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Opportunity's Empire-Waynesville Altitude 2,802 Feet-Unsurpassed Natural Resources for the Location of Manufacturing Industries MiiNTrr. M TJV WW f I I 1 fJA till IRHtS'l-ii&JESSll.Vy IrOIl S&l Wll3I,J MIJk1 n 315.5 IISJMM "IS.S'JKJ; Volume XXXVIII. Number :2 11,1 MixVILLE, HAYWOOD COUNY. NORTH CAROLINA THl'RSDAY. JULY 1. 1326 $2.00 a Year in Advance, $2.50 if not so Paid Suncrest Lumber Co. Mi Now Operating-600 Employees Girls in Camp Meeting of the From Ten States Woman's Club Ten states extending from Mass- The Woman's Club was most de achusetts to Florida will be repre- lightfully entertained by Mrs. R. N: sented in the group of girls ard Barber Saturday afternoon, June 12. young women who will attend Camp Mrs. R. L. Allen presiding. Oheonda, the summer camp for girls After the usual opening the Ou.-i- at Lake Junaluska in the heart of the ness was taken up in order. North Carolina mountains, it is an- Thfi secretary read a ,etter f,.pm nounced by Miss Alleen Moon, sec- Ml. my concerning the Dahlla Snow -etary of girls5 work of the general ,n whjch he u).ged eyery Ju memhet Sunday school board of the M. E. 'to make specia, efforts to rajse bel. Church, South, who will be in charge ter dahlias than evcl. before Mrs of the camp. Miss Moon expect H , gtone wgs appointed chairman several other states to be represented of tt)(J Dahja show before the enrollment lists ai 3 closed. , . , iL , , , , ,, . , . . Letter was read from the r eurta The enrollment by states as an- . ,, tion concerning the program for l'J2t nounced by Miss Moon is as follows: , . . .. lL . and 1927. A motion was carried to Massachusetts Miss Dorothy Cate, , , , . ..... , , . . . T t adPt the Chapel Hill plan of pro- cy May Bond, Frances Armstead, Margaret Whitman, Elizabeth BogK Dorothea Crawford, and Bonnh How- gram. The program of th'j as follows: .mernoon was MILLION DOLLAR MANUFACTURING LUMBER COMPANY IN WAYNESVILLE. The citizens of Waynesville and Haywood county are de lighted to know that the new manufacturing industry, The Sun-,1 crest Lumber Company, have started their huge mill runriuig and are now manufacturing lumber. About a year ago this company purchased the Kessawayne plant at Waynesville and the narrow gauge road running froi-i Waynesville to Maggie and beyond. During the p:st twelve months the old mill at Waynesville has been scrapped and the machinery and equipment at Sunburst was moved to this city whete the large new mill has been erected. Thousands of dollars worth c the latest improved machinery and eq'i'pi enr. has also been installed. The old narrow gauge railroad has b9M recon structed into a standard gauge which really necessitated the building of about twenty-two miles of railroad, new trestles, crossties. Several elevated coal chutes have been built at Waynesville, Maggie and along the route, this saves time and labor in unload ing coal. The railroad has been built and completed from the plant at Waynesville to above Maggie and through to Deep Gap up Wykle s Pork of Jonathans Creek connected with the Lata Paper by Miss Fannie Terrell (Special to the Waynesville Mountaineer.) Cullowhee, N. C, June 2(. Cullo whee State Normal had some very unique chapel program last week students from various counties staged a sort of contest in giving reports of their counties. Since nearly every county in North Carolina is repre sented in the summer school, on'y two minutes could be allowed to each speaker, but during those two min utes the students told many interest ing things concerning the wnty progress of North Carolina. Miss Annie Terrell, of Clyde, spoke for Haywood. The things she brought loochee boundary of timber owned by the Suncrest Lumber out in her speech should be nf spe- ard of Nashville; Miss Martha King- Parliamentary Law Miss Bessie ree, Shelbyville; MUs Etoile Laird Boyd. Wright of Memphis: and Mi.?s Jewel ; Six Immortals and Their Stories Burnley, Hartsville; North Carolina read and most interesting discussed Misses Elizabeth ani Sophia Cabell by Miss Bessie Boyd. Campen, 'Zebulon; Mhs.-s Normal a Child's Day in Modern Painting Louise Craft, Ruth Davis, and Marie Boushee, of Wilmington; Miss Anna Winstead, Roxboro; Miss Gelwyn Wharton, Gibsonvil';; Misses Mary Veal, Henrietta Whisnant, and Mar tha Auten, of Charlotte; Miss Gladys Gobbel, Spencer, Miss Eleanor Trow bridge, Weaverville; Miss Katherine Pittman, Kinston; SojOi Carolina Miss Eliabeth Maxwell .East Spar tanburg; Miss Arline Fonville, Cher aw; zMiss Varnora Rogers, Timmons ville; Miss Annie Wolfe Henry, Timmonsville; "Virginia -Miss"" Eliza beth Fooshe, Norforlk; Georgia Misses 6Margaret Lockett and Mil dred Barber, SavannRh; Miss Chris tine Quillian, Macon; Miss Florence Underwood, Atlanta; Mississippi Misses Margaret Maruder and Elmer Draughton, Tunic; Louisiana Miss Peggy Hodge, Ruston; Mis'? Con stance Mc Reynolds, Monroe; Florida Miss Naomi Howard, Winter Hav en; Miss Clementine Newman, Mad ison. Camp Cheonda for g l is is opt art ed i.r.der the direction of the general Sunday school board , of the M. E. Church, South. T:e second season, which opened June 2!, ir25 md close July 28, bids fair to surpass the open ing season in 1925, which was con sidered exceptionally successful, ac cording to Miss Moon. The camp program includes a wide variety of athletics, handcrafts, pa- pictures shown to illustrate. Piano Solo "Polonaise" Miss Fannie Willis Niles. Song "The Sweetest Flower That Blows" Miss Mildred Crawford. The club was glad to welcome the following guests: Misses Whitehead of Lynchburg, Va.; Fannie Willis Niles of Griffin, Ga.; Mildred Craw ford, Mesdames Geo. A. Niles of Griffin, Ga.; Odin Buell of Buellton, Cal.; and W. P. Neal of Louisburg, N. C. ' " ' "' The hostess, assisted by Miss Mary Asbworth Barber, served delicious refreshments during the social hour. The next meeting will be held at the home of Misses Bessie and Daisy Boyd. HAYWOOD SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. New program features as outlined by Miss Moon include book-binding, bask etry, wood blocking, tie-dying, and twist-dyeing, stenciling, and nature study. Instructors and counselors who will assist Miss Moone are: Mrs. J. M. Henryfi Shreveport, La.; Mrs. F. E. Dudley, Lake Junaluska, N. C; Miss Rosa Branch, Richmond, Va.; Miss Mary Moxcey, Cincinnati, Ohio; Miss Ellene Ransom and Miss Shelby Chadwick, Nashville, Tenn; Miss Sarah Slaughter and Miss Rowena Ferguson, Atlanta, Ga.; Miss Lena Parker, Gabbettsville, Ga.; Miss Wynelie Otwell, Milledgeville, Ga.; Miss Helen Hardy, Winchester, Va.; Miss Edna Wilkins, Greensboro; N. C. SESQUI-CENTENIAL PATRIOTIC SERVICE. In Grace Episcopal church at 8 P. M. on Sunday, the 4th of July, the Rector will conduct a special patri otic service, when an address will be given by the Hon. Chas. R. Thomas. The Holy Communion will be cele brated at eleven o'clock, and the Church School will convene in the Parish House at 10 A.M. Everybody is most cordially in vited to attend all our Barries. REV. ALBERT NEW, Rector. Plans have been made for holding ng the annual Haywood County Sun day School Convention at the Bethel Methodist church, near Woodrow, N. C, on Thursday and Friday, July 22 and 23. Arrangements for the con vention are in the hands of Mr. W. E. Jones and Mr. Reid Lovelace, pres ident and secretary of the County Sunday School Association. These officers have announced that they have secured as outside speakers for the convention Mr. D. W. Sims, naieign. uenerai superintendent 1 North Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation, and Miss Daisy Magee, Ral eigh, Children's Division Superln dent North Carolina Sunday School Association; Besides these outside speakers, a number of prominent pastors and Sunday School workers of the county will- take fart on the program. The program for the convention will include addresses and discus sions of various phases of modern Sunday school work, the object be ing to make it possible for workers in all departments of the Sunday school to get help from the conven tion. A request is being made to the Sunday school workers of the countyto present to the convention any special Sunday school problem that should be discussed. Announcement is also made by the officers in charge of the convention that, following a custom started three years ago, a pennant will be present ed to the Sunday school having in the cohvention the largest number of representatives, sixteen years of age and over, according to the number of miles traveled. Any Sunday school in the county can compete for the pennant, except the Sunday school with which the convention is held and others within one miile of the convention church. Company. Conservative estimated value of this virgin timber is around fifteen million dollars, arid it will take rrom twenty to thirty years of continuous operating to complete the mighty task of developing this huge lumber resource. At the lumber yards in Waynesville about one mile of concrete roads have been completed tind stretch in all directions over the vast acreage which will be used to stack the millions of feet of finished lumber. The land has been scientifically drained and each plot has been converted into natural undulating and level tracts. A special feature of the lumber yard's is that one large plot has been set aside for what is known as the retail lumber trade. The finished lumber is loaded into specially designed tractor wagons and iituiled by Ford tractors to the stacking points. An interesting feature of this is huge stackers, machines which au tomatically stack the boards in neat piles to a height of wenty nve feet. The yards and mill are well supplied with electric lights sup plied by a dynamo ; a sixty-five, kjlowatt machine, capable of sup porting six hundred incandescent lamps. While the planing mill is onlyn'nety per cent completed it is already operating with day and night shifts. The foundation for the machine shop has already been laid and will be completed early this fall. It will be equipped so perfectly that repairs can be given from a small bolt to the rebuilding of a locomotive engine. In the planing mill there are six huge boilers good for two hundred horse power. They are automatically fed the fuel which keeps an inferno of heat. In the installation of these boilers an unusual fine job of mechanical engineering was accomplished since not one bit of steam escapes. A six hundred horse power engine is now in operation in the planing mill. The feed water pu"mps are supplied by the Brick Yard Branch and are also connected with the city main which assures plenty i of water at all times. In building the foundation for the mill it was found necessary to build a cement canal at a tremendous cost in order to drain all the acreage because of quick sand at a shallow level. eial interest to all Haywood pc .)).! and should make them feel va:.t!y proud of their county's accomplish ments. A summary of Miss Terrell's speech follows: 1. Haywood county has nine stand ard high schools. Within the last three j cars Hay wood has paved thirty-livo niks of roads. .'!. Waynesville, 2,700 to 3,000 feel above sea level, is the highest incor ated railroad town in Eastern Amei ica. It's ideal climate, magnificent scenery, and rich resources make it one of the great summer resorts of Western North Carolina. It has three furniture factories, two -inner-ies, and near Waynesville a'e apple orchards covering thousands of acres Apple from these orchards have tak en prizes at many fa'rs and exposi tions. The Suncrest Lumber Com pany is also located near Waynes ville. 4. Haywood can o ,i-.t ,f having exhibit at the state f.i . 5. Lake Junaluska, covering thous ands of acres of mountain land, and1 the lake itself cover. 2.0 acres. I is the Southern Meth .j s .Vsci.-blv I OiouihI. Last vear 40 ( o-n,. were registeifvl there doling ihc m n,- mer. This n ine:- Dul:e ITnivcrsitv has a bra ich summer school thiie. (i. Of course ev on knows th; t Canton has the scon I largest nuln the United States. It employs around 2.000 men, and makes a large amount of the United States postal cards. Canton has one hosiery mill, one over all factory, one shirt factory, and The plant is so well equipped that every part of the log is mill in the world, and th - lanrest in utilized after the mam lumber has been finished. Machinery has been istalled to make shoi-t boards and then lathing, flooring and kindling. It is estimated that this company will be able to supply Asheville, Canton and Waynesville with kindling. The sawdust, chips, etc., are used as fuel for the boilers. There is also special provision for pulp and acid wood. The Suncrest Lumber Company has already invested three quarters of a million dollars in this plant in Waynesville and while the main expense has been completed, still with the machine shops under construction and other bui'ding and sheds contem- high plated another quarter of a million dollar- will easily be invested. , The personnel of the company are: Mr. Charles B. Sewell, construction engineer, designed and su pervised the erecting and developing of the Waynesville plants, j Mr. A. W. McLaughlin is general superintendent and will make his headquarters in Waynesville. Mr. Edwya A. Gaskill is general manager with headquarters in Waynesville. Mr. R. G. Rogers is treasurer and is living in Waynesville Meeting of tire D. A. R. One or the most interesting meet ing of the year for the Dorcas Bell Love Chapter of Daughterrs of the American Revolution was held at Cherokee on June Kith, with Mrs. J. E. Henderson, hostess. The ladies motored over to Cher okee, leaving Waynesville at 10 o'clock. Upon arrival the guest. were served with punch, which was most refreshing after the lonK drive. The guests were then invited into the spacious music room of the girls dormitory, where a four course Innrh- eon was served. The table was ,vost attractively decorated in roses and mountain ferns. The favor? were tiny Hags. Many large flags and flowers were used in the d.voiation of the hall. Before being seated, .ill jo. nod in the singing of "Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow." Followed by "Star Spangled Banner." A cheer was given Mr... e ulersjn. "Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah: Rah! Hah: Who do we appreciate. Henderson! Henderson!" In the absence of bofi the Regent, Mr;. K. B. Camp, and tlu Vice Re gent, Mrs. C. K. Quintan. Mrs. J..M. Long, secretary, presided. Tho meeting was called to order afKr which .Miss Ma.garet Henderson, at tractive daughter of the hostess, very beautifully played "Scliuheifs Sere nade" and "Humereske" on the piano. Mrs. J, Harden Howell had the program in charge and as it was Flag Day, Mrs. Howell gave among other things a History of Our Flag. After many expressions of 'hanks to Mrs. Henderson for her gracious httunit a lit tl... .....: i : i mi- u;1(-iinj; aujournea. Those motoring over from Waynes ville were: Mesdames Long, Reed, Persons, Bushnell, Osborne, Smath- cr., Barber Howell, Siler, Thackslon, Sloan, Morris, Hardin, Hyatt, Pre vost. Abe!, Weaver, de Neergaard. Welch, Shoolbred, .Mesdames Haynes, Secrest and Vetoo from Canton, and Mrs. Black of Bryson City, Mrs. Brooks, East La Porte, Mrs. 3uch anan, Sylva and Mrs. Humphreys, Cherokee. KVI-A-Bir NEW TEA ROOM. Miss Ann Welch announces that the new tea room, "Eat-a-Bit." will open Thursday. July 1, at Lake Junaluska. This da loom i nonsored hv th,. many other industries. Th.' Canton Women's clubs f I.;,ke Junaluska. schools employ about forty te".che -. One of the main features of the 7. Clyde is the center town of , opening is the Catherine Veach Gift Haywood county. It has standard 'sl"P which is riirht next dour. hools. a summer rami) fori The musical program for tin. onen- girls, one Boy Scout camp, and is the '"K is under the personal direction of largest shipping point for cattle in.1'- N'1'11 Ksslinger. North Carolina. I The location of the "Eat-a-Bit" tea 8. The mineral r out-ens m-e e-ct including mica. talc, carborundum. clav and others. I - P. , ! A N N I A I . PICNIC. !. Fishing is one of the great' sports in Haywood, Cataloochee be- The annua picnic at Crabtre (loom is at the boat house, hist ,m- , posite the Terrace Hotel.. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Joscelyn who have heen visiting their niece, Mrs. d H. McDowell, have . returned ..to their home in Plymouth, Mass. Mr. Joscelyn is in the cranberry industry. being a stockholder ;- in the United .been received and patrons are invited Cap Cod - Cranberry Co. to come in and look them over. LIBRARY NOTICE. Beginning Thursday, July 1st, the Library will be open from 10 to 12 in the morning, ag well from 4 to 6 in the afternoon. A number of new books have just There are over six hundred on the pavroll at the present time . " ' 1 . nsn,,1K Er""n,1,1w,N h,'l,f on "''lay. July loth. and when everything is completed and operating at full capacity -"tn ( ar,.nna. The, a this t,me a wedding will i. sl- the number of employees will be ten times the present amount. ountv mw nas "sh hatchery which ennm-d. Cold drinks will be served The nay roll now exceeds $48,000 per month and will increase each ps tthp strf"ms ;tlk('(' with trout. f-e of charge. Everybody is cordially ween' mountain and rainbow. invited. There is quite a demand for cottages and houses, etc., which' 'R 'woort recently voted $khv, the Suncrest Lumber Company has left to the citizens of Way-, 1 bomis for a coun,-v hoPital. j nesville to supply. This company does not contemplate the - i erection of a colony of houses, as reported, at this time; but point ; nf" "'"''-'-l. hipps HAS party out that this should he undertaken hv neon'e of WnviiPKviilp Wotttinoitillo l'ct fz Ko AAnnxilitlntail imnn K.itn'nrr UI , i Miss Jowe a .i. ... i . i i i tertamed a nnmlwi k Will fsi. manuiaciuring industry to locate nere. . . W1 "c young The timber owned by the Suncrest Lumber Company on Cata loochee line in Pnvoncfftr1 in Qirotn fnnntir on1 ftiAi.A mn'nnllnii.J H4- lumher and then shiWrl hv wv of (ho Annnlan RoiWo,! numerous games were enjoyed on Hu weI-- Lun7 ! w.l! be served by r-r"-" " ..rr""""' Biuwu I Comrjanv to the Southern Railroad Comnanv at Ela. North f!r.i e mwn- olina, and then by ..Southern Railroad right past Waynesville to'. Those Present 5t the party were: BAPTIST ASSOCIA ('ION' j The Baptist Woman s Association meeting will be held with Tleasant (Balsam church Tj. sdac, Jjlv nth. at Hipps delightfully en-,tl'." "Vl,,tk- " ' v two Stat? officers ne present and also a return- friends Tuesdav evenino- with e" missionary. I,i the afternovi thci'3 hee,. except for the taking over of this plant and railroad ; frm T u?tn eight- A color scheme " J bv the y.nB people, by the Suncrest Lumber Company, would have been hauled:?' pmk and white was carHed out in , " tfcurcfcM ,n th" lavensford in Swain Connt.v and ther mssnnfuotnraA t.the lce course that was served after raullt'V.al'p ur' :d ;,u".ct. Pastors Eastern markets and ports. All the payroll for the opperation I M,sses Martha Ne'. Hester Ann of this boundary of timber would have gone to Swain County but' Wlthers Mary Adams Warl. Mary for the fact that the management of the Suncrest Lumber Com-10015' Marietta Way, Gladys Dicus, pany thought it advisable to bring the boundary of timber over. Iyn Ray' Pearl Harris' Catherine this railroad line and manufacture it at Waynesville, . and theiQueen' Char,ine Turbyfill, Eliiabeth people of Haywood County are duly appreciative of the fact that1 and- Edna Garrett, O'Neli Kirk, the payroll' is being turned loose in Haywood County.' Moreover 'r!on McDowe11' Prances Rose, .V.mei of Plea !a it B:lwm chur. h. VRS. P. X BAHBER. "SO BIG" TEA ROOM. The "So Big" is Waynesville's at ti active new tea room in Haywood White Sulphur Springs park. There is to be a formal opening Thursday, Julv 1st. with A the taxes on this line of railroad and the equipment of the Sun-oar,'.e PIott' Pal FerPson. Maryjone o'clock. Music will b.i furnished crest Lumber Companyrat Waynesville, including the saw mill vfu , Plott' and John Queen bv the Carolina Club Orchestra. - t plant, amounts to thousands of dollars each year, all of which ld' James H- Howe". Jr-.l The "So Big,- under the mahagei tax revenue Haywood County would have been deprived of had it Tew, Sam Bushnell, Milas Fer- men of Misses S. A. Jones and Fan- not been for this decision on the part of the company to operate I"80"' Marcus McCracken M Billy nie Johnson, be a mo. delightful (Continued an back page.) lPrevost- .gathering place this summer.