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THE) O'nLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY
VOL XXI
MARSHALL, vMADlSON COUNTY, N. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11th, 1924.
No 2
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Tfea Bene Paper la Verse.
Today. 80 far as appearance
goee, - the chief difference p
tween the country paper and the
city paper is in size. The coua
trv naDpr." beinir in the main a
local paper, does not need tht
space that the city daily requires
for its general news and features.
But today the country papers
make use of the same typo
graphical devices and pictures
that the citv naner uses. Thli
word is needed to - introduce
fine little poem by an unknown
writer, who speaks of the older
type of -country weekly which
too often was poorly printed Sand
edited:
Tisn't filled with cuts , and pic
tures nor the latest news die-
. ; patcnes;
And the paper's of ten dampened
.and the print is sometimes
: blurred, ;
' There is only one edition, and the
eye's glance often catches
' Traces of a missing letter, or at
times a misspelled word, -'
Vo cablegram or special any
where the eye engages; ;
The makeup is perhaps ,,a trifle
crude and primitive,
But an atmosphere of. home iife
, fills and permeates the pages
' Of th e little country paper,
printed where you used to live.
How. the heart grows soft j and
. tender while its columns you're
"Xvery item is ffsroiiiar, - every
name you know full well,
And a flood of recollection passes
o'er you while, you're musing
On the past, and weaves about,
you an imaginative spell. '
' You can see the old home village
;once again in .fancy, seeming
To be clasping hand of neighbor,
and of friend and relative;
,And their faces rise before yoa
as.you'Je idly, fondly , dream-,
ing,
JO'er the little country, paper
printed where you used to live, j
The Front Porch Arithmetic
: He was
trying to teach her
arithmetic,
his mission.
He thought it was
Heki
issed her once,
' te kissed her twice. He said,
now thats addition. Then there
v followed smack by smack in
v silent satisfaction. v Timidly she
. gave him one back ' and ' said,
now thats satisfaction. Then he
kissed her and she kissed-him
without an ' explanation. Then
both together hugged and said
thats multiplication. But Dad
appeared upon the scene and
with his great decision he kicked
bi n miles away and' said thatsl
long division.
P.W.PAYNE,
of Highland School.
Luck, N'C.k Jan. 3, 1924
The News-Record, .
. Marshall. N. a.'.
Dear Sir: Please find enclosed
money order for $1.50 'to extend
my paper through this year.
Please send me a recoipt for
ir
j: M. COWARD.
- C. A. Ballentine. of Cardenas
in Wake County won ZZ7 with
two ton-car exhibits of corn at
various fairs held in -the State
this past fall.
Show XU i::v;s
On last Friday afternoon, De
cember 21st, quite timber of
the patrons gathered at the
newborn school where a short
nrnsram W& civan bv the schoo
children followed by a Christmas
tree whieh was enjoyed by all.
The farmess of this sestlon
are busily engaged naming on
their tobacco. V :
Everybody of .this section. at
tended church Sunday and heard
a good sermon. . "
Mr. Henry Turnage a well
known citizen of thla eecUoois
very alck at present. ; : V
Mhi'Bonnie- limmeat wasbr
vited out to La Graasre to take
dinner Sunday with one of her
friends f - : '
Miss Ethel Jarvis, has re
turned to Farmville te teach
this winter. 1
Miss Belle Jarvis speat Chrlpt-
mas in Benson where the has
taught school for the last four
years.--'-; ' v
Misses '.Belle Jarvis, Bonnie
Amnions and Messrs. John Tur
nage and ( Ernest Whitted mo
tored over to Sulphur Springs,
Saturday, p. m.
We are having a grand school
this (year at Mewborn even
thing is progressing nicely. The
teachers are Misses Belle Jarvis,
Bonnie Ammons, frora Mara
tsH Creei Jt:ss
The peeple of this place are
proud to jsay that eur Sunday
school and singing are doing
fine. We would be glad if all
the I people of this community
would take a little more interest
in Rework of the Sunday
school and singing. We espec-
111 I u. -II' 1
iau invue you an w pieiw
come every Sunday during the
year of 1824 ' ; 1 j '
Mr. L. M. Sprinkle, of Char
lotte Court House,Nya who has
been visiting relatives at this
place returned back te his home
last Tuesday. , - '.'
Miss Hallie-Silver who Is
teaching at thia place enjoyed
the pleasure of spending the
week end at her home la Mar
shall. Mr. Rev Capos a i d" . Miss
Mamie Buckner were the guest
of Misses Bertie and Gertie
Edward Sunday. .-.v
-Mr. Kenneth Phillips made a
nleasant call at Mr. Robert
Callahan's Sunday afternoon.
Misses Sallie Kate and Eliza
beth Sprinkle returned home
last - Tuesday . after spending a
few days in Spartanburg, S. C.
Misses Dot and Ella Callahan
were the guest of Mise Daisy
Phillips. ;
Ir. and Mrs. Davis Edwards
were visiting Mr. Hillard Merrill
Sunda, V: -y :
Mr. Allman Buckner was the
giiest of Miss Ora Bell" Merrill
Sunday afternoon. . . -
' Mr. John Moore la on the sick
list at this time. X.Y. Z.
Ten farmers in Lincoln county
are getting chicks ready for the
early market. Some have taken
62 their first hatch and the in
cubators are now-trasy again.
From, twelve to fifteen thousand
es will be set between now
mi t-s first of April -V supply
t:?J chks to -bote! reports
Ccu-iy A3nt J. Q. Morrison.
Ia America To
Lost Colony?
EVERY Ame rican school
boyf
knows ef Sir Walter Raleigh's
"lost colony," a band of Eugliah
men sent to the coast of North
Carolina to found a settlement, but
which was so neglected by the Eng
lish government that it disappeared.
Year! afterward the government
was awakened to the sense of duty
it owed to those who had. crossed
the Ocean to carry English customs
and ideals into the wilderness, and
it sent an expedition to the Caro
lina eosst to learn their fate, but
the. settlers had disappeeard, leav
ing no trace. Tbeira was a lost
American colony. The disappear
ing of J.his colony retarded the set
tling of these United States for at
most a hundred years. Wnat would
have been this country's present
greatness if the seeds of its power
had ; been , sown in the fifteenth
instead of the sixteenth oentury?
Pozsibly the entire course of human
history would have been . changed.
All of this is but to call the read
er's attention to the possibility that
some future historian may write of
a second American' colony disap
pearing as completely as did Sir
Walter Raleigh's, and in this age
of rapid changing political and so
cial events exciting less interest
than did the disappearing of those
we have mentioned. -V ; :; - v . ;,,.
VTL'pvvr tof Wr'armsCthe uT-
tice'of our arms, the justice of our
cause, have given us colonial poa-
sessions in both the Atlantic a.nd
acific oceans. It is as though a
divine power has given to us a
real colony the Isle or Pines. Is
indifference to cause us to lose this
real, living part of our great re
public that at the present is -ours
for the claiming?
As has been mentioned in a pre
vious article, at the .close of the
Spanish-American war a number
of Americans moved into the Isle of
ines, carrying with them their
possessions, buying - land, making
the island their home. None of
them believed they ; would ever be
iving under an alien flag, thinking
it was but an insular part of their
country they were crossing the sea
to live in and that they and their
children would be living under the
flag ot thier country and protected
and prospering by its laws and re
gulations. That their fondest hop
es have not been realize is well
known to those who hnve kept in
touch with these emigrants since
they first settled the Island. So
far the United States has never exer
cised its rights of title to tho is
land. Why this has not been done
is not diBoussed.' That it was not
done makes it very probable that
some' , future historian will write
very learnedly of the fate of Ame
rica's "lost colony" in the West
Indies.
The treaty of Paris conferred
the title of v possession to certain
Islands in the West Indies On the
United States. One of these was
the Iele of Pines. Its area is ex
ceeded by dhly four other islands
in the entire archipelago. It is the
nnlv one that had never been set
tled, but had ; been used by thej
Spanish Governmenf as a penal
settlement. ..If was in reality a
wilderness, the title to the most of
thfr land being in the name of a
few Spaniards who lived elsewhere.
These owners were bought out by
the settlers', 90 per cent of the land
passing ulto their hands. Had this
island never passed under the con
trol of the Cuban government, it is
a safe estimate to say that today
there would be 50,000 instead) of
Have A Second
1,000 Americans living in this, one
of the most pleasant, wholesome
and fertile islands ,of the West
Indies
; These American tettlers many of
them have now been in the island
for over 20 vears have kept the
American faith. ' Today, notwith
standing tho adversities of 20yeais
under an alien flag, the island is
yet American. If given the chance
under American government the
rapid development of the colony
would equal that of California in
its early days -a development!
made possible because these settlers
have blazed!the way; they have
prepared the ground.
- South of Cuba are the West In-
eiefr-a dineront world irom ours,
with: different manners, customs
and language, save in the English
islands. Spain, England, France
and Holland for centuries fought
and planned and strove for the pos
sesion of those islands: Spain,
; after having left the Impress of her
civilization on the most of these
islands, was driven out by Ameri
can bayonetu. Holland was driv
en out by England, and the remain
ing wo are yet in control of many
of the islands. Not an island in
the enthe chain of islands, save the
Isle tof Pines, but was colonized by
Oryjs thother not , -these, jpWeraJ
Most of them are thickly populat
ed and all are hoary with a civili
zation much older than ours. Fate
0r a higher power must have
left
the fairest one of these inlands a
wilderness, that in the , fullness of
a divine plan the sons of this
mighty republicwithout the handi
cap of others' mismanagement could
put the clear cut stamp of theirs,
the highest type of civilization, on
the wilderness they have conquered
on the edge of the Caribbean sea
and south of the Cuban coast. ,
' That an American can live and
work in the tropics thes9 colonists
have proved. That Americans do
not ose their conception of govern
ment an all else that is truly
American, they have and are yet
demonstrating in their- insistence
upon not becoming a second
''lost colony," - in the nu o t
blending their lives, thoughts and
ways of living into the ways of
those who by some strange turn
of the wheel of fate for a scoiev of
years have controlled them " politi
cally. V'.v: '
It is interesting in this; day to
speculate, after the lapse qf cen
turies, as to the causes of the dis
appeaiing of that-first English col
ony on the coast of North Carolina
In reality there'need be no specula
tion. A young tolony is but an in
fant of the parent stock, ,and an
infant left to itself, not protected
and guided by the parent, will per
ish or else.never develop. y We can
imagine these abandoned English
men, gazing over the wafers, think
ing of, prajing for the sight of a
rescuing sail, their hearts growing
sick With prolonged waiting. - Then
a time came when hope (fqr hope
is not eternal) died in their breasts
and they disappeared. Did they
perish in the wilderness or in the
waters? Did they disappear amonS
the surrounding savages, blending
their blood with that of the red
men? , To us it is an unsolved mys
tery. To those who
have lived!
since their time they are
the
'.'lost
colony."k " .-
Will some future historian tell
of an American colony' that disap
peared in a West India, island;
write of an island .peopled with a
quarter of a million inhabitants;
Report of County Qu&rrantlse
Officer. ;
Marshall, N. C, Jarv9, 1924
Duraig the-year 1923 I had
reported to me the following
629 cases of measles. '
34 cases whooping cough;
21 cases diptheria.
2 cases chicken pox. ,
5 cases venereal disease.
9 cases scarlet fever.
5 cases typhoid fever.
Making a total of 705 cases of
communicable disease, which
we haVe had in Madison county
in one year, all of these had
placards mailed to them and
were due to have been under
quarantine, several instances
have been reported to me where
some one was peeved or hurt
because they were quarantined.
riends we must keep control
of the- diseases and this is all
the way we can do it.
I am fully persuaded that not
more than half the measles and
not one-tenth of the whooping
cough were ever reported. It is
an absolute violation of the
ublic Health Law of North
Carolina to fail to report these
diseases, if a physician is called
then he will do it, if you have
no doctor with yours then it is
up to the head of the house to
see1' to it that they are reported.
Don't v'olate the, law, report
U your ;cassa3.djhen vtry.to
observe your quarantine regu-
ations. Thus we will have
better health. Lets all pull
together for 1924. . ;
' Sincerely,'
. W A. SAMS, M. D.
County Quarantine Officer,
Madison County,
; Memorable Words
These heroes are dead. They
died for liberty they died for
us. They are at rest. They
sleep in the land they made free,
under the flag they rendered
stainless, under the solemn pine;,
the sad hemlocks, .the tearful
willows and the embracing vines.
hey sleep beneath the shadows
of the clouds, careless alike of
sunshine or of storm, each in the
windowless -palace of rest.
Earth may run red with other
wars; they are at peace. ;; In the
midst of battle, in ;the roar of
conflict, they found the serenity
of death. I have one sentiment
for soldiers living and dead.
Cneers for the living; tears fbr
the dead Robert G. Ingersoll
tell of their manners and customs,
of the resources of their island and
that had and American colony
planted in this island succeeded he
would be telling of American cus
toms and of American people in
his description? ' These forsaken
Englishmen on the coast of North
Carolina watched over the ". waters
in vain. Help came, but it was too
lale.. Today, --iust as they watched
and waited, down there on that
tropical island, Americans, just the
same kind of folks as are you and
I, are watching for the papers from
the States, waiting for news that
will tell them the folks at home
have not forgotten them, that they
are remembered and their waiting
and watching and labor and hard
ships were not in vain ney are
not to be America's
second
lost
colony.".
Cullowhee State
Normal Opens '
Cullowhee, N. C January 4tbt f
The Spring term at the Cullow .
hee State Normal opened Weduet- :
day, January 2nd, with many ne
pupils entering both the Norma) '
and High School Departments. '
The" exact enrollment " cannot , be .
gjven at this time as students aria
still coming In. Only four board- ,
ing students attending the. Fall
term have failed to return all of
whom have either written or - tele-
graphed that they are delayed . by
illness and would arrive this week.
President Hunter is pleased with
the outlook. He . Informed the
correspondent . today that every
mail brings applications and in
quiries regarding the Spring and ,
Summer quartern. "It is doubt-'
ful, "he said, "if we 'can ' accomo-
klate all who wish to come; even :
with the additional forty five rooms
at the Moore Building which' will
be available at that time. .
Cullowhee has been selected by
Supt. A. T. Allen, of. the Depart
ment of Public Edutation, as one
of the eight state summer: school
of North Carolina. The 'number
of Subjects for each term has been
reduced and a definite course of
training will be offered.. t
lew Year Thoughts v .
4:Foc;Tl; lie jGro;vef
Raleigh, N.. C. January Pork
production in North Carolina can -
be made more profitable in , North,,
Carolina thafi it ever was in the..
Corn fielt believes W. W. Shay
swine extension specialist for the..
State College and Depsrtment of
Agrieulture, if the swine growers,
will give more attention to their -
animals, proper care to the feeding
and watch the marketing trend.
Mr. Shay says that it is old stuff.
to tell about how to handle hogs
properly but at the New Year it is
worth repeating. Hefsays. "Every,
good farmer knows that , he should
feed his brood sows a heavy pro-,
toin food with the corn and that a
portion of the brood bows ration
should come from such animal food
as' tankage, iisli meal or milk, He .
known also that he should provide
the sow with clean, dry sleeping!
quarters for her and the newly far- ;
rowed pigs. :;; i .''f"
"Long coarse , bedding is ' not '
suited for young pigs because they
get tangled up and when the. sow,
lies down, the pigs are , unable to
ge$ out of her way and are crushed
The pig needs a dry bed. When in'
a dry bed and lying against bis
mother, he can stand cold weather'
but a damp bed is dangerous and a
cold draught is almost certain- (
deeth. .
'The good farmer .'also knows '"
that dirty food leads to digestive
troubles and that muddy, filthy
yards make wet beds and dirty r
troughs. It is also well known that -
it does, not pay to carry more pig!
than there is feed for. If a mso tj
has feed for only 20 pigs and kef pi
40, when the 20 would have weighs
ed 4,000 pounds and been ready lat.
sell, the 40 would wpigh . lesai thad ,
4,000 and hard Jtf. sell. il S i . J
"All of these, ar some'gfaf othe
things to which the swine grower
must give attention tearing Ithft
coming year to make twiew
his hog. -.i H lo .1-
Miss Paulin?
to Asheville Tu ;-V"t&;'r. .-:Lu
herstadiu aLtfeUla.'ijr i i"(t
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