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SI Advertising Rates on Request. devotf:d to the interests of boone, and watauoa county. $1.00 Per Ye VOL. XXXI. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 4, 1919. NO 8 . -if Ml -4 LIT l The New Idea in Coal. The technical papers have been recently engaged in a discussion of new and inexpensive process es whereby the by-products' of cial may develop into an impor tant economical factor in the op eration of large manufacturing and public utilities plants. The claim is made that the value of these by-products would amount to a practical nullification of the coal bill. It would not only off set the price of coal, but operate to its conservation. "The new idea" is generally worth investi gating by the interests which it is claimed to benefit andnodoubt nri'-afp and public concerns us i j,;, mi ye tonnage oi coal will in a short time be reaping the pro portionate advantages from the by-p-nd'icts of coal, as the pack ers are securing from the by p 'oilMets of cattle and the cotton aj i; ii plants from tlie by-pno-du"tr of enuon. in tlrs connec tion The Observer has received a lett.r from John Floniniingof'JpO 'West 127th Street, New York, wlii 'h has aroused an honestly hope! ul -curiosity. It suggests tin1 utilization of the coal ashes th'1 people have been throwing away and skives "a formula" by which these ashes can be return e i f tho furnace in the shape of f u i '. !''! mining indicates thaiL ib nothing new, as "the experience of thousands who hive tried it goes to prove." It is a little strangd, in view of the grat possibilities claimed, that k,, : ": oi 1 he process has not be :! 'I'i'iu general. But why " be si , i h1 without reason? 'The ex r liieio is a simple one and t.ie experimenter, at any rate, could lose nothing by giving it a trial. For the enlightenment of our readers and fortheirpossible ben !lt. we are quoting from Fie :uiiiiig o letter: 'In view of the threatened coal famine this winter, I have the following suggestion to offer to save fuel: The idea is to take tie ashes that we are now throw ing out, and after treating them t) a simple chemical preparation, to return them to the furnace and obtain from them as great, if not greater heat than we did from tie coal itself. And this can be done, as the experience of thous ands who have tried the experi ment goes to prove. The formu la for this chemical preparation is as follows: Take one pound of common salt, two ounces of oxali ac id, and one gallon of wa ter, mix, and moisten a mixture containing one partcoalandthrea ashes, and a better fuelthanpure coal is obtained. The.ashesof an tlirasite coal burn as do those of bituminous. The mixture wili up 0.1 being placed upon a burning fire, fuse into a coaklike mass and deposit but little residue." It is said in explanation of the chemical action of thiscompound that when an aqueous solution of alkaline salt is mixed with coal ash, the result is that a mild lye is formed, which, when mixed with any combustable material, such as coal, and iqxm the appli cation of heat, gives off oxygen gas, thus enabeling rapid combus tion. The addition of oxalic acid causes a chemical changeof grea ter value than the first, for the reason that it results in the for mation of a carbide, which In turn gives off acetylene gas, this adding to the intensity of the heat, and facilitating complete combustion. It is impossible up on moistening a small quantity of ashes, without the addition of coal, to really detect the odor of acetyline gas, and if the treat ed ashes are placed upon a light ed lire, they will fuse and burn The Fourth State. The astonishing statement of Major Graham that North Cao lfna is going to rank fourth this year in agricultural products will be a pleasing surprise. Last year when N( r h Carolina climbed up so 'close to Georgia and passed other famous farm states of the Union we could only hope that the state had made one remarka ble record, and we could be con tent if we could hold a part of the gain. To make still further gain when so near the front is out of the ordinary. Last year's crops ran consider ably above half a billion dollars. Major Graham thinks the total this year will run closer to a bill ion than to half a billion. Tobac co 'is probably, to be the leader. The Commissioner estimates this crop at $200,000,000. The main feature in the tobacco crop is the price. This has climbed steadily upwards until dollar sales are very ordinary. Along with a high price is a largercrop. Therefore the farm wins on two counts this year. Thisyieldis the largest ever known in the State, and the price is the largest ever known. The two factors togethor give the largest amount of mon, ey ever realized in the state. We can go farther .than that, and say that the tobacco crop this year will bring more actual cash to North Carolina than all the crops produced in a year ever brought in a single year prior to the war. The cotton crop, according to Major Graham's estimate will not be so large as that of last year, although the ginning re ports show that cotton is coming in quite lively. But the price is much higher. The cotton crop alone, counting the cash value of th(f seed and the lint, will bring to the state close to a hundred and fifty million dollars. Cotton being another cash crop, this will add enormously to the tangible income of North Carolina. Besides these two strictly cash crops are the big farm crops of wheat, corn, pork and the arti cles that are used largely , for home consumption, or. the loc al or state markets. While these do not add up in the total figures that go to the bank, they count for just as much in production and help to show the enormous tiital made by the North Carolina farms. The smaller cash crops will add to that which comes f rem tjbaccoand cotton. Alltogetht r the cash crop will run well up to wards half a billion dollars. The State that can beat that has not much company, News and Ob server. You can do some things 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 yeur life before you die for then it is everlastingly too late. I sell the best policies at uni versal rates GEC. F. BLAIR, Blowing Rock, N. C. to a tine powder, Mr. Flemming states that this compound has been used in ma ny large industrial plants and mercantile institutions, and these claim for it that "it has reduced the fuel item more than half." As a matter of course, it could also be used by householders with a little inginuity. The Observer i passing the idea along. Perhaps some of the thriftily inclined may be moved to experiment and re port results. Charlotte Observ er. r.ev. Lorenza Dowe Cole. R v. Lo;enza Dowe Cole, our departed brother, was born in Grayson county, Virginia, March 24, 1 -43, and died at his home in Watauga county, North Carolina, Sepombor 1C. 11)19, aged 7(5 years, 5 months and 21 days. , Brother Colo was was a local prea'her in the M. E. Church, Smith, for 25 years, and at the time of his death he was expect ed at Fleetwood, to assist the writer in a protracted meeting, but the Master said "Come up higher. He was united in marriage to Miss Martha A. Miller on Aug. 15, 1809, and to this union was born 13 children, the wife and nine children. He gave his heart and life to Jesus and joined the M. E. Church South when only 14 years of age, and adorned it with his ministry and Godly life, for twenty-five years. But death has taken him away. The seasons come and go with unfailing cer tainty. Day follows day, and the night succeeds the morning un der the absolute and definitelaws of the Universe. Everything, ev ery being, every material object which has life and growth, has its beginning and its end. It is born, it lives and at last dies. Death is tho cessation of life. , It is a natural and a philosophical change. It is the Harvest-home of humanity, the Reason of rest. It is the glorious horizon of eter nal peace, beyond whose shining drapery exists through theat for ever, where every soul m u s t claim its everlastinghome. When a child is born, the thought is, "What will he be?" And when a raun dies, the question is, "What has he been?" Rev. L. D. Cole was our brother, our friend. What has he been? God will mea sure him by his own just bal ance for time past and for eter nity to come. We mention him as we knew him. We measure him by his life, which is before us, 'and we cherish him for his humanity and kindness in life, which we know and which we loved, and for His earnest pray ers and faithful sermons. Thecri sis which he has met and passed awaits us all. Can we meet it as he has done? Can we stand at the opeiv door of an endless future and cast all doubts and fears a- si le? Can we ennoble our lives by tlie nobility with which we lay .it down at last? We bear upon ou r hearts, tender with sympathy, the sorrows of his bereaved fain ily. May they feel beneath them t'-le Everlasting-anns. May they be kept by t he pea.:e the p.'aco of God-thut passoth alIunuVr standing. OLIVER D. STACY. Tne "Brass" of The Hun. The "brass" of the Hun has al most ceased to excite interest. It is so common that one is hardly surprised at any proposition a German may makeThat accounts for the f.t that so little notice was takea of tlie story from Her lin the other day that the Span ish embassy, in charge of Ameri can affahs mi Germany, wasover- whelmed with applications from German ar.ny officers who want ed commissions in the American army. Some of these commission seeking Huns saiid that they could be of value in "teachingthe American how to fight." One would think that recent expert enees might have suggested to the Hun that the American dou ghboy is a pretty fair fighting man, and that possibly ther are not so many things that Fritz can show him. But pretending not to understand that isnomore surprising than the proposal that War.ts to Put Men In Gay Colors. A man garbed in a lila ;k frock coatn. ruffle, apnirof piukhrecch os and bright-colored stockings very likely would evoke astonish ment if not ridicule were he to stroll down Fifth Avon no or Broadway, but Honry Pa rices, hailed in London as "the hidden hand in men's fashions, declares, according to a dispatch from London, such restoration of color and line to men's dress should be a logical and altogether prop er aftermath of the war. He is seeking to revolutionize men's dress-to popularize the "gallanC styles of bygone days. His creed is that men want to cast off their darkunsympathet- ic garments of gloom and wear clothes of bright hue and bril liant cut expressive of a new age of heroism and romance. "Volunteers wanted, 1,000 sportsmen of good social position to wear upon a given date new fashions for men designed to bring back color and line into masculine attire." This was the gist of a request the apostle of the now.era of "ro mantic dress" sought to have in- SM'ted in Ijondon papers. 10 convince newspaper representa tives of his sincerity Mr. Parkes exhibited fifteen sample suits, or rather costumes. The "call for volunteers" was printed, but tholastcommuniqu from Mr. Parkes' establishment was to the ell'ect that the desired war strength" of 1,000 had not yet been recruited. Trick Played on Sheriff of Yadkin. One of the most shameful and cowardly acts perpetrated in Yadkinville in many days, was unsuccessfully undertaken a few days ago when some party or par ties undertook to u; 3 unlawful material to try tointimidate Slier ilf J. E. Zachery. They first went and placed a regular retailer's outfit in Mr. Zachery's barn under some strawandina place not usually frqouonted, "then proceeded to report it to the revenue officers. Before they arrived Mr. Zachery found the outfit, which consisted of a five gallon jug with about one quart of whiskey in it, a ey- phon and several bottles, Mr. Zachery took the outfit in charge and told several of the leading men bore of his find mid said he believed it ""is a trhp sot on ac- count of his untiring efforts 1 j breik up the blockadi.ig in this Sc'CtioM. Sur.1 enough, in a few days a coup!.; of officers ft iu Wilkes- boro came along with a search warrant for hs burn. He told them to help themselves but he h I laitnd what tliey were looking after a:id t!vv could have it if they want.'d it. ' This is plainly an attempt on the part of Slieti f Zi'Mory's en emies in eo.ijjivjtio.i wit'i the li quor dealers in this section to in timidate him and perhaps put him to trouble, but t'leir efforts failed. They will probably learn that such blunders as this will not chock the. sheriff in the dis charge o his duties, he says. No body, even the sliert'T's enemies, believe he would retail whiskey at any price and the people of this county would naturally re? sent any such brute blunders as this, and the sheriff knows who they are, and the people of Yad kinville knows who done t h trick. You can't fool a public in such a manner. Yadkin Ripple. America should put a bunch of German officers in her army. States ville Landmark. Tiny Chose the Man. . Now that all is over and there has been time to assess results, including causes and effects, we are convinced, first of all. that one thing happened in the Ninth District: The Democrats of that District, when they came to s'o. led a candidate to Congress, vot ed for the man, not for the coun ty or the city. 1 f a county or a city had been running for con gress Mecklenburg and Char lotte undoubtedly would have won. But as two men were run ning the people decided for Hoey rather than McCall, without re gard to tlnvgoographical location of the residence of either. Peo ple have a way of doing that. Why, it hasn't been many dec ades since the Eighth District Republicans of this State went to Greensboro and got a candi date for Congress. Mr. Hoey's majority makes it very clea r that he is the one man the Democrats of the Ninth Dis trict want as their representative in Washington. We believe tho elect ion will show that the people of the district are of the same mind. Mr. Hoey is known in ev ery precinct of the district. t He had t hat very enormous advan tage over his opponent in - the primary. The vote shows that he was as popular in several oth er counties as in his own county of Cleveland. His opponent could make headway only in the county where he lived. And there, as The Journal predicted would be the case, the people did not get together unanimously. The thing that gave Mr. Hoey the nomination will also give him the seat in Congress made vacant by the resignation of Judge Webb. Hoey is a man of the jieople. He came up from the people. With no family "pull" or theadvantage that goes with wealth he has fought his way to leadership. The people know him, but better than that, ho knows tho people. The people trust him, but better than that, he trusts the people. He fights in the open. He is pro gressive. His opponent, Mr. Morehead, is also a high toned gentleman, lie is a man of great wealth and large business interests. He is an experienced politician. But he has one big handicap. He is known as a reactionary, standpaf Republican. It is hardly concei vable that a District that has kept a man like Yates Webb in Con gress for years would now turn down a progressive Democrat like Hoey for a reactionary stand- pat Republican like Morehead. Winstoii-Saleni .Journal. Bumper World Crops Estmaej. A dispatch from Washington says that bumper world crops of corn, potatoes, barley, rye, sugar beets and rough rice for this year are shown in ostiinatescoin piled by the international insti tute of agricultioatRoino, made public by the department of ag riculture. Tho production of oats, wheat and flax seed, howev er, show a decrease from the av erage for the live years ended in 1917. Wheat productiopin 14 coun tries, excepting the central pow ers, will reach 2,04O,r.O9,OOObush- ejs, 915.") per cent of the five year average. Corn will amount to :U2C,1H0(X), 14. per centgreat or than tlie 'crop produced last year and 4.4 per cent greater than that produced for the last live years. Other crops, the de partment cablegram shows, are estimated as follows: Ryo 1G9, 414,000 bushels, 124 per cent five year average; barky, 550,090,000 bushels, 101. B par cent; oats 2, Remarkable Nerve of Methodist Preacher. , The Wilson corrosxndont of the Greensboro Daily News, tells V this remarkable story: , ;"i "A preacher of the Methodist onference,' in session here whose barges are on the Roberdell cir cuit in Richmond county, is a man ! of remarkable nerve. Seven years ago, betore entering the ministry and wlnle living with his uncle, v who is a physician, a horse ran A away with him and threw him - out against a tree stump by the road side. His head came incon- ' tact with a big stump, rendering 4 him unconscious for a while. On recovering he went home a foot and for 15 months he had a con- tinual headache. 1 1 1 "From time to time his uncle ; ,v made an examination of' the 'if wound on his head, which failed ; to heal and assured the sufferer;.- there was no fracture. Finally the preacher concluded to make ?! i personal investigation of his iondition and soon found with the aid of two mirrors, a pen- knife and nerve, that his uncle " had been mistaken as to the na- -; ture of his wound. 11 7. "Placing a small mirror in his V lap he seated himself in front of ; a larger one which he arranged ', hi such a manner that he could s see the top of his head and with the point of a penknifesoon found ?f that his skull was cracked." 'He Mr. cut around the fracture and took ;iy out a piece as largo as a silver dollar, and almost immediately me pain ion mm. tie refused to have his head trepanned, and it quickly cured, leaving a round s jar a quarter of an inch deep ; and nearly as large as a dollar." ' ': James Stucky Says, "Rat Cost Me $125 Tor riumoing Bins." "VW (onldntl ti'll whnt vn i.lmrUi. ' up our toilet and drains. We had to tear up lloor, pies, ete., found a rat nest, In basement. Thi-v hurl olmlrcil tin? pipos with refuse. Tho plumber's dim was ifi.'.). uat .Snap cleaned the rodent out." Three sizes, 2.rc, 50c, $1 Hold and guaranteed by L. L. Crltcu er. Report of the condition of The Watauga County Bank ut Uoone, N. ('., at tho close cf busi ness Nov. 17, 11(11). KKSOl'KCKS ' Loans and discounts W.I,.U'!.10 ' m.2i :t,o.V(.oo 2,740.(10 Overtlralts I J. K. and Liberty bonds Itsoikinjr houses Furniture and llxtutv.s i,,xw.io Cash in vault and net amounts clue from Hunks, Hunkers and Trust Companies 1M7.049.71 ( 'ash items held over 24 li'rs 2042.15 Total 1X151 ,427.21 UAIUUTIKS ' Capital stock paid in 940,100,00 Surplus fund 12775.00 I nuivuleu profits, less cur rent expenses & taxes paid 1 1 ,44R.fU Deposits subject to check .TU.lKlS.tW Time certilicutes of deposit. 12,401.11 Suvini's dciioslts iu r.n iiu Cashiers c'ks outstanding 11,025.5 Total $051,427.20 State of North Carolina, county of Wa. aura. f, C. 1'. Ilagnman Cashier of the above rained bank, do solemnly .,' swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and be lief. fl. P. HauamaN) Cashier. . Correct-Attest: . ' l N. L. M st W. C. Coiw-Y ! H. H. Douohkkty, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to hi fore mo, this 25th clay of Nov 101!). W. R. Oragg, Register of Dee ds. "These Rats Wouldn't Eat My Best Grain," Says Fred Lamb. Its hard to keep ruts out of a feed store. Tried for years. A aeighbor ing store sold me some Rat Snap. It worked wonders, (lathered up dead rats every morning. Bought more Rat Snap. Haven't a rat now. They wouldn't eat my best grain when I -threw Rat Snap around." 3 sizes, .25 OUc, I.tKt Hold and guaranteed by L. L Critcher. ' 0sr,7H('),(XX) bushels, 00.3 fiercent' rice, 423,:i75,00O bushels, 83.8 per cent. Potatoes, (K)7,032,0OO bush els, 101.2 percent;, sugar beets, 10,334,000 tons, ,1V. 8 per cent; flax seed, 26,492,000 bushels, 00.9 I per cent. ' t mmmmmi I 1 . :- '- r
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