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liOOXK. WATAUGA COUNTY. TIUIirSDAY. JULY H 1 i 1 1 .
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FOR FLETCHER'S
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BOONE FURNITURE
COMPANY.
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IJuil ling. Wry renpt'ctfiilly,
BOONE FURNITURE CO
PROFESSIONAL
VETERINARY SURGERY.
I have been putthiR much study
on this subject; have received my
diploma, and mil now well equipped
for the practice of Veteri ary Sur
gery in all Its branches, and am the
only one in the county. Call on or
address me at Vilas, C. R. F. D. 1.
. H. HAYKS,
Veterinary Surgeon.
0-17-'ll.
Dr. E M. MADRON
DENTIST. -Sugar
drove. North Carolina,
frsiTAll w ork doue under guar
antee, and best material used.
413-'ll.
Dr. NAT T. DULANEY.
- SPECIALIST -On
lNTicuNAL Medicine and
diseases of the Eyk, Eak, nose
and Thkoat. Eyes examined
for glasses.
At Miuntnin City first Mon
day in ech month.
36 Fourth St. Bristol, Tenn.
L, l). LOWE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BANNER ELK, N. C.
tWi!l practice in the courts
Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining
counties. 7-6.'io.
EDMUND JONES
LAWYER
-LENOIU, xN. (),-
Mill Practice Regularly in
the Courts ot Watauga,,
.5-1 ,io.
F. A. LINNEY,
-ATTORNEY AT LAW -
BOONE, N. C.
Will practice in the courts of
the 13th .Judicial District in all
matters of a civil nature.
6-11-1910.
J. C. FLETCHER,
Attorney At Law,
. BOONE, N. C.
Careful attention given to
ollectiona.
W R LOVILL
ATTORNEY AT LAW,-
liOOXK, N. C.
. iSrSppcial attention given
o nil hnsinfisa entrusted to
7-9-'10
E. S. COFFEY
- iTlOIMEl Al LAW
BOONE, N. C.
Prompt attention given to
til matters of a legal nature.
8 Abstracting titles and
collection ot claims a, special
.5f.
l-l'll.
A1IERESH0K WELCOME.
I'.'U. .v iiur id tlm iiiIilrpwH fit
welcome delivered lfor- t h e the wod is of for-un oriyin mil ( nlniosi every citizen in it. The; In arguing lefoie thppxpcutive : IMnud lloone, wef.uicy.dreini
North Carolina Pres Aoria-; has no In linn meaning, lmt Lan- iiiouiitHin.r8 loyalty in nn in cunmitt e of Hip North drolina 1 ed the night lit reted m the top
tion in Booi.e l.v Solicitor l A. iden ('. Ilavne.. in his l dutiful npimti. n. With its "wealth of P.ess Association for Inoir as of the Blue Ridge, between the
Linnev:
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Ladies niid Oeiitle'iien. Yis'ning ;
niPinlxTS of tiie North Carolina i
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HHMtcbttion h no! pros for all
thiir inisdemeaiior while in the
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th" stat could easily make that.
pruinise to tin eilitors oi .o;in
Carolina without the least dan
ger 'f having to Mot his docket.
We wi leome you high up in our
mount ains, close to the kuh m
His burning, where the altitude
chnnz'-s the heat of the noonday
nun into the Boft mellow light of
the twilight; where the tempered
light of the forest is like a perpet
ual morning: where the pressure
from without is the least and t lie
presure from within the greatest
and the soul becomes self express
ive.
May vour visit be a pleasure
and profit to you and to us. The
dwellers in "this i-ave country
have been cut off and isolated
from the other parts of oursta'.e
until we have become strangers.
Our people know more of Nash
yille than th-y do of Raleigh;
Chattanooga than they do of
Greensboro, and we did know
more of Britol than we did of
Salisbury even before Prohibi
tion went into eff ft. Let me
tell you something about this
great cave country of ours. It is
rich in mythology, rich in his
tory, in citizenship and in her
Treat natural resources.
At the time of Revolution this
sci tioti of the state wis in the
boundary of the Cherokee coun
try. It is true in all history that
w here Nature over-ub 'Hinds,
where Natineexcills, mythology
is richest. Cherokee tradition is
filled with it. They were the
Mountaineers of the Indians, nnd
we find amongtheir many myths
that when the Cherokees first
came to these mountains, they
found them inhabited b.v a race
of small men, white men, and
these were moon eyed; could only
see at night. lean believe that
these mountains were onceinhab
ited by au earlier white race, but
I cannot believe that they were
The God of Mercy
would never create a race of
white men and place them in
these mountains and clo.-e their
eyes to the glory of a Summer's
day. If they were created moon
eyed they were not deprived of
the power to see by dav, but
were so made that they might be
hold the splendor of these grand
mountains by night and by day.
la the earlier days of our histo
ry the Blue Ridge marked the
boundary line of the Cherokee
country and the advance line of
settlement. The unsettled condi
tion of Indian titles made this
the border of "No-man's Land,"
and this was the Indian battle
ground both with themselves and
the advance guard of Western,
settlement. When Daniel Boone
left his home on the Yadkin and
followed this stream ro its head,
he came to the crest of the Blue
Ridge and up this beautiful val
ley, and here to our right under
that old oak, built his cabin.
The fact that Rooseyelt does
not mention this is not proof
positive that he was not here.
From here this restless, roving,
wandering spirit, whose neigh
bors were always agreeable be
cause he had none, pushed his
way through the hostile Indians,
by knotting them lietter than
they knew themselves, to t h e
banks of the beautiful Watauga.
The publications of the Bureau '
il mi-iiciiii l"t li m il.i"' V x.l H I li 11 1
jtribute Paul the mountains of
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East Tpiii.csse.sn.vsthat it means
'U'.iutifnl river." Down t h i h
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"iip - uiiiiili river isoone ie i inn , "t BiHiwanwiiui uuiwm m,
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:f,urteeii mmilips from uke;a"'i tne ataut:u can mippiy
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ivt'unijf ciiiti, i-tri iiinfA
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i',","-.,nnj;H 0f th s stream. thes- pen-
pie lv-oaMie the firt of the Wn-
tan,rn ,.tilers. Joined by Spvier
, . .pta,. ir... im.n'ma th.. !
ifournifta f the Wat'iuga com
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monwealth.
Let mo tell 'ou something of
this Wat in sa Association. DM
you know that they were the
first men of American birth to
establish a fre nnd independent
community on this continent?
Did you know that they were
the first American-born frepmen
to adopt a written constitution?
Cut off from North Carolina by
the mountains they were too far
away from her protection, with
families to protect from t h e
scalping knife, Indians to fiirht,
oultlaws to control and a wilder
ness to subdue, they learned to
rely upon their own independent
strength. They formed their writ
ten constitution in the early
spring of 1772, made their laws
and governed themselves. They
directed the course of Empire to
wards the West and le 1 the way.
They af'erwards followed Sevier
to King's Mountain. They stamp
ed forever a distinctive charac
ter upon the mountaineer. To
day we find the same kind ol
brave, free and independent men
inhabiting these mountains.
I am glad that the editors of
North Curoliim limccome to vis.
it this county. I want you to see
our county and to knowourpeo
ple better. We are soiueti mes un
justly assailed. When you know
tin true conditions the p-opleof
North Carolina und every part
of it, have no more loyal friend
than the pres of the State. A
government agent has sent out a
recent report that dm done great
injustice to this people. Wesome-
times Hud that our section of the
state has been slandered by some
over-zealous who hope to make
gain by false report. It has been
reported that an ex governor of
North Carolina, for missionary,
not mercenary, purposes, has
stated that children in this coun
ty had to walk many miles to
school, ragged and hungry and
that churches were so scarce that
many people had never heard of
Christ. One ex-governor of North
Carolina was hanged. May this
one "profit by his example. If
this be treason inuke the most
of it."
Go back and tell that we are
not objects of charity. All we
ask is tobe given a4i equal chance
with the other counties ol the
Stale. While by state aid, other
counties of the state have been
traversed with railroads, what
ever cost that has been attached
to it, we. for years, have been
paying our lull share, while
we have always been forced to
take the greater part ol our pro
ducts to other states to market.
Think of it, there is not a foot of
rail pond in this Senatorial dis
trict. I believe that it is the only
senatorial district in the state,
in the nation and possibly in the
world with out a railroad. Go
back and tell that we haye not
onlv a great wealth of scenery
nnrt climate, but that we raise
wheat, buckwheat, corn, cabbage
just at a tune w nen yours are
rrmiP rve. manle sugar, outs, hay
and that our fields are alive with
ana I HlUUr liems nicnii.-s iinu,
, -xxi . c -.,.i.
s leep ana rum-- reuujr JUi omu..
ter These products the other
parts ot our stare need. Help us
to get a railroad into this county
nnd turn our trade where it, be
longs. As this county is the highest,
it U th rt of the nritiutain!
count ies. Tliii I i-nri iirnvp l.v I
j ii'. i.tuii m iii'-i
of water pocr. The New River,
the o .ly liver East o! the Rock-
I; .i " ...a
itimatH ha un iitiliuiit..l nupply
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Kwer enougii to tunievery pm.
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uie in in ciaie. nere we nuve
u New England climate m Bight
f the cott-jn ti.lds. Here the
ht-nlth of the eninluve is assured
hiltli of the employe is assured
is assured. With railroad devel-
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opement these industries are
ours.
With abundant wealth of nat
ural resources and native energy
to develop it, we have a citixen
fchip that cant bn surpassiii.
Were 1 nsked how to make the
best and most perbct type of
American citizen, a brave, true,
courageous, independent man. I
would unhesitatingly say make
him a land owner, a land lord.
For then whenever our institut
ions were assail d he would rally
to t heir d fence, because they are
his institution made to govern
his home andhiscountry. When
the flag is assailed, wherever his
services are needed, he fights not
only for the common good of a
gre it country, but lor his coun
try, for he owns it. It is his and
he rejoices in his dominion. In
the mountains this is OUR land.
The voting population in the
couty is a littleover t wen ty three
hundred. There are a little over
twenty five hu idred separate
ownei-b ol farms in the comity.
Almost every voter owns a farm
and some of those who vote the
voter. If any of our visitors lire
looking to thin nidi it the lon
lor a fair one, you will not only
get a mountain treasure but a
farm with her.
The native energy of these
mountains is being turned to the
d'-vi'lopmont of native intellect.
This splendid institution, con
ceived in the minds of the Dough
erty Brothers, made possible by
the efforts ol this grand oil man
who sits beside me, (Capt. Lovill)
and that one whose picture hangs
there, the next governor ol .Norm
Carolina, (W. C Newland) and
many others whose efforts weap-
preciate, has done a great work
for this section of the State- la
the establishment ot the Appa
lachian Training S -hool for Tea
chers the State bus purchase!
more intellect for the money in
vested than by any other invest
ment it has made. This school
has done more for the rural pub
lic schools of the State in its
short life, than the State Univer
sity, Trinity and all other colle
ges combined in the same length
of time. The collge boy was too
well trained at too great cost to
sit down with a twenty-dollar
school. This school makes hrst
the teacher and then the college
ni in. This school has annually
given to the rural schools about
two hundred teachers. These
have taught Irom fifteen to twen
ty thousand children. We have
in our county seventy-two pub
lic school houses all splendidly
built of sawed and dressed lum
ber, with only one log school
house and this we keep only as a
reminder of the past. Each school
has an average of seventy-five
children, with an average atten
dance of about fifty per school.
It is apparent that no school is
Hnino- r router work than this
one. It has a faculty that is able
to take charge of almost any
college in the State and run it.
w ..a. 4. 4. .
if j nn oii.4v matter to sret tea-
.- .-,, .. tn
; chers here, especially temale tea-
chers. since the president ot the
lice tne iirrnniru ' "v.
i. o , i ... ;.. n
SLIIOIM, J I j ,
old bachelor ol forty years stan-. Remember my promise and re
ding. member, too, that a lawyer nev
Stay with us nntil you know eruroaks his promise.
The Mountain Tour.
'ha r! iilt f'hr illicit.
'"p h-xt place w meeting, me.iwo lauious springs uiar some
CtiK.ilil.iln irmi .u'l I li fr tllA i
e litoM would learn a great ma-1
ny things about t he State they 1
lniil lii.nii in iiriniriinio of nnil
would secure material to keep
them writing for weeks. This ,
inem mu mr niiivn. 1 mr ,
jguaraui. - e was ina-ie good, rwine
J of the editors in the party Ind
l leen to Mowing Hock, but not
j eeii 10 mowing hock, uui. nininiimin neiir ne iuiih iowii oi
joise had liecn over to Boone, Lin i liooue and erected his cabm.The
I... .3 I....... n.AM nv...... ! 'in I
vi'le and Edeiiiout circuit. As a
matter ol course, tne wonuets in
road construction and the mug
niliceuse of the scenery proved a
revelation to them, but best of
was the acquaintance they j
all
niadu with the character of the
men and women who people our
mountains. One writer found
them "rich in health, content
ment and simple abundance."
They are that and more. They
ore people of intelligence, nnd
those who farm know as much
about it as the best farmers in
the country. They ruise the fin
est horses outside of Kentucky
and some as fine as are raised in
that State. Thev are a church-
going people and have attract
ively arranged school houses.
There is no better citizenship in
the world than the mountain peo
pie of North Carolina, nor a citi
zenship that has been so perxist-
ently and so exasperatingly slan
dered by the phony magazine
writers. That is one of the truths
The Chronicle wanted to have re
vealed to the editorsof theState.
For whatever influence it may
ha ve exerted in taking the edi
tors to tlio mountains, it leetn a
buudautly rewarded, for now a
chorus of voices has been raised
for that section of the State and
more attention will be directed
to it than has heretofore been
knowu.
Western North Carolina has
been great I v slandered by var
ious people in being represented
as an ignorant section, luetf
native mountaineers are just as
intelligent as the people are in
any section of North Carolina.
They are pure Anglo Saxon and
and have the native sense They
are building good schools, good
churches and are deeply interes
ted injroads and considering their
great disadvantages they have
done as much, if not more than
any other section of th state in
the way of development. Their
greatest assets are their scenery,
climate and water, and no man
can make this trip from Blowing
Rock to Linville, Edgemont and
Boone without leeling great pride
in being a citizen of North Caro
lina. It was a great trip and one
that will not soon be forgotten.
Lexington Dispatch.
The following weie elected offi
cers of the N. C. Tress Associa
tiontiou at Lenoir:
Mr. J. T. Farriss, editor of The
High Point Enterprise, was elec
ted president of the association
without opposition. J. ll.Caine
of The Asheville Citizen was made
first vice president; II. C Martin
of The Lenoir News, second; and
J. T. Fain of Greensboro tele
gram, third. The present execu
tivecomtnittee, consistingof Maj
ii A London. If. R. Varner, R
M. Phillips. D. T. Edwards and
i? vv Viiippnt. was re-elected bv
acclamttion. .losephus Daniels of
The Raleigh .ews ana uoserver
was elected orator for next year;
i! v Kpn.j-.lpv ol Monroe, histor
ian; and Wm. Laurie Hill, editor
of Our Fatherless Ones, was re
elected poet,
our mountains and our people
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..H irhi n npfP no ns von oiease.
K'lltor StHimi en the Kountaii Tour.
J K ilM;;li 1 aii y Tiin-s
I I t t ll A tlll I tTil i II O if Alir.
tellers would come after him, so
ho pushed on to Had a halloaed
mmil tvlin ii.ilnro uvinlil Limhi
the memory of those days fresh
an I pure against nil the world.
u 1 -n;aiii-u n um unu.
j Aim 1 mis it was mat ne moppe.i
j near a big spr. ading oak that
Utauds near the little town of
1'........
'cabin has gone these many years,
but the taithlul oak stands to-
day, marked us a silent sentinel
to warn future generation i to
ever stand for that liberty which
was no dear to the people of that
noble pioneer.
That the spirit of Boone etill
lives in the breasts of those , no
ble mouutain jieople was beauti
fully shown on this memorable
occasion when the guardian of
the pivsi were gathered in tins
little mountain town to partake
ol their good things and to see
what the good state of North
Carolina is doing for those noble
liberty-loving peo pi u in the buil
ding up ol the Appalachian Trai
ning School Would that every
North Carolinian could have had
only one chance at that sight.
No man could have witnessed
those strong mountain people
coming in with their wagons
and buggies loaded with baskets
full of the best things that ever
grew in this land, where liberty
has always been, and where milk
and honey are as plentiful as the
delightful blue air To see those
strong mountain children, with
roay chcr ks and r-pui kliii- l.iyh
eyes gathered aruun l thutschool
and to hear those men w h o
have worked lor years to build
up that noble institution is en
ough to make every true North
Carolinian proud to know that
I hrough the state he has a hand
in helping in such a noble work.
The state of North Carolina is
losing much because we have In it
ed to build a railroad across the
?lue Ridge, so that all of that
great section that lies beyond the
mountains can come over to us
with their wealth and their yast
supply of food products. And
we are losing in that we are mis.
sing the greatest place on this
continent ns a health resort for
oil our people. We are running
awnv to other lands when here,
within reach of our door, lies a
land which has few pquals any
where on earth, and nothing to
surpass it. The people of the
state owe that beautiful section
the solemn duty to build a road
into this land that is "flowing
with milk and honey," and that
has been the cradle of our liber
ty.
But we do not mean to leave
the impression that the scenery
of that favored country is the on
ly attraction. To know the men
and women is to love them, and
if things should be whit they
seem we predict that in a very
short time there will not remain
a single editor in North Carolina,
and we do not mean to get . any
body in trouble, but even some
of the others seemed to be im
pressed with the statement of
the solicitor from Watauga wheu
he said that a good larm went
with every girl in tuat county.
A Peep Lito IDs Pocket
wou-d show the box ot Bucklen's
Arnica Salve that E. S. Loper, a
carpenter of Manila, N. Y. always
carries." 1 have never nau a cui,
wound or bruise, it would not soon
heal." he writes. Greatest healer of
burns, boils, scalds, chapped hands,
ane lips, fever sores, skin eruption,
eczema, corns and piles. 25c at all
dealers.