Baconian
PROGB.ESSIVE LIBERAL IMBEPENBEMT
OL. u, NO. 33
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1936
$1.50 PER YEAR
tOTARlANSTO
SPONpiTODR
■arm Inspection Trip and
Picnic To Be Held
W ednesday
The sixth .annual farm tour and
icnic sponsored by the Frankhn
Lotary club will be held next
Vednesday, and a large attendance
; expected.
The tour will start at 9 o clock
1 the morning with a motorcade
“aving the courthouse. A number
,f farms in various s.ections of the
.ounty will be visited and various
rop demonstrations inspected and
xplained.
At noon dinner will be served at
he Cowee school by women of the
ommunity, the proceeds to be giv-
;n to the two' Cowee churches.
Fau'mers Urged To Attend
In a circular letter to farmers of
he county, urging them to go on
he farm tour, S. W. Mendenhall
ind S. D. Alexander, county farm
igents, said:
“This will be one of the most en
joyable and profitable days you and
/our neighbors can spend in visit
ing other comimunities, talking to
Dther farmers and seeing the farm
ing they are doing. At each of the
stops we make we plan to have
things of interest to each and every
farmer and farm-woman, as well as
helpful in your own farm opera
tions. For the noontime we have ar
ranged for speaKers who know the
farming conditions in this section
and we think that the things they
will have to tell you will be most
helpful in improving your farming
program.
“We would like for each of you
who have cars to bring them in
order that you may help with the
transportation. Those of yo,u who
do not have your own cars, we
feel sure that we will be able to
provide transportation for you so
that no one will be left out.”
South Safe
Will Stay Solid for ‘F.D.’,
Says Party Leader
highlands, Aug. 12.—Demo
cratic leaders from North and
South Carolina, Georgia and Ten
nessee gathered in Highlands Sat
urday and Sunday for conferences
to discuss plans for the fall cam
paign in the south.
L. W. (Chip) Robert, of Atlanta,
secretary of the Democratic nation
al committee, who acted as spokes
man for the group, expressed con
fident optimism in the reelection of
President Roosevelt and the main
tenance of a solid Democratic
south.
“1 am ,not worried about losing
any southern state,” Mr. Robert
commented. “I am just interested in
making plans to get out the full
Roos.evelt vote and show Mr,
Roosevelt that we in Dixie appre
ciate what he has done for us with
his New Deal.”
Mr. Robert was accompanied to
Hig+ilands by Mr. and Mrs. O. Max
Gardner. Mr. Gardner, former gov
ernor of North Carolijia and a
former member of the Democratic
national committee, is now practic
ing law in Washington, D. C. He
was quoted as commenting that the
“financial pages and not the biased
opinions of kostile editors reveal
the true success of the Roosevelt
administration.'’
Promoted
John Herbert Stone Going
To Milwaukee
L. W. Robert, secretary of the
Democratic national committee, and
Ex-(iovernor O. Max Gardner and
Mrs. Gardner passed through
Franklin Saturday en route to
Highlands for a political conference.
They arrived by motor in the early
afternoon and stopped at Trimoat
Inn for lunch.
8-ACRE LAKE
TO BE BUILT
Forest Service Announces
Plans for Recreation
F acilities
Many friends in Macon county
of John Herbert Stone, former sup
ervisor of the Nanta'hala nation;d
forest, will be interested in the
news that he has received another
promotion in the forest service.
Mr. Stone last September was
sent to Asheville as supervisor of
the Pisgah forest. Now word comes
from Atlanta that he has been pro
moted to the position of regional
supervisor in timber management
and will leave Asheville on Sep
tember 10 to assume his new duties
at Milwaukee, Wis.
In announcing the promotion for
Mr. Stone, Joseph C. Kireher, reg
ional forester for this district, said
^rapidly increasing acreage and ,ac-
Utivities of the service have required
( several shifts of experienced men to
larger areas and more responsiole
posts as rapidly as they become
qualified.
Olur Attitude Toward the CCC
Several Franklin business men have called oitr at
tention to an unfortunate circumstance—a feeling
among the boys in the CCC camps of the vicinity
that they are not welcome visitors in town.
This feeling, we are informed, has 1)ecome so keen
among the enrollees of Camp F-23, near Otto, that
the bo}'S have requested their officers to carry them
to Clayton, instead of to Franklin, on their evenings
off duty. Naturally, this results in a considerable
loss of business to the community.
Some of the CCC boys have complained that
when they visit Franklin they are treated by the
police as suspicious characters and submitted to
uncalled-for indignities.
We do not care to press or plead a case for or
against anyone; but we believe we voice the senti
ment of the community as a whole w'hen we say
that it is not their desire that any visitor should
be subjected to oppressive police surveilance with
out sound and sufficient cause.
Our observation has been that the CCC boys are
a fine lot of stalwart, upstanding, law-abiding •
young men, as well behaved or better than the
crowd of lusty youths found on the average college
campus. Seldom have we seen any of them infring
ing on the rights of other people or making them
selves obnoxious.
Of course, if a bad egg should come along and
paint the town red, he belongs in jail. But for
simple infractions or plain boisterousness the of
ficers who usually accompany the CCC boys to
town are capable of administering the proper dis
cipline.
The Civilian Conservation Camps have meant
much to Franklin and to Macon county. They
have been responsible in no small measure for this
community’s recovery from the depression. They
have made many lasting improvements in the for
ests surrounding us, making our mountains both
more accessible and more attractive. The good
works of the Civilian Conservation Corps are mani
fold and it behooves us to treat with due respect
the members of this organization.
Franklin
Market
LATEST QUOTATIONS
(Prices listed below are subject
to change without notice.)
Quoted 'by Farmers Federation, Inc.
Chickens, heavy breed hens 13c
Chickens, light weight; lib. .. 10c
Pryers, heavy weight, lb. ..14c
Fryers, light weight, lb 10c
Eggs, doz 2Sc
Corn, bu .$1.00
Wheat, bu. . 90c
Rye, bu $1.00
Fine Exhibition of Flowers
Expected at Show Saturday
Quoted by Nantahala Creamery
, Butterfat, lb 23c
Plans for further improvements
of the recreational facilities of the
Nantahala national forest with an
allotment of $10,000 made ^ by the
emergency relief administration
have been announced by officials
of the forest.
The largest iwoject to he under
taken will be the copstruction of an
eight-acre lake on Skittles creek
near the Vanhook camp site four
miles west of Highlands on state
highway No, M,
Earlier this year the forest ser
vice announced plans for construc
tion of a lake near Vanhook Glade
on the Cullasaja river. Since then,
however, it has been decided to
build the lake on Skittles creek. It
is also planned to make improve
ments to the Vanhook camp grounds,
■which are proving increasingly
popular, and to lay off home sites
in the vicinity which may be leased
from the government at nominal
The new allocation also will pro
vide for completion of the lake,
about one-acre in size, at the en
trance of Arrowood wayside par
on the Wayah road, and for the
construction of a bridle trail froni
White Oak Bottoms to the top of
Standing Indian mountain. Power
shovels have been moved to t e
Arrowood lake, work on which was
started in the spring, and dredgmg
of the basin is expected to be com-
nleted in the fall.
Work is already well under way
on the erection of a new stone ob^
servation tower on Wayah Bald
and the forest service plans soon
to start work on construction of a
2n lar tower on Standing Indian,
Thi e'e.a.ion of 5.™
k the rank of highest peak
Macon county.
Prizes To Be Awarded to
Winners in Many
Exihibits
In view of the excellent weather
conditions which have prevailed for
some weeks, an unusually fine dis
play of flowers is expected to be
exhibited Saturday at the annual
flower show sponsored by the
Franklin Garden club.
The show is to be held in the
vacant storeroom in the Franks
building recently vacated by the
New Five and Ten Cent Store.
There will be no charge for sub
mitting entries in the show, it was
stated by Mrs. T. W. Angel, Jr.,
president of the club, .and entries
may be made by anyone in the
county. All exhibits should be in
not later than 9:30 o’clock Saturday
morning, it was stated, so those in
charge of the show will have time
to arrange the displays. AH ex
hibits will be eligible to prize
awards,
Prizes for the various classifica
tions of exhibits are now on dis
play in the window of the store
room where the exhibition will be
held. Following is a list of the prize
donors;
Sanders’ Store, Franklin Hard
ware company, Jess’s Shop, Polly’s,
Moses Blumenthal, Leach Brothers,
Farmers Federation, Inc., Macon
County Supply company. Perry’s
Drug Store, Sloan’s Market, Peo
ple’s Market, Trotter’s, J. R. Pen
dergrass, Farmers Supply company,
Franklin Grocery company, Nanta
hala Power and Light company, At
lantic and Pacific Tea company,
Schulman’s Department store, E. K.
Cunningham & company, S. & L.
j (C«ntinued on Pag« Ten)
PLAN PROGRAM
FOR LABOR DAY
Macon Legion Post Will
Sponsor Public
Celebration
Boice Hall, commander-elect of
the MacO'U county post of the
American Legion, announced this
week that the legion is planning to
sponsor a Labor Day celebration
for the entire county in Franklin
on Monday, September 7.
Details of the program have not
been completed, but Mr. Hall said
the legion intended to bring here
some speaker of outstanding repu
tation. There will also be various
athletic contests with prizes for the
winners, and musical entertainment.
A committee on arrangements for
the Labor Day celebration consists
of Mr. Hall, chairman; C. T. Bry
son, W. D. IBruner and Miss Lassie
Kelly.
The next regular meeting of the
Legion will be held in the Legion
Hall Tuesday .night of next week,
instead of Monday night. New of
ficers of the post, elected at the
last regular meeting, will be install
ed at that time. The meeting was
postponed until Tuesday on account
of an entertainment to be present
ed by the Texas Longhorns in the
courthouse Monday night under the
legion’s auspices.
MANY ATTEND
FAR»L PICNIC
Day Devoted to Speeches,
Races, Contests and
Singing
Five hundred Macon county farm
folks gathered Wednesday at the
Franklin high school to celebrate
with a picnic sponsored by the
Farmers Federation.
The program began with a tall
story contest, won by J. Carroll
Coggins of Bee Tree, Buncombe
coiunty. Next came the main speak
ing i)rogram, presided over by
Jam.es G. K. McClure, Jr., presi
dent of the federation.
R. W. Graeber, extensio,n forester
of State college, spoke on the value
of the farm woodland. H. Allen
Coggins, of Bee Tree, a member of
the federation’s board of directors,
entertained the crowd with his
stories and spoke seriously of the
need for farmers to organize their
business through the cooperative
movement.
Contests Held
After a basket lunch, the after
noon was devoted first to athletic
contests. The county was divided
into four parts, teams representing
north, south, east, and west Macon.
The bag relay race was won iby
north Macon’s team, while the
peach relay race for women was
won by the west Macon team. The
balloon relay race, which brought
peals of laughter, was won by the
north Macon group, and the chariot
relay race went to east Macon s
team, also the wheelbarrow raCe.
At this point the federation rep
resentative from Buncombe county
challenged the Macon committee to
a relay race. Thereupon Carl Slagle,
Ed Byrd, Lawrence Ramsey ,and
Jim Young shed their shoes and
rolled up their trousers to repre
sent Macon, while Mr. McClure,
the Rev. Dumont Clarke, of the
religious department; Allan Coggins
and his nephew, J. C. Coggins, made
up the opposing team. The Bun
combe group won by a close
margin.
The last was a husband calling
contest, won by Mr. .and Mrs.
Grady Dalton, of West’s Mill. The
athletic contests were directed by
J. D. Franks and Mr. Wilkie, Prizes
were also given to Floyd Ramsey,
of Tellico, for bringing the largest
truck load of people, to Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Corbin of Ellijay for
being the oldest couple, to Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Corbin for being the
youngest married couple present,
and a prize for the largest family
present went to Jim Corbin, of Elli
jay.
Speakeir's Heard
The crowd then moved to the
auditorium, where short talks were
made by Rev. Mr. Clarke on the
Lord’s Acre plan for country
churches, by George M. Stephens,
editor of The Farmers Federation
News, and by Mr. McClure on the
need of farmers to stick together
in the cooperative business. Vance
A. Browning, of Brysan City, pre
sided.
The singing contest program be
gan with selections by the Raby
quartet, the Stiles choir, the Angel-
McClure quartet and the Coweta
choir. All were received with ap
plause iby the audience. Judges
were S. B. Smiley, of Swain county;
Allan Coggins, of Bee Tree, and
Mr. Miller of Clay county. The first
award of 18 song books and a trip
to Swannanoa August 20 went to
the Stiles choir, while Coweta won
a dozen song books. The Angel-
McClure quartet earned the right
to sing at Swannanoa, while the
Raby quartet also won a prize.
Mayonnaise may be kept for
several weeks in refrigerator if a.
tablespoonful of boiling water is
added to it before bottling.
One day two negroes bought a
watch between them. It went wrong,
however, and one of them took it to
pieces and found a dead fly inside.
“No wonder de watch wouldn’t
go,” he said. “De engin-driber am
dead.”—Troy (N.Y.) Times-Record.