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I A Non-Partisan Family i VOLUME XXXV. I' ????? I News Items t From Ih Interesting News Items ai Our Correspondent! tions of tl Valle Crucis A delightful basket picnic was en I joyed on Saturday afternoon by the three Episcopal Sunday Schools of Chapci of the Holy Cross, Dutch Creek and St. Johns, and many of the friends of the Methodist church and other denominations, on the lawn of the Episcopal chapel. Table? were spread under the trees and laden with a tempting- picnic repast, winding up with cones of ice cream for everybody. The Banner Elk Band under the leadership of Mr. Hord Thomas contributed music for the occasion. A number of friends from Banners Elk were present. The rector. Rev. J. P. Burke announced at the evening service that he wanted to make this an annual picnic. The young people of the valley have been enjoying a series of social events for the past week. On last Thursday night a marshmallow toast was uiijuji'u aL mv ichiil' ?H >HI. U. * C. Mast on Cove Creek. On^ Friday night Misses Gladys Taylor and Anne Morctz pave a delightful party at the home of Miss Moretz. On Saturday night Misses Susie and Annie TayiT entertained and on Monday nig!:1 Misses Lucy Most and Alice Taylor gave a party at the home of Miss Taylor. At the latter party all the guests wore costumes of children under twelve years of age and much fun was had by the comical appearance of grown peopfc hi child:en's clothes A party of twenty five boy scouts under the leadership of Mr. Brown from Harnett County arc campir.g at Warren Park. Miss Mary Newman trained nurse of Chattanooga. Tcr.n. is a guest at Mr. J. M. Shull's. Mr. Walter Spainhour of Morganton is a guest at the home of his . brother Mr. P. G. Spainhour. 9 Mrs. Arthur Mast gave a party Tuesday night in honor of the birthday of her husband. Many of the bet ter people of the community were present and delicious refreshments of ice cream and cake were served. Misses Gibson and Woodruff, oi Tennessee, are the guests of Misses Susie and Alice Taylor. The Community Club held an interesting meeting at the school house on Monday night. A community fail was uiscussca and it was vou-o tc have a fair in October. At the close 7* of the meeting a social hour was on joyed. Songs were sung and refreshments served. Foscoe Mr. Walter S'null died Monday it tXv t>ie hospital &t Shulls Mills. He hat an operation and never recovered. We were pleased to have our olt friend and Methodist preacher Wille Simson of Johnson City with 11s i if j) few days. He rode the circuit her mh, in 1870 and 1872. He is 78 years olt now and as joily as ever. He preach ed here Sunday night. The Rev. Wag Ki/>. ner came with him. He preached onKji. sermon which was greatly enjoyed. Mr. Leander Morris and wife o Arkansas are spending the summer ii Li-ft, Watauga. Mrs. Morris (Maggie Floyd) is vit cXr iting her aunt, Mrs. Patrick at hull (SEA trill. Qk. nit... ntklij Mnn Wolli. IXIAAlliS- '?iV)V ? lOtVCU i'l 1 <rr> imivci at Foecoe. She is as ever the swee little Maggie Floyd. Carrie Waters visited at the horn of Mr. George Robbing Saturday an visited the hospital. Mrs. Baiber Hartley^ of Blowin Rock and her nurse Miss Ward wer there. Mis. Hartley j& getting on fin< Miss Alena McCain came down fc a short visit from Blowing Rock Sut day Mr. .iames Shoun of Shulls Mil recently caught a rainbow trout 2 inches long and 6 inches wide an | y several bass in Watauga River nei the head. Tbe Foscoe Sunday School is ge ting ready for their trip to Linvil text Sunday. If any of our frieni would like to join us and have good time, come on, we would 1 pleased to have you. )& Wk Siewspaper Published in a SJ.50 Pei Yew BOONE, i * is iveportea iral Watauga i Reported Each Week by i in the Several Sectie County j Mabel The school started here Monday. ine teacners are Mr. Lewis Reese, Misses Jennie Mast, Pearl and Rutfc Bingham. We are glad lo have them with as and are wishing them the best of luck which we are sure they are going to have. Mr. Roe Warren from Butler Tennessee spent the week end with home foiks. Married on iast Sunday morning at Trade. Tonn. Mr. Fred Fletcher to Miss Bina Eggers, both of Mabel. Rev. Brittain the Methodist pastor performing th ceremony. Congratulations to the young couple. Mrs. Link Culver and little son T. L. Junior havg ceturned home from Butler where they have -been visiting relatives for the past Week. Mr. A. W. Smith and family were over Sunday. Mr. W. M. Thomas spent the week end vith home folks. Mrs. Emmit Wilson and children from Sutherland are visiting Mrs. > J B. Jackson. * i Mrs. Sarah Davis has heen visit | :np her daughter Mrs. L G. Hodges j of Blowing Rock. A game of base ball was played here Friday week between Butler, Tenn. and Cove Creek, also one Saturday between Elk and Cove Creek. Cove Creek being the winner of both games. Meat Camp ~ Rev. Griggs of Todd preaced ?t the Methodist church on last. Sunday. The pastor Mr. Williams was gost to some other-place. Mr. Sam Morris of Riddles Fork attended services here SundayMr. A. W. Hodgson visited his parents in Ashe last week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wagoner and little boys of Kingsport Tenn. are visiting relatives here. We are glad to see them and hope they will come again. M>. \Y. A. Protfit has purchased i for himseii an Oldsinobile right from I the factory. Mr. Olin Winebarger has taken uy ' his school work at Tamarack as prini cipal. Mrs. Wm. Winebarger is still very - sick woman. Mr. G. G. Stephens of lower Meat Camp attended services here last Sun i day. Come again Grant, i Aunt Jane Hodgson is visiting hei nepnew Mr. Albert Hodgson. There has been announced a quar teriy meeting at the new Methodisl church on next Sunday. Of course, t i cordial invitation is extended to all After having spent several week: . | at the home of her aunt Mrs. Bessii IProffit, Miss Ola Moretz ha3 returnet to Yuma. Mrs. Poley Moretz of Boone visit i ed relatives here last Sunday. e ; 1 Deep Gap - Too late for last issue. e The Deep Gap Tie and Lurnbe Co.; of this place is pushing thei f railroad to eompletion justr as fas r' as they can ar.d by the time this i printed will perhaps have reachei H their goal on the last lap and lin] s of the project near the Daniel Moon14 Trail Highway. * Mrs. Cordis Wellborn has bee: very much indisposed for scvera WWA.&, uu? we nuj.H5 tne guuu iaay v*u d soon improve to her normal healt a grain. 8 There seems to be some "red eye * stuff going again on the highway an ' court is on the way, so the Wilke ,r traffic men had better keep their 1 quid in Wilkes it they want to be i a zone of safety. 's It has been a season of rainy wet '? tber in this section, and it secm3 tb ^ crops have had an abundant supp! ir of water and everybody is wantin to see Old Sol shine again. t_ Mr. C. M. Watson, patrolman < 'e this section of tbe highway is doin is some good work in the way of n 9 pairs, and will soon put a new coj te of gravel in the weak places on tl rood. : . " ? / nd for Boone and WataugE WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAI (rainmaker gets thousand!j j DOLLARS PER inch for RAIN I Lo? Angeles?Rainfall is Mecdf]; to make nature flourish. It also has j brought prosperity to Charles M. 1 Hatfield, man of science or fortune j fukir. according to one's individual! opinion. Rainmaker . Hatfield ha?* recently been washed into the limelight again |! on the crest of eight inches of pre- j1 cipitation which descended in arid ji district in central central California i ( just as he said it would. Because he either guessed rightly' 1 or aided nature in turning on the I 1 faucets of the skies Hatfield is eight' ! thousand dollars richer, that being 1 the amount promised him by the distraught ranchers of the San Joaquin ' valley districts should his assurances l be fulfilled. i For tveny years Hatfield has been doing this same thing?contracting to produce any desired minimum of raisn i wherever needed during periods of ' drouth?and never once has he failed to make good, lie says. < Belilvers say that Hatfield posesses the secret of teasing the clouds * to get together atx! deliver the moisture. Skeptics say he is merely lucky, i The son of a San Diego county 1 rancher, Rainmaker Hatfield took up his study of the skies in his early 20s. He was a sewing machine salesman raveling about the country behind a horse in an old buggy. He used tc see the storm clouds gather, and kept j wondering why tbey answered nature's call and were so heedless of j man's desires. j Then Hatfield dabbled in ehem icais and in his study he says, hit upon the mixture* that makes rain. No on' knows what formula he uses. Those who have been permitted to j approach the high scaffold which the j rainmaker uses on which to mix hisj | solution in large pans which the whole mess has a terrible smell. That i is as much a? anyone except Hatfield knows about it. <1No rain, no pay," is the contract which Hatfield signs. Even the most dubious admit that it is a just one. One thousand dollars an inch is his price, set when he first started rainmaking and it has never varied. His biggest cleaning was made in Alaska back in 1906. There was a long drought there and the placer mines needed water to pan their dust Hatfield was called to see what he could do, and the miners put up a ten thousand dollar purse, it rained , rivers and he came back with the cash. Two years ago Italy sent for the ( Rainmaker and he set up his pans near Naples. Southern Italy was j flooded. Hatfield was hailed as a he-j , ro. Newspapers bannered his success; he was given the title of doctor and 1 a good cun? for what he was credited over the whole of Italy with pro-; ducing. Hatfield guarantees a minimum but he does not designate a maximum. I . This fact brought him disaster in San t Diego in 1916. The Moreno dam, i which holds the water supply for San Diego was nearly dry. The Rainma? ker went down, installed his meter? priogical mixture of mystery?and i the dam washed out. It rained forty j ipa?hp9 in ^.tfCtions c? the conn . ty, Hatfield says San Diego promised him a large sum- He filed suit for that amount and was greeted by a eounter action demanding damages for the flood. The dispute haa never been settled. Everyone admits, tho. r that it rained. r Hatfield lives near Los Angeles, t Re is a mild man, easy to talk to, s and has' all the quiet manner of a d student and scientist. He does not try k to convince people that he possesses e the secret of rainmaking. He merely signs contracts to do so when any n section that is drought-sricken is in il need of water. U h AMERICAN LEGION MEETING ?? d Tliere will be a call meeting of the s Watauga Post American Legion Fri. i- night July 26 at Cove Creek School n house. All veterans are urged to be present. The adjusted compeni shtir.n will hp rlisru <%?*?> ri ami othpr it important matters. y s METHODIST CHURCH Sunday School at 10 a. nr. ? Preaching at 11 u. m. and 8 p. m. e- Epworth League 7:15 p. m. it Wednesday prayer service 8 p. m. ie A cordial welcome is extended to ail. l County, the Leader oi i *OLl?A, THURSDAY JULY 17, 1 COSTS TO RIDE IN AUTOMOBILE Laut Year North Caroline People Burned Caiolioc to the. Amount of $45,000,009.00 in 2*5,000 Cars. RALEIGH. July 15.?Not countvg the costs of oils, repairs and eqiipment it cost automobile owners md tourists in the State of North Carolina $53,723,750.87 to operate heir motor driven vehicles during: the rear ending July 1, 1924. according to a compilation of figures obtained from the automobile department of the secretary of state. This amount includes the money -pent for gasoline at 23 cents per gallon, the state gasoline tax and :he license fee charged by the state. During the year the secretary of <tate licensed 285,cut! motor vehicles including 260,001' passenger cars 25,000 trucks and 1.400 motorcycles rhese 285,000 vehicles consumed, the r ampliation shows, 198.092,770 galions of gasoline ajjich netted the date a tax of 3,979.855.40. The gasoline burned in the running of these passenger cars, trucks ind motorcycles and also tourists motor vehicles cost $45.768,337 10, basing the cost of gasoline at 23 cents per gallon the average prevailing rate throughout the state for the tisca! year ended. The addition of the two cents tax increased the c?-t to $49,718,192.50. Thr Income from the gasoline and tax and the license fees for automobiles brought the state the sum of $7,955,513.77. The automobile fees amounted to $3,975,658.37 which was $4,197.07 less than the gasoline tax. Good roads are responsible for the big increase in the purchase of motor vehicles us well as for the big sum expended for the operation of the cars it was said. The expenditures increased considerably when the cost of repair work, oils, tires and other necessities arc taken into consideration. FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB Mrs. H. L. Wilson was hostess at ihe last meeting of the Friday Afternoon Ciub. A patriotic program had been prepared. Riley's Old Glory was most effectively read by Mrs. E. S. Coffey. ''The Song of ihe Flag" read by Mrs. O. L. Hardin was greatly en joyed. In che red white and blue void contest that followed Mrs. B. J. Coun cill excelled, and Mrs. Wilson presented her with an attractive silk flag The hostess was assiseld in serving refreshments by Mrs. M. P. Crkehei Mrs. David Greene and Miss Louise Critcher. Covers were laid for twenty four. Dainty place can's added to the attractiveness of the talies, and carried out the pretty color scheme as did also the flag favors. The plates also carried out the color scheme, red white and blue cream and cake following a most tempting salad course. Besides the club nvemhers Mrs Tom Forest of Greensboro, Mrs. Weber of Danville, Va. and Miss Woos ley of Durham were sharers in Mrs Wilson's hospitality. The next meeting of the club wil' be held with Mrs. Woosley. "That new recruit must have beet a bookkeeper." "Why?" "Well, I saw him trying to put < bayonet behind his ear." TRIPLETT NEWS The rainy weather has got farmer badly behind with their work. Rev. Levi Greene filled his regit | lar appointment at Mount Ephriar Saturday and Sunday. i There will be a box supper at Ml : Ephriam School house Saturday nigh j ,'uly 19th, the proceeds will go t : Virgil Cox to send his wife to a hos \ pital as he is in a needy condition | He and his wife and one of his chil dren are sick. Everybody invited Girls come bring boxes; boys brin your pocket books. Let's help in good cause. There was singing at Mr. J. V Walker's Sunday evening. The rain has continued until th wheat crops are damaged badly. School begins Monday mornin with a Mr. Brinkley of Cove Cree as principal. Some of our boys went to Cot j Creek Saturday and played ball. The j .ire *ii uuv.n here n,e 26th. motr Northwestern North Carol; ?24. 5 Cti. aCopji [happenings at the summer term J. F. SpAinhour Aroongr thctf.' Who j Have Delivered Helpful Adldreicei to A. T. S. Student Body. Mr. Sbuford Duckworth, a eou in of Dr J. D. Rankin of the Training School and a friend isited Dr. Rankin | the pa>t week and were at thee school looking over the plant. J Miss \\ haley, representing the Red 1 Cross was at the Training School on , | the 11th and talked to the student-; j teachers in regard to the important i I work of this great organization. Hon. J. F. Spoinhour of Morganton fi was at the school or the 10th ! and made a most thoughtful and impressive address on the responsibility of the teachers and the State in regard to children "and schools of the j state. He also brought forward the proposition that when teachers shall have taker, a certain specified course preparatory to their work they he licensed as teachers just as doctors, lawyers and other professions are. He believes and impressed the fact that the public schools are not the nlaco to teach vocational subjects, that this should be reserved for the higher Institutions. He insisted that the old school law should be abolish-1 ed and a new law passed making sev-1 eral important changes. Among these i to lessen the work required of the | state hoard of education and the com j plication of Certification and allow j ! much of the fund used here to go I to improving the schools. He strongI iy impressed his'belief that these mat ters arc worth while and should he heeded. Me has Riven a clone study to these matters, having been a successful teacher himself for years and who knows but that he is fully right in his conclusions, They arc worth considering. Prof. J. A. Williams of Burlington and now a teacher in the summer ! term of the Training School .talked at the Baptist church on Sunday on the obligation and necessity of work for every one from the Savior's word "I must work," etc. He made it evij dent that everyone must work if | they meet the requirements of the scriptures for their own good and for the goo<t- of others. WARRANT .ISSUED. FOR. MAN SUPPOSED TO BE SPECIALIST About four weeks ago a stranger appeared at Mrs. Mattie Harmon's, a widow and after looking at her eyes toid her she would be paralyzed mi her head unless she bought glasses from him ar.d a treatment which he would Iurnisr from his eye hospital in Charlotte. Said he was Dr. Walker of Charlotte was a Mason, and j did convince her son O. .1. Mannar. 1 that he knew something of Masonry. , and on the strength 01 this he sold her some glasses and the treatment to be tarnished from Charlotte in a week. i Tuesday ol this week as Dr. A. W. ; Dula of Lenoir and W. J. Horton, of Ferreil, Pa. were passing Vilas, . Mrs. Harman waved them down and told them of her trouble and how use - less the glasses were and asked Dr. . Dula to fit her, and toid of others that, he had charged as much as $10 I and as Mrs- Harman was a widow and her husband a Mason he only charged her $30.00. Dr. Dula has telegraphed the chief 1 of police in Charlotte about^his man and is setting the law ir. shape to catch him, who is evidently the same 1 kind of man who eamc through here two years ago and got as high as $300 from some for miraculous treatment and glasses which never carae 3i A warrant has been sworn out foi this man. and Dr. Dula says thai the N. C. Optometirc Society wil pay a reward of $25 for informatior as t ohis whereabouts so that he maj " be convicted for swindling. It is lik 1 ely that the name given was a fic 0 titious one as no such Dr. Walkci is registered in the Clerk's office hen ' as required by law, but his method: of course will be the same anywhere ' Mrs. Harman says he was about fivi g feet ten inches tall, weight abou 8 190, dark hair and eyes, clear com plexion with sandy mustache and ha< ' a foreign accent. His companion wa decidedly foreign dark ar.d smaller. .e ? Box Supper k There will be a box supper at th 'e Bamboo school house on .July 26 fc :y be benefit of the ball team and tb school. I ina.? Established in 1888 NUMBER 28. 4 many"arrests ~ made locally Cc-unty Jail Pr?c4ic*.lly Filic<J WithI Violators of the Federal Prohibition Laws and Other Statutes. Up until just prior to the fourth of July there hud been but one arrest made during the few weeks Ex Sheriff Moody had been holding down the job of Chief of Police, and Mr. Moody had been heard to remark many timer, about the excellent behavior of the boys around town. But just as things were sailing along so smoothly, and the sheriff had no doubt abort decided that his position was too easy, the glad and glorious fourth comes along, and with it the usual quota of "red-eye" The first arrest came on the 4th, and from that the policeman, assisted sometimes by the Sheriff of the county.and Deputy George Hayes, began a systematic round up of the offenders, the highest number ir: jail at any one time being 21. A few have been bailed out from time to time, but at present about. 18 are still boarding with Jaiier Hayes. Not all of the offenses were committed right in the town, nor were | all those arrested boys of this place. I They came from as far away as Charlotte to fall into the carefully iaid nets of the local officials, and the luckless ones included the pilots of the high powered cars as well as the "Lisixie." Five arrests were made for SlM-pHintr fc\Vc. for- ntwlf flucKinn all the others had to do with the liquor traffic in one way or another, from having: a fev. drinks in the stom ach to transporting a gasoline can of i'he liquid in an auto. Business has been so rushing with the officers that we cannot give this week an accurate list of the offenders and the crimes committed. Never before in the history of the town have the citizens shown such a spirit of cooperating with the author! itios in putting down lawlessness. I Chief Moody has unlimited support it seems, and intends to do his duty, j as tie all those associated with him J in the execution of the law. It would appear that at present Boone ni ght j be the wrong place to get gay. The j speed Jaws and those governing the passing of worthless checks will be more strictly enforced in the future. Cow Leg Blown Through Mule is Cyclonic Freak Columbia S. C. The tornado is one of the most terrific forces known to nature, as can he shown by recIords on file with the state relief head quarters of the American Red Cross j at Columbia which has on file many i instances of the freakishness of the whirling winds of April 30. These records show heavy objects blown about, dwellings demolished and little trace of them found, great trees shat tered as if by large charges of dynamite and a stieet car blown off !the track. A new threshing machine, propI ci ty of J. W. Jackson near Horatio Sumter county, was destroyed and pcactically-no trace of it has been found Mr. Jaclcsnn*s substantial two story dwelling was demolished and he has been unable to find where the upper story went to and only about 200 bricks of two massive chimneys remain. Near Dixiatia Lexington county, a , 1200 pound safe was picked up with ! the flooring of a house ar.d deposited 11 several hundred yards away in a field At Horrell Hill, Richland county the feathers were blown off chickens and they wandered around ir. a state of nudity. ' In the Walnut Grove section. Spar tar.bury cpunty, the body of a dead \ mule was found with the leg of a cow driven into its side. A four-ton electric motor, used in ' driving spindtes at the Highland mil! Anderson was blown from the building and laid into a field 50 feet aw[ ayA massive smoke stack at tl.e High land milis, Anderson was displaced from its base as smoothly as if cleaved by a disk saw, was lifted and deposited again on its base two and one ? half inches out of plumb. It was necessary to pull it down. In every storm area, trees, some of three feet in diameter, were twisted and shattered into splinters and in ! every section, dwellings and outhouses were splintered as if chopped by e! an axe. ,r ie; "Before man made us citizens, y; N-.:ure sonde us men."?Lowell
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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