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r - . - VOL. XXV BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTV, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1913 NO. 1. P ROFESSIONAL, T. E. Bingham, Lawyer BOONE. - - - - X.C ar Prompt attention given to h11 matters of a legal nature Collections a specialty. Offlw wtb Solicitor F. A. Lio- nT 1 29 ly. pd. jamesc.clixe, Attorxey-At-Law Sugar Grove,. North Caro., WWill practise regularly in the courts o! Watauga and ad joining counties. Special atten tion given to the collection of claims. 2-27-'13 1 yr. VETERINARY SURGERY. I bare been putting much study on thii iubject; have received my diploma, and am now well equipped for the practice of Veterinary Sur gery in all lti branches, and am the only one in the county, all on or ddren me at Vilas, N. . R. F. D. 1. G. H. HAYES, Veterinary Surgeon. vlT-'ll. urTETM. MADRON. - DENTIST. Sugar Grove, North Carolina, All work done under guar antee, and be9t material used. MS-'ll. E. S. COFFEY, 'OftAZii Al LAW,- flOONE.-N. C. 'riimpt attention given to 1 1 matters of a legal nature. tsar Abstracting titles and nnppf ion of claims a special 1-1 '11. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney SPECIALIST BTK, kar; nosb, throat and chkst ETKS EXAMINED FOR GLASSES FOURTH STREET Bristol, Tenn.-Va. fCDMUND JONES LAWYER LENOIR, N. C,- ft'ill Practice Regularly in he Courts of Watauga, vl Mi. L, D.LOWE, V. TTORNEY AT LAW, BANNER ELK, N. C Will practice in the courts Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining counties. 7.6.M1 F. A. LINNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, roone. n. c. Will practice in the courts of the 13th Judicial District man natters of a civil nature. 6-11-1911. J. C. FLETCHER Attorney At Law, BOONE, N. C. Careful attention given to Jollectiona. K. F. Lovlll. W. R. LoviH Lovill & Uovill Attorneys ' At Law -BOONE, N. C Special attention given to all- business entrusted to their care. , . ' 7-9-10. WATAUGA, ASHE AND ALLEGHANY THE THREE BEST COUNTIES IN K, C, Ay Oration Delivered by W. B. Austra at the CIcse of the Summer term of the A. T. S, I consider the United States to be the purest and grandest democracy in the world. I con sider the State of North Carolina to be the best State in the Uu ion. I believe Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga to be the best counties in the Stat. We are be tween the Blue Ridge on the south-east and the Smoky range on the north-west, withthehigh e&t average elevation of any three counties in the State; not ouly in the State but in the whole eastern half of the United States. To these mountains hundreds and thousands come to iew our scenery, which is the finest in the world, to breathe our invigora ting air, drink our pure water and go back to their homes in other climes stronger men and stronger women. Onr mountains are clothed to the very top with the most yalu able timber known, in a large measure untouched by the ax of the woodman. Upon these hills where the forests have been re moved, we find timothy and blue grass trrowing to their very summits, "grazing more cattle aud better cattle than any other section in the State. And their wealth does not stop here. Did you know that the richest mag. netic iron mine in the whole world is in the county of Ashe? )id you know that the mineral from this mine took the first prize at the World's Fair in St. Louis, not only at the World's Fair (but at the Paris Exposi tion, and these medals are now in the possession of an Ashe county man? Not only so, but copper and other miners have been found in all these counties. But, ladies and gentlemen, our wealth is not in our natural re sources, but our greatest wtalth is in our ppople. We have here the purest American blood, a race of men and women who have drawn the milk of liberty from tyrant-hating mothers. Here no foreign iniigrants pollute our pure blood; no tyrant here crush es the lite blood from his fellow man, for, as Goldsmith says, "III fares the land to heartening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay." Here we have an equal distribution of wealth- equal rights to all and special privileges to none. Now you ask if all this be true, why is it we have not met here in our own Edison, our Roosevelt, our Ay cock and our Wilson? Ladies and gentlemen, we have them. We ha ve men and women who have the inate ability to com mand the attention of the scien tific world, to win the applause of listening senates, but they have never had a chance. Forty years ago an education for the mountain boy or girl was prac tically an impossibility. The school houses were mere hovels; the teachers failures. However, a few have been able to overcome these conditions, and today man in Ashe county wears a gold medal as being the best debator in our State uuiversity. One of the hardest fought debates nnd one of the greatest victories ever won at the State University was won by a young man from Ashu and one from Watauga. The highest honors have been won by our students at Trinity College. We have not only gained dis tinction inside be college walls, but we have gained it in the leg islative halls. No Senatorial district in the State of North Carolina was so ably represented as ours in the last General Assembly. There was Ioubton, whose head has grown white in th service of hi State, nnd there were Howie, and C;fryand Hodges, whose prais es are being sung over the entire State. The time may not be for us to furnish the next Governor, but I believe that the next Uni ted States Senator from the State of Notth Carolina will hale from our midst. When Emory and Henry Collfge wanted a great preacher to run one of the greatest institutions of learning in the State of Virginia, she call ed a man from A s he countv. These boys have been able to cross the mountains and reach opportunities thpy couldn't And here. And wherver the mountain boy or girl has had a chance they have wrought nobly. For several years this has b"en the only Senatorial District east of the Mississippi river without railway facilities. But today 1 look in the county of Ashe and I are a railroad being built into our very midst as fast as money and men can build it, I raise the curtain of time and look out five years from now and I see a rail road to every county seat. I see the waters of New River being harnessed and turning the wheels of mighty factories. I see the great stores of mineral wealth that now lie hidden in the moun tains, being developed, and rail roads running in every direction. I no longer see the farmers of these counties hauling their pro ducts thirty or thirty-fiye miles to a market, in all kinds of wea ther, but I seet their supplies be ing brought to their very doors and a home market lor every thing they can produce. Some where I read that up to the build ing of the railroad to Asheyille twenty-nine years ago, Jefferson and .Asheville were the two rival towns of the mountains, and that Jefferson had more wealth and more aristocracy; but with the building of the railroad the town of Asheville was converted converted into the city of Ashe ville, and to day is perhaps the greatest summer resort in the whole South. Were I at the coun ty seat of Alleghan y I would be nine hundred feet higher than the city of Asheville. V ere I in the town ot Jefferson I would be one thousand leet higher, and I am speaking to you today from a nlatform thirteen hundred feet higher than the city of Asheville, With the building of the railroad the town of Jefferson will be con- verted into the city of Jefferson and the city ol Boone. Ladies and gentlemen, when I say this I speak thoughtfully; for I believe there are more nat ural advantages found here than in any other spot in the whole world and 1 do not believe there is another spot located as we are located. This alone has made us great notwithstanding our lack of education and railroad facili ties. But, ladies and gentlemen, the conditions of forty years ago no longer exist and today we have springing up all over these counties new school houses with better teachers and better equip ment. During the last two year9 there have been one ntinarea and eighteen public school hous es built in these counties. Today there are two hundred and fif teen public schools in the coun ties with a state high school in eyery county, aud a Training 'School for public school teachers Inr-Rted in our verv midst.. Last year sixty-six teachers with nor mal training taught in these schools, thirty of whom hold col lege degrees. I am indeed glad to tell you that the largest average attendance to be found in the State is found here in your own STATE AN3 GENERAL NEWS, W. W. Miller m the new post master at biun l Springs, AII? ghaoy county. Wiley X. Andprson has bren ap pointed postmaster at Callahan, Datie county. The nafe of II. J. Olive, in West Asheville blown open and about $100.00 in cash procured. A bill has been introduced in Congress to increase the salary of Vice President from $13,000 to $25,000 per year. Harry K. Thaw has been cap tured in a Canadian town and is being held in prison there. He will flght extradition, claiming he was only passing through Can ada. Tlie barn and granary belong ing to Mr, J. M. Hart, who lives 5?j miles Irora Lenoir, was struck by lightning and burned last week. Foitunately no stock and very little feed were consumed. Lenoir Topic. Charlton, the young bank clerk, who in June, 1910. mur dered his wile and put her body in a trunk and sunk it in Lake Como, Italy, and fled to Ameri ca, where, lor three years, he has- ought extradition, has been giv en oyer to the Italian policemen, who came for him. As Italy has no death penalty, be may ex pect solitary confinement for life, His murdered wife wasthedaugh ter of Henry H. Scott, a San Francisco'coal merchant, and they were in Italy on their honey moon. Since Governor Sulzer's im peachment, both he and Lieu tenant Governor Glynn, are act ing as governor of New York. The friends of Glynn claim that Sulzer ceased to be governor when impeached until his case is tried, and Sulzer's friends claim that as the impeachmest pro- ceedings were illegally brought, lit1 is still Governor of the State. The Attorney General has, how ever, ruled that Glynn is Gov erner until the impeachment pro ceedings are heard and passed upon, - George S. Nanca, who killed his wife in their room at the Sea board Hotel at Hamlet on the 15th, is now in Rockingham jail. They were from Macon, Ga. He killed her and poured oil out of a lamp over her body and set fiie to it in the room. When arrested he said they had some words and she attempted to cut him with a razor, whereupon he struck her with a beer bottle, not intending to kill her. Of course if he does not plead insanity, the poc r. de fenseless man will claim he did it in e-elt'( defense. It is hard in North Carolina to find thut murder has been committed. 'I was cured of diarrhoea by one dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Chol era and Ciarrhoea remedy," writes M. E. Gebhardt, Oriole. Pa. There is nothing better. Foi sale by all dealers. beautiful Watauga. Already the note is being sounded and the crv is being heard, the cry of progress and education, the pro gress of our country depending upon the education of our people, Ihousands of little hands are outstretched to you. Thousands ol little voices are crying unto you for help. To give them that chance which you never had, a chance to make out of life the greatest possible success. Are you willing to stand idle or will you turn your face toward the rising sun of progress and educa tion, joining hands with us aud help to place something higher something better, and something nobler before every boy and girl 11 these counties. That Mooted Qoestiom Womai Suf fUt. Mr. HiUToit: In a recent frsue of the Watauga Democrat I read an article entitled "When Wo men Vote," and if your corres pondent will grant me the right of difference of opinion, I would like to give my opinion on the same subject. I do not believe that woman suffrage is a panacea for the civ il and social evils of our land. We women are the wives, moth ers, sisters and daughters of the men who are accused of incom petency iu governmental affairs. We are of the same blood, sur rounded by the same environ ments, taught by the samn tea chers, human the same as they, aud, also, likely to make mis takes. If our men have failed in the duties of citizenship, does not thefault lieatour own door? They are what we have made them, and, if they are not what they ought to be, it only proves that we have lamentably failed in training our sons in uphold ing lofty ideals for our husbands and brothers. But what has been lost in train ing and influence can never be re gained by ballots or la we. Laws have nevar changed the heart of man. You can not keep the hu man race in "the narrow way" by legislation. There are enough good laws on our statute books to make our land a model if none were violated yet vice and crime areevery whereand will be regard less of elections and Legislatures, so long as our homes send forth vicious and criminal men and women. Woman's suffrage, instead of forever wiping Irom the face of the earth the "segregated districts of vice", would give these thousands of immoral women a voice in state and national government, and these prostitutes with the immor a', immodest and spectacular wo men in every walk of life are the ones who will use the ballot far more readily thau the pureinind- ed, high-toned women ol our land, Let us inyeitigate conditions where women already yote. It has long been argued that if wo men were given the ballot they would banish intemperance, but New Zealand, with woman suf frage, defeated prohibition by a majority of 50,000. In Colorado where women vote, prohibition was defeated, while in North Car olina and other states where wo men do not yote, prohibition car ried by large majorities. Actual facts insteadof theories show that woman suffrage does not make "marriage the most exalted and sacred institution in the world." One who has lived in different western states, in epea king ol social conditions in one ol the large cities of a state in which women vote, said: "There is hardly a man or woman in the city who has not been divorced and many of them two or three times," In Norway, where women vote, the divorce rate is five times as great as formerly. Who is so illogical as to be lieve that the cessation of war and the reign of universal peace will be ushered in by the suffra gette, with her torch and batch ett? No; not when women votes but when she fully realizes the sublimity of the fact that she was in creation made the moth er and guardian of the human race given the highest office an omnipotent Uod could bestow when she realizes that in proper ly training the little ones at Ber knees she is solving all the vex ing problems of government, when, with the help of man, Bhe builds up homes from whose por tals go forth men and women who can square every act of life by the Golden Rule then and not till then shall we hayetbe millennium of peace. A Watauga Woman. BANK STATEMENT. Following it a report of the con. dition of the hank of lowing Rock at Blowing R.xk in the state of North Carolina, at the close of busi nps Aug. 9. 1913: Loan and discounts $3I,3(i-'.v Overdraft secured 9S. 1 5. " unsecured 1S5.23. Banking house 1,000.00. Furniture and fixture 1,439.1 j Due from b'ks and b'krs J1S.364.83. Gold coin l,592-5 Silver coin, including all mi nor con currency 304.46. National bank notes and other U. S. notes 3,222.00 Total 55,604.42 LIABILITIES Capital stock $ 11000.00. Surplus fund 500 00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 714.35. Time certificates of deposit 15.1 1 1.86 Deposits subject to check 28,180,52 Cashier's c'ks outstanding 97.69 Total $55,604.43 btate of North Carolina, atauga county, 8 s : 1, G. M. budderth, Cashier of the above named bank. lo solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my. knowledge end belief G. M. Scddehth, Cashier. Correct Attest : W. L. Holshou? . er, vv. C Lentz, Ueo. Ls. Moore Di rectors. Subscribed and sworn to beiore me this 13th day of Aug. 1913. J. II. GREEN,. T. P. BANK STATEMENT, Following is the report of the condition of the Watauga County Bank at Boone, N. C, in the Statu of North Carolina, at the close of business Aug. 9. 1913. KEsqurces. Loans and discounts $147,138.96. Overdrafts secured, f 1,000 unsecured 738.95 Banking house 2,047.00 Furniture and fixtures 1,065.25. Due from banks and ban kets 33,344.62 Cash items 505.00. Gold coin, 2,413.50. Silver coin, including all minor coin currency 1.544.73. National bank notes and other U. S. notes 1,329.00. rotal 191,027.01 liabilities Capital stock $16,100.00 Surplus fuud, 9,660.00. Undivided prohts, less cur , rent expenses and tax paid 3,507.12 Bills payable 8,000.00. Time certificates of depos. 02 .059.64 Deposits subject to check 69,372.80 Cashier's c'ks. outstanding 1.532.45 Total $191,027 01 State of North Carolina, Watauga county, ss: I, G.-r. Hagaman, Cashier of the above named oank, do solemnly swear the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. O. P. Hagaman, Cashier Correct Attest: N. L. Mast, W. C. Coffey, J. H. Mast, Direct. ors. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 18th day of Aug, 1913. W. D. Farthing, C. S. O. In case you fail tojputyour best foot forward when you have a chance you may feel like using it to-kick yourself later. Indian Killed On Track. Near Rochellc, 111., an Indian went to sleep on a railroad track and was killed by the fast ezpress He paid for his catelesness with his life. Often it's that way when, peo. pie neglect coughs and colds. Don't risk your life when prompt use of Dr. King's New discovery will cure them and so prevent a dangerous throat and lung trouble. It com pletely cured me, in a short time, of a terrible cough that followed a evere attack of Grip," writes J . R. Watts, Floydale, Tex., "and I re gained 15 pounds in weight that I had lost." Quick, syfe. reliable and guaranteed. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free at all druggists. It doesn't pay to give a $5,000 education to a 05 boy. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA V 1 it ' If' i!' if'. Hi h -.ft V h ill. "t i;1 u 1. ft 1,1 I . 1 JVS-, 1 nrtf
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