Established in 1888.
VOLUME XXXIV
BOWIE'S RAILROAD
LOST PROVING
Raleigh, Feb. 1.?Lost Provinces
scored a rediscovery in the house
today when Representative Bowie,
> of Ashe, presented a "bill to be entitled
an act to redeem the counties
-Tlfo in northwestern North Carolina with{
out railroad facilities, known as 'the
lost provinces' of North Carolina.
The caption of the 10 lines pretty
nearly gives the character of the
bill. The plan of redeeming these
.forgotten counties"Ss "by authorizing
the construction by the state of
, a railroad, which, in connecteion with
the railroads will ^constitute a trunk
line of railroad from northwestern
North Carolina to paiilprn North f ar
olina, and coal fields into western,
central and eastern parts of North
Carolina, and to aid in the completion
and construction of certain
roads in northwestern North Carolina
in which the state already has a
pecuniary interest.'*
Mr. Bowie itimzes the state's
"pecuniary interest." On the Elkin
and Alleghany, from Elkin going toward
Sparta, 15 miles of which.the
grading has been done on three
miles .the state owns $0.!,000 in
stock resulting from convict iaUor.
in the Statesville Air line running
from Statesville toward Mount Airy,
t the slate has an equity of $132,400,
the work of convict labor.
In the Watauga and Yadkir. Valley
going to Boone from North
Wilkesfcoro 29 miles equipped for
operation ,tbo state has 552 shares of
stock which cost $55,200. And the
turnpike from North Wilkesboro to
Jefferson, in which the state gave
convict labor amounting to $63,810.
The. bill prescribing the method
of financing theroad empowers any
county, town, municipality or township
through or near which "any of
the proposed roads may be located
and constructed under the provisions
of chapter 67 * * * subscribe
BANQUET NEXT MONDAY
The Boone Chamber of Commerce
Kwin give a banquet at t&e cntcnei
Hotel next Monday evening, beginning
at 7:30 o'clock. Plates will bt
laid for one hundred or more guests.
Hash member will have the privilege
of buying: two plates, one for hit
wife, mother, or sweetheart, and oni
for himself, and one for an invitee
guest, that i9 if he wishes to make
the investment of an extra dollar
for a freinri. The" plates will cos1
*1 .00 each. A splendid menu is be
ing worked out, and if it is some
thing iuc:: to oat that you arc look
ing for, be on hand. Another rea
feature of ifce oecassion will be ai
address by i resident J. E trading
of the Johnson City Chamber ol
Commerce. He fluid xaucu c .pari
ence in town and city building, nni
it goes without say >ig that his a,i
dress will be most helpful to ou
local Chamber of Commence. A goo<
and profitable meeting ;s expected
The Boone Chamber of Commerce i
to be congratulated, under the man
agement of its efficient oaac.rs, to
the splendid work it is doing, am
trying to do for our town and coun
I ty. It is really 4,a live wire" when i
comes to doing real work, and put
ting out effort and money for th
betterment of this great section.
CATTLEMEN'S ASSO
TO MEET IN MARCI
The eleventh annual convention o
the Southern Cattlemen's A.vociuiro
will be held at Roanoke, Virginii
March 13th, 14th and loth. Thi
meeting should be of much interes
to cattlemen in this section. Th
association, which embraces tjvelv
of the southern states, has done va
uable work in the development an
improvement of the cattle industry
1st annual meetings are of uriusu;
interest and education valhe, nnd t)
meeting this year promises to be or
of the best ever held.
As has been the custom at pa
? meetings of the association, sales i
registered beef cattle will be he
daring the convention. The sal
at Boanoke will consist of over 01
hundred head of short horns, Her
ford3 and Aberdeen-Angus selecti
from among the leading herds
the south. An instructive and inti
eating feature in connection with tl
part of the meeting will be the sho'
of tale cattle to be held preceedi
each sale. This will not tend to <
sure ?-ie offerings of high quali
but haying the cattle placed by co
petent judges before they are s<
should be of benefit and interest
.prospective purchasers, especia
those just starting in the pnrebi
business. Total premiums amount!
to approximately seren humlred <1
k, lars will "he awarded at the thi
shows.
Hatch early. The early chicks bri
the pullets that lay the early ej
and these bring the best prices.
A Non-Part i?an Family Newspaper. Di
BOONE. >
BILL TO REDEEM
SSTARTSIN HOUSE'
to and take stock in said company
when so formed and in this mannei
raise the funds sufficient to take the
stock required by this act to be furnished
before the state subscribes
its stock in said company, as hereinafter
enacted."
State Can Own 49 Per Cent
The state does not become a participant
in this construction until
at least 51 per cent ot the stock has
been raised by "persons- firm, or
corporation, county, town o rt.ownship."
Upon evidence of good faith
and the payment of this amount of
money for construction of one orj
more roads, the state will subscribe
to 49 per cent and issue serial bonds
"payable in net less than 10 or more
j than 40 years from the date of issue."
| The bonds bear interest not ex'
ceeding 5 per cent and are in $100,
$500 and $1,000 denominations.
The bill meets the Interstate Commerce
clause by completing a trunk
line. The road or roads adopted
would connect with the WinstonSalem
division of the southern somewhere
near Mount Airy, or with the
Southern at Statesville or Taylorsvine,
and would touch the Norfolk
and Western at West Jefferson, or
at some point on the Vigginia and
' Tennessee line, to connect either with
the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio or
the Virginia and Southwestern, or the
Louisville or Nashville, or any other
railroad company that may hereafter
j be formed.
| This was much the most important
' thing that the house had today. Representative
Bowie regards the bill the
| most important measure which will
1 come before the assembly. He has
' | spent ail of the two years since he
;1 made a move in the house in working
, out some plan by which the redempj
tion of the lost country may be com>
passed.?Charlotte Observer.
NEW BUSINESS FOR BOONE
\
i The J. E. Ashley Company will
- occupy the Farthing stand when va
cm ted by Mr. T. Hill Farthing, who
; will move into the ban!r*t>loik*'as
. soon as it is completed.
i This new business will be in charge
i of Mrs. J. E. Ashley, who will carry
i an up-to-date- line ol notions, novci1
ties and millinery.
; ( Mrs. Ashley comes to us with wide
, experience in the merchantile world,
t having been associated for a number
r I with the Miller's of Knoxville. Tenn.
- and C. F Cate Company of Johnson
- City, Tenu. The new firm and the
1 p.L.ant buisness lady who will have
t it in charge will be gladly welcomed
, to our town, and, in advance we pret
diet a spiendiu business for her.
J COM MISS ION RES MEETING POST
PONED UNTIL NEXT MONDAY
r
2 On account of the iilness of the
chairman of the Board of County
s Commissioners, and the failure of
- one of the members, Mr. James Milr
ier. to be on band, on account of
d weather conditions, the meeting was
- postponed until next Monday. On
t authority of a letter receiver by from
>- the chairman, jyid Mr. Willmorn, the
? uuiji cieiiiuci uit'ssiib. ix yuu ua\ *
(business before the Board, be or
, hand next Monday.
' ! SEVERAL PASSENGERS INJURED
J !N WRECK NEAR SUMPTER, S. C
j. Sumpter, S. C., Peb. 1-?Severa
n passengers were injured this morning
when Atlantic Coast Line passengei
I* train No. 35, southbound, collide!
^ head-on with a freight train at Pri
" vateer, nine miles south of here.
rj, G. C. Hnies, of Florence, S. C-, i
l_ muii clerk, was the most seriously in
j jured. Most of the other injured wen
? negroes, who sustained only bruises
aj The track was expected to hi
lc cleared early this afternoon. Trail
|e No. 35 is operated between Florence
S. C. and Augusta, Ga.
at ?
of* * * ??*
Id SAYS CHURCHES SHOULD
e? INVEST IN ADVERTISING
ie
* Every charch chould set uide
ed * money to be used for newspaper
in * advertising, Rev. J. T. Barber,
ir- of tke committee on conservation
lis and advance of the Methodist
ws * Episcopal clturch, declared in bis
* address in Chicago last Sunday,
is* * >. "The church can send its met
ty * sage in the papers to non-church
m" * goers and to those of its mem
>ld * bers detained at home because of
to sic cness, business and otkercstusily
??," he said.
od * "The preacher speaks to hunn?
* dreds, while newspapers speak
ol- * to thousands and millions.
_C Church" members should assist
* editors, but criticism of editors
* and editorial policies are hsinninR
* ful. The pulpit and press shfeuld
BP * pall together and not apart."
?**** **
/ v;
evoted to the Best Interests of Boo
vatauga county, north. car<
CONDITIONS ARE I
BAD INGERMANY
An idea of post- war conditions In!
Germany is gleaned from letters *eceived
from distant kinspeopie in
Beirthein by Frank Krauss, former
postmaster at Waxhaw. "You will no.
doubt be rather astonished to get a
letter from here after so many years
of unusual silence," one reads, "but
I have been so lucky to get your address
only a few days ago. i am the
widow of your cousin, Wilhelm
Krauss, from Munsler. I dare say
family Krauss has probably mentioned
us in letters to you.
"I am sorry to inform you that
my dear husband died quite suddenly
lest year, leaving us and our dear
little girl, Elizabeth (age of 14) be
hind entirely devoid of, all means of
living. Our two sons, aged 27 and 28
years, perished in (he awful war.
Our elder son and elder daughter,
striving themselves very hard for
gaining their living, are equally un.
able to support us. So I am often
[very hard up, especially as everything
is so dreadfully expensive. ,
"I have a small monthly allowance
of 100 marks, but this sum is not
even sufficient for a week. The worst
of all is that I am often ill of late ,
and so little able to do haid work, j
Even my sewing does not bring me I
much, as my poor eyes get weaker \
and weaker. So you perhaps will un- j
derstand and excuse my asking you!
if you would kindly send me some j
worn-out dresses of your daughters
for my little girl and for myself. !I
have a good hand at rearranging and
getting up decently old things for
us, and I ask you, too, to help me
in getting my girl to a go-id school
of dressmaking by sending me a few
dollars so that I should be able to j
pay her a place as an apprentice.
"You may be sure that this pecu-l
niary help should only serve as an |
assistance for the education of my
dear girl. And you may be equally
sure that you are helping persons
worthy to be helped. Please do notl
be angry at my asking for help fromj
you. If our poverty were not grow-;
ing harder and harder every day,
the prices of the more indispensable
victuals rising continually, I should!
never have allowed myself to write-.
In unn in win
"You are already a long time over
there in your rich happy America.
Let me hope that you have not quite
forgotten your relations in your poor
old Germany. ,
Mr. Krauss is of German parent-i
age, but was born in this country.
Ever since the signing of the armistice
he has been sending food and
money to his once, well-to-do but
new war-impoverished relations in
the old country.
A glimpse of Christmas in the
old country is given in another letter.
" A German Christmas festival
day, be it ever so humble or poor, is
deeply moving. I wish you could spend
Christmas eve, if it were only one
time, with us in the way we observe
the day. You would never forget it."
Other extracts read:
"You have doubtless read of the
high cost- of living in Germany. It
1 is becoming oppressive. Most any
1 kind of food is unobtainable except
1 at excessive prices .... I am
told that life hes grown more dif!
ficulty even over there in your happy
1 free land. /
"Under present conditions we fare
ill, and things will not improve un>
iess we obtain a large loan from
America.
S & .10 CENT STORE
r
1 The Davidson Department Store
. is making arrangments to add a 5,
10 & 25 cent department to their
% store. They intend to carry as*com_
plete a line as a regular city 10c
5 store. The goods have already been
* bought and the opening will be an^
nounced shortly. 1
NORTH CAROLINA T
: HALFOFTHESPIND
* Charlotte, Jan. 30.?A total o:
* 285,868 additional spindles were in
stalled in cotto nmills inthe soufcl
* during the year 1922; 154,996, con
siderably more th^n half of the total
being installed in North Carolina
* mills.
* A total rff 807,720 Rnin^lw wil
installed in southern cotton miil
* during the present year. Of this nam
* ber 583,700 will be installed in. Nortl
" Carolina mills. v
These figures are taken frot
* Clark's annual spindle increase lis
as compiled and published by th
* Southern Textile Bulletin in its cui
* rent number. The Clark list show
, in detail the installation by state:
? Included in the statictical data pul
? lished by the Textile Bulletin is als
, a knitting increase listting machine
, were installed in the south durin
. 1922. Of this number, North Cam
, lina installed 1,008, Georgia bein
second with 532, Tennessee thh
<
a Mti
n?, and Watauga County, "the Leade
3L1N A, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8
COMMERCIAL CLUB~I
CHANGESJTS NAME
The Boone Commercial Club, one
of the most active organizations of 1
which tbe town has ever boasted, had
its last meeting in the lobby
of the Critcher Hotel Saturday night,
and the body in the future will work
under the mor? distinguished name
oi ?rue Boone ubamber of Commerce/'
the change being made by
a unanimous vote of the large number
of members present. Much business i
of interest was transacted, and the (
gathering was very highly entertain- j
ed for some time by an address from i
Mr. Van Doozer, of Bloomfield, Neb., who
is here looking after the estab- ,
lishment, or rather encouraging the ; (
establishment of a creamery in Boone.
His talk was clear cut, logical and he ,
showed from statistics that nothing |
would pay better* here, with our na- {
turn! ldvantages, than a creamery
A committee was appointed to take \
the matter up in further detail with j
the visiting gentleman, and some con- ,
ferences have been held, but nothing ,
so far has been given out for publi- ;
catiop. Watauga is rapidly forging \
to the front in her dairying business, i
She now boosts of ten cheese factor- ,
ies with an annual out put of 150,I
000 pounds. Ar.J if u creamery could
1 be established here without interfer- *
ing with the cheese industry, it would
indeed, be another great asset for |
the farmers'of the county. The pros|
pects for its establishment, so far
I as we have keen able to learn, are!
fairly good, and we hope next week I ,
to be able to give something more , i
definite concerning the big enter-J t
prise. !
GOVERNOR DENIES ANY DEFICIT;
IN NORTH CAROLINA TREASURY !
Governor Cameron Morrison in a ,
| statement issued Tuesday night declares
that tne present revenue of
the state justifies the general as- ,
sembly in making the provision for
the state's institutions recommended ]
for the ensuing two year^by the bud- ;
ject commission, re-aaserts that there ,
in no deficit in the operating account
| oi the stpte, except the excess of exI
penditures over receipts as shown by !
rthe treasury report, ana claims that
further information that he has ini
dicates that the ultimate surplus will
j be larger than the previous estimate
I over which the conflict between the
| Governor and Corporation Comnns|
sioner A. J. Maxwell aiose.
j Among other things the Governor
says:
; "There is no deficit in the state
treasury of this state, except in the
mere cash on hand, and today we
are in process of collecting taxes
j levied by the last general assembly
but not yet collected, aggregating
about the following sums:
"'Income tax $3,aOG,GCG.
"Railroad taxes $600,000.
"Insurance premium taxes $415,i
000.
j "Miscellaneous taxes at least $400,
; ooo. ~ i
I "Total $4,015,000.
"One great corporation was written
up since the budet commission l
report and the autitors claim they
owe $300,000 more income tax for
1921 than they have paid. From the
facts given to me 1 think this will
be collected.
| am satisfied the outstanding
1 taxes will make a cold five million
odd dollars.
North Carolina was among the first |
I states to begin tick eradication work
and is about the last to finish the
job.
Are you feeding your child tuberculosis?
It might be worth while to
have that dairy herd tested. !
In the world's audience hall, the
simple blade of^grass sits on the same
carpet with the sunbeams and4 the
stars of mid-night.
O HAVE MORE THAN
LES IN WHOLE SOUTH
( with 614 and Virginia fourth with
- 328.
1 North Carolina leads the entire
- South in the total number of cot,
ton mills, having a total of* 501
i mills with 5,330.188 spidles, 78,000
looms and 18,290 knitting ma1
chines. South Carolina has 180 cotton
s mills with 5.135,404 spindles, 119,
504 looms ar.d 1,473 knitting mall
chines. Georgia has 17G cotton mills
^ with 2,788,988 spindles ,90,132 looms
n and 6,913 knitting machine.-.
4. It may deducted from the fige
uves given that North Carolina in -
stalled more than 50 per cent, of all
s the spindles installed in the Soutl
5 last yeu. She will install more thai
72 per cent of the spindles being inl0
stalled in the South during this year
,s She installed 37 pe rcent of the knit
g ting machines installed last year.
I- It is remarkable that the toal asm
? i
d (Continued on page two)
"
r of Northwestern Carolina."
, 1923*.
COMPLETE LNVESTIG/
FINANCES IS ORDERE
Follow* Denunciation at Jo
of Maxwell's Deficit Fi
Those Who Assert Stab
Its Revenues.
RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 2.?The
'Corth Carolina general assembly tolay
passed and ratified a resolution
introduced by Senator Harris of
ft'ake County which calls for an investigation
by the finance committee
t he house and senate of the coalition
of the state's finances.
The resolution empowers the committee
to call witnesses, examine ;
looks and report its findings to the
reneral assembly.
Vigorously denouncing Corpor:ion
Commisioner, A. J. Maxwell for
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[...tr.i.niuii VX- u ttcauM: UI1 me llliail:ial
condition of the slate which he
characterized as "untrue*' and asserting
that, its publication was motivated
by a vindictive attitude toward
the administration and its cor.-1
Btructive program. Governor Morrisan
in a half-hour address to a
joint session of the genera! assembly
at neon today demanded a complete !
investigation of the state's finances
by the legislature.
"A situation has arisen concerning
the fiscal affairs of the state 1
which in my opinion makes it my ,
puly to come before you and submit j
the remarks I am about to address j
to you," the governor began, and
aftyer discussing the figures that were j
incorporated in the Maxwell article j
to which he referred and giving the !
source of his authority for the ata'cc -1
ment he made in his biennial address j
on the sta*. of finances, he closed
with a deniil of the Maxwell figures.
"It isn't true," the governor declaied
in his impassioned conclusion,
"and I demand of this general assembly
that this matter he investigated
and this man exposed in that slander
of the state whose bread he eats."
Opening his remarks upon Mr. Maxwell
s treatise, Governor Morrison!
said "an official of the state of North]
Carolina, holding a position of honor j
whi."$ h^Ofcas held fftr a 'org tinie.p
n.-?-s nmue nil USSUIl oil ine S MC
fiscal system and attempts to show
the itentuier's report unt*u.x"
He c< iitinued saying, "that part,
of the press so hostile to the present | A
administration could not be except-!
ed to do otherwise had sought to have j
the general assembly believe i have | n
given faise and misleading informs- Cl
tion" about -A ... v.a state's tinancial | f,
affairs and th:s be had ign?*ied. he, tj
stated, < ?.?; .-g %.hai the statements}
coming from Mr Maxwell, an officer I p
of ti; iate, must receive consider-j a
":f Mr. Maxwell's statements are s
?? :.ae go- amor <aid, "the treas-|n
urtr of the state has Made ar. untrue] a
repo't. If the treasurer's report is
true. ' he add d, "then Maxwell's ^
rtie'v- is false." u
"Make a prompt and fearless in- .
vestigation and wherever the wrong c
lies, p ace it,"' Governor Morrison urged.
and proceed to discuss the figr.res
involved, telling the general as- ;
sembly that. Treasurer Lacy in his t
biennial report showed a deficit of c
$1,8 *?3,805.41 and stated that the re- r
port was made of June 30, 1022, the t
? 1 _ i. _ L . 1 .* - ? I
closing uttie 01 me state s usc.u year. ;
"That is the oniy'deficit the treas- ,
urc-r," the governor stated, and he f
added that Mr. Moody of the treas- ,
urer's office said today that those j *
were the facts. j i
Mi. Maxwell says there are other j
deficits," the governor concluded,
| "stating that there is one back of
i that deficit. Of what character would
I be the treasurer's report which gave
rce actual condition of the fiscal 1
| year if back of that deficit would be
one not brought forward?
-We deal with the fiscal year," the
governor declared. "This is a ser?ou.
matter, because th; recommt ndations
1 have made to you, because
all of the recommendations of the
budget commission were made on a,
basis of that report."
lie added that there were those,
inspired by malice and venom seeking
to injure the governor of this
state by trying to make statements
that were npt true.
Maxwell alone 1 dicmifv with com
plaint," he continued, and he called
attention to the fact that the budget
commission was a legislative committee
and not an administrative one,
and asserted that this body had found |
' the figures as to the, state's finan-l
cial affiars upon which an ultimate 1
surplus was base suiftcier.t for the |
commission to make them the basis j
I for its recommendations."
1' Here Is Maxwell's View of the State
I Finances
The article to which the governor
excepted in his address before a joint
- session of the general assembly was
published in the mornings today un
der the lignature of A. J. Maxwell,
(Continued on page two)
n
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Published Weekly
NUMBER 15
iTION OF STATE'S
D BY LEGISLATURE
int Session of Assembly
gures?Governor Scores
e is Running Behind in
GOVERNOR IS VICTOR IN
FIGHT WITH OPPOSITION
The tidal wave of political reaction
which hit Raleigh over
the week end has been forced to
recede and Governor Morrison
stands out clearly as the overwhelming
victor in the greatest
and most determined fight that
has been made in his adminisI
fpsftAi. " ^
It was a mighty h!cw that
struck last week, bet it didn't
have the force behind it to carry
it on. It was a "smokejci
tun" and when a determined
public began to dig in it found
there wasn't anything justifying
the battle that was waged. Every
move now assures a Morrison
victory, and the chief executive
has won in a fight which had
as its motive his political destruction.
The 1922 general election disclosed
hardly more clearly than
than the flood of messages to
the legislature and Governor
Morrison during the past few
days the true aetiment of the
people of the state in the matter
of continued progress. They
demonstrated their lack of interest
in politics and the fullness
of their souls in the betterment
and development of their
state. - Morrison stands for that
and the state has proved through
the genuineness of its response
that it is with him.
Some politicaal observers are
forecasting two weeks before
Morrison will know if he has
won or been defeated, but there
is enough in the pledges of fighting
support and the general
amendment of the recognised
North Carolina to swear by am
Ihr" admini*tra
tion U victorious. Charlotte
Observer.
RBUCKLE TO BECOME A MOVIE
DIRECTOR
Roscoe C. ("Patty") Arbuckle anounced
last week he had signed a
jo 21 tract to direct motion pictures
or a comedy film corporation, and
lat he was done with acting.'*
"My greatest ambition is to make
eople laugh and make them happy,
nd I can do it best as a director o?
omedies," he said in a prepared
tatement. "This ?s ???y change to
lake good in the right way and in
proffession that I know and love
nd in a way that will meet*the apirova!
of all. 1 start work at once,
nd from now on you will only hear
rora me through the medium of the
omedies that I direct."
The comedian recently announced
ie would appear ir. a film being made
n a Hollywood studio. Religious and
>ther organizations in various parts
?f the country protested against the
cinstatement of the actor because
>f the nature of testimony produced
n his trials for manslaughter in conlection
with the death of Miss Virrinia
Uappe in San Francisco last
rear, which ended in his acquittal.
LOCAL IHilLIHNG
& LOAN'SGROWTH
New- Year Finds Association Making
Remarkable Strides?Secretary H.
H. Green* F.nthusiastic.
From an interview with the Secretary
of the Watauga Building and
I.oan Association we gather that
Wataugans have opened their eye?
to the benefits of such an institution,
and arc offering their support
in liberal measures.
Mr. Greene tolls us tha tone year
ago the Association had received in
installments $3,793.50, and had made
loans of 2,800.00. During January
only of this year $12,184.00 has been
paid in and loaned, while the total
loans aggregate $25,715.83.
Application^ for stock are being
made daily and Mr. Greene says that
no doubt the business if this month
will exceed the above figures for JanA
welcome guest in your home,
bringing good reports of the progress
of your friends and your communi- \
I ty?the home town paper.
Worms won't injure your cabbage
I this summer if you know how to .*
control them. Write the Agricultural -:4
Extension Service, Raleigh for C135. yjg
"Dusting of cabbage and collards to "i.
control wonna."