MARCH 15, 1523 MISTS COLLECT ssi,mom GASH Growth of Denominational Activitlai in Every Direction la Indicated as Result of Forward Program LARGE ADVANCES ARE MADE REPORT ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO 75 MILLION CAMPAIGN ISSUED BY HEADQUARTERS OFFICE B Mt mto . DR. EVERETT GILL European Representative Baptist Fo* Ign Mission Board. Up to Janu8cv 1. 1923, Southern Baptists had paid In cash on the 7S Million Campaign, their five-year pro* gram for the advancement of the general missionary, educational and bonevolent activities of the denomination the sum of $38,918,191.10. according to a report issued by the general headquarters office.. These contributions have come from the various states and other sources as follows: Alabama. $1,653,739.40; Arkansas. $1,165,153.36; District ot Columbia. $143.564 70: Florida. $609.016 02: Georgia. $.". 669.516.70: Illinois, 1320.48235; Kentucky. $4,122,039.78; Louisiana. $1,035 610.23; Mar-viand, $489,494.29: Mississippi. 81.591.011 34; Missouri $1,537.067 49: Now Mexico, f170.998.36: North Carolina. $3 365,. 330.21; Oklahoma. $1,052,438.20; South Carolina. $3,309,252.60; Tennessee, $2 340.766 77: Texas. $5,002.785 32; Virginia. $4,102,802.12 Special designated funds. Texas. $1,223,640.55; New Mexico. $403,072.6$; Louisiana. $105,100: Illinois. $148,591.11; Tennessee, $192,853.25; Oklahoma. $59,000; receivcd direct by Home Mission Hoard. $15,340; received from special source? * by Foreign Mission Hoard. $86,103; contributed by native churches on foreign field and expended by them directly on their work there. $1,003^ 3V.Qi>. Indicating something of the prog, yess which the impetus of the Campaign has brought to various phasop of denominational effort In the South, , ft la reported that during the three years of the Campaign period that bave expired. Southern Baptists have had 150.000 more baptisms than they did for the three years Immediately preceding the Campaign; organised 8,000 more new Sunday schools with 400.000 new pupils; enhanced the value of their local church property by 133,000.000; increased their contributions to local causes by $22,000,000; gave $18,933,832 more to missions and benevolences, and advanced their conffbutlons to a!! causes by $43,4Sd.4S(> during the three years of the Campaign over what they gave to all causes for the three years Immediate, ty preceding the Campaign. Gains In Special Fields. The Campaign has enabled the various state mission boards to greatly enlarge their programs of state and as sociational missions within their reBpeetive borndaries. it is pointed out: lade it pos^ ble for the Home Mission Board to complete its $1,000,000 Church Building Ixian Fund, extend its work among the foreigners. Indiana and Negroes, administer 134.382 bap. tlsms, secure 218.371 additions to the local churches, provide larger equipment for its system of 38 mountain mission schools, establish the Southern Baptist Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and greatly fncrease its work in other directions. . Some other gains in the homeland ^ Include the better equipment and maintenance of the more than SO academies, colleges and seminaries other than the mountain schools; increasing the number of Baptist hospitals from 18 to 20, and providing better equipment and maintenance for all of them; increasing the number of Baptist hospitals *rom 12 to 20 and * beginning the erection of three others, at the same time all the older ones have been better equipped; while the number of aged ministers helped has been doubled and the stipend given each has been greatly Increased. Mission Work Extended. In the realm of foreign missions tha Foreign Mission Board has been en" abled to send out about 250 new m!?alonaries, employ over 500 additional native workers, greatly increase tha equipment in the way of church build Digs, chapels, schools, hospitals, publishing houses anil mission residences ? to the older fields of China, Japan, Africa, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Par* gcay, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico, and open np new work in Spain, Jugoslavia, Hungary, Roumania, Russia. Palestine and Siberia. In the territory sow occupied by the Foreign Mission Board there Is a total population of MO,000,000, or more than half the peopls of the world. Due to the enlargement of the mis>* alonary program In Europe the board has been compelled to statlcn a gen> oral representative tnere In the person of Dr. Everett Gill, who has general oversight of the work on the continent and malntalrs his headquarters M Lausanne, Switzerland. i I % NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIOf The undersized having qualifii as administrator of T. M. Greene tl is to notify all persons having clair against the estate of the said T. 1 Greene, deceased, to present the to the undersigned within twel months from the date of this not! or it will be pleaded in bar of the recovery. All persons indebted to tl i .-aid estate will please come forvva and make settlement. This the 13th day of February 19J E. C. HODGE Administrate NOTICE Notice is hereby given to the crec tors of the Cove Creek Co-operati1 Store that on January 15th 192 D. C. Mast and Mrs. D. C. Mast so f h o I r ontirn in -*1 David P. Mast. That on or abo1 June the 20th 1922, through the di ectors of the Cove Creek Co-oper tive store, David P. Mast sold h entire interest in said store to J. ] Horton, J. J. Mast, John H. Bin: ham and A. C. Mast, doing busine under the firm name of A. C. Ma and Company. They to pay any ar all debts of the Cove Creek Co-ope ative store and all debts due san to be paid to A. C. Mast and Cor pany. This January 27th 1923. D. C. MAST, MRS. D. C. MAST, DAVID P. MAST. 4t-14-p | : m ,;! I ' I dated May 6, 1908, and recorded .i: ; the office of the Register of Deed for Watauga County in Book 7, a 1 page 428 to which deed and the re I cordation thereof reference is here by made. TERMS OF SALE; $f,000.00 i ! cash paid down on day of sale an I the deferred payments set out i: said order. The bidding to star above $4100.00. This the 14th day . of February 1923. SOLOMON EGGERS Commissioner. * THE WATAUGA 1. Th? Vanishing Farm. ?d "The Big Town." said Faruier Coroiis tossel. "is only 40 miles away." * us "That ought to make it easier for 1 ^ you to market the products of your 0 ' " . i ce T want you to understand that this > ,lr ain't no farm. This here Is suburban t! lie real estate." s rd j I Question. "j 2.J. 'What was you reading?" ^ "A New York paper. It says the 0 geese are still gblng soatlL" I "Is that a society item or an oral- ii i thological note?"?Louisville t'ourter- 7 H Journal. o k*e - n 1. tl NOTICE OF SALE g Lit P North Carolina, Watauga County, in G r" the Superior Court. Before the ! e a" ri i- ? | vicrn. " psl J. C. Clarke VS. Enoch H. Perry, c? *| S. J. Price and H. P. Cook, i Pursuant to an order issued by Hon. " A. W. Smith, Clerk of the Superior n s. ; Court for Watauga County in the c ( above entitled action, the undersigned t< r" commissioner duly appointed by the b ie court, will on "" Saturday March 24, 1923 offer for sale at the court house door <>f Watauga County, Bcone. X. C. the following described tracts of land: . FIRST TRACT BEGINNING on a spruce pine and poplar stump corner to school house lot, then.se south 65 1-2 degrees west 23 poles to a stake in the center of i the public road, thence south 11 dei grees west one pole to a stake in the center of the public road, thence south 16 1-2 degrees east 3 poles to Q a stake, R. P. Robinsin's corner, then with his line south 11 degrees west 2 * poles to a stake thence with same south 22 degrees East o 1-2 poles to v a stake in Perry's road, thence west ^ 4 poles to u stake in the ford of the tl creek, thence south 43 degrees west si 3 poles to a birch jthence south 50 de- n grees west 17 poles to a stake in the ^ creek, thence with the creek south jr 7 degrees west 5 poles, thence south 12 degrees west 2 poles, thence south } 7'J degrees west 2 poles, thence south > 19 1-2 degrees west 1 poles, tnence 1 south 2 1 degrees west 3 poles, thence xv j south 45 degrees west 8 poles, thence I a )t [ South 54 degrees west pole: to a c; j hornbeam corner, to S. J. Price; then si J. ! south 13 degrees east 10 poles to a 0 j. stake near an ash, thence south til 1-2 '* ! degrees east 30 poles to a stake in Lj ? N. T. flyers' line, thence north 1 1-2 1 degrees east 18 poles to a stake on a' top of a ridge, thence north Ti? de- ^ '* grees east 21 poles to a chestnut, then -r. south 52 poles to a buckeye, N. T. ! llyers" corner, thence south 12 de- ti "s grces east G poles to a cherry tree by 1 n the road, ther.ee south S4 degrees east JO poles, south 75 degrees east, 0 ^ i; poles, south 58 degrees east 10 poles ? ls south 28 degrees east G poles, south n 88 degrees east 12 poles to a stake, * j corner to Chas. Greer's, thence north j 1 )4 degrees east 55 poles to a stake, J ^ i corner to J. N. Eggers, thei.ee north ; ?; 7'J degrees east 7 poles to a stake on pi top 01 a ridge, thence north 80 de-; pi grees east 8 poies to a stake in Low j Gap, thence south 45 degrees east I ^ I 10 poles to a stake, ManU's corner,' il( I thence south 75 degrees east 34 poles1 to a maple stump, thence south 1 ' r- pole to a Wahoc, thence north 75 de e grees east 32 poles to a stake, corner Ul : to S. J. Price, and known as the Mit- ^ chell old corner, thence north 50 deg- ar rees east 25 poles to a hickory, thence s north 5 degrees west 1G poles to a tl, j( large chestnut, Price's corner, thence 'D( s: south 84 degrees west 51 poies to a tc stake, thence west with top of ridge j ll ?? ?.vl ? ? ?1 . ' ? ? ? " jiuiva iu a luigu ciicalir.il, ?J. X>. ICttn- j b hour's corner, thence north -1 degrees f" east with Icentiour's line 37 polos to aI *e' a beach, thence west with sain line te 4 1 -3 poles to a beach, on bank of o creek, thence north with said line 32 A 5t poles to a poplar in said line, thence south 59 1-2 degrees west 11 poles e( d to a stake on the side of a branch, al h thence south 80 degrees west near the branch a straight line 32 poles to a ' spruce pine, J. S. Dougherty's corner, . thence north 56 1-2 degrees west 111 a 22 1-2 poles to a spruce pine stump, 'j1 r, thence north 76 degrees west with ^ *s Dougherty's lines 36 poles to the be!S ginning, containing 95 ACRES more j P or less . s SECOND TRACT .* ADJOINING THE ABOVE. BE?. GINNING at a branch at a stake, d B. S. Smith's corner, thence south h 77 degrees east with same 40 poles W o to a stake, A. Grogan's corner, thence ds J up the bank of said branch 7 poies to th 6 a stake, Ira Mitchell's corner, thence e\ ? sooth with same 40 poles to a top of W; a a cliff, Ira Mitchell's corner, tiiencc & east 72 poles to a stake on the north wj >; turn of a ridge, a spur of Rich Aioun d tain; thence south 48 pules with poin- efl ters, S. J. Price's corner, with same 1,1 and top of ridge, a conditional line, 8 made between Bennett Smith and Jo- th ^ hiel Smith; thence with same and top g of ridge with S. J. Price's line south of n 75 degrees west 25 poles to a stake c0 e on top of said ridge, with same con- ar ; ditional line and Price's line west 20 . 1 poles to a stake on top of a ridge, ? with same and conditional line south ^' !" 71 degrees west with Price's line 20 10 j poles to a stake, near a locust, center 10 n to lot No. 1B.J. Perry's corner, then th s north 2 1-2 degrees east 71 poles to an t a stake, E. J. Perry's corner, thence lit i- north 71 degrees west C poles to a hi; * stake, R. J. Perry's corner, thence with same north 16 1-2 degrees west ;lr n 55 poles to the beginning, contain1 ing 50 ACRES more or less. j mi ^ Time of sale 12 M. Terms of sale Cash. | ' | This the 19th day of February 1923 H. J. SINGLETON, I Commissioner. . DEMo NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE | By virtue of an execution direced to the undersined sheriff of Waauga county from the Superior court f said county, in that certain action ntitled J. L. Potter vs Martha Main will on Monday the 26th day of larch 1923 at one o'clock p. m. at he court house door of said county ell to the highest bidder for cash o satisfy the said execution all the Sghi. t::ie and interest which J. O. . Po t r surety on plaintiff's bond, as in the following described tract I f land to wit: I Beginning on a birch in Lenoir's ne and runs west with Lenoir line 2 poles to top of Snake Mountain, hen M>uth 6 degrees west with top f said mountain 220 poles to a rock arked with four hacks and t44X" hen south 75 degrees east 41 poles 3 a buckeye on a ridge, then south 0 degrees east with top of ridge 55 oles to a small beech, then south S degrees east 6 poles to a buckye, Wir.ebarger's corner; then north ith Winebargeris iine 88 poles to his orner; then east with said line 50 oles to his comer; then north 53 pies to a stake; then north 18 derees wrest 105 poles to the begining. containing 75 1-2 acres more r less, and being the land granted ? M W. Kay and j. n j .Potter I y grant No. 18160. the 22nd day of February, C. M. CRITCHER 5 Sheriff Watauga County. iN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $14000.00 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND ING BONDS OF THE TOWN OF BOONE AND FOR the PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL THEREOF AND INTEREST THEREON, Whereas, there was outstanding, n the sixth day of December 1921. n indebtedness of the town of 'toene. in the amount of $15,000 rhich indebtedness had theretofore een incurred pursuant to the auhority of the Board of Commisioners of the Town of Boone for eeessary expenses of said town, to 'it: the improvement of the streets i said town by macadamizing, contructing concrete sidewalk, and by uilding bridges ar.d which indebtedness is still outstanding and of hi< h $1,000 will be paid short y nd the remaining $14*000 will be mcelled prior to its maturity and niuiianeously with the issuance of onds to fund such debt; and, Ai.i.cas it is, in the opinion of it Board t?f Commissioner.^, ad vis1>U and proper and ft?r the beet i.iTc-ts of the town that the sa.d xne.itedness be funded. Now therefore, be it ordained by if Board of Commissioners of the own of Boone: Section 1. That the town of ?-t?ne, pursuant to the "Municipal umnoc Act, 11)21," issue its bonds ^ ? be known as fundin bonds, for [I ic purpose of funding and paying j[ ic outstanding indebtedness of sa.d g= ty incurred for the necessary ex- p >nse^ thereof, referred to in the b reamhles hereof. E Section 2. That the maximum ag- [[ negate principal amount of said j[ >nd issue shall be Fourteen thous- ? id dollars ($14,000.) ^ Section 3. That a tax sufficient b i pay the principal and interest of E le bonds shall be annually levied E id collected . |[ Section 4. Tliat a statement of g te debt of the Town of Boone has c ?en filed with the Clerk and is open b public inspection. . E Section 5. That this ordinance E lall take effect upon its passage ([ id shall not be: submitted to the vo- g rs of the Town of Boone. = C. M. YATES, Mayor b . E. SOUTH, Clerk. The foregoing ordinance was pass-. E 1 on the 9th day of November 1922, ?! id was first published on the 8th ^ ly of March 1923. g utkiuu or proceeding question- ! e= g the validity of said ordinance | ^ ust be commenced within thirty 1 & ?ys after its first publication. j Q. A. E. SOUTH, Clerk. : | NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE & Under and by virtue of the power Q r sale contained in a certain mort- j[ '.ge deed executed by J. G. Norris, | . and wife Florence Norris, to J. c . McGhee and W. Ilardin Brown, ^ ited September 0, 1922 to secure ^ e payment of a certain note of (t en date for the sum of v $292.31 S ith interest on the same from said jj; ite, and the note being past due we j jjill sell to the highest bidder for c ish at the court house door in Boone j ? i the 7th day of April 1923, to sat- | t fy the note with interest and costs' j| e following described lands, to wit: j[ Beginning on a stone in the line p= H. J. Hardin and running a west c urse with the public road 15 poles! | id 5 links to a stone at the forks lit tne road; tncnce south 8 degrees [L ;st about 10 poles to a stone at the rf rks of the road where the road fork g go to the New River Power Plant; b en southeast with the old Hardin ? id Councill line (now Dougherty's 3. le) with the fence and road to a ft i chestnut, the Hartley and Coun- g II corner; thence 18 poles and 10 fj iks with the H. J. Hardin line to 2 e beginning, containing 2 1-4 acres ? are or less. Bj Sale to be between the hours of 12 ft and 1 p. m. g J. W. McGHEE W. HARDIN BROWN S Mortgagees. R Page S?tci ENTRY NOTICE Z5?5 State of North Carolina, Watauga; CORE MUSCLES Count,. Office of the Entr, T.ke, ^ Vacations arc often of said count,. spoiled ty soreness reW. & Triplett lodes and enters! Su:,,ng jT? , ?UtdoCr 25 acres of land in Elk township. Ramei A good massage lying on the head waters o fElk creek wi.h V-.cks o.ten gives beginning on a Spanish oak at Eliza- surprising relief, beth Triplett's cornor, running with j ^ AlBk e* s% Watt Gragg's line to his corner, & r? thence with Elizabeth Triplett's line tM ft kfvktS :o the beginning. iMy mBt* v Entered Jan. 26, 1023. VAPORUB H. J. HARDIN', E. T- j Otntr 17 Million Jo rj U?ed Yearly The Bull Dog Grip It isn't genius that wins in the long run It's the hull dog grip . , 1 he staying qualities The ability not only to start a thing but? To keep it up I The man who starts a har.lc ? ? V.WWUI11 A AC J. KZ And keeps it up Is the man who succeeds The Peoples Bank & Trust Company springtime! I SPECIALS | 111 I WE HAVE A LOT OF ONTARIO GRAIN f| | DRILLS WHICH WE ARE OFFERING f? AT A SACRIFICE jrt _ ihl -nj in order that we may use the space for other Mpi j| goods. H p If you are interested or expect to buy any g | time soon it will pay you to BUY NOW. p All kinds of wire fencing for all purposes. in] E Another car of Barbed Wire and Nails is ^ 5 . Mi p coming. jg ?j 3 Our prices are right. [opj ii A Car of Individual Asphalt Shingles also [to ^ coming ^ | "Cary's" Shingles, the best roof at the cost. lg | Our line of Tools, "Farm and Mechanics" is 3^ | complete. I Cement, Builders' Hardware, Harness. I The famous Nissen Wagons.. . ||j IINew Ideal (.Deering) Mowers, Binders and It will pay you to see us. jp Your Friends, BOONE HARDWARE CO. J