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L w < A Non-Partisan Family j volume xxxiv ONE HUNDRED THO DEAD INBIG QEAH Dead and Dying Scattered Everywhere Within a Radius of 50 Miles of Tokio, The Capital of JapanNow a City of Tombs and Ruins. Death and Destruction is Spread Over Wide Area Yokthoma and Tokio with its Two Million Population and Neighbor . ing Litiei Ueicribed as Like Heil United ^States Naval Station May Bf Destroyed , San Francisco Sept. 3. .Tokio is under martial law. Nobody is admitted into the city unless the have their own provisions. A railway man from Tokio says casualties there are estimated at 100.000. Several more earth quakes were felt at Yokahoma or Sunday afternoon. Tokio is still burning and explosuons there are frequent-. Tokio, Yokahoma and neighboring cities are burning ruins, while more ** than 100,000 persons in the vicinity o? these cities were reported dead as a result of Saturday's earthquakes accordihg to advices received :n San Francisco by the Associated Press from its Shanghai correspondent and by the Radio Corporation from its 'station at Tomjoka. Death and destruction were spread over an area roughly compromised within a radius of 50 miles of Tokio Hew extensive casualties ar.d the material damage outside that zone is, ha- not been determined as all communications with Japan are still interrupted except for brief connections with Tomioka and occasional disnati'lxw frnm J a nr. n In Sh? nolini The city of Nagoya is virtually destroyed. The Japanese naval station near Yokahoma was engulfed by a tidal nave ard the InVfk?rial palace at Tokio is endangered by fire. Nagoya has a population of 620,000. It is about 70 miles west of Tokio. With railroad lines, telephone wires and all other means of communication and travel between the remainder of Japanese and the outside cut off. Tokio and the other cities on the eastern central seacoast on the Island of Hondo are isolated in their desolation. The cities of Yokohama and Tokio were detci-ibi 1 by the superintend c of the Japanese government w; -oloss station at Tomioka, which op-, rates via .Radio Corporation 'like Hell!** Buildings were falling tires ere sprt-.sling eve*yw;a : . dead and dying v ere on all sides; there v re e\ plosi< and cries of horror and fcai by the panic -strick< . population. What quake or five ?Ii?i not do; iroy on land tidal wave.- are reported lo have crushed or at sea. The fate of the ships in \okahoma harbor and what ships were thera, still remains to be determined. In Vokahoma the fire started in the foreign section, spreading rapidly to the business district which was wiped out. Tens of thousands of guests at resorts near the city were driven out from their quarters by quakes and fires. They were panic stricken. The number of casualties were undetermined. _ Later Reports Give bead at 300,0OC Japanese Disaster Spared None Com plete Destruction in Some District! Geography of Country Changed. . . tfy Associated rress aept. 4??>c vast an area of Japan has* been de vastated by the great earthquake ii the history of the country that it wii ^ be long before the actual loss of lifi is known. The most reliable estimate; of the dead up to the present read as high as 200 to three hundred anc forty thousand. Toklo and Yokahoma are in com pletc ruiiv?- Foi two days Tokio wa swept by flames and apart from th loss of lives yaused directly fror the falling of buildings, thousand may have died in their attempt t make their wrfy through the tire zon and other^housands from exhaustior Yokahoma, Tokio's busy port i > a city destroyed. Probably mor complete destruetion has been ther than in thV capital itself, for its grea docks were torn asunder, its shippin wrecked, its public buildings and i1 homes levelled to the earth. (Continued on page two) )t Hfe Newspaper Published in an BOONE. > usand reported " ;e in jap, country D. F. Brown Passes Monday Morning Prominent Boone Boy Buried on Tuesday Afternoon Court Was Adjourned and Highway Work SusDended DufIbb Fun#r?! Or. Monday morning at nine n'-! clock Doctor Franklin Brown whose' critical condition as a result of an j automobile accident was' chronicled in these columns last week parsed j to the Great Beyond in Long's San- \ itorium in StatesviUe, N. C. The body was brought to Boone Monday evening, and on Tuesday af- j ternoon interment was in Boone cem- j etery, the services being in charge of Watauga Lodge Na 273 A. F. & A*. M. and Ashler Lodge of which the deceased was a consistent member. At least 75 members of the' ; two lodges were participants in the' ! burial services. "Dock" had been for some time] an employee of the State Highway : Commission working out of Boone on the Boone Trail Highway and so ! great, was the sorrow of the road men j i at learning of his seemingly unfim-1 efy death that all the-operations were stepped during the funeral. Watauga Superior Court now in session, Judge I T B. Finley Presiding was adjournI ed for the hour, and perhaps the larg est crowd ever assembled on such an occasion gathered at the Baptist | Church and at the grave to puy their j last respects to the departed fritend and brother. At the church Reverend F. M. Huggins conducted a short service followed by brief talks by Professors B. B. Dougherty and A. J. Greene, former teacher of deceased. The beautiful tributes paid to his life as seen | i by these men who had helped t mould his destinies In a sense, wen* most fitting,. The Masons then took charge of the body, conveyed it to the graveyard where the beautiful masonic burial services were used in an almost sublime manner. Dock was really a Mason, and took a great interest in the work, therefore the end was in the way he would have had it. Deceased had been a resident of i Boone ami vicinity for the past thirteen years, and had endeared him-elf with whom b.? rmm- ir. co-:tact in his daily walks of life. Not long before his death he nad | purchase valuable properly near theji ? lowi) and was prospering as he do- jjj j served to prosper. Although scarce-1 ly more than twenty five years cf j he had an exceptionatty broad | vi'. .x- ol" I f -' and it.-? many complex!'tir. . and his polic y was to smile re- ' ^ gardless cf what provocation might, arise, and possibly this cherry dispo- , sitiou is one of the reasons why the 1 throngs are mourining today. Surviving the deceased is a witej: and small child, v. number of brothers , i and one sister most of whom were < at his side at the end. ] Or.c cf our be.t young "men is j gone from among UP, and it would j be no easy matter to find the iike j of him. To this little sketch we , would affix that simple phrase, so < seldom truthfully used in its greatest < sense: "He was a man.** , . CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL ' HAS LARGE OPENING ' The Deerfield-Bamboo consolidated 1 School opened Monday with 105 pupilsin attendance, and registration is > ill going on. The faculty is composed !ol Rrofessor Lewis Reese of Reaver Dam, this county, Miss Jones of Ashe j and Miss Miller of Alleghany. ^ There was a great gathering of the g patrons at the opening and they are a justly proud of their splendid new j building, and the prospect for a big school. Indeed the good people interested are to be congratulated as mas ny obstacles had to bo overcome. e n s THREE BROTHERS CELEBRATE o SAME BIRTH-DAY e ' i. At the home of Mr. J. B. Fox on is Banner Elk R. F. D. September the e first, his three sons, aged 14, 16, and ^ 20 years celebrated their birthdays, it all of which came on that date, g This is rather a coincidence and aj we doubt if another case of this kind could be located in the county. This _ event has never been called to our attention before through all the years. dmtg d for Boone and Wataug VATAUCA COUNTY. NORTH C> A Wonderful Until recently the people of ins: daily papers from Tennessee, terred Tennessee papers to _Noi they could not get a North Csro or tnrce days old, and NOTHING DAY'S DAILY PAPER. This very undesirable situs by the Winston Salem Journal 1 expense, a bus Ine from Wnstontion at Boone with lines for Tra rying The Morning Journal to 9 Watauga County the same day i necessary for the people of Nc papers in order to get the news The Winston-Salem Journal the fight to redeem the so-calle fight it deserves the united suppi North Carolina. As a news sheet the -lourna olina. It has full Associated Pre Washington and Raleigh; and Also features, cartoons, market movies, sports and editorials. North Carolina ceonle shot paper. The Winston Salem Jou paper in every respect?covcrir greatest interest to 'North Caroli complete ami reliable, it gives best that, can be had. The subscription price of t. per year, daily and Sunday?1 1 Watauga is blessed with < papers in North Carolina. For Democrat has been lighting for i good roads and schools; and st the county the complete county Every family owes it to themse their county paper. The subscrip crat is only $1.60 per year, or k In order that the n^nnU n< joy the privileges of one of the time read a local county paprr an arrangement has been inadt whereby the two papers wilt c at the unheard of price of $ v to new and renewals, where ba is an opportunity you can t a OR VVatauga Court Is Now in Session The fall term t?f Watauga Superor Court convene*! at r.ine o'clock VIonday morning with ai: immense ;rowd of people present. Judge T. B finley is presiding: and as usual Solcitor Johnson J. Hayes is present t > prosecute the violators of the law. It was not the Democrat's pleasure anlortunately to hear Judge Finley'S ;harge to the<grand jury but we have scarcely heard of so much favorable .ommpnt. It covered every phase of the criminal law and was delivered m such a plain concise manner and :ouched in language so comprehensive that the most ignorant of his hearers could grasp its meaning. This is the Judge's first court in Watauga and he has come up to the highest expectations of our people, as a great jurist. HeH is firm as adamant in his convictions yet he is possessed of the faculty of tempering judgment with i umj. As soon as the charge was completed the state docket was taken up and up to the time of closing our forms it has not been completed. A few cases have been tried but there are many others, as the criminal docket was very heavy (for Watauga) at this term. We had hoped and expected to give the proceedings in ful this week, but will be forced to wail until our next issue. There are nc cases of unusual importance. Robert Shearer, an honest and re spected colored citizen of Boone diet at his home Monday, interment beinjt made in the colored cemetery Tues day. Bob was an inoffensive uprigh man, and a consistent member of th Church, living up to its teachings a best he knew. ? u Mtt a County, the Leader of No MIOLINA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER _ p . Opportunity Nortl iro'ina have been read- ' Not. } ever, because they pre-th Ca; .ma papers but because lina da. paper until it was two . ? ? ^ IS i, !1VK THAN' VPPTfn ? ?. - . < iirx?i l ITiOl JLI\- ( I ition i recently been relieved **h*?ch rj$ established at its own tha sec Salem .Boone, making con. nee ant de. T? . and Elk Park and ca*-- let practicu- iy every post office in . dri t is pub. shed. So it is no longer wa irth Carolina to read Tennessee lea "hot off the griddle." ! has f.?r a number of years led chi d "Lo- Provinces" and in that prt >rt of ihe people of northwestern hei in tflc I has n< superiors in North Car- * lling tss and special correspondents at over .-dxty state correspondents. a s, puhiic opinion, dfama. music, # -p b ri?-< tid read a North Carolina daily ' | imal is a North Carolina daily | no ig thoroughly the things of the na people. A newspaper, modern to i*> ', aders each morning the R< he Wi don-Salem Journal is $5 1 L-4 cper day. j of ane of the best weekly county !*' J : law thirty four years the Watauga ' wit coo j government, law and order, Bii r ing lo give to the people of j chn news?unbiased and uncolored. ! rot I an< h t s and to their county to take i sar t;.?!? price of the Watauga Demo- ; mo than three cents per week. B. ' jo> this immediate section may en- ,r-f leadin.i dailies, and at the same i t h without a peer in the Northwest, . ( Iv-twv -n the tv/o macx^^rasn'.a | - o ; red UNTIL. OCTOBER 1st, i . * . .n a whcla year. Tliir, las I ^ ... ? f 1 ck subscriptions are v. p. tt \ ; nrd to miss! Bc^.n New! >11 Airplane Will Land on the Big Bald Qne of the big Attractions ml the in s;.e of the Patterson Lands on Monday by the eAtlar.tic Realty Company jo f Winston Salem, will he the landing <1 an aeroplane on the broad ex- an janse of level land on the summit of tr Big Bald. Pour flights will he made ^ during the day. entirely encircling :Lis great elevation within perfect j ^ view of the great crowd expeited. q( The advertising manager has kindly offered the editor of this paper a j jJC v hiz around the circle in the plane,' ^ I which he declines with thanks. | v Confederate Reunion L Now on in Boone Tl OS As we go to press the remnant lr! of Camp Nimrod Triplett of Confedj crate Veterans who followed Lee and Jackson in "the days that tried mens ouls" are assembling- at the Train- Q :ng School, through special invita, tion, to hold what may be their last . annual reunion. Their numbers are | few but they are among our most . highly respected and honored citi. zens. Each and every one of course ac ?s bearing the burden of many years . but their hearts are light while their [ steps are slow. The oldest man in ^ ; attendance is our esteemed towns- P* . man, Mr. James II. Taylor who is ?1 now 97 .years oid. and Mr. John Hod-^ ges is the youngest being 79. c*' The doors of the town, as well w 1 as those of the school are opened ,lJ r wide to these dear old boys and we s* want it fully understood that there ;;1 is nothing we Dossess too good for , t f1 them. Here's hoping that every hour r spent by them in our town will be tl | filled with pleasure. f twos rthwestern North Carolii 6. 1923 ARMERS PICNIC AT GRAND SUCCESS" 4THER SHOOTS HIS BABY IN ITS MOTHER'S ARMS ; ( ?*e o> Officer* Searching fcrr Mur- ? Jeter, one Mile* Lore of the Beech Creek Section. rhe news reached here yesterday it Miles Love of the Beech Creek tion ?f Watauga County had shot 1 killed his baby child with a bill- j ^ that was intended for his wife. 1 rhe story goes that Love had been ' r.kir.g heavily for some time and y s most abusive to his wife. On nday he became enraged and on 1 ving the house tired his gun. Mrs. ' ve went to the door with a little ! * id in her arms. The infuriated fa- j ' ir and husband seeing his wife ap-1 s Dai-nftty turned thfc weapon on * * and tired, the bullet taking effect the body of the little child, from * : effects of which it died, accord- to reports, yesterday morning. * .soon as the report reached this :i ce a posse of officers and the coun- * coroner left for the scene and take it that, no effort will be 1 irec: to bring the murderer to just If true, and it seems there can be * doubt of it, it is perhaps the most r speakable crime that has been com- t :ted in Watauga. 2 t evival Services Wlil Continue Thru Week Evangelist Norman H. Camp is bu-1 v th< o days preaching the Gospel t Christ. Last Monday he attended c opening of court and being a s yer by profession occupied a seat h the lawyers of the county. At % suggestion of Attorney J no. H. j lgharn, Judge Finley announced ; it he w?>iiId preach in the court im at 1:15 o'clock, which he did i has continued each day at that j . ne hour. He is also speaking each I ^ ruing at the Appalachian Train: school at the suggestion of Prof. , B. Dougherty. These talks are en- . ;ed by the students* also his sing-1 The union meetings at the Baptist' , urch continue every afternoon at , >'cioc-k am: c ere night at * o'clock 7v=3 , >fif| M I .. I,. . X {?*= HHSi'l fs al.-; _ >. : _ morning at :* oelock , fev. . .ivni ' i hristian.- together . ( B8 - v i ivfi. i til 5M- y;.v-rc- are ;>ra\!i:g una' >o?!ng i'iu 'T-ai revival. This is' ;-*ii \ r.ttC !??.. and unlcs> comes w , in..,-, cy.p vet the wicked-j .-s are: ae -s uiauilesieti up-. the p.-.;. ?T uie to increase. The'. nerul conditions which prevail thru; l the '.v.-rid will sooner or later J ; cvai throughout Watauga County less Wi have the hlessire of God 1 answr to prayer and consistent i, ristian living. Let every Christian! his or her duty at this time. The special address given by Ev-j gelist t amp last Sunday afternoon! ented considerable comment, lie! ?kc on "The Significance of the! orld War and God's Program for orld Peace " He emphasized that >d is not the author of war but of ace; but just as the absence of :hi produces darkness, and the abnce of life produces death, so thdrawai of God's presence and >wer, permits the devil, who is the ithor of war and strife to' operate, te great trouble of the world today, peci&ily in so-called Chy?tinn coun-j ies which have had the light of the (Continued on page two.) >ig Still and Its Owner Captured On Tuesday our alert and efficient rohibition Ag<fnt, Ralph Bingham; rcompanied by agent J. C. Sherrill' ; Lenoir swooped down on Elk town j lip aiul captured one Baxter Ken-! ill, in a well appointed and equipid distillery. The plant was not in iteration but thre hundred gallons j f beer and other prerequisites were! pstroyed. Kendall and his "Hel pot"! as brought to Boone where he wn? tdged in jail to await trial, and the :ill which was a good one, was deroyed. Baxter will doubtless be tried at lis term of court and being caught ed handed it is a safe prediction hat he will make no more moonshine or a while, at Isast. at na.-Established in 1 888 NUMBER 35 BEAVER DAM 1500 ARE PRESENT -*rgc Crowd Enjoy* Speeches a nd Games at Watauga** Second Event For Farmer* on Last Friday. Noted Statesmen Deliver Speeches of the Occasion 4on. F. A. Linney Delivers Opening * Address. Congressman Dou^hton Urges Farnie-s Stick to the Soil The second "ar/nsrs* ani uc.! picric rof Watauga county was h-id last Friday at Betb.er Church 0:1 Beaver Dar- 1 he :* was large, es:imru ?l w. f: o u 1,000 to 16 j0. Mr. F. n. Linney merit the cenng speech and he encouraged the [oiks to pull together and showed he farmers in a very forceful manner :heir need for forming some better y Stems for marketing their beef catIs. Mr. R. L. Doughton was the sec?nd s{K?aker and he encouraged farmers to stick to the soil and not to ;o to the city with the crowd. He houed that farming was the essenial occupation an<l that sooner or ut.er iP was bound to become a pav:ig proposition or else the world vould starve. He encouraged farmers o put in home conveniences and in ha. way make life in the country no.e pleasant. His main point was hat in order to do these things a greater profit must be obtained for he products soki. and that the only </ay to make this greater profit was hrough co-operative marketing. He nsisted that the farmers must hind hemselves together by contract that 10 man could break at will in order hat they might act together lo each >th^r's advantage, rather than act operately to the detriment of all. The last speaker on the program vas Miss Cora Jeff coat who filled the >lace of Mrs. Jane S. McKimraon vho was not able to attend. Miss fetfeoat took up the subject of the 'Home Demonstration Agents" and showed the great work that these somen have done in other counties She proved to them thai this work vas of great value and "was worth all the cost." Dinner on the ground was the, next thing. Despite the immense iowu there was an abundance of iinner placed in the baskets. It was not announced that dinner wo. Id he pubiic, but it was spread xgu Mjujg grounds and cembody was invited to h-.-ip themselves \fter diniii r the l'imw, was profitably entertained by spec i-t-s lrorn Messrs McClain. Arey ar.d D. \V. Roberts^ t'ounty agent oar Caidweil. These men spoke \i ry aryylv v.: dairying. Tiv.y spoke of ;-a'.vying a-. hard \ve:\. a.a*, a "steady job" but that the r< a income and ui c.,ja=.e in the fertility of the * .oil orobaidv made l the most u":>:Uab!a lino of farming, the best wuy that we could market our grass a:u) hay. As soon as the speeches w ere over the crowd left the *ak grove and went to Air. Farthing's meadow where the horse races, pony race, horiic shoe pitching and hall games kepi them abundantly entertained for a couple of hours. The only trouble was that so many things were going on at the same time that it was hard to see it all. The horse race was won by Paul Storie. the pony race by Henry Campbell, the horse shoe pitching contest was won by Paul Storie and the potato race was won by Millie Cable. The bait game was won by the "cheese makers" and John Greer won the prize for having on exhibit the best peck of potatoes. Prizes for these contests were contributed by the Watauga County Bank. Peoples Bank & Trust Co., and Greene and Bingham. This picnic will be held at some oth er place next year and it is understood that several communities are already asking for it. It is believed by the farmers that these picnics do a great deal of good by getting the people out together to mingle for a day. It is hard lor the farmers to listen to the valuable discussions without being in fiuenced by them, This picnic is one of I he good things that is being fostered by the County Agent and it is the belief of those attending that the time is well spent. LUTHERAN SERVICES Rev Jeff coat the new Lutheran | minister in charge of the Watauga j pastorate will conduct services ?n the Episcopal Church iu Boone at 7:30 I next Sunday evening. The public gen erally is invited.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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