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PAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 33, 122S OTHERS' COMMENTS WHEN THE MOUNTAIN FOLKS , CELEBRATE A HIGHWAY North Carolina1 has entered the era oi connecting up important highways in recent months and events of the hind are well worth celebrating. It has appeard to us that the mountain iolks are inclined to make the greatest ado over these connecting-up affairs and they certainly have most cause Jor rejoicing, for almost every road connection this year has brought hitherto cut-off counties back into the State. Such . was the case with cele bration at Franklin, Wednesday, when a hard surface ribbon from No. 10, at Sylva, was completed to Franklin and on to the Georgia line 14 miles beyond, The occasion was emphasized as an inter-State event, Atlanta figuring at one end and Asheville at the other. There was then established what has been named the Asheville-Franklm-Atlanta route, a rather important point being that it ihdrtens the distance between Atlanta and Asheville by 32 miles. The actual cause tor ceieora cream and cake,( with cigars and ricarptfps in nlpntv for the men. The Observer does not often, take, 'the sid ing for the. dinner table in its free hand discussions of mountain events and mountain people, but it must pause to paramount the dinner pro vided for the crowd by the women of Sylva and Franklin and of the two counties of Jackson and Macon. And all of these three thousand people were there in automobiles, where, as recent as six years ago, it would have been an assemblage of wagons and sulkies, buggies, and mule and horse back, and 300 people would have been an enormous crowd. The further back into the movd tains one gets, the. greater the, revel ations in magnificence of scenery and abundance of resources: A State con tracting force is now at work hard topping highway No. 28, which starts at Bat. Cave and runs through Hen dersonville and Brevard to Franklin hard-topping it to Rosman to Frank linand when this woric is nmsneu l - tha -irmmstanre U ui11 ko nnpnen tnrouch 1 OX- that Macon county was brought back away and the famous Sapphir coun- into INOrin vaiumm.- iuc uy, iiign ncunpiun, ,,.,..... j - . - .at oivpn tn understand that the cniei matter of conseguence is that the peo ple of Franklin' and of Macon county can now "get to Charlotte." This is not buncombe, for it is exactly what they kept on telling us. And they can get here in half a day, where in the past it was a journey beyond con templation. Under the .roof of the big tabernacle where the pow-wow was held, a farmer who lives five miles from Franklin remarked to us that he had ' been to . Charlotte "wunst," as Gen. Jubal Early would say. and that was when he was working his way home from Appomattox. He now has : a Ford truck and expresses determin ation to try the Charlotte market with and riignianus, nuu """"' thence between the. mighty Nanta halas through peaks and gorges and heights and depths that remind of the Rockies, to Bryson City and Mur phy, and through all the extreme western counties of tlfe State, A section entirely new to the tourist public will be opened up and the, greater glories of the North Carolina mountains, hidden all these years will be revealed to the world. Until the folks travel that way they do not know what lies "west of Asheville. Every mountain town visited tor the first time seems to hold some scenic or civic attraction .lacking in u,.- Tv-inl1in k located on a some of the best of Macon county piateau 2,250 feet high and is flanked products before Thanksgiving. i on the cast by . the towering Cowee Well, Sylva is the gateway through 1 range ; on the west by the wilder which one may turn either to the Nantahalas, and rom - streets a rhrht for Murphy, or to the lett ior.wide sireicn oi vuicjr a.. Vi-anttin sn Svlva was made head quarters for assemblage of the North multiply each year and are taking stronger and stronger grip on the peo ple. Of course, no town can make too big an event of the . celebration affair. Sylva 1 The town has a main street as broad as Tryon, in Charlotte, and equally well paved. On the south and east the, homes, rise in three tiers, back of and above' that 'a mountain wall goes skyward, giving the effect of a settlement under, the Tyrolean Alps. Along the north and west flows the 'rushing Tuckaseege River, the railroad and a newly laid concret avenue .along which homes are being built. The people there seem ever mindful of the memorable courthouse removal fight of a dozen or so years ago, when they won . over . ancient Webster, and seem determind to make location permanent for every once in a while Webster threatens to get the courthouse back. : So Sylva put up $250,000 in bonds for street paving and sewerage, and has laid concrete all around. At the west end where court house mountain splits Main street east and west, they have paved a 24-foot-wide concrete strip up the around the court house and passing town on the other, making a circle hill on one side and back down into by the sight given Kuester for a Charlotte club home. Sylva is the most completely paved town in the State. Its water comes by gravity, and the pressure il such that the town will never be required to buy a fire engine. Ihey were wasmiig uu inv. street bv electric light in preparation of the coming of visitors next day, and the Observer noted tnat u re quired four men to hold the squirming hose. . Apples ! Traveling along any moun tain road this season one ma- get an idea of the abundance of the apple crop of the year 1926, but it is between Waynesville and tiaisam jap uiu one grasps the real idea, for No. 10 leads by the orchard of W.'N. Barbee a distance of a mile, Barbee's orchard runs back up ' the mountain a mile more. He has occupied himself and his orchard help so far this season in propping up the trees. In spite of that, some trees show broken boughs and others were saved the cracking point because the boughs found rest ing place on the ground. This or chard must look beautiful in blossom time;. it certainly looks wonderful in apple-ripe time, for the. trees are polka-dotted with shiny red fruit to development of a spectacle that makes people stop and talk. Barbee has three storage houses in his orchard and his packing houses, will be kept busy as he begins stripping the trees because he calculates on a crop of 75,000 bushels. Golden Rod! Talk of the big crops il K-fiminrf o nrrip snmi wui n. uut BE . YES , It's true we haven't been here long. It's true you do not know us personally. i BUT Don't you think it would be well to try us once? : i Don't you think competition has something to do with prices? Don't you think competition makes people more friendly? Don't you appreciate a place where all get the kindest treatment regardless of riches or rags? We keep fresh, pure drugs, and our prescriptions are com pounded by as good a registered druggist as the state affords. We can't get around jto see you all", so eonsider this an Invita tion to visit us whether or not you need anything. We have a complete line and you may be losing by not giv ing us a trial purchase. Yours for service. FRANKLIN PHARMACY O. E. K1MSEY, Manager R. M. RIMRIER, Prescription Druggist ADVERTISING IN THE PRESS BRINGS RESULTS ... i , r t 1.1 view. Within signt oi nu&u ' 17 ,it nvcr innn ievt hieh. The quarters ior assemuiage i mc -""- , ,. v l0.i,pj Carolina welcoming motorcade. Sylva town is paved and Franklin is backed, . .. - ., I i;i n hQl- rvarr fit the -waited until 1U ociock in tne morn--1 one evciy ... ing for the Asheville crowd to come State, by a chamber of commerce ayd along, and then led the procession newspapers. The .-franklin rress down the fine concrete turnpike to-(manifested tltfc metropolitan spirit of ward Franklin, banners flying and enterprise by .greeting the visitors cars decorated. Farmers cut in all with a highway celebration edition, a akmg the line, so that when the lead-'j paper filled with views and mtorma iae car reached the gap across which tiori, and it was noted that every guest the county-line sign is erected, there stuck a copy in his pocket to carry was a crooked line of automobiles home. A .regular Army man an an a mile and more back aown inepiKe. overseas hbiuci, wia. . ... S uauu....;; . : , . Franklin was at the line witn tne re- is eunur aim yuuua...., w. ...v, . niigni uc m j...v.. ceotion committee in 20 cars, and . and being a man of "writing capadity lt is-a h;g year for other things, like these led the procession into the town 'adds to his value as a "booster of the wjSC) ami among the beautiful things cieht miles further through a series upstanding type. And as a finishing that arc jn abundance in the landscape o' the niost beautiful valley lands in -touch to Franklin's 'uto.datencss, a his year is the golden rod. The crop the world into Franklin and on to modern hotel is-to'Jje opened m Octo- nPt.0nly more thicker, and ; taller the Georgia line where the visitors ber. The town that beats Franklin in but tj,e' coloring is brighter and from Atlanta and the points in be- staging a celebration must put all four ,,vner. The golden rod has captured tween were to be formally inducted; .fect forward. .. the sub-divisions that sprung up along . t.i. r i: m,.t mi i ... -C .i. i,i,a Kor-t- in t-hn hiohwav out of everv tOWfl In- the into XMOnn Carolina. iiij ."',"") inel)CauiV W urn i.v. ..... l.v. TuL Ue 'imlrlon i siate. anu nas e ven imuru-'" covering- 9ver the white stakes that caused so many golden drearns to the sub-divisio'h promoters. These, have in fact realized a golden harvest, even if not of the metallic character. , The people who do nor clip along over the mountain highways 'of this State dur ing the gorgeous months of Septem ber and October are missing a store of glories so abundantly provided by Nature for the joy of mankind. Charlotte Observer. Georgia delegaion wih a whisk , broom, t1Cj great hills is , -the multiplicity o for at this place the Georgians were 't1,- valleys and water courses Be jumping onto the North Carolina tween Sylva and Franklin is a place hard surface after a journey of over na,red by the Indians indicating re 32 miles of Georgia dirt roads. Then cjon 0 "many meadows." We thought the North Carolina object was madi ; ;wt. ,couid carry it i,n our mind, but plain to the Georgians. It Vas to havJost it and all the pity, for it is peptonize and gingerize them so' that t one 0f te most beautiful of all the thpv mitrht hurrv uo and put a hard i J,--,,;;,,! Tnflian names . that survive mm v; "mrt . ', UVUM ' " - top on the sand-clay link, to estab-ranj that are perpetuated by the geo-. lishment of an all-hard top road to Atlanta. The tabernacle we are speaking of is located in a grove on a mountain side just out of town and was built . three years ago for use by Evangelist " Tntett, a Macon county boy gone to Texas, and .winner of fame in gospel service. The speaker's stand is at the foot of the slope, and the seats bent around like a crescent, rise up toward graphers. It was the Indians that made fine contribution to tne music of our language. The valleys are narrow m places, so :narrpw tnat tne rippling stream contests, right of way with the road which 13 -carved along the hillside; in' othtr places they spread out into plantation size, with all the kvel'lands in green-carpeting which runs iri many instances" to the tnns nf the sloDes on either side. All aruuuu iikc a ucjih, im. up iun..uuuvj u or-v ---- the rear. The pillars are rooted trees I the way from Balsam Gap through sawed off at angles convenient to the sloping roof, and three thousand peo ple can find seats under its cover. In attestation of, the interest manifesed by the mountain people in the event, the three thousand seats were filled and groups hung around as a fringe on thee sides. . There was much of oratory aitd still more of a dinner, a full course on a paper plate, coffee in paper cups, and later a round of ice Svlva. and Bryson City, Andrews to Murphy, gorge and valley exhibit a contest between river and railroad and highway for a footing presenting a series of moving pictures which can not be excelled in impressive splendor in any part of the world. And the Charlotte man starting 'from home after breakfast, can now go through it all before sundown. The wonders of North Carolina's highway system ' THE TALLULAH ROUTE On Wednesday, September 15, at Franklin, N. C, Georgians and North Carolinians will together celebrate the completion of , North Carolina's part of the permanently paved highway between Asheville and Atlanta, via Franklin, Clayton, Tallylalr tails, Cor nelia, , Clarkesvile, and Gainesvile. .i Continued on Page 6 ' Our 9CS BUILDERS HARDWARE is the very best When yoii-build use our builders hardware and KNGWthat you have the best. Ifyou are now figuring- on building come in and let us figure on your bill of hardware, and lumber. ' . . ' We will do busi ness with, you, be- ( cause our goods and rKlLifcS wiil please Ng; Our Hardware BESTi it stands the TEST FRANKLIN HARDWARE CO. Beautiful shapes and patterns of CAP S with the new AD JUSTABLE feature which is the rage and this is the time to wear Caps, since your Straw is now in the discard. Our showing will appeal to you. JN0;S. TROTTER MAXIMUM VALUES Now For Cold Weather Cold weather is approaching. : Just about the easiest time of year to catch cold. 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