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THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUS! :IIED IN MADISON COUNTY
VOL XXI
MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 19th, 1924.
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No 47
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A Story p The Carolina
Mountains
s;" (Br Walt Wiohtman VANaivin)
, The court which was to pass un-
on the Question Of lire or death' . of
' Tom Maynard, was soon to con
,r' vene at Hendersonvillo. During
Sl'the time wh'ch elapsed however,
." before the Bitting of the court, the
1' faithful wife and mother with other
' relatives, came cften from home to
( visit the prison. .',, V, r
At last the day, or rather the
. days, of the trial came, and the
.manly prisoner was brought into
V court by the Sheriff. Conscious of
his innocence, Torn Mavnard felt
. that a court of justice ' fully in
i Vestigating the charge would via
- dicate him. The qther defenders
nad not been captured, so he . was
. tried alone. Able counsel analized
and criticized ihe evidence; showed
, that he had Lone there to the still
bouse as a peacemaker, and they
brought out all the faeff, likely tn
aid the young jury in-arriving at a
just verdict. The sympathetic
and kind hearted mountaineers who
.had known Tom from his boyhood
crowded the courtroom to near the
trial of one in whose innocence
they had every confidence. Those
who in boyish sports bad climbed
' the mountainsides with him and as
1 . comrades had rqved the ' beautiful
' valleya of this "land of- the , sky"
;. could not be induced to think tfiat
anything like murder ' had ever
crept into his manly heart.'- His
' ' character had always won for him
. ' feiends. v '"'v;"'
,r Then followed the argument of
' counsel, -the eloquent wrtrds of thev
defense for the youth and ' inno
cence-followed bjx the . representa
live 01 the state, the v proseeuting
. attorney, who with vigor and graph
ic power pictured tbe crime and its
perpatrators; he emphasieed the
' evidence which showed that May.
...... ;nard had been; apprehended with
. the "fimokinj? pistol in his ' hand, a
- - ball Tronj which caused ;he death
of the deceased ; and then ' George
"V Redmon's positive; evidence that
&lapnard was there at the time of
s the killing, seemed to be conclusive
' Then came . the suspense of tho
bour-duringwhich the jury were
cfeliberating on the verdict. : .
-'. tinally into the cout4( house.v the
twelve men came and the eager
throng snshedtx) hear their verdict
nh.h uK..irlrl HWUm nlh..,..l J. a
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woe of Tom Muynsrd A breath .
, (e s suspense prevaded tbe packed
court room, while the clerk -went
,.:! through .the solemn form, laid
. dwn and followed for ages in
taking a jury's verdict. ,? Do you
find the prisoner at the bar guilty
or not guilty of the felony where
of he stands charged?',' slowly, and
measurably asked-the clerk. Guil
jy of the murder and. felony as
' charged bjvthe bill of indtctment"
replied the foreman and the doom
- of the prisoner was fixed it seerned,
' as far as human aid was ; concern-
H ;:.f'-,y: :;V!."" -;rn '.-
His case .was appealed, to the
r t'di reme court, but a new trial was,
refused. . A petition was sent .to
the Governor for the commutation
, of Ciis sentence to life imprison
ment but to no avail. At the next
tjr.ii of .the court- the prisoner was
rsf cntenced and the date for his
t' - "'-Ion was , fixed for Friday
' J To Tom Llaynard's
i 1 i j i . '.'J-3 escape'' from a
t' '.a; d- i r itself. ..
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had been, he could not fully realize
the . fact that an innocent
citizen might suffer the penalty for
the guilty. , ,
One day not long after the trial
more sad news came to the old
home etead announcing the acci
dental drowning - of William and
itonert Aciait . endeavoring t o
evade the officr, who were close
upon them, in crossing; the Tucka
eeegee during a storm and in the
night, the h.09t was capsized and
the wayward fugitives went down
t their death in the turbulent
mountain stream The next' day
their bodies were recovered miles
below. and buried on the banks of
the roaring river. The penalty of
all their crimes was paid by an un
natural death, and they sleep, for
g tten by. their fellowman, in the
wilds of the mountains, with . their
grave unmarked by a single atone,
unblest by single flower. The
month of June came and was paw
ins; out, at the prison window,
Tom Maynard saw erected the
scaffold on which ha was to bi
executed The day of the tent'i
arrived ? in the afternoon of that
da ma.ny f,om a dirtan.. were
coming into town to witness the
next day's execution.
Amon$'.th'jumber'2 of, mount-1
amters thus early tlocking to town
to see the hanging) there, was one
who came fur a different purpose.
She was a v young woman some
twentv-six years old, attired in
the plain, simple homespun garb
characteristic of the locality, and
with & face which, while , it . was
not of a type to be called .beautiful!
was by no means homely, thobgh
it was somewhat hid under the
shadow of a sun bonnet Her form
was rounded "and stout and' she
nresented an appearance of un
usual firmness, intelligence, indl
self-possession. ' She asked , per
mission to spend the night with
her husband, therprisoner his last
nitht on earth The kind-hearted.
ana sympa.neuc jauor gramea per
request.- She asked to be allowed
her freedom at early dawn, so that
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auon ,or urn lerno.e 1a o oer
vuu . . auuu.wu-. .. --
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in iDiiiiiimi uu nn wm j i m i in nu iiih
I V JO' v.v.v. " - '
wroing tne
key on prisoner charged ., with
irraver offenses than assault and
battery. V i..;v .-iC
Those who are familiar with the
laws of the Old North State are
cognizant of the fact that the cust-i
o n of the deaUi watch bas. never
beerhengrafteM into its statute.
Henea it. was the only espionage
ut xvm tv,Hu w .uujcvwu
to that night wa such alone as
come from the lovolighted eyes of
his devoteq and heroic Mary.
A s the great north-east began to' I
send u,j the sky its first streaks of
ight announcing the breaking day,
tne veneraDie jauor, none too soon
. 1 1 ! . . A
tor nis voiunr,eer prisoner, turneu
turned the kejnn tne primitive,
ma-sive iock ana auowea me waa-
ing homespun-clad figure in the
old sun b.met to pass down into
the cool sweet ar of a mountain
morning and away amid-the dimly
distinguishable objects of the sum
mer tjawn. - r ; .
A stream of the country - people
pouring inta the town from day-
1'sht ca iiuriss tba early mcrninj
f .
Money
Value Your
It Wher
. HERE IS A FEW OF THE BARGAINS: ;
" (las 22 cents a gallon. Laundry Soap 3 1-2 cents' a
cake. Horseshoe Bend Coffee $1.10 a bucket Extra
gaod ground Coffee 25 cents a pound. Morristown flour
85 1 cents a sack. 7 Gilt Edge flour 95 cents a sack,. Best
Grade salt bacon 15 cents a pound. 4 pound Bucket
Lard 75 cents, 8 -pound bucket Lard $1.50 Sugar
$8.25 a sack. Good Ginghams 18 cents a yard. Men's
good Overalls $1.25 a pair. Men's Suits from $12.50
to $23.00. Men's Leather work Gloves 75 cents a pair.
Good Cain-l)ottomed Chairs 98 cents each f S ' " r
W e (ivi you a bargain in anything in our store.
We will buy anything the farmer has for sqle
and pay him the best prices, and wefcarry a
complete line of Goncral rilerchandisb at a bar-,
lIainl-,Evcryol4uryou';;cp'
chance on a $36. OO Bicycle to
December 22nd, 1924.
double tn wragons, cans, buggies on
foot-traveling in every conceivable
manner they came With strange
lACinflllon (inos th nrnonont nf t. Iu ,
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horrib, tlMt lhe unlettered and
unwashed . . back 0 f tllC
oourt ho and ,B f t ofthpjaii
paintedewn marring with, its
terrible sugKestiyeness ; the rare
ing, hke a discordanls note, in alhatred on hisxsic'essful rival
grcat 'symphony; It i. eight o'.
. . w .
clock; and the fj ,lfuriaiei. a8 his ;
custom Is, climbs, the Ftair way
with the prisonei's last re past.'
The hevv bo't thrown out with a
'aqg undo es the cumbercus door.
Appio icnig the eel , the jailor
glancesinand isdumb with amaze-
mcnt. ;-. JM'toes before' him. rot
thedoonied man but ti e convict ,
band)jome helpm-eet-whjae thapely
iimh. arfl ; j : ,, l,r- .band'aMn'k'Hn th. ahmiin'- Tm 'rad's, P'm.lrAt.
home-made clothes-while he in'thnr nc T aworo hnt 'h. .ml
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hers is among his native hills and
. '
n curi,)n, rrnwda
riisnftrsed
Ln(1 hv nightfall the little
t settled down, to
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its accustomed
tranquility But round fire
6ideg thismounffin people this
rftmftnrtfc tnrv still is uM and the
devotion of this modern highland
Mary will live in their traditions.
On a dreary winter evening, not
many years ago,: George Re Imon
lay dying. ' lis had recognized
the grim messsnjsr on the pale
hcrse summonsing him to the
great s.s5!3. In youth ha had
T His M 1 Sam's Pfe
dollar Enough To Spend
It Will Buy
S. R. FREEBORN
Wainut, 11 C. x -'X;-'.
mountain beauty .Mary Adalf,
and he had caught in her wonder
jful deep blue eyes, glimpses of nn
V.Aan that- nron aotinuH md in
b.oora for him for year9 he d
lnnrsed a hopeless ove( Until she
Wa8 wedde(1 to ;;T Maynard:
iuuv wi uvj)kiai.u 11V 1 M w
.where he was wounded offered
him an opprrtunity as he thought
'Now on the border -land betwetn
.
two wcldi he felt'the twinges of :
remosi', for in dogged det mina
tionhe had looked for years his
lips in silence on' the i subject.''
' I'm g' in' now" .he said plan-
tively." But I want to say thi it
Tom Maynard wasn't the man
that killed old man Jone?. I
swore the truth at the iral but
not all the truth. I. knowed he
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trvincr to make peace, and Crab
,bed the pistol outen Will's hands
nfprWill shnt - "fsurrl fnroiva mo
An th nnfrWn;f wc
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gone.
Based on those dying I declara
tions a petition was brotrght to
the Governor asking: the, pardon
of Tom Maynard. It was signed.
by tbe judge, the solicitor for the
state and the whole of the jury
and the pardon was granted. In
to hi Viarle homtf in i the far
west came these things : to the
fuUive, after all . these years.
Cut row r "1 and. r-gy, with r.?3
Tte Most
Be given aivay
from hia tillage of the fertile soil,
ho preferred to finish his journey
mere. And in the fulness of the
time, so he did. He sleeps one
of the many brave pioneers on
whose gave' falln theevening
shadows of the distant mountains
ftut-errt yet h 'closed iig tired
ev e-t (or theikst time, he looked
thrnugli iii 'open 1 window and
ii&zinti oh the grr-at rockies, blue
in ih j dim distance, his thoughts
turned ag'iin," iuS f ten they did,
tenderly and 'sadly bac.t
to
tl.e
clime on sun-painted cliffs and
beautiful higlands whre he was
born. And dwelling on the vicis
situdes that come to human life,
his mind fixed itself finally on a
mount over far seas, whence had
been Droclaimed that beautitude
a benedict for many years to his
,su(ferinir heart.
"Blessed are
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Mr.J N. Burnett of Hickory N.
Cwho undervthe Baptist State
Mission Board, will be n Spring
Creek Saturday evenhi the 20th
Creek Saturday
of this month, sx3 will idlccuss
Sunday School Tei;;:2y. : lie
will be at Iisrtyj Es;ti3t
Church Saturday ever..".:;, Lzzl
Chapel, Sun 10 A. 1!., tt Cz
Fiats cf Sprlr'j Crr .X C -' :y
2:30, andattH-Xhi:i Crib
Ekdlscn County Strdaj
7 School Afssclatlcn
Programs are out and plans
are being rapidly completed for
holding the Madison Countv
School Convention on Saturday
and Sunday, October 4 and 5.
The convention will be held with
White Rook Church: the open
ing sesjion being htld at 7:30
o'clock Saturday night, October
It expected that there will
be a good attendance from var
ious parts of the county at this
first meeting. Other sessions
will be held Sunday Morninff.
afternoon and night, the con
vention closing with the Sunday
night session.
Officers in charge of plans and
program for the convention have
announced that the program has
been prepared with the idea of
having Ma convention for the
discussion ot practical problems."
The plan is to make it possible
or workers from all denartments
of the Sunday School to receive
practical suggestions concerning "
their specific w k. , '
During tht convention . there
will be question and discussion
periods when those present will
be given an ODDortuuitv to nre-:..r
sent their Sunday School 'prob-',
ems for discussion, and ask any
gUestionsro nv. Sunday ; School
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"The convention is.inler-de-. '
nominational, are ihViteil to par- -
ticipate in the work The Mad-y
iscsa Countv Sunday School As- '
eociation, under whose direction ?
the convention is being held is .
one of the seventy eight County 1
Sunday School Associations now
organized in the State in connec- .
uon with the work of the North
Carolina Sunday School Associ- '
ation.
- ! West Fork News
The farmers of our community
are very busy cutting tobacco.
Our Prayer meeting' and Sun
day School is moving on nicely
at present.
We hava jut gone through a
two-weeks meeting at this place
which was a greai success.
Vfr R H Clark nrii Mf H.
'. Fisher of Jupiter. N C . were
visiting this p!ac3 la t Suaday.
Mr. and Mr E S Morgan at.
tended the Decoration at Uat-
iel's Creek last Saturday.
Mrs AlicaOgle of Kentucky
is v si ing her old home place
near here now. . ' :
Miss Edith ,Tshcr who has
been very sick for the last, two
months is still in a serious con
dition Mr. Guy Rice of Asheville
was a pleasant taller at the home
of Miss Bonada Silvers last Sun
day. Best wishes to News-Record
(A Subscriber)
A meeting of the; Church of
God is now going on in the Island.
All are invited to attend.
Preachers in charge are: r ' r '
J. H HAROLD, M . H. SHEL
TON and C D. FINE.
. Preaching hours, 2 P. M. and
7.S3P.M.
Churches are especially invilcJ
tocsne. The TuIIIj is r.r t
ccr::-!Iy urjed to Lzzr l!. : j
tLillzzi &ll:tzz.- - Mr. T :r-
r.iii-i f3 le jAay3' on Lci.:j t.'.,-r
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cf that
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