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VOLUME XXXVII. $ By^Arthur^Jrisban^^^ ' ' 1SEXICO WORKS ) THE DEVIL A BUILDER WE FEAR TO JUMP A *10,000,000 TRAIN The J. G. White Engineering Cor-1 j poration undertakes a $30,000,000.00 irrigation scheme for Mexico. Any- j thing that helps Mexico pleases us, j \ BUT what about the waters of the ^ Colorado River that wander, wasted j through the United States and then ; down into Mexico. As fast as she uses water for ir-; :npatioii Mexico establishes an inter- j national right with which this coun- ^ try must not interfere. ^ While western states are fighting' a* to which shall have the water that | * grues through the deep canyon while! ^ private power companies block any cue of that water, fearful that the people may get the benefit, Mexico will establish a claim and out states ilnough which the great river passes will Oe informed that they mast not draw off enough water to interfere 1 with Mexico's established irrigation right*. 1 President Coolidge might interest him elf in that. It may become a se- 1 ^ rious problem for himself or his successors. T Three of the largest, richest Lu- j.' tberan churches in New York are | ^ considering a merger, the combina- i lion to build a skyscraper with a j J church tucked away in it, according j tc modern ideas. ^ *1 How would-that impress Martin . Lather who sayj* in his ''Table Talks" *1\or where God built a church there ifec devil would also build a chapel." ^ if the Lutherans build a sky scrapes churrh would the devil find it Accessary also to build a skyscraper chapel? Reverend James S. Montgomery, j * chaplain of the House of Represen- ^ tatives, puts the modernist and fundamentalist problem in few words: "Modernists say, "There ain't no j JieH." Fundamentalists say, -'The hell j ^ there uin't." | The average man saysr. "There may 11 or there may nut be, sueh a super- ^ heated resort. But to avoid running: risks I will behave decently." You may add that he doesn't a- ' mount to much who rfrains from sin' cnlv because he fears he hiav go to I- he"' _ ' 1 ! . - ' F Great Britain with her rubber mon- ; i opoly takes from this country about $700,000,000 a year, more than enongh to pay her debt to us. By way of reprisal the Massac'iu- ^ scits Legislature is asked to drive out ; * British insurance companies. Such c talk is foolish- Uncle Sam, his pockets bulging with gold, and playing the part of a "cry baby" makes himself . li nnnecessanly ridiculous. ' Besides in the California five En-j c y.? glish insurance companies paid what they owed in full, which is more than | can be said in some. American com- <J I TTTlTlieS. J I \ ? yr ataii 1.50 P?r Year BOONE. Wi nifvancehenkel dies wednesday .. I Atl .Vataugans Mourn Death of States-: ^ ville Citizen, Well Known Here 'n for Many Years. i 1 Mr. C. Vance Henkel of Statesville j CO! mown and admired by Wataugans, lied at his homo last Wednesday, i CO) \s many of our people are interested ive take the following excerpts from 1,0 he article appearing in the States- i vc fille Landmark, touching the life and ! career of this beloved citizen. ! ral Mr Columbus Vance Henkel was 58 '10 (rears old, having been born in Ca- j ,a ;awl>a county near Conovcr, May 21. i ei* 1867. He was a son of Cicero and u' \lenora Henkel, a grandson of David ^ Henkel, author of books on Lutheran :heology, and a gveat grandson of 111 Paul Henkel, compiler of sacred mu- 'ia ?ic. an When a young man Mr Henkel went .o Lenoir and entered the live stock business with his brother, Mr. L. P. 'K* henkel, under the firm name of Hen ;to a-1 Brothers. January 12. 1898, he narried Miss Lila Dunavant of Mor- at janton and about a year later rr.ov- ^ d to Statesville, where he and his an amily had since lived. The Henkel Livestock Co. of States dilc was organized with Mr. Henkel is one of the principal stoc kholders, ind officers of the company. The Co. \ cC1 vas later reorganized under the name j ?f Henkel-GYaig Livestock Company , md Henkcl's connection with it con- ! inued. ' j In addition to his business eonnec- j ions and activities here, Mr. Henth* ;el had other prominent} business con j lections. He was promoter of. the j a r Bowing Rock development and was ( resident of the Green Park Hotel Company at Blowing Rock, anl also to r>?i. n 1? a srn iic uiu?|u^ ikuv.i\ L/uv^iyjJHieiii \jOii:inny. To him and his brother, Mr. L. \ Henkel, more than anyone else, due the establishment of the urhpike "road from Lenibr to Blowing Rock. They spent years in time nd effort for this accomplishment ?hich will sUind as a memorial to Lhi heir industry. The Vanee Hotel of Statesville is chi mother monument to the enterprise , ind industry of Mr. KenkeU When itj vie eemed certain that efforts to pro-; co1 ide a hotel for the city had failed 1 Ir. Henkel took hold and with the p^ inancial help of. others accomplish- ^ d the building: of the hotel that is a w<< rcdit to him and the city. In addition to being president of he Vance Hotel Company, he was resident of the Henkel-Morrow Co., p > ice president of the Henkel-Craig J)u] 'ompanjOand a director in a number )>uj f local business institutions. ^ At the time of his death he was ^ ^ .ctively engaged in several local real state developments that mean much ov< o the qjffivth of the city and county. ouj Mr. Henkel was a deacon in the irst Presbyterian church and memior of the local Masonic lodge Wood-: len of the World, and probably othr organizations. He was a man of y ronderfuj business vision and ability tof iiid accomplished much. He was libral in his response to charity. joj. : da; Brimkin:?"What has four les and eaves?" *'P The Boob:?"A mouse?when the at^ appears, n11 That, evolutionists say, why we [ream so often of falling, and it ex- cn< ilains womens' horror of snakes. The lakes could crawl out along the imb, and stical the sleeping baby rom its mother. Any good anti-evilutionist. of coursd, could prove to 'ou that that's nonsense. Make a good .mousetrap, and. as Yc rou know, the world will wear out an.1 i path to your door. Run a railroad yd veil and your path across the con- ; ?f 1 inent will also be well used. The j Twentieth Centurv, New York Cen- mi ral train between New York and Chi vo :ago, ran in seven sections one way j ind six the other recently. Its man- ceigers proudly announce that they ook in in on that train $10,000,000 ast vear. ; fr< It costs more to o from New York -vo o Chicago no wcomfortably than it ;ar' lid to go from New York to Liver- j K>ol on the fine old steamship Spain j sic ?irst class, years ago. The "flying ma- , bu :hine will correct that. Men of mid- be He age will live to read this: "Chi- j a\* :ago to New York in -.three hours, j la1 lourd trip $25." . j Good-bye to the horse. Los Angeles I 1 is the first city to have "no-horse" ; f stneecs. Washington forbids horse- r. drawn vehicles on four important ; \ thoroughfares. That v/ill spread. tua a. i?+\.~ rnv rainac ra uappici in nic juuuilgjl try,. away from hard streets. He is j 3 no longer necessary in the city?no I ^ excuse for him. Even if he were a \ ' little cheaper for some work, which t . is doubtful, he should vanish. Get a T P truck. t j-c| Eight men and ine women tried to i kill themselves in Venice on one day % last week. "General misery" is the t explanation. Gas was the favorite ex- ] it. fevolvers are so expensive. Jumping from a height is even surer and cheaper than gas. There is no turn- t ir?g back ohce you start down. < ^ But those tired of life arc usually x weak in will and it takes will to jump \ / into, space, men since their alleged t eKrly free* days having had bred in < iliedTi an intense aversion to falling < off.the limb. 1 * ' Lga VTAUGA COUNTY, NORTH C A CORRECTION Last week we announced that, thri orniation received tlom Mr. Kels; kins, the Whiting Lumber ('<>. a nils Mills would resume operation ihe very near future, intimatinj li ail obstacles had been overcom to the righto of way etc., to th mpany's big timber holdings on th aeh Creek. Now the informatio mes on authority that such is ne ; case, as all the rights of way h&v t yet been secured and possibly m r win us more tfian one of ou oil citizens over whose lands th ilroad would pass, cannot see jus w it would benefit them to have ilroad cutting: through their proj ty. To the onlooker it iseasy to sc lat the road would mean fir.ancia to all the people along the rout >m Shu I Is Mills to Beech Creek. Di ig the years it would take to cu ul and manufacture the million d millions of feet of as: fine tin i as ever grew in the mountain; ini three to five hundred men \vi on the pay roll of the compact, say nothing of the convenience o ving freight delivered practical! their own doors. It occurs to u it right now when taxes arc hig d the people at large are narl u r money, a pay roll in Watauga c is size, that will run from ten t teen years, should meet with th arty cooperation of the people coi rned. There is one dangerous altcrnativ this right of way cannot be sc red the survey may be changed, gc ? down Elk and into Tennessee is taking from Watauga the big ?t money distributor to all classe it has ever come our way. Thi natter for Aeep thought on the par our people. Mr. Atkins was not in the leas blame for the error in the para lph published, as he gave us. th ormation as given to him by on 0 was supposed to know the facts METHODIST NOTES The Sunday School reported a: endanco of 172 last Sunday am a scholar's present expressed a portant conviction that the weathe mid not keep them away from th inch. The attendance at the worship ser 'OS, Blowing; Rock, was good als ncidcring the weather. Ilr. John Earp died last week an ,s buried Friday at Boone. Mi rp was a member of the Methodis urch for about 25 years, and hi s a hard worker and a good man is survived by seven children am jut twenty five grand children. Real Winter seems to be the I'm rtant feature of the New Yeai 1 along with it comes blessings am nors of a greater prosperity. Th pic earth seems to be manifesto); The Methodists continue to rejoic ir the spirit that has put the churel t of debt. Indeed it was the spivi it said "Act!" Te same spirit eai greater things. A strong notion i powerful thing in a community iy Boone have that notion this Ne\ ar to be the best place in liar his yThe officers of the Womans Miss lary Society wili'be installed Sun y morning just before the sermon Sunday School Sunday 9:45 p. in n Time" is a great slogan. Preaching Sunday morning and ev lg by the pastor. Epworth League Wednesday prayer service tnhj >ir practice 7 p. m. A welcome is extended to all. BEAUTY "Example is better than precept, u beautify your home surrounding d see how many more will follo\ ur example than heed the precept tered here. If you.talk up your town and con mity and at the same time mak ur home lawns beautiful you wi; exertir. 'he influence of both pre pt and example. How much tht ly mean! You can plant trees and shrnbber >m . . ovember to March. Selct urs now. They are in abundantound you on every hand. The trees and flowers are sweet 1 :cping during the cold wintry day: t soon they will be waking to proa auty and joy around us. Will thes ake and shed their beauty or. yoii ;vns and home surroundings.? , J. M. DOWNUM. , Den :AK0I.INA THURSDAY JANUARY 1< MORE COOPERATION NEEDED j( IN LOCAL CHEESE INDUSTRY k _ y I \Y ritten-for the Democrat, ti In 1'Jl i the first cheese factory in Sjthe south was organized and built at \ j! Sugar Grove, North Carolina and call e ?d the Cove Crock Cooperative cheese j e Factory. The promoter, Mr F. R. Far-; e1 num had a hard time convincing the , n sufficient number of citizens that it 't would be a paying proposition. But J e finally he succeeded in raising suffi- j j cient funds to start on a very small' r scale but we had not gone very far e. until those interested began to re- , 't ceive a monthly check for their sura plus milk, a product they had hither- i )- to given away or thrown away. All e this time the project was being closely 1- watched by the entire community and e tms monthly check business began to i- be attractive and finally almost cvit cry farmer within a radius of two , is miles was selling milk and getting a ?- monthly check and was happy. 5, The factory continued to grow II until the annual output was from 50y to (i0,000 lb. annually which brought f tn the farmers in this territory $10,y (K)0 to $12,000, a sun*, that bought s sugar and coffee and paid taxes. But I h this was before this foolhardy pro-' p! gress got hold of our leaders who 'f were so anxious to climb the laddero of fame, chat they were willing, if e . need bo, to crush the farmer into obi j livion under oppressive taxes to at tain to their goal. Well, they have ao bout crushed him, hut just how far > they have gotten up the ladder of! i- fame remains to be seen. ;?; But bnck to the cheese factory (we j 1 may pay our respects to taxation at | s some future time). Then the war s j came, and with it high prices?milk 11 t was bringing 25 tc? 30 cents per gal-j Ion. Everyone was prosperous and j t happy and felt like we were literally I - getting rich. Then the war closed and | t e with the close came deflation, milk. , e went back to 10 to 15 cents the gul' j Ion. it has been extremely hard for ; the producers to adjust themselves to j the low 2r prices. Hence this fine spir-j, | it of Cooperation, heretofore existing, | j ; was temporarily crippled. But with ; , n all these difficulties and obstacles we j , rjare firmly convinced that cheese makc | iiig offers to the farmers of Watauga i , a source of income that possibly can , ? ! not be equalled by any other one in-n? dustry. VJ],I d Wc believe that if the farmers of., Watauga would turn a part of their j, vt' time and energies to the manufacture! B of fine quality cheese, which we have : (?vcry facility for doing that the sheriff could collect the taxes more easily and very soon an eight months school 1 " . tern: would be possible. Therefore we *' invite the farmers to think the thing over seriously and if you decide to ^ ; go into it. do it cooperatively. ' We especially appeal to the patrons of the Cove Creek O.hcuse Fac- j e tory that we do our dead level best j in producing quantity ami quality of * milk; for upon the quality of milk de- ] n j pends largely the quality of cheese j sj we shall turn out, and remember ai% " j fine quality of cheese is always in ( " demand at fair prices. Let us pull \ together oricc- again and fighi the: fight courageously?* keep the spirit of cooperation joyously and jet lis get! the spirit of Kipling: ' " It amt the guns or armament L Nor the tune the band can play But it's close coopreation e That makes win the day; ] It ain't the individual Nor the. army as a whole ^ But the everlasting teamwork Of every bloomin' soul." ! !! THE NEWS OF COVE CREEK David Mast has reentered the Un ,, I iversity for. the remainder of the: 'year. He closed a very successful term III of school at Phillips just before the ^ j noiiaays. Prof. N. T. Bjjers has been added : to the faculty of the high school in j order that the eighth grade, 57 in ^ j number, might be divided. Misses Virginia Bingham, Annie ^ j Mae Sherwood, Amy Benson and JenI nie Mast, who have been teaching in I the county will enter the State NorV i mal at Boone for work during the :t j spring quarter. ei Mrs. Hattie Swift Johnson has ta- i | ken a position with her brother in j y j law, Mr. Stanley Harris of Chattons,! ooga, as a stenographer, d Mr. J. S. Miller has gooe to Flor;e ida to work for several weeks. Lr' Albert, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. / Wilson has come home after having f been in the west for several months. ' x-rlL I, 1926 5 Cts. aCopy 3EEK U7S. AID ON BOONE TRAIL Plea Originates in Yadkinville for Benefit of Highway Its Mertis Cited Talk of More Cement. (L. J. Hampton in Winston Journal) Yadkinville, Jan. 12. ? Chairman A. B. Kobson of the Yadkin county road board has affixed his signature ? the resolutions passed by his board requesting the federal road authorities to designate highway no. 60. the Boone Trail as a part of the federal highway system. A week ago today the countv pon>missinnt?rs pnt 0. K. on the resolution and it vas signed by the board chairman ..J N. Davis. It. is understood that the Kiwanis club of North Wilkesboro, the road commissioners of Wilkes and the county commissioners of that county, . have also endorsed the resolutions, wiich will be forwarded to Chairman F rank Page of tlie state highway j c< mmission, who will be asked to in ti rn forward it to the federal antl orities with the request that the Boone Trai will be designated as a n ttionul Highway Hear of Paving People of Yadkin county as well a< Wilkes and the people further to tlie west are jubilant over the curr nit report that the hardsurfacing contract of that section of the Boone Trail between North Wilkesboro and Brooks Crc-o roads will be let oil j February 3, next. There have been m: nv rumors ancnt the proposal to ha dsurface this particular stretch of the Boone Trail, but recent newspa-- j pei dispatches and editorial comment indicate that the slate is to now let the hardisurface contract on.the thir Ly mile section, three miles of which already has had its hardsurface coat* iriK. thus settling the matter f speculation as to when it will be done. The contractor who built the concrete highway vfrom here to the Yadkin nvcr has stated that he will undertake the building of the six mile section between Yadkinville and the Brooks Gross Roads for approximately $10,000 a miic less than the contract price of the road justfinished. It inexpensive to move road machinery and equipment, and the contrac- j tor states that he can well afford to I ih) it for less money on account of j the fact that his equipment is now all ; upon the ground and his force waiting to pro to work either here or j elsewhere Sjl The resolutions passed bv both the rpad hoard and the county commis- ; sior.ers of Yadkin county are as fol- i lows: Resolution- by the board of county commissioners of Yadkin county N. V. asking that route No. CO, known us the Boone Trail, he paced on the federal highway map, and it be designated as a part of the federal highwav sy stem. Wheleas, Route no, popularly known in the northwestern part of this state as the Bcor.c Trail, branches off front Route 4Q at Castle Hane, in the vicinity of Wilmington and traverses the state in northwesterly direction via Clinton, Lillington, Sanfovd, Siler City, Liberty, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Yadkinville, Wiikesboro and Boone, N. C. and penetrate s the Tennessee border Iftween the ^nosi^eroizs Tennessee cities, Johnson City and Bristol, and as originally projected was and is one of three or four most important highway routes in the state; it directly connects the Southeastern with che northeastern section of the state; it touches some of the most important eommercial and industrial centers of the state; its connection with other important routes in the state are very convenient; it traverses the very heart of the so-called Lost Provinces and opens up to the traveling public an attractive and convenient way to the important and rapidly leveloping tourist centers of Boone and Blowing Rock. It offers the tourist more in the way of romance and interest in pioneer history than any other, route in the state; and it finally point the way directly and uncrrignly to the groat northwest beyond the AlleKhanies; Therefore be it resolved, that we request the State Highway Commission to use its active influence to place this route on the federal highway map and have it adopted as a part of the federal highway system as early as may be. INorth Wilkesboro, Jan. 12.?It was 1 jj NUMBER ONE normal\arge Alircst 100 More Now Than Last Winter-?Reservations for Summer Term Already Being Made. The Normal has already received quite a number of reservations for the Summer School the coming summer, which indicates that the enrollment for the summer will be large. The enrollment at the present time is nearly one hundred more than at this time last year, the entire number being I25i The College Department has at present nearly twice .the number it had at this time last year and the high school department just a few less. The College has enrolled 25 since the holidavs and thr? bin-h t-vhrwil department 12. Prof. Jordan Billing, a former graduate of the High School Oepartment, a graduate of Wake Forest College, and now teaching in the High School at Banner Elk. was a welcome Visitor ut the chapel exercises on the 7th, and made a good talk to the student body. The Normal feels that it has sustained a great loss in the death of i one of its Trustees, Mr. Vance Hen! kel of Statesville. The Ffenkel family h,*is always shown a deep interest in the school here, and Mr. Honkel has ! shown an especial interest since he has been a member of the Board of Trustees. President Dougherty went to Statcsville Sunday to attend the funeral of Mr. Ilenkol. This makes two f the Trustees that have passed away within a year, the other being Hon. E. S. Coffey of Boone. They both rendered most excellent service for the advancement of the interests of the Normal and will be greatly miss ed. Boone and this section of the county have been having some wintry weather for the past few days. A snow of about six or eight inches covers valleys, hills and mountains, and amid it fro?;t Hk ice ha>- eovei-ed fchiu trees on the mountains, making a scene so charming that it may well he called a chrysta! mount, a scene seldom or never known out of the mountains. I. M. DOWNUM The best way to escape being held up nowadays is to get yourself locked up. JBcauty doctors are arguing over which the more beautiful, the feminine elbow or knee. Must be a joint discussion Vi 1 canted here this afternoon that the Wilkes Commercial Club and the local Kiwanis Club have also endorsed the resolutions which the Vadkir. county road board and commissioners asking the federal government to dei signate highway no: GO, known as the Boone Trail, at a fcdelul highway . The matter was taken up with Con. gresseman R . L. Doughton and Chair man Frank Pffip h'v .1 P. Finlov ?if ; the Kiwnnis Club. It is significant to j note in this connection that Chairman : Page went through Washington the other day on his way to the national ; road meeting in Chicago. His purI pose at Washington was to consult : with North Carolina senators and j representatives in the matter of designation of federal routes through j this state. Attorney F. B Hendren has also taken the matter up with Senator A. F. Sams and has sent resolutions similar to the one passed by the two Yadkin boards to Boone. Winston- Saiem and Gieensboro, and one to Clin ton, Sampson county, the latter in care of Major George F. Butler with the request that action be taken at once upon them County officials and private citizens of Boone immediately assured Mr. Hendron that favorable action would be taken and Senator Simmons wrote acknowledgement of the request declaring that he would do everything in his power to have the Boone Trail designated upon the federal map. Highway No. 60 runs from the Atlantic coast to the Tennessee line pas sing through many important towns and cities and traversing one of the most thickly populated rural portions of the whole state. That it should be designated as a federal highway is conceded on all sides. It is Jioped that federal aid funds can be given to this highway in order to complete it beyond the Tennessee line, so that i easy passage for east and west traf
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