North Carolina Newspapers

. j ' P. - HI Established in 1888. A VOLUME XXXIV SAILORS TELL OF Fl FOR LIFE WITH M SHIP IS DESTROYED ? Crew of Tuscan Prince Makes Way to Barren Coast of Village Island. J ENDURE-THE COLD I Seattle, Wash. Feb. 17.?A story of a long battle through thick fog and j heavy seas that culminated in ship-; wreck on the barren coast of Village] Island, of a long wait in bitter cold and driving snow before iescue finally . came was told by survivors of thhe wrecKea steamer (Tuscan Prince on' board the coast guard cutter Snoho-' mish today. Their story was flashed into Seattle by radio as the Sno-hornish neared the entrance of the The strait of Juan de Fuca on her, way to Port Angeles, where the ship-j wrecked men were to be landed late tonight. The Tuscan Prince bound from San Francisco to Seattle with a cargo of pie iron and coke struck a reef at Vi!iage Island near Ucluelct, at 3 o'clock Thursday morning. At that time, according to officers, the reckoned position was in deep water somewhere south of Cape Flattery. An unknown northwesterly current and a series of soundings which when] applied to the chart gave a wrong position, were blamed by them for! the error in reckoning which resulted in disaster. The Tuscan Prince hove to until daylight to make navigation less hazardous an 1 menaced by huge seas, struck without warning. There wasj a bri? f call for help by radio, then ! a grer.? wave smashed over the side and put the wireless set out of commission. In ten minutes the vessel j was stranded and had broken in two. i The first wave had carried away the propeller and rudder. Grinding on the rocks, the steamer crashed over a ledge and wedged J tightly Seas broke over the decks, carrying away the weather boats. ?fUJ - - 1 * * - - ? vaviu||i .M.uucia oraerta rocitets and flares sent up but they were not ser.i. One of the port boats was launched, but it was dashed ashore almost immediately and destroyed. Its one occupant, a seaman, was saved by being thrown on the beach by th? waves. The seaman carried the line ashore. A heavier line dragged to a vantage point by means of the first one, enabled t.ho>?e who so desired to abandon the wrecked* vessel. The men managed to bring with them as they left the vessel a quan- 1 tity of food and water and fires were;; lighted and then without shelter they prt pnred to wait f ir rescue. Their ; 'i i prison \\?.- 100 yards;1 long, and . 0 v rds wide, bush covered. "There were 70 li >," sail the BlCSsiij ;?. f i hk- SilO V^aliall. Day finally nine and at low tide a detail went ba !' i"?? the - h*#> f * 1 more provisions. The r rations wcr limite ! to one biscuit d two o nces of canned meat each day. Th. suffered badly from expo:i;sv nu* ; ey had little clothing. Snow was melted to furnish more i water. The day, they said wa.- heartbreaking. Once as mall beat app ar ed and the crew hoisted signals and shouted until their voices were hoarse, but without, avail. The boat passed by. Some time during that night the | lights of v hat appeared to be a large ' ship shone through the darkness, j Rockets and flares were sent up, but utuni'UKii vney ourma brightly thi ship gradually drew away and disappeared. It was the derelict Nika, \ drifting by with flames smouldering ] 1 in its hold, the aftermath of a fire 1 that had destroyed it the day before ' off the Washington coast. 1 On Friday the men had about given 4 up hope, as the day wore on without ' sign of ship or boat. Late in the day ' a surf boat appeared. The men had i [ been seen and rescue was at hand. 5 The surf boat, from the life saving! station at Mamftcld, and the Snoho-! J mish, summoned by a report, tnot a , Japanese fisherman had sighted the stranded vessel, had hurried up the! coast for a point near Clo-Ose, where} 1 the 32 members of the crew of an- . other steamer, the Santa Rita, wrecked in the same gale that bvout destruction to the Tuscan Prince were likewise huddled together on the J beach waiting for rescue. By nrghtfal! last night 14 of the ! Tuscan Prince's complement of 43 of- * fleers and men had been transferred 1 to the Snohomish. Darkness made 8 further work hazardous and the oth- ? ers remained on their island for the 1 * night. They were taken olT today. Ix Then the Snohomish steamed fori Clo-Oose where at neon the Santa) 1 Rita men were taken aboard. They T had previously been brought out to the cutter Algonquin from the beach ' in small boats through the surf. One 1 was badlj injured. We're Making Progress Anyway? > , " \ > They've found the germ that causes the flu? j And now if they can only find] the germ that causes a wife to shoot her husband, the one that causes mo- , torists to run down pedestrians and the one that causes bootleggers to i sell their victims wood alcohol our chance of living to be as old as .. Methusaleh is going to be greatly im- 1 ^ proved.?Ex. j 11 Mte i Non-Partisan Family Newspaper. Dc BOONE. V* JRIOUS BATTLE j AD PACIFIC WAVES RADIO WILL BROADCAST I STATE HIGHWAY ORDERS. A radio receiving: station in each district office to receive information j and instructions from headquarters! in Raleigh is being planned by the i State Highway Commission it is announced. Arrangements have been made with the North Carolina State Col- ' lege to use its broadcasting station' ai li o'clock each morning and 7:30 each evening to handle the highway department's matters to engineers. j After making a study of the possible use of radio in giving instruction and other material information to the hundreds of workers thruout. the state, the department decided to have the receiving station? in each district and to urge resident engineers everywhere to install sets so that they may be in daily touch with the main office. Important information relating to the condition of various highways also will he broadcast for the benefit of tourists and travellers, it was stated. These bulletins it was indi- , cated, will be published in the daily newspapers. Officials pointed out thai North; Carolina would be one ox the first ; states in the Union to adopt this method of communicating with its , highway department employes. < loser cooperation and better and 1 more rapid transmission of messages ; ; are expected to result from the pro-1 grain i< was stated while it wasj added that later it might be possi-j Me to establish broadcasting sta-jl tions in most of the districts. Go ' eminent aid, it was understood, willji be asked to carry out the plans. I t The receiving stations are ox ? pected to he installed in each of the districts by March 1. THE BILL THAT i MADE TOWN BIGGER i < ( r " ? wui purcit uimiti ot Doonc bxUnd- ] ed by an Act of the Legislature. \ ?? HThe Bill >.< . . ~ ^ , The bill to make Boone* a bigger ' town which passed the General As- < sembly last week is being reprinted * in full so that those who are familiar t with the landscape in this vicinity t will know Just how much territory ' the act gives the municipality: The General Assembly Do Enact:.1 Section 1. That the corporate lim-j i its of the town of Boone, Watauga'? County, North Carolina be and thejt same are hereby extended so as to i ' include the following territory: Be-j< ginning on top of the Lpvill Pinnacle |? and raos thence a southern direction j < to the I.ovilf spring on the south] side of the highway; thence in a sou-- \ then direction to the top of the first i ridge* J nee ip a southeastern diree-j tion to the top of a ridge above Wal- < ' l Carp's house; thuece cant and with i !he main top of the ridge to Ed Far- ! . h;ng*s southwestern corner, therce j down on the same r?dge in an eastern . direction to the Linvilla River Rail-*< \ ay, thenec in n north direction with an, road to the W. S. Whiting Dum- j my line 01 'logging road, the nee in a oi l hern direction with said Dummy ; Line or logging road to Will Coffey's ; house, so as to include said house. thence ir. a northern direction to the 1 first trestle on the Dummy Line near 1 the la 1x0 trestle, thence in a western i direction to a spring above Joe Har- < din's house near an old building, and ?. in a western direction to a sharp curvj in Junaluska road near Gus Fforton's 1 thence in a western direction to the i ginning. I a Sec. 2. That the Aldermen of the' \ town of Boone Watauga- county and j their successors in office are hereby j authorized empowered and directed; to ascertain and determine hte north 1 and south center line across said town according to population, and toj expend for improvements the same < amount of money on each side of.c >aid line. \ 1 Sec.. 3. That all laws and clauses!! af laws in conflict with this act arejj; Hereby repealed. j t Sec. That this act shall be in j f force and effect from and after its f ratification. a TRIPLE WEDDING AT SOLDIERS a HOME 1 BILOXI. MISS. The Jefferson Da 1 irii Soldiers' Home at Beauvoir, near v leor was in gala attire tonight, pre- t aaratory for one of the greatest ev- c nts in its history tomorrow ? e hree Confederate Veterans the youn- 0 test 79 years of age and three widows ?f Confederate veterans the young- ^ est 72, will be marreied at a triple s wedding ceremony. v Four couples were to have been a married but one of the brides to be c was called away by the illness of n: son, and the luckless prospective J F bridegroom will be forced to assume { :he role of spectator instead of oc- * ;upying one eighth of the center ofj^ the stage. I ^ UNCONVINCED |l Bishop Bloomficld confesses that' . is a county curate he thought very j ^ highly of a sermoYi he had preach-1 * 2d on "Atheism'' and was so impru- J lent as to ask a farmer with whom * he had walked from church how it ? struck him. "Well si^* he replied, 'for all you did say, and no doubt It was very clever, I still believe t there is a God." ?Boston Christian ^ Register. s 1? ' n voted to the Best Interests of Be r AT AUG A COUNTY, NORTH. CAl WIPE OUT KUKLUX SAYS THOS. EDISON ON 79TH BIRTHDAY 7HOS A. EDISON PASSES ANO THER MILESTONE Electrical Wizard Starts on first Lap Towards his 77th Birthday. West Orange, N. J. Feb. 15.? Thomas Alvah Edison, electrical wizard. started on his first lap towards his 77th birthday Monday by receiving hundreds of messages of con gratulations from all parts of th* I ??*... * - ?* - ' ^ nucu utaics ?uu t'men^ining several guests at his home and answering questions of newspaper men or domestic and world altnirs. Briefly the famous inventor think* the navy is a "closed corporation," the Ku KIux Klan should be wined out. the British debt refunding scheme is all right; the French arc right in occupying the Ruhr, the Gi>r n:;r: . are bad losers and the British good sport* : Con - isn't a fake, and seems to be in earnest.; booze will net b a critical issue at any time; and America should be sola r; the newspapers print too much scandal and "politicians makek suckers out ol the pub]i.- hersbusine: condition? are shaping nicety; college men don't know what's going on; r.ev.-papei men "would have to hi- a bunch ol nuts" to understand what his "conriwinces' aie all abor t; ln?" American' girl is fine?none better," and the helicopter is good in the Held of invention. Mr. Edison also wants the world to know that he likes the movies pretty well. When the newspapermen were Hearing the end of their interrogations the inventor gave them a point r on how to spend their time. 'If you want to spend your time valuably, why don't you write about .vhat's being done for the sick. Gr-t i story about the Rockefeller institute. Learn who is effecting cures md let the people know about it," Mr. Edison awoke early this mornng, arranging his program for the lay. and at noon he took up that part >f his birthday program which he ikes best?shaking hands with the nen who aided and encouraged him luring . the daya when.be waa .jmperimenting with his inventions. These old friends came from all nnrts >f the country. They banded together years ago, calling themselves die "Edison pioneers" and resolved .0 make a reunion each year of the chief's" birthday. Lately, according to bis associates, le has developed a desire to leave lis laboratory and question persons seeking jobs in his facories, something he never did in former days. The inventor insists that everyone seeking employment should submit to hucstioning concerning his or her jun. ideations for the work desired. It was this which prompted iiim to irepare the famous questionairre .vhieh he hands to ail job seekers. nf Mr. Eili-cin say the inly charges time is making in hi:, s an increased whitening ot the hr. r He continued steadfastly to lvfra prom arranging hi-, hours j i slee; ,ng 01 eating according to the divisat^ if light ana darkness, ilunger ai.-i fatigue do not annoy him when Injives himself to a problem. The great inventor attributes Bis iinaiiiig posv r of physical emiuranc :o the fact that his life had been a! -.lately free frm dissipation of an/ ti id. It is a source of much* prith lirfchday anniversaries that his pveonged labors have never been buov n on \?x> ' ilant. At his home in Llewellyn Park Mi. Edison's birthday was observed very auietly. His desk was piled high with greetings from all parts of the yorld. MR. AND KRS McDOUGAL JENTAIN YOUNGER PEOPLE Saturday evening February 1T rowd of young folks were deligh fully entertained at the b-. ..utlf tome of Mr. and Mrs. H. II. ?.iclb?. :al. The living room was ne r rlier and to add to its lovcii.te&s rrcat tire buined in the wide oh 'ash toned fireplace. After playing a numhei of gattu ind listening to some delightful m ie with Miss Hazel Carriger at th? iano, and James Dula at the Edisor., he hostess brought in some weincr rbich they proceeded to toast <>.\ he glowing coais. Different kinds jfj andy was also served during rise; veiling, and never was a repast more, njoyed than this one. Late in t.hn ir?<? tT/we? twU, vauti; dottrel 1 and Baxter Linney rendered ! ome beautiful selections of rcusk irhich were greatly enjoyed by all J ifter which each girl received a sma.'; orn cob pipe as a souvenir, and! ach boy a lovely little pink powd : >uf f. All too soon the young people bund htey must disperse before th. lock announced Sunday morning ?' hey reluctantly departed each one leclaring they had never enjeyt 1 hemselves bette r. Those present wcgfr- Misses hi* i? 3ottre!l, Kula Hodges, Ruth Benr.eo vellie Ccffey, Hazel Carriger, t? Messrs Baxter Linney, Dslia. rell, James Dula, Byron . ind Hubert Coffey. Trust men, and they will be true o you; treat them gently and they eill show themselves great.?Emer?n. tone, and Watauga County, "the L.ea< ROLINA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY MANY ARRESTS UNDER DRY LAW Second Drive for Rum Hounds in the City of Washington Nets More than Eighty Offenders . . Revenue Agent as Detective in City . Man Who Had Previously Led the ..Local Police in Successful Raid . , .Again Spots the Hooch. 1 Washington Feb. 17. ? Through the magic strains of "when Johnny Com?< .Marching Home Again" from the --rings of a violin in the hands i of .1 L. Asher, Washington's versatile revenue agent who for a week : has been assaying the role of a mod ern pied piper of Hamlin, more than ! eighty aileged bootleggers have been r uncovered recently and were arres. ted t -ay after raids conducted sim. ultttneously in every section of the i capita! More than fifty-six individI ua: mids were conducted netting in ] &&di; -n to the pri oners 3,000 gal. U liquor of all sorts. i s- hing his disguise from Ashcart driver and coal deliverer by if which he recently collec? ! vidences for more than sixty r;c.i:- netting as many arrests. Asher . la t week donned the shabby but gey viotfaes of a wandering minstrel . .-ek,:te 1 a harp playing companion i ft' . the detective squad, George . Bam i and from their limited as. sortmen! of old time melodies pl&.v ed their way into the hearts of , W.ishingtcnians and onto the trails of bootleg whiskey Whiskey and Wine A .tore room full of pint bottles . a.id demijohns of whiskey and wines collected by the minstrel revenue agents was sorted last night by prohibition chiefs and police and, ; orders given the raiders for their, . drive today. V!1 afternoon the patrol wagons; ran hurridly between the fast travelling squads of raiders in the vari-1 cus police precincts, carrying pris-1 oners to the station houses, while1 government trucks hauled in the. gallons of confiscated liquors. At cnc cf the busiest station j houses during athe afternoon stood i \tsl:vY" ?Trnfr Khnv<*n wmf well -drawn ! cu, an apparcnviy neutral oniooKer, I calmly identifying the prisoners, noli one of whom to all outward appear-J ances recognized him whatever. Their fingers worn by their eff-J orts on the violin and harp, Asher j ind Bauer in their quest for evi-j donee later switched to a grind organ and monkey arrangement.! Again they went into other sections! :?s hucksters the wagons making it more convenient to carry their ever' increasing stock of evidence while labbage and potatoes covered the1, whiskey and wine most convenient-; i 'y* . i Collects Much Evidence I In his new garb Asher went se\ -, I ral times oversame route beravelled recently in collecting evi-; itnee for the raids a week ago. j iir- uisvrjijise however was complete : and in several instances he obtain ?:d evidence from alleged bootleg Vers arrested! at that time. Asher who com. to Wii^irr.; on,: was unknown among the i ncu 1 ? ^ orid here until new- of his . 011ncction with recent g.'gantic series uI raids! Since police have been1 kept busy side tracking agents of' oootleggers attempting to "get a line| on Asher." i Asher tells Af ???n* ^ : . " ^ 3 ?o in ins wanderings last week of tnej bootleggers discussing in his pres-- [ once 4*this Hellcat Asher" police arc: guarding birti closely and it is thout he will be-sent- to another section of' the country now. j Lieutenant O. T. Davis and 1 vV^.-hingtor. Prohibition chief I In by j directed the raids. Mart than i i police and twenty revenue a. *nt-; | took part in the clean up. le ?ing; i i eadqiiailerr ir. twelve automol lej>. . HEAVY MACHINERY ARRIVES The lu-avv f.iarb '- > for the new | I p'ant af tin* Wrtia'iga Vurnitur. and : j Lumber Corn pnry 'timet: last week! ; and ia now in place. but the owner- : decided there were other p; -1 j ccs they w. re -.n need of. and on i Monday mon.ir.sr -Mr. W. 11. Gragg and the company1 machinist Mr. J. S. i Barlow left l'or Cincinnati, where j they wili purc'iu.e the remainder of! the needed machinery for the large nlanr ROMANCE ENDS WITH MARR1- > AGE ON RHINE COBLENZ Ecb. IS.?Miss Ianthc 1 | Virginia Stone, daughter of Colonel'David L. Sion^. . rican Ambassa-' dor on the Rni.v.iar.c commission j j and Lieutenant Mark A. Devine of \ ; the cavalry of San Francisco were; ; manied here la. t night Che wedding; !w*s the culmination a romance! ! began uo years ago when the. ! 3 inatcnant w ent .o the rescue of Miss j Stone when she w:;s thrown from heri i horse. Lieutenant Define is a crack-; horseman and the of many i .prize* at exhibitions that have beer, hold in the Rhi . !- ';?! while the Am-; j erican trops were kie. I Farmers to the number cf 5,629 were induced to secure and plant 178,830 bushels of improved seeds last year by farm agents of the extension service. Jer of Northwestern Carolina." 22. 1923 ! BOWIE RAILROAD Ml SECOND READIiNI DECISIVE VOTE Last minute news as the tell of the passage of the reading with a vote of 65 Vote Followed two hour Speech in a; Four Hour Session. IS GREETED BY APPLAUSE . . RaV-ih Feb. 19 Calling the last name on the roll at eight minutes I till midnight the house of represeo-? 1 tatives tonight passed on the second reading of the Bowie bill for the Redemption of the Lost Provinces by a ; vote of 61 to 43. The vote came after Representa- . ? tive Bowie of Ashe County, author i of the measure, had spoken in its . | behalf for nearly two hours, and the ' result was greeted with a burst of applause from the floor of the house and from the galleries The bill occupied the major portion 1 of u ( i;r house session of the house while on the other side cf the ancient; cop*t?-l the senate passed on third reading of the bill* which proposed ?- riicndmtntt to the constitution to 1 limit the bonded indebtedness of the , state to five per cent of the taxable . valuation of property, and making any sinking fund law passed at this j i session irrepeabl Bowie S'.irs House j t i ?-vsacTfiEttUVC I50W1C started thf ' I , lower branch with an impassioned t i plea in behalf cf the people of Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga coun-j ties, who, he said, were without ade-,: 3uate means of transportation, who i esired to get their crops to North.! Carolina markets, and who were en-,t titled to redemption at the hands of j I I the legislature by that body provid- j i ling means by which a trunk line of' railroad could be established. i i He cited the history ?>t che course'I of civilisation from earliest times, to the present day, touched upon the | A early railroad building in ihe state,1,; jtold of how the people in the west t nad^ralhtu to help the4 residents of t the eastern section tc obtain harbor J facilities and railroad transportation ? in time past and pleaded that help,; on his measure should now be rcn- 1 dered in justice to the people in the 1 west. 33 ; i Mr. Bowie told how distance from' c the middle west could he cut down I by the proposed rail route, said freight rates would he lowered, and r urged the entire support of the i house in accomplishing this aim. ; s Amendment < K.ille4 C His speech met vie a little debate 1 at its close So jeva: members qucs- 1 tioned him on Vechnicilira.es. Repre- 1 sentativr t o o i v atawha offered a an am. . make. thi State's Siuctv i: >:?.np iii 1.11c piuywvU Sioirt a line hi cent in. t . . of 11' and Rf;. . . # v iov;?i ad of fVar-net i o.A. V ' SillenSi:-. ' ;V-.. a! :cts ; i .. bill to any jotht r . 13" v. Rotb ?m- i viulows u- : voi. ,1 down i -efore una: ac .1 0:1 I it* bill was taken. The m< .... re \\ .. conic before the house thiru leading mhu>:ro\v. ' INF LUENCE WITH , AMERICA" SAYS ; LLOYD GEORGE 1 London Feb. 11*?termer Prime .Minister Lloyd George today during; 1 debate in The house of commons today, do bared the French action in c the Ruhr was a repetition of the * psychological blunder the Germans .. made ;:i I'.il l. Fit- asserted that it was es, ntiai that America should ?_ paiticinati in the solution. r ii.- v tend that wbat really mat- j tared :" i4> get America in with or 3 without the League of Nations action f He die not. believe that France, bow- r ever ?- vm?L could refuse ar. offer . made .y two of iiie poYVci'.S ; g on en 1 that had saved her from be- t ir?tr iw i n position Ge rmany was cc- \ cupying tooay. t 1 at 'he Government," con- i elude M ?\ Lloyd George, "to take 5 the u a rive first by approaching the . Oniud States and then with 1 here ^ apprc .1. hing France. Then 1 believe ( th?t l,..t Vv lA(r.?Krr ?.31 -U1- . . v? ^JTO.vi -> m ui: U UiC lO s surmount the difficulty." ^ in the course of his speech the ^ former premier said it was impossi-i 3 ble for the reparations and restora-' 0 ti??n program to succeed without Am-, s erica. The Americans, he commen- v ted, had the world's gold locked in. t their chests., and were suffering from ] indigestion ami surfeit. They had a s normal responsibility he contended \ They had shared in the war and help- j z ed to break up Germany. Their pres- \ r ident had signed the peace treaty and ; although the senate had rejected it, o that action was not on the ground V of reparations, but because it was : unable to accept the league of na- ? iitr.s. ! The Americans had morally accep- ] < .cd the whole position he argued. ? i County agents in North Carolina' conducted 23,165 crop demonstrations on 70,973 acres last year. Farmers in 275 communities bought .? cooperatively 15,703 tons of fertili- < zer at a cost of $1,225,199.00 there- 1 by saving $59,818.00 according to < reports from county agents. i Published Weekly NUMBER 17 iASUKE PASSED iLN THE HOUSE BY OF 61 AND 43 forms go to the presses Bowie Measure on third to 48. HUNCH WARNS THE HUSBAND Former Patient at Oieen Had Hunch to Look Under Wife's Bed Finds Instrument.;, of Death. Asheville. Feb. 1 ?Le\ i Earnest of I' ? x. a. a ran ji the W*:ihi V.'ar vv.*\ at pre- it patie .. ih ; . -r;s . ?spital had a vision of ;k?. .r piracy to briny about his death ai.d ;k ... - p[>i; it looked under his wife > d and found a lett from Uj-.urk ii. Gish Av.alea, ~A. C . containing a ;?>wder rive her husband according: to stute.vhich the writer told Mr- E/r.e.-t to lients of postal authorities who investigated the case a.- reported by Ernest and today caused the arrest >f Gash on a charm of sendfiag poi ' n through the mails with in'ent to r.iil. Fme i vas a patient at Given, n?.-p;tal. r ar here until September 12. Ib22. and ji was during his stay .here that Mrs Ernest and Gash arc uleged to have become acquainted. The note introduced in the preiiuinaiy hearing h.l<ro United Sines Commissioner Vonno Gudger here .odayand alleged to have been writen by Gash, reads: "Clara, my plan was to give him vn?s poison tnat 1 sent and told rou to when he bat! a bud spell of isthma, then we could live happy the balance of life and people would hink he died with asthma. Darling, >urn this up the monv i t you read t if you love me." Gash was bound over under a $2,000 bond to the next term of Jnitcd States district court. The arrest was made by Claud /. Brown, postal inspector who with tostal inspector Keyes _ of Chattan?oga, Tcnn., bandied the invostigaion. C. C. Demaife<>, city bacteriolorist, c-f Asheville. who analyzed the towder contained in the package alcged to have been found under Mrs. Ernest's bed sfttted at the preliminary hearing that he found it to be bihlorido of mercu.y, a quantity, in lis opinion, nurticiont to kill. A letter, alleged to have been eceived by Gash yesterday mornng was read at the bearing by Inpeetor Brown, was in terms of enlearment Another letter alleged to lave been written in October by Mrs Ernest to Gash forbid him to write ter again and stated he had "caused tnough trouble/' Gash was reloastd under bond furr;jh*4 nished by His father and stoutly nair.tair.s his innocence. ITEMS FROM THE TRAINING SCHOOL (Too late for last issue) President Dougherty of the Trailing School left on the 12th for Rai iirh to look a:\nr S/wU '-is At this writing: Prof. Rankin is seik vith influenza hut it is hoped he will >e out in a few days. Several1 new students entered at the >eg;nnir.g of the spring term. i he Boone Chans' -or of Commerce ?n the evening: of the loth enjoy i a luncheon at the? Critcher Hotel. \ large number of ladies and out of own friends were present as invited Mr. Cha? E. Brading Chairtv.vfi of the Chamber of Commerce of iohnson City was present as a specially invited guest. Prof. i. G. Greer ?f-the Training School acted as toast : aster. Mr. Van Doozer on the viola with Mrs. A. E. South at the pimo gave inosi exceiienl music for he occasion. The following made hree minute speeches; Prof. J. M. )owr.um on Cleaning and Beautify ng Boone; Mi-s.-rs \\ . R. Gragg and Z. H. Hahn representing the Baptist id Methodist Sunday Schools reflectively: Professor Smith Hagaman bounty Superintendent of Public Intruction spoke on the general inter sts of our county friends; Hon. E. S. Coffey was speaker for goovi roads Ir. Brading delivered the address if the evening-, which was full of parkle, wit and sense; The Chamber /as delighted to have him as well as he other guests present. At the close Ion. F. A. Linney in his usual happy tyle delivered to Mr. Brading a large Yatauga Cheese to be presented to he Johnson City Chamber of Comnerce. It was a delightful occasion iTtd ail were pleased to have invited :uests present. At the close a comnittee. was appointed consisting of drs. E. S. Coffey, Mrs. McG. Anders diss Pearl Hodges, Mrs. Smith Haginian, ar.d Messrs Johnson, A. E. South, and J. M. Downum to suggest dans for making Boone a place of *eautv. i J. M. DOWNUM. Twenty eight hog feeding demondrations with 34S hogs are being conlucted by County agent Dukes of Robinson County. He will have four ;ooperative carlot shipments to make in March.