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VOLUME XLV
FRANKLIN. N. C THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930
NUMBER THIRTY
Conctruction Ig Rushed On North Carolina Road Into Smokies
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JOINS NO. 10 AT ELA
Grading of. Taurist Artery
To Be Completed By
End of 1930
: ASHEVILLE, July 23.-The Great
Smoky Mountains, which through
their ruggeJness of contours have de
fied penetration by all save hardy
-explorers, hunters and lumbermen, are
being penetrated by a highway con
struction crew engaged in carving out
what will eventually be a main artery
of tourist travel into the great na
tional playground.
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""being Completed r from uatunourg,
' Tenn., to Newfound Gap, will be th
first road to cross the main central
ridge of the Great Smoky Mountains.
, Connecting with the famous all-paved
' 1 North Carolina Highway No. 10 "The
rK Main Street of North Carolina," at
Ela. the highway passes through the
"heart of the Oualla Indian reservar
tioii, where 3,000 Cherokee Indians
liave their homes, ascends precipitous
creek valleys and ravines and rttn'ns
the summit of the main, ridge in the
gap which lies under the towering
heights of Mount Mingus and Mount
Collins.
Scenic Beauty.
The new road traverses a section
of unsurpassed scenic 'beauty present
ing to the motorist vistas of seeming
ly endless forests, deep vallevs, high
, ' waterfalls, and the allurement of the
virgin spruce andhemlock forest of
the high ranges. At its Ela terminal
the, highway connects with the splen
did highway system of the state of
North Carolina which in. this section!
touches the borders of the Park with
paved roads at five different poihts.
Grading of the new tourist artery
will be completed by the end of 1930
and ill is expected to be a most
popular tourist route into - the Great
Smoky Mountain? National park. The
greater part of the tourist travel from
the . centers of population in the
northern and eastern sections of the
country will enter the park by way
- of Asheville and the new highway
' " which is a first link in a compre
hensive road system planned for the
-North Carolina side of the park area.
Rev. J. L. Kennedy
x To Preach Sunday
s Rev. James' L. Kennedy, missionary
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, to Brazil, who is at home on
furlough, will preach at the Franklin
Methodist church at 11 a. m. and 8
p. m. next Sunday in the absence of
ike pastor, Rev. R. F. Mock.
,"As ia Man Thinketh" was the
theme of a sermon by G. L. Mors
lock. secretary of the Board of La
Activities of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, at the Methodist
church last Sunday morning. '
It is ' the type of thinking of a
generation that determines the1 trend
of . its literature, asserted, the Metho
dist leader. 'Wars, . he averred, are
the results of the, dwelling of the
' minds of men on the so-called glories
and achievements of victory by com
bat, ,
Rev. , Morelock reported" that Rev.
IMock, who is confined to a Black
(Mountain.' sanitarium because" of a
nervous disorder, is recoveing.
SILER REUNION
' The annual reunion of the Siler
family will be held at Camp Nikwasi,
Thursday, Aug. 7 .
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SERMON LIST NAMED
"Heaven O n Installment
Plan" Is Minister's Sub
ject For Thurs.
Crowds that fill the Macon county
court house to overflowing each night
come from the communities and from
the far-off creeks and coves of
Macon to hear Caleb Ridley, evange
list, and native of this county, who
accepted an invitation to come home
and conduct a revival because "he
was afraid not to come."
"If you break with Christ, you may
never, as I did, have to stand before
hundreds and thousands to tell them
what an ass you have made of your
self, but you will have to stand before
the judgement bar of your own con
science," averred Dr. Ridley in bit
opening semon,-"Losing lesus."
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BIG LAND TRACT
TO BEEXM.HED
Foresters Make Preliminary
Survey of 10,000 Acres
In Rabun
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FIFTY-HOUR
John Wasilik, Jr:, land examiner fod
the 'Nantahala National forest, . left!
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Monday afternoon with a crew com
posed of John- T. Siler, Haughton
Williams, and Lewis Meilke to begin
examination of 10,000 acres of land
offered for sale to the Nantahala
forest in Rabun. county, Ga., by the
Marshall Lumber company.
The i crew will make camp at th
head of Persimmon creek, and will
examine several other tracts, totaling
several thousand acres, that have been
offered for sale in Macon county.
rslCADDY RECEIVES
SKULL FRACTURE
Garland Baldwin Struck On
Head With Golf Club
By Geo. Penland
Garland Baldwin, 12-year-old golf
caddy, was struck near the top of
his head by .a golf club wielded by
George Penland, 12, another caddy,
late Tuesday afternoon at the Frank
lin golf course and received a frac
tured skull. He was taken to Angel
Brothers' hospital where doctors re
port that he will recover.
Caddies who witnessed the affair
report that it was accidental. With
two or three other caddies, Baldwin
and PeMarkl were practicing driving
Dans irora a tee on tne course. Bald
win is reported to have thrown Pen-
land'sball into a nearby patch of
woodland. Penland! then, it is stated,
made a mock swing at Baldwin, who
at that moment unexpectedly stooped
to pick up another ball on the tee
and received the full force of the
blow near the top of his skull.
TACK IN BOY'S LUNGS
Charles Millsaps of Murphy passed
ihrough Franklin on Wednesday
porning to carry his little son, Archie,
about four years old, to Jefferson
lospital in Philadelphia where the
father hopes surgeons may be able
o remove a tack the boy recently
wallowed.
X-ray pictures showed that the tack
bad lodged m the little fellow's lungs
.cal surgeons advised Mr. Millsaps
o take the boy to an expert at Jef
person hospital.
church on "Consecration to God."' He
opened his meetings in the court
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nouse on aunaay nignt na. wui con-
nnue ine services ior - an inaetinite
period. ."
Worked in Mia
t)r. Ridley was born and reared in
the Watauga section of Macon coun
ty. When he was 17 his mother was
left a widow with a family .of many
children, of whom Caleb was tibe
eldest. The youth went to work b
the Rocky Face mines near his home
to support his' penniless mother and
brothers and sisters. He has lived
to hear Gilbert Fredrick, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, say : "For 50 year
I have been a college and university
man along with preaching the gospel,
and I long to see Dr.' Ridley's meth
ods of presenting truth become the
method of both elaW room and pul
pit. He ' surpasses any man I have
ever known in the fine art of illus
tration." Author of Book
The evangelist is & native of the
section where were born the Truetts,
the Dixons, the McConnell and the
O'Kelleys. He delights to be called
a mountaineer, and has never forgot
ten the plain people among whom he
spent his early years.
Probably the best known among the
several prose works and volumes of
poetry of which he is author is "Pri
mary Things of the Spirit," which
has been , widely read and preached.
His most delightful book from the
standpoint of dramatic interest, and
from the light it throws on the Caro
lina mountain folk and upon his own
life is 'The Southern Mountaineer
In this work, Ridley makes charac
ters of the mountain men and women
with whom he once lived, many cf
them - still living, and uses the real
names of these characters. He, him
self, is the central figure in the nar
ative, for the book is autobiographic
al. Alert, keen-eyed, of robust physique,
Dr. Ridley is a typical mountain man.
In the pulpit he gives the impression
of being always "on his toes." Never
for an instant do his eyes leave the
faces in the congregation, even before
he rises to preach. 1 '
Jim Raby of Holly Springs, known
throughout Maon as a singing school
teacher, is in charge of the music
at the revival. Miss Edwina Dal
rymple is' pianist. A volunteer choir
is assisting with the music, and spe
cial solos and male quartets are fea
tures of each evening's service. Rev.
A. S. Solesbee is aiding the evange
list "with the details of the revival.
Dr. Ridley's subject for Thursday
night is "Heaven on the Installment
Plan." AH secret order men and
women are invited to Friday night's
service, on which night the subject
will be "Down to Jericho." On Sat
urday night the evangelist will preach,
on 'The Worst Thing I've Seen in
Franklin."