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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY. ESTABLISHED 1896. MARION, N. &, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1915. VOL. XIX NO. 29 NEW PROHIBITION LAW Senator Giles Gives Summary of the Anti-Jug Bill and Other Measures of Interest. The anti-jug law, which' was credits should be put on the tax books-at their actual value. NEWS FROM THE COUNTY I am of the opinion that the next Brief Mention of Some ofthe Hap- Legislature will provide for asched-1 penings In McDowell County mmm m ule of fees in all the State institu tions that will increase the income V of' the institutions and thereby 'Items Atout Home People. BRIDGE WATER- EDUCATIONAL COLUMN Maud Barnard. CdJttr. m.mlm School Notes. Every school committeeman, every school teacher and every school child is expected to take part in the county commencement March 27th. State Supervisor L. C. Brogden mssed by the General Assembly i'.,!: ' ...uj Bridewater, March 23. Mr, M. P nt adioarned. ioes into effect S VZiT T :JCI "! Tato died here at her home on JIuddy r ;n . 101K : ft ff . ASU1.T 0 100 option last Wednesday afternoon after a u u mat the next legislature will do 8hort illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Tate act in substance is that no person, something that will change the way was sixty-two years of age and ia ur- firm or corporation can receive m which the present state farms !jvmbyeri?sband; f?r ht??- of Kalcich h vmilna lho Ncbo mare man one qa oi spirituous and prisons are manajjed, and als0 M'wl Hih School this week. i;nnnr within fiftAftn cnnsAr.ntfm Lit . . . . , en Conley of Hankins, Mrs. Wade " --C. ,7 T . piacetne management or the state's Hennessee of Garden City, and Miss The schoo at Hankins closed days, tnis to oe snipped in one business on such footing that every Carrie, who was at home with her-one last Saturday. The patrons seem package, andm one Receptacle, and department of State will be manag- son. John Tate of Marion, also a nnm- WCH pleased with the good work ro uo . , more efflciently and with greater r ""'u"a done by Misses Byrd and Gibbs. TinrSIIII I I CUQl V fj ail V IIU UUL I . A ll 1 I ' vr M w a WM. I that. cViinnftd in his nwn nmA ' . , , . . Daring her life she made a wide circle wtv t-tr - iiooKing to tnis ena ana wnen it is 1 1 -1 1 " 1 A II Supt. Moss announces that Nebo High School Commencement exer cises will be given April 15th and 16th. The school at Cbapcl Hill closed last Wednesday. That night i very interesting program was ren dered. STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK i . Items Concerning Event of In terest and Importance Through out the State. Dr. C. W. Bain, hetd of the de partment of Greek at the Universi ty, died at Chapel Hill Monday. Swain county highway commis sioners have decided to issue $100, 000 of bonds for public road work P. 1m Green, of Shelby, was struck and killed by a Southern Rail way train near Charlotte Wednes day. The voters of the city of Ashe villo Tuesday adopted the commis sion form of government for tho management of the a Hairs of tho citv bv a majority of GS2 votes. Rev. George J ackson, erstwhslo colored minister, closed a checkered carecrSaturday by receiving a death sentence in Burke Superior Court Woodlawn school closed March at Morganton on the charce of com- 5th with a verv nleasinir entertain, mining a criminal assault on Ella f0 4mX AV A A X 4 a Av-v tm mm mmm I 1 Y t t m i - m a j I - r ui A.&iaxvAs caxiva ovuuiuuvauvca w uu vriai ana siguea ior oy mmseii. Ana worked out X ftm very stronglv 0f receive with deepest regret the news of in ail cases it must oe ior ms own the opinion that several hundred her death. private use. 1 his bill further pro- thousand dollars will be saved to the The deceased was a faithful worker KrAaa that not mnrft than flvA oral- L in the Snow Hill Methodlat chnrch of ImknfhftAr mar be rficmved hv t Z t-. ' A t which she was a member. , x uui sure xwepreseoiauve oyroo The fanerai services were conducted any person, firm or. corporation Conley's friends will be clad to Lt the home bv bar naator. Rev. Mmn within fifteen days, and this to be know that he was looked upon asa of Nebo, and interment waa made at m i . mt t Ml I I.. lor his own private use. ne pi" safe and conservative member. He tne Aate ramllv wirying ground. is verv riffid in its provision that Ui, nnA : Mr- and Mrs- Charles Dewev, A. A. all spirituous liquors must be or- Uih AnA Mfinowsll fionntv haS lL and,r!l bmK.n ment given by the pupils. Deal, a colored woman. dered and receipted for by the per- r." The seventh crade examinations According to figures issued Toes- son to whom-it is delivered, and renrPcftntt;vft Tt wae R nlnrA Giles and Roby Conley of Marion. Mr. were given on last Friday to all day b lhe Brtlsh admiralty fiftea further provides for the inspection UrmA pnnnoil with him q to irvfti and Mrs. Raymond Ro we of Glen Al- pupils wishing to receive their British steamers weresunk outof a of the books of "the public carrier, legislation and to know that we pine' and Mra 51111167 Kincald of Mor- public'school diploma at County ot 8,734 vcwls of more than . , . ... . , , eanion atienaea tne xnnerai or .airs I he jner .bill which proviaea could agree on everything that was Tate Friday. .. , il i . '. ! ' t ill-. - I ' ' ' in suoscance tnat no liquor snouia done ettecting the county. Mr. Joseph Morrison, sixty-seven years be received b.V-anv person, firm or DjF.Gn.i3a. of ace, died Monday morninK -after a corporation, except for medicinal Drief illness of pneumonia at the home ma ku k r,ofi Nearly Half Million Dollars Dis- of his daughter, Mrs. c. D. Hemphill. yui puooi to uviu vf w uuwuoii- i j -( - . , Commencement. 300 tons which arrived at British ports or departed from them from n!J . r r i i tributed to Various Counties. ,iwd to two children. a. CD. Hemp- ed to assemble on tho court bonso .Tho Albemarle Normal and Col 6- The Mate board of education ap, hill of this place, and Mr. Billie Moni- Uwn. with the school children from -'----ua, , Countv Commencement March 27 January 31st to March 3rd by Ger- m. , ... man submarines. Tho total number ine parent ana representees of Hvcs last WM or tne amerent scnoois are request- tutional by the best constitutional lawyers in the Senate, and even the bill which did-.pass- was ;lieldby p0-.tioning : the school equalizing of TeXM-Md ooe Mrs- Httiu!l schools . in the county at 100 A"f- Atkinson, prind- some to be unconstitutional. fund for the state last Friday dis- ains 01 narKe county, interment was made at Snow Hill Methodist church nVWlr Fmm thU noint th nw I P. will be moved to Stlubury and w r- mi r . a. tit win occupy me uncompieiea ouua- The State-wide Primary bill tributed $409,630.45 with which to Taegday afternoon, fQneral eervlc8 rade will start, and the march will which passed provides for a State- project the term to an average of being condocted by A. P. Hunt4r. Mr. be made to the sraded scbool buna- - . . J .. . wide Primary in June for all ffa- 100.2 days. tional. State and Conntv officers. The money allotted the several leavea a hoat of frienda who monrn , 7"- v I - IrtAfl n . ". . .1 A. il 1 Tnis biu applies to ootn political counties in ine state comes iram Morrison was a good christian man and iDg where the following County Commencement program will bo parties; the: primary to be held for what is known as the state equal uttle siater o Qlen gpent e each party on the same day, with izing fund. It was provided for by week-end here with Mrs. T. A Seals, jr. the same poll holders and under the 1913 general assembly and rais- Bob Seals spent Sunday at Marion the rules and regulations that gov- ed by a five cent levy on each $100 JulcutioL . 4 . . , r . -. i j . .j Ai John W. Ballew has retnrned to his em general elections. Several valuation and set aside from the wQrk at Elkhorn Ky ppending a counties in the State were exempt- state tax levy. few days here with his family. ed from the nrovisions of the act The term of 100.2 days lacks Messrs. Boby Conley and Thad Hun- in fat. oc nniintir nffiraFC ara nnn. thrAA And OHP-tPnth daVSof eOUSlI- UiT Of NODO Spent Sunday in i-L lut no uuimv.r wxxavv& o v i r a. i - carried out: Invocation Rev. W. H. Moore. Recitation Contest. Declamation Contest. Composition Contest. Spelling Contest. Educational Address. Presenting diplomas to those BridK passing the course of study pre an tnsuiuiion wnicn laiied to mt- terialize. Thb property was offer ed the State for the school for tho blind and was civen to Mr. Atkin son on the same terms offered tho State. Snow Three to Five Feet Deep in South Dakota. We had seventy-two consecu tive hours of snow and then some later. Three to five feet deep. At 2:30 p. m.t the Athletic con- You don't know what, that much nAriWI MnDnwAlt flnnntr. hnw-line? the term of last year which water. scribed in the seventh grade. ver. was not exemnt. McDowell went 103.3 davs. On its face that I . . . r hpincr lrpr.fr. t. t.Kft incfAnnft nf would carry disaDoointment, but A Q, t. v.. ll. , tests will Uke place on North Main snow means, " writes Dr. A. J.. iy- two contributing causes make it a from aien Ainino after anendin a few street The following events will Buualoe, of Mitchell, b. D. to his i Awwra. wjwu vwv w -wwamwj u w r i i " ' - I to a source of Strength. The salaries of days with her sister, Mrs. Scott. ed himself in the campaign legalized primary. ... - . j placed so, many additional children vides the means for assessing and Y , , . . i . collecting taxes was amended in the teachers have been raised and the compulsory school law has Bill. .several instances. The present law is a compromise between thp 1911 law and that under which taxes were assessed this year. The State Corporation. Commission and the county commissioners in each county are given fuller power for the assessing and collecting of taxes, and the list takers are given more exacting duties and much more power than they have here tofore had. The machinery, act adopted was not in full keeping with the recommendations of the State Corporation' Commission, but Chairman Travis of "the Commis sion says that under the present law he will be able to get more uniformity in the assessing of pro perty than we have heretofore had m North Carolina. It was the gen eral opinion by the joint 'finance committee of the two houses that the time is near at hand in North Carolina when agricultural elands; farming utensils andpesohal "prof perty on which men depend ior livelihood should be decreased in in the schools that a larger number of teachers had to be employed. dome Dome, March 12. We are glad to see the farmers in the field ploughing again. We hope for a spell of fair weather for be contested in by representatives 1 brother, Mr A. R. Buffalo, of from all the schools: Fifty -yard Marion, telling him of a winter that dash, 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, exceeded all reccords for snow in 440 yard dash. Running broad that State. . . t . tT .1 ..... jump, itunning nign jumrjL anot i was in me country tne last day put. Pole vault. Sack race. Po-1 of the snow.r he continued in his And while the term has been short- awhile as the farmers are getting be- tato race. ened by a half week, the number of with their work, v m j . 4.1 wio ;f Miss Cordelia Nesbitt of Fairriew is many thousands. j. H. Garrison made a business trio The apportionment for McDowell to Cedar creek this week. county is $3,359,10. J. W. Stroud is , visiting homefolks here. DvsartSVille School Closes 30th. R. L. Clements made a business trip to mm juouui.&ia uonog uuo wwt. The Marion Band will furnish music for the occasion. their ssessed value, and solvent Entertainment at Hankins. It has been some time since I had the opportunity of attending a public school closing, but I feel The Dysartsville School closes x Ledbetter made a business trip to safe in saving that there is not a W. O. Ledbetter and Q. C. Ledbetter of Marion are visiting their parent, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Ledbetter. Tuesday, March 30th. Hon. W. T. Asheville during the week. Morgan of Marion has kindly con sented to deliver an address at 11 o'clock of this date. We are very fortunate in , securing Mr. Morgan. In the afternoon the contest of recitations and declamations will be had. Lillie Landis, Willie Jarrett, Hattie Haney and Cola Daves are those who are contesting for the prize in reciting. Frank Glass, Cronje Laughridge and Key Landis are in the declaimer's contest. school in McDowell county that has had a better entertainment than the one given at Hankins on March 13, under the supervision of the efficient teachers, Misses Maggie Byrd and Dora Gibbs, It is a credit to the community and SUNNYVALE Sunnyvale, March 13. We are hav ing nice weather and the people are making gardens and planting potatoes, the county to secure teachers like Our Snndav school is progressing Kisses Byrd and Gibbs. miely- ,a t The auditorium was beautifully rercy noiuneia ami ,ru xauon decorated ,n overgrcens and nar oioewrwBv.. cissus. The songs, drills, recita Roscoe Shuford of Busick was herj elC- were exceeding- on business tnis weer. ,y weU ndered. Cicero, the ne- - Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson and m character in the nlar "Mr In tne evening at 7:30 the con-1 children are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jeremiah," was exceptionally good cert wiirbe given. A large audi- Padgett. . . Jesse, and the Good-night'drill by eicht ence fejexpected V' .. : . . . ...I little' girls was also very id terest- a v nncrop n nri mn it-i nnnp vx7 1 . mm ... r uJdVV" r . "w -r mg. Aoout ow .visitor! were . Ttfl M. - JdcNairy has returned be given at' Greenlee school on present and all enjoyed tho; enter- from HaieigO. irnuay uiuw aiarcuitf. i laiuuiuw iuiuiu letter. 'It took me netrly an hour to go three miles. I never saw it just this way before. We had more snow in February than usual. I rode on a sleigh ISO miles during the month. 1 Trains have been out of commis sion part of the time. Ooe good thing there wasn't much win3 during the long snow and it didn't drift as much as usuaL The days are now longer and the son goes. Lhlghcr, so we are honing that tho snow will soon all melt. If it goes fast the streams will overflow their banks. "It has been a bard, cold winter 1 t e . ana too c&rtn is xrozen live to seven. feet deep. Ice is twenty-five or moro inches thick on tho lakes and rivere you can drive right across with a load. Not much work can I I TJ 1- .t- f L stock and some have large bunches ui Miiiui mat . - j t Alii, however, is getting too hfgh tolcavo any margin for tho stock people.. V Renew your subscription, pla
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