A heavy storm struck this section on the 7th, doing considerable damage to property, blowing down a grist mill for Widow Radford with she and Wm. Dockery’s boy in it. Mrs. Radford was caught under some of the falling debris caused the collapse and badly injured, breaking her thigh and injuring her I other ways. She is under the care of Dr. Heighway of Murphy. We hope she will soon recover. The boy escaped unhurt. The storm blew away hay and fodder stacks all along its path. Feed can be seen hanging in tree tops all about. A lot of timber was torn down and lots of fine fruit trees were destroyed.
Our mountains are free from fires at present.
A new bridge has been built across Copper Creek near Unaka but the road and approaches have not been put in yet. It is causing some grumbling as the bridge is so low covered wagons have to take off their bow frames to pass under it. This section was in hopes that they would get their road from Beaverdam Gap to Unaka graded according to promise, but Joe Brown, the highway commissioners of Beaverdam Township, said on the first Monday meeting that he was going to start at Unaka. This is very unfair as upper Beaverdam pays around one-third of the taxes in this township, besides this is a mail route direct from Murphy by way of Voalet post offices. Beaverdam Township asked the board in a petition if they got money to build any more roads int his township to connect this link between the Grandview graded road at Beaverdam Gap and the Crape Creek road at Unaka, a distance through Upper Beaverdam of about six miles Upper Beaverdam is paying around one-third the taxes on a $50,000 bond that built a graded road to three of the township highway commissioners’ doors, and here goes $50,000 more to give another one of the commissioners a road, but the mail route and the most fertile of the township must remain isolated.
Mr. A.Z. Roberts of this section has been very ill but is improving.
We are still having fine weather. Hope it will be nice for Mr. Santa Claus.
Mr. P.N. Johnson and his partner, Mr. Ralph Roberson, from Andrews, are in this section repairing pianos and organs and other musical instruments.
Mr. Fred Radford will soon move his saw mill from this section to Copper Creek where he and Mrs. G.F. Rose of Unaka will do some manufacturing.
Wagons from Tennessee and other parts are passing through this section enroute to Hangingdog and Owl Creek, to buy apples. These sections have hundreds of bushels of apples that will go to Tennessee for consumption. This is another reason why we need a good road through Upper Beaverdam. I want them to answer this article and state their reasons.
A number of our people attended the funeral of Mr. Polie Burgess’ wife Sunday afternoon. Mr. Burgess has the sympathy of all of the good people of this section.
From page 2 of the Cherokee Scout, Murphy, N.C., Friday, Dec. 26, 1924
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