North Carolina Newspapers

f ' 1 I "I I I I - I ' " 4 I Wr WAtWU UWMN it w T FRANKLIN, Nr C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1328 HUMEER FORTY-Si: Ay"- LnJ !? c or? fe i in VOLUME XLIII .-'.-..,'- FORD EMPLOYEES EiUOYBJGSUPPER Employees of Joines Motor & Tractor Co. and Stand ard Oil Co. Have Oyster Supper in Show Room. ' Once each week the officials and "employees of the Joines Motor $i "Tractor company assemble to discuss the problems that confront the com pany in' its dealings with the public. Occasionally ; these meetings take the form of a supper. Monday night approximately fifteen employees and .their wives assembled at . the show room of 'the company for an oyster supper. Wade Recce and Jack Strib . Jing had arranged the supper. Jess Conlcy, general manager of the com-- j)any acted as toastmaster. Several employees made talks while . Jack Stribling made a regular" speech. Jack propounded some business ' philosophy that was unique. It was his conten pion that when a man accepted cm: . -nlnvmptit with a concern he not onlv sold his physical self to the company, , but his" moral self as well. No man , who is ;n.t morally fit is capable of igiving ' .the' best service to an em ployer, said Jack. Jack went even further and stated that an -employee not only sold himself but his family to the man who is paying the salary. Unless a mart has the moral backing of ..his wife in his., employment, that Unan' is not able to render the best "service. li&rr employee can not Dr. Frank Smith, Pioneer In Drug Business, Sells Out icy then Ttated that it had always fecen h.uk .yoncy oi nis uigauiz.au-m iu .w ptay only men in whom the public . h3d tiaAfidnceV - was had' r'radE-'-Be turned the" dials; 3hd Seamed to be partial to the old time; fiddling break- downs." ..., ' ;' "Among those preseM were : Mr.- and , Mrs. J. S. A Contey and daughter, Grace ; Mr.i and Mrs, S im Morrison and daughter, Dorothy Iiee; Mr. and Mrs. Jim' Palmer; .Mf,1 nd nr.s' George Brown;' Mr. and AMrs.W a C it- r,Mi s . tv. c . Henry ; AT r:A tr r r MA.rAe Mr. ana Mrs. Reid Cabe; Mr. and M, rK,c i uunningnam ; miss Myra Thad Patton, Ralph Womack Jfc.k . Stribling, Bob Blaine and tht fo1" lowing named guests : J. W. i rect and Major S. A. Harris. . :. .: .-. I X f - ' y, n tit ri i HIGHLANDS ROAD NOWATNPOIVS Road in Fine Shape Many Strangers on Route Sun dayRoad Follows Culla saja For Several Miles. FRAKLH Oil I7T0lRBlS, THROUGH ROUTS John Smith, the- resident engineer in charge of highways in this county,, is to be congratulated oil the excellent condition of highway Np. .28 as far as the road is graded. The grade is now finished to The Narrows about two miles above the road camp. Auto mobiles can go to the end of the grade over an excellent road in half an hour or less time. Sunday after tinnn mnnv stranecrs were found in the Cullasaja gorge inspecting the new road. In this connection the road is probably better . known- outside ot Macon county than it is in the county. Fcw-Vckizens uf1 Macon have -seen this marvelous engineering feat whiU strangers from far and near never miss the opportunity to view the scen ic wonders of the Cullasaja gorge. Leaving the old road near McCoy s store the highway crosses Buck creek and then up the? gorge to -Brush the entire distance ! r T.-aiin n frurlilarifls the road i-nhr fn rmn the river, rrom Ai-c Coy's- store to the- municiT'H aiuw at Highlands the highway is within, sight of the river ana in mosi prates v-nle frnm the stream, lhe scenery from the foot of the Cowecs ir:,vUUn,lc i without doubt the u,,tX in ihi western nart ot .i. - r.A VJkIp Karris', of the r i n c s t ct i c; w " . , i Federal Ssystem Of Nusn bering Highways Favor This City (B-y Harvey Holleman In the Asheville Citiz) Tfie' W'isibm and foresighif of the nwti who ' originated and it into operation th system dI federal num bering for trunk line highways thiwighout ifte Unitci States, have agahr been ilanoiistrattCL. x 'Thtf Bureau, of PuUic Roads .at Washington,- iir; co-opcrj.tion with ttfe Anuriiati HigiKays assvciation, has ereatlv simtilifiet! the problem of long distanc motoring through .tot the land. The various states are rapidly ad justing ifceir local highway numbering to conform to tne icoerai sysiv.-iu, ai in a coniarativclyv thort time the mo torist majr follow 6J. S. numbers ex clusively for any destinaifon whea traveling m through irunK- tnitb. Federal numbering has rmade pos sible marv interstate and transconti nental roact stiuatioras of bunefit to long distance motorists, pourists are finding als that it i iwssiblf to jug gle the federal murabers, switching from one tw the -other to, avtfid con struction and) repair dktotirs. By com bining favored secticas pf federal hrghways cm.g may irse iniy ucuci, r.-,rlc tn iffmost "aiivr itart of the In Easiness Here 43 Years- Filled Nearly. Half Million Prescriptions Expresses Appreciation of Patronage. PEOPLE PROTES V CUILDIflC JAIL Paper Requesting Postpone ment of Building New Jail Circulates Ovef tite fin- ' Itire County. A paper requesting that the erection of a new jail be postponed until the county's , financial conditions will per mit the building of a court house and jail combined is being circulated all over the county this week. Accord ing to reports reaching Franklin tax payers everywhere in the county are anxious to sign this paper. It seems to be; the general opinion of the tax payers that the present jail can be repaired so as to - meet the require ments of the state, at least for a few years. It is pointed out by those who oppose the building of a new jau at tnis time tnat tne expenditure necessary for this purpose would be a total waste when, the time comes to build a new court house. Local con tractors and builders have inspected the old jail this week and are ex pected to render a report by .next Monday as to' whether (the jail can be repaired and if so, what the cost will be. According to an announcement made here today Dr. Frank T. Smith who t,c Kppn actively engaged in the drug business in Franklin for the t 4.V vears has sold his drug stoic to Mr. Jim Perry, a native of Macon .nttf The retirement of Dr. Smith VVW'"., - . . from active business marks the close of a singularly interesting career in the business life of thA town. Spon sored and backed by tlV late: Dr. . M. Lyle and the present Dr. b. ri. Lvle of Franklin, Dr. Smith opened , a 7 .....re urn in a drug store nere tj j";". : a little frame building on Mam street .4iere T. T. Moore & company are 1 ow doing business m a concrete Slock. Later the drug store which is i eheved to have been the on y m k . . l . f WQvnpsville at that "i i state wcm , , tffc e movcd into another store located !rti t V) Tn,Wrr5si IS 110W m whe. Soon after moving to this County Commissioners Met Here Monday The board of county commissioners inner their swan song here Monday when they met to close up the- affairs of the county preparatory to turning the county over to the new board ot commissioners on the first Monday in December. The meeting Monday was an adjourned one from the pre vious Monday. ' , A Wedding? The Tress is in receipt of a com munication telling of a wedding on i .:..,.. tmi- nc no name was signed to the letter tne n.v the contracting parties are withheld. progress from the standpoint of husiness here neaitn. ju . the state did not require druggists to be licensed in towns having a .opu lation of less than five hundred . bi 1897 this law was changed and re- .i -u ,ir.,yUts to urocure li- Soon after moving to mis quireu u. . h the. ncw .. .., -nr.nntnr1 nnst I ronses. Ill compiidnei. , m. Dr. mnn w . e-ih i)r. r. A. Kaysor o at Franklin during ' ' , r. w. H. Justus of Hendersonville ' took the recuired ex amination and U .rcccc..-. For many years Dr. Raysor ran a Irug store in Asheville, but is now retired while Dr. Justus is still m active business at Hcndcrsonv.lle. Dr. Smith is the son of the lak Pr C D. Smith, a notcdIethodis, minister tn , Tr i t ., Smith, was -a member of the Holsto conference and served as Pastor in manv towns in North Carolina and Virginia. On several occasions e nciH nir e dcr. in wi in- ' Large Numbers See Fire Prevention Pictures Over 3500 people attended the show-: ings of the forest service traveling fire prevention project on the Nan tahala district last month. The Nan thala Ranger district lies mainly in acon county and overlaps into Clay, Swain and Jackson counties. Eighteen engagements were filled in the course of the tour. The attendance and in terest shown is gratifying to local forest service men and inspires con fidence that the fire prevention record in this section of the state will con tinue to be as good as it has been in the past two years. , ' !msm if H t'u tnAcY. . ::.tinn Thus the drug sectmd . 1 the post office were in the storf ajiv Uding. A few years later same Jm again moved nis .uusmi" Dr. StnHk' 'ing ndw. occupied by the to the ,buV 'hevrolet company, sun Perry-Jone i moved again to a new latr T)r , 'ftk it hv 1. T. Moore and building ere ted' . htter now living a't vr t u 1 . . sr H) vears Dr. nil. ttIlUUV, UIC k i j . Winstnii-Sali- Xi. fi, hug business at Smith conduc W lii'tf twp years ago 'i:., ...t.. Scott "tinniti tif po-ain Tnrivf ri tr ttt 'irne ottlie hotel block. About the W 's -a g"SI: last move Dr. Smith' tool? i. 'n. h ,c. Scroggs. Dr. Scrojgs wi"' . with the ncw owner as Brttcrij. tion- ist During his -forty-thrtt" ycars i. druggist the business of rir Smith has grown until -at the datt ;rf safe he had one of the Idri'es itrfur hL ncsses in the western part of the statr. During that time, too, Dr.; Sniftri acted as his own .. '-prescription; drug gist With the txcepiion of short m- bered filled prescriptions now on f fa in Smith's drug store indicate that hv has filled between 400,000 a mT 5(X W prescriptions during his career as a druggist at Franklin. The entire population of Franklfrr, while expressing regret that their be loved druggist is going out of busi ness, have likewise expressed their ap preciation of his services and extended to him congratulations , on the . success been in business longer than-' .-. other man in rranklin. During th"; tim. he has seen the State make much Six years past the' allotted three ,mi i,.n Hnn W. I. Tcnkins on November 9th celebrated his 70th birthdav at his home on Covvce. ITie celebration was in the form of a din ner prepared as only Mrs. .-Jenkins knows how to prepare a meat. Around the -table at noon were gathered tour ..r civ trms and dauuhters of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins. Those present were Mrs. Bob Sheffield, Mrs. John Kay, Mrs I'. J. Hurst and Mrs. I. 1. Elmore. A daughter, Mrs. Mary Hurst of Detroit and a jbnVcavcr A. Jen, ,.f Qnn Antnnin Texas, were UH- of FranH,.,. lo. ims u..." u . , .... . . - y tVVO CnilUICIl, " Last week members rf the A. A. A. discovered that by . combining U. ; S. routes 25, 19' and 41, they would have an almost perfect through route- fronj Detroit I to Florida ovar whieff fast time is possible the eatire distance, and the roads arc , such' that weather. jitmn,! pfi'prt them no more than lummiviw v...w. - on the best Boulevards in the btatt of Michigan. rwrnif it follbvts U. S. route 25 through Toledo, Lima, Daytorr, Cin cinnati, Lexington and, Wrin u Asheville, where it switthes toU. route 19, tfirotigh Canton, waynes ville, Dillsboro, Franklin, across to the North Carolirra-Georgiar state line through Gainesville, Ga., to y Atlanta, from which city U. S. route 41" lead j: U. tr. Tri Cityr Fla. It IS authoritatively declared to ,De, at time, the. longest; stretch of modern paving m Georgia. . Reports verity tnai inis iuuic v Detroit to- Florida, elimihates .the bugabcar of mud, dust and trouble some detours for the motorist from the Great Lakes region to tne sun shine state and the Gulf of Mexico, there being only 94 miles of possible dust-producing roadway aiong mis iv Ui iiate of Michigan. Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia to any unpu. iau city in- Florida, according to informa tion and data recently assembled. The announcement of the hookmg up of this ncw route combination will result in the Michigan and Ohio, fall .. ...;.tr rri't Hsint? it in great JUKI Wlllivi - " if f- t numbers. There are a number ot first class hotels in Asheville, the majority, of the tourists will make this a night stop-over point, in the opinion of local hotel men. N " the"KockvMoimtamsr"tnair Aiir--"-f , views in "North-Carolina. The grade j is now. past Raven's Cliff and' a short! distance beyond' the- great tiat rock that was formerly used as a pu pit by- itinerant - preachers. Fronv the steam shovel the mouth of The Nar rows' can be seen. Here tne nnii " distane througn a narrow opening not more than: six feet wide: Kelly I'aib arc low The Narrows while thDty Falls can be found a mile or two further up the river. .From- Wisn crceK iur highway starts on- a gradual, mchnc that fin-ally reaches the top of he Covvees. The entire length of the Cullasaja gorge is seven or eight mHes. In this distance the river falls nearly 2000 feet. In fact it iVa com plete series of falls and cascades, pre- scnting views unexceieu n America. ''' W.JJMONSHAS BlRfflDAYDiie Celebrates 76th Birthday Onlv Children and Grand children Present Makes Interesting Talk. the laughter of many grandchi drcn. i.. l,;., toll- m:.(!r nfier the meal, was ! served Mr. Jenkins staled that he nev i.-iv.-. n-. . ... :' n f,,vmrr m now .the WlIC f Dr. Fleet Scroggs while the latlu is the supervisor or mu - " - '" .VZr w, m, old enough t . rih A-4ioima. i'- , .u,,: " ,,. tt,:s the . first f u No TR K - b - a m.;;: far Mr. J,ki, local l A on the town uuami .n ; ,m . jin.u" befofv 'Vision,. Tfe is also p j children Present a . nbjtanc.n 1 c; also serv "ht of the local lodge ".' "l.-r srimmv: ;"") numerous V " 'er and for years was j he was rctain.ny a u m. k . t M l barter merHt Methodist church. to k. h.m an i.rs hm . , the . Junior Oa who bought the.oM-a. prided h. 'vl . r" f n Wwnrd of the a Rraduatr .n j old. .He referred lo J " Jr Dr fim Penv shingtmt Stnte America and cited Darnel Wr . Smith drm? -, ' was in the a man mightv intellect and rn,;,htv Xrmacv It the W- f"-" in action. Mr. Jenkins said that whe, Cy,t Jt,y- 'fie Horn, his time comes to pa to his rewrt d drugus nesVi-n lhe west and he J J0 year.v He married Miss fe. , ... , J "aU; h ac;5n in the if.n tt, elns'ma his t;.dk Mr. Jen- Of ficial Returns of Macon County Hoover. -2903: Smith, l IM 1 I v .v. v.. - . .. . ( ' 7AO tmc lI,.A..of'c maiurilV. 7UfS. For Governor : (.arrtner, a-i well. 2542. Gardner! majority, 2 r;.. rnntrress: Weaver, ft3. t,.'...i...i -;7? Tir- For Rcuister of Deeds: Hurst, 2535: Stockton. 270!). Mockton s m J For' Snnevor: i-ish. 2575; San r... )io' TMrr;lt rnaioritv. 9o. ' i:(,r O.-opor: OmW. 2042; Vng ham 2-1C4. Conlev's majority. , Charlie 1-U-c-re, ;mg as an m , t.t. .:.1 ? votes. Fr Sheriff: limrrii. 2(.91 ;. Shook, 28, ' 60o.-. iMm..iM. .-- ... K,.r. r.in'iii".si' "'rs '.annni, 2f3: R'ck A,C " 1 '130. The first mail, . i . - nmorl were c-'ted. l" ,,.er Sisk was somelhing over 000. . irhter nf thr- lu Mrs.-Horni of. Franklin. . ' , In retiril'ig from business Dr S. extends hfe thanks for the patroria cialion for the fricrnkhina m-, I.. , . 1- uu.- j mg that time. rtif,s read "'i oriiwrd por.ni Hh'ch . ...... roi s a lonows: r . , rplini away like the stars ot the losing their Usht m . the glorious steal away Only rcniKiiKcrcf. Dy vnai i-h" done. " 1