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V .--,-3S Advertising Kates on Request. . DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year A VOL. XXX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY JULY 31, 1919. NO 42 if x vf 4 TAPPING WATAUGA. Editor Sanford Martin, of the Winstou-Siilom Journal, while in Bxne on the 115th inst, sent to his paper the following write-up of the town and county, that will be highly appreciated by our rea ders: They say there is some dwubt about this being the highest coun . ty seat in North Carolina. The geographies have long givon Boone that distinction; but New land, capital of the new county of Avery, disjwtos it. Whether Boone is successful in holding its elevation record or not, the time will come when Boone will be the second mountain city in North Carolina. Since the first of June Boone has had excellent railway service to Johnson City, Tennessee. We have seen some larger ones but no better equipped passenger train in North Carolina than the one which makes the run from the capital of Watauga toTennes see and back every day. All that Boone lacks of being a railroad center for Northwest North Car- olina are sixteen miles toconneGt ' with the Southern at North Wit kesboro and loss than that to con nect with the Norfolk and Wes tern at Jefferson. The time is coming when these gaps will be filled. "Watch Boone Boom" will be the slogan then. Nothing can stop her. To a Winston-Salem manitgoes terribly against the grain to see trains pulling toward Tennessee every day. For they don't haul passengers only. There is no finer stock, dairy, apple, andpro duce country in the world than these fertile valleys and moun tain sides surrounding Beone. The famous old pioneer knew what he was about whenhe pitch ed his tent on this creek. This week we have "Forded" it thru Watauga, have seen cattle and sheep on a thousand' hills, the prettiest pastures on earth, the best orchards, something less than a million stacks of whoat, corn fields that would make a Hyde county man green with en vy and land worth five hundred dollars an acre to raise potatoes on at present prices; to say noth ing of the fields of cabbage. It is these products that the freight trains carry to Tennessee It hurts to see one pull out load ed with potatoes, apples, cabbage and cheese. It ought to run the other way. And that is why we are so deeply interested in the Watauga and Yadkin River Rail road. That road has been built some thirty miles from North Wilkesboro toward Boone, and it took a flood and a war to stop it, It will be built on to Boone be cause it must be. The State of North Carolina cannot afford to donate this modern Garden of Eden to tho State of Tennessee. And that is what it will amount to in every way except politically if this railroad is not completed. Nobody up here seems to know anything about when' construe tion work will be resumed. Noth ing has" been done lately. The road has been sold, and it was re ported awhile back that the new owner lias decided to scrap it. that the rails and rolling stock would be sold and the road aban doned. But that will not be done nd for three reasons: In the .first place, there are some sixty thousand acres of the finest white pine timber in the South in the heart of the mountains along thi railroad. The road must stand to haul this timber to market. In the second place, tho State own stock in the Watauga and Yadkin River and the State will never permit the road to be scrapped In the third place, it taps Watau ga county. And Watauga coun ty! Watauga county is crip able of making enough potatoes, cheese, cabbage, beef :ynd mut ton to feed several cities iil.e Winston-Salem. The new cheese industry is reaching enormous proportions in Western North Carolina. Wa tauga is in the heart of it. It was in Watauga that the industry, so far as the south is concerned, had its birth. To Mr. V. K. Farn ham, of theFederalGovernments Bureau of Animal Industry who is working in co-operation with the State Department with head quarters at Boone, and who is in large incisure responsible for the growth of this new industry, we are indebted for the following facts regarding the cheese devel opment. The fix'st farmers' co-operative cheese factory organized in the South began operations at Sugar Grove, a few miles from Boone, in June 191.. It was a pronoun ced success from the start' find provided a market forniilk which the farmers of this mountainsoc tion had never had never had be fore. Since it began business the output of this factory has grown from $l'(500the first year to 24, 000 this season. Since 1915 tairty-four cheese factories, all to-operative, have bean built, with approximately eighteen hundred tanners as stockholders. Eighty silos have been erected, many dairy barns, and ten ourlotids of high bred Iolstein cows., have found their way to thesechcese sections. Wa- tauga county has, eleven factors and in the month of June t h e j man u f act u red approx i ui atcly i)i , 000 pounds of cheese. One of the arge packing companies has sta tioned a buyer here at Boone and le buys and ships four carloads a month, paying cash for t h produce. The otinmted outputof the Watauga county factories a one the prowont season is at east seventy thousand dollars. ind tome declare it will run ns high as one hundred thousand this year. This is tho only section of the south whore choose can be man ufactured with better success than in Wis. and I'enn. where the county has Jieretofore obtained its supply of this rmh'ct. The cheese of Watauga is oven richor than that of Wisconsin, which had the. America u record for tine ehooso until Watauga went into the business. Much )f the cheese made by these Wa tauga factories finds its way to winston-Salem and other North Carolina cities. But cheese can be shipped from Pennsylvania to Winston-Salem almost as cheaply as from Boone. To get to Wiri- ston Salem a carload of dices started at Boone, must go thru Tennessee and Virginia. And of course the same is true of car loads of everything else, from cattle to cabbage, that these pros perous mountain folk have to sell us. My, how the cost of living will drop when we really tap this rich country with a direct line from Winston-Salem via North Wilkes boro to Boone. These cheese and dairy industries are merely in their swaddling clothes now. . Ar rangements have been made for bringing many carloads of Hols teincowsto this section within the next six months. And if the growth of the industry keeps up at the same pace for the next five years as during the last four, Wa tauga county alone will make en ough cheese to supply half the market in North Carolina., Just now the people up hero are not so nuicii interested in ii i i railways as in good roads. We have recently been over as fine a s1 retch of graded highway as we have seen in North Carolina. It is being built from Boone to the Tennessee linev and before long will bo a part of the inter-State highway from Winston-Salem via YiiiUainiile, Wilkesboro and by lioono to Bristol, Tenn. Watau ga isgoing hard toward tne w li kes line. Wilkes is on the job and Yadkin has its link of the great highway within about three miles of completion, and is at work on that. This is destined to be one of the main highways of the State and country. To get into Watauga county now dver a good road it is necessary to come all the way around by Statesville, Hickory, Lenoir and climb the mountain Ihrough toll gates'to Blowing Rock. From Winston Salem 1o Boone over the new highway through Yadkin and Wilkes is almost an air-line. The completion of this thoroughfare will be almost as great a boon to Boone as the building of the Wa tauga and Yadkin Valley Rail road. Willi a gravel road up the mountain a truck line from'Wins- ton-Salem to Boone should prove a paying enterprise. Afier tho grandeur and beauty of these mountains and valleys the thing that impresses tho visi tor most are the elegant country residence's. Nearly all are paint ed white. Many or them are lighted with electricity generated by small power plants on these rfwift streams. Boone is as well lighted as any town in North Car olina. It is supplied with elec tricity from the splendid plant of die Appalachian Training Sohool, which sells sufficient current to pay t he runnhig expenses of the plant and give the school free lights, besides running a mill with tho same water power less than two miles down the creek from i!i wine. Most of the country homes an irge and roomy. They looli prosperous. And no wonder, lor there is hardly a loot 01 land in cultivation in Watauga county that c;:n lie bought for less than a hundred dollars an aero. Most of it. is not for sale at that ft git re. The county people are rich an' getting richor. The county is nrneticiillv rural but the bank de posits run six hundred thou san i dollars, in rJiii there were lossjhun ten thousand. 'Boone, with less than fifteen hundred oeonle, lias one largo hanK and two nioro are being organized The people ii) here are not at al worried over the revaluation They a rc for it. They want a high assessment and a low tax rate for they realize that it will put Watauga on the map as-one of the woj'dthiesl, if not the richest. rural county-in the Slate. ,Th'j biggest thing, in Boone, and in all this mountain country of coirs!, is the Appalachian Training School. One day it wil be the leading teacher training college in North Carolina. It has one ol t he best plants to be fount anywhere. If there is any plaa where students can attendschoo! for less money we have no heard of it. Last year more than four hundred young men and women were taught in this insti tution. This included the sum mer school, which closed a six weeks session a few days a. Rooin is being provided for ma ny more next year. A new dor mitory for boys is nearing com pletioti. It is u handsome brick stricture, well lighted and boa ed by steam. It will house com I fort.ibly a bundled young men in . Good Roads Benefit All. It is singular that people will so often take a narrow view of any public work that is proposed to be done in any community. It is a pity that good people will on- y look at the question of whether the proposed improvement is per- onal benefit to them. The improvement of public roads is one public improvement that must necessarily benefit ev ery one in the county where the work is done whether the road is ocated in one place or another. The farmers are as much bene fitted by tlx) roads, or perhaps more so, than any other class of1 people in a county where good roads are built. There are places in counties that a few years ago it required whole day to go to market and whole day to go back home rom market two days of timu to say nothing of the loss, wear and tear on the man, his stock and his vehicles. In these same counties now some of these same people who spent two days , in going to and from the market now they go oand from the market within two hours of time in their cars with ease and comfort. Their produce is placed on the market fresh from the farm. They receive better prices for it in this condition. Their custo mers who purchase their pro duce are much bettor phused. The people who consume and the people who produce are all bene fitted. Good . loads have in a large in oasu re el i m i na ted d i s tan cos and lavo brought the towns and the country' people "closer together. They make the people of towns and the rural districts have an interest in each other and enable them to see each other as nothing else has done. Tho only person who is not ben fitted by good roads is the man who wants to live all to himself ie does not want to see anybody and does not want anybody to see him - he does not want to pay any taxes, has no use for women and children, no use for schools and churches - such a man is the on ly one we ever hvard of thai would not be benefitted by good roads. Guilford county needs mor good roads. The county of Gull- ford does not have! any of these people who are not benefitted like the one described above. Greensboro Patriot. Summer Complaint in Children There lis not anything like so many ;deaths from this diseas now as before Chamberlain's Col ic and Diarrhoea Remedy came into sueh general use. When this remedy is given with castor oil as directed and proper care is taken as to diet, it is safe to say that tuny yu out ot every luu ca ses recover. Mr. W. G. Campbell of Butler, Tenu., says'. "I have used Chamberlain s Colic, Chole ry and diarrhoea Remedy f o r summer complaint in children It is far ahead of anything I have ever used for this purpose. as gx)d quarters as thbv can find in any college in Nortli Carolina With bigger salaries and the growing demand for teachers the State is beginning fully to ap predate the possibilities of the Appachian Training School Boone now. has a monument to Daniel Boone! Some day it wil build another and a bigger one to the Dougherty brothers, who have made the school possible And somewhere on the shaft should be inscribed the name of Captain Lovill, for many years chairman of the board of trus tees, champion booster of Bxme and grand old man of Watauga. No Soldier Candidates. Washington Dispatch to Balti more Sun. A soldier cannot be elected President of the. United States in tho present stage of American politics. Gen. Leonard Wood's backers recognize this and are preparing to let his boom burst. The first statement is aconclu sion reached by many politicians in 'Washington. The second i3 an allegation made by the back ers of another candidate who, they believe, is scheduled to in-herit-Wood's support. This can didate is Senator Miles C. Poin-dexter. Discounting of the soldier can didate's chances in general hi Washington and many reasons are given, by Republicans and Democrats alike, for the belief that a soldier cannot be elected. Summed up, the argument ap- ears to be: "Tho doughboys won't vote for officers." Vice President Marshall recont- y returned from a speaking trip n North Carolina and SoutWCar.- olina, is definitelyof tho view and gives tangible reasons for it. "I found down there,'.' he said, 'that 1(5 municipal elections had just been held. In every case it was a contest between an ar my officer anfc a civilian and in very case the civilian was elec ted. This aroused my curiosity and I asked soldiers whom I met low they explained it. Almost always they declared their opin ion that their officers were not entitled to any political reward. There was a number of so die rs on my troin coming back. I put tho question to tlm. . . ; 'Well, said one, of them,, '1 nearer expec t to voje for anything higher than a top-sergeant.' 'Same here,' some of the oth ers chimed in. 'It's like this,' said the first follow. "These officers are made out ol the same stuff we are. They went through the same t hings we didsome., of them did. They got commissions,, tlvey'vc got their rank and their honors. Why should we do any tiring uiore for them? 'And listen. I'm a Democrat the same as you are, Mr. Vice President, and the bst , thing that can happen to us lj to have the Republicans nominate Gen. Pershing or Gen. Wovwt!' " There is no discounting the in fluence that the vote -of the .2,- (()0,(X)0 men who went abrond will have, but opinion soums tot e consolidating agains tho idea thait onjy military men can capture Hie vote. It is pointed out thiUt conditions are different f r o 1 ri those following the Civil War The Civil War left great domes tic issues on which subsequent: campaigns were fought for 40 years. Soldiers remained undivi ded politically as the war had di vided them. But the opportunity for such a division, say these ob servers, has not been furnished by the America participation in the European war.' Loss of Appetite. Asa general rule there is noth ing serious about a loss of appe tite, and if you skip amealoronlv at two meals a day for a few days you will soon have a relish r your meals when meal time comes. Bear in mind that at least five hours should always, e lapse between meals so as to give the food ample time to digest and the stomach a period of rest before, a second meal is taken. Then If you eat no more than you If crave anu taice a reasonable am ount of outdoor exercise eveiy day you will not worry alnnit I ... . I j our fippcute. nen me loss or appetite is caused by constipa tion as is often the, cane, that should be corrected at once. A dose of Chamberlain's Tablets; will do it. Pershing's Farewell Message. GeneraJ John J. Pershing, the ommander-in-chief of the Amer ican Expeditionary Forces, the loader of the army which started the Huns toward Berlin and the Kaiser towards Holland, deliver ed the followingjpersonal words to the division as they were a- bout to complete their stay in Europe. The farewell message ? was issued from General Head quarters in the form of an order being General.Order No. 3& A? It follows: Now that your service with the AmericanExpeditionary For ces ii about to terminate, I can not let you go without a personal word. At t he call to arms, the patriotic, young manhood of A medctt eagerly responded and became thq formidable army whose decisive victories testify to its efficiency and its valor. With the support of the nation firmly united to defend the cause of liberty, our army has execu ted the will of the people with res olute purpose. Our democracy has been tested, and the forces oi autocracy have been defeated. To the glory of the citizen-soldier our- troops have faithfully ful filled their trust, and in a succes sion of brilliant offensives have overcome the menace to our civ ilization. "As an individual, your part . in tho world war has been an im portant pne in the sum, total of our achievements'. Whether keep- inj lonely vigil in the trenehes, or gallantly storming the ene my's stronghold; whether endu" ring monotonous drudgery at the' rear, or sustaining the fight ing line at the front, each has , bravely and efficiently played his ' part, By willing aaoriflce or per sonal rights; by cheerful endur ance of hardship and privation; by vigor, strength and indomita ble will made effective by thor ough organization and cordial co rporation, you inspired the war worn Allies with new life and turned the tide of threatened de -feat into overwhelming victory. ''With a consecrated devotion to duty and a will tooonquer,you have loyally serwd your country. By, your exemplary Conduct a standard has been established mnl maintained never before at- tail bed b,un urmy. With mind ami "body as clean and strong as the decisive blows you dplivered agaPaist the foe, you are soon to return to the pursuits of peace. In leaving the scenes of you vie--tories, may I ask that you carry home your high ideals and con and continue to live as you have served I an honor to the princi ples for which you luvve fought and to the fallen comrades you have left behind. "It is with pride in our suc cess that I extend to you my sin- cere thanks for your splendid 1 service to the army and to the Anation. jSummer Complaint Quickly Re . lieved. Abont two years ago when Lsuffering'.from a severe attack of .summer complaint, 1 toon cnam berlain's Colic and Diarrhoea iRemedy and it relieved me almost instantly," writes Mrs. Henry Jewett, Clark Mills, JN. x. mm is tin excelle nt remedy for colia .and diarrhoe a and should be kept at hand by e ery family. BDR'iSO'l DRUG GO. EWLAXIUNC. Lh-ugs .&DMjgist8 Sundries , A cninpfe te line vt ivibt m ticM. M.uil ofi th piveii prompt fttteu tion. GIVE LSaTKiAL. i U a I J I 'mi 1! v Ms 11 v. III :f If'Vt - m Ii' Hi 1- 1 '1 r,i 1 .Xr -V
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