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TWO S===r^^-:-^r=u.-======lNEWS OF WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD Outstanding Happenings Week Gathered from Everywhere, Condensed for the Busy ReaderRr-j. Xev. .k:f| ..?Mis. Xoia Lev' : Lit<-hiVwife of Ar.ii.vv; X-. sfecnmfc v?.t the tr*?a.'urv. r.as :jv-;n trar.Ttd ji divorce r.t re Ha rv A ' re. -.vh'-m sip 3?ii! ic I Nv V V rk in IWJi. ?r- . . -nt -? ':a3 selected s H-r.;:r House - the Bruit ri.'ev. 3& Wistone.:.. la, .... "he Whitv Hojsv oXfiess V i'C < <?si " :< tfcc l-J'.' . : ::tutc r-vrviv ' rtjidfrrcf. i'-- i has r,i>: ;.s yet iltcjcif : the ez?ci dnje of ni- dci .( 'v-.uittj ' < soV; as possible sf:ei 1J. -.-.-here cat to dp'iv-; > - ...itJjfei otirc?! ? W? -i . . ." :. :i Kiu* Hi.;;; his pi.id Sim: ,< r?e<M<wat. >i A:.. it';.:.-- ...' ^fr.vPcrro" A2'C??-.l 2. .. presidk-riiraJ cand: cljB^S'Xoi spteches various stated. ^s 7iiiiif by '$M iiisra Z;ivrv:: A:l, np$: T'.t :: n.ii^ rat-.prts-i:3f-vt ia! erar : i?r. : rr-.vr:tn o. ZuTrl : . - iif.it.. Rcprc'Sfe;.i? ?nt?J V :had told the i;'' :- " ? ;.e -v . utrunsr <: Govifssteo: > e.xixrr.-ditui vs. He .said he ur. ors:. *: a* He-:'"-in got $250 ipx speakihg ir< Ohio; $25 C for apeax in# -?tv. ... ft ale and thiir Si *> oi v- * : . 3eiiking in Jaws. ~-.e A ahanipr paid by the W:V.r. organ re is. it .said, and tht .a; ; irgar.-kifction had not cbntJ totca thos>t meetings or to any pu iti.ca) rg?'i :> or candidates. Honolulu'. 1.? Manning the Pacific ail a: ? fn rn Oakland. Cab, tht giar: motored monoplane Southern r.?mded a: Wheeler i- eld, neai hen at 1-2:1$ p, m. Pacific time$ today, completing the first leg of a T.Tss-nnli air fergosy from California to Australia. The ha*/.ardou> _.4< , -nvdc ocean hop was? made m -7 hours and 2b minutes. Nashville, Cia.. ,-ur.t 1?Religious differences ttfevweeTi hei estranged husband r.d her brother caused an altercation at. :he funeral here ol Mrs. Fred ir.ihgar, who died tVed nesday from effect.? o: a rattlesnake bite. Fred Gaulfcar, attending the services. 1- said to have placed in the casket, an tm: U f his faith. This was resented by Joe Sirmans, the brother, and Words w? re followed by a blow. kr.c $irmans was said to hvi dra .'.: a ur. ''> a:*-:, wo e -tparatqe' ' 1 the- funeral proceeded' ptmeefuHy. Key v.< ::. ., J ant _.?A girl who 1 . yep..- ago imprisoned herself with a vow that her lover never again wnult] .-tee hei fact, is dead, faithful to her oath. The girl, Julia Colon, pretty Cubar. en I oil a, v.hosthair reached to he: knees, quarreled will: her swetibean when She was J.?.. "I reve: want tu see your face again." be told he: ir. a flare of anger, and as heatedly she vowed he would not ami retired to ? room in her aurttse home where- only once since,.;,prior to a fatal illness, has anyone, ever a close- relative, seen her. The 'over returned ami pleaded for forgiveness but the. door remained me,sed. 5,,ed was given her through a email opening; she made her clothe-- and attendee tc all the routine rt daily life for herself within her rev at. .A few days ago the young we,mar was stricken with typhoid and persisted in refusal to admit anyore who nought to give her medica? attf-nron, until slie died. New York, June 2.?Tammany has made no contribution to the campaign fund of Governor Alfrec E. Smith, George W. OWany, s sachem of the Tamrnany society, tes tified today before the senate presi dentiai campaign investigating com . mittee. The general sentiment ii Wall street is against the nomina tion of Hoover, Lewis F. Strauss o: Kuhn, Loeli &. Company, testifiei before the committee. Strauss, : former secretary to Hoover, made this statement when he was asked i: his firm had made any eontributiot to the Hoover-for-President fund While his own banking house gav< no money, Strauss said he person ally had raised around $30,000 fo the commerce secretary's campaign fund. He said Julius Rosenwald chairman of the board of Sears Roe buck and Company had contribute< $10,000; Henry T. Moses, a Nev York attorney, $2,900, and V. E Maey, of New York, $2,000. St mat told the committee he had sent somi of the money to the Washington Hoover headquarters and that h< still had some on handChicago June 2.?Fifty men fron middle v..stern farm sitter, dtscrih cd by M. -ih'bin. Ymton. Iowa their leader, as "knowing their stufi in politics," took definite s|eps. her< today to make the farm belt's in fluence felt in the Republican na tional convention at Kansas City United States Senator James E Watson of Indiana, Governor Adanr McMulien of Nebraska, and George Peek, Mo'iine, III., were named tc prepare a farm relief resolution tc be submitted to the party platform makers. Their suggested plank will j; tpg_ _ MkwMMzs- v' -:)_0h^ms ( Maryland's f GOVERNOR AbBEj Alb-err Cabell Ritchie, governor of, MarylaPd, was born at Richmond, Va.. on August 29. IS7t>. His father > was for eleven years oii the su- j preroe bench of Maryland. ( He obtained his bachelor of arts!degree at dohns Hopkins, and also \ has fegroes from University of Maryland. St. .h^hn's and the Uni-j, v. ' - t \ of Washington. ; He began practice with .Steele, < Vermes, Carey and Rond. Baltimore. \ in 1897, and was admitted to the firn ri 1900; d in 1003 became a-] menihei of the firm of Ritchie and I) Janr.ey. He was a v-rofessor of law at the i > . - - rsi'ty of Maryland from 190.7 i to 2 920. was general counsfe) of Tht hi&ustries; board in 1918, ] be passed upon by another meeting of the Tobin committee in the Mis souxi city three day? before the eon-, ' vent ion opens on due 12. "We; want to make tt clear to the east ; that we desire a candidate favorable; to farm equality," said Tobin, and he enumerated Lowuen, Vict President Dawes, Senators Watson, Cur- ; lis and Norths as favorable. His com- ' mittee. which represents fourteen, stat< e nd numbers -100, the lowanj | said, "is opposed to any man who is | opposed to farm equality." Charleston. 1*. C.. Tune -4.?Criti-i j estiy wounded by a minister hearing a fancied grievance, the Rt. Rev. lit". . William A. Guerry, 67. bishop of the i South Carolina diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church, tonight layin a hospital here with a gunshot wound in his left chest. His assail' ar.t. Rev. J. 11. Woodward, 6b, of I Brunswick, Gt., a retired minister of; the .South Carolina diocese, \vaS| dead, having turned the gun on him-! intf c?n;,,.- .v.. ? i JTSj. m irbi xviuiig UIC kJVUUICIIi I cleric. The attack and suicide occurred in the private office of the . bishop at diocesean headquarters > here. Just what occurred between I the two men could not be learned but i apparently there was some discussion of the retirement age of minis; ters and finances, as the Rev. Mr. _ Woodward, before entering the of.j | fice. told the bishop's private secre_; tary that be wished to see his suf perior about the retirement age of ^ t ministers. When the secretary en3 tered the private office after hearing * two shots she found both men on thej floor, the Rev. Woodward with at 1 pistol in his hand; the bishop un: conscious and a check for $50 made! out to the minister and signed by the; ~ j bishon lying on the floor. COVE CREEK DAM PROJECT 1U1 in WAIAUUA tUUNlY "j Although reluctant to shatter the _ hopes of those under the impression ' : that the S2,000.OOP darn proposal "l for Cove Creek carried in the Muscle *! Shor.is bill, passed by congress, is in ;! NortS Carolina, engineers of the 11 water sources division of the conser ration department of North Carolina ; declared last week that the contemi! plated development is in Tennessee. The confusion in the idea of the , j location, the engineers pointed out, f arises from the fact that there are ?j two Cove Creeks, one in North Car-j olina and the other in Tennessee. - j Commenting on the location of the . ] proposed development, Trorndike . | Savilie, chief hydraulic engineer, Rai' leigh, says: : "The Cove Creek referred to in > the Muscle Shoals bill is a small > tributary of the Clinch river in i northeastern Tennessee. 1 "It is proposed to construct on the ?H ii mim??mmy SSKSKkK3BK9SBBSSSKBBBSSsBB THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?E' "avorite Son V i a i -:! P ' ' *-.* as r .. gc ifiior of Baltimore ' rom S' S t<> 19X0; as-1 start ?.? rferal ifcc public; ? : . * cpmmissh ri Baltimore j from 1910 to 191. riirai,T?ey general f Maryland fr 191' to 1920. ind became j.-' - - Maryland in 192 K Go vernor Ritchie is rirr.ple, mod-i *st a:.d ..naf iectc-ii: : ;r addressee it* .!<; a::?i r ' Si .trod, intended to appeal to u-m on ;other than to .la :t :iers. He speaks eloquently fox personal liberties and rights. Gov*:nor Ritchie :ias among outsiai g . -t k vements revised the state labor and cornpen-, sation laws reformed the system ?>f j prison labor, pn: *be . or.servaiion I work the stale . business basis, arid buih g roads. Clinch river at about vbe point, w'neiv this Coye CiveJ; engbrs :t a wry iarpt <iar., v/h j;-h "will form a tremendous reservoir which will be very effective in increasing the Sower which can be developed at Muscle] Shoals abd at other :??ints or. the Tennessee river. Tris development in tic v.*ay affects any land .:ated in No: .h Carolina; "There is a Cove Creek having a drairiagi area of only SO square miles, a tributary of the Watauga river, and that enters that stream in Wata jpa county about seven miles below ValJe Oruc-is." SCREEN YOUR HOUSE EARLY You might save money by screening early and preventing disease carried by flies. You can also save money by seeing me for Screen Doors, Window Screens, Door and Window Frames and Building Material I can make your screens, deliver and put them in for you if you prefer. F. M. MALTBA BOONE, N. C. ' _________________ i SAVETo earn money is one thing j but to save money is another anc i more important thing. Many for tunes "nave grown out of pennies saved in youth. As a protection against destitu lion in the case of illness or un I employment, saving has come tx | be an absolute necessity. People who spend all they eari really live ABOVE their incoim even though they may not be ii debt! j Bank of Blowing Rock ELOWING ROCK N. C. k'EKY THURSDAY--- BOONE. N. C. $22,558,852 PAID FOR ehk-ii was it to to 1.205 MILES OF ROAD ar, avtragc of 58.0' figure. which incit To otnl.i !.205.5 miles of highways drainage and the 1 .'art year, the state ot North C.no- structures, does r.< lira expended $22,598,852.98, thfj nM;riT1P and cwmbi reoori of tee state htghwa-.- eonunis- -dl.99 miles of soil or grave) str eto.o. made yJ,mz .ves. re-,.,,. ^ iEc1ud|ng ' , and expenditures i The report, vras compiled | tares. | by the dftrfeioh of nst? action andi bbb.bl miles of )f tht state highway' comm;s- i Tn^ *-" R7) i-v' tag'e , * * Vi . V:. v. V . T',.'o ... j j-jo 17, siiu.w'j .r.a; .r-t1 7 0;;.>u jth; '- - v.. ivdl < ; miltiS I.: *C??.ds V.'dt V r.w>~'. < ct'iui eted during 1927: n-v .V7.o0. ::If;? *> : a??>.i 7ad,' ?>7,:ni'f- r-v.n-:! #A Cai fami] *495 tllB COi Sic *585 M , . . The ?CQC Revealing ip. it t-'ui-e 5 J J boiiics hv I-isltc srJ.T^wr *675 tort, Ktvlc and cli The Convertible WOmeP Jill aCC &i?. :695 ike drivi The i?,per.?i inir stamina that tr.c : ' 13 in an automobi! L'tility Truck $^ng j r (CicAs??<?niN> so ea.-y and safe ' !c'h.ie.y',"imT>;*375 chat fvtry mile a All prier, f. o. h, Flint, II" 1* plthSiltC I anti Retter Ch Cbeck Chevrolet . Delivered Prions 1 r-?P'rji a nc \ ! Tiirv in-. iiuictNi- low- motoring en|ti r:M V,*'?aliri,i *ud thousands of Itiiati . in); rharect I available. Removal of war tax Boone Ch Boor I QUALITY A' Everytl Hardware ; ^ ou should be working c ;! this time if they are to be suet |j: pleasant by equipping youri jl; plements. We are prepared ; j ware needs?indoors and out' j jl the right articles here?at tl j; quality implements that are < 5jlj satisfactory service. , ;j SPECIAL?One large Chic I BOONE HAR EVERYTHING I Slogan: "Plant More, Gi ft tWVWWUVWWWWWAIWWVW/WWWtfWWftVV \ JUNE 7. 1928 ! c contractors "or , inf* road at an average cost o? 90 per mile. This 73 5,500 per mile, ides the cost >{ 243.52 miles of road treated with raitding of stciU road oil at $3,500 per mile. include cog- 7he engineering- and contingency ger.cy cost?. cost will average about ten per cent i sand clay, top 62 the cost of each mile of road built facing at -SI ,2- ; in 11*27. ngiriters of the highway drainage costs; comftiissioh saidfor smi.ii jjjtjruc- Of the $22,598,852.93 expended fast year "lot jobs completed ?!.co-.iciete surtjiv- '73.528.15 for new bridges, f $22,000 per |u i;.;.; the state expended aptloes not ;ncln.!i- nrexmn;;, !v 82S.p>iO.OOO to build mtingeocy costs, :vnc, ',-f nevv .C)U} and bridges, eccrdts of the highway commission I Esphxlt surfac-, ( Jbr Economic*? frcHt/iirfoNM ?mmm . i r for all the 4 Ly to enjoy ich only '585 Sk s beautiful Providing the roominess, : the com- comfort and roadability of trance that a 107-inch whcelhase . . . njrc equipped with powerful, i i non-lock.ing4-whee.l brakes ' r " . . . and with its worm-and" Clt-"mand fear steering mechanism le . . . and fitted with ball bearings to bar,die throughout?it is everytthewheel where acclaimed the he Bigger world's moot luxurious lovvevrolct is priced automobile! measure of There are seven beautiful vtnent to models. Come in and families. inspect them today. lowers delivered price! evrolet Co. ^ IE, N. C. r L OJW COST r^VWWAWVVWWWA wwwvwwuvvwww ling in for Spring in your lawn and garden by ;I iessful. Make the task more !j self with the necessary imto take care of your Hard- ;! doors. You will always find j; le right prices. We handle !; ^udiamccu iu give long ana J> i :k Brooder, Special Price ? DWARE CO. ! N HARDWARE !j mm, III s ow More, Have More." i I <
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