North Carolina Newspapers

Opiwrtiii of Manufectuiisg ls:dasU.$ 7 i i 'i I itoiiT' 1 ; '4" MM9 Volume XXXVII. Number 34 Governor of Florida and Associates Invests Raccoon Park Land, Including 1000 Acres, Fine Mountain Scenery The announcement that th Govern or of Florida has become financially interested in Waynesville property and the tremendous amount of real estate investments made this season I V many other Floridians has caused considerable jubilation in Waynesvillo and vicinity. r : .. A .liw... to .11 , ... " 7 ::-Zhome with their daughter, Mrs. J. E. these snlenmd investments, announce-1 . . ..... . ment was made this week, to a rep-. icccutavivc . 1 1 v. u ...... ... v. .... unneer Dy ivir. uno; onrgcum vx Florida, that he is contemplating one of the most gigantic developments ever contemplated in Waynesville. , The whole of the Raccoon valley and mountain lands comprising one thousand acres have been contracted for with the view of making a large re s triced residential sub-division. Plans are to develop a big artificial lake, polo grounds, an 18-hole golf course, beautiful boulevards with paved streets, water works, sewer, electric light, white way system and all the modern improvements known to architectural and engineering ex perts. This large tract of land lies with in three blocks of the Waynesville; Government post office and is per haps the most desirable located of all available property in this sec tion. It runs to the Ratcliff moun tain. There are several different road ways through and to the prop erty and it. is said that when the prc- ject is developed there will be about a ten mile circle drive from the east end of Waynesville to the street running to the post office. J This development is one of the : . . t , . TZS? "i " , The cost of the land will run into( five or six hundred thousand dollars and the development close into a mil-' lion. Mr. . , , i LeRoy Sargeant is a well . known real estate deve oper who )induiltrie8. He later went into the generally doe. things on a Urge wale. ( of e8tanrillWTlg ,pple He was the orurmator of the stu- ,,, . pendou. development of Laurel Park pjoneer ln that sectiol an im Estates at Hendersonville and it is i i . said that the present cotnemplated new . hotel of that city is the culmination of plans specified by him when he .W"H P 1 ' owner oi "Beaumont," a beautiful mansion at Flat Rock, N. C. He is also an ex tensive land owner of Florida. In connection with this contem nis -u BlpeuB , rts magnitude, the business and pro-J icooiundi uutciiB ui w ayiii;aviii9 nave laid plans for a $50,000 endowed i Chamber of Commerce for Waynes- ville. Plans are now on foot to make! a drive in order to advertise Way-I nesville as it has never been done: before. I Mr. H. G. Stone was connected with this vast project. I Mr. LeRoy Sargeant says: "Why.chial pneumonia. call it a summer resort, I consiider it an all the year around resort." SEMMES REUNION. On Thursday evening the Semmes home which in famous for its hos pitality, was the scene of a lovely buffet supper, honoring the Semmes family who are having a reunion at Chestnut Park Lodge. The dining table from which the supper was served was most attractive with its covers of beautiful old Spanish lace and lights from many candles in nlver holders. I Besides the twenty-four members! ot the Semmes family those invited, were Mr. and Mrs.. Hugh AbeL Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rippetoe, Dr. and Mrs. Shell, Miss Anna Ray, Dr. Rufus McCracken, Mr. WillUm Coble. Mr. Ben ' West, Dr. " and Mrs. Arthur of Miami, Mrs. Mary Somenlg of New York, Mrs. Walter Coble of Klssim- mee, Florida, Mr. Hugh Sloan, - Mr. Edwin Bjorkman. The Young People's Missionary So- dety of the Methodist church met, Saturday afternoon at the home ef . Miss Mary Stringfield with - Miss , Harriett Boyd as leader. An inter- esting pregxra wM gtirea. sm Generous Building Program htJi tiu wy nnr s Vnrula w inn Wt JLLiiAin O. KiKJLtl . viua v in- , GINIA. William Henry Cole, 73, for many years a prominent lumber magnate and business man of "Western North W,ll at Elizabeth Buxton hospital after an illness of about five weeks duration. For the past seven years Mr. and; Mrs. Coles have been making their . Villo-a f - rlo busineM' , - . Wiun cumuiy utrrv. In addition to his widow, deceased is survived by one son, deorge d, ' Cole, of this city, foreman of the sheet metal department of the New port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, and by his daughter, Mrs. Thatcher. During the time he iLi lived here Mr. Cole continued as ac tively as his feeble health would per mit, his church work, having been a " T i, V TCT from part of the order, and organza- i . m it. 3i i. r i l : tions with which he had been identi-' fled. Born in Pennsylvania, Mr. Cole re moved during his early, manhood to Arkansas, where he was a trading post factor along the Mississippi riv er for some time before engaging in the lumber business in that state. About 35 years ago he came to West ern North Carolina, continuing in the business with which he was most fa miliar and which he had met with considerable success, and It' was not long until he had established associ ations which brought him wealth and Homer L. and W jTVbw M durin Week P01"' - !kH 'tlon of the crop had not been offered n,of this city, mesUWishingthe.. . , . 4 t. , influence. He was identified with the 4 lumber and furnitm making town of"' T "' " , 1Brmer" .y, N. c.f he made w, n there the first sue fnraitTO. Mn , vwi. Carolina, and laying the foundations , fk. i.kt PniMni ., inin4mntj v. iwimuiii iiiuiivwiiif wiibtrr. completed Dut i( nnottnced conducted from the ntieTKft rf Mrg. Th,, , Hi. ton tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock, to be performed by the Rev. W. W. Powell, pastor of the Hilton Presby terian dmrrli- Manful hv thm Pov T r Llewellyn, pagto, cf the Hilton Methodist chutclu-Newport New. Times-Herald DEATH OF YOUNG CHILD, Little Richard Brjnnir Atkins, the two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Atkins, Jr. died Tuesday morning shortly fti- six o'clock fol lowing a two weeks' illness of bron- Though he was very young, hit sunny, winsome disposition endeared him to the hearts of all who knew him. The funeral service were held at four o'clock yesterday afternoon from hie home, Rev. J. T. Mangum, pas tor of the Methodist church, offciat The pallbearers were four young cousins, "Thomas Stringneld, Atkirs Shackford, William Sloan and Mar shall MitchelL Interment was made at Greeta HOi cemetery. DINNER PARTY AT GREEN TREE . s. Last' Friday vening "elasi . ef the high- school had a reunion to the nature of a dinner at the Green I'ree Tea Room. ' Edwin Howell, the president, was "'ter 'eJ eensnioidejs.. S. " The tabtee wereTaWraUd in the class colors, blue and 'whiter effsci ively carried, out la traUtn clematis and bme, candles in yetal holder. A fern exmrse dinner iyae. aerved. ; TlM-a HTslalsll-t AR till WM MiMe UMttM Ray. Louise Rotha. Netalie Atkinson; Basel Ferguson. Eleanor Bunnell, Frances Denton and, Wilda Crawford, Mint- Reed, Ralph ' tvi, mww nuwvu, uwown noanrv .niserB ox. xnst 'Htata uaMW uw WM iiijtBe-etate Jie mssa - wewcv- ira r - ah "WMiii-ir -it r.--. -rT r III I il i'-'-wi il arm ' i n HT i lllinillinr tflFlfls"li w BJrnesaiaejsnsWBpwiflMe miJM um 7trj - ,i WAYNESVILLE, HAYWOOD COUNY. NORfH CAJtOLTNA "THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1925. .it a Shipman's Digest of State News (By M. L. Shipman.) Raleigh, Sept. 7. A quiet pBgBej jn Raleigh last week, the ,ntereat C,pitel City C,nU it , . ln " 0P",n on he tobacco markets of Eastern, flir- olln. "as meaning much to tne onn- ness or tms section, ine uoverner and trustees went into conditions! (it Caswell Training School before McLean departed for New YorklfeO I i -r-w l e- "j TOta Dna- UJ mf sioner Frank Page left for Buerfos Alien w dlisiiu a i aunnici.u iwu meeting, the capital speculated over , made at a later meeting after a com who would be appointed as judge at parison of the bids have been made, the -special term of court for the trial It "turns out" that Exangelist M. of W. B. Cole of Rockingham, killec, of F. Ham paays an income tax in his XIT xtr T.AHka n9kIjaJ. ' ItnmA stntfk nf If fntiirlrv Thta amminf Uhairman, went ahead with planar Tl . TT V1UIU41U. UvDCUIIUO WT" a Bryan memorial at Washington, tX. C, the special committee investigate lin? Commissioner of Labor and "!" -,,u P""""K were opened for the public business The Capital also looked forward with interest to the Supreme-Court of this week when the appeal of Henry Dei - njs Griffin of Williainstori, sentenced to 80 years for mutilating Joseph Needlman will be heard. I reaching effect upon the cattle indus- The opening of the Tobacco mark,try and various branches of agricul ets was distinctly disappointing. An ture. Pasture lands, he says, have average price of 14 cents, which was tn burned to a, crisp by the ex four to five cents below last yearrwa'CMlv heat; prevalent during the realise -penmg tales with ahbngftyfirtod rtit&t "for stock 9,000,000 pounds offered for sale. The aVing the approaching winter is a qualit of the early tobacco -was said to be poor. The opinion was express- drugged the market with too much cheap tobacco, thus lowering the price, Hope is held Out the later season quality will raise the" price. Governor McLean and the board of Caswell Training School decided at a meeting to formulate a definite nol- icy in dealing with the feeble-iminded children of the institution. This pol- icy in its various nbuuw will h sorb. ed out by the various members of the board and presented in full at a later Commissioner Frank Page left for South America to attend a road lne la UI lmB monln wn,cn ne congress at Buenos Aires. After the 8ure8 wl" MVe " 8tate many thoua meeting he expects to visit several nd" of do"r8 "ear' U h,vin' ac South American republics and inspect cordi"K to Mr' Pou P" road systems, retnrnin ht th,,n "0,000 worth of culvert in vember from his trip. 1924, The new Plant iis wit"in the r M T . . . . . State prison enclosure. Governor McLean has not appointed ,, ... a judge to try W. B. Cole of Rook-' Governor McLean nd gtte Treas ingham for the killing of W. W. Or- "'er cy have been to New York mond. The trial is to open at a City d"Hn 0,6 week for the pur special term at Rockingham on Sep- f0" of arrnin a Whway loan tember 28. The plea of the wealthy , 0,6 amount of Mteen million dol n anufacturer has not been indicated ar" of road bond8 anthorised by the by cbunsl. The State will have as- H" MMMm of the General A"Wy. distance of several criminal lawyers 71,6 tw Ut? officials aI iri the case. 8ome bonds of a previous issue. The vocational work of the State Superintendent of Public Instruc will be closely combined with that of tim A- T- Allen expects an increas State College in the appointment of "ent in the public schools X. E. Browne, vocational director of of ntmt which started an the State as director of the vocational the fall term period. The ehroll- education department of State Col lege. He will hold both positions and co-ordinate the work. Henry Dennis Griffin has appealed from sentence ef 80 yean for be ing the leader of the mob which mu- tulated Joseph Keedleman at William ton in the early spring after remov ing the young man from JaiL The appeal will be heard this week by the Supreme Court ... a Josephua Daniels, chairman of the mfmrn aemonai lommtttee, is con tinuing correspondence and. confer, sheer with; various parties relative to; the memorial at "Washington City tv William Jennings Bryan. It is expected a meeting win, be held the latter, pert of the. month let Wash ington to begin work en the plane- hr S Mlntto Hup. ' ' J- y - A warning at the opening of school relative to-, the dangers in' poplic schools has been Usraed by StaU.In. anranee - Commissioner Wade. ' The Agricultural Department announces that its .Division, '.of - Markets ' saved 'and Real Estate Development Planned pounds of poultry for the raisers. The "investigators" of the Com- r.iissioner of Labor and Printing harged with discrimination in the distribution of the State printing "find" that he ha, distributed it "about a well as anybody could have cne it under the circumstances" and acquit him of the charge. Bids for tlic new contract urere filed Saturday. All Raleigh printers and several J J 4.U- lAlt ...il ."um , "I !, " .2,' . Lrt f" the motorfd" at the State line near '"s. to ; handle a. or a Pa t ofiMurphy. " ..... , " ascertained through the Federal Rev- enue department is $228.83. It is not believed Jhat this state will pur- mc the evangelist further in an at ft) Ux fop North Commissioner Graham, of the State Department of Agriculture, who re cently returned from a visit to the J lar western section' of the state, fears that the result of the nnusual drought in the mountains will have a far- serious problem now facing the farm' rn many counties of the west The publ.i8 ,aw of 1926 mw 'vafl- able 'or distribution and are being ..ni .,t u ", ."" " Secretary of State. A copy goes to court officials throughout the state. The State Department of Revenue t reports August collections for the Automobile Bureau to be $896,964.46, "in 5f tnifilS.09 over a similar P"0" year. The items were: Automobile licenses, $372,834.34; gas- olme tax, $510,086.12; title fees, $14,036. The gasoline tax is four cenU Per a!lon instead of three. Superintendent George Ross Pou conv1cU makn concrete culverts by ment last year was 798,000. Figur ing the average increase to be 20,- 000 annually, 800,000 school children are now receiving instructions in the public schools of the state, 220,000 of them being colored. The State Fair is scheduled to throw open its gates to the public this year on October 14th, or there about. The society promoting this institution was organised in 1862, the first president being John L. Dancy of Edgecombe county. It has grown continually with each passing year and expects to reach its highest state! of efficiency in it history during the week -beginning October 12, 1926. North Carolina loses .to Clsmson College in Jhe Palmetto state fa the reslrnatiolr : lof Franklin Sherman. chief entomologist rof thi State' De partment of Agriculture the past twenty-five- yearn Mr. -Sherman ae- cepto appontment to the chair of an- f tomology and soology of Ctemson and departs with: the regrets and wishes of Cpmmissioner Graham and $2.00 a in Waynesville ATLANTA-WAYNESVILLB-ASHE-VILLE MOTOR TOUR. As the date for the great Atlanta-Waynesville-Asheville tour to be sponsored by The Atlanta Journal over the new Appalachian Scenic Highway on Sept. 14-15, draws near, there is milch interest apparent. There will be hundreds of cars in line and ..the -tourists will stop over in WaynesviHe for-a few mtnutes where it is hoped light refreshments will be served by some civic organ ration. " 7 ' WOMAN'S CLUB. The Woman's Club will hold the first meeting of he fall at the home of Mrs. C. W. Miller, Jr., Thursday . O 1 Ail. i. O - Ort M " " tors of the club are urged to attend. ANNOUNCE BIRTH. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Green an nounce the birth of a son, Elmer Green, Jr. Mrs. Green was Miss Nan Maxwell of Hazelwood. SINGING CONVENTION SEPT. 13. County Singing Convention is called to meet at the sbunty court house on Sunday, Sept 18, 1928, at 10 o'clock.' with us on this date and take part in the singing. We are hoping to make this meet the best that we have ever had. .-W4tjpeetintt many Yiritorete be with us, but we are especially in terested in our home folk and desire that all the choirs in the county meet with us and take part in the singing. Your, respectfully, R. M. LEATHERWOOD, President. j Governor Martin visited Waynes- NEW HOME ON WALNUT STREET ville and delivered an address before Dr. Thomas Stringfield is now, the Rotary Club. He expressed hlm erecting a new home on Walnut, self as being greatly impressed with HirtWI.. lUBt UU1AWIIC MIC 1 ICDVIVdlMl : church and between the home of -Dr. Sam Stringfield and Honorable Charles R. Thomas. The new home will be built of brick and will have at least fourteen rooms. The cost will be around $16,000. This i. another large addition to Waynesville's extraordinary building a small hospital which is equipped program. with two hospital beds and all the modern hospital apparatus that can PRESBYTERIAN BAZAAR. be used with the up-to-date methods At the September meeting of the o modrn gurrery. Several addi Woman'. Auxiliary oof the Presby- ( tional roomg adjoining the present terian church, the following was made, offlces which are located on Mai as to the success of the Annual 8(reet, opposite the court house have Jfcuaar: Receipts. 1 2 3 (Hrm-) B (C:rls . .. Circle No. C.rcle No. f 'iicle No. Curie No. Utile No $ 80.35 120.50, 103.27, 28.00 1 13.461 i,;pry (Rag Ris . ... I'JI.OO -I Mot hinir in a nosition to nresent i.i if ( n.r.nn Rnvornnr McLean sent greeting and best wishes to the , fourth annual convention of tho. North Carolina Real Estate Board on Thursday. Corporation Commissioner A. J. Maxwell was in Montgomery, Ala., during the week where he appeared at, a hearing before the Inter-State Com- waiter uwe oi lussimmee, ria. en merce Commission on fertiliser, rates tertained with a "Chicken Perlieu" in the southeast. The commissioner, supper at .Balsam honoring their is considered higb authority on the guests. The supper was served on a rate question. large table built for this occasion It is announced that courses in el- under the trees. The feature of the ementary forestry and allied branch-' evening was original songs, speeches es will be begun at State College, and a nursery for the growing of forest seedlings is to be established with the view to re-forestation in the state. X, BClaridgew of the Yale. School ef Forestry, is to be In charge of i this "field of endeaor." ANNUAL PICNIC. The Woman's lUsaionary; : , SecU ety of th Church wiU hold. intr wiw iiwmc wi noma, ox Mrs. James Atkins at Lake Juna- Year u Advance, $2.50 it not so Paid GOVERNOR MARTIN AND ASSO CIATES BUY AT WAYNESVILLE. Florida Chief Executive to Build Summer Home in W. N. C. His Excellency, . Governor John W. Martin, of Florida, together with Dr. F. A. Htthway, chairman of the Florida State Highway Commis sion; Rev. John Tylor, of Sebring, Fla., and associates, have purchased a very desrable portion of the Sul phur Springs property at Waynes ville consisting of 18 acres at a con sideration said to be $15,000. The purchase was made direct from Hugh Sloan and other Sloan estate heirs. Plans are being made by the pur chasers of the property, according to the announcement, to establish a Florida Colony at Waynesville. It is understood that each of the pur chasers, including Governor Martin, will build summers residences in the colony and it is very probable that ad ditional property will be secured later to extend and enlarge the place. Tho colony will be restricted to one. The land will be cleared and beautified. The Sulphur Spring property is on the edge of Waynesville. On this property, according to history, the last battle of the Civil War in North Carolina was fought. A portion of the Sulphur Springs property was used after the World War by the U. S. Veterans' Bureau as a rehibilita tion center. Waynesville citizens are elated over the decision of Governor Martin and ether Floridians to establish a sum mer colony here as they feel that their decision to locate here is a dis tinct compliment to the Waynesville section. Rev. Mr. Taylor already has a sum mer home on Haywood street, here. DR. J. R. McCRACKEN HAS EX PANDED OFFICES. Dr. J. R. McCracken, President of the Goodfellowa Club and one of I Waynesville' must popular young sur- geons and civic leaders, has installed1 been made available. One of the rain features of this exDansion is that graduate and registered nurses 11 on duty at all times. . . . t i iw new uiiiiiaiure nuspiiai was made necessary on account of the ex traordinary growth in the practice of Dr. McCracken who specializes in all ailments of the eye, ear, nose and throat. As there is not a hospital at thi time In Waynesville, this an- nouncement will be received with keen Interest and much appreciation by the UI community. "CHICKEN PERLIEU" SUPPER. On Monday evening Mrs. Floyd "PPoe. Mrs. Hugh Abel and Mrs. and stunts. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Semmes, 'Mrs. Shelby Hannah, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Shell, Mr. and Mrs, Hugh. Abel, Mr. and Mrs, Floyd Rippetoe, Jin. Maud Gilmer, 'Miss Anna Ray, Dr. Rufus McCracken, Mr. William Coble. The out-of-town guests werev Mr. and Mrs. Lew Anderson, Mr.' nd Mrs. : Fred Stoenel. Mrs. Marv Somnls1 Mr. ' Edwin Bjorkman, of New York, Mrs.', rrajut , van uyxe,-ot uetreiti Mrs, WaKer Coble, ef Kissimmee, Fla.; Semmes. of JacksouvilUk.