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VOL. XVII
DIRECTORY
MADISON COUNTY.
Established I y the legislature ses-
ton 1850-61. . -
Population, W32.
County seat, Marshall.
' iAut aAt .hnve sea level.
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irt house coti
?4 nnn ftfl-
. New and modern jail, cost $15,000
New county home, cost iu,wu.w
CannlV Officer.
rr. t vi T.(nohulr. Senator. 35th
District. Elk Park A
It f lll.tl 111.
Hon. Plato Ebbs, Bepresentatlv,
ant. Sni-lnira. N. C.
w. A. West, lerk o Superior
nnnvt- Marshall.
Caney Ramsey, Sheriff, Marshall
t c,v.t. Rncriater of Deeds
llbiuca uiu w, ---o
Marshall
" M.,Bfcn
Runnion, Treasurer, Marshall
C. F,
r n o IT TV No. 4.
A.T. Chandley, Surveyor, Marshall
W f!
) a. Bi , oroner, Mars Hill
w i Rftldlnir. Janitor. Marshall.
Dr. C N. Sprinkle, County Physl
Man. Marshall
Garfield Davis. Supt. county home
Marshall. .
September Ut, 1915 W o-emo
' Ma'rehWWlJJ. June 1st, 1915
(2). Sept. un. iio, ,
t . Swain. Solicitor, Ashevllle
N.O. 1915, Fall Term-Judge Frank
Carter, Asheville.
1914,SPrinir Term Judtje M. H.
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Kan u.erm juuko i
nickory. N. O
Oountv Ortim on'
-r -WL. George, chairman. MarsHll
t ic. Rector, member, Marshall, R.
. F. D. No. 1. Anderson. Silver, mem'
ka. uiKkiii TI. . Route 3
J J.' Coleman Ramsey, atty., Marshall.
, j. nicnwrr w--P-r . .
r.;5&1toiC President, Marshall.
Guf'V.yRoberts,
"GebCW. Wild,
S. W. Brown, '
Joe S. Brown,
'A. F. Sprinkle,
&a P ne; TJ. 0.
Hot Springs, ,j
Waverly,
Mars Hill, C
Board of Education.
Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring
Creek. N. C. John Robert v Sams.
mem. Mars tun, ""
mm Marshall. Prof. R. G. Anders,
Suoerintendent of Schools,. Marshall
Board meets first Monday January
Aoril. July, and October each year.
Hehoolt nd CollS
i -o ttiii r:niipcr. Prof. R. L
KO, I .
Moore, President. FalllTerm begins
Auirust 17th. 1913, and Spring Term
begins January 2nd 1914. -
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ureeK. omu ruwiiv D-
x.At sminar Hiirh School.
pf. a. n.. Brown, nrincipal. 7 mos.
anVlAnl.
DbII 1 net I tilt A. Marcaret E. Gril
fith. principal, Walnut, N. C.
Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Rjland
Williams,' principal 8 mos. school.
- Opens August 31,
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J. C. Blamsey, Marshall, Term ex
Notary Putolloa
Dlres Jauuary 6th, 1916.
. T.m.F VhKa. Snrinc Creek. N.
aopui i ,
T..rm. exnlres January 6th 1915,
t tt nnntr. Marshall, Route
Term expires Apry 1st 1915,
i w Mnisnn. Marshall Term ' ex-
Hlrna Mav 11. 1915 "... '
;T B Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex
nlm February 4th 1915.
rin WamaAv. Revere. Term ex-
o
' nlrnn March 19. 1915. '
N. W. Anderson, Paint Fork,
Term ex Dlres May 19, 1915
xa TV Tiawla. Hot SDrin; term
nrnlTAa January 22nd 1915. f
T.i.m a,
Steve Rice, Marshall.
..Ires Dec. 19th. 1915.
ion ,w rjuhacran. Stackhouse. N.
C Term expires Dec. 20, 1915.
. ' F. Til son. Marshall, Route
Term expires Nov. 14thl915.'
n. J. Ebbs. Marshall. Term
A.
nlrwi Anril 25th. 1915.
T. M. narshbursreri Stackhouse.
TAi-m expires January 16th. 1916.
D P. Miles. Barnard. Term expires
rtAcamber. 23, 1916.' ,
R. Ramsev. Marsaall. . Term
' exnlres Oct. 4th 1915. ' ,
J. A. Wallin. Big Laurel. Term
- expires Aug. 8th, 1916. ' .
I About People and Things
ELLA MAE WA LKER ;
Never do I pick tip a newspap-
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er and read aoout me uru
lines." the high cost of living and
the industrial unrest io our cities,
but I am impressed anew with
the failures of our system of
rural education. It Is not a fail
ure in every respect, of course,
but a glaring, solemn failure, in
comparison to what its results
really are.
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It may appear unthinkable at
first sight, jet the "bread lines,'
the hieh dost of living and this
commercial and industrial unrest
in the cities are due in a great
degree to the failure of rural edu
cation to idealize and vitalize rur-
Qf f have
a failure, because they did not
oliw thn hfiftk interests and work
, .
0f the school to the hfe of the
ruraj neJghborhood. I do not
think it has been as long ago ad
. - owQ gtate
Looted its first text on agrfcul
...
ture for use in public schools.
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It has always been eitner
taught or implied.that education
leads one po broader and hotter
living; and, consciously. ;or; un
consciously, theVspripgouth
hav always' accepted ' this theory
of the need, if hot the necessity,
of education. The trouble was,
and still is to a great degreevthat
the course of study for rural
schools was such that it almost
invariably pointed to tbecommer
ciai 0r professional life, and the
wnth. as a matter , of course,
was led to accept thse as v tne
broader,better and more honor
able vocatjpnl .
It was not natural for him to do
otherwise, unless he was of strong
v . .
individual character; because ine
a(lVftntaee8 Of education Dad Deen
fostered within him from his very
birth. He had a strong faith in
when this so call
tA pduRfttion divorced him irom
.uo nM nd led him to other
lines of work, he accepted it with
our questien. -
This course of education also
invuriahlv Dointed to college, ho
that the bctIous jouth never felt
himsolf reasonably ea'"PPed uu
less he had the advartages
of a
rnllppft education.
Even if he aspired to be a far
mer and return , to the soil, ; he
3- could not feel fully prepared' un
less he had taken a college course;
because agriculture, soil analysis;
rlairvinff. and most all the sub
jects that form the materials ba
sis of : intelligent rural work,
Rould not be reached except
through the college, ;
, But bv far the larger majority
nf those who are. rural born have
i i " w , -
nn't. and will not get beyond the
public school, of-the' high sc tiooi
at best. In these there has oeen
litt.lfl to unite, the Duoil toubis
rural environments. T h e ab
tit.rftp.t conceptions of mathematics
I . .
hifltorv and ceoaraDhy have not
heen rendered into the concrete
form of his daily experience in
tr. ho nsAa of his his daily life
I They poiuted in another direc
tion
That's why. the serious youth
tv,a best, the boast tie pride of
MARSHALL. MADISON COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915
to the city. rHis etlucation let
that way, and being thoughtful
and serious to make the most of
life he followed it.
That's why the cities ire, foil
to over-flow, while ihe, country
bomec, surrounded by overgrown
gardens and orchards: and desert
ed farming fields, sta id gray and
desolate. The best, the energe
tic have gone away ic many in-
stances so that the onWucers aro
not equal to the detiaads mad
ntion thom. That's vby we sen
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so much about the "bread line
and the bigh cost of 1 ving. ' .:
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There is a woman in New York
and a erand and ncble soul shy
must be who. havituc reud so
much about the cottvn crisis ii
tho South, wrote to a Southen
firlitor. exnlfiininir that she had
plenty and to spare and was an
xious to give somethtnf for. to
ilet in anv Darts wle:e it wa&
most needed.
She recalled the Belgian need
and the thousands oi destitute
without food or warmth, in her.
own citv:-still, her. heart turned
to the South in its financial dis
tress, end feeling that the South,
Fern iarmer was most ; In need
wbuld like the editor to devise
some Dlan bv' ' which she could
distribute a few thousand among
the most needy snd the most
worthy.
One could scarcely read it
without a smile and a happy
fluttering at the heart a smile
that this well-informed woman
should imagine the want on the
farms as eaual to, or greater,
than that in her own city -and a
happy fluttering at her true nobi
lity of purpose. '
But the editor wrote back: Ho
we cannot take your money. Food
shelter and warmth, the absolute
necessities, come to the Southern
farmer without the price of mon
ey, as a natural resource of labor
and soil.
He explained to her that the
farmer did not have to pay rent,
bacause he owns his o ffu home
that he grew bis own food from
the soil the wood ths t he burns
to make the fire to wa -ni himself
is a natural resource, which h
tftkfia from his : tia bor lands.
'Even if ho W a tena.it," he ex
Dlained. "be has the e nccessit
ies." The landlord either fur
nishes them, or vouches for them
Of course, the tu n: er wants
monev and needs n oiey, stil
his uliirht is nothing to compare
with the unspeakable misery Jn
congested districts. , ,
Pne magazine editor, at the be-
einriing of the Winter called at
tention to the fact , that Ameri
cans were sending their monej
away to the relief " of the home
less in Europe, and forgetting
the needy, "Just around the cor
ner. ' - v . ..
The editorial attracted my at
tention, for my busbaud had just
mailed bis check to a relief fund
the day before. I r aad it and
oassed it over to hiu. "Not
around our corner," be said aft
er he had read it. ; ."
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dincie ODieci oi .cuaricjr.
thought over all the people I
knew, or Knew of, and told him
tht I did not. Neither did he.
We did not know a single indi
vidual who was either able to
work, and could not find the work
to do, or was unable to work and
in want.
No, in the rural districts, there
is no hammering at the. gate of
Dives, and we are thankful!
ExceDt in the instances of flood
drought, or famine, there is little
need for the people of the soil to
to ask charity from the rest of
the world. And, although the
schools have given little specific
attention to their line of work,
still the education of experience
serves amply against utter des
titution.
The rural districts Jbave the ad-
vnntnrrp of the first DartS Of an
education: which is the best and
the most important. The Child
learns to read at an early agi,
and it never in after years learns
anything quite so important and
so useful. The person . who .can
read, write, and cipher a little
stands higher above the wholly
illiterate man than does the uni-
versity professor
stand above
him.
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But it doos seem that every
class of work, or line of industry
should have its specific fraining.
Within the last few years our
State has instituted rural schools
in some places, but for the most
part there is little ' distinction be
tween the country and. the city
School; yet all people know , that
each should be developed, 1fito"
different type, because e a c n
should meet a widely , different
need. .-.
Years ago, Carlyle dnbbed the
educators of bis day as a "hide
bound pedantry, without know
ledge of youth's nature; or of
ancht save their lexicons and
quarterly , account books," and
tnrlnv. we are DUDDets to this
same people. -
Thev rive us school methods
and artificial curncuiums, for
which the average youth has no
tftstn. and for which he will nev
er have any uae. Yet for gene
rations, we hav accented it. and
for ages, piled on ages, tired lit
tie ink-stained fingers have cop-
jed ''Time and tide wait for no
man." "There is no royal road
to learning," and "The way of
transgressors is hard."
So there you have it: Rush
on at a break-neck speed, for life
is short, and you may not grad
uate ere you die. Of Course, the
wav is hard, but if you digress,
something worse will befall you!
Quite a dilemma for a school
child isn't it?
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And these are not college stud
ents either. .They are the boys
in their early teens, studying in
the graded and high schools.
But how is it that a shop wil
tnirA the bovs' nractice work at
fhia arocrA? .
fn the first Dlace. it is not nrac
tice work alone. It is real work.
The shops are a part of the school
and the shops are a business pro
Dosition putting i manufactured
goods on the market, just as any
other. -'X;'
Besides, they work in shifts
half the boys in shop this week
and half in school. The boys
who are in school this week wil
next week take the places of the
bovs in the shop.
These schools were first estab
l-.Ahed'for'the. children of the
foreign element, but now, they
have applicants from the cream
' It's a good plan not' to exceed thw
peed limit, even in running up a
MIL
Von Kluck's wings teem very flex
ible, to often does the oensor turn
them.
The world is expectantly awaiting
for the unexpected to happen In the
war. ?
A diamond sunburst is many a girl's
only Idea of making hay while the sun
shines.
It it pretty tough on' a captured
city to be shelled and then hav
hell out ,
to
Isn't It somewhat of a travesty for
prayers going up to meet .bombs com
ing down?
One trouble with those European na
tions is that they do hot live in a good
neighborhood.
Manv a woman who fancies she is
a good mother is merely the slave to
a tyrant child.
ThA reason women do not wear
rings In their noses la because Fash
ion never told them to.
Many a man' is never lonesome so
Ion ha is within reach of the
sound of his own voice.
It Inn't hprmiRA ther hairs Of Our
heads are numbered that the average
person looks out for No. 1.
Tt onmntlmps hannena that the fel
low who announces he wouldn't stand
for a certain thing win tail xor iu
The man who can say the right
thinor at the rieht time is needed at
home when his wife Is cleaning house.
The cynical bachelor observes that
a wnman alther wants a man 10 come
up to her ideal, or come down to her
level. ,
rt oonrsA the Germans won't have
much chance of winning a conclusive
victory untirtney get tne oaoie re
paired.
Tom Edison has a plan' to enable
submarines to remain' under water
indefinitely: but aren't some of 'em
doing it now? .
That tl.ooo.000 Austria promises to
pay Italy for damage done by mines
In the Adriatic would boy a tremen
dous amount of spaghetti.
The sort of man who wean glasses
to make himself look more Intellec
tual would set better" results by com
muning with the dictionary.
A pertain amount of stubbornness
at the front makes it appear as though
they Intended to fight it out aiong tms
line if it takes all ot tne century.
TJriita nut!" la the order in London
now. If anv Zennellns come snooping
about at night, their pilots won't be
able to tell one locality irom anouer.
ThA Italian who has invented a pock
et wireless system may yet be hailed
as a deliverer by husbands vho wish
to be warned in time or tneir wives
approach. .
"Hitch vour wagon, to a star
nitntAit tha wise uy. "Yes: that's
less humiliating tnan nncnmg your
automobile to a wagon," added the
simple mug. ,
PnnflArratlve persons say that the
new fall gowns for women are cut too
high and married men wno nave to
nay for them seem to wing iney are
sold the same way.
whfm a woman 'who has been a so
ciety leader in a small town moves to
large town ana nnas nerseir od:
ftirad. she feels as it she has her
lltework to do. all over again.
i ohiiaiiAinhla osteopatblat claims
to cure children ,of lying by treaUrg
the brain. We win oeueve inai me
old-fashioned way ot applying a slip
per to the posterior part of their an
atomy is oesL -;..- ;
: Battles are now fought in three dl
monoinna and in three elements. But
wfciia mn can fight in the air. under
the water and on earth, the one detail
w ! nnt changed is in tne ultimate
one of dying. That is done in the old
way. '-. : -.-:' .-;".--'' ::" '" . -, j .
The automobile is a good thing, but
.v. nnivra!tv crofessor who aavs that
there are more college youths who
have been demoralized by the auto
mobile than by alcohol may be right
t- wt. iiu it la the abuse, not the
MA .K. mA thine, that Haa don
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NO 11.
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Work of Organizing
Beef Cattle Inter
est of Madison
County.
The work of organising the
Beef Cattle Interest of Jdadiscn
County i going steadily along.
Some of our cattle men . think we
organized this business the 17th
day of last December. ; We only
began to organize on that day,
and then on the 27th of Februafr
We did another, nice little piece
of work at Marshall, N. C, to'
ward the completion of our plane
but the real work of organization
s lust now being, vigorously
pushed and we hope to complete
by the last of this month. Last
week Mr. J. Lloyd Brown ' of
West Raleigh, N- C and I
sisted in org tnizing local Beet
Cattle Clubs at Little Fine, Forki
of Sandy Mi sh, . Spring Crfeek
and Big Pine.;: Next week be
gir.ning at Mars Hill .15.' "Paint
Fork. 16. Uppor Laurel (Baptist
C h u r c h j 17, Grapevine, 1$
Uhapel Hill n 'Marshall zu. At
all these places ' .we will expect
the people to meet and organize
by electing a chairman and two
associates which will act is I
local committee In the county
will form the Executive Com-
inittee of the County,' AH tit
mers interested in growing cattle
in Township No. 2. and Township
No. 10, will please meet tis for
this purpose at Chapel . Hill, on
Friday, March 19, at t' o'clock p.
m..and the cattle -growers of'
Township No ItMarshalJ) will '
please meet at the Court House
atl o'clock p. m. . .
Notice is hereby served on all
Townships that unless some of
them gets on a magnificient bus
tie; Spring Creek will carry Off
the blue ribbon in the way of
having the largest and most ac
tive local club in the county; be
ginning with 18 members. We
want every local club toaccertaiu
the number of pure bred bulls
wanted and report the same to a
meeting of the County Executive
Committee whicshi will meet ,Wed
nesdy March 8Ietr-'.-ibe Court
House in Marshall. 3 -'
- Now let all Cattle growers get
busy and all pnll.' together and,
great results may be expected..
J. R. SAMS,
Local Agent,.
Marshall, N. C, March, 13th,
1915..
Not Feeling "Just Right."' ;
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When you get tired early In lb
day, have an overfull feeling, , aft
bilious, have !ad breath or suffer
from indigestiofi or constipation yU
will find Foley Cathartic Tablets quiolc
and comfortable in action, xney art
wholesome and health, giving. Mia
It, L. Levy, Green- Bay, Wis.,, says:
'They do not gripe arid their entct is
quick and sure. The finest eathartlO
I ever used." Sold xy. uv. 1. 1& our
nett, Mars Hill, N. pr .
FOR SALE: Complete corn
mill outfit. Gasoline: Engine and
Crusher, will sell Cheap, call oa
or write. Jack Brooks, Hot
Springs, N.O. pd 4-L
Ah! The Invigorating WftKT oi
the Pine Forest!
How it clears the throat and bead
of Its mucous ailments, It is tms
spirit of Newne. and Vigor from the
health-giving Plney Fotests brought
back by Dr., Bell's flne-Tar'-Eoney
Antiseptic and healing, Buy a bottle
to-day. AU tfrugj&4 : t, "
-".M "P"lth. country M gm
Then he asked ma if I knew Of