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V.-: .;: ;: . ... '. ...-.. ',. ; Madison County Record J MBvawud Jiyi 2i, 1101 t J French Broad News ! . Kstbliihed Mj 1, ItOT CONSOLIDATED NOV. I, IU e News- HO t Means L U 4L4 ..t. Z f means mm juia ui : scri scription has expired. , THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY VOL XXI MARSHALL, MADISON CQUNTYN. C FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 1922. No 56 Th 'in Jewish Relief Committee in Eastern iurop "American prisoner', in German war cam, s never suffered greater horrors or endured 'more brutalities than i have seen with my own eyes inflicted upon Jewish refugees in Russian and Hungarian jails " de clared Sam Gershon, a prominent ' Atlanta nierdijnt who recently re turned from a year's work with the, Jewish Relief Committee in Eastern Europe. ' "These same conditions are exist ing .right, now," Mr. Gershon continued. "They "will continue to exist until sufficient money, is raised to provide a daily allowance for the?e refugees; The worst part of the conditions are that the re fugees are not criminals or in the same class as prisoners of .' wac. They are merely innocent women and children, with their husbands and fathers who have been driven from thc;r homes., by famine and pogroms. ' . ' . "When I was in Rudapest I visit ed a jail there and I saw sights that .made". my. blood run cold. What I saw I. never believed could exist cf a nightmare. ."Cjrny haired men scarcely able v to loitcr'along the cold hard stor es of their cells, hollow-faced women with lines of care and starvation in their faces, little babies crying for warmth and food, and sick child ren with tear-stained faces press-ed '-' to the damp walls of ilie . j ail were - huddled; tojfether Mtry- and hunger'.- Some of the women car ried their babes pressed to their sunken breasts and tried to stil! tbeir piteous cries. Outside the icy wind of the Russian steppes blew a gale and whistled through the cracks in the stone and' motar Thejail itself was unhcated and the oaly way the miserable prisoners hovir ng in the darkened c'uicron. could keep warm was by hunching their half-starved bodies in ' heaps on the col4 st6nc of the floor. : , ."I also saw refugees living in ' frieight cars. I saw lhem lyitg. there in the torpor of hunp;er and : cold. I saw them in "some o? the eitiesdying by the hundreds every day from a typhus epidemic indue--ed by the, wretclie'dness of ; Jhcir. 1 hovels and the lack of nourishment . On the Russian borders I saw them begging alqng the streets and alley ' for r bite of dry hard brqad. All o' these miserable .. people ; were, once small" farmers, on the 'plains of Poland and Russia or shop keepers in smal) Slav villages. ' In on3 town wo were able to care for 400,efuge."8 and their were ' 15,000 in the 'town. Such ,eQndf tions ' exist throughout' Eastern Europs." . With our present ., funds , the Relief Committee .cannot eten temporarily relieve the .,.Kuffenhgv Relief is not nearly so much needed .'as rehabih'ation, for that alone, will 'put 'aft end to their suffermg.' -' This i3 but one phase of lthe many branches of the tree life now being raised for the relief of ' the Jews Buffeting thrtu-hout Central and 'Eastern Europe, and North Caro ina's portion be rai? ed for thesr purposes is $100,000 during the week of February 0 to 12th." " ' Mr C. C. Ramsey has rented his garage - to Hnderspn Bros.: .Mr. Ramsey will take up other business. ' Mr McKinley Ramsey ." runs a transfer car and will still stay at the' same garage and any one who wishes to call, him just, call Henderson's garage. We hops they will all make good at . t!v.lr new work. . - ' B ie Limestone Mill And Brick Works, Growiiig, at ;Hot; Springs Big Possibilities GoodLivestock Raisr ing on Large Scale is Shown-Fruit Possibilities, barely loucnea-bup-ply Electrical Needs of the City. By B. S. LEIPEH, (Staff Correspondent The Citizen.) . r : While it must be admitted i,r.nn tio iAtpi n. tlifi verv life VV VVV " ' ' - - . r , normal times is not without varied interests, principally coni- nected with agriculture, lumbering ana mining. . . One of the most signiAcant moves that has . been made t in years, says oiuci icaiuv;iiio, io mv, uvuwimuuuvu , ing conducted by W. R. EJlcrson, general manager of the Laurel River Livestock Company formed by E. W. Grove of Asheville and St. Louis some time ago. ' r . " ' .Mwii pnt-nvftr land of the 45.000 acres originally secured iX UVU vv v - ' has already been put under rich pasture, capable of supporting ever-enlarging herds of beef cattle. The Lemon Cap farm, too, reached up Spring Creek from Hot Springs, has great opssibili- ties in the production of lruit. It is understood uiai aimosi uip v. lonH hnidinrfs over which Mr. Ellerson has . supervision is now partially.improved, with grass from time to time. Cattle Raising .'.'; :, A Tnrivlng inausiry. Tha hp raisins industrv long been regarded as a most thriving and profitable one. ; . rrv ,BoiK;r.tiB!nfi frowir!i lartfo Quantities of apples. "peached and other ffU?Clt:is pointed out; are among thte real agricultural assets ot tne region, scratched, all admit. . Industrially, Hot Springs has made tew boasts Decause mis uo vr. a feature of the civil life heretofore. . And yet 4he village has a good 125 horsd Spring Creek, combined with a, saw mm and ice manuracturmg and mining operations up the same stream a few miles upon one" side, is doubtless the largest grinding plant m tne soutneasi, upon the French Bread just outside the village 'limits. Just below this also, a large red shale brick yard is being operated success fully. . ;' .- s " :- .4, ... The plant of the G. C. Buquo Lime Company, with a siding on the Southern Railway given the name of Buquo just below wf3mrinrt.Q h.is in a fcw.vcars grown f rom an investment of $3 500 to become an industry valued at $80,000, fully equipped with every modern device tor.tne emcient gnnumg oi lunc- ;tone in large quantities., Thprft is now stored in the tons of ground limestone awaiting the market. The- firm has given particular attention to the storage facilities so that , la3er demands may be met witnout The visitor at the plant can ties of limestone available upon trie company noiaings wmcu 4v. Pron TtmnH river and the Soutliem" Railway, the sheer face of the stone wall rising overhead, giving a veritable "mountain of limestone" that will taKe at least ou years, u is estimated, to consume at capacity output. The deposits are on iflji n.r tfnnt. that runs even west of "the Dixie Highway, The plant is ser ed by a siding frtbht cars. The limestone is andNm jute bags that are filled works with great rapidity. . High Quality Limestone Deposits. - . , "..."'..'-'.- fnimt'l in the deDosits is regarded as Xllv tj x v1 - w very high in desirable ingredients, particularly for, sweetening the soil. It runs high hi percentage of carbonates and much of it "is so pure that the Crystal carbonic laboratories of Atlanta, employ this alone in "their brand oi Epsoni salts. , This , is pre pared by putting hydrochloric acid on the limestone which gi.ves 'off carbonic acid gas and leaves the' salts in deposit. Large quantities of hard 'rock-adapted to road building are shipped regularity from this plant, to many points thoughout the mountain territory' where road improvements- are under way. Limestone deposits are 'also found in- Western Carolina at Fletcher, Lincille Falls and Hewitts. C- C. - Buquo, aftei whom the plant "was named and who is active manager of this enterprise, makes his home at Hot Springs with his wife ' and son, and is widely known as one of the progressive citizens of the village." He is well known in Asheville and also in Fletcher where for some time he "operated the, lime .industry at that - The field for the agricultural' lime output for this particular it NortJi! and South' Carolina, and of the i im- portartee of its use no less an assistant secretary ofjagncuiture aeciareA: . indeed an mvest nunt of limestone pays a dividend'of 100 per cent or more ( the that there are many who looked of the village. Hot Springs in additional acreage being put m . ; - .v ' of the Soring Crefck section has as yei uiey nuvc uaxciy ucui ' t - power hydro-electric plant on and upon the other, and what : ' , , inrnrt main warehouse around 12,500 ueiay. readily ascertain tne vast quanti large enough to accomodate 15 snipped out in- imm., -m papci by an ingenious" machine that ' authority than Carl Vrooman.M i first year. It may safely be said, I believe, that if all sources of artificial chemical fertilizer failed out , total farm output could-notonly.be maintained, but even the application of lime to acreages increased, for a time, simply" by that are low in yield or lyng fallow because they are too sour t6 grow profit able crops.", ''.....'...,'.'." . " ' A link Between i Hot . - , . Springs And Asheville Among the several links that ville in kindred interests is The which recently passed from the hands of James E. Rector,, well known attorney of this ciiy to Frank Buell, who" lives on Broad street, and who has plans for the enlargement of the in dustry, employing in times of maximum output some forty men. . , : ., .- :. ' :: v ,:. . Located about two miles down the-French Bro-td river, be low the village and adjacent to theSouthern railrod so that a 1,400 foot siding serves the plant, the company is operating brick making machinery capable of an output of between 40,000 and 50,000 a day. . , " : Heretofore, however, the dry kiln capacity was limited to around 25,000 a day. An additional downdraftt iln has been in Stalled recently, and other similar units are ' planned by Mr. Buell to bring the drying capacity up to the same output as that of the machinery, it is announced. , ' , . Vast deposits of red shale, said to be the only-shale deposits on the railroad within 100 or 150 miles of Asheville, are deemed' of sufficient size to supply the kilns of untold years, since there are 50 acres of the shale, found in a deposit showing" a depthof 200 feet ' The. manufacturers would be sufficient to make enough brick with which to build ten cities the size of Asheville, thereby giving some indication of the unused amounts on hand. The deposits were first open ed somo, five years ago. - Since the shale lends itself particularly to the manufacture, of higher grades of building bric!;s, such as the red rug or rough faced brick nd hollow 'building tile, the new manager plans gradually to work over into thes J commodoties entirely,-leaving thy common brick field to those who handle clay only and are therefore unable to produce the higher grades for the trade. A feature of this plant is the' method 'in which "the topof graphy of the deposits has been used to make the . handling o the shale from bank to railroad t ar a matter involving an un- ' usually small degree of labor. The banks are high above the plant..'' " ; .;' ';"; ' ' Elecfric Machlnary :'... ' ,; ry Has Been Installed, - ' ; The installation of electric hoisting . machinery has made, possible further reductions in manual labor. In one of the larg er kilns, for instance,, 500 wet bricks are lifted at a time by this crane, carried into the waiting cars upon the siding, so that in one day 20,000 wet and 20,000 dry bricks are tiandled, by one young man in charge of the crane. It is estimated in the-average brick : plant that one young man per 1,000 bricks is required for capacity operation, but .the Asheville Shale Brick Company is reducing this to three-fourths of a man per 1,000 by the use of electrically operated machinery. v . By the type of kilns installed, say, officials,, only 30 or 40 per cent of the coal burned under the old style kilns is required in this plant and the covered kilns make production in any type of weather possible. The controlling interest' in this company passed into the hand3 of Mr. Buell the first of the, year. Within one-half mile of the village the plant of what was formerly known as the Hot Springs Manufacturing Company, operates on Spring Creek to produce more than sufficient elect ricity for the presont needs cf the village. H. B. Lance, a native of Hot Spring, not long since acquir ed the entire holdings and in July of last year installed a saw mill cutting 10,000 feet of lumber daily and 10,000 laths. White and yellow, pine and hemlock are used for making laths, and the mill uses in making lumber great quantities of white pine oak,' poplar and yellow pine. .The ice plant located at the same point, has a. capacity of three tons daily. ' Power is' derived from Spring Creek," halted in its rushing course at this point by a 32-foot' dam' whjich can be raised an, additional two feet or more when this is made necessary by even heavier drains , upon ..the power. An auxiliary steam plant is located in the power house for operation in case of emergencies. . . , bind Hot Sprrngs with Ashe Asheville Shale Brick Company, Arbuckle Jury is Dischcrgcd After FGillnrJ to Ag'rc e. San Francipco, Feb. 3. The ji.-v in the second trial cf ft munslau r charge against UoHCi.e ; Arbn i:! decided at the con'la;:ion of a !! hour session trjat it could not a; rrc and was discharged today wiih 0 i final ballot standing 10 for con i -tion and two for aciui'l la!. ....... Arbuckle was accused - of lia i:.:? caused the death of Misi Virg.r;.i Rappc, of Los Angeles, a motiw i picture actress who. whb taken i i at a drinking party in Arb'ielV. suite here at the Hotel St. 1 rai t on Labor day 1021, and died f days later as t he result of u n-' -tured bladder. The case was placed o:i tl. ( cakuidarfor next Monday' o !'0 re for its third' trial. Both j rofecu tion and defence announce! Iliey would favor' such trial. 8.) nr. :- was the defense of itS posit 1 u i. the second trial that . it Kubnriltc:. its case without final . ar;;u. e:. . This had an effect opposite Yc i the one intended, according to Vi Friedman, one of the jurors, in ;. formal statement. "We thought that when 1;, defense declined to argue it lui thrown up its hand::,,' he stir". 'The fust 10 ballots stood r.i. to three for conviction and- t acre after until the 14t.li and final 1 .i!!.. : it was ten to two," ' Side Lig'hts On; The Farmcr?u ' ; Conference. Agriculturists Problems r.i Solved at Washington; V.Tc acj Enlisting Aid Washington, (Capital . Kev.'-c? Service.) "We are drawing; vi -on everybody who can co it '. bute to the general solution oi. the farming problem," say z Secretary of . Agriculture Wal lace, discussing the representa tives of various lines of activity invited t o participate . in the National Agricultural Confu -ence to b.e opened by Preside t Harding in Washington January 23y "because it is the bi-'art problem we have. Bankers, packers, railroad ex ecutives, automobile and tm .let manufacturers, highway engineers,-and experts in r i:;y other lines have been as! :d tj come a s . delegates, and Jiav; accepted. The . general lcclin;' of legislators at the Capital s that much that is good must come of so catholic a council as will sit upon the many .'problems confronting the farmers, and thus the nation. Many go so far as to believe that the con ference will f orin and : promul gate a definite national policy which will i n large . measure decide . whether in the future the United States is to be well balanced between farming vand manufacturing product ion or whether this nation will to a large extent forsake the land to go into the factory, depending upoft tenant farming and im ports for sustenance. A new note in the generr 1 thought of aid for- the farmc has been sounded by former Governor of Illinois Frank O, Lowden,'who believes that the greatest single factor which will" contribute to farming prosp-irity i:tfc nrnvision of RiifTjc;ftr:t. r warehouses to enable th" fann er to make a fat year pro k,o for the lean ones, stabilize prices by holding too plentiful crops agaisnt the day of sparse1 crops", -and preventing any such dis-. astrous economic catastrophes as have been seen in the pros perity which, came to cotton raisers as a result ofT)oll-weevil destruction of cotton,' and -the tieftd for corn, farmers to burn 4 their grain as fuel.
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