jHacottian
PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL mi)E PEJVDEJVT
L. LI, NO. 26
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1936
$1.50 PER YEAR
EATH CUIS
JODSON STILES
neral for Smith’s Bridge
Man Held at Coweta
Baptist Church
dson D. Stiles, 74, well known
ler of Smith’s Bridge township,
between 10 and 11 o’clock last
t at his home on Route 2,
funeral services were conducted
I o’clock this afternoon at the
eta Baptist church,
r. Stiks had been in declining
th for three months an^l for
past six weeks he had been
ined to his bed. His death was
buted to an ulcerated stomach,
le funeral ' was conducted by
Kev. W. M. Burns, pastor of
Franklin TTaptist church; the
J. A. Flanagan, pastor of the
iklin Presbyterian church, and
Rev, J. B. Tabor, Methodist
or in charge of the Macon
lit. Burial was in the Coweta
:tery.
r. Stiles some years ago was
le mercantile business at Fren-
and he had served as township
overseer and school commit-
lan. He had been a member of
Coweta Baptist church for 55
s. He would have been 75 years
on July 13, He was a son of
late David Stiles and Evaline
ice Stiles, of this county,, where
pent his entire life,
r. Stiles’ wife, who before mar-
5 was Ella Bates, died eight
s ago. He is survived by 12
Iren as follows: Seven sons, J.
and Arvil Stiles, of Redding,
t,; Henry Stiles, of the state
Vashington ; Tom Stiles, Frank-
i^oute 2; Claude Stites, Dillard,
George Stiles, Franklin Route
ind Varail Stiles, Enka; five
fhters, Mrs. Mae Gray, Route
Mrs. Hermie Lawson, of the
e of Washington; Mrs. Wade
ningham, Franklin; Mrs. John
ers, Franklin Route 2, and Mrs.
e Pefiland, of the state of
ihington. He is also survived by
irother, George T. Stiles, of
iklin, 39 grandchildren and 4
t grandchildren.
iCon U.D.C. Chapter
ns District Prize
rs. Carl S. Slagle, of Cartooge-
’t, was reelected a district di-
3r at the annual meeting in
t'ard Friday of the first district
he North Carolina^ division of
United Daughters of the Con-
racy. Miss Elizabeth Slagle, of
iklin, was reekcted secretary of
district organization.
$10 prize was wen by the
on county chapter of the U.
r. for having the best attend-
: at the district meeting. Both
number attending from the va-
3 chapters represented and the
ince they had to travel were
n into consideration in award-
the prize. Those from the local
iter were Mrs. A, B, Slagle,
. Pope Ellard, Mrs. Z. W.
ley, Mrs. .Carl S. Slagle, Mrs.
er Conley and Miss Elizabeth
le.
Franklin
•poduce Market
latest QUOTATIONS
'rices listed below are subject
itfwnge without notice.)
by Farmers Federation, ,Inc.
kens, heavy breed hens 14c
kens, light weight; lb. .. 12c
:rs, heavy weight, lb 20c
-fs, light weight, lb 18c
s, doz 20c
1> potatoes,'No. 1 (old), bu. $1,25
>. bu 85c
|-at, hu 90c
•oted bv Nantahala Creamery
erfat, lb 25c
Monroes Coming
String Music Favorites To
Appear in FrankHn
Charlie and Bill Monro'e and the
Old Hired Hand, string music fav
orites of radio station WFBC, of
(ireenville, S. C., have accepted an
engagement to appear at the court
house in Franklin at 8 o’clock
Wednesday night of next week
under the auspices of the Epworth
League of the Franklin Methodist
church.
A good, clean program of rich
entertainment for those who are
fond of old time string music is
promised. The'.Monroe brothers at
tracted a capacity crowd at High
lands last night, and a sell-out is
ex])ccted at their appearance in
I’ranklin.
WILL AUCTION
STOCMLOTS
Property on Georgia Road
And Harrison Avenue
To Be Sold
Two tracts of property belonging
to Mr. and Mrs. J. Horner Stock
ton—one on the Georgia road two
and a half miles south of Franklin
and the other on Harrison avenue
—will be offered at auction Tues
day, June 30, by the Home Realty
and Auction company, R. A. Pat
ton, manager.
The property on the Georgia
road, consisting of 27 acres of well
situated land, which has been sub
divided, will go on sale at 10:30
o’clock in the morning. The Har
rison avenue property, known as
the J. Horner Stockton home place,
and which has been sub-divided
into 20 residential sites, will be of
fered at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
This tract embraces some of the
most desirable residential property
in Franklin.
Both sales are expected to attract
many prospective buyers.
Music will be furnished at the
sales by Peck’s Bad Boys brass
band, and 25 bags of sugar will be
given away.
Main Street Store Room
Being Remodeled
The space in the McCoy building
on Main street formerly occupied
by the cafe of the Peek Hotel is
being extensively remodeled for a
new store, but no announcement
has been made as to who will oc
cupy the space. The storeroom is
being refinished inside and a new
front installed. The Main street
entrance to the basement, occupied
by the Economy Cleaners, has been
eliminated. The cleaning establish
ment, however, is still doing busi
ness and customers may gain ac
cess to their 'establishment by the
door at the rear.
WPA Workers Hear
Radio Address by Hopkins
All foremen, supervisors and 290
workers on Works Progress Ad
ministration projects in Macon
county gathered at seven different
meeting places in the county Sat
urday afternoon to listen to a
WPA program broadcast over the
red network of the NBC system.
The program was featured by an
address by Harry Hopkins, national
Works Progress administrator.
Franklin Grocery
Stores To Close at 7 P.M.
Under an agreement reached by
the proprietors, grocery stores m
Franklin in the future will close at
7 o’clock in the evening of each
busines-s day except Saturday.
Sixteen per cent of income went
to taxes in 1934, survey shows.
Their Nomination Assured
m
RoojreVelt and G€rr\(9r
A1 Smith’s attempt to start an “oust Roosevelt” movement having
collapsed, the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jo'hn Nance
Garner for another term as president and vice-president, respectively,
was a foregone conclusion as delegates gathered in Philadelpliia this
week for the Democratic national convention. With New Deal followers
well in control,, little trouble was expected in drafting a platform com
plying with Roosevelt policies. Abo.ut the only real issue expected to
develop a fight is the proposal to abandon the two-thirds rule in the
nomination of the party’s candidates.
BURNINGTOWN
ROADGRADED
14-Mile Stretch Soon To
Be Surfaced With
Crushed Stone
Grading of 14 miles of road in
Burningtown township has been
completed, it was announced this
week by J. R. Morrison at county
headquarters in Franklin of the
Works Progress Administration.
Work is expected to start soon on
surfacing the road with crushed
stone.
Tliis road serves the most popu
lous sections of Burningtown town
ship, which has always been handi
capped for the lack of good, all-
weather highways. Starting at Tel-
lico postoffice, the road runs past
the Tellico and Burningtown Bap
tist churches, then to Oak Dale and
ends in the Rose Hill community.
A forest service road Connects
Stiles and Tellico with state high
way No. 28 at the Lost Bridge.
Mr. Morrison said state highway
officials had promised him they
soon would erect a crusher in the
Burningtown section to provide
stone for surfacing the road which
has just been graded by WPA
labor.
Other road projects are expected
to be undertaken soon by the
WPA.
Returns from Meeting
Of Gold Star Mothers
Mrs. Henry Slagle, of Franklin
Route 1, returned Monday from
Staunton, Va., where she attended
the first annual meeting of Gold
Star Mothers at the birthplace of
Woodrow Wilson, war time presi
dent of the United States. A na
tional organization of the mothers
of American soldiers who lost their
lives in the World War was per
fected at the meeting and plans
were made to hold similar meetings
each year in the future.
Mrs, Slagle was greatly impressed
with the beauty and historic inter
est of Staunton and with the warm
hospitality extended the gold star
mothers by the residents of this
old Virginia community.
Jobs Extended
Cutting Off 30 Forest
Employes Delayed
Thirty-odd rnen in the acquisition
division of the Nantahala NatLoiial
Forest have been given a new
lease on jobs which they had ex
pected to end June 30, For some
months these men have anticipated
loss of their jobs through expira
tion of special forest appropriations
with the closing o'f the govern
ment’s fiscal year, Bxit officials of
the Nantahala h'orest have received
notice from Washington to con
tinue employing these men until
August 30, What disposition of the
matter will be made after that date
has not been learned.
Forest service officials here have
not yet been advised what provision
is made for the Nantahala Forest
in the new appropriation bill en
acted shortly before congress ad
journed.
ISSUES SAME
IN 2ND RACE
Candidates for Governor
Waging Oratorical
Battle
RALEIGH, June 25.—The second
primary race between Ralph W.
McDonald and Clyde R. Hoey for
the Democratic nominatio.n for gov
ernor has simmered down to a
catch-as-catch-can oratorical battle,
with the Shelby attorney vocifer
ously denying charges hurled by the
Winston-Salem man that he has
served as a power company lobby
ist and is controlled by what he
calls the “Gardner-Ehringhaus ring.”
Issues between the two men re
main ])retty much the same as in
the first primary, althongh Mc
Donald is emphasizing “machine
control” of the state government
more than the evils of the sales
tax, which he proposes to abolish.
Re])orts current immediately after
the first primary, in which Hoey
led by a small margin, that McDonald
would base his second prrmary cam
paign on advocacy of local option
liquor stores have failed to mater-
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BOUNDARIES OF
FORESTCHANGE
Nantahala Unit To Lose
its South Carolina and
Georgia Acreage
Under the ])rogram for realign
ment of national forests in accord
ance with state boundaries, the
Nantahala National h'orest, with
headquarters in h'ranklin, next
Wednesday will lose approximately
160,(XX) acres of its area to the
Chattahoochee ]''orest in Georgia
and 50,(XX) acres to the Sumter Na
tional h'orest in South C^aroliua.
Several thousand acres of the Cher
okee h'orest lying in this state will
be added to the Nantahala area.
The change is not expeclcd to
have any appreciable effect on the
headquarters staff of the Nantahala
I'orest other than to restrict their
duties to the new 'boundaries.
New Purchases Approved
Under the new (dan, the area of
the reorganized Nantahala l*'orest,
exclusively North Carolina’s own,
will total 170,(XX) acres. The pur
chase of an additional 130,(XHI acres
for this forest has been ai)])roved
by the National Forest Reservation
coniniission and the acquisition of
this land is proceeding rapidly.
According to Joseph C, Kircher,
regional forester in charge of the
southern region of the United
States h'orest Service, the realign
ment of boundaries of forests in
the southern Ajjpalachians was un
dertaken after a detailed study and
analysis of administrative costs of
theiie areas to the Federal Gov
ernment, The new jdan will facili
tate coo])cration between federal
and state fish and game authorities
for improving fishing and protect
ing wildlife.
Social Importance of Forests
The social importance of national
forests to the states in which they
are located is rapidly equalling their
importance as units to co.nserve
natural resources. Kircher said this
was another factor that led to the
reorganization of the southern A)>-
l)alachian forests by state botmd-
aries.
Not only are the forests protect
ing imi)ortant water sheds and pro
ducing timber for the future, For
ester Kircher declared, but they are
becoming permanent so.urces of em
ployment and important attractions
for tourists. Some of the finest op
portunities in the United States for
camping in magnificient mountain
scenery are to be found in the
Nantahala National Forest.
Macon B. Y. P. U. to Hold
Annual Meeting Sunday
The annual meeting of the Macon
county Baptist Young People’s as
sociation will be held at the Oak
(irove Ba])tist church Sunday, ac
cording to an announcement by
Mrs. J. I). Franks., associational di
rector. M,rs, I'Vanks urged that all
Baptist churches in the county send
large delegations to the meeting,
which will o'pen at 10:30 o’clock in
the morning and continue in session
until 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
An interesting and helpful i>ro-
gram has been arranged, .VIrs.
Franks said, with the principal ad
dress to be made by the Rev. Nath
an Brooks, of Bryson City, regional
president, (iuy Paul, Jr., of High
lands, will render special vocal se
lections.
I'hose attending are expected to
bring picnic lunches.
■^T. F.’ Passenger Train
Changes Schedule
The Tallulah Falls railway has
announced that, qffective .Sunday,
June 28, its passenger train sched
ule will be changed so as to allow
I)assengers coming to Franklin a
longer stop-over. It also will mean
earlier arrival of mail from the
south. The train will be scheduled
to arrive at Franklin at 1 :37 p. m,.
instead of 2, and to leave at 3:05
p. m., instead of at 3.