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WW WWWWWWVWWVWWW i WWWWWWWWI llAtlZZ'J CCUIJTY SECCHD, Established June 28, 1001. " FRENCH BROAD NEWS, 1 jZJAe Medium. f hroogh which you reach th ' people of Mtdlsoe County. ' Advertising Extes ea IfpL'cstica. ..... ; Established May 16, 1907. i Consolidated V i NT. 2ad, 1911. wwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwww m ONLY NEWSPAPER PUZLISKID HI MADISON COOTT. VOL. XV MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTYj N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12tfi 1913., NO. 50. V DIRECTORY. Madison county. Established by the - legislature Bion 1850-51. "Population, to, 132. County seat, Marshall. 1656 feet above sea leveL ' New an modern court nouit, cost 33,000.00. . New and modern jail, cost 115,000. New county home, cost 110,000.00. ooaty Officer. Hon. C B Mashburn, Senator, 36th District, Marshall.- . v . -- Hon. J. E. Rector, Representative, Eot Springs. N. C. N. B. McDevltt, Clerk Superior Court. Marshall. W. M. Buckner, Sheriff, Marshall. Z. G. Sprinkle; Register of Deeds, Marshall. C. P. Bunnloo, Treasurer, Marshall N. O.. R. . D. No. 4. R. L. Tweed, Surveyor, White Rook " Dr. J. HV Balrd, Coroner, Mara Hill N.C. Mrs. Eliza Henderson, jailer,. Mat- shall. John Honeycutt, Janitor, Marshall. Dr. C.N. Sprinkle; County Pbysl ' clan. Marshall - . r . James Haynle. Supt. county home. MarshalL , . - . ' Conrtf m Followst September 1st, 1913 (2) November 10th. 1913. (2) v , March 2nd. 1914, (2). June 1st, 1914 (2). Sept 7th. 1914,(2). . , R. R. Reynolds, Solicitor, Asheville N. O. 1913, Fall Term-Judge Frank Carter, Asheville. " ; 1914, Spring ; Term Judge .M. H. Justice. Rutherford ton, N. C Fall Term-Judge E. B. Cline, of Hickory, N. C. ". : County , Comm!itan'' W. C Sprinkle, chairman. Marshall R. a. Edwards, member, MarshaH,"R. F. D. No. 2. vReubln A. Tweed, mem ber, Big Laurel, N. C. ? - - , J. Coleman Ramsey, atty., Marshall. Road Commltlonr. ; Frank Roberts, chalrmsn, Marshall. J. K. Wilson, secretary, route 2..Mar . shall. , .... . "r -. . - . ' Highway Commllon, F. Shelton, President, Marshall. Guy V. Roberts, Geo. W.- Wild, Big Pine. N. C, ' Hot Springs, " Waverly, " Mars Hill, N. 0 S. W. Brown, JoeS. Brown,? A. F. Sprinkle Board of Education, y Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring Creek, N; C. John Robert Sams, mem. Mars Hill, N. a W R. Sams, mem. Marshall. Prot R. G. Anders, Superintendent of Schools, Marshall. Board meets first Monday in January. April, July, and October each year. 'School and " oll8s. . Mars Hill College, -Prof. R. L Moore, President. Fall Term begins August 17th, 1913, and Spring Term begins January 2nd 1914. - Spring Creek High School. R, 6. Edwards, Principal, Spring Creek. 8 mos school, opens Aug. 1st. Madison Seminary High' School, , Prof. G. C. Brown, principal. 7 mos. school. , ' Bell Institute, Margaret E. - Grif fith, principal, Walnut, N. C. Marshall Academy, , Prof. S. Itolana niIBMN'VCANIIES IN FANCY CHRISTMAS BOXES JUST ' ' ' - " , . ' ' received! . Yfc also have a nice line of Jcvclry and Watches every piece ofwhich is guaranteed . PIPES BOTH MEERSCHAUM AND BRIAR. TOIli"2T SETS BOTH SILVER AND IVORY. STATIONERY,. - - - PERFUMES, - - ' v. Williams, principal, 8 mos. school, Opens August 4th. . ' Notary Publics. J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term plres Jauuary 1st, 1914. ex W. O. Connor, Mars Hill, . Term expires Nov. 27th 1914. - D, p. Miles, Barnard, Term expires March 14th, 1914. , ; J. A. Wallln, Big Laurel, Term expires Jan. 24th, 1914. J. G, Ramsey, Marshall. Route 4 Term expires March 16th, 1914. J. E. Gregory, Joe, N. C. Term ex pires January 7th, 1914. -Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek. N. O, Term expires September 24th 1914.'' '' J' H .Hunter, Marshall, Route 3. Term expires April 1st 1915, J w Nelson, MarshallTerm ex sires May 14, 1915 : T B Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex plres February 7th 1915. ' Craig Ramsey, Revere, - Term ex pires March 19, 1915, N. W.; Anderson, 1 Paint Fork, Term expires May 19, 1915. ; CC. Brown, Bluff, Term expires December 9th, 1914. . . ; W. T. Davis, Hot Springs. Term expires January 22nd 1915. Poat, George W. Gahagan Post, No. 38, G. A. R. T. J. Rice, Commander; J. H. Ballard, Adjutant Meets at the Court House Saturday before the sec ond Sunday in each manth at 11 a m ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as the administra tor of J. C. Sanders, Jr., deceased late of Madison County, North Carolina, this Is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said deceased to exhibit them to the under slimed at Hot Springs, N. C, vn or before the 17, day of November, 1914, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. . .: . All persons Indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle' ment. ' ' ' ' " x ? This 17day of November 1913. I W. T. DAVIS. Admiuistrator of J. C. ' Sanders, Jr., deceased. , -,:vS ; mm rr fkM-WiM Fowl or Trap Shoot ing- ano iou any wquinowni Cult Tlutv - , : The limit b off-is any length of ihelL 2) inch-far (null birds -if inch ih 3 inch for ducks or clay target, t- - ., ; fc Vow OnWr bot STeVCNS Cut RflfT I. STT'iS JG3 4 TCOL 'tSStta ' r.o.a(Soos ' CHICOPEI fALLS, MASS. . Concerning Mountain Folk of North Carolina and Tennessee- Hurried Tours of investigation and the trtorts o .Novelists to Get Picturesque Local Color Result In Great "Misconception as to Characteristics. , FollpwiniTls tho article by Prof. Foght irnd tho introductory print ed in the Kirksvillo Daily Ex press. v ; ' ' - v ' ' Prof. H. W. Foght, of Kirk- sville, who is engaged Mn fepocial work for tho U. S. Bureau of Education, has recently, visited the mountain districts of Tennesr seo and North Carolina, and .he writes interestingly of the home of The Trail of " the Lonesome Pin." Much has been, written of the mountaineers, who are really the descendants of -Americans,- of pre-Revolutionary days and of clearer 6train than can bo - found in most sections of the- country. But Prof. Foght has seen new points about them; he has looked at them through eyes of the ex perl school mnn, a man who has lust returned from a period., of study of the- highway developed school of Europe, and njint lie has to say will be of intd i'st. The story of his trip is as follows 1 naa requesiea tne porter, 10 awake me early to get the daylight down over the hills. Knojcville was far down behind - us and we were 'steaming into the heart of the mountains. Close by rushed the Cumberland' reflecting the gold and red and green of the tfee clad hills,'; now. at their best in many-hued colors from the touch of early frost. A diflerent land, this is from the bluegrass of old Kentucky 1 And one might have added a different people. For the mountaineers of . Tennessee and North , Carolina have ever ooked upon all living, in the broad, fertile lowlands as furri- ners" and much of the time as in truders. Beginning, of His "Adventures." The mountains kept a -getting lighet and the streams narrower and more turbulent. The, Cum berland was left behind and the track clung close to French Broad instead.. At a point where the stream cuts an ugly gap in the mountains lies clustered the little town of Marshall, the end of ray railroad journey; but the real beginning of the adventure , into the heart of the - mountains. The train was late, and my party had EKISTMS SUGGESTIONS Efforts gone Cam; t on ahead . to Bit? Laure! , over on the other side of the mountain. J ., jiThetrip into the mountains be gan nt 1:30 p. m. and to my ques tions as to uibtxDce my driver, a typical mountaineer who address e4 everybody as Hnnk and Tobe, assured me that ''hit war a smart bit beyand twelve mile over thar," arid he reckoned that if we could "snake down the mountain before night we would prob'ly git thar jail right." Great encouragement, foeed, as I was to speak in camp at 7:30. ' V ' t Such a trip I have never had before, but would like to take a gain in spite of the hardships. The narrow, stonebroken road trail? up walnut urees for some seven miles to the gap ' in . the Clue Bridge and then slides down on the other side a couple of thousand feet, winding up on Big Laurel creek, and the Conntry Life Camp. . Nq sooner were we out of town and 'round the bend and' climbing upward before the world of John Fox, jr., began to unfold, itself, AUmg' the track clustered the darkgreen laurels and the rhodo dendrons; back of those, the hem locks and chestnuts and pines. The "branch" sang the same 6ong and the pines whispered the same secrets that they had done to the mountain girl, in the . coves on oither side lay the cabins of Mc- Neals. and Talliferos weather- beaten, with clay and stone chim neys at one ' end. On near ap proach most of them seenied for lorn and untenanted. How hum an beings can live in such hovels is almost beyond conception; and yet live here they certainly did. Most of the cabins have no win dows three or four shutters ans wer the purpose. In daytime these and the door are wide open,, or if it is too cold they are kept closed and the family sits in semidark ness. The shutters were neces sary in f ued times and the last victim was murdered in bed only two years back. And this all huppened because he was so ''darn keerless as to fix a winder in his cabin." No Race Suicide, -. One thing can be said of the FJiaraccy. mountain fnlL-s. and it is. that face suiridfl ia unknown amonfflnIh,and cJa98 bad done at home. HiAm. Papain a chin wa WmiM first see tl-a outline of soma old hag-like grandmother passing from tho serai-darkness within, in moment to disappear again. Over her shoulder could ' bo seen . the mother of. tho home, a sallow, prematurely old woman. Closer scrutiny would thereupon discov er glistening eyes of from seven to a dozen assorted - mountain youngsters behind bush and stack and, brushpile. They were un smiling, barefoot battered and dirty. In the mountain only the teachers in the mission schools ever bathe. Indeed, mountain . .. . . . . . mid wives say that to bathe the babies is to kill them."fer sartin.'.' How those peoplo live is hard to understand. Each ""place has a small patch of corn occasionally reaching an acre or perhaps two. This lies as a rule, on the moun tain side and if. planted in catsteps to keep from washing down, It is worked by hand or tonded by a small agile, mule. In the bot- r toms are small patches of tobacco, wnicn we round Hanging m tne oarns ana undergoing ine cure. A few lenn cows and an occassion al pig or two are to be seen. No, am forgetting the dogs, which are as numerous as the children. remarked to the driver that the mountain sides seemed well adopt ed to sheep-raising. He answer- ed that "hit war so all right; but one cayn't keep sheep and dawgs at one time nohow,' so he guessed they'd keep their houn dawgs and et the sheep go to h-11. , In a few of tho larger coves were the crumbling ' remains of onetime substantial and attractive homes and large barns. Here could bo seen also the dying 're mains of large apple orchards. I was told that the manufacture of apple-jack and apple brandy was a flourishing industry here years ago, before the government en forced a heavy license for distil ing. This last meant death to the industry and now tho very homes of the distillers are falling to ruin, . Moonshine corn whiskey, it is whispered, may still . occas- sionally be found; but the whis per must be so low that the : "re venurer" does not ' get hold of it. A strange story is this of the American mountain folk. They are of various, origin, as attested by their physical appearance. In the early colonial times sturdy Scotch Irish drifted ; westward j over North Carolina and seized ; -1 FOUNTAIN PENS,' ... .. our the mountains, living there as the About the same time Germans be- kan tanfir the valley lands, cora- especially from Pennsylvania, a I in tnis zoJiowing the tnnfty ; in .1 at it a .a . . stinct of the fatherland. Then a great many ne'er-do-wells from all the colonies, '"indentured ser vants" from Virginia, and much other flotsam drifted in. But there are really two types: The swarthy Gall of Scotland, sinewy and good fertured: but generally listless and underfed. The other is the flaxen haired fair featured descendants of Teuton parentage all of them thriftier than their mountain bothers. . The early Scotch-Irsih were hunters. This was before the for ests were destroyed. The men followed the chase and the women tended the tobacco and corn and :JW it.. -U:u . vr .u.a miseu nie vuiiureu. wuw mat the timber and game are gone, the men have lost their occupation. I i -i . .. a . ange.y enougn, i. nas no. yetoccured to them to relieve the women of their burdens. It is a I questton whether it has occured to tue women, who are ."raised" to be child-bearers and day-drud ges for their lords, who spend thoir time in taking corn to mill and. saving the politics of North Carolina at the little store at the cove. ' ' But this is not tellinc the storv loathe trjp to the Big Laurel, and I will not do it this time making 1 the yarn to long. L e t this suffice: We climbed up and up. The blizzard struck us half a mile below the gap. The bitterness of the downpour was to much for my light clothes, so I had to get out and foot it, and well it was, for just then a fallen tree stopped the profession. That the mountaineers are a 'ways pn the watch was at tend " by the quickness with which they came upon ' the scene with saw and ax to release, us. Half way down the other side darkness came upon us. Just how the little ponies picked their way down is more than I can und erstand. I just shut my eyes and awaited developments. But we got down, thanks jto much'horse sense, and reached the roaring fireside of our friends in time for late supper and the evening meet ing. Here's One Big Mistake. Now a word about the schooling of our mountaineers, for us who are so accustomed to boast of our public school . systeir. Know, Continued on page 8.
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