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I MADISON COUNTY RECORD, ? 7he Medium. J Through which you reach the a people of Madison County. J J J Advertising Rates on Application, s uATrTH r TT TTT TK TTft ' Established June 28, 1901. ' ? r I FRENCH BROAD .NEWS, fti'fo' Established May-16, 1907. 1L JL1LW. Consolidated : : Nov. - 2nd. 1911. . 1 THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY r i MARSHALL. MADISON COUNTY, N, C, FRIDAY, MAY 28th, 1915 NO 22. VOL. XVII 1 lB' .1 IN JLrf VV DIRECTORY Established I y the legislature ses Ion 1850-61. -I ; Population; 20,132. , ' County Boat, 'Marshall., ' 6i,ti leet above sea level. . New and modern court house, cost 33,000.00.' . ' ' ' ,-' New and modern jail, cost 115,000. New county homecost $10,000.00.; 110 n. J rj. uidkuouh, i District, E!k Park - : , Hon. Plato Ebbs, Representatf vs Ilot Springs. N. . W. A. West. Clerk o Superior Court Marshall? Caney Ramsey,. Sheriff, -Marshall. , James Smart, Register of Deeds Marshall. C. F. Runnion, Treasurer, Marshall N.C, R. F. D. No. 4. , - A. T. Cbandley, Surveyor, Marshall N.C. "':.. . ' '' V"-' - Dr. J, H. Baird, Coroner, Mars Hill N. C. ' ,.i , , ' W. J. Balding, Janitor, Marshall. ' . I)r Frank Roberts, County Physi cian, Marshall. ' , Garfield Davl. Supt county home. Marshall. Court Followt: September 1st, 1915 (2) November 10th,1915..(2 1 ! March 2nd. IMS, (2). June 1st, 1915 (2). Sept. 7th. 1915, 2). , V J. Ed. Swain, Solicitor, Asheville N.C. 1915, Fall Torm Judge Frank Carter, 'Asheville. .... 1914,Sprinjr Term-Judge M. H. Justice,-Rutherrordton, N. C Fall ,Term Judge E. B. Cline, of nickory, N. C. . .j County cmmUlonr .. ' N. B. McDevitt chairman. Marshall J. E. Rector, member, Marshall, R F. D. No. 1. Anderson. Silver, mem ber, Marshall,; Boute 3 W. L. George, member, Mars Hill. J, C Cbandley, WhitejRook ; ; HlShivay ", commllon V. Shelton, President, Marshall. " G. V. Russell, . . . Bluff, N, C? A. F. Sprinkle, , Mars Hill, N. C. Board of Eduotloni - Jasper Ebbs, " Chairman, Spring Creek.: N. C. John Robert Sams, rnera. Mars Hill, N. C. W R. Sams, mem. Marshall. Prof. K. G. Anders, Superintendent of Schools, Marshall. Board meets first Monday in January. April, July, and October each year.r ' Schools "ndColl. Mars Hill College, ; Prof. R. U Moore President. FallTerm begins August th,; 1913, and Spring Term begins January 2nd 1014. ' , Spring Creek High School. " Prof , il. i .Pleasants, Principal, Spring Creek. 8 mos Bchool, opens Aug. 1st Madison Seminary High School, Prof.' G. C. Brown, principal. 7 mos. school. '" x Bell Institute, Margaret E. Grif nth, principal, Walnut, N. Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland Wlllianis, principal 8 mos. school. , Opens August 31, . ' y Notary Fubllc v J. 'C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term ex plres Jauuary 6th, 1910, - .,t ., Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek. N. o. Term expires January 6th 1915. J H Hunter, Marshall, Route 3. Term expires April 1st; 1915, -' J W Nelson,' Marshall Term ex Blres May 11, 1915 T B Ebhs, Hot Springs Term ex pires February 4th 1915. Craig Ramsey, Revere, ' Term ex pires March 19, 1915, :; N. W. Anderson, Paint Fork, Term expire May 19, 1915. .V I W. T. Davis, Hot Springs, term expires January 22nd 1915. - V? ' Steve Rice, Marshall. Term ex pires Decl9th. 19151 Ben W. Gahagan, Stackbouse, N. C. Term expires Dec.N20, 1915. ' J. F.' Tilson, Marshall, Route 2. Term expires not. 14thl915. ; C J.- Ebbe, Marshall.' Term ex pires April 25th, 1915. . ' -A ' '.; , ' D. M.-. Harshburger, Stackhouse. Term expires January 16th, 1916. D. P. Miles, Barnard. Term expires DecemlMjr, 23, 1916. : W. B. Ramsey, Marsaall. Term expires Oct. 4th 1915. . ; i , . J,'AV Wallin, Big Laurel. Term expires Au. 8th, lOlfii ' -; C. C. Brown, Bluff; -Term expire January 9th 1917. . - ':'. If you Want to be Loved Don't contradict people, even If you are sure you are right. Don't be inquisitive about the affairs of 1 even your most intimate friend. Don't undertake any thing be; cause you don't pos'sess it. .. Don't believe that everybody else is happier than you. ' "J Don't conclude that ydu never had an opportunity in your life. Don't believe all the evils you hear. ' ' : Don'f1 repeat gossip even if it does interest a crowd. ' , , x Don't jeer at any ones religi oua belief. ; T- ! ' Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smtle. Pew care whether you have the earache headache or rheumatism. Learn to attend to your own business a very important point. ' , Do not try to be anything else but a gentleman or, gentle-wo man; and that means one who has consideration for the whole world and whose life is governed by the golden rule: Do unto othera as you would be done by." Christ ian Herald. ; - Did You? n Did you give him a lift, . He Js a brother man. ' And bearing about all the burden ho can. ' : , , . ; Did you give him a . smile, lie ! ,vas downcast tt'nd 'Wtferi--,? And the smile would have helped him to battle it through. ; Did you give him your hand, He was slipping down hill, j . And the world, so I fancied .was . using him ill. r Did you giv0 him a word, . Did you show him the road, ,.; Or did you just let him go J on : with the load, s. Do you know what it means to , lose in a fight, When a lift just in time might set evervthinsr riaht? t Do you know what it means- just a clasp of the hand , When a man was borne about Why the half surpressed sob, all , a'man ought to stand? " -. Did y ou ask him what it was? Why the quivering lip, the scalding tear drip? Were you a brother of his when ' his time came of need? Did you offer to help him, or Did n't you beed? , . ' Selected. For Safety Sake (Springfield Republican.) Sound 6ense dictates that chauf feurs shall wear caps, and' folks who undertake to handle' their own automobiles V ought to do likewise. The ' reason ::- for this can be illustrated by telling how a Wor Chester man comes to be laid up in the Burbank hospital in Fitchburgt He . " was bowling along when tne wind lifted his hat and , he made an instinctive grab as he felt it leave his head. -The quick motion caused him to lose his grip on the automobile, which quickly turned turtle, pin ning; him under the machine. Thus a moment's forgetf ulness of the possibilities which reside in the automobile may lead to seri ous injury or death. It were better to monkey with a buzz-saw than be off " guard .when driving your machine. V - ' W4t.lt.l.lW4lWW.ltWtlllO""','""""""1 : A Big Thought ....iiiiananiia THE LOVL-0F A WOMW . By STEEN VANWYCK The love of a woman is the best thing that can come to a man soul.'. " It is religion in a form suited for universal consumption. It is religion, fortressed in the primal instincts. It makes him loyal, bravetender, and high souled. No man works so well as when he works for a woman's sake. V It is the woman that makes his fighting fine, his work good. Without he struggles as a beast; for her he contends as a knight. His respect for her has more ethical force than his own self respect. ; .' '. - ; ' . - That his love for her is rooted in the flesh need not make him think less of it; for all the high spiritualities rest on the ground they do not float in the air.- : . The lily springs from the muck; the mother of the rose is the black earth. Out of the dark decays of life grow its delicate creations. ' . So the magic wand of True Love touches the fierce potencies of sex, and all the flames of flesh rise into the divinest power dyna mic. - ',. ' It you have found the one woman, cling to her, for better or for worse. Who knows? . Through her eyes you may climb up to God. - ' . How the Towns Register Largest . Towns Fall Short on .Birth Rate for First Qnarter' - J7sy ': Of the" ten towns of the State having 10,000 population or over; Hifeh Point leads in birth " regist ration with a rate of 33 2 Wilmington-following with 30.0. The other towns in order of rank are: Raleigbi 29.8; Greensboro, 254; Winstpn-S&lem, 25.3? Charlotte, 25.1; Rocky Mount, 24.1; .Durham 22 3;; Asheville, 21.1; New Bern, 18; 1. By a comparison of tne above .rates with the average national birth rate which Is 35.1 per 1,000 population, it h readily seen that North Carolina is falling far short in reeisterinsr all her births, else she might as well be framing up a welcome to hold out to foreig ners. If 17.1 represents all the births of New Bern where will she be in another century? Ac cording to her reports made to the State Board of Health her death rate will consume her birth rate in less than a' century. If we didn't know better, we would expect New Bern, accord ing to her own figures', to disap pear from the map within the next generation. " As to the towns reporting best on deaths, perhaps Raleigh leads, wish Asheville as a close second. Then comes " Wilmington and Charlotte." The next to follow are; Rocky Mount, New Bern, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Dur ham and High Point, .-v. It is evident that these towns are not reporting1 all their deaths, but, as a general rule, deaths are more nearly " all . reported than births. It is difficult to tell which way we are going as a State in health matters unless" there be accurate reports of both deaths and births. . I will have anchor Brand ard other grades of Virginia-Carolina Fertilisers during balance of sea son any time you come after it. . R. H. WARD. for the Week A CALL for LABOR The annual cry from the wheat states of the middle west is again with us, calling for harvest hands to help take care of the wheat crops. The prices offered for hands' are from. $2.00 to. $3.00 per day and thousands of men are demanded. It is gratifying 1 n- Lleed to know that wo are to have a good wheat yield, and there should be no trouble in supply ing the labor necessary to garner the crop. From tfie cities and towns one notices the lists of idle laborers, but the trouble is the loafers who hang around the street corners are not the charac ter of men who desire work and hence the demand for labor. The fields without shade have no attraction for the loafer. In cleaning uu the town it might be a good idea to enforce the vagran cy laws, thereby getting rid of the worst kind of Tgerms. You will find them in the small towns as well as larger ones. Information in Regard to Sun day School Minutes. -.Having had a great many in quiries about the minutes of our convention from the various Sunday Schools of the , Union I dfisire to sav that, as secretary of the convention. I prepared the minute of the convention ana mailed the same to the printers at Marshall . The copy for oiy minutes was losUn transmission through the mails., I regret that this i3 true but felt that the Sun day Schools should be informed of the reason that the minutes have not been published. ' The Sunday Schools of this convention need not send in any money to pay for minutes for the comiug year. I have sufficient funds to pay the expense of get ting them out. The convention mrt'N this year at Chappel Hill on JbnJ before theSecond Sun day in August, ;, Respectfully, J. W. CROW, Secretary.!- The Growing of Alfalfa. (By J. R. Sam3.) To The News-Record: I hate received a lot of circu lar letters from Mr. E. 8. Mill- sappa District Agent relative to growing Alfalfa. ' This letter states twelve rules which if continously carried out will insure success in growing this most valuable of all legume crops, knowing the difficulty of successfully growing this crop, I hesitate to send these letters out promisculously; but if any farmers in Madison County de sire to grow this crop and mean to do so, if they will call at my office or drop me a card to Mar shall, N. C, I will gladly mail them a copy, and will also give any other information and aid possible to help start this valua ble crop in this Connty. Now that we have a lot of well bred bulls and cows and heifers brought into the county lately; let every one owning such cat tle resolve that he will prepare to take better care than ever be fore of these cattle. To take a higher stand in the breeding of cattle means to make better provisions for keeping the cattle in the way of shelter and feeding them. A fine animal poorly kept will soon make a poor animal. The Siloe is p.ist the experimental, stage. There should be many Siloes built , in Madison County this year. Sev-. eral will be built; but many oth- av elinnlri he nlflJinftd and built. The Octagonal Siloe is the latest idea and said to be the. cheapest. This form of Siloe is built entire ly of 2x4 scantling without hoops to tighten and loosen at the change of weather and season. My office will be supplied at once with blue prints and furnished to those who desire them. All farmers who desire to get in on the top floor in their farm ncanagement should call at the former's office in the Court House when they come to town, not that the flffent knows it all; but be cause he'.is in touch with men and agencies who can help them, and that is the purpose of this office, which is at your command absolutely free, and placing you under no obligation whatever. Thosa who have gullies On their farms should be;;in at once to eliminate them. Now is a good time to begin, while the corn is getting largo enough to cultivate. Cut bushes from the branch and Creen banks and haul back to the gullies on the hillside and cover them .over. .If you have uo bushes growing along the branch and creek banks, then go to the woods and cut dogwoods, blackgums, scrubby pines and any other undesirable brush and use it in this way, don't delay, every season that ' passes- leaves the gulley deeper and wider and consquently harder to stop. , - Now while the leaves are on, the brush will be more effective. Several farmers : have told me they would clean up : their last gulley this year. There are three Townships in this county that have more gul lies than all the other thirteen put together. ; Now let all get busy who have gullies and get rid of them. It is not a hard thing to do, stopping these gullies and building up their soil lies at the uorw foundation of cood farming. Better cattfe acd other live stock is desirable, back of that lies the question of better corn, better meadows and better pastures, and still back of that lies the question of soil. The same kind ot soil is required for good pasture as for good corn. So let every one get busy in soil improvement. Corn is now about all planted, and the next step is to keep the harrow and cultivator moving rapidly, don't wait for any parti cular period to pass from one . cultivation to another. Go through the crop rapidly and often. Keep u 1 1 l k J i t X is one of the prime factors in large yields of corn. No matter how much plant food there may be in the soil; unless it is dissolved in water, it does the plant no good. Frequent 111 ll A 1 il . snauow cultivation Keeps tne moisture stored during the win ter and spring in the soil and renders the plant food available. Be sure that the cultivation is not deep enough to interf ere with the corn roots. Feet Instead of Fathoms. (Marine Journal.) The United States navy , de' partment having jettisoned the nautical terms . '"starboard" and "port" for 'Tight" and "left" in sterring, the United States coast geodetic survey service ' is. seri ously contemplating further dis regarding former nautical nom enclature by printing the depth of water on coasting charts in feet instead of f anthoms, as here tofore, and to that end is obtain ing the opinion of -navigators pro ' and con as to its practicability. It is natural that changes', of this character should take place, as those engaged in promoting simp ler as well as more efficient means of obtaining satisfactory results in navigation find them to be to advantage. There is little doubt but that after obtaining a consen sus of opinion from navigators of experience there will be but one opinion that everything in con nection with the construction and operation of a ship should be measured in feet and inches as well as on land. Then why not adopt the units of all depts below the surface, the same as all heighs above the sea level? The anti quated fathom (six feet) has out lived its efficient but clumsy use fulness. 1 ' , A In a Bottle Through a iSfrminstheway to enjoy the deli- ciousness of Chero- Cola. This way it is always uniform, pure and wholesome.