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. ... ran nnr ' . , Z. 1 . .vwyVA.--- ry MaVWhWOMH-Vt ,r,IJtr "tire'! n.,,l.( ---w ' v.--- - "J $2.00 i 'im j ., .. . . f MADISON COUNTY t RECORD. Established Jtina 28. ISO 1. rrcE A YEAR- U:K1lILvj1V& FRENCH BROAD NEWS f Established May 16, 4 1907. Consolidated NoTember 2, 1911 i) (5 r-v Tk4 PROGRESSIVE FARMER 'J' THE NEWS-RECORD WS-RECORD CO OK BOTHA YEAR FOR VLAO THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY vot xxi MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929 8 Pages This Week 12SO i K .1. I .i'V REUNION DAY! DORLAND-BELL SCHOOL AT HOT SPRINGS, N. C. Dorland-Bell School invites all former students, boys and girls, to Alumni Day and Commencement Ex ercises on May 21st and 22nd. Ever since the first two issues of The Broadcaster, the new school pa per, and with the help of some wide awake alumni, there has been a great deal of enthusiasm aroused for this Reunion. Boys and girls from the very beginning, and quite a few from the classes of 1911 through 1928, have written telling us they will be back to get acquainted again, and to see the good old school, the Willows, and Miss Pond, Miss Horton, Miss ; li,oughton and Miss Pollock are here to welcome you. Some of the former teachers have been invited to return, and every other teacher will be glad to see you. too. There will be Senior Class Day at 3 p. m. and an Alumni Banquet in the evening on May 21st. We prom ise to Jind a place to accommodate you for the night. It may not be very fine, but we'll manage somehow. The next day is Commencement Day wiht all the fine programs a May Fete; and a play, "Quality Street," by J. M. Barrio, at night. Please get m toucn wn us ana let us know "you" will be with us May 21st and 22nd. Miss Ruth I. Taylor is tio KiinArintenrient now. If VCU can't come, write anyhow and let us know where you are and what you are doing, so we can send The Broad caster to you. Dorland-Bell is situated in the mountains of western North Carolina near the banks of the t rench Broad River, on the Dixie Highway between Asheville, N. C. and Knoxville, Tenn. good roads all the way. Highway No. 20 passes the school We know you are going to miss one fine time if you do not get to the Reunion Dorland-Bell wants to see you and we know you want to see Dorland-Bell as she is today. GRANT WARD LOSES LIFE PICKING FLOWERS A most, unexpected and shocking death occurred at Marshalll last Sun day afternoon when Mr. Grant Ward I yof the Long Branch section, fell from ft a cliff where he was picking flowers, neck. The accident occurred near the Ivy bridge about two miles from the railroad station at Marshall. Some tourists had stopped and were picking some flowers on the side of the road, when Mr. Ward offered to go up on this cliff to get some more beautiful. It is thought a rock must BEN WILSON . SURRENDERS Ben ("Bird") Wilson, who is al leged to have slain his step-father, James Marlor Monday in the (New man Cove section of Buncombe County, has surrendered to Sheriff J. J. Bailey of Buncombe and is out on a $2000 bond, posted by his father, Gus Wilson, who accompanied him to Buncombe. These are Madison Coun ty people. At the inquest Tuesday) Blaine Wilson, 18-year-old son of Ben, is quoted as saying: . "I was sitting on the side oi my bunk at home putting on a pair of overalls and my father was standing in the middle of the floor, with Mar lor standing near the door. My fatn er asked Marlor why he was so puffed up and hot toward him. Marlor said, "Don't speak to me this morning," and left the cabin through the front door. My daddy called to'him.Vto tell him what he had agin' him ' and that he would make things all right. Marlor then appeared at the door with an open knife and swearing, said: "Damn you, I'll showyer what 'tis.' My grandmother stepped up to the door and was trying to push Jim Marlor back when he slapped her to one side and started through the door. Daddy said, 'Jim, don't come through that door,' but he kept on and daddy fired." The dead man's daughter testified that she was about 20 feet away from the door when the trouble started but she said she heard her father say, 'Well, go ahead and shoot.' Her mother corroborated her in this testi mony. Wilson did not divulge where he went after the shooting. Witnesses swore he said he was going to the sheriff's office to surrender. DOYLE MASSEY CAPTURED MARS HILL WINS FROM WAKE FOREST IN DEBATE Mars Hill, April 13 Announce ment was made by telegram this morning that a team from Mars Hill college defeated the junior team of Wake Forest college, in a debate at Wake Forest last night on the query "Resolved, That the Federal Govern ment Should Own, Control, and oper ate the principal sources of Hydro- "THEY HAD TO BE SHOWN" Electric Power." Details of the debate were not given ' except that the decision of the judges was unanimously in favor of the Mars Hill team. The invading team) was com nosed of W. Scott Buck and Carl Meares. By Reva V. Hodges, Asheville, N. C i "Ma Hill has been undefeated in Let me state in the very begginning forenplcs thus far during the season, 'hat this article is not written with Representatives of the college have view to discouraging farm relief been .victorious over teams from Mil- measures. Far from it! There are ligan college, Weaver college, and BO'ne agricultural iuo which can umy i w r uresc college. AND WERE SHOWN bring their surplus produce and dis pose of it in quantity lots. Several of the farmers give each a portion of his time during the spring and fall seas ons to keeping the warehouse open. M 1 more ana more iarmers are a- NATIVE OF MADISON mento Mountains of New Mexico Sunday, eight years after he had es caped from the North Carolina State prison where he was serving a sent ence of 18 years on a second degree murder charge, is a brother of Jesse Massey. who was sent to prison sev eral months afterwards on a charge of murder. The two murders are said to have climaxed a feudv of several years which raged in the wild and remote : THE PUBLISHER'S COLUMN : ABOUT VARIOUS MATTERS : TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE j. It may be surprising to the average person who looks forward to the editorials in any paper that it was found by some northern paper during the war or during a strike of printers a hen it was necessary to omit some part of the paper that of all the departments in the paper the editorial department would be least missed. The news could not be left out, the sports were necessary, and so on through 'every depart ment, all seemed indispensible except the . editorial. Even so, with this paper, there may be a few people who would rather read the editorials than anything else in the paper, for instance, but they seem to be the exception rather than the rule. Take for instance, how many of our correspondents ever mention the publisher's column? Yet see how many are commenting in various ways afout the KAT KOLUM. We dare say that five people in Marshall will read the local column before they read the publisher's column and if j the local news is given from any community, the people of that community will read their own local happenings first, and lay the paper down for a more convenient season to read the editorial. For this reason, we often wonder if the editorial column pays. It costs a great deal, to Jkeep it up. Even an editor cannot write without some thoughts and sometimes thoughts are scarce and it requires a great deal of reading and time to get together some thing to write about. With so many duties in the office and out always pressing the country publisher does not haVe time to prepare himself to write intelligently; otherwise he may go "broke" financially. More over, when he writes about local affairs, he is stepping on somebody's toes, and if he writes about national or international affairs, his edi torials are not interesting to many of his readers ; for very often he is writing something about which he know very little. And so it goes. This publisher is not certain that he can Afford to keep up this column. o 4 THE CALL OF THE GREAT OUT-OF?OORS At this season of the year perhaps more than any other season, it is especially irksome to be compelled tf live in an office or bank or store or any other place indoors when all nature is inviting us out to enjoy its beauties and its recreation., mers usually have many dis couragements and think their lot is perhaps the hardest of all, but be cured, by Congressional action. in themselves of the suDerior Yet ceftaV-other difficulties which C'Jl ? rL 'Z MWV.Bv- 1.4. Ulllll, v 2. HIV VUUlltJT agent by consulting him as to their confront the farmer especially the owner of the small farm can be overcome by the farmers themselves if they will face conditions as they exist, then employ the right methods and make the effort necessary to ac complish the task before them. To prove the above assertions I shall tell you what is being accomp lished by the farmers of Madison county, North Carolina. I choge this ; county because J grew up on a small ; farm within its boundaries, therefore am familiar with conditions which ex ! isted on Madison county farms until . the new agricultural era dawned for j the farmers of the county four or five years agal . ! Any movement must have a leader, and, if' the movement is to succeed, the leader must, according to popular 8lahgV'"know his onions." Madison farmers certainly needed such a lead er a man educated and trained in the theory and experienceed in the practical sid!of all branches of farm ing. TM&Nteader came in the person of Agricultural Agent Earle Brintnall earnest, wideawake and not afraid of hard work. As the physician diagnoses a dis ease by studying the symptoms of a patient, so th4 new agent studied the agricultural situation in Madison county. Tobacco, he found, had for Doyle Massey, of the Little Pine mountain1 section, of Madison Coun- ty, wo ,vwa arrested , b a- have slipped as he was on the high Little Pine mountains and which cost cliff. At any rate, he lost his foot- the lives of three men before the two hold and fell to the ground below, ! Massey brothers were apprehended his body striking the railroad. He was tried, and sentenced to prison. Jesse placed oh the car of the tourists and rushed to the Marshall hospital, but was dead before reaching the hospi tal. A coroner's inquest was- held, exonerating the tourists, who, after offering ever assistance, went on their way. The body was taken to the O. C. Rector undertaking estab lishment, where it was prepared for lb u rial. The young wife, who before marriage was Miss Briggs, of the same community, was crushed, of course, when apprised of the acci dent Mr. Ward, a farmer of the Long Branch section, age 36, was a good man, a World War -veteran, and hdsJ sudden going was quite a shock to the entire community: He is sur vived by his wife and five small chil dren. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Ward, live near the home of the deceased. He is also survived by five sisters: (Misses A ,d a, Nel lie, and Thelma Ward, Mrs. Hattie 'w Crawford, Mrs. MamieBriggs; and inree orotners, Messrs. juoert. jsarie and Herman Ward. Funeral services were from the home of his parents Tuesday morning at ten o'clock, eon' ducted by Rev.- Jack Sprinkle, inter ment following at. the Tillery grave yard nearby. The family has the sympathy of the entire community. HOT SPRINGS ELECTION . Hot Springs, N. C s April 16, 1929. News-Record, Marshall, N. C. ,; f ' Following are' the officers appoint ed to hold .Town election May 7th, 1929: : : . ... DOCK SUMMERS, 'Registrar. ' JOBT PARIS and JOE.BROOKS; . : : Judges. . ' fTh following list of candidates havs filed for Town Offices for elec tion to be held on May 7th, 1929:. Hobart - 3. . Candler and a Dennis . Church for Mayor. r . ,.T ?,W. A. Lewis, 6: G. : Paris? Dan J. . ; Price, Lattie Brooks, 'James R. Ra leigh, et, tJalioway. q, a, Brooks, So few . attain, ' that alee .balance tiiidway betweea .kferioritv complex ., nd swtIlhea4.'v,'Vr. So verr many have been doins- five days' wrkajt.ri2XJtjlIfic.I4Js days. - - . . Massey, who was sentenced to from 18 to 20 years on a second degree murder charge in connection with slaying of Deputy Sheriff Loranz Farmer, of Madison county, in 1922, also escaped last summer and was retaken by a posse in the Doe Branch mountain section near the Tennessee line- .:-y'mr,-i, In November, 1928, Madison coun ty officers, after investigating nu merous reports that Doyle Massey was making secret visits to his old haunts in the Pine Creek ranges, re ceived a message that he had been killed in a mine disaster in West Vir ginia. This was thought have been an attempt to halt the search for him, and a short time afterwards notification of his arrest in Harlan county, Kentucky, was received. An investigation revealed that he had not been apprehended. Harrison Roberts is said to have died in a close range gun duel in the Big Fine mountain valley after Mas sey had accepted his challenge to settle differences between them. Some time after Doyle had been sentenced to prison Deputy Sheriff Farmer was killed.' His body, riddled with bullets, was found lying in the road far below Jesse Massey's home. Farmer is said to have aroused the hatred of Massey after he had at tempted to arrest - members of his family on liquor charges. ' A few nights before his death the deputy sheriff fatallv wounded nn aged farmer, who was watching with him at his home after nroner.v nt his 1iad been burned by an unknown per son, nis sworn statement that he thought the aged man was a member of the Massey clan when he an. preached in the darkness secured his acquittal. - Escaped ib in , RALEIGH, April 16. IAP State prison records here show Dovle Mas. sey made his escape from a prison camp on February, 25, 1922, after serving six " months of an 18 year sentence, imposed on bun for second degree. murder in Madisoa-.eounty, There was na record ot- uv. n AV Massey In the prison files; JLH. Lof- tin, a deputy,, who, is, on bis way to Corsicana, .Tex, ,on another, Mission, was telegraphed to go-to Glamo Gor do in connection (with ta BW-f J An4. .BTr .nothing jemsip. of the football aeaaon.xcept, trying to get the other fellow's coacC - -!l ' VtToi.can, hvW. the r-Heai Jk merican .Rjrheriio. jsah ing aomej bout the farm life which the average farmer does not appreciate. City people wish to get out and country people wish to get in. The follow ing editorial from a recent News & Observer illustrates the restlessness of the average person: Marion Talley is leaving grand opera and the cities behind to live on a farm. As often as spring and planting time comes around, most of us who live in towns and cities have the same desire. As many as can afford it buy a piece of ground, and those that can't dream of the day when they will. Sociologists explain this uni versal desire for a farm as due to the 'fact that for most of the thousands of years the race has been in existence its members have lived in the open spaces. The call of the open is in our blood. Marion Talley thinks it is the "call of destiny." That is because she is young. No man or woman living but has heard that call. Especially,, after living for a spell in cities with pavements and skyscrapers. Particularly in the springtime when the trees bud and the flowers bloom. The smell of freshly plowed ground is as the breath of life in our nostrils. Call it destiny if you like. Explain it is racial instinct if you desire. The call of the farm is as universal as the race. Espec ally for those dealing with dreams of which music and literature and art are made. The quest for reality drives the artist back to nature. But Marion Talley doesn't want too much reality, though. She doesn't want pigs on her farm. She thinks she may learn to milk cows, but no pigs. That proves she is just dreaming, for Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer, will tell her that a farm without pigs is no farm at all in these modern days. The urge that put Marion Talley on the grand opera stage will bring her back again. Soon she will tire of a farm without pigs, ' and will long for the noise of the city and the artificiality. It is nostalgia that calls her back to the farm, not destiny. o CAN CONGRESS AFFORD THE FARMER RELIEF? President Hoover is at least trying to carry out his campaign promise of making an effort to afford the farmer some relief. He has called Congress in special session principally for this purpose. They have Just this week met and are considering, matters along this line. We wish that some solution to the farmers' problems could be found and 'if this congress succeeds in this one particular alone, it will well be worth the time and cost This writer would prefer to take an op timistic view in regard to this matter, but we are frank to say that we have very little, hope that it will amount to any lasting benefit to the farmer. We see no good in arousing any false hopes in the farmer, only to have him disappointed again. We have in our own day seen cooperative marketing of peanuts in eastern North Carolina and Vir ginia absolutely fail after a few years of experimenting. The same has been practically true of cotton and some other crops. Unscrupu lous leaders take advantage of the pooled interests of the farmers. The -farmers themselves will not stick together, they often lack confidence in the movement for their benefit Our prediction is that if the pres ent congress succeeds in benefitting the farmers at all it will be the larger, more prosperous farmers of the country and not the small fel , lows who really need help meet of alL Not that the intentions of our congressmen are against the small farmers, not at all. Everybody al most would like to help that class, but how can they be helped? That is the question. ;-W-V-r' 'i"M - "! agricultural needs, then going to the cooperative warehouse and purchas ing fertilizer, seeds, poultry and dairy feeds at a saving. The farmers who first made the sacrifice and effort necessary to ap ply the instructions of the county agent to their farming operations are beginning to reap the results. They are now in a position to go further. So thoroughly convinced they have become of the value to them of a co operative warehouse that they are now considering ways and means for erecting a building of their own and employing a full time keeper. At no other place may one obtain a better idea of the extent to which the farmers are practicing crop di versification than at the county agri cultural fair. Here are gathered to gether in one place the best results of their efforts along all lines. Prize corn, wheat potatoes, apples, peach es, grapes, berries and vegetables of all varieties; chickens, hogs, cattle and sheep yes, even sheep, for the county agent has persuaded a few of the farmers that their mountain pas tures are ideal for sheep raising, and some of these animals have been brought into the county. I would not have you think the farm women have been forgotten. of the majority of the farmers! This Mad?" T, left them to the mercy of the ele WHO WILL COMPOSE -OUR TOWN GOVERNING BODY? -, Before many days we are to be called upon to- elect those wbo are ' to manage the government of our tewn affairs fo another, two years. ' While It may not seem so -important in a small town tike Marshall and 7s 'Hot Springs aid Mar BUI, it may prove to, be more important than it - I I aeems at firsts ' These Btsttwie are ' placer , of responsibility and we should be glatf if th service of capable men I or women) can be ob, -i 1 talned at the pittance offered for such service - It may be all rigbt to , : joke in conversation abevft soch matters, tu when it eomea.dpws to ane-on these mattei'nr eitiseas juts ttre wiM taeete fooUsUyXet,; Was see to It'lfcat ttfe ponttteu are called by frfraoM whervOl reflect, efed- v L. a. cooperative warehouse' hsi' been "ffnipoa ear cemmmnity.. iJ-' , j v- ,f - . . ment ana tne marKet, for some years the season was bad others prices Were low. In either case the farmer came up minus cash for the necessities. The countyagent found practical ly no model farm buildings. Soil was run down through lack of proper fer tilization with the resultant poor crops. None of the farms had nure- ibred animals, and fowls. Such as they uia nave were. careo lor m a lacka dasical, shiftless manner. Orchards nrf(ilds, ere, for the moBtf part simply allowed to" 'fgrow' ' Such was.: the situation which con fronted the new county agent. Added io whicjhA'was the crying need for an adequate market for any surplus the farmers might produce. j The agent discussed these things j with the farmers. They, however, de fended'" their position by declaring they already produced more than they couia sen. "Why, they asked, "should they spend what little money they could rake and scrape to pur chase purebred flocks and herds and in an effort to produce commodities for which there was no market?" Even when the county agent de clared he would guarantee a good market for the improved, increased output, most of the farmers, he found were still from Missouri "they had j io De snown. consequently, he selec ted a few of the farmers who seemed most amenable to reason, and right on their own land proceeded to show them that much soil labeled "barren" is not barren at all, only acid, a con dition remedied by a liberal applica tion of lime ; he showed them how the right kind of fertilizer in . proper proportions increases the yield of 'nnd so treated. Many of the farmers who had been Unwilling to follow the counsel of the county agent themselves came and viewed these demonstration plots They ame, they saw and were con quered, for these men were nobody's fools, and the test acreage spoke for itself, ...v OneMssoll' why many of the farm ers demurred at undertaking to effect the changes recommended by the county agent was lack of -funds. The agent talked, with the officials of the banks talked to such purpose that they agread to lend him their finan cial assistance in obtaining some pure bred, cattle for the farmers of the county.- The .'c6nntyr agent no sooner had a few farmers actively engaged in car rying out his program of agricultural improvement than he went about the business of procuring satisfactory market Tor. their produce. His efforts werewonderfully rewarded, for he secured with the JBiltmore Dairy, Bilt more, C.' 4 market for all the cream japd' eggs the farmers of the county could furnish. . A cream station was opened at Marshall to which those who had it might fcfirt' cream for shipment to the dairy. 't ' - - The first can of cream was shipped from the' county just before Christ, mas, 1925k. . The- farmers of the county, haye'tiow become so awaken, ed to the money-making possibilities of marketing cream and eggs ' that during the height' of die 1928 season more than fifty farmers were receiv ing, cream checks from the dairy. In the year ending September SO, 1928, $ 10,70ft -was received by Madison farmer for cream alone. No record has been kept from the sale of eggs, but from the dairy the farmers' re ceivs around twelve cents more pet dozen thatt is paid by the local mar. monstration worker who organizes women and girls into clubs. This a gent teaches the rural housewives and their daughters not only the most approved methods of cooking, can ning and preserving, but they also learn how to economically beautify and make their homes more comfort able. Madison, to be sure, is not the only county in the state to make worth while agricultural progress in the past few years. Many other sections of North Carolina, and in other states as well, have progressed until ihe farmers "see light." Most such- advancement has been made Under the direction and guidance of well trained, far-seeing, hard-working agricultural agents. Even so, the work is just begun neither the county agents nor the farmers are satisfied. They are now working towards the day when there will not be a rundown farm in the South, and when all those who pro cure their living from the land are progressive farmers. EDITORS NOTE. This article was clipped complete from Southern Ruralist of March 1st, and was sent us by Mrs. L. C. Coates of Marshall. WHY NOT? Why Not Have the Road From Ivy Through Mars Hill, No. 15-5-11 Townships to The Tennessee Line? Why the excitement over this pro posed road? Isn't it an excellent in vestment for Madison County? Would not the increase in taxes in No's 15-5-11 Townships alone pay interest and principal in a few years? Instead of Mr. Amnions needing to apologize to. anyone, would it not be altogether reasonable to believe that any member who, after laying aside all prejudice and selfishness, would vote against this road is not qualified to serve as Commissioner? What county in this state, or any other stete woiild not give 1 150,000,00 provided the state would build a pav ed road, standard in width, for near ly 20-ihiles through it? What sacrifice is too great to -make for such a road, viewed from a business standpoint? Were not some of the parties who are so feverish over this road instru mental in helping defeat it after the state spent some $8 to $10,000 in surveying, and 'are not there some parties still trying to smother jus. tice? May I ask for how long? If the road were running through the Marshall section for this distance, would the parties favor it? Have they not asked that this be done since the - recent action of the Commissioners, also tried to influence Tennessee in this direction? Then if it is wise to spend it on this route, would it not ", be much wiser to spend; it on this proposed route which is 25 miles shorter? Surely it is Worth while, or , why the state's interest? What bet ter section of Madison county could ,v it traverse than , No, ' 15-5 and. 11 ' i Townships? Then can Madison county 'X treat Mars Hill, so indiscreetly after ' rightly boasting of this ' wonderful V school which has and will turn out so " ' mny efficient men, who are doing ' Madison county so much honor? .. " ..,',' Mr. Mashbnrn erred when he stated '- ' that the state had kept up the road ' ' through No, 11 Township to the Ten-' 4- i - . - t nenee me. it vnij eps op uignuy over 1 mile, leaving more than-44 ' 1 fcfles' nnkept Could dot someone tell as the REAL reason the state wfth- drew this sid.r V-: f" -f lepeaed U which the farmers' may "" "3 ENGLISH Xars 2. K.-CX' mmij tor a matca. -: .