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VOL. LI, NO. 11
A. S. SOLESBEE
PASSES FRIDAY
Had Been Preaching For
More Than 35 Years;
Funeral Saturday
' Ref. A. S. Solesbee, 61, prominent
Baptist minister, died at his home
two miles north of franklin last
Friday morning after a two weeks'
illness. Mr. Solesbee was a sufferer
from Bright's disease and had been
in bad physical condition for sev
eral months. -
Funeral services were conducted
at the Holly Springs Baptist church
; Saturday morning at 11 oclocic Dy
' . Rev. J. A. Flanagan, pastor of the
71"- Franklin Presbyterian church, and
h Rev. D, C. McCoy, of Oak Grove.
m T ' " J t TTmUaI A mar-
k ' ican Mechanics of which order he
"V i had long been a member, conducted
' . . ... Ill
the services ai me grave. ruuw
" ers were Geo.. West, Sam Murray,
d n c:i, c a Mparlnws. John
H. Dalton, J. M. Raby and W. C.
r ' : Ledbetter. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
Mr. bolesDee naa Deen preatmns
. for more than 05 vears ana naa
. oreached in practically ' every church
s . I. frrtr nrncr nl mm-
. ator OI mo Macon wuuiv
" association for something like 10
S$V . years. He received Jus education ;at
. the Hiawassee Men school.: ttia-
Xf wassee, Ga., and entered the min-
f . 4' 1- i:f
y .; . -isirv in twwiy -me. ... :
Mr. .Solesbee , represented Macon
county in the general assembly tn
1937 aria .was the nominee-, or .the
- republican parry . last year uui vyuiu
not make the race ' on account of
ill healtn. . ,. " .
, - He is' survived by his widow, who
was' Miss Belle Kilpatrick; three
daughters, Mrs. Robert Reid, of
Murphy; ' Mrs. Thad Patton, of
. Franklin Route 2; Mrs. G. K.
v Phillips; 7 of Clinton, Tenn. ; two
sons, Spurgebn and Paul, of Frank
lin; three, brothers J. P., of Nanta
hala ; Charlie, and W. A. Solesbee ;
two sisters, Mrs. A. L. Poind exter,
of Iotla, and Mrs. George Younce,
of Nantahala. . ,, , ,
Volunteer Day Service
At , Presbyterian Church
" A ! -special Volunteer Day service
will be observed Sunday at the
morning worship . service in the
local '.. Presbyterian church, accord
ing to an announcement made .by
the Rev. Jf. A. Flanagan, pastor of
. the church.
Pledges for .A the support of the
work for the coming fiscal church
year which begins on April' 1st,
will be made at this time.
The local church has made a fine
record' in its giving this year, and
is hoping to meet all of its obli-
gations by the last ot tne year,
For the next two. Sundays special
offerings will be received for the
support of the home mission work
in the Presbytery. Everyone is
cordially invited to attend this
service.
Irnnhlhi
Produce Market
LATEST QUOTATIONS
(Prices listed below are subject
to change "without notice.)
Quoted by Fanner Federation, Inc.
Chickens, heavy breed, hens 13c
Chickens, light weight,' lb. . . 9c r
Eggs, doz. ................. 17c
Corn, bu. ...................$1.00
Wheat, bu. ,.$1.15
. Potatoes, No. 1, bu. . . ; . .$1.25
Uv $1 Field peas, bu. . , , . ........ .$1.60
iCrpwder peas, bu. .$25
' Yetow Mammoth Soy
JjAns, bu. $1.60
Lorid Beans, Jbu. ...,......$2.25
A ' Onions, bu. . t . . . . .... . ... 80c ?
A Walnuts, per 100 lbs., ... . . . . .$1
Quoted by NanUhala Creamery ,
Buttcrfat, lb. ii , , . 31c ';:
PROGRESSIVE
Lord s Acre fian
Outlined at Meeting Held
Here Saturday
The Lord's, Acre plan, which has
broadened the .usefulness of many
rural churches throughout western
North Carolina, was outlined Sat
urday in an illustrated lecture by
the Rev. Dumont Clarke, director
'of the relieinus deoartment of the
Farmers Federation, at a meeting
in the Presbyterian church. Ap
proximately 75 persons, represent
ing many churches of the towai and
i.-- i.A,.aH
Rev. Mr. Clarke told how various
churches which had adopted the
Lord's Acre plan had cleared up
old indebtedness, attracted new
members and were now operating
On a self-supporting basis. In some
instances members of these churches
work together on land set aside
for the church, growing crops from
which the revenue is put into the
church-treasury. In other instances,
ndividual members of a church
pledge to the church a specified
portion of their farm yields, or set
aside "an acre for the Lord," a
nnrtion of their orchards, or some
of their chickens, hogs or livestock,
The Rev. O. C. Landrum, Presby-
terian minister of Hazelwood, prais-
ed the Lord's' Acre, plan and told
of how it had put iiew life into a
small rural church ' in Haywood
county.
James G. IC McClure, Jr., presi-
dent and general manager of the
Farmers Federation and founder
the Lord s Acre movement, and
Vance J Browning, -head of the fed-
eration's educational department, aj,-
so 'spoke. -lheKev. u. . Jt.. uroy,
pastor, of the Macon county M eth
odist circuit, presided at the meet
ing. Arrangements for the gather
ing were made by a committee
headed by the Rev. Arthur Flana
gan,
Miss Margaret McGuire render-
ed a vocal , solo, "Only God Can
Make a Tree." -
The meeting closed with the
Lord's Acre lay, 'The Courage of
Consecrated Giving,'' presented by
young people of Union Methodist
church. . ' . '
HIGHWAY
BEING BUILT
Ulllard - Highlands Koad
m m mm mm - a I
To Benefit Tourists
And Truckers
One of the most noteworthy pro
jects being carried on by the Nan
tahala national forest is the con-
6truction of a high standard forest
NEW
service highway between Highlands, taster season.
N. C. and Dillard, Ga. On Good Friday at St. Agnes',
The highway, when completed, Franklin, there will be the three
will be approximately. 15 miles in hour service starting at noon when
length, shortening the distance on
the old road by almost three miles,
The surfacing of this highway con- the Cross. These addresses will be
sists of three courses of crushed interspersed with meditation and
stone, giving a total depth of eight hymns and every one in, the corn
inches over a width qf 16 feet. The munity is invited to attend. If. you
width of grade, " including ditches, cannot come for the entire three
is approximately 25 feet and 22 hours, come in for whatever time
feet plus allowance for shrinkage you can. At 7:30 p. m. there will be
on fills. One bridge with an 81 foot a service in the Church of the In
span will be constructed. . carnation, Highlands, at which spe
Approximately four miles of this cjal music will be rendered and an
highway lies in Georgia. address appropriate for the occas
; This highway, when completed, sion will be given,
will receive heavy use, both recre- The usual surfrise festival service
ational. and commercial. .Thousands of ' Holy Communion will be held
of tourists visit Highlands, N, C.,' in St. Agnes at 6:30 a. m. on
each Summer, most of them com
ing from Atlanta and other South
ern cities Via Clayton, Ga., and
Franklin, N. C. This route will be
shortened - 22 miles by taking the
new highway from Dillard, Ga.
Townships surrounding Hignlands
produce many tons of cabbage,
beans and potatoes, producing an I
annual income of more than $100,- I
000. Most of this is 'hauled to At-
lanta 4y "truck. This traffic will
pake exclusive use of the new and I
sooner roui-w ?
LIBERAL
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH
stockholders
r eaerauon
STOCKHOLDERS
MEET SATURDAY
Annual Meeting Of T eder
ation to be Held in
Asheville
ASHEV1LLE, March 17. The
annual meeting of stockholders o
the Farmers Federation. Inc- has
been called for 10 o'clock Saturday
morning, March 20, in the assembly
room of the Buncombe county
courthouse.
This farmers' cooperative, which
J was organized in 1920 by a smal
group of . farmers in the Fairview
section of this county, now has
3,100 .stockholders and operates IS
warehouses in nine western North
Carolina counties, in addition to :
cannery, several baby chick hatch
eries and
sweet potato curing
houses
Keports on activities of the feder
ation during the past year will be
submitted at Saturday's meeting by
James G. KTMcClure, J r, president
and general manager ; Guy M.
saies, assistant general manager,
and by various departmental heads.
The varied activities of the fed-
eration will be shown in motion
pictures.
Representative L. L. Burgin, of
Henderson county, has accepted an
I invatipnr t99yrsjuJbje;.ineetmg.
on Tobacco."
The principal business to come
before the stockholders will be the
election of. directors. Each county
where the federation ooerates is
entitled to two directors with terms
of two years, and in addition there
are seven directprs-at-large. Nine
regular directors and three direc
I tors-at-large are to be elected this
t year.
Notices of the meeting, together
with blank proxies, have been sent
to all stockholders. Those unable
a. ' a.A- 1 '. a
iu aucnu are requested to eive
their proxies to some stockholder
who can represent them.
In view of the increasing inter
est in the , federation, officials of
the organization are preparing for
a large attendance Saturday.
Coffee anH nd
served at the close of the meeting,
' x v,a W 111 Ub
Episcopal Services for
Easter Season
Arrangements have been complet
ed for the services to be held in
the Episcopal churches during the
addresses will be given by the
rector on the Seven Words from
taster Day. The success of this
service in the past years leads us
to expect a good attendance again
this year. At 11 a. m. the same
day there 'will be a communion
service with sermon by the rector
at the Church of the Incarnation.
Highlands, where there will also
be a service at 4 p. m. when the
church school will be in charere of
the music and the Lenten offering
will be presented.
To all these services the public
corouuiy welcome.
INDEPENDENT
18, 1937
of Farmers
it i i nr
noia meeting
Tobacco Planting Urged;
Advisory Committee
Reelected
Macon counrv stockholders of
the Farmers Federation, incorpor-
ated. held their annual meetine
Saturday in the federatibn's ware-
house on Palmer street with an at-
tendance of between 75 and 100.
The county advisory committee
of 10 members was reelected and
Jerry Franklin, of Franklin Route
was nominated as one of two
members from this county on the
federation's board of directors. Mr.
Franklin was nominated to succeed
E. B. .Byrd, of Stiles, whose two-
year term as a director had ex
pired. Mr. Byrd requested, on ac
count of other responsibilities, that
his name not be submitted again.
The other director from Macon
county is Carl Slagle, of Route 1,
whose term, extends for another
year.
Much interest was manifested at
the meeting in an address by J. M,
Hayes, president of the Asheville
Tobacco Board of Trade. He out
lined the methods of seeding to
bacco beds, transplanting the plants,
how to fertilize and cultivate them,
and how to cure the weed. It is
still early enough, he advised, to
set out plant beds; but he urged
all farmers intending to grow to
bacco crops this year to get their
seed beds planted as soon as, pos
sible.
Several farmers indicated that
they' would plant small
tracts in
burley this year.
Tamei G. K. McClure. Ir.. oresi-
dent and general manager of the
federation, encouraged the Macon
countv farmers to trv tobacco plant-
inar but advised them to out out
. : - -
only an acre or half an acre until
-
they have gained more experience
in cultivation of the crop. Express
ing the opinion that in due time
tobacco could be made the means
of increasing the cash income of
Macon fanners, Mr. .McClure cited
the experience . of one farmer in
Buncombe county,- who in 1934 re
ceived vw ior a iwo-acro crop,
$1,100 from two acres in 1935 and stoik on National Forest land with
$2,289.50 irom three acres in 1936. in the Nantahala National Forest
Guy M. Sales, assistant general
manager, reported that the tedera-
tion as a whole had ejnoyed sub-
stantial increases in business last
year as compared with the previous
year, nc expressed cuniiucaitc iu i
continuing gams this year.
Vance JBrowning, tormer state l
senator .from this district, who is
in charge ot education activities
a .. i
of the farmers cooperative orga-
nizaiion, iracea me nisiory oi co-
operative consumers' groups and
explained how the Farmers Federa-
tion functions , to the advantage of
its members. He stressed the point
that the federation belongs J to and
is operated by . the farmers them-
selves, each stockholder, regardless
of the amount of stock he holds
in the organization, having an equal
voice in control of its affairs.
Members of the advisory commit
tee, which was reelected, are : Carl
Slagle, Route 1, chairman; J. R.
Holbrooks, West's Mill; W. D.
Barnard, Route 3 ; James Young,
Route 2; Jerry Franklin, Route 4;
William Higdon, Cullasaja; J. I.
Vinson, Otto; J. S. Conley, Frank
lin; R. M. Shook, Route 4; E. B.
Byrd, Stiles. k
Sewing Rooms Produce
Many Garments
The sewing rooms -in Macon a metal clip, with a number stamp
county operated by the WPA are ed on it, in the animal's ear;
producing around 3,400 garments Horses, mules and small calves are
per month, at a cost per garment not tagged. The tagging is done bv
ot less than $l.UU. r
The payrolls amount to some-
thing like $1,500 per month.
ince tne sewing rooms, were I
started 21,623 garments have been
made and distributed in the county!
vnrougn tno wcitarc department,
$1.50 PER YEAR
CSt AVFI Y RII I
RFfOMFQ I AW
IIUVV1I1UU JUX JLII
Measure Ratified Monday
Provides $250,000 to
Advertise State
The General Assembly ratified
and enacted into law Monday the
Gravely bill appropriating $250,000
duVing the 1937-39 biennum to ad-
vertise North Carolina.
This act, passed by the house on
its final reading at Edenton last
Thursday, places the state Depart-
ment of Conservation and JJevelop-
ment in charge of the advertising
program.
R. Bruce Etheridge, director of
this department, said that he will
confer with newspaper publishers,
officials of various promotional and
tourist agencies, and other state
leaders before completing the de
partment's, tentative draft of the
two-year program.
The Asheville Citizen and The
Asheville Times, . the . Asheville
Chamber of Commerce, the Caro-
una iviuior ciuu ana simitar organ
izations of the state were leaders
in the fight to secure the $250,000
appropriation.
The Assembly had set March 18
as the date for adjournment, but
several major bills remain to be
acted upon, and it is thought that
me Dusiness cannot be finished be
fore Saturday night
Tax Limit Law Repealed
The senate passed on second
reading Monday night a bill re
pealing the act which fixed the
Macon county tax rate at $1 on
the one hundred dollars valuation.
A his law made it difficult for the
officials' to secure a refunding of
the county s indebtedness, and its
repeal clears the way for a satis-
i - -
tactory settlement with the holders
I r ...
ot county .bonds.
Grazing Permits
To Be Issued For Limited
Areas In Forest v
i-vuy person wishing to ranee
should read the following informa-
tion carefully.
Grazing of stock on forest land
has, in the past, caused consider-
able damage to young trees. For
" icaauu u is not considered A
good forestry practice. However, as
an accommodation to the local re&i-
dents living, within the Nantahala
j a i r m
national rorest boundaries, it is
permitted on certain areas.
nreas ciosea to all erazin? in
elude the Joyce Kilmer Memorial
forest near . liake Santeetlah. the
wayan state game refuge, and all
national forest land hi the Wavah
ranger district.
Grazing permits are required for
all stock grazed pn national for
est land! Stock grazed on this land
without a permit are in a state of
trespass for which the owner it
liable to prosecution..
Any person wishine to rantre
stock on national forest land in
the Nantahala ranger district should
write to district forest ranger Noth-
stein in Andrews, N. C, and re-
quest a grazing aoolication form.
This form should be filled out to .
show the number of stock desired .
to be ranged and the location in i
which It is desired to range them.
Cattle, hogs and sheeo must be
tagged before being turned loose
to range. This consists of fastening
the district forest ranger or jbis
assistant.
A certain number of cattle may
be grazed free. A small charge is
made for others. Permits, however.
are required whether a charge is
maae or not.