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Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF. BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year VOL. XXX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. THURSDAY AUGUST 2ft, 1919. NO 46. I I , if State News Briefs, State Superintendent Brooks issues a statement that emergen cy certificates will no longer be issued by the state. Teachers who have made no effort to im prove themselves professionally within the last year will have to content themselves with second grade certificates, if they teach. The North Carolina Good Roads A ssociation in sessionat Wright ville Beach went on record again in favor of a state system of roads; the fight for a system of roads connecting the county seats and other important towns, built at state expense, will probably be -renewed at the special session of t ie legislature next year. Com missioner Page, who before his appointment as hend of the State Highway Commission, it is re ported, had attended one good roads meeting, had attended one good roads meeting, was pres ent, and confessed that he did not know what kind of roads the State should build. He propos ed a series of eeriments ex tending over a leriod of ten years in order to lind out. M. L. Shipman, State Commis sioner of Labor and Printing has been appointed Federal Director of Labor. At the last session of . th? Legislature, Mr. Shipman presented a child labor bill which w as not to the liking of certain manufacturing interests. The manufacturers succeeded i n writing their own child labor law, and in placing its enforce ment out of the hands of Mr. Shipman. Now Shipman is giv en what Host calls a "real labor pb." The main factory of the Nissen Wagon Works at Winston Salem was destroyed by 'tiro on the twentieth. Three hundred wag ons in the course of construction were burned. The loss is estima ted at $130,000. L. Richardson, of Greensboro, died on the twenty-first in San Francisco, Cal. He organized the L. Richardson Drug Company and the Vick Chemical Company. On the twenty-first the State Supremo Court licensed fifty nine lawyers. Among them are Geo. M. Sudderth, elected Cash ier of the Peoples Bank & Trust Co., Boone; and W. IJ. (Bill) Aus tin, of Ashe county, a graduate of the Training School and of the State University. The bankers of the State held their annual meeting in Winston- - Salem from the '21st to the 23rd The tight in the State between capital and labor continues. Just now High Point holds the 'center of tho statro. The tight here, as it has been elsewhere, on the part of the working-men. is. for the right to organize. Union work ers have been dismissed by the factory owners.. The workers have retaliated by inaugurating a system of picketing;. Up to the time this is written they have used persuasion rather than force in their efforts, to prevent ofier laborers from working, ' The end is not yet, but.it is a safe prediction that the manufactur era will finally be forced to yield Summer Complaint in Children There is not-anything like so many 'deaths from ' this disease now as before Chamberlain s Col ic and Diarrhoea Remedy came nto 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 fully K) out of every 100 ca es recover. Mr. W. O. Campbell pf Butler,.Tenn., say. "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Chole rv and diarrhoea. Remedy ; fo r Hummer complaint to children. It is far ahead of anything I have ever used tat this purpose, A Lower Tax Rate. Many people do not understand the spirit and purpose of the re valuation of property now being made.- The following extract from an editorial by H. B. Var- ner in the Lexington Dispatch states the case clearly and fair- "We often hear good citizens say that they are glad to see an- attempt to equalize taxation but they are afraid that the amount of taxes is being raised. "The bill creating tit? Revalua tion Act, was really and truly proposed by a committee outside the legislature, eomposedof some of the leading men in both politi cal par.ties, one of which was Hon. Frank Linney, Chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee. This bill was intro duced in the legislature, was carefully considered by a com mittee of Democrats and Repub- icans, and was passed by a una nimous vote of both Houses; that is, it was voted for by every Dem ocrat and every Republican in the legislature. "No sensible man should have any doubts about this contract being carried out with the people of North Carolina when the lead ers of both the great political parties of the State unanimously entered into a solemn contract with the citizens of the State that if the citizens wffl honestly put their property on the tax books at its true value in money the leg islature shall be called together during 1920 and the tax rate re duced so that no county, no town, or special tax district may be al lowed to collect more than ten per cent increase in taxes in 1920 over 1919. "No one should worry about the legislature carrying out this solemn contract with the people. If either political party should go back on this agreement, it would mean political suicide; if any single member of the legis lature should attempt to repudi ate this solemn agreement, it would kill him so dead that He would never be heard from again. It is a well known fact that men who have political ambitions are not likely knowingly to commit suicide." Breaking In Two. Nowhere in the world except in rare spots, does the farmer en- . -t i i i joy the same educational laein- ties for his children as does the urban citizen, even the most com mon laborer, who pays little or no taxes. It is manifest that this condi tion cannot continue. Either the country as a whole will provide, regardless of expense, the same educational advantages for the children of the farm as well as for those of the city, or we can not maintain our average citizen ry upon the land. If the actual resident upon the land is inferior, then we shall one day break in two politicall asRus sia has broken. In any event, our land will not be well managed and the future will be insecure. E. Davenport, dean Illinois Col lege of Agriculture. You can do some tilings next week, but some you cannot. So don't wait, act now! Insure your house before it burns. Insure your health before you get sick. Insure your life before you die for then it i everlastingly too late. T sell the best wlicies at uni versal rates. . GEO. F. BLAIR, Blowing Rock, N.-C. The Confederate Reunion. The Confederate soldiers of the county met in their aunual reun ion Thursday and Friday of last week. Only 19 answered the roll call. A few who might otherwise have attended were detained ly. duties at home. Several are phy sically unable to come to Boone. Seven have died since the last meeting. These are Robt. Mast, Frank Miller, G. P. Gryder, T. A. Cable, D. F. Baird, J. I. Brad shaw and Wm. Coffey. The first day, after a short talk by Capt. E. J. Norris, a song and prayer by the chaplain, Rev. L. D. Cole, was given to the elec tion of officers, to the appoint ment of committees, and to short talks- by various members of the camp. The officers for the next year are Captain, E. J. Norris; 1st Lieut. R. H. Farthing; 2nd Lieut. H. A. Davis; 3rd Lieut. W. D. Norris; 4th Lieut. Wyatt Hayes; Adjutant, W. W. Presnol; Sargeant Major, J. W. Holsclaw; Quartermaster and trjpas., W. C. Coffey; color bearer, D. C. Dug ger; Surgeon, Dr. J. B. Phillips; Commander-in-chief, Capt. E. F. Lovill. Capt. Lovill, the only Confed erate soldier in the Legislature stated that he secured the pass age of a bill increasing pensions 50 per cent. Bynum Holsclaw, a soldier of fie world war, related in an in tsresting wayhis experiences in Europe. The second day was devoted mainly to a memorial service in honor of those who had died. Occasionally the old fellows for get their gray hairs and turn boys again. On the first day of the reunion W. W. Jestice.a Con federate veteran, was charged with failing to take a piece of to bacco offered him by a drummer, and his tial by court martial set 'or the second day. He failed to appear, lie was tnereupon ior- mally charged with desertion, and his trial set for the first day of the reunion next year. Ho is aereby watified to appear at the court house in Boone on that day. Capt. E. F. Lovill be Judge Ad vocate; D. U. migger will prose cute; W. JJ. .Norris ana James Arrant are witnesses. Most of these old men are get ting pretty feeble, their numbei is rapidly decreasing, but they thoroughly enjoy these annuil meetings.. "As long as I live and there is one more said Unck Dave Dugger, "if he'll come ovei on Brushy Fork, we'll have a re union." We hope it may be a long time yet before Uncle Dave has his reunion with just one other left. To the Teachers of Watauga County. '. Having been elected Superin tendent of Public Welfare forthe county of Watauga, and not be ing able to discharge all the du ties of this office of Co, Supt. of Schools, I have employed Prof. Roy M. Brown, of Boone, to as sist me, especially in the enforce ment of the compulsory attend ance laws. All teachers of the county will send their reports ol nbnattendanee. to Prof. Brown instead of me; all other reports to be sent to me. SMITH HAGAMAN, Summer Complaint Quickly Re lieved. . "About two years ago when suffering from a severe attack ol summer complaint, I took Cham berlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and it relieved me almost instantly, writes Mrs. Henry Jewett, Clark Mills, N. Y. This is an excellent remedy for colic and diarrhoea and should be kept at hald by every family. The Biggest Gold Pice!. The Kansas City Star tells of the biggest gold piece made .by the United States Government in an interesting manner as fol lows: What is the biggest gold coin minted by Uncle Sam? All hands go up. Everybody knows. A $20 gold pieceof course. But everything's wrong. The biggest gold piece 'weighs .thirty pounds and its value is $7,200. It is a brick of gold, about the length and width of an ordinary building brick, but not so thick. Bankers use these bricks ex tensively to settle balances and exports of gold are commonly made in this shape. In 191 7 (tho last year for which figures are published) tho mints of Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver, and 'the Now York essay office manufactured $11, 000 worth of these gold bricks. One may judge, then, how wide ly they are used. You can buy one or more of them at anv of the mints and sub treasuries-if you have the money to pay for tliein. The treasury estimates thai about 70,000,000 worth of (hem during tlio present year will be used in the arts -that is to say, for making jewelry, for gold plat ing, for gold loaf, etc. These "merchants' bars," as they are called, are worth more, weight for weight, than an equi valent quantity of ordinary gold coins, for the latter are one-tenth popper, whereas the bars are pure gold-i. e., .999 "fine" which is as nearly pure as they can be made. If you want to buy the gold brick from Uncle Sam, you must pay for it in gold bullion or in gold coin. But this is not the dif ficulty, because now that the war is over, you can got gold coin at the banks or at any sub-treasury in exchange for paper money. Gold bullion as it reaches the mints from the mines, contains impurities. The. first thing done with it is to molt it, to f roe it from earthy matter and other foreign substances; then a meas ured qimntity of silver is added to it and tho mixture is burners ed in a bath of nit ric acid. Tho acid has no effect on the gold, but dissolves the silver in to liquid that looks like pure wa t3r. This limpid "liquid that look's ike i,pu re water." The limpid li (i iiid is drawn off, leaving the gold at the bottom of the tub, fhe precious metal thus purified resembles no much fine red grav el. To got rid of all moisture, the gravel is subjected to pressure, and on coming out of the squeez ing machine appears in big cakes resembling in shape angel foot cakes. Those cakes are worth about S2r,(XX) each, and one could afford to pay 2,000 for a slice of very mode rate size. This is the material out of which the bricks are made. The cake stuff is melted in a crucible from which it is dipped out with ladle and p aired into iron moulds. When' cooled, the moulds are unlocked and taken apart the precious metal then appear ing in -the form of bars. When the gold is wanted for coinage one-tenth part of copper is mixed with the "melt." The resulting oars are sliced oy ma t chine into strips, which are put under a powerful roller' and squeezed to just the thickness re quired for the coins. Then tin st rips are passed beneath urninc which cuts out of thorn the blanks for the gold pieces that are tobe Stockholders Meet An enthusiastic meeting of the stockholders of the Peoples Bank and Trust Co. was held in Boone on last Friday, August 22, and after the usual preliminaries, a permanent organization was es tablished by electing Mr. T. L. Mast president and T. B. Moore, secretary. The meeting then proceeded to business and on motion of Mr. John E. Brown the following gen tlemen were put in nomination and unanimously elected to serve as a board of directors for the new bank: H. W. llorton, J. A. Lentz, T. H. Coffey, Ira Critchor, L. Mast, R. C. Rivers, ami G. M. SucTdorth. On motion of Mr. G. M. Sut orth, the following 'committee on by-laws was elected: John E. Jrown, W. I). Farthing and John iOWlS. The capital stock being over subscribed, it was moved and carried that the directors be em powered toproportionthcamount of stock to bo issued toi each sub scriber whose application for took amounted to $.VX) and up. No further business being bo- ore the meeting the meeting ad journed sine die. Immediately following the stockholders meeting the direc- t rs met and elected the follow ing gentlemen as officers of the ink: T. II. Coffey, president: . L. Mast, vice-president, G. M. Sudderth, cashier. Every effort is being put forth to have the above named bank open and ready for business on Monday September 1, and every indication suggests a successful areer from the start. A Public Welfare School. What has been termed a State and County Council, composed of representatives of State a n d ounty administrations, headed by Governor Bickett, will assem bio at the University of North Carolina !Scpt. 4!j, for a week's study of recent State legisla tion with a view to carrying it in to effect. It will bo held under the auspices of tho Governor, and the University in connection with tho State Doimrtment of Educa tion, the State Board of Health. the Board of Public Welfare, the State Tax fomniision and the Stale Highway Commission. It is expected thot there will bo brought-together at this mooting a thousand K'presenlatives of con n ty officers, including County Com missioners, members of Boards of Education, Juvenile Court Judges, Superintendents of Pub ic, Welfare, uoad Commission rs, Tax Assessors and others. Tho press of the State will Ik' urged to attend. Longing and meals will be furnished by the. University at 1.25 per day. Tho meeting will bo, in fact, a Univer sity extension course in applied civics and public welfare. NOTICE OF SUMMONS. North Carolina Watauga Count y. In the Superior court, liolorc the clerk. T. E. Bingham iiml wife .illie 1 iinir- liaiii, Jns. II. Bingham. W. II. Biog hntn nnil wife Bessie Bingham, Vcria Haves unci husband Until v Haves. Minnie I'rosncll ami husband Vuiieft I'rosncll, Cov Bingham. Kalh Bing ham, Mary Bingham. Kiith Bini'ham, Albert .Uinluuu ami f')lliot Bingham, tne last thivn named hv their next friend John h. Brown against Paul Madron, Ruth Madron, Horace Mad ron and Ethel Matlron. The defendants in the above entitled llr.tirin will t n nnnpu thnf nn tlin V' day of July 191!), u summons in said nction was Issued by O. L. Coffey, Clerk of the Superior Court for v. a lauga County, the plaintiffs asking for the sain of land for pnrcition, in Watauga county, North C'arolinn, in which defendants have on interest, which .summons is returnable on tin 2.th day of August lilltt. Tito defen dants will also take notice that they tt"-e required to appear and answer or demur to the petition of the plaintiffs at me time and place named tor tin return of llje summons, or the relief dunanded w ill be granted. 'I'll is L'.'li'd day of July IM. O. L. COFFEY, C. S. C NOTICE. He it remembered that a meeting of tho commissioners of the town of . Boone was held on the 4th day of Aujrust 1!U9, when and where were prelflit I. U. Greer, M. B. Blackburn and F. A. Linney, commissioners and T. B. Moore, Mayor, when and where tho following proceedings wei-e had: That petitions having been filed with the clerk asking for street im provements to, no mauo iy local as sessments, to wit: asking that a side walk of. concrete be constructed along the South side of King Street from Blackburn's property beginning at the branch, vest of said property and continuing to tho Baptist church. thence on the east side of tho street leading from said church to L. L. ' Critcher's store, pussing to tho east side of said storo to the public school house lot; and on tho North side of King street from the east corner of the court house lot to the west corner of Dr. J. W. JoneS' lot: and on east ide of the street from King Street to the depot, and on south side of the street from King Street to tho town limit at Dr. Bingham's, and tho said petition further showing that tho ab utting property owners desired that the town pay for ono half the cost of tin-said side walk construction nnd the property owners ono half .the cost thereof and the clerk having investi gated tho sullicieney of tho said peti tion and the extent of the property ef fected thereby, and having submitttd he same to the said commissioners. who lind, First, that the said petition is sutlieicnt; Second, that the said pe tition is signed by more than n 'ma jority in number of tho owners of all the lineal feet of frontage of the land abutting upon the streets proposed to , be improved; Therefore be it resolved by the board of commissioners of the town of Boono I hat concrete sido walks be construc ted ulong the streets as above set forth according to the plans and spec ifications set forth by our engineer that the said walks be built on a four inch rock base, and from four to nix feet w ide, and that tho work be done i.v contract under tho supervision of our engineer, and that tho town pay for ono half of the cost of construc tion and that the abutting land own ers be,' and are hereby assessed one half of tho cost thereof, tho said assessment to be made out when tho work is completed, as provided by lW. Be it further resolved that coupon bonds in the sum of five thousand dol lars be issued by tho said commission er for tho town of Boono and sold as the law directs to defray tho said ex pense incurred by the said town in building the said side walks, and that said bonds bear a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum, per annum. 2. That the said bonds be issued in denominations of $1,(100.00 each and due and payablo as follows. First bond payable Jan. 1, HKiO and one bond of ona thousand dollars each year on Jan. 1 until the year 1935. ;i. That a tax .sulllcicnt to pay the Interest and to provide for a sinking fund be annually lefied and collected. 4. Tnat a statement of the present indebtedness of the town and the as sessed valuation of the property sub jivL to taxation by the municipality lor the throe llscal years in which tax- rs were last lovied, be .tiled with tho hoard and sworn to by the treasurer of the town. u. J nut the buna t.ii!tii i a cou pon iiiuui, t-itcii in tne sum oi cno ihousaiid dollar:), sinned by tin: may or ol the said town und the secretary hereof, and seahd with the corpo rate seal thereof: tho coupons to bo signed by the m.ij w. This ordinance shall take effect up on us passage, rassed in regular mui ting by a unanimous oie ol tho . oiumusiontM's on tins iih uay ol Aug ust lttiy. F. A. LINNEY, M. It. BLACKBURN ' 1. O. GBEEU Commissioners. T. n. MiX)HK, Mayor. The commissioner having let tho contract for the building of the said side walks, before sale of said bonds and it being necessary to borrow mon ey lor said worK until saiu oonus are sold, the treasurer Is directed and em powered to borrow an amount not ext reeding 4,(HM.0ll for said work, for 30 flays or longer if necessary, not ex ceeding 00 days from the Watauga Counry Bank or elsewhere and have the town's note executed therefor. On notion it is ordered by tho board that u concrete culvert be constructed by our contractor across tho street at tho branch -near the depot, and that the work be done according to the plans and specifications of our engineer anil ' under his supervision. It is further ordered, on motion, that the work on the side walks begin at the branch west of Iilackhnms on the south sidu of King Street. It is further ordered on motion that the county teams be employed and tho county twuk force bo employed to do tho grading on the streets and side walks at such places as the engineer may direct. That a rock culvert be constructed across the street at the branch below the jail and that said Ureet be graded by the county road force, if it can bo employed. - . h is further ordered on motion that a copy of the resolution above set out lie published in the Watauga Demo crat for 30 days. On motion the mee. ing adjourned. This Aug. 4, 11)19. F. A. LINNEY, M. B. BIACKBUKN . 1. O. URfcER, Commissioners, t '. T. B. MOORE, Mayor. :Mm-1 1 8tfD Ooli UG H t VP int Urn A
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