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MADISON COUNTY RECORD S
Established June 28, 1901.
FRENCH BROAD NEWS .
Established May 16, 1907.
Consolidated November 2, 1911
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CASE OF CALVIN EDNEY
Frisby Case Set For
Thursday Afternoon
Many Cases Being Disposed of
As Judge McEIroy Presides
shall Monday morning with Judge j
McEIroy, of Marshall, presiding, j
Solicitor Robt. M. Wells, who has re- .
cently returned from a delightful ; Miss Nancy Beyer, for the past
trip abroad, was on hand and the 'eight years instructor in home eco
large docket of criminal cases 'tSSA
taken up in earnest, t our ot the out- ed nome demonstration agent of Mad
standing cases on the calendar for'json county, Mrs. Sarah Ellis, dis
this court were the three murder Strict home agent has announced,
cases and the case of M, Calvin Ed- J.&& 'X
ney, young attorney of Mars Hill, ber mak-lng her headquarters at Mar
charged with distributing through the shall. She will spend the remainder
mails a yellow slip just before the
June primary said to be libelous, on
which was printed a list of names of
Madison County people. This case
did not even- come to the court, as
the grand jury did not find sufficient
evidence to report it a true bill. This
brought to an end what would haveDia university, Miss Beyer has taught
proved to be quite an interesting case, at Roanoke Rapids and at Winthrop
The case of John Frisby of near college in addition to her work at the
, . j ., . (Appalachian Normal school.1 She is
Marshall, charged with the murder of ,a R woman of practical club work
his son, Erna Frisby, was set for 'experience having done much club
Thursday afternoon. Consequently, jorgaization work in Delaware.
this paper will hardly be able to give
the result of this case this week. The
case of Mrs. Shuford Coward, charg
ed with the. murder of her husband,
was continued for the term., The case
of A. A. Price charged with the murd
er of his wife by pushing her from
a high cliff, was reported by the grand
jury as a true b.ll and will probably , ,eft tfce road mi went oyer
be disposed of so that we may be an embankment. His neck was broken
able further on to give the results., nd he lived but a short time after
Up to Tuesday night 22 cases had .the accident, which occurred at about
been nolprossed with leave, capias t, 9 o'clock., Shepherd, according to
j j , iU 6o ' witnesses, -was pinned under the car
issue on demand of the solicitor. 32 jwhen ft turned over several times in
cases were continued for th term. v. lits plunge down the 35- foot bank. Mr.
' S6Wibtf1r4Iiet the car .off
as follows: Molt Hampton of the Lao- h injured many , ,
concealed weapons and assault with
a deadly weapon and attempting to
kill two members of tlye Sheriff's de
partment and was given six months
ton lthe iroads. Another iriteresting
case was that of Clayo Blue, of Alex-
ander, 17 years old, found guilty of
stealing about a dollar's worth of cat
fish, which the owner had shut up on I Elizabeth Bostian, Mrs. R. Morris,
the edge of the French Broad River Kimzey, Miss Mary Kimzey, R. Mor-
. . , , o ris Kimzey, Miss Lois Carter, Miss
near Volga. This , boy was given 8 ,Hiawatna 'Neal Mi8g Wylma Cllrver
months on the roads. He took his MiM Evelyn Morgan, Miss Emily Cole,
sentence just as a matter of course, 'Miss Ruth Gillespie, Miss Attie Rey
as if apparently he would about as .nolds, Miss Ruby Kuykendall and Mrs.
soon be on th, roads as anywhere , SSSS
The disgrace of the matter seemed Carolina athlete, will be in charge of
not to appeal to him at all. We under-
stand this boy had a bad reputation
and had caused trouble to people
passing the highway on automobiles.
Frank Hunter and Lloyd Buckner
were found guilty of breaking into
the store of Mr. J. G. Ramsey near
Walnut, and the filling station of Mr.
Caney Ramsey at Marshall and steal
ing an automobile. They were each
given 12 months on the roads.
Thomas .Tweed, for driving a car
while intoxicated, was fined f 50.00
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and costs. ,
George Bridges, for public drunk-
enness and for driving a car while
intoxicated, was' fined $50.00 and
costs. . rt-, , - ;
Lawson Smith, ' for operating' a
car. while, intoxicated was fined $50.
00 and costs. ' " ';.-X
Lee Maney, of Yancey county,' con
victed of store breaking, was to pay
cost of the action, his sentence su
spended. ,. . .
Ernest Burnett, for carrying a con
cealed weapon, operating a car while
intoxicated, -and transporting. Judg
ment suspended on payment of cost.
Lidia Massey, for stealing chickens,
was to pay the owner the cost of the
chickens, $6.76, and the cost of the
action, about $30.00, rather expensive
chickens.
Sam-Robinson, guilty of transport
ing,' judgment , later. Way land Shel-
ton, for manufacturing whiskey, jiidg-.
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L-,;-W. M. Edwards, for selling liquor
I and' 'operating car while intoxicated
I judgment suspended.,, :x-;?''' 'j , j
'jt 1- Paul Tipton wa found guilty of re-
r alatinff arrest and assault.on .officer.
Til , Cogdill, larceny of chickens.
judgment suspended on payment of
M As .we go to press Thursday after?
tioan. tha courthouse is crowded as
the Frisby . case is being taken " np
iThe Jury is being drawn and aojno
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THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHEDI IN ;MADISON COUNTY
time to get a jury. The A. A. Price
case has not been heard. Wednesday,
several cases of minor importance
were tried, but we do not have space
mvata frn OMVo ! Vltf TT1 in detail. Wft
hope to finish the court proceedings
inext
Mi Rever Is Armoint-
ed Agent In Madison
County
' of ' September becoming acquainted
with the girls and women of Madi
son county, and will take up the or
ganization and reorganization of a
number of girls and women's home
demonstration clubs.
A graduate of Pratt Institute, with
B. S. and M. S. degrees in household
arts from Teachers' college of Colum-
Dallas Shepherd Killed
When Car Turns Over
Dallas ShepHferd, of Just, N. C, in
Madison county is dead as a result
I of an automobile accident at Mr. J.
;N. George's store at Ivy last Thursday
Leicester School Opens
September 4th
The Leicester High School will
open for another year of work on
!Tu,e.sday September 4.
ed principal and the following assist
111 v. k7 iiiiai u una wcis v- v-
ants will help him in his work: Miss
physical education.
MADISON'S RECORD
The News-Record,
Marshall, N. C.
Gentlemen:
Soma one was good enough to give
me a copy of your last week's issue
of your paper wherein you
wherein you made
some editorial comment with refer-
'ence to the transportation cost per
?UP" and from " P.ubli
f II uiv TMivuo wvuinico iu vuo onavvt
You called your readers attention to
the fact that Lincoln County showed
the lowest per capita cost of any
county in the state. ,
horn," but thought it might be oz in
terest to your readers, tAfcwshat a
former Madison countjr "cititen ; had
something to do with the making of
this record. These good folks nomina
ted me for a member of the Board of
Education for Lincoln County in 1923
and again this year though I did not
ask for either. When we organized our
board. I was chosen Chairman and
have served in that capacity Since that
time. - r
We are very proud of our record,
but I am frank to say that we have
some advantages over Madison coun
ty in that our population is more con
densed and accessable, and we have
better roads. . .
My first experience in public ser
vice was as chairman' of ' Marshall's
first 'improvemet Board In 1905 when
we began the work of paving side
walks and installing , water system.
Later I served on ihe! Board of Al-
(derman and as membyr of the Board
of -County Commissioners.
: ; I was on the town '.board and took
part in the building ' of the present
town hall. We did not raise the tax
rate, neither did we issue bonds. I
wonder how many Marshall citisers
know how this building was paid -for.
i ' Your truly, - :v
rft;J...y.k ,yv N. James.
: Thst 1,745 word sentence written
in' an annual report ty Nicholas Mur
ray Batler is ,even mora wonderful
than was at first supposed. It makes
mention' of the weather, base ball
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MARSHALL, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928
1 iiviiriM V fc'diirtinn',1rd fifty-six million dollars a year
L.UXUres y. t-UUCauoil ,Sot tobacc0( movjeg and certain drug-
- J store products can afford to spend lib-
The American people spend moreerallv for more substantial things
money in a year for tobacco than thoy
ao ior eaucation. iney spena more'imost equal to the current cost 01
for drug-store products than they do oall the public schools in the state,
for tobacco. They spend a billion What we can afford in North Carolina
dollars a year for movie and theatre'-depends entirely upon how badly wa
admissions. For trivial luxuries they want it.
spend nearly twice as much as the I ,
cost of the federal government. At !
least such is the case if the estimates I
prepared by the United States Trea
sury Department are reliable. The
estimated expenditures for certain
luxuries in 1924 are as follows:
Item
U. S.
N. C.
Tobacco $1,847,000,000 $111,024,100
Soft drinks
and ice
cream
820,000,000 8,446,000
I hua ires,
movies, etc 934,000,000
Candy 689,000,000
nViourinir crum 87 (100 000
9,620,200
7,096,700
896,100
4,665,900
4,439,300
2,688,300
Jewelry ...... 453,000,000
Sporting
goods,
toys, etc. 431,000,000
Perfumes and
cosmetics 261000,000
Totals ... $5,522,000,000 $56,876,600 ,Hair-bobbing and
The figures for the states were in- Eaterhats
dependently estimated by distributing, purg an(j beads
the national expenditures for these g0ft drinks
luxuries among the states according t
to such guides as value of intangible Jpubljc Education
wealth, average annual income, taxes
paia in cuuuecuuii wii.ii uuiiussiuiis lu
theatres, and taxes paid in conection
with purchase of jewelry The amounts
given for each state should therefore According to the "American Educa
be considered only as aproximations. tion nieest." the dollar in this coiin-
We are reproducing here only the es- ;s divided as folows: Living costs,
timated expenditures for tobacco and jtenty-four and one-half cents; luxu
,the total estimated expenditures for l-u.. twentv-two cents: waste, four-
Lall these luxuries. A parallel column
shows school expenditures for tho one-half cents ; investment, eleven
same year in the several states. !chts; crime, eight and one-half cents
It will be noticed that North Caro- 'government,- four and one-half cents;
Una's expenditures for these several-schools, one and one-half cents;
items estimated as $56,876,600, and ichurch, one half of one per cent,
for tobacco alone $19,024,100. The V iAnd from these figures the Y. M.
total current expenses and outlays for C A. Year Book draws the following
schools in 1924 was $30,980,022. Out. significant deductions concerning the
tobacco bill was thus more than sixty people in the United States. Our peo
percent as much as our educational . pit :
bill and our total luxury bill was near , ; 1. Spend nearly as much for luxu-
ly twice as much as our entire school ries as for living cost.
expenditures. Nor does this group ( - 2. Spend lone-half as much fox
of luxuries, so-called include any investments as for luxuries.
of the more costly type of luxuries! 3. Waste more than one-half as
such as automobiles, victrolas, radios, much as it costs to live.
expensive furniture, eleeant .clothing.! 14. Spend only one-fifteenth as
land; travel expense. .; ,
It is neither necessary nor desirable
that the American people forego these
luxuries. It is good that we have a
standard of life high enough to permit
such indulgences. On the other hand
we cannot spend these huge sums for
non-essentials and then plead poverty
when it comes to paying taxes for
school Or supporting other worth-
while causes. We are spending in
North Carolina fifty-six million doll-
ars a year for knickknacks and we
groan terribly when it becomes neces -
sary to increase the state budget by
a million or two dolars. We say we
cannot aford an eight months' school
term yet our candy bill alone would
n w i j 4-
jiiuic limn uuy jui tuv uiucbbvu beim.
Our tobacco bill each year exceeds
the total cost of the State govern-
merit. Our luxurv bill would pay tho
entire state debt in two and one half
yearsjf we would reduce our expend-
ituresfor these non-essentials by five
percent and increase our taxes by that
amount we could add $2,800,000 a
year to the equalizing fund.
It is unnecessary to. make further
comparisons. Enough has been said
to reveal that we are not a poverty
stncKen state, a state inai can i-
Let the Waves Roll On
;What we spend on tobacco alone fil
WHAT WE SPEND
MONEY FOR
Is there anything for which we do
not .spend staggering sums of money
except for missions, education and
philanthropy? Here are some of the
.items in our national expenditures:
I Tickets to
tne "movies
$ 1,400,000,000
14,300,000,000
4,000,000,000
690,000,000
2,000,000,000
2,500,000,000
2,250,000,000
2,000,000,000
beauty
600,000,000
500,000,000
650,000,000
500,000,000
Automobiles, etc.
Racis, joy-rides
I and resorts
Pleasure trips
I abroad, etc.
gports
I (baseball, etc.)
Tobacco and
'cigarettes
Candies, etc.
cosmetics
1,000,000,000
648,000,000
ijne churches
HOW WE SPEND OUR DOLLARS
( teen cents: miscellaneous, Thirteen
f&ltlft iwf school and education as 'Jar
luxuries. ' u
5- Waste nine times as much as
they spend on school and education,
I 6- Spend six times as much for
crime and its punishment as for school
and education.
. 7. Spend twice as much for school
?nd education as for church and re-
Il8'0u mterests.
i - opeu eieyu n...c
crime , punisnmeni as on cnurcn
" n iKiuusni
1 j waste nineteen aonars ior every
dollar they sPend on church and rel,
K,0"s interests
, 1 1.0.. Spend twenty-nine dollars on
luxuries for every .dollar given to
church and reliarious interests.
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The Christian Index,
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There was a man with a scar
ti. u . onmna Kr
And the whigkerg he grew
Ta COnceal it from view
w,. the begt of hig features, by fa.-1.
Touchstone.
Of course I went to Hollywood,
Said Angelina Cross.
They didn't offer me a party
uui uio u
loss.
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NEW THREE STORY BUSINESS
BUILDING FOR MARSHALL
Madison Hi-h Schools
1 o upen monaay,
September 3
LIST OF TEACHERS FOR
MARSHALL
The five. high schools in Madison
County will open Monday, September
3, 1928. Prof. Homer Henry, Superin
tendent of the Marshall school in-
iriirjc ull : It., ifjlriina uml He Tm:lV
other people as will to come to the
opening of the school Monday morn -
ing. He la expected to enroll the first
day 600 and expects that the genera!
enrollment for the year will be as
much as 675, due to people moving
in and out of the district duriner ths
year. No set speeches will be made
Monday, but it may be that several
patrons of the school will have some'
thine to say. Following is a list of!'1 U complete by December of this
teachers, who will be in the Marshall
school. It may be that one or two
more will be employed later. The mus
ic teacher has not been secured.
LIST OF MARSHALL TEACHERS
First grade Mrs. Wayne Farmer, of
Marshall.
First grade Miss Margaret Ward, of
Marshall.
Second grade Mrs. C. W. Ballard,
of Weaverville.
Second grade Miss Bessie Ramsey
of Marshall.
Third grade Miss Mary Louise Web
ster, of Mars Hill.
Third grade Miss Mary Culbreth, of
Rutherfordton.
Fourth grade Mrs. Norma Ramsey
Harris, of Marshall.
Fifth grade Mrs. Clarence Ramsey,
of Marshall.
Svcth grade Miss Mayme Garrett, of
Odessa.
Seventh grade Miss Mary E. Carter,
of Mars Hill.
HIGH SCHOOL
Home Economics Miss Anna
Mae
Caddell, of Carthage, N. C.
Science Miss Madge Tweed, of Mar
shall, .i
Mathematics and ScienceiMr. C. W,
""-Ballard of WeavCrviHe. ..
English nd French Miss Selwyn
McDevitt, of Marshall.
Latin and English Miss Ada Michael
of Greensboro. 1
History Mrs. C. M. Blankenship, of
Marshall.
Mathematics and Science Homer
Henry of, Marshall.
The principals of the five high
"high schools will be as follows:
Marshall Prof. Homer Henry, Mar
shall, N. C.
Mars Hill Fred C. Sams, Mars Hill,
N. C
Beech Glenn D. M. Stallings, Winston-Salem,
N. C.
Hot Springs Mrs. Epps Haws Mc-
Clure, Walnut, N. C.
WalnutO. F. Blankenship, West
Asheville, N. C.
Our Social Resources
The1 keynote of the present era Is
the growing belief that the South This fund also provides $1.00 a day
will make the dominant contribution for every charity case in the hospi
to the future of a great Christian ital. Tv,
dem'ocracy. Our only interest should
be 1 6' see that we should make that
development which would make de-
mocifeoy effective in the unequal
plate's. If we agree with Lippmann
that the South can do anything that
any civilization ever did at any time
because it has all the resources any
civilisation had at any time we must
above all things work to discover how
we, can' stop the waste of our
social, resources, we are not doing
a perfect piece of work but the es
sential' thing is that in North Caro
lina we have stepped out on a well
founded plan which has been carried
on so thoroughly, unit by unit, that
ii is recognised as one of the souni-1
i est approaches to social work. ,H.
v. uaum.
Th; Unknown Teacher
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I sing, the praise of the unknown
teachers. Great Generals win cam-
paigiw,. But it is the unknown sol-
dier who wins the war. Famous edu-
eatora plan new systems of pedagogy
jbut it is the unknown teacner who New York and Massachusetts, levy no
delivers and guides. the young. For tax on gasoline. All of the south-hlm'.-no
trumpets blare, not chariots eastern states except Tennessee have
wait,;-n6 gdlden decorations are de- rates of either four or five cents per
crey. He keeps the watch along the gallon. Several of the Rocky Moun
bordeTS vf . darkness and makes the tain states also have high rates,
attack on the trenches of ignorance I i,- ,
and Jollyatient in his daily duty,
nv strives w vwutfuer wie evu iwio .
which are the enemies of youth. He
awakens sleeping spirits. He quickens
the indolent, encourages the eager
land -steadies the unstable. Hetom
municates . his own joy in learning
aid shares, with boys and girls the
htst .treasures of his mind. He lights
manViandles which. , in later years,
will shine back to cheer him. This is
his reward. Knowledge may be gained
from hooks, but the love of knowledge
ca-be transmitted only by personal
contact. Nd one has deserved better
I of the Republic- thstr the 'unknown j
ltaeher.-wJ3r. Henry Vain Dyke, --
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MR- o c. rector to BUILD
i and furniture
The wood building on Main Street,
formerly occupied by the O. C. Rector
Hardware Company, before they mov
ed to their present stand, has been
torn down and the foundation is be
ing done preparatory to erecting a
n w three story brick building on this
siie to house the O. C. Rector Hard
ware Company and the Furniture,
which is now being sold from the
building near the Bank
of French
1 Broad,
1 stories
This building will be three
addition to the concrete
basement, will be equipped with an
electric elevator, and when finished
jwin cost from jicnno tn 20.nno.
Mr. Mack Sprinkle has the contract
f , u i. .. : i j : i i xt-
for the building and is pushing the
work forward with a view to having
year. This will be quite another addi
tion to Marshall, and shows that Mr.
Rector has faith in Marshall and it
making good in his business.
DR. RANKIN SPEAKS
In Interest of Madison County
Hospital
One hour was taken Thursday
morning of court week, from nine to
10 o'clock, fer a speech by Dr. W. S.
Rankin, formerly head of the State
Board of Health, now head of the
Duke Foundation fund for North-Carolina.
Dr. Rankin discussed the need
of a hospital in Madison County and
Judge McEIroy ably backed up what
he said by appealing to his hearers to
support a bond issue for this purpose
rather than let our people go on suf
fering and dying as in the past.
L. Pr. Rankin, introduced to the au
dience by Mr. Uuy .V. Roberts, made
a fine impression upon his audience.
He explained why Mr. Duke gave hi
money, from a cold business stant
point and not from sentimental im
pulses, to establish hospitals in rural
communities- instead r giving it -to-
schools, churches, or other charitable
organizations. Sickness and suffering
is a common enemy of all, regardless
of everything. Everybody great or
small, rich or poor, must suffer some
time. The average is 40 sick abed all
the tiiri" in every 1000 population,
besides those who are sick in various'
ways but able to be up. He said that
ten per cent of the forty are hospital
cases, but many die because they are
not able to go to the hospital.
He told of how the best physicians
leave the country and go to the cities
where they have hospital equipment
to work with and how impossible it is
for one physician to equipp a hospi
tal. He showed how hopitals are sel
should be circulated and as many aa
Duke fund is available if the County
will put up half the cost of the build
ing and that a hospital to take care
of the needs of this county will cost
equipped, in the neighborhood of
$76,000. one half of which will be
forthcoming from the Duke fund.
The need of it can hardlv be ex
plained in the space we can give it
now, but the law of the matter is
that to call an election, a petition
dom self supporting. He Qaid that the
200 freeholders must sign to call an
election. Such a petition has already
been drawn up by the County attor-
i ney and is being circulated. It is be-
lieved that practically all who heard
the speech will sign and many others
will when the matter is understood.
Tax Rate On Gasoline
Bus facts for 1928, issued by the
America Automobile Association,
carries a table showing the amount cf
the state e-aso ine tax Der irallon of
gasoline. ' There are now six states
hT" a to L!cJntserJ$1
nicy ait AiAttiisas, r iuriu,
Kentucky, New Mexico, South Caro-
Hna. and Virginia. Twelve states have
a rate of four cents per gallon; 15
states have a rate of three-and-a-half
cents: and 12 states have a rate of
two cents per gallon. Two states.
MARSMALL POPULATION
NOW NEARLY 1100
Prof. , Homer Henry has recently-
taken a. census of Marshall, which he
.believes as nearly correct as a govern- .
ment census would be. Of course, the
figures change almost every day due
to people moving in and out. births -and
. deaths. However, Mr. Henry's
figures are as follows: -s? ;;,.;:" ;
Whites - 1049 . .
.-'Colored ' 84 ' r
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Total - 10.
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