& - - MM .*
TWO
farm population:
in state shows a;
substantial cain
Federal Figure* Show Increase u
Nearly One Hundred Thousand in
Piii Ten V't?jirs. Former Governor
Angues W. MacLean Reveals icifirestmg
Figures on Back 10 Farm
Jlalwsh. N. 0.?"While the fa mil
puliation of the United States as a
whole has >:eoree.-t i more than a
tuiliior in the last decade. farm pofr
ulatton in Xorth Unreliaa increased
luaiK li'-.-.t'Ot)," (achoitling- to a
stare went made fe'ct.e .-atuctlay by
forme: (ii- . ir 1 \\V. .Macl.f nr.
I "The total number of fHmtei-s re-!
tii stMff. sccoroins; to thej
lute) f..-<iotaI ee.-ntty made}
: ui.siV, v.-as S ."Oiht'TS. vvhoitSjas ten
year? ago it -vr.e l.oCl.ilftr. This
is. n -.ite: i.-.ijy iu.'niiliy ear, considertr-,
. r ..".liens ar-.i that fact that oniy
!.' state? out or? the t*l aetaaily
sr.o-.eeo an inctcasit dtis ir.g that pe'
ruifhev. the grin v,e;.- made in
actitai faith phjlii'stioh mostiy arid
not it; rhe fe-called vuynl :wn-farrrir.jr
pepei.:'.: :-:i. rUin-tigi: there was
cn mfcreas-.1 ?f 191. >02 in triav ctns'
sift shiywinp thai there nrei
... ... . : ; I, |
iuurc i ^ ?
the country arid v. vkw.c in the iiUe . .
than 11 ' A . I
"These facts .V.r that th# j
move.iatut .ihvmihe cities and iw^i'
in Xorih Caf^Liria started prior to;
: 1 iAO. Since there has been a j
subsumlm! inc. eu.-;.- -t; \ne movement.
if the number of farms that ; >
arc bv'ur n arc hast ' is any indie a-,'
lion. Th..- sale of faiv.-. ho?<ev ;?j<
not n;together a cctti.io to the move- :
incut from the. towns and cities to '
hi- country, ft>r !v;ry ?.!* th.jgsiny
made at the moment time arc ]
to farmers who have decided that J
land is r.ow a bargain and so ?H*. '
jmrchasinvr ajtditfoj&l acreage ovp
farm;-. Themis.?. a ..
incr:ea?t in ih?? ram'.;,.. yf younvi
pic raised .> rhe farm and facomif r
o, of rVnird^ ape-, and this'in?1
h itself would. _:o far towaid accaipr-;JfKiv
in& fo.-, ihe larger numo,ev:cyi- iriilivUbs;
-j-iaVs fcfcv -iarms hf: Nonh fT^ikdhta o->ic.-|
L . .paved with a decade ape -1'
y':.tv-hi; Irie.devai census
turns r< vcn'Ty- roii asod show a
chrr \7t :'.;rh7 p riilafioa oyer a .m - j
i rio<J of ton years, other Cfhfcus
frd V : . ure^ jut ' '-hoarty.mn&,b#)iY\,?? !
1 a : !.. .a _'.e>r? pel - a> i :
iy left the towns a:>: oirk-s to farm?j .
the largest mm --me'it <*t this kind;
: since the povvminc-ni be can t?V re-j
cord such shifts i:i 1 iv22h-t?urhjp '.'neb
; last year, rite <-xedus from the farms;
was reported ah only -laT.ih'O."In
the do pi essjor.S of ? ?.; and.
1895 niar.y farrrieis bought fav.my in]
their ne'rghhnrhoodf. hi some m-j
stances, the javnsers seljinp remained i
on the farms as tenants. Later, in1
the prosper./us times of lSt'T, many
of the tenants were a hie to purchase ;
farms. Many an investor in farms in;
the early nineties ! : - Lasts of a j
handsome pyofi ich he was abb- 1
to realise oppn in later years, in tlA
present situation we probably haye.)
a duplication of the conditions bfi
and ISO5. Land prices are vcUj
ht-.vely tow for pi-ice? have declined
probably ir, the neighborhood of 35
: to -15 per cenb t- vonipaved with the
peak ftp-ores imm.-'lat'eiy after the
fwav. anA. in some instance-:, in some
localities. tiioy ore -m a pre-war level..
Tins, oner mor.- they are on a level
which if a't/.tetite to tie myeslpir.
While prices of farm products- right
now may pk'rhide any expe tatron
of great profit for -cme iirfv- lane.
? it is evident that there are ninny peo-j
| p'e -.-ho once move regard farm ovvri-f
ership or- a gejip-bb.- scdiice of iitt'uipe]
and arc nareaasii, v iond.
"In addition .o the farmers -.di.i.
Ks are buying land, many -a:?, ore n-.&dvj
to city and town people. Many b '
these are former fsrrm.fi or sons ofj
farmers who qn-t farming a fcv.- j
?... years ago when jobs in the tttiesj
f ' were . plentiful and wages hies, ami!]
who-have come -,hp. -oreliision rhat
f|: filers- is more net .film over a ieof
year-?, on the average. in La-thing
than in city ... : 1 r.- -n -. even with
"farm commodity prices a: low levels.
On the farm they are assured of a
- living, good r-helter and an opportutt-J
ity to make mmure. Those- who
are returning ft the farm under pveslv"
en: condition.- should look around
and get a vivid and lasting impression
of the disaster which ha-- been ;
brought about by the formerly prevailing
practice of specialization on
a single crop without first making
sure of a good living by raising food
crops."
WINSTON-SALEM MAN BERATES
JUDGE AFTER LONG SENTENCE]
Winston-Salem, _N. 0.?Convicted I
of the second-degree murder of his]
wile. ?... (J. C-rahiield. 33, war- sentenced
to serve 30 years in the State
Prison late Friday in Forsyth Superior
Court here.
I?IB Ac hp W!1C Kpirirr \c2. fi'C.T. tllC COUl't
room after Judge John H. Clement
had given him the maximum sentence
for murder in the second degree,
Cranfield shouted to the judge, "Why
didn't you make it 40?" Judge Clement
did not comment.. I
; Cranfield shot his wife to death
at the home of Percy Newsom near
here last month.
4 Testifying in his own behalf, Thursday,
the defendant denied he intended
to kill his spouse, stating that he
i was shooting at Percy Newsom with
whom he had engaged in an argu||
ment a few minutes before the trag
? T exas
O
order to keep tbc price <
oil '.veils and set its famous rail
rteavy Laying Fowls
Require Green Feed
Plenty of !?ryeu teed for the ilock:
>f hens going into iay this fall orf
vmtr> wirf out. down tup eonsinnpi/sor
f mash ah'd grain arid will form <?n*
>t the nir.>t economical parts of the
v.]: - y option.
"Green feed is valuable for it:
ivinev^I and vilantin donten; as we!
x? for its ia.\5tiv?.' effect v.u'. put i
1 fy." says N. Wl Williams, poultry
-- - - - .
ptem.- :=' ":u poultry plant tn
i*ir?"* fh>* iiig h?r-s having at- i s
L .I a':! the g' I! teed thl?}f WU tit
?UT?i?iV;i:i :?; iggs with a nru>i'o u.ti
Loral s:l-- . ICS iv- Ivt yolks 01 fbi
jgp-s art darker and the fit..! va'u<
J i - S. - , . in.'- *H< ft: iS
-asimtai iV'Viii'.n tu' dark emit fair
tut 1 he v. t.-K-it.:*. i auiLi ner&eii knoiv
' r ;; HOT a li'Lli V111 j O'.'vloll.
Alfalfa and cliywrs ifVakti the Otis
rii} - fof Joying hetts, Mr. \\h
ILira - Uy?- and erassci!, a-u-a;
it Kentucky blue grass. arc rel
ished mm o, but, it is necessa! v t
have ?.nit; k'tad oi gsorn feed to
Ke?: . ..c production. The bulky for
age helps in c < crafting certain type
i ivi'lc stinal diciurbam-es as woH a
si,Paying the growth-producing vita
msns.
Mr. Williams says that climatic cor
dittous are such in thin State thi
there is no valid excuse for the pou
tryman failing to supply green fee
during a greater part of the yeai
The triple-yarding system may b
used for this purpose. One yard i
seeded to permanent pasture, arid th
thei two planted to temporary crop
For the permanent pasture, a'.falf
and -shite clover are reeommehde
and for the temporary grazing, sy
grass and rape make rapid growt
and are appetizing to the hens. 1
Wealhei conditions are such that th
birds cannot graze, the green fee
should be cut and carried to th
houses at the late of four or iiv
pounds to each htfncred birds.
42-YEAR-OLD MULE DIES
Durham, X. ft ?Kate, a i'2-ycai
old malt-, which far .17 vents, ;
trie sei-xlct of U'KversUy. nn
Jnii ir'he su:;.wjic-c* by three.-year
hai*n----- rr. Kit, who shave
hiir .buriii^tKov years. For 'SQii'j
mpiiths K;\:c ha- been pastured o
th^VicId' Vvashinrrven I>.:ke iionieiste*
rea* \ ' iy
* Faithful Brushing
t For Glorious Hair
I ^
| WkabtiA
J Regular daily brushing cannot
? help but have its reward in a
glorious wealth of hair.
I Klenzo brushes with their speX
ciaiiy prepared yiaiww are
? guaranteed to stand the serv
r ice demanded hy thorough daily
+ brushing?. Start the brushing
2 treatment today with a Klenzo
brush.
0
% Sold only at Rexail Drug
^ Stores.
1 BOONE DRUG CO.
| f The REXALL, Store
THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT??Y
Rangers Padlock State's O
01! up the Lone Star State has chained
lce.-s to guard then;.
Negro Farmer Looks
S Two Seasons Ahead
Raleigh, X. C.?A Xorlh Carolina
x I man \vht>s? work causes hint to visit
i; many fariHit both';'/in this State ahw y
-! in Southern Virginia tells the follow
r ing stoty:
"Kecent.'y a negro farmer. namedj
si W; D. Hieks, in Powhatan County,
j j Virginia. was showing me the won-;
. I devfu: ?t re of products ho. h;: .
. canned lor hoRlp "so-. 1 >oropimrcit'
_ ed him mid asktro. "Do you do this
. | over;.- year." boss. ! does ey-I
cry yeatyt he ...plied. 'An' it's whir
_ I keeps nnj off o' the cross."
|i "Mis '.i; l o" tiie cross" was a term,
, ,1 had never heard before. 1 aske-.
j the old unlit \vhat h-.- meant by it. j
' I nu-ans ".bis here Rt'.l Crass. 1
. tit tin': have I - i oat a thing for me. As
.. the uther nJot:to - 'round here hir1
t?. ire on it ills', year.' lit deeltiycd.
t " 'As the ticaught do- troyeri r.l! o
yaur crops, too, hew'd you keep fron.
j havinjj to ftet help from the Re.:
Crass ." i ilujtrred.
, " fit's this way.' the old man ex
ria.niHi. '! learned pSjfe ago that, thi
pood i.ore sometimes sends drought
? j and sometimes sends flood. Ami
'count o' that, I always puts up food
Cot two yeans ahead. I had plenty
hist year front what I put up thci
, year before and I'll uut up enough;
j. j this year to last me two years.'
I "I looked through his stores a I'd
; found he had filled 350 glass coil
. 1 tamers, mcst cf them of a lia'.f-gallon
sizn eaeh, with all kinds of fruits
. ami vegetables. He was planning to
put tip much mote and a lot of sau,
; sage before the year ends. '1 never
^itake out -he last can of anything
. j 'til I have filled a new can with the
' i same thing.' he told roe.
? "He thu-- avqs kept 'off .<>* the!
^ i cross,' as he picturesquely phrased
^!ihis escape from dependence on char?
ity in 11/30.
"I rath'Or think that there's a liVs- 11
for white folks, particularly
e! farmers, in that, negro's experience."'
I TIRE SEN SAT!
| Cff~
j
i gasTq
i CEN'
11 A. E. Hodges, Ma
Sg
N
up the pumps on hundreds of
Prof. Edwin Greenlaw
Passes at Chapel Hi!
Chattel ffiH, X. C.---Ed\vin Green
. .. one of the most distiij^ufebci
i!: scholars in America. and foi:
nui dean of the graduate school a
the U n verstty of North Carol)
Ted ;.?* a heart, attack at his h?:.m
lieio 'i'h:p -(i;\y nigfct alter an illr.es
tasting Severn! months.
f'rofevsor Gi e en lav- v.as the auiho
of a 11 iimber of textbooks anions th
: knowiS of >vh;eh was "Th
Groat Tradition/' He- \vss also :
d authority on the life an
: 1 1 Kdma nd iSner.cer.
Professor Gro.-niaw v.as associate
with thi: University unfit 102F> a
'A^iyh tir.U' hii jairi'ii the faeaity a
- Ivns Hopkins. H'< to Nori
Carolina from Adolpfci ."College i:
Brooklyn in j'M'.'. j|e first served a
head 01' the En?rSish department, la
r?r lifinpr made dear. of. the :?riid:i
ate school. ; , /' . ' -C'.
W.? : ;...., i... I h
. jl - >. T|?v;i inrytt i!l JlKSJjy
for many uhmiUik and had been i
ixot Spnr.Jrs ArkV., in an, effort t
regain life strena?th- vot^tnmg; onl
recently to his home itr Chrtpv'l 1111
Hi's health v:*> fcgttcvcd to hove bee
considerably improved utitii the su<
den heart attack ThursdayClemency
Strikes S. C.
Murderer Speechles
, ^ Co!umbia>
S. C.?News of exec?
tivc clemency, brought to Lutlji
Graham in a death eel! at the Stai
Penitentiary Friday, just 14 hou
before he was to have been electr
cuted, left the 28-year-old Hon
County man temporarily speechles
Graham's death sentence impose
for the slaying of Sam Singleto
his brother-in-law, was commuted. i
life imprisonment by Governor Ibi
G. Blackwood on recorame ndaticms :
the pardon board.
Shortly after Governor Blockwni
had noted, Captain Olin Sanders, ?
Oevee
iOVEMF
ER PM
Slyle
(1 belter ill 1
p. i, . ueiv Goodyear AIM
O " builds MILLIONS J
than on any other !
4.40-21
(20x4-40) & *
4.50-21 *7
' (30x4.50) i
4.75-19 O
^5 (28x4.75) **
1
ILSrGR?ASING,WAS
TRALTl
nager
ERT THURSDAY? BO0NB. N. a
11 Wells j
O
'
Jllj tfomOi
ItciKi from Tfce D^roocrat of j ei
September 15, 1892
Treawfer W. E. Greene raised a F
1 I loroalo which weighed IS evinces. vi
Mv. John S. Williams be gran school n
'at Shulh Mills Monday. ' it
} Coffey Brothers of Boone cut and s1
j put up 185 stacks of hay this sum- < ]
j mer. r:
Caiitain E. F. Lorfll and J_ C. ! fi
jFletcher have formed a co-partnership j h
j in the fcSjw. Mr. Fletcher is boarding | II
j at the Bryan house. i ti
Mrs. N. M. Rorton and Mr. Pat lb
! Cottreli of Caldwell are teaching a j n
I class in the National Garment Cut-' e
ting System a* the Bryan house. ! si
> Mr. L. L. Greene is making some i\
j improvements on the postoffico ir. n
; Boone. He is fitting- up a nice office ji
in the store room of the building in p
which the office has been kept for t'
{ the past three years .It is gratifying 3!
; to Know that Miss Nannie Hodges <
j has been employed as clerk ?n the k
office: !<
On <aal Thursday on the lands of
. Mr. Bradley in Georges Gap of this c
the penitentiary, accompanied by the*;?*
chaplain, a guard and a newspaper
man, went to Graham's solitar;.1
Cell.
Affei exacting from Graham a
promise that he would be a "good,! *
prisoner/! Captain Sanders told him |?
Ijhis sentence had beeii commuted. ?
The 28-year-bld man twice at'.i
J tempted to speak, but no articulate
ji sound came from his throat. After d
...i gulping and swallowing several times [\
tf.hr finally said; ^
Thank the good Lord; He spared
?i r:
j Automo,b;)e aceijj^jtU took it rec- j j.
! ortl tol! ?.f 31.273 lives tioriii); >a*t!
i ,voar. I *
I At New Lc
Duri
j Court 1
8 ALSO SOME RAR
i USED FU*
JEASY
TERMS TO RES
I High Land F
"EVERYTHING Ft
a DEPOT STREET
A H
SfflE^*i7S^i'7A>!w7rm7iiirn?mM?MM5SB?MMSiS
.,? \m
CED! if ore Miles lore
Value for your Dollars
] ways, yet it costs you less than ever! Tli
Feather is a value possible only because C<
iIOKE tires and more people ride on Go<
tires.
?$ ?5g $ 9.15
85 9.40
55 $5S 10.80
U*j inu^ . g'UM !!"? JBBW?WBBX3B&?.
^ING ANDPOLISHING Si
RECOMP
Boone and B
; - /
SEPTEMBER IT, B ,
wEattyFikr. I
Minty. Harrison Lee. living on oiie- f|B f
de of the mountain. and a Mi*. 3#
eatherscn living or. the other side, ^8
ere both out squirrel hunting.
either one knowing hi- ?
i the woods. Lee say/ a squirrel arui ffi
:arted to shoot it. hot pv:. JB \
harped itself before he pot it in jn
'.'<* with his game. When the pun $8
red Lee saw a man throw up Ms |gg|
anas una lau irom a large rock. &HK
fe went to the in an and discovered >w
mt hi was shot in the back of the fSB
each the wound causing almost ira- '9
nth. Lee ran to the near- /raj
-r bouse and to id of the eimgu- :?
tahev and or. investigation ii wa.n '
>und t" i?e >i:. Fcath. rson ffi
carby. Ah hiqimst w:e hi hi
try decided that, the killing 21
nrely accidental. Lee was arrested 9H
le next day and tried before ! '
last and Harbin, in;' m; v ,i|
iselo.-ed any farts that 5.re die :he hjl
illmg intentionally, and was u-- ?B
a--ed. Mr. I' aMiorson formerly v?. ^9
(led in Garten County and was bM|
eti'Uy married in. that county. ^
I DESIRE TO DIE YOUNG/ %
SUICIDE WRITES IN NOTF. gj
New Orleans.?Austin Parker. 40- L;j*
ear "hi bond sa: snian, was ?
hot : ? di alii, a pistol at his /a; . , a
is apartment, here .Salunlay. '3
ound in the a par mom said he had M
lived a hard life and a good S
nd I desired t?? die you rig," and iv- ffl
uested that he be event a ted ami Ms Jfi
she's scattered over the fields of i,;3B
lonth Carolina. M
FritSIs said he was a member of
socially prominent family of Greenfile,
5. C., where an estrange <1 w :! . ?
ived. lie had resided here for ;r-\- Kg
ral years. ^
xttm-hi mvgffigK ?fi
>w Prices !
! I
ng 1 1
9 '.s
k/Veek! 1
E BARGAINS IN
INITURE
PONS I BEE PARTIES
urniture Go.
OR THE HOME"
BOONE, N. CAR.
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is great
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$S2c00
6.00-20 |1 ffffc
(32x6.00)
6.00-21 OA
(33x6.00) *
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lowing Rock, N. C.
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