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VOL, XXVII BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, THURSDAY, September 23, 1915. NO. 8 At Valla Cruets (By Old Hurrygraph) The summer sojourner, in quest of quiet rest and beautiful natu ral environment, and health-giving mountain air, should spend a week during August at this de lightful place the Valle Crucis Inn during July and August, and the Valle Crucis Industrial School for the Highland girls during the rest of the year. It has a charm peculiarly its own. Scenery is un surpassed in Western North Car olina. The school is a revelation of uniqueness in its academic, vocational and moral training of the girls of the Southern Ap palachian mountains, with its dairy, poultry yards, and the appliances of electricity furnished by its own power plant from the waters of Valle Creek. Connected with the poultry plants and elec trically heated incubators and brooders As well as accommo dation for two thousand hens. They have now quite l,500young chicks, White Iieghorns, on a twelve-acre yard. Dairying is also taught, though the dairy is not yet properly equipped. With the academic courses, there is a sweet Christian training that is like a benediction from lleavtn. Miss Mary E. Horner, the princi pal, and Miss Nannie 11. Smith, her able and mithful assistant, and a splendid corps of refined and sweet-spirited women in the faculty are doing a grand mis sionary work in these beautiful eternal hills, and are moulding characters as interesting and as beautiful as the scenery in which they are environed. The spirit of love and service in the school is beaotifut: The desire'of theHigh lander girls to obtain an educa tion and a useful vocation is won derful. But outside contribu tions in the shapeof scholarships are needed for the development of the school into full efficiency in its most important branches of instruction, nani'ly, poultry and dairying. Polishing the precious metal, as it were, and making happy home makers, so that the growing generation of men and women from, the Appalachian Mountains shall be known of a type known as cultured Chris tians, "faithful unto death," serv ing a Heavenly Father, who has caused, through His benevolent children, ''cheerful givers," the door of opportunity to beopened unto them in the Valle Crucis In dustrial School. Across the beautiful vale from the Valle Crucis School buildings on a ledge of a lovely slope of an opposite mountain, is a large wooden cross which can be seen ' in bold relief all during the day, except from about eleven to two o'clock. During these hours it vanishes from the sisrht of the naked eye. There are no shad ows of mountain or trees upon it. It is there all the time. It is the way the sun light falls upon it that obscures it from the eye sight. How typical of the Sun of Righteousness. When the full glory of Hisbrightness, goodness redeeming love falls upon the cross all shadows flee, only efful cencv of His mercy is seen. This cross, which I mentioned above, was first placed on that ledge by a lad' and the sweet women oje always about the cross and near. ec to it than menwho expressed a desire to be buried on that spot. but she died and was buried else where. ! Did you ever see the operation of shoeing steers ? It's worth go ing miles to see. It is a hundred times mow difficult to shoe a steer than it is to shoo a hen. Mr. Str er is put in the stocks and strapped to the timber good and fast. His head, is put through one end pegged . up around the neck so that he cannot draw that ' The Strength of the Hills North Carolina is on the eve of wonderful development.' The Piedmont region, on account of its manufacturing enterprises, ha9 been the most attractive por tion of the State, and will hold its primacy for years to come. . But not lorever. That section or North Carolina lying beyond the Blue Ridge, is to be the garden of our State. For all the years this region has been Inaccessible. Its people have been forced to live secluded lives because of the nat ural barriers Chat cut them off from the rest of the outside world. But the barriers are broken down. Splendid highways are making travel swift and easy. Railroads are scaling the hill sides opening new lines of commerce. Educa tion has a stronger hold upon the men of the mountains than any other class of our people. They are not educated, but they are going to be. The rising gen eration will be ready for the great transformation that, is coming. The lying stories that' have been printed in Northern journals by religious adventurers, have not hindered the progress of this sec tion. Instead of the huts daubed with clay, serving as residents for the "mountain whites" as pictur ed by these pious pretenders, the homes of the people are beautiful and attractive. We have seen more painted farm homes this year in Western North .Carolina than in any other section of the State we have visited. Further more, the average man in our mountain section will hold his own with the average man any where else. They are no better and no worse than the people of the plains. They are all North Carolinians and are all animated by the same spirit. In both sec tions there is a great deal of ig norance, but in both the typical citizen is intelligent and progres sive. And we are writing now of the average man and not of the special type. The hills have this great advantage over the east; the farmers are not slaves to one crop, totton lias not laid its grip upon them. The crops they raise bring better prices because of the war; and they have no ne gro problem to worry them. The western farmer owns his little farm. .He is beginning to culti vate it scientifically. He is not land poor but land rich. "Hroad acres " do not promote good iarm- ing. It is the small farm that is usually well tilled. Wataugk lands, which are the richest in the Waited for Admission Robt.' L. Walls, the Watauga man who went to Raleigh alone and at his own expense and pre sented himself at the State prison with the necessary papers to show that he was under sentence to serve three and a half years for manslaughter, waited an entire week for a Watauga officer to show up and identify him so he could get into the penitentiary. To prevent substitution and fraud, prisoners can't be admit ted to the State prison unless ac companied by an officer or depu ty. No one in Raleigh knew Walls, and while the presumption was that he was the man named in the commitment, the State prison people, in the abundance of cau tion, waited to be shown. Walls was finally shown into the prison by the Watauga sheriff. Whether that was his original purpose or not, Walls' course has made him many sympathizers and will doubtless get him a par don. When he offered himself at the State prison and was refused admission he could have said that he had done his duty and de parted. But he didn't. He sat down and waited until such tune as he could gain admission. Manyyear8 ago a States ville citizen, belligerently-i n c 1 i n e d, found himself in jail for miscon duct. During his incarceration the jail was guarded for some rea son (but not on this prisoner's account), the guards being placed' inside the jail. The Statesville man had the privilege of the cor ridor. One night a guard went on duty who didn't know the ricudu idea from the trench war- ISJatesville man was a prisQnerfLfare-in Europe, but The Land steering part back. He can rub ber neck all he wants to but he is unable to see when they put the shoes on him. The rear part of the body is elevated by steps under the body so that the mo mentum of his kicking abilities may be minimized. His rear feet are strapped on incline beams to hold the hoofs steady, if such a thing can be done. The hands on the Valle Crucis Industrial School farm shod two steers a few days ago, and the stocks looked live a cyclone had struck them when theeffort was accomplished. These animals with the cloven feat just persistently clove to the ideat that they preferred going barefooted , but the energy of men performed the arduous feat of giving them two shoes to the foot, and they performed all kinds of antics in their first enorts to steer their walking in fashionable steer steps, as they started off to haul rock from the. mouritain site to build a cold storage house for the apples from the school or chards. The school needs neip m building this storage, to care for the fruit, which is destined to be a great asset to the institution when the brchardsreaca tneiriui growth, ;f.. but he knew the man and his rep utation, and when he saw him walking about the corridor the guard "had a hunch" that the fellow was there for no good, whereupon he demanded, per emptorily, to know what he wus doing there. The Statesville man was sharp as sharp as Brooksof Sheffield, and he took in the situation. So he answered that he was just looking around. You've no business here," sni 1 the guard, convinced by the Statesville man's answer that he was up to something. "You get out of here !" he ordered emphat ically. "Well, if you're so 'pot-gutted' about it,", said the Statesville man, humble-like, "I can go." Whereupon, the prisoner took his departure, and with good cause. He didn't propose to stay where he wasn't, wan ted even in iaik : . Tne watauga man iooks at it differently. His determination to get into the State prison has naturally attracted much atten tion and the sympathy he has aroused (whether he deserves the sympathy is another matter) wili Typographical and Moral Errors -It is just us hard, or harder, to rid the day of errors moral as it is to i id a newspaper issue of er rorstypographicnl. And the pos sibihties of mistake in a journal istic print-shop are well-nigh in calculable. For instance, a print er's magazine says: "To set an ordinary column of type requires 10,000 pieces of type. There are seven positions in which each let ter may be placed, and there are over 100,000 chances tp make transpositions. Tii the sentence, 'To be or not to be,' by transpo sit ion alone, it is possible to make 575,022 errors." How can .we ever get out one single paper without errors? How can one play an "errorless game" in life? Ought we not to be more consid erate of each others' faults? And should we not continually look to the great Forgiver to correct and counteract errors we make. Biblical Recorder. Study Their Business . Professional criminals study their business and are always up-to-date. When robbers laid siege to a bank at Jefferson, Okla., they lirst took the precaution to break into a hardware store and secure a quantity of barbed-wire, with which they erected barbed wire entanglements about the bunk. When citizens were arous ed by the noise of the explosion that wrecked the safe the barbed wire barricade held them at bay until the burglars got away with 2,000. It is suggested that the burglars got the barbed-wire bar- War is National Insanity War is the product of national insanity. It never was the out come of sober reasoning. Fight ing, either on a large or a small scale, is simply the letting loose of the passions of "the lower na ture; and the presentbloody con ftict in Europe, in which millions of brave men are lying in gory graves, abundantly proves this assertion, for the poor fellows died for no principle in the world, but simply because of the stupid ity and conceit of a few royal families. Out of the stygian dark ness the broad daylight will come. Charity and Children. 10 rH ON iH 2 r-t rj O is 'S'2 a P T I O t3 -2 in w 3 .2 2 O in 2 . mark is under the impression that professional burglars had worked the same methods in this country before the European war began. Anyway, barbed-wire entangle ments didn't originate with the European war. They were used in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, 17 years ago. States ville Landmark. State, command fabulous prices ; and the happy owners of these lands dp not loaf and hunt but push their business with intelli gent zeal, and they are making money right along. 'The strength ot the hills lies in the fact that there wjll be no land monopoly. No owner of a great plantation will rent his vast domain to thrift less negroes, and go to town to enjoy life, but he will get his liv ing from bis own skillful labor, send his children to the school he and his neighbors have estab lished, attend the country church hard by, and make country life what it ought to be the finest civilization in the world. Alread y the boys of the west are going to the top in the world's work, not because they are more gifted than other boys, but because they have not been enervated by the vicious influence of the small towus. Charity and Children. BANK REPORT. Following !s the report of the con dition of Valle Crueis Hauk at Vnlle Crucis, in the state of North Ciiroliuu at tbeclose of bunini'Ks Sept, 2, 1015. RESOURCES: I.oaiiH and riUcouiiU $17,155.13 Overdrafts Seen red 75.00 Overdralts Uusecured 17.05 Banking House 1,8411.82 Furniture and Fixtures 1000.01 Demand loans 250,00 Due from banks and bauk'rs 3,817,10 Cash Items 16.07 6ld coin 45.00 Silver coin, including all mi nor coin currency 43.57 National bank notes and oth er U. 8. notes 375.00 Total 23,040.06 LIABILITIES: Capital i-touk paid in 10,000 Surplus fund 224.81 iNotesand Bills rediscounted S75.00 Time certificates of desposit 2,787.32 Deposits subject to check 0,740 73 Cashier's ch'ks outstanding 12 71 Total 23,040.06 Stateof North Carolina, County of Watauga sc. I, L. M. Farthing, cash ier of the above named bank, do sol einnly swear that the above 'state meut is true to the best of my know ledge and belief. y L. M. FARTHING, Cashier. Correct Attest: W. P. WlKLKR, H. B. Peru, D. F. Mast, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this loth day of September, 1015. W. H. MAST, N. P. H 4- FOR SALE Sixty acres of good mountain land located on Wilson's Ridge, this county, 50 acres in cultiva tion, mostly grass, none better, good cottage and outhouses, fine young orchard, place well water ed. Price to quick buyer, $3,000, Big bargain, this. Cull on J. M Buntley, Boone R. F. D. probably be the means of short ening his term of imprisonment. Statesville Landmaik. o CO O C3 U in u M EH d in - o Hi 73 2 kg 62 43 C . 8-8 U CO it 0 o CO to S rt o s a S 6 a si S 4J o c a a o 3 in O a o CQ TO tl9 C g c TO 9) O - K TO ) w o SP O 9 a T3 m u. - H 2 D o o o TO s 3 o o 5 b 2 a a -a 9N 'C ui Q O R.H. HARDIN, M.D. Physician And Surgeon. BOONE, N. C. Office oyer Wink ) ler t score. ) All Calls Promptly attended. Office hours, 0 to ll, . m. 8 to6, p m Dr. G. M. Peavler, Treats Diseases of the Eye, Ear Nose and Throat BRISTOL. TENN., T. . Bingham, Lawyer BOONE n.c "Prompt attention .eivpn tn nil matters of a legal nature Collections a specialty. Office with Solicitor F. A. Lin. ney 29. ly. pd. VETERINARY SURGERY. I have been putting much study on this subject; have received my diploma, and am now well equipped tor tne practice of. Veterinary 8or gery in all its branches, and am th only one in the county, all on or address me at Vilas, N. . R. F. D.l . a. H. HAYES, Veterinary Surgeon. 17-'ll. Experiments conducted for sev eral years in Cuba have shown that Sea Island cotton can be grown there successfully. A New York department store uees 14 electric dumb waiters, al controlled by a single operator from a central switchboard. PR OFESSIONA L Phone Central oi Winklers. 15 '14 ly, Silas M. Greene, JEWELER Mabel, N. C. All kinds of repair work done under a positive guar antee. When in heed of any thing in my line give me a call and get honest work at honest prices. rATCH RPAIRINO A SPECIALTY E. S. COFFEY. -ATIOME Al LAW,- BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. Abstracting titles and oitection oi claims a special ll-'ll. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney SPECIALIST syk, bar; nobs, throat and chest EVES EXAMINED FOR GLASSES FOURTH STREET Bristol. Tenn.-Va. EDMUND JONES LAWYER LENOIH, N. C, Will Practice Regularly in the Courts ol Watvvga, 5.1 'ii. L. D.LOWE Banner Elk, N. C. T. A. LOVE, Pineola, K. C. LOWE & LOVE ATTORNEYS-AT-LAVV. Practice in the courts of Avery and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to ail matters of a legal nature. 7-6-12. 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. 6-11-1911. E. F. Lovll). W. R. LoTlll Lovill & Lovill -Attorneys At Law--BOONE, N. Special attention given to all business entrusted to their care. . v, , .v Ii 'V, .v- Ui': .-.-I'V' S Hi 1 mm
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