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y,, THE NEWS-RECORD Vo AA ..... , - PRICE A YEAR. : . r -i MADISON COUNTY RECORD ' ' Established June 28, 1901. FRENCH BROAD NEWS Established May 16, 1907. Consolidated Norember 2, 1911 The PROGRESSIVE FARMER; )1' II LJ THE NEWS-RECORD 9 OC V I I DOTH A YEAR FOR THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER IN MADISON COUNTY VOL. XXI g MARSriALLf N. C, FRIDAY DECEMBER 20, 1929 8 Page ThU Week 1400 V V.,.' ' . '.i iff-! ill 3fr ALL SLOT MACHINES JIUST BE DISCONTINUED places of business or individual that APPALACHIAN STATE ;w machine must dscontinu VA hTVACUVnki irttli : Tnm nmm at Mian wiajttilttAa mim I .'. -w w It 1 mv Intmtinn fn mi( iWn J " '''il-' r of auch machines without further .; notic and such machinal will b con fiscated.' This la dona by order of ua court and solicitor of tibia district. Possibly the salesman of these ma- "cninea represented them as not being iAn f violation of the law. For that treason, this notice is published. ' V, , K, K. KAMSEY, Sheriff ? . or Madison County. VETERANS TOLD TO ACT NOW War veterans entitled to compen sation who have not yet filed their applications lor tae Adjusted Com pensation Certificates recently were warned to get their applications ih early as a protection for themselves ; and their dependents. V - The final date for application is, : January 2, 1930," Fred WIypne,. Secretary of the Wayne County" A merican Legion douncll, warned. "Not only will service men lose their compensation if they delay applica tion beyond this date, but their de pendents suffer if the service man haa not oersonallv entered his annli- eatlon for compensation. The award paid by the government is approx imately halved in case the service man - died before application is made." -Detroit Times. TOBACCO STOLEN Mr. John McElroy young attorney : Fotune-Teller Beware! of -Marshall, is offering a reward of .woman is following you. College Marshall Record, Marshall,' N. C. Dear Mr. Editors .. .. . . . With idea that you and your read ers are interested in the county' rep resentatives at the Appalachian state Teachers Colleger this is being sent yon..' ..". v. .; I'm It is nearly home-coming time. At noon on Friday, December 20, we shall have completed the fall work and 'shall be entering jiponthe hott day season, to resume work again on the first day of the new year, along with new students who will be enter ing for the Second Semester? This Is an eventful year: The suc cess .of the j football, team which - has not lost a score to any Worth caro Una -or Tennessee collesre in all the eight 'games played; the basketball teams which, have started in the same fine way; the five wide awake literary societies; the inter-collegiate debates; the country clubs, -with their touch of "back home"; the excellent work Of the Young Men's and Young , Wo men's Christian Associations, that render helpful programs every Sun day nisrht: an enrollment of 545 stu dents; and most of all, in the line of eventful things, is the fact that this is- the first year for the institution jta a four year college. At the May commencement bachelor degrees will be conferred upon a class of fine young men and women. So you will not be surprised that we students are proud of our school. With holiday greetings, GERTIE E. SWANN, Mar Hill, N. C KATE BRI6GS, Mars Hill, N. C MARSIIALL SHOULD HAVE TOBACCQ WAlEilbUSE i T: Centrally Located For M btt of Western V North Carolina ?, Again tills year as truck after truck of fine tobac- co iiasses through Marshall going "to Tennessee mar f kets, we are impressed with the Importance of Marsh all building a tobacco warehdUBe.V. We are told that ; Madison County produces asrtluchjBne tobacco as any two other counties in Western North Carolina, that the estimated weight of our countyfs crop this year is a bout three miJlioA pounds. I?;jjb-is is true, the ware house commission and basket fes on this amount of tobacco alone would pay the cost of a warehouse in PURCHASE OF RAIL. AND CARS ANNOUNCED BY THE SOUTHERN one year, not counting theiljexpense of operating. m A dark 150.00 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the party or parties who stole from a barn on his -rm above Beech, Glenn school Tues- l plainly, evident' where tile thieves parked the truck and loaded it until it stalled in trying to pull away. The tracks of the' parties were also ob served. The tobacco had recently been handed and the thieves did not care for the lower grades, but picked the best Walker Well, she'll soon get tired of that I'm a letter carrier. J-'.Vj 5 , - . 1 The JPathfindef Y ii KNOW YOUR RAILROAD The Southern Railway System EMPLOYS 60,000 Men and Women; HAS A $90,000,000.00 Annual Pay roll; HAS 8,800 Miles of Main Line Track HAS 1,300 Miles of Double Track; HAS 3,300 Miles of Yard and Side . Track; HAS 2,250 Locomotives; HAS 78,000 Freight Cars; HAS $800,000,000.00 Invested i n . Tracks, Yards, Shops Build- ings, Locomotives, (jars and ' Other Property: I SERVES 2,900 Communities i n , Twelve States and the Dis- . ; 1 trict of. Columbia, with a i ' Population of 40,000,000 fi People; I. MOS 20,000 Loaded Freight Cars Per Day; f BUNS 425 Passenger Trains Per Day DEPOSITS $800,000.00. Per Day in .". - Southern Banks; ! iYS OUT $247,0000)0 Per Day for Wages, i-". .'. s PAYS OUT $35,000.00 Per Day for ; CONTRIBUTES $4,000,000.00 Per ( - . Year to the Schools of 'the LAWS ABOUT DRIVING AND PASSING SCHOOL BUSSES r South Through Taxes: Paid .to ' ? : States, v; Counties, Cities - and Other Civil Divisions. " Southern News Bulletin. A car containing 77 fat hogs was shipped o eastern markets!.: by a group of six Carteret County farm ers last week, r v T-"i ffEiinv" Christmas ARC Yh READIM6 Tn wsjatsMas B "yes! AMD ThimKHG we MAOB OUA BEST IMvmSTMSNT TBOWffMT Invest ixiKssltti Lvy Chrirtnas Seals Raleigh, Dec. 16. "The safe ty of our school children should be constantly looked after," State Superintendent A. T. Allen points out in a statement given out today. "North Carolina," he says, "is now transporting nearly 150,000 pupils to school.' The lives of these children as well as those who walk must be protect ed at all times. It is a sad thing to hear of an accident happening to one af these little ones." Superintendent Allen believes that if care and diligence is ob served on the part of the motor ing public that such occurrences may be kept at a minimum. In order to acquaint the public with the traffic laws in force, the Gen eral Assembly nf 1927 nassed an act requiring that such laws shall read and explained in the public high schools. The rules referring specifically to school busses, and which are not always observed, are: Rule 63, (section 5). "Before passing or attempting to pass a public school bus while it is stand ing upon any public road and tak ing 0n or putting oft any school children, the operator of the pass ing vehicle must bring it to a full stop at least 60 feet from the bus." The responsibility, howev er, does not all rest upon the driver of the passing vehicle, for section 3 of this rule states, "Ev ery school truck, and every pas senger bus, is required to come to a complete rtop at every railroad crossing, : whether designated as a 'full stop' crossing or not." . Rule 84, (section 7). "Twenty-five miles an hour, while op erating a bus carrying school chil dren to or from school along any public highway or street in this State," is the maximum rate of speed permissible. - ? 4 Rule 45 is one which applies to all drivers and one which aims to impress operators of motor ve hicles with the necessity of exer cising care at all times. - v Sheriff Ramsey says he believe! the time is ripe for . such a movement, and if the people are ready, he will give his time to raise the stock necessary, if it cannot ha done otherwise. It seems to, us that if such move ment could materialize, it would mean more for Marsh all and Madison County generally than any movement started in a long time if ever. 0ur county is adapted to the growth of tobacco more 'than to any other one crop. We do not blame our sister .State of Tennessee to do all in her power to have it all carried across the line into her territory where her! banks can have the first chance at the checks given for tobacco, and where her stores can have the first chance at the money after the checks are cashed. Thinkiof what it would mean to Marshall to have this business and to our boarding rf!h6asJaj) 5?heiB0l1st"fraTel is scarce. rs iret busy'and Hifdi ! a warehouse Atlanta, ' Ga., December 2. Pur chase -, pf , 44,200 tons of new steel rail, enough to . lay , 270 miles of track, for delivery during the first six months of. 1930, is announced by the Southern Railway System, follow ing the i recent purchase of 6,000 freight cars to be put in service dur ing the winter months. Contract for the entire rail pur Chase was awarded to the Tennessee Coal, - Iron- and Railroad Company, and the rail win be rolled at its plant at Ensley, Ala., near Birmingham. Included in the order are 11,000 tons of rail weighing 130 pounds to the yard, the heaviest rail being used on the Southern; 24,800 tons of 100 pound rail, 8,000 tons of 90-pound rail, and 5,400 tons of 85-pound rail. The freight cars recently purchas ed included 3,500 double sheathed steel frame, automobile and furniture box cars, forty feet, six inches in length and of 40-ton capacity, and 1,500 , all steel hopper bottom coal cars of 55-ton capacity. These purchases are part of the general program of improvement of its track and equipment which the Southern has been carrying out for several years. Many of the heavy traffic lines have already been laid with 100-pound rail and rail of the 130-pound section is now being plac ed at points where operating condi tions are most severe. SUES HUSBAND'S ESTATE MRS. L. D. EDWARDS SUES HER HUSBAND'S ESTATE POR TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS Fittt Case of This Kind in Uitl , State Was in Marshall Have A Stamp The Post Office Department of Washington is issuing four - billion postage stamps for the Christmas trade and it is estimated ' that if these werev placed end to end they would be Sufficient to belt the earth at theEquator with enough left o- ne" aroun tha united states, or placed end "to- end tfoey woftld cov er 63,131 miles andl weigh jn the neighborhood of 300 tons. Mrs. L. D. Edwards, of Mars HilL through her attorney, Mr. John Mc Eiroy of 'Marshall, has filed suit a- gainst the estate of her husband, the lata Luther D. Edwards of Mars HilL ' to recover $10,000.00 for damages sustained in the wreck, which caused the death of her husband and injured her permanently, keeninar her in aa Asheville 'hospital for eleven - weeks. It will be remembered that she and Mr. Edwards were on their wav to Asheville Sept 9 this year, when the car which he was driving went off the road, a complete wreck against a power line pole near Weaverville. the two occupants being found in an un conscious condition and taken to the hospital, where Mr. Edwards died af ter lingering about two days, and Mrs. Edwards' life was for a long time hanging in the balances. Mr. Edwards carried liability insurance and the purpose of this suit is to re cover from the insurance company for the damages. It Is said that the first case of this kind in the United States to be tested out through the courts was right here in Marshall, when Mrs. Steve Roberts sued her husband for dam ages sustained in an automobile ac cident in 1923, when she lost a part of her little finger causing blood poi son, consiaeraoie ' expense, and anxi ety. She sued for $5000. The case attracted the attention of the entire country. Reporters from many of the large leading dailies of the Unit ed States came to Marshall and watch ed with keen interest the result of that case.' Up to that time, "we are told, the courts considered a man and his wife one and neither could sua the Other for such damava. anil tWa supreme court ruled in that case that the judgment 0f $2500.00 which' th. CUT DOWN THE OVERHEAD Tobacco Growers If you want to ship your tobac- co to a see Garfield Davis at Marshall for boxes and tierce. Carter, Faggr & Co. . Morristown, Tenn. By J. W. Bailey, in Biblical Recorder We have all been moving for three years in the direction of financial stringency. By "all" I mean the State, denomination and individuals. In the period of inflation we got our selves on a plane of high living and we went into debt. Now we find our- i selves in the lean years, money is scarce; and it appears that th,ese lean years will continue lor quite a period. We must re-adjust, go about it? First of all we must cut down the overhead. The State, the counties and cities must do this. The denom inations must do this. Individuals must do this. The expansive plans of easier times must give place to rigid economy. Individuals must do without luxuries. States and coun ies must reduce the cost of operation. Denominations must do likewise. Debts and interest remain fixed; but income is reduced. If we would pay the debts and the interest, we must cut down the overhead, How long will hard times last? They will last until stark necessity has nut an end to extravagance. It will require from two to five years, according to the readiness with which we shall all respond to the demand of re -adjustment In my view we are face to face with a grave situation much graver than that of 1920-21. We are in for a long period of hard times. We are at the end of two periods of inflation the' period of war prices and the period of bond issues. Buying pow er throughout the land has been ex hausted by extravagance, high living, installment sales, land speculations and stock speculations. There will be n relief now by way of borrow ing inflation. We are down to hard MERRY CHRISTMAS The publisher, editor, and oth er members of the NEWS-RECORD force wish its readers a verV Jtm MERRY CHRISTMAS penditures. Whatc vcr we do, we How shall we I must pay off the d-. hts. This is the I primary task, and all o hers must be subordinated to it. We must pay them off and give notice that no more shall be created. It is nowhere writ ten, predicated, implied or dreamed of that the work of God shall be car ried on with borrowed money. Tax reduction by the State, the counties and the cities, cost-of-living reduction by individuals, reduced ov erhead and retrenchment by the de nomination are demanded. Book Agent Can I sell you the Life of Napoleon? . Groucher No, but I'll take yours if you don't get out of here and stay out. The- Pathfinder. ) pan, And must deal directly witn a grave situation, ifi-' Just how the Southern Baptist or ganisations wflT com through under their loads of debts ought to be the subject of most earnest consideration. It is the big pressing Baptist prob lem. - We must cnt down the over head of the- denomination, but that will not be sufficient ' We eannot hope to increase income; we cannot hope to maintain income. We must therefore, retrench w must cut ex- High Shooting How to bring down a 160-ton con crete lab from a height of 107 feet from the ground presented a vexing problem for a crew of steel workers who undertook the dismantling of a big hammerhead marine crane at an abandoned shipyard in Wilmington, Deleware. This big block of rein forced material had been used as the counterweight for the great structur al steel arm of the crane. Chipping it away had eroved slow and ex pensive, so explosives experts were called in and the mass of concrete was snot out. in oraer to snatter the block, dynamite was loaded in holes for the first blast The initial shooting was followed by a series of three mudcapped shots, each of which did effective work in further break nig down the concrete. ' Owing to the location of the weight high in the air,' th blasts proved quite spec tacular. . So far as is knowB-thi was the first aerial dynamiting of ft kind ever done, a fact that has at tracted wide interest in engineering circles. i J; -n.-r. "Don't you nd your husband patch up your quarrels?" asked a friend. "Mercy, no," replied Mrs. Money- lags. "We can : always afford to have new ones. The Tathf-nder. THE LEGISLATOR ANDTHETRAP A legislator, who is very much interested in the conservation of wild life, recently told of his ex- i pcrience as a boy trapper that ! could be duplicated in the cases of scores if boys. One day, on i making' his inspection of traps, he found one of them gone. He I thought it had been carefully anchored; ,to a nearby tree, but that tracks in the snow indicated that a raccoon had been caught and had pulled .the trap loose. He J J "J A 1 .1 I ' 1 1 J X- traced a, uuui me iran leu miu the woods where the snow was gone. ' "He searched long that day and came back on several other occasion's" to renew the hunt but without success. Two weeks af ter the-loss of the trap, his father came home- one day and said "Sam, I think you will find your trap in the 'ditch along the road jUst below the barn." He went hurriedly to . the place indicated, and, sure enough, there was his trap, being fragged along slowly and painfully by a raccon now re duced to a mere bundle of dishev eled fur. He auickly dispatched the animal but the pelt was bo badly (damaged that it was not wortn removing, f or two whole weeks that animal had struggled to find an elusive food supply, only to starve and endure the ex cruciating" pain inflicted by its re lentless leg .iron. "That was the last animal I ever caught in a steel trap," said the' legislator, and I stand .ready to put such traps out of business." . -Nature Magasine.j md the insurance aompany end ittev Pay.- With this precedent set in th courts, pother cases hav since that time been decided in favor of the plaintiff, and it is on these nremioea that Mrs. Edwards, through her at torney, expects to recover. The case will probably come up for trial in March and no doubt will be heard with interest. DETROIT CAN'T EMPLOY OUTSIDERS, IS WARNING Unskilled workmen are urged not to come to Detroit expecting to find high wages and labor shortage in a statement issued recently by the Board of Commerce. W. E. Kemp, secretary 0f the industrial bureau of the board, has asked commerce or ganizations throughout the United states to aid m keeping unemployed from c-ming here. Detroit Times. FRIENDLY GREETINGS Mr. W. H. Hunter, address Alex ander, is a subscriber and valued friend of the News-Record. Mr. Hunter celebrated his 77th birthday on Dec. 15th. He has been married for 62 years and has twelve children. The News-Record extends cordial good wishes to this well known citi zen of Madison. National Capital Bonds Thousands of people throughout the United States have bought bonds and securities from investment hous es in Washington and many people have handed over their money in the blind belief that "it must be all right if it is in the National Cap ital" However, that view of the matter is not shared in Washington, where the Department of Justice and the grand jury have been investi gating the methods by which bonds are being sold by a nationally adver tised Washington investment house. LITTLE EFFIE . SHELTONDEAD : The Death Angel visited the home of Mr. ' and Mrs. Creed - Shelton of Spillcorn and .took away little Effie. She was only two months old Dec. 17. She seemed to be well Tuesday night except for a little' cold, and Wednes day morning she grew worse until she passed away, her .'mother still (.holding her in her arms. The death was thought -te be caused from a sudden attack of ' diphtheria. -' She leaves to mourn their loss her father, mother, two brothers and lit tle sister. She will be missed very much in the home but we know that it will be another little angel in Heave.iv. Fhe ' budded on earth to bloom in Iaven. ' Vf Cl'ie and T.T. Cloef. Merrv Christmas mow PoR a'QOiev ATHOMC 51 ft ""If 1 iRv4 If CBlffrseTtou) Voua eov ilT COWM mmO writ FOR THOIC. Oiristo-"? Seals to v.erl--. - ..-i' -SO1- a