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MARION PROGRESS
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TOE BEST INTEREST OF TOE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY.
established 1896.
MARIOKf, N. C., THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1916.
VOL. XX—NO. 50
relief coiviiviittee work
Report of McDowell Relief Com
mittee—General Statement
of Flood Damages.
Governor Craig has requested
each county in the flood district to
send representatives to a confer
ence to be held in his office at
Raleigh on Friday of this week.
McDowell will be represented by
W. M. McNairy, representing the
County Commissioners; Byron
Conley, representing the schools,
and I. C. Griffin, representing the
Relief committee. The following
is the report of the Kelief Com
mittee as submitted to the repre
sentative of the War Department
of the Federal Government:
bridges, ROAD3, CROPS AND SOIL.
Thirty-eight bridges entirely de
stroyed and the remaining one bad
3y damaged.
Fifty per cent of all public and
ijountry roads destroyed by the
high waters and land slides.
Seventy-five per cent of all the
grain produced in this county is
grown along the streams, and 90
per cent of all the present crops
along the streams were completely
destroyed.
Seventy-five per cent of all lands
along streams have been perma
nently damaged, and a large per
cent completely destroyed.
PBESENT CONDITION OF POPULATION
The Relief Committee has given
immediate relief to 121 families,
and the committee has definite and
reliable information that 80 more
families are destitute and in need
of immediate relief at an average
expenditure of $12.00 per family.
There are, in addition to the 200
in immediate need, at least 300
families that will be in need in the,
immediate future. The most ur
gent need at present is the opening
up of roads that have been utterly
destroyed. We submit two rea
sons for this statement, (a) Many
families are completely shut off
from the markets and have to pack
their provisions over the rough
mountains in trains; futhermore,
many farmers have teams that
might be used to help support the
family, but it is impossible in hun
dreds of cases to gejt these teams
away from home; on the other
hand, feed for them must be pack
ed in by the owner, (b) The im
mediate rebuilding of these roads
would give employment to many
of these citizens. At present many
of these citizens are employed by
the railway companies, but this
work will not continue longer than
thirty days hence. These people
will then be cut off from their usual
winter work, such as hauling acid
wood, tanbark, cross ties, etc., un
less the roads ara opened up.
WHAT WB NEli> NOW.
Two thousand dollars to supple
ment the present earnings of the
200 destitute families, and this
amount must be duplicated month
ly unless conditions change. Seeds,
such as rape, turnip, cabbage, mil
let, rye, etc., enough to supply
500 families. Roads repaired in
order to reach the destitute fami
lies with provisions and that desti
tute farmers may use their teams.
Employment for all heads of the
destitute families until the roads
opened up and conditions ap
proach the normal.
DISTRIBUTION DEVASTATION AND OF
RELIEF.
North Cove Area—Nunaber of
families destitute 68, familes re
lieved 50, families needing iSeed
and partial aid 150. All roads de
stroyed.
, Clear Creek—Number of fami^
lies destitute 15, families relieved
4:, families needing seeds and par
tial relief 15. All roads destroyed
Buck Creek—Number of fami
lies destitute 15, families relieved
7, families needing seeds and par
tial relief 30. All roads destroyed.
Crooked Creek—Number fami
lies destitute 40, families relieved
22, families needing seeds and par
tial relief 80. All roads destroyed.
Broad River—Number families
destitute 50, families relieved 21,
families needing seeds 100.
roads destroyed.
ACTS TO HELP FARMERS
Federal Farm Law and Good Roads
Law Will Aid People of
Rural Districts.
sum will help in certain of the
mountain counties injured by the
flood, assisting in the development
of the resources.
Washington, Aug, 3.—^Two acts
of the present congress prdmise to
All I help the farmers of North Caro
lina and other southern states re-
Miscellaneous but principally in build the sections injured by the
the Catawba Valley—Number of floods. They are the federal farm
r T and the good roads law which,
heved 17, families needing seeds ^
and partial relief 125. Fifty per ““hough separate measure^ may
cent of the roads in the county will be made to work together in this
have to be rebuilt. emergency as soon as the reqnire-
Total number families destitute ments are complied with. The
210, number relieved 121, partial- machinery with which they are to
ly destitute 500. operated is .being set in order
Mr. Harry C. Smith, a govern- pj^Qg work out on
ment engineer, visited McDowelH be
county this week and will report ^ ^^nths.
conditions directly to the Govern
ment. Mr. Smith personally in-1
vestigated some of the flood strick
en areas in order to substantiate I
the report made to him by t\ie Re-1
lief Committee.
Both of these acts require co
operation among those who are to
participate in their benefits.
The federal farm law will allow
loans to farmers in sums of not
less than $100 or more than $10,-
000, and for not less than five years
or more than forty years. The in-
The County Schools.
_ , , .. I VH LUV>1C3 wuau ivr» vjr
In reply to the many questions
Bandits Escape (With $34,000
Payroll.
Detroit, Aug. 4.—Five unmask*
ed automobile bandits this after
noon held up an automobile in
which $50,000 pay roll money was
being taken to the plant of the
Burroughs Adding Machine Com
pany and before astonished guards
could offer resistance snatched five
of six bags in the car, said to have
contained $33,000 or $34,000 and
escaped.
The hold-up took place on Bur
roughs, between Woodward and
Cass avenues in view of hundreds
of employes of nearby automobile
factories and the usual afternoon
throngs on Woodward avenue.
Rudolph, a Burroughs guard,*
was shot through the thigh and
struck on the head with the butt
end of a pistol, when he tried to
intercept the robbers.
and rumors which have gained
headway throughout McDowell
County to the effect that there will
be no schools in the county this
year, I take this means of inform
ing the citizens and patrons of
every district in McDowell county
that schools will be run as usual.
and the loans may be made for not
more than fifty or sixty per cent,
of the value of the farm.
Members of congress are giving
attention to the requirements of
the system, and recommendations
will be made to farmers in the
STATE NEWS OFTHE WEEK
Items Concerning Events of In
terest and Importance Tfirpugh-
out the State.
Saturday was pay day, the first
since mobilization, at Camp Glenn
for the First Infantry. A total of
$38,000 was disbursed.
Archdeacon W. H. Hardin of
Salisbury was rendered unconscious
for awhile by iightmng, wj^ch
struck a tree at his home in Salis
bury Friday.
Notwithstanding its own losses
from the recent floods in North
Carolina and with the desire to see
the entire fund contributed by citi
zens go to relieving actual neces
sities in the storm-stricken district
of Western North Carolina, Presi
dent Fairfax Harrison, of the
Southern Railway, has authorized
the free transportation of ship
ments from the State Relief Com
mittee of clothing and other sup
plies consigned for gratuitous dis
tribution among those who suf
fered.
Three Million for Forest Conserva
tion.
Washington, Aug. 4—^The House
today voted to accept the Senate
amendment to the agricultural bill
providing $3,000,000 for the pur-
liuai; SiUUUUlS Wlil 1 uu ao uouo*. ^ ^ i • 1
rw,, . ii j -11 4.u« flooded sections to make their plans
The disastrous flood will cost the ™
Chase of land to enable the forestry presept, members of the Tenth
District Democratic Congressional
committee perfected an organiza-
money in repairing school houses, 1
building bridges and other repairs
as soon as possible. These associa-
necessary for the carrying on ot \_
the schools. Our school fund will
be cut short because of the neces-
more natural persons who are the
owners of farm land qualified as
„ security for a mortgage loan. On-
sitv of exempting many unfortu-l . • • iu*
ly borrowing farmers may 30m this
nate farmers from paying taxes; ^ ^ 4.
. , association. Each farmer must pay
just how much we will loose by 1
.. • • in $5 for one of its shares for each
reason of tax exemptions it is im- L ^ . u o
reabuuui^ , . .J$100 he wishes to borrow. He
possible to tell at this time, but , u
r / • will have one vote per share in this
is safe to estimate the decrease of . . j-
u A f OKOL T association, but not exceeding ten
the school fund at about 2570. 1
am advised by the State Saperin- 7“^®* “
te“dent of Public Instruction that ^
... to association
we will receive sufficient additional Thic
aid from the State Board of Edu-1 "“^er the new act. This
cation to enable all our schools to
run the same number of months as
would have been the case.
Most schools will begin about
September 4th. Where conditions
are such that it is possible, we
associa
tion invests that money in shares
at par of the federal land bank for
its district.
The farmer applies for his loan
to the National Farm Loan associa
tion of which he is a member. If
Campaign on for Weaver.
Asheville, Aug. 7.—Meeting at
Asheville, with Senator Zebulon
Weaver, democratic candidate for
Congress in the Tenth District.
are suuu i
have already be«un work, and are its committee apprOT» the loan
continuing to open others as fast and the loan is nitified by vote of
as it is possible to do so. th® dir^tors the ass^iatioa in-
Btbon Conley. dorses the farmer’s note (secured
County Superintendent. by first mortgage on his and
sends the papers to the land bank
Seeds for Flood Sufferers. of which the association is a mem-
Turnips, rape and bean seed for bor. The land bank sends the full
those who have suffered from the amount of the mortg^e note to
flood will be found at the Price the association and it Pay* *be
Hardware store. All these should money over to borrowing farmer.
be planted on rich land and have No commission bi^erage or rake-
phosphate and manure. Phosphate off is charged the borrower.
stimulates early maturity. Kape The road bill provides only a
fine for salad, also is good for starter for the next fiscal year, but
hogs, chickens and cattle. Sow the amount provided will be dou-
about three pounds per acre in bled in another year, and predic-
tions have been made that congress
Buckwheat and millet is expect- when it sees how popular the law
ed in a few days. This is for the is will make a big increase in the
most needy who should call tor it amounts available. North Caro-
now so as to get it in prom&tly. Una will receive more under this
Prepare good land well and use law than the apportioned sum of
400 lbs acid phosphate per acre. 1114,380.92 ^or the fiscal year end-
W. R. Bailey, ing next June, because North Oaro
Farm Demonstrator, lina has forests which have been
— purchased by the government.
Friday it was announced that mimoQ dollars will be divided
more than 1,000 children had died I National forests and
and nearly 6,000 bad teen ftriAen possible the construction of
with^ infantile paralysis in New|^^^^
service to take the necessary steps
to conserve forests at the heads of
mountain streams, which will to a
great extent prevent a re-occur
rence of the disastrous floods that
have swept Western North Caro
lina «nd several other neighboring
states lately.
The forestry service has already
acquired 1,732,000 acres in the
Southern Appalachian region and
in order to complete the project
say it will be necessary to purchase
nearly 5,000,000 acres more. 249,
778 acres of the Southern Appa
lachian reserve is located within
the State of North Carolina, and
the government paid an average
price of $6.26 per acre for it.
It was expected there would be
a fight in the House when the mo
tion was brought up to concur in
the Senate amendment, and Repre
sentatives Small, Britt and Dough-
ton were prepared to advance some
convincing information, but the
anaendment was unanimously car
ried.
Cloudburst at Asheville.
Asheville, Aug. 6.—Asheville
was without power or street car
service for about two hours today
as the result of a cloudburst in the
Beaverdam section which turned
the Beaverdam Creek, a small
stream, into a raging torrent, flood
ed a large area in the vicinity of
the creek and destroyed a number
of poles of the Weaver Power
company which supplies the city
with power at present.
The Nebo High School will be
gin this year Wednesday, Septem
ber 6th, with Mr. John Tyler as
principal. The other teachers are
Miss Mary Greenlee, Miss Nannie
McCall, Miss Pearl Gibbs, Miss
Louise Brown and Miss Estelle
Wilson with Mrs. W. S. Masters
as matron. Several improvements
are being made on the school build
ings, and the prospects are un
usually bright for a fine opening.
tioD last week, electing Donald S.
Elias, of Asheville, as chairman of
the committee.
The election of Mr. Elias me^ts
with the warmest approval of Sena
tor Weaver, as the new chairman
is one of the best organizers in the
Tenth District, and is a fighting
democrat of the younger, aggres
sive type, who will push the inter
ests of the party at every oppor
tunity.
Zebulon Weaver’s record for
constructive legislation while serv
ing two terms in the lower house
and two in the state senate of the
North Carolina General Assembly
makes him a formidable candidate
to start, and his ability as a “vole
getter,” coupled with the aggres
sive policy of Mr. Elias, presages
great victory for the Democrats
in the Fall elections, and practiciU-
ly assures the redemption of the
district from the present grasp of
the Republicans.
Headquarters have been opened
in AsheviHe in the Brown build
ing, and the committee, under the
leadership af the new chairman, is
preparing for an aggressive fight
between now and the election No
vember 7th.
nfantile Paralysis H its Spartanburg
Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 5.—A
case of infantile paralysis has ap
peared in Spartanburg according
to official announcement made by
the public health authorities this
afternoon. The child is the four-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. Young, of No. 137 Carlisle
street and while the announcement
is to the effect that the case is mild
in form, the strictest quarantine
has been established and a ban has
been placed upon children under
sixteen years of age attending mov
ing picture shows or going to Sun
day schools. This is the first case
reported in this city though there
have been three in the county.