High School Student Earl Codgill Killed When Car Flips, April 3, 1925

Earl Codgill Died on Dillsboro Road

The body of Earl Cogdill, a student of the Central High School and whose home is in Addie, was found in the road between Sylva and Dillsboro shortly after 9 o’clock last Friday night by Keiley E. ?? and Horace Kephart of Bryson City.

A short distance from where the body of young Cogdill was found, a Ford coupe was overturned in the ditch, at the bottom of a steep embankment, and a new Oldsmobile ??, the property of E. Ford King was off the road, but not turned over at a little distance to the Sylva side of where the body was found. In the Ford were three men who gave their names as Edward L. Smith, Charles Case, and W.O. Williams of Asheville. The Oldsmobile ws unoccupied. The three Asheville men stated that they were on their way to Nantahala on a fishing trip when they met the Oldsmobile coming toward Sylva and collided with it.

The Oldsmobile was left in front of the High School by Mr. King, while he was attending the debate, and it is presumed that some boys took it for a joy-ride, expecting to return it to where it was parked before Mr. King would come out of the building, and that yung Cogdill was riding either in the car or on the running board with some companions. The other boys, who were with the unfortunate young Cogdill, are said to have fled, immediately after the accident, and before the occupants of the Ford could extract themselves, and their identity has not yet been learned.

A coroner’s inquest was held, and the three Asheville men released a few hours after the tragedy was discovered.

The funeral of Earl Cogdill, the unfortunate victim of the boyish prank accent, was held Saturday by Rev. J.T. Carson, and interment was in the Old Field cemetery at Beta.

Young Cogdill, who was about 17 years of age, was a good student in the Central High School and had many friends among his classmates. He was well-connected, being a member of one of the prominent families of the county. His father has been dead for a number of years and his mother, Mrs. Letitia Cogdill, lives at Addie. The sympathy of all the people in this part of the county has been extended to the family.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Judge Orders Homer Brown and John Jones Freed, April 3, 1925

Brown and Jones Ordered Released

Homer Brown and John Jones, two Balsam men, were convicted at the February term of Superior court and ?? need to serve terms on the roads of Henderson county, have been ordered released by Judge Finley under the Calloway Bryson prohibition act.

Brown was convicted of retailing and Jones of manufacturing [moonshine]. The attorneys for both men tried to persuade Judge Finley to accept a fine in lieu of the road sentence, but his honor refused to allow them to pay the fine, and sentenced them to serve terms on the road. As soon as certified copies of the Galloway-Bryson act, applicable to this county, Polk, Graham, and Transylvania, and providing a minimum fine of $50 and a maximum of $100 for the first offense of violating the prohibition laws, was received here, brown and Jones began habeas corpus proceedings. A hearing was given by Judge Finley at Murphy, and he ordered them released, as the Galloway-Bryson Act was ratified a few days prior to the February term of Jackson county superior court, and the judgement pronounced by Judge Finley was therefore void. They have neither to pay fines or serve the road sentences.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Cullowhee Graded School Commencement Held, April 3, 1925

Cullowhee Graded School Closes

Cullowhee, Mar. 27—The Cullowhee Graded School, used the Cullowhee State Normal as a practice school, closed a few nights ago with a beautiful commencement exercise, and the practice teachers have gone home for a rest, prior to the beginning of Summer School. The practice school was the largest the past session in the history of Cullowhee, the total enrollment in the seven grades being 290. The average attendance for the seven grades being 193. The practice school has been the center of much and varied activity this year. Many projects have been worked out by the various grades, such as building miiaure houses, making furniture for the same, planting shrubs, fitting up a museum and library, and so on. Then, the school has been the meeting place for several group center meetings of Jackson County teachers, to say nothing of its serving as a training station for something like a score of Normal School seniors. Many of the leaders in public education in orth Carolina have visited Cullowhee this session, and their words of praise of the practice school have been gratifying to the Normal School authorities. Dr. Alexander, of the Teachers College, Columbia University, after spending a couple of days at Cullowhee recently, stated that he had visited more than 30 normal schools in the past nine months, but that not a single institution he had visited seemed to have a better practice school than Cullowhee. “In fact,” he said, “if I were on the lookout for teachers would could put over the job of demonstration teaching, I think I should hit for Cullowhee about the first place.”

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Sylva Concert Band Progressing Rapidly, April 3, 1925

Sylva Band Makes Progress

The Sylva Concert Band seems to be an assured fact. They are progressing very rapidly and all signs point to success.

Many of the members started without knowledge of a band instrument but can now play well.

We are hoping to hear some good open air concerts during this spring and summer, which will be of great pleasure to the whole community.

The advertising a good band gives to a community is worthy of considerable consideration.

The band practices every Tuesday and Friday nights, at the graded school house.

More members are wanted. Each member owns his own instrument. Arrangements have been made that one wishing to join the band may get his instrument on the installment plan.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Summer School Faculty at Cullowhee State Normal, April 3, 1925

Cullowhee Summer Faculty Complete

Cullowhee, Mar. 30—President Hunter announces that the faculty for the 1925 Summer School at Cullowhee State Normal is about complete. Among those of the present faculty who will be connected with the Summer School are the following: H.T. Hunter, President; W.N. Coard, Bursar; Professors C.H. Ali??, F.H. Brown, E.H. Stillwell, and W. Alexander; Misses Maudine Allen, Alice Benton, Eleanor Gladstone, Frances Lacy, Cleo Rainwater and Annie Ray; also Mrs. G.B. Arnold and Mrs. Lucy Posey. In addition to these regular members of the faculty, the following teachers from elsewhere have been engaged for either six or 12 weeks: Miss Nettie Brogden, professor of Elementary Schools of ?? County; Miss Helen E. Dillerd, teacher of English, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; Miss Ethel Fielding, Head of the Voice and Public School Music Departments, Elon College; Miss Eloise Franks, franklin, N.C., director of several summer schools; Miss Maude M. Hall, formerly a teacher in Teachers college, Columbia University, now teacher of English, East Carolina Teachers College; Professor Lawrence L. Lohr, Assistant Supervisor of High Schools, State Department of Education, North Carolina; Prof. R.O. Edgerton, Principal fo the High School, Waynesville, N.C.; Miss Rosetta Rivers, Head of the Art Department, Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.; Professor W.E. Bird, dean of the Normal School, who has been at the University of North Carolina during the present session, pursuing graduate work in English and Education. Plans are being made also for certain short-unit courses dealing with specific problems in elementary education, to be given by a number of superintendents and others specially qualified in this field. Among those who have already been engaged for these short courses are Supt. A.W. Honeycutt, Hendersonville; Supt. L.B. Bean, Lincolnton; Supt. J.H. Rose, Greenville; Miss Susan Fulgham, Supervisor of Teacher Training, State Department of Education, Raleigh.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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It's Called Cullowhee State Normal School Now, April 3, 1925

Change Name of Cullowhee School

Cullowhee, March 26—Twenty years ago in 1905, the institution which had been founded by Professor R.L. Madison and for 15 years had been known as Cullowhee High School was, by legislative enactment, given the name of Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School. This was in line with the earlier names given most of our institutions: North Carolina College for Women at Greensboro was for a long time known as the Normal and Industrial School, while Wake Forest College was first called Wake Forest Manual Training and Industrial Institute. But, with the change of time, comes the change, not to say evolution, of educational institutions. Cullowhee has, in recent years, been devoting itself more and more to training of teachers, and has never had any strictly “industrial” training. Thus its name has been a misnomer, and it was altogether fitting that the recent legislature should give the institution a title in keeping with the work it is now doing. The Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School is no more, but in its stead we have the Cullowhee State Normal School.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Stop Dynamiting Streams, Says Editor, April 3, 1925

Saving at the Bung

The state is spending a large sum of money, though not as much as it should, to build fish hatcheries and improve the fishing in the streams of the state. So far as Jackson county is concerned, it is a waste of money until the practice of dynamiting the streams is stopped. At the rate we are going, the streams will be depopulated in a few years despite the efforts that are being made to restock them.

There should be a reward offered, sufficient in size to get results, for information to convict any person of exploding dynamite in any stream in the county.

From the editorial page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925; Dan Tompkins, editor.

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