. 'JSVS ji'" , , J , , A I , fniE. NEWS-RECORD frO flfl ,
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY
.VOL: XXI
AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE TO
BE ENTERTA
Easiness Men of Marshall Plan
' ning a Luncheon for Farmer
( vThe business men of -Mar-:
fchall are planning to entertain
the Madison County Agricul
tural Corprriittee dn i Monday,
April 5, at noon. Thisj Agri
cultural Committee is compos
ed of 23 representative farmers
of the county one from each
Voting precinct.
t ' The purpose of the lunoheon
i is to bring the , business men
and farmers together on some
matters of mutual interest. One
matter that will be put before
them will be. An Agricultural
Tour, 'it' is proposed to take
quite, a number of the farmers
;of Madison" County on automo
biles and, with tents and other
equipment spend several days
visiting various state test farms;
successful poultry and dairy
farms," ereamefies, and so forth
along the route. They will
doubtless visit the State College
in Raleigh and many places of
interest in our State. Arrange
ments will be made with proper
parties in each county to meet
the tour and conduct it through
'the county. Committees' will
be appointed at the above nam
ed luncheon to work out the de?
tails of tne vamous project,: ;
Another matter to come up
will be that of a Street Agricul
tural Fair to be held in Mar
shall some time in the fall.
All these - propositions are
with a view to helping the f arm-
ers of our County to help
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themselves and to encourage a
v community feeling and spirit of
cooperation between the farm
ers and business men of Madi
son County. At the luncheon
the Board of County Commis
sioners, the County Board, and
possibly some other represen-
. tative people of the County will
i also be entertained. . - ,
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION IN MAY
paring the period from May 3 to
- 9 Inciusive, the Sunday. School work-1
jYen of all evangelical denominations
J. .. '2,: ill v.. fc .nmr.
.tunity of attending two sectional Sun
Uajr School . Conventions conducted
under S.e auspices of the North Car
v olina Suhday School Association, in
the even, years sectional conventions
v are held, and In the odd years there
is one general state-wwe convenuon.
-Hiis being the year for the section
al conventions, the meetings- WilK be
. held as follows: , ,
The Convention in the Western sec-
tion of the State will be held at Hick
ory on Monday, Tuesday, Wedrtos
day May 3, 4, 8, beginning with
session on Monday night and contin
uing through Wednesday night. Thos. both professional and amateur writ-
p'Pruitt of Hickory is Chairman of because of its .originality, its clev
tr. i rnui ier dialog-ae and the interesting way
the Committee oa Arrangements. Tliein which Mr, Bootlt has dramatized
Fostprn section ot tne convention
will be held in New Bern on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, May 7, 8,
1 ccrinnma- Friday niirht and
closir ?
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INED APRIL FIFTH
Bern is Chairman of the Committee
on Arrangements for this meeting.
Delegates to the convention will
be
entertained free for' lodging, and
breakfast in the homes of the. Christ-
ian people of Hickory and New Bern
It Is expected that between: two and
three thousand people! will attend the
two meetings.
ARCHIE CORRIHER HAS
SYMPATHY FOR EDITOR
In the hope of enabling The
News to help collect delin
qutnt subscriptions, Archie
Corriher presents the fol
lowing: The editor of a country pa
per received a paragraph
to the effect that a bride in
his bailiwick kneaded bread
with her gloves on;
He ran the paragraph in his
paper, adding as an appen
dix: "The editor of this pa
per needs bread with his
shoes on, he. also needs
it with his clothes on, but
if " some of the delinquent
subscribers ' don't' 'pay up
pretty soon, he will need
bread without a darn thing;
ionl?i;
Why market ungraded, mixed fruit
when quality apples bring at least One
dollar more per box?
P.nuntv Asrent N. K. Rowell of
Chowan County had to vccinate 833
hogs to control an outbreak of cholera
in his county.
The Chamber of Commerce of A
hofikie fa cooperating with County A-
gent C. A. Rose of Hertford County
to have all the tobacco seed planted
in the disease treated for disease. '
NORTH CAROLINA MAN'S ,
PLAY. WAS PRESENTED
OVER WIS MARCH 3rd
"Back-Stage,", by Hilliard Booth, of
Brevard, N. : C, which was awarded
the $200 prize in the radio, play con
test conducted by The Drama League
of America and WLS, the Sears-Roe
buck, Foundation Station, Chicago,
was broadcast weanesaoy, jartu
3, at 8 P. M. Central Time from wLS
Theatre, Chicago.
Mr. Booth, the author of the prize
winning play, has made the mountain
country of Carolina his home lor tne
past ten years, v He is a graduate ox
Brown University, Providence, R. L,
and since -graduation has made play
and story writing 4iis prof ersion. He
has nearly one hundred one' act plays
to his credit, many of which have been
produced on the stage or vaudeville
circutt Miss Pauline Lord,, who has
won outstanding favor in the leading
role of fThe Knew What They Want
ed" before both New York and Chi
cago audiences, played in Mr. Booth's'!
play "For Five Thousand Dollars"
just before her present engagement.
Mr, Booth is in his late thirties,
is married and has one son. r He is a
very enthusiastic Carolinian, ' for an
adopted son. ' , " i.- . "'""
"Back-Stage" is '"his first venture
into thC realm of the radio drama.
But he has cleverly used every trick
of the radio theatre, woven into a fas
cinating and surprising plot -:: .
Back-Stage" was . pclected from
more, than five hundred entries from
,ne acnon lor oib""53
It will be presented under the dir
ection of Harry ; Dean Saddler,
&.;dramati director of WLS, with a
f: -.liiiy st'iectea cast oi rauiu naura
In. !al music was xurnisnea Dy
t1
r.TLS orchestra..
MARSHALL; N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1926,
.. APOSTROPHE TO
Roll on, thou dark steeled blue monster,
Thou hast broken bones, torn flesh, and
0 thou "John. Henry,!' thou hast drawn
annihilated space., r
Thou hast rounded curves, and scaled
amazing grace.
0 thou "Tin Lizzie," thy motor purrs as
by the fire, '
Thy going is easy with thy coiled springs, upholstering, and balloon tires.
0 thou "John Henry," thou hast caused the earth to be checkered with roads
of cement and saad.
Thy exhaust Waketh the sleeper, thy horn heraldeth the sad tidings that
death is abroad in 4he land. . : '1
0 thou "John Henry," thou! hast been a great assistance to the ministers
. ' in spreading the gospel in this dark an) benighted land; .
But alas! Thou hast been also a great asset to Belzebub and played migjit
. ily into his blighting and withering hands.
0 thou "Tin Lizzie," thou art like many other blessings of life, capable of
being used either for good or for bad;
Those that do not use thee for the betterment of humanity, will in the day
of reckoning be sad. ' .k. . ..
0 thou "Ford," thou hast been used as an efficient substitute for the "red
light districts" and ."houses of ilWame.",
0 thou "John Henry," art thou "Hurrying America toward the hell of
God's wrath;" '
Thou hast desolated homes, havoc, death and destruction are in thy path.
0 thou "Ford," where art thou carrying thy passengers this beautiful Sab
bath morning? To church? No, not yet.
They are out seeking worldly pleasure; tjiey are out for a joy ride, you bet.
0 thou J'Ford," thou art legion, and thy distribution is so widfe that upon
thee the sun never sets. ,.:::'!
Thou art a power to be reckoned with; thy mechanism is wonderful, and the
end is not yet.
0 thou "John Henry," thy black top severeth the flag of deat(h at half mast;
Thou of entimes landeth thy passengers in the hospital first and in the under
taker parlor last V,
O thou "John Henry," if thou were cast into the depths of the deep blue
sea and could be produced no
Nineveh or of Baylon which fell
From Gabriel's Creek
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The people of this section were not
doing very much work' for the past
week on account of the snow. Last
Thursday morning the snow measur
ed 12 inches deep. It was the deep
est snow we have had in this county
in many years. "" ' " (
There, is quite a lot of colds and
flu in our community, . V ; i
Funeral .services were held at
Gabriel's Creek church Sunday morn
ing at 11:00 o'clock for Mrs. Pink
Crawford, who died' Thursday night
at 11:00 o'clock. Mrs. Crawford had
been -ill if or several months. She
was taken to Canton, N. C,, a few
months ago, thinking perhaps it would
help her. - So she was at her son's,
Cleotas, in Canton at the time of her
death. Mrs. Crawford is survived by
her husband and ten children. We
extend Our sympathy to the bereaved
ones, especially i to Mr. Crawford,
Shurman and Hermon, who are left
at home alone.
Mr. Boss Rice, who has been ill for
some tiiqe, is very seriously ill at this
writing, and is not expected to live
very long. ?
Mr. and Mrs. Therai Amnions mov
ed to Asheville. .
Mr. Huffier moved into Mr. T. J.
Murray's house which was recently
vacated by Mr:' Ei J. Sawyer.
Mr. Gordon BucKner is wonting an
Asheville.
The Messrs. Roberts that own larms
at the mouth of White Oak have sold
out to Mr. Brown, of Asheville.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Woody, who sold
their farm here, have moved to Swan-
nanoa.
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8 TO THE VOTERS OF
MADISON COUNTY:
' ' I hereby announce myself a candidate J
for the office of Sheriff of Madison county;
S subject to the Republican primary - to be
. held June 5th, 1926.
IC 1tAA T will onrtnavnr
operation of the good people of the county, in
& ' to enforce the laws and execute the duties g
of this office in a fair'and -impartial man-
a ner. Thanking you for your support , in
g . the past and asking for your vote and influ-
Li' ence in the coming Primary.' ; ,:;-:: " I'1
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THE FORD CAR
demon of speed; .
made countless thousands bleed.
the ends of the earth nigh ; thou .hast
mountains with dazzling speed and
softly as a tabby cat on a warm rug
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more, it would be like unto the fate of
to rise no more.
.Mr. and Mrs. Hermon Ward now
occupy the house, vlacated by Mr.
Woodv. .
We were very sorry to hear of th-5
death of Aunt Thnrsy Pickens, of Ju
piter.
Miss Lola Canos of this place is
workin? in Asheville. "
Mr. JiawTence Allen.who has been
aick. has improved some.
; Wishing the, News-Record and its
readers success. , t
FiiS PAINT ROCK
We are having some snowy weather
here these days. :
' There wasn't any Sunday eehool
Sunday over on W. C, or at Paint
Reck either, on acount oi Daa weain
nr. '
We have a new supply of song
books for our Sunday school at w
C, and we want everybody to go and
take an interest in them and help
sins?
Mr. and Mrs. Ki Watkins have re
t-tifri art fn Ram aril.
Mr. Henrv Lamb made a short visit
to Asheville last weex on Dusmess.
The school will soon be out at this
place and the children are au pian
nn tinvlnar a nice time for their
commencement School will be out
the 26th of this month. We hope
they have .a nice time, as we have
had such ft good school and such good
teachers this year. -
Mr. W, L. Taylor has been on the
sick list for several days. j
Mrs.JoBie Blackwell is nearly dead
with a cold. We hope she will soon
be well again. , ,f
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PARR CAMPAIGN TO
CLOSE APRIL FIRST
Don't Let It Be An April Fool
North , Carolina and Tennessee in
their , effort to rasie a minimum of
of one million dollars, for the pur
chase of the Great Smoky Muontains
Nationol Park lands have passed the
$600,000 mark. With North Carolina
reporting, a totalf 340,00, and withi
Tennessee s contributions totalling
$263,213, the grand total to date of
the two states' efforts is $602,213. I
VirtuaJy.'yery dollar of this total
has "been pledged by the people of
Eastern Tennessee and Western North
Carolflia, ' Of the North Carolina to
tal ettfcufr -approximately $11,000 has
come, -from the park proponents of
the western counties.
AslieviU'e' and Buncombe Cjounty
have made the largest total, haying
pledged approximately $207,000.
Thft other Western North Carolina
i;ountijsv ana tneir reported pieages
follow ;TSwain, $31,000; Haywood,
$30,600; Rutherford, $5,000; Yancy,
$2,895; Clay, $1,001; Mitchell, $1,000
Henderson, $6,000; Madison, $2,000;
Transylvania, $8,000 ; Jackson,
$13,635; Cherokee, $12,000; Caldwell,
$ 1,000; Macon, $8,100; Alexander,
$100. The towns and cities of the
Piedmont section have raised ap
proximately $14,000 to date.
,The totals for the towns and cities
of JEastern Tennessee ai-e reported as
foilQwai.Knoxville, $220,000; Mary
ville, $9,000; Greenevijle, $2,800;
Jonesb?,v!$t700; Sevieryille, $1,600;
RogefSville,; $2,000; Cleveland, $l,12o
Newpp, $4,688; MorristOwn, $100;
Sweetwa'Wrt. $2,300; Athens, $2,000;
Johnson. .City, $13,500; Coppewhill,
$500jan4 jluntsville $500. '
The campaign is to close on April, 1.
If ;a; that.'time the million dollars a.
not, pledged, it is unlikely that the
mattas1 will be taken up at this session
of.Cohgrfess, and possibly the park
mai feelost to the people of the two
"states ihtkely.. ,'-:,-''':.v
Mf, J. M, Lamb has a very bad
coiq at tnis writing.
- Miss Myrtle Ricker is still on the
sick list We hope she will soon re
cover. . r
Mr. Frank Roberts is on the sick
list and: has been almost past going
for -several 'days. We hope he will
son recover.
"Mr. 'JHomer Lamb snent Friday
night with his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs.!. W.. Z. Barnett and had to
wade, home through the snow Satur
day morning.
Mr. " Jack Barnett
snent Sundav
nlghrwith Mr. Homer Lamb. Poor
old Jack seems to have a hard time.Lnviiio ...ft.. 4nnrtiort with this sec
Ha had to get out risrht in the time of
the big snow Saturday and get wood.
It's a wonder he 'didn't snow 'under,
for the snow was knee deep on him
almost. Jack says he is going to
Florida, 1f this weather keeps up much
longer.. So we hops the weather will
sOon get better for we don't want
Jack to leave us.
. There are several mistakes being
sent out 'in -the news from this place
by, .some of the writers. So let's try
and not send in anything that isn t
right as everybody in our community
reads, the news and knows what is
riarht and wrong. :' If we don't know
what to write, only by just guessing
at iV we ought not to write at all. '
Mr. Floyd Lamb made a short trip
to Asheville Monday. .
Just a lew words in regard to our
community. We wish to say that we
have one of the best communities to
live '.in. I. know. The boys all behave
themselves nicely, just as good as any
boysf could, except when , srmeorc
coms in' and tries to run our Chrte:-'
ian people down about-the wajr they
serve God.iike sons felloe di th'
oth" s.y. . They carr.e to Paint Rock
oa . Sunday mornmg and whiie they
the. church some of the pe;
pb that had the old time religion ?at
happy, and got to shouting, and after
the meeting they, caw c!own .from tne
ebuvefl and.began bragging about it.
Some of tho boys that were down at
the station, Who live in this commun
ity, Insisted that they hiish until they
got into a fight The men that came
to P R. happened to get the best end
of the figb because there happened
not to be but a few of the boys there
when the' fighttarted, but of course
they were' arrested and fined for fight
in..rbut nhat ' was all right for a
community is not much .if the law is
not enforced, but there Is tne good
thing that we can say about our raint
Rock': boys. They will not start a
fight with anyone as long as they stay
chri
c
in then naice ana not taut oont tne
Christian people or the people thatl
h era. All the 1 nreachers v.o
come here give all the boys the best
ame lor behavior OI any place meynnere are miy-one wnoie-ume suptr-
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ever Were, rney ail Denave mem-
es very nicely. - While they nreiaii or these nave assistants in the na
il church they tit stui ana no not
hisper like they do at lots of places :hcrs and ofhee secretaries, in the t
kiln thpv are havinc service and alother forty -nine counties the county
ellow that will run down his com-
munity and not hold up lor ougntjpermtenaents oi pudiic wenare. it
a open ris eyes and nelp tne ooys'is
hold for their own community.. m the state will be repr; ' i u
..Test" v hes to the Record and a'J.this meeting, making the a" J
i s rrr-iisrs. 'one hundred or more. t .
1200
MRS. O. P. BURNETT DEAD
Mrs. O. P. Burnett, age 94 years,
one of the oldest residents Of Mad
ison County, died yesterday morning
about 6 o'clock at her residence fol
lowing a brief illness. The deceased
will be buried this morning at 10 o'
clock in tne family burial plot at Mars
Hill, following funeral service at the
residence. The service will be con
ducted by the Rev. J. R. Owen, of the
Mars Hill Baptist Church.
Mrs. Burnett is survived by three
daughters: ' Mrs. Lilhe Fox, of Reems
Creek; Mre. Florence Konerta, ei
Mars Hill, and Mrs. Lorena Baird, of
Mars Hill; and three sons, Dr. I. E.
Burnett, of Mara Hill; O. J. Burnett,
of Mars Hill, and i. P. Burnett, of
English, N. C.
Mrs. Burnett was a native of Hen
derson County and in early life' she
moved to Buncombe County where
she lived in what is now known as the
West Asheville section. At the close
of the Civil War, her husband, Perry
Bennett,, returned from service in the
Confederate army, and the two estab
lished a home at Mars Hill.
From LITTLE PINE
On account of the storm, Rev. Ev
erett Sprinkle could not fill his ap
pointment at Caney Fork Sunday.
There is some talk of a singing
school starting at Caney Fork Mon
day, March 22, with Mr. Kelly Wild
as leader. We are all anxious to
have one start soon.
There has been quite a lot of sick
ness around here. Dr. Moore has
been" making regular calls on Caney
Fork branch, at the homes of Logan
Ball, Sief Clark Hobart Kent and
others. We are glad to report that
all are improving. '"..
- We are sorry to say that Miss Omie'
Kent lost her umbrella Friday night
at the singing. . ,
We feel Justified in boasting about
our school truck--f or it hasn't missed
a day this winter going into Marshall.
No-'4ter'-what the weather or roads
might be like. Not many "faint
hearts" among janx young folks!
. We are havinff prayer meeting ev
ery Wednesday night at Kalamasoo
with, a very gooa attei
hope-more will ome. -
with a very good attendance, andw
Th school children -Oft Little Pine
hardly know, what to do with them
selves since school has closed. - -
MORE GOOD ROAD NEWS
More good news for Western North
Carolina,- superlatively good news, fa
the announcement in Tuesday's-Citizen
that Henderson County Commis
sioners will advance approximately a
million dollars to be used by the. State
Highway Commission to hard-surf ac-
ing three trunk line highways conneet-
inc the east and south with Hender-
tion's roads.
Paving the 18 miles to Rutherford
County will connect with the Ashe-
ville-Charlotte Highway; hard sur
face for 12 mile? to the Polk County
line means a great development of
traffic hrough the' Spartanburg gate
way, and six miles of paving to the
South Carolina line will vastly better
the transportation artery whose con
nections radiate at Greenville through
the South. South Carolina is ready
to carry on thq good work it is now
practically assured that' in another
year Ashevflle and Greenville wUT
be joined by a city street
..The action -of Henderson1-County
will vasely benefit it because its cap
ital will be the distributing point fer
main line traffic, but all of Western'
"North Carolina Will greatly share in
KcinAfifa' ttAMiira fharji will ,1'nft.S.
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tlon.-v tourists, good roads will
bring in greatly increased , numbers.
Brevard, Ashevjille, Black Moutain,
Marshall, Hot Sprtogs,! Canton, Way-
nesville and the up-and-coming mun-:
icipalities between here and .Murphy
will all be the gainers because of Hen
derson's million-dollar loan. ' It, will
good-roads " ' link them ; with : great
soui'cces"'' f'.kuiBes8C,t4ltv
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Public Welfare Super
intendents at Greens- -
boro March 24
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Winston-Salem; N,. C Mar.' 16.
Present indications are that the v
mid-winter meeting of the North Car
olina Association of Superintendents ' '
.of rublic-Welfare at Greensboro
March 24 will be largely attended.
intenaenis in . me s;am, anu ueuriy
iure oi prooaiwn omcers, iruani eu-.
school superintendents Eereve as su
expeccca tnat mosi oi tn courin-si
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