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VOL, XXVI riaOjfe TtajhM MARCH 25, 19x5. N0.34L Tri Ciri Blcckiii Cstfits Ciptanl -. Sheriff Moody and his deputies , made, another raid over ia 2Ik . township last week and succeeded 1 in locating ana aescroymg iwo Qttore -blockade outfits. While it i is nsidered ; rather hazardous C for officers to make .themselves r too much at home in this partic ;tet section at any time this last Pv trip was ,uusually trying on ac y; fJini-blizzard being in progress. The flrat place located by the CPn kad the appearance,- in - Epnie re8pecta,vof ai regular gov & ernment distillery, having a res- f ervoir to catch still slop, in WhichH j , . there was a large amount, and everything about the place not . " only indicated recent operation " but a business of considerable c ' proportions. The still had been r 0emoyed, however, but after a search the cap . was found. At the other place, the boys hating to 1 see iso manyapples going to waste, we suppose; had been making brandy and their still, t . which consisted " of a gasoline .tatik was captured. Not finding , ; . any o4eat either place the sheriff 'pdlVided his force -and went on a ' Jtind of s.cout in order to try and locite ,6 owners.. During th$ search the supposition is they were fiiped upon, he report of two or more guns -being heard and shot falling iu the immediate vicinity of .some of the officers. Going in the direction from which Qthese reports came the officers came upon two men with guns in shooting position. . They were immediately covered by te guns . of the pOsse and put under ar ' rest Being 'questioned as to what, they wgrg doingith vthet, guns and who or what they were s'looting at, the men gave as a reason that they were. tryiDg to fl ish a rabbit, the aforesaid rab bit, doflbtle'ss, being at that mo-' ment somewhere n-af by and grazing around in innocent ob- r livion of its danger- The men ' were kept under Barveilance for several hours by the officers while they continued their search, but jJor want of evidence sufficient to justify imprisonment they were finally released and the posse re turned to town without making further arrests , Most people know that men who engage in the illicit d filia tion of whiskey o re, as a general thing; men who believe that it is ta God-given privilege to convert their, grain or fruit into any commodity that will enhance its value, ,Bnd have little regard or respect for man-made laws to the contrary, and the finding of four ' illicit distilleries in a few days by our sheriff doesn't mean that conditions along this line Qare.getting rapidly wdrse in this auction but rather that this class of lawlessness hasn't received the 8 ime.attentiori from officers here tofore, bossibiv. that it is now getting at the hands of Sheriff Moody, although it may be pos sible that since the Grier bill comes into effect on April 1 st, the Qboys are anticipating a rush in the way of orders. Anyway, hunting a "wild cat" distillery is a goo I deal like hunting an animal of" thaf namef-more or less dangerous and necessitating considerable hardship on the part 6f; the 'huhterj especially to' a mountainous section. It is a V Q proposition that most any offl- I cer would like to side-step and ' which has possibly been done in many instances, nod while it is rather embarrassing to our citi zenship to have t chronicle this f . ii.j. .-.ii lawlessness in our nuasi;, we win hve to add" that before this ar ' tide goes to print the prospects i now are that other captures will l Qw to report. ' Grain constitutes about 40 per crnt of Milwaukee's entire freight -receipts by tail. ; Correspondence Wataatf Dmnoorat ' The founder of thepld wiiiible, Blum'a Almana, 'according; to thestpry related to the writer by thelate ,Samu Jmieu of Statesville, Vas making trip through the ; mptaincnt tibn of this Stal on' pn ooea sion by private cnveyB,?cj njgnt pwrtating-mm wftfle jrsj he spent the night with an - oldj mountaineer; The rooming; foli lowing proved to - be bright and clear and every; tadJcalioh! was favorable for a; beautiful dayj Noticing that the signs and pros pects were so flattering for a day Jn which traveling would be good Mr. Blum made; ready for an earlv start, but his hostadvised him i o delay- bis Journey until next morning as! there would be a terrible storm during! the day. Mr, BlurH hootedTat the very idea and rtion ft iM."! nr'oV ' ,Tof rim ' K' dajg doa'Oflii ;8Wmr6f clonic proportion did dome up uproot ing trees,' blowing down-' houses, etc.5 On , his retup trip Mr. Blum made it cdnvenielt to again stop with his mountaineer friend. Before leaving he told the man ofy the mountains that his pre diction came true and that-he would be'very grateful if he would- enlighten him as to what sign he used thaf enabled him to make prognostications With such ac curacy. It seems the old moun taineer hadn't aa.yet learned the name of his gUest and iri replying to the reauest. said:' Wall. ver seethaij's a d h tool jown therJ country as what gits out er hal merneck. , I tuck hit down ther mornin' yer started ter leave fer terjpee what hit sed, and hit sed fair weather,' I knowed by that ter look out fer a pow'ful bad day." .-.. . i-'-i: -.-J. , irwe had reversed the predic tions received in these parts dur ing last week from the weather bureau some of us might have been a little better prepared for the snow that .began faUtagearJy TuesJay and gradually increased throughout the'day until it be came somewhat of a blizzard. be- ing accompanied by consiaerabfe wind which," drifted-the snow' in some instances to adebth of sev eral feet. Those who sit in their comfortable homes or offices and gianco oyer their maS during such weather rarely think-of the hardship and even suffering, pos sibly, undergone by some mail earner in making it possible for them to get their mail regardless of weather conditions." Disagree able weather generally encoun tered in a hilly country durfrig the winter isn't the only thing to be considered by the man Who wants the. job of carrying the mail, for in many .instances an awkard move qr step may cause tne aeatn 01 doiu earner ana nis faithful beast or. beasts' It is impossible to , make the distance on nome routes when the roods are bad or snow inter- fefeiuntillog after night which increases thedapger. . r VV e havi1 iu mind an -incident caused by the show first of last week. .. A Mr. Critcherjis contractor Idrthe ronte from Blowing Rock to Le noir. The distance being too great for one team' if is' worked with - one relay. Mr.' Catcher's son carries it down the mountain some ten Of twelve miles where he delivers the mail to another carrier, with a fresh team who makes the trip on to Lenoir and back to this point in the after noon,' where Critcher again takes charge, bringing the mail on to Blowing Bock that night The day afterthesnowyonngCritcher had hardly made a mile of his When thft posse of officers, ".v -. . .. . . i headed bjr the sheriff of the coun ty, made a raid on, and captured two illitic distilleries in Elk town ship, last week( the Boone . cor reepoadejnt'of.the Charlotte4Ob seryer. )n writing .up the , sane, used "this paragraph in conclu siott, which is not only mislead ing but is a perversion of . the fact: ."Tleport-has it that men oJivwpminehce (referring. of eesf to Watiugons) are con-osnied-bloekadmg bust ness." Who these flagrant vio lators of the State and National laws are is what the sheriff if try ug to jfind out and we are here to vouch for the assertion that no man ol "prominence is, in any way, connected with vthe whiskey business in Watauga. Many of our people are hurt o ver the publication of the unfortu nate : paragraph. The corres pondent is a good dneVail rightj but rushing into print with such. jnatter -as ' his, casting Asper sions Upon our mountain people, is a vital mistake, and one that he should Vbe willing, to "correct through the, paper which he rep resents, ' It is to be regretted that any man claiming V atauga 'as his home should be guilty of the illicit distilling of whiskey, but to set afloat matter in a great daily that is calculated; to cast even a reflection upon as good a citizen ship as the Old. North State can boast of, is indeed unpardonable; Of course the reporter did 'the writing imder the impulse of the moment, not thinking of the evil effect it might have. Are ou rheuraatlc7 Try Sloan's. ; if you waut quick and real re lief from Rheumatism, do wbut so many, thousand other people are doing whenever au ; uttack comen on, batho the sore : nuinple or joint with Sloans Liniment'. No need to rub it in iusc auulv r ' .... inehniraeut to the . surface: itlcannot 'see how tne legislature is wonderfully -penetrating. . It goen right to the seat of trouble anddrOWsthe pain almost. im mediately, Get a bottle of Sloans Liniment for 25c of any driiaeiat and. have itintbebousev-agaiiist cold, sure and swollen joints, lumlago. sciatica and lik aiN meats. Your money back. if not satisfied, hut it does give' almost instant Miff. . . .The I'ennsylvania, the .might mt war vessel of the world,, was successfully launched at Newport news, va., on ruesoay, xotn. route before he i and his team, I which .consists pf two little mulep, Were enveloped 111 a snow drut. Do in the Rockv mountain re gions jack rabbits turn white in the winter. On tBierging from the snow drift thesin little mules looked as though tViey might be lack rabbits of the fiant variety, but they' looked aixmnd at the driverand told himjihe best they could, that while thiiyi were work ing tor the governm rat they were neither government; mules or jack '.rabbits, were ; "willing to tackle any k!ad of t amaor swim rivers if need be, but itheyiotend-1 ed to draw the line o nsnowdrifts. They also intimated jto the driver that they , thought hit would be advisable to go back to head Quarters and take-' a' new start, The driver thinkinp tht it possibly the mules knew more .about the prospects than' he did. Wecided to act on this suggestion;, Return ing to headquarters h received orders to get that maithrough in spite of snow drifts, or high water. After securing , a ttunnel squad with shovels the Arack was cleared and the. -mails wnt through. TrB. M' o nil (iron Ory FOR FUTCIf CR'S EUSTIC C:A3T r Tile. Anti - Saloon Lea cue. through its state secretary, tt. D. Davis, comes , intothe news paper) and. says that the final billithits quaH of limitation and several other things, is a de cided .victory for prohibition. It matf be. .Theoretically the blind tigey man cannotdo much with a quaH eyeryfiifteen days but the resl.bHtid ' trgerman has never tlepnded much on open ship ments of whiskey. Whiskey is shipped in double barrels one man we 'know shipped over, a hundred barrels of iwhiskey small barrels inside coal oil bar relsand carried on a blind tiger traffic that was fierce. The rail road company does not know what isln a barrel of lamp chim neys, and if there are ten gallons of whiskey in a crate of automo bile tires the Carrying compa nies cannpt;ocate it. The blind tiger man es a big business when he runs, . anl iloesn't de pend on th6 railroads for all of it. Thelmoonshineri is the man who knows the postofflce address and the place to meet the blind iger in the dark. The moon shiner has been more plentiful in this Fifth Congressional district he last year? than ever before. And with it impossible to ship in much whiskey in the open, the concealed packages will be com ing and the moonshiner will be more plentiful. There is where the anti-saloon league must do some good work. The Jact that a quart can be shipped in every fifteen days gives a man a chance to-run illicit quarters. He gets he quart and thus hides his other avenues. We are glad the anti-saloon people feel they had partial victoiy. We are of opinion, however, that it should have been whole or none. We can ever explain. If we voted prohibition, and we did, we should have prohibition. Some of the auarts some of the folks will al- ways have on hand will become amazingly elastic. Threeorfour gallons coming in the dark, and the one quart in daylight. They used to tell a story that the Southet-n railway owned oue old mule and used him to put on a reiirht train on Sundavs so thev o i , v could CJaim live stock. That old mule was responsible for the movement of a million-cajs. And rh"3 man who receives ten quarts oflikker nicely labelled MaCau- lav's Ijistory of England, by slow freight, will exultantly receive his quart, in open, and people who are not philosophers will marvel, and wonder why it isthataqirart of likker under the new law will last sixteen times as long as a quart'of likkerunder theold law. Everything, No Use to Try and Wear Out Your Cold. It Will Wear You Out Instead. Thousands keep on suffering conghx and colds through neglect and delay. Why make yoursei an enpy prey to serious ailments and epidemics ih the result of a neglected cold? CougliB andeolds nanvour strength nnd vitmit.v unless checked in itmarly stages Dr. King's New Discovery is what vou need the hist dose helps Your head clear up, you breathe freelv and you fei r much better Buy a bottle touay ana Mart ta king at-oncp. Mri D. W. Moyd, who is su perbitending the work at Coppe Knob mine in Ashe county, pass- 1.:., .. u unuu ,, . v - the mine lam nday ana report ud that work at the mine would be resumed Monday of this week. Ariieville has adopted the com mission foim of government. Arthur G. Lomax, 15 years old, of Salisbury, N. v C.t has Mrs, Charles Dana Gibson to thank that he was not turned over to the Children's Society in: New York recently. Mrs. Gibson who U a "Big Sister," was ia the Chil dren's Court when the boy was brought ia charged with improp er guardianship. , The boy told Justice Mayo in accents markedly Southern how he had lost his jfthiai Katothqg on a branch railroad down horns and being the eldest of five chil dren decided to lighten the family burden by joining the army. So he went to Charlotte, N. (X, he said where despite his years he was accep'ed by the recruiting officer and shipped to New York for final inspection at Fort Sic cum. To the surgeon at the fort he confessed his age and 'that ended his miliary career. He was sent back to town and the police of the EastTwenty-second Street Station took charge of him. n Touched by his story and ree ognizing his accent, Mrs. Gibson stepped to the bench and said: "I'll take care of him your Honor; he's one of my people." She said she would arrange for his transportation home and take care of him meantime. Mrs. Gibson, before her maJriage, was Irene Langhorne, of Richmond, Va., one of the beautiful Lang horne sisters. . BANK STATEMENT, Following is a report of the con- dition of the bank of Blowing Rock at Blowing Rock iu the state of North Carolina, at the close of bust- uess March 4th, 19 1 5; ' - resources: Loans and discounts 4a.8ao.t8 Overdrafts secured s 31 40 Overdrafts uiuecured . 38.84 Banking-house and lot 37.50 Furniture and fixtures 1,363 30 Due from b'ks and b'krs 8,367 oa Gold coin .. i,6a5.oo Silver coin, including all mi. nor con currency I35s4 National bank notes and other U. S. notes 800.00 fotal 5955-48 LIABILITIES Capital stock - I 5?50.00 Surplus fund 095 00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paiu 314.33 Bills Payable 8,500.00 Time certificates of deposit 34 665.13 Deposits subject to check 14,34.13 Uashier' c'ks outstanding 1 1 a.oo fotal C. I S9,55-48 State Of North Carolina, Watauga & m o It . 1 county, : 1. t. m. auoaerm, Cashier ot the above named bank. lo olemnlv swear that the abovr .tatement is true to the bent of my knowledge nd telief 0. M. Sudderth, Cashier. Correct-Attei.t: G. E. Moorp, f. A. Lentz, J. D, I3rownr Direc. or. Subscribed and sworn to before lie thin 13th duv of March 1915. UH. GREEN, J. P, About 2,750,000 acres of land in Great Britain are devoted to woods and forests. SOLDIERS IN EUROPE BECOME SICK WITH KIDNEY DISEASES Dota'i Kideey Pills Are Bebf StypUei Free to The Sofferisf net. Asy of Osr Readers Cas Try This Ft ous Renuay Without Expeste. Jut Setf For a Trial Box. Hardablpt and exposure in the eokL wet trenches Is crippling thoaaande el warring European soldiers wiw auney tmnhlp. and rhumatiam. Tha for.i office, of Do' Ildnef - m, M doing a good deed h giving this famous remedy free to eTetysela- ler who wants a box. - - s FoaUr-Uilbum Co. of Boffalo. N. Tm makers of Doan't. ttttej-that they wUl - , be glad to send a triaUJ ttelr BMdidne wUl write them for it ,. - -4 itn to unw nwisi v mhs vva mmw FlojchorSc Bingham. 'ATTORNEYS AT iw '.' BOONE, - - NOBtH CABO. W Iprmetloe to the eourta of W tauya tod adjoining coontte. Caw fnl and' prompt attentlo4 fttren. to all uatttraentraated tons, i tM0.ti , Dr. G M. Peavlei j Twmta IHsiMiit of tft ' , - Eye, Ear Nose a nil Throat BRISTOL. TENN., l14ly, , T. Binghimia . Lawyer ' BOONE, . - . : .Tn.C v 9"Promp$ attention fiVifi to all matters of a . legal hilars Collections a specialty. : . . Office with Solicitor F. i. ho. ney , 1-29. ly. pd. Silas Mi Greene. I- JEWELER ' Mabel, N. C. A 4 "All kinds of Jrepair work done under a positive guar antee. When in needrof any thing in my line give me a call and get honest work at honest prices. Watch Rpaimino A SpIscialtyb VETERINARY SURGERY. Zl have been patting math stodf on thl aabjeet; have received my dlploSMb and an n well MStpped for the praetioe of Vetertoftrr Sir- arery In all tti branches, and am the only one In the oonnty. all on or sddrew me nt Tflaa, N. . R. P. D.l . O. B. HAYES, , Veterinary Surgeon. MT-'U. E, S. COFFEY. - BOONE, N. C.- Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. Abstract ing titles and 01 1 fiction ot claims a special if.-' Ll-'ll. Dr.Nat. T.Dulaney -SPECIALIST- SI, KAft; ffOSB, CHROAT AVO CHMt ITkSBXAHWKPfOn, . OLA8BXS FOURTH STREET Brittol. Tcnn.-Va. EDMUND JONES LAWYER -LEN01H,N.(- Witl Practice R&gularly in chetourttioi Uattif.fi, M 'n. I. D.L0WS t. A. LOVK. glnw, X. G. SuMrKtk, K. 0. , LOWE & LOVE ATTORNEtS-AT-UW. Practice in the courts of Arerr and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. P. A. LIN NEY, ATTUKNKy AT LA W v BOONE, n.c. ? Will practice in the courts of the 18th Judicial District (nail matters of civil nature. J 7 6-11-1011. B. P. Lovill. W. RrfcotUl Loyill & Lovill i -Attokmeys At Law -B00NEt N. (X Special attention frSt all business entrct;' " i41 1 avwta V .1 , mm 'I '-V, .f
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