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.
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% 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.
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ENTRY NOTICE 2566
State of North Carolina. Wataug
County, Office of the Entry Take
of Said County.
W. S. Triplctt locates and er.tei
10 acres of land in Elk township o
the head waters of Elk creek. Begii
liing on a walnut tree in Watt Gra^g
ine and then various courses so a
to include all the vacant land i
said boundry for compliment.
Entered Jan. 26, 1923.
H. J. HARDIN, E. 1
NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
Solomon Eggers, guardian of Toi
Lowrancc and Mollie Lowrance,
minor heirs of G. W. Lowrance,
Dec'd. Exparte
By virtue cf an order of the Supei
ior Court of Watauga in the abov
entitled action. I will on
Monday March 19, 1923
between tbe hours of 12 m and
P. M.
at the court house door in Boom
VVatauea county, ceil to the higne:
bidder, tho following described lands
BEGINNING on a sycamor<
Church's corner at t.he creek an
runs north 88 degrees west wit
Church's line 16 poles to a balm-oi
Giload; then south 75 degrees wes
with Church's line 20 poles to a stak
Church's corner, thence north 50 d<
grees west with said line 30 poles t
a stake; then north 61) degrees we:
with said line 10 poles to a stakt
then north 76 degrees west with sai
line 12 poles to a stake; then nort
34 degrees west with said line 18 pi
les to a stake; then south 70 degree
west with top of ridge 14 poles to
stake; then north 85 degrees wei
with top of ridge 10 1-4 poles to
sourwood, J. U. Robinson's corne:
then west with said ridge 8 pole
to a stake; then south 10 degree
west 4 poles to a dead locust on to
of said ridge; then south 19 degree
east with said ridge 24 poles to
stake; then south 48 degrees eaj
with said ridge 6 poles to a stake
then south 66 degrees east with sai
ridge 18 poles to a stake; then sout
50 degrees east with said ridge 30 p
to a stake; then south 62 degrees ea*
10 poles to a stake; then south 4
degree^ east with said ridge 10 pole
to a stake; then south 6*7 degree
east with said ridge 12 polos to
j chestnut: then south 41 degrees eas
' with said ridge 15 poles to a stake
then south 25 degrees east with sai
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-* put*-.* lu tt cucumoer; a. h
I Church's corner; then north 62 de
I (trees east with Church's line 78 pole
' to a stake on the west bank of th
| creek; then north 28 degrees wes
I 10 poles to a stake; then north 4
degrees west 5 poles to a stake, the;
. west 4 1-2 poles to a stake on th
I lower bank of the new public roadd
I then north 3 degrees west 31 3poles
to the beginning, containing 5
acres, more or less, with the excep
tion of about one acre sold by G. \V
Lowrance to James Isaacs by dee>
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.
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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
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ce T want you to understand that this >
,lr ain't no farm. This here Is suburban t!
lie real estate." s
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I Question. "j
2.J. 'What was you reading?" ^
"A New York paper. It says the 0
geese are still gblng soatlL"
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i thological note?"?Louisville t'ourter- 7
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NOTICE OF SALE g
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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
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" 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
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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 ?
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And keeps it up
Is the man who succeeds
The Peoples Bank &
Trust Company
springtime!
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I WE HAVE A LOT OF ONTARIO GRAIN f|
| DRILLS WHICH WE ARE OFFERING f?
AT A SACRIFICE
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-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.
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E Another car of Barbed Wire and Nails is ^
5 . Mi
p coming.
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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
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