MADISON 'COUNTY JRECORD7 ;
Established June 28,' 1901. , ;
I FRENCH BROAD NEWS,
! ; : Established May 16, 1907.
Advertising Rates on Application.?
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TKE OalY NEWSPAPER PUZIICT IN MADISON COUNTY
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NO 10.
VOL. XVII
DIRECTORY
.'"'MADIBdN COUNTY.
Established ly the legislature ses
lon 1850-51. ;, "
Population, 20,132.
County seat, Marshall.
1666 feet above sea level.
New. and modern court house, cost
133,000. 00. - ' '
V Hew and modern Jail, oost 115,000.
New county home, cost 10,000.00.'
.'.-.' Comity Olfkert.
' Hon.j. E. Lineback, .Senator, 35th
District, Elk Park
Hon.! Plato Ebbs, Kepresentatlv,
Hot Springs. N. C,
W.. A. West;' .'. lerk o Superior
Court.' Marshall." '
Caney-Hamsey, Sheriff, Marshall.
. James' Smart, Register of Deeds
Marshall. . 'yi'"- .' ' "'
C'Yi Kunnlon, Treasurer, Marshall
N.O . R. F.'D. No. 4. f
k A. T, Chandlty, 8urveror, Marshall
V H B . oronsr, Mars BUI
' K. O. ' X
.''.. W, J. Balding, Janitor, Marshall.
Dr. C. N. Sprinkle, County Physi
cian, Marshall. " .
Gardeld Davis. Supt. county home.
Marshall.
Coortf u Fellows: .
September 1st, 1915 (2) November
10th, 1915.(2) -. '
March 2nd. 1915, (2). June 1st, 1915
(2). Sept. 1th. 1915,2).
J. Ed. Swain, " Solloltor, Ashevllle
, N.C. 1915, Fall Term Judge Frank
' Carter, Ashevllle. ... v- t
1914, Spring Term-Judge M. H.
Justice, Rutherfordton, N. C ;
. Fait Term Judge E. B. Cllne, of
Hickory, N. C.
County , Cammmmionmrm.
W. L. George, chairman." Mars HU
J. E. Rector, member, Marshall, K.
p. D. No. 1. Anderson. Silver, mem
ber, Marshall,, N. . Route 3
- J. Coleman Ramsey. atty.,Marshall.
rtlghvujv' Commission
F. Shelton, President, Marshall. ,
Guy V, Roberts, ; v " . ,
Geo. W. Wild, ' Big P ne. N. C.
S. Vf. Brown, Hot Springs, " .
Joe S. Brown, Waverly, "
' A. F. Sprinkle, Mars Hill, N. C.
' Board of Education.
JasDer Ebbs, Chairman, Spring
Creek. N. C. John Robert Sams,
room Mars Hill. N. C. W R. Sams,
Marshall. Prof. R. O. Anders,
Superintendent of Schools, Marshall.
Board meets first Monday In January
"April, July, and October each year.
Schools and Collsgas.
' nil! PnllAirn. Prof. R. L,
Moore. President. FallSTerm'beglns
August nth, 1913, and Spring Term
begins January 2nd 1914. .
Rnrinor Creek Hisrh School. Prof.
- M. R. Pleasants, Principal, Spring
Creek. 8 mos school, opens Aug. 1st
Madison Seminary High School,
- r-t n n Ttmwn. nrlncinal. 7 mos.
A. V. " - " . . -
Bell Institute, Margaret B. Grlf
- Bbh, principal, Walnut, N. C.
Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland
Williams, principal 8 mos. school.
Opens August 31, - '
Notory Publico. -
J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term ex
pires J auuary 6th, 1916.
Jasper Ebbs, ' Spring Creek. N. 0,
Turin expires January 6th 1915.
t tt Hii ntfip. 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. - 1
rnio Ramsfiv. Ttevere. Term ex-
wwa w j - ,
nlrna March 19. 1915. " '"
N. W. Anderson, Paint Fork,
Term expires May 19, 1915. .....
W." T. Davis. Hot Springs, term
expires January 22nd 1915.
fteve Rice, Marshall. Term ex'
pires Dec. 19th. 1915.
Ben W. Gahagan, Stackhouse, N.
C. T- rm expires Dec. 80, 1915.
J.: l: Tllson, Marshall, Route 2
Term expires Nov. 14thl915.
a J. Ebbs, Marehall. Term ex
niroa Anril 25tb. 1915.
n. M. Ilarshbursrer, Stackhouse.
Twm' exDlres January 10th, 1916.
'D. P. Miles; Barnard. Term expires
Dfieember, 23. 1916.
W. B. Ramsey, Marsaall. Term
expires Oct.'4th 19IS.
J, A. Wallin. Big Laurel. Term
expires Aug. 8th, 1916. : ' : '-.
C. C. Brown, BluJt: Term expire
January itb, 1311
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LOCAL
Timely Comment on Interesting Topics,
Condensed Editorals
WHAT WOMEN CAN pO.
The women of this town can 'do
a lot for it. , In many towns the
women's clubs and other brgani
zations of wome,n are foujid work
ing for civic betterment more
parks, cleaner streets, public lib
raries, gymnasiums ana oieaner
morals. But a woman can do as
much a, an Individual al ihe can
as a member of a club or any oth
er organlaatlon. She can encour
age her husband to Interest, him
self in any movement for the
publio good. She can exert an
influence where mere man lias
much less infl uence than she
has; lor she can teach the child
ren of her own home and of the
neighborhood, pride in the home
town and an ambition to make it
a clean and well governed muni
cipality. , The town that becomes
a model of its size is the town,
where both men and women are
planning and working for it all
the time.
NEWSPAPERS TO '
: , COST MORE.
An increase j in the j rice of(
newspapers in smaller cities in
the Middle West probably will
be made by members of the In
land Daily Press Association, ac
cording to sentiment expressed
at their annual autumn meeting
and dinner in the Hotel LaSalle
in Chicago.
"The War in Europe," said
Will V. Tufford, of Clinton, Iowa
secretary of the association, "has
sent the price of print paper and
olher publishing materials to a
high mark and in order to pre
serve -the progress of the press
and keep within ; areasonable
profit the prices must bi increas
ed. '. V '
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Beautiful is the sight of our
young people going to and from
school. Pure maidenhood and
manho d has no superior In beau
ty and grace. Young people, do
your best. It will be the survi
val of 1 the fittest In life. Get
knowledge and it will ail come in
play some day. , Get character;
it is above price. Older people,
encourage them.
THE ART OF KISSING. .
.. It used to be said that he who
kisses and tells is a villian, but it
has been Isft to the Pennsylvania
Homeopathic society to formulate
a receipt for kissing and here it
is:'
Cut out a square of tissue pa
per. Subject it to a bah in a sani
tary solution.
Place over the moutli.
1 Then: KISS.
But don't wear out the paper
or break through.,
Half the joy of life comes from
getting good out of things as we
go along. v Some of us are always
putting oft our enjoyments. After
a while we expect to take a rest,
see a friend, read a book, Bui
aft.-a while never comes; the
POINTERS
good time we are.looking forward
lO lies as lar wjr cyi.
our life is spent in meaning to
. m - All
Ik and ftniov it. Mean
while we toil.' druee. and grow
UIVJ, Jcoo.uft vj .-.. I
the happiness we might
fret out
r"
of every day.
No town will baoome a good
business center, so long as its
business men rely on a few
merchants to make the effors to
bring trade to town. . Too often
the men in a few ' lines of trade
are about the only - ones that
reach out after custom. Other
merchants wait until these men
induce the people to come to
town and content themselves with
trade that naturally drifts to
their place. " 1
Th European war is coing
along satisfactory to most of the
countries engaged in it accord
ing to reports from the respf ol
ive countries. .
- The ', bugs . of J summer X haje
been 'banished to their . winter
cemeteries, but the bughouse
does business all the time. ,
' It never does any good to call
the attention of ' some folks to
their mistakes; they merely set
you down as a fool for not seeing
things as they do. " ' " ,
Here is one of the pathetic in
cidents coming out of the th amb
les of Europe: Two wounded
soldiers one French, one Ger
manlay side by side on the
battlefield. The former passed
his water bottle to the wounded
German. The German sipped a
little kissed the hand of -the man
who had been his enemy and said:
"There will be no war on the
other side."
COMET VISIBLE
In NORTHERN SKY
, Folks who go . to bed late or
are early risers have an oppor
tunity to observe a comet at pre
sent. The new 'ethereal visitor
is not a portent nor protest of
the Creator of the universe again
st the crime of a' world at war.
It is familiar to astronomers and
is a regular visitor. It may be
seen about 10:30 o'clock at night
low on the northern horizon, di
ivn vu kiiu uui buiu uvi jvut m
rectly under the pole star.' It as-
cends during the night and may
be found in the northeast be
tween 2 and 4 o'clock a. m. It
may be seen, best at these hours
M i :.. .:... (U
brightness of a third magnitude
lie WUICI; la iniiii, iiaviuic duo
star and h is a tail sSveral deg rees
in length. ' It is really much hr
ger than the famous. Halie.v's
comet, but is vnstly fai iher from
the earth than H alley's approach
four years sgo. It will be visible
to the naked eye urtil the middle
of November. Select to.
Some Common
; Birds Useful to
The Farmer
Destroy Harmful
Insects
and, Weed Seeds Bulletin
of Agricultural Depart
fnent Makes Plan.
How birds which destroy harm-
I fnl ineoita a nrl tvood BPiHI mftv DC
i - -
uWul to the farmer is described
io I new r armers juiiouu vw
630) of the department entitled
Birds Useful to
the Farmers.
The new publi-
cation has 87 oases and 23 illus
trations (not colored) of the birds
aescrioea. it contains mucu ot
tht information included in one
of the department's former pub
lication entitled, Fifty Common
Birds of Farm and Orchard,"
The department's sqpply of this
latter pamphlet has been exhaus
ted, and it can now only be ob
tained from the Superintendent
of Documents, Washington, D.
C where it is is sold at 15 cents
a copy. It contains numerous
colored illustrations of tbe birds
mentioned. The new Bulletin.
"Some Common Birds Usefbl to
the Farmers," will be furnished
free to all applicants by the de
partment. "
: Whether a bird is beneficat ,
Wlmt.lipr. a hirri n beneficial or
injurious depends almost entirely
on; what it eats, says the intro
dluCtion to the new bulletin. In
thA,casef 4Decies which are. verrlmornin2 JssiQni- ; Pensioners pt
abundant, or which feed to some
extent on the crops of the farm
er, the question of their average
diet becomes one of supreme im
portance, and only by stomach
examination can it be satisfactori
ly solved. Field observations
are at best but fragmentary and
inconclusive and lead to no final
results. Bird3 are often accused
of eating this or that product of
cultivation when an examination
of the stomach shows the accusa
tion to be unfounded. Accord
ingly, the Biological Survey ; has
conducted for some years past a
systematic investigation of the
food of those'species which are
most common about the farm and
garden.
Within certain limits birds eat
the kind of food that fs most ac
cessible, especially when their
natural food is scorce or wanting
Thus thev sometimes injure the
crops Of the farmer who has un
intentionally destroyed their nat
ural food in his improvement of
swamp or pasture. Most of the
damage done by birds and com
plained of by farmers and fruit
growers arises .from this very
cause. The berry bearing shrubs
and ' seed-bearinsr weeds have
been cleared away, and the birds
have no recourse but to attack the
cultivated grain of fruit which
have reolaced their natural focd
supply. Tbe great majority of
land birds subsist upon insects
i
during the period of. nesting and
moulting, and also feed their
voiinc uixm them during the
first few Weeks. Many species
ivo olmnst Antirelv uuon insects
. . . v . u. - . i
taking vegetable food only whfHcerned, would stop there
I nhhpr . subsistence ' tails. - It : 181
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thus evide,nt 'hat m the .coufe,of
n veitr bird (fcstrov an incalcula-l,
ble number of insects, and it is
difficult to ouerestlmate the value
of
their services in restraining
the great tide of insect' life
In winter, in the northern part
ot the country, ' insects become
oval v . . 1 r I
ina nr ui.t.irplv f1isnnn.r
Many species of birds, however,
remain during the . cold season
and are able to maintain life by
eating vegetable food, as tbe
seed i of weeds. Here again la
another useful function of birds
in destroying these weed seeds
and thereby lessening the growth
of the next year.
The new publication discusses
the food habits Of more than fifty
hlrrf helonirinir to twelve fami
lies.
Many are eastern forms
which are represented, in the
west bv sliehtlv different species
or subspecies, but unless tbe food
ouubk1 "
habits differ they are not sepe
rately. described. Among the
popular birds included are the
mhhln. hlnphird. wren, brown
thrasher, catbird,' bobolink,
nrinin frnw. cuckoo, and tbe
American sparrow.
Not FMllnf "Just Right."
When you get . tired early In the
day, ha? an overfull feeling, are
bilious, have bad breath or suffer
from indigestion or constipation you
will find Foley Cathartle Tablets qulolc
and comfortable in action. They are
wholesome and health giving. Mia
L. L. Levy, Green Bay, Wis., says:
"They do not gripe and their effect is
quick and sure. The finest eathartic
I ever used." Sold by Dr. I. K. Bur
nett, Mars Hill, N. C.
Confederate Pensions
Increased.
An increase of four dollars an
nually is given the Confederate
nensioners of the State by a bill
which passed the House a t the
the first class will hereafter re
ceive under tbe provisions o f
this bill $76; second class $64;
third class $52, and fourth class
$36 annually. The widows of
Confederate veteaens &r included
in the fourth, class. The bill
does not apply to soldiejrs or wid
ows worth $500 and above. Mr.
Freeman of Richmond made a n
ineffectual effort to get through
an admendment to place on t h e
rolls indigent widows of soldiers
who married after the year 1868.
He was supported in his fight - by
Representatives Laughinghouse
and Douglass.
Publicity A
Necessity.
There has been considerable
private discussion in Raleigh
about the worn in feature of the
Carter case. It was the belief
that some effort would be made
to hush ud the affair on the
eround that thereby the reputa
lion of the women involved might
be saved. The difficulties in the
way of such a procedure at once
became apparent. An attempt of
that sort would have left Judge
Carter for all time under suspi
cion. while at the same, time the
reputations of the women would
have been as surely blasted. The
going into an
WuulU UclVC Lrcou ueucsaaijr w
estltbiish the innocence of the
would have been ' necessary to
women whose - names; has been
nnnno'piAd with it. and this inves-
L; - . nrnlnr their innooenne.
i nn niHLipr kii i Mr hh li i h v h
. i,-
therefore the best thing that could
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caillDK UI M1H III VCBUKUHUU . wta
have been done for the protection
of the women. It is one case in
which publicity had become the
only remedy, however unpleasant
it might have been at first con
sidered. . i ' :
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l!l hi Connucror
Story by Fourteen-Year-
Old Boy, and It Won ;
a Prize.
The members of the St. Nich
olas League compete each month
in writinir stories or essays of
poems, or drawing pictures, or
making photographs, on various
subjects which are suggested
to
them by the editors of St Nich
olas. The following is a story
On "The Conqueror," published
in the March St. Nicholas Page
Williams, the fourteen-year-old
author, won a silver St. Nicholas
League badge in recognition of
the merit of the composition.
Tis!"
'Taintr
" Tisl"
i " 'TaintJ"
I -"Step over the line and I'll
lick you,"
1 Five brown toes wriggled over
the chalk-line.
"Dare you to!"
This was how it started. They
fought till Jimmy had a blaek
eye and Johnny a blood r nose.1
They rolled in the dust and claw '
ed end kicked and bit until, by '
mutual consent, they paused.
Guess I liked yer good and
hard that time!"
VDidn't lick me."
; "Did!"
"Didn't!"
I "Did!" ,
"Didn't!" and they were at it
again. KrV ) U'i:--i.
I Thefizhting stopped instantly. .
The teacher stood before them, v
"Whatis this about?"
J "Jimmy called me 'red bead'-"
i "Johnny called me 'snub
nose'."
; "Didn't!"
; ' Did!"
The teacher's
eres cleamed
With amusement.'
I "Stop your fussing and shake
hands."
Two grimy paws met in a sud
den clasp. i
t "Now go about your business."
j "Johnny have yon been fight
ing again." This from an indig
nant mother. :
I "Jimmy called me names and
l licked him," was the brief, re- .
ply. . , 1
j "looks like you were up to
something, son," said father, as :
weary and footsore Jimn:y enter-t.
ed the house.
j "Johnny and I had a fight."
j"Well?"
"Aw, I could Hck Johnny with
my little finger!", was the, retort
-fand Jimmy's remaining eye
flashed triumphantly.
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They Know It's Salt
Parents who know from, experience,
insist upon Foley's Honey , and Tar
rVimnnnnd whp.n hiivlnflr a medicine
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for coughs, coidi, fcrocp and la grippe.
T. Lunoelora, Washington, ua.,
Writes: I have osed it for six years
atd it never has failed. I think it is
tie best. remedy mude for coughs and'.
colds. "-rsoia by Dr. l. a. uurneii,
ars Hill, N. C. ;
novs Ttis? - '
MC7 offer One hundred CcSan O
ward lor any case t- Catarra. VsmM'j
eaanot U cured T. Ball's Cttartl , .
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Chancy tor the luat 1 year, i V
fcsnj jertectly honorable in i p
ti-kittactlon T)d Cnnciny !.- t' r.J!
ut any ouliguon tuna by I t
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