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THE OMLY KEYSPAPER Pl'ZUCT IM f.UDISOM COUNTY
VOL. XVII
MARSHALL. MADISON COUNTY- N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 1915.
NO 38
IUECTORY
FIRES III SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES a Trip to Virginia
MADISON COUNTY.
. Established 1 the legislature ses
Ion 1850-51.
Population, 20,132.
County seat, Marshall.
6.'.t leet above sea level.
New and modern court house,- cost
33,000.00.
New and modern jail, cost 115,000.
' New county home, cost 10,000.00.
County OHlcsrs
Hon. J E. Li'neback, Senator, 35th
, District, Elk Park .
Hon. Plato Ebbs, Representative,
Hot Springs. N. C.
W.. A. West. Clerk o Superior
Court Marshall.
Caney Itamsey, Sheriff, Marshall.
, James Smart, Register of Deeds
Marshall. '
O. F. Runnian, Treasurer, Marshall
- N.O, 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, Marslmll.
Dr. Frank Roberts, County Physi
cian, Marshall. v
Garfield Davis. Supt. county home.
Marshall.
County commlMlontri
N. B. McDevitt chairman. Marshall
J. E. Rector, member, Marshall, R.
F. D. No. 1. Anderson. Silver, mem
. ber, Marshall,, Route 3 W. L.
' George, member, Mars Hill. J, ,C.
Chandley, White Rock.
P. A McElroy Co. Atty., Marshall. J
Highway, commllon
F. Shelton, President, Marshall.
G. V. Russell, ' . - Bluff, N, a
A. F.'Snrlnkie. lafs" HW. NJ"3
Board or education.' .
Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring
Creek, N. C. John Robert bams,
mem. Mars Hill, N. C. W R. Sams,
mem. Marshall. Prof. G. C. Brown,
Superintendent of Schools, Marshall.
Board meets first Monday in January.
April, July, and October each year.
Schools andCollaS'
Mara Hill : College, Prof. R. L.
Moore. President. 412 students. Ses
sion 1915-16, nine months, begins
' August 17th, 1915.,
Spring Creek High School. Prof,
&. tw Pleasants, Principal, Spring
Creek. 8 mos school, opens Aug. 1st
Madison Seminary High School,
Prof. K. G.Anders.D rinolpal.- d mos.
school.; Begins July 28
Bell Institute. Margaret E. Grif
llth, principal, Walnut, N. .
Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland
Williams, principal 8 mos. school.
Opens August 31,
Many Educational Institutions are "Built to Burn" Says Insur
ance Engineering. Some Examples In This State.
No one would think for one minute
(hat schools and colleges in this coun
try are built to burn, but, according
to Insurance Engineering, a most val
ued publication, and, Indeed, accord
ing to recent investigations right here
In North Carolina, great numbers ot
the school buildings are so faulty in
design (and many ot them in the care
that is given them) that they might
as well be "built to burn" so far as
actual result are concerned. Insu
rance Engineering finds that out of
271 typical fires in a given period of
fires the average fire loss per lira
was 25,000 and the aggregate loss f
school property 13.000.000.
A striking Illustration of the North
Carolina situation is that ofMufrhy
School building (Raleigh), which had
two fires within a year and was found
to be co designed that the heating
plant was actually right under the
main stairway that extended through Una.
EXECUTIVE DEPAKTMENT
STATTC f)T? WrVRTTT r!AT?fJT.TWA
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Marshall, N. C.
: ; ; ' Sept. 20th, 1915
There being' a good many of
our Western North Carolina peo-
the two ttoriee of the building in uca Pie who have gone from this part
way that a fire starting from the fur of the state to that part of Vir
nace would leap tight np through the ginla, which we visited from the
r'l'MJLrK 13' t0 th IV f September, we
and greatest means of cutting off the tnaht they might possibly be
escape of children and teachers. There Interested in a little write up of
are others Just like it In many parts of our trjp We found Virginia a
the state, most likely, : .. " .
iivffi iu.u, xsmvuu avyi i , t ,
ment of Insurance Is cooperating with P18ce wnlC would naturally at
the State Department of Education in tract the eye of any one. The
efforts to bring aut definite adopUporti;,,, state wLch
iuu VI vavoiwi mux w a i AVtV, UUW
firm have for sale. We passed
all through these farms in the
machine with perfect ease, so one
may easily draw from this as to
1a. - . m - .
i wi oi iue lour leggea nog and his
mate and little pigs. In their .
hog lie about all they have to
live for is what they sret to eat.
A Proclamation by the Governor
we
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buildings, these to be provided vianea was a nine west of the
through the construction of the fire-1 central part of the state. They
XtWtZTurr We there cal
the stairs that usually go un throuh tbe ,ow nd hih lands. The low
the center of the bulilding. The De-j lands are the lands bordering on
partment or Education taaing noifl tha rivora nA Bmoll0-
nf thi. matter, and It Is not llk.lr Ui , . "
' I n n .si x 3 . J . .
minT aore "built to burn" school- uu nuorua jfoou grazing, lor
houses will be erected In North Car large herds of cattle and horses,
t i .
a mi l i i a
mere arp nunareas or acres of
this almost level land and occa
sionally during wet seasons it
, i w v v a uu no, V "J iiuq OU1I 19 fill VCl
rich and the grass grows so rapid
iy, mac iDe stocK drift bacH on
The General Assembly of nineteen hundred and fifteen hnd wbich oxerflowa im.
ixiueiiueu lue mauraiice laws w xxorui v,urouua, nuu, among mediately after the rains and
uuier mmgs, enaciea:
streams subside and find plenty
of grazing. The high lands which
we! people here in this 'country
would call low, lay just back of
the low lands, and is rolling and
drains well. This was the most
attractive land we saw. It was a
heavy red clay soil, and appear
ed to respond well to the differ
lint 'methods of soil improve
ment.' ;'-."'".' '
The high land was well suited
for, the us-3 of almost any kind of
farming machinery. ' There is
very little of it that is any worse
to get over with machinery than
what we call our bottom lands
here. They grow practically all
of the leading crops of our coun-
Now, Therefore, I, LOCKE CRAIG, Governor of North try; consisting of tobacco, wheat
Carolina, in accordance with this statute, do issue this my corn, oats, rye, buckwheat, and
IrKUOLAMATION, and I do set aside and designate cotton, together with a good va
o j xt. j intr riety of grasses. We saw a field
w,buiuy, buo oiu uy U4 vuiooer, Axa, u u, nf noor nhaoo Vo
Trliia PfotroTi f4 rn Hfli I J :
.w -4v.wv that was being mowed the. fifth
and do urge all the people to a proper observance of this day time this season, during our visit
in obedience to the law of North Carolina. I urge the public t0 this place, and was yielding an
scnools or the State and the municipal officers thereof to give aouDdantjcrop,
proper and formal recognition the day and its meaning, and Our first stop was at Paces,
request the citizens generally to give snecial attention on that Va 257 miles from Asheville
day to the condition of their premises, to the end that the waste an1 18 mi,es DOrth east of Dan-
and loss Ot DroDertv and lif e bv fire rrmv h in thin "e, va. Here weioundMr. U,
"It shall be the duty of the Insurance Commissioner
and Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide .
as far as practicable for the teaching of 'Fire Pre-,
vention' in the colleges and schools of the State, and,
if the way be open, to arrange for a text-book adapted
to such use.r Also by adding to said section as section
four thousand seven hundred; and twenty-one '(b) the
following: 'The ninth day of . October of each and t.
Prevention Day, and the Governor shall issue a procla
mation urging the people to a proper observance of
the said day, and the Insurance Commissioner shall
bring the day and is observance to the attention of the
officials of the municipalities of the State, and
especially to the firemen, and, where possible, arrange
suitable programs to be followed in its observance. "
State.
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NotaryPublloa.,1
J. C. Ramsey,; Marshall, Term
plres Jauuary 6th, 1918.'
Jasper Ebbs, Spring -Creek, n.
Term expires January 6th. 1915.
J H Hunter, Marshall, Route
Term etplrea April 1st; 1915, ,
J-"W Nelson, Marshall Term
sires May 11, 1915 v y
i T B Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex
pires February ,4th 1915. ,
Craig Ramsey, Revere, Term ex
pires March 19, 1915,
N. W. i 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. Gahagan, Stackhouse, N.
C' Term expires Dec 20, 1915. '
J. E. Tilson, Marshall, Route 2.
Term expires Nov. 14thl915.
' a J. Ebbs, Marshall. Term ex
pires April 25th, 1917.
. D. M. Harshburger, Stackhouse,
Term expires January 16th, 1916.
D. P. Miles, Barnard. Term expires
December, 23, 1916.
W. B. Ramsey, Marsaall. Term
expires Oct. 4th 1915.
J, A. Wallin', Bljr Laurel. Term
expires Aug. 8th, 1916. -
, C. C. Brown, Bluff: Term expire
January 9th 1917.
G. Tillery and family, formerly
of Mars Hill, N. C. They were
very much pleased with the coun
try and flwere doing well. Mr.
Tillery had just recently bought
a farm of 192 acres of , the high
lands. We had the pleasure of
The loss by fire amounts approximately to three million
aonars a year in JNorth Carolina. A large per cent of this losf
is unnecessary kana can oe prevented, iiuman lire, too, is
needlessly sacrificed. .
We should remedy the conditions that entail this enormous
expense and loss anfferpd. nnt. nnfir hv fhnso whnsA nmnorfv
and lives are destroyed, but by all citizens in the high rates of ?rivin Practically allovei; this
insurance caused bv xmorv firaa Th a nrAVAntinrt nf thn lra 01 ,ana' ana I0OKea as
Tieolloaa Aaaiinx t t it,- t v Tillery had just cause for
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life is a dntv MtiA k r, T.mnr,? reeling well pieasea wlto bis lo
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. tawuui vuiius vui auojr av iUJt
rTt . s i xiiiKiya wo viaibcu a laiiu ui oi.i
Pone at our. City of Baleigh, this the acres, belonging to Dr. Wilsop,
sixteenth day. of September, in the year of I who is a Presbyterian minister.
our-Lord one thousand nine hundred and Mr. Wilson, was engaged in sow
fifteen, and in the one hundredth and forti- ing a 25 acre field in grass; when
eth vear of our American Independence, we reached his place. Mr. Wil-
son, we found to be a very court
eous man, and took pleasure in
i
I showing us his good farm and
beautiful home
On taking our departure from
Mr. Tillerys, we beaded for Chase
City, Va., a distance of 67 miles.
Here we formed the acquaintance
with Mr. Jefferys, a real estate
man, and one of the firm of Jet
fervs. Hester & Company. Mr.
Jefferys we learned was a mem
Masons,
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By the Governor:
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Governor.
Private Secretary.
Schools. May Bar Children
Common colds are contagious and
boards of health in many cities are
considering barring children wlth
colds from schools. Foley's Honey
and Tar is an old and reliable family
medicine nnd . frees cl ildren from
coughs, colds, croup and whooping
couh. Parents may save trouble by
giving before school opens. Sold
Everywhere . j
His Rest was Broken
O. D. WJlght, Rosemont. Neb.,
r.rit.i8i .Lw" "fvSFR ber of the fraternity of
rest was broken by frequent action I and posessed many friends in and
of my kidneys. I was advised by my Lroun(j njs home town. Through
""J7!! Slg"f his courtesy we were given an
of me. "They relieve rheumatism and automobile ride over two fine
backache. Sold Everywhere. farms among the many that his
the smoothness of the land. The But this much they are all sup-
farms are mostly all too large for posed to enjoy in common. It
one man to try to cultivate alone would be unusual for the head of
The larger part of the farms the hog family to enjoy alone the
range in size from two or three food that he is supposed to share
hundred acres to three thousand with his family. Tike the news
acres to the farm. The land is paper human hog. His life is
from fifteen to thirty five or for broader and more worth while,
ty dollars an acre, according to His wife and children are suppos
the improvements. The large ed to share with him all the
farms are being rapidly bought blessings and equipment of Ufa
and made in to smaller farms Now let's examine his habits and
which it seems will soon . make see what he does. His neighbor
Virginia a much more desirable I takes the best newspaper he can
place in wbich to live. buy and this hog does not. But
AHhe close of the, civil war it he borrow liis nehyhhor' .n
seems as if this land was owned reads it during the day. His
by wealthy men who used color- family never seesjt but to fool
ed labor in doing all their work, them into believing he is not un
consequently the boys and girls mindful of them he subscribes for
of these men were not trained to a few of tbe boniest, cheapest
work. They drifted te the towns and most uninteresting . papers
and cities and as the labor pro- that he can find, papers publish
blem is not to easy at the present ed thousands of miles away and
time and the older people not be- of no earthly local interest, and
ing able to look after and manage passes them out to his family to
their farms, they desire to sell appease them so that thpv m
out and join their children in the openly rebel and charge an unfair
towns. deal. Either thi nr.
We regret very much on ac- acribes for no paper at all for hi
count of limited time that we family. Just for this T hA i.
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were unable to get to see more of meaner than tbe fourlejrired hno-
the people from our section who Now, newspaper hoir. don't in.
we learned were there, that welterpret this as a kick from th
would have been more than glad paper. All reputable naoera
to see. We were near Mr. Hun-hae managed to exist thus far
ters school, at Chase City but did without your subscriotion anil
not have time to call round to see they will be act to find soma
him- . . , V - .
... . r- . nb---&. .w, iniiiuauu
Not desiring toworry. the pati- effort to present to you rt)hto.
enee of the editor or his many graph of yourself and show von
readers we will bring this to a to vourself in thn. nrnnor KrrKf
while you are on earth, because it
makes no difference where you
go after you leave this earth we
believe the spongers are going to
have them a place all their own
and reporters will not be admit
ted to give the outsiders any idea
of the horrors going on in your
little circle. The man in charee
The Mirrow Held up to woull not care ,0 lefc becom
close.
Veiy respectfully yours,
W. B. & J. T. ROBERTS
Newspaper
Borrower.
Him That
Himself
see
He May see
as Others
Him
m any way a contributer to some
thing you didn't contribute to on
earth. Statesville Landmark.
FOR SALE: Deep red, Short
Horn Milch Cow. about 5 vears
mere is one species of the nu bid, gives about three gallons of
mai bog who has not been given milk per bay, sound and in good
the attention he deserves. The condition, will sell on time or for
attention of every newspaper
writer should be directed espe
cially to him. This particular now
is the man who reads the other
fellow's paper with more or less
regularity. He may be . found
frequently in tbe small postoffices
abet the country, either post
master or clerk, along the rural
or star routes as carrier, but he
is found most abundantly in the
smaller towns. . Ha thrives bet
ter in the small towns because of
natural laws. . Business is not all
during the day and he has time
to stroll out and borrow his neigh
bor's paper and read As the
town grows and business becom
es more strenuots be doesnt
have time during the day to read
and he is forced to either get
along without reading- or sub
scribe for the paper that he may
have it to read at home at night
after his days work. The four-
legged hog is crowded out of the
small town as it grows into a city
by health legislation. The news
paper hog thrives until his busi
ness grown so as to demand all
of his time during the ; day. and
then it is subscribe hog. or do
without the paper. -
This newspaper hog is smarter,
of course, than the four legged
brother, but I really believe be is
meaner. Let's examine the hab
cash. (ieo. M. Pritchard.
To become a uni
versal favorite.
Chero-Cola had to be
ihe perfect drink that
it is. Take yours from
the original bottle
throu'ia a straw.; Ycu
will enjoy it3 uniform.
flavor and the ccruinfj
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