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MARION PROGRESS A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABUSHBD 1896 MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929 VOL. XXXIV—NO. 4 “SEEANDlEm grazing crops, feeds, crop rotation, {hogs, as w€ll as other farm crops. - i TJie tour wil be made in one day. lOlIR TITIJCI^ A Y' The length of the tour will be from IvUlV -1 ULiOI/A I 150 to 175 miles. If you have a car, take along your family, or if you have some extra room, invite some of your neighbors or friends to go along with you; they will be glad to pay for the gas and oil. iR>ememb«r the date, Tuesday, August 13th, to leave Marion at 8 m. W. L. SMARR, County Agent. McDowell Farmers -and Busi ness Men to Make Trip Through Four Counties. s. s. CONVENTION AT NEBO FRIDAY Farmers and business m«n of Mc Dowell county will make a “See and Learn Farm Tour” through McDow ell, iBurke, Catawba, and Lincoln county on Tuesday, August 13th. J4ARION’S PUBLIC LIBRARY little is ever said and therefore the general public does not know The purpose of the tour, as stated Marion’s most abow, is to -see and learn” what ^^d really worthwhile in some of the successful farmers are | g^i^^tions—the Florence Thomas Li ^acticingjn »n effort that we might This library is maintained and conducted under the general con- better improve our agricultural practices. Poultry, dairying, and soil improvement work will be tbe three major subjects studies, though other crops will be noted while OJi the to«r. The tour will start from No. 10 tiwl and direction of Marion Wom an’s Club. The room where the libra ry is housed is' on the second floor of the court house, just to the right of the auditorium or main court room. This location was chosen because it highway a»d the Main street of Ma-1 was thought to be accessible to the XT^ 1A 1 \ ,a-l__ rion, to head on No. 10 opposite the McDowell Motor X!!ompany, the tour to start at 8 a. m. The first stop will be at the farm of L. G. Hollifield near Marion, ■where poultry, dairying, pastures, and alfalfa will be the chief subjects studied. R. L. Sloan, County Agent of Burke County, will meet us at his county line and will have charge of the tour through his county. One or two stops will be made to study some of the work being done in that coun ty. J. W, Hendricks, County Agent of Catawba county, will meet us at his county line and will escort us through his county. The first stop -will be made at the Howard-Hickory Nursery Company’s plant, then to the Catawba Creamery in Hickory. The daily farm of R. L. Shuford near Newton will be the stop for the noon hour and lunch. While here some of the fine Jersey cattle of this farm will be seen and their records told by Mr. Shuford. Short talks on dairying will also be on the program at this farm. Lunch will be served “picnic style”. Be sure to have your picnic lunch basket filled when you leave home. J. G. Morrison, County Agent of Lincoln county will meet the tour at Shuford’s farm and will direct the tour through Lincoln county. T. A. Warlick’s farm, near Ldncolnton Prominent Speakers on the Program — Record - Break ing Attendance Expected. DOANDDONTSFOR MOTORING PUBLIC North Carolina State Highway Patrol Offers Timely Sug gestions to Motorists. night. Always give right of way to po lice cars and motorcycles. When j you hear the siren or see. them ap proaching in purspit, pull to the ex treme right of highway and stop. The sirens are placed on police ma- general public, and the use of the room was given free of rent. At this time there are more than five hundred volumes in the library, consisting of history, biography, Iravet, poetry and fiction, both stan dard and current literature. New books are purchased and added to the library each year, the dues from memberships being used for this purpose. There are books in the li brary written and given by former Marion residents, one of which is a book by Miss Alice Day Pratt, for merly of Marion, who now is living in the far West; and a book of verse by Mrs. Mary Chase Cornelius, a former Marion resident. Mrs. Cor nelius’ book is called “Flowers from the Foothills,” and is dedicated to her mother, the late Mrs. Emma P. Chase. Both these volumes should be of special interest to the Marion readers. Membership to the library is now small and the officers of the Wom an’s Club are anxious to increase this membership, and thereby have a large sum for the purchase of addi tional books. The annual member ship fee is one dollar; .six months, fifty cents; three months, 25 cents. Mrs. R. F. Burton is in charge of the library, her salary being paid by the Woman’s Club. The library is open for two hours in the afternoon All indications point to a record- breaking attendance at the Annual McDowell County Sunday School convention which is to be held on Friday, August 9. The convention will be held with the Baptist Church at Nebo. The opening session will be held at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning. According to announcement made by the officers of the County Sunday School Association, the program has been prepared with the idea of hav ing “a convention for the discussion of practical Sunday School plans and problems,” the plan beijig to have something in the convention that will help workers in all depart ments of the Sunday School. Among the prominent speakers on the program will be Miss Flora Da vis, Raleigh, general superintendent of the North Carolina Sunday I to be necessary that more drastic School Association, and Miss Daisy | measures be resorted to in order to Magee of Raleigh, Children’s Divis-1 impress upon the users of the high- ion-Superintendent of the North!ways that the laws and regulations WEEK SET APAKT FOR HOMECOMING chines and fire department vehicles | Governor Gardner Proclaim* Week of October 14-19 a» State Home - Coming Week. There are a few regulations in the operation of vehicles on the highway that every driver should be familiar with. Although these laws have been in effect for years and the public has been warned through various sources, there seems to be still a continued* disre gard of “Safety Rules,” ^s laid down by the North Carolina laws. The North Carolina State High way patrol has been in operation nearly a month and thousands of people have been cautioned and: gg sure you are right. warned by the patrolmen, and |a gn^eat many violators have been hailed before the courts for various infractions of the safety regula tions. Yet, some people persist in ignoring the simple rules that are laid down for their safety, and the for the purpose of commanding the right of way. It. is unlawful for a private car to be equipped with siren or ex haust whistle, so when you hear one g^ive the right of way — the officer may be after a desperate criminal. Always stop when signalled to do so by an officer. To fail to do this is a serious offense. Always stop when approaching a school bus that has stopped to let off passengers. I Give your attention to the high way when you are driving and thus avoid accidents. Acquaint yourself with the mo tor vehicle laws and observe them. Help us to Carolina Sunday School Association. During the convention these workers will discuss various phases of Sun day School work. As has been previously announced an attendance pennant will be awar ded to the Sunday School having in the sessions of the convention the largest average attendance of repre sentatives, sixteen years of age and over, according to miles traveled. Attendance records will be taken at safety of others, 'aerelor. it seems | ^ ^ car without delivering at the time a title. Never drive without good lights at night—^two headlights and rear light. Never drive with blinding (glar ing) headlights. Never drive a car without good brakes—foot and emergency. Never drive on left hand side of road. Keep to the right of. the cen- governing the use of the highways shall be obeyed, so, in the future, less warnings will be given and more arrests made. The patrolmen, up to this time, have been instruc ted to be very lenient and indul gent in the enforcement of these laws, thus to educate the people to obey the traffic laws. In the future, the instructions of the patrolmen will be to let the courts give the warnings in the wil ful and careless violations of the em- each session o fthe convention. The contest is open to all the Sunday j traffic laws. Schools in the county, except the | It will save inconvenience Sunday School with which the con-1 barrassment and money vention is held and others within one mile. The pennant will be pre sented at the close of the session on Friday night. An interesting program has been announced for the day. ' people if they will acquaint them selves with these laws and abide by them. The following are a few things The week of October 14 to 19 was officially set aside as “North Carolina Home-Coming We»k” in a. Governor O. Max Gardner. The text of the proclamation fol lows: “Whereas, the state of North Carolina in the first quarter of the twentieth century has made an as tounding record of progress which should now be reviewed by our citi zens and made known to all inter ested Americans. Not in a spirit of pride or boasting should this be done but in a spirit of thanksgiving, aspiratio nand dedication to the far greater tasks that lie yet ahead of us. We must make ‘That which we have done but earnest of the things we shall yet do.’ And Whereas, in this spirit the last general assembly of North Carolina provided for the state-wide obser vance of the week of October 14-19 as ‘North Carolina Home-Coming Week’ with the request that all na tive sons and adughters of North Carolina now residing outside of the state be invited to return that week and participate in a great state home - coming celebration at the state capital and in local celebra- tionstions in every progressive coun ter line. If everyone will stay on ty of the state where such meetings their right hand side, of the road, we | can be arranged for. will not experience any more head-1 Nqw, Therefore, I, O. Max Gard- on collisions. j ner, as governor of the state, in ac- Do not straddle the center of the j cordance with this act of the legisla- road. I ture, do hereby proclaim the week make the highways safe. Things You Must Not Do Never operate a car on the high ways until you have made applica tion to the Motor Vehicle Bureau for proper license and title. Never buy a car without receiving of October 14-19 as ‘North Carolina Home-Coming Week’ and call upon all officials, citizens and the press of the state to co-operate in promoting this progressive movement. “Of paramount importance will be the dedication that week of the new state-owned North Carolina v,ill be visited. kere we probably Inamely: Wednesday have one of the best examples of diversification to be found anywhere in the state. Pure-bred Jersey cattle hogs, sheep and poultry, and a sys tem of crop rotation being practiced that improves the soil and yields a profit to the owner at the same time. Another stop will be at the home of M. S. Rudisill, near Lincolnton and Crouse. Here no doubt we will find one of the best systems of crop rota tions to be found in the state, and one so simple, and so inexpensive— almost fool-proof—that anyone, no matter how scarce his money, can put it into practice. Sometimes we hear a farmer say that he would like to follow some of# the instructions of the County Agent, but he is not able to buy the seed. Mr. Rudisill is growing considerable Hubam Sweet Clover, and he began several years ago when he was able to get only 50 clover seed of that variety, yet to day he has fields of it. I will not attempt to tell you what you will see on this tour. I want you to come along and see it. I have visited some of these farms as many as three times this year with the viewof having this tour, and I can promise you that the trip will be worth hundreds of dollars to you; yes, I will say thousands., While we must have money to carry on our farm operations, we must know how to manage our soils, our livestocks, our plants, in order to make a suc cess. We are taking some of our first steps in getting the production of milk in McDowell county produced in such a volume that we can have a creamery, a cheese factory, or some kind of a dairy product manufactur ing plant in Marion. One or more cream routes will be started during this month. It is very important that we get a greater vision of the dairy industry. Many of our farmers have never seen a, cow that will pro duce 1200 pounds of butter within a year, or 20,000 pounds of milk, yet we are within an hour’s drive of such a cow, and many others that are producing four or five times as much as our average cows are pro ducing. On this tour, we will learn and Saturday afternoons, at which times books may be obtained from the library by anyone who has been enrolled as a member. , Every citizen of the town who en joys reading and wishes to avail himself of the opportunity to obtain good litrature should become a mem ber of the Florence Thomas Library. The members of the Woman’s Club will greatly appreciate your interest and co-operation in this really im portant matter. MAN IN STRIKERS ROW BOUND OVER TO COURT COMMISSIONERS MEET; JURORS FOR SEPTEMBER The' county commissioners were in session at the court house Monday The entire day was taken up with routine matters. i A delegation of citizens appeared! >>»«»» »" “-e proper place before the commissioners requesting j view Never “straighten out” curves. Stay on the right. Never pass another vehicle going in the same direction where the view is obstructed for a distance of five hundred (500) feet. Never disregard the approach of that the users of the highways must j another vehicle because you thinn I do and a few more that they mu.tjyou have the right of way. The fact farr”g^ound”s with the most not do: that you may have the right of way, exhibits of our pres- Thinsrt You Must Do will not prevent an accident. ’ ent-day progress and possibilities Have the proper title and license | Never enter a highway from a. presented, with addresses for your car. Make application to j side road ^thout stopping. | eminent Americans and returned the Motor Vehicle Bureau for title! Never turn across the highway to Carolinians broadcasted by and license as soon as you purchase | the left without being sure that it is I car. I perfectly saft to do so and that no Carry your license plate securely one is approaching from the front in j or rear. Never swing out to the left of Robert Loudermilk, loom fixer employed by the Clinchfield Manu facturing company, who was arres ted late Thursday following an en counter with strikers of the Marion Manufacturing company, given a preliminary hearing here Friday af ternoon before magistrate W.H. Hill on a charge of an assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, waived the hearing and was bound to superior court. He was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Lawrence Hogan sec retary of the local textile union. It was charged that he fired his shotgun into the air several times. Loudermilk is not a member of the local union. Although he received injuries about his head and face on Thursday evening when, it is alleged he interfered with strikers from East Marion, who were parading near the Clinchfield mills, by driving his au tomobile through the parade, knock ing down Mrs. Annie Wilson, one of the marchers. Loudermilk is unable to state who struck him or inflicted the cuts which he received, and he has sworn out no warrants against his assailants up to this time. In publishing the list of teachers for the Marion Public Schools last week H. C. Hawn was omitted by error. Mr. Hawn was re-elected as a member of the high school faculty. a change in the Dysartsville-Nebo j township line, but action on the mat ter was postponed by the commis sioners until a later date. Jurors were drawn for the Sep tember term of McDowell Superior court as follows: First week — L. M. Shirlen, Geo. D. Taylor, A. Herbert Finley, Geo. Shuford, Wm. F. Tisdale, Lester R. Simmons, J. Gilkey Seagle, Jas. L. Arrowood, C. C. Nanney, Thos. S. Uptqn, Sandy Allison, Wm. T. Miller Robert L. Foster, John L. Staton, J. M. Carpenter, J. B. Biddix, Jas. C. Upton, Lee H. Whitener, Fred Law- ing, E. W. Huskins, J. H. L, Miller, Ellis R. Wells, Joe G. Brown, L. M. Robbins, G. B. Marlow, J. R. Smith, H. O. Smith, Marion E, Kelly, Mari on Morgan, D. A. Bowman, Fred Murray, C. B. Harris, Virgil P. Sil ver, George R. Cooper, J. Luther El liott, James Chapman, Thos. W. Carswell, Lee Lackey, Will A. Hens ley, John W. McCormick, L. E. Broome, T. M. Flack, John A. Thomas, J. F. Turner, Joe R. Steppe, C. B. Landis, Leonard B. Dalton, C. W. Wiseman. Second week—Robert B. McNee- ly, A. V. Setzer, M. C. Morgan, W. E. Morgan, John W. Lawing, W. J. Jaynes, Jas. N. Lonon, Carl Laugh ter, Fate Lentz, J. W. Hollifield, Ma rion F. Parker, Grover C. Tabor, John B. Walker, John P. Morrow, Joe F. Miller, Geo. G. Moore, A. H. Mitchem, M. West Lewis, Clay Mc Kinney, Alvin G. Rader, W. R. Mc Gee, R. H. Allison, Avery Padgett, C. B. Noblitt, John M. Cuthbertson, Chas. E. Reed, Chas. E. Poteat, D. A. Ayers, Jas. H. Henline, Wm. A. Proctor. pocket registration the center of the road when you are about to make a right turn. Slow down to a speed where you can turn without doing this. Never drive a car with a “cut Carry your card with you. Keep license plate clean. See that license plate is illumina ted at night. Have two good brakes, foot and | out” or straight exhaust, siren or emergency (either one sufficient to i exhaust whistle. stop car.) • I Never pass a school bus when Have two good headlights and a; it has stopped to discharge passen- rear light, showing red in rear and g-ers, lighting up license ilate clearly. Never park your car on the high- Always drive to the right of the ways without getting entirely off of center of the road. That is the side, the hard surface or mainly traveled the law allows you. j portion of the highway and Ever be cautious, especially in ap-1 park on a bridge, proaching curves, intersec|ions, j Never drive a private ca/ with a bridges, and in meeting other ve-1 dealer’s license plate, hides. I Never allow a child under sixteen Always stop before entering a j years of age to drive a car. highway from a side road or private The careful observance of these drive. 1 simple Do and Don’ts will probably Whenever it is absolutely neces- j save the life of someone, sary to park along a highway, get i The disregard of these safety all four wheels off the hard surfaced | rules may result in embarrassment portion or mainly traveled portion i and expense to yourself. of the highway. Keep your under absolute con-1SURASKY CHAIN STORES trol at all times. j BUYS THE BRYSON STORE Always look in all directions and j give proper signals when stopping, | The Surasky Chain Stores has starting, or turning. I purchased The Bryson Store and an- Proper Signals nounce the business will be continu- Proper signals—given with left led at the present location. The new hand and arm from and beyond the | management announces that buyers left side of the vehicle. ja^e now in New York purchasing Left turn: Hand and arm hori-1 new goods which will arrive soon radio to every corner of the state. During the Home-Coming Week ev ery North Carolinian now living out side the state is asked to see this ex hibit of the state’s resources at Ral eigh and to visit ag^ain his native county and section. ‘To this end I call upon every cit izen to send in the names of all rel atives and friends outside the state who should be invited to this cele bration and I earnestly request th& press of the state to co-operate by inserting blanks which will be sent for this purpose. “I also call upon editors of the lo cal papers in each county, taries of the local chambtis of com merce, the county farm and home agents, and the county superintend ents of education, associating with themselves , such other persons as they may desire, to meet and organ ize county home-coming celebratioR committees to supplement the ma jor activities at the state capital.’' HIGHWAY PATROLMEN TO BE SHIFTED ABOUT zontal, forefinger pointing to left. Right turn: Hand and arm point ing upward. Stop: Hand and arm pointing downward. Always give the other fellow at least half of the road. Have a good horn and in perfect working condition. Sound your horn when passing They will carry a full line of ladies, men’s and children’s ready-to-wear and furnishings, also a complete line of dry goods and shoes. The store building ^is being re-arranged and improved awaiting the arrival of new goods. Announcement is made that Mr. Fred L. Bryson and Mrs. A. C. Leonard will continue with the new Oasis Theatre has an ad in this pa per calling attention to another change in their program. Hereafter they will be open three days a week more about dairy cows, pastures, i matinee and night. Effective next month, all patrol men of the new state highway patrol will be changed to new districts for a period of two months, it was an nounced today by Capt. Charles D. Farmer. Under the plan the three patrol men of the ninth district will take up work in the first, those in the first will go to the second, the third in the second to the third, and so on. This plan was adopted at the time the t)atrol was inaugurated and a shift will be made every two months. Numerous highly complimentary letters, both in regard to the work the patrol is doing and for the cour teous treatment accorded motorists by individual patrolmen, are being receivet by Captain Farmer, who said today he was highly pleased with the reports reaching him from The musical comedy “SYNCO-j another vehicle and on sharp curves! firm and that patrons will be given PATION” will provide you with I Drive at a reasonable rate of | the same courteous treatment as | every section of the state in regard real entertainment. It has a cast of speed. ' 'heretofore. |to the general co-operation of the Broadway favorites, with the fam ous band Fred Waring’s “Pennsyl vanians” providing the catchy and beautiful music. There are good dancing, sparkling humor, romance, and a number of songs in it. Horse drawn vehicles must carry a light at night on the left side of vehicle. j Oasis Theatre has an ad in this pa-1 ; per calling attention to another public with the patrol. You will enjoy “THE FLYING People riding horseback at night | change in their program. Hereafter FLEET”. It is reported as an extra must carry a light. Bicycles must carry ^ a they will be open three days a week j good “picture. At Marion Theatre light at. matinee and night. Thursday and Friday.
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