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VOLXXI MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N.C FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd, 1923. - ' . ; No 1
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Circas SpieL
..;' V The agricultural extension service
' pulls this one: ; ... V ... ,,
"Go to the circuB?" asked the
cashier of the Bank of Fentonville
at he dropped in the barber's chair
for his Saturday shave. '
v . "Yeah; I went a little while last
' night after I closed uo. Some 'cir-
, cusl" '. ..
"Some circus" is right,' said the
banked, "and it was some adver
Using, stunt we pulled. You saw
our big sign and beard the . ring
master tell abont our bank, didn't
you.?" '
"Yeah; I saw the sign and I
heard the spiel. Wouldn't . have
thought of it again it you hadn't
mentioned it." .
'Trctty clever, stunt we call it."
was the banker's reply.
"Yeah; clever for the anouncer
' and sign painter. . What did it cost
you" the barber asked sharply.
The question, popped out so un
pectedly that for once the banker
told the bank's business . and ad
; mitted proudly that the expense
1 bad been $112. i
"Say youf Listen to mej" bawl
. ed the barber, as' he swung his
leather brush across . his patron's
face and shut off anything he might
have said further. "That guy
paid $12 for for the sign and got
a hundred for shouting three min
' utes twice a day. He does that
six days a week because be find9
one in every town. In the season j
hemakes more than-your .bank !
does, iou can iuu rBuvcrMBiugi
you got an idea folks at the circus
bring money to your bank because
of a spiel at a three ring circus!
Nothing to itl . They were laugh
ing at clowns or getting nervous
about the lions If you want to
do some advertising, yon take your
$112 and pay the editor of The
. Bugle $2 a week as long as the
money lasts. Youf ads in the
paper will tell all of those people
about your bank every time' they
look it over, sometimes quite dif
ferent every week. It won't go in
one ear and6ut the other." .......
The barber was quiet for almost
a minute. The banker was quiet
too. He was thinking. ' The' bar
ber had told him something.
Then from tbe barber, quite
gently. Did that fellow deposit the
$112 in your bank? No? Well,
whenever you paj -the editor's bills
he puts the money right back in
circulation here.? ;
"Razor hurt? No? I thought
you kinda scringed a little."
Union TfcanisIvlni Service
.
The Union Thanksgiving Ser
vice will be held in the Presbyte
rian Church November , 29th, 10
o'clock a. m. '
Kev. John I Sprinkle will preach
the sermon. A Union Choir will
furnish the music. '
- J. N. Andre.
Pay Yc-jt Tszcs !
" - Ordered by the Board that all
persons paying their taxes
during the month of December
1S23 will be allowed one per
cent, discount on same and
during the months of January
and February 1S24 the payRent
will be par. One per cent pen
alty will be charged on all un
paid taxes from March 1st,
1C24, and 1 per cent additional
f r each month thereafter until
-.tzzios are paid. - -
A'Jici r.:y Accidently Sb
Vitus
. While put hunting last week
with one? of his friends Jack
Ramsey, the son of W. B Ram
sey of Marshall, was accidently
shot by his friend receiving
very painful wound in his face
and arm but fortunately not seri
ous. Jack had a very close call
and an inch or two more would
have proved fatal
Tne hunting season is now
open for jsome of the game and
it is quite common during the
hunting season to hear of people
being shot, accidently while at
tempting, Jto shot game. We
realize that hunting is good sport
but we doubt very much all told
if the game and the sport will
pay for the many accidents to
limb and life received by human
beings caused by hunting. The
maxium of David Crockett might
be well applied to sportsmen "Be
sore you're right before ' you
shoot." ..
Ycur Soils Kay be Examined
Without Cost at N. C.
v $Ute College.
ARE YOU GETTING THF MOST PRO-
FITAELE YIELDS FROM YOUR
If Kct, V."iy Not Eave Your Son
Exuded to Determine What
Are Its Plant Food Deficien
cies And Fertilizer Needs
'For taelSost Profit- 1
able Production of
Tlie Crops Yon
Are Raising
If You Desire This Informa
tion, Indicate the , Crops You
Wish to Fertilize, Draw a Sample
of Your Soil and forward to,
Chief, Division of Agronomy, '
. N. C. Experiment Station,
' State College Station,
Raleigh. N. C.
Grcps Vise News
. Our Sunday School is moving on
fine under the management of Mr.
Vaughn Fisher as Superintendent.
We have Prayer Meeting every
Sunday night , we have good at
tendance and a good interest
, Mr. Garden Briggs of Democrat
Buncombe Co., and wife was visit
ing their ststei and brother- Mr.
Joel Morgan and wife here last
Sunday. . . - ' V
Mrs. Daisy Sams; and daughter
of Asheville was visiting at Grape
Vine last Sunday.
Mr. Millard Lewis of this place
that is bow 'teaehing school on
Pine Creek was home Saturday.
Mrs. Hester Briggs cf Erwin,
Tennessee is spending a few days
with her daughter Mrs, J, B
Morgan. . . .
We are proud to see the' good
conditions of our roads in No. 14
Township. ' - " ) . , '
Mr. Joel B. "Morgan has purchas
ed the Farm of Mr. J. N. Riddle
ninety, one acres it joins E. S.
Morgans farm on Grape Vine. '
A ReVival Meeting is going on at
Grape-yiiTe now. v
Sianton Sworn In as Attorney
fn United States Court
uscar Stanton, rormer. prin
cipal of Swannanoa High School,
who received his license to prac
tice law last Febrgary, was
sworn in as an attorney to prac
tice in the Federal Court re
cently.
Mr. Stanton previously had
been sworn in to practice in the
Stats Courts. He is a graduate
of Wake Forest Law School.
Asheville Citizen.
Funeral Procession
A town that never, has any
thing to do in a public way, is
on the way to the cemetey
Any citizen who will do nothing
for his town is helping to dig
the grave. A man that curses
the town furnishes the . coffin
The man who is so selfish ' as to
have no time from his business
to give to city affairs is making
the shroud. The man who will
not advertise is driving the
hearse. . The man who is al
ways pulling back from any
public enterprise throws bou
quets on the grave. The man
who is so stingy as to be howling
hard times preaches the fune
ral, sings the doxology, and thus
the town lies buried from all
sorrows and cares. . '
Tennessee Man Kills Seven
Children.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov: 12,
Buck Garrison ar farmer, shot and
killed seven of his ten children .at
his home'at Clayton, Tenn., ac
cording to information reaching
here today. , V. i
Garrison's wife and three other
children escaped death. ' Possess
are scouring the hills for him. . :
News of the tragedy wasN brought
to Clayton, Tenn., by the wife who
had run for miles, according to
later advice from there, Breath
less, she gasped out meager details
of the crime. The . husband shot
the children1 down one by one with
snot gun, stopping to load,; she
said.
Not too Much Governed
Eet any American, who can
travel abroad, as I have done,
and ; with the opportunity of
witnessing what there is to be
seen that 1 have had and he
ill return to America a better
American and a better citizen
than when he weut away. He
will return more in love with
own country. Far be it
Tomme to find fault with any
of
the European governments.
woo wpll rpcftivftd at their
hinds on every side, by every
nation in Europe, but with their
dense population and their
worn-out sou it takes a great
deal of government to enable
the people to get from the soil a
bare subsistence. Here we have
rich virgin soil, with room
enough for all of us to expand
and live, with the use'of very
little government. I do hope
lontf mav be able to cfet
alonjf happily and ' contentedly
without bemg too mucn gov
erned Cen. U. S.' Grant in
speech at Galveston, Texas, in
183. 1
A Jury Speech that Lives
r He has done the murder. , No
eye has seen him: nor ear has
heard him. The seeret is his
own, and it is safe.
An, gentlemen, uiat was a
dreadful mistake Such a secret
can be safe newhere. The
whole creation of God has
neither nook nor corner where
the guilty can bestow it and say
it is safe. A thousand eyes
turn at once to explore every
man, every thing, every circum
stance connected with the time
and place; a thousand ears catch
every whisper; a thousand ex-
rcited minds intensely dwell on
the scene, shedding all their
light and -ready te kindle the
slightest circumstance into a
blaze of discovery. Meantime
the guilty soul can not keep its
own secret It is false to "itself;
or, rather, it feels an irresistible
impulse of conscience to be true
to itself. It labors under its
guilty possession, and knows
not what to do with it The
human heart was not made for
the resistance ol such an in
habitant. It finds itself preyed
on by a torment which it dares
not acknowledge to God or man.
A vulture is devouring it, and it
can ask no sympathy or assist
ance either from heaven or
earth. The secret which the
murderer possesses soon comes
t possess-, him, and, like the
evil spirits Jof which we readmit
overcomes him and leads him
withersoever it will ''He feels
it .beating in his heart rising 'n
his throat, and demanding dis
closure. He thinks the whole
world sees it in his face, reads it
in his eyes, and almost hears its
workings in the very silence of
his thoughts, it has beeome his
master , It betrays his dis
cretion, it breaks down his
courage, it conquers his pru
dence. When suspicions from
without begin to embarrass him
and the net of circumstances to
entangle him, the fatai secret
struggles with still greater vio-
ence to burst forth. It must be
confessed; it will be confessed.
There is no refuge from confes
sion but suicide, and suicide is
confession Daniel Webster, in
he White murder case
Genius is Hard Labor
We can not have too much
knowledge I believe in super
fluons knowledge. It is knowl
edge that differentiates us. I
have slight faith in what they
call genius. I think that any
young man can attain success,
and great success, by good,
hard, studious labor; hot by in
termittent labor, bitt by con
stant consecutive effort The
men who have, achieved success
are the men who have worked,
read, thought more than was
abrolutely necessary; who have
not ' been content with the
knowledge sufficient for the
present, but have sought addit
ional knowledge a n d have
stored it away for emergencies.
It is this additienal knowledge
that equips a , man for every-. she struggles today. For some na
thing Jthat cost$ most in life. tions sought our alliance "are
There would be fewer wasted. today clearly militarise. I. have
i ' i recently, returned from., an exten-
opportunities if there were more 1 . ,k , .
, . . , sive trip through (he European na-
real ability to grasp thsm when tioM. and r know whereof t 8Deu
they present themselves. -Cush-jThe
man K. Davis, .
"I Am Better Now."
Life is a narrow vale between
the cold and barren peaks of
two eternities. We . strive in
vain to look beyond the heights
We cry aloud, and the only
answer is the echo wf our wail
ing cry.' From the voiceless
lips of the unreplying dead,
there comes no word; but in the
night of death hopes sees a star,
and listening love can hear the
rustling of a wing. He who
sleeps here, when dying, mis
taking the approach of death
for the return of health, whis
pered with his latest breath:
"I am better noW." ' , 'Let us
believe, in spite of doubts and
dogmas, of fears and tears, that
these dear words are true of all
the countless dead Robert G.
Ingersoll, at the grave ef his
brother, Elton C. Ingersoll.
His Kind is Rare
My heart goes out to the man
who does his work when the
"boss" is away, as well as when
he is' at home. And the man
who, when given a letter for
Garcia, quietly takes the mis
sive, without asking any idiotic
questions, and with nc lurking
intention of chucking it into the
nearest sewer or of doing aught
else but deliver.it never gets
"laid ofT"- nor has -to" go ln'
strike for hjgher" wages ' Civi
lization is pne long search for
just such individuals. Any
thing such a man asks shall be
granted; his kind is so rare that
no employer can afford to let
him go. He is wanted in every
city, town and village in every
office shop, store and factory.
The world cries out for such;
he is needed, and needed badly
the man who can scarry a
message1 to Garcia. -Elbert Hub
bard. Europe Is Without Peace,
Prosperity or Happiness
: U. S. Alone, Seems
Blessed.
Speaking at Hazard, Ey , Secre
tary of Labor James J. Davis said:
"Only in America today is there
economic and political peace. Only
in America is there prosperity and
hapiness.- Truly we are' justifying
the thought of Emerson that this
nation looks like the 'last effort of
Divine providence in behalf of the
human race.' How far are we
from the . causes which plunged
Europe into a frightful ' struggle?
How far have we come from the con
ditions which have, led the oldeY
peoples ino chaos? Just t hree
short years. For Only the wise
statesmanship, the broad vision,
the public courage and the .patient
devotion to duty of our nation's
leaders during that time has kept
us out of the chaos which is- Eu-
! rope's today: I am confident that
but for that leadership, and its re
fusal to be entangled in the greed
and hate and jealousies of tbe Old
World Europe would have drag
ged us down into the depths where
conditions are deplorable be-
jrond description." Vi
Dr. R. H. Rurks of Marshall
Died at Asheville Monday
Mlorning
Dr. R. H. Burks who has been
located at Marshall for several
years practicing dentistry after
quiet a long illnes died in the .
hospital at Asheville Monday
morning, the 19th. . His body .
was shipped to Marshall Tues
day morning on the early train
and was met at the station by
members ef the Masonic Lodge
of Marshall. Dr. Burks was a
member of the Masonic order
and had his membership in the
Marshall lodge. Dr. Burks
affiliated with the Baptist'
church at Marshall and his fun
eral was4 conducted by the
Masons at the Baptist church
at 2 o'clock Tuesday the 20th.
Dr. Burks has lived at Mar
shall for several years, he had
a largepractiee and many
friends. His body will be ship
ped f rem Marshall to his old
home in Kentucky and buried
by his wife who died a number
of years ago. The News-Record
extends its sympathy to
his children, relatives and
friends.
The Asheville Citizen has the
following in regard to Br. Burks
death: ' . ..... ...
"Dr. R. H.' Burks, 'prominent'
resident of Marshall, died yes
terday morning at 9:45 o'clock at
tho French Broad Hospital, -following
an illness of about six
weeks. His death was due to
heart trouble. Dr Burks had
practiced dentistry in Madison
County for 17 years. , He was an
alumnus of Vanderbilt University ,
at Nashville, Tenn.
The deceased w a a born in
Princeton, Ky , 55 years ago,
and is survived by his father,
W. 4 L. Burks, .of Madison ville,
Ky., two daughters, Mrs. T. A.
Smith, of Asheville, and Mary
Lucile Burks, 10 years old, and
one brother, and one sister, of
Louisville, Ky.
The funeral services will be
held this afternoon at 2 o'clock '
at Marshall Baptist Church, Mar
shall. Rev. J. B. Owen, of Mars
Hill, officiatinjr. The body will
betaken to Prince'ton, Ky., for
interment" ....
Spell It Out
' Morganton," NewsHerald.-'Witb
the approach of Christmas one be
gins to see X.:used in the spelling
of Christmas, a custom that should
be stopped. ' Along t'..is ..line the
News-and Observer recently had
the following timely editorial which
expresses what we feel about it
and calls on all to join in putting a
stop to the abbreviation: ;
"No matter how far people may
fail to keep Chrisfmas as the birth
day of Christ," it is His festival. In
recent years seme writers and ad
vertisers have fallen into tbe habit
of writing it Xmas. If prem6diat-
cd this use would be. to say the
least, irreverent '
"Let it cease. , The holy holidays
should be spelled in full or not used
at all. The Detriot Merchants as
sociation has appealed to all to cut
out the shock'ug Xmas. Let busii
ness men everywhere- do like
wise.