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.r f.y. v": . ; f- .it.'' : VOL. XXVIII I500NE WATAUGA COUNTY, THURSDAY JANUARY 18, 1916. NO. 18. - ' ' .t::-.i TP' food Situation In Germany. Recent issues of German, Lon don and Swiss newspapers throw considerable light on the food situation in 'Germany. There seems no doubt but that public opinion in Germany is becoming much more irritable on the pro position though this does'tinean tojsay the populace will not en dure even greater hardships if they are forced on them, There is much complaint in the cities a gainst the producers. Now the farmers and their wives are show ing some resentment against this. The agricultural class has proflted'Jinancially. : A .recent ar ticle written from Hungary says that in the rich agricultural coun try many great fortunes have been amassed by plantation own ers. One of them recently was criticised for giving an entertain ment at which .'500 musicians and performers '.from Budapest were sent for a private porform mance. The Berlin bread com mission is bavin difficulty satis fying applicants who insist on re ceiving more cards. The potato supply furnishes most anxiety, apparently. The crop was first thought to be larger than usual; but later figures have been a dis appointment. The, Berner Bund prints that the per capita pota to allowance until Aug. 15 1917, was first placed at a pound and ' a half daily, but later was re duced to three-fourths of a pound until Jan. 1. Country folks are to, get One pound a day during January and February, artd a pound and a half thereafter. Per sons doing hard, manual labor are to get two pounds. It is said that the grain harvest is good. Rice, barley and oats are larger than usual. . Under the new milk regulations active Nov. 1, the daily supply ofBurlin is 300,000 quarts a gains'1,000,000 quarts before the war. After children and inva lids are supplied, thejsurplus milk is Jskimmed for making butter and the skimmed milk distribu ted to those having milk cards. Every article of food is careiul ly collected. Especial regulations were issued as to nuts which con tain oil. Butchers sell sheep feet, which are then boiled with vege tables for the slight neutriment they furnish. There are conflicting reports as to the effects of this regime on the 'physique. An examination of 1,055 Bchool boys by a physi cian, of Jena showed no bad ef fects. In one case reported, how ever, there was a slight reduction in weight. There has been an in crease of 8 per cent, iu the death rate at (Berlin, which some at tribute to mixing bread with po tatoes, The state of health of the women of the luboring classes, old persons, ..consumptives and. those suffering from anemia or nervousness is growing daily worse, according to one of the physicians quoted. "In addition to the lack of food psychological depression, the shortage of sleep and the overexertion also ac count for this," be says. Of course such conditions make it more and more difficult for the government. But in the war there is always unrest of one kind or another among the population. Germany and its allies went through the first year of the war when their crops were bad. It is unlikely that they will be forced to surrender by the present situ ation. However, the case may beworse than we know. It is . quite freely, admitted at Berlin, Veina, Sofia and Constantinople that peace is desired. How much the willingness to treat now is inspired by knowledge that the population cannot stand the suf . fenugs .until another harvest ' comes in is the question. The al- Tbo Weekly Press. It is estimated that fully 300 weekly newspapers will be forced to suspend publication during the next three months unless the situation created by the present high prices ofwbite news print paper is relieved. It is known that for several months past ma ny weeklies have been published at great Ions, and the predicted end cannot fail to arrive if relief is not forthcoming. It is no exaggeration to say that the rural communities of the country that now support weekly newspajwrs can ill afford to lose such publications, for they are vital factors in community life. In its own quiet, but effective way the weekly press has been the tireless exponent of commu nity ideals, filling a mission which the great dailies of the country could not hope to discharge. The editor of a country weekly often scores where his big brothers of the city falls because ho has his baud ever on the pulse of the section lift serves. He shares its sorrows and its joys; its needs are his needs and its prosperity is his prosperity. So when tho country editor writes on local af fairs, he addresses his family, so to speak, and all hear him and feel with him. There can arise no question of a local nature with which he is not thoroughly con versant, and his readers, as they she ild, ' expect him to express himself clearly and firmly on ev ery matter vitally affecting the interests of his immediate sec tion.. The country editor's read ers care but very little what he may think about the war in Eu rope, and still less are they con cerned as to his views on New York politics, but they do want to know his views on religious, school and other questinons that closely touch their daily lives. In fact, the country weekly is a sort of family institution in the rural districts and in the small towns. Breathinc at all times the spirit of its Dwn people, and pieading and working ever for community uplift and progress, the weekly press has filled a mis sion peculiarly its own, land one which it cannot abandon with out resultant loss to its constit uencies. Certainly it deserves a better fate than to be pushed to the wall by circumstances which it had no part in creating. The Ashevillo Citizen. Prefers Chamberlain's. "In this course of a conversa tion with Ciiainbfilain Medicine l.'o's. representative today, we bad occiision to discuss in a gen eral way the merits of their dif ferent preparations At bis sug gestion 1 take pleasure in expres sing my estimation .of Chamber lain's (Joujrh Remedy. 1 have a family ol six children and have used this remedy in my home for years. 1 consider it the only cough remedy on the market, as 1 have tried nearly all kinds." Earl C. Rose, publisher Hatuil tou County Republican-News. Sy racuse, Kan. Male and female slaves were sold publicly in the fairs of Eng. laud during the fourteenth cen tury. Eighty-Seveu Years Old. II. 11. Adams, Springfield, Mo., writes: 'I hud u severe attack of kidney trouble. I am getting old, H7 years. I tried different treat meats, but none did me ho much good as Foley Kidney Pills." Foley Kidney Pills build uu weak ened kidneys, help rid the blood of acicirf and relieve bluddertrou bles. Soldeve.y where. lies, no doubt, have information on this position. They have not claimed the ability to win the war except by forces in th field. If there has been; uuy market changes in the situation, we have not been informed. Ex. Manufacture, of Radium. The manufacture of radium that would have cost in t he opeu market more than a million dol lars, has just been completed by the bureau of mines, Department of the Interior, the greater part of which has beeji turned over to the great hospitals for uho in the treatment of cancer. This was done under an agreement With the National Radium Institute, which supplied the necessary cap ital, amounting to $300,000, to develop a more economic meth od for the manufacture of radi um from the cornotiteores of tlie West. i The National Radium Institute was organized for the purpose of studying the curative properties of radium, and not for private gam. TUo institute supplied the carnotite-bearing lands and the plant and machinery and the bu reau offered to develop the radium-making process, being influ enced by the fact that there were 75,000 deaths each year in the United States from cancer. Alto gether eight and one-half grams of radium have been made for less than $40,000 a gram. The market selling price for radium has been from $100,000 to $120,. 000 a gram. The bureau of mines spent $35, 000 in developing this process and will receive as its share of the co-operative agreement with the institute at least $100,000 worth of radium, which will be used for scientific purposes. The methods of extracting radium that have been evolved have Deep patented for the benefit of the people and may be used free ly by any one in the United Stats. The late Dr. Joseph A. Holmes started this good work. Land mark. Tbo Sheep ar.d the Doj. The Lenoir Topic' tells of a Caldwell county farmer who real ized $28.80 fromh sheep weigh ing 149 pounds, and the raising of which had cost not over $5. This The Topic submits as evi dence that the farmers would find the i sheep-raising industry "a profitable one." They aware of this fact, but no intelligent farm er iu North Carolina is going to embark in any such undertaking until the legislature is bold en ough to pass a dog law tax. A $2 or $3 tax on every dog would soon fill the hillsideH and valleys of North Carolina with flocks of $28.90 sheep. Charlotte Obser ver. C. V. Reid of Portland Oregon, owns the wort's champion butter cow, says the Americau Jersey Cattle Club. Her record is 2 pounds of butter a day for a whole year. TESTED AND PROVEN. There is a Heap of Solace ia Being Able to Depend (Ipoi a Well-Earned Reputatoa For months; Boone jf readers baveseen,the constant express ion of praise for Doan's Kidney Pills and read about the good work they have done in this lo cality. What other remedy ever produced such convincing proof of merit? W. II. Crews, railroad conduc tor, North Wilkesboro, N . C, says: "I have taken Doan Kid ney Pills off an on forthree years and have always found them be neficial. Whenever my back Hches or feels stiff, a few doBesof Doans Kidney Pills stops it. 1 advise anyone who has kidney ailments to give Doan's Kidney Pills a good trial. I know from exper ience that there isn t anything equal to them and I always keep abexonhand." Price 50c at all dealers. Don't simply nsk.for a kidney remedy -get Doan's Kidney pilla-the same Mr. Crews had. Foster Milburn Co., props. Buffalo N. Y. Wants to See Blowing Rock Pike a Free Roai Lf noir News One of the biggest things the county could do when it does get to work on good roads would be to buy out the turnpike and make it a free road, is the opin ion of Mr. A. H. Hartley, of Hud sou. Mr. Hartley was here on business the first of the week and he spokeof the increasing inter est in the county for building a system of good roads through out the county. "I have always been opposed to bond issues." said Mr. Hart ley, "but I realize now that thru a bond issue will be the only way we will ever be able to build any good roads in the county. Mr. Hartley spokeof the Love lady roads and the result of the Lovelady commission. Then he spoke of the Blowing Rock turn pike and the great need of it be ing made a afreeroad. Mr. Hart ley says that the road from here to Blowing Rock is too valuable to Caldwell county and to Le noir to be a toll road. "Think of the tons ol produce and the thou sands of dollars worth of busi ness the people across the ridge bring into this county," he said. "That is the most important road in the county, and I want to see it county-owned and a free road to everybody. The Reformatory. The Observer learns that the fight for a State Reformatory for Delinquent Women is to be re newed at tho present session of the Legislature. The movement was of approval by the last Gen eral Assembly and it passed the bill that was presented for its es tablishment, but passed the bill without an appropriation, an action which proved a great dis appointment to tho advocates of the movement in all parts of the State. The necessity for this re formatory has not diminished with the passing of time, but his rather increased, and the hope is entertained by the parties who have beeen diligent in the pro motion of the enterprise that the present Legislature may re-enact the law and couple it with an ap propriation that will insure its establishmeht. Charlotte Obser ver. Dr. W. T. Paul, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Raleigh, committed suicide by shooting himself. BANK REPORT. Following la the report of the con dltlou of ValleCruois Bank at Valle Crucio, in the state of florin Carolina at the close of business Deo. 27, 11)1(1 RESOURCES: Loans ami discounts tu4.li04.ft8 Overdrafts Secured 400 20 BankliiK House 1,1)04.82 Furniture and Fixtures 1,000.01 Due from Natioual banks 0,870 62 Due from Banks and b'kra .M)7-U1. Cash Items 2Hl.:i2 (iold coin 75.00 Silver coin, incliidiufr all mi nor coin currency lou.Va National bank notes and oth er U. B. notes 455,00 Total $10,149.41 LIABILITIES: Capital stock paid in 10,000 surplus fund (100.00 Undivided profits less current expenses and taxes paid 222.80 Notes aud Bills rediscounted 6000.00 Deposits subject to check I0.85il.04 Time certificates of desposit 10,010.50 savings uepotiiis 1.U4Q.U1 Cashiers ch'ks outstanding 2.40V.V7 Total 40.14U.41 State of North Carolina, County of Watauga tt. I, L. M. Farthing, cash ler of the above named bauk, do sol emuly swear that tho nbovo tctate tuent is true to the best of my know ledge and belief. ' , L. M. FARTHINU, Cashier. Correct Attest: H. B. PERRY BARAHW.WAOjiHa' D.F. Mast " Directory. Subscribed and sworn to- M ore me this Vth day of Dec. 1010. W, H.MAST,.P. The Rorla Schools. JThere is one paragraph in there port of State Superintendent of Education Joyner, in, which is submitted the biennial ) recom mendations, that will strike a note of popular 'npppoval, be cause of the fact that it suggests a larger share, of attention to the fast developing rural school system of the State. Doctor Joy ner "urgently" recommends an increase of at least $25,000 a year in the State appropriation. The enrollment and daily atten dance have rapidly increased. In 1911 the enrollment in these high schools was 0 514 aud the daily attendance 4,71G. In 1910 the enrollment was 10,379, and the daily attendance 7,873. Doc tor, Joyner argues that these schools are the only means of placing high school education within tho reach of the vast ma jority of the country boys and ?irls, of giving them prepara tion lor college and better pre paration for citizenship and life. The cities and towns of the State lavejpublic high schools, and the country people ought not to be compelled, to move to town to, get high school advantages for their children. Without an in crease in the State appropria tion for these rural high schools it will be impossible to meet the increasing attendance and the in creasing demands upon those al ready established, or to estab lish others where they are badly needed, for the establishment of which numerous, applications are on file. Charlotte Observer. Gan We Hold Them? The official announcement that ten hundred and six vessels were added to American registry in 1910 is encouraging as far aH- it goes. But how math of this ton nage will remain under the Amer ican Hag when the return of world peace shall have restored world shipping conditions to some thing approximately normal, un. less, in the meantime, our navi gation laws shall have been so amended as to permit American bottoms to compete tor the o- cean-carrying trade on some thing like terms of eqnality with foreign competition? This is the real question, and Congress can not be too prompt or too ener getic in giving it the full measure of cousidertion which it richly de serves. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Homer Peele, of of Rayboro, Pamlico county, has been ap pointed teller of the State Treas ury, succeeding A. II. Arlington. resigned. Mr. Peel was cashier of the Rank of Pamlico. Buffalo Bill has gone to h i s longhome, and with him Ro mance has passed. Shades of the lighting men of old, times grow dimmer as the last of their race quits the earth. He was almost a legendary character before he died; but as the earth closes over him the golden haze of song and story centers round his head and crowns him with a halo that will shine as long as the story of the winning of America has power to quicken the pulses and stir the imaginations of the gen erations that are yet to come. Buffalo Bill is not dead; he has onlo begun to live in history now, instead of earth. Greensboro Daily News. CASTO R IA v-. a m.i, j x vi i ma im ouu vuutucu. In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of PROFESSIONAL E. Glenn Salmons, Kesident Dentist. BOONE, N. C. OftWat Critcher Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 0:00 to;i3 a. iu; 1:00 to 4:00 p, m. Dr.G. M. Peavleiy Treats Diseases of the Eye, Ear Nose and Throat BRISTOL TENN., 1 15 '14 ly, E. S. CdFFEIf. -AnoItbEl ' A1LAW, LJONEN.C -Prompt attention iriven to ill matters of a legal nature. Abstracting titles and collection ol claims a special ty. ll-'ll. Dr. Nat. T. Dulanej - SPECIALIST - ) TB, EAR; KOSK, THROAT AND CHKBT HYKS EXAMINED ton GLASSES FOURTH STREET Bristol Tcnn.-Va. ED? .TXi .NT) JONES LAWYER LENOIR, N. C,- Will Practice Rcirnlarh in the Courts of Watauga, U '11 L. D. LOWK f. l. LOVK. Burner Elk, N. C. ' PlueoU, N. C. LOWE & LOVE ;attorneys-at.law. Practice in the courts of Averv and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. 7-G-12. F. A. LINNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, BOONE, N. C. Will practice in the courts ol Watauga and adjoining coun ties. 5-11-1911. VETERINARY SURGERY. When in needoj vet erinary surgery call on or write to G. H. Hayes Veterinary Svrgeon, Vi las, N. C. 6-15-16. B. F. tovill. w. R. IotII Loyill & Lovill -Attorneys At Law- -BOONE, N. d Special'attention given to all business entrusted to their care. .. . .. T. E. Bingham, Lawyer . BOONE, - - .2- . . N.C "Promptattention!given to nil matters of a legal nature Collections a specialty. Office with Solicitor.F. A. LIa ney 0, ly. pd DR. R. D, JENNINGS RESIDENT.DENTIST ' N Banneiw;Elk,1N.1C. ' . d"At lioone on first Monday of every month for 4 or 5 days anu every court wi-ek. Umce at the Blackburn Hotel v : ' -.mi ft "V.
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