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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dalton were
visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dalton
tlie past week end.
Miss Selma Ilenson visited her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. .Ilenson,
Sunday.
Miss Mary Elmore spent the past
week end with home folks at West's
Mill.
Mrs. L. C. Leatherman of West's
Mill was visiting Mr. and Mrs. E.
O. Rickman. Sunday.
Miss Alice Rickman and her friend,
Miss Kate Shepherd were visiting
Miss Rickman's grandmother, Mrs. J.
W. Rickman. Sunday.
The grammar grades of our school
accompanied by our teacher, Miss
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to the "Big Laurel" iu Swain county
the pjast Saturday. Mrs. E. O. Rick- (
man and Mrs. W. H. Dalton went
with us also.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Elmore were
in -Franklin shopping Wednesday.
LEAVES
(By Cecil Gibson)
The leaves are falling down,
They are red and golden brown.
The leaves of red will make a bed,
In the leaves 1 like to play,
In the fall that's where I stay
The birds sing sweet.
The apples we eat.
We see the leaves all falling down,
As we go riding into town.
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Mr. C. B. Stockton was in this sec
tion on business Saturday.
Mr. Freeman Hastings was visiting
his father, Mr. J. W. Hastings, Sun
day.
Rev. G. A. Goer filled his regular
appointment at Pleasant Hill, Sunday.
Mr. G. A. Stockton spent the
week-end with home folks. He re
turned to his work Sunday afternoon.
Miss Minnie Sanders spent the
week-end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. G Sanders. . Mr. George
Moffitt and his son, Fred, passed
through this section Wednesday. Fred
has been in Washington for some
tune.
Miss Vcrlin Led ford was tlinm-r
guest of Miss Pearl Stockton, Sunday.
Miss Helen Dellart spent Saturday
with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Hastings.
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CHAMPION WOOD SPLITTER
Mr. Lee Leach is responsible for
this statement when it comes to split
ting wood. He purchased five cord
of stove wood and employed N. A.
Gibson to split it up for him. Mr.
Leach says before the sun went down
Mr. Gibson had his five cords of
wood split. Believe it or not.
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Mrs. W. R. Ingram who teaches
in .Marion county is recuperating
from a severe case of flu.
Why are Camels welcomed with cheers in any company a twosome
or a crowd? Because they're mild not flat or, tasteless but naturally
mild. They have the marvelous aroma that only choice tobaccos, mel
lowed by golden sunshine then expertly cured and superbly blended,
can giv$ a cigarette. There's nothing artificial about this delightful
fragrance. No doctoring, no over-processing can produce it. Camel's
refreshing mildness is there from the start.
Swing with the crowd to Camels. Learn the happy difference
between true mildness and insipid flatness. Smoke without fear of
throat-discomfort or after-taste just for pleasure!
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Revenue Officer
Forced To Carry Grub As1
Public Sympathized With
Law-Breakers
"EASY TO LISTEN TO"-CAMEL PLEASURE HOUR
Wednesday evening on N. B. C. network, WJZ end
associated stations. Consult your local radio time table.
0 1930, R. J-Reynolds
Tobacco Co., Wimtoo-Salem, N. C.
The Asheville Citizen of September
21 carried a feature storv , bv N.
Buckner in which story one Israel
Kentucky Buckner is interviewed re
garding experiences in Western North
Carolina as a revenue officer back in
the early nineties. Having been born
near Franklin some fiftv-odd years
ago, and having cast my first ballot
as a citizen for Mr. Buckner's side
partner in these raids he tells about,
and having been in close touch with
the people of Macon county all my
life, I ask the privilege Of comment
ing on some of Mr. Buckner's observations.
Uncle Iseral's imagination has not
been injured and by the years he
has lived . Had he been educated
earlier he would have made a suc
cess as a modern evolutionist. What
isn't there he easily manufactures.
In dealing with Macon county he
confines himself largely to one fam
ily and one township the Panther
brothers of Cowee. Uncle Kentucky's
picture of these men and their home
community is so far from the real
truth that no man in the county could
possibly recognize either the men or
the place. Jt was the privilege of .
your scribe to be personally acquaint
ed with the Panther boys. There
were four of them: Bill, Sam, Bob
and Alf.
It might be interesting for your
readers to know what became of these
outlaws and desperadoes. From Uncle
lsreal Kentucky's story one would
suppose that tbey all died , in their
boots or with a rope around their
necks.
Lives As Honored Citizen
But the record does not chalk up-
that way. Sam moved across the
county line into Jackson county years
ago where he lived as an honored
citizen, respected by Jjis neighbors,
honored by his church and finally
dying in the confidence of all who '
knew him. Bui, still lives in Jackson
county and is an upright, on-going
citizen. Alf spent the last forty years
of his life in Cherokee county where
he fell on sleep a little while ago
amid a shower of tears. Bob, the
only other member of this quartett
of ambushers and outlaws married
Miss Laura Tippett of this county,
moved to the State of Washington
where he still lives enjoying the lux
uries of a well spent life.
Uncle Buckner's memory conjures
with history. It is not reliable. And
Jeter Prichard is dead. Nobody ever
caught Prichard going off half-cocked
in an interviewl Pritchard's imag
ination wouldn't work over tune.
As an illustration of Uncle Israel's
reliability we quote these words from
the interview: "I have 'been shot at
a thousand times." And was still
having his picture taken at seventy
two. Oii one partcular raid Mr.
Buckner lay flat on the ground while
the whizzing bullets knocked dirt
into his eyes but didn't get a scratch.
He says he was small and thin, and
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NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue of the power of sale con
tained in a Mortgage Deed executed
by J. R. Ray and wife, Jennie Ray,
to W. J. Jenkins, on the 9th day of
January, 1922, which Mortgage Deed
is registered in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Macon County,
North Carolina, in Record of Mort
gages and .Deeds of VTrust No. 26,
page 369, default having been made
in the payment of said indebtedness
thereby secured, the undersigned ex
ecutrix of the last will and testament
of W, J. Jenkins, deceased, will on
Monday, the 17th day of November,
1930, at 12 o'clock noon, at the court
house door in Franklin, Macon Coun
ty, North Carolina, sell at public auc
tion for cash to the highest bidder
the following described.. lot, or parcel
of land conveyed by said Mortgage
Deed, towit: v
In Macon County, North Carolina,
on waters of Tenncsseb river, adjoin
ing the lands of W. J. Jenkins, W.
H. Morrison, the West: lands and
others; bounded as follows, towit:
Beginning at a Persimmon on a ridge
W. J. Jenkins' corner, and runs ,N
68 W, 26 poles and 8 feet to a stake,
W. J. Jenkins' corner in the Old Base
Line, South 4 1-2 W 3 poles from the
bid Spanish1 oak corner; then with 1
said line south 41 2W 29 1-2 poles
to a stake ; then north 85 E 14 poles
to a stake; then S 42 E 16 poles to
a stake in road; then with road N
61 E 17 poles to a white oak, corner
of the school property ; then N 18 3-4
W 33 poles and 2 feet to the begin
ning. Containing 5 acres, more or
less.' . : . ' . :, '; .
This 17th day of October, 1930.
V -LTLLT AN HURST, Executrix.
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