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x 1 I Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year VOL. XXXII. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1921. NO 18. ,. .... v- T - inuring a a a. v i a. a "j m r Ill II 1 I Ik I A I 1 ... A A. flfc. ' JV I IriJ A A. A. & . M. m a A 1 ' A ' IL I ( X: V T REMINISCENCES. firtOflll ReCOllectlOilS Of I Trip t9 Texas In Pioneer Days, ind Some Inci dents In Cow Boy Life In ' the West. (By L. N. Perkins.) Soon after the Christmas holi days were over I began to think about getting employment of some kind in order to replenish my stock of money, which was u.u-t.-. I had always worked on the .... oa larm, out uieio wa u . u Anna at. that I iouuu i iu season of the year. My uncle advised me to go to town. There u . fu waii. was a man by the name of Frank uua ?n Wk Worth, T " I ' ' "i WuO, Wlul Ilia uruiuoi, unwtvA u. herd of cattle estimated at 7,000 or 8,000 head. He thought that Adams would give me employ ment during the winter, and when spring came and the cattle business up there would be plen ty of work to do. The young men who were rais ed in the cattle section of Texas did not work much at anything but the cattle business, and dur ing the winter they did not do much but hnnt and sport about. Those who owned farms would try to raise enough wheat for home consumption and depend on cattle for their money crop. The cattle then were the long horned variety and were uniform in size and color, and were not called beef cattle until they were four years old. The price of a hppf steer was $20. They were not legal tender by law, but cus torn made it so if a man owed you $20, a beef steer payed the debt I had no trouble getting work, the price paid being $lo per month until April 1st, when my wages were to be raise d. The herd of aattle belonging to the Adams brothers was ranged in Erath county, about one hundred miles west of Ft. Worth, and dur .11 4U kMMMrlmrf and tfTQ f flO 1-1 n IT I II.B u. u.auum season they women ten or twe ve cowboys, but during the winter inev were leiu w wikb raic ui themselves while the cow boys v 1 - 1 nl U.v.r. The nan a K""u umu t uuWe. . WC.C ... wwuv at that time, and about 50 miles west of Fort Worth you were in the danger zone, an l the cow boys all went well armed, it was considered unsafe to travel alone so they usualy went in squads of a dozen or more. The old settlers in that portion of Texas seemed to think that Tex as was anindependentnationality. In conversation they would in variably speak of Texas, and the States. If a new arrival came into the county, he wouid be spo ken of as coming from the States and if he-did not understand the Texas customs he would be des ignated as green from the States," and if you wanted to make an old Texan fighting mad, just insinuate that he was 'green from the States.! Itwasconsid ered floe sport for the cow boys to' give a new man an Indian scare, and they succeeded m .scaring one or two very badly, causing them to quit the cow boy business and seek other employ ment But the leaders in that business "caught a tartar in the person of a tall, awkward looking young man from the State of II- linois, who hired to the Adams brothess to work at the cattle businers. They at once set him down as 'green from the States,' add decided to go for him in line shape. So, after he had learned little about the business, one day they put him out on herd, leav Ing him by himself with iustruc tions to keep a sharp lookout for Indians; showed him thedirec- tion they would come; that they invariably wore blankets, travel ed single file, etc., and then they disappeared, disguised them selves as Indians and in an hours time they came riding in a brisk trot in the direction they had told him the Indians would like ly come. They were in full view of him for some distance before he discovered them, but when they were about three hundred yards from him he saw them and ..... instead of taking to his heels as fhou " planted himself and deliberately r . , , , t ... , . breaking an arm, and was pre- , . , pannu to snooii again, oui mey instantly threw off their disguise and succeeded in getting him to see that they were not Indians. He did not shoot the second time and if he had he would likely have killed one of them. The young man that he shot had a close call anyway, as it was hot weather in the month of July, and the wound was a bad one. So that broke up the Indian business for the summer. As before stated ort Worth at that time was a small town, the county seat of Tarrant coun ty, and was situated on a bluff on the south side of the West Fork of Trinity River. It was originaly built as a fort by old General Worth, and was usedas a protcc tion against the Camanche Indi ans. It had a stone court house. two saloons, three or four stores with a population, perhaps, of two hundred. The merchants had their goods hauled a distance of two hundred miles, from Mili gan, a place somewhere in South ern Texas. The hauling was done in t.hft summer and fall hw tonima of and ifc month or six weeks to make the round trip, as they grazed their stock all the distance. The teams varied from five to twelve yo'e. OnA man wnnhl hnnrllo ti vnlra ' v. vs all right) but with more thanthat therewere usualJy Wo dr-vers j remember seei one n loaded Jwith hides, drawn by 24 oxen, and onlj two drivers. They . . .. , m0pl,Ok an(j woujd b . bftck was nearer to Jegerson, Texas, the head of navigation on Red River, but the roads were not nearly so good, and oxen could rot be grazed more than half the distance, as Eastern Texas was heavily timbered. Lumber for building purposes was hauled from that section. There was some timber along the water courses but none considered suit- aljjQ for sawing for lumber. A great many of the old settlers built homes of logs with hewn puncheons for floors. Some built of stone and about the towns they built what tbej called concrete, consisting of gravel, lime and sind no ce- mpnt, Tilia m(1. a vprv rlnrahtp and comfortable house( and wa8 cheaper than lumber that had to bo hauled a hundred miles. (To bo continued.) NOTICE. To whom it may concern: This is to notify all creditors of the Watauga Motor Com pa ny that I have sold my en tire interest in the Watauga Mo tor company, to W. E. Shipley J who assumes all liabilities of my nrorata oart of the indebted nQs8 0f the firm. . All book ac counts, or other evidences of in- a debtedness due the Watauga Mo- tor Companyare payable to W. E. - Shipley. This Feb. 10. 1921. - 4tP- J B TAYLOR ASKIHB STATE AID FOR ELECTRIC LINE. Dr. W. P. Shipp, General man ager of the Blue Ridge Develop- ment Company, is in Raleigh this week in an effort to get the gen- eral Assembly to pass an act giv- ing State aid to do the building of the electric railway from Mt. Holly through Hickory to Lenoir. Blowing Rock and Boone, con necting with a line to Jefferson and Ashe county. Dr. Shipp will make every effort to get the gen eral assembly in spt. a datP fnr a joint hearing of the bill, and he , (iiuijuwa umn ui reverm cuwns ana communities through which the proposed road is surveyed, will each send a delegation to Kaloicrli tr n.nnnn . haf.ira thunnm. The company has already sur- veyed the right of way, and sur- veved the line. TIir rnst of con- Mt.niP.Hnn and ,inm.t h Jc . -, - oeen approximatea. &ix minion aonars, says ur. seipp. win build a road and equip it. No stoflr Ims hppn nut rn t.liA mar. . i long the route of the proposed road are anxious that this step betaken. .u ui.. .-j Lui. are uiuiuugiiijr iiiicicstcu a tins project and look forward to its ultimate construction. This road would open up a section of North Carolina that is now cut off from . cs-K-t, v,-i. t f k male uj uaiijci ui unt ciue itiugo. rne proposea roaa, if built, would connect at Boone with the East Tennessee and . . . m a . m 1 1 or points in Tennesse. At Todd, ust ten miles from Boone, it would connect with the Virginia- Harnlina rail mad. a hranrli of t.hp ri-fr,llr A- Woatarn flnd wnnlrl pive them an outlet to the South- east which is so badly needed. It is not known whether the general assembly will entertain Dr. Shipp's proposition or not. It is believed, however, that they will spt, a data for t.lip hparin. For vpars t.hPrp. has hpn more or less discussion of reclaiming the . . . lost provinces," and this pro- posed electric line offers the on- ly means through which the iso- lated countries may be brought in touch with the Slate. The State would derive great benefit fmmt.hia railronn. Thp TiPnoir i.-- Kpwo T'nnir' SALE OF PROPERTY FOR TOWN TAXES, By virtue of a power vested in as town tax collector ot tne town oi DlOMUS WM. i.inuiv..ui., ., .. a MiT i it i. i si. tne 10 lowinif real -s- 1 .... 1. . .i i i tatc and town lots, located in the town of Blowinjr Hock, N. C. Said salo is a, nA nav.Ku Mnv ut Jill littA'-'T uuu Uliu pnauio 1J21. The cost of sale is added In each case Mrs. J. F. Anderson, Thomas Bryan H. Cox Mrs. S. M. Clark 1 so W. D. Clark 2.10 N. C. Cordon ".'!' W. H. Edniisten (estate) . itr rr? C. Emerson ink Bettie Ford Mattie Gwyn II. F. Kinsman M. R. Keller 2.43 1.05 W. J. Monuvtrue 1.0.1 in. N. 11. Martin 1. ") I). F. McClure l.iu Mrs. E. D. Mellon 1.04 Mrs. A. R. Peoples .88 Mrs. M. H. Pincknoy 1.35 Scott Perky o.n W. J. Palmer W. T. Parsons 5.05 l."5 C. W. Simson 1.40 Mrs. L. M. Steel M. W. Smith 1.75 l.15 E. A. Hcctnan II. 8. Smith Bettie Thompson J. A. C. Wadsworth This January the 10th, 1921. JOHN GREfcN. H 1.40 Town Tax Collector. WATCH REPAIRING! Don under a positive guar ante. Jewelry repaired. Estimates furnished on all mail orders. Satisfaction warranted. Office back o f Watauga Bank. J. W. BRYAN, Jeweler, BOONE, N. C. OF ROAD FUND. Following is an exhibit of the expenditures of the Road Fund since Nov. 1, 1920, the date of C. M. Watson's election to Road Commission k p Bauguess, road work, $102 40 Jake Purlior, work on road, 50 00 Clinchtield Fuel Co., coal, 445 42 e l Payne, return of truck 50 00 Mcicinley uedmond, work 10.40 c. ana s. Haigier, ieeu. stocit nu Botner Grimes, road work, 11 03 uansom Horton, road work 11 10 10 29 10 bO 11 25 900 11 83 9 00 9 05 0 00 7 39 7 80 7 3U 15 25 9 40 1500 15 00 4 00 George Horton roaa worK Henry Lewis, for hay, willard Norris road work itay Campbell Bart Norris Webster Davis Xy Vi llliam Howard Bingham -rhos. Younce Fred Younce Walter Johnson M watson, car and gas j g Norris, nouse rent, w Norris boardine road hands. MS Miller boarding road hands, j .1 ! 4 1 1 ? Boone naw. uo., gas aim uu, tt n Hn.il nnuA cet frpiirht. Ill 20 J(,SmithCo.. SUDDjes 17 54 w HGreone, sawing lumber, 5020 Lula uagan. camp supplies 4 'J2 Lula uairan. cami) supplies 6 50 Nathan Greene, hauling lum- , 1 00 Mrs H0dges. cabbage, 3 57 w l cffey, camp supplies, 5 10 Johnson Greene, road work 15 00 Lee cole, road worn 810 5G3 Mrs. j. G Norris, camp sup i pllGS s R stansberry, camp sup plies, 160 150 13 50 Alex Norris, camp supplies j g Norns. way. Russell vannoy, road work K rr for bridjr 8 3: es 5 00 w w Norris. work on road, 11 75 MI'S. W HNOrris board for road hatldS. OJ UU Mrs. w. H Norris, camp sup plies, 11 53 Anderson moi, worK on bridge, 18 80 James a nonges ana uaeu Beuheld, worK on toaa M B Blackburn road work, 6 00 1000 Jake parlier work on road 115 20 . 1!... I J I') Noan parner worn uu ruau to ow Gurme waison 4141 Dan Greer 20 25 Thos. Younce t t 38 3U Q d watson ( ( Amos watson 14 54 21 w H Norris, road supplies Joe Greene, road wurk 12 00 50 2 M.'" . () Claude watson roaa supplies uno T s waison, ieu iur swjok uj w d.vde woodring, road work 3 00 m R Blackburn, feed, 2oO 00 ' Mrs. Joe Brown boarding hands lb 80 WHtsnri. wacron. 00 ou I ...... J Yr,imii vfi I k. ( If 25 21 rieu iuuuu, iw .n Appie Welboru road woiK . TriDlett ' Jo 02 I ira Jones 23 10 20 ao , 1-( spencer Campbell t ay 37 Clarence jone v:& ! 1. 6 01 rn Emory uiurun 27 00 161 Li f uretsr J w Greene, moving shovel 500 n l. Bihaham road work 200 00 5 04 3 10 7 50 9 50 3 00 6 00 10 00 77 a) 15 00 12 37 12 87 I 1 K R Johnson, frtMght, Watauga county Bank 88 carl uagan l oad worn webster Davis Ben woodring will Jones a N Church G w Younce Wilson Greene odell Benfield le Campbell a F Hamnton keening camp 100 00 rrntia piiTipr . Htphpll hpln 7 TlO 1J ..,1 1t": - a'1 ' "ai "' ,u w G Greene, moving shovel 5 Mi .70 Bank of Boone, draft, 1 )V G W and G H Brown, hay, 52 w H Norris services as road commissioner, 53 20 C M watson feed for teams 25 00 Miss vernn Wilson, postage for rot d cfirunis.sj iii 2 00 RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS Mr. Johnson, freiiiht KKOO. G W Younce, road work, j e Parlier. road work, F B Hodges lumber, Bart Norris, road work GPSuddreth 35 87 40 75 00 08 n H Jones Tom jones Balph Horton Coy Williams Booner Grimes 20 IS 40 15 50 1610 20 40 FORTY LASHES. It 'shows how prevalent high way robbery has become and how resentful law-abiding people are against those who practice this atrocious crime that the Senate of the State of Delaware by unan- mous vote has passed a bill pro viding forty lashes on .the bare back as partial pnnishmeut for a aught and couvicted thug. En- ightened thought is all against the enlorcement of such penal- ies, for brutality is naver cured by counter brutality, which mere brutalizes further. It is strange that Delaware, of all the states, still has faith in the whp- )ins post as a corrective agency. But the resort to means so drastic, even in Delaware, to tight brutality emphasises the popular demand that ways be bund to put a check upon this cowardly crime of violence which las become se common since the war. it emphasises the duty of the police to be constantly alert, of tho courts to be expedicious in their handligg of such cases and ustly severe in pronotining sen tence. It emphasises also the le gal profession's duty to society, a duty so large a part of it so fre quently mistakes. When we see a smart lawyer wriggling ab,nt a mong the technicalities in the desperate effort to save so me thrg ho knows to be guilty from quick and adequate punishment lor his dastardly crime we often think that, if the thuh deseuved 40 laslie.s on the bare back, so would the lawyer. Ohio State Journal. NOTICE OF LAND SAEE. Sallie Earp et al, vs. Rebecca Earp and Coy Earn,. Under and by virtue ol an ordor of the court made In the above cnttiled action lor partitioning tho proceeds of said sale; in which 1, tho under- sighed, was appointed Commissioner to make s;iid sale, and will expose to ala at the court nouse door in Boone N. C, on Monday, tho 7th day of March, 1H21, the samo being the first Monday in March, to the hiffhest hid der the following described tract or parcel of lanu in Watauga township W atauaa county, Norm Carolina, ad' joining Hie lands ol l ti lay lor, I C tarn, sr., uieharu walls and others and bounded as lollows: Beginning on a small tame cherry 'tree and run- ninir west about 18 poles to a small chesinui, T II Taylor's corner; thence south lud. west, Zi poles to a chest nut oak on top of a rock; thence S. 2'id. W with I C Earn's. Sr. linr crossing the public raod and a brahch Hd poles to a small whiio oak on tn ion of a grave yard hill: thence S, Kid. E ft 1-2 poles to a stake; thence S Gild. h. wuii tho top of the ridjfe passing by the gravo yard 1J poles 10 a large chestnut at the torner of the irravo yard: thence S. 15d. east 10 poles to a chestnut on top ef the grave vunl ridge; f hence S. 8Id. E to the public road; thence with said road to isaac W. Minton s iieginnmg cor ner; thence a north course with said Minion's line, to the beginning and containing acres, more or less Tho one-lialf acre containing the Baird's Circle school house is hereby excepted from the above boundary. Tonus of sale as follows: One-third cash: one-third on six months, and one-third on twelve months time. This Feb. 4, 15)21. R. A. ADAMS, Commissioner, I have some of the rhoic est saddle horses in the coun ty; some splendid driving and draft horses. Day and night service, Stable hack of Wa tauga County Manic, bo me at the Critcher Hotel. Phone in both stable and at the Ho tel. R. L. HONEYCUTT. (ioo. norton ' ' 15 frO Norwiod norton, rond work 4 X j k Pariier Ida vannoy, G W YO'ince Albert Hodges CobC mill c Hay f(0 17 50. 8 50 40 00 14 50 13 Oi-1 1 noo!1 35 00 1 j c (Jivene 00 i Mrs. c M. watson R L Bingham 41 12 Wl T). c r,.r. $502 00 S3,99a85 $7.09 10 i 111 II UU. l 1J1HIIIC " Watauga Co. 13k Balance in Bank 40! Total expenditures 83,1196.85 C. D. TAYLOR, C. M. WATSON. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION. . , In the District Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, at Ashe ville. , United States of America vs. 278,17 a eres of land in Watauga county, North Carolina, W. L. Alexander, et al. To the beirs at law of Mrs. Ensor Green, deceased, name tin known. Heirs at law of Mrs. Anna Baldwin, deceased. William Bald win, Lincoln Simms, Walter Simms, Joseph Green, rr heirs at law; Jo.; Green and wife, Green: un known heirs at law of Mrs. Henry Henley, deceased; unknown heirs at law of Ensor Green, deceased: un known heirs of Lot Greene, deceas ed; Roby Estos and wife, Fannie Es tes; unknown heirs at law of Len Es tes, deceased; John Estes and wire, Estes, or their heirs at la a ; unknown heirs at law of Let !-. - '-' doeeusoa: Virginia E Maltba and husband, R. V. Maltba: And all persons whomsoever ownin;? or claiming to own any estate, Hen interest oi any kind or character what, soever in ana to the lands described in the petition in this proced ing. V'u will take notice that an action enti tled as above has been commenced in the District Court of the Unitecd States for the Western District of North Citnilina at Asheville, for the condemnation of certain real estat-j situate, lying and being in Blowing Rock township. Watauga connty, Carolina, on the Caldwell and Wa tauga county line, and known as me W. L; Alexander truct and covered by grants 1172(1, 5!K, 1151s. lfjli, UH,f), 122M5, 15"!):i. 10154 and '.i70, onsaiu- intr 2i. 47 acres. All ol the said lenti' hnve iM-en selected by t' ;; Secretnry f Agrieulfure, with the ui''ovai of tho National Forest Reservation a 1, a found neeessnry for tic carrying )'it an act of Congress ol :lio United States appro 'i J Maeh 1. I'Hl, heWiy chapter lM,pnge il'tl. ol. ;, taf. at La ego,' as ainrndwl b 'V-Act of Au- tor 284. And the stiid non- ' ' ' ' ' ai-'.s above named, ani iil 01!. sop-, wlioiiis.X'VerowiM.'i'. ' n 1 1. . to wn any es'u'e, Im ii : i ;-, i t . , :f any kind -ir chara.-ic ii .iiui , ! pro'sises tiUHi $ t . j . '(. .u aul proceeding, nam :t-. :,v.m' atoivsaid, you will lu'b.-!' no tice (hat -liev are l-equiv'id to av-, r in no said district l. v t of tho I i "- ted States for tho Wcf: ruDis" No: 'h Carolina, at Asl.ville, ' l4t!i day of March, WZi, and an . or iiefnar to tho petUion or conipliniH in said actiou, or the viaintins w ii apply totheceurt for "tho relief 1- maiuled in suid petilioii. This notice Issued by oiver of Court, directing that pHblica,'rn o made once a week in Tlie W atauga Demo crat. This Jan. 8, 11)21. R. L. DLAYLOCK, Clerk of the Cistrict Court of the Uni ted States for tho Western District of North Carolina. Per J. Y. JC BDAN. Dept. Clnk FOR SALE: Frost Proof Cab bago plants, 500 $1.50; 1.00O, $2.5, postpaid. 1,000 !?2.00; 10, 000, 1,50 per 1,000. Express collect. Kinsey Wholesale i'hiut Co., Voldosta, Georgia. EKTrtY NOTiCH, NO, 2554. Sta!e of North Caro ina, Wntauea County. Ollk-c of Lintry Talier ;;r s iid county, I. I). Story ocu:es mid en'i ; or.." huinliv'.l (liiti) iicres of liindon the w:i rers of DuIIhIo Creek, in Bku Rul;'i loviihip. in-y inninjjr on a ln : n -1 1 oi ehestnui spiouts and a laurel imsh, 'loone Coffey's corner, and running with the old Llryant line: now ovned liy tne Crandin Lurulier (..'o.: thou run nir with this line 104 poles: tlx n west with said line to a chesU-ul nee in said line: then crossing' said creek to a black pun coi ner: then with the old Bryant line to a cucumber tree at the foot of the Rocky Rirljre; then up said ridye uhJ various courses wih said Boone Coffey's line to the fce Xinnlnj.'. Entered Dee. 20. 1020. II. J. HARDIN, Entry Taker. VOMJNTEUK AGRICULTU RAL LIMESTONE will help your land. We are prepared to ship to you direct in car lots (mininv.irn car 10 tons) S3.20 f. o. b. cars Johnson Ci;-, Tenn. If interested wriu East Tonn. Ltmestono Products Co., P. O. Box 21, Johnson City, Tenn. t DR. fiLlv. W. VM r V.YC Si'KCUUST 10 briE BETTER 17 Yrnr'.; Lxpci'ience Tiie best rxj'vpmert Obtainable. a IT joufniltirom ii i.. Hunnnn , WAtCH.FArLR tO Repair Dep'l. bux 2 1'nrl.ilw. N. Tqc appearanc ot tne nrsi too i:i v ill mark the euvl of tUo cl man's rubbm'.-BaltiujQre Sua.",
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