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MARION PROGRESS
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY.
ESTABLISHED 1896.
MARION, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1916.
VOL. XXI—NO. 2
STRIKE ORDER REVOKED
Brotherhoods Revoke Walkout Or
der as Senate Passes Adam
son Eight-Hour Bill.
The threat of a general railroad
strike which has been haDgini; like
a pail over the country for a month
was lifted Saturday nij?ht. Three
hours after the senate had pai
without amendment the Adamson
ei(rht-hour day bill, passed by the
House Friday, the heads of the
four great railroad employes’
brotherhoods tele^^raphed six hun
dred odd code messages to their
general chairmen in all parts of
the country cancelling the strike
order issued over a week ago to
take effect Mond^ty morning at
o’clock.
The legislative expedient to avert
the strike was passed in the Senate
by a vote of 43 to 28—almost a
striel party vote—amid stirring
scenes, after many Senators, Demo
crats and flepublicans, had fought
desperately to amend the measure
by provisions designed to prevent
industrial disasters in the future.
Some Senators, thoroughly arous
ed, declared Congress was being
coerced into enactment of legisla
tion that it did not desire, and that
it knew would return to plague it
in the future.
Id both houses the measure was
signed within a few minutes after
the final vote in the Senate and it
was sent at once to the White
House. The bill was signed by
President Wilson Sunday morning
in his private car at the union
station in Washington, where he
stopped on his way from Shadow
Lawn, N, J., to Hodgenville, Ky.
Officials of the brotherhoods who
witnessed the final passage of the
bill had announced early in the
night that cancellation of the strike
would not be ordered until the bill
had been signed by the President
and actually had become law. But
kiter they conferred, changed their
minds and flashed the code mes
sages signalling to the waiting
trainmen of the country the mes
sage that a satisfactory settlement
had been secured.
The bill that stopped the strike
provides that after January 1,
1917, eight hours shall be regared
as a basis of reckoning for a day’s
pay of men engaged in the opera
tion of railroad trains in interstate
commerce (excepting roads less
than 100 miles long and electric
lines), that they shall receive pro
rata pay for work in excess of
eight hours, and that their rate of
compensation shall not be changed
pending an investigation for from
six to nine months of the effect of
the eight-hour day upon the rail
roads by a commission to be ap
pointed by the President.
Allies in 2 Days Take More Than
5,000 Germans.
London, Sept. 4.-—Keeping up
their strong offensive against the
Germans north and south of the
Some River in France the Anglo-
French forces again have driven
NEWS FROM THE COUNTY Grass for The Piedmont and Moun-
Brief Mention of Some of the Hap- Canties.
. . n II n X The question of farm manage-
penings in MeDowell County- Lent is perhaps the greatest prob-
Items About Home People. Iiqqi shall have to solve in this
DYSARTVILLE | age. The conservation of our soil
DysartsviUe, Sept. 4.—W. H. Taylor resources demands our deepest
their lines forward and captured I is able to be out again after being very thought and keenest judgment,
important German positions. ^ ^ | Then, just how we may manage the
South of the Somme the village
sick.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Daves and little |
son, Albert, Jr., have retnmed to Char*
farm so as to produce a living.
of Soyecourt and part of the vill- jiotte after spending some time with re-1 maintain the farm equipment, edu-
age of Vermandoyillers have been latives here. cate the children, meet our social
captured while seemingly more Miss Mayo Laughridge of Marion demands, and still maintain the
important still the French have recently with fertility of the farm, is the great
made fresh progress east of Liiue, P’’**'’'®*"
village of Forest, which lies one Ligited relatives in Morganton last week, is POO**; North Carolina is poor.
and one-half miles southeast of the H. E. Taylor and family of Atlanta, In all our history as a State we
railroad town of Combles—a gain . have returned home after a visit have been able to accumulate the
which, taken with the capture of P* paltry sum of $764, and our rural
Guillemont on Sunday, seemingly 1 . O""
outflanks Combles and apparently d m. Laughridge re- State stands high in per acre yields,
renders it untenable. More than turned home yesterday from an extend but low in per capita wealth re-
5,000 Germans have been made visit with relatives in Shelby, Lawn- tained. There is something wrong
orisoners north and south of the ^ _ with any system of farming when
Somme during the last two days. [ ^a.Pfople can produce high per acre
itiveshere. yields, and remain poor in per
Farmers Institutes in McDowelli I Daves made a business trip to I capita wealth,
Farmers’ institutes, under the Marion last Friday. one reason why we are poor.
auspices of the State Department R. C. Laughridge and family of Spen- xhere may be several reasons
.h.[i di.
the Farmers’ Institute committee we are glad to say she is much im- cuss one of thena. Every year we
of McDowell County, will be held proved. the entire farm, and plant
atGlenwood school house Thurs- T. B. and Will Landis went to Ma-| some crop, and most of the crops
day, September 7, and at Ashford ”0“ planted on Southern farms are
school house, Friday, September 8. “““I,
The institutes will open at 10 h. C. Mangum has returned home vation. Thus each year the land
o’clock. There will be discussions from Morganton where he has been at is ploy«red up and subjected to the
on farm operations, soils, cfops, work. heavy rains of summer and winter,
bojs’corn clubs, live stock, health, ^ suffering immensely from washing
etc bv T B Parker director of ® She was erosion in addition to crops
eic., oy ±. u. iraruer, uirecwr years old. The remains were taken to I . , , *
Farmers’ Institutes; C. R. Hudson, ^iden VaUey for burial. ^^'ch are consumed on the farm
State Demonstration Agent, and I J. F Parker and family have moved or sold off the farm. This system
others. Special emphasis will be to Crooked Creek. We are sorry to give is not only wasteful of soil re-
given to the diversification of "P sources, but it is the most expen-
crops,soilimprovement,livestock,h“,«:;f-n^^^
marketing, etc. L»ny friends here. quired. Economic farm manage-
There will be held at the same ment would require a maximum of
time and dace a woman’s institute BBIDGEWATEB production or farm income, with a
conducted by Mrs. W. R. Hollo-1 Bridgewater, Sept. 4—Mr. and Mrs. | minimum of soil waste and labor.
a
minimum of production. It is ex
actly the opposite of what should
I be the practice.
THE REMEDY.
Then what is the remedy ? -The
well and the home demonstration ^ate and little dangWer, Vir- Oor present system is one of maxi
agent, to which women are invited | mum soil waste and labor and
to attend and j®i^ discus* I Aberaethy made a business trip
sions of subjects pertaining to to Old Fort Saturday,
household economics, home con- Miss Kary Tate left Friday for Balti
veniences, health in the home, the
, . - I .ij j 4.U J. D. Adams of Lancaster, S. C., spent
education of children and other I Hewasac-, cf^t
top^cs of interest to mothers and home by his daughters, Miss- grass and live-stock
home-makers. es Sadie, Mattie and Johnsie. who spent Others are to discuss live-stock,
Every one is invited to attend the summer here with their grand- but I want to say that grass and
and to help make these the best ^ | live-stock are inseparable,
£ 5 • in Misses Nora Ballew, Louise and Jose
farmers’ institutes ever held in the Abemethy spent the week-end at
county. I Marion Junction. ■ » i
Clyde Hemphill spent Saturday in | Profitable^ crop, while the stock
Compromise in Timber Casei 1 Marion. --
In the Superior court at
STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Items Concerning Events of In
terest and Importanee Through
out the State.
Hon. T. W. Bickett is to speak
in Newton on the 13th.
The late William Brown, of
Bryson City, the engineer who was
killed receotiy when his engine
overturned at Willetts, on the
Murphy division, left property
valued at approximately $24,000,.
and the bulk of the estate goes to
his widow. ^
A bill to allow Federal prisoners
to be worked on highways over
which mails are carried, and pro
viding for the establishment of
factories for goyemmejDt supplies
at the Atlanta and Leavenworth
penitentiaries, has been introduced
in the House of Congress by Rep
resentative Webb of North Caro
lina.
The State Farmers convention
in session at Raleigh last week ‘
elected J. P. Lucas, of Mecklen
burg, president; A. J. Moye, of
Pitt, and C. C. Wright, of Wilkes,
vice-presidents, and A. K. Robert
son of West Raleigh, secretary.
Resolutions were adopted declar
ing for best possible agricultural
and home economics courses in
schools; furtherance of credit un
ions, cotton grading, national rural
credit system, and community ser
vice leagues. County boards of
agriculture as special instruments
of progress were stressed.
When Colonel Col man made sar-
vey for the Southern Railway up
the mountain in 1858 a poplar
trough, with a lid, was constructed
to hold milk for use of the men
camping at Round Knob. In the
intervening years this receptable
had gradually disappeared from
view; but the late flood and wash
out exposed its resting place four
feet belqw the surface of the soil.
We are informed the box or trough
was found in perfect condition,
with its lid lying near by. Whia
said poplar wasn’t lasting wood?—
Old Fort Sentinel.
Grass
without live-stock would be worth
or at least it would not be f
Brevard Woman Commits Suicidei
Asheville, Sept. 4.—Mrs. C. M
Gallimore, aged 60 years, a promi
nent woman of Transylvania coun
ty, committed suicide at her home
at Brevard this afternoon by shoot
ing herself through the mouth, ac
cording to information reaching
here tonight. Despondency over
the death of a grandchild and the
departure of her daughter and son-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jol
lay, who have gone to Chicago to
study evangelistic singing at the
Moody Institute, are believed to
have been responsible for her act.
without the grass would be an im
I The graded school here opened Mon-1 possibility. Then the success of
Ashe- Misses Katherine Rockett and grass-live-stock farmer is de-
ville last Thursday a compromise Trissa Campbrfl of Rutherford CoU^ ^
was effected in the suit of 8. Mont- as teachets. We are glad to have the P auality
c! uu Riont same teachers with us again this year, grass ana me stock. ±ne quality
gomery Smith against the Black j^i^acted meeting which was to of North Carolina live-stock has
Mountain Land company in wnicn Presbyterian church always been of the poorest, and in
the title of several thousand acres s^inday has been postponed till the first temping with the quality of the
of timber lands in McDowell coun- week of ^tober J pastures. Dr. Butler used to say
tyintheMt. Mitchell and Black Miss Mabel TnrnbiU and Ernest j;.
Mountain sections, wm involved. thi*WdT Wednes- piece of land with a fence around
Since 1914 this case had been in afternoon, Rev. M. W. Mann offici- it and no grass in it.”
the Federal court and afterwards why we grow grasses.
sent to the Buncombe county court. I Misses WiUie Arney and Georgie There are two principal reasons
Simpson of GHen Alpine spent Thursday u u u i «
here^th friends. should have a place in
Road Wori( Stopped. Mrs. B. C. Gibbs and children have our system of farm management.
More than 1,200 men and over retnmed to their home in Knoxville af- First, to produce hay and pasture
200 teams were thrown out of em- spending some time here with rela- the live-stock, and secondly, to
ployment in McDowell county last conserve soil fertility. While
week when Lieut. Gotwals, repre-1 _ . _] are doing these two things we
The Progress is requested to
we
are
tentative of the United States Gov-1 ~ | utilizing the steep or rough lands
ernment, appeared on the scene p*"*®
and ordered all the relief work portions to grow
The Federal relief ap.|»\»“* hays rotate the crops, reduce the
cost of operation, and prevent soil
stopped, xne i^ eaera. ream ap-, understood that
propriation for the county amount-1
ed to about $1, . the next legislature by the cor-
known as yet whether any furtner commission and repre
aid will be received from this from the flooded dis-
source, but for the present all the tricts with the hope of securing
road work has ceased. 1 relief.
waste. If one-third to one-half
our plow land was laid down in
grass and a sufficient number of
(Continued on page eight.)
Dimes of New Design.
The newly - designed 10-cent
pieces are now being coined at the
Philadelphia mint and will soon be
in circulation. It is stated that
ten million dimes will be turned
out within the next four months,
and new 25-cent> pieces will soon
be coined.
The new dime bears the figure
of a Grecian lady on the obverse
side and the bundle of rods and the
axe of the Roman lictors on the
reverse.
Mr. E. W. Culbreth, of the State
division of market and rural credits,
Raleigh, is here this week in the
interest of establishing rural credit
unions in McDowell county. Mr.
Culbreth will discuss the different
phases of the rural credit system
at the farmers’ institute at Glen-
wood to-morrow and at Ashford
Friday. He will also speak at ,
Belfont Friday night at 7 o’clock.
Interesting meeting were held at
Garden City and Stroud town Wed-
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