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stiff:. f t '.f i -. - -5 !. Hlfi NLWS-RTCOD '- PRICE A YEAR . f 1 MADISON COUNTY RECORD, Established June 28, 1901. FRENCH BROAD NEWS Established May 16, 1907. Consolidated November 2, 1911 :Th PROGRESSIVE : farmer 1 1 n n ?.25 LJ IfJ THE NEWS-RECORD 1 BOTH A YEAR FOR THE ONLY NEWSPAf ERPUfaLlED IN MADISON COUNTY VOL. XXI MARSHALL, N. C.RlbAYf SEPTEMBER 20, 1929 ; 8 Pages This Week 1500 DOGGETT GAP ROAD f TO CONTINUE Large Deleaation Miiti Count Board To Male Arrangements For Loan Quite a large delegation of citizens ; Of the Spring Creek section and San ' : dy Mush section together with mem bers of the State Highway Commis : lion and some Hot Springs citizens went before the Madison - County Commissioners Monday -to try to make some arrangements wherebv the j-- work might continue on the Doggett 'TrvGap road. The matter was discussed E.V. PLACE ON THE TOT OF THE WORLD with the result that the motion was made that $15000 of the money now due the County by the State will be used in the construction of the road from Trust to the top of the, moun tain. The entire road across the mountain is now being maintained by . the State and they figure that if the west side of the mountain is put in good condition that sooner or later the other aide will be improved and through this., gap the fanners of Spring Creek will have a shorter route to carry their produce to mar ket The road from the Sandy Mush .. Jection to Marshall has already been greatly improved and work is being done on "each side of the mountain. The Hot Springs-Spring Creek Road Commission propose to contribute ? 13000.00 of the funds now due them rom the county, according to re cent auditing of the county books. The motion as passed by the com missioners Monday reads as follows: NORTH CAiROLINA, MADISON COUNTY. Special Meeting, Board of Commis sioners of Madison County, held in the Courthouse at Marshall, Septem ber 16, 1929, 9:30 A. M. Present at said meeting, C. J. Wild, Chairman; J. F. Ammons and T. A. Silver, Mem bers. The following resolution was offered by J. F. Ammons and second ed by T. A. Silver, which was unani mously adopted by the said Board: WHEREAS, the State Highway Commission is now due the County of Madison $145,800, money loaned by Madison County to the State Highway Commission for highway purposes in ip WHEREAS,1 the'ta Commission is now ai wont, on tem porary No. 218, being the Highway ipiuttnir from the Snrinff Creek High way across Doggett Mountain to the Forks of Sandy Mush, and WHEREAS, the State has not suf ficient funds on hand to finish the said road, and WHEREAS, the Hot Springs Spring Creek Road District proposes to turn over to the State Highway $13,000, to.be spent by, xthe State Highway Commission on said road if the County of Madison will furnish the State Highway $16,000 to be spent on said road. BE IT NOW THEREFORE RE SOLVED that the payment of $15, 000 of the $145,800 which the State is due the-County of Madison, bbe ex tended until such' time as the remain der of the said $145,800 may be ful ly paid by the State to the County of Madison, and that the said $16,000 shall be the last payment made on the said $145,800.00, and that the said $15,000 shall be used by the Sfntn HiVhwav Commission on the Temporary No. 218, provided that the construction of said State Highway said Hot Springs-Spring Creek Read District shall appropriate the,, said $13,000 to be expended on the said road in conjunction with the $15,000 aforesaid furnished by the County of It is understood by this resolution that the State shall ultimately refund to the County of Madison the said $15,000, which shall be a payment by ,the State on the said $145,800. iNORTH CAROLINA, JtMADISON COUNTY. s I, J. Will KODercs, negiBMJr ui In hir-tounds the publisher of this paper ran up to the high home of Mr, E. V. Merrell's near Alexander re cently. Mr. and Mrs. Merrell live literally on'tnV'to- of ' the world, for from their home "can be seen the high buildings in Ashe vifley 'though the distance must be some ten1 Or twelve miles. Not only can one see long ways in the direction of Ashe ville, but from that point, the distant mountains may be seen in every' di rection. - That is one place where you do not see mountains near you that look higher than where you are. And the distant scenes are not all that at tract one's attention. These two en ergetic and enterpising young peo ple have planted a vineyard and or chard and garden and farm. Hjs tract is about 35 acres but they have shown fvhat e small piece of ground can produce. The vineyard contains three or four different varieties ojf grapes and itself covers acres. Hor many bushels of grapes they have sold this year could hot be made known, for they were still selling, hand the prospects were that they would sell many, many bushels more. They have apple trees, peach trees, pear trees, and on toe farm almost everything growable (is this a good word, Mr. Brintnall?) on a Western North Carolina farm, such as corn, potatoes, watermelons, strawberries, beans and so forth, even peanut the first we had seen growing in the mountains. They had sold a good crop of peaches from their young trees, though peach .crops in the mountains this yearlepoor, hardly any. They ear tney are bdovo ine frost line, which texplains'' why th; had peaches this year when othi ra flteff fcv 6ld They have 1bTea4 ty of visitors, and no, wonder, lor )vn a great place to go. " - . ;.--ft: T;v .w.-ijc Si' ,rp '.""' '.' ' '"-.'.:-"''-".-:v"i''t j - I ; i WkMh i milk A MM j,tj4 iiitertfak WMMB mk. II :m I.T.: .... MISS IRMA HENDERSON LEAVES F 0R COLLEGE Miss Irma Henderson, of Route 4, Asheville, N. C, will leave for New Orleans on Thursday of this weefe, where she will enter the medical coir lege of Tulane University to begin work toward an M. D.degree. - She returned only recently from Carolina Beach, Wilmington, N. C, where she has been the guest of one of her school friends since the close of the University of North Carolina. Miss Henderson completed work for her B. S. degree at the University this summer. She will return home for the Christmas holidays, when she will make the trip by airplane. "WHOOZTf IN MADISON" JUDG.E PENDER A.TWeELROY (In .Vo W Mora Chapters) The ribbon4ik!r6ad wandered through th ' wood; ; The motor Was, humming beneath the hood. She laughed as me flew through the evening air .'t, That played hldi arid seek in her golden hair. 1 knew that hetf love was all mine and true; I read the old jtaM jn her eyes so blue. She nestled v$ erose as we sped along I sang in thevilfehtan old love song. I parked in thi dark by an old oak tree Alone with my daughter, just half past three. The reason we parked there's no secret in that'- i:V fir; I felt the bumj)wmp of a tire gone flat -. i j poorljr concealed the barbs of satire, remember .that we have feelings .of our gwn nd that we naturally resent neglett by our neighbors. - For the, present we, will leave the Judge: comfortably seated alone on his own porcn, tnorqugniy -absor eortt a rUn the a paradox in the life of our. subject: We will show that he was elevated from the Front Porch Rocker to the Judicial Bench, Without Motion on His Parti x Congressman Pritchard Speaks To Class At the invitation of Miss Clemmie .Casey, principal-;, of the Teachers' (Training Department of Madison .County Schools, Hon. Geo. M. Pritch jard honored the class with a visit 'this morning (Friday) and made a short but appropriate talk to teacher and class. The Class is composed of sixteen students, fifteen young ladies, and one young- orentleman. Mr. I Pritchard impressed these students (with the importance of thorough prep aration for teachers' work. He point ed out to them'' the unlimited possi bilities for good in the teacher's pro fession. He also emphasized to the iclass that they are to be makers of (personality and. character, and that jin a large sense" they will shape the lives of their future pupils. Mr. Pritchard stressed the admitted net ,in our Stateaf.Jrjnging the advan tages of higher education within the jTeacn oi every student who shows the jambition to achieve a superior edu cation. I Mr. Pritchard was introduced by the clasa by S. "T. Ranger. Super intendent Blankenship was present 'and thanked Mr. Pritchard for his in terest in the work and urged him to visii otner Madison schools and to end his influence toward holding to. a. high standard of school work. L. D. EDWARDS DEAD Mar Hill Resident Succnmk.il Injuries Received In Wreck To BAD BREAKS Things are breaking at Newport. The Optimist reDorts a brnkp larbone, a broken arm and a broken Mr. L. D. Edwards, of Mars Hill, who was fatally injured in an auto mobile wreck Monday of last week, '.vhile on his way with his wife from Mars Hill to Ashpvillp Hiarl t tVio Aston Park hospital in Asheville Fri day of last week about 6:00 in the morning. funeral services were from the Mars Hill Baptist church last Satur day afternoon, conducted by his pas tor, Rev. J. R. Owen, assisted by Rev. H. L. Smith, of Marshall. Dr. R. L. Moore spoke of some of the connec tions and influences and works of the deceased as they affected the church. the college, and the community. Rev. Mr. Owens read from the familv Bi ble of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards' poems inserted in the book and marked spec ial verses which gave an insight into the Christian character. After his ic'eath, many beneficent acts were brought to' light which had not been known before. Rev. Mr. Owens spoke of the work he had done as a mem ber of the church and the work he was planning to do. The floral trib utes were numerous and exquisite. A large wreath made in the shape of a cross and sent by McClung & Co., of Knoxville, for whom Mr. Mar ion Edwards travels, arrived Monday after the funeral. The funeral was attended by an immense throng more than could be his w ;j riiimV. "S" f" seated in the large church u Lino news urune in tne nw n j . , , Bimst t.. i.... i.:" Mr. Edwards is survived by pened to football players; the other T Th-n s.erio"sly injred and Tft a man whn nma -nL.;MM u; t- - wvw 'cranking an old Ford, The cranks are not all dead yet but Henry is re placing them at the rate of over 6000 a day. The outlook in football is not so hopeful. The Newport Ontimist is a britrht looking, progressive sheet, but when it comes to end-line hvnhenation: thpv take liberties: which we would not ', s v i nut .me oeai usage ff JAIL IS NOT NEEDED ; ' IN NEpRO COMMUNITY Hhe city jail at Mound- Bayou, Miss., - & community inhabited and governed entirely by negroes. is to be demolished because it is no longer heeded.. -' Mayo? a. A. Green announced re cently that there has not. been a pris oner in the jail for two years and that the community has not been the scene of a murder in four years. Mound .-.Bayou was established for negroes by--the late Isaiah T. Mont gomery, nearly half a century ago, 'and has a pppulation in excess of 800. An office building will replace the jail. SCHOOL BOOKS TO BE SAME 1,; - rtopH and ex-officio Clerk to the Board tf Commissioners' of Madison County, do hereby .certify that the foregoing resolutionwas duly adopt ed by the Board of Commissioners f .JMadison County at the time and place therein indicated and that the full Board, including the Chairman, Voted for said resolution. Given under my hand and official - seal, this, the 16th day of September, 1929 J. 'WILL ROBERTS, Register of Deeds and ex-officio Clerk to Board of Commissioners, Madison County, N. C. . . . .v ;., ,- ... .v . HOME DEE AGENT'S COLUMN The enrollment of the girls 4-H Clubs is increasing as school has be gun. The girls are planning a full year's work and are anxious -to do t some real work this year. -They have i a thorough knowledge of the work and are taking advantage of their op portunity." - - " . SCHEDULE FOR NEXT WEEK . Monday 10:80 Enon girls. ' 2 00 -Enon women." Tuesday 8:30 Center girls. ; 10:45 Walnut girhv 2:00 4ioneer women. . " Wednesday 10 '.30 Big Laurel girls -1:80 Big Laurel women.' Thursday 10 :30 Hot Spgs. girls. x. i. . - 2:30 Big Pine women. r Ndar 10:30 Whit Rock girls.. 1 :Ul Aliengiana women. 1 Raleigh, Sept. 16. No change will be made in the textbooks us ed in the public schools of the State during the school year 1930 -1931, as a result of the action of the State Textbook Commission at a meeting held in Raleigh last week. :. The Commission, in notifying the State Board of Education of its decision to make no change, stated that "it was the sense of all members present that they would prefer not to make any report on suggested changes now in use in the elementary schools of the State for the year 1929". The State JBorad of Education, at a meeting held on September 10, approved the action of the Text book Commission and passed a resolution ' commending the mem bers for their attitude in this matter. , . . The action- of the ' Textbook body means, of course, that since they will make no report this fall, no acoption iwm pe maae in ue cember of this year, and conse quently there will be no change in textbooks the following school year, 1930-31. The State Textbook Commis sion is composed of the following members: A. . Alters, superin tendent of Schools, Halifax Coun ty, Chairman, Roanoke Rapids; Miss Rth Gunter, Supervisor Lee County, Secretary, Sanford; Miss Ethel McNairy, Supervisor States villa - Schools, Statesville; - Miss Anne. Holford, Supervisor Wake County Schools, Raleigh; Benja min L Smith, Superintendent Shelby Schools, ..Shelby ; R. G. Fitzgerald, Superintendent Pitt County Schools, Greenville; and j Chester C. Haworth, Superinten dent Burlington Schools, Burling ton. r : , .: . ' The above is said to be a very fair likeness of Pender Augustus ."McElroy as he appeared in his student days, j Dr. Frank Roberts and others who knew the Judge in his youthf ul period ' say that he was a decidedly prepos- i sessing young man, -which is clearly I denicted in the above sketch. About 1 the time this picture was made young Pender conceived the controlling thought of his career: It came to him as. an inspiration that a man oi am bition can pass safely and comfort ably through this world without phy sical effort, by making the best use of his wits: He resolved to become a lawyer. Widely speaking, men may be grouped into two classes, Producers and no,n-Pjroducersl In the latte'i' category we find Lawyers and Judges. Now and then we discover a lawyer, like Mashburn and Roberts, men who are producers in a secondary sense. These men are both lawyers and ag riculturists, but this is exceptional. Lawyers erenerally are strictly non- producers. The subject of this sketch Droduced nothing before he EDUCATION FOR THE FARM BOY nounced root orirowt. If we should a t . it i i.i . . k ... amir a ulCK .luce mat in this morn cultured community, our hiarh school readers would treat it in merry derision. Dick Edwards of Newport savs three auto salesmen called on him in one day. Nothme to Duff un over. We had twice as many calls from young . lady teachers, in one after noon. ' These vountr ladies know where to" obtain the cardboard re quired in their work. Call again. "Does the razor take hold well?" inquired the barber as he cut away on the bleeding cheek of his suffering victim. "Yes." groaned the martvr. "it take hold first, rate, but it don't let go worth a cent." The Pathfinder. daughters of the deceased are as fol lows: Mr. Ferrell, who is in business in Asheville; Miss Irene, a teacher in the city schools of Asheville; Miss Ruby, a teacher in the Marshall pub lic school; Mr. Herren, the youngest son, who is at home at Mars Hill at tending college. Mr. Edwards is survived by 'two brotherV lld. JWur-ssistera. a -Wlowit " M w . G'. , D. ' Edwards and -W.-Marlon'1 The importance of education for the boy on the farm is discussed by Dr. Carl 'C. Taylor, the noted rural sociologist of North Carolina State College, in the September 15, 1929, issue of The Southern Planter. Dr. Taylor states that the first es sential to an education is the love of learning; the second, an objective or ideal toward which one may direct his increase in knowledge; and third, an opportunity to get an education. From what Dr. Taylor states in i ne Southern Planter article, the farm people are short on education. "Out of a total budget of $1,551 for the average Southern farm family, only $46 is spent per year on formal schooling and $8.20 on reading ma terial," or 3.5 of the total budget. schools SEX APPEAL LOSES T)r Tavlor suco-psts that was made a iudee and since 'that time t nnlv tonnh the thinra that will he has produced nothing more sub- ;heip people to make money but teach stantial than, opinions. We have not the pUpil to love and appreciate the had time to examine thoroughly these advantages of the country. Eight opinions hflt we understand they are months school terms are suggested sound in the main and are . usually complimented by the Supreme Court. Like John Marshall and am How ard Taft, Judge Pender's life has been highly sedentary.' As a lawyer he preferred sitting to standing, or to any active exertion. This easily became a life habit. He sits, on the judicial bench and when at home on vacation or parole, he- - sits ' on ' the front porch. , r ; The Judee is possibly a modest, diffident ' man and -we may do hhn wrong in accounting him as 'a' man not guren to hospitality.1 Thwrlter has known him in a way for a good manv vears: we have often een' him sitting, solo on his front porch, sur- rounaea oy oiaer unoccupieu chairs. ..Yet up to now we have nev er been" invitecf to share the shelter nf tha norch. - Beinar somewhat sensi tive to slight, we may not succeed in our aim of sketching the Judge's life a accnratelv as rood . Journalism would demand. If you readers should detect in later chapters mat we nave for children, greater attendance at the night schools of the Smith-Hughes high schools by the older people, and more reading in the farm home.. Dr. Taylor concludes by saying, "T.pflrnino" is a satisfaction in and of itseTf and it is a tool by means of which all other satisfactions of life are enhanced. Furthermore, it is the thing which is essential to a high standard of living no matter what else one may possess." MARSHALL P. T. A. ELECTS OFFICERS The Marshall Parent-Teacher As sociation, met last Tuesday afternoon and elected as president, Mrs. Wil lard C. Rector, as vice-president, Mrs. u..m1 Rantn s mutt aa- acratar-W - I Mrs." Jack Ramsey, As treasurer, Mrs 1 J. C. Sprinkle. ' ;- ; (Greensboro News) Mrs. Flossie Shelton, of Marsh all, the allegedly attractive young bride of a few weeks who says the tatai gunshot wound she inflicted on her husband was an accident, has appealed from a sentence of from three to five years imposed following her conviction of mur der in the second. degree. A majority. Opinion would prob ably have it that the accident oc curred whri a1' ' passably good looking young woman has been held responsible by a North Caro lina jury for anything she may have done to a mere husband, but it seems that' there was evidence tending to show that Flossie had talked beforehand of her willing ness to provide-her -spouse with his passport for --heaven. Even a j jury can not be expected to ap prove of an accident that so par took of the fulfilment of proph ecy. The threertawfireears sentence however, indicated a, belief on the part of the judge in at least con tributory negligence of Shelton. It is difficult for any normal per son to become exeraised over what happened to a' man who for one reason or another brings a young and pretty .'bride to the point of wishing him dead. ' But the finding of the jury en courages the hope that there is returning, to the .good men and true who determine facts iff our administration ofjustice a sense of values. Just because a man is a rather undesirable citisen is not sufficient reason to grant his wife the right to exterminate him. The Shelton ease, whether Mrs. Flossie wins or loses her appeal, has in it something of encouragement, to those who realize that for once sex appeal seems to have lost a hout.with justice.; ,; " T " " County; and Mrs. Sam Lippard, of t . r . i tt m -11 iNewxon, iM. o., -ana m.ia..x. xerreu, of Ronceverte, W. Va. Mr. Edwards, who belonged to one of the old families of the vicinity of Mars Hill, was one of the most active and public-spirited citizens of Madi son county, and his loss will be sore ly felt in his community and else where. Mr. Edwards, who was 53 years old, was a student at Mars Hill college 1897-1898 and later at Wake Forest college. After leavine colleee. he taught for several years in the schools of Madi son county. He was for several years a member of the board of trustees of Mars Hill college, for ten years serv ing: as secretary of that body. For over thirty years he was an active member of the Mars Hill Baptist church, serving in various capacities, as department superintendent of the Sunday School and as general super intendent, and as chairman of the board of deacons. Until the time of his death he was successfully engaged in life insurance business and in at tending his personal estate. LITTLEJOURNEYS A wandering member of the News- Record staff crossed the bridge at Barnard one dav this week and kept right on up stream until he arrived at Lower Big Pine school, where he met Mr. J. C. Gregory, principal of that school. Mr. Gregory is a delightful gentleman and it is evident that he is much in earnest in his work. There are 78 pupils enrolled; Mr. Gregory has two assistants in this work. The student body makes a good appear anpp and we nredict that some fine looking young women will some aay own that they were enrolled in this school in the year 1929. Some of the lower grade boys are naturally in clined to love of fun and mischief, a lwholesometendenicy. One of these boys followed the writer down to the branch and finally said, "Who are you anyhow?" We did not give our cor rect name but laughed it off. Some day when he reaches American Man of Letters in the High School c-- ?se he will know who we are. After leaving the school e sta-ted up stream again, in quest of a -".ce to turn our car. We nad to go a'-nui a mile to find a turn-around. The , Lower Big Pine School seems badlv to need, a bridge over the creek, w:ich f would permit visitors to cross ' the stream' and turn .there. , They need . . other things, ,oo,t no doubt We . . hope . ourt; Commissioners-' can nna money to make the bridge and to paint the building. Bridges are an. essential link in , communications and paint is educational In effect. ' Dovnot lose, sight -of the needs of these Creekers. They "are just as good as we are.- . n t