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P?ie Four THE FRANKLIN PRESS Friday, March 6, 1925. The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY 5. A. HARRIS '. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Sabscriptions Payable in Adyance) One Year L . $150 ixsth Months 1.00 six Months ,75 Three Months : - 40 ; Hiaele Couics.......... . 5c ADVERTISING RATES. Very reasonable, and will be made tnown upon request. ' We charge 5 cents a line for Cards f Thanks," Resolutions of Respect vad for notices of entertainments where admission is charged. Entered at the post-office at Franklin, N. C, far transmission through the nail as second- matter. i Foreign Advertising Representative I j THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION How About It? beautify the school grounds. Provide privacy for pupils and tea- Tiers. Will the local board of school trus tees take any steps toward beautifying ; ' he. school grounds? 0. Where is the daddy of all mud 3io1e? A. At the Franklin school liousc. During recess hours the school children at the Franklin school could i lake a few extra quarters by wring- ing broom straw' on the school ground. , The Franklin school house bas one aJvantage. As many brooms are weeded to keep the mud out, it is tfortunate that material fpr the brooms grows on the grounds."" During rainy weather it might pay ttie school authorities to consider the advisability of establishing a tad pole ' iidustry in the daddy mud hole. A rubber industry might also prove oorofitable. No doubt the daddy mud Svole will. yicld an inexhaustable sup ply of rubber overshoes. Andrew Ray has become exceeding ly expert in shoveling mud out of the school building. New York would give him $10.00 per day to shovel snow joE her strects. ; The furnace at the school house kJocs every thing but heat the building An Eskimo child brought from his warm igloo and placed in our' school " building would die of pneumonia in '.29 minutes. . , ... It is needless to say that the child ren of the contractor who installed our school furnace do' not .attend school in Franklin. Enforce the Law Apparently no effort is being made 'to enforce the speed limit provided hy city ordinances. So indifferent 3iave the authorities become about the enforcement of the speed limit car drivers have come to the conclu sion that we have no speed limit. It is not unusual to see cars going at the rate of 35 or 40 miles per hour on the streets of Franklin. Some day ninless our luck holds, a child will be Ikilled by a car on the streets of our town. Then we shall see sonr, officials making a great todo about enforcing 'the law. The time to enforce the law is before anyone gets hurt. W believe that a reasonable speed lf;mif should be allowed motorists say Joules per hour of Main street and '-28 wle, or1 perhaps 25 miles , on the toherjstreets. Then see that this ilitrrri asnot exceeded. v Wt understand that there is a law TprdmWating cars from running with open mufflers. This ordinance is viola tied with impunity every day and Vdilim-g :is done. When one of these instruments of toture passes all con versation must cease, doctor cannot examine their patients, the sick in the Shospitals -art annoyed. All business must cease until the car or truck gets 'out of hearing. The . tax payersof "JratMin 'should not be subjected to ;thh annoyance. They have every Tight 4o expect that our police officer vil! sl on the job and enforce a few tol the city ordinances. Ladies Rest Room . "Several weeks' 'agcythc' county com missioners started to fix up a ladies rest room at the court house. At that lane there happened to be, certain records in the room belonging to var ious county offices and the Farmers Federation. It was our understand ing that these papers would be re v.vvcfi with a view to allowing the vork to proceed. When the com wrissioners started the work the sher if'T ipromptly stopped them until the irewnds referred to had been removed Week after week has passed and still th records are in the same old place "There appears to be ho valid reason '.rby this work should not be started iiind completed at once. We know of nothing more . badly i.reded in town than a rest room for "omcn visitors. Mothers from the country frequently walk the streets of Franklin carrying their babies. There is no place to rest. No decent place to go for needed privacy. Easy chairs and a quiet place to en joy' them would be deeply appreciat ed by the good women of the country who come to town. Since writing the above we have learned that the county commission ers have agreed to make a complete renovation of the court house. This renovation will consist of painting the building, installing a ladies rest room changing the plumbing of the toilets, making the doors swing outward and other minor repairs. On one or two other occasions the Press has censured the commission ers. We now take this opportunity to highly commend' them for these improvements in our court house. In this work we believe that the com missioners will receive the unanimous support of the county. ;, Fire Protection Judging from the records of the Nantahala National Forest, the Fire Menace, while still the greatest problem in Forest administration, is graduallydecreasing. In 1923 seventy-three ' fifes occured' within' the Forest boundary, including those on privately owned lands, which the Forest Service is protecting in con nection with its own holdings. Of this number fifteen burned less than ten acres each, the average fires being 64 acres in extent. The Forest Ser vice acreage burned equaled seven tenths of one per cent of the net holdings. In 1924 fifty-four fires occured in an imricen ucmn nciu uuwu iu than ten acres and the average size being 62 acres. The loss to the Forest Service during the year was- six tenths of one per cent, based on net acreage. The 1924 season, while bet ter than 1923, showed promise of being by far the most successful per iod in the history of the Forest. Fires were few and small during the spring and were held down in good shape during the long dry period last Nov ember. Just before the close of this extended period ofdry weather the Rainy Mountains fire (near Clayton) burned all hopes of a bumper fire year. - The hopes of the local Forest force arc set on this bumper year occur ing in 1925,' and present records show a good start. During a short dry spell in January five small fires occured burning 30 acres while Febu rary records show a total absence of fires. March and April are the months of greatest fire danger both in occurance and in heavy timber damage, and the local organization is getting on its toes in readiness .for this period. An unfortunate situation brought out by the reords is that more than fifty per cent of the fires each year are started intentionally and the remain der are lue to carelessness of some form or other camp fires, cigarettes stubs, etc. It is difficult to understand the mentd attitude of the fire bug, who operates in violation of State and Federal statutes and in the face of a near future timber shortage which is becoming well known to everyone and which is nothing less tlran alarming. ' i Another unfortunate , situation which the records disclose is the lack of interest or co-operation in control ing fires shown by the local timber land owners on some parts of the forest. In order to properly protect National Forest holdings the local forest officers must give at least some degree of protection to almost double this amount of timber land. Why shouldn't the owners of this addition al acreage both local and non resident heh bear this burden when the need for fire protection is. so apparent? The School Furnace During the present winter the fur nace in our school building has not given satisfactory service. On one day,, it was not possible to raise the temperature in two rooms aove 30 degrees. On several other days the tcmperatuic'"Tn these rooms has re- ramed below 40 degrees. In the other roonis the temperature on many days was so low that the children could not do satisfactory work- with any degree of. comfort or success. The Superintendent on more than one oc casion has found it necessary, on. 'ac count of a cold school building to send, the children home to the warmth of their own firesides. , The men who installed the furnace mace a written contract with the local board of trustees guaranteeing that the furnace would satisfactorily heat the bulding. We have been in formed.that on one occasion a repre sentative of the furnace company spent an entire day at the school build ing but was unable to raise as much as one pound of steam. He depart ed with the furnace in no better con dition than when he arrived. Have any steps been taken to force this company to comply with the terms of its contract? It not why not ? , NOTICE I certify that full settlement has been made by me, for all labor ana materials used in the construction of Chatooga bridge. -J- . t Any claims for nonpayment or dam age, must be presented to Mr..O. S. VVnght of Toccoa, Ga., engineer in charge within four weeks of first publication of this notice. Final se tlenicnt is to be made on March 13, 1925. , W. M rr vvvi win M6- Contractor An Apology In last week's Press We stated that the school building had gone to rack ana ruin within the last two years. We had in mind only the auditorium The condition of the building was mentioned only to show that the nec tsrary funds for repairs and beauti fying the grounds can hardly be rais ed by the women of the P. T. A. ' That part of our editorial of last week which refers to the condition of the school buiding has been called to our attention, we find mat we have unintentionally cast a reflection upon the administration of f rof. W, H. Crawford concerning hjs care pf the building. This was far from our intention. From all reports Prof. Crawford has not only taken excellent care of the building in his charge but of the furnishings as well. If is irue that he asked and receiv ed permission for his students to play basketball in the auditorium. As the auditorium is the only available in door place in town where basketball can be played we do not blame rrot. Crawford for taking this step. - It is also true that considerable damage to the walls of the aduitdrium has re sulted from basketball games. How ever, the boys and girls must have some place to play ball. No red blood ed man would have it otherwise. By allowing games in the auditorium the authorities took a chance on damage to the walls. Prof. Crawford- has handled this situation as well as any man could have done under similar circumstances. In this connncction we have been informed that the athlet department I IlllUl ,,. , ..,i:f,:, (tnr tha ball -season ends from funds: collected as admission to the games. We should have taken the trouble to asertain this fact before referring to the condition of the building. As staled in another editorial of last week we will not intentionally do an injury to any man in the col umns of the Press. We arc convin ced that the Press has done Prof. Crawford an injustice and we there fore uke this opportunity to offer hini..ouP apologies. Our Campaign Manager Mr. Henry Loop who has been em ployed by the Press to manage its Circulation Campaign which starts in this issue is a thoroughly reliable and honest gentleman. Mr. Loop has managed similar campaigns for var ious newspapers in all parts of the United States. The Tri-County News, Jackson County Journal and Hender- sonville limes are among tne papers that have procured his services to conduct circulation campaigns One of these papers is now negotiating with Mr. Loop to put on another cam paign thus showing that his work was satisfactory. . A circulation campaign must neces sarily be conducted , along scrupulous ly honest lines. No partiality or fa voritism can be shown. An up-to-date'system of bookkeeping must be used. We are convinced , that Mr, Loop will so -conduct the campaign that no one will have, cause to com plain after the campaign is over. Simple' Inuaguration President Coolidgc not only be lieves in the simple life but he puts such beliefs into practice. The days. of pomp and kings have, about run their course. The President, realizing that ours is a thoroughly democratic coun try, determined, much to the regret and disgust of the Washington Hotel keepers, to make his inauguration simple in the extreme. So on the fourth day of March Mr, Coolidge was inaugurated with perhaps the simplest ceremonies since the day when Jefferson r6de to the Capitol from the White House on a horse. All praisf is due our .President fcr praci'cing wnai ne preawics Notice of Town Election Notice is hereby, given that by or der, of the Board of Aldermen made in regular session on Monday night March 2nd, 1925, by resolution duly passed and acting under the .Charter of the Town of Franklin, an election is hereby called -to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May 1925, the same being the 5th day of May, for the purpose of elect ing a Mayor and six Aldermen for the Towi of Franklin, to serve for two years and after said date or until their successors are 'elected and qualified. Notice is also further given that Zeb Baird was appointed Register and that Roy Carpenter, Bro'adje Pendergrass, Mrs.. Elosie Franks and Miss Lillie Rankin were appointed judges oi said election. That , there will only be one voting place which will be. in the Court House. Said elect ion, will be held under the Austra lian Ballot Law applying to Macon County.. . '. ' - - v v Done by order of the Board. This the 2nd day of. March, 1925, ?tMl. R. D. SISK, ' Mayor. H. W. CABE, Clerk, " Join the State System North Carolina has arf excellent system of schools. We can see no valid reason why Franklin's , school should not conduct its affairs under the state system. - NOTICE OF SALE By virture of a power of sale con tained in a deed of trust from J. L Burchfield and wife Alice Burchfield dated Dec. 17th 1917 and recorded in book No. 22 of Deeds of Trust and Mortgages at 'page 549 office Register of Deeds fof Macon County, and de fault having been' had in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and on demand of the parties to whom aid money is now due, I will on Saturday the 7th, day of March 1925, at the Court house door in the Town of Franklin, and County of Macon and between the legal hours of sale icil forcash to the highest bidder, to satisfy said Deed of Trust and, note secured thereby, the following real estate situated in the town of Frank lin, on Harrison Avenue,- Adjoining the lands of J. O. Harrison, C. 1. Blaine and others, and more 'fully- Ae- scribed in a deed from J. P Campbell and wife Lalie Lampbell to J. L, Burchfield dated 17th day of Dec. 1917 and recorded in Book "B4" of deeds at page .of deeds Records of Macon-' County: N. G for a more complete description of said lands references is hereby made to said re :ords. ' Amounts due Jar vtth, 1925 was This, Fcburary 3rd. 1925. ' T. E. CAMPBELL.' FIMF27 . Trustee. Notice of Summons .'. North Carolina Macon Count'. In the Superior Court. Sallic Cabe . vs. '.' Arthur Cabe The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced against him, in the Superior Court of Macon County, N. C. before the Clerk' for the purpose of obtaining a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, the summons in which action has been made returnable before Frank I. Mur ray, Clerk Superior Court of Macon County, N. C, at his office in the courthouse in Franklin, N. C. on the 2nd day of April 1925, when arid where the defendant is required to appear and answer or demur to the complaint of the plaintiff or the,plaintiff will ap ply to the court for the relief demand ed therein. This the Srd. day of March 1925 FRANK I. MURRAY, PM27 . Clerk of Superior Court. Notice of Summons North Carolina Macon County, In The Superior Court L. J. Young, Administrator of E. S Blackburn, deceased, and Mittie Fox and hunsband, E. M; Fox . . , vs- ' Ed Blackburn and others, heirs at law of E, S.' Blackburn, deceased. The defendants. J. C. Gcrgory, fary Gregory, Lida Dryman, Jake Dryman, Jane Grantham, Walter Grantham, Henry Abernanthy and .wife, Abernanthy, Lynchie Davis, Wm. Davis, Evaline Johnson and hus band ......Johnson, Mary : Bridges and husband, J. W. Bridges, Mittie Carets and husband, Walter Garets, Herrington Pressley, Mary Gregory Henry Gregory, Frank Gregory, Sallic Gregory, :..........Gregory yvV take notice that an action entitled above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Macon County, North Caro Una, "to make assets to pay the debts and costs of administrator of E. S Blackburn, deceased, and for the sale of lands of which said E. S. Black burn died seized and possessed for the purpose of partition between air the heirs at law of said E. S. Backburn, deceased. An the said defendants will further take notice that they. and each of themvare required to appear at the omce ot the Clerk of the 5u perior Court of Macon County ,at the Court House in said vcounty and the Town -of Franklin, on the 28th day of March, 1925, and answer or demur to the petition in said case now on file in said office within twenty days from said date or the plaintiffs s will apply to the Court for the releif de manded in said petition. This the 26 th day. of February, 1925 . 4t SP FRANK I. MURRAY Clerk Superior Court Macon County, North Carolina Entry Notice Frank L Henry. No. 14968. 50 acres. entered February 9th, 1925, State of North Carolina. Macon County. Frank L. Henry enters 50 acres of land in Mill Shoal Townshio on Waters of Watauga Creek, joining K .t. Henry. K. u. Brend e and Others. FRANK L. HENRY. t certify that the loregoine is a true transcript from the record in mv office. This February 9th, 1925. PM13 E. H. FRANKS. E.T FIVE GALS. PAINT FREE A large paint concern, in further ance of an advertising and introduc tory campaign now in progress, of fers to give free of charge five gal lons of its best, house paint, any colorv to one property owner at each postotfice or on each rural route in this county. This concern wants its paint on a house in each locality this season which is the purpose of this remarkable offer. It also wants a local salesman in each county. Per sons1 interested are requested to wrirp the Central Oil Company, Louisville, luinxucKy. ,av.) OF27 Notice of Trustees Sale By virture of a pewor of sale con- taincd.in a certain deed of trust exe cuetd by C. J. Rogers to the under signed as trustees on the 21sty day of December 1922 and default - having been made in payment of the two notes in said deed of tfust described I a ill sell at the Court House door in the town of Franklin in the state of North Carolina at public auction for cash on the 6th day of April 1925 the land described in the said deed, of ' 'trust which is specifically described 'as' follows: . 1 ' "Beginning at a hickory corner near the creek the beginning Corner of No. twenty, and running south 86E with old E &W line 53 poles to a chestnut pbrner; then north 34 E 82 poles to a stake an dpointers; then south 71J4 E 104 poles to a small hickory on a ridge; then north 19 E 80 poles to a stake in Mary Conley line; then west 7 poles to hickory corner on top of ridge near Mill Gap then with ridge south 20 W 20 poles to a stake; then South 46 W, 49 poles to black jack. George Love's corner; then north 78' W 30 poles to a stake; then north 2E 60 poles to a red oak on top of a ridge; then down ridge north 74 W 9 poles to a small white oak; then north 34 W f'A poles to a stake; then south 56 W 14 poles to a rock; then north 34 W 11 poles to a rock at spring; then north 56 E 14 poles to a rock at or near a chestnut tree; then' north 722 E 92 poles to a pine in the old line; then north with old line 10 E 3 degrees variation 40 poles to stake in the hollow above the head of branch running down by Lou Gud- ger s; then south o w && poies to a maple at spring; then north 70 W 22 poles to a small holly in the branch; then south 85 W 36 poles paper call 16 poles to a Sarvice stump at the creek; then W 34 poles to a hickory on a ridge ; then north to w 44 pores to a Spanish oak on the Thos West Ridge; then with said ridge as fol lows : North . 34l2 W 27 " poles to a black oak ; north 53 W 26 pcles to a white oak; north 25 W 7 poles to a . stake or gum; north 22 W 19 poles to a chestnut oak stump; north 14 poles to a black jack ; north 14. E with line of 931516 poles to a black jack; then north, 40 W 12 poles to a .Spanish oak; north 12 W 56 poles to a large chest-" nut oak on rock cliff; north 34 W with ridge and line of Grant No. 3357 220 poles to a chestnut corner near the Polly Patch ; then north 78 W 72 poles to a black oak; then south 45 W 38 poles to a chestnut oak corner on side of a hill in the Chestnut Cove: then W 53 poles to a scrubby chesfr nut oak ridge; then down the ridge with Hans Reese's line as follows; South 54 E 20 poles to. rock or stake; south 25lA E 35 poles to a wtyte oak south 7 E paper call 9 E 28 poles to a Spanish oak in gap of where trail crosses from gum cove; then south 32 E 8 poles and ten feet to a white oak ; then south 50 E 26 poles to a Spanish oak; then south 20 E 30 poles to a small black oak on knoll; then south 56 E 15 poles to a white oak or rock on ridge above Big Cliff; then south 26 E 36 poles to rick; then south 52 E with Plemon's line 100 poles to a hickory corner passinb a bickory at 78 poles and also 87 poles then south 38 W 80 poles to a chest nut oak ;thcn north 55 W 16 poles to white oak; then south with the Rick- man line 15 E allow proper'variation 40 poles to a hickory, W, J. Jenkin's corner; when with his line 1 south 15 E allowing proper variation 50 poles to black jack corner; then south 85 E 79 poles fo a white oak; W. A. McGaha's corner; then south 2 W 170 poles to a stake in field; then south 82 E 24 poles fiveL feet to the beginning. Containing six hundred forty acres or less. Said deed- of trust recorded in Book 27 at page 196. office of Register of deeds of Macon county, N. C. This sale is made to satisfy the two notes secured by said deed of trust amounting to $2675.00 with interest. CBBC.M27 H. G- ROBERTSON, Trustee.. Notice of Trustee's Sale ' Under and by virture of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust, executed by W. D. Simpson and M. L. Simpson, his wife to the under signed to secure a debt therein men- tioned due to T. W. Angel, which said deed of trust is. a record of the' office of the Register of Deeds of Macon County, in Book of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust No. 27, page 301, 1 Henry G. Robertson, trustee named in said deed of trust, will on Satur- ady the seventh day of March, A. D., lfr! . l "l t. . n u, m i- v hu.r. uuuii, ti 111c V-UUIU I house door in the Town of Franklin sell to the highest bidder for cash at public outcry, the following real es tate, situate in said County of. Macon and about one mile east from the Town of Franklin and the same beine all the right title and interest of said V. 1). Simpson and M. L. Simpson, or either of them in and to the lands described .in a deed from D. J. Smart and wife to D. A. Meyers, dated the 21st clay of March 1911 and recorded in the office of the register of deeds in book "J3" paee 218 of the record of deeds; to which said . deed and is record thereof reference, is here by made for more full description the same being the oronertv known as the D. A Moufra home place, consisting of two lots as above described; only the interest therein of the said W D. Simtismi and M. L. Simpson being sold here under. ' This the 5th day of February, 1925.' HENRY C. ROBERTSON f HI 1 m . - J ,4 TWAF27 Tri,t