually to the boy and girl winning in the recitation and declamation contest, which is a feature of the school commencemont Thfl mortolc a to orlvpn Vw 1I&V/1A U. AI1V UiVVAMAU U1V gyAVWA* n#j Mrs. E. L. McKee, through the B. H. Cathey Chapter U. D. C. An item of business of interest was the decision to increase the amount of the chapter's contribution to the Jefferson Davis memorial. The memorial is a bronze statue in Montgomery, Ala., the first capital of the Confederacy. The ritual of the Daughters of the Confederacy was read by Mrs| John B. Ensley and Mrs. Herbert Bryson presented a program on the city of Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Wilson served a salad course. , Mrs. H. H. Cope was a guest of the Chapter at the meeting. \ E ALLISON MOTOR COMPANY TO ADD HARDWARE STOCK w A stock of farm implements *e and machinery, hardware and *c seeds will be added to the Allison sc Motor Company's business, on hl Main street. The building just p) vacated by the post office, and T adjoining Allison Motor Com- B pany, IS being re-painted, partitions taken out and otherwise gl made ready for the new enter nrise. which Dan Allison, owner, _ *" ' ' Ijl, says he hopes to nave open -for business by April 15. The busi- ^ ness will be conducted under the j* firm name of Allison Motor Company, and Tom Keever will be g1 in charge of the new depart- ** ment. Mr. Keever has had several years' experience in the t hardware business. ? m W. T. FIS H E_R DIES ti IN ANDREWS MONDAY m ni W. T. Fisher, who moved from pj Jackson county to Andrews a h, number of years ago, died at his *r home on Monday, his 87th birth- c( day. Mr. Fisher had been serious- gi ly ill for a long period. ei The funeral was held at the la Andrews Methodist church yes- j terday morning at 10 o'clock, ^ Rev. G. N. Dulin and Rev. E. F. ^ Baker conducting the service, la and burial was in the Andrews q cemetery. IQ Surviving are his widow, who was Miss Minnie McLaln, ana w two daughters, Mrs. Matt McBrayer, of Rutherfordton, and ^ Mrs. John H. Christy, of Andrews. ^ Surviving also are relatives in Jackson county, among them Mrs. Mont Cannon and Mrs. ^ Ralph Tatham, of Dillsborq, and ^ ' Miss Alma Fisher, of Sylva.. Mr. Fred N. McLain, Mr. Fish- . j er's brother-in-law, and Mrs. McLain, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Can- . non, and Mrs. H. W.-Kincaid ^ went to Andrews yesterday j to be present at the funeral. j Wilmot Teachers m Are Elected H jt - . la Teachers lor tne scnooi at ? Wilmot have been elected and ^2 are as follows: Principal, Conrad Hooper; Miss Geneva Turpin c? and Mrs. Harriett Jenkins. ^ Principals for other schools in Sylva and Webster districts are: J; Sylva High: J.: L. Hair; Sylva H Elementary: Frank M. Crawford; Beta, W. V. Cope; Addie, 4 John Crawford; Willets, S. J. Phillips; Balsam, Cornelius Deitz; Dillsboro, Alliney H. Bryson; Barker's Creek, Mrs. Lois C Martin; Qualla; Howard Craw- d: ford; Webster, R. P. Buchanan; C Green's Creek; Mrs. Demerries h Cowan; Gay, Mrs. Frank Bryson; le East Fork: H. Deitz; Zion Hill, c< R. O. Higdon. tc \ , - ; i; ! I+ I ~ -V i Com RTH CAROLINA, APRIL 4, 1940 No Progress Made in Safety for Children I North Carolina apparent- * ly is making little or no progress in the matter of educating school-age children to walk, play, skate and ride bicycles safely, judging from a survey just nomDleted by the Highway Safety Division. A study of pedestrian fatalities in the State from 1935 through 1939 shows that the percentage of school-age childrenj killed on the streets and highways showed no decline during the five year period. The total number of pedestrians killed from 1935 through 1939 was 1,780 of which 481, or 27 per cent, were under 15 years of age. Of the 331 pedestrian fatalities in North Carolina last year, 93, or 28 per cent, were under 15 years of age. "This clearly points to the need for the teaching of safety in the schools," says Ronald Hocutt, Director of the Highway Safety Division. Resources of Jackson County Discussed by Speaker at W. C. T. C. Cullowhee .(Special) ? The Western Carolina Teachers Colge chapter of the Association >r Childhood Education spon>red by Miss Leonara Smith, eld its regular meeting in the arlors of Moore Dormitory hursday evening with Lou Belle oyd, presiding. speaxer ior ine evening 5 proram was Mr. Thomas Coxe who as introduced by Christine royhill, program chairman. oUowingjJfjr theifle for the renihg, Mr: Xtoxecbihplimehtedf le teachers whom he was adressing upon their privilege of Hiding children in following leir natural interests. He ressed the importance of (aching children to observe and ading toward appreciation. In discussing the local community, the speaker pointed out lat within a radius of fifty tiles there is conceded to be tore varieties of vegetation and atural resources than any other art of the world of equal area as to offer. Range in altitude om 1200 to over 6000 feet, abiding to Mr. Coxe, makes posble vast varieties of wild flow's, among which are trillium, dy slippers, jack-in-the-pulits, blood root, and Cullowhee lies, a flower named by the herokees from which the vil,ge of Cullowhee takes its name. ? ? ? A x ri.il n Tyre KnoD, not iar irum v^uiwhee, are several acres of lilies ! the valleys which it appears ill bloom abundantly this >ring. Making a plea for contrving our wild flowers, Mr. oxe ufged the prospective achers to teach their students Dt to pull wild flowers and if ley were to be gathered at all > cut them. , j Among the minerals found in le nearby mountains, the >eaker named emeralds, saptiires, rubies, and garnets. He ilked also of the wealth of ickson county in the posession ! great quantities of mica. After Mr Coxe's talk, special Lusic was played by Anne and elen Bird at the j piano, and mnlin f.hp me i* un utb ,st of whom was accompanied Y Mrs. J. W. Fisher. Guests from Sylva for the ocision were: Mrs. Dan TompIns, Miss Annie Louise Madison, [iss Bertha Cunningham, Miss velyn Parker, and Miss Belzora olden. . i -H Leaders School Here Last! Saturday Miss Wille Hunter, Extension lothing Specialist, conducted a [strict 4-H Leaders' School in lothing, at the court house ere, last Saturday. 4-H Club !aders and members from Majn, Haywood and Jackson atinded the meeting. . -I j v ' I > nto 3i m . , :1, " . - . PRESBYTERIANS TO < HOLD SERVICES SUNDAY NIGHT Rev. Paul Thrower, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Bryson City, will preach here, in the ( Wall nn t.hp t.hird Jf WU11AVAA M MM** w** ? floor of the McGuire building, Sunday night, at 8:00 o'clock. The public is invited to hear Mr. Thrower. ? ? W. C. T. C. Dramatics i Club Presents "The ? Whole Town's Talking" i Leo Cowan, son of Mr. ^shid ! Mrs. R. D. Cowan of Green's r Creek, and a graduate of Web- I ster High School, and Melba \ Fowler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Fowler of Glenville and a s graduate of the Glenville High r School, are playing leading parts j in "The Whole Town's Talking," a which is to be presented by the s Dramatics club of Western Caro- \ liria Teachers College in the Col- c lege auditorium, Friday evening, ^ April 5. C Miss Fowler, a senior, % and Cowan, a freshman, were active F in dramatics in high school and j Miss Fowler has been an active member of the Dramatics Club ^ throughout her college career. ^ The play was a popular Broad- . way" success before its release for amateur production. The stage set has been built by John ^ Jordon of Murphy. Miss Mabel Tyree of the Department of English is directing the production. 1 Other members of the cast inDim V Hunt. WnvPKVille: I \ LIUUU i^UV/|V AAWAAV) w ? j ? Alice Stafford, Asheville; Ruth I Coggins, Bee Tree; Buck Love, r Stanfield; Irene Hamilton, Whit- c tier; Gertrude Carter, Zebulon; i Vera Hosaflook, Waynesville; f Sam Washburn, Bostic; Jean g Bennett, Biyson CIiy;" George t Walker, Murphy; and Josephine "] Morgan, Mt. Olive. I \ JAMES W. MATHIS J " DIED YESTERDAY j James W. Mathis, aged 71, jdied at his home yesterday c morning, after a long illness, of a a heart ailment, and will be c buried this afternoon at Lovedale. The funeral services will ^ be conducted by Rev. Lucius k Rogers, of Haywood county, and Rev. W. N. Cook, of Webster. Surviving Mr. Mathis are his widow. Mrs. Jessie Mathis, and .. fourteen children: Mrs. Willie J Burch, Mrs. Lucile Shuler, Bob, ll)an, Glenn, Odell, Alice, Hettie, . ikelen, Bennie and Sue, of Sylva; ; Mrs. Georgia Cox, and Mrs. Nellie Sherlock, of Greer, S. C., tJ and Mrs. Bessie Carlisle of Rockingham. r t Young People's 4 0 Leaders' Conference * ^ " t< Sunday afternoon, at 2:30, at y the Sylva Baptist church, there will be held a Young People's E Leaders' Conference, for the /./Miricoinrs of aii t.he Junior Aux V/UUllOViViu vr* v??? ? _ iliaries of the Woman's Mission- p ary Union, under the direction of Miss Margaret Wilson, Associational Young People's Leader. All Woman's Missionary Society oresidents and officers of the Young Woman's Auxiliary are 0 also urged to attend the meet- * ing. . & The following program has t been planned: , _ / ^ Opening song, "How Firm a p Foundation." ^ ' Devotion, Mrs. George Snyder. * Prayer, Mrs. J. V. Hall. - ^ How to Foster, Mrs. Fred n Forester. How to Observe Focus Week, ? Mrs. H. M. Hocutt. s' Round table Discussion, Miss Margaret Wilson. tl Business and announcements, v Young Women's Auxilary Con- v ference, Mrs. H. M. Hocutt. t] Girls' Auxiliary Conference, U M^s Mildred Cowan. si Royal Ambassadors' Con- r< ference, Rev. H. M. Hocutt. v Sunbeam Conference, Miss c Margaret Wilson. c mtm $2.00 A YEAR IN ADYA Census Enun In Jackso Is Now iLIMfi IFWIS I1IF5 ON STREET HERE Cling Lewis, 63, died suddenly lere Friday afternoon of a heart ittack. Mr. Lewis was on Main Street with his nephew, Carl jewis, when stricken. He died ihortly after being placed in an lutomobile to be carried to his lome. Until a few years ago Mr. ,ewis was engaged in the mica nining business, but due to ill lealth he had been unable to vork for some time. Surviving are his widow; two ons, Bud and David of Chattaiooga., Tenn.; two daughters, -Irs. Bob Powell of Tuckaseigee md Daisy Lewis of Sylva; two isters, Mrs. Jason Morgan of Vaynesville and Mrs. Tom Buhanan of Greens Creek, and. wo half brothers, Bryce and ;ole Lewis of Greenville, S. C. Funeral services, conducted by lev. Fred Forester, pastor of the Japtist church at Cullowhee, srere held for Mr. Lewis at the Vesleyan Methodist church at ruckaseigee, and interment was n the Tuckaseigee cemetery. rOMMY TURPIN DIES AT OTEEN HOSPITAL AFTER LONG ILLNESS Tommy Turpin, World War veteran, died at the Veterans' lospital, at Oteen, Sunday light, after an illness extending >ver a long period of time. He s survived by his widow and ive children, four boys and one firl. Surviving also are six ifttliers, Tames," XttTMrmSE* rurpin, of Green's Creek, John, Dock, and Alley Turpin of Vaynesville, and Warfield Tur>in, of Sylva, and by three sisers in Haywood county. Funeral services, conducted by lev. G. A. Hovis, pastor, were leld at Wesleyanna Methodist hurch on Tuesday afternoon, .nd burial was in the East Fork emetery. 1 Tarwi Tno /?Vi arc )pci/iai x 111 x cavnci o t At Cullowhee Named Cullowhee, April 2 (Special)? 'eachers for- the special six /eeks term, which will be held ,t Western Carolina Teachers College from April 25 to June 6, tave just been announced by V. E. Bird, dean of the College. ' "hey include: Dr. Willis A. Park- 1 r, of Asbeville, Director of the 1 )ivision of Extension, who will i each history; Dr. A. B. Hoskins, i f Asheville, member of the Di- 3 ision of Extension, who will j each psychology; J. M. Plem- i ions, of Asheville, member of t /oodfin high school faculty, ] lio will teach science; Miss i dith Buchanan, of- Cullowhee, 1 lember of Sylva High School 1 iculty, who will teach English; 1 orter Garland, of Asheville, ] lember of the Division of Exten' ?i ?'IT ^ah/iVi nnnrtflC in 1 ion, WHO Will tcai.ll tv/uiav? . uidance. - 1 Among the resident members f the faculty who will teach are: 1 liss Maude Ketchum, art; Miss : .eonore Smith, primary educaion; Miss Alice Benton, hygiene; farion McDonald, swimming; lays and games; the Reverend /alter Lee Lanier, Bible; and fiss Kathleen Davis, handwritig methods. Other faculty lembers will be added to this st according to the demand of . hose who register for the i pecial term. i This term is held annually for i be convenience of teachers who i rish to continue studying and ' rhose schools are out early in 1 be spring. Since the dormi- 1 sries are already filled with i tudents and instructors, those t egistering for work at this time 5 rill find it necessary to secure 1 oom and board in the Cullowhee i ommunity. ' I NCE~oirji^^^^^OlINTY #[ leration | n County Under Way The check up of population, housing and agriculture began all over the United States, this week, the enumerators in this county having been chosen from applicants who had received instruction last week and passed their examinations. The enumerators for this county are: Barker's Creek, Ma bel Jones; Whittier; Caney Fork, W. Woodford Hooper, Co warts; Cashiers town and Cashiers Valley, C G. Rogers, Cashiers; Cullowhee, Edwin Bryson, Cullowhee; Dillsboro town and township, F. I. Watson, Dillsboro; Green's Creek, J. B. Wetmore, Green's Creek; Hamburg, Lewis R. Norton, Norton; Mountain, Mrs. Pearl Stewart, Erastus; Qualla, Mrs. Hazel E. Patton, Whittier; River, Fred C. Smith, Tuckaseigee; Savannah, Jas. E. Turpin, Green's Creek; Scott's v Creek, J. S. Phillips, Cullowhee;' Sylva, Mrs. Sam Roane, Sylva; Sylva township, Roy Dills, and Oscar Henson, Sylva; Webster township, Mrs. Dennis Higdon, Webster. Specialists Will Hold Meetings In County On next Saturday morning, April 6, Mis Anna Rowe, District Home Demonstration Agent, will conduct a leaders' school, in Crafts. The school will begin at 9 o'clock, and will be held in the court house. All those who are interested are invited to be present. % At 2 o'clock, the same after noon, there will be held a meeting of the county council of Home Demonstration Clubs, at the. court house. The council Is ?o$?gosed of the officejj^rfthe Home DemonstratloirCUibs ni the couhty. A demonstration of the standardization Of canned products will be presented by Miss Rowe and Mrs. Mamie Sue Evans, Home Dempnstration Agent for Jackson county at this meeting. Mr. John H. Harris, Extension Landscape Specialist, will be in the county the 8, 9 and 10 of this month, to work with Mrs. Evans. He will also conduct a leaders' school, at the court house, on Monday afternoon, April 8. BALSAM (By Mrs. D. T. Knight) Mr. and Mrs. Henley Jones announce the birth of a son, Henley, Jr., born March 27th. Balsam School closed Tuesday. The final entertainment was lfnn/tnn nlorhf TVlP VlftllSP / liciu muiiuajf uigiiv. s was filled to its utmost capacity and everyone seemed to enjoy the entire program. Music was furnished by a quartet from Addie. The following graduated from the 7th grade and will enter high school this fall: Lilian Bryson, Olive Bryson, Kate Bryjon, Jannett Coward, A. C. Crawford, Lewis Crawford, Louis Ensey, Iva Lee Hoyle, William Balfour Knight, Charles McCall and Louise Potts. A large number received awards for perfect attendance, out I failed to get the names. Miss Dorothy Bryson came up from Qualla to attend the closing exercises of the school. Mr. Carl Wood and family, who have been living on a farm near Brevard for the past year have returned to their home here. Kindergarten To Start ?? ? it ^ ivionaay iuunimg The kindergarten, a part of the Jackson County Recreation Project program, will begin at 9:00 o'clock Monday, morning, at the Elementary School building, rhe kindergarten, for children from 3 to 5 years old, has not teen in session for several months, because of the weather renditions during the winter, but with the coming of warm days, It is hoped, by the sponsors of the group, that the attendance will be large. t v 'ikI J