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9 6 0 ! 0 1 i . t rv i Off Established la 1888. VOLUME XXXIV PUROSES OF THE AMERICAN LEGION .'Local Publicity Officer Asks Sup port Building To Be Erected .Meeting In Boone and at Mable Soon. The American Legion is the young est orginization of its kind holding charter in the United States and is 'composed of young men who have not had the time nor opportunity to : acquire wealth, yet it is doing a great work for its country and suf rfering humanity. It is composed of 'fellows who know the war of the cannon and the horror of war. . In other words it is composed of young men who shouldered their guns, mar ched to the bloody battle fields of France to fight and if need be, lay down his life that the world might "he free from the iron yoke of auto- cracy. Now since the war is over there arose another battle to fight and this battle is on This is the upliftment and betterment of the country., Why was this great world war fought? What has the United States accomp lished for the sons she leaves in France, though poppies bloom where they be? These are some of the questions that arose in the minds of the boys who fought "over there" and before returning to America went to work to establish some way by whch they could make the country for which " they had fought, a better place to . live in. They decided' that this could 'be done in no better way than thru. 'Orginization, because it was organ ization, comradship and red blooded Americans that won the world war. This orginization was begun in Paris by American boys and known as the American Legion. We have in this county a branch of the American Legion but regret to , say ' that all of the fellows who : shouldered arms to fire the gun have not fallen in line with the orginiza tion to uphold that for which' they fought. Of course all that went to the Army or Navy are true Ameri cans and are glad they had a chance to serve their country ni whatever manner the country could use them best. Now fellows the battle is not -over, the fact of the matter is it has just started. There is a certain responsibility and a certain work for you to do. Are you willing to should er this and march against the foe as you did in the years of '17 and '18? This responsibility is-set forth in "The Purpose of the American Legion", which are as follows: 1. To uphold and defend 'the con stitution of the United States. 2. To maintain law and order. 3. 'To foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americansm. 4. To preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great World War. , 5. To inculcate a sense of obli gation to the community, Stale and Nation. i). To combat the autocracy of boti) the clusres awl the masses. V. To n.r.ke ri.l't the master of miyht. . To promote Pence and good will on ea'-'h. , . 9. To safegaurd and transmit to prosperity the principals of justice, freedom and democracy. 10. To consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual happiness. Are these things worth while, and are they worth the consideration of the public in general? We have this question for you to answer for your self. But we believe every man that was in the service ought to join the American Legion, and every citizen that offered suport during the war ought to live up with this orginazi ation and give it no light consider ation, and all their moral support, because the future of our country depends largely on the kind of citi zens we have in it. It is the purpose of the American Legion to make bet ter Americans. Are you with us? I We have been holding meetings in different sections of the county for the purpose of explaining to the public what the American Legion stands for, and encouraging th men who are eligible to join. Through the courtesy of Prof. I. G. Greer who has been making this round with us and giving in detail what the Legion stands for, we have been hav ing some fine meetings. It would pay you as a war vetran, it would pay you as a civilian to attend one of these meetings. We are especially interested in having the people un- derstand more thoroughly what the principals are, and if you will meet . us at Mable, Saturday , Night,, Dec. 9 and in Boone Saturday Night Dec. 16th we will have speakers who will show you the orginization from start to present time. We admit our local post has not , done what it should have but we . have ben handicaped on account of ...having no place to hold our ineet- togs or a place, to call the. home .of A Non-P.rtisan Family Newspaper . BOONE, NEW BERN SUFFERS FROM LARGE FIRE Five hundred Homes Destroyed, 1 , 800 Homeless and two Million Dol lar Loss la Worst Fire In History . Of the "State. New Bern Friday sustained per haps the most severe loss from fire in the history of North Carolina, when a big blaze starting in the fore noon at the Roper Lumber Company plant swept over the city for nine hours, destroying about five hundred residences and business houses and entailing loss estimated Friday night by the mayor of the city as exceed ing two million dollars. At least 1,800 people are said to have been made homeless by the flames. While the entire fire fighting equip ment of the city was engaged in fighting the big lumber plant blaze the flames burst out in a neighboring section and it was an hour before aid could be rendered to that spot. Five houses were then in flame and a high wind sent tongues of fire leap ing far ahead of the streams of water being hurled into the inferno. Across streets and vacant lots the flames jumped eating up the frame dwell-! ings as if they had been made of paper. Hundreds of families lost all their worldly possessions and Friday night the homeless ones were being cared for by the balance of the city. Sev eral hundred negro homes were in the number destroyed. Many of these negros were housed for the first night in a large fertilizer warehouse. Many of the homeless white people were takpn care of temporally in the homes of their more fortunate neigh bors. So rapid was the spread of the flames that many people were warnr ed and trucks, automobiles and wag ons were pressed into service to help remove furniture and other house hold effects out of the path of the flames. Buildings were also used to house the homeless for the first night. More than a dozen people, white and colored, were injured in fight ing the fire but none of the injuries were expected- to prove fatal. Since the fire raged in daylight all of the occupants of the destroyed residenc es escaped. Report on the fire, after the ruins had been more thoroughly invest igated, showed that propably more than 1,000 buildings were destroyed in New Bern's great blaze. The num ber of homeless was als oraised from the first estimate of 1,800 to nearly 4,000. Over 2,000 of those whose homes were distroyed were negroes. A thousand tents were sent from Camp Bragg along with other U. S. army supplies on a special train for the relief of the homeless. A big tent city is being established until dispo sition can. be made of those who lost thir homes. New Bern people resolved to buy no Christmas presents but give in f.tear. to the suffering, while a large sum of cash has been raised there. Other cities arc sending large do nations and the American Red Cross, is rushing relief to the stricken city. Governor Morrison yeserday ordered troops to patrol the city to prevent possible disorders in view of the fact that the household effects of hundreds of families are scattered over a wide area. Another fire thought to have been of incendiary origin started in a ware house yesterday but was stop ped before great damage was done. BOONE FORK MANUFACTURING COMPANY RESUMES OPERATION Once again the deep, sonorous whistle of the big lumber mill at Shulls Mills can be heard at 5 a. m. each morning, meaning tha the plant is again in operation after a suspen tion of many months. This is good news, the kind we like to print. For i tmeans that a large number of men have resumed work and that the money paid out by the Corpor ation means much to the people of this section. the Legion. We intend in the very near furture to erect a building some where in the county, and thereby enable us to do a better work. The place for this building has not been decided upon but to show you the citizens who have been attending our meetings think that we are on the right road and that they would like to have such an orginization in the community. At cove Creek we were offered a lot for the building and labor in helping put it up, at Valle Crusis we had the same offer made us, at Blowing Rock the same At Rocky Point we had a wonder ful meeting, a big crowd and music that could .not be surpassed. We hope to have a good crowd at Mable and also at Boone. Come out, see what is going pn. -Yours truly, Watauga .Post American Legion, Russell. D. Hodges, Publisity officer. Devoted to the Beit Interest of Boone, and Watauga County, "the Leader of Northwestern Carolina.' WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH. CAROLINA, THURSDAY DECEMBER AN ODE TO A COUNTRY DOCTOR (This poem, written by Dr. W. R. Butler, is respectfully dedicated to the late Dr. D. R. Stout of Butler, Tenn. Drs. Stout and Butler were for many years fellow practitioners in Western Watauga.) When memory brings me back to years of long ago, We were associate Doctors and traveled rough roads you know. We faced the winds of rough Elk River and likewise Watauga too. Our pay was very small, compared with the present time, Although we felt good and happy if we only received a dime. ' We were the ethical Doctors, who rode the dapple grays, They were not the inanimate objects that Doctors ride nowadays. Our Preceptor has long since felt that impetuous sting of death, I hope that his soul passed through and is mingling with the blest. He tutored a class of as loyal Doctors, as ever swung their shingles to the breeze, They visited the rich and poor alike, and the people were al ways pleased. Oh! Some mysterious ghost like myth has tapped your Cere bal Dome, And locked the Vasso Motor Nerve, that you can no more roam, And I like Sinbad of the Arabian Nights have wandered far from home. Doctor, I dedicated this poem to you and your melancholic home,, We will never practic medicine again together, but let us meet around the Throne. Where all sad aching hearts find their eternal Home. THEN AND NOW About fourteen years ago we pack ed our meager belongings into a wagon and came over the hills tto become citizens of Boone. We found a village peopled by quiet, peaceful citizens, about 300 strong, who had the community spirit ' of all things in common. They knew each other and were neighbors to the fullest extent. But just what changes have been wrought in this space of time can be best ascertained by contrast. Then we found the people worship ing in small wooden churches,, now we have two modern brick structures with Sundey School rooms and equip ment. Then we found an average at tendance in Sunday School alone of about thirty, today it is over two hundred. Then we had four or five business enterprizes, today we find over 'twenty-five and some of them are exceptionally large proportions for this section of the country. One Concern alono recently did $20,000. worth of business in one month, more by far, than all did a few years ago. Then we wondered if the youths of our town would live to see the ad vent of the automobile in our mist, today our streets are lined with them to such an extci't that traflic ordin ances are an absolute necessity. Then we had to go to distant mar kets for our requirements in hard ware, building materials etc., but now we find full lines of such at our own doors. Then our st roots wore a "mud hole" and sidewalks unknown, today our streets are hard and firm and our sidewalks are of the best con crete. Then wo had about three brick buildings. What have wo today? Come and see. Thoma lumber wagon was rarely scon, today there is pre haps a half-million dollars worth of lumber on the vards. Then we were still dreaming of the advent of a. railroad to our town. Today it isj a reality, anil to it must ue nscnoeu its due proportion of credit for our progress. Then we had no soda fount ains or drug stores. We venture to say-that Biuch larger town arc not as well served in this respect. What town of our size boast of a linotype machine? What town of our size can boast of its many retail and whole sale houses, its banks, hotels, lumber and wood working plants, print shops, its ministers, lawyers, doctors, tinners plumbers, carpenters, brick masons and last but not least, its churches and schools. We are now linked with the out side world by railroad and good dirt roads, which have brought these op portunities as well as their responsi bilities, flow we would like to speak of our good old county, but space forbids. We appeal to the young blood of our town, upon whose shoulders fall its destiny, to guard it well. Our town is goodenough for us. Are you good enough for it? W. R. Gragg, BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION The Baptist State Convention meets irr Winston-Salem next Tues day afternoon and continues thru' Thursday. It is hoped that a number from this section will attend. Parties in automobiles could leave Boone early Tuesday morning and reach Winston Salem in time. The convention promises to be one of unusual interest. Features of un usual interest will be addreses de livered by Drs. E. Y. Mullens, Pres. of the Louisville Seminary, M. E. Dodd, pastor First Church, Strem port, La. and L. R. Scarborrough, Director of the million dallar cam paign. . ANOTHER TEXTILE MILL PROJECTED AT LENOIR Will be seventh in County and Fifth Within Proximity of the Town. Construction work on the seventeen th textile mill in the County and fifth within two miles of Lenoir will be commenced within the next few days. Wood work is started on the second mill at Whitel. Lenoir men are projecting this mill. The name of the corporation will be the Nelson Cotton Mill Company. The new mill be located on a tract of land adjoining the Whitnel cotton mill; just west of it and a short extention of the Whitnel mill siding will accommodate the new mill. The mill will have 6,000 spin dles and will be organized on thirties single two and three-ply carded yarns. Application has been made for a charter and as soon as the charter has been received the organization of the mill will be perfected. It is the purpose of the company to push the work of construction to completion and have the mill in operation as soon as conditions will allow. The mill, when completed, will furnish employment to about 150 persons, and will carry a pay roll of approximately $15,000. The employ ees with their families for tho new mill, will equal about the same pop ulation that Whitnel has at the pres ent time. The two added will give the community a good-sized little town. The increased population will p'ovido n much greater market for the surrounding country. MANY STILLS DESTROYED BYvCOUNTY COMMISSIONERS The out-going Hoard of Commis sioners were in adjourning session last Friday and Saturday, transact ing a big bunch of unfinished busi ness before yielding their scepters to their successors in office. They had accumulated at the Coun ty jail during the four years admin istration of Sheriff Young thirty eiglit moonshine stills, of every make possible, known to this class of cit izenship. They varied in size from an army coffee pot to tho:,e large capac ity copper specimens, that were do ing n thriving business until they were located and seized by the ever watchful officers. It was the duty of the Board to destroy them and ac cordingly, at noorv Friday, with pick axes and other tools necessary for their complete dilt ruction, they un dertook the task and soon they were reduced to "scrap" which will be put on the market ascopper scrap. This makes quite a showing for Sher iff Young and his active deputies. ROM1NGER RUSTLES. Mr. V. C. Presnell and J. Wayne Harman will soon have the stone bridge in near John Mast's mill if the weather permits, this bridge has been down about two years and will save a lot of inconvenience in the future. Mr. II. W. Presnell, postmaster of Rominger, made a business trip to Butler, Tenn. Tuesday. Mr. Audie Presnell took a large load of evergreens to Butler, Tenn. Wednesday. He is doing a good bus iness in this line and evergreens are bringing a good price. Roby James who has a nice store at Watauga Falls with Rufus Ward as apartner bought about two hun dred turkeys last week. There are several flocks yet that will probably go out on the Christmas market. 7, 1922. ROBERT K. BRYAN DIES OFAPOPLEXY Son of W. L. Bryan of Boone, who Died Almost Suddenly In San Francisco, Rests by' the Sea. (Robert C. Rivers, Jr.) A letter to Mr. W. L. Brvan ve veals the fact that the death of his son Robert K. Bryan was heralded in these columns recently was due to a stroke of apoplexy, ami conse quently, was almost sudden. The let ter was from R. G. Hanson of San Francisco, a friend of the deceased. "Bob" had just returned to Cal ifornia from a few day's visft to his father in Boone, and had cone back to his "old job" when the messenger came. A few days after arriving San Francisco he comnlained to Mr. and Mrs. Hansen of unusual dizzy attacks to which no significance was attached. On Wednesday, November 22 he went to work at 8 o'clock, and within an hour was prostrated by the heat, rushed to an emergecy hos pital, and died there soon afterwards. Mr Bryan first left Boone when sixteen years of age and spent the remainder of his 4G years of life, with the exception of a few years, in the western states. Being a great lover of beauty, he spent years travelling from place to place, mar veling at the natural wonders of this glorious country in which he felt it was a God-given priviledge to live. Some four or five years ago, how ever after visiting every state in the Union and all cities of ar)y great importance, he cast his lot forever in that stupenduous mart of the Pacific, the city in which he died, the great, bustling, living, throbbing "Gateway to the Orient". It was the pleasure of the writer to spend some months with "Bob" in that port, which he loved with all his heart. He was a booster for the town, a champion of its people, and ever took great pride, as a typi cal Californian, in telling easterners of the charms of "my city", Frisco, the only real town on the map". Al though he didn't pretend to know so many people there, he loved every one from the laborers on the water front to the brokers, from the news boys to the mayor, for they were all his friends, because it took them all to make "his town". So it is proper for him to rest where he chose to live, and let us believe he rests well after his busy life. I am honor ed to say Bob Bryan was my friend, and I have often said no man could have a better one. There were strong er ties between us than are usually found between men. I learned from him and almost unconciously 'copied' some of his excellent traits. He was a man, generous to n fault, broad minded, a student of human nature, a philosopher and lived without de ceit. His death has made me sad but I feel better to have known Him. "Bob had just ended his ninth round trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and. his journey is ended, "beyond the sunset's radiant glow" And when the sun sets behind the Golden Gate, that most beautiful of earthly pictures, it will shine kind ly on the new made mound where my friend lies, and the moon, as it casts its silvery rays on Frisco Bay will throw its magic spell on his grave while the waters of the Pacific as they gently kiss the rock-rit bed coast will speak of him and bid him rest in peace. Where Tennessee's Mother State Leads. The St. Louis Globe democrat re minds some of the "western states" who want themselves much over good roads that North Carolina has a preeminent record in good roads building." The experts say that North Caro linais next to Penn. In the quali ity of its highway system. North Carolina has a program involving an expenditure around $90,000,000 It has more than 3,000 miles of hard roads. Among the other records North Carolina has are these: Leads in the manufacture of tobacco. It con sumes one-forth of the tobacco crop in the crounty. It has more cotton mills than any other state in the union. In the 'number of enployees and out put North Carolina leads all of the southern states in cotton manufacturing. It has the largest pulp mill in the country and the biggest aluminum plant in the world. North Carolina has large water power possibilities. Tennessee has has greater water power possibili ties. North Carolina has little coal or iron. Tennessee has both. While the Globe Democrat calls the attention of North Carolina to Missouri we might well call the same progress to the attention of the peo ple of Tennessee. North Carolina is homogenous. I Tennessee is devided into three parts. . t. t j" i .... iMonn uarouna nas nerce politics, but they try to do something for their state. Published Weekly NUMBER DAIRYING IN WATAUGA COUNTY . Interesting Article by L. D. Low Of Banner Elk Suggest Now Strain of Cows To Meet Creamery Demands. Ihave taken note from tim t time of the vast amount of cheese that has been manufactured and? shipped from Watauga for the past few. years; that sometime ago then were about nine thousand cowa in the county, and that there is a pros pect for a creamery to be establish ed in Boone for the purpose of Man ufacturing the cream into butter, provided that seventy-five farmer will purchase cream seperatora.' But when the farmers undertake to produce cream instead of furnishing milk for a cheese factory, they will find that they will have to have to a different type of cattle from the Holstein or the beef type; they will hav to substitute Guernseys and Jerseys in lieu of the cattle which produce a small amount of butter fat. The Holstein will produce a large quantity of milk but it has a low precentago of butter-fat. If one would mention the value of a line Jersey or Guernsey cow to the farmer who raises a few good beef cattle to soil each year, he will shake his head in disdain and say that he would not keep one on his place, and tell him of the excellent quality of the milk of a good Guer nsey and the' amount of butter-fat she will produce in a year, you will find that he has never given the mat ter a moments thouht no made a sim ple calculation to show that a fine cow of the milk strain will earn him more money than any animal on his farm; while as a matter of fact th. t more than sixty per cent of the milch cows will not pay for their keep. The butter from a Guernsey cow is worth 10 or 15 cents more on the pound than butter from the nrHin. ary cow, and it will sell for this dii- ierence on the market, and this be ing true, why should the small farmer not keep good Jerseys or Guernseys, or a grade from the two, for the purpose of suppling his home de mands and have some fine butter to spare instead of trying to keep beef cattle, only, and do without milk, cream and butter dunnc a great portion of the time. The Island of Guernesy is one of the Cannel Islands, off the coast of trance, and it is said that this Island has belonged to Great Brit ain for more than a thousand vonrs? that all the. cattle on Guernesy Is land are thoroughbred Guornesys; that in 1818 there was a law enacted for this Island forbidding the ship ment .of cattle to this Island; that the blood of this type has been kept pure and they have been bred for the highest quality of milk and the largest amount of butter-fat; and for thes ereasons the. high prices for thoroughbred Guernsey cows are maintained and will prevail for a number of years. The milk of the Guernsey cow is so rich in butter-fat it is necessary to dilute the milk about one-third with water for her calf to thrive and do well, but if the mil!: is allowed to stand until the cream rises then take the cream off the calf will thrive as. well as it will on the milk of the ordinary cow. When the farmer who raises cat tle of the beef type advises his neigh bor who owns a small farm to not invest in a Gi'eriiosy cow, hi is giv ing hi mi -e-y poor advice anl while !'; means to u.'use him well, he is doing llilll Ml U'j'ury, A former Watauga man, who now lives in I'ennsyvania, says that farm ers in that state who send milk to the cities have to keep either Guern sey or Jersey coWs to mix the milk with that of Holstein cows to raise the quality to the required test, and this being true, it will be well for the farmers who contemplate furn ishing cream for a creamery, to bear in mind that they must keep cows of the dairy type, or they will find by experience what they should have known in advance of their under taking. L. D. LOWE. TWO TAR HEELS ROB- BED IN TRACE Americans tobacco buyers are be ing held up and robbed in western Trace. The latest victim?- are R. J. Worthan of Hederson. m. C. whn was deprived of money and jewelry wnne traveling by automobile, and J. J. Harrington of Rocky Mount, N. C, who was robbed on a road from Serres to Salonica. American traders are rarely molested in this region. We might learn much from our neighboring state. A committee from ; the Tennessee legislature this year" might go over to North Carolina and . study that state's road program. v. ...V.. ' 'f ' V' S''? h V-
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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