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THE ONLY NEWSPAPER POLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY
VOL. XVII-
MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29th, 1915.
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DIRECTORY
MADISON O UNTY,
Established I y the legislature ses
tod 1850-51. ' ';. 7
Population, 20,132. ' -. 1 ' . ,
' Comity seat, Marshall. ;
letiijeet above sea level. ' '
New and modern court' house, cost
33,000.00. ' '' , -
New and modern jail, cost $15,000.
New county home,' cost 110,000.00.
! ' , Conaty Olfictrs ' --
Hon! J E. Llneback. Senator, 35th
' 1 District, Elk Park
Hon." Plato Ebbs, Representative,
Hot Springs. Nr C. ;:. ...
W. A. West. Clerk o Superior
Court Marshall. , .. , i '
Caney Ramsey,' Sheriff, Marshall.
.Tamp. Siniirt Register , of Deeds
, Marshall.
C. F. Runnlon, Treasurer, Marshall
N.C . R. F. D. No.
A. T. Chandl ey, Surveyor, Marshall
- Dp. J. HL Ualrd. Coroner, Mart Hill
; ; W. j. Balding, Janitor, Marshall
. Dr Frank Roberts, County OPhysi
; clan. Marshall. '
Garfield Davis. Supt.' county home.
Marshall. -'County
ctmnillonr
- N. B. McDe vitt chali man. Marshall
T- H! " -Rnntnr. mmber. Marshall, B.
F. D. No.1. Anderson. Silver, mem
, hr. Marshall.. BOute 3 W. L,
" Georire. member, Mars Hill. J,, C.
handle v. White Rock. '
P. A MoElrovXIO. Atty., Marshall
Htgihway cdmmllon;
F. Shelton, President, Marshall. ;
A V. Snrfnkle Mars Hill, N. a
Board ot Education.
JasDer Ebbs, Chairman, , Spring
Creek. N. C. John Robert Sams.
. mem. Mars Hill, N. C. VT R. Sams,
mnm. Marshall. Prot. G. C. Brown,
Superintendent ot Schools, Marshall,
Board meets 'first Monday in January
April, July, and October eaoh year.
' School ndCollg .
Mars Hill, College, Prof R. L.
Moore,! President. " 412 students. Ses
- iOn 1915-16. nine months, begins
August 17th, 1915.
" k Sprinfir Creek High School. Prof
Si., u. Pleasants, Principal, , Spring
Creek'. f 8 mos" scliool, opens Aug. 1st
Madison Seminary High. School,
Prof. K. G.!Anders,p tlncipat. 3 mos.
achooL ' ' Begins . July
. it-'' instituted -MarMret E. Grlf
flthJ principal, Walnut, N. . '
Mirnhall Academy. " Prof. S. Roland
Williams, principal 8 mos. school'.
Opens August 31, I U '
Notary Putllcr '.
j. C. Ramsey, Marshall, terra
ex
plres Jauuary 6th, 1916. .
Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek. N. o
Term expires January 6th ,1915. --
J ;'jH Hunter, Marshall, Route . 3,
Term expires April. 1st J' 1915, : ,
j. W. Nelson, Marshall Term ex
sires May 11, 1915
T B" Ebbs, Hot- Springs Term ex
' plres February 4th: 1915. ;r v i
f!ralflr Ramsev. Revere.f Term ; ex
pires March 19, 1915, . "
N. W. Anderson, v Paint-; Fork,
Term expires May 19,1916. ,
W. T. Davis, Hot Springs, term
expires January 22nd 1915.
Steve Rice", Marshall. -Term ex
pires Dec. 19th. 1915. v ,' ' :
Ben W. Gahagan, StackhOuse,: N.
C. Term expires ,Dec. 20, lSlo. ;
: J. F. Tilson, Marshall, Route t
Term expires Nov. 14thl915. .
C. J." Ebbs,' Marshall. Term ex
j'res April 25th,19p. ; ' t '
Ja-vM. Harshburge'r, Stackhouse,
Tfci a spires January 16th, 1916.
D. r. " lles,- Barnard. Term expires
December, 23, 1916. ; - '
W. B. Ramsey, Marsaall. Term
expires Oct. 4th 1015.
J, A..V . '::n, Big Laurel. Term
expires 1016. . ' '
C. a Jiown, r.!uS: Term expire
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Items From Spring
treek and Mea
dow Fork.
A teachers' 'meeting was .held
at the Spring Creek High Schoo
butldine on October, the fifteenth
The meeting - was conducted by
our worthy and Honorable Conn
ty Superintendent, , Prof. G, G
Brown. . All who .were present
greatly enjoyed the meeting.
Revv P. T. McAfee began
series of meeting at the Baptist
Church at Bluff, last Sunday
We truly hope that great and
lasting good will be accomplish
' Messrs. Burleson and Balding
of Joe are doing , splendid schoo
work this year. ; They are idea
teachers, and are much liked in
the community where they are
teaching- '
The teachers, at muff . and
Lynch, find their, work a greater
pleasure, this year, since , they
have' had thir school houses sup
plied with new furniture. ' Name
ly; Stoves, black-boards, teach
era' and students' desks, library
book case, water cooler and indi
vidual drinking cups. .
' The school at Lynch is so large
that it calls for a new addition to
the houre, therefore the teacher
has plaPDed for an entertainment
and box supper for the purpose
of securining money r" to aid in
bail ding a new room. All . are
cordially invited to' come Satur
day, November the sixth.
A party of young people from
Spring Creek and Meadow Fork
enjoyed a day's outing on the big
Bluff Mountain last Saturday.
The view of Tennessee and the
seenery of the.' hills and valleys
of the dear old North State were
perfectly grand. ' : v
Mr. Newton Lusk is very ill
with Pneumonia at the present;
but it is hoped that he will soon
recover. . -: . . - . ' '.
The school house at Highland
was accidently burned some days
ago.' .Nothing was saved except
the windows and benches." We
are informed that their teacher,
Miss McAfee, will not'; teach
there any . more this ; year, but
that the school fund will be kept
to build another school house.
Bluff School enrolled forty nine
for. the third month and averaged
forty six and one half. This cer
tainly speaks well for a communi
ty. '
. , BLUFF HONOR ROLL
' ' v. Seventh Grade
Ted Russell; Mabel Lusk and
Wiley Brown. ; ,
.'Sixth Grade . ,
Frank Brown. ' .
Fifth Grade- ,
Maud Davis, Inez Davis, ' Mar
garet) Russell, . and Howard
Iolt. - '
I' Third Grade
Nelda Lusk, Mildred Bryght,
Mary Bryght,.: Lyda, Henderson,
Dullissie Davis, Nannie Holt,
Eddie Thomas and -Bonie Lusk.
. Second Grade
PJjil . Brown, Craig Russell,
Edith - Lusk, Emma Holt, and
Ralph Finley.
First Grade
Francis Holt, Zeldav Brown,
? Fin!?y, and Lizzie Bryght.
"TWIN I3TLr.3."
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS
During the years 1913, '14 and
'15, North Carolina constructed
nearly twice as many miles of
improved highways as in all' the
preceding years of her history.
On the first of January 1913, she
had constructed 5,474 miles of
i m proved highways. , She now
has 13,021 of improved highways.
In addition to this a large per
cent of the roads built prior to
1913 have since that, time been
rebuilt and resurfaced,
There are forty-eight thousand
miles of roads in the State. A
large per cent of these have been
graded but hot surfaced so as to
make, an improved highway. , On
the 5th and the 6th of November
1013, (good roads days,) work
was done by the people of North
Carolina without compensation
to the value of $49,713, accord
ing to reports sent to Dr. Pratt.
It is probable that work was done
that was not ' reported. There
are now magnificent highways
from one end of the State to the
other. Three of these cross the
Blue Ridge mountains. The poo
pie of the east can travel in auto
mobiles on splendid roads from
the Atlantic ocean to beyond the
Bice Ridge. ,
"Where distant peaks of old
Craggy,
Loom grander far than any
sea.
During the past three years,
North Carolina has spent in road
devclopment'ln the neighborhood
of: fifteen- .million dollars. This
is not an expense. It is an in
vestment that pays a dividend
of one hundred per cent every
year, it was unavoidable mat
all of this money was not spent to
the best advantage, We did the
best that we could. The legis-
ature of liJ15 created a highway
commission, and this will insure
hereafter a more intelligent and
a more efficient expenditure or
the-peoples money in, road sur
vey and construction.- "
Nothing Is contributing more
toward the prosperity and the
happiness and the social advance
ment ol our country than improv
ed roads. If we would utilize
the instrumentalities of modern
civilization we must have good
roads. No " community can af-
YOUR
Planters Warehouse, Danville,
- As most of you know I do my own auctioneering and more I
can get for you, more it pays me. I don't trust it to no one,
I look after your Tobacco- myself and see that you get the.
Market price for every pile. I want to thank you for past
favors. So -ship me your Tobacco, and I will work for
you. .
Will Allow
ford to be without them. If any
county or any community by a
short-sighted parsimonious poli
cy fail to improve its roads, that
community denies to itself the
opportunities of modern life.
When the good road comes to a
community, better schools are
established, better churches built.
A community life Is created. The
land becomes more fertile; homes
are improved and beautified.
They ars not only worth many
times their cost in money, but
their moral and educational ad
vantages are inestimable. With
in a few years every road in
North Carolina will be a good
road. The old country road of
rocks and mud and steep hills is a
thing of the past. They have
taxed and impoverished our peo
ple too long already. Asheville
Citizen.
To The News-Record:
I herewith hand you a clipping
taken from the great speech of
Governor Locke Craig, delivered
at the State Fair at Raleigh on
the Industrial Progress of North
Carolina, which I hope you will
publish.
The clipping is only what he
said about roads and road build
ing ip North Carolina. The pro
gress made by the state ' in the
last few years is gratifying- to
every progressive patriotic citi
zen.. j - . ".'Y
Jt am glad that Madison County
has taken her "stand , along 'with
other progressive counties of the
state for good roads, and . Indus
trial progress. The condition of
Madison County is now better
than it has ever been in its his
tory. The county .has a farm
demonstrator and there is great
interest being taken in all lines
of farming and stock raising.
There will be shipped and driven
from this county not less than
two hundred car loads of fat cat
tle this year which will add to
the revenue of the county about
four hundred thousand dollars
for that one industry alone.
Road building and construction
in the county is progressing
along as fast as is practicable
under the circumstances. There
is Work being done in about ten
or fifteen different places and al-
$1.00 for New
YOUR F R I. END
O, 3. DAVIS.
ready Vone traveling ewer tki
wuuiy uuus man a, k - uuiuuci i
of miles of splendid . roads has
baen graded , and the people of
the county can go to- and fro as
they never did before.
The state convicts that was
procured by James E. Rector
innAVA a ooam iii r twa riaa orrt
o0tluw.,r w j.-.
ana neia aau iteps lor uw cuum-jr
ir. u mau bcw.uu
doing some splendid work, now
completing tbe road, irom yva -
nut into the town or Marsnaa.
I his convict force did a great
deal of splendid road, building in
the Hot Springs Township and
will do a great deal more work
for the county within the next
few years and all free to the
county, except ammunition and
Overseer of work.
The county convict gang is do-
lag eoue spieuuiu worn uuuci
the management of Capt, Robert
Tweed on the road from Marshal)
to Mars Hill. In 'less than one
month one branch of the road
leading from Marshall to Mars
Hill will be completed and a
trophecy that I made in a letter
published in your paper less than
five years ago That Madison
County would soon have a road
leading from Marshall to Mars
Hill so that the resident citizens
of Mars Hill could eat their can-
ner in their own homes at xnopn
ana lane an automooiie ana come
to Marshall and take the one
o'clock train and be in Asneville
transacting business at two
'dckTof tbevsame day, wUL belated, if Botpir?ented: r 'f ;
rumuea. men it was a nope, a
promise, out soon win oe
glonous reality.
By the last of this year the
road will be open from the State
line below Hot Springs through
to Marshall, on by the way of
Mars Hill t Asheville, then the
automobile travel from the State
of Tenn., will find an easy and
quick way through to the South
and the people of the county will
profit greatly by having this tour
ist travel as customers and pur
chasers of their products as they
pass along and sojourn in the
county.
Respectfully, '
C. B. MASHBURN
J. W. Myers, was 5 here
from
Paint Rock, last Monday.
WITH
Virginia.
Tierces
Jo the FarmefS Of
Madison County
Marshall, N. C.
Oct. 14, 1915.
Mr. Editor:
the farmer8; or tnJa C0UDty
i . .
tnrough tho columns of your pa.
Th(J harve8tlng 0f all the
crop9 for this year is close at
handt (.and ,whie we haye
we nave no
'bumper" crop; yet we should all
feel greatful. for the all round
average crops which we are gath
ering. - r
I desire especially to call at
tention to the farmers who have
done, and are doing some work
either as Demonstrators 'or co-
operators, that it is very desir-
able to have; reports from all,
i wnetner tne yieias oe large or
small. I know that the continued
rains and storms in the earlv
nart of the season caused tha
corn to take shallow rooting in
the soil' and later was badly dam-
aged by the continued drouth
which followed and then damair-
ed severly by the storms that
succeeded the drv soell. These
conditions cut short the yields
very decidedly as all well know
I but for this very reason, it is im-
portant that accurate and correct
reports be rendered.
one purpose of these reports
is to gather data in order to see
if possible some of the causes of
j destruction of crops can be mitti-
; Final reports should be. . sent
aim just as soon as crops are gath-
ered and the percent of damages
on account of floods, storms,
I drouth. Insects etc,, can be as-
certained and the number of bus-
hels known.
Respectfully,
I. R. bAMS .
County Agent.
Tailor Says, "Most Delightful.'
Most tailors suffer from constipa
tion. G. W. Roberson, Wichita Falls,
Tex., says: "I Hod Foley Cathartic
Tablets the u.ost delightful, cleansing
cathartic I have ever taken." They
keep the stomach sweet and liver ac
tive, ' and . drive away biliousness,
bloating headache, dullness and other
results of clogged bowels, Sold every
where
To become a uni
versal favorite.
Chero-Cola had to be
the perfect drink that
it h. Take yours frora
the original bottle
tnrough a straw. Yea
will enjoy uniTcrn
fiavor and the cerur.".