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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY
ESTABLISHED 1896
MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940
VOL. XLIV—No. 25
W. H. GREENLEE
DIES AFTER TWO
WEEKS ILLNESS
SCHOOLS REOPEN HERE
FOR THE FIRST TIME
SINCE DECEMBER
19
All schools in McDowell county re
opened Monday morning for the first
time since December 19, after re
ports from local doctors and from
the board of health indicated that
the “flu” epidemic was less concen
trated than it had been at any time
since the outbreak.
Ten percent of the enrollment of
Central high school was absent Mon
day, and approximately five percent
William Harvey Greenlee, prom-1 was absent Tuesday, which relieved
Well-Known Citizen of Mc
Dowell County Dies at Age
Of 79 in Asheville.
inent citizen of McDowell county
died Saturday morning at Mission
Hospital in Asheville after an illness
of about 10 days. He was 79 years
old.
Born in this county in the year
1861, he was the son of the late T.
Y. Greenlee and Margaret Logan
Greenlee, pioneer family of this sec
tion.
Mr. Greenlee was actively engag
ed in farming at the time of his ill
ness and had served as county sur
veyor for the past twenty-five years.
He also was a director in the Farm
ers’ Federation here and was instru
mental in organizing seven of the
other counties.
He attended the Greenlee Acade
my which was located between Mar
ion and Old Fort near Greenlee
when he was a boy, and married Miss
Katie Hemphill of Dalton, Ga., in
about 1889. The plantation on which
Mr. Greenlee lived had been in the
family since the Revolutionary war,
however there were three other
plantations in the ori^nal tract.
the situation considerably, as the
school authorities were inclined to
issue orders to close down for an
other week. On Wednesday, how
ever, the attendance had increased
considerably over the first two days
and Supt. Hugh Beam said that the
schools were justified in remaining
open.
Schools in the city unit system
were hardest struck by the “flu”
epidemic as the cases were concen
trated in the city limits. Bad weather
antagonized the epidemic during the
past two weeks of closed school, and
muddy roads greatly hampered
school trucks in the rural communi
ties.
City and county schools were
scheduled to open on January first
and second, but health officials ad
vised against it, and the following
week the situation was no better,
which delayed the school opening un
til January 15.
Each absentee is being visited by
the school heads to determine the
extent of the epidemic, as all precau
tions are being taken to prevent a
COURT OF HONOR
FOR BOY SCOUTS
IS HELD FRIDAY
Eigteen Boys Are Promoted or
Given Badges Before Execu
tive R. M. Shiele.
Several new Scouts were recog
nized and a number of advance
ments made at the January meeting
of the Boy Scout court of honor at
the Methodist church here last Fri
day evening. The meeting was pre
sided over by R. M. Schiele, Scout
executive, of Gastonia, assisted by
J. B. Laughlin.
There was an unusually good at
tendance from McDowell county,
but the Burke County Scouts who
were scheduled to be present for
promotion did not come on account
of weather conditions.
Scouts presented with the Tender
foot badge are as follows: Thomas
Fleming, J. B. Davis, Bob Logan,
FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY PROMOTES
MILLARD WILSON
Local Boy Is Promoted to Dis
trict Superintendent Em
bracing Thirteen States.
Millard T. Wilson, who has been
manager of the Charlotte office of
The Travelers- Fire Insurance Com
pany, has been made superintendent
of agencies at the Home Office in
Hartford, Conn., with . supervisory
duties in the thirteen states report
ing to the Southern department.
Mr. Wilson is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. W. Wilson of Marion. After
graduating as an engineer from N.
C. State College in 1924, h» began
his insurance career in the engineer
ing department of the Southeastern
Underwriters Association, serving in
five states. Five years later, in
June 1929, he came to The Travel
ers as a fire survey engineer. In Feb
ruary, 1931, he was made special
TO INSTALL OFFICERS
ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH
NEXT SUNDAY MORNING
At the regular annual congrega
tional meeting last week Vernon T.
Eckerd was elected president and J.
H. L. Miller secretary and treasurer
of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church
for 1940. Both Mr. Miller and Mr.
Eckerd have served in these respec
tive offices since the dedication of
the church and will thus celebrate
their fifth anniversary in the capac
ity of the respective offices. Under
their leadership the church has de
veloped materially, numerically and
spiritually. John Sigmon, who has
served as first elder and member of
the building committee since the
dedication of the church, was re
elected first elder. Others to serve
on the board of elders are: Harry
Fox, B. M. Isenhour, A. J. Hewitt,
Poly Fox, Henry Willis, Richard
Shaw, Harold Davis and Jay McKin
ney. •
The complete annual reports of all
secretaries and treasurers of the
1940 PRIMARY
IN THIS STATE
TO BE UNUSUAL
North Carolina Contests Ap-
pai^ently Will Set Sevieral
Precedents.
Raleigh, Jan. 11.—^North Caroli
na’s 1940 primary contests apparent
ly will set several precedents. A sur
vey of the situation today showed
the following new siutitions:
1. For the first time no superior
court judgeship and no solicitorship
will be at stake.
2. There is every indication that
at least five Democrats will be in the
gubernatorial race, and there has
never been mode than four before.
i 3. Sheriffs and coroners won’t
congi’egation were received at this j ^*^ow until the Supreme Court rules
meeting. i ® whether they won four
The newly elected officers will be
officially installed next Sunday morn-
year terms
two-year terms in
1938. A constitutional amendment
mg at 11 o'clock. Immediately after adopted in
the same election m which they were
named.
Alvin Callahan, Emory Wilson, Geo.
Gibbs, Van Harold Brown, Calvin agent, and on January 21, 1935, he | the installation there will be a cele-
Willis, and John M. Haire, all of was made manager of the Charlotte I l>*'ation of the Holy Communion.
Marion. office. He will remain in Charlotttvj The sermon subject at 11 a. m. , • iw
' Second class badges were awarded ^ introduce his successor, until i Sunday will be, “Laborers in God’s! instead ^f the first Satur-
to Wayne Willis and George Conley,! Vineyard.” The Alther Ler.^e will; J second orimarv if
" ■ ’ meet at 6:30. Sermon topic at 7:30,!°^^ ^ primary, if
4. The first primary will be held
Funeral services were conducted ^
from Siloam Presbyterian church,! recurrence of the malady,
of which he had been a life-long i
and first class badges went to L. office at Hartford.
Davis, Roby Conley, and Sammie j Mr. Wilson was married to Cath-
Homewood. i arine Tucker, daughter of Dr. and
Merit badges were given the fol- Mrs. J. H. Tucker of Charlotte, April
lowing boys; Bird Study, Robert; 29th, 1931. They have two children,
Lonon of North Cove; Farm Layout,^Tommy and John Hill.
Lee Parkins, Ma.rion; -Firemanship, i
Darwin Willis, Marion; First Aid,'
Lee Parkins; Forestry, Lee Parkins; j MARION CLUB’S
‘Lepers Save a City.’
needed, will come on June 22, 10
j days ahead of the Fourth of July.
I The legislature moved up the dates
MRS. JENNIE H. DANIELS |to get second primaries away from
SUCCUMBED FRIDAY NIGHT;the Fourth of July week-ends after
lit eliminated absentee voting in the
Mrs. Jennie H. Daniels, 79, died; primaries,
in Marion General Hospital Friday, absentee vot-
member, at 2 o’clock Sunday after-j BOYS WIN TWO GAMES; Lee Parkins; Forestry, Lee J! * night after a week’s illness. She had „ -
noon. Rev. T. G. Tate of Gastonia GIRLS LOSE TWO GAMES Gardening, Walter Crawford; Paft-j STARTS TOmG^^ 6. The last day for filing for office,
officiated at the funeral, assisted by T I iMarch 16, is the earliest closingda»e
Rev. Carl McMurray. Interment was I In the first home basketball game! Lee Parkins; Stamp Collecting, Rob-j A native of Virginia, Mrs. Daniel; for nrimarv
made in the church cemetery. jof the season, the high school teamjert Lonon, North Cove. j The Golden Gloves Boxing Tour-jj^^^ Marion for
Active pallbearers were J. H.{defeated the invading Cliffside boys! Mr. Schiele was assisted by J. B. nament, which is to be held underfifteen years with her
the auspices of the Francis Marion i g McCall | the formal announcements
and governed by the American j _ , ior the Democratic gubernatorial
Athletic Union, will begin tonight at j services were held Sunday nomination started later than in
Greenlee, Ralph Tate, Grady Walk- 39 to 28, and the girls’ tea,m lost by i Laughlin.
er, Tom Gowan, Fred Moody, Fran- a score of 26 to 11. * ■ j " ■
cis Bradsher and Charlie Biddix. | Hawkins, who led the boys’ at-1 HORACE EASOM OF SHELBY ' ° ^t 2 o’clock from the Fir«st Banti^t
Surviving Mr. Greenlee are his; tack for the first quarter, was remov-j TO SPEAK TO KIWANIANS jthe high school auditorium, with ap-j n, Ti campaigns during the 1930’s.
ed on fouls, and G. Flack and Sor
rell played excellent ball. Moody and i
Kaylor also
wife, four daughters. Misses Mary
and Ruth Greenlee, Mrs. Rebecca
Steppe of Black Mountain, and Miss
Nina Greenlee; three sons, Tom
Greenlee of the Greenlee communi
ty, Joe Greenlee of Charlotte, and
George Greenlee of Rutherfordton;
two sisters, Mrs. M. M. Burgin of
Old Fort, and Mrs. H. A. Tate, of game for the girls.
Greenlee; one brother, R. L. Green-j On last Friday night
lee of Marion. Also
children survive.
jproximately fifty entries signed up i| Candidates were on record for the
Horace Easom of Shelby, lieut-jfor the three nights,.after which y ^ ^
received mention by!governor for the Carolinas District' champions and runners-up will be : ^ u « c ^wo men were already in the
Coach Art Ditt. Lefty Mask, flashy jof Kiwanis International, will be the; awarded trophies and prizes. j Active ^11 bea^rs at the funeral 1936 contest by May 15, 1935. Last
forward, has been out of the last! guest of the Kiwanis club here nexfti Clarence Rabb and Jack James, | ' f ° summer. Governor Hoey, who was
two games and his services have j Tuesday evening, it was announced i heads of the registration committee, 1 eno artii^ eci o son* ,3^1 announced candidate about J.3
been missed. at the weekly meeting Tuesday.!said today that fighters from five or | ’ ' i^w ey an . . orris. ‘months before his first primary,
Edith Rufty played the outstanding; Garfield Beaman, who Had charge of'six nearby counties would be pres-1 ^1’’®= suggested a short campaign for 1940
!the meeting, said that Mr. Easom ent here during the tournament. ! formal announcement was
the local I would be present in his official ca-1 “A good clean schedule of fights; Ellis, Amos Seagle, W. ^ade until December 3.
seven grand- basketeers walloped Lenoir 25 to 14 Opacity, and in preparation for the will be arranged,” said Mr. Rabb,l^‘ ®^’ eam, Lieutenant Governor W. P. Hor
McDOWELL COUNTY GETS
A HIGH RATING IN THE
SOIL-BUILDING PROGRAM
A certificate of award was pre
sented to S. L. Homewood, McDowell
will
Dr. B. A. Dickson, I. W. Saunders,
; W. H. Hill, Mason Ledbetter, Clay
ton started the announcing, formal-
at Lenoir. Kaylor was high scorer j event the local club devoted the “and the weighing-in process
for the Marion team with 7 points,|Tuesday night meeting to practicingitake place all day Thursday.” ' '^'“^ ly making known his candidacy to
with Flack following with 5 points.' Kiwanis songs. | Last year’s bouts were considered! ®^.^r ‘ ' . dent the rumors he would not run.
At the close of the first half, the i Throughout the program, A. S. I a big success, and winners came; ^ ft ®’’0'^^hton, Raleigh lawyer,
score was 13 to 9 in Marion’s favor, | Bradford, J. L. Laugiilin, Robert; from Marion, Forest City, Spindale, i s oro, announced, and Revenue
but by the end of the third quarter, I Proctor and Lee Conley favored the, Cross Mill, and Pleasant Gardens,
iVa., S. H. Daniels of Lynchburg,
Commissioner A. J. Maxwell marked
the locals had pushed the score up group with several selected numbers, many of the out-of-county contest-' daughter. Mis. Geo. S. f^j-^dai notice.
OA O A e McCall of Mariow; also one brother,
to 20 to 9. Both teams scored 5; The singing was led by A. S. Brad
county farm agent, last week at a! ^^® Left Mask, j ford with Miss Julia Burton at the
meeting in Raleigh, for his county was out of the game, piano.
having achieved over 90 percent of a sickness in his family. , The Presbyterian ladies served the
O.T. -1 V. -ij- 1 I Players were Kaylor, Sorrell, Ay-1 supper,
the soil building goaL „ 1 • j V. 1 o i,
11 i. ers, Hawkins, and G. Flack. Substi-
McDowell county was the only! . ,
„4. « +v,„4^'tutes in the game were Odum, Dick-
one in the western district that; T , j L
J „^-„„iison. Moody, S. Flack, and Melton.
«amed over 90 percent, the actual ., , j . , , . 1
, J u • The boys and girls teams play
percent earned being 91.6 percent! ^ ^ •, j
out of the possible 100 percent. jN-C-S.D. at Morganton Frjday and
The award was presented to
Homewood on Triday afternoon be- Shelby Tuesday night. A bet-
fore the state committee on the Soil
Conservation Program.
PHILLIP FINN CANNON
IS CLAIMED BY DEATH
ter arrangement for seating specta
tors will be made for the Shelby
game, it was announced.
Phillip Finn Cannon, 88, died at
the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
W. C. Benfield, Monday evening.
The funeral was conducted from
the Pinnacle Methodist church Wed
nesday at 2 o’clock and burial was
in the church cemetery. Rev. W. F.
McMahan, Rev. W. E. Rufty, and
Rev. H. H. Justice conducted the
services.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. W. C. Benfield, of Marion, Mrs.
John Simpson, Nebo, Mrs. B. E.
Sinclair of Pontiac, 'Mich., also one
son, S. W. Cannon of Pontiac, Michj
Nineteen gi*andchildren survive, and
18 great-grandchildren, a half- bro
ther, Peter F. Cannon of Marion and
a half-sister, Mrs. J. E. Roberts of
Asheville.
SEVENTEEN CCC BOYS
GO TO ASHEVILLE FOR
1 PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
CANNING SCHOOL
Seventeen CCC boys were taken to
Asheville this week from the local
welfare office to stand physical ex
aminations after they had been ap
proved here. The boys will be sent
to various camps over the state. They
are: Erwin Allison and Robert Law-
ing. Old Fort; Carl Cook, Elmer
BUSINESS CENSUS IS
NOW BEING TAKEN IN
M’DOWELL COUNTY
ants were routed in the early stages
C. D. Hudson of Halifax.
of the fights.
Ed Butler of Morganton has been'
engaged to referee the bouts. I MAYORS OF W. N. C. PLAN
! MOTOR TOUR OF FLORIDA;
I MARTIN ATTENDS MEET;
i ! Walter (Pete) Murphy, veteran
I Mayors of towns throughout west- ■ Salisbury legislator, has announced
candidates are expected to an
nounce soon, including L. L. Gravely
! of Rocky Mount and Willis Smith of
Raleigh.
Activity is not confined to guber-
LOCAL INSURANCE MAN
GETS A FIVE DAY TRIP
-T'/-v I7A1Uir\ITC "M C* 0ni.c>uuxy llc»& aiixiuuiiccu
j ern North Carolina will tour Florida for Secretary of State against Thad
Fred W Streetman agent fori"®*^ month to call attention to this!Eure, the incumbent. Charles W.
The appointment of S. H. Yancey;^. m, T Tncnrnnpp I particularly the Great Miller, Asheville directory publisher,
enumerator for McDowell county _ 'Smoky Mountains National park, it'gays he again will seek the post of
Lir nrerl: an“^x L::!- “ - Auditor opposmg the incu.-
. 1 and chambers of commerce execu-; bent, George Ross Pou.
paid, for quah^ing for a quo a se Battery Park hotel; Four men have announced for
county
in the 1940 decennial census of bus
iness and manufacturing was rec
ently announced. Mr. Yancey has
already started gathering statistics
from this section on wholesale and
retail trade, service establishments,
arausements and manufacturing en
terprises.
This is the first time for many
years that all of the censuses, busi
ness, manufacturing, population, ag
riculture, housing, mines and quar
ries, and drainage and irrigation,
will be taken in a single year. They
will not all be taken at the same
time. The census of business, manu
factures, mines and quarries, the
Clark, Frank Gillispie, Carl Hall,
Virgil Hollifield, Ben Hughes, Joseph | drainage and inigation began on
Lail, all of Marion, route 2. j January 2nd, some three months
Howard McGee, William Parker, | ahead of the counts of population,
Charlie Seaman, James Singleton, | agriculture and housing which will
James Whitson, Marvin Williams, Jr., j begin on April 1st, according to law.
Johnnie Godfrey, and Clarence
Price, all of Marion.
DR. MAIER INTERESTED
IN ASSEMBLY GROUNDS
Dr. Walter A. Maier, of the Luth-
A canning school, sponsored by j eran Broadcasting Hour, informs
the Home Demonstration clubs of | Rev. Paul A. Boriack by a personal
this county, will be held January 30 j note of his whole-hearted interest in
at the school cafeteria at Dysarts- j a Lutheran Assembly grounds in wes-
vllle, according to Miss Jean Steele.
Admission is free and all are invited
to attend.
tern North Carolina. Dr. and Mrs.
Maier plan to visit Rev and Mrs.
Boriack in the near future.
VESTRYMEN ELECTED
BY ST. JOHN’S CHURCH
At the annual parish meeting of
St. John’s Episcopal church last Sun
day morning vestrymen for the year
were elected as follows: L. J. P. Cut-
lar, W. C. Smith, Wiliam Treverton,
Walker Blanton, S. L. Homewood,
S. E. Whitten and P. B. Morgan. Of
ficers will be elected at the regular
meeting of the vestry tonight at
7:30 at the rectory.
Asheville last Friday. Mayor Zeno: Lieutenant Governor: L. A. Martin
Streetman eft S d y i Martin of Marion was among those of Lexington, W. W. Neal of Marion,
a^ toaay or J?iw y. I included in attendance, and expects !r. l. Harris of Roxboro and W.
During their «tay in o ^ member of the party making! Erskine Smith of Albemarle.
Pines, the famous winter resort tour
North Carolina, the Streetmans will
Unopposed so far in the quest for
*■ 4-v. tour, in which at least thirty! reelection to constitutional offices
^eet with the othei g [towns will be represented by 50 or are Attorney General Harry Mc-
the southern ^tes w o et t persons, including mayors and Julian, Treasurer Charles M. John-
quota. Since the local office s y commerce executives, j son. and Education Superintendent
been estabhshed smce Jun«. thequo- j^ju February 12 and run 'civde A. Erwin,
te had to be reached in six mont s i February 23. The party will| Also unopposed to date as they
or r. ree man o recei e ^ travel from Asheville and from; are quietly lining up support are In-
I Charlotte by bus down through cen- gurance Commissioner Dan C. Boney
tral Florida, down the west coast and and Labor Commissioner Forrest H.
MRS. J. L. KRABER, 86, |up the east coast, probably return-■ shuford. C. Wayland Spruill of Ber-
OF MARION DIED FRIDAY ing by Savannah and Charleston, ac-;tie county, a legislator, has announ-
cording to tentative plans made at, against Agriculture Commission-
the meeting Friday. j^r W. Kerr Scott and there are ru-
; Mnore that Flake Shaw of Guilford
Mrs. J. L. Kraber 86, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. E. P.
Crawford, of Marion Rt. 2, Friday
afternoon. She was the widow of
the late John Luther Kraber and
spent much of her life in High Point
and Richfield. For the last eight
y^ars she had made her home with
her only daughter.
ZEB LACKEY IN RACE
j county will also get in that race.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS j All of the state’s 11 congressmen
^ I are expected to seek reelection. Carl
Zeb L. Lackey, well-known barber j t. Durham in the Sixth has three an-
of Old Fort, announced yesterday
that he would be a candidate for the
office of register of deeds of Mc-
Funeral services were held in Dowell county in the Democratic j veteran Robert L. Doughton chair
man of the House Ways and Means
nounced opponents, Osc^r Barker of
Durham, John CafFey of Greensboro
and Ed Hanford of Burlington. The
High Point Saturday afternoon at, primary next May.
2 o’clock and burial was in the city, Otl^ers mentioned as possible can-
cemetery. j didates for the place include R. V.
Surviving are her daughter, onej McGimjsey, the incumbent; T. W.
sister, Mrs. S. C. Montgomery, of Gowan, J. W. Streetman, Jr., and (
High Point, and four grandchildren. David Stepp. I
committee, has announced opposi
tion in the Ninth from Jim Rivers of
Boone. W. O. Burgin in the Eighth
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