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1 - ' i ; - ur - - - . - ... f VOL. XXVII BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, THURSDAY, August 5,1915. ".'Hi. NO. life t1 ' X. -': 4 IS -f 0 i ,.. k : j t ..... ...:- I f , - 1 - . " ' ' I I 1 i - i I I III II I II -. , ' ' 1 ' - - ' - ----- ' ' ' GoL Oldi io Char. Obcerrer. :$V The passing days only make Watauga county more delight- ful , lhe highest temperatures in 10 days have ranged from 62 to 78 degrees, the latter being a high , figure occurring on two days only. T There are a thousand things ihre' tq r interest, yes facinate, a lowlander, and here are some of ,' them. On the 13th day of July, '1877, this writer walked with three boy friends from Blowing Bock, to ShuU's Mills on the Wa tauga river, caught some fine trout, ate a great dinner, bought abigBupplyof maple sugar made on the'spbt and joyfully tramped back the eight, miles from that ; . loyey plaM to the Bock. Two : :.' days ago atrip was made to the 0 ' .sajoe, place, also.on foot, and the 1 jisame i things were done all over ;0 again. ..There were Mr. and Mrs. 1 'joe Shull, a trifle older than they . were in 1877, but the river was as clear and swift, the dinner as good, there was plenty of maple su gar and good conversation and .the writer made the tramp back f A to Boone and enjoyed the 16-mile jaunt as mucn as ne aia me one '88 years ago: Then there were four of us youngsters; death has , - claimed one, another is a widely (known college president and the third one of the greatest lawyers in the country. - v Uncle' Joe Shull was in the 37th regiment, ' of which Col. Charles C. Lee of Charlotte was Colonel, and he carries to this day the marks of two. bullets.' He sol diered at various places, but de clares he thinks Newbern perhaps thfi finest place he ever saw. Down .in .that valley there are great and graceful maple trees, of the va riety called by the mountain folk "sugar trees;" bigger and finer than they grow down-State. There are now 200 trees on the . Shull "gtove," and the family now mske about 200 pounds a year, "while 38 years ago there were 800 and the out-turn' was almost a thousand pounds. This n sugar is made in molds of cups and dippers, fetches 20 cents a pound and is worth it, because like Watauga's other products it is genuine, the real thing, not a fake, perhaps made out of coal tar. . It was delightful to have Mrs. Bhull recall; the writer and the other youngsters and to sit on the porch and talk with her, while - ,big top-wagons full of gay girl campers made their way up the road, followed by a smart auto mobile. Somehow the automo bile did not exactly fit in with the landscape, for your auto is a new- thingj up; here, the trail of 0 this devil having first been made r in this: . mountain paradise only - about four years ago. The wags here.tell a story that, when the 'first auto came into Boone every body took to the brush except Postmaster Bivers, who could not leave the office. , Iteven goes further" that even Capi'E. F. JLovill made a quick get-away, because he did not believe any juch a machine could get by Blowing Bock. r i Now, mark you, they are actu- ally talking about building good .roads with county money, some thing Watauga, Ashe and Alle ,ghay,iiayft .heyer expended a cent for to this good hour. Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. In the course ol the walk' to ShuU's MUls two churches werp paired, one at Pop lar Grove early done and Bap tist, for this denomination has a tremendous grip on this moun- tain' country, where it has pio- p v .csind and striven mightily. At ;i -aue,tfdb, beside a rushing pw.f - te5ftiWtiyttthN a- buiidingias ( v white as snow ana set in acuarm- ,.V; ' ,toggrpv0of chestnuts and sugar fcpt if l.ittjti hp The following report of Prot B. B. Dougberty,;ho for twelve years wai county superintendent of schools, to Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy DQr, co tains Some interesting facts : The censusr-Wbiteiboys, 2117: white girls, 2212; colored boys, 49; colored irl8, 84. ; ' ; ; : Enrollment-Whitehoysi 1849: white girls, 1160; colored boys! 42; colored girls;.32. I Average attendanceWhiteis 2476; or over 56 per , cent 61 all the census every day attended school Nearly 80 percent of eA the children ,between 6 and 21 have been enrolled. ;; ! Twelve years ago the roroUj ment was 65 per cent.and the alt erage attendance 83 per ctnKj The houses then were worth $5,1 000; today they are worth $28,1 500. The endowment building fund has added' muqh 'to the wealth of the county io physical equipment If used aright in coming years it will revolutionise the building of school houses (n Watauga.. It is interesting also to note that 146 students are reported in the seventh grade and 52 for the eighth. ' : Boone, Cove Creek, and Beaver Dam areleading townships, while Meat Camp has made the. great est improvement, if Seven new libraries have, been bought this year, six new houses built and two repaired. Mr. Dougherty has bought a North Carolina map for every school, which can te had for 25 . cents. He also has a book, "The. Life and Speeches of Charles 0. Ay cock," which he wishes to put in every library in the county. These books can be had for any library; for the asking. . ' trees there was a place of bap tism, a square wooden tank out in the open and partly over the stream, into which through a little trough there poured a steady flow of the limpid water, three steps leading down into this little pool.' Hard by the church door was a "mounting- stand" for the use of, the verj nu merous rider on horseback in this region.. Here one sees a rar- ity, namely a lady on a side-sad-4 die, the rest of the world riding astride. Another visit was made to an other Confederate veteran who lives "ferninst" Bich mountain, which broods over little Booneto the northward. Uncle felijah Nor- ris lives alongside road which down-country. folk would, call a trail; a steep trail too, but be and his forbears have lived in! that place these 100 years, i His good wife could not at first locate him, but she "fetched a whoop," as they say in this country, Which sounded like a well blown horn, and be gave an answering one from somewhere in the- timber and then came out, a perfect pict ure of a mountaineer as heart could wish; dressed in homt-made brown jeans, a long barreled and heavy rifle, on. shoulder, bullet pouch, powder, born and&p.box at his side. The rifle was . made bv S. H. Ward at Tamestown. Guilford County, a little after th CivU War timet and "Uncle ige,V patting the long barrel affection ately, said : "She sure icj a.killer I guess I have had a' hundred of these guns. I used to buy them for. the neighbors." There was no better gun. maker than Ward. He followed the Lamb brothers, who made rifles at Jamestown long before the war and who dur ing the war made lots of them for Governor Vance. I tell you I've ticked off many of a squirrel with her."- , , yAs yet ao great .timhercutting has has been done in Watauga, and A few years ago when prohibi tion first went in to effect in Char lotte there was an ordinance for bidding the. sale or, delivery of liquors in the city after 9 o'clock at night, under a penalty of some thing a little short of hanging. A well known beer bottler was one afternoon filling a rush order and was seen to, place a crate in a delivery wagon after the speci fied time. He was reported and haled, to court, and as the public saw it, the case againsthim look ed bad." ' But in the meantime he h.ad employed a ( smart lawyer who bade him rest easy under the assurance that he would nei ther; be hanged, or. sent to jail. When the trial came on this law yer proved his client innocent be cause at the time of the alleged offense he was within the bounds of safety, as it was not then 9 o'clock by the sun. He had the weather observer on the witness stand to prove that the conten tion was true, and aa the city Code did not specify the sort of time the police should be govern ed by, the case went against the city and against the grain of the prohibitionists. The Observer has noticed that in the new Code particular care is taken to get even with the aforesaid lawyer should he e ver try the same game again.; Section 417 is devoted to specifying' the time that is to govern the police in future. It is standard eastern, 75th meridian, and it might be well for members of the local bar to govern them selves accordingly. Charlotte Observer. there are miles of forest as virgin as it was say ahundred thousand years ago; forest now golden with the flowers of the great chestnut trees, each looking like a giant bouquet; , poplars of enormous size; hemlocks which look like great spear-heads and are a won derfully dark and rich green; stately spruces ; spreading oaks of various kinds ; lindens which seem made for the bees, because the leaves overhanging the flow ers, so as to keep the rain from beating out the pollen; the leaf and the flower being really unit ed. But now a chance is coming and soon great forests will fall, notably along the Watauga riv er, for it is to get out this timber from vast tracts owned by the Whiting Lumber Company of Asheville, tbat the East Tennes see and Western North .Carolina Railway is to be extended all the way to Boone at the earliest pos sible moment. There are about five thousand acres in one block and never in Nqrth Carolina has there been a finer stand of timber than this. When the writer, who had fondly hoped that Uncle Sam would buy il L 0 A I . . A. k Lt- imb as pare ox Doe great Appala chian. National Forest, asked a native why this step had hot been taken, the reply was : "Uncle Sam is too stingy; that's the reason." The Whiting Lumber Company crave 4U. an acre tor it. Tnis is one of the last untouched moun tain' forests, with such 'superb poplar, . hemlock, chestnut, ash, cherry, linden, oak and birch trees as the reader no doubt never saw. When it is cut all the beauty will be gone and tbe land practically worthless, for it is mountain-side aud fires and rains will work their wild, will and soon take away the soil and a garden of God will be come something not worth look ing at except so rar as cliffs and wildness are concerned. The three counties of Allegha ny. Ashe and . Watauga Jbave court (houses, exactly alikv built about ten years ago. From Ashe the two other counties were cre ated and it is said to be the only case in the State; in which such a diviflloncfjasinade without any heartburnings. Ifty Kb Art Si .Women's rights advocates us ually assert that man is congenr itally bad, and that most of the, evil in women has come from as sociation . with him. Masculine observers, on the other hand, have frequently hinted or openly asserted that man's wickedness is in no small degree due to the influence of women. The major ity of men, these inconoclasts profess to think, would incline to goodness were itnot for woman's natural and overwhelming pref erence for males of the other sort. Women, they assert, do not ad mire good men, and the slack de mand has its' natural influence in the supply. It is true for what it may be worth that girls are enamored infrequently of sober and and se rious youth: they like boys to be "devilish." That girls laugh at the boy who does not smoke or drink, who is good and dutiful, makes our upward progress diffi cult. If the race is to advance mor ally, it is necessary that the ideas of women shall be reformed, for men, are largely what women make them. Man in his over mastering desire to win the favor of women, will be what woman wants him to be. Women now adayswe speak in the large con founds careless defiance of duty with many adventurousness and, therefore, we have a few real ad venturers and a great crowd of imitators, who vary in their dev ilishness from rocking the boat to stealing a' kiss in the dark. The world is filled with a host of youths who have acquired a cheap nature, and thereby attain the favor of the ruling sex. Man will not improve until woman wants him improved. Richmond Times-Dispatch. Tin Progrixsa of Natlcsil Defeisi The announcement from the White House that President Wil son has directed Secretaries Gar rison and Daniels to report to him a programme of national de fense has caused widespread com ment. The only explanation from the hite House is that the Pres ident will confer with Secretaries Daniels and Garrison "to formu late a sane, reasonable and prac tical programme of national de fense." There is no cause for alarm in the announcement. It does not mean that preparation for hostilities has begun. Ever since the beginning of the Euro pean war there has been much discussion of the state of the na tional defense and the alarmists, and those who had munitions of war to sell, have been greatly dis turbed about the lack of prepa ration for war in America. In view of the continuance of the war and the state, of our rela tions with' Germany, the Presi dent has doubtless thought it wise and proper to look to the national defense as a matter of precaution. That's all the an nouncement seems to mean. Statesville Landmark. Indian Popslitioa Of all the great Indian popula tion which once roamed the for ests, tbe prairies and the deserts from Maine to San Diego Bay and from the Great Lakes to the Bio Grande, there were left in 1910 only about 265,000. From decade to decade the In dian has become less and less a factor in America, and in nura hero he has vastly decreased within the last two centuries. It has always been supposed that the noble redskin is t fast vanish ing from the earth, or at least this part of it, but,, according to Lthe census returns,1 he has been ' rather better than holding his fci fcr llprjp .te&rs, titziq i "Miraculous is the only proper, adjective to apply, to the work being done by;AnMrk4octorf and nurses in Serbia," says Sir Thomas Lip ton, after his return, from his second trip to the, neat east with the hospiyat Erfn, , "As. usual," cdutinu4.;9lT Thomas, "the Americans excel Jn organization and preventive measures. S The French and Eng lish units are doing good work in the hospitals but conduct of the work of sanitation is rapklty making typhus a thing of the past and credit must go to the Americans, whose , magnificent efforts have made them loved by every Serbian, from the Xing to the lowest peasant, all of whom seem fully appreciative of the. efforts of the Bed Cross in their behalf. ' .' "When I was in Serbia on my first trip," continued Sir Thorn as, "it was unsafe to travel in the country, which was then so bady infested from vermin as to make necessary the use of .antiseptics night and morning. But on this trip no such precautions were necessary, thanks to the sanita tion reforms enforced by Ameri cans. The hospitals are now. as clean as any to be found in Eu rope, while hotels and dwellings are beginning to observe sanitary regulations. At the height of the epidemic there were probably 300,000 cases of typhus, but many typhus hospitals now have been closed for lack of patients. At Ghevg heli, where Dr. Jas. F. Donnelly, now Serbia's national hero, died, there weie once 1,400 patients in the American hospital. Now there are only three suffering from typhus." . v Aerial Torpsfs Boat The Navy Department, it is said, is keenly interested in an aerial torpedo boat for attacks on ships in protected harbors, projected in patents just issued to Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske, now attached to the navy war college, but formerly aid for ope rations to Secretary Daniels. The plan contemplates equip ping a monster aeroplane, simi lar to a number of under con structions hi this country for the British government with a White- head torpedo of regulation navy type. Swooping down at a distance of five sea miles from the object of attack, the air craft would drop its deadly cargo into the water just as it would have been launched from a destroyer. The impact with the water sets the torpedo's machinery in mo tion and it is off at a speed of more than forty knots an hour toward the enemy ship. It is said to be possible to con trol the torpedo by radio waves, one aeroplane carrying the tor pedo and another the wireless controlling apparatus. It is pointed out that Admiral Fiske secured patents on su3h'a method of control in 1900 when he was a liutenantcommandei in tbe navy own in numbers, at least lor the last forty yars. The Indian u reau reports tnat tnere were about 1,000 more Indians in the United States in 1910 than in 1870, and the census bureau esti mates 17,000 more in 1910 than in 1890. It is rather curious to find tbat New York State, with its 6,046 red men, and North Carolina, with 7,851, have each more In dians than Nevada, Oregon, Wy oming, Utah, Colorado, Kansas or Nebraska. Oklahomahasthe largest Indian population with 74,825, and v Arizona is, second, I with 29,201.-Baltimore Sun. , 'Physician 'At&Srg&i"i&& Dr. G. 5 Pead-, Eye, Ear j:d38, and Ttrcat . BBISTOUTENN.;- , : '.: Lawyer . BOONE, .. . . . . . N.C Proinptattentlon given to all matters of a legal naturt ' Collections a specialty. , Office with Solicitor F, A, Uu ney l-29.ly.pd, Silas M; Greene, : JEWELER Mabel, N.c. All "kinds, of ipair work done under a positive' guar aotee. When in need pf any ' thing in my line gin me a tall and get honest work at honest prices. ; Watch Bpaimnq A Specialty VETERINARY SURGERY I hart bMn patting' math itudr on Ihia tabjeot; haw rMelrd: my diploma, and am now wall qolppad for tha practice , of VeUrinarj So, f ery 1q all lta branohM, and ajgt tta ! onlyonaintha tonnty, aU att'er addrau ma at Vllaa, N. . fi. F. JM , : G. B. RATES, vatarinatr Sargaoa. MT-'U. . E. S. COFFEr. AT10&iit A LAW, BOONE, N. C. -' ' Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. IS Abstracting titles and nuection ot claims a special l-Vll. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney -SPECIAHST- CTB, BAR; BOBS, THROAT ABO CEBIT BTKI BXAMIBBD f On etABBBS FOURTH STREET Bristol, Tenn.-Va; EDMUND JONES LAVI YER LENOIR,vfl. C, Will Practice Begularly in the Courts ot ti &ttuga, 6.1 'ii. L D. LOWS BunerXlk, N.C. T. A. LOVB, rineoU, B. C. LOWE & LOVE , ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Practice in the courts of JA very and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given toKaumattera of a legal nature. 7-6-12. F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEy AT LA W, BOONE, N.C. Will practice in the courts of the 18th Judicial District in all matters of a civil nature. , 6-11-19H. ; E. F. LotIU. W. B. torlll Lovill & Lpvill ; -Attorneys At Law -BOONE, N.: at f bpeciai attenui ?Ytat w . vv ? AH :4. .j-.;.vi Ji' :' '."til . J.;? V '
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