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.rJ i,. -v.. - -. . .- - ' ... -yAy- " Mig' VotnmeV" Number 15 .- Waynesville. Haywood County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 27, 1919. - . $1.50 a Year in Advance V --, , , , , , ... ,. , ; r r-r T-i : ' ' " . 1 V-""'' ', i : i HOUSE RESENTS SLUR ON N. , MOUNTAIN FOLKS.' Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 21. North Car. Una's house of representatives today concurred in the action of the senate, wluch yesterday expressed resentment at V section of the report of Provost Marshal ; General ; Crowder dealing witkvthe roundine ud of the army de serters in Ashe and Mitchell counties, by adopting the senate resolution ask ing the North Carolina congressional delegation1 to use its influence to have alleged false statements expunged from the record'' of the war depart ment. The pari f the provost mar shall general's report objected to in cludes a newspaper article dealing -with the deserters, which was brand; ed as false by ' representatives of mountain counties. V THOMAS J. FERGUSON DIES AT . SANDY MUSH. Asheville Citizen. VJW JHf Thomas J. Ferguson, a prommencJ citizen of Sandy Mush, died Thursday night at his home, aged 84. He survived by his wife and three chil dren, Mrs. Emma Noland, Theodore and Martin Ferguson. Funeral ser vices' will be conducted this afternoon at 8 o'clock at Sandy Mush Brick church. '." Mr. Ferguson was ill only a ' short itme, with pneumonia. He was well known ' throughout the county and had many friends. T. E. DAVIS PULES STORE." ' Theodore E. Davis who had one of the best grocery stores in town and one of the best stands, at the corner ' of Main and Rant streets decided to quit business last week and after disposing ox some ox tne case gooos sold the remainder of the stock to the Waynesville Grocery Co., who took . charge last Saturday. They will keep their stand near the court house and this place up town also, J. .S. Jones and his partner, .Byron T. Reeves alternating at the . two places. Both their stores i well kept and in good . locations and they expect to serve the public bet ter than ever before. COUNTY SINGING CONVENTION. . The Haywood County Singing Con vention will hold its next meeting in the Waynesville court house on Sat urday, March 8th, : beginning . at o'clock. It is highly desirable that -choirs be present from all parts of the county and that a profitable day be spent on this occasion. Nothing is more uplifting than good music. It is the first great aid to the Treacher in his work, is fine for -the school or Sunday school and -is desirable on all public occasions. , At present Ray Parker is 'president and John S. Mitchell is secretary of the singing convention. - They an de nirous that-this meeting be well at tended by people from all over the county. Come and enjoy the day. ( ; ' ; D. U. OWEN ACQUITTED. . Our former county man, D. Ulysses Owen of near Whittier, Jackson coun- tv. after beinr tried at Sylva last i week for killing a neighbor was ae quitted by a jury on the grounds of "being justified by the acts and words of the other party. ' m i . . A , .1.1. . many reiauves ana in?nua " wub county will be glad to know of the outcome.. Hon Felix Alley and Sutton K O Vili WC1I UUCUUVU iae vwwii, 'Solicitor Lyle Jones was aided by Hon. Walter E. Moore. . The case was hard fought' oa both aides. Several Hay -wood county witnesses testified as to the character of the defendant. - ' . 1 : i WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ' boys in casualty mr. Asheville Times, Monday. ' . In the casualty list for today ap pears the names of several western North Carolina boys. Doyle Sesy, of Clyde, Haywood county, is reported to Isve died of accident, while Harrison Caldwell, of Waynesville, has been se--verely wounded in battle. James Sau nooke, ofCberDkee,' Swain county, Is also reported . wounded severely action. ' ' - . v W-f 1 . Il ' ' utwrence v. w mcneatw, 01 " -ntvi::e, is rportd as beinir sUgbtly woandtvl, and A:irt J. Morris, ef r.sate Two, rarjhy, U aloo wounded. Corre W. Eachr,n. c Wsynefi. t irp-orted ae woundrf, the f Tt report sUtirg that be was min- Irg in action. THE PORK BARREL. Extract from the Speech of Senator L. Y. Sherman of Illinois on the River, - and Harbor Appropriation ' Bill, VJS. Senate, Febru - ; . . ary, 17. 1919. , "In union there is strength." All for one and one for all is the slogan that inspires and invigorates this ' annual foray on the defenceless Treasury. See the clans gather from afar, and march . with the appropriation quick step, a glad light beaming from each hungry patriot's eye. Everyone can see by the dawn's early light the mil lions . that gleam in the logvoller's sight, while the creeks and the bayous and frog ponds galore make taxpay ers swear and feel painfully sore, the sandbars and. sawyers, the snags and the scows, the Congressman's schemes and the: engineer's rows, the' dredges and shovels, the dikes, and the dams spend enough cash to break two Un cle Sams. The troop blithely gathers from hill and from plain,, from moun tain peaks, snowcappedyagain and again, down from alkali dust, from sagebrush and pine, they gather their cohorts, line upon line; they move down together, one seems but a dab, but when all march along to the loot step of grab, a fearful procession gaining strength as they come, 'tis the I. W. W.'s, the Bolshevist bum of all legislation that unravels our roll, depletes our exchequer, and gravels our soul, hangs on the majestical riv ers that flow from the far north and their mantles of snow, that run by the wheatfleld and the corn in its rows and ripples along where the cotton boll blows; they Sap and they burden, they dog and deface the Great Fath er of Waters in grafting disgrace; their impudent faces in desert and swamp are everywhere seen as they brazenly romp ' from valley, to sea, from prairie to lake, as the rivers and harbors the lawmakers 'rake. ' With apoligies to Walt Mason, now again fall into commonplace: prose.- The ancient and more or less honorable pursuit of logrolling never produced so robust and expensive progeny" s this compound plexis of! some good and much ev'l. They re verse the laws of population, for the younger exceed the elder in size and strength and they are brought forth in war, famine, and pestilence with unvarying regularity. At times they inspire in the observer a sentiment of awe like a convulsion of nature in the- periodical reappearance of the bill propelled by .an unseen but ir- resistable force across the stage of this Senate. ' Not one's name is ever attached to the hydraheared financial miscarriage. Nothing arrests its progress. It moves with the calm serenity of fate. It looks neither to the right nor to the left, but heads for its goal heedless of environments and protests. Born, in committees and sub-committees in ' the cavernous depths of nowhere in particular, at tho appointed time it emerges upon the committee table an impudent foundling and a predestmed orphin from the beginning. It is impervious to criticism and the more it is banged about and cuffed and cursed the bigger it grows. At last it bursts the narrow limits of the committee room defying the world, the flesh and the fallen angels-as it con fidently stalks forth into this chamber. The, United States Senate is as help less as Frankenstein before his.wierd monster evolved in the uncanny chem istry of tho novelist's brain. Editors Have exhausted their vocabularies and their wits to check iC It bears legions of scars Inflicted by hardy Congress men.' Over them all it moves .una bashed with the stolid unconcern of a steam roller and the nervous temper ament of a British tank. It leaves the knights, of .the paste pot and shears flabby and speechless. The statesmen gaze at the satank appar ition With, disgust and silent amaze ment . It out-Herods their worst and 11 u tkaiM , a.n. tnkJttlATI 'I'll J public condemns it and it has no friends, visible in. the seats of the T I. .ntm. mA m tery, the bonundrum of the generation ' and the deenair of the frural and in-J dustrious. It marches with uncon- - . . ' eem, void of scruple or conscience, to the public coffers, seizes Its millions and sinks back into tho ooze-like depths as aa antedeluvian monster ofrments in this county to assist income v. v . v. Mnra with tiwlr nbinur ' utv prvf.uw. . i1 viivj uiw.iis Its departure, for everyone knews it ill come forth' strain from nowhere and seize the National Treasury- ad infinitum. It is the joint product of that fearful chamber of horrors known as the Board ef Engineers an4 the American candidate for ofr,-. What one cannot contribute the othtr IMMMIMMMIimMiBEiBallBil SPRINGTIME IS ; By J. D. BOONE Oh, the Springtime's coming slowly, But it's comipg, just the same; , And it soon will be upon us Like the bursting of a flame. It will bring us joy and gladness, It will banish winter's gloom; And we'll soon forget the sadness As we give the Springtime room. With the sunshine's warm 'caresses And the balm which Springtime brings 'Round her altar man confesses, High and low, the serfs and kings. As the "whole world loves a lover,'' As the ancients loved their king, ' So when Springtime comes from cover Man and nature smile and sing. Springtime with its leaves and grasses, With its birds and flower tints, All the seasons far outclasses, As bright diamonds .outshine flints. Springtime pleases man and maiden, Cheers the old and charms the young Brightens up the heavy laden, Loosens up the silent tongue. L does, and between them the offspring becomes the potential villainy of later days.,- . ' -V So regular are the visits of this nameless pillager if it should fail to appear it woujd be deemed that the body politic was in a bad way indeed, and that it boded some strange erup tion of State. Some doctors of the applied science of statecraft have even intimated that the River and Harbor Bill is like a carbuncle. It is much better to have the humors come to a head and get rid of them than to have them frisking about one's circulatory system. Another theory was submit ted to me by a doctor of divinity, a most learned man, a predestinarian And. a firm believer, in original . sin. This bill he regarded as an inevitame evil sent by an all-wise Providence to fit us by our struggles with it for a more perfect uie nereaiier. i am disposed to accept the theological so lution of this cryptic scourge of man kind. If, in the fullneay of time, the sun of our beloved Republic shall, liKe that of Ninevah and Tyre, sink to rise no more, the last voices heard in the twilight of history, when the dust of ages is beginning to settle on this doomed and pillared Capitol, will be' a plaintive wail for a few more mil lions for Trinity river, Texas, and a hoarse cry for enough to pull tne snags out of the mouth of the roar ing Gosconade. . WALDENSIANS CELEBRATE THEIR DAY OF FREEDOM. Morganton News-Herald. February 17th is a day the Walden- sian colony at-Valdese never fails to observe and celebrate. It is the anni verary of the day when the Walden si an church was freed from tne rule of the Catholics, On ' February 17, 1848, King' Charles Albert, great grandfather of he present king of Italy, issued a proclamation declaring this freedom and since that time the day' is one of rejoicing and thanks giving for the Waldenaian people. At Valdese the occasion was cele brated Monday night, when over hundred of the Waldensians gathered in the Farmers' Hall, had supper to gether, enjoyed an, address by ; Rev. Pons and music by the Valdese band and wound up the celebration with an ' old-fashioned Waldenaian dance. Rev. J. Pons and Mr. J. Garrou acted as masters of ceremony. The supper was served in great style, while a veritable feast of good things, with several "fatted calves" killed for the occasion and many evidences of facttt the Waldensians know nOW tO COOK. WSS a lime OI ,n enjoym. , v ss vowtiTi- tvnnur rArra uaimu "- Internal Revenue Officer W. H. Harrison lias tho following appoint- -- - f Waynesville, March S to March 11. Canton, March 12 to March 15. Taxpayers ahoald go to the officers with all their figures well in hand so ss to taks as little time as possible. The time for filing returns expires on March 15th and is, therefore, ' very sborV ... .'v mammmm SLOWLY COMING nam REINSTATEMENT OF CIVIL SER. VICE EMPLOYEES WHO EN- TERED THE ARMY OR . NAVY. Washington D. C, February 25, 1919. in a circular recently distrib- uted-by the United States Civil Ser vice' Commission attention is palled to the Executive Order promulgated by the President on July 18, 1913, (provides that "A person leaving the classified civil service to engage in military or naval service of the Gov vernment during v the present war witty, Germany and who has been hon orably discharged, may be reinstated in the Civil service at any time within frsiyears after his .discharge, .pro vided 'that- at the time' of reinstate ment he has the required fitness to perform the duties ,of the position to which reinstatement is sought.' The Civil Service Commission states that, in recognition of the services rendered by civil service employees who entered the military or naval service during the' present var, the Commission will make special effort to assist these men in securing suita ble positions in the Government ser vice rather than to leave upon them the entire burden of finding suitable vacancies. A man who is eligible for reinstate ment under the order may apply to any office or establishment of -the Government under which lie desires re instatement, but, if he prefers, he may request the Civil Service Commission or one of its district secretaries' to enter his name upon a reinstatement list which twill be brought to the at tention of appointing officers' when vacancies are to be filled. X HOW TO MAKE FARM ERS. DESERT s Collier's Weekly. ' 'Some American farms are a good deal like the Austro-Hungarian Em pire in that the boys break 'away be cause they are 'not allowed to have what they earn. Unpaid labor is just as disturbing to family life as it is to politics. With all these prizes and jaunts for boys' and girls' corn clubs, canning communes, etc, this unpleas ant fact will not down. In the Uni versity of North Carolina "News Let ter" a .Tarheel bard breaks into near song over it. He goes to the heart of a matter which has. puzzled preachers, statesmen, and editors by pointing out Jhat the farm boy is not deserting to a faster life or tq. an easier job, but be cause the "garden truck was dad's to sell, but "mineo hoe." The ballad in question reaches its climax in this verse: ' . I left my dad, his farm, his plow, Because my calf became his cow. I left my dad, twas wron. of cour, Because my colt became his horse, Those learned In such matters say that the progress up Vut of slavery is from status to contract i, from working because you must or working because Others keep the): word with you as you do with them. Odd, isn't it, that this evolution should take so long to reach the boys of the farm regions? Perhaps in time it will reach even the women. . Voting should help somewhat . . v ON 'MINE SHIP. Calvin Paxton Had Wonderful Ex- - perienees on One of the Greatest , Cruises Ever Pulled Off pur- the Great War. U. S. S. SanFrancisco, Feb. 14, 1919, My-Dear Mr." Boone: I suppose you haven't forget me. I will try to tell you of the ship I am on and some of my experiences since I joined the navy. First I was on a mine layer, which is the most danger ous weapon or machine in naval war fare. We left Newport, Rhode Is land, at midnight on May 12th, bound for the other, side. We were at sea fourteen days. On May 26 we arrived at Inverness, Scotland, and set about mining the North Sea. We made our first trip in June mining from Orkney Islands to Norway. After: that we made a trip every week lasting from 3 to 5 days, when we would return to port, coal the ship take on mines and clean up. .We got caught in some severe storms, the water on our decks being sometimes knee deep 'and oc casionally Waist deep. We would have to wade in and clear the ports so the water could run off the decks. There were ten ships in the fleet and mine is the flag ship of the fleet. Most of the ships carried 870 mines each and each mine contained 800 pounds of T. N.T. some charge that. While we were laying mines some would go off around us and the water would spout up 200 or 300 feet in the air. We finished mine laying in No vember, just bfore the armistice was signed. We sank quite a few German subs with our mines. On December 2nd we left Scotland for Portsmouth, England, where the men were given, furloughs to visit London. When nearly ready to leave for home 25 of our boys de veloped flu. We sent some of them to a hospital and got under way Dec. 17. We struck a storm which broke our steering gear and had water on our decks waist deep for three days. We got to the Azores Islands Dec. 24th, where' it was warm. We got all kinds of fruit there and coaled our shin and left on Christmas day for home. We had nice weather until we reached Hampton Roads. On Jan 8th I got a furlough home and visited my mother for the first time in two years. , This is a true story of the greatest mining operations ever pulled off in uie niHiury 01 me world. With best wishes. calvin Mcdowell paxton. THE ROAD BILL. (Contributed.) Amount of Federal funds immedi ately available for road construction, 11,139,977.47; amount of Federal funds available july 1, 1919, $1,709, 966.20. Total Federal funds availa ble July 1, 1919, $2,849,943.67. To meet this fund, the State must provide at once a like amount, which will be expended between now and July 1, 1920rand, in addition, the State must make .provision for the following items: , For surveys, plans, etc- required by the Federal Government to be made at the State's expense outside of the construction fund, $182,000. Maintenance fund for taking care of State highways and of roads al ready contracted for with the Feder al Government, $300,000. It will' be essential to increase the official facilities and personnel of the Commission in Order to take care of this large amount of work and it should have an annual appropriation of at least $75,000. Total $3,415, 943.67.. ' What the Stacy Substitute will pro vide Bonds, $2,280,000; estimated licens es . xrom automobiles, . trucks, etc. $525,000. Total $2305,000. Deducting from this the amount needed to meet interest, sinking fund and expenses of collection of licenses, $202,7661' ' Leaving a balance to meet Federal Aid and - other expenses in- jcidental thereto, $2,602,234. ) It will be seen from the above that " Z J , . .7 - y . '"'"WI1" VT'T1' u tha Subitu. by -' .''n." . . - V tonrress will bo held under the aus- (pices of Tho American Road Biulders Association at the Hotel MeAlpin, New, York City, Felt 25 to28th, 1919. CARD OF THANKS. We -wish to thank all our friends fend neighbors for their . kindness shown us during the Illness of our be loved wife and mother. J. P. Underwood and Family. XS Brevard News. ( The greatest calamity possible to the industrial activity of this, county occurred on Wednesday morning when the main building of the plant of tho Transylvania Tanning Co. was burned: to the ground.- -v ' i. The .fire was discovered by tho night watchman at two o'clock A. M. and in less than an hour the main building with its entire contents was reduced to ashes. The structure was two stories high, 700 by 80 feet in dimension and at the time of the fire contained a full stock of hides. QUARTRLY MEETING AT DELL WOOD. , , , ' The second quarterly meeting for the Jonathan circuit will be held at Dellwood next Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2. The entire day Sat urday beginning at 10 A. M. will be devoted to .the consideration of the great Centenary movement of the Methodist church. Along with the presiding elder will be Mr. J. Dale Stentz of Junaluska, Rev. W. B. West and others who will speak on this movement. Dinner will be served at the church. It is hoped that all the people in that community as well as from the other places will attend. It will be an. in teresting occasion. Quarterly conference will be held in the afternoon and on Sunday at 11 A. M. the presiding elder will preach. At 3 P. M. the pastor, Rev. L. P. Bogle, will 'preach at Maggie. All the officials of the charge are urged to attend this meeting. HONOR ROLL OF 'HAYWOOD IN STITUTE. Clyde, N. C, Feb. 24, 1919. Editor Mountaineer-Courier: The following is the honor roll for the fourth month of the 1918-1919 ses sion of Haywood Institute. Each student had made above 90 in every subject: -L ,: Academic Department. Judson Haynes, Lawrence Byers, Gerald Fish, Earl Mehaffey, Zimri Morrow, Clarence McKenzie, Charles Kluttz, Nellie Young. Preparatory Department. Aubrey Townsend, Wayne Haynes, Mary Winchester, Helen West, Janice Haynes, Frank Haynes, Kathlene Haynes, Kathlene Joyce, Blanch Trantham. Your very respectfully, R. H. LAMBRIGHT. NORTH CAROLINA DISTRICT CHAIRMEN. Many of the leading Methodists' of North Carolina are "pulling" to see that every man and woman connect ed with the M. E. Church, South, un derstands the meaning of the "Cen tenary" of their denomination. A large number of public spirited Meth odist who know how to "put" the thing quickly and sharply over have been rounded up in the Minute . Men Pro gram. This program includes a chair man for each district in all of the conferences of the denomination throughout the Southern and West ern states, and these men, in turn, appoint church chairmen and others to help them. District chairmen for North Carolina Conferences have been appointed as follows: Western North CarolinaH. A. Dunham, Asheville; D. N. Henderson, Charlotte; W. A. Lambeth, High . Point; J. H. Allen, Elkin; T. F. Hud son, Salisbury; F. B. .Bunch, States ville; A. C. Reynolds. Cullowhee: J. F. SpruilL Lexington. North Carolina Conference J. B. Leigh, Elizabeth City; W. C. Chad- , wick, Newborn; Dr. Albert Anderson, . Raleigh. WHERE PAT WAS. The Argonaut. In a small village in Ireland tho mother of a soldier met the village priSst, who asked her if she had had bad news. "Sura I have." she said. "Pat has been killed." "Oh, I am very sorry," said tho priest "Did you receive word from th.e war office?" 'No,", she said, "I received word from himself." The Driest looked perplexed, and said, "But how is that?? , . "Sure," she said, "here, is the let- , ter; read it for yourself." Tho letter said, "Dear Mother t TRANSYLVANIA TANNERY 1 ; . BURNED. am now in the Holy Land." J
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