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THE CLAY COUNTY NEWS "VOL. II. NO. 43. HAYESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA^RIDAY, JULY 6, 1928. 5c COPY—$1.50 PER YEAR CROWDS ENJOY FOLK SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT One of the liveliest Saturday eve ning entertainments at the Brass town Community House during the past month was under the direction of the Young Peoples Club. Shadow pictures, cleverly done-by the young people were the main features of the entertainment. “My Man, John” “Nlo, John, No,” two old English ballads, were sung and acted by Miss Lillie May Penland, Miss Flon nie Logan, Miss Kitty Ritchie, Mr. George Bidstrup and chorus. Some one hundred and fifty people were present. The “Sons of Rest” Club then and there voted to show their apprecia tion by giving an entertainment in return the following Saturday night, and they proved themselves to be. as good- actors as the young people. The house was in an uproar from beginning to end. They opened with a sketch of their annual meeting in which officers were elected as fol m. lows: Mr. L. L. Scroggs, President; Mr. Rufus Teems, Secretary; and Mr. Fred 0. Scroggs, Banana-keep er, the latter being the only office with duties. This was fololwed by a one-act play: “Doctor Makeover,” with the main character amusingly acted by Mr. L. Deschamps. His office equipment was unusual and ridiculous, but his patients seemed well pleased with the results of his treatments. The Woman’s Club of Brasstown, not to be outdone, will -probably give a play in the near future. CHANGE MENUS TO SUIT THE WEATHER RALEIGH, N. C., June 29.—Less meat and more fresh, crisp vege tables and fruit together with milk, eggs and cheese shouldjthe served during the hot summer months. “During the hot days in summer, the appetite demands food that is cooling and tasty,” says Miss Mary E. Thomas, extension specialist in nutrition at State College. “Simple dishes that tempt the appepite may be prepared in the morning, put in a cool place and be perfect for serv ing at meal time. With good re frigeration, the summer problem of what to eat is simplified.” Fruits and vegetables, fresh from the orchard and garden, should be ^ used abundantly. A congealed fruit or vegetable salad served with a good mayonnaise may be served as the main dish for the evening meal. Fresh fruit should also Tie served as desserts. If some meat is desired, cold fried chicken, cold baked ham, cheese or meat loaf may he added, states Miss Thomas. With any of these meats, a vegetable or fruit salad should be served with fresh fruits or some milk as the dessert. All of these meat dishes provide an excellent way to get rid 8f the left-overs from the two or three heavy meals that must be served each week. One of the easiest, dishes to pre pare is the fruit salad. Two cups of mixed fruit and one cup of whip ped cream /is all that is necessary for an ordinary family of five. This salad is not only easy to make but is also very inexpensive. An other dessert that is proving popu lar is the Chocolate Ice Bx Cake. This is made by melting three, cakes of sweet chocolate to which is added three-fourths'cup of sugar and the same amount of water. When this comes to a boil remove it from the fire and add the well beaten yolks of six eggs. When cooled, fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Put in a pudding dish' lined with slices of sponge cake and set in the ice box for .24 hours. Serve with whipped cream._ MR. W. L. ANDERSON MAKES ADDITION TO RESIDENCE Mr. W. L. Anderson, one of Hay esville’s successful merchants, is having several additional rooms ad-, ded to his home on Tusquittee St . CHANGE IN MAIL CONTRACTS IS EFFECTIVE JULY I Mr. F. L. Beal, who has faithfully carried out his contract for carrying the mail from Murphy to Hayes ville and return, for the past 58 years stepped out of the harness on Sunday, July 1, as he was under bid for the route on the last letting by Mr. Virgil Hall. Mr. Hall began under his contract Sunday, July 1. Mr. Beal has not always carried the mail himself but did for many years, his sons carried the mail up until some months ago when Mr. Henry Logan carried for him until Mr. Hall’s contract took effect. Mr. John L.1 McClure, of Shoot ing Creek was the former contractor on the Hayesville Shooting Creek route. Mr. J. M. Cowart, of Shoot ing Creek now has the contract for this route. He began work on this route Monday, July 2, as they have no Sunday mail to Shooting Creek. PREVENT LOSS B Y CLEAN PRODUCTION RALEIGH, N. C„ June 29.—Clean production, prompt cooling, and fre quent deliveries will prevent the souring of milk and will put dollars in the pockets of dairy fanners. “This souring is caused by bac teria which get into the milk after it is drawn from the cow and can only be prevented by the most care ful handling,” states John A. Arey, extension dairyman at State College. When first drawn from the cow, milk contains very few if any of the bacteria and the contamination SOUKS from' outside sources. Chief among these are the cow’s body, the hands of the person doing the milk ing, the air, and the containers. Mr. Arey states that all of the sources can be eliminated by seeing that the cow’s flanks and udder are thoroughly cleaned before milking, that the milker’s hands are clean, and that all vessels or containers have been cleaned and sterilized. These containers should first be rinsed in lukewarm water and then scrubbed with a heavy brush in wa ter to which has been added a strong chemical made for that purpose. All utensils in which the seams are not well flushed with solder should be avoided as these crevices are hard to clean and furnish- a harboring place for bacteria. The milk should be cooled as soon as possible after milking, plac ed in the containers in which it is to be delivered and stored in a refrig erator or cooling tank. Every effort should be made to protect the milk from high temperatures before de livery. Cans should be covered with heavy felt jackets or with bur lap bagging soaked in water. Only by taking these precautions can the dairymen prevent the milk froni souring and be sure of delivering pure, sweet milk to the market stated Mr. Arey. Among the visitors to the John C, Campbell Folk School during the past month were Miss Burt and Missj Morgan of the Appalachain School at Penland, Mr. and Mrs. Strow bridge of Cincinnati, Mrs. Ludlum of White Oak Mt., Tyron, Mrs. Fletcher of Lenoir, Mr. Arthur Kent of the U. S. Forest Service at Wash ington, who showed a remarkably fine set of films on the National Forests, Miss Eloise Steel of Long Island, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Fred O. Baker, and Miss Gladyce Fowler of the Cherokee Indian Reservation, President Hunter, Miss Gladstone, and Miss* Lacey of the Cullowhee State Normal School. Mrs. Campbell has just returned from thaJtwenty-fifth reunion of her class at Tufts College, Massachu setts, which honored her on this oc casion with the degree of Master of Arts. . Miss Ruth Coolidge, her iece, returned with her for a month’s visit BRIEF HISTORY OF EARLY SETTLERS OF CLAY COUNTY By J. V. A. MOore It was here too that Jatae9 Can cellor, James Kelly, Spencer and Shearer later taught their bright ey ed children. After accomplishing this; he wish led to hear the sweet notes of music wafted in the gentle bwfczes of the spruce pines and they 9M&for a man who could sing the fout notes in the old Christian harmony.;^ This primi tive musician came horse back via Aquone. Losing his epiirse, thus causing him to be late$n reaching the head of Tusquittee he was at tacked and chased by a ferocious panther. The hips of hit horse were badly mangled while t$s musician’s coat, which was a lon^k Prince Al bert, was entirely detailed. How ever, with all the strength of a great musician, he reached his destination late at night. After recovering from his eventful and tiersome journey, this good man started the song-waves and he and the good people feasted their souls with the sweet melody of that day; the feathered songsters also warbled their sweet notes of happiness and praise. At that time there was no organ or piano in Clay County but Rev. Mr. Moore got all the spiritual conditions started in good working order then he and Mrs. Moss, with the help of others, began farm activities. Year by year they made bushels of grain. As the years sped along eight sons and three daughter? came to their home as buds of promise to bless future generations. The sons were: John L., L. W., H..M., James M., W. A!, C. J., T. A., and E. P. Moss. The daughtett|vfere: Sarah, Mattie, and Allie Man§ ; AH those children are now dead except E. P., Mattie and Ollie. Brother Moss, about the year 1869, with the cooperation of others built the first Baptist church near the site of the present Moss church. This stands as one of the monu ments of his life. From this pulpit, when only a poor barefoot boy, I would humbly listen to Rev. Moss as he would dispense the doctrines of salvation. Here I learned to love the Baptist saints and have ever held them in highest esteem. The writer saw this gifted man, who seemed to pattern his work after John the Baptist, plunge his con verts in the cooling waters. Brother Moss and his wife taught their sons God’s laws by precept and example. (Continued from last week) Marion and William Moss were graduated at a college of high re pute. William later succumbed to typhoid fever; Marion went to Ala bama where he became one of the leaders of Southern Methodism, for years being an elder teacher in prominent ministerial fields and church schools. Only one son, El mer, is now living. He is postmas ter at Birmingham, Ala. Two wealthy sons of John Moss now live near Chattanooga, Tenn., and D. C., a man of wealth near Cleveland, lenn. T. A. Moss reared children of good qualities, Paul Moss, his eld est son of 39 years, is a graduate from a northern college and has been teacher of schools of high re putd, and is now a judge at Odessa, Texas. At one time he had a law office in Denver, Colo., and while there was one of W. J. Bryan’s special friends, each were fine ora tors. Paul has accumulated a hand some fortune from law and the oil business. He married a lady of high social standing and one of rare educational ateinments. E. P. Moss married our beloved E. J. Smith’s daughter. To this union rere born five duaghters. After the leath of their mother, they and their tther, except one, migrated to Col ado, there finding husbands of insiderable wealth. Pearl, now ith her noble husband, C. W. Evans ijoys the riches of our fertile val ly. James H. Moss is the first ped ogue the writer was tutored by, (Continued on Page Four) MR. JOHN T. WAGER SEES BRIGHT FUTURE FOR TOWN AND COUNTY FIGHTS PART OF COLORFUL LIFE OF GOV. SMITH He Has Been Termed “The Happy Warrior” By His Friends (A. P.) Alfred Emanuel Smith rose from an obscure youth on the sidewalks of New York’s crowded lower East side to become governor of the Em pire State four times and a candi date for nomination to the highest office in the nation. In 1924 he was a contender for the Democrafic presidential nomi nation at Madison Square Garden in a memorable convention that fi nally named John W. Davis as stan da'rd bearer. In 1920 he was a “fav orite son” at the San Francisco con vention. The governor, known to a legion of New Yorkers as Al, has led a charmed political life in a state that is normally charted as Republican, especially in presidential election years. Only once in more than a quarter ow a century of almost con tinuous public life has be been de feated for office. On that occasion when Nathan L. Miller defeated him for governor—the 'year of the Harding Presidential landslide in 1920—he ran a million votes ahead of the Democratic ticket. Geniality is one of the outstand ing Smith attributes and accounts ror part of his immense personal following in his home city. But he has a rigid sense of jpublic duty, with which his good nature is never permitted to interfere. “The Happy Warrior” He has been called “The Happy Warrior.” Fighting is something he has always had to do, commencing with his struggle to overcome pov erty in his boyhood when he helped to support his widowed mother. He repeatedly fought hostile legisla tures in Albany and was successful in pushing through many important legislative measures. He has had many fights with Wil liam Randolph Hearst, the publish er, and had a few tilts with the late William Jennings Bryan. His last important fight with Hearst, when he stubbornly declined to run on a ticket with the publisher, marked the decline of the latter’s influence with the state Democratic party. Smith’s own attitude regarding fighting is shown in his speeches. In the 1926 gubernatorial campaign, when he defeated Ogden L. Mills, later under-secretary of the treasury, the Republicans asserted that Mr. Mills would “get along with the leg islature like a cooing dove.” The governor said in reply: “It is known to everybody in the state of New York from Montauk Point to Niagara Falls that I am no cooing dove and what is more I never will be. Everything I ever got in this world I had to fight for. I did not have it handed to me on a gold platter.” Of Old Fashioned Stock On another occasion, replying to criticism concerning his exercise of executive clemency, he said: “I was bom on the lower end of the island and I come from the old fashioned kind of stock that never lets any body put anything over on him.” Smith was born on Dec. 30, 1873, in the shadow of old Brooklyn bridge of Irish-American parentage. His father, who was in the trucking business, died when he was 15 years old, and he had to leave parochial school. He sold newspapers in Park Row, was an office boy in an oil factory, clerked in a fish market, joined a Tammany Hall social club and soon came under the eye of the late Tom Foley, an old time Tam many leader. He got his political start when he was named a clerk in the office of commissioner of jurors. (Continual on pun* 4) f Mr. John T. Wager of the Treas / Department at Washington, D. C., "ho has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Penland during the past two weeks, sees a bright future for Hayesville and Clay County. After having traveled quite extensively over eastern United States, Mr. Wa ger states that no where in his trav els has he seen more beautiful mountains, streams, and valleys tnan are round nere in inis imme diate section. He also commented on the fact that the beautiful moun tain scenery, crystal streams and ac cessible location for Hayesville be coming an ideal summer resort. Much progress and benefit may be derived from the water system which is soon to be built in Hayesville. After the water system is installed, a modern hotel could easily be built and equipped. With a modern ho tel located on one of these lovely knolls, having swimming pools and other sport advantages, Hayesville would he the ideal choice of many tourists. It only takes some one to make the start. As yet Hayesville is not widely known, but, after a few more men like Mr. Wager and some wide awake business men who have recently been in Hayesville with a view of locating here in man ufacturing business, Hayesville may well look forward to much progress. This does not merely mean money progress but think of the education al and social advantages that will be derived from progress of this kind. SPRAY TOMATOES CONTROL DISEASE RALEIGH, N. C., June 29.—To matoes should be sprayed every two or three weeks with, poisoned Bor deaux mixture to prevent" leaf dis eases and to get rid of worms, ad vises E. B. Morrow, extension horti culturist at State College. The mixture may be bought ready prepared or made at home but care should be used in home-mixinz so as to get the proper solution. If as much as fifty gallons of the mix ture is needed, three pounds of blue stone and six pounds of hydrated lime should be used for each fifty gallons of water. Mix the lime with enough water to form a thin paste before adding to the larger amount. When the tank or barrel is filled, add the dissolved bluestone and one and one-half pounds of arsenate of lead to the fifty gallons. Bluestone may be dissolved by using hot water but care should be taken to use on ly glass, earthenmare, or wooden containers for this work. Smaller amounts of the mixtures can be made by using one ounce of bluestone, two ounces of hydrated lime and one-half an ounce of arse nate of lead to each gallon of water. Mr. Morrow states that this mix ture should be applied every three weeks at least and that every part of alkali solution. They should then be sterilized with live steam or some the plant should be touched with the spray. By doing this, the worms and other insects will be destroyed and the plants protected from the leaf diseases so prevalent in the State. ATTENTION W. O. W.! Sunday, July 8th, Balsam Camp W. 0. W. will unveil the monument of Dock W. Ensley, late of Balsam, N. C., at 3 o’clock P. M., Crawford cemetery on Highway No. 10, be tween Balsam and Willits, at the same time and place celebrate the 38th anniversary of the society and decorate graves of deceased Sover igns. There will be speeches, and music appropriate to the occasion. All members W. 0. W. are expect ed to-attend with their families and friends, bring flowers and take part in the ceremonies. The public is cordially invited. This was to have been done June 10th, but delay in the erection of the monument caused postponement until now. J. K. KINNEY, Cleric No. 631.
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