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VOL. XVII : MARSHALL. MADISON COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 11th. 1915 NO 24.
DIRECTORY
MADISON COUNTY.
Established I y the legislature ses
, Ion 1850-51.
Population, 20,132.
County seat, Marshall.
J6ub feet -above sea level.
' Nbw and modern court house, cost
33,000.00.
New and modern jail, cost 115,000.
New county home, cost 110,000.00.
County Officers.
Hon.J E. Llneback, Senator, 35th
DIstrlot, Elk Park
Hon. Plato Ebbs, Eepresentatlvn,
Hot Springs. N. '
W. A., West. Clerk o . Superior
Court. Marshall. ' ....
Caney Ramsey, Sheriff, Marshall.
" James Smart, Register of Deeds
Marshall.
C. F."jRunnion, Treasurer, Marshall
N.C , R.F. D. No. 4.
( A. T. Chandley, Surveyor, Marshall
N.C.
Dr. J. H. Balrd, Coroner, Mars Hill
N. C. ' :
W. J. Balding, Janitor, Marshall.
Dr. Frank Roberts, County Physi
cian, Marshall. ' . -Garfield
Davip. Supt county home.
Marshall. '
Courts ss Fotlowtt
September 1st, 1915 (2) November
10th. 1915. (2)
March 2nd. 1015. (2).- June 1st, 1915
(2). Sept. lib. 1915, 2. -.
J. Ed. Swain, Solicitor, Asheville
N.C. 1915, Fall Term Judge Frank
Carter. Asheville.
inu.Snrlnir Term Judee M. H,
Justice, Rutherfordton, N. C.
Fall Term Judge E. B. Cllne, of
Hickory, N. C. '
County commMlonr
- N. B. McDevltt chaiiman. Marshall
J. E. Rector, member, Marshall, E.
F. D. No. 1. Anderson.'Silver, mem'
for. Marshall.. Eoute 3 W. L
fjp.nrcrfi. member. Mars Bill.; J, C
. ChandiejWhlte Pocki ,
P. A" McElroy Co- Atty.; Marshall,
Highway commission
F; Shelton, President, Marshall.
d. V. Russell, Bluff, N, C.
A. F. Sprinkle, C Mars Hill, N. C.
Board, of Education
Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring
Creek. N. C. John Robert Sams,
mem. Mars Hip, N. C. W R. Sams,
mem. Marshall. Prof. R. G. Anders,
Superintendent of Schools, Marshall.
Board meets first Monday in January,
April, July, and October each year.
School andCollttB.
Mars Hill College, Prof. R. L
Moore, President. FallTerm begins
August 17th, 1913, and Spring Term
begins January 2nd 1914.
Spring Creek High bchooi
, Prof
ti. Pleasants, Principal, spring
Prank. 8 mos school, opens Aug. 1st
Madison Seminary High 1 School,
Pmf. O. O. Brown, principal. 7 mos.
school. -, ' -
Bell Institute. Margaret E. Grif
nth, principal, Walnut, N- .
Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland
"Williams, principal 8 mos. school.
Opens August 31, t
' Notary fuollo. ;
J. C. Eamsey, Marshall, Term ex
pires Jauuary qth,. 1918. ' -v
Jasper Ebbs, Spring 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
Bires May 11, 1915
T B Ebbs, Hot Springs-Term ex
pires February 4th 1915.
Cralir Ramsev. Eeyere, Term ex
pires March 19, 1915,
N. W. .Anderson, ; Paint Fork,
Term expires May 19, 1915. ,
W. T. Davis, Hot Springs, term
expires January 22nd 1915.
Steve Elce, Marshall. Term ex
. pires Dec 19th. 1915.
Ben W. Gahagan, Stackhouse, N.
C. Term expires Dec. 20, 1915. '
J. F. Tilson, Marshall, Route 2.
Term expires Nov. 14thl915. .
C. J. Ebbs, Marshall. Term ex
pires April 25th, 1915. . ; - f
D. M. narshburger, Stackhouse,
Term expires January 16th, 1916.
D. P. IMlles, Barnard. Term expires
December, 23, 1916. ' "
W. B. F.amsey, Marsaall. Term
expires Oct. 4th 1915. 4 ( '
J, A. Wallln, El Laurel. Term
expires Aug. 8th, 1916.
a a Brown, Bluff: Term expire
7 rjrjfith IMl
Raise More Grass
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In addition to the other good
work'-which we are trying to have
done in Madison along the lines
of better tarming, at this time, we
bm sto 1 1 i r aff onflnM ' aonailnllv
of farmers who are raising cattle
to the improvements of meadows
and pastures, more ana oetter
i 1 1 1
irrftsa mn.n more and better cat-
tie. and more and better cattle
money: but it means better mpney
because thera will be more of it
We want at least fifty farmers,
and the more the better.' to aeree
to take one or more acres of trood
land and do their VERY LEVEL
BEST to see how much grass
can be produced upon it. This
is not so mucn a contest one
against another, as every man
against his own previous efforts,
There was a Race . Horse once
in Kentucky that outstripped all
other horses on the track, so
there was no rival, and his own
er had to run the Horse at the
next Fair against his own record
This was a race Royal. And this
is what ve mean, the 'man who
has beaten evervbodv else mak -
ing grass, 4 must now beat his
own record.
I have iust mailed out 60 eras?
letters asking as many men to
form a Grass Club and am"- grati-
fied at the entttusiam shown by
our best farmers. Grass lies at
the foundation of nrocrress : and
good times in Madison. . V
The tim for a cireat movement
uVsUJjnPMtur
ahead. As soon as crops are
finished let every farmer start
his bush and briar sevthe and
slay the bushes, briars and weeds I
in the pasture and place them on
galls and ' gullies. One farmer
already told me that he had spent
several wet days in cutting bush
es along Ithe Creek bank - and
hauling them back and packing
them in gullies and galls. Now
let us' all get busy and stay busy
and make the two proverbial
blades of grass grow where but
one has been growing.
Respectfully,
J. R. SAMS,
County Agent,
Marshall, N. C. June 7., 1915.
. Letter to J. R. Sams
v Big Laurel, N. C.
June, 5,-1915.
Mr. J. R. Sams,
County Agent,
Marshall, N. C.
Dear Brother Sams:
Your letter of even date with
this, relative to raising better
grass and pastures, to hand, and
I am right by your side.
f fViot. a for
the improvement, of Madison
County farming; you may con
sider me one of the "bunch.''
I will try my best to make a
prize acre of the best hay pos
sible.
I appreciate very much the
work you are doing in Madison
County; and am certain that this
work will accomplish' a great
deal of good for the eounty.
It pains me to see so much land
going to waste when, if nature
was allowed to do so, or aided
just a little, would reclaim tne
waste places. '
With best wishes, I am
vnnr
rother in the work.
' T. M. WALLIN.
Encouraging Words
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as to Apple Tree
ay Appear Again in
Another Generation Says
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nursery ian.
la conservation with a reporter
yesterday J. J. Reagan of the
Hamburk nurseries said that
fruit growers of this section
ought not to be too much (lis
couraged on account of the 'fire
blight which has attacked apple
i neBs; uim wuub iue trup migui
be almost destroyed this year, the
blight might not be seen again in
another generation. He declared
that it last appeared about forty
years ago
Referring to it as a sap disease
Mr. Reagan said that conditions
had been unusually favorable to
its appearance this season, which
has been so cool and wet. He said
1 also that it is not necessary to
cut . off the affected parts of the
trees, thohgh this might well be
done if anybody had the time to
do it
Mr. Reagan made the interest
ing statement that he believed
the Delicious variety is a blight
resister this is one of the - most
4p o pn.lt r varities in Western
North Carolina. V He said he had
affectedl
I lie also is persuaaea man we
trees in the higher altitudes have
suffered less than in the low
lands!
To be no Locusts
in This Part of
County.
Have Already Arrived
in I
Buncombe and in Other
Nearby Counties.
(Gazette-News)'
Those people who have been
dreading the coming of the lo
leusts this year may - breathe
Aaoir ' I llf orrlara . iart ara rhoir
I will not be here; and that if they
had been coming they would have
arrived before this.
As a matter of fact they have I
come to some parts of western
North Carolina, just as the gov
ernment experts said they would,
DUt they do not visit all paris ot
the country at the same time, as
some believe. There are locusts
M""1""" 7 .
while part of the town is free of
them. . They are also reported as
far this way as Pairview.
Those who .knows says that
there is never any uncertainty
about when locusts come, that on 1
the year of their advent the farm
ers plow them up in the early
spring.
To Sleep Well In Summer
Slight inflammation of the bronchial
tubes causes a distressing cough and
makes sleep impossible. Foley's Hon-
ey and Tar Compound stops that an-
Inovtnc ticklinir and relieves the rack-
ing, tiring oougn. uooa ior mi oougns
colds, oroup ana bronchial aneouona, I
-Dr. I. E. Burnett. Mars Eill. N. O-
HORTICULTURE
I
Report of Fruit Prospects
For North Carolina for
Season 1915. .
At blossom j time tnere was
i . . . ...
every indication for a normal
crop of apples this season of the
varities which did 'not bear full
crops last season and which do
not tend to alternate but at the
present date there will only be
about 40 per cent of a normal
crop according to the average of
the estimates of onr crop report-
era throughout the State. The
cause of the shortness of this
year s crop is due to almost en
tirely to the ravages of pear or
bloS3()m hignt(
a bacterial di
sease which destroyes the bios
soms, young fruit and
growth of both apple and
young
pears,
The mountain counties report
some early damage from hail
storms and wind.
The pear crop will be short
this year due mainly to the seve
rity or the blight. The average
of the reports shows that pears
will produce 47 per cent of the
full crop. ' " ' ,
Peaches and grapes are expect-
ed to produce almost a normal
crop in all sections ' of the state
except in the sand hills whe re
there was a heavy drop.
Owing to the different condi-
tlons which influence the fruit
crop in the different sections oi
the State it was considered ad-
visab'e to group the reports und-
erJfpW divisions:-'
Mountain Section
Apples 35 percent of full crop.
Pears 43 percent of full crop,
Peaches-70 percent of full crop,
Grapes 80 percent of full crop,
Plmnnf Cartinn
Apples 48 percent of full crop.
Pears 55 percent or iuji crop.
Peaches-80 percent of full crop.
Grapes-82 percent of full crop.
Coastal Section
Apples-59 percent of full crop.
Pears-83 percent of full crop.
Peaches-71 parcent of full crop.
Grapes-82 percent of full crop.
Sand Hill Section
Apples 60 percent of full crop.
Pears 46 percent of full crop.
Peaches-65 percent of full crop.
Grapes 90 percent of full crop.
1 he Merchant and
the Community
The small town merchant Is a
necessity, and that which is ne
cessary, should be protected. The
community needs his wares as
much as he needs the community
cash. -
But not every small town mer-
chant is alive to his opportune
ties and his obligations.
Many of them fall by the way- j
side because of their ignorance of
or indifference to the , rights of
the public. '
Fifty years ago the town mer-
chant sat in his store and waited
for business to come to him.
Today the successful merchant
is a hunter he must go out gun- '
ning for customers and his am-
munition is bis stock in trade and
his gun is the local newspaper.
Country " people of today are
as intelligent
and up-to-date as
their city cousins, and they guage
Lu.
. . nusllerif he keeps
. ,
his Store Clean, nis goous newjr ,
displayed, his advertisement run
I nmor pAirnlarlv in thA lnnal nanpr
he attracts the public eye, and
the public follows its eye.
But a clean store, neatly dis
played goods and newspaper ad
vertising are not the only requisi
tes to a successful merchantile
career.
The country merchant should
not bank too much on .the fact
that he is a necessity.
He should be progressive-
constantly bidding for trade de-
vising means of
bettering the
condition of the consumers, and
acquainting them of the fact
He should consider their welfare,
as well as his own
The merchant should have one
iron creed, and that creed
should never be broken
He should treat all custom
ers alike, never misrepresent his
roods, and keep his shelves wel
stocked with truth.
He should be considerate of
other business men in the com
m unity, tor tneir ngnts areas
great as bis own. They do not
own the town, and neither does
he. ... .i
He should join wholeheartedly
in movements for building up
and expanding the business in
terests of the community, for
success is only found on the top
most rounds of the ladder.
The merchant who has built
up a reputation as a public spirit
ed man, as one who labors for the
well being of the whole communi
ty, never lacks for customers at
his store
The migrate toward his door as
naturally as the .birds fly south
in winter.
Such merchants gain the ' con-
Ifidence of the people, for the
people, know that the same in
telligence and fair mindedness
which he exerts in behalf of the
community will be "extended to
his customers in commercial
jjje
Most countrv towna have a few
such merchants in their midst.
and the community is the better
off for their presence.
I You invariably find their ad-
vertisements in the local papers,
telHng of the merits of the wares
fchev have to sel, and vina the
e0D,e that information to which
r a.
they are clearly intitled.
Such business men are success
ful, because their methods of
business and their very attitudes
breathe saccess
They have many customers,
because the people admire a hust
ler. This town is located in a splen
did community, and it should
have a bright future ahead of
it ' , '
Rut it depends upon us alone.
We have some good business
men in town.
They ' are well supplied with
brains, and those brains are cap
able of accomplishing great r
guits.
Individually they can do much,
but collectively they can revolu
tionize trading conditions of this
community.
The money that is daily being
sent a vay foe goods : might just
as well be spent at our local
stores and would be, if the mer
chants arose to the opportunities
before them.
it is the easiest thing in the
world to keep the money at
home, for consumers are not
fools.
ju?t keep the goods the people
0fc nj nf nA nijtv the
.
oe" kuuso BWUB war
- in nf nrnfifc. fhArphtr rr.mnot.5no-
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in quality and price with the out
sider. Then advertise persistently
keep the home- goods constantly
in the mind of the consumer
awaken him to the fact that it is
as much to his interest as to
yours to keep his money in cir
culation at home.
When you CONVINCE the
consumer that you HAVE the
goods that he wants, and that
they can be purchased here JUST
AS CHEAPLY as elsewhere, he
will keep his money at home BY
TRADING AT HOME.
The people WANT a live' com
munity, and are willing to SUP
PORT live businessSmen.
Who is in the LIVE CLASS?
Speak up, gentlemen SPEAK
UP!
Dont fail to List Yonr Poll Taxes
This is the year that every citi
zen should list his taxes if he has
failed in the past to do so. The
man who willfully neglects this
important duty of citizenship ia a
criminal and should be dealt with
accordingly. Just what I want
to call attention to now is that
next year is election year and,
since it is decreed that - you must
have paid your poll tax before
you can vote it is very necessary
that your name be on the tax
list.
In 1916 we will again face a
national election and the most
important one, for many years,
and every man should have
enough interest to want to vote
and for these reasons we urge the
voters of this county o see" that'
all names are placed upon the
scrolls in order that they may be
ready for the diacharge of a most
sacred duty.
The town officials expect to
start work about the 15th of the
month for the completion of the
Side Walk on the South side of
Main Street leading from the
Club House to the Depot We
understand the new Side Walk
is to be paved and put in first
class condition as early as pos
sible. This is a much needed im
provement and will add much to
the appearance of the street (
R. M. Gahagan of Allenstand
was in town this week.
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