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THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PU3LISHED IN MADISON COUNTY
NO 5
MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1915
VOL. XVII
J J I
DIRECTORY
MADISON COUNTY.
Established ly the legislature ses
lon 1850-51.
Population, 20,132. .
County seat, Marshall.
105ft feet above sea level.
New and modern court, house, cost
33,000.00. ' ' :
New and modern jail, cost 115,000.
New county home, cost $10,000.00.
County Officers.
flon.J E. Llnebacls, Senator, 35th
TM.f.i.f Vllr Park.
Hon. Plato' Ebbs, Representative, .
Hot Springs. N. 0. .
W. A. West. Clerk of Superior
Court. Marshall.
Caney Ramsey, Sheriff, Marshall.
James Smart, Register of Deeds
Marshall. ".'. ,
C. F. Runnlon, Treasurer, Marshall
N. C , R. F. D. No. 4.
A. T. Chandley, Surveyor, Marshall
N. C.
Dr. J. H. Baird, Coroner, Mars Hill
N. C. ' ,
W. J. Balding, Janitor, Marshall.
Dr. (J. N. Sprinkle, County Physi
cian, Marshall. . '
Garfield Davis. Supt. county home.
Marshall. '
Court is Follows)
September 1st, 1915 (2) November
March 2nd. 1915, (2), June 1st, 1915
(2). Sept. 7th. 1915, (2).
J. lEd, Swain, Solicitor, Asheville
N. C. 1915, Fall Term Judge Frank
Carter, Asheville. , . ' .
1914,Spring Term-Judge M. H.
Justice, Rutherfordton, N. C
Fall Term-Judge E. B. Cline, of
Hickory, N. C.
County Commliiionr.
W. L. George, cbair man.. Mars Hil
J. E. Rector, member, Marshall, R
F. D No. 1. Anderson. Silver mem
ber, Marshall,, N. C. Rote 3 J ...
J. Coleman Ramsey.' atty.,Marshall.
Highway Commloolon
F. Shelton, President, Marshall.
Guv V. Roberts, . "
Geo. W. "Wild,
Big P ne, N. U.
' Hot Springs, "
Waverly, "
MarsHiil, N. G.
S. W. Brown,
Joe S. Brown,
- A; F. Sprinkle,
Board of Education. ;
. Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring
' Creek. N. C. John Robert : Sams,
mem. Mars Hill, N. C W R Sams,
mem. Marshall. . Prof. R. G. Anders,
Superintendent of Schools, Marshall.
Board meets' first Monday in January.
- April, July, and October each year.
School and CoIlaaa '
' Mars Hill College, Prof. B. L.
-Moore, President. Fall;Term begins
August 17th, 1913, and Spring Term
begins-January 2nd 1914. '.:,;
- Spring Creek High School. Prof.
M, R- i Pleasants, 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. Gnf
flth, principal, Walnut, N. C.
Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland
Williams, principal 8 mos. school.
Opens August 31,
Notary Publico.
J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term ex
pires Jauuary 6ih, 1916.
W. O. Connor, Mars Hill,, Term
; expires Nov. 27th 1916.
Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek. N. 0.
Term expires January 6th . 1915.
cvj H Hunter, Marshall, . Route 3.
Term expires April 1st 1915,
J ' W Nelson, Marshall Term ex
sires May 11, 1915
T B Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex
pires February 4th 1915.
Craig Ramsey, Revere; Term ex-
- pires March 19, 1915, ' '
N. yf. Anderson, Paint Fork,
Term expires May 19, 1915. '
tW. -T. Davis, Hot Springs, term
expires January 22nd 1915.
Steve Rice, Marshall. Term ex
pires Dec: 19th.. 1915.
- Ben WGahagan, Stackhouse, N.
C. Term expires Dec. 20, 1915.
J. F.. Tilson, Marshall, Route 2.
Term expires Nov. 14thl915.
C. J. Ebbs, Marshall.., Term ex
pires April 25th, 1915.
D. M. : Harshburger, StUckhpuse.
' m ..n(o Tonnorv Ktth: 1918.
1CI1U cvw. j , .
' D. P. Mjle?, Barnard. Term expires!
.Decemoer, m, iid.
THE RURAL
Co-operation of Church, 8chool and
Presa Essential to Community
Building.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers' Union.'
The church, the press and the school
form a triple alliance of progress that
guides the destiny of every commun
ity, state and nation. Without them
civilization would wither and die and
through them life may attain its great
est blessing, power and knowledge.
The farmers of this nation are greatly
Indebted to this social triumvirate for
their uplifting influence, and on behalf
of the American plowmen I want to
thank those engaged in these high
callings for their able and efficient
service, and I shall offer to the press
a series of articles on co-operation
between these important .influences
and the farmers in the hope of in
creasing the efficiency of all by mu
tual understanding and organized ef
fort We will take up, first, the rural
church.
The Farmer Are Great Church Build-
era.
. The American farmer Is the greatest
church builder the world has ever
known. He is the custodian of the
nation's morality; upon his shoulders
rests the "ark of the covenant" and
he is more responsive to religious In
fluences than any other class of cit
izenship. The farmers of this nation have
built 120,000 churches at a cost of
$750,000,000, and the annual contribu
tion of the nation toward all church
institutions approximates $200,000,000
per annum. , The farmers of the Uni
ted States build 22 churches per day.
There jaxe 20,OOP,000 niraLchurch eom.
munlcants on the; farm, and 54 per
cent of the total membership of all
churches reside in the country.
The farm la the power-house of all
progress and the birthplace of all that
is noble. The Garden of Eden was
in the country and the man who would
get close to God must first get close
to nature. " . ,
The Functions of a Rural Church.
If the rural churches today are go
ing to render a service which this age
demands, there must be co-operation
between the religious, social and eco
nomic life of the community.
The church to attain its fullest meas
ure of success must enrich the lives
of the people in the community it
serves; it must build character; devel
op thought and increase the efficiency
of human life.. It must serve the so
cial, business and intellectual, as well
as the spiritual and moral side of life.
If religion does not make a man more
capable, more useful and more just,
what good is itt We want a practical
religion, one we can live by and farm
by, as well as die by.
Fewer and Better Churches
Blessed is that rural community
which has but one place of worship.
While competition is the life of trade,
it is death to the rural church and
moral starvation to the community.
Petty sectarianism is a scourge that
blights the life, and the church preju
dice saps the vitality, of many com
munities. An over-churched commun
ity ia a crime against religion, a seri
ous handioap to society and a useless
tax upon agriculture.
While denominations are essential
and church pride commendable, the
high teaching of universal Christianity
must prevail if the rural church is to
fulfill its mission to agriculture.
We frequently have three or four
churches in a community which, is not
able to adequately support one'. Small
congregations attend services once a
month and all fail to perform the re
ligious functions of the community.
The division of religious forces .and
the breaking into fragments of moral
efforts is of ttimes little less than a
calamity and defeats the very purpose
they seek to promote.
The evils of too many churches can
be minimized by co-operation. The
social and economic life of a rural
community are respective units and
cannot be successfully divided by de
nominational lines, and the churches
can only occupy this important field
by co-operation and co-ordination.
The efficient country church will
definitely serve its community by lead
ing in all worthy efforts at community
building, in uniting the people in all
co-operative ..endeavors for the gen
eral welfare of the community and in
arousing a real love for country life
and loyalty to the country home and
these results can only be successfully
accomplished by the united effort of !
the press, the school, the chorea and
News-Record if 1.00 the Year.
EUROPEAN WAR SHAT
TERS KING COTTON'S
HE
Nation Ring With Crlea of Stricken
Industry.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers' Union,
King Cotton has suffered more from
the European war than any other ag
ricultural product on the American
continent The shells of the belliger
ents have bursted over his throntj,
frightening his subjects and shatter
ing his markets, and, panic-stricken,
the nation cries out "God save the
king!"
People from every walk of life have
contributed their mite toward rescue
work. Society has danced before the
king; milady has decreed that the
family wardrobe shall contain only
cotton goods; the press has plead
with the public to "buy a bale":
bankers have been formulating hold
ing plans; congress and legislative
bodies have deliberated over relief
measures; statesmen and writers
have grown eloquent expounding the
inalienable rights of "His Majesty"
and presenting schemes for preserv
ing the financial integrity of the
stricken staple, but the sword of Eu
rope has proved mightier than the pen
of America in fixing value upon this
product of the sunny south. Prices
have been bayoneted, values riddled
and markets decimated by the battling
hosts of the eastern hemisphere until
the American farmer has suffered a
war loss of $400,000,000, and a bale
of cotton brave enough to enter a
European port must pay a ransom of
half its value or go to prison until the
war is over.
Hope of the Future Lies In Co-opera-,,
tlon. '
The Farmers'; Union, through the
columns of the press, wants to thank
the American 'penplefor'. the frland
' ship, sympathy and assistance given
the cotton farmers in the hour of dis
tress and to direct attention to co
operative methods necessary to per
manently assist the marketing of all
farm products.
The present emergency presents as
grave a situation as ever confronted
the American farmer and from the
viewpoint of the producer, would seem
to justify extraordinary relief meas
ures, even to the point of bending the
constitution and straining business
rules in order to lift a portion of the
burden off the backs of the farmer,
for unless something is done to check
the invasion of the war forces upon
the cotton fields, the pathway of the
European pestilence on this continent
will be strewn with mortgaged homes
and famine and poverty will stalk over
the southland, filling the highways of
industry with refugees and the bank
ruptcy court with prisoners. ,
All calamities teach us lessons and
the present crisis serves to illuminate
the frailties of our marketing meth
ods and the weakness of our credit
system, and out of the financial an
guish and travail of the cotton farmer
will come a volume of discussion and
a mass of suggestions and finally a
solution of this, the biggest problem
In the economic life of America, if,
indeed, we have not already laid the
foundation for at least temporary re
lief. ; -
More Pharaohs Needed In Agriculture.
. Farm products have no credit and
perhaps can never have on a perma
nent and satisfactory basis unless we
build warehouses, cold storage plants,
elevators, etc., for without storage and
credit facilities, the south is com
pelled to dump its crop on the market
at harvest time. The Farmers' Unions
In the cotton producing states have
for the past ten years persistently ad
vocated the construction of storage
facilities We have built during this
period 2,000 warehouses with a ca
pacity of approximately 4,000,000 bales
and looking backward the results
would seem encouraging, but looking
forward, we are able to house less
than one-third of the crop and ware
houses without a credit system lose
90 per cent of their usefulness. The
problem is a gigantic one too great
for the farmer to solve unaided. He
must have the assistance of the bank
er, the merchant and the government
In production we have reached the
high .water mark of perfection in the
world s history, but our marketing
methods are most primitive. In the
dawn of history we find agriculture
plowing with i a forked stick but with
a system of warehouses under govern
mental supervision that . made the
Egyptians the marvel of civilization,
for who has not admired the vision of
Joseph and applauded the wisdom of
Pharaoh for storing tho surplus until
demanded by the consumer, but in
this age we have too many Josephs i
who dream and not enough Pharaohs
r. ho build.
News-Record sfl.ou the Yeaif
An Act Proposed by the North Caro
3 J jina Anti-Saloon League
An Ad to Prohibit the Possession and Delivery of
4 ? Intoxicating Liquors. (.
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Whereas exact scientific research has demonstrated that alcohol
s a narcotic poison, destructive and degenerating to the human or
:anism,nd that its distribution as a beverage lays a stagjjcriuif eco
omic burden upon the shoulders of thb people, lowers to an appal
iny detrree the average standard of character of our citizenship,
hereby undermining the public moral and the foundation of free
ostitutions, produces wide-spread crime, puaperisra, and insanity,
nflicts disease and untimely death upon hundreds of thousands of
sitizens ind blights with degeneracy their children unborn, threat
ing the future integrity and the very life of the State. Therefore,
The General Assembly of North' Carolina do enact:
Section I. That, except as
cKoii ha -nf.iarofiiilv fnr anv nerson. firm, or corporation, or any
agent, officer, or employee thereof, to receive or be in posessiori of
any spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt liquors or intoxicating bit
ters, within the State of North Carolina, for his, hers theirs or its
own use, or, for the use of any other person, firm, or corporation.
Provided, that this shall not apply to a person in posession of liqtaor
obtained on a physician's prescription for medical purposes.
Section II. That, except as otherwise provided in this act, it
shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent,
officer, 5r employee thereof, to ship, transport, carry, or deliver, in
any manner or by any means whatsoever, for hire or otherwise, any
spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt liquors or intoxicating bitters,
from a point within or without this State, to any person, firm, ur
corporation, or any agent, officer, or employee thereof, in this
State. .;.T?Vv -it
Section III. That legalized medical depositories, licensed and
registered pharmacists and hospitals tray' obtain and keep in stock
spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt liquors, or intoxicating bitters,
in the manner and in the quanities here-ia-after prescribed, for sale
or nuppiy upon the written prescription cf a regularly licensed abd
activelypractfcing physician or surgeon, as now provided by law..;
Section iV, That any legalized medical depository, pharmaciy,
on Lt 6J. Jtt,v'thw)Ogh the owner, 'managing agent,- or superintendent
thereof, may make written application to the Register of Deeds pf
the county in which such depository, pharmacy, or hospital is situat
ed, for a permit to obtain and receive by transporation and delivery
by common carrier at such depository, pharmacy or hospital an
amount not exceeding twenty gallons, of spirituous, twenty-five gal
lons of vinous, and fifty gellons of malt liquors. Such application
shall be in the form of an affidavit, containing the name and address
of the depository, pharmacy, or hospital by or for which the appli
cation is made and to which the shipment is to be transported and
delivered; the name of the person, firm or corporation from whom
said shipment is to be ordered; the place from which said shipment
is to be made; and shall also state that the applicant has no more in
stock at the time of making- the application than ten per cent of the
above statad amounts, and that no owner, part owner, officer, stock
holders agent or employee of such depository, pharmacy, or hospital
.ias beeu convicted or confessed guilt of any violation of the laws
of this or of any other State relating to intoxicating liquors.
Section V. That upon the filing of such an application, duly
verified before any officer authorized by the laws of North Carolina
to administer oaths, the Register of Deeds shall issue a permit
tk. c.u;nmanf anH fronennmtinn nf thft liciuor in the kinds and
quanities stated in the application which permit shall be either print
fid or plainly written or typewritten ob stout paper, in the following
form:
State of North Carolina, !
County of.. . s
.................(nameof depository, pharmacy, or hospital,;
of . . ......... ... .(give full address, with street and number, if
such,) is hereby permitted to receive by common carrier, shipped ,
from. . .. . . .. ..(name and
liquor, towit: ............. i .(insert kinds ana quantities noi ex
ceeding the quantity or quanities stated in the application. : - ,
This nermit is void and no delivery can be made thereunder aft-1
er thirty days from date of issue.
Dated this..
olicant for the same place of business or. institution within one cal
endar month. .
section vi. n iun, .ov . ,
plainly affixed in a conspicuous place to any package or parcel con-
..:: ti.onannrt.orl within this State. Snail aut-
horize any common carrier within the State to transport the pack
age or parcel to which such permit is attached or affixed, containing
only the liquor or liquors mentioned in said permit, and to deliver
the same to the depository, pharmacy, or hospital lo which such per
mit was issued.
c.MinH vii Thnt, the Register of Deeds, in a book to be fuif
l j i t, fi.,,T rr.miviiacirtnora chilli COnv ftll KUP.ll RDDliOH.-
tions in the order in which they are filed in his office, and shall make
an entry immediately following each application showing the date
of the permit issued thereon and the person to whom such permit
was delivered, wnicn saia oook sunn ue ujeu wi iuo.viuu w
, ;i: t ,v.n fiMainn timo rlnrinar hnainpes hnnrs of the
omcer or ciwzeu ui mo oi uj ... s --
office of the Register of Deeds, and said book shall constitute prima
facie evidence of the facts therein and will be admissible in any of
the courts of the State. And for nis services in recoruinK an ap
plication an issuing a permit, the Register of Deeds shall be entitl
ed to a fee of two dollars, to be paid by the applicant. , ,
Section VIII. Vjbat any person, firm, or corporation violating
any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
section IX. That all laws and
this act are hereby repealed. ,
Section: X. ' That this act shall take effect on the first day of
April, 1&15. -
act, . it
address or snipper,; intoxicating
-.aay l
Register of Deeds
shall be issued to the same ap
A na nhnvp. whpn attached to and
classes of laws in conflict with
,
otherwise provided in this
Atchison Once
. Was President t
The U. S.
Senator From Missouri
Serves in Such Capacity
for Twenty-Four Hours
ii.
Three times in the history of
the United States the possibility
has arisen of the Nation ! being
without an elected President for
a day. Those were when inau
gural day fell on Sunday. , . Twice
the possibility was obviated bj
the President taking the oath of
office in private, in 1821 and .
1877. 1 ;
In 1849 Zachary Taylor did not
reach Washington in time ' for, a
private administration of the oath v
and so, for one day, David Rice -Atchison
Senator from Missouri, . v
was legal President of the United '
States. No act of any sort oc
cur ed that day to perpetuate bis ;
name in that capacity. . ,
Senator Atchison was President v
pro tem of the Senate when the
terms of office of President James "
K. Polk and Vice President ;
George M. Dallas expired at mid
night March 4. Under the sue-
ceision of law of 1792 which was' :
in effect then, the President; pro- k
tem of the Senate became the
Chief Executive., of ... the Nation. '
when, for any reason, the PresU i
dent and Vice President, became. .
incapacitated for duty. In 186 - -that
law was changed, making
the Secretary of State and other "-
Cabinet officers next in line for
the Presidency, instead of the A
President pro tem, and the ..:
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives.
; Senator Atchison, during his life
time, was most fond of urging his ,
daim to be called twelfth Presi-r: ;
dent of the United States, in his- ,,
tpry. It was a source of great '
amusement to him he claimed the . t
distinction of being the only ,
President who was not elected to ,;
that office or the Vice Presidency,
the only President from a State
west of the Mississippi, the Presi
dent whose term of office was the
shortest and the only President
who never signed bis name as
such. .
For many years no authority ,
gave Senator Atchison's claipr
any recognition. Now Frederick ,
Converse Beach, editor of the. .
American Encyclopedia, and..- -John
H. Finiey, editor of Nelson's
Encyclopedia, both : grant his
claim. The former says: "Dur
ing Sunday, March 4, 1849, be
was the legal President of the
United States." and the latter -.
says he "was President, pro tem
of the Senate during several
sessions and by virtue of this of- .
fice was President of the United
States on Sunday, March , 4tb, -
1849."
But whatever humor Senator
Atchison may have had in claim
ing to have been President, there
is little importance in the ; fact.
It is only a curious incident in
American political history. ,
In 1917 when the successor of
President Wilson is inaugurated -March.
4. will be Sunday. Should
the President elect not bo given V r"
the oath of office then until March '
5, Mr. Bryan, or whoever is Se
cretary of State', will be "Presi
dent for a day." Kansas City
Tines.
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