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' ' ' ' , . " - 7 , . . . , " r. - - " " . ' i . , - V" ': OiV-.'-Vfji:! i-V7 77,''7;! '-'"i-W.:- 7-7'7i' ' ' " v-'- T'- :7' 7 i, .i 7-,. 7 s' ' ' ' ', ' . ' ,..-' ' ' t '.m . A v 1 ' , ? -.si .-T- f -. .....'.: r.- 'I-,." ..... f , A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST( INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896. JMARION, N. C, THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1913. VOL. XVII NO. f 2D " ; . . v-. -''.7 -; , " . o. . : - .- ,r j . . . i-" : . i:-".7. - . - 7J'W7 7;, ' ; 7--v - - . , - '. 7 - . . , . ,- . . . . , . , 7 bankmeetings;tuesday Merchants & Farmers Pays Ten Per Cent Dividend First National Make Good Report. , The Merchants & Farmers Batik 5ield their regular annual meeting Tuesday night: The report of "bus iness done duriiig the year 1912 was a most satisfactory one and a dividend of 10 per cent was de clared and a neat sum carried to the credit of the surplus fund. ff The following directors were elected to serve during 1913, John E. Decker, T. F. WrennV W. T. Morgan, J. . W. Streetman and Geo. W. Conley. The directors elected T. F. Wrenn, president; 'Geo. W. Gonley, vice president; E. F. Burton, cashier; W. F. Wood, assistant cashier. ; Quite a large number of the stockholders attended the meeting and took an active part in the dis cussion of matters concerning the interest of the bank.. The pros pects are bright fpr good business during the coming year. . The annual meeting of the stock holders of the First National Bank, was held in the banking room Tues day afternoon. There was a very full attendance, about 90 per cent' of the stock being represented in person. The Cashier's report of the condition of the bank and of the business done during the past year. was very satisfactory indeed, showing as it did that the largest volume of business had been done during the past year- of any pre vious year in the bank's history, mnd that the average deposits and earnings for the past year were tjonsideredin excess of any previous ye&r for several years past. The present directors were re-elected ms follows: W. A. Conley, J. L. Morgan, B. B. Price, A. Blah ton, Geo. I. White, T. J. Gibbs, D. E Hudgins, J. Q. Gilkey, D. D Little. x After the adjournment of the stockholders meeting the directors met and re-elected the present offi cers: W. A. Conley, president; B. B. Price, vice president; Geo. I. White, cashier; J. E. Neal, assis tant cashier. - v The usual dividend was. declared and the remainder of the undivid ed profits, $1,500 was. placed to the surplus fund, making the total sur plus $17,000, and the total protec v; tion to depositors as shown by cap i ital, surplus and individual liabili ty, $117,500. 'Nebo Matters. 1; -Nebo, Jan. 14. The Normal wor of teacher training began Monday by the regular instructor, Mrs! D. F. ' Giles. M rs. Giles will make Nebo? her home while her work continues, and fpr this reason will conduct classes ; for three or four regular periods each day. Her. class at v present v numbers about twenty -five, and promises to in crease before the close. The boys' andi girls' Literary Societies, held successful meetings on Friday, the girls in the after noon and the boys at night. The subject debated by the boys was: Resolved, That the parent has more influence in s aping the char- acter or tne cniia man tne teacner. The affirmative won the decision. The Woman's Betterment Asso ciation met Tuesday afternoon for its first meeting since the holidays. At this meeting, in addition to the regular business, a new president was elected to succeed the retiring president of last term. An hoaor roll has been establish ed in the high school department for the spring term. The require ment of this roll is that the pupil shall make an average grade of. 90 on all subjects for, the. week, and that his deportment has conformed to this same general average. Any .pupil who has made a grade below 50 in any one subject is debarred from the honor roll for that week, regardless of whatever grades he Tnay havermittde" in" othersabjcctsV The roll by grades for : the week January; 6 to 10 is as follows: Fourth year (11th grade) Madge Brown,? Alonzo Davis, Neal Duval, Mamie Goforth, Daintry Graham, Edith Lonon, Eyerett Padgett, Faye Padgett, Chesley Sigmon, Maggie Taylor. Third year (10th grade) Delia Gibbs, Cassie Pat- ton. Second year (9th grade) Ef- fie Cannon, Fannie Gibson, Joe Harrelson, Berry Hunter, Joncie Janes, Tate Pyatt, Tracy Sigmon, Lottie Wilson. . COMPULSORY EDUCATION Bill Introduced in Legislature for State-Wide Compulsury At tendance Other Bills. : LATE NEWS OF INTEREST ; At the regular annual meeting of the stockholders of. the Bank of Old Fort, at OldJ Fort, Tuesday, ; the following officers were elected fortthe ensuing year: L. P. Craw ford, president; P.-1 H. Mashburn, t vice-pres.; F.. M.r Bradley, J.cashier nd J. S. Bradley, assistant cashier. P. Crawford, P. EL.; Mashburn, J. L. Burgin;,J. S. Bradley, F. ?M.Braliley and W. ; P. Artz were elected directors. The report of thecashier showed a 1 good, year's c business add a substantial ' growth. tThe regular dividend' was paid. Judge Archbald Impeached. Washington Dispatch, 13th. Robert W. Archbald of Scran ton, Pa., for 29 years an occupant of judicial positions upopthe Penn sylvania State bench, the Federal district bench and - the United States Commerce Court, today was adjudged guilty by the United States Senate of "high crimes and misdemeanors," was stripped of his office and forever disqualified from holding positions' of public' honor or public trust. Raleigh, Jan. 11 Dellinger, of Gaston, introduced today in the House a bill for a state-wide' com- pulsory attendance of public schools of all children between the ages of seveq ana twelve. - A violation is a misdemeanor with fifty dollars fine, or thirty days in jail. County superintendents .are constituted "educational inspectors" in the en forcement act, with power to de- .mand the pay rolls of factories to verify reports made to them. In I the Senate, , Bry ant, of Durham, introduced a bill regulating, the liability of common carriers in cas es where employees are injured, nrnkiug provisions of act of vCon- gress apply to North Carolina. An amendment by Representa tive Williams, of Buncombe, set tled today the sharp fight that de veloped yesterday in the House over reform v in rules that would give relief, from greatexpense and voluminoiisness of private bills for charters and other purposes that in the past have flooded and block- ed legislation. The much mooted rule provided for a new standing committee on private bills to weed out those that the secretary of state should charter and the consolidation of others as far as possible and exact pa.yment of fees and "constitutional thirty days no tice of application. The Williams amendment provided for a new "committee on public local and pri vate bills," the committee to con solidate and condense as far as pos sible, see that fees are paid but not exact thirty days notice of introduction. Bills .of overshadowing impor tance just introduced in the House are those by Representative Jus tice, of Guilford, providing for preferential legalized statewide pri maries and for a "corrupt Practices Act," in prevention of election frauds, and bills by Representative Williams, of Buncombe, to place all water power, electric and gas companies doing public business under the supervision of the cor poration commission as to rate-re gulation and general control, and, a 'bill providing a scale automobile license taxation from $5 to $15 ac cording to horse power and for au tomobile regulation. National Capital Gossip. Wft:ViirnTtnn Tl H T.n 19, In tho "Money Trust" investiga- ,nieresi,n& zoning .matter tion by the House Committee, it id Local and National Affairs shown that J. P. Morgan has un- In Condensed Form. f3fr VllQ rrnt rrl tliA nnn.mnnn oitm I " . , , . .1 Congnssm.nn Douchton has in- txoex vX , . , . .. troducrd a bill appropriating 5C0.. 000 for a Federal buifdini? at 162,000,000; and that during the last ten years he has actually plac ed for investment, in securities of interstate corporations more than $2,000,000,000. Manufacturers, and their repre sentatives, from the industrial parts of the country are in Washington to urge upon Congress that ratR Lenoir. 'There was aa incre&so of fifteea million dollars in total resources of State banks in North Carolina ia 1912, according to the figures of the corporation commission. Mr. D. K. Thorna, a large pro in the new tariff legislation be flxed Prtv-wner of Greensboro, has that are. favorable to their special affrwd 10 ve a ils tor a new interests. The representative of curt house for Uoilford couuty. the National Association -of Manu- Thft gt ls Vfl,opd Rl 20-000. facturing Perfumers claims that As a result of the freeze inCili- the women of the country will uf- fornia, by which it is estimatM fer if the duties on perfumery ma- citrus fruit growers in Cilifornia te fials are advanced. lost $25,000,000, oranges hare ad- In financial circles of Washing- vncd 50 cents a box wholesale nt ton the money market is easier. Las Angle$ and grape fruit 25 Shortly after February first. Sec- cents a box. retary MacVeagh of the Treasury Rowan county is soon to hsvo Department will send out the new- one of the largest and most modern ly designed nickels to replace those poultry farms in th Stste. K. F. now in circulation. One side of the Corliss, who recently camV to new design is an Indian head, and Salisbury from Bradford, Pa., U on the other is the figure of a buf- establishing the farm two rails falo. According to the latest figures of expert poultoiunu in charge. E. Dana Uurand, director of the census, there has Ik?h a slight rail ing off in the birth rnt in thi country, and it now apiears UihI 104 boys arc born for every 100 girls. ' y ' " " Gifford Pinchot, former Chief Forester of the United States, pre dicts an assault upon national con servation of our national resources. He declares that the cnemjes of the whole policy of conservation are stalking behind the doctrine of States rights, and that there is an eager, aleit, well organized move ment to have the national forests and resources turned over to the States, in the hope that the coal lands, water power sites, and the national forests will become the prey of spoliators and land grabbers. According to a Washingtoa special, Gtttgrraruan E. Yatea Webb of the Ninth district, and whosa borne h at hhelby, will be a candidal for United States Sena tor to succeed Senator Lee S. Orennao. When interviewed Mr. Webb neither afiirmfd nor denied the report. Tom Creek Happenings. Woodlawn. Jan. 14 W. a ilrslj left Ut wt-k for YncT county. F. A HaII ho4 retnrrwd from a rudt to Altapua Bonnie llea!y is improrin tlowly. We bow he will l able tolont aln. Charlie Ward and C W. Godfrey Bare gooe to South Cartel! Da. MIkwi Gecfa Stroad acd Oeorgrajn oa Elliott were jcqwu of Mra. J. U. Stroud Saturday and Sunday. A l. Hetmley w.a in Marion on tna- inea daring th wek. Da LSI. -rs- Major General Frost was ' very tnuch in evidence hereabouts sev- ;lral mornings this wek. It is ex- ypected.that Lieut !; General jShow will spread his blanket about this eountry soon. 1 s Patronize home industry. Revenue Officers Kill Moonshiner. Battling for their lives with des perate moonshiners in the : Hang ing Dog section of Cherokee Coun ty near Murphy, revenue agents Sunday morning shot." and killed Mack Moss, onebf the moonshiners, and captu red another, accord ing to telephone ' .ad vices received . by I Revenue Agent Sams at Asheville. : ;Thi January terni of McDowell Superior Court, for'tbe trial of civ il cases only;; convenes next Mon day, Judge C. C. -Lyon presiding. The term- will ' continue : for.' two weeks. The calendar for the term is published on another page iof this paper. The; majoritv of the cases y are petty, actions wherein various and sundry s?nall amounts are involved. . ' . McEntire Given Ten Years. V Rutherford ion 8aat Vth. After devoting a week to crimi nal cases the docket was disposed of Monday morning with the sen tencing of Will McEntire, Frank Crane and W. M. Gossett, who were last week found guilty of lar ceny in connection-with the estate of L. Bl Hines.. McEntire and Crane were given terms of ten years each in the State prison and Gossett three years, all at bard la bor. Millard Parton, who was al so a defendant in this casef was ac quitted by the jury 'and discharged by the court. The def ehdanti found guilty gave notice of an appeal, but it is thought that Gossett alone will carry his case u r to the Sup reme court. He has been released on an $800 .bond pending the ac tion of the higher court. v In the caseof Will McEntire and! Fire at Nebo. Nebo, Jan. 10. The residence of Mr. J. L. Padgett was com pletely destroyed by fire this after noon, flames breaking out about 2 o'clock and gaining fatal bead- way before suilicient aid could ar rive to check them. The family was away from home at the time. and the fire seems to have caught from a kitchen flue. The total loss is estimated at$3, 000. A piano, sewing-machine and a few household goods were saved. A small amount of insurance was in force, but this is far from suffi cient to coyer the loss. Gov. Kitchin's Pardons. IUldgb Times. - Governor Kitchin . during his term granted about 1,200 pardons, a slight increase' jover the number of his predecessors, but the per centage is. practically tho same. There hay e been more prisoners and consequently more ; petitions. Governor Kitchin has never giren "The Merry Widow" at Asheville. -The Merry Widow." a cew aiid lar l.n prodnctioa of which will riiit Abbe ville, to play at the auditorium ca Sat urday right. January 18th. cer aaez collent illnatraticm of what the public want. Under the managerial dirrrtioa of llenry W Savage, Frmnx Lehara de lightful operetta waa produced In Kew York about fire year ago to be xct, on Monday night. October 21, 1907 at the Nrw Amaterdaxa Th'ratro where It enjoyed a continuoxsaengxstrmentof on wild year. When one consider the numerous entertainments that adrrrtii thernelTe as baring apent lwo years in New York" on admires the court rain t that marks Mr. Savage's jmblidtj pro jection of 'The Merry Widow." The company that win b srn In Asbevin was selected by Mr. Savage to make the trans-continental tour fmtn Kew York to San 'Francisco- It include Mabel Wilber, Charle Meaklna, Oscar Flg xnan; Arthor Wooley, F. J. McCarthy, V ernon Dalhart, Olga Roller, and aer eral others from the original company. Mr. Siva Ulos pride la tie UJL HLzt 'The'Merry "Widow has not retrogrwe ed fdnce Its well remembered prrnlers in New York. He announce that the present organization Ls the beat of tbe nnmerona' American casta that have In terprcted Lchars rnaaterpicce. With Al fred lioulton directing Mr. Savage's out the names of the convicts re fused clemency, but there have special "Merry Orcbeetra" of grand been thousands of 'them. Tho North Carolina Legislature opera strength. It gons without Mjing UlaI 'Franx Lrhar s entraacixis? core will be briliiantly interpreted- Ifce rale vt Uua ml Wuiuock'n un Tliara- others charged, with murder,- tbo .Monday endorsed Jophns Laaleb Stt1 toSioS State takes a nol pros with leave. for a cabinet position. ; , ,!otecat. Adv.
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