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1, v- 4 3: 1.1' Advertising Iiates oh Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year - VOL. XXXII. - x "BOONE, WATAUGA COUNT y7n7(TtHIJRSDAY MARChTtTST. "T021 0 o REMINISCENCES. Pinosal Rieollectlons of i Trip to Tins la Pioneer Oiyt, and Sosa Inci dents In Cev Boy Lift la too Wist. (By L. N. Perkins.) As soon as we crossed Red riv er at Boggy depot we were in the Choctaw Indian Territory. As we only expected to drive ten or fifteen miles a day, we were some days in that nation. The country between Red river and Kansas is admirably adopted for driving stock then," plenty v of grass and water for stock and usually a skirt of timber for camping purposes every few miles. The Choctaw Indians were highly civilized, and spoke the Eaglish language. They were al so exclusive in their habits. They would not tolerate intermarriage with other tribes. If one of their number strayed off and married elsewhere he forfeited all of his rights to a home among his own tribe. Many of them had their own plantations and good homes, and before the Civil war owned slaves. Mr. Adams told me he he had traveled extensively through the Territory and had bought slaves and taken them to Eastern Texas and Louisiana and he had some friends he would like for me to meet. So it chanc ed one day that we nooned near the home of some of his acquain tances, and he introduced me to two ladies who had been educa ted at Martha Washington Col lege in Virginia. The reason why he wished me to meet them my home in Virginia was not far from that college. I found them to be intelligent, good looking and good lookingand wejl educa ted. They were slsteratwd were married then, and the only trace of Indian in them to be noticed was their coarse, straight hair and black eyes. They were very free to talk and one of them made th9 remark that some people mizht think it strange thQishe prized her Indian blood, Cut, sail sh;, "I am just as proud of my Indian blood as I am of my white blood." We did not meet the. husbands of th j ladies as they, were away that day. The beef cattle we were dri ving were to be shipped to Chi , cago, so at a point about midway of the territory they were sepa rated from the stock cattle and took the western trail t Abiline, Kansas, a snipping point on the U. P. railroad, which was then in course of construction from Kan sas City westward. At that time the State of Kansas had a strict quarantine law against the tick infested cattle of Texas. They were not permitted to be drivtfkgot our cent stretched and corra into the State until they -had fcSSfff winter&V and also grazed one Jmfcerln the Territory. Mr, Hatch, who owned half the cat4 tie, and some of the hands wen with the beef cattle. We -travers-i a portion of six different na tions, Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, Chicasaw, Shawnee and Paupau. They were not considered hos JSxcept some of the Chica- but we had no trouble with them. There were only two streams of water the whole distance from Fort Worth to Kansas City that could not be forded. They were Red river and the Arkansas riv r. The distance was said to be five hundred miles. The Arkans as river, which we crossed at Ft. Gibbons in the Creek nation was abipjjlLa half mile wide with a '-teJSbi&om where near the center, of the river. We camped near the river the night before cross ing and did not expect to have any trouble in swimming thecal tie, but they would land on the island and when driven off they would swim back to the starting point. This was repeated many times with the same result. Fi nally the men succeeded in pre venting them from landing on the island and they struck a sand bar and crossed without swim ming. We, who were on horse back followed the cattle who packed the quick sand till we all got across without any loss, and the strange part about it was that it would come as near swim ming a horse as it would a calf. That was the most tiresome rid ing I ever did, wading thru that quick sand for half a mile with the water nearly over the back of the horse. We had some trouble after that when we undertook to drive thru t some timber, the distance being farther than we expected and night overtook us. We found just enough open space on the bank of a small stream for the cattle to stand on and we all had to stay on herd during the night to prevent the cattle from get ting away. We did not even have time to cook our meal, but when daylight came we were not long getting out of those woods where we could graze our stock and get something to eat. About the last of September we were near the Kansas and we camped for some days on a bluff of the Neosho river. We were tlion in the Papau nation. The Papaus were a shiftless tribe and did not do much but hunt and fish. They were rather sullen and we had very little intercourse with them. At that place I had a spell of malarial fever and lay for 10 days under the shade of a big oak, moving tny blanket around from the snn to keep in the shade. I was not dangerously sick, but I could not sit up. Finally I pre vailed on some of the boys to go to the town of Baxter's Springs, Kansas, a distance of forty miles and bring me back some merli cine. I took it and was soon able to ride again. We had now driven about as far as wo rould go on account of the quarantine and were waiting for some stock, men to come a lontr and buy us out. but as none were forthcoming Mr. Ad ams decided to send all the men home but two, and he would go to Kansas City to see if he could find a buyer for the cattie. So we uioved to a goort camping ground on a small stream about three miles from the town of Chetopa, Kansas, where we built a brush cr-al, and would pen on r cattle at night and graze thrr during the day. By the time wo ready for use it was October. I was left in charge of the herd with a young man by the nameo York to help me whose home n Worth. (To be continued) NOTICE OF TOWN ELECTION. North Carolina, Watauga County Notice is hereby given tha there will be held a town election in the town of of Boone, N. C on Tuesday after the first Mon day in May, 1921, at the usual vo ting place in said town, for the purpose of electing a board town commissioners and a may or. J. D. Councill is appointed Registrar, and M. P. Critcher and L. L. Critcher judges to hold the said election.' This 7th day of March, 1921. J. M. Moretz. Mayor". J. G. Greer, M. B. Blackburn, F, A. Lijjney, Town Corns. Soot of the Things the General Assembly of North Carolina Has Done Daring the Session of 1921. J. B. Warren ininston Salem Jour rial. 1. Passed road bill for provi ding for the construction and maintenanance of a State system of hard-surfaced and other de pendable roads in North Caroli naand the issuance of fifty mill ion in bonds for this work. 2. Raised the salaries of all State officials to $4,500 per year and provided increases for some of the other older employes of the State. 3. Provided pensions for mem bers of the judiciary who have served fifteen years and have reached the age of seventy, who may retire on part pay and qual- fy as emergency judges. 4. Created the office of Com missioner of Revenue who will have general charge of all taxa tion work in North Carolina. 5. Put all Eastern Carolina under the ctock law. 6. Wrote a revenue bill which will raise nearly ( seven ' million dollars annually without a tax on property. , 7. Provided for a revaluat'ou of property values in the State which hiv dicreasid in values since the 1920 special session of the legislature. 8. Provileda million dollars or old soldiers. 9. Iucreased appropriations or mamtenace tor an state in stitutions a total of over two and a half million. 10. Provided $6,745,000 for permanent improvement and en argement of all State education al and charitable institutions. 11. Amended the madiail prac tice act, bringing the code up to date, 12. Revised the banking laws of North Carolina. 13. Passed what is known as the par clarance bill, allowing State banks to charge for ex change. 14. Killed the eight per cent interest bill. 15. Killed the eight per cent nterest bill. 1(. Killed the moving picture censorship, 17. Killed all prohibition leg islation except local. IB. Killed the bill providing enforcement of power contracts. I1.). Passed the municipal ti iance act in accordance with sug gestions of. the mayors and other municipal officers of the State. 20. Made provision for put ting all insane people in the State in hospitals and taking them out of jails. 21. Made provision for the treatment at State hospitals of inebriates. 22. Repealed the 1919 law re quiring the removal of the State penitentiary and conversion of the old building into an asylum. 23. Redistricted the senatori al districts in North Carolina. Tin Comtnandmints of the Mathimatlcs Department, A. T. S. I. Thou shalt be present ev ery day. if possible, and shalt bring a written excuse for ab sence, signed by the teacher in charge of the dormitory, or by parents in case thou liveth in town. All absences shall be made up. II. Thou shalt be prompt for thy recitation and shall be in the room before the last bell rings. III. Thou shalt not take the work of thy neighbor in place of thine own, for thy teacher' will not accept it. IV. Remember the offer of ex emption and strive hard to at tain unto it. V. Honor thy teacher and do all thou canst to make his duties easier in place of harder. VI. Thqu shalt not kill thy teacher's respect for 1 misconduct on class for he giv- eth thee a 6 every time thou do est so. VII. Thou shalt not commit the sin of getting any one to help thee with thy work, for if ho finds it out thou wilt not receive credit for it. , VI I. Thou shalt not cheat on examinations, for this means a zero if thy teacher finds it out. IX. Thou shalt not engage thy neighr's attention with idle talk or otherwise on class, for per haps he wishes to make a good grade if thou dost not. X. Thou shalt not 'desire to pass on thy neighbor's work in stead of thine own, for it is not thine and in case thy teacher dis covereth so it will profit thee nothing. Thou shalt, further more abide by these ten com mandments, for I, thy teacher, have sworn to see that they are enforced and carried out. J. T. C. WRIGHT, Teacher. REGIONAL MISSION CONFERENCE. Following is tho program for the Regional Mission Conference to be held in Boone Marcli 21 and 22nd by Dr. Charles E. Maddry, Corresponding Secretary of the Baptist State Conveatio-j: FIHST EVENING 7:30-8:00 Devotional. 8:00-8:30 "Our Young People." 8:30 -9.00 "Sunday Schools." 9:00-9:30 Address "Missions." SECOND DAY A. M. 9:00 -9:30 Devotional. 9:30-10:00 "Orphanage." ""TTiTfinri n tirrrrnrn rr n ffi ii Highway Motor Company. Dealers In Batter Grade Motor Cars, Trucks, and Supplies. MAIN STREET, BOONE, N. C, 10:00-10:30 Conference on Our S Home Missions. 10:30 -11:00 Conference on Ste wardship and State Missiens. 11:00-11:30 "Biblical Recor der." 11:30-12:00 "Hospitals" SECOND DAY P. M. 2:00-2:15 Devotional. 2:15-2:45 'Our Old Preachers.! 2:45-3:15 Conference on For eign Missions. 3:15-4:15 Conference: The Spring Round Up; How to Con duct Campaign; The Rudget Sys tem; Uniform Method of Ac counts; Conserving Camealgn, and other matters. 4:15-4:45 "Baptist Foundat ion. 4:45-5:00 Miscellaneous Dis cussions. SECOND EVE. CLOSING SESSION. 7:30-7:45 Devotional. 7:45-8:15 "Laymen's Move ment." 8:15-8:45 "Education." 8:45-9:15 Foreign Missions. It is expected that this confer ence will draw representatives from the churches of Ashe, Ave ry, Stony Pork and Three Forks associations. Pastors, 75-imllion campaign workers, W. M. U. wor kers and all others who will are t A urgea to come, uoone extends a hearty welcome to any who will come. Come on and wo will have a good time together. Entertain ment will be provided. Send your naino to F. M. Huggins, Boone, N. C, so that he may lookout for you. But if j'ou see that you cannot come until the last, come anyway. The wide range of models of the Nash Six and Nash Four are on exhibit at the show. Each of thes cars, from the luxurious Nash Six' Sedan for seven passengers to the light weight Nash Four Roadster has great power, due to its Nash Perfected Valve-in-Head Mo tor. Each is beautiful, comfortable, and thoroughly high grade in every detail of de sign and construction, and represents valae impressively above the ordinary. Nash Six 5-passcnger touring car, 11695; 2-passenger road ster, $1695; 4-passenger sport model J1850; 7-pnssenger tour injf car, iW,o: i-pasiongcr coupe, 26."0: 7-pa.ssi-nirer sedau, :"W5. Price's f. o. b. Kenosha. Niish Four 5-passpn.rer tourintf car, $13!).',; 2-pas'enjrer road ster, $l.'t!i.i: passenger coupe ; 5-passenjjvr sedan, $ Prices f. o. b. Milwaukee. Cord tiros oa all oiod'la. Bei Spreads Waitid. , : .: The Han work Stop, Poughkee psie, New York, wants nicely . made bed spreads in the follow : designs: Bowl of Roses,' Swing ing EJasket, Mountain Lily, Bam- boo Briar, Wandering Vine : Sweet Briar Rose, Snowball, Bird and Tree, Hickory Leaf,. Wild Cucumber and Bowknot and Thistle. Payment made in a very short time. Dec. 6. tfc. Notld of Administration. Having qualified asadministra tor of the estate of Jas. P. Mast, deceased, this is to notify all per-; sons having claims against sai l estate to present them to the un dersigned on or before the 10th day of March, 1922, or this no tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate will please come for ward and make immediate pay ment. This the 10th day March, 1921. JOE K. MAST, Adm. ASRICULTHRAL LiliST We handle VoltiiiUvr Ag 3 ricultural Limestone in car w lots or by the ton. If inter ested see us andgetourlow est prices; I00NE PRODUCE CO, BOONE, N. C. sic li hi if DO Si ; A.. 't .i.-? '.V-.' '
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