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OLDEST PAPr.
WEST OF
ASHEVILLE
INVESTIGATE MACCI! COUNTY
HEART OF A MOUNTAIN EMPIRE RIPE FOR DEVELOPMENT
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"I charge r-&d A&P Tea compart
in this town and in every othd
town , as being a monopoly," declard
McKinley Edwards, Bryson City a
torney, at an anti-chain store mee
ing sponsored by the home merchant
of Macon county at the court hous
on Wednesday evening,
"The A&P cares nothing for th
welfare or prosperity of the peopl
of Macon county', asserted Mr., b
wards. "The home merchants 'stool
by you in all the years of the pal
and made" the town what it is
He charged the A&P beans we
"one-third water."
"The A&P is not helping the id
stitutions of the state. It is n
helping the town one dollar. It
not paying any taxes in the town l
amount to anything. We are inte
ested in the welfare of our children.
Public schools must be supported bl
taxes on oroDertv. The A&P slip!
-A. t, Allen," X.vi.--iennten
dent of the Franklin High school, has
announced that a; part of the Live
' at-Home Week program will be cor
related with! the routine work of the
nigh school and grammar grades here.
'Live-at-Home Week is being ob
served from Feb. 10 to 14, inclusive
' "Conditions are different in our
ihnntain counties from conditions
that exist in the Piedmont and East
ern sections of. North Carolina, ' Pro
fessor Houk asserted. "The live-at-
home program is provided primarily
to better the state of affairs in the
one-crop vicinities of the state. Here
in Macon county diversified agricul
ture is practiced by most farmers
One crop, such as cotton or tobacco,
is not relied' upon as the solC source
of income. ;
"As" another example, take, the milk
cow. Here . in the mountains nearly
every home in 'the rural districts is
orovided with one or more cows,
and many of the families in the, towns
have their: owtfcCowsIf 1X9! jnvesri-
rt& sections of North Carolina east
of - the mountains, yodXM
y to find that . the miuc cow is icw
tively scarcer.
To Correlate Work
: , "In correlating the Live-at-Home
Week program with the regular sche
dule of work in the school, the plan
will be made 4 applicable to local con
ditions as nearly as possible. We will
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emphasize such parts of the program : join. There is not going to be any
as will be likely to better conditions ! thing started that has the remotest
that the individual inounain ' farmer j chance of calling for large expendi-
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The topic for Monday, "Daily F6od j
for the Family," ' was emphasized in .
the local high school and grammar
grades. The topics for the succeed
ing four days, which include the im
portance of the cowr poultry, hog,
and garden, are also being given such
emphasis as is thought necessary.
The main work of , the Franklin
students during the t week,. Professor
Houk said, is in the essay contests
connected - with the observance of
Live-at-Home Week.' A state prize
is offered for the best essay writ
ten.; by .a high school student on
some phase of the live-at-home pro:
gram. A similar prize is offered for
the best essay from a pupil in the
elementary grades. Franklin students
will compete for these awards.
FRANKLIN GIRLS
ON MUSIC TRIP
Misses Hunnicutt and Craw-
ford Return to N. C. C. r -W.
From N. Y.
. Greensboro, Feb. 10.Eleven . se
niors in the school of music at North
Carolina college .reported for work
Tuesday morning, after a trip of 10
days in New York for a special study
of operatic and orchestral perform
ances in that city. They were ac
companied by Mrs, Wade R Brown
and Dr. Brown, dean of the school of
music. : . ., -
Those who were in the party are
named here : Misses Kathryn Brown,
China Grovej Flossie Gogdell, Golds
boro; Timoxena Crawford, Franklin;
Charlotte Hatcher, Dunn; Katherine
Hine, Winston-Salem;'. Pra Sue Hun
nicutt, Franklin ; Margaret , McCon
nell, Gastomar Christie Maynard,
(Continued on page four)
OSCAR E. MOORE
DIES IN ATLANTA
AFTER ACCIDENT
Oscar E. Moore, 57, son of the
late Jesse S. Moore and Callie
Moore -died in an Atlanta hospital
last week following injuries received,-
two weeks before his death
when struck by a motor vehicle.
He had, been in ill health for
several months, and while in the
hospital, complications set in which
resulted in his death. r
Mr. Moore was born March 8,'
1872, in Macon county. He mar
ried Carry Turner, of Bower sville,'
Ga , who has been dead for sever
al years. One child born to Mr.
and Mrs. , Moore is also dead. '
y i'UUViai OVIVIVS , tut; uvvwj-
ed were held here at noon last
Friday in the Methodist church
with Rev. R. F. Mock officiating.
Mr. Moore was a nephew of J.
T. Moore of Franklin, and is sur
vived by a number o of . relatives,
including J. : , A. Porter, T. W.
Porter, W. B. .McGuire, and J.
A. Conley and family.
C OF C STARTS
WBfflE DRIVE
Goal of 100 Is Set For
Organization's Mem
bership At the first meeting of the board
of the Chamber $i Commerce, plans
were put into effect to make a drive
for 100 charter members.' J. E; Ri!e,
president, says," 'Telf this little town
f-birrs - that -we, afl going to do all
in our power to make: things happen.
We think that anything short of 100
charter members would be a'reflec
ti nrt . the nrocressive soirit that
has taken so great a hold upon our.
t - t t T
xoiks wiinxn me iasi icw luuuiud. v
ask that every one that is interested
call at the town clerk's office and
tures. No man need be afraid that ne
is getting" in to something that will
be a hacdship for him. We want the
ladies to join also. As soon, as this
goal of 100 charter members is reach
ed, we will begin on other plans that
have been formulated.
Ladies Invited
"The ladies are asked to join as
well as the men; for this is a whole
community project that we are launch
ed upon now We are going to hang
together so that there will be no
separate hangings. If it is not con
venient for any one to go to the
clerk's office see any one of the fol
lowing directors: T. W. Angel, Sr.,
(Continued on page four)
5T FIRES SWEEP COWEE TIMBERLANDS
IN TERRITORY ADJACENT TO ETNA DISTRICT
Conflagrations T hreaten
Nantahala rorcst in
Two Places
'.t A , forest fire of 'undetermined ori
gin swept rapidly over a large, but
unestimated acreage of timberland in
the Cowee mountains near Etna in
this county last Monday and Monday
night. It had not been brought under
control Tuesday. Residents of the
section adjacent to the fire telephoned
to Franklin for : aid. County . War
den Fred Slagle attempted to or
ganize a fire fighting company, but
was handicapped by lack of equip
ment. : '
At the same time fires threatened
lanads of the Nantahala National
forest on Trimont mountain and on
Ammons' knob These, however, were
confined to an area of less than 10
acres each. Both evidently were
Started by careless smokers or hunters.-,-.
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FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
BOY IS I70UMD
IGllACCffiM
David Miller, 1Z, Receives
Shotgun Discharge In
His Face
LEFT EYE IS REMOVED
Patient's Condition Painful,
But He Is Not Believed
: In Danger
Dover Miller, 112-year-old son of
Dave Miller, of Macon county, was
seriously wounded. at noon last Thurs
day when he received in his face part
of the load from a shotgun fired by
Tom Franks, farmer, While out" hunt
ing., Officers, who investigated, reported
that . the shooting was accidental.
They said the farmer was out hunt
ing and was attempting' to shoot a
hawk which had lodged in some bush
es on the side of a hill two miles
below Franklin, near the Tennessee
river; The man fired and, in so do
ing wounded the boy. He said he
did not see the boy in the bushes.
Taken To Hospital
The injured youth was brought to
the Angel hospital here, where he
received treatment. Physicians found
it necessary to remove the left eye.
The other eye was not injured. The
shot severely lacerated the boy's face.
Although his condiiton is painful, it
is not believed that the patient is, in
any danger.
SALE OF PROPERTY
FOR UNPAID TAXES:
OF '192738, MARCH 1
Unpaid taxes in Macon county for
10?7 attA 1Q2R are to be
-niumA K !1 nf nmnprtv on
whicn taxes are juef Sheriff C. L.
a . -kr j aJ
incrrlm annouancca last Monaay. a
vertisement of the lands will be made
on March 1, Sheriff Ingram said.
TWO IN HOSPITAL
FROM COUNTIES
ADJOINING MACON
Two men from counties adjoining
Macon are in Angel Brothers' hos
pital here as the result of a shoot
ing affair and an accident.
Glen Martin, of Tusquitte, Clay
county, is shot through the abdomen
with an automatic calibre bullet which
he alleges to have been fired by
Grady Coward. An op.eration was
performed Monday morning, to save
his life.
T.awrenpi Griffith, son of Sheriff
Griffith of Graham county is i in the
hospital with a broken leg as the re-
suit of a telephone pole falling and
striking the limb.
On Monday night eight separate
fires appeared to be burning in the
Cowee section, and they had swept
from above Etna near Leatherman
bald to highway No. 286, covering at
least 3,000 acres, Mr. Slagle estimates.
The fires in this district are outside
the jurisdiction of the Nantahala Na
tional1 forest.
Lookajuts Posted
Last Saturday and Sunday lookouts
were placed on duty at all lookout
stations within the Nantahala forest,
in anticipation of fires during the
present dry season.
More than a year, ago, Macon coun
ty withdrew the aid by which it had
with the state jointly supported fin;
.wardens in all sections of the county.
Fire fighting equipment was kept
within reach of all wardens, and no
serious fire occurred while the system
was in force The present fire on
Cowee is the first serious conflagra
tion that has occurred in Macon tim-
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BODY
FOR TOWN
FRANKLIN SPLITS
TWIN BILL WITH
SYLVA HI SCHOOL
, Franklin High and Sylya-High
split a twin bill last Thursday
night, the Franklin girls taking the
opener by a 21 to .17 count while
the Sylva boys won their battle,
20 to 16.- Both games were played
in Sylva. The contests were close
from beginning to end and were
attended by a large crowd of en
thusiastic cheerers.
HUM COUNTY
MTH I READING
Showing of Magazine And
Daily Paper Circulation
Here Is Poor
Macon county ranks sixty-fourth
among the counties of North Caro
lina in the number of magazines anJ
daily newspapers circulated per fam
ily, according to statistics published
in the University ; News Letter of
Chapel Hill. Commenting on reading
habits of North Carolinians, the News
Letter says:
"The remarkable growth in high
schools and in high school enrollment
in. the state in 'the last two decades
ought to mean that the citizenry of
tomorrow will be a generation of
readers, for one of the results of a
hiffh school education 'sTlJTd be : the
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formation of reading ' haJ?itM The
smatterings of history, language and
mathematics learned in high school
may be largely forgotten but the
habit, of seeking knowledge and en
tertainment through the printed page
generally is permanent.
Notoriously Deficient
The passing generation of North
Carolinians has been notoriously de
ficient in reading habits. The ma
jority of farm homes have , been al
most bare of books and magazines,
but this will be decreasingly true
Boys and girls who have been af
filiated with 4-H clubs will not be
satisfied to isolate themselves from
the outside world when they estab
lish homes of their own. Young
oeoole who have acquired the habit
of reading good books and the cur
rent magazines in high school will
be patrons of libraries and subscnb
ers to magazines the rest of their
lives. For these reasons it is impor
tant that every school library con-
tain a fair number, of good books
and at least a few ot the Dest cur
rent magazines.
(Continued on page four)
Damage Is Heavy Due To
Young Vegetative
Growth
berlands since the fire wardens were
relieved of their duties, but it is
estimated that the loss from the
Cowee fire is twenty-five times great
er than the cost of maintaining fire
wardens for a year. The estimated
loss from the fire was estimated last
Tuesday to have already reached
$15,000, with indications that the fig
ure will be much higher.
It has been pointed out by A. A.
Wood, supervisor of the NanUhala
forest, that the last two years have
been periods of high precipitation,
with a consequent increase, in vege
tative growth.. The people of the
county are accordingly warned not
to let down in their past care be
cause an extended dry spell will
create extremely hazardous conditions.
TRADE
NUMBER SEVEN
LAUNCHED
AND COUNT
M1ATED IM
HELD OH FRIDAY
J. E. Rice Is Elected To
Head Organization;
Board Named 4
70 ATTEND MEETIKC
Projects For New Chanicr
Are Outlined At
Gathering
A Chamber of Commerce for
Franklin was organized here last Fri
day night at a dinner-meeting liell
by 70 of the leading citizens und
business men of the community at
the Franklin Hotel.
J. E. Rice, president of "the South
ern Mica company, "of Franklin, was
elected president, and Mrs. Alvah
Pearce; towrt clerk, was named secre
tary. A board of directors was named as
follows : , T. W. Angel, Sr, D. B.
Rice, J. E. Perry, Major S. A. Har
ris, and Gus Leach. The officers
and board of directors were instructeS
to make plans for perfecting the or
ganization.
Lyles Harris Presides
The meeting was presided over by,
Lyles Harris, editor and publisher i
The Franklin Press. All 70 of those
present joined the. new organization
and agreed to pay, $1 per month ar
for the next ,12 months for the tt
port of the Chamber.
The meeting was animated by m
spirit of helpfulness and commcSity
mindedness on the part of those ex
tending, and there were many cs
gestions as to specific things the new
organization may do to help Vsa
town grow. It is planned to develcj,
the organization on a conservative
basis, and to gradually develop isa
a civic body upon which the com
munity can depend to look after it
interests. ,
Projects
' Among the things the Chamber
Commerce plans to do in the -ocac
future are the following:
(1) Advertise Franklin and Tlacm
county. j '. ,
(2) Obtain a Federal aid highwsg;
through this section, and comjlta
the links on the Detroit-JacksowvZs
highway, which is finished with the
exception of 35 miles in Macon coun
ty and an 18-mile stretch between
State Highway No. 10 and the Nortft
Carolina-Tennessee line. This route,
it is pointed out, shortens the dis
tance between Detroit and Jackson
ville by 134 miles.
(3) Widen Main street.
(Continued on page four)
FOUNDER'S DAY
HELD BY P.-T. h.
T. J. Johnston Gives Uriu
Sketch of Organiza
tion's History
Founder's Day was observed by "tJa
P.-T. A. last Friday afternoon X
the home of Mrs. T. T. Johnston,
The fourth grade students began the
program with a song entitled T.-T.
A.,' set to the tune of "The Star-
Spangled Banfner."
T. T. Johnston gave the principsS
address at the meeting. The addres
follows:
P.-T. A. History
, "Parent-Teacher associations repre
sent a survival of , the town meeting
as applied to the school. , Mothers
meetings were , inaugurated in "183S
in connection with the kindergarten
movement in the United States,
mothers' conference, was called -hy
(Continued on page four) , J