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i t" v . - '-.I VOL XXIX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY MAY 23, 1918. . X J L A. . A. A. . ' Av A. . 1A THE BESEBTER. Charlotte Observer. ' Toward the latter days o! the Civil War "the desirter" was a much discussed institution in al most every community in the country, and the custom of har boring him by relatives and friends wan the cause of much bitter feelings and in a few in stances, of tragedies. The hid ing places of deserters were dark ly hinted at by the people of the neighborhoods, and sometimes these places were raided, but as a general thing the occupant had been warned in time to escape. It sometimes happened however, that the deserter was captured and in such event he was parad ed as something worse than a criminal. In the minds of the children there .. was created a wholesome fear of the deserter and he was a, character the wo men stood in awe of. The pres ent war seems to be producing its quota of deserters an item in the Monroe Enquirer brings re minders of Civil War days. That paper makes the statement that "four Union County men are de serters from -the United States Army and are in hiding at or near their homes." The Enquir- er sa.vs these Uesertors are being fed,, sheltered and befriended, and those who are shielding them know that they are violating the law in doing so." The Enquirer "regrets" that it is called upon to make such a disclosure, but does so from a sense of duty, be cause "every person who gives aid to these deserters is a disloy al man, and is not only disloyal, but is a violator of the laws." Those who had argued that the deserter was a product of an unenlightened age and of unin telligent environment will be con funded by the record growing out of the present war. It will not be contended that this is not an en lightened age, or that the envi ronment of the American citi zen is not far better than it was half a centry and more ago. The deserter now, as in all ages past, is the product of a cowardice born of war. He would rather in cur the detestation of his neigh borhood and live' the life of a hors thief of an outlaw than to go forth and fight for his coun try. We would iuiHgine that the phycologi&t could want no better subject for the operation of his analytical faculties than is affor ded in the deserter and the life he is forced to live. In some neigh boring cavo, in some qld barn, in garret, 'or outbuilding, he lives m concealment from day to day, like a bunted animal, afraid to venture out in day tine, and un dertaking forays for food or vis it to friendlv homes under cover of darkness; nerves strung to the highest tension and his every fae ulty alert to the slightest possible noise that might indicate the coming of any one of the thou sands he is constantly imagining is on his trail. His one ever-pres ent though is how he may con tinue to avoid capture while the war is eoing on. It is doubtful if he ever thinks of the life he must lead when once He eme'ges from biding of how he will be forced to live that life which he has poe siblv saved only as a deserter could have saved it. But why why should not the Man With out a Conscience emerge from hi dingaod againf mingle with the people after the war 'la over? What would such a man care for the scorn of a communty, so long as he could continue to ex ist with a whole hide? The deser ter mdy live to a good old age- it is of record' that some have done so but he can never out live the dishonor he brought up on himself or regain the respect he hat lost It has never been of DAY OF TASTING AMD President Wiism Rfwlajw Day if Ha niliaticB, Fasuf is Prayer. Thursday, May 30, National Memorial Day, has been designa ted by President Wilson as a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer. The 'people of the nation are aked to gather that day in their houses of worship and pray for the victory of the American armies. The proclamation follows: "Whereas the Congress of the United States, on the second day of April last, passed the follow ing resolution: " 'Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives con curring) that it being a duty pe culiarly incumbent in a time of war, humbly and devoutly to ac knowledge our dependence on Al mighty God and to implore His aid and protection, the Presi dent of the United States be, and isthereby requested, to recom mend a day of public humilia tion, prayer and fasting tojbe ob served by the people of the Uni ted States with religious solem nity and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety of our cause, His blessings on our arras and anpee dy restoration of an houorable and speedy peace to the nations of the earth.' "And whereas it has always been the reverent habit of t he people of the United States to turn in hamble appeal to Almigh ty God for his guidance in the af fairs of their common life. "Now, therefore, I, .Woxlrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby pro claim Tnursday, the thirtieth day of May, a' day already frei ghted with sacred and stimula ting memories, a day of public humiliation, prayer and fasting, and to exort ray fellow citizens of all faiths and creeds to assem ble on that day in srheir several places of worship and there, as well as in their homes, to pray Almighty God that he may for- give our sins and shortcomings as a people and purify our hearts to see and love the truth, to ac cept and defend all things that are just and right, and to pur pose only those, righteous acts and judgments which are in con formity with his will, beseeching Him that He will give victory to our armies as they fight for free dom, wisdom to those who take counsel in our behalf in these diys of dark struggle and per plexity, and steadfastness to our people to make sacrifice to the utmost in support of what ic just and true, bringing us at last the peace in which mens1 hearts can be at rest because it is founded upon mercy, juticeand good will." Mr. David R. fearer, who has been for several months in the service of the war department at Dayton, Ohio, has been transfer red to Kingsport, Tenn., where he has charge of construction, purchase of materials, supplies, etc., for the million dollar chemi cal plant now iu course of erec tion at that point. Lenoir Top- ic. Try This For Sour Stomach. hat slowly, masticate your food thoroughly. Eat but littlr meat nud none at all at suppee If you are Btill troubled with a sour stomach take one of Cham berlain'sTablets before goinn to bed. Adv. record that he has done that. Certainly, there is nothing that could afford the psycologist a more profoundly interesting sub ject for 'study than the life the four Union county deserters are living. Tiki til Sivt uA Ian. university News Letter. '. The people who eave are the people who have forethought and self-den yiug power. But most peo ple have neither, and we are be ginning to know pretty definite ly how large a fraction of popu lation the thriftless represent. They are right around nine tenths of the people of every communi ty and county, state and nation on the globe. Or so various in vestigations show. One-tenth of all the people own nine-tenths of all the wealth of the United States, is the state ment with which the Federal Commission of Industrial Rela tions startled the country in 191G. Just about one-tenth of the people of the United States have taken nine tenths of the Liberty Loan Bond 8. Their purchase in Durham represents less than ,3 per cent of the population. Just about nine people of every ten live from had to mouth day by day; with nothing saved and laid away or invested. Only about one-tenth of the people who die leave property enough to call for an adminis trator. The business of probate courts concerns the wills of just about one-tenth of the commun iby death roll. Just aoout nine men in every ten do not have money enouah to bury a dead wife orchild with out going into debt, said one of the undertakers in Raleigh some years ago. All of which indicates that jus' about nine people out of every twn lacs tue property owning vu tues, some one or more or all of them industry, foresight, self-denial, sagacity, sobriety, and integrity. They are homely virtues, but they are very rare. Thirty Years Act Gemaiy Planmi to Invade America. Did you know that more than thirty years pgo every student of Militdry Science in Germany was. required to submit a plan for the invasion of the United States, as a part 61 his training? An American student who is the author of this statement says that you may be sure that there are many well-worked out plans for the invasion of the United States, reposiug safely in the archives cf the German General staff, ready for use the moment there is any chance of carrying them out successfully. Can there le any doubt as to wnose war tnm it is tuat we are fighting? It is not a war for the defense of France, Belgium, of it aly, but it is our war in defr nse of ourown lives and safety. We cannot longer shut our eyes to the fact that Americans ara figh ting for America, and the soon er we learn this lesson thf better it will be for us. Forgot What He Needed.' From the Republican, Mt Gil iad, Ohio. The editor had an in teresting experience some time ago, when a young gentleman came to this office aud asked for a copy of the Morrow tou nty Re- fiublican. He scrutinized it care ully when a copy was banded him, and tbeusaidi'NowIkuow.' "What is it you are looking for," we enquired. "My wife sent fne utter a bottle uf Cnamberlain's Cough Remedy, and I forgot the name t went to several stores and the clerks named everything in the line on the ehelf except 'chamberlain's. I'll try again, aud I'll never go home without rhamberlHin'8 Cough Remedy." The Republican would sugpeit to the proprietors of stores that thev post their clerks, and never let them substitute. Customers lone laith in stoees where substi tuting is permitted, to eap noth ing of the injustice to makers of good goods and the disappoint ment of customers. Adv. Tbi Bojs Via Eatrali Next Saturday. . Following is a lisf of the Watau ga boys who will leave for mili tary training at Camp Jackson, S. C., on next Saturday: john Floyd warren john oakes Charles xiccoy Wilson ' iven cook stacy Moody -Robert castle Frank l wood ring Ben n''x Wallace Aid ridge Bun A nodges Daniel Webster iiutchioson Don Thomas nob shell solomon Townsand Thomas lirownlow iwece charles William Taylor ltobert Lee calloway waiter c Miller carl Everett Byes Daniel William Phillips d h Eggers willard Edgar Day virgil arady carroll william Lafayette cole oscar cook waiter story w crobett McNeil John noiner Beach charles c Rogers preston n sisk Robert Filmore Guy collia Eugene Pearson w g Francum Wesley o Stephens charlie Isaacs Granville Hawkins Kennith Payne johile Eggers nonal oliver Noah Townsend aeorge Washington church Albert Henderson walser Thomas Jefferson walls Arthur l Jones charlie watson Cornelius Talmage Hartley Alvin Theodore cannon james warren vines carl Marion Eller Thomas Asbery weaver ALTERNATES william Donnelly uilson Edward noneycutt jueper Layfatt story satnuel Edward nay john g nuer Farmers Set Apart Fields To Win War. Recently a request was sent out from State Headquarters to tLe farmers of the State urging those who Lhad failed to plant "Extra Acres" or "Victory Acres", toded icate an acre or more already planted to the War-Saving Cam paign, and the requt st empha sized the fact that it was to be one of the best acres that should be given to the cause of winning the .war. The farmers have done the big thing, many of them, by going a step further and sotting aside whole fields for this pur pose. Thoy say that an acre is not enough, and that thev are willing to make a greater eacri flee and Jgive whole fields and crops to win the war. At a recent War-Savings meet ing iu Wilkes County many far mers pledged themselves to set apart aud cultivate fields, of one or more acres, the proceeds of which they will invest in War-sa vings stamps in the fall. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN WATAUGA CO Blowing Rock: Every Sunday morning 10:30 and 11: Boone: Fi: stand Third Sun da 4:30 p. in. Shulls Milln: Fourth Sunday 4:00 p. m. J. N. ATKINS. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASXORIA Billy Jones By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. Billy Jones maybe your son or tba son of a neighbor was Id the front line trenches In Franco when the Get nan bombing party was driven back. His enthusiasm to tet the Boches car ried him over the top of the- trench, and at the edge of Mo Man's Land a Ilun bullet got hlra. A comrade maybe your boy crawl ed out Into No Man's Land and brought Billy Jones back to the American trenches. Other comrades carried him back through the maze of trenches to dressing station, where his wound was cared for. A medical department ambulance carried him on to the Held hospital. . From there Billy Jones was taken to the base hospital, and there a Bed Cross nurse your Red Cross nurse Is tenderly, carefully, smilingly nursing him back to health again so that ho may not have to pay the extreme sac rtflce that we that you and I and our neighbors may enjoy the blessings of freedom. There are half a million of these boys of ours In France today and more going "over there" every week. They are there to wage the supreme conflict of the world with the brutal forces of autocracy that democracy, our heritage, may not perish. We want these boys of ours to come back to us, and It is the Red Cross men and women our Red Cross men and women who will bring thousands of them back who would not otherwise come If our dollars will but keep them there to minister to these boys of ours. They are but doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves. BANK STATEMENT, Following is the report of the condition of the Wntut.gu bounty Hank at ,oone, IN. V nt the Man of Noi ti; Carolina, at the close of business May i , 191b', KHSOUIU'liS. Loans and discounts $70,105.29 Overdrafts secured 3T4 06 41 Unsecured Hanking house Furniture and fixtures Due from Nat. banks 058.84 ZjSoO.O') 1,000,00 i5,702.Sb' Due fiom State Banks and Bankers 471.46 3,497. Gold coin, Silver coin, including all minor coin currency 1,140.9 1 National bank notes and other U. S. notes 4,37300 I'otal $300,223.44 LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid in 44,100.00 Surpius fuud, 4,410.00 Undivided profits, less cur rent, expenses and tax paid 6,722.33 Deposits subject to check Ii7.76S.77 Time certificates of dep. , 109,809.06 Savings Deposits, 13,822.73 Cashier's cks. outstanding 3,590. S5 Total $300,223.44 State of North Carolina, Watauga county, ss: I, (i. 1 Ilagaman Cashier of the above named nank, Jo solemnly swear the above statement is true to the best of ni) ti'Owltdoe and belief. 0. T. Hagaman, Cawhiei'. Co rifct Attest; N. L. Must, W. C Coffey, L. A. Greene Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me thus 17 day of May, l'.)l. W. D. Farthing, C. S. C. PROFESSIONAL E. Glenn Salmons, . Resident Dentist BOONE, N. U. Office at d itcher Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: , 9:00 to.t3 a.;m; fcOO to 4:00. p. in. ED7UND JONES LEJNOIU, N. C, Will Practice Regularly in the Courts ol Watauga, 6.1 ii L. D. LOWK BaiuiL-r Elk, N. C. T.'A OVK, Pineola, N. O j LOWE & LOVE ;atto rne ys-at-la vy. Practice in thecourta of Avery and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. 7-6-12. F. A. LINNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, . BOONE, N. C. W'illlpractice in the courts o Watauga and adjoining coun ties. Ml-1911. VETERINARY SURGERY. Wlwnjnlneed of vet' erinary surgery call on . or write to G. H. Hayes Veterinary Svrgeon, Vi las, N. C. 6-15-16. E. F.JLovill. W iR. I ovU Lovill & Lovill -Attorneys ATj.Law- -B00NE, N. G- Special attention given to ail business entrusted to tneircare. T.E. Bingham, Lawyer UUONE, N.tC i"rrompbHtteution'.givpn to nil mutters of a legal nature Collections a special t v. Office with Solicitor F. . ;i.io ney O.ly. pd. DR. R. D. JENNINGS RES1DKNT.DENT1ST Banners Elk, N. C. ' At Boone on first Monday of every month for 4 or 5 days and every court ek. Office vt the Blackburn Hotel. JohnL. Brown Lawyee. ; BOONE, - . . N.JC. Prompt attention given to all mattersjofa legal nature. Co' lections a specialty. Office with Lovill & Lovill, WATCH AND .cIEWELRY done at this shop under a positive guarantee & a material used 18 guaranteed to be genuine. Estimates furnished on all mail orders. Satis Taction guaranteed in every respect on all railroad watches. Office nearthe Watauga fio. Bank. Q ,1. W JN Giadute Jivulfrscd Vaiclnik BOONE, N. O. .'!' VI 'i . ; . ' ' ':'! -I V,V.). K,. V s ' . ....
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