P.fe Eight
LAST CALL FOR CABBAGE
We have secured 70 per cent for
the necessary farmers subscription
and have a good start on the list of
preferred stock to organize the proposed
Cabbage Growers' Association!
and build a kraut factory for Watauga.
The business men of the com-1
munity are interested in helping us
to make the proposiaion go. and are
very cleverly giving their financial
support. Now if the farmers want '
this, as a cooperative business, so we j
can get the full benefit from the salt I
of our cabbage, it is time to act. We
must get this business organized within
a few days or it will be too late
for this season. If we do not do this
then the proposition will be open to
private interests. The principle o? cooperating
agencies i> for the producer
to get all the benefits from the
sale of his products, the principle of
private business i> for the dealer or
manufacturer to mak- a profit on
the raw material handled. Now which
do we want?
I know men among ua who each
year p'.t their cabbng on a good
market rvan/.v nunarca pen
cent .'tore for them :t home than th?
avenge farmer of the county does.
1 have for years made practically
all that 1 grew it kraut and I usual!;.
. c f: i ?J? _ <! ;>vr com im-r?
than the general sale price of cabbag
. it I can have the factory procc
nni'iufac" re . i the Association
selling agency, the profit *.v:Il
hi : . r, and just so with each in !:
. :*!: A ? : * * will r-e th
agcM for each : whom i* represents.
i i is !- ' for *y
ds. Mr; S and I made .. trip
ia>; v. I. - f r. ' k- ry. V \v...
("ha* i"*lc
: North \Y;i
" " - prop- si: lor
' ' ' !;<i C :
'! '? ; t ' .<! or..f. . 1 i , -?v
tha| there is a great
lea mo ca ?bage and krant used
: - ;. ' ha ! tis
nd pra . every dea si
ilk- ti i . : that he lik
" ay .w ?, o i. v propo.n-i u.j
e our product and that he would
. y I<-ui us th:if
r* ? a grow % d< mand for raw
i !-i put III a
gt grade product that We would
havt t iy ami L-row c business.
Now next week is wart Let every
mar: v ; - r:* :n this !-Usi
r up with
us T<> make iT - We have to finish
?hi- - i : :or .1 . c or tju itH
\ BLAIR
B. Y. P. U. Notes
< - t'or llu- last SutnuiV in Mavch
we shall try ti discus- a missionary
meeting "Modern Missionary Movements."
Just a few . <>f Mi XT-, uf today.
The sr.try .?t the eouu' ry lying
next to the United States the
South is of interest to every American
tin- troTi.s tinitn
We can all remember the threatened
trouble with Mexico during the war,
when IVr.-hmv".- army camped op her
bordt r. 'v Y:!.u aide.! border
town-, win-1 T.'vp- .. nthusia-t< ask.-1
to hi- allowed !?? go over and invade
and i on [ia-; he country, but was not
* allow .I to >" -??. ar.d 1.. v.a.chful
waiting we had no war with Mexico.
During sin r*-ce'nt .uir all our in issue
navy work wa - interrupted in .Mexico
! \va> a-.-', s.-ary for th-. missionai;t
: in v their posts i; order -o
c.-., e. ;.. i * -
n the my : \v-t - utered there in
I ' .... a peoplo v..: h U"
erniem and many of the arts, manners
and custom- of civili.-.ati r; they
had iarge citN cultivated fields of
maze and . ?11?>i.. erected great monuments.
had considerable skill in
mathematics, had worked out for
thorn-elves a calendar, established a
government with regular laws, courts
and many of the things found in civilized
countries. The old Aztec government
was destroyed by the Spaniard
unde: Cortez, and until 1824
Mexico remained a colony of Spain.
At this time they gained their independence
and formed a republic mod
eled somewhat after the United Stats
that time the history has been
ormy one, the story of revolution
; "-_ *% : . olution, changes from repub.
empire and from empire back
^public again.
Mexico is Messed with natural resource-.
Her forest is one among the
greatest in the world. Her minerals
are very valuable, her gold mines j
being verv rich, also silver. In a sin-1
gle year gold production of Mexico
has exceeded $2 1,000,000 the value
of her silver the same year was $38\)00,000,
not only these so called precious
metals are abundant there but
almost all the minerals of modern
industry, such as zinc, tin, platinum
copper, lead and iron are found in
rich profusion.
V Next week we will learn something
about education and religious conditions
in Mexico, and the people of
Mexico.
All members will take notice that
the time of our meetings is changed
to six-thirty.
Jesus is counting on you; on a
love that will share; in his sorrow
and pain for the souls he has bought
with his life biood, and sought to win
home yet again. He's counting on
you! If you fail Him, what then?
HERMAN WILCOX
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ALLOW MACHINERY TO DECAY
American Farmers Declared to Ba Delinquent
in Their Treatment of
Agricultural Implements.
America's annual loss, due to tha
rust tag steel and lrou implements, machinery,
and tools, amounts to the astounding
total of $600,000,000. A large
percentage of this loss Is suffered by
farmers, whose machinery on the
whole Is flagrantly abused by exposure
to the weather.
Those who get the best results from
tLe use of implements, machines, and
tools keep them clean, oiled, and rust
free. Where these factory products
are properly taken care of one commonly
observes the preservative effect
of paint on buildings, gates, and other
steel. Iron, or wooden Irapro* einents.
Paint Is a form of cheap and profitable
Insurance against rust and decay.
Some critics of American agricultural
machinery say that It Is not
nearly so durable as corresponding
European machinery. The ai>gmtlon
la unwarranted. Our machinery does
not wear out In service; It ru?a out?
' in the Held and bam lot.
We do not adequately appro I ite the
durability and efficiency tfl lumber because
hk a whole we are n--t economical
and Intelligent enough to uve paint.
We can never obtalu prices for farm '
products that will make prosperous
the thousands of farmers who co- !
operate with the weather In impairing
and destroying their own prv/erty.
Fanners who do not protect their
equipment from rust and decay do not
require to follow their political counselors
to Wall Street to locate "predatory
Interests." while rust is mraging
their property at borne.?Brecdera*
Gazette.
Rata Summoned to Trial.
There are many instances record
\here animals have been rlcd as
criminals. Hulls and pig* sed of
killing a mou or child, i\. been
brought up in court and tried ke any
other ?>cdtn'?ry murderer. A "rdlng
*o the usual procedure 9 Jury
bad f and such an animal guilty It
would be banged f>r beheaded. When
ties or locusts had damaged crops and
vineyards the pests were sometimes
formally and solemnly curved from
church pulpits One of the oldest of
such prosecutions dealt \n ,th rata
which had heen doing damage in hay
stacks and bnms. The farmer* of the
district approached a local dlimitary
~n the subject, and the latter agreed
rhat the rats should be punished W
found guilty. hut that first. in common ,
fairness, they should be tried N'ot'cee
were po?fed on barns In the district
summoning the rata to appear in court
to stand trial. When they did not ajv j
| pear the lawyer who had been en Raged '
for their defense got up and pleaded j
that his clients being unable to read
aoticea ought to have been separately
warned by the police to appeur. He also
pointed out that in any caae they
could not have attended the court the
roads being so infested with cats as
to he quite unsafe for any decent rat
to travel on. Eventually the case was
dismissed.
Dark-Hued Scheol of Literature.
1h It the reaction against sugarcoated
fiction that has brought into
print so many recent novels that portray
the uncouth, e\en the vile aide of
human nature? Some critic* and essayists
say It is-. There was so much
Announcirtj
erring of
Grocen
"The Cash Grocery
of the newest business
j the procession of progi
One of the elegant
Mr. J. L. Quails will b<
The original shipm*
consist of the very best
in Staple and Fancy G
and the new store now
of the people of Boom
It is to be understoo
i-ior) will Ko Ana ntt
I* 'V?? f? III W VI 11UV
of good things is great
The business policy
explained by the firn
found that the best b
cash?best for both sel
not afraid of you, but
what is for our mutuc
You- are invited to
new line. You will be ti
tesy, and dealt with fs
The Cash
H. H. McDOl
THE WATAUGA
of tbt gentls namby-pambyism. that
ths revolting younger feneration ?f
writ era. always ready for rebellion,
seemed to cry with one voice. "We'll
show you!"
And they have shown us. not altogether
to our liking, either. As we
have tsuld before, while one la Impartial
enough to rdmlt that a spade
should be called a spa da. one doesn't
want to talk about nothing but spades.
Life and people are made up of
brightness and darkness. While the
earlier writers may have erred In
showing only the "oh. happy day** kind
of existence under the demand that
every tale should end In "then they
lived happy ever after," the life that
Is utterly sordid and even morbid la
equally unreal.
As our standards of taste still maintain
that one villain la enoagh In a
play, so we think that one or, at moat
two. are enough In *\ novel. We don't
want them all to be horrors of Iniquity.
The world Isn't ao.?St- Louis
| Globe-Democrat.
A German became tired of carryfnfj
his wn!trn?*p. or p?ylnic other? to carry
It for him. ami Invented a new type of
ca?e. It 1p circular in form and h?n a
tire around It. There la u small wheel
to act as a balance and h handle, so
that the owner can push It alonf the
street without any trouble.
t
NORTH CAROLINA, WATAUGA
COUNTY
N THE MATTER OF THE COVE
CREEK CO-OPERATIVE STORE
Notice is hereby; jrr.cn to the stocki
i r> of the Cove Creek Co-Opera|
' re that here will he a meet?
I ?I'it of the st-u ho'-'ors of -aid com.ny
rr_ he edict of the ompany a
- ear Grove \pri? 1 192.*? for
th nurpos" of pa.-siu.u- the followIntr
resolution r.doptej by the board
of direitov- of aid company.
"Kf ved that in t) judgment
of tie.- hoard it is advisable and most
for the 11 nefit of the ' -?ve Creek
' oopei ative Store that the same
hould be dissolved and to that end
it "V that a me-: ins of the
stock?:.-iders be held on the 1 1th day
>f Apr- 1 .'L'' at the office of the company
at Sugar Grove to take action
on this resolution.
' *ove Creek Co-operative Store
ny \\ m. .mam. secretary.
NOTICE
North Carolina )
Watauga County) Town of Boone.
Notice is hereby given that there
will be held in the court house in the
town of Boone, N. C. on May 8, 1923
an election for the purpose of electiv
j a mayor and three town commissioners
for said town. All voters not
heretofore registered on the registration
books of said town are notified
to register for said election.
Notice is further given that J. P.
Hodges and J. L. Winkler have been
appointed judges for said election,
and that J. D. Comic ill has been appointed
registrar for said election,
and that he will keep the books open
for the registration of voters between
the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. for
seven days before the second Saturday
before the said election the said
books will be closed.
Done by order of the board of
t?i\vn Commissioners.
E. N. HAHN, Mayor.
ni 1 r) .J to
> the Opa
New
/ Store
r Store" is the name
establishment to join
-ess in Boone.
store rooms built by
s used.
snts of goods, which
quality of everything
roceries have arrived
solicits the patronage
. I tL- .
r <tna uie countyd
thai everything carality,
and the variety
!
I
' of our house is best
i name?It has been
lusiness is to buy for
Her and buyer. We are
it is only a matter of
il advantage.
come and inspect the
reated with every cour
lirly.
i Grocery
IGALD, Prop.
I DEMOCRAT
LIGHTSHIP HAS
RADIO SIGNALS
The Nantucket. Now Under Construction,
Will Be Most
Complete of Its Kind.
VESSEL TO USE OIL IS FUEL
Mott Modern Mediums for Sending
Warnings of Danger to Mariner*
I Being Installed?Wireless
Devices Success.
Washington. D. CL?"Light resaol
No lull" Is hdmr const rurf c tl for use
I at Nantucket ahottJs. Massachusetts.
It la to be the most complete boat of
the kind to the United States and will
be an improvement on Light vessel Now
105, cow In operation at Diamond
| shea la, Cape Hat t era#, North (.Carolina.
Light vessel tl)6 la being built at the
plant of the Hath Iron works. Bath.
Me. It was launched October 21. 1922,
but Is stil! In the hands of the hulld|
er*. It Is of stee' and has a length
! over all of 131 leet 4 Inches, with a
! molded beam of 30 feet and u displacement
of 775 i?>ns and a draft of
14 feet 4 Inches In salt water. The
vessel is steam propelled, using oil as
fuel, and Is titted wltli all necessary
pumps and auxiliaries. It will have
two steel tubular masts, each surmounted
with a lantern using electricity
;>s lllnnilnnnt. operating through
a flashing device for the characteristic
j light.
M'wlcrn sanitary and heating rnnj
venlences have been provided for the
crew. Radio fog signal devices of the
, latest improved tj pe are being installed.
No. 105 Is 147 Feet Long.
Light vessel No. 105, row In oj?eratlon.
Is up to date in every way. its
.general dimensions arc: Length over
ail, 147 feet; length between perpendiculars.
121 feet 0 Inches; beam. 30
feet: depth at side, molded. 14 feet
9 Inches; moan draft (salt water), 12
feet 7 inches; displacement, 825 tons;
1UU1< ?It*U IIOI fV.
The Nantucket vessel will be a twin
to the one at Diamond sh<?a1s. It will
bear the name Nantucket In large
white letters.
The ship la of the self-propelled type,
single screw, driven by a fore-and-aft
compound engine. Stenrn will be supplied
by two hollers, using oil as fuel.
It will show a flashing light from a
JI75-millimeter lens lantern at the foremast
head; the lllumlnant being acetylene
gas, controlled by an electric
flasher operating the gas burners and
giving the light a characteristic dlatlngulshlng
It from other lights ma the
neighboring coast. This apparatus will
be In duplicate, with a lantern on each
ef the two mastheads, vo that the other
light may be used in emergencies.
Hie Nantucket vessel wtty be
equipped with a steam chime whistle,
; a submarine bell and an automatic
radio fog signal, making three distinct
fog signal1* or mediums for sending
I "
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LIST OF MEMBEF
LOAN ASSOCIAT1
I Sam Atkins
Blanch Blair
Arlie W. Brown
T. E. Bingham
George F. Blair
John E. Brown
L. I? Bingham
D. J. Boyden
Boone Water Co.
T. H. Coffey
D. J. Cottrell
C. M. Critcher
J. C. Cook
H. E. Coffey
George F. Coffey
O. L Coffey
I h r r.....
J. M. Foster
I. G. Greer
Z. T. Greene
W. C. Greer
Mrs. Ben Greene
W. L. Holsbouser
A. E. Hamby
J. P. Hodges
W. M. Hodges
A. Y. Howell
A. H. Hodges
W. B. Hodges
Russel Hodges
Ronda H. Hardin
T. W. Hampton
W. H. Hardin
S. T . Icenhour
W. R. Johnson
Dr. J. W. Jones
J. W. Lewi.
J. F. Moore
i, 9 J. T. Miller
Charles Myers
F. M. Maltha
J. A. Nelson
Ridnrd Ox en tine
Everett Pitts
J. F. Robbies
warnings of danger to the mariner.
No. 105 was the first flagship o
the lighthouse service to be equippei
on construction with the radio fo
signal.
To Have Refrigerator Plant.
The Nantucket, or No. 11*6, will b<
provided with comfortable quarter
and modern conveniences. Including ?
refrigerating plant.
The bureau of lighthouses expect:
great results from radio fog signals
and the equipment on No. 106 for tha
service will be the last word In tha
direction.
Three radio fog signal stations li
the vicinity of New York were plaoe<
In commission by the lighthouse serv
Ice May 1, 1921. these being the flrs
service Installations of the kind In th<
United States.
The system of na\lgatlon by radl<
direction signals Is based on the equip
raent of selected Important llghthous
and light vessels along the coast wltl
apparatus for sending radio signals o
simple and definite characteristics dur
lng a fog or thick weather by mean
of which a navigator provided with i
radio compass may take bearings t<
guide or locate his ship, although n
^ object is visible.
I lot r~ nmii/r mnrnr rnirri#
l.1 ol.c D?mr\o innrtiLfD inMrriv
Paris Motorbus Company Wants Us
of Stockings as Money Receptacle
Prohibited by Law.
Paris.?Dainty Parislennes may b
prohibited from carrying money li
their stockings as a result of com
plaints to the Paris Motorbus corapan;
that making change from lisle hank
on the owl busses takes the couriuc
tors' minds off their work. Since th<
all-night service Is running early rnojn
1ng busses are patronized largely b:
evening robed, fur-raped beauties re
turning from the Montmnrfre dan*
halls. Several tired, grouchy passes
gers engaged In night work cotnplaii
that the conductors give the signal t
halt while the beauties reach In thel
stock hi gs ?o pay their fares. Th
compan> Is considering forbidding fh
practice.
Has Old Wooden Skates.
Chatmcey O.?A pair of old-tltn
wooden skater made 06 years age
hat?* hoen placed on t&play In a stor
here. Harvey Nye. owner of th
skates, declares they have been us*
almost every winter since 18C7. H
said he ?xpevrted to use them tki
wistar.
Royal Heads Preserved.
The head of the late Cfca
Nicholas of Russia and these of hi
family who mat death with him a
Ekaterinburg at the hands of the ret
olutioniats are being preserved !n a
eohol In the Kremlin at Moscow, a<
cording to Oaptalo Ftrmln. chief c
staff of the Ruaalnn refugee fleet a?
?*hored at the Martvelee quarantin
station, near Manila Oaptaln Ftrrali
who aerved with Admiral Kolchak
antl-BolahevIk army In Siberia, asaer
ed that documents captured by Ko
chak troops at Ekaterinburg reveal?
that the heads of the murdered men
bars of the Russian royal f&iulMea wei
cut off and preserved In alcohol ac
the trunks of the bodies burned.
. -vlfeS
...
ts OF THE WAT AUG
[ON
W. L. Robbins
A. E. South
Estella Sherrill
W. G. Todd
J. B. Taylor
E. G. Underdowa
Roby Vines
A. P Ward
Wat. Furniture & Lbr. Co.
J. T. C. Wright
B. Rock Baptist Church
T. L. Cook
C. G. Cook
Nellie Davidson
E. B. Hagaman
Rev. F. M. Huggins
Walter Johnson
John H. Mast
D. F. Mast
Mrs. A. E. Peoples
W. Hardin Brown
a as
s*nn? i?i?o V.OOX
W. D. Farthing:
H. H. Greene
A. J. Greene
Mrs. Annie Greer
Edna Hodges
Pearil Hodges
Raymnd Hartley
Mrs. G. P| Hagaman
F. B. Hartley
H. J. Hardin
Mrs. D. F. Mast
Joe C. Mast
E. D. Robbins
WATAUGA BUILDING
D. J. Cottrall, PrMwUst
BOOIV
? MARCH 22. 1223
: SIGNS MOURN CARVER j
Aged Maker of Wooden Indian*
I Passes Away at Age of 93.
* C
8 Jamea Campbell of Bellevlllo. N.
i. Wai One of the First Wood Carvt
ers in America to Specialize
* in the Chieftain.
?
II New York. ? Every wooden Indian
? In America?and you will find a few .
of tliem here and there In front of i
* musty old cigar atorea?bowed It*}
p head in sorrow when James Campbell, [
ninety-three, was laid at rest the other!
n day In Mount Pleasant cemetery. Newh
ark, N. J.
p Cutuphell didn't create the original
J wooden Indian, but he was one of the
f first wood carvers in America to spa
ciiuize in the chieftain who uecams
n the sign of the tobacconist from coast
1 to coast.
0 His parents brought hlin here from
n Scotland nearly ninety >ear? ago. Thsy
lived on Staten island a brief while,
% then settled in Belleville, N. J.t where
/ Campbell begun and ended his work
of love?for bis craft was more than
o a mere livelihood to him.
He took huge mahogany logs, sweet-!
hearts of the Cuban sun, and chipped j
off the wood which hid the loveliness t
within. James found many beautiful
things beneath the rough hark. Flowing-lialrcd
sirens who were to grace
the prows of fast clipper ships from
Gloucester way: bearded saints later,
to be covered with gold and placed .
in dimly lit cathedrals of the western
world; and Indians?hundreds of them
bidding In their hands cigars which j
they tendered freely to every passerby, j
Janies Campbell's fame grew with
the passing years. He bad imitators, I
ave. many of them. But none could |
carve the smile on a Circe's face quite}
r as well as he; and old clipper masters'
9 felt safer If it was one of James
9 Campbell's maidens who lifted her
eyes to the spray as they beat to j
windward around the Horn. They]
stood for luck?something that comsa,1
9 you know, and can't be bought in ths |
market place.
9 There were other wooden Indiana,!
9 poor anemic creatures that lacked tba
majesty of expression which every j
. ..rn....,, ?rv?.*-. ...ii m . ** .
Ape of Innocence" no ulf-rMpectinf j
tobacconist would think of conducting 1
business without a Campbell chief to i
r bring luck to his doorway.
a Canie the day of the machine. A1
t shrewd Yankee? maybe the descend-'
r ant of the Connecticut Inventor who
I made wooden nutmegs?designed a i
, machine which could turn ont an In-!
| dlen In a day. To make matters worse,
j. ! the American merchant marine wag;
e swept eflf the seas, and his lovely la- j
n dies of the prow were no longer tn'
demand.
h |
t. . He had many offers to go Into shops
j. ' where machlnen did the work of hands.
^ ' But he was a craftaman. the kind of
n_ whom Ruskln and Morris sang. Ha
^ preferred to work the wood with his
1(j own hnnds, dreaming of beauty aa ha
blew the chips aside.
rM
A BUILDING AND
r
*
John S. Williams
G. S. Watts
Hazel Carriger
W. L. Crisp
Samuel E. Day
Mrs. W. H. Gragg
Horton Gragg
S. E. Gragg
Mrs. W. D. Gragg
John W. Greene
H. Grady Farthing
Susie Hagaman
iv. o. nodgei
E. W. Hahn
F. A. Iceahour .?
Richard R. Johnson
J. D. Loixeaux (N. Jersey)
Mrs. F. A. Linney
F. A. Linney
J. S. Miller
Ben H. Moody
Lillie G. Mast
Grace Mast
Claud L Mast
Conrad Moore
Martin Moore
Cathyrn Moore
W. L. Trrrett
R. H. Townsend
P. C. Wylce
Vertie E. Ward
H. L. Wilson
&L0AN ASSOCIATION
H. H.
rE,N.C.