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Ijrf;'-' .i.-'.-'-v.- .' .. .. v - Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS, OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY, VOL XXXI. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C., THURSDAY AUGUST 12, 1920. NO 13. a ' . 4 m p 9 ' Baltlnon Piper GliesThi State A-Boost. "7 Only a little more than50years ago North Caroling was desolated ' .' by, war, woefully poverty -strick ' en, prostrate under the heel, of thieving carpet-baggers "and ne groes, supported by Federal troops. The State had lost more men in the war than any other, its slave property was gone, Con federate tnoney, virtually the on ly circulating medium, had be come worthless; there was little . to sell to secure it, for the able bodied men who had been fight ing and the negroes were celebra ting their freedom by loafing and talking politics. The outlook was dreary in the extreme. In the fiscal year just ended June 30, North Carolina paid Fed- : eral taxes of $169,206,000, which . was doubtless more than the en tire wealth of the State, outside of land, in 1870. ' "The Maryland district, which includes Delaware and the Dis trict of Columbia,' paid only $120, 7j2,457, Texas, five times as big as North Carolina and with about double,' the population, paid $103, 000,000. Georgia, called the "Em pire State of the South," paid $42,665,000, and Tennessee $36, 138,000.. The North Carolina figures are - all the more remarkable, because the State has no large cities, none in the class of Baltimore, 'Wash ington, New Orleans, Atlanta, Dallas, Richmond or even Norfolk 'or Savannah. It has no big sea ports. Itslargest town is Wins J ton-Salem, of 48,000 population, with Charlotte somewhat smaller ' . and Wilmington, Raleigh and Asheville consideaably so. But its per capita wealth is larger than that of any other Southern . State, and it is' buying automo . biles, it is said, at the rate of $"0, ." 000,000 a year. The basis, of its ' property is of course tobacco and cottop. 'both the growing and the . manufacture; lumber and truck . farming. -, ;. North Carolina has the oldest State university, in America, its ; charter dating from 1789. The ; , .State's appropriation for main Vienance and buildipg is about . $200,000.' The Alumni Review, , in pointing out its inadequacy, i . . says, under the head of "Gasoline . and Culture." , "At present North Carolina has 54 cents per inhabitant inves ' ' ted in university properties and $50 per inhabitant invested . - in automobiles." "In 125 years we have built up a university plant worth $1,350, 000. In ten years we have bought , Cr $100,000,000 worth of motor cars. ' a "We are buylngmQtor cars fas ', ter than any other ' State in the ' union, says the National Automo ; " ' bile Chamber of Commerce $50- 000,000 worth a year. A hundred - and forty thousand dollars worth ' ; a day, including Sunday. ;. Y "Wgare skyrocketing toward . 'the top of the automobile column. ; ' "We could jnst as easily have : 5,000 as 1,500 students here if : only the State would provide the facilities." - -, - ; The agricultural and mechani- "- cal college, with a large attend- ance, and also a state institution, "v is not cbnnected with the univer- :, sity,;, . . r "It Is interesting to-note that, while Maryland has no State Un-tlverstty,- it is giving to its State - college and to higher educational ' institutions twice as m uch as ; North Carolina appropriates for its university." -The Baltimore j- Sun. w ; ' ; FOR SALE: Twelve good Jersey V;" cows at reasonable prices, ran- ging in age from two to nine years. If interested see A. ,C. Moody, Blowing Rock, N. C, oa Mrs. My H,. Cone's place. ";..,:'Y: ; ;.:'Y. . -Jl 4tc. 'V'- ' '- ffl.' W-'-l ' --Oiild C. Dogger. The subject of this sketch was born in Watauga' county, N. C7 April XZ, 1849, and departed this life may 26, UO.,.v. .-ipa age of 81 years, 1 montn anu 13 days. He was married to Miss Mary Mu'nday Oct. 31,1869, and they lived happily together until death claimed his wife several years ago. Since then" Brother Dugger lived alone until the last few months of his life, when his sis ter came to his home and remain ed there until his.'death. "Uncle Dave," as he was familiarly call ed, professed faith in Christ and joined Brushy Fork Baptist charch, and later on moved his membership to Cove Creek where he remained-a member until the constitution of Willowdale church when he again moved his mem bership, and remained a faithful member of the same until death. , We, as a church and Sanday School, miss him," as he was al ways present, when his health would permit, and was ever( rea dy to speak encouraging words, and so often we have heard him talk in prayer meeting, in which he took great delight, and around our firesides, of the great be yond, and of meeting loved ones there. But a loving voice is hush ed for awhile. It has pleased our heavenly father to remove him from us, but we have the blessed hope that he is at restwith Jesus. We find' it hard to give him up, as his gentle influence has been Lfelt by all who knew andWd him. -We extend our. heart felt sym pathy to his relatives and friends, pointing them to Him who - shall wipe all tears away, and bid them follow His foot steps as he tried to do. " EmmaHenson ' Julia Mast, Committee. May Smith, Silver Stone News. Mr. T. P. Adams who has been sick for some time is now some better. Messrs. WadH c n-, ' ay Mast and Dosson Fletcher left last week for Cleveland, Ohio..; - Mr. Troy Fletcher was mar ried to a Miss Robinson of Bea ver Dams, Sunday, August 1. . . Mr. and Mrs. Conley Fletcher were visitors at the home of Mrs. Amandah Fletcher last Sunday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Mast some days ago, a baby boy. Several of the people o Silver Stone attended the funeral of Mrs. Walter Ward, Sunday, Aug 1st. , - . Mr. John Mast, Nora, and little Pearl Mast were sight seeing at "Tater Hill" July 31st. .... Miss Nettie Greer, Scot Swift, Miss Blanche Stokes, Dean Swift Miss May Mast and Mrs. Hattie Swift Johnson picnicked at "Ta ter Hill Spring" Saturday,. July 31st. . ; " The crops in this section are thriving wonderfully. , Where Are The 61rls. Some day when -all our ships come in, the girl' on the magazine cover will occasionally give place to other inspiration a landscape or a Jersey cow, Knee-deep in June or a bowl of strawberries and cream. But all are fain to confess that the craze, the exal tation, the stubborn insistence on featuring feminine loveliness, has not yet begun to wane. Leon Cauley pondered and toiled for J years at the problem of perfect ing motion pictures in tne natu ral color tones of the ' original Viola, at length he had achieved. He had caught the shimmering multiplex colortracery of the butter-fly's wing, the hues of varie- 2 gated flowers, the composite color ,J,-'f,''' ''"'"' V! A Oiulne Recompense, "Hyrrygraphl" in Lenoir News. -v There is a divine recompense in life which operates . to main tain a happy equilibrium contin ually, were we wise enough to understand the adjustment of the scales, or the application of the heavenly ' system . of. measure ment. This is a table which we do not learn in elementary arithme tic classes, but which must come with a growth in vital education in the larger school of lifeand ex perience; when we learn to put two aud two together as well as subtract and divide, not material things, but the vague spiritual things which life uses in teach ing us our sums. Wisdom is applied knowledge, and the wise man is he who has learned to establish theold princi pies to the.new problems which come into his life. Of what use is all the storehouse of philosophy if we commit it but never learn the application for the edification of our own souls. It is the part of wisdom to en deavor to keep young in spite of the incessant llight of Time. Slip optimism into the things that you do for yourself, for your neighbor, and your town; there .by you will be able to catch re flected gleams yourself from ev erything you do. Try ta cultivate the habit of being cheerful and happy and see the righteousness of everything because of the E ternal Goodness back of it all. . The divine recompense in life. There never yet has come a sor row which, if borne bravely, has not brought one through the val ley, up on the hilltop, where he greeted the dawn With smiling face and said '"Thank you" to life for the benefit of the struggle. There hover has been a sorrow, not in the whole wide world, but some little kindly angel has stood jiist beside it, waiting to sprinke the silver.sliine Whenever one is ready to look at it with cleared vision. There never has been a grief .but brought with it the magic power of transforming tears to pearls if we.' understood the use of the power. The sci ence of the Almighty is not a cru el, harsh, cold system of scpara ting us from happiness, but rath er a divine alchemy which turns all our baser experiences into goIBen glory. What if we.do not understand the process? Of what use is faith if we forfeit the for mula. And it is a wonderful for mula; it brings results, and it brings you up smiling, no matter how hard you are hit. -Keep smiling, uad gradually the grin will conquer the grouch. Some day you will- look upon what the world calls trouble and say: "Why, hello, Mister Trouble. Do you know I've bien so bloom ing busy being happy I have had to neglect you forquite a spell! Somehow you'vechanged. You're looking thinner. Well, drop fn a gain when I'm not so busy being hapy.. S'long." Uy this -means you will have a flicker from the Small light shining within you.r own heart, and you will gather the travelings ef your optouiism into a garment fit to cover upand conceal a-momehtary depression. landscapes. Like eyery othei European, whohasa good thing and wishes to reap where he has sown, he brought the device' and thq pictures .trt America. Bui Gaumont, the artist had not fa miliarized himself with .the. fam ous American temperament.'' He had not filmed the fair daughters of distant lands'. They were in cluded neither inthecolorfulflora nor the gracefuL fauna of his a enlevemen ts. An d New York said to him: "It's pretty enough but trhere are the girls. '--Mon dleu Indeed. -Portland Oregonian, An Ambition that Failed, and Why. (From the Houston Post. ) ' - Rev. S; j. T. Williams, who is leaving Houstou for other fields, cherished one great ambition in his life. For several years- he worked upon the project, with every prospect of success, and then it failed, and failed so glori ously that, strange to say, he and all other citizens of Houston who are interested in human wel fare, were glad. - . Rev. Mr. Williams was super intendent of the Star of Hope mission, which was a life-saving station for the hundreds of dere licts who were created in Hous ttn and who floated into the city in tho old days. As he fed and clothed andhous ed "these-men and saw scores of them transformed into worthy, useful citizens, ho become tired with zeal to build a great institu tion in Houston for this work. As he saw the shambling, ragged wreck of men' salvaged and again put into service to society, he was inspired to work night and day to make this institution of the maximum service. He succeeded in enlisting the sympathy and co-operation of meii of all creeds in the city. Mo who had never given much tholight to the transforming jww er 6f the Gospel when practical ly applied, became his" most en thusiastic supporters, after they were convinced by the demon strations of the mission, s ' The site had been tentatiyely secured and plans were well un der way for the eretion of a large buildjng with ample equipment, when the project was abandoned. The reason? The city, and then tho country went dry. The mission ran out of material to work on. With the saloon out of business it ceased to produce human der elicts. Work became plentiful, and sober men were able to pro cure and hold jobs. As the mission ministered al most entirely to the victims of the saloon, when that institution was abolished, the mission's field was so greatly narrowed that a man of the energy and ability of Mr. Williams found too little to do, so he took up larger tasks. In the failure to build the mis sion, may be read the changed so cial aud moral conditions in Hous ton since the saloon was abolish- el. Mr. Williams failed, only be cause his project became unnec essary. It was the most splen did failure Houstonever witness ed, ' - Mr. Williams did not build the mission, but he will be long re membered as a minister who demonstrated the power of an-1 plied Christianity as few other ministers have had opportunity to do. Goienw Blciett'i Pardon Record. Gov. T. W. Cickett has par doned 150 more convicts t h an werd freed during the adminis tration of his predecessor, Gov. Locke Craig, and 204 more than Gov. W. W. Kitchln pardoned. . The record of pardons was fur nished by the Governor's office to an inquirer from Apex, who wantad to know the comparative number of pardons. During his four years of office Gov. W. W.. Kitchin pardoned 380 prisoners; Gov. Lockeraig pardoned 434; and Gov. Bickfctt in the three years' and seven . months of his four year'sNterm had pardoned 584 prisoners. ; This , record does not include the paroles;; But in the batch of pardons credited y Gov; Bick att is'included those the govern or has sought out without re quests from outside the, prison. Early in his administration, the i-V;--:'.;,'! Your United States. If you have a right to be proud about anything, in the world, it is your country. See what a report from the Merchant's Association of Greater New York says the United States is doing. With only 6 per cent of the pop ulation of tho world and only 7 per cent of the land, it produces: Sixty per cent of the world's supply of copper.. ' Forty per cent of the world's supply of load. Fifty per cent of the world's supply of zinc. 1 Sixty percent of the world's supply of aluminum. 66 ier cent of the world's sup ply of oil. t . , . Seventy-five per cent of the world's supply of corn. " , Sixty per cent of the world's supply ot cotton. . " t Forty per cent of the world's supply of silver. Fifty-two percent of the worlds supply of coal. . Forty pei' cent of the world's supply of iron and steel. Twenty per cent of the world's supply of gold. Eighty-five per cent of the world's supply of automobiles. Twenty-five per cent of the world's supply of wheat, refines 80 per cent of the copper, and op erates 40 per cent of the world's railroads. governor declared that he aimed to be a friend to the friendless in prison. On this platform he un dertook a survey of the State prfson, 'and with the records of the prisoners before him he un dertook to pardon many whose cases, he thought, justified it. In addition, the governor has acted, an the reiwts of tho State board of parole in a grot many cases. Along with his platform of friendship for the friendless the governor has drawn the line a gainst professional pardon seek ers, maintaining that the applica tion of a prisoner would have weight with him that the formal petitiion of a shyster lawyer could not claim. He adopted the policy that the prisoner needed no attorney when presenting his crse for pardon. -News and Ob- server. - w 'The Guide Book, "and the Cabinet Stop In for copy of "Edison and Music.' ' Pick your Period phon- . ograph out of its pages. , See it in our store. That's the surest, quickest way to obtain "furniture ristocrat" - 2&NEW EDISON ; "Tin Phonograph with o Soul" "Edison and Mus&' is the book of Edison Period Phonogra.pl. It is as rich in furniture tretuures as all the Golden Age of Furni ture. You cap choose from the historic masterpieces of England, 'France and Italy from 17 different designs, each exquisite in its own distinctive way. Every New Edison. is adapted from a port Period source. . ' You can pay for your New Edion on our Budget Plan. That means, . you can buy today the cabinit your heart desires, and make to- ' morrow's income help pay for tomorrow's pleasure. i .'".' ' ' ',: . -r; ,.'"'' '" ;''. '" ' ',''':. '.''.. -''' g) Greene & Bingham. 1 Misses Hattie and Pearl Bing ham, daughters of Dr. and Mrs, E. F. Bingham, of Aunntha,. left Saturday morning, the former for Jacksboro, Tenn., where she hag tuk a position as teacher of -English in a State High School; the latter forElizabethton, where she Has enlisted as teacher in the Central High School of that town. The young ladies are eminently qualified as teachers, and their services are needed here, but they harkened to the handsome salaries offered in our sister Stater CENTRAL OHIO FARMS. We have sold several farms within the last few months to North Carolina people, and we desire to announce that wo will, send to any one interested, our catalogue free of charge, upon request for same. Tliis section, of very fertile land, is a natural grass and clo ver soil, in fact in the limestone and heavy clay districts, blue grass and clover become" self seeded, and jnst naturally grow well, all through this section are fine Mowing springs and creeks, plentiful supply of pure water the year around. The wonder ful hay, corn and forage crops, the silo, the climatic advantages,. the ready markets for farm pro ducts within easy reach- these things mean profit for stockmen and dairraen. . There are few sections of tho United States where a greater variety of crops can be grown and where the danger from fail ure is less. ' , , A total crop failure in this coun try .has never been known. In this land of promise, with our re markable variety of crops, WE ARE SAFE. Write us for the free illustra ted and descriptive , catalogue with free list of farm bargains. Address: E. A. STKOUTFARM AGENCY, Blake V. Mizer, Mgr., Shelby Building, COSHOCTON, OHIO. PUBLIC SPEAKING Hon. R. L. Doughton, M. C, and Democratic candidate for re election to Congress, will speak in thee art house in Boone on Tuesda of court, September 7, 1920. t 9ft ti-b-vs id 3. i f )f I. 3 . ? : i. If l; ij v i 9
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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