North Carolina Newspapers

A Non-Partisan' Family N volume xxxv. $ News Items a from Ku Interesting News items as Our Correspondents lions of th -4 Valle Crucis Mies Blanche Moretz of Limestcm Tcnn. spent the past week with hei sister Miss Anne Moretz. Mr. I>ave Wagner of Roanoke has:u been visiting his relatives here 1 Mr. and Mrs J. K. Perry of Beaver Dams are visiting Mrs. II. B. Perry and family this week. Mr. R A Farthing is building a C handsome residence, Mr. Wilson Low ' I ranee being the contractor. Mrs. SHerlie Caudi'.l and family ! have recently moved into their modem new home just completed. j ByDUm' the little son of- Mr. ami Mrs. Harston Coffey of Dutch Creel; j died last Saturday of diptheria. M *ses Flora Townsend And Anna ; Teoster have arrived to spend the cummer at thSir ho? es after spending the winter in Florida. Rev. Mr. Gribbon of Winston-Salein preached at the Episcopal church Sunday, and made an address SunJay night to the young people. The Woman's Missionary Society fi\et Saturday with Mrs. Ben FarthI :ng. A number of summer visitors are arriving, Mrs. Finlcy Mast's home has been rilied to overflowing during the past week. xt.. o? 11: ' t i r? . c jars, oauit; L>auu, oce ra; wns ui ,Wilkes county spent the week end (*' with her aunt, Mrs. D. F. Baird. Mrs. Cunningham of Greensboro, gave a helpful talk to the Community Club Monday night. , - fit F. Ma at. ,p.n/| jVirfc T. H. Taylor will attend the District Conference at Sparta this week. I Deep Gap Ttli-s Zella Watson is planning to go out west to join her sister at Coffeyville. Kan?, some time in August j. She \v ill attend the city schools of .? that place. We wish her much success while out there in school and p ^on down the journey of life. ? Mi. 1, S. Greene of Stony Fork is ? a very sick man as he has just re-' I turned from th, Wilkes liospii;,| .and j perhaps will have to go back there i. for an operation for gall bladder E trouble. The writer paid him a short; visit last Sunday and found him unimproved Mr. A. G. Miller we understandwill purchase some land which was ' a part of the estate of the late \V. P. Welch, of Ms son Charlie which' lies right along beside his present i holdings hero. Alonzo just reaches out and does! things in a big way when he makes ? . up his mind to do so. Mr. Cecil Miller will continue to | stay in his store here at Deep'Gap1 with his. uncle during the ten days of the big sale now going "or. at A. i G. Miller's plt^-e of business. j V.'e often wonder why campers of] the low lands do not pitch their tents j L i in dcen Gan during the summer. The people would be glad to give them space for their tents and would dp everything in their power to make ! their visit pleasant. Wo hope other state papers -will copy and spread this good news in theif respective popres. The Pgep Gaj Tie and Lumber Co ara still pushing their railrod toward Deep Cap. The steel railings have arrived and the track is being laid down as last as men can do the work. We would like to see this place build up and aMiotel here which will be overwhelmed with guests if one was in our midst. If any one should read this and want any kind of information about Deep Gap just write W. A. Watson, Yuma, N. C. and he will tell you what you want to know with a great deal of pleasure. Miss Ola Moret* is at the home -of , her uncle Mr. A. G. Miller on a short visit. She has been staying t Boone and I Meat Camp for quite a while and we ere always glad to see her down here. * le life ewspaper Published in a 1 SO r Year BOONE. 8 Reported rai W atauga Reported Each Week by in the Several Sece County Foscoe her one. of our good women .fcseti away, Mrs. Wesley Coffey x.i 3ft?arday night. She was buried at t-r home, the Kev. Eber Gragg conducting the funeral services. Miss Carrie Bingham is visiting Mrs. Henry Brinklev and' others of her friends in Foscoe this. week. Mr. W. H. Byrd has taken the position of police officer at the Green Park 'Hotel, Blowing Rock, for the summer. Mr. Childers ii painting the church and ^chool house in Foscoe. The school will begin the seventh of July The big band mil} at Shulls Mills shu^ down the 21st of the month. Our mail carrier Mr. Thomas Holioway holds his head up in the air :hese days. He can't see the mail boxes. He said "we have a fine boy." Mrs. W. H. Byrd was called to Bristol to be at the funeral of her aunt Mrs. M. F. Presnell, who died the 17th Miss Mena McCain has gone to Blowing Rock for the summer. Mr. Dav'd Wagner is visiting in Foscoe this week. We farmers would do well to pattern after Mi- L. L. .Moody. If all could *ee his acre potato patch, they would say it pays to farm. Ii farming women will come to Foscoe, Mrs. Waters will show them her garden and ihcy can se.? what an old woman con do. GOOD DAIRY COWS PAY WELL LOCALLY IntereAting Figure* Result Frcm Accurate Record Kept. of Fnmoai Watauga Dairy Herd. Good dairy cows are paying Mr. W. **r TI'..* r* IT i . ?? iiMfri, ??; t>,uau^;'. v uum\, nuw does ho know? Ho knows because he has been keeping records on his herd supervised by the Dairy Extension Office of the State College. These records show conclusively that good cows do pay. During May the six cows kept by Mr. Wilson produced 6659 pounds of nulk, which is 774.3 gallon? or an average of a little more than four gallons per day for each cow. This milk was sold to a cheesr factory at $1.40 per hundred pound: w hich amounts to $93.23. The most interesting part of this performance is that this inilk wa: produced chiefly on grass. The tota value of the feed consumed during the month allowing $1.50 per hear for pasture charge was only $31.5$ This taken from $93.23, the value o: the milk, leaves a net profit of ove cost of feed of $61.71. This is ai excellent rethrh and besides most o: [ the work in connection with keepir.f j ?. litre \.??r>a niw uuuc at cai 1 j ihvaii i iiiR and late afternoon, being time' of the farmers day when it is han to realize, cash for his labor units ; he ktepi; cows. Mr. Wilson found from hi^record ! that last yeantwp ?f his best cow j rcthrned more profit than tbe othe four. These figuies show beyond an: question that good cows do pay, her on Watauga farms and Wataugi grass. Poor quality cows may no pay but good producing cows do. am . there is no reason why a farmer can not have good cows. We often hca excuses rendered for not having th right kind of cows, but they arc rr.er excuses and not reasons. The price paid for miik by th cheese factories has been rangin around $1.40 per hundred pound! and it is often said that this is loi an_ that there is no money in prc ducing milk and selling at this piic< The figures on Mr. Wilson's her constitute the best answer to thi : statement. During May the average feed coi of producing a hundred pounds c milk in his herd was 47 cents. Th market value of this onik was mot than three-times-the feed cost. Wi I it pay? The answer is that it DOE | pay it&HXQ nd for Boone and Watauga WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAS iMANY VISITORS |i | AT THE A. T, S. Student Body Comprised of Teacher- I from 65 Carolina Counties and 12 Counties in Other Sta'-?;* The third week of the first summer term of the Training* .School was one of the most interesting thus far. A number of visitors were present dur- ^ ?ng the week. Dr. Hayes, h fr;end of n the school, was at chapel on the 17 "1 and 21. Professor Williams of Moun-i t tain Park addressed the students very ! t interestingly on the 17th. Mrs. Cun- < ningham of the North Carolina Ins-' 1 uranee Department talked to the1 school on the 18th in the interest of 1 her work. Professor Henry Belk, a; 1 graduate of Trinity and now instruc-, tor in English in Wake Forest Co?- ' lege, was at the school on the 18th 1 and 19th and mde a most instructive < talk to the school. He is representing < the Greensboro Daily News during! the summer. Dr. h. Hiliman, di-.i rector of Certification in the State ? Department of Education was at the.1 1 School from Thursday until Saturday j ; leaving on Sunday morning for Ra! j i eigh. He made very instructive and helpful talks to the student teachersi at (Impel on Friday and Saturday. . i Rev. N. R. Richardson and his wife; < and their son, Prof. N. R. Richardson ? formerly f the Mocksvile School, now ' of Bessemer City, visited the school, i Rev. M. B. Woosley, pastor of the! Boone Methodist church conducted! ! chnpei service on Saturday and ma<)e! a helpful talk. JProf. B. B Dougherty ! went to Lenoii on business Satur-j day. A Jaige number of the studentsi ; and teachers went on atrip to Grand-! j father Mountain on Monday. Mr. J. j K. Perry of Cove Creek, father of Dr. and Prof. W. V. Perry visited the school Saturday. Students and ;eachers of the school are busy and the work is moving on well. The student, body consists of 500 ladies and 19 men ahd boys, coming from every pan ol the stale and from six other states, representing 65 counties in', North Carolina nd 12 counties in otli-' cr states, or in other words they rep-j resent seven states and seventy seven i counties. The Epworth League gave a play I *??> TW::c?H6V rti/cnmi' in I ho i*nnr! house to a large and apreciative au-1 dienee and took in about $100. A number of the Baptist young j people with Pastor Huggins went to Wilmington the last of the week to the B. V. P. U. Convention. Miss Lola Tuttle, a missionary of | China, gave interesting and instruc-, [jtive talks at tb? Methodist church . | Sundnv morning and evening. GKOWiNG SEED llSi :i WILL BRING I - John B. Steele, County Agent for W j ^Opportunity of the People Living 5 Sea. !| By HENRY BELK, in {j Boone June 20.?If farmers oi* j y i western North Carolina corftinue to | f develop a new crop introduced com-1 r mercially for the first time last year | ^ it will be only a matter ol a few 1 f years until they have a new source r of revenue which should bring them ! _ not less than a million dollars ar.5 nuaily. Farmers of Avery, Wat*&ga j Henderson. Buncombe and any other s county which has an altitude of 3,000 'feet can benefit from the new s crop. John B. Steele, county agent" s for Watauga, related the story today. r Growingl seed Irish potatoes is the .. new .venture. e Irish potato growers of the eastern ? counties of North Carolina, of South t Carolina, and of Florida each year 3 are forced to purchase from northern markets seed fov another crop. Their r total purchases run into the millions e annually. Most of the seed purchased e comes from Maine and northern New York. e "There is something in the climate g of these southern states that seems , I to prevent the potato from keeping H; from one season to the other for ,_i seed," Mr. Steely explained this , j morning. "I suppose that it is bej I cause thle thermometer stays too :s close to the top of the indicator a good part of the year." ,t In 19^0, John W. Goodman, now district agent for the western connties, with an office at Asheville, was ,e| county agent in Avery County with j] an office at Newland. While here Mr. S; Goodman studied the seed potato problem carefully. He saw that the i 4 i County, the Leader of I IOLINA, THURSDAY JUNE 26. I SUNDAY BAD DAY FOR AUTO WRECKS 11 .cryir Folic Sprnd Week End in W*- j l?v.{ft-~-AUond Service* ait Hand-1 aome Country CKurch. (Mrs. A. K. Barlow.) JL.enoir, N. C. June 24.?The wri-' er and family enjoyed a pleasant risit to Watauga last week end. It vas our fiiat time to attend a service in the handsome new church at 2ove Crevk, and it was indeed a joy o be there. The service was carried >ut in a beautiful way by the pastor itev. Wilson. For dinner we had in the home a e.rge number of relatives and friends. Our trip home Sunday p. m- was uii ot excitement as we came upor> ive different automobile wrecks on ?ach .-.ide of Blowing &ock within a li stance of 15 miles. Two very narrow escapes were uade .Saturday going up on account >f the lack of brakes on the motor v hides meeting us. Surely people mould realize the danger of those mountain roads of having no brakes. Let mo say to the women of the VV. M? U. of the Three Forks Asso-| nation that we have a letter from ciur state president Mrs W. N. Jones -tating thai she is planning to be with us in our associations! meetings in September, that is in Three Forks, Caldwell and Catawba River Cnioi. Mabel We are having nice weather here now. People are very busy hoeing corn. Mr. Marion Thomas is at home Ihis week. Mr. nd Mrs. John E. Combs were visiting Mrs. L. S. Isaacs Sunday. Rev. James McSwain and family spent the day with Mrs. Sp?.?ncfer Miller Wednesday. Miss Hazel Sutherland Us visiting hn grandma liii.- week. Mrs. .J. J-t. Johnson. Mrs. L. S. Isaacs and little daughter Ruth took dinner with Mrs. John Combs Thursday. Departntent of Agriculture, report shows that farmers are adjusting themselves to changing conditions, Dairying has expanded practically everywhere. One case is cited of a beef cattle raiser who sold bis herd, replaced it with 20 head of dairy rattle. and made more profit on milk every month than the same number of beef cattle- made for him in any year during the last live years. H POTATOES N THE GOLD COIN alauga RcUtr.1 Story of the Great 3300 Feat Above the Level of the :he Greensboro News. summer climte of the western eoun ties wliifch had ar> elevation o around 3,000 feet was practically tin same as that of Maine and northern New York, the seed markets. "Why couldn't we grow this see, | here and get tor the farmers of thi j ar.d adjoining counties some of thi | big pile of money which each year ; going to the northern fellows?" h ! arfked himself as he studied the sta I tistics showing the huge quantities o I seed potatoes shipped ir. annually. Ordering a quantity of the north i ern seed, he began experiments ii j Avery. He planted his seed, harves i ted his crop, and the next year ship : ped a quantity of the potatoes whicl he bad grown to county agents in th easetrn sectfGn of the state, the prin cipal potato producing territory i I North Carolina. These county agent were instructed to plant the Aver county seed alongside that of see purchased in Maine or New Yort These experiments were supervise by the state horticultural division. The experiment proved that Mi Goodman had been right in nis id^ that sections in western North Car< lina with an elevation of around 300 feet couid grow seed. In each ir stance where the experiment wa tried, the yield from the Avery see was slightly latger than that of th purchased from the north. Not onl was the yie.ld larger but the time r< quired for making the crop was lei -two points allowing that the we tern North Carolina seed was n< i !y as good as northern seed. In Northwestern North Carol 924. 5 Ct?. aCopjr DEATH CLAIMS MISS VIRGINIA HODGES Attractive Young Local Lady Fatten Avray Vetterday Morning. Afte*Four Day*' lllneas. ? j Yesterday morning at 3:30 Miss J Virginia. the attractive *20 year old daughter of our towns-man, Contractor W. II. Hodges died at the home of her sister Mrs. J. F. Carter in this city. Miss Hedges had been ill for but ! a few days, and many of her friends did not know of her indisposition until the end came, news of which was a decided shock to those who had know n her. Deceased was a very attractive personality, smiling and of a pleasing disposition which endeared her to the hearts of her friends. She knew the end was com ing. and talked pleasantly with those about the bedside until a few moments before the summons came. The citizens of the town extend their deepest sympathy to the bereaved relatives. Interment was in the cemetery n*?ar Poplar Grove Church yesterday afternoon at -1 o'clock. Baptist Church i Sunday School next Sunday at [9:3d a. m. This change in time is ! made in order that those attending ! the Fifth Sunday Meeting at Meet ; Camp may reach there in time. B. "i. P. Us meet at ti ;30 p. in. i Prayer service and choir practice >n Wednesday at R p. m. J Rev. F. A. Bower of Margantcr 1 vviil supply the Baptist church at Blowing Rock during the month ol -Juiy. Preaching every Sunday. The pastor and his family leave Tuesday for Pleasureville, Ky. where ' f hi.i* will cnon/i rlwi munt h nf .Inlv in a little vacation. Arrangement! will be made to supply the p'lipi?, daring the absence of the pastor. STATE MILITARY FORCE NOW 3.00C The National Guard of North Car oiinu stands well up in the ratinj 1 of the United States War Depart I meet inspectors and numerically heads the list in enlistments of tin eight southern states in th - Fcurtl . Army Corps area, according to tlr Adjutant General J. Van B. Mott . of the North Carolina National guan The officers and the enlisted pel so nil el of the state military force j number approximately 5,000 the ad - j jutant said, j All uitits of the national guard ar I subject to the call of the presidcr , in the time of national emergenc J and subject to the call of the gov?] 1 nor In time of state emergencies sue j a; riots, mobs, jail storming partit and disasters, it is explained. Officers and men, it was stated, ar paid for drill duty, which usually four times a month, the limit bein . 60 days per year fujP enlisted me: i and 4S days per year for officer ? However when in camp the office! t and men receive the same pay.as a the soldiers of the regular army c i the same rank. , k better ' One year's experiment was not coi * ' sidered sufficient for a fair test an the work was continued for ihrt years in this experimental stage. I ' 1 n.l.i 1 U.. l? O,. ..1 1 i ,,Ui) uunu l>. otccit' a ^lduuu: j of Slate coii.'ge and the man who r " laced the story, came to lloone 4 11 county agent for Watauga. He b came deeply interested in the wot which Mr. lioodman had started. La ^ i year Mr. Goodman was calle dl Bj Asheviile as district agent and tl '*] potato mantie fell directly to your "j Mr. Steele. 51 last spring he interested some A >'' farmers, in this county in the prop d i sition ar.d they planted 20 acres c- J potatoes. From this 20 acres i ^ I ground they harvested 5.000 bus els of potatoes. The families of tl r. 40 farmers used a quantity of tl a | harvest', 3300 bushels were sold i >- j seed?most of the amount to Sou 0 Carolina farmers, and some 161 l- bushels were kept for planting tl is year. d For the 3,300 bushels shipped leithe South Carolina farmers,' tl ,yi Watauga men received approximate s- $6,000. Only 20 acres had been pis is ted in the potatoes. A little divisii s-i shows that the farmers received $2 otj an acre or an average for their wo at net counting family consumption a Iff iina.? Established in 1888 NUMBER 25. WINSTON VISITORS GIVEN RECEPTION | 150 Leading; Citizen* of Winston-Salem on "Good FellowiKip" T?nu' j of Lost Province Region. The city of Boone is honored this morning to have as guests 150 of 1 | the most prominent business, proj fessional and civic leaders of Win- j | ston-^aiem. The party known as "Know Your State Tour No. 1." arrives here at 7:30, and will leave for Jefferson at 9 o'clock The citizens and business men of the town have joined hands with the school authorities and besides serving them a ^cod old fashioned mountain breakfast, the visiters will be accorded more formal welcome at \ the A. T. S. auditorium . Arrangements have been made for hearty re- j ception of the party in the various town8 and vil)ages; and nothing is to be left undone that would add anything to their pleasures. ; The object of the expedition composed of 88 automobiles, is primarily i that of establishing more friendly re| intion*. with the people of the * Lo?t Provinces. To this end the local citizens are expected to turn but en masse and meet and mingle with the ! distinguished visitors during their 1 brief sojourn in the metropolis of . j ?.ht Northwestern region. The two I days trip as planned will permit short , stop-overs at ai! point*? of interest in Wilkes, Watauga. Ashe and AUe | gbany. 11 On behalf of the citizens of the t town and country at large, we would ' extend to the folks from North Carolina's great industrial city a most .: hearty welcome. We are glad you c4ir?c. Max youi si.oit stay in the balmy breezes of this God-favored si county he pleasant, and mas your . connrg add to that friendly relationship that ha.- so far existed between MS to our mutual benefit. The following announcement will ?-i be of much interest to the many icI cai friends of the bride, formerly Miss Elizabeth Penn, of Boone. Mrs. William Columbus Coffey announces the marriage of her daughter Mrs. Elisabeth Penn Seav \ Mi. Garland Estes Vaughan J on;Tuesday the seventh of June One thousand, nine hundred and ; Lenoir, North Carolina ,s' Mr. and Mrs. Vaughar, wiii be at I home after the tenth of July at 2123 RiVermont Avenue, Lynchburg V irginia. it .. .... , Two farmers-of Edgecombe county sheared 15 sheep this spring. The ).. sheep were of the same breeding but ,s'one lot was grazed on cover crops all winter anil the other was 119*. The e;sheep grazed produced 101 pounds is.of wool and the others produced 16 g . pounds. , ! * ., 1 > s' 1 Six hundred houses and bams have ^;been painted in Cleveland County 0 since the paint campaign was begun ^ in that county, reports il^-. Lawrence farm agent for the State College. 1- seed kept for this year, u! "You can compare that with your ^ cotton and tobacco averages, if you n want to," said Mr. Steele. :c This year 65 farmers arc planting e- 65 acres. Some 15,000 bushels for is seed should be realized from this L'" planting. Although it is a little too k early to estimate the value of the st crop accurately, Mr. Steeie thinks ;o that it will bring the farmers around $20,000. lS This will mean that the 65 farmers trill find themselves with an extra I" $20,000 in their pockets. Not until 1 last year did they know that such a in j source of revenue existed. "And in cultivating the potatoes h-; they will not sacrifice their corn. ie j wheat or other crops. This 65 acres ne j represents little patches here and there." th North Carolina alone buys each 10 year $1,000,000 worth of seed potass tatoes," said Mr. Steele. "We can grow every bit of this to 1,000,000 worth of seed right here he in our western counties?Watauga, ly Avery, Henderson , Buncombe and ?n others. Selling in North Carolina aon lone will leave South Carolina and 00 Florida untouched. Florida buys more rk seed than North Carolina and South nd Carolina almost as much."