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I "My Be; I ** I Bv KATHLE $ ^MWWMWWtWAUMVWWMWiM ' H "i' * SEVENTH INSTALMENT She !! i<l K:guh by lifflSffimg. bnid-j Q !y. i?;:t she bail sobered. Lo listen jto lVinSsj iashes wide, !ii>.; sli&litly part-' BPjc little felt hat pushed hack to' nv! \..vn?;ul. l|c colour hud <|UJ?eVl'| ijg&m he- face, and putting ber ei-j e .--v.s t hi table, she bad covvvedj Si h? ! "ace het handi??those small; hard. redlV lumds that doe found so; infinitely pathetic. "Gnu help rue. it's that way villi | ; . new, .ioo!" sht whispered, not me^iiitg his eyes. They walked bark to the store in. absolute silence. One night in early February, it' chanced that at the Meirill table; there v. ece dining but ;hree men: George Howard Merrill, president of; the entire chain ?>f stores, his trusty iijgbt-han?l man and jrereral mana- i ;zer. on Frank Flint, and the" son of ! the house, Joseph Grant Mackenzie 1 Merrill. The last named was included in the! : party merely because he happened to; : be in the house- with no dinner en-J i jragement and because a wild rain was falling. George Merrill eared nula longer whether his son and heii came - . or went. , Yet he had blindly idolized hist son. That young Joe had shown a la- mentable mdifft rence to society, ant! hat! flunked in t.ollegd. after wspbs-j: intc of a small fortune ivi various{ i idiiuio if not actually harmful ways, had been ;? hitter blow* to the fail:.! honest, hard-working pride. Si nc. however, he was actually iiv'in^, they hud begun, for the first in his twenty years, to permit fy him. in their disgust and disappoint fi. .neFt- to fi.ul his own levei. SjSh^SE on tins piiiticulaiy^veniny. .vifSSlY'Stetn.^ three plate- set at the ; ?feV.wES fn'Mili- hii-in! l\w t'ntV.rfU- ci . ov li **<?* I v i ti r??.. the butler. .merely! shrugged when the >.ns\ve? was that i the third place was Tor Mr. Joseph. "Oh. In* <h>r't :n;iiu r'" said Guovjj MetTffl "We want to talk business.! But Mr. ail right. lie won't j hfear a word we say!" "I wish he would." Frank Flint, a: hijaj, rosy, siiyer-headc^ man. said i?o- j litely. "We want that hoy, in in- | business. some 'day." My. Merrill responded shnply:: "Frank. ! don't know what he's do ine., or what he wants to ?lo I They're too w.v.k ?wi? nnwarloyf He's musy iyjouii so:nething-r-/il won't last, i Bui while it keeps him out oflj mis-, eftis^r/.^r ?f jail*?" "jf'd !?o .?iad enough i?? hi?v- him: snj/ iht;ereite<f' 'in the Mack. H he; g sj[Fen:? t.o catch on to, any thin.- t<f-\ /pgkU . us? %\e talk. F rank, see - i f yo.u j /ear, thaw V?i?vi out." ,/ ' '-Sorry ii. be laic," -;a'W J...:, Lias; Hg < leant. Loiainjr ia.j? t "Vn ir<- not bile," hi.< father a>' { ?? liiia i:ap.i;uioa:''y. Spun -iiaeiV l-t: the course of 'cfe'rlas-: his disappointment in d.his boy ha> risen nur.ost to nerval ft?$gS8R ..But, just of- lat e^ye-ye.*?rvs;nco./ta-.{ay t> J se^hey v.dHm his Thbttp- S' W$M: . had ^Jied hhvi^a "rbinmbri^y with-" o?t' ?i?v sin^eliofv'irrlemanly instinct, - in l>Spiiiin<l of s\ruV* ;and-. when -h'jp| hi.- lather. bad shouted at .Toe that jh e AV a s norbytior than a pickpocket. [ ] had deemed; to be quO.^l' change in the boy. "Say you look iif".:, iiiy boy. Research?" said George Merrill, wirhj y a wink for his genet a*. manager. "'Nope. ^;cs. am a little tired, j S& Not tnuch." Joe ?at:d. upsafiisfjtetoriiy, j CSS'*'-'M falling ujV>h his soup. Thau Joe said mildly, in ay'jjausu:^ "You say that it's the ruined thctf. costs in the Mack Store.*.-?notr^ Mmc labor, I've thought \bf that. It; seems ic me that every dhy enough' collars ami writing pap^Vf;-and < ??? j dy and toys and socks fall or. the floor and are trampled to set up aj se \tnrate b?ra nch :'J^S "XYhevc'd you get tfifs, Joe'.' ' ask-, 1 went into ?Xumbri Sever;, J j think said .Joe. "That's Number Seven. Good fot you! 1 hone you got service," said "They have a great staff there," gggL said Joe. "That's a good stove. Thats' a good* PINKY DINKY : Hev/ v;hSR? are you GoiM', r ^ -^v :~? " ~ Huwwvw^uvvmmwiwg st Girl" | EN NORRIS | .??, . J store;" Flint agreed. *'\Vh:ii oeeuvryct to me." -loo said leisurely. was ckiil you we. 1 . hi vvy?could handle ail that -:-:n\( .tut!' very nil'.el- better wh'b . u automat. 4'That'? ;m idea, J<?f , but uin'oftM.'.: tely it's not practical/" h)> father said yeniailyi < omforlably. Then his eje and the eye of hi> r ne/al inana&cr met. "V'ny isn't''it.-practical. Frank'.* It \v<H-ks ail riprht cm Ua food?they're 'jetnins those dawn mckel-in-ihe slot places 5*11 ov?r town," George Merrill sai'k 4 They*re practical." "V/e-fe?" Frank Flint hesitated. Joe broke in: "Take the whole back wall of a .tore and handle the five and the ten-cent stuff here. Let *eni drop, pennies for their spools and soap and ink and pencils and can openers and hairpins. You could have a girl there to change their money?" 'I'm not at all sure. Joe." said his father explosively. "I'm not at ail sure that you haven't given as an /.lea." "\ could look into that, Mr. Mer-j ili." Flint said. "It might?catch on. ?Iv. Merrill. It would he an exclusive Mack feature, you know." "Fiank. the more I think of that.: he more I suspect that?there's?omc-thmg?in?it." George Merrill, j trawling his words portentously, i aid slowly. "VVhdh could you set UurkeV" "See hnn tomorrow." "Take that up with him. will .you, Frank? Find out who makes thai machinery Wc might as well look into 't. anyway." I'>e wanted te keep thai in hi.- father's eyes, thai proud, vindicated look that said: "This hoy of mine isn't?such ?a damn' fool, nftcr all!" An hour later, he was reading in ins room when nis father came, r;: l.. .. ..aV 1 11.. ... -TV... .ill i nivyii . lilllivi uvMViirm.i IU. ; oy had taken the trouble to conn* icp:-rair<. .ioe reflected, .eratifietk seen that air! whn sings that Mouse-trap' thins. in the Kovise?" "Yes. ISu". Saw it opening"'nijrht.'" "I've got _ sf-atsv" Gcoree Mcfcf1 :ill displayed them doprec&tinjriy. 'I was .aoinjr to take Flint.'" he said"I'd like to see that darned show Joe said. Fifteen minutei. later they left the house lone the r . It was the first time Joe Merrill had Jtdne to the theatre 'with his father sinec the day of hi: fourteenth birthday treat. 83 "1 passed aloh.^r that idea of yours, about Having an automat for the notions,, id one of the heads," Joe told Mae&k. "5 look the eredii for it, too!" what made me feel rotten was that 1 didn't say thnlyou had tboujrhv of it first-" |& "Oh. well, \ve so vt, dl?..>ycvkecl - it out together, that da\ we were at the, automat." shr- said. :?nvi.in?: m reassure hiwi 'Wovkyd it our together nothing! You began it. ii \va3 entirely your idea. " &'. "But what's thee difference as M as one of. us .gets the erediiff* she asked innocent 1\. fISfce. < Pulci^niy Jlhuarh ancpnifor?-. When he went downstairs ar. hour later; lio managed ids awn way Through the moving river 01 the departing' employees of the Ma-^. and found himself: Wside hi r. "Why so fast, .\rag&ib^" Sue raised blazing eyes to his g&Uow dan- you speak to me! You ought to be ashamed to speak to me! ! hate you!',' ^' lF6y> heaven's sake what's ike mattery" doe stammered aghast. But ^he w'exyr-TCiviekly on. shabby little -itntidy.^head Hbul high, arak disappeared in the crowd Kefoyg he eoulik catch her again. foe walked briskly toward his car. got into it. and drove toward Goat Hill. "-My gosh. I never saw her like that he.fore? I wonder what the deuce i' done?" he kept saying aloud alic? went. tu- J: gfokr;rrai' - - ?| i ia- uiniier was at tne e.'ub tonight ; it was for pretty little Katrina Fam-hilii. Millicerit. next to Joewas heating powder into her rather coarse-pored, colorless skin with violent jerk? of her elbow. Everyone in the room was bitterly bored: guests, waiters, musicians. Miliicent asked languidly: : ~) I'fA GO\rV HOME/ / G MOM IS GO IN' J AR TO GIVE ME I SO. \^A LICKI Nft /(y ^ - THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EA Seriously 111 J)ame Nellie Mc)ba. w o r 1 tl- fani6ixs V.' M VJ.? HIJJ.H Ut .<i Melbourne. Australia. Born Helen Porter Mitchell, she took her stage name from Australia's y. ! "When are we going to announce it. .Tee??Don't interrupt, me, Marion." siie said to another girl, who I leajted across the table for a hysteri j cal eon fid'-nee. "I'm proposing to Joe ! Grant.' "It can't be done. I tried it myself didn't I. Joe?" said a third girl, handsome and big. "I don't seem to remember that, Carol," Joe said, eating. "But some night when I've had too many cock tails one of you girls will get me. and that'll be that." Conversations were entirely personal. usually first-personal at that. My dear. I?well. 1?well, if you ask mo?I couldn't?1 toid Mother-I I ? she and 1 hut it isn't as if 1 j exactly. I couldn't I smiply?if yop ! could have seen rru "Marjorie, did you Mrs M.n'iSt.JI?" "My dear?Wasn't, that terrible'" "Oh. well, my dear, if <hc won. I! j bring thai impossible gir)---'$j "We!!, exactly!" 1 More lip-fed j more powder, me..: cigarcLtes. 3 "Of com so, MohfVr felt dreadfu.'y about it." "Weil, but, m\ dear!" "Well, exactly?that's what I said l'.?. ' 'Listen. Mnw.', yc.u can't keep ! tjwjj up. Sooner or late.* you'll have to make it up v ith mo and tell ni?what tin tieuh'.e is, so why p.ot now?" | Joe plead oil. She was in the hardware dept??i nient and was attempting to straight | en up the conhtei." When she heard j JoeJ?: voice, close a est do her. \she i brought hei proud little chin up with a jerk, her cheeks crimsoned, and ! hey tone was cUltinu:, if a trifle sba j ky. as .she said: "You broke my heart. iiul it does i i.'t matter. Please yet out of my way." Joe was ho ties tie staggered. "l*ov;, in the name of St, Pete, did I break your heart?" mfe-" she was being magnificent?"We'll not discuss it,,r;shc said. "We will discuss it," said Joe. "I haven't dodo anything, and I object i tc your acting this way!" "Oh, no?no!" she ?aid. in ja1 I fcrembJinB voice shaken - with anger. ; Oh. no. Von didn't, take Paulo Y??imI gcv to lunch, and pay foe her lunclvj | at our place--at ouif place'.? am! i then walk with hei, and stroll arownd tBe streets 'W;?th Hei. and hilye all of those horrible giris ai 1 he )an-psh.vdes maUti'ig lun of nic. a;fd saying ihsU Paulo hsul gotten ydii^ av/av -.-froni mo." "Now, listen. Maggie- that's utI fcerly ridiculous. !j> the first place. I | went in, alone, alone?to hdve my 1 lunch at the Old South Tea Room-? | hut 1 sweai to you I went in there 1 with no moi:e Idea thai Mjss Younger | ?.> lunching: there than you 'had! I saw her at an empty table?The place was packed, and, naturally. 1 sat with her." "Oh, naturally!" Maggie said; trembling, beside herself. 12" Weill would you have me cut the ) girl?" Joe asked, warming in his ifern. "I sat with her. and later 1 . |?iia the tip. twenty-five cents, ant' our hill for two sixty-cent lunches, HThere! If Pd known that you expected me to ask permission?" "I'll never," she gritted between her teeth, "I'll never speak to ybii again!" | She had finished her task now I the hardware counter was in order J and went down to the girls' wash f room, washed her hands and, after i ! while, her tear-swoilen eyes in cole water, and wined tbe-m r\n i-V.** 5S uSf>r*J I lengths of che exhausted roller towel (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) >EE/ y/n/Vj-r \ E VOW iW \ CM A HURRY ; POR.&H? Jyy ./? A. ^ It:# ,"ERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. I Boone's Fast Depicted in U SECOND INSTALMENT KeUovvinjr is second instill- 1 { inent of a history of Iloonc, compiled f>v the primarx deinirtinent 01 Appalachian State* Teachers Col- j leir*: ! 7~~7 Early inhabitants Vcomv 02 ?hc :1 y jnhy.b i i a r, t> iy> | Ilaojje* were: Thomas Hodges, who,; I daring the (revolution, ef.rne from | Vh^inpi ajj<i settled two miles of II..O? -. in what is now known as l> ><?g$?i Cad. Jordcn Council' livvd^ [on ihe old Jefferson road. at what! jknown as the Buck Horn Tree! olace. Th<- tree- has fy?eri cut doxva.j hut ~~fi is said to have stood in tl.e; ya_?d oi the A K. ilamhy home.! John Noiris came ;?? Boone from Pennsylvania before the Revolution. He lived cast of Boone on the .!: { fersou road. The (and on which Ho.- i.- stands. 1 from th. present Methodist parson-1 i aire to box ond the kraut factory, be-; j'longed criminally to John and Jerry j * n?? * \ ?T. i *iieea?*. i ?w uiiiuici^. v*in" IM mt'iii ; livvd in a large' lojj house in what is now know a as Greene Heights, and the other !ived in a lot bad: of the miniature jjolf course. One of them sold to Jordan Cbuiscill Jr., and the other t<> Ransom Hayes. Then Jor Jon Council! Jr. built the 'old Conn-' j cill home. which was nun away for* I tin* election of the Daniel Boone; j Hotel. Council I also built a store <?nj {.the site now occupied by the (Irewi ; Inn. A small clapboard house .vir.h j | only *>nc room stood in the orchard I near the Blackburn Hotel. Tb?n lb i [.I. Crawley built a store and . i dene*.- near the present home of Dr. ! ? ^ | i ? i Ah hough thf new l ho v>u?st inevpom iMiirlict, it oHVrs , j since. comfort ;;i along \*ith tin- rcc nriri' vrui ?'? ; l In ulinc cost mid tot j C^K-ttS., WEI i 1 ? i i ! ALSO DEALERS 1 ( BECAUSE V HOME SOOi lisi AND | 1 a ? '. : ' \ ... .-.. Development! nique History J. ( . Fsrilwr!^ The next house, j i occu.wfe by K. "iiivors. was fi&M t erupted by Bessie McCoin. Another early resilience v;?s Lhafc which atoc*: near (he present jail and was oc uipie.i by Sheriff Jack Hfcrtoit in 1852. * x + - ;''''""nHi<?*?5jCHBt * First Buildings in Boone S The first p?it<!?; hai)oings in Boone! wbs the cuorfhowse vhi?:h stood at j t?e back of Mr. Linneys residence. I Thig was a two-story wooden build-j ii;.i and the court was held down-j la r.\ the upper floor being fdlcd with ofu'i-". This courthouse was burned about IS? :. Why the Oaiid-injer was burned has always been aj . n vsteiy' although it is behoved that) | it was fired by two men who wished; I to destioy some papers which were; held against them in the eouithouse. The fil-of im! u-.c Knit* ??. \i , j I Dammons arid stood in front of the I Murray Critcb.er Hotel. This was s: i brick Structure hut the bricks were of poor quality and could easily be I removed. After the building had been built hut a few years Elisha Greene built another of white pine logs. A steel cage was used in it as a cell t with iron bars crossing it. It also | hao a walkway around it which enabled people to walk around and gaze at the prisoners. Another one of the early structures was a brick building which was used by The Watauga Democrat for many years. It stood where the present Democrat building stands. The j first residence in Boone was that ocI cupicd by Jordort CounciU, which <; stood a few hundred yards from the j Buck Horn Tree where Mr. Hamhyi now lives. It was built of with! "T- ? . a.? 11$ * * l\?^-_ \ru* Clu-vrnfrt (TonrorfiMo Cnltfiulrt'-Prcniltrt * yrolet I mm m* s^?f:';iPf3^g : mm:m - '-' taiiflai'd ?*? v (.hovmlrt Six is one C?f ? :ive automobiles on the Roadster, (ine-ear Stile, perform- runiWt't-ral .<1 .1-mlal.ililv. And ? Standard < moitiy of a low purchase ? (rumble sea y^i.,r l.f xryWnp.VIJS life willi little upkeep $650. Prices iV CHEVR0I TAi? 6r*ut/ .t wririea ft*J Yoor lK?aE<?r U?k?o ff R CHEVROLET C01V "SALES AND SERVICE" IN CHEVROLET SIX-CYLINDER TRUCKS. $3S5 ? ? . t #? i ? ic i Dnw'r /irs-T- ? I f"" ^ - DAD WH-L.~"BS? J LX- DO IT/ TcRRy 61 - K j ^ ,-A/ FEBRUARY la. 1931 only one mom. -lordon Council! Jr. built a home later occupied by R. C. . Bus;nes$ Enterprises Jortion Cduncitl Si;. and JordOT Council! "JiK wen: uniou# toe tfcst merchants ??i' Boone. The store honse *h?ed by Jordon Council! .Jr. stood v. .'s* of hi.s residence and betweer the office building erected by Dr. W. f\. Couneill and the road The storehouse w a s afterward moved across the load, where tiie residence of David Greene now stands. W hat is liow the town of Boon- was foi years known as Oouncill's Stort dnu early as 183o a po.stolfice was if< existence. Merchandise at this time was brought in by covered wajagms drawn by four or six horses Roads were very poor. A trip to Charleston, S. O., where some of the goods were bought. took six weeks mak< .Sheriff Jack Hc?rU>r? had a si-. :-, house which stood on the present courthouse lot, frontinir what is now the Blackburn Hotel. In this store Horton sold goods and vf hat ever merchandise was in (ioniand an I kept a sort of harne s and Iclth shop. James 11. Tatum. of Iredell Cuontj came soon after Boone was established and built a stove on the lot. now occupied by the residence of W. L. Bryan. Tatum worked in the stove there several years and then rented if't" Joseph C- Council! who (Please turn to Page 8) Influenza Spreading Check Colds at Once with 666 TAKE IT AS A PREVENTIVE Use 666 Salve for Babies tT="r-sz^i. ;rr-? -.-".T' r~a| H^uimim! f/immmi ?3C-jrS"5"2S"! i>mm?iiiibs| I?kh "t I? SM*w '?5 IsBilH tea a atm: . v- low prices ? $175; Sp6rt lioa.lstir \vitil , $193:C.?nu,V. ?r Slandurd Fiviv [?upc. $5t*>; Phaeton, *510; Coupe; $535: Sport Coi*i>e I), $573< -onycriible (labriolct, m n Sedan, S635; Special brdau, i*. o. h. Flinl, Mich. equipment e\tra. JiT SIX [?* . IPANY TO *695, f. o. h. Flint, Michigan : By Terry Gilkison <?!NKY D/.YKY ^ in ci lt the 0oy stooo oh twf: qornimg deck, v test of-- great endurance *u> when the blading bark vient dowh us. bad got the insurance1
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