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PAGE FOUR Ctjc (TiMtirauaa SktnocmL Issued everv Thurtdfty by The RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY R C. RIVERS. ROB. RIVERS, Jr Editors and Publishers Subscribers wishing their address%c changed wil: please favor us by jiving the OLD as v\el? as the NEW address. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: V,???* ?! R,? Si\ Months . 7C? TKve Months 40 Payable in Advance. Advertistng Ra^ctt on Application Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of | Respect. Obituaries, etc. are charged] tor at the regular advertising rates. | Articles sent for publication without! fiving the rav.. . ? the writer will not I under any circumstance be publish-! *.:t | Er.tcoeJ ut i).e post office at Boone j N. Ci as -corid r<a<*> m;?il matter. Thutadav M^rch 5. 1925 Ol R ESI DENT Pn .ii ?\? .. xig. at last The -rid o! 'He . yivs ir. >: pjeparaiu t bee:* tho naugurution tv-?- iiav: ra! t; .i oxm rn'iir*. ' u the r.?ii:s of tin r.at.j.- ral vcvj -n\ Up h; lh;- h;?iiv, tfcj.- yv*.~ -jp3 - * '--iV'kep!. ing :?> shape . i ::<?d?fy '.he iej; y lef: him. :Vr- r.v?:.ihs he has beeii.j p-,^,ro ii;: house in order. As a fa ' - r .r.-nt m1" ha- had hettv i ojfcp.orf a r ;t.y ro sha pe a gov-J ermnere thsii \vo u M be read} to f.a tion with fu'i : 'le' iigenct asd u;i*ic?rsiaridg nstarit He stopped into <?rla- -'he pie loon lor.vari with conl : : 1 ooliog< act N oiM v.- better than the ident that with the assumption of power be must also bear the full burden ui ' ospon -1 lit> , but the people, evei onerous, regardless >f individual polities and preferences, may be expect-; to s<ami behind the leader. For \be M.-xt for,- years there can bo nr, parties -.o those who stand for a unit d :,at . whose aspiration > p? at .- a? Miu s parity : hat f <.-l lows in its wake >if-. J. M W: t, happened to what alight hAva -.en a j^T'OUs accident on r.e -id. almost in fj-of't w;i6"f- t^C I ??ra);0 T?C,*t$&.y for. r,pe m S h .\ a pa ?i n -da long. not - not S'h^ ?^s\nnd'd.voy on one of the express wri&g r-.o;r.. su obifiiYtoti on the sidu\ - t f Boone. until it hi: her, the impact being ro great, the .ig corning down ?SgQ& thai it threw hot from h?r feet, : he landing out in the street. Sht* was considerably tmiist u, and became right ,ck for a while. We have often said thai these wagons, bicycles, roller skates, velocipedes, which have- become such .? nuisance to the passing popufc.ee should be kept off the walks, but instead el* that they increase in numbers. This is al! jp to th. tow? .dd -rmon, nod the Democrat suggests 'ha* at their next meeting they draft an mir.ance relegating these hindra? . >. to pedes; r?ai from the nan * r,d oftenti* ie- crew deed side walks. . >f :our>e the . h; 1 iren must h.t place to play 'mi if there os : other than that ing used for pose, one slio provided. Why not move the previous question and e .?>?'. the Muscle Shoals r.rgyunvTA a: over again. France would new ik - u- to ituid her another hundred million dollars That chap Lafayette was a costly visitor. Il is new propsed to nov a late oysters against typhoid Good Every oyster should he compel-.i to comply with the law. Planes have dropped cor.tea ' > in the Alps: to save the .... starving dCunbers. If they had dropped some American army biscuit'- >r\ the Germans they would maybe nave saved lives of some Americans. The New York Police oand, 102 policemen strong:, is to - 'w th- -vests rl) a s th - ay to pr<?te':: the city. THEY ALL DO Smy L: " Veii. there is much io be stud on both sides of the question." Dickson: "That's right and my wife said it." ED PTJRDY'S PHI LOS "It "looks i ke the next v-ar is gonna be a banquet. They k ep talking about hot dog bombs and mustard gas. SHERLOCK SNICKER IN ACTION Snicker: "I think Wright must be born and raised in London." Snee: "Why London?" Snicker* "Well, they have lots of frogs over there." Snee: "What have frogs got to do with Wright?" Snicker: "Well, he's always going I around blowing his own horn." DEEP GAP Mr A. F. Hampto is back home i again from the o>n f: ids of West | Virginia and states thai business is j again at-a stand . it there due :o the fact that the < al operators; J can not sell tlieir outpnt of coal. Mr. and Mrs. Darya M. Smith re-j . ently 'vent to the st:r.- of Maryland. We understand that th<y have bought! | farm property up th> re and will go1 | at an early date to their new home.) Mr. Smith came thr Washington I City where they ar- preparing for! | the inauguration of President Cool-j >ige upon a very lioii ed scale. Saturday March T p. m. is the date set for The ma uing at the | P -ky Point Sci\. > -so of Deep ! (Jap Boosters. E" v especially! j properly owners sr?- r>e mere a;| ve want to ?et i* for bigger, j things and need y-> help. Show \h-you stand by y ur presence :v - We are now ..need for the rti-ing- bioj'-wt. need year, ! 'f-fiy support beh " H niov-men! ! . 1 jn.'.-r king V t.Ju?V. T.-! ' i > ttr frier, i- abou and are*-. e 1 onif ur.M/: d we:.' h at la.. . ? Spi-ipg- wit! anript ex;'''!'! : -li v'. :< r all as a little j en:- " the pi- tty pari hegpps. ! Our a M r. Frank \V?-!eh kv '. < n .-rest' d ? men from < 'a Id veil eoorrtv in n -i-ep Gar- wijfli i sma! I juam ity of f - ater ;n the ;t. Mr Welch >k them to Squire Jsso? Mec-'-t here they wen yiven a hearin-r ! bound oven veil!-!. Two other < - of the vie-; : ms :?cd transgress- of the iaw , ..k left- bail and m;i !- rheii get :i- j way when the other t w - parties were i arrested. Law and ?' .! : stands supreme iii Deep Gap. Iv.ware! SVIULLS MKU S, ROUTE l Th weather ha- fcecfiE Ileal for l*V ry hut looks tk:s morning hke ho t. : \rh:i i * hat c- . Th- roads roe splendid ? \< ? pt a i'ew paicv- north ground. Sorry to note solve si.-km-.-. in the! j"o :?im\in!fcv just ncv?\ Th-. lit tie 'drr.cch' or of >! a:H Mrsl jh.nl Coffey has l?oe? r ..; sick but-j 1. >tgh* 1 j ".snproa i this writing. ! The iittio seven year old son of Mr and Mrs. Henderson tiragjr is ; seriously li has been taken to I the Banner t?ik Hospital. under '.he institution: of Or Hardin Appenbs eh ;> is * h?* trounle. We art- sorry for Mrs. Manilla . and Virginia I)uia to he absent from us. They are taking positions at Win -n-y .-m \"s hanii.ir the veurifr ? ladies siio?.-e.ss. j Our >' day School is f&HUT fine [ under :h' management ?;? Mi !T. Dv.i? as tperiiPomieni. I Quilt- : .;* -au milling . rig f . just now. rOSCOE t ! ' iV? tj from last wi--k ? 'I',-..:-"- .'..iking: up a- \ \.r I \W S. Whit 1 - j r,, . w-h- the lum: < : industry ?*'i Snu Mills and will begin shipping iunrberj : his week .uid will start opera* - ^ at The mill ;* 'h- near futuu I The weatk r has been fir.e this month- fit ' i.- ground has J iost n:;x a> v. eatht r prophet. Mt. iV-iinh < nii-eh has built h agt' .?;i -i.- he bought >.i W. H. -. ? I and - . .,?w ready to fix your W hen Ralph whispt iret- nusy. V Enr) V.'h'te ;s sinking. "Ku\n up ?onny, i >n r you cry; you will be <1 bye and bye." its a 10 pound Mr. Clifton l\urson, local lumber-; tias :v r.^urned from Oa. ..ok :.ng 1 r.-r tr - lumfc prospects of that' ! action. It i bop ! :ba. .1 good naaibt-r of xhe citiv.^ns of the Foscoe school di? .riot and *.1'or,in^ districts will tic- t the Soar : . i ieati< n no:*. Mo day for the ;?u rp? - 01 yetting a v soli-j dated school ar Fosece. Th people of this section arc at-' lighted to hea- hat there is going to, he ;* " J y made for a stace higb-j way from Boone by Shulls Mills, j Foscoe and L5r?v:i,e Gap to Ncw .' nd Beyond ail c<:.-stion this is the near-; est and be c grade. easiest ednsfcruct 1 j ed and will accommodate more pco; pie than any other route. Say Blether Farmer isn't it about ! time we are looking out where we are going to plant our crop? Let's grt a move on and make some "hog and hominy" at home. What do you say" ONE EXCEPTION Sp&tson: "Every hell can be tolled. Mike "You're wrong. I told a dumb bell hut it didn't mean a thing. THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT--F- V; TRIPLETT Rv v. M. D. Miller ha; been ;? cry > spek man for the past week but 'it? this writing is somewhat impro ' : Mr. D-,? Triph-.f . f Helien. Vest |. Virginia is now risking home ilks i at Trinlttt. We are always giad xo see Dell back in the land of his V?th. j The wilting: school sow being ducted by Mr. Z T. Watson oi Bi s ' side, is progressing nicely, and the J large number <<? ?sdy pupus in dance were glad to have Mr. v, Benson pay a number of visits to; the school. a> Mr. Benson is very ; popular n the literary and social circles here. Last Sunday wa- a splendid d..y it the Baptist church. After Sunoav Schooi a very attentive and * h siastic coiijmgatior took in th? black j board demonstration given by Mr. j T. Watson on biography and the j physical geogiaphy of the Bibk !nj the afternoon. Mr. Thomas Johnson| Conducted a song service, being a j leadci of the Mt. Eohrju.ni choir. 1 Mr. N'.'wton ' r. "uih.nt at "??? A. T >. \i>iled !? > ! ft- ks Sat- day! and Sunday, and was preseiit at Sui;-| day School. fhl I A- p Oaj -! ":o'r , geted some months through ihcj etdutv.ms .<: th- Democrat, that qi^s-1 ojis h< ti.in cifcs.-lo! . I". ! '.ap% *he .?<. r of i Jte Dcniot ~ T [ acu:( >? a m an a ticit?j & i.1 ' --r. .I',' question of C\*n a- { Mr W. A. \\ . "i Deep Mai v. ., (i:?wn in Lin- community la.-'. Sun day :u! aQivhased 'gin dozen i vnn jth Rock v?". - tor hi.- mcubatof j It Men- thai M' Watson is energetic and incan- to help niak- | I )c ep i rup at' racl. ve. <>*i? husti.nr: merchants Messrs* Noah Wheel*-:- and Charlie Trip!- " were i'f la-' week :?? North Wi'k i oro. looking after the purchase of I th'.'it -t ring stock of goods. M: Norlie Millet Mi as a pi isitor last Sunday at the home f Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hayes. The weeping wiljows along the < < ? k an akiru on a coal of gri n ii-l the <-i '.! of - ami warm s*m h w lomic.i uv. that spring is bear. M/.AT CAMP [ March is com mi- in iik - a ii.'iuj | Hero's honing slv- goes out like u !ih| Rev. I.. A. Wilson w.a.t to T oia-j rack on last Sunday t*s hold fur.erfcK of Mrs ** ' tha Pctt She j ; 01 pneumonia xevi r. A series of meetings will at | he Methodist church on nev Sun- j j day The pastor Rft T G. W Jams j v. j'l hi* assi^t'd by Rev. Km. Mo- j : of ;h.- county. Messrs Henry. Wade. Ray a J Fred | I Lewis who have been visiti* their' ->ick father Mr I. I.. Lewis will return to their homes in West Virginia this week. Miss Jessie Wilson began 4 ten days writing school at the \vi* arger -chool house on last Monday she! j having just finished a term f ten j days at Tamarack last Fr -i.e Mrs. John Lewis and Glenn ! and Mrs. Harkieroad of b?.? visit.1 at the home of \\ . A P?-\ fit on 1st Wednesday afternoon. Re\. J.rfeoi'l heici h;< r*. .. .r serv ces to ;:?sc Sura lay at th. : .me of Mr. N C. Mor tz .m accotii t ?f Mrs. j More::'*s bad health, we suppose. Mr Grady Winobarger wife I have moved hack to M at Camp from j Boone. Misses Lola and Bonnie Davis of Boone attended Sunday School at the Baptist chyrch or. last Sunday. let'S make deep cap beau j t1ful (W. A. Watson.) The writer has had his h- . and | soul in a movement to make Deep Gap a more attractive community. I* may he a hobby or a p< : heme of mine, but in doing: this I f i that 1 have the support of all the good ' and loyal citizens of the community. | We would like to have the trail 1 made very attractive by each and! every one setting out sbr 1 ev-t ery home by he side a flow -r gar-1 den. W" art- expecting n large shipment! oi rainbow ; rc-ut to arrive K- week' to be planted in the waters t Gap i Creek, then after a year or , you I may fi r. to your heart's come;, with: hook and line- in the open season. We would like to see a better and bigger school for th:s coram u; y and hope a proper and desirable ccatioii will be found when this building is erected which should be near Deep Gap as possible tor the convenience i of al! schools which might come under the consolidation. We hope to see the day when a j standard railway wlil penetrate this section and a real first class little town spring up around here almost overnight, so to speak. Let's keep up our hopes and some day we will wake up to find that everything has come true. ERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. OBITUARY AV;?t_aus cciinty lost one of tfc& best men \> i en \v tn. Monroe Baim died after a short iJipf^s at his borne on Monday Feb 1 ?. K'iir*. at the age of 62 years, 0 n;onth< and 10 lay The funeral svvic-e whs held ir t.i >, rty Methodlst Mp-vapai ch^reh on the 17th and conduvt.d by Rev. B. C L- .. . . I.. _ * nirrv^anu oi rvnv. w, i president of the Cumberland Seventh Day Adventi>t Church, assisted by the Rev. F. E. Washburn of Johnson City Tenn. Mr. Vance Masfui paid fitting tributes to his CSodU life. Mr. Bain1 was vtrv highly respected by all who knew him, and his death is a great loss to the community. He was especially active in religious work, being a member of the Seventh Day Advent ;st Church for, forty years. He has acted as its local elder as well as serving in the same capacity at Banner Elk. His Christian life and Godly influence have dplK much for th< TO OUI ? - f-T&M y* . rf ?|S f v-. > . ^ ' -. BjowL/ iijj&^h SSis flaia 8 fSB.z,-.: Si j ?r-rrm - f wu ' tr:>& VW <-14- -r j a AA*<1* - -j i-Ul ^ y / By Arthur Brisbane OUR GIFTS TO JUSTICE DEFECTIVE TEETH AND HANDS. OUR FEEBLE IMAGINATION. NEIGHBORLY NATIONS. A man in the Sing Sing ctaath house, sentenced to din rjtx*, month, hangs himself. Doctors work over him for hocrs, trying to bring him back to life. Tbtj interesting feature of this death in the death nous* fe the violent effort to reaoscitata the man aftei he had strangled himself. The low aaui he must die, why not let him die? What do the higher power* above think of the. corpse* that we send up from our gallows, electric chairs and lethal chambers! How much better does our civilisation seem up there than that of tne ancient M Orleans that ripped out the heart of a living human sacrifice, offering that aa a w?h come gift to their go*!*? How do our j^ifts to the goddess of justice impress .real jo#> The French army has tasted and approved a new stabilizing device for airplanes, without the use of gyroscope. That means one step nearer to absolutely safe Hying, safer than any mode of travel on land. Ten to twenty years should see the ond of long distance rail travel and of ocean surface travel. Wise real estate investors will make their plans with the flying machine in mind. The British worry because the national eyesight grows we*ker. One hundred and fifty tn every 1 000 lack good sight at the age of twenty and ten at the age of four. The human eye. like the tec*1' rnt nature gav u- '. '"festive caus* <?f religion maj * ed M ss S.~r;?h E C'ark m) I. V V. -"S. Sfr<* * it!l T'A't: ters- M is. Fran -;> M McOhimr's of \ ?." ?: 35i U< hie Bairtl and t??? ati-.?ptcd children Mi's. C. S. Lowrance vt' 1>vO"'', and Kari LViifd, aged moth, r. three brothers and three sisters survive. . | t.v. s i* iv-t i i to ?jr lliitiaj t (Charlotte Observer.) !: u peculiar characteristic of piedmont and mountain climate that an early Spring has more manifesto-1 iion n budding trees and blooming? fiowos than in the central part of the' state. Far hack in the mountains the! tret and flowers are giving tokens of spr ng. In the piedmont yards and; law - are abloom, with pear and, p?-ach trees in full bloom in shelter-1 ed spots. But leaving Charlotte in the direction of the sandhills these to- j kt i> gradually disappear, until thru j penu ry. Moore. Let* arid Chat-? i r ' { -. tl v\ are al>. i . alto* THIRTIETH PRE 4 - -v. .? .**> * m:f?$ f'msi t ' : WM *<.?' 1: V^^*' -. v'.> I > #f ilM : <"ofe*S f w-jfbMtpi ?B >1#&V ?$?&&? ? h poorly marie instrument. Our teeth muse stiflet^ng : im dealt:. Tec si: ~ r planner* v oulu ;.o; do sha :-.. our ftve-fiiigored hu-ids, would have ' u much improved by adding one linger. With that extra Anger wo should u: e in aritnmetic Ok- -upe*>or duodecimal system, instead of the inferior decimal system, and we could play stringed iu*trur.?ents of a dinner, more coraphctueri kind. Floyd Collin's suffering is over. This man's death iliustra'.-a tne power and the weakness of auman imagination A hundred men risked their Uvea to cave his Doctors went to his rescue by A ying machine. but oouid do notlilng. The entire nation followed closely the tragic story. Imagination ahow^i the man lyiog in the low cave, his leg crashed 1 by the 14,000-pound rock, existing day after day tor nearly two weeks fca horrible agony and discomfort. It was possible to Imagine clearly that dreadful situation. And i use nation sympathised. Any legislature would gladly have voted $100,000 to save Collins. The same nation, through its legislatures, refuses to pass the Child Labor amendment that would free tens of thousands of children txvm year* of alow torment. IVe feeble public imagination eannot see clearly those ehUdwea in tho rrdJltL 'Hve Prince of Wales, whom rec-eriwy meuif) vwry welcome, is interested in a jdan to send British students to this country. That is common cense, a* well cui a pleasant compliment. The Rhodes scholarship syvtcvm, that now sends American boys to British universities, wifl be reversed in the new plan. The way to establish peace la to inereace intelligence. When natlooe know each other, they -wfll compete in' stead of flighting There la disappointment because the British Church cant find a way to make a saint of Florence , Nlefctbvjjds, and supply her with a halo, "ftie answer to that is thet Florence Nightingale la a saint already, and needs no halo, j When she went to Scutari, with bar group of derated nurses, to ceo from needless death the i wounded men in the Crimea, sticking at hex work, although prostrated with freer, she made herself a safari. Nothing that the Archbishop of Canterbury might do would m/itro P?r -n'ntliness . . - * - i=.? MARCH S. 192S get her. the fields ivui orchards and ' yards bearing the 3Speet oi inid-wirvtvr. Jn Mecklenburg: county poach, trees were in Mocm two weeks ago. bat ia the orchard.' "f the sand'A there is to sign of the approach of s?wir.g Here ana there a yellow bell bush is bursting into bloom while itt this sect' on the blooms arc falling off. Rut when the peach trees in the sandhill orchad- do begin to bloom they come ir- a hurry and a!?nost o>'erri'ght the whole landscape is covered with white and pink. It is rather a curious circuinstanca this early blooming in the colder sections and the late blooming in the warmer belt, but the people in the piedmont are living in the mildness of the early season, while the people in the sandhills are patiently awaiting its coming. Likewisethc* early blossoms there do not "catch it" as is common in this section, and as evidenced by the wilted Japanese magno.ias that were but yesterday the I rry of ( harlotte. I | y v ?; - - - -f ' / I : . -j V ; ' v . ' \ ' ^ ^ : I WSm-c Nm a$s2 38 ,1$ s ^ | ?/y." o" c>>. v ft q~l i line1? Jchnl^ii Jim Doff was a feiicr we ah admired?was a v ;? i iv.r . peed: the pace vvercnt i:ivented that made Jim tired.? on that we was all agreed. Ho never foresaw no accident?.wr reckoned cne might occur, bet he suddenly learnt what his finish meant when he travelled one step too fur, A man goes fast these m\xackiou* days, without sprecUtin' dire alarm,?-but the one wrong step at the pat tin' of ways, io the item that brings the harm. We all jigger on at a lively dip, in a race where the swiftest wins, but a step too fur ?at the end of the trip it when the disaster begins. -J We hardly car. say it's the * pace thst kills, sence hu nan: ty's learnt to fly. It aint the miles?-nor the size of the hills that frown as we're whiz/.in' by. Hut, the wamin' truth that confronts our graze, is sparklin' without a blur,?"The error that hastens tha end of days is-gotnf a step too fur!" I A /TV ) & _J WHEN ITOtO MA IT WAS A SIN TO PAY ?SO. POR A HAT. SM MO'wrr IT BE ON KY MCK?f* ?yi
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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