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'- .1 i , THE NEWS-RECORD (9 f)( J PRICE A YEAR .UU 11 ir II MADISON COUNTY RECORD f II Established June 28, 1901. jj ." FRENCH BROAD NEWS Established May 16, 1907. Consolidate Novambar 2, 1911 i I .n:r 11 . In. I- The PROGRESSIVE FARMER; t THE NEWS-RECORD $225 BOTH A YEAR FOR ' . - ,'J' v. -v;.: ". U Et .. I;''- THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY VOL. XXI MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929 8 Pag. This Week 1450 GREAT SUCCESS BIG' CROWD, GOOD DINNER, , r FINE SPEECHES The get-together meeting Tuesday at the new Farmers Warehouse was quite a success. While there were not as many people as desired, there were as many as could well be ac commodated without crowding. Pres ent were lawyers, doctors, educators, nisters, State workers, as well as armers. There were enougn women ent to attend to the tables and feed the men. It was reported be forehand that the dinner would be on fertiliser, meaning that the tables would rest on bags of fertilizer; out the tables Were made of nice clean lumber furnished by the Coal Feed 'and Lumber Co., and both tables and -seats were founded- on feed. With so much well prepared food resting on 'feed and the people resting on - feed, there was no excuse for any- IiaHv tn trn nwnv hiinorv. - .Sheriff Ramsey was master of cere monies and did the job well. Speech es were made by Mr. John Bryan, Guy Roberts, Wm. S. Rice. Dr. R. L. Moore, Dr. English, Mrs. Sarah Por ter' Ellis, Commissioner C. J. Wild, Mr. C. F. Parriab, Extension Poultry Specialist, and Mrs. Crawford Bryan. All the speeches were good. The crowd was entertained before and af ter and all in between with music by the String Band, composed of Messrs. Dick Murray, Jake Holcombe, Clyde Holcombe, and Carl Hamlin of Cali fornia Creek, and by the Upper Lau rel quartette composed of R. B. Stockton, Zade Ramsey, Hershell Portia, and Mr. Ponder. Mr. Ben Frisby gave some of his tricks of Magic and later a perform ance in ventriloquism. As usual, his performances were especially inter esting. The entire meting was both pleasant and profitable, and as Mrs, tJrawford Bryan said in her speech. such meetings tend to create better feelings between the country and the Town. SELECTION AT HOT SPRINGS CALLED OFF NORTH CAROLINA, MADISON COUNTY. TO THE VOTERS OF HOT SPRINGS: For reasons deemed by the Board of "Aldermen of the Town of Hot Springs, N. C. to be sufficient for this order, the election heretofore called to ascertain the will of the voters as to. the issuing of bonds for the pur chase of a public park and civic cen ter, will not be held and is called off and' cancelled. This is notice to all -voters that said election will not be held as advertised. This December 11th, 1929. Board of Aldermen of Hot Springs, By DENNIS C. CHURCH, Mayor. Idccu ri fun uinu ' ' ' MfcfaVt JM,llA : SCHOOL PLAY ."Mammy's Lil' Wild Rose" to be presented at the Beech . Glemv High School auditorium . Saturday night, December 14, 1929, at 7:80 o'clock by the 9th Grade. - The entire action .of the play takes jttac in the Cabin dooryard of Uncle Joe and Mammy Celie in the mountains of Virginia. TIME The Present. ' V . Act" L The Cabin dooryard of Un cle Joe and Mammy Celie in the mountains of Virginia. An af ternoon in early summer, Act II. s The same scene. , The open ing day of the fair. An after noon a month later than Act I. Act.. Ill, The same scene. Fourteen months later than Act II.' , CAST OF CHARACTERS: Daniel French, from the city . Mack Robinson Lester Van, Daniel's v Chum! ; Burgen Deaver Wade Carver, an unwelcome ? suitor . Hobert Jervis Orpheus Jackson, a native f ' J Romeo . Eslie Doane Old Joe 'Dat's A ' Fac' " .Blalce Bflgmon Rose O'May, Mammy's Lil' Wild Rose .Madeline Young Hester O'May, Rose's Maiden Aunt jEthel Robinson Mammy Celie, A Black -Treasure ...Elizabeth Sawyer Peggy 'French, Daniel's, sis ter Pauline Maney Letty Van, Peggy's Chum Johnie Hensley Balie Joan, A Mountain Charmer Lula Younge Mrs. Courtvane, a lonely woman Lessie Ramsey Everyone is invited to attend this play. We feel sure you will not re gret it. For the benefit of the school. READERS AND DE CLARERS CONTEST Well Well If It Isn't Jolly pi Santa Himself) STv-;- i-: ' it mkA i QUARTERLY CONFERENCE ,IN MARSHALL The first Quarterly Conference of the Methodist' church will be held Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 7:30 P. M., at . Mnrahftll MpthnHIaf ilinn)i s' jiStpre will be preaching by the pre- siaing j,iaer,'ur. u. m. L.i taker, of Asheville. The public is cordially invited. AT MARS HILL COLLEGE DECEMBER 13-14 LsfrZ&ia4uiM i'l ii f 1 1 m'h mi i.--: The fourth annual Western North Carolina Headers and Declaimers contest will be held1 at Mars Hill College December 13-14. The con test is open to the high schools of twenty western North Carolina coun ties and is held annually under the auspices of Mars Hill College. According to Professor R. M. Lee. director of the meet, the entrants registered thus far-indicate that the contestants this year will come from a wider territory than usual. Last year both the readers' and the declaimers' cups were won by Lees McRae Institute. If either of the cups is won again this year it will be come the permanent property of that school. Thus far no school has won either cup twice in succession. In 1927 Asheville High School won the readers' cup and Mara Hill High School won the declaimers'. In 1926 Rutherford-Spindale won the readers' cup and Fruitland Institute won the And what do vou suDDOse he's srot on j his mind judging from the way he's shaking that finger of his? Listen and we'll tell you. He said to give his best regards to all you boys and girls in Madison County and then jith a shake of his finger he tola us to be sure and remind you that if you all "stay on your best be havior! from now 'till Christmas," he's going to load up your stockings with the most exciting gifts in his pack! And, believe us, he brought plenty with him. We saw them! THINGS YOU DONT LIKE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU LIKE " T wife."!-- - - .- His Histenirs laugh again, but less neamjy, a. 1. No contestant may be under thir teen nor over twenty-one years of age. 2. Each speaker shall have at his or her disposal not more than eight min utes. 3. Preliminaries for the contest will be held Friday, December 13, be tween 2 P. M. and 5 P. M. when the five best declaimers and the five best readers will be selected for the final contest. 4. The final contest will be held in the college auditorium , Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock, December 14 6. Each high school is entitled to send one boy and one girl to compete in the preliminaries. 6. , The . name of each contestant, the subject of the declamation and of hte reading, and a certificate from the principal of the school, statina- the ages and that the representatives are Dona nde students, together with a copy of the readme and the decla mation. Khali he filpH with ha enm. iaib tuAWiitu run MT1MU m ttee bv noon of December 10. - WITH MRS. J. N. WEST 17. Free entertainment 'will ha nrn. Sc."'"'- , , i , , vided for the two contestants repre The Womans' Club, at first schedul-, senting each school, and for the prin- eu to oieei iicm wiin airs. ui nesi; eipal or Ctiaperone. luesday, Dec 17, has been changed ' 8 All Contestants will be expected , to meet Monday, Dec. 16, at 7:00 o'- to reach Mars Hill by one o'clock De- cioca r. ra. - au uuarsnau women.; cember 13. 'especUHy should Uke notice of this 9. Awards: To the school winning cnange ana prepare to attena tnis;each contest, a silver loving cup will declaimers'. The rules governing the contest number of others are as follows: .conversation with Tom. I've been on By CARL COERCH In The New and Observer We were talking about a certain mahwho lives in Greenville, - "I don't like him," remarked Tom. "I never have had any use for him and I don't care who knows it." "What's the matter with him?" I asked. "I just naturally don't like him." "But what have you got against him?" I insisted. After a while, Tom gave me his reasons. He didn't like this particu lar citizen of Greenville because the latter began every sentence with the word: "And-uh ." I asked a few more Questions but Tom couldn't find another specific cause for his dislike. "He just naturally gets on my nerves, was his explanation. The man under discussion is a prominent business man of Green ville. I've known him for ten or fif teen years. He is a public spirited citizen and a fine fellow in every sense of the word, but because of one trivial pecularity on his part, he has incurred , the personal prejudice of at least one man, and probably a Ever since that WOMAN'S CLUB DECEMBER 16 the look-out for that "and-uh" when talking to the Greenville man, and to be perfectly frank, it's beginning to get on my nerves, too. I keep listen ing for it, and it makes me nervous. Funny how little habits like that will influence us in our likes and dis likes. I know a man who often makes a talk at public gatherings. He is a A polite murmur of laughter. "No lady at all," I tells him. "Not a lady my wife." A chuckle or two, followed by the hurried dispersal of the audience. It's bad enough to have to laugh once at some jokes, but when you're sup posed to laugh half a dozen times, that's carrying a good thing too far. There s a certain lady who aggra vates me every time I see her smok ing a cigarette. Personally I'm not especially prejudiced against cisrar- ette smoking among ladies, providing that they smoke because they enjoy smoking. I happen to know that this particular lady cares nothing about cigarettes. When she is with a crowd of intimate friends, she passes up the smokes with a wave of her hand. But let two or three strangers be present, and she immediately calls for a cigarette. She puffs away at it, flecks the ashes expertly on the rug and otherwise endeavors to give the impression that she is a very so phisticated, world-wise, devil-may care sort of a person. Oh, yes, in deed! I believe it is that attitude 'which causes most of the prejudice a gainst women smoking. It is so man ifestly a case of show-off. j There s a certain man in Washing ton who is as fine a fellow as you want to meet but who irritates his friends every time he comes in con- I tact , with them. He can't keep his the home of her friends on freauent Occasions; never with the intention of spending any time, but always in the biggest kind of a hurry. "I just (topped to see how you Were getting along," she'll tell you at you open the front door. "Won't you step inside?" "No, indeed," she protests. "I really can't, because I'm in the big gest kind of a hurry. I'll just stand here in the hall for a second or two. How is Mrs. Oopla, is she still sick in bed? I believe I will sit down for a minute, but I won't both er to take off my coat, because I really must hurry home. . . . Is.it true that the Walkers are going to leave here and move to Kinston? . . .-Well, if you insist, I reckon I might just as well remove my coat, but don't bother to take it: I'll keep it right here in my lap. I can't stay but a minute, you know. . . . Wasn't is too bad about poor Mr. Oppentat ter! I declare, I feel so sorry for his wife ..." And so it goes on. She never goes anywhere with the intention of stay ing more than a second or two, but usually .she stays an hour or two. She is' one' of these excitable, breath less sort of individuals and after she leaves, you always feel as though you've been through a cyclone or something. Slang is a great thing and most of us use a number of slang expressions during the course of the day. But there is such a thing as overdoing it. Every few months some new catch phrase makes its appearance who usually latches onto these expres sions. Last year, w'hen the ejacula tion, "Well, for crying out loud!" came into vogue, she just literally wore it to a frazzle. You couldn't say anything to her that she wouldn't come back with, "Well, for crying out loud! "Hello, Mary, where have you been?" JJ "Well, for crying- out loud! I've been right here." "I thought perhaps you had gone out of town." "For crying out loud ! Where in the world did you think I'd gone?" "Somebody said you were planning to visit yduF ;sister in5; Charlotte," "Well, forcrying out loudl Whot ever told ' you that certainly didn't know, what they were talking, about.". HEARING FOR MRS. FRISBY FRIDAY IN MURDER CASE Habeas corpus proceedings in an effort to obtain release on bond of Mrs. Erna Frisby, of Marshall, who is being held in the Madison county jail on a charge of murder, will be instituted by counsel for the defense before Judge T. B. Finlev in Ashe ville Friday morning. The date for the hearing was decided upon after Solicitor R. M. Wells, of Asheville. had consulted with attorneys and Madison officers Wednesday. Mrs. f risby was arrested Tuesday by Charles H. Ramsey, Marshall township constable, on a charge of murder in connection with the death of her husband, Erna Frisby, who was killed at his home Saturday night, August 5, 1928, near Marshall. The charge was specified in a warrant sworn out by John R. Frisby, aged father of the slam man, who was ' tried on a charge of shooting his son to death and acquitted last Febru ary. Guy V. Roberts and J. Coleman Ramsey, both of Marshall, are at torneys for Mrs. Frisby. GREENEVILLE, TENNESSEE DECEMBER 11, 1929 X . JOfW-. That waae-Jady,"' JL V!22Z to him. "That was my wife." W1? ,W, r6 expressions since that one and she meeting. At this time Mrs. G. W. Corbett of Hot Springs is expected ! to speak. : Vi 'Vt : RED HILL FIFTH SUNDAY MEETING Dear Editor: " Our next fifth Sunday Union Meeting will be held with the Red Hill church, beginning Saturday be fore the 6th Sunday in December at ' i a .A a A r i a. 2 . nr. ivivu n.. . in uie illuming. we hope all the churches will represent, if possible, and we urge our preachers to be there. - . N : . REV. BOB FREEMAN, Mod. MALLEY RICE, Clerk. be given, with the name of the rep resentative engraved thereon. This cup may be held for a period of one year, or until won by some other school. If any school should win the cup two years in succession, it shall become the permanent property of mat scnooi. - ' ANNUAL BAZAAR The annual Christmas Bazaar , of the Methodist church will be held December 13 & 14. Friday and Sat urday, in the building owned by Mr. Herschel Sprinkle and next to Blue Lantern Lunch Room. Fancy work; mdwiches. cake, candy and pie for sale. COME FOR DINNER. fsM aavi Kf iu nanas to nimseii. wnenever ne meets be long winded. After he has been y.ou 6 street'f.or "J the drug talking about five minutes, he in- store- r a sme ot.her P1,3"' he al" variably says: "And now, just a few ays h?s to b? p?mg a11 ovf you" vi ;L: 1 He grabs you by the arm, or he pats he remarks: "Now in conclusion ", you ,on he h.ack or hehlds by Then there is another lapse of five or I lapela. of your "at manhan" ten minutes, at the endof which he , y" "2 ! 1 "la"' says: "Before I sit down, I just wish : Ui T f ""-"". to say-" and then he talks for ten lL ??J)?.ck d raise your or fifteen minutes longer. You ex-!""'., a "B ,uu "i' "'"'.V pect him to terminate his speech at T- A " ." s" oi m -., k v. s j; friends to cross over to the other side of the street in order to avoid grabs them just as soon as they come out. It's little things like the ones I've just mentioned that have a whole lot to do with a person's likes and dis likes. I know of a certain man who enjoys judging debates, reciijation contests and things of that nature. When called upon to present the prize, he enjoys getting almost to the point of reaching the winner s name and then branches off to some other subject. He does that four or five times. Then there's the chap who has to get right up against you and poke his face into yours when talking to you. Also the gentlemen or, rather, the individual who walks out of a restaurant with a toothpick stuck between his lips. But the great est kabitzer of them all is the chap who turns on the radio when you call at his home to spend a pleasant eve ning. He deserves to be shot at sunrise. Come to think of it. there's no need of waiting for the sunrise. He ought to be shot on the spot. Any spot that's vital. I can put up with all the other habits I've mentioned, including a few special ones of my own wnicn might be added to the list, but if there is one thing that a rouses homicidal tendencies in my breast it is to go visiting for the pur pose of enjoying a pleasant chat for 'half an hour or so and then have to ' sit there and listen to the blaring, i growling, static-infested, boisterous, buzzing, roaring, thundering, bellow, ing, clamorous, resounding, uproari ous, strident-toned, tumultuous, ois- oraeny ana turouient vocueranons of a radio.- The Greeneville, Tennessee, Burley Tobacco market closed the first week's sales with more than one mil lion, six hundred thousand pounds sold, with the low and medium grades much higher than last year, and the better grades started a little lower in price. But the second week finds all tobacco a little higher in price, and ' especially the better grades strong er, selling at $2.00 a hundred higher than the opening-week. Many tobacco experts claim that, acre for acre, tobacce is bringing as much money, or more, than last year o account of the, increased' weight . in- tHMands- peiaere, - It is 'expected' that the Greeneville market will-con- . . tinue strong until it closes for the Holidays. With nine big warehouses and in creased floor space added, and two sets of buyers, the market will han dle all the tobacco that is brought from all over the Burley Belt, and give quick sales. Should the end of the week find a heavy market, three sets of buyers will be used on Friday in order to clear the floors for the following Monday sales. This news has brought favorable comment from the many growers in the different Burley sections. Much Madison County tobacco is on the Greeneville warehouse floors. Below we give a few sales 0f prom inent Madison County farmers. 210 132 170 310 D. E. BRIGGS -30c -30c -23c ,32c any minute but he is constantly dis appointing you. I know quite a num ber of folks who dislike him solely on that account. Then there's a friend of mine over in New Bern who loves to tell a joke. but who gets so much pleasure out of telling it that he has to repeat the point over and over again. For in stance: "Jim asked me, 'Who was that lady 1 seen .you witn last mghtT" "That wasn't no lady," I told him, "that was my wife! The audience laugh politely and he laughs most heartily of all. "Yeah," I told him, "that was my Tobacco Growers If you want to ihip your tobac co to us see Garfield Davis at Marshall for boxes and tierces. Carter, Fagg & Co. Morrittown, Tenn. meeting him. He just naturally can't keep his hands to himself. One of these days somebody is going to haul off and slap him into the middle of next week, and a whole lot of folks are going to give three cheers. Talking about telling jokes; I HOME DEMONSTRA TOR'S COLUMN F. A. RAMSEY 300 lbs. 27c 3141b s. . 32c 2801b s. J .35c 3001b s. ...34c 2461b s. ...30c J. D. BRIGGS 1321b s. ..33c 1101b s. 32c 60 lbs. .26c 46 lbs. 30c It is said by manv warehouse mpn and tobacco experts that have seen the Madison County North Carolina tobacco, state that it is an unusually good crop, and that it will be a large increase over last year's crop. SCHEDULE FOR NEXT WEEK Bull Creek, Monday, 10:30 Girls. Sandv Mush. Mondav. 1:30 Girls. know another most estimable gentle- j Spring Creek, Tuesday, 10:30 Girls man with a keen sense of humor who ' Beech Glenn. Wednesday. 10 :30-eirls enjoys narrating an anecdote to his Bull Creek, Wednesday, l:30-women. Kidder I think we should hasten to sigTi this girl motorist for our freak circus. Knapper Why so? Kidder Well, she testified she extended her arm for half jl block. From MARION friends. The trouble is that he has a short memory and can never recall to whom he has told his favorite stories. There i one particularly funny yarn about two Irishmen who were shipwrecked with a Jew. The first time he told it to me, I thought I'd split my sides laughing. A week or two later, he happened to see me on the street and drew me to one side, saying that he had an awfully funny story he wanted to tell me. It was that same joke about the Irish men and the Jew. Since then, I've had to listen on five or six different occasions to the same story. . When ever I see him coming, I hold my breath, waiting for him to get started on his favorite joke, and it is seldom thst I'm disappointed. .I'll be glad when he forgets it. Mrs. Wiffnits that's not her real name is a most charming and friendly sort of lady. She calls at Calif ornia 'Creek, Thursday, 10:30 - V Girls CaL Greek, Thurs., 2:00 Women. Little Pine,. Friday, 10:30 Girls. Litlte Pinet Fri., 1:30 Women. Rufus Reaves, who has b e e n sick, is back, on the job at j ; Bernard's " No. -1,'. and k wants to see a 1-1 h i s Madison County friends. Everybody seems to be getting a-, long nicely with their work, since the awful strike. " Miss Maud McGalliard called at the home of Miss Artha Plemmon Sunday. Mr. Dewey Moore of Spring Creek is spending a few days with Mr. and ' Mrs. W. A. Plemmons. .. . Mr. Byron Leonard, who has been boarding with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Plemmons, was very ill Sunday, but is reported some better at this-writ-tasl:v-jV'-x Mrs." Howard ' Plemmons ! is plan- .. ning to go hack to her same old job', in the mill, after an absence of a bout two months. ..; V" ; ' '-i'J--. .We are sure having a good revival meeting at the Presbyterian church now." .v--"' -! '"-.-- - ' :v -. Come on, Hot Springs and Mill Ridge, with the news of good old Madison County. - -