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VOLUME XLV
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930
NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR
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Sunday School Association
Perfected at Baptist Church
Great Sunday School Lead
ers Address Baptists at
Local Church
DR. SPILLMAN SPEAKS
Organization Calls For Di
vision Into Six Groups;
1 Officers Elected
On Sunday afternoon members of
the Baptist churches in Macon coun
ty met at the Franklin Baptist church
to close, .a Sunday schol campaign
'and to organize a Macon County
B. Y. P. U. association. Dr. B. W.
Spillman of Nashville, author, lectur
er and writer for the Baptist Sunday
schools, made an inspiring address
which resulted in great enthusiasm
among those preesnt. Dr. Hall, grad
uate of the Louisville Seminary, Mr.
Mashburn. a worker in the Sunday
schbols of Western North Carolina,
and Mr. David Mashburn, an en
thusiastic young church worker of
Andrews, were here to assist in the
organization of -the association.
After the master ' addresses of the
speakers the association was perfected
by election of the following named of
ficers : President, -Mr.. John . Rogers ;
vise-president, Mr. Austin Snyder;
1 " i-aimerr; pta msr, otitis s -rrnnc iwra'
Ledford; choister, Mr. Lawrence Car
ter; junior-intermediate leader,-Miss
, Ruth Byrd.
The organization calls for the di
1 vision into six groups as follows:
Group one to include the churches of
' Franklin, Holly Springs, Ridgecrest,
Watauga and Well's Grove with Mr.
Fred Childers as president. Oroup
two Highlands, Brush Creek, Buck
Creek and Clear Creek with Mrs.
Peirson as president. Group three-i-Iotla,
Cowee, Oak Grove, Liberty,
Tellico and Oakdale with Mr. Paul
Swaf ford as president. Group four
. Coweta, Cartoogechaye, Mount
Hope, Pleasant Hill, Prentiss and
Newman's Chapel with Blanche Vin
son as president. Group five Ellijay,
Sugar Fork, Pine Grove and Moun
tain Grove with William Crawford as
president. Group six Nantahala,
Burningtown, White Oak Flats and
Fairview with Mrs. J. M. Cochran
as president.
The new organization hopes to have
a B. Y. P. U. in every Baptist church
in Macon county. To this end the
association asks for the co-operation
s oil noefnre mA rliiirrti mpmhprs
HENDERSON-PEEK
FAHBLYREUNION
Two Prominent Macon Fam
ilies Hold Reunion at
Pine Grove
Pine Grove church was the scene
of a happy family reunion on Satur-
day, August 16. ---'. T
Early in the morning voices were
mingling and happy laughter floated
above the rippling of old Sugarfork
river's beautiful waters. Cars wound
up the white ribbon of concrete,- their
occupants pausing to note a spot
where they once helped push an ox
cart from a mud hole or camped after
atwo-day drive from Hamburg. Oth
er cars, coming, from the Saphire
country, stopped - on No. 28 to watch
the Cullasaja Falls rush past and. -were
told they had aunts who had lived
for 60 years within a mile of the
Dry Falls and had never seen them
before last summer.
The sun smiled on an assembly of
happy kinsfolk:' uncles, aunts, cousins,
sisters, brothers who joined in the
interesting program.'
. The president of the reunion gave
some very interesting aid helpfa1
opening remarks, and was' followed
by a number of inspiring sweakers.
A bounteous lunch was spread picnic
fashion under , the beautiful trees and
,was greatly enjoyed by all present.
After . luncheon the program was
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PIANO RECITAL
BY FJISS BEHRE
To Be Given at Local School
House Saturday Night
at 8:30
Miss Edwine Behre, who needs no
introduction to the music lovers of
Franklin, will arrive here Thursday
and' will give a piano recital at the
school house Saturday evening at
eight-thirty o'clock.
' All those who have had the pleas
ure of hearing Miss Behre in her
former recitals here will be glad of
this opportunity of hearing her again,
for the perfection of her technique
and the sympathy and understanding
of her interpretations make her per
formances occasions to be long re
membered to those ' who truly, love
music. .
Miss Behre wishes it understood
taht this recital will be given in mem
ory of her devoted friend, Miss Irene
Weaver, the proceeds, to go toward
buying a piano for the1 McDowell
Music club of which Miss Weaver
was -the -founder and in -which she
was always ...deenlv .intprpsted.
THE GRAND JURY!
Judge M. V. Barnhill Omits
Charge and Gets Down
to Business,,
That Judge M. V. Barnhill of Rocky
Mount is a man of action was amply
demonstrated here Monday morning
when he failed to make the usual
charge to the grand jury. The Judge
stated that it' was not worth while
to consume the time in a charge that
could be better used in the trial of
cases. This is the first time in many
years thajt a judge has failed to charge
the grand jury in Macon county. This
action on the part of Judge Barn
hill has' met with the hearty approval
of the citizenship of the county. Im
mediately after the Judge rapped for
order he began calling cases on the
criminal docket with the result that
more than thirty cases were disposed
of one way or another before ad
journment for. the day. During the
day there were 18 cases nolprossed,
eleven jury trials and a case or two
settled in other ways. v Judge Barn
hill permits no delay in the trial of
cases and when necessary limits the
time to be consumed by lawyers in
making speeches to the jury.
Up till the time of going to press
only a few. had been sentenced, judg
ment being withheld in other cases.
.Ralph Vinson' and Lawrence Talley
were fined $25 and cost for violation
of .prohibition law. On. the Wine
charge Otto Brammett. and Vance
Whilaker : were fined ' $25' each and
half the cost. Rachael Roberts paid
the court $100 for transportingt
Mason-Williams
Show Makes Hit
The Mason-Williams Tent show, a
pioneer organization of , the show
world, made a real hit here on their
opening performance -Monday night.
Comedy, drama and , unu'sally clever
vodvil numbers kept playgoers on
the very tiptoe of interest. The play
presented was "Her Mother's Wed
ding Dress," a new and unusually
bright comedy drama with i story
that held the audience , until the fall
of the final curtain. .-Mabel Mason,
a decidedly pretty and youthful. ae
.'tress, gave -a performance that ''. ?ptll
real personally. Fannie Mason . hoy
ed what a skilful actress can do with
a difficult ' role,. J"hn . Williams
brought his fine '.talents to, the- "char
acter of the uncle, Dick Mason was
a most personable.
vouns.
hero, Harry
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DAIRY MEETINGS
TO TAKE PLACE
One Scheduled at Whittier
Aug. 28, One at Frank
lin Aug. 29
BIG CROWD EXPECTED
Dean Schaub and F. R. Far
num Are to Address
Meetings
Under the management of County
Agent E. V. Vestal of Jackson county
a big dairy meeting is scheduled at
Whittier at 10:30 on the morning of
August 28. Dean I. O. Schaub, di
rector of extension, Raleigh, will be
present to make, the principal ad
dress. " F. R. Farnum, dairy extension
specialist, will also address the meet
ing. Whittier is one of the main dairy
stations of the Nantahala Creamery
company at Franklin. Last year
Whittier sold to the local creamery
approximately $6,000 worth of butter
fat. Mr. Vestal states that he is ex-
fiecting a large crowd to attend. In
he past two or three years Jackson
county has made remarkable progress
in 'dairying. Indications now point,
tatei Mr. Vestal,-to a large atten
dance of those who are interested in
Tcrusiry' in jctcK5un" cuuiuy: mcrse at-
tending are requested to bring bask
ets. -On the following day, August 29, a
similar meeting will be held at Frank
lin for the dairymen of Macon coun
ty. Dean Schaub and Mr. Farnum
will attend the Franklin meeting. Mr.
Fred Sloan, county agent of Macon,
is making extensive preparations to
care for several Hundred people who
are expected to attend. Mr. Sloan
calls attention to the increase of dairy ing
in this county that has taken place
in the. past five years. Macon county
now has 3,497 dairy; cows, or 1.9 cows
per farm. It is Mr. Sloan's ambition
to bring this percentage up to three
cows per farm. The meeting ati
Franklin will be held at the camp
grounds where Mr. Bailey recently
pointed out the failures of th Re
publican administration. The meeting
at Franklin will begin at 10 o'clock.
The afternoon will be devoted to
games and other forms of amusement.
MERCHANTS SAY
BUSINESS GOOD
That business conditions in Frank
lin are satisfactory, in fact improving,
was indicated here today when a rep
rcesntative of The Press interviewed
several business ; men of the town
Not one of the merchants .interview-1
ed reported a decrease in business as
compared to the same period last
year. The Macon County Supply
company reported . business just as
good as last year. Sloan Brothers
& company, one of the leading gro
cery stores in town, reports a better
business than for the same months
in the , preceding -year.' The Farmers
Supply company reports an increase
of twenty-five per- cent. The A&P
stated that their business in the first
seven months of 1930 was as good
or better than during the same months
of 1929. The business' done by Per
ry's and Angel's drugx stores Was
equally as good as the preceding
year. The S. & L. five and ten cent
store . reports a considerable increase
in business over 1929. . On the whole
the business of the Joincs Motor ..fit
Tractor company shows much im
provement. The Scott Griffin, com
mercial hotel, is highly pleased with
the patronage, of that hostelry. San
ders' store states that they have dom
a lartrer business than last year with
profits about the same. Ifcll Cun
Tiingham of the W. C Cunningham
Department store states. that his busi
ness is double jthat of last year and
that he sees no evidences of hard
times. ' 1
WANT ADS
Read for pronts --use for "result's. '
Nantahala Club Progressing;
Memberships Are Limited
BIG RALLY HELD
BY DEMOCRATS
President Is Charged With
Failure To Fulfill
Promises
Four thousand persons from eight
Western North Carolina counties stood
ia a blazing sun here Saturday lo
hear Josiali William Bailey, in true
Bailey style, lanibast the Republican
national administration.
It was the most enthusiastic gather
ing Mr. Bailey had ever seen in the
western part of the state. Mr. Bailey
himself said so. And when he', would
have stopped, the crowd wouldn't let
him. "Go on, you haven't started
yet !1 they shouted when he suggested
that they were probably tired.
It was the first Democratic rally of
this year in the tenth district, and
Democratic leaders here Saturday
night, we.re interpreting it as indicat
ing excellent campaign prospects.
Other speakers at the outdoor ral
ly included Zebulon Weaver, of Ashe
ville, and Mjs. E. L. McKec, of Syl
va, the party's nominees for congress
in the tcnth-distnct-afttl sidle 'sfciialor-
in , the thirty-errnn1 fticfrirf ( rc.
and Dan Tompkins,. "mayor of Sylva.
A bountiful barbecue dinner was serv
ed at . noon.
' "Hoover has promised more- and
done less," Mr. Bailey declared, "than
any president we have ever had.
Harding probably did less, but then
Harding didn't promise so much."
He specifically took the Hoover
administration to task for its "failure
in three undertakings :" to aid the
farmers, to solve the prohibition tangle
and to remedy the present business
depression.
He referred to "the agricultural
tariff of the administration, and de
clared that "on the very day it was
enacted" the prices of wheat, corn,
tobacco, cotton and other farm com
modities declined. And the farm
board, creation of the Hoover ad
ministration, he declared, has shown
itself impotent . to aid the farmers.
Every effort of the Republicans to
improve conditions has made them
worse, he asserted.
On the subject of prohibition, he
pointed to Mr. Hoover's indorsement
of Dwight W. Morrow, "wet" New
Jersey candidate for the U. S. senate,
and asserted that the only accomplish
ment of the administration- toward en
forcement, of prohibition has been "to
keep all the good liquor up there and
to send ajl the bad down here." He
added that he believed there is "more
liquor today, and worse, liquor" .than
the country has seen in years. He
charged that the president has aban
doned his former friendly attitude.
(Continued next week)
Newspaper For Highlands
According to. an announcement made
here Tuesday, Highlands, . Macon
county's beautiful little mountain city,
is to have a newspaper of its own.
The announcement states that Mr.
Joe Moore, former news editor of
The Franklin Press, will edit the
Highlands paper. Mr. J. V. Street,
former foreman in the composing
room' of The Press, will act in the
same capacity for the Highlands Ma
conian. The first issue of the new
paper is scheduled to come out the
first week in September. Mr. J. W.
Street states that the new paper has
already received many subscriptions.
Dick Slagle Here
Mr. Dick Slagle, a student in th.'
medical department of Cornell Univer
sity, is spending his vacation with his
mother, .Mrs. J. IT. Slakv Dick has
two more years . at Cornell before
graduation. Last. 'week Mob and i .Mar
vin , I'owl'T , of Durham, fallow stu-d'-nt
w'h .:Di-k at the University'.-.of
North Carolina, visited him. .at his
honu--' iii Macon county. . Dick re
turned wth them to Durbanr for a
diorr stay after which he will com';
hnck here for the remainder of his
vacation.
65 Unsolicited Memberships
Sold; Organization Bu
reau Enthused
DATA BEING PRINTED
Information Regarding Club
Is Being Printed at
Franklin
That the Nantahala Club, Inc., is
making rapid progress in ' obtaining
memberships was indicated here to
day when the management announced
that thirty-five applications, without
solicitation on the part .of the club
management, wecr received at the or
ganization bureau in Franklin during
the past six days. Orders for invita
tions are now in the hands of the
engravers. Detailed information con
cerning the club is being printed at
Franklin. When thep re-organization
of the Club was announced last week
applications for twenty-eight member
ships had been received from various
states in the Union. Total applica
tions now number sixty-five. This
means that all memberships in the
$500 class have been disposed of and
that fifteen memberships in the $600
cl?5sJbave . laso been sold.. The - price .
goes up $100 per membership tor each
ln connecTion-iTneroranorr-or-the
club on Buck creVk on the line
between Macon and Clay counties
where the club ha9 options on 8,000
acres it is pointed out that the club
members will have an additional 95,
000 acres on which to hunt," this land
being included in the boundaries of
the Nantahala Forest in Macon coun
ty. Of course county or state hunt
ing licenses wlil be necessary the
expense of which will be borne by
the club. Permits to hunt on the
lands of the national forest will al
so havt to be obtained from the local
forestry officials.
The ; Nantahala Club, Inc., as an
nounced in The Press last week it
a hunting club whose promoters live
in New York and New Jersey. The
memberships will be by invitation
only and with a limit of 1,000 mem
bersfive hundred life and five hun
dred sustaining. The sixty-five ap
plications now on file are for life
memberships.
The campaign for memberships has
not yet started and no efforts along
this line have been made by the
management. Hence, the organization
bureau of the club is much enthused
over the volunteer! applications for
membership so far received.
The club plans call for an expendi
ture of $750,000 on a stone lodge of
100 rooms and 100 baths, tennis courts,
golf course, fish hatchery, rearing,
pools, airport, individual lodges, breed
nig enclosures for wild game and oth
er things of a similar nature.
NEW STREET IS
NOW PROPOSED
Authorities Will Endeavor
to Reach Agreement With
Association
Some discussion is now taking place
concerning the building of a new
street on the southwest corner of
the square. The lot of which the con
federate monument now stands oc
cupies this section of the square with
the exception of a strip about six
teen feet in width lying between the
monument lot" and the Tendergrass
store. Provided some mutual agree
ment can be reached, with the Con
federate. Memorial association is
proposed either to 'move the monu
ment further east so as to give room
for a forty-foot street to the' -west or
to move the west 'fence of the me1
tnorial lot a sufficient -distance to the
east to nro i!c . room for the street.
It is und;,rst(od that the.: town and
roimtv wo'dd be willing to close the
! -resent street leading south through
'tie square- and donate the ground to
t1 e f association in exchange for pnrt
of the." lot on which the monument
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