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Advertising'Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Pes Year VOL. XXXII. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1921 N049 0 0 it IS UP TO HARDING DELIVERS ADDRESS j WASHJNGTON CONFERENCE HAt , BEEN EMPOWERED TO DEAL j WITH THE QUESTION. I PRESENT SOLUTION DOUBTFUL Probable That Land Armaments Is to be Handled by League Commission on Same Basis as Naval. imament of the council of the League of Nations In its full report finds that the Washington conference can better deal with the question of naval disar mament than the' league and that It can be more effectively secured by common agreement among the great powers. The discussion of this subject by the assembly commission thus far is in line with this conclusion, involv ling a slow but sure policy. With re gard to land armaments also It ap pears that the same policy has the upper hand. It is probable that the question will come up before the as sembly on that basis. "Mankind is still too far removed from the ideals of peace to make pos sible at present the solution of the question of disarmament," is the final conclusion of the council's commis sion. The replies to the assembly's re quest that the governments limit their expenditures for the purpose of arma ments for two years to the amount of this year's budget are quoted in sup port of the commission's contention. i Mellon' Estimate Correct. 1 ! Washington. Incomplete treasury Teports of collections of September 15 installments of income and excess profits taxes indicated a practical Certainty that Secretary Mellon's esti mate of $525,000,000 will be realized, officials said. Masked Men Raid Distillery. ! Bloomfleld, Ky. Twenty masked and armed men overpowered two guards at the B. McClasky & Sons distillery and escaped in seven tour ing cars with 88 cases and three bar rels of whiskey. ' Object to Vicious Textbooks. j Tokio. Formation of a committee which would submit school textbooks to a critical examination, with a view to rooting out Sources of international prejudice, ignorance and hatred, is recommended by a representative group of Japanese peace workers. ; Washington. Wholesale prices in creased 2.75 per cent in August over July levels, wholesale food prices lead ing tn the advance with an Increase of 13.5 per cent, according to figures made public by the department of la' bor. ! Five Dynamiters Captured. ; Chicago. Fourteen hundred . sticks of dynamfte, three inches in diameter and ten 'inches long, and 100 sticks of T N T were seized by poKce fol lowing the capture of five dynamiters in the act of bombing a shoe repair hop. Hun Celebration Broken Up. :. Berlin.. A celebration at Wllmers Idorff of .the battle of Tannenburg, fol lowing the anniversary of that en gagement, fought in East Prussia In 1914, 'ra broken up by socialists and communlsts, who overpowered the ua tlonaBsts. ! ' Cotton Association, to Mcer. ' Columbia, S. C J. Skottowe Wan na' maker, president of the American O itton association, announced that fae association had accepted an Invi tation to hold Its next annual meeting ,in Birmingham October 26-29. Drowned While Aiding Brother. Beaufort, S. V. William Haddock, s 'white boy 21 years of age, was drown ed near his home at Hundred Pines 'while attempting to rescue his brother .-who had called for help. 8,000 View Body of Actress. J Los Angeles. Approximately 3,000 persons viewed the body of Miss Vir ginia Rappe, motion picture acttress, for whose alleged murder Roracoe i( "Fatty") ArbucUe is held in thjSan Francisco prison j ! Strike Is Voted, But Deferred. ! Chicago. Railroad shopmen (be longing to the Six Federated Shop Crafts union have voted to strike Against the general railroad wage re action of July 1, 1921, but will defer action. 1 FUTURE PROSPERITY DEPENDS ENTIRELY UPON METHODS OF CROP MARKETING. NEED PROPER CO OPERATION Necessity Stressed For Pushing Our Foreign Trade, Notably' as It Re lates to Products of South. Charlotte. N. C The future pros perity of the whole country, and es pecially the South, hinges upon the method of crop marketing and what prices prevail for the raw products of those districts "in which normally so large a part of the country's purchas ing power lies," 18 the declaration of Governor W. P. G. Harding of the Federal Reserve Board, who was the city's guest and delivered an exhaust ive address at the exposition grounds on the subject of "What the Federal Reserve Board Is and What It is Not." Governor Harding declared that, "with proper co-operation on the part of merchants and bankers, those en gaged In agriculture now have oppor tunities and prospectB, which nobody anticipated a few months ago." He stressed also the necessity for pushing the foreign trade of the na tion, notably as it relates to cotton and the many products of Southern farms." Some means must be de vised," he said, "for extending long time credits abroad or Interesting American investors In foreign proper ties and securities. Many Varieties of Churches. Pittsburgh. One of the greatest difficulties confronting the church lies in the fact that there are 175 varie ties of churches in America, Dr. Bax ter P. Fullerton. of St. Louis, told the World's Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches here. Price of Soft Coal Advanced. St. Louis. Prices of soft coal, vir tually unchanged since April 1, have been advanced 25 cents a ton here by some companies, according to an an nouncement which declared the other concerns would make an equal ad vance on October 1. Increase Size of Delegations. Washington. News from England indicates that Great Britain will have elx members on her delegation to the armament conference. If this Is her wish It will be granted and every del egation will be increased. Indian Day Is Obtprved. Chicago. Chief Oshkosh. a Winne bago Indian, recently returned from France, where he has been teaching forestry, heads the Indians parttci pating in Chlcago.s celebration of In dian Day. , Bar Silver Price Advances. New York. An advance in the price of bar silver in London, due mainly to a continuance of the demand from China and India, was met by an ad vance here to 68 cents an ounce. R, ft. Car Trust Certificates. Washington. Sale of railroad car trust certificates held by the govern ment amounting to $30,298,500 was an nounced by the War Finance corpora tion. Decision on Bart in Saloons. Madison, Wis Brs In saloons need not be removed or altered to comply with the new state prohibition law, Judge Stevens told attorneys for Mil waukee saloon interests. Beer III Back Before Senate. Washington. The beer bill got be fore the senate by a vote of 31 to 23 after Chairman Penrose, of the finance committee, had sought to have the tax revision bill taken up first. 850 Bodies Recovered. Paris. Up to morning 850 bodies had been recovered from the ruins at Oppau where the plant of the Ba- yUahe Aniline company blew up. ) Reduee Discount Rates. New Jtfork. The directors of the federal Reserve bank of New York cut the rediscount rate from 5V to 5 per cent. Judge Holds Up Electrocution. Little Rock, Ark. United States District Judge Jacob Treiber granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of six Elaine negroes sentenced to be electrocuted and Issued a temporary restraining order enjoining state au iiorities from executing sentence pending hearing of the case. Some Would-be Postmasters, Washington, (Special). Postmas ter General Hayes has finally brought things to puss ho that the various communities of the country will be able to know the names of the men and the wpman who desire positions as postmasters. Here are the lists of those who stood the examinations for postmas ters in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Mount Olive: Greensboro: Simeon A. Hodgin, Balem C. Campbell, J. H. Armfleld, Luren D. Mendenhall, Roscoe O. Chandley, Paul A. Burns, William L. Scott, Edward E. Mendenhall and Joseph B. White. Winston-Salem: Joseph E. Fry, Charles E .Hamilton, Sam E. Vance, John T. Benbow, John R. Walker, Nix on L. Crawford, Levi W. Ferguson. Mount Olive: William J. Flowers, John L. Smith, Daniel Jones, Willam N. Williams, George E. Lewis, Marion L. Hargrove, Claude B. Herring, Mat thew J. Kornegay and Homer Brock. Examinations for postmasters in North Carolina announced by the Civil Service Commission for October 14 are to fill vacancies at Albemarle, salary $2,000; Hertford, salary $2,300; Lenoir $2,500; Madison $2,330; Wades- boro, $2,500. Fire Prevention Day. Governor Morrison, in a proclama tlon set aside Monday, October 10, as fire prevention day, and urged its ob servance by all the citizens of the state. "It is a reproach that North Caro lina should suffer millions of dollars of loss annually from fires caused by negligence," the proclamation says. Conservation of human life is man's noblest work," the proclamation con tinues. "Next in importance is the protection of our property assets, llie destruction by fire during 1920 leach ed such enormous prooprtions as to leave us little room for pride. In North Carolina alone it reached the startling sum of six millions of dollars and 337 lives." To better these conditions, the gov ernor appeals to local authorities to give attention to building regulations, and to the citizens to co-operate with the state insurance deparment in its fire prevention campaigns. Applicants for Postmaster. Washington, Special). Four vacan cies exist in North Carolina for ad mission to the Military Academy at West Point next July, the War De partment announced. The vacancies are in the third, sixth, ninth and tenth districts. Florence Cain has been appointed acting postmaster at Elizabethtown. Port of Missing Cigarettes. Sixteen thousand dollars worth of cigaretts have been stolen from freight rnra nt Anex durlne the last year, ac cording to testimony developed in the Wake county courtnouse in me mai of James Little, sentenced to two years and a half for stealing ciga rettes. The figures were, given by the rail rnad neent at Anex. which Is the trans fer point tor shipment of cigaretts manufactured in Durnam. Road Contract Awarded. W. F. McCanless, Charlotte road contractor, was awarded contract for the construction of 3.2 miles of road in Gaston county, connecting Gasto- nia and Dallas, by the North Carolina highway commission. Almost half a hundred road con tractors were present and filed bids for the construction of this road De- fore the bids were opened. Oldest Lawyer in Raleigh Dead. Col. J. W. Hinsdale, oldest member of the Raleigh Bar and probably the oldest practicing attorney in the state, died at his home after a brief illness. He was the last surviving Colonel of the Confederate army liv in in North Carolina. Colonel Hinsdale on February 4 celebrated his seventy-eighth blrtu day. Henderson to be Electrocuted. Frank Henderson, Madison county white man, lost his last appeal for life when the governor declined to tnterfere with the death sentence of the courts. He will be electrocuted October 10 for the murder ef his wife. Attack Fisheries Commission. Attack on the constitutionality of regulations prescribed by the state fisheries commission was made in the supreme court in the hearing of tne onnpni of Henrv Dudly. Carteret coun ty man, convicted and sentenced for ftcrsDlne scallops In Bogue sound. Thn case is novel and Is almost on all fours with the status of child labor regulations in the state. Both the fishing and labor regulations are fixed hv hoards created by the general as sembly. The right to creat these boards is questioned. SINE 11 I CHAPEL HILL SUFFERING THE LONGEST DROUGHT IN THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN. NO Rl IN SEVERAL MONTHS The Usual Thanksgiving Recess Will Probably be Eliminated In Order to Recover Lost Time. Chapel Hill. The continuance of the longest drought in the history of Chapel Hill has forced the University to postpone its opening from Septem ber 27, to Tuesday, October 4. There has been no real rain here worthy of the name since the middle of May. There have been a few show ers, but these have barely laid the dust. The vegetable and grain crops of the region have been killed. The meagre Summer population has been able to get along in recent weeks because, it has been served by a water plant designed for the peak load of the college year. But even with his relatively small demand a serious wa ter scarcity has arisen. A thorough Burvey of all possible sources of water supply around Chapel Hill demonstrates that the drying up process has gone so far that, even if there should be considerable' rain in the next few days, there would still be danger to health in opening on sche dule time. It is planned to eliminate the Thankgiving recess in order to make up for the week lost by postponement. I Raleigh Preparations for the stag ing of the episodes of our early his tory on Roanoke Island are in full Bway, and indications are that every thing ready for the cameramen. A rehearsal of the storming of Fort Raleigh by the Indians, when the fif teen men left by Sir Richard Green ville were slain or driven into their boats to perish later was helc under the direction of Mrs. Thomas of the Department of Education. Asheville. An optimistic statement concerning the future business outlook for the country was given out here by R. E. Simpson, general manager ot the Southern Railway system. While here Mr. Simpson has been a prom Inent figure attending the Scottish Rite ceremonies, and delivered one of the principal lectures bfore the Constitu tional Class of Scottish Rite Masons Gastonla, The board of city school commissioners has accepted the bid of Sydney Spitzer & Company, of To. ledo, Ohio, for the entire issue of $450 000 school bonds, proceeds of which are to be used for the erection of a new high school building and for aft ditions to the colored school building in North GaHtonia. Wake Forest. Four hundred and eighty registrants was the total enroll ment of Wake Forest College at the end of the second week of reglstra tlon. This number represents about seventy-five students less than the registration at the same time for the 1920-21 session of Wake Forest. Winston-Salem. The local tobacco market opened a new season and sold 350,000 pounds at an average of about 25 cents. Farmers here (expressed themselves as being thonaghly satis fled with prices received, they, bein larger than had been predicted. Goldsboro. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Goldsfooro Street Railway company here in the cham her of commerce rooms the city bought all outstanding stock in the Goldsboro Street Railway company and in the future this car line will be nvnd and operated by the city government. Apex. The tobacco market opened with 35,000 pounds and approximately 3.00 people present. Offerings wen the last cuttings of a very nonda.so.ript type with an average of approximate ly 25 cents. Traveling buyers say this was the highest opening in this belt for type offered. Futile Search for Murderer. Statesville. Bob Benson, negro who fatally wounded Robert Dlsham, influ ential farmer and lumberman, by crushing his skull with a gun barel, Is still at large notwithstanding th fact that officers and posses of citi zens have been scouring the woods ot Ircdall county tor two nights and two days. Sheriff Alexander who will continue the man hunt until the criminal is ap prehended Is certain that the negro is not In Iredell county. Bloodhounds were used in the hunt. H ma FUSE W 10 MIME Ford Coupe, when Seized and Search ed by Traffic Cop, was Found to Contain 83 Quarts of Liquor. Salisbury. If you had always been able to sit upright in a Ford coupe and you should get in a stranger's car and your head would hit the ceiling, what would you think. What a work man at a local garage thought brought to light an ingenious way of carrying whiskey and caused the turning over ot 83 quarts of the Btuff to Rowan's sheriff. Traffic Cop Gallimore hailed a coupe that was coming into town from the south at too rapid a gait and the oc cupants, a white man and a negro, were brought to the courthouse to ar range for bond. A pistol was found In the white man's grip, and this com plicated things somewhat. In the meantime the car was placv in a garage, and when a workm"- went to move if he found tho top v.n low. Investigation showed there war a compartment built in between the ceiling and the cover of the top, ann In this was found 43 quarts of whis key. Other hidden compartment'- found under and back of the seat and iu these wero 40 quarts of whi key. Another pistol was also found in the car. The white man gave his name as Wolfe Silver and his home as Savan nah, Ga. The negro said he was Grady Coleman. The 'car was carry ing a South Carolina tag, but a Geor gia tag was also found inside. Asheville. At a mass meeting held in the courthouse and attended by be tween 500 and 600 persons, Attorney Spears Reynolds, former Judsa of municipal court arraigned the acta of the city commissioners and following his address three others spoke fav orlng the recall of Mayor Gallatin Roberts, Commissioner of Public Work R. J. Sherrill, and Commissioner of Public Safety R. L. Fitzpatrick. Fnyettevile. Five cotton mils In this city are experiencing an enforced shut-down for two days a week caused by the power economy program of the Carolina Power company, made necessary by low water in the streams from which the company's electric power U generated. Fifty-three other mills on the Carolina company's linen are similarly affected. Raleigh. Governor Morrison an nounced the triple appointment of Judge William J. Adams, of Carthage, to the supreme court, to succeed the late Associate Justice William R Allen; Solicitor Walter E. Brock, of Wadesboro, to succeed Judge Adams on the superior court bench, and state Senator M. W. Nash, of Hamlet, bo llcltor, to succeed Mr. Brock. Mooresvllle. Harry P. Deaton as nounces in his paper, The Mooresvllle Enterprise, that he has sold a half In terest In the newspaper and joh plant that he has operated for many years Frank B. Freeze Is the purchaser and wil become an active partner in the business, beginning October 1. Asheboro. Randolph county fair will begin September 28, and continue until October 1. The first building on the fair ground is to be 30 by 150 feet This will be the exhibit building. In addition to this there wil be thirty or forty stalls for the cattle. Winston Salem. James W. T.asley, rtied at a local hospital from injuries sustained in Walnut Cove by being run over by his o".n automobile. WhiK cranking the car, which had been lell in gear, the machine startod off. Shelby. The Western North Caro Una Weekly Press association held its quarterly convention here nt the Cleveland Springs hotel. The editors were welcomed to the city by Mayo J. T. Gardner and tb" response was made by Noah Hollowell, of Hender sonvilie. Greensboro. John Winder, ot this city, was fined $50u in police court on a charge of retailing. The specific charge was that he sold a quart of whiskey to Judge R. C. Stntdwick, a prominent member of the local bar. Winder Is a prominent business man. Many Visitors at Exposition. Charlotte. Six hundred Cabarrus people, coming from Concord, Kannn polls, Mt. Pleasant, Jackson Training school and other parts of Mecklen burg's neighbor on the northeast, were at the Made-ln-Carollnas exposition, with John M.Oglesby, Concord attor ney, as their spokesman, while the Jackson Training school band added much to the musical program of the afternoon. About 300 people, many ot them school children, made the trip on tne special train. ... . good on OF TOBACCO HIS LIGHT OFFERINGS OF FAIRL" GOOD WEED MARKED DAY IN PIEDMONT SECTION. HIGHEST AT FUQUAY SPRIH6S Sanford Got Into Action With 76,000 Pounds at an Average of a Uttle Better Than 23 Centa. Raleiah. Piedmont ; tobacco markets onenv' with generally light offerings prices averaged arouiid 20 c j i. which on the whole was consido: f.l quite satisfactory and especially plt.t. !us because It was better than tlu opening prices for last year. Fuguay Springs peeuis to have top ped the markets in the 1'iodmont wkii an average of 3i)-cents for a hund.-ca thousand pounds, but this is explained with the Uottor grades of tobacco of fertd. Tuo Raleigh market v-V Into acion in fiue stylo with ovv.imw of 12 pounds averaging aroard 20 cent Winston-Salem, blKsctt toba'. o- ter in the Piedmont, reported bmlio.. . 25 cents. Henderson had a 10C000 pounds at 20 cents a pound. With approximately 20.030 bouhh of tobacco on the floors of id warehouses, Durham reported ar ana of 24 cents with ... tc'. bc .i o- Lacin in evidouce. Sanford got lnti action with 75,00" pounds at an average of a little better than 23 cents, which v. us considered especially good. Burlington reported sales ot 20,000 pounds at an average of 20 cents with bis crowds on hand to watch the sales. More Applicants for Jobs. Continuing the list of parties mak ing application for appointments as postmasters in North Carolina, ani who have taken the examination1", there is given the lists of applicants for postmasters in Greenville, Gasto nla and Hickory as follows: Greenville, vacancy occurred July 21, 1921; examination held August 26, 1921; salary, $2800; applicants: Dav id J. Whichard J. W. Brown, H. T. King, E. L. Clark, J. J. Gilbert, T. K. Pructte, H. R. Munford. Gastonia Tacnncy occurred January 28, 1920: examination held July 2ti, 1921; r,a!nry. $l,')00; applicants: Fran els H. Slate Roger P. Waabam, T. C. Smith, G. D. Boyd, F. P. Rockett, Eu lallc H. Quinn, George K. Rawlings, J. H. Hanna, K. O. Pasour. Hickory, vacancy occurred April 1, 1921; examination July 16, 1921; sal ary, $2,800; applicants' : M. H. Abeo, H. W. Miller, U. S. O. Bell, C. T. OUli ken Making Loan Fund Available. Plans for making North Carolina's share of the War Finance Board's bil lion dollar agricultural loan fund avail able to the farmers of the state were formulated at ilie initial session of the Board's satc committee, and farmers desiring to borrow money can do so at their local banks. Application1 hlauks can l -:cured from Chaliman James R. Young, in Raleigh. Use of the money is restricted to the growing, harvesting, preparing for None of it niy be used for any perm anent Improvement, and Interest will be charged at the rate of 6 per cent. Brock Appointment Approved The appointment ir Solicitor Brocft. of Wadesboro, as judge of the fifteenth district to succeed Juie Adams, Is pleaBing. particulsr'y to the Warrn supporters. Mr. Brock has long bo In party harness and his elevation Is gratifying to the state -"t large. Sena tor N';ir,h a rapitnl f.'voraie alwav. named to succtcl SoHf'or Brvk, will mak an able prosecuting officer. No Divorce for Insanity PnnAnai,i,.nt (n o4a hMnml tfT the insane for a perioJ of 10 years isi not the separation ie statutes con template as a cause for divorce, ac cording to an opinion written by Chief Justice Walter Clark in the case of A. R. Lee vs. Saphrony Ann Lee, from Johnston. Home oJudge Bslles Raided. Charlotte. Officers of two states moved upon the premises ot Squire IT. O. Daile?, two miles b'.ow Ptnevllle, tVa Vntfc farnllna law anfnrrra prim ing away with a boojyof 56 quarts ot bottled In bond whiskey. Two sets ot officers were Involve! la Iha tringoKtlnn for rMlnn that a Mft of the property of Squire Bailee it oa the North Carolina side and part In the South Carolina dominion. It so happened that the store! liquor was in a crib that was located on Tar Heal' soil '
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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