(EY Cltr OF THB MOUNTAINS '
' JUNE 16, 1927 MnuDcn
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NEW TOWN ON
NANTAHALA
CANNERY GOES
OVER THE TOP
County Abent Harris An
Ritter Lumber Conroanv "ounces Success of Ef-
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Building Town and Saw
m m a a a m
MillExpected to Be
Uusy For Ten Years. ,
forts to Establish a Can
nery at Franklin.
That a cannery for Macon county
Mawn countv has onlv two incorno. w.. urea. Was aed here
i i.ua oy voumy Agent Lvles Harr s
mcd towns within its borders, Frank- The full amount of $3,000 was quickly
Jin, its countyseat, and Highlands, the subscbed and the application for
highest incorporated town east of the charter Jjas gone forward.
Mississippi .. XJTVlSm the
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.-Ill 1 . v.a.1-
nt .... , " 1 rwcaiea cose in to town
iUt Within a fiMir miU- . iL' J iLi J.-i ' i ... iwvy.ii
bustiin, vii ; u:l-vm ..inc prow.nea
hr-ina 7V- . i . c "'to new warenouse ot the franklin JKurni
oeing, even it it isn't to Ko ;n.nn I
Small'lel "L aS Ktbeenl The county agent and' Mr. Chas.
MarnnvVt,;" .., , Ke.aSue Prune movers in the propo
JViacons third town is ranid v Hk. ef nn i-Li:-1 r. 1
he management of w n ii 'r er ccoraea tnem oy the citizens of both
"3 Fviur ement of E- B. McCollum, the town and the county.
franklin are at work building a It is understood that Mr Teacue
b g saw mill dimension mill, etc., a will have active charge o he oS?
club house 20 dwellings. The "town" when in operation P
J? being built by the W. M. Ritter Work on a building for the can-
Lumber company to accomodate work- nery-is expected to begin at once
E!i, rrr blKJpi"tlon on the Thc necesry machinery will arrive
Wantahala River and adjacent country, shortly. Those in charge expect to
Work is being done under the super- have the cannery ready in plenty ' of
Vision of i. M. Wolfe, of Asheville. time to take care of all nroduets of
division superintendent. the farm, suitable for canning that
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, "r " i""ieu, WU1 are raised tms season.
have a population of about 250. As pointed out by the county agent
ine site of the new town is about the cannery solves one great difficulty,
18 miles west of Franklin, approxi- that of a market for surplus truck
matcly two miles beyond Wallace He also stated that to make the can-
oap. And although one goes down nery a success! from the start the
.w..P.uCiavic we tirom tne peopie oi tne county must.be pre
gap to the river ,the new town will pared to furnish the raw materia
i , UI CJOSe io Jjuu ior canning purposes.
feet 1000 feet higher than Franklin
nd Asheville. , . ' . n , ,
The Site is on the river, almost lOtlcl KCtStUlS
'Black Place.". The village wffl 1,2 SceCial School TaY
located in a perfectly flat field rVV11 .JW1SP1 1
be an 211 f ' y a VOte of more than five to
Xh S C m at ""s of Iotla school district, in
Th 1.2k . . this county, Tuesday of last week
beToCn fet8 r -ted down the proposal to take off
r&jitivi,M:A ' ,UCI ine special school tax.
H?Sn. ,.,t.L. ' ..:n l i The vote was; 115 for, retaining a
,;r r " -fax. and 22 against. The
rie, rnssr came as a wu,t of a pe
Stion. 7 S'SIWL? lotla- school district, long own
commissarv- anH otH n or progressive community, has ?.
Intra fnr - ways na a gooa school, and the
mgs tor the comoanv are under rnn. I ...t. . . ... ... ......
struction I r"ul1 vas "ever seriously in uouor,
' Tii i.. u u . . 11 was made doubly sure, however
hit tntZ1 b,inconstructed.to by a compromise hit upon shortly
i? tfc??e.l w 3r unmarr,cd before the election.
Sur 2e'Ldam;eat & .A P-1 tax made pos-
iritrr..n j:. smie a nine-montns school term, it
SdS L P-P- to repeal the . entire
rnnvVni.,,,.. ,.k V special tax. At the suggestion ot Loun-
water election was held oa a basis of a
?ik- k,X jUo f --"ft"' '"primary importance of good e emen
will hp riarrimprt I I Pntea out. as a conclusive arsu-
3 ,fmet anwr
.of about seven feet. The logs, hau ed IT ':1 ITl?' T
from the woods by rail, will be dump- S JkJ a ' V "T Tl
citcfio Pffl b0 thCra "-d SbliS Cry t
fofcws, Ind'ar y be ae 'i! the ? V g H"3!" ?f
Simpler, it is said, to drag them ou he Jcm.entary ?.cho?i at . Iotla. .11
of the lake, than to take them from p.asscdt th wam'nation for adm.s-
the train to the mill. M0" tot b'gh school. This was in
The railroad, an wteiwirtn nf tk contrast with the record students from
old Buck Creek railroad of the An- ?7e u" a . 5" ?f
drews Mannfartnr ntr rnmmnv c Ua.l '1' lw,v. VA""""U"' J
iner pvtpnrlprl from rJI, . 8 paSSCQ.
O x-..v A14,V VtWIV , IV
tne mm, and thence toward Wallace
CONSOLIDATION
OF SCHOOLS SLOW
Western Counti
WtHIIU
Low and Macon Placed at
Bottom of List in Number
of Children Transported."
TWO ROBBERS
"TAKE PAYROLL
Two Boys In Jail As Sus
pects Robbery Creates
Much Excitement In RnK.
binsville Money Not Re
covered.
Gap and to the head of Nantahala going up, the company has used be
Kiver. - Large crews of men - are at tween 600,000 and 700,000 feet of lum
work on the railroad construction ber. .This has been sawed by two
""J; ' ' . . , .. small mills erected for the purpose.
Cl,piuuuv.is ui me mm win dc Their workj it is understood, is prac
sent via .this ratl.road to Andrews, tically finished
where ittrikes the Murphy line of The mill, incidentally, is located in
the Southern. The employes of the onp ofthp hoatitv stmts nf mrm.
company, however, will be paid tains, and the . drive- fmm - Franklin
a Franklin hank. The na'v- kw. k..k- t- -ct-
. . 1 lilt, t, UIUUII II 13 UUll cUlll UllC
cidentallv. it is estimated, will i
.uoximate $3,500 per week.. The taking.
11 is exnected to : cut about SO (Km i7ki: .... i. ....'... u
beard feet of lumber per day. I the beautiful Cartoocechave valk-v.
While the cm :.
roads and S ate TaL aucsT&ooa
o.u are orincf
m about the departure, of the "little
red schoolhouse" in North Carolina
generally, and making .:ui7 "
stead, the bir mncM; .A' .
.. . iT .hlle pupils ar trans
ported by bus, are at work in the
western counties of tti ct,t t.i
w isoiiaauon jn the mountains is 'Je,
veloping slowly. .
. This is shown by figures compiled
by the State Department of Public
instruction, and 'contained in the lat
est issue of State School Facts, just
received here.
Whether the tardiness with which
consolidation is being brought about
in the mountains is Him u .
B.iiy oi me section, or not, it is
iinown dv bchoo Farts tt,, u
seven mountain- counties lying, di-
iCLiiv west oi Miinrmnh,, t j
- --- -- i. ouspui icu
only Ij3o children tn nA (mm
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solidated schools during the school
nicse seven counties
naa a total of 38 school buses in
operation.
lhis is in comparison with 77
buses in operation, transporting 2735
children, in a single eastern county -
TV1I&UI1.
The state as a whole, the publica
tion shows, with a total of 2313 bus
es, transported 87,283 childrcn.or an
average of 872 children per county.
The average North Carolina county,
in other words, transnorted two tkirHc
as -many children to and from crkni
for the year 1925-26 as did all seven
of these western counties.
. Of the seven, Jackson led in , the
number of children Piven the aduin.
taee of bus transnortatinn Th (in.
ure was 455. Havwood fame seeonH
with -320. rln Jackson county, ; ,nine
Duses were in operation, while Hay
wood used 11 to transport its rural
children from their homes to school
and back again.
Graham county, until a few years
ago a "lost province" in the. most
literal sense ot the term, because of
its, inaccessibility, came third. Two
hundred seventy-five children were
brought from the rural districts to a
single consolidated school a hitr school
employing more than seven teachers.
Swain COUntv took fotirth nlaee
among these seven, with 144 children
transoorted: Llav was htth. with )
Cherokee, sixth, with 47; and Macon,
where only 35 children were trans
ported, stood at the bottom of the
list. '
School Facts traces the ranid elimi
nation durincr the oast nuarter cen
tury of the one-teacher type of school
in North Carolina, the total nnmher
of schools taught by a single teacher i
having dropped trom 7,& in IVOO-OI
to 2,510 in 1925-26.
It quotes interesting figures, on
the contrary, showing) the increase
in the number of schools employing
three teachers, or more, and then
turns to the Hevelonment of ' consoli
dation and transportation in North
Carolina s school system:
"In 1914-1S six vehicles were used
to transport 247 pupils to and from
consolidated schools, in iyiy-u the
number of vehicles had increased to
150,' and 7,936 children were being
transported. By 1925-26, North Caro
lina owned 2317 trucks to transport
over 87,000 children."
Two 18-year old boys, Pat Jenkins
and Richard Williams, were arrested
at one of their homes in the eastern
Part of this county at 3 o'clock Mon
day morning, in connection with the
WW pay. roll robbery that occurred
near Yellow Creek about noon Sat
urday, The youths, arrested by a
party ot ptticers headed by Deputy
Sheriff Riley Orr, were brought to
Robbinsville and lodged in iail here
At 11 o'clock Monday morning, the
money had not been recovered, offi
cers said.
Carrying a sachei, bulky with pay
" """ ravmastcr S. M. Baldwin,
Irs I , , sons Construction corn
horseback along the trail across Yd
Pany accompanied by Deputy Sheriff
W CreePk "Jf
ow Creek Mountain, according 0
their account of the robbery, when
two men mmned fro k.v.-ii V tn
and held 'them up the
sPacheS' thThen reJeved em of th
sachei, they said, and escand iL:
mountains.. ine
No; shots were exchanged, it was
MORGAN FREED
OF CHARGES
George Morgan Arrested On
Abduction Charge Case
Dropped Morgan Says
Never Again Will He Of
fr Lift. 'ffcgjaa'.-.xsai
said.
the bou
u company
. t throigh
rpll, inci
7 ap.iroxiir
' mill is i
Ihc plant will be run by steam,
generated by the waste products of
the mill.
The village under construction is.
destined for a life of about 10 years.
That is the period it is estimated
it will take the company to cut over
the 15,000 acreage it plans to cut
with this mill.N It has a slightly
longer period in which , to complete
"s cutting, under the terms of its
contract with the federal government,
Ww has purchased the property.
Work pn the new town was begun
April 11. The company expects to
begin sawing sometime in September.
I hose dates give an idea of how
a pran new town is taking
chin, i .. . .H
and then on. up' to Wallace Gap, some
4,000 feet high. ,Two miles and about
500 feet down, and one strikes the
Nantahala probably "no stream, of
the same size, even in tle mountains
has the reallv crystal cles-water one
finds in the ''River of: the Mid-day
Sun."
And on the west side of the Nanta
hala ranee, the fnlince is 'nnsnrnassed
The mountain laurel--or "ivy" last
week was cone on thi ide of the
mountain. v But on the western side
of the big ridge, it was at. the height
of its loveliness and as nlentifnt as
one could wish for. Every bush was
loaded.
. Around the workmen, at the camp,
"In the vear 1925-26 the total cost
of transportation in North Carolina
was $1,302,720." The 2,317 trucks
were covering 51,869 miles of route
aauy.
counti mountain section of this . partridges plays unafraid as though
In tL cftf r .i. t. u- the spot were as, lonely, as it Was be-
n the construction of the buildings fore April 11.
Hunnicutt Dead
Of Wounds
Demorest Hunnicutt. 32. who was
shot , three times by Ed Woodall, ac
cording to winessses, m the hitter's
shoe shop in Tullliilah Falls, Ga., last
night, according to word received here
by Hunnicutt's relatives,
The shooting was said to have fol
lowed Hunnicutt's remonstrating with
txr i.n i . . . ..v
voouai(, nis employe, tor failing to
work hrd enough in Hunnicutt's or
chard. jAbout three hours later, it
was reported. Woodall entered Hunni
cutt's shop and shot him.
He was arrested a few , moments
later, and lodged in jail at Clayton,
Ga.
Funeral services were hM Xf,i..
afternoon at Tallulah Falls. Mr. Hun
nicutt was a son-in-law of Tk vr
Thomas, having married Miss Bertha
i nomas, ana was a nephew of E. S
Hunnicutt, of Franklin.
Only two ftlPfl urn rex L ti i
inff the Y VL Ul cxamin-
mg the SDOt where tk kl .
j --- . uuocry occur--,f'TTe.
,at.cr' .fou"d indications
kit.; ! """cr,usn that led them to
".eve mat lour or v. kj i- ...
win iu enect tne robbery.
ine P3?1"001 "ad been carried to the
camp near Ye low Cr A"e
IC L ? ine ot,,cers bel'eve that
the bandits, were acquainted with this
Blood hounds were rushed to the
scene -of .the robbery, but failed , to
'ke upthe trail The sachei coritain
ahl, J?ayr00J however- was fo"nl
aDOUt 300 vards i,. .
... , try ay , dtturtling TO
the officers. And tire pay envelopes.
""iMrcnuv torn onen nA j
k' . . . tiiiMic(i or
7,r orenrs. nad been dropped along
the route believed to have been taken
uy me rouoers.
The men were tracked for some
distance hv tko u -tc.
.t. .-'.""'"..": onicers said,
and the arrest was m,d . c. .
of fk.-c j jj J . ,s
. auu diiuiiuinai evirien.
A small oart of the a w ..i
was in the form of checks, but the
uuik oi u was currency and silver
i was siaiea.
The Connor Sons rnc(,i:
- - viijiiuingii com
pany, of Pittshnrrdi : 1....J
,. , B" .., IS CIIIIMUVCU
in diecrintr a tnnnl u...l v.n.
r i "u . iwuugn icuow
",CCK mountain tor ihe Tallasscc
uwer comnanv. the paymaster, ac
companied bv the off!
eoV the payroll to the camp at the
omer ena ot the tunnel, and was re
turnim? acros cth
liver the $6 500 payroll to the camp
xciiow. v.reeK, wncn the robbery
occurred. The rohherv
at a point between Robbinsville and
vaiaerwocKi, tenn.. at a spot about
lo miles from Robbinsville. ..
News of the robbery reached Rob
binsvil e Saturday afternoon, and
ohernff Shuler and hie dn.,.:-
mediately began to work on the case
Both youths are natives of Graham
county.
The news" occasioned "nA" l:fU
citcment in Robbinsville and thrrntrrk.
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ouc ine county.
The men who made the hold up
had black faces, the paymaster and
deputy, said. They believed, however,
that they were not negroes, but white
men who blackened their faces to
hide their irlentitv r.r,l,,m r,
XT '-..oiiewit v-i'u:ilv
News.
Chamber Without Secretary
Thoj Franklin 'Chamber of Comm.Vc-
a"lft;k-ulturc. without
sincHAWly:;;., when Weimar .-Jones'
res.grfhtibn became effective, has made
arrangements to have someono .
present at the county agent's office
io answer inquiries, either by letter
' Jie Jifficc of the organization was
moved. unto the county agent's office
some .weeks at?o.
At jhe same meeting that this a
rangcrnent was made, the organiza
tions board of directors chose Lyles
Warns, cotmtv agent,, as . a director
of the body, to succeed J. S. Porter
resigned.
Plans were laid by the board nt
the same time to do advertising for
summer tourists in daily newspaper
of this and other states. r j;
George Morgan has given his last
lt" to a stranger, he declares. '.
.He comes from a section where h.
pitality is second nature, but Mor
gan will show his hospitality in ways
other than giving rides to those he
does not know.
That appeared Vmitu
, i.v . wv. iat.., iiuill
his tone.
Whether or not, pretty,' 18-year old
Hazel Waltz, whom Morgan was .
charged with abducting, today is again
trudging along the road beside her
tramp" husband, Ed Waltz, Z7, is
another question.
, it was giving this pair a ride, and
hen helping the girl to escape her
life as the "tramp" wife if Waltz, that
got Morgan into trouble trouble that
came near ruining his first visit to
his home here in nearly five years
His difficulties ended when he fin
ally told Asheville police that he had
left the crirl at Svlv
Waltz, after talking with . his wife,
asked that the charge against the
Zo-year old Franklin man k i
acu,
Morgan, employed by the Ford
Motor company for the past . four
years and a half, was on his way
home for a vacation. At Lexington,
K.V.. he offered Waltr -nA i,;. ...:r.
a ride to Asheville. They were on
uicir way to spruce Fine, N. C.
where Walt? has on .u
. aiui, lie ioia
Morgan.
In Asheville. thev stonned on P,t.
ton avenue, nrineinal
and Waltz got out to inquire the way
to Spruce Pine. When he came out
of the store where he
'"qmries, he and others observed the
Morgan's car dashing on down the
Street, his wife annarentlv
im and struggling to escape, they
iuiu me ponce.
The frantic hnshant .... .
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John Lloe warrant, and
of a description furnished the
Asheville police. Morgan woe
.re the following morning. He told
a story similar in every detail to that
outlined to the Asheville police by
Waltz, exceof that he ccrt.d f
Waltz left the car with her hlisehand
in Asheville.
Taken. to Asheville. and fa
for kidnapping, Morgan finally ad
mitted that the woman had . Ke.J
him to heln her reran frnm k
husband to take her as far as he
would. He took her ,to Sylva, he
told the police. Thev found U
there, and returned her to Asheville,
where she told the same story.
After a brief, private conference he.
tween Waltz and his wife, the form
er announced that he had 'Whin
against" Morean. and actod hf k.
' ' , ' - wuvu ..tab lliv
case be dismissed.
Hazel Waltz, married to Ed less
than a year, found him to he a
tramp and grew "tired walking" she
told the officers.
The incident which cave rise to tk
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Chame Of kidnanninc nrrurrrA in
Asheville last Thursday, and Morgan
was arrested here by Sheriff Ingram
Friday. He was taken hack to Ash-.
ville Friday bv nlaincloth
Asheville police, and the hearing was
set for Saturday morninc. when the
case was dismissed, and Morgan re-
turned here to finish his vacation,
so rudely interrupted.
The account of what occurred in
Asheville at the hearing was outlined
by Sheriff Ineram. who attended the
hearing, when he returned to Frank
lin aturday.
Morgan has been -iwav from Frank.
Jin for nearly fiv years, but his
family is well and favorahlv U nnvvn
here. He is a . b- ithcr of Charles
Morgan, local; garaj;eman. .
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Occupational Tax
The Board of,. Aldermen has passed
an ordinance that, it is expected, will
raise a revenue of annriivimitoi,.
$1,000 per year . for the town. The
ordanaice was passed at a special
mating last Wednesday night. ;
The ordinance levies occupational
and license taxes, in accordance with
authority granted by legislation en
acted at ( the last General Assembly.
On individuals and flnm,
franklin, ihe ordanance Uzes thei.W
in . most instances at just half the
amount permited bv the statute, while
the full amount will be collected from
out-of-town persons and concerns
coming into' Frankl
oly temponrily. -, ,-. - .