1 PL "fljigljlsnV Vxamiatt Price 6 Ccnta VOL. LXV? NO. 33 FRANKLIN, W. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1W TWELVE PAGES Accused Killer Of Girl To Be Tried Here ? ? .. . 1 1 ? . i i . i i i. ? ? ? 1 Take Part In Unveiling Of Marker Special guests at the unveiling of the Wedgwood marker, on the Bryson City road, last Friday are shown above, gathered around the marker. Left to right, they are William S. Powell, of Raleigh, the Rev. Hoyt Evans, Carroll Rogers, Try on, Miss Annie Reece, New York City, McKinlcy Ross, Cherokee, Hen sleigh Wedgwood, direct descendant of Josiah Wedgwood, Mrs. .Sadie S. Patton, Hendersonville, Dr. Christopher Crittenden, Raleigh, and the Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, Franklin. PLAN BARN DANCE The Parent-Teacher associa tion of the Otto school, will sponsor a barn dance at the school tomorrow (Friday) night, Mrs. Ralph Henson, association president, has announced. Pro ceeds from the dance will go in to the P. T. A. fund. PLAN REUNION The Polndexter family will hold a reunion at the old J. L. Polndexter home, Iotla, Sunday. Do You Remember . . . ? (Looking backward through the files of The Preaa) SO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Mr. W. N. AUman met with the misfortune to have a fine mare killed Sunday evenhig by lightning striking his'stable. Mr. Allman has lost 11 head of horses by accident since 1883. Mr. W. W. Sloan left yesterday for Walhal'a, S. C., to bring his mother and sister home. Uncle "D" Cunningham went to Highlands and Sapphire the latter part of last week on a horse trading tour. 25 YEARS AGO There are indications of a very successful meeting now in progress at Clark's Chapel. Rev. W. M. Smith is doing very ef fective preaching. Pursuant to a call Issued by Mayor R. D. Sisk, a large con gregation of Franklin citizens assembled at the Court House last Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock to pay a last tribute to our departed President, Warren G. Harding. 10 YEARS AGO Bearing the names of 150 Franklin Citizens, a petition re questing that material aid be extended to Great Britain in her present crisis was mailed to Senator Robert R. Reynolds and Congressman Zebulon Weaver In Washington yesterday. The Lions club announced this week that it had signed a contract with the Wolfe Amuse ment company to bring' a car nival here for a week, August 28-31. ? Construction is already under way on the new Asbury Metho dist church at Otto. Bill Reece, 13, a Future Fann er of America, brought a twin peach into The Press office that throw* the twin cucumber In the shad*. LIST TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS Additional One Brings Franklin School's Total To 35 An additional teacher has been added to the Franklin schools, bringing the total num ber to 35, according to the teacher assignment list made public by County School Supt. Guy L. Houk. Following Is a list of teachers for the coming year in the Ma con County school system. Franklin: R. G. Sutton, Mrs. {Catherine M. CNeil, Miss Annie Bailey, Mrs. Lois F. Fulton, Mrs. Frances K. Beck, Edwin T. Wil liams, Harry C. Corbin, Mrs. Marie G. Stewart, Miss Roberta Enloe, Wallace Martin, Mrs. Myra S. Waldroop, Ray Lowe, Mrs. Katherine P. Matthews, Samuel F. Beck, Mllburn Atkins, Richard Stotts, Clayton Ramsey, Robert J. Angel, Mrs. Virginia Ramsey, Miss Mayberl Moody, Mrs. Lola S. Kiser, Mrs. Marga ret Ramsey, Mrs. Margaret Flanagan, Mrs. Edith S. Hemp hill, Miss Edna Jamison, Mrs. Pearl Hunter, Miss Esther Wal lace, Mrs. Kate Williams, Mrs. Elsie Franks, Mrs. Lovicla J. Moses, Miss Amy Henderson, Mrs. Margaret Bradley, Miss Elizabeth Meadows, Mrs. Gen evieve Barnard, Miss Alice D. Weaver. Iotla: Mrs. Marie Roper, Miss Lollta Dean, Mrs. Mildred Rich ardson, Mrs. Bertha Smart, Mrs. Minnie Tallent, Mrs. Jessie Wil liams. Union: Mrs. Lucy Bradley, Mrs. Gay Teague, Miss Grace Carpenter. Clark's Chapel: Mrs. Hazel Sutton, Mrs. Lucille Wurst. Holly Springs: Miss May Mc Coy, Mrs. Nancy Taylor. Oak Ridge: Mrs. Vernon D. Higdon, Mrs. Kathryn Ramey. Watauga: John B. Brendle, Mrs. Gladys Klnsland. Cullasaja: William G. Craw Continued On Page Eight? Construction Of Nantahala School Is Started Contracts for the four new ?choola, Franklin high. East Franklin elementary, Highlands, and Nantahala, were executed Thursday, and construction workers have already started work on the Nantahala school. County 8upt. Guy L. Houk has announced. Work on the other three ?choola should begin shortly, ha Federation's Picnic Is Set For Saturday The annual Macorn County Parmer's Federation picnic will be held Saturday, at the Cul lasaja school, with string music, comic stunts, and farm inform ation highlighting the affair, James O. K. McClure, Federa tion president, has announced. Mr. McClure said that the best collection of talent ever assembled by the farm organi zation Is scheduled to appear on the program, including Howard Nash, "the one-man band", who plays 17 different instruments at once; "Smiling Red Raper; Steve Ledford, ace fiddler from Little Rock Creek; Patsy Messer, agile Canton acrobat; Mrs. Bas com Lamar Lunsford, Jr., well known ballad singer; Alex Hous ton, youthful ventriloquist; and many other entertainers. Local musicians, quartets and choirs are especially invited to appear on the picnic program. This year for the first time, ac cording to Mr. McClure, a cash prize of $100 will be .awarded for the best specialty entertain ment number presented at any of the Federation picnics. A sec ond prize of $50, and third prize of $25 also will be award ed. Fiddlers, banjo players, string bands, choirs, and quar tets, and any other type of en tertainers are eligible for these prizes, which will be awarded at the end of the picnic season, he said. Mr. McClure will act as mas ter of ceremonies, and the Rev. Dumont Clarke, director of the Federation's religious depart ment, will make a report on the Lord's Acre movement. Joseph Higdon, Federation treasurer, who handles the purchase of Commodity Credit tobacco for the Federation, also will speak. A grand prize of $25 is offer ed for the truck which brings the largest load of people to any of the 16 Federation picnics this summer. This prize, Mr. McClure said, will be awarded after all the picnics have been held and will be in addition to the regular prizes for the larg est truckload at each picnic. Crawford-Hogsed-SUgle Joint Reunion Planned The Crawfords. Hogseds, and Slagles will meet in Joint fam ily reunion Sunday, August 27, at the Lions' pavilion on Lake i Chatuge, near Hayeaville, it has been announced. All members of the three families are invited i (o cum, bringing basket lunch. 1 BULGIN WINNER OFSWEEPSTAKES 300 Attend Flower Show; Visitors Are Present From 19 States Approximately 300 persons, Including visitors from 19 states, attended the Frank' In Garden Club-sponsored flower show, held at the Agricultural build ing Saturday. Randolph Bulgln, of Frank lin, was the sweepstakes winner In the colorful show of flowers, with his dahlias. Entries in the show were from all sections of Macon County and blue, red, and white rib bons were awarded the winners. The ribbon winners in the show are as follows: Dahlias: (largest and finest) Randolph Bulgln, blue ribbons; Mrs. I. T. Peek, red. Dahlias (mixed), Mrs. A. R. Higdon, blue; Mrs. John L. Crawford, red. Zinnias (large), Mrs. Frank Reece, blue; Mrs. Frank M. Hig don, red; Mrs. James E. Perry, Sr., white. Zinnias (small), Mrs. Frank Reece, blue; Mrs. Gene L. Jac obs, red; Mrs. W. E. Furr, white. Roses, Mrs. R. G. Lickenstein, blue; Mrs. Frank M. Higdon, red; Mrs. Prelo Dryman, white. Yellow Flowers, Mrs. B. L. Mc Glamery, blue; Mrs. W. W. Sloan, red. ? _ TWO-TONE ARRANGEMENTS, Mrs. B. L. McGlapiery, blue; Mrs. T. W. Angel, Jr., red; Mrs. Allan Brooks, white. Gladioli (large), Randolph Bulgin, blue; Mrs. James E. Per ry, Sr., red. Gladioli (mixed), Mrs. Roy G. Beshears, blue; Mrs. Frank Hig don, red. Marygolds, Mrs. T. W. Angel, Jr., blue; Mrs. Virgil Watkins, red. Modern Arrangement, Mrs. Al len Slier, blue; Mrs. Frank M. Continued On Pare Eight ? WEDGWOOD CLAY PIT MARKER IS UNVEILED HERE Descendant Of Famed Artist Is Speaker; 125 Attend More than 125 persons were oresent at the unvielin? of the historical marker, design^ ne: the site of the Macon County "'ov pit rom ?n ?; ' Wedgwood, the famous English ceramic artist who changed not tery making from the grotesque to the beautiful, obtains ? i?*c tons of white clay in 1767. Henslelgh Wedgwood, fifth feneration descendant of the famous Englishman, unveiled the marker, which Is the ?00th to be erected in the state show ing points of historical Interest, in a roadside ceremony at the intersection of N. C. 28 and Co wee road. "X have the honor to dedicate this marker to the memory of two great men, Wedgwood and Griffiths," said Mr. Wedgwood "May I venture to hope that all who pass by and read this in scription may derive inspiration from their achievements." Mr. Wedgwood said that his ancestor's popularity in this country was dueJ to the fact that he typified that well-be loved American character, "the Local Boy Who Made Good." "He was born of humble par entage, but he died the friend of great men and an ardent champion of civil liberties," he said. He quoted William E. Glad stone as saying of the English potter: "He was reared without culture, and converted a Rude and Inconsiderable Handicraft into an Elegant Art and an im portant part of National Com merce." William S. Powell, research associate of N. C. Archives of History, spoke on North Caro lina's marker program. He said the marker program was started in 1635 and that about 35 markers were being erected each year. Research for the inscriptions, he said, is done by the State Department of Ar chives and History, and the in scriptions themselves are passed upon and written by a group of historians from the University of North Carolina, Duke uni versity, Wake Forest college, Davidson college, and State col lege. "It will be a good day for North Carolina when we are able to cease erecting markers Continued On Page Eight ? History Repeats . . . After 183 years, history is about to repeat, and the Macon County clay pit, from which Josiah Wedgwood obtained clay for his china in 1767, is again going to relinquish clay for Wedgwood wares. After the dedication ceremony of the Wedgwood marker last Friday, Guy L. Hook took Hen sleigh Wedgwood, fifth genera tion descendant of the potter, and some of the guests at the unveiling up to the old Rick man mine at the head of Cowee creek where Thomas Griffiths removed five tons of clay for Wedgwood 1(3 years ago. According to .Mr. Houk, Mr. Wedgwood asked him to send 54 pounds of the white clay to the Wedgwood corporation in Eng land. The Hickman mine at present is being worked for strip mica by Goodlow Bowman and Gene Panell. Capacity Crowd Attends Macon Baptist Meeting Tne sugariork Baptist church was filled to capacity last Thursday and Friday when the Macon County Baptist associa tion held Its forty-seventh an nual meeting there. The session was presided over by J. H. Stockton, who welcom ed. the large crowd attending the two-day affair. "It Is our purpose to promote Clod's program here on Earth," ha told the capacity crowd, "tor people are channels through which HU program Is advanc ed." Highlighting the morning of the first day was the election of officers for the coming year. Mr. 8tockton was reelected moderator for the eighth con secutive time. The Rev. C. C. Welch was elected vice-modera tor; Mrs. Pearl Corbln, clerk. Mi