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1ND WAYNESVI LLE COURIER vgS: VOLUME IV NUMBER 24 WAYNESVILLE, HAYWOOD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. MAY 2, 1918, $1-50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE DESERTER SHOT OFF TO CAMP TO FINISH DRIVE SCHOOL CLOSES WELCOME TO MAY Cross -11 Successful Year of Waynesville City Schools Twenty-Three in Grad-' uating Class A successful year's work closed Tuesday night when 23 bright, girls and boys completed their studies and rendered a splendid program. Seven teen of these weie given diplomas and six were given certificates. Those receiving diplomas were: Felix E. Al ley, Mildred Crawford, Maria E.

Crymes, James W. Ada Lee Grahl, Elizabeth H. Grahl, Wfll-iam Hannah, Irene Howell, Sarah A. Jones, Roth N. Jones, Helen N.

Virginia L. Matney, Josce-Iyn L. James Wilford; Mary Elizabeth Shel-ton, Sara Thomas and Nora Tur-byfill. deceiving certificates were Josephine A. Bramlett, Mary J.

Fraxier, Lillian Green, Fanny Harris, Jacque MeCracken and Elizabeth C. Reeves. The Waynesville orchestra furnished good music and the graduating exercises were especially good while the best of order and attention was furnished by the large crowd present, who had come through mud without the aid of street lights after an all-day rain. The, list of young people above includes one of the brightest classes ever sent out by our school and we expect much of them and no doubt they will all make good. At 11 o'clock Tuesday the annual literary address was delivered by our townsman, Hon.

Felix E. Alley, who kept up his reputation as an orator and held his audience for about 45 minutes on subjects that are of mo mentous interest everywhere at the present time Liberty, Democracy, Militarism and Autocracy. Monday was exhibit day and many persons visited the various class rooms and saw what good work is being done by the pupils. The D. A.

R. Contest Monday morning the high school boys gave a declamation contest. The speakers were Frank Hardin of the eighth grade, and Paul Martin, Bryan Walpole, Hayes Alley and Joe Liner, of the ninth grade. They were to speak upon a patriotic subject, the winner to receive a medal awarded by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Bryan Walpole was winner, though everyone did exceptionally well.

Society Night Monday night was society night at the school. The two high school literary societies, the O. Henry and Vance, furnished the program. James Ferguson, president of the Vance Society, presided, and Harriett Boone, secretary of the O. Henry Society, acted as secretary.

James Ferguson opened the program by explaining the importance of the literary societies to the school. Then followed readings by Lucy Tate and Joscelyn McDowell, which were very good and greatly enjoyed. The next number was the "Crew Song" by the O. Henry Society. It waa very pretty and the singers certainly did well.

Frank Hardin and Hayes Alley followed, each with an interesting declamation. The girls of the Vance Society then rendered a song, "Voices of the Woods." They have some good sing-era in that society and the seng was beautifuly rendered. Then came a dialogue, by members of the O. Henry Society. It was quite humorous, and the actors deserve credit for their part in the evening's program.

The last number was a pantomime entitled "The Bugle Song," by the Senior girls in costume. The program waa very good, and the societies received much praise on their splendid entertainment. On Friday evening a splendid program was rendered by the pupils of the primary and grammar grades. To our mind it was one of the best ever sen here and showed fine training br those teachers who had it in I charge. AO the uxerclsec were good thi year and reflect honor on Super- E.

J. a-J all Jus teachers. Fourteen White and Twenty-Three Colored Registrants Go to Camp Jackson Last Friday the following white registrants of the first class were sent to Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. by the exemption board: Millard H. Gaddis, Wm.

R. Fletch er, Lucius B. Scott S. Schul hofer, Robert C. Gossett, Luther Swanger, Hilliard Ross, Hiram Pal mer, Milas H.

Wright, Reuben Good-son, John R. Barnes, Jim Medford, Harl A. Reece and David G. Brackett On Tuesday following 23 colored men were sent to Camp Jackson as follows: Wm. R.

Hooper, Leon Love, Harri son Love, C. A. Davidson, Patrick Moore, Fred Hall, Forrest Trotter, George Love, Hollis Smith, Caef Sharp, Lawrence Coot, Ora Casey, John L. Love, Fred Stewart, William Davis, Sid Allen, Claud Mallonee, Jo seph Gist, Herman Lenoir, Fred Moore, Ernest Barnett, Milton Downs and Ben Griffin. All the men, both white and col ored, were given comfort kits by the local Red Cross society on their departure.

Five white men will be sent on May 10 and others later as calls are made. HOME ECONOMIC AGENT The ladies of the county are re quested to note that Miss Juanita Medford has been appointed by the State Department of Agriculture as temporary home economic agent for this county. The department is using considerable care in selecting the permanent worker and as it is no easy task to pick up trained agents it will be June 1 before the permanent worker will be ready to take up her work. Until that time Miss Medford, who has the confidence of all who know her, will work to get the communities organized so that the work may go forward without the handicap of a late start. The ladies of each pom munity are requested to co-operate with her in organizing the work.

Ev ery woman wishes to help her country at this time. Through the instrumen tality of this work a practical appli cation of patriotism can be found right at home. Conservation is the need of the hour. Women are the spenders of our homes and for that reason should learn how to conserve in spending. Preliminary to the starting of this work Miss Medford will meet with the ladies and girls at the following places and dates: Bethel school house, May 6, 3 p.

Cruso school house, May 7, 3 p. Garden Creek school house, May 8, p. m. Iron Duff school house, May 9, 3 p. m.

Jonathan Creek school house, May 10, 3 p. m. Saanook school house, May 11, 8 m. W. H.

FERGUSON, Co. Agt. CRUSO COMING At a meeting of the Champion War Savings Society of Cruso, at the Baptist church last Sunday at 3 p. although disappointed in not having sufficient W. S.

S. on the ground, and the failure of the expected speaker from Waynesville to arrive, plenty of interest and patriotic fervor was ex hibited. Mr. Fred Peden, of Springdale, came to the rescue with all the W. S.

S. at the Springdale office. Wide awake and on the job that's Mr. Peden. After a few short talks by Presi dent I.

B. Pless, F. T. Peden and W. W.

Shay, all the stamps on the ground were taken, and Mr. Peden expressed his opinion that he could have sold $1,009 worth had bo had them. As it was, there were sold and engaged between $660 and $660 in Stamps, and six Liberty Loan Bonds; and the end is not yet, by any means. The' society now has a membership of 184 and is composed of people who mean to da their part in every way possible. ATbese are the people whom Abraham Lincoln referred to as "God's common people," and they have just If every community of similar wealth would do as well as Cruso, it would not require a long time for the complete anderstaadiBg of the aselessneas of the present slaughter to penetrate even the ivory dome of the Kaiset.

United, stand. Mrs, SHAY. Scy. Jackson County Man Badly Wounded When He Tried to Escape Arrest by Deputy Marshal James Messer has been a deserter for several months from the army and it is said that he and several others have been defying arrest for some time. Complaints were made to the federal authorities and Marshal C.

A. Webb, of Asheville, appointed Chas. C. Mason, of Dillsboro, a spec ial deputy and ordered him to depu tize sufficient men and round them up. Mr.

Mason and other officers went to Messer's home at a late hour Saturday night and when he ran he was shot through the body with a rifle ball which perforated the intestines three or four times. He was brought to the Waynesville hospital early Sunday morning by Dr. Candler and others. Dr. Candler and Dr.

Griffith, of Asheville, rendered aid. At first Messer was thought to be fatally wounded but he is now doing nicely and may recover. One brother, Hastings Messer, was captured but another escaped. It is said that no less than nine men have refused to register and be drafted for service in the Barker's Creek section of Jackson eounty where this man was wounded and that they and other deserters have an organized band. N.

C. Demands Rate-Basing Ports (Manufacturers Record.) An organization known as the Greater North Carolina Association was formed recently at Fayetteville, N. with S. A. Jones, of Waynes ville, N.

as president, and resolutions were unanimously adopted asking the President of the United States to instruct the director general of railroads, as a war measure, to declare the Cape Fear river ports, Fayetteville, Wilmington and Southport, to be rate-basing ports, also recom mending that a South American mail line be operated out of Wilmington and that a naval coaling station be established at Southport or some equally available point on the Cape Fear river. The resolutions were sent to the President and Mr. Jones says that receipt was acknowledged and that they were referred to the director general for action. He also remarks that the purpose of the res olution is to stop freight rate dis crimination in the State; that North Carolina asks to be put on the same per mile rate which her sister States enjoy. Discrimination, he says, is costing the people of the State a year.

Mr. Ferguson to Be Sheep Agent County Agent W. H. Ferguson has been commandeered by the State Agricultural Department as special agent for Western North Carolina to assist Mr. George Evans, the sheep specialist, in encouraging the sheep and wool industry.

Animal Husband- ryman R. S. Curtis has had his eye on Mr. Ferguson lor some tame and recognized his fitness for the job. Mr.

Ferguson is a fine demonstra tion agent and we regret to lose him and hope a good man may be found to take his place. THE COURSE TO PURSUE (Manufacturers Record) Unless a man is aggressively Amer ican be is practically pro-German, and every man who is pro-German, even in thought, should be imprisoned at hard labor, and every man in this country who attempts to retard the fight of the United States against Germany should be promptly hung or shot. Drastic work must be the or der of the day. AN OLD MAN BUYS BOND J. Hardy Noland, father of David R.

and Robert L. Noland, of Fines Creek, who will soon be 87 years old, was in town Monday and showed his patriot- ism by purchasing a $500 bond of the Third Liberty Loan. This ia An and we hope it will have an influence with some others who are Id aad WaTXJ WX SER A MAN. CUTTING DOWN ON HIS ADVERTISING. WE DOWK'OV HIS CREDIT.

FESTES jrWADE, President Msreaatile Trwt Co and Miesiffi. National Bask, St. 1 Louis (Capital, trrplus and Undivided FfetawTsM MiQiea Dars). Big Mass Meeting Will Be Held at Court House Tonight Band Will Play U. S.

Hospital Force Will AttendBonds Will Be Sold Waynesville will hold a big mass meeting in the court house tonight. Chairman J. R. Boyd, of the Third Liberty. Loan campaign, will preside, while short talks will be made by our ministers, professional and business men.

The object is to put Waynes ville "Over the Top" for the big loan. About $30,000 has been subscribed here and we need at least that much more. The Waynesville band will play pa triotic airs and Major Davis and his staff and more than 60 enlisted men in uniform will attend from the U. S. hospital at Sulphur Springs to help make the occasion a success.

Let everybody who can in town or near town come to the court house and make tonight the time when we shall have raised money to put Waynesville on the honor roll. Uncle Sam has his eye on you to see just what you're going to do, so come on friend and have a part and show us all you have a heart. Mr. Stentz, of Lake Junaluska, will sing as only he can sing that new war song, "What Are YOU Going to Do to Help the Boys?" Let us come to the scratch with enthusiasm and the result will be all right. Asheville, Canton, Brevard, Tryon and many others are already "over the top" and we must go over too.

At Lake Junaluska Friday Night On Friday night after we have raised what we can here the band and speakers and hospital men will go to Junaluska Inn at the lake and hold another meeting there at 8 o'clock. Hon. Zeb Curtis and Prof. Vermont, of the Asheville schools, will also be there and speak. These men are live wires and good speakers and will make the evening well worth your while.

No matter how much or how little you have done, come out to the Inn Friday night at 8 o'clock and help make this event one long to be remembered in our community. Lake Junaluska has been doing her part nobly in the Red Cross, War Savings and now on the Liberty Bonds. "Over the top" for us. Don't be a slacker and stay at home but come and hear these men and help in this time of Uncle Sam's great need. Any man who fails to come across and do his-bit is not worthy to have the help and friendship of his neighbors.

Mr. Stentz will sing that great song, "wnat Are iuu uoing iw to Help the Boys?" Every owner of a truck or auto mobile in and near Waynesville is asked and urged to furnish them for free transportation to the folks of 18 years and over who will go to the lake Friday night. Cars will leave, court house square at 7:30. Come and. bring your cars.

WATCH GIVEN TO DR. LTLK (Charlotte Observer.) Capt. S. H. Lyle, medical corps, recently honorably discharged from the service because of physical disabilities, was presented with a wrist watch by the members of the medical staff of the base hospital at Camp Greene.

Before Christmas a board recommended his honorable discharge, but Captain Lyle remained at his post, in the receiving ward of the base hospital. Captain Lyle's home is at Franklin, N. C. In a short talk prior to the presentation of the token of the esteem of the medical officers, Captain Joseph H. Way, of Waynesville, stated that from the time the base hospital was organized, Captain Lyle had stood in the receiving ward and that more than 10,000 patients had been diagnosed by him, sometimes in the office, often in the ambulance, and at all hours of the night, as well as of the day.

He also said that during these months, Captain Lyle's health had been impaired to such a degree that he had been constantly on ft diet. IT IS NOW MAJOR WAY Word was received her Monday that our townsman. Dr. Joseph How-II Way, who has beta a eaptain at tb Itn hospital at Camp Green, Charlotte, has been promoted with tb rani of Major. always felt that be would elimb and we expect to se him higher ta his easfc.

(By Jesse Daniel Boone) Now comes the pleasant month of May To drive our weather fears away; And we should like for her to stay And let her sunbeams warmly play. May is the last glad month of spring Leaves, buds and flowers she doth bring, While birds and nature sweetly sing And all the joy bells gladly ring. We've chafed at winter's cold and chain; We've had enough of April rain; So now you've come, please to remain And cheer our chilly souls again. It is the time to plant and sow, While gentle, south wind zephyrs blow; The time for out-door life to So get your hat and let us go. May is the month of hope and love She's gentle as a fawn or dove; It's then that nature gives a shove And forces beauties up above.

Then let us smile and let us sing While sitting in the lap of spring. May this good month much pleasure bring To one and all and everything. REGISTRARS AND JUDGES OF ELECTION The Haywood County Election Board, comuosed of Messrs. M. D.

Kinsland, Joseph S. Davis and W. Denton, have appointed registrars and judges to serve for the primary in June and the regular election in No vember. The first mentioned at each voting precinct being the registrar and the other two being judges: Waynesville, North Ward W. Haynes, Elmer McClure and Charles U.

Miller. Waynesville. South Ward J. L. Williams, Fred Mull and J.

D. Boone. Pigeon Gay Burnett, T. D. Single ton and James Kelly.

Cecil Charles Moody, W. L. Queen and J. F. Justice.

East Fork J. N. Osborne, Frank Sellers and Rowley Pless. South Beaverdam E. J.

Smathers, W. H. Johnson and J. R. Stephens.

North Beaverdam R. S. Coman, H. W. Spray and J.

Bowden Smathers. Clyde Wilson Haynes, John Shook and Graves Osborne. Ivy Hill J. A. Turner, D.

T. Janes and J. R. Henry. Jonathan R.

Howell, W. R. Conrad and Meek Allison. Cataloochee Silas Caldwell, W. M.

Sutton and S. L. Woody. Big Creek A. W.

Hopkins, J. N. Sutton and Tilson Harrell. White Oak Zach Clark, E. Z.

McClure and A. C. Messer. Fines Creek Chas. McCracken, R.

V. Hawkins and Melvin Rogers. Crabtree Fuller Justice, T. M. Fer guson and N.

P. Walker. Iron Duff J. Manson Medford, Lee Stevenson and P. P.

Crawford. TO EXTEND RAILROAD Five cars loaded with about 200 army engineers arrived at canton Tuesday and were carried, to Sun burst, where they will extend the Tennesse and North Carolina Rail road a few miles into the forests so that the Champion Lumber Co. can secure quickly quantities of balsam and spruce timber which is needed by the government to be used in making aeroplanes. This company has been furnishing timber for many months and had used about all that was available and labor was so scarce that in order to speed up the supply the government came to their rescue and rent these engineers here who will get much experience which they will find valuable in France when they go overseas. MRS.

LEE DAVIS DEAD Mrs. Lee Davis died Tuesday after- BOon o'clock. of pneumonia at the are of 57 years, surrounded, by her three daughters and four sow. who art Mrs R. Marr of Bryse Ci try and MJaaea-NiU and Josephine Davi of this place.

Mr, and Mrs. Fred. Davis of Prrnceton-, InoV aad Roy. and tVed'. Davis of this place.

Mrs. Davis had been in ill health a long time but was only attacked by pnnmiiie.a.few days.befor Funeral; enrioaa, were conducted yesterday at tie Jturt ihareh ay Paster. A at 4 I Waynesville Chapter Mrs. L. Palmer, director of, wprk rooms of the local chapter, hopes in the near future to begin the class for surgical dressings.

At "present she is waiting for instructions from headquarters and the appointment of a trained teacher. During; the week past the work has been concentrated upon making and filling comfort kits for 35 boys, 15 of whom left on the 26th and 23 (Col.) on the 30th. Many members of the chapter were at the trains. Mr. Tom Green gave them on both days a good, patriotic talk, while the Rev.

W. B. West spoke of what the Home Service. Section of the Red could and do for them and their families. Rev.

Mr. Arnold also, an old soldier himself, spoke, closing with a short prayer for God's blessing. The Red Cross girls in uniform presented the kits and a treat of ice cream to the boys on Fri day and on Tuesday this service was performed by the members of the auxiliary which has recently been or ganized among our colored friends. These occasions will ever be to these boys one to recall with pleasure when far away from home and loved ones. These boys are giving all perhaps their lives for home and country and as one soldier expressed it, "If you good ladies gave us nothing it is a treat just to know that someone cares." Of a little town in South Carolina we read the following: "The Red Cross Chapter in the little town of Ridge Spring, hearing that the troop trains from Augusta would stop here for water, successfully served hot biscuits, sandwiches and coffee to about 1,200 men a day for several days.

When told that the population was only about 500, the grateful men gave three rousing cheers for the nervy little town." This little town not for one day but for several and without doubt still keeping the good work up feeding 1,200 weary men, all strangers! Does this not suggest to us that we do more for our boys as they, from time to time, leave for camp? Let the Red Cross be out in full force for the next contingent who leave in May, be they few or many. It is our soldiers' right to receive the assurance of our confidence and pride in them. Let us hereafter make them realize that wherever they come from and where-ever they are, they are ours. We are behind them, we are praying for we are watching for their safe return. Let the Red Cross wish them God speed! U.

S. HOSPITAL NOTES The government hospital at Sul phur Springs is expecting a large number of patients in a few days and will soon be taxed for room. Several hundred tents are to be erected to give additional capacity. On Sunday nearly 60 enlisted men came here for guard duty from Fort Oglethorp. That many more are ex pected to augment this force.

It is said that in addition to the patients this institution was expected to care for more than 200 broken down nurses who will be sent France and the government is nego tinting with Dr. B. F. Smathers to lease his three buildings which adjoin the Sulphur Springs property. It will not be long now until the employees and patients here will nearly reach the 1,000 mark.

SOME BUSINESS CHANGES The Waynesville: Grocery ft Meat Co. are moving into the old Chau tauqua drug store building next to the Annex pharmacy. The room they are leaving and the one next door formerly occupied by the Sloan-Plott Hardware. will be fitted ap for J. M.

Mock who will occupy them both in a few days. Dr. B. F. Smathers has purchased the J.

R. Davis stock of groceries and will more the stock to the old post of fice building. ADDRESS BY MRS. GUDGER Mrs. James E.

Cadger, Jr, of Asheville, will address the women of Haywood county Wedaaday, 8, at 3 p. en the importance of the National Defense. Tb meeting wiD be held in the Navy League room. It is. tissdlssa to seek to impress ar wbmb with tfc importeBee of this meeting.

ft 4 .9 9 i NOTICE Having been called Into the service of the United States and being ab-eat from Wayaesvijl, r. I have placed my books and aeconata ia tie Band of J. M. Que, attorney. AQ wb rMMM.

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