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KEY CIT OF 11E MOUNTAIMS ) illfifelt ll ,p 1 fff VOLUME XLII FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1927 NUMBER SEVEN HIGHLANDS BUYS MORE GROUND it Town Adds Four Acres, To School IJropertydditio nal Rooms Also provided And Grounds Beautified. t . " ' 1 - . ,' ' At Highlands one of the best schools in, that progressive town's Jiistory is being -conducted this year, declared M. D. Billings, county sup erintendent of public instruction, on his return last week from a trip to Highlands on official business. And the Highlands school, with its already beautiful school grounds, and the four additional' acres recently ad ded, will soon have, one, of the most beautiful locations and grounds in this country, Mr. Billings added. The school census shows 199 school children in the district; and there is .an enrollment of. 179, 49 of which are in the high school, and 130 in the grades. Yet for this number of child-; ren there is a modern school plant, steam . heated, and taught . by six teachers. The school recently has added two new recitation rooms to the school building, giving a total of six rooms. In addition, there is a large audito rium, comfortably furnished and light ed by electrictiy. On the school grounds the people of Highlands recently planted over 1800 evergreens, hemlock, arborvitae, rhododendron, white pine, etc. Most of the money for this, as well as for other school improvements, was se cured through a community motion picture, theatre operated in the school 'auditorium, the profits going to the school, , , The additional four acres, which ad join the school ground, and lie north i-pf: the -school" building; wefe acquired largely through the. efforts of 'H. M. Bascom, who donated part of the funds with which to make the pur chase. Mr. Bascom is flow in the Bermudas with Mrs. Bascom. This property is to be used for playgrounds, and at a future date it is probable that a dormitory will be constructed on it, the proposed build ing to be used for school dormitory -purposes in winter and as a rooming biuse insummer, . when Highlands is packed with visitors. Another recent improvement in the Highlands school is new plumbing. The Highlands school, which covers an eight-months period, is taught by T. L. Toler, principal, a graduate of Wake Forest College ; Mrs. Annie W. Pierson, Joe E. Hayes, and Miss Elizabeth Rice, all of Hihglands; "Miss Keener, of Georgia; and Miss Holbrook, who. makes her home in Mississippi. Mrs. Pierson, who is as sistant in the high school has been connected with the Highlands school for a number of years, and has come to be considered by Highlands people as almost necessary to a good high school in Highlands. Other teachers in the school are also popular. ANGEL HOSPITAL TO BE ENLARGED Materials Now Being As sembled Work To Start In The Springs-Laboratory And X-Ray Installed. Work on' the $50,000 annex to the Angel Hospital, will be begun about March 1, according to Dr. Furman Angel. Materials are already being assembled for the new structure. In the new building, to be con nected with the present main building, will be laboratory and X-ray. room; 10 private rooms for patients; and an examination room, or receiving ward, in which incoming patients : will be examined and, where necessary, given ' first aid treatment. - Complete and modern laboratory and X-ray equipment is to be installed, Dr. Angel stated. A local contractor, Zeb Conley, has the contract to construct the addition al buildings. City Market Change iThe City Market and Grocery has moved its pressing club further west on Main street and removed the partition in the old Trotter building, thus giving them more room for their market and grocery. REECE BROS. IN HOTEL FRANKLIN Lease Entire Building Run Hotel On European Plan Franklin Press Will Move To Franks Building. With the move of Reece's Restau rant this f week, the ' Franklin Hotel, long identified with Franklin, becomes a European hostelry. Reece's Restaurant, which for near--iy five years has' been doing business in the Franks building,' on the lower end of the south side of Main street, moved this week into the hotel building, and Wednesday was open for business at the new location. The new arrangement provides for cafe service , in the old lobby of the hotel, and for the renting of rooms. In its new location, ,the restaurant will be open at all hours of the day and night, seven days in the week. The soda fountain and ' restaurant occupy the room formerly used as a lobby and the kitchen is where the hotel dining room formerly was. The camp nprcnti will handle the soda fountain, and act as cashier of the restaurant and hotel clerk. In its new location, Reece's Res II hr nhle to serve about 40 people simaltaneously. The build ing will have about 18 bedrooms. In its4' new location, considerable additional and more modern equip ment will be installed in the kitchen, and it is the kitchen that will have the very close attention of the man agement, it is announced. It is plan ned, it is stated, to keep the kitchen equally as clean as the room in which it is located has always been kept as a dining room. Tn its new nuarters. the concern will continue to be known as Reece's Restaurant. The management, which has taken a lease on the entire Hotel Franklin building, is composed of two ycung men born and reared in Macon county Wade and George Keece. Ttio Frnnlrlin Press, which has Oc cupied the Higgins Building, adjoin ing the postottice, tor many years, xvui cU?rtUt nnrnnv tttA FVanlrQ hnilrlint VVVUri w. A ........ -- just vacated bv Reece's Restaurant, it is announced. THIRD NUMBER OF LYCEUM DUE FEB. 23 February 22 Washington's birthday is the date set for the third number a! EVanirUn'a winter Lvceum COUrtS. The Parkinson Emsemble Trio, which will present a musical program at 8 o'clock in the evening at the court house here that date, is believed by the local lyceum committee to be excellent, and a pleasing program is anticipated. The company's reportorie will in clude selections from the classics, folk songs, ballads, and popular num bers of the? day. The program is both instrumental and vocal. Previous numbers of the course here have been well attended, and the committee, from the. 1915 MacDowell club, sponsoring the course, anticipat es a large attendance. The company is headed and manag ed by Miss Frances Parkinson, who is assisted by twejf young ladies said to be able and well-qualified. The instruments include the violin, cello, and piano. Dutch and Scotch groups, given in costume, are pictur esque and entertaining features. . The Parkinson Trio has received complimentary press comment where ever it. has appeared, and is expected to delight its Franklin audience. Couple Surprise Friends Coming as a complete surprise to their many friends was the wedding here last Thursday evening of Roy F. Cunningham and Miss Eva Emma Baird. Thev were quietly married by the Rev. E. J. Pipes at his home at 8:30 o'clock, the only witnesses being Mrs. Pipes and Henry West. Mrs. Cunningham is the charming and popular daughter of the late Dr. C D. Baird and Mrs. Baird. During the present season she has been teaching at the Union school, where she made an enviable reputation. The groom is the youngest' son of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Cunningham,, and is a promising young business man of Franklin. He is now employ1 ed in the store of E. K. Cunningham and Company. . Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have taken apartment at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Curits, where they are at home to their friends. Another Wreck Victim Don Merritt, former baggage master on the T. F. Ry., injured in the re cent wreck in that line, contracted double pneumonia,' according to re ports reaching Franklin, and died at his home in Cornelia Friday of last week. CITY BARBER SHOP MOVES Now Located In Scott Grif fin Hotel New And At tractive Equipment Les ter Conley Is Manager. The first of this week the City Barber Shop moved into one of the most attractive, modern . shops in this section of North Carolina. Following his own suggestion that "the only way to improve the town is for every man to improve his own place of business' L S. Conley, the manager, first leased a desirable, at tractive location, and now has in stalled new and up-to-date fixtures through-out. The shop has been moved from the Franks building into the Scott Griffin Hotel building, the barber shop having the eastern room, just east of the hotel entrance and lobby. " With its tiled floor, sanitary glass compartments for tools, and mirrored walls, the new shop is most attrac- tlVC. The shop is equipped with four barber chairs, all new. Only three barbers will be employed for the present, but it is anticipated that an additional one will be needed, with the arrival of the summer visitors. At the rear of the shop are shower baths. Those who have seen this barber shop say that it is the best equipped, and most attractive one in Western North Carolina. COUNTY AGENT COMES MONDAY Lvles Harris Chosen as County Agent Native of S. C.-Has Had Wide Ex perience. tJ Lyles Harris, a native of Spartan burg county, South Carolina, has been chosen as County . Agent for Macon county and will assume his duties Monday, District Agent Good man announced here: Tuesday. Mr. Harris came over, with Mr. Goodman to make a preliminary survey of the work in this county. The new county agent has had a wide experience in the profession of farming and is well konwn to of ficials of, the extension service at Raleigh, these officials having recom mended Mr. Harris for the position of .County Agent of Macon county. For two years Mr. Harris was superintendent of an agricultural ex periment station at Angleton, Texas. He was also instructor in Farm Crops at Texas Agricultural College at College Station, Texas, for two years. Mr. Harris spent 10 years in British East Africa as Farm Manager and one year in Europe studying and farming. He also spent three years in practical farming in Spartanburg county South Carolina, where his father is known as one of the most progressive farmers in that state. Mr. Harris' family consists of a wife and two children, two and three years of age. Mrs. Harris is a native of England and married Mr.-Harris in East Africa. She is a graduate of Midland Dairying and Farm Institute, Of Derby, England. Mr! Harris is a veteran of the World War, having served , with the British Army. MR. SCHINABLE MAKES INSPECTION Mr. G. L. Schinable, Chief Process Inspector of the Western Electric Company, with headquarters at Chica go, arrived at Franklin Tuesday of last week to make an inspection of his company's plant here, On leav ing Saturday Mr. Schinable announc ed that he was well pleased with the result of. the inspection. This was Mr, Achiable's first visit to Franklin and he was delighted with the country and said that he hopes to , return in the near future for a vacation. He and Mr. J. W. Roper, superintendent of the local plant, had planned to visit points of interest in Macon county. The weath er, however, prevented their doing so. Neither Mr. Schinable nor Mr. Roper had any announcement to make concerning ;an enlargement 'of th? Western Electric Company's branch at Franklin. . WOMEN SUGGEST HEALTH OFFICER Commissioners Want Views Of County State Will Pay Half The Salary Of Full-Time Health Officer. Employment by Macon county of a full-time county health officer is a project of which the county com missioners have given considerable thought in recent months, and one which they would like very much to put into effect, they told a represen tative of the Franklin League of Wo men Voters last week. The representative appeared before the . body at the regular monthly meeting, to discuss the proposal with the commissioners. The League sug gested a full-time health officer for the county sometime ago, and other women s organizations have endorsed the suggestion. While the commissioners have con sidered the step, and would like to provide for the ". full-time health officer, they feel that they would not be. justified in taking the step with out avcry definite demand from the citizenry of the county, the commis sioners intimated. The League representative made it plain, that the' suggestion was based entirely upon the conviction that the time has conic for the county to employ a health officer for his full time ; that there was no dissatisfaction whatever with reference to the pres ent health officer, but that the organi zation felt there should be additional machinery for health work provided in other words that a health officer should be employed .for his full time. A full time health officer's salary, it was opinted out, would be paid, one-half by the county, one-half by the State. LEDBETTER BUYS INTEREST IN SLOAN BROS. & CO. Announcement that J. C. Ledbetter has become a member of the firm of Sloan Bros. & Co., was made by the company the latter part of last week The firm name, "Sloan Bros. & Co.," will remain unchanged, it was said. The firm is now composed of W, W. Sloan, H. T. Sloan and J. C, Ledbetter. The new member of the concern, who has just entered the buisness, has been with Sloan Brso. & Co., in the capacity of an employe, for the past year, r Mr. Ledbetter purchased the inter est of Mrs. J. S. Sloan, widow of the late senior member of the firm Stone Mountain Memorial Mrs. F. L. Siler has been appointed county chairman by Mrs. Congress man Gudger, 10th District Chairman of the Children's Founders Roll of the Stone Mountain Confederate Me morial. The children of Macon county, not over eighteen are going to have an opportunity to help build the Stone Mountain Memorial. Their names and the names of any relative who was a Confederate veteran will be written in the book.. of memories on everlast ing parchment in indelible ink. This great book of remembrance will be kept in the hall, which will be cut into the granite sides of Stone Moun tain, the largest rock in the World. Each child sending in its name and the name of the Confederate rela tive will receive a coin with the figures of Lee, Jackson and Davis, engraved upon it... One dollar for the childs name is asked for this memo rial. A million Southern children will build this memorial, and North Carolina and Macon county will do their , part.. Macon's ' quota is seven hundred and .thirty nine children. Mrs. Gudger called Mrs. Siller, over long distance and told her that Macon county made the best record of any for Western counties, during the five years Mrs. Siler was chairman for the county for the Near East Relief, and they were not expecting any thing else but that Macon would make its quota. The decendants of the Confederate veterans, of this County will doubt less be glad to have a chance to take a part in this everlasting memo rial, and to help Macon county to keep up its good reputation. Mrs. Siler is to appoint three young women assistants, in different parts of the county. Watch the Press for more infor mation about this grand movement. Do not wait for some one to ask you for your child's name ' for the Stone Mountain Memorial. Send the names and dollar to Mrs. F. L. Siler and get the badge as a receipt, as soon as the name and dollar is received at Raleigh,, State Headquart BOYS NARROWLY ESCAPEDEATH Car In Which 3 Boys Were Riding Fired Into Offi cers Charged With Shot Officers Deny Charge. The warrant sworn' out by Zeb Shope, charging Chief of Police R. M. Coffey with having shot into the car in which two of Mr. Shope's sons and another youth were riding last Thursday night, has-been with drawn, and the question of wno fired into the car remains a mystery. The warrant was sworn out by Shope last Saturday, but before it was served, Mr. Shope instructed the sheriff to hold it until Shope had had. time to "cool off," and Tuesday he withdrew it. The youths, all of this county, and each about 21 years of age, were re turning from a party across the Geor gia line, they stated, and their car was fired upon as they neared their homes in this county. . They charged that a party of officers who, they said, had followed them, fired the shots. The officers emphatically deny haying fired any shots. The bullet pierced the rear of the car, went through the back seat, and entered the, front scat, in which the three young men were seated. The bullet hole was seen by Mr. Coffey. The youths were Prince and Preileau . Shope. and Clyde Hopper, son of M. M, Hopper. According to the story told by the youths the party of officers, composed of Mr. Coffey and Deputy Sheriffs Frank Norton and Harley McDowell, had followed them for some distance. The car in which the youths were riding turned into a side road, the shot was fired, and about that time the car got stuck in the mud. Mr. Coffey came up and asked, "Is any body hurt" ? according to the youths' story. He denies asking the question, but says he asked, "What ii the matter?" The officers had been out on a liquor hunt, they stated. They deny the statement of the boys that they had twice previously searched the youths' car for liquor, and found none. MACON COUNTY HEALTH SURVEY The first report of the inter-club county health survey being made in Macon - county is expected shortly. The survey is being made in a contest among women's clubs in the State, the contest being sponsered by the Federation of Women'9 Clubs. The survey seeks to learn condi tions of health, sanitation, and what preventive measures are being taken in the county. Accurate information is said to be quite difficult to secure, thus delaying the work, and the sur vey is said to constantly afford evi dence of the need of a full-time coun ty health officer in this county, a project endorsed by the several clubs. As an example of this is cited the difficulty with which mortality sta tistics may be secured. For example, the only method by which the tuber culosis death rate in this county can be secured and compared with other counties, in order to see whether or not this county ranks high or low, is to go through the list of all deaths, officer it is said, would have this by tuberculosis. A . county health by townships, picking out, those caused 1 information," and ' if the figures were ! unsatisfactory, could take steps to lower the. tuberculosis death rate. Chairmen responsible for the sur vey are: Mrs. F. S. Johnston, gene ral chairman for the 1915 MacDowell Club; Mrs. J. S. Sloan, chairman for the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist church; Mrs. J. S. Conley, Franklin Study Club chair man; chariman for the League of Women Voters Mrs. W. B. McGuire; and Mrs. Weimar Jones, chairman for the Parent-Teacher Association. - - ' J Aged Citizen Passes Mrs. Jennie Jacobs, aged 91 years, died at her home in the Iotla com munity last Friday morning, follow ing a long illness. Mrs. Jacobs, . who was the widow of William D. Jacobs, had made her home in the Iotla section for years, and was one of the oldest citizens of this ounty. She was hot a native of Macon, however, having been born in Moreanton. Tune 2. 1835. J The funeral services were conduct led at the Iotla Methodist church, of ' which Mrs. Jacobs was a member, Saturday afternoon, the Rev. J. H. Strickland conducting the service. In terment was in the Iotla cemetery.