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V ADISON COUNTY.
Established by the legislature ses
sion 185IWL - V ' i
Population, 20,132. ?
County seat, Marshall. ' N
. 1668 feet above sea level. ;.
New and modern court house, "oat
$33,000.00. -....V'
New and modern jail, cost 115,000.
; : New county home, cost 110,000.00.
..i ,r- nmtt Otfksrs.
ri. C B kashburn, Senator, aou.
rttat4nr. Marshall. '-''
i Hon. J. E. Rector, Bepresentatlv-,
"nt Rnrlnin. N. C
St.JB. McDevltt, Clerk ? Superior
W. M. Bnckner. Sheriff, Marshall
' Z. O, Sprlnltle, Register of Deeds,
C. P. Runnlon, Treasurer, Marshall
C.', R. F. D. No. 4. , . '
B, L. Tweed, Surveyor, White Rock
N.O. ' vv,,,
. Dr. J. tt Balrd, Coroner, Mars Hill
w n. .: ' ;. i ' V , "
Mrs. Ellia Hendersan.I JaUer.tMar-
thall.
John Honeycutt, Janitor, Marffliall.
Dr. C. N. Sprinkle County Jfnysi
r.tan. M&rshall. . . '
:' James Haynla. Sunt., county home.
Marshall. ' J.
f ' Cewtsw follows!
I September 1st, 1913 (2) November
F 1013. i
March 2nd. 1914, (2). June 1st, 1914
' . fwVtanfc.-1t.h- 1914. f2V
f R. R. Reynolds,. Solicitor, Ashevllle
j , N. C. 1913, Fall Term Judge Frank
s" C.m.rtn. Aehevllle.. - V-
(' 1Q11 Sni.tn Torm JTudfire M. H.
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1 Jnat.lnn. RutherfordtOO. N. C
i - , Fall Term-Judge E. B. Olne, of
- Hickory, N. C. . '( :.x
f ..rw nammmmiernrm
W. C Sprinkle, chairman. Marshall
I R A. Edwards, member, marsnaii, u.
F. D. No. 2. Renbirt A. Tweed, mem
S i.V.. TJInr T ftlirAl. N. C. .'' -
lyK J Coleman Ramsey., atty., Marshall.
s,n 0P6d Cornnimmtonmrm.
rW.i, ftoharta. chairman, iarshau
J J. K. Wilson, secretary, route 2. Mar-
shaii. '.; .
i Hlahuray Commission
i F. Shelton, President, Marshall
' n..ir XT RnhArtn. "
Geo. W. Wild,
nig rine, x.
S. W. Brown, t
Joe a Brown,
. A. F. Sprinkle,
Hot Springs, "
Mars Ulli, n.u.
Board of Education,
Jasner Ebbs. Chairman, Spring
Creek, N. O. John Robert Sams,
Ma. mil. N. C. W R. Sams,
m Ma.han. Prot. R. G. Anders,
ntandent of Schools, Marshall.
Board meets first Monday In January
April, July, and October eacn year,
ahoola and ColleB
. . TI11 rn11aira .Ppnf., R. L
' irfnnris. President. Fall Term begins
August 17th, 1913, and Spring ierm
I oegins Juuj ' .
L ' i. l ry 1. Tllnh fiphfWtl. PrOI
n - a mna .anhOOl. ODCnS AUST. 1SD,
- u.icnn Rmtnarv Hlirh School.
tt 9 (1 n -Rrnwn. orlnclpal. 7 mos
4 i v. - .
- Bell Institute, Margaret E. .Grlf
r nth. nrlnciDal. Walnut, , u . t
' Marahall Academy. Prof. S. Roland
I Williams, principal, 8 mos. school.
opens August 4th. .
-' Notairy Putolloei
J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term; ex
Tannarv 1st. 1914
, w n. r.nnnor. Mars Hill, .Term
Mn. 9.1th 1914.
i D. P. Mifes, Barnard, Term expires
irMh lath. 1914.
i ' a wmiHn. Blsr Laurel. .Term
' .Tan. 24th. 1914. 1
Marshall, v Route 4
.; Torm arnlrea March 16th, XW1.
W. AWiluuvj , v t. .
f i v.. omirorv. Joe. N. , C:' -Tena ex'
nlraa January 7th. 1914. ' I .
.TaanArKbbs. Sorinir Creek. ,. 0,
term expires September 24th 1914
T tt Hunter. Marsnaii, xvuuw
prm exnires April 1st 1915,
i, j W Nelson, Marshall Term ex
lle Mm 14. 1915
' I T B Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex-
klraa February 7th 1915.
Revere.' Term ex
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. Uut March IS. 1915.
- , ji w. Anderson, Paint Fork,
rn-rm nTotres May 19. 1915.
, CC. Brown, Bluff, Term expires
December 9th, 1914.
w t. Davis. Hot Sprinn. Term
. explres January 22nd 1&15.
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1 flAArtrA W. Galiairan Post, No. 38,
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i . in t'.ii.wI Ai ii tint. Meets at the
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g and ay la eacn mantn at u a m
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'"Orv?""" iiniMiyiiiiiii TjjjjjjTj
Tako awsy tho Utterod pars
or my ratwnua piety.
Dim and soiled aod outraged quits-' ,
- May areet tne aeaaon wiin apiomp.
But when the year, crown old and fray.
Time s not a cruton to iean npoa
C all thf lnfttf MnHnMnt
J aln would cloM tho" vexlna tale
And yet again experiment.
For like a bloom perennial
11 U 1U n
Of aU the morroWi yet to come,
When lire la reauy wnat it seenu.
When tardiness and broken vows,
a nA AntUa .ahirkMl for Pleaaure'a courtj
And Mother Grundy's sad pow-wows.
And nckle Faabion's roaa report
Are stranger to my, righteous heart-
Tear tip tne Old ana irame ine now,
For I would make another start.
Maude DeVerae Hewton.
Some New Year Don'ts
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Don't anrlnkla salt on the tail of tempta
tion.
Dont trv to cret the better of a man who
hasn't anv. i ' .j
Don't snore tn chupsbr imeaa to jeeep
Don't be satisfied to pay as you go,
Save enough to get back.
Don't get married with the sole Idea
that miserv loves comoanv.
Don't follow the beaten track unless
you are satisfied to remain beaten.
Don't accept advice from a man who
nevar offers vou anvthinsr else.
Don t expect Opportunity to come to you
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Wlul a teller oi iniroaucuon.- -
Dont trust to luck. Nine-tenths of the
MonU in the world ffuess wromr.
. Don't buy your friends. They never last
as long as uioss you mans youraeu. .
Dont envy the rise of others. Many a
man who sets to the top is mere froth.
Don't sreet Misfortune with a smile
unless you are prepared for a one-sided
flirtation. .
Dnnf malra mnd nunlutlnna unleaa VOU
constantly carry a repair kit with you.
Don t place too much confidence in ap
pearances. Many a man with a red nose
(s white all the way through.
Don't fbnret in times of peace to pre
pare for war. That's about the only use
some of us seem to nave for peace.
TV...' f.n fn Kava an nhlar.r. In VHnr.
Manw a man laa4a aunh an ajmleaa exist
ence that be could fire at random without
pitting lLLippincott as
DIDN'T OBSERVE NEW YEAR'S
Puritans Regarded the Celebration
Heathenish and un-cnrwian
Rite. V
Tha eniA rneord of the obsenranc
of the New Tear by the PUgrtms in
the new world, named New England,
waa tnnnt nrosaln , most brief: "We
went to work betimes." Many of the
mod Pnrltaji ministers thougnt o
celebration or even notice of the day
in anv n savored of .lmnroner. and
nn-ThrinMan revfirence for the heath
en god, Janus. . Yet these English er
tiara (tamn fmm a land WherO NOW
Ymt! eva and New Tear's day were
second In Importance and . domestic
pbservance , only to 1 ynnsunas.
Throughout every English county
New Tear's eve was always celebrat
ed; In many it was called by tne
pretty name of Singing E'en, from the
whlnn obtained of singing; the
last of the Christmaa carols at. that
time.
Thla New Day.
Out of the tomb of night a day haaJ
risen. Be not anxious: this day ait
vonr own. Do not hurry, for in time it
la like all other days; neitner aeiaj,
for now is passing. Early turn your
face to the dawn . and let its fresh
heama hatha, awav all BtainS of night:
then, should the noon be dark, with
storms, your smile wul still wear tne
'roaa tints of the morning. Step soft
ly among human hearts, and leave so
much of kindness along- life's pathway
uat gladness snaa spring up, Deanns
tribute hi the col entide of
tha'1
worid'a glad New;Pay. Croft
MARSHALL MADISON COUNTY,
Annie Goodloe Randall on Moun
tain People and
: Washington, D. C, Dec. 13.
By some self appointed philan
thropists our mountain people
are represented as a strange race,
apart and foregn to all other A
mericans and newly .discovered
by these xplpres t
T h e mountaineer, a s his
'needs"; are exploited to the pe
mnlarV benifit of the exploiters,
well-to-do but gullible citizen of
J . I..-. MAnntT "ff-VT fV)0
.iwiwinn of the mountain
mw ' w T S3 -. , -
whites." Men and women call
lntr themselves "missionnaries"
come, assume superior airs,
speak condescendingly of "these
people," go uninvited into pri
vate homes, advise, and correct.
Thev return to their desks, write
romances suggested by isolated
add bright : local color,"
send It to the world with' a plea
frf more- money.
T rerentlv visited the Sothern
Industrial Association" here, I
bad neara iu
rnrlr of our cirls in the Valle
Crucis Industrial School. There
hannened to be nothing from
them, but there was a large col-
,'actlon of woven articles from
the loom of a Watauga iaay.
Though amply able to live with
out it, she rightly sends her beau
tiful handicraft into the worm.
She is an intelligent woman, a
notable housewife, who has pre
served with the old family looms
the arts of spinning and weaving.
tWorany'iTear8.-',spe.pasr.,naa
more orders can nil ior- iuee
,
heautiful towels, rugs, carpets
oni nther articles.'-' She and ber
maintains comfortable
homes and well tilled farms and
.i,0 Viavo educated their
in i.naiuaa .
.kiidren and have been indepen
dent, God-fearing people since
their forbears climbed the moun
tains two hundred years ago
Tn her rielffborhood she typical,
though the good people working
to civilize the mountain wnites
krv" she is a wonderful except
inn and the other mountaineers
sit in darkness in the shadows of
(civic) death.
A Libel on the mountaineers
There are on the walls of this
association room, photographs of
shanties in all stages of dirt and
rleoav. called mountain homes
T Via" hunter for these ; specimens
hnA tn travel weary miles to
"nick and choose" for the homes
of today up there are not of that
kind.
A mono them is a card of whicn
hundreds are distributed, called
in cabin. it
vj Lwcaa uiv Mvia
whose loriff sides
mill n a a j w -
.nd stick chimney are tottering
In front is a line of wretches a
man. a woman, six children, and
perhaps, some dogs all loouing
hunry and dirty. . ;
In connection witn, tnis picture
told a ghastly story, how
cirls to
UJ13 U1IU1 ..tf- tf aw
ho thickets on the. mountain.
keens them till be works his wili
upon them, then ; senas meui
At Tt. urns cravelv asserted
. . . i ' 1 At
tu.t .nMi'mmt are common in the
tUCbll BUtU -
mountains, that girls of fifteen
usually have children, but ,no
husbands, and that there are no
teachers who could pass beyona
rfh .crrada in a town
aVUI D
school. '
T asked why this card was dls
tributed when Its falsity could
ho easilv rroven. The reply
was; "That card has brought us
thousands of dollars." At that
time a package was being sent
j ,
N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2nd 1914.t
Prof. Foght.
to Boston.
After The Dollars.
It is this sort of "information"
which gives the world the pre
vailing impression of our people.
AH men love a new thing and
such fables about mountain life
rej.it-,vo men and women of too
muihtime and of a plethoric
purse. '
A young lady a few days ago
looked upon me with interest
when told that I came from the
mountains of North Carolina.
She asked that I would tell her
about "those people." She had
heard so much about them." I
said: "We are like other people,
different in kind and degree, as
do. those of this and of every
place." But they are so inno
cent','' she said, fearing to hurt
the; feelings of one of them. Her
idea of innocence was that "they
don't know about theaters and
things."
Such philanthropy has caused
our people to hate the word,
"missionary." In Watauga some
deny their children the blessings
of a' course in the Valle Crucis
Industrial School, because it has
been called , the Mission. Une
mother said: "We are notheath-
enj 1 don't want my children
taught to read and write ' it tne
teacher talks about doing mis
sionary -work."
i l.oye for Real workers.
Needless to say that not only
ec not resent, but that we
love tne worn uuub ujr ouuu mcu
as Bishop Horner, the late Rev.
Mr. Westmofe, the Rev. Mr.
Savaee. of Rev- Mr. Tufts, or
Mr, Hall, of the Presbyterian
Church. There are no goodlier
men. They live in the moun
tains ns citizens, working as do
other clerery among their people.
They baptise the babies, teach
the children, marry the young
folks. Visit the Vick, bury the
dead, and do not hesitate to ask
belt) from the rest of the world
They do not mimic the incong
ruities of speech, they do not tell
harrowing stories of immorality,
because in their truth they can
not. It does not exist except in
isolated cases this filthly evil
livintr.
It is as just to tell these nor.
rows as prevalent among our
nermle as it.is to Quote the fol
lowing and say it is typical. of
life in New York State:
"Poughkeepsfe, N. Y., Oct. 25
T.irinc in a shack 6n the east
aide of Pawling Mountain. Mrs.
Charles Stevens and her eight
children were today found by
Miss Anna Hotchkiss, Dutchess
county agent for dependent child
ren ? Persona who had seen
members of the family half nak
ed and apparently starving asked
Miss Hotchkiss to investigate. :
The woman and children re
sented the advances of the coun
tv aeent. None of the children,
tha ciWt nf whom is a eirl of
20, has attended school. The
children sneak m gutterals, ana
were hardly understood by : the
agent. The mother said they de
pended on game for food.
. As to New England.
I worked In
the United States Census office
It happened that the most illite
rate schedule coming, under my
eve had been sent from Massach
usetts. but the thought that it
was typically of Massachusetts
did not present itself..
-When in any ' New England
country neighborhood one bears
their provincial "hadn't ought,"
"to hum,", snoop," and other
expressions unintelligible to
strangers. One does not pre
sume that New Englanders are
unacquainted with politic speech.
Voices A Protest.
This sort of thing from men
and women actuated by philan
thropy or by pecuniary need
might be passed in silence. The
article in The News-Record and
Observer of November 80, how
ever, copying a letter from an
official of the United States Bu
reau of Educntion calls for a
protest, not only from our High
landers, but from North Carolina.
I hope Prof. H. W. Foght or the
United States Bureau of Educa
tion has been misquoted and that
he will say so, but It is well to
correct bis errors to say nothing
of his bad taste. For a Govern
ment ofilcial to ridicule a people
to whom he has been sent and
paid' to help is, to say the least,
bad form.
He says: "From the begin
ning of the Republic up to the
lat year, whole counties in the
mountain regions have had no
public schools whatever. Fer
generations, the people grew up
entirely ignorant." Will Prof.
Foght kindly name the counties
in which there were "no public
schooh whatever" up to last
year?
Since his letter was written
from North Carolina, one infers
that he means North Carolina
counties. He may, however, re-
'er to counties in the little moun
tains of Missouri.
Will Tell Another . Story,. ,
He has not done the investigat
ing which the unitea estates
Bureau of Education sent him to
do. - When he speaks ex-Cathedi
rahe will have informed himselt
and will tell another story. He
need but search the library of
the United States Bureau of Edu
cation to find reports . from ' our
devoted State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Calvin H,
Wiley, in these reports we find
for 1853-'60, that in the then
twenty-one mountain . counties
there were 727 Public schools. In
these schools there were taught
30,-776 children. No account is
taken of the private schools of
which there were a goodly num.
ber. That the people were not
wholly illiterate is proven by the
Ives of President of our State
University, of Governor Vance
and of his brother, atso of Gene
ral Clingman and of other men of
that day who made history. They
were men of the mountains who
attended the "old field schools
as the public schools then were
called.
After Reconstruction Time.
After the storm of war. came
the fire of reconstruction which
consumed the State's resources
The school fund went with 1
else and we have no more re
ports till '69, when S. S. Ashby
was the so-called superintendent
of public instruction.
He gave no statistics and ; ls
chiefly known now , as having
asked that the doors of our Upi
versity be opened to.;negroes. 'It
Is right, however, to fclve even a
sc&IUwag his dues apd we must
not forget that he urged the es
tablishment of a npraaal school
for "females." meaning women.
Torch Bearer of education.
Even amid the devastation of
those days came ' aV I light from
that torch bearer ot education.
Alexander Mclveiv a man of
high ideals, a patriot who was
made superintendent or. public
NO. 1.
instruction.
i From his report for 1872-73,
we see that in that same moun
tain sectfon there were public
schools in which 35,589 children
were being taught. The Pea-
body Schools, under thesuperyl'
sion of Dr. Seers, a Godly man
whom all loved and honored ; did
noble work. There were about
forty of these and many a man
and woman today bless the nam
es of Peabody and Seers.
If interest prompts investiga
tion, one may easily learn condi
tions of the schools from the re
ports of Scarboro, Mebane, Joy
bor.; From Dr. Joynor's report
for 1908-'10 we see that in these
mountain counties now, number
ing twenty-six' or twenty seven,
there were in addition to the
district State schools, nearly
sixty local tax schools and in
1910- '12 there are credited to
these counties fifty-one State
high schools. - In addition are the
Appalachian Training School for
Teachers at Boone and a similar
institution at Cullowhee. These
two schools have been in exist
ence many years.' I do not mean
to ignore the many schools ope
rated by the churches. They are
doing tremendous work. These
figures are but to call attention to
the public schools, which Prof.
Foght asserts did not exist till
ast year , when the State of
North Carolina began to open
short term schools where the
mission schools have worked.
It is true that the majority of
our mountain old folks are uu-
earned. Being close kin to the
rest of man kind some are dirty
but Prof. Foght's assertion that
in the mountains only the teacb
era in the mission schools ever
bathe" is too silly to be accepted
gravely, yet one expects better
things from a representative of
the United States Bureau of
Education.
Coated Tongue
Means Lazy
Liver.
A Lazy Liver Needs a Dose of
Dodson's Liver Tone Guaran
teed to Take Place of Calomel
i When your doctor looks to see
if your tongue is coated, he is
try ing to find out if your liver is
working properly. A few days
ago doctor bad to prescribe cal
omelthere was nothing else to
give.
Recently in many sections of
the country Dodson's Liver Lone
has practically taken the place of
calomel as a liver i emedy. Dod
son's Liver Tone is mild, plea
sant taking and harmlesswhich
makes it a fine medicine for use
when your children become bil
ious and constipated. But the
most remarkable feature of Dod
son's Liver Tone is the fact that 1
Marshall Pharmacy, who sells it,
guarantees it absolutely. The
druggist will return your money
without argument if a bottle fails
to give entire satisfaction. ;
Price, 50 cents. We suggest
that you get a bottle today and
have it ready for the next mem
ber of your family whose liver
goes worng. r . Adv.
Do you beirin to coujrh at night,
lust when you hope to sleep? Do you
have a tickling throat that keep you
awake? Just take Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound, It will check the
cou?i. and stop tbe tickling sensation
at once. Does not vpset the stomach
is best for ohlldren and grown per
sons. Dr. L E.3 Burnett, Mars Hill,
N.C.
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