Ptfe Four K 5TI)c ?f good citizeti we .-ha e\p-M i "day by day" a.. "ii; every way " the town to grov bettor and Utter FIX UP, CLEAN IJP. STRAIGHT EN UP Spring is almost here and to b? gin with the ntuch-medvd town clear ing is imperative just as early as th wi ather v. 1 permit for there is nmc to do to Boone before she wiii pn sent the inviting appearance sh should to the many prominent vitors expected here this summer. I the first place the streets and pren isos of the citizens of the entii town should be thoroughly cleane* the public square should be taken ; charge by the Indies and under thoi supervisor* shrubbery and rtowei should be planted thereon. Along th sidewalks as we have .-ecu in man other cities and towns, violets an other annuals pleasing to the e\. might he planted. In some instr.no. fragments oi* fences, scrap lumbt piles and many other things th; shouid be moved. It: i'uis cv-riiiveliOil we think ii nothing but right to nn. r.tion the ecu dition of ;>ur county court hc.u-. The man who -weeps the a.iditoriui for th. rtov.es, preaching. etc ica.i his litter at the foot of the stairs 1 the ba'iwaQ r e hi in front oi r; ofie.-. bo . to be carried then; by | . lrtar.1 : V . ;. . . .. r.e.- - r.-ere ; he- ? ..:ce?-s ho the be?t to keep t e> room.-- tidy, iris ;mpo.- !b e as !6ng as the dirt fro: f ih.? -oi-..'.' .1.-...- i- ,.Tr m, . The ; . '?u. ;o be sure is employed i the Mt'thoiK-t ye^ple anu the sho; but why don't the county ereplt him to i\cc p .he whole building, vvii dows, etc. tn a decent condition? Tl public - * - are usually o.i'ensh and f<>rb hun.jr. The county otbce are not lu kame, as ii i.- not. the place to look after such things, th is those who stay in the buiidii all the time., but it is certainly tl duty of our worthy board ot Cor mission ers to have it done. A gcntl man from down-state remarked n long ago that Watauga had the din est court house in North Carotin and added that he had been in mo of them. Our present condition is r. a good advertisement for our tov and county and this paragraph written with the* hope thai it mi be instrumental, in a way, in havii our good town and county house p in fir.-t cla .N si|apc just as early the season as possible. Most men when boys went bai footed a i all .>arefoot bevs stur their toes. Not once, but many tini The following lines, therefore, -.hot serve to remind most men of th< childhood days and may stir a fe ing of sympathy for the man w has stubbed his toe. "Long th' road of human life you s a fellow traveling' slow. An* like as not you'll find he's soi poor chap that's stubbed his to< He was makin' swimmin' headwi but he bumped into a stone An' his friends all hurried onvva and left him there alone. He aint sobbin' or aint snifHizT?h too oia ior tears an cries, But he's grieving jus' as earnest Hit only comes in sighs, An' it doe.* a heap of good sometin to go a little slow, An4 say a word of comfort to t man that stubbed his toe." ?Christian Advocate. i-JS., North Carolina county agents hi ed to install 114 water systems 13 lighting systems and 19 telepho PLAN TO CONTROL THE WEATHE1 PATENT WILL DISPEL CLOUI AND CAUSE RAIN TO FALL DAYTON. OHIO?Rainfall h been caused and clouds have be made to disappear in n series of periments which are being conduct here at McCook Field according announcement made today by the t perimenters. Prof. Wilder D. B?i croft of Cornell University and j Francis Warren. The successful < ; periments were made w.th the co-< eration "?f the army air service. ' Results of the experiments wt described as "absolutely uncann by observers at the army field. | brief, the clouds were made to dis<* 1 pear and precipitate their moisti j by the dropping of electrically-ch; i ged grains of sand upon thern fr? | airplanes. Prof. Bancroft and Mr. Wart i claim that the process will be of gri value in the commercial world as ft ! over cities harbors and flying fie ' '1Jionmiflm. I Knroki' I'illl UC IIJ-IVIV lv? Ui^If/pcai . suring safety to travel am', iransp tation. They do not claim that in i cry instance rain or precipitation c he produced, as they say all clot do not contain sufficient moistu Some of the experiment- demonstr ed that while flight precipitation v caused, this precipitation was evap uted before it reached the earth. lr payment for its cooperation < ring tests, the army air service \ been given the free use of the p cess, foi which patents are pendii for the removal of mists and f< ever it- flying fields. The experiments have been in pr ress at McCook field here for the 1 year and a half and will be contini at Moundsville, W. \'a. on the \V"a ington-Dayton air route and po: bly at Washington where fog cor ! tions are more frequent and bet than at Dayton. In making the announcement of successful experiments. Mr. War said that elaborate scientific resear , es have shown that a particle of . mospheric moisture, carrying an el . trie charge has a tendency to gi , in size, even under conditions so i verse to enlargement as to cause u charged drops to evaporate, the t j cry being that the electric charge . minishes the surface tension f l drops and thus facilitate further c I densation and coalescence. In the experiments, a la 1 , plane, carrying about SO pounds i -and, of about 150 mesh with a wi j dri.t-n generator operating an e t trie equipment capable of eharji |. the sand with high voltages e?l j positively or negatively at the of the operator was employt d. s rand war charged to approxitna i 1 P.?)*10 \ > ts in i> ciiargt of the v der of 0006 electric static units " grain. and was si altered through action of the plane propellor a _ height of about .">00 tei-i above tops of I lie clouds, the plane t cling at a rate of about 100 r per hour. ~ I he time taken to precipitate ~ destroy the clouds from the perioi ? ibv first direct attack to the pe of final disappearance in each 1 'J rarely exceeded ten minutes am * several cum s was less than five 1 utes. Mr. Warren said. He poii i out thai the temperature anil gen ~ climatic conditions were variabh . shown by the months of the recoi *| experiments: April 15, June 2S. . r I'd, August August 5, Noventbe . and other times as shown by a?; ' vits of air service officers and ot v Lhe clouds dealt with, Mr. \ "j ren -aid. varied in from several t L j sand feet in length and breadtl i"' i -everal miles, the thickness from feet to 1500 feet; the altitude f t. 2 SOU to 10,000 fea t and partook the most part of the nature of cu - : lus and stratus. .>? har.e-liko rl. which consists of fog in a horizc sratus. all contain-ng light nrmis which was quick-v ovnporated m dry air below the clouds, :sor?u* of '* ?p*. i inv ots, nr. V uireii said, i Plowed . y .. -v. :1 .cries over dying lh-ai and i.ght rainfall ;..e Adjacent regio Coarse sane? ~ vnil fail, raaicily o.. r a definite ii \. ( :.l : \ iv o- iicir.: quick ;c\ v. ill be employed for fogs and i: " Iv r Wanvi. auuouuccd. Sand , v iicreo to .Mi es that will fall by g .v ty slowiy through the varying v. .. 1 v dispt ! sed, wiil be ployed lor artificial rain making. " or more tons 01 minute dust p ^ cles as rir.e or finer than talcum tier and having trillions of part per cubic cent mteU-r, that when tered will cover enormous areas. \Lr be carried by a plane dying 70 < miles per hour and liberated as a alypric agent, at the rate of abut ' " to 35 pounds per minute. u~ Mr. Warren explained that s tists cla m that with free elect ".J in a mass of air. each electron ati ^ e> itself to a certain number of r ? euies and so forms a gas ion, vn which moisture condenses, the 4S making a cloud particle. Shoulc av . ciocity of the electrons he very , he said they will combine with th ut t.ticially charged particles (as h u, been noted that their fall strc electrifies surrounding air) this produce a so called trigger a forcing the electrical charge ir cloud to change from a static to y netic state, that wiil rapidly spre; rv ffaim over the whole clouded from the spraying of only a 'l(r pounds of dust over a small part ?*" highly charged storm movement ho force* precipcation when the wet conditions are favorable, over th ,ee sections where it is required in of failin gas it now does over o< ine or large bodies of water where not required. iy' It was found in the cxperii , that wherever the charged par of sand, in sufficient quantity, , released at the top of a cloud an e s cloud was of opposite charge t sand, a large hoie, in a fraction 11j minute, was macie through the c | cloud from top to bottom. ies j No large scale attempts were i , ' Warren said, at artificial rain. ing with nimbus, cumulo nimb | other heavy rain clouds as th I periments were solely directed i I removal of mists and fogs cov areas extensive enough to justif *ng? army air service in stalling the ( cess over one of its foggy flying THE WaTAUGA NORTH CAROLINA R. MOST TALKED OF >S "North Carolina is attr. -ting more attention throughout the nation thai, any other southern state,*' according to S. H. Hobbs. dr. of the editorial as board of the University of North Carolina News Letter. ,x! On the Pullman cars?in hotels ed at big conventions?in fact almost everywhere the Old North State is ,x_ being discussed, according to the l}1_ educator, who recently completed a L, three thousand mile trip. >X1 "Twenty years ago a Tar Heel >p. away from heme kept the state of his nativity a secret. ' he writes. ,re "Toda\ he is proud of hi shome v" land, and people who meet him are *|n anxious to hear about the marve!ous achievements of the southern ire that has awakened to his vast ar_ powers, has taken stock of himself. 3m and has decided to develop to full maturity his wonderful possibili-tics." .cn And wh> is the North Carolinian ,at so proud of his state? 'ygs Mr. Hobbs gives the following as Ids sPecifi? reasons: jn_ "North Carolina is a great agri or_ cultural state, one is nov >.uu ?griL.v cultural state she should be, not the ,an state she will be within a decade ids or two- But even today she is the rc Empire State of the *south in agria?l culture Texas produced larger as crop totals, but Texas is an tmor_ pi re in size , not a state. Only four states have more farms than North ju. Carolina. Only lour states have a 1as larger farm population ratio. Only ro_ four ?tates produce greater annual ,,g crop wealth totals. "We rank first in the nation in the value of tobacco produced an? 0jr. nuallv. ast "We rank first in cotton produced f'?n and nig-h in the total production. sh- of the cotton crop. nsi_ "We lead the nation in soy bean idi- production, and are among the tt.r leaders in sweet potatoes and peanuts. his "The farmers of this state have r^,n an investment in lands, buildings, ch- implements and livestock of one and at,- a quarter billion dollars. This is an [eo- enormous amount of wealth taken ow totally but or. a per farm basis we ad- not rank so well. un_ "We are the undisputed leader in he- the south in the field of inanufacture. And our position growing the stronger. on_ '"Our 150,000 farm workers produce around $410,000,000 worth of >cre farm wealth. Not ali this is new (Jf wealth. For instance we spend $50,Ind 000,000 for fertilizer alone. Our fac!cc tory workers turn out a total product ring valued at nearly, one billion dollars, 'her Nearly a half billion dollars is the a ill v aiiie added by manufacturer, a far The larger amount tl.an the grand totai tely ajl larm products, crop, livestock. ,.r- "Eighty thousand coti?oi null oppee cratives turn out S : l,s,i)in?,uuo wo:\h ,i,.? of outuut. Of ihis total S1.12.00U. it a 900 is created in the process of manthe ufacture. ra\ - "We have is tobacco factories liles capitalized at about ?1;>0,000.000, 'ihese concerns employ about 14,and OOP workers and tne ycany output J of is vaiued at about $220,000,000. riod "Our 12 1 furniture factories art ease capitalized at about $10,000,000 1 in They employ more than 1 >,500 work nin- ers and the value 01" the yearly oat mod put is about $35,000,000. This is fac eral tory values not the prices the consum L* as err. pay. rded "Our rise to the loth manufac July turtng state of the union has taker r I 1 place almost entirely during the fida- last years. During this brief pe hers J'iod the capital employed in manu Var- facture has risen from $85,000,t)O( hou- to $(1651,000,000. The value of tin h to yearly output has risen from $85, 500 000,000 to $094,000,000, while till rom vaiue added by manufacturer has ris for en from $40,000,000 to $417,000, imu- "North Carolina leads the souti lotda in the number of factory establish mtal ments. tuiv "She leads the M?uth in the oumbei the ?>f wage earners. "She leads the south? in capita W'v cmpioyed. 8f|CX:;>, her nearest com the r-ctp.or is $1 l?0,OtUhtipO behind, over "She leads it- :-.>uih in u.e val.u cIliiL 'iuv.cu n: wit [inivv-^ inaii.w." lor. iCiV- "Sr.o I cuds v iie world in ?pacc< suits :na: .1-.t wc-ii as in u>bacc< lists, crop vaiue, pow- .wr Hobbs jjives other reasons an< ravi- on -it. ]<.-: \v;ti.: inds * vV. n:th a; d willingness are mak cm- ir.g -N.>iih CaroLnu the Empire stat One ol t'lc south. NEW TOY TO AMUSE * ? CHILDREN IS NOVELTK -r 80 it ."> 'rlie children in ms ay homes an finding amusement through varioui cien- electrical inventions. There is, o irons course, the miniature electric trail tach- and the miniature electric range, ap nole- pealing respectively to boys and gtrla upon Recently there has ateo appeared i reby simple but fascinating little toy con * sisting of a little balloon with a tin: e^ar- tr*Peze suspended from it, to which I . j,a~ attached a dainty acrobatic girl. Whei ir.gly held over the tube of the electric va will cuum cleaner long enough for the cui ctiozi rent to be turned on the rush of al i the from the tube will both keep the bal a ki- loon suspended In the air and wll ad or cause the little performer to whir aS?2' about on the trapeze to the greet d< of a ?' 8raali 'ol!c of 7 or 8 yean and electric current la required fo bulb amusement to keep a child pleas* e dry * Ion* perked, place ceans it is He said that all heavy rainclouds ai highly electrified and it was not deen nents ed safe to deal with them with hig tides voitages until measures were take were to guard against possible accidents I d the the pilots and planes, o the At its Moumlsville, West Virgin of a field the army air service proposes t sntire employ a capti\e balloon containir an eiectric equipment and anchrc xiade, by cable to a truck. The balloon ar mak- equipment will keep the field and si us or rounding regions free from fog, ar e ex- also serve as a beacon night and da it the dunng misty or foggy weather. J ering night the balloon will be illuminate y the so that it'may be seen by tiyers ar ! pro- the location of the open and free lar fields ing space determined. DEMOCRAT WHEN THE CARIBOU TREK By Stratford F. Corbett in the Marcb Popular Mechanics Magazine !" the Yukon district of Canada and in Alaska there are thousands upon thousands of caribou, large rlendid animals defiant of man's efforts to domesticate them. So manj of them are there in fact, that herd: w miming the Yukon have interfere* with the progress of river steamers en route to Dawson City. Captan: have found, that until they pass, i is useless to attempt going aheadeven though the delay might be i matter of hours. I In l iner t lipca strange and magnificent spectacle Another great migration of a sligh Iv different nature but throwing in teresting sidelights on the habits o the caribou recently took place unde the direction of the Alaskan division of the Bureau of Education. Th lu-rii in this case was a band of 150i reindeer owned by the government and the route lay from Goodnew Bay. on the Bering Sea, to Cantwel Station in the Broad Pass district. It is interesting to note that on of the principal reasons for this raov was to take the reindeer herd, con sidered one of the finest in Alaska out of the vicinity of the annual cai ibou migrations. The reindeer i closely related to the caribou, and i permitted, they will run together an interbreed. The offspring of thi union however is no ta reindeer bu a caribou with all the nomadic insi inct of his prototype. Hence th precaution of the government aer cy . t The drive was over snowy tundr and muuntainland, the herders ni tive Eskimo. Near Bethel on th Kuskokwin River the first rest wi made. Then the reindeer, foragir as they went were driven leisurely 1 the foothills of the McKinley Mom tains, where another halt was ealle< , After four months they continue t? Mt MnVit.W Pari* o.ul fhf.n, ?ni to Cantv/ell Station. It was while resting near Beth that one of the most exciting im >- this line. at"p Tu Also my line of Sprinj hi 1 Come and see me. ?at I T. Hill *r-1 ! M^TlanlaTlafffi a fcmnEnl^anlariic K-f Lmjjjg Now is ike [f^ -I tho T are! |P to till i*U i|?| g'y Ini to make plans for yoi u*ei^ ot t| We are now prepai ing> any kind of ceili d;- |= kind of mill work, su Int'ijfi facing, etc., and can ^ short notice. hoy [Lis? 'or- 2g has |5 Remember that oui i r- dr: and we will be glad 1 ute ira" ^ look over cur stock, ake |U5 Lear std and do some real ngui i ort g] a"y Ira We still have some lu/- ?? Proof Wallboard" so ,he gd e? ipd remodeling, or buildi eak gffl Sth- p well to come around 'mit SKo wallboard. with Wei th.e his .2^ _ !;| Watauga Fur. uch ^jj dfed {Uci ac' ipn !=< f^Ti r=f! rpfl rcJU^P^ FEBRUARY 22. 192T eels in their heads. Itinera-1 moves around ihe counno little especially in North Car- BBji ? aa, anu be never passes a day in ing across the country hut a new ise of appreciation of what is ber done in this commonwealth >wds in upon him. During the wet i>\vy weeks of the winter in the tions of the hard surface or the 11 kept sand clay roads business s gone right on. Utterly impossible it for the sections mired down to ep up with these more progress? neighborhoods. The tendency is r the more progressive spirits to >ve out to the places of finer posrilities, leaving the rest to struggle in a losing fight with untoward cumstancc. We scarcely realize the changesat have come with the motor car. nee farmers spent all the day to go market, now they go in a few urs. A Ford will carry more stuff 'teen miles an hour than a two >rse wagon could take at the rate three a few years ago. Often at untry churches, not a vehicle is . > en save the motor car. The people rj e or. wheels and the good road is necessity. It costs big money and ill continue to cost, but then the ireet tax :o good roads is not to be :>mpared with the indirect tax to ad roads. Mud and sand clog the heels of progress. The wheel is .filing us on.?Christian Advocateha.'lv I I r/un j rr f Ladies' and Gents" w line to appreciate v merchandise. adies' Suits, Dresses, ouses bought with a tost fastidious dresser Knoxville will take i Department the first rnes highly recommen j1 years experience in it stores of the coun ig Hat until you see 7 Oxfords arriving too Farthing 1 c-:n] 9 SHs line 1 ir spring building. red to make oak floor- jp ing you want, do any la ch as kiln drying, sur- |g get your work out on g r motto is "SERVICER || to have you call on us ll investigate our prices, 3|g ring. H. ! sheetrock "The Fire- p if you are thinking of ing anew, it would be and examine this new p & LiimberOo. | **-=* ?=it tv ,.s|