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,.V .r.. AVI7AWCV." , 7 ' ... !..;. , " , ;ft w .... .. , ... - - . ... -f-., , , v , - - - MADISON COUNTY RECORD 9" Established June 28, 1901. ' ' FRENCH BROAD NEWS Established May 16, 1907. Consolidated November 2, 1911 sj niE MEWS-RECORD A YEAR 1I! '"'fit Th PROGRESSIVE FARMER THE NEWS-RECORD CO OK BOTH A YEAR FOR THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY 1300 MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929 10 Pages This Week price a year k i n in r I x' I'rTJnn - J ra. ol rS "" ' .' i i i J LHJLLJ SS ' VOL. XXI MR, RECTOR ANSWERED Viiifnr. Nw-Recbr My attention nas Deen caiieu w letter from Mr. James E. Rector, published in youn paper of May 8, 1929 in which Mr, Rector complains very bitterly over the dlefeat of a bill introduced in the last legwbxture to jive Buncombe County jurisdiction over other counties in road construc tion. Mr. Rector says that his bill was especially intended for Madison County. I did not know until my attention was called to Mr. Rector's letter that he was the author of the bllIt took no "ardorous" efforts to defeat this bill. It' was so palpably wrong and out of the usual order of things that the fair sense of the leg islature, when attention was called to the matter, voluntarily defeated this bill. In spite of such boll weev il efforts as this bill of Mr. Rector s, Buncombe County and Madison County hnve always been the best of friends and have gotten along am icably as good neighbors and in bus iness relations, and the people of Madison County are glad to have Buncombe as a neighbor and having been partially made from Buncombe County territory Madison is really proud of her big-hearted generous mother. I cannot speak for the whole County of Madison, or for the offi cials of Madison County, but I am very sure that any time Buncombe County wishes to come into Madison and build some good roads with Bun combe County money and labor that the officials of Madison County will be glad to welcome Buncombe in such undertaking and it will not require an act of the legislature of North Carolina to intimidate and to force the officials of Madison County to permit Buncombe to do such a gen erous and very neighborly act for Madison. We have the good roads spirit in Madison County and have gone to the extent to borrow $060, 000 and loan to the State Highway Commission to build highways in Madison County and the State has been good enough to pay all this money back, except $170,800.00, and w exDect a portion of that to be next year or two. We have no idea that the good people of Buncombe County in any wise concurred in Mr. Rector's bill, authorizing Buncombe County to "lord it over Madison." My efforts in Raleigh were direct ed on matters which I think the peo ple of Madison heartily approve. Mr. Rector states in his letter that I fought a bill in the legislature auth orizing the building of a road on Spring Creek. This is not true, and I do not think Mr. Rector knows what he is talking about. I was in the legislature of 1921, and was one of five men that drafted the State High way Bill under which the roads of North Carolina since that date have been built. I was largely respon sible for the road on Spring Creek being designated and made part of the State Highway system, wlhich was put on the irtap and made part of the original bill. If the Spring Creek road had not been included in the original State Highway bill, it probably would not have been built for years to come, if ever. When the division of the $225,000.00 loan ed by Madison County to the State was made, known as the Mars Hill road loan, allotting out of the said $225,000.00, $50,000.00 to finish the Spring Creek road, I represented the Commissioners of Madison County in a suit wherein an injunction was fil ed and a temporary restraining or der made. '. I filed the answer for the County and! went to Asheville and argued the case in behalf of the County before Ju'dge Parker, and Mr. Ross, attorney for the Highway Commission answered and argued the case for the State. We won the case and Spring Creek road got the money1. This is the way! I have been fighting the Spring Creek road. Per sonally I believe that the $50,000 for the Spring Creek road should have been supplied from somle other source and all the money spent on the J Mars Hill road as was originally in tended. When the bill was intro- dutftd in the lea-islatura of 1928 to establish the Spring Creek Road Dis- fact that its work was to be restnc trict the Commissioners of Madison ted to less than half s dozen subjects. County said that the two townships': Of course, the bills that become might sell bonds for the purpose .of laws are in about the same proportion aiding the State in the Construction the acorns that become oak trees, of the road without incurring the ex- Even at that there is a general com tra additional - overhead expenses, plaint--nd with . reason -that too and in fact under the law as it then many laws are ground out Yet near' existed the township bonds backed every legislator seems ambitious to by the County would have sold bet- tret one of his own ideas through ter than they did having only the dis- and have it imposed on a ; J general trict composed of the two townships public whether anybody wants it or back of them. The commissioners not.--4j.a-.: .,.".?! :--n ';:... sent me to Raleigh to present their For instance, ; representative is dues and I did so. The legislature now demanding a big appropriation saw fit to establish the district and to build an ornate, bas around the we have no quarrel about the mat-, Washington -monument project ter, although I think that the mat- that would cost a lot of money and ter would have been handled1 to the perhaps detract from, the beauty and better financial interest of the people , impressiveness of this famous memo concerned through the county au- rial A senator wants to put the gov thoritles. If the people of the district ' ernment of Washington on the city are satisfied I am sure the balanee of , manager plan, though V.thevPresent the county is. " "" ' ', commission f orm, is. unique and has MrJ Rector BUtes teTiis letter that been pronounced by .high authority If any of the citizens of as. 5, 11 and .the best.in the United States. There 15 Townships wish to commend Mr.' io popular demand;, no general de ' Caf V. "Roberts and me forut fight i for these measures. , More pow arainst his tuVthat he Will pay the W to-those-, committees -which - put fc advertising itog rates for tne publieaaoa.' of such commendation.. Xr.. Rector ' k very generous, but I really believe that the people of , Madison County would be more interested If Mn Rec tor would pay (he taxes, to Madison County appearing on the records of the ' County, wherein propettr has been sold for taxes in Madison Coun ty since 19210, eleven, Met tax sales,' where the Ues(!hArged againrt Mr. Rector arid the property sold for the said taxes in his name. I do not say this to embarrass Mr. Rector, but in all fairnew I believe that he should at least Wjvefc to the citizens of Madison Countjf before he undertakes to be so very; fnerous. If the bill which I sponsored hereto fore published in the News-Record and favorably reported by Ahecomt mittee to build and maiftrtwads in Nos. 5, 15 and 11 TownsWW' and the Sandy Mush road by the State had! not been tabled as heretofore explained, there would'peynow no squabble about obtainingtoads for the sections mentioned and Rec tor would not be required to draw on his generosity to pay for advertise ments. When Mr. Rector was en- igiagedl in drafting and sponsoring a bill to force on Buncombe County ju risdiction over Madison County, I was engaged in sponsoring a bill which provided for a dependable road from Mars Hill, through 15, 5, and No. 11 Townships to the State line, and! for a road accommodating the people of Sandy Mush Township. To be fair about it so far as I have been able to ascertain, I ami persuaded to believe that Madison County is in no special need of the assistance of Mr. Rector, except to bear his part of the financial burdens. The officials of Madison County and the people at large have always gotten along in the very best manner possible with the State Highway Commission and I believe will continue to do so with out the free advertising, of Mr'. Jtec out the free advertising of Mr. Rec State Highway Commission has done and is now doing for Madison Coun ty and we are hoping that the good work will go on till all the principal roads in the County will be taken over and maintained by the State, which we hopefully believe will e ventually be done. Respectfully, JOHN A. HENDRICKS. SUCCEEDS DR. ROBINSON The Board of Health for Madison County has appointed me Quarantine Officer to succeed Dr. W. F. Robin son of Mars Hill. This is to notify all the physicians, teachers, and house holders to send me a report of all contagious diseases at the earliest possible moment after diagnosis has been made, so they can be quaran tined promptly, thus preventing spreadi of contagionv- Wykxfflf't '' Measles, whooping cough, small pox, diphtheria, cerebro-spinal menin gitis, chicken-pox scarlet fever in fantile, paralysis and 'septic; , sore throat are required by the.Mjfwa'of North Carolina to be reported at once, and a prompt compliance with this law is necessary for, , the public good and will be strictl,y.do'tnpHed with by me as your Quaraimiif). Of ficer, -my' Very, respectfully, Jv.N. MQQRE. COURT NEXT WEEK Superior Court will convene in Marshall next week for the regular May term for criminal cases. It is expected that Judge T. L. Johnson of Lumberton, a native of, the Sandy Mush section, will preside. About 125 criminal cases are on docket, be sides one civil case set for Thurs daythat of Miss Stella Redtnon vs. Redmon heirs. PERSONAL LAWS During the. first two1 days of the present session of Congress 1,000 bills were introduced, in spite of the . aw w y " ' . .a I. ... .-jr. i - r-i-- r t I m 11 U , It almost takes a diplc To live from day tti In perfect peace and harmony " With folks across the way. When you are roused from At midniffht, by the tune The lonesome, yellow houseat wails ' Beneath the mellow moon.'- It takes a lot of sanity. And likewise, much .control, To curb the passions, that arouse Your troubled sleeping: souli And when next day the neighbor calls' To borrow rake or hie, It's mighty hard to welcome With open friendly smile; For, while he talks about the TVio rain nr this or that. l You re apt to irown ana mm f His howling, yellow cat. .... 1 1 1- Ah! t hen recall tnat you percnance Have raised his righteous ire, That you at times have seemed to him A rogue or falsifier. Then smile a frank and friendly smile Don't raise an ugly spat By talking of the sleep you ! Forgel the yellow cut. :THE PUBLISHER'S COLUMN : ABOUT VARIOUS MATTERS MAKING PROMISES AND NOT KEEPING THEM A few weeks ago we wrote a few words about people not taking care of their financial obligation, promiscuously going in debt lew or our reaaers tnougni we were Terernng oirecxiy -mr bwh as they happened to be a little in debt to The News-Record. Last week we wrote a few words about the importance of a liberal application of soap and iwater to the skin. If anybody has taken this to be a person al thrust, we have not heard of it. Of course our editorials are not intended for personal thrusts; otherwise we would make them altogeth er personal. It is our purpose in these matters to call attention to matters in general, anid if any of our readers happen to feel that they are hit, please do not think we had you in mind when the article was written; for this writer dislikes to offend people too much to take this method of doing so in a wholesale way. And what we have in mind now is not intended for any one person in particular, but in our past life we have met with quite a number of people who seem to make promises with no intention of fulfilling them. This fault is closely akin to assuming financial obligations with no intentions of paying. But there are many people who do not seem to think the latter so bad. Ask them if they will perform a certain act, if they will attend a certain meeting at a certain time and place, and they readily agree to do so. You go on your way expecting their promise to be remem bered and fulfilled only to find later that the one who promised could not be relied upon to do What he or she promised to do. The result is you are disappointed and sometimes the result is disastrous. If they would say, "No, I cannot do that," you would know what to depend upon. They seem to think it more courteous to agree and promise than to refuse to ido when asked. The purpose of this article is simply to say that you are under no obligation to promise, but when you have promlised, you are then under serious obligation to fulfil your promise. Learn to say "no" if you do not intend to do so. To say that a person is entirely dependable is a great compliment. Reliability, trustworthi ness are characteristics most desirable. Think it over! Do YOU ful fil your promises? THAT CLEVELAND DISASTER If all our readers were readers of daily papers, it would hard ly be worth while to mention the disaster which befell Cleveland, Ohio, the past week. A graphic description has been given of how more than a hundred, about 125, people at a hospital in Cleveland died al most suddenly from poisonous gas, which found its way through the buildSng from explosions below. The victims were not all helpless pa tients at a hospital, as might be supposed. One doctor and many well people were among the number who succumbed to the deadly poison. To inhale it was sufficient It was said that a cigarette may have been the cause of the whole affair. No one seems to know .the real cause, but if a cigarette could cause so much damage and distress, how careful smkers should be! APPLE SPECIALIST Mr. D. E. Messef of 31 Pack Ave., Asheville is doing fine in his work. A native of Marshall, he has been in terested in the growing of apple trees all his life. Mr. Messer has grown a fine variety of apples and is still ex perimenting in the improvement of orchards. He has set ' out '87 apple trees for Dr.. J. 1 0. Rice,' Route 3. They are of fruit bearing size and caused quite a lot of comment by the passers-by, questioning - their growth.. Nearly all seemed, doubtful if they would, live' but Mr. Messer was confident and; faithful and they are doing splendidly without the -loss pf one. Dr. .'Rice is so pleased and takes such pride in his orchard that he is contemplating on adding quite a number mere to this collection next rear. Mr. Messef" rraf ted the trees and we are hoping to have -some very fine fruit this jrear. : ".' . V Y: A fellow has to have a lot of mon ey these days to be loved for himself alone. The Pathfinder. - - dav ir UWM L U i' MM? -XmU deep repos , (. J him j snow, ! -1. 1 A .iwui FRANK JERVIS DEAD Former Madison Youth Killed la Automobile Accident 1 jkj mWM, w TW - Frank Jervis, 17-year-old son of Mrs. Cecil Jervis of Clyde, N. C died at the French Broad hospital in Asheville about nine -o'clock Wednes day morning following a fracture of the skull in an automobile accident on . the Asheville-Canton highway Tuesday. The parents of the youth lived in Marshall some seven; or eight years ago, Mr. Jervis being connect ed with the NEWS-RECORD at that time. In the last 7 or 8 years Mrs. Jervis has lost her father, her moth er, her brother, her husband,, and now. her son. ,Two sons, John and Robert survive. The deceased was taken to Clyde for funeral and in terment Thursday at three o'clock. ' ; Reporter I said In , my article that, the man "fell on his face and hurt it," and you 'took, out the last three words. H . - r City Editois-Yes, I know the nun. ",iv, The Pathfinder, FROM WHITE ROCK Mrtl' Hester Stanton left for Knox ville last week to spend some time with her daughter, Mrs. Johnson. Mr, Chapel Tweed left last Tues day fcuv.-St. Paul, Minn., to attend the General Assembly of the Presby terian church. IMr. Luther Tweed of Tennessee was here last Saturday attending the funeral of Mr. Jimison Tweed. Mr. Blaine Tweed of Norfolk, Va., and Mr. James Tweed of Akron, O hio, came in last week to be with their father. The Masons of the Chapel Hill Lodge will decorate the graves of the departed brothers next Sunday. The dental clinic held on Monday iwas well attended by children and adults of Laurel. Remember the tonsil clinic on Monday, May 27th, at the Laurel hospital. Quite a number of new autos have appeared ,on Laurel. Mr. Cary Wal lin has a new Chevrolet roadster, and Mr. Shady Franklin a new Ford truck. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Wallin of Bull Creek and Mrs. Burnett of Mars spent Saturday and Sundiay with iMWapdMrs. Cary Wallin. Rev. Mr. Everett of Pennsylva nia and Miss Jennie Morse of Rocky Fopk visited White Rock last week. A, car containing five or six young people ran off the highway at the narrow ' part above Mrs. Eason Tweed's last Saturday. The occu pants were treated at the Laurel hos pital fot; mlinor injuries. While it may have been carelessness on the part of the dlriver, still this section is quite dangerous and the Highway Commission should care for it, open ing a new road or widening the place. Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Tweed and family of Greeneville Tenn., visited Mrs. Jack Wallin last Sunday. The Committee for the Farmers Meet on June 3rd are busy striving to have an entertaining program for the meeting. Miss Myrtle Umldenstock expects" to return to White Rock from the Mission .hospital this week; Quite a number of the older alum ni of Dorland-Bell attended the com mencement exercises last week. MR. JIMISON S. TWEED "'ixxjj':'. ;,v'. V- Again death has visitejd the White Rock community and taken one of the oldest citizens from our midst. On Thursday, May 23rd, just as the sun was going down, there departed1 from this life Mr. Jimison S. Tweed. At the time of his death there were present in the room, his :ife and all the- Hvilijg children, seven sons and twef -'daughters, and his pastor. As his spirit passed to its eternal re ward all knelt in prayer for his soul and for the comfort of those who were left. Jimison S. Tweed was born Oct. 19th, 1845, and was, therefore, eighty-three years six months and 26 days of age, having passed beyond the four score years of which the Sacred Book speaks. Mr. Tweed lived all his life at White Rock his father having taken top and cleared the land on which he lived until his idieath. ' At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Union Army, having gone on foot to Ken tucky for enlistment and spending the timle of service in Kentucky, Ten nessee, and states of the South. In these latter years of life, it was his joy to live over again the adventures and hardships of this service. He was a true lover of the flag and his country.. He loved also to tell of his first vote at less than the legal age because of his physical develop ment and his service. He had al ways" from that first vote, cast his ballot for the Republican Party. Even to the last, his love for the flag was uppermost in his heart, for he asked that his casket be covered with the flag .and that as he would be lowered jnfx, the grave, it be folded back and-9tfie allowed to touch the dust, heahe returned from the army he married Miss Mollie Chand ley and of the union eight sons and three.. (daughters were born, of which seven sons and two daughters sur vive. He is survived by two broth ers and the widow, also. At the fu neral all these except one brother residing, jn Kentucky were present Mr... Tweed -was a member of the White . Rock Lodge of Masons for forty 'years anjd the members of the Lodge were present at the f tlneral. Mr. Tweed for a time was U. S. Guager and. was an esquire and U. S. postmaster' at White Rock for many years 'until disability forced him to retire. ' . .In his .earlier years Mr. Tweed joined tne. Free Will Baptist church . and whenuthis church ceased to have serviceq, at White Rock, joined the Presbyterian church and was an active and, sealous member of that church aiding in every. , way the work , the church. He. was quite liberal in gifts, having donated the land ' for the church building and part of the land for the Laurel Hos pital ' During the latter part of his life hV Jived -more and mere in his Bible amd the eternal truths, versed in the sacred truths and "always "anx ious to knotw. of the spiritual welfare of those who came to visit him. One of his . last requests was that his funeral might be at the church build ing, and from: there the last tribute was paid himiaaAhls life. As the. casket left the house, it was preceded by his grand daughters and great grand daughters bearing- the floral tributes of friends, amd it was car ried into the church between lines of flowers, and as the casket was carried in it was to the music of "Crossing the Bar" and scripture. His old favorite songs, "Nearer My God to Thee", "How Firm a Foun dation", anrfi "Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown" were sung. Dr. Jesse Moore, Pastor of the Greeneville, Tenn., Presbyterian church spoke of his loyalty to the flag. Dr. Knox, of his hope in Jesus Christ, and his pastor, of his life. Prayers were offered by his friend, Mr. Lowry Cutshall and by Rev. Mr. Smith of the Marshall Baptist church. A large crowd was present, taxing the capacity of church house and lawn. After the service the body was carried to the cemetery on the hill top where the commitment service was held and there we left him until the day when Christ shall call the dead from their graves. The funeral was attended by a large number of people from Madi son and surrounding counties. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all for their kind sympathy and friendship shown us in our late bereavement. Our hearts go out in 'gratitude to the ministers, the choir, the pallbearers and the multitude of friends who by their flowers and presence helped to as suage our grief and comfort our hearts in the death of our husband and father. Mrs. Jimison S. Tweed and Family. ASTRONOMY The stellar system, astronomers tell us, in that vast extent of stars, or nebula, extending out into space in all directions from the earth. The farther we go out into space the more numerous, wonderful, and baf fling they become. The powerful tele scopes at the observatories reveal millions of them that cannot be seen by the natural eye. The size of the stars, they tell us, is enormous, many times larger than the earth. It is estimated that some oi them are Jso large that if the sua , were placM the iefttei1 pf oheof " 1 them, the orbit of the earth Which 1b ninety-three million miles from the sun, would still be inside that star. Most of the stars, it is estimated, are larger than our earth. The substance of which the stars are made or composed, including the sun, which is also a star, is a hot, gaseous, molten mass; much as if we take iron ore, and other materials of which the earth is composed, and heat them to a very hot degree, until they become a melted mass. Tis, it is calculated, is the state of the stars, neither a liquid or a solid. In this can be seen a cause for the light and heat which they give out. One esti mates that the sun's temperature is ten-thousand degrees on its surface to millions of degrees in its center. The distance of the stars is also very great, almost inconceivable. It is so great that the ordinary unit of measurement (miles) is far too small, so astronomers use the light year as a unit. Light travels over 186,000 miles a second, and a light year is the distance it will travel in a year; which is almost six trillion miles. Our nearest star, excluding our sun, is four and one-half light years, and some of them are hun dreds of light-years away. Sjfcm f them are so far away that 186,000, 0000 miles, the diameter of the earth's orbit, is far too short to use as the base of a triangle to estimate the distance of the stars correctly. The other two lines are so near para lell that they run together. Coming down a few billions of miles through space, let us stop off at the sun, the center around which the planets revolve. Just imagine the earth, our planet, traveling on its orbit around the sun, at the rate of A eighteen and one-half miles a second, completing the circuit once each year. It also revolves on its axis, brinding the side we are on alternately toward the sun and away from it every 24 hours. At the same time the moon travels around the earth about every thirty days. The size of the sun, as compared with the earth, they say is so large that 109 globes the size of the earth, placed edge to edge, would only reach across the face of the sun. A railroad train that would take thirty days to circle the earth would take :, eight years to go around the 1 sun. That looks reasonable, my ' friend said, since it looks so large, and it is v so far away! Standing on the un, now suppose we shoot, a cannon ball." at the earth, (note the 'speed of light, sound, and a cannon ball). In eight -minutes the light, would -reach the .- earth, nine years later the. cannon t s ball. would strike the earth. (provided.-. our marksmanship was good), four teen years after the shot was fired - -the, sound might be heard , on the-, earth. An Infant reaching up and touching the sun. would , never feel the .pain as it would .die of old age before the nerves could record the , pain. The whole solar system, estron- . omers tell us, move along -through space, and the system is very small . compared .with the vast, yet unboun ded, universe of ,trst .- -. tW ILL. 12 TVCCw. ' f 'f I ' If H i