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KEY CIT OF THE MOUNTAIM yoiuME XLII FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY JULY 21. 1927 NUMBER TWENTY-NINE zs y iffi wifvlr M.J VORK C0NTU1UES 01 Proceeding in Both m AV98 ill LV f Directions JFrom Frank lin Visitors Should See the Cullasaja Gorge. "Stories have been in local circu lation to the effect that work on No. 28 in Macon county between Frank Jin and Hayesville had ceased.. For . a few days these stories held "true, but the steam shovel is now busy about a mile from the Wallace Gap on .the west side of the Nanta hala Mountains. The shovel will work to the gap and then proceed westward toward Black Gap. Mr. Champion, in charge of the convicts, states that he is now making preparations to move the convict .camp from its pres cnt location to the "west side of the jSTafttahalas, somewhere in the vicinity of the Littleton place. . There now appears, to be little doubt but that the road will be graded at least to the Macon-Clay line. It is understood that a force of hands are at work "in Clay county on this high way in the direction of Macon coun ty line. , ; -Work between Franklin and High lands on Highway No. 28, is pn eeding slowly through the Cullasaja Gorge and has now reached a point almost opposite the. lower Cullasaja Falls and about three quarters of a mile from Brush Creek. The trip to the shovel at work in the Cullasaja Gorge can be easily made in an automobile. Visitors to Franklin will find this one of the most stupendous engineering feats' in highway construction ever undertaken anywhere in the country, To Hold Schools of Instruction for Masons ''.i Monday, July 25," from 7:30 to .10 p. m., in the Masonic Lodge at .Andrews, there will be held the first jieeting of the week of the school of instruction for Masons, On Tuesday, July 26, from 2 to 6 in the afternoon, and 7:30 to "10 at night, there will be a similar meeting held in the Lodge at Hayesville. On Wednesday and Thursday, July 27 and 28, from 2 to 6 and 7:30 to 10 these meetings will be held in the lodge at Murphy, The . .Thursday meetings are District meetings, and ach lodce in the 43rd District is ex ' pected to be well represented at same. On Friday, July 29, at 7:30 to 10 ' p. m., there will be the first t the meetings to be held in the 42i Uis , trict. This will be at Franklin. ' Saturday, July 30, the meetings w'. be held in; the lodge at East La Porte, from 2 to 6 and 7:30" to 10 IP. m. also. jtvMonday, August1 1, the meetings will Te held0 in the lodge at Sylva, from 2 to 6 and 7:30 to 10 p. ta Tuesday, August 2 there will be a ' District. meeting of the 42nd District in the lodge at Bryson City, from 2 to 6 and 7:30 to 10 p. mr Each lodge in the 42nd District is urged to be well rcpresentea. a review oi tne secret work, instruction in Masonic Education, and( the interpretation of symbolic and ritualistic work will be - - given by Dr. W. C. Wicker, of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina at these sessions. All Masons are invited to attend these meetings. Dr. Wicker is able to help you. Take advantage of the free ' service which he offers. Prentiss Items (La.t Week); ' The, farmers in this; section are through stacking wheat and are ready ipr the thresher at any time. Mr. Freeman Hasting was in this section Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Cheeks were visiting Mr. Cheek's father Sunday. Miss Ona Hasting is confined at her home on the account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Dehart and children were the guests of Mr. J. W. Hastings Sunday afternoon. t There is going to be a children's Hav at Pleasant Hill Tulv 24. Every body is cordially invited to attend. and bring a basket with tnem. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bell and family from Toccoa, Ga., are visiting Mrs. Stockton's parents. Miss Nina Stockton has returned home from Middleton, Ga. Her eyes seem some better. . Mr. Alex Cheeks and daughter, Mrs. Beulah Howl, went to visit their parents last week end. Mr. Ted Blaine passed through this section Friday. BANK REPORTS SHOW PROSPERITY Macon county's three banks have total assets of. more than three quarters of a million dollars, their current statements show. The exact figure is $774,185.54. The assets of the Bank of Frank linthe county's oldest banking insti tution pass the half-milion dollar mark, the figure being $539,608.37. The Citizens Bank here comes nexxt, with $121,773.33. The youngest bank in the county, the Highlands Bank, has total assets of $112,803.84. The combined capital stock of the three institutions, $80,000.00 is just slightly more than one-tenth of the total assets. The combined surplus is $48,861.17. Deposits subject to in dividual check in the three institu tions run to more than a quarter million dollars $283,112.53. Court Adjourned Thursday Important Case Compromised The special term of Macon Supe rior court for the ttial of civil cases, which was to have continued through next week, was adjourned Thursday afternoon, Judge H. Hoyle Sink, of Lexington, having kept things moving so rapidly that the court's business was completed yesterday. The most important case disposed of was that of Penland vs. Patton. After three days of trial, and just before the evidence was all in, the case was compromised. Under terms' of the compromise, Mrs. Hester Penland Wells pays Mrs. Patton $1,000.00. Mrs. Patton, on the other hand,: deeds the property over which the suit was fought, to Mrs. Wells, who .'is her neice. -.''. The suit was brought to set aside a deed made by Mrs. G. N. Penhnd's sister. The Case was begun by Mrs. Penland and at her death, was taken up by. her daughter. Tried at the last' term of Superior court, a mis trial resulted. Mrs. Penland deeded one-half her property to .Mrs. Patton, the other half to her -brother, Johns Phillips, during her lifetime, reserving a lite time interest. Later, she requested them to deed it back to her. Mrs Patton declined,' on the ground that Mrs. Penland's real desire was to keep the property out of the hands of her son-in-law, John Wells, and that her request was prompted by pressure brought by Wells. The plaintiffs, seeking to set aside the deed, sought to prove that Mrs Penland was of unsound mind at the time she executed the 'deed, and that undue influence was used by relatives to secure execution of the instrument. According to Mrs. Patton, her sis ter told her that she was mistreated by Wells, and that she desired, that he not receive any of Kcr property. She, therefore, deeded one-half of it to her sister, and the other half to her brother, reserving the life time interest. When Mrs. Patton declined to deed the property back to her sister, the action was begun to set the deed aside. The plaintiffs in the case were represented by T. J. Johnston and R. D. Sisk, of Franklin, McKinley Edwards, of Bryson City, and Newt. Moody, of Murphy; representing the defendants were Jones and Jones and H. G. Robertson,- of Franklin, and T. D. Bryson. of Bryson City. Another case, brought by T. B. Enloe, as administrator of the estate of Turner Enloe, deceased, seeking to collect $1,500 insurance from the Beneficiary Degree of the Grand Council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, was non-suited by the plaintiffs just before going to trial. . . . Excellent Camp Paper The first issue of the "Taukectah Tattler," official organ of Taukeetah camp for girls near here, appeared last week. i . The "Tattler," a three-column four- page weekly newspaper about activi ties at Camp taukeetah, is chuck full of newS and comment. The lead editorial : is devoted to a discussion of "Camp Spirit." One of the contri butors is a Franklin girl, Catherine Franks. - Maude Merriman. of Greensboro, is editor-in-chief; Elizabeth Paylor, Mathews. Va.. is asociate editor: the business manager is Loretta Sparrow, of Hawkinsville, Ga.; and Miriam Block, of Greensboro, is asistant busi ness manager, The "Tattler" is printed by the Franklin Press job department. ' I, 11,, , llllll AJf : f V REV. P. W. TUCKER. PRESIDING ELDER OF THEWAYNESVILLE DISTRICT, METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH, WHO BE GINS A REVIVAL MEETING AT BETHEL NEXT SUNDAY. PRESIDING ELDER TO HOLDHEETING Rev. P. W. Tucker, Presid ing Elder of Waynesville District Coming to Bethel July 24 Song Evangelist to Accompany Him. Beginning July 24 at 8:00 p. m., and continuing through August 5th Rev. "P. W. Tucker, presiding elder of the Waynesville district, will hold a revival meeting at . Bethel church three miles east of Franklin on High way No. 28, Rev.. Mr. Tucker will be assisted in the meeting by Rev. W. D. Holt, song evangelist, who is widely known as a choir leader. Ser vices will be held daily at 10:30 a. m and 8:00 p. m. Rev. J. H. Strickland, local pastor .of Bethel church,, extends a cordial inviadon to everybody to attend this meeting. Clerks Invited Here Murray 2nd Vice-President When the North Carolina clerks of the Superior court gathered for their annual convention two years hence, their meeting place may be Franklin. . Frank I. Murray. Macon countv clerk, who was chosen second vice president of the association at its recent meeting at Waynesville, extend ed an invitation to the clerks to meet in Franklin in 1929. f The organization makes it a point to meet one summer 1ft the mountains the nexf at the seashore. Next vcar's meeting, therefore, automatically went to the coast, but Mr. Murray will make every effort to bring the 1929 meeting to Franklin, he says. LANDRUM BEATEN Mr. Robert T. Brvson. who carries the mail down the river to various post offices evidently spends his spare moments raising corn. Reading in last weeks Press where Mr. W. P. Landurm on Nickajack has grown corn to the roasting ear stage in 82 days, Robert, while admitting that that is a pretty good record, claims that he has Mr. . Landrum beaten by ten days, Robert planted his corn late in the afternoon of April 25th and on July 6th ate his first corn from the patch planted 72 days before. Mr. Bryson failed to state whether he planted by the moon or with a planter. "LAW ON THE BRIDGE," LIQUOR CAR ESCAPES The task of coping with the inter State rum running industry grows in creasingly difficult, as . officers o this county will testify. I For the runners now apparently have adopted a system ot advance guards, by which a liquor-laden car is given warning if the.-oficcrs .are ahead. It is a comparatively simple matter, then, for the car to do a hasty about-face, and speed back into Georgia, to await a more 'auspicious hour for the dash from there through Macon county and east toward Ashe vitte. To get through this county, it is necessary for the runners to negotiate the bridge here across the Little Tennessee River. It is there that the officers apprised that a car is com ingpost themselves, and prepare to block the bridge, it necessary, this bridge has been the undoing of many a runner. The officers' latest experience was with a car said to have contained a tremendous load of whiskey. Inci dentally, too, it contained a woman oasseneer. The officers were on the bridge, waiting. They saw the car coming. But just around the' bend, near the railroad station . a man was stationed. As the car rushed past, he is said to have cried: "Law on the bridge!" There was the grinding of brakes, the big car stopped suddenly, . hastily turned, and had sped back in the direction from which it had come be fore the officers could realize that something unexpected had occurred. They did not learn who gave the warning. . John Forgot When John Thomas left here re cently on his trip to the west he was evidently greatly excited as he forgot his shoeSjsocks and a suit of clothes. For the first time in forty years, it. is said, John had carried his best suit to the pressing club to be cleaned and pressed. On his way to Cornelia he remembered that his suit ws still at the club, so he wired Mr E. W. Lone: to send, it to Cornelia by the engineer of thc local train. Mr. Long did so and attached a note stating that the shoes and socks would follow. Last Friday Mr. Long received a letter from John with instructions not to send the shoes" and socks as he had found no need for them on the trip. The letter was written from San Antonio, Texas, out in the cac tus country,! and as John finds no needs for his shoes he is evidently not making the trip a-foot. SYLVA OFFICERS ONTHEIR JOB Search Car of Franklin Citi zenSheriff of Macon Not Even Immune from Search. . A mistake on the part of Jackson county officers Wednesday night cost W. T. Moore, cashier of the Citizens bank here, no little embarrassment, and brought profuse apologies from the officers. Information about the officers' error was received her? last week. ' t Mr, Moore went to Sylva late Wed nesday to meet Mrs. Moore, who had been away on business. Seeking a parking place, Mr.. Moore was halted by four officers, he said, and told that he must submit to search of his car. Inqdiry on his part developed the fact that "it was reported" he had a "load of liquor." . The car was searched carefully, in the midst of a considerable crowd that gathered to witness what they expected to be the capture of a liquor car and rum runner. When the officers had satisfied themselves that they had stopped the wrong car, Mr. Moore introduced himself, and explained that he was cashier of the local bank. Profuse apologies on the part of the officers followed. In the searching party were, Sheriff Cannon, the Sylva chief of police, and two deputy sheriffs, Mr. Moore said. They told him that they had beeit notified from Franklin .that a car similiar to that driven by Moore was on its way to Sylva with a load of liquor. No such information went out of Sheriff C. L. Ingrah's office here, Mr. Ingarm said. Mr. Moore's friends have taken his "arrest"as a huge joke, and he, too, has taken the matter good hum oredly, though'i it occasioned him con siderable embarassment at the time. The incident recalled another mis take, some months ago, when Sheriff C. L. Ingram had his car and person subjected to search by a Jackson coun ty deputy sheriff. At end of the search, the Macon county sheriff could restrain his mirth no longer, and when asked his name, replied to the great chagrin of the Jackso. deputy "My name is Ingram; they call me "sheriff" in Macon."" Ellijay Locals r Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Shook and children, of Gastonia, returned to tbeir home Thursday, after spending 2 weeks with Mrs. Shock's parents, Mv and Mrs. C. G. Mincey. We are glad to report that . Mrs. Clint Donaldson, who recently under went an operation at Franklin, is able to be back in our midst again. Miss Hattie Peek, who holds a, position with 1'ickard and company at Asheville, has been spcn-.ilitjj a few days with her mother. Mrs. Ida Alley and her sister, Mi Mamie Moses of Cullowhee, were re- cent visitors of their parents Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Moses. We must report the progress our Sunday school is making. The at tendance seems to be increasing, the singing is fine and the lessons arc interestingly taught. The Sunday schools are the life of the churches and we would like to take this means of appealing to the churches all over the county to strive harded than cycr before to build-up bigger and better bunday schools. Mr. David Peek, who until recently held the position of superintendent for the - Suncrest lumber company is spending a few weeks at his mother's home, Mrs. Grace Peck. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Peek, of New York, have returned to their home after a brief visit with their parents, Mrs. Grace Peck and Mr. and Mis. J. II. Mincey. We are glad to note that our old friend and mailman, Mr. John Thom as, has found time at last to take , his honeymoon. May' it be as sweet to both, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas as it would have been thirty-two years ago. We are also pleased that after months of warfare with Uncle Bragg Higdon, Mr. Thomas was physically able to make the trip.
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