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V , : r' t TKOGSCSSIVE -FAnUiR 1 THE NEWS-RECORD PRICE A YEAR :IE NEWS-REvWiai fie Sth A YEAR FOR I $&0 V THE frNLV NEWSPAPER PUBtlSHQ mf MADISON COUNT MARSHALL, ft. CFttlDAV JANUARY 29, 1926 1200 vol. xxi r- 4 ' , . Vnfc MARSHALL TO HAVE 117 HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING lELECnON LAST SATURDAY I CARRIED" BY SAFE MAJORITY The election last Saturday I' enlarging the Marshall school district and assuring Marshall, I of a new high school building I -was carried by a safe majority. The total number registered to ryote was 884; voting for the '.school 224; voting against the .school 108; total majority ove ill 32. f 6 A music recital was given at -Jhe courthouse the njight be fore the election by Mrs. W. H. .Morrow, which was given in an effort to arouse enthusiasm. iTbose who favored the election 'eel that Marshall has taken a threat step forward in the mat ter of (education by carrying this election . If managed prop erly this will help the town in many ways. FOUR PEOPLE IN WRECK Broken Rail Cause Southern Freight L3ngn to Turn Over About one o'clock Thursday morn ing engine No. 5033; drawing a long freight train, turned Over about two miles east of Hot Springs, injuring the entire crew of four men, the en gineer, fireman, conductor ana x lag- man. Not My, of these are said to be injured seriously. The train was going- west when on 5NS BANK OF HNGSrMHlMfiKEAT MOUNTAIN PARK PROJECT The board of director ef The Citizens Bank pf Marshall met Tuesday and among other bus iness, and in keeping with its policy of encouraging public projects looking toward the im provement of h community voted to encourage the Great Smoky Mountain Park project. Present beside the cashier were Messrs. J. B, McPevitt, W. R. Sams, J. C. Fisher, W. T. Davis and E. R. Tweed. It was voted that the bank subscribe 100 to apply on Madison coun ty's quota for this purpose. SOME FACTS ABOUT THE GREAT SMOKY MOUN TAINS NATIONAL PARK SIZE At least 450,000 acres of mountain land and foot-hilli. . LOCATION Approximately half in Western North Carolina and half in Eastern Tennessee, - lying- within ...the,.' counties of Swain, Haywood and Graham In North Carolina, and Sevier, Blount and Cocke in Tennessee, and including the range of the1 Great Smokies from the Pigeon River on the northeast, to the Little Tennessee . River on the southwest PRINCIPAL CHARACTER. ISTICS- High-: range of moun- tains, 40 miles long, in which are 18 peaks more than 6,000 feet above sea level, and ' in which many of the principal power-producing rivers of Ten. nessee and North Carolina have their source. .Variety of trees, flowers and shrubs, said by bot anists to be unexampled any- where on earth. Greatest stand of deciduous trees in Eastern A- merica, one-quarter of the park area being-covered Hwtlr virgin forests, many of whose trees are more than a thousand years old.. -: . - f ACQUISmON-i-To be pur chased from present owners by funds the first million of which are to be subscribed by the people of North Carolina and From Lower BIG PINE Our Sunday school was very good Sunday, but small in number. Pray er meeting was Sunday afternoon. James Fortner conducted the service. We were glad to have him with us. We need lots of prayer at this place.. Our prayer meeting would be better if it wasn't for the way some do. We want all who pray to please remember us at this place. We are sorry to say our faithful school teacher, Mr. Wesley Hunter, has gone home. His school was out Friday, January 22. We believe if there ever was a child of God he is one. We wish him the greatest of success. We also hated to see Misses Nina Hunter and Bonada Silver INJURED NEAR HOT SPRINGS I suddenly and without warning the en gine turned completely over clearing itself of the track. A broken rail is given as the cause of the accident Traffic was interrupted very little, due to fact that the engine was clear of the track and another engine had soon pulled the train off the main line. Necessary repairs were soon made so that passenger train passing Marshall at 6:43 went through about OS schedule time. In turning over the engine broke the wires thus cutting off communication SIARSHALL AND HOT uUl j Tennessee, and the remainder by the people of the nation at large. MAINTENANCE Once the park is created by Act of Con gres, funds for the improvement of the park, building of roads, rest-camps, and other conven iences for the visitors will be made available by Congress. The park, when open to the public, will be administered by the National Park Service of the Interior, which directs the other 19 national parks of the country, and the entire cost of maintenance, will be borne by the federal government. ACCESSIBILITY Both in North Carolina and Tennessee several state highways, already open to traffic or in course of construction, lead into the pro- posed confines of the park. These state roads will be linked tin with.nOth.er highways within the patfc. .which ' will htvonilt and maintained by the federal government, thus making the park easily accessible. FIFTH SUNDAY MEETING The Fifth Sunday Meeting of the French Broad Association will meet this month at Paint Fork Baptist Church. The pro gram is made to cover Satur day, January SO, and Sunday following. This is a fine com-1 munity and the people will wel come messengers ana visitors from the various churches. Many of the pastors of the As sociation have been faithful in attendance upon these meetings which have proved . to be of great value in inspirational and spiritual power and in the de lightful fellowship - promoted thereby." -: '-!r:C R. L. MOORE,' Secretary Executive Committee. leave, and we hope they will all come back and see us again. Miss Annie Mae Worley left Sun day for Black Mountain where she will go to school. We hated to see M,!JMw,rivhiianinrto leave. She will be greatly missed in our Sunday school. We hope she will like her school fine. She Will board with her sister, Mrs. Herbert Waldroup. Mrs. Joe Worley, Mr. Alec Worley and Mr. W. H. Roberts, Jr., were the gueBts of Mr. Henry Worley for din ner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Worley the guests of Mr. S. C. Worley a family Saturday night Mr. C. A. Worley and Mr. fceagan Worley took dinner with their jbroth-. er-in-law, Mr. Johnnie Randall, Sun,' day. Miss Blanche Worley has gone back to stay a while longer with Mrs. John-' nie Randall. We are proud to say Mrs. Randall is improving some now. We hope she will soon be well again. Mr. Winston Worley spent Sunday night with his cousin, Mr. Hansard Worley. R. V. Sprinkle's little boy, Charles; is very ill at this writing. We hope he will soon get welL Miss Grace Rector is on Big Pine BANQUET AT RECTOR HOTEL IN M'mT Mr. Bird ef Ashemjle, and Local Men Discuss Great Smoky Mountain Project A delightful banquet- last Friday evening at the-Rector hotel was served the business men of Madison county so that the matter of the Great Smoky Mountain Park,.cpjild.:b pre sented and discussed.; Plates not air were' taken. Other at tractions in town preventing spme from attending. Three of Hot Springs' leading eitizeng were present and added a great deal to the success of the meet inf. Mr. Bird, of the Chamber of Commerce of Asheville, was introduced by Mr. Guy Roberts, local chairman of the park campaign. Mr. Bird proved to be a very entertaining speaker and aroused, considerable en- thusiasm in the matter. The Asheville paper the next day MATTERS OF INTEREST ABOUT MARS HILL COLLEGE TheTrusteeB ef Mars Hill College met in Mid-Winter Ses sion on January 19 and spent the day in faithful study and planning s to the needs of the nrenent and the future of the in. gtftution. Several decisions were reached while Committees will report on other matters toi the Annual Meeting in May. .JProfeeso I. N. Carr of the Department ef History ; was e- lected Director of the Summer School whieh wll be. twelve weeks in length this year. The first term of six Weeks will be gin June 9 and close July 20, the second term extending from July 30 to September 4., Be tween the rtwo' summer terms The Baptist M contain Assembly which draws "hundreds irom this and other states will be held, July 20 SO. The pur pose of the summer terms is to help high school and college students who have deficiencies to make up or who want to do advanced study with a view to completing their courses in less time. Last summer 150 earnest students attended the Summer School at Mars Hill and found it a delightful place for doing vigorous h" study. (The enroll ment this year will doubtless be much larger. 4 The trustees voted their ap proval ef a faculty recommen dation that the session of 1926 1927 onen and close some three weeks later than has been the l .V 4rtJ- TT xir 1 kiftlCllliWorley all went to BlUcft .mriftatn' Sunday. Jtr4 ' CHrrie .Worley, Mrs. Bonnie waMVfasnaie Worley, Mrs. IfcreMtv Worlieyy Mr. and Mrs. John Price1 W(t several other visited Mrs. Myrtle Sprinkle Sunday. 'Kr.lEiiwsxd Eandale was the guest of !lT$ JBansard' Worley for dinner was the guest of 1TW ''t'rrtlW RnriialclAa Sundav nkrht. hschee at Walnut spent the week-end fc0W;i$:'V;v at best Irishes to the News-Ree- ortf.nd 'jfctt to readers. D DF THANKS ' i . .JiV ; . Wislvto thanK our many frien Is inland around Marshall fort: iete kindness and service du: ig thedeath andvburial of our: brother and husband, FredrReebtr MR.? AND l-MRS. JAMES A. RE $ TO R, MRS. FRED RECTOR and children, VAN B. RECTOR, J G. H. RECTOR, JAMESA? RECTOR, Jr., MRS. W. ?f.A DE A VER, ARTHUR RECTOR,-CHARLIE RECTOR. eeiQ-(to boy sitting idly in school during writing time) : "Hen ry, -'Vh you not writing?" Henry-.'! ain't got no pen." Teacher "Where's your grammar T J'Sh'm Aim, A " UF HATOAL rAKtt carried e following: 3H? .trm f fit msrRi rf.iy Irtf tf ArwcriM ff HTiV Sentiment is favorable in the i&'Ei&Vi.' r IWalnut District to lay off a PARK FUND (Taken from Aheyille Citizen) ttdfaon- County has opened its; campaign for raising a quo- I4;;;a;00.00 .for the estab- lishmentfof national park -in the Of at Smoky; Mountains bf securing subscriptions amount ing to 82,000 last night. Marshall subscribed - $1,250 and Hot Springs 1750. j The remainder is to- be raised nv-r tha ciinfT Uvira. least S100 -of which County s.,Twnnf.W: O R riiird hopes will be . contributed by the public school children. A matter of $2,500 is a small amount for a whole county to nnv in three vonrn and if nil i would help the burden would not be hard on anybody. custom for many years, con- fnrminet mnro noorlv f.Via nror fie'e at nYiar nlcvcreQ in this respect. A dectrinal tiatement was a- dopted unanimously. Tow.68?. awenoance over ia ofotamanf aTmkfloahil what Uoa Hill believes as to the authority mental teachings,- It is safe and sanepretenUtion of the be- liefs of Ui6 founders, and of those now in charge, and must manage i affairs in the fu - ture " Plans were laid for a grad- u hn ifnflMA tn T-rtsWP. tw h A will of ttT&lK Corpening being asked to give such time as he could in getting subscriptions, cash, or insurance payable to the College, no show an averKe umij pledge or payment to be secur.-nc ot ut least 80 per cent, ed at the expense of the 1926:' "Hot Springs boasts of the Co-operative Program. A best building in the county now. committee was also appointed ;This building though, not as to keep the matter of needed 'large; as some of the other equipment and buildings bef oretfldings, is better arranged, our people. jbetteF built, and is equipped Resolutions of appreciation Ithrouhout with new equip, of the lives and gifts of two.ment The people of Hot great benefactors, of the Springs nave a just right to be schoolJacob F. Alexander, Proud of their school this year, who died in St. Petersburg, It is hoped that this school will Fla, December 17, and MilaC. sooi become a standard high Treat, who died two days later choel. : It is now a school of in Pasadena, Cal. were drawn seven teachers,, six: in the ele- by Dr. R. J. Bateman, Chair man of the Board, Dr. J. W. O- Hara of Asheville, and Mr. E F. Watson of Burnsville. - ?.vtO; Def,enougn cnuaren in we COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT'S COLUMN Edited by O. S. DILLARD The special school election hehfrat Marshall on the 23rd waa carried by a large majority. There were 2254 votes cast ior the proposition and 108 against it. This fairly represents the sentiment of the people for bet ter schools. The carrying of this election will mean, we think, a great deal to the outlying districts. It will give them the advantage of an eight months' term. This will enable the districts to se cure better teachers because the best teachers are going1 to work where the terrm is the longest so that they may be properly remunerated for the expenses they have incurred in preparing themselves to teach. The eight months' term will en able the children to complete the work as is planned in the state course of study. Instead of losing two months each year th6 child will be able to finish the elementary school and en ter high school at the proper age. It will give the children m these districts the advantage of the hij:'i school at Marshall without any additional cost in the way of tuition or transpor tation fees. It is planned to have several other special taxing districts formed by the board, and spec ial taxes voted in them to equalize the educational oppor. tunnies within them. By work irig out over a large area this way, much can be accomplish ed in the way of offering bet ter opportunities to many chil dren who do not have them. large boundary so a to include all the territory now served by the Walnut high sehool, and to equalize educational opportun ity within that boundary. By such a course of proceedure, much greater advantages! can foe-offered ia a larger part of thd in the, counts. I Gronp aiid; coujifitl c6mi mericements are beitipJned in the group centers -of the' county. These contests in the group centers win De neia at Wars Hill, Feb. 12th, at White Rock on Feb. ISth, Marshall on Feb. 20th "Various contests will be held at these group center schools, Among these will be recitations, 1 declamations, spelling, oral dramatization, story telling, singing and athletic contests'. The winners from these groups will contest in a county commencement to be held at Marshall about the middle of March. It is hoped that as many of the schools as possible will enter their school in these contests. It will do much to- W8Td fostering school spirit tnrougnout uie cuuuuy. Indications point to an in- JCttr VX AXUill u iu XV yL ub. Pite the fact that the tmnely m ccounli com, rou V ana rain. vwva v y ,W ;d that thc comt AV'TV Inr !ni ? everage comparable ey, Mr. C. E. Rector andH. L- year: To dothis it will take an average of around 73 or 74 PW-'cent The short term 'schools that are closing now iua yic oww mm ""viu ,aoMw. fboutUnd.ev. H. U Jfo, hj f?ve per cent. The larger terms visitors and speeches along tfa "how a nigner per cent or in- " A good school win mentary ana one in tne mgn school ' department. Within two or three years there ought high school department to meet the attendance requirement for accredited rating. Madison county cannot make a better investment ngnt now than that of investing about $200,000 in school plants. Such an outlay will bring untold divi dends to the future county. It will gjive 4U'-parts of the county a chance to develop. When you see a large flourish ing school in a locality, you can safely say that that section is a coming one. But whenever you run across a dilapidated school building with no school interest, you will find a com munity that has no prospects of development. The most pro- gressive counties oi tne siaie today are those counties tnat have put most into the schools. The most backward counties are those which have spent least. Therefore, a county that hopes to make progress cannot expect to make it without edu cating its children. With mod ern high schools in every sec tion of the county, farming would take on new life. Home life will improve. People wil come in and buy homes because we have a climate that is un surpassed. We are close ,to mafket. Our roads will improve for good roads abound where we .Save good schools. Land values will increase. Churck and social conditions will im prove 100 per cent. ,i TIu has been the history, of education in North Carolina during the past twenty, five years. North Carolina has step ped f rem the bottom of the lad der in material progress to the top rungs. People twenty five years ago said tnat iNortn Car olina was too poor to educate its people. But it was not The money that has been spent in education in North Carolina has paidA lflQO per cent dmdensj. What it has done for the state. BfiLATiy.ELY SPEAKING 'H "Unkle PMose, what do yon do for a living?" "WelLsah, I'se connected with lauh'dry work." " How do you mean, connect-r ed?" Connected by marrialge. My ole woman takes in washing.". MADISON COUNTY CLUB MET MONDAY Visitors Invited And All Favor Community Organization Meeting ef the Madisen County. Club in its rooms ever the Bank of French Broad last Monday evening at seven o'clock. Present were Dr. W A. Sams, Mr. A. W. Whitehurst Mr. John McElroy, Mr. O. S. Dillard, Rev. H. L. Smith, Me. Jack Ramsey. J. C. Sprinkle; Mr. Earl Brintnoll, Mr. W. B ALtor. MjO. M. Shel- The value of such an earaaniV zation to a community was die cussed by Mr. H. L. Story Mr. O. S. Dillard, Mr. Earl Brintall same line weje made oy tne following memoers of the clubs Mr. A.W. Whitehurst, Mr. Gur Roberts, Mr. John McElroy, Mr. W. B. Ramsey, Mr. John Mc Elroy and Mr. Eugene Rector, after which an informal discus, sion led to the motion that the combined club partly a so cial club and partly a board of trade, be dissolved and the property now belonging to the club be sold and the proceeds after paying off indebtedness, be divided to the members of the club. . It is hoped that while - this Is being done a chamber of commerce will be organized and that the new organization will purchase such of the furni- .tare of the present, club aa it may neeo. -