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aSS ISHED IN MADISON COUNTY
VOL. XXI
; As'
1 MARSHALL, N. C FRIU AY APRIL 22, 1927
Circulation :-1950
BILLS PASSED BY
REPRESENTATIVE
jFDEvrrr
Copies of Bills passed In the
last General Assembly by Re
presentative McDevitt. Others
will appear weekly until they
are all printed in full in this
newspaper.
H. B. 271
S B 300 '
An Act to Amend Chapter 332,
Public Local Laws of North Caroli
na, Session 1921, Relative to- the
Special Road Tax for the County of
Madison Collected by the County in
the Incorporated Towns of Said
County.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Strike out the word
"one-half in the second line of sec
tion one of said act and insert in
lieu therof the word "all." Strike out
in said section one in line three coun
ting: up the word "twice."
Sec 2. That this act shall apply
to the incorporated . towns of said
county for the taxable year nineteen
twenty-six and seven which have lev
ied the tax for road and street pur
poses equal to the amount of special ,
road tax levied by the said county
and the said act shall De in lorce ana
applicable to the Baid incorporated
towns perpetually and is not intend
ed to embraee only the year nineteen
twenty-six and seven.
Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of
laws in conflict with this act be and
the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. That this act shall be in
force from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three
timpa and ratified, this 15th day of
J. ELMER LONG, " ? H
Presdient of the Senate
R. T. FOUNTAIN,
Speaker of the House of Represen
tatives. : .'
Examined and. .foujid corfecjk v
'X: iROWN,1 For bmmltie-7 r-; -
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Department tol State. ;
I, W. N. Everett, Secretary of State
of North .Carolina, do hereby certify
the foregoing and attached (one
sheets) to be a true copy from the
records of this office.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed my of
ficial real.
Done in office at Raleigh, this
twenty-fifth day of February in tho
year of our Lord liz i.
W. N. EVERETT,
Secretary of State.
MASS MEETING
BIG TICKET PUT OUT TO
VOTED ON MAY S
BE
' A Mass Meeting was held at th
Courthouse Thursday evening at 7:00
o'clock for the purpose of nominating
a ticket of officers for the Town of
Marshall The meeting was very well
attended considering the rainy weath
er and the fact that an entertainment
at the school was to follow at eight
o'clock. Several ladies ' were pres
ent. The meeting was called to order
by Mayor C. B." Mashburn. who an
nounced the purpose of the meeting
to nominate a mayor and three al
dermen. On motion Mr. Roy Gudger
was elected chairman of the meeting
by acclamation. H. L. Story was e
lected secretary of the meeting.
Nominations for mayor were then
called for. Mr. J.vAj .Hendricks in
nominating C. B. Mashburn for may
or, declared that it would nbb be wise
to "swap horses in the middl of the
stream." Marshall had made consid
erable progress in the last few years.
He mentioned the water, the exten
sion of water, and light lines, paving
etc., as evidence of progress.
Mr. Nat Holcombe nominated Carl
Stuart, Pete Haynie nominated Grov
er Redmon, Guy V. Roberts nominat
ed Herschef Sprinkle.
By motion nominations were clos
ed..,, Alt these four and any others
who wish to run are to be put on
tickets.
The meeting then proceeded with
nominations for aldermen. The re
sult was that the following were nom
inated:
Dr. Frank Roberts,
C. L. Rudisill,
Mack Sprinkle,
F. E. Freeman,
R. N. Ramsey,
Claude Sawyer,
Mrs. E. R. Tweed,
E. R. Tweed,
Guy V .Roberts,
W. A; West.
Carried that nominations for alder
men be closed.
. The meeting ruled that in the elec
tion the highest vote would mean e
lection. i- 1
DATE NEXT SUNDAY
TOR ERWIN CHOIR
BROADCAST
1 ELECTROCUTION OF BACTElil 4
PURIFIES DRINKING WATE f
Electrocution- of injurious bacteria
in drinking water and sewage, tnstesa
of killing the pests by chloride and
phenol treatments, has been reeomt
mended by employees of the Clave
land water bureau, says the Nortn
and South Carolina Public Utility In
formation Bureau. -f
The method consists of sending 1
direct current and high-frequency alt
ternating charges through the settling
Dasins Dy means oi special new eiecf
trodes. Tests have shown that Lake
Erie water thus treated was freed of
bacteria and sterilized. Ninety-nine
percent of all bacteria in sewage ii
said to have been destroyed.
Public Service.
AT MIA Rin? f
IN JAIL
in Af ' 7
Wounded His Wife and Threat- j
ened To Kill Her '
Walnut1
MONDAY'S STORM
! IN MARSHALL
Elisha Rice of near the
Creek section wounded his wife last
Sunday afternoon about three o'-J
clock in what was believed to be anil
attempt to kill her. In a drunken
rage he made quite a wound, on her'
face with the muzzle of his revolver.!!
The wound was treated by Dr. Moorel
and Rice was placed in jail, not al-ie the street full of dirt as high as
MAIN STREET INUNDATED AND
yPerhaos the worst storm in the vi
cinity of Marshall since 1916 burst
last Monday afternoon about four o'
clock. It had been rainincr some be
fore but a storm seemed to break
about sthis over the town. It
rained in torrents till the street near
the; station was 18 inches deep or
More. Traffic was blocked for a
time, the water being deep enough
in the middle of the street to touch
the-hood of automobiles. The water
rose to the second step of Mr. J. Mor
gan Ramsey's residence and damaared
theY lumber in his place of business
on the other side of the street. The
French Broad hotel was surrounded
by water so that boarders there
coqld not go or come with dry feet.
Mr. fVeil Ramspv's nar on tho siHo nf
tne hotel was in water up to the
cushions and as the water rose in the
basement of the hotel, the cry of
some cats underneath added to the
seriousness of the situation. Tour
ists passing through stopped and in
vestigated carefully before starting
inrougn while others waited for th
water to fall. In front of the Ma
sonic Temple and the Baptist church
the water broke through the church
lot flooding the basement ar.d wash
the curbing and at one place almost
a high as the top of the water hy
lowed to give bond for the reason
that he had" threatened to kill Ma?
Wife. ., i Ara-t-
It is said he had loaded the nistolv Thru r fnnr tm, nH m,if
to complete the job when he was Hcrw 0f men were kept busy Tuesday
rested. It was at first reported that
(The above bill is simply an a
mendment to a bill that was
passed when Mr. J. A. Hen
dricka was in the Legislature
As now worded it now provides
that when the road tax rate, in
an incorporated town in Madi
sln County equals or exceeds
the" " road rate levied by tho
County . all the J. tax inoney rais-
? ed by said Jwri may be used on
' ife1rtreetei'6r roa'dsv It affects
Mars Hill,
Marshall.
Hot Springs and
FIRE IN MARSHALL
MONDAY
auto Lunch destroyed '
v EARLY MONDAY MORNING
' The Auto Lunch between the J. T
Redmon" grocery and the Henderson
garage was practically destroyed by
fire early Monday, v Mr. T. (J. iiook-
- er, the proprietor had gone down and
lighted hts -oil stove , as he was ac
customed to do, and had gene to his
boarding place to eat breakfast when
the oil stove exploded spreading the
flames very rapidly., : As soon as dis-
covered the names were soon ex-
tiniruiahed ; but practically . all his
' stock and furnishings had been de-
- snroyea. . Mr. 4. i. neamon s store
suffered damage also but the dam
age to his stock vas covered by in
.auranc. ' However, the building had
, no insurance on it. Mr Hooker had
no Insurance. i. He will reinstate tne
Ante Lunch as soon as possible.'
President CooW!re has vroelalmed
the week ef April 24-40 as American
Tot t Week, , tor be r'ven' (rrer te a
t;oBid --ci.il t-c: 'j of the U
nited States X6 five t..uL: ht to the
protection and development cf their
Xorest la-is. - s.
An error was made in our issue
last week as to the date for the Erwin
Presbyterian church choir to broad
cast. Instead of last Sunday, it is to
be next Sunday, from 4 to 6 o'clock.
Listen in.
was afterward contradicted.
Rice is a man upwards of --50
years old and his wife is near the
same age. They have ten living
children and are said to have gotten
on all right together apparently un
til the last month or two, when she
left him on account of his drinktnr
and cruel treatment. It seems how
ever, that she had gone back to hint
when this affair took place Sundays
sheriff Ramsey was out of town
when the affair was reported and Mr.
h,. M. Kandall, the present jailor, to-:
gether with Messrs. Troy Rector and
i.iauae Henderson, law enforcement
clearing the street of eMrt and rub
he had shot his wife, but that reportlbish. The greatest hailstorm seen
nere oy even tne oldest citizens ieii
during this storm, many of the hail
stones being an inch or more in di
ameter.
THE RURAL CHURCH
The country church is on the
eye Of a great transformation;
Swifts and easy transportation
NOTICE!
officers deputised ; ExWSHeifrWillrr attitude
to'Ziri.SW-'ml chvrch life. Country
iff Rector actually did the arresting.
The woman's wound is not serious.
THE ORTHOPAEDIC
CLINIC TO MEET
DATE FOR HOLDING CRIMINAL
TERM OF UNITED STATES
COURT CHANGED
Word has just been received from
J. Y. Jordan, Clerk of the United
States District Court at Asheville, to
the effect that the regular term hav
ing heretofore been held on the first
Monday in May and November has
been changed to the Second Monday
in May and November- and the May
Term will be held on Monday May
the 9th, and only jail cases Vill be
tried. All defendants under bond
will not be tried until the November
Term, therefore only witnesses be
fore the Grand Jury and for- defend
ants npw in jail will be expected to
attend this term. United States
Commissioners are not required to
be in attendance. ' ',
FOR POLICEMAN
POLICY OF ELIHU F. RECTOR
; FOR POLICEMAN:
If elected. I shall at all times stand
for clean city government and impar
tial enforcement of its laws.'; I shall
do my part to prohibit lawlessness of
all kinds and under no circumstances
will I tolerate or compromise with
anything that is a violation of the
law.., . ' i ...
Your vote will be highly appreciated.
: Yours for the best interest of
Marshall, - ,
; ELIHU F. RECTOR.
FOR'HiAYOR
TO THE VOTERS OF
'MARSHALLs 14LhZk
5vA8;i was nominated at the
Maweeting,!:M!l
; I hereby announce myself as
a candidate, 'f or ihe ,'6ce ; of
Mybi of the town of Marshall
If elected I will execute the
ties ef-eaii bf3ce to the best of
iny. .l)ilty (and - accbrdiaiTtfli
awfcWi' appreclatef Tf otur
vote. M'fil',;!'i3v-,r r" f
..-v tT'; Eespectfullyi yours,';
;,C20VE3 crr.LDiioN:
Mr. H. L. Story, Editor
The News-Record,
Marshall, N. C.
Dear Sir:
! The orthonaeriic rlinii hnlH taoh
month in the Biltmore Hospital and
sponsored by the Rotary Club of
Asheville will meet again on Saturday
April 23rd.
We should greatly appreciate your
announcing the April meeting in the
next issue or your paper.
Yours very truly,
H. L. STANTON.
Supervisor, Vocational Rehabilitation
UNAWFUL TO FISH
WITH TRAP OR NET
IN FRENCH BROAD
AND TRIBUTARIES
According to rules. and regulations
passed by the Fisheries Commission
Board Aug. 17, 1926, "It shall be un
lawful for any persons, firm, or corp
oration to set, fish with; use or place,
or to have set, fished with, used or
placed in, the following waters any
kind of net or trap for the purpose
of taking or killing fish; or to buy,
sell, offer for sale or have in posses
sion fish taken from the - following
waters except as herein provided:
Here follows a list of the names of
the streams 'which - includes . the
French Broad River and its tributar
ies: Provided that fish may be taken
with one pole and line or rod and reel
with cluster hooks and fly rods.
See C. M. GAGE, Fish-Warden, for
complete law. . . i ,.: .j
i H. i ' i.i .
DR. J. N. . MOORE
WITHDRAWS
Since announcing last week for
Mayor of Marshall, I have decided
to withdraw from the race. '
i... .- J.'-" ' J- N. MOORE.
churches within two miles of
each other are unnecessary and
unwise. Consolidation will be
the word of the future. School
consolidation has already
changed the educational as
pect. The same conditions will
work the same changes in our
country churches. Formerly
the organization of a country
church was an achievement
that found its way into the
newspapers;-now the closing
up of a country church in order
to merge with its nearest neigh
bor means more for the king
dom than organizing a new
one. yeak country churches
with ' less prospect of growth
tnanever before iare a liability
fci ithe denomination instead of
an asset. The country church
with once a month preaching
riir not do for the future. The
hundred dollar pastor is pass
ing out.' He must mix preach
ing and plowing; in order to
make a living and that will not
do for the new day. Besides,
the church of today cannot Jive
6n wind. It takes money to
run a church now and a church
with preaching only once a
month' cannot raise v money e-
nough to raise- its bills. But a
half, dozen of them combnied
can da the work: all right, and
irith good roads-5 and automo
biles, congregation can easily
an hour.-" The merging of i
half dozen churches further
more, means the employment
of a- more efficient ministry
Ana mat means much every
by$y forhe cause of the king
dom. We have perhaps, a
thousand c o u n t r y church
es (maybe more) which last
year did not give a cent to the
co-operative program. These
churches have a name to live
but they are dead as Hector.
A combination of any half lo?.-
en of them would waken them
to newness of life, and give
them a vision that their blinded
eyes never saw. Some day this
tight will come to them. These
thousand worthless churches
should, be reduced to 200, and
the 20Q would soon be doing as
much as the thousand ever did
Consolidation is the word of
the hour!
Charity & Children.
IDOUBLE FUNERAL
AT MARSHALL
THURSDAY
W. E. HENRY AND WIFE BURIED
AT SAME TIME
GIVE THE FLOWERS NOW
We love the ones who give the roses
now.
Wait not until death's dew is on the
OrowT
Give While7 life's current is in the
. veins;
Wait not 'till we hear the funeral
strains.
Flowers and kindness, blessings kind
' ly sent:
Help not after death, though piled
like a monument.
Kindness means much to one in life's
. rusnred strife. -
Nothing efter one's", crossed the
stream of life.
Sodn Snlradea -wBl' have -passe e
terptty'sdoor.
And the neart of friendship beats no
more:
Give flowers while in lif el forge ot
fire.
Too late! Too late; to lay them on
the bier.
Whns "Still in death our forms
repoae,
We breathe no more the pertume ot
the rose :
Too late, for flowers when we sleep
so still.
Beneath" the green mound on top of
the hill!
AMMONS H. REESE,
Mars Hill, N. C.
WHY SHOULD THE
. CHRISTIAN SUFFER
The unusual nwnn-oH at- Maoaholl
Thursday morninc- when a man 4
his wife were both buried at the samo
time. Mr. Wm. Elbert Henry and
his wife, whose home was a short way
out of Marshall on the Walnut Creek
road, were interred at. Roai-H mil
Cemetery at ten o'clock Thursday
morning, the service being conducted
y. i.e-v. h. u bmith, assisted by Rev.
iehemiah Griffin.
They leave three children, Elijah
Henry and Misses Stella and Annie
Henry.
Mr. Henry died Tuesday morning
about 6:15 o'clock, after an illness
of about one week with flu, followed
by a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Henry
would have been 79 if he had lived
till June. He leaves two half-brothers
nenry isurrett, of Union, S. C, and
Obe Surrett of Sandy Mush. He also
leaves one half-sister, Mrs. Addie
King of Sandy Mush. Mr. Henry
was at one time a Mason but due to
age and poor health, had not attend
ed recently.
Mrs. Henry died Wednesday about
one o'clock P. M., after an illness of
two weeks and five days of pleurisy
following flu. She was 77 years old
in last August. She is survived by
one brother, Wesley Edmonds of Bull
Creek, and one sister. Mrs. HrHv
Fore, of Candler, N. C. Preparations
had been made for the funeral of Mr.
Henry Wednesday, when Mrs. Henry
died. Hence his was postponed so
they could be both interred in the
same grave. . ;
SCHOOLS CLOSING
The four hiirh school in Madison
County are all closing this week.
We would have been pleased to at
tend the exercises of each one but it
was impossible as all happened at the
same time. A rush of printing school
closing programs and other rush work
makes in inconvenient to attend any
of the'ekercises arid the paiHet1' rnay
be late on account of it.
NEW SCHOOL HEAD
IN MADISON
go fifteen mile to church,
which it can negotiate in half
LESSTflANOuE FAREFGR ROUIJD.
TRiPTo-TAsinrcaroN-p.t
Why should the christian suffer?
You nay ask, and the Apostle's ans
wer: "Beloved, think it not strange
concerning the fiery trial which Is to
try you." No true christian would ex
pect to be without suffering or chas
tisement from the Lord, because
these are evidences that he is a fol
lower of Jesus and, a Son of God. It
is .one or tne ways in wnicn -tne
spiriof the Lord, testifies to us that
we are, Jus.' These sufferings or the
christian come from various ageneies
The christian by being misunderstood
His motives are presumed to be
wrong,
. He-is ' sometimes chanred witn
dition because he does not desire to
join -with people of the world in en
gaging m what is wrong,' to- destroy
human lives; sometimes persecuted, by
laise brethren, and sometimes ty
those who are ignorant. But all these
affections he patiently endures, glad
ly." SU . Paul probably suffered . as
much or more than any follower of
Christ; He suffered shipwreck, im
prisonment; his back was striped on
three occasions at least, he was
stoned end dragged out by the way
side and left for dead. When Jesus
was in the earth he was despised and
rejected of men. He was dishonored
of jmen, -and the christian "need not
expect only to be persecuted here on
this, earth,, The time will come, as the
Apostle "declares, when every knee
shall bow and every tongue shall con.
less that Jesus (Jhnit is Lord to the
jrlory ef God the Father, v A ? .
in Jesus' aay tne serines and Phari
sees And . doctors of the law were all
classed' as the offspring of Satan, his
seed end" it has been true at all tunes
that many who have pretended to be
christians are really the seed of Satan
and engage in persecuting ethers who
love the-Lord. If-ii.-ss 'W-'
menS(iiid why so much despised?
Bveauae ef their rich robes, unseen.
it o. lS".njL. - - Marshall, N. C
Elsewhere wiirbfotfna W atrvtr-
iisement efa popular excursion, via
Southern Railway, tor Washington, D.
C. This is a fine opportunity to visit
the critl r 'y. . Reduced Tates are
oua: y c I from other TKirnta to
VesUiut i.iUi "Car o Ilia.' Satl.-,
rri Railway Is. now offerings reduced
rates from. Western North -Care Una
to other points. How is ihe time to
ride ' b the train and save gas and
wear and tear of ysar cat if- ynn have
Many boll sweevfls have survived
the wtnter and there is Bo;lnsure
that the pest will hot do heavy dam
agetniayeaf:-x7--s
Vi i t-
New Board of Education Chante
County Superintendent of
Schools ,
The new board of education rnm-
posed of Messrs. Wiley M. Roberts,
chairman, Jasper Ebbs, Tom Frisbee,
Fred Holcombe and Lee Ramsev met
April 4 and elected Mr. Wiley Rob
erts as chairman of the board. On
April 13, they met and elected Prof.
C. M. Blankenship as County Super
intendent of the schools in Madison
County. Prof. Blankenship is well
known in Marshall, having been head
of the Marshall school, predecessor
Of Prof. Kanoy.
Supt. O. S. Dillard, who has been
at the head of the schools in Madi
son County for the last two years,
has accepted the principalship of the
school at Leicester. The change be
comes effective July 1.
SCHOOL COMMENCE
MENTS NOW ON
The final exercises of the four hio-h
schools in Madison County are tak
ing place this week. The rirls' oner.
etta "Eeney-Meeny-Miney-Mo," was
given at the school last night at 8 00
o'clock, and was much enjoyed the
staging, costumes, and actinar all be
ing beautiful and well done. De
spite the storm, quite a number at
tended. An elementary program
will be given tonight free of charge.
it is our custom to insert, the pro
grams of school entertainments in
this paper, when the programs are
printed by the News-Record, but if
we were to print all these this week,
we would hardly have room for any
thing else, as all four schools closed
the same week, v j
Pat:' "Say. Jensen,' why is a pan.
cake like the sun?' '
Jenren: . ,',Oy, but dot's a funny ,
one. : It's because It rises in der yeast
and it sets behind der vest."
A maiden passed with silken hose
,Well suited for display; -
A spinster puckered np her nose, J .
i And turned her head away. -
The maiden went itir way content,
, The men all stopped to stare. "
And then the spinster np and went ,
And bought herself a pair.
Aif n v . , .. ----- .
tixty permanent : pasture . demon
strationk nave keen started by f sne
ers if Northsrrptoa County.
The er am station recently orrni-
led in' AiiHon County by H. M .Lau-
com.a selling about 6U0 worth of
cream each month.
'Tarheel farmers are meeHnar com-
PigS properly M at the Blacklv3 (petition In cotton r-o-r4--? f"m t
ottco.ssr,,p!2 .jftfTC't cy
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