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V VOLUME XLI. NO. 41. Today and ! Tomorrow By FRANK P. STOCK BRIDGE Politics Presidential politics always becow a topic of conversation in any Pres dent's second year. Some people ai hinting that Mr. Coolidge would lik rim again in 1'932. Mr. Coolidg is reported to have said to a frien :hat there are only two possible caT <lidates for the Presidency the ne> time, Herbert. Hoover and 4<som Democrat." The Republicans have a ways renominated their President and must do so in Hoover's cas< whether they like it or not. So th only point worth discussing is wh will he the some Democrat." f; r rom here it looks certain that 1 v.ill not be Mr. Smith. It also look certain that it will not be G oyer no Ritchie of Maryland. Both ar avowed "wets," though there are ott t; reasons given why they will nc be serious contenders. Many peopl are looking carefully at Governo Franklin Roosevelt of New Yorl ^ Governor Roosevelt is "dry" hut ha a "wet" party organization back o him. Some suggest Owen D. Young others think he has too close a cor section with power interests. Other are whispering "Keep an eye 011 Ha? y Byrd." Byrd is a dry Democra who has just retired from the Gov trnorship of the dry Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a newspaper mai and a brother of Admiral Byrcb th explorer. Reducing We can blame a good deal of th trouble of the wheat growers on th world-wide effort to avoid surplu fat, according to Professor James L Boyle of Cornell University. Breai consumption in the United States ha declined 20 per cent., Professo Boyle says, because women ani en, too?are afraid that eatinj bread will make them fat. The taste of the ultimate eonsum <r is the controlling factor in even line of industry. Short skirts injure* the textile manufacturers but rtiad fortunes for the silk stocking wcav ers. Makers of dress goods the worli over combined to establish a nev iashion- with longer skirts, which s beginning to make headway. It wil : e Harder foi* wheat growers, miller and bakers to convince women tha a reasonable amount of fat make them more attractive. Sf Kings k / There arc a few kings left, hu they arc mainly figure-heads. Mus solini rules Italy; Prim? de Rivets up to a few weeks before his recen death, ruled Spain; Admiral Hortlr rules Hungary; King Alexander o Jugoslavia. King Christian of Den mark. King Albert of Belgium, Queei Wilhelmina of Holland and Queei Marie of Rumania hold their throne only because they do not attempt t run their nations. The Countess of Warwick, a de scendant of King Charles II of TCng "iand and of Oliver Cromwell, win has heen an intimate of royalty fron girlhood and a power in British poli tics, predicts that the present king George V., will be the last king o England, and that the Prince o Wales wil) be the first President o the British Republic under the nam of David Windsor. If that prove, true, and stranger things have hap pened, he will have more real powe than his father has ever dared t* exercise. Fishing It takes a fisherman anywher from two to seven or eight hour to land an 800-pound swordfish aft er he has once sunk the harpoon ii it. The swordfish is one of New Eng band's favorite foods and is found ii large numbers off Block Island an in Nantucket Sound. To speed hi their capture a method of eleetrocut ins: the fish has been devised. Th L harpoon line carries a wire core con necled with a generator on the fish ing schooner. Another wire attache to a metal plate is hung overboar fc ^ and the seawater completed the eii -ciiit. The method is not exactly "sport ins," but commercial fishermen ar not sportsmen, and the more fis thev can catch in a given time th ^ greater their profits. B . Heating Everybody who has tried to hoa a house by electricity knows that i is expensive. But also everybod that there is a time b etwee 3*5. midnight and daybreak when electri power plants are practically idle. *1 those hours the power companie have surplus power to sell for whie they can and usually will make j0, very low rate. A New Jersey inventor has devise a way of using this cheap current. . large tank of water in the basemer is raised to the boiling point. Th ? i tank, being thoroughly insulated, r< tains the heat throueh the day an the hot water circulating through r; diators keeps the. house warm iint the hour for cheap current again ai rives, when the "juice" is automat rally switched on. LEGION AUXILIARY TO MEET There will be a meeting of tfc American Legion Auxiliary at Danh eoone Motel, Friday, April 11, at p. m., for the purpose of meetin Mrs. jMcGeachy, State president. A ? . members and eligible? are urged t jr W attend. Mothers, wives, sisters an I daughters are eligible. Refreshment ^ "... ? the president. nraMMHwaimiiiaBimmwa Lowing rock and jj, boone plan novel publicity scheme i r . h Mayor Grover C- Robbins, of Blowing I) Rock Introduces Joint Advertising S Proposal to Boone Civitan Club, n 10 Graphic Map Would Show Advan- fi i- tages of Section as Tourist Resort, oi e j Decision to Be Made Tonight. f< :ci ^ ; e The Boone Civitan Club, at its h< d weekly luncheon meeting, held last pi i- Thursday noon at the Daniel Boone ci :t Hotel, had as its guest Mayor Grover tc e C. Robbins, of Blowing Rock, who a 1- spoke to the twenty or more mem- \\ s bers present on a definite advertis- N" if 'ng program for Boone and Blow- tl e ing Rock. Mr. Robbins has given tl o much of his time in recent years to promoting various schemes for "sell- 61 t ing" this section to the touring pub- ol s lie, and during his twenty-minute ol ,r talk introduced a new plan, which, j il e according to those present, is the F i_ most attractive "business - getter" ai ever presented for the consideration i Si e of Watauga County people. j cs r The new advertising proposition; M -k. which Blowing Rock's executive re- j tu s viewed to members of the Civitan I fc f Club is a two-page, four-color graphic! n< map of Watauga County, showing all th ,1 the State and National highways h; ^ leading to it from the cities of the _ East. North, South and West. Min- i I iature figures and^scenic effects on * ... the proposed chart would reveal to ( h the vacationist the dozens of attrac? tions that Boone and Blowing Rock e offer, including golf, fishing, hiking, i camping, motoring and scenery. i Si Mr. Bobbins has been in touch) ul with officials of the Carolina Motor at Club a branch of the American Auto- in e mobile Association, for the past sev- St. e oral weeks, and has arranged with s them to use the map as the middle tc section of their most attractive book- P? J let, "Vacationing in North Carolina,'" c* s which will come from the presses to r about May 15. The cost for the color gJ [1 plates, art work and distribution of T more than fifty thousand copies to w all sections of the United States, tl - would be approximately $1,300, this | ai c amount paying for an additional six ol j thousand copies of the map with de- th e scriptive matter on the back for dis tribution by the two towns. T ci Following a round-table discussion f*1 v of the merits of this advertising plan, bl s President George P. Hagainan re- Tl 1 ferred the matter to the Public Afs fairs Committee for consideration, tfi t Friday afternoon this group met with n' s Mr. Kenneth Whitsett, of the Char- *-r 'ottc Engraving Company, and Mr.;-5 Duraht, of the Carolina Motor Club, j Vc M, Whitsett had prepared a rc.t^fc pencil sketch of the proposed chart, 1 and Sir. Duraut explained the advan tages to be gained from this sort of P< advertising. Ways and means.of raist ing the necessary funds are being y" figured out by the committee, and f a definite decision will he made at - the monthly business meeting of the in n Civitan Club tonight. pi a oi ? Cove Creek Wins Over i1, . | Lees-McRae in Debate 11b} u Cove Creek High School, reprcu seated by Miss Grace Bingham and > Clint Adams, won the annual trian- u ;; gular debate from Lces-McRaf* The t query was "Resolved, that "North Carolina should adopt and amendf merit to the Constitution providing; ,;t L- ior uie reciassiiieation of property I;*" 3 for taxation." The judges for the.' - debate were Attorney T. E. Bingr ham, Professor John Howell and Jirr>| o Rivers. The decision of the judges | was unanimous. On the same night i n i the debate with Glade Valley was I lost by a two to one vote. Cove | ~ Creek's representatives were Oscar v. e Brown and Earl Haworth. s | The first baseball game of the " season was played Friday afternoon 111 against Brushy Fork. The final score j was 18 to 5 in favor of Cove Greek " J School. . th "! Born to Mr. and Mrs. James B. st P Mast at Grace Memorial Hospital te ~ Saturday, a son, James B. Jr. w % O.- F. Ilviioii, :of- vnas^nas th " been right sick for several days. She Ji is improving now. E (J The annual commencement of :he C " Cove Creek High School will begin o' Friday night, April ?, with a pro- fi gram by the grammar grades. A cor-1 eJ dial invitation to attend these exer-jti e eises is extended to the public. j as h in * MRS. MOSES H. CONE URGES tc PRF.SFPVATIOM nr CADTCTC ? -- ' 1 J j TO j si j In a letter to the Democrat from j m ,jMrs. Moses H. Cone, who maintains vj jtja magnificent estate at Blowing! b] j Rock, a clipping was enclosed re- j h< ? i garding a German town, which has j n, been made tax-free by its extensive w forests. Mrs. Cone requests that the* a< , item be reprinted with the hopeiei - that Watauga people will stop tojcj think before destroying their tim- tl ber. ft follows: : H i ''Another taxless German town has e: a been found. The village of Dornberg tl t in Baden owns extensive forests g. which bring so much revenue that hi no local taxes have been assessed for g, many years. From the village treas-i 'c? ury s surplus each resident has an- \ j? nuai'rv hcpn rpppivmff flnfehy-nno /?i*_. " bic meters of firewood and one hun- tl dred wooden ties." a tl HOWARD GRAQG DIES w Howard Gx-agg, aged 25 years, son a of Mr. and Mrs. Roby Gragg, of Le- e >e' noir, and brother of Mrs. Teams of ei Boone, died at the Banner Elk Hos3 pital Tuesday, from the effects of ii g blood poisoning, which had its begin- c< 11 ning in a minor injury to the wrist, b o Ho is survived by a wife and three il d children. Funeral services and inter- tl ts ment was near the old home-of the a munity yesterday. . d r#%fo/4 f/% fUc , 4^V> W V/IV<\A bV/ V11V. WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH < ohn E. Brown Named 3n Simmons Committee John E. Brown, prominent mem er of the local bar and former Stab enator, was named by Senator F. M immons on his State committee 11 is campaign for renominatien a: emocratic candidate for the Unite* tntes Senate, according to jin an puncement made in Washington th< rst of the week, giving the name: f the 100 r^cn and women seicctei >r the honor. Mr. Brown tells The Democrat l ha e had not been apprised of th< ending appointment, and did not J is ass his plans for the Senatorial con St. J. Gordon Hackett has beet ppointed on the committee fron Hikes County, while Governor W. C iewland of Lenoir will look aftei ;e fortunes of the senior Senator it :e neighboring county of Caldwell. The State-wide committee number ;) men and 31 women from a tota * GO cities and towns in all corner; f the State. Of |)rime interest ii le selection of the committee o rank R. IVIcNinch, leader of tn? nti-Smith Democratic forces in thi tatc- during the lust Frcsulentia imnaign. Only a short while ag< r. McNinch announced, after a visi i Washington, presumably for a con rcnrp with Senator Simmons, tha > effort would be made to line uj le former anti-Smith forced on be all* of the Senator. uniors of High School Entertain S'enior Class The Juniors of the Boone Higl ?hool were hosts to the seniors, fac !ty and members of the Town Boari a banquet given Saturday niglv i the dining hall of the Appalachian late Teachers College. The spacious hall was decorated i represent the Asiatic cou \Li v, Ja in. Wisteria, Japanese lanterns terry trees, various colored fes ions, and lavender cathedral candle: ive the hall an Oriental atmosphere he Senior ami Junior class color: ere carried out very effectively ii to decoration by using bows of blui id white on the Senior chairs anc gold and lavender on those o e Juniors. The orchestra of the Apnalachiar roubadours played while the guest umd their seats at the banquet ta es. At each cover was an attractive manese lantern place card bearing ic- name of the guest and givinj e menu and program of the eve ng. The table was made more at active by the favors, miniatun ins on which were placed variou: )lo red candie3. The menu consulte< Mheee- ceere.err-nyHFoBoTrn; Fruit Knt.reo | Chicken a la Macedoine bCalces Persillade GreeYFTPeaj Pickles Iced Tea Rolls Cherry Pie a la Mode Jack Steel, acting as toastnuisier troijueed Dale, Norris, Junior Cla% 1-j.iuuiii., who grave a toast to every le. The toast to '30 was given bj jwel tfagaman: to the Principal b> eorgc Sawyer; to the faculty uj ucy Greene; to the School Board , Stewart Duncan; to Boone liigi jmool by Erwin Norton, and to Ja in by Grace Edmisten. The program also carried out th< tuanese idea. It was as follows: Japanese Chorus ? Vivian Cook laine Greer, Lossie Lawrence, Caro n Blair, Ruby Wilson, Ruby Triv te, Rmogene Setzer, Lelia Ayers 'an Little. Marthii ".lapnni'sa," Frank Linney. "Japan Comes to a Banquet,' ary Iloneycutt. "Japanese Sand Man," Frank Lin by. fl College Students Enjoy Three Fine Addresses (By J. M. DOWNUM) Rarely has it been the privilege JC01 ie Appalachian College faculty ant udents and friends to enjoy a bet r, and rarelV good, program a: as their Privilege the past, night. Rt ie planning of Professor Dougherty jdge Harding, Judge Bowie, ant x-Clovernor Newland came to th< oliege on Wednesday evening at 1 clock to talk to the students, th< iculty, and friends. The first speak was Judge Harding, who impresset ie students with their responsibility ; coming teachers, and that the dm nportant thing they needed to teacl > their future pupils was obedience ? law. He made a very fine impves on on all present by the splendic anner in which he presented thest duable facts. Judge Bowie followet ringing out the facts that industry >nesty and soberness were absolutt ecessities to the success of any one hatever might be his educationa ^vantages, and doing this in a mos irnest way. Governor Newlant une last, impressing strongly al lat the first two speakers had said e then, in an interesting manner scplained how the first charter ?o ie earlier starting of the college ha< one through the Legislature, ant ow strenuously he had worked t? et it through. It is worth while b iv here that to Governor NcvJahi ; due the startinjr of the civllpgp a irst a high school, and he impresses le students that the privileges an< dvantages they have were due t< lis first bill. The college will gladl; elcome back these splendid men a ny time, for finer and more helpfu venings seldom come to the college No one dreamed of riding on ai 1 1850, when the most luxuriou oaches were equipped with iron ound wheels. You can realize th ream of riding on air todaj lough, if you keep the prope mount of air in vour tires, but onl chce!::r.~ of the Pressure t?:1 ottS. ' l Rest Interests of No r t Irvvc CAROLINA, THURSDAY APRIL 10. G. 0. P. POW WOW : NAMES I. G. GREER ; COUNTYCHAIRMAN 1 College Professor Will Direct Affairs of Watauga Republicans, Follow! ing Unanimous Election Monday. I Delegates Are Named to the 3ev1 oral Conventions. Jones Endorsed for Solicitorship. p I. 0. Greer, head of the Depart merit of Citizenship at the Appala chian State Teachers College, was i unanimously elected Chairman of the i Watauga County Republican Execu. tjve Committee, at the convention r which was held at the courthouse on i Monday afternoon. Approval of the local educator for the chairmanship 3 followed the announcement of W. H. 1; (Irajrg. former chairman, that he $ i nuu:u ixkc to rennquisn ms position = as committee head. Mr. Gragg in a f brief taik thanked the party for the ? favors shown him, and the co-oper2 ation extended in organization work. I Ir. turn he received the thanks of y the assembly for his outstanding part ty services. Former Representative Blaine t Cof fey was elected permanent chair) man of the convention and a roll . call of the townships indicated that all were present with the exception of North Fork. T. E. Bingham placed Mr. Greer in nomination for the chairmanship and his election was unanimously carried. J. C. Ray was > re-elected as secretary ! rcasurer, and an executive committee was appointi ed with the following members from . the townships as named: Bald Mouni tain, Ralph Greer; Beaver Dam. \Y. t R. Johnson; Blowing Rock. J. E. ; Young; Blue Ridge, J. T. Hampton; Boone, \V. II. Gragg; Cove Greek, 1 J. M. Burkett; Elk, .jtpe Wheeler; _ Laurel Creek, W. F. Winkler; Meat , Gamp No. 1. Carl Byers; Meat Camp . No. 2, Wayne Miller; North Fork, 5 J. M. May; Shawneehaw, Stanley Baird; Stony Fork, Sherman Welj3 horn; Watauga, O. W. Bobbins.? ! Fourteen delegates were elected to 2 the State, Judicial, Congressional and 1! Senatorial conventions. The delegaf lion was instructed to cast its vote for John It. Jones, present Solicitor, j when the Judicial Convention meets s in Wilkcsboro on the loth. There . were no further instructions. The > Congressional Convention is to be r\ held in LeVCoTi% today, when the local rI delegation will endorse VV. H. Gragg _I as State Executive Committee mem_ her. j Blowing Rock Gets Newspaper Meeting _ The executive committee of the ^ North Carolina Press Association, in a session at the Hvlmore, Greensboro Friday afternoon, selected Plowing Rock as the meeting place for the > annual convention of the association * this year. The Green Park Hotel will j be convention headquarters for the 7 North Carolina publishers. Wednesr j day, Thursday and Friday. July 23. H 24 and 25, were selected as the time. I J.' - u 1 >1 n?r noiqmg the convention. It is e\1 nacted that there will be around 150 "| to 200 members of the association. ! together with members of their fain-' -lilies find representatives of alliedi j crafts in attendance at the annual! ? meeting. Invitations requesting the privilege i " of entertaining the! association this! > year were received from Blowing I Bock, Morehead City, Roaring Gap,! Ashevillc, Brevard and Henderson-, ville. Legion Auxiliary Elects Officers for the Year ; The American Legion Auxiliary j met Friday night. April 4th, for a] joint business and social affair in . Legion Hall. The President, Mrs. L. S. Isaacs,! called for the election of new offi-i , ccrs, which had been delayed for! * several months. All the old officers wett reappointed to served the rc-| L mainder of this year except Mrs. f'harles L. Younce, who was elected ; secretary and treasurer, and Mrs. [ Fred Winkler for publicity officer * ar.d post historian. A membership j committee, composed of Mrs. Kelly t Osborne, chairman. Mrs. Spencer Miller. Mrs. Troy Norris and Mrs. Dan" ieis, was appointed to make a drive 1 for new members. 2 v ?ajg *??; nu xjviary win next meet with 7 Mrs. Charles L. Younce at her home J J on Water Street. Wednesday, May 2. All members are invited to attend, J as the officers are anxious to build l\a real active unit in Watauga. j| MKS. DALLAS HARMON DIES t AT HOME IN BRISTOL, TENN. 1 j Mrs. Margaret Ingram Harmon, 4 4. wife of Dallas B. Harmon, formerly of Sugar Grove, died at her r home in Bristol. Wednesday, April ^ 2 at 9 a. m.. following an illness of ^ about ten days duration. Funeral 0 services were conducted Thursday j) afternoon at the Windsor Avenue j Presbyterian Church. Dr. R. A. ^ Brown, pastor, officiated, assisted by ^ I Rev. J. W. Lollis. pastor of the First A Christian Church. 0 Mrs. Harmon was bora at Statesy ville, N. C., on August 3, 1886, the t daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George ] T. Ingram. She was married on Aug^ ust 8. 1906, to Mr. Harmon, who survives her, as do the following r children: Edgar, Vilas. Lena, Muriel. s and Clementina. A daughter, Mary Odenia, died five years ago. e Mrs. Harmon had been a member of the church since girlhood and had y always taken a great interest in' rey ligious activities. She was well ii Vnown Jr. Woionfff. County, and her death brings sorrow to many. JCRA st North Carolina 1930. Boone Doctor Treats ^ Victims of Paralysis Dr. J. M. Hodges, Boone physician.: i is treating five cases of the new I ! paralysis, commonly known as *jakc, | leg," which has been prevalent in East Tennessee and some counties in j ' Western North Carolina for the pastj l ' several weeks. Ilis patients, however,1 ; are not Watauga people, four of ! them coming here for treatment from, | Tennessee and the fifth from Avery , \ County. While the new malady has baffled the medical science since? its appear-j ance early in March, and many theo-i ries have been advanced as to its] ? final outcome. Dr. Hodges is of thelopinion that his patients have re-j r sponded satisfactorily to treatments ? of iodide of potash and sodium io-j dide injected in the veins, and strych- J; nine and arsenic administered inter-: } j nallv, with violet ray applications to] the afflicted members. He is of thejs i opinion thai, those now suffering with i J" j the strange paralysis will eventually i . | regain the use of their arms and legs, j i Reports from Roan Mountain, I . j Tenn., a town of less than three hun-j idred population, state that forty oij, ! these inhabitants have been afflicted; i with <4iake lee*." :inH otbor tajwuci 'throughout the section have been hitjj. ' equally hard. And it seems that each: j. j victim has within the past few months; j j imbibed more or less freely of Ja-j j; j maica ginger, a product of high alco-j s j nolic content. This Jamaica "rum" | ^ has since the early days of the Vol- ^ , stead Act been a standby for the i j drinking population of certain loeali-j-. ties, and the effects until recently i / had proved quite satisfactory. But!;'] the formula changed, other ingredi-l 'j ents were added t<> the product, and j Si the li'uman constitution rebelled. No! n pain, it is stated, accompanies thei tparalysis. It starts with soreness in if, I the muscles oi" the lower limbs and |( j arms, and the members gradually lose j p their usefulness. j f) No oases have as yet been reported! ^ in Watauga 'County. Whether this: ^ means that people of our county have j, abstained from the flowing bowl or n j have adopted a more palatable intox-< c | icant than "jake," is a matter of con- j jecture. Trout Fishing Season Opens Next Tuesday X?* . ! " The trout fishing Keastm for Wa-ip Itauga County opens next Tuesday, j s< April 15th, and closes on September! V 1st. H. Grady Farthing, newly-ap-jtl pointed fish and game warden states V tha* the Department of Conservation 1 1 and development is asking for strict! enforcement of the laws pertainuui: 1 e to mo taking of fish from the streams $ of the co-uiity, ami w arns of the pen- j a ally for those who use anything hut! a rod and line in fishing. 1 si Bvery person who has reached the tl aire of sivfp>er? ronw i - - U.oai ouv a 1 tiSfl- I IJ injr license before he can lawfully: li angle in any streams of the county >ii other than their privately-owned wa- ] o ters. There are deputy wardens in jo all the townships of the county. These 1 d wardens are lawfully appointed, and a, the Division ^ CrariVe usks that ah* v citizens co-operate with them in the a j preservation of fish and game. Kach tl I deputy warden has been supplied with' w | licenses, thus making it convenient j U j for fishermen, even in remote sec - t< ' Lions, to purchase thevn. Warden. Farthing states that J. P.1 h i Stepp. district warden, has given him j n notice that reports are being received' a in Raleigh regarding certain sawmill j operators who are carleessly handling I slabs and sawdust. Mr. Stepp says that J he lias received orders from game I officials to come to Watauga for the ! purpose of checking up on these re-, ports, and will bo here in the near5 future for a few days' stay. If you ; are the operator of a saw mill, it C would be well for you to check it b j before Mr. Stepp arrives. It is stated n j that these, charges cannot be settled ii I by a justice of the peace, and must, \v | of necessity, be tried in Superior, o Court, ! -v Authorities ask that Watauga fish-j a ermcn refrain from fishing until the jo i opening of the season, and that they i t; gaiii pet mission of property owners! o before taking trout from the streams. I tl Following is the official list of'ii deputies and license salesmen in Wa- a tauga County: Boone, Boone Hard- I ware Company. Clerk of Court, and o I Daniel Boone Hotel; Blowing Rock, h ! Ronald Foster; Banner Elk R. F. D.. tl I Everette Fox; Pen ley Roby Penley-; 'v. | Todd, Carl Davis; Cove Creek, John f j H. Mast Jr.; Meat Camp, J. D. Wine-1 ii barker; Howards Creek, Forace Mor- s etz; Blowing Rock K. F. D.. Nile! h I Cook; Rutherwood. Filler McNeil;i n 1 Valio CrucFs. W. W. Mast. j p i | Billie Hulet Seriously i f ; 1 1 a ' ' 1 uijureu oy /vutomoDile |e Billje Hulet, 11 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Faye Hulet, of Boone. ^ was seriously : ijured last Friday when he was struck by a automobile e driven by a Mr. Clarke, of Mountain J City. The accident occurred on the streets of Boone near the residence v of Dr. Rankin, when the boy attempt- c ed to in front of the auto, and no blame is attached to the driver, t The lad was immediately taken to J' the offices of Dr. J. B. Hagaman; and an X-ray examination revealed a fracture of the skull, a portion of! the bone being pressed against the 1 brain. He was removed to the Cald- s well Hospital, Lenoir, where Dr. Ru- i ' disill lifted the fractured skull, and t latest news from the boy is to the < j effect that he is improving, and that t | chances for his recovery are bright, j < Twenty-two farmers of Duplin J County shipped 316 head of hogs to t the Richmond and Raltimn^e * last week. 1 SX.50 PER YEAR mm court" adjolllns after l0n(|ist term .ong -Drawn Out Civil Cases Force Court to Hold Over Into Third Week. Longest Term Recalled. Only About Half of Civil Calendar Is Cleared Away. Mistrial Declared in Lewis Case. The spring term of Watauga suterior Court, Judge W. F. Harding residing, was adjourned Tuesday light at 10 o'clock, after having oc upied two days of the third week, his being the longest session reailed by any of the local attorneys, he criminal docket was, is usual, ight, .however the civil calendar preented 78 cases, many of them of a nmplicated character. Only about ialf of the docket was disposed of, nd there has been some talk of peilioninir the (Invprini- fr?v ;? n i -? 1 erm of court to conclude the busiiess, however, no action. r*!'">;r this me has been taken. Of major importance was the suit nought by the Unaka and City NaBOPa' Bank of Johnson City, and the 'irst National Bank of Bristol against oha P. Lewis and wife. Madge Lew>, prominent Johnson Citians and ummer cottagers at Blowing Rock. Ir. Lewis was formerly connected ith the Tri-State Fruit C ompany, of ohnsoii Cifcy. It was while in this usi 11 ess that he suffered financial ailure, in the meantime being heavv indebted to the Tennessee banks, 'hey brought suit for the purpose of ettir.g aside a deed which he had lade in October. 192.r>. to his wife [ )!' the Blowing Rock properties, and or the further purpose of obtaining ossession of two autoniobi! ;s, five iamond rings and a diamond stick in. which had been attached by the hcriff of Watauga County last Sep?mbei\ and since held by him, pendig the outcome of the suit. Attorcys for .the?plaintiff- based their intention on tne assumption that .ewis had placed his money in jewely. automobiles and realty in his rifle's name, to save the property roni attachment by his creditors. Lewis, through his attorneys, inisted that both the personal property nd realty belonged to his wife and Iictrefore should he free from any rocesses of law, ir.? i<i< t ,<. his peril nal indebtedness. Messrs. .John K. r??wn and T. < . Bowie appeared for he banks, while Erwin & Erwin and V. C. Xowland were attorneys for .e\vis\ The automobiles and diamond jewll'V: JS said -to - ha vet a valuo-cif nrojimjf 15,000, while the property involved t Blowing Rock is said to be wdrUi bout $10,000. Lewis claimed owner hin of one of the cars. The trial of he case began last Thursday and isted until Tuesday night. The brilant legal talent contested every icli of ground and the fight was one f the most interesting in the annals 1' the local court. .A&piistrtal was eclhred when the jury failed to grec on a verdict, eight of them fa-yj'' ori ng tpe setting aside ol the deed, nd the delivery of the diamonds to he plaintiff, while four ' held out ith the contention of the defense mt the property belonged in fabt Mrs. Lewis. The case will come up foy another earing at the spring term of court ext. year, unless in the meantime special term is trailed. Automobile Yields 31 Pints of Corn Whisky At about U o'clock last night a 'hevrolet car with two passengers, oth men, drove up to the curb allost in front of the theatre build-- .) ig. The passengers alighted and -ere chatting with some people alng the street. Our alert policemen, lessrs Wyke and Gross, came along, nd by aid of the street lights, disovcred that the car bore no license ag. They began to investigate. The wners came up arid the officers got he odor of whisky. They denied havig any. hut Gross opened the door nd found a flask in the side pocket, hey were asked to open the rear f tlie car. but before the officers ad time to make the examination, he two men made a break for liberty oing in opposite directions; The oficevs gave hot chase. Wyke captur:ig his man. hut Mr. Gross was not o fortunate, his man making good is escape. On their return the search ra? completed and the find was 31 ints of Wilkes county com liquor, 'he young man was lodged in jail nd says his name is V. C. Welch nd his home is at Purlear. Wilkes 'ouniy. lie said the man who escapd. (he did not give his name), was n no way connected with the affair, s he was only giving him a ride. Velch said he was on his way to Vias to see his best girl and just decidd to bring along a little whisky. The ar and liquor are in the hands of 'the law" and the unfortunate is rriting to the folks back home to ome and fill a much-needed bond. ilATT H. ALLEN TO ADDRESS PHYSICIANS OF WATAUGA Matt II. Allen, chairman of the ^orth Carolina Industrial Commision, will be in Boone on Tuesday light, April 15, and wishes to meet ill the doctors in the countv at. tha ourthouse at 8 o'clock. Every tlocpr who can possibly be there, as well is other interested citizens, are reluested to be present. Mr. Allen will eview the purpose of the Industrial Commission and will explain certain hint's which are vitally important "ov cvcvv doctor to !;r.r?\v ;he new compensation law.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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