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TOLUME XLU , FRANKLIN, N.C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1927 NUMBER FORTY-FOUR
JOUAM PRESENT
BIBLE AND FLAG
School Auditorium Scene o
Exercises Jack Stribling
rresides Sisk and Stree
Make Talks.
Cullasaja Council No. 158, Junior
vyruer united American Mechanics,
Friday afternoon formally presented
the local school with an American
riag and a Bible.
The presentation occurred at the
school aduitorium at 2 o'clock, with
the school children and faculty, and
a number of members of the order
' present. Jack Stribling, councilor of
the local council, presided, and in
troduced the two sneaker. R. D
Sisk, former councilor, who pre
senter! the Hag, and J. W. Street
Chaplin, who made the Bible oresen
tation. The flag and Bible were ac
cepted by Principal G. L. Houk.
Mr. Stribling told the children
something of .the Junior Order and
its principles, and then introduced Mr.
Sisk, who traced the history and
development of law and government,
urged respect for the law and govern
ment, reviewed the history of the
American flag, and expressed the
hope that sight ' of the flag morn
ing and afternoon by the school chil
dren would tend to inspire patriotism
in their breasts.
Mr. Street told the, children fhat
the Junior Order not only believes
in the Bible, but teaches it.- The
Junior Order however, does not
stand for teaching the Bible in the
public schools, he said, among other
reasons being the fact that different
persons put different interpretations:
upon its passages, but it does stand
for the reading in the school each
morning of a passage from "God's
Word." .
He pointed out that there was no
law in North Carolina requiring that
the Bible be read in . the public
schools, but he urged that teachers
should voluntarily read a passage each
morning. '
Stikeleather, Walker
Plan Falls Route
The Press wishing to receive first
hand information concerning the pro
posal to build highway No. 28 under
the Dry Falls of the Cullasaja wrote
Mr. Stikeleather concerning his in
tentions with reference to this mat
ter. That both Mr. Stikeleather, and
Mrs- Walker will make every effort
to route No. 28 under the falls is
indicated by the following letter re
ceived from the former :
Asheville, N. C, October 26, 1927.
Mr. Harris,
Franklin Press,
Franklin, N. C.
My dear Mr: Harris:
I am in receipt of your letter of
the 25th. Mr. Walker and I are plan
ning on putting this highway under
the high falls. . You may rest assured
,that 1 am not merely casual 1 about
this but I am very serious and earn
est about this and propose to do it
if it is within the range of possibility,
both as to physical and financial,
but I do not propose to give this up
if there is any way I can get it done.
Sincerely yours,
J. G, STIKELEATHER,
Commissioner.
CULBERTSON HERE
FOR DELCO PEOPLE
Mr. R. F. Culbcrtson has been
appointed Transylvania" representative
for the Delc.o Light company, work
ing under the office of Reusing Light
and Refrigerating company of. Hen
dersonville.
Mr. Culbcrtson comes to Transyl
vania county highly recommended for
this work, having had many years
experience with the' Delco Light con
cern.
As soon as practicable, Mr. Cul
bertson will bring his family to
Brevard. The Brevard News.
' Tellico Locals
Rev. Billie Potts, of; Highlands, and
our pastor, Judson Smith, are con
ducting a series of meeting at the
Tellico church ...
Mr. Lyles Harris, accompaniey by
Mr. Woods, forest supervisor, and
Mr. Burnes were visiting our school
Thursday.
Mr. M. D. Billings was in this
section Friday.
' UK- r T? HT A.. . A
avii. v. i-. . iviuuuy was, uii uur
streets Wednesday in the interest of
his lumber business. . r
Mr. Robert Ramsey went to Bryson
City Friday on business.
Mr. Samuel T. , Ramsey drove a
team a distance of 4 miles and
brought back a load of goods. He
is 80 years old. We believe he can
beat the- most of we younger fel
lows driving now.
We had a box suppcr.at the Sul
phur Springs school house on the
night of the 15th. The beauty cake
brought. $43.90,' which was awarded to
Miss Alma Raby, of Cowee. Total
amount of the supper was $71.30.
A part of the Juniors from Cowee
visited our box supper and presented
our school with a Bible and a
United States flag. Mr. Rollin Rick
man, one of the Juniors, made an
interesting talk on the Bible.
Mr. Baxter Elmore, also a Junior,
made a nice talk on the United States
flag and Americanism;
Dr. Thos. E. Winecoff Ac
cepts Parish at Scranton
Pa., Will Leave by Oct. 1
Rivertorf and Fremont county, Wy
oming, will lose one of its most prom
inent citizens by October 1st, thru
an announcement just made public by
Dr. Thos. E. Winecoff, for the past
number of years Vicar of the Epis
copal church of this city. Dr. Wine
coff has accepted a call to a large
parish in Scranton, Pa., and expects
to leave by the end of this month
to take up his new duties.
Dr. Winecoff was chosen over more
than three, hundred clergymen con
sidered for the place, and it is un
derstood that the new position offers
a remuneration of $6,000 a year.
It was learned . that the church to
which he goes has a half-million
dollar edifice, the parish house hav
ing, for instance, a larger kitchen
than that of any hotel in the State of
Wyoming, nad the strictly religious
activities are on a scale equally im
pressive. The men s Bible class, for
instance is said to have a member
ship of two hundred and fifty.
Dr. Winecoff has an international
standing as a scientist, and the call
to this great church in the( East
shows his national standing 'as a
preacher. Competent, authorities in
the matter have repeatedly asserted
that Dr. Winecoff "has no superior
in the entire American ministry, eith
er as a scholar or as a preacher."
He was recently re-elected to a
second term as state president of
the Izzak Walton League, and has
been a public spirited citizen general-1
y during his residence here, giving
of his best, both of ability and ex
perience, as a member of the school
board and in every other public move
ment for the upbuilding of Rivcrton
and the state.
Dr. Winecoff and his good wife
will be greatly missed .in this com
munity, where their friends are num
bered by their acquaintances. Ex
change. t. .
Big Liquor
DEATH OF UNCLE
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capture wane Born May 185a ,d Octobcr
Two automobiles, one- man, and 21. 1927. Age 77 years, 5 months and
168 gallons of liquor were captured H days. Uncle Henry was born and
by local officers last . Friday morning reared in Macon county. He is sur-
about 2 o'clock. vived by his wife. Hattie fnstice nnH
Four other cars, believed to have children, Lester and Badger Justice
been loaded with liquor, escaped, Mary Conley, Ada Brown and Sada
after engaging the officers in a gun Conley.
battle across the Macon-Jackson, coun- Uncle Henry was always full' of
ty line. fun and a hard worker while raising
The man captured gave the name, his family, and he was loved by
officers said, ow Frank Mease, oi everybody that knew him. He was
Canton. a member of, the Baptist church and
The officers gave chase when the I we feel, assured that he has gone to
liquor cars passed through Franklin, rest on the great beyond.
and six miles cast, on Highway No. We give thanks to all the folks for
285, near the foot of Cowee Moun- t,ieir kindness jurinii his sicklicss
lam, mi juisuu, tuning un a uui si I i i u
of speed, rounded a curve too fast. and death.
and both liquor cars went over. One He was placed away at Dryman's
driver escaped, the other being cap- Chapel grave yard, the funeral being
tured, when he returned a short dis- nnn,P0. k v h rv,ni ,..f Hh
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tancc -to recover ms cap. ine man A j number of people attended
the funeral.
We hope our loss of Uncle Henry
is his great gain.
Written by a friend of Uncle Henry.
New Cabbage Found
For Mountain Farmer
Danish Strain Best Suited to Market
Requirements in Western Carolina
35 Years Ago
The following items are reprinted
from The Franklin Press of Septem
ber 28, 1892: .
Can't you settle your account by
court week? F. T. Smith.
Judge Bynum is courting the Jack
son people this week.
Brother Brown preaches Tom Wat
sen more xehemently in his third
party speeches than he ever preached
Paul to sinners.
Mr. C. Randolph, of Steccoa, N. C,
is spending a month at the Allman
House under treatment by Dr. S. H.
Lyle for dyspepsia , with which he is
severely afflicted.
I will have fresh beef every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday mornings
at Mrs. Love's brick ' store. W. T.
Potts.
Quod Erunt Hoc. Pax Vobiscum.
Which means: Always go to the
Allmari House for your dinner.
The ..Presbyterians held their meet
ing and communion at the Methodist
church from Friday night to Sunday,
and some very good preaching was
done by Revs. Foster and Jesse Siler.
No Cologne Factories Then
The citizens of Franklin would do
well to look after cleaning up their
premises. If they find their hog-pens,
backyards or alley ways condemned
by the health officer within a day
or two, they need not be surprised.
A walk along some of the streets
about dark of an evening will con
vince anyone that cologne factories
do not exist.
Raspberries in October
As an indication of what Western
North Carolina climate can do Mr.
J. M. Carpenter brought to The
Press office last Saturday several
branches of raspberry vines contain
ing many large and ripe berries. Mr.
Carpenter states that his vines had
many berries m June and that the
present crop came from new shoots
that grew during the summer. In
cidentally many apple trees are now
blooming in the county.
was drunk, the officers said
Leaving Deputy Derald Ashe to
guard the capture, Sheriff C. L. In
gram and Deputy Fred Cabe drove
on to the top of the mountain, which
marks the county line. Just as they
rounded the curve at The top, they
declare, they observed four -cars,
waiting, and from these there came
a volley of shots. The officers, in
turn, emptied both their guns. There
were no casualties, so far as could
he learned Fridav.
The liauor runners then madly Mountain tarmers oi tne namourg
dashpd down the hkrhwav throne section in Jackson county, in CO
Jackson county, and the Macon coun- operation with the extension workers,
ty officers were halted by the county are making an effort in working out
ine ' Detter meinods oi manceiing iau
In one raiitured . ear. a Nash, were cabbage.
240 half-irallon fmit iar of , whisk pv lhe growers have started at th
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while in the other, a Dodge, was pottom oi tne ladder, realizing inai
found three 16-eallon kees. the standardization ot a variety tnat
will produce a gooa tonnage per aue
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AKUill 1 Eil 1 AINU armrrmlished before thev can create
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A nroeram ot this kind was preseniei
Douglas D. Ellington, a prominent to ' a eroup- of cabbage growers las
architect of Asheville. and Arnold vear. and a cood strain oi Dams
H. Vanderhoof, a well known engi- cabbage was tested by one grower
neer, also of Asheville, spent Sunday This strain of cabbage proved su
and part of Monday here as the penor to that being grown, eve
guests of Col.' H. G. Robertson, during a year of unfavorable weath
While here they visited many sec- er conditions, lhe crop was uni
tions of the county and were im- form, consisting of small compact
mensely pleased with what they' saw. heads with a .minimum of burstin
This year six tother growers tried
D-J C D..Li: u UL out this seed, and have reported De
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curses oerve inousanas that it is the variety ior ineir secuoii
In North' farnlina arul market. One grower planted it
in in or in uaronna fi ,d ith- thrce othcr strains of
A m n"in vj rVr.cc r.Ki,v knoifV. Danish: and stated that it excelled
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nurses in Worth Carolina have served any ""e ui mc uui unci., in. a.
nearly 33.300 ncrsons durinir the fisral so comnienfed on the high germina
t t-tiP tion of the seed
tin 11 al nlirt miAn miKlir f"flar Kir The cabbage was followed to , th
the local chanter market. An average size head, simi
This rpnrpcnntc f .v,ir....n lar to the kind of cabbage the house
nurses, who have in that period made wife usually buys, was purchased
ioni7 f :o.stj 7 alonir with a similar size head ot an-
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029 school children, and riven instruc- other variety that was trucked in uy
tion to 7. 84 persons at (.19 health a1"" mountain iduiiei.
conferences. . lhe growing ot late caDDage in
Of paramount importance, the re- Ja?ks?n and otner counties oi nigner
port emphasizes, is the work of the altitudes and peno. ng tne cr op a.noag
nurses among school children. Many t.ne niarkets ot me r.eamontscc-
rhilrlron vuhn in fnrfnpr rlavc ,mi1H tUMlS Ot thlS State and DOUtn aro-
tiov k r,,;vi,,i ;..ot Una. has been, for years past,
dumb" are found to be suffering from fsmirce of L"come ior many mountain
physical defects which make accept- farmers. The coming of lhe auto
able scholarship impossible. It is mob'le tru.ck ,and Rood roads have m
not uncommon,, the nurses say, for a a ,w.ay simPllfied the methods of
child who is not making his grades PU'.ng; nowever, compet.t on W1m
ir, K ,.,;fu ,i(rfi., northern cabbage, which is often ship-
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which when corrected brings immedi- ped to our local markets by the car.
ate improvement in his scholastic pad,, is making' the marketing of our
standing 1 eaoDage more uuiicun caui ywi.
Often these defects arc not marked .Anc s' 1
enough to be noticed without an in- " caDuDaSe " ;inf. samc vT-n (,Zl
.ntinn Kt f. k ..,1, .u- less than what the mountain farmer
.. Z ": I.-:: 1 ' is willimHo sell his from the truck
miijii uiduy v-irni.in.li iiiikiii mi UKK'C I i .1 i J .
aloncr .inHpfioitflw ..nrlor ;m.Cc;Kl.J or example, tnrce wnodus wuv
t.nJ;. . ' ' sold and. delivered to wholesale deal
Health experts who have made 7 ",c .c4.u V"Vu?
rarpf.,1 stHipe HnVlarP th,f ,nm,L tn Iirst WCCk in oepismuer vi ui
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COL HARRIS OF
CHARLOTTE HERE
Observer's Editor, Great
Booster For Western
North Carolina, Pays Vis
it to Franklin Monday.
Col. Wade Harris, editor of The
Charlotte Observer, paid a short visit
to Franklin Monday.,: He was ac
companied by Messrs. Brown, of
Black ' Mountain,' and - Wilson and
Buchanan, of Sylva. The party, un
der the guidance of the editor of
The Press, visited the Cullasaja Gorge
to see the highway work now going
on there. They found that the road
crew had been moved back to the
rock cliff and was engaged in bulki
ng a rock wall along the river side
of the road at that point. .Passing
this work the party proceeded up
the new -roadway to the Lower Falls
of the Cullasaja. Col. Harris after
seeing the rugged beauty of the gorge
remarked that the scenery here re
minded him more of the West than
any he has - seen in this state. ' The
Observer's editor was also , entranced
with the idea of building No. 28 be
neath the Upper or Dry Falls of the
Cullasaja. If this proposition is pos-'
sible from an engineering standpoint,
he believes that the extra cost,, if
any, should not stand in the way
of placing the road under the falls.
mately seventy per cent of American
school ' children have physical defects
of. a serious enough nature to re
tard their mental and physical de
velopment, such as diseased tonsils,
and defective vision and hearing.
By the early detection of symptoms
oi contagious disease, schools are al
so protected from the outbreak of
cpidimics.
Local Red Cross officials .. state
that the organization now has 585
public health nursing services in the
United States with 731 nurses.
Cave Man Stuff
year at $1.80 a hundred. A mountain
farmer was trucking to the same place
and asking $2.00 a hundred. The
dealer who was buying this cabbage
at two cents' a pound and taking on
ly the small heads from the truck
load, stated that he was compelled
to buy a carload of Northern . cab
bage so he could sell as cheaply as
his competitor, who had been buying
carloads at $1.80 laid down at delivery
point. The grower in the North has
a constant, supply, 'arid' 'Can 'deliver: .a
product properly graded to fit the
market at the dealers in this section
need it. '
Our growrs can meet this competi
tion,, hovve'ver. if they will produce a
volume of solid marketable 'v'" heads,
arid, distribute it to- the dealers a
A warrant was issued last Saturday
for Mack 'Lcdford. nccro. on the
t e 'ft
cnarge oi wire Dcating. lhe warrant ih nhA it Th t ?n:l fntn.-p
was sworn out by R. D. Sisk, in his production will be absorbed through
capacity oi cnairman ot the county
welfare board.
Ledford was charged with strikino-
his wife across the back with a shot
gun. He struck her with such vio
lence, she is said to have declared
that the stock- was broken off the
gun.
our local markets distributing, the
cabbage by mean3 of the automobile
truck, since the dealers, according to
interviews, prefer mountain- cabbage.
A small start, has been made in
Jackson, county in educating the farm
ers to the needs of a production pro
gram to meet market requirements us
Big Forest
Fire In Clay
A forest fire in Clay county Sat
urday and Sunday burned over about
1,500 acres in the head waters of
Tuni Creek, near Tusquittee Bald.
Only about 60 of the acres burned
over belonged to the Nantahala Nat
ional Forest.
The fire broke out Saturday after
noon, and Sunday morning 21 men
left Franklin to fight it. In the par
ty from here were Supervisor A, A.
Wood, Ranger Z. B. . Byrd, Assist
ant Ranger T. C. Flint, and Road
Superintendent J. G. Siler. There
were also fighters present, it was
understood, from Haycsville and from
V. T. Latham's camp on Buck Creek.
The fire was gotten under control
late Sunday, when the wind fell, and
a heavy dew Sunday night was of
further assistance in checking it .
The origin of the fire had not
been definitely determined Monday.
Franklin people came in for no
little praise from the office of Super
visor Wood on account of their read
iness to go to' the scene of the fire,
and help in the fire fighting.
Toccoa Defeats Franklin
Franklin High school went down in
defeat by a score of 12 to 0 to
Toccoa, Ga., high here last Friday
afternoon, the Georgians clearly out
playing the local eleven throughout
the game. '
Franklin failed to make a smklc
first down, its gains being made prin-,
cipally by punts, with McCollum and
Stewart showing up to good advan
tage.' l he ball was in trankun terri
tory most of the time, the locals
best playing being staged in the
second quarter when they held the
Georgians ' ' for downs on Franklin's
one-yard ine.
lurngall, who scored loccoas two
touchdowns, and -Gaston starred for
the eGorgians.
The, lineup:
TOCCOA POSITION
Kirk
rather
Childe .
McNecly
Roberts
.aurence
'ailey
Smith
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KIP
Fir
FRANKLIN
Carpenter
Guest
Thomas
Henry
Crawford
Wilkes
Wilkie
McCollum
r Young
Ncwniau
. Stewart
well as- getting 'a better', tonnage per
acre, so as to lower cost ot p'ro-
tiction and meet competition prices
oin othcr cabbage-growing -sections,
he next step will he iri. providiht;
('.equate storage facilities in order
o' have a steady flow of cabbage by
truck from the grower to the dealer
i he needs it. '
When a program of this kind is
under way, i. t , standardization of'
the variety, grading and proper stor
age facilities, it will be a means to
ward ro-operativc marketing. H. R.
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