' VOLUME XLli, NO. 3-i FORTY-FIVE ACRES OF BRYAN FARM TO i BE PLANTED IN 1931 J. Frank Miller to Tend Twenty-One Acres of Beans, Cabbage and Potatoes. "Cove Place" Will Be Put in Corn. Property Lies on Oui kirts of City. Plowing Is Almost Completed. One of the most interesting faratinjjr operations started in Watai? so far this year. is that taking place on the old W. L. Bryan farm which lies, for the most part, within the city limits of Boone. Around fortysix acres of ground is being broken for various crops, fences are being repaired, new ones erected, and the entire plantation placed in "applepie order." B. R. Bryan, under whose management the work is being carried out, states that. J. Frank Miller, manager of the local kraut factory, has rented the meadow which lies adjacent to the cannery, and will plant, these twenty-one acres to potatoes/ cabbage and beans. An aged citizen of Boone declares that this turf was last broken more than sixty years ago, one crop was tended and the field converted into meadow. Plowing is almost finished on this tract, and the turf is said to be more than six inches deep, necessitating the use of an extra-heavy team to pull the share. The rich, black loam which lies underneath gives promise of; bountiful crops provided the comingseason is favorable. R. L. (Dick) CoLvard will tend the "Bryan Cove," which contains around ten acres of choice corn land. This property was cultivated by himj seven years ago, when around fiftyj bushels of corn was produced to thei acre without the use of fertilizer. Mr. Bryan states that the land this year will be given a generous application of nitrates, and he predicts a wonderful yield. Charlie Greer, who has charge, of! the plowing on Mr. Miller's boundary, has rented ten acres which will be put in oats; Charlie Tcague will tend about an acre and a half of' truck, and '"Barber Bill" Hodges] is plowing three acres of rolling land for cabbage or potatoes. In addition to this, Mr. Bryan will himself tend an acre of cabbage and small vegetables. , su.ulal-;ii y.?'? the edge of town, and considering the fact chut most of^it has lain idle for many years, the extensive operations have drawn considerable attention by passers-by. And il' the wops gro\v off well, a real example of mountain industry can be viewed by "summer visitors right in Boone's "front door.gjjgflj 22,500 Predatory Birds I And Animals Are Taken! 11 1 ei Birds and animals classed under,' the State law as "unprotected0 num-j r^bering approximately 22.5U0 broughtj bounties to North Carolina hunters i last veav. according to a icnort bv State Game Warden 0. H. England. Bounty claimants rid the State of 42i) wildcats and 22,00.0 crows and | sharp-shinited and Cooper's hawks, i the State Warden's report shows, j These bounties were paid only during the three monihx of the hunting season and do not account for those killed during the other nine months nor for others for which no bounty was claimed. Special attention, according to .State Warden England, has been given to the extermination of vermin on State game refuges. A report from C. N- Mease, chief refuge warden of the major Western North Carolina sanctuaries, shows that 6f9t predatory birds and animals were destroyed on these refuges during the year. These included wildcats, outlawed hawks, foxes, weasels and stray homeless cats. Efforts have been centered on the control of vermin on Holly Shelter State Refuge and public hunting Sag ground in Pender County. More than two score wildcats, as well as nu-j merous hawks and crows, were elim-inated from this area by refuge I keepers. | - State -Warden England points out liuillbci' ?~f tJM , V birds | and animals taken from the refuges was smaller last vear than durintr the previous year. This, he believes,] is an indication that the breeding stock is steadily beliiK reduced. - Loc?i Mtwctan Will Feature Broadcast Rath Rankin Rutherford, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Rankin of this city, is scheduled to appear in the broadcast of radio station WSB, Atlanta, Ga., Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, in a two-piano program. Mrs. Rutherford during: the past few years has gained national attention as a musician, and local radio owners will appreciate the opportunity of hearing bor initial broadcastMayor Thompson of Chicago was renominated by his party Tuesday. A Non-Partisan b BOON REGISTRATION AT STATE COLLEGE IS OVER 8 HUNDRED Spring Term cf Appalachian Teach er? College Open* With Recort Registration. Others Still Coming Number Could Be Increased il More Dormitury Room for Younf Men Wm Available. Monday and Tutsday wore ex tremely busy for the office forces a Appalachian State Teachers CoHpe when the registration for the spring term was at its heipht, says Profes sor J. M. Downum, registrar, in* nmMwaSit ot 9 'P.. . --! ? ? - ?v ? aj i-iuvn l uvsaej, uv cording' to information furnished th< Dumoci^t, had already passed th< 800 mark, and a number of student} yet remained to be registered. Oi the total, more than 425 arc en rolled in the freshman class. The number of new students is said to be unusually large. "This number could doubtless be much increased," says I'rofessoi Downum, "if the college had more i dormitory room for young men, betI tcr college equipment, and if thr | present faculty could bear the load | in addition to the heavy burden they i aye already bearing! Many of the I young men have to room and board | in town because their dormitorv i.< I full." Caldwell Grand Jury Returns a True Bill Against A. B. Johnson I i . Lenoir. NT. C. A true bill charging A. T?. Johnson of North Wilkes h boro with manslaughter was returned by the Caldwell County grnnd Jury after Superior Court, convened Monday morning. Judge John H. Harwood, of Bryson City, was on the bench. Johnson, prominent in business circles of North Wilkcsboro, was indicted for the death of Miss Dollie Greene, North Wilkesboro nurse, who was killed in an automobile wreck on the Lenoir-Taylorsville Highway^, January 8t'n. .hihiianTi'0 *?.? ? ?n-" ? i ??*! a continuance from magistrate's court here last Monday when the case was scheduled for trial, basing their - request on- statements from' j Johnson's physicians indicating thai l^heJ ts too -ill 'to -Attend*trial- ^ The court ordered Dr. C. R. Hedrick, qf f.onoirt to examine the defendant at North Wilkesboro today and to file his report with the court one day this week. Should the physician find Johnson's condition such that immediate trial iti Superior Court would jeopardize his life the case is likely to bo continued until later in the two-weeks term of court lor until the August term. 9t*rf The Cooi'troom was packed with curious onlookers as the case was brought up by Solicitor L: S. Spurling for action. A legal snarl developed when 'ihe s?*.vol.-s covered that Johnson's bond in the amount of $5,000 was to magistrate's court' and was not binding: for .Superior Court, requesting: a capias to bind the defendant to the higher court. Attorneys for Mr. Johnson immediately placed a justified bond with Clerk V;' D. Guire, which was accepted. : . . Local Hardware Host To County Farmers Perhaps as many as three hundred farmers and others interested in agriculture were present at the Pastime Theatre on Tuesday, when in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the invention of the reaper, a moving picture, 4i<Fhc Romance of the Reaper," was presented without admission costs through the cotirtesv of the Farmers Hardware Company, co-operating with the International Harvester Company. Representatives of the latter corporation were with the local store all day, and much interest centered around the replica of the initial harvesting machine displayed at the front of the up-town store. Two In1 omotif.MQ 1 +ni??L-c nm-r), /\i\ !?/? too, and one of the machines was demonstrating taking' a capacity load j lap - an incline of 4? per : cent. with ease. Talks were made to the farmers after the showing of the picture by the visitors, and the occasion was one of much enjoyment and benefit. BCTTIE SUE HODGE DIES AT LENOIR HUME t-KWAi Bettie Sue Hodge. 11-day-old child cf A. B. Hodges, died at the Hodges honpe in I^enoir Friday, and I was buried Saturday morning beside the grave of her mother, who died | on February 13th, in Oak Grove com! ctery near Boone. Livestock growers of North Caro lina will find technical bulletin 39 "Investigations in the Feeding of Cotonseed Meal to Cattle.," a valua ble book on scientific cattle feeding The bulletin may be obtained free of charge from the North Carolina Experiment Station at State College lewspaper, Devoted to the B E, WATAUGA COUNTY. NORT^ CAR< Marketing |la i For Watauga ?L? - Interest at Farmers Imtitub of Placing Watauga Coi i O?il XA I'? i ouuiiicru marMJis. r ; The second annual Farmers histi j pc . tute, which was held at the State !!1 L Teachers College last Tuesday andj ^ Wednesday, was attended by consid- ^ ' erably more than a thousand fjfiftr.-; to , ers and farm women, and rather! th 1 overshadowed the highly satisfactory wi , session of the previous yea)-. Experts th , from State College featured the pro- y-> .! gram to a large extent, and the in* [- "schooling" in better ways of pro- P<? ducing mountain crops was more or P5' . less a continuation from last year, br , These various lectures met with in- ca slant approval of local farmers, who , are eager to adopt the most sc&n! tific methods of crop production.; ?e However, the business of the ibs- tn sion which caused the greatest de- XV1 , glee of interest was the problem ofi^1 i marketing the produce of Watauga! . County in some sort of systematic s8 , and business-like way. Wholesale [ dealers *Crom different points below .5 the Ridgr were present and went!8*4 I into the selling problem with the | farmers: A representative from the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company ;vo also came. One representative of one 'ni ot" the largest wholesale produce !<) houses of the South, perhaps, with. 1 offices in Charlotte, ha? promised :to: a return to the county in about nlsn' month to hold another meeting spc-: dv; j eifically for the purpose of definite j ly solving the problem of placing ^u !i Watauga products on the market. He $2 j is anxious to handle all the surplus, ga hut finds it impossible to handle any c.y small portion thereof. A plan will be] fuworked out whereby the products; may be pooled, and that large "quan-J a tities of any one item may be fur- lit mshc.d immediately. He proposes to pa handle the crops on a commission go basis, thus assuring the farmers runiformly high prices. Freight rates and do other transportation costs will be ha available when the representative rc- So : turns, and it is expected that the he soiling of this year's crop will be o)c- do ; ~ Current Even From the "Foi I ? j PLUMTREE MAN INJURED Elk Park.? Thomas Watson, a ? Ymominent citizen of Plumtree, is ^ in Grace Hospital, Banner Elk. h with a fractured skull and several ii bvoken rdbis sustained when he was j\ "thrown from a boxcar near Min- ;3| neapolis Friday. Mr. Watson, do- j X live ring wood at the freight yard, j a - bad finished loading his ear and i X whs moving it down a steep grade \ a when it got from under his con- ; hoi. It moved at tremendous speed | down the'track, finally leaving rfiilit' MV.' I about 25 feet, against 3a pile of n ties. s; w AL GOES "ON THE WAGON* New York.?Alfred E. Smith ? put on his fireman's hat. Monday. ^ j took a good grip on the reins of { two spanking bays, clucked "gid- ^ day"?and drove a fire engine through the streets of Brooklyn. The former governor and Democratic Presidential candidate was j) born not far from the fire station ~ and always has beer, interested in jthe ladder laddies. - i c FAMOUS PRIMA DONNA DEAD j Sydney, Australia.? Mme. Net- -t] lie Melba, who died Sunday night p j in a hospital here, is to he buried t I Thursday at Lillydale, Victoria. j S In from the Scottish church where j. r j her father used to sing in the i t: it cnoir. seventy-one years old, the j e famous prima donna for several : 7 j days had fought a losing battle J n with a skin malady picked up in j a Egypt and aggravated hy a long i c journey ho^ie from Europe before j Christmas and the extreme heat j S of the Australian summer. i 1 EARTH SHOCKS IN ALBANIA ; 1 Tirana, Albania. ? Twenty-two j jj sharp earth shocks weir -felt in j j Koritza Monday night, the area ^ ! which has been badly shaken by 1 ? ' J?' tiw fw>A wwwithc I j The new shocks were accompanied * |i by a heavy rain, and the eombina h yj tion of moisture and. ipotion ^ lj brought final destruction to many y J buildings damaged by previous ' I j earthquakes. * ; FAMED ACTRESS KILLED j Springfield. Mass,?Mrs. Helen , j Queen, 63. for many years widely j i j known as a actress, is dead here, a J result of bums suffered in a fire 1 which destroyed her home at Aga- 1 . warn Thursday. Her last appear- 1 ; ance was about twenty years ago t i at Philadelphia. For the last 13 s years she had Keen an invalid. I ITtW'^F1 DEM( lest Interests of Northw< DLINA, THURSDAY. FKBRUAKY rd Problem | 's Agrariansi e Centers Abous Means unty Produce on the Buyers Present. ditcl by some definite arrangeent. Messrs. \V. L. Brown. Han-v Fnw id other tobacco men from the innessee Burley belt, added a new uch to tbis year's institute, and ey insist that there is nothing ong with the price of the weed on e market, but that the trouble is th quality. This, they say. may be iproved from year to year as exrien.ee is gained, and that with opcr care as to curing and grading, irley should provide a desirable sh crop locally. Moretz Introduces Resolution During the Wednesday afternoon ssion Mr. J. M. Moretz of Boone inuduced the following resolution, lich was unanimously adopted by. e large audience. "This is the year when there ould be a supreme effort made to angc the balance sheet of Wamy's citizens in favor of the credit le. This can be done in two ways: "1. Grooving and marketing crops at will bring in more money than u arc paying out. This calls for iustry?-a real, well-planned efit. "2. By rigid economy. This means careful, well-planned economy in mil leaks, as well as the larger ajns on your income. "The little Sunday-afternoon plea-J .... . ~ ? re wu. . voa>o vu uii avciage .00. or $40.00(V a year--for-?WatauCountv?enough to pay the unty's part of the public school hd, "Maybe you could get along; with few less clothes, or perchance a tie patch on the west end of ycur nts might be just as honorable as ing in debt for a new pair. "Resolved, That this shail be a ht-paying year for every man who s that millstone about his neck, e to it that on January 1st. 11)32, owes substantially loss than he es now." ts Gathered ! ur Comers'' FLOODS TAKE LIVES Palermo, Sicily. ? Ships in the Ieditei-ranean Monday night wove j ucking heavy seas and high winds j a a storm which began Saturday a ight. Commerce Wati delaved and 1 >i.\ lives lost. In Palermo laibor, twenty fishing smacks and coal barge sank, and atr-Port .itcata, an Italian steamer van ground.; BAKER ASSURED 67 VOTES _ Ne\\S^drU!--^Ne\v ton ^^-Baiter, etu ruing Monday on the Britanlc from a Mediterranean cruise, aid he had *'67 persons who are rilling to vote for me for Presi- j eni.." He made the remark in re- I ly t^i a newspaper man who prom- I ;ed to vote for Baker if he would i ire fov President. 4*That makes 67 persons," said , laker, laughing. . LOVERS DIE IN CHAIR Western Penitentiary, Rockview, *enn.?The brief criminal careers f Irene Schrocder and Glenn iague ended in a bare, stark loom londay where tney were electropted ir. the half-light of dawn, "he State of Pennsylvania claimed j heir lives for the murder of Cororal Brady Paul of the State Parol. Promptly 4r 7 m? Mrs. * 5 chroedci was led down the coridor from the death cell, passed hrough the green door to the excut inn room and electrocuted at ;05 a. m. Daguc was executed 8 J imutes later. it was the first time i woman had ever been elect ronted in Pennsylvania. ENATE PASSES SHOALS BILL Washington.?For the second imc during" the long years of con- j roversy, Congress Monday sent j 0 the White House a bill provid- j ng for operation of the Government's $150,000,000 power and titrate plants at Muscle Shoals. The conference report on the bill rhicft wouia auinonze government nanufaclur* and distribution of lydro-electric power was adopted y the Senate after an hour's delate, 55 to 28, completing; concessional action. The measure was ipproved by the House last week. "HAM" FOR PRESIDENT Chicago.?Manufacture of presdential thunder for Senator-elect ames Hamilton Lewis was begun Tuesday as friends welcomed him tome from the West. Leaders of 1 lino is Democracy saluted him, alhough not yet sworn 4n the Senile as "presidential timber" and Hinois' favorite son/' nnnnHHI 3CR/ ist North Carolina luno Coach Johnston Once Tied a World Record "Sport Scratches," cartoon feature drawn by Reynolds for the New* and Observer states that Johnny Johnston, coach of ath1et? 5c* at Appalachian State Teacher," College, knocked three home run in three times at bat to score win against Wofford Umversit' ^ in 1917. Johnston at that time was playing on Wake Forest College's team. Johnston's great performance carved for him a niche in hase| ball's hall of fame, for that trio of bingles tied a world's record which to this day -has not been broken. Following his graduation from the Baptist school, Johnston broke in to professional ball, and played for several seasons in the Pacific towt League. It is staled that during hi* diamond career he wielded a. heavy bat, and at the time of his withdrawal to enter the coaching field was headed for the majors full speed. Hoover's Assault on Webster Is Noted By Gotham Congressmai Washington, I). C. ? Represent* tive Black of Now York last wee pave a Democratic version of ReStic lican achievements during this ses sicr. of Congress. "The outstanding at complishmesi of the administration was an ussaul 011 Webster's dictionary," he suit "Disdaining the short and ugly svor 'food' as having no place in Amen cull- sociology -, - rwft striirk -font] from Webster's and with the aid o Dv. Jc-kyll and Mr Hyde of the dc partment of agriculture substitute" 'rehabilitation.' "Hoover would make nuid faces a Congress, and then send Walter New ion-(a presidential secretary) over t< su> he didn't mean it. "A group 01 weather-beaten Uttl travelers, headed by Hip Van Wick ershnm, sought shelter at the Whit House from the storm without. The; cracked and gi-oaned pitifully: 'Mas ter, \vc arc wet' Hoover drew him self proudly to his full heiphi, and ; hi Mussolini, waved his arm ove thom, saying.: 'Brethren, thou ar ury.' Dry they became, as dust, an< flew away, never more to be seei by mortal men. "The word 'panic' prated on hi ears, so he had the cabinet members including the greatest secretary o the treasury since Alexander H&mil ton, recite in sympathetic unison bOi times a day 4prosperity.' | "Thereafter, the word 'panic' wa to be known as 'depression' and fit word prosperity' Was to be know; as 'depression' or vice-versa," Davidson's Department Store to Be Removec A two-page advertisement in thi issue:ne7Democrat, brings: the in formation that Davidson's Depart menf Stove, one of The leading dr; goods establishment? of this seetio foi almost a decade, is being olose< out in a great Removal Sale. Mrs. Da vidson, who has owned and manage the business since the death of he husband, it:- founder, about fou years ago, expects to return to he former home In New York for a brie visit, It is understood, before goin into business again in some othe ^0':- ' K3 ' y; v." - During the long- existence of th Davidson Store in this city ii ha enjoyed a widespread patronage "in customer and friends regret tha the popular lady has deemed it wis to make a change .of-^location. A< vortising matter places the duratio of the sale at two weeks by whic time Mrs. Davidson is expected t have definitely completed her plan for the removal of the stock remai ipg on the shelves. Drastic redut tie.ns is prices of high-grade mei chandise have been made, in orde that the stock may be reduced t the minimum for moving. Attorney Holshouser w:? r 1110 ui \^?uuvrvi (Caldwell Record) To Attorney J. E. Houshouser c rsoone goes the honor oi defeatm Solicitor Pritchctt in the first cas lost by the solicitor in the Recordei Court 01 C&idwcii County, held i Lenoir Tuesday of last week. Mr. Holshouser defended Mos Toague of Blowing Rock, who w* charged with driving past a scho: bus while it was stopped to discharg passengers, and his client was a< quitted of the charge. Mr. Holshoui tir is a young attorney of Boone an , this was his first appearance befoi the local bar. A new publication which will ai I the gardener in starting his ear I plants has been published hy tl State College Extension Service ar is now ready for distribution. As for extension circular 182. vT 81.50 PER YEAR OCAL MANTURNS )OWN OFFER THAT s BRINGS FORTUNE c m ? jjS lev. Uriah Farthing Offers Brother- ? ^ in*Law Oklahoma City Lots for ? Taxes, and Gets Refusal. Wild * Gusher Now Throwing Out It* ^ Wealth Within Fifty Feet of the Y Property. Three months ago ttev. I riah Far ! thing, Baptist minister of the Beaver Qam suction, very generously offered his brother-tn-law, W. L. Cook o:" Boone, tvro lot; in Oklahoma City, provided he, Co6k, would pay taxes <?n these and two other plots located in that town. But Mr. Cook gra ciot.sly declined the kind offer, bej lievir.g this to he a poor time for reai estate investment: Prices evidently j took a boom out in "Alfalfa Bill's" j commonwealth, notwithstanding certain alleged depression, for one day last week the Rev. Mr. Farthing, who following Mr. Cook's refusal enveigled a denizen of Oklahoma into putting him right with the tax coi lector, received an offer of $80,000 for this pair of 50-foot lots. Something happened, of coarse, and this is what it was: A certain oil company took a co-operative lease on this particular block of lots, sunk a test well, and brought in a gusher of some several thousand barrels output j. each 24 hours. The -,veli is located within fifty feet of Mr. Farthing's property, and his share of the profits,, according to a telegram received by him Fviday. is $1154 per day. Un: del* an agreement, oil companies op'' crating in the Middle West are only * allowed to. pump wells three days a month. At this rate Mr. Farthing's income will be $2,862 per month, or 1 Sli4,IJ-r! a11iiiitt'1 jy1thc?5 f 1k"u ri!5 bused prevailing prices of crude petro" leum. 1 Lt is understood that operators of the field will drill four more wells 1 on this lease within the next few " months, and if Mi . Farthing's luck 3 holds out, and these wells prove to he as hi?h producers as the firrt one, & his income in^y be. multiplied by five. ~ He left for Oklahoma City the first e of the week, accompanied by an ati* torney, who will look after his yal>-1 uabh: interests in the new bonanza. The minister is said to have paid a j only $50 each for the lots when he r: purchasrd them several y?>jirv *?{>. t and. oil hjs meager income- Iwu fauna il it most difficult to pay taxes and ti assessments on them. s Dr. Ross Wilson Opens r Office in Philadelnhia t) Ah announcement from Philadel- m phia states that Dr Itbss B. Wilson s has opened an office in that, *;ty 0 Tor tlie fii&ctiee of ohstetricjy?anu tt gynecology. fie is -^a son. <>> Beorinrd Wilson of Beaver Dam and a brother of Dayton Wi (son, Boone, ^received his early education at the 1 State school here, later graduating at .lefferson Medical College, PhHariclphia. During the nasi year he s li^s don<i interne work at a Quaker - i Oty hospital.' 1 Thomas Smith Dies At Home in Virginia ''; Mr." rhii.n:i> Smith, . hh st hrothor 11 of Postmaster A. W. Smith of Boone, 1 { died at Palmyra, Va.; Tuesday mom J.) frig. Xo particulars have been rei reived. Mr. Smith left his Watauga KJ home about twenty years age and lo'* i cateel in Viro-inin ftp nr?.-l u hrruVi??r neither married-?have lived together c through the years, their main inrius ? try hemg poultry raising- The news . of his almost sudden death will be ; ' heard with sorrow by his many relajC lives and friends in Watauga. "j THE WEATHER ' Weather ^report. for week ending *| February 21, as compiled by Co-opls| erativc Station, State Teachers Coi" i lege, Boo lie, J. T. O. Wright, ob^ | server: ~j Average maximum temperature, oj 44 degrees. < Average minimum tempciature, 25 j degrees. Average temperature, 35 degrees. Average daily range in tempera|}tuire, 18 degrees. "1 Greatest daily range in tcmpemj turc, 29 degrees; date, 15th. Average temperature at G p. m. * (time of observation), 39 degrees. K Highest temperature reached, 48 ie degrees; date, 17th. 55?BI bunut MunpenivuiaRiwacneosaiMPf'.ffl^-JBI n| iteKKcs; date, 15th. ' Number incites of rainfall (iocludieiing melted snow). 0.50 inches. LS Number inches of snowfall. 3. '' Greatest rainfall in 24 hours. 0.20 'e inches; date, 17th and 18th. -- Number of days with 0.01 inch or 5- more rainfall, 3. <1 Number of clear days, 2. e Number of cloudy days, 4. Number of partlj cloudy days, 1. ? ! Direction of prevailing wind, west. 'd j Date of light frost, 19th. ly} Other phenomena described as folio I lows: Solar halo on lfith. id I ih j Former Governor "Al" Smith will ' address the legislature next Monday. fiS

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