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A VEAR IN ADVANCE OVTSl
mtgomery
Freight 1
rker's Cre
1 Jones and Lou Seagle I I
on a gruesome sight I j
morning, When they I
n" tracks j
I Sf the Southern Railway they
I came upon the mangled and
I headless body of Montgomery
I ward. The head was found some r
fjf[V f,vt distant from the body.
I ward i* believed to have been
I strut* by a freight train earlier
I'in the morning. Nobody knows
I just how the aecident occurred.
I Funeral and interment were g
I at Barker's Creek yesterday ^
I afternoon.
I _Mr. Ward, who was 35 years
of are is survived by his widow, ^
I two sons. Doyle Ward, Akron, r
I Ohio, and Curlee Ward, Bark- t
I pr6 crock: three daughters, BetI
ty. Cherry Lee and an infant v
I (laughter, by his parents,, Mr. o
I aI1(i Mrs. Berry Ward, Akron, S
H cihio: - t wo brothers, Robert and ?
I Herbert Ward, Akron. Ohio, and h
I lour sisters. Mrs. Shaff Jones, e
I jj'iir sisters. Mrs. George Ensley,
iid Miss Inez Ward, of Akron, i(
I Ohio: and Mrs. Jerry Jones and /
Mrs. Shaff Jones of Robbinsville. t
I Mrs. Lyndon Dillard Dies ?
I At II o m e Wednesday ^
Mrs. Lyndon Dillard died at C
I her home in Sylva yesterday, a <
| few hours after the birth to
her of a baby boy. Mrs jjiuara j
died suddenly of a heart attack.
Mrs. Dillard, who before her
marriage was Miss Kathleen F
Kitchen of Sylva, is survived by n
her husband, three children, her c
mother. Mrs. C. H. Kitchen, two a
brothers, Paul and Ha\'es Kit- t
hen, and three sisters, Mrs. T. j:
Kelly Guthrie, and Mrs. C. Ross a
"Bennett, of Sylva, and Mrs. a
Cynthia Brown, of Warren, Ohio, a
Funeral services will be con- 8
ducted at Ea.1t Sylva Baptist c
church, at three o'clock. Friday fl
afternoon, and interment will c
be in the Dillard cemetery.
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CORPORAL LEOPARD v
ENJOYS JOURNAL 1
AT MeDILL FIELD a
The Journal is greatly appredated
by Corporal Harlie M.
Leopard, who is in Det. Q. M. C.
4th C. A. S. C., at MacDill Field, *
Tampa Florida. The Journal is
beinK sent with the compliments ^
of Dan Tompkins, its publisher, *"
to all soldiers from this county, ^
rv rl/-J t<A(ir>Ar? ?**/v f n i
' iiu auuii'flsi;) wc uun uuwui.
Said Corporal Leopard in. a
letter to the E<|ttor?"I would
be grateful to you if you will
publish these few words I have i
to say in your paper, "The f
Jackson County Journal"* to
show my appreciation to some |
one for sending me a copy of I
your paper. I honestly believe I
would make a better soldier J
^ I could hear the news from
Jackson County and my home
town. Glcnville. It's very hot ^
down here in Tarr , and the f
Mosquitoes are bad, but I am C
willing t0 do my part, whatever v
it may be and wherever it may ?
be. to help protect our country r
through the dark .ys we are a
facing. I want to again thank
the person, whoever it was, that 6
sent me your paper, for a sold- a
u'! s greatest joy is hearing from r
his friends and loved ones back i
home, i am or]a(j to hear of the f
la'!^ number of boys that are c
I. iohiing the army from Jackson
Countv, and I hope that every ]
citizen from Jackson county r
Ul11 do his part to help in our
national defense. I honestly believe
that us soldiers, sailors (
an(l marines, now hold the fu- *
ture and destiny of America in 1
Ulu hands. We are out to win }
a,1(J I hope every civilian will (
do his or her part." \
PRKSSLEY reunion
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I The annual reunion of the
ressley family will be held at
th?' Speedwell Baptist church,
next Sunday, August 10. All relives
and friends of the fam- 1
% are invited t0 the reunion. 11
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Ward Dies
rrain Near
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HIGHWAY OFFICE
rO HOME TOWN
The district offices of the
; t a t e Highway and Public
Vorks Commission moved on
"uesday from Sylva to Andrews,
he home of Hon. Percy B. Ferebee,
commissioner for this disrict.
The offices have been in Syla
for the past several years,
n the second floor of the Sylva
lupply Company building. Mr.
I. L. McKee moved the offices
iere soon after he was appointd
highway commissioner.
Sylva is much more centrally
Dcated in the district than is
Lndrews, and it was hoped here
hat the offices w.ould be allowd
to remain in Sylva, as an
conomy measure, since the
>tate would be put to less travel
xpense from offices in a more
entral point.
^ged Brothers Hold
leunion At Watts Home
Canton Enterprise, August 7?
tepresenting a combined age of
nore than 328 years and sinerely
thankful to a / gracious
.nd understanding God for
heir general good health deslite
the fact that three of them
re now almost blind, a quartet |
re enjoying a family reunion
,t the home here of A B. Watts,
0-year-old retired Canton merhant.
f Watts brothers, natives of
Jualiatown, in Jackson County,
The four brothers, mentally
lert despite their advanced
ears, are: R. L. Watts, 76, A.
J. Watts, 80; Joe A.; Watts, 84
nd George William Watts, 88.
The four are the sons of the
ate Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watts,
heir father being a native of
Virginia, who settled in Western
forth Carolina in the early j
850*s. Their mother was the
laughter of the late George
Iherrill, one of the pioneer setlers
in Western North Carolina
nd who was considered an outtanding
religious and educa-1
ional leader of his time.
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Irmour Company's
tannery Escapes
Serious Fire Here
Vhat threatened to be a serious
ire at the Armour Leather
Company plant Monday evening
/as quickly extinguished by
Jylva's volunteer fire departnent,
before any extensive damige
was done.
The fire was discovered about
1:30 by a watchman and the
ilarm turned in. An electric
notor, running a hot box,
gnited the building, and the
lames were spreading to the
Iry loft, when firemen arrived.
Legionnaires Invited
To Picnic At Cherokee
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Wm. Tyndall, adjutant of
Steve Youngdeer Post, Amercan
Legion, has issued an invitation
to all legionnaires and
'amilies, t0 a picnic given by
novt
Steve Youngaeer Oil 11VAV
Sunday, August 10, at 1 o'clock.
Roy McMillan, the new Department
Commander will be
the speaker. The picnic will be
neld at the New Island Picnic
Grounds.
The Steve Youngdeer/ Post is
the only all Indian post in the
United States.
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SYLVA, NOI
OmiSF UNION
OF VOUNG routs
MEETS as sum
The Baptist Training Union of
the Tuckaseigee Association will
meet at Sylva Baptist church
on August iy, at 8 P M. East
ern Standard Time. Rev. J. E.
Brown will deliver an address.
Lyle Ensley, Associational Director,
states that all churches
in the association should be represented
by pastors, Sunday
School workers, church leaders,
and young people. Their cooperation
is needed, Mr. Ensley
stated.
The following tentative program
has been arranged:
"^Devotional, Edwin Allison.
Song.
Roll Call, announcements,
business.
Special Music, Miss Mildred
Cowan.
A group of four minute talks
by C. O. Vance, E. W. Jamison,
Ruth Hall and W. N. Cook'
Song, address by Rev. J. E.
Brown.
Mr.. Vance will speak of the
value of the B. T. U. to the Sunday
School; Mr. Jamison, on its
value to the church; Miss Hall
on the value of the study course
to the members, and Mr. Cook,
on the value of the study course
t0 the B. T. U.
SOLON'S RECORD
DDINTC MliMIII
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V5 EDITORIAL
An editorial from the Jackson
County Journal July 24, entitled,
"V-5", was reprinted in the
Congressional Record of July
29, as extension of remarks by
Congressman Zebulon Weaver.
This recognition of the editorial
in question will give it publcity
throughout the United
States, and especially in the
Congress, official and diplomatic
circles in the National Capitol.
Committee Recommends
Farm Rehabilitation
Members of Farm Security
Committees and Councils from
Western North Carolina counties,
meeting at the Sylva school
building, Friday, recommended
the adoption of the plan of taking
low income farmers, who
own land that can be rebuilt so
as t0 make them self-supporting,
from the relief and W. P. A.
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rolls, and paying tnem to uuuu
up their own farms, under supervised
methods.
It is believed that if the men
who own land that can be built
up to the place where it will
support its owners, are given the
opportunity to d0 so, that they
will apply themselves seriously
to the task of good farming, and
place themselves on the way to
independence. If given a plan to
work by, proper supervision to
see that the plan is carried out,
and a pay check for doing the
work on their own farms, the
committee members believe that
the problems of the W. P. A.
farmer, and lower than subsistence
income farmer in this
part of the United States, can
wo Thpv took the Dosi
ftJ\y OV/i I vv?. ^
tion that any other means of
bringing support to these people
is but a temporary pallative,
while the building up the land
plan, will work a permanent
cure.
ATTEND MEETING
Mrs. R. U. Sutton, district director,
Mrs. E. J. Duckett, president
of the Sylva Parent-Teachers
Association, Mrs. George Lee
and Miss Evelyn Parker, are in
attendance at the ParentTeachers
Institute in Chapel
Hill.
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ITH CAROLINA, THURSDA^^B
I AS WORLD EVENTS 1
I UNFOLD I
I w8888S8 By DAN TOMPKINS mm
RUSSIA has been defeated,
three million Russians, the
flower of the Red Army, have
been killed. Another million
have been captured or seriously
wounded and put out of action.
The Russian command has
broken down. The Russian air
force has been swept from the
skies. In otner woras. tne war
with Russia is over in complete
German victory, and there is
nothing left to do except to execute
a triumphant march into
Moscow and on across Asia to
the seas. At least those are the
statements of the German high
command and the German news
agency, DNB. Yet, from the best
information that can be obtained
from Russian and neutral
sources, the bfoken and fleeing
Russian command has been able
to muster sufficient strength,
out of nothingr to have the German
armies still 230 miles
from Moscow and little nearer
Leningrad than they were a
couple of weeks ago.! It appears
that the Russians have in reality
adopted new tactics, of opening
ranks and allowing the
mechanized spearheads of the
German drive pass through, and
then fall upon the German infantry
with fury, and destructiveness,
when it comes up,
leaving the mechanised forces to
spend their efforts against
nothing but air. It ip a modern
version of the tactics employed
by the Russians against Napoleon
in his invasion, which
led to his undoing. Nobody
knows the exact truth; but
everybody knows that Hitler
didn't bargain for the strength
and the kind of resistance that
he has met in Russia He may
defeat the Reds; but tjie victory
will be much more costly than
hp antininated.
VICIJY is on the spot.- Hitler
wants the surrender of French
Africa as a direct*threat to the
United States, and to South
America. He expects to march
into Spain and Portugal, and
on down into Africa. The United
States has made strong representations
to the Vichy government.
It may be that history
and the French people could
forgive the surrender of French
Indo-China to I Japan, on the
grounds that the French could
not garrison the country strongly
enough to hold it. But there
can- be no excuse for the surrender
of African possessions.
The French have a strong army
there. They would f receive support
from the United States in
keeping the army in that part
of the empire supplied. If Vichy
surrenders the African posession,
it will be because the men
at Vichy believe that their own
lives and fortunes* are dependant
upon a Hitler victory. Hitler
can do no more to the French
than he can do to the Dutch
and the Belgians, yet those
countries, with every foot of
their continental territory occupied
by Germany, and with
their governments in exile, are
still at war with Hitler. Counting
upon a craven government
that would collaborate with
him to the limit, Hitler left part
of France unoccupied. Petain
could have continued the war
from Africa. If all of France
had been occupied, he would
have had no other course. The
charge that French Guiana
is being used as a hotbed of
German agents in South America,
the surrender of j Indochina
to Japan, and other evidence
points toward the verdict
that Vichy wants to go all the
way in lending the full force
of the French empire to Hitler's
ambitions. American diplomacy
and the fear of the outraged
French people might make true
nut. of the craven: but
lllUjX VUW ? r
that is the only hope of Vichy
refusing to throw the weight of
France entirely behind Hitler,
and thus prolonging the war for
perhaps many weary years. De
Gaulle and the Free French will
emerge as the heroes of France
in the sorriest hour in French
history. The guillotine awaits
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GUST 7, 1941
MICE BOARD
TO SEND 20 MEN
TO FORT BRAGG
Twpntv vouner men from this
county have been selected to
leave for Fort Bragg to begin
their military training All are
selectees except Joseph Alex
Jones, who volunteered. The
others are: Howard Joseph Revis,
Glenn Jack Allison, Oscar
Howard Price, Arley Alexander
Tilley, David Lee Guilliams,
Joseph Coleman Thompson,
Grady Lafayette Dills. Johnny
Odell Johnson, Charles Allen
Barker, David Cleamond Woodard,
Emitt Hal Blanton, Clarence
Eugene Fisher, James Paul
ReVis, Lawrence Albert Rogers,
Lex D. Norton, Alvin Charlie
Moore, Melvin James Henderson,
(of Englewood, Tenn.) Rob3rt
Hughes Revis, and Thomas
Edgar Bishop. The young men
will board the bus at Sylva at
8 o'clock on August 18, arriving
at Fort Bragg the same day.
Young Women Hold
Auxiliary Council At
Baptist Church Here
The Council of the Young Woman's
Auxiliary of the Baptist
Associations of this division, embracing
the Tuckaseigee Association,
and those west of her,
i s meeting at the Baptist
church in Svlva this evening.
A business session will be held
beginning at 5:30. Following
that, a dinner will be served In
ihe dining room of the church,
at which Miss Margaret Wilson,
president of the local auxiliary,
will preside. The principal
speaker will be Rev. J. A. Herring,
missionary to China. Mrs.
C. F. Rogers, of Franklin, division
councillor, and Mrs. H. M.
Hocutt will also appear on the
program.
Dr. D. W. Daniel To Speak
A t Federation Picnic
Dr. D. W. Daniel, Clemson
College professor of English who
is known throughout the South
for his humorous speeches, will
give the main talk at the final
round-up Farmers Federation
picnic at the State Test Farm
in Swannanoa August 16th.
ur. uaniei nas Deen wie principal
speaker at the Swannanoa
Federation picnic for the
last two years, and his volleys
of side-splitting jokes have won
wide popularity among Western
North Carolina farm people.
The best choirs and quartets
and the most successful entertainers
from all the county Federation
picnics will participate
in the program at Swannanoa.
Rocks Springs choir, led by
Henry Bradley, will represent
Jackson county in the choir
competition, and the Speedwell
quartet, directed by Weaver Fox,
will compete with quartets from
13 other Western Carolina counties.
Every farm family in Jackson
county is invited to the final
round-up Federation picnic at
the Test Farm, according to
James G. K. McClure, president
of the Farmers Federation. Watermelons
and lemonade will be
ayailable in large quantities, and
there will be races and a big
tug-of-war. The picnic will begin
at 10 A. M. Daylight Saving
Time.
Firemen Visit Smokies
A large number of firemen
from the Firemen's Convention,
being held in Asheville, visited
the Great Smokies today. Sylva
knew they did, for many of
them went through town with
shrieking sirens, just as if they
were on their way to answer
a fire alarm instead of being
out on a pleasure trip,
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S.C.RoadCc
Says Route"
Be Complete
SHAKE-UP MADE
BY ORDER IN
HIGHWAY OFFICE
Division engineer ' John C.
Walker has announced a drastic
shakeup in the personnel of the
highway. forces in this district.
The district itself remains unchanged,
and is composed of
Jackson, Macon, Swain, Graham,
Clay, and Cherokee counties.
The personnel changes, under
Commissioner Percy B. Ferrebee,
are:
W. B. Ferguson, for several
years district engineer of district
No. 1, becomes resident engineer
in the office of Division
Engineer Walker. A. A. Siler, assistant
division engineer, remains
in the same position he
has held.
J. T. Knight becomes district
engineer for district No. 1 with
headauarters in Asheville. Er
nest Webb and G. E. Baskerville
become maintenance supervisors
in district No. 1. Mr.
Webb was formerly district engineer
of district No. 2.
L. M. Morgan becomes district
engineer of district No. 2
with headquarters in Burnsville.
G. C. Mauney and B S. Connelly
are maintenance superintendents
in district No. 2. Mr.
Morgan was formerly maintenance
supervisor in district No. 1,
and Mr. Mauney was maintenance
supervisor in district No.
3.
C. W. Lee remains as district
engineer in district No. 3. D. E.
Hyatt and E. L. Curtis will be
maintenance supervisors for this
district. Mr. Curtis is in the same
position he held.
J. R. Reagan is transferred
from maintenance superintendent
in district No. 1 instrument
man on construction.
T. G. Moody, maintenance superintendent
in district No. 2, is
transferred to the position of
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Under the changes four new
men?Knight, Baskerville, Connelly
and Hyatt?are brought
into the division. This was made
possible without increasing the
supervisory staff in each district
by the fact that} Mr. Ferguson
was transferred to the division
office, Mr. Reagan was made
an instrument man on construcfion,
Mr. Moody was transferred
to the Raleigh office and one
vacancy in district No\ 2, that
of maintenance supervisor, was
filled.
Mrs. Stillwell Passes At
Webster On Thursday
Mrs. P. J. Stillwell. 88 year
old resident of Webster township,
died at her home, Thursday
afternoon, following a long
illnfess. Funeral services were
conducted Saturday afternoon
by Rev. W. N. Cook and Rev. I
Thad F.. Deitz, and interment
was in the Stillwell cemetery.
Mrs. Stillwell is survived by
four children, A. R. Stillwell,
of Webster, Mrs. Lula Ensley, of
Washington, Mrs. Emma Calhoun,
of Asheville, and Mrs.
Docia Buchanan of Webster; by
20 grandchildren and 16 great
grandchildren. i
Mrs. Woodard Passes
In Billings, Montana
Mrs.
Victoria Woodard, died at
Billings, Montana, at the age of
72. Mrs. Woodard, a daughter of
the late Jasper Buchanan, was
a native of Jackson County, and
I lived here until 1904, when she
rroved with her family to Mon,
Una.
I She is survived by 1 daughter,
three sons, and one brothi?.
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>mmissioner
107 Will Not
ed This Year
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That Highway 107 In South
Carolina is in the plans for current
construction by the highway
authorities in that state,
is assured by a letter to Dan
Tompkins, president of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce, from Hon. J. S. Williamson,
Chief Highway Commissioner
of South Carolina.
With the construction of the
highway from Cherokee to Soco
Gap, it is anticipated by people
of Sylva that there will be much
of the presertt tourist traffic
that will follow that route instead
of through Sylva. and that
the future of the tourist camps,
tourist homes, tourist hotels,
gift shops, and other businesses
depending upon tourist i trade
in much of Jackson county,
from Cashier's Valley to Cherokee,
depends upon the completion
of 107, as a trunk line highway
from South Carolina, Flor[
ida, and Georgia points t0 the
, Great Smokies, and to Knoxville,
Cincinnati, and Chicago. This
would open up a year-around
tourist travel from t.oushehttourist
travel from the southeast
to the middlewest, througU
this county, and across the
Great skokies.
North Carolina's part of the
highway is completed. Mr. Williamson,
in his letter reiterated
what he had previously written
Mr. E. L. McKee, when he was
Highway Commissioner. Said
Mr. Williamson: "Receipt is acIqnowledged
of your letter of
August 4th regarding the construction
of -that portion of
State Route 107 in South Carolina.
I realize the importance
of this particular section of road
and as stated in previous correspondence
this road is included
in our current construction
program. We plan to get it under
construction as early as is
practicable, but I do not anticipate
that we will be able to get
any of it under construction this
year."
SENATE ADDS 18
MONTHS' TERM
TO SELECTEES
The Senate has enacted legislation
prolonging the active.
I service of the selectees by 18
months, giving each of them
a total of 30 months in the army.
At the same time, the bill raised
the pay of the men by $10 a
month after the first year of
service.
The bill now goes to the House
of Representatives, where its
fate is uncertain. It is believed
that there is a strong sentiment
in favor of making the
total service 24 months instead
of 30. The vote in the Senate
" ak. fn Qfl in ftkvnr r>f fh? 1 ft
WdO 1U IV WW AAA AMTW V* w*?w
months extension of service.
I Former Jackson County
Woman Passes In Swain
Mrs. R. O.Oliver died at her
home in the Alarka section of
Swain county Wednesday morning,
after an illness of several
weeks' duration.
' Mrs. Oliver was born In Jackson
county, the youngest daughter
of the late Mr. and Mri.
Joseph Cope. She is survived by
her husband and six children
and by two sisters, Mrs. John
Smith, of Sylva, Route 1, and
Mrs. Bob Walls, of Hazelwood.
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CONCERT AT EAST LAFQpTS
Wade Manier and hi* 8011s
of the Mountaineers will appear
in person at East La Porte School
at 8:30 P. M. Monday evening,
August 11, sponsored by the
East LaPorte Parent-Teachers
Association.
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