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ABOUT MACON COUNTY
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Macon County has a population of
13,400. Its area is 328,320 acres. The
forest area is approximately 248,732
acres, comprising 75 per cent of the
total land area. The total stand of
saw timber is estimated at 485,(XX),0CM)
board feet. Facts supplied by N. C
Department Conservation and Indus
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PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT
VOL. XLVII, NO. 30.
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1932
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LIOMITTO
BE UNVEILED
Various Exercises And
Picnic Dinner To Be
Big Feature
MANY SPEAKERS
Marker Chiseled From
Macon County v
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Hundreds of people from Macon
and other Western North Carolina
counties, are expected ; to gather
on the headwater? of the Cartooge
chaye creek Saturday, July 30, for
the unveiling of a granite mon
ument over the graves of Chief
Chutahsotih and his wif e, Kuntakie,
in old St; John's churchyard.
The monument chiseled from na
tive stone, is the -work of A. A.
Angel, Franklin stone-cutter who
contributed half the cost .
Plans for the unveiling call for
a picnic dinner on the grounds at
noon with various exercises to take
place both in the morning and the
afternoon. -
Miss Elizabeth Kelly will act as
-chairman. Little Arthur ToomerJ
of Gainesville, Ga.,.a grandson of
the late Rev. J. A. Deal, a friend
of the- old Indian chieftain, will
do the unveiling. E. .B. Norvell,
of Murphy, known as one of the
best authorities in Western North
Carolina von Indian history, will
be one of the principal speakers.
Dr. S. H. Lyle will give the ad
dress of welcome, the Rev. N. C.
Duncan, now in charge of the
work of, the Episcopal church in
Macon county, will speak on ttje
subject, of "Rev. J. A.' Deal's work
among-the Indians during his 30
years as a missionary ' in Macon
county." Felix E. Alley, attorney
of Waynesville, has also been se
cured to speak.
Indians To .Be Present
A group of- Indian singers from
the Cherokee reservation, who re
cently won the banner " in the
county-wide singing contest in
Swain county, will be present with
their chief and1 representatives pf
reservation office..
The program for the unveiling
is being arranged by Mrs. C. C.
Cunningham, Mrs. Henry Slagle,
Mrs. T. J. Johnston, Mrs. Tom
Slatrle and Mrs. Andy Setser. These
ladies are planning to ' sell" cold
drinks, water melons and other
foods on the grounds the day of
the unveiling to helppay the ex
penses of the exercises.
SERIES OF SERVICES
TO BE HELD IN
MORRISON CHURCH
A special series of protracted
services will be held in the Mor
rison Presbyterian church on the
Georgia road beginning Wednes
day evening, August 3rd and con
tinuing through Sunday evening,
August 14th, according t to an
nouncemcnt bv Rev. J. A. Flana
can. pastor of the church. Local
ministers 1 of the county will do
the preaching for the first part
of, series. Rev. M. C Dendy,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Gainesville, Ga., will
take charge and preach during the
latter Cart of the meeting begin
nine Monday evening, August 8.
. Mr. Dendy is a preacher of ability
with an attractive personality and
evangelistic appeal. The public is
cordiality invited to all of these
services. .
TO ORGANIZE
COUNTY YOUNG
PEOPLE'S CLUB
Mrs. Mary T. Evans of High
Point, vice-president of the North
Carolina Young People's Democrat
ic Club, was in Franklin on Thurs
day, July 21, for the purpose of
organizing a Macoivtounty Young
People's club. Mrs. Evans has set
Saturday, July 30, at 3 p. m. to
return and organize the club. The
meeting will be held in the court
house, and all the young folks are
invited ot be present. Ladies, both
young and old, are invited to at
' tend.
At this orsanization of the Ma
con county club officers will be
elected and plans made for the
coming election. The program will
also include speeches by several
well known speakers of the state,
Including Miss Ferguson and Felix
Alley eWaynesvilU.
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CONVENTION
OFi.Y.P.U.
Iotla To Be Site of
Meeting; Many Ex
Pected To Attend
The Macon County B. Y. P. U.
association will hold its annual as
sociational meeting with the Iotla
Baptist church on Friday, July 29.
The meeting wilt begin at 10 :30 a.
m. The program for the day has
been 1 completed and mailed out to
the churches. The ; program this
year, is one that will be filled with
spiritual inspiration and helps to
the young people of this associa
tion. Miss Winnie Rickett, state
B. Y. P. U. secretary, will speak
in the afternoon. Mr. James A.
Ivey, state B.'Y. P. U. president
and pastor of y the West Asheville
Baptist church, will speak at the
morning service.
A part of the program will be
given over to the pastors present
and each one wi'! be given time
for a brief talk. Mrs. J. D. Franks,
associational president, and other
associational officers have made a
special plea to the pastors of this
association to be present as this
will be a feature part of the pro'
gram. " Young people of Macon
county will appear on the program,
Dinner will be served by the
people of the Iotla church in the
old fashioned style of "dinner on
the ground." The lunch hour will
be turned into an hour of fellow
ship.
Delegations are unlimited and
every church is asked and expect
ed to send delegates whether they
have a B. Y. P. U. or not. The
delegation is expected to be one of
the largest ever attending a B. Y.
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Cowee Wins First Half
Macon's League Schedule
The Cowee baseball team has
won high score for the first half
of the Macon county league's
schedule after a hard fought cam
paign. Winning this honor speaks
well for the Cowee nine as there
arc some good ball players in the
Macon county baseball league. -Last
Wednesday Cowee and
West End played off a game that
had been called a few weeks ago
on account of rain, on the Frank-
lin diamond. This was a hard
fought game from start to finish,
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Wednesday Cowee and West End
had been tied for high honors.
The Saturday games resulted in
the following scores: At Franklin
1, Highlands 22; at Mountajn
Grove 9. Cowee 11: at Prentiss 4,
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West End 10; and at Cartooge-
chaye 5, Holly Springs 8. Highlands ... . . .5
J. Frank -Ray, president of the J
Macon county baseball league, has, Holly Springs ....3
called a meeting to be held in the Mountain Grove ..3
courthouse on Wednesday evening, ' Cartoogechaye .2
at 8 :30 o'clock. All clubs of the prentiss ......... .2
league are urged to be present .... ,
for Oil .muting." (Franklm .........2
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FEDERAL AID
FOR HIGHWAY 28
Other Western Counties
To Be Included In
" v Project
Several Western North Carolina
projects are included in the list
planned by the State Highways
commission for construction with' will be able to help where the need
federal funds nrovided in the re-lis the greatest, the speaker ex-
cently enacted relief bill. This
measure appropriated $120,000,000
for federal road aid of which sev
eral . millions will be alloted to
North Carolina. -
One of the first projects to be
let by the State Highway commis
sion will be the link of route 28
between Franklin and Hayesville
in Macon and Gay counties.
Other projects in this section
are:
Portion of route 106 in Jackson
county, extending from Sylva
through Brevard to route 28 be
tween Brevard and Highlands.
Completion of the Yonahlossee
trail, or route 691, between Blow
ing Rock and Linville.
Completion of route 18 from
Spruce Pine through Little Switzer
land to Woodlawn.
According to highway officials,
the construction of these links will
practically complete the main high
ways f6r the mountain section.
The Young Tar Heel Farmers
club will meet at 2 p. m., Saturday,
July 30, at the Franklth high school
building, it was announced by E.
H. Meacham, vocational agricul
ture instructor.- All members are
urged to be present, especially
those who wish to attend the White
Lake camp during the week of
August 15.
The second half of the league's
schedule begins on Saturday, July
30. All teams of the league will
start on the same , rating, and if
Cowee fails to win the second
half, a county 3 game scries, will
be played between the two high
teams after he regular schedule
is played. The games for Satur
day are: Franklin at Holly Springs
( Mountain Grove at West End,
Cowee at Highlands, and Prentiss
t Cartoogechaye
The rating of the different teams
for the first half of the season is
as follows :
Team Won
Cowee 6
Lost
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2
2
4 .
4
5
5
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Avg
857
West End 5
715
715
429
429
286
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GROK NEED
FORQIAPTERS
Better Check On Needs
Of Communities
Desired
The Macon county chapter of the
Red Cross met in' the courthouse
at Franklin, on Saturday afternoon.
A large crowd was present, includ1
ing a teacher or representative
from each school district of Macon
county.
Miss Elizabeth Kelly, chairman
of the Macon county chapter, pre
sided, and reviewed the past year's
work of the Red Cross in Macon
county. With the help of various
community groups, certain individ
uals scattered in different sections
of the county, the Macon county
chapter has distributed 2 carloads
of flour, clothing to oVer 400 in
dividuals, several hundred dollars
worth of garden seeds, and yeast
to 69 pellagra-stricken people of
the county. The clothing was do
nated by various people, some con
tributing "cloth or money which was
used to buy material, which was
made into clothing for the needy
by the various ladies of the county.
At the Saturday's meeting. Miss
Kelly asked the school teachers of
each school community to organize
a Red Cross chapter, this local or
ganization to consist of a commit
tee of 5. including a chairman and
a secretary, with a teacher being
secretary in each district. These
local units should meet once a week
if possible, and never less than
once a month, and every commun
ity must-have its local chapter to
get any aid from the head chapter
at Franklin, Miss Kelly stated. By
organizing local units, a better
study and knowledge of the par
ticular, community is known, there
by the head chapter at Franklin
Pmed
Miss Kelly charged each school
teacher to see that the community
had more help rendered than just
the teaching in the classroom. She
pointed out that teachers were only
cut 10 per cent, while the people
of the community were struggling
to pay taxes to keep up the
schools, who had to bear cuts in
their work of from 50 to 100 per
cent. Miss Kelly urged the teach
ers in each community to encour
age canning and drying of food
stuffs for the coming winter.
Mora Flour Expected
The chairman announced that in
the near future the Franklin chap
ter will have another carload of
flour to distribute, also many yards
of cloth, made from the cotton
the government had bought up.
This cloth, which will be several
weaves, will be furnished only to
the communities having local chap
ters which must be organized by
August 1.
LEATHERIilAN
OFFICEROBBED
Blood Hounds Fail to
Follow Trail; No Ar
rests Made
The Post Office at Leatherman,
10 miles northeast of Franklin,
was entered last Thursday evening
about ten o'clock and several dol
lars in money taken. Sheriff A. B.
Slagle and Deputy Sheriff George
Mallonee, wired to Brevard for
blood hounds, which arrived about
three o'clock in the morning, but
they failed to catch the man or
men.
Oscar Rickman, postmaster and
owner of the' store, had been at
tending a revival meeting at Cowee
Baptist church, on his return dis
covered the robbery. The thieves
had tried to enter by boring holes
through the door, and thereby re
move the bolt which held the door
When this plan failed they entered
by breaking through a window.
When the dogs arrived a hot
trail was struck, which was fol
lowed for about one half of a
mile, and at a cow pasture the
trail was lost. The dogs were
taken to the store the second time
to have the same results, and even
a third trial had the. same result
No arrests have been made yet,
Tt is not known whether the Fed
eral authorities will help in the
case or not. Some of the money
taken was postage money.
'Ship Everyihing hy Rail
Recommends Railroad
Continuance
Hearing on Discontinuance
Of T. F.' Railway Postponed
An order was passed by Judge
Underwood at the United States
District court of the North district
of Georgia, Friday, July 22, at
Gainesville, which will ultimately
result in the discontinuance of the
Tallulah Falls railroad, unless the
citizens served by the road patro
nize it so that the revenue will
substantially take care of the op
erating expenses.
J. F. Gray, receiver of the T.
F. Railway, applied for permission
to request the Interstate Commerce
Commis'sion to discontinue the ope
ration of this railroad.
On recommendation of the coun
ties affected by the order the Judge
granted a postponement of 60 days
before the xrder goes into effect.
The following letter from M. D.
Billings, chairman of the Macon
county committee, states .the situa
tion at present and urges coopera
tion of the citizens:
. Franklin, N. C.
July 25, 1932.
Editor of The Franklin Press:
Last Friday, July 22nd, a hear
ing before Federal Judge Under
wood was held at Gainesville, Ga.
where application was made by the
Receiver of the Tallulah Falls
Railway granting him permission
to request the Interstate Com
merce Commission for permission
to discontinue operation of this
railroad. There were delegates
from Habersham and Rabun coun
ties, Georgia, Macon county, North
NEWS SUMMARY
A Survey of State and National Events Concisely
Told in Brief Up-to-Date
News Reports
HALF MILLION FOR
SMOKIES
A total of $509,000 of the
$3,000,000 appropriated to the
national parks in the special
relief fund will be expended in
the Great Smoky Mountains
National park.
Allot Extended Term Aid
Allotment of $989,961 for extend
ed school aid in 98 counties, was
made by the equalization board,
on Friday. The allotment is $510,-
138 less than the legislative ap
propriation.
OPEN FEDERAL ROAD
WORK The state highway commis
sion U this week starting road
construction operationa bated
on $5,700,000 secured in federal
relief road funds, with plant to
put 5,000 men to work on a
30-hour week basis at $2 per
day minimum wage.
$70,000 Sought For
Nantahala Forest Work
An estimate on roads and trails!
costing $70,000 to be added to the
extensive system in Nantahala Na
tional forest has been .sent to
Washington for consideration in
the distribution of $16,000,000 for
national forests and park projects
from the funds provided by the
relief bill signed recently by Pres
ident Hoover, Superintendent John
B. Byrne, of Franklin, announced
recently.
The estimate for the Nantahala
forest, added to requests for $25,000
for the fient Creek station of the
Appalachian Forest Experiment
station, and $70,000 for roads and
trails in Pisgahl National forest,
makes a total of $165,000 worth of
projects for forests in this section,
all of which have been sent to
Washington for consideration. A
request for $5,000 additional for
fire control in the Nantahala forest
was included in the estimate for
that area, making a total of $75,000
asked for, according to Superin
tendent Byrne.
Much of the roads and trails
scheduled to be constructed in the
granting the request of the Re
ceiver for a period of sixty days.
During this timfc it will be neces
sary for the people of the three
counties thru which this railroad
runs to see what they can do
toward providing traffic sufficient
to at least pay the running ex
Carolina and other interested par
ties opposing the application. After
hearing both sides, the Judge
agreed to withhold the order
penses of the railroad. I under
stand a meeting of the citizens of
Macon county is called at the
court house here in Franklin next
Saturday at ten o'clock. At this
meeting it will be necessary to
formulate plans, and work in con
nection with the people of Georgia,
if the railroad is to be kept. This
is one of the most serious matters
with- which the people of this
section have been confronted in
a long time. If we get together,
stay otgether, and work together
theje is a possibility that the rail
road may be operated in some
way so as to meet the necessities
of the county. But unless some
thing can be done by a concerted
action of the people to enable the
railroad to at least pay running
expenses it will only be a question
of a very short time until railroad
advantages of Franklin, Clayton,
Olarkesville and other towns on
this line will be a thing of the
past.
M. D. BILLINGS.
ORDER RAILROAD MER
GERS Practically all eastern car
riers were ordered on Friday
by the interstate commerce com
million to be consolidated into
four great systems, but varied
the merger plans of the carriers
to leave the Delaware) and Hud
ton, and the Seaboard indepen
dent roadt, and barred the
Pennsylvania from direet entry
into New England. The Penn
sylvania, the New York Cen
tral, the Baltimore and Ohio,
and the Chesapeake and Ohio
are the four great tyttemt left
in the east, exclutive of New
England.
State Fire Lost Dropt
Fire loss in North Carolina in
the first six months of the year
was $3,346,315, with a June loss of
$470,199 from 156 fires. The first
half of 1931 showed a fire loss of
$3,359,380.
Nantahala area will be placed in
sections of the forest in Western
North Carolina, including Macon
county, where ' some of the most
beautiful sections are located.
The set-up for the Nantahala
forest is tentative, being submitted
for consideration when the $16,000,
000 is apportioned to the various
national parks and forests. About
300 miles of trail and 95 miles of
rpads have already been built In
this forest, which has at present
a maintenance crew of 10 men, in
addition to the staff of full-time
men such .as rangers.
The estimate for Pisgah National
forest is for roads and trails alone,
according to Mr. Mattoon, and
does not include any funds that
might be appropriated for build
ings, fire control and other opera
tions and improvements.
The estimate for the Bent Creek
station has as its primary project
the building of two or perhaps
three structures at the forest plant
there. The employment of as many
men in this section as possible is
also a major objective, according to
E. H. Frothingham, director.
Committee
All Shippers and Consum
ers Requested to Sign
Agreement
TRUCKS" OPPOSED
Many Speakers Heard at
Tri-County Meeting
Held Monday
At a mass meeting of those seek
ing continued operation of the Tal
lulah Falls Railway between Cor
nelia, Ga., and Franklin, on Tues
day ' afternoon, July 26, held at
Clayton, it was resolved that all
shippers and consignees in the
three counties served by the rail
road Habersham, and Rabun, Geo
rgia, and Macon, North Carolina,
be asked to sign an agreement that
all goods shipped by them and
consigned to them be sent by the
railroad.
Dr. J. A. Green, chairman, pre
sided over the meeting at which
more than a hundred representa
tives of the three counties were
present. Mr. T. E. Stribling, pres
ident of the Habersham mills, re
ported that he pledged before
Judge Underwood at the hearing
last Friday that the mills would
continue their shipping by rail and
demand that all goods and supplies
consigned to them be shipped by
rail. He also stated that their
mills hava been receiving about
6,000 bales of cotton a year by
truck, also many wholesale grocer
ies and other supplies. They have
ordered that hereafter all ship
ments except perishable goods be
consigned by railway to their ware
houses. Col. Hamby stated that the
Southern Railroad had fostered
this line after Rabun and Mason
counties had offered $100,000 in
bonds and cross ties and stressed
the need of these communities of
the services of the railroad.
Need of Cooperation Emphasized
Gilmer Jones of Franklin em
phasized the need of cooperation,
not only of shippers and consignees
but of consumers, as well. He -pointed
out the fact that the
trucks were taking the business
away from the railroad at the
public's expense.
It was resolved that the com
mittee of nine representing the
counties affected, composed of Dr.
J. A. Green, Dr. J. C. Dover, J.
T. Davis of Rabun; L. Y. Irving,
Frank E. Gabriels and John E.
Frankum of Habersham; M. D.
Billings, M. L. Dowdle and D. D.
Rice of Macon, should continue
to function as long as necessary
to continue operation of the rail
road. It was also resolved that as
many signatures as possible be
secured to the following agree
ment; "In order to comply with the
proviso set forth in the order
of court patted on July 22,
1932, in this case, and thereby
prevent en application by the
Receiver in this cate to the
proper authorities for permis
sion to abandon the opera
tion of the Tallulah Falls Rail
way Company; and in order to
securei a continuation of the
operation thereof, the under
signed, each individually, here
by :pr'sly agree end con
tracts with iL- Receiver for'
aid railroad, and hit successors, .
that they will order all of his
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MACON SINGING
CONVENTION TO
BE HELD SUNDAY
The Macon County Singing con
vention will be held in the court
house at Franklin on July 31. The
entire Sunday ts to be taken for
the singing, with the opening to
begin at 10 a. m.v There will be
singing classes from all sections ot
the county and from at least half
a dozen of the surrounding coun
ties. Jim M. Raby, of Rabbit
Creek, Is president of the associa
tion. Mr. Raby urges all classes who
expect to sing Sunday, to turn in
the name of the class to him Sun
day morning before 10 o'clock.
By doing this t program for th't
day can be arranged.
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