MARION PROGRESS
A W£EKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY
ESTABLISHED 1896
MARION, N. C.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 10, 1929
VOL. XXXIll—NO. 27
ANOTHER HOSIERY
HILL FOR MARION
Expect to Have Plant in Oper
ation by February 1 — 53
Machines to Be Installed.
YOUNG CASE SETTLED
' BY SUPREME COURT
McDowell County announces its
third new hosiery mill during the
past five months. The new concern is
to be known as the McPar Hosiery
Mill, and will operate 53 machines
to manufacture 260 to 300 dozen
men’s half hose daily. The building
for the 'hew plant is now under con-!, . ^
, I I.- V j by Attorneys W. R. Chambers, J. W.
struction and work is being rushed t, , , j m i
I Ragland, and W. T. Morgan, for the
The State Supreme Court has
han(^d down its decision affirming
the judgment of the Superior Court
of McDowell County in the W. H.
Young case, awarding his adminis
tratrix, Mrs. Sallie K. Young, $23,-
500 damages for his death. He was
killed by being knocked from the top
of a concrete bridge pier about one
hundred feet high when struck by a
big metal concrete bucket being op
erated on a cable over the top of the
pier, by the bridge contractors, E. A.
Wood & Company, while building a
state highway bridge in Henderson
county.
Th« case was very hotly contested
BANK OmCIAI^ SUPERIOR COURT
ARE RE-ELEQED
First National and M. & F.
Banks Hold Annual Meet
ings—Report Cbod Year.
for completion January 20 when the
machinery will be installed.
The first unit o fthe building will
be 36x74 feet of standard mill con
struction. The owners say that thej
expect to have the plant ready to be
gin operation by February 1st.
Those of Marion interested in the
new project are: C. R. McCall, pres
ident; E. W. Parker, secretary and
treasurer; and Reid McCurry, facto
ry manager. Mr. McCall will not
have an active interest in the plant
but will continue to devote full time
to his undertaking business. Mr. Mc
Curry has had 21 years experience
in hosiery mill -work and will have
charge of production.
C. F. James, prominent hosiery
mill man and vice-president of the
Chamber of Commerce, was largdy
responsible for securing the new
project for Marion.
plaintiff, and the firms of Pless &
Pless and Winborne & Proctor for
the defendant.
This is the largest verdict hereto
fore returned by a McDowell coun
ty jury in a personal injury or a
death case, though in other counties
in the state much larger amounts
have been awarded as damages by
juries. In the case of Finch against
the railroad, tried not long ago in
Davidson county before Judge Og
lesby, the jury rendered a verdict for
$140,000.00 damage on account of
j the wrongful death of a man killed
by a train at a crossing.
The verdicts of juries in death and
personal injury cases-are much larg
er of late years since wages and the
money value of everything else has
increased so much. It is now general
ly known, too, that employers of la
bor, in most cases, are insured by
ANOTHER DAIRY FOR insurance or indemnity companies,
M’DOWELL COUNTY ^ bave to pay the damages recov-
Announcement is made that John
Ray Jimeson is making arrange
ments to engage in the dairy busi
ness on the J. E. Jimeson farm four
miles west of Marion on highway
No. 10 and 104. This is considered
the best located dairy farm in Mc
Dowell county.
ered, and that may be one reason
that larger verdicts are of late gen
erally given by juries in such cases.
MISS MARGARET WINSLOW
IS CLAIMED BY DEATH
The stockholders of the First Na
tional Bank held their regular annu
al meeting at 3 p. m. Tuesday, Janu
ary 8th. The meeting was well atten
ded and the report of the cashier in
dicated a very satisfactory year. Af
ter paying the usual dividend a con
siderable sum was carried to the un
divided profit account. A rising vote
of thanks was giv^n the officers and
directors for the splendid showing
made during the past year.
The following directors were un
animously re-elected to serve for the
ensuing year: J. L. Morgan, J. E.
Neal, W. R. Chambers, D. E. Hudg
ins, J. Q. Gilkey, J. Yancey, W. L.
Morris, W. C. Smith and T. W. Wil
son.
Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the stockholders meeting
the newly elected directors met and
re-elected the following officers: J.
L. Morgan, president; D. E. Hudgins,
vice-president; J. E. Neal, cashier;
H. D. Hoover, assistant cashier. The
other employees are to continue: J.
N. Morris, teller; W. F. Wood, note
teller; R. D. Bird, bookkeeper; Miss
Rowena Neal, assistant bookkeeper;
Mi^ Brownie Giles, collection clerk
and stenographer.
OPENED MONDAY
Term Has Long List of Minor
Cases on Criminal Docket—
Judge Finley Presiding.
On last Saturday morning Miss
Margaret Castex Winslow’s passing
Mr." jimeson has had considerable brought sorrow to this entire com-
experience in the dairy business for SJie feughter of
the past eight years. After specializ- Captain and Mrs. J. D. Wins ow of
ing in dairying during his ■ four Goldsboro. Her body was token to
years course at the N. C. State Col-i’’'®‘ beside tlmt of her father and
lege, Raleigh, N. C„ he accepted | Goldsboro.
work with the Forsyth and Davie i ‘Miss Margaret” .will be sad y
County Dairy Association, testing! ^
milk at the various dairies scattered
over four counties. During his one f-
and one-half years of work with I M>ss Julia Burton, m their bereave-
this association he had considerable
experience with some of the leading
dairies of this state.
In order to get more experience
along this line he accepted work p
city food and milk inspector at Wel
don, N. C. During two and one-half
years work there, he studied the san
itary conditions of milk from every
angle before it reached the consum
er.
Mr. Jimeson, it is announced, is
planning on a modem dairy, in the
near future, that will produce a high
grade of sanitary milk.
JURORS ARE DRAWN FOR
FEBRUARY TERM OF COURT
At the meeting of the board of
county commissioners this week jur
ors were drawn for the February
term of Superior Court as follows:
Fir«t Week
G. C. Fisher, G. D. Pyatt, J. B. Mc-
Entire, J. C. Bradley, J. B. Huskins,
Ernest Morris, J. M. Hensley, J. R.
Walker, S. M. Robinson, J. D. Walk
er, C. W. Huskins, T. A. Norman,
Chas. M. Reei, J. G. McCall, S. N.
Biddix, B. F. Seagle, Chas. McD.
Burgin, Frank Sisk, L. J. Reel, N.
H. Bowman, J. R. Hollifield, L. C.
Parks, I. H. Gibbs, C. A. Pitman, F.
W. Lawing, John Fry, W. S. Hoyle,
S. F. Price, D. W. Toney, P. W.
Proctor.
Second Week
C. s. Poteat, W. L. Morris, C. H.
Simons, A. Burgin, J. M. Sisk, T. W.
Goforth, Sam P. Marlowe, T. Y. Ep-
ley, G. N. Carter, Geo. M. Lentz, C.
T. Steppe, J. H. Lowery, F. P. Lytle,
J. B. Hicks, S. M. Avery, B. Clayton
Stevens, W. C. Mangum, Irvin Mas
on, E. N. Walker, H. W. Hensley, W.
P. Elliott, C. M. Hemphill, Harvey
James, Tom B. Burgin, C. Y. Ban
ning, A. P. Curtis, W. C. Burgin, W.
M. Allison, J. H. Eller, C. L. Craw
ley.
ment.
Miss Winslow possessed many rare
qualities of mind and heart that en
deared her to those who best knew
her. She was indeed a true gentle
woman and besides being lovable and
charming she was capable and de-
I pendable and so was often called
upon in worthwhile undertakings.
The children whom she taught
could hardly fail to profit by her
high ideals. Many a girl and boy will
be better because of her fine influ
ence in their young lives.
She was a true friend, one who
rejoiced and was glad with a friend
in time of joy, and who was sympa
thetic and tender when her friends
suffered.
During her long illness she was pa
tient and smiling when she must
have suffered, and the time must
have been most tedious. She never
failed to show her appreciation of
the slightest act of kindness shown
her. There are not many who will be
missed as Miss Matgaret will be mis
sed for hers was a rare spirit^
The annual meeting of the stock
holders and directors of the Merch
ants & Farmers Bank was held in the
banking rooms on Tuesday after
noon, January 8th. The meeting was
well attended and the report of the
cashier showed that the bank had
had a very prosperous year. A divi
dend of six per cent was paid to the
stockholders for the year 1928 and
approximately $2,000 added to the
surplus and undivided profits.
Officers and directors were re-el
ected for the coming year, and J. H.
Beaman was elected as a director of
the institution.
The officers are as follows: J. D.
Blanton, president; Geo. C. Conley,
vice-president; W. F. Grant, cashier;
C. S. Finley, assistant cashier; W. T.
Morgan, attorney. Miss Celia Nan-
ney will continue as bookkeeper.
The directors are S. L. Copeland,
Geo. C. Conley, J. D. Blanton, J. E.
Decker, E. J. House, Dr. G. S. Kirby,
C. A. Workman, W. S. Shiflet and J.
H. Beaman.
S. A. HENSLEY, AGED, 90,
DIES AT HARMONY GROVE
BOARD OF HEALTH ELECT
COUNTY PHYSICIAN MONDAY
At a meeting of the County Board
of Health to be held next Monday at
the court house, a county physician
will i)e elected to serve for the next
two years. The County Board of
Health is composed of five members.
Under the law, the Mayor of the
Town of Marion, chairman of the
County Board of Commissioners and
the County Superintendent of
Schools are members of the Board of
Health. These members are required
to meet on the first Monday in Janu
ary every two years and select two
medical members. Complying with
this law-, a meeting was held last
Monday, composed of J. D. Blanton,
chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners; H. H. Tate, Mayor
of Marion, and N. F. Steppe, County
Superintendent of Schools, and elec
The January term of McDowell
County Superior Court opened here*
Monday morning with Judge T. B.
Finley presiding and Solicitor J. Will
Pless prosecuting on behalf of the
state. Judge Finley delivered a
strong charge to the grand jury,
and the court got under way. R. O.
Wylie was made foreman of the
grand jury with T. B. Conley as offi
cer in charge.
There are no capital cases on the
docket, which is made up of a large
Tiumber of minor cases. The term is
for one week only, for the trial of
criminal cases.
The following cases have been dis
posed of:
John Reel, manufacturmg whis
key, sentenced to twelve months in
jail to be assigned to work on pub
lic roads.
Andy Hogan, manufacturing whis
key, sentenced to twelve months on
roads.
Clarence Mackey, George Flem
ing, George Brown, Thos Fleming,
Andrew Whitesides and F. D. Mc-
Gabe, gambling, each fined -five dol
lars and taxed with one-sixth of the
cost.
John Lackey, driving car intoxica
ted, fined fifty dollars and cost.
Vernie Hall, transporting and pos
sessing whiskey, six months on the
roads.
Willard Jimmerson, transporting
and possessing whiskey, fined $25
and cost and sentenced to six months
on the roads.
Horace English, carrying conceal
ed weapon, two, cases, fined fifty
dollars and cost in each case.
Carl Braswell, transporting whis
key, fined $25 and cost.
David Arrowood, transporting and
possessing whiskey, fined $25 and
sentenced to three months on roads.
Heaton Hooper, manufacturing
whiskey, 12 months on roads.
Herman Russau, larceny and
breaking in house, sentenced to the
state prison in Raleigh for nine
months.
W. H. Brown, driving car intoxi
cated, fined $50 and cost.
Memphis Barnes, violating prohi
bition law, fined $25 and cost.
Carl Lewis, violating prohibition
law, fined $50 and cost.
J. H. Walton, c. c. w., fined $50
and cost and sentenced to roads for
four months.
Walt Mooney, violating prohibi
tion law, 12 months on roads.
John Williams, driving car intoxi
cated, three months on roads.
Mr. S. A. Hensley, an aged veter
an of the Civil war and well known
citizen of McDowell county, died at
his home near Harmony Grove last
Saturday evening, January 5th, af
ter an illness of tnly about ten da_ys.
He had been in very good health un
til about two weeks ago when he be
came ill.
Mr. Hensley was ninety years of
age. He was born in Rutherford
county November 17, 1839, being a
son of the late James Hensley. He
came to McDowell county in the year
1867 and married Miss Nancy Malis-
sa Jamersyn, who preceded him to
the grave twelve years^ ago. He is
survived by two sons and three
daughters, as follows: J. M. Hensley
of Harmony Grove and J. A. Hens
ley of Muddy Creek; Mrs. S. A.
Bowman of Harmony Grove, Mrs. J.
N. Norton of Marion, and Mrs. W.
W. Huskins of Garden City.
Mr. Hensley professed religion
and united with the Harmony Grove
Baptist Church in early life and re
mained a consistent member until
the end. He had a host of friends
and was held in high esteem by all
who kAew him.
He served four years in the War
Between the States. He went out
with the first volunteers and served
as a loyal soldier until the surrender.
The funeral was conducted at the
Harmony Grove Church, Monday,
Jan. 7, at 2 o’clock by Rev. A. P.
Sorrells of Gilkey and Rev. Hicks of
Marion, his present pastor. The re
mains were laid to rest in the Har
mony Grove cemetery in the pres
ence of a large number of relatives
and friends. Floral designs made
beautiful the body’s last resting
place.
HISTORIC HOMES
NORin CAROLINA
Mr. Avery Gives Interesting
History of Pleasant Gardens
and Quaker Meadows.
A. P. ARTZ REAPPOINTED
MEMBER HIGHWAY BOARD ted Dr. J. F. Miller and Dr.
Butt members of the board.
The McDowell County Highway
R. B.
Everybody likes BEBE DANIELS.
She will be at Oasis Theatre on Fri
day, with NEIL HAMILTON in
“WHAT A NIGHT!”. Bebe is the
newspaper reporter who makes all
sorts of blunders, and Hamilton is
the crack reporter on the papec.
Commission held its regular month
ly meeting at the court house Mon
day. Besides the regular routine
of business, A. P. Artz, whose term
had expired, was re-appointed a
member of the commission. The oth
er members of the board are R. V.
Wilson, chairman, and W. C. Morris.
J. L. Martin will continue with the
board as county highway engineer.
A CORRECTION
The dance following the Masonic
banquet on -New Year’s night had no
connection whatever with the ban
quet, but was a subscriptien dance
given by some of the young people
of Marion. Because it happened to
follow the banquet it was confused
with it in last week’s Progress. This
correction is made in justice to the
banquet committee. Neither the Ma-
S9nic Order nor the banquet commit
tee h^d anything to do with giving
the dance. We take pleasure in mak
ing the correction.
The entire board is called to meet
next Monday to select a county phy
sician, county quarantine officer and
to transact any other necessasry
business. Dr. G. S. Kirby" has been
county health physician for a number
of years. Dr. J. B. Johnson has been
county quarantine officer for some
time.
NORTH CAROLINA GIVEN $1,-
716,919 TO CONSTRUCT ROADS
PROPOSE SALES TAX TO
FINANCE 8 MO. SCHOOLS
An indirect tax on sales of soft
drinks, tobacco products, cosmetics,
hydro-electric power and other items
was held up as the means whereby
North Carolina can finance an eight
months school term and aft the same
time reduce property taxes in the
report of the North Carolina Educa
tional Association published last
week.
The report estimates the potential
revenue from the taxes mentioned
as 10,590,000. A schedule is sugges
ted as follows:
Apportionment of $73, 125,000 to
the States has been made by the Sec
retary of Agriculture as federal aid
in road construction for the fiscal
years which begins next July.
• The funds will be expended in ac
cordance with past procedure, the
cost of construction on roads desig
nated as part of the federal system
to be borne almost equally by the
States and the federal government.
During the last fiscal years, improve
ments were completed on 8,184 miles
of federal aid roads which had not
been previously improved, the Secre
tary of Agriculture announced in
connection with the apportionment.
Advanced stages of improvements
were completed on 2,014 miles.
Sums apportioned various stages
included North Carolina $1,716,919;
South Carolina $1,061,447; and Vir
ginia $1,433.05.
TOBACCO IS STILL N. CARO
LINA’S MAJOR MONEY CROP
Tobacco again led cotton as North
Carolina’s principal money crop this
year, according to an estimate made
by the State Department of Agricul
ture. Production and value of North
Carolina’s leading crops were as fol
lows: ‘
Tobacco, 475,000,000 pounds;
$94,863,000.
Cotton, 840,000 bales; $78,625,-
000.
Corn, 40,830,000 bushels; $48,-
830.000.
Wheat, 5,150,000 bushels; $7,-
828.000.
Strawberries, 16,659,000 quarts;
$1,999,000.
All varieties of tame hay, 756,000
tons, $15,318,000.
Peanuts, 199,500^000 pounds; $9,-
Tobacco products, 10 per cent,
$2,229,000; beverages, 20 per cent, j ^75^000.
$1,500,000; theater admissions, 101 jngh potatoes, 10,545,000 bushels;
per cent, $500,000; candies, 10 per ^6,664,000.
cent, $800,000; chewing gum, 2Qper
cent, $160,000; perfumes and cos
metics, 10 per cent, $400,000; hydro
electric power, two-fifths of a mill | THINKS WOMEN LESS
Sweet potatoes, 7,840,000 bushels;
$6,854,000.
MAJOR C. M. M’CORKLE,
54, DIES IN NEWTON
Newton, Jan. 4. — Major C. M.
McCorkle, 54, died suddenly at his
home in Newton this morning fol
lowing a heart attack.
Major McCorkle, who was chair
man of the Catawba County Demo
cratic Executive Committee during
Smith-Hoover campaign, served in
the Spanish American War and as a
major in the World War. Until July,
1927, he was a major in the regular
army, attached to the Treasury De
partment in Washington.
His widow and five children sur
vive.
on ■each kilowatt hour, $500,000.
Other possible sources mentioned
without estimated rates or yields,
radios, jewelry, and mineral and for
est products.
FATE BURNETT, OF
M’DOWELL, PAROLED
Governor McLean Wednesday an
nounced the parole of eight prison
ers and the commutation of thp sen
tence of another.
Among those -paroled was Fate
Burnett, of McDowell county, con
victed September, 1927, of larceny
and sentenced to from three to five
years in the state prison,
SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLU
Raleigh, Jan. 2.—Dr. Charles O’-
H. Laughinghouse, state health offi
cer, believes that women are less
susceptible to influenza than men
because they 'wear less clothes.
“Too many clothes cause a pe.fson
to become easily overheated and
lowers the resistance,” Dr. Laugh
inghouse said today.
“Nobody can say that the women
wear too many clothes and it has
been my observation that they have
greater freedom from colds and flu
than the men.”
BEBE DANIELS in her latest pic-
The governor stijAilated fti the pa-jture, ",WHAT A NIGHT!”, at Oasis
roles that th^ men must be of good t Theatre Friday. This is a most enter-
behavior and engage in gainful oc-ltaining story, full of fun and pep,
cupations. | enjoy it.
(By Alphonso C. Avery, former
Associate Justice of the Stipreme
Court of North Carolina).
The historic interest of homes
centers in the families who found,
occupy and adorn them, and connect
them with the stirring legends and
important events in the annals of the
country. Amongst the earliest set
tlers in the valley of the upper Ca
tawba, in the old county of Burke,
where Joseph McDowell the elder, a
grandson of ' Ephriam, the founder
of the family in Virginia, Kentucky
and our own state, and his cousin,
known as “Hunting John”, who was
near the same age. They migrated
somewhere about the year 1760 and
during the French-Indian war, from
the old home of Ephriam McDowell,
in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and,
because the country west of the Ca
tawba was rendered unsafe by rov
ing bands of Cherokee and Catawba
braves, went with their families
through Rowan and Mecklenburg
counties to some point in South Car
olina, near the northern boundary
line. Their sturdy Scotch - Irish
friends had already drifted from
Pennsylvania, where they, with
thousand of Germans, were first
dumped by the English land agents
upon American soil, to upper South
Carolina, and had commemorated
their first American home by naming
the three northern counties of that
state York, Chester and Lancaster.
Ephriam McDowell was bom in the
North of Ireland. When only sixteen
years old he distinguished himself
as a soldier in the siege of London
derry. He emigrated to America at
the agp of sixty-two, and, after a
short sojourn in Pennsylvania, mov
ed with his sons to the old McDowell
home in Rockbridge county, Virgin
ia. He was descended from Someril,
Lord of the Isles, through his sone
Dougald, who founded the clan of
McDougald. Ephriam married Mar
garet Irvine, also of Scotch descent.
His son. Captain John McDowell,
fell in repelling a Shawnee incursion
and was the first white man killed by
the Indians in the valley of Virginia. '
His daughter Mary married James-
Greenlee and was the mother of
Grizzfll or Grace Greenlee. She first
married Captain Bowman, who fell
at Ramseur’s Mill, and after the war,
her cousin, General Charles McDow
ell of Burke, who had inherited
Quaker Meadows in 1775, at the
death of his father, Joseph McDow
ell the elder, the first settler on that
place.
“Hunting John” McDowell, sa
called because of his venturing into
the wilderness so far from the white
settlement in pursuit of game, prob
ably first took possession of his
beautiful home. Pleasant Gardens,
in Catawba Valley, in what is now'
McDowell County, about the sam^
time when his cousin Joseph settled
at Quaker Meadows. I have not been,
able to ascertain the maiden name of
the wife of “Hunting John”, nor of
the lady who married Joseph Mc
Dowell the elder; but there is abun
dant evidence that both had improv
ed the advantages of being raised
near Lexington, the Scotch-Irish ed
ucational center of the Valley of
Virginia, and made their homes at
tractive to the most refined and cul
tured people of their day. They
were doubtless religious, for we find
that the first Presbyterian minister
who ever made his home in old
Burke reported to Sjmod in 1777 as
the pastor at two points, Quaker
Meadows and Pleasant Gardens.
According to tradition the Quaker
Meadows farm was so called long be
fore the McDowells or any other
whites established homes in Burke
county, and derived its name from
the fact that the Indians, after clear
ing parts of the broad and fertile
bottoms, had suffered the wild grass
to spring up and form a large mead
ow, near which a Quaker had camp
ed before the French-Indian war
and traded for furs. On the 19th of
November, 1752, % Bishop Spaagen-
burg recorded in his diary (Vol. V.
Colonial Records, Page 6) that he
was encamped near Quaker Mead
ows, and that he was “in the forest
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