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MARION PROGRESS A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY. ESTABLISHED ia%. MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 27. 1916. VOL. XX—NO. 35 NEBO COMIVIENCEIVIENT Rev. Harry North to Preach Annual Sermon—Address Friday by Hon. R. R. Williams. The aoDual commeDcemeDt exer> •cises of Nebo Hi^h School will take place Thursday and Friday of this week. Go Thursday moroioj; at 11 a. m. Rev. Harry North, of Durham, will deliver the annual sermon. The class day exercises will take place Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, and Thursday evening will be devoted to the recitation and declamation contest. The liter ary address will be delivered Fri day morning at 11 o’clock by Hon. R. R. Williams, of Asheville. On Friday evening the annual play will be given. Following is the program for this afternoon and tonight: THURSDAY, 2:00 P. M. CLASS DAY EXERCISES. Solo — Polonaise — Miss Pearle Gibbs. Salutatory—Ola Wall. Class History—Fay McGimsey. Class Poem—Geneva Byrd, Piano Solo—Eoline Harp—Anna Conley. Prophecy—Ruby Giles. Class Will—Nelie Gibbs. Class Song—Written by Anna Conley. Presentation—Lona Goforth. Valedictory—Zoe Yoder. THURSDAY, 8:00 P. M. GnULi’S KECITATION CONTEST. Zoe Yoder—Polly of the Circus. Geneva Byrd—Archie Dean. Ola Wail—Mothei^ Love. Mattie Hunter-The Sioux Chief’s Daughter. Katherine Yoder—Gazelle and Swan. Dorothy Hargrave—Boy’s Bear Story. boy’s declamation contest. Bruce Tate—The Chivalry and Traditions of the South. Jeter Morgan—Aycock’s Contri bution to Education. Dealer Patton—Policy of Crom well. William Morgan—Getting the Right Start. John Stacy—Liberty. Crawford Landis—The Training Camp of the Future. Registrars and Judges Appointed. The county board of election— W. K. M. Gilkey, J. E. Neal and C. C. Lisenbee—met Saturday and appointed registrars and judges to conduct the primary election on June 3, and the general election November T, 1916. Following is the list, the first named in each instance being registrar and the second and third judges: Marion—A. B. Gilkey, W. H. Hill and W. C. McCall, Buck Creek—D. A. Snipes, Tom Patton and Leonard Turner. Turkey Cove—T. T. Wright, J. Y. Hicks and W. E. Willis. North Cove—T. M. Minish, J. P. Heanessee and William McCall. Cedar Cove—R. T. Avery, J. E. Wilson and Melvin McCall. Nebo—J. F. Wilson, T. W. Stacy and J. A. Mason. Higgins—C. B. Morgan, J. H. Keller and E. S. Brown. Dysartsville — John G. Pyatt, T. B. Landis and R. E. Roper. Bracketts—W. C. Raburn, Geo. F. Rhom and J. W. Wigg. Glenwood—Jas. H. Raburn, Jas. M. Haney and W. B. Pyatt. Montfords—W M. Wilson, J F. Morgan and J. C. Crawford. Crooked Creek—C. L. Lytle M. T. Davis and W. G. Noblett. Broad River—James Ledbetter, T. R. Nanney and A. W. Nesbitt. Old Fort—F. H. Marley, J. D. Elliott and William Treverton. Epworth League Elects Officers. At the regular April business meeting of the Epworth League officers for the next six months were elected as follows: Miss Sarah Hudgins, president; Miss Bessie Tate, vice-president; Mally James, recording secretary; Grayson Neal, treasurer; Miss Gertrude Jones, jorrespondence secretary; Miss Mary Douglas Gay, superintendent of devotional paeetings. Miss Ruby James, superintendent of social service; Miss Mary Hudgins, su perintendent of literary meetings; Miss Lucile Conley, saperintendent of missionary meetings. Lookout committee: Misses Edna Tate, Lo- ma James, Pauline Conley and Sarah Troutman, Grayson Neal and Mally James. The devotional meetings of the League are held every Sunday evening at 7:30 in the Sunday school room of the Methodist church. The subject for the meet ing next Sunday evening is “In fluence,” led by Miss Sarah Hud gins. The young people are cor dially invited to attend these meet ing. Road Engineers Visit Marion. Mr. E. W. James, chief of the United States Office of Public Roads; Mr. W. L. Spoon, senior government road engineer, and Mr. W. S. Fallis, State highway engineer, who are inspecting the Central Highway through the State, were here last Thursday The party arrived about 12 o’clock and at 1 o’clock these gentlemen addressed the road commissioners of McDowell and a number of citi zens at a meeting at the court house. Mr. Fallis stated that the purpose of the meeting was to con fer with the commissioners with reference to placing the road through the county under State supervision. That is if arrange ments can be made with counties covering fifty-one per cent of the total mileage of the highway to have the work of maintenance done under the supervision of govern ment engineers, two government engineers will be assigned to super vise the maintenance. Mr. Fallis stated, however, that owing to the condition of two links of the high way in Burke county it was im possible for the State highway commission to make the same prop osition to McDowell at this time. ^EWS FROM THE COUNTY irief Mention of Some of the Hap penings in McDowell County— Items About Home People. ASHFOBO # Ashford, April 24.—Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Connelly spent Saturday in Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cranford of Ma rion spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives here. Miss Paye English attended the com mencement at Bnrnsville last Thursday and Friday. She returned home Satur day accompanied by her brother and two cc»usins who have been in school there. Mis» Mamie Wiseman and Beatrice Brown were in Marion shopping Satur day. E. E. English made a business trip to Marion Saturday. Miss Louise Crown made'a trip to Marion Monday. Clarence Wiseman of Linville Falls visited friends and relatives here Satur day. John W McCall and wife spent Sun day at North Cove. Dewey H. Brown has returned home from Burnsville, where he has been in school. The young people of this community enjoyed a social Saturday night given at the home of Joe Wilson. Farmers are taking advantage of this pretty weather, and are all busy plant ing corn. Rev. S. Simpson will preach at Con cord next Sunday at eleven o’clock. Joe Carpenter, foreman of the lime works at Ashford spent Saturday and Sunday with homefolks at Altamoiit. Miss Ethel Wilson left Tuesday for Marion where she will attend the nor mal there for a few days. Mi3s Maud Wiseman passed through Ashford Tuesday enroute to her home at Linville Falls, after spending several days with her mother at ffickory. Harry Caldwell visited friends at Ash ford Sunday. Mrs. Anna Root of Roanoke is visit ing her mother, Mrs. M. M. Connelly. Britt Introduces Bill for Marion Building. Congressman Britt has intro duced a bill to appropriate $100,- 000 for a federal building at Marion. In a letter to Dr. Geo. L White of this place Mr. Britt says: ‘^You may say to the people there that it is my purpose to do my very best to get a favorable report on this bill, and I am not without hope of getting the desired action be fore the close of the present con gress.” The bill introduced by Mr. Britt, which has been referred to the committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reads as follows: ""Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con gress assembled. That the Secre tary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ‘ procession of automobiles, headed by*; cause to be purchased a post office oneida band. Miss Myrtle Coo!?er of Marion, Me- STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK Items Concerning Events of In* terest and Importance Through out the State. Water from the ~bls new dmm ha« been turned on. at the Granite Fallal plant and it is now dev^oping 4M horsepower. , Reports coming from South MiUS^ Camden county, state that consider^ able damage was done there by ^ storm almost cyclonic In yiolenc* ra^ Goldsboro will throw wide open hee ^tes to the North Carolina Baraca! Association and State Philathea Unionj which will convene there April 27 tof 30. North Carolina leads the world witlli 316 cotton mills which consume aibj nually 902,611 bales of cotton. Nortk Carolina produces 970,479 bales of cot* ton per year. The victorious Graham debatera when they came home from Chapeli Hill were met at the station by a longl and Boyd Harden were driven uptowni in a machine decorated in their honor* Members of the Buncombe county; board of commissioners who hava/ ben away inspecting various methods, returned enthusiastic over .concretai paving and Chairman Johnson stated! that the Asheville to Ridgecrest road, 16 miles in length, will be constructed of concrete. site in the city of Marion, Dowell County, North Carolina, to cost not exceeding $20,000, and to erect thereon a suitable build ing, including fireproof vaults, heating apparatus, and so forth, for the use and accommodation of the United States post office and other Goverament offices. See. 2. That the sum of $100,-j Tinder-dry woods all the way from 000 is hereby appropriated for the Kinston to the sea are burning. The purchase of said site and erection damage in the vicinity of Kinston so - .J u-ij* J far amounts to some thousands of dol- of said post office building under, between Kinston and More- the rules prescribed by law.” head City the loss runs into tetna. ot — I thousands. PaHs of smoke have hung Much Damage Done by Forest Fires over some of the towns for several in McDowell County. Forest fires have been raging in THOMPSON’S FORK. Thompson's Fork, April 24.—Mrs. W. M. Wilson of Sugar Hill is visiting homefolks here. Miss Mary Ollie Conley, who has been visiting relatives and friends here for some time, returned to her honie at Ma rion Saturday. Mrs. M. L. Janes made a business trip to Marion Saturday. Vanns Brown and sister, Louise, of Glenwood weie here one day last week. Clayton Janes visited his grandparents near Gibbs Sunday. Guy Brown attended the commence ment of Glenwood school the latter part of last week. Paul Williams of Sugar Hill is visit ing his sister here. Will Cuthbertson made a business trip to Marion one day last week. Quite a number of the x>eople of this community attended the entertainment at Nebo Friday night. Villa Again Locnted. Francisco Villa, slightly wound ed but not incapacitated, is report ed to have moved into tbe moun tainous region northwest of Parral. This information, which has reach ed General Funston, according to dispatches from San Antonio, Tex as, is from a source that causes him to regard it as authentic. Villa was last reported seen at Monoava, about 85 miles by trail southwest of Satevo, where the most advanced of General Pershing’s force were. General Carranza has asked Washington for an early reply to his note of April 12 suggesting that American troops be recalled from Mexico. several sections of McDowell coun ty during the past week. Many hundreds of acres of timber lands were burned over, practically all the trees being killed by tbe flames. The most serious damage suffered was in Nebo township, where a schoolhouse, two churches, a dwell ing house belongiog to Marion Ed wards, and about fifty thousand feet of lumber belonging to the W. A. Conley estate, were burned. At this writing it is impossible to estimate the damage, however a number of citizens claim that more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of property was destroyed. Just how the fires in the different sections originated is not known, , j , ^ . J 4.U c ^ hills to secure |10,000 each for Clliy* but It IS supposed that the fire Morehead city with which t2| Charles E. Taylor, president of Wil mington Savings Bank and Trust Co., had one of his hands badly hurt an4' received a number of bruises and ward Aitchison, fiish commissioner of Rhode Island, had one of his legs brofe* en when Mr. Taylor’s automobllfli crashed into a tree near Delgado MiUf^ between Wrightsville and Wilmingtoil The North Carolina Creamery As* sociation held its regular meeting la Lincolnton. There are 12 creamerias in the state, but not ail are represent^ ed. Among the visitors attending ara J. W. Robin«on, president of Hlckorf creamery; A. O. Mltchem, buttermakei^ of the Hickory creamery, and Gleofli Yoder of the Lexington cceamery. Injuries received when he fell into a tub of boiling water proved fatal t®! Charles Albert, son of Mr. and Mn|^ D. D. Brinson of New Bern. Congressman Hood has introduce^ WOODLAWN Woodlawn, April 24.—Mrs. Yancey is visiting relatives in Fayetteville. “Uncle Bill” Quinn is reported serious ly ill. The forest fires in North Cove town- ship'^has been raging for several days. The loss is great. Thousands and thous ands of dollars worth of timber has been destroyed. Jiimes C. Goforth spent Easter with homefolks at Dysartville. M;rs. A. L. Dale has been suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism but is improving. The farmers are getting along fine planting corn, but rain is badly needed. which did the largest damage was caused by a spark from a railroad engine on the C. C. & O. Railway, since the fire was first discovered near Hankins station. purchase sites for the postofElce build* ings. The annual Good Roads conventioB^ held under the auspices of the North Carolina Good Roads Association, will be held at Wilmington and Wrights ville, N. C., June 20, 21 and 22. The board of county commissioners ot New Hanover county and the chamber of commerce of Wilmington are mak ing elaborate arrangements for thla I convention and it is expected that it will be the largest and most successful: ever held Ia the state. The fourth annual contest of the High School Debating Union character ized by President Graham as the big«. gest contest ever staged in North Car- Spartanburg is to have its 22nd annual musical festival May 17,18 and 19, in the Converse College auditorium. Mr. Edmon Morris is director of the festival. The New York Symphony Society Or chestra of 50 men with Mr. Walter Damrosch, as conductor, will be the orchestral attraction. Dr. F. W. Ihne Dead. Dr. Frederick W. Ihne died last Monday at 12:20 a. m. at his home at Graphiteville in the 81st year of his age, after suffering nearly a ! year from paralysis. Dr. Ihne was born in Nestphalia, Germany, stud ied at Heidelberg and Bonn, and served a year in the King’s Hus sars at Bonn. He was for ten years president of the Polytechnic to an end when the ^ . • 1 * ham High School, representing Society of Chicago, was a judge at the World’s Fair, Chicago, 1893-4, and was honorary member of the Academy of France. He was a member of the Lutheran church and was benevolent to the needy. Since 1899 he has lived at Graph iteville, N. C. The funerar services were the affirmative, defeated Wilson on the negative of the query; “Resol^fd, That the United States should adopt the policy of greatly enlarging its navy.” The speakers for Graham were Miss Myrtle Cooper and Boyd Harden, for Wilson, Wade Gardner and David Isear. Concentrated and vitalizing interest from 84 North Car- i olina counties, 325 high schools and con-1 interested audiences of 100,000 citl- zens of the commonwealth centered on ducted by the Rev. B. S. Lassiter comprehen- Tuesday afternoon at 4 o clock and interment made in near Old Henry. the cemetery the final sive state-wide debate. 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