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THE ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER 0F MADISON COUNTY
MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY APIL 25, 1935
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PRICE $1.00 A YEAR
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Control Flower Pests
With Sprays Or Dusts
Contrary to the general belief, in-
tlct pests on flower gardens are not
necessary evil from which there is
relief, says C. H. Brannon, ex-
uion entomologist at State Col-
Although there are a few pests for
Bich no satisfactory control method
1 Is been developed, he points out,
1 st of them can be eradicated by
plication of inexpensive sprays or
ists.
Sucking insects, which draw their
nourishment from inside the plant,
'.nst be treated with a poison that
l.Dlfll whAn if. PAHIH in AAnfBi4 urith
ItSeir skin. Plant lice, a'phids, thrips,
fid scale insects fall in this group.
Fl'' 1 Chewinsr insects, which eat leaves
le i small stems, may be eradicated by
,al stomach poison. When thev eat
le poison, death follows in a short
ne. Caterpillars, leaf eating bee
tles, and grasshoppers are among the
aewing insects.
''(For sucking insects, Brannon rec-
I ofnmends a spray with one and a half
p teaspoonful of nicotine sulphate to
i if gallon of water, or a dust with a
I " alf ounce of nicotine sulphate to
- i 1. l . r 1 1 i .1
I lime
- For chewing insects, he recommends
jS: 5 1. .....
a .spray composed or tnree teaspoons
fol of arsenate of lead to a gallon of
water. Or a dust may be prepared
ty mixing one part of arsenate of
lead with four and a half parts of
lydrated lime, or one part of ma&
ifesium arsenate to three parts of hy-
rated lime.
These mixtures are safe for deli
ate plants and bright colored flow
jrs, Brannon says. .Tougher plants'
jvill .not be Injureft hf n Rightly
stronger mixture -tf thk't3&gshr
Several Sites AvailableFor Such A Camp
for a claim that does
ceed $3 or $4.
sprays or dusts;'
r. Morgan at
Laurel High School
Young People Boost
Family Cow Program
A. C. Kimrey, extension dairyman
at State College, is enlisting the help
of school children to interest their
parents in the family cow program
for eastern North Carolina.
"This new way of reaching par
ents is the most successful we have
found thus far," Kamrey stated,
"and we hope to expand it to other
counties in the future."
The movement wfas launched in
Wilson, Currituck, and Greene coun
ties, with Edgecombe next on the
schedule.
Kimrey reported that he has been
addressing between 2,000 and 3,000
school children, 4-H club members,
and other young people each week,
endeavoring to show them the need
for more milk in the diet.
At the close of the address, those
not ex-, ci VIT AN COMMITTEE TAKES UP
MATTER WITH AUTHORITIES
BILLS INTRODUCED
AT RALEIGH
mars hill team
back home;
After completing a very succass '
ful weeks trip winning four out of
six games, scoring thirty two runs
against sixteen and playing two shot
out games, Mars Hill college will
On April 16th House Bill 1176, make a long home stand pyi,
"To regulate the salary of the Coun- some 0f the best teams in the state,
ty Physician of Madison County" : Presbyterian college Dlavs her
was introduced and sent to Commit- Frid ,nH RnthprfnrH iw
f ao nn TTanlffo Tha hill wmilrl otifhnr. I r i i - ,
or,f n r r r,mnin fho orfnhi nffiViala .a,tlr in i: . . :. isaiuraay. mars Hin only managoa
Marshlall. DrosDectin? as to where to locate such a came have , the salary of the Physician at not
Permanent Establishment In This Vicinity To
Combat Soil Erosion
If present plans are carried out, Marshall is to have a gov-
Yirtnn nivrtTiLTriri
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I1U1 01 lilllUtJ
The Seniors and the following tea
chers left Wednesday for Washing
ton, D. C, Prof. Rikard, Misses
Chandler, Phonix, Sprinkle.
Mr. and Mrs. Waddell, Jr. and
small son, of Kingsport, Tenn., spent
Sunday here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Hill Jimmy Hill re
turned home with them Monday.
Mr. Beverly Izlar ' spent . Sunday
here with his borne folks. 1 f , s
, Urs-Ira - Plemmons 'who was .vis4
been furnished with data that should mean the location of the
camp in or near Marshall One of the purposes of this camp is
to provide a force for combatting' soil erosion. The camp at
Hot Springs is engaged in forestry improvement. Much atten
tion is now being given the subject of soil erosion by government
officials through the TVA. Madison County, with a population
of more than 20,000, has some of the finest farm land in West
ern North Carolina. Just as in other counties, the soil is going
down the water streams. Too much of it goes to the rivers.
With a force of 200 young men in a Camp at Marshall, located
where erosion is prevalent, it is hard to estimate what could be
accomplished by the application of the most modern scientific
methods. A committee consisting of Mr. Earl Brintnall, Mr.
John A. Hendricks, and Mr. S. B. Roberts, appointed at the last
regular meeting of the Civitan Club, hare recommended sever
al sites in Marshall and vicinity, where Water and lights are a-
vailable.
more than $25 per month.
On the same date House Bill 1175,
Tor the relief of Dstressed Taxpay
ers of Madison County" was intro
duced and sent to Committee on Fi
nance. The bill would direct the
Commissioners to release all penal
ties, interest and fees on delinquent
taxes paid before (or on) January
1, 1936.
On April 18th House Bill 1206,
"To amend section 1681 of the con
solidated statutes relating to the pay- J have lost a game this year.
to defeat Presbyterian 4 to 2 and
they have one of the best junior col
lege teams in the state. Rutherford"
showed a nice pitcher in the game)
with them last week.
Kell and Parker both sprained
kles on the trip last week and have
labored under these handicaps this
week. Neither one of these star
hurlers have been able to do justice
to themselves in this weeks games
and in all probability Meachum and
Wirtz will work in the games Friday
and Saturday Neither of these men
iment of damages done by dogs in
Madison County" was introduced and
sent to the Committee on Health.
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Last Friday the Commencement
(Address at Laurel Hieh School was
i given by Dr. Arthur E. Morgan,
LChairman of the Tennessee Valley
.futhority. It was an address which
'iiSas very illuminating and full of in
'iflpiration for the class which gradu
'ted to take part in the New Deal
jiand to make it a success. Dr. Morgan
mentioned several New Deals which
lllTilVTier'jsonlS Andrews, was oj
home because of Mr Plemmons being
seriously ill with flu. -
Mrs. Jack Runnion has been called
to the bedside of her aged mother,
Mrs. Bailey, near Marshall, N. C.
At a dance given in Newport last
Friday night, a prize was offered to
the best looking couple. There were
about a hundred couples present. It
was won by Miss Mary Lee Izlar, of
Hot Springs and Mr. Bus Smith, of
the U. S. Forestry Service now sta
tioned in Hot Springs.
The prize was a five pound box of
candy presented by Nelson Bales
children who do not have cows at
home are asked to remain for a dis
cussion of the possibilities of their
raising calves. Those interested are
listed, together with the names of
thoir parents, y , ,
I The extension spedalst and the lo-
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States."'
Ongreis last year voted more than
billion dollars for drought re
lief and; much ot this money is said
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td been proposea to the world tout Mrs. Margaret Bryan and children
thich had failed of full success be-of Walnut scent Fridaw nirht. here
jfor the school exercises and were
i the guests of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. S W. Brown.
cause oi tne tacK 01 nearly coopera-
tin of the people. Moses and the
ildren of Israel who became of
, faint heartedness failed to reap the
,nll benefit. The French Revolution
through selfish natures did not at-
tain the fullest benefit. The Amen-
III AV T IS.MH.V.a VMUOU Ul All J UObAVC
certain classes had Shay's Rebel-
Jipn, which was the result of injustice
it i the forgotten man.
,;f ; Say what you may, to make a suc-
iss, everyone must do all they can
Aid wholeheartedly help, and he.ap-
saled to the young people to do
their part because the world has
Changed and a New Deal must be
ven. If we enter into ihe spirit it
nil be a success.
it A large audience from Laurel and
Sot Springs was present. Miss Jean
jhette Jones presented cards to the
Jftrst Aid graduates of the Junior
3ed Cross and Miss Dorothy Roberts
vave diplomas to the seventh grade
ifraduates; County Superintendent,
fc Douglas Robinson presented the di
lomas to the graduating class.
MADISON COUNTY JUSTICE
BILL IS GIVEN APPROVAL
THE DUST STORMS
Jf The senate has passed Repre
sentative JT. H. Sprinkle's bill
allowing justices of the peace
in Madison county who are- li
censed attorneys to practice
law. ': h --v
Representative Sprinkle is
the author of a bill changing
the law with reference to claims
paid for damages by dogs. His
bill would repeal the present
section requiring three persons
to investigate the claims, and
leave it to the county board of
commissioner. Under the pre
sent set-up, occasionally the
county must pay $ 9 in jury fees
Every man thinks that he has the
power of imagination, just as every
man thinks that he has a sense of hu
mor. The fact is that very few of
us can visualize a thing which we
have not seen with our own eyes;
and it has taken the clouds of dust
which swept over more than half of
the United States during the past
week to make most of us appreciate
what a terrible thing is happening in
parts of the West
Here in Asheville we were literal
ly blanketed Thursday night with a
thin mantle of mud, swept down from
the skies by the light rain which fell
early Friday morning. The soil that
was sucked up by the winds in Kan
sas, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas and
New Mexico was swirled across all
the intervening States to the Atlan
tic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico.
Reports of this dust cloud came from
the extreme southernmost parts ' of
Florida.
The rains which the dust encoun
tered as it crossed the mountains
hereabout may have checked the
flight of some of it; not all, however,
we think, for to a layman the indica
tions were that there was still dust
in the. air after, the driztle had ceas
ed, though the clouds were still in
evidence.
Twice last year the Carolines ex
perienced a visitation of this Western
dust; on . the first occasion a short,
sharp blow, late in the afternoon, the
dust being very thick; on the other
occasion, en all-day affair, last May,
the dust then being high in the eir.
not noticeable to persons on the
theTtoatter 36,6 If the
parents are willing to buy a heifer
calf for the children to raise, the a-
gents and the specialist offer their
help in securing calves at a moderate
price.
Right now," Kimrey explained,
"we are not insisting that they Buy
expensive calves of the best breeding.
The main thing is to place at least
one calf with each family so that it
may have an adequate supiply ox
milk and butter in the near future.
"We find that those children who
come from homes which do not have
a family cow are. as a rule, under
nourished and inferior physically to
those children that have milk in their
diet. In Wilson county, about 80
ipe'ent of the children to whom
talked came from homes where there
were no cows.
MARS HILL
Red Cross Work In
Madison County
to the ame areas now
being; ravaged by. fjxe dust storms.; It
has been lndicated;-tVat $i50,000,Op
of the woiiefan will $6 used
in R sou-erosion progra&nlnatT1
gion. Officials frankly admit, how
ever, that it will take years to make
such a program effective at least a
decade, according to Secretary Wal
lace; and it can not be made effec
tive at all unless there is supplemen-
tarw TOnrlr f'nn a vast scale" hv nri-
vate landowners. In short, we have ; Treasurer, Mrs.
P. T. A. Elects officers
At the final P. T. A. meeting of
the school year, held Tuesday even
ing in the high school auditorium, the
main feature was yearly reports and
election of officers for next year.
Financial reports showed that enough
money , had been raised to cover all
. obligations assumed, which J was a
who
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iryron
Tilson chairman
The following list of officers were '
unanimousl,, elected ns nresenteH bv
th committee: Prudent. Mrs. .Tno family case workers,
McLeod; vice president, Bryron Til
son; Secretary. Miss Edna Ferguson;
Kenneth Murray;
cause of v satisfaction to -those ' '
mssassa
means committee,, with Mrs.
Taking all things into considera
tion the team is making a good re
cord this year as seven games have
been won to two being lost and most
people who have seen the team in ac
tion feel that the Mars Hill boys will
be leading the Junior college con
ference by the time the season comes
to a close.
T. H. K.
The National Red Cross rushed to
our relief immediately following the- '
cyclone which visited the Little Pina- - -ij
section early in April. ,
Mjss Helen J. Moses, director of .? '
ton and provided to immediately? r?' -
the work and Miss Phoebe 4
and Mrs. Florence O'Neill
examined each,
case, visitinlg: the scene of disaster
and inquiring into the need of tfie
persons and their ability to replace
gamze
Gregg
ground unless they looked uipward,
when the sun had the appearance of
being partially in eclipse.
The oldest inhabitant can not re
member anything of this kind hav
ing happened ever before. We do
not suppose that anything of the kind
has happened in the past in this coun
try. Nor have we read any really
satisfactory explanation of why the
country should be having such dust
storms now. We are told that the
trouble has been caused by the con
version of the cattle country of the
West from pasturage into farm lands.
It seems that when wheat was com
manding high prices people plowed
up and planted lands which formerly
had never been tilled but which were
then covered with buffalo grass. One
theory is that this soil, denuded of its
natural coverage, has been exposed
to the elements and, being dry and
powder-like, is easily blown away.
Whe twe do not understand, howev
er, is why dust storms such as are
now occurring did not occur earlier;
for the damage of destroying the na
tive grass of the region must have
taken place some years ago.
For. us the dust storms are only
something to talk about. No one in
Asheville knew that there had been a
dust storm Thursday night until the
next morning when automobiles which
n4 been . lef tt standing oit) , weite
found to be covered with a thin layer
of, mud. Our was, in fact, mud
storm.- But for those who lire in the
areas where there storms originate
the situation has come to be highly
distressing.' .The suffering of human
beings' and of animals was acute last
week in some of the Mid-Western
in this situation a new and striking
illustration or now aimcuii it is to i
repair the damage when liberties have
been ignorantly taken with Nature.
Editorial in Sunday's Asheville Cit
izen-Times.
PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT
ucia; in iu executive
Principal A. V. Nolan.
Personals
J rriv 1 mc
Disbursing Treasurer, Mr. James Lan- L,,e nen a.M came mr.
' :Ti -t:i. aj.i .
Committee, jJO"n -"Dson, Auaitor oi accounts,
who passed on bills and ordered pay
ments.
The Red Cross renuires all cases
Members of the O. L. Stringfield t up n u iPa1 pmra;ff
family held their annual family re- 'and as chairman, I appointed Rev.
union during the Easter season, com- !James Hyde, Mr. Arthur Whitehurst
ing from their various homes to Ashe- and Mn Robert Tweed
ville and Mars Hill. They were en- A number of meetings were held
tertained here Monday in the home fh Minirman nM oj
of Professor P. C. Stringfield. Dr. case was considered and the amount
and Mrs. Oliver Stringfield and fam- fneeded for
At the end of President Roosevelt's !"v nad been nere wltn tne,r brotHer 3 voted on
materials for repairs were
family over the week-end.
Mr. tiTiH Mrs. R. R. Ridddle who
hH hPP in Florida nH Georgia "rial needed to put the houses in
Mr. V. B. Ray visited each and ev
ery case and made an estimate of the
nrdpr ncrain
since Christmas are spending a few e F E R A
days this week at their home here
while on their way to work in Mich-
first two years, the leadini? newspa
pers of the counrty have had much to
say about his work for the past and
his prospects for the future. All re
gard the present as critical for him
and for the country. The best thing
that is being said of him is that dur
ing all these two years he has shown jjran.
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try and has served it as well prob- j B 'that would take the pi
ably as ny other man in the country are: Miss Sylvia Ammons, Messrs. lost
could have done. His interest has ex- Falk Johnson, Oscar Carter, Billy The total which was expended by
tended to every man, woman and.!peek an(j jj. Cox, from Wake tne National Red Cross was $3, 537.
child in the United States; he has Foregt j46- Tne County Board of Commis-
done all he could to see that no one , sioners passed an order that all delin-
suffered for the necessaries of life; KOy reiumea iy im quent taxes on the houses and lande
his plan is to make it possible for all 'four day trip to Raleigh, Winston- affected should be pardoned and these
to earn a decent living for them-jsie and rim-han, where with her amounted more or less to $1, 000. 00.
gave the work
squads who rebuilt.
The Red Cross gave the materials
that were necessary for replacement
and also the household furnishing
ace of what
selves and thus maintain their liberty
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.,....., i rtiao tile iNanunui jvvu ruao suuuucu
husband, she had visited a number of
to uiauivcia iu i.iimim;s, which unu
nnH self-resnect. Now as the second
half of his term is beginning, the .mends ana relatives. ,,ogt thAr bed ciotning.
great majority of our people are with I Miss Hazel Sprinkle, who has been Three persons were sent to the
him .rather than with any selfish in- teaching at Hot Springs is home a- j hospital and expenses for these were
terests that think only of getting the ) . t. - nnni paid including their transportation.
blessings of the government for them-1 6
selves. We may accept as generally there.
true of the President in all his re- Mrs. I. N Carr, who has been in
lations what the Detroit News says tha Minion hnsnital following on ob-
of him with reference to his relations
to the Senate, as follows:
Our inclination is to support the
(President, whether he decides to
fight or to compromise, for the sim
ple reason that it is better to have
definite action than a Congression
al fight that may easily lead to such
confusion as will turn the country
over to reaction. The people have
not spoken; they. have no oppor
tunity to : speak. Bnt if there
could be s referendum, we have no'
doubt that m ' e, choice between
Franklin Roosevelt and the hybrid
Senate majority of One they would ;
take the side of the President.
. -"-Biblical Recorder.
eration two weeks ago, is expected
to return to her home here the lat
ter part of the week.
Leonard Carter, who has been con
fined to his bed for several weeks,
is beginning to get out again.
UGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
'"Rev. J. B. Owen, Asheville, is sche
duled to preach the high school bac
calaureate sermon in the church here
next Sunday morning. The school
will continue through next week, with
other exercises at the end of the week
in the 'school auditorium.
The contributions from the county
amounted to $237. 50 which amount
was given by Marshall, Shelton Lau
rel, Mars Hill, Flag Pond and a con- -trtbution
from Bluff. Other places
will still be heard from. Asheville
contributed also $118. (00. This
whole amount was sent to National
Headquarters.
We wish to thank the great Red
Cross Organization for sending as
the most efficient corps of workers
to help end for its most liberal con
tributions of money ' and blankets '
and for the haste with which it came '
to help us in' the worst disaster that '
has come to our county.
W. E. FINLEY, Chairman. -, t ,; . v
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Miss Georgia Wilson is serving this; .
week as court stenographer, in the ah- j
sence of Mr. Emmerson Eve. .