Consolidated
Aug. 23, 1917
AND W A Y N E S VILLE COURIER
Volume XXX
Number 24.
Volume IV. No. 15
Waynesville, N. C, Thursday. February 28, 1 918
$1.50a Year
WAYNESVILLE DEFEATS LENOIR
In one of the best basketball games
played on the local court the Waynes
ville hieh school team defeated the
Lenoir team Wednesday night, Febru-
ary 20, by the score of 87 to 25. The
passing of the Waynesville boys was
excellent. . Waynesville's stars were
Francis, who played center, and Bur
, gin, at forward. Dysart, the Lenoir
center, played the best ball for his
' team, making several difficult shots,
The line-up for Wednesday's game
was: ..- r ,'" - . : ,4 , 4 (
Waynesville Pos. Lenoir
Burgin Hoover
Left Forward
Ratcliff Nelson
y Right Forward
Francis Dysart
Center
Ferguson Cottrell
. Right Guard
Alley Tuttle
Left Guard
On Saturday, March 2, the Waynes
ville team will compete with the
North State team on the local court
at 2:80. The admission is 26 cents.
Much enthusiasm has been put into
the practice and a good attendance is
expected for the game. Come out and
show your colors.
Waynesville High School Wins
Medal at Weaver College
The representatives from the
Waynesville High School, Miss Sara
Thomas and Mr. Frank Hardin, with,
Miss Frances Robeson, the teacher
who accompanied them, returned Sat
nrday afternoon from the oratorical
contest for the schools of Western
North Carolina, which is held annual
ly at Weaver College.
They were enthusiastic over the de
lightful hospitality which they en
joyed and happy over the fact that
they were victors in the contest. ,
Miss Sara Thomas, in her reading
of "Ole Mistis," won the medal in the
girls' contest, by a unanimous vote.
While Mr. Hardin did not win the
medal in the boys contest, he made a
fine impression and was highly com
plimented. The Waynesville school
may feel justly proud of these young
people.
The following is the program of the
contest:
DECLAMATION CONTEST .
"My Country, My Mother, My God,"
by John Young.
"Be a Man," by Jack McClure.
"Seeing Things," by Deval Medford.
"The World's Greatest Battlefield,"
by Fred Herren.
"American Cltiienship," by J. C.
Brittsin.
"Mother, Gird My Sword Around
Me," by Frank Hardin.
. "My Country, My Mother, My God,"
by Lawrence Brown. .
RECITATION CONTEST
"Ole Mistis," by Maude Trantham,
"An Aspiring Dish Washer," by
Bonnie Clara Greenwood.
"Shaker Romance," ' by Tynnah
Phillips.
"Ole Mistis," by Sara Thomas.
"The Little Martyrs,", by Orva Mc
Cracken,
"Debutante," by Carrie Merrill.
Miss Nora Francis Entertains
Miss Nora Francis very delightful
ly entertained a few relatives and
friends last Friday evening in honor
of her cousin, Mr. Henry Francis, of
Portchester, N. Y,-who left for his
home this week after a several
months visit to relatives here. Games
were played until a late hour, when
delightful refreshments were served.
Those enjoying Miss Francis hos
pitality were: Misses Ada and Elisa
beth Grahl, Sue W. Lindsley, Alice
Quintan, Bessie Francis, Naomi Har
rold, Elizabeth Francis, Cleo Connor
and Rahvia Alley; Messrs. Hariey,
Henry, Sam and Henry R. Francis,
Bruce Tittle, Joe Davis, Dewey Fran
ciL W. . T. Mehaffey and Harry
Juaher.
SHEEP SPECIALIST TO SPEAK
Mr. George Evans, sheep specialist,
wOl speak to the people of the follow
ing communities on the dates given
below. Mr. Evans has plana which
if put into effect wffl greatly. hasten
the development of the sheep Industry
ta the county. Let the farmer eome
out and hear hbn. . t
Cruse, Meoday night, tiM, March
4th, '.' '- .
Bethel. Ttesday night, T JO, March
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"DOG SILLED A $100 EWE"
The caption of a very strong letter
by A. C. Walker, published in The
Mountaineer-Courier February 7:
, v "SHEEP VS. DOGS".
The caption of another very strong
letter by Geo. G. Garrett, published in
The Mountaineer-Courier Februaryli.
Letters like these, from progressive
farmers like Walker and Garrett, pub
lished, one or two each week, would
be a strong force in creating a senti
ment against the useless keeping of
dogs.
Like Garrett, I think every owner
of a dog should pay f 5. each, or $10'
each where he keeps more than one.
Tax the mongrels and worthless
curs out of existence and make room
for the sheep which would afford much
needed wool and mutton. Just here,
to somewhat emphasize the position
which I have always maintained
against keeping dogs I .will mention
that in the spring of 1885 I was liv
ing in Waynesville, when there were
only 87 residences within the then cor
porate limits of the town, and two of
those places were over stores, and
standing in front of where I kept store
one morning I counted 28, dogs, many
of them puppies. Most of these be-
loged to two good citizens of the
town. Now, these 28 dogs were only
a portion of the dogs belonging in
town. So the ridiculousness of the
thing struck me so forcibly I though
there might be a way to get rid of
some of these pests at least, hence I
on my bnUetm
"Wanted 5,000 dogs, for which
I will pay at the rate of a nickle
for three, and for especially fine
strains of blood will pay a
- nickle apiece."
Soon the two good citizens to whom
I refer had sold their dogs. They
found a better market and realized
more than I offered; however, either
the same spring or the next I was
elected as a member of the board of
aldermen and we three heartily and
unanimously passed an ordinance to
tax $1 upon every dog. I think that
ordinance has been renewed and kept
up by every succeeding board of al
dermen. Suffice to say that tax or
dlnance drove a good many dogs out
of town.
But here! It has long been a mat
ter almost impossible to get legisla
tors to do their duty in regard to
taxing dogs. Too many of them are
weak-kneed politicians and fear they
will be relegated if they pass a strin
gent dog tax law. --1
am more afraid of even a little
vicious fice than I am of a snake be
cause I can kill the snake and every
body approves; but if I kill your ficel
which may have rabies, of whicn 1
have a mortal dread, I enrage you and
all vour family and friends against
me. Such is the depravity of the
largest per cent of the human family.
I admit there are many useful dogs;
many dogs that are really valuable to
their owne- Far be it from me to
want to hurt a dog, unless he was try
in i? to bite me. But I would advise
killing all the worthless ones and
propagate none but the valuable
kinds Grow more sheep and more
hogs instead and if your child must
have a pet as is so natural with many
children buy it a lamb, a" pig, or calf,
and raise that for the child. The
food which these consume produces
profit, whereas the food fed to the dog
is wasted.
Now to diverge I wish to extend my
sympathy to the families and friends
of both Uncle Henry Messer, who was
a long time a faithful patron when I
taught school at Crab tree In 1867 and
1868, and a very devout Christian
then and ever since so far as I ever
knew.' God has taken Uncle Henry to
Himself and his works do follow him.
I knew Uncle Jack Justice long and
favorably. Always felt that he was
a devout Christian, confident that in
his heart he loved and communed
with God. I loved both these earnest
Christian men and hope that all whoj
are dear to them by the ties of blood,
fellowship or friendship shall strive
to live to that their lives may shine as j
brightly as the lives of our two.
friends. I
I want to. commend the tribute
which our aged and faithful Christian
brother, W. A. Kirkpatriek. paid to!
these two, .like himself, venerable,
oaks ef the Crabtree Valley.
No doubt the lives of these; three,
have infloeneed for good, for right!
eouroe and GotCy living many eon J
and daughters of the beautiful Crab-j
tree valley and far beyond Its herders.)
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The Combination Food Stuff Law.
j By Jesse Daniel Boone
I love my country. Uncle Sam;
I'd" fight tor it in Amsterdam;
1 But when my eat you'd regulate,
1 - You almost make me hesitate,
I I'll buy your bonds and Hooverize,
1 And class you with the good and wise,
But I declare it mighty tough
I Then one can't eat wheat bread enough.
j
I This combination foodystuft law
'' ' Is the hardest task I ever saw;
I I've eaten bran and abort for bread,
i Until I scarce can raise my Head.
1 : To get some flour made of wheat,
A thing I dearly love to eat, .
I've bought aawdus't and shaving junk,
i Enough to rill a drummer' trunk.
g This country grows a pile of wheat;
I Twoi Jd fill Broadway and old Wall street,
I But when I went to buy some bread,
"Buy 50-50," my grocer eaid,
"We have some' grits, and meal, and rice;
I Some oatmeal, corn flakes fresh and nice.
I For ev'ry pound of these you try,
3 A pound of flour you may buy.
1 "But s'pose I haven't got the price
1 To buy that extra meal for mice?
I What then, old Scout, can you suggest?"
i Of course, you likely know the rest.
The grocer looked me up and down,
1 With a hateful grin, a sort of frown;
1 "What's that to me,"he said in scorn,
1 "Do like the the horses, eat some corn."
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Better Farming in the South
FERTILIZER
Plant Food Should Have A Legal Guarantee Of Availa
bility If It I To Measure Up To Nation's Pressing
' Food Demands
J. C. Prldmore, Farm Service.
While the Ameri
can fanner respon
ded to the world
wide demand in
1917 for food, feeds
and clothing, Mr.
Houston, the Sec
retary of Agricul
ture, says that this
does not justify a
letdown in farm
activities; for he
has stated that
even greater ef
forts must be put
J. C PRIDMORE. forth In the coming
mouuw. - --
If the southern farmer Is to do his
share in producing foods tor man and
beast, and, at the same' time, grow cot
ton fibre for the nation, he must either
Increase his crop acreage, or elae grow
considerably more per acre than cus
tomary. In view of the scarcity and high
price of labor at the present time,
it seems to be the part of wisdom
for farmers generally not to mate
rially Increase the crop acreage, bat
to increase the acre yields.
Increase Yield Per Acre
' Acre yields can' be Increased by
better preparation of the seed bed, by
the um of good seed of varieties adapt
ed to the region, by using a mors lib
eral application of the right kinds of
fertilisers and by better cultlvatioa of
the growing crops.
While all of these factors Influence
acre yields, let us call particular at
tention at this time to the kind and
amount of fertiliser to be used. Prac
tically all of the southern sous are
deficient in phosphorle add, nitrogen
and potash and these must be supplied
In eome form to get the largest yields
and. biggest farm profits. While the
proper eae of these materials will in
ereaae the yields per acre and help
supply the nation's needs, the wise
farmer win at the same time strive
to get the largest Snsnrlsl returns
from their as. To do this, he mast
exercise care la baying them ae well
a la spplytng them.
The farmer should underetaaa that
plants use fertilisers as foods eely af
ter they have beau dissolved by the
soil water, aad that which ts not sol
able Is act available to the ctaat. It
is to the farmer mtereat, Xamrtcn,
fm tserr tfcat the frt!!'r Is bey
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PRECAUTIONS
Bureau, Atlanta, Georgia.
Quick Acting Form.
For the best results In the cultiva
tion of general Held crops, materials
carrying phosphorle add, nitrogen and
some potash should be applied. Pot
ash Is more deficient fn the light and
sandy soils than In day soils. Not
leas than ISO to 200 pounds of com
plete fertilisers per acre ahould be
used' and hundreds of farmer find
more- than this amount to be most
profitable. Fertilisers containing these
necessary plant foods are generally es
sential for the moit profitable produc
tion of all field crops. Since there is
such a world-wide need for crops, and
sinee farm products are higher now
than ever before. It follows that the
farmer who strives to fulfill the na
tion's needs Just now by the use of
such plant food as la necessary, se
cures at the same time ue largest poo-
slble financial returns for himself,
American-Made Potash
Good As German Kind
If there is any doubt In the mind
of a farmer about using fertilisers con
taining American-made potash, in the
belief that it la not as good as that
which was formerly obtained from Ger
many, his mind can be set at rest by
any chemist or agricultural authority.
Any one who knows in what form the
potash exist la the Amerloan-mad
product will declare that muriate or
suflate of potash Is the same to the
plant whether it be obtained from
American sources or Germany, and
that the plant asks no questions as to
where it originated, but feeds on It
just the same.
Raise Home Supplies -
And Some To Spare
"Store bought" food and feeds are
too high priced for any farmer to pay.
even It he eould find them for sale.
The wise southern farmer will get la
er crop of corn aad velvet beans, pota
toes, vegetable of various 14 ads,
grow a few bean ami poultry and oth
erwise look o for the needs ef hi
family and hj-taaaam. .With an
eg food prodm" briaclag uea.geod
prices, the aet2xra farmer should do
a patrtoti bit if he would rsJee enough
to l ?r some fc tie uravlee wnOa at
la raising hie enetsa even. I
THE M'CRACKEN FAMILY
(NoJ 8 By A. H. McCracken.)
Beore ' giving you a sketch of
grandfather-Joseph I wish to say
few things respecting the McCrack-
ens who - settled in Randolph county,
N. 4 and those who settled in South
Carolina. I have seen some of both
of these families and there is a strik
ing resemblance between them and
our family, ' ,
I am personally acquainted with one
Robert H. McCracken, a piano tuner.
He was born in North Carolina and
he told me that his great great grand-,
father was one of the boys who land
ed in Charlestown, S. C, and that all
the McCrackens in middle North Car
olina are his descendants. : There is a
Dr. J. F. McCracken near Greens
boro, N. C, and A. J. McCracken,
postmaster at Graham, Alamance
county, N. C, and also a McCracken at
Raleigh, pastor of the largest Metho
dist church there. All these Mc
Crackens trace their father back to a
Scotchman 6f , ojir name who settled
in Randolph county, N. C.
The McCrackens in South Carolina
seem to know little 01 tneir urst
American parents, yet there is a
striking resemblance between them
and the other families.
That little story of the three Scotch
brothers who landed at Charlestown
some time in the middle of the seven,
teenth century is told by both of
these families and as some of these,
one Hiram McCracken, mentioned in
my last, migrated from Union county,
S. C, to Georgia, muBt have been
some relatives in Georgia who drew
him away from the family in South
Carolina; for this man Hiram moved
to a section in Georgia where other
McCrackens were then living. I have
a letter from H. D. McCracken, of
Cornelia Ga., in which he says that
his grandfather came to Georgia from
North Carolina. Putting these facts
together we see that these families
must have known each other back in
the early days and the legend of the
three brothers who landed in Charles
town must be a true story.
Great grandfather .Joseph Mc
Cracken was born in Habersham
county, Georgia, January 4, 1776, and
died Crabtree, N. C, June 25, 1848.
He married Sarah Vaughn March 15,
1798. Grandmother Sarah was born
March 11, 1779 nd died December 22,
1867. My grandfather, Hiram Mc
Cracken, told me that grandmother
Sarah was born in South Carolina on
the site where the city of Greenville
is now located, hut others of the fam
ily say that she was born in Georgia.
About two years after their mar
riage they came to Crabtree, Hay
wood county. N. C. and settled on a
hundred-acre tract of land near where
Albert Walker now lives, for which
they paid $50. They made the jour
ney from Habersham to Crabtree on
horseback. They went to work on
this little farm and through skill and
industry made good, for at grand
father's death in 1848 they owned ev
ery valuable farm, except one, on
Crabtree Creek.
Grandmother Sarah was a very in
dustrious woman. She spun, wove
and made all the clothes both for her
self and family. She was a south
erner to the core, holding to the very
last, for southern rights. She said
she had counted her children and
grandchildren who were in the South
ern army and that she had 107 and
she hoped to live to see that not one
of them deserted the southern cause.
She had her request, although many
of them found a grave on the battle
field, yet not one of them proved dis
loyal. ' She died one year after the
war at the good old age of 89. Grand
father and grandmother were God
fearing and Christians, holding to the
Baptist denomination. They grew up
surrounded by the primitive forest,
having for their guide the Bible and :
nature. We often wonder how the.'
pioneer lived for his advantages com-
pared with ours were few. But the
man who has the Bible tor his guide'
and nature for hi environments can
never fail though he lives in a desert.'
We degenerates have not the faith of
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prodcrt lf from the not living,
has obtained new type of life by
seat wxwderfut feat ef breeding. Or
gvalorta er archaeologist Was
discovered la fh
oaf "the teiMiuj;
Ifnk which
the higher forma'
trine. Our. forefathers believed the'P; lctrle melting pot for Lino
Bible hat we are inclined to be step- type.' Hav f or sal 12x1 C P.
tteaL Every new and then we hoar'CxJron in exttoTknt condition, $200."
that n great Professor So-ando lftahWerourler, WeynesvfflaL
prodV-M lf from the not living, orl J
of life with the lower, or which
bridges over the gulf between man
and the apes. Thus we get our
science from the newspaper and the
theories of men rather than from the
Bible. There is a need for the old
time Bible and the sooner we take
this for our code of instruction the
better. For we are beginning to see
that the Bible is more accurate than
the world's science : and . her simple
gospel wiser than its philosophy. The
Bible was grandfather's guide which
taught him that God was sovereign
and tnat U things were in his hands.
Our fathers came to America not to
dig gold nor to lay up riches, but to
live unmolested and to enjoy that free.
dom God has given all who believe
on His Son. This happy pair are
buried at Mt. Zion cemetery, Crab
tree, N. C They worked and toiled
and left the fruits of their labor for
others and as we approach this' spot
where lies their ashes we should not
only remember them but the God they
served, through whose goodness they
had prosperity and length of years.
There were born unto them 13 chil
dren, nine boys and four girls, of
which all except one lived to a good
old age. The names of these chil
dren are as follows:
Carrie, born January 13, 1799;
married Josiah Crawford.
Acton, born January 23, 1800; mar
ried a Miss Foteet.
John, bom December 21, 1901; mar
ried Miss Leanah Rogers.
James, born November- 23, 1804;
died at the age of 13 years.
Russell, born October 24, 1806;
married a Miss Garnett
Mary, born August 31, 1808; mar
ried John Rogers.
Margaret, born March 5, 1810; mar.
ried Cyrus Rogers.
David, born December 12, 1812;
married three times Garrett, Jones,
Haynes.
George, born July 31, 1814; mar
ried his cousin, a Miss McCracken.
Amelia, born July 2, 1815; married
a Mr. Byers.
Joseph, Jr., born June 10, 1817;
married a Miss Roberson.
Enos, born June 25, 1819; married a
Miss Rogers.
Hiram, born October 12, 1821; mar
ried Miss Mary Howell.
All these children are dead and all
except one, James, lived to bring up
families and the average life of these
children were more than three score
and ten. This was a prolific family
indeed If the science of health and
obedience to the doctor's rule counts
for anything our great grandparents
had it on us. These children were an
honor to their parents and made good
citizens and did much both in church
and state. I hope in my next article
to take up these children one by one
and write a few things of them. So
don't get seared boys, for I am not
going to paint the lily in all its col
ors. Spartanburg, S. C.
JUNALUSKA GOLF COURSE
Jerry Liner has about completed his
contract for grading and seeding to
grass the putting, green of the golf
course at Lake Junaluska, He says
that tills will be an ideal golf course
and one of the best found anywhere.
The ground is located at the end of
the lake nearest Waynesville. "At
each of the nine holes the ground has
been graded level within a radius of
about 40 feet from the holes. Be
tween the holes the lay of the ground
varies greatly in character, sufficient
to test the skill of even experts of the
game. Mr. liner estimates- the ex
pense of the course at $5,000. "
The ground was plowed and sab-
coiled so ns to hold the moisture.
When the grass starts it will be kept
mowed like a lawn. This will add
greatly to the many other varied at-
tractions at this now well known
mountain . lak and the Southern As-
Mmbly is to Be commended on this
feature. From a scenic standpoint
there can be no more ideal spot for
gueh playground,
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