Has More Paid-In-Advance Subscribers In Haywood County Than All Weekly Newspapers Combined
iOL. XLIV. NO. 48 WAYNESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1932
County Goes Democratic By Over 3800 Majority
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Welfare Officer Is Employed
HOMER HENRY AP-
OINTS FRED FER-
USON AS OFFICER
eports Are Being Made In
Effort to (iet $5-wu do
nation ITIZENS ARE URGED
TO COOPERATE WORK
lenry Stresses Need of Re
fusing Beggars At Door
Of Citizens.
Fred Ferguson, began his duties
ednesday morning here as assistant
l!'ai(. officer for Haywood county
U r i ho supervision of Homer Henry,
aiity superintendent of education,
.1 !,': virtue of his office, welfare
,-er" When a regular worker is not
r.Mr-d '.v county officials.
Mi. Hini v stated. "I acted upon the
vice ! 'Dr. Fred W. Morrison, di-
u.r i f welfare for this state, and
. . V . T. Must, commissioner' of
I'e welfare. ... when 1 "h':l advised
in that the county commissioners, in
-sion Ievo -Monday, 'did net act' on
.'matter of employing a welfare
ieer."
"According to the state law rela-
, . 1. TI 1
ve to wen a re worn, air. nenry saici,
f course, I am the welfare officer
hen none other is provided, but an y-
he knowing th( amount of work that
ust be done In my otltee can readily
c that I do not have the time to
vote, to both tasks, and since; I have
tc right, by law. to get an assistant,
secured the services of Mr fergu-
In to handle the work under my su-
rvision.
Over long distance Tuesday, Mr.
nry talked with Mrs. Bost and she
proved the appointment of Mr.
rguson, who was also approved by
e county welfare board, and the
;ird of county education. "
Mr. Henry hesitated about accept-
g the work, as he felt that he had
he could do with the education
obkms on his hands, but since he
wis approached by prominent citi
ng .-'from the county,, not any from
.lynesville, however, and the mat-
r was brought to bear that the "sit
ition was getting serious and some.
fte must take a hand to care for the
fdy." and with that, he consented, to
k" over the duties with ah assistant
' Fo 'the first week, Mr. Ferguson
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i'HKCINCT
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V . wViyn.svill.' IIS'', 173 1 3 5 l.".. llf,2 -27 .1237 K, 1237 1 47 1 232: 1 217 1 17 ir,:i 12 1'.' 1S3 12 1" Vfl2. 1235' ICS t 111 S 2 1 il I2'i7 . 1 tit . 1 I Hi Hi'.",'
. V s. Waynesville ........ 1171 206 .1208 l!if. 1 122 2'.a lias 10 4 1 1 91 20 S ''- 1 1 93 ' 1 1 S S : 2(i(i 2HT 120" 2ni) llii.'l I!i7 1 ISO 217 1145 II 1 ,: I 1 SO 1 i 11 r,x 23il
White Oak 14 ; 85 14 85 14 5 14 : 85 ; 14 85 S5 H 14 89 13 1 -i 'ST. . IK ; 87 : 1 ;8 ". ;;S7 - . 1 8 ''.'. 87 IS '
; : Clvclf 4 I S 255 42G 257 424 2G3 435 232 . 4 1 1 2.03 - 41 1 P 4 1 0 ;2 r,2 2S1 403 . 273- 43B 249; 229 201 4"7 273 429 258 'Hi 25S
Piceon . . v . .... ..... . - 412 ,265 418 203 .408 279 404 278 409 277 410 .434 254 264 ; 4 1 ' 208 ; 418 202 . . . . .. . , .... . v. .; . .:. ;. . . -
: : Jonathan's '.';.';;. .... . . . ..- : 219 127 219 126 204 138 215 ' 129 217 129 219 2 1 1 128 120 - 208 143 217 .'..; . . . ' , , , . . . . .... ... .... . ...
Ivy Hill ..... 327 141 339 137 333 142 330 139 338 131 ? 328 329 143 143 342 140 334 142 333 147 325 156 ' 334 1 47 328 145
linn Duff 124 6 126 6 125 7 124 7 123 7 129 126 8 8 124 8 124 6 . 136 13
.- Fines Creek 392 22. 390 22 390 32 392 21 394 22 397 390 24 24 398 28 388 21 .... :'... . . . . . 401- 21
Crabtree 303 61 313 37 315 39 316 36 312 59 306 315 " 64 65 299 69 317 55 1 17 1 72 116 174 122 1 72 . :
Kast Fork 1 14 167 118 164 119 176 123 168 1 17 171 123 149 162 154 128 161 1 24 160 ; . ... ... .... ... ... 325 51
Cecil ............ ....... ; 109 193 103 194 101 198 103 194 102 195 103 126 192 172 104 192 109 198 109 198 109 198 10S 199
Cataloochee ............. 49 6 48 6 .... 46 11 46 10 45 11 46 U
Big Creek ... ..... ... .'. .. 34 37 34 37 . 22 54 .' 36 36 35 36 42 35 35 36 41 36 36 37 - 35 35 38 . 36 34 37 44 33
V Beaverdam 1 ........... . 301 211 296 213 279 221 297 211 292 216 295 .298 213 211 291 217 301 209 296 217 295 218 295 217 295 218
Beaverdam 2 '. . , 283 119 286 117 277 125 289 114 2 74 130 278 281 121 121 279 119 292 114 268 1 15 275 118 277 114 278 12 5
Beaverdam 3 .......... . 428 243 428 245 416 250 432 241 422 251 424 - 426 246 246 429 247 430 221 424 423 430 220 399 242
I Beaverdam 4 291 258 293 257 291 260 296 255 281 271 . 290 289 256 261 288 263 297 251 290 260 278 265 286 259 282 259
Beaverdam 5 264 227 274 219 222 225 270 222 250 247 269 207 221 220 272 221 277 216 256 225 257 235 261 227 257 236
Beaverdam 6 ... . ; . .. 334 230 337 224 331 238 335 228 308 263 320 331 232 238 318 244 342 226 :' . . -. . . ... . ... ... . ... . ,. . '. . . .... 1
O'-'' "-' TOTAL, . ; . . ...... ..... 6945 2961 6776 28S6 6678 3207 6917 2791 6800 3019 6S59 6930 3254 3066 6447 3031 6391 2311 4911 2255 4970 2585 5132 2260 5755 2417
Win By Landslide In Tuesday's
I'liollicial i'i-liii'iis i-occivvrt here showed thai Haywood County fac
Garner, 5. 755 votes unci 2,417 to I'rexUleilt Hoover.
Armistice Day To Be
Celebrated Here Friday
Four Main Features Include
Parade, Speaking, Foot
ball Game and
Barbecue
The local post of the Americon Le
gion is planning to have the most
elaborate Armistice Day celebration
that has been staged here during the
past few years, tomorrow. With four
principal features of the day planned,
c large crowd is expected to be in
Waynesville for the day,
In the morning a parade is sched
uled to be followed by a public ad
dress by Judge Thomas Johnson. In
the afternoon sport fans wit! have
UNOFFICIAL RETURNS IN HAYWOOD COUNTY
Stale'
Senate
House
Hop.
Rcpister
of Deeds'
Sheriff
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PW' S Wn$P
an opportunity to see Waynevi.:le and
Brevard mix on the local gridiron.
At 8 o'clock in the evening a barbecue
will be held for all ex-service men
and their families at the Masonic
Temple.
The complete program for the day
as planned by the American Legion
Armistice Day celebration committee,
is as follows:
10:00 Assembly at the Gordon
Hotel for parade. All ex-service men
and women, Spanish-American War
Veterans," and other patriotic organi
zations will take part.
10:30-"-Parade from Gordon to high
school. Line of march will be up
Main street to the Baptist church,
from there to the high seh;o building.
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Cliairnia'v
Of COITI.
County ( 'd in niiss toilers
7. ' 5 '
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In CountyWote Of About 10,000
Election
io. Isooseceit, ami his
limning mate. Mi.
Large Turnips And
Potatoes Are Grown
By V. A. Campbell
Two of the largest turnips ever seen
here at this office were brought in this
week by V. A. Campbell, of the Soco
Gap section. Th turnips measured
about 10 inches long and we're heavy
for their size, showing that they were
s-ood through and through. Mr.
Campbell has 2,000 bushels of these,
he said.
Mr. Campbell, is also a great po
tato raiser, having grown 5,000
bushels this year on his farm. Most
or' the potatoes are about twice the
J ;.e of ordinary potatoes.!
( It velum! county has 25 sweet po
tato storage houses with a capacity
of over 75,0011 bushels. The houses
will be filled to capacity !his season,
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.''ollector
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Recorded In Haywood;
Is Largest Ever Cast
Haywood Ranks Seventh
In Value Of Farms, In
This State, Survey Says
Haywood Couiily ranks seventh
In thsliile In farm value, iieeoril-Inn-
to the I nUi'i-slly News Letter
published ill the I ulversit.Y of North
1'n roll mi.
1 1 ii y wood's iimtiiui- is plai'i'il ill
S4.n:2 while the lowest in the siie.
Hi iinswU U. Is jil.r-l, mill the liifch
, is New llniiovor. 8H.il7.
The linui-e Includes the xuliie for
fiiriii liinil ami Imllilinys per liuin
Hie un'i-iim- for Hie entire stale i
MS. OIK.
300 4-H Club Boys
Meet At 'Courthouse
On This Saturday
Preliminary, preparations have been
completed 'fur carrying out the full
program of achievement day among
the 4-11 boys of Haywood county,
which has been set for Saturday at the
court house in Waynesville1. whrti it is
expected that 300 hoys will be here
with the exhibits from their projects
this year in tobacco, corn, potatoes,
and other smaller crops. About 75
hoys from the department of vocation
al agriculture in the Waynesville high
school will take part in the exhibits.
The county clubs that will be on
hand according to J. L. Robinson,
Haywood county farm agent, with
their exhibits are Fines Crce and
White Oak, Jonathan, Crabtree, Iron
Duff, Clyde, Beaverdam, Waynesville,
and Bethel which last includes East
Fork, Pigeon, and Cecil townships.
Mr. Robinson said tha't each member
of the 4-H dub of his township is
expected to bring an exhibit from the
project that he has worked for the
year, and also, a work hook showing
just what he has done in carrying out
'hr plans for the year.
CLUB WORK HAS GROWN .'
In giving some statistics as to the
inowth of the 4-H club' in Haywood
county since he began his work as
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Entire County, State And
National Democratic
Ticket Are Elected In
Landslide
Approximately 10,000 Haywood
County voters went to the polls Tues
day to a.st the heaviest vote ever poll
ed in the county and to send the Demo
cratic majority to new high marks
with a margin of 3.850 on the Re
publicans, and brought to a close one
of the "best natured elections ever
held in this county," remarked Grover
C Davis, chairman of the board of
elections of this county, Wednesday
morning.
The ltVpubliians centered their at
tack on Sheriff 1 A 1 the
le;-;ion, iiiit. the Heiiiocraiu: ilicor
r.-i:iic .through with Ci.lwS to Ids oppo
, . lit ::,'H7. SherilV I iiiwi s- vote was
Hi- riiiiillest of tin' Deiuucatic ticls
el. while Thomas. .Ferguson, nrining
fcr eoninii.sioner. polled 3, 5 1.
AH previous Democratic majority
records for this ccunty were shattered
by Tuesday's heavy balloting, the
former majority being about : !KH. In
the two VVaynesville precincts'- the
Democrats gain-'d a majority of about
1X00. ,
J. H. Howell, candidate for Rcpre
'e nt -Alive led the Democratic ticket
hy a few votes, being closely follow
ed by Kihvin Haynes. for register of
deeds. Ifi the tabulation shown on
this page, the total in Haynes' vote
' H-.s not include riataloochee, while
Hi well's does, thus making the total
vcte for the two high men just about
a dozen votes apart. The complete
county ticket for Cataloochee had not
been turned in lat" Wednesday night.
V R. Francis, for state senate, got
an overwhelming vote in Transylvania
and Jackson counties.
Late Wednesday night a long dis-t-nee
call to news gathering agencies
in Charlotte showed that North Car
olina had given Roosevelt over ''00,
000 and afiout ' 150.000; to Hoover,
with al.'out 400 more precincts to hear
from.
I'liv.fticial reports indicated that
Koosevelt would ;.oH ahout 450 elec
t r.-il vntis v;h( n ,!Ik-i-.i-l counting was
tii.i In i! .
,' a'e ofTicnr- were still getting
'.-vig- votes late AVednesday, and
showed very: little ' -signs' of- hissing
any during the last tabulation of the
remaining few precini ts in the state
I atcst state figure- show I'Mvrlng
haus leading Frazier by-a: count of
;! 1 i K : i t i ! I. ii.cn I. -,v'-:' K' vi: 'Ids
bvd .'po'lled 2-4,000 in the same dis
tricts that Newell, had T 10,000. '
. With , ideal weather throughout the
dav, the county voters filed to the
y-.lK. In twin irnTPrtSC the DenlOi-ratie
I l.., In . u'ViwOi ui-f'til. I he entile ,iun-
try, fronr president on down. Presi-.
(lent llo'over conceeded the election to
(Jov, U(!o: evelt shoitly after midnight,
Tii'.'stlay night, .after a .det-.iding -number
of : e.' in n- ha 1 been received,
Shortly after nocei Tuesday lain-,
di I'd.i of people from outlying dist rict s.
c:anie to , Wayn.--vil!e Co feiriaiti until
afti'i- nridnighl. getting i ho - final '
siilfs. The lar.'.c.-t crowd -was :i' t lie
eouithou.se. The valks, halls, an 1 all
avai.lahk' : tan.iii: : ior,i -.va at a
preni uui. Se.ver.il string h-u-.i v.e-.
present to entciiaiii th- c.ow.h '"
get .her with srvr, al clo-j: (iain ci; . Out -.
side of .-'.r. o:-'C-:i: -ianal hollo! ..-;n'i viti.C.
cry.- by ..':nm ...eii! huVia:-tl'- vi:.:. , , .the
Crowd u a:; coii,.-i:!ei :'d .oriiei iy.
Sevei at )irot t-sts v. e;' rv'de to; the
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Red Gross Drive To
G ei Under Way Here .
: Noy.li:.to.Nov.:24:;
J. E. Massie Named Roll Call
Chairman For This
County. .
J. E. Massie, Red Cross chairman,
announced this week that the national
Red Cross drive would ge under way
on Armistice Day and continue until
Thanksgiving, as has jbeen the custom
for the past number of years. .
Mr: -Massie said that a meeting
would be held during the next few
days to appoint and iiistrjct local
workers of the plans of the drive.
Heretofore Haywood County has re
sponded; to. the appeal of the .nat;onn!
organization! and it 'is the belief of
those in charge that a ready response
will be made a.Tain this year.
W. C. Allen, is chapter charnuan cf
the. Red Cross for Haywood County.:.
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