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. rr . Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. 11.00 Per Year VOL. XXXII. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY JANUARY 6, 1921. :.; ) NO 11. 9 Hi n COUNTIES RICH IN RESOURCES LOST BY LACK OF 6000 ROADS., B. B. Dougherty, in Winston-Salem Journal. Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga these three; formerly they were one Ashe. The taking away of Watauga in 1849, Alleghany in 1859, caused no friction in the mother country as is often the case, 'the people of Watauga have high regard and great appreciation for the peo ple ot Ashe and Alleghany, and they have every reason to be lieve that their high regard and greaappreeiation are fully re ciprocated. With six hundred and forty-five thousand acres of fine mountain land, forty thous and three hundred and sixty-four cattle, thirteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-four hogs, twenty-six thousand six hundred and forty sheep, eight thousand one hundred and seventy-five horses, a tax book value at $35, 000,000 and 41,881 courageous souls, these counties should be a great asset to the Old North State: they desire to be helped by the State. The propriety of putting these counties into Vir ginia and Tennessee has been discdssed. A disting u i s h e d North Carolinian a few years ago canvassed Watauga to find the true sentiment, and declared that we were genuine North Carotin ians. The great trouble, the tragedy of the whole matter, is that our transportation facilities connecting us with the State are about as they were when Zeb Vance canvassed the country for governor. A railroad, or a hard surfaced road, or both, will solve the question. A traveler in Boone wishing to go to Winston, would be advised to go to Bristol, Roanoake, then Winston. Go into our hotels and see the num erous traveling salesmen not one from North Carolina; all from Tennessee and Virginia. Recent ly a big trust company was or ganized in Bristol. These coun ties were classified as Virginia counties, and our people were persuaded to buy 100,000 of the stock, Ashe and Alleghany lead all the counties in the State In live stock, while Watauga leads in mountain produce. Here are the biggest cheese factories, with the biggest Output south of Pennsyl vania; hereis the largest qommer- clal orchard in North Carolina 60,000 newly bearing apple trees Chickens and turkeys, butter and eggs, apples, cabbage and pota toes, all In abundance, going dai ly into Johnson City, Tenn., there to be distributed to. the Virginia and Tennessee cities. We should love to see it go to Winston and Greensboro, Charlotte, Gastonia, Salisbury and other North CarQ Una towns, How eari the current of 'trade be changed? Not by wishing, but by providing ado quate transportation facilities Iq the days, gone by we under took to build a railroad from Ral eigh west. The first plan was to come by Winston, up the Yadkin through Cook's Gap, through Watauga county, down the Wat auga river into Tennessee; this is perhaps the best route. At that time our people had no confidence in the project. The road was ta ken away, and finally built Aaheville; built, If you please, by State bonds. That it has been wise investment no man doubts It has put millions of dollars on the tax books, bringing tje.ffle.ir dons wealth, frqm. GutarthefcState . At that tome Jefferson waslajsra than Asheville, aud Ashe county Tfts as influential as Buncombe. The development of this part of ' the State will add the same glory and wealth to North Carolina, that Asheville and all her fine surroundings has added to the commonwealth. This new enter prise should be financed in t h e same way as the Western rail roadby State bonds. Aside from all this, there are many other reasons for developing this cbunty. Here is the Cone estate, next to Vanderbilt's, the most beautiful in the country; it was developed in days of yore, with labor at fifty cents per day, at a cost of one half million dollars, now richly worth two millions. This estate will be turned over to the State of North Carolina for a hospital or sanatorium. Heie is the Grandfather Na tional Park, one of the finest the country has. Boone was once the highestcourt house in the state butNewland, in the new rjounty of Avery, now claims the distinc tion. Watauga is the highestcoun- ty in the State and 4he highest summit of the mountain, covered with balam trees, and see the lofty peaks rising high into the very sky; let him climb to the crest of the mountain, look down upon the clouds, see the ravens flying beneath him, then with an altruistic heart, he will say to himself, that it would be the blunder of the age to postpone the development of this country. Give the legislators the informa tion; they will do the work. It is not a local proposition; the whole State is interested. COUNTYJXHIBIT. (Continued from last paper.) June 7, 1920. T L Mast, agent for Nancy Bentley 12 00; n l Mast, agent for Elva church 4 50; M B Blackburn agent for Elbert Horton 12 00; John watson agent for chrome J e Young dog tax for damage ber for toilets)80 92; it m Brow n CO 00; j L Fox registration 10 86; services as county superintend J C7 counclll primary election ent of public welfare 54 00; G w charges 200; waiter Winkler pri- Phillips damage to sbeep by dogs mary ejection charges 2 00; zt 28 00; Edwards & Brbiighton rec Greene primary election charges ord ribbon 6 00; w L Trivett vital 2 00; R L nenson primary elec- statistic claim 9 00; A w smith tion charges 1000; R Gragg office supplies 719; ' Watauga clerking to Board and etc. 30 40; printing Co., envelopes and etc. R A Thomas primary election 2 2i: a Harman acent for Punnio charges 1UU; j R May primary election charges 2 00; B R south primary election charges 8 00: a A Greene capturing still and brin ging zina Green to jail 26 (X); John Ward tax supervisor of Watauga county 192 HO; 11 P cook convey ing lunatic to Morganton 38 00; tiarman 13 50. (continued next week. RATHER RANK. Statesvillo Landmark. ' Another man has been arrested G L Phillips travis juror fall term for the Llppard murder and the father of two already convicted son agent for John Greer 3 OOTj east of the Rockies. The Yadkin p Thomas agent for Henry ward river rises in the eastern slope; 4 50; r n Green agent for Harry the Catawba in the south: the watson 6 00; Mrs. m a shelton a- tIT . . . I, xt Bent lvl ittJWt.v uti till i- w; Li ftl Watauga in the west, while New H()dges agent(orcharUe bridge' river runs through Ashe and Vir 7 50: c d Taylor agent for Etna- ginia, north, into the Ohio. Here, line Farthing 6 00; w J Farthing then, is the summit of the Anna- agent for Lou ward 9 00, Frank lachian mountains. Blowing Rock vies aent for J ua G.enn 9 it u' u a. ur a. vvaiu fluent iui iuicj rrea- is the highest ttown, 4,000 feet a- nell0()0. WL 0lshouser agent bove sea level. Here is the green- for the Hodges children 12 (X); j b est grass, the coldest water, the Miller agent for Comilla Reese 15 00; Joseph presnell agent for Rebecca presnell 15 00; w t van- 1919, ticket not issued at time, 7 10. July 5, 1920. J l Lewis damage to sheep by dogs 50 00; s lpurown keeping county homeTG8 00; J D coun cill holding second primary elec tion 2 UO;ZT Green holding see- that the kettle can't throw up ond primary election 2 00; J W .black. to the p,. But Winkler holding second primary . . . , , . , saunders 4 50; Bob sluder ageni election 2 00; L E Beach holding J uiuveu mi iemtuK lor Thomas cnild i UU; Jerry wawecunu primary election & uu; w "" v.c.. uipm u uingnam examining lunauc case reveaiea a state 01 moral ae 4 UU; Edwards & Brougliton .add- gravity in the section where the ing macnine paper anu etc iy 44: was caught transporting liquor. It is hardly safe, In these days, for one community to call atten tion to the sins of another, for wickedness does so abound in all bluest sky in all of God's crea tion. The weary-worn and tired dyke, agent for Anderson Danner I j 1 i . 1 A . -1 come nere to seen rest ana nna 4 5(J. w B wroU agentfor Mary it; the DroKen in health to renew cari ton 4 50; Mrs. J a woodie a their strength, and the pleasure- gent lor sarah shull bUU; w l seeker to spend the summer Holshouser, agent for Mrs. n k months The colluire nrofessor Hodges ,y 5 E A r,yer aSent fo'" months, itie cout-te pioiessm w Dyej, 3(X). Norman comes nere to res anu w w"n, county aid 6 00: Addie Fox coun being the land for the botanist, ty aid 6 00; Katy Yarber county geologist or mine. The lamented aid 12 00; David Hodges county Chas. D. Mclver once said in aia muir, iiaray "it county aid, n i,i 0 oUU;CanaM Barnes countg aid Boone that one could do twice as . ' , m. n,.,i b ,(K) .1 ff. Mat in V TP o nhnrif so r. mucn inreiiectuai woric nere in viw 10 &(); G H rowo registration summer as in Greensboro. Last 6 00; a w stpith juvenilo court year a Tulane professor said that work 29 50; si R Brown keeping W E and Jason Moretz damage to sheep by dogs 1 15 00; A w smith juvenile court and other services 29 50; N N colvard services as cor oner and etc. 27 CO; w R Johnson carrying Rev. John Eller to asv lum 36 00; John ward county mi pervisor of taxes 182 57; R L lien son register, of .primary election 4 (X); w T Bairs register of prima ry election 4 UU; Dr. j w Jones treatment of Mary carl ton. and etc. 206 50; Blanche lu the r dam age to seeep by dogs 9 00; a l Wilson services as tax oppraiMM murder was committed that was a little more rank than one sus- y Capt. K F. Lovill, after spend ing the holidays with his daugh ter, Mrs. James Brawley, in Greensboro, returned Friday eve ning, and thinks, after attending to some business of a pressing nature, of goingto Florida for a few weoks. ' Comnlssnonm' Attendmce, 1920. $00.00. L. A. Greene, 20 days at $3.00 per day. Traveled 144 miles at 5c. per mile. $7.20. $67.20. Total i J. C. Brookshire, served 20 days at $3.00 per day, $60.00. Traveled 84 miles at 5c. per mile, $4.20. Total $64.20. J. C. Miller. Served 19 days at $3.00 per day, $57.00. Traveled 192 miles at 5c. per mile, $9.60. Total $6G.0n. I, W. R. Gragg, Register of Deeds of Watauga county, N. C, and Clerk to the Board of Coun- pected existed in this part of the ty Commissioners, hereby rrM. country. Evidently a considera- fy the above accounts to be - ole bunch ot folks, of both sexes, copies from the records ;mri , in that locality, spend about all counts in my office. ThisNovein ieir tune m transportir.g hud ber 30. 1920. dialling in ami drinking blockade liquor, aud gambling and other forms of law violation, immoralf ty r.nd other forms of indecency, usual accompaniments of the li- W. R. GRAGG, Register of Deeds. NOTICE OF ADMlMlSTRATlCh. Havincr Qualified as adminisri : iiior t rtiilic, are Haunted openly, tor of John Eller. deceased, tin.. iz4u;nc Green capturing sun rnose who read the testimony in is to notify all persons- hn )M I V ii1nt 17,xl 1 UnnifnttiT rrv1r I. - . t . . - - I 1 1 vvv, viajr rum oauitaij " " the bmiiard case doubtless fpitu''ms against saia estate to ik 1 i I I ...... 1UVJU. ... , ... t! , , Mi.ii ju. ice wouin oe none July 24, 1920. TcandG L Hodger labor on closets for county 32 45. Aug. 2,1920. S R Brown keeping county home 173 20; Dr. J w Jones quar antine officer and etc. 17 50; ,i t, Elliott burial expenses for Mrs. N c Wilson 20 00; A W smith juve nile court work and etc. 29 JO; A i in r t n r m m .. m r nw.N . ... .... ov hefnrp t.bA 4th fln.v' nf lUi.in. number ot the witnesses, on their ber, 1921, or this notice will bJ own confession, had been sent to pleaded in bar of their recovery the point entiary along with the All persons indebted to said es principals. tate please come forward u,,f thL nn ,..i,m tu ,., and make settlement. This the But those on whom the tower 4th day of December, 1920. at biloum fell were not the only W. R. JOHNSON. .simiet s. u t ii e r communities Adm. of John Eller, deceased, may not be quite as bad but there Blowine Itock was.the Hnest -jmt, home -van i li&,S.c?S2Lir? flT ta- thn l rl'loi J&5S?t MOHTGAGB SALK. to place in all the world for a great university a place where men can thinn; where the uanuans and Dangerfields, the world's celebrated artists have their homes. Moses H. Cone, beloved and de ceased, said he traveled through Germ any, France, Italy and Switzerland, but had never seen a more beautiful picture than the one h,G saw while standing upon the Blowing Rock, looking over the bosom ot the great State a scene the like of which is no where to be found one great panorama after another! No pen can describe it; no poet can ryme it; no artist can paint it It must be seen! There Is nothing in all the Southland to compare to it; nothing this side of Swit zerland to equal it; nothing, I say it reverently, this side of heaven itself to surpass It, We would develop this country for the people of North Carolina. It must be a State project, Pri vate capital cannot do lt. lt should b done now; the delay has alrea dy been too long. That there will be bickering we have no doubt But let the worst pessamist leave the city when the thermometer registers at one hundred degrees and come across the mountains on a railroad speed, and land in the real "Land of the Sky" and sleep that night under a blanket the sweetest sleep in all his life, awake next morning amid the matchless beauties and glo ries of the mountain land4 h i s misgivings will fyfo awayl, the de.w hQfart) the mgrng sun. tMhlra ride, 0vr the well gra Toad the national govern ment will build around the Grand father mountain, looking down into the deep ravines and cata racts; down into the boiling, foa ming river; then look up to the services as tax assessor U20;'et 20 40; Gragg & Loizeaux lum KilhThaiColdWith CASCARA FOR Colds, Coughs QUININE AND La Grippe Neglected Cokb are Dangerous Take no chances. Keep this Blandard remedy handy for the first sneeze. Breaks up a ccld In 24 houra Relieves Grippe in 3 days Excellent for Headache Quinine in this form docs not affect the head-Cascara is best Tonic Laxative No Opiate in Hill's. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT Hv virtue nf tho nnu-np nf ko.1i rem. A.l : c . I. . 1! a A I . , . . . miners, in a u uie liquor xramt lainea m a certalnmortgatfo deed i-ao- continues with as little check a c,ud ,nn 12fh- Jay oi lcei.-' .ids. by Uirii'Kv-i Pi-c,,,.i j ,s now iinpsj.'M.'il, with uiblic con- i h.-imv i'roiiit, luJai'do !"' stui through public indifference, untosipn mosa-v.. ... r at public, saio at Iho coui-Hkuim ., theso conditions will continue to town of Boone, N. c, on tho aist uu Srow worse. Lawlessness . al- 3 rfoUSrS ways begets lawlessness and a tract of land lyinjr and beinjr in tho verv few lawless can overrun LM,unt.v ' Watauga, and adjciniti;.' vtii ilw idwitss can oveirun. U)e lHnds o WiJl Mo,,dVi -,, '.ominare. a wine- terrtorv it t i-.v-m-i- and (th.-r-. iDODDaaaDDDaaa nn . 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D n a D a D a a D D n EJ B C a o D n n 11 n cjiH)d peopio remain quiet. Sim ply deploring gets us nowhere, it is aclioii dad militant action ai that, that is necessary. Such aii expression of sentiment and such force behind it as will not on!, secure the conviction of the guil ty but compel adequate punish ment, will meet the case. Dras tic action will be necessary; it desperate situation requires n lesperate remedy. That dras tic action will appear when tht folks really want something done .ind will stand up against the law jreakers, . not only but againsi Uie aiders and abettors ot the law breakers, who are really respon sible ior present conditions be cause of their all the luo instat ing tuat nobody should be piin ii.ioi.. 'i'lie jolks who bv assio.. tiiiiui to ue mure just man God Almighty, have had thtir cry-out. Behold the result. ENTRY SCTi:E. Mo. 255. .!H' I .1. II I II l , l-.M;- 'll:.f I,. . I UKiT tii I OHliV. . t : - ;. Iv .Stui-.v lnoalo.-, and outers om iiinilrod (l'tij aerosol land oil thowu ri-.-' i.f iJ'lii.'l. i ' l-i'('K. in lill.i I'.liK vi A (ill 1 1, i ii Hilling on a SlllU'ti i " 1 1 Ll i i -Ji.'iHl -- atl'l il niil.i'l n-i.i. i K '(.!( ' I'i'.i '. o-iriu-r, Mini i-iiii.ii).; . ' ii : In- In i !". .U.i ; iv. .i . jaj) oi tlio rfdjre at tho road a-.u south 5-') west 40 poles t a ilhai'los Profflt's line; ihn. . oastt to a stake in VViil Muoti , ' then west fc cast to a siue ... branch; then north 5 past 49 polo.s o .. spoiled oak tree in the corn-i' ht, 5: then -11 polos to :i ciii i... on top of the rido in Now ton Kio ch or's Uuo; then with said lino, about oast, 11 polos to a locust, an agreed corner to J. ('. Henson; then i'o llonson's lino 40 poles to a olie ;r (or su)far tree): thence down with mo lence 23 polos to a water oak; thence a west course 0 poles to a poplar: ihr?1 tho same' course 19 poles to ;i tit the road, and then to Uie ).. i ninj, containing -5 acres uioro or loss. The said sale is mode lo sati-f; the balance of the purchase niotjr' the land, boinjr Sl,0lXt wnh ii.. est thereon tonn date f the iiiortj;aro. Said sale -will In lunir oi 1 o'clock, p. ui. This !), . ; t DorK, r.i-o. JACOB FLETCIIh;;;, M . , mmmmmmmmimmmmammmmmmmimmmmmm mm. NOTlCfcl OF fel'M.Vtv.- North Carolina, ' i -ii.,- 1 r the Superior Cniii uv. . iiiha Eller, Vv. C. r.ii-: a (Jallie Eller, Maggie Flerv ''..' husband Newton Fletcher, E 1 1 i Combs and husband John Comii-., Vs. Alice Helton and husband ri.mv Hclion. James Eiler, Noi:-'- f I , I.hl.i i ' l iiiliiiiid Jil'tl 1 i: : i.",i.t v"", iiir.l. Corn Ward ami iH:h:icia :-! ma Ward, bpurgcoii i'.ili i-, .N'nah fcllor and Conloy and Conlov Eiiov,' lite last, minor heirs of J. b. Elli r, decased. The ili'lfiiilanis in tit, u'ltv.o or.t-.t:;- lu-. ion will -tiko tri'i.'.' L:ih' "" l.a; i-i IK ci'iii.i.v, l.t.n. ; . ! ,v::l at-.',.':. t a;i,--- -i- Ask your druggist for Ziron. Accept no substitutes. ZJ.2 Q O Q DODBD Q O E t5 E UUUU .v .it- Willi suit- huc lo a cht'su-ut tin i.i saici ;.ui ; 'lie.'i cro-isini: sirt civ-. v ; !l III Of ; I it i itn ; . .i , l ', il il .I mi u,.i . iii'.- In a cucuuiiior iron i.l nn Itiot rl ilu liocky Uuise; then Ui nid I'iil'' it iii i various iiturios wit.i ..la ijiii'ui. tiiiey 9 Jine to uie do ginning. EnkieU Dec. 20, 12U. UrJEARDIN,. Entry Taker. . Hit- 8U, uuy fif .h.'S'ii. , I. ;!. I i'tiO Mi-, tioi'ondalii i'.iv : ' " , , i an.H it! a r,d ai..ivvr or iioi-.,u. t to pot it ton of tho piainUUs lor-iho i ui iutou oireaiosiaie in wtouy,. i ouutv, iN. J., or tno ivuoi bouiuimvh will be granted. This iho 1th day f Uewmuor, iu. . , , ' , , ,. v - A..-W. SMITH,, -ij. i -c,V...;-X Clerk. Superior CoorV ; -Yr "ii ,'r' 1 ( I
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