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A lvrtling Rates .on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. V $1.00PetYer X YOt XXXBI. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY DECEMBER 15, 1921 NOP r0 fvnyt;':;-;.' GoUnty Exhibit' (Contlnaed from last week.) : '.-J jarah Q lackson, witness tjck . ; 't haU lees X 65; waiter pa wey . Michael witness ticket half fees j3 80r deve cofley witness ticket half fees 1 85; Mrs A P Bolio wit iiess ticket halt fees 1 85; a p no lle witness ticket half fees 1 85; ynum White witness ticket hajf fees .; ) a Winkler witness tick et hrlfjees 2 45 Moses "Teage ; ; Witness for half fees 2 20, G C i'iwalterfi- witness,, for half fes 2 10; L d Tester fitness, for half -fees 2 80 V : Vrl Thomas - j D Counclll TlHShpro ';B L Blogham . . j "VFellborp ; OFCfftchw John Titum ... LFarthin; Bynum Green . y . $ Q Underdo wn R MCoflpy , , ; B G Cannon" 4 ' DPOoffey John Fox . James Elrod 0 W Triplettv . . ' CGCburch ' Day Jury 610 210 210 210 210 610 610 410 410 410 410 410 410 410 410 410 410 210 410 410 O O Wlnibarger gr. Jury sp. t'm. 9 20 J M Creer 10 A M Mills A C Hodges ' P PShull W M Brown J W Hayes Lee Lawrence A O Watson D A Kluts C C Brsdshaw W H Michael W E Gragg ' J W, Jestes . W A Pfoffltj. BonHicks ' " C P Moore W C Moore t B F Miller I L Smith 730 8 60 8 70 910 8 90 910 9 30 910 3 70 9 70 310 940 900 960 910 960 910 930 890 Clyde Greene 1 W A Tugman 1 Walter Hampton 1 LT Elrod WL Holshouser ( JH Sarrell ' BM.Byrd TJ Palmer A C Reesa h . J WHenson" ORLathanrv 910 8 70 8 45 910 920 950 3 60 9 9 t . - half fees .75 M D Ernest D 8 J H Coffey OA Greene J M Hodges R P (Miller- Ouss Ooffey ' $C Greene HCCook R A Goodwin . Clint Eastridge' CCTrlplett HOAldridge JACastJe W M Hodges . . A C MUJer EPMoretz JEYmig, Sheriff Ot Coffey, ex-CSC 15 .15 ,.30 3 90 9 85 150 5 85 .15 " 1 -15 .45 .15 135 i05 2 55 1-40 .60 15 20 19 70 Frank Bobbins, Jr. for" sweep Ink court house 4 00; j h Green j p; half fees Teague case 2 95; R&l . . l .. .... eiflth Osborne witnes nail tees, 2 85.7- t ;' June 6, 1921.. 8-illie. Brown agent for sajah KerbySO 00iz b Brown agent for Mllie walker 6 00; w l nolshous er agent for Maud Hoies 18 00 ol story" agent for vr c iiobblns 8 00; A Harmon agent for Fannie Hajmon 18 50WJ H Mast agent for n and I wllson 8 00 t a fox, agt . for LD wataon 6 00; T.L Mast agt, for Nancy Beniley'14 00; n LMas agentfor Elvachurch 4 60; W R oragf Snt r"iJbe)ft;vHorton 16 00; John mtson sjnt fot cha- nie san&ra '4'50;'? Jerre watson v agent for John". Greer 8 00; if ' Thomas! agent tor Henry wa '4 50; ft A cox ajtent for Ave.! Wtson 600; w.E.snyaerisen VltSN& tor bridge 7. OOYcrbttyktr ageftt :M "!aie mthinK ? WflDQfcfe??w t- l- buylcck writes Kenv Ior; JUIia u.enn u, uuKe wara ageni ior-ney presnen w; w. j; Hoisnousei- agenii ior .-II J J .LMJ 4 ft v I aiiuara Hoarjes couarea is w, j miner an5 ior wnuuer Reese 5.00; Joseph PresneU agent ton dyke agent lor Anderson Danner fiO n r Part-nil rcranf, for mm . 1 J A .. ! I r - - ': rarirnn a. mi mpq i a- nrnnnia a. i Keni, aarau wiuu ow w ir a. u, ..11 o rv. l HoiBnouBer agenworN E Hoages aw, ..A er aBui, ior j w uy: w o w; w Mceui agenB ior arm. it r n. . :t . a s 1 vaivin wBWiuv. rraa COUnty aid 6 00; Adde FOX S50Un- i J rt Art. . t J I I ly.aiu o w; twaue xaroer county wu io vw; iiavw nouge couiuy am .1 J ID V. J J . J i p uu; aarme jux county am o uu; owi rnroer agent ior t M Hodges 3.00; w w Mast bur: al expenses for Mrs. Isaac Reese, n j : i . I ot uu; a k erown peeping county uuu, iw,-wiuejr..iur A..1M .A!11 m AA. n I wnnB.Hii w, w a ir.pie, clothjmjf for Calvin creer 13 20; j HDuggerburW expenses for uuKBBi: oww, ur. J w Junes " . I chine go. repairing Adding ma chine 15 05; Manufactures record 'or advertising $25,000 bond sale 30; Edwards & Broughton chan ty supplies 86 55; N careen keep ing jail 37 65; e m Harmon clerk to board county commissioners 39 79; aw smith juvenile court, etc. 55 75; 0 L Coffey county supt. public welfare 56 76; G FBing nam state vs. James Mast 1 60; J e Young for vital statistics 76 75; Frank Robbins Jr. for sweeping Court house 4 00. July 4, 1921. Boone Hardware Co. material for county jail 17 69; Dr. J W Jones county home and jail' ser vices 38 50; J M .May for listing taxes in North Fork township 15 00; s k Brown keeping county home 163 00; j w jestes agent for Elitha Rorch 16 67; t m Rominger isting taxes in shawneehawtown ship 1750; j w Hodges listing tax es in Elk township 17 50; a b Har man listing taxes in Laurel creek township 20 00; w M Thomas list ing taxes in Cove creek township 26 25;C Rreen listing taxes in Meat camD townshin 28 75: will H MMinir listinir.tftxps in Raid iTlVUU'UlU VWO U?lll Wf Ut9VtA Moretz Moretz listinsr taxes in stonvrork townshin 26 26 25: w t Vandyke listing taxes in Blow ing Rock township 2125; Je Church listing taxes in watauga township, 30 00; will H Mcouire for stationery lor county 6 50; j M' swift for burial expenses for Jacob Norris 80 00; o L coffey pub lie welfare officer 53 05; Edwards and Broughton supplies for coun- ty 5 17; n c oreen keeping jail 55 80: watauea Furniture Co. flooring, etc., and casket ior . xn derson Danner 67 73; A' v? smith juvenile court, work and stamps 52 00; J w Horton member of pen sion board ,2 03; Frank Robbins Jr. sweeping court house 4 00. - July 11, 1921.; j e Young sheriff, court expen sea for March term 290 20; dk. r. H Hardin examining . Mrs. kirby and Mrs. Henderson 11 00; Miss Stella McCaitney county nurse 876 64; J c Milier services as coun ty commissioner 57 40; James B Bingham listing taxes in Boone township 32 50; G v Robbins ser vices as county, commissioner 6210; w m Hodges1 member of pension, board 200. ; s . Aug. 1, 1921. " j f. pottercaptoring a s 1 1 11 20 00; Dr? D o Bingham for vaccl- nating against fever 80 20; w. Vqmtdti4ry9 that look Vandyke for listing taxeji,-etching sand for court house 600; 00; J ' e Jestes keeping Elitha porch a county pauper 14 25; s Brown' keppingcotinty borne 156,' - . ; Tai An Pll Shantung; China n,-di tooi Dear priepds; , - ; Jnat a f dura affo We refenrried frnm iM'Skv trin .monir th; . Wd tillasT in and havfl . . ffi . r,hr,. j..'- ' tiara . ' - . .. . . j m this trip niuch earlier, but on ac- count of jate rains and conse auentlv had roads, it waa the 3rd of 0ctob when Brother f,. way, Aternetbyand myself got nop hptk.hrr nnnml f ftff fo fttfft The barrow9 : w ha1 ft lftai1 fnr nrh rn.Aa ftfl hftd te over of oup heAAina for ,ittle ridinff alonff thfl wav Ln1 wo AiA ,oaa than T aVno,ted t rnA(k ROmft nn m. twn.mftn hftP. bn the other brethren walk ed the entire rotfnd excepta time r . r or two Mr. Abernethy balapced the wheel with me foP ft fihorfc di8tance. We were in a secUon for nnt f mm . t . A -nA ftI1 vw v v" a ui( w T ed like outside oi western -ctvili eation, but imagine my surprise when two days journey from home, to hear tne whistle 01 an engine' at noon.- I asked what this meant and the Chinese told me that it was the sound of tbe noon whistle at some coal mine not far away. .This whistle was truly like'a voice in the wilder-J ness, and made us feel like after all we were not so far from home. China abounds in coal, and in the region we were traveling in there are several mines, but only this one that I know of is being work ed. The pull over who shall have the most profit from it the local of ficials or the mines keeps the mines in this region from being worked to a great extent. When I was through here in June tbe people were extremely bu9y with wheat harvest; this time they were ' very busy with bean and peanut harvest. They grow quantities of beans and Deanuts. The oil business in mis country is a tremenuous one which is the productof beansand t 1 A. Peanuts. When l nrst came to China it was a rare thing to see a IDeanut except the smau native I ones,' now the little peanut is "ng oi tne past, ana tne Dig western ones are almostthe chief product of this region. Too, in some places I saw ou- rank, tal American cotton growing, but on account of the excessive rains this year the bolls of. the cotton failed to ripen. - But ere long this new cotton will take the place the shrubby kind, I saw fine I tobacco along the way. More and Uore they are raising it for home use and for making, cigarettes This land is now being more and more cursed with the cigarette habit The motto of the Ameri can Tobacco Company is a clg arette in every Chinamans mouth And this with English and. Chi nese companies are sowing the land nown with this vile weed 00; Dr. H B perry for vaccinating 61 93; a J Coffey for capturing still 20 uu; Dr J w Jones quaran tine officer 222 31: N coren keep ing county jail 87 20; N L Harri son listing taxes in Blue nidge - 1 township ,17 50; Dr. R H Hardin for vaccinating 89 60: B , o Green work 6a tax Books 86 25; w J Far thing .work on tax books 16 50, JBYObng for settling taxes. and 1 capturing still 56 25'; Frank Rob bins J r. for sweeping the court t houie 4 00; coot Haigler for nan Bob lalenn- for work: on' the ab Blstract tax boqksTSO. 1 1 (continued on 2nd pag and making tUe Chinese a prey to it. Even the so-called refined aaacuuurea women are lamng J 1. a 1 Ai.l.'Afi. 1. -- j. I u rnu ii m, r said to be clearing over three mmion ddllars annually.. In ev mw 1 1 1 v 1 1 1 1 ii w 1 1 1. iiu j j-- - ana tnese tooacco nrms nave . . . a I. their bulletins, and the houses 1 u it, i r ' , j ed with advertisements of this dAat.rnftIA Klicilnaaa .Thara ora I numoer ox oner proaucts sucn . . a . i 3 nan ijuiwes, weet puia- tues, insu putawes, coai ou, e., .u:u ui- u j . I vuiuii tumo ucie iiuui auiuuu . ? .ww wimgs sne re- . .4 . -I n,uV , UUWi ui KWU u tnenaaanKe, but how slow, how 8ow to receive our unnst: one iecnneiyu, out she is too weaK to reject tbe bad and too proud to receive; the Eternal God, Christ he Savior. As a graduate of St. bhn's-College, in Shanghai, once saia 10 me:, uive us your pro- . . 4 1 Urn I duce, your skill, your medicine, bat "we do not want your Christ." China has- already rejected our Christ, the Savior of the world, the son of God, too long for her good, and never.were the official and upper classes more fully de- termlnedtd reject Him than now. His name is hooted at by many 01 these,.and by most all treated ndlfferentJy, if not with con- tempt. ;But so it has ever been, 1 . 1 bow that not many wise men af ter the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called . " But the poor favor the gospel preach ed unto them, and here, as else where, God is gathering out his people, and on this trip we had the joy of receiving seven con verts and having Brother Aber nethy bury them in baptism; an1 there were others that we had to turn down forthe present. At our -first stop we spent a couple of days with a little band of con- verts where we recel .'ed one man. From there we walked through he hills about eight or ten miles on Saturday to a village of a few families .where we have a little place of worship and a larger group of christians. Here' we had a very enjoyable time till Mon day morning and baptized three men. While there I called to mind the first baptiim in that out-of- the way hill region, about eight years ago. Then l baptized tour- teen and since others have been received from time to time, and some of them first received have fallen away; otihers have fallen a- sleep in Christ and still others are faithful. " Our host at this place is one of the first to be bap tized and it is due to his zeal and earnestness that the work there goes forward. He has built quite a good sized school house, which is also the house of worship at I that place.' Wo nGed more men like this who will shoulder tbe work of the Lord for themselves, Monday morning we started out, all afoot, f r our next sta- Hon over ten miles away. A good part of the way our path led over a mountain that not even an emp ty wheelbarrow could be push ed. So some of the christians of tbe t)wa whara xv ware Sunday carried our bedding in the Chi nesa way, tied to the end of . car rying poles, across this moun tain and tho ' empty wheelbar rows were carried between- two men until we reached road over which they could be , pushed by meo,. White Jthe climb over this mountain made us quite tired, it was worth it. for the view of the mountains, hills and valleys w had from itscrest. If these moun tains had been covered with for est, as they evidently once were, In tbs Jong: agb; we could easi ly hav imagined ourselves in the I . The future of our town now deoends on the discarding of in. I lanwie Dusmess metnoas. uur v u j, present of our town but never for one instant do they consider 1 1 1 h 1 11 111 t 1 i 11 1. wi 1 rri li r 1 in 11 i r itit in. ".- w,.uv v Bv.T to cities, tfut.thru a lack of co- .. I operation. . in its true sense; . ' . . . , , T miosis jree laour law oa'-panuo"; terests) it seems that the larger Kucinaca hnnaaa nt Aim 4mn una t t i at tnis ume offering little assist- ance la me uuuuing oi our cuy. De, ana we iear mat mis nttiQ j I.: ... -i i. wuru uo-uperauoa is ine siumo- ung diock. many ousmess men , I ui ine iwvn wneo approacnea on the subject of abitofadvertisingdocumenttostandoutas a tnrow up tneir nanus in apparent akhj tuu UAUU! with, much emphasis on the hard, when to our way of looking they feel that our sheet is not stood enbuerh to advertise a low grade of Italian .... , spaghetti, nut how can . we make improvements without 'co- operation, how can the town im prove without the hearty co-oper ationof all. So, with interests that go farther than our own frontdoors lets look to the future; tear up the deck, and stand anew deal, and with the cards of real business in your "lunch hooks" don t be afraid to open the pot for we'll all be winners. The only wild card in the deck Is AD Land or the any among our own glorious mountains of Wes tern North Carolina. But at pres ent the contrast is very marked, for in addition to barrenness on these- we were in view of many walled peaks, fortresses of ref uge, provided for the people to flee to during the Tal Ping Re bellion of about fifty years ago. Just befere us, looking to the north east, there were turrets or pinnacles which looked as if they might have Ibeen hewn out by hand. This reminded us of the ninnacte on Pilot mountain. N. C. While the world is all much alike it abounds in beautiful and ever interesting variety. It was two o clock and after before we round an inn or any place to have our lunch, but we had an unusually good dinner for dinner for a country trip that day. It was the 10th day of Oc- tober and my birth day. Brother Laraway and Brother Abernethy had sent in one of our wheel- barrow men with mail and for the mail, and arranged for him to overtake us by the morning of the 10th. This seemed to have been an understanding that I knew nothing about so that my wife could prepare a cake and chicken for the occasion. So we had a cake, chicken, home-made tomato soup, in addition to our regular Chinese vegetable dinner We were all well prepared for it, and pnioved it to thn fniiMt and the brethren said they could wish meabirthdav often. Thouch it was m a trashy inn court and houses not equal to an ordinary barn, we celebrated and enjoyed it, for what we did npt have in the way oi outward comfort was more than made up by joy of be ing about our master's busines? It was about night when we ar rived at our destination a large market town, where we have aaoiner Dana oi oeiievers. nere At . i n tt we spent two nights and a day, preached in the markets, exami- nedsome for baptism, but did not receive any. nr ohnnt 17 mnesi walk out of this hill sec- tion' across a hill into another county still among the hills. At this last place the Christians were just about through with -putting . Concluded on fourth pay AN OBNOXIOUS FHEE USSR USf U . Dim 1 flit vrn TniTnn- A a T hava aIibWv - just rirais . nnaer ine - poiiucajhyr$ aod moral law made by' our law mgi.a.. hnt. I tin raaayva . . . w a the IUUUV VJ) WWW W V4V4 5trLt tn rnmrAAin nf ,rw4 ftvnAri 1 dr:v ' v-i , Pipav T hpjiAVA nnP OPPffth,V . ...... ir tia fiA1na rtP ,, nwa-f n 4. vv f iv ;v-iw( uuu vaw jru, aM wuk - i - Kta.' wo, tha moot oiHnt. .la j ii c.h 00 iKc un -thaci. OUW W0 MIWWW IIV T VIV vw w st5tution of the tj. g. wrot( this con iight for the oppressed peo'.' pie of the world, and especially , theeltlzehsof o"ur country. , I want to refer your readers to some sections or tne u. a. ana ; Stale Constitutions which are as . follows: Sec. 1, Constitution of . the United States says: "Neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude except as a punishmentfor crime whereof the party shall have been -. duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Declaration of Rights N. C, Sec. 3J. Slavery and involunta ry servitude, otherwise than for j crime, whe'eof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall; be and are hereby forever pro hibited within the State." Citizens of Watauga county,! you are tne jury to decide tne case under the above ruling. The constitutional law is as plain as the nose on your face in regard to making a citizen' work the road and it being constitutional, as it is unconstitutional without a single doubt, but we have had enacted a law in North Carolina pertaining to public roads in Watauga county that has long been on Jhe Statute books, as long as I can remember, and it is unjust. 1 We were promised by silver- toned orators if we would only vote bonds for tne keeping up of the roads in Watauga county that free labor on public roads would , be abolished, and now I have can vassod the township of Stony " Fork and find almost to a man that they are all impressed with the same view that I hold and have signed a petition to have the abnoxious and unjust law repeal ed as soon as possible by tho General Assembly of North Car olina. I am .lika -Abraham Lin coin who said in the days of slav ery: "That this nation cannot re main half free and half slave.", So I will repeat the words of the ! above immortal: that Watauga county can never keep her roads up by half taxation and the oth er half by free labor. "You can fool some people part of the time, and some all the time but listen: If Blaine Coffey don t abolish free labor in Watauga county for goodjie could not be elected again in. this county. for the Justice of, the Peace it the voters had a chance at him. , . Keep the roads in -Watauga uo by taxation wholly, and jets not have a convict force ; of inno cent men who are victims of an unjust law "out on the .statute books ot North Carolina by a set of political leaders who had a lit tie wealth at the time, and want I t.Ug twwia Ira nr. nn tha CfimA nia. vr -K -- f way m order toavoia paying roeir pari oi tne taxes on ..idw acwuns v " their wealth, aowisinena&j I .k a a t - - w strixe, so youuK ,proK"?st men of Watauca get-oat and gvt hP petition in every - towonuip. md forward it to Blaine Coffey M Raleigh. We will succeeel it will try. Let's go! :'r'X;J ' Yours for too rights ; v i- v V:.-W.A. WATSON.: y:Xk'
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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