J MADISON COUNTY: RECORD,
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FRENCH BROAD NEWS,
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people of Madiaba Ctttaty.
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THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY
NO 4
VOL. PCVII
MARSHALL, MADISON COUNT N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1915
,NEWS
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IIR"E TORY
MADISON COUNTY.
Established I y the legislature ses
Ion 1850-51.
Population, 20,132.
County seat, Marshall.
1656 feet above sea level.
New and modern court house, cost
133,000.00.
New and modern jail, cost 115,000.
New county home, cost $10,000.00.
Coaoty Officer, '
Hon. J E. Ltneback, Senator, 35th
ni.t.f WAV Parlr
Hon. Plato Ebbs, Representative,
Hot Springs. N. C.
W. A. West, lerk of Superior
ourt. Marshall.
aney Ramsey, Sheriff, Marshall.
James Smart, Register of Deeds
Marshall.
. P. Runnlon, Treasurer, Marshall
N. . R. F. D. No. 4.
A. T. ha ndley, Surveyor, Marshall
N. . '
Dr. J. H. Balrd. oroner, Mars Hiil
N. .
W. J. Balding, Janitor, Marshall,
. Dr. . N. Sprinkle, oaity ,3 Physi-
clan, Marshall.
Garfield Davis. Supt. county home,
Marshall.
Courts u Fallow!
September 1st,
1915 (2) November
10th, 1915. (2) -
March 2nd, 1915, (2).
(2). SeDt. 1th. 1915, 21.
June 1st, 1915
J. Ed. Swain, Solicitor, Asheville
N. . 1915, Fall Term Judge Frank
arter, Asheville.
19U,Sprlng Term-Judge
Justice. Rutherfordton, N. C.
M. H
Fall Term Judge E. B. Cline, of
Hickory, N. C.
County, rn alonara
w. Tj. George, chair man. Mars Hil
J. E. Rector, member, Marshall, R,
F. D. No. 1. Anderson. Silver, mem
bar. Marshall.! :N'. Route :3
. J. Coleman Ramsey, .atty., Marshall.
r Hlfhuu yCopnmliallDn,
V. Shelton, PresidentMarshall.-
Guy V. Roberts,
Geo. W. Wild,
S. W. Brown, . ,
Joe S(J Brown,
A. F. Sprinkle,
Big P ne, N. C.
Hot Springs, '
Waverly,
Mars Hill, N. C.
Board or Education
Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring
N . f!. John Robert Sams,
mem. Mars Hill, N. C. W R. Sams,
Marshall. Prof. B G. Anders,
Superintendent of Schools, Marshall.
Board meets first Monday in January
April, July, and October each year.
Behool and Collg
Mars' Hill ollege, Prof. R. L.
Moore, President. FallSTerm begins
August nth, 1913, and Spring Term
begins January 2nd m.
Spring Creek High. School. Prof.
M. TL Pleasants, Principal, Spring
Creek. 8 mos school, opens Aug. 1st
- Madison Seminary High School,
oy, n n Ttmwn. nrincinal. " mos.
Iiuu vi. v. I -
achool. .7 - ' - -
Bell Institute, Margaret E.
flth. principalWalnut, N. C. -
Grlf
Maratiftil Academy. Prof. S. Roland
Williams, principal JB mos. school.
: Opens August 31,
, Notary Putolle.
J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term ex
nines Jauuary 6th, 1916.
. w. O. Connor, Mars Hill,
Term
expires Nov, 27th 1916.
ir.hVio. Snrinir Creek. N.
0.
Term expires January 6th. 1915.
. , j H Hunter, Marshall, Route '3.
Term expires April 1st 1915, , '
J W Nelson, Marshall Term ex
pires May 11, 1915
T B Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex
pires February 4th 1915. .
1 Craig Ramsey, Reyere, Term ex
pires March 19, 1915, r
N. W. - Anderson, Paint Fork,
Term expires May 19, 1915. , ,
W.T. Davis, Hot Springs, term
expires January 22nd 1915.
Steve Rice, Marshall. Term "ex
pires Dec. 19th. 1915.
Ben W. Gahagan, Stackhouse, N.
C. Term expires Dec. 20, 1915.
J. F. Tllson, Marshall, Route 2.
' Term expires Nov. 14thl915.
C. J. Ebbs, Marshall. Term ex
pires April 25th, 1915.
D.' M. Harshburger, Stackhouse.
Term expires January 16th, 1916.
D. P. Miles, Barnard. Term expires
"DeCetaWr, 23, 1918..;
OUR REPRESENTATIVE.
Hon E. Y. Webb is Fast Assuming a Prominent Place in
Nations Affairs.
The following clipped from
Northern Baptist Church will be
T
HE best thing bf all in the
this country is the fact that Christian voters have been waking
up to the vital importance of taking an active hand in politics.
The good word "politics" has become a term of disgrace only be
cause the good men have to so large an extent neglected affairs of
government in the past and allowed them to fall into the hands of
the unscrupulous, the selGsh, and the dishonest. But the day is
coming wben "to be a politician" will be an expression free from
odium or stigma, and when the "professional politician" of unsavory
repute shall be but a memory of the decadent past. If we want
good men to govern us and make our laws we must, by" all that is
reasonable; work to get good men into office they won't get in un
less work ii done for them. And if this principle were religiously
carried out in all congressional districts of our country as it has
been, in the Ninth District of North Carolina, it would not be a
matter of many years, before the great problems would be satisfac
tory solved and reforms wrought out would make our land smile.
For there is no question but that the principles of Christianity af
ford the only ultimate, complete solution for the problems that con
front the nation and all nation.
The Ninth Con
gressional Dis
trict of North
Carolina, compris
ing ten important
counties with
population aggre
gating a quartei
of a million, and
including Char
lotte, the largest
city in the . state,
has for" twelvf
years been re pre
sentated ; by Ed
win Yates "Webb
a s admirable
type of clean, hon
est, C h r i s t i a i
manhood as ever
sat in the chamber
of the House of
R epresentatives ,
And he has risen
!-
Edwin Yates Webb, Con
gressman of Ninth North
Carolina District.
to the responsible
osition of chair
years of his boyhood. He was
which has been his home ever since. His mother was Pnscilla J.
Blanton, and he is the youngest of
one. His ancestry was strudy Scotch and English, and he is a Bap
tist, his father, Rev, George Milton V ebb, having preached the gos
pel under the banner of that denomination for nearly sixty years.
vf- WaKK'o m-oYidfathftr. TcL&v. James Land ram Webb, was one of
the greatest pioneer Baptist preachers of the state,' and did much to
mold the religious sentiment of western North Uaroima.
A telegrapher at the age 01 seventeen, earning me urt mvuvy
fit ot. ha naA in iroini? to colleee.
row before his studies had been finished, so that when he completed
his law course it took, in his own
mato mo worth nothinc." After
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Shelby, N. C.; and the Shelby Military Institute, he graduated from
Walro TTnrPst fJollp.ffe. Wake Forest.
completed the law course at the
pursued a postgraduate course at the University of Virginia, where
he .took constitutional law under the late Mr. J ustice Harlan, of the
United States Supreme Court. Forming a law partnership with
his brother, James C. Webb, they practiced in Shelby, N. 0., until
ion .Kon VitoQ wns nlected to
sentorial district in 1896, state senator 1900-1902, temporary chair
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man of the Democratic State Convention in 1900, and chairman of
the Democratic County Executive
had rendered notable service to his
gress; and as a member of the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth,
Sixtv-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Cotigressses he has prov
ed himself one of the strongest men
Since June 1, 1914, he has been chairman of the Judiciary Uom-mitlee.
On November 15, 1894, Mr. Webb married Miss Willie Simmons,
of Wake Forest, N. C, and they have three children Elizabeth,
Edwin Yates, Jr., and William. Mrs. Webb,' is the daughter of
rof. W. G. Simmons, who was connected with Wake Forest Col-
ege for fifty years.
During his boyhood and five
since becoming a member of Congress, Mr. Webb has been a base
ball and football enthusiast and an
first teams at both Wake Ferest and
ina. He is a pitcher and in many
many as fffteen strike-outs. - For
Representatives has placed an annual benefit game of. baseball
(Democrats vs. Republicans.) and
Democrats to victory. . ,
Mr. Webb's own State of North
the paper "Ycung People" of the
interesting to our readers.
recent governmental reforms in
man of the Judi
ciary Committee
and is a rt cogni
zed leader in Con
i?ress II e has
come every step
of the way as an
ardent and avow-
jd advocate of an
ti-liquor legisla
tion, in which di
rection his efforts
08 ve been remark
ibly successful.
A poor liaptist
"Treacher s s o n
reared in a little
country town, he
worked on the
farm, cut wood,
made the tires,
helped his moth
er, did the chores
around the house.
In this manner he
he spent the
born Mav 23, 1872, at Shelby, N. C.
seven children all living' excopt
voune Webb was obliged to bor
words, "five hundred dollars to
attending the public schools of
N. C in 1893. He afterward
University of North Carolina and
Congress. As chairman, of the
Committee 1898-1902, Mr. Webb,
party before his election to Con
in the House of Representatives.
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years of college life, and even
excellent player, being on the
the University of North Caro-
a game ofbaseball has gotten as
the past five years the House or
in each Webb has pitched the
inlgi
Carolina was the pioneer
tfhtiliquor sentiment an enactments, with strong popular-, demand
fpr executing such laws and vigorous efforts to enforce them. The
irrowth of the state under nrohibition has been little short of' mar-
fbrtv-five flourishing distilerles
estate in North Carolina, while the bank deposits have shown one
hundred per cent Increase. The people were never more' prosper-
ous or contented than under Prohibition, and it is doubtful if two
J
iatirn wahIH
ditions. In studvincr the liauor
that state-wide nrohibition was
fc
sUy of congressional action to remedy this matter became more
and it nra ftnnnrnnt. AftAr a vprv
- FtT -
yon bill, p'rohibiting shipment of liquor into dry territory, was pas
sed March 1. 1913. constituting one of the greatest victories ever
won in this country by the "dry"
But anti-liquor legislation is
has worked for and accomplished
Structivtj lines for developing and
Una of the best bills he ever got
quiring habit-forming patent medicines to show on each bottle the
percentages of morphine, opium, alcohol, etc.. contained in the
preparations. It was found that
country had become addicted to
(ions, and that little children acquired a taste for the drugs in this
way. The passage of the pure-food
ly aided by Mr. Webb.
Mr. Webb's service has been
day-School work. He retains membership tn his church at', home,
but during sessions of Congress he and Mrs. Webb have attended
Calvary Baptist Church in Washington and bis children are mem-
bers of Calvary Sunday-school .
the Kings Mountain Baptist Association, one of . the largest asso
ciations in North Carolina, and for the same length of time he was
superintendent of the Sunday-school of the First Baptist Church of
Shelby. He is now vice-president
State Convention.
The Challenges
There hung over the mantle in
our boyhood home a picture of a
stag that out over the snowy
waste was sending the challenge
to some other that might be with
in the reach of his voice. Tt has
dwelt upon our mind all thru the
years and when there was some
thing that challenged our effort,
we have thought of this picture
and it led us to accept many a
time the challenge.
There is nothing that comes to
us in this world that has not some
good in it. and we have only to
meet it to see that it was meant
for our good. Trouble comes,
and we feel it is for our unmak
ing, but if we meet it we will find
that it was but the covering for a
better thing and that the ' rough
exterior, and was but the hiding
for a blessing. Trouble but
brings out the joy and happiness
that is in the world.
Conditions do not make t h e
world for us. Were we creatures
of blind force, then conditions
would make us. But really these
things only touch the outside and
the true inside is not in the least
hurt or harmed by the exterior.
Trouble and anxiety are. t ,'h e
ministers of a higher purposs in
this world and if they 'were not
then they would crush us but if
they are, then they strengthen or
weaken us as we meet them- ; A
hard task may be Hone or not
just as we. wish but if it is done
then we.are better fitted for the
things in the future. If we shirk
them then we are more easily
discouraged and less ' able to do
the next thing given us to do. So
the difficulties in a moral sense
if met with courage give us more
courage for future .contest and
make our natures more, able to
meet - difficulties fjreater than
they, r Back ef-it all is.tba pO"W-1
er thatlenkbloH us:to;;facef the
trouble and accept the 'challenge
that sounds out and will at last
give us the victory:
nt nrnhibitlon. the
have been replaced by sixty five
ron.1
t
ho roiiiincy tn return to former con-
Droblem. Mr. Webb soon realized
Dractically nullified because there
tKmiicrb rlrv ti-.n.tA. and the neces
Innir. hard fiffht the Webb-Ken-
f - a - -
forces.
not the only good thing Mr. Webb
in Congress. His efforts have
maintaining good citizenship.
through Congress was tlie one re
fully five million people in this
the use of these injurious concoc
law in 1906 was also material
extensive both in church and Sun
For six years he was moderator of
of the North Carolina Baptist
For Farm Demon-
strationCQlumn
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Raleigh, N.C.
Jan. 12, 1915.
Editor The News-Record;
Marshall, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Though away from my work as
Agent for Farm Demonstration
in Madiaon until February ' 20, I
desire to say to the farmers of
the County that 1 have not for
gotten them nor their interests, I
trust that every one who has list
ed for Demonstration work, will
remember that if best - results
next summer and fall are to be
obtained that the necessary pre
paration this winter and early
spring must be looked after, deep
nWi a 0rlv in tha BAann
f- f " J I
lusaiuiu ouuuiu uo uyuo uu .
much stable or nam yara ma-
nure as possible be appleid as
u ton drAssinof nftpp the ninwinur
is done, I am expecting, and many
of our farmers are expecting
some heavy. yields of corn next
year. Some farmers argue that
1C0 bushel of corn cannot be pro
duced on an acre of land. The
time is coming and fast; when
the average farmer will not be
content with this amount as his
yield per. . acre; but will strive
even ior grear yiems us. ne W
now striving to surpass bis pre-
sent yields 20, 30 and 50 bushels
per acre-.
I also desire to call attention to
the importance of selecting their
seed corn well for the next crop. r
The great fault to Madison Coun
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ty corn as brought; out. by our
corn show December 17, is the
want of uniformity of vpei All
who' attended the Buncombe
County corn shoyr December, ,19,
by comparison with ours; could
plainly see what farm Demonstra-
tion work for five years has done
for that County .in this - respect.
While we made a decent show
without organization, we will not
be satisfied without great iur
provement next year. Now is
the time to begin, and ' let every
one do his best in obtaining the'
best seed corn possible ana tuen
,ee to it that Buncombe nor any
other county in North Carolina,1
I shall beat us in a corn show next .
year.
1 I am how dailv with the De-
partment of Agriculture and th6
A & M. College doing ray yery
best to get the most possible to
f . . . . '.a
carry back my people in tie
spring.
With best wishes for everybody
- 1 in. old Madison ana yours in
good fellowship.
J.B.SAMS.
Demand For The Efficient
Alert, keen, clear headed, v healthy
men and women are in demand. Mod
ern business cannot use In office, fac-
dull nfeiess, inert, half sick or Ured
Keep In trim. Be In a condition that
wards off disease. Foley Cathartic
Tablets clean the system,' keep the
stomach sweet, liver active and the
bowels regular. ---Dr. I.E. Burnett
an Hill, N. C.
NOTICE
North Carolina ) In the Superior
Madison County j Court.
J, M. Gudger, Jr., et al
vs.
Henry Berger, Sarah
Johnston Berger, Max '.
Gudger, Jackson Gudger,-et al.
The Defendants, Henry Berger,
Sarah Johnston, Berger; Max Gudger
and Jackson Gudger above named.
will take notice that the: action entitl
ed J. M. Gudger Jr., et a,. ' vs. nenry
Berger, et al, has been commenced in
the Superior Court of Madison County
before the Clerk of the said Court for
the purpose of subjecting certain land
namea m t n e petition- m. Jtadiaon
County for the sale and distribution
of tne proceeds, in which the said De-
gslid Defendants will 'further take
notice that they are required to ap
pear inthe Superior Court of Madison"
County, before the Clerk of th said
Court on Thursday the U, day of Jan
uary 1915, at the Court .House In said
County, and State of North Carolina,
and answer or demur to the petition in
the action, or the petitioners will ap- ,
ply to the Court for relief demanded
in said petition.
W. A. WEST,
Clerk Superior Court Madison Coun
ty. " 12-11-14.
Five Cents Proves It
A Generous Offer. Cut out this ad,
enclose with 5 cents to Foley & Co.,
Chicago, 111., and receive a free trial
Presage containing joiey a Money
rr ., r k
crouPf bronchial and lagrippe coughs:
Foley Kidnev Pills and Folev Cath-
artic Tablets. For sale fir your town
by Dr.-I.-E. Burnett, MarsHilli N. C
"There is no question' that if
the next generation '; is to ' be a
healthy one the best work is to
be done in the school room. Nor
is it putting it too strong to say,
with Doctor Green, that ,'all the
propagandio movements' to In-
struct the people with regard to
public health, all the 'campaigns
of enlightenment that the' ablfest
;mirn.iism cftri Snitate. are ' worth
almost notbing when compared
with the results that iruVha he ob-
L.ine(J bv the adeau.Ve- jvistruc
tion of tbe younit jn school. ?With
j u.. ;n j
rcKaru w niw uuu,y na wen ta iu
regard to the intellect, knowledge
implanted upon the. plastic 'mind
of.yfuth, tl-e lasting ynpressious
and .prejudices formed itf early
life, are . the certain, unfailing
means of insuring an' education
that will be of enduring benefit
to race."
FOR RENT I have fori reqt
one good six room house, good
garden, good spring, ; Spring
house Wood house, Cow;6table
and Chicken house. 'Close' to
town. J. F. REDlON.
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