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44444444444444'' & MxAHnn Cnnntv Rprnrd .,. . ! j I ' , j All X MARK' HE ; . : . . . .lijie French Dread News ' JLj O v J kid cs tht Tc:r i .CONSOLIDATED Hotf.i.mn n 00000000000000000000- A l J 0000000000000000000 A' THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY VOL XXI MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 1924. NoC 44444444404444444444. From Trust , Editor NewstecordV- ' ', .' I have been thinking we ought to offer a orize to the young man or woman of the, High School" age or out of S 'hool age who would get up the best early history of Madi eon County. When it was formed and where the first County seat was, and the name of the county seat, where the first court was held ' and the judgj that held the first - court, and what was, the junsdic tion of the countV court, and how manv men - composed the court, when the counry was formed, who was its first representative, the condition; of the roads, churches school buildings, and the farming : conditions. .It seems to ' me that we are about to loose this impor tant history of our county. Can we afford to loose it? I think not, To give the customs of the people. the farming conditions, the chief Droduetsof. the farm, would be very interesting to ,tho people, es " pecially the young people . They : could contrast Detween men ana now. It might be some inspiration to our young people to vdo more, ; and be more interested in their . county. Let some one speak out, . and tell what they think' of the suggestion. . , ; If you think it is a good idea say so, if not tell the peeple what you think of it. 1 fear to many of us are like my friend . Henflricks said, ' .w c are to slow to , speak out . when something would be of interest "-ci iij-oiHne onarwo6idv"e iJS gestion, we are all citizens.' of ,the county, and have a right in common ' with every other citizen. And our - interests are in common with citi zens of the couuty. , The trouble is . I fear we resort to Indian war fare. It is said when a fight , comes on .., every man takes to a tree. Somo little feeling we have, towards some one, or the dollar keeps from doing the things that would help our . neighbors. It is true we have men and women who are not selfish, and labor for the upbuilding of their county's interest, our churches, , school buildings and other improve ' ments show that oureounty has a history and that its early history ought to be preserved Dr. Sondley in the history of Asheville and . Buncombe County! makes the statement that nota ny one seems to know why the name Morristown was bestowed on the , place (Ashe ville.) And conjecture regarding the matter would amount to noth ing more than a guess. , But now Mrs. Mary Baird Ward came ? for- , ward with tbe answer. She says as a matter of fact '', according to the tradition of my family there has never been the slightest guess vyork about it. My lather Adolp-j , bus Baird and three aunts, Mrs. Ira Vanse mother of Zebulon . Vance,: Mrs; . Sarah' Ana Smith, mother of H. A, Gudger and S. L. Roberts of Asheville, and Miss Mary Baird all pioneers of Bnn combe County, frequently in re counting to us the slory of those early; times mentioned the fact, that Asheville was first called Mor ristown, .that. Zebulon Baird, my paternal grandfather with his broth- . er Bedent, eame to Western North ' Carolina in the latter 'part of the eighteenth century would -a y around 1789; from Morristown, New Jersey; where he had evident-' .able importance as old records for that place show today. After be coming a citizen of Buncombe Zebulon Baird was chosen to re-f List cf ters Br&vn fc FetrcayTern, S'jpcric Court, Fetmry 25, 1924, No. 1 Township. Bob McClure, Mathew Thom as, W. H. Fisher. J. G. Ram sey, Jr. . No. 2 Township. Van Shelton, J. C. Chandley, . J. Franklin, No. 3 Township. Z. T. McDaris, W. H, Buckner No. 4 Township. J. N. Chandler, 1!. Met- ealf, J. E. Roberson, Joe S. Brown. " ' . . No. 5 Township. J A. Buckner : ; ; ' No. 7 Township- ' R M. Kent, Jonah Payne, Henry Worley. Tom Ball. ' No 8 Township! S. A. Phoenix, B. C. Mead ows. ; No. 9 Township, J. M. Waddell, D. H, Gard ner, John Warner. : No. 10 Township. ; Tillman Gosnell, Isaac Rice. . ' No 1 1 Township. Edgar Phillips, J. W. Banks No. 12 Township. -: f' A. L. Buckner. j f v - ,'No. 13 Township. J C. W. BaldiP. :jI'F. Shelton. Tom Ogle, . ' No 15 Township. A N. S. Willis, F. E, Huff, R.R. Gibbs. No. 16 Township. T. M. Loyd. v Special Get-together Meeting Under the leadership of Dr A. C. Hamby. of Raleigh a special get-together . meeting of representatives from the church es of the French Broad and New Found Associations will meet in the Baptist church at Marshall, Wednesday, February 20, 1924 The church at Mar shall extends & cordial invita tion to representatives from eachv of the churches of the above named associations to be present at that meeting as its gruestk., The , meeting is con sidered important not only that it is hopod to arrange f oi pres ent ; problems but also td pre pare to meet the future with a united effort. legislature; . almost continuously from 1806 to 1822, when the site was chosen for the eounty seat, Buncombe,4 ' zebulon Baird who owned considerable part of the land oceupied by the city of Asheville, furnished the" lot for the coart house and it was called Morris town in honor to them of thoir old b.ome town.1 Now this is very im portant history to the people of Asheville and Buncombe County. y Madison County has important history theti would be interesting to the people. s Let us get busy and die un our tiarlv history. Let US p r , w a" hear from some on this subject, it will be inteiresting to our young men and wovmen, .who will be our future representatives With besti wishes to the News- Record ani its Editor. t f; Who Pays State Taxes , Up to 1921 a large part of fhe state revenue was obtained 'from a general property, tax. Every body in the state who had prop erty on , the tax books paid something to the support of the state goyerment. The 1921 legis lature abolished the. property tax as aBource of state revenue and adopted the income tax as the main source. Immediately the support of the state government was shifted to a new and rela tively small class'of taxpayers, The general property tax is used exclusively for local county pur poses, while the state operators on revenues received from in come tax payers, individual and corporation; inheritance, license, franchise taxes and so on,' and from earnings of the general de partments the state - T Practically the entire burden of state support- falls on our ur ban dwellers and the corporate business of the state. The prop- orty tax is spent locally for coun ty purposes. , ' ? - The individual who pays 'only a property tax contributes nothing to the support oTlhe state government, unless be owns an automoDiie, . in wnicn case he pays a license and gaso- r.e tax which is used exclusive r tor highwaj construction and maintenance. Relatively onl a small percent of our people -contribute to' the support of the state. Except for the auto ar.4 gas , tax. our iarmers pay prg .Hyoihmgn-Tixe 6"uf put comes from the individuals, who can afford it, and from corpora tions chartered by the state from icenses granted by the state in general from sources receiving direct services from the state. It is a fair, sane,- and ' progressive method of raising state revenue and it was only through its adop ' tion that Noath , Carolina was able to engage in her program of progress.- But even now we are not spend ing recklessly or extravagantly in North Carolina: We have fi nally and with due deliberation entered the group of progressive states, arid no state in the Union is getting as much for the money it is spending as North Carolina. S. H. H., Jr.- Honor Students . Represent; Every Part of the State Diversity News Bureau .Robert , W, Madry Chapel Hill, Ni C, Jan. -The argest number of honor studnhts ever recorded at the University of North Carolina is listed by Dr. T. J. Wilson, Jr.; registrar, in checking over the grades made during the fall quarter. There are 178 as compared with 164 for the first Quarter test year. I Honor students make ft grade of B. or better, that is an ave rage of from 90 to 95 per cent at least. Of the total of 178 there were 56 freshmen, 48 sophomores 38 juniors, 30 seniors and 6 spe rial students. 99 are in the col lege of. literals arts, ; 32 in the school of commerce, 23 in the school of engineering, 18 in the school of applied science, and 6 are special stndents. ' Leo D. Whitfl of Marshall. N. O.. 18 one of the 173 on the honor roll. Anderson Branch. Editor News Rocord : After reading the article in your paper in regard to the progress at Hot Springs I wish to say this is in accord with what have been figh&ng and preach vat for the past live years, namely, we need 'more indus tries with a large pay roll. Madison eounty today is land of opportunity to those that will try, as proof of this I call your attention to the fol lowing facts : $100,000 was de posited in one of the banks at Marshall in a little less than five months by the farmers of this county. I willreiterate fthat Madison county is central ly located, she has plenty of surplus labor. With an iafinite supply of pure. water and an .unlimited undevelo p e d h y d r o-electi ic power supplied by 28" miles of the beautiful French Broad, not mentioning what could be de veloped on Laurel River and Spring Creek. Madison county has a very fertile soil that will produce equal to the bottom lands of Tennessee of which 43,763 acres were cultivated last year. The county has a good road system equal to any countz im the State Also a good school system and churches, last but not least her citizenship is made up of a God loving and church going' ne ople, notwithstanding the good features of Maoir 3iini y in the last 30 years the writer has spent 15 years outside the county. V. . ' New don't understand me to say Madison countv has not get any shortcomings or failures, with all ,her fine farms and orchards and live stock and dairy products, includieg her churehes, roads and schools and her good people, there is plenty of room for improvement. Hot; Springs is to be compli mented on securing the knitting mill, she has taken the initiative in developing our county, The fact that there is thousands of horse power lying dormant on the French Broad River shows that "we have not moved for ward and kept - pace with the times as we should, and could have done. I returned to this county in September 1923, and it' is 'my desire to do all I can to .help make Madison a greater and better county to live in , Yours for the up building of of Madison county. W.J HARRIS. Gardner-Ledford Mr. and Mrs. JI S. Ledford announce the marriage of their daughter, Viola Dell to Mr. George Richard Gardner on Sunday, the third of February, nineteen, hundred and twenty four, At home after February the fourtn, Detroit, Micnrgan: v Plsssit View Items . Our school closes tomorrow, the following pupils haven't been ab sent in school this year: Maud Martin, Elmer and Albert Clark.' Miss Allie Reems spent the week end with Miss Emma Prfeeman. Little Thelma Edwards died Tuesday morning with measles.' ' Mrs. L. M, Ramsey is improving She is still with her daughter Mrs Z. A. Ponder. '.. Sixth Grade. . Western North Carolina, Inc No. 6 Government St. Asheville N. C. 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Send to: WESTERN NORTH CARO LINA, INC., f v No. 6 Government St' ' Ashevile, N, C The Missionary Society of the Presbyterian xchurch will meet at the home of Miss Mayme Morrow on Thursday 14th, 2:30 P. M. Election ot officers and other important business. A full attendance ta .desired. ' -.. . Grape Vine Items Our roads on Grape Vine ar very muddy but the cars und to bacco . wagons are still traveling them, Grape Vine sectiou is one of the fines sections of Madison county, the citizen? of this place is gettbg wide awake to the grtat need sanding our road, ' ", Mr.,J. N. Riddle; formerly r this place, who now lives at Char lotte Court House, Virginia, is visiting friends here. Mr, Riddle says be is liking his home in Virgii; ia. Our Sunday school at this plaee, is moving on fine. We have pray er service each Sunday night an 1 have good interest. Mrs. Hester Briggs, of Erwir, enn., is visiting Mrs Joel Mu- gan this week. Mr. Joel Morgan who holds a job at Sunburst is at home for a fswdays. . . We hope to hear frqm the many seetmns of Madison connty thru he News-Recnrd. News-Record readeis come across with your val uable items. Its helps the editor to make his paper more interest ing. So we shall expect to hear from many readers of The News. Record next week. ENOCH S MORGAN. A. Word of Appreciation frcm Superlstcndect of State's Prises Marshall, N. C - Dear Sheriff : I desire to express to you and through you to your deputies and to the citizens of Madison county my sincere ap preciation for the fine spirit of eo-operaiion manifested by you in your efforts , to assist Capt Raines at the recent delivery of eighteen prisoners. Capt Raines is very high in his praise of you and the people Madison county. He feels he is among friends and I am sure he is. If I can ever Tender you a service please do not hcsila'o to command me. Sincerely yours, GEO. ROSS POU, Superintendent, To the Voters Madison County. Ladies and gentlemen: I hereby announce myself a car didate, for the nomination t Sheriff of Madiscu county eu' ject to the Republican prinr : to be held June 7. H a vi r served as an officer for tbe r eight years and as Federal r hibition agent since 1921 I i that I will be able to carry the duties of this office to t best interests or the people : having been urged by goo J c zens from all parts cf the c ty, sice before the primer 1922, to become a candii"! this office, ' I feel it ny du as well as peivilo b ; this race . Thankin ?; e i every one for whatever necs and support ycu r atle to give r.:o, I t i . Rrrjpectfwl! "I WILLARDC L present his county, in the state t . JASPER EBBS.
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