? AND WAYNESVILLE COURIER
Volume IV. No. 16 Waynesvlile, N. C., Thursday, March 7, 1918 $1 .SO a Year
BOUGHT PROPERTY HERE
PROPOSED MUNITION FACTORY
THE APPROACH OF SPRING
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
PRIMARIES MARCH 30
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H. G. Stone, formerly only a sum-
mer visitor here, hai bought 60 acres
of land between the Piedmont Hotel
property and Eagle's Nest, and will
build a bungalow there this summer
and make it his permanent home. He
and his wife hare spent the winter
here at the Piedmont Hotel. Their
home has been near Miami, Florida,
for the past 17 years and before that
he was engaged in newspaper work
in Illinois. For the past five years he
and his wife have spent the summer
here. The climate and the scenery
have decided them to make this place
their permanent home. Tuesday
morning he was up town buying
great variety of garden tools and will
begin at once on a garden. Waynes-
ville welcomes tourists bat has a still
more fervent welcome for those who
come here to make it their home.
Mrs. Dr. J. E. Cole and her son,
J. E. Cole, Jr, who is in the U. S
army, .were in town Tuesday complet
ing the purchase from J. M. Long at
Hazelwood of the J. S. Cowan home,
opposite W. H. Cole's place, and also
some vacant lots. These people are
from Middleton, Ga., where Dr. Cole
practiced medicine 27 years but is
now an invalid and paralyzed. They
will not move here at present as the
property purchased is now occupied
by Mr. J. H. McMakin.
A PATRIOTIC SERVICE
The morning service at the Meth-
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one and every seat was filled. The
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pastor delivered a lecture-sermon on
"Why We Are Fighting Germany,"
and it was the best speech we have so
far heard on the war. If he could de
liver that speech throughout the
county, we believe that Haywood
county's quota of Thrift Stamp sales
would be easily reached.
Preceding the sermon J. M. Mock,
in a fitting speech, presented the
church on the part of the Sunday
school a Conquest Flag. Miss Hil
da Way in an excellently prepared
address delivered the service flag con
taining 86 stars and one red cross
representing the 36 men and one
woman from hat church now in the
I service of their country. Prof. .J. E.
Robeson delivered a brief speech of
acceptance on behalf of the church.
A patriotic song a quartet was
rendered by the Misses Nora Turby
fill and Virginia Matney, Tom Davis
and Robert Boone.
$1,000 FOR UNIFORMS
The Local 'Guard expects to raise
$1,000 for uniforms and have already
made progress.
The city aldermen agreed Tuesday
to appropriate $200 toward buying
uniforms for the Hsywood County
Reserve Militia. Canton will likely
give that amount and it is thought
Clyde will appropriate $50. The
county' commissioners have promised
$300 and if it is necessary some more.
A benefit at the Waynewood recently
brought into the treasury $60 and we
understand Mr. Hugh Sloan gave
$40.
At Canton last night a benefit pic
ture show was given for this object
The amount will probably be raised
this week. The $1,000 is expected, to
buy all needed for uniform equipment
except shoes, which the members will
buy individually.
Why a uniform for the guards, you
ask? Because that's the least we
can do. They spend their time drill
ing. And if the need comes for home
guard duty they will do their duty.
But the very fact we have a home
guard may not necessitate its use. It
is where there is no home guard that
need may arise for one. They are a
preventive the same as policemen
and courts of law. It is because we
have laws and officers that we have a
minimum of crime. Without these as
a safeguard; there might be serious ,
need for them in soma communities.
It is when we see our home boys in
uniform In a parade, that our hearts
will be filled with pride and stirred
with patriotism and whsn any ene
mies of law and good order will take
due notice.
Capt. Killian requests each mem
ber to be at the armory .next Mon
day night so that measurements may
bo taken and orders for uniforms may
bo sent.
MEN WANTED Good reliable men
to work on farm and In orchard.
Good wages. Apply to John Rhine
hart at R. N. Barber's farm, Sauncek,
N. C or address Waynesville, N. C
Route L.
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E. T. Turner, a son-in-law of J. D,
Hyatt, now engaged in munition
works for the government at Dayton,
Ohio, was here over Sunday and while
here proposed to attempt to locate a
form of munition plant here. Lead
ing business men of the town were
called to the Waynesville Club Mon
day morning to hear his proposition
and consider it.
In brief this was the proposal: Our
army in France uses numerous trench
mortars for bombing" the opposing
trenches. The amount of powder re
quired is little aa mortars are used
only for dropping bombs in nearby
trenches. The powder for the charge
is handled in small silk bags. There
are plants making these bags and the
work here would be simply to fill
these bags with powder and sew them
up on two sides by hand. Hence girls
mainly would be employed. No
machinery is needed and almost any
kind of buildings would do. Mr. Tur
ner proposed that citizens here sub
scribe stock to the amount of $75,-
000 to finance the payroll until
checks were sent by the government
in payment.
The plan of payment is cost plus 10
per cent. Hence there would be good
prospects of returns for those who
took stock. But Mr. Turner had only
until 11 o'clock that morning to pro
cure this evidence on our part the
assurance of 875.000. It was 9 o'clock
when- the meeting was called to order.
Two hours in which to explain the
AAA
A good start was made
towards it but not completed. Mr.
Turner had to be in Washington with
his proposal by Tuesday. There
wasn't enough time.
It was Mr. Turner's idea to per
sonally superintend the work here for
which he was to receive a salary sat
isfactory to the government and also
a substantial part of the profits of
the output for promotion,
TAKES SULPHUR SPRINGS
Government Authorities at Washing
ton Have Leased Haywood White
Sulphur for Temporary Hospital
A telegram yesterday morning
from Washington to Mr. B. J. Sloan,
owner of the famous Haywood White
'Sulphur Springs hotel, just outside of
town, announces that this property
has been decided on as a temporary
hospjtal for a tubercular sanitarium
for our soldiers while "the Azalea
plant is being built near Asheville.
A number of changes will have to
be made by the owners including elec
tric heaters in the bath rooms. These
changes will go rapidly forward and
it is believed patients may be re
ceived by April 1, or soon after. '
The patients who come will of
course be in the incipient stages and
the Springs property is so isolated
that it will be no objectionable fea
ture with Waynesvile as a resort.
Mass Meeting War Savings Stamps
Mr. Gilbert T. Stephenson, of Winston-Salem,
N. C, will address a mass
meeting to be held at the court house
in Waynesville next Tuesday, March
12, at 2 o'clock p. m., and every man,
woman and child of Haywood county
should be in attendance as Mr. Steph
enson has an important message to
deliver.
To Address Committee
Mr. Stephenson will also address
the entire War Savings Committee
for Haywood county at the court
house next Tuesday at 11 o'clock and
all chairmen and members of every
sub-committee are urged to be pres
ent as IMPORTANT business will be
transacted at that time.
MISS CHARLOTTE GUNTER
On Friday morning, March 1, Miss
Charlotte Gunter, who for some time
resided in our town in the hope of
winninar hasr h.r failing haalth. .
passed away. She was the youngest May 26, 1817, married Ben Duckett; ttey h to call us new fogies. Of
daughter of G. C. Gunter, who was a Rebecca, born December 8, 1918, nev-,0"" tim" ned but hu
resident of Waynesville for some time or married; Marguerite, born July 24, m" ntu tt "
prior to his death last November. She! 1820, married Wefc.ey Duckett; Althe,. Tbf wasbutone Bby in this fam
leaves a mother, one sister and sev- born March 15, 1822, if married I.Tt'"? Crawford. He Lved and
eral half brothers an sisters. Miss' know not to whom; James, born Feb-, to Irenduff township. He wss a
Charlotte was a sweet, ' uncomplain
ing spirit and during her long ill
ness showed remarkable
fortitude!
and pttioBce. Her friends and naja
tivos it sad at her going, but find
much ctmfort in the thought that she
has found relief ' from her suffering
and awaits them oa the other aide.
The remains were taken to her former
homo, Fort Smith, Ark, for hrter-
ment
(By Jesse Daniel Boope.)
. Springtime is coming it's just around the turn;
(Soon the winter leaves and trash will surely have to burn;
'Cleaning time and planting is the order of the day;
. And I haven't found a person who would try to block its way.
' I think all hands are ready to greet this fairest Queen
. With her pretty spots of color and grass and leaves, so green.
... The animals and fish are glad, and so are birds and bees,
While winter-weary people, too, enjdy the balmy breeze.
. The chickens cackle, crow and chirp, the pigs all grunt and squeal,
The cows, too, have a dif'rent low, to tell you how they feel;
The birds sing early in the morn, and through the livelong day,
While a thousand voices tell us that Spring is on the way.
That same old tune the froggies sing is filling earth and sky,
While prowling dogs are wagging tails which soon will swat the
fly. t
It's time to dig red sassafras to ward off ills of Spring,
-And time to fix the garden fence and clip the blue hen's wing.
' The school boy hunts his baseball bats and swings them in the air;
He throws his book-bag on the floor, as if he didn't care;
Vacation seems a year ahead, but fishing holes are near, .
So he hunts up all his rods and lines to make the matter clear.
Old maids are smiling, 'just their best, to help the thing along;
They want a mate, of course they do, and that is not so wrong.
Old bachelors are sprucing up and shining up their shoes,
To see if some good-looking girl will come their way and choose.
(The poets now begin to write their odes to Love and Spring;
The mountain trout begins to jump, the bees are on the wing;
The candidate is on the go and wants to shake your hand;
He now is kissing babies all over this fair land.
THE McCRACKEN FAMILY
(No. 4 By A. H. McCracken.)
Grandfather Joseph was no doubt a
fine disciplinarian anda man of good
iudement He brought up a largel""' i e tnree it s." cut tney
family who -we're honest, temperate were taught domestic science in a
and God fearing. Like all men in the! way tht would put to shame many
flesh they had their faults, yet there jo m modern women who have re
ware thin in their lives that oroved ' cei ved their degree in some of our
that thev were tutored by parents
who were not over indulgent and who!
used tact as well as discipline in ties, but the home. Our great grand
bringing up their family. They be- mothers knew more about household
lievifd in brineinir uo a child in the duties than half the would-be profes-
wav it should eo. We modern deeen-
crates know little of tact and dis -
.iniinn onj hon our children become'
men they are morally weak. Obe
dience, if learned at all, is learned
in the home. If the parent is over in
dulgent or neglectful and looks not
into the future of his child there is
little hope of that child becoming an
obedient and God fearing citizen.
That old saying, "A round peg in a
square hole," is responsible for most
failures in life.
While it was characteristic of them
to be high-tempered and impatient it
was hard for them to resent an in
sult, yet they were not bullies or
boasters. It was not their nature to
be cruel or unforgiving, but kind and
sociable and always ready to lend a
band. Thev were working neonle who
made their living by the sweat of
tiai Kmw Anrt nf MurftA Vnpw th
dollar. They were men,1
value of
too. who loved their homes and
4.,a th. wolf . re of
their children. They were men of
few words but to their discredit when' lt7 our women who, contrary to
moved to anger- they said too much.!01'8 command, are trying to do
They were loyal citizens and ready thinKg utide ' their BPhere nd
.t .11 time, to obev their country's 1 neglecting to do the things command-
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Of all of grandfather Joseph's
children I knew but four of them
John, David, Aunt Polly Rogers, and healthy and God fearing children. Al
my grandfather, Hiram. Carrie, the ough they could not play the piano
first of randfather JosennVs chil-:ur
... horn January 18 1799. She'uld prepare a meaL make a gar-
jMi.h rrawford October 18.
1814. and died October 4, 1866. Jo-. of few divorces and what
siah Crawford was a good citizen God joined together was never puUed
and a man noted for his wit. He Mnder. How the man or the worn
lived on the head of Crabtrea Creek. - who knows the Bible can sanction
I myself have seen the house he lived I odern woman is doing to
rn. It was a Urge two-story building! dT ytery to me. But God's
made of hewn poplar logs. This house' thoughts are not our thoughts nor his
stood near the creek at the foot of the ways our ways. Truly God's, wsys
hill near where Lawrence Walker "wyi the opposite of the ways
lives and the farm is still known as ' tt worid-
the Crawford place. There were' Anyway, our grandmothers knew
born unto them one son and 11 girls:, ore than we and their lives are
AT.nl. horn November 4. 1815. mar-1 worth following. We have no more
rtA M.ttrann Davis Sarah, horn
ruary 14, 1824, married a Mr. Howell;
Kira, born Decembei 25. 1826, mar-
ried William Saiuord; Sinthy. bora
June 26, 1828, never married; M V
born July 6, 1830. married B t
Hffl; Amelia, bo-n Novambe
1881, never married; Nancy,
June 13, 1834, married Geo. T -e;
Martha, bora March 13. 1836 ju-
ried Isara Evans., j
Here we have a family of girls who,
no doubt, had to go out into the field
and do men's work. Their life was
one of toil and hardship. Living in
the days when there were few schools
they grew to womanhood knowing
' colleges. It is not the college that
equips the woman for household du
ara ot who claim -to-teach our
! daughters domestic science.
Education is good for all, but it
looks to me that our women are get
ting the worst end of the bargain
these days; for few of our cultured
daughters know anything about cook
ing and sewing, but too much about
fine clothes, society and politics.
Their minds are being turned away
from the. home toward other things.
God in His wisdom created her to
be makers of the home and not for
the thousand and one things they are
trying to do these days on the out
side. Woman suffrage! The idea
makes me shudder. I once heard
noted suffragette say that Saint Paul
was a woman-hater because in one
of his Epistles the statement is made
that women should be silent in the
eB-r
! realize
Poor woman! She did not
that it was not Saint Paul
who this but the Holy Spirit.
Such a remark is either ignorance or
! blasphemy. The main cause of the
wickedness of this age is the infidel
ed by the God of Heaven and earth.
These girls, though not educated,
made happy homes and brought up
ujwrmwua -pari, uy
love their husbands. Those
rjgub iv cu uvra viu xugics man
tooa man, jotw ana rospecieu oy an
who hhn. He was the father of
Ilnu,T- wnom mre aom"
.
A ? ttMchdr?
ago. So far I believe I am
tit J5"
tMldr"j traadchfldrea
weT w "". were
beggars or were ever cast upon the
public for support.
"The farmer is the man who's go
ing to get most out of the War Sav
ings Campaign," says Mr. Gilbert T.
Stephenson, in one of the best speech.
es he makes in the interest of War
Savings and Thrift Stamps. Mr.
Stephenson has made a ceref ul study
of what the Thrift Campaign will
mean to the various classes of in
vestors, and says: "As a purely bus
iness matter, the ' farmer stands to
profit more by the War Savings
Campaign than anybody else in the
state." , .
Mr. Stephenson figures out that
the farmer will for once be able to
eat his cake and have it too. He says
this can be done by the farmer lend
ing his monye to the government with
good interest which the government
will use in buying food and clothes
for its soldiers. The farmers will
grow the food and clothes-products
which the government will buy. So,
the money which the farmers lend to
the government by purchasing War
Savings Stamps -will come back to
them in the purchase of wheat, corn,
cotton, wool, pork and feed, and other
farm products that they have grown
The North Carolina farmer is not
as rich as he ought to be, says Mr
Stephenson, for the reason that he
has never learned to save. He says
that the crop producing power of
North Carolina in 1910 was $24.84
per acre, while that of Iowa was
$17.91, of Oklahoma $10.95. Yet the
per capita wealth of North Carolina
in, farm property in that year was
$322, as compared with $3,386 for
Iowa and $994 for the United States
as a whole. In per capita wealth the
farmers of North Carolina stand 45th
in the list, with only three other
states, all southern, showing a lower
per capita wealth in farm property.
However, Mr. Stephenson believes
that North Carolina farmers are not
only going to do their part in financ
ing the war, but that they will be
quick to take advantage of this easy,
safe, profitable and convenient form
of investing their savings in four per
cent, interest-bearing, non-taxable
government securities in the shape of
War Savings Stamps. He believes
that the farmers in this state will rec
ognize what has been opened to them
in this plan of purchasing War Sav
ings Stamps and what it will mean
to them in doing business on a cash
basis after the war.
A TRIBUTE TO CAPT. HANNAH
Biltmore, N. C, March 6, 1918.
To the Carolina Mountaineer:
After a bear hunt in your sublime
North Carolina Balsam mountains, it
was my pleasure to visit your attract
ive town of Waynesville, where I met
one of the most elegant gentlemen it
was ever my pleasure to know in eith
er proud old Virginia or either of the
Carolinas. I gratuitously refer here
and now unto your innately gentle
manly, as well as erudite, modest
Capt W. J. Hannah, a leading and
accomplished member of your learned
bar of Haywood county, a beautiful
country of fertile fields and sporting
attractions, also.
It has been my pleasure to meet
with the erudite members of the U.
S. judiciary in several proud states
of our glorious American union and
none have impressed me more ear
nestly than your splendid citizen and
capable lawyer, Captain Hannah, the
innately modest, but none the less
forceful gentleman.
I have been for the past nine years
member of the Virginia Circuit
court judiciary and I pronounce Cap
tain Hannah most capable judicial
tinfber from every angle. I am
proud to have visited your little city
and to thus justly compliment so
splendid a gentleman as your attract
ive Capt. Hannah, a self-made, hon-
est, poor man, but rich in principle
and moral itamina. I gratuitouilyt
pen the. Imes entirely unsolicited by
n ay (Tsinr Mantian'si fn.nli sivtH I
without even the slightest knowledge,
of Capt. Hannah, the elegant man
and assuredly the highly loved Chris
tian gentleman.
CIRCUIT JUDGE FLOYD,
(Adv.) Of Old Virginia.
The government is today the great
est employer of labor in the United
States, net considering railroad em
ployes. Ia normal times approxi
mately 400,000 civilians are employed,
and la the last year the number has
mcreasedLto 600,000. In comparison
000 men, and one railroad 250,000.
Bay War' Savings Stamps
County Cenveations April 6th and
State Democratic Convention
to Be Held April 10th
Raleigh, March 5. The North Car
olina Democratic executive committee
voted tonight to hold the party pre
cinct primaries Saturday, March 30,
the county conventons April 6, and
the state convention April 10. Res
olutions were adopted amending the
party plan of organization to con
form with the new primary law, es
pecially elimination of the district ju
dicial and senatorial conventions, and
making other necessary changes.
There was no speech making. The
motion naming the dates for precinct
meetings, county and state conven
tions, was made by R. H. Hayes, Chat
ham county. Chairman Thomas F.
Warren presided, and there were
35 members of the committee pres
ent. There was no discussion of Gov
ernor Bickett's proposition to have no
political campaign for county nfflinT .
but committeemen seem to regard the '
plan as impractical, although quite
desirable because of the war.
MEN ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE
The Following 135 Men Have Been
Accepted and Passed by the Hay
wood County Exemption Board
Thos. Grooms, J. H. Rhodarmev,
Lawrence Coot (Col.), Hillary Brown
(Col.), D. R. Palmer, Fred Spevey
(Col.), W. J. Blaylock, L. T. West,
Cassius Edwards, A. J. Holland,
Frank H. Noland, Mack M. Turpin, F.
M. Rogers, Lucius T. Haynes, Harri
son Clark, Jeter McClure, Jesse Bur-
rell, L. E. Ferguson, James Page,
Joseph Childers, Henry McGee, W. H.
Morgan, Wm. G. Leather-wood, Wm.
N. Farmer, Roscoe E. Parris, Fred
Hall (Col.), H. W. Davis, Daniel
King, R.I. Burress, Geo. Panseline
cedas, Stokes Bumgardner, Thomas
Turpin, Mont M. Hannah, Jessie E.
Wells, John Burnett, Frank Knight,
Oscar Scott, Thos. Q. Widener, Elbert
Anderson, Fred Lenoir (Col.), Carl
Turner, Noah B. -Rhodarmer, Geo.
W. Green, James Wilson, Henry
Smith, Ulysses L. Kuykendall, B. B.
Trull, Will Carver, J. F. Mehaffey,
Robert Fie, Charlie Trantham, G. l
Smathers, Dolphus Lanning, James
Talmage, Robert Mathis, E. C. Bram-
lett, R. B. Deitz, Dock McElrath, Sam
Evans, James Rich, Sam Carver, Paul
Howell, Lawrence Stamey, John G.
McClure, J. C. Camp, Arthur Griggs,
Grady V. Howell, Thos. C. Young
(Col.), Grover C. Allison, James M.
Allison, Geo. A. Inman, Lucius B.
Brooks, Wm. R. Fletcher, Hiram Pal
mer, Milaa H. Wright, James T. Ben
nett, Z. F. Davis, Earl M. Sheehanr
Wm. H. Justice, Charlie B. McCrary,
Arthur Phillips, C. B. Johnson, Wid
T. Cunningham, Allen H. Turpin, Geo.
W. Williams, J. M. Rogers, Lloyd
Reno, George Trull, Grady C. Fer
guson, Wm. W. Burress, F. B.
Moody, Hilliard Ross, James E.
White, Wm. S. Burnett, Harl A.
Reece, Coleman A. Davidson (Col.),
Thomas Moore (Col.), Riley Car
ver, Austin R. Clark, D. D. Hyatt,
Albert Sutton, John F. Goodson, Wi
ley Rathbone, Marion Holcotnbe,
James J. Edwards, O. L. Smith,
Thomas Grady Boyd, Jesse E. Rogers,
Sol Barnes, Hugh Cook, L. E. Eg
gleston, H. J. Wheatley, Robt. C.
Gossett, Allen Hall, C. S. . Fortner,
John S. Jackson, Frank Bumgarner,
Joe Maner, Chester Sealey, W. H.
Rhodarmer, Herbert Buckner, Charlie
Smith, Manson Owen, Scott S. Schul-
hofer, Taylor Inman, James E. Toy,
Charlie McLaughlin, Ben J. Hall, Gar
rett Harden (CoL), George Love
(Col.), W. B. Blaylock, Luther Smath
ers, Fred P. Putman.
The board has been notified by rel
atives that Erie Englehert and How
ard Messer, who were published in the
delinquent list last week, are both
i:A. u j a
fce for Uncl w
0DD FELLOWS TO INVEST $500
i At a meeting or ine local lodge or
Odd Fellows last Thursday night J.
D. Boone was elected Noble Grand to
fill out the unexpired term of Z. V.
Price, resigned, who is now in New
port News, Va.
A resolution of T. L. Green was
unanimously passed to invest $500 of
the money on hand In ThLd Liberty
Loan bonds which will be tffered to
the public next month. Interest Is
picking up in the lodge these pie
ant spring evenings aad all aae
are urged to come to the meetings.
Buy War Savings Stamp