HkSI A Non-Partisan Family h Hg? VOLUME XXXIV B WATAUGA POTATO If MAKE INITIAL S Hp South Carolina Produce 2700 Bushels a | Last Friday Mr. John VV. Gariety 1 j tsa? in Boone and bought 2700 bush-' | els of potatoes from the Potato Grow j en? Association. Mr. Gariety is rep-j ijKg/ resenting the South Carolina Produce Growers Association, and was returning from a trip through Maine, New 1 York, New Jersey and other states. 1 Hi * where he had bought thirty thousand bags of seed potatoes to be planted * &y nis Association. -When in Boone [1 IK be was still in need cf 10,000 bags ' yj* and would have been glad to have bought that amount from our growers if we had had them to sell, as ' be stated that the potatoes inspected here were better than any he had < found in any of the northern states, j; Tbe potato growers association sold ! ( him 1000 bags, 500 to be shipped 1 ?v- from Watauga and 500 from Avery. ' Mr. Gaeitv said that hi sAssocia- ' tion in South Carolina planted every year abou tfortv thousand bags more ' than 100,000 bushels, and that they *\ would much prefer to buy their seed from the Mountain Potato Growers' Association than.to buy them ir the 5 State of Main eas the*,- had done up " & to this time. Mr. Gaeity contracted to pay $5.75]' par bag for certified seed, $5.25 for;; "good seed" not certified, and $4.50 per hag for no. 2 potatoes. Mr. Steele! 1 stated that after the freight bags and 1 other incidentals were paid this would j 1 net the farmers approximately $1.70 ! per bushel for certified seed, $1.55: * ?. for "good seed" not certified, and ? *1.20 per bushel for no. 2*8: Mr. * Steele also said that the Association ' in this county was saying about 500 ' bags to be shipped to the farmers in tbe eastern part of the state where 1 they have a trade already established ' When asked if additional fanners in ' Watauga would probably.join the As- J aociation and grow seed next year, Mr. Steele stated that they probably ' would but that they would be slow to ! join and that all of our seed would be shipped so that they would have ' w u"v jiuuibi accu livim uiamv aiiu j pay 2 higher price for them. He st -1' ted that this was one of the disad* j < vantages of unorganized farmers,. | 1 but expressed confidence that the time j1 was coming when the farmers of Wa-! ' lacga would act together in larger ; organisations as farmers in other] 1 sections are doing. jJ SPECIAL SERVICES AT MT. 1 PLEASANT LUTHERAN CHURCH < -.On next Sunday Nov. 18th Rev. H. ! W. Jeff coat is to be installed pastor : . of the Watauga Pastorate including I Mt. Zion. Holy Communion. Holy I Trinity, and preaching h?tnts Boone i Banner Elk and Bailey's Camp. Dr. I J. L. Morgan, President of the Ev-J: angelica' Lutheran Synod of North j ' Carolina is expected to be present and join the services. Dr. Morgan is a speaker of unusual attractiveness and ability. All congregations of the pastorate are asked to be present. mere win L?e two servites uji*: ai 11 a. m. and another at 2 p. m. AH will find a hearty welcome. ! NEGRO WOMAN MAKES MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE According to news reaching the Democrat late Saturday evening mystery still surrounds the whereabouts of one Sarah Coffey, colored of the Blue Ridge Township. The negro woman, 85 years old, according to our informant, left home J on Wednesday morning to pick ga-; * lax in the forests of the adjacent j hills. She was accompanied by the ( family cat, which returned later on.j A oearch was instituted for the wo-; man, nr.d when nil efforts to find her | failed blood hounds were secured.; The dogs met with the same success .as the searchers; could not hold the trail, and no further vuy of locating the aged negress has been suggested. No theory of how this complete vanishing act could have happened in the neighborhood, has been Advanced. Ste ir a si?ter of Boone Coffey a! rather prosperous and respected negro who has long resided in the Blue Ridge section of the county. LATER >?The colored woman was found Monday about three miles from home , dead. -She had apparently died suddenly and there was evidence of her having rolled down the mountain side for some dist nee. lewspaper Published in a BOONE GROWERS ALE OF SEED SPUDS Association Purchase t Good Figure PROBABLE WATAUGA CHEESE MAKERS MAY BRING BACK eeds that Christmas Scat money can ie used to relieve, it urg.?- rcvera! eal selling organization- t o increase ts budget several thousand dollars tnd to work to double its sale if possible. i h- re are 150 su d selling orgaiij rations in the state. These ate com posed of well trained women and Tien, leaders in their communities, arho are responsible for the sale of ruberculosis Christmas Heals In t *?ir own and county between Thankngivng and Christinas. In many places the *eai selling organization is ths: Health Department of the Woman's Club. In Raleigh the seal sale is conducted by he health department of the Womans ^lub of which Miss Rose M. Ehrenleld is Chairman. Mrs .C. A. Shore ivill have direct charge of the sale .his year. In Durham the sale will tlso be under the auspices of the Woman's Club with Mrs. J. H. Epperson is t nairmar. in Asheviiic Mrs. j. VI. G idjyer, Jr. with a strong commit:ee ol business men and women will :onduct the sale. Last year Winston-Salem not onl> led the cities of the state in selling seven thousand dollars worth of seals Irut won National nonors in making the largest per capita sale of any city in the United States having a population of $50,000. She proposes to increase her sale this year to lu,1)00 dollars. "EXAMS" ON THIS WEEK AT THE TRAINING SCHOOL? OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST Ir. a game of basket ball between Boone and Mountain City Tenn. the score stood 40 to 19 in favor of the Tennessee team. At the regular faculty meeting of the Appalachian Training School teachers the past week. Prof. Smith displayed some very interesting scientific specimens by means of the dozen compound microscopes. Among these specimens were the human blo_)d, the retina of the ye, tip of an onion root Indian corn, the anther of the lily, human ? kin, earth worm and a section of the cerebrum. Another shipment of apparatus for the Chemical Laboratory has arrived. Examinations will be given at the Training School this week, ni'irkin^ me close oi tne iau term, ine win ter term begins Nov. 20th, one week later than usual as the school began < week late. Some very fine weather is prevail ing in this section after the recenl unusual spell of wintry weather. Il is often very mild open weather hen during the fall, often in fact unti Christmas. The real wintry' month; here are usually January and Febru ary. J. M. DOWNUli Good pastures are essential to th< healt hof dairy animals, say state col lege livestock workers. * Forty years' experience as a far me may mean little. Some of the oldes Farmers are the poorest while sonv of the youngest a^e the most success fill. ? " tfcttg; * * '? rnd for Boone and Watauga . WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CA1 | WILKKSBORO ARMISTICE DAY j S CELEBRATION WAS V LARGELY ATTENDED. The Armistice day celebration in 1 P North Wiikesboro last Satrday was i ? very largely attended and the day E was as we are told, much enjoyed. P The program was nicely carried oi-t u in every detail?safe the airplane at- h traction?the planes failing to arrive w But it seems that there was trouble b in waiting for at least some of the happy throng after the shades of the night had gathered. Coming up on t1 no. 60 on Sunday we observed four b wrecked -automobiles, good ones too, r within a distance of about two miles. ? Of course this is easily accounted b for, as the thoroughfares were liter- t< ally crowded with cars, and maybe he drivers had on too much gas! ' o If this average kept up on all the | o roads the loss of cars was quite an|tl item. Any way the boys had a big i tl ' day. S LOCAL RED CROSS CHAPTER h MAKES FIRST APPEAL FOR I RED CROSS ROLL CALL > This somewhat belated appeal for y the Red Cross Roll Call is sent out cj , this week. It is earnestly hoped that j the number enrolling this year will be far above the Average. One half sj j of all funds from this roll call is y ! kept at home l'or any case of neces.dty i na calamity in our own section. (. which may come at any time. The a | Red Cross is ready 3t any time to t | help in a calamity responding as a loving mother to the needs of a ^rip- ^ ; pled child. We earnestly appeal to p and request each Pastor, Sunday Sup-, n , crintendent, and school teacher, that' 4 | they will take the lead in this call by appointing one or more from those p 1 under their charge to solicit members I fnr th*. W?htn f'Vinmh " Poron'c u'hn nr. .i i better and in safeguarding their chil- C ! dren against evil should attend. h Subject Sunday night is "Mav.thev j the Honest Man." This service is at t | 7 p; m. t B. Y. P. U's at 6 p. m. 1. ! Prayer meeting Wednesday night t I at 7 p. m. Choir practice Thursday night at r j E. S. Coffey's home at 7 p. m WILL EVENTUALLY H BOONE TRAIL ' Bids now Sought for Hard Contract for I 3 miles i ' Bids have beer, called for by the t . j State Highway Commission on the < J construction % of a hard surface t . | road on Highway No. 60, known :' as the Boone Trail, from Yadkin 1 , River at the Forsyth county line thru i i the town of Yadkinville. < .1 This important information on < t; the?next big highway .project to t ti be undertaken by the state in this > section was obtained from A. S. Hans 1 I! highway commissioner for the sev- y 3! enth district. _ j Mr. Hanes also stated that if the i f j bids received are satisfactory the . j state will let the contract for this 1 J new highway on the 27th of ' No- i ,j vember, when the next meeting of 1 the commission will be held at ; headquarters in Raleigh, r The State Commission is calling t for bids on concrete construction, e This means that the Yadkin coun- ; h ty link of highway no. 60, will be an extension of the splendid con a ?r . County, the Leader of KOLINA, THURSDAY NOVF.MBEI iWINDLER CLAIMS TO BE V1TH STATE BOAR DOF HEALTH J. W. Little, claiming to be an em-: loyee of the state Board of Healthi r.d signing checks as "N. C. State | rh i- ?1 - i.-> namcu in several lace- in North Carolina and Virgini for passing worthless checks, in at :ast one nstance violating the law rith regard to payment of hill for oard and lodging. At the offices of the state Board l Health Dr. W. S. Rankin stated hat no one of this name is or has een employed by the Board, and equested the widest publicity rearding this impositor n order that e may be apprehended and brought 0 trial. In Franklin, Va. a check for $20 n the Wachovia Bank & Trust t'o.f f Winston-Salem was passed by Litle on a local druggist.. There Litle claimed to be employed by the tate Board of Health, bejng located 1 Raieigh after having been recentf transferred from Winston-Salem, le gave his address as 301 South! lain Street. There is no such street I umber in Raleigh, but there is in \ First on-Saiem. In due course the . heck was returned protestci Oi November 1st at Lmcolnton . cIhkI a check drawn for $20 and igned "J. W. Little, N. C. State Lculth Officer." The proprietor of he North State Hotel cashed the heck and Little icft with the money j rid forgetful of a hotel bill for $6.75 'his check was returned protested. In giving the information to the tate Board of Health Mr. W. "R. >T>.I.U.o ? ..i u n. i .vjiimui, *v un*. i navu | ritten to his father in Greensboro n: :*ir: sending you his reply: The reply referred to is from YV 1. Little district manager for the j outhem Bell Telephone and Tele-jraph Co., of Greensboio, and is as 1 ollows: "In reply to your favor of the ' th inst.. I have no connection with . II. Little whatever. Every mail rings in formation of his had checks. [<* is not working for the State Deartment or anything else, and if you ill prosecute you wil] do me'a favor' ! In making public- the information! ir. Rankin stated that all employees, I' the State Board of Health Carry redentials sufficient to identify them - such , OVERNOR MORRISON AND DAUGHTER FIRST TO ANSWER THE RED CROSS CAM Governor Cameron Morrison And ttle daughter Angelia vveije the first vo people in North Carolina to antver the Annual Roll Call of the Alericari Red Cross. "The Ked Cross ought to be nourished and sustained and kept strong j meet disaster and emergency when comes." Governor Morrison staed in a letter accompanying the heck. "It is the greatest organiza-' ion in all the world's history for the elief of those plunged into sudden isaster and suffering. 1 hope North j 'arolina will be generous in cont.riutitig to its support.". 51,130 members is the goal set for! he annual membership campaign in I his state, which is now on and will ast through Thanksgiving. The 126 ted Cross chapters in North Carolina rill conduct local campaigns in as nany communities throughout the >tatcARD-SURFACE ro TENNESSEE LINE Surfacing to Yadkinville, . _ L _ I - . ' C^.. .-t to De u,et in otretcn j :rete highway that is-now almost' rompleted from Winston-Salem to he river near Enon. % The length of the Yadkin county j ink fcr which bids have been isked it thirteen and one-half miles. Commissioner Hanes says this will arry the new concrete construction through the town of Y'adkinville. With the building of this link nearly thirty miles of the Boone Trail will have been hard surfaced from Winston-Salem west. Traffic is heavier on this thirty mile section than on any part of the great thoroughfare from Winston-Salem to the Tennessee line. Just when the State Commission will be able to let the contract for other hard surface constriiction on highway no. 60, west of WinstonSalem is not known, but it is understood that the plan is to finally hard surface it all the way to the Tennessee line. ? .^k wiQtt Northwestern North Caro ? 15. 1923. BOONE EXPECTS TO OF CONCRETE I own Aldermen Go to view with Comn NATION HAS MUCH FOR WHICH TO BE THANKFUI.?COOLIDGE President in Thansgiving Proclamation says Bounty of Almighty Had Singularly Favored this Country. President Coolidge's Thanksgiving proclamation recently issued says: By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION ''The American fieopl from their earliest days have observed the wise custom of acknowledging each year the bounty with which divine Providence has favored them. In the beginning, this acknowledgment was a voluntary return of thanks by the community for the fruitfulness of the harvest. Though our mode of life has greatly changed this custom has always survived. It has made Thanksgiving day not only one of the oldest but one of th? most characteristic observances of our country. On that day in home in church, in family and in public gatherings, the whole nation has for generations paid the tribute due from grateful heart.- for blessings bestowed. "To center our thought in this way upon the favor which we have been shown has been altogether wise and desirable. It has given opportunity justly to balance the good and the evil which we have experienced. In that, we have never failed to? find reasons tor being grateful to God for a generous preponderance of the good. Even in the leas* propitious - i i 1_*:.... _? ?r. yiiuw, >< ui vau vwiiiciih?iuhwi: vi uui whole position has never failed to disclose overwhelming reasons fci thankfulness. * Thus viewing our situation, we have found warrant for a rnorc hopeful and confident attitude toward the future **ln this current year, we now approach the time tfhich has been accepted by custom as most fitting for the calm survey of our estate and the return of thanks. We shall the moie keenly realize our good fortune 11 we will, in deep sincerity give to it due thought, and more especially if we will compare it with that of anv other communitv in the world. "'The year ha- breach?, to our people two tragic ex penances which have deeply affected them. One was the death oi our beloved President Harding, which has been mourned wherever there is a realization of the worth of high ideals, noble purposes and unselfish service carried even to the end of the supreme sacrifice. His loss recalled the nation to a less captious and more charitable attitude. It sobered the whole thought of the country. A little later came the unparalleled disaster to the friendly people of Japan. This called fiforth front the people of the United States a demonstration of Jeep and humane feeling. It was wrought into the substance of good works. It created r.ew evidences ot our international friendship which is a guarantee of world peace. It replenished the charitable impulse of the country "By experiences such a> these men and nations are tested and refined We have been bless with ninct of material prosperity. We shal be better able to appreciate it if w? remember the privations others have sutFered, and we shall be the more worthy of it, if we use it for theii relief. We will do well then to ren der thanks for the good that ha: come to us and show by our action: that we have become stronger, wisei and truer by the chastonings whicl have been imposed upon us. We wil thu? prepare ourselves for the par we must have in a world which for ever needs the full measure of ser I vice. We have been a mos t favorei people. We ought to be a mos generous people. We have been i most blessed people. We ought t? be a most thankful people. "Wherefore, 1, Calvin Coolidge President of the United States, d hereby fix and designate Thursda; the 29th day of November a Thanksgiving l>ay, and recoinmen its general observance throughou the land. It . is urged that the peopl gather in their homes and tnei usual places of worship, give expres ion to their gratitude for the ben? fits and blessings that a graciou Providence has bestowed upon thei and seek the guidance of Almight 9 nt 2. lina.-Established in 1888 NUMBER 45 HAVE ONE MILE PAVING DONE SOON Winston-Salem for Inter nissioner Haynes. The board of Town Aldermen consisting of Messrs Frank Moore. T. B. Moore and Dr. Anders, with Mayor Hahn left yesterday for Winston-S;.lem to meet an engagement with tne Highwty Commission for district A. S. Haynes, looking to the building of a cement street through the city from the intersection of Nos. 00 and I0 at the home of Mr. Bob Bingham to Green Heights, a distance of something over one mile. They went with a proposition from the people of Boone for the construction of the street on a fifty - fifty basi and as the commission expects to spend quite a juim of money ar.ywa\ on the Boone Traii through town, it is a safe prediction that the ideas ! of our progressive people will be car! ried out. Let us hope so, for there is nothing just now that would add so much to. our town Taxes are getting a bit high, but our peopio seem to be most enthusiastic over the proposition. THE .THANKSGIVING DAY APPEAL MADE FOR "ONEDAY-FOR-THE-ORPHANS" The following letter has been sent out broadcast from the North Carolina Orphan Association, and it is published that it may induce some to help out in the noble movement. "The accompanying pamphlet sets forth the purpose of this letter and it is the hope of the committee that , everyone receiving it may find pleas, 'ire in responding liberally to the call (i hetusenves auu parrs the wunt on to their friends. Hitherto thousands of big hearted North Carolinians ha?rc I generously responded to the suggesIlion of forwarding to the orphanage of their choice the income of a day I at Thanksgiving. We believe they will j do so again with the "promptings of j a gentle reminder. In order that mote adequate equipment and support might be provided foi he fatherless and motherless children ul the state the "one-uay-for! the-orphans" movement was started calling upon all aur people to add to the stream of regular contributions ' a special thanksgiving income equal to a day's income. This is a reasonI . ? . - ittuc 11.1 un} w.n, Chi * with the orphans the earnings otf one day out of 363. It i* practicable, for inh nnH nnnr c?n r?nrt.irim?te in it. It enlists our people o fall creedsana classes in beautiful cooperation for the support of a needed civic and Christian philanthropy. While it dei posits an handsome aggregate in the , orphanage treasuries, it also deepens ; and enriches the lives of our people. The cry of the orphan?who can hear it unmoved? And whose heart does not thrill with joy at the thought ' i of the twenty-odd orphanages in Nor. Carolina housin ^hundreds of dependant children arid training them into individual efficiency and good citizen- x ; ship.' Vet every one of the splendid institutions need better equipment 1 and larger support, and everyone of them is besieged by applicants for r admission which must no i c denied for lack of means. In this good state of ours there are literally thousands of orphan children, dependent and de 1 serving, who must be handicapped foj life, unless in their tender years they can have the sheltering care and r.tii*in mir ornhfln homps. Make your offering on or about 1 Thanksgiving Day. Make it on the basis of your earning capacity for a '' single flay?more, if you will; less if 5 you can do no better. Make it through r your church or lodge, or send it direct * to the orphanage of your choice.Make J it with the prayer that our orphan children may be led into the larger " | life here and the life eternal here7 I after. i I *! Seven counties report to the divia sion of markets that they now have 0 over 6.000 turkeys to offer for the Thanksgiving and Christmas trade. '* V. W. Lewis of the division is mak? ! ing a special effort to help the grow* ers market the birds profitably. s j t God, that they may deserve a cone tinuance of his favor, r In witness whereof, I have hereis unto set my hand, and caused to be j- affixed the great seal of the Jnited is States, the one hundred and fortyn eighth. y "CALVIN COOLIDGE."