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; A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY. ESTABLISHED 1896. MARION, N. C, THURSDAY, JAN. 9, 1919 VOI XXII! NO. 19 EDUCATION BOARD MEETS County Board Makes -Large Appro priation to Schools; Nebo and , Glenwood Bonds Sold. The County Board of Education met on Monday and made appro priations to the various schools of the county. Having adopted a to the increased cost of living there by necessitating a raise jn teachers' salaries, it was found that the Board was in position to make the largest appropriation ever made for school purposes in McDowell County. The appropriations to the different dis tricts are shown below. Bonds were offered for sale on the high school districts of Nebo and Glenwood. Both these issues were awarded to areputable com pany of Toledo, Ohio Fair bids "were accented for these bonds, and - r - iig ijuaiu uvc9 vkj uavu inu luwuvj on hand within a short time, in or der that construction of the new buildings for - these districts may be started as soon as possible. The present equipment in both Nebo and Glenwood schools is entirely inadequate to take care of the school interest. The new buildings will be modern , in every respect and sufficient in capacity to take arft of thechools for some time. The apportionments as shown be low are from the" county funds; the State Equalizing Fund will be ap portioned in addition to the county appropriations. ; As yet no definite information has been received by the County Board of Education as to what the term provided by the Equalizing Fund will amount to. It is expected it will be between five and seven days". - r The amounts apportioned to the different districts are as follows: Marion township. District No. 2, v $160.00; No. 3, $320.00; No. '' 4, $160.00; No. 5, $320. 0Q; No. 7, ' $160.00; No. 8. $480.00; No. 81, $640.00; No. 9, ; $320.00; No. 10, 1 Rf fill Na 1 1 - C 1 Kfl flfl- 19! $160.00. ' V : : KJia jjon tqwnsnip, lisinci iso. 1, $320.00; No. 2, $160.00; No, 4, $1 an hO: No: 5. $1 fiO.OO; No. 5. $160.00; No. 6, $160.00; No. 7, , . , f T $i60!oo. Broad River township. District No. 1, $160.00; No. 2, $160.00; No. 3, $160.00; No, .4, $160,00; No. 5, -$160.00.; . , - -Crooked Creek township, Dis trict No. 1, $160.00; No: 2, $160.00; jno. 3, $iou.uu; ino. sicu.uu; JNO. $160.00. ' " - ' " North Cove township, District No.; 1, $160.00; No. 2, $160.00; No. a: siko.uu: jno. 4 . siku.ou: no. a. $160.-00; No. 6, $160.00; No. 6, 320.00: No. 7. $320.00: No. 8. $150.00. - v"'5:.-'- ' ? , . i Montfords Cove townshi p, " Dis w l - - - . . ' trict No. 1, $160.00; No, 2, $320.00; No. 3. $160.00: No. 4, S160.00. Bracketts -township, District No. 1, $i60.00; No. 2, $160.00.- .- Nebo township, District No. 1, $960.00rNo. 2, $160.00: No. 3, $160.00; No. 4, $160.00. r ' Dysartsyille township, District No. -l, $480.00; No. 2, $160.00; No. 5, $160.00; No. 4, $160.00; No. . 5; -$160.00; Nor 601fiq.OO. -Higgins township; District No i: $29.0 on; ' v. -' " Glenwoodownship, District No. , - COLOEED SCHOOLS. MftHnn tnwnshin. District No. 1. J90: 00: No. 2 $130.00; No. 3, $130.00; No. "4, $130 00. ' Old Fort township, District No. 1, $260.00; No. 2, $260.00. Nebo township, District No. 1, $130.00. Bracketts township, District No. 1, $120.00. Dysartsville township, District No. 1, $130.00; No. 2, $130 00. North. Gove township, District No. 1, $130 00; No. 2, $130.00. Jury Gives Mumpower $25,000 As Damages. Asheville, - Jan. 4. A iury in Superior court here this afternoon awarded J. W. Mumpower, of Burnsville, $25,000 damages for parsonal injury from the Black Mountain railway company. A. Mac English, a codefendant, was exonerated. The company ap pealed to the Supreme court under $26,000 bond. The case was tried at a special term of court which lasted for a week. Mumpower, while employed as an engineer by the railway com pany, was injured when a runaway freight car struck his locomotive. It was alleged that English set the car in motion on a sidetrack in or der to make room for his wagons to'drive in to unload lumberon the siding. It was further alleged that the brakes on the car were defec tive and that the derailer, which was supposed to prevent just such an accident, was defective and that irr spite of air efforts by English and his men the car ran down the mountain and collided with the ao- - - t proaching engine driven" by Mum power. North Carolina Credit Unions Grow West Raleigh, Jan. 6. Making his report on the condition of the sixteen credit unions now operat ing in theState, Dr. Vm. R. Camp, Superintendent of these, rural or ganizations for the Agricultural Extension Service, "shows that they have justified the confidence put in them by the Secretary of Agricul ture when he stated recently that they formed the best rural credit organization sjstem operating in the United States. Dr. Camp shows in his report that the membership has grown from 285 in October 1916, to 514 in October 1917; while on Nov. 30 of 1918 the membership had in creased to 653. The number of depositors is now four times what it was then, with a greatly in creased buying of shares, and an increase in the total amount of de posits. The. money now paid in on shares amounts to $7,512.77, which is an increased from a little over $2000 in 1916. The total de posits have increased from a about $2000 in 1916' to over $11000 in Nov. 1918. Loans and borrowers have also greatly increased. The most rapid strides have been made in the shape of total resour ces. All of the unions only had $7,471.42 in total resources in 1916. This item now amounts to $24,- 818.69. , ;, While the financial-progress has been good, probably the unions have renderedx their greatest ser vice in, furthering the co-operative buying of farm supplies by cash payments so as to take advantage of discounts offered. Many com munities. in which these credit or ganizations have been ; established have been able to buy seed, ferti lizers, and all farm supplies at a reduced cost to the individual sav ing of the farmers interested. NEWS FROM. THE COUNTY Brief Mention of Some of the Hap penings in McDowell County Items About Home People. MARION ROUTE NO. 2. Marion, Rt. 2. Jan. 6. Miss Effile Cannon has returned to Crooked Creek where she is teaching school. 'Miss Grace Lane left Satnrday for Hot Springs rvhere she will attend school. J. M. Summer, of the U. S. Naval Air Station, at Pensacola. Fla , spent last week with his sister, Mrs. F. W. Lane. The many friends of Will Craws are glad to have him back from camp. SUGAR HILL HONOR ROLL. Following is the honor roll for Susrar Hill school: First Krade: Jessie Bright, Gaston Simmons and Inez Hemphill. Second grade: John Morris. Third grade: Ed. Bright. Fourth grade: . Neile Simmons and Arnold Bright. Fifth grade: Charlin Hemphill. Pansy Morris, Willie Morris and Claud Camp. Outstanding War Savings Pledges Redeemable in 1919 Stamps. Winston-Solem, Jan. 6. Gover nor George J. Seay of the Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, Va., un der whoso jurisdiction the War Savings campaign of 1919 is to be conducted, has just wired State Director Fries thajt 1918 War Sav ings pledges outstanding on Janu ary first, 1919, may be redeemed by toe ourchase of 1919 stamps must be affixed to 1919 certificates only.-- Reports from the several coun ties of North Carolina show there are about twelfe million dollars in War Savings pledges, outstanding and unredeemed onUariuiry 1, 1919. This large amount, of un redeemed pledges is due, first, to the drop in the prices of cotton and peanuts in the east which caused many of the farmers to withold their crops from the market and, second, to the shortage of supply of stamps on the last day of the year. Many pledgers waited until the last day to redeem their pledges and then found that there were no stamps to be had at the postofiice or other agency. In view of these facts the Ciovernmcot is going to give pledgers an opportunity to keep their word of honor to the Government by redeeming their 1918 pledges in 1919 stamps and the. Government expects all out standing 1918 pledges to be re deemed as early in 1919 as possi ble. The financial needs of the Gov ernment are almost as great as they were during the war. Dur ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, eighteen billion dollars wijl be needed. During the past six months the Government has spent ten and a half billion dollars, and is now spending two billion dollars a month. Secretary Glass has re cently stated that the waris not over so far as the Treasury depart ment is concerned and that it will not be over until the United States shall have honorably discharged every commitment it made on en tering and during the war. Attention Knights of Pythias I. Second -degree work tonight Every member urged to be present and promptly on time at 7:30. In stallation of newly elected officers. The graded school re-pened on Monday with a good attendance. ihirtieth Umsion is on List for an tariy Heturn Home. Washington, Jan. 4 Three com bat divisions, the SOtb, S7th. and 91st, have been designated by Gen- feral Pershing for early return home from France, General March an- nounced today. The 30th included national guard troops from Tennessee, North Car olina and South Carolina; theollh. Ohio and West Virginia guards men, and the 91st Pacific coast troops.. These three entire divisions and the second corns headoutrtera which operated with the British! army in r landers under Major General George W. Red, have been added to the priority list and! will be returned home as shipping becomes available. The three di visions and the headquarters com prise about 83,000 men. Units abroad assigned to early convoy, in addition to those already embarked now total 292,000. Troops in the United States and abroad designated for demobilisa tion. General March said, total 1,379.000. Demobilization of the army at home has now reached the last class, the combat divisions. Orders for the breaking up of thess units al ready have been sent out, aod tie task will proceed gradually, under week to week designations of the number to be let out. The progress of demobilizttiop is being maintained," officials aiy. ao incomplete total giving 620,369 men and 40,491 oClcers discharged up to January 3. Special Tax Beyond Limit Uncon stitutional. The StateSupretne Court has de clared unconstitutional the act of the 1913 Legislature empowering county commissioners of any coun ty to levy m special tax above the constitutional iimitation not in ex cess of Gve cents on the one hun dred dollars worth of property to provide for any deficiency in neces sary expenses and revenue of the county. The action of the court was in the case of Southern Railroad vs. Cherokee county, in which the Southern railroad secured judg ment in the lower court for the re covery of taxes paid under protest of illegality when in 1915 the Che rokee commissioners levied and collected a tax of two and two thirds cents in excess of the CG 2 3 cents on property of the, value of $100 "for the purpose of taking up a note in bank made by the predecessor board aod other cur rent expenses under Chapter 33, Section 9, Laws of 1913." The court held that this act was not for a special purpose in the meaning of the constitution and therefore void. Section 9 of the act provides "that the commissioners of any county in North Carolina bo and they am hereby authorized and em powered to levy, a special tax in excess of the constitutional limita tion not exceeding five cents on the one hundred dollars worth of all property listed for taxation in their respective counties to pro vide for any deficiency in necessary expenses and revenue of said re spective counties, which mar be caused by thc provisions of this act" STATE NEWS 0FTHEWEE1C Herns Concerning Everts ef In terest and Impcrisr.ceThfc.h out the Stile. United States Attorney J. O. Carr for tho Extern dutna h resigned and rtttrra lo rritaVs law practice at Wila?rgU;s. It it reported that Thongs 0. Wtrren of New Berse will be rcos:s:f ed to succeed hini. Judge Robert IL Sjltt cf Dur ham will erre as Sute If -Istnire reference librarian vhilt the 1:13 n. u - This was agrred cron at a r.Mt meeting of the Sute ii;s:.rr:::tl commission. . lie will cc-:ar!e..e lb. 5 unexpired term, of Xbt Urn 5. Wilson. Firemsa Ltwrence N. CrLsrrr ta was killed. Engineer Waller Gw a and Brakemn a. McDoc!l were injured Tce&ity tzzzzlzz when a freight train ran is down the st-rcp rosd ca i?i!ua mountain, racing into tie $ifc:r switch near Mel ruse ad oreilzrz tng. All a.rc Ashcrille cm.. The latest report un the bi?.k:rg conditions in North Circ!;nt f r s that the total rescfcts cf .e binks have reached in rcur i bers $17?.C03,0:O, a gi:n cf tre than $23,0:0,0:0 in a y a r. Ttt national banks bmve cftatlj $lCO. O00.OW. Ooe of the uriUng ii"in.ca about the showing it the tocrfxs.s in string's deposits during a year of notabte tatcsUnebU in Govern. menl $c-nl: The Greensboro DUy Nfy, carrying its finsnclal news weeks a in a specu! frets lit leigh thai the North CircHt-mc rc; s this year"(w!f:ch is 1915, of ccrsf) amount to $7CO.OXo:. and thtt three crops, cotton, com, at-i to bacco, hare produced" snere t'ttn $100,OXCO0 each. This is :h the richest agricultural crop of the State's history, and t htfs N?r;h Carolina well up among th l:g States of the Sooth. Camp Br?gg to Be Made Fie'd Ar tillery Rr.e, Washington, ' J an, 4 , Als U-1 Secretary of War Benedict Cm well. following no reco m m eni t xl c-s yes terday by Secretary Biker fr pur chase of Camp Brmggat Kije'.te- ville, today told the house mUittry affairs committee thst this cin:p will be a field artillery rare. It deTeloped that the s're, i::, 000 acres, is more than the com bined sine of 14 national army tonments, which total 131. COD teres IU UUJ UiC UwJ "ill c s 50D,COO and com: met lnni;rers and ranges will cost Sl",CO.CO?, The committee did not what recommendation it rrcr'.i make although Srcisry CroTTf'J said the -departen? nt alreJy hr tbs otec.rj power 3tSivcr:.-.ri appropriations. Plans are lo cirn for 10,000 men, two fcrigtira c! Geld ar ti Uery, o n a e H il t-; z ri re 3 and one balloon cadre a. Weather Reprrt ..Tbctaaa MrGcIr?, Sarxzl c Amy, rrru ti? t ra! r. fall at Hj s follows: 0 Z 4 dr 3 Ilia a.
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