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MILTON PRESNELL Sentenced to 15 to 25 Years Harfl Labor on Road SUPERIOR COURT DISPOS ING OF NUMEROUS .CRIMINAL CASES Superior Court convened in Mar shall Monday, August 28, Judge A. M, Staek presiding. Hon. G. Lyle Jones fa acting so "j ifoitar for this 19th district, wnicn embraces Madison and Buncombe Counties. Judge Stack delivered a fine charge to the jury and the court then proceeded with a. full docket,, moat of the cases having to do with the violations of the liquor laws. The case which attracted - most attention was that of Milton Presnell who shot and killed Fred Anders Sunday afternoon, May 2, 196. A true bill was soon returned against him and Wednesday after noon was set for pie trial. Mean while some 30 or 40 cases of less importance were disposed of. In practically every ease, liquor was the cause of the trouble. The Preaaell Cat . '' From a Special venire 9t 76 men, the following were selected to sit as jurors in the trial for -the life of Milton Presnell: --KIM tupps,- wriayv--OjN Keys, B. Nf Pinkertoff, J. T. Rice; Dillard Sluder, J. J. Rice, W. It. Roberts, D. G. Slagle, J. B. McGal lin, H. 0. Porshia, Jaek Caldwell. The State then put on as witness es, Mrs. Hattie Anders, mother of the deceased Fred Anders.. Follow ing her Jeter Anders, brother of Fred was examined and cross ex amined. Witnesses were then put to show the character of Jeter An ders and the following, gave him a good name: Garrett Buckner, L. CT West, George Bruce, Will Austin, Thomas Dill and Sheriff Rector. Reagan Shelton was examined and Dr. Sams was asked If a bullet, shot , through the back of the head' as de scribed by the witnesses .would be fa tal. George Ogle, 14-year old son Of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ogle was also examined. 'S ' 1 The defense then put. up "Milt" Presnell, the defendant, who under. cross examination, practically con victed himself, his testimony being :l3fciei confused, intt entrad ieidry W & -p At'meUtm i pvk iip amy tjflvar; i It required -all Wednesday after- soon, af ter the ease was take's up to "elect ' the jury and ft was . noon Thursday. 'when - the ' examination t atPresnejJ' eoncludedVf J The court then adjourned for dinner jhi til one-thirty. :k Immediately after re convening, the defense7 entered a plea to submit to murded in the second . .. degree ami the same 'was accepted by ' tr atate. s' Judge Stack then, r sentenced Presnell te not lees than IS years and not more than 2S years ! , ; at hard labor m, the 'county roads, : : tin was grron permosion to see4 nised witn city water at nearest point, '. .19-day 'old child,' whom, he had nev-' being 'about 00 yards. We found . , er seen, as soon as the mother was home as sanitary and. ejeaa as can ' able to bring it to him, before being Very well be kept under present eon ". carried away to the State prison, .a' ' ditions. Inmates of home' sag .they Jjr Mnt rresnell declared himself to r. CONVICTED pounds, not very' aaiiiBP mostly on Big Iaurel and had Hred about nine yeara on 'Graiytoe, . the. most of whkh time he bad' been, on publie work in Haywpoi imd , jack- son Counties. His father and moth-1 er were at the Mai but his wife eould not 'be. ' The .deuhf represented by Attorney? -'spM. Pritchard and Guy V. Roberts.-' ' The grand jury finished its work Wednesday and its membwrswere highly commended by the Jude for their faithful, efficient, ;ervice promptly rendered. Their teport we publish below: ' REPORT O F GRAND JURY NORTH .CAROLINA, MADISON COUNTY, .We the Grand Jurors of the AiPl gust Term of Madison County Su perior Count have completed the work assigned to us and beg to sub mit the following report: We have carefully considered all bills of indictment cpming before us and made diligent investigation in to the facts in eaeh ease, and have made; pfesentssents- of all, violations coming uder our pbservatkm ; ot brought t)s our attention. All the county institutions have been visited and a thorough investi gation1 mad as to the - manoe , in "... .... .r. which each was being conducted. We find Court House clean and in good condition, except office of Board of Education needs door re paired. Also window in Tax Collec tor's office needs repairing. We found all offices well kept and conducted in an efficient manner. We visited County Jail and found same in good condition, except leaky pipes and steps in run down condition V,'; and need repairing. We recommend that these repairs be made. '','.',-. ' We visited the County Home and after wandering up and dowtl the banks of Walnut Creek 'for' about forty minutes, leaving car about four nunarea yaras irom nome, we wauc ed through mud to Walnut Creek, which' is about two hundred yards from home, but could find no way to ' cross creek, there being: nothing but a horse trail or fori f We finally found high rock projecting out of wa ter that1, we were able to cross on after making long broad jumps. We .Route'SO:fjtjoW found, yard of home muddy and no grass growing. We- recommend that grass .be sown and other shrubbery be planted to give yard and home a n$re home like ' appearance. We recommend : that buildings be given coat of paint ; We find plumbing out of order and ' no runninwaer"in home. : Water being carried from well , -. - ' ; ...... . - outside ifor flushing i'toilets and all other purposes; We find ohiraneys in.bad eonditfon being dangeroni as well as" unsightly. f S We recommend and urge that they be fixed, ;We ,rec- ommehd that water pipes be fconneot-I get good food and are well satisfied: condition. :1 ' ? - tween Bridge Street and Cotton Mill is in very dangerous condition. te recommend that this bridge be repair ed at once. - . Bespectfufy submitteB, R. 9. McDEVITT, Foreman. The eahree raised, the skimmilk a vailable for feed and the manure for soil building purposes, are about nsJ valuable as the cream check to the dafry farmer, states one leading dairy, educator. One man who answered an adver tisement offering 100 useful house hold articles for ten cents got 100 nin for hid dime. Pins are useful it's true but it's always better to trade at home where one can see the purchased materials. ' INTELLBENT, CAREFUL HANDLING 0 F TOB ACCO.MEANS MUCH After tobacco has been stacked a- way it requires thoughtful attention, The roof must be tight, and it is a good idea to make certain of this. have seen many stacks of tobacco badly damaged by small unnoticed leaks. Care should always be exer cised that the building is kept tight ly closed during damp .rainy weath If Ta 1 T Hit Order' ;:-eusi6iW it oat of th curing barns it is not always possible to have the tobacco in the proper or der for stacking away. The condi tion of each barn that is unloaded should be carefully noted and a little later as soon as time is available the stack should be rehandled accord ing to the condition of the tobacco. If it was stacked in too high order a bright days should be chosen and the fchacco restacked. If it is seen that merely restocking will not dry the tobacco sufficiently it should be hung up in racks for a short time before it is restacked. If the tobacco has been allowed to get wet it may be necessary to hang it and dry it out. The sooner such work as this is at tended to, the less the chances will be of having damaged tobacco. At all times every effort should be made 'to keep the leaves straight. f Tobace Is Toe Dry . Tobacco that is in the right order will be considerably improved in ap pearance by allowing it to stay in the clack for a while. This is particu larly true of tobacco that has been cured out a little green. Tobacco that is too dry, however,, will change very:JUin' i? any of the tobacco had to be mov ed out of the barn while it was too cry, it will be a good idea to pick a rainy day and restack such tobacco. ' TaUag It Off The Sticks When tobaeco is to be' removed from the sticks there should be' no mistajce-aoout-tts eonaitwn. as long as it is onvthe sticks the tobse- CANTONfMAN KILLEDJINi WRECK NEAR WALNUT GAP 7!t Moore, prominent young c Csaton.. N. ' was uutantb kiled- as bisc4? fnt over a bank j near T7alnuV Gi; iist Saturday f boui SiOB 'o'cic'ci' ii' the "morning. With his were'hfr. W. O. Hair and4 i, mm 1? 4 Df TPD DflV The farmer boy can speed to town When chores are done and , sun is '-.'V down, Or he can see the bright lights glow By tuning in his radio, And he can hear the orchestras. Farm life is not as once it was When each long, weary day was done The town and country are as one! The farmer boy in denims clad Has more than town boys ever bad; His wildest dreams he can pursue Across the green, beneath the blue; His world is not a world of frills It is the valleys and the hills Unchanged in their environment Since Time's initial day was spent. Stay on the , farm, lad garbed m jean You know what independence means! Life's promises are ail revealed In vender rich and fertile field. And through your ardent toil they'll -. pay Tomorrow's gift from work today, Stav on the farm. O farmer lad. If you are wise and you'll be glad! C ; The, JtJuriey Aooacco cuiiewn co can be handled relatively easily wjth reference to drying or ordering, but once it is off the sticks it is al most impossible to do work .of this kind. Particularly is this true with ref erence to drying tobacco that has S- .,.' ' v been allowed to get wet Therefore' do not take tobacco off the sticks un til it is m the proper order. As our markets do not open this year until December we will have time for handling cru tobaeco, and we should take fuh adveAtage of ihe dpportuni- '.ty,.. Grading Tobacco V.4ftabasft frtiriff and ripen ed uniformly in the field, the work of grading will be greatly simplified, and will consist in the main of ksep ing the different curings separated and separating" out the green er dam aged leaves. When this condition does not exist, however, and in the majority of cases unfortunately it, does not, the work of grading is in creased. As a rule it never pays to make too many grades. The main points which should be borne in mind is always to cull out the damaged and green tobacco; and where lugs, leaves and tips are mixed in the same curing they should be separated, and brown and red tobacn should be separated from the bright yellow tobacco. We have often called attention to the fact that quality must be grown into tobacco and that curing is com paratively simple , when this has been done. Similarly, if a good quality of tobacco is not put in the barn, no a- mount of handling can turn it into goedujaali tobacco.: But, at 'the same p.-aaius5atcaxa'..14 ling is necessary if the tobacco' that goes to the market is to be in the best possible condition, and it should always be remembered that when the buyers bid on a pile of tobacco they; take it for granted that the grower has it in the best conditlon'poasibls and looking its best. . , ; The- Barley Titans B0tia LAST SATURDAY .4 ! Mr lfnflr Mirfn tila. Star taniv ing ear. It was said that he looked down to; make some adjustment- a- bout the ear, when it it off where the moon tela is very-highi aheut, 2 miles from Walnut Gap toward &- win, Tenn. The otheinsen jured but .not seriongly. 'SHORT HIGHWAY ;Tn KNoxvn,i,F. Wd V tink AshevUlo With ' vV.''R o a t PLAN MEETING : IN SEPTEMBER Prominent Speakers Expected To Be Present For Occasion A , il iwj highway linking KndxviWTenn., and Asiheville QVjding ' a hard surfaced route 40 miles shorter than the present route, will be the moti vating therne of a mammoth all dy mass meeting of citizens Of Haopd, Madison and 'Buh cj$ije counties at the Forks of Sandy 1 Mush in Buncombe county September 18. The . meeting, plans f o i which are rapidly going for ward under the direction of .1 committee of highway enthus iasts of the three western coun ties, will follow up an earlier' ' "" 1 lga$herjnsof the same type a. Mx W$W several weeks ago. Among the speakers selected for the Sandy Musn gathering artaHatin Roberts, Congress msV&ebuW Weaver and' A. L; BulwBikle, and lato Ebbs ; Snort Stretches Proponents of the new and 4 shorterstretches in the West- ern uarouna counties tne enure routevto the east Tennessee metrppolis will have been hard-surfaced when work au thorized by Tennessee officials is completed. Within a year the road from.Knoxville to the Carolnia line is expected to be entirely hard-surfaced. An effort will be made at the meeting next month to arouse strong public support for the paving of the few short stretch0y,:jn Haywood, Bun cpmbe and Madfccfn counties that will shortly mark the solid ribbon of concrete between Asheville and Knoxville, a scenic., route unsurpassed in eaatern America and one of the m$;s t potentially, important tjfffic . arteries ' leading - into North Carolina. The proposed shortened route would extend from Ashe ville. through Leicester and a- 1 . nect wiin tne . spnng ureex, JUeavmg spring creex tne roaci Would pass across to Meadow Fork and-from this point to Max Paich, j where it would connect With the present high- way to Knoxville. .. . iihhf r will be served at the mass meeting in ' September. VARSITY COACH" The Wacpression Department of the Mars Hill College summer, school will resent at the College Auditorium on aturdsy evening, August. 28, the "VARSITY COACH," a four act- drama. This is a typical uoiiege play, full of life- pep and fan for all Admission twenty-five cents. The STaduatinc students of the Ex pression tSerartment will give addi tion! performances between the acts of the T' -ular play. This will consist of reaJ.. of wide enooirh varia tion to traeet the wishes of the most exacting audience. '?"" ' :.. y- A f . t.me is in store for au who FROM ASHEV1LLE now pr op.oseu One or more speeches are ex pected to be made in the morn ing and several in the after noon.. It is considered prob able that motorcades will be run from Asheville and other Western North Carolina towns. In the event of rain the mass meeting will be held in the, Sandy Mush school building. It is expected that prominent state highway officials will be invited to the mass meeting, which will draw heavily from the citizenship of the three western counties. , From Asheville Citizen. IN THE MOUNTAINS We are writing this morning Izck of the Balsam Range. r:.c tall, dark green peaks of l'.:e mountains are obscured by. a fog that . ! settled after last All among the night's rain. 1 highways yesterday we saw I , rich lands with waving corn, i wheat-stacks awaiting the threshing machine,, trees weighed d6wn with atlDles and . " WannWaa. Thi tennlA nf t then. , v. J,.,WW' X- w X" - "WW. - T"T t North Carolina mountains have not the feeling of discourage ment which the severe heat drought of JastHJummer made inevitable.' This year prosper ity beckons smiling., It . . may xaioxa Aiiuvia nv vnc 1CU54VU11 w well as the economic side of life, for surely the material blessings jof God will enable these stalwart Baptist people of the hills to respond to the call of Kingdom enterprises in a manner which was not pas sible a year ago. THE NEW FOUND The New Found is a small association of twenty or more churches scattered over the rugged slopes 0 f Madison County. Solemn, high, magni ficent in grandeur, the moun tains rise above Payne's Chapel I where the 75th session of the f body convened. At the first night's service as we stood in front of the' church, and saw the golden crescent of the? moon set in the deep blue of .. the heaven, with a sdmbef cir cle of hills rising up to meet the sky, our thoughts were lift ed in faith to a triumphant fu ture for this association. t , The New Found is poorly or ganized ; is served largely i by absentee ministers; contributes v., little money to Kingdom causes. Yet On the night and later dur-' . fng;Tom;;Lsailng,s;;'f sermon, 1 based on the text, "lift up your eyes On the fields,". we were fv sured of the advance that will be made in the years to cornei v New" attitudes ;and- sentiments srA rtninff created and develoD- edv; Tomorrow practices will t be the result Today our loyal Baptist folk of the New. Found., are listening quietly, sonetines , fin surprise to the prcrrsn cf (Carried to t'-Jh. 1: ) ... . t1 33years old. weight about 135 Beds were, dean.'' Etcnen in 'fah Mr. Newman James, also; it Canton. 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