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Y S K .it-.; . " .-' ...J .MU-;t .-,',,,..; . - i1 , 11 " -V ? - t . MADISON COUNTY RECORD EOablUhed Jane 18, 1901. FRENCH BROAD NEWS Established May 16, 1907. Coni.lidaUi Nov.mb.r 2, 1911 m- THE NEWS-RECORD PRICE A YEAR Thm PROGRESSIVE FARMER THE NEWS-RECORD ITU BOTH A YEAR FOR P- O ) U MORE ABOUT YOUR BIG TAX PAYING By IRA PLEMMONS Where is this burden of taxation noming fromt Since 1921 according tjL the Federal Treasury, reports the W burden on the wealthier class, for that is the class that pays most of the Federal revenue, has been reduced one billion six hundred millions of dollars. , , , . The National Industrial Board points out that in 1925 there was a reduction in Federal taxes of three hundred and thirty-six millions dol lars, and an increase of states taxes of five hundred millions of dollars. In 1921 the cost of the federal gov mment was about nine and a half billion dollars or nearly sixty per cent of all the taxes collected, out in ivto the cost had risen to the sum of elev en a half billion dollars and sev- mLvVhree oer cent of that amount nr from the taxing agencies of the Rtotfl It's also asserted that two millions four hundred thousand dol lars of these taxes was raised by un anu&l taxation. In our own state the ratio runs about eighty per cent as onmnnred with the federal govern- mmt. This is due to many factors entering into expense accounts, many of which I have pointed oui in prev- imiK article!. I note that in Wilkes County the aheriff. Mr. W. D. Woodruff, accoru. in to paper reports, seems to be short 1 : his settlement with the county oi 'm m ..it- twpnt.v thousand dollars, it febms further that he paid lots of poor people's taxes after going to tk!r hnmM and finding them with nerhana only a cow or a few pigs, ! maybe, just a little corn for the f ami i ily, rather than reduce . these poor nennle to starvation he. out of his ' fondness, assumed the payment of their taxes, he could not swear that I they were insolvent and the county is tied up with f ooV laws that the avi thorities cannot give him credit. Now this man is to be indicted and will in All likelihood be found ruilty and sent to prison. If anyone knows the suf , Jering of the taxpyaers, it is tax clr r lectors. V' vow, oun w made and sealed with the King's ring according to the laws- of the Modes and Persians; 'insofar as the common people are concerned. If their assess, ments are too high, after they run 1 all the red tape to get them reduced it costs them more than they are able to bear, and therefore they go on pay. ing unequal taxes for another four j years. The big land barons can afford to go before the equalization boards and with hired attorneys et reduction on their assessments, on their real and Dersonal Drooertv. j In many counties of the state, and if our county is no exception, it costs Vmore to list the taxes than it does to collect them. A friend of mine has gone to the trouble to find out what it's costing our county to list the tax es for this year, the amount for as sessing according to his figures $1713.65 and $530.40 more for as sessing the real estate or a sum of two thousand two hundred forty-four dollars and five cents, and to this sum must be added the copying and re copying of the tax books for the tax collectors and register's office, dupli ; cation again. "One of the very big men of our State wrote me the other day that it saddened him to note the man? farms and lots that were sold for taxes in our County this year, fie is not the only one who is saddened five hundred and six taxpayers are more than, saddened their homes are ' gone. Of course some of them will redeem them but' to da so' they must pay 'twenty, per cent extra and the cost of the sale, and this penalty is all because they could not pay their taxes on time. . . ,"J--'j Many of the wealthier people are putting their money in non-taxable V securities, refusing to invest it and V escaping titration . on it. Just this ; morning a very wealthy man from th l' : ,JS I SUV4 eastern part of our State told me that was putting ail his money m non- uuun wciuiun, ana mae n rc : mark that he Would be better off if he did not have4ny property at all But the small taxpayer has no money to buy non-taxable bonds with, not ev. jfn enough to pay. the amount de. : Snanded of him by the taxing agen J. .VI. ill... X . il. . cies, out he must pay or bis home goes on the block. Yi--. f-'ri-fi,-' It is one of the injunctions of God's Word to Jove one another and it is right, but is these such a thing as ov erdoing that loving. ' That all depends on . bow- it. is applied. Our State, County, and other taxing authorities are loving u just a bit too strong. They are. offering services- of every kind Vand description ffrom needle 'pusher to the office of Governor, some ' necessary, other offices not necessary,, but being paid by the taxpayers. ; --, Insofar as I am concerned, I would Just as soon be shot and killed as to e serviced to death or loved by the State and other taxing agencies to death. - It all means that I am dead. If these services ( are making 'poorer people, then it's time to -let us do i jt wimouc me. services oi mi least uie i unnecessary officers and all unneces jVsry expenses. '.''" ..." . -. r But the love that seems now to be V uppermost in many minds is to get in. - : to office and have as many of their families get appointed to some office as they can. Down at Raleigh just that fatnilv business seems to be overworked. Why, even I have heard of a case where a man was inuicwu for unlawful use of school money and lunilihiMi nanaad a bill lot the relief of a certain board to keep that man out of .the courts. At teas ne nnvAv triad, and still he is holding down a puny corner of an office by appointment. " xne omce is not nec essary but the taxpayers are paying for a very questionable service. To get this bill thromgh the legisla ture it perhaps cost the State nearly a thousand ddUars to get that wonder ful bill passed and that excellent gentleman Appointed to an omce that is wholly unnecessary. But the tax payers pay it alL Is it right? . These conditions do not seem to be confined to any one state or communi ty. Just over at Chattanooga they are having some difficulty to find out what went witn.many tnousanas ox good school money, but the taxpayers must pay whether they can or not. Is it right? I warn tne voters to Keep weir eyes wide open all the time and look for the purpose that any candidate may have that may offer himself as a sac rifice. Many times, as has been prov en, the sacrifice cost the tax payers a very large amount of money. Even mam U iMs awa wn mr 'Vmt VtQ t Arn I1UW MIV&V asanas v4tv w. v Innlrtno fAi-arnrH trt fVio next election '-' and forming public sentiment to carry out the bladings oi a ring or doss, is it right? MRS. MSCONNELL IS CLAIMED BY DEATH MRS. R. -G. . McCONNELL .DIES . WHILE IN ABINGDON HOSPITAL. Mrs, R. G. McConnell of Green Spring, Vs., died at the George fien Johnson Hospital at Abingdon about 1 :30 o'clock Monday afternoon, while undergoing an operation there. She had been ill only a (few days and was taken to the hospital for an operation however, erf ormed. f. 'cCoanell; prominent Washington County far mer. vv"' . She is survived by her husband, R. G. McConnell of Green Spring and by the following children: Harold, Clarence, Ruth, Marie and Glenna Rose McConnell, all of Green Springs. She is also survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Plemmons and one brother, all of Marshall, and one sister, Mrs. W. G. Goforth of Alexan der, N. C. Funeral services were conducted from the Green Springs Church Wednesday morning. Interment was in cemetery there. Bristol (Tenn.) News. RICE JAILED HERE Elihua Rice, middle aged farmer of the Walnut Creek section, was placed in the Madispn jail Sunday by officers on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, a knife, on his son, Walter Rice.. The bey, although painfully cut, is not seriously Injured and will recover, i ; :, The motive for the alleged assault can not be ascertained.' the boy and his father evidently having gotten along weu together, according to tne neighbors of the family. At the time of his arrest, the elder Rice was at liberty under a peace bond of $200 on a charge of assaulting his wife at their home in June. Rice is alleged to have beaten her face badly with a revolver, Inflicting very painful flesh wounds but his victim recovered and they have composed their domestic troubles and have been living togeth er .since Rice was released from jail here on the peace bond, v It ii probable that Rice will hare a trial at the August term of Superior court which convenes August 22nd. 2 STILLS CAPTURED ' Members of the Sheriff's force ere very busy at present and have added two more stills to their rapidly grow ing collection in the county jail. here. The two stills were captureqon featr ufday and Sunday. 4.;.,f '; p$ Both "stills were captured .fn.'the Anderson Brar.eh section near Barn ard, one being discovered by the offi cers on Saturday and the other on Sunday night. No one was present at either still, but they had, evidently been in operation shortly btfore. No whiskey or mash was captured. These two additions make a total of more .than fifty stills captured by Sheriff Ramsey and his, officers in the. past several months, some of them being 60 to 85 galkins eapac,ity.'--rfV:i 2" Passenger: . "Do you charge for. children T" ; . ; ,- ,v.-V Conductors "Under six, we do not." Passenger: Well X have only fivo, f Conductor: "Are you color blind?" v Student Brakeman: "No." g Z Conductorr "Well then, take this blue ?rM on "to hat red hoard and tell that green operator to put his John - Henry White on this yellow train order.". MADISON COUNTY SHORTAGE IN SCHOOL FUNDS NOTHING NEW Amount Is Accumulation of Years of Overdraw ing and BorrbWing. STATES' NEW BUDGET: v LAW AND AD VANCE TAX COLLECTIONS MAKES MATTER SEEM: SERIOUS The startling statement in the, jAsheville Citizen Thursday morning of this week: "DEFICIT $40,000 FOUND IN MADI SON SCHOOL FUND" is not so startling after all, when the matter is understood. In other words a matter that would in criminate an individual, when it is found that the matter can not be laid on the shoulders of that individual, becomes less exciting. If Mr. Dillard had been guilty of making way with, or misappropriating $40,000 of the County's money, the peo ple would be indignant and would have a right to be. But ac cording to Dr. Finley and County Auditor, J. N. White, Mr. Dillard is not responsible for the present shortage. While it seems to be true that the county is short about this amount, it is an accumulation of deficits running over a number of years, The school board has been facing a deficit for a number of years and has been drawing on the prospect of the incoming tax uncollected. The banks have been loaning the money to take care of the deficit until the tax was collected each year. This year, according to the new law, all 1926 taxes had to be in before July 1, and a budget of all expenses' made. This brings to a head a condition which has existed for a number of years for which condition neither Mr. Dillard nor any one Board of Edu cation is entirely responsble. It is the purpose of this port" in the near future showing School fund, as found by Dr. W. E. Finley, who is ndw making an audit of all accounts. MARSHALL CHEVROLET COMPANYiS BUILDING IS NEARLY FINISHED $16,000 PLANT HAS FLOOR SPACE 55x80 FEET The Marshall Chevrolet Company's new building on Main Street is near ing completion. In fact, it is expected that the building will be occupied next week. It is quite an improvement to Marshall, being finished in front with tapestry brick and plate glass. The company is composed of Messrs. Tom Frisby, President; W. R. Eller son, Vice President; Fred Roberts, Secretary and Treasurer and A. B. McDaniel, Manager. This new structure occupies the Swann lot lying between Mr. Ward's store ano? the grocery store of Mr. A. L. Plemmons, the floor space be ing 55x80 feet, concrete floor and brick walls. The company expects to conduct both a sales department for the Chevrolet cars and accessories and a general repair department. POPULAR WASHINGTON, D. I The Southern Railway will make very attractive round trip rates to Washington and return. 1 Special Sleeping Cars and Day Coaches from Asheville August 10th, 1927. . ; t Lv., .Asheville 2 :20 P, M. Ar. Washington 8 :30 A. M. Four full days in Washington if desired and tickets good re turning on all .regular trains daily (except No. 37 The Cres cent Limited) until Sunday night, August 14th. r h Following Tates will apply from stations quoted below and e&ualiy low fares ifrom all stations. ; ' "v ' " " -u j'sVv: r.'i 'I-..-, ;;AIHuir Barnard rMarsfU rviX Hot Springs" Passengers on Knoxville Train' Ifo. 12, 2100 P. M. and leave Asheville on Train No. 12; 2:20 P., M. :. Call on your local Agent for tickets and Pullman reservations.. ' ' '?'.,:.-- - ' t - - J. H. WOOD,' Dir. Pass. AgL;i ; ' . v . Ashernie, K. C - paper, to publish a complete re- thefijiancial conditio of this GIRLS ENDING NORMAL COURSES A large number of Madison County girls are returning to their homes after having taken the summer school course at Cullowhee State Normal School, the Asheville normal, and various other schools offering summer coursese in teaching. Among the arrivals from Cullowhee this week were the following Misses Hva Rice, Sallie Fisher, and Gladys Tweed, of Mashall: Miss Jennie Lee Chandler, of Walnut: Misses Ibbie Ball, Gertie Brown, and Zura Payne, of Little Pine; and Jessie Franklin, of Big Laurel, N. C. and Miss Ruby Payne of Marshall and Miss Ruby Wilson are among the Madison coun ty girls who have returned from the Asheville Normal, after having finishing the summer course there. EXCURSION . J $13X0 14.50 D 14.00 : 14.50 Division should arrive Asheville Two Madison Boys In Canal Zone New York, Aug. 8. Chester O. Jarrett, son of Mr. John Jarrett, of Route 1, Marshall, and Paul J. Bright, son of Mrs. Sarah Bright, of Hot Springs, N. C, who recently enlisted in the Regular Army, sailed today frnm tht Rronklvn armv base with 308 soldiers on the U. S. Army Trans port St. Mlhtel lor tne ranama janai Zone. Jarrett and. Bright who volun- fonrsft tnr Hntv in Pnnama and who selected the Engineering branch of the army service wm De assigned by Major General William Lassiter, nf the Panama Canal De. partment, to one of the units that guard the canal. Tney win nave un usual opportunity of seeing the great est entrineerinsr feat in history, with. out cost to themselves. Before sailing today they were mpnihpr nf the frarrison of Fort Slocum, N. Y., an army post on the Long Island Sound, where they re ceived their military training under the supervision of Colonel J. J. Brad ley, commander of the post. The War Pepartment has arranged special tours for soldiers from army transports at San Juan, when the ship docks at that port. Natives operating "guaguas," which is Porto Rican for motor busses, takesoldiers in sight seeing trips over the crooked moun tain roads that were built three hun dred years ago by Spanish slaves. EXPLAINS $100,000 ROAD NOTE ! A nnfa nrhiph in ad vprt.ispH to be sold the 17th, is to take up a real interest. It has brought back to note of like amount which was bor- i me memories of my boyhood days un rowed by the County and loaned to til I was seventeen years of age, when tne ovate xllgnway juiuiuibbiuii ivi j the construction of highways in Madi-1 son County. I The note for 5100,000 which wbs:n. B. Gahagan, Hiiisna iweea, aiuus mid JmIv 19. was for the same our pose. These notes will be paid in the end by the . State. This does not in crease the debt of Madison County except that the County has part of the interest to pay until the notes ere paiH5ffby fratatv'TlrlrTrIM tion is given us by Mr. John A. Hen dricks, County Attorney. YOUTH HURT Jobie Davis, a vounsr man of nea? mis luwn, wnue on nis wy tv mar- . Tweed ana 1 were promoteu J. rum wie shall and while turning a sharp curve , ranks to lieutenants, and I am pre a short distance west of the home of pare(j to say that the other three Mr. W. V. Farmer, ran his car off the , maae g00Q soldiers, and in my heart road, turning over several times and ; j treasure happy memories of the e rolled into the branch about fifty feet , Ventf ul years we served together dur below, late Sundav afternoon. He was tk ton-ihlo neriod of war. All Daaiy oruisea ana naa several nus broken in the accident. The touring car was the property of Jonah Hen. derson of Walnut and it was almost completely demolished. i . t. f--i i i i I 'l STATE SANATORIUM TO . . . ....... ...... n..... HAVt INtW BUlUMNU;rh'.j h""" a v fr0m home in the The Board of Directors of The North Carolina Sanatorium at their last quarterly meeting passed on the permanent improvement program for the institution during the coming two years. A building to be erected on the opposite side from the present main building, of the dining room, kitchen and auditorium already on the grounds , to accommodate one the outstanding permanent improve, ments. The fitting at an early date of steel casement windows in the two wards already erected, which at the time of building were only screened in, will make the institution a thoroughly modern building in accord with the, best sanatorium building practice of today. ,. . ., .. k Mntf tiaan Tftl wo. ilW Vl 11MW.M ' - will nmhVilv he nsed for ambui- Ktitrv aim ' natients when the new women's -huUdlngs are eompietea. CELEBRATE 50TH WED- J , ; DING ANNIVERSARY t . i j . n.- - ALL NINE CHILDREN PRESENT Last Sundav. July 81, 1927, the home of Mr. and Mrs.;R. V. Deaver on Wslnut Creek was the scene et a V ..... V - - - rAinhratlnn 'whih cant, as-ouite a surprise to Mr. beaver.' While he was gone1 to church, 4iis son, ; Mx. O W. Deavtr, assisted by others, went to the hdme and built a table in the back yar.. One by one, the children and grandchildren and "in-laws" and other . relative rathered until 64 were present. They had met to.celc uviicnuui occasion, jnzv . nui noo- w v, iucuBiio,i was yinnil wiu made the speech of the occasion. All nine.' children were present as fol lows: Mrs. C M. Davis, Asheville, H. B. Dearer, Knoxville, ' Mrs. Buren Price, BfsrshalL R. 4, Mrs. Polk Bryan Marshall-R. 4, Mrs. Marvin Silver Marshall Mrs. John Blazer, Marshall, R. P. Di 4, Mrs. C. G. Henderson, wr. v. n . -urvT. en Marhsll,'ah4 Mr." Xiin Daver of Marshall R. F. D, 4. . siarsnaii, k. r. u. 4, Mr. O. W. Desv. S.S. CONVENTION AT CHAPEL HILL GREAT SUCCESS The annual session of the Sunday School Convention of the French Broad Association met with the Cha pel Hill Baptist Church at White Rock, N. C, Saturday, July SO and continued through Sunday. In the absence of the president of last session, the body was called to gether by Rev. L. C. Roberts, Modera tor of the Association. On motion the rules were suspend ed and E. S. Morgan of the Grape Vine church, was elected president, and Fred Jervis of Mars Hill was re elected Secretary. 25 Sunday Schools' reported with or without delegates. The talks were fine and a little a bove the ordinary. The delegates were royally enter tained by the people of Chapel Hill. FRED JERVIS, Secretary. MADISON VETERAN WRITES A. J. GAHAGAN, NOW OF TEN. NESSEE, GIVES WAR EXPERIENCE The News-Record, Marshall, N. C. For a few months I have been re the News-Record that I am quite sure has been sent me by some -ionH T have read each CODV with unaer me uiuu( . -j ij George W. Gahagan, left the old home in company with my brother, JlensteyNoah, and John Shelton to find a place in the rank of the Union Army in southeastern Kentucky (the first group of boys to leave the coun ty for that purpose) all of whom got 4.u...ni. th PnTifAderatA . lines .with tihe exception of my "brother who-wasn captureu, ana cuea iu wuwtow prison at Richmond, Virginia. Noah Shelton died in the servwe. Twee John Shelton, Hensley and I lived through the war, and returned when mustered out to the , old homeland. We were all members of the First Tennessee Cavalry, all in company u. 1 "6 r i the others have passed over- I M the only survivor of that first bunch that left Madison County to follow the flag of our country. On our return home I remained a month or so with my parents at the r.A hnmt nver on Laurel. I helned nut in n little snrinc crot) on the farm. armv over three years, and during that time I had been in six of the states, and some of them seemed to offer me better opportunities for a real place in life than my home land. One day I said to my parents that I could see nothing there better than work on the farm, and that I could go back to Nashville where I could get a place in the service of the govern ment that would pay me a salary that would hire ten men on the farm, and with their consent I would go (I wai then just twenty-one years of age). I think they doubted my ,optimisti statement, but readily gave their con sent I made good my promise. In less than a. week I was on a job t 8125.00 per mnoth, winding up year later in Chattanooga. Gave up my position in the government service huaitiMB. where I have riven si w - , .. - -- . -. . years ox acuve iiis in uyiu. 1m my best to make a piace on ww iwnr for the . city, ox my naopwwn. hot reached the vision I had in mind but I have , done my best. ; I take pride in my pstive state, North Carolina. Whatshe hasae- j .t.. .lnuvnf the Civil I CUnUlliauou oiuv. w.w ... I I fk. liiatnrv til : "joment surpassedTy no other f?A' rt . i . TT.l.. m. miflif e "lntiatr deTn,n)f of the tax i i re Ytftf have a problem thers f Oiarrequires swwnwv r ai fSyf --Very ftuly, V? i A. GAHAGAN. N. C BOOZE FINES $83,84.00 , Washington, July 20. Some In- " teresting prohibition figures hav , been compiled here.. xney snow j eoiieciea. as ream i trt ottnrM. Bale. aeis- .: nndep the Volstead eastern district, 820,888 and western, 68,47. , . . The number of persons paying fines I and . the average paid were: eastern district,. 149 persons and $134 per, person; western, 453, and $131' -Z , The number of cases pending wer v eastern 181, and western 985. - Dstilleries seized: entire state !,- . 665; stills seized, 446, still worms 487 and fermenters 13,849. t cpiriTS FeiZPQ, 19,K-i pinon., r Vliquor 1.441,312 guilds 1-.' j automc'.-ls. m J . r . n . T. . ' 4