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ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN WATAUGA COUNTY - ESTABLISHED IN 18? VOLUME XXXIII . BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY AUG. 17, 1922 NUMBER 42 MANUFACTURING SWISS CHEESE IN GOVERNOR CAMERON MORRISON ADDRESSES NORTH CAROLINA SUCCESSFULLY LARGE CROWD IN A. T. S, AUDITORIUM 9 - ft Success of Ctisese at Govs Greek Factory a Dead Certainty "Climitic Conditions Ideal" says 6onrocent Larger Scale. Great Fiture for Wataoga In Dairying. By Jean Lea Clarke It is a well established fact of national renown that the moun tain section of North Carolina is richly endowed in scenic beau ties and possesses a marvelous climate which attracts summer tourists from far and wide. The poet with his pencil, the painter with brush and palettee, thephy sician with bis ailing patients have capitalized these great nat ural gifts, but by a recent dis covery of a new phase of indus trial life the captains of industry have beard the call of the hills. A date of great" importance in the economic history of the state, nay of the South, is December 21, 1921. It was then that the first Swiss cheese south of the Mason and Dixon line was made at Sugar Grove, N. C. This spot of future fame is located in Wa tauga county, nine miles from the beautiful little town of Boone, named for and settled by Daniel .' Boone, of pioneer history. Z A few Swiss immigrants came to the United States some years ago in search of a desirable loca tion for the manufacture, of the famous Swiss cheese. They set tled in Wisconsin and Minnesota attracted no doubt by the pre eminent - position- oocu pied by these states in dairy products. The United States gouernment sent departmentexperts to study the situation and assist if possi ble in the developmentof the pro cesses. The government unbalk ed bv this tacitionity sent men to Switzerland to make invest! gation. Again Ihe Swiss evinced indifference to imparting the se crets of their national industry . to outsiders. But America with characteristic persistence refus ed to be baffled, only growing more determined to succeed, so Dr. Sherman, of Washington, p. C, analyzed the cheese itself, iso lating the bacteria, or as the cheese man's vernacular has it, "the bug" that produces the cheese. The industry then began to de velop iu phenomenal rapidity in Wisconsin. It was necessary to use a chemical known as eye cul ture here, although it was not known in Switzerland. The gov ernment recommends its use in North Carolina, in order to be sure of satisfactory results. Only recently officials of the United States Department saw the wonderful possibilities for the successful manufacture of swiss cheese in North Carolina. Mr. J. A. Arey, of the State De partment, assisted - Mr. H. L. Wilson, of the United States de- par ment in a survey of the situa- ation. Mr. Wilson, who is emi nently known as an expert in the Swiss cheese line, was stationed at Sugar Grove as father of the . factory. It was through his ini tiatve and effort that the enter prise originated here. In Decern . ber of last year the first cheese was made under his supervision- He is'enthusiastic as to the pros pective developmentof the Swiss cheese manufacture in North Car olina. Having had every opportu nity for the study of the factory and farm conditions in Wiscon sin and Pennsylvania, he makes the following cllmatio com pari yonfc favorable to this section: "We believe climatic conditions Expert. Work to be Resumed on I are ideal for the manufacture of Swiss cheese in the mountains of North Carolina. An exception ally fine quality of milk is neces sary for the manufacture of the queen i product of the dairy realm.' The abundant grass on the loam soil of this section pro duces the highest possible grade of milk. An unlimited supply is grown on the magnificent moun. tains rising tier on tier, covered with verdant grasses. The cattle can ba turned in pasture in Ap ril and remain till Christmas. The heavy rainfall and the ab sence of scorching heat the tem perature is seldom over 85 makes this forage supply of eco nomic importance. The nights are always cool and on every farm are found springs of al most fee cold running water for keeping the milk cool, which gives this section a signal advan tage over Wisconsin where the farmers have only pumps andno any siuking since Thursday af means of satisfactorily cooling ternoon and his death has been the milk. There during July and expected by his physi August operations must be sus- cjans ani family hourly. Since pended as a resultant of the heat, Sundav little or nohope had been here there has been no tempera- ture high enough to prohibit the successful manufacture of the entirely recovered from the se cheese. It is conceded that the vprA ot.tj..1r suffered last Sorine Swiss cheese is most sensitive to climatic conditions, in fact it is me most dairy product maae. in Wisconsin the altitude is 900 to 1,000, in Boone it is 3,333 feet Conclusively geographic- condi- tions here are very similar to those of Switzerland, the home of the cheese. With the gieat mountain hinterland the indus- try only needs the impetus of in- terest and co operation to devel- op rapidly. The industry is so entirely in its infancy here that presumably the processes of manufacture might be interesting. Fifteen hundred pounds of milk are re- quired to make one cheese, tho the imported bwiss cheese usu- ally contains two thousand pounds Two curing rooms are necessa- ry, one cold room at 55 fahren he cheese must remain In the cold room for a period of fifteen days, in the warm room from rom four to six weeks. Then they are carried back to the cold room for curing. Here they must be flopped and washed every oth er day. Tne output is graded as ancy, and numbers one and two, 1UUVJ I CUU UUU1 UUQ OUU V VY V. Fancy is the superior cheese snlrf nn t.hp market. Nnmhpr nne is poorer quality, and-number two, known as nistlers, is still more inferior. The last two nam-1 ed are used locally, only the fan cy being placed on the market. An interesting group-of statis tics from Sugar Grove prove the experiment a success financially. rhe factor y produced 23 cheese in December, January and Feb ruary, and one cheose a week haaheen and will he nrnnd weekly since then . The average i-ht nf ihPBo nhppop rnn nonnrta. Three thousand seven- teen erallons of milk has been manufactured, out of which 2- 097 pounds of cheese have been made The rheese is an excellent nualitv and has been sold for an avenure of 41 cents a pound. The u i- i oa patrons have been paid 20 cents j gallon for milk. Labor here is Our Old Home Town GXc T)eople may knock our town, critics may criticise our town, and fools may lau&h at our town, but every citizen of oone should be a aone Booster not withstanding, rthis town and county of ours is something of which to be proud; standing without a pier in education, churches, citizenship, and health fcivinfc climate, ich in undeveloped resour ces and wonderful scenery0. If you are not a booster, don't be a kicker. Remem ber that it's your "Old Home Town." BISHOP JOHN C.KILS0 DIES I AT HIS CHARLOTTE HOME. Charlotte Dispatch 11th to Greensboro Daily News. Bishop John C. Kilgo, of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church, died at his home here at 11:45 this morning, after having been extremely ill since last Sun day when he suffered a severe heart attack. Bishop Kilgo has been gradu- entertained for his recovery. The aged minister had never on njs way norae from the gener- conference which forced him to remain under treatment m a Memphis hospital for several weeks, finally being brout home n the private car of Fairfax Har- rison) president of the Southern railwav. of which Bishop Kilgo wasa director. Hprpcrainpd snffiriontstreneth however, to leave his bed and several times took rides about the citv with members of his family. He made one trip to Bal timore. where he was under treatment of a specialist for sev era ,jaySi Bishop John Carlisle Kilgo was born in Laurens, S. C. July 22, hgGl, son of James T. and Cath- er;ne Mason Kilco. He was educa fp,i jn the sr.hnols of his native state and received the honorary degree of D. D. from Wofford and Randolph-Macon colleges and Tulane university. He was united in marriage with Fannie Turner, of Gaffney, S. C. In 1882 he was ordained a 100 per cent efficient. In tho near by section all fancy cheese out put could be sold at the resort I - hote,s. with Linville and Blotw n HOC in Close proximity. Asne vil,e Hendersonvile, Hickory and other towns easily accesssible The cheese made have been sold at Boone, Blowing Rock, Hicko ry, Hendersonville, Greenville, S. C, and two at Brown's cafe in Charlotte. Correlating comparisons and statistics we deduce that wish- out a doubt North Carolina will furnish the South with Swiss cheese which has formerly come from Wisconsin or has been im ported from Switzerland. The in d"stry that has brought Wiscon States in dairy products in the PMt 10 years is destined to place the old North State near the toP if we will only grasp the oppor timlty that nature 80 lavl8hlv ol fers, where the breezes kiss the BUie Ridge and the waters carol their songs to the eternal hills minister in the Methodist Epls. church south, and served sever al pastorates in the South Caro lina conference until 1889, when he was called to Wofford college as professor of philosophy and financial agent. In 1894 he was elected president of Trinity col lege, Durham, where he served until 1910, when he was elected bishop of the Methodist church at the conference in Asheville. He was a delegate to the gener al Methodist conference in 1894, 1808, 1902, 190G and 1910; dele gate to the Ecumenical Metho dist conference in London in 1901. He was a fraternal dele gate to the general conference of the Methodist church in Los An- geies miuu4, when he made a speech advocating the union of the northern and southern bran ches of the Methodist church. PEACOCK AND HIS KIND, Report comes from Raleigh, says the Statesville Landmark, that plans are being made for the release of Dr. Peacock, the Thorn- asville physician who was ad judged insane after he had mur dered the Thomasville policeman and who is in the criminal in sane department of the State prison, where he is likely to re main until there fs special legis lation in his behalf. One impor tan t fact that causes many pub lie to view with suspicion the in sanity pleas as a defence f o tencjL for liTjIly is sanity on- crime is that the plan to snow temporary insanity ly. That is, that the defendant was insane at the time of the commission of tho crime but sub sequently recovered. That was the idea in the Peacock trial, but the alienists balked. They were willing to say that Peacock was ay that reacock was insane at the time he killed the policeman but they insisted on saying that he was still lnsajnt and unlit to run at large. That wasn't what the defense wanted but it was better than the electric chair, so it had to be accepted. Now an is sue is to be made of Dr. Pea cock's case. Either an attempt will be made to show that he has recovered and should be releas ed, or it will be contended tha he should not be held in the crim inal insane department of the Slate prison; this department, it is alleged, is not a hospital but simply a place of detention and the insane committed there are really being punished by confine ment in the State prison, not withstanding they have been illegally adjudged insane and are not criminals at all. ii tnis matter is to come up for discussion it is just as we! to keep the facts in mind. Some years ago the Legislature passed Concluded on page 4) Governor Highly Pleased With Speaks Host Interestingly on Education and Over Boone Trail Road to Tennessee Line In Afteraooi. By Col. Fred Avoids The visit of Governor Cameron Morrison to Boone, Aug. 9, was an event of. importance to the town, the county and all this sec tion of the mountains. He made a uperb address, met many peo pie and saw some of the greatest beauties of the country and at lie same time the effects of the highway which are so dear to his heart. A committee visited Blowing Rock and invited the Governor to Boone. His visit began at the Appalachian Training School, the auditorium of which was packed with people. Before his arrival he usual chapel exercises had been held, Fred Olds had told a story and Sherman Brockwell, he Fire Marshal of North Caro- ina, had made a most practical and interesting talk. Mr. B. B. Dougherty introduc ed Capt. E. F. Lovill, chairman of the board of trustees of the Appalachian Training School, and the latter presented, most gracefully, the Governor to the audience. His Excellency described in graphic fashion the real duty of State to its people and said that we had been far too much in the habit of making a great adoa bout a State's rights and had not put the proper emphasis on a State's duties or obligation, to the people. The United States has certain rights and these are absolutely necessary fortke gen eral safety and many other pur poses in this great republic, but many vital things are left entire- y in the jurisdiction of the states themselves; a most solemn obli gation. He told how North Carolina nas undertaken to carry out these obligations, one among them education, to give every child a six months school, and to bring this about the State has set apart a great sum as a loan fund to the weak counties, an d seventy of the one hundred of these are aided by this fund Great provisions have been made for the enlargement of the uni versities and thecolleges, tomeet the tremendous needs and oppor tunities. For the wards of the State, the insane, epileptics, fee ble-minded, deaf-mutes, blind, and for the moral delinquents, noble and proper appropriations have been made. North Carolina, like the United States, raises its funds not by taxes upon property but from li censes, inheritance taxes, income taxes, etc., and thus sets a fine example to less progressive States. As to highways the State took a bold step in provision for the issue of fifty million dollars in bonds and gets ready credit in the greaaest money markets, at the low rate of four and a half per cent interest. Thus it is bull ding by far the most wonderful system of highways in all the South, and opens the door of op portunity to counties which have never known a real highway. It makes the state for the first time homogeneous; the mountains and the rivers no longer barriers. The United States government appreciates this grand develop ment; the whole country is re sponsive to it. But there is no tax upon the people to build these this Section of Modsto Good Roads. "6oiernor and Party Motif splendid and enduring roads. They are paid for by automobile license tax and a tax of a cent gallon on gasoline. Thus North Carolina shine like a star in the constellation of- Southern states. It leads these in great forward movements and it will not take a single step back ward. The stimulating effect of what is beingdone is felt through out the State and no longer will any part of it be remote. Anew life opens and this wonderful mountain region will come into her own for the first time as a haven of rest to the nature lover and the health and recreation seeker. The Governor was given the heartiest applause throughout his address and at Its conclusion. With him in the auditorium was Insurance Commissioner Stacy Wade. His Excellency dined at the Critcher House and in the after noon was escorted over the Boone Trail Highway to the Tennessee line at Zionville. With him were Capt. Lovill, B. B. Dougherty and Fred A. Olds, and Mr. W. F. Sherwood joined this group on tho way. In other cars were ins j- ranee Commisioner and Mrs. Wado, Prof, and Mrs. Carroll Mann, and Fire Marshal Brock well, all of Raleigh. The Governor expressed his unbounded' delight at the won derful scenery, the rich farms, the cattle dotting the hills, and was delighted to be told that Wa tauga with 13,477 people has 9, 000 milk cows, which furnish milk not only for the people but for eight cheese factories in op eration. The fine grade of the Boone Trail won compliments and the Governor gave assurance that it would be properly surfaced and made a notable highway. A stop was made at Zionville so the Gov ernor could see the people who had gathered to meet him. An other stop was at Mr. Sher wood's and a third at Mr. N. L. Mast's, where exquisite flowers and lawn made a lovely setting for the home. There the Govern or was given magnificent dahlias, which he took to his little daugh ter, Angelia, who is at Blowing Rock. Returning the party pass ed through Boone and went on the Wilkesboro section of the Boone Trail as far as Ruther wood view, which the Governor admired greatly. Tho Governor and party were supper guests of the Appalachi an Training School, and after wards went to the school audito rium, where a program very at tractive in character was put on, Miss McCauley, of Chapel Hill, conducting the music, and Sour wood Mountain was sung in very fine style by the chorus. Mrs. Carroll Mann recited; her char ming little daughter, Caroline, danced; a quartet of local negroes sang some of their characteristic ballads; Mr. Brockwell gave a talk on the Negro in songand sto ry, interspersed with songs; Miss Rankin contributed a piano solo; Misses McCauley and Dod son played some popular music on the piano, and there was aline finish of the program by commu nity singing. (Concluded on pag 4 I,';. v-- v,- x .-1 .-' .
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