Marion progress
established 1896
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED
TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWEU. COUNTY
A
NEW YEAR
thought
me but live from tmt to vm*
With fomard face and unrelactant soul
Not^^temng to. nor turning from X
Not^’uming for the thing, that disap.
« fear
whJie *
And happy h^ that pays its toll
che“e? “ ***’
So let the^y wind up the hill or down.
Thojo^h or smooth, the journey wiU
StUl sleEng what I sought when hut
a iK>y.v
New friendship, high adventure, and a
crown.
I shall grow old, but never lose life’s
zest.
Bemuse the road’s kst turn will be the
best.
^Capper's WeMy.
^iNNB sat before the glowing
fire of her living room long
after the other members of
the household had retired.
It was New Year’s eve and as the
hour of midnight approached, both
sweet and sad memories flooded the
soul of the unhappy girl. For two
years past she and Tom Anderson had
held a trysting New Year’s party with
in that very room. Another had been
planned for this New Year; but Tom
had not come. Now she held her lone
ly vigil, watting for the first sound
of the usHal noisy welcome to open
the sealed resolution he had placed in
her hand the year before to be opened
one year from date.
Things had not gone well with her
an# Tom since his return to college
in September. His letters had come
less frequently, and they seemed to
Anne to grow colder and colder as the
time went by. Perhaps she was im- ^
agining things because of an uncon- i
firmed rumor that a fair co-ed had
enthralled him. Still, she lived on
the prospect of seeing him during the
holidays and the thrilling plan of
opening their last year resolutions In
each other’s presence. But alas! She
had heard nothing from him for two;
weeks, and now the magic hour was
at hand.
Finally, bedlam broke loose. Midst
the uproar and confusion Anne Ca-:
ruthers broke the seal and drew forth
a slip of paper to read: j
“Resolved, That one year from date,;
no matter where I am or what the
circumstances, I’ll come to you again
to make one more plea for a positive
answer to my oft-repeated question.”
A smile of disdain twitched about
the corners of Anne’s ^outh as she
recalled her own resolution now in
his possession:
“Resolved, That nothing will ever
cause me to doubt you until you your
self tell me that you no longer care
for me.”
“Anne!” Then came a soft tap on
the window. “Anne! Let me in
quick. I’m freezing!”
There was no mistaking that voice.
It was Tom’s. Anne flew to the doOT.
flung It wide, and the next tastart
was in the arms of her
Tom, I thought jou had fo'-f “
tears of Joy coursed down her
and he tried to tell of Ms forced de-
lay on account of illness.
•‘I stole away. Anne, to come to you
Now you will have to marry me and
nuZeZe back to health. Please get
a do*tor.” .
There was nUh?
house during the rMt *5.*
A doctor was obtained and Tom was
Sfre%“.rrrtsr. S tn, had
been well taken.
pedestrians MUST
WALK ON LEFT SIDE
adopted by the
state highway commission last week
o not require pedestrians to walk
feet from the center of the road
but do require them to keep to the
® and side, H. K. Witherspoon,
assistant to the chairman, announc
ed.
The error in the text of the ordin
ance which was first given out was a
clerical one, caused by the fact that
ordinance 22, the one relating to
pedestrians, comes in the midst of
other ordinances, relating to the
placing of telegraph, and telephone
poles, rura;i mail boxes, signs and
other objects. All of these must be
placed 30 feet from the center of
the highway.
The rule that pedestrians must
keep to the leff hand side of the
road was enacted, Mr. Witherspoon
explained, so that the pedestrians
could always see cars approaching
them. If the pedestrians walk on the
right hand side of the road they run
the risk of being run down by cars
approaching from behind..
Although it is not included in the
ordinance pedestrians are advised,
as a safety precaution, to walk on
the shoulders of the road and not
on the paved portion. Persons who
get out of cai-s to fix tires, make re
pairs, or for any other purpose, are
required to be on the shoulders, and
not.on the paved portion of the
road, by the new ordinances which
go into effect on January 1st.
These ordinances carry a fine of
3^25.00 and costs for each violation,
and the state highway patrol is di
rected to enforce them. Most of the
42 ordinances are designed to pro
tect the highways, and related to the
moving of heavy trucks, farm mach
inery and houses over the state’s
roads.
ASHEVILLE FIRM LOW BID
DER ON M’DOWELL ROAD
Raleigh, Dec. 18.—Low bids total
ing nearly |750,000 were opened by
the State Highway department Tues
day for construction of seven high
way projects, including nearly 33-
miles of hard surfaced road.
■ There was an average of 10 or 12
bids submitted on each project and
the total of the low bids was $738,-
687.70.
Wednesday tbie State Highway
Commission will hold its regularly
monthly meeting but only routine
business is expected to come before
the body.
The projects and the low bidders
in Tuesday’s letting included one
western North Carolina project.
No. 850, McDowell county, 11.2
miles between Marion and the Ruth
erford county line, on Route 19.
Lee J. Smith of Asheville $79,077.20
on the road work, and Hobbs-Pea-
body company, of Charlotte, $44,-
678.95 on structures.
ALTAPASS YOUTH IS
FOUND DEAD IN WOODS
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Newspaper Union.)
MARION
The Marion-^™
the Lincolnton All-Sta
team here Thursday nig
score of 33 to 21 Anderson led the
scoring with a ^.gj^^ors best
while Young was the olaved
bet. Hawn and Proctor also played
good games. « ■
More than
line produced in the
every minute-
Spruce Pine, Dec. 19.-1- Edward
Lowery, 18, son of Sam Lowery, of
near Altapass, was found dead last
night at 9 o’clock after having been
gone from home since noon Tues
day. He left the house with a gun,
and his parents thought he had gone
hunting. When he did not return at
night, they and their neighbors be
gan a search for him.
He was found about half a mile
from the house, after a 24 hour
search. Dr. Jonas, of Marion, Mc
Dowell county coroner, said the boy
had probably been dead since some
time Tuesday evening.
OLD /YEAR sat'dnj alliigh sS^ be^re a teacher’s desk.
J \l scythe stood behind him resting against the wall Mr. Old YSr
was frowning, and coding his white whiskers with long, bony fingers,
that young rascal doesn’t come soon,—” he muttered.
Just then the door opened and in rushed a smalL lauffhins boy.
«Hello!” he called, «Am I late?”
**One more minute,’^ said the man at the desk^^and you would
have lost forever your opportunity for being The Litde New Y^.”
“Well, well,” said the boy not seeming to b^much iippressed,
‘Vhat’s all the fiiss about, anyhow?”
**Please sit at once at your desk. I have onlyj
seconds to put you through your lessons,
Mr. OU Year sighed, **I must go to the Heav
of aU Old Years.”
The little boy leaned a fet cheek on a chubby |
*To begin with. I’ll ask you about die t
Tell me quickly how many months*there are i
”I don’t know,” said the little boy, and
cate a particle.
**Don*t know!” shouted Mr. Old Year,
you cxpect to carry on with this thing?”
"Oh, somehow,” said the small urchin.
"See here, time is the one thing you must keep track of. Twelve
months in a year! Three hundred and sixty-five days! Four weeks in
a month! Seven days in a week! — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Twenty-four hours in a day!
Sixty minutes in an hour! Six^ second m a minute! Now ... do you
undmtand?”
The small boy smiled, "Say, Mr. Old Year what makes your
whiskers so long?”
The old man rose 6x>m his (^k. He shook his fist at the smiling
child. "Next year at this time you will be like me!” he shouted, "You
will be worn out with the careS and worries of pushing Time through-'
the calendar. Then you’ll be sorry...” He
his scydie went hastily from the room. The 
The small boy rubbed his cheeks with his hai
wonder if my whiskers wil/ be as long,” he murmured.
The clock struck twelve. "Well,—I must
I sopposer PH-hnnr Tip araeythe:”-~Aiiead)ri
loolcra older. "I ahnost wish,”‘he said
himself, "that I had been too late. Then I
wouldn’t have this on my hands. I’d stilt~=^
be playing with all the odier fellows, wh
be Little New Years... after I’m gpne,’^
EIGHT M’DOWELL COUNTY
DEPUTIES ARE ACQUIHED
McDowell Officers Freed in Case That Grew Out of Slay
ing of Six Workers in Strike Clash at Marion Mill on
October 2nd. ^
1929, Western Newspaper Unioo
NEW PAPER MONEY j
FOR RUINED BILLS!
i
Mutilated or Even in Ashes They
May Be Redeemed in Washington
—But Don't Try to Defraud Yourj
Uncle Sam.
If ever you forget a $10 bill in
your overalls and have pants, bill
and all, go through the washing ma
chine, or if you should drop your
billfold full of paper mo»ey while
feeding the hogs and find it later
chewed up into a pulp, don't tear
your hair and think your money is
lost.
In the Treasury building at Wash
ington are three women, all expert
workers, whose sole job it is to sal
vage partly destroyed or mutilated
money and redeem it with brand
new crisp bills. This is known as the
“Redemption Division” of the U. S.
Treasury and has been in charge of
Miss Bertha Sherfy for several
years.
Money redeemed in this way at
Washington averages more than
$500,000 a year. Most of it has been
damaged by burning but laundering
in clothes is not far behind as a
cause. Pocketbooks going through
threshers, corn shellers, mills or oth
er machinery also account for a lot
of partly destroyed money. Then
there are teething babies, mice,
playful puppies, chemicals and any
number of other causes of mutilated
money that Uncle Sam is asked to
make good.
One of the largest single “orders"
for redeeming burned money came
from an oregon bank destroyed by
fire. The president took the box of
charred bills to Washington and
said it contained $100,000. The sol
vency of the bank depended on the {
redemption of this burned currency.!
After a laborious task of several'
days $122,000 in bills burned to tin-!
der were identified and replaced I
with new money. The amazed bank-'
er went home and discovered an en-1
j velope containing $22,000 he knew
nothing about had been placed in!
this box before the fire. j
Occasionally attempts are made to
; defraud Uncle Sam. A Texan sent in!
A Dream of
New Year’s
Eve
1>yL.J.Bridgtnan,inYouth'tCofHfiai^0n
midnight deep one New Year's ev»
The grandfather clock got up to leav%
A yawn upon his hice.
**rm ieeling quite run down,** he said;
“Perhaps I’d better go to bed.
Will some one take my place?'*
The small tin clock from the kitchen sIm^
Called out: *111 take your place myselL
Go on, you sleepy thiojf!”
But just as the big clock turned to go
“Somebody’s calling,** he said, “I know.
Did you hear something ring?’*
The little clock danced to the door to see
What midnight caller there might be.
What gnome or elf or fairy.
And lo! while church bells rang their
chime
hope I have arrived on time,**
Said sweet Miss January.
The
365
Seeds
Myrf]
Koon
Cherri|man
SALISBURY MAN GETS
STATE GRANGE PLACE
Raleigh, Dec. 18.—As a result of
the meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Nori^h Carolina state
fe'range consisting of Clarence Poe
as state master; Charles F. Cates, of
Alamance county; F. D. Patterson
of Rowan, and Dr. Carl C. Taylor,
of Wake. R. Lee Trexler, route 6,
Salisbury, has been named state sec
retary to succeed L. L. Smith,
Rowan, resigned. Mr. Trexler is a
progressive farmer formerly enga
ged in school work. To fill the po?.-
of state lecturer, Orgamzer
Harry B Caldwell has been named
wfth Mis* Elizabeth Kelly, of Macon
county, as assistant lecturer.
you "will enjoy “BROaWaY”
at Marion Theatre next Monday
jt T^iPsdav, with E\bjL.YSS
brent GLENN TBYON and
ME^A KENNEDY ta it.
Burnsville, Dec. 21.— Eight Mc
Dowell county deputy sheriffs who
fought a battle with a strike mob at
the gates of a Marion cotton mill,
October 2, tonight stood free of all
charges growing out of the death of
six strikers.
The octet—Webb, Fender, Robert
Ward, Charles Tate, Taylor Green,
William Twiggs, James Owens,
Broadus Robbins and Dave Jarrett
—^were acquitted today of a second
degree murder charge by a Yancey
county jury which deliberated over
the case slightly more than 22 hours
The case was brought here from
McDowell county on a change of
venue .asked by the state. This was
done in an effort to insure a trial
clear of any feeling that might have
grown out of prolonged and tumul
tuous strike troubles at the Marion
Manufacturing company and Clinch-
field Manufacturing company cotton
mills in Marion and also to get com
pletely away from the industrial sec
tion of the.state.
The men were accused of having
deliberately fired into a milling
mass of strikers and strike sympa
thizers who gathered at the gates
of the Marion Maunfacturing com
pany cotton mill the morning of Oc
tober 2, in an effort to prevent em
ployes entering the mill.
The jurors had deliberated the
case since. 11:20 o’clock yesterday
morning. The verdict was returned
at 9:32 a. m. today.
Judge G. V. Cowper, of Kinston,
presiding over a special term of
Yancey court, called by Governor O.
Max Gardner, complimented the ju
ry for its careful deliberation of the
case. One of the jurors said the bal
lot was 10 to 2 for acquittal last
night.
The court house bell tolled short
ly after 9 o’clock this morning to
call Judge Cowper to the courtroom,
ordinarily, court has opened at 9:30
and the early call from the jury was
taken to mean that it had reached a
verdict and was anxious to be liber
ated.
Only a few persons were in the
court room when Judge Cowper ar
rived. He ordered the jury into the
courtroom and Sheriff M. C. Hunni-
cutt opened court. The judge asked
if a verdict had been reached and
the jurors-^odded their heads.
“Receive the verdict,” the judge
told C. C. Carraway, clerk of the
court.
“Have you agreed on a verdict?”
Carraway asked.
“Yes,” the jurors answered.
“What is it?”
“Not guilty.”
Other Cases
Nearly 100 strikers and sympathi
zers were arrested and charged with
rioting and rebellion. Most of these
cases are still on the docket of the
McDowell Superior court. At a spec
ial term of court that opened on No
vember 11 last, Alfred Hoffman, or
ganizer for the United Textile work
ers union, and three other strike
leaders were convicted of rioting
and sentenced to jail or chain gang
termsv
a package of currency torn to bits!
explaining mice had ruined $100
for him. An investigation revealed:
that a few dollar bills had been torn
up by the man himself. He served a*
term in Federal prison at Atlanta. 1
An Ohio man sent in half of a $5 j
bill he said his baby had gotten hold
of, the other half being torn up and |
lost. Numbers of all bills redeemed
are kept on record and it was found
the man had previously sent in the
other half of the $5 and it had been
replaced. Six months in jail and a
fine of $250 was his punishment.
At least three-fifths of a bill must
be offered before it can be redeem
ed at face value. However, if satis
factory proof is given that the re-
j mainder has been destroyed the
j damaged bills may be fully replaced.
I With long pins Miss Sherfy and
j her assistants pick out piece after
I piece of the mutjlated bills sent to
jthem and stick them on sheets of
I mucilage paper. There may be only
j a trace of a line or a figure, but so
j expert are these women they know
j where every piece belongs and put-
I ting each in its right place the pat
tern of a bill soon becomes discerni
ble.
This branch of the Treasury also
handles all wornout bills taken out
of circulation and replaced with new
j currency. Here too, many counter-
j f eit bills are discovered that bank
ers and others who ought to know
I all about money failed to dettect.
I FIRE LOSS IN THE STATE
SHOWS BIG DECREASE
Boss—“Rufe, did you go to your
lodge meeting last night?”
Rufus^—“No, suh. We dun have to
postpone it.”
Boss—“How was that?”
Rufus— “De Grand - All-Power-
ful - Invincible - Most - Supreme-
Unconquerable - Potentate dun got
beat up by his wife!”
See “BROADWAY” at Marion
Theatre next Monday or Tuesday.
It is a melodrama played against an
extravagant and gorgeous night
club setting.
Raleigh, Dec. 18. — North Caro
lina’s total fire lose in November this
year year was $247,258, a decrease
of $223,000 frdm the loss of $471,-
451 in November 1298, Dan C. Bon-
ey, state insurance commissioner,
announced Wednesday.
Last year the state set a new low-
record for fire loss in recent years
with a total for -928 of $4,912,925,
Mr. Boney said, and through Novem
ber of this year the tota lis less than
the 1928 aggregate for the same pe
riod. For\ll months in 1929 the
loss has been $4,102,161 and for th^-
first 11 months last year it was $4,-
417,621.
Waynesville was one of the towns
on the November honor roll as hav
ing reported no daihage fir^s.
F. G. Watts of Ash in Brunswick
county sa3TS that a small flock of
White Leghorn pullets is netting
him $15.00 in cash each week.
|F YOU were given a box,
containing 365 choice seeds
to be planted one at a time,
wh&t would you do with
them? Would you toss each one out,
carelessly, letting it fall where It
would, or would you study to find the
best soil, and then plant and water
it carefully?
If you had been told that these seeds,
were all different, and that they could'
never be duplicated, you would be
the more zealous In tending them; and
if you had been further instructed
that with proper care they would be
come luxurious plants with exquisite
flowers and fruitage of benefit to man
kind, while careless treatment would
cause them to become troublesome
and even poisonous weeds, what then?
Of course you would put your whole
mind on the cultivation of your seeds.
No Idle pleasures, no fascinating or
risky gambles in life would be allowed
to interfere with this fateful garden-
ing. Once convinced that your seeds
were really of the magic sort indi
cated, you would find great joy in
their care and development. As each
fresh one was taken from the box, you
would think, “I must make this one
finer than the last, because I know
better how to handle it.” You ^would
watch expectantly for the results of
your planting, would learn by your
mistakes, and find much pleasure in
your successes, the pleasure that
comes only from the contemplation of
things that grow. And when the 365
seeds were all planted, you would
reap a rich harvest of beauty and use
fulness.
On New Year’s day, such a box will
be Intrusted to yon by Father Time.
He will give you no special Instruc
tions, but if you think carefully oa
the subject, you will know that your
365 seeds have the magic powers here
in described.
(©. 1929, Western Newspaper Union.)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
4. "TX) ALL who have had trou- %
* bles and worries—may the
% New Year be bright 1
|| To all who have partially ful- *
^ filled their expectations—may ^
the New Year see them fulfilled 1 *
4* To all who are starting out on 41
1^ new ventures—all success in the J
* New Year! 41
* To all who are looking for- ^
* ward to a new start—may the ♦
New Year aid them and assist *
* them! ♦
4> To all who are dreaming won- ^
* derful dreams—may the New J
{Year see their dreams come %
true! ♦
To all who wish happiness— *
fand who does not wish happi- ^
ness?—so this includes every- 41
one—a Happy, Happy, Happy J
f New Year!—Mary Graham Bon- ♦
% ner. J
^ ((^ 1929, Western Newspaper tTnlon.) ^
“BROADWAY” is one of those
entertaining Singing-Dancing- Talk
ing pictures that has plenty in it to
please you. At Marion Theatre, next
Monday and Tuesday.
More than 6.000 tractors were ex
ported from the United States in a.
recent month.