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MARION PROGRESS A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1«96 MARION, N. THURSDAY. JANUARY 17. 1929 VOL. XXXIII—NO. 28 MAKION HOSVAL DEDICATED MONDAY Banquet Given at Marianna Hotel Monday Evening; Dr. Rankin Principal Speaker. olina, and Dr. and Mrs. Able of the Waynesville hospital. Only expressions^ of praise have been heard for the work of the hos pital; the dinner, and program. GAS TA X MEASURE IS INTRODUCED BY WOOD On Monday, January 14th, occur red the formal dedication of Mari on’s new hospital—^the greatest as set this or any community enjoys. During the day, especially in the afternoon, a stream of visitors piled through the doors to inspect the building and its equipment, and many were the expressions of praise and appreciation of this great achieve ment of our community. Of especial interest was the room furnished by the American Legion, and tribute is due those who displayed such good taste and judgment in the selection of the furnishings. This room was beautiful with a wonderful display of both cut and potted flowers, which made of it a veritable conservatory. At 7:30 Monday evening a ban quet, to which all donors had been in vited, was served in the dining room of the Marianna Hotel and one hun dred were present. This banquet was sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, and J. G. 'Beaman, its president, presided The invocation by Rev. J.**S. Lock- aby was followed by the eloquent address of welcome by R. W. Proc tor. A short history of the hospital dating b^k to its inception at a meeting of the Kiwanis Club about four years ago and the culmination of its efforts in the magnificent build ing and institution of today was read by L. J. P. Cutlar. Mr. E, H. Dysart then read a list of the donors, not mentioning the amount contributed by each, and the number of the names was astonishing; evidencing the almost universal interest and support given to the institution. Short talks were made by Dr. J. F. Miller, Dr. J. F. Jonas, Dr, G. P. Bingham, and by Dr. Baxter Haynes of Spartanburg, who spoke in high commendation of the hospital, its head and his staff, and its equipment and location. C. F. James spoke briefly on matters iij^ general, and stated that in a short While we might expect our efforts ijo be called forth for the erection of a nurses home; as, from present indications, the hos pital would before long become crowded. Dr. G. S. Kirby then introduced his old friend. Dr. W. S. Rankirxv of Charlotte, head of the Duke Endow ment, and paid eloquent tribute to his past services as head of the State Health Department, and his present activities and noble work as head of the Duke Endowment. Tribute was also paid to the memory of Mr. Duke whose noble gifts to charity made this and pther hospitals possible, most of which had they depended upon , private subscriptions or bond issues would never have bejen built. A man of charming personality and a wonderful grift of oratory. Dr. Rankin attracted to himself the at tention and interest of everyone present during his entire address, which was the. most eloquent and in spiring it has ever been our privilege to hear. Beginning with statistics and comparisons on birth rates and death rates in the nation, state and coun ty, following with statistics on hospi tals and diseases, he soon got into hospitals and their gjreat work, and the part the Duke Endowment has been playing in their erection and maintenance; and hoW, by enlisting our sympathies and serveces we wei^e made better Christians and cit izens, following more closely the pre cepts of the Master. Concluding with the story of Otis Skinner and the wonderful change that came over him when, forsaking a life of selfish pleasure which brought him nothing but unhappiness, he essayed, and with the greatest success of his car eer, to play the role of “The man who played God”, he pictured the road to salvation as sacrifice and ser vice to mankind. We wish we could secure and print this wonderfully in spiring address, which might more aptly be termed a sermon of the greatest beauty; whose statistics were not dry, and which lacked not humor. The last speaker on the program was Hev. W. O. Goode, of the Meth odist Church, who dedicated the hos pital to the aid and comfort of suffer ing humanity. Among the out-of-town visitors were Doctor Frtiitt from South Car- Raleigh, January 11.—Senator W. F. Wood, of Marion, has introduced his bill to extend the state highway system to take over the county high way systems by means of the reve nue to be derived from an additional- cent on the gasoline tax which is at present set at four cents. “I am not at all sure that the bill will get through in its present shape,” Senator Wood declared on a question that appears to me to be of paramount importance to the wel fare of the state.” Senator Wood’s bill reads as fol lows: “A bill to be entitled an act to ex tend the state highway system by taking over certain county roads and increasing the tax on motor fuels for the maintenance thereof.” “Section 1. That on or before the first day of July, 1929, the road gov erning bddy of each of the counties within the state of North Carolina, shall cause to be prepared and sub mitted to the state highway commis sion, a map of said county showing the public roads therein, and shall specify upon said map by proper des ignation, a system of roads within said county connecting every, town ship therein by the shortest practical route to the county seat, which said roads shall extend from and to the principal towns within such town ships as may have cities or towns; Provided, said roads sh^ll be limited to one main road through each town ship. “Sec. 2. That such roads as may be designated and certified to the state highway commission by the road governing body of each respec tive county as provided in section one hereof, shall, on or before the first day of July, 1929, become a part of the state highway system, and the state highwiy commission shall thereafter take over the con struction, maintenance and improve ment of said roads in the same man ner that is now in force respecting the roads now constituting the state highway system. “Sec. 3. That section four of chap ter ninety-three of the public laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word “Four” in line one of said sec tion and inserting in lieu thereof Ae word “Five.” ^ “Sec. 4. That all laws and 'clauses of laws in conflict with the provis ions of this.act are hereby repealed. Sec. 5. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.” GARDNER BECOMES GOVERNOR OF N. C. Inaugural Ceremonies on Last Friday Marked The Begin ning of New Administration FARM MEETINGS FOR nnS MONTH POLICEMAN LASSITER | KIDNAPED AND BEATEN MRS. LETTIE HARRIS DIES AT EAST MARION Mrs. Lettie Jane Harris died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Roy Bur- gin, at East Marion last Friday af ternoon after a brief illness. Mrs. Harris became ill Friday morning and died that afternoon about 1:80. Mrs. Harris was probably better known as Mrs. W. C. Hogan, though both her husbands preceded her to the grave. She was 68 years of age and is survived by three sons- and one daughter, Charles N. of Marion, James W. of Old Fort, Elisha N. of Grand Island, Neb., Mrs. Jesse Lack ey of Narrows, ’ Va.; one uncle, Thomas Ross, of Forest City, thir teen grand children and two great grand children. Mrs. Harris had been a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church for 56 years. The funeral rites were held at Bethlehem Church with Rev. C. L. Taylor, of Old Fort, in charge. There was a very large attendance. Two numbers were rendered by a quar tette from East Marion, Rev. J. N. Wise and Rev. A. A. Walker of her community assisted in the funeral. The sympathy of many friends goes out to the bereaved family. Raleigh, Jan. 11.—With a simple cereniony in the presence of 5,000 rilen, women and children, O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, was inaugurated as eighty-fifth governor of ‘ North Carolina here, today. Presented by his predecessor, Gcfvernor A. W. McLean, the 46- year-old former, banker, lawyer, and manufacturer, took the oath of office at 12:30 o’clock Friday afternoon in the city auditorium, the same build ing in which he was nominated six moriths ago by the Democratic state convention. Chief Justice W. P! Stacy admin istered the oath of office, after other members of the new admSnistration had been sworn in by the four asso ciate justices of the court. Immediately, the new chief execu tive launched into his inaugural ad dress, pledging his administration to a continuation of a policy of ad vancement for the state on progress ive but economical lines. Make* Good on Pledge Few suggestions were made for new legislation. The governor pro posed, however, that the gasoline tax be increased from four cents to five cents a gallon, with a provision that the state take over certain county roads in order to relieve the counties of a portion of their tax burden. He advocated a substantial increase in the school equalizing fund, but op posed the eight months term by leg islative enactment at this time. He made good on his campaign pledge to favor an Australian ballot system, and a revision of the primary laws. After the inauguration, the new governor and the former governor reviewed a parade embracing milita ry and civilian organizations, and re tired to the state capitoL where, in the chief executive’s ofiice, McLean formally turned the reins of state over to Gardner. The inauguration program began at the executive mansion, where Governor and Mrs. Gardner were guests. Thursday night. State officials assembled shortly after 11 o’clock to greet them, official photographs were taken, and the inaugural party proceeded to the auditorium by au tomobile. Governor McLean and Governor Elect Gardner occupied the first au tomobile in the procession. An R. O. T. C. unit from State College, Gard ner’s alma mater, the cadets corps of Oak Ridge Institute, and national guard military units made up the pa rade. In the auditorium, Lieutenant- Governor J. Elmer Lo^g presided over the ceremonies, as presiding of ficer of .the joint session of the gen eral assembly. After the governor’s inaugural, Lee B. Weathers, publisher of the Cleve^nd Star and president of the State press association, presented the new governor with a souvenir volume of bound letters written by 4,000 citizens of his native county of Cleveland. The Progress is in receipt of a copy of the Washington Times, Washington, D. C., of January 3rd, containing an article stating that Po liceman Carl C. Lassiter was recent ly kidnaped and b^ten up by a youth driving an Ohio car. Mr. Lassiter is well known in .Marion where he was engaged in the real estate business A series of meetings have been ar- f/>• He is a son- ranged to be held throughout the, Mr. ^d Mrs. E. S Fnsbie of this place. The clipping from the Program of Agriculture and Work fdr Year To Be Dis cussed at Series of Meetings nSTORIC HOMES NORTH CAROLINA county, a meeting for each township, to be held at the school houses dur ing this month for the purpose as follows: (1) To discuss and make out a program of agricultural extension work for the year 1929. (2) /To discuss and get more fami liar with the milk survey which will be made in the county soon to deter mine whether or not we can produce enough milk to establish a cheese factory in Marion. (3) To organize the Boys and Girls 4 H Club work. Any other matters of interest may be discussed at these meetings. The meetings will be appropriate for mer\ and women, and it is hoped that all the people will attend. All meetings will be held at the school houses, and all will begin at 1:30 p. m., and will be held as fol lows: West Marion, Friday, January 18. Harmony Grove, Monday, Jan. 21. Nebo, Tuesday, January 22nd. Sugar Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 23rd. Glenwood, Thursday, Jan. 24th. Dysartsville, Friday, Jan. 25th. Macedonia, Monday, Jan. 28th. Cherry Springs, Tuesday, Jan. 29. Pleasant Garden, Wednesday, Jan uary 30th. North Cove, Thursday, Jan. 31st. Old Fort, Friday, February 1st. The first and probably tKe most important step in successful farming is, “to plan your work,” and then to make a success, you must work your plan. Our plan should contain a sys tem of farming which will improve the fertility of the soil which at the same time will allow the harvesting of crops at profitable returns. Fol- i lowing economical production, we! must be able to have a satisfactory market for our crops. The apparent lack of a market is prabably doing as much as any other one factor in holding back the agricultural devel opment of McDowell county, yet in /many cases we will find that those who are complaining about the lack of a market do not have anything to sell, or as has been said, “there is no one as far from the market as the man who has nothing to sell.” We; first must study the needs of the market, and then make our plans ac cordingly. The marketing of crops very often calls for co-operative et- fort on the part of the farmers, cer tainly is this true in the establishing and the operation of a cheese facto ry. If the farmers will get together and decide that they will produce the milk in sufficient volume, a truck will travel the principal roads every morning and collect the milk, but just a few farmers cannot produce enough milk to supply a cream fac tory with milk, or a creamery with butterfat. We must meet together, talk to gether, pliin together, and work to gether, if we are to make farming as profitable as it should be. Cut the above dates out for reference, or The McDowells - at Kings Mountain— Family History of General Local Interest. CALDWELL POULTRY SHOW SET FOR JANUARY 24 TOTAL DEBT OF STATE ON « DECEMBER 31, $174,542,600 Raleigh, Jan. 11.—Total debt of the state on December 31, 1928, was $1X4,542,600, a combined statement of the auditor and treasurer issued today, showed. A cash balance of $11,934,988.72 was on hand at the end of the year. Of this cash balance $360,675.92 was reserved for the general fund; $11,101,581.72 for highway and other special funds, and $472,731.09 for outstanding war rants. Lenoir, Jan, 5.—The fourth annu al Caldwell County Poultry Show will be held in Lenoir on January 24 and 25, according to announcement by P. M. Hendricks, county farm agent. The birds will be cooped on January 23 and will be removed af ter 3 o’cloclc Friday afternoon. The show will be a ribboh show al together except the classification for boys and girls. Money will be paid for premiums for the boys and girls club exhibits, and these will be a special feature of the show this year. Washington. Times follows: Police of three states and the Dis trict of Columbia today have a net out to catch the driver of an Ohio automobile who last ni^it kidnaped and beat up Policeman Carl C. Lassi ter, of the Traffic Bureau, when Las siter attempted to arrest him for driving with dead tags. The kidnaper drove the officer un der cover of a gun to a vacant lot near the District Jail where he shot at him a couple of times, beat him over the head with the butt of a gun and then told him to run for his life. A^car believed to be that used by the kidnaper was found today on Third Street Northeast, between A i and B Streets. It answers the de- I scription of the car in which Lassiter was kidnaped, except that its tag number does not quite correspond with the number reported by the of ficer, though it is an Ohio tag. The policeman was on duty at Ninth and F Streets Northwest when the Ohio car came by and its driver asked how to get to Rhode Island Avenue. Lassiter told him to contin ue south on Ninth Street for half block and then turn around and come back. As the car started off the officer noticed that it had 1928 Ohio tags. When it came back he stopped it and asked the driver, about his tags. The man was unable to show a registration card or driver’s permit but showed some papers for another machine which he said he had traded in at Baltimore for the car he was then driving. He contended that the Ohio tags were still good, Ohio having an ex tension of time arrangement. Lassi ter decided to check up on this part of the story and told the driver to wait while he called the Traffic Bu reau. When he found out from the Traffic Bureau that Ohio has no time extension, he placed the driver un der arrest and got into the car with him to drive him to the bureau. As he got into the car the driver covered him with a pistol and order ed him to keep his right arm in the window", thus preventing him from gettijig to his own gun. Then driving with one hand while he kept the officer covered with the other, the operator of the car drove to New York Avenue and then east on New York to Massachusetts Ave nue and then to East Capitol Street. Several times Lassiter tried to move his arm from the window but i was warned by a prod of the gun. He also attempte dto steer his abductor to Fifteenth and H Streets North east, where he knew another police man was on duty, but the driver was suspicious. “What are you going to do with me?” Lassiter asked the man. “I’m not going to hurt you if you I behave,” was the reply. Finally they reached the vacant lot near the jail. There the car driver which you should attend. W. L. SMARR, County "Agt. LESS THAN THIRD OF SOLONS ARE EXPERIENCED Raleigh, Jan. 11.—Less than one- third of the members of the 1929 general assembly, held seats in the general assembly of 1927. Thirty- three members of the 1927 house of representatives and nine ntembers of the senate of that year, have re turned for this year’s session. BUDDY ROGERS' and MARY BRIAN in an entertaining comedy- drama “VARSITY” at Oasis Thea tre on Friday. , , , , , , i removed Lassiter’s gun from its hoi- mark the dates on your c^alendar es-, J off. The policeman was afraid he was, ! goint to be tied up and threw the tie ito the ground. MRS. WILLIS DIES AT | HER HOME AT PENLAND j up and M he did so fired once at Mrs. Elizabeth Willis, mother -j u a • ^ J. 1 J- J . Then Then, evidently abandoning Mrs. R. N. Ellis of this place, died ati, . , . -i. i.i. i. ij , , . „ , , ^ oVl J his plan to use the tie, the youth told er ome m en an ^ j Lassiter to run. The policeman obey- anuary . ea was ue o an. turned away the kid- attack of influenza followed by pneu- „ J J on naper fired another shot in his gen- momamonia. The deceased was »21 nera service was the unidentified man got years of age. held Sunday at the Bear Creek Church, the deceased being a mem ber there for about seventy years. Interment was made in the Bear Creek cemetery. The deceased is sur vived by her husband, John Willis, who is eighty-nine years old, one son and three daughters. WOULD ABOLISH TREASURER Representative J. B. Johnson has introduced a bill in the house to abolish the office of treasurer of Mc- Dow’ell county and ullow the county ’commissioners to appoint a bank as official depository. The province ,of Quebec is the world’s chief source of asbestos. back into his machine and drove off. Lassiter was picked up by D. A. Mc Donald, of Congress Heights, and taken to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated for lacerations on his head. After treatment he went back to the Traffic Bureau to report the affair. Police immediately notified near by states, and authorities of Mary land, Virginia and Pennsylvania are on the lookout for the car. UPS AND DOWNS Jones—How much do you charge for toboggan rides? Proprietor — We have a sliding \ scale.—Life. (By Alphonso C. Avery, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina). Charles McDowell had organized the clans into a compact, formidable force. The proposed scene of conflict was in his district, and, under mili tary rules then in force, he was en titled to command. When, however, it became apparent that jealousy might impair the efficiency of the lit tle army, he cheerfully agreed to go to Mecklenburg or Rowan and invite General Davidson to take charge. After he had left on this mission, it was deemed by the council of war best to attack Ferguson before his force could be strengthened by Corn wallis, and the result indicated the wisdom of fhis conclusion. Governor Shelby published an ac count in 1823, in which, after laud ing General Charles McDowell as a patriot and a brave and able officer, he said that after it was decided to send to headquarters for a general officer to take command, Charles Mc Dowell requested, as he could not command, to be allowed to take the message, and added that “he accord ingly started immediately, leaving his men under his brother. Major Jo seph McDowell” (Wheeler’s History, Part II, page 59). It was Shelby who next day made the generous move to place Campbell in command to ob viate the danger of delay. Within the next twenty years some of the lineal descendants of Joseph McDowell of Pleasant Gardens have insisted that the command of the Burke men at King’s Mountain devolved on their ancestor, not on his cousin Joseph of Quaker Meadows. The writer would be rejoiced to be convinced that this contention is well founded, but is constrained to conclude that it is not Shelby had come over with Sevier, at the instance of Charles McDowell, under whose command he had previ ously fought with' all three of the McDowells at Musgrove’s Mill and other places. He must have known. . whether the brother or the cousin of Colonel Charles McDowell was next in rank to him, and he said it was the brother. “Poor’s Sketches of Congn^essmen’' states that Joseph McDowell who was bom at Winchester, Va., in 1756, and died in 1801, was elected a mem ber of the third and also of the fifth. Congress, had commanded a portion, of the right wing of the army that stormed Kings Mouiitain. In a subse quent sketch of Joseph McDowell of Ohio, he says that he was bom in Burke county. North Carolina, No vember 13, 1880, was a son of Jos eph McDowell, member from North, Carolina, and was himself a member from 1843 to 1847. The widow ofi Joseph McDowell of Quaker Mead ows left North Carolina with her lit tle children and went to Kentucky' soon after her husband’s death. Her home was on the banks of John’s River, near where Bishop Spangen- burg must have encamped when he declared that the land was the most fertile he had seen in Carolina, sketches have always been prepared after consultation with the member' as to his precious history, and we must conclude that both father and son bore testimony tp the truth of history — the father that he was in, command, the son that such was the family history derived from his mother. Dr. Harvey McDowell, of Cynthiania, Kentucky, who presided over the first Scotch-Irish convention at Nashville, Tenn., and who died at the ripe age of four score, a year or two since, had devoted much of hi» life to the study of famOy history, and haid conversed with members of the family who knew Joseph of Qua ker Meadows and Joseph of Pleasant Gardens and were familiar with their history. Speaking of the agreement of Colonel Charles McDowell to go to headquarters. Dr. Harvey McDowell says:— “He thereupon tijmed over the command of his regiment to his brother Joe of Quaker Meadows, who was thus promoted from the position of Major, which he had held in this regiment, to that of acting Colonel (Continued on last page)
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