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FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,. 1926
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J1RS. McKEE AND
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KELLY SPEAKERS
Annual Meeting District Nol
1, N. C F. W. C. Open To
Public At 3 O'clock For
Miss Kelly's Address.
Mrs. E! L. McKee, of Sylva, presi
dent of the North Carolina Feder
' ation of Women's Clubs, and Miss
- Elizabeth Kelly, of Raleigh, formerly
a citizen of Franklin, will make the
..prinfcipal addresses here today before
the annual meeting of the first dis
trict of the No'th Carolina Federation
of Women's Clubs. Approximately
200 Western North Carolina club wo
men are expected to register.
Although the subject, of Mrs. Mc
Kee's address has riot been announced
it is expected that it will deal pri
marily with club work. Miss Kelly
'will speak at 3:00 o'clock in the af
ternoon, after the business has been
completed ; the meeting will be thrown
open to the public for her address.
Miss Kelly, who formerly was with the
-State Department of Public Instruc
tion, will discuss: "Equal Educational
Opportunity." -
The sessions will be held jn the
.auditorium of the Franklin Methodist
church, and registration will begin at
10 o'clock. The meeting will be called
to order at 10 :30. It will be opened
with the singing of the Club Woman's
Hvmn. followed by the Collect of.
Club Women of America.
Franklin's federated, clubs, the 19b
MacDowell Club and the Study Club
will be hostesses to the visiting club
women. Mrs. Dick Hudson and Mrs.
Neville Sloan, presidents of the local
dubs, will extend the visitors a word
of welcome, to which Mrs. ri. v, e
crest, of the Canton Woman's Club.,
will resoond.
Mrs. R. L. Allen, of Waynesville..
who is chairman of the anti-narcottc
committee of the State' Federation
will bring a word of greeting, after
which the secretary, Mrs. J. W. Sea
. ver, of Waynesville, will read the min
utes of the last meeting. Appointment
of committees will follow.
Just prior to Mrs. McKee's address,
a double quartet, composed of mem
bers of the 1915 MacDowell Club, will
entertain the meeting.
Introduction of new clubs and the
reports of clubs will complete the
morning's program.
A box luncheon, cafeteria style, to
"'be served in the Junior Order Hall,
will come at 1 :00 o'clock. .
The afternoon session, to begin at
2 :00 o'clock, will be opened with
.music Mrs. Charles E. Quinlan, of
Waynesville, district president, will
offer suggestions for club work, with
a round table discussion ' following
Disposal of club business and the re
ports of committees will follow, with
Miss Kelly's address coming as the
last number on the program. ;
District No. 1 of the North Caro
lina Federation of Women's Clubs is
composed of Haywood, Jackson, Clay
.Swain, Graham, . Cherokee, and Ma
. con counties. in the district are . 16
federated clubs, , located at Cdnton
Clyde, Waynesville, Sylva, Cullowhee
Bryson City, Andrews, Murphy and
Franklin. The total of 16 clubs is a"
gain of five over the number in these
seven counties wnen tne uisinci was
formed at the State Federation meet
ing in Pinehurst in 1925. ,
, Club women in this district hope
today to win the silver cup which is
awarded annually to the district reg
istering the largest percentage of at
tendance at a district meeting. The
good highways leading into Franklin
are expected to prove a tremendous
help in this effort, as is shown by the
following extract from a letter" re
cently sent club' presidents in the
'district by Mrs. Quinlan, the district
president:
"The meeting this, year is much
earlier than usual. This fact, coupled
with the knowledge that the high
ways leading to Franklin from every
part of our district are absolutely per
fect, should bring a record-breaking
attendance. In' fact that M what we
want. , We are after the attendance
prize for our district, a handsome sil
ver cup which is awarded each year
. to the district which shall register
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Women
LEASE NIKWASI
PROPERTY FOR
GOLF COURSE
The Franklin Golf Club has leased
approximately 50 acres of the Camp
Nikwasi property, on Highway No.
286, for a golf course, it was annouced
here Monday. The lease is for a five
year period.
The course has been laid off, and
work is now under way. A force" of
hands has been put to work cleaning
the fairways, and the club expects to
have the course in condition for play
by early next summer. It probably
will be playable, in fact, late this fali.
As laid out, it will be a nine-hole
3,000-yard course. The holes will
range from a short mashie pitch of
115 yards to one long six par hole of
525 yards. There will be an unusual
diversity of ground, some of it rolling,
some up-hill, and some of the greens
down, in the valleys, thus making the'
play doubly interesting.
The club has about $500 in hand
from membership dues, and it is hoped
that other memberships will bring in
additional revenue to be expended on
the course before the coming of the
tourists next summer..
The property is ideally situated, and
will make a golf course that will be
a credit not only to Franklin, but to
all Western North Carolina, officials
of the club believe.
Olive Hill S. S.
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RECENT PHOTO OF OLIVE HILL UNION SUNDAY SCHOOL; ORGANIZED IN 1925. THE SCHOOL
with an enrollment of 175, has outgrown its building, and is still growing, under the leadership of C. C. Poin
dexter, who, was largely responsible for its organization. (Photo by McKay, of Franklin.)
-The Olive Hill Union Sunday School
is situated about six miles west of i
Franklin on route No. 3, and Was or-'
ganized in October 1925. It is inter
denominational, using union literature
and is popularly known as '"Every
body's Sunday School." .
Since its organization five members
have the. distinction of not missing, a
Sunday. Ihey are: Eugene Tallent
Ofville Guyer, Nellie Wilkes, William
Willis and Etta Guyer,
One of the outstanding character
istics of this Sunday school is that it
always meets, regardless of the kind
of weather. Winter, winds and snows,
summer rains and mud," cannot down
a Sunday school in a community
where every individual is vitally in
terested in the welfare of the com
munity as a whole, and the commun
ity as a whole is interested in the wel
faee of each individual. The Sunday
school is organized and run on the
dominating spirit of "each for all and
all for each."
Sunday school meets at 3 o'clock
each Sunday afternoon. It starts
promptly at 3, and adjourns not later
than 4 o'clock. This procedure is
regularly followed regardless of how
few of how many are present at the
opening hour.
. A striking characteristic, and
the one that bespeaks the success of
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Franklin Again Honored
(Editorial)
. On September 15 Franklin was
host to prominent men and women
and good roads boosters from two
States, who were here to help cele
brate the completion of Highway No.
285, and officially open the Asheville-Franklin-Atlanta
short cut route.
Franklin, extended to its visitors that
day a right hearty welcome,
Today, a half-month later, the town
is no less honored in having as its
guests Western North Carolina club
women. District No. 1, North. Caro
lina Federation of Women's Clubs, to
day will hold its annual meeting
here, with Franklins federated clubs,
the 1915 McDowell Club and the Study
Club, as hostesses to the visiting club
women.
Today's meeting is ' not another
highway celebration, but significantly
enough, the highways leading into
Franklin appear to have played a con
siderable part in bringing the club'
women here. In her recent letter to the
16 club presidents in the district, Mrs.
Charles E. Quinlan, of Waynesville.
district president, wrote:
The meeting this year is much
earlier than usual. This fact, coupled
with, the knowledge that the high
ways leading to Franklin from every
part of the district are absolutely per
fect, should bring a record-breaking
attendance." They should, and it is
hoped that' they will.
The federated clubs in Franklin will
entertain today's visitors, but the en
tire town is honored in having them
Lhere. And to Mrs. McKee. State
president ; to . Mrs. Quinlan, district
president;, to Miss Kelly, one of the
chief speakers though she is one of
us and knows a welcome always
awaits her here; to the. various club
presidents; and to delegates and visi
tors, the Press extends greeting. It
bids them a most cordial welcome to
Franklin. . .
Has Become, Community Body
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B. & L. Answers Queries
We are frequently asked various
questions, in regard to the operation
of the Building and Loan', and for
that reason, during the essay contest
we will undertake to answer at least
a part of these questions through the
columns of the Press. Write the
Building and Loan for any informa
tion which you may desire. The
answer will probably be given in the
next issue of the Press, without the
use of your name. Below is a list
questions that are most frequently
asked us, with their answers:
1. What is the Building and Loan?
Answer: The Macon County Build
ing and Loan Association is one of
the thousands of , building and loan
associations that have been estab
lished in the United States within the
last fewl years. It is npt a bank,-but
is closely related to the bank in prin
ciple. It is to the bank what the
gleaner was to the harvester before
the days of improved machinery,
It gathers together savings that the
banks do not gather, and its plan of
making loans is different from that cf
the ordinary bank.
2. When, did it originate?
Answer: The building and loan
K
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Open Big Band Mill
ESSAY CONTEST
STIRS INTEREST
Announcement last week of the
Building and Loan Association Essay
Contest, offering school - children of
the county cash and other prizes for
the best psays on the subject, "How
I Can Use the Building and Loan To
ray tor a College Education," has
stirred wide interest among the school
boys and girls of Macon county.
And that interest has been increased
by the offer of the Press, offering an
additional $25 in cash to the boys and
girls entering the contest who will
secure subscriptions to the paper.
The Press management believes that
every boy and girl who enters the es
say contest will qualify for the ad
ditional prizes offered.
Here is the offer :
The Press offers the first prize win
ner in the essay $10 in cash. This is
in addition to the first prize offered by
the Building and Loan Association
To the second prize winner, the Press
is offering $7.50. To the third prize
winner, $5; and to the fourth prize
winner, $2.50".
There is just one ' requirement to
qualify for these extra cash prizes.
All you have to do is to secure one
new subscription to the Press for one
year, or two renewal subscriptions
for a year each, and send the one new
or two renewal subscriptions along
Continued on Page 4
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idea is of comparatively recent date.
These associations were, formerly run
as most other corporations ; that is
run for profit to a certain class of
stockholders. Now each person who
has an account with a building and
loan association is a stockholder, and
is.' entitled to share in its profits and
to a voice in its operation. The State
has, in recent years, put these asso
ciations under the supervision of the
State Insurance Commissioner, who
causes to be made a periodical ex
amination of their books, just as is
done with banks. The Macon County
Building and Loan Association was
established in 1922.
3. What is it's object?
Answer: Its primary object is to
gather together savings, and loan these
savings out to its members to be used
in connection with building, purchas
ing or repairing, homes in Macon
County. 1
4. How and by whom is it con
ducted? Answer: The Macon County Build
ing and Loan Association is con
ducted Jty a board of ten directors,
. Continued on Page 8
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15-YEAR SAWING
JOB TO BE BEGUN
AT WALLACE GAP
Mill to Open in the Spring
Or Summer To Have Ca
pacity of 60,000 Feet Will
Employ 200 Men.
The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company
is preparing to begin a 15-year lumber
operation near Wallace Ga- aout
sixteen and a half miles from Fraak
lin. A band mill, with a capacity'pf
about 60,000 feet of lumber per day,'
and which will employ approximately
200 men, will be in operation by next
spring or summer. The pay roll will
approximate $200,000 per year, it is
estimated.
This is the announcement made
here Monday through J. A. Porter,
who has been employed to put in a
circular mill to cut the lumber for the
construction of the band mill. The
announcement follows the visit here
last week of Murry Prior, president
of the company, and E. E. Ritter, su
perintendent of -this division. Mr.
Ritter will be in direct charge of the
Wallace Gap operation, it is an
nounced. Mr. Porter is now busy, preparing
to put a circular mill in operation to4
cut the material for the" band. mill.
Work is also to be begun shortly ex
tending a railroad line to the site of
the proposed operation. A line now
running from Andrews toward Wal
lace Gap is to be extended.
, The band mill will be located a mile
and a half west of Wallace Gap,' I6yi
miles from Franklin, on Highway No.
28. It is this highway, according to
Mr. Porter, , which was responsible
for the mill being located near Frank
lin, rather than at Andrews. Mr. Por
ter has been working for a long while
to bring the lumber, operation to this
county, he said. And, in this connec
tion, he believes that the company will
use its influence to rush the comple
tion of No. 28.
The lumber company owns the tim
ber rights on 14,500 acres, which it will
take approximately 15 years to saw
out, it is said. And, in addition, it has
bought or optioned the timber on 900
acres from C. W. Slagle and 1300 acres
from W. B. McGuire. :
Mr. Porter feels that this town and
county are not only fortunate in se-
rcuring the development, but that it is
fortunate that E. E. loiter is to be tn
charge. Mr. Ritter is a man of high
character, and a consistent booster,
Mr. Porter declared. .
P. 1. A. "At Home"
Delightful Affair
The annual "at home" of the local
Parent-Teacher Association for the -teachers
of the Franklin Graded school
was held with Mrs. T, J. Johnston on
September 28.
For several years past it has been
the custom and pleasure of the Asso
ciation to extend this courtesy to the
teachers, thereby expressing a feel
ing of good will and co-operative
spirit on the part of the parents.
Quite a number of club members
were present and were cordially wel
comed by Mrs. Johnston, the charming
hostess.
Lovely flowers greeted one at every
turn and lent their charm to the hos
pitable home.
Mrs. Henry Cabe and Mrs. Dick
Hudson added much to the pleasure
of the afternoon by giving a piano
and vocal, solo. s
Punch was served by Mrs. George
Slagle and Mrs. Will Sloan.
P. T. A. MEETING FRIDAY AT J:Ml
The next meeting of the Jocal Parent-Teacher
Association will be held
at the Franklin Graded School build
ing at 3:30 o'clock, Friday afternoon.
October 1. Parents, teachers, . and
others interested in the school are
given a cordial ! invitation to bt
present,