m VOLUME XL1I, NO. 10 tooWSMOT TO OPEN ON NEXT WEDNESDAY, 15TH Warden Urges Sportsmen to Have Licenses Ready for Initial Casting. Sport Expected to Be Unusually Attractive This Year, hut Laws j Will Be Enforced to Letter. One | Dynamiting Case Being Probed. The season for trout fishing will <;pen in Watauga County next Wed- ' nesday and County Warden H. Grady M. Farthing is urging sportsmen to comply with the law and secure proper license before trying their luck. It is also necessary, of course, to have the consent of the landowner before invading his property. The Izaak Walton League has 1 leased the fishing rights of Howards Creek and Meat Camp, and their tributaries, and Mr. Farthing says these waters haVe been well stocked with fish of sufficient size to be taken now, and that anglers will doubt less enjoy fine sport this season. Under. the arrangement of the League, Howards Creek will open on the 15th, while Meat Camp will remain closed until May 1. At that time the latter will he opened and the former closed. Both streams will not be fished at the same time and during the period a stream is closed an abundance v of six and eight-inch trout will be ^ added, thus assuring a permanent ini crease in the speckled hordes. 1 Mr. Glen Coffey is the warden appointed and paid to patrol the waters of Meat Camp, while Mr. Forace Moretz will keep a watchful eye on Howards Creek. A special permit is i (Bp issued by the League for each day's ! fishing, costs one dollar, and must ' be carried by the angler in addition i to the State or county license. Viola- 1 ttions of the game laws will not be i tolerated, fulULiiire wardens will op- 1 erate for the League, and deputy 1 county wardens are preparing to dou- ? hie their enforcement efforts in ojh- I er waters. i One case of dynamiting fish, says Mr. Farthing, has been reported, and the likelihood is that the miscreants I will be brought to speedy justice. < j The crime is said to have been com- < mitted in the vicinity of the ltaven * Rock on New River. < State and countv licenses are now 1 1 available from Die following persons, 1 some one of them being convenient ' foevery ^section' of the county: Deputy Warden Harrison Baker, Boone R. F. D.; 1. C. Billings, Vilas; " Tom Broybill, Blowing Rook; Jim ' Brown, Meat Cajnp; Ruth Cottrell, j , Boone Hardware Store; Ira Critcher, Bamboo; C. C. Carroll,- Deep Gap; Horace Cook, Blowing Rock; Carl | Oavis, Todd; Everett Fox, Banner Elk: Randall Foster.. Blowing Rock; R. L. Gentry. Laxon;' Edd Harbin, Sliulls Mills; Donly Hagaman, Reese;! G. C. Harnian, Peoria; Clay Hodges.l] Triplett: W. K. Jackson, I.axon; .I.ee Cardnder, Matney; , Forace Moretz, I Zionville R. F; D.; W. W. Mast, Valle ; Crucis; John Mast Jr., Sugai Grove; : Eller McNeil, Rutherwood; Clurance i J^ewton, Shuils Mills R. F. D., Rohy Pc-uley. Penley; A. E. South, Roone; 1 W. M. Shirley, Deep Gap R. F. D.; i Carroll Trivett, Beech Creek; Victor j Ward, Sugar Grove; J. D. Winebar- : ger, Meat Camp; John W. Ward. Lc- 1 Carolina Sells Bonds I At Low Interest Rate| Raleigh. N. C.?Governor O. Max Gardner and State Treasurer Nathan 1 O'Berry went to New York to sign Monday the $9,457,000 in State ' bonds which were sold recently at an interest rate of 4.02 per cent., a ' rate better, Captain O'Berry states, than New York City was able to obtain on bonds 3old by that city re- ; cently. North Carolina has now only $400,000 in bonds authorized and not sold, these tor the new central prison plant on Cary farm near Raleigh. All ' of the bonds sold were authorized by the ) 027 General Assembly. No new ' bonds are expected to be authorized by this session of the General Assembly. REXALL ONE-CENT EVENT LASTS THREE DAYS OF WEF.K| m W< On page five of this issue of The Democrat appears the announcement | oi Boone Drug Company's semi-annual Rexall one-cent sale which begma toHay norl closes Saturday eve? ning. These e ents are for the first time being featured simultaneously by every Rexall store in North and South Carolina, and printed publicity is for the first time being supplemented by entertaining radio programs from both the Charlotte and Raleigh broadcasting stations. The advertisement contains the hours of the broadcasts, and also a partial list of the many staple drug store articles which may be purchased two at a time for the price of one plus one , cent. It is suggested that the ad be clipped and the items wanted ' checked in order that customers may facilitate their shopping. I*?& k'X-itv; 'iQ ':; '" .-y;waGywHBWaWW $9? " ""' ' "' s _ ' .'" ,' . MA A Non-Partisan BO City-Bred Man Would Like to Dwell in Boon; Mr. E. A. Reich, of Atlanta Ga., who receally spent severs day* in Boooe recuperating fron injuries received in* an automobili wreck, has tvie following to say, ii a letter to the editor, about snial town life: "It is deplorable" that more o we 'city fellers' can't get into au tomobile wrecks and be forced t< go to a small place such as Boom in order to recuperate ... if tha were possible a great number o us might learn a lot about life cm living, and lose some of the inhori assurance that city life if the onl; thing there is. i, for one, woult much rather spend the rest of m< days in a small place . . . amon; people who have learned to bi satisfied with life as it comes t< t.Scm . . . than to be given fret rein over all of the large cities it the world. Don't catch all the fisl before July rolls around. Leave i few for me." Farming on Large Seal By Wataugan in Georgi The Democrat is in receipt of ? interesting letter from Mr. W. Winkler, of Ocilla, Ga., who in pai nership with Mr. Rufus Greene this city is now engaged in active operating a large plantation in ti far-southern State. Some exoecp from Mr. Winkler's fetter are mc interesting: "In a letter from Mr. Gretfle, \ learn that you still have plenty snow up that way. It certainly seei strange to us here when we look o and see the forests green and, to we have our corn planted and i nicety. I have just come in fro living my fourth swarm of bees the past week. Pears and figs a is large as your thumb. Roses hve haven't seen any winter. wK??v6 *,360 pounds of peanuts, 14 acr sf tobacco, around three hundn icivs in cotton, about 125 acres ?oru, then we happened to think pur mountain friends, so plant< plenty of early beans, corn, tomato and, last but pot least, a fine pat s? watermelons. They are all up nic ly rtb\v\ This is the finest place spend the winter I have ever see Just warm enough to be pleasa ?nd cool enough to put the pep (/ou and make you feel like doii things." Operetta to Be Given a Blowing Rock Scho< "Rose Dream" and "A Day Flowerdom," two fantastic fairy ai flower operettas, will be present! >y the elementary department of tl Blowing Rock School on Friday ev ning, April 10th, 8 o'clock in the a ilitcrium of that institution. An a mission charge of 15 and 25 cen mill be. made, proceeds to be usi for school work.' Those in charge production slate that the youngse ire taking form rapidly, and guara tee those who attend a most enjoy hie evening. Cast of characters in "Rose Drear follows: Little Rose. Lucy Woote Fairy Queen, Pauline Stout; Ro Rud. Mary Klutz, Hop-o-My-Tliuni an elf, Ray Castle; Giant "Forgo! Alfred Greene: The Twins. "Cai and "Can't," Albert Hayes and Ro Pitts; Door Fairy, Louise Prevett thorus of elves. Characters in "A Day in Flowc iom": Papa Jacque Rose, Geor; Suddrcth Jr.; Mama Jacque Ro; Mary Moody; Pink Rose, Luda Co fe^; White Rose, Elise Pitts; Floi 'Queen of Flowerdoni," Fran< Pitts; M'lle, Graee Hartley; Miss Mo Rose, Alverta Greene; Miss Lila Verdola Coffey ;\Miss Lily, Mary Ai Knight, Miss Blue Bell, Ethel Wo ten; Mr. Sunflower, Bill Klutz; V Pansy, Johnnie Brooks Lentz; Flow Chorus, group of girls and boys. C c : -c c -i i cw VxUpxtu or JUil Survey Yet Availabl There has been an unusual! heavy demand for copies of th Watauga soil survey burnished th editor of The Democrat tkirou^i the courtesy of Senator J. W. Bai ley, and tbc same have been wide iy distributed. However, a goo many copies yet remain for dis tribution. If it is not convenien to call for yours, ' drop a card t the editor and your copy will b mailed forthwith, provided the sup ply has not been exhausted. Th document contains a full analysi of Watauga soil conditions and i invaluable to tbe farmer. Alexander County farmers are stalling hydraulic rams to provi running Water for their holnes a baynyards. Some rams installed 1918 have never cost a cent for i pairs or replacements. Newspaper. Devoted to th< ONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH i Park-to-Park 9k j Traverse W i e The North Carolina delegates tc the Federal Highway Commissior 1 meeting in Washington last Saturday were apparently defeated "on the f fate of things" when they arrWec in the capital city to urge the ad op ? tion of the route through Boone t Blowing Rock and Linville for thf t thoroughfare extending from th< f Shenandoah National Park in Vir1, ginia to the Great Smoky Moantuc ? National Park in North Carolina ant y Tennessee When the meeting con A vened a map was exhibited, which il f is said left North Carolina withoul l a single foot of the important tourist s artery. r? Senator Bailey was given the flooi e and to his masterful plea for the rec \ ognition of North Carolina is as i cribed a good part of the credit fci - COVECREEK FARM E BOYS ORGANIZING a " Young Tar Heel Farmer* Will Culliin vate Diver*ified Acreage. Eleven Youths Try Out for Debaling Contests in State. of sly The Young Tar Heel Farmers of he Cove Creek are making rapid progIs ress. Already they have planned theit >st supervised projects which consist of growing eighteen acres of potatoes, ve 7 acres of beans, 8 acres of cabbage, 0f some tobacco, and some livestock ns Projects. ut Not only are these boys studying o, agriculture with inuch interest but lp they arc entering debating and puhm j lie speaking contests with cnthusiin asm. Recently eleven of them tried re | out foy the agricultural speaking conire test, which is an annual affair among th the Future Farmers of America, the ly national organization with which the Cove Creek group is affiliated. The UL winners were Delmar Combs of the ?rn^C. XT'.. / eS I 1-'b-*V" t^iaiiv, na I I inrubUIl U1 lilt ?cj ninth grade, Berl Henson of the tenth -;n grade, and Hnrdie Moody of the ()f eleventh grade. They spoke on moded ern agricultural subjects, such as es "The Future of the American Farmclii er?" "The Machine Age and Its Ef;e_ feet Upon American Agriculture/' $5 "Rural Electrification/' etc. -Enri n Henson with his speech on "The Ma chine Age," was given first place. Duin ring the week of April 20th. young 1g Henson will represent Cove Creek in the contest at Ashcville, N. C. He will bo accompanied by Delmar Combs, Berl Henson, Hardie Moody t and Howard Walker. The winner at Asheyille will represent Western North Carolina in the State contest at Raleigh. The North Carolina winnor will, enter a contest with repreI. ser.tatives of other Southern States. ? Later the Southern representatives ie will go to Kansas City to compote e" for the place of champion speaker of American Future Farmers. (1,ts ~ i ; Marketing Plan Is rs AnnrnvArl k*? 11-1 aAt a meeting of representative (|?> farmers of Watauga County, which n_ was held in the courthouse Saturday se' with Mr. Andrews of the Andrewsk Knowels Company, Mount Olive, present, it was agreed that the produce of Watauga should this year he 3S sold through the eastern company, e. strictly on a percentage basis. As a ' result of this action on the part of the county-wide committee, another !l~ meeting of the farmers was called for next Saturday to either adopt or 5?' reject the executive action. A call for this session is to be found elsewhere in this issue of The Democrat. :is 11 DEMOCRAT GIVES I |! COMPLETE VERS At great expense, The Watau sive publication the full and compl j_ righted history of the World War, America's participation in the worl :? o * LbA^^Loi " axKL ^9k u ... de P n(i year, and will continue for severa jn children be especially urged by pa re. unquestioned information containe CTS '.,y-r_ . ,,*;J \ : Best Interests of Northw< CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL U. 1 Highway to itauga County > the resolution routing the read fioni Sparta to Boone, Blowing Rook. Lir.? yilie, Pineoia, Woorilawn auu Ashei vi!l>.. and the Smoky Mountain Park. 1 The matter was definitely sett led and r the highway will traverse the most , picturesque section of the Blue Ridge j Mountains. ; Among those- attending the ipeet ir.g were Senator Bailey, who acted t! a . spokesman for the delegation, Rep! resentatives Doughton and 'Lambeth, Dr. E. C. Biooks of Ralegh; R. L. tj Gvvyn, F. H. Coffey and T. H Broyi hill of Lenoir; I. G. Greer of Boone; : Messrs. Houghton, Kistlcr and Stikeieather of the Highway Commission; : j amry squire? oj. l.enoir. cnanman 01 - the State Park Commission, and W. -I K. McDonald, of Senator Morrison's : j Office. CHURCH SCHOOL IN PROGRESS HERE Presiding Elder Poovy and Other Outside Ministers Present for Courses at M. E. Church. Closes Friday Night. The Watauga County standard training school fo?- church workers ; opened at the Boone Methodist ?i Church last Sunday evening, and the ,' courses will be continued until Fri,: day night of this week. The presid;!ing elder of the Mount Airy District, Rev. \V. E. Poovy, is present for the . sessions, as ate the pastors- of the Boone, Watauga and Todd charges, . and three courses are being given. Dr. .1. D. Rank in of Boone, acting) i director, is giving the course in J "Principles of Teaching"; Rev. C. S.j Kukpatrick, Mount Airy pastor, isj ! centering his efforts on the "Life} i and Letters of Paul," while Presiding ( Elder Poovey is teaching a survey of the Old Testament. Forty-eight I. I, j p . .1 j i.iivu- wewTi eiirouuu jui creux., in tne t j school and perhaps another dozen t '.air auditing the courses. One class . is being conducted at the church at t night, and two at the college in the . afternoon. The credits are accepted . by the hoards of education of the ' Methodist and Presbyterian-churches r and arc standard in Sunday School work. This is the fourth school of this kind which has been sponsored by the local church. Dr. Chandler Conducts j Series Revival Services; ' sK&riTW Sml We c'Vlft I t Dr. 0. J. Chandler, pastor of the Boone Methodist Church, conducted a series of revival services at the noon hour and in the evening during last wcekr; and the attendance was] satisfactorily laige. The fine Gospel] messages were well received, and one j member was added to the church at j the Sunday services. More are expected to unite next Sunday as a ve-| suit of the week's services. vmr.iNiA i?4irc? tut? BRIDE OF J. EDGAR BROWN News reaches Boone ol* the mar-j riage in York, S. C., Easter morningi of Miss Virginia Walker to Mr. Edgar Brown of Boone. The contracting parties are widely known here, I the bride a daughter* of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Walker of Fayetteville, is a student at the Normal College, and has a large circle of friends. The groom ia a son of Attorney and Mrs. John E. Brown, of this city, was reared here, and is favorable known throughout this section. SEN. PERSHING'S ION OF WORLD WAR ga Democrat has secured for exclu ete text or General Pershing's copyov more particularly the story of d-wiae conflict. The first instalment f the story which was first released or publication in the metropolitan ewspapers a few weeks ago, is caried on page three of this issue, and iadery will be partial to General Petting's fairness as weli as.fearlessness ) colorfully portraying the part that tr.orics playcd in time of war. The tory will be carried front week to eek until completed. The publishers hope that readers ill avail themselves of the opportun,y of absorbing the first-hand inforlation in this greatest story ever andled by a country journal, howver, should a copy be left unread for ny reason, the instalments are more r less complete each within itself, he Pershing story is well worth the rice of subscription for a whole 1 weeks. It is suggested that school rents to read the story, and get the d therein. Turn to page -three now! .. . -v -V - iasggl sa : . .v-;- -u. - . JCRA sst North Carolina Ml Si ? | Important Farm IV t 1" | To Be Held Satui g v ^ \ ^ [ Every Farmer vnSo expet-'rff.J I have potatoes, cabbage or 5 J 1 j to sell this year is urged to a ^ 1 i a meeting at the courthoui ; Boone on Saturday, April 1? j Th j ^lock p. m. -- J 'T-Se Watauga Marketing Comj mittce, recently formed, has, it is j j stated, worked out a very satis| factory means of marketing everyj thing that can be grown in the j county this year, but it is entirely | up to the individual farmer wheth- |j0 I cr or not this plan is accepted. 0f I If w--. 1? *i--? ? I -- ? ? ? \N I have a market for your products q*( j this fall, it is to your interest to |,e attend this meeting, no matter how small the quantity you may \\' grow. The committee urges that nf> ail growers be on hand. ! th, i j Ke ! fe| ZionviHe Man Produces Huge Crop Stock Beets J"' in Rev. Ft. C. Eggers, Baptist minis- the ter of Zionville, planted a quarter- hei acre of ground to stock beets last a r year, harvested two hundred and of twenty bushels of beets, and on these; km wintered two cows. This is what the | >iv< gentleman has to say about beet cul-j ; ; in | "Last year I raised two hundred j pa, and twenty bushels of stock beets [ mc ion what I guessed to be one-fourth j ha, of an acre. These have come in very m#] I handy for our two cows this long; a|p winter; they have clone well on them j ^el and have given plenty of good milk. *0\ It takes hut little ground and a bagi ej0 for two cows; it involves little work ; to get them started and then they ?a go well. I have raised them for tour ^ or five years, and would not think cf of leaving them off now. Clij "Mr. Farmer, if you will put in |)0, stock hrwil-Q Hinf I'Ol., "'1'- ?1 -- ? ...... v~ vHSv .1 tur RUlUCn l/lOVj tf0l you usually plant to corn which is; ert most always gone by the first of | 0f January, thev will do your cows ten| times more good than the corn would.'. ** I had rather have my stock heet patch, ?? of last yaai than to have an acre of any man's eonw They are good for sheep, also for chickens, and are hard to freeze. They are the last thing to 8 yj freeze in the cellar; will also keep buried like potatoes." ^ Bethel School Closes Most Successful Term tr' j 50 Bethel Junior High School closed last Saturday what is looked on as the most successful terra in its history, and patrons of the Reaver Dam institution are loud in their praise tea of the principal, Mr. J. Andrew Morgan, whose diligent work has put tui Bethel "on the map." On Friday evening, the elementary j school presented a very clever yro-? j graiffl all grade pupils being used.j,{?< Orf-aatuvday morning the graduation' ] exercises were held. At this time the I de< | seventh-grade certificates and junior! i high diplomas wove presented. In the' |nj: | absence of the speaker, Mr. Morgan', j made a brief talk on 4 T $1.5U PEU YEAR R&&&DAYWAT iATURDAY VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK e Former Miss Mary Beach of North Wilketboro Succumbs from Sudden Stroke. Funeral Services and Interment at Cove Creek Sur.day. Several Small Children Survive Watauga Lady. Mrs. S. E. Day. of North Wilkes ro, the former Miss Mary Beach Boone, died at her home in North ilkesboro Saturday morning at S :lock, a few minutes after having en stricken with an attack of the art. The remains were returned to atauga Sunday rnorninv anil +V ral services were conducted froru i Cove Greek Baptist Church Ivy ivs. McKaughnVand Hicks, and inorient was in the nearby cemetery. Mrs. Day was the daughter of the e Mr. and Mrs. A. \V. Beach, Waiga residents, was horn and reared Boone, and with the exception of past five or six years, had spent r entire life on native soil. She was nember of the First Baptist Church this city for many years, was well own throughout this region and cd an exemplary life. Mrs. Day's death is the fifth withher immediate family during the si twelve-month period, father, tlier, husband and sister-ia-Iaw ring preceded her by only a few >nths. Her husband, Edward Day, o a Wataugan and World War be ran, succumbed during last 'icier from a gunshot wound inflictat the hands of Sewell Webster of rth Wilkcsboro. Surviving are five small children, pi. Junior, Lewis, Helen and Mar i; one sister, Mrs. P. H. Hodges Boone, and the following broth : Willard Beach of North WiikesV <>. Carl and Thomas Beach of one, Enzot* of Ricli Mountain. Ev)? t w. I. " .... M Ulltl iUUCtt Springfield, 111. leather Man Hands Out Hectic 'Box-score' Rain, snow, sleet, mud, slush, fog:, nider. lightning. freeze thaw, id. frost and what-ha\o-you?these some of the things Unit coin pose weather chart compiled by Obver .f. T: l\ Wright for the week ding April 1, which f.dlows in fuHi Average maximum temperature, degrees. Average mini mum temperature, 32 frees. Average temperature. 41 degrees Average daily range in tempera*e. IS degrees. Greatest daily range in tempera- . V; ce, 28 degrees; date, April 3rd.' Average temperature at t> p. m. me of observation), 42 degrees. Highest temperature reached; 59' frees; date April 3rd. Lowest^ temperature reached, 27 frees; date. Match ,30th. Number inches of rainfall (unhidi melted snow)., 2.29, Number inches of snowfall, 3.50. Greatest rainfall in 24 hours, 1-17; te, April 1st. Number of days with 0.01 inch or >re rainfall, 4. Number of clear dai-s, I. Number of cloudy days, 5. Number of partly cloudy days, 1. Direction of prevailing wind, westDates. of sleet, March 31st and iril 1st. Dates of fogs, March 29, 30, and ?ril 1st. Dates of thunderstorms, April 3rd ight). Other phenomena described as folvs: Solar halo March 30; high wind, w;il 1st. lack Diamond Pick Attracts Attention The story recently carried by The atauga Democrat regarding the lo1 manufacture of Black Diamond al miners* picks, has created much ;evest among readers, especially in > mining regions, nad the concern receiving many inquiries. One of sse; Mr. W. E. Gragg, of Bob.vn, Pa., an employee of one of i biggest coal corporations of the untry, is extremely interested in t newly-patented instrument and ites for prices and demonstration )ls. He believes that the new pick will popular and is anxious to try it actual mining operations. Mr. J. Sproles, principal stockholder of i new firm, asks us to state that a v* iI'I 11 Un oAnf rKA^fKf f/i' >us most important coal camps of ? country, placing- the picks and sing orders, and it is expected that s demand will be heavy. Produc- ? n, however, will he made to keep dl ahead of orders at all times, d modern equipment and a good rce of men will be added when the plement is approved. U. D. C. MEETING Mrs. Tracy Councill will be hostess the members of Watauga Chapter, D. C., at her home in Cherry Park . xt Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. ^ full attendance is urged.