North Carolina Newspapers

or-, ESfABLioHLu m 1885 0!Jrt North Carolina Newspaper Wetl ol Ashevllla DEDICATED TO MACON County and tVa Welfare of its Good People it i i v r I'KOGitvssivi-: ui:i:i:a . indei'KNDf.nt V ALU ME XLVI, No. 12 FRANKLIN. N. C. THURSDAY. MARCH 19. IMI $1.59 PER YEAR is u-a- o cite FOREST TO GET 117 TERRITORY Federal Board Approves Nantahala Preserve Purchases COST IS $98,663.15 31,110 Acres in N. C. and S. C. and Georgia To Be Added The National rorest Reservation Commission has approved plans for land in North and South Carolina and Georgia for the Nantahala Na tional forest, it has been announced by Supervisor A. A. Wood, whose headquarters arc in Franklin. The new acquisitions, when com pleted, will bring the acreage of the Nantahala Forest to 345,000 acres. The purchases just approved will involve an outlay of $98,663.15, according to word from Washing ton. ,1,073 Acres in Macon Most of the land to be added to the Nantahala Forest lies in North Carolina. The exact acre age in this state approved for pur chase is 18,000. The Georgia ac quisitions total 12,988 acres and those in South Carolina 122 acres. One thotis''id and seventy-three Uteres of the laud is iii Macon county. The average price agreed on for the purchase is $3.17 an acre, while the average for the entire forest ranges in the neighborhood of $6. The low figure f lhc latest ac quisitions is due to the fact that most of the lands have been :ut or burned over. The Reservation Commission gave its approval to every acquisi tion proposed by Supervisor Wood, who has added about 100.000 acres to the Nantahala Forest in the past three years. Other Purchases Approved Approval also has been given by the commission to the following i . . Cherokee National Forcsf, 1,122 acres partly in Georgia and Ten nessee, $4,155.25. Pisgah National Forest, 21,156 acres principally in Burke, Cald well, Madison and McDowell coun ties, North Carolina, $80,801. ' AUTHORIZE CUT IN WAGES FOR FIRE FIGHTERS RALEIGH, . March 18. District foresters of North Carolina have been authorized by the Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment to lower the compensation for fighting forest fires from 20 to 10c per hour wherever this course appears necessary as a temporary measure. , Assistant Forester Chas. H. Flo ry, in charge of forest fire con trol, in a memorandum to the dis trict foresters, set forth that this action was made necessary because of heavy drains pn fire-fighting funds this spring, following an un usually hard fall season. So heavy have been the demands on the funds in some counties, he said, that they have been entirely ex hausted. -. Temporary reduction, according to Mr. Flory, had previously been necessary because of local condi tions in certain sections. The re cent instructions will make this possible whenever it' is found nec cesury while circumstances re main as they arc. Exhibits Egg Weighing Quarter of a Pound ). S. Gray, of Riverside, dropped into pay a visit to The Press re cently and displayed an egg weigh ing a quarter of a pound. He said the egg, which measured six and a half inches around the middle and eight inches around the other way, was laid by a Golden Lace Wyandotte) SLOAN PLANNING TO MAKE CO-OP LIME PURCHASE F. S. - Sloan, county farm demonstration agent, requests all farmers wishing to partici pate in a cooperative purchase cf lime to . communicate with ; him before Saturday afternoon. .Mr. Sloan will be in his of fice all Saturday morning, he .announced, to receive orders Infant Falls from Foot Log and Drowns Dan Hopper, 18-months-olJ on of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hop per, of Highland, fell from a foot log into creek near hi home last Friday noon. Some one nearby rushed to his aid and pulled him out oi the hal low stream but the child's hings were so filled with water that efforts' to revive him failed. Funeral services were held Sat urday morning at the home of the parents. - SHEER YOUTH HIT BY AUTO Boy's Skull Fractured; Driver of Car Held Blameless The 12-year-old son of Sam Shulcr, of the Watauga section, suffered ' a fractured skull and broken arm Saturday .afternoon when he was stuck by an auto mobile driven by D. T. Shclton, of Greensboro, a traveling sales man for the Parker fountain pen company, on the highway to Dills- boro. Witnesses reported the boy was roller skating and swerved unex pectedly in the path of the on coming car. They said Mr. Shel ton was blameless. The salesman picked up the boy and took him to the Lake Emory store. One of Mr. Shelton's front tires was blown out in the acci dent, so at the store he trans ferred, trft injured youngster to another automobile and accom panied him to Angel Brothers' hospital. He then called the sher iff's office and Deputy George Mal lonee went to inquire into the accident. He reported that there werk no grounds for holding the driver and allowed him to leave without bringing charges. Young Shuler was reported at the hospital last night to be on lie road to recovery. CHIEF ERECTS NEW ROAD SIGN AT DILLSBORO A fine new road sign to direct motorists to Franklin and Atlanta was erected at Dillsboro yesterday by Pol icq Chief Bob Henry of ranklin. The sign consists of two large black arrows on a white back ground, with the name Franklin fainted in . big letters on one of the arrows and Atlanta on the other. The sign is posted low, well within the vision of automobile drivers, and is so placed that any observing motorist can't miss it. Heretofore there have been nu merous complaints from tourists that the turning-off point at Dills boro was not properly marked and many travelers who meant to come through Franklin have overshot Dillsboro and gone on southward by the . long route via Bryson City and Murphy. Last week Chief Henry erected another sign on Main street at the Log Cabin filling station giv ing motorists the right direction toward Atlanta. ENROLMENT AT W. C. T. C. SHOWS LARGE INCREASE CULLOWHF.E. March 18.--There has been a decided increase in the enrollment at Western Carolina Teachers college for the spring quarter . which began - Saturday. Registration .began Thursday after noon and lasted through Friday. However, many new students are expected to arrive today and thru out the week-. Farmers Get over $2,600 In Co-op Poultry Sale The cooperative carlot poultry sales conducted here Tuesday and at Otto Wednesday morning brought Macon coun'y farmers over $2,600, according -'to an an nouncement by County Agent F. S. Sloan, who arranged the sales. Mr. Sloan said that the prices paid averaged two cents higher, ex cept for fryers, than those being paid at cooperative sales at points along the Murphy branch. In the case of fryers, he added, the prices Joe Ashear, in Business Here for 20 Years, Moves To Spacious Modern Store Joseph Ashear, wln in 20 years as a general merchant in I ranklin base became known I" nearly every man, woman and ihild in M.ii"ii county, is moving his store into new and larger quarters. On Saturday he will formally open his new store, the most modern in Franklin, a spacious brick building on Main street next lo Sloan Brothers' Grocery store on Trotter corner. Hold Square Dance Completion of the building was celebrated in impromptu style last Saturday night when Mr. Ashear, yielding to the requests of many friends, turned the place over to them for an oldfashioned square dance. Folks came from miles around, both young and old, lo "trip the light fantastic" while sev eral stringed orchestras gathered for the occasion vied to make the best music. About 200 people crowded into the big merchandis ing room, empty save tor neat shelving along the walls and a few counter tables, and for several hours made the welkin ring with rythmic shoes and happy laughter. Came Here in 1911 Mr. Ashear came to Franklin in Edna Ferber's To Be Published by Press Exciting Novel Depicts Adventurous Times In Oklahoma Beginning with next, week's is sue. The Franklin Press will pub lish in serial form Edna Ferber's Cimarron," which has been ftp- praised as one of the finest and most interesting historical novels that has. come from the pen of any modern writer. In it you will get a vivid word picture of the great rush of land seekers of April 22, 1889. when Oklahoma was opened to settle ment; of the pioneer days in this giant of the southwest ; of the ro mance and adventure incident to the building of a new stale. It is great story, an American clas sic, into wnicn is woven tne nis- tory of an interesting American period, people with the picturesque characters of that time and sec tion. This is the first time in recent years that The Press has under taken to publish fiction in serial form. The publisher, believing that a novel of the high character of 'Cimarron' would be a decided im provement in this newspaper and an innovation pleasing to its read ears, has gone to considerable ex pense to obtain the publication rights. The Press is averse to using what is known as boiler plate or "patent insides" and every inch of the reading matter of this story- will be set in readable type set on the Press' modern type-setting machine. Of course, this is more expensive, but the publisher be lieves it will prove more satisfac tory to the readers. . .. Comments on this story will be greatly appreciated. If you like it, please say so. Tor the opinion of the readers will decide what type of fiction, if any, will be printed, in this newspaper in the future. Mrs. Myra Allman Has Rib Fractured in Fall Mrs. Myra Allman is recovering at the home of her daughter, Miss Mary Allman, from a fractured rib, suffered when she tripped on a carpet and fell, striking a stove, Monday evening.! here were 12 cents higher than at Waynesville, Sylva and other near by towns. K Chickens loaded here Tuesday brought $2,116 and approximately $500 more poultry was loaded at Otto Wednesday. The prices paid : Heavy hens, 17 cents; Leghorn hens, 15 cents; stags, 15 cents; fryers, 33 cents; ducks, 15 cents; roosters, 8 cents; turkeys, 22 cents; geese, 10 cents; eggs, 18 1-2 cents per dozen. 1911, and on Fibiuny X, t h;it ye.it. established his lirsl st-i hcie i" a W'Hidtii building i the Squat e H.W occupied by Mrs. t I-mim 's rcslamaiil. I lis business grew steadily and in ld.l he moved Id the Love building. Again he inov rd on January I, 111. this time to the Pranks building. Paced with an ever-increasing trade. Mr. Ash ear began lo figure on more com modious quarters of his nun. His store just completed is the re sult. Mr. Ashear has supervised con struction of the building himself. He even has found time ' to help the carpenterers. the bricklayers, the plumbers, the plasterers and the painters. The building has two entrances, each flanked by large display windows, on Main street. The store is .well lighted and ven tilated. Nearly all of the equip ment and a major portion of the slock are new, and more new goods have been ordered. There is also a large basement and the store has been so con structed that additional stories can be added. Mr. Ashear now has more than twice the amount of space he had in his old store. 'Cimarron' EDNA FERBER'S BOOKS RANKED AMONG FINEST Edna Ferber has given to Ameri ca many great stories. Her "Roast ,f-t Isccl .Medium, and ''Pcrsonal ity Plus" sketch es have enter tained millions of , readers. In her more ambi tious production l.L- II It I .so iig, sne gave to Ameri ca a character ization that is today ranked as Edna Ferber now she has a classic of our literature, a n d turned to the historical romance and Hives us "Cimarron," and to this she brings all of the glamor and adventure of the great Southwest. This interest -holding novel will appear serially in THF. FRANKLIN' PKKSS be ginning with next week's issue, Thursday, March 20. You will thrill at the description of . the great rush' of land seekers across the border line between Kansas and Oklahoma of April' 22, 1889; you will enjoy Yancey Cravat as land seeker, as editor, as pioneer; you will love his energetic and capable wife and her ability to carry on when Yancey fails. With Yancey she joined the "Oklahoma run." Into this wilderness of rattle snakes, Indians, bad. men, she look her four-year-rold son. They saw the wilderness inky which they had rushed with thousands of others made populous in an hour, and cities numbering thousands of peo ple ' springing, up over night'. "There's never been anything like it since creation," said the wife. "Creation! II- I! ' san 1 , Yancey, "That took six days!' Cimarron is destined to' be. rank ed among the greatest of . American historical romances, and as a serial it is a story you are going to ap preciate more than any other you have read for a long, long time. r "FIT" THE HORSE The farm hore- should be "fit ted" for spring work several weeks before heavy.-.work actually begins. Gradually put the horse on a smaller ration of ..finer-quality, hay cariy in the spring and start giv ing a light feed of grain three times daily. When light work commences, a 1400-poimd horse should be getting daily about 14 pounds of grain together with I t or Ls pounds, of firie-Vpiality hay. This gradual change from the coarse roughages which are fed in winter will "'prepare - the horse to digest the IS to 19 pounds of grain and lo to 18 pounds of hay which he needs at heavy work such as disking or plowing. Chang es . in .both kind and .quality of feed should 'be gradual. It is time America turned to cul tivating its mind instead of . its material comfort.-t-'i ' .ar Lee Masters. v. . : I7AR VETERANS GETTING LOANS Payment Being Received On Soldiers Adjusted Certificates MORE ARE APPLYING Federal Office at Char lotte Mailing out 600 Checks Daily. A stream of ash e. In '.'limine i flow into M.m'.ii loniiiv iroin i Ik I'niled Slates t rans Hunan Scores of veterans who. filed ap plications ior loans on iinir coin pensatioii certificates undi r Icgisla lion enacted during the 1 1 . x 1 1 1 ; days of the last ( 'i ingress are now receiving vourhtis for ,t;m-, ran., ing in the nei'dilxM h'M.i ,,i '.Sim . As the first veterans' lo file ap plications are gelling 1 1 1 n money, a number of others are coinine into Franklin to send in their re quests for loans. It has been estimated that tin ex-service men of tlii.s county will borrow upwards of $1(10,11110. There are between 400 and 500 veterans in Macon and they are entitled to borrow up to 50 . per cent of tin face value of their certificates, which average about $1,000. Sonn of the. former doughboys, however, have already borrowed 11 1-2 per cent of the- face, value of their' certificates and a good many who are filing loan applications now are not borrowing lo the limit. According to a letter received by Alfred I ligdon,' adjutant of tin Macon County Post of the Ameri can Legion, approximately MHi cheeks are being mailed daily to veterans from the regional office of the Veterans I'ureaii .in Char lotte. "At this time," said the letter, dated March 11. "the ( harlolie of- nce ot tne veterans i.ureau .lias on hand approximately thirty thoiis and applications for loans n ad justed service certificates'. These will be paid off at the raie-of approximately olKl per day. 1 1 iliav require fifty working days to pav all the applications received up In this date." POSTMASTER MAY AT FLATS DROPS DEAD SUDDENLY Jeff May, postmaster at Flats, dropped dead in the postoffice there Saturday afternoon, lie was reported to have suffered a sud Kileii heart attack. Mr. May, well known in that section of the county, was about 50 years old. He leaves a widow And several children.' Funeral services wen hd Sun day afternoon at the Faptist church in liriartown township. Says Old Groundhog Saying Holds True HICKORY, March IS. There's something in this groundhog busi ness after all. v . II I'. Robinson, of Granada faun, near Granite Falls, vv:is in. Hickory recently vvii.h the story that, his pet gl otinilho" awoke from his winter nap, shook off the leaves -of his warm nest, and braved the dangers of Friday, 'the 1.1th,' to collie forth noin liis hole lo greet the spring. It was just 10 da'vs from ground hog day, Fcbruarv I. On Ik'cctnhir U, just three months ago to the day. the ground hog went into his hole at. Granada farm. He .chose a place under tin garage to dig , in and lined it well v,i:h leaves. He had be"n at tin farm since June when he v. as cap tured . and ' made a pel. Mr. R(bL iiisoii d( i dared .that although v.akli ed carefully February 1, the groundhog did. not merge op .that dav from his den. Rev. J. () Ervin To Conduct Holy Week Services Here A si ries of special llolv Weil. I u III I n- In. til hi il l, tl, dist' church beginning a week from next Sunday morning, on March 29. The Rev. J. (). F.r'v in, the father of the pastor, the Rev. G Clifton Krvin, ' will ,do the preach ing. The whole community is rordially invited to attend these services. Next Sunday morning the pastor will preach on the theme. "The Mount of -..Vision." . This is the Mistaken Concerning Bank Plans More Old Clothing ' Asked To Aid Nertly Ni-fily - iortrd to the Red I'ros duiinq the at wrt-k air largely due to illness of to.m- member or members of the family, and unemployment. Clothing and food have been supplied by individuals and through the production commit tee by contributions sent in re sponse to last week's appeal to Mn. Callahan's store. There is immediate need for shoes for chddren of all ages, and for wen en, and the .committee asks that all who can, respond to this appeal. The personal at tention of members of the com mittees appointed are being given, so that intelligent aid is extended of a kind that will help to tide over emergencies DEATH CLAIMS MRS. L BEGIN Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. McGuire Di In Tacoma Mis Lawrence linlgin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. . It McGuire. of I ranklin, died last Friday at her home in Tacoma, Wash., after an illness of several mouths. Word had not been received last night as to whether the body would be brought home for funeral services and- burial. Mrs. McGuire was with her daughter at the time of death, having uoiie lo' Tacoma earlv in lelnuaiv to be with In r through In r illness. Mrs. I'.nlg in. vvi II known here as the former' Miss Clyde McGuire, li ,i i - In i husband and an infant I v'. u i el. s ' ild. CLEANING FIRM WILL HAVE MAIN STREET ENTRANCE 'The F.Collolliy Cleaners, who moved here recently from High lauds, soon .will have an entrance on Main street, it was announced yVsti rday by Harry A. Holt, man ager. ' "","'' The cleaning and pressing estab lishment; which is well equipped with modern machinery, occupies the remodeled basement under the 'ranklin Hotel and Restaurant. Tin only entrance now is from the rear but a stairway with an out let through the restaurant to Main street is Hearing completion. This passageway is expected lo be open ed within 'few days, Mr. Holt said. ELECT STUDENT COUNCIL BOARD AT CULLOWHEE I I GWII I I' , March ' IX.- Of ficers for the student - Council at Wes'i i n Carolina Teachers college have been elerled as follows: Km h M out ford, of Wilmington, president;.! Aalea McClung, of Ribbui?i die, . v ice-president ; Louie Medford, of Waynesville, house I r t-si-!. n t ;" ""'"Marjoric" Pipkin, of Mnrfresboio,' secretary ; . FVarle J usi in-", of Clyde;' Louisa Rogers, of. (. anion; Ruth Creasman, of Waynesville, Louise I'aggette, of R i'i Springs, and I'.eiilah Rogers of Robbinsville, ..'council - members. filth of a series of Lenten ser motis. At H o'clock in the even l ing Rev."' Mr.'.-Flanagan,, pastor of the Presbyterian church, will preach., ' Mr. and Mrs. Krvin will leave at noon Sunday for Winston Salem, -where - Mr. Krvin is to de liver a series of lectures at a Young People's institute. They will be accompanied by Misses lean l'orter and Klizabeth Slagle. The regular service at Carson's Chapel has been postponed, until the afternoon of the fifth Sunday. iieaea Corrected Dr. Rogers Explains His Statement at Mass Meeting HERE FORWEEK-END $17,000 More Deposits Must Be Frozen in Order To Reopen Approximately $17,KX) more de posits in the Hank of Franklin must be froen before the bank ian reopen, it was announced Wednesday by spokesmen for the joint committee named by deposit ors and director of the institu tion. Although approximately 2 per cent .of the batik's funds is re ported to have been frozen by agreement of the dcositors. it was staled that the remaining three percent necessary represents a much larger figue than geneally known. New agreements to allow accounts to remain intact are com ing in very slowly, it was declared, and unless some of the bold-out depositors soon decide to sign the contract forms provided by the Corporation Commission reopening of the bank may be jeopardized. Corrects Muimpression )r. W. V Rogers, president of the bank, took occasion while here last week-end, to correct a mis impression which seems to Jiavc developed in some quarters, from . his address at the mass meeting of bank depositors here about a month ago. He explained that it had come to his attention that some depositors were refusing to sign the contract forms in the be lief that when the bank reopened they could draw on their accounts. I r. Rogers, in announcing at the mass meeting the conditions laid down by the- Corporation Com mission for reviving the Hank of Franklin, said that first of all ''5 per rent of tiie deposits would have to be left intact, through agreement of the depositors, un til October, im. Serves Warning "It seems that this statemeat set some people off on the wroag track," he told The Press Monday before returning to Raleigh, where he represents Macon county in the General Assembly. "1 meant to explain at that meeting that it would be necessary for all of the depositors who could be reached to agree to tie up their accounts. "Of course, the bank has a lot of money that can't be frozen. Some 'of the depositors have died and sqme have moved away and can't be located. Then, too, there are some funds over which no one has legal authority. "Therefore, it will be absolutely necessary for every man with mon ey in' the bank who can be reached to sign the agreements. If any otic purposely withholds from sign ing he can hold himself responsible for keeping the bank from open ing." MILLINERY SHOP CHANGES NAME AND QUARTERS The Franklin Millinery company has removed from its old location 'one door, up Main street to the room formerly occupied by th Citizens Bank, and at the same time has changed its name to Jess and Mary's Shop. Discussing the change in name, Miss Mary Allman, one of the partners, explained that people just naturally called the, store Jess and Mary's Shop, so it was decided to name it that officially. The new quarters are more satis factorily adapted to a millinery and ready-to-wear shop. .'.' In the rear of the store Mrs. Claude Russell operates a sewing room and Miss Pearl Burleson conducts the Franklin Beauty Par lor. E. K. Cunningham Has Serious Operation E.. K. Cunningham wa reported last night to be in a serious con dition at Angel Brothers' hospital following an operation on Monday. He was said to be resting as well as could be expected but, in view of his advanced age, his case still . aroused apprehension.