MARION PROGRESS
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY
established 1896
MARION, N. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1929
VOL. XXXIV—NO. 21
INDUSTRIAL BANK
ELECTS DffiEaORS
Organization Meeting Held
Monday Night—Will Begin
Business in January.
The incorporators of the Marion
Industrial Bank, which has recently
been chartered, held its organization
meeting at the court house Monday
night. This bank has forty-eight in
corporators and is a splendid repre
sentation of the citizenship of Mar
ion and McDowell county. Almost
all of the incorporators were present
at the initial meeting, and J. Q. Gil-
key was made temporary president
and E. H. Dysart temporary secre
tary. The charter, which authorizes
the capital stock of one hundred
thousand dollars, was presented by
Attorney W. R. Chambers and it
was accepted and ordered spread up
on the minutes. Suitable by-laws
were also adopted and also spread
upon the minutes. The incorporators
then took up the matter of electeing
a directorship, consisting of nine.
The following were elected as direc
tors: J. L. Morgan, John Yancey, W.
R. Chambers, T. H. Henderson,
Carter Hudgins, A. L. Finley, G. W.
Chapman, J. E. Neal and W. J. At
well. The directors will have a meet
ing at an early date for the purpose
of electing officers and completing
the organization.
The new bank will begin business
about January first with a paid in
capital stock of twenty-five thou
sand dollars, and the stockholders
have authorized the directors, in
their discretion, to call for a furth
er amount, when needed, to carry
out the objects of the organization.
At the organization meeting of
the stockholders, Mr. W. R. Cham
bers outlined the purposes of indus
trial banks as follows:
“Industrial banks were first auth-
REVIVAL AT M. E. CHURCH
INCREASING IN INTEREST
For the past ten days Dr. Thurs
ton B. Price has been conducting a
religious revival at the First Meth
odist Church, appealing to the peo
ple of Marion that the vital necessi
ty of religion is essential in their
daily lives. *Less than half of the
population of this country are affili
ated with the churches — either in
membership or attendance.
Dr. Price has come to administer
spiritual food to the commonwealth
of Marion, so that the soul may be
encased against all the vices and
superfluities of this life. He is an
aWe preacher, and has a magnetic
personality.
There have been large crowds at
tending these revival meetings, and
much interest has been manifested.
The weather has been ideal for
those who have ventured from their
homes. All the churches are co-oper
ating to the extent that they will
not have evening services on Sun
day during the revival.
Special attention is called to Dr.
Price's sermon, “The Modern Busi
ness Man’s Blunder,” for Thanks
giving night, November 28th, at
7:30 o’clock.
DR. H. E. MILLER ADDRESSES
CLUB ON MILK SANITATION
Mi^. Charles Reed, with Mrs. J.
W. Pless, Jr., and Mrs. Guy Kirby,
Jr., as assistant hostesses, entertain
ed the third meeting of the Junior
Woman’s Club last Wednesday.
Dr. H. E. Miller, chief of Bureau
of Engineering and Inspection on
the Board of Health of North Caro
lina, addressed the club on the sub
ject of “Milk Sanitation”. He made
the startling statement that the milk
of Marion and vicinity was in the
“D” grade class. He said that Marion
was one of the largest towns in the
state that was in the “D
NIGHT SCHOOLS
BEING PLANNED
Woman’s Club Sponsors Pro
gram for Work in County—
Mrs. Giles County Chairman
Under the auspices of the Wom
an’s Club, Mrs. D. F. Giles, who has
been elected Literacy chairman for
McDowell county, and with the aid
of Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, of Ashe
ville, is planning a stupendous pro
gram endeavoring to educate the il
literate of this community.
This is a state-wide movement
sponsored by the Women’s clubs of
North Carolina. The chief aim is to
establish night schools through the
aid of the county superintendents,
and employ the regular school teach
ers with extra compensation, this
extra expense to be paid by a fund
created by the Women’s Clubs, and
in some instances where regular
school teachers are not available,
the club members will participate in
this instruction.
Mrs. Giles stated that it was the
illiterate parents who must first be
reached. They must be taught the
value of an education, for they are
the ones who exert the greatest in
fluence in moulding the lives of
their children.
She stated that there were 241,-
603 illiterates in the State of North
Carolina, of which 104,844 are fine
Anglo-Saxon native white citizens.
North Carolina ranks 41st among
the states in total illiteracy.
Much of this work has already be
gun in several counties of the state.
The Woman’s Club at High Point
began night school work on Septem
ber first, 1929. By October first
class. He stated that the infant death
rate was very high in this state, and
part of this was due to the wrong
kind of milk regulations. Dr. Miller
- remarked that to get in the “A”
orized by the Legislature of 1919 necessary to have
there were 135 pupils enrolled in the
schools. The manager of one of
High Point’s industries writes: “I!
North Carolina. An Industrial bank]
milk pasteurized. He declared that
is not in any sense a competitor of dairymen would pasteurize
a commercial bank. It will, there-would increase their
A _ni profits one quarter of one per cent.
The Junior Woman’s Club which
was organized three weeks ago is
progressing by leaps and bounds.
Many questions of much significance
are up for discussion, and one of
the most important is to secure reg
ulations to have grade “A” milk for
Marion and vicinity. It was unani-
dustrial Bank to co-operate with all
the other banks of the county. The
General Assembly of North Caro
lina authorized the organization of
industrial banks to meet the expand
ing needs of the people of the state,
a state which has lately become one
of the leading states of the Union.
Those who have given careful study
to the system under which indus-
NON^INFIYE
REBELLION CASES
Four Defendants on Trial For
Rioting and Resisting Offi
cers; Case Near End.
Judge G. V. Cowper, presiding ov
er the special term of McDowell
county Superior court for the trial
of Alfred Hoffman, southern organ
izer for the United Textile Workers
of America, and four others charged
with “rebellion and insurrection,”
late Thursday afternoon ruled in fa
vor of the defense and granted the
motion of the defendants for judg
ment of non-suit.
But the action of Judge Cowper
does not mean that Hoffman, Fowl
er, Lewis and Hogan went from the
court room free men. Rather it
marked a disposition of only one
phase of the charges against these
and approxibmately 100 other de
fendants. The other charges against
the defendants are for rioting, re
sisting officers in the discharge of
their duties and assault on officers.
All the defendants except J. Hugh
Hall will now stand trial on less
grave charges. Hall, a lad who had
become involved in the Marion
strike trouble by accident and who
belonged to the United States army,
was defended by C. C. Lisenbee,
Marion attorney. Mr. Lisenbee ten
dered a plea of guilty for forceful
trespass and this plea was accepted
by the solicitor and Judge Cowper
thereupon ordered Hall’s release,
stating that he had been in jail since
August 30 and unable to give bond
had suffered enough.
Judge Cowper ordered that Hoff
man, Hogan, Fowler and Lewis give
bond in the rioting cases in the sum
of $1,000 each.
I Immediately following Judge
attended a night school session and; Cowper’s ruling of non-suit in the
was more than pleased and gratified ^ases of rebellion and insorrection,
with the progress the students were
making. Some of them are making
wonderful progress, one person in
particular, whom I had to ask which
was the copy and which her work.”
The tentative program for this
educational program is to select one
or two of the brightest pupils out of
each class and send them on an edu
cational pilgrimage to Washington
during cherry blossom time next;
75 PER CENT OF SCHOOL
CHILDREN IN N. C. RURAL
Raleigh, Nov. 26. — The rural
school children of North Carolina
are not provided with advantages
equal to those offered city school
children, nor are they furnished
these opportunities on the same lev
el as the average for the United
States, according to figures compiled
in the office of the State Department
of public instruction.
It is learned from that office that
75 per cent of school children in
North Carolina are rural, whereas
for the nation at large 55 per cent
are rural. The rural children of
North Carolina are taught by 74 per
cent of the teachers employed, while
for the nation as a whole 58 percent
of the teachers employed instruct
the 53 per cent rural enrollment;
thus indicating that the rural and
city average teaching load in North
Carolina is practically identical,
whereas for the nation as a whole
the rural teaching load is less than
the city load.
The average length of term is 140
days in the rural schools and 179
days in the city schools in the city
schools of this state, whereas for
the nation the average term is 156
days in rural schools and 183 days
in city schools.
The average value of school prop
erty per child enrolled is $87 in ru
ral schools and $214 in the city
schools of North Carolina, and for
the United States it is $99 in rural
schools and $299 in city schools.
The average annual salary of ru
ral teachers is $685 in North Caroli
na and $855 in the United States.
City teachers receive an average of
$1,132 in this state, whereas city
teachers on an average receive $1,-
878 in the nation.
The annual rural per capita cost
per pupil in attendance in this state
is $36.56 and the city cost is $54.88.
In the United States the average an
nual cost on this basis is $75.01 in
rural schools and $129.82 in city
schools.
1UANKSGIYING
PROCLAMATION
Governor Gardner, With Faith
in Future, Calls on. People of
State to Give Thanks.
the court asked Solicitor Pless what
was his pleasure as to calling the
ether cases involving rioting. Judge
Cowper said he felt it his duty to
proceed with as many of the cases
at this special term of court as pos
sible. Solicitor Pless concurred in
this opinion and the trial of the riot
cases was set for Saturday, Novem
ber 23.
Judge Cowper -ordered Sheriff Ad-
April (1930). These pupils are toxins to proceed at once with the
have been taught by a well qualified j ixiatter of having a special venire
teacher and should have from 20 to
to tne system unuer wn.o. u,uu»- 100 lessons. These lessons will be
“ial banra” “operated say that an FJr t LXS"" t L*'''1
industrial bank ranks second to
none in the promotion of thrift,
economy and the business integrity
•of its patrons.
“It is designed primarily to meet
the need of the person of small
means and for the repayment of
loans upon a weekly or monthly
basis. Loans are not ordinarily made
for longer than a year. The first
consideration in the making of a
loan will be the moral integrity of
the applicant.
“This Industrial Bank should not
only be a great benefit to the small
borrower of our community, but it
should be of incalculable value to
our local industries, our local merch
ants, our local professional men and
all whose patrons need definite and
real assistance in the payment of
their accounts. In my opinion, no en
terprise that has been organized in
cur community recently holds out
more promise for administering to
the needs of our people than the
Marion Industrial Bank.
AMERICAN LEGION STAGE
SECOND NATIONAL DRIVE
O. B. BELL IS SERIOUSLY
INJURED BY ROTARY IRON
O. B. Bell, owner of the Dixie
Damp Wash Laundry, met with a
serious accident last week while put
ting some finishing touches to the
giant steam rotary iron that dries
and irons the flat work. Mr. Bell was
smoothing'out some rough spots on
the large steam drum and his hand
slipped while the rotary iron was in
motion, mashing it between the hot
steam drum and a weighted roller.
Mr. Bell has been suffering doubly
with the mashing and the scalding
of his hand, but he stated that he
would not lose the hand, although it
would be some time before it would
be back to normalcy.
American Legionaires are stagring
their second national drive. Harry
Lavitt, chairman of the membership
drive for McDowell Post, states that
the McDowell Post quota is 150
members, and he is very enthusiastic
over the wonderful results already
accomplished.
November 11 to 18 was known as
National clean up week. Last year
STIdj members were secured for mem
bership in the first drive, and during
the same period this year practical
ly the same results have been ob
tained. Mr. Lavitt said that only one-
half of the old members have renew
ed their membership up to this time.
Dr. Dean Crawford, Commander,
has called a meeting for Nov. 27th
at 7:30 p. m., and it is the Legion’s
plans to put on a mighty final drive
to boost the membership away over
the top, just like the Yanks went
over the top “over there”.
This meeting is very important
for the following reasons: Election
of delegates to district meeting to
be held in Asheville next week; dis
cussion of membership drive; to
complete plans for the community
Christmas tree.
STANDING BASKETBALL
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
This is the percentage of the Me
Dowell county championship in bas
ketball.
won
lost
-tie
prct.
Glenwood
4
0
0
1,000
Old ^ort
2
1
1
750
Pleasant Gdns.
1
2
1
250
Nebo
0
4
0
000
When celebrating Thanksgiving
Mr. Bell began operations in his 1 ^ay^^o not forget to see “BUDDY”
new and up-to-date plant Tuesday
morning, using a load of laundry
from Old Fort for his first run.
ROGERS and MARY BRIAN m
“RIVER OF ROMANCE”. At Mar
ion Theatre.
taught each week. The exhibits of
the students work are to be kept for
display.
The men’s civic clubs, women’s
clubs, and patriotic and church or
ganizations are to help in starting a
savings account which must total
$30.00 for each student making this
pilgrimage to Washington.
INVITE GOVERNOR GARDNER
TO CATAWBA DAIRY MEETING
An invitation has been extended
to Governor O. Max Gardner to at-
ten4 a banquet here in December,
when dairy men of Catawba county
will celebrate the county’s dairy
progress in attaining the distinction
of being the first in the state to join
the 100 per cent pure breed sire
campaign, which is being staged
throughout North Carolina under
the chief executive’s direction.
The invitation to have Governor
Gardner in Hickory for the celebra
tion program has been carried to
Raleigh by L. F. Abemethy, a per
sonal friend of the Governor’s.
Catawba has the distinction of
being the first county in the state to
make a perfect record under the
term of Governor Gnrdnc". There is
not a scrub sire in the cour.ty.
SMALL BLAZE THURSDAY
There was a fire “nipped in the
bud” last Thursday about 5:30 p. m.
at the residence of Mr. A. B. Hoyle,
the building owned by T. O. Teague.
^ The origin of the fire was due to
a defective flue. Some plaster in the
room and a few shingles on the roof
where the flue protruded was all the
damage that was done. The fire was
put out by chemicals. “The blaze
was arrested in the nick of time,
stated Wood Finley, who is on per
manent duty at the Marion Fire De
partment.
Nearly a million dollars worth of
gold fish are produced in the United
States each year.
Raleigh, Nov. 21. — Governor 0»
Max Gardner Wednesday proclaim
ed Thursday, November 28, as
Thanksgiving day in North Carolina
The proclamation, saying that
“there is much for which we should
be grateful”, said that “our har
vests are comparatively abundant,
and while the proceeds of the mon
ey crops of cotton and tobacco are
disappointing, yet few of our people
are in actual want.
“The iridustries of the state, long
hesitant,” it continued, “are un
doubtedly on a sound financial basis
and signs of a returning prosperity
are alreayd beginning to make their
appearance. In spite of the confus
ion and conflict arising from the
fundamental transition through
which we are passing, my faith in
the ultimate ability of employers
and employees to reach an under
standing based upon mutuality and
goodwill is undiminished. We should
be thankful for the courage and sin
cerity of purpose with which our
people are facing their problems. I
firmly believe that this spirit of
practical Christianity and unswerv
ing devotion to the highest on North
Carolina will, in due course, dissolve
every conflict and cement our state
into one great family working for
the common good.
“The people of North Carolina
are blessed with good health and
freedom from pestilence.
“There is also cause for deepest
gratitude in the characteristic de
termination of our people to preser
ve their sense of intellectual and
spiritual values. Popular interest in
education and the activities of or
ganized religion has never been
TO BASKETBALL SEASON' stronger and in these supremely im-
j portant fields the future of our com-
With the football season fast | monwealth is bright with promise,
drawing to a close, attention is be- The Governor then proclaimed
ing turned towards basketball. For i November 28 as a day ^f prayer
the past two weeks Coach Hawn hasl“^d thanksgiving in accordance with
been spending several hours on j the proclamation of President Hoo-
Tuesday and Thursday nights as and the custom established by
practice time. I the forefathers and closed his pro-
Much interest is being shown, j clamation with an appeal for all to
however, real work cannot begin ‘‘remember in helpful ways the wid-
ATTENTION BEING TURNED
of 100 men from Burke county
drawn.
With a jury selected, the state be
gan Saturday offering evidence on
which it seeks to convict Alfred
Hoffman, and three union members
of rioting and resisting an officer.
The charges grew out of the trou
ble at the Clinchfield Manufacturing
company mill village on August 30,
when strikers threw the furniture of
non-union worker who had moved
to the village from Rutherford coun
ty out of the company-owned house
he was about to occupy. It is alleged
that, when Sheriff Oscar F. Adkins
and his deputies tried to replace the
furniture in the house they were re
pulsed by the strikers.
It was this incident that resulted
in Judge N. A. Townsend’s bringing
troops from Marion to the mill vil
lages.
E. T. Ruppe, the man whose fur
niture was taken out of the house,
and R. O. Wiley, Clinchfield mill of
ficial, were examined first Saturday,
and told of the incident at the vil
lage. Sheriff Adkins was then call
ed, and related practically what he
told last week in the trial of Hoff
man and four others for rebellion.
Albert Hoffman, strike leader,
went on the witness stand Tuesday
morning. He was the second de
fendant to take stand. He testifies,
“I advised people to stay within the
bounds of the law.” With the tes
timony of Lawrence Hogan, Marion
striker, previously placed upon the
stand, the defense expected to com
plete its evidence late Tuesday, in
the trial of four members of the
United Textile Workers of America
upon charges of rioting and resist
ing an officer.
until after the football season is ov
er, due to the fact that football men
cannot begin basketball until after
the Thanksgiving game. About a
dozen boys have reported for prac
tice, and with the addition of the
football members, the high school
coach should have a nice sized squad
with which to work.
As early training Coach Hawn
has been teaching the fundamentals
of the game; such as: passing,
shooting, dribbling, etc. Setting up
exercises are being used as a means
of conditioning. Later, plays and
team work will be stressed.
It has not been announced wheth
er Hugh Beam will assist Coach
Hawn with his quintet, or whether
he will continue to work with the
smaller boys in-the same sport.
Prospects for a good girls basket
ball club are splendid. Last season
Marion’s girl’s team made a splendid
record and all the old players are
back for another year of the game.
They are under the direction of Miss
Zimmerman, and with her able
coaching the high school girls should
produce a winning combination.
ow and the orphan and all who walk
in sorrow.’
AUTO OWNERS WARNED OF
danger of monoxide GAS
CITY TAX RATE $1.80
At a recent meeting of the Mari
on Board of Aldermen the same tax
rate as last year—$1.80 on the $100
valuation—^was fixed for this year.
Mrs. Willis V. Poole left Sunday
for her home in Norfolk, Va., after
a vi^t to her parents here.
TURKEY GIZZARD IS
WORTH $100 REWARD
Hickory, Nov. 21.—Among Wil
liam Myers’ flock of 100 turkeys is
one bird whose gizzard is worth
$200 to the buyer, and Mr. Myers
has no way of telling which craw it
is that contains a carat and a half
diamond.
Myers saw the bird pick the dia
mond from his v.’ife’s • ring, he said,
while she was tending the flock. As
quickly as the trick was done the
bird mingled with the other turkeys
and to all practical purposes, was
lost.
The owner of the turkeys will
bring the entire lot to a creamery
concern here. Around each turkey’s
neck will be a tag offering $100 re
ward to the person who finds and
returns the diamond.
Raleigh, Nov. 15. — The increase
in the number of deaths from car
bon monoxide poisoning from auto
mobile exhaust fumes that always
* comes with the advent of colder
v/eather in the fSll when garages
are kept closed, makes it necessary
to warn automobile owners against
the dangers of this deadly gas, ac
cording to the State Board of
Health.
The necessity for reminding peo
ple again for forcibly brought to
mind a few days ago in reading a
newspaper report of a six year old
child dying from this cause, and the
father almost succumbing, while rid
ing in a closed automobile on a trip
from Raleigh to Mount Olive. The
two passengers on the front seat did
not note anything wrong, but the
father and little boy, riding on the
rear seat were overcome, on account
of a leak in the exhaust pipe lead
ing into the body of the automobile.
This kind of gas poisoning acts
with terrifying rapidity. There is no
odor about it, and therefore it strik
es without warning. The preventive
to use is simply ventilation in the
car while the engine is running;
that is, ventilation through the win
dows sufficient to purify the air, in
case there should accidentally hap
pen to be a leak, letting in the dead
ly gas into the passenger compart
ment. People starting their cars in.
the early morning should see that
the door of the gaxage or windows
are wide open wheVi the engine is
first started, no matter how cold the
weather may be. Running engines in
a closed garage has been responsible
for many deaths from this cause.
J. N. Yelton, a prosperous farmer
rear Bridgewater, sold approxi
mately 48 turkeys totaling 538
pounds on the Marion market last
week. He had one handsome gobbler
Whoopee! Dangerous Curves
ahead! But look who’s coming
around! CLARA BOW! At Marion!in the flock that tipped the s^es at
Theatre next Monday and Tuesday. 131 pounds.