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THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED 1N.31ADISON COUNTY
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$37,500 NOW JlEADY FOR
MADIS0NCOUNTY
Th following Resolution
No. 2 will be of interest to our
readejrs:
Whereas, the Board of County
Colonel MoudyTo
Give Addre Here
THE PUBLISHER'S MlN
: ABOUT VARIOUS-MATTERS '
SENATOR PLEMMONS AGAIN f f
The communication this week f roni Sector Ptemmons we are pub
lishing in full, notwithstanding: the fact t. by the article are some
statements that should be expurgated. -'WeVn'seli in full so that he and
those who agree with him may not accuse jthispaperof being unfair to
him. The statement that this publisher safcJT'That tne -mod is iavor-
PLEMMONS WRITES AGAIN
ABOUT OUSTING DEM. AGENTS
,".-,r
Col. Alfred L. Moudy of Waterloo.
Indiana, will be in thlS City Friday,
Commissioners and other representa- j February 22, at 7:15 P M., 'at which
tive citizens of Maaison vouniy, time he will give his aaaress on mv
North Carolina, have proposed to pro-1 Rock 0f Liberty" in the Methodist
vide a sum of not less than ?o,ouu ichUrch.
for the building of a county hospitul, ! ucator in
the title to which shall be held by a Rtate for
Knorrl nf trustees which shall operate fnnnrl time
tkii hrtenitnl fnr the benefit Of the tho acrvicos
community and not tor private gam, won an enviable record lor military ; feeijng toward Senator Fieramons ana Bil wrno agree witn mm. we an;
and, . . . 'service on the Mexican Border and in Si aware of the fact that there are some as gOd citizns in the country a-
Whereas, the atoresaia c.uu the World War. tie serveu iu. a, t , . f -t believe that any fair-
Trustees OI VMnoofmnnl Dirpctor Ot tne . S"'"-"' - . Z. - - .
HENDRICKS SAVES
$5000 FOR MADI
SON COUNTY
Col. Moudy has been an ea-1 ; the bills to rem0ve these offices from opay rolls" is not only mis- ,that my. position to stop their cost to
the schools ot his native ,,hlishPr did n6t sav anvthine of the kind .the- taxpayers oi their services was Editor, N
a number of years, an-1 .. . , ' . .,L-.'..I n j::i right, and also, that my election wa. i i.
.... -i ie orl not SoTiotnr i' nmmnns to Tirove 1L1H BtaLtsmeilt. uui euiiunai, i , .i- ..i.- i - "
to distinsruisn nimtseu ir - - , more or less preuicaie.i on mis issue. T rprpivpn
of the countrv. having!" to which Senator Flemmons is replying, wp wruwn wmi um- uci. ... ,ln thls atrree wlth you and 1 teel 4,
have su'DmitteJ to tne iruswen time as Juucauonai uireciui ' " . v ,, , -juni-Snl ,n that it ivaq free
Thn nke Endowment a complete and '!-. Armv in France and Ger- 'minoed person who would read my editorial would say that it -was tree
jn-n;i4 otofomanh i Amplication No. -.a-nu
ucbaiicu okuwwuivHv c e t uiuii j
HAVE WHITE WAY
ia f thp need ot a nospitai ana r,n . Moudv has Deen on tne iec-
have requested the Trustees to contri- 'ture platform for a number of years,
bute $40,000, or 50 per cent of the an(i his educational lectures have
proposed expenditure, and, met with continuous praise from the
Whereas, the Trustees of The Duke presS( public and pulpit. He has de
Endowment, in the furtherance of the livered more than 2000 addresses be
purposes of the said trust, are de- ore high schools, colleges, churches
sirous of aiding the applicants in ob- an(i cjvi; organizations. Criticisms
taining the hospital facilites as pro- from the press are, "that no true A
posed, now, therefore, !merican can afford to miss this educa-
BE IT RESOLVED by the Trustees ionai lecture."
of The Duke Endowment thatv the ; The public is invited to hear th?
sum of Thirty-seven Thousand and speaker.
Five Hundred Dollars ($37,500) be .
set aside on January 1, 1929, and held jut i n O IT A T T Til
tfor a period not exceeding six (G) IflAIiOllALL 11
montns, tne aioresam buiii w ya.-.
the French Broad Bank and the Citi
zens Bank, Marshall, North Carolina,
Treasurer iointlv of Madison County,
for the building of a county hospital, ; , .
when the lot, plans and specifications The contract has been signed by
for the aforesaid hospital have been 'the town authorities permitting the
approved by the Trustees of the Duke power company to install t white way
Endowment, or their duly authorized ! system in the town of Marshall. Work
agent or agents, and as follows: Six- on this improvement will begin at an
ty (60) per cent of the funds set early date. The posts will be placed
aide to be paid when a certificate ex- on either side of the main street anl
ecuted in due form has been .filed at the -intersection of intersecting
with the Trustees of The Dufte En, 'streetatt,the way frorn the Free Will
dowment certifying that Twenty-two ; Baptist church to the Southern Rail
Thousand and Five Hundred DoHars 'way track crossing near the station.
($22,500) has been applied to. the . -.Trm
iTS xSr- JssSs; MORE ABOUT TAXES
-to the credit of the hospital building i
tund; the remainder forty (40) frer ri ,
ent of thefunrs-herein set aside to 'to News-Record, .
be paid In the same propSftton " and ;MarJhu- N' -as
the remainder of the funds ar.t:-,t,ea h,r:
cipated from other sources, to-wit, I Since we are havmg a a scuss.on
Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) (of "Taxes Here and There and e
is duly certified as having been ap- conomy, you may publish this scrawl
nliH tn thP nronosed exnenditure or you desire. I am surprised that
i HpnositpH with the aforesaid treas- our Senator is against keeping a Uem
Raleigh, N. C.
Feb. 3, 19Z.
News-Record.
I have read with a good deal of in
terest your four column editorial in
refernce to my position on the Farm '
and Home demonstrators. I note i
that you frankly admit that my posi-
tion was well known by the people ;
and that a very great majority felt '
February 11, 1929.
ews-Record :
erewith hand you a letter which
from Mr. Charles Ross, At-
rnpv for the State Hichwav Com-
that with more than lour thousand miS3jon. This letter explains itself,
out of about forty-eight hundred that jt wiu he recalled tha the County of
voted in Madison County, voting for Madison, for the purpose of getting
me, certainly shows that the very certain road improvements made by
great majority of the people of Madi- the State Highway Commission, the
son county approved of my views. County of Madison borrowed, all told,
urer to the credit
building fund.
of the hospital I
would be
I better pleased if he would compel us
to keep one, and if possible not lor
two years, but ff: an indefinite pe
riod, for we all need to ask ourselyes
what the next few generations are
coins to do, with a worn-aWay soil.
tr. ,,,, We are in the wilderness-and the
X M- BTtPPARcrYScWH,T ay out is not by following men who
HURST S ART itut want to deprive us of advanced ideas
TT ,non I'but by following men -who can visu-
February 11, 199. 'alize a proSperous farming Counby.
Mr. A. W. Whitehurst, 0ur ands wili set to a mjxed sod of
Marshall, N. C. I grasses, and stocked with the best
Dear Arthur: ihroH Hvo stnrk. usine- the manure.
I always thought your heart was d erowml. elrlme crops, selling the
WANTS HOSPITAL
11 oRnprs nns. otherwise it would not nave naa tne approval 01
'-t ' I . . I J I t - "J VyUUllty Ul iTinUJoUIl UvllVWCU, ail bViUf
such men as Dr. R. L. Moore. But when; it comes to giving vent to ! Now I feeLwith this great approval $650,000.00 and loaned to the State
one's feelings and revealing under-lyifig purposes, who could word it
:of my coufsffi betore ana during the Hiirhwav Commission for Hiehwav
more bitterly than Senator Flemmons has done in the last paragraph of L8"; V?J r.PJl'
his article this week? "Insofar as it is possible I shall drive the knite
into their greedy stomachs. I cannot tio it all now, but later I hope to
help complete the job." What is the meaning of this language? Is
Senator Plemmons already announcing-hinii'elf for office in the future?
In what way is "private interest" being srvd by the County keeping
demonstration agents? ' 4
Well, we have matters more urgently (demanding our attention just
now than these matters. One is the matter of a hospital for Madison
County. This publisher is earnestly seeking information as to this mat-
ter. In a former communication Senator Plemmons stated that he had
talked with a number of representatives at Raleigh, in whose counties
the Duke hospital had become a burdeft. We have written Senator
Plemmons twice to furnish us names of counties and people he has
talked with about this matter. In a personal letter to the writer this
week, dated February 11, Senator PlempioHs says: "Just as soon as I
can find time, I will try to get you in';tottCh with some folk who have
had real experience with the County hospitals. I am most worked to
death and time will not permit me to.je;as prompt in this matter as I
should like to be." ,
We are certainly sorry Senator Plemmons cannot find time to sit
; doA-n and write just a few names, so that we can begin to investigate.
" This County hospital matter is one that' perhaps means more to Madison
- County uist now than any matter wejihave considered for some time.
4 And the" time between now and April, 9, the date for the election, is
rapidly passing, and much discussion is necessary so as to get the mat-
ter properly presented to the people, jt isiot matter of politics and
partisan feeling should be eliminate'; M.anouia oe bmiuibu
.wishes of this great majority. I am jn an probability, would have been
pleased to note that you never made very ghort on the Highway proposi-
I the charge that I had misled or that ion. A question arose in regard tc
I am insincere. refunding Madison County $5,000
', If the people of Madison County ;which the County had paid on a cer-
had by their votes said I was wrong tain road note, and it was claimed by
. (or even in the minority, then I would he legal department that the State
have yielded to their wishes, and COuld not refund to Madison this
i would not have undertaken to have $5,000. I went to Raleigh and took
j followed up the Senator or the rep- the matter up with Mr. Charles Ross,
resentative and by means fair and lAttorney for State Highway Co-mimis-,
four .to have tried to prevent them '8ion, the State Treasurer and the An
t f ram- carrying into effect the wishes jditor and we got the matter straight-
iof the majority, whether the measure iene(j out, and State will pay to Madi-
is wise or unwise. Our principles of on County the $5,000.00. It will be
; government are, as I understand, bas- j een from Mr. Ross' letter that of the
ed on the will of the majority ani 600,000 loaned by Madison County
that is as it should be. Of course I to the State Highway Commission,
do not contend that the majority is that the State owes Madison
lalways correct, but at least they are $170,812.05. I think we have been
more apt to be than the minority. Very well favored to get the amount
In this case I do not think that down to this sum. It is expected the
those who are hopelessly in the mi- state will make another allocation of
nority have any monopoly on thought money to the County some time in
or brains, yet it does seem that they !juiy and will take up a portion or
have undertaken to make me believe jall of the $170,812.05. To loan
that way, -" this money to the State has cost tha
There Is perhaps only one term that . County something, but it has been a
you used' that you may have used in- good invstment to the County. I
advertently and that is, "That the !d0 not know the exact figures that
'Mob'; favoring the bills to remove the State has spent in Madison Coun
thesa' offices from our pay rolls." tv under the State Highway law that
Those-Opposing the Farm and Home wag passed in 1921, but I think it
Demonstrator are not a mob they
tevfrojtf the lear springs of -6r
hflls. While there are only a very
few that' want the officers retained.
jl know rtioBt of them and they aro
fine gentlemen and ladies, but hap
!pen in this case to be in a hopeless
1 minority,
in the right place and since reading
your letter in the last News-Record,
I know it is in the right place.
I wish I were financially able to
cover the $1000.00 you propose to
donate to the hospital.
I know of nothing that would be of
greater good to the ones who arc
not able to pay a hospital bill.
I still have a little property in Mad
ison County and will be glad to pay
my part of the extra tax for the sup
port of a hospital.
Best wishes, I am
Your friend,
J. M. BALEY.
BASKETBALL
.sheep, battle, milk, butter, cream
.vegetables, and tobacco, etc, thereby
becoming a prosperous and indepen
dent farming people. This method
and ohters are advocated by our agent
and he stands ready to assist any
farmer who asks advice or intimates
he would like help in any form. The
way out is not by cutting off all ex
penditures and helpful ideas by our
'agent, but to spend less foolishly,
such as cars and gas, Snuff, etc., and
spent more for pure seeds, better
live stock, and learning more how the
other fellow' is making- a success of
.farming will help miraculously. Then
i the tax problem will be no more a
problem with the farmers.
, ED ENGLISH
fully with reference to the welfaie of th;jt!ty.8 whpleiT -Certainly
the people wfto arc noi w-pay Vl AToo& people as ever drank wa-
. A.utaA tw cbaritv cases will be taken care of as well a8 pay -T frftv.. t. . , . , ; -
patients. The matter of maintenance will depend largely upon the pro-
portion of pay to charily patients. If the profit from pay patients will
offset the loss from chantry patients, it will be self-sustaining. One o.
the advantages it will be to pay patients, granting that the expense will
be the same as at other hospitals, will be the saving of expense to the,
patient's family going back and forth or staying with the patient while
at the hospital.
We have it on goo:! authority that the Duke fund noA- available
for Madison County is by no means seeking a place for expenditure.
We are reliably informed that if Madison County fails to do her part
to get this amount, our hope for it will cease, as they have more appli-
cations for help than they can fill. Madison County is fortunate in be-
i i au: ;;f if Qfc of nnrp. It will be
ing one county tnat can get ui - " t ial, insofar as the ,e approved of s t , omin d t take
noticed irom tne rewiuwun - my position, i am here to serve all Icare of the Countv roads and m a
msotar.as I can but certainly I must few years no doubt all roads in the
I listen tty'Vhat I positively know is the i County of any consequence will be
great wish of the majority. There maintained by the State, With it
are a few that have in the past dictat- ;all we have a great Stete and there
I ed to our representatives, or at least is no time to get up little petty fights
jfcried to do it, whose private interests trying to go backward instead of fex
were to be served. That crowd bas no ward.
would run close to $1,500,000.00, and
one of tha,great things about it is that
tb Statawill continue Wperpetoally
maintain these roads and all the time
make them better. The Stat is now
surfacing the road up Little Laurel
from Belva to the Tennessee line,
working on the road from Marshall
tn Mars Hill, and finishing up the
If this..Jhing had been turned a- road between Hot Springs and Bluff,
round and I had understood that the ia-.id, in a-dition to this, the State ha,
i folks wanted to keep these officers or crews on all of the State roads in "
'hire moie, I as their representative Madison County at 'work all the time.
I would have undertaken to have given And all of this has been accomplish-
Ithem what they wanted, although I ed by a tax on gasoline and automo-
J might personally think it unwise to bile license, except the interest the
I do so. I was not sent here to do County has paid on the money above
wnat l wanted done except to serve , mentioned loaned to th State. The
,ni Kp withdrawn after six months.
The question as to a location for the hospital is not yet set out oth
er than that it is to be in the corporate limits of the Town of Marshall.
The exact spot, we understand, is to be selected by the board of trus
tees. What are you gong to do about it? Let's talk it and find out all
we can about it and be ready to cast an intelligent vote April 9.
o
strings on me and shall not have. I
am free to act for what I believe to
be right and to the very best of my
ability represent the wishes of the
majority.
I have had no part in the fuss be-
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE FOR MARSHALL
Almost every year, as we see hundreds and hundreds of loads of
tobacco pass through Marshall, we begin to talk about the need of e
Marshall. And steps have been taken in the past
to have one, but it seems that up to the present time, we have nothing ,tween Pr. Hutchins and Mr. McDev-
definite along this line. If the money this tobacco represents could be rtt nddono t expert to have I could
seen as it passes through, we wonder if w wouldn't make a greater ei
fort to stop it.
We have been requested to an
nounce that on Friday night, Febru
ary 16, 1929, at Alexander, there will
be played a double-header basketball
game (both girls and boys). The op
posing teams are Oakley School
Biltmore vs. Red Oak school at Alex
ander. The admission charge will be
10c and 26c. Everybody come.
STORE BLOWN UP
! Upon whom should we cast our
burden? Psalm 65:22.
STAR STUDENTS
LOUISE CLARK AND JAMES
BAILEY HAVE RECORD OF
"A" IN WORK
(Courtesy of Asheville Citizen)
MARS HILL, Feb. 7. According
They Head Their Classes
I not see that the taxes would be re
duced any by doing away with the
prohibition officers or electing the po
lice at Marshall by a vote of the peo
ple. I am not interested in these
petty things, but I am vitally interest
ed in doing all within my power to
relieve the taxpayers of Madison
County of some of their burdens.
This I expect to accomplish in some
measure by the acts that are now be-
jtoTraVthe legislature, and then after
A T M A D C II I f f 'to tne registrar's records three stu
Al II A n N rlllili t?ents out of more than four hundred
XI 1 111 n. 11 J 11 1 U U maintained a class standing of A, on
all subjects taken during the first
News reached us Thursday morning i semester at Mars Hill College. Of
that the store operated by Holcombe ,' these three, two, Miss Louise Clarke
and Tilson at Mars Hill was blown up ;and James hi. Bailey, Jr., are from
' Wednesday night about 1 :30 o'clock. !,A?heville and vicinity and are both
The front of the buildinc was said bv i eraduates of Hall Fletcher high
thnoa wKn saw it. tn ha Vinrtlv nrralraH s,hnnl I
. thought to have been -done with some- I James Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
' "thing stronger than dynamite, pos-! James M. Bailey, 83 Beverly Road, is
sibly nitro-glycerine. (No motive for ,the youngest member of the senior
r.the explosion has been advanced, but class and has carried eighteen hours
.it is thought that the purpose of the of college work. He haa likewise
4 ttrime was hardly robbery as it would jbeen active in campus' tif The f ol
"i have been done in a quieter manner. I lowing are among the nonors"which
r The explosion was of sufficient, force !he has received: winner of the" com
v to break out the windows, in the rear meneement debaters' imiaal, 1928;
s: of the building and some of the glati iwinner of the society debaters' medal
abo-ut the bank ond drug store. Thisl928; intercollegiate 'debater; 1529 ;
X "tore. wa beins; operated by Messrs. anniversary debater," sedretary
.
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r5rr, i n
I Respectfully, .
j JOHN A. HENDRICKS.
! Jan. 21, 1929.
Mr. John A. Hendricks,
Marshall, N. C.
IN RE: MADISON COUNTY LOAN
Dear Sir:
Confirming our conversation of
this morning, and in order that we
may have a record of the facts dis
cussed, I am making, for your infor
mation, the following memorandum:
Paid to Sinking Fund
Commission, May, 1927 $230,000,00
Paid to Madison County,
September, 1927 44,087.96
Paid to Sinking Fund
Commission April, 1928 115,100.00
'Paid tn Madinnn flniimtv.
wliat can be done here to relieve i September, 1928 . 100,000.00
these burdens on my people, then the f ,
balanco oi what they could be reliev- j Total repayments $489,187.95
ed on taxation depends on the wise
administration of our county cemmis- You will note from this statement
sioner. I feel that we could have a .that two of the items of repayment
better administration with two more were made to the Sinking Fund
good men on the board, and that the . Commission, one being for $230,000.-
saVing would perhaps be many thous- '00, and one for $115,100.00, making
and .doUars.vi Now is the time that a total of $445,100.00.
Madison. must have a wise administra- , I understand that this fund has
tion if weare to have a chance to.boen applied to the indebtedness of
keep.puliwaes. The Tax Collector the County, as follows:
is hard; , Cour heels and it will pos- 'Paid on $235,000.00-
itiveljlysip do for us to make any ! note $230,000.00
more BuswKes. we co not want any Fad on 1100. 000. 00-note.
and interest, July, 1928 102,600.00
Balance in State Sinking
Fund Commission 12,600.00
- JAfV4 R4II FV JR. ' ' LOl'ISE CLARK
Mr Bsllej and MlMClart. graduate of Hall Fletcher High school., V,
UhnaU .ire . t5S To? three out of 400 students at Mtm Hill collie, wl-o
d n "AoUl their work during the first semester dt the current yea .
Total
-$345,100.q
e annual, 1929; member of the de-
T ,.rki.J.-4M WT9 r.alLT. fper. 1S29; aUaeiie ew.r vi "Warel. tain ..standinf l A B j.aubjcUJyfaj .,fkj'f
during the first semester was C. L.
Weston of liars HilL .
James Baley.it well known in Mar
UeJL where hie parents live trota
they moved U iAsheviHe stout three
more).lAfeds and we must have lower J
taxation, '.
I do not have the private interest?
to aftXVeBnd if thev do not like it.
theh"ftwiU take less of it for them. I
The .private interests have lived fat
f pp. many, very many, years, at the , The State Sinking Fund Commis
Kpen?e of the hard-earned money of sion accumulated some interest to
the taxpayers. Now it has come tiuic your credit, amounting to something
for them4'stop. Insofar as it is p,ore than $1,000.00 so that they now
possible I shall drive the knife into jfcave on hand your original balance
their greery stomachs. I cannot do j0f $12,600.00, with an accumulation -it
all new. but later I hope to help pf interest that will make the totai
complete e-job. jrun close to $14,000.00, and your
J.V IRA PLEMMONS. .Connty can secure this, to be applied
' . 'on County indebtedness, at any time
,iyou wiu write State Treasurer Lacy
. Lula Blanche' is the most treach
erous woman I know.
Leila Why soT
for H.
This leaves the State Burhwav
commission due you on the original
Lula She shot two of her fcae-llosn,. $170,812.06, to bo paid fronv
bands from ambush. . tnne to time, out of any talanr t;,at
le.Auievuis rooni, vnm bands from ambush, .v; v - "n me, ont oi any taianr t;,&t