PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL
IMBEPENBENT
lIJno- 44
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 1936
$1.50 PER YEAR
liG VOTE EXPECTED IN MACON
pTWORK
BWPWAY
^ j/^pproves Project;
provides ork for
■ Laborers
ar-
>rk Ivas commenced Monday
WPA street improvement pro-
■ Town of Fra^nklin esti-
;"* co,r„early $13,000 The
ct contemplates grading, dram-
and (graveling the fo.ur prm-
towrT thoroughfares remammg
rfaced. .
proval of the project, recently
ted -by the Works Progress
inistratio,n, carries with it an
opriation of $9,900, most ^ of
h will be used m employing
■ The town’s board of alder-
hasfeigreed to supplement this
with' $3,024 for the purchase
transportation of stone and
r materials.
Let Stone Contract
eeting Tuesday night, the board
1 contract to Shields and Du-
operators of a quarry near the
1 bridge, to supply crushed stone
75 cents a cubic yard. WFA
r will be used in quarrying the
'ork'^lstarted Monday morning
Bidwell street with about 30
. employed. Since then others
: been added. Th« project calls
50 laborers. George J. Conley
been:,named foreman and Bill
son assistant foreman and time-
per- ,T •
idwell street, from Harrison
n,ue to Main street, will be the
t street to be surfaced. Then
■k will start on the Lyle cut
m Bidwell street to Green street,
ler streets to be improved under
project are the street or streets
iirtg to Bonny Crest and Sloan
fflue from highway No. 28 to
hway [No. 285.
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Turn Faces Toward Home To Vote As Campaign Ends
■m
m
oose Lodge To Give
•ee Talking Picture
free talking picture, “Frater-
y Marches On,” will be shown at
j’clock Sunday afternoon in the
Id Fellows Hall under the aus-
;es of (the Loyal Order of Moose,
;ording to an announcement by
m J. [Murray, secretary of the
:al Mtiose lodge.
Wr. Murray revealed this week
at thellodge, which was organized
August 28 with 62 members, has
w grown to 165 members and has
applications for membership still
ending. He predicted that the
embership soon will surpass 200.
|ighlSchool Seniors
•lect^lass Officers
Seniors of Franklis high school
Monday afternoon and elected
linton [Brookshire class president.
|tl>er officers chosen were John
jawford, vice president; Ruth
feins, secretary, and Charlie
treasurer.
m Franklin
luce Market
latest QUOTATIONS
•
Most recent pictures of Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates with their wives
their faces toward home town voting booths to cast their ballots in the national election, next Tuesto^
President and Mrs. Roosevelt go to Hyde Park, N. Y.„ while Governor and Mrs. Landon fo to Indepe^
dence, Kans. President Roosevelt may receive returns in New York City. After voting, Goveraor Lao-
doa will return to the state capital in Topeka, to receive the returns.
(Prices listed below are subject
® change without notice.)
Jwtedjity Farmers Federation, Inc.
- ----I'oy rarme
rJ t breed hens 12c
‘ckens, light weight, lb. ..
[heavy weight, lb. ..
light weight, lb
fes, doz.
10c
12c
10c
28c
90c
,$1.00
p- - $1.15
No. 1 $1.15
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bu
ty Nantahala Creamery
lb 28c
MANYINSPEa
WPAEXHIBFtS
'^roduct of Sewing Rooms
And Other Projects
Displayed
Nearly 900 persons inspected ex
hibits in the courthouse Saturday
portraying the work being accom
plished on various WPA projects
in the county.
To most of the visitors it was a
revelation. Few had any idea of
the extent of the work or the
progress which had been made in
sewing rooms, ERE classes, recre
ational projects, under the nationa
youth administration and m school
lunch rooms.
The most extensive exhibit was a
display of .needlework, *e product
of the sewing rooms which are sup
ervised by Mrs. G. A. Jones. This
display contained dresses, overal
suits and other clothing equal m
appearance to “store bought ’
beautifully designed and exe^te
bedspreads and coverlids qmlts,
towels, mattress pads and other
.articles of household hnen. Sixty
one women are employed m the
sewing rooms, which are l^a ed at
Franklin, Buck Creek, Watauga,
Cowee Prentiss, Otto and Kyle,
mp oduct of these sewing rooms
is turned over to the county wel
fare departments for distribution
"^LmSof articles of fi^e sew^
ing also were exhibited t^ERE
Sing'aJticles’we'rscrapbooks ^
for thTfirst time to read and wri^te;
1 finely carved soap figure, and a
miniature ev^gree^
classes which are taught by teac
John S. Trotter and Miss Mi
Moore. . .
-ri. Timch Roiom Pnojecl
Various room
ned goods made up
display, but the story
this field of actmty ^
visor. Miss Ethel Hurst,^
more interes mg established
Appointments
Read at Methodist Meet;
Herbert Returns
The Rev. C. C. Herbert, Jr., will
return to Franklin as pastor of the
]\Iethodist church, it was revealed
Monday at the reading of assign
ments at the closing session of the
Western North Carolina conference
of the Methodist Episcopal'church.
South.
The Rev. W. F. Beadle, pastor of
the Highlands Methodist church,
also was returned to his charge.
The Rev. J. B. Tabor, Jr., was
transferred from the Macon county
circuit to the Statesville circuit in
the Statesville district, and will be
succeeded on the Macon charge by
the Rev. J. J. Edwards. The Rev,
O. E. Croy will succeed the Rev
L. R. Acres, who goes to Polkton,
in the Charlotte circuit, as pastor
of the Franklin circuit.
The Rev. W. A. Rollins was re
assigned presiding elder of the
Waynesville district.
Franklin Hopes for
Comeback Against Sylva
Hopeful of overcoming last Fri
day’s defeat of 25 to 7 at Sylva,
the Franklin high school team is
scheduled to play a return engage
ment with the Sylva eleven on the
hometown field at 3:30 o clock to
morrow afternoon. The local boys
have been drilUng hard all week
for the game and are reported to
be in first class condition.
Houk Scheduled To Give
Macon Broadcast
G. L. Houk, Franklin attorney
and' high school principal, was
scheduled to give a description of
Macon county in a radio broadcast
from station *A^WNC, Ashevdle, be
tween 8 and 8:15 p. m. tonight^
This was to be one of a series, o
“county salutes” sponsored by Ashe
ville merchants.
DENIES EFFORT
TO SWP VOTES
Zickgraf Says Employes
May Vote for Whom
They Please
In a statement issued . Wednes
day, W. C. Zickgr.af, of Asheville,
manager of the Zickgraf Hardwood
company, flatly denied reports cur
rent here for several days that the
company' had endeavored to influ
ence employes in its Franklin plant
to vote for Landon for president in
next Tuesday’s election.
'“Upon reaching Franklin this
morning,” Mr, Zickgraf said, “I
find a malicious rumor being cir
culated that I have dictated to my
employes for whom they should
vote, and that they would be dis
charged upon tlieir failure to fol
low my instructions as to their
voting.
“This rumor is scandalous and
without foundation. I have too high
a regard for the elective franchise
to undertake to dictate to anyone
how to vote, even ,if it were pos
sible to do so. I'am in the lumber
business and have ,no time for , petty
politics other than to exercise my
own political opinion at the polls. ,
“Those who started th.at rumor
are probably familiar with some
method under the Australian ballot
system by which one person could
determine how another one votes.
For my part, I know of no such
method.”
Lawrence Jacobs Dies
In Douglas, Wyo.
Fred Jacobs received a telegram
from Douglas, Wyo., Monday morn-
£ telling of the death of .his
brother, Lawrence Jacobs, Mr.
Jacobs recently suffered ,a stroke
of appoplexy.
McConnell Succeeds
Brown on Town Board
W. W. McConnell was elected a
member of the Franklin board of
aldermen at a meeting of the board
Monday night, to fill a vacancy
created by the resignation of George
E. Brown.
Mr. Brown, who holds a job in
the United State's forest service,
resigned after he was notified that
civil service employes are not al
lowed to hold elective political of
fices
Roasted butterflies are relished
as a food by the natives of the
Bugong Mountains of Australia.
ViaORY SEEN
FOR DfflOCRATS
Republicans Hopeful Of
Winning Legislative
Offices
'with registration reddling ,a
high peak of approximate y 7 WO, a
record vote is expected m Macon
county next Tuesday, ram or s’h.n^
Exact figures were not available
today, but it was estimated that
nearly 1,200 new names had oeen
placed upon the registration books.
For weeks workers in both parties
have been actively engaged in get
ting as many likely prospects as
they could to qualify as voters.
And, too, they have been busy ob
taining absentee ballots for mem
bers of their p,arties, indicating
that the absentee vote will in all
probability be greater than m pre
vious elections.
6,500 Votes Predicted
Interest has been below normal
in county, district and state politics,
but spirited interest in the presi
dential contest will make up for
any lack of interest in local poli
tical affairs. A total vote of Ci,bUU
is predicted for Tuesday.
Republican leaders of the county
are centering their hopes on their
1 e g i s 1 a t i V « candidates—McKin
ley Edwards, of Bryson City, for
the state senate, and John E. Rick
man, former Franklin postmaster,
for representative—but Democratic
stalwarts are confident that they
will make a clean sweep of county,
state and national tickets.
Amendments in D«>ubt
The outlook on the five proposed
constitutional amendments to be
voted upon is most difficult to
foretell, but the vote o,n this ballot
is 'expected to fall far short of the
number of other ballots cast. The
general public seems to have taken
little interest in the proposed con
stitutional changes.
The polls will open at sunrise,
6 •.55 a. m., and close with sunset at
5:33 p. m. With voting expected to
be unusually heavy all over the
country, it is unlikely that anything
more than an uncertain trend will
be evident on the face of returns
late Tuesday night. It probably will
be noon Wednesday or later before
one can form a safe judgrnent as
to the outcome in the presidential
race, and congressional returns in
all likelihood will be much slower.
Democratic candidates for county
offices this week are holding com
munity meetings in various parts
of the county. Confident of carry
ing the county, they are endeavor
ing to pile .up large majorities for
the state and national tickets.
Betting in this election has been
rather heavy locally, with odds of
two to one and three to two be
ing offered o,n Roosevelt. Interest
in other contests is so apathetic
that no bets are being made upon
them.
Four ballots are to be submitted
to the voters Tuesday—one for
county and legislative officers, onC
for state and congressional candi
dates, one for president and one
for the five proposed amendm'ents
to the state constitution. In several
precincts there will also be ballots
for township officers, constable or
justice of the peace, but this is
merely a matter of routine, as only
one name appears on each of these
township ballots, none of the can
didates being opposed.
The County Ballot
On the county ballot K. E. Ben
nett, Democrat, is opposed by Mc
Kinley Edwards, Republican, for
senator from the 33rd district. Both
are residents of Bryson City. Mr.
Bennett has previously served in
the senate.
R. A. Patton, a former state sen-
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