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There is Someone Who wants have to sell: to buy what you Who wants to sell what you want to buy: Who has found what you have lost, or lost what you have found: Who will give you the place to work you desire, or do the work you want done. If you will advertise the fact ' in these columns you will go a long way toward getting re sults. WANT ADS prove profitable. CHEAP, too 5 cents s line in Want Column or 10 cents a line among hews notes. LET AN AD IN THIS PAPER WORK FOR YOU 25 of the Clyde, girls and boys joined the various clubs. The speakers in the recitation contest the same after noon were Misses Ava McCracken, Jennie Green, Pauline Fish and Avie Measer. After considerable discus sion1 the judges, Mrs. W. P. Fincher, W. K. Scott and, the writer, finally de cided in favor of Miss Green', who will recite in the big contest at Cul lowhee. Miss Eva West, Clyde high school music teacher, and Miss Fannie Fin cher, assistant postmaster, are study ing telegraphy. They have a tele graph line extending from the post office to R. W. West's store over which they send and receive tele grams. Colonel F. K. Bailey, of South Car- I olina, will have charge of the Medford Farm this summer where he and an other gentleman will establish a mil itary school, build a lake and teach young men to swim and dive. At 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon of 100. sheep , to his farm on Spring Creek a few days ago. Hope the doga will not raid them, as they have al ready killed a lot of sheep in that section. ; , "MADGE." CANTON CLIPPINGS (Observer.) Messrs. John M. Curtis and E. E, Clark will leave Monday for Hot Springs, Ark., where they will spend several weeks. Mr. W. J. Hampton, who has been at Hot Springs, Ark., for several weeks for his health, is expected to return to Canton in a few days. The announcement of the marriage of Mr. Wayne M. Smathers and Miss Fannie P. Sigmon has surprised their numerous Canton friends. The cere mony was performed on Saturday night, March 30, at the home of R. R. Cook. The officiating minister was this week a war savings society will I the Rev. W. H Pless be organized at iiaywooa institute C. W. Hawkins, a merchant of Can- auditorium. Hon. FeliX E. Alley and ton. has filnrl a voltii.tj.ri. honlr.-Hnf.ro Dr. Green, of Waynesville, are ex- pected to address the society. Let all the people come and hear these dis tinguished speakers and join the society. "M. B. S.' Correspondence CLYDE CULLINGS j I Mr. J. B. Rogers, a leading farmer of Stamey Cove, was here today on business. Mr. and Mrs. James B. Bradshaw, M T -. . ii l i , a. vi irvnuuu, were in our uurg last Saturday. Mrs. and Miss Smith, of New Jer sey, spent several days last week i with' Mr. and Mrs. D. I. L. Smathers. Mr. Spurgeon Ensley, a soldier at Camp Sevier, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ensley, last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Leatherwood, James G. Jones and his mother, Mrs, C. B. Jones, visited relatives at Camp Sevier last week. Magistrate DeWitt West is serving our "Uncle Sam" as night telegraph operator at Canton. He is also member of the town board of alder men and is an excellent young man. Those who attended the congres sional convention at Asheville last Saturday were: D. I. L. Smathers, T. H. Haynes, A. G. Shook, Homer West and Walter Smathers. Miss Louise Lennon, of Knoxville, Tenn., is doing a large business mak ing and selling hats at the store of Grover C. Haynes. Rev. R. E. Hunt and Prof. L. Q. Haynes delivered war addresses at Lake Junaluska last Saturday eve ning. The sermon by Mr. Hunt at the - M. E. church, south, last Sunday morning on "Is the Young Man Safe?" was indeed a most excellent one. Rev. L. Q. Haynes will preach at the Baptist church next Sunday morning on the "Millenium." A large congregation is expected to be pres ent and hear this live topic discussed as there is a diversity of opinion re garding it. Most of the student body of Hay wood Institute, Mr. J. L-Morgan, Miss Latimer, Mrs. W. A. Hart and Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Byers, went to Eagle's Nest last Saturday and had a high time. The commencement exercises of Clyde High School will be held Friday afternoon and Friday night of this week. A debate and recitation con. test will be held Friday night which promises to be quite interesting. Mr.'W.'H. Ferguson, county farm agent, and W. K. Scott, assistant emergency Boys' Club agent, ad dressed the Clyde High School last Friday afternoon at which time about ROCK SPRING ITEMS Ihe farmers of this section are very busy planting potatoes, harrow ing their land and preparing to plant corn. Wheat in this part of the country is looking good; 50 per cent better than it did April 1, 1917. The pros pects are good for a big crop of fruit and berries. Let us one and all get busy and can, dry and preserve the entire crop. Let nothing go to waste. Mr. Rider Hogland, of Rock Springs, returned from a visit to in the office of W. S. Hyams, clerk of the United States court. In his re- turns, Mr. Hawkins lists his liabilities at $1,940.28 and his assets at $1,772, claiming from the latter a $500 ex emption for personal property. On Monday last the complete die- tilling outfit, captured March 19 by Officers E. J. Stroup, C. M. Blaylock and G. C. Brookshire, was taken to Waynesville and turned over to the county commissioners who are re quired by law to destroy it. The re ward of $20, which the law provides for the capture of an illicit still, will be divided among the three officers. CAMP SEVIER CHAT Camp Sevier, April 7, 1918. Dear Mountaineer: This cold, rainy evening I will write a few lines. There are no haDDeninirs Camp Sevier last week. He said the 1 0f interest this week. boys in camp are well cared for and The paDer as throuirh manv have plenty to eat and that they are Lager hands when it comes to camp, more than anxious to go to France We are iad to see the different to fight the Kaiser. writers cettine back on the iob: that's Mr. James Smith, of Big Branch, 0ne tnin(r We certainlv have to do- was a visitor at Janes Chapel last be on the job. Sunday and took dinner with H. W. Jt js the general opinion that we tarver. I won't hA hprp KA VP" lnno hnt a' it may De a surprise 10 tne read- cant ten -w- that . . ... ers or our good paper to learn tnat t regard to Mr. Sinclair's speech we have a new town on Ball Creek about the Germans comine un the Janesville. There are four streets Mississippi valley, I can't get it made leading from the square, South Main, np in my mind that they will ever see iMortn Main, BrooKiyn avenue ana the Mississippi valley. If thev should. June Bug Lane. j believe thev will be sewed like Gov- Mrs. Will Bradshaw and Mrs. Leo ernoP fiickett said Kaiser Bill wasrf n..u. - c-j I - i f i sewed. They'll sro down the vallev Mush last week. I nnp fctr onfl with lint tmlloto in tfcoi. mt. Horace Meaioru ana James i pants. uugg made a trip to canton Sunday. Most of the boys are very anxious Mr. r. w. Messer, our mercnant- to get started "over there." but I sun- farmer, is making great improve- DOSe we haven't had enonirh training Will You Serve As A Red Cross Worker In F: ranee: The Bureau of Personnel of the Southern Division of the American Red Cross has been asked by Washington Headquar ters to supply at the earliest possible time a number of men and women for Red Cross work in France. The request from Washington follows a cablegram from Henry P. Davison, chair man of the Red Cross War Council, who is now in France study ing conditions, and who is deeply impressed with the vital ne cessity of materially increasing the number of Red Cross work ers in Europe at this critical time. Mr. Davison's cablegram says in part: "Conditions are now such that every intelligent American man and woman with the right spirit and unquestioned loyalty can be utilized. You cannot send too many and there is work . for all who come." Knowing that Mr. Davison is now personally in touch with the situation in France, H. D. Gibson, general manager of the Red Cross, is urging all Division Offices and Bureaus of Person nel to do everything in their power to increase the number of men and. women offering their, services for work abroad. All parties interested are asked to consult with Mrs. Kate C. Pegues, Waynesville. This Space Donated ty McCracken Clothing Co. Rheumatic Aches tot wit qoicl ttbatt Drive thara oat with Sloan's Liauaent, the quick-acting without rabfegaiatieai the aaWHQF plaster or ointBMMt? it does Bot etaia ta akia or dog tfcope . Ah k abottW im tba boom lor thoodaae aad ments on his new farm. Mr. Ralph Janes and Will Duckett are still on the job trading horses. There has been much talk through the papers of late about the proposed dog law or in other words, "Dogs vs. Sheep." We certainly do need a dog law that will give the farmer some protection for his sheep. We also need a road law that will give our roads some protection. We need a law to build and maintain roads by di- ! to be taken yet. I must close. Success to all. L. R. WILLIS. FROM PECK HAM, COLORADO Peckham, Colo., April 2, 1918. Dear Mountaineer: We are surely having some fine weather here. We had a little rain the other day, the first in seven months. The farmers are eettinir rect taxation. The old way, by "free ajonK fine th their work and trying labor,'' has proven a failure. Have for bimrer cr0D. to heln win the war. we a candidate for representative with the nerve to step but and tell the people through the Mountaineer just where he stands and what he will do in regard to a dog and road law? A man who hasn't that much nerve is not worthy of the voter's consider ation. There is a saying that "You can fool all the people part of the time and part of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the peo ple all the time." I think we have been fooled long enough. Let's get down to business and try to ascer tain just what our candidates stand for. i "W. BILL." ! FINES CREEK FOLKS Most everybody here belongs to the Red Cross. The school children are knitting sweaters and wristlets for the soldier boys. I have been here two years and think this is a fine country. It is as level as a floor almost as far as one can see. Although you can see the Rocky Mountains from Peckham, which have snow on them all sum mer, they are 80 miles away. There is where we get our water for irriga tion, which comes from a large ditch from a river. Each farmer has so many shares of stock and a ditch of his own connecting with the big ditch wmcn waters nis farm. Then we have a ditch rider who sees that each farmer gets his share of water, me than any four months of my past life. Fort Thomas is beautifully located among the mountains of old .Kentucky just across the Ohio river from Cin cinnati, and the people here are in deed nice to we soldier boys and of course that makes us love the camp life so much more. On Saturday night, March 30, all the soldier boys in Fort Thomas were invited to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Club in Cincinnati, and believe me we all had something to enjoy while there. The mayor gave a good speech just for the benefit of the soldiers and sailors, also had good music, some thing good to eat and every person there enjoyed it to the fullest extent Camp life at Fort Thomas is a life worth living. I only weighed about 170 when I came here in December and now I weigh 210 and feel bet ter than I ever have. I will leave here tomorrow, April 5, for Fort Beardon, Wash., which is only a short distance from Seattle, only hope I may find the people there as courteous to the soldiers as they are at and near Fort Thomas. I will probably let the good people of Haywood county hear more from me when I get to my next post of duty. Tours very truly, CORDELL RUSSELL. RANDOM THOUGHTS Corn planting seems to be the prin cipal occupation here and everybody's striving for a larger crop than usual. Mrs. Wes. Curry, Mrs. Gaither Fer guson and Mrs. D. R. Noland, of this township, are in the Meriwether hos pital at Asheville. Mrs. Georgia Rhea, of Canton, for merly of this township, has been very ill. Erastus Messer, candidate, of Waynesville, was seen in our "burg" last week. Lawrence Kirkpatrick, of Bluff, N. C brought his cattlo to hia grass farm hero this week. Aunt Kind Fisher visited her brother, G. W. Green, of Cantonl the past few days. . J Our Sunday school reorganised last Sunday with Silas Kirkpatrick sapqr- J A - H7.LL i t . . . and Mr. Wetb organist. A party of J if folks motored to . Satarday, returaiiqt. Bam- Yours truly, ELLEN PRESLEY. FROM FORT THOMAS, KY. Fort Thomas, Ky March 4, 1918 Editor Mountaineer: You will please allow me space in your valuable paper for the follow ing. Having been located at Fort Thomas recruiting station since De cember 14, 1917, which you will i when you look on your calendar was almost four months ago, I feel that the experience I have had within that time has really been worth more to ' AiWvtBe II day. r a s price aoi iae raad Sit St $1 J Zoo rarguoa took his flock of ever rsi e::.x$ ui tsus 4 at f Ui thr4 i hem, kcUaag vkf T Oil tmm raanto tfwm tw trcHM. a, aai whm barmfal ar aaat- Tr 1ia MU tv. at The Good Roads and the Better Schools questions are so closely re lated that the discussion of one nec essarily involves the other; if im prorement is made along one line the other is soon benefitted. When community builds good roads, the very next stop is to build a better school house and lengthen the school term. Where the ancient pig and sheep trail suffices for a road, the dilapidated school house with crude, straight backed desks or split log benches is still used to accommodate the pupil with the expectation of mak ing a good citizen of him. It goes without saying that some good men have gone out into the world who have received their education in just such quarters, but there is no excuse in this age for any such makeshift. The stock men provided quarters for their stock la these far behind com munities just about aa well as they provided for the education of their boys and girls, while today in the samo communities they make good provision for the car of the cattle hogs, while the boys and girls must tough oat their school days oa the same old seat their parents I warmed in the good olden tin. I deal say thee conditions prevail la aO aoaaliy ewmnraaitioa, but la some It does. Who is at fa aft? The writer happens to know that the county board of education in Haywood has done exceedingly well with the mea ger sum provided for the public schools of the county, and it is owing to the 'good management of the su perintendent and the board that the schools are getting along as well as they are. So then the trouble lies where it generally does in such cases with the people. When every dis trict in the county that has a special put the loafer to work on the public road if he is not disposed to work for the maintenance of his family. Now the writer has no specific plan to offer to raise the money for roads, for there are several good ones, with some objectional features in all, but we cannot wait for the perfect plan. Let us have roads first, and then we will not object so much to paying for them. One fellow says he is opposed to putting a tax on his school tax doubles it, and the districts children to pay. What he really which have no tax votes one to equal that of the others, then we can expect better schools. It is not necessary to say much about better qualified teach ers, for we cannot expect teachers to spend one or two thousand dollars qualifying themselves to teach for $30 or $40 per month, five months in the year. When we are able to pay rea sonable salaries, the properly quali fied teachers can be found. Now, then, when we get the schools in better condition the roads win fol low, and when we get the roads some plan to maintain them will be worked out. This disgraceful "free labor" system should be abolished for all time to come. One of the most familiar scenes the writer recalls is the fence lined with a few men and boys with some worn out hoes, a mattock or two, perhaps a shovel that saw action at York Town. This was road working day, and not as much work was done in a day by that crew as would have been done in the same length of time by one man at $1 a day. The taxpayer is the man mostly benefitted by good roads, and it must fall to his lot to foot the bills if we ever have better roads. ' The com plaint is often made that the loafer gets the most benefit, but the day of the loafer is almost gone. North Carolina has a vagrancy law on the statute books that, if enforced, will means is that he is too durned stingy to eat a square meal. Better roads and better schools make better people. Speaking of loafers, there is food for reflection right there, and if some of the said loafers were put to work there would be more food for some hungry children in Haywood county. The loafing crime (and it amounts to a crime in time of a world's war when every man is needed at the front or at home producing something to help win the war) is not confined to Vie single man alone, but there are mar ried men in almost every community loafing, producing nothing, yet eating a plenty. Governor Bickett's sug gestion to "Go to work or go to the roads" should be carried out Shirk ers and slackers should find no favor in the eyes of any good citizen in this, time of need. If the exemption board only had power to round up all such and, send them along to the training camps it would be best for the com- ' tnunity which have to harbor such parasites. The writer really believes that the man who believes in, works for, and helps pay for a better country her below stands a better chance of reach ing a better country in the hereafter than the one he left behind. TAXPAYER. HYATT & COMPANY Dealer In BUILDERS MATERIAL Doors, Sash, Rubberoid Roofing:, Finished Lumber, Brick, Lime and Cement PEED and COAL C, S. Meal C S. Hulls Hay, Grain, Ete Domestic Furnace Steam All orders elven prompt attention Quality, Price, Service" PtoM 43. Waynesville; N. C. Depot St
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