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0 VOLUME XXXVU. This Week ! By Arthur Brisb?i?e TIME, SPACE, DIZZINESS CARTER BOUQUETS NO TYPINAL BOY POOR OLD WOMAN The scientists that hcarrl from +i? learned Chicago astronomer Mouttoi ^aboufc the earth's probable age, om million billion years, practically al of It still ahead of us. heard also a boi.t the size of our corner of spac< ou: "galaxy" in which the sun is a a grain of sand. It is shaped like a watch, its di rot.isions are thirty thousand ligh ye^rs through from front to back two hundred million light years thri th~ wide way. across the face of tin watch. To get the distance across ouj galaxy multiply the number of sec cods in two hundred thousand yean by one hundred and eighty six thou sa.vl miles, which will give you something over a quintriilion of miles written with one, followed by eight teen zeros, according to rapid, probably inacurrate figuring on the edge of a newspaper. let your little boy do the num. But remember there are in that galaxy of ours about one billion suns, many of them a million times as big as our own sun, which is a million ttix.es as big as our own earth. Awd the billion suns move about like bees in a swarm. If two of them come too close together the planets of both suns are instantly wiped out & of existence. That happens >m)jr ortce in a million, billion yearn, on ihe average. but it might happen any day, therefore it is well to be nlwavs nre pared with a clean slate. i The sgarter-bffiffiuet" of real flowera is announced in Philadelphia, forSret-me-nots, presumably worn just below the knee. Women spent centuries hiding their legs even with the dresses sweeping microbes from the ground. Now they exhaust ingenuity calling attention to their legs. Pink stoc ings, strange garters, slippers that look like a set of gold pony harness no stockings, sometimes, high tide spirts. It is puzzling, but you may be sure that ha^k of it aM usefulness and wisdom are at work.. Man's dull dress evolution is about'over. Woman's is oruy starting. :: 1$ m 11 WSse officials of. Silesia order cats as well as dogs muzzled. A good idea but it isn't enough. Cats and dogs should be shaved, as well as muzzled, to make them safe for children that play with them. If a mother, al lowing her child to play with a cat ' had microscopic eyes, and could see ther disease germs that thrive in the cat's fur, fshc would shave that cat and wash it with a weak solution of carbolic acid. * Philadelphia's' fVistar Institute, a part of the University of Pennsylvania. specializes in breeding white I rats, cousins of the gray rats, not ordinary sewer rats that carry the plague. Therats live and breed in a special rat establishment costing $60,000 and are shipped to scientific bcdic: all over the world, including Japan * that scientists may work on "stan rl > rvl iooH rofo*' nnH enTYino rp rpcnHc satisfactorily. v? ? The rats live, die and submit tc disease infection, knowing as iittl< as human beings know about the.whj or wherefore. Little do they know that their tissues, structure, growt.l and digestive processes happen to re semble those of men, and tjiat thej breed, live, die, only to save a highei race from death. Even so, they know as much as we do about primal cau ses and final purposes. Why are we breeding and dying? 3 A poor old woman, aged seventy one, is found dead in a wretche< tenement, no furniture', a few dr crusts and six thousand dollars, i] three banks. Unjustly' this old lad; is called "Miser." Interest on six thoi hhhs 1 m - $1.50 Per Year BOON! WOODROW WILSON BIRTH PLACE MEMORIA . The following are the chairmen c - the Executive Committees for thei respective sections of Watauga cour ty and will select their own commii tees: Mrs. T. H. Coffey, Blowing RocV j Mrs. W. \V. Mast, Valle Crucis. Mr. W. F. Sherwood, Sherwooc Mr. W. S. Farthing. Sweetwater. Mr. B. T. Taylor, Stony Fork ar Mr. Harrison Baker. Sands. These will be informed in due tin when the donations ate to be reeei' ed. In the mean time they will ha> selected their committees to take u the canvass. I am sending them son R, literature and shall send some moi 11 -later. Mr. G. F\ Hagumun, Boone e'i Treasurer 1 With best wishes I am ready t help you in any way .1 can. .1 M. DOWNUM, County Chairmai BOONE BAPTIST CHURCH t We would be glad to have you i 1 Sunday School and preaching serv ' | ces Sunday. The time is 10 and 1 r | a. m. also 7 p. m. Subject Sunday morining, "Jjot ' j Choice." Sunday evening "Soul Prosperity B. Y. P. Us meet "at G p. m. Praj ' cr meeting and choir practice Wee ' nesday 7 p. m. A special collection was token la* Sunday to help pay off the debt on o ; Foreign Mission Board. The colieetio j amounted to $53 which taken wit what the V-. M. S. cave amounted t 182.00. It is our aim to make it $10 If those who were not at churc Sunday will hand their offering t the church treasurer A. Y. Howcl it will help, Any Baptist ought t make some contribution howeve small. It will count and help ou Baptist Foreign Mission Work. ' Foreign Mhsicn Debt* To the pastors and churches? of th Three Forks Association, greeting The Baptist state convention set th 2nd and 3rd Sundays in this mont i for North Carolina Baptists to d their pan in raising the debt o our Foreign Mission Bojud. The oth j er states put it on the last of Decern ' bar. The reports coming are gratify : ing. Many churches and individual ! are making a sacrifice. One paste of a ssnali church challenged other with a gift of $1000. Churches, B. Y P. Us, Sunday School classes and \V M. Societies\are responding in a fin spirit. One little .working girl gav $26. Will the churches of the Thre Forks Association have a part in thi sacrificial service? Will the pastor challenge the chnrehcs to do their du tyV Let the pastors give and eali o: ^the members to give Everyone cai do something. It is not too late b take the collection. *'Go ye into al ; the world and preach the gospel t every creaturei" F. M ihjGGINS. IsS ' ""P ' 0I<1 Bill i.s so abxcntni'mdcd th? ; he tried to light the fie with aspai j agiis and cook the kindling. The doctor advised him to take ' complete rest, so he's running fo j congress. i sand dollars would give her less tha ! eighty cents a day. You can't LIV] on that, although you can keep go : ing if you.rummage in garbage can and pick up fruit dropped by pec dlers as Mrs. Deutscher did. Our standard of living has chong ' j ed. About 100 years ago one wort ' man in the United States could ear J $1 a day ail the year around. Xlelestino Fabietti, marriage cler ' in Rome for twenty three years say ; marriage is an art. to Know a ma : well watch him closely when he pn pounces the fatal "Yes." Men ai more afraid of marriage than wi men, says Fabietti, and a child migl know that Schopenhauer calls marriage a fi male conspiracy to make every ma support one woman all her life. Tha says he, is why women are merciles ly crufel to other women that do n< insitst on marriage. The fact is that marriage is training school for men; women ai - the professors, and progress is slo\ 1 But since thij world is to last i r Professor Moulton of Chicago On i versity > says,. 1 ,oeo,000,?00,006,(?( f years more, there will be plenty < i time to train husbands. . ; ; . w". >... ' ' . , . rr(a8B uga l. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH Ci MRS. YATES INTERRED TUESDAY L OTHER NEWS FROM LENOIR >f Special to the Democrat, ir i The burial of Mrs. Clad Yates, ?- , who died in Rochester, Minn, several t- days ajro, was heid Tuesday inorniiip at 11 o'clock at Jefferson, her old t; ! home. The funeral services were conducted here in the First Baptist I; | church Monday morning: at 11> o'clock j and were conducted by Dr. W. C. id1 Tyree. her pastor. Numerous beau1 Hfl'.l flftml <?- ? I ?n.i.?vvo I'trtl 1-vaVIIIIUfiy le: to the high esteem in which she was v- - held. The pall bearers were Messrs c N. H. Gwyn, Jenc Pearson, Emory :p McCall. Otis Hedrick. F. N. Blackle ; well and H. E. Merritt. Members of *e the Efird .force took charge of the is flowers. Mrs. Yates, before her marriage in ,o 1921, was Miss Roxie Vannoy. She ; was bom and raised in Ashe county and immediately after her marriage l. came to Lenoir to live. During her stay here she made scores of friends. She was up until about December in the employ of Elrd's Department ?t Store. Some time in November?or i- December she was taken to a StatesI villc hospital Cor an examination and treatment, and spent several weeks '? there before going to Rochester. When Dr. Long found how serious her case was he advised her to go r- to the Mayo Brothers, and her husl : band took her immediately. Two opj orations were performed, but she st; was unable to recover. It is said r her cas" was the third of the kind n | on record. After her death her full j fcher reached Rochester and returned o I with the body which reached Mor0 i ganton Sunday evening. A large h concourse of friends from the Bapo tist church, Efird's store and the Mer II'..". ' n - ? ?. | rm motor t.ompany met tne party at ? | Morganton and aceompunied the be'** reaved people here. Just before* the r second operation wan performed Mrs Yates wrote a letter to Dr: W. G. Tyrep, stating that) she was putting' fief trust in the Lord. This letter | e was read at the funeral and brought tears to the eyes of all present. Mrs. ? Yates was only 211 yea its old. She is h ;survived by her husband, father four ? sisters and two brothers, all of whom n attended the funeral services atrd bu~ J rial. Messrs R. D. M'cCullcy, Ni. H'. i- Gwyn and Gene Pearson attended - the burial in Ashe county. s ' r The heavy snow fall of. the 7th and s Sth has not yet all disappeared, not i - \ even after the heavy rains of Sunday ] night when the creeks overflowed | L> their banks. e ; A large number of our people are | e i attending the furniture exhibition, at s ; High Point this week. Among the nuni s her are Mi',, and Mrs. Clarence Craig - S Mr. Craig goes in the interest of the 11 Hihriten Furniture Corporation. Mrs. !l Craig will visit friends in Winston? Salem before returning home. [*;; .Last Sunday January lfi, was an?'i other epoch making day in the histovy of the Fii-st Baptist Church, j when the yearly subscription was ta cm i\itii an ....... uik.a-rwi t i the new c-imv.h building to be paid. | this year. Our treasurer stated that \V" had pail $80,000,000 in the past a 2 years and that $09,000 remains to i | be paid. When all members have ; been interviewed the amount likely -! will run to $2:>,000.00. n I Mr. T. H. Broyhill in his usual E generous spirit raised his annoul - pledge $1,000.00, making a total IS? pledge for this year of $12,000.00. He also announced that he was car' rying a $12,500.00 life insurance p<>j licy made payable to the trustees of the church. Wo doubt if Mr. Broy. hills noble generosity can be equalled 111 in any church. He also .announced that without | unforeseen misfortune that we would k . be able to seat our auditorium and rs j move in during 1926. n j We have been worshipping in the ?- j Sunday Scl o<^i auditorium since *1 March. j it SCHOOL TEACHERS AFTER ALL ARE MATRIMONIALLY INCLINED -- II used to be thought that a woman n ! who chose the profcssioii of teaching t> was headed straight to old roaidhood s- but the past school year has shown it this to be absolutely untrue. Nine of our teachers have married since the present term opened: Margaret Beach a Susie Hagaman, Velraa Hodges, Eth"e el Hatley, Nell Brown, Jennie Ward, v. Allie Rowe Blanche Henson and one is lone man?.John Perry. A veritable i- matrimonial bureau for women?not 16 so flattering for the men. } >f SMITH HAGAMAN, { Co. Sufct. i ; VROLIN A. THURSDAY JANUARY 2 . _ ^ MISS RUTH RANKIN A WONDERFUL MUSICIAN Underneath a handsome picture of Miss Ruth Rankin, of Boone, the Charlotte Observer of last Sunday, carried this paragraph, which will be read with interest by the friends of the gifted ycund lady and her parents: "Miss Kutb Rankin, only daughter <?f Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Rankin of Boone Miss Rankin graduated from Winthrop College- in June 102a. entered' the piano contest conducted by the Federation of Music Clubs of the fv-1 - ' niieu oiuie.s or America and won first place in the South Calolina state crmtest' held in Colombia. She also. won first place in the contest of the ; South Atlantic district, including N~ Carolina,. .South Carolina, (Jeorgia, Florida, which entitled her to play in j ; t he national contest held in Portland j Oregon, where she won a second trial, j Later, by competitive examination in j New York City she won a thousand ' dollar scholarship in the .Juilliard Mu! sical Foundation, and is now in New York City studying uncus? Madam j Samaroff." DESIRE TO OWN AUTO ADDS TO THE WEALTH OF NATION 1 Now that the trend of automobile absorbtion is so obviously contryward i the statistical hounds who have been i contending the saturation point has ! been reached for the motor car have taken a backward seat, and there is. every indication that automobile pro-j dnctiou and sales this year will; exceed all previous years. Our best little economists have established saturation points for the : motor car mere cnan once. indeed! cvj cry once in a while they burst into. a .song: of sorrow. In every instance how kw the point set has been reached: j and passed" and the industry in still growiftg by leaps and proverbial I bounds.H T^-. statisticians lose sight of" the j underlying cause of increased- use of the- motor car, which is its constantly increasing contribution t<?> eci onomic and social welfare. The same' I rule applies to the telephone, to the radio, to the talking machine and in tact to. eveny civilizing influence that has been brought into use as a repsult of. science- and invention. The motor car is no longer regarded as ' a luxury. It is just a part ojf normal existence. The high, the low, the- rich, and the poor use the motor ear. In-, divicilml transportation is a recognized part of American life. Naturally this demand for the motor ear;, which never existed in the! " fts. ' lease of the horse, hashad an i important bearing on finance which has' had to adjust itself to meet-the re quirements a? the times. The fact that the prospective motor owner has not the money to buy a car oui f.jrht ; is no longer a block to his pu.vcha.seTtis confidence Sri the futture .based ? on either experience <*) observation i is that the motor car will pay .for it,-eif while it is being used. <n at least that the expenditure sp? ea?S ovy er a long period of time is a^ Juxed charge- of living that is altogether. worth while. Particularly is this so in the count r>. The city man is Vapidly reach-' : ing the point where he finds disad : vantage in car ownership. The congestion is such that he cannot p:nk and certainly the traffic rules' are 1 such as to preclude the possibility of riding with pleasure. Garage rents' are enormous and other expenses are r correspondingly high. None of these conditions apply to the country. There are the open spaces, good roads, no j garage rent and a full apd free opportunity to get all there is out of a car whether for business purposes or! for pleasure. Already more than fifty per cent of all the automobiles manufactured in the United States arej | sold in towns up to five thousand, pop! I ulation, and to the farmers and the demand is increasing steadily. BOOSTERETTES An optimist is a fellow that turns ! a cloud wrong way out The same fellow who says he wiU ! lie for his country, complains if he has to use a little time and elbowgrease for his community. You can't have youV cake and cat it, and you can't have your town and | cheat it. The chances are the same fellow: ! who is accused of "trying to run 1 1 things in this town" is kicking him- | i self for giving so much time to his' i community to the detriment of his j j personal affairs.?Leaksviile News. j . .1 . \ i ly 1926 5 Ct?. aCop NEWS FROM THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL The people of the Methtfxlist church and the community deeply sympathize with Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Woosley in the death of Mrs. Woosiey':father, Mr. Warlick of Granite Falls. Mr. Warlic.k was one of the' committee appointed by the western North Carolina Conference to admimter the funds that the conference contributed to the hiu-Ufing of the Methodist Church, and was deeply interested in the work of the church here and elsewhere. Boone extends sympathy t.< his widow and other loved ones whe arc* so sorely bereaved.The Normal is indeed clad to lean, of the recovery of Kx-Lieutenanl Governor Newland of Lenoir from hi} recent Severe illness. Mr. Newlanc underwent a rather serious operatior at Dr. Long's' Hospital in Statesvilh and remained in the hospital for i number of months. President Dough ertv visited Mr. Newland in Statesville and also in Lenoir the past week And i'? is a real pleasure to the nor mal and his many friends to know that he* has almost regained his tor trier strength and token up his work in the practice of law, and will corai to Boone to attend court as :sua) al the next term here. Mr. Newland ha? been avaluable niemhet of the board of trustees of the Normal for a number of years' and is deeply interested in its work. Mr. Long says that Mr. Newland's condition would indicate that he is good for 80 years. His mpny frieixis here congratulate him. A basket hall game at the Normal on Saturday night between the team here and the American Legion team from North Wilkcsboio, which is considered one of the finest games playeci here, cleanest and played in the finest spirit. The score stood df> to 25 in favor of. the Normal team. f. M. DOWNUM. SCIENCE STUDENTS ORGANIZE The science students of the Appalachian: State Normal School uiuler the- inspiration and guidance of Miss Ledbeter, the science teacher, met Dec. 9, 192i>, and o^nized a science alula. Qtt Monday afternoon January! 18, the cub met and rendered their first, program. The enrollment was pt'ifieol, every eligible student being present. For devotional which was conducted, by Mr; Dewey Mast, II Tim. 2:15: "Study U* shew ihr.-_Oyf approved unto God. a. woj&nian that iiebdeth not bo ashamed, rightly dividing the word of tcuthyV- was used. The president of the club, Mr. Levi. Tciague gave an interesting add rcisHi. M A XT IE TAYLOR, Kditor. THE LIVINGSTON CLUB Miss Louise Hodges graciously e,n't tcrtained the Livingston Club at its regular monthly meeting Monday ui re in eon. The hostess welcomed be> ir. ug^li - ?... - 1 ?x? on: uTirL \V iH'-U as?ui:cc the pleasant afternoon to follow. Tht program was good arid the girlsshow ed decided interest in their first mael ing of the New Year. They express r-d. themselves as being: eager to makt this the best year yet, and one liev member was welcomed. The social hour afforded pecuJiai enjoyment, during which Miss Hod ges assisted by Mrs. Latham and hei bright little son James, served de liciqus refreshments which was follov ed by & waiter heaped high with fini malaga grapes. Mrs. Latham, Miss Watkins an Miss Hazel Cook were guests for th? afternoon. The girls reluctantly left the mu sic and the easy ^companionship oi the evening and went home at a ru ther late hour, each deciding the at ternoon well spent and enjoyable. "COMRADES" SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS ENTERTA1NEE The Comrades Class of the M,eth odjst church was delightfully enter tained at the home of Mr. and Mrs South Thursday evening Jan 14. Officers for the year were e'ee ted as follows: Mrs. J. B. Steele President;' Mr. H. Grady Fartlrng Vice President; Mr. A. E. South, Sec TreasurerPlans were discussed for complet ing the room in the dome of th* church for a class room. Everyone en tered. heartily into the games and con tests of the social hour. Marshmallow, chocolate and cak< were served as refreshments. -- ? f NUMBER 2. T t ' ~ DR. R. Z. L1NNEY DIES AT CHARLOTTE HOME i Dr. Romulus Z Linncy, prominent physician ol' Charlotte, and brother ; of District Attorney F. A. Linney of ; Boone, died at his home at 1 :"30 yesterday morninjr. Today's Charlotte Observer carries the following aci count of his death and sketch of his 1;career: Dr. It Z. Linney, prominent physician of Charlotte, died suddenly at i his home about 1:10 o'clock Wednesday morning, 12 Central Avenue. ' Apoplexy is assigned as the cause ' if the death. Dr. Linney was a very stout man and about 50 year.- old. 1 IDs wife, who sleeps in an adjoining h room, heard a siight peculiar noise ' and went to see what was the troui hie. to find him in the throes of death. She sumiuoned heJr* from the neigh borhood but her husband had expired i before medical attention could be' giv oil him. In addition to his widow, who was formerly Miss Dorcas Stephenson of Tavlorsville, Dr. Linney is suigived by an only son: and child Zaek Linnev a senior student in melficiiire at the ;' University of North Carolina; one ' brother District Attorney Frank Ltn; ney of Boone; and three sisters; Mr:* W. D Deal of Taylorsville, Mrs. -i. C. 1 Dor.-ettr postmistreess at Spencer; and Miss Blanche Linney a trained nurse at Tayiorsville; The twin of Mi*s. Deal, Mr-. .1. W. Hend'ren. died ' a few years ago in Iredell County. Dr. Linney was born and. reared at Tayloraville, the1 sor. of the late It. Z. Linney, for rotny years considered one of the best, criminal lawyers of western North Carolina and for two or. three terms a member of Congress. Ho was fbtt a time secreI tar v to Hin 6?rhn?- wttiln. rh??? 1'nOof was in C-onguess. Dk LiniH-y had hucu living in Charlotte for about 10 years, moving j hare from Alvah, Oklahoma, where j he practiced' medicine for several *1 years. He was a specialist in gent to urir.ur.v and rectal diseases. attwt was . held in high regard ont only by his , associates Hut l>y the puWSe as well. Dr. Einney t<n?4 a leud&ng part in "j the professionalt civic and social life of Ghiwlntte, betnfr r. member of the Meckhmburg medical society, the Kiwanis tcluh, the Goodfellhws club, the Myers Park country club and the Hnwtlberne Lane Methodise Church, j T.He- education, of Dr. Lin lie y was I obtained first at Trinity college andjgi later at Jefferson MedicaT college at , Philadelphia. Fbr a short time he i nracthced general medicine at Tay-gB^;.v' lorsvillc and then went, to Oklahoma where he had financial interests at the time of his death. THE. NEWS OF BLOWING ROCK ' Mrs. W P. Pond ley is spending a " j lew days with her daughter Mrs. 11/ i.j : ; E. Deal, who lives near North.. WiiIIjt| Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Cooper and lit1 tie. daughter of Pasadena. Cab are ? visiting Mrs, Cooper's parents Mr. ": and Mrs. A. M. Critcher of this place. L We are glad ti> learn that they are ~ 1 considering making their home here. Mr. N. C. Greene returned home h few di?v? mo-.? nHeir =? rv.f??m>' with relatives in Springfied Missouri T;jand Arkansas. He says businesslis fine ' out there ami it everything looks r i very pros-^jtgHi | Miss Jennie Coffey of Boone has 7 | been spending a few (lays here >j l^Iatives at the Watauga Inn. Mr. Ransom Killian of Lincolnton i spent last week end here. ExrShcriff D eat on ??t* Staiesville was a business visitor here Tuesday. -i Mr. Carl Bolick left a few days f' ago for Idaho after spending several -; weeks here with home folks. Mr. Boliek had been in the west for about | eight years and we hope he wont wait I so lofig this time before he makes us | another visit. * j Mrs. H, P. Holshouser was hostess i t o the IQatty Klub last Friday eve j ning at her home here. Miss Mary - Holshouser, vice president, took in charge the business part of the meet ing; New officers were elected for ' the next three months, Miss Lillian > Johnson, president; Mrs. Geo. Crisp > vice president and Miss Helen Coffey - secretary and treasurer. Mrs. H. J* Cooper was welcomed as - a new member of the club. * A most ^delightful evening was - spent in conversation and sewing, af- ** - tor which the hostess" served delicious refreshments. The. club adjourned to j : meet next Fricfay evening with ,Mrs. Stewart Cannon... ' y
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