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1>AGE TWO NEWS OF WORLD" BRIEFLY TOLI Outstanding Happenings of Wee Gathered from Everywhere Cor (Sensed for the Busy Reader Senator Curtis >t Kansas, who a candidate for The Republican non ination for president, declared ia week for a plank in the next part platform pledgrinja: strict enforce ment of the prohibition laws. H also announced his opposition i the states determining what alc< holic content should be per mitt*, and said he was against repeal ' either the 18th amendment or rl Volstead a-:t. His views wen* state in n Tottov t.i Snnfltiiv Ftr.riiVi i Idaho, who is questioning all Repul lican presidential candidates on U wet and dry issue, Los Angeles. Jan. 28.?The ki< napping and killing of Marion Pa ker was disclaimed today by Wi bam K. Hickman, whose coopsel tL clared that the youth had repudia ed bis confession to the police. rome K Walsh, defense attovne; said Hickman ?oes not admit tli staying of the* school girl but r< fused to elaborate on the suddc change in the attitude of the a< cused youth, who heretofore ha been ever ready to confess his gui to officers. newspaper veportei and others. The repudiation of th confession obtained by the polic was made to Dr. A. L?. Skoog < Kansas City, chief of the staff c defense alienists, who visited Hicl man in his cell. Washington, Jan. 28.? Althoug he failed in his attempted r.op-sto flight from Detroit to Miami, in Ford flivver plane. Harry J. Br ok established a new American distant record for light planes. This awai was announced today by Porter At ams. president of the National Aer< nauti Association, after a meet in of its contest committee- Whe forced down at Asboville, N. G., se< days ago Brooks had fibwn 17 miles. This, however, is Scarce! more than half the distance toverc r>v th?> nr<>IKtt nvnlrlen of rho tvovM record; May K nipping, French ai man. who made a non top Ciigl from i 'oris to Roenigsbci'jr Oct &< :?0 of last year, a distance of 8" miles:*. IJrooks is Waiting here ft favorable weather to ie \urn U> D trpifr. lie has ii dicated he again v.-i attempt a non-stop flight iron, ila city to Miami. Washington, Jan. 2'J -'the agr cultural industry as a whole .. . eipate domestic market situ: tion foi the 1.028 production at lea: equal to that of the present winte wiili the no-s,bility of soipe iri prow ment," the' depart mcut. of agi culture saig today in its annual far: outlook report. After analyzing tl demandvfor major crops, the ioreig and domestic market, credit, lata and equipment, the' report summa izeti the condition of the country : a whole with the statement th; "some i nip rove mint is expected farmers avoid' o\nans;?m of prod in tion and continue their efforts I balance production with demand, A better uaiance prevailed in H*2 nevAgin tMs ititierc'ni Imts oi ajri cultural toriwScte than in any orh( vcor.i year, .vltn the o.\ee[itior. < feed Scrips in relatiorr .to -ivest;ee] .He report-, said, adding '.hat expa; siol). particularly in eosh ecops is t be raped against in order to Ju w|t<cr stabilize the industry and i> rea:-v Hit 1 bJS ineome. Sew Yuri.. Jar. 28. ?A v.arjt'h j of ,i nev.' political Elignmciit bi B c\v eei! tie- and nie ;V ? hind far.u rt lief !, ,ri B was sou riled by .Senator Ny> li'ipobiican, of North Dakota, in speech prepared lor delivery t< night before the Westchester Coui ty Bankers' Association. Dectarhi thai; eastern representatives in coi ^ress make it impossible to pa; farm legislation "above the head c the president and power of veto. Senator Nye predicted that if tl west and south unite to form new party, 'the new alignment crea ed out oi bitterness, will, if suedes ful, have little regard lor the h terests of those institutions whic have stood opposed to them throu^ recent years." The North Dakoi senator did not specify any pa ticular farm legislation which 1 said the east has opposed, but he h; been among the staunch support? of the McNary-Ha.ugen hill votoc last session by President Coolid* and again before congress in sorn what revised form. During his a< dress. Senator Nye assailed Amei can intervention in Nicaragua, "e: tCBSIvC LUUI^ai^Il CtfllVUUUViUliS H? the administration's claim of pro perity. The worst storm of the wint< was taking: a toll of life and pro] erty over half a million square mile over the United States Saturda night, says a summary by the On ted Press. Snow fell and the ten perature ranged from sub-zero t below freezing in a belt 500 milt wide and 1,700 miles long which el tended from middle western fan states to the Atlantic Ocean. Eigli deaths were reported from cold. Si froze to death in the streets o Chicago and an elderly woman wa found frozen in a boarding hous bedroom One man froze to deatl in Iowa. Eastern cities in the patl of the storm, including Pittsburgh ami Xew York, experienced slightly higher temperatures accompanied by west winds and | Pennsylvania was cover-jj F th snowfall ranging from 1 _ inches in depth. Xew England ve.v ted snowfaits and temperatures * nging below zero. The Chicago .- l- on exp rier.ced the low zero i ivmperatur* s early Saturday. Iowa points ted as low as six below :<? Wisconsin eight below and loth, Minn, IS below. Even -1hern Indiana experienced subv I zero weatlier. Throughout the wide elt of the storm, damage was re L-5RJ ^ ??.?? " l"",,v cvx.1 , dents ere numerous. d' Returning: ;,o his home town o? . Laclede, Missouri. last Thursday for yX a second nmc since the World war. General John J. Pershing1, eomman'f*. der of the American expeditionary ^ forces in Fram e, again received the L" plaudits of his old friends and neighbors. From the time of his ,i; rival in a private railroad car 1 shortly after noon until his deparr tare after a dinner in his honer at 1- night. Pershing was rushed about e- from one meeting ptacd to another t- and was kept busy shaking hands, e- Approximately .500 persons, or y. ihree-foarths of the Uf.vn's populate tipii. were at the station when Perl? siting's train arrived. A few seconds n after the private car had been switched off, ")ohnn>" Pershiug d showed hihaseif on the platform. For it moments there was shence. Pershls ing. grim. gra\ and military. "looked le at the crowd and the crowd !< oked i :e at him. Then some one shouted j * J "'hello!*' and the ice was brpken. j >f j Mayor ?. P. Allen, boyhood friend 1 of the general, was the. first t?? greet j him formaliy. Others quickly gathered around, among them Mrs. Mat i tie Packer Pershing's cousin, and j 1 j Meiir> Lorhax. Lacle.de bank presi-i * t dent, who once clerked in the store i "'jo: the general's father. :d| \ . J WATAUGA'S FIRST BRICK RESIDENCE |V*j < Cordiiuted From Page Oriel " from service rendered were their yj nly compensations. '*j Mrs. Hortou toils of another assi ??t of Society in the mountains, the 1"{ quilting party whic-h was the vom: an's club of its day. -lust as thv men ffigj gatM4*ed to help a neighbor build a J hSlibo. harvest a crop, or split rails, u!so the women congregated to help a l*~] ; v ghbor make a quiit. When all the; 'Iguiifs had assembled, the aid quilt-' XXj 1 ing frame, hung on pulleys at the' [ ceding, was lot down until it was ;H waist %h mSn the floor. Then the iy! women gathered around it and bea gan sewing on the quilt, st The days of the roadside mill and r, l lie log house, however, were not ail it- happiness ami fun. There came a i lion- when nearly all the men had in gone to war, and er.iy the women ic and children remained when word :n came that Stoneman and his men irlwere coming from the West to <ier vastaie the mountains of Carolina, is When they came into the valley of it Cove Creek, they selected Benjamin if Councill' meadow, in front of the c-i brick he use. for their camp ground. ;o N'-arly all of the qhildren were at "I school. The gghdolniastor, r. Con;T J -federate veteran who had been disi charged because hvi had lost an arm. ?r in fpaUle. learned from two scouts if of Stor.eman's forces >v hot had hapk, jpfcnee and told the children to go i-jkovne. When Polly reached the old c brick house, she found the Yankees r- .-ampi-d a1! over lu r father's nicad "| They seemed to be short of Nations. for they cair.e So tlie house, ~ took every bit oi food in the smoke"c housg a lid cellar, seized all of the chickens and took possession of the horses \'ut c.r?HcrfT^rl -n-itV. +VUo fV?e,T went to the field where Jacob Counc-tl? was plowing and shot hirri down .J.'in cold blood. No explanation Was ( i ever given for this deed, ar.d to this ^ day no one knows what provocation i Jacob Councill gave the raiders for ^ killing him- After spending one ? i night on the Gouncill meadow, the ^ej raiders went on to Boone, where oea? curved the battle in the home of t ; Aunt Polly's uncle, a house where <._! the home of J. D. Councill now j stands. " i'es. times have indeed changed," Apnt Polly says. "Our only social gatherings used to be the house rais^ , ir.g. the crop gathering and the ie| quitting party; moreover, a trip to 1S Boone was an event. Now a womrej art's club from Boone runs out to 1('j! Cove Greek for its afternoon meetrc \ ir.g and gets back in Boone in time g. for supper." J i Peps and Mos Galore !t- Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbeck and id family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vanders beck and family, and Mr and Mrs. Mayer, ail came out from Portland to eat Thanksgiving dinner at the home of t.hoir Mv? a ;'3 Versteeg.?Newberry (Ore.) paper. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Breyer, Oakoto, Minn., are the parents of a 7 pound 13 ounce son born November 12 at LaCrosse Methodist Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. William ' Campbell, 2027 Liberty street.?La ^ Crosse (Wis.) paper. it x Lawyer for auto accident victim: f "Gentlemen of the jury, the driver s of the car stated he was going only e six miles an hour. Think of the ti long: agony of my poor client, the i victim, as the car drove slowly over , him!" THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVI THIS WEEK ^ Bv ARTHUR BRISBANE THINKING FOR YOURSELF AGE' BEING RUSHED BACK EXTRA WEIGHT TIRES 11EAT RAT PROOF BUILDING An expedition of the California Academy of .Science retains from tht mysterious Galapagos Islands bringing giant lizards. only sur-j vivors of the Mesozoic age, and, more interesting to the youth of America, "flightless'* cormorants, huge birds that have lost their power to fly because they have not flown for so long. What applies to flying for your sell appuoe to thinking for yourself, j It's easy to lose that faculty. Dar-j win visited those islands more than j 75 years ago. and would have liked to explore the inaccesible mountain tops that no one thus far has visited. H. C. Forbes says that great banking houses, notably Morgan & Co., biggest of the aggressively' enterprising *>rms. admit to partnership men about forty years old. Davison, La mot. Morrow and other important Morgan partners were taken in at about forty. the age supposed to combine sound judgment with power t. carry a heavy load. In other days forty began the "graybeard" age. Great careers, Alexander and Napoleon, the two most spectacular, were over at that age. Age is pushed farther and farther back, and the >. P. Morgan of 200 years hence may be selecting 7p-yar-old partners for their combination of mental and physical strength." Senator Capper of Kansas seeks reduction in railroad freight rates on grain. Not ail farmers realize that Uncle Sam's money has been spent to make it impossible for farmers in some part <f the United States to compete with Canadian farmers. Northwest Canadian wheat reaches our east coast and Europe j through the Panama canal, at low I i r ight -ate: . This country built the Cfinal, taxing its citizens, and! lets the whole world use the canal i at the same rate as Americans pay. if A are too fat, you treat your heart unjustly. So says Dr James Me Lester. The heart works hard-j or to carry extra weight, but that j is only pa it of it. Fif'y to one hun- j drcd useless jv.u.nds of weight represent endless billions of living cells I that demand nourishment. heat, water and th< ir added share of the 1 energy that causes metabolism, or j change of tissue. Extra weight tires the body, brain j and heart, constituting i "loafer \ class," or idle rich class in the sys-J tem that shortens life, diminishes comfort and usefulness. In that, a human body is like a government. Idle rich that consume and contribute nothing, except silly opin-i ions, are harmful to the entire body no 1?tie and a way should be found to make them work. Mr. Rentus. who interrupted a bootlegging career to kill his wife, and was congratulated, rather strangely, by some of the jury that acquitted him, is to have "a period of rest under scrutiny." That's to see how his mind is and decide about lotting him loose to resume* 1 business; His wife is having a , longer "period of rest" under the r- -ound. Los Angeles sets a good exam- j pie to other cities, ordering rat-: proof features in all new buildings.! It would be an excellent idea, and ? - i feu Jt 11 BEEF, WINE 11 AND IRON I Builds up your strength: I hastens eonvelasconce I after fevers and wasting I diseases. For those who I want "pep." I A pleasant flavored I elixir which has stood 1 the test. I idea! food tonic. 11 $1.00 I FULL PINT J Boone Drug Co. j Tha $B*a?JL J 1^ BOONE. N. C. ^ " 5RY THURSDAY?BOOXE. N. C. ?? economical in the long: run, to people hkye ? make <>Jd buildings also rat-proof, family, hit the the eit\ paying the cost. do likewise* at Modern destructive gases might every twenty he used foi rat. mouse and insect this country, i extermination, including the oe-j have 460,000 struction of the dangerous flea-1 than China, ai Carrying ground squirrels and go- j years, our pop pliers. j 840.000,000, n earth s present Professor Ross of Wisconsin Uni- ? versify, is worried about overpopu- A doctor of lation of the earth. Let married iieves he has fi Sensational 1 Cflmazing J* Longer, lower, more ri by an improved valv the Bigger and Better type of over-all perfoi that it has created \\ throughout America. Never before has ther car value?marvelous tiona! new perform; improved quality... a prices in Chevrolet hi; You need only to see a tional new car to knov where encountered a ] history-making propoi one calls it the world's priced automobile. C? demonstration! Boone Ci QUALITY i iWV/AWAVJVW.V.VV.'.W.V.V.VW.V. DON'T F \ to PLOV C f I B ' To make the most fro; B ; tial to plow early and I every day when you c year. Don't wait for I I don't hurt to plow grc t ^ r | Liic year. I : I OUR STOCK OF P \ COME AND LC BOONE HA EVERYTHING Slogan: "Plant More, | -'V; FEBRUARY 2, 1928 our children to aj rhea. M>. Gundlach of Chicago children marry and j thinks he also knows a cure, id population doubles! A real Cure of that curse wouid years. At that rate.! be worth fifty millions to its dis n forty years, could j coverer, and would be cheap at ,000 people, more) twice that. id in one hundred | filiation would be 3.- , , lore than twice the] "So >'?u llavc a daughter, OlseuV population. ; "Yes. a little prodigy." ' in what way?" Manhattan, Kan., he- "She is ten years old and doesn't nund a cure for pyor- play the piano." ' " ?0? -.*-c= =? 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