North Carolina Newspapers

' 1 '. "! 0dJi 00000000000000000000. 0000900000000000, 9 Mi!Imii Pniinlu Pix-nrfl I AH X !!M HERE h si0 ts' tist jpa Kb-.l-: J scriptisa tss eitfrci. !;, 000000000000000000 2 v ;: tiiiiui uivau ncni Btabiih May It, 11. 1 COHSOIJDATIOKOT.I.Ifin 0000J0000000000000000 ' 'v i , ,i THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY x - ...... . .... .-'.'.r- com. If M... ygLXXi Resolutions Adopted by Mtdlsod County Republican Convention. The Republicans of, Mudison county assembled in convention at Marshall, on' March 8th, 1924. adopted the following res olutions .. . Resolved : 1st. That we deeply mourn the , death of former President Harding, and we realize that his death was a great loss'to the people of the United States and to the world. We most heartily endorse the course of his wise and patriotic administration. . 2nd. We are pursuaded to believe that divine providence had a hand in' giving to the people' as the succzssop of .toe beloved Harding, " Calvin Coolidge, as the leader and head of our great nation. We'endorse and commend, the quiet, un assuiuod, dignified, p a t r i otic and wise leadership of President Coolidge. . "He hath a wisdom that ' doth guide liis valor - To act in safety' - , i . - From reports from every sec tion of the country we believe that he has the utmost con fidence of all patriotic citizens regardless of political affiliations. So far as we have the poer we hereby instruct our State and district delegates to the National Republican Conven tion to vote for Calvin Coolidge for the Republican candidate for? President ' of the . Uiiiii States. ' :. i. 3rd. That the poll of the vote at s the ; last presidential election shows that two fifths of the vote cast in Noiftifi Caro lina w a s white Republicaif. The Republican members of the general assembly of North Car olina represented twe fifths of the people of this state and we most enthusiastically " endorse our Republican members of the Legislature of North' Carolina in voting and working for pro gressive and forward looking legislation ' ' 5 We congratulate the people of this state, upon having better roads, Jbetter schools and! better state institutions, and so far as state legislation has contributed to these behificent effects, the Republican " party 'of the' state just y. claims its proportional share pf; the responsibility for these good things, f or- without Republican aid . and influence we would not have them." While we justly rejoice in the prosperity of the State of North Carolina which has been accom plished under the wise provis ions of the national republican policies and legislation (opposed by the Democratic party) and under non-partisan legislation of the state of North Carolina-?? legislation adopted by, Republi cans and Democrats, we con demn the extravagance ,a ad useless waste of -the peoples money by the ta'te ' Democratic administration and uhbusiness like methods adopted and prac tised by the Democratic 'party in this state, . - .4th." We- demand a more economical administration of the affairs of the people of this state and such system in ad ministering the state govern ment that the spending of every dollar will get a. dollars worth in return. .. tCth. We belieye that, by a judicious and strictly economi cal , expenditure , and manage ment that within a very few Delia E&ynle of Rlarshall Died Saturday, March 1st So far as we are now in formed the death of Miss Hay nie is the passing of the last of the older natives of the town of Marshall. Miss Haynie was about 70 years of age. During the flood of 1916 all of her belongings were washed away. The relief society of Marshall bought the lumber and built her a little house on the back street next to the railroad. . Miss Hay nie had lived there ever since the lime 'of the flood until a few . months ago when she moved to the upstairs of the Moore-Davis, Stuart store build ing, j M i s s. Haynie w a a an honest hard, working woman and.supported herself by taking in washing, Several years ago she adopted a boy by the name of Earl who 'was very loyal to his foster, mother... , : We understand that by saving and close' economy she left a few hundred dollars to this orphan boy f or , the purpose of educatiag him. - Through 'her trials and; hardships making a living she exhibited the spirit of the widow who contributed her mite and was commended by our Saviour for making the most liberal contribution on that occasion.- The contribution tfrtt; neai&Jfttnie'-, hss. made for one who was cast helplessly on the world, we believe is just as commendable as the widow who contributed her mite when: Jesus set over by the treasury.) She was a consistent member of the Free Will Baptist church at Marshall: She was buried in the Pritchard cemetery. Peace to the ashes of this faithful godly, woman Editor. Brush Creek Items Mr. R. C Lieb has gone back to War, West Va.t where he has been working for somo time for Harmon Lumber Co,, but had been home on account of illness of his wife. . - ' Some of the children . of this place have had measels and chicken pox. Miss Mary Lieb ia home after spending the winter in Florida. Our farmers were busy getting ready for a new crop But tho cold weather is nuttine them behind with their work. X'i- Mr. GujTRice was a visitor of Brush Creek Sunday afternoon. Quite a few people went from here to Walnut Sunday arter noon to the funeral of Mr. C. W. Fain. . ' A READER. years eyery county seat and orincioal town in the state can be connected by hard surfaced roads, dependable tne y ear arouna irom mouoy ucuvcu j ... from license oh motor '.vehicles and a tax on gasoline used in onrh vehir.tea. without anv dl- rect tax on property, and that all the principal. highways can be maintained by the state un- der this system, And so far as we have the power we pledge th a RemiMiran nartv to such a - , ' w UVUV J I ' ' JOHN A. HENDRICKS, C. B. MASHBURN. DR. FRANK ROBERTS, : ' Committee. MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, FOR V; . FIFTH SUNDAY MEETING TO BE HELD WITH ' , CALIFORNIA CHUECB, XIARCB ?W0, 1924 ', ' SATURDAY,' 9:30 A. Mr-Music bv California Class, Devotional Exercises by Rev, S.k Ponder. 10:00 A. M. Home Missions ' ,i! ' I 1st-?- Its' history and relations ta our Baptist Program Rev. J. - R. Owen. ,. . j . :". 2nd. : Its problems as presented by Roman Catholicism Miss ' Huggins. . Sid Its' relations to Mission Schools Spurgeon Bradley. 4th Worksamong Indians and Negroes-Bro. Stroup. 5thj Evangelism and Church Building Rev, S. L. Lamm. 6th Our Obligations as Pastors and Churches to Support this work Rey. W. H. Hooker, . - - Nos 12 and 6 fifteen minutes each, S 4 and 5 five minutes each. 11:00 A. M. What are the Fundamentals of Christianity Rev., : . R D. Ponder. ' .;. . ..'. . - 11:30 The Lay mans place in the Eaptist Program W. R. White. , 12:00 M.- " DINNER ON THE GROUND Devotional Exercises by Chelcy McMahaa; " ' '. , 1:00 P. M. Life work of Adohirum Judson R. U Moore. 1 :30 P. M. -Foreign Missibns-Rev J. C JPipes. v 2:00 P. M. Missions the Authority and Workers supplied. , Isa. 6-8 Rev, L. C; Roberts. r'. , 2:30 P. M.-Stewardship of 1st life J. M. ' Pickens 2nd of ' property Rev. W.-W. Metcalf 3rd of Gospel -Rev. A J Sprinkle, 15 minutes each. :.t 3:00 P, M.B, Y P. U. work-Ezra Burnett, h iu -Si?41 Sermon by Rev. Jesse Corn; ( ' r " SUNDAY MARCH, 30th- Music, by the Class, 9:3j Devotional Services by Everett Sprinkle. " , I0;ooi-Exposition of Mark, 16-15-16-L. R. Williams. 10:30 Womans Work Mrs. E. R. Elmore. r 11:00-Sermon by Rev. J. A. Bradley, Local Marine With Fleet : Maneuvers. Taking part in the greatest peace time maneuvers e v o t held by the land, sea and air forces . of the Umted States, Clarence M. Ramsey, ; spn of Mr. John M . Ramsey of Mar shall, N. C , is now on duty with a detachment of U. S. Marmi'in ithe West Indies. Hs narnel appear? on' ttie official list of Marines , with the - ma neuver forces in the Caribbean. The maneu yers ' began early in; January :ana win noi dc mpleted imtU the last battle ship returns to -its home.port n May or .June. Certain prob lems in connection with the der fense of the Panama Canal and regular battle practice py tne ships of the 'Atlantic and Pacific Fleets are being held." Many of the operations - are taking place ia the. Vicinity, of Uilebra, one; n a. gmaii cfrouD of islands m ' - - the Caribbean. The United States- Marines will remain in the West Indies for periods varymg ' irom nve weeks to several months, cer-i tain units bf the Corns! being, assigned to a variety of duties ashore or on snips or tne navy piia bwjhoo, ana coat any ana during the Operation. ; v ;l all persons contracting or trad- Clarence joined tbe Marine I - " . li' Corps at Detroit, Mich., De: cember 6, 1922, and is now with the 42rd Company, 5th Regi-12 ment, on the island of Culebra- N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH RAM MARCH, 29th . r Big Pine News Mr. Zaek Massey has bought Mr. Stokely Roberts farm and will move to this farm. . . Mr. Fred Worley plans to move to Mr. Zack Massey 's farm-on the mountain . Mr. Marion Lunsford is quite sick with pneumonia fever. The Big Pine road is to have some improvements H ' Rev. Mr. Graham - preaches at Worley's Chapel .next , Saturday and Sunday. ' ' ' - ;'A quite wedding on Sig Pine last Saturday was that of Mr, Tyson Worley and Miss LHh'e Waldroup, ' ' " Mr. Luther Worley has moved toRunnion. Measels is still prevalent in our section, Mrs Belvie Hender son is just recovering from and Mr. Ben Roberts is building for himself a.ne w dwelling honse. Notice! jjorth Carolina1 Madison County . My wife, Etta Stanton bavins separated herself from me with out cause, all persona are hereby notified that I am and will pot be in no way responsible for any contract, debt or liability enter ed intr or inenrred by the said una witti ner wui ao bo at meir own rish. $ , Tbt February 29th 1924, 29 24 to s zi z p. ' B. STANTON. 14th, 1924. Tbe Facts In The Oil Leasing Matter.; So much po'itics hasj been in jected into the oil leasing in vestigation on Capitol hill that the fundamental facta have been hidden from the public. Brief ly, they are as follows; Under the Taft Administra tion certain portions of the pub lic domain were set aside as oil reserves for the special use of the navy, : On Feb. 25, 1920, an act of Congress, fathered by Senator Walsh, became a law, authorizing the leasing of public oil reserves to private companies for deve lopment on a royalty basis, the Secretary of the, Interior being invested with the authority to make the leases. . . .. On March 5th, 1920, Sec etary of the Navy Daniels addressod a letter to the chairman,. of the House Committee on Naval Af fairs requesting that the law be amended to give the navy abso lute power over all naval reserve ea, with authority to "develop, use aad operate" the oil reserves directly or by lease, -en the ground that drainage of these reserves by wells on adjacant territory made this necessary. Following this requesting Se cretary of the Interior Payne continued ; to grant leases on public lands adjacent ' te the naval reserves, increasing the danger of drainage of the .naval reservej, of their oil;. jA J , In June 1920. ' toi requeM of the Secretary of the Navy to.as- sume control of the naval oil re serves with a view to their 'der velopment' was granted by a "rider" in Congress. Thereafter seven leases were granted on these naval reserves to private parties by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, the action being taken by him in con j action with Secretary of tne Interior Payne, without the formality- of a presidential order, but only by correspondence between the two offices I In line with this precedent the leases to 'Doheny and Sinclair were gran tea Dy oecreianes Denby and Fall. These leases were based on the same neces sity to guard against' drainage by adjacent operations mention ed by Secretary Daniels. The terms of the leases were as fav orable as any granted under' the preceding administration. They involved vast expenditures of money by Doheny and Sinclair which could be undertaken only by a few oil operating concerns. They provided for the erection of storage tanks and the storing of oil for navy purposes at huge ex p en Be to the operators, who were to be reimbursed in government oil. Both Sinclair and Doheny pub licly exploited these lesses as be ing immensely profitable in ord er to boost the stocks of their oil companies, succeeded in doing so, 'and ; thus made huge profits in the market. Later the quotations on their stocks drop ped. It is the belief of oil ex- perts that the leases are, not in fact profitable to the operators, especially in view of the facts tha'I the drilling results have ' been far below expectations The scandal in connection with 'these leases is that Secretary i Fall, preseed for money, borrow led $100,000 from Doheny and i $25, 000 from Sinclair, and lied about the .transactions publicly No II Death of C. W.FoJn. J . Clarence W. Fainr born Jan i .. . uary 25thj 1870, died March 7th, 1924, age 54 years, 1 month, 11 days. Surviving his first marriage to Miss Bessie Landen are two children, Charles and Juliet. Surviving his second marriage to Miss Lydla Hasket- , are his widow and five children, Helen Rose, Clarence, Jr., John, Dixon and William. He is also survived by four full sisters and two half sisters, Mrs. J. C. and Mrs. J. D. Shipe, of Knox villcTenn.; Mrs. W, T. Brad shaw, and Miss May Fain, of Palmetto, Florida; Mrs. J. H. Hart and Miss Minnie Fain, of Knoxville, Tenn. ' Mr. Fain professed faith in Christ some twenty years ago and united with the Presbyterian church, serving for a time as elder in the church and retaining mem ' bership in the church to his death, ,'. ' .7; ' He was a member of the In dependent Qider of Odd Fe lows and also of the Masonic fraternity, ; being a . thirty-second degree Mason at the time of his death. As a citizen 1 e was upright and honorable in all his ways. As a christian he was faithful and consecrated to his task. As a husband and father he was kind, thoughtful and devoted. He rests from his labors and his works do follow him" ; J ! .. t Mt Tain-was Jmmnga saw. mill on Laurel. He was. called into the woods to see if some logs thathad been cut were worth bringing to the muV. While-; inspecting the logs, a small dead chestnut tree blew down striking him on the h ead . and neck killing him instantly. ; The funeral services was con-' ducted Sunday at 2 o'clock byf Rev's. James L. . Hyde, J. N, Andre and others. After the funeral services in the churclv the Masonic fraternity took, charge of the body and held a very impressive service at the. grave. . ' : -' Mr. ' Fain bemg well hnown . . j t i over tne county causea ais funeral to be attended by a. large number of people. We extend our decrest sym pathy to the family in their great loss. : B. E. Guthrie. ;'' ': FOR SALE -P R I N CE RAY Property Tract known as miV trct containing 38 acres, good.. house , and water mill, ruce bix:. room dwelling formerly Presbytc rian cottage, six Jooms with nec essary out building at a rare bar-" gain. Locjted near residence of Mr. Solomon Sheltoa on Shelton , Laurel. Very aUraetive tcrmo.' If iuterested wi ite or call on . A. W. WHITEHURST. i and privately whendiis financial relations with the two men were made pubiic, thereby lead;ng to the public belief that the tranN actions were corrupt and detri mental to the public interest That is all there is in the oil scandal, there isn't any more. Taft locked up the naval oil re serves. Daniels and Payns open them and Fall made least to Doheny and Sinclair under cir;. cumstances now on the. way t: court determin :tion as to whethr er they were crimnaU.but which, everyone ' nows wers reprehen sible. , - . y V