r_s? / ? | Let's S tart Witt VI v M -1 7?SP? 1 ,"^ p?- ? } .?<*| A New | ! ? Year's Song 5 Cixiiiiiiiiriiiiiixiiniij 1 ON NEW TEAR'S EVE in England, ' J All in the olden ?o; But hearts still beat as hls?h with love As once thev used to do? Bo take the old-tlni. message. Good frlen Is. both far aod i.mr; "God send you happy. God send you , f happy. Pray God send you a happy New Y?-ar!" ?Nora Archibald Smith. A Rule nf Life " ^dL r^TT-^HOUGH every day Is a new beginning, and so far as our personal experience is concerned a "new year" may start any time, there is Something about the ending of December and the first week or so of January that makes even the careless thoughtful. The passing year has brought both joy and sorrow?what may not the next have in store? Where shall we be when the New Year bells fall on our ears again? Who will be with us? Shall we be ill or well? Disquieting questions that disturb our ease and make us inclined to fear. We have blundered sorely, it may be, in the old year; some of Its pages are blurred with regret, or the sombre stains of remorse. And no matter what happiness may have l?e? n purs, there Is always something we did or left undone which saddens us as we rememtter. Shall we make the same mistakes once more, leave the same blotted record? Our hearts grow chill, and we turn away, disheartened > ^ . - - JjL=r}\ L,. ?e neglected nnd keep them in the forefront of our minds. Hut to raultf ,'iv?THWS l> I OTft in :>i :i i\?". I'T s one which, fnithfully kept, will | nake us both blessing and blessed. The It :.e of I.ove. Just loving our] neighbor as we love ourselves: serving) dm. trusting him. hoping for him. ( oven under gr.iv-.- provoca-' tion from saying what would sting If he sc. id it t wi; forgiving him as we would t o forgiven: considering him as ivo wniid '* considered: helping him when lie needs it with the thoughtful W'llcrtey wlilch makes help acceptable instead of humbling; respecting Ids t.is pre.itidice, his infirmity; laughing with him instead of at him; und. -I e?ild latere -on;e a time when i begun with the resolution that we would not leave ;r thing - ah?mt. nor lose them, nor hide them away! For we cannot he untidy all to ourselves any more than we eun he ill tempered and not spoil someone else's pleasure; and nothing Is more upsetting to already wearied brains than the i'uss and worry of hunting for things which should be ready to ban The Rale of Punctiliousness in little things, tl.nt famous "oiler of the wheels of life." will make us both polite and punctual, as we must he If we would he pleasant to | work with (Judging other people's i nr??fer.?n.*i>< hv .?ni- rtn n M Tho Ttnl? of Oetting-TTp-ln-Time (this almost deserves all capitals!) means. If kept, a great ileal more than oar own conveniences. since everything we do or leave undone Is bound to react on our neighbors. And even if we often fail to keep, even fitfully, the golden rule which enjoins us to love them as ourselves, every effort we make in this direction brings its own reward, here and now. As we grow into the hahit of thinking of people kindly we cen?e to be annoyed at their peculiarities, and create an atmosphere of good feeling io which they cease to be annoyed at ours. We must always remember that tfco bearing an;' forbearing is not needed on our side alone?as Thomas a Ivempls said long ago. when we find our neighbor difficult to put up with, we may be sure that he finds it equally difficult to put up with us. Th^re will always he need for self-control and patience: but when we reckon up gain and loss on the eve of 1923. in the measure we hare kepi the Rule of Love, so one will outweigh the other. "We turn and look upon the valley ;?f the past year." says Stopford r.rooke. "There below are the spots rained by our evil and our fear. Put as we look a glow of sunlight breaks ii]ion the past, and in the sunshine is a soft rain falling from heaven. It w:; sites away the stain, and from th# purity of the upper sky a voice seems t?> descend and enter our sobered hearts. *My child, go forward, abiding 'it ;;1?. hope, and love, for lo, I am with you alway' . . ." May the New Fear bring us all near each other as children of the same dear Father.?Exchange. NEW YEAR DEMANDS OUR BEST. When people calmly talk over their troubles there are few of them that cannot be adjusted satisfactorily. It's this suspicion and hate that block progress. Let men learn the real nature of their fellows an 1 there will be a change In their attitude toward them. There's enough good in e\erj man to change the nature of the world. Let's get busy and dig up the noble sentiments and hopes that arc buried beneath years of unfair thinking and cheap theories of living. The New Year demands the best we can pro dot'.?Grit THE WATAUGj I pT^R^LimE^EWYEAR^ j g By MARTHA 3. THOMAS 11 8 itHp 11M Little New Year" is a 8 { ft *. very eager youngster. Lie ft ft !??>;? < :>t?? view overnight; in ft . ft fact. one scn.ud's difference Is 8 ft the margin between his being is g n thiiitr at all and then apiH'ar- ft s> ing as something very definite g I ?> to reckon with. From the nun- si ? tite lie daps his eyes wi yea. he ft belongs; he is your "Little New 8 Year" and you've got to decide H X> pretty quickly what to do with g ft Iiiin. There is no possible way ft ft eseaping th's par? r?ii -mm!. ft ft He's going t?? stick to you like ing to ruin his char- ft ; ft acter (anil maybe >? nr own) by ft ft rows and rows ..f peasant fibs ft ly to prevent a feeling of dis? om- ? ft fort about his growing up into a \ g harum-scarum boy? Lik? human (I, ft < hildren, he needs watching and y ft guiding an?I discipline. You'll >: , ft nev. r have the opportunity of | j ?< "raising" this particular lad y. ft - in. He will Up from you** ft ft humors ? n the night of T~>oeeniber ft ft 31?y.mr "I ittle New Year" ft ft grown into whatever manhood ft ft you've permitted him. y ft Lt'fs s?*ti: ft sturdy fell??w! 7 >Z i \ 1922. V'.slpn N<*w?p*pT-?rt fKn I . harter of the town of Boone so as *o extend the boundaries of the said I town. E ft. X. Hahn, "his Jan. 1 1023 j Mayor ^ \L ; FORELCOSURE SALE Property of Bo^nc Fork Manufacturing Company . in Cheroker I A'ataega and Avery Counties, North , Carolina. By John A. Hambletc-r.. Duff Merrick . Receivers By virtue f an order and decree of the District Court of the (Jnited States for the Western. Dis trict of North Carolina, dated Njvember 7th, 1922, entered in th< \ B?B \ DEMOCRAT ase of Summers Hardware Com>any. Lockett Bros. Co. and II. T. lacknev Co. vs. Boone Fork Manuaiturirpr Co. on a bill of foreclosure iled by Commerce Trust Company, L'r -tee. the undersi.-v i. John A. ^a'tibleton and Dud' Merrick. Receivers appointed by the Court for he nroiiortios of Boone Fork Manf.:,vu r Company thereinafter id tne Company), situated in ;;.tv . f Xorth Carolina and ,-i.veyed insav.I Company's Indcn ' it Mor.jrajre (hereinafter calli t-* Indenture ? t o said Trustee. . - . l !. 1921, and regis - i hereinafter noted, will ciTvr 1 v : title and interest of the nipuny in and to nil of .-aid pro> rties (nuv remaining:), for sale. public auction, at the time and daces and upon the terms hereiniftcr .' \ forth, to-wit: FIRST CROUP OR PARCEL. '.Vatfcr.fB *r:d A very Counties All of the property situated in -VatafTJa and Avery Counties in aid .State will be so offered for ale. as a whole, at the Court House l-.vir in the town of Boone, Watapp County, on January 5, 1923, at 2 o'clock noon, said properties bev.r more fully described as follows: A. The sav. niill and lumber mar.t.. plant of the Company, :u.iite single band saw >1 ill, with re-saw and all machinery, < -r pond, one planing mill, one dinension and lath mill, batte.-y of hree steam boilers, one electric : ? aerator, one stationery engine, * ? charging station, four locomoiv< . forty log cars, on motor 1 riven inspection ear. ??ne crank 1 riven utility car, '1 electric ra. or ? two steam log loaders, audi hree steam log skidaers, with all Ixturcs, appliances, machinery, tools, applies and equipment to any and very of said properties belonging v appertaining; Togelliei4 \iith all other mill-, factories, houses buildings, struct re*, engines, machinery, tools, apvacatus, supplies, equipment and ima}WwiY??-r.ts of every kind and uaUte, situated or contained upon the and. upon which said saw mill and iUHlb.? manufacturing plant is silmitcd, or in anywise belonging on appertaining thereto, and for a more; particular description of said sav mil* and lumber manufacturing plan, reference is made to the Inventory filed with the Court by the above receivers on November 2,I'd22; And including also all right, title and interest of the t ympany in and to the hydro-electric plant on Boone b'ork. W'amuga County, from which electrical current is generated and supplied for the operation of so, :.\v T?i;i and lumber manufacturing plant, a?; such right, title ami intercut in ami lo said hydro-electric plant appears hy contract between the Boone and Blowing Rock Lijjlit & Power Company and \V. S. Whiting and wife, and the Company and its receivers, dated September 25, 1922, and filed in the Register's office for Watauga County, to which contract as. so of record reference is hereby made for more particular description ami terms. B. The leasehold interest of the Company in and to the lands upon which the saw mill and lumber manufacturing plant is situate, containing in all approximately twentysix and three-fourths (26 3-4) acres as derived under the two following leases: (a) Lease from G.W. Robins and wife Luna to Boone Fork Lumber Company, Feburary 9, 1916, registered in the office of the Register of Deeds for Watagua County, in Book No. 19 of Deeds, page 530, all right, title and interest of said lessee having heretofore been duly assigned and conveyed to the Company; (b) Lease from S. E. (.iragg and wife to Boone Fork Manufacturing Company, November 6, 1922, filed for Regisration in said Register's office for Watagua County, and for a statement of the terms of said ieases and description of the lands, reference is made to same rs of record as aforesaid; The saw mill and lumber man ufacturirg plant, with the lands upon which :>ame is situated including the "First Boundary" of "Parcel Number Four" as conveyed in rhe Indenture, which is registered n the office of the Register of Deedi for Watauga County, in Book i\o WHHW e Worn I' ' 1s'' I RUNABOUT |i New Price Ij " ^ ~ F.O.B. DETROIT ||l| j ' | I Where can you find a greater jj ! I ^ value than the Ford Run- J|;|| about at this new low price? jjj ? I I I We believe, withoutquestion, J. f that it is the most economical means of transportation sales| I I men can employ. Time-saving ?absolutely dependable travel j p at the minimum cost. Terms j | DOONE AND VALLE CRUSIS 1 of Mortgages, at pages 87 to 163, certain interior tracts on which there and in the office of the Register of is a shorter time limit, more fully Deeds for Avery County, in Hook set forth in said Indenture, to which N'o. 11 at pages I to 163, and refer- reference is made for more comence is made to the Indenture for plete description of the said boundmore particular description. aries and for a statement of the (c) A tract of land in fee con- times in which the timber may be Uuninff five and a fraction acres, removed. situated near above saw .inili and (b) The Littie, Linney and Patlumber manufacturing plant in Wa- ten on timber, being boundaries tauga County, known as the "Bun- "Thirteenth'* and "Fourteenth'* of galow Lot**, and being the "Second "Parcel Number Five" of the IndenBoundary" of "Parcel Number Four" ture, containing approximately 2895 as described in the Indenture; acres, the time to cut the timber on Together with all tenements, which expires six years from April * houses and other improvements and 6,1918, as to the Patterson timber, privileges situated on or appurten- ar.d eight years from March 8,1918, ant to said land, as to the Little and Linney timber, (D) The merchantable timber, as more fully appears in said Inj wood and bark situated, standing, denture; growing, lying and being upon the (c) The standing timber on apfollowing boundaries of land in proximately five hundred eighty-four Watauga and Avery Counties, to- (584) acres known as the Lenoir i gether with all rights of way ar.d Lumber Company and Watauga other rights to enter upon the lands, Lumber Company lands, being the to-wit: "Fifteenth" to "Eighteenth" Bound' j (a) The "Hindman lands", con- aries of "Parcel Number Five" of taining approximatly five thousand the Indenture, the time to cut and (5060) acres, and being the tracts remove the timber on which is ; described as "First Boundary" to limited to Feburary 23, 1925; "Twelfth Boundary", inclusive of (d) The Linville Improvement Co. "Parcel Number Five" of the Inden- timber approximately seven hundred ture, and including also what is; acres, conveyed as the "Nineteenth known as the Ritts timber and cer- Boundary", of "Parcel Number Five" tain lands contiguous to said Hind- j in the Indenture, being th etimher man lands in fee, hereinafter listed; originally conveyed to the Boone i by reference to the deeds therefor. I Fork Lumber Company by th cLinThc time to remove the timber j villi* Improvement Company and on the "Hindman lands" expires on! Donald McRac and Hugh McRae . Feburary 26, 1932, excepting as to i V (Continued on page seven) M B B ^ ^ B Bl PB p^^jj^BHB| BjJ| ? ? !_ HB BE :>^^B Mflyp^w W Kfl HH Hn 9H |^H ji" HSI SHfln MH QjH IRH M LL2D 5. ^ _ __ __ ^ ^ __, _, __ I ^B ^B ^B ^B ^B ^B ^B ^fl ^B ^fl ^B ^B ^B ^B ^B ^B ^B ^B ^B ^J|^jB^J|^J|j^jB^|^Jjj^J|^JIJj|^M^J||^J||^J|^JB^^^^B^J^