HAYESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1927.
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' Dear Editor :
May I find space in your paper to
' give (expression of my whole heart’s
i approval tothat fine page of adver
tising carried in last weeks issue en
titled. “T.itrhtine the Way”. No finer
the Way to a better Community.
Under (various dignatuiles we read
“Service that Covers the County,’
another, “Let’s Pull t'o-gether to make
Ours the best place to live in the U.
S.” another, “Let’s all work to-gother
for a greater Clay County,” another,
“We are always ready to serve you,”
another, “It give»us pleasure to serve
you,” and another “We stand for
Hayesville and Clay County;” Such
advertising and slogans are invaluable
to the firms who made it possible that
a whole page of co-operative adver
tising could be carried through the
columns of your valuable paper. Such
slogans are more than valuable, they
are vital to us as a people in our
every walk and every relationship of
life. While commenting on the above
with a friend the other day, he re
marked that such advertising was not
consistent with their business, that
the only thing they wanted was the
people’s money,—a very common ex
pression, isn’t it? My reply was,
“You are mistaken, friend, true, they
must ha\?e money to operate as a
business, and true the money will
come from the people, but their busi
ness is relative to something else and
your money is relative to their busi.
ness. Your relation with them should
be as candid and open as theirs is to
you.
My good' friend’s remark above is
what put my heart to aching, my head
to thinking and my hand to writing
these words here at 2 a. m., when I
should be asleep in bed building fib
" ers and cells and storing up energy
for to-morrow’s exertions. It is not
my nature nor my heart to talk neg
. atively of anything, but when 1 see
people so skeptical, so critical and so
undone that they cannot see aay good
in anything—man or beast, so self as
sertive that they believe it their in
alienable right, their imperative duty
to muddy the truth and lead confus
ion to the chaotic conditions which
Clod Almighty is trying to set to or
der. Why, I have had people come
to me and say, “I believe in schools,
good schools, and I am backing you
up in every movement to make our
school the very best possible. But
when the time came for me to invite
them to the party they would not
dance to the music. They complain
ed of a discord and if I got them to
dance at qjj they would not face the
music. They wanted to dance with
their backs (to the orchestra. Take
for instance our county system of
schools, why, right •here is Hayesville,
I have seen that man Alien Bell, your
County Superintendent, scaled up
one side and skinned down the other
because he didn’t do this or doesn’t
do that, when the truth is that you
make it impossible by ywur hedgeing
and not getting the facts before mak
ing y»ur demands. "For Cod’s sake
give him room and let him exercise
the executive authority which the
legislative power, the County Board,
invests in him. Let us quit being so
eelf-assertive, and instead plant a few
seeds of toleration and throw out a
boqnet now and then to our, public
servants, (doetors included).
Ingratitude ip the thing that keeps
you from getting what you want. Not
*he servant refuses to render
of the ingratitude, but he
ir will not prepare the reeep
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson i
At Commercial Hotel
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. A. Kanady who
hrve been in charge of the Commer
cial Hotel since the first of this year
moved out last. week. The hotel is
now under the management of Mr.
and Mrs. Jarrett Thompson who mov
ed in last Tuesday 23rd. Mrs. Thomp
son is the daughter of the late Mr.
John O. Scroggs who for many years
was proprietor of this hotel. Any
one that ever stopped with Mr.
Scroggs knows something of the hos
pitality with which he entertained
friends as well as strangers.
Work Started On New
Methodist Parsonage
’
Rev. T. L. Taylor, pastor of the
M. E. Church started work on the
[erection of a new parsonage. This
parsonage is being erected on the oU
parsonage property near Mr. W. D.
Bradley about one-half mile west of
town.
Mr. Taylor is soliciting help, labor
and material and any one who wishes
to make a contribution toward the
erection of this building, it will be
appreciated very much.
about here and there with drooped
shoulders, a sad countenance and a
contrite heart, ask them what’s the
matter and their usual reply is, “I’m
sick”, Why, there is not a thing in
the world wrong with them except
the chaotic conditions and discord of
his church. Ingratitude cuts keener
than the sword. I have seen that
merchant yonder going first to his
banker, next to his friend and then
to his partner, reducing his stock un
til his shelves were depleted because
of the ingratitude of that man who
wont pay but can pay, I have seen
that banker check those papers, fig
ure those drawouts, those comeins and
that book balance until mu' night
hours in order that that bank may
continue to function and serve the
community. I have seen that farm
er diversify and co-operate through
the whole crop season- in order that
he may render a service to the whole
county and find at harvest time that
he had suffered a loss because his
co-operation partner had failed to
live up to his contract—ingratitude.
I have seen private businesses such as
community telephone systems, saw
mills, roller mills, etc., rendering an
invaluable public service go into bank
ruptcy because of ingratitude. I have
seen that mother weary and worn re
cite to that boy or girl until ten
o’clock and then sew until midnight
and then find that the child had fail
ed in school at the end of the term—
ingratitude. I have seen that teach
er cultivate grace and charm, build
mental efficiency, borrow money,
economise, wear second hand clothes,
live anywhere they, can, eat twice a
day, marry some time, work all day
j and all night, want parents to come
to see them about their child when
they won’t, go through organization
and re-organization of school sys
tems, build curricula, make schedules,
have no money when people suppose
they have plenty, wish that parents
knew what that child needs and the
school needs just as they know it,
parents wanting them to teach just
like they have been taught not to
teach, listen to all kinds of demands
whether they conform to the oath
they have taken as a teacher of the
state or not, passed on and dropped
by the school officials because the
school officials think they must please
certain patrons in the name of the
^public when the public knows they
are not supposed to be pleased, all
because of-INGRATITUDE.
I hear someone say hold on there
Shuler, go slow, go slow. You know
you have got fo please to teach. No,
I beg your pardon for the time con
sumed but I don’t know any such a
thing. I trust I may, but that is as
far as I will go! I ani a licensed
o^^catioija-of
ow
much that; I do not know but"! have
it
MRS. A. M. WEST
PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Susan Iona Taylor West, wife
of Mr. A. M. West, died Tuesday
morning at 12:15, after an illness of
several months, though she had not
been seriously ill until a few days
before her death which was unex
pected .and quite a shock to relatives
and friends.
The funeral was conducted at Hay
esville school building which is with
in a hundred yards oY so of the home,
at 10:00 o’clock Wednesday morning
Reverends H. A. Hyde, Chas. S. Ply
ler and T. L. Taylor officiating.
Many beautiful tributes were paid
to the life and character of the de
ceased. The interment was at the
Presbyterian cemetery. Many beau
tiful flowers were** placed on the
grave.
Susan Iona Tajrlor - West was the.
daughter of Mr. David Taylor and
wife, Mary Tayloi.'
She was born injEtuncombe County,
March 14, 1883, #nd at the time of
her death was 44 ?ears> 5 months,
and 11 days of age.
She was married to Mr. A. M. West,
November 30, 1897. Seven children
were born of this union, two of whom
died in infancy and she is survived
by her husband and the following
living children: Mr. Wayne West,
off Greenville, 8. C.|j Mr. Willard
West, Misses Bessie and Viola West,
and Mr. William West all of Hayes
ville.
She professed faith in Christ at
the age of eleven years and united
with the Baptist church of which she
remained a faithful member. Upon
her removal to Hayesville in 1921
she united with Hayesville Baptist
church.
Mrs. West wasa fine woman with
a splendid Christian character,
ily attending the funeral, were: Mr.
Out of town members of the fam
Charles Taylor anti wife, of Weaver
ville; Mr. R. H. Taylor, of Elk Moun
tain; Mr. Wayne West and wife of
Greenville, S. C.; Miss Bessie West
who has been in Asheville for past
several months.
thing else. Da I know any more
about your business than you do mine.
My dear parent you can’t afford to be
influenced by any selfish motive of
your child. You can’t afford to have
no faith in this grand old state of
North Carolina, and your school is
apart, you cant afford to go about in
a sully mood talking about this, that
and ftie other. What, if mistakes
have been made in the past? No
need to cry over spilt milk. Let’s all
get together and “Light the Way.”
Yon say what can I do? That is what
you should say, but will you do it if
some one tells you or will you say he
(meaning Shuler) hasn’t got any
sense, he" came from Georgia. True,
I was born in Georgia, a fact of which
I am proud but I am a North Carolim
ian now and boast of as strong a
heritage as you and a lineage so long
that you can not guess. I am an
intergal part of this community and
it is not fore-ordained that I shall
leave when I quit teaching. I have
as much right to pursue a livelyhood
here as you, or as much as I have in
any other part of these United States.
Therefore I am vitally interested.
Let’s get together in a Parent-Teach
er organization and you can help put
one thousand volumes of usable liter
ature, history, fiction, mechanical,
political, science and novels in our
library instead of the minimum re
quirment of five hundred. We can
help put . on such an instructive and
impressive campaign that our chil
dren will cease to run us half dis
tracted in the day time and through
“night-mares” at night. We can help
put on such an educational campaign
that these five hundred children will
have a ground and gymnasium that
they may be drilled and developed as
men and women should be and as the
state oof North Carolina expects them
to be. Then business will hum, the
farmers cattle will be fed, chickens
raised, the people happy, the earth
crowned and God will be praised.
Yours, for “Lighting the Way to a
Better Community”.
A. H.
Sprub-Sire- Trials Aid
Livestock Improvement
As a means of increasing public in- j
terest in improved livestock, scrub- j
sire trails have been unusually num- '
erous during; the last few months, ac
cording to the Bureau of Anamal In
dustry, United States Department of .
Agriculture. They are commonly j
held in connection with picnics, live-1
stock-association meetings; and simi
lar gatherings. Many of the trails
are staged according to an outline
which the Bureau of Animal Indus
try distributes, but the participants
are usually local officials. One of the
latest trials reported to the depart
ment was hold undgr the auspices of
a cooperative creamery in Michigan
in connection with its annual “ice
cream feed”. Two local attorneys, an
ex-judge, the county clerk, and the
county sheriff handled the ieg.l pari
of trffe trial. The county agent ar
ranged for the educational features,
including the display of posters and
pictures furnished by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Although the trials are mock affair
at which the prisoner is commonly a
scrub bull* boar, ram, or rooster, the
jury’s decision represents neverthe
less the sentiment in the locality. In
all cases thus far reported the trials
have resulted in a verdict against
sires that are not pure-breds of good
breeding.
TWO BOYS; TWO
GIRLS ARRESTED
Roscoe Groves and Roy Ditmore,
giving their homes as being in Ohio,
accon-paint 1 by two young girls were
arrested Sunday afternoon on High
way No. 28 with one-half gallon of
whiskey in their possession. Deputy
Sheriff Ed Ledford walked upon the
couples as they were in the act of
taking a drink from a half-gallon
fruit jar. Ledford placed the men
under arrest and brought them to
jail, they were given a hearing before
Justice Winchester, of Hayesville,
who placed the two men under a
$400.00 justified bond each, on a
charge of possessing and having whis
key on the highways. The two girls
were realeased.
The young men are still in jail as
bond has not been arranged.
The Ford roadster in which they
were traveling is being held by the
sheriff.
Deputy Sheriff W. T. Hunt went
to Knoxville, Tenn., Saturday and re
turned with George Tinsley who was
wanted in Clay County for skipping a
liquor bond of $200.00
Meeting Started Mon.
At Shooting Creek
Reverends Chas. S. Plyler, H. H.
Hyde and T. L. Taylor started a
series of revival meetings at Shoot
ing Creek Creek church last 'Monday
night. The public is cordially invited
to attend these meetings.
NATURE ENOBLES
(By W. T. Hunt)
I stood on Tusqittee’s enchanting
height
And watched the morning sun’s first
beams of light
Shopt above Standing Indian’s majes
tic head-—
Off yonder where earth and sky seem
to wed.
I stood enthrilled, uplifted and amaz
ed
As countless peaks from out the mists
upraised
Their whole heads, in panoramic view
Into cirrus clouds of the rainbows
hue.
No painter’s brush can cope with na
tures hands
When portraying scenes of mountain
lands
Nor can mere words depict the
thoughts sublime
Which dwell in breasts in this enpy
real clime.
MR. VANCE LOVIN
BADLY INJURED
A very serious accident occured
near here Saturday morning about
10:00 o’clock, when Mr. Vance Lovin,
age 50, of Sweetwater Township,
farmer and mill operator got his left
arm so badly injured that it had to
be taken off.
Mr. Lovin had been sawing wood
on his cut-off saw and threw the belt
off with his foot, the engine still run
ning, he picked up the belt and was
inspecting it when some strings from
the ragged edge of the belt became
entangled in th pully and drive shaft,
jerking Mr. Lovin in with it, fortu
nately the belt was weak and broke
releasing Mr. Lovin but not until his
left arm was broken in several places,
and his left leg broken just above the
ankle, ankle thrown out of place and
foot broken.
Dr. J. M. May and Dr. J. M. Sulli
van, of Hayesville were immediately
called to the scene of the accident
and upon xamination found that it
would be necessary to remove the
arm at once. Dr. R. T. Coleman, of
Young Harris, Ga., was then called
and he assisted May and Sullivan in
the amputation of the arm just be
low the shoulder.
Mr. Lovin while suffering righ
much pain and weak from shock was
resting well as could be expected Sun
day afternoon. He is expected to
recover.
Rev. T. L. Taylor To
Preach Sunday P. M.
Rev. T. L. Taylor, pastor of the
M. E. Church will preach at the Pres
byterian church in Hayesville Sun
day, September 4th, at 3:00 o’clock
P. M. All other denominations are
especially invited to take part in this
service.
HENSON—SMITH
Miss Mamie Henson, daughter of
Mr. Will Hendon and IMr. Ernest
G. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
O. Smith, both prominent families of
Clay County were married Friday af
ternoon August 26th, by Rev. H. H.
Hy«le, pastor of the Hayesville Baptist
church. The ceremony was perform
ed at the parsonage in the presence of
a few frinds of the couple. j,.
There will be a meeting of the Bob
Roach Post No. 177 American Legion
at Hayesville, next Saturday night,
September 10. All ex-service men
are urged to be present.
Scrub Bull Lowers Herd
Record to “Goat” Level
In many of our dairy herds to-day
culling should begin with the elimina
tion of the sire, says Dr. J. C .Mc
Dowell, of the Bureau of Dairy In
dustry, United States Department of
Agriculture. Breeding to inferior
bulls may pull production down as
fast as the culling of low-producing
cows builds it up.
Doctor McDowell tells of one herd
in which a scrub cow produced 146.8
pounds of butterfat in a year. Her
daughter, sired by a scrub bull, pro
duced 126.3 pounds, and the grand
daughter, sired by the same scrub
bull, produced 99.7 pounds, hardly as
much as the worlds record for a goat.
The owner finally woke up, sold the
scrub bull to the butcher, and pur
chased a good registered bull.
Honor Roll For Upper •
Tusquittee School
Fourth Grade: Fannie Bell Still
well, Emma Mosteller, Wayne M'elton,
Quentin Moore, Wyona Byers.
Fifth Grade: Laufafay Blanken
ship, Otis Melton.
Sixth Grade: Christine Stillwell,
Ilene Melton, Gladys Moore.
Seventh Grade: Arthur Moore,
Arbra Martin.
H. M. MOORE, Teacher.
About the only way we can .
other folks come up to our experience
is to measure them with the golden *
rule.