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( c KET CUT OF THE MOUNTAINS He. t-Snu...a 1 i i l4 : VW HAT (On At BUV-AT-MIMC MuwfcMfcHT, ftttKSEH rwr WAVNI. INDIANA fWftf Ami. n 4 MA a "A 31 .VOLUME XLII1 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928 NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR i o vw. i sill ;o Iff 1 If! FPiK V 3) i I J 9"" tMffl FOR NOMINAL SUT.1 FOREST SERVICE WILL LEASE SITE OVER A MILE HIGH 150 Miles of Government Trails - Scenery Unsur passed Good Fishing Government Invites You. "High-high-high-high-up in the hills, just a'watchin' the clouds roll by !" Do the words of a last winter's pop ular song at all express your idea of the way to enjoy a summer vaca tion? Or sevcrarsuchacati6hs?lf "soTconsider Wine " Springs Bald inrihe heart of the Nantahalas. From the 5,500 feet summit of this majestic peak there unfolds before the eye a mountain panorama not ex celled in the entire Appalachian moun tain system. The Blue Ridge for fifty tniles of its length; the Cowee, Nan tahala, and Tusquitee Ranges, the Snowbirds and much of the Great Smokies fall within the .picture, with the entire upper Tennessee Valley as the sparkling central jewel, in its highland setting. Close up, the , scenic , effects are varied and beau tiful. In azalea blossom time the mountain tops are giant flower beds filled with these gorgeous blossoms. In the lower, more moist sections, the laurel and the rhododendron in r i , . i i . . a - nr. i 1 - 1r'lastrbeiowiino Tu..i.j''.. .. southeast slope, the forest service ad-. ministeriag Nantahala National Forest has made available for occupancy and development - by the lessees twenty summer home sites. High above the merchantable timber line the beauty of this unusual summer home area can and will be preserved absolutely inviolate without sacrifice ot any ot the principles of good forest manage . ment. :.. Radiating from the area forest ser vice trails lead in many directions, all of them through regions of great "beauty. The crest of Wine Spring is but three-quarters ot a mue, ana an entire summer could be spent with a different locality for each day's exploration. Down the moun tain one finds excellent fishing in the well-stocked streams. . How to Get There . Wine Spring Bald h 17 miles from Franklin, IS. Ut. almost aue wesi. From Franklin these summer home Sites are reached by traversing five triiles of North Carolina State High way No. 28, ten miles of the newly improved forest service nquone--iSlagle road, and two miles offspur road on the mountain. Franklin is the . nearest railroad point. The National Forest telephone system runs through the area, maintaining constant touch with outside points as well as with the various forest service stations. The nearest mail delivery is at a point on an R. F. D. route about ten miles from the area. The season of occupancy would normally extend through June, July, and August. Timber and Construction Materials The timber on the area is virgin, but at this elevation almost entirely unmerchantable. Red oak, white oak, chestnut oak, and chestnut are the principal species. Immediately north and northwest of the area the timber stand changes to almost pure birch. There is ample shade, but the trees as a rule are very old and are low and stockyi The permittee will find it most economical to construct the necessary improvements on his building lot with lumber from sawmills at the foot of -tha - mounfain or . .hauled out from Franklin. The timber on the area would hardly do for the" purposes of - log-building construction, ' -1 - No standard plans for buildings will be prescribed, but each permittee will be required to submit plans for contemplated structures to the forest supervisor for approval before con struction beerins. One requirement will be that such buildings shall be painted or stained to harmonize with the sur roundings; The whole purpose of the forest service in Its simple build ing requirements will be to guard against marring unnecessarily the beauty of the nautral . landscape. Water and Fencing' The twenty lots immediately avail able lie. in two blocks of ten each, one block designated as the 'Turkey Stomp" group, and the other the "Mountain Crest" group. The lots average 80 by 120 feet. Water for domestic ' purposes will be obtained "from two springs, both lying at the lower edge of the area, one directly (Continued on page eight) J 4-H PICNIC ON JULY FOURTH Five Hundred 4-H C 1 u b Members in Macon Ex pected to Attend Plans Well Advanced. - Five hundred 4-H club members, the entire enrollment in Macon1 coun ty ,are expected to come to Franklin on July 4 to participate in the 4-H club picnic' to be held here on that date. All business concerns of the town are asked to have open house on that date to receive 4-H club members as visitors apart from any business transaction. Rotary club members will be asked to ' escort groups of the boys and girls to the banks of the town to instruct them as to how accounts are kept. The office of the county agent and of The Franklin Press will be onen to proline 1 . ' the school house on the hill immedi ately south of town, and will march from there to the center of town, around the" square,-and then will as semble in the court house where a short program will be held for their instruction. A few of the state lead ers in 4-H club .work will be present. Among these will be L. R. Harrll, state 4i-H leader, and Dr. I. O. Shaw, state extension director. Following the adjournment from the court house, the club members will assemble on the square to .have a group picture made. Mr. McKay, Cullasaja photographer, has promised to make the picture. All ; club members will bring their own lunches for the picnic which will be held on the hill back of the can nery if the grounds can be obtained for the purpose. A definite announce ment as to this will be made later. Aside from (escorting the 4-H boys and girls to vthe banks, Rotary club representatives will take groups to The Franklin Press of ice, to the can nery, and to, the creamery where the boys and girls will be instructed as to how printing is done, how the can nery operates, and how butter fat is handled at the creamery. It is fur thermore planned to escort groups to court house offices where the dutk-s of county-'officers will be explained. In the afternoon, and continuing until dark',- a moving picture show of about ten reels will be showing at the Idle Hour theatre to which .4-11 club members will be admitted at the special price of 10 cents. In ad dition .athletic contests will prob ably be put on in the afternoon, with prizes for winners of each event. Rotary club members will be the guests of the 4-H members at., the picnic, and the two clubs are expect ed to co-operate to make the event: of the day enjoyable for all. JOINT HOSTESSES AT BRIDGE Mrs. T. W .Angel, Jr., and Miss Mattie-Angel 'j-were joint hostesses Friday afternoon at Mrs. Angel's apartment. 1 he living room and sun parlor were beautifully decorated-wrth red roses. The prize ior the top score was won by Mrs. W. A. Rogers, Mrs. G. L. Crawford cutting consola tion. Following the games a salad course was served. Those playing bridge were:- Mrs. W. A. Rogers, Mrs. Sam L. Franks, Mrs. D. I). Rice, Mrs. Dick Hudson, Mrs. Emory Hun nicutt, Mrs. G. L. Crawford, Mrs. George Johnston, Mrs. Gaston Curtis. Mrs. Roy Cunningham, Mrs. C. W. Hames, Mrs: Claude Russell, Mrs. Grady Siler, Mrs. G. L. Houk, Mrs. Zeb Angel, Mrs. M. L; Dowdle, Mrs. Rimmer, Mrs. Natt, Macon, Mrs. G. A. Jones, Mrs.. Fred Higdon, Mrs. H. Valentine, Mrs. S. A. Harris, Mrs. T. B, Willis, Mrs. Davenport, Mrs. Newman, Miss Mary Willis, Miss Katherine Hiinnicutt, Miss Helen Burch .Miss Kate Higdon. Miss Cor nelia Cunningham. Miss Daisy Siler, Miss Ora Sue Hunnicutt and Miss Annie Will Siler. on TO ESTABLISH BRANCH HERE? Athens Business College Planning to Have Class at Franklin Pres. R. E. Car ter Here Seeking Location. Plans for the establismmcnt of a branch of the Athens Business college at Franklin are" being formed here this week -by- R.- E.-Carter, -president oflne college. ThTtranch, if locate!! here, will be under the auspices)? the Athens Business college, Mr. 'Carter stated. Scholarships in the Franklin branch will be good in the college at Athc'ns, and diplomas will be issued from there. In case the branch is located here, it is expected that a number of stu dents will be enrolled from adjoining counties who will find it possible to remain at home and attend the ses sions here if they so desire. Courses in bookkecpine. short hand, typewrit ing, grammar, spelling, " arithmetic, rapid calculation, and business law will be among those that will be - - H VI M U l V J X'. lilt.. IV'VUI 111.11 cure 'these courses at a minimum fee, due to the fact that they will be at or - near home. . r A number of Graduates - of - thp- Ath ens' Business college have come from .Franklin. . Hugh Leach, county audi tor, is a graduate. Others from Franklin include : Emorv Hunnimft Addie Barnard, Mrs. Myrtle Nichols, tenth Anderson, Mrs. Clara Fuller, Avery Cunningham and George Pa tillo. One or two of thp!i liav not yet completed the full course for which they enrolled. Mr. Carter has found that sent iment in Franklin favors the estab lishment of the college. He has been negotiating for the lease of the Ma sonic hall in which to hold classes, and has the endorsement of the lead ing Masons. County Superintendent M. D, Billings and G. L .Houk, sup erintendent of. the local high school, have endorsed the oronosition. The chamber of commerce, through Mrs. earce, has given its approval. The school. Mr. Carter statpH mmII open July 1, if quarters can be se cured where the school will have room for classes and if a cnf f'f'ont number of nunils are secured TW Press for next week will carry def inite information as' to what action is taken during the week. PRESS JYPE JALKS A BUSINESS BOOSTING BULLETIN FOR COMBATING MAIL-ORDER COMPETITION Published By THE FRANKLIN PRESS . ' . (C) ; 7 Bringing in Customers and Promoting Sales Merchandise well displayed in your windows will bring in cus tomers from the street. Merchandise well displayed in your home newspaper will bring in customers from every section of your trade territory. This has been proven over and over again by the big, J-Tzzx .irLJ ot tne country. Big. Successful merchants, invarloklv ...I ! .t . i i . " ' whw realize me great purching power of their trade territory, and who go after this . businesrjust. as persistently as the. mail-order houses by pre senting interesting merchandise offerings regularly through the local newspaper. The great majority of these merchants have a certain appropria tion or fixed amount to invest in this sales promotion work each year. The big city stores invest from 5 per cent to 7 per cent of the previous years gross sales in their promotion work or advertising. V T essful merchant of the smaller cities and towns invest from 3 to 4 per cent of the previous year's gross sales in presenting their merchandise offerings regularly to the people of their community. This method of regulating advertising expenditures has absolute ly proven itself and is bound to produce an increase in sales each year with any merchant who adopts it. The increase doesn't necessarily show the first week or the first month after the advertising starts, but it does show and show hie ilrZ dver.,n been carried regularly and persistently throughout the entire year. ' u thi! 3 P.r CenV r ,4 per cent were 'Pent " one time it would not produce the desired results, but continued over the entire year-very day or every other day or every week, it is the surest, promo" ,peed,e,t meth0f world for bringing in customer, and u LOCAL SCHOOL LEADS STATE In Lowest Per Capita Cost of Instruction Teacher Qualifications Improving Scholarship is Average. That Macon county's high school located at Franklin is the most eco nomically administered of any hich school in the state is made plain by State School Facts, a pamphlet pub lished seml-mohthlyYjhejtate3' crintendentjf public instruction. The figures released cover the year 1926-2-7 show, that the high school at Franklin with a monthly cost per pupil of $4.18 has the lowest per capita cost of any school in the. state. The stac average is $8.22 while Vance county with a monthly cost of $13.10 per pupil has the highest per capita cost. With an average of 31 students per teacher as compared with a state average of 19.2 Macon county also leads the state with the highest average humber of pupils per teacher. In the year 1926-27 there were four teen counties in the state.- with . high V.:.:.. iVV- 1Wi . lk4.-' con county: Since that time the qualifications of teachers in the local school have been raised to the extent that this county will now rank among the first fourteen counties in the state in so far as teacher scholarship is concerned That student scholarship is not sacrificed on the altar of expense in this county is indicated by the fact that such scholarship in the year 1926-27 was the average of the entire state. From the view point of expense the state superintendent seems to use Ma con countv as a model to be followed by other counties. In his summary in the May 15 issue of State School racts tne superintendent says: Un the basis of results ohtained it would seem economical to establish larger administrative units in the rural svstems. and tn rpniiirc mnre nnnile , . r in average attendance for each teach er employed, .bach or the schools now has a principal, so by enlarging and consolidating existing units no increase is necessarv at this noint and considerably, reduction in per capita cost could be affected." THE FRANKLIN PRESS. DESCENDANTS OF SAMEL GIBSON HOLD REUNION Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murray Hosts to 150 Members of Pioneer Family One hundred and fifty members of the Gibson family, descendants.. of Rev Samuel -Gibson,-pioneer-Baptist minister-in Macen-,- Swain, - and Jack son counties, assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank .Murray.. of this city last Sunday to celebrate the birthday of Mrs. lielsy. Jane Grant, the oldest member of the family now living. Aunt Betsy Jane is the daugh ter of John Gibson, and the grand daughter of Rev. Samuel Gibson, who preached in the bounds of the old, Tuckaseegce association during the early days of this association. Among the living children of John Gibson are: Betsy Jane Grant, Palestine Leatherman, Margaret Carter, Eliza Ann' DeHart, Fannie Dillard, Nancy Garden, and Thomas and Hayes Gib son. Visitors were present at the dinner from three - states.-- The -de AAJI Murray and his home" was open to' a great gathering. The Gibson family is noted for the health and hardiness oLits. members. There-is one . family I in " which ' there has hardly been a death in a generation, and no deaths until recently. . Rev. Samuel Gibson, the pioneer preacher, was born about the year 1796 and died in 1878. He fought in the War of 1812, being fife major in a regiment. He removed to Haywood county before the year 181. His son, John, was born in 1819. Rev., Samuel sawed out the lumber for his firs house with a whip saw. He later re moved to bhoal Creek, where six of his children were born. The lator children were born in Macon county. Kev. samuei was an industrious worker and a liberal sunoorter of his family. His , corn and potatoes were worked bv his own hand. H- always carried an extra hoe to the field, so that, if any of his parish oners came by to visit him, he could say to him, "I always work while I talk. There is a hoe. heln me with this row of corn." He had to make a living for his family while he preached the cosoel to the earlv spi- tlers. He was not ashamed of work. He carried a heavy burden. He had a lame familv to sunnort. Up re ceived little for his ministerial labors. One member of the family remembers that .he received a nair of socks from a member, at Shoal Creek. Rev. Samuel was alwavs rpadv tn heln the fellow that was in troiihip and down and out. One, day while carrvinir the irons for an- old saw mill, he came across 'a cripple on his way. He picked up the cripple on his back and carried him and the saw mill irons to the top of the mountain. He found aid for the crip ple and and thushclpcd his fellow nun in trouble. , ; Times were hanl in the mountains in those days. There were no cement roads. There were only little trails. There is a Sam Gibson Trail, and a Sam Gibson Ridge named after him. ITe preached the gospel to the In dians and early white settlers. 1 He doubtless uavr aid to tho firct fionartesnvlTO-xarpe into theterritory irom. ucorgia . aeentury,ago , Rev. Samuel Gibson had a colorful, as well - as a hrd ca -f. He was the son of a Miss Brc- n, who mar ried his father. His fvst wife was a Miss Black. His second wife wns a Miss White. He saw many Blue Mondays. And his career included many red letter days, when he travel led fortv miles on foot and preached at night. He preached to red men, white men. and black men. He walk ed along the green aisles of the for ests, and tramnled th rprl give the good news of salvation to men whose hearts were black with sin. The green eye of envy was never cast at him. No one envied his hard lot. His feet were doubtless often purple with bruises. But his tipart w?s white with innocence. Members of the fifth generation of the Gibson family were present at Mr. Murray's home feast. Viz. James Cleveland and Tohn Robert Cone, sons of Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Cope, and (Continued c.'. pT:-2 cicht)