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MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 5 th,. 1915
NO 9.
VOL. XVII
DIRECTORY
MADISON COUNTY.
Established I y the legislature sea
Ion 1850-51. ". .? .'. V
.. Population, 20,132. . ' '
County seat, Marshall.
'- J 056 feet above sea level.
New and modern court house, cost
1.13,000.00.
New and modern- jail, cost 115,000.
New county home, cost 110,000.00.
- County Officer!
Eon. J E. . Llneback, Senator, 35th
District, E!k Park , "
Hon. Plato Ebbs, Representative,
Hot Springs. N. C.
W. A. West, lerk 0 Superior
Court. Marshall. ' -
Caney Ramsey, Sheriff, Marshall.
James Smart, Rlster of Deeds
Marshall. " .
. c. F. Eunnion, Treasurer, Marshall
N.O , R. F. IX No. 4.
A. T. Chandley, Surveyor, Marshall
- K. C. . !
) : . il. 'v , oroner, Mara Hill
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W. 3. Balding, Janitor,' Marshall.
Dr. C.N. Sprinkle, County Physl-
- clan, Marshall. '
Garfleld Davis. Supt county home.
Marshall. ' '"" -
Court ts Follow!
September 1st, 1915 (2) November
10th, 1915. (2)
March 2nd. 1915, (2). June 1st, 1915
(2). Sept. 1th. 1915, 2)."
J. Ed. 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. Ollne, of
Hickory, N. C.
County - Comiti;onf'
.W. L. George, chairman. MarsUU.
J E. Hector, member, Marshall R
K D. No. 1. Anderson. Silver, mem
ber,' Marshall,, N. . Route 3'
J. Coleman Ramsey; atty.,Marshall.
if. Shelton, President, Marshall.
Guv V. Roberts, ' . " '
Geo. W. Wild, ' ; Big P no. N: O.
S.' W. Brown, " ; ' Hot Springs, "
.Ion S. Brown, - Waverly, "
A. F.. Sprinkle, Mars Hill, N. C
Board of Eduotlon. ,
Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring
Creek. N. C. John Robert Sams,
mem. Mars Hill, N. C. W R. Sams,
mem. Marshall. Prof. It. O. Anders,
Superintendent of Schools, Marshall.
Board meets first Monday in January.
April; July, .and October each year.
Sehoola und CollS!'
Mars Hill . College, Prof. R. L.
Moore, President. FallSTerm begins
August 17th, 1913, and Spring Term
-begins January 2nd 1914. -vr
Spring Creek High School. " Prof.
M. K. Pleasants, Principal, Spring
Creek. 8 mos school, opens Aug. lsl
Madison Seminary High School,
' prof. G. C. Brown, principal. 7 mos.
school. ' ': . " -s. ,
Bell institute, Margaret E. GrH
; flth, principal, Walnut, N. C.
Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland
Williams, principal 8 mos. school.
Opens August 31,
ISotry Fuollo.
J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term ex-.piw-i
Jauuary 6th, "1916. -'
Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek. N. 0.
Term expires January Cth 1915. ,
J B Uunter, Marshall, Route 3.
Term ttplres April 1st; 1915, ,
t w Nelsons Marshall Term ex-
B-re8 May 11, 1915 -v
T B ." Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex
pires February 4th 1915." '
Cnaig Ramsey, Revere, Term ex
' pires Mirch 19, 1915, '
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. Gahagari, Stackhouse,
N,
. c. Term expires Dec 20, 1915. r
J. F. Til'son, 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. ;
' T) V. Miles. Barnard. Term expires
' December. 23, 1916. .
w n Ramsev. Marsaall. Term
expires Oct. 4th 1915.
J, A. Wallin, Big Laurel. Term
expires Au. 8th, 191. -
C. C. Brown, Bluff: Term expire
January 9ih, 1717. ' '
The American hospital ship sent
to Europe Is more welcome than
battleship. -
As the chlrbpodlBts look at the styles
In footgear they softly murmur, "We
should worry!"
The chief officer In command of
both armies just now appears to be
General Fighting.
The Swiss navy seems to be get
ting about as much glory out of thla
war as any of the others.
Now and then one comes across an
old-fashioned man who thinks a politi
cian ought to be consistent .
Ecuador has had an earthquake
shock. But that is a very little mat
ter to worry about Just now.
Our sympathies are hereby extended,
to the whale which, according to the
old song, lived in the North sea.
From what we can gather by read
ing their stories, the war correspond
ents at the front are at the rear.
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Children will not object to American-made
toys provided they can break
'em without having to use an ax.
It Is easy to prove that pumpkin pie
la a grand good thing; because It hag
o many imitations and substitutes.
Nitrates 'are hot so cheap for the
agriculturist Improving his land as for
the city fellow sending a dispatch. :
Steel coaches make for safety, but
the man who habitually counts cross
ties would gladly ride In a wooden one.
As the rain is said to full on the
just and the unjust we may conclude
that the weather la a sort of neutral
ally. . y ; ; . ,
That turning movement In France,
mentioned in the news dispatches eo
often, has no reference to the other
cheek. , .' - .- - " ';" , '
Maa?' murricd couples have lived-tc
gether ' much longer than the neigh
bors predicted they would when they
started out ,
, Ambassadors formerly grumbling be
cause they couldn't rent a palace are
iow fairly content with a comfortable
hole In the ground. 1
.- Careful study of a live subject pro
duces the announcement that the name
Przemysl is pronounced as if it were
not spelled that way. '
j Putting a war tax on chewing gum
and face' powder may be all right as
far, as it goes, but is there nothing
else in the party case T
Those anxious to support the cotton
clothes movement can't do better than
by continuing to buy the 14.98 all
wool suits as heretofore.
After the harvest moon comes the
hunter's moon. Inasmuch as there Is
little left to hunt why not turn the
hunter's moon over to the lovers?
When your friend finds that you are
right you would like to have him re
member It; 'if he discovers that you
are wrong, you want him to forget it
An eastern man after living on a
diet for 20 years in the hope of reach
ing a hundred died at ninety-eight
from tripping over a rug. What's the
use?
. What a wonderful fellow the Ger
man crown prince is. He has been
killed twelve times "and has been
wounded twice a day since the war
began..' .,.
- One thing about having a battle
along two' wings and a center, it is
almost always possible to pick out
some point where it Is going In favor
of your side. v" y-; 7;.."'; 7' ''
One can scarcely ; be expected to
take much interest in football when
they're killing more in a minute in
Europe than the game can possibly
do in a season. -
Deceptions used In' diplomacy are
not so much, compared with the light
regard for the truth shown by the
five-year-old hen that masquerades as
a spring chicken.
- Isn't that a neat story that now
comeB across the water about . that
French gun which shoots a gas which
kills the enemy so quickly that he
hasn't time to fall down T "
They say that the automobile tour
ists in the eastern states Vastly In
creased in number this year. Ameri
cans will learn to like this country
when they get acquainted with it
THE HOME CIRCLE Column
Pleasant Evening Reveries A Columri '
Dedicated to Tired Mothers as They
7. Join the Home Circle at Evening Tide.
Crude Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
TEN GOOD COMMANDMENTS
1. ' Tbou abalt-have no other
food than at meal time.
2. Thou shalt not make unto
thee any pies or put into pastry
the likeness of anything that is
in the heavens above or In the
waters under the earth. . Thou
shalt not fall to eating it or try;
lng to digest it. ' For the dyspep
sia will be visited upon the child
ren to the third and fourth gen
eration of them that eat pie, and
long life and vigor upon those
that live prudently and keep the
laws of health.
3. Remember thy . bread to
bake it well, for he will not be
kept well that eateth his bread
as dough.
4. Thou shalt not indulge sor
row or borrow anxiety i a vain. '
5. Six day3 thou shalt wash
and keep Ihyself clean, and the
seventh day thou . shalt take a
great bath, thou, and thy son and .
thy maid servant and the strang
er that is within thy gates. For
in six days man sweats and gath
ers filtlv andbacteria enough tor
disease; wherefore the Lord has
blessed the bath tab and hallow
ed it.' ' 7.':,V ;? 7w';7
6. Remember thy sitting room
and bed chamber to keep them
ventilated, that thy days may be
long in the land which the Lord
thy God giveth the.
7. Thou shalt not eat hot bis
cuits. ' t
8. Thou shalt not eat. thy
meat fried. '
9. Thou shalt not swallow thy
food unchewed or highly spiced
or just before hard work or just
after it. ...
10. Thoa shalt not keep late
hours in thy neighbor's house,
nor with thy neighbor's wife, nor
his man servant, nor his maid
servant, nor his cards, nor his
glass, nor anything thot is thy
neighbors. 7 :.
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' Love is often blotted out by a
hard answer. What a d.eam of
happiness our home lives would
be if every angry retort ; could
give peace to a soft answtr. The
divorce problem would not be
agitated as it is today-;' if a soft
answer had prevailed.' The angry
spirits of children ard not curbed
in their infancy but are alio vied
growth. " Without doubt it is a
difficult problem and therefore
requires great strength of endea
vor to solve the best mode of
managing the individuality of
each child. Let us all strive to
attain that great control over our
spirits, which wilKenabla us to
give a soft answer in return for
an angry taunt. Ti en when this
goal of perfection is reached,
how peacefull and happy our in
fluence in our journey through
life. ' -
Hope is an anchor to the 60ul
both sure and steadfast, that will
stendy our frail bark while sail
a
ing over the ocean of life, and
that will enable us to outride the
storms : of time a hope that
reaches from ; earth to beayen.
The hope is based on faith in the
immaculate Redeemer and keeps
our earthly hopes from running
riot into forbidden paths. Th
cable of this hope cannot be sun
dered until death cuts the gordian
knot and lets the prisoner go
free. To live without it is blind
infatuation to die without it,
eternal ruin. 7;!
The person that tries each day
to do a little something that will
cause smiles to drive away tears;
that will put sunshine into a sad
heart; that will In a word make
associates better and happier and
more cheerful", that person is one
Of God's noblest of creatures and
is a benefactor to all mankind.
Smiles and cheerful words in
this world ara' worth so much,
tiike the' pebble dropped into the
like, they cause ' the wave to go
On and on and On, rippling
riljvand find lodgment, in hearts.
Tufty" are God's best-agencies..
A GOOD WIFE
"She was a good wife to me. A
good wife, God bless her.", These
words were spoken in trembling
accents over a coffin lid. The wo
man asleep there had borne the
heat and burden of life's long day
and no one had ever , heard- her
mumur; her hand was quick;, to
reach out in a helping grasp to
those who fell by tne wayside;
and ber feet were swift on er
rands of mercy; the heart of the
husband had trusted her;4ie had
left her to long heurs of solitude,
while he amused himself in scenes
in which sne had no pleasu re nor
part. ' Children had been born to
them." She had reared them , al
most alone they were gone! Her
hand had ministered ; to their
wants. Then she had, comfort
ed.him, and sent him out strong
and whole heartful while she
stayed at home and-cried. What
can a woman do but cry and
trust? Well, she is at rest now.
But she could not die until she
had promised to ''bear up" and
not to fret, but to remember how
happy they had been. They?
Yes, it Is even so. For she was
blest in giving, and he in receiv
ing. It was an equal partner
ship after all. ' She was a goo'd
wife, to me." Oil man! man! why
not have told her so, when her
ears were not dulled by death? '
uv'h-i 7V'
; It will be all right for Mrs.
Pankhurst to stay in this country
as long as she doesn t practice
what she preaches or preach what
she- practices.
You never heard of
of conscience' talking
death.--SELECTED.
the vulce
anyone to
Best Clover. Timothy and Or
chard Grass seeds atJames'Cash
Stbre. 99.50 parity test.
Letter From Spring
CreeHiy
School
Those pupils who attended
school at Spring Creek ; High
School during the month of Jan
uary without being absent or
tardv arei Ruth Brown, Vance
Brown, Glenn Brooks, Minnie
Ebbs, Ollle Giffey, Ernest Guf-
fey, Burnet: Lusk, Wiley Lusk,
Florrie Iusk, Dora Moore, Dullie
Waddell, Sara Anderson, Dorothy
Roberts. Addle Payne, Drancia
Brown, Wiley Brown, Ralph Car
ver, Georgia Culberson, Maude
Culberson, Dorothy Gillespie,
Burnett Guffey, William Led-
ford, Daton Meadow, Maggie
Smith, Melvin Smith. Amanda
West, William Waddell, Roy
Willet. Ted Russel, Nola Ledford
Etta Ledford, Columbus Moore,
Manella Smith, Laura Waddelh.
Mae Dockery Gray ton Meadows,
Bannie Lnsk, Burnett Moore,
Webb Browni Doris Lodford.
Those whose ; attendance was
perfect during February are;
Glenn Broqks, Mildred Carver,
Jessie Duckett. Minnie HEbbs ON
lie Guffey, Ernest Guffey, Dora
Moore, Dulie Waddell, Harriet
Waddell, Ruby Waddell, Wiley
Lusk, Burnett Lnsk, Florne
Lusk, Bryan Payne, Ralph , Car
ver, Dorothy- Gillespie, Burnett
Guffey, Daton Meadows, Maggie
Smith, Melvin Smith, Amanda
West, William Waddell, Ted Rus
sell, Monnie McCraken, Awa
McCracken, Lau ra Waddell, ya
lace OdeUL, llattie-.- Lodior4QW
Ledford, Etta.' Ledford,- Golia
Odell, Manella Smith, Etta
Smith, Burnett Moore, Doris
Ledford. :
Although the honor rolls for
these two months are not so large
yet the average attendance has
been better thanat any time dur
ing the present sshboj year. The
patsons who have visited the
school since the Christmas holi
day say that the attendance dur
ing the rough winter months has
been better this year than ever
before. This record, of which
the teachers are justly proud, is
the result cf several causes.
The enrollment of a number of
students from other townships
since the close of the short term
schools is one of the causes for
the large enrollment and regular
attendance at Spring Creek since
the Christmas holiday. For the
most part these boarding pupils
attend school regularly, and it is
easy to notice in them as in the
local students who attend regular
ly distinct Signs of progress. ,
The introduction of an efficient
teachers' training course for the
benefit of those more advanced
pupils who expect to teach in
the schools of an enviable record
in attendance., The class in teach
er training is being conducted by
Miss. Reva Hodges, who is
thoroughly fitted because of the
special normal training and the
several years practical experi
ence in the schoolroom that she
has had to train those who ex
pect to ba teachers in the county
next year.
This special course is a depart
ure from the traditional courses
usually taught in the high school;
but when the fact that many of
the teachers in this county get no
training excect in the high schools
and teachers' institutes is consid
ered, the need of a special teach
ers course is realized. Under
the direction of Miss Hodges, the
prospective teachers are given
Instruction along those lines
which they must follow when
they enter the schoolroom as
teachers. At Intervals the pupils
are required to teach, the other1
members of the class besides the
one teaching acting as a class of
children, and thus and opportuni
ty is afforded the pupils to put
into actual practice the prinniplea
learned. ' This practical experi
ence together with the note, tak
ing and plan making will be an
invaluable asset to ' the young
teachers when they enter' the
schoolroom as teachers liext
fall. ",v ;: ,7
The pupils who are taking the
special course, the patrons of the
school who have observed the
method ; of training, and t the
school committeemen are enthu
siastic over the novel experiment
and all believe that much good
will come of it.
The school was favored last
Wednesday .with a visit from Mr.
Jasper Ebbs, the chairman of the
County Board of Education. In a
short talk to the student body as
sembled in the chapel room, Mr.
Mr. Ebbs expressed his pleasure
at being with the school, and re
marked that be and those patrons
of the school with whom he had
talked were well pleased with
the way the school is being con
ducted and with the record that -
been made this year. He
congratulated those who are tak
ing the teachers' training course
on their opportunity to get such
training as is being given them,
and complimented Miss Hodges '
on the effecient way In which she
lsTWnt1tutstrJi4t,:
On Friday afternoon Reverend
R. Hi Hipps, a member of the
school board, spoke to' the stud
ents and teachers for abput thrr e
quarters of an houri Mr. Hipps'
subject was: "Tne Making , of a
Man." He addressed chiefly the
joys and spoke in a plain, con
versational way such as tin y
could best understand and ap
preciate. He pointed out that to
make a man the child must be
ever honest, thruthful, obident,
ambitious,. determined, and will
ing; besides he must shun whis
key, tobacco, bad company, , and
bad language, and must ever
kaep in view the end of it all
the making of a man, "
The commencement exercises
at Spring Creek High School will
be on March 25th and 26th.
M. R. PLEASANT:
FOR SALE Mamoth Bronze
Turkeys, and Rhode Island Red
cockrels yet. J. Manuel Robin
son R. 1.
Not Feeling "Just Right."
When you get tired early in the
day, have , an overfull feeling,, are
bilious, have bad breath -or suffer
from Indigestion or constipation you
will find Koley Cathartic Tablets quick
and comfortable In action. They are
wholesome and health giving. Mis.
Ij. L. Levy, Green Bay, wis., Bays:
They do not gripe and their effect Is
quick and sure. The finest athartic
I ever usea." &oia uy ur. 1. jv tui
nett,' Mars Hill, Ni C. '
They Know It's Sals
Parents who know from experience
insist upon Foley's Honey and Tar :
Sspound when buying a medicine
coughs, colds, crocp and la grlppr . ;
C. T. Lunoeford, Washington," Ga.,
writes: I have used it for six yeaw
and it never has failed. I think If
the best remedy mude for coughs ai d
colds." Sold by Dr. I. K. Burnett,
Mars Hill, N. C.