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VOL XXX. tfOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. G, THURSDAY , DECEMBER 7, 1918. NO. 9. COUNTY EXHIBIT: Map, 1918, ;. (fontujuAl fruniJasli week.' MB Blackburn agent for c Bunt ley 8 1 5, a l; Btory agent fo w e oW.itiM3 00, O L story agentfor 8 itb Cook 6 IK), ZB9iown agent for M walker 6 00," L M Hodjces apmt for o tai ber 6 00, w L Hols houser agent for Maud Hodges 9 00, M B Blackburn fluent for A Beutley 3 97, a Harman agt. for r Harmon 9 QQ,-l o Maxwell agt. for 8 h Black 15 00, i t Hampton agent for-M canter. 9. 00.. J. h Mast agent for N s wiUon300,A wataon agent for t D watson . 0 00, T L Mast ageut for N)Bent ly 12 00, P c Younce agent for e church 4 50, M B Blackburn agt (or Elbert fr,rton 12 OQjohowat son (Agent for chany ; saunders 4 50, h Mitchell agent for w ahull 12 00, cr.HB Perry agent for Nan carter 6 00, t a cox agent for w Bobbins 3 00; Bob sluder agt for Thomas child 3 00, Jerry watson agent wr John oreer 3 00, J p Thomas (agent for, Henry ward 4 50, M L McNeill agent for Floyd McNeill 4 50, T a Cox agent for a watsou 4 50, Mrs. M a shelton agent for Betsy Martin 9 00, l m fiodcrM aoeni for chas. Aid ridge 7 50, M B Blackburn agent for Bentiey una wiie i i ow, v o tuj lor agent for Etneliue Fartbmg 6 00, w J Varthing agent for B ward 6 00, . Wither. Miller agent for Mrs. Bheltop ..10 50, ta cox ageut foro C watson 4 50, rrauk Vines agent for Julia olenu 9 00, puite ward agent for Biiey.pree nell 6 00, V f Hohouser agent for M Hodges and children 12 00, w L Holshouser agent for woilley 10 00, J B Miller agent for c Reese 6 00, Levy Norman county aid 6 0U, Adlie fox cunty aid 0 00 Kaiit Yu i.er couuty aid 6 00. Da vid podges, couuty aid 9 U0, a ward couuty aid 5 25, Hardiu Bix county aid 3 00, cJ&MBarues couuty aid 0 00, J ifferown keep lug county home 120 00, John Earp court house janitor 2 00, w k orapg clerking to board ot Co., com? 33 50, Dr. JW June couuty physician 30 00, w D rai ihiug, c. 8. c., issuing papers vs Avery couuty 2 10, w l Trivett Judge of election 2 00. M B Black burn, nails, broom, etc. forcoun ty home 9 98, Edwards Brough ton for county supplies 43 88, Burroughs Adding Machine co.. Addiug MaVhiue 294 00, w J Far thiug pay for registenug vital statistics 41 25. April 1, 1918. j h Br6wi.,keepiugcountyhome 108 43, a M Mills Judge of elec tion 00, E w cannon two col finsfor paupers 8 00, John Earp court nous janitor 5 00, M b Blackburn supplies for co. no me 18 30. w d Farthing C J. cottrell q a cannon v P Moody T w Adams b s swift IW GrOSS': w h Mast wm. smith j a castle : , H E Greene half fees 32 62 .90 .45, ' 2 25 .60 .45 ! .15 ' 150 ' .30 .30 1 05 .45 nc Brown b j Hodrt8 coffin for Jack Helton 6 00, w p Moody, sheriff, holding rmirt 38 10. Mrs. L E criteher irominir nilltw children 5 00. J M JhOTtU ' Foster state vs ccilcritcher 1 60, Eli IMiller state vs Cecil cntcuei 1 80, .Hamp cook' state V8. Cecil cntcher 2 15, James Pitts state vs icecil Cntcher 1 60, p b shul stace vs John whaley 1 60, c c Sutherland state vs John wnaley 195, e T Sutherland 8tate vs jnhn whale v 2 50. J H. Martin w Vw - - v tate vs John whaley 2 50, wil sou oraybeal state ys John wha. ley 2 50, Floyd Ellet state vs Juo whaley 2 50, R E chvich state vk. Andy .Greene 125, will watsoal state V8 olenn church 1 10, Grant Miller ntafe vs Glenn church 1 25, I sufus jones state vs will church, 1 .05. will Jnnna ntfltn va W rhnrph .95.1 waiter Beach state v will church .95, c e Hagaman state vs waiter cook 1 65, : Fay shell state vs waiter cook 145j Mil. lard watson state vs Affa well bom 1 25, e f Harmon state vs dark Trivett 1 35, Donley Haga man state vscark Trivet 1 35. Jake lsenhour state vs a j Miller 1 75, Eliza Hampton state vs Le on av .95, c. M story state vs Elish Holder, 95, elide underwood siate vs dark Trivett 1 35, A L Batrd travis jnror 580 wade L Greeb i. 6 30, 5 60 5 40 6 30 5 60 5 30 5 80 5 60 5 80 5 70 610 5 30 2 60 4 20 410 4 30 4 70 4 60 4 60 4 60 4 30 3 70 370 350 3 60 290 3 70 4 30 380 4 50 cc church 1 JF church w d Hampton ' J M Day ' DC Mast e r Eggars ' H B woodring .v. L Cisaacs ' c p. Todd jj Smith ' Manly'orsen ' John clawson grand c M Profit vauceBjers ' 3 o culver ' Boby south 1 w h wagner (i w M i in G W JOtlD8on 4 smith Isaacs w l Henson ' ALTriplett ' 8 L uoisclaw ' B a Hartley ' o g ward h m Fry ' w H Glenn ' w 8 Norm j w Harman ' w Main state vs J o Patter 5 20 j h Brown keepiug county home 96 00, T L Mist burial expenses 6f lettie bentley 3 10, John Earp caurt house janitor 2 00. Dr. j w Jones couuty physician 45 50, New River Light and power co. ights for court house 12 40. w p Moody sheriff paid indigent pu pil etc 219 8i), J M Hodgesiudgs of election 6 00, G w Robflina reg ister of election 12 00, Edwards & Broughton stationery for coun fc. 2 00, L8 Bolliuger)mjraber of Bd of commissionefs 30 00, J L olenn member of tie board of comiuiaa'oners 31 20, L A Green member of ib board of commia- siouers 19 40, w j Farthing paid for, r-'gistering vital statistics 5 00, Mrs. l E critcner keeeping uilley children 8 00, June 3, 1918. G 'L Story agent for w E Rob- bins 3 00, o l story agent for smith cook 6 00, z b Brown agt. for Millie walker 6 00, l m nodg- es agent for o Yarbor 0 00, w l Holshouser ag'ut for Maud Hodg es 9 00, a Harman agent for F Hannan 9 00, L o Maxwell agent tor 8 H Black lo uu. (Continued on page two. ) CURE FOR DYSIXTERY. 'While 1 was in Ashland, Kan- sas. a erentleman overheard me Mpeaking of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrtioea iwmedy, writes William Whitelaw, of Ues Moines Iowa. "He told me in detail of what it had done for bis familv. but more especially his daughter who was lying at tne point oi death with a violent attack of rivfiiriterr. and had been given up by her family physician, some of the neighbors advised mm to crivp Chamberlain's Colic and I)i- arrliom Ketnedv. which he did. and fully believes that by doing so saved tne lit" oi m cnua. tie sta'ed that be had also used this remedy himself with equally grat tying results." CtithaGei and Avoi Vast lefinomv n Every Coke Pirsosil lisislsciKis if Ut Civil War 1IS1 ti ms. 8T L. X. PEREJXfl.J (Contiftued.) During the latter part of June '63 there was much activity in our camps making preparat ions for a move of some kind; Ql course it was known only to those high iu authoiity what that move wds to be but from editorials in the leading newspa pers and talk among the soldiers it was understood there was to be an effort made to "push the war into the enemy's country" and it was expected that a gen eral advance would be made nnd shift the conflict into the North ern States and give the Yankees a little taste of the effects of war. The king of provisions issued to soldiers who were to make forced marches was what was familiar ly known as ''hard tack," for bread and raw bacon for meat. The Confederate States was short on factories for making army crackere so Morgan's Command had to maketheirown hard tack A week or ten days before the 1st of July a number of sheet ir on cook stoves together with a lot of flour was brought to camp and men were detailed and put to work manufacturing bard tack which was made up and kneaded with no other ingredients but cold water, and baked in small cakes as hard as could be with out burning. They were then thrown out in the sun to dry, great piles of whbh could be seen stacked around headquarters. So on the first day of July this bread was issued to the men with raw bacon, and each man was supposed to make several days ration out of what was given to him. On the morning of the 2nd day of July we crossed tl e Cumber land river and started on th4 march North. There had been much rain previous to this time and the river was bank full. The men, wagons etc. had to be fer ried over the river and the horses and mules had to swim. I remem ber that some of the mules were too stubborn to swim and were drowned and went floating off down the river. We crossed the river with 2,. 700 fffective men, and two pieces of light artillery known as moun tain howitzers, marching day and uigut, just stopping longebough to feed and eat a bite. Some times we could get corn to feed on but often we would, get wheat which was in the shock in the fields and feed on that. We en countered no opposition until the 4th of July, which came on Sunday that jear. There was a high bridge across Green river, not far trom Bowling Qren, Ky. which was being guarded by some soldiers who were in a stockade on the bluff overlooking the river and country around. The men halted and Gen Johnson who was commanding the advance guard that day ordered up his artillery and undertook to shell them out.' The stockade was built of timber ?et on end in trench with port bolea to shoot out. If the artillery could have gotten iu range they would have been shelled out, but the incline was too great and the shells could not reach t he stockade. This in furiated the General and he or dered the brigade to charge the stockade, whereupon we started in a brisk run but had not got ten more than half, way to them until we encountered an abatis originally started as a lumber of timber felled in every direct-' ing mad, but the possibilities of ion which made it impossible for its extension over the ridge and any one to get through without the bnuging of tbe vast agncul 1 crawling and climbing at a very ' tural resources of that section slow pace all of which time we within reach of the state, were of jvere exposed to the enemies flre., eo appealing a nature that its In about 20 minutes time, seeing we could accomplish, nothing e were ordered backt but not until we had lost 73 men . killed and wounded. Among the number killed wasCol. Chewanet, one a mong the best officers we had. The Orderly Sergeant of the Com pany, to which I belonged, and one of nly best friends was mor tally wounded and -the' man by my side was shot, through the hips, but I didn't get a scrat b.J When we were . back out of the range of their, deadly rifles we halted and abcut this time Genls. Morgan and Duke who bad been in the rear, that morning roue up Gen.'Morgan imraedintely order ed us to a))OUt face and we retrn ced our steps a mile or two and took a neighborhood road, ford ed the river and came back into the pike beyond the high bridge and proceeded on out way. ' About two days lat r we en countered another command of Yanks" at Lebanon, Ky. who gave us battle. They were rout ed but took refuge in the Court house and jail and kept up a fus- silade on us. Seeing we were a- bout to set the build on Are they surrendered, and were put in the road in front of our column and marebfd on until nigbt, when they were duly sworn uotto take up arms again against the Con federate States during the war and released. We did not stop atall of nights and what sleep we got was on our horses, except when we stop ped to feed, and theu we would get a few minutes sleep. About tbe 7th or 8th of the month we arrived at Brandenburg, Ky. on the Ohio river, 100 miles below Louisville. ,Uur scouts had pro cured two steamboats in which we crossed the river between mid night and day and next mormn? at daylight we were at Corodon, Indiana, on opposite bank of riv er from Brandenburg, Ky. (To be continued.) Tbe Tragedy of a Railroad. The North Wilkesboro Ilustlei brings information that work of reconstructing the Watauga & Yadkin River Railroad is sus pended probably until after the sale of that property on Dec. 17, and this calls to mind an exper ience that is a tragedy in thi. history of railroad construction in North Carolina. Tbe Watau ga & Yadkin runs from .ortL Wilkesboro to the foot of the Blue Ridge, east of Boone, its western objective. It traverses a virgin section of the state am. runs through cue of the richer agricultural, timber and tniui'ial territories m tbe entire Sou lb. The builders of this ro.id wer granted State aid in the shape oi asqiiHd of couvi.ts to help in pushing the line across "be moun tain, but when the grading had reached the foot of the ridge and thepiospect s.-mied bright lor an early crossiug andconutcti n with Bovne, the "hands'' were abruptly recalled and work was stopped. Tbon came the flood of July, 1916, and the railbed was washed away almost inMts en tirety. The managers of tie road could not hope State asii tance, but with their own resour ces they set to work and put tl.e line in such shape that it wt:g possible to resume the transpor tation of fi eight. The roud wns just "getting on its feet," when the flood of last August once more put it out of pommisnon. The Watauga & Yadkin was extension was, derided npon. With characteristic short sight- edness, the Legislature 'shut its eyes to the importance of this particular railroad extension and now a railroad has been built' to Boone from Tennesspe and Vir. ginia, at.d the agricultural, 'tim ber and mineral products tbe people of North Carolina have been calling for are going from this State iuto western markets. Someday when this railroad fi nally gets across the ridge the people of this section of North Carolina will wonder that its building should have been so de- layed.Charlotte Observer. Mrs. Violet Hodges. The -jubjtf t of this sketch Mrs- Violet Hodges, was a daugb ter of George and Sarah Moody, and was born and reared cn Cove Creek, in Watauga county. She wbs bom FeU 11, 1837 and died Nov. 14, 1918, aged 91 years, 9 tdontbs and 3 days. She was married to Riley Hodges De ceraber 24, 1854, and was the mother of ten children, her two oldest daughters and youngest son, having preceded her to the spirit land. She profe6c-d faith in Christ at in early age and lived an exem plary christian life ever after wards. She was afflicted with can cer of the face lor the past three rears, but bore her suffering with bristian fortitud. Hr faith in a Savior's love an I power to save .vas strong, and she f r quently expressed her readiness and wil lingness to leave this world and nany times, while suffering un told pain, she clapped her hands wd praised God for his good ness to her. A few weeks before .he died she sang "Jesus Lovei of My Soul." Death had no pangs for her. Those who knew herbest loved htr most liberal, gener his, kind, and she dispensed charity with a loving hand to all in distress. Her life was a mod el worthy of the emulation of all, and her example shod light in the community iu which 'she lived. Long will she live in the hearts jf friends sbe leaves behind. While ier body is mouldering back to its kindred dust, her spirit is re joicing in realms of iight in a Sa vior's love, She leaves an nged husband, four duughters nivl three son .mdinany grandchild itn togiiV' their loss, but our Lss isl eretei - :ial gain. May they uli live true ehrii-tiau lives, and may they -ns t tbe dear mother beyond the river of Death. With sorrowful he irt v.e In id iut mortal iem:nr.s i'"i tie I id at tU'johl family giMve.vai-.', Hers. Ed. U'een and EJ. Iloilj. '8 conducting the services. May the God of comfort bind up the wounded hearts of the dear old i-ompatfion and child eti, and we pray God's blessing upon all the bereaved, and especially nj -ou the jlauhtrtr, Mrs. Teagm, who has cared for her dear im tber so long. One of thn faithful ones las been called up highei; earth has lost a jewel and heaven has gain ed a star. Let us not mourn, but be ready to meet her in the Sweet By and ry. One Who Loved Heu. A BILLIOL'S ATTACK. When you have a bilious at tack your liver fails to perfoin: its functions. You become cousti pated, The food you eat flrraenfc in your stomach instead of diges aiug. This inflames the stomacl and causes imutea, vomiting and a terrible headache Take thrw of Chamberlain's Twblets. The rtill tone up your liver, clean oui your stomach and you will soon be as well as ever. They only cost la quarter. PRO FES SIO NAL., E. Glenn Salmon?, Hcsidrat Dentist. ; BOONE, N.CV L Office at Critcher II.? ie . OFFICE HOURS: v i:00 to 13 . u; 1:00 to iW iu. ED7TLND JOKES LAWYER LENOIR N. f- WW Practice Regularly in !:r Courts ci WntPLp.a, -i II L. D-LOWE UvinwKlk, N. C. T. A OVT, t nwr jpr i rk vi? ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.; Practice in the'eourts 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, t Will practice in the couite o Watauga and adjoining coun ties. 1-11-1911. W. P. SPEAS, M D. PRACTICE LIMITED TO Eye, Ear, Nose and Throa t HICKORY, N. C. OFFICK OVKR HOURS 8 to 18 IIICKOKI DRCO CO. 8 to 5 4.:lLoviU. w. k.iLotH Lovil! & Lovill -Attorneys At, , Law--B00NE, N. C Special attention given to iU business entrusted to neircare. .'. .'. .. T. E.Bingkain, Lawyer B0O.NE..N. C. ST Prompt intention givec t . all mattem ;i Vfr ! ' '. j 0( Mectiycs a .s.:ieia'. y. Office with At torn-, ... itey. OR, fi. D, JENNINGS ivKfinn t Ltxtii-t: Al 000! 0 .J ilH-t iioi. 1J jyery luouih or 4 oi 5 u.j aui every court wiek. OfHce ut the itluckburn Hotel. John L. iiroMii Lawyer. C00NE, . . N.C. Prompt attention giveu to all matters of a legal nature. Co.'. lections a specialty. Office with L vill & Lovil), loncattbi shop under a positive .uftrtutee & ft uatrial rted is guaranteed to be geuuln. Eitlwnte urniihed on all uihII ortit;f. Satie action uarant'd in evr? rwwet on all railroad watebei, Offloe near the Watanga Co. Bank. f. VV.liHYAN . x- ft i. . v i ,1 n nthii.:u JEWELRY ?J
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