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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 5 Vvf?13 AS HE SEES THE HUMAN SIDE Q' LIFE HE uKIiV-McCORKLE BLOOD h . i ,, n of Stories ami reaving Life in The Great :irt . Vt Lived One and Two k;r'',r Aire anJ As It Is to :trr; .'-nt T.Iav. Charecteristies, Huniof Interwoven With Vjj'fW "f Action. : ... . rvchisively for The Way- ,,untamcer By UNCLE ABE, ,,,,,-t thoughtful observers, V'n K t'i'ikle and Aunt Sinda u;,,hmtr short of tragedy . . jful immanent was hanging; "Xt 'i'ttli' mountain community of r V...r. m Hayfield county. And, . t molt' ureauiui, mc.v c I & .. u 1,1 ,' i.tff (HI Wnltn H. Vliruiu .!. s!!i Jays n: iTh.n there were ouic.b, . i Ilru" . .1 ,K foH "list 1 ,:,-)! v mcnneu, uui "v .n. J.-- ..., n, bad is a-goin 10 imp m, I 'n v i 11 i SM'il 11. iiiueru, ii i"iix nt. ' r . ..... u..r tU.. !iu- afternoon. JUSL ueiure me c mirht, there were those who very atmosphere itself . . . L'K'i'in and chill, was nothing : ,t. ii,ir Itss man KillM 1 lllil,viv V,A tragedy. Silence YM'ftf "v''1 mountain nut, Lk,n once r twice by the sound ol Iniiini '"'it, ine LIIUIIIU-LIIUNIJI- I n.j- ,.f a horse's hoofs and the dis- I.- barking t a dog. r .- .1.. A 1 1 I'ht-n Aunt BiiKia niuiuuu ""i ml into the grounds of her coffee ,,,.ni. Snndav nearlv two weeks be- In' ami had foretold much of what i- .r.g to happen si , a man on hoss-back-all bent , i , .i i. ..u :. . I,r. vis. an ne s ui uiih, sue saiu: L, pivin her cup another turn, she - siK-nt it moment. "An' thar 1 see a-i'iinin' from his side plain, Lin as anything. I kaint help but E:eve itV all a pintin rite . to that Iwumut. Well, it sump m tau lii'ms may-be they'll remember that luarnfil Yin." mother, looking away. "Your 'paw an' Dave McCorkle had alius been good friends up to that time, the time when that ol' Helton gal, or woman wuz seen down there with 'em first cne, then t'other." "Down whir, Mama?" "Oh, down whir Dave an' yore 'paw wuz both workin' at a loggin' job- -but 1 don't want to talk about it. Sister, now run an' change yore dress an' help me git dinner on the table.'" ItV. .George 'Corkle on his boss, t.ma an' he's a-drinkin' :, .didn't Ijhtai' im a-hollenn?" With this .sting exclamation ten-year-old Eth- K'irhv i"in nn thf rnrrh stpns of Ir two-room Jog cabin home in the fild Bluffs section of Hayfield county, I not fifty miles distance from the rpejt recesses of the Great Smokies. "Yes, 1 heerd 'im, Sister," replied mother. Jane Kirby, as she turned giv back into the house to finish (paring the Sunday dinner. "But ve told you-uns to look out fer 'im; wtre McCorkle woodn't keer a bit nun his boss right square over you l Mary Jane, not since his daddy ' yore paw had that trouble, an' p shot each other to death . . five jt.irs (iii.s Spring 't wuz." ' "What made 'em do it, Mama, did- f ;. . niciuired the child. uz WiiT; nieaii women, or sump'm?" I "Vest, b.ith I reckon, honey licker mean women, " responded the The Kirby and McCorkle families lived two miles distant from each other in the Wild Bluffs section. The tragedy referred to had pccurred years before at a lonely saw mill camp, when Harrison Kirby and Dave McCorkle stood out side the camp in duel-like fashion one fine Spring morning and shot each other to death, they having quarreled violently the day before. "It won't be the end uv-it now mark my word," Aunt Simla Arrinton had said shortly after the Kirby McCorkle killing; and she had repeat ed the prophecy so many times during the past five years that people no longer took it seriously. "Not too late y it, Wade," she was saying to Wade Talley, tenant on the Arrinton farm, "time's jist now 'bout ripe fer another scrape. I know that Kirby blood, an' the McCorkle blood, too . . that ol' grudge haint never died down. Then, ye see, there's the Kirby boys gitten 'bout grown now well, Eddie is grown you mout say, an' Rosyvelt soon will be, he's fifteen I reckon." "They say that George McCorkle's been bullyin' around 'em an' sayiif things calkylated to bring on a row jist here lately; so the Kirby boys aint a-goin' to stan' fer it much long er I don't think an' by .cracky I wodn't neither." Here Aunt Sinda paused and told Tally to, "kick that plauge-take-id pig out of the door . . wants to come in the house ever time hit gits hungry here lately." No Political Sig nificance Given To Democratic Outing The seventy-fifth Congress of the United States recessed last Thursday afternoon for political reasons. Dem ocratic members were going to a par ty. In batches distributed over three days, they were to visit the Jefler son Islands Club, Democratic refuge in Chespeake Ray. there to visit with jthe president. Senators and Congress- . i,in ....... .. 1 . 1 . . mi. ii v.sjui. it-u ui uiscuss matters oi party, personal and administration concern. Instead they found that they were attending what was nothing, more or less than an old-fashioned political picnic. There was a good luncheon, and good fellowship abound ing. The president dressed in linen ! slacks, coatless, and tieless, sat under an apple tree, where he talked and jollied with his Democratic followers. Sunburned Democrats on their re turn to the mainland reported that they had had a grand time. Some were disappointed that Mr. Roosevelt had not been more willing to lend an ear to their problems. Senator Rob inson, administrative leader in the Senate said, "It was a great outing, with no political significance whatever." Getting Cutaway I'lTICK Ol" rORECLOSURE SALE Ii VrA-114.M-0VENT iKer aiv! by virtue, of. the power '.e ( "htained in that certain deed ifa'st executed bv R. Joyce Owen wife, (lassie R. Owen, to the NATIONAL COMPANY OF '4tHA.i. INC., a N. C. corporation, LNH'N TRUST COMPANY of RVi.AXi), a Maryland corpora-1 !."': ej lu!v 1.1928 . filed for re- f J on the" 15th dav of Oct.'. 1928. in :s''y of : Haywood County, r-h Caiulina, and recorded in book pace :,i- the undersigned as the rS annointiut cKcifnf A vnc ! 1 ".'.Ml UUOiilbUtU. . I.L .J 'see book 96, page To, of letristiyj will offer for sale rul'lio auction at the court ' Jit door in said cniintv-in thp Citv I; ftayhesville, N .C, at 12 o'clock on Monday, July 19, 1937, and 1 to the highest bidder for cash property described in said deed of ' - fo'lows':, : -..;': Be(rinr,ii,ir on a stake in the inter n of North margin of Thompson -witfi west margin of Elizabeth rt an, runs with the west margin : t lzat'.h Street North 18 degrees I Minutes East 133.98 feet to a stake ;rie est margin of Elizabeth V J' B' TnomPson lot; thence f;ltl the line 0f said jot North g2 de. .. ." " n-intites West 121 feet to a "r north east rnmor r,f Inf loaeorl .... S. -J - -v. V. . , - w v 1 V . 1 1 1 CI a wn na Uvht rnm i T-n the line of said In Smith ft H. .'' mip.ute West 131 feet to a Mn the north margin of Thomp r .rect; thence with said street to r o.-K!nr,ing, South 82 degrees 40 East 209 feet. . I ."US sale m-;ii v- : . , . , i "Miz Arrinton, you've been a pro ph'syin' that fer a long time, but I don't think thar's a-goin' to be any trouble 'tween the boys, leastwise I hope not," Talley ventured to say, taking his seat again. "Yes, I hope not, too, Wade . . but hopiri' won't keep 'em out o' trouble jist wait an' see. They say that Eti Kirby 's already been seed with a gun an' everbody knows that George McCorkle's got one. I reckon ye 'heerd 'bout George a-chargin' his hoss up an' down the road past widder Kirby's house, last Sunday 't wuz? . . firin' (iff his pitol ever few jumps, an' " "Done worse 'n that, why, ho fard his pistol off as he charg ed by the meetin' houscr an' folks in thar a-havin' Sunday school,"- inter rupted the hired man. "Yes, I heerd that, too. An' they haint (lone nothin' about it jit?" "No, nor won't I (lon't 'spose," re plied Tally. "Ye see, the McCorkle fam'ly's awful strong Diniycrats, an' if they Wuz to swear out a state's warrint fer Oeorge, Uncle Davy would fist go up to Waynesboro an' work 'im out uv-it. Chub Kirkpatriek says that if a Dimycrat wants a clur pass through the pearly Gates all ho has to do is to see the Ring up at Waynes boro, an' they'll give it to 'im. BTieve I'll have 'em to give me a pass, Miz Arrinton, seoin' as how I've back-slid so many times an' bin turned out o' the church ha-ha-ha!" "Well, as I said, the ol' grudge is still in 'em, aiter all these five years." Continued Aunt Sinda; "the childern haint been a-hearin' all this talk fer nothin'," "Course, now, Davy McCorkle, George's grandpa, is a good man I reckon . . Deacon in the church, an' all that but he'de hold a grudge 'ginst anybody till his dyin' breath." "They tell me that the ol' man won't speak to Miz Kirby a n't he boys yit," added Talley. "No, nor Harrison Kirby's brother neither." I.; c, , maae suDjecc 10 ft hr l g and ""Paid taxes and rf,drfault n,;. ?fments if any. " l& Lit no TVUlHn AM nnAAimt ....,. " LIle Payment of the in- fa-ottS "eCUred the aforesaid IaianH 2! and is made Pursuant to lihehru -P.n the undersigned This t U1 sam indebtedness. ""S.June 11, 1937; KESWICK CORPORATION, ft cr Substrtuted Truestee. "Ye remember that time when Preacher Darby tuck up the collec tion in church fer Jane Kirby an' her pore little orfint childern, shortly aiter Harrison's death . . an' how Uncle Davy looked t'other way when Johnny Barnes reached the hat out toarg 'im ? Well, I heerd Uncle Davy say that it looked like they mout n-made up sump'm fer his gran' childern, too. But, o' course Wade, everbody knows that Dave McCorkle's wife didn't per tickler need it . with jist one child to s'port, that s George. John's way off yander in New Jersey, er some whirs; then with Etter married off, why, hit jist lef the two uv-'em an' bein' at Gran'pa McCorkle's, they didn't need fer anything no sir-ee'." Thus, much of the activity and most of the conversation of the Wild Bluffs section during the past two weeks had centered around the ap proaching Big Event, or Box Supper. The supper had been given "fer the benefit of the church," a custom much in vogue in the Smoky Mountains sectioH of Western North Carolina. Experience is pretty costly, but it is the only thing you have left after everything else is gone. Sometimes a box supper will be given to raise money for church repairs, to buy a bell or even help out on the pastor's salary. "Squar" Dick Owins was auctioning off the boxes at Wild lilutTs .school house on the night that "hell broke loose," as Chub Kilpatrick, the com munity' wit, put it. (To be concluded next week.) k I '"" Y .::. A W ! B I ranklin 1). Koosevelt, Jr. Mfi Here is Franklin 1). Roosevelt, Jr., son of the president, as he appeared during a fitting for the cutaway which he wore at his wedding to Ethel de Pont which took place yesterday at Wilmington, Del. Not knowing what the styles will be 2(1 years from How it's a little hard to say where the children ought to be vaccinated. New Labor Laws Are Explained Mrs. J. Dale Stentz, superintend ent of welfare of Haywood county, announced this week that Mr. Murray M. Grier, inspector of the Department of Labor had been in the county wel fare office here for the purpose of ex plaining provisions of the new maxi mum hours and child labor laws. The inspector was here to acquaint the county welfare superintendent and members of the staff with rules and regulations prescribed by Major A. I.. Fletcher, State Commissioner of Labor, to govern the administration of the new statutes, enacted by the last legislature and effective July 1. THE HOUR LAW The hour law provide. : maximum work-week of 48 hours for women and 55 hours for men employed in certain North Carolina industries. The max imum work-day is nine hours for wom en and ten hours for men. This act also requires time and payroll records of employment and enforcement fea tures that are particularly progressive in nature. The Division of Standards and In spection of the Department of Labor will be in charge of its enforcement. THE CHILD LAKOK LAW This new- law provides a minimum age limit of Hi years for the full-time or regular employment of children, with the exceptions made for employ ment of children in the home or the farm. All minors under 18 are re quired to have an employment certifi cate before engaging in any type of employment. Features of this statute also permit 12 to 11 year -old boys to sell or de liver papers or magazines under cer tain restrictions. Children 14 to Hi arc allowed to work' in iion-maiiufac-tui ing jobs when school is not in ses sion. Employers who desire to acquaint themselves with full regulations con tained in the new statutes may call the welfare officers for information of this nature. Citizens should not get excited over the many dire predictions now being m ule. If the world is really going Ui the dogs, that's something for th dogs to worry about. When the (hermomeler is up. coal prices are down, and when Ihe Ihermometer goes down, eoal prices will go up. For the sake of Economy IU Y VOI R WINTER COAL NO V Wavnesville Coal Company Phone 272 M M M EETING OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION onday July 5th, 1937, through onday July 26th, 1937 The Haywood County Board of Commissioners will sit as a Board of Equalization and Review on Monday, July 5th, 1937, through Monday, July 26th, 1937, at the Commissioners' office in the Courthouse in the Town of Waynesville, for the purpose of examining and reviewing the tax list of each township for the current year and shall hear any and all taxpayers who own or control taxable property assessed for taxation in the county, in respect to the valuation of such property or the property of oth ers and shall equalize the valuation of all property in the coun ty and correct any errors appearing on the abstracts, and for the transaction of any other business which may come before the Board in compliance with the Machinery Act of 1937. Taxpayers Will Be Heard as Follows: Ivy Hill and Jonathan Creek . Fines Creek and White Oak . . . Crabtree and Iron Duff . . East Fork, Cecil and Pigeon . . Clyde Beaverdam and Waynesville . . Wednesday, July 7 . . Thursday, July 8 . . . . Friday, July 9 . . Monday, July 12 .. Tuesday, July 13 . July 14 to July 26 J. A. LOWE CHAIRMAN
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