Sty ftgljlattia Marmttatt
PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934
$1.50 PER YEAR
Franklin Gets New Postoffice
REYNOLDS MAY
SPEAKON 4TH
Senator Invited To Make
Address at Franklin
Exercises
ANNOUNCE PROGRAM
Full Day of Entertainment
Promised by Legion
Committee
Franklin is preparing this week
for a big Fourth of July celebra
tion, the biggest it has had in re
cent years. Arrangements for the
day's events are being made by the
Macon county post of the American
Legion.
The program, announced Wednes
day by the committee in charge,
provides for a full day's entertain
ment, beginning with a parade at
10 o'clock in the morning and end
ing with an old fashioned fiddlers'
convention in the evening, with nu
merous Interesting events between."
Reynold Asked To Speak
An invitation was extended to
Senator Robert R, Reynolds, of
Asheville. to be the principal speak
er at patriotic exercises to be held
in the courthouse at U :30 a. m-.
but the committee had not heard
from him Wednesday night. It was
hoped and expected, however, that
he would be able to come.
The parade will form in front of
the Baptist church, proceed down
church ' street to Harrison avenue,
move south one block and then fol
low Main street east to Palmer
street, come up Palmer street and
disband.
Parade Prize
Two cash prizes, one of $7 and
the other of $3, will ; be awarded
the first and second best entries
in the parade, it was announced
by Frank Leach, who is in charge
of this phase of the program. Mr.
Leach explained that - the , judging
would be on the basis of popular
interest. The winning entry ,may
be the membership of wne organ
ization taking part in the parade,
a well decorated' float, or an in
dividual person. Anything from a
mut dog to a steam -slim-el can
take part, he said, and the two
most interesting entries will get the
prizes.
Already the Boy Scouts, (he Girl
Scouts and several other organiza
tions have indicated they will en
ter the parade, and the Cherokee
Indian band from the reservation
in Swain county is expected to be
present to supply music.
Contest Planned
At 10:30 a. m., immediate )y alter
the parade, an hour will be devoted
to various contests with cash prizes
offered the winners. Gilmer,. L.
Crawford, in charge of these events,
said the program would open with
a bicycle race for boys under 16
years of age. Then will come a
three-legged race and a sack race,
open to hoys and girls, men and
women. There also will be a toad
race and a terrapin race, open to
any and everyone who can find a
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Funeral Held for .
James Mason
Funeral services for James Mas
on, 67, were htld at the Cowce
Baptist church Friday afternoon at
2 o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Mayberry,
pastor, assisted by the Rev.' George
A. Cloer, conducted the services.
Mr. Mason died .at his home on
Mason Branch Thursday afternoon
of last week at 2)30 o.'clock from
a stroke of paralysis 'he suffered
about a month ago.
Pallbearers were : Wade Piekens,
Oscar Mason, Marvin Pickens, Gra
ham Cloer, Floyd . Mason ' and Bill
Jones.
The deceased is survived by his
widow .and two children. Miss Lctha
Mason arftP-Lee Mason, both of
Iotla. .
Making Money
T. F Railway Pulling out
Of Red Ink
Judging by the revenues of the
Tallulah Falls railway, the depres
sion is over. For the first time
since September, 1930, which just
about coincides with the beginning
of the economic collapse, the line
is showing a profit on its opera
tions, due largely to increased ship
ments of forest products.
Figures made public this week at
the headquarters of the "T. F." in
Cornelia show that the railroad had
a net operating income of $622.31
for the month of May. Net operat
ing income for the first five months
of this year was reported" as $366.66.
A significant point is that this
profit has been' made .under the su
pervision of H. L. Brewer, who was
promoted from assistant, to the re
ceiver to general manager of the
line about six months ago.
It is reported that the railroad's
program for maintenance of way
Is considerably ahead of normal.
This means that the heaviest ex
penses in this department for the
year have been met. Recent in
spections of the line, it is said,
show trestles and track to be in
gpod physical condition.
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SH0WSPROFIT
Farmers Federation, Inc.,
Resumes Payment of
Dividends
u, ASHEVILLE, June 27 Dividends
a'retTJbe. paid June 30 J)y the
Farmers Federation; Inc., on both
cpmmon and preferred stock, it has
been announced by James G. R.
McClure, Jr., president'and general
manager of the farm organization.
The federation's board of direc
tors voted to pay a half-yearly
dividend of 3 per cent to holders
of preferred stock, which is at the
rate of 6 per cent ayar- On com
mon stock the directors decided to
pay 3 per cent also for the first
half of 1934.
An increase of 17 per cent in dol
lar volume of business done during
the first five months of 1934 as
compared with the same period of
19J3 was also announced by Mr.
McClure, this figure covering ten
of the federation farm supply ware
houses Waynesville and Canton
warehouses came into the organiza
tion on February 1., and are not
included in the comparison.
1,200 Stockholders
The Farmers Federation is own
ed by approximately 1,200 stock
holders. The large majority of
these are farmers who own most
of the common or voting stock.
Under the Federation's charter as
a cooperative, each owner of com
mon stock has one vote in the
election of the board of directors,
whether owning one share or sev
eral shares. Preferred stock is
owned largely by interested busi
ness men in the counties where the
federation operates.
Organized In 1920
The Farmers Federation was or
ganized in 1920 by a group of
farmers in Fairviow township, Bun
combe county. Dividends were paid
regularly to stockholders until 1925.
Following a disastrous fire, the
stockholders voted to suspend pay
ment of dividends, and the June
30 payment marks the first divi
dend declared by the directors since
1925, according to Mr. McClure.
From the beginning, with one
warehouse at Fairview Siding in
Buncombe County, the Farmers
Federation has grown to twelve
warehouses in six Western North
Carolina counties: Asheville, Fair
view Siding, Craggy and New
bridge in Buncombe county; Fletch
er and Hendersonville in Hender
son county; Spindale and Forest
City in Rutherford county; Mor
ganton in Burke county; Waynes
ville and Canton in Haywood coun
ty. (Continued on Page Six)
$32, 200 for Refinancing
Debts Lent Macon Farmers
A total of $36,900 of Federal land
bank and Land Bank Commission
er's farm mortgage loans was made
in Macon county, from June 1,
1933, to May 1, 1934, according to
the Farm Credit administration.
Of this total, farmers in the
county used approximately -32,200,
or 87.2 per cent to refinance their
indebtedness. By refinancing, farm
ers obtained new mortgage loans
which they used to repay their
old debts. They generally reduced
their annual interest charges in do
ing so. In a number of cases,
scale-downs of indebtedness occured
in connection with the new loans.
These and other advantages benefit
ed farmers primarily. Secondarily,
creditors benefited from the receipt
of cash or bonds in exchange for
obligations they held.
Of the loan money used by farm
PLANS CANNING
DEMONSTRATION
Miss Rosalee Morrow Made
Macon County Home
. Agent
Miss Rosalee Morrow, who for
the last two years has taught home
economics in the Franklin high
school, has been selected by the
state department of home agent
work and the emergency relief or
ganization to fill the position of
emergency home demonstration
agent in Macon county. ,
Miss Morrow plans to hold can
ning demonstrations in each school
district in the county at which she
will show the latest and most sim
plified (method of preparing and
processing vegetables and fruits.
The, demonstrations will begin at
9:30 o'clock in the morning and
continue until 4 o'clock in the af
ternoon. For dinner each person
attending is requested to bring a
picnic lunch.
Demonstrations for the remainder
of this week and for next week
were announced by Miss Morrow as
follows :
! Friday, June 29, at the home of
,Mrs. Robert Patton in the Patton
Valley.
Monday, July 2, at the home of
Mrs. J. 1. McCoy at Pine Grove.
Tuesday, July 3, at Mrs. J. H.
Fulton's at Gold Mine.
Thursday, July 5, at Mrs. Walter
Gibson's in the Iotla community.
Friday, July 6, at Mrs. J. W.
Aldington's in the Union school
district.
FormerHighlands Woman
Dies in Montana
Relatives in Macon county have
been notified of the death of Mrs.
Laurabelle C. Carpenter, a former
resident of Highlands, at her home
in Grass Range, Mont., Friday,
June 8. She died from a heart at
tack, apparently while sleeping, ac
cording to the Grass Range Re
view. Mrs. Carpenter, whose husband
died in 1907, left Macon county in
1914. Her father, Sumner Clark,
was superintendent of the Macon
county schools for some years and
she herself taught in the schools of
this county until she moved west.
She is a sister-in-law of Mrs.
Moody Bolick, now a resident of
this county.
Fire Chief Issues
July Fourth Warning
The old-fashioned Fourth of July
wasn't as glorious as we like to
think. Boys and girls usually had
a .wonderful time that is, unless
they didn't lose an eye or a finger,
or weren't put to bed with serious
burns. This angle on the annual
celebration of our country's birth
day was brought out by Fire Chief
Derald Ashe recently, when he was
discussing the do's and dont's that
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ers in Macon county for refinancing
their debts, about $10,100, it was
estimated, repaid their debts to
banks; $3,400, their taxes; $18,700,
their debts to "others," or credit
ors not separately classified, in
cluding private mortgage lenders,
mortgage loan companies, retired
farmers and many others to whom
farmers were in debt.
: A total of about $4,700 of loans
in the county was used for pur
poses other than the refinancing
of borrowers' debts. Of this sum,
$4,000 was used for the purchase, of
land and equipment, the construc
tion or improvement of buildings,
and for general agricultural uses,
including the provision of capital,
while $700, the balance, was used
for the purchase of stock in na
tional farm loan associations, for
loan fees, etc.
JOHN T. BERRY
DIES SUDDENLY
rVell-To-Do Olijay Farmer
Stricken by Heart
Attack
John T. Berry, 85, one of Ma
con county's most well-to-do resi
dents, died suddenly from an at
tack of heart disease Saturday
night at his home on Ellijay creek.
Mr. Berry had spent the day, an
unusually hot one, in Franklin.
Shortly after returning to his home,
which despite his wealth was a
simple cabin, he suffered the heart
attack and died.
Mr. Berry was a large landhold
er and was reputed to be one of
the wealthiest men in this sectiion.
About two years ago he was mar
ried to Mrs. Delia C louse, of
Franklin, who survives him. He is
also survived by two sisters, Mrs.
Laura Taylor -and Mrs. J. H. Hig
don, both of Ellijay, anl a number
of other relatives.
The funeral was conducted at 4
o'clock Sunday afternoon at the
Holly Springs Baptist church by
the Rev. E. R. Eller, pastor of the
Franklin Baptist church, assisted by
the Rev. W. T. Potts, of.'Highlands,
and the Rev. A. S. Solesbee. The
pallbearers were Lyman Higdon,
Walter Taylor, Harley Stewart,
Frank Henry, Sr., J. B. Ammons
and R. F. Henrv. ,
Reemployment
Local Branch of Service
May Be Made Permanent
If sufficient demand and interest
are shown for continuation of the
Franklin office of the national re
employment service, it may become
a permanent office, according to
John W. Edwards, who is in charge
of the reemployment service in Ma
con county.
Mr. Edwards said he had been
notified that next Tuesday the re
employment service, which has
been operating for the past year
under the emergency relief organ
ization, would be transferred to the
federal department of labor. Some
local offices are to be discontinued,
he added; but where a real need
is manifested for the service and
where general public support is ac
corded, the reemployment offices
probably will be continued on a
permanent basis.
In order to ascertain sentiment
here as to whether the Franklin
reemployment office should be con
tinued, Mr. Edwards has called a
meeting of business men and civic
leaders in the Odd Fellows hall at
2 o'clock next Tuesday afternoon.
Another meeting is to be held two
weeks later, when Mr. Edwards
will report on the activities of the
office under its new supervision.
Mr. Edwards returned Sunday
from Chapel Hill, where he attend
ed a reemployment conference.
WORK EXPECTED
TO START SOON
Approval of Local Federal
Building Announced
In Washington
$ 7 1 ,000 ALLOCATED
Structure Will Provide
Space For Forest Ser
vice Headquarters
A federal building providing space
for a postoffice and offices for the
headquarters staff of the Nantahala
National Forest is soon to be built
in Franklin. Approval of the pro
ject, application for which was filed
about a year ago by a group of
Franklin business men, was an
nounced in news dispatches from
Washington Monday.
Seventy-one thousand dollars has
been allocated out of an emer
gency appropriation of $65,000,000,
made by congress shortly before its
recent adjournment, to purchase a
site and defray construction costs
of the building.
The site for the building has not
been selectedat least no announce ment
of it has been made. A rep
resentative of the postal department
visited Franklin last autumn to in
vestigate the necessity of a federal
building here and to inspect pus
sible locations. Among the pro
posed sites he examined were the
lot on east Main street occupied by
Alex Moore's residence, the old
Junaluska Inn property on west
Main street, the lot back of the
present postoffice and the Rogers
property on west Main street. So
far as The Press-Maconian has
been able to ascertain, however, no
decision has been made as to loca
tion of the proposed building.
Although plans for the structure
have not been made public, they
are believed to have been drawn.
Early Start Expected
The Franklin building was listed
along with 625 other federal pro
jects, mostly postoffices, which had
been approved by Postmaster Gen
eral Farley and Secretary Morgcn
thau of the treasury. Three hun
dred and two of these projects, in
cluding the Franklin postoffice,
were provided for in the $65,000,000
emergency appropriation, and the
others arc to be carried out with
funds from other sources. As it
has been reported that the treasury
department already has made the
emergency appropriation available,
it is thought propitious for Frank
lin that it is included in this group.
Work on these holdings, it is be
lieved, will likely get under way
with a minimum of delay.
Franklin is the only Western
North Carolina town besides Mor
ganton, which received an alloca
tion of $82,000, for which new post
office provisions were made in the
$110,000,000 program.
Macon Democrats Named
On District Committees
Three Macon county Democrats
were appointed at the slate con
vention in Raleigh last Thursday to
membership on district committees
Miss Olivia Patton was named a
member of the 11th judicial district
executive committee; Frank Moody
was given a place on the 20th ju
dicial district campaign committee
and John W. Edwards was appoint
ed to the 11th congressional dis
trict campaign committee.
Attending the convention front
this county were John W. Edwards,
of Franklin; John Cabe, of Otto,
and Harley R. Cabe, of Franklin,
They reported that the convention
was one of the most enthusiastic
and harmonious held in recent years,
Iotla Young Democrats
To Meet Saturday Night
The newly organized Iotla Young
Democratic club is scheduled to
hold a regular meeting in the Iotla
school house at 8 o'clock Saturday
night of this week. Blackburn W.
Johnson is on the program for an
address.