THE NEWS-RECORD
The paper that tells what the
people in the country as . well
as those in town are doing. '
MADISON COUNTY RECORD
Established June 28, 1901.
FRENCH BROAD NEWS
Established May 16, 1907.
Consolidated Not. 2, 1911
Published TWICE A WEEKTuesdays and Fridays
THE ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER OF MADISON COUNTY
yoL. xxix
MARSHALL, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1930
4 Pages This Issue
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TOBACCO MARKET OPENS WITH
ENCOURAGINGLY GOOD PRICES
Mr. A. W Whitehurst was
in Greenevilie, Tenn., Tuesday
at the opening of the tobacco
market. He came back that
afternoon rather enthusiast'
as to the prospects, saying
that he thought the sales
Tuesday would average about
22 cents.
CONSOLIDATING
COUNTIES TO
LOWER TAXES
One of the most effective of
all ways to get lower taxes
would be to consolidate a
great number of small coun
ties whose separate govern
ments now eat up so much tax
rm,ntv
money. Every little
must, maintain a full
ecu VA .
county officials-sheriff, clerk Gates; Hertford and Bertie;
of the court, register of deeds, i Washington and Tyrrell; Mar
and all the others; every little tin and Pitt; Craven and Pam
county must keep up its court-;i,ic: Lenoir and Jone?: NeW
no,,M. iail.andnoorhouSe:ev- Hanover and Brunswick.
ery county must have its own1
1
road superintendent school L
superintendent, welfare officer
farm and home agents, etc. j
and all these are necessary fortions
the maintenance of modern
standards of civilization.
In a great many cases,
however, any one of these of
' '
ficers could now' serve twice
the area that he or she is now
serving. But this result can-
not be brought about without
an actual geographical consol
idation of the counties. And
such a consolidation is, in fact,
a logical and natural out
growth of the new era into
which we have come. Nearly
all our counties were created
in a horse-and-buggy mud
J
road Stage Of Civilization. If,
roau siage oi civilization. 11 1
., ii
me courcnouse was more man
ten or twelve miles away from!
the most distant citizen of the
COUntV he Could reach it only
COUnty, ne COUia reacn only
with irreat inconven ence. But .
4-1 n t iJz-vn lies mMvr fMAirar
Wlctb Vuliuibivu ! nun i iuvov -
behind us. The .v.rage man could be avoided by consoli- i
today thinks no more of going dating names as well as areas ad capable managemcnt
a hundred miles than his fa- that is to say, give both old with which this institution is en
ther forty years ago thought county names to the new dowed."-Asheviile ot.uen.
of going ten miles. There is 'county, just as the old towns
-no longer any necessity for of Winston and Salem were I88Ues Warning
calling on the people to sup- consolidated by using both Against Fly-By-port
a whole separate county names, Winston-Salem. Night Scheme
government, a separate court ( If the people really want as r a. LEIGH, Dec. 8. (AP) Gover
house, poorhouse .jail, educa-much reduction of taxes as nor p. Max Gardner today received
' . . u.. r letter from Mrs. Francis Perkins,
tional system, road System, j
f w1.di. tliev miVVit rnnsol-'tunitv
idate with an adjoining coun
ty and get virtually as efficient
j- ,uv. o wiorlroH onvincr
service vrim a
. . - .
in tax COStS.
Following up this idea, a (
plan has been published in a
yiau u I
number of North Carolina pa-
pers whereby 54 of the pres-
.nt.Korth Carolina eonnUe.!
could be consolidated into 26
new and larger counties. The
suggested consolidations are
as follows:
Mountain section: Cherokee
and Clay; Macon and Jack
son; Graham and Swain; Hen
derson and Transylvania;
MitoVipll and Yancev: Ashe
and Alleghany;
and Polk.
Piedmont section.: Surry
and Yadkin;
Forsyth and
Stokes; Iredell and Alexan-
Ider; Alamance and Orange;
Caswell and Person. j
Central section: Hoke
and
Scotland; Moore and Lee;
Wilson and Greene; Nash and
Edgecombe; Vance and War
ren; Halifax and Northamp
ton. Coastal area: Currituck,
Camden, and Pasquotank;
f Perquimans, Chowan, and
Everybody will ot course
j iu u i.v..
admit that t h e taxpayers
cou,u aave "'""
these
or similar consolida-
There are only two ob-
Stacles. One is of course the1 The contestants, with their prin
, . . 'cipals or chaperones, are expected to
desire of every county seat to Jve at Marg Hm by noon Decem.
keep its courthouse and COUrt- ber 12. During their stay on the
house officials. Whenever a ' mPus they will be guests of the
...11. wl a nmcrru Til (if C M I fTl Jl 1 T1 -
. . , , ., .,
county seat town tninics useu
j in danger of losing these ap-j
purtenances, most of its influ-
;ence and the influence of the
officials will be exerted a-
gainst consolidation. In each for' the fiscal year elld.
case the taxpayers of a county ing june 30, 1930, received recently
may as well understand that from the firm of Raymond L. Price,
. C. P. A. and attorney-at-law, of Ra
maintaining a small county iS ieighi shows the financial condition
an expensive luxury and just of Mars Hill to be excellent.
decide for themselves wheth-
er they can afford this luxury.
mi. -u uj.l
uraauc w
anli'Hntinn is sentimental. If a
-
man was born and reared in a
certain county ana nis ances
tors before him, he doesnt
himwf Hvine in a
like to find himselt living in a
i .
icountv with a new name. Ihis
possioie, uiey ..avC FF
to do sometnmg ior
themselves right at home in-'
stead of expectin everything
to he done by the state gov-
-
rrnvcirn.
eminent, ui uuwu
ment. And while we have
used North Carolina as an ex-
, . ... ,. , ,, oowwl
ample in this article, the same
need for consolidation exists
in greater or less degree in
South Carolina and the Vir-
ginias. We Commend the sub-
'ject to readers all over our
; territory. Progressive Farm
er.
MARS HILL WILL
STAGE CONTEST
READERS AND DECLAIMERS
TO MEET AT COLLEGE
DEC. 12-13
MARS HILL. Dec. 6. The fifth
. . i j annual readers and declaimers con
Rutherf ord ; . r, . . ... ,,, ,
ern North Carolina will be held at
Mars Hill College December 12-13.
According to Professor R. M. Lee,
chairman of the committee on ar-
rangements, invitations have been
ocnt t r 1 riio.fi aphnnl r,rirnirvnle
inviting each to send one boy and
one girl as representatives.
The re
says, is
sponse thus far, Mr. Lee
most encouraging.
; The contest, which has been spon
sored for the last four years by Mars
, Hill College, is limited to the high
j schools of the 20 western counties
of the State and does not include
i the special charter schools. The pur
I pose of the contests is to stimulate
I interest in these forms of expression
-S9A 81) ui soouos ".Siq oqi 3uouib
ern part of the State.
Loving Cups Offered
The college offers each year two
silver loving cups to the winners in
the final contests one to the girl
winning the readers' contest and
one to the boy winning the declaim
ers' contest. Each cup with the name
of the representative engraved
thereon is held by the winning
school lor one year or. -wo
years successively, it becomes the
permanent property of the school.
UOtn cups were wo,. y
renrcs-crtntives of F-uit!and Insti
i 1.. Kttc' nn.- hv Prtv T.ail and
the ' irls. cup by Martha Stack .
Cl'llcgc, mu
,nent is being arranged for them,
-Asheville cittern,
G,s FINANCIAL
CONDITION EXCELLENT
1 The report gives tne total assets
of the college at $487,436.75, dmd
ed as follows: plant assets, $369,-
793.00: endowment. $73,459.11 (re-
atrictfJ .$19.713.45: unrestricted,
stricted, $19,713.45; unrestricted, j
ve . ' innliwl-i
oo,oou.ud;, tuncm. vU,
ing materials and supplies, $44,092,-
m- p HHpH the following i
note t0 his report: "In our opin.on, gest.on Friday night runerai serv
these statements disclose the fact: ices were Sunday afternoon at the
a !hnme. conducted by Rev. Perry
r nur. muia iiiu vum.t - ..- i
. Qnosafni vear t June 30,
.ndu8trial commissioner of the New
VArk Dpnartment of Labor, sound
ing a warning to North Carolina wo-
'Neh'
The firm. Mrs. Perkins charged,
... , f
has been using the unemployment
D;t,,Htir,n t o attract unsuspecting
5i.
housewive8 jn a home handicraft
racket
The company purports to pay high
or gimple work women can do
Bt home, Mrs. Perkins said, such as
St TS
u TCquired afjvance for materiaU
nd patterns and the company fails
I 1- J 11 , T I
to sena me goons, inquiries reveal
the firm has irone out of business
and left no trace. Mrs. Perkins said.
Such companies often renew their
game under new names in new ter
ritories, she cautioned in her letter.
Asheville Citizen.
RITES TODAY FOR
RALPH W. WELLS
VICTIM OF ACCIDENT LAID TO
REST AT LEICESTER
Funeral services ' for Ralph W.
Wells, 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Wells, of Leicester, who died in
Aston Park hospital at 7 :30 o'clock
Sunday evening as the result of an
automobile accident, were to have
been held at the Leicester Methodist
church at 11 o'clock this (Tuesday)
morning.
Active pallbearers will be Hugh
Reynolds, Paul Reeves, Homer Da
vis, Bill Gillespie, (Jecil 1'ora ana
Bill Reeves. Honorary pallbearers
will be O. S. Dillard, Filmoro Rober
son. Homer Gillespie, Bill Penland,
Hubert Penland, Ulus Ford, Toney
Lunsford, Denver Reynolds, Carol
Hayes and Walter Shook.
The deceased is survived by his
widow; his father and mother; two
sisters, Mrs. Dave Henry, of Ashe
ville, and Miss Mattie Ella Wells, of
Leicester; and four brothers, Frank,
Rankin, Hal and Morris, all of Lei
cester. A coroner's jury exonerated D. P.
Ford, of Leicester, Monday of re
sponsibility for the death of Mr.
Wells, also of Leicester.
;. Wells was injured fatally Sunday
afternoon when the automobile he
was driving collided with that driven
hv Ford. He died in an Asheville
Uwspital several hours after the ac
cident, which occurred half a mile
west of Leicester.-Ashevilel Citizen.
plTTat
mars hill
A three-act Comedy Drama en
titled, "Apple Blossom Time," will
be presented Friday, December 12,
1930, at 7:30 P. M. by the Mars Hill
High School faculty, mis piay
should be a good one.
WILLIE RUYKEN
DALL DIES
S U DDE N L Y
Former Reident of Madion County
Laid to Rest Sunday
Mr. Willie Kuykendall, age about
au, iormeny oi ivmui&uu
lat.plv of West Asheville, died at hi
50, formerly of Madison County,
IS
,
J .'I
day. He was taken with acute mdi-
QnrmV b mtprmfini ioiiowiiik
Flint Hill cemetery. Mr. Kuyken
dall is survived by his wife and five
children. He is also survived by his
father, Mr. F. M. Kuykendall and
two brothers, Mr. A. J. Kuykendall,
of West Asheville, Mr. E. Kuyken
dall of Morganton, Mrs. Randolph
Clark, Miss Mary Kuykendall, and
Mrs. Sue Ledford.
METHODIST
BAZAAR
Methodist church will have their an-!f
nual bazaar, Saturday, December
13th, in the office of the Northwest
Carolina Utilities Company. We
have all kinds of fancy articles, suit
able for Christmas presents; also
candy.
FOR RENT OR SALF. The old
printing office building (old mill
building). Will sell lot and building,
or building alone to be removed.
Apply at
THE NEWS-RECORD
MarriuvII, N. C
ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY
FARM DEMONSTRATION AGENT
(Continued from last week) 'considerable seed, mostly of
Three other plots were fer
tilized by using 200 lbs. of 16-
0-4 broadcast before planting,
200 lbs. or 10-2-4 under the
corn in the drill when plant-
ing, and side dressing with ni -
trate of soda when about knee
high. The yield of one of these
plots has not been secured yet.
One of the others showed an
increase of 15.8 bushels, 35.76
percent., because of the ferti
lizer used. This was on rich
bottom land. The other plot,
on a red clay hillside in a sec
tion of the county that was
exceedingly dry this year,
gave some interesting com
parisons. On the check rows
in this plot 200 lbs. of super
phosphate and 40 lbs. of muri
ate of potash to the acre was
broadcast previous to plant
ing. This probably helped the
yield some. The corn in the
check rows yielded at the rate
ofl0.6 bushels to the acre. In
the acre itself, where soda
was applied, the yield was
22.4 bushels to the acre. Al
lowing for the fertilizer used
on the check rows we find that
the extra bushels of corn in
the acre cost about 59 cents
per bushel. Seems as tho fer
tilizer will pay even in a dry
season.
BARLEY Barley winter kill
ed badly last winter as did
wheat.Apparently barley must
be sowed early to make a cov
ering for the ground if it is to
last the winter thru. We have
one plot of certified barley
seed sown this fall.
OATS One demonstration
plot of the use of nitrate of
soda on oats was placed last
spring. This plot was two a
cres in size. 100 lbs. of soda
was used to the acre as a top
dressing. All during the sea
son the dirterence m tne
growth was apparent and
when the test plots were cut
there was apparently 1 00 ',
increase in the straw at least.
After the oats had thor
oughly cured it waj threshed.
Some of the grain had been
wasted by mice. From the so
da plot the yield of 20 bushels
to the acre was secured. From
the other 15 bushe-s w:i? had.
i difference in this instance of
5 bushels to the acie in frwor
t
soda
With a more favor
able season a grease differ
ence would probably have
been secured.
SOYBEANS-Around 80 bush
els of soybeans of the Laredo
and Virginia varieties were
sold by the Madison Farmers
last spring. Besides this seed
other firms in the county sold
the Mammoth Yellow variety.
We have one farmer who
; sowed in rows and cultivated
'with an excellent cron as a
result. Another farmer used
jan extra amount of potash in
the fertilizer but owing to the
dry weather no results were
had.
ALFALFA The variety dem
onstration, running for two
years, was destroyed last year.
This spring two demonstra
tions were placed. One with
Mr. Barrett on Little Sandy
Mush is not promising. The
seed was not inoculated, and
the dry season has hindered
its growth so much that it will
have difficulty in pulling thru
the winter. Only one spot,
where hen manure was
spread, looks thrifty.
Another plot on the farm of
W. E. Snelson, who followed
the directions of the county a
gent, looks good. Mr. Snelson
used fertilizer on a half of
this field and stable litter on
the other half. If anything,
the manured half is the best.
Mr. Snelson limed heavily, in
oculated his seed, and has an
excellent stand. He clipped
once early in the fall. Mr.
Snelson will sow more super
phosphate over the field in the
spring.
Mr. Warner, Hot Springs,
reports some fine yields of al
falfa on a half acre sowed a
year ago. He has cut four
times and told the county a
gent that he calculated a yield
of 1 ton at each cutting. This
seems rather a large yield.
VETCH There has been an
increased demand for hairy
vetch seed this fall. Sales by
the Madison Farmers, Inc., a
mounted to 1500 pounds com
pared with 700 lbs. a year a
go. This is an indication that
the farmers are turning to
winter legumes for improving
the land.
LESPEDEZA T h e Korean
Lespedeza on the county a-
gent's farm, pastured all sum
mer and never making much
growth, has apparently seed
ed heavily. Mr. Capps, who
sowed seed at the same time
as the county agent, reports
that his lespedeza did not
grow very tall, owing to the
dry weather, but that it has
seeded.
Considerable Korean Lespe
deza seed was distributed by
the Madison Farmers the past
spring. The results of this
seeding will be learned in the
coming year.
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