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PACE TWO .1 ? Through the Years As a Mountain School T eacher By Nannie J. Rivera In those days when I first taught school it 15 dderea a great ac-j eowplishmf-ut t;> be a good reader. The teachers took tery great pains hi teaching the ch'ldrer :o read cor-? rectly and distinctly. The punctuation marks and their uses were early taught the children. Back in rbe days of Nehemiah? 3 most idzuirabu Biblical character ? we find that tbi oeople were taught J to read distinctly. ;o give the sense so that people could understand >t. Nehemiah <:s. Not wasn't that fine! Emphasis. which adds so | much to the beautv ol reading, was taught, and chihfcren, were drilled' daily n th:.- import mi branch ofj study. We tor/* find as many good readers now a.- in former years. The teachers are not to blame for there . being so few i?0?d readers among the .school children. f;)| iv the wild rash to finish grades, tbo teachers haven't time to take t* accessary ;?ains with reading classes, that they ?vqu:re. i have lone thought ha' to go or. J successfully with the grades children must first br ?ood h rs and 4 spell well. ha.: a seventh err eie boy once who fairly raced v. m : - read, ana tniitakc. of ?v. .-? plentiful. 0 u day in readii hit yrapliy be said that Germain had a ' erv r-lj-] trtoas : r-'"- ?"ii - ! .-O'.JI, . rrrcyuiai. ..This ".'bused ?. :au.i.-h .n the class ^ aud he said thai he would take that ( back, as he did:=': s. , anything re- : iinious about Germany; Another, a girl, was reading -he in--: paragraph in hci Jes. c n; "A good name w rather to be chosen than jfsSS- riches" She . was reading ir. a an; fern Style urav. ling the words .t. so .hi.', is the x way she read it "A >od man ;s rather 10 be chosen than great riches Dear girl, she pi ' i ' >? ri*!? ringof this beautiful proverb true by! getting married .-eon after Hpw can children successfully handle the . grade? without fir?t learning to read? well. 1 had u ' i.? - once in TTo^mes'. j fourth Reader, the best that. 1 ever had. If one faded to imuse ?\t a ?on? i ma or at a period. notflO one in , t.hft class would -nap his finger. Lift would indeed bo dull without the ?%-' hility to read and get the sense. j , i'hildren should be taught to road j understanding! y and their future work will be much easier. , (To be continued.? , NOTICE TO WATAUGA COUNTY POTATO GROWERS If you are expecting to grow potatoes for the market in the spring , of 11*:! 4 you wiM probably bo in tor- j ( ested in the fact that the Mountain Seen Potato Growers* Association has just 3old 1000 bags of seed potatoes at a price that will net the fanners about $1.75 Der bushel, f. o. b. Bonne i There arc a number of fanners who have expressed their intuition ?>f joining the Potato Growers As.-oc?a- j tior. and grow seed next -.nring This j ; article is '< notify them that ;f they j want to produce seed front the As-' social ion they will have t- put ?n! their order during the next ft w days 1 as the Association intends, to <)[ ali . of its seed this fall. If you wait until i next spring to join, your chance of securing seed will depend on wheth- i er or not a sutbeicn? number want t seed to make it possible to cider a i car from Maine. I would suggest that the seed you get from Maine will probably not be as good as that which we are now able to let you have i \\. 1). FARTHING, Watauga Secretary. < ; . /""*v I Don't let it run ? that cough | TT may grow ir' i a chronic ail * men! S:. p ic v \v uiih Dr Bell's Pine-Tar Honey. Just the medicines that your doctor pr scribes for loosening heavy phlegm, casing inflamed throat and chest tissue, and stopping coughing ? combined with the time-tested remedy, pine-tar honey. Everybody likes the taste. Keep Dr. Bell's on hand for the whole family. All druggists. Be sure to get the genuine. DR- BELL'S Pine'Tar Honey . Subscribe For Your County Paper MATERNAL FELINE RAISES SQUIRREL WITH OWN KIT A Hickory dispatch telL- of hoi J. M. \\ hi^nant, Catawba county fai mer. found a pair of young squii re!s, both blind, about three month D.c-i. carried Them home and turre them over to a cat that nursiti; three kittens. One of *ho squirrel died hut the other wated fat an aury or. cat's milk. Tabby V"ougb the orphan up with care and whe sh moved her family from the bar to the granary, which was neare the Whisnant l nie, >h ecarricd th squirrel first, b.mgtRg hi r own oft springs later. A little later the mother intrc duced her family to the Whisnant and it was not long until they be gan i-j frolic about the house. Th squirrel did not seem to rare .'"or th amusements that appealed to th kittens and did not indulge. It ? having its fun in the prfiicribe* squirrel fashion, however, much t< the chagrin of the devoted foste mother. When Tabby stretches h? r leg and in< ? s sedately across the floor the squ:rr?. will spring oxt baci take a ride and pull her tail. Thi s not pleasing to the pussy ca' :>ut she has no way of stop-ping th< xrformance and bears it put iitlv. Ther. - another old cat it thi ' J-- . Mr. Whisnant says. 1 h ap a'x beln-vt > that squirrels viiether raised in the woods or the - 'Ujl are farr meat, ami >t :? urtd thi fe'ine some day v. ill west , smile. In the meantime eat? and squirrel are livir. u harr?!?riy. ;?r:d neigh*r <rs, '. . milts ' ;?>? ; to ' WhKia:: : t<k , n* th?- oirnbrnutTfrn. MRS. LAURA JANE REESE The subject <?f 'hi- shim -ketch va- born on Septem* m 1 .. . - S and : . u >T, - -met .'- j. ageu ?" years arra 17 days. ?h vva> the da i-iht? r ? Xacilcoi d Bel'* Bcii!!*' r H? r mother died h? a - ban a ; ? ar old >;;t hi r father "Ah lived t" be *7 .us old I i\ lutj until about three i. .Us iiet"i ? h?.r death. She a a married ' ? the lie* Kmrau'l F '**? ?*:t. X' y- ar lw> ami \ fi hanoil; v th him until liis death . I I'M'.4. Sb Aa- th< mother .f H? ? >ildron ;?ur fo a horn preceded her to the ami; three havinjr died -j, jn. 'Alii j Mr- Kce-e \vn- a $oo?l woman. kind bother. ua.od neighbo: and faithful ri?nt| Early i n :if?- -no connected herself vith tiu Methodi.it Church and lived i consistent Christian life, her faith lavincr sustained her until the end. She leaves besides her six children hree brothers and an only ftlBtPl tc noarn her depa rturc. Her twin broth r, Alphonsc Amos Banner, lives ir Jackshore. Tevas llei .ithei l?rnthor? and sisters live in Avery county. She was laid t<> rest in the Ceme tery a* Montezuma. a peaceful po overlooking the town, where the gvea ,tcr part of her life had been spen there to await the final resurrectioi Like the Duncan? "In his grave After fitful Fever is o'er She sleeps well? A FRIEND. v.Avrmber 1. ib23. KNOW NORTH CAROLINA Going ordy by what these two eye i.'/iVe seen, i proclaim these things .arnely: thai Non'n Carolina is the "oreinost >tnte of the south todaj in material progress, in public spiri in educational expansion and in op niism of outlook. Indeed, I dou whether irt all these United Stat.i re i.- a single on*-, of anywheiv ike population, area and per capi;; alth, which in this last year ha. out up ijv.re school houses, laid mor rules of paved road, and by city, an ounty and state, lias voted more hot: - ucs lor sanitary sewage system, nunicipal water works and power [>ian'v< than North Carolina. ?lrvr v >bb i:> Hearst's International for ka i inber. ' m*' After |T Every Heal % Eft Have a packet in your 3 Soothes the throat. ? K For Quality, Flavor aad 9 S & . THE WATAUCA s KRAUT IN SOCIETY K Charlotte Observer. It ought tc- b? good news to Wa . tuuga County thaf nucr kraut has made its way into society This in P formation was forthcoming: at the ? meeting: of the cannerj >n Chicago . the report being that the sale of j I the report being that the :ate of ^jtfae canned product had increased rt | mere than one hundred per cent in tl j ten years. Only ia.-t week a sales.r] man for the Watauga product was in e I < harlotte apportioning the demand among the various dealers. He eou : not give each the full amount orderKj i because the factory has a limit and wants 10 distribute its favors iroi partially while the season's supply e lasts. The breakin gin to .society of t. tm.? mountain proauct makes me iue ture of the industry secure. It. even s points to a multiplication of * le kraut j factories, same as was the ease with ,, th? cheese industry. < Subscribe For Your County Paper t I / ' /?' ; , / ~ - "V-* / / Si i : v t \'iif M1 m j W^0 BANK YOUR MONEY We will look out care ! hilly loi your interests, and extend to you every ! " ! ; courtesy and considera' cion. j In our Savings Depart-1 nient we pay 4 per cent^ , interest. We would suggest that you open an account with; us, and NOW. Bank of Blowing Rock 1 Blowing Rock, N. C. i Mill WlfimillBIIHMll MIIWIlMlllMPa t 11 11 mbSSSEm B I for ~.cck .... SUPERIOR MODEI $59' We can furnish yo rolet line on easy mon \\r c vy c rcier you to ; Chevrolet owners in \ ] of them in use for n< without one cent for r The Boor WALTER JO i DEMOCRAT BLOWING ROCK BREEZES The many friends of Mis. Mary Hartley will be sorry to bxm that she continue.- critically ill at her home on Mordecai Street. Air. aud Mrs. Anson Critchur anJ oaQ'.-e ti?e marriage of their daughi-.er Helen Howell to Harry J. Cooper on Thursday the 25 day of December ' " LM in Pasadena. California. The ?? ide is the youngest daughter o*" Mr. j and Mrs. Crifccher. She is a brunette >\ attractive style. She is a daughter ?f North Carolina, born and raised , , iu Blowing Rock where she has many friends. Mr. Cooper is a prosperous business man of Pasadena. Mr. Barber Hartley is seriously ill Very little hope is held out for his vcoverv. Born to .Mr. and Mrs. Grovei Walrs on last Monday night a bouncing : aby boy. | Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Simmons -t Saturday night a fine son. Blowing Rock is very much dif>sod over the disappearance of Sa-; ' a Coffey, an aged colored woman; ] ' years old. She told her brother' d sister Eiizn and Boone, that she: d go to a nearby ga'.ax patch., | ].x-re she wanted to get g:1 lax; tves. Night came and she did not i . irn. She has been gone for five . There has been more than 50 ? continually hunting for her It i ems that every inch of ground for i around has been thoroughly i-ched. The woman was very feeble i.'t seem- impossible for her to wandered verj fur away. Sear .g parties are still looking for her. On November *th the members ol Community Service f luh net at i home of Mrs. Sal lie Reeve:. Cur ; :: events were di?- " >wl. i worth i : ie progi: ni w.t arreige.l pfter* I business \v?s dispatched. A com-] 1 m ee v.a* nppolni^i to * is't the sick! v.\ find out in \\> nl v ny ;hy dubi Id render aid. The moti . w. } and carried to buy V:ile locks; * he graded school house, also l<?, nd send to the Hartley family . . ? k groci ries, and t? tend th< and a:ui father to a hospital if > uidition will permit. The Clubt had he pleasure of hearing a letter j r? id from one of its absent mm-i V? : Mrs. H. f. Martin of Lenoir, | ui, g the club to push forward in! criiHur Work. Those present were. UdbvttsOn, Mi's. -las. 11 ill. Miss. ?!*? >. Miss Mary Chester. Mrs. T. H. \ . Mrs. Ani.ie Green. Mrs. A.> .il.'hcr, Mrs. Coynton, Mrs. Sal-j lie Reeves, Mrs. W. Ir. Holshouser T next meeting will be held at the ) me ? f Mrs. r.oyntoa on this the Vth. \ix-\ Mr. Woosley our new Met.htodisl proachor delivered his first sermon here last Sunday. The Blowing Rock people feel suft* they will like their new pastor. : jh*-.... "tfC- V ?->v; [ jiuj' f; ?. .TOURING CAR 0.00 I u anything in the Chev thly payments, any one of over thirty Vatauga County?some ?arly eighteen months epairs. o? ie Garage HNSON, Mgr. STATUE OF TUT'S AID IN MUSEUM Army Chief of Ancient King Placed on Exhibition in the Metropolitan at New York. Now York.?Tutankhamen*# grenl army chief. Harmhab. sculptured ir Immortal gray granite, lias just beer placed in the Egyptian department o1 the Metropolitan museum, where it i* regarded by Director Edward Robinsux ond his associates as one ?f the most noteworthy accessions of recent years Furthermore, it comes to the museum enriched by the romance of the partj now working in the "Valley of th? Kings." for on the very day that mod nrn eyes pierced the gliKwi In whlcl Tutankhamen lay, this statue of th? man who played an im|K>rtant part ip the great king's life raine out of It* Hiding to take a place once more in tht public view. Director Robinson, commenting or tlie esthetic and archeologica) value oj the statue before representatives oi the press. Jold special stress on th? Buddah-'.ike pose of the figure and th? Classical modeling of the face planes He attributed this to the tradition ol art minds working through the age? rather than chance influences of thi moment. In Good Preservation. Quite *s noteworthy Is the state oi preservation in which the statue roines to the museum, for with the ?xrcption of the loss of the right hand the material and condition is as perfect is if it had just come from the workshop of the sculptor. The other ptecef >f stone that have come from the time if the eighteenth dynasty show moM plainly llie buffeting of 3.800 years, hut the spirit of new sculpture is strong in Ij "Strong i u J I "T WISH you could know how I A much I am improved sine: rn taking the Cardui," write! ^ j Mrs. Nannie Brown, ot Blact Rock, Ark. "You wouldn't know I me lor the same weak Invalid II was before 1 look It. At my . . * ^ had to keep off my leet ot I woulc 1 fall. I couldn't do my housework I thd just got where I'd most as lie I be dead at living. Some one toll r a my husband of Cardui. He go tfCAF The Wan KS^ MONEY WHAT DOES Y( "GOODBY i "WATCH YOU CAN TEACE DEPOSIT IT WITP MAK.t IT TALK WILL BE The Peopl Trusl BOON * NOVEMBER 15. 19ZS Ibis Image of Bariuhab. The figure is Mated wWfc legs i-rr*aaed and a scroll of pairhnoM* Hpretid arronti Its lap. The left band grasps one end of the whit* thai | right, missing. T?rv evidently HMd quill pen. a* a shallow ink contslneaJ similar to those in the Egyptian depart-} . ; moor. rears upon his left knee. ' I lc this pose of a scribe It is quttw : fitting that he should be composing a* I letter to Toth. fhe letter writer of tba ! gods and the divine protector, who## influence obtained promotion for all r who followed a clerical arser on 1 earth. From his involved phrases on 1 the scroll, which have been interprstsdJ f It Is gathered rhat Toth guides bins* who is in error and recall* every for-| 1 gotten thing. The writer further In-' ' ; yokes the good graces of Toth In s prayer that i? engraved around ths, 1 base of the *ratue. Claimed a God as Father. ? Pendant to this prayer there if a second, chiefly Interesting becntlM by: 1 invoking Ptab. god of Memphia. it indK 1 catea the finding piace of the statua' ' Humor has It that it was under thai 1 palms of MitTabineh, which cover tha; ruins of the grout temple of Ptab tn'? i the very heart of ancient MeuipWa.1 1 Since other recent finds have located} ^ similar statues near the rfty gateway#} it is thought most likely that this stood. * immediately within the entrance of Memphis. It might be judged from this that J Harnhab was a hit <?f an egotist and' 1 such was the case. for he claimed as* > his father the god Horns, saying that! st birth he was equipped with the. t strength and complexion of a god.. When he was still an untaught child! the form of a god was apparent '.n film | to all beholders. This superb sculpture, in many re-} spects the finest in the departmentj comes to the museum through the gen-t erosity <?f Mr. and Mrs. E. E\erit Macy,| who. during the past year, gave thaj museum the sum of $27,0W. The *1zai of thi3 sum the donors fixed by giving; $1,000 for each year of married life ^ 1 i m " " 1 1 11 ?| SHOW ^iflHkv]S!!?p| : and Well" |j it tor me and I took three bottle* Sl^ 4 : betore I stopped?then oft and on M I i for the last three years just at a ^ ; t j tonic. 1 saw a decided Improve- ^ j i | men! alter my first bottle. I used A ? ! I the three, and was able to do m; nm t I work with ease, and now I sew BR| f i for my family and for others. I * J | , am feeling fine, and strong sad Bl ; I well." IB J 1 Take Carduil It may be lust 39 it the medicine you need f * i \ D UI Si ; iian's Tonic f\j TALKS ' I / 3UR MONEY SAY? E FOREVER" j OR l| ME GROW" I [ IT TO SAY EITHER I US AND WE WILL : FOR YOU. YOU : PLEASED f i I I es Bank&; i b Company ^ IE, N. C in
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