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- She r .1 0 Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BOONE. AND WATAUGA COUNTY. L00 Per Year VOL. XXXII. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C. THURSDAY JUNE 16, 1921. N034 t 4 Litter From Mr. Henry Roberts, Chair man ot the Highway Commission of the State ot Tennessee. Mr. H. W. Horton, President Boone Commercial Club, receiv ed recently the following letter from Mr. Henry Roberts, Chair man of the Road Commission of the State of Tennessee, in an swer to some questions relative to our future road connections with that State, and we publish it in full. It follows: '"The situation in Tennessee is this: We have two roads from Bristol to Boone, N. C, one by Elizabethton and Elk Park, and the other by Mountain City and Trade, the latter also giving us a direct connection through Jef ferson to Winston-Salem, both are a part of the State Highway System in Tennessee. "The road from Bristol to E lizabethton is an old water-bound macadam, badly worn, which have not been maintained since it was constructed some six or seven years ago. Plans are prac tically perfected to rebuild this road in the next year or two. From Elizabethton to the Tennes see line near Elk Park, about Id miles, if my memory serves me right, $50,000 was spent on rein forced concrete bridges and $100,000 in grading the entire road about six years ago. The County Court and State High way Commission have agreed up on a co operative plan for surfa cing this road, and I assume'the work will be done within the next two years. "On the other route we have an old water bound macadam from Bristol 13 miles to Holston River and two years ago the two coun ties, State Highway Commission and Forest Service put up about $300,000 with which to improve this road of 34 miles from the river to the Tennessee line near Trade on road to Boone. The contract was let last year to grade and drain the 12.23 miles of this inside the Forest Reserve leaving about 2 miles next to Bristol and the residue on the east end. This project will be completed by fall. The other 9.91 miles between Mountain City and Bristol is advertised for bids on June 3rd, and the plans call for a water bound macadam surface. I do not know just when the section from Mountain City to Trade will be let. At this point I might say we are interested in a North Caro lina connection from Trade to Jefferson, and thence to Wilkes boro and Winston-Salem as well as the one to Boone. "In Virginia, Boone Way is State Highway No. 10, 115 miles, of which about half is graded and surfaced with surface treated macadam, and the entire section will be completed inside of three years. "I might add that Boone Way mas been made a State Highway in Kentucky also and at least a part of same selected for prefer red consideration in the con struction program. "We wish to assure all inter ested parties in North Carolina that we are doing and shall con tinue to do everything possible to speed up construction of this important highway in Tennessee and Virginia, and we expect to meet North Carolina at the state line at Trade and Elk Park with improved State Highways before a great while." NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Louisa Cook, devil ed, this is to notiiy all persons hav ing claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the un dersigned on or before the 2nd day of June 1922 or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please raaKe immediate payment. Tais 2nd day of June 1921. J. B. TAYLOK, Administrator. BL0WIN6 ROCK. Lenoir News-Topic. The outlook fora through State road leading across Caldwell county from the Catawba line to Blowing Rock, with all toll gates taken off, is believed to be migh ty good by local road men. In all probability a part of this will be hard surfaced. In connection with this road the state highway commission will send a commit tee to Blowing Rock on Monday, June 20, to go over the entire proposition. Another important matter so far as Caldwell county is con cerned is the change from the eighth district to the seventh dis trict. This change was made at the meeting of the State high way commission in Raleigh early this month. The change was ask ed for by the Caldwell county road commission which sent one of its members, Mr. J.L. Nelson, to Raleigh to take up the matter with the State highway commis sion. Commissioner McBee, of the eighth district, readily gave his consent to the change and Commissioner Doughton of the Seventh district accepted the change and assured Mr. Nelson that he Jwould strive in every way to serve the county as best he could. The committee which is to be sent to Blowing Rock will go o ver the turnpike with the view of considering a proposition of the owners which is now before the commission. This proposition is said to be the offer of the turn pike to the State Highway commission, the value to be plac ed by the members of the State highway commission. Named on this commission are Chairman Frank Page and Commissioners Wilkinson, Doughton Cox and Hart. The meeting will be in session two days and it is very probable that matters concerning other roads in this section will come up for discussion. It is be lieved that the commission will make an inspection trip over the Yonahlossee road from Blowing Rock to Linville and from thai place to Newland. Another road likely to be investigated is tliat from Newland leading through Banner Elk'to Boone. Governor Morrison will probably attend t h i s meeting. The turnpike proposition is the only road in Caldwell county that is now bo- fore the Stale highway commis sion. All other roads or proposi tions have been waived in favor of the opening of a" free road north and south through the county. Hickory is lending force to this project, and it is believed that Lincoln and Charlotte will want to connect up with this north and south road. Good Wind Blowing. . If straws tell which way the wind is blowing it must be that a good wind is blowing in the right direction. Less than a year ago it took about all the spare change in a man's pocket to per suade the grocer to continue to send his ambassador to one's kit chen door, while now the ambas- saaor conies ior iebs, onngs more, and there is the picture of a plug of chewing tobacco left in . i? . i - - i- - i one's jeans after paying km usi month's provender. Going through grocery slips for May, 1920, it is t'o.-md rli it at that time SM.'M itoiignt on-- hun dred pounds of sugar and no more. According to slips for May, 1321, the same measly $30.00, bought: One hundred pounds of sugar, 24 pounds of flour, 8 pounds of BIS ROAD MEETING FOR lard, 1 pound of coffee, 1 pound ! of baking powder, two cakes of Octagon soap, 1 good broom, 3 3 pounds of butter, 1 box of ba con, 1 dozen bananas, 1 pound of cheese, 1 ham, 1 gallon of beans, 1 squash, 1 cabbage, 1 head let tuce, 1 bunch carrots, 1 dozen oranges, l quart straw berries, 1 box cocoa, bottle salad dressing, 1 bunch beets, 1 box' matches, I box graham crackers, 1 pound of rice, 1 quart of syrup, I box of starch, 1 pound of tea, 1 package of soda, 1 can Old Dutch Cleans er, 1 box oatmeal, 6 grapefruit, 2 pounds of sirloin steak, one box of candy for the madam, and the grocer said "Thanks, call again." Hickory Record. THE TURNPIKE PROJECT. Charlotte Observer. The information carried in The Observer of the taking of Cald well County out of the eighth dis trict and the placing of t h a t county in Doughton's district. which action is to be followed by the taking over of tho turnpike between Lenoir and Blowing Rock, witn a new extension to Boone, proved a development of surpassing interest to the peo ple in this part of the State. It is by far the most interesting de velopment in the State's road program since theHighwayCom- mission got into operation. Com missioner Doughton's personally conducted tour over the route made him an enthusiastic sup porter of the project. Com mis sioner Wilkinson will this week join other Commissioners in a fi nal going over of the project and then we may expect official an nouncement of the closing of the deal on part of the State. The Observer is not in possession of the details of the proposition, but it will be remembered that a few days ago it advanced the views ot interested parties that the owners of the pike would turn it over to the State as a free gift, the State to hard-surface and maintain it. A re-location of grade at certain points would be desirable but that is a minor con sideration. The original turnpike was laid out by surveyors from the State University and ithas always been regarded as one of the finest mountain highway's in the world. It is "23 miles in length and rea ches an altitude of 5,000 feet a- bove sea level. One of the big reasons why the State should take an interest in this road is its Appalachian Training School at the Boone end of the line, but' its greater interest would be the establishment of a highway that would serve to develop one of the richest counties in America, and t ) open to the people of the "low lands" the doors to storehouses of inexhaustible agricultural and mineral wealth. School savers are doing splendid work in thrift campaign MANY SOCIETIES FORMED AND MEMBERS ARE NOW BUSILY WATCHING THEIR MONEY GROW j, Teachers and children are enthu siastic over the new thrift spirit in i the school room, which has already 1 resulted not only lu giving a novel and tactical interest to time honored sub- jecis, but in the organization of ap proximately ' 11,000 school savings ciubs in the schools of this district. Last year the gross sales ot Thrift and War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates In the fifth dis trict d'r.'jui u-d lo more than $2,315,000 during Uic school session, and it is hoped that when the figures are com piled for the 1920-1921 session, an even better record will be shown. Thousands of penny and nickel sav ings books, text leaflets in thrift and wail charts for showing the records oi eavings clubs, have been mailed out Jo W ATKINS MEDICINE BUSI- NESS FOR SALE. One medi cine wagon and team, large am ount of good accounts and $300 worth of medicine. J. G. Norris, Jr., Boone, N. C. 2p The North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital will open its doors to the crippled, de formed child in June. The manage ment of the institution wishes to hpln every child of sound, mind, under 14 years old in the state, all it can quick ly, especially the poor, nordy and or nhanod child. If von itnmv of sm'h a child in your county or neighborhood wnie 10 rt. a. Baoington, n-esiuent North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital, uasionia, jn. c lor an application blank at once. 5-26-4t schools asking for tEem, Boys and girls are learning to put their money into government savings securities in stead of wasting it, and in order that they nay not look upon savings a an end In itself, and gain a false concep tion of thrift at a form of stinginess, they art encouraged to save for some definite, worth-while object such, for instance, as a college education or business capital. Saving is only a third of the game, however, tbf .uinngsitrs earn much of the money tbt s.ive and invest in Thrift and Savings Stamps. Weeding tobacco, running errands, clerking in stores, washing dishes, raising vege table! and live stock are some of the callings in which school savings club members engage during summer vaca tions and after school hours, and keen is "the rivalry among them. Even the smallest tots are taklag an active part in. the "Barn and Save" movement, and patriotic teacher, who understand the value of thrift as an element of good citizenship are devot ing their time and thought to making It part of their educational work, and are alro encouraging the ' .Ti'iatlon of savings clubs by the childreu them selves. They realize that they are rendering a real service to the country by teaching sound economic thought, practical patriotism and prosperity. NINE REASONS FOR 60IN6 TO CHURCH Theodore Roosevelt, than whom there have been few greater Am ericans, gave the following rea sons why people should go to church. 1. In t h i s actual world, a churchless community, a com munity where men hav$ aban doned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a com munity on the rapid down grade. 2. Church work and church attendance mean the cultivation of the habit of feeling some re sponsibility for others. 3. There are enough holidays for most of us. Sunday differ from other holidays in the fact that there are fifty-two of them every year therefore on Sunday go to church. 4. Yes, I know all the excuses I know that one can worship the Creator in a grove of trees, or by a runnirg brook, or in a man's own house just as well as in the church. But I also know as a matter of cold fact the average man dues not thus worship. "). Ho may not hear a good sermon at church. He will hear a sermon by a good man who, with his good wife, is engaged all the week in making hard lives a little easier. ('). He will listen to and take l part in reading some beautiful passage from th'1 Bible. And if he is not familiar with the Bible, he has suffered a loss. 7. He wll take part in singing some good hymns. x He will meet and nod or speak to good quiet neighbors. He will Its preference is so pronounced that cars of two, three or four years' use are eagerly sought. There are few of them in the market and they always com mand a high price. The gasoline consumption is unusually low. Trie tire mileage is unusually high. m.VrJB1) llliilliTOEIrli itQAlSTEfl E. H. Mortimer Elk Park, N. C. come away feeling a little oor charitably toward all the world,.. . even toward those young menx who regard church going, as a ' ' soft performance. 9. I advocate a man's joining in church work for the sake, of . showing his faith by his works.' Thera are plenty of other rea sons why people should attencL church, but it is not needful that, they all be enumerated here. ,We are convinced that a fair trial of church attendance will convince any open-minded man or woman that it is worth while. And don't forget that the last Sunday in this month, June 26, is "Go to Church Day." On that day we want every man, woman child and visitor to attend one of the churches. Pastoks of Boone Churches Do you know you can roll cigarettes tor ID els from one bag of GENUINE TCQACCO v ' - -, 'V
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