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THE ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER OF MADISON COUNTY
VOL. XXIX MARSHALL, N.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930 4 Pages This Issue
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EDUCATION BOARD
MEETS NOV. 10
NOTICE!
On account of conflicting1 date
with Civic Meeting: at Mars Hill,
speaking scheduled for Thursday
night .will be postponed. -
We as kthose from Mars mil m-
We are requested by Supt. Btank-
enship to announce that tne Mamson teregted tQ(Wend meetings"at Beech
County Board of Education will Glen Thursday night and California
REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COM-
meet Monday. November 10, for
the transaction of its regular busi
ness.
MASSEY REUNION
OCTOBER 19, 1930
On October 19th, many descend
ants of the Massey family found
their way from various parts of the
country to near the old homestead at
Henderson Springs, where the foi'rth
Massey reunion was held. It was a
most beautiful October day and the
color cffeeis of the foliar added
much beaufv and decoration for the
occasion. The falling leaves and the
young evergreens were typical of the
older and younger generations pres
ent. Of the older generations there
were repre Tentative of the late J.
R. Massey cf Waynesville, th; late
Dr. Z. D. Massey of Sevierville,
Tenn.; of the late Mrs. S. E. Brown,
Hot Springs, N. C. ; and J L. Mas
sey end D. W. Kin? of Knoxville,
Tennessee; Dr. J. F. Massey of At
lantic City, N. J.; and Mrs. Martha
Atchley of Maryville, Tennessee.
Other relatives and friends of the
family brought the number of those
present up to more than 40. After
partaking of a most bounteous din
ner, Drovided by several members of
the family, which included the de
licious products of the mountainous
country, such as wild game, honey,
nuts, and the products of-: deT!eious
vines, they spent an hour in most
happy fellowship.
Th following iff a list of those
present;. Dr. J. ,F. Mfcssey Atlantic
Ciity, ,.N, J., Mrs. Zt , D. Massey,
SeirriUb, Tmh.i Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Payne , Sevierville, . Tenn., Mrs.. Chas.
Pack,. Sevierville, Tenn., Mr. Chas.
Pack, Jr., Sevierville : Tenn., Miss
Eleanor Pack, .Sevierville,. Tenn.,
David Pack, Sevierville, Tenn., Miss
Margaret Marshall, Adah. Mullen
dore, Mrs. D. R. Mullendore, Mr. I.
M- Mullendore, Miss Adah Mullen
dore., Mr. and Mrs. R. A, Hounsbell,
Howard Hamshell, Billie Hounsbell.
all of Sevierville, Tenn.. ;.-Mrv and
Mrs. J. L. Massey, Mr. Robert D.
JUasjey, ; Mrsr D- ,Wi (Kjng,vMriand
Mrs . John ,R. JKing, ,riTamea ,King,
Richard King, Mildred King, Juanita
Montgomery, Mrs iHattie iGray, jMrs.
Susaji A. Pack, Miss . Lillian Pack,
Mr; WW L. Pack, iall ! of iKnolxville,
Tnit; vMrsif Mart jAtctlayiancl
Miss Merrill Atehley, of Maryville,
Nan. ; Mrvand- 'Mrs '- Z.'i I Massey,
Juanita Massey, of Waynesville; Mr.
Glenn D. Brown, Mr. Claud C.
WUrni Jfr-i .2k-; H., Brown, ; W
gar Brown, all of Clyde, N. C; Mrs.
Eulal Gillespie, Mr. Dewey Brown,
Mr. Hubert. GiUesplew iall of ASprrng
Creek. N. C,MrABrdy, Bownof
Detroit, MfcH. i 1 Mrt. Annie . M.
White, Marshall, N. C.
"The jiarlty wished Mr. and Mrs. Z.'
Iw M wae of, Wayatsvifle, N.. -C,
many, returns of. the day, this being
their -17th- wedding anniversary.
t JQffore departing . fr their .several
hemes a permanent organization was
mtreA to tiernetuate further inter
est of the family . n. .puier
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OLD-TIME, C A N D X. '
BREAKING ENJOYED
such
gatherings: j Dr. XFF. .Massey pre-
si4edv,and the following, officers were
elected:'. ;' ;' ' ; ' ;
litPj.' C'lhiv, President; Mrs.
Martha Atehley, ,Secret"urer
miyu Annul M. w mte. neooixer. All
A party, : given' by Misses' &nnie
Davis and Lassa 'PlemniQnjSt .it the
of Mr. and Mrs. Vdn Wilson,
of the Bailey Branch ..section last
Thursdav night, was enjoyed by a
larire. crowd of the, ; younger set bf
that comunity and Marfthdjl- After
the social hours, and after sev?rat
games had been played, an old-time
candy breaking wasenjoyeu Dy an
present. Among those present were
Mr .inH Mrs. Van Wilson, Misses
Zenna Tweed, Frances Roberson, Al
ma Rector, Mabel Rector, Eloise
Price, Mary Wilson, Lora Rector,
Lassa Plemmons, Annie Davis;
Messis. Wade Shelton, Auyer Rob
erts. Caney Smith, Honiara Rector,
Wade Rector, Charles Parris, Cole
man Caldwell, Major Freeman, Earl
Burnett. Robert Wilson, Hugh Brad
burn, Weldcn Stines, Wade Wilson.
REV. J. M. PICKENS
PASSES
MUCH LOVED MINISTER LAID
TO REST MONDAY
Rev. James Marion Pickens, age
74, of Jupiter, (Postoffice address
Alexander, N. C), died at his home
af 8:16 o'clock Saturday morning,
.O'efaaW- 251930. the :eane-"Of-'n1s
tenth heinir heart trouble. He had
fnr nhout 11 months. Fu
An Explahation
TAX LEVY MADISON COUNTY 1930, LOW
EST AMOUNT POSSIBLE-DIFFERNT
purjposes for mniCH vpxesSre
LEVIED THE AMOUNTOFMONEY
PRQpycEP how the Money
is spent how taxes? may
BE reduced-conditions
IN UNITED nSTAtES :6ET
ITER THAN ANY OTHER
COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD
People are more or less agitated over the question of tax
es, and what the money is spent for. The Commissioners of
Madison County, after trimming everything they could, and
cutting down the demand of the school board for school pur
poses, $17,000, they were forced to levy a tax rate for 1930, of
?2.05 on the $100.00 taxable property. The tax levy is made
up as follows:
15c General County, produces $ 15,549.31
1 90c Six Months' School Term, produces 97,333.84
5c Outside poor, produces 5,183.10
67c Bonds, interest and sinking fund, produces 69,453.57
6c Bridges
20c Roads
Roads and Bridges, produces 26,952.13
2c Jury Tax, produces 2,073.24
Dog Tax 1,976.00
$2.05 Total Levy. Total .:$218,521.19
COURT IN
MARSHALL
Superior court for the cleaning up'
of the civil docket convened in Mar
shall Monday, Judge Moore presid
ing. The docket had been? clustered
with quite a numbex of cases that
had either to be non-suited or
otherwise disposed of. The court
adjourned early Monday, but resum
ed its work again Tuesday morning,
a large part of Monday being?- given"
to the work of the clerk and liwyers
to clear up the docket of uniriir
portant cases. ...
ANOTHER COUNTY
GET-TOGETHER
NOVEMBER 8
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB.
"The best time we ever had." This
was the universal comment of the
people, from all parts of the county
as they left the County Get-Together
which was held in the, then, new
warehouse of the Madison Farmers,
Inc. jf in Marshall, lasi December. " ,
.The .meeting last December tmui
planned and held by the citizens of
Marshall and the citizens of Madison
County cooperating under the direc-
tion of the farmers' organization.
n-i.ic f Madison Farmers, and the Chamber
gins- 01 i, rv, f m v.n u i !,
Marshall High School met Tuesday, of both th town anli the!
The Home Economics
i rtK 01 nr,A n.;.o 1 j: : 1...U1.
wtwkci anu uiftouwtu a xiuihc . lciiuiiig iiivaiua.uie assistance.
Ec. club. The officers are as follows: On Tuesday night, October
President . Ruth
Vice President
Add to the above amount $5,384.00, the poll taxes, $4,
038.00 of which goes to the scaoTfandT and $1346.00 of $he
doII taxes jro to the poor fund. Adding the poll taxes, the
oeen sick iui uyuw i 000 r o 1 in
ori BArvices were from the church Unecial road taxes, and the special 9chool taxes to $218,521.19
At 11 O'clock MOnaay mornims,
tober 27th, conducted by Kev. A. .
Sprinkle. Bv reauest the entire
congregation sang the hymns, led by
Rev. W. R-.Tiltery. The active pall
bearer? were: Messrs, A..J. Hunter,
Estor ' Roberts, Bob , Barrette, CTar-
nce !rowder, Frank Hayes and
John Chandler. Honorary panpear
efs included Rev.' L. C. Roberts,
i A ' vRradlev. Dr. WVF. Rob-
iHflAII AT Mara, Hill. Dr. Frank Rob-i
,aiwi -.rT :r i ?i k.
arts, of Marsnau, uewia .hiii
W. W. Crowdfer.Hev. W. K Tiller
Rev. W..R (Owens, of. Mars sHll,i
Rev. J. Ben Eller and Rev. Sheridan
Briggs. interment followed at the
ifo'nnt? 9fio Methodist church cem
etery, where his relatives wre bur-
led.;. . ;,'V j
: Surviving are two brothers, G. V.
Pickens and S. B. Pickens, of Jupi-
t. iKm H. R..MLeanj three,
sons, J. X. KpkW, of Canton;, S. W.
fickens, oi raooiie, "
Pickens, of Jupiter; and one daugh
ter, MW. C. P. Chandler.
, . The deceased ;;was beloved min
ister, who for the past 85 years or
more' h a d preached at: various
churches all oyer North Carolina.
A metober .of the Jupiter Baptist
Church and pastor of the Long
Rranoii Church of the same denom-
of the familr living ,wer4Uraent but nation, - Mr. Pickens continued ctr
Mrs. S. M. Conataer, of CJantqn, w m any , vears alter defilining
Alabama, who was kept away on aj
health .and .his enfeebled condition
made his work all the more atrenu-
During ius long ministerial
count, of illnesB, alks were: made
by Dr. J. F. Massey and Mr. J. u.
r ",...'
juiBeejr. i " --- , t
i i 1 cercer. he had vi ntcd thousands ot
a. hatHnir unent several pleas-1 f-... . .
w thoun T together he friends' and . homes, administered to many ,
relatives departed to meet for the baptized hundreds of people young
fifth reunion at Hot Springs, N. C, ani 0id, and spoken the last rites for
Jnlv 12. 1931. ! m.nv ntharo wherever duty called
MRS. ANNIE M. WHITE
0U8.
many
him.
7".fT" , r - . T- : -
The Board of .County Commissioners
will have their regular monthly meetings
on the second Monday and Tuesday, 10th
and 1 1th bf .November, ! instead of the
First Monday and.iTuesday.,; ! , fJ
. 7 e . v.( ) i ,n jj vILi; Chairman.
makes a grand total of all taxes levied and to be collected in
Madison County in 1930, $246,104.56.
21,
Doniii's at a meeting or the Marshall
fiStOy lOnn t.;voa f tha MofI;r,n fnnr,n EA.mU
, Sec'y-Treas. ... Anna Conner and receiVed the help of the Cham-
The aims of our club will be to ber of Commerce in holding another
'promote healthy, happy, democratic t County Get-Togetjier. At t h i
i girlhood; develop leadership; bring (meeting a committee, composed of
, , , , , . ., ;both ladies and men, selected from
home and school together; further ,
j - r different sections ot the county, was
-Home Economics in general; make ; appointed to complete plans for this
the community a oetter place in occasion.
which to live. I Saturday this committee met and
Our first program toward carry- Panned. The Get-Together is going
ing out our aims will be given tri-'on Island'in Marshali. The pro-
day, Oct. 31v 1930. It will be cen- 'gram for the occasion will be
itered around health. Our slogan planned after that of Ihe verysuc-
for that day will be: A Healthful cessful occasion of the preceding
Town Means a Healthful Girlhood., ,veaJ- . . x
m, v . , ,,. . Everyone is requested to meet on
The chairman of this program is ' . . . . . . . the mo
Blanche Tweed. Ij-,, V.anh familv is reauested to
bring a basket of good things to eat."
Tables and benches will be provided
fey a committee consisting of Lee
Tweed, Chairman, Craig Kuaisill,
Oakley Rector, Floyd Cassada, Clar
ence Ramsey, ! and R. ' R. Ramsey.
TViA AAfTaa fni f Via Anv Will VlA nm
Song Jolly Jack O' , ,A committee of ladies,, Miss Craf-
Lantern -..by 6th A grade ton, Home Agent, in charge, will ar-
DriH- Night With the - ..-Ajf..vU .jiBiicell ifee8MA'jAiwm
Witches .J..by 6 A girls wiake the coffee,, etc. Carl Stuart,
A Hallowe'en Acrostic 5A boys Herschel Sprinkl.e and Elarle Brint-
Reading- nail were named as a committee to
Gohlins Terra TatheHiiP DaVis arrantre for music and talks. It is
PROGRAM
.$10,366,204.00
3,368,568.00
6,997,630.00
2.05
10,409,525.00
2.23
The Tax Assessed value of all property Madison
County far the year, J.930, is
The taxable value of Corporation property in
Madison CW.SCf'-'- -
Lahd' atid pe&bnal property
Tax teVy 1930 .. -
Tbtal ; assessed taxable value all property in
Madison County for the year' 1928 --
T4i'"lii' '1 l9ft ' ' ' :
X a A JL4 V. J A VI aviv :
foi-al Assessed Value of all property in Madison
Couhly for the' 'year 1929 - 10,402,236.00
tax Levy 1929 -- 130
t kA'..An tr,nt for the vear 1930 the Corporations in
Madison County pay one third of air the taxes, not including
polls. Tne taxable property in Madison County for 1930 is
$36,032.00 less than it was in 1929, and $43,S21.00 less than
it was in 1928.
WW fstrie 'tax rate higher in 1930 than it was m 1SW9.'
In 1929 the County received about $25,000 from the gasoline
tax, and applied" it Wthe debt service. In 1930 the County re-
reived the same amount from gasoline tax, and applied it to
debt service, which reduced the tax rate from what it was in
The taxable property in Madison County is less in 1930
i nr l '
than it was in 1929. That makes one part oi tne amerence. ,
The balance of the difference is caused by the fact that Public
Local Laws, 1925, Chapter 17, Section 2, provides that the
Commissioners "are hereby authorized, required, and shall set
apart 5 of all the taxes collected in Maaison oumy. v . . .
. supplement to the General County vFund. It was
found to be impossible to pay the expenses of the Count' with
out this aid. '
Public Local Laws, 1929, Chapter 292, Section 2, pTovides
5iat the 5 heretofore mentioned Should be refunded to
special tax districts to the extent where it applied to the
stxecial taxes. . Under: this act, the Commissioners were re
quired to put in the 1930 County Budget,' enough to return this
money to certain special tax districts.' This with' some other
discrepancies of accounting, makes the difference" afcrti shows
why; it was' necessary? to- make the tax levy 4qr 1930 $2.05 in-
tead -df $1.95V The total amount to fee TetarBed.to the .Spring
Play The Haunted House-
Presented ' by students from 9B
room.
Costume Parade (open to everyone
attending). A prize will be given
to best costume.
Following the plays' everyone will
be invited to attend the many booths
that offer a real night oT fun. The
booths will be -as follows:
1. .fishing Pond.
2. Fortune Telling.
3. Mystery House.
4. Bobbing .for . Apples.
6. Future Mate.:-
6. Blue Beard's Wives.
7. Freak House.
General Admission 10c and 5c.
Admission to booths 6c.
DR. W. N. JOHNSON
S PEAK'S AT
Dr. Walt N. Johnson of Mars Hill
spoke at the Marshal Baptist church
Sunday morning. From the scripture
"The World is the Field", he deliv
ered one of the most forceful mes
sages ever delivered in Marshall. Dr
Johnson is a deep student of world
movements and conditions and his
sermon was not only highly enter
taining and instructive but it was
comprehensive and effective in its
appeal to thoughtful peopls.
planned to have all music and all
talks by local talent.
It is hoped to have string bands
from California Creek, from Laurel,
from Big Pine and others that may
be .secured. Vocal quartets from
Spring Creek, from Upper Laurel,
from Mars "Hi, are expected to be
present. Bight here this committee
requests that anyone knowing of a
string band or a quartet in the .coun
ty that can be secured will let them
know of it. ; '' ' i
A number of local parties will be
tevited to give short talks on the oc
casion. . ; . ' ' ' "
Every family in Madison County
is especially invited- to be present at
this meeting. It is theend of anoth
er, yean . Let's all join, together and
make merry.
It is expected that the question of
a County Fair- .for 1931 will 'be
brought up at this meeting. . Think
about it between now and (then.
There is plenty of material in Mad
ison County for an A 1 county fair.
THE BUSINESS MEN OF MAR
SHALL ARE ASKED BY THE
COMMITTEE TO CLOSE THEIR
PLACES OF BUSINESS FROM
11:30. TILL 1:00 and join the coun
try folks in a feed.
(Signed)
THE COMMITTEE IN CHARGE.
If You Are Not Now Getting
TJie NEWSRECORD
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SUBSCRIBE NOW
SPECIAL! Forn Now OCC
Until January 1, 1931 LO
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FOR TAX COLLECTOR
TO THE VOTERS OF MADISON COUNTY:
I have served you for the past two years, in the
most unpleasant office in the County, and during one :
of the worft financial strains we have gone through in -many
years. Notwithstanding this, I feel we have '
gotten along very pleasantly together, and that I have
several hundred new, friends, that I did pot :haye;tw
years ago.. . . , ; ... 'rtas rcAi"'!
r After 'having learned the' work of the office and '
having become better acquainted with the, people, X
feel that I am in a position to serve you better the next
two years. ? -jTw ;'--M,-1"'- .
- .If you feef that I deserve. , anhquy .iiaye, the
office for the next two .yeaw, I fenall greatly appreciate ,
your vote, and anlfof d" yon-tny'fh fflyTyelialf . f
.,iof-; Reactfullv. . 1
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