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IN ADVANCE IN T1
170 Postim
llth Distric
To Meet He
The postmasters of the 11th |i
I congressional District will hold I
I their meeting at the Community
house in Sylva, Saturday even- I
I ing. W. T. Martin of Bryson
I City, is chairman of the DisI
trict Postmasters. Tom Porter of
I Franklin is vice-president; BarI
ron P. Caldwell, of Marion, is
I secretary, and R. A. Crowell, of r
I Enka, and Maj. ?T Hardin Howell ^
I of Waynesville, are state di- *
I rectors. '
I paul Younts of Charlotte is
I National President, and it is e
I hoped that he wil be present at ^
I the meeting. J. C. Allen, state c
I president, of Durham, and Miss ?
????> inu Scott, Sanford, state | ?
/Villi"- ? secretary,
will be present, ac- L
cording to Postmaster Charles N. c
Price, of Sylva, who will be 4
host to the 170 postmasters of a
the district, who are expected to F
be here. ?
The Halcyon Club, organiza- ?
tion of the younger women of
Sylva, will serve the dinner.
Officers of the association will ^
be elected. c
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fullowhee Church Host
To Tuckaseigee Baptist t
I Sunday School Meet j
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The Tuckaseigee Baptist Sun- e
day School Convention met with t
Cullowhee Church last Sunday t
afternoon. The meeting was to j
have been held at Speedwell,
but owing to road conditions it i
was changed to Cullowhee. t
Clarence Vance, associational ?
president, presided at the meet- \
in* The following Sunday t
Schools were represented: Jar- ?
rett Memorial, Dillsboro, Sylva, c
Otd Savanhah,- -flcofct's - Creeks s
Little Savannah, Webster, Speed- 1
well, Lovedale and Cullowhee. t
The devotional was conducted 1
by R. F. Jarrett, of Jarrett Me- 1
morial Church. The secretary's 1
report was given by J. V. Hall, of i
Sylva. ?
The Pressley quartet of Speed- i
well rendered special music. 1
Paul Buchanan, of Webster dis- ]
cissed the subject, "A Training
Course in Every Sunday School."
Rev. H. M. Hocutt of Sylva, told
of the plans for a study course
in the association.
Miss Louella Brown, of Cullowhee
discussed the subject
"Using the Bible in the Sunday
School."
Rev. Fred Forrester, of Cullowhee
,told of plans underway
to secure Dr. Fred F. Brown,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Knoxville, Tenn., - to
hold a series of revival services,
at some central * church in the
association this fall, all the
churches of the county cooperating.
C. R. Browning, Jr., of Ashevile,
spoke on the subject, "The
Great Commission."
SnonHnrnll Cliivi/4rtfr 0/>V^ Ani Q clrpH
^-'h'^tvivvcii ouiiuajr iA/liwi
for the next meeting, which will
be held there the second Sunboy
in October at 2:30 o'clock.
Funeral Services For
Calhoun and Mason
Are Held Tuesday 5
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Funeral services for Glenn
Calhoun were held at Old Field
Cemetery, Tuesday, and for
Walter Odell Mason, in Macon
county. The two young men,
both of whom lived at Lake
Junaluska, were well known in
Jackson county. Mason once
lived at Whittier, and later at ?
Webster. They were both killed g
when the automobile which Ma- (
son was driving Sunday afterboon,
was struck by a truck oc- rj
cuPied by three Negroes, Glenn
JJcDowell, J. J. McKinney, and
German Lowery, all of Canton.
Highway patrolmen who instigated
stated that the t
jruck, driven by Lowery was on q
|he wrong side of the . road, a
raveling west, when the head- c
?n collision occurred. ^
AH three Negroes were taken r
0 the Haywood County Hospital ?
n.ear which the tragedy took
Place
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3? COUNTY SYLYA N<
isters Of 75???T-L'
^ In County for 1939
:t Expected Have Now Been Paid
Cntll^rl q\7 Seventy seven per cent of the
jMl C kjdlltl IX dV taxes of Jackson county for the
^_ year 1939 have been collected, according
to Sheriff Leonard
COnSCriptiOn Bill IS ?0Jden Chairman ? Walter
r Ashe, of the county Board of
EXOCCtCd TO Be In Commissioners. This does not inwL
? tu 'i elude tax bills upon which partnrno
Du vAlool# inn fui -?-?^ i i ?
ui ill# ill ITGGII'LIIII VM1 nave ueeo m&ae,
the Sheriff explained, and the
figure will be considerably larger
By the end of the week it is before he turns the tax books
nore than probable that peace- back to the commissioners, next
ime conscription of men for month.
raining in the United States The total levy for the county
irmy will be the law. The bill was $130,610.10; and total collas
passed both houses of Con- lections, exclusive of partial
:ress and is now in conference payments amount to $100,408.20.
vith a committee seeking to iron
>ut the differences between the Wnmoit'c Cnoiotlf For
Senate and the House. The main "OMiail S oOCIBlj TOi
Ufferences are that, after the Phriction QofifiPO
>ill passed the Senate/ the house U,,|15Udl1 0 d 1 y * C
hanged the age limit from 31 to IllStSllS Of f ICBTS
5; and the House also inserted
n amendment, proposed by Re- The officers of the Woman?s
>ubican member Hamilton Society for Christian Service, of
f New York; to postpone the the gylva Methodist church>
onscription for sixty days, and were ^stalled, last night at the
n the meantime seek to raise the church by Rev A P Ratledge,
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ICUCOOttlY 1UU,WU UlCil KfJ TUlUil- ft,- _t. .
,. . . , . the preacher in charge, in an
ary enlistments.^ Washington tapresslve ceremo?y The soibservers
believe th*1 tbe House clety supercedes the woman's
?ill yield to the Senate and Missionary Societies of the
nake the conscription operative Methodist Church, and
mmediately upon the passage of the of the Methodist
he bill; and that the Senate will church
rield to the House and raise the The officers inst,iled were
ige limit so that the bill will president ms Dan Tompkins;
ipply to all men between the vice-president, Mrs. E. L. McKee;
iges of 21 and 45 instea o connectional treasurer, Mrs.
,o 31 as the bill stood when it Harry Hastings; local treasurer,
>assed the Senate. Mrs. Walter L. Jones; recording
At any rate, the machinery for Mrs A D part*,..
egistration of the man power of corresponding secretary', Mrs. H.
he country for military training Gibson> Jr. of Chrisind
service has been set up, and j.jan relations and local
vill be put into action soon. In church activities, Mrs. John H,
he meantime, the ilegislation Wilson; secretary of mission edluthorizing
the President to call ucati0I1) Dan K Moore;
mt the ^^ipnal Guard haaheen secretary of student work, Mrs.
'If,Mid11 Uy llii - piLMlilLPermit Chapman; secretary of
laving passed both houses, and chudren.S| glPrls- and you~?eo.
he call has gone forth for a ple,s worfcf Mrs. A p Ratledge;
arge part of the Guard to go to sectary of pre-school age
heir cantonments at once. Work, Miss Louise Mason; secretforth
Carolina was particularly Missionary publications,
iffected by that order, and Gov- phiUiD stovall<
srnor Hoe,-has ordered additions The chal"rman of the standlng
made to the personnel of the committees are; splrituaj ilfe>
State Highway Patrol and the Mrs M D cowaii; membership
patrolmen to be armed with ma- Miss Lucll]e w? Fellowship.
f ?unf' ,.tear gas; and ,fs Mrs. H. Gibson, Sr., status of
masks, to take care ofthe situ- women Mrs j p p pubition
at home while the guard ,lcK and printingj Mrs. H. Gibu
in the federal service; and he SQn , and Mrs McKee and
is making plans for the organ- Mrsh
Tompkins are ex-officio I
^i?n of a home iuard, with chairmen of program and fi_
probably the American Legion as nancC( respectively.
'he nucleus. The charter meeting of the
Army offic als expect to have society was held Monday even.
;he conscription machinery at ing at church, with a ritualvork
by October 15. istic service> conducted by Mr.
In the meantime, with the Ratledge With Miss Margaret
noney having been appropriated handler at the piano, the women
py the Congress and the bill sang hymns of the church, as
>igned by the President, the they went forward and 40 of
Vavy is proceeding to let con- them subscribed their
names to
;racts to provide this country the rod> making them charter
vith a naval defense that can members 0f the society. However,
;ontrol both our oceans, with a the charter membership will be
lavy larger than the present held open until October 1, and
jombined riavies of Germany, women wh0 enroll prior to
rapan, Russia, and Italy. that date will be charter mem;ake
five years to complete the bers
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urogram, uut 7*T The society win ionow me
nore airplanes added to the tfce of the Woman,s Mis.
strength of both the navy and si Soclet ln meetln ln
she army, and soon the ships ci the same hours and
rill begin floating down their dates and of hQlding quarterIy
-unways into the seas. meetings of the society as a
The defenses of the United whLOie
States have been pushed some *
100 miles eastward by the trade ^ , . ?T ^ ^
nade by President Roosevelt and Canned Products Wanted
>reat Britain, by which we se- For Families In Flood
;ured naval and air bases in
3ritish possessions along the the home of Mrs. John Hyatt in
;oast, and the islands, for a members and homemakers of
w?riod of 99 years, in exchange | Jackson county, - who would like
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or 50 over-age ships, which the to contribute canned produces to
3ritish will need sorely, when the families who lost their winter
ind if the Germans actually be- supply of food in the recent flood
,dn their threatened invasion of may bring these products to the
>reat Britain. ^ court house in Sylva. Mrs. Mamie
: Sue Evans, home demonstration
ruckaseigee W. M. U. aBent> wU1 recelve them for the
" Bed Cross
Cancels Meeting" The Red Cross has given sev
eral cans to be filled for these
Because of conditions of roads families. If one woman or a
hroughout the county, the group of club women will fill a
luarterly meeting of the Tuck- dozen of these, the cans may be
iseigee W. M. U. has been can- gotten from Mrs. Evans at the
elled, and the Bryson City di- court house. These cans should
vision meeting which was to have be filled and returned as soon as
net at Cullowhee will be held at possible, since the Red Cross ofJylva
Baptist Church on Oct, 2. fice would like to dispense these
Mrs. Charles t. Allison, supt. products before closing the ofMrs.
J. V. Hall, secretary. ^ fice here.
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3RTH CAHdtp, THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1940
Commisjdfjraws 171 Families Registered
Jury October With Red Cross For
Termpprior Court Help In Flood Sections
The Jury : d^tamission, com- One hundred and seventy-one
posed of R. U. Sfctton, H. H. Bry- families have already registered
soon, and Dill&d Coward, met with the Red Cross in Sylva for
and drew the ftry for the Oc- immediate relief or rehabilitatober
term of the Superior court, tion, or both, according to Mrs.
J. H. Barnei; Sylva; V. O. Bu- WUcox, supervisor in charge of
chanan, Green's Creek; Troy ^J? work here. Of these. Mrs.
Hooper, Tuckaseigee; W. C. Ca- Wilcox said, at least 95 per cent
Webster; H. Difowler, Glenville; hav? already received aid of some
Hobert Niclwjson, Cowarts; "K an? they? ar? others who
TBnrJfitonwa*?. w tr have not registered who have
Aiv/naiu "vw%llf?'w"M,4WM? >f . , f .
Styles, Sylva&eal Zackary, been given assistance. .
Cashier's; Ed fidoper, East La- have received aU
Porte; Grady Benson, Sylva; J. be lid^ey Can ?"am throu?h
C. Styles, Sylfe; L. T. Queen, Red ^oss, as their munediWebster;
John' Hlgdon, Gay; ate needs and rehabilitation
Frank Terrell, rS Sylva; M. V. Problems have been taken care
Breedlove, Glenville; Eula Ens- i . t
ley, Cullowhee; - Lawrence Ram- ? * b?udlne adviser will arrive
sey, Cullowhee; Ben Hooper, Cul- revleJ other cases; and
lowhee; Dave Dills, Cullowhee; Miss Mary Helen Vincent, of
Sam Broom, Cftnada; Norman Cleveland, Ohio who has been
Nicholson, Canada; Lem Nich- working to Madison county, has
olson, Cullowhee; R. K. Knight, come to Sylva and has been addCullowhee;
W. T. Cook, Sylva; ed 1184 of orkers here'
J. R. Mills, Culjowhee; W. O. T~7T ~ "777"
Sherril, Qualla; E. S. Parker, K6PUDllC3(1 UBnUluBtC
Fast T.nPnrt.P* Htenrv Rumcrarn- _ _
er, Barker's Creek; Z. J. Fincan- Fflf GOVCrilOr W I
non, Sylva; B. A. Beck, Ham- c u U| . ; burg;
Alvin Holden, Mountain; oD63K HGTB WBOnBSfldV
T. C. Bryson, Jr., Sylva; Felix ,
Hooper, East LaBprte; J. M. Cun- Honorable Robert H. Meningham,
Glenville; R. C. Bum- Neill, Republican candidate for
garner, Barker's Creek; James Governor of North Carolina, will
H. Buchanan, Green's Creek; J. speak at the court house at Sylva,
B; Bryson, Mountain; Geo. Da- Wednesday night, September 18,
vis, Sr., Barker's ;yreek; John A. at 8:00 o'clock. Ladies are especiStewart,
Mountain; Fred R. any lhvited.
Bryson, Gay. J Music by Bryson City string
Second .Week band.
Milford JenkiAs, Cullowhee;
R. N. Henson, oowarts; Adam COMPLETE BRIDGE
McMahan, Greenes Creek; JO ON TUCKASEIGEE
Howell Quallar I^leigh Warren, AT CULLOWHEE
Sylva; Vivtdr Brown, Cullowhee;
J. F. Melton Charts; Brady xhe first bridge across the
Parker, C^owMe; r main body of the Tuckaseigee
Bridges, Qualla; Jobert^river to be completed since the
son, uuuownee, ji is. uauuway, {jqqj was the temporary one at
(3tei!U|Ua: Cullowhee, Traffic was turned
Robert Cotter, CuilbwhOfe, Hem over jt jate Tuesday afternoon.
Estes, Green's Creek; J. C. CUne, Thfe wm t the ta of
Cu lowhee; M. A^Sumner, Sylva; Western Carolina TeacherS ColGola
Ferguson. Cullowhee; P. N. , next week and the opening
Bryson, Cashier's; Sam Fox Cul- Qf the hi h xbool t Cullowhee.
0W^eei^,' M:,M?ody' fountain; The temporary bridge 4s loL
E. Stillwell, Green's - Creek; cated jMt above the 0ld one.
John nsey, Sy va, and is down close to the water.
Shelton, Cullowhee; Walter All- Engineers are now planning the
man, Webster. new permanent bridge to disThe
court convenes on Mon- piaCe the old one. It is said that
day, October 7, and continues it will be much higher, in fact
for two weeks, if their is suffi- so high that there will be no
cient work to keep the court danger of it every being under
busy for that length of time. It water. It will be above the top
is for the trial of both criminal 0f the brick store buildings, and
and civil cases. The criminal will necessitate changing the
term will be held first, and the present highway up the hill
remaining days of the court will toward the college. The new
be for the civil docked. highway will follow largely the
Judge Wilson Warlick will pre- 0ld roadway, and will come back
side. into the present highway near
the Baptist church and the athDEFINE
REGULATIONS letic field of the college.'
FOR HUNTING SEASON ihttfravs AIT 5 WARS
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_ i ? MEET IN CASfflERS
Your attention is called to the .
following 1940 hunting regula- Munro Madison, of Cashier's
tions as defined below: Valley, sends us the information I
Daily bag limit of 10 on rab- that veterans of three wars and
bits. a soldier in the present emergenDaily
bag limit of 6 on squir- cy met at his place the other day.
rels.. Said Mr. Madison:
Unlawful to buy or sell deer, "Mr. A. D. McKinney, a Spanbear,
quail, squirrels, and rab- jish-American War veteran, from
bits. 'Birmingham, Ala., came to my
Unlawful to use ferrets in place yesterday with his uncle,
hunting. !N. H. McKinney, a Confederate
Unlawful to use automatic or veteran of Highlands, who was
pump shotgun that has not been celebrating his 92nd birthday. He
plugged. also had with him Mr. W. J.
Unlawful to hunt on Sunday, j (Bubber) Bryson, a SpanishUnlawful
to chase or hunt j American War veteran of Cashj
< iers. Mr. McKinney told me thiey
ueex wiui uugo.
All persons convicted of vio- had just been to Glenville where
lating the hunting laws, will his father visited with his childautomatically
have their licenses hood friend, Mr.' Elbert Watson,
revoked. * who is 97 years of age ,and the
J. A. BRADSHAW, 'only Confederate Veteran now
District Game Protector I living in Jackson county. While
we were talking, David Hugh
Vmw Mathis Thanks Rogers, a World War Veteran:
vessie Maims inariKS walked up with his son, Thomas
People For Kindness A. (Bud) Rogers, who is now en
? listed in the United States
Editor, The Journal: Army." [
I wish to take the means of i "
your paper to express to the Library Announces
people of this county, to my New Closing Hours
neighbors and friends, and those i
who did not know me, for their The Jackson County Public Ligreat
kindness to me during the brary will close at fi e o'clock
trial that I have undergone, and each afternoon excepj Saturthe
loss of my wife and my home day, when it will cloje at one
in the terrible flood. o'clock, according to an anVESSSIE
MATHIS i nouncement made this week.
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$2.00 A TEAR IN ADVANCE OUTSIDE THE COUNTY
Sylva Schools Reopen
As Some Students Use ||
I Boats To Cross River 1
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Torrifir Air Doiric Sylva 30110018 opened again on
I CI I llll# fill lldlUo yesterday morning, after having .
Unlit CnA+lirrht In ^een closeci since August 29, by
nUID opoillgni III - reason of the unsafe condition
Uf?? rAv TU:? nf_ _i, of roads and bridges, due to the
war For inis Week flood of that date.
' Use Boat
Teriffic air raids from the Bal- 'tudentswholive across I
tic sea, cear down to Palestine lhe rlvf ^ tbe ^h*ayLb?and
around the coast of Africa, "een ****** Cr,eek and(V^hlt"
have been the order of the war "er; aro ? transp?rted *
during the past week. the highway, where the
uuo pit&d Uiciii up ana uimgo
London, Liverpool, and other their school in Sylva.
cities in Great Britain have 0f these students are in the
taken teriffic punishment from high here
the German bombers. Many
buildings in London have been
destroyed, and huge fires lighted RED CROSS RECEIVES
up the skies, forming beacons MANY GARMENTS FOR
for additional bombs to be urr ctifffpitpc
rained down upon the city. FLOOD - SUFFERERS
Night after night the people of , , . , ,
T Many hundreds of garments,
London have spent the hours . . .. i_ , j , j,
?, _ ... r o. . rn , ? donated by merchants and indiwhen
they should have been ^ ^ have been concentrated
sleeping in their air raid shelters. ;iauais' naJe Deen concentrated
in the court room and have been
The Royal Air Force has been prepared for distribution to
doing its share of the bombing fiood-sufferers by Mrs. Mamie
also. It has largely concentrated gue Evans, and a group of volits
efforts against tfye concentra- unteer workers from the Home
tion points along the coast of Demonstration Clubs and from .
France and Belgium, from which women of Sylva. More than 300 \
it is reported the Germans plan garments have already been disto
make their effort to invade tributed by these women. The
Engand, after the softening up articles include coats, suits,
process of their air raiders has dresses, for women and children,
progressed sufficiently, in their underwear and the like,
opinion. But, in reply to a de- ^ great deal of furniture and
mand from the angry British other articles for use in and
public that the Germans be given around the homes have also been
a dose of their own medicine, gathered, and distributed. The
they have attacked the famous j^d cross has been purchasing
Krupp works, the great port of such articles as could not be obHamburg,
and Berlin itself. *On tained otherwise, and has been
Tuesday night the .Unter Den distributing them to the people'
Linden and the buildings along who are attempting to again set
it were the objects of a furious Up housekeeping,
rain of bombs from the British.
ADd' ""n. Conducting Schools For
quarter of a cFfifUry that this rx.
war has been in progress, the fa- Repairing Furniture .mous
street, along which the Damaged in Flood
German capital buildings stand .
has felt the kind of war that Miss Pauline/ Gordon, ExtenGermans
have brought to near- si?n Specialist in Home Mangely
every other part of the world, ment and House Furnishings,
. . . i nrill In Tonlronn Cnnntv Son
we usea to sing a song, duck, in ??*" **- "* ? MrVAUVAA VVUliVj K,/V|y
'18 about marching down the tember 16, 17, and 18, to assist
Unter Den Linden, and we longed Mrs- Mamie Sue Evans, home
to see it in the same kind of demonstration agent, in conshambles
that the Germans had ducting a series of leaders'
made of many cities in Prance schools on refinishing furniture,
and Belgium. Now the British All day meetings begining at 10
have actually brought the war o'clock will be held in the folto
the Unter Den Linden. lowing communities on the fol'
The Germans are reported as dates: Monday, Sept. 16,
being furious about the attacks Methodist parsonage at
on Berlin, and threaten to repay Webster; Tuesday, Sept, 17, at
London a "thousand fold," but ^ home demonstration club
nobody heard of any wrath in Qua^aJ and Wednesday, Sept.. 18
Berlin or any tears being shed ^ basement of the auditoriover
Warsaw, or Rotterdam, or um at Cullowhee. Everyone is
any other cities that have been requested brin8 lunch,
ruthlessly and wantonly bombed ^ families having furniture
by the Nazis, nor for the fleeing dama&ed in the recent flood are
refugees machine-gunned by the ^ged to attend these home demGerman
air-men. In other words, onstration leaders schools. You .
the Prussian city is getting a wU1 ** ^ught t0 remove the
dose of the same kind of medi- maired finish, and apply ani.
othpr
I cine that she has been meung
out to neighbors, and she is mad # ?
about it. The attitude is that Begin Work on Well
Germany has a right to do any- For Webster School
thing she pleases to any other
nation or race, but nobody must Early this week workmen bemolest
the sacred precincts of gan boring a well at Webster to
Prussia. supply the school there with
While all this is in progress the water, and the work will be
German and British long-range rushed to completion, in an atguns
have been almost continu- tempt to have an adequate water
ally exchanging shell-fire across supply ready by the time the
the English Channel; and large bridge across the river is cornconcentrations
of troops and mo- pleted, permitting the reopening
tor-driven barges, preparatory of the school,
to an attempted invasion of Eng- Work on the bridge has been
land are said to be at points going forward rapidly, and it is
on the continental side of the expected that traffic will be
channel. ' turned across it sometime next
Italian air-men have been week- The brid?e at Dillsboro
? t-i n-til.V In AMiio I will not be rebuilt, since a new
do in ding' oribidii pumwo m
and in Palestine; and British one * already ^ Process of con~
have been dropping explosives struct ion; but the traffic will
on German shipping in Norwe- diverted via Webster until
gian and Danish waters. new bridge at Dillsboro is
The French colonies, or many ready *or ^raYe^- J:
of them, down in Africa have ??
come out on the side of England, Leatherman Reunion
and this has become so grave j
that General Weygand has been The annual reunion of the
sent down to try to hold the col- Leatherman family will be held
onists in line. What Weygand will at Doc Leatherman's home, in
do when hie gets there, is a mat- Macon county at Leatherman's
ter of speculation, for he is no Gap, Sunday, Sept., 15. Relatives
lover of Germany, and in Africa and friends of both families, are
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