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MARION PROGRESS —■ • ■ ' - ■ X , , . , . , ■ , , , .... , . ... A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION. N. C.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1929 VOL. XXXIII—NO. 31 MEETING COUNTY COmONERS County Commissioners in Ses sion Monday and Tuesday— Reduction in Salaries. The board of county commission ers were in session at the court house Monday and Tuesday. A considera ble amount of routine work 'was transacted during the two days, the usual number of monthly bills being paid. The commissioners discussed coun ty expenses and a big reduction was made in salaries to become effective March 1st. The salary of Clerk of Court J. L. Laughriidge as Juvenile Court Judge was cut from thirty to fifteen dollars a month. The salary of E. H. Dysart, county accountant, was fixed at $2,000 year without any allowance for office help. The salary of the county ac countant has been $2,800 a year with $600 allowance for office assistance, and Mr. Dysart has been paying $1,200 a year for office help. The allowance to Register of Deeds R. F. Barnes for office help was cut from $50.00 to $25.00 a month. The office help in the register of deeds office has been costing $85 a month, the county paying fifty dol lars and Mr. 3arnes the balance. The county has been paying the Marion Hospital fifty dollars a month for charitable cases, instead of $200, as reported, and the allowance was cut to twenty-five dollars a month. There will be a special meeting of the commissioners next Monday. MRS. L. C. REEL DIED | SUNDAY AT GLENWOOD' LG. PRICE DIES Mrs. L. C. Reel died last Sunday morning at her home at. Glenwood. Mrs. Reel was 56 years of age and had been ill for some time. Mrs. Reel is survilred by her hus band, five sons, Robert, Elijah and Fred of Spindale, Grover and Billy of Nealsville; seven daughters, Mrs. T. E. Poteat, Mrs. A. J. Dixon and Mrs. G. W. Blankenship of Spindale, Mrs. W. H, Cogburn of Asheville, Mrs. F. D. Webb of Garden City, Miss Pearl Reel of Spindale and Mias Dovie Reel of Nealsville; five broth ers, I. E. Marlowe of Hayesbpro, R. F., Fleet and Lee Marlowe of Bow, Wash., and L. D. Marlowe of Forest City; three sisters, Mrs. M. F. Hens ley of Old Fort, Mrs. W. S. Haynes of Haynesboro and Mrs. Sophia Hemphill of East Marion, and fifteen grand children. The deceased was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church. The funeral rVf&s conducted from the Baptist Church at Glenwood on j Sunday afternoon by Revs. D. J. Hunt, J. M. Brown, Wise and Pyatt, and interment made at Glenwood cemetery. CHARLES SUTTLEMYRE WEDS MISS WHITLEY AT CUNCHFIELD Well Known Citizen of Coun ty Passes After Long Illness -f-Fimeral Held Sunday. Mr. Lawson Gold Price, a highly respected and well known citizen of McDowell county, died at his home at Clinchfield last Saturday evening after a lingering illness. Mr. Price was bom in Rutherford couoty but when about three.years old moved to this county where he has since made his home. He had been a member of the Baptist Church for nearly fifty years For the past thirty years he has been an ordained deacon and was a senior deacon of the Clinchfield Baptist Church at the time of his .d^sat^h. He lived a consistent Christian life and his passing will be deeply felt in the community in which he lived. Mr. Price was 71 years old and besides his wife is survived by one son, Jesse Price, of Clinchfield; two daughters, Mrs. Jas. B. Taylor and Miss Lela Price, of Clinchfield, and one sister, Mrs. T. L. Queen of For est City. The funeral services were conduc ted from the home Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. A. A. Walk er, assisted by Rev. P. J. Shell of Nebo. Interment was made at his old home at Dysaftsville. A large concourse of relatives and friends attended the services. SECRETBALLOT BiL UP FRIDAY Assembly Reaching The Point Where It Can Dispose of Some of Its Major Problems. MRS. S. E. BRYSON OF OLD FORT. DIED TUESDAY Mr. Charles G. Suttlemyre of Ma rion and Miss Nancy Ruth Whitley of Morganton were married at the Presbyterian manse in Morganton Tuesday morning, January 29, at 10 o’clock. Rev. C. E. Gregory officiat ing. The ceremony was witnessed by only a few relatives and friends. Im mediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Suttlemyer left for a trip to Asheville and other points. They returned to Marion the latter part of the week and are now at home at the Anderson residence on South Main street. Mrs. Suttlemyre is a daughter of j Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Whitley of Raleigh, January 30.— Importers j Morganton. She is a graduate of the have received an order for the de- j State Normal at Boone and has been livery of 4,000 Mexican quail for | teaching in Burke county., distribution in North^arolina covers | Mr. Suttlemyre is a son of Mr. and | governor. The act in the present 4,000 MEXICAN QUAIL TO BE IMPORTED TO STATE GOVERNOR TO FILL SENATE VACANCIES Raleigh, Feb. 1.—The governor of North Carolina hereafter will, by ap pointment, fill vacancies in the Uni ted States senate, under a bill passed by the house of representatives of the state legislature today. The pow er to fill vacancies was vested in the Raleigh, Feb. 6.—The general as sembly Wednesday was progressing! toward the point of taking up some of its major problems for final con sideration. Only the Australian ballot bill had passed the committee stage, but a highway n^easure, involving an in creased gasoline tax and a $3,000,- 000 county aid fund for roads, was ready for report, and the committee on education met early Wednesday to consider the McLean eight months school bill. The Australian bill was set for de bate in the senate Friday morning. Governor Gardner, who championed a secret ballot law in his inaugural address and again in a personal mes sage to the general assembly, let it be known he vigorously disapproves of one feature of the committee sub- PRUNE AND SPRAY THE Old Fort, Feb. 5.—Mrs. S. E. Bry son, of Old Fort, died this morning at 7 o’clock. Mrs. Bryson had been quite ill for the past week and was a patient at th'e Mission Hospital in Asheville at the time of her death. She is survived by four daughters and two sons, her husband having died in 1916. Mrs. Bryson was 62 years old and was a niece of the late J. J. Mackey, who was regfister of deeds of Buncombe county for 30 years. Daughters surviving are: Mrs. M. E. Head, Mrs. A. M. Elliott, Mrs. Robert Banner and Miss Salina Bry son. Sons: G. R. Bryson and G. F. Bryson; sisters are, Mrs. Callie Yar borough, of Spindale, and Miss Sar ah Mackey. Brothers, J. H. Mackey of Greenlee, and Jasper Mackey of Oklahoma. The funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Old Fort Presby terian Church at 2 p. m. The Rev. H. Grogan, of Canton, will conduct the funeral services, assisted by the Rev. C. C. Grogan and the Rev. Mr. Tay lor of Old Fort. Interment will be made in the Old Fort cemetery. stitute for the Johnson-Broughfon bill. It is the clause permit'ting coun ty election officials the option of holding county primaries under the Australian ballot law, or mnder the present law, as they wish. Writing of the maintenance and PEACH ORCHARD (Prepared by H. R. Niswonger, Ex tension Horticulturist.) A statement is frequently made by t^ie farmer that the life of a peach tree is about five or six years. This permanent improvements bill by the is usually true when the peach tree in March, Wade H. Phillips, director Mrs. A. L. Suttlemyre of Old Fort of conservation and development, and holds a position with J. C. Rabb. announced yesterday. | He is a young man of sterling quali- In addition, the director declared, | ties. 500 of the Mexican birds have beeni ordered for a sportsman of the state,; MRS. ALBERT H. HICKS who will distribute them on his own | BURIED TUESDAY lands. I The consignment of 4,000 Mexi-! Old Fort, Feb. 5,—Funeral servi ces for Mrs. Albert H. Hicks, who state laws requires such vacancies to be filled by special election. The measure, sponsored by Sena tor W. M. Person, of Franklin, al ready has been passed by the senate. It will become a law when engrossed j and signed by the speaker- of the house and president of the senate. I The governor of North Carolina I has no veto power. can quail will be the second to be re-1 a. ceived by the state, an equal number j t a +1 house pas- having been released in North Caro- j ° ^ i sed the bill requiring candidates in , . 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Hicks is survived byi., .. ^ hna last year. , v u j j • j j 1 state primary to pledge support According to reports received by nominees. Only one Democrat, conservation officials, the introduc- .'Representative Boren, qf Guilford, tion of the species of quail has been = ^rs. MoUie Bradley Forest ^ r , , . , ^ 4-u^ City; Miss Frances Hicks, Miss Lau- satisfactory in most parts of the ' ’ ’ » ^ • % 4.1. ra Hicks, Miss Lula Hicks, of Old state. Many new covies of the Mex- , .c j 4.J4. 4.1. Fort; Mills Hicks, of Canton, and lean birds are reported to the de- , . ’,, „ , Willie Hicks, of Old Fort. The services were conducted by the Rev. D. A. Lewis, of the Method ist Church, assisted by the Rev. J. N. Wise, of Marion, and the Rev. P. T^. Dixon, of Old Fort. Interment ^as made in the cemetery at Ebenezer near Greenlee. partment from various counties. The Mexican birds are described as being somewhat smaller and paler •colored than the native bobwhite, the difference being declared to be due to climatic influences. Students of wild life declare that the two in terbreed freely, and some say that a more gamey bird is produced by the mixing of the two strains. Five hundred of the Mexican ■quail will be sent to the state game farm at Ashboro, where rearing on a large scale will be attempted this year after a trial last season with a smaller number was proved to be successful. SHIPMENT OF POULTRY BRINGS IN GOOD SUM Another co-operative shipment of live poultry was made from Old Fort and Marion on Tuesday and Wednes day of last* week. The shipment from Old Fort amounted to 1866 pounds which brought $466.00, while the shipment from Marion was 2072 tive Hamlin, of Transylvania, floor leader of the house, followed Boren with a speech against the bill. He said he believed in^ party govern ment but that party nominees as well as voters have a higher duty to state and nation that should let them sup port whom they pleased. RESIDENCE DESTROYED BY FIRE LAST MONDAY A small dwelling house owned by Mrs. Millie Grayson of Marion and occupied by Sam Clontz and family, near Stroudtown, was destroyed by fire last Monday. Practically all the furniture and household goods also burned. Mr. Klontz’s wife died about two weeks ago, leaving him four small children to take care of. 6,000 ACRES IN HAYWOOD TO BE BOUGHT FOR PARK Raleigh, Feb. 2. — An additional 9,000 acres in Haywood county will be purchased by the North Carolina Park Commission for the Great Smo- pounds and brought $518.00. A total j Mountain National Park,» it was of 3938 pounds was sold and this brought the farmers of the county $984.00. CHAS. CALLAHAN PASSES Mr. Char. Callahan died at his home about one mile west of Marion last Saturday of pneumonia. Mr. Callahan was 28 years of age and is survived by his wife and two chil dren. The funeral services were con ducted from the Garden City church Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. McMahan and interment made at Garden City cemetery. announced Saturday by Chairman Mark Squires, of Lenoir. The land lies between the county line and the boundaries of the water shed between Catalooche and Pigeon river, he said. Monday and Tuesday at Oasis Theatre, DOROTHY ' MACKAILL, RALPH FORBES and ANNA Q. NILSSON in a race story "‘THE WHIP”. STATE’S GASOLINE TAX RECEIPTS ARE INCREASING Gasoline tax collection in North Carolina during January, 1929, am ounted to $907,265.82 as compared with January, 1928, collections of $826,250.51, the State Revenue De partment announced Friday. The State of North Carolina exacts a tax of four cents on every gallon of gasoline sold in the State. People who get to the bottoin of things often come out on top. PISGAH GAME AREA BOOSTS BIG VARIETY The annual game census of Pisgah National Forest was announced re cently by M. A. Mattoon, supervisor. The census showed there are 4,- 350 white tail deer in the preserve and 23 outside it, 50 bear inside and 40 outside, 1,000 grouse inside and 50 outside, 500 fox inside and 2,250 outside, 450 wildcat inside and 100 outside, 4,460 fur bearing animals inside and 2,765 outside. It was estimated in the report that there were 2,000 hunters in the for est during the year and that about 70 bear and 1,000 deer were killed. Fifty deer and. two elk were said to have been killed by predatory ani mals. In restocking work, 160,000 rain bow and 35,000 brook trout were placed in streams in the forest dur ing the year. Considerable extension work was done in the year through shipping of game to other forests and transferring of game from vari ous sections to other sections of the Pisgah National Forest. joint committees on appropriations is scheduled to be started Thursday. All state departments and agencies had been given the opportunity to present their requests by Wednes day, and some minor bills were to be considered before the committeemen began drafting their bill. One of these was Senator Clark’s proposal that the state appropriate $50,000 for the Confederate veterans’ reun ion at Charlotte. The finance committee, charged with framing the revenue bill, still faced more than a week of hearings before its chairman expected to be gin writing the biennial tax bill. CHILD LABOR IN STATE REDUCED Welfare Department Reports Reduction Amounted to 14.1 Per Cent During 1928. MRS. DEWEY NOBLETT DIES AT STROUDTOWN Mrs. Dewey Noblett died at her home at Stroudtown following an at tack of influenza. Mrs. Noblett was thirty years of age and is survived by her husband, five brothers and five sisters. She was before her mar riage Miss Esther May Pool and was well known in the comntunity where she had a large circle of friends. She united with Stroud’s Chapel M. E. Church when about fifteen years of age. The funeral service was held at Stroud’s Chapel M. E. Church Sun day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. David W. Haga of Montezuma, assisted by Rev. J. N. Wise of East Marion. A large concourse of rela tives and friends attended the ser vice. CATAWBA VALLEY NEWS Old Fort, Rt. 1, Feb. 4. — H. W. Hensley and son'John spent yester day with the former’s parents near North Cove. Leon Silver and niece. Miss Maude Silver, returned home from Jeffer son City, Tenn., last week. Mrs. E. W. Griffin has been on the sick list for a few days. ■ Mr.' arid Mrs. Will Willis were in Marion ^st Saturday on business. borer is not destroyed and when pruning, spraying and cultivation are neglected. On the other hand a peach tree given proper care will bear profitable crops for fifteen years or more. PeacK Tree Borer If the trees were not last fall with P-C-Benzene, they should be examined now for the bor er and all worms destroyed by the old method of cutting them out. P-C- Benzene may be used in the spring with fair results as soon as the ground warms up. Pruning the Peach Tree The sooner a tree of larger pro portions can be grown the sooner it will come into profitable bearing. If less heavy pruning is done after a well-shaped tree has been formed longer will be the life of it and bet ter its crops. When buying trees for starting a peach orchard, a well ma tured tree of medium to large size one-year old is desirable. Cut these “whips” back to around 24 inches. If no buds or limbs are left below this height then tl^e trees should be headed higher. If there are weak branches below this height these should be cut back tii stubs of one bud. If the branches are numerous, strong and well matured they should be thinned out to three or four and those remaining cut beck to stubs of several buds. From now on the trees are trained to an open head the main branches at least three, distributed and well spaced around the short trunk. A thinning out of the larger branches, leaving the smaller twigs with little heading back or “bobbing” of other branches will result in a more productive tree and more high ly colored fruit. The heading back or “bobbing” of every branch and every shoot with little thinning out causing the tree to look like a well clipped privet hedge will reduce the height of the tree and total sdeld and generally produce fruit of poor col or. After four or five heavy crop years it is well to head back heavier the main branches for one year. Raleigh, Feb. 4.—A statement re leased today by the North Carolina department of child welfare says that the number of children certified in employment in North Carolina was reduced 14.1 per cent in 1928 from the number employed in 1927. The survey of the commission * shows that 5,012-children under 16 years of age are employed in all the industries of the state. It states that only two per cent of the 14-year-old children of the state are employed while in th& United States as a whole the percentage is 12.6. The report states that the number of children employed in cotton mills was reduced 21.5 per cent and that in other major industries an average decrease of 28.4 per cent was shown.* While a 41 per cent increase was found in the minor industries. In cotton manufacturing 3,809 children are employed which the re port states is a reduction of 23.3 per cent from the average cotton mill certification of children over a period of six years. There are *220,960 persons em ployed in North Carolina industries, the survey of the welfare commis-- sipn shows. The number of children employed is 2.3, per cent of all adults- employed it states. In a statement accompanying the report E. F. Carter, secretary of the child welfare commission, said, “not withstanding North Carolina’s con tinued growth and its present pre eminence in textile manufacturing the percentage of children employed therein is decreasing at a high ra tio ' in view of ‘ an extraordinary growth in adult ejfeployment.” Laws affecteing child labor were eilacted in 1919 by the state. Mr. and Mrs. Yancey Suttlemjrre if Marion have moved into the com- j leaving the side branches to bear the GOVERNOR’S ADVISORY BOARD MAPS SOUND FARM PROGRAM BIG RAYON FACTORY TO BEGIN OPERATION SOON munity. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bradley spent yesterday with relatives here. Mrs. A. L. Hicks is seriously ill. We hope for her speedy recovery. Mrs. Jessie Carr has been on the sick list for the past week. MARION BLANKETED BY EIGHT INCHES OF SNOW Marion awoke Tuesday morning to find a five-inch blanket of snow on the ground liere, the first “sticking” snow of the winter. The fall contin ued part of Tuesday and Tuesday night, reaching a depth of about eight inches Wednesday morning, j lution use lime sulphur preparations. Annoxincement 1 The minimum temperature reported | The liquid lime sulphur should be crop. The heading back should be confined to the main framework, making the cuts into two or three year old wood. Spraying The spray applied during the win ter is for the purpose of destroying the San Jose scale and the Peach Leaf Curl. The peach leaf curl can be controlled more successfully if the spraying is done before the buds swell and every bud covered with the spray solution. There are often warm spells in February and March during which there is slight swelling of the peach buds. Put on the.spray before this period. For the spray so- Raleigh, Feb. 4. — Tax relief on farms, better crop seeds, more cot ton research and the extension of the county agent system to counties having no agents were four major proposals decided upon by the Agri cultural Advisory Board at its fir^t meeting with Governor Gardner on January 28. The Board passed a resolution calling upon the General Assembly to take appropriate measures to re lieve the heavy taxation upon the agriculture of North Carolina, sincer this industry was taxed heavier than any other major industry in the state. Considerable discussion as to the value of pure crop seed wds heard. It was finally decided to set in motion plans to organize a state wide seed improvement association with a field agent to help in this work Decision to ask for a further ex pansion of the county agent work came in the discussion of a long time agricultural program presented by Dean I. 0. Schaub, director of the agricultural extension service. Dean' Schaub presented a plan which had been approved by the executive committee of the Board. This plan called for attention to the problems of soil conservation, crop and live stock production, farm organization and management, marketing, home management and conveniences, ru ral organization and farm taxation and adjustment. Machinery for de veloping and executing the program was also suggested. INCOME TAX MAN TO BE IN MARION SOON Representatives of the United States internal revenue department will be at the following places on the dates given to assist taxpayers in fil ing Federal income tax returns, ac cording to announcement sent out by Gilliam Grissom, collector: Spruce Pine—^Feb. 11. Burnsville—Feb. 12. Rutherfordton—Feb. 18, 19. Morganton—Feb. 25, 26. Marion—Feb. 27. Single persons who had net income Asheville, Feb. 2.- was made here last night that the j was about 26. The snow was melting; used at the rate of 5% gallons to 50 first unit of the $10,000,000 Ameri-|fast Wednesday afternoon. ! gallons of water. The dry or pow- can Enka rayon factory, will be run-| The snow was general throughout dered preparation at the rate of 15 $1,500 or more or gross income of ning by July 1. ■ | the state, dispatches indicated, a | pounds to 50 gallons of water. | $5»000 or more and rrprried couples The plant is being constructed I light snow being reported as farj . W. L. SMARR, County Agt.!had net income of $3,500 or near Asheville on a boundary of 2,-j east as Fayetteville. Western Nbrthj ^ more or gross income of $5,000 or 000 acres of land purchased at a j Carolina however appeared to have j BILLIE DOVE in “HEART OF A more must file returns. cost of nearly three-quarters of a | received the lai^er share of Old Man j FOLLIES GIRL” at Oasis Theatre j The filing period ends March 15, minioTi' dbllars. 1 Winter’s white'crystals. 1 Friday night. 11929.