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I I 1 1 i J f ft (9 4 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN WATAUGA COUNTY ESTABLISHED IN 1888 VOLUME XXXIII K BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY SEPT. 28, 1922 NUMBER 48 6 'P-y- 4 i O ;'V . ".a: . 5y"'.- :-' V.;.V .. fSV ft 0 o I0YO DISCUSSES GOVERNMENT treensboro Jurist Analyzes PunctiM f State Before Audiene at Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem. Judge Jamea . toyi, of .Greensboro, discussed "New americanism" for an hour or mora tefore a great and manifestly appro dative audience in the auditorium lera. The distinguished federal Jurist ara an instructive analysis of the federal and state government. He outlined the right of the federal gov irnment to attachment of resources tor national defense, and the state's Authority to enforce laws based au the constitution. , Judge Boyd declared that he had keen greatly abused, and gave as a reason for being so well know throughout the country his decision a the child labor law, enacted by gongress, which he held to be a vio lation of the constitution and an in fringement on the views of state's right, i Another act of congress condemn ed by Judge Boyd was that which lives collectors of Internal revenue the right to report to Washington an estimate of the quantity of whiskey tlegled to have been manufactured fttt a man's premises, and the Wash ington office to assess a tax and au thorize the sale of the property for collection of said tax without a trial. "The constitution gives' every man a right to trial before a penalty is nfprced," ; declared Judge Boyd, who cited other instances of violations of the constitution. "The principal of the constitution is against centrali sation of the government, to which there. Is a general tendency today. The more decentralized we keep our government the safer its people will be." Judge Boyd declared that the idea of ihfi writers of the constitution was to maintain 49 separate govern ments In each state rather than one central government at Washington, believing it harder to destroy 49 gov ernments than one. The speaker urged the teaching of the constitution in the home as a means of preserving the nation. Livestock to Feature Sandhill Fair. Aberdeen. Ruohs Pyron, one of the leading livestock men of the South, treasurer of the Sandhills fair and an active manager In the Pinehurst Stock Farm, announces that C. F. Cur tis, dean of the Iowa State college, at Ames, Iowa, will be the Judge at the Berkshire exhibit at the fair in No vember. . Dean Curtis is probably the most widely known stockman in the Unit ed States, to say nothing of his ex tended acquaintance in South Amer ica, Canada and much of Europe. The dean will be the Judge in the Berkshire exhibit, and it may not be generally known in the South, but the Berkshire Congress in Pinehurst dur ing the' Sandhill fair is the biggest gathering 6t representative Berkshire hogs that is found on earth. More of the high-priced and famous animals wllllbe on hand from every quarter of tHe union, and more prominent breeders, than will attend any other Berkshire exhibit. The Berkshire premiums alone at the Sandhills fair this year run con siderably over 2,500. During the ses sion i Berkshire subjects will be dis cussed by the big men who will be there, and everybody interested in hogs Is Invited to be present. Carolina Motor Club Organized. Oreensboro. The Carollnas' Motor Club' for the protection of owners of motor-propelled vehicles in the two states, the promotion of good roads and other aims looking to the welfare of motorists and the state generally, was organized at a meeting here. E. Sternberger, of Greensboro, was elected president of the organization. The five vice-presidents are: Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt, of Biltmore; Victor Montgomery, of Spartanburg, S. C; E. B.; Crowe, of Raleigh; Alva Lump kin, of Columbia, S. C, and Herbert 0. Miller, of Charlotte. Waldo Perter, of Greensboro, was elected treasurer, and C. W. Roberts, of Greensboro, sec retary. Executive committeemen are: A. S. Hanes, Winston-Salem; Arthur Ross, Asheboro; A. W. McLean, Lumberton; J. W. Arrlngton, Greenville, S. C; E. B. Sternberger, Greensboro; G. L. Btansbury, Greensboro; Junius Har den, Burlington; M. A. Houser,, Salis bury ;' Col. Leroy Springs, Lancaster, '8. C; and Fred N. Tate, High Bjjnt : Sixty charter members enrolled .In ' the club and It Is planned to incjgase the membership throughout the two Carollnas until there are thousands of members. Among those wha have sig nified their Intentions of Joining the club Is Governor Vorrlson. , Speakers Included W. T. Ritter, aac rsUry of the Winston-Salem Cham bar at Commerce; Fred N. Tate, of BlghTolnt, tad Junius Hardin. ; : , s i i ii "i 'i i HARDING CALLS FO DIE TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO MEET THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY. SPENS MADE NEW COAL CHIEF President Thinks Coal Problem Can a Solved in Thirty Days By "Concentrated Drive. Washington. The entire operating personnel of the railways of the coun try was called upon by President Harding for a "concentrated drive" tor thirty days to provide the trans portation facilities necessary to meet the national coal emergency. In a lettar to Conrad E. Spans, vice president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, who was named as federal fuel distributor under the new coal distribution and anti-profiteering act, the President declared that if the enthusiastic attention of the railroads could be stimulated for a month on the movement of coal and handling of empties "we could solve the coal situation not only as to am ple supply, but prices would be quick ly readjusted." The President suggested that Mr. Spens take up with the governors of the various states the question of the prevention of extortion, as the new act is limited to coal moving la interstate commerce only. "The Federal government," Presi dent Harding said, "is loath to under take to fix definite prices for coal, be cause of the objectionable character of such intervention In peace times, because of the difficulty In arriving at fair prices without giving undue favor to some and loss to others, and also because of the incompleteness of an authority which is only supplementary to state action. On the other hand, I wish you to sit up such agencies as will vigorously follow up individuals using facilities of interstate, com merce who are exacting extortion, as defined in the act, in order that we may have relief from such practices at the earliest moment." Arrangements for the distribution and control of anthricite prices, the President declared, have been satis factorily established in co-operation with state authorities and operators and, he added, the first activities of the new fuel agency should be di rected to the extension of the co-operative arrangements with the rail ways, bituminous coal producing and consuming communities and the states authorities set up by Henry B. Spen cer, the volunteer federal fuel distri butor.' Congress Adjourns Sine Die. Washington. Congress adjourned sine dio with leaders generally expect ing a call from President Harding for a special session November 15, pre ceding the regular December, session. The President was in attendance for a few minutes before the final gavel dropped, to sign the usual sheaf of eleventh-hour bills. The only important measure to get through on the last day was the defi ciency appropriation bill, the admin istration Llberlan loan bill and the Dyer anti lynching measure going over until the next session. Lacking in the adjournment were many of the popular features often attending the death of a congressional session. The gallery crowds were small and undemonstrative and there wars few floor wrangles. After dis posing of the efficiency appropriation bill, the senate passed a number of mi or measures and listened to a few set speed as wile the house members made one-minute addresses. Killed In Auto Accident Washington. Representative Ar thur M. Free, of California, was se riously injured and his secretary, I. C. Freeman, was killed, when the auto mobile in which they were riding with a Dartv of friends, went over an em bankment at lavage Mills, Md., near Laurel. Mr. Free was taken to the Mary land general hospital in Baltimore, where it was said his injuries might prove fatal. Other members of the party Included M. A. and W. 8. Dennis, Californlans, both of whom were slightly injured. Few details were received here 1ft the report of the accident to friends of the representative. It was said the auto skidded into a telegraph post and truend turtle. . Forest Ranger Examination. Washington. An examination for forest ranger will be held at Ashevllle and Franklin, October 24.. CHARLIE BANKER VUNCANNON. Under the eastern shadows of the great Hanging Rock moun tain near the little village of Ban ner Elk, N. C, was born in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Vuncannon on May 23, 1872, a child whom the fond parents named Charlie Banner Vuncan non. On a railroad crossing in Johnson City, Tenn., on July 3, 1922, the life of this child, now a man of over 50 years, was in tently blotted out, and his body frightfully mangled by an elec tric train on the Clinchfield and Ohio Railroads. Between these two dates there is a period of a half of a century, during which Mr, Vuncannon was writing on invisible pages the volume of his life. In the first half of this volume, fresh in the memory of his aged parents, are recorded the days of his infancy. He was their first son and the joy and pride of their hearts. Next came the days of his boyhood and then the years of manhood. It was not the privi lege of the writer of this little sketch to know Mr. Vuncannon during the first half of his life. But the second half is so well known to him and so greatly ad mired that he takes pleasure in speaking of some of his noble traits of character. In 1896 Mr. Vuncannon went to Atlanta, Ga., to engage in the Commission business. It was while in that city that he met Miss NeliieBaily, who afterwards became his devoted companion for life. In 1899 he moved back to Banner Elk and engaged in the lumber business with Mr. J. Walter Wright. In a few years this firm became one of the lead ing lumber firms of Western North Carolina and East Tennes see. This was largely due to Mr. Vuncannon. He had spent many years as a young man in traveling through the great for ests of the mountains and he knew how to estimate the tim ber thereon. He also knew men, mountain men, who were em ployed to cut the timber. And they knew him and they loved him, too, for he was kind and generous. I don't think that I ever knew a man who was so open and frank and so free fiom hypocracy. Some men are so deeply in love with their own work that they are not willing to give any of their time and money to pub lie interests. There was none of this selfish spirit in Mr. Vun cannon. He was always ready to give freely, of his time and money for the public welfare of the county. During the war he served on the draft board of Av ery County. He was a mem ber of the first road commission in the county. Not only so but he made frequent trips to meet ings in different parts of the state that were held in the inter est of public improvements. But his interest and sympathy did not stop with public affairs. He was always ready to help people who came to him in need. It is perhaps not saying too much to say that among his numerous friends and relatives he stood head and shoulder above them all. During his twenty-four years of married life his home was brightened by the advent of three children. The first was a dau gh ter, Mary Louis, wh6 married Mr. Guignard Maxcy in 1919. The second, a son, who died in inrancy. The third was Rosa Lee, who, with her widowed mother, now lives at the old home place at Banner Elk. If some stranger, from some some distant world had passed through Banner Elk on the fifth of July , 1922, and had stopped for a moment to ask what was the meaning of thecrowds of peo pie who filled the church and the yard around the church and of the truck loads of flowers that had come from every direction and from people of every walk of life, and if that person could have seen the tears falling from the fa ces of strong mountain men as weil as tender hearted women, as they passed by the casket in which (lay the mangled form of Mr. Charley Vuncannon, that person would have known with eut being toldtnat somebody had died who was greatly beloved, The funeral services were con ducted by Rev. Edgar Tufts, of Banner Elk, and Rev. Sweeny, of Johnson City, Tenn., after which the body was laid to rest by the side of his second born child. Mr. Vuncannon was not a mem ber of any particular church. But his daily walk was full of the christian graces and the char itable spirit that he had for all churches, indicated that he was thoroughly in sympathy with the work they are all trying to do. That he did accept Christ as his Savior at one time, was indi cated on a card which he signed to this effect in a Billy Sunday service, in Philadelphia several years ago. EDGAR TUFT. Banner Elk, N. C. Report of the condition of THE BANK OF BLOWING ROCK at Blowing Rock in the State of North Carolina, at tho close of business, Sept. 15, 1922: resources: Loans and Discounts $139,071.22 Demand Loans 3,746.50 Overdrafts . 541.23 U. S. and liberty bonds 4850.(10 Mayview Construction Co. 1500.00 Banking bouse 2750.00 Furniture and fixtures 2,088.00 All other real estate owned 190.34 Cash in vault and net amts. aue from banks, bankers and trust companies 34,531.82 Total $189,2(59.11 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in $16,000.00 Surplus fund 9,000.00 Undivided profits, less cur rent expenses A taxes paid 1366.97 Notes and Bills Ilediscounted 3,000.00 Bills payable 7,000.00 Deposits subject to check 101,410.37 Time certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days 12,875.50 Cashiers checks outstanding 015.76 Time certificates of deposit, due on or after 30 days 38,000.51 Total $189,269.11 State of North Carolina, county of Watauga. I, J. T. Miller, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and be lief. J. T. Miller, Cashier. Correct-attest: T. H. COFFEV J. C. Miller It. T. Greer Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 22 day of Sept. 1922. J. H. Greene, J. P. Crop Pest Is imported From Indies. Columbia, S. C W. W. Pearce, of Columbia, has Just returned from a trip to Pawley's Island, and he reports a new kind of pest which is giving the farmers much trouble there. It Is known as the Porto Rlcan mole cricket and was imported from the Indies. He says It eats turnips and other forms of truck and makes planting difficult. He says that it has claws like a "fid dler" and burrows quickly Into the ground. It lives in watery sections The pest has visited several costal sections of this state within the paBt year, Mr. Pearce says. Southern Restores Trains. Washington. Restoration of two Southern railway passenger trains tak en off during the shopmen's strike trains Nos. 10 and 135, running be tween Washington and Danville, Vs., was announced at the general offices, Officials of the Southern said that two other trains, Nos. 15 and 16, be. tween Salisbury, N. C, and Ashevllle, would be restored Sunday and that all trains taken off during the strike would be placed back on schedule as the striking shopmen returned to their work. Progress of Cheese Making In a North Carolina County-Swiss Cheese Now Made Col. Fred A. Olds in Manufacturers' Kecora. In June, 1915, the writer was in Watauga county and made an early morning pilgrimage to a ti ny wooden building beside one of the clear little streams so nu merous in this high mountain world, the supreme beauty-spot of all North Carolina. The little building was the first commer- cialcheese factory South of Penn sylvania and is located on Cove creek. There the milk was com ing in, while a good woman, own ing many cattle, remarked: "This the firs milk T ever saw bought in Watauga." This new develop ment was first described in the Manufacturers Record. Seven years have passed since that day and remarkable things have been accomplished.' Now W atauga has ten Cheddar cheese factories in operation, and one Swiss cheese factory, the latter being the first established and alluded to above. The county in the past twelve months has han dled in these factories 1,293,500 pounds of milk and has turned out 129.350 pounds of cheese. Three of its factories are at pres ent idle. If all those in the coun ty, operated and idle, are run to their full capacity they can han dle G.912,000 pounds of milk and give an output of 001,000 pounds of cheese. The amount of money received for cheese produced in Watauga in 1921 was $23,870 and the am- ount possible to be recived if all the plants are in operation at full capacity is $138,240. The averageyield is ten pounds of milk: the average price paid for milk II cents a gallon; the av erage price received for cheese 20 cents a pound. There are over thirty factories in this State, of which sixteen are now in operation, Alleghany county having seven and Ha.v - wood one of those at work. The types of cows are llolstcins, Jer sey and shorthorns. The Holstein is lound to be the best cow for Ihis country. The manufacture of Swiss cheese did not begin until this year and twenty-three of the cheese have been made, of an av erage weight of 100 pounds. In the manufacture of these 10,750 pounds of milk were used and the farmers were paid 20 cents a gallon for this milk. This cheese sells readily at 41 cents a pound and the tests have shown it is equal to the best cheese produced in Switzerland. One hundred pounds of milk produces only seven and ahalf pounds of cheese. The State and the United States are heartily co-operating in pro moting this industry. Watauga is a grass country, its average elevation above sea level being 4,000 feet, its county seat. Boone, (named for the fa mous pioneer Daniel Boone, who lived here ten years) being 3333 feet. The adjoining county, A very, has an average elevation of 4.000 feet above sea level; higher than any other county in the U nited States east of the Rocky Mountains. This is tho land of blue grass and cold water, so that no ice is necessary and cheese-making goes on all the year. The county of Watauga has in round numbers fourteen thou sand people, and nine thousand cows. It is a large producer of beef cattle, which are sold in the northern markets. Its only rail road leads into Tennesse a n i thence northward, but the great hope of its people is for a railway down in the state, so great 8 .... ... HEW 1UMD FOR I HUM WARSAW AND NEW BERN RAIL LINE WILL SOON BE COM PLETED. CONNECT WITH LARGER ROUS Merger of Logging Roads In Duplin, Jones and Craven to Open Up Very Rich Territory. Klnston. Work on the new railroad through Duplin, Jones and Craven ounties has been pushed to a point near Beulavllle, according to reports from that town, and the rails will be laid to that farming center In a few weeks. The new "system" will be small affair, but will traverse rich territory, most of which has not been served by a railroad in the past". A merger of logging roads furnished the nucleus for the system, which will con uect with larger carriers at Warsaw and New Bern. The former place Is on the Atlantic Coast Line and the latter on both the Coast Line and the Norfolk Southern roads. Beulavllle has been the southern terminus of the Klnston and Carolina, a small line rep uted to be a Norfolk Southern subsid iary Towns to be touched by the new railroad will include Kenansville, the county seat of Duplin; Chinquapin, Catherine Lake, a picturesque spot which, with modern transportation fa cilities, may ultimately become a re- tort place, and others. Beulavllle is the center on an Important tobacco- growing territory. Klnston has been the market for that section for a number of years. The Warsaw-New Bern line will probably be a big factor in the devel opment of areas which have only needed adequate transportation, no- cording to their residents, to become among the most progressive and pros perous farming sections in North Car olina. Soil and climate in the coun ties Just south of here favor the pro duction of pork, beef, dairy products, berries, fruit and truck, as well as the staples. Duplin, a pioneer county in tobacco culture, produces the finest "wend" grown in the lower bolt. The new system's completion will give Warsaw, Kinston and New Bern about equal advantages in competing for the trade of the newly-tapped coun try. It Is thought that competition will be keen. Rockingham County Donates Cottage. Concord. A number of prominent citizens of Rockingham county, Includ ing the county commissioners, were guests of the Jackson training school and turned over to James P. Cook, the chairman of the board of trustees of the school, the Rockingham county cottage, the ninth cottage to be com pleted at the state home of correc tion for boys. R. 13. Chance, of Reidsville, chair man of the board of commissioners which donated the money for the cot tage, presented the cottage and It was received by Mr. Cook. Mr. Allen stated that he thought the action of the board in giving the money to tho school was the greatest it had ever made, and Mr. Cook assured the Rock ingham people that it meant much to the Institution's officers to know that they have the support of the people of the state. Other members of the party also spoke briefly. Kinston. Rev. Curtis W. Howard, local minister of the Disciples of Christ, has been conducting a meeting at I'armele, where he baptised three couples from one of the most interest ing families in North Carolina. They wore R. C. Bland and wife, one of their sons and his wife, and one of the daughters of the elder Mr. and Mrs. Bland and her husband. Had Mr. Howard been called upon to baptise all the members of the Bland family he would have had a Job of propor tions. Mr. Bland is the proud father nf 34 children, though only 65 years of age and apparently in the prime of life himself. The family became na tionally famous Borne time ago when) a famous statesman s promise to pro vide each new Bland with a suit be came a burden upon his purse. market for the things they pro duce. Its fruits and berries and grapes are two months later than those down state, and August and early September show a pro fusion of blackberries and huck leberries. Grass is mowed in Au- i 1 1 J ! ILL (JUSV ttUU UUW UU11U wo ' 11 I I i I- IL .U'J ' year DiicKwurat is gaujercu iu , August als.) and yields elh- V
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