North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXVItl, NO. 43 Go To Texas, Advises Former Watauga Man W. ?. Shipley Recites Many Reasons' Wfcy He Is Booster off Empire to the Southwest By W. E. SHIPLEY Fort Worth, Texas. Nov. 17.? A little news from Texas might he of interest to the readers of The Democrat. I may not tell you about Texas like Dick Hodges tells it. 1 do not think he or I would either get it told like it should he. YI am located in Fort Worth, about 110 miles west of Dick's town? Paiis. Fort Worth is a city of two hundred thousand inhabitants, surrounded by a great farming country, j Thev tri-ow rattle, wheat rntr.in all I kinds of vegetables. One nice thing in their favor, they do not use any commercial fertilizer. Fort Worth is a great market. Last Monday, the 7th, there was four hundred and eighteen londs of cattle on this market, forty cars of hogs and sixty cars of sheep, seventy car of mules against 100 on October 31\ This is practically a new country, undeveloped to what it will soon be. There is an established air mail route from here" to New York, Chicago, Detroit nnd Washington. The Armour and Swift packing companies have large plants here, employing several thousand people. There are numerous larg^ oil refineries here. Gasoline retails here for 14 cents per gallon. Texas produces approximately (50 per cent of all the poultry produced in the United States. There was shipped this week from Brady, Texas., 350 cars of turkeys. Brady is the town from which the president gets his Thanks V, giving turkey. The turkey this year going to the White House weighed forty pounds. Mr. Daws and Mr. Longworth eaeh got one from here this year. The largest chicken ranch in the world?.Johnson's Chick Hatcheryis located at Bowie, Texas. More five million chickens are hatched here annually. They do things in a big way out here. They liuve the best, bred cattle here of any state in the union. It is a fine sight to take a drive1 out in the country and see the green fields dotted with fine white-faced _cnlves. ' Texas* largest ranch, the Kihg Ranch, covers nearly all of two counties, grnscs over sixty thousand cab tie. It is sixty-five miles from the front entrance to the ranch headquarters. They have several head of purebred cattle of different breeds, principally Bramas, or the sacred cattle of India. Land leases here for from 40 cents to $10 per acre per year. Not many ranchmen feed during the winter. Today, November 12th, it is nice and I , pleasant, no frost so far this year. . The Texans are just plain folks. | rThey know what it is to go brake and ( come ugain. Drought is about all the Texas farmer has to fear. "Young man, ^go west," Horace Greely wrote. I say, Go to Texas, work and take care of your money. Go where money is. There is no loafintr here on the street corners? I everyone is moving. Got something to do. Some take care of their earnings?others work. VALUE OF WHITE JiOUSE PLACED AT $22,000,000 st, Although more than 100 years old, the White House, ar.d the grounds surrounding it were recently appraised as worth at least $22,000,000 at present day realty values, which makes it by far the most valuable residential property in the national capital. William P. Richards, District, of Colombia tax assessor, figured the valuation in. computing appraisals of all fercdal-owned tax-exempt property 'in the city, which was placed at $470,000,000. The White House Was third highest, exceeded only by the capitol and its grounds, assessed \ at $53,000,000, and the treasury building, estimated to be worth just one million dollars more than the president's home. Should President Coolidge be required to pay taxes on his residnece at the present rate of $1.75 for each $100 worth of property, he would have to turn over to Uncle Sam $374,000 a year, nearly five times his present salary. RUTH SNYDER AND JUDD GRAY LOSE APPEAL IN N. Y. ' ___ Albany, N. Y., Nov. 22.?Ruth * Snyder, the blonde Now York housewife and mother who denied her guilt to the last, and Henry .Tudd Gray, her -mild-mannered paramour, who told freely how they both strangled and beat Ruth's half-sleeping hus1 band to death, today lost their joint appeal from sentence of death. Both are in the death house at Sing Sing. The date of execution is expected to be set by the court of appeals here tomorrow. If Mrs. Snyder dies, she will be the third woman executed in |^, New York state. A Non-Partisan Nev BOONE ra^MMmiS? ON BOONE TRAIL \ Spurgcen Bailiff Meets Sudden! j Death When Csr Kc Was Drningj Leases Highway Near Deep Gs]t;{ Caeymha Slightly Bruiied A young man identified cs Spur-i goon Br.ibff of Memory, Avery j county, was instantly killed and his 1 companion. Homier filler, sustained minor injuries when the Ford roadster in which they were- -travaUug, overturned at Deep Gap. twelve miies east of Boone on the Boone trait Tuesday morning about S o'clock. The boys wore returning to their home near Banner Elk from North Wilkesboro, when the accident occurred. The driver of the car being killed, no definite information could i... i?i ? -? .. . ov iiuu con^njpig tne cause 01 tiie I wreck. The young man's neck was broken and the right side of his face I badly mangled. I Mr. Elter and his dead companion remained pinned under the ear for about three hours before help air- I rived. i The body was brought to Boone ? and is being held in the Meets un- I dertaking establishment awaiting the i arrival of relatives from Avery count\. ! Mr. Bailiff was apparently 28 or i 30 years of age. I The accident occurred less than a 1 mile from the spot where young I Frank Foster of Reidsville me', a similar death last August. I i NEWS OF WEEK IN AND I ABOUT BLOWING ROCK | Blowing Hock Nov. 2S?A lla-' leigh school fprntshing firm sent rep-i C resentatives herd Friday with sample! school furniture and a bid for fur-' nishing the new 332,000 consolidated! school building here. The school board looked at the I w samples but did not riose a con-1 ;1tract. ! c' E. C. Pitts, contractor in charge^ n1 of constructing the building, 'saiuj f< the interior, finishing on the second i H floor would Jje completed wthin a' tl week, and that classes could prob-J ably be moved into the budding! within a month. * '' -s>l Work oh Blowing Rock's side- si walks has been transfered from s< .Wain, street to Boone street, in or- ? der to cobipfete the walks to the new* b schooihouse by the time the building c: is occupied by classes. This, accord-] K ing to the contractor in charge of i the building, wilt be in about two; tl w eeks. The sidewalks on Main j it street have been completed from the j j"Vonuhlossee road to Norvel's Hill, 1 's with the exception of a few feeL atj each end. I G A large crowd attended an ovsterj supper and dance Saturday night in the Central hotel under the auspices of the Blowing Rock fire departmenj. The object of the supper y was to raise money to finish paying j, for the siren.. n Miss Katherine Sudderth enrolled a, in tlie Appalachian State Normal school at the beginning of the winter j term, as a member of the Normal department. She was graduated from; 0 the high school last May. Miss Sud-i cj derth was a member of the varsity | p basketball team that Won the North j t| Carolina cnampionsmp last year anil will be a member of theacresent Nor-j ;r mal team, now being coached for a s< series of games this winter. ~ Cases of scarlet fever reported in jj Blowing Rock last week have proved f( to be of a comparatively mild form, -f. and no new cases have occurred. l( Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Panella, who ij, are now spending most of their time f, in Statesville, where Mr. Panel'.a has gi underway twe large plumbing con-j.I( tracts, spent, the last week-end in | j, Blowing Rock. They will spend I 01 Christmas with Mrs. Panella's par-' j. ents in Virginia. JM Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson an- ? nounce the birth of a son. v Mr. and Mm. Bud Bolick announce the birth of a daughter last Friday ci ut the Watauga Hospital. e, A committee ot high school girls i was this week canvassing Blowing, j. Rock for members of the Red Cross. I ,j Good responses to their appeals were] e reported by all of the girls. Under! w the direction of Principal A. E. j p Mercer, the town was divided into'j districts, and,each district was put] n in charge of a team of girls. | 0 : 1 a VALUE CRUCtS tj , h Valle Cruris, Nov. 23.?Mr. Oscar 0 B. Mast of Missouri is visiting his 8 parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mast. Gordon Taylor, who is attending a State College, Raleigh, spent the v week-end at home in the valley. 0 Mrs. Charlie Baird and Mrr J. L. 0 Tester, whose illness has been men- 1 tioned in this correspondence, remain a quite sick. A good force of hands and the steam shovel on highway 69 between ^ the Valle Crucis school and the ( Avery county line, is encouraging to t the traveler. JGA /spaper. Devoted to the WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH L. S. Isaacs "hose record of service caused lis unanimous re-election as commander of Watauga Post, American Legion. During his adminisration the American Legion Park lebt has been paid off, the big Fourthof July celebration staged last summer and the Legion treasury yet shows a neat surlus. Legionnaires state that the outlook for the port is exceedingly bright for the coming year. Past progress, they .-ay, is largely attributable to the efforts of Com mander Isaacs. -utherans Plan for Church Building: Here ontract Will Be Let Within Next Few Days Fcr Edifice to Cost About $25,000 Grace Lutheran church here, it as announced last, week, will vithir few days let the contract for a new lurch building to cost, with equip tent, approximately $25,000 Plans >r the building have already beer rawn by Carl MefSferschmidt, nrchi set, of Richmond Vu? and have beer p proved by the building committee The church will be of brick con :ruction, will be modern in every re rect, witli steam heat, SunUaj shoo! rooms, and all other facilities f the modern church plar.t. It wit e erected 011 a lot owned by th< hurch at the intersection of Karl iing- street and Blowing Rock road Heretofore, the congregation ol le Lutheran church has been hold ig its servites in the St. Mark's piscopal church. Rev. J. A. Youni the pastor REAT WORK BEING DONE BY GRANDFATHER ORPHANAGf Grandfather Orphans' Home :: ;at department of the Edgar Blurt [eniorial Association which care: ic the iiomaBs children ot" th?. iountains. Here on a farm of SQ( exes live 81 hoys and girls, includ ig IT .little ones who make up th( appy family in the Bahy Cottage. The home, as all other department: t the Edgar Tufts Memorial Asso iation was started in answer to ; ? 1 c- - . . ... i coaiii^ acc?. oticmj; every yeai re number of homeless children it re mountain communities and he ig unable to take thorn in th< hool, Sir. Tufts, in 1915, added ai rphanage as' ;> unit of the work a anner Elk. The only equipment >r this new department was a smal rni'. house on the farm belonging > the. school. The first gift to thi; dnvc was a shower of furnishing, om the people of Banner Elk. Witt enerous hearts they answered th< iquest -that they help furnish tht ome and made the* shower a great ne, bringing gifts that ranger) frorr itchen knives to beds. Thus wit! re help of such friends as these th< rphanage was opened with Mr. J i. Holcomb as superintendent, nnc roro the small beginning the .ever rowded home hn? grown to its pres lit size. The orphanage today needs th< olp of its friend3 as surely as it die re day it asked thern to furnish ar ropty farm house. The family thei 'as Small; today it is large and re nfrne in ni-An(irtiovi ? 1-ircrn rmnKhr n endless supply oi clothes ant loney for {general expenses. It nly resources for maintenance todaj re the same they were in 7.915? Ire generosity of friends v.ho hav< een blessed with homes and mean f living?and this is where Thanks iving comes in. Thanksgiving has been set apar s a special Orphans' Home Day. 01 rhich all are asked to give a par f their harvest and increase to th rphanage. The gift may be fror he farm, the pantry, or the bnn ;ccount.?The Pinnacle. .... 1 A terrific rainstorm swept c-ve rcatauga county last week. It cam >ut of the south, and it is said tha he water courses were the highos hey have been for many years. W}4 P!; W ' . Best interests of North CAROLINA, THURSDAY. NOVB1 ijWBrai ORGANIZED m 4* & iilkrmiD G&rland Huds Organ I* tion an Chief, With Carter C CapUin; Practice Period* t Twice Each Week Policeman Caleb Garland has b named chief of the local fire dep; lpeot, organized to nmo the r chemScal fire truck. C. W. O'Nea the driver and has been instructed his duties by an engineer sent h from the company from which truck was purchased. Other members of the cepartin are: Cutter Cook, captain; L. T. turn, secretary ar.d treasurer; ( Payne.D tmpsev Wilcox. Lut South and Trov N'orris, nuzzle m B. H. Moody, Walter Cook. W. Hartzog. A. E. Hamby, Chas. J stAt, hoserr.en; F. F. Fo\ and S. j Avers, hydrant men; Joe C. Cook. I \V. O. Robertson, ladder men. j At the next meeting of the tc 1 council it is expected that an o J nance will be passed requiring i moving cars to be parked when alarm is sounded a ml requiring tl | to remain parked until the truck turns. ; Instead of having a paid fire el as was first planned, it Was deci that twelve men answering c alarm will receive twc dollars each alarm answered. In addil they will be peid one dollar for e\ hour Of fire fighting after the t hour. Each member of the dep ment .is asked to respond pron>| ' to every alarm, whether in case fire or for practice. The truck is at present housec rented quarters, however, the in matioit has been given out thro : Mayor, W. P.. Gragg that a town to house the fire truck and city ! fives wilt be built as soon as suit) i arrangements can be made. .! type of building has not been de i mined, but it is the plan to ere< ' permanent structure. i THANKSGIVING SERVICE i AT BOONE BAPTIST CHUfl j i The annual Thanksgiving ser . of the Boone Baptist church wil r held this (Thursday) evening at 1 o'clbck, qt which time an offe r will btr taken for the Baptist Orpl r age at Thomasville. The program i thp Rftrtripp .-?? .'irrnno'iir^ Kt* r i! mittee. composed of -0. P. Hagar J. T. 0. Wright and W. D. Farth . is 'as follows: ' Song No. 4'j?To the Worlk. Song No. 225?Throw* Oat > Lifeline. t Devotional, by the pastor Song No. 249?Help Somob Today. Talk?Prof. 1. G. Greer. . j Song No. 261?Make Me a 01 "j noi of Blessing. Talk?Smith Hagaman. . Collection for Orphanage. | Song No. 224?Count Your B j Rer.edicticn. At Bluvringf Rock Baptilt Thanksgiving services will be 1 at the Blowing Rock Baptist chi . Thursday morning at It o'clock which the members and friends , the church are urged to attend. , BAPTIST STATE CONVENTIO] 13 OPPOSED TO GOV. SM! . Having taken a decided st - against the election of Govet t Alfred E. Smith/ of New York. . any other wet candidate to the p ; idency of the United States. , having denounced military trait i in public schools and colleges, - 97th annual meeting of the Bap ( state convention adjourned in I , ham last Thursday night. , Evolution was barely touc t upon in a feu- vague references , the brotherhood of science and , ligiou even A1 Smith was dispc . of without excitement. Dr. I. E. Mercer of Winstonj lem was unanimously re-elected r the presidency for his fourth te The First Baptist church of A: vil'.e was chosen the place Cor ; convention next, year arid Rev. F. i .Qf Qtravrc W-iirk Pninl- criic calnr ! VL u.f.. 1 , to deliver the annual convention , mon . Though Governor Smith's ni was not mentioned, he was, as j IV. L. Poteat observed after 5 journmer.t "very definitely - pointedly referred to," in resoluti _ prepared by the committee on so 3 service and unanimously adopted 3 the convention. COL& WEATHER PROMISED t FOR THANKSGIVING D i Washington, Nov. 22.^?For tl t who cannot kindle enough foot e spirit. Thanksgiving will be an i fluv tft irHnnrs fn pah. nni! '' k turkey." Weather bureau sH looked 3G hours into the future night and concluded that Thurs day of fetes and feasts, should r tract more persons in the eas e half of the United States to the t irons instead of the gridirons. In t or words, they predicted it woul much colder and dismal. ' /'_Cvf,r /i. IOCBJ west North Carolina ?BER 24. 1927 JT Early Christmas Mailini ^ Urged By Postmaste 111 W. D. Farthiaj, Local Postmastn A*k? for Co-operation of ;za. Patron? Here ook teld ^ reminder that the Christma veason is not far away and tha those who are intending: to seni een Christinas packages should do ? art. before the rush sets in, was mad' 1C;w here today by W. D. Farthing, post ! is master. } in Announcement has been maile b; ere postal authorities in Washington tha the every effort will be made to hand! the mail as expeditiously as possible ent hut that this can only be don Ta- through co-operation on the part o Jari the public. It is advised that in or her der to insure safe delivery of pack en; ages before Christmas, they be sen G. early with the .requst "Plase do no 'at- open until Christmas," written o M. the outside face of the parcels, and Unusual care should be exercisei in giving the exact address of th )\vn person to whom the parcel is sen! rdi- it is suggested, as mail is more easi all ly misplaced during the Christma an season than at any other period o lem ine year. re- Christmas shopping shouhl be don early so that packages may be sen lief a week or two before the holidu ded rolls around, it was stated. A con ach plete list of instructions relative t for the wrapping, packing and mailin tion cf parcels during the Yulrtide is be ery ing distributed by the a! po.-tcl irst fice. * art- Santa Claus is going- to ni..:: ptly postoffice department dig dou .. .. of shell out approximately Sb.OOO.Uv to pa\ the extra cost of handlin i in gifts and greeting this Christina for- in addition to the ordinary expeus ugh of the running of the mail service, hall The great volume of Christina of- mail that poured into the vast posts di'.c transportation machine iast year n The' guired extra expenditure totaliu ter- $S,688,215. Additional clerks r< :t a reived $2,858,672; railroads for at ditionai transportation, $2,200.00C additional city letter carriers, $1 ! 623,575: overtime and travel allov tCH ance for railway mail clerks, $925 000; additional motor vehicle vice 398,600; operation of goverr.mei ! be owned vehicles $260,000; addition! f:80 smaller sums Were spent for othi ring aciviues. ian for om. ARREST ON CHARGE OF GIVIN nan, BAD CHECK CAUSES TROUBL ing, An action charging: false arrest expected to result from the rearre: the of Luther Bingham of Vilas Tuesds on a charge of assault with a dead! weapon, after he had been release ody Monday under $S00 bond. Bingham v. us tried at preiiminai hearing Monday before Magistral ian- Lee Stout, and his bond was fixed I $4,000. This was later reduced ( $1,5110; but Bingham's attorney contending that even this was ei lies- tortionate, brought the case t Boone, placed it before Justice c the Peace E. N. Hahn, who reduce the bond to $300 and ordered Bin; reld ham released. irch The care was then taken befpl , to Magistrate Smith McBride,.\vho ngai of raised the bond to $1,000. whit Bingham was forced to execute hi | fore he was released from custod; N i Talk of the suit charging false in ITH prisonnient then began to be hear and but the action has not yet bee nor started. or The case arose when DeWr res- Brown of Vilas swore out a Warrar and charging Bingham with hating give ling a bad check for $1.69. At th the hearing, it was testified that Binf itist ham, returning from a rabbit hun )ur- met Brown and the two engaged i an altercation. Bingham asserte hed that Brotvn put his hand in his pocl ; to et; whereupon Bingham laid his han re- or. his shotgun. At this point bj ised s tandem stopped the quarrel. ~St~ S1LVERSTONE jhel Zionville R. F. D? Nov. 22.?Ov the 'n>c to t^le freezing weather of th q past few days people here are vei j busy storing away their cabbage an s'e"r" potatoes. Mr. L. A. Wilson is on the sic jme list at thfe present time. Dr. Mrs. John Dougherty has reture ad- to her home at H. P. Cook's her. and after an extended visit to her daugl ions ter, Mrs. S. M. Greene, in Virgini ciai Mr. and Mrs. Greene and childrc by returned with Mrs. Dougherty an spent several days in this section Rapid progress is being made c the new bungalow of Mr. N. T. ByelAY here. lose Mrs. Leandcr Wilson is spending ball few days with her daughter, Mr deal Otto' McGuire, at Heafcon. talk I The young- people of Pleasai arpsl Grove Baptist church have recent' to- organized t B. Y. P. U. with a goi day, membership. at- The recent revival conducted 1 tern P.ev. G. W. Sebastian at Pleasa and- Grove church, with about 25 ba oth- tisims and about, that many mo d be addition; to the church through ot er channels. ?:?.??;-~Tr-g M FIVE GENTS A COPY ^ICOUMtogrow" " MORE POTATOES ' Million Buibeii Next S?uon Is Cioal Set in Csmpsifs Being Wsg?d by s Watauga County Burl. Specialu: ^ in Certified Seed 11 0 Mr. Obed Castello, assistant state e botanist, is co-operating with the Watauga County Bank in the inauguration c.f a potato-growing camy paign Which is expected to result in 1 the raising of one million bushels of e potatoes in Watauga county next !> year. Mr. Casteilo spent Con-I.'ifirei able time in the county during the tj fali and is now at Sis Home in Wash " ington, Nr. C.. where he will remain " until February when he will again ' vifcit Watauga. 1 Mr. George P. Hagaman. cashier n of the local bank, promises that with j the aid ci the state department of j agriculture, a markc-t can be found e| for every bushel produced. However, I anyuiu me larmer Oi acie to una 2. '"J bettor market than the Kate can, he is free to sell anywhere. The idea of the campaign is to stimulate interest in the production of the Irish. ? Cobbler for seed. It has been pointed out that the Watauga county crop at the maximum couia not cause the flooding of the potato market. 0 The trouble heretofore has been not producing a sufficient amount to interest anyone in coming here to "i buy. Planters in the more southern : sections are anxious to pay the highest prices for seed which will pass j certification, many o? them placing orders in car lots *?( According to the botanist, there is s i no section south of the Mason and " ; Dixon line where the "spud" reaches I the high state of perfection so ne: cessary for good seed as it does right 1 ; here in Watauga county. :"j At the request of the Watauga County Bank, Mr. Casteilo has sent a supply of bulletins or. potato cits :"i ture to this bank for free diatribu tion among the farmers interested in " growing certified potatoes. Karnu rt are lifted to select their next year's potato aeruge now as for the best *' results ground should he prepared , early. !rj DAUGHTER OF DR. AND MRS. ; BLACKBURN HURT IN WRECK q | The following dispatch sent, out _ j from Hickory under date of Nov. 21, ; will he of interest in Watauga coun. I ty, the former home of Dr. Black'i | burn, brother of the Late Hon. E. 1 Spencer Blackburn and M. B. Black|y burn: ^ X Seven prominent young" Hickory high school girls narrowly escaped I death late Saturday afternoon when y \ the large sedan . driven by Margaret *? I Blackburn, daughter ol Dr. and JVIrs. j T. C. Blackburn, of Hickory, turned 0; over three times on the highway this s' side of Lenoir. The injured are Miss c~ I Blackburn, who has a sprained back, deep cut -.in forehead and gash on j back of head; In z Hamrick, broken j collar hone; Margaret Whitcner, outs >"| about head and other bruises; Doro! thv Yeager, broken collar bone; "e; Lena Hamrick, severe shock and "I bruises; Mn.ry Everett, outs on fove:ni bead and knee; Mary Hart. Cuts on 3"i forehead and band. j According to witnesses to the ae1_{ cidont. Miss Blackburn's car was > i coming toward Hickory when anoth11 er car cut into the highway from a side road. Miss Blackburn swerved sharply to the left, it Was said. Her car rocked on the edge of the Uighn way and then somersaulted three lu times. The girls were tossed out like balls. 'Witnesses said. Several ' went through the windshield and the " others were thrown through the top of the car. cd COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE PLAN CRFATES FURORE sf ?| Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 21.?A furore has been caused here by the ... announcement of the. "companionate lC marriage" on Thanksgiving day of ,j. Miss Josephine Haldcman-Juiius, 18(j year-old daughter of the Girard, Kansas, publisher, and Aubrey C. , Roselle. 20-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Rosellc, Girard, and a I sohomorc at the University of dj Kansas. e' The couple will continue to live as 1_ they do now, being supported by a- their parents. In event of children n the marriage will advance to the ld status of a family union. If the marriage is not successful it will 1,1 terminate by common understanding 1-3 to seek a divorce. a s- Failure of Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama to answer a summons, af marked the first day of the trial of ly 34 men accused of complicity in a >d: score or more cases of masked violence in Crenshaw county. Twentyjy three of the men indicted were presnt ent for trial. Rev. L, A. Nal's, forP mei' pastor of- of a Georgiana church re was one among the number who has h- been a fugitive from justice since his indictment. |f | ' Wit