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' -'.V $3 &n "aiicoa MADISON COUNTY RECORD. .Establish. Job 28, ML' ' FRENCH BROAD NEWS Established May 16, 1907. M Consolidated November 2, 1911 ' PL .ICE JLtYCAR 1M e3AjJ' L 1 i I A M f' . ' I M THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISH ED EN MADISON COUNTY VOL. XXI MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929 8 Pages This Week 1300 fin '.jut : h . r . ; sv STATE TAKES OVER MARS MM k AND SANDY MUSH ROADS COMPROMISE BY COUNTY BOARD The highway question in Madison County, which has been the subject of much controversy ' for some months, apparently was settled late last Friday when the county commis sioners unanimously requested State Highway Commissioner J. G. Stike leather to build and maintain two highways, one via Mars Hill to the Tennessee line, and the other from Marshall across Doggett Mountain and into Sandy Mush township. .SChtf' commissioners offered the State Highway commission $25,000 toward the building of these two roads, and Mr. Stikeleather agreed to the proposal. The request was considered here Saturday as representing a compro mise that is likely to prove generally satisfactory. It gives Mars Hill an outlet into Asheville, placates Mar shall by giving it a road into the San dy Mush section, and provides that part of the county, which sought to secede and join Buncombe at the last legislature, an outlet to Marshall, the county seat, and to Asheville. First Action Rescinded The Mars Hill road, to go from the Forks of Ivy via Mars Hill to the state line, was at one time decided upon by the commissioners, but they rescinded their action when .Marshall citizens protested. Mars Hill busi ness men, thereupon, threatened a boycott of Marshall. The Sandy Mush township got a bill offered in the last legislature which would have cut that township off from Madison and made it a part of Buncombe. As a compromise, it was agreed that the township should be given better road and school ad vantages. The decision of Friday was seen as a means of carrying into effect the road provision of tha$ com promise. Give State $25,000 Originally the county expected to secure the road via Mars Hill by turn ing over to the state f 150,000 due the county by the State Highway commission, hut this, proposal met a storm of protest when-citizens insist ed this sum should be used to pay off Under the terms of the agreement reached Friday, the county wui turn over to the highway commission only $25,000, which is estimated as Mad ison county's share of the revenue to be derived from the extra one-cent tax on gasoline. The request of the commissioners, addressed to Chairman Doughton and Commissioner Stikeleather, of the highway commission, was signed by all three members of the county board, C. J. Wild, T. A. Silver, and J. F. Amnions. Following is a text of the letter: "We, the county commissioners of Madison county, at a special meeting of the board, make the following re quest of the State Highway commis sion, through Mr. J. 6. Stikeleather, ninth district commissioner. First: We request that your hon orable body put on the State system, and for maintenance, the road from Mars Hill to the Tennessee line, via California -"Creek, . etc., meeting the State Highway Commission at a point agreeable to Tennessee. "Second: We request .that you put on the State highway system, and lot maintenance, -the road from Marsh all, via old Route No. 20, to a point near Freeman's Gap, thence to the Forks of Sandy Mush and Across Dog gett Mountain to Highway No. 209, near Trust, N. C. v - ,"We pledge ourselves to furnish the State Highway commission $26,000, to put these two roads in proper shape for maintenance." Rank In Education How North Carolina ranks in public education is always a mat ter of great public interest,'. , AH available data show thai W nave made a great deal of progress but that our rank is still too lowvto justify resting on our 'oars. Tables compiled by the National Indus trial Conference Board give North Carolina the following rank for the years indicated. ' .:,' '' Year Rank Year " Rank 1890 44 1900. ......48 1910 47 1918........44 1922 41 1924... 1.40 1925 39 1926...... ...39 It will be seen thatv ill 1900 when the Aycock revival began, the Mate ranked last. Our rank in 1926 was thirty-ninth.1 ''Dur ing the period from 1910 to 1926, only five states increased their rank among the states faster than North Carolina. Our per inhabitant wealth and income considered, North Carolina is spending fairly liberally on pub lic education. The chief criticism of our school system lies in the in equality of educational opportunities. of Madison County. Mitchell's peak is twenty-five miles distant; while a few hours ride takes one to the Bald Mountains, on the Tennessee line. Our elevation is 2,830 feet "Mars Hill is eighteen miles from Asheville, twelve miles from Marshall, and is on State Highway 213. The location is fortunate. Apart in the hills, it is quite free from the dis tractions, temptations, and vices of points on the railroad, while it has all. the literary advantages of a school community and all the social pleas ures and means of recreation that can be safely thrown around young men and women during school days. Free scope is given for full and sym metrical growth in all that is best in student life. Experience has taught the wisdom and excellence of a coun try location over that of a city or railroad town, for a boarding school. The place is one of peculiar charm and heaRhfulness. , "Seventy-two years ago last Janu ary, under the name of "The French Bread Baptist Institute," with Messrs W,; A. G. Brown (father of the late Dr A. E. Brown) and P. W. Ander soij in charge, the school began its work. The years preceding the Civil War were prosperous, students flock ing here from a wide range of terri tory. In 1859 the first charter of the school was secured, and theiame changed to Mars Hill College, with tne power of conferring all such de grees and marks of literary distinc- j ion as are usually conferred in col-1 leges and seminaries of learning. Be j (Continued to Page Four) MARS HILL ELECTION The town election at Mars Hill re sulted as follows: Mayor, W. O. Connor, succeeding T. J. Murray. Board of Aldermen, N. S. Whit aker, Ned Anderson, R. Y. Tilson (re elected) succeeding R. L. Moore, R. Y. Tilson and P. C. Stringfield. In charge of the election were K. B. Murray, registrar J. P. Sams, and Guy George, judges. DROWNS NEAR SANDY BOTTOM BILL TYSON OF MARSHALL KNOCKED BEFORE DROWNING Another Red Cross Job I- MADISON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA Following is an article taken com plete from The Barley Tobacco Bul letin, published at Greeneville, Tenn., and which we are pleated to forward on to our valued readers: BUILDING RAZED AT PAINT ROCK Union Church Building At Paint Rock Rated By High ' Winds Lat Week SECTION HARD HIT BY CYCLON IC STORM. OF MAY 2ND Does Idumih Das Madison County, North Carolina is very 'happily situated. It is up in the land of the Sky, bordered on the one side by Buncombe and Yancey counties of the same state, and on the other side by the state of Tennessee. Madison County is favored with that "ALL THE YEAR" climate that the Western North Carolina country is so renowned for. This climate "Is "not extreme in any season; does not have severe cold in the winter nor intense heat in -the summer. It is a county that is attractive to the tourist, the summer visitor, and to the home seek er alike. The capital of Madison County is Marshall. This is a progressive and stirring town of about 1200 people, situated 23 miles from the center of Asheville and about 100 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee. A. concrete road follows the French Broad river, on the banks of which Marshall Is built, to Asheville. In the 'btheti. di rection an all-the-year road leads 'to the Tennessee line where it connects with a paved highway leading to Knoxville. Marshall was established in 1853 on a town site deeded' to the county by Zebulon Vance and Sam Chunn. Vance, who deeded two thirds of the site was an' ardent vWhig and it was he who gave the town its name after Chief Justice Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.'" Marshall is unique among towns. It is built on a narrow strip of land on the shore of the French Broad with the residential portion occupying a commanding site on the bluff, which rues several hundred feet above main street. It also boasts of a hundred thousand dollar high school building J1 iwnich stands on Blannahassett Island in the center of the French Broad. Three and a half miles of paved streets make all parts of the city readily available at any season of the year.. There are in the town a cotton mill, two flour and feed mills, a Standard Oil Company plant, Whole sale establishments, four hotels, the Monarch Manufacturing Company. two banks whose combined deposits amount' to over 1,6000,000, and many up-to-date mercantile and gro cery stores. , v '...!:,' ' A gravity water system Supplies the residents of the1 town with Dure, mountain water carried from the mu nicipal owned water shed locatedoh the crest of the mountains seven1 miles , from the city. . r,v W' Judge Harding, of the State Court and Judge Allen, now deceased,' each '. pronounced Marshall "the prettiest . town he -ever aaar" Hnnmr il ... I may be, Marshall, . with Its j paved j streets,, its pure mountain water,- :THE PUBLISHER'S COLUMN : ABOUT VARIOUS MATTERS AN EFFORT TO ECONOMIZE IN EDUCATION The last session of the Nortjh Carolina legislature showed a desire to cut expenses in many matters, even in the matter of educa tion. The cry of high taxes had been tiearH nil nvor fha Stnto until representatives were compelled to loot toward the matter of economy in the expenditure of public funds and this feeling seeped down even into the running of our public school system. This caused quite a stir among the heads of our school systems and teachers. Many of our teachers were already complaining that they were overworked, or rath er, that they had more pupils in their classes than they could well teach. To cut expenses, they claimed, would be to even further reduce the number of teachers and continue to make efficient teaching impos sible. As in all qoestions, there are tW sides to this. From the tax payer's point of view, there is already plenty of money going into the running of our schools. From the teajcher's point of view, the amount will toavte to be increased indefinitely fcefbre the iddal, can be reached in teaching. Something must be done. Jf our taxpayers have all they can afford to pay, then some cutting jiust be done somewhere. North Carolina has been dotted in the lastfew years with fine school build ings, and from outward appearances! our state has made wonderful progress in educational lines, but who will claim that our schools are what they ought to be? We believej that some adjustments should be made at both ends, on top and on the bottom. We see no need for money to be spent to provide schools for- boys and girls who have no desire to go to school and who refuseto be taught when compelled to attend. The old saying that you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink applies to these so-called nunils. F oJs and trouble our aAersytVbunch of dull half-wits who f would not studv or learn undec 4narHcwmitaiuiv vw i,n.,i,i v ' ii -'7 -iiy ouyvu, JJfft- ents spend money sending their" children off to college when the chil dren have no desire to go, and will not amount to anything after they go except to be greater parasites on society than they were before they went? They ought to be taught some useful occupation, at which they can at least make a living, and then compelled to go to work. If they later develop an appetite for higher education, let them seek it themselves. It will then be worth something to them. We believe that indulgent parents who are able are doing more to spoil their chil dren by furnishing them plenty of money and sending them to college than they would be keeping them out of college and urging them to work, putting off from our public schools and colleges and universi ties the undesirables would give the deserving a better opportunity and the general expense of education reduced. This would be cutting off at the bottom. An example of cutting off expense at the top is given by a recent action of the Buncombe County Board of Education when the salary of the county superintendent was reduced from $6000 to $4000 a year with $1200 for expenses. In all lines we are gradually experiencing a decline in values since the World War and our public officials should have their salaries cut to conform to the changing con dtiions. We admire Governor Gardner in ref using to allow the salary of the Governor of North Carolina to be increased during his admini stration. We are having no trouble to get gubernatorial candidates and why increase the salary? We're under no obligation to do like some other state. That'.s our trouble now, we are trying to keep pace with someone else until we are running crazy and dishonest. Let's be ourselves and keep within the bounds of reason, in public expenditures in 'educational as well as in governmental and other affairs. Hundreds of people have been left destitute as a result of the cyclone which struck twelve coun ties in Alabama, Florida, Mary land, Tennessee, Virginia and W. Virginia on May 2nd and an even larger number are in need of help in the eight counties of Georgia and South Carolina which were swept by a tornado on April 25th. In the former disaster 24 persons were killed and 89 injured and in the latter the death list was 64 with 332 injured. The property loss in both areas was heavy and the Red Cross, is raising a relief fund of from $150,000 to $200, 000. Contributions to this fund .will be gladly received by the local chapter of the Red Cross and promptly forwarded to national headquarters. The Red Cross workers will see that the money goes where it is needed and will do the most good. CARL R. STUART ELECTED MAYOR The election held Tuesday for the Town of Marshall resulted in the e leotion of Carl R. Stuart for Mayor of Marshal), J. Herschell Sprinkle, E. R. Tweed, and F. E. Freeman, alder men, and W. C. Rector, for police man. The votes cast were as fol lows:' ''';'- . . FOR MAYORS- Carl R. Stuart 251 M. A. Godfrey 02 W. J. Ruasell 76 FOR ALDERMEN J. H. Sprinkle 316 E. R. tweed .331 F. E. Freeman 263 FOR POLICEMAN J. C. Redmon 22 J. M. Robinson 69 W. C. Rector ...209 C. L. Henderson 141 BLANKENSMP REELECTED As we go to press Thursday, evi dence was being heard in the case in which Bill Tyson is alleged to have been knocked before drowning near Sandy Bottom Wednesday afternoon about five o'clock. Miss Cora An derson, a material witness in the case is said to have been the only woman present. It is alleged that members ' of the party had been drinking and ja quarrel followed, which resulted in Tyson being slapped or knocked a bout the face or head, following which blow he fell into the river and i was seen once or twice but the swift ly moving current made rescue im possible. The Sheriff and his de partment had been searching up to the time we went to press for the body, but no trace of it had been found. Mr. C. H. Ramsey who was with the Sheriff's department in searching for the body, was inter view by this paper's reporter. Bill Tyson was the son of Bod Ty son of Marshall, living on the south side of the river. He is survived by his father and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Roy Davis of Marshall, Mrs. Ralph Sorrell, of Asheville, Mrs. Fred Morrow of Mar shall,' Sherman Tyson, Pauline Ty son, and Robert T"son of Marshall, besides several half brothers and half sisters. Bill had until about four weeks ago, been working in Knox ville, Tenn., but was at home for a while when the accident occurred. A Tramp's Lecture -J THAT FARM RELIEF POLITICAL PLAY This special session of congress is an attempt to fulfill a pre election promise which was made not specially in good faith but be cause the political bosses were practically forced to make the promise. Both major parties faced the issue and no matter which party had gone in the same demand would have been upon it But this matter of farm relief is as much a see-saw as the tariff question used to be. We have no hope that any real benefit will be derived from all this agita tion except that it gives the lawmakers something to be doing while they draw the salary of the office from the people who are demanding of them the impossible. , Our opinion, is that if all these congressmen would go home and go to work at private occupations and let their sal aries be distributed among the farmers, mors real benefit would accrue to the farmers than will come of all this play at legislation. But then, the farmers themselves wouldn't be satisfied with that kind of thing. ' So there you are! Hence they are trying to lead us fellows out here in the country to believe they are doing something big by tacking on a big word occasionally, such as DEBENTURE. Why didn't they say a bond, pT note, or written obligation, or something that we know something about? And -now they have almost sidestepped this farm relief matter to go again into that matter of tariff readjustment. And we wonder if the whole matter of farm relief doesn't lie after ail in the question of tariff. . . ; ., : ; go To Property 'modern sewerage system, its modern , m.' 1 -v V, - I School SVStem. With Prhvtinn (Special to la News-Record) " ' 'BaDtist and MethoHint being given the imprisonment of HARRY F. SINCLAIR IN WASHINGTON JAIL part of Western, North Carolina on Thursday of last week left its mark in this'and surrounding sections, caus ing damage to fruit trees and timber, estimated at many hundreds of dol lars. -?".-?&: rW-'.'V The Union church building, stand ing on high hill In the center of the illare.' was left ' fn mine hv the strong- winds, .. This building 4ad for 40 years or more homed reliriooa assemblies 1 of Patat Rock; It is thoo' tthat material tan besaivsg d frota ths rnjnsHof thr buildipg o use ta (thew fhstructiou ef -a- new church build. ffVf In thv.r-- 'aie . f ""iay) f -nl and fV-Vi i -s r be 'l. a the lirf. - " - --.. ... teg. . T&li Ti.'i .-r- - AXvfiK&aThime iess inan twelve miles from Mar-. ,' """ " h wmuwie iu vvb shall is Mars HilL This is primarily a ,f before their trials arc concluded and their sentences pronounced,, but , college town. Its citizens seem to put.- it seems to be so unuBUal for a wealthy man to.be in jail that this case ' the college first and ars always readv '. A unin nnn) .H.Hn. whit.. Vi.jnr.. iAnv. t. t?dtt&2& r. for s longer term'than he drew.he is being nmds .nek a hero i of this "beautiful, college town" and, : 4 th, hu tnded punishment is resulting ia apparent glory. After aH, always, they irive a atranstr a warm " in our opinion, this whole thinir is tnfustioe. He) ouffht not to be in iaH Welcome. We will let Dr. R . 1J for what lie in rVaftHut .wifeV . I Ii. nhA Ua tiil V. ' Moore, president of the 'college tell X!to be imprisoned for robbinr lust as vom or I weuld be. - But he is mir- t ZrtuSTZ loUon: "MarsHfll til Ven 90 "fngta answer, quertions put to him by the pleasant, school village of some live ' . Sent committee; and he refused on th advice of his lawyers. ,: If j-,, . hundred people." Jill interests center -' fusing to answer these questions was a criminal. offense, it seems to-na . his lawyers sfe the criminals who vught to be in prison, and not Sin- clair. If we understandtt. these lawyers, were, explored by, Urn totV kivts Lira U tt say and doiH theh advice was ertmiBSV they, are ; in the school. ,. The ,pe"-Te -e. here"," for the sdvas rs f .t a; ; - - sr w at? i ia Last Monday, May 6, was the time set for the choosing of a county su perintendent of schools for Madison County. The Board of Education, composed of Dr. R. L. Moore, as chairman, Messrs. Jasper Ebbs, Cal vin Reeves, Lee Ramsey, and W. M. Roberts, met and were in executive session behind closed doors from a- bout ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon. The principal interest in this particular meeting centered in who would be given the office of county superin tendent, . When the board emerged and announced their decision that they hd-wije-elected the present in cumbent, C. M. Blankenship, quite a surprise was evident. Mr. Blanken ship has held this office for two years succeeding O, S. Dillard, now of Leicester. ,y He served as principal of the Marshall school for four years prior, to 1826. He is a native of Buncombe Countv and a sraduate of Wake Forest College. A MfeS LOVE We thank thee; Lord, for the sunrise, And the atfitterinar dew-wet morn. For the lilting song of the meadow . - v lark, As she sings to the day new born. We thank Thee for the roses Which bloom by the ararden wall. For humming birds snd butterflies, aim tnet enee or tne redbird s call. We thank Thee for the woodland, With bursting buds ' and trees. ' For the rosy apple blossoms, - And the fragrant summer breeze. We thank Thee for the' sunset, 1 Ana tne paooung Inendly brook, For -violet peering modestly ' v From turner-and shady nook. Wt thank The for 'the harvest, ' With golden fruit and grain," ' For the glimmering, gorgeous rain- : bow span,".- ; And the. song of Sit sflrery rain. v . '.. . :...,.. " ;:'- - . But ever' our thanks are wafting, . t Like incense from above, -'' For thS rarest gift from heaven sent, a The 'gift of a mert love. "j '-ELOIZX BUCKNER ZZZS, " :V v Hay 4th,' 182; - . A tramp asked for a drink in a saloon. The request was grant ed, and when in the act of drink ing the proffered beverage, one of the young men . present said: .'.'Make us & speech. It is poor liquor that does not loosen a man's tongue." The tramp hastily swallowed down the drink. As the liquor coursed through his blood, he straightened and stood before them with a grace and dig nity that all of his rags ind dirt could not' obscure. "Gentlemen," he said, "I look tonight at myself, and it seems to me 1 look upon the picture of my blighted manhood. This bloated face was once as handsome as yours. This shambling figure once walked as proudly as yours, for I was a man in the world of men. I, too, once had a home and position. I had a wife as beauti ful as an artist's dream, but I dropped the priceless pearl of her honor and respect into a cup of wine. I had children as sweet and pure as the flowers of spring and saw them fade and die under the blighting curse of a drunken father. I had a home where love lit the flame upon the altar and ministered before it, but I put out the holy fire and darkness and de solation reigned in its stead. I had aspirations and ambitions that soared as high as the morning star, but I broke and bruised their beautiful forms and strangled them that I might hear them no more. Today, I am a husband without a child, a tramp without a home, and a man in whom every impulse is dead. All have been swallowed up in the maelstrom of drink." The Chronicle. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC I After eight yeera we are again at the same old place now "The New Central Hotel" where we served you four year as keepers of a room ing end boarding bouse. The place has been turned into a hotel. Mod ern conveniences; rates reasonable. Our friends will please invite their friends to call .on us when in town. Respectfully, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Ramsey ltc.May 10. ' Your wife, as well as your sins, will find you out. A halting speech may be the re sult of a lame excuse. Sfaulin 2varffe '$ay3 Ut ' . .' ; cz hccK c ' at: - V t V I 1; ,to t! - t, not l2c!.Ir. I