North Carolina Newspapers

Bp y MARCH 22. 1923 WATER JNJESERT Montana Man Tells of One Delicious Draught. Settler Had Arranged Things 80 That Cooling Fluid Was at the Command of All. "New York's water Isn't half as bad as 1 thought It would be," said the man from Miles City in the rotunda of the Pennsylvania hotel. "Usually 1 use water onlj to wash In, but the sudden death drinks that are sold here have driven me to water as a safeasd-sane beveruge. I've tasted better 1 water only once. That was out in my home state. Montana, and them's a little yarn connected with the drink. "The Northern Cheyennes are on reservation there, on Tongue river. They took to shirt dancing some years go and a party of young bucks started out to get a reputation. They got It. They also got a poor little sheepherder named Hoover. The three rode up to him and demanded tobacco. He handed his bag and papers to them and then they shot him dead. "Our sheriff, John Gibbs, and Bill Smith, under-sheriff of Custer county, went down to get the murderers, but had landed only one. a buck named Badger, when the Indian agent threatened to take Badger away on the ground that the reservation mas federal territory and the civil authorities had no right to make arrests there. "Glbbs and Smith hustled back to Miles City with Badger and wired a protest to Washington. Orders came back to the agent not to Interfere. Meantime the Oheyennes threatened to go on the war path, and sottlera ground the reservation fled for thoir vet. "Glbbs end 8m'th detormlned to get the other twe Indians, Sam Grow and Yellow Hair, and Invited me to along. "We started flown to tho reservation In a two-seated light wagon. In Ifce hurry our canteens were overlooked. "It was terribly hot in that alkali country and soo: wo began to suffer from thirst. Along about noon we made a ranch and asked if they had good water. " ?<Snma n* *? ? ?-*v boss told us. 'Just fro over to that little shod and help yourselves.' "Well, sir, under a shed we found a well hole and It was plumb full of Ice. A hole In the center whs Just big enough to let a tin bucket down in. "Nothing In the world ever tasted so good to me as that water. It beat any liquor made. We laid In a supply and went on and got the two bucks, although troops had to be sent down to keep the Cheyennea from murdering us. "On the way out we stopped again at the well and the ranch boss told ?s the secret of the water hole. t "He had dug a deep hole In the fall and set a peeled fir tree small end down In the center of it. When snow fell he filled the hole with It, tamping ft In around the. tree trunk. "In the spring the tree trunk waa palled out and an opeD shed was set n over the hole to nrtvwit the mm from melting the snow."?New York The Apartment Became Wffrm. If you are sitting in your apartment these days hugging the radiator because the Janitor and the landlord refuse to heed your pleas for more heat, sell the police and ask that a policeman be sent to build a fire In the furnace. Miss Helen Sinclair, living in an apartment In West Twentieth street, tried the plan recently with success. Miss Sinclair, It is said, had complained to her landlord and janitor about the lack of heat. She called the landlord and suggested that he send a detective to the apartment to satisfy his own misgivings. The landlord did not act on the suggestion. She could stand it no longer and called the polio# station and asked that a policeman be sent to build a fire. She was told that the work was not a policeman's duties. "Well, the police are to protect defenseless people," she said. "I am a defenseless woman, and I need protection." Later a policeman visited the Janltar and before night the apartment wan warm.?Indianapolis News. Couldn't Fill the Bill. His sister was always delighted when the professor got an Invitation. to oho corned htm and atae coached him. telling him how much society could do for him. And he would algh, get oat hla dress suit and paddle away. Bnt this time she was surprised when he got back early. He waa called opon to explain. Then yon didn't do well at Mrs. De Style's dinner party?" "Not so very." "Really. John, by this time I should think yon wonld know how to behare in polite society." The professor waa very apologetic about tt. "Well. I didn't know how to Snot era pa." Discriminating. The Quest?What's the big Idea? An * the men In yonr country club seem to have taken to chewing tobacco and growing whiskers The Member?Wall, you sea, all the women smoke, cut their hair, swear and wear knickerbockers and we man keW to hare apnea glattngnlMilsg aila.?Judges _ ; It' , * -'^mm i Stern Discipline Marked the Upbrin^ing of Boys and Girls of a Few Generations Ago. Boys and girls of the present day find the road to learning much | smoother and pleasanter than did their forefathers. Something over a century ago the favorite text In almost every family was, "Spane the rod and spoil the child." A rawhide or bunch of birch hung over the mantel-shelf in many houses, to be used upon the boys of the family. the usual rule being: that a whipping at school must be followed by one at home.WThose given at school were usually the more severe. In many old schools in England the "birch horse" Is preserved as a curiosity; a* high wooden frame shaped like a saddle, on which the delinquent was strapped to receive his lashes. Watson, In his "Annuls of Philadelphia," tells us that girls as well as boys were whipped In the "academies for the children of the gentry" something like a hundred years ago. Other punishments than whipping were common. Talking In school was sometimes punished hy fastening a frame over the mouth, from which lolled a huge red flannel tongue. Almost every school had its dunce's cap, and some of tliem had a "clog," which was a block of wood that was strapped to the leg of a truant and worn outside of school. Thill scholars were often made to stand open-mouthed under the clock, to be pointed at by their comrades as they marched past. In certain English schools a large wicker cage Is preserved In which the delinquent was fastened, the cage being then drawn hy a pulley to the celling, where It remained until the Ill-doer was sup^posed to be sufficiently punished. The tardy scholar was aomatlmeo forced to inarch threugh the streets preceded by an usher who carried a lighted lantern, te the amusement ef the Jeering crowd. j Inventing a Surname In Persia. Although Teheran Is the capital ef Persia few of Its streets are dignified with names. The clty'8 principal thoroughfare Is known as Street of the Oas Lights, from the fact that an attempt was once made to Illuminate It by means of gas lamps, and though the lighting failed the name of the street remained. Aa none of the houses has a number. It Is extremely difficult to find a given address. Until very recently there were, with certain exceptions, no family names In Persia. This led to so much confusion that two or three years ago an edl<"t was Issued obliging all persona In tha empire to aflopt a family name wltlfln a given date. As may be supposed the names chosen were frequently curiouB and sometimes amusing. An old man who had been for many years guardian of the gate of one of the Christian missions, chose for himself the Persian equivalent of "Honest r.sd Faithful." A postman styled himself appropriately "Here. There and Everywhere." while a merchant who was of a practical turn of mind, selected as a surname his own telephone numbar, '"Three Hundred and Ten-** NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. The undersigned having qualified , as administrator of T. M. Greene this j is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said T. M, Greene, deceased, to present them to the undersigned within twelve months from the date of this notice or it will be pleaded in bar of theii recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please come forward and make settlement. This the 13th day of February 1923 E. C. HODGE Administrator. NOTICE Notice is hereby given to the creditors of the Cove Creek Co-operative Store that on January ltth 1921, D. C. Mast and Mrs. D. C. Mast sold their entire interest in said store tc David P. Mast. That on or about June the 20th 1922, through the directors of the Cove Creek Co-opera| tive store, David P. Mast sold his entire interest in said store to J. B. Horton, J. J. Mast, John H. Bingham and A. C. Mast, doing business under the firm name of A. C. Mast and Company. They to pay any and all debts of the Cove Creek Co-operative store and all debts due same to be paid to A. C. Mast and Company. This Januafy 27th 1923. D. C. MAST, MRS. D. C. MAST, DAVID P. MAST. 4t-14 p ; J Thedf- " |J| i j I w IVIVIn | THE WATAUC Safety at Sea. It la announced that Professor Tangevin of the College de France, who did valuable work daring the war as director of physics In the artillery department at the ministry of war, has Invented an apparatus which will enable vessels at sea to discover the presence of obstacles beneath the surface and to ascertain at any moment without sounding the precise depth oi the water. Tt will be necessary only for the wireless operator on board to press a button controltng this device In order to have the Information bo fore him. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Watauga County, in the Superior Court. Before the Clerk. J. C. Clarke VS. Enoch H. Perry, S. J. Price and H. P. Cook. Pursuant to an order issued by Hon. A. W. Smith, Clerk of the Superior Court for Watauga County in the above entitled action, the undersigned commissioner duly appointed by the .... Saturday March 24, 1923 offer for sale at the court house door of Watauga County, Boone. N. C. the following described tracts of land: FIRST TRACT BEGINNING on a spruce pine and poplar stump corner to school house lot, thense south 65 1-2 degrees west 23 poles to a stake in the center of the public road, thence south 41 degrees west one pole to a stake in the center of the public road, thence south 16 1-2 degrees east 3 poles to a stake, R. P. Robinsin's corner, then with his line south 41 degTees west 2 poles to a stake thence with same south 22 degrees East 5 1-2 poles to a stake in Perry's road, thence west 4 poles to a stake in the ford of the creek, thence south 43 degrees west 3 poles to a birch jthence south 50 degrees west 17 poles to a stake in the creek, thence with the creek south 7 degrees west 5 poles, thence south 42 degrees west 2 poles, thence south i 79 degrees west 2 poles, thence south 49 1-2 degrees west 4 poles, thence south 24 degrees west 3 poles, thence south 45 degrees west 8 poles, thence South 34 degrees west 3 poles to a hornbeam corner, to S. .J. Price; then south 13 degrees east 10 poles to a stake near an ash, thence south 61 1-2 degrees east 30 poles to a stake in N. T. Byers* line, thence north 13 1-2 degrees east 18 poles to a stake on top of a ridge, thence north 75 dei grees east 21 poles to a chestnut, then south 52 polos to a buckeye, N. T. By era' corner, thence south 12 degrees east 6 poles to a cherry tree by the road, thence south 84 degrees east JO poles, south 75 degrees east, G poles, south 58 degrees east 1 0 poles 1 south 28 degrees east G poles, south 88 degrees east 12 poles to a stake, ' corner to Chas. Greer's, thence north 4 degrees east 35 poles to a stuke, ! corner to J. N. Eggers, thence north 79 degrees east 7 poles to a stake on i top of a ridge, thence north 89 degrees east 8 poles to a stake in Low , Gap, thence south 45 degrees east 10 poles to a stake, Mantz's corner, thence south 75 degrees east 34 poles to a maple stump, thence south 1 i pole to a VVahoo, thence north 75 de' grees east 32 poles to a stake, corner 1 to S. J. Price, and known as the Mit' chell old corner, thence north 50 deg, rees east 25 poles to a hickory, thence . north 5 degrees west 1G poles to a large chestnut, Price's corner, thence ' south 84 degrees west 51 poles to a I stake, thence west with top of ridge , 9 poles to a large chestnut, J. B. Icenhour's corner, thence north 4 degrees east with Icenhour's line 37 Doles to . a beach, thence west with said line 4 1-3 poles to a beach, on bank of creek, thence north with said line 32 poles to a poplar in said line, thence . south 59 1-2 degrees west 11 poles , I to a stake on the side of a branch, 1 thence south 80 degrees west near the I, branch a straight line 32 poles to a , | spruce pine, J. S. Dougherty's corner, J thence north 56 1-2 degrees west , 22 1-2 poles to a spruce pine stump, . thence north 76 degrees west with i Dougherty's line's 36 poles to the beginning, containing 95 ACRES more . or less . , SECOND TRACT ADJOINING THE ABOVE. BE GINNING at a branch at a stake, , B. S. Smith's corner, thence south ii 77 degrees east with same 40 poles to a stake, A. Grogan's corner, thence up the bank of said branch 7 poles to a stake, Ira Mitchell's corner, thence south with same 40 poles to a top of a cliff, Ira Mitchell's corner, thence east 72 poles to a stake on the north turn of a ridge, a spur of Rich Mountain; thence south 48 poles with pointers, S. J. Price's corner, with same and top of ridge, a conditional line, made between Bennett Smith and jok;Ai -j uict kjuiibu) mciiuo w i in wine anu tup of ridge with S. J. Price's line south 75 degrees west 25 poles to a stake on top of said ridge, with same conditional line and Price's line west 20 poles to a stake on top of a ridge, with same and conditional line south 71 degrees west with Price's line 20 poles to a stake, near a locust, center to lot No. 1 R. J. Perry's corner, then north 2 1-2 degrees east 71 poles to a stake, R- J. Perry's corner, thence north 71 degrees west 3 poles to a stake, R. J. Perry's corner, thence ! with same north 16 1-2 degrees west 55 poles to the beginning, containing 50 ACRES more or less. Time of sale 12 U. Terms of sale ?Cash. This the 19th day of February 1923 | H. J. SINGLETON, Commissioner. ;A DEM^ ?,. NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE By virtue of an execution directed to the undersined sheriff of Watauga county from the Superior court of said county, in that certain action entitled J. L. Potter vs Martha Main I will on Monday the 26th day of March 1023 at one o'clock p. m. at ihe court house door of said county sell to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the said execution all the right, title and interest which J. O. J l'otter surety on plaintiff's bond, has in the following described tract of land to wit: Beginning on a birch in Lenoir's line and runs west with Lenoir line' 72 poles to top of Snake Mountain,) then -outb 6 degrees west with top) of said mountain 220 poles to a rock marked with four hacks and 444X" then south 75 degrees east 11 poles to a buckeye on a ridge, then south 80 degrees east with top of ridge 35 poles to a smail beech, then south 68 degrees east C poles to a buckeye, Winebarger's corner; then n >rth with Winebarger's line 88 poles to his corner; then east with said line 50 pole- to his corner; then north 53 pol< to a stake; then north 18 de-J gret west 105 poles to the beginning, containing 75 1-2 acres more or le s, and being the land granted to 51 \V. Kay and J. O d .Potter ay gr ;'it No. 1S160. i the 22nd dav of February. 192 C. M. CRITCHKR Sheriff Watauga County. AN 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, on the sixth day of December 1921, an indebtedness of the town of Boone, in the amount of $15,000 which indebtedness had theretofore been incurred pu-suant to the authority of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Boone for necessary expenses of said town, to wit: the improvement of the streets in said town by macadamizing, constructing concrete sidewalk, and by building bridges and which indebted is still outstanding and of which $1,000 will be paid shortly and the remaining $11,000 will be cancelled' prior to its maturity and simultaneously with the issuance of bonds to fund such debt; and, Whereas it is, in the opinion of th? Hoard of Commissioners, advisable and proper and for the best interests of the town that the said indebtedness be fund'd. Now therefore, be it ordained by thi' Board of Commissioners of the Town of Boone: Section 1. That the town of Boone, pursuant to the "Municipal Finance Act, 1021," issue its bonds j to be known as fundin bonds, for the purpose of funding and paying , the outstanding indebtedness of said j city incurred for the necessary expense^ thereof, referred to in the ; preambles hereof. | Section 2. That the maximum aggregate principal amount of said bond issue shall he Fourteen thousj ai)d dollars ($14,000.) Section 3. That a tax sufficient ! to pay the principal and interest of 'the bonds shall be annually levied and collected . Section 4. That a statement of the debt of the Town of Boone has been filed with the Clerk and is open to public inspection. TKot l?Je shall take effect upon its passage and shall not be submitted to the vo, ters of the Town of Boone. C. M. YATES, Mayor A. E. SOUTH, Clerk. The foregoing ordinance was passid on the 9th day of November 1922. and was first published on the 8th day of March 1923. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of said ordinance must be commenced within thirty days after its first publication. ?l A. E. SOUTH, Clerk. NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mort! gage deed executed by J. G. Norris. Jr. and wife Florence Norris, to J. W. McGhce and W. Hardin Brown, dated September 9, 1922 to secure the payment of a certain note of even date for the sum of $292.31 \ with interest on the same from said date, and the note being past due we will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Boone j on the 7th day of April 1923, to sat- j isfy the note with interest and costs j the following described lands, to wit: Beginning on a stone In the line of H. J. Hardin and running a west course with the public road 15 poles and 5 links to a stone at the forks of the road: thence south 8 decrees west about 10 poles to a stone at the forks of the road where the road fork to go to the New River Power Plant; then southeast with the old Hardin and Councill line (now Dougherty's line) with the fence and road to a ' big chestnut, the Hartley and Councill corner; thence 18 poles and 10 ; links with the H. J. Hardin line to ! the beginning, containing 2 1-4 acres more or less. Sale to be between the hours of 12 U and 1 p. m. J. W. McGHEE W. HARDIN BROWN Mortgagees. Pace Seven ENTRY NOTICE 2565 State of North Carolina, Watauga MUSCLES I County, Office of the Entry Taker . , . ' ' & Vacations are often of said county. Cn?;>/?r? i.. opvucu -> y soreness re? ? . . ; , suiting i'rom ou'door W. S. Tr.pU.tt locates and enters gan.es. A good massage 25 acres of Und .n Elk townsh.p V;cks f s ! lying on the head waters o fElk creek r ^ !>eginniiig on a Spanish oak at Eliza- surprising relief, beth Triplett's cornor, running with a A A . fffiph. Ti # Watt Gragg's line to his corner,1 ijy 3 iif* (8^^ thence with Elizabeth Triplett's line Bf E to tn. beginning. r? Entered Jan. 26. 1923. W VAPORUB H. J. HARDIN, E. X. Oter 17 Million Jar* Limed Yearly Start TVmt A r*r 1 m/ JL m *?.?. X * V/V.A J I# I. 1/ TODAY and when you think of a bank, think of our Bank-?then come in and get acquainted. 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