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A Non Partisan Family N
VOLUME XXXV. i
mm 2300 b. c.
ARE UNCOVERED
ield L:<cavators Highly Prized
Facts Ancient Graves are Opened
and Pottery Discovered.
Philadelphia, Jan. 22.?The first
report of the joint expedition of the
British museum and the University
of Pennsylvania in the work of ex- !
cava ting at I'r of the Chaldees in
^ Mesopotamia during: the present sea-1
json vie made public here tonight
and contains interesting and important
archaeological information
of the work being performed in the '
land where history dawned. The report
was made by C. Leonard Wooly
director of the joint expedition.
The most laborious task, the report
stated, was the clearing of the!
masses of debris surrounding the ?
suggurat or staged tower. The walls
of the main structure, set up by L'r-j
Dngtir, about 2*500 B. C. are wonderfully
well preserved. In all Mesopotamia
there is no ore-Christian mon
umcnt so imposing as the ziggurat of
"Ur, the repoit stated.
Meanwhile a smaller jiroup of men
has been employed at Te!l-Kl-Obeid
a little mound >mc foui and a half
miles from the ziggurat.
"For the first time wr have been
ahlc to learn the real character of j
the site and recover in good condi-1
lion some of the astonishing works
of art which it conceals,"' said th
j report.
Uncover Earliest Graves
l*P to the present two distinct
part of the site have been attacked,
a cemetery and a building on i
which Dr. Hall worked. The graves
are probably the earliest yet found
in this country, dating from the
fifth and early fourth millennia, B.
C. and have yielded an embarrassing
quantity of object*.
"The people who were at least in 1
part Sumerian, were still using many
htonc iniplc-mentfcy but w vm noivoj
the less quit familiar with copper, |
ami had developed great skill in
hammering and easting the metal;
but ide hy side with implements
>iif fli'.it and copper we find copies of.
the - one in pottery, showing that j
both materials, being imported from!
a distance, were sufficiently valuable
to make certain people grudge]
them to the dead.
"Pottery i> fop the most part \
4 wher!made, but handmade- wares had '
not wholly disappeared and painted
pottery, recalling thai found in the]
early strata of the ruins of Susa.
was in use at the beginning of the'
period, though it seems to have been
ousted later by the plain types.
Find Complete Skeleton
"The dead were laid sometimes at
full length, sometimes in the contracted
position, many were in mere
troughs cut iii the hard soil, some
were in clay urns, oval or circular
such as continued in ust throughout
all Babylonian history. Most <>1' the
bones had decayed away, but a few
skulls and one complete skeleton
have been recovered, and should bo
of no small interest a .-evidence of
the origin of the Sumerian race.
"The building lies close to ihj*
cemetery. On the tup of the mound
are the scanty remains of a temple
put up by Dungi, the second king
of the third dynasty of Ur, who
reigned about 2250 B. C. This reI
placed an earlier building which stood
on a terraced platform of mud brie I;
about which we can only say that ii
is quite probably dates to the second
dvna.-ty of I'l. Entirely buried below
the terrace floors lies the building
which Dr. Hall first discovered. A
lucky chance has brought to light ?
tablet recording its foundation am
we learn that it was the temple o
the Goddess Xin-Khursag, set up he
King A-AN-Ni Pad-Da, king of thfirst
dynasty of Ur.
The scribes who soon after 200
B. C., drew up a list of the king
of Sumer and Akkad, have left i
on record that the kings who reigr
ed immediately after the flood wer
those of Kish?and the years of th
reigns would put Methusaleh to hi
shame; then came the second dyna.<
ty, that of Erech, marked by simiU
incredible longevity and third froi
the flood is put the first dynasty i
Ur.
^. Regarded as Mythical
This dynasty, like the two whi<
preceded it, has commonly been r
yarded as mythical. Its rulers we
assigned no more than normal lengi
of power, but nothing was knov
of them, and they were merely nam
in a list; a dead reckoning basis i
le ?
iewspaper Published in e
M-50 Per Year BOONE,
$200,000 LIQUOR
CARGO JS SEIZED
Harbor Police and Ru.nrutir.er En
Cage in Gun Battle-?Six Men Art
Captured.
New York, Jan. 22.?Three thous
and cases of whiskey, gin and chain
pagne valued at $200,000; an ocean
going tug boat valued at $50,00C
and six men were seized early todaj
by officers of the police boat Manhat
tan after a battle in New York harbor
that continued up the north riv
er to the foot of Chambers Street
No one was wounded in the exchange
of shots. Police found that the boal
vapuai a>u. 1. nan oeen capturec
twice before.
The pistol battle became a hand
to-hand fipht after the police board
ed th'* vessel, hut three men who re
mained on board were overpowered
Of the six or seven others who jump
ed from the tup and took to then
heels three were captured by offi
eers who pursued them.
The Manhattan hat! been patrolling
the low11 end of New York hay ant
had ?v*urncd to the harbor. Ofj
(Governor's Island, a boat without
'iphts was discerned in the dark
r.css and the ajiswer to a conunanr
to heave to was a volley of shots
\ -hot from a machine pun aboan
tia- police boat failed to stop tin
tup and both speeded throuph th<
darkness up the river. The Man
thr Capital pulled it; at Chamber
street and her crew attempted thei1
escape.
The six men were turned over t<
federal authorities. No guns wen
found aboard her and police believ?
they were thrown overboard.
The Capital No. 1 was seized abou
1M months ago when she was know
as the John S. McCann. Recently stv
was taken for the second time of
College Point. She is an ocean-go
ing craft of 15 tons. ^
the king list would put their dat
somewehere about 1500 B. C. ap?
Sumerian history, properly speaking
could not l?e carried back much be
yond 11,000 B. C. Tell-Kl-Oboid ha
produced not only the oldest date*
document yet known but a conteni
porary record proving the real oxi.*
ter.ee of these shadowy kings.
"To this remote antiquity belon
: the rvinnriiuhie series of objects *<
' art which adorned its walls and hav
fortunately survived to the preset'
I day, embedded in the del ris of ;h
\ fallen temple, and hermetically sea
' ed up beiow five or six feel >f th
nardest mud brick I have ever ei
ountored. Chief anjongst them at
a number of copper reliefs of cattl
The animals are represented as lyin
lions, but almost in the net t > ris
They are 11 inches higda and -
inches in length, the bonn*.- benrc
out of thin copper plates, the hea<
j cast and attached to the necks, tl
bodies in low relief, but the heat
turned to the front, stand out i>o)dl
M*riy Rich Di?coveries
"Both technically and artistical
i the reliefs show a degree of exct
| lence which would do credit to ai
age. and is quite amazing when 01
1 considers their actual date. Thou?
i the metal is completely oxydized ai
' cracked into hundreds of pieces,
i has been possible to remove the fi
; \ ures for the most part in good cc
! dition. These reliefs formed a trie
in the facade of the temple. Anoth
frieze on a rather smaller scale, w
L composed of figures of men and ox
* I carved in white stone and silhoutt
M against a background of black pas
the whole framed in copper,
^ another showed birds similarly tre
ed in black and white. One part
0 the building was dec orated with c
s per statutes of bulls, a little o
t two feet high. One would nature
suppose, that copper, imported as
e had to be, from a great distan
e | was a rarity in days when flints w
i-s j "m common use; hut the wealth
? J metal lavished in this little tem
"lis astonishing.
m | "Work is still going on on 1
>fj veritable treasure house of anci
| monuments, and further finds art
j he expected while a great c
?h] should be learned about the s"
e-?of architecture and the distribul
re of armament employed under
th first dynasty of Ur. But already
rn a short space we have recovc
es more than the most optimistic w<
>n have hoped to secure in a season.
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tfattgE
ind for Boone and Wataug;
WATAUGA COUNTY NORTH CA
"WAY DOWN SOUTH"
l (W. A. Watson.)
f A.- my winter quarters are in
ida your leaders will expect me to
. follow the trend of the times and
L tell them about the different towns
and cities here.
This article and little write-up will.
he about Panama City, which is lo
< d rifcht or. the Gulf of Mexico. |
- This is the capitol or county seat
1 of Bay County, so it is a little mecca
' for the balance of this county, and
as you all know the citizens iu the,
- mecca expect, the balance of her cit- {
- i/.ens to fall down and worship at i
her feet?just so?this is how I find '
' Panama City.
t Panama in a way is built up by
I th? general funds of Bav Countv.
j . ^ ?i at the present are building
stieets and roads out and all around j
through the county.
The most notable buildings here
are the Bay County court house
which is :i fine one. I believe Florida
has put it over on North Carolina
in their style of architecture
as i heir court house looks more on
' the model of church the best I can
1 see and reason it out.
The second noted building of this
H place is the High School of Panama
-Icity. it very beautiful indeed and
' truth. But the most famous and his-!
! torical building I have seen here v.-a: j
1 a building erected by a nephew of I
"Old John Brown" of slavery andj
Civil War fame. It overlooks the |
" I Gulf of Mexico a.id is in good condi- j
' lion and order and seems to stand 1
s nt like the pyramids of Kgypt and
'"weathers every storm as t he years I
i corne and ^o.
'' Another feature of this place will j
i% j M>me day be the artistic home of a
L> rich family who are making artifi-j
j rial works of all kinds about to set |
1 off the place.
1 Panama City is just in the making
^ as she is a new-born city struggling!
for supremacy in Bay County which j
' ! believe she will obtain. Nevertheless!
i all the towns around her an- moving
' right along beside her.
eS This country for miles around is
* j railed "Satsumaland" which means
r' | it is adapted to the growing of a
" j new variety of oranges called the
h | Sat sum a orange?a cross of fruit
: from Satsuma, Japan, which is BurI
banked with the native orange, hence
a new variety c?f oranges is the result
! The weather here is tempered oy
gulf stream and is very much
' suitud for the Satsuma industry, but
1 listen, the weather reports all around
. Florida, Georgia. South Carolina and
" ! even western states went down to
" i zero and some places several degrees
?! below, but they all say the Satsuma
? ? 1?t i *. U .. . ... ,.l.iwr..
Ul'UUgt'?- WllllMIHIU lliv nuuuvil
!
; 111 temperature.
1' j Of course smudge fires were kept
burning in lots of large groves in or|
der to defeat the frost and freezes
"* j from destroying the fruit and trees.
,n My next article will be on Mel3"
ville and Bay Harbor, which wil
**' come out in an earlv issue of this
is
paper.
(Note: 1 would like for a1.! pro
gressive citizens of Boone to sent
me scenic views and post cards o:
Training School and noted places a:
^ | some of the people here want t<
nc j come to the Land of the Sky in th<
summer.)
nd
it ENOUGH CARS TO CARRY AL1
There are enough automobiles ii
ijt~
! the United Sates to carry ever;
,n" i man. woman and child at one tim<
jze j With some 1 ,'1,000,000 caps regi.ler
j tered. including busses and truck:
j this would mean only about eigh
1 persons to eacn amu.
The average price of an autc
bile today?about $750?brings th
te,! ownership of a car within the incom
yet | of almost every family. In 192
at_ more than 2,500,000 cars were mat
. ufactured and the 1023 produetio
was close of 4,000,000. Januar;
?P" 1924. sees the automobile industi
ver the largest in the country.
l!'; ; And writes H. Clifford Brock aw
* 11 i the Popular Science Monthly, thei
ice' j is no such thing as the "best car t
ere | the market. It is safe to say th;
in i practically every 1924 model is re
>Ple sonably near in value to the pri?
set on it.
this
ent
i to "I am not strong on arithmetic
lea! said the cow. "but I can add to t
tylc bank account of the man who ow
tion me. I can subtract from the prim
the pal of his mortgage. I can multif
r in his chances for success. I can divi
?red his cares and worries. I can gi
mid more interest to his work. I can d
" count his chances for loss."
a
a County, the Leader of
KOUNA, THURSDAY JANUARY 5
WHAT ARE FARM BOYS
LEARNING IN HIGH SCHOOL
Things that wiil triable* them to
solve for themselves the complex
problems of freight rates on farm
products?
Thing - that will enable them to
work out their own co-operative organizations
through which they may
secure the advantages of pooled resources?
Things that will enable them to put
a quality of products on the market
as will secure the highest prices and
stimulate wider uses of the products?
Things that will enable them to
take advantage of credit facilities
provided either as individuals or organizations?
Things that will enable them to
grow the things on their farms that
they should grow because of market
demand and suitability of their farms
for growing the products?
Things that will enable them to con
rol the pests which periodically bring j
ruin upon farmers in certain local 1-'
tie at
Things that will enable them to i
vote intelligently on matters of pub-'
lie social or economic concern?
Things that will enable them to secur
legislation in State or Nation
that will protect them from unfair
competition? j
Things that will enable them to
produce so cheaply that the public
will buy hoax ly at a price that will
still bring a reasonable profit?
Those involve questions that the
farmers of today are facing and th<
f:i rm of the fuLuri* must face, i
Will the future farmer trust tile
generosity of other groups to solve
his problems or will he study those j
problems anil work out hi- own salva- j
I tion":
Vocational agriculture, under the
best trained group of teachers working
in the rural schools today, offers j
I a means of studying these problems.
| Are you profiting l?y it?
I COVE CREEK NEWS ITEMS
Miss Ethel Wilson has gone to the
Johns Hopkins hospital foi X-ray
examination and probably an operation.
She was accompanied by Mis-ses
Hattie and Ruth Bingham.
Messrs Carl Henson and L. A. Hays;
of Kingsport, were visitors here for
a few days last week.
Mr. Walter Bingham has been siek
for sevei 1 days and is still unimprovbdanjiMmm
Several of the students ??f the
High School attended the basket ball
game in Be one on Friday night between
the Appalachian Training
School and Crossnore.
The equipment for steam heat is
now being installed in the Cove Creek
Baptist Church. The building is exI'
i^ected to be ready for use in a
short while.
j Work is progressing nicely <?n the
I Willovvdalo Baptist church. The plan
I i includes four Sunday School rooms
and a commodious auditorium,
t Mr. John H. Mast has almost cumIpleted
the installation of the electri. ol
nlnnl Hn to he able to
furnish lights by the first of Februs
arv- iMSfe M 9
y Mr. A. .1. Payne, well known lilt
insurance agent is attending the annual
meeting of his company in Rich
mond this week.
Rev. Brittain pastor of the Moth
n odist church visited the school anc
v conducted chapel exercises on Fridaj
The present enrollment of th<
J ehool is 280, 07 of whom are in th<
high st hool department. The averagt
attendance has been exceptionally
good.
Mr?. T. C. McBride of Washingtoi
e College was here for the burial o
t. her father Mr. Ifinley P. Mast.
WALKS 1 5,OCO MILES
GET AN EDUCATIOI
is
' Wayne Waters, senior in Gosh
^ academy. Baptist mountain schoo
; near Newport. Tenn. has walked 1
1,11 miles daily for eight years in order t
complete his course of study, Pro
>n R. L. Marshall, principal, announce;
a' The boy lives five miles from th
a school and has walked the distanc
ce twice daily or more than one-ha
the distance around the world, :
quest of knowledge. He has made
good record, rarely missing a class
he
The home agents on the staff i
ci- the state College and Department <
>lY Agriculture carried out a progra
de of organized work in 936 commur
v'c ties, they visited 11,387 homes, h;
is- 43,319 people to call on them in t
office during the past year.
lit 0JCT
T _ ?1 . xi . 1 l
rfortnwestern iNortn. ^aroJi
'4, 1924. 5 Cls. aCopy
PRIZES CLASSED AS LOTTERY
BY A fTORNEY GENERAL
Then hat- been so much discussion
rcionLy :n rcgutd to the limits tot
which -i business man t say go in of
faring: prizes to his customers that |
w? pn> the following from the Statesvilu
Daily along to the merchants
and others who by chance might b<
interested.
The Greensboro Merchants* Association
asked Attorney General Manning
"What law, if any, prevent a
merchant from giving a coupon or
ticket voth each purchase which entitles
him to a chance on a prize to
be given away to the holder of the
winnir.fr number at the close of the
period of time," and "If the payment
of S2~? license fee in accordance with
section 53, revenue act of 1923, exempts
him from prosecution?" In j
answer to this according to a dispatch
from Greensboro to the Charlotte
Observer, Judge Manning wrote:
"The scheme outlined in your letter
is plainly a lottery and all lotteries
are forbidden by criminal law - of the
State. Xo license tax could legitimate
this project."
This opinion of Attorney General
Manning ought to be of interest in
every town in the State. Statesvilh ;
included, where this plan has been I
used. It is believed that in most J
cases where merchants have used i
this method of increasing their sales
they were ignorant uf :ts being a vi-!
elation of the law. An impression
l a been that tic. method was not a J
violation of the law but that to ad-j
vertisc the fact in a newspaper or;
in any other medium circulating
through the mails was a violation of
the Federal law. Recently there
have he 'n so many merchants resorting
to this scheme that merchants!
associations and others have been j
looking: into the legality of it. Judgei
Manning's opinion to the Greensboro
Association leaves no doubt, as to
what he thinks.
LENOIR-HICKORY CONCRETE
ROAD IN NEXT LETTING
Lenoir News-Topic.
The contract for building the hard
surfaced road between Lenoir and
the Catawba county line will be let
Thursday January :>1, according to
announcement given out Friday by
the state highway commission. The
contract for this time will be for 11? i
' miles terminating at the Catawba
river.
This is the road for which Caldi
well count\ has provided a bond is-j
: sue of $500,000. In providing this
j fund in an effort to secure building
| of this road at an early date the loi
: road ot: . lals have the understandJ
ir?? that it is to be of the best type
! <>: hard surface now being put down
' the State. The type of road is
asphalt with concrete base.
Some question about the location
: of i he road ha come up since high]
way engineers made the survey in
the fall. The survey favored at. that
: time followed the old road very
closely from Lenoir to a point about
three miles south of Granite Falls.
From the Philadelphia school house,
, below Granite Falls the new survey
led to the right of the present road
{ and followed an easy grade to thr
Catawba River. The river was cross
. ed at a point just below cliffs. Fron
I that point the new survey kd bad
- into the present road in the edge ot
Hickory.
NATIONAL WEALTH HAS
DOUBLED IN TEN YEARS
^ "The doleful chorus of Broadway'
? big hot-. . and restaurants will una
I wer the question of prohibition's sue
cess or failure." Bishop Thomas Nich
; otoson el New York, President of th
sj Anti-Saioon League of America dt
dared in addressing it^ annual cor
v vontion.
i, Citing the prosperity of hanks, lit
0 ] insurance companies and the dccreas
,o I in unemployment in answer to th
f. question "is prohibition a failure?
s. ; Bishop Nicholson declared that "?
' - - " ' ?- 1 1 . L- 1.
le Climax it an. in?- nauunm weaun 11.
e just about doubled in ten years an
If the major part of the increase hi
in been during the past five years,
a Senator Fess of Ohio, told tl
league that bootleggers in the n;
tiona! capital where laws are mac
should be "drastically dealt with
i>f adding that "the situation marks tl
of immediate duty of Congress."
m
li- The home agents report that
ad a direct result of work done wi
he young people 20 boys and 5."> gii
entered college last year.
at
na.-Established in 1 888
NUMBER 3.
rriis from the ~
tr aining school
Items of Interest Gathered From
The School and the Town at
Large.
Boone is again m the grip of frigid
temp ratuje. The mercury has
stood sit four or trior*? below zero,
and the mountain forsts are clothed
in the marveiously beautiful, concealed
moisture, a thine of never wearying
delight.
Dr. Fredrick D. Losov. Shakesperean
reader and lecturer of NewYork
was with the town and the
Training School the past week for the
filth annual series of lectures, appearing
in four numbers: An Interpretation
and leading of Othello;
The Unity and Solidarity of Humanity;
showing from biology, socialogy
commerce and civics that the nation
is not simph an organization, out
al.-o in the truest sense an organism
in which each community and each
individual has a necessary place: and
?: t- i
? m ?tv> * fTgWj i> .hiuii); uiuuj;i'iiui
lecture on the beauty and moral qua!
ity of language Developing Wordsworth*
^ idea that language is the incarnation
of thought, the speaker said
"Lang tin tatY of thought."
Tie convincingly presented the idea
that profanity is not simply a moral
but also our intellect ua! problem:
profanity reveals intellectual poverty
Friday evening there was a double
header basket ball gam*?Mountain
to 33 in favor of the home team;
New land v->. lioone Public School?
23 to 2b in favor of the visiting
team.
t our correspondent has been sick
in bed foi some days, but is up again
It is almost worth being sick to see
how kind and considerate folks are.
So hen's sincere appreciation for
eigjl kindness.
A thought a word, a deed so kind
Just how worth while they make the
days,
They lure new courage to the soui
And clear the stones from roughened
a ay.-.
J. IS DOWNTJM.
WITH THE. LOCAL |
CHURCHES
METHODIST CHURCH
Minuay okwiw (nu?m.t?y ?t It? ?ni.
J. B. Steele Superintendent We
I begin on time and pu;f on time- Last
Sunday vu had a great .school but
I we expect a better one.
Preaching at iln. m. and 7 p. m
| by the pastor. Heir- those services
j :o start on time.
I Epworth League at p. m.
Wednesday prayer service at 7 p.
| m.
A welcome is extended tv? all.
! Watauga Pastorale Church Directory
Holy Communion. Saturudv 2 p.
m. Light brigade, Mrs. Perry Towrs|
sendl Superintendent. 3 p. m. Woman
Missionary Soeity, Mrs. W. P. Town|
sml. president. Sunday School 9:45 a.
. jm. E. A. Townsend. Superintendent.
11 a. m. morning worship, Rev. H.
, W. Jeffcoat, pastor.
J Mt. Pleasant, 10 a m. Sunday
,! School, .Jacob Burkett, Supt. Luther
. League 2:.??0 p. m. Light Brigade or?
?' Friday afu-ruoon at - p. m. at the
parsonage.
Mt. Zior? Jo a. in. Sunday School
Wm. Winebarg\: Superintendent.
11 a. in. I iLeague, Ed Lookabill,
President,
sj Gract?Boom'?Sunday School lb
. a. m d:15 Luther League. The pub
- lie is cordially invited to these seri-i
vices.
e j
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH
j. j Sunday School 10 a. m. W. Tt
Gragg, Sr.pe rir.tendenX.
e Preaching J1 a. m. and 7 p. m.
^ B. V. P. I . at 0 p. vn.
Prayer service and ehoii practice
7 p. m. Wednesday.
Subject of sermon Sunday morning
"Coveteousness."
, Next Sunday rs also the tame tor
iu . .
our quarterly communion.
You are extended a cordial invitation
to attend these services.
F. M. Huggins lost a bunch of keys
I with name attached on a metal plate
He would appreciate getting: them.
le
Forty-eight club encampments
and club ralies were held by farm
as and home agents in 31 counties last
th year. There were 2.819 girls, 1,628
rls boys and 5,617 visitors present on
j these occasions.
I