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Aug. 23, 1917
AND WAYN ESVILLE C O U RIE R
Tolume XXX
Number 20.
Volume IV. No. 11
Waynesville, N. C, Thursday, January 31,1918
$1.50aYear
SAVINGS AND THRIFT
Jadge Gilbert Stevenson, of Winston
Salem Made Great Speech Monday
and Organized Haywood for a Cant'
paign of Thrift.
Judge Gilbert Stevenson, of Winston-Salem,
representative of Presi.
, dent Wilson, and state organizer for
thei sale of war certificates and thrift
stamps, made a great speech Monday
afternoon to a small but appreciative
audience on the war and the things it
will require to win against Germany
and her allies. Judge Stevenson was
introduced by Chairman Dr. G, D.
Green and is easily one of the smooth-
est speakers in the state. He. is.
worthy 7 representative of the worthy
cause he represents. "
- After giving a brief history of the
war Germany has inaugurated against
civilization and the world and an ac
count of her 40 years of prepara
tion he showed how well fortified and
prepared she is and what a huge task
America is. confronting. Ho said the
saain things our government needs and
must have are service and goods and
to command service and buy materials
with which to prosecute the war the
government must have during this
year nineteen billions of dollars. The
only way to raise it is either by bor
rowing it from our people or taxing
them for it. One-fifth is to be raised
in taxes and the, people are asked to
loan the government the other four-
fifths at a reasonable rate of interest.
The first and second liberty Loan
campaigns have provided several bil
lions and it is now proposed to go
to the small investors and the chil
dren and raise two billions by the
sale of thrift stamps and war saving
certificates. It is proposed to or
ganize economy and thrift societies n
every school room, Sunday school,
shop and factory all over our .state
and in all the states.
In speaking of the difficulties of or
ganizing the army and navy on a war
basis and procuring clothing, aims,
etc., fast enough for the men he
showed what Secretary Baker and
then were up against and asked the
people to economize on clothing,
shoes and food that the boys in uni
form may have a sufficiency. He said
patched shoes and clothing now are
badges of honor in this country and
Mark a man who is fighting at home
the same as the boys in France.
This generation, said the speaker, is
one of spendthrifts and they must be
taught lessons of economy and thrift
less than one-fifth of bur men who
die in the south need an administra
tor. It is quite different in the north
and cast. The yankees are1 rightly
taught to save money but we .are not.
Extravagance is a sin. Someone has
well said a dollar in hiding is
slacker dollar, a wasted, dollar is a
disgraceful dollar, while a dollar in
vested in liberty Bonds, war certifi
cates or thrift stamps is a patriotic
dollar.
The following ""organization and
committees were announced: ' '
; Haywood Executive Committee
Chairman, Dr. G. D. Green, Waynes
ville; vice chairman, J. H. Kirkpatrick,
Canton; secretary, - John , F. Bass,
Waynesville; publicity manager, J. E.
Carraway, Waynesville.
Departmental Committees
Organization and Service. Com
posed of chairman, vice chairman,
secretary, publicity manager, chair
man of each departmental committee
and, in addition to these, the follow
ing: F. W. Miller, postmaster,
Mrs. W. T. Crawford, Mrs. Lena B
Palmer. L. M. Welch, T. L. Green,
George Ward, W. T. Denton, W. H.
Ferguson, R. A. Sentelle, Dr. J. R.
McCracken, county health, officer,
E. J. Robeson, town superintendent of
schools. Waynesville: F. ' R. Mease,
postmaster, Chas. F. Owen, town su
perintendent of schools, N. R. Wild,
G. N. Henson, Dr. J. E. Wilson, R. 2,
Canton ;R. C Long, Lake Junaluska;
R. L. Prevost Hasetwood; Glen Pal
mer, D. R. Noland, Crabtree; E.-A.
Wood,- Clyde; Dr.. S. L. Stringfield,
Sunburst, " -
Finance J. M. Mock, chairman, J.
R. Boyd, Waynesville;' J. H. Kirk
patrick, Canton. -"'' - "
Bchools-Rev. R. X fiestaSe, chair
man, county superintendent of schools.
Mrs.' Ciaa. E. Qutalnn,. Mrs. W. J.
Hiynes, C A.- Barnes, -: John '. M.
Qo-i Wrnesrffiei Mr. C, J. Hande,
Oif t. F. Owen, fan ton ( Mrs. Sam L.
gtrtegneld, Sunburst; Chas. B. Haw
kins, Clyde. .
Churches Rev. W. B. West, chair-1
man, Rev. G. F. Mason, Miss Hattie
Siler, Rev. A. V. Joyner, Rev. Albert
New, Mrs. A. V. Joyner, Mrs. W. T.
Crawford, Mrs. J. W. Reed, J. P.
Knox, Waynesville; Rev. R. E. Hunt,
Rev. L. Q. Haynes, Clyde; J. Bat
Smathers, W. T. Sharp, Canton.
Fraternal Organizations T. L.
Green, chairman, Mrs. Lena B. Pal
mer, vice chairman, Mrs. M. Silver,
Mrs. J. W. Ferguson, Miss Margaret I
Stringfield, Harry Rotha, Waynes-1
ville; H. C Sinclair, Clyde; D. J.I
Kerr, J. T. Bailey, Geo. B. Hampton,l
Canton.
Manufacturing Enterprises Chas.
E. Qumlan, chairman,. J. W. Reed, H.I
J. Sloan,, Elbert. Smith Waynesville;
R. L. Prevost, J. C. Fisher, Hazle-I
wood; Dr. Sam L. Stringfield, Sun
burst; Grover Smith, H. D. Secrest,
Canton.
' Banks, Stores and Railroads Al
den Howell, Jr., chairman, " Troy
Wj he, M. T. McCracken, G. C. Plott,
Waynesville; E. A. Wood, J. L. Mor
gan, Clyde; G. N. Henson, Geo. L.
Hampton, Canton; R. L. Bryson, Sun
burst; J. M. Long, Hazefwood.
Farms W. H. Ferguson, farm dem
onstration agent, chairman, B. P.I
Howell, R. 2, E. C. Clark, R. 4, Z. C.I
Davis, R. 2, M. D. Kinsland, R. 3,1
Waynesville; D. R. Noland, R. 1, Glenn I
C. Palmer, R. 1, Crabtree; Mrs. W. W.
Shay, Cruso; A. J. McCracken, I
Rl, Clyde; T. C. Wells, R. 2, Canton.
Publicity J. E. Carraway. chair
man, Jesse D. Boone, Waynesville; H.
N. Sentelle, Canton.
Speakers T. L. Green, chairman, I
R. Morgan, Waynesville; J. Battl
Smathers, Canton.
Negroes Frank Lenoir, chairman,
C. P. Patton S. A. Copney, Waynes
ville.
Notice
The first meeting of the National
War Saving committee of Haywood I
county with the approval of the see-
retary of treasury and Fries, state di-l
rector, -will - be held at the court
house in Waynesville at 2 o'clock p.
m.. Saturday. February 2, 1918. It
SONGS WHICH WILL BE POPULAR
(By JESSE DANIEL BOONE)
"Oh! The Good Old Summertime"
Is the time we long to see;
Twill cover up the awful crime
Of winter's lengthy spree.
"There is a Green Hill Far Away"
Which I should like to climb,
If e'er I see a summer day
To call forth summer rhyme.
"Where the Sweet Magnolias Bloom,"
Sounds so sweet and good to me,
That I fain would leave my room
To see one nice, green tree. '
"When the Robins Nest Again"
And the sun shines bright and clear,
Then 111 leave my winter den '
With no regret, without a fear.
"In the Lovely Month of May,"
When the bird songs are so sweet,
I will put my books away
And wander in the street.
"Come Where the Lillies Bloom"
Is a welcome, charming sound
To one shut in amid this gloom,
Who fears to walk on frozen ground.
"Where the Morning Glories Twine"
la the fields so fresh and sweet,
Where you meet the glad sunshine
And the friendly dew drops greet.
As for "Apple Blossom Time," my lad,
And all that it recalls,
The very picture makes me glad
While winter chafes and galls.
"Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?"
Makes the cold chills chase my spine;
It makes me shiver, makes me slim,
In this cheerless room of mine.
"When the Springtime Comes, Gentle An
And the coal man has fastened up his door,
I will then quit feeling blue and canny
And be jolly as I was in days of yore.
W. T. BLAYLOCK DIES SUDDENLY MRS. CAMPBELL HOSTESS
Cashier of the First National Bank Last Fridav eveninc Misses TU
Succumbs to Peritonitis After a and Smith and Mrs. W. C. Campbell
Week's Illness A Popular Man. entertained with romnn . ,
Waynesville has lost one of her most school senior Th
useful citizens and a most important floor was th.-. tnt Th
posit in the First National Bank is heme, lavender and white, prevailed,
as yet unfHfcd, until a new cashier is The hostess,, with the class offi
chosen. Since that institution was or- cerSi ived the guests at the door,
gsnized and since it absorbed the maa SmiUl ooked 8tunninjf ib .
Commercial bank Will Blaylock has handsome m. m,v w
been it. popular cashier and now his George while MiM
familiar face will be greatly missed looked nU . aw4 Mf!
and no more will we hear his jovial of rose Mm Camobell
greetings to customers of the bank, gomelv rnmi h
After a week's illness, first caused Lvjn.
by an injured finger whieh developed AnnroDriate ri
l?1?? 177' Ml' Sara Thomas and Howard
Blaylock died at 2 o'clock Monday aft. Letherwood
ernoon. He had the services here of At thB fl ' . .
Crackem besides Dr. Wilson, of this invit, mta Co..
county, a relative . Three other phy- Joscjlyn McDowell, Anna
sicians of AsheviUe were called in potr , T T .... ' T
.1 w 4 a -ua By. S. A. Jones, Lillian Green, Jacque
. "' I.- ,t T T J """ McCracken, Elisabeth Reeves, Fran-
an operation would not save him. Mr.
Blaylock was 48 years of age, was
ces Harris, Irene Howell, Virginia
Matney, Maria Crymes, Mary Frazier,
treasurer of the local Red Cross chap- ,,,'; rZT vvZL ZlZ
tex. an active Mason and a very use- Ada Grahli Rlrth j, M Snelto '
ful citizen. Some years ago he mar- H , mrAlM Nora ju Jo
ried Miss Marjorie Ferguson, daugh- pT" ynu, jos-
. r .i. , ,,r . eplune Bramlett, Fredencka Dobyns;
ter of the late W. B. Ferguson, and , T Z. '
,. . . . Messrs. James W. Ferguson, William
they lived in the large Ferguson - ... .' . D
home. H. was administrator of the J J 3C'c
Ferguson estate which had not been
gerald, Paul Hyatt, Wiley Franklin,
"e - Homer Owen, Cla rence Mason, Hearst
wife, one brother, Fred Blaylock, and Rw. c w . '
two sisters, Miss Nannie Blaylock of m 7 t
p; A.. Wayne Grail, James Noland, Launs-
ia."
SOY BEANS AND CORN.
Soy beans were selling in this state
at an average price of 12.75 per
bushel on December 1. On January 1
0vuiuj , J - . ...- Tkl. t. .nKUlt
is flf vital imnortance that every P w"" -
member of the executive and sub-corn- to show the trend i pnces oi uu.
mittees attend this meeting to help I it should be the aim of every
organise and get busy with our fanner in the county to have some of
work. Remember, that in this hour or I this cron growing on his farm tms
our county's peril, there is but onelvear.. Soys are no longer an expert
road to safety and that is in support- ment here. Ask your neighbor who
ing our president with every means grown them. All tests on the
that lies in our power and that there Buncombe farm show that soys make
is but one route to lasting peace and better growth and more seed than
that is in military .victory. All other Ipeas. Mr. C. B. Williams, state agro
courses ttaken now are but a slap in Lnniist, states that the crop in this
tie face of liberty, help autocracy gtate is being bought up by outsiders,
the face of liberty. Help autocracy Farmers in this state who want seed
stand erect and aid that gorgon ofwill have to pay increased prices la
rapine, " murder, pestilence and fam- ter on it -will certainly pay farmers
ine, beneath whose gaser the human Lere to buy from growers within the
heart has turned to stone. Let us state thus saving freight and middle-
never forget the immortal words of men charges. Farmers in this coun
Pershing, "LaFayette, we are here." ty are urg-ed to buy at once, either
Dr. G. D. GREEN, Chm,
J. F. BASS, Sec"y. ,
throueh local dealers or direct from
growers. This agent will assist' any
one here in locating seed of this crop.
i Taking apart one large cylinder Attention of the farmers is direct-
press and shipping to a purchaser in t0 the fact that the seed corn sit
Asheville, besides a number of small- Lotion in his county is very unsatis-
er machines, and then moving anoth-lfa-t. This is a condition that de-
from the old Moun- ..rinna attention. Plenty of
taineer office to the present office farm8 in the county have no corn fit
and getting it to run properly proved f0T and plenty more have very
just a little too much for our force jjttie x poor stand means poor
recently. Besides that, our Linotype crops. A big per cent of the corn in
operator got an offer of work at the county will not germinate because
hieher wages In the government of frost injury. Much that looks
printing office in Washington, and li0und will not germinate and the far-
left O. B. Sterett, an operator on meP who waits until planUng time
the Ash ville Times, now comes over! without knowing that he has access to
and runs our Linotype machine. good seed is inviting crop failure. The
There are few inconveniences that producing sections have jh
do not have some compensations: A "rn m ier ""?' "
barrel of dishes shipped two months an ynusV demand f or jeed
ago from our former home in Kansas ' !
to supplement what w. now have has ZJZXZ
failed to come which causes the P'nl " " " 7 v"
Missus much chsgrin but brings Joy purpose. However, " "
T t- .1 UK uko ior uwi i
w uia lyausrnier urauH were - ....!. i.,,-. m
now so few dishes to wash. - The only nred to test the rmhi.tion of
way we can entertain would U to ask "a " " "
the entertained to plea bring plate Z?T.2?Ji
..i.v.. w.- i ji.. I so desiring to test his corn.
.-a k..u lives oi a in m ujtw-
. ii il.. . - V. w.r will
- I as nm mM iuv vuwvura x .. -
Says Billy Sunday: Turn hell op- depend on the amount of food that is
side down and you will find "Made in produced . throughout the . United
Germany" stamped on the bottom or .states this year. No good citizen can
it afford to take undue risk in crop
IF- YOU LIKE good coffee, come to J
our store and 1 a show you what nd.1 m
w. have.- W. lead th. saW ecf-T "lf
ti9 so WsynesvOle. MlBsr Bros. I.
.- V. -!-.- H .... -. ; V-MII aiwi.
BUT A POUND of green coffee and
have it roasted at home. We have FOR SALE One good horse. .'Apply
it XTSer Bros. ( 11-1)1 , KZIar Bro. - UM)
MUST NOT HOARD FLOUR
' The oqunty food - administrator of
Haywoodf county has been instructed
by Stats Food Administrator Henry A.
Page to take prompt and vigorous
action to the end that all purchasers
of excessive quantities of foodstuffs,
particularly flour, in this county shall
return their surplus above one bar
rel to the dealers without delay.
Mr. Page says: "The food situa
tion generally, and the local situation
in many North Carolina counties with
regard to hoarding, demands Immedi
ate and vigorous action upon the part
of the food administration. -1 am
writing to request and urge:
1. "That you demand of each re
tailer in your county a complete) list
of consumers who have purchased
flour in excess of one barrel during
the past three months.
2. "That you immediately notify
the purchasers whose names are sub
mitted to you or whose names you
can secure that they must return all
flour in their possession in excess of
one barrel to the dealers from whom
they purchased, those dealers being
required to take it back at the price
they received for it
8. "That you take every means
within your command to remedy this
situation just as promptly as possible.
4. "That you submit to us prompt.
ly for indictment and prosecution the
names of any merchants who with
hold information and any consumers
who retain in their possession more
than one barrel of flour after they
have been given an opportunity to re
turn it to dealers."
According to the above instructions
all retail grocers in Haywood county
are requested to send to Anna M.
Glosser, the) county food administra
tor, Waynesville R. D. 4, N. C s
complete list of consumers who have
purchased flour in excess of one bar
rel during the last three months and
who retain more than one barrel in
their possession after this notification
from Mr. Page.
Pigeon township, and Mrs. Chas.. F.
Osborne, of Clyde.
He was buried with Masonic hon
ors by members of Waynesville and
Sonoma lodges at Green Hill cemetery
after a funeral servioa at the Meth
odist church conducted by his pastor,
Rev. W. B. West, assisted by Rev. A,
V. Joyner, of the Baptist church. A
ton Hardin, Robert Osborne.
Union Sunday Night Services
Arrangements have been made be
ginning next Sunday night and con
tinuing for the iRknaining winter sea
son to bold a anion service. This is
very large crowd attended the funer-ldone aceoTusc com-
COUNCIL NATIONAL DEFENSE
FLOUR REGULATIONS STRICT
A telegram yesterday to Miss
Glosser from State Food Administra
tor Page says:
"Notify all merchants through lo
cal papers that bo exception can be
made to the new food administration
ruling forbidding sale of wheat flour
except in combination with equal
amount of other cereals including
com meal "hominy, grits, oatmeal
rice, barley flour, ecUbla wheat shorts
r middlings, corn flour, eon starch
or oy bean flow.
al and the floral tributes were man. mendation of the fuel administration
and beautiful, showing the popularity f0r Patriotic reasons. A similar
of the deceased and his heart-broken I xlauc1,:lfc mri uh. vf
companion. nearly all the churches both in the
Those relatives from a distance I cltIes towns norm ana soutn.
who attended the funeral were Mrs. J.I lnerey oi coat nas
a On of Tennessee Mr. and Mrs. oee enectea.
Alex Shuford of Hickory, Homer LI K 1b "OP the churches in
Ferguson of Newport News, Va.. Mr. Waynesville can eater into this ar-
and Mrs. Chas. F. Osborne of Sun-1 rangement witn seal and interest ana
burst, Miss Nannie Blaylock and Mr. a c.om to f11 mt
and Mrs. J. F. Blaylock of Wbodrow. people irran ueee union services, a
besides many friends and Masons mrer Pirit eo-oPrat,ion and
from that neighborhood. unJt "1UII8 " nriHnns caecum.
i ne am servise win m neia in tne
Presbyterian eh arch at 7:30 o'clock
Sunday evening with a sermon by
Ther. will fa a most imnortnt W- B- We8t. r801 of the Meth-
r .J!.l 1 1. AM A- - 1.
meeting of the Woman's Committee, u"'c,u? " ",e pwlle "
council of national defense, Thursday am"'
afternoon, February 7, at 3 o'clock.
All chairmen and officers specially re- SOME RELIEF TO
ouested to be nresentt RJTFAIL MERCHANTS
Since last meeting the chairman has
sent to Mrs. J. M. Gudger, Jr., district Mr- "tnry A. Page, state food ad-
chairman, a report of all patriotic mmistrator, has asked that the follow-
work done by Haywood county worn- lnK otice be made public.
en in the council and in the affiliated "Where merchants can show that
organizations. Excellent reports lneip nour C08t tnem ?H 'o per
were sent in by the Red Cross, Navy barrel delivered, county food admin-
League, Woman's Club, U. D. C. and wwators nave antnority to grant tnem
Baptist W. M. U. When it was all exceptions from the ruling that $12.50
condensed into one report it made a must 0,6 maximum price at retail
very fine showing for ur women. Mle t0 tne ewat oi allowing them
To date about 600 women have reg- t0 secure their eestomary profit up to
istered in the county. The aces run l Pw barrel.
from 16 to 77. The various activities In a few inFtances retailers have
registered make interesting reading. I hown that their sugar has cost them
All these women responded to the re- roand nine one-half cents a
quest for registration without per- Pound. In such eases exceptions to
sonal appeal. If there are others who individual merchants will be granted
wish to place their names on this ,0 M t0 1Iow tkem customary
honor roll they may do so at the li-1 pront up to one cent a pound."
brary during library hours. The local ANNA M. GLOSSER,
committee, however, can not aav how Co. Food Administrator.
long this privilege will last
HOSPITAL NOTES
I c ri i o ii..
fMI mrtA Mrs TlntifKaivl t fli Affitunt
At the spelling match last Friday L, ,,hI. BUrM ,n, mtar,A
. I 1 J -4 a. tr i I r . i
. J wr have made about $103 for the! hospital
mer, or uie waynewooo. ror tne m, SIrS- HAbanri WOrk and
r, Tl h I love for the instftuUon speaks for it-
way and J. M. Mock were the captains. I, i ....
There were a dozen pellere on each. Hospiui .ommittee wanU to
side and words from Webster s old th,Bk HanMll Md Mr. Geo
blue back speller were shot to the-Warf fof M ,n m m
spellers as from a French gun by
Prof. E. J. Robeson, superintendent of
the graded school.
Both sides did good spelling but the
captains were the last ones left stand
ing and J. E. Carraway won when his
opponent went down on the word
"scurrilous," rpitUnt it with only one
"r." Mr. Carraway has generously
agreed to divide his five dollars won
equally butwotn the hospital and the
Red Cms. .
from Mr. Sutphen that belonged to the
hospital. These two gentlemen gave
their time and legal work free and
the hospital and Haywood county
thank tbesn.
, , t ' Contributed.
An Ashevflla advertiser h-wds his
ad with this announcement The
World War is On." Seems as though
wa have heard something to that
effect lately. ; .