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bring our income to the point that it can stand the
strain without groaning.
We are here. The conditions are as they are.
What are we going to do about it? This is home
to us the most hallowed spot on the face of the
earth and it's up to each and every one to make the
most of it. Macon expects it of us.
Macon expects every man to do his duty.
"Now is the time for a long pull and a strong
pull by every bloomin' soul." And so, dear reader,
we submit this, our first edition to you in the hope
that your judgment will be generous in the extreme
and that your support will be found well placed.
Macon county, its towns and its citizens and
its businesses first, last and all the time.
THE EDITOR.
Lt.-Gov. Fountain
State Auditor
Visits Franklin
Lieutenant Governor R. T. Fountain,
State Auditor Baxter Durham, and
Miss Lois Dozier who is connected
with the state welfare board, visited
Franklin today. Mr. Fountain had
attended a meeting of the Park Com
mission at Asheville and Bryson City
and returned to his hime by way of
Franklin. Mr. Durham had attended
the meeting of the association of
county commissioners and while in
this section of the state transacted
some important business at Bryson
City and Franklin. While in Franklin
Miss Dozier investigated a ' number
of cases requiring the services of her
department.
W. A. Graham, commissioner of
Agriculture, and L. E. Brogdon, super
visor of rural schools, were also visi
tors to Franklin last Saturday.
Camp Taukeetah News
(Last Week)
The outstanding event of the past
few days was the all-day trip to the
Black Place. This is one . of the
beauty places in the Nantahala Na
tional Forest, and offers wonderful
opportunity for firsthand study in na
ture. A . group of the campers hiked
almost all the way, and others hiked
awhile and rode awhile. Lunch was
served on the lovely lawn of the
old Slagle homestead. In the after
noon everybody went in swimming in
the Nantahala river, and some ex
plored the Dismal Cove, finding rare
specimens of fungi and flowers. .After
a hot picnic supper, groups of hikers
set out homeward.
Among the entertainments which
have been given have been a kid's
party, a ghost party, a pajama party,
a newspaper party, and story telling.
At the kid's party everyone turned
into a little boy or girl, and enjoyed
all the games of childhood, such as
London" Bridge, Fruit Basket, Pretty
, Girls' Station, etc. Toward ' the end
of the party, everyone was invited
out to look at the stars. After be
ing led among the trees, they were
surprised by being led finally to a
table of sliced watermelon. The ghost
party proved to be most scary, with
a ghost perched high in a tree, giving
WHY OLD METHODS
OF FARMING FAIL
Our grandfathers used to clear fields
plant them in corn for a few years,
and when the fields became too poor
to make corn they would clear other
fields that were fresh and rich. Our
farmers today can not follow this
plan; for there are very few acres of
land in , timber that ought to be
cleared. In fact, already we have
cleared thousands of acres of land
that cannot be kept from washing.
This means that, these soils will keep
on getting poorer and poorer till they
are put into grass or. timber. Our
fields are like cans of milk the rich
est part is at the top. Already much
of the cream of our soils has been
washed down our creeks and is for
ever lost to us.
While our best soils have been
washing away, leaving a rocky sub
soil to deal with, our farmers havce
had to compete with men who have
j been cultivating millions of acres of
new sous that are . too nearly level
to be badly damaged by washing. The
latest .issue of the Geographic Maga
zine tells us that in memory of the
present generation the amount of
wheat grown in Kansas has been mul
tiplied ten times. The' greater part
of the land that is cultivated in the
United States is smoother than the
best fields in Macon county. , This
gives them a great advantage over us
in thd ease with which they can
cultivate their soils. Even using
horses, an Illinois farmer can more
easily cultivate fifty acres of corn
than a Macon county farmer can
cultivate fifteen acres with ' a buil
tongue plow and hoe. In Nebraska,
one farmer using horses and hiring
no help has been known o cultivate
more than a hundred acres of corn.
But there is a great change taking
place in the farming business one of
the greatest revolutions of our time!
Power driven machines are taking the
places of many horses and men. On
the big tobacco farms in the eastern
part of the state ope sees tractors
pulling tobacco planters across great,
level fields. These machines set the
plants at equal distances apart, pour
water around them, and smoothe the
soil firmly above their roots. Plants
set in this way live better than those
set bv the average farm hand. In
the Middle West the greatest farm-
OS Arretted By
Four Patrolmen
Mack Franks One cf Officers
RALEIGH, Aug. 13. Sixty-eight
arrests were made during the month
of July by Lieutenant K. II. Beck
and by Patrolmen J. R. Smith, Mack
Franks and S. D. Moore of the
Eighth highway district, head quart
ers at Marion, for infractions of the
State's motor vehicle laws, according
to the report sent by Lieutenant Beck
to Captain Charles D. Farmer, head
of the state highway patrol.
Forty-seven of the arrests were
of drivers having no license plates
on their cars, . one of which had no
tilte, five for having improper tags
and one for using a dealer's tag.
Three were children not old enough
to drive, two were for wrcckless driv
ers, one for an overloaded truck, one
for defective lights and two were
for automobile thefts. The reports
lists one murder case, that in which
C. W. Doby and son, Dewey ran
into Patrolman George I. Thomp
son, the accident resulting in his
death. They are under $1,000 bonds
each for trial in superior court.
The patrolmen made arrests which
resulted in $175 in fines and $330
in fines which were suspended with
one jail sentence of four months. The
total costs in the cases was $337.10.
License plates ordered by those ar
rested for operating without licenses
totaled $802.25, while title fees . for
those without proper titles amounted
to $32.
the interpretations of the mystic signs
of other spirits, which hovered near. ! ;nr reeion tractors null several turn-
The spirits assigned stunts to each , ;ng plows across fields that are some
one, which had to be carried put ac-' times as large as townships. At har
cording to their directions. . vest time, tractors pull combined har-
Swimming tests are given three vesters that cut the heads from the
times a week. Those who have ; wheat, thresh them, and put the wheat
passed the tests this week entitling j jnt0 sacks. By such use of machinery,
e man can do as much work as
on
them to the emblem of the duck are :
Mary Engle Hoffman, Bryte Baker ; seVeral men used to do. This is
Ranson, and Mildred Ferguson. j one of the reasons whv aV stream of
This week is being featured as farmers are all the time pouring, into
Tellico Locals
Mr. Templeton of Gastonia is buy
ing poplar timber in this section and
trucking it to Bryson City where it
will be loaded on cars and shipped to
a factory at High Point, N. C.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Judson Smith
on August 15, a girl, Margaret Ruth.
Both mother and baby arc doing fine.
We are sorry to relate the illness
of Mr, Rufus McGaha. His many
friends hope to sec him out again
soon.
Mr. Turg of Hiawassee, Ga., is
spending a two weeks vacation with
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ramsey.
Mr. Stewart "and wife, of Franklin
accompanied by other friends were
in this section Sunday.
Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin of Atlanta,
Ga., and Airs. John J.
of Richmond, .Va., we v h" ' ' -
tion recently wanting
ture for . their summer tzz.vz mz"
Wayah Bald.
Mr. Lee Black an 1 wife and two
children of Atlanta, Ga., were visiting
relatives in this secttDn recently.
Fine Peaches
Fiddlin' Jim Corbin brought , into
town last week some of the finest
peaches' ever grown in this county.
They were the J. H. Hale variety
and averaged nearly half a pound
each. Mr. Corbin states that a 25c
ad in The Press sold 52 bushels of
peaches.
CITY MARKET
The Home of:-
THE CHOICEST OF MEATS
AND
FRESH COUNTRY VEGETABLES
C. M. CLOUSE, Manager
NEW P. O. BUILDING
FRANKLIN, N. C
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Full Oversize
Balloons
GOODYEAR
PATHFINDER
Lifetime Guarantee
Mounted Free
Lmhl
29x4.40
$6.35
SIMILIAR SAVINGS ON
OTHER SIZES
Millions more people ride on
Tires. Goodyear builds
nearly twice as many tires
as any other company. This
makes possible values such
as listed here.
THE LAKE EMORY STORE
ANDY REID, Proprietor.
Route 4, Franklin, N. C.
poetry week. On certain days in as
sembly, each one gives oiic of her
favorite poems, and each girl is mak
ing a collection of poems which es
the cities. But these great , labor
saving devices can not be used to
anv iireat extent on our hillsides;
and the bull-tongue plow, hoe, and
pecially appeal to her. These collec-1 hand cradle can't be used indefinitely
tions are being put . in a notebook
which the girl herself is making.
Much originality is being shown in
the making of these books. At the
end of the week, each willj write an
original poem. Appropriate awards
will be given those who have attained
given standards in the poetry work.
This is also Little .Sister Week.
Each girl secretly chooses one whom
she calls Little Sister, and is doing
all kinds of lovely things for her, in
secret. Flowers found on the table
in the morning, and beds turned down
at night, shoes polished, pictures put
up, and many other things, all show
that a "Big -Sister" has been thinking
of, her "Little Sister." .
Two new campers were welcomed
Sunday. They are: Misses Cora Bry
son and Anne Laddey. r
Miss Sue Curtis Enjoying
Charleston Visit
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Jordan, Winder
mere, have as their guest Miss Sue
Curtiss, of Franklin, N. C.
Miss Curtis has been feted with a
round of entertainments. Mrs.. Jordan
entertained at a dinner dance in hr
honor last Wednesday. Miss Curtis
was also guest of honor on a week
end cruising party to Jacksonville
given by G. H. Clements, of Atlanta,
on his yacht, the Oriole. Charleston
Evening Post.
MRS. E. S. BROCK DIES
Mrs. E. S. Brock died at a hospital
in Atlanta, August 11.
Mrs. Brock before her marriage
was Miss Ina Belle Williams of Ma
eon county. She leaves a small baby
in a business that has been captured
by tractors, two-row cultivators, and
combined harvesters.
While the washing to our soils, and
the use of power machinery on mil
lions of new acres at other places,
have put us to a disadvantage in
the farming business, we have gone
on ; developing new' wants. To the
expenses that our fathers knew, we
have added higher taxes for better
schools and roads, costs for our car
rides, costs for movie, tickets, costs
for chewing gum, costs for the thou
sand and one nick-nacks that the
agent brings to our doprs. If some
one would teach us not to spend
money too fast, that man would be
worthy to have a monument . as high
as the clouds. 1
Our situation is far , from being
hopeless, however. . We can be sure
that our water power, our -minerals,
and our tourists resorts will be de
veloped more than at present. The
inr -eased growing of pure-bred poul
tr the 'rise of the dairy business,
an1 the building of trood highways
ar ail in our favor. The markets of
the Southeast prefer the fine flavor
of our anples and will choose them
instead of the Western, apples that
they now use just as soon as we
learn to produce . and market in a
reasonable way a standard article,
For the farmer who will keep his.
level fields rich, put his rolline fields
in erass, and all his steep fields, into
valuable kinds of timber, for this
farmer there are bright days ahead.
But for the farmer who is using bnl'
tongue plow and hoe on steo hill
sides, the laws that man did not
arq saving, "Change your methods
to rp''' npw conditions, move out. or
Ln
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Our Sale is going fine. New goods
arriving every day. V
Folks come and get them. Prices
the lowest in the history of Macon
County
Meet your friends at Porter's sale-