North Carolina Newspapers

'ill. k'AiU uln a, .. A, 1 4 m i VOLUME XL FRANKLIN, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1925 NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR 4 5 i 35-IflLELAV Iff OPERATION State Speed Law Now in Effect Intrepretation of RegulationsSeveral New Features. North Carolina's new - automobile speed law went into effect May 1, making it permissible for motorists to travel at a maximum speed of 35 miles an hour as opposed to the 30 miles an hour regulation heretofore - in effect..-' - The Carolina Motor Club, through its Charlotte branch, has issued no- - tice of the effectiveness of the new 1 law to its members. Several changes in the eld law are included in the new. One is to raise the state law speed limit through business sections of towns from 10 to 12 miles an hour, retaining the 20-.mile limit in the res idental sections. , "No section of the state highway shall be constitued a built-up resi dential section whether within or without the corporate limits of, a city , or town, if there are not more than eieht houses on either . side of the road continuously for 1,000 feet," is the construction of W. C. Roberts, state secretary, of Greensboro. : "Fif teen miles per hour is permitted while passing churches or schools but this is only effective when peo ple are leaving or entering- the grounds. At all other times, 35 permissible. - . "When the - dirver's view is ob structed for 100 feet before he reaches intersection, and 200 feet on the intersecting road, he shall slow down to 15 miles. If he Can veiw both roads as designated, he may travel the full 35 miles provided by law. Only 15 miles is permitted when the driver is traversing curves or corners of the road unless he can view the highway for 300 feet.- "Another .interesting feature, of the bill is the ruling against misuse of signal devices. Open, muffler cut outs, exhaust whistles or horns are considered objectionable devices. The , law is more explicit and makes pos sible ? complete understanding by all motorists. It is uniform, with many other states 'and will save many motorists the fine being imposed by ' operators of so-called speed traps." Charlotte Obesrver. Chief Has Wide Authority At the last regular meeting of the Board of .Alderman, Mayor Lyle brought up the subject of the amount of jurisdiction to be allowed Frank lin's Chief of Police in enforcing the prohibition' laws. The question put before the Board was whether Chief Coffey would be allowed privilege of leaving the town imits to make v.!)! key raids, cr should be required to itay in the incorporation and leav.; out of town raids to the Sheriff's of fice. 'In .Hits connection the following resolution, offered by W. L. Higdon and seconded by J. A. Porter, was passed: -, I ESOLVED, that Chief of Pohct R. M. Coffey be allowed the ame privileges in enforcing the .-whiskey and other laws that he hal he:ulv x - fore, provided that he shall' deputise a responsible person to pol'c? the town during his absence. ' ' The vote on this resolution was TV, . Higdon, Porter, Allen, .Catc ; ' against, Angel, Baird. MRS. FULTON DEATH Mrs. Fulton died May 7, 1925. She was eighty-five years and one month old the day she died.- She had been a useful and beloved member of our church at- Bethel. -.i ., It was her desire as long as. she was able to help beair therburden of others. And it can- be truly said that fhere could be found nowhere in our community one' who possessed a nobler spirit or was a truer conse crated Christian, We miss her so much. Shi, was a mother not only to her own children but to every body. She was sick only a few days. r . Slit Spoks so many tir.i' , before she fiied I am going home., Sin: haiel to leave her dear boys she sil .o often. But she said God knows best. Bob and Charlie was so good to her, They miss mother,. but we know "that the has gone peacefully. Her devoted lieice, MRS. -JTOM SAUNDERS. Civil War in China ... . Civil war 19 .raging.. tn. China with nobody -understandinR much . ' about tht causes. It . is claia-ed that Japan " is backing one side while Russia is helping : the, other. If such be the ' cabe, both' sides are- being duped. THE KILLING OF HOLT BY AN OFFICER The killing of Attorney Stephen S. Holt," of Smithfield, just out of Raleigh last Monday by an overzel ous officers, through the pretext that he though the parties in the car, in which Ho'lt was riding, had liquor, because they failed to stop when he signaled, is but repetition of what is happening here and there over the country every day, in the name of the law. . There were two or, three others in the car with Holt, ' the . report says, when the shooting took place, and it developed that they not only had no liquor in the car but that they were all duly sober, and the driver said that he saw ho signal from the officer to stop. ' Holt was riding in the back seat 'of the car and the ball passed through his brain killing instantly. Such men are unfit to hold office of any kind and when they kill in nocent people should be given the penalty of the law, the same as any one else. - Simply because a man is clothecf with authority of law, does not mean that he has a right to hold up inno cent people on the highways and kill them because a car driver fails to stop at his signals. Tri-County News. Malpass Must Serve Term For Placing Tacks in Road Raleigh, N. C, April 29. Governor McLean " Tuesday declined an appli cation for a parole presented in per son by J. E. Malpass of Pender coun ty, who must serve a two-year sen tence on the county roads for placing nails in the path of automobiles on a public highway. Malpass lost his appeal to the Su preme Court week before last and while his bond held good he came up to see Governor McLean in an effort to get the sentence removed. The executive would not interfere, how ever, and Malpass wiil shortly begin his term. , The charge on whkh he was convicted Iwai obstructing,, a public highway. Asheville Citizen. ' J P P I I I5 Is I I7 I5 I9 h lJ0 I11 1 - w 15 i - 5T"T 33 39" SfT&r'- W " 663 If" " " """" 6?" tfTfT 5, 1926, Western " Horitontal. I To hug t -Expected king and deliverer of tb Hebrews II Born 14 Small partlcl II To perform 16 Prevaricate 17 Soft manelum ellloate f .. : II Place . II Thus II T drain tl Purohaie 1 1 wote or musical eoale f M The Orient !i " f , II Part of a day II Gibbet 1 14 Costard disb If tand measure 18 A saver II Point of compass . ' 40 Boy's 'name . , 41 Change from one form to an- other -' ' , 41 Silence I t 60 Eroding M opening 6 Z Crooked S3 Former Kusslan ruler ' 64 Three feet (abbr.) 66 Strife 67 Cease 60 Negative , 61 Foolish person (slang) i 62 Achieve by labor 64 Hostelry 68 Kind of tree 67 Shallow dish 68 Organ of head ' 71 Iron works 72 Tiresome Solution will appear la next Issue, THREE TO RUN FOR CONGRESS rpi ft l m ' three Cornered Tight tor I . : TA-k "-""e1"9 -wui "i "uui District Alley Announces Candidacy. Felix 'Alley, well known attorney of Waynesville, has announced -his candidacy for Congress in opposition to oresent incumhent. Zehnlnn Wpav er. It is generally belived that J. O.' Gilkey may make it a three cornered fight. With this the prospect, a colorful and mighty interesting campaign is a certainty. There is a decided pos sibility that two primaries may be made necessary as each of the can didates are well known and hive a well defined following. Robt. A. Reynolds, of Asheville. who was expected to make the race has definitely announced his intention of staying out, a decision which will orobablv litrhten the burden of Mr. J Weaver, insofar, at leastas his home county is concerned. Both Mr. Alley and Mr. Weaver are well known in Macon, the former having many years practiced in the courts of this county while Mr. Weav er "has been here at various times in' the cause of his various campaign. Fv.r.Aanin Amm.n. fSA.J -A vV.w.u ifp.sticks, piture shows etc., than Ex-Governor Elias Ammons of.tIiey'd spend in a whole year for Colorado died in Denver on May 2Q. hod and clothing when I's a boy 40 Governor Ammons was a native of years ago. ( We'd never seen nor heard Macon county and left here manylp1 soft 'drinks, the first I ever seen, years ago to make his home in the (was & Tallulah Falls, Ga.; It was west. By shrewd wit and natural P"rty and looked like it would taste alfility he rapidly forged to the front mighty good, but I thought it'd be a in his adopted state both financially .monster sin to drink the stuff. They and in politics. 7 Ever on the side of Called it soda-pop then, fur the bot right he rapidly climbed the ladder 1 tles wasn't capedjlike they are now, of fame until the people of Colorado but was stoped with a cork and you'd elected him to the hiehest office with- I slap your hand down on the cork, 5n the gift of the voters the gover norship. The deceased had many friends and relatives in Macon who are grieved to learn of the death of. this distinguished man. Nwipper Union.) v , . . Vertical. . I Printing masure . - . 1-rPSrsonal pronoun I Wager 4 Affecfs wlfh pain 6 South American shrub 4 Same as 1 vertical T Mother I Natural color I Remain v :i, ., ':.I-10 Kind 11 Three-toed sloth It Personal' pronoun II Scandinavian narrative of legend 10 Ridges v ' It One "who rides t 11 Nam of American family of : "stage folk 14 Spoil - IS Sea eagle 17 "Prefix' meaning not 21 Lofty mountain ' 29 Personal pronoun SO Correct 82 Correlative of either 8S Us v 26 Roadway (abbr.) 16 Pergonal pronoun 40 At a distance 41 Lascivious ' 42 Attempt 43 Eastern state (abbr.) 44 Indefinite article 45 City near Habylon 46 Note of musical scale 47 A newt 48 Look oyer . 49 Brave man 60B Land measure ' ' , 61B-Exlsts 65 Lumber 66 'At a distance 15 Opposite of 66 vertical - .. . 69 Musty 61 African antelope - 63 Prefix meaning new 64 Provided that 65 Negatlys f6B Southern state (abbr.) 67 Jumbled type 69 Part of verb "to be" 70 Note of musical scale RECEIVER GRAY FRANKLIN'S FRIEND In Mr. J. F. Gray, receiver of the i Tallulah Falls Railway Franklin has "Jjai aim utiyiui menu. 01111c his appointment as receiver Mr. Gray has worked faithfully-o have Franklin 0iaced 011 an eaua itv w th other stations n .htis, road r"Pct t0 summer tourist fares. tiring efforts along this line the new tariffs of the Southern lines just is sued shows Franklin as a station where summer tourist fares now ap ply. In other words those who now desire to visit Franklin during the summer may buy a round trip ticket Sbod for a few months and at reduced rates. Mr. Gray deserves the thanks of our citiens for righting an injustice which has so long existed. - 1 Jess Nonsense Deer editor In my last letter I was telling about some of the things we have to enjoy these days, that we'd never ' seen nor heard tell of in the good-old-by-gone-days, and this' week 1 want t0 tel1 oft some more, jist to ' prove I that times hain't no harder tl0w than they've all-ways bin. It hain't all-together poverty that's made it so hard fur us to keep soul and body together,fur the last few years. It's jist . because we spend so much money fur so many things that we no'd't need that we hain't able to buy what few things we do need. Why the people right here in Goose Holler 'Spend more money in one month fur candy, ice cream, soft drinks, snuff, tobacco, face powders, jist like you'd swat a fly and it'd pop like a pop-gun and what was left in the bottle when you got it to your lips wasn't much of a sin to drink. So I decided to risk one bottle of it, sin or no sin. So that was my first and last bottle fur several years fur it was a long time before they got to selling soft drinks, ice cream, face powders and many other useless things in Goose Holler. You know all the farmers are so distressed over the priice of their produce (and it's discouraging), but I want to give a few quotations from the Nashville, Tenn,, market on Aug. 15, 188S, jist 40 years ago. Beef cattle 3.2S3.50, Hogs 34c. Wheat 75c. Corn 50c. Side meat'74c. Lard 7lAc Hams 89c.' Shoulders 53c. Butter 810c. Eggs IVt. Young chick ens 815c each. Hens 15c each. New potatoes 40(fr50c iper arrel. Apples 5Q(Q 75c per barrel. Now we all know the ' farmers of Macon county- wasn't, getting as truch fur their produce in 1885 as the farmers who could sell in a large town like Nashville, Tenn., but let us compare some of the Nashville prices of that day with the Franklin prices of today. On our last chicken day hens brought 24c per pound instead of 15c each. Eggs were 2025c per doz. instead of 7c,; Com is $1.50 instead of 50c. Side meat and Hams 30c in stead of 78c- Shoulders 2025c instead of 7k. But some will say that don't prove that that times was jist as hard then as now, because what we had to buy then was so much cheaper, that - you could get more goods fur your produce than you can now. Well ; let's see if that's so. Then a 4 lb. hen would pay fur 1 lb. coffee or VA lbs. sugar, now she pays fur lbs coffee or 10 lbs. sugar. Then 1 doz. Eggs would buy. 1 lb. soda, now it'll buy S lbs. Then 1 lb. side meat would , buy 1 lb. rice, now it'll buy 4 lbs. Now I'm not claiming that " times' is good fur the farmers and that' we have no right to com plain, but I do. think we complain too much. It reminds me of the. man's wife who was all-ways gruunting. He got impatient one day and said he thought she, suffered more than Was realy necessary. ' ;- PP R OJS jAiTiO N Ey . JIhIe l l!o a1jTl a stl pfepuL i PI Ap ElCj " IJijE. ct lip fLLr . STATES JOIN IN HOVWmK N. Buckner May Head Cam paign to Raise Necessary $50,000 For Smoky Moun tain Park. Knoxville, Tenn., June 6. Plans were formulated for the organiza tion of an association to be known as the Smoky Mountain Conservation Association, Incorporated, to pro mote a campaign fro $50,000 to be spent in deciding boundaries, making surveys and obtain options and prop erty to be used by the government for a national park in the Smoky Moun tains of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. v Eight thousand three hundred dol lars of the amount was raised at the' luncheon attended by local business men, and promoted by. Knoxvil.le bankers here yesterday.. The meet ing was called after a letter addressed to W. P. Davis, president of the Smoky Mountain Conservation As sociation, which has been promoting the national park for the, Smoky Mountains for the past two years, from the council to select the boun daries of the proposed parks in the East which requested local authorities to make preparations for the council so that work might progress more rapidly. . . A wire was dispatched immediate ly following the meeting to N. Buck ner, nationally known campaign man ager, to conduct the campaign of the $50,000 needed in formulating the . papers needed by the deciding council. Mr. Buckner is well known in North Carolina. Col.' D. C. Chapman, vice president of the assoiation, made a short talk in 'which he brought out the importance of directing tourists through Ihis section of the country, and to construct a road from Knox ville to the North Carolina boundary so as to make a shorter route to Florida for Eastern tourists. Col. Chapman also mentioned the fact that unless action was taken im mediately the giant balsam trees that row cap crests of peaks of the Smoky Mountains would be destroyed by lumber companies. Asheville Citizen. Cullowhee School Trustees Hold Meeting Cullowhee, N. C. The new Board of trustees for the Cullowhee State. Normal school recently appionted by Governor McLean, met yesterday, organized, and transacted an unusual amount of business for a new board. lAmong other matters of business attended to were: the re-relection of H. T. Hunter as president of the .Normal; the election of certain other members of the faculty; empowering President Hunter . to complete the faculty for 1925-26; provision for the settlement of all controversies over rights-of-way for the water system, for taking over the hydro-electric plant, for the improvement of the grounds, securing the services of a school physician; and so on. Two of the oppointees on the new board were not present at this meeing: Messrs. Reuben Robertson, of Can ton, and W. O. Dickerson, of Ruther fordton. Those present were i Mrs. Giles Cover, of Andrews and Mrs. J. W. Pless, Sr., of Marion, and Messrs. J.. G. K. McClure, Fairview, T. H. STiipman, Brevard, Alex Moce', Franklin, J. E. Coburn, Bryson City, and Dr. J. N. Hill, . Murphy. Mrs. Cover was elected temporary chair man while Reuben Robertson, who was not present, was made perman ent chairman. The oath of office was administered ' by John D. Norton, Clerk of the Superior Court of Jack son county. Southern Bell To JBuild , . Line To Dilbboro General manager D, G. Stewart of the local exchange Ins completed ar rangements with the Southern" Bell company by which that dompany will build a line , from the. city limits of Franklin to connect with long' distance lines at Dillsboro. This will 'give us direct connection to ' AsheviJIe and Other points in the .western part of the state ?nd will obviate the neces sity of telephoning around a goodly portion of the southern states " iii order to reach points 20 n.llcs away. , It "u exacted that th- .: :t iv ville ui!l be cooipletcd an-: :n opera-, lion by the latter part t t July. , ' DEATH OF ALLMAN CHILD The eighteen months old boy of .Mr. and Mrs.: John Allman of Raleigh died in that city last -Saturday, mom-1' ing of Meningitis. The remains we,re brotjht to Franklin and buried Sun day afternoon. The sympathy of the community is extended to th; bereaved family.; ...