. A. . . J I A.' : A. i A.. . : L . jl. : . .,-,;V : i 7 ' - ' 4. Hi it jTV-." -a , Advertising Rates on Request - DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, - AND WATAUGA COUNTY. ;$i:X)PerYHir' VOL. XXXIII. BOONE; WATAUGA COUNTY; N. C THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 1922 NO 11 II II vvvvyv 'VNN 9 . t .NOTICE OP EXECUTION SALE. - - By virtue of an exaction issued, to the undersigned sheriff of ; Watauga county," on the 15th day of November, 1921, by J. T. Setzer, Clerk of the Su perior Court of Catawba county in an action entitled First National Bank vs. Watauga Motor Co. , W. E. Ship ley and J. B. Taylor, partners, J.-B. Taylor and Charles Profflt, T. F. ... Yates, Lee Osborne Lee Osborne and F, C. Ward, for the sum of $3,000.00, with Interest from the 19th day cf May 1921 till paid and for costs, I will on Monday, February 6th, 1921, at the court house door in Boone, . N. C-, at 10 o'clock, a. m., sell to the : highest bidder for cash to satisfy said judgment all the right, title and inter est of the said Chas. Profit in the fol lowing tract of land adjoining the lands of Jacob Fletcher, W. P. Green R. E. Moody and others and being more particularly described in a deed from James Proffitt and wife Wilma Proffltt to Chas. Proffitt, dated the 13 day of March 1919, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Watauga County in Book 22 of deeds at page 348, to which deed and the registration thereof reference is here by made for a fuller and more com plete description of same. From the above is expected the to. Roving allotted to the said Char Us rromn as a nomesteaa: Beginning on, a gate post near top of ridge, running with road to bars, thenoe to mouth of spring branch, to a locust stake, thence a straight Jine to a white walnut stump; thence to a (take on top of ridge; thence to the Deginnin?, containing 6 acres more or less. This the 3rd day of January, 1932. - J. E. YOUNG, Sheriff NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE. By virtue of a mortgage deed exe cuted to the undersigned, by Floyd Smith and wife, Dorathy Smith, da- fed the 22nd day of February, 1921, to secure the payment of the sum of two thousand and sixty-three dollars and 47 cents, I will on Monday,, the 6th day of February, 1922, at the court house door in Boone, Watauga coun ty, at i0 o'clock, a. in., sell to the highest Didder ior cash, to satisfy said mortgage ' and interest thereon. the following real estate adjoining the lands of T. F. Yaces and others and bounded as follows: Beginning on a stake la B. Camp bell's line, Lee Osborne's corner, and runs'South 16d. west with Campbell's line 68 poles to a stake at a gate post and at a roadih 92 1-2 dgs. east cros s lag a small branch 32 1-2 poles to a stake at the edge of the field; thence north 15 i. east with or near an old line crossing the branch 40 poles to a stake on the lower side, of an old road: thence north 35d. up a ridge 30 poles . to a stake In T. F. Yalis' line; thence north 62 I -2d. west illth said lino 20 1-2 poles to a stake and rock, Lee Osbornc'r corner; thence north 63 1-2 . degrees west with Osborne's lide cross Ing a branch 15 1-4 poles to the begin ning, containing 13 1-4 acres mono or less. This the 2nd day of Jan. , 1922, ' ANDY GREER, Mortgagee. EITRY K0T1CEK0. 2559. State of North Carolina, Watauga Uounty. uinse 01 Entry Taker for said county. L.,E, Gragg locates and enters the rlvtr bedof New River, beginning on the North side of New River, Amos 8tanbury'a corner and running down said ' river to the mouth of Pine Run creek; thence across the said river In various directions up tne said river so as to inelude all vacant lands on both sides of said river to Tompkins branch; then up said branch and in all" other directions so as to include all vacant land on said branch; thence back to tne beginning so as to in elude all vacant land and river bed in said bounds. Entered this the 16tu day of December, 1921. EL J. HARDIN, Entry .Taker I tITRY NQTICE No 2558. State of North Carolina, Watauga uounty. Office or ' entry Taker of Said county. A W. Ingle locates and enters twenty five" (25) acres of land in Blowing Rook Township, on the waters 6f New River. Beginning on a rock, the cor ner -of J. W.i- Inirle and Klutz and run south with the lairlo and Patter son lines; thence with the Green Park lines and various oourses for comple meat back to the beginning. Entered this the 16th day of December, 1921. IH. J. HARDIN, Entry Taker. 'EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. , Havlnff nullified as executor of thi will of D. M. Lethcoe, deceased, this Is to-notlfy all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to AvKIKIfe ftham fcs, flw& i,nriAteicmAri An ni before the 2nd day of Jan,- 1923, or -vus.oouoe win oe pieaa in Daroi their recovery. All persons indebted W OSJIII4 CObBVO Wilt JID03D uivno tiittu diate settlement. This 2nd da of Jan- ; ; y . LEE SWIFT, Executor, CONDENSED NEWS FROU THE OLD NORTH STATE SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Kin8ton. Many fowls exhibited here at the 1921 winter show of the Klai ton. Poultry association were sent to Cincinnati, where they will be pitted in' competition against some of the. finest in the country. Durham. Carney Williams, well known citizen of Plttsboro, and J. I. Mann, of Carrboro. were brought to Watts hospital here with serious gun shot wounds. Both men were in- lured accidentally while returninc from hunting expeditions. A8hevllle. John Nolen. city olan- nlng expert of Cambridge, Mass., has oeen engaged by tne mountain - me tropolis to prepare a city plan cover ing possible and expected develop ments for the next 25 years. . Concord. Officers of the Citizens Bank and Trust company of this city announced that the bank would erect a handsome new home. in the early spring. . Washington.' Managing Director Meyer ,of the war finance corporation, announced another, advance, amount ing to $175,000, in North Carolina for agricultural and livestock purposes. PInehur8t E. L. Scofleld, of Moore county; beat Donald Parsons, Youngs- town, Ohio, three and one for the chief trophy in the 18-hole final of the an nual midwinter golf tournament here. mmm ... t Greensboro. ' Announcement has been made of .a meeting of the North Carolina Hosnltal association., com prising about250 physicians and surx geons of the state, the meetlne to be AAlgil A V.Uli VII NBUUdl U.I Winston-Salem. The records show that about 140 illicit whiskey stills were destroyed in Forsyth County In the past year and that the county paid out $800 for seizing 40 complete plants, the county paying $20 each. Asheville. Whitehead Kluttz, of Salisbury, special representative of the Community Service, Inc., has ar rived here and, after conferring with a number of prominent official's nnd citizens, including heads of various civic organizations, believes ')U efforts to be put forth in the next few dy3 In the organization of the Community Service work here, will meat with success. Durham. City Managei1 R. W. Rigs- by has made a recommendation that $600,000 worth of bonds alreaiy au thorized but which have never be in placed upon the market, be sold to take care of outstanding notes against the city. The bonds are street and sewer bonds, $550,000 street bonds and $50,000 sewer, bonds. i f Kinston. The lareest wildcat cap tured in the tidewater section in sev eral years is reported to have been tranned by J. D. Lockyear In the low er Pamlico river section. The animal. a female, weighs 30 pounds. Offers for its nurchase have been made to Lockyear, but he has declined them and may attempt to tame the animal. Lexlneton. No clue has yet come to light as to the origin of fires which destroyed a house anq contents in tne western part of the city and also a lumber yard wllh from a half to three-quarters of a million feet of dry nlna lumber. The house was occu pled by Will Leonard, a local printer, and It and contents were a total loss, an automobile being also consider ably damaged. The lumber belonged to Davis Brothers of Churchland. Wllsou. Besides being one of the most humane superintendents of con vleta in North Carolina. John C. Hern ilnn aunerintendent of the WHson county convicts, killed at ihe stockade a few days ago a pen of 16 11 1-2 months old hogs that aggregated 4, ",94 nonnds. and the road workers are now enjoying "freshies" to their hearts' content, and they know that Superintendent Herndon is not only one of the biggest men but that his heart is as Mg as his great big frame. Hickory. Wild daisies and ripe wild strawberries, gathered far from garden or truck patch, are the latest Maw Taar novelties displayed in hick nrv. .Rlno June apples were shown ham In the middle of December. The strawberries were gathered on the shiifnrd mill r Eht of way by w. A, Honeycutt There wjre two very ripe horrifis two ereen .ones and a white bloom. The ever-bearing variety of Oiuwhnrrles are known to produce In January, but those familiar with them nv th snecinuens exhibited here were not that kind .T : - CUT FREICHT RATES on COMMISSION SAYS THAT INTRA STATE RATES MUST BE RE. , DUCED AT ONCE. is sr ins mm Order Went Into Effect January 1 and Overcharges Collected Must Be Refunded. . Raleigh. Ordering the Atlantic Coast Line to put into effect the six months' ex perimental reduction of the carriers on agricultural products and .live stock and declaring that th'Coast Line and other roads which have filed supplemental jtariffs not only must put Into effect' with January 1 these, re duced rates and refund within ten days ny overcharges, the state corp oration commission banded down the following somewhat breezy order: "Whereas, the railroad companies of the United States have issued, un der authority of the Interstate com' merce commission, special permission No. 66,150, general tariffs, providing for reduction of freight rates on ag rlcultural products and live i stock for an experimental period of six months; and whereas, there has arisen some confusion and some diversity of ac tion as to particular railroad lines, in that the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company and some otner companies operating; in. the state of North , Car olina have issued supplemental tar iffs, providing, that said deduction on agricultural products' and live stock shall not apply "on traffic having ori cln. destination and entire .transpor Ution wUhin any one of the follow ing states:; Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and "Whereas,- the said supplement ex eluding shippers between points in the state" of North Carolina, from the benefits of the said reduced rates are understood to have been Issued for the reason that) the North Caro lina corporation commission, after ap proval of the action of the carriers in publishing tariffs providing for the reduced rates .. on agricultural products and live stock for an ex. perimental - period of six; months de .cllned to contract away in advance its jurisdiction to pass upon the cues tion of 'whether the higher fates on agricultural products and live stock should be restored at the end of the six ''months experimental-period,, re serving the right to pass uipon thai question upon. its. merits at the end of the six months period; and in or der that there may.be no uncertain ty as to the legal application of the said reduced rates upon all ship ments over all railroad lines be tween points in North Carolina from and after January 1, 1922, and until further, it is . "Ordered, that the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company and all other railroad companies doing business in North Carolina issue tariffs within three days, either on their-own ac count -or . through authorized tariff Issuing agencies, withdraw and can celling all trail! supplements Issued by and on behalf of any other such railroad lines limiting the' appllca tion of the said general tarlflf pro viding for reduced rates on agricul tural products and live stock inso far as said supplements may limit the application of said reduced rates on shipments of agricultural pro ducts, and live stock between points in Noath Carolina, and that the said reduced rates on agricultural pro ducts arfd live stock, made generally on Interstate shipments, and in some ofher state on intrastate shipments, shall be made effective on all such shipments over all railroad lines within, the state of North Carolina, effective from and after January 1, 1922, to the same extent and meas nre that rates on the said products are reduced on Interstate shipments and that the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company and all other rail road companies within the state of North Carolina that may have col lected on any shipment, originating since January 1, of agricultural, prq- ducts and live stock" enumerated in the said tariffs, Will Have Detention Home. Wake county Is to have the first detention home for delinquent boys and gtrls In North Carolina,-the Wake '-county commissioners and the city commissioners of Raleigh hav ing co-operated in appropriating the nnreMarv funds for the lease and maintenance of . the ; "Majjor WHdfr Place, about nve miles pom Kaieign on the Mllburnte road. Several counties- have rooms for delinquents in Jails or other build ings, but Wake" cotlnty Is the ' first to provide a etoatite nonje. Ill PRODUCTS New Nurses In North Carolina. Special from4 Salisbury. At the re-1 cent meeting of the board of examl ners'of trained nurses of North Caro lina certificates ' of registration to nurso professionally in North Carolina, were issued to 113 applicants, 94 by examination ana 19 through reciproc ity or-recognition. On examination the highest aver ages were made by the following young ladles. Miss Dewey Gulp, grad-. uate of Pryor hospital, Chester, S. C, 96.8; Miss Oretchen FUegenachuh, of the Army School of Nursing,. 96.67; Miss Mary Irene Covington, of Co lumbia hospital, Columbia; S. C, 95-33 1-3; Miss Margaret Kelly McQueen, Presbyterian boRpllal, Charlotte, 95.23; Miss Martha Ethel Whitener, Army School of Nursing, 94.36; Miss Reba Davis, Watts hospital, Durham, 94.26; Miss Mary Naomi Woods, Pres byterian . hospital, Charlotte; Miss Thelma Sherrlll, St. Peter's hospital, Charlotte; Mies Annie Laurie Yoder, Meriwether hospital, Asheville, and Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Wallace, of the Missouri Baptist hospital. These made averages of more than 92. The names of those passing the ex aminations tolloTjr; Mrs. Sadie Davis Anderson, Edith Coutts Bain, Minnie Sue Baker, Leckie R. Ballard, Martlda Benfield, Kathryn Caroline Bernard, Marion B. Bethune, Willie C. Blakeney, Mary Ellen Bos- tain, Marlnda Bradley, Annie Louise Brown, Iva Lee Carpenter, Irene Alice Carson, Alma (J.1- Clarke, Maggie Lee Cole, Mary Irenjx. Coylngton, Sarah J, Creed, Dprris May Crook, Dewey Dun lap Culp, Grace E. Curlee, Edna Cuth- bertson, Rabe Alice Davis, Mollle Per ry Faircloth, Annie Ruth Fant, Bessie Fesperman, Gretchen Fiegenschuh, Mrs. Anna G. Francis, Enoree A, Glass, Netta Evelyn Godwin, Sarah rOiffith Hardle, Willie Louise Harkey, Ada Estelle Harris, Beatrice Alberta Hord, Mary Lou Hunter, Naomi Vir ginia Ingram, Ella Jones, Eunice Jones, Ida Verna Jones, Mamie E. Jones, Ef- fie Gray Keter, Rachel Kellum, Sister Martha Kennedy, Alma Herman, Lll He Marie Lowder, Mary Levada Line berger, Lola Vivian Light,' Annie James Leftwicb, Ora Chalmers Mat thews, Kate Howard Meader, Agnes Ellsabeta-Messer, Mrs. Maude Gasele Miller,. Ethel Pearl Miller, Mrs. Eliza beth D. MInnIs, M. Louise McCormick, Margaret T. McLturln, Minnie Grey McLemore, Margaret Kelly McQueen Ivle M. Nail, Lacltkye Odell, Nannej Prilmon, Chloe PMlmon, Blanch Pow ell, Dorothy Riddle, Mildred Robert son, Amelia Robertson, Margaret Reid Robertson, Mary Grey Robertson Lizzie Elizabeth Russell, Alice K SchaHcen, Martha Alma Scocgin, Alda tMay Self, Thelma SherrilC V. Jean Sherrlll, , Eula Abigail Shover. Mary Lee Smith, Olive W. Smith, Bernlcf Ethel Stewart, Mrs. Sadie Ray Strlck land, Mrs. .Mae Spencer Surles, Eliza beth Tarleton, Elotse Hayne Thomp son, Nancy Jarvls Vestal, Dorothy Elizabeth Wallace, Fannie M. Webb, Ruth Wells, Martha Ethel Whltner, Margaret Blount Wilkins, Lois Wll son, Rosa J. Wood, Mary Naomi Woods, Annie Laurie Yeder and M. J, Haynes .War Arrena G. Yarber, the last two negroes. - , The following certificates were is sued through riciprocity or recognl tion: Alma GLAlbrecht, Mary M. An derson, Dorothy L. Faucett, Ann K, Lewis, Mrs. Ethel Watkins Mason, Bessie D. Milholland, Sallle Lee Over ton, Mrs. Lillian D. Royer, Martha A Sanford, Mary Elizabeth Sears, Bessie L. Sellars, Harriet J .Sherman, Alma Sofit Stride, Gussie W. Williams and Blythla Moxley. Chairman Democratic Committee, J. D. Norwood, Salisbury banker and manufacturer, was elected chairman of the democratic state executive com' mlttee, succeeding Thomas D. Warren of New Bern, who has held the posi tion ' for the last eight . years. The committee accepted the reslg nation of Mr. Warren after adopting .resolutions extending the thanks of the committee for his services. 'Aside from the election of his successor and the election of W. A. Graham, Jr., of Lincoln county, as a member of the committee to succeed the late Edgar Love, no business matters of impor tance were handled by the commit teemen, the session lasting only about 30 minutes. ' The executive committee passed a resolution of regret for the death ol former Governor Bickett, of North. Carolina, and endorsed the Woodrow Wilson foundation. Few Deaths From Cancer In Carolina, Washington. The Carollnas have the distinction of being among the lowest In the rate of deatUs from can cer and other malignant tumors In 1920. A census bureau report shows that the death rate from these dis eases for the United .States'was 13.4 per' hundred, thousand population, .compared with -80.5-per cent for 1919, The North Carolina rate for whites was 51.1 and colored 44.5; South Car oltna,.,w&a-$1.9 and. colored 38.5. Mis sissippi had the lowest rate tor whites, T.. ; . : I'M 5 HE SEVERAL OF THE M08T TROUB LOUS PROBLEMS-NEARLY . swept AWAY. CHINESE TARIFF AGREED ON Final Disposition of Technical Details of Naval Limitation Plans la a Question of Hours Only. Washington. After a five-day New Year's breathing space the arms nego tiations were resumed with an im petus that swept some of the most troublous problems of the conference almost to the point ol decision. Up permost among the separate discus sions which appeared to be approach ing a conclusion was the controversy between the Japanese and Chinese over Shantung. It was Indicated that the conversations might end, one way or the other, and that the predomi nating belief was that, the result would be an agreement rather than a final deadlock. A final agreement also Was in Bight on the question of a revised Chinese tariff. After a long argument, the tariff sub-committee came together on proposal to Increase' China's tariff schedules under an international com mission plan and the'' Far Eastern committee of the whole Is expected to ratify the decision. ' , , Amqng the naval experts so much progress was made with technical de tails of the naval I mitation plan that In quarters it was declared final dls position of the subject was only a question of hours. ' ' Preparations for scrapping ships and replacement were numbered among the day's agreement. Miners' Families in Distress."' Washington. West Virginia coal miners, who Bay their , families are starving, have appealed directly to President Harding for government aid. Letters the miners have sent to the President are contradictory of the statement Issued by Governor Morgan of West Virginia, that there is no starvation among the families, Hays Has Accepted Offer. New York. Postmaster General Will Hays has signed a contract to become director general of the Na tional Association of the Motion Pic ture Industry at a salary of $150,000 a year, according to the New York World. The contract, which runs for three years, the newspaper says, was signed more than a week ago. No Senate For Sprout. Philadelphia. Governor William C. Sproul announced that he would not resign to take the senatorship made vacant by the death of Sena tor Penrose. "If I should ever endeavor to go to 4he United States senate," said the governor, "I shall submit my candt dacy to the people of the state In the xegular way through the processes of nomination and-election." Farm Conference January 23. Washington. The national agricul r tural conference, suggested several days ago by President Harding to con itder means of relieving distress among the farmers, was called by Secretary Wallace to. meet In Wash Ington January 23. Wage Dispute Settled. New York. Settlement of the wago dispute between 11 large lndepcnden paper manufacturers and their em ployes was announced by a board ot arbitration named to pass on tho com panlea' proposal for a 25 per cent re ductlon. Tariff Is Detrimental. New Orleans. At a special meeting of the Interstate Cottonseed Crushers Association here, 80 per cent of the membership went on record In a reso lution declaring a tariff on foreign vegetable oils to be detrimental to the best interests of the southern farmer and to the cottonseed produc Ing Industry. - . . . American Legion Protests. Washington. Departmental com manders ot the American Legion from every state in the, union protested against the proposal of. the president's persons.! physician, Dr. Sawyer, which would have dlsenroll'ed reserve offi cers of the public health service charg ed with the medical treatment of dis abled men. The treasury department., prior to, the protest, had prepared an executive order for the signature of the Presl dent That order is now held up and may be prejented...,;:.." t v - ' '. i... ' '.''' ..'ir'-'i" V,.,, SWISS CHEESE IMIII6 WATAUGASjlEV ASSET Eipirimtnts Km filing Midi it (tt Ctra Creek Citisf Fictory-li Ckirp: if SUti and Friinl Eiairts-Pn!ss to Bring Abort Kit En of Prakrit)' Extensive experiments are still going on at Uove Creek cheese actory in the manufacture of Swiss Cheese The work is under the direct supervision of State and Federal experts, looking to the manufacture on a very large scale, in Watauga, of this high, priced but palatable product. A dozen or more of the big, rich cheese have already been made, the weight r: nging from 75 to 150 pounds each, and the curing pro cess is how going on, and upon which the successor failure of the enterprise depends. Owing to certain peculiar cli matic conditions necessary, for ,: the curing of Swiss cheese, only four states, thus far, having been successful in its manufacture- practically all that is consumed in America being imported di rectly from Switzerland. With her climate, no doubt, now, adap ted to the curing of this favorite product, and with her almost un limited amount of the-very finest grazing land, it is a safe predic tion that in tho succeeding years Watauga will be flooding our markets with the luscious cheese in greater quantities and of a li ner quality than was everprodu- ced by the little Republic in which it originated. The tirst cheese factory erected in Watauga county was on Cove Creek in the year 1914. Since that time live others have been built. These have manufactured checker cheese exclusively, and the six combined have brought into Watauga in the neighbor hood of $175,000. With the price of milk averaging probaoly not more thal5 cents per gallon, the Cove Creek factory produced $50,000 of this amount. But. granting the new indus try proves a success, the farm-' ers will, we are told, receive possibly as much as 35 cents pert gallon for their milk, and the fin ished product will wholesale for no less than 60 cents per pound, which will put tens of thousands of dollars into the pockets of our farmers and dairymed, and with . this innovation the manufacture of chedder cheese will be a thing of the past in all six of our facto ries, for the new product will make it obsolete owing to its much greater demand and its increased money value. JThe-.tfrsV big cheese will be cut about Feb., 1, and there is but 'Ji.ttle', if any, doubt in the minds' of the experts, but that the venture is a decided auecuss. COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S AHEXSARCE ... fOR 1921.. I, E." M. Harmon, Rpgister of Deeds for Watauga county, here by certify that the following is a true and correct as the same ap-.. pears on the records of my office up to Nov.-30, 1921: . . G. W. Uoobifis 7 day at ' .'- ' $3.00 T)r. day .$21.00 G. W. Robbing S3 days at - $4fer.day, .$88.00. Traveled 216 miles at 5c. per mile ... $10.80.... J. C. Miller 7 days at ' :$3perday $21.00. J. C. Miller 7 days at $4... $88.00, Traveled 192 miles at , V 5c. per mile-...-...........$9.6a L.' H; Holler 5 days at $3 per day .$1500, L. H. Holler 23 days at $4 : per day...: $92.00. ' Traveled 70 miles at 5c. -.v -. v per mile .....$3 fiOwi This Jan. 3, 1921. . -; - ''trt i ; Register ol 02a." 'v.: IV -1' J -ttri- "'.I'w'X'i..