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VOLUME XXXVII. ! [This w3l By Arthur Brisbane mr?rr?-irrr*. mi ? mnwzmmCTiJivaW. TUC IUI/AM V Pvr? p ? iwitivtIO IKtLU 11 IMAGINATION'S POWER CORN LOW, HOGS HIGH ZERO WILL HELP Charles Garland, an earnest young: New Englander inherited a young: for , tune, refused at first to take the' money, saying no man had a right to money not earned- He changed his j mind and drifted into a side track, j Convinced perhaps, that he was an origi nal thinker, he decided that mar- ' ri&gc v.as an unnecessary institution, j Now he is arrested because a young child born on his farm died, having ( for its mciher an unmarried girl. The young man should realize that experience was tried by our alleged simiian ancestors for thousands o? years before man appeared, and abandoned by our human ancestors of 100,000 years ago. Not to do away with marriage, but to make men WORTHY pf it. is theV task of the human race. "Away from | the monkey" is a better motto than | "Back to nature." Imagination is more powerful than j fact. James Dcmpscy, -not the Demp-1 you mean owns a restaurri.it. Two 1 men entered, help him up, he deliver- ! ed bis money. A policeman dashed in, arrested the axan, pointing the un at Dempscy. Th nly gun was two lingers that had been , pointed. The sccarid man escaped came . back that afternoon, pointed one I tr r.t Dempsey ami' latter i ap what money he had. < Corn prices are ow. "hogs are ; high." This puzzles farmers and the packers Con and hog prices should go up arid down together, since the? pig is really corn changed into meat. Then i- always somet.hirigto puzze and disturb the farmer. He has no sufficient national organization and a j ter election ilav he hasn't much t flueiu'o in government, compared with ! railroads and other big financial unit:, , At the midday luncheon club in New York you can see eating at the same time those that control ten thou sand millions o{ dollars. Farmer? are J scattered all over the iaiul, unci if .you could get theip together there wouldn't be any hall that feyuId hold them. Uncle Sarh is riding along on yel -vei. Severe competition abroad in the world' markets at home is said to be ahead of our producers. But everything, including Providence, seems to ' be with us now. Citizens of Minnesota get from i their state University interesting! information aboii their state! It contained the beginning of life on this; planet, in the. form of algae, two hun dred million years ago. The first life ; h,; came as soon as the earth'? tempera- ' ture fell below the point of boiling. One of the first, real animals was} H| an ancestor-of our frogs and sala. nsandcrs, living or. hind and in water, I with ;i fot fmiv inr-tinc !? /li'imotc.v It is from the five toes of the sal- i amandor you know, that we get the ' five fingers on each hand, according i to the evolutionists. Mathematicians wish that the salam ander had six toes. Thatsjyould have given us the duodecimal system instead of the decimal system, twelve having four divisors, ten having only two. I Mr. Green of the American Feder- ; ation of Labor, predicts an early end of the coal strike now distressing the East and other parts of the country. The thermometer at zero may help. Americans are docile as Northcliffe said. You must pinch their fingers with the cold or pinch their 'pockets hard to make them take action. And unlike mine workers and owners the people are not organized. f Diner?"Say waiter this roast beef tastes like mutton." Waiter?"Sorry, but by mistake I gavfc you another man's pork." \ atan 11.50 Per Year BOONE. ^ SWEET CI-OVER A. GOOD SOU. B BUILDER AND DAIRY FEED Sweet clover is becoming; very pop. uku as a soil builder and an excell- m eat dairy feed Sweet clover is already being: grown on a few Watauga county farms and we know it will i 'V produce a fine crop and the best of grazing" if handled correctly. ! U I am asking tht Watauga Demo-1u* crai to publish the following article 1 tl (or the benefit <>f thn?<. ->-"i i growing sweet clover and for those i?i who are planning on sewing this year. H L. WILSON 4 * # Hoard's Daiiyman: ? There are three counties in the United States, ? according to L. W Kephart of the forsge crops division of the (J. S. ir Department of Agriculture, w hich : vv have been especially active in the U growing and utilization of s\ycet clo- a ver?counties which are outstanding. I. These are Grundy County, Illir>ois; ^1 Cass County, North Dakota; and Pot- {) tawatlamie County, Iowa. It was with this fact in mind that Mr Kep- ' hai*t came to Pottawattamie County 11 a few weeks ago in company with n II. I). Hughes and F. S. Wilkins of the Iowa State College, to meet some ** of the sweet clover growers. The N writer had the privilege of uccom- a panying them on the trip. It was significant that every man ( C| visited was an enhusiastic booster j S) for this league, notwithstanding the ' fact that there had been some trouble \ 1 from bloating of cattle on sweet clo- r< ver pasture. Probably no man visit- 11 l- w nrore nnprg^sexi won tnc value a of sweet clover than GeOfge Osborne. ! is Annually Mr. Osborne sows from tl 125 acres to 225 acres of the crop. 0j Mr. Osborne's experience is that of p( a man who came to the present farm ^ a few years ago, badly in debt. For. that reason he farmed the land to: 1 the limit, getting all he could from ; w the fields without icplcnissuing. the) 111 soil fertility. He is now putting need I KI ed fertility back into the soil by us- ai ing sweet clover. 1 in Speaking of his experience with, the crop Mr. Osborne said: "I figure that for fcvery dollar invested in j., sweet clover seed there is $5.00 returned. One cannot lose. It is a wenRrfuV investment." ?f Last year Mr. Osborne sowed sweet clover seed on his winter wheat land n? scattering the seed on the field dur- i ing the winter months in the snow. \v He took off a fair crop of wheat arid ;n in the fall cut the sweet clover for a] hay It yielded two tons per acre s< and was soid for $10 a ton, making ^ a return of $20 per acre. He has never yet failed to et a stand of J sweet clover on winter wheat land. 1 Mr Osborne has had seme experience fc with bloat but he has never observed T bloat where the cattle were pastur- li ingon a combination of oats and t: SVveot clover.' When the two crops; are harvested and threshed together, }) it makes a very appetizing feed for | both dairy and beef cattle, and it is consumed readily Mr. Osborne runs a threshing machine during the fall months and has had occasion to note u that or? the farms where he has been u: threshing for many years and which a: are Bffiy growing sweet clover that the yields of grain are much better a| than before this crop was .grown. t] Ribnard Orr is another sweet clo- : c ver grower who knows the value of this legume. Mr. Orr has observed the great growth of sweet clover ja along the railroad track: Ho dug up some of the plants one day and noted that there were nodules:bii the roots1 similar to those growing on red clover. No one knew much about sweet . tj dover at chat time except that it was j i? a weed ir, the opinion of most farm- : E ers. If red clover builds up soil fer^ -A tility, why should not sweet clover b do the same, was the way that Mr. ti Orr reasoned. He therefore gathered t; some of the seeds from the stray j J .sweet clover plants and sowed the ? seed in a field which was afterward , put into corn. The corn was much v better in yield on this land than on ^ similar land where the sweet clover ^ had . not been grown. That experience made Mr. Orr a 1perennial sweet clover grower. He told lis that sweet clover in his locality would carry three head of cat- f tie per acre. He pastured S3 head one i l-ofir nn 5(V *jcroy nr?H if woe Jmnno. t* | sible for the animals to prevent it [ from getting too rank. Sweet clover, I ; accordpg to Mr. Orr. has a place on ! his farm that no other crop can fill, ft At the Pottawattamie County farm I devoted to the care of the county's t poor, Ed. Hewitt, farm manager, pro- o ved to be a real booster for sweet clover. When he came to the farm, t it was badly run down and at the C earliest opportunity he . began the ' growing of sweet clover and alfalfa, s h until now the farm is in a high state ! t of fertility. Sweet clover pasture has been used for the dairy herd on this Uj farm to good advantage. There has f been no trouble with the milk being J c tainted. Mr. Hewitt has had no trou-rj ble with sweet clover bloat.' He ha? a nevd^had any trouble with volunteer j i sweet clover although most of what j 'ATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAI OONE RANKS HIGH IN NUMBER OF COLLEGE GRADUATES Dr. .J. U. Rankin of the State Noral has been investigating: the pro- j >rtion of college graduates as com- > ired with the average in the United J tatcs. Me finds the average for the 1 nited States to be one college grad- * ilh< fur iiVT.rt? y?l ?wkaLl??v.tt- !!? ? ic average in the town of Boone lo i . cm- for every 70 inhabitants, not i leiuding any one connected with the i ormal, the High School or th?2 Deinnstratiou Sctiopl. To include the stu i ents and faculty in the population i f the town the proportion would be i ue college graduate tor every '.V:) .habitants. Of course the county o*ild not- average the same as the jwti, as it would not anywhere but t the same time there is consulerale numlu'i of college graduates' in le various sections of the county,ossihly averaging fairly well with oy of the counties. And these gradates are front four year standard rjrieges. The proportion of college gradates for Boone, not including the formal and other schools, may !?? surprise to many who have a wrong lea of the mountain section in gen-j ral. and this may especially be a I jrprisr t o those writers and their I friends who have been writing and iadin exaggerated reports of the lountaiu people. Now these reports j re doubtless true in certain riire and olated cases, but these writers take j rose isolated cases as typical cases I t the condition of the mountain pole in general, which is fair neither > the mountain people nor to those >r whom they write, for it gives roup impressions. The writer was ot reared in the mountains hut has icnt more than fifteen years in them j; ul so can speak freely without he-i ijg accused of acting: selfishly The real fact about the mattei is i iat the mountain people are about 1 ke those of other rural sections of ! xr own state and other states, except iat they are a purer Anglo-Saxon pe. and striving against odds in a ore difficult situation, but at the ime time amid the grandest of the onderful scenery around them, they *e more strongly developed in body nd mind, and many of them in soul, > that a large number of them when icy come in cam petition with those rdm other sections, easily stand first.' his is not simply talk, for this wri- j ;r knows what he is talking about. he doted men in various walks of fe who have gone from the nipunlins will fully establish this fact. So j seems that it is time for those who I ropose to write about the mountain eople. to first get the facts as they re. not what they have heard some ill nor the facts of isolated cases sed simply to please some arid nmntUn:v hnl JKa i-n-H ? ?r,? noe.V ; they exist today, not years ago. Those- who wish t<? test the facts bovti stated can. if they come to his section, be shown as splendid ountry homes and well developed [immunities as can l?e found on an vcrage in almost anv section. ' ... 11. D. FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB Mrs. Roy Johnson was hostess to he Friday Afternoon Club Jan. 22, i honor of her mother in law Mrs. ?. ]G. Johnson of Aberdeen, Wash. . most pleasant afternoon was spent i lively conversation, and applying l).e needle to different kinds of prct-j y fancy work. Delicious refreshments consisting f cream chicken in patties, lettuce alad. hot rolls, coffee and doughnuts rtsre served. Other guests were Mrs. IcDonald of South Dakota and Mrs. V. J. Miller. The r.oxt meeting will be with Mrs. >avid Greene February 5 PROGRAM?FIFTH SUNDAY toone Baptist Church January 81st. 1. Sunday School 10 a. m., usual I ime. Special music. 2. A standard Sunday School by . G. Greer. 20 minutes. 3. Six-point-record System by Irs. J. A. Williams (10 minutes.) j 4. How Can We Increase Our At-; endanee by Chas. Younce (5 min tes.) 5 How Can we Inlrcase the In-! erest in Our Sunday School by Clyde Ireene (5 minutes.) le plows under is plowed under in he fall. These three examples give an inlex of what Pottawattamie County oiks hink of sweet clover. Scores >f the;-.farmers make it a practice <y sweet- clover and feed it with ill their amall grain. They find that t pays. Nebraska. H. H. Bigger. / IV Den MOLINA. THURSDAY JANUARY NEWS ITEMS FROM THE NORMAL SCHOOL Mr. R. Y. Corbett. a --Indent in the formal has a bee yard, about 200 stands, near his home on the coast, [luring his spare hours from school le is taking orders tor honey. He has supplied the stores and many families. Mr. Corbett is interested in establishing a bee yard here during the coming summer. Through hint the Normal lies a barrel of honey stored away in the cold storage for the summer folks. Mrs. Corbett is also a stu dent in the Normal. There are a number of couples taking wortf The schoo1 authorities are planning to build i number of small cottages to aceomj module married people who desirb ttj attend the Xormai. re are twenty five registration: f???- the summer term. These are corn nig in early. The .authorities predic a record breaking attendance during tr?e summer term. Then- will be am pie room for all who desire to at tend. The new dormitory will add ac cG'vnnodations for 150 women. Eight years ago. with very littli cost, a two story wooden buildinj was ereeied for shop work. The firs floor was used for a ball court. Thii served very well unail a year, ago tin modern gymnasium r.t a cost of silt] thousand dollars was ready for use A few hundred dollars is now being expended on this old building to make a skating link. It is wonderful whai a little work and paint will do f<?i an old building. It Has never the policy of the Normal to destvoj any building. Watauga Academy, the first building that was ever ereoiet will be used The old Lovill Home i: being used for a hospital. The ok Administration building fe being usee us an apartment house. The many frieiuls of Hon. F. A Linney and family in Booih* and nl over the state deeply sympathize will them in the death of Mr. Linuey's brc Iher Dr. R. Z. Linney of Charlotte Dr. Linney was buried in Tayiorsvilh and /jjjtvora! friends of the fumih from Boone attended the funeral. Several basket ball games hnv? been played recently by the Norma teams. On Friday night Crossnon played the team in the gvinnnsiun here; the soore being 29 to 35 for thi Crossnore boys. Saturday nigh hot h the youn g ladies and the younj mens teams went to North Wilkes boro to play the teams there. The re suit of the scores were, for the Indie: 6 to LS in favor of the Normal lean and for the young men 21) to 36 it favor of the Normal. aged confederate, h. k. thomas. succumb! Mr. Jl. K. Thomas of Mountaii City; Tenn., passed away on yam;ninth, at the advanced age of SO years Mr. Thomas was a Confederate sn (Iter, having served in the 58th Norti Carolina Regiment and was associii ?ed with Captain Beam, a native 6 this county. Among those comrades who suj vive Cr. Thomas in this county ar Elijah Morris and Haryo .Davis. Deceased was c?>nfined to his rooi for a number of months and his sVif fering was intense. Remains were ir tench in Mountain View eemetcrj Mountain City, the services being i charge of Revs. Worley, Cox an Single. a l iving are a widow and a nun her of children. SAUNDERS OF VIRGINIA TO VISIT CHEESE FACTOR IE .Mr. Saunders who has charge of th cheese work in Virginia will spen a few days in Watauga County vi< iting cheese factories. He is intere: ted in knowing; what we are doin and how we are doing it. Mr. Saur levs has been in the cheese work fc several. years and may have sonu thin# to say that will be interestin to patrons of Watauga factories. He., will arrive in Boone Jan. 2 and will attend the annual ineetin of the Gove Greek Chese factory o January 30. H. L. WILSON. Cheese Specialist. "OUT OF COURT" A play in four acts "Out of Court will be given in the auditorium c the Cove Creek High School on Sai urday night January 30. at 7 o'clocl This play is presented by membei of the Junior class. The admissio fee of 35 cents adults and 10 cent children, will be use d towards payin for the piano which was purchase last fall. :* SB l *-4yT; I & a ocr 28. 1926 5 CU. aCopy THE NEWS OF VALLE CRUCIS Mr. and Mr:-. ?). F. Mast returned from their Florida trip full on enthusiasm nnd adyivinfr their friends to go and do likewise. II TV * ? ... ?... iim.fr iiu.. oc'jii given supervision ??f thci construct? mi work on highwa y <?i' between Yallo Crucis and Vilas. Weather permitting tin- work ' will he iv-tiined th:> week. Misses Efiie Hefner and Susie Tay lor went to Charlotte for the week . cnl. They made their trip via Mor. 1 canton where M iss Hefner is having a bungalow built. Mr. Alfred Yates is very in at the I , home of his son Thomas Yates. Owing to his age of SO years *?nd the 1 natu-e of his illness his recovery i.doubtful. ' T. W. Taylor returned from a business trip lust week. 5 The Thomas Orchestra, composed - | of Mr. and Mi's. -J. H. Thomas, theii 1 two son.- and little daughters a he r i James Tester, gave a concert at the _ : school hoe.se Saturday night. Usinc eight different instruments they played many of the old tunc, familiar in the mountains Mr. -John li. Binghaiv made an address in which be warned 2 the bovs and girls of the small be X' ginnings which lead into the down t wTard patVi. s The Rev. .1. P. Burke returned last . week from a nine days t rip to his old ^ home in Bessemer City and severs1 other cities of the state. Mi&s i? - * r - ..v ii-i.-, ic-iuriier to her work at Charlotte. ' ADVENT CHRISTIAN NOTES r . ?& ;'.V 1 Miss Pearl Hodges, teacher Of the ' Light Bearers Class will be back ' from her trip to Florida where she 1 spent a delightful vacation. She will - have charge of her class oh Sunday i and a full attendance is hoped for. i ; Rev. 11. N. Baldwin Sgill pFcfugli i at both services on Sunday. His morj ning sermon subject will be ".Judaic j I Christnmity.'; His evening subject 1 will be "the Council at Jerusalem." * In the afternoon at .'1 o'clock Elder * J Baldwin will preach at Posco Chris? tian church. He will use for his jsub* ject for this afternoon sermon, "L / there anything too Hard for the Lord?" He has been asked to proud \ u series of sermons on evolution al 1 : this church and he will start the ; series on Sunday afternoon with the ^ above named subject. 1 METHODIST NOTES The writer attended the Lay mens - Conference at Raleigh last week s therefore the holes failed to appeal i in last issue of the Democrat. 1 Quite long article appeared in t : v ni on; h|y pap'hi* ? > f I .pes-McRju '' Vn*-Hi lite It-n.x.M. KM- Af.- O *"f.V -.IMVUV -?*1. IV C. Rivers. who always has a warn g fi ; 1 intv in Ins heart for tIi? Granci father orphanage, and who rotnom b:rod the Children at thai, place or 11 Ckrv-tmas. The Grandfather Orphan >" ago is not a Method'st institution bn ail feel a personal interest' in its wei >! fa: because of the noble work it i h ?i in tliis section of the county Al'. . Rivers 'cet-ives our :cbn\pliment; t- f< v his thoughtful spirit. 1 85 wove present Sunday schoh last Sunday. It was reported tna there were 2.1 i at the Baptist chuvcl ? The writer has not heard from th other schools of the town, hut out 11 may imagine thai about the usua - number of persons \vent to Sunday i- School last Sunday. "I don't mini j the weather if the wind don't blow' n i is an old .-aying conveying a prett; good truth, but the wind was blow in; 1 and the Sunday Schools went or Let's sing a song for the people \\h try to keep the moral standards higl in spite of rain or sunshine, efoud or storms. Sunday School Sunday i?:15 a. m S Preaching by the Presiding Elde Rev. Seymour Taylor at 11 a. m. e The second quartcrlv meeting Sun d dav evening. Spworth League 6:15 p m. -> Wednesday prayer meeting at g p. m. t (V - BOY SCOUTS OF THE ? BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN 9 Troop one met Tuesday evening R .January 19th. Mr Winkler had charg ' i of the meeting. For devotional exercises the boy repeated the Scout Oath and Laws. The boys were divided into tw groups to prepare for the second clas test that will be given next month. Each group will prepare a plan fo ";thc Scout Cabin which wo hope t> | build this summer. After this the boys playtd man; ** j interesting games. The Wolf Patrc _ ] took some of the first aid work tha I is required of the .Scouts. ^ All of the boys who have passe j i their twelfth birthday are invited t j come around to our meetings. NUMBER 3 CHARLIE ISAACS RECOVERING FROM GUN SHOT WOUNDS Latest information is to the effect that the condition of Thai lie Isaacs, who was seriously shot by Clinton Campbell Saturday night near Mabel more favorable, and that it is now believed he may recover. The story as we have it is like this. Isaacs, his brother and sister, Campbell and others had come from their homes to the school house at Mabel where they spent the evening enjoyably together. Songs, games and oth 1 er innocent pleasures were enjoyed and the young people parted. Campbell and the Isaacs girl walked up the , ] road some distance, he insisting on : | accompanying her on foot, 'eading j his horse, to he- home. The Isaacs boys and possibly others overlook the couple in a car. One the boys |-i got out, took his sister by t he. arm and assisted her into the rear scat [ of the auto, not wanting her to take . the long walk back home. Campbell. f - 11 ' * * Sm ' ' r ly'iov.t'u on norseoacK urea a snot . through the rear of the cari, passing 'hrough Charlie Isaacs- right lung. t arid supposedly judging in his liver. [ The injured man was taken to the . home ef Dr. F. M. Greer where he . lias bech receiving medical attention. Campbell Clod, and a yet has not been apprehended. M BOONE BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School 10 a. hi. A pro11 gram has ben prepared for the ^ L j o'clock hour. Helpful speeches will ! be made on Sunday School work. We ; hope to have all our people out for this service. Invitation is extended ;< people throughout the ocunty to come and enjoy the program with us The committee thought it not best to attempt a regular Fifth Sunday meeting program, but extend invito' t:on to all who can cornc. The Snow "How beautiful was the snow fall j iug all day long, all night long on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead." Snow is not only beau tiful, but it is the scriptural emblem of purity. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be us white as snow/* One recalls the lines of that , j old xnig. "Whiter than snow, the beautiful snow'! Nothing in our ma: terial world is cleaner than the snow , falling on the face of Grandfather uplifted to the sky. Yet it is not absolutely pure. But the soul cleansed hv "tho precious blood of Jesus Christ" is whiter than the whites jnjov,. It is a moral and spiritual clean sing which roaches every avenue of the life. In this mid winter season . when the elements are filled with its cttmhfgiing flakes^ and the valleys r ! and mountain sides are covered with , its blankets of white should it not "inspire us with a desire for inward t cleansing:? A moral cleansing of the life, a cleansing of the town, and surrounding sections from sin in all 1 of its ugJv and hideous forms. Rootleg' liquor which destroys the body, j mini! and soul should find no quarter in our section. The sentiment of the citizens of Boone and Watauga 'County should be so strong against the making and selling of liquor that the officers of the taw would find it I : easier to enforce the law and that L we may get rid of its effects. Other 1 forms of evit nee d rebuking aid! p will ho when the moral and spmit-uai j cleansing ccmes upon us all. making Us "whiter than show."' F* M. HUGCcINS. i ?i? A SOUTHERN NATIONAL PARK Tacoma (Wash.) Daily Ledger. * . The caster n part of the United " Si aits has only one real national park ^ the Latayetcc Park in Maine. There are a number of military parks such S as the battlefields of Vicksburg Getysburg. Chicamauga. Chattanooga. Sbiloh and a few others' 1 Now there is a movement started to establish a national park in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee in the region of the Great _ Smoky Mountains. Ti is claimed that ' this is one of the greatest sites for sou the in national park because <>f the height of the mountains, the depth of the valleys and the beauty and variety of tl|e flowers, trees and S shrubs all through the section. One plan proposes the purchase of the site for presentation tf> the nae tional government. Citizens of the region are eagerly advocating that. They are proud of the scenic attraction of the place, and they know that the establishment of a national park 0 there, will bring a lucrative tide of s i tourists. Citizens elsewhere too. ought to r, do anything possible to encourage o the proposal. We can use more na; tional parks and there is still plenty v- of splendid scenery available for I such use. Every section of the count ] try should be represented with its : share of national parks and the peo; pie of every section ought to plan at L* : some time in their lives to visit all ? 5 the others. These fine public play | grounds arc ideal recreation places.
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