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mm '":,." THE NEWS-RECORD frO Art PRICE A YEAR fl&.UU The PROGRESSIVE FARMER THE NEWS-RECORD PO QC BOTH A YEAR FOR $.-.01 MimsnN rniiNTY Rcrntn A ' Established June 28, 1901. ' FRENCH BROAD NEWS 1 Established May 16, 1907. Comolidatad November 2, 1011 . . n - YCf&E THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON EOUNTY VOL. XXI MARSHALL, N.C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 192 18S0 STATE SHOULD CONTINUE Editor, News-Record : I am handing you a clipping from the Raleighg News and Observer concerning the- con tinuation of building highways in the State. The article follows: FAR FROM UNANIMOUS THE action of the State Highway Commission declaring it would not ask for ddilional bond issues to build roads has not won unanimous Approval. There are sections .vhich feel that they have not secured the roads that arc K-'ently needed, and they will ma';p themselves heard when the T.ptrisljiture meets. The Edentor New? voices dissent from' Northea-.trm North Carolina. It says thai, it is necessary to completely remodel "miserably poorly laid, poor ly constructed and experimental roads that dot the mileage of this en tire section," and it adds: "The State Highway Commis sion can not point with pride to its work in the northeast, be cause its work here has been a miserable failure. They have failed to connect the county seats with a standardized hard surfaced road, as the good roads bill was intended that they should do; they have failed to find the road-building material that will stand up under the traffic of lowland travel, and standardize those roads in the entire section; they have ailed to make the nine-foot road on Federal Highway 17, between Hertford and Edenton, a stand--ardiced 16-foot, county seat to county seat highway; they have failed to make the Virginia road , .ouf f- Edantoa- 'Successful road, the present pavement be ing in such condition that it is worse than nothing; they have failed to give to Perquimans County anything but what Per quimans County paid for itself; they have failed to construct one single piece of suitable road in Chowan County that was not paid for by the county; they have failed to give to Gates County any more than they could possibly help; they hav failed to build a lowland road over the staking roadbed in Camden County; they have fail ed to give to Bertie a connection with Martin by a standardized 16-foot county seat to county seat road; they have failed to made the roads out of - New Bern a pleasure and a pride, in stead of the narrow roads they now have; they have failed to give to give to the Scotland Neck section of Halifax County a single foot of hard-surfaced road leading out of it." The News advocates an increase of forty million dollars of bonds to com plete the system. "We demand that we be treated like a member of the State, and not as a foster-child by its parents in Raleigh." It goes on to say: 1 nere are sections of North Carolina that need no more roads; that's true, but' those sections are few. They usually are the towns from which the highway commission ers come, Tarboro or Washington or Raleigh or Durham or Wilmington." There will be plenty of road talk when the solons gather .next January. I think Madison County should join the dissenters from the Highway Commissioners announced purpose to ask for no more bonds from the State to continue road building. WOMANLESS WEDDING IN MARS HILL MARCH THIRD One of the leading social events of. j names of the contracting parties have the season -will be "The Womanless 1 not been made public yet, nevertlie - Wedding," which will take place Sat-; less this wedding will unite two of urday evening, March 3rd., in the n-' the most prominent families of the ditorium of the Mars Hill High city. '' "r- ;.'- School .., ., No engraved invitation are' being The ceremony will be .olemniaed bo th"e pubtIc jj'eowiwir uigh o'clock,'-and cards will be re- culred at ihe door. Although the ' T - . ROAD BUILDING PROGRAM Road building should con tinue in an active and progres sive way until all the counties in the State have been equally and fairly treated. The highway system in Mad ison County is far from com plete as contemplated by the good roads bill which provided for the establishment and con struction of a system of hard surfaced highways connecting all the county seats and princi pal towns of the State into one great system and to connect the main highways of the State at the State line with all high ways coming into the State. It was a grand and glorious undertaking, worthy ol any state or people. Madison County up to the present time has only one short piece of concrete road which is between Marshall and Ashe ville. The Highway Commission contemplates to do some work on the highway connecting the town of Marshall with Burns ville, the county seat of Yancey Co., by way of Mars Hill, but have announced that there are not enough funds on band to complete that link.. ' coining aaa . oeea ,aqne w constructing a highway" from Marshall to Waynesville, the county seat of Haywood Co. Madison County, as others have done, loaned the State considerable sums of money to expedite the building of high ways in the county and a fail ure of the State to issue more bonds would postpone the com pletion of the highway system of the State and delay the re turn of the funds borrowed and force the counties to continue to pay interest on the money borrowed by them to loan the State. A failure to speedily complete the highway system a s originally contemplated would work an injustice to those counties whose highways are left unconstructed. Respectfully, C. B. MASHBURN. R. L. MOORE TO SPEAK AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH Professor R. L. Moore of Mars Hill College will speak at the Baptist Church Sunday, Feb. 26. There will also be a Township Sunday School Convention at the Baptist Church at 2:30. All the Sunday, Schools in the County are invited'to attend. J. COLEMAN RAMSEY. Judge You are hereby ' sentenced to 30 days as a pedestrian. Reckless Autoist Good heavens. Judge, do you want. to murder me? Collier's. invneaproviaea h,wh.i. P- sent their eawa at tne ooor, ............. -f.. BILLS IN CONGRESS Merchant Marina Representative Wallace H. White, Jr., of Maine, introduced House Bill No. 10765, to create, develop and maintain a privately owned American Merchant Marine adequate to servo trade routes essential in the move ment of the industrial and agricultur al products of the United States and to meet the requirements of the com merce of this country; to provide for the transportation of the foreign mails of the United States in Ameri can vessels and to provide naval and military auxiliaries. Education Representative W. E. Evans, of California introduced House Resolu- tion No. 196, designating the Ameri can Green Cross as a national body for education and research work in connection nth the protection oi forests, reforestation of denuded a - reas. flood control and allied prob - lems. Motion-Picture Industry Representative Grant M.- Hudson, of Michigan, introduced House Bill No.. 10761, to prevent obstruction and burdens upon interstate trad? and commerce in copyrighted motion-picture films, and to prevent the further monopolisation oi me Business producing, distributing, and exhibit - ing copyrighted motion picture by prohibiting blind booking and block booking of copyrighted mobon-pta- ture films and by prohibiting the ar- ij . e a,. .... a bitrary allocation of such films by distributors to theaters in which they or other distributors have an inter est, direct or indirect, and by prohib iting the arbitrary refusal to book or sell such films to other exhibitors. ' Farm Board Representative William C. Lank ford, of Georgia,, introduced House Bill No. 10757, to establish a Federal farm board to aid in the orderly mar keting and in the control and disposi tion of the surplus of agricultural commodities in Interstate and foreign commerce. Flood Control Senator W. H. McMaster, of South Dakota, introduced Senate Resolu- tion No. 91, authorizing an appropria - tion for bank protection for the con- trol of floods and the prevention of erosion of the Missouri River at and near the town of Yankton in the! state of South Dakota. Veteran senator waiter George, of i Georgia, introduced Senate Resolu tion No. 90, authorizing the Secre- tary of War to furnish transportation to certain veterans attending the thir- : , . ... .. tietn anniversary of the liberation of Cuba. Low-Grade Cotton Representative Thomas L. Blanton, of Texas, introduced House Bill No. : . . , . ing maximum utilization of low-grade , t . .. . i cotton, and creating an embargo upon all raw jute, jute bagging, and pro- ducts manufactured from jute. American Citizen. Representative Clyde Kelly, of Pennsylvania, introduced House Res- oiution No. 195, authorizing the President to negotiate with other na- tions for agreements and treaties for - fhe protection of American citi.ens j Pald bv the Government, of foreign birth or parentage from It is all purely voluntary and there liability to military service in other j is no obligation for any military serv countries. lice, present or future, upon those War Claims 'who go to camps and undertake the Representative James G. Strong, of training." Mr jf - - m 8- ?t!feJ FIRST CHRISTIAN No. 194, authorising the President to ascertain, adjust, and pay certain claims of grain elevators and grain firms to cover insurance and interest on wheat during the years 1919 and 1920, as per contract authorized by the President. FROG, IMPRISONED 31 YEARS, RE MOVED ALIVE , 1 EASTLAND, TEXAS, Feb. 19.- A horned frog, sealed alive in the cornerstone of the courthouse here fil vprs aim. wr nlivp whan thfc ; tont, wng opened yesterdaV( aoccrd. ing to County Judge Edward S. Pritchard. The old courthouse is be ins' razed. It is n West. Tpxas trnrli- that R horned frQg can exW . ! Ltury without food or water. A .L. , npwKnanermfln uaH , judge verify the report that the frog. Was alive when taken from its long entombment. The cornerstone containing the frog and a number of old newspapers, coins, and masonic emblems, was o pened in the presence of a throng of curious residents. When Eugene Day, surrounded by countjr officia,g; picked from jhe , the gto a cheer went L ; The f appeared lifeIe8S for tfme Soon ft d its 'nd in ,bout 20 minutes began to breathe.-' The mouth, however, ap peared to have grown together. I The frog was placed in a box and fc on ' exhibition. Efforts will be made to' Induce it to take food and if necessary the mouth will be opened by en operation. i'sf tAaheville Citizen. 5 .-' V" WHARS- HTM. N. .,' Feb 80- The quota allotted Madison County will give 7 young men of the County j opportunities to attend this summer's camps of the C. M. T. C. Association (conducted by the Government at j different center throughout the i Fourth Corps Area, announced Mr. jas'. M. Smart, County Chairman of the C. M. T. C. enrollment commit- j tee todav , A, countjes m the State have been allotted quotas. The campaign for applicants, .has i i .nt:A4 .f." - . , . ' . , , , ! Smart, who also stated that he had ; , ' . , . . .. ... complete liuui nmiiuu aim upfjiicabiuu. blanks available at Mars Hill, N. C. j He urges all those planning to take advantage of this opportunity to ap j ply at once to insure acceptance while the quota remains unfilled. Last year 1 , ,. ,. many late appplicants were dis-ip- . p0lnte " A!1 necessary expenses attached to camP attendance are paid by the Government, Mr. Smart explained. "The railroad fares from homes to nearest camps and return, the food, clothing, lodging, laundry service, medical attention and instructions are T7 CHURCH ORCHESTRA, OFvASHEVlLLE. N. C. MARSHALL ABANDONS HYDRO ELECTRIC PLANT PROPOSITION GRASS A GREAT SOIL SAVER On'a mildly sloping field in Mis- souri .soil investigators measured soil loss by erosion for six years where the ground was plowed to a depth of 4 inches. On the average more than 40 tons of soil per acre was lost an nually, and the ground absorbed less than, 70 per cent of the rainfall. On a similar field covered with bluegrass Less than a third of a ton of soil was washed away and the field retained almost 90 per cent of the water that fell on it. On land like this 4-inch plowed field erosion would remove a 7-inch layer of soil in 24 years, less than the time of one generation of farming; while the same land in grass would not lose 7 inches of soil for 'more than 3,500 years. Thj soil with a large proportion of humuj ab sorbs more rain and resists erosion. With a fall of only 4 feet in 100 as was the case in this field a simple system of terracing will help con- OVl T IllVlilll Ul V UIIU Will D TV. ., ... , . iL . , , soil that would otherwise go to choke . , , . ,. the streams farther down the valley and $rtise higher floods in the Mississippi. What about your Note Headst Let fort such a HhtinK SV8tem would " us .print them for you. fr our own citizens. WOMANLESS WEDDING TO BE AT MARSHALL ON MARCH 1 On Thursday, March 1, 1928, a "Womanless Wedding" will be given in the High School auditorium . at Marshall. The "Wedding" promises to be a "scream" from start to finish. The participants are all local charac ters thereby adding much to the in teteeV -'of the affair, r'irbe'east Ik 'm" fdOvWf f ftrffi:f-Hi: ,vfrlv- San Groom Bculah Tweed Father of Bride . A. L. Plemmons Mother of Bride W. H. Morrow Bride's uncle Rev. Mr. Knox Bride's aunt E. R. Tweed Bride's Grandfather Jack Ramsey Bride's Grandmother Herschel Sprinkle Miss Spain Miss Knowall ... I. V. Yonce Miss Russia Ralph Fisher Aunt Africa Cub Sprinkle Bride's baby sister . Clarence Gage CONCENTRATED FERTILIZERS SAVE LABOR AND FREIGHT Potato growers are finding in the use 'of concentrated fertilizers an opportunity to save time, money, and labor, says B. E. Brown, soil chemist of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, United States Department of Agri culture. By using this new form of fertilizer, 1 pound of which carries as much actual plant food as is car ried by 2 pounds of the ordinary kind, they save in freight, in hand ling, in hauling, and in storage. The idea of manufacturing fertili zers in the concentrated form was developed by the soil chemists of the Mother I've called you half a , with must have had something," sug dozen times and you don't take Lhe jested his friend, slightest notice. I don't know what1 you will be fit for when you grow up." j V I R C T TIRiTl A M Elsie Well, mamma, I can be a 1 f 1 11 1 UllUlJ 1 1ii telephone operator. j I ff IT T I II AT) Other Estimates Make Plan Prohibitive At a specially called meeting of the Town Council of Marshall Wednesday night to consider the proposed hydro electric plant to be owned and operat ed by the municipality of Marshall, the whole matter was gone over and another engineer's estimates showed the proposition to be impracticable. After a full discussion the board vot ed not to call the election on the mat ter. Representatives of the Utility Company now operating were present, and, while they did not promise lower rates, they said there would be an ad justment of rates. They also agreed to remove from the Main Street the unsightly poles, now supporting the power wires, and if the town would contribute $1600 they woi-ld furnish the remaining $2000, the necessary amount to put in a White Way on Main Street. This is a matter that ill . , . may well be considered by the town .. ... . ... . . as a White Way along this much U3ed ... , . , highway street would be quite an ad vertisement for Marshall, besides the beauty and attractiveness and com- Ring-bearer J. A. pendrick Train-bearer . ,.Pro. Henry Best Man A. W. WWtehurst Minister - J. Will Robertf Twins Dr. Hutchins, Wade Redmon . Flower Cirl J. Hubert Davit H. L,. Story Carl Stuart Dr. Walton Dr. Ditmore Fred Sprinkle Roy Gudger Groomsmen H. L. Smith, Steve Rob erts, Mr. Blankenship Flower Girls Dr. Clyne, Clarence Gage, Claude Sawyer Gueu Mr. Holcombe, Mr. Coats, Moody Chandler, Nick White Pianist Miss Phipps Soloist John McElroy The prices for this affair are 35c Admission price 35c and 20c. DR. HUTCHINS TO ENCOURAGE B. Y. P. U. WORK Dr. J. H. Hutchins, president of the French Broad Associational B. Y. P. U. work, plans to call on B. Y. P. U. workers throughout the French Bvoad Association to write articles for this paper and do all they can to stimulate interest in this work. Let the ar ticles be to the point and uplifting. "I am rich, very rich," admitted ,Abie, "yet when I started in busi ness I didn't have a thing." "Then the ones you did business" t 11 U U j II u it- CHESTRA j The orchestra of the First Chris tian Church, of Asheville, will give a conceit at the Marshall High School auditorium Friday evening at 8 o' ' clock. This Orchestra is composed of 39 j artists, and will appear in a concert of popular marches, overtures, med- leys, and waltzes. This orchestra has j played to well-filled houses through out Western North Carolina, also has I gained quite a reputation as a broad !cash orchestra from Station WWNC. This concert will appeal to the old and young alike, as it will be made up of good snappy numbers for the -young people, and higher type melody ,. - ; numbers for the older lovers. ! Appearing on this program will be I Mr. B. Frank Prunty, bass solois,t who is one of the best in this country iin his line of work. , . . j This is this orchestra's third year , in Western N. C. and as this program is for the benefit of the school, i very large atendance is expected. -The orchestra is under the dire?w tion of Geo. C. Bertram. - -- -:--. .
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