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" ' ..V. , , i ' r' ? - THE NEWS-RECORD PRICE A YEAR $2.00 MADISON COUNTY RECORD n..t.M.i..j T,.n. oo torn ' a FRENCH BROAD NEWS Established May 16, 1907. Consolidated November 2, 1911 ) The PROGRESSIVE FARMER THE NEWS-RECORD BOTH A YEAR FOR $LLO THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1929 1750 VOL. XXI i i Payne. Messrs George and Oscar Blankenship, Hubert Pangle and Jgssg Pflync Mrs. Carl Holt of Bonnie Hill spent last week with Mrs. Tisha Gowan. Miss Maggie Parker spent dinner Sunday with Mrs. Charlie Rainey. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brown had as their guest Saturday night a number of their friends. Mr. Berry Brown made his usual visit to Preacher Payne's Sunday. Miss Ora Blankenship spent lhurs- day night with her brother, Mr. San- f .nn. Hn nwav with our County Iford Blankenship. Agent and the work that he is doing, j Mr. J. N. Parker is attending court and' take a look into the future. .this week. Without a man to back the work, Mrs. Berry Brown called on her Biltmore will be giving notice that j daughter, Miss Nola Brown, at Hot their cream truck will come no more, Springs, Wednesday, then you can't shorten bread with the I Mrs. Rose Williams and daughter butter that will be turned loose in I'Anna Mae and son Tilman motored the countv. The business men and , o Tennessee Saturday. A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE Of Madison County With The Work of The Farm Agent Done Away With. Let us (in our imaginations only, bankers of the county will greatly miss the $10,000 that has come into the county through the sales of cream and which eventually tney got. The man that has to sell a cow now to pay his taxes, will have to sell two. Tlmtr -mill ho an reduced in Drice. J . , , ;ii o n . Yi iU .1 O .t The market lor graaea eggs win o. o. at oewiei ouiwaj. also stop, and when several hundred Mrs. Lora Brown spent more dozen eggs are turned loose on Sunday with her son, Mr Misses Althea, Nellie, and Eunice Wyatt spent the week end with their uncle, Mr. Melvin Wyatt. Mr. George Blankenship spent din ner Sunday with Mr. Melvin Wyatt. Mrs. Gertie Spearman and Misses Carolina and Ellen Shetley attended dinner Berry our local market, it will reduce the price and also make it impossible to sell a great many. You folks that are Hot selling a uniform graded egg to Biltmore may think you will not be hurt, but only the ones that do, but you will find that the better eggs will always sell first. You are indirectly benefited by the shipping of eggs though you ship none yourself, and you will be directly hurt by the clos ing of this market Brown. Misses Edith Gowan and Ardell Brown called on Miss Bonnie Wil liams Saturday. Mrs. Clarence Holt of Bonnie Hill called on Mrs. Tisha Gowan Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Billie Payne and chil Hron snpnt. dinner Sundav with Rev. eggs ana mrs. j. u. rayne. Mr. uiauae Kainey cauea on Jir. and Mrs. Billie Baldwin Sunday. Messrs Berry and Harrison Brown I suppose quite a few farmers have ! George Blankenship, Hubert Pangle, forsrotten that a good grade of ferti lizer went up tp close $6.00 a bag be fore we got an agent, and ust do away with him and you will soon be paying at that again. I guess we farmers would like to pay $2.00 a bag for 75 lbs. of feed again and it half corn bran that a chicken wont even eat. I have tried this so I know it is true. Had we rather buy cotton seed meal at $2.15 for the 100 pounds pr, pay $2.50 or $3.00 for the same. Do we want to live in a count'" that is made up largely of farmers and see them wear" the soil out' year by year and get poorer all the time, and more and more of then- land be gold for taxes, just do away with the agent and his intelligent study and experi ments with the soils of the county as Nick and McKinley Sexton, Misses Gertie and Sue Woody spent dinner Tuesday at the home of J. N. Parker. Mrs. Charley Rainey took supper Sunday with miss Maggie Parker. ARRESTED, TRIED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED IN 50 MINUTES BILL DANIELS AND C. CARSON, OF WEAVER VILLE, SENTENC ED TO TWO YEARS EACH to their needs in the wav, of fertilizer nuu unlet duu mo luiismiiiij iukiuk j i , , , , i . i j i i,o f tv,; L.nn,io,4a ,! I Arrested, tried, convicted and sent we will see this' thing happen. ' enced to serve two years each on the Everv nte lcent man and woman A""'"' """"! ."' must rPnli7P thp fnot tw it i fm.tes from the time they possible for Madison to compete with inc world around her witnout using different methods than have been used in the past while other places are using machinery and cultivating two acres where they used to culti vate one. This is something we can not do. We must learn to make one-" acre produce the amount of two, and, .;i;u ju uj:i j iim, poultry, nogs, arm ,. , , , sheep to our tobacco if we hope to .tl?" v.eale 2- gr live, borne year, our season will make it impossible to get a crop of tobacco or hail or some unseen calamity wipe it out, or at the rate people are in creasing their crops, the prices cannot hope to hold up, then we will need something to fall back on and will not find it. Say farmers, are you going to let some men whose interests have been hurt because they can not make enor mous profits off of you, talk you into letting the only thing in the county that will honest to goodness be of benefit to you, the only thing that will eventually pull you out of the rut and put you on your feet, and make yo-a able to pay your tax? Will you let them talk you into fighting your own interests? We never had such a fight against any former agent because they never did anything to keep some folks from living off the farmer. Mr. Plemmons spoke of some inter ests getting fat. I think this fight was started because some interests were getting lean. They are not able to take things so easy and let the farm. ers pay the bills. I hope the farmers of Madison County will show them that they haven't got so little intelli gence that the wool can be pulled over their eyes by the popular plea of lower taxes, when very few "folks would know the difference in their tax if the work should be done away with, the foundation whereupon it was planted. Our county must be progressive if we ever induce worthwhile things in. Since we have ah agent, people are noticing Madison and there is more business that will eventually choose Madison if we stay alive. If you want a cotton mill and other manufacturing plants to come to Madi son, by all means keep an agent, for no one wants lo come to a county without a future. A farmer who loves farmers. E. BRYAN ROARING FORK from the time they had been speeding happily along the highway with two young women in an auto mobile, was the fate that befell two young' men in Marshall Tuesday af- l ternoon. ! Bill Daniels and Cline Carson, said I to be residents of Weaverville, were arrested by Sheriff R. R. Ramsey, who suspected that they were carrying liquor in their automobile. Examma- The two, with Miss Bessie Carson and Miss Marion Daniels, were taken into the Superior Court room where Judge Michael Schenck, of Hendersonville, was holding a term of criminal court. There the men entered a plea of guilty to a charge of transporting liquor and were sentenced to serve two years on the chain gang. The women declared they were ignorant of the contents of the automobile, and were freed. They were arrested at 3 o'clock and at 3:45 they were again in the county jail with their sentenc es pronounced. Judge Schenck declared from the bench that if all such law violators could be arrested and as speedily pun ished, there would soon be fewer vi olations of the prohibition law. RIDDLE CASE IS CONTINUED The case of Carter Riddle, 17, of Robbinsville, who was seriously shot here Tuesday morning of last week, has been continued to the next term of criminal court. People will be interested to know that Riddle is now up and walking around. From GRAND VIEW We are having a large attendance at S. S. now. Miss Ruth Hunter, teacher at Pop lar Gap, spent the week end with friends here. Miss Carolina Parker had as her guest Saturday, Mrs. Sidney ' Brown and two children, Mrs. Eula Wyatt, Misses Althea Nellie, Eunice 'and Ella Wyatt, Ruth Hunter, Lonetta Next Saturday and Sunday will be our meeting days. We would be glad if everyone in this community would attend as well as others. Mr. R. M. Reese was visiting? Mr. T. C. Hooker who is very ill, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. C. M. Burnette was visiting her daughter Mrs. J. G. Reese who is ill, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Rice and child ren of Burnsville Hill were visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Rice Sunday. Mr. R. H. Reese of New Bridge was visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Reese Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Keys of Long Branch were at this place Sunday. Mr. Jonah Rice, Misses Minnie and Stella Rice motored to Big Pine last Sunday. . ... . ;.. Mr. Donald West and Wlttard Clark of New Bridge were motoring throuch this community Sunday. , Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Reese Sunday afternoon." were Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McDarla and child- : THE PUBLISHER'S COLUMN : ABOUT VARIOUS MATTERS : Not many more days now until the 1929 session of the legislature will be history. What it will have accomplished for the good of the state, we cannot mention here. We have not kept very closely in touch with the bills passed, but there are many more local bills than bills that have a general nature affecting more than one county. We wonder if purely loci measure affecting only onelcounty or one community should occupy the attention of the entire legislature. Especially now that the salaries of our legislators have been raised to about where they should t,e, would it not be wise to find some way of reducing the time of the legislature, letting that body consider matters of more general import- ance than purely local matters. Why take the time of the legislature to name a bridge across the Roanoke River? We believe that much valuable time is lost by this big and expensive body that could be done just as well by a smaller body and if they are needed for the entire six- ty days on the larger measures, let them remain in session ; if not, let them stop and go home as soon as possible. We are kept in anxiety too long, not knowing what they may do or what they may not do, and the sooner it is over the better it will be for us, anyway. We have too many laws now. It is not laws we jneed, but proper enforcement of those we have and proper respect for law and the officers charged with enforcing them. o We are printing elsewhere in this paper this week another article sent us for last week's paper 'by Senator Ira Plemmons. We are print- ing it in full again notwithstanding the fact that it contains some state- ments that are misleading. You will notice in one paragraph that he has tried tosmake the impression that this writer used the word "mob" with reference to some Madison County voters. In illustrating miy point that the majority is not always right, I said that the mob crucified Christ and now the Senator would have you believe that I used the word in another sense entirely. Fortunately there are copies of my papers in our files running back to the very first and they speak for themselves. To be sure our Senator would not try to deceive our peo- pie whom he is representing in Raleigh. In our issue of February 1, in his article, Senator Plemmons says, "I have tried to make careful inquiry from the representatives of the different counties that have a hospital of the kind proposed for our county. In every case the same thing very nearly has been said to me, and that is that it is breaking the county up to maintain it." That state- ment was intensely interesting to this writer. We believed and do (yet believe that if such a condition exists as he says the people of our coun- ty should know about it and it was our intention to join with the Sen- ator in warning our voters thatit would not be wise to follow in their trail. We wrote to Mr. Plemmons to furnish us with names of people and counties he referred to so that we might investigate first hand and give our people the benefit of,' our investigation. We wrote him three " times urging him tojf urnish the flames, and finally wrote him that we understood he had beViTdflered' a hundred dollars to furnish, one, name and he had not done so. That is what he refers to in his article, but yon notice he does not deny having been offered the amount and tries to make it appear that he was offered the amount as hush money, or to CLOSE his mouth, when really the amount was offered to get him to OPEN his mouth and let the people know the truth. And you notice he tries to excuse his silence by saying, "Men outside our county who have talked with me about the hospitals do not want to make statements to the press on matters that do not in the least concern them." That is certainly a strange statement. This writer would be only too glad to let. other counties know it if our county was being broken up to main- tain a hospital, if our letting them know it would keep them out of such trouble. Besides, it is not necessary for us to call names in the press or refer to specific counties, if they wishes to keep their misfortune se- cret. We could have given facts 'without calling names if it had been necessary. The truth is, Senator Plemmons himself gave the press what he said they said whether they like it or not. 'Sfunny! o One of the disadvantages of a weekly paper is the fact that so many important matters happen to fall on press day. We go to press with this paper on Thursdays. No one but those in the shop kno-ws ' how many things happen on this day. The most important trial in this court, for instance, started giving evidence Thursday morning. If we were to hold the paper until this trial had been completed, you would not get it as early as usual. But everybody has his or her worries. Let's take them as they come and not worry over them. , A o We are giving our readers notice this week that we shall be com- pelled to stop their papers if they do not pay up. If you will be kind enough to look up on your label how far you are behind and renew at once by mail, you will certainly help us a great deal. Or come in and talk the matter over. I o The Frisby case will probably continue for two days or more and ' it is being watched with a great deal of interest. FRISBY TRIAL NOW I N PROGRESS OHN R. FRISBY OF REDMON ON TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF HIS SON tion to know that some of our tax cry is overdone. I am seventy years old and own the same farm now that I nttm A 4-tjii fir Aim lino va non T TDI1 then, from $18 to $25 for taxes. I Evidence is being heard in the have been paying near $100 a year al- -c s , for several years. I am honest in be- the only murder case in this term lieving that I pay my latter taxes as 0,?r Jhat State aKaJnst Jhn ea3y as I did the former taxes. I was Frisby for the murder of his son. looking to the farm then for every- Court convened Monday, Judge Mi thing and I am still doing the same I ha;l Schenck presiding. Quite a thing. It is true I have set a few traps .number of whiskey cases were tried of late to try to catch some money. I Judge Schenck made them sit up Twelve years ago I set a trap for some ,aruJ take notlce bv imposing chain fruit money. I had to wait several Kan sentences years, but this trap is catching some I Charged with shooting to death his money for the last few years. Anoth- ,s?n. Lrna Frisby 47, on Saturday er (ran is in usini? hurh erade fertili- August 4, iwn.Jonna. rrisoy zer to catch more tobacco, corn, oats and hay per acre. Now I would like f Kedmon, near Marshall, is now on rial on a charge of second degree murder. be done without bleeding to the bone .Tne selection of a jury was effected the things that make our rural con.- 'wlth gr.eat difficulty, many having mmnity welfare worth while. I am a ,been rejected by State and defense trong advocate of economy; but not! ttorneys for various reasons, and it to the miser's degree. He thinks a do!- rasJnot until late in the afternoon of lar is everything. I like economizing Wednesday that the trial got under on one corner. 1 believe we have too many chronic kickers these days. Too, I think we have too many people who Second Trial This is the second time the de- cannot or will not adapt themselves fendant has gone on trial in connec to new surroundings or opportunities. ,tion with the shooting of his son, a We can acquire adaptability if we try. nistrial having been ordered by Judge If I should go to the West to farm, P. A. McEIroy at the first trial last the first thing I would do would be to August after the majority of an im inquire of the best farmers there how posing array of State and defense they did things. Then I would adopt witnesses had been heard. The father is represented by George M. Pritchard, of Asheville, and John H. McEIroy, son of Judge McEIroy, of Marshall. Mr. Frisby, who is 68 years of age, i their mode. Another thing that hurts all of u3 jis our prejudices toward those who do things differently from the way iwe happen to do things to earn a liv- inc Not lone ap-o a man said he would nr.o ouj ,u;i n o n,fh I o- ' - I " " J .A 1 1 V OLLU Willi; I.0 1 1. V. uu u fvu not sign anything nor belong to any- -way, leading from the home of his rninn rnor a a unror nnnrnr nra in ' i uiiiiiiL iiiuv t iui. vi vi uswisi. nuij . n son at Redmon. a short time after I said, "You don't mean it." "Yes I the bullet-riddled body of the former do," he said. I said, "Well, we will 'had been found hv Paul Frisbiv. son see if you do, suppose you go home, 0f the deceased, on the living room 1. i. A Ll. 1 , 11 1 . ' you get into trouble and kill a man, will not your mind run to the best lawyer you can think of? Or suppose you become seriously ill. Your mind again will run to the best doctor." He said, "Well, I was not looking at it in that light." We should-see the good as well as the bad in all people. How many of us know that there is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us, that it desn't become any of us to talk about the rest of us. From REVERE We are sorry to see the revival close for we sure did enjoy having Bro. Ricp and Rrn. Oriffin with nis. Miss Viola McDevitt has been sick Revolver with several empty cylinders floor of the mountain home. Wife Heard Talk At the inquest and post mortem examination the following day Mrs. Erna' Frisby, wife of the dead man, stated that she did not see the shooting, as she had joist left the room. However, she swore that she heard her son say: "Dad, put up your gun," a few moments before a shot rang out in the room occupied by the father and son. She also said that she heard her husband say, "Dad, please don't shoot me any more," and that immediately afterwards, several shots were fired. . . Officers stated that thev found the house deserted, and that a .45 calibre was found by the side of the aged man as he sJept on the pathway. The father since his arrest has protested his guilt and is makiner a Mr. Shelt Norton, Eldridge Leave, (strenuous fight to evade conviction. His sons and daughters are resorted to be aiding their father in his ficrht Misses IN ora Iorton and Mona Lee jior acquittal. Mr. Frisby but is reported better. ! Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Rice are the happy parents of a bouncing baby girl .Mona Lee and Belva Wallin motor ed to Spill Corn Sundav afternoon. ren and Mrs. E. daughter Lusy. WINS FIFTY DOLLARS FOR SHORT STORY M. Reese and her ,TVLV A Nil HTIIu U IMPROVEMENTS Miss Robbie Thornberg of Paint Rnrk submitted a short story to a By Wm. S. Rice Editor News-Record, Marshall, N. C. for a tfheck for hfty dollars. She did not make anv fuss about it, but her teacher, Mrs. Bob McClure, thought the matter worthy of mention ana we think so, too. Miss ThornJburg is a senior in me high school at Hot Springs. An Appreciated Letter Feb. 2, 1929 Editor. of The News-Record: .' Dear Editor: To begin with, I want to say a few words of praise for the piece you wrote on the Farm Agent question recently. Your piece alone was worth the nrice of the naDer. There are hosts of farmers in Madi- 'hundred pounds in our Ford, go to the son who are thankful for a citizen and 1 market in two hours, sell and come Editor of their county paper, who jhome for supper, bringing back $125 can intelligently present to the peo- or $150. Then think long enough to i . ... -, .... ji draw the contrast We all like the pie, things like this which is so vitally we ,u enjoy the car rides, connected with the progress of the we do not object to the larger and county, and that you can present t better school touildings wnl modern . . - . Mf.. j equipments and better school system free of prejudice or bitterness. JL.-j , uj-u v.i h Yonra for a greater Madison, ; ft come to paying taxes for all these ': MRS. CRAWFORD BRYAtt., good privileges. Now I am in post Please allow me very little say a- bout "Here and There". First I want to say that the cry ;about high taxes is somewhat over done. Too many fail to see what we have to pay taxes for, in the way of improvements. Let us look back twenty-five years and travel the eld roads, with the old teams and takeV peep at the little red school house with one teacher and the house chock full of children, he teaching three or four months in the year. Then let us take a wagon load of tobacco to Greeneville, Tenn., and sell it for a bout $80.00 taking three days to make the trip. Then think of eating breakfast and packing three or four Wallin were at Revere Friday. We are sorry to see Miss Ponder and Mrs. Fisher leave. They are good teachers and we have learned to love them, but our loss is someone else's gain, Mr. and Mrs. Chester King have moved to Revere. Don't lay a kick on that Office Kat or you will hear from folks at Revere. was re- few icuscu unuer oona ot $;i,ouu a '(ays after his son was killed. As we went to press, the following witnesses had been heard : Dr. Dit more, Paul Frisby, Clark and Mrs. Erna Frisby, widow of the deceased. Indications are that New Yorkers are at last in for a good Whalen. The Pathfinder YOUR PAPER WILL STOP! UNLESS ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE AT ONCE If you are receiving the News-Record and it has not been paid for, please send in your renewal at once, as we are required to drop your name from our list un less you make arrangements to take care of your sub scription. This publisher has certainly tried to convince you that he is willing to extend credit, but the postal prevent us from giving you unlimited credit. Don't wait for us to see you. Write at once and avoid having your name dropped from our list. You will be given credit for the amount you send whether great or small. The line under your name on the label shows you how long you owe for the paper. If possible, send 1 in enough to pay it up in advance of the present date. AND THIS MEANS THOSE WHO ARE WORTH A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AS WELL AS THOSE NOT WORTH ONE DOLLAR. t xc " vou appreciate the fact that you have been fur ".iiished the naoer without m in alvn. vnn ' your appreciation by letting us hear from you at dnce, without waiting for another notice. Address THE NEWS-RECORD Marshall, N. C t t t