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-'v W "'--vVv ::.-,: . "Mi : . ',' j- t. . ., . '; ,-!.. ..,';,':'v;:;r-;- Established in 1888. A Non-Partuaa Family Newspaper . Devoted to the Best Interests of Boone, and Watauga County, "the Leader of Northwestern Carolina." Published Wttkly VOLUME XXXIV BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH. CAROLINA, THURSDAY DECEMBER 21 1922 No, S 1 ' Y 'V .1 J 0 0 J CHARLOTTE HAS $350,000 BLAZE Sunday Morning Fire Totally Des troys Trust Building and Other ' Buildings Damaged. Origin of Fire Probably In Furnace of Wrecked Structure. GRANDFATHER AT BANNER ELK Early Sunday Morning fire com pletely destroyed the Trust Building of Charlotte and caused thousands of dollars damage to offices and stores in the Piedmont and Blockmann build-ings. The First alarm was turn ed in at 4 :30. The damage is estimat edat from $350,000 to $400,000 Temporary office quarters will be provided for those who were put out of business. It is believed that the fire started So tha boiler room of the Trust build ing where the furnace was fired by a stoker, using crude1 petroleum as fuel. It is thought that a large stor age tank, filled with oil was ignited, soon after the fire started. The cause of the fire cannot be determined ex actly until some of the debris has been cleared away. The Fire Department responded promptly and but for its heroic work, the blaze would no doubt have des troyed more property. It is interesting to note that the Trust Bui'ding, 18 years old, was the first building in North Carolina to use electric elevators, and for a long time was the tallest one of its kind in the State, while the Academy of Music had been pronounced at that time one of the finest theaters of its size in the country. SOME THINGS ABOUT WATAUGA COUNTY , By W. L. Winkler Watauga County was formed in 1849 from Ashe, Caldwell, Wilkes and Yancey Its population in 1850 was' 3,242 whites; 29 free negroes; 129 slaves. It had to vote with the Counties it was taken from until 1853 when she was entitled to a seperate rep lesentative. Riddles Knob, in this county, de rives its name from a circumstance of the capture of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, during the revolution, by a party of Tories. Cleveland had been a terror to the Tories. Two notorious of their band, (Jones and Coil) had been captured by him and hung, Cleveland had gone alone on some private business, to New River. On ois way he was cap; ired by some straggling Tories at li'o Old Fields on New River. They immediately de manded that he f inish passes for them. At belt Cele a id's pc:;mrmship was very poor, but u:i thi.; nsi'jn it was not o:ily pco but U''v tat they would kill him as a i.u the necessary paps;.? we; - .--Tini.-. When the idea was conceived to start' the Grandfather. Orphanage near Banner Elk there was only one dwelling on the, farm on which the orphanage is row located, and when Mr.'1 and Mil rs. J. W. Holoomb took charge there was room for only eight or""-- -'-i'dren, and when applications began to. come in for the admittance of more children, work began to en large the dwelling so as to accommo date others; an dnow there is a dor mitory for the girls, a dormitory for the . boys, the "Baby .Cottage" for very young children, a school build ing and a mechanic shop, and I be lieve that there are 52 children in j this institution at this time. Four teachers are employed at the J orphanage and the children attend,' school during the fall and spring, and J assist in making gardens and crops during the spring and summer months Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb teach the children to be industrious, and in or der to give them a balanced ration they prepare ail kinds of canned fruit during the Eummer: the small child ren pick a sufRicient quantity of blackberries to put up 1,000 cans or more each year, and while the smaller . children are picking blackberries the ; larger boys are preparing wood forj the winter, or doing some kind of work on the farm. A sufficient quan-j tity of potatoes, beans, onions and ' other varieties of vegetables are pro duced for the entire year, and hay, corn, rye, buckwheat and other farm crops are produced and the boys do this with but little other help. A number of milch cows are kept on the farm and a few beef ca.tle are kept' so that the children can have fresh meat, but there is not enough pasture land to keep many through the summer and have mead ow to make hay to feed through the winter. But Mr. Holcomb is trying a'n experiment on about 130 acres of cut over land. This boundary was heavily timbered land a few, years ago and when the timber was cut and removed a quantity of tree-; laps, brush and other inflammable matter was left, and when the fire caught into this almost every tree! and shrub was killed and the land , left bare, and soon the briers, bushes t and weeds spvang up, it became to! be almost a jungle. As the second! growth of young trees is of such a! character that it would never re-! forest with valuable timber trees,; and the land being useless in its , present condition and being expen-; sive and hard to clear, Messrs. Tufts i and Holcomb concluded to inclose the boundary with a woven" wire IMliill IPPliTl iOMIiiH1 m i As the Christmas season draws near, not so much because it is a custom, but because we are grateful we wish to extend to our many friends, our kindest appreciation for the courtesies' shown us during the past twelve months. Because of your loyal support we have been enabled to put in your midst a model plant so that we can comply with all your demands on us in the future with a greater degree of efficien cy and dispatch. You have something to be proud of and your interest in it is our great source of pleasure. With the hope that this festive holiday season may be very merry for you, and that happiness and good fortune may be yours throughout the coming years, we seek to merit your continued con fidence, and aim to serve you helpfully in the future. ' THE PUBLISHERS. OFFICER SEIZES MUCH-WHISKY Federal Agent , Jamet Bingham, Makes Notable Raid In ' Burka and Watnuoa Four Plant Destroyed. I l V On Wednesday 13th, Federal Pro hibition officer, James Bingham, as sisted by agents Kennedy and'Rjy, made a remarkable raid on the moon shiners. About twelve miles out from Hic koryin the South Mountains of Burke two copper ptills of about 80 gallons each were captured together with 3000 gallons of beer, 65-gallons of corn liquor, and all necessary equip ment for operating first ciass dis tilleries. C00 .His of sugar was aho confiscated. The two were only about half a mi'.e apart and it is reasonable to'supposc were operated by the same people.An additional 500 gallons of beer was found cached at the third place. Mr. Bingham gave one of fender a good chase, but he made hie escape and no arrests were made. It is estimated that the blockaders entailed Io?m's of $1,500 of more as a rer.a!t of thoso activities. Cn Friday the loth, the sumo of ficer captured c :.'0 gallon outfit on Sampson, thi.; county, aad about 150 gallons of uer. Mr. Bingham is makinj; a won derful record f cr hirrKcli; in the en forcing of the Dry Laws, and with enough men like him on tha job, pro hibition would coon really prohibit. OBSERVATIONS was a ditlicuit nr. ;um k,' Mm write legible. ""White thu.: , -ape." his brother, Captain Robert C"' vvt- j land, came up with a p sty v.: '-'c hunt for the colonel. Ilify" .Tories knew what was tai iv... . they were fired upon. Colo;: ! . ::. land slid off thu log backv.;,: ' to prevent being shot, while the Tories fled in terror. Some time after his. this wur.o man RMdle and his son were brought before Cleveland who, after taking the evidence against them, had thorn hung near a Jittle church known as Mulberry Meeting house, now V.'ilkes boro. While General Lenoir was on some business errand at the above hang ing had taken place, he was informed than some mischief was going on with his horse. As the General ap proached a man ran off from the op posite side of the horse. Lenoir had ed him but, just then his legs were taking bail. The Colonel followed in hot pursuit and when the Tory was overtaken it was found that he had stolen one of the stirrups. He carried him to Colonel Cleveland who order ed him to place his thumbs in a notch prepared for that purpose in an ar bor fork, and hold them there while he received fifteen lashes. This pe culiar punishment was administered by Captain John Beverly who did not stop at the required number After the fifteen had been given Colonel Hernden ordered Beverly to stop, but he continued whipping the culprit until Colonel Hernden drew his sword and had it not been for the inter vention of friends po doubt some thing fatally would have resulted, This gave origin to the phrase "to thumb the notch." There is a tree on the old Wilkes road tha to this. day bears the name "Shad Law Oak," because said Laws was forced to "Thumb the notch' on this noted tree. It is wonderful how wc have, ad vanced from the primitive ways of punishing criminals. Instead of "Thumbing the notch" now is a fellow has plenty of. money and a little pres tage it is almost impossible to punish him at alL It is the general consen sua of opinion that the lax way of ' decline with criminals now is rapidly .7' maxing vioiaien ox me jaw. ., . fence and put a herd of goats on it,? so they put up 000 rods of virJ (By County Superintendent) fence and about a years ago they Of course you would not expect purchased a herd of 15 goats, and , to find a great difference in the peo nfter killing three goats for mutton, J pie of the different sections of the thev have a herd of 41 goats and the ; county, however, there h a notice greater number of these are Angora ; able difference with a greater dif- ! ference in the country. ' It is convienent, in fact, roaU. 'Jh.r.r sera! T U.. as such an ace-.nir.iini.ioM is cunvwutui, m wu, I."'" briers .v.d y.-oviU n mchjthe habit of thinking of our county and tK in.li!1) '!- of fmUi by townships. A township is more :.iye cnouj-.'s. the effect t ( or' less a logical unit for a number . .... ' .c e animals upon me tr.icKeis isii k- itibie as it wiil lie v hc i when I wa? o' u precepi a boy I thought of j herd is greatly increased in mun-! Beaver Dam as the host part oi our . . . .. ... . i : r 4i.:.,i. n,:,. i.. jtr, and in many places it win ce county, mm i wuiu hkhu .- found that the goats have eater: t!n : as it should be with every boy. Every ender shoots of the briers, and when ; child ought to ue taui;iit to love nis he old i talks die there will be no ! horns and home community and think young shoots to replace them. Uhem the best in all the ccnincry. It is only, a matter of time until Heaver uam nas a gomi ciuzen- the goats will clear this cut-over t ship made up largely ot native stocK boundary of filth and grass will come: of about two or three generations. n its steed and then there will beNt seems that L'caver uam s second more pasture for sheep and cattle, generation has just passed, mere It should be remembered that goals was never :t time, doubtless, in the consume very little grass if they can historyof the township when there get to briers, shrubs and different ! were, comparatively, so iew oiu men of varieties of weeds, and they will strip the bark from many kinds of saplings during the winter months and thus they kill a number of F-mall trees in this way, and they seem to take delight in stripping the bark from apple trees, but care should be taken to exclude goats from orchards. This herd of goats should prove to be profitable for many reasons; first, they will assist in the clearing 'of the cut-over land with very little1 expense; secondly, those not desir able to be keptmay be slaughtered and fur:.,sh a most excellent quality of fresh meat occasionally; thirdly, the hides may be nicely dressed and sold for rugs at from $4.00 to $5.00 each and the expense of dressing the hides would not be exceeding $1.00 each; fourthly, it will be seen from the ratio of increase from 15 to 41 in one year, when it is to be con sidered that it requires so little feed ing even during the winter months; and in inclosures where goats have been kept for two or three years, not an .cider, Canada tr.isUe nor many, other obnoxious shrub . and weeds can be found. s L. D. LOWE. Bricklaying at Christmas in Watau ga is something unheard of before, but it is going merrily on as this item is written. The winter, so far, has been ideal, in the main, and work has, been pushed right along. The road : force - throughout .the county nave ne.en aoimr go.oa wort. I am quite sure a little higher per centage of the people ot Beaver Dam are clutch members than any other section of the county, with Cove Creek following a close second. Beaver Dam is the only township in the county that does not have a one-teacher school. Bethel and Tim bered Ridge districts have recently voted a special tax for the purpose of building new school houses. Beaver Dam, with its many fine features, is just now in very bad need of better roads. Its roads, with the exception of the Georges Gap bond built road, are in bad condi tion. The good people of this section ought to have a big meeting-all the folks present-and devise ways and means of improving these roads so so that every citizen might have a better way of getting into the high ways, being built through the county. We will now cross Oeorges Uup on a good automobile road to Cove Creek, in many ways, r.odoubt, the bent section of the county if not the State. Colonel Olds, who knows every corner in the State, has r'cpeated'y toid me that it is the' beauty spot of North Carolina. The soil is fertile. In many sec tions of Cove Creek the rock has a very good percentage of potash which makes a very fertile soil.. Its people are awake educationally, they have just about completed a splendid brick school building, with real ac comodations! Three hundred students. This school Is located on the. great Daniel Boone Trail Highway, which leads from almost anywhere to any where. This is destined, I believe, to be one of the great schools of West ern North Caroling I am confidently expecting to see in the no great dis tant future, the necessity for en--largiiig of the building if the State's ;iv.;ent educational program is car ried out. I hope Enoch Swift and James Hor ton, Watauga's grand old set :;:! v. :t. will live to see this schoo! :n full bloom. Cove Creek's futt.; .: ' ; j.Y-a!,; fier.t, because of the rrrtv.; ic.s co-operative citizenship in country. Cove Creek ought to be full of good cattle, good s-.heep and big field.; of eloverlor toil improvement. I?i "fact Watauga needs very little, com mercial fertiliser. Would like to tarry longer on Cove Creek, but must mov? on. We pa:-s up (Jove (.reek over the uoone iran Highway to Tennessee line where we hit a bad road through a corner of Tennessee for about three miles, when suddenly the road broadens into a line highway; This is North Folk township. This fine road extends fro.n theWatauga line to the Auhe County line. North Fork township has, doubtless, mora (hie grazing land, considering its m;:c, than any other in the county, and prehaps more good cattle. Near by, at Sutherland, Ashe Coun ty has established a high school that will gice this section of our county good school advantages. Smith Hagaman. A GREAT MERCHANT TRAINING SCHOOfc. ' ' TWELVE THOUSAND QUARTS WILL- BE DESTROYED ' Accompanied by a deputy, United States Marshal R. W. Ward, left, at noon Thursday for Wilmington with the order of Judge H. G. Connor, United States District Court, to des troy the twelve thousand or more quarts of whiskey which formed the cargo of "The Message of Peace," seized at Ocraeokc a year ago, and which was declared confiscated by the government this week. The confiscation of the whiskey was one feature of the agreement which ended the prosecution of Cap tain Aither Coleman, and super-car go, Walter Claude Graham. The car go of a thousand cases of whiskey, fctud by Capta. Coleman to repre sent an original cash investment oi approximately $32,000 is now esti mated to be worth on the basis of prevailing prices for bootleg whiskey around $100,000. Its actual value, however, with Marshal Ward swoop intf down on it with a 'detail oi United States marshals is nil. - (i'ev York World) When t'..e news cf John Wanna maker's tlejlb reached he managers of hi- N'eV 'y ik and I'i.ilade ;)hia es- tab.l-ijrae.iU more 1'.,,". l 25 o'O cm r.ljec v ...e (';. ;l-...-,ed f...v the day '-' tl.:::. fris;-. i.UvUitj had 'rown the little v.::.. :o cf ittz Philadelphia -.! who I-.-' in by delivering goods ..i & hrr.d cart. cause he could not afford a ho.-. , ny of ti o.,e 25.0:)!) aids had had r. .Mit! relation waa Mr. Vanna- il:;.: uf then: must have felt a fo. .. of Iosf, in his death. For a mer- ..i.i, deal.: more directly both with .i.u worl.i'!, v force and with the pub is 2 tlu:: mo:;t modern masters of big business. Even to his customers; Wr. Wannamaker's "editorials," writ ten by his own ha ad for use in ad vertisements, conveyed a sense of his strong personality. Mr. Wannamaker did not content himself with merely dealing with a public over a counter. Before he was twenty years old he had founded one of the most famous Sunday Schools in the world. His interest in local charities and public move ments was continuous and intelligent. His hotel for employees succeeded where A. T. Stewart's had failed. Ho was a pioneer in profit-sharing setting an example which has been widely followed. Shrewd enough to decline political honors oitereu !) bosses who would profit by his pres tigc, he was also patriotic enough to accept, in becoming Postmaster Gene ral, an opportunity to render sub stantial public service by devoting to it his unusual business gifts. His famous epigram that there were four reasons" why a parcel-post system was not established the four Rev. F. M. Huggins conducted de votional service at the Training School on Saturday. A basket ball game on Fri. after noon between Mountain View In stitute and the Appalachian Trahir mg fechool teams resulted in a score of '4 to 14 in favor of the Training School. J jyo social gatherings were given by the four literary societies on Mon day evening, the 11th, one at Justice Hall by the Watauga Society, and -one at Lovell Home, the Euterpean entertaining the Appalachian Society, to both of which members of the fac ulty were invited. President B. B. Dougherty one day the past week gave a vivid descrip tion of his'trip from Boone to Raleigh by automobile, and recited some of his experiences while in Raleigh, to the pleasure of those present. He wa3 off to Johnson City, Tenu., and other points the latter part of the week. The scene that surrounds your correspondent while writing this is one yial those east of Ridge rare ly or never witness. The dampness ! iroin the air has crystnlized on val ley and hill and mountain, making the fore: t loci: like crystal and cre i'Jng a picture r.i.eh as no artist can i,erl.-ay, it is so wonderful and in-' .-.-i Cutely beautiful. The loHo.vi.ig announcement tells it. own inlere;.ti;.g stury in regard to oi the Leathers of the Training School: "i'lr. LangJou Cheves Has kell invites yuu to be present at the marriage oi' his daugnter, Kate Cal houn to Mr. Ariie Raymond Smith, oa Thursday afternoon, December Uenfy-tirst, nc three o'clock. At home, Abeville, South Carolina." Their many friends wish for them the best on life's journey. WATAUGA HOSPITAL IN OPERATION It is gratiliying to know that at last Boone has hospital facilities. The Watauga Hospital is no open, at least one patient is taking treatment and a large number Want to gain admission as soon as the institution is a little better prepared. . The hospital is to be modern throughout, the building is well ap pointed, and this section is to be con gratulated upon the enterprise of the local phy'sicans and surgeons who made it possible. SOME TRAPPER reasons being the four big express companies had. more to do with the final establishment of th&tv ser vice than any other single argument. Mr. Wannamaker was as a mer chant more successful than Stewart and enjoyed in general a finer car- escaping the futil'ty and failure that dogged many of Stewart's un- takings outside of his business. He had not the opportunity of Marshall Field in a newer section cf the coun-, try. The skill, patient industry, the unvarying probity and the touch of genius with which he achieved a sig nal success in a. field already ably occupied marked him as among the great merchants of all time.' Mr. Amo3 Adams, of Vilas, who was being much bothered with hawks that were making bad inroads -on; his poultry fell on this plan for their destruction, and it worked. He took a dead hen and nailed her fast to a stump, and set thereby a steel trap, and the total caught was five hawks and a house cat. A CORRECTION . .In cur last iiiue we noted the fact ' (or ihoi-sht we did) 'that Mr. L. N. Porkin' brother William had di4j, , at .Hily, .Idaho.. Oh! Horrol When the paper wi off the preV.J V we were urprited to'ee'tht w;.;;l3. had printed the death of. Mr. Fe . : ' kim mother William-. Thi eeema tii' in most vhpardoaabl bnt'it2a iC V . .; -3- V
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