North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXI.X, NO. 13 iiwsBREwii OF 38 YEARS AGO 'Outitandin{( Happepingt of Boon* ?nd WatHuga County Ac Chron icled in the Columns of the Wast ?u?a Democrat Thursday, May 8, 1,890 Eight wagons and about li? petsons arrived nt fnffou'c night; They go to Elk Park aftei harrows which they propose to s. ! Jo the farmers of this county. * * ? As we go to press, Mr. Bryan re ports a heavy snowstorm at Ell Park. Surrounding country yesterday evening that continued for mon than an hour. The mountains art white this morning in the sight o1 Boone. The Democrat extends tnosi hearty congratulations and bes wishes to Mr. Newton Mast and hi: fair young bride. May their live: be bright, peaceful and happy May auspicious winds blow go nth around them as they journey througl the complicated labrynth of life, ant may their last days be the happiest * 4 The-railroad tax of $50,000 car tied by a largo majority in Johnsor county, Tenn. It is claimed that tht road will soon be built from Bristol Tenn., via Elizabeth ton and up th< Watauga river to the mouth o Roans creek to Mountain City. Thir ty-five thousand dollars' worth o mineral and timber lands were solf " there in one day. Our neighboi county is 011 a high boom. The town election went off quiet :y here Monday. Our popular mayor W. C. Coffey, was vo-eleeted witliou imposition. The following commas sioherp were elected; W. I.. Bryan f. F. Spainhour and R. C. Rivers. * ? Wanted- -! '> colored hands a ! .iir? per day, to work on the cv ailroad near Johnson Cit . Gooi hacks and wood furnished. To niaki ontract, call on .i. \Y. Hodges, Bam . no, N; C. * t * One of our foremost merchants Mr. Bryan, is preparing: to build ai ?-xtensive store house on the oh Hortor. lot. This will improve tin ocality very much. Commodore Clark was again tri innphantly elected mayor of Blowinf Sock on hist Monday. Good choice * *. * Prof. Fraiu'um'.s school in Boom jf progressing nicely. ? * < A movement is how oh foot t< f.uild a $10.000 hotel in Wilkesboro ays the Chronicle. " SHf** For the protection of our fence -una, more especially for the puvposi of keeping stock from being: hitchei on the sidewalks, let us put a. lot o racks on some convenient plot o ground near tlvo public square. Tbi woulohH be an expensive job bu if one we are badlv >r? need of. * A ttorneys t ounci 11 and Black "juti have returned from Mitchell am i'nncey counties. I: is probable tha both of them will be nominated their respective parties for soilcito and then they will spread them .selves before their constituents fe mastery. BOARD OF EDUCATION W!? I PLAN FOR BOONE SCHOOI The board of education was in ses sion. Monday and Tuesday and man; matters of a routine nature were tfia posed of. One of the most import -ant items of business was that rela five to the construction of a hij^l school for Boone. The high schoo heretofore has been taken care o by the Normal, but the author itie of that institution served notie sometime ago that the board wouli have to provide quarters of thei own before the next tern* of school It was decided that a meeting shoub $be held on May 18, at which tim the May budget would be drawn up and different tentative plans consid ered for the construction of th Boone high school building. It was also voted to consolidat three schools in Meat Camp?Greei Valley. Chestnut Grove and Tugmai ?the building to be constructs near the Meat Camp Baptist church A truck is to be put on the Todroad to bring pupils to the Boon high school and the board and super in tend en t will visit River view t consider rebuilding of the schoo house recently destroyed by fire. It. was voted to raise the standav* oi ine roscue scnool so as to in elude the teaching- of high schoc subjects. JAILED ON FORGERY COUNT Clarence Cannon of the Beec Creek section of the county is in th Watauga jail in default of $2,00 bond, the arrest having been mad at the home of the defendant yestei day morning by Deputy Sheriff H A. Hagaman. Cannon was to have appeared a the last term of Superior court t answer a charge of check raising being an accomplice in the crime o Dewey Harmon, now solving a ten w the slate prison for the robber of the Valle Crucis Bank. H "skipped" the bond of $1,000 an officials heretofore had failed i their efforts to capture him. A Non-Parlisan Ne1 BOON Two Boone Women j I Win Prizes in Boston] I I Quilts Made by Mrs. C. G. Hodges] ; and Mrs. Lulu Ragan Win First j Prizes in Home Beautiful ExpoJ sition \ | Boston* Mass., May G.?Before-1 j 18.000 peopl.e attending the closing j of the home beautiful exposition^ nere, Airs. c. Ij. Hodges of Boone, L N. C.. was awarded first prize for ' an antique quilt and Mrs. Lulu lta pan, also of Boone, won first prize for a quilt of modern design. The exposition, biggest thing of - its kind ever held in New England, i drew 'exhibits from all parts of the - United States. - Tribute was paid the two North; ? Carolina women and the fact! ' brought out that in the two quilt j exhibitions more than 2.500 werdj offered by contestants, t Neither of the Boone women i t women were strangers to Boston for 5 both were prominent in the cxhibis tion last year during which time . Governor Alvin T. Fuller visited .'| their quilt booths and paid them a! 11 splendid tribute. 1; The governor's wife and Mrs. j j Henry Ford, wife of the Detroit automobile magnate, who was visiting -| here at the time, visited the Boone 1 women for a considerable period ? each day. Mrs. Ford at that time , purchased several quilts. 2 The booths of the North Carolina f women were among the most popular .it the exhibition and nearly 15,000 f people looked in upon it daily. i| ' 1 I MUST USE WOODLAND TO SUPPLY INCOME: Much more land in North CaioJ I ilia is in woods than in crops and there is an additional million acres which has been cleared but :s now id-e. Little of this land is mad to ) elm n an annual income. "Yet land is the chief item of t equipment in the farming business." 5 says R. \Y. Grabber, extension iui ester at State college. "To be SUCrj cessfill an an imhiefrrv nvm-tf .?/?? ?? I " must bo made to produce. Idle j acres pay no taxes, cover no over-1 ! head mjr produce income on the i:i-| j vestment. The three main ways in, J j which we can use our land is fori *j the production of field crops, use as' . pasture and as woodland for the! growing of timber- At.the present ( " ttlrie, Otir 18,683,070 acres of farmi " land in the state is divided as fol-j ? lows: 5,720,259 acres in crops; 1,-J ' *130,287 acres in pasture; 8,153,483 acres in woodland; 1,130,574 acres - cleared but idle and 1,819,970 fori other purposes." This division shows the necessity l 3 for spine return to come from the) . woodlands and the idle cleared larnl.j f states Mr. Graelier. By practicing < I the simple principles of good foressi try management, every farmer may ii! become a forester and secure such 4i returns. f Mr. G timber quotes one forester 0 who says ; "The farmer who has a sj piece of woodland where during the j 1 winter months he cuts his fire wood and fencing and a few logs for the repair of buildings and implements,j i> and during certain years when! rl prices are high cuts some logs for! t the neighborhood sawmill, but af; y. the same time looks after the piece | , <>; woods; cleans it of dead timber j and other rubbish, thus keeping out( r Ore and insects, and otherwise mak-j | mtr an enon to keep the land coy- j | vied with forest?such a man piac-i j tires forestry. His forest may bej ! small or targe, his ways of doing) _ may be simple and imperfect, thej trees may not be the hinds for thej - particular locality and soil, they; may not he as thrifty as they should - and could be; but nevertheless here - is t. man who does not, merely de stroy the woods nor content ttim1: self with cutting down whatever he; 1 can sell, but one who cares for the f woods as well as uses them, one who s sows as well as harvests. He is a e forester." d r| CANDIDATE SHIPMAN IS |jj PEEASED WITH OUTLOOK.j e; Hon. M. L. Shipman of Raleigh.i I candidate for the nomination for, ~! commissioner of labor and printing j c in the June primary, was a visitor in; Boone Friday, returning from here e to Raleigh after a trip through westn orn counties of the state. Mr. Shipman stated that he regarded the out"1 look as most encouraging and that l-| he found the western counties lined1 *1 up for him. Mr. Shipman's former! ej home- was in Henderson county and! 5 for many years he was one of the] Democratic leaders in western Caro-J ,lj lina. He served as chairman of thej executive committee of the tenth; "j congressional district one term and! '"l snCPPRRftlllv rnnilllpfpfl tKo euwnoiim f ''l of the late J. M. Gv.dgcr for congress. Mr. Shipman was defeated for the position he again aspires to by Frank D. Grist of Caldwell I, county. 0 Land owners of Happy Valley, e Caldwell county are working to' gcthcr to incorporate the Happy [. Valley district, beginning about the j highway and extending to Beach tj Ford, into a protective game preo| serve. Last week 50 pairs of Mexif.j can quail, costing $250. were turned fj loose. Orders for more of these qual n have been placed. Application for yj fish for stocking both the river andl e! Buffalo creek have been filed with] 1 the bureau of inland fisheries of the nI North Carolina department of con-' servatior and development. 'JGA ] wspaper, Devoted to ' Bi E, WATAUGA COUNTY, N ^ f CAI i j 4J? Leading Cont - er for ( iMulH \ r HERBERT JI (This is the first of a series of sketches, dealing with the carecrsfB of presidential possibilities. Nextj>4 week will be Governor Alfred E. ? Smith. > | o Herbert Hoover was born in Iowa in 1ST 1, the son of a blacksmith. Hisii^ mo the* was a_, reader in a Quaker rft meeting house. He was orphaned at. , i> and brought up by relatives in * Oregon; he Worked his way through) J Lclgnd Stanford University; hej worked with a pick i?! the mines, andj . later was assistant in the office of a San Francisco engineer, j ^ At 2d he was manager of a large j 0 British mine in Australia; at do di-j rector general of the Imperial mines j 0 of China. He was a chief figure in] the defense of Tientsin in the Boxei j e revolution, and during the next 15 jr years headed vast mining enterprises in various quarters of the wovld. .v. He purchased an abandoned mine! in Burma and gave this up at the; ci outbreak of the war because to keep] e Appalachian State Normal Very Successful 2 Eighty-nine graduates from the \v Appalachian State Normal received A! their diplomas at the closing exer- C vises of the Normr.l last , Thursday M morning in the auditorium of the E administration building', the exercis- d es being presided over and the diplo- II mas presented by Or. B. B. Dougher- il ty, president of the institution. 5! The feature of the program was N an address by Senator A. E. Wo It,/., K of Gaston county, n former memher L of the faculty of the Normal, and ti author of the equalization law, pass- 51 od at the last session of the North W Carolina general assembly. "The F Essentials of Success," was Senator L Wolt/.'s theme, and his masterful A address received the close attention E of the graduates and friends of the V school who were present. V Governor Will C. Nevvland, of Le- V noir. who in 11)03 introduced the bill M in the legislature that made the in- N stitution possible, was presented by g Dr. Dougherty, and made a brief D hut interesting talk. He recalled N that in 1907 or 1 'JOK he delivered the s< annual address to the graduating G class of the school and declared then H that he expected to live to see mag- O nificent brick buildings dotting the A beautiful campus, accommodating V hundreds of young men and women A in search of education. "When I L walked off the platform," said the C governor, "a friend of mine asked K whether 1 was crazy or just dream- K ing. My reply was that I was prophe- P sying, and my prrophecy has been N fulfilled in much shorter time than M k expected." L Dr. A. T. Allen, superintendent of V public instruction of North Carolina, V delivered certificates to the 91 graduates, entitling them to teach y in the public schools of North Carolina. C The program for the exercises a' Thursday morning was as follows: |, Processional, "O Mother Dear Je- rj rusalem: Invocation, Rev. P. A. Hicks; Song. "Hark. Hark, the Dark; Salutatory, Viola Upright; Song, "Welcome Sweet Springtime; Vale- f, dictory. T. E. Davis; Literary ad- q dress, Senator A. E. Woltz; Prescntation of diplomas and certificates; , School song. "Appalachia;" Recessional, "Lead On O King Eternal". a Following is a list of those re- l| ceiving diplomas: ti Mary R. Aberncthy, Lelia Black-j f< DEM< sst Interests of North we; iOLINA. THURSDAY, MAY It). }'.< a. O. P. Nomination >BL ESK^iSgjra^t. / COVER ho would have* had to become a ritsah citizen. So at the age of 0 his public career began. He won recognition as chairman f the commission tor relief in Helium. IJ poii America's entry into ic war Hoover became the United totes food administrator .After the ai;..he was appointed chairman of \0 supreme ec.ono.mie council of the llics. He organized the American alic-f administration to save lives in ussia during \920-2i. Since 1921 oover has been secretary- of comicrce. In addition to his work as a cabiet member. Hoover has a multitude f other tasks. He is director of the Li.ssissinpi flood relief and various ther national movements. Hoover is six feet tall ami of powerful physique. He makes a deep npression as a speaker.^- It is said lat he is rather shy, very quiet and; cry modest. Though be is an exL?edingly busy man, it is not diffill It for anyone to secure an audi-' nee with him. j College Closed Session Friday Morning ell, Ida May Brandon, Edna Bray, [attic Brown, Florence Clark. Pearl owles, Tlielir.a Dail, Erina C. Deai, Earie Drum, Robert W. Elliott, Ivelyn Floyd, Lvicile Clarke. Milfiruhiiw M?ihia nw?i' Onrlii-w. 1 . L. Heavner, Annie May ilcliiis, cssic Hill, Essie Lorene Hood, Rosa lae Ingram, Mandolin Johnson, 'elle Rose Lazenby, Lois Catherine istler, Grace Lincberger, Mildred ogan, Glennie Love, Olivette liar n, Lena Ruth McMillan, Fannie B. [oore, Myrtie Morgan, Mary Hardy lurrill, Florence Ethel Eula Frances] yatt, Mahel E. Reel, Dessie Roberts,) ucilc Sartin. Mildred Faye Sharpe, da Catherine Sims, Man Stewart, lizabeth Todd, Charles Jennings i'alsh, W. J. Waters, Mary Williams >rhite, Ruth Benfield. Margaret foodard, Clara Ruth Ball, Edna linnie Bowers, Josephine Brandon, rola Brotherton. Bessie- Cain, Mar-i met Clarke, Grace Crouse, 'fed E.! avis, ila Lcota Deal, Stella Drum, ar.nie B. Finch, Eula Mae Gnrri?n, Georgic I-ee Gibson. Mamie riffin, Mvrtis Hamrick, Belle iawkins. Lorana Merle Hedrick, n;i B. Helms, Eloise Hutchcns, gnie Jennings, Rosa Louise Jones, Mima Witmale, Ruth Ives I .one. nnie Little, Dora Moore Leilbetter, i ala Clara Marlowe. Kathleen Mc-jonnell, Annie Laura Miller, Nellie) athleeii Mullen, Beatrice Morgan,] Ubv Allene Pennine-ton -tnnie! erry, Ruth Rhyne, Myra Sale, [artha Schachner, Margaret Silcr, [ary Lee Staten, Mary Thompson, innie Viola Upright. Evelyn Ward, crna Phipps Weaver, Mary Lillian k'illiams, Nellie Hope Wilson. The following completed the two*car standard college course: Beverly Heavncr, DeV. Boyles, lay Harman. Oscar Roberts, Alexnder Mull, J. Bynum Love, Elizaeth Gambill, Tom Hayes, Kyle iayes, Paul Bingham. j Grady Lester Pugh, who escaped! rom the Alamance county jail atj raham a few weeks ago while | waiting trial on a charge of roh-; ing the bank at Elon College, was j rrested at Luniberton Sunday and irned over to Alamance authories. A reward of $100 was offered! tr his capture. ' 3CRA >t North Carolina Watauga May Get Another Railroad? ^ Rumor Hat It That Southern Will . Build Road From Tennessee to ^ Deep Gap; Power Project Is Said! To Be Assured By RUPERT (ilLLETT Watauga county is to have a standard gauge railway and three po>vsr dams. ' information to this effect, coming ' from sources believed to lie thor- 1 DUghly reliable, has been received ' here and is generally credited. The t railway, it is said, is to be built, byi I the same company that has boon sur-| C vcying the sites for the three damsj 1 r>n Cove Creek and Watauga River. ! s Thar, the dams will be built is! j considered certair., since a confer-; ' ence between representatives of the; I syndicate behind the, project and of-1 ? finals of the Tri-County Lumber I ? Company, at which the lumber com-' I patiy officials were told that if they | continued to built their logging railway along its projected grade, it; would be covered with water when * the dams are built. j The lumber company then agreed i to relocate the grade of its road, so' c that it will be above the water lines' t of the lakes. j t A prominent Tenncsseean came \ through here a day or so ago and ; told a Boone business man that rep- j resentatives of the syndicate had l conferred with the president of thej < Southern Railway about building ai < railway from some point in Tennes- . see, through the Cove Creek valley' t to Boom . thence to Deep Gap, Where i it would take over the i> cp (Jap Tie ar.d Lumber Company's logging railroad. This road connects ivi.h the' Norfolk and Western at Bowk It was intimated that if the road j is built, it will he a subsidiary of > ; the Southern* if it is not taken over ; actually by that company. This i would give Boone direct rail connections with Tennessee and with Richmond and Washington. it is stm not Known tiennireiy who is the syndicate behind these projects, imt the rumor h;is peisisted i ver since the surveying began that it is the American Aluminum Com- i pany. At any rate, the project, if it is carried out. promises to ho one of the greatest industrial develop-; meets in Western North Carolina. NAMiNC PRESIDENTS IN PAST NATIONAL POWWOWS | With the approach of the two! national eonventions, it is an inter-; csting thing to review the past eon-' wntions, since the first was held in i ISolL From tin- beginning, the llcpuhli-' cans have east a totai of ".ill ballots! while the Democrats have displayed a much more vigorous fight before naming their party leaders, and have chalked up ;!1() ballots. Probably the must spirited convention was in 102-1, when Davis was nominated <.n the l'Mrd ballot, and the count may go a long time before the number of ballots w ill ever equal that convention. The highest number of ballots ever required to nominate at the Republican convention was in 1880, when Garfield was the choice on the tilth ballot With the two conventions again inn the offing the parlies may both! place a lender in nomination on the! first ballot, or they may spend some:1 time and chalk up a long list of bal-l 1 lots before a selection is made. Thoj time has only been on a fr?>v occa-! ] sions that the conventions have} named a leader on the first ballot. j A review of these conventions) since 185*1, shows the following, i ? with the first named at each von-i vention being the Republican candi- j date and the second the Demoe . ? 1856?Fremont on first; Buchan-j an on seventeenth. 1860?Lincoln on third; Brecken-j ridge on first; Douglas on fifty-j. ninth. 1864?Lincoln on first; McClellan or. first. i I860-?Grant on first; Seymour on: twenty-second. 1S72?Grant on first; Greely on first. j 1876?Hayes on seventh: Tilden! on second. 1 S.sO?Garfield on thirty -sixth;! Hancock on second. ! 188-1?Blaine on fourth; Oleve. land on. second. 1 ggg?Harrison on eighth;! Cleveland or. first. 1892?Harrison or. first; Cleveland on first. 1806?Mckinley 011 first; Bryan on fifth. 1000?Mckinley on first; Bryan on first. 10,04 -Roosevelt on first; Parker! on first. 1908?Taft on first; Bryan on first. 1912--Taft on first; Wilson onj forty-sixth. 1910?Hughes on third; Wilsonon first. 1920?Harding on tenth: Cox on forty-fourth. 1924?Coolidge on first ; Davis on ; one hundred and third. Flo: *4You may Kiss me on the! temple/' Bo: "And get a hang in the month for rny pains." 1 POLlTICAir EVENTS OF THE PAST WEES lighfighlt of Political Activity of Both M*jor Parts#;* Summarized From Recent New^ Dispatches From Over the Country Hoover Lead* in Indiana On the basis of returns From the urban districts of Fndianai Herbert [loover i:- leading Senator James E. iVatson almost 2 to 1 for the state's Republican presidential vote. upturns so far tabulated included ?ort; Wayne, South Bend and the ,'alumet region. However unofficial returns from rural sections in the southern part of Lhe state indicated i majority for the native son, Whether or not Senator Watson will <e able to recover from the landslide of the cities cannot be deter nined until the rural "districts are :inally tabulated. Moody Faction Wins in Tvxas The hramony faction of the Demo ratic party in Texas hijd a good ead over all other factions, accordnjr to reports from Tuesday's presijlential conventions. Nine ty-t\v<> :o unties which have about twothirds or 101) of the state convenion votes have been reported. They ire divided as follows: Uninstructed $1; instructed to support, prohibition jut without orders as to individual andidates with wet tendencies, 81); tor Governor Smith. 20; for Jesse; Jones of Houston. 2. On May 22. he state's 10 delegates to Houston, will ho selected at BeaunVont. Anti-Smiths Lead in Alabama. Holding to an early advantage, four candidates for delegates to Houston. representing Alabama's iiiitbSmith faction, are in the front as 148 widely scattered precincts had been tabulated from Tuesday's 1 lenVocratic primary. Smith Will Get Delaware Democrats of Delaware in convention Tuesday selected six delegates to the convention at lioustou. Although uninstructed, they fayoi Ihc nomination of Governor Smith. Hoover and Bruce in Maryland With approximately I (Ml rural precincts to l><; reported. Secretary Hoover is still swelling" his presidential primary ipajorituis in Maryland. and Senator \Y illiam Cabell Bruce is an ovmw helming favorite as the Democratic senatorial nominee. Hoover polled 22,53*1 votes as against t.ttIS for an uninstrurted delegation to Kansas City. Hoover Ahead in Texa* On the basis of incomplete returns from 1 ue Sclav's Texas primaries. Secretary Hoover is the unanimous favorite tor the Republican presidential nomination, ail delegates so far accounted for having- been pledged to the Commerce sec votary. Senator Walsh Withdraws Withdrawal of Senator Thomas .1. Walsh of Montana from the race for the presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket was announced in Washington Friday, The Montana senator, famous as the prosecutor of the senate's Teapot 'Dome inquiry, expressed the view that recent events dearly indicate that the Democrats ggS^iS desire as their candidate Governor Smith o1" Xev. York, whu is wcil iiheail of his field in the fight fov delegates. Announeiiig that he would carry his fight to the iinish, Senator Jas. A. Heed of Missouri, said he wished the Monrunan had "arrived at his conclusion before he rnuudted the ivOftiv 1..- liilfii- '" *1" , O'lltf - primary,'" ami added that <i he were t general in a war he would not surrender his army because he ha_d lost a skirmish." gv-SH -1 W"'-^fsisi ~" Daniels Won't Run on Third Party Ticket Declaring that the only hope of wresting the government "from the hands of privilege arid corruption' lies in a victory for the Democratic party, Josephus Daniels last Wtchicsdy telegraphed Wilbur I.eggett, Cali fornia manager for Senator James A. Reed, that he would not accept a nomination or. a third party ticket if Governor Smith is nominated at Houston. hogget's telegram to Mr. Daniels was as fallows: "Majority vote in Southern California against Smith shows thai: best element of Democratic party is not for Smith. If Smith is nominated at Houston will you consent to run on third party ticket vice-president headed by Senator James A. Reed or Senator Borah of Idaho ii either agrees? We do not believe Southern Democracy will swallow Tammany Hall, do You?" Here is Mr. Daniels' reply; "Replying to your wire of this date, my answer is that the biggest issue in America today is to wrest the government from the hands of privilege and corruption. The onlyhope for that end is in a victory by the Democratic party. T therefore expect to support the nominees of the Houston convention. I expect that convention to declare without equivocation for the sacred enforcement of prohibition and all other laws and do not believe any man it will nominate will be as indifferent and as inefficient in enforcement as Mellon has been under the Harding and CooTidge administrations. "1 see no hope in any third party. Enough prohibition Democrats will be elected to congress to guarantee (Continued on Page Eight)