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A WUfcJU-Y INjliWorArER DEVOTED TO THE BESTVINTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY. ESTABLISHED 1896. MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1917. VOL. XXI NO. 29 COUNTY COMMENCEMENT Awards and Prizes Announced for Commencement at Marion on March 31 The Program. Arrangements are about com plete for the second annual Mc Dowell County Commencement of rural schools which will take place in Marion Saturday, March 31st. It is planned to make this occasion of great interest to the school chil dren and patrons throughout the county. It is hoped that every parent and every child of school age in McDowell county will be present. There will be a number of interesting exhibits of school work. The Marion Mill Band will furnish music for the occasion. PROGRAM. 10:30 a. m. Parade of floats and school children. (Parade will form at Marion Graded School.) 11:00 a. m. Recitation and declamation contest at the graded school auditorium. (Epr boys and girls below 8th grade,) 12:30 to 1:00 p. m. Dinner hour. 1:30 p. m. Address (speaker to be announced later.) Awarding of diplomas. 2:30 p. m. Athletic games' for boys. Rbymthic games for girls. 8:00 p. m. Debate, at graded school auditorium. Query: Re solved, that the State of North Carolina should grant the right-of suffrage to women. The following prizes will be of fered: A handsome set of books will be awarded to the boy who writes the best composition on "Conservation of Our Forests," To the girl who writes the best composition on 'Conservation of Oar Native Birds" will be award ed a $5.00 fountain pen. These prizes are open to the fifth and shcth grades only The comppsi-1, lions should be not more than one thousand words in length. A prize of $10.00 will be awarded to .the person bringing to the commence ment the greatest number of chil dren on one wagon; second prize, 15.00. Gold medals will be awarded the winners in the declamation and recitation contests. A prize will be awarded to the high school boy who writes the best essay on Ideal Rural Life in McDowell County," this to be worked out from the man's point of view. A prize will also be awarded the high , school girl who writes the best essay on this same subject from the wo man's point of view. In each case it is expected that a comprehensive picture of the possibilities of rural life improvement be given. Other prizes will be announced later. Awards not mentioned above will be given for best progress in reading arid writing in both first and second gradesfor periect at tendance and punctuality; for third and fourth grade recitatiops and language work, and for the best school float. An opportunity will be given to exhibit every variery of household arts and manual work. All teach ers are requested to place on ex hibit all examples" of meritorious work. Each school will be expect ed to march under its own banner. Certificates will be awarded to all soccessf ul seventh grade students pass the examination. One Board oF Directors for Three State Hospitals. The Legislature abolished the boards of directors of the three State Hospitals the State Hospit al at Morganton, the State Hos pital at Raleigh and the State Hos pital at Goldsboro for the. colored race and provided for one board of nine directors for the three in stitutions Gov. Bickett has made the following appointments for the consolidated board, the appointees being confirmed by the State Sen ate: For term of two years beginning April 1, 1917, A. E. Tate, High Point, Morganton district; C. A. Woodard, Durham, Raleigh dis trict; W. H. Williams, Washing ton, State-at-large. For term of four years beginning April 1, 1917: C. P. Mathesoo, Taylorsville, Morganton district; B. B. Adams, Four Oaks, Raleigh district; F. B. McKinne, Louis burg, State-at-large. Forterm of six years beginning April 1, 1917: R. R, Clark, btates ville, Morganpn district; Joseph G. Brown, Raleigh, Raleigh dis trict; J. W. Thompson, Goldsboro, State-at-large. $ It is providedvunder the new ar rangement that the three members from the Morganton district will compose the Morganton district will compose the executive com mittee for the Morganton Hospital, the three from the Raleigh district 'the committee "for the Raleigh in stitution and the three from the State-at-large the committee for the Goldsboro Hospital, that in stitution taking patients from the entire State. These three separate groups will be in direct control of the management of the different institutions, tne general board su pervising the whole. Tha' hill alert motpc fhft en rP.ri n- of three State Hos. pitals and the superintendents of the School for the Deaf at Mor ganton, the School for the Blind at Raleigh and the Caswell Train ing School atKinston a purchasing board for the six institutions. They will co-operate in buying supplies and will combine purchases when a saving can be effected thereby. The three members of the Con solidated board from this section of the State Matheson Tate and Clark who will have direct su pervision of the Morganton Hos pital were members of the old board of that institution. Other members of the Morganton Hos pital board who are retired by the consolidation are Mr. I. I. Davis of Morganton, the president of the board; Capt. J. P. Sawyer of Ashe ville, Mr. A. A. Shuford of Hick ory, Mr. F. P. Alspaugh of Wins tonSalem, Mr. Heriot Clarkson of Charlotte and Dr. L. N. Glenn of Gastonia; Many Killed and Injured by Tor nado in Indiana. Twenty-one persons are known to have been killed, several are missing, more than 100 persons were injured, some fatally, and property damaged to the extent of $1,000,000 was the toll of a tor nado which struck Newcastle, Ind., about 3 o'clock-Sunday afternoon. The latest reports from New castle report 24 dead and several missing.; Several hundred injured. One hundred homes were demok ishedf and about 2,000 damaged. NEWS FROM THE COUNTY Brief Mention of Some of the fiap peningsjn McDowell County . Items About Home People. t MONFORD'S COVE. 'ISugar Hill, March lO.The farmers about here are anxious for the sunny days to begin their spring work. . W. S. Hayes, I. E. Marlow, J. G. Haynes, J. H. Hensley and C. Y. Ban ning spent last Monday in Marion. Lee Marlow of Marion yisited his mother this week. Shorty Whitesides spent a few days on Cedar creek last week. Mrs. C. M. Hall has been very sick but is improving. ; - Mrs. C. B. Harris visited Mrs. Grant Harris last week. G. M. Harris made a business trip to Union Mills last week. The people here welcome the improved service of a mail route from Nealsville. Mrs. Addie Williams of Sugar Hill visited her grandmother, Mrs. Hall, last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hemphill of Sugar Hill attended the funeral of Little Fred Harris at this place Tuesday, C. ft. Wilkerson spent Wednesday in Marion. M. R. Marion. Nanney spent Saturday in THOMPSON'S FORK. Thompson's Fork, March 11. Miss Bertha Stones was the guest of Misses Mittie and Jessie McNeely, Sunday. Mrs. J. Yelton visited relatives at Nebo today. Carl McNeely and James Holland visited Charles Holland near Bridge water today. J. C. Hemphill and son, Ben, were in Marion Saturday. Ivy Gibbs spent Sunday with Tom McGallard. The Thompson's Fork string band met at the home of Mr. and Mrs, John Cuth bertson Saturday evening and rendered music that was enjoyed yery much by all present. Fonze Finley of Nebo was here Satur day. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Jaynes were visi tors here Saturday. Robert and Brya. McNeely were in Marion, Saturday. Miss Z. Yelton was shopping in Ma rion last Saturday. John Cuthbertson and family visited relatives at Morganton last Thursday. CLINCHFIELO COTTON MILL. M arion, March 12. Misses Estelle and Gay Belle Patterson returned from Shel by Sunday where they have been visit ing relatives. Roy Suttles is at home from Wood ruff, S. C, where he has been at work. J. S. Rector and family have moved to the country, near Halltown. Miss Hattie Loggins of Liberty, S. C, is visiting her sister, Mrs. P. E. Alexan der. G. C. Dixon is teaching a singing school air the Marion mill. Arthur McCall spent Saturday night and Sunday with his parents near S wanna aoa. i -,The Ladies Union Society gave an entertainment at the school house Satur day night. The proceeds amounted to $32.1.5, which will be used for the pur pose of erecting a new Baptist church. Frank Suttlemyre has closed his bar ber shop here and has gone to Charlotte. BRIDGEWATER Bridgewater, March 13. Mrs. W. Jay Ballew of Marion Junction spent a few days here last week. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Tate made a busi ness trip to Marion last Friday. Miss Pink Tate left last week for an extended visit to Lenoir, Newton and Hickory. I Mrs. Minnie Anthony and Miss Kath erine Rockett were shopping in Mor ganton, Saturday. Mrs. R. A. Abernethy and sister, Mrs. Hattie Middleton, spent Friday at" Ma rion Junction. 1 Jdisa Ethel Mathews and Lillie1 Hun, ter of Nebo. High school spent the week end here with homef oiks. Miss Terrissa Campbell spent Satur day in Hickory. -; ' .. 7 MrsI Cl IX Hemphill and son, Bryan, spent Wednesday in Morganton. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. George P. (Suiter, March 2nd, a daughter., ASHFORD. Ashford, March 11. Everybody is very busy preparing to plant garden to help: fight the high cost of living. - A Charlie Carpenter visited homefolks at Linyille Falls Saturday and Sunday. Rev. Grady Nanney of Union Mills preached a very interesting sermon at Concord church Sunday. N. L. Hampton and J. N. Lonon made a business trip to M arion Friday. The box supper at Ashford school hause Saturday night was a success. The ten boxes brought $16.30 and the pound box of candy for the prettiest girl brought $16 70, making $33.00 rea lized from the supper. Miss Tennie Brown received the most votes and was awarded the box of candy; NEBO Nebo, March 13. We are yery glad to welcome into our midst Rev. Drake, our Baptist pastor, and family of Hen dersonville who have recently moved here. The people of Nebo gave him a generous pounding Saturday night. J. C. Goforth and Will Landis of Dy sartsyille visited relatives in Nebo, Sun day. Mrs. L. E. SiginoQ of Black Mountain has been yisiting her mother, Mrs. J. K. Stacy for the past few days. Miss Ethel Mathis visited homefolks near Bridgewater Saturday and Sundav. She was accompanied by Miss Lillie Landis. Rev. Frye preached a splendid sermon at tha Methodist church Sunday night. Old Fort Man Rescues Comrade in Hawaiian Surf. v While engaged on the-hydro-graphic survey of Waimanale Bay, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, a party of seven members of the engineers corps of the United States army was upset from a boat in thirty feet of water about 7,000 feet from shore by a large wave that raised and carried the stern of the boat over the bow. One man of the medical department could not swim and went down. When he. came up to the surface, Private Noah H. jSouiheo, of Old Fort, N. G., who is now a memberqf Company 'D" U. S. engineers,tationed at Fort Shafter, Hawaiian territory, at the risk of his own life, swam to the aid of his comrade, supporting him and keeping him afloat until the life preservers had been removed from the boat and. one fastened about him. Private Souther, with the aid of another member of the engineers righted the boat, collect ed the loose oars and helpd push the boat to shore by aiding at the stern. Such acts are usually recognized in the army - and' rewarded by a certificate of merit, signed by the president of the United States. A certificate of merit in addition to the honor carried with it, addition al pay which is paid monthly to the soldier as long as he remains in the service. It is very probable that the young North Carolinian will be recommended for a certifi cate. British Transport is Sunk; 625 Lives Lost. London, March 9. The British transport Mendi, carrying South African native laborers, was sunk rafter a collision on February 21 and 625 persons lost their lives. Ten of the persons lost were Eu ropeans, according to the announce ment made today to the South Af rican parliament by .General Louis Botha, the premier. The; collisbh occurred off the Isle of Wight. STATE N EWS 0FTH E WEEK Items Concerning Events .Nof In Merest and Importance Through- . out the State. ; Orders have been issued for all National Guard troops on the Mex ican border to be entrained and en route home by March 21st in or der that theymay be mustered out of the Federal service by April 1 Announcement is made thattrips . will be taken to the "Top of East- ; em America" over the Mount Mitchell railroad during the early, spring season, arrangements - hav ing been made for the operation of trains commencing March 21; President Orders Ships Armed, arid -Calls Extra Session of Congress. Washington , March 9.Presi dent Wilson from asict bedtoday ordered the arming of American merchant ships against' Germany's ruthless submarine warfare, and at . the same trme issued a proclama- ;. tion calling an extra session of congress to meet April 16. V The president's decision camQ suddenly late this afternoon, fol lowing the action of the -senate -yesterday in revising its rules to permit prompt action on impor tant questions and the submission of formal opinions by Secretary Lansing and Attorney - General Gregory that he has the power, to arm merchantmen .without actioo by congress. S-fi" Details of the government's armV ed neutrality plans for defending the merchant marine were with held to avoid endangering' Ameri cans and their ships by permitting the information to reactr Germany. The only statement at the white house and the navy department was r that the president had determined to fully protect American rights. Railway Strike Is Threatened. Washington, March IS.--Com-plete plans of the four .railroad brotherhoods for a nation-wide strike to be inaugurated next Sat urday evening unless the railroads grant their eight hour day v de mands were ratified here today by local union leaders from south eastern territory, , and by a similar conference of representatives of the southwest held at St. Louis. Married at the Court Hojise.. Mr. Charles La wing and. Miss, Josephine Reel, of Nealsville, Mc Dowell county, came down on the . early Monday morning Southern " train and immediately went to the . county court house where a license was secured and they were happily married by Rev. T. C. Jordan, of " the Methodist church. Quite a . large crowd of persons quickly : : gathered to witness this always in teresting event. The young couple returned to their home over the, ; 10:10 northbound train.. Ruther-, fordton Sun, 8th. The proposed nation-wide probe of food- prices i which President Wilson directed the Federal Trade Pommission to make, will : not be undertaken because of the failure of Congress to . appropriate the $400,000 asked to conduct : the in vestigation. - - " - . ' .-. - - '- f Services at StT John's next Sun day at 7:30 p. m. i v
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