North Carolina Newspapers

p.*- Four Ciif HESlataugi Semotrat. R. C. RIVERS, Editor and Owner. PUBLISHED ON THURSDAYS Subscribed wi-hinj: their addresses chan?eu a ill plea-* favor us by giving the OLD as v i as the NEW address. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Three Months 40 Payable in Advance, Advertising Rates on Application Cards of Thanks. Resolutions of B Respect, Obituaries, etc. are chare d for at the regular advertising rates. y Entered at the post office at Boone N. C. as second class ma*"* matter. r Thursday February 8, 1923 THE LESSER OF THE TWO It has been said that a financial brt ak i .. id for at own a- a Tire. We feel that in fairness to our J 11 iijm uni\, 1 ? i nv i information of tho.^- who contemplate opening places ?>f new businc here, it is our duty to refer to the assign- j met it made ^Ion?wiy sight by those in cl. a rgc of ire Watauga Supply Company's store. The stock, however, was practically closed out before the end came, and the values given have been the one topic of conversation since the tig 'hand out" got under! way on last Saturday afternoon. F row > reports, the prices ranged along about 100 per cent below cost! on practically eveivthriig and of course the buyers stampeded in their, frantic drive for the great bargain emporium?quite natural .to be sure, j But we an- getting off the key; a hit- This is not th" sort of financial calamity that is to be likened in j its effects to the ravage- of tire? the break that come because of a totally impossible 'oration, because; a town goes dead o: at any rate shows sign- "? sick n ss?:io that is ma the' variety of malady from which we shall now undertake to recover?it is the iesser of : no 'v. evils. T1 < Watauga Simply fcSmipufiy was one of ;ne first : business houses th>11 "pened its a oofs when business Ill liootu tvgu.-. V, )'.>m with the advent of i?- r;u : .ad and a A-m of Hjcadt'fi road-. h was founded l?y souk- of <u ii r.Mot. f;U?-visi oned men, and v/;s a success and a money -making proposition from the start. Stuck in the establishment w. eagerly sought, hands.>me dividends were almost assured, and the "Store of Service and Quality" grew and flourished, and with proper management would still he bearing the goiden flints. No doubt th<> corporation was involved to some extent before the newowners took charge this winter. Anyway it is natural to suppose a business i>f its magnitude was not run-1 ning ahsoiutly unincumbered, but it is safe to say it lacked many leagues of being "against the wall." The new men who ''threw up the sponge" this week, were good, indus-: iriovs fellow? it seems, and it is a little surprising thai they failed to' 'register ' from the start. They undoubtedly got into the wrong channel as many of us are apt. to do, for l : ?: - * bUC uusiiicsn. uiwe an amn^ L.IV.7AC began to splutter and miss as soon as the new driver took the seat, and now its stuck on the grade. In the same way as a mechanic must know his business to get the proper rattle ont of a Henry, so must a man know the merehantile business before he can make a dry goods store pay the bills and profit besides. Many a newman good, honest, and sensible, but without the makings of a merchant. Such a case is before us. However slight, there will be a riffle among ali our business houses it will hurt all of us to some extent regardless of everything, and but for the hope that hereby we may j reduce the effect of the break, this article would not appear. Therefore, again iet ii not be understood that a failure in Boone means the town is dying. It is more alive than ever before. We are all playing the game together and are all winners to be sure, but one is sure to lose if he takes a hand and dosen't know the cards. ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION FOR GERMAN OPERA STARS BALTIMORE,?An audience that ocupied every available seat in the theatre heard the Wagnerian Festival company, a group of German opera stars, here in their first appearence before an American public. Rounds of applause greeted the singers, who presented "Die Meistersinger." So great was the hand clapping after the first act that the company had to respond 13 curtain calls. The theatre management stated that advance sales of tickets indicated that packed houses would greet the artists in their, four remaining performances in this city. The orches-, tra, before opening the overture, played the "Star Spangled Banner,"with all the musicians standing. The 108 members of the company! which includes a full chorus of 601 men and women, arrived in New; York several days ago from Ger-j many. Many of the leading members of the group, at that time, stated: their pay in Germany amounted to about 25,000 marks a month. At the present rate of exchange thatwould be fifty cents in American'; ?*??.. money as the mark is quoted at 45,-! * Mr. J. M. Downum of Boone has been appointed chairman for Watau. co 5 I he Re lief, for the current fiscal year, and will handle the campaign for that great . na it*.. . gani; ation here, was announced from Raleigh by Colonel George Ik. Bellamy, state c".airman. Watauga county": q o n s $600 wl ich will feed cloth anu e l ate the tea children who are moth: r ess ami fatherless and assigned to this county for ?upp So ei - is the v. ark of the Near En t Kc *f over eas, that each child car: he taken care of and given an education on $60 a year?$.'? a month? : 7c a day. Mr. Downum will have the active co-operation and assistance of a number of leading men - ml women of Watauga county in this gnat work. His plans will be announced at an early date. In making this announcement, Colonel Bellamy pointed our that although the need has been doubled in the stricken Bible lands as a result of the recent massacre at Smyrna, the country's minimum quota ha- not been in: rtas?-d over ast year. M -re thai S00.00U refugi s were J*i\en ill! :i r r:u-f? lit .1 ..;i<lrlf?nl\ thrown cn the hands of the Near East Relief as a resu't of the horrible ma^anv of I.~>o,00" Christians in Smyrna, Other hundreds of thousands are now leaving Anatolia to escape a similar fate. Tin' regular quota of Watauga county w ill take care of its children, which is paramount to the .feeding; of the refugees. Ail fund, received over and above the regular quota w. he used to feed tine Smyrna and Anatolia refugees, thousands of whom haw already starved tat death, T he fathers of many of the children. who are now in the North Carolina orphanages at Trebizond, a port on the Biack Sea far removed from danger of a Turkish raid, were killed in the great War, defending the oil fields of Baku. The failure ol the Germans to get this precious oi j supply caused their sudden collapse in the opinion of military experts North Carolina leally owes a del?1 i gratitude t?? the fathers of thest children. Colonel Bellamy states. IF' NoYth Carolina is raising $20(1 000 Jjjis year to take cave of tin 3,334 children assigned t ? it. Jose i phus Daniels of Raleigh .e Ilonomrj .. ( numnah ami ( t-Ionel George II. Bellamy of-A\ ilmui :; >;! is ivlat: Chairman in charge of this work. W KTTS* ?ARL\ LIFE (Dan A. ('?:!? , i:i Oxford Rub lie Ledger.) The down.tali of Revenue Commis ! sioner A. D. Watts brings to tin ii.inu uiinc v*uitor 01 cue t'UOlic i.wl jrer a sad chapter in his early lifV At the age of 35 he was the edito: of the States vide Mascot, and soh his paper to accept the position o: private secretary to Senator Simmons , lie was educated at Davidson college and his mind and heart was as pun as any young man you would dm in a days travel. ' He fell in love with one of th? prettiest and purest young ladies ir States vide, who was heir to a com | fcitable fortune, hut the match wa: opposed by her guardian, a fine ole uneld. Colonel Watts made frequent trips from the national capital t< see the young lady, and incourse ol time there was a reconciliation, bul the young lady was taken with fevei and speed !y passes io her reward. Hei funeral marked one of the saddesl days in the history of Statesville, Hei death was a sad blow to Colone Watts, from which he never recover ed. Colonel Watts was elected to the legist uture, and in memory of thi: young lady lie became sponsor foi . ..\v .... u n?? -? * v..v ? ?uvs i?m ?tne initial legis latiou on which for a decade a agi tation were founded the hopes am success of the "moral forces." Colonel Watts* father was foi many years sheriff of Iredeil count} and he left his three children ii comfortable circumstances. The axe has fallen justly upon th< head of the guilty; but behind ii was a force and direction of ruthles: malice akin in disgrace to the de baueherv it punished. Colonel Watts is down and out but the newspapers and politician who would place their feet on hi neck have sinned already.?Charlott* Observer. * IMPERSONATED MEMBER OF CONGRESS, IS CHARGE MAD1 A grand jury indictment was rc turned Thursday, against Robert I Vannoy, of North Carolina, on i charge of having impersonated i member of the house of represents tives. Hp is allncw/1 koon ters to several rural carriers through out the southern states, representinj himself as a member of the lowe branch of Congress and as servinj on tlJe committee on postoffices, ii which he announced that the govern ment had a batch of automobiles fo sale for carriers for $50 each. J number of responses with money en closed are said to have been receiv ed by him. Vannoy was indicted severs months ago on a charge of using th< mails to defraud, growing out o the same transactions. 000 to the dollar. The leading mem bers' salaries therefore, during thei: American tour will be in most case, the equivalent of 20,000,000 mark: a performance and in the cases oi a few soloists, more than twice tha much. the watau( NO NEED TO CO WEST go to colleg1 "' itinjr tfcatcollege trained farmer make h'gher profits than the less foi invite ones. President \V. M. Jai ii .e oi the Kansas State Agricul tural College recently made u ph 't.r bgher caseation 'n the run d r'.-ts. His plea, supp u d by fact: i> a foi o'.vs: "An iirvi- ligation of the inconi of 5 .VI farmers in one county i Missouri, made by the M'-souri Co :e ??f Agriculture, showcd that t* educated larrat: > income was 71. p? r cent larger than that oi the utrained farmer. A survey of 60 farmers in seven counties of Kans; State Agricultural College, showe that the trained farmer has a greau income by nearly $1,000 a y ear tha those of farmers with common scho< education. "The United States Department 1 Agriculture reports a survey of thri representative areas in Indiana, 11 nois and Iowa. It is shown that tei ant farmer with a college educatic reovivcd an average labor incon of $463 more a year than a ma with a high school education ai $ 'J 7 'J more a year than the men w:i on e a common school edu<\.'. ion. "incll L'niver.-:ty reports th men having more than ? high scho . ii. .ation receive $225 more a ye; than farmers with a high school ed cation and $529 a year more th* farmers with a common school ed cation. They also report that o p< cent of the farmers with a distri . school education hud labor incom< , of more than $1,000, and that : per cent of the farmers with a hit ; school education had labor inconv . of more than .>1,000. Thirty per ce . of the farmers with more than hit ,! school education had labor inconi i of nj^re than $1,000. A high scho education is worth as much to ti . farmer as $0,000 worth of 5 per ce * bonds. A college education is wor i twice a> much."?Better Rural Li in North Carolina. CONCERNING EASTER (Episcopalian in Gastonia Gazett -Some weeks ago your editorial p. ? contained an article- on the qeusii* -jot when Easter Sunday comes tl year, muSttiordiig two dates that d . : r?vi citizens upheld as correct. Kasjas* Sunday for i'Jdd comes \prit L. I give as my authority 1 common prayer book <>i the i'rote i ant Episcopal t iuireh Tin- . rayer book devotes eight p:i - j os t?> movable days as observed memo era of the Episcopal churt . In order to know when the moval . feasts and hoiy days begin, the pray . book use; the following: . i "Easter Day. on which the rest < r pend. is always the first Sunday aft I the full moon, which happens upon f next after the twenty-first day t March; and if the full moon happ upon a Sunday, Ejtster day is t . Sunday after. i "but note, that the full moon, f the purposes of these rules and tabl . isthe fourteenth day of a lunar men x! reckoned according to an ancient E .1 clcsiastical computation, and not t s| reeai or astronomical moon." II Following the above rule, the pra t er book contains a table to find > ( r-day, from the year of our Lor I j 17 So, to the year of Our Lord, 201 ' nntli innliiuivA Koin?? * U , ?.?#??*: UI VI r twelve cycles of the moon. r' So should any of our readers d I sire to know when Easter Sund; - comes for the next 91 years they mi I consult the prayer book of the Pr _ testant Episcopal Church. INCREASES CORN YIELD r When A. G. Hendrcn began coun - agent work in Wilkes county, abo - eleven years ago, one of the til 1 men to be secured as a demontrat was If. H. Jennings, who lived abo r six miies from North Wilkesboi Mr. Jennings had bought a po i "ridge" farm of 1 10 acres, for whh he paid $600. That was eighteen yea i ago. At that time he could hard t produce over ten bushels of co: s per acre, but his acquaintance wi - Mr. Hendren rapidly ripened in B * close friendship and he endeavc , ed to follow the suggestions giv< s to him by the county agent. s About eight years ago.Mr. Jennin e applied about 16 tons of ground lira stone on one 10-acre field. He so1 ed the field in wheat, followed 1 clover seeded the spring. Since th time he has followed a rotation ? corn, wheat and clover. The p* , year a sod was turned under in t "I winter and corn planted early ? April. The only, fertilizer used w a 300 pounds of acid nhosnh?t^ r* mr s f * acre. Last fall one average acre w - measured out of the field, the co - was shelled and weighed and the i - suits showed 99 bushels and S ponuds. This was only an a vera r acre, and the other nine looked be equally as good. _ I On another fit Id of eight aci r Mr. Jennings made 160 bushels I wheat and ten big stacks of stra " In September he used the mowl ~ | machine in this field and cut ni j big stacks of good bay. The fie e now has a fine stand of clover fro f seed already on t? > land. Mr. Jennings .afire farm is u -! der fence. He ba3 a good herd J Jersey cattle, and ti e good old rid) r farm of eighteen years ago wou B hardly be recognized as the sai b ! place now. The acreage has been i II creased to an eveu 200, and Mr. Je t' nings still listens to bis old friend ai j adviser, the county agent. [ ;a democrat TRAINING SCHOOL NEWS ' A E A basket ball pa me at Newland j > the past week between the team of' - .( Appalachian Training School and "i Newland resulted in a score ^ l- ' In to 24 in favor of the Newland a team. ?. ?he second quarterly conference s. i t the iioo r.o charge of the Metho! i t church vas held at the Methon-ju -t parsonage Saturday night, and . , iTe .tiding Elder Williams preached! i t on Sunday morning to a good con-' e | .urcgation, considering the weather, j . : .. e his j. j^ience a thoughtful i l- ?i inpi ring sermon, id 1 c believers in the ground hog i> ? n can now take some consolation <1 i-i tlieii theory. The day. Feb. 2. r hov.evti. Missouri and possibly some in others? claim it is the 14) was pj.ltul -y c Lav, so of course he saw his ha.low. Snou has been com.rg down if i'? jiui- days so that now .he h? av?e < - now of tni season ?s ot the 1-j groi.. u and trees. It is too bad to ii- red it a snow of the beauty of this in j ? : ? the gtotind hog. but now the le] weather men tell us that this storm in . n?- irini Chicago-?W -ll: b'*},!' id '' ! ' lh ?onc "inincrcial Club had o i t intcresiiiiji, meeting on SaV :'l ?iav ii'crht. The nrineinal snenlcer ol v. ;is Mr. Van Doc or, of Xeinu-ka, ?r a creamery expert, whoso purpose 11- to encouruge the people here 111 10 establish a creamery. Some interu sting discussions resulted, but no ur uefiuite action was taken. After some ct discussion in regard to a re-organizaes in?n of the . Club it was decided to it) change its name to the Boone Cham;h her of Commerce that it might be es as efficient as possible by securing at information from national sources. fh J. M. DOWNUM ol AGENT FROM KENTUCKY he RAIDS NATIONAL CAPITAL 1 J. L. Asher, revenue agent from . Kentucky mountains who came'to *G Washington three weeks ago and has put in his time since in guises ranging from an ashcart driver to a Kentucky colonel at a fashonable ball 'a t week directed nu re than GO cap > itaj revenue agents and police in liquge or raids on GO places, netting the lui .iin-ri of about id) persons, including ?is 12 women, and the confication of if- more than 300 gallons of intovicants. Evidence for the raids, which were oil van in live police precincts at 11 hethis morning ami \yerc not >t- completed until late in the day, thej most ail-inclusive campaign conducing eb in the city since the advent of by prohibition, was obtainable almost en"h. i.rt :y by Asher. >le i he live precinct stations presented ci their buise&t appearances in years I as hondsmcn hastened to gain the le- release of prisoners practically all er of whom ui'i'o holi1 fin- 4:i r.oo u?;i or and police and revenue agents guard o? ed prisoners and directed the storage en of huge supplies of corn whiskey, he horded goods and wine carried in J front the raided homes in government or [ trucks and automobiles. In only one es i instance were the raiders disappointth ; ed by failure to find the goods desIc cribed by the Kentucki&n. he Invades the Underworld Asher first drove into the under.y-, world in quest of the bootleggers' ?t-; rendezvous aboard an ice wagon as d, a helper. He then switched to an :>i; ashca\r* and quickly caught the trail he i of victims as he picked up the "erap| ties" ir. all corners of the city. Then e- as a coal wagon driver he got into ay ; the homes again, assisting in storing ay away coal and modestly accepting o- pint bottle rewards. He later appeared as a piano tuner and again as a lawyer. Before long Asher had won the confidence of the principal bootlegty gcrs in various sections, and by aidut ing to store away goods in bis eaua st I c^y as a wagon driver an dhelper, or gained knowledge of numerous and ut clever hiding places for the goods, 'o. With this evidence in hand, the or raiders went quickly to secret catches ch these included holes in the wall, baby xs cribs, pianos, victrolas and chicken ly coops. Jn one home, more than 10 ra gallons of liquor was found tucked th away behind the wall moldings in to various rooms. >r? One woman was reported by Asher en to be selling liquor in t>aDy miik nursing bottles and the police congS heated more than a dozen such reie_ ceptacles, well-filled, from her home. As a retired Kentucky colonel at t>y a recent ball, Asher was introduced Ml to several alleged bootleggers, who of were arrested. He posed as an agent ist preparing to ship^considerable whishe ky here from Kentucky. in Hi? Disguise Complete as So complete was the agent's Miser guise that while returning to police ag headquarters one day as a tranp with ra several quart bottles bulging from e. his pockets he was arrested by his 32 immediate superior before the officer, ^ discovered !? s identity. ! t0 The raids were conducted under the supervision of Lieutenant C. O. Davis, of the police force, and R. G. Ruby, Washinton chief of revenue of agents. In two instances the agents w. raided four homes simultaneously within onr. city block. ne Just like a long letter from home Id to the fodes who have left the com- ? m munity?that's what the home town ' paper is. n "Well," remarked the husband at- ! 0 ter a onu and heated argument on \ the question of man's superiority ower I Id Woman, "at least there is one good, j ae sweet and perfect thing which a man ! can have and woman cannot." j: n~ "Never," cried the wife, pa^sionT I D" ately. "Never! I deny it! What do j id you mean?" "A wife," replied hubby. _ ' \ Anai' . wloi'rta i rnit'mrt>i?i2)iWri.imflfalii AiLK MANUFACTUREE SWISS c he Swiss Cheese Project Which, was S Making Slow Progress But Looks E usua-iy come Slowly. II. L. W iL? There ufo "twenty three cheese ; lunufacts red from December 2, ll?2I b? i> Feb. >, 1022. The quality of these a I heese were not as good as we wish- 01 <1 for, however they sold for a good ricy. It was decided at that time m o discontinue the manufacture of D Swiss ci.vese until about the middle ji ?f April and then to make about one 01 hee.-e a week up until about Decern- a >er 1, ll?22. It was considered ad- tl 'isible to install additional equipment ind due to the fact that it did not a; irrive until Sept. 1, the swiss cheese fi naking experiment was posponed un- h tl that time. Four more cheese were N nade in Sept. Two of these cheese! tl vere graded as fancies or were num- h >er two cheese. Having so few of T he number two cheese it was not p lifficulty to dispose of them at a rood price. It might be well to menion here that one of the largest S vinter resort hotels ir. the state. The j t rotal No. Gallons of milk used ... rota! No. Pounds of cheese made . . . . Iota I No. Pounds cheese sold Shrinkage per cent Average price per pound received . . Value of cheese sold Value of cream sold Total value of cheese Expenses Milk, 3,000 gal. at 19.1 cents Loss caused from spoiled an dreturned Total, loss and expense Total profit to factory Had the above profit been included netted the farmer 22.8 cents per gall "Expenses,** includes supplies, manuf invested in equipment. IS THE COUNTY AGENT"NEEDED ttcad this Wisconsin verdict: The question of abolishing the county agricultural agent, which lias ' o- en up in several Wisconsin eoun ties, affect s ih? future of the state's greatest industry and cannot be pass- . ed on lightly. j The county agent is the key not to itetter lurming. Ho brings to the j individual farm the results of the study, research and experiment of state and national agricultural de- ] partments. Through him their work , becomes of practical value. In Wis- j consin the county agents have been behind such movements as the eradi- | cation of bovine tuberculosis. They | have promoted cow testing associations which have done so much to raise the standard of dairy herds ' and have made the Wisconsin grade cow famouse. They have directed ] the surveys. They have been leaders in the movement to put the mer- ' keting of farm products on a bu:?i ness basis. Anything that puts more brains into farming and helped to take more money out of it has been v/ithin the scope of the county agent. * I '8111 I it Funny liC 9/ jjjj p how you can think, and uh . some more, suitable ' ad for your busi But if it is a house, we\ | Watauga Fur. V \ ? FEBRUARY 8. 1923 BE 4 ) INTO HEESE PAYS WELL | itarted Here in December 1921 is avoragle. However Good things 1| . N. C. 1 ?ughl one of the fancies weighing j K iit 100 10s. and four weeks later J "dered another. The plan which the IT. S. Depart:ent of Agriculture and the State epartment wish to follow is to make ist enough to determine whether r not Swiss cheese can b reasont?ly sure not lose any m. ?ey for h* milk producer. i visited with a man a few days ^ go who had charge of a Swiss cheese actory in Ohio last year. He said i?c fnelnrv nm-ned Anrill. and closed .'ovember 1st. and that they paid ^ he farmer an average of S2.00 per undred pounds or 17.2c per gallon. 'he fancies were sold for 28c per ound and under grades at 22c. The following i> a brief report on ^ iwiss cheese made in winter and falL J xperiments. 3,600 , 2,533 2,200.5 13 .41 * 002.20 129.00 $1,031.20 160.64 688.49 cheese 48.41 $ 897.54 t J 133.G8 I in the price of milk it would have Oil. acturiog cost, and interest on money Agriculture in the United States at a v.ii i . Farming by rule of f humb will no longe* do. New land >n which the raising of a top is i mere ? <11 nlnwin .1 Imr. eesli&j| is getting siarcc. i lu farmer can no longer look lor his profits from the increase in value of his ^ land. Unless his balance sheet shows i brofit from operations he is only ;roke. Marketing has become a complex business. If agriculture is to progress, it must keep in step with conditions, ind the county agent is the man who enables it to keep in step. County boards cannot be blamed for looking for ways to reduce taxes, lout crippling agriculture is not economy. Taxes spent for better farming are an investment whose dividends are more productive farms, and pro- j Citable farms make the tax burden easier. Abolishing the county agent is killing the goose that lays the golden egg.?Millwaukee Journal. The county agent system is based on the proposition that a man is never to old to learn.?Sheboygan Press. m. ' 1 i think, and ^ ' j then think to get up a |jj! vertisement 1| ness? |3 ' anything to la " j re got /?tl || | * 32 & Lumber Co. I 1