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I V ' - , : w"", T' .'A' v.,',, Barley Tobacco Balltiirt' NEWS-RECORD IPO OCT.' .' ,'. BOT -TT?r,' J FOR 'BLMJ ibtaruw...- , . IE NEWS-RECORD $2.00 PRICE A YEAR .... THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY (VOL. XXI MORE PEOPLE NEEDED IN Oil ' ( J SUNDAY SCHOOLS From interdenominational Sunday-school reports there seem to be 8,525 Sunday schools in North Carolina. There are over 1,000 churches without a Sunday-school. The enrollment is 821,999. There are" 885,540- children and youths under twenty-flv years not i ri Sunday-school. This leaves about 1,000,000 , adults unreached for the Sun da y " S c h o o l.v Surely buriurches ought to . bestir iJs-emselves to increase their Sunday-school membership, Mr. E. L. Middleton, Raleigh, North Carolina, is the Sunday school Secretary of the Baptist State Convention. He is just now pushing a campaign to add 20,000 Jiew pupils to the 2,000 couhtry and village Baptist Sunday-schools by July 26. He knows the summer, time is the u v.aaA QMinnia f n mill wure v wKe ,iww. w gtoyr. Jar. Pdiaaieton is espec ially interested in rural schools. He has written a book "Build ing a country Sunday. School." He makes a strong appeal and some pithy suggestions' as to why and how he hopes to reach the 20,000. AN APPEAL TO COUNTRY SUNDAY SCHOOLS The whole purpose of this ap peal is to try to help the country Sunday -Schools. I was born in the country, I found my Sav iour, in a country church. I wad baptized in an old mill race , My major study and worK lor - seventeen years has been to try , to help country Sund&y-schodls. V We are behind in the great bn- I aroinir of the modern Suiiday-1 f wfti.- This; appeal is to4rymteligtotta cftsut ' aet vou and thousands more to age, church affiliation, in Sun- catch steD in our effort to have larger and better Sunday- schools. Fundamental and vi tal Kingdom matters depend on us in our country churches. I name a few reasons why we should magnify the country Sunday-school: 1. It is a Big Task. There are in North Carolina 1,998 country jand village churches and only 265 town and city churches. About 125 of these country churcheshave no Sun day-school. We are -trying to organize a school in every church. Then many of the schools need to be better equip ped and organized and certain ly they need to grow in mem bership. This task is big e uough to challenge the best men and women in every country church. 2. Alt Is a Difficult Task, There are many obstacles. First of all many schools have bmiL "bled white", because so many of the people have moved to the city and taken away much of the best talent We can only train and utilize, the fine, undeveloped , talent re maining. .There is enough left in practically every church to make the Sunday School stand ard. i As already stated There is . great need of better equipment ?td organization., anis can re secured witn money ana train ing. This has been proven over and over -;' again. ; Just now there are., sixty-four - Standard schools in our State. ' Thirty- nine of these are in country or village churches. The most difficult "task is the training of xur , workers.;'-; This can'be done.V Jtis, feeing done again, and-agaia.. in r country churches." Your churchxan do it if it-will. -i:S-- W:: ': ':: '' 3. K Our-Time Need Them. ; Take a look in civic and indus ;ltrial affairs andsee.:-who 'are running things. Go to North ; Carolina cities today and study where our leaders camc-from . lawyers. : doctors, . educators, bankers, merchants, manufact urers, etc. i I believe I am safe in saying eighty-five to ninety I per cent came from our country ; churches. It wiU b bo to the - future. . We must safeguard i?ecountry church if we would l.jrt the right kind of business and professional men in the f u ture. It is a little romantic that Mr; Coolidge pitched hay on his father's farm the day before he took the. oath of office at 2:00 A. M. by the light of a ker osene lamp in his father's f arm hOuse: . ; Frpm the President on down through the halls of Con gress and state legislature and the seats of Federal and State judges you will find country men holding places of influence and Dower out of all proportion to their numbers in our popula tion. The stability of the National and Sate Governments depends largely on what rural people do m tne near iuiure. 4. Christianity is at Stake. From these country churches we are getting ninety, to nine ty-flve per cent of our preach era, missionaries, ana aenomi national leaders, misisnoia . ; . . i j . iruess. racta are in uuu w prove this beyond any question. The test was made in semi naries, colleges and schools. The Foreign Mision Board add ed its testimony. A test in any general state or south-wide as sembly will prove it. Study our city churches and find the source of th?ir leader ship.1 You1 will find it came fromJhe country in a large measure. It seems our city ana town churches must nelp very largely in financing the King dom, but the country churches must furnish most ot tne men and women who will do the work.. . . REACHING THE FOLKS FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL Find Them. This requires a day-school or not, of everyone who ought to be in your Sun day-school. ' Fetch Them. -There must be a follow-up canvass by teach ers, class officers, .pastors, and others. Use every means pos sible to enlist everyone in the Sunday-school. Fix Them. It is almost use less 6 bring them in unless you have a place for them. This means you must graue your school and have due regard for age and sex if you expect to keep them. Fasten Them. (MaKe your program every Sunday so at tractive everyone will want to be present. This requires trained officers and teachers and "a suitable and well-equip ned building. Follow Them. Do the best you can. and many will be ab sent. Go after them. Have definite plans for looking after absentees, ' Finish Them. Your work is not done until everyone has found Jesus as Saviour and is properly related to -the ; activi ties of your church and trained for effective service. . CAMRGIRLSENJOYI INGSTAY0N It has come at last to Mar shall!. What? An ideal sum mer camo for ideal girls 1 v-; If you shouloV search our Eastern, mountains over jrou would nn.q no finer camp - location "rthan historieaLBlennehassett Island. Here.ab'out forty girls are now making merry and'doing things which irirls ehloy: so. bwim ming, hiking, basketball, tennis; volley ball, archery and ; rifle practice ,are, now -.furnisning much entertainment to these happy girls. Marshall has ex tended a cordial bond oi . wel come to the campers Vand ' the girls are spending happy hours with the townfolks as well as at their camp. f jci i, Vi'v. . The personnel of the camp is as follows: Directors: Dr. and Mrs. T, Ellison Simpson, Society Hill, S. C; Counsellors: Misses Mae . MARSHALL, N. C, JULY 10, 1925 Albergorti, Sara Huggins, Mu ryd Atkinson, Kate Pettigrew, Bessie Timmerman, Agnes Gil mer and Jeanette Davis, South Carolina; Girls: Misses Doro thy Midgley, Helen Douglas, Elizabeth Crawford, Sarah Wil cox, Margaret and Bobbie Re cand, Sarah Lee Heustess, Cor rie Bell Gilmer, Edith and Vir gie Anderson, Virginia Sumner, Dorothy Ross, Helen Sompay roc, EvtfXJarrigan, Rosa Spruill, Lois McArn Ada Little, Edith and Dorothy McDonald, Vir ginia Coker, Mary Ellen Suber, Mary Claire McKnight, Janie Brand, Tillie Parker, Hannah Slesinger, Elizabeth Douglas, Mae Burgess, Fannie Nexsen, Elizabeth and Frances Bland, Elizabeth Harris, Carol Rogers, Florence Simpson, all from South Carolina; Virginia Dwy er, Florida ; Flora Sims, Arkan sas, and Nancy Parrott, Kin ston .North Carolina. In addi tion to the girls' there are two boys who are camp members William Simpson and Stanley Slesinger. THE BLANNAHAS SETT ISLAND The old name in conveyances of the island in the French Broad River in -the town of Marshall was Blannahassett. The 'ownership of the island appears to have' changed many times Up to 1876 for a peri od people lived on the island and there was a church build ing on it also. The flood of 1876 swept about all the build ings away and no persons have resided on the island since. A bout 1916 the town of Mar shall owned the. island and MadieonT- oon- thereaf terthe flood of July, 1916 came and washed away the top of more than half of the island carrying with it most of the large tim ber. The value of the island was greatly depreciated. The town of Marshall we learn now proposes to take over the is land if the county will dispose of it at a reasonable sum and improve it as a park for public uses. No town is complete without having a park and place for recreation. By need le 1 improvements the island may be made an ideal park and a place of beauty and of pleas ure. There is yet enough of the island left to be beautified and made very attractive and pleasurable recreation grounds which would be not only a good asset for the town but for the whole county as well. West ern North Carolina is fast beH coming the playground of east ern America, and Madison County is entitled to her share of what benefit is derived from this source. The island con verted into this kind of a place would be an advertisement for this section of the country as well as the town. The country as a whole is not interested in improving the island, as people on the outside, however they may be . benefited by such' provenient,: f eel more or less in different to such a proposition. The town of Marshall is the county: seat and is the county town, and" everyone should be interested in seeing the town beautified and made as attract ive as; possible. The town does hot want, the island for OXFORD ORPHANAGE SINGING CLASS TO BE HERE JULY FIFTEENTH, 1925 IThe bxf ord Orphanage Sing ing Class of the Masonic Or phanage will give their concert in the Court House in Marshall Wednesday evening, July 15th, 1925. . ' . -. This class has beei ; giving their concerts here each year fend is worth hearing. 4 The pro ceeds of the concert go for the maintenance of the orphanage and is a most wort hy c? use, and hone that you wiU come and trial -ill'TOur friends,-. vV?--- any private gain and if it ac quired the title to the island we are Informed it is proposed ass soon as practicable to put on the island a nice swimming pool, aid make other improve ments, make it attractive to the people f our own county and to visitors. As soon as possible we are informed that it is the purpose of the town to make the island one of the most at tractive places in Western North Carolina. We were rec ently informed that Mr. Branch the superintendent of the camp now, - patched on the island, stated that he had been in dif ferent-parts of western North Carolina and the island is the most attractive place that he found,? : All that we have heard speak""0f the matter highly fa vor the! county conveying the island to the town. And as the proposed improvements are to be for; the pleasure of all the people," the to wji should not be required to pay very much for the island. It would cost more than five times as much to put the island in the shape now, that it. was in before the flood of 1916'. We do not believe that the beauty of this attract ive place should be destroyed Iby private enterprises. Now that the, town has expanded we have room in different parts of incorporation for all sorts of en terprises and industries. The town has recently put in a three inch Water line to Rollins, three quarters of a mile and within a few ; Weeks will put in two or three, miles more of water lines, thus extending the splendid wa ter we have practically over the enlarged corporation. . We i believe the citizenship will be; glad for the town to take Wer the island so that the people from all over the coun ty may come to this pleasure spot to 'feave a real enjoyable time, 'especially. when the con temt)teLimproremnt8 & axe made. Let us all get behind the town and urge" the author ities to purchase or take over Blannahassett Island. We are sure that the county commis sioners will be glad to comply with the wishes of the people and gladly turn over the island for a small sum to the town that it may be improved for the benefit for the whole popula tion of Madison County and made attractive to visitors from the outside. MUSIC FOR MADI SON SCHOOLS We are informed that the ap propriation of fifteen hundred dollars for music teachers in the public schools was'retained in the budget of the school board by the County Commissioners Under the present conditions we are informed that five schools in the county may take advantage of this. We regret that every school in the county may not have this advantage but the fact that music will be taught in all the high schools and near high schools in the im-kounty wilL reach a large por - tion of the population, and will greatly aid the music talent of the young people of our county. The more . people cultivate a love for music, the better they are. . we oeneve tnisis tne e ginning.of a great cause and much needed development in Madison County. , . The orphanage at Oxford' is supported by the Masonic Fra ternity of the state, but less than one-third of the children there . are those of Masons and the appeal for help is to alL It will be surprising to you to know what a -wonderful work this institution is doing for the orphans : of. our. ' state. The children' are well trained and will give you a real treat, a Do not fail to come? " ' " ' - i -W. A. WEST, Master! French EroaiLodje.' THE FARMERS' MEETING The Madison Agricultultural Committee held its second re gular meeting on Monday, July 6th. A large attendance listened with much apprecia tion to the talks given by the different Specialists of the state. Two sessions were held one at 10 A. M. and the other at 2 P. M. The President of the Committee, Mr. Guy-.V. Ro berts, presided at both sessions. The morning meeting open ed with a roll-call of the mem bers of the Committee. After the roll-call Mr. Roberts open ed the meeting with a short talk, during which he, in very appropriate remarks, called attention to the purpose of the Committee and its meetings. He stressed the fact that each member of this Committee was expected to be present at each quarterly meeting, or else pro vide a suitable proxy. He em phasized the need of the sup port of the Committee by the County agent in his work; how it was only through a combined effort of those interested that the County would get the good of the work. Following Mr. Roberts, the County agent, Mr. Brintnall, in a short concise manner told of his two months work, in the County. Mr. Brintnall stated. that he had in this time visitedlthe farmers to run on their pas nearly every section of the County and had met many of her citizens. He stated that it had been his intention as much as was possible in this length of time to discover some of the outstanding needs; he had dis covered much idle land through the County in which some one had their money invested and on which they were paying tax es. This is a poor business policy allfJHM- some sort of a crop. Attention was called to the fact that the people were not conserving and building up the fertility of the soil as they should; soil fertili ty is the basis of all successful agricultural practice. The lack of enough 1 1 v e-stock throughout the county was very evident; there is a big need of more live-stock pf every kind, poultry, hogs, and cattle, and of better live-stock. There is a lack of appreciation of the possibilities of the .country ome. More attention should be given to making it attractive. This is needed not only for its effect upon the home folks but also for its effect upon the stranger who is passing thru. There is much advertising value in section filled with attractive prosperous homes. ' Mr. Niswonger, State Horti culturist, was next introduced bv the President. Mr. Nis wonger laid much stress on the fact that the Couny Agent wou rtt ant, Hr. a lartrcltne marKct was waning, me amount of personal work, that this was impossible if the best results were to be secured, that the work must be none thru community ieffort. He call0'1 the attention of the audience io the fact that only through the combined "efforts of the County Agent and the people could the full aid of the. specialist in the different lines be obtained. The Specialist is expected to work in concert with the Agent and th Icil efforts of these specialists are spent m those counties backink up the Agent to the-fullest extent. Mr. Nis wonger dwelled upon the a daDtability of the mountain section of North Carolina to the growth of fruit, both bush and tree fruit. He stated that where the native apple was. a- vailable of the same quality as the Western Box Apple the cus tomer much preferred the na tive ,i apple, - He called atten tion to the need of the best known J methods in orchard work of proper soil conditions, proper varieties, use 'of pruning, spraying, and grading of the fruit. He stated that the cus tomers' desires must be satisfied if the market was to be obtain ed and held. The producer, must satisfy the customer if he expects to secure -and hold his 1200 market. Mr. Niswonger stated that there was a good market for Mountain fruit if the quali ty and the quantity was se cured. Questions and discus sion by interested listeners closed the forenoon meeting. The afternon meeting open at .2 o'clock. We were glad to be delayed in starting the program by a heavy rain which produced smiling faces on the gathered farmers. Mr. Rob erts spoke a few words about the Live-stock Marketing As sociation that was formed and then turned the meeting over to Mr. Gwyn. Mr. G yn talk ed very interestingly along the line of the great need of not on ly this ounty but of Western North Carolina having a bet ter and more stable market for its live-stock. He said that thsi was the aim in view in forming the Marketing Associ ation; that through marketing by the group method the far mers could obtain the aid of the services of those of much ex perience in handling live-stock and that they would get these services at the lowest possible cost. Not only would this as sociation give aid in marketing the live-stock but they would also give attention to the buy ing the best grade of cattle for tures the following summer. Mr, Gwyn called on Mr. R. R. Ramsey for his opinion of the marketing plan. Mr. Ramsey strongly endorsed the system, stating that he could not see how the farmer could go wrong in backing up the Association, that it would mean much to the farmer in the way of improved markets. At the close of Mr. Gwyn's and Mrr Ratnaey talk the: Presi- dent introduced Mr. Farnum, State Specialist in Dairying. Mr. Farnum held the attention of the audience by his pleasing and well given talk. He bore on the connection of live-stock on the farm to a fertile farm; of the fact that live-stock is necessary to the greatest fer tility. He called the attention of the audience to the fact that there is a place in Madison County for both dairy and beef breeds; that some sections are more especially favorable to the production of beef while in other sections there is a plaCe" that can be well filled by the dairy cow. Mr. Farnum drew the attention of the audience to the fact that a cow is always bringing in the cash, that the returns are regular and sure, that they come at short inter vals "and not after a long per iod of waiting. He stated that the question of a market for the product need not hinder the product need not hinder jsreat need was a i product of the right quality. He -told of the great demand for dairy heifers in the whole-milk producing .--'toons around the large cities itixd of the good price these dairymen are willing to pay for your. 2 cattle of the right sort. Mr. Farnum's talk was not only interesting but also very in structive. The meeting of the Commit tee was a decided success from all points. The attndance was large and the attention given the speakers were rewarded by talks that contained much grist to be ground in the family and community mills. The County will await the next meeting, the first Monday in October with a quickened interest. STILL CAPTURED ON N JULY 4 On July 4.1925. Deputy Sheriffs Massey, - Coward and Connor captured a still on Lit, tie Bottom Branch near Htt Springs. Msny beer bottles. jugs, jars, etc., were found, but no liquor was captured. v. f:'
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