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? ? i V A Non-Partisan I Newspaper VOLUME XXXV!. "" WILLIAM J. BRY AP AIRS HIS VIEV Rc?iy for Scopes Trfcii. S*ys '*Ch tiftcity aru) Evolution are Eng? get! in Due? to the Death." Dayton. Tenn., July 7.?The c test between evolution and Christi ity is "a duel to the death," Willi Jennings Bryan declared tonigrht an address at a dinner given in honor by the Progressive Day Club in the dining room at the tel Aqua. "It has been in the past a de grapple in the dark," said Mr. Bry who arrived here today in prepi ykion Sot the trial oi John T. Sco] woo jh cnarged with violating Tennessee statute against teach evolution theories in the schools Ten ncssee. "From this time on it will bi death grapple in the light." 51 r. Bryan, who is associated v counsel for tire prosecution of young high school instructor, ' guest of the club which two we ago entertained Clarence Harrow defense counsel in the same din room The fundamentalist lea was introduced tonight by Wall Haggard, member of the prosecut counsel. A welcome to Dayton ' extended by John L. Godsey, U member of the defense counsel. Onr issue of the coming trial wl is scheduled to begin next Fri is whether the people shall rule the United States, the speaker as ted. The people are the only sou of the power he said, and will in end control. The dinner ended a day which Dayton has been one of the bus since the coming of Harrow, Bi bridge Colby and Dudley Field 1 lone. The arrival of Mr. Bryan sh ly afternoon followed the return John T. Scopes and Dr. John h chief defense counsel, from Cot ville where yesterday they filet petition for injunction to remove w^v iiwni ine vtf LUIS ieu< ^ court*. >lr. Bryan, from the train, woited to the home of ftich Bog< rs where he will make his hi quarters. Durirtg the afternoon, held n brief conference with Sue Hicks, Wallace C. Haggard. Ju J. G McKenzie and Herbert H: local members ol' the proaecui ?Uff. He viewed the court room m w! ihf trial will be held and visited r.ewspaper club room. Mr. Br told newspaper men he was " pared for the trial/' Mr- Bryan spoke following the ner which was attended by Johr Scopes member of counsel for I parties to the suit, leaders iri L ton's civic life, and newspaperr He avoided details of the Sc< ?ase, saying the case would not tried in the newspapers, but tu eourts. Three points, he said he c< discuss with propriety. Referring to the size of Bin Mr. Bryan said that "some of the papers" have spoken disparmglj the tov. r. "as if it were too s a place in which to hold to gre trial." "Why should the size of the t i be n matter of importance in the \ of a religious case." asked the sp er. "Christianity began in a a town! whether we date the begin with the hirth of Christ in Be hetn or with the youth of Chri: Nazareth. Why should not this pt ful community furnish a fitting vironnienl for the trial of a that involves the two greatest jectr. that interest mankind???c lion and religion. "The newspaper critics who been making fun of Dayton si read the front page of the which gave rise to this trial "The biology which ?i>e defer was teaching has us its frontispii picture of a crowded city street just below it the picture of a house on a quiet country Beneath the pictures is a sugge upon which the city editors r reflect with profit. This is the ment that the author of the makes upon the two pictures trasted: "Compare the unfavo artificial environment of a cro city with the most favorable en\ ment of the country." What is the secret of the w interest in this tittle ca4eT" speaker asked. "It is found ii fact that this trial uncovers a tack which for a generation has * SS ?1.50 Per Year BOONE. r i LOCAL KLANDMEN WILL STAGE CELEBRATION L/Hk Local members of the Invisible Em pire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are laying plana for a celebration to ,r,s- be held in Boone on July 23. l' | Klansmen from all over ihe adj joining counties and towns will be here by the hundreds and will form :on-' a grand parade and march in full Ian- regalia to the music of the fife and iam drum. in Some of the most prominent speahis kers of the State will deliver addresston es from the court house lawn. Ho- j An old time fiddlers convention i ...:n u - - t ??111 of one 01 tne many leatures cl ath the entertainment. They will Dlay in an, the court house and the theatre The ira- | best fiddlers of East Tennessee and oes. i Western North Carolina will be here, the Activities will start at sundown. ing of GENERAL MOTORS MAY ENTER BUS AND TAXI FIELD a a Chicago, June 29.?The Tribune j says that a consolidation of the Yelnth ! low Cab Manufacturing Company and the: six other companies of John Hartz was Chicago, with the General Motors eks( Corporation, is being worked out and of will be announced next week, ir.g Negotiations have been under way der in Chicago and Dertoit. among bankace era and officials, says the newspapers. ,ion The basis for the merger, which svas LaSalle street gossip says, would he >cai a sixty million dollar deal, is reported to be the desire of the General iich Motors Corporation to enter the moday tor bus and taxi cab manufacturing in field, the Tribune continues. ??r- Yellow manufacturing shares sold rce around $46 in the stock market yesthe verday, on which basis its 600,000 shares would represent around $27,for 000,000. General Motors common iest sold above $83. The respective merlin ket prices gave rise to opinion in fi!kfa nuncial circles that General Motors ort- wouia give nn snare ol its stock for of somewhere between one and a half feai and two shares of Yellow Manufac ke turing. 1 * the made more or less secretly upon rerral vealed religion, that is the Christian religion. We hare no knowledge of was it outside the Bible, which Christians iard regArd as the revealed will of God. ;ad-' The Bible is our only standard of h*i morality. It gives us our only coneepK.' tion of God and our only knowledge dge of Christ, the only begotten son of icks God. tion "Anything thai attacks the Bible attacks revealed religion. A suedch, tmfu! attack would destroy the the1 Bible and with it revealed religion, yan' "The contest between evoluton anc pre- Christianity is a duel to the death It has becrt in the past a death grap din- pie in the dark; from this time or i T. it will be a death grapple in th< >OW eigne. ror cms trial is going to givt Jay- information or be the means oi nen. bringing out information upon whict jpes this controversy wil! be decided, be "If evolution wins. Christianitj the goes-?not suddenly, of course, bui uuld gradually, for the two cannot stant together. They are as antagonistic ft on as light and darkness, as antagonis city tic as good and evil. Heretofore evo 7 of I lution has been like the 'pestilence mall i that walketh in darkness ' Heivafte at a 1 it will be 'the destruction that wast eth at noonday.' own "Opponents of Christianity undei trial stand the character of the struggle' eak- Mr. Bryan declared and from hence mall forward Christiana will understate ning its character he said. Christians, h thle- said believing chat "revealed relig rt in ion offers mankind the only abidini :ace-: truth . . will fight evolution a en-! their only great foe." If they ar case wrong they will of course be -iefea sub- ed and will be compelled to aiiundo luca- I the Bible as the word of God, he dt clared. have "If information furnished at th lould trial and brought out afterwards be book j cause of the trial shows evolutio i to h?* unnrovon And Ihumfnrt! ui idant worthy of acceptance, science "wi see a have to fall back upon demonstrate and truth, which has no terrors for Chr farm j tianity. road. I "Christianity is not afraid of tl stion j truth," Mr. Bryan exclaimed. "It o] night! ly opposes hypothesis put forth in tl com-1 name of science but unsupported I book ' facts." con- j Mr. Bryan's third point concernii rable' the fundamental principles of our gi wded ernment. nron- "Shall the people rule?" he crie " if not who shall?" orld's He insisted that the basic pri the ciples of the Tennessee anti-evoluti< n the law was the theory that the peop n at- speaking through the legislature hi been a right to control the public schoo WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAf Report of ( ou Tells of M ; The following is a report of the;J activities of the county agent as sub- 11 mitted to the Board of County Com- j1 j missioners on Monday. i< iREPORT OF STTEELE i Farm extension work is a method'1 of education, not a business man-p agement and must be considered as any other educational work would be 1 considered. To be open minded with a; desire to learn is conceded to be the] foundation of an education. My work! r ao county agent, in Watauga has fail ed or succeeded according as it has: ! First, caused the farmers to become interested in the problems of proper j croos. nrowr nmnftpl ' " f WI- ^' ' handling Second, given the farmers j instruction and demonstration?, that j will, if given lime, tend to produce j better economic and social conditions j The method of teaching is by the i use of demonstrations. I am not a' demonstrator hut a demonstration a- \ ; gent and it is my work to find farm! ers who are wiiing to demonstrate ! some practice so that, the whole poj> | ulation can see it My work is not | for the individual who does the work { any more than tor his neighbor On coming to the county three j years ago, I found of course, no work ; upon which to base plans or methods. : A great deal of experimental work j with crops arm folks had to he done land much is yet to he done) before a great deal of constructive progress j could he made. I first started with potatoes and gradually added other, things, either as demonstrations or, experiments, until I am now carrying, on twenty three line- work. It will be impossible in a short re-; port to discuss with thoroughness all I of these lines of work. I shall therefore say only a few words about each but am ready at any time to give 1 further information to any who are interested. It should be remembered however that the object of this work , i* to reach the masses of the io'ks "t?nd is not intended to be confined to those with whom the demonstra- ' tiotia are conducted. No statistics can be available as to the numbc influj enced by each demonstration. , since toe work or county agent | begun with potatoes it is logical to i begin this report in the same way. The need was for better quality and larger yield. This was best attained j I through an effort to produce eerti-1 , f ied seed and thereby being able to i direct more attention to the qualityj j of seed planted, proper treatment, t x cultivation and grading. Whether k; this work has been successful in onus ; ing farmers, those who are not grow^ ing seed as well as those who are, j j to give more attention to these things the members of the Board are in a r position to say. It is also the object j ^ of this work to assist the farmers j in developing a commercial crop in c seed potatoes. Seed from this county planted in caster|i Carolina, have j during the last two years, given an i average of 12 per cent better yield t than seed coming from northern states. 1 have this morning received I !) e ' 1 hi ft Had Wife Shot d, C. B. Davis, of Concordia, Kansas, confesses that ho paid gunmen -2,080 te ihsst his wife in a pren" ler.dsd hoWop. Savau Kaim City 3n uunmsn are ?wire arrest?two ad>le -r.itting thoy ware impifeaUd. Dan4 vis is a retired marchaai. is. P, %i'. - # ... ? ?9 tOLINA. THURSDAY JULY 9 1925 nty Agent uch Progress 1 i letter from Elizabeth h>\ the cen ter Qf? the potato growing industry in * pastern Carolina, stating that the indications are that our potatoes will v make a favorable comparison again ^ this year. I have a letter from Row- a an county which stays. '*1 have met up with a number of farmers that | planted of your seed in the spring r and the report:- all agreed in one j particular, namely, that the crop of c Cobblers they are now digging: is the most uniform that they have ever | f grown and the yield is highly .satis- J ' factory, notwithstanding wic of the * driest spring seasons ever known in * many years.*' We also have a letter from Georpa which states: "This car 5 of potatoes was the nicest which we * have ever seen, and this has been the { expression of every man out of the 1 200 who bougt s he: e seed potatoes " Another letter from Mount Olive says: "Mr. S. .L Warren. Manager s of the East Carolina Produce Exchange, asked me to find if your ' association would now make a con- 1 tract with him for 1,000 bags of your ' Seed Cobbler potatoes for delivery j 1 next December or January. Ke said : he would be willing to contract for! ; that many bags delivered at Mount 0'ive-?and so on. From all of our; shipments we have had only one > grower complain as to the results 1 obtained. j : The handling of these potatoes has j < necessarilv be^n exnonsiv?? because 1 of inadequate storing facilities and 1 machnery for handling. However in spitA of these severe handicaps and ! ; tfie^fact that the b u sin ess was new 1 and the seed iu-d to be introduced ' the 1923 crop netted the farmers < $i per huahei, the 1923 crop $1.67, * (Counting the 5c set aside for opera- ? ling capital) and the 1924 crop will net the farmers as soon as all bills < are cillected $.72. Present indications are that the 1926 crop will be hs good I err better than the crop of 1928. All < pavce averages $or potatoes must be ? considered by taking: two years to- < get her as the price fluctuates from J year to year with great regularity. All of the above indicates the possibilities of developing a large business growing seed potatoes but wheth < ef or r.at the seed business develops, i the attention directed toward the potato crop and the results obtained i' wiH multiply the potato business in j 1 the'county. This year we will start j' shipping eating potatoes to southern markets. Dealers are already lined up. In connection with the potato work it is logical to mention freight rates I have made two trips to Washington two to Johnson City and have writfnn OAtintluva Inif^ru in un t tt obtain more equitable freight rates from Boone to cities where we should likely sell our potatoes and other rcops These efforts have been successful in most cases so that we now have a freight, rate to most cities in (Continued an page six.) N THE NEW! | Wants 70,000,000 Dimes [ Doth Mtmc Km;!, Mcoxl "itu of the Chain Store Magn&tm, h*? aood for f7,000,000 of itock ta tho riurtM, which ahe u/a bar h"*?h**d promUwi ht>?Mm Uw; "w wirrW. 5 Cb. aCopy BANNER ELK SCENE 1 OF BEAUTIFUL WEDDING \ A .mple but beautiful wedding ook place at 5 o'clock Tuesday afemoon at the home of Mr and Mrs. o H. West, when their daughter Eth I Elizabeth became the bride of C. ). Graham of Gadwin, N. C. The living room was decorated in -hite arid yellow, the color scheme C eing carried out with native shrubs 8 nd flowers, ferns and daisies pre- c ominating. The improvised altar was F eautifu! with ferns and candelabra j tolding white tapers. 1 j c Rev. C. M. Triplett, brother in law i v kf the bride, officiated. i Just before the bridal party en- < ered Miss Edr.a Triplett sang "I 1 -.ove You Truly," accompanied by' J Urs. Edgar Tufts, who rendered the j 2 >rida! music The bride was attended by her' t sister Mrs. Rosa B Jones as dame 1 < >f honor. She was attired in flower-1 < h! georgette and carried an arm bou-l 1 ju?;t of daisies and fern. t The groom was accompanied by 1 Mr. John H. Triplett of Charlotte s is best man. 1 The bride entered with her dame 1 if honor, joining the groom and his : lest man at the altar, where the sol iti') and impressive ring ceremony*'' ivas performed. During the ceremony 1 'To a Wild Rose" was played softly < ir.d sweetly on the violin by Mise < Margaret Tufts. 1 The bride was lovely in a simple J1 jown of white chiffon, her veil was | < .vorn coronet style, and was trimmed 1 n daisies. She carried an arm bou- t |uet of daisies and fern. j I Relatives and a few intimate 1 friends attended the wedding. ? Immediately after the ceremony < in informal reception was held, af- < ;er which Mr. and Mrs. Graham left t for a motor fcrip to Ashevilte and >fcher points in western North Caro-j ina, after which they will be at home 1 r. Savannah, Ga. Out of town guests for the wedlirig were Mrs. L S. Inace, Nashville C., Mrs. Luei'le liiscoe, Casta lis, i V. C., Mr. D. A.. Graham, Olio, 3. J jh Mrs-'I. C. Tripled.. Charlotte; Mr. < ind Mrs Robert L. West, Boone, N. t X, and Mr.'and Mrs. C. 3d. Triplett I *nd family, Charlottb, N. C. 1 i ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH Sunday School at 10 a. m. at the ourt house. Preaching service at 11 o'clock by Marion Browning. Music by the Cu- i l>oit band, with two saxophones, mellophone and violin, and good singing by all. Services Sunday evening at S o'clock. Everybody invited. DIRECTORS WATAUGA BANK HOLD MEETING The regular meeting of the Direc- j tors of the Watauga County Bank ' was held on Monday the 6th. Money is very close in the county now but conditions are considered sound and a little more economy on the part of the people generally should put the county in good shape. A four per cent semi-dividend was paid to the stockholders. I . Your Friend? If poor taeoma Is under fo.OOO ? }m rt.ts fellow b pour friend. Ms b VI. S. Sanator Harris of Cfeuifo, wfca pUss to put through omwn exempting married fete wWk blitoM Mb ICjQOfc. Eight Pages This Week NUMBER 27 iYEST LOOKS TO MORE ROAD WORK tate Will Concrete Highway No. 60 Through Boone and We#t ward into Tcancfitfe Sparta, July 2.?Captain C. S. urrier. seventh district, highway en:inecr, stated here trfay that his fores are ready to go to work laying aving through the town of Boone ust as soon as the city commission* rs of that town install sewer and vater line3. The town of Boone, it s understood, now has a bor.d issue obligation oi upwards of $100.--000 'or the purpose of giving the town in up-to-date system e-f waterworks md sewer lines. Of interest also to residents of bat section of northwest North Carolina >> the statement made tolay by Captain Currier that his. road forces will soon start the laying of ;arvia on the grave! surface of the Boone Blowing-Rock highway and as soon as that is finished the highway from Boone city limits to the Terilessee state lir.e will be treated with t like covering of material. The seventh district engineer's work on the Boone Blowing Rock Highway has been the subject of wide romment of a favorable nature and chief engineers from Georgia who n si ted North Carolina to get a first land idea of this state's road work, :omplimer.t?-d both the Blowing Rock -oad ami the one leading from Boone f ho ToifinPWiiO Hnn Tko Uffnic l>no >een constructed some tome and it las been withstanding the heavy nnuntatn traffic well, being in fine condition at the present time. A coat if tarvia for both roads wi!! insure heir permanency. ftOONE TEAM DEFEATS NORTH WILKESBORO TWINS The North Wilkesboro baseball cam blew into town last Tuesday roll of confidence, expecting to give >ur local teem a severe trouncing as .hey had licked them in their own aack yard to a tone of j o 3. Thin game however was a much better [>ne from the local standpoint, the final score being d to 2 in favor of Boone. ?t was a pitcher*a hatUo between iiiggin? of the Twins and Jenkins of the locals up to the sixth inning. At this <age of the game Kiggins was jerked in faVcr of Reins their big speed ball artist. Our boys fell upon his offerings and coupled with his wildness pushed over four runs before the side could be retired. The feature of the game waf the heavy hitting of the entire Boone team led by their flashy short stop Bare, with four clean hits, including a four bagger and the airtight twirli n (r nf JunVirifi Batteries?N. W Reins & Hendren Boone Jenkins and Bean. Umpire MeBane?Guilford. Official Scorer?Isaacs. SPRINKLE Oil MAN SELLS FOR CASH AND SKIPS On Tuesday a young man by the name of Hartley of Lenoir? driver for the Sprinkle Oil Co. of that town made his round as tar as Boone, selling for cash?no checks taken? until he had accumulated about $250 He returned as far as Blowing Rock put the company's oil wagon in the storage and lei'i for parts unknown. Officers from Boone gave chase hut without results. So far as is known he is stili at large. Wc are told that vie .luuiiji iiiiiit ic 41 ami 141 ?> ancr Hartley, formerly of Watauga. BOONE BAPTIST CHURCH We are always glad to see you at j tlie Baptist church. We hope to have all our own people out next Sunday. We need vour help and the services will be a great blessing to you. Many of the teaehfcrs will be leaving this week. We are giad you have been with us, and hope that you may return. We are always glad to have the teachers attend our church. Next Sunday we have Sunday School at 10 a. m. and worship at 11 a. rn. and 8 p. nr. B. Y. P. Us meet it 7 it m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. in. Coma out aod be with as.
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