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VOLUME XXXVI.
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WILKES IIKV MAN I
IN TOILS OF LAWj
Federal Officer Lovelace i* Bound to
Court for Alleged Attack *>o Henry
Brook*.
North Wilkesboro, March 21. ?,
For hitting: Henry Brooks over the:
head \Nith a pistol and cutting the
$ash that Dr. J. K. Duncan testified,
took twenty stiches to mend, and
which caused five fractures of the
skull as recorded by X-ray pictures
prohibition o flic or U. L. Lovelace has
b en hound to Superior court, under
a bond of $1,000.
An interested crowd was present
it", the preliminary trial which was
B< Id in the county court house in
''eld town." Many were there out of
sheer curiosity, while others came
as friends of the prosecutor and de
febdant to get the facts about the
raattcr that hail been the subject of
much current comment and to see if
the prosecutor could make out & case.
Brooks, who is a man about 55
years old. quiet and unassuming in
disposition hut who in oifier days
had the reputation of "dealing in
likkcr. * took th?- witness stand in
bis own behalf and against the officer,
who, he alleged, had wrong-,
fuly assaulted hint.
it is understood that the charge
of criminal assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill p.eferred
against the ollicer is only a skin ish
of what >s to come, likely a damage
suit for a large amou'ni, according
to rumor.
Br.inks admitted that he had sorvr.
' ??ne term in the Atlanta peniten\
;?ry for being "too close to a blockade
-1 ill" when officers raided it. He
said he had been careful ever since
i .it havinir anv dexire i?> hn< k ii?
federal gaol.
The* assault hi* said, took place
< the road between Arbor church
And his home. He admitted that
hi \v a> running when officer Love];..:e
overtook him but denied any
complicity in the operation of a
^ moonshine outfit found by the affirm
rer a few minutes previously down at
he bottom of an adjacent ravine.
Hi {glinted officer Lovelace as saying:
"liamn you, what aro you running
for'.'"?this as the officer caught
tip with hiiu. He replied to the officer
that he Wanted to get away
from that immediate vicinity. Then
b? said, Officer Lovelace accused him
of warning the op?iuUn- of the
blockade shanty in isnu to let them
get away. Hut he protested hi- inn4?eef.ce
of this charge
it was then he declared that the
officer struck him ov? the head, the
gash requiring twenty stiehes to close
up He said he did noi resist the officer
in any way. tie swore also, that
mice the blow on his head he had
been unable to see very well out
of one eye ami that his hearing had
been impaired.
if the usual procedure is taken
in the case of other prohibition ag
er.?ts elsewhere in the country whe
have been indicted on one count 01
another, the case may finally lane]
up in Federal court. There, tried ii
the western North Carolina district
Ihstrict Attorney F. A. Linnev wil
)>Xe!y defend the prohibition agent
^uyainst the charge-.
DEEP GAP BREEZES
Mr. A. G. Miller has been havinj
c:s yard front worked upon. Havinj
aom? walls mad? of rock and plowinj
Bp to sow in lawn grass. This wil
indeed be a nice yard when bedeck?
with ail kinds of ewr-bloominfc flow
ers and roses.
Mr. L. C St anbury and A. G. Mo
rrtz, and Mr. K. W. Mo ret?, and Ja
*on Moretz have been having soni
lines run between their lands her
la>t week Mr. I. A. Bumgamer wa
the surveyor.
Several of our people are attenc
ing court in Bonne this week. Th
end of the county is always well rej
resented at every court.
Mr. Gait her Watson and his tw
eons are again back on the job hau
ing extract wood to Deep (lap fro;
his mountain farm.
It is expected that the rural fre
delivery mail route will start 01
now very soon from Deep Gap. T1
inspector in charge was very mu<
pleased with the proposed route v
are told.
News is scarce in this section ;
everybody is farming and working
Deep Gap. When something breat
we will send it in while its fresh.
>
*!.S0 Pe, Y??. BOONE. 1
18 MILLION LOSS
IN STORM AREA
First Check Show* Illinois Dimue at I
About $12.000.000 Relief Organizntions
Work in Unison and Survivors'
Spirits Rise.
I
Chicago, March 2.'!.?Waum sunny ;
weather today prevailed over the a-i
rea in southern Illionois and Indiana!
devastated by tornadoes last Wed- j
nesday. and relief work progressed'
rapidly along with the burial of thej ,
dead and the housing of the homc-j (
less. Rebuilding tools glinted in thej (
sunshine, while doctors and nurses
worked hard to save the lives of the
injured.
lCechccking of the casualty iis=t
with additional deaths from wounds
raided the total dead in some places
and reduced the figure in others,
leaving the toll tonight at 810. without
including a score supposed to
have been burned to death in Mat-,
pliysboro. where 150 block- were
blown down and the debris partly
burned.
Red Cross workers also amiouiu d |
that the lifted as Hurt probably!
ii< 1 no include huiidmls of persons
who had boon injured, but who had
i failed to report the fact owing to
the excite oh nt and necessity of aidj
im? ilhers more soverly injured.
The total property loss has not:
been compiled but likely will bo more
than $12,0(10,000 in Illinois alone.i
With some $">,000,000 in Indiana and;
about a million each in Missouri,!
Tennessee and Kentucky, the property
loss is likely to exceed $18,-1
000,000. This figure i- more seriousj
than its mere size indicates, for the
most of the loss was sustained by families
.if moderate circumstances and
meant the wipir.tr out of ail tangible,
possessions.
Relief work not only proceeded
: with celerity in the affected zones j
| but collection of funds to aid the
| sufferers wont on at an amazing pace
Thousands of dollars rolled in to
i swell the funds raised by many news]
papers, rndio stations and fraternal,
orders and churches.
With the arrival of more nurses
in the storm area today, it ^as
' learned that many persons were
probably fatally hurt. Several died
of wounds today. Danger of epidemics
has been probably avoided,
i...
V4V.V-V*..- AIW, If* V?l UIUItcnranus
out hv airplane, i
chlorinatmn of water supplies and
nthei measures,
i Many of the injured have been J
I taken during the last 4S hours toj
larger cities, where they could re-"
| reive better t reatment. A few died j
on the way to hospitals, however, but j
1 t is reported that most of the oth-'
: er> have fair chances of recovery, i
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COOL1DGE INVITES WORLD
| TO "PHILLY" EXPOSITION
i
Washington March 24.?President
Ccolidge issued a proclamation tot
day inviting: the 48 states of the
. union and all foreign governments
I t?j participate in the international,
, exposition to be held in Philadei.
phia June 1 to November 20. 1
j The proclamation was undei auL
thority of the joint resolution of
Congress. The exposition has been
' arranged as a celebration of the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the signing of the declaration of in!
dependence, and will show the proS
| gross of art, ndustry, science, trade
? and commerce as well as development
< of products of the air, soil forest and
J sea*.
dl
BOONE ROUTE 1 NEWS
-j Mr. T. J. Tugnian and family have
t-l moved back to their farm on Riddles
e Fork.
e Miss Sara Norris visited her sister
is in-iaw on Grassy Creek on Saturday
attending services at Meat Camp on
1- Sunday.
is Miss Docia Wail spent several days
>-! on Meat Camp visiting relatives.
Mr. Clyde Norris has purchased a
o Ford roadster.
1- M 1*8. W. W. Miller made a business
m i trip to Rutherwood last Saturday.
Mr. doe Cowies from the A. T. S.
se ( visited home folks last Sunday,
at Miss Pear! Norris of Boone Rout<
ie 2 spent Friday night with her granc
'h parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Nor
re ris.
Mr. Glenn Coffey was a visitor a'
as Mr. W. A. Cowies last Sunday,
at Everybody is busy plowing an<
:s, gardening while the ground is ii
good shape.
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ittjja
VATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH Til
INTERESTING THINGS
TRANSPIRE IN RAL
LEGISLATIVE B
(By M. L. Shipman)
Raleigh. March 24.?The lege-la-{
Live ru$h in Rakigh was succeeded j,
last week by events of a nature as j;
important as the acts of the General j
Assembly and was featured particular!
> by the reorganization of the
" preine court, the official annoum *ti?
r from Governor McLean relating
t<? lhi? state deficit, the beginning: of
t>u.s control by the state and the har?-;
dlir-r of several matters, chiefly from
the governors office, dealing: with enforcement
of law.- enacted at the re
cent >ession of the Legislature.
The most important event of the
week was the resignation, of Chief
Justice W. A Kokc of the Supreme
C nrt, and the appointment by the
Governor of Associate Justice \V. P.
St:c y !o -ucceed bin*.. To f II the
vu'ancy created by tin Staeey ele
' r. i?o .(-iiioi' .Mcl.eati nan\-;l For?':
? State Senator Lycurgns I!. Yar-< ?
of I .ijmlx'vlon. The new Ai".;
- Justice wa? Mr. McLean's law
ipa! ::?? { prior to the time that he
became Governor. Puring t n?- veeeit';
session of th* General Assemh'y Pi :
Varsei had headquarters at the lax- !
ecv . ? Mansion and ha- J1 one
of the Governor's chief advisors on!
I< gislative matters. He is recognised i
as an able lawyer and it is believed
will make a valuable addition to the*
high tribunal to which he has been
elevated.
Chief Justice Hoke resigned be- 1
I'i-.is. of il) health and after having
d?\<>teb more than thirty years of:
distinguished service to the state,!
mo-i #?f thc.-c having been spent on '
the bench. The new Chief Justice, j
Mr. Stacey. achieves with his eieva
ion the distinction of being the yotin ;
govt chief justice in America. He has
besides attained to the highest judi- ;
ciai position within the gift of the1
people of North Carolina at the age
of forty, after fifteen years of acjal
law nraeticc. In llHIlb Mr W.
P. Sturdy was principal of a itab'igh ,
public school. In 1925 it is Chief
Justice W. I* Stacey presiding overt
the highest tribunal maintained in
the state, after four years as an
associate on the bench, during which;
tint*' h?- fully demonstrated his capability
as a judge and became re*
>gnized as prohahlv one of the most
capable members of the Supreme
court, it is little womlei now that
the call from the State University
for his si rvices a short while ago
did not appeal to him. Time has
shown the wisdom exercised in remaining
on the bench.
Governor McLean startled the natives
on Friday with a statement
showing the deficit of the state, under
his system of cash financing to
be $10,251,660.57 as of February 28
1025. and its bonded indebtedness at
$118,808,000 on the same date. The
figures show an increase in the deficit
since last July, of approximately
three and a half millions and an operating
deficit for the month of February
of more than $300,000. It is
recognized however that the deficit
will be reduced from March 1st to
June 30th, the close of the fiscal
year, are taken into consideration,
as this is the period for the collections
of revenues to take place.
The Attorney General's office h
being re-organized under the recent
' law passed giving that official three
full-time assistants at $3,600 a year
The present assistant, Frank Nash
i has been re-appointed and will eon
tinue in the office of Attorney Gen
j eral Brummitt. Walter L. Cohoor
I will continue with the State High
way Commission as another of thi
. assistants and still another is to b?
| assigned to the Department of Rev
j enue. Mr. Cohoon will receive $3,
, <>00, instead of a little more thai
$4,000 which had been paid him t.h<
j last few years.
. The Governor also took a step las
week toward reducing the running
penses of the state when he issuer
his first order as director of the Bud
; grot, requesting that all state-own
autos be repaired in the shops of tb
State Highway Commission, and tha
all parts be purchased through th
, Commission's organized auto depart
j ment, thus eliminating the middl*
inan profits on parts and repair's fo
State cars.
t Most of the news of the week d<
veloped in the Governor's office, hi
I not all of it. From the Corporatio
i Commission came the announcemei
that it probabiy would not appoint
Hgttti
*OLlNA THURSDAY MARCH 26,
\ CONTINUE TO ]
EIGH, AFTER THE
ATTLES ARE ENDED
MRS7 JOHN H MAST DEAD
Mrs. John H. Mast of Cove Creek,
bite of Watauga's choice ladies. died
at her home yesterday evening- at 5
o'clock. She was in town Monday in
her usual good health, was all right
Tuesday, and retired in the evening j
without complaint. At 1:00 a. m. she'
yesterday was seized with what we' ,
learn was heart trouble, and despite:
medical effort she gradually grow
worse until the end came. The news
of the death came as a great shock
to the many friends of the esteemed
lady in Boone. Sh?i was a real woman
in every sense of the word. She ;
ahvay> met you with a smile and a ;
kind word, was always ready, willingj
and waiting to contribute to the aid
or comfort of those neediug help or
coilROliiHnr. u ?c f.\?- ?>? .?. t i
years a consistent and valued member
of Silverstone Baptist church, and
was over in her place at both Sunflay
School and church services.
Th?. : riai will take place near her
beautiful horn* at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The Democrat in behalf of
ail our people extends deepest sym-.
pathv to our esteemed friend, Mr.1
Mast, and foster daughter in their
irreparable loss.
? ?? rdircctof
of bus transportation, a? allowed
in the newly passed law giving
the commission control of the
bus lines of the state with regulatory
powers. The chairinar. of th?* commission.
W. T. Lee. said the present
office force probably would i>e redistributed
st? thjit the matter could
be handled without additional expense
for executives. Bus control became
effective Sunday March 22.
and at the same time the commission
issued regulation regarding licenses j
and poeration undo. which the bus
lines witt operate.
The State prison furnished us part
of the news with the meeting of the!
old and new boards of directors and
the fire and criticism directed at i
Qeoige Ross Pou, its supprintendeutr!
because of the fact it was discovered j
the superintendent of the prison and
some of the subordinates had beenj
charging items for their homes a; j
various ttaleieh store- Piihlimt ion i
of the lists of hills containing: items!
rouge and other cosmetics aroused!
I wide-spread comment, as well as va
ious materials from supply
! stores for grades of cloth which it
I is claimed do not g?'t. Superintendent
J Pt?u weathered the storms tetn^nir1
ily however wh<;(. the retiring prison
| -card issued a -catement exhonerathim
and recommeiidir.tr the re
election of the Superintendent and
ether officials.
The new hoard met ui*-?> hut the
advice of the old board was :.?? followed
Instead the new hoard postponed
action on the election ??f a
superintendent warden ch^cf ?lerk
and physician until the fir t week
April. There was no indication
whether this postponement was to
j canvass the situation more thoroughly
and select a successor to Mr. Pou
mt it was vaguely hinted about the
i capital that this might, he the case.
The close mouthed chief executive.
Mr. McLean, who is expect*d to hAve
; ? great deal to say about the matter
' ( of the prison officials, has hud noth}
n?g to say on the subject and merely
r? iterated that he him given the matter
no consideration and has made
' no recommendation to the prison
j board. The opinion prevails that
' while this is no! ?t repudiation of
Mr. Fou it cannot be considered an
endorsement.
1 Gutzon BorgJum. Stone Mountain
opposed sou'.ptor. submitted u> uov5icrnor
McL? an a plan that he recreate
*( models for the Confederate memorial
and place them in charge of a
committee headed by the Governor
1 until such time as the United Daugh5
ters of the Confederacy for a national
organization to take over the
t Memorial from the Stone Mountain
*! Monunleiitai Association and com^!
pi etc it. The plan is to get rid of the
1 dissenting factors and to take away
foom the city of Atlanta the prac
c tical domination which it now ex1
rrcises by control of the Executive
e Committee. Governor McLean lauded
Mr. Borg-1 urn's motives, but withheld
ac, ptance of the trust until ht
,r .iould give it deep consideration.
The chances are that the Nortl
Carolina Executive will decline U
! ecoxne involved in the controversy
T' although deeply interested in secinj
it this mammoth undertaking prosecu
a ted to a successful conclusion.
wtui
1925 5 Ct?. iCo?r
LARGE CROWDS
FIRST DAY COURT
Wataugans came out en masse on
Monday when the spring: term of
V atauga Superior Court convened
vith fudge Harding: presiding. Those
vho had no official business took the
>pportun tv of mixing with their
friends, and there was scarcely en>usrh
parking room for the autorno>iles
in tov/n.
At 1': M) standing room in the court
pour*- was; at a premium when the
Fudge began delivering his charge to
the ?r:1 jury, afi"i which good behavior
reports and other minor cases
occupied the remainder of the day.
Ti g?ar,d jury has foiled a bill
for nu ider against Cbiio Greene, of
Stony Fork who on Christmas, it is
alleged killed Mont Wellborn oi the
same section. A vejr.ire will be summoned
and the case taken up later
It is <.'.% conceded that court will
rontu..... well into if not. through next
w eok
Owir.Lr to the congested condition
of i '< 1 ' cords it is imp'.-sible for
us t.. give any proeei d n;:> in thi.issue.
A complete account ?>t the ?l>
position of the various state cases
will appear in out next i>> .-' .
TENNESSEE'S
dii i if firwen
DILiL to OiUiiriU
S?.*f e School* Must Teach the* Doctrine
of Bible Asserts Teaching
of Evolution is Fundamentally
Wroag Freedom No* Barred.
Nashville, Tenn. March *-N> Tennessee
t'.ciuv rung down h?- curtain
on ti?.* Darwin Huxley drama when
dovcniiH" Austin Pony s.?gi<a&} a hi\i
passed by the General Assembly oast
ir.g int?. discard the iheory of evolution.
The Governor defended his decision
by declaring: that th? bill eon
reived by Ri pi eseutati ve .1. \V. But
lev of !.aFayette. Tv-un.. represent
i <1 a distinct protest against an ;r
religious tendency to exalt so-callec
science and deny the Bible in som*
schools and ounrtors- ?a tendency fur
damuuttiHy wrong and fatally mut
ehievous in it.- effect:, on our rhii
dren. our institution- and out cuun
try."
Ihe bill contravenes neither th?
"freedom t?f religion" nor the *\<tr;c
o peration of church and state" rh<
governor said "these !l-mg "ti::e(
principles ir. this country."
"li i- manifestly ;iu?>ossihle." th1
iiH'siiKi- continued, **?"??? out seinoo
system te omit ail attention to tb
Bible and t?? o. holly ignore it." Th
governo* ret oned that the Bible i
His Holy Word, directing governin:
our relationship te the future stat
of reward *rd puni.-hments."
"Nobony will deny," the messag
said, "that the Holy Bibb tcache
thai mac. was created by God in hi
own image. This bill is founded i
the idea and belief that the \ery in
tegrity of th" Bible in its statemen
of man': divine creation, is denie
by any theory that man descend?
or had ascended from any lower ??i
der of animals. That such theor
is at utte* variance with the Bird
story of man's creation, is incapahl
of successful contradiction."
The n?w act makes it unlawfi
for any teacher in the universitit
normals, ov other schools of tn
state which obtain state funds "t
teach any theory that denies the st<
ry of divipt citation of man as
taught it: he Bible and to teach n
stead thr?f man ha.- descended froi
a lower order of animals."
It will ' seen," the lnessa*
pointed out. <nai mis nit! does n<
require any particular theory or i1
terpretatioi el* the Bible regardir
man's creation to be taught in ti
public sc r.u?N," when refernce W;
made to the clause ir. the constit
lion which guarantees that nli mi
have a natural and indefeasible rig
to worship Almighty God accordii
U> the dictates of their own co
,. sciences."
The bill was passed ir. each hou
jot the assembly by a heavy vote.
Supreme Court Justice Crops*
trying a Sunday selling case has n
ed that hair and eggs are not druj
k The defendant should have contend
. bis eggs were fertilizer. Any city ju
y would have agreed to that.
3 Experts say the safest place
i New York during an earthquake
r the subway. Naturally when one ?
- zes into a >ubwuy jam a little thi
like an earthquake has no terrors.
"THIS WEEK"
by Brisbane, world's highest
sahnni editor is * feature we
carry, handled hitherto by op
ly tfco metropciiiao Daalio*.
Re?wi this column weekly.
NUMBER 12
ASSEMBLY ALTERS
NAME OF A. T. S.
Fimt Sis ^ cf the Spring Term
finds Saturday ? Other School news
As Reported by Our Regular Correspondent
.
The recent : gislature adopted a
new charter for the school here changing
the nar.i from the Appalachian
: Training ' 10 the Appalachian
State Norm-' School. This name of
cours'-. include- the Normal Depart{
m< nt and th<- High School Depart1
moot. It provide that the board of
Trustees consist of nine memhen
appoin' :) by the governor of
the state Th are required to meet
once en oil y .it. The act cmnowers
the trustee- :< secure an ettdowownt
fund for the ^chool to lend te worthy
needy -udents. and hat proceed.
from !; electric power plant;
be appi .-d to this fund. It also
nicorperai;.. i '.\ the pri?ucity belonging
m the s? : o?>!. making h unlawful
to fish * ' hunt or exercise any
.-pc-via] privileges without written perraisi
ion.
Dv. Rankin and family went to
i Winthrnp t ?.! ? re. Rock fiili. South
C at; ' ! is' of the jMtst week
to ?tl? ui the graduating: recital of
hir. daugh' Mis.- Ruth, who as a
I very talented musician.
Ecprese: \i iv?- I. (I. Greer and
Senator -K n K. Brow have return
.icd from Rub igh and are engaged in
their regular work.
Tlu- first six week* of the spring
I term ends on Saturday the 28th and
the last six weeks begins en the ol.
Quite a number of taechers who have
beet: teaching during the winter will
come ir, for the last lx weeks to gi i
credit for their certificates. The office
has been kept busy answering
th? question as whether they can get
cietbt tor the last six weeks and the
answer is "YES."
Superior Court in Boone this morning
with Judge Harding presiding.
Quite a number of attorney- from
I other counties are present on busij
r.ess.
'MISS ALEXANDER TO
SEEK GOVERNORS JOB
Charlotte March VA.?Miss Julia
Alexander, member of the house of
. representHtivi^ from Meekbmburp
(. county In ln2?~ general assembly, t.oi
nijrhr definitely announced her de
termination to be candidate for povv:
aui in thi Democratic primary in
| . 1928.
| "Since the fiivt newspapei mertc,
);ior? of m\ prospective candidacy for
^ j governor in the next campaign," she
? said. "I have recent d so much u>t.
Mivauce of support from people of
prominence in political affairs that
4> ! vhatl certainly enter the race."
M iss Alexander denied that the
success of Mrs Ferguson and Mrs.
Ross of Wyoming, respectively, had
influenced her in her decision.. She
lt had the matter under consideration
before she ever heard of their can
didaeics.
METHODIST NOTES
Hats off to the county eommission1
ers foi* improving the inside appear,
a nee of the court house. The county
1 has a pood building at a beautiful los
cation, and why not keep it attrae"
live?
? Yo-. .1 ndgt- Htuahng's charge to the
> grand jury was good, but did you
iS hear the charge he ga\e to all of u>
Tuesday evening The Judge talked
rn about the church, Sunday School.
God, and brought to all minds a se**
liousness which hardly ever comes
in a court room We need more men
1 or. the bench like the one we have
with us this week.
10 Sunday Sch<- last Sunday was a
good one. Did you do your part?
u"' Another splendid church building
51 for Boone. Here's is hoping for the
Adventists great success in their
^. courageous, undertaking.
n" Sunday School Sunday at 9.45.
; Notice the hour.
se Children's service at 11 a. m. conducted
by Prof. J. D. Rankin.
Preaching Sunday evening by the
'v.* pastor with devtional services cor.;
ducted by the Spworth League.
" 1 : Wednesday praver service and choir
ed * '
practice at . *(> p. m.
Preaching at Blowing Reck at 11
a. m. by the pastor.
in
is: He?"From beneath your window
x>- I will serenade you at midnight."
ng She?"Migosh. don't come so ear,
ly. I might not be home yet."
i