:4 ft THE NEWS-RECORD PRICE A YEAR $2.00 1 i' .- i .- THE ONLY .NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN; MADISON COUNTY W .VOL. XXI MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926 Circulation: 2000 jj OLD-TIME FIDDLERS CONVENTION I TO BE HELD IN MARSHALL DEC.21 MADISON COUNTY SINGING CONVENTION TO BEHELD 1 : An old-time Fiddlers Conven tion will be held in the new high school auditorium on the Island at 7:80 P. M., December 21, 1926. Prizes are to be a warded the "best fiddler, best violinist, and best fiddler from Madison County. The proceeds r4 4-Vita MnvBiitinii ara fn tfn fn V" . 1 the benefit of the new school I li'j i Duiiainir. i . Please talk this, and come .a - everybody. The famous Har ris Bros. (8) will be present Dederick, Carson and Demp sey; also Helton and others. The convention is being con poe daneinff, I. submit the: following paragraph not to cause more discnv siont but to present our side of the ease It may be we are wrong. If we are, lead us, dircet us. Give us a more innocent recreation. Don't condemn the innocent business .men who were kind enough not .to say "No" when the privilege ; wjVasked to place notices in their Vs, windows. That was not a sure sign that they were sponsoring the dance-not even a hint that it carried their stamp of approval. ' ' r We may be a wild and reckless generation in some respects, but boys and girls do have high moral i please try to see that the majority of deals. Never in the history of. he past has a generaiton been so Jtn-so clean and frank. . We are' going throuarh a sex adjustment and only j God Himself knows how long it will take or what will be the final out come. At the present time, we are chiefly concerned about health, pleas ure, and luxuries. Live, let live, and be i happy, might be the central thought of the present generation. j -2 j j Ai. There is no reason why we should ducted under the auspices of walt ttnta e e old to'beto to e the ? Parent-Teachers AssOCia- 1 pleasures of life. There are r , few things in this world- that furnish tioh of Marshall High School, real 'enjoyment ; that. are . hot, in a , -us j o-vri? measure, polluted. Then why con- We want a big crowd. COMB I j demn the dance, since -the same is r.i nnA vjaw nf ftI1P npw,true of all other amusements. We Get a good view ot our new amit that the dance b abnsedthe school building. It is fineJsam is true of everything that is ., : sacred and fine, but does the abuse Don't forget the date Tues-' of the few contaminate the majority? i, n 91 ,f7.?n p M Ad e answer "No" on the ground that day, Dec. 21, at 7 .30 r. m. Aa- boy8 and Kirla will( 800ner or jater mission adults, 50c; children, ' 8how. ius what is in them. A man .can be a gentleman just as easily in the dance hall as on the streets I yea, even as in the churches. It is not the outward appearance, but the IF If you were busy being kind, " Before you knew it -you would And You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That somebody was unakind to you. If you' were busy being glad, And cheering 'people who are sad, Although your, heart might ache a bit You'd soon forget to notice it. If you were busy being good, And doing just the best you could, You'd not have. time to blame some man Who's doing just the best he can. If you were busy being true, To what you know you ought to do, You'd be so busy you'd forget The blunders of the folks you've met. If you were busy being right You'd find yourself too busy, quite, To criticize your neighbor long Because he's busy being wrong. Selected. 35c. - PROF. D. W. KANOY, DR. W. A. SAMS, MRS. E. P. BRINTNALL, MRS. W. H. MORROW, ' MRS. H. L. STORY, MRS. RALPH FISHER. IREFLECTIONS OF A MOUNTAIN atnuuL TEACHER (By JACK V. JOYCE) mind within,- that cauiea man to rise or faU.'..This above all: ;To thine own self be true, and it must follow us the night the day, thou canst not thenjbe false to any man." Again I say this is friendly dis cussion, and hope that no one will be offended. However, I shall be plens ed $o have'a reply. .,,, CORRECTION OF AN ERROR In last week's issue an error was made in the Citizens Bank Well Thanksgiving is over. Did we thank God for all His blessings to- Deposits. The deposits subject ward us in Madison County. I noti, . ced in the paper that Mr. John Cath- to check should have been pnn- 2j&.iil2&f $399,940.26 instead of ther AsheviJJe had very - much M be ,$232,440.26. The error is re thankful for or not I don't believer ' that Mr. Cathey made that exact gretted therefore this correc- statement. I can hardly believe mat a man of Mr. Cathey's calibre would "On. make such a statement. Asheville has, Jit seems to me, a good many lm a Fs rinn TAI 17Q thiiigs to be thankful for. Every MALJ UUU 1 ALLS city, town and village has at least . ARE OUT AGAIN something to be thankful for. I went to the Central Methodist Church .to1 -worship last Sunday and hear : Dsjf Ashley Chappell preach, His subject was "What Is the Judg ment Day?'? It certainly was a fine message above, the average. - .r He made' a statement which I am sure surprised nearly ,. everybody at first and then after they had though about it must have asrreed with mm. tie saidj1 "I am. thankful to God that at the Judgment Day my Judge will, toot be God.', He paused, and I think ev. erybody wondered what was coming nextr c Then ne aaaea, xne wuaga will be the Son of God.? ! He "quot ed the Scripture, "And He hath ap pointed all judgment to the Son." AThie to me was a surprise ana t am JWe it is a fine thought Jesus. rjChrist will be the Judge on-the final flSy. - it will vb we him ntiu wu( came down to earth and bled and suf fered as ; Hnman ,Man. 5" He t knows iwrannallv the life of a Jiuman beinsr. He t knows the temptations we4 are subject to. .- He knows ,11 the.. Joys and sorrows that tail to me lot or a human being. There He will ''mete out not Justice .bat Mercy. Friends, if we are to be judged according to the strict principles, Justice in- stead of the principles of Mercy and Lore, I art .afraid there would'.be few if any inhabitants of that Happy Home to praise God. . . . .;.. -- 4 I noticed Mr. "Clarence King's ar ticle J"Will It Comet'Vin a previous copy of the News-Record.' , I hope we all read it I think it was fine. Bet ter watch out Mr. King! ' Some folks might -accure you of looking after your interests more than the inter mits lot the children : of thia ctatit. Come again, Mr, ..King, with another one of those fine articles from your DANCE! DANCE! ' DANCE!: ' much said Last Thursday night a large size German Police Dog belonging to Mr. , W. K. Hunter went mad " and Made its raid over the eountry,';Sv- erai memoers irom cone uamp.e ported seeing the dog there'and was also seen on several places on Grape Vine, East Fork and Peters burg," biting every dog r in existence. The dog-returned home Friday eve ning and bit Mr. Hunter's Holstein calf and Pointer Bird Dog. The mad dog was. killed Sunday. . It, would be a deathly: thing to risk" leaving, your dogs loose now. No one knows the pathway this German Police took and it would be Sbsolutely' advisable for all the dog-owners to put their dogs and stock up or have them vaccinat ed: ; ' ,;;,:;.-v,:- ... An interested citisenT.i...i4 . --. .... ... -. , . , ..- OIPTKPSEALS i!hDIDITIN1925 Furnished Milk ana Hot Lunch- es to 2,000 Undernourished ' - Children and Did Other Things sw'i v. w.f J a There nas bene so much said a- ,T;!ntt "The Danee," that I am forced k i t met fair spofHs Ifr Tavaa r - tv a -ta everyueation, ee tfle-aalary.ana expenae . with all due respect to the ministers cf the C ' r 1 and all those who cp- v" -Furnished milk and hot luni cnes to approximately ZOO un dernourished ' children whose parents could not provide for tSemy thereby r transforming ished children into - strong, hsppy. rosy youngsterav V' '; Bought up- to- date fcalea for c-er 100 schools, thereby crea f'g an active interest in gain-i:--7 and growing strong,, at a a t Ting of $700.00 c nutrition workers who gave demonstrations that in some instances reduced the percent ages of underweight in schools from over 30 to 10 per cent, thereby saving at least large numbers of children from be coming potential tuberculosis patients. .Furnished breakfast, mid morning and noonday nutri ment for a third grade under nourished boy who stole monpy to buy food ; thereby changing him from a criminal to a good citizen in the making. Financed the anaesthetic and hospital fees for tonsilectomies for over 200 children whose parents were unable to pay even this nominal sum. The surgeons of the state donated their services free of charge. Our hats off to the generous surgeons in North Carolina. Brought Health Training in Schools to over 100 teachers, thereby giving stories, games, projects and health informa tion to hundreds of school chil dren. 4 Fitted seriously undernour ished children with when their parents were un- able to pay for them, thereby curing their nervousness and leading them to gaming a healthful -weight. Paid the salaries of school dentists and provided funds for dental service, r. ? 4; Sent crusade supplies to over 50,000 school children, thereby helping them to build, strong bodies-through "good ";; health habitsAM ; ;vsf ination of the pre-school child, thereby helping him to be free to gain before entering school; Sanitorium Sun N. B. JFDEWTT HURT IN WRECK ednesday afternoon, be tween 5 and 6 o'clock, on a steep hill near White Rock, N. C, Mr. N. B. McDevitt was driving his Dodge sedan along the very muddy road in second gear, when the car skidded and ran down an embankment, o verturning several times. Mr. McDevitt was very painfully injured, injuries being three or four broken ribs, several bad cuts and Bruises, finger broker- value. A great many people cut tobacco during the rainy period last August and consequently nearly all of that is house-burned. This condition is a great dis appointment to the tobacco gro wers and the business people as .farell, and a great many of the hew growers didn't really un derstand it. But few men in this section have been growing to bacco long enough to know Jhow to handle it to the best ad vantage under such difficult weather conditions, and this makes it worse than it would have been otherwise. As a con sequence we probably nave more damaged tobacco in the new tobacco section than any other section in the country. There is no hope for badly house-burned tobacco, as it is of no value, ahd ojur advice to farmers is to get all of the house burned tobacco out and put the best of it in a separate pile and put it on the market by itself and throw the worst of it away. If it is mixed in with the other tobacco it ruins the quality of that and the price,as well. If the farmers will do that they will find a material differ ence in the returns on their to bacco crop. There has been a great ten dency for just any and every body to try to grow a little to bacco without being prepared Helped to keep' thef coiored jupervisorV on '.'t the job ' for a longer period than is provided by law, thereby giving the col ored school children additional training in good health habit formation. ; - ! Provided home nursing and care 'or tuberculosis patients who could not afford to pay I Paid, the expense of tubercu- osls patients at the State, Coun ty-and-crivate-Sanatoria.- l 4 Provided funds for the exam. wrenched back. He w a"& brought to his home here Wed nesday night, being attended by Drs. Moore and Sams. Mr. McDevitt will not go to the hos pital, as his injuries, though very painful, are not exceeding ly serious. Mr. McDevitt was on his way to White Rock to deliver an or der of goods from his .whole sale house, when the accident occurred. The weather was very, rainy and foggy and the road exceedingly slippery, and the car, its rear wheels spin ning in second gear, could not be stopped in time to avoid' the accidents; .. . . ' Devitt's condition remains un changed. for it, and for some people to put out large crops when they were not prepared to take care of them. Some of them have gotten by with it for the past on left hand, and a severely Jfour years and made some mon- ATOBACCO LETTER Good sound tobacco is brings ing as much money on the mar kets today as it has any time for the two years past Common tobacco is bringing less money than it has for a great many years for two reasons.' First be cause there is more of it this year, and secdnd because , so much of it is scalded and house- - . ... -- burned. House-burned tobacco; is rotten tobaccorand like othr' rotten food products it ha? r ' ey out of it because nature fa vored them. We have advocat ed for six years to the farmers Of East Tennessee that they should grow only the amount there is no market now nor ever of tobacco that they could give will be for unsound, rotten to- The Madison County Singing Con vention is called for the third Sun day in December (the 19th) at 1:80 P. M. The sing will b for two and a half hours. Please bring your class and enjoy singing. No prizes. Just a good time. Como on, folks 1:80 to 4:00. W. A. SAMS, Pres. Mad. Co. Sing ing Convention. good, sound tobacco and are getting a satisfactory price for it. Unfortunately many of our growers lack facilities ana some of them have grown care less because of the extraordi narily favorable weather condi tions in the past. We cannot urge too strongly upon the farmers to use greater care in classifying and grading their tobacco and handling it al the way through until it is fin ally on the floor of the ware house even up to putting it on the baskets as that will do more now to help to get a bet ter price for their tobacco than anything that can be done. We think the market will set tle on a little higher level for the better grades as the season goes on. We feel that it is only justice to say that thousands of pounds of rotten tobacco have been put on the market in Knoxville up to ;date that should neverlhave ? been offered for sale anywheres " Rotten tobacco is of no 'more value than rotten meat, rotten potatoes, rotten wheat, or rot ten corn or any other . crop. Badly house-burned and scald ed tobacco is rotten tobacco, and has no more of the real to bacco quality in it than a rot ten oak leaf or cabbage leaf. (We are just as certain now as we have ever been that the most profitable crop that the far'mers of East Tennessee can grow over a period of years is good, sound tobacco. They must realize, however, that careful attention to and wth- out neglecting their other farm crops. Those who have done this have profited every year. This year they are receiving for such tobacco as much as they have received for the same grades for the past two years. This year has emphasized the folly of attempting to raise, to- bjcoi without being prepared -nd without the careful, proper-attention that should be given vO rt." " T-' ..Tobacco is i:i quality ctop and unless you give it the atten tion needed . at the time it is needed It is unwise'to attempt to, raise it. ' - ... ? . a i-; , A rainy August in the Burley Belt always makes it difficult to take care of tobacco, and on the 6th of last August we sent I.' an article to all the papers of East ' Tennessee warning ? the growers; oI; "the Importance' of extraordinary care and poinl ir.g outi to them In just what way" they could exercise this titer " 1 to do it and dIJ do it have bacco. There is every indica tion that good, sound, useful tobacco such as we have grown and can grow throughout East Tennessee with proper care will continue to be, year in and year out, in strong demand and profitable to the grower. ;;j J. H. & J. W. DEJAF Dec. 6r 1926. , PRAYER ,People.4ught, aJways,Jto. jprayan not to faint, prayer secures for. the. be1ivii the resources . of divinity. What battles i has ft not f ought? Whafe victories has it not wont What bur-1 dens has it not carried? What wounds 4 his it not healed? Prayer; fa the'e- J ruge of affliction,strengtn oi weaic-c nets, and light of darkness. Prayer Is j the. oratory that gives power la the t pulpit Prayer is the hand that stirkes down satan, and removes sin. Prayed is a conversation with. God 1 f often say my prayer, bnt do I 'ever a pray? Do the wishes of my heart go with the words I aayt I may as well . kneel down and worship gods of ? stone, as offer to the living God. a -. prayer of : words alone. For Words without the heart the Lbrd will never J hear, nor to those lips attend. '- y", " Prayer is the key which will un- lock Heaven's door. Therefore, praV-' er is the greatest need of -e wor! i. C.h; i.s exi'..p'.e aoi tc..i... .. i ' subject, for frnvtr is tk.t r. t ;'.i;f;5;

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