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VOLUME XLV
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BANQUET OF CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE FRIDAY
JffiS BARRETT.
TO GIVE SPEECH
Brevard Editor Is Man Of
Wide Experience In
. Civic Field
3 OTHERS WILL SPEAK
Dr. Abernethy, Profs: Bil
lings and Houk Listed; '
Music Feature
v A get-together Chamber . of Com
merce banquet is scheduled for eight
o'clock Friday night in the Scott
Griffin hotel here, at which J. F.
. Barrett, editor of the Brevard News,
will be the principal speaker. Mr.
Barrett will speak on problems of
town and county advertising from
the angle of a Chamber of Commerce.
The . Brevard editor js' a man of wide
experience in civic and business ac
tivities, and is much in demand as
a speaker. He was the principal
speaker at the meeting of the West
ern Carolina Betterment association
in the Buncombe county court house
Tuesday night.
Other speakers for the , evening will
be Rev. W. E, Abernethy, pastor of
the Franklin Baptist church;; Profes
l.?or. MD. Bijlings . superintendent, of,
public instruction; Professor G. L.
Houk, principal of Franklin, High
. school. Major S. A. ' Harris has,,. ar
ranged for music for the evening. t
Plans for a booklet to be issued
shortly by the Franklin Chamber will
be advanced at this gathering, as well
as other projects being formulated by
the board of directors. More than
100 members are enrolled in the I
Chamber, and practically all of these
are expected to be present for the
banquet.
Chamber Of Commerce
To Aid Clean-up Work
At a meeting of the directors of
the Chamber of Commerce on Tues
day night, representatives of, the
Garden club requested that the Cham
ber co-operate with vthe Club in a
clean-up day to come Audi 21.
Streets, vacant lots, yards, alleys are
to be cleaned and trash removed from
them. i i ' 1 , : . .
The directors announced that April
dues are receivable. A number of
' obligations have ' been incurred by
the trade body that . must be met.
Dues should therefore be paid early.
Industrial Development Of Macon County j
Shows Marked Increase In Last Ten Years
Before the value of the natural re-1
sources of Macon was recognized,,
nennle sold valuable land for a song,
The Iotla Bridge mine land was sold
about twenty years ago for $500.
But with the realization of our pos
sessions and the growth of the indus
tries, the commercial enterprises are
growing. Macon's three banks have
combined assets pf $794,779, The
stbres have grown in types and size.
There are now foilr general stores
in Franklin (besides, others . on the
Hcr and iust out side of town) two
drue stores, two markets, three gro -
ceries a wholesale business, two ten-
cent stores, two millinery shops (one
including ladies' ready-to-wear articles),
one furniture, and two hardware
stores, an interesting antique shop,
and two shoe shops with modern ma
chinery. Hotels and Inns "
In Franklin alone, there are four
hotels, three summer inns, and nu
merous homes that cater to tourists.
These are of utmost, importance to
the Town of Franklin and the' sur
rounding county The people1 of the
. country supply an appreciable amount
of the food, thus helping the town
and themselves.
HEART OF A MOUNTAIN EMPIRE RIPE FOR DEVELOPMENT
BOOKLET PLANS
MADE BY C. OF C.
TO BOOST TOWN
. Elans for printing a booklet to
advertise the advantages of Frank
lin and Macon county are being
formulated by the Chamber of
.Commerce. Dummies of the booklet
have been prepared, material for
its contents is being written, and
photographs for illustrative pur
poses are1 being made. ';?.'
Hotels and inns of the County
will iurnish illustrations for a sec
tion " of the publication. Scenic
wonders, industries, natural re
sources, (including forests, min
erals, and water !power,) topog
raphy, location, climate, are among
the subjects that will be stressed.
The booklet will be printed in
two colors. The president and
directors of the Chamber of Com
merce plan to make it superior to
any publication of its kind ever
printed here- J. E. Rice is presi
dent of 'the Chamber of Commerce.
The board of directors consists of
T. W. Angel, Sr., D. D. Rice, J. E.
Perry, Major- S. A. Harris, and
Gus Leach.
MIAN EVADES-
, OFFICERS H7ICE
4 W.,.. -
Two Men Taken; Trip Al
leged To Have Had
Liquor
Mrs. Zeb Capps, of Sylva, gave of
ficers the slip twice last Friday night
w"cu suc
uuttey ana lheoaore waidrop, also
of Sylva, charged with possession of
10 gallons of liquor. She was not re-
Sheriff C L Tneram and .Henntips'
Rufe Coffey, Frank Norton and Der-
ald Ashe laid a net for bootleggers
reputed to be traveling to Highlands
by way of the Highlands-Dillard, Ga.,
road. The officers did not capture
the whiskey runners for whom they
were looking, but Guffey, Waldroop
and Mrs. Capps were taken. While
officers were arresting Guffey and
Waldroqp, Mrs. Capps ran into a
stretch of woods above the road.
Deputy Sheriff Coffey followed, and
took the woman into custody after
she had made her way back to the
(Continued on page eight)
During the last four years the
Scott Griffin hotel building, the Ma
con theatre and the post office build
ings have gone up. The Standard
Oil distributing plant and filling staT
tion near' the depot, the Standard
Oil -filling station on the square, the
Gulf filling station on Palmer street,
and the Cojo on Porter avenue have
been erected.
Within the last 12 vears the Citi
zens Bank building, Joines Motor
company building, Cunningham build
iing, the building next to the Cun-
ningham building, Angels' hospital,
. and more that 50 residences in and
around Franklin have been built. The
Baptist and Methodist churches come'
within this time, as well as both
school buildings.
, All hardsurfaced roads have been
built within the last ten years, two
girls' camps, and the Municipal Light
and Power company (now owned by
the Blowing Rock Light and Power
company), and Lake Emory, are ten
or less yars old.
Pole and Cross Tios
One of the most important develop-
ments in the County has been that
of the sale of poles and cross ties.
INVESTIGATE MACON COUNTV
FRANKLIN. N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 10.
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A HIGHWAY CARVED IN GRANITE. This photograph shows a
scenic stretch of Highway No. 28 between Franklin and Highlands.
Eight miles of the highway between the two towns is now being pre
pared for a concrete surface 1
GRADING AND CULVERT WORK
PUSHED ON
FIRE DESTROYS
HOME OF LOGAN
ALLEN, SAT'DAX
Fire originating in the kitchen
of the two-story, frame residence,,,
of Logan A. Allen' on Main street
at 9:45 o'clock last Saturday n'igh't
damaged the house almost beyond
repair before the flames' were sub
due'd by Fire Chief Joe Ashear
and a volunteer fire crew. Mr.
Allen and his family were in the
house at the time, but the fire had
gained too much headway to be put
out by them when it was discover-
Part of the' furniture in the
front bf the house was saved. The
total loss is estimated to be be
tween $6,000 and $7,000, most" of
which was covered by insurance.
TERM OF COURT
BEGINS MONDAY
Judge Finley of WilkesborO
Tn Prid 112 Crim-
inal Cases
The April term of superior court
will convene in Macon county on
April 14, and is
scheduled to be in
session for two weeks. Judge T. B.
Finley of Wilkesboro vvill preside. m:,radam. Xhis road is part of State
Listed on the criminal docket are 112 Route 286. - :
cases, chiefly violations of prohibition, Jhe next stnte project in the Coun
laws with larceny coming second. J tv was the grading: of what is known
The case of the State versus Min- as the C.eorcia road from Franklin
(Continued on page eight)
The business started in 1913,
with
headquarters at Franklin and Pren
tiss. The first year, ten or twelve
car ; loads of material were shipped.
In 1926, 700 car loads went out from
the County. In 1929, $122,500 worth
of poles and cross x ties were sdld.
The histories of the Bank of Frank
lin and the Citizens Bank and the
Building and Loan show the commer
cial growth of the County in a clean
and definite way. (We are very sor-
ry that the history of the Citizens
Bank is not ready to present with
this. It was impossible to get the
, necessary figures.) 1
Editorial Note: This summary of grading of approximately four miles
Macon's industrial development should,each way from the Franklin town
include the construction of High -
lands' municipal power plant and lake,
water works, and 18-hole golf course,
The latter, though primarily a; recre-
. ational development, represents an
expenditure of $300,000. It will be
; the means of bringing many thousand?
of dollars and hundreds of tourists
into the County.
Development of vast hydro-electric
projects bv the Nantahala Power com-
pany on Nantahala also deserves men-
tion. ." ."..
1838
HIGHWAY NO. 28
Resume of County Highway
Improvement Shows
r Progress - ,
Regrading oF parts of highway No.
R28 between Franklin and D. C. Mc
Coy's store at Gneiss is, reported to
be rapidly progressing. nTwo of three
Changes in the' route are being made,
notably' on the Down's hill about two
miles from Franklin, . Regrading and
culvert work was scheduled to take
about six weeks, and if completed on
schedule time, concrete pouring should
start within aboUt three! weeks,
j Highway - improvement m Macon
I county was begun, in 1921 by. the
. State Highway commission, as ta part
pi the extensive highjlvay building
program undertaken by the State of
(North Carolina at that; time. Prior
4 tothis the only modern road build
ing that had been, done in the Coun
ty was carried out by Franklin town-.
ship and consisted of the grading of,
several roads radiating from Franklin
for a distance of from, two to six
miles and the paving with bituminous
macadam of the streets of Franklin.
The first oroieet tmdertak pti Kv HUt
State Highway commission" in "the
i County was the grading of the road
from the Swa.n county line to the
Iotla bridge, at w4iich point it con
nected with th graded road to Frank-
ijn. This grading was begun in the
j spring of 1921 and was completed
the next year. Two years later this
pntire road from Franklin to the
QtfiitV onunfif liriA nroo nirf o ieA BTK
to the Georgia line and was begun in
1922 and completed about two years
later. At about the same time grad
ing was benin nn the roM from
FntMin to the Jackson county line
at Watauga cap and this was com
pleted in 1925. In the latter part of
192,4, with aid from the County, the
State Highway commission let the
contract for the paving of, the Geor
gia rqad and this was completed in
the summer of 1925, at which time
navine was bejifun on the road from
Franklin to the Jackson county line,
and this was completed in the spring
of 1926, eivini? Macon county approx
imately 37 miles hard surfaced roads
and direct connection with three ad-
joininc counties. I his road from the
Georgia line to the Jackson county
line is known as part of State Route
285.
. The next job. undertaken was the
grading of Route 28, east arid west
of Franklin, and the first' work, th.J
Jship line, was done by the Countv
in 1924-25. In the snring of ,l?26
the Highway commissi6n 1continj'f
the work of the County and ' com-
pTeted the grading of the road to the
Oav countv line at the Black gap
in 1928 and the road to Hisrhlands in
1929. At the present time no nart of
I this road has been paved bu the con-
tract for the saving of eight miles
east of Franklin has been let and
will prober.'' he completed in the
summer of 1930. '
OLDEST PAPEft
WEST OF
ASIIEYILLE
NUMBER FIFTEEN
CHEVROLET CAR
FIRST AMD
Free Round Trip to Key
West, Florida, Is Sec
. ond Prize
RADIO WILL BE GIVEN
Contest Officially Starts
April 14; Ends On
June 2
A Franklin Press in every home in
Macon county! Are you with us?
While the Franklin. Press already en
joys an enviable circulation in this
and adjoining trerritory, it is desir- ,
ous of increasing its family of read
ers in order to maintain the high
type service which the management
has instituted during the past few
months for the benefit of Macon
county, - Franklin,' its advertisers, and
its readers. With this end in view,
and in accordance with The Press'
policy of progress, and its desire to
serve the County, we have plannef
and today announce the most sensa
.tjpnal and liberal , prize offering ever,
attempt bjr any newspaper of sim
ilar size anywhere in the country.
This prize ipfferihg is now open to
every energetic and1 live-wire man or
woman (married or jingle) or ener
getic boy or girl i living anywhere in
this section.,, '
Faaturinf . Chevrolet Six
Headift the list of valuable awards
is the beautiful hew Chevrolet 'Six;
fully equipped, and worth $675.00.
Chevrolet combines all the essential
qualities one can desire in an tutor
mobile. It affords most economical
transportation with the accompany
ing luxuries and beauty fonnd in the
more expensive automobiles. You are
invited to call at the Macon Chevro-
let company and inspect this first
grand prize, and then get into this
campaign and make hh beautiful
car your own.
. Second Grand Prize
This prize includes first class trans
portation both ways to Key West,
, expenses paid to beautiful Key West,
America's greatest playground. You
have perhaps been planning such a
trip, but have deferred it from time
to time.' This is your opportunity to
earn this wonderful' vacation during
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The winner of this trip will be
permitted to take either the trip or
the cash equivalent amounting to
(Continued on page eight)
EDITOR 'CUSSES'
ARGUMENTATIVE
PREACHER; FINED
Because he is alleged to have
used abusive and profane language
to Rev. M.1 A. Love, a Baptist
preacher of Clarkesville, Ga., Lyles
' Harris, " editor of the Franklin
Press, was fined $5 in the mayor's
court here Monday morning by;
Mayor - George Patton.
Rev. Dove visited the editor in
his office on Saturday afternoon,
and an argument ensued over the
subject of church consolidation"
'U-cji' the editor had favored edi
,tyriaiy"and' to which the minister
fififii opposed. Controversial letters
had been sent to The Press by
Rev. Love in which he called
Harris, a two-by-four editor and
accused him' of securing others to
write replies"; to 'what the minister
had said. ' . '
Editor Harris admitted having
used abusive language to Rev. Love
in The Press office, but asserted
that he did not use such language
on the street where he followed
Rev. Love as the minister was
making a "hasty exit from the edi
torial office.
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