Balsam tried to do her bit in welcoming the motorcade last Tuesday. Mr. W.T. Lee Jr., the genial Proprietor of Balsam Store, and a large number of other Balsamites hailed the procession with greetings at the West end of the Balsam loop of the highway, while the teachers, school children and other citizens greeted them at the North entrance. Mr. Lee, not seeing the two governors in the procession, asked occupants of another car to present two pretty balsam walking sticks and to miniature stills to them, as souvenirs of our little town.
Miss Aileen Jones was hostess to a large number of young people Wednesday night in honor of her 16th birthday. She was the recipient of many useful gifts. Delicious refreshments were served.
Mrs. Carrie Queen and children visited her sister, Mrs. E.B. Nicholson in Brevard last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Lee Jr. have returned from a visitor to his sister, Mrs. D.W. Dickey in Sweetwater, Tenn.
Mr. E.B. Howell and family visted Mrs. Mary Robinson in Willets Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. B.E. Nicholson and little Billie, of Brevard, spent last week end with Mr. and Mrs. E.O. Queen.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bryson, September 9, a son, Clyde.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Coward, September 21, a daughter, Katie Lee.
Mr. T.M. Rickards Jr. of West Palm Beach, Fla., is spending some time with his family in their summer home here. Their daughter, Miss Catherine, who has recently returned from Europe, left Monday for New York to enter Vassar College.
The following enjoyed a picnic lunch on Jones’ Knob Sunday: Misses Hettie, Faye, Evelyn and Pauline Bryson, Messrs. Roe Henry of Silva, Claud Porter of Lake City, Fla., Glenn Bryson, Shirley Watson, Delas Parker, Miss Marie Coward and Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Lee Hoxit.
Mr. Odell Queen made a business trip to Sylva last week.
Mrs. A.H. Haight of Capital Heights, Md., is visiting friends in Balsam.
Mrs. Maybelle Perry is having her stores, boarding houses and cottages painted.
This has been a good season for tomatoes in Balsam. Mr. John Coward planted about 600 plants and has gathered about 25 bushels of ripe tomatoes, and the vines are yet quite full of green ones.
Mr. T.M. Richards and Miss Kate Rickards went to Canton Monday.
From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Wednesday, September 23, 1925
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