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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 28 POISON LIQUOR KILLS MANY Foar-Day Toll Reaches Total of 39; Score of the Deaths Occur in Buffalo, N. YB ffaln. X Y , July 25;?While the ! po'v*- :iih! prohibition enfpceuiem': agents in this district were trying to Joe:-'-- the source of tha supply of wood aieohot thy; had caused nearly j a score of deaths ?ri this city and nearby ' ' nadian cit ies over the week-end. th*. death list today was :ncreasod by 3<?v< >~four :n Buffalo end three in ; Lockport. Dispatches from Toronto ' list 18 fatalities, making the total for; the- rhree cities -19. Thirteen of the poison victims j lived in this city, their deaths covering a period of four days. As the result of the police investigation. Carl Maischoss, from whom ; two of the vicums o alleged f?s have | bor.rht the poison liquor, was arrest- , ^ ed. and is being Iv'd on an open i charge. He made a - worn statement ! in which he averred that 'ho liquor . retailed at his place was hough, from ; .Tames 'oelker. > ced hy the police to be a wholesale tributor o;" ale"-' ho'. It has been suggested that all soft ; dr">nk places in Buffalo be closed. SERIES OF ACCIDENTS ON BOONE TRAIL HIGHWAY The Boone Trail through Watauga has been the scene of three near tragedies within the past few days On l-nt.urday a Ford "skeeter" over) wi'h Mr. Chas. Mensem on Cove '"reek. Result, one broken arm, j v; niier dislocated, to say nothing . of minor bruises and snatches. A laci;-. a ml gentleman from Bristol were j ?Jr v g up Brushy Fork Sumuiy after- j wm-n nieir car ion me road . a.'- ' "ma?l? for the woods/' Both oc-I en pants of- the car were hadly bruised hut no buiies broken. The same , cvtvninjf i touring car loaded with! tt r st.-s fro'm Johnson City over- J turn .1 near D^ep Gap. Three of the >< r. j-aurs t * the car were badly bruised seriously hur. Six in all w diver. surgical aid at the Wata. hospita!. Mr. Hcnson, the most j p. hurt: of those involved in | tt t-rief of accidents, is, we are | ^ loin cot tine on very nicely, his 'in- j jr- eon alerod. PREMIUMS FOR WATAUGA FAKMKRS AT FORSYTH FAIR i: . mors i.f Watauga county are | id red many prohriums for products? ' l:\ : o Win:ton-Salein and Forsyth! cm :y fair, which witl he hehi in the ! T?i r-City October 5 to 8. Following ir i list of tiie prices offered exelu-1 sivily to Watauga farmers: Best general farm display?1st ; prt: ^io; -pu, B]$R* display of apples?1st, $1 00; { 2nd. $50: 3rd. $2.5'.* Special premiums?Best corn. $54;; be^ wheat, $54; best oats, $20; host ; rye. $20; best Irish potatoes, $20. Forsyth county will not .he permitted ;o compete with Watauga county on the above premium list. 1: is further announced that all school children front Watauga county *:!! be admitted to the fair grounds free of charge on October 8th. ^UNION VESPER SERVICES The union vesper services which! have been conducted in the open air jusi to the rear of the Methodist) chprch on the past two Sunday evenings have been a greater success than had been anticipated. On the evening of the 18th the crowd numbered 350 adi.lt? by actual count. Last Sunday there were more "ban 500 adults present. Rev. \V. C. Goode, a Methodistj minister of Blowing Rock, who has! recently returned from an extended j study and travel in Europe, and who just prior to going to Europe, spent j some time at Harvard University, | spoke last Sunday night on the subp ject, "Carried Away in the Spirit." It .was a great semon. full of truth and Tenden'iess- He suoko in the in tere.-i of a more united protcstanf j movement for Christ and righteous-j ness. and his effort was well received j by the large audience which heard him. Next Sunday evening, Eid. R. N. Baldwin, pastor of the Advent Chris-' tian church, has been selected by the! Pastors' Association to preach- He i has chosen for his subject for this j occasion. "What Think Ye of Christ?" j It 5s hoped by the pastors that a large congregation hear this sermon,! as it is calculated to increase the! spiritual life of aJi Christians. New Bern, N. C., July 27.?Six| young Onslow county white men are j held in jail at .Jacksonville without | bail as material witnesses 111 connec-' tior? with the death cf Ellis Hollis, 17, j whose mutilated body was found 111 New River a few miles from Jacksonville Monday morning The boy's j throat' was cut anad the skull fractured and the chest badly irtised. Nata An Independent Fami .BOONI i file's New Chief ("liarles H. Brakelow of Philadelphia has just been chosen without opposition, to be the new Grand i Exalted Ruler of the Elks. This ; is his seventh term as head of his local order and he has served 3 j terms as Grand Exalted Esquire. SON OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIES AT AGE OF EIGHTY-THREE Robert Todd Lincoln Was Last Member of Civil War President's ! Family Manchester. Vt., July 20.-?Robert! T. Lincoln, only surviving son of President Abraham Lincoln, was found dead in. bed at Ins summer i home licrc Today. If is death wag. discovered by servants who went to call him. \< irdi*. to call him at a. m.. and it was then 5 thai his death was di-covered. Aj physician said i- probably had died' sonic hours before. He eanic - Mil-, dene, the summer place iha ho had 1 made his homo for a (?ii;irler of a century, durijfg the iniofifle of May. | Since then he had gone out only once ' daily for an automobile ride. lie! took his customary ride yesterday. i One of his two daughters. Mrs. | Charles Ishnm, of Mew York, was at} her summer home here. Two of hi~! three grandchildren, Mary Beekwith and James Beekwith, t'hc children of his other daughter, Mrs. F. E. Johtt-i on. of Washington, came to Hildenc. a few days ago. . lie is survived also by his widow j and a third grandchild. Lincoln Isham. of Mew York city. Mr. Lincoln, who had served as sec- } rctary of war. minister of Great Brit- ] aid and for years as president of the1 Pullman Company, of late had been iri feeble health. He would have been S.l years old on August I. McKINLEY .SPENT BIG SUM IN ILLINOIS PRIMARY! ^ ; C&?o. July 27.?Senator William} B. McKinley's unsuccessful campaign , fur renomination in the recent Illinois senatorial primary cost him personally $>150,000. it was disclosed before the senate campaign funds committee i'oday. This compares with the $253,000 which Allen F. Moore has testified was the total expended on behalf of Frank L. Smith, who defeated McKinley. Each sum is considerably in excess of the SI 05.000 outlay for Thurman H. Newberry in Michigan, which the senate formally condemned I in the resolution by which Newberry was confirmed in his right to a seat. Counting the $20,000 which Geo. E. Brennaa. Democratic national committeeman, has told the senate inves-: tigators he spent to win the. Demo- j cratic senate nomination, the total | expenditure in the contest for thej senate developed during the two days; of the inquiry "here is $623,000. MANY DEATHS CAUSED BY LAST WEEK'S HEAT According to a survey of the United Press last Thursday, more than 100 people perished from the intense heav which was broken Saturday. Fifty are reported to have died in the mid-west; 12 in New York City, New Jersey and New York State; six in New England; 17 in Ohio and five in Washington, D. C. Three deaths were reported in North Carolinn nnH lu-n in Palm Beach, Fla.. July 27?Property damage aggregating lhpve than a million dollars was reported at Palm Beach" and West Palm Beach today caused by a hurricane which came in from the Carribean Sea. Foray yachts and houseboats sank in Lake ' Worth, a body of water between | Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. The wooden bridge over Lake Worth I also was washed away. Ocean front 1 properties in both towns were jjarnaged considerably. The wind velocity [was seventy miles. - Eleven club members of Henderson county sold $59.57 worth of produce I from their club gardens at the HenIdersonville ,<?lub market in recent weeks. lUGA ly Newspaper, Devoted I 5, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH C ?1 ~ ??r-Annual Maso Mere Tii( The- annual Masonic picnic of the ,??' Watanera county! will he held here next Tuesday, Au- j rust .">rd, at which time -he Oxford) ' ruiumagi .-iTtjr:iiir class will he> . ent and render program. The address will he delivered by Dr. .1. K.\ AV?erneih\. of State?vilie. The pro-, [coeds from the dinner and concert.' hiycii by the Oxford class will go to. the Ma.&r.ic Orphanage at Oxford. 1 The to' lowing is the program ar-1 AUSTIN SOUTH GETS PATENT FOR INKWELL, Uruler the heading ''Recent. Patents to North Carolinians." compiled by Paul B. Eaton, patent attorney of Charlott'e and Washington, has the following to say regarding an ink; well which lias been patented by Mr. Austin E. South, of Boone: "Austin E. South. Boone, inkwell, design patent No. 70,5S4. "This is a design patent for an inkwell which is drawn along the lines of an old-fashioned copper distillery. There is a cross-section of a log of wood as a pedestal on which t'he other devices are mounted, and on this pedefitai i- mow, ted a sin a Her block of wood in which a furnace is cut, and on top of this smaller block of wood there is a representation of a ( ??ppcr still. To one side of che still a lower block of wood on which is mounted a miniature barrel in hich t1ie 'worm' is supposed to be . cod, and a .-pigol is placed in the twin of this miniature barrel which rnxo a .-mailer Keg. and to tlu right of. the 'worm' is another iv. !icr keg standing; on oiie of its heads ; e:ip is placed on the 'sl'tll' and leads to the 'cooling tub' which holds the 'worm.' The whole get-up is very effective, and will make a nice and-uniquc adornment for any desk unless the occupant of the desk does not wish to be reminded of the old days." VALLE CRUCIS NEWS Vnlk* Cruris. July i!S.?Mrs. Walter 1.. Bnii'd spent a few days last week in kenoir with her sister, Mrs. A. \V. Dtila. Mr J. K. Mast made a business trip'to Charlotte and Mount Holly, having been gone most of the week. On Wednesday of last week a miscellaneous shower was given at' .the Bark House for Mrs. Don Shull. by her! friends. The -valley is teeming''with summer i visitors, and we are glad to welcome j back many familiar faces. The little baby of Mr. and Mrs.-j Monroe Herman which has been sick | for some time, is improving. News was receiver! in the valley j last Friday of the death of Mrs. j Floyd McBride, sister of Mrs. T. C. j Baird, in Salio, Mexico, on July 22. Although she had been in very bad ; health for the past, six months, the | news oi ner oeatn came as a shock to; relatives ami friends here. I Mrs. Don Sliull left Tuesday to i ioin her husband in Cleveland, Ohio. I * : ^ Btfrank Cra The Track Out in the country the other day I j stood on the hilltop and saw the rail-j way track, like a silver ribbon, run-I ning away into the distance. Thr sun i was shining brightly. 1 could perceive a train many miles away. Atj night I stood upon the same hill and j could see the track only for a little j distance: beyond that it was swal-j lowed up in the shadows. But I i know that the track runs on. There are high moments in life ] when we can sec the far reach of righteousness. And there is many a dark hour whci^ doubt and unfaith | secue aowjj ail arouiid us. j Indeed our moments of vision are ! comparatively few. Day after day all | we can do is to keep the revelations I of those moments in our memory and , plod on through the fog and obscurity, trusting more to faith than to sight. We cannot abide on the peaks. Most* of our journey is through the valiey. The merchant at his desk must keep in mind his laTger plans even when details would deny them. The sailor must go on dead reckoning when there are no stars by which he can set his course. But he knows the stars are still there. Even in love we come all too rarely t'o the mountains of transfiguration and most of the time we must trudge i Demc :o the Upbuilding of Nort AROIJXA, THURSDAY. .IV LY 2'.'. ?nic Picnic ssclay, Aug. 3 ranged by the committee: i. Masons meet ut lia'l a? f?::*o o'clock for instructions ami :?? receive regalia. A. Go to the picnic grounds. Song?Orphanage singing 1. Invocation un<l iiitroduci'?iy remarks by Dr. J D. Uaukin. 5. Address?Dr. J. E. Abernethy. 6. Sung?Oxford class 7. Dinner. 8. Bali game, 3:30. p. m. 0. Concert by the Oxford Orphanage singing ela.s>. S p. m. MRS. FERGUSON DEFEATED FOR TFYAS r.nUCDWnDCiiiD Austin, Tex., July 20.?The political fortunes which raised Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson from a quiet home in Temple, Texas, to the governorship soon arc to turn her foosteps back to doUiestic life. Governor Ferguson announced late today she would resign as a result of Saturday's primary in which Attorney General Dan Moody led her by more than 100,000 votes. 'She had promised to resign if Moody beat her one vote, and he had promised to resign if she led him by 25,000. Moody win be the next governor of Texas, nomination on the Democratic ticket being equivalent* to election Simultaneously with her resignaj Lion announcement, which also ear-} ! ried with it withdrawal fr.tr. any nosI siblc primary run-off with Moody, j Governor Ferguson called a .<oecu>! session of the legislature to meet I September 13, to validate Texas dis' :rVt road "bonds and to investigate ! any department of the state govern j ment. that the legislarare may see fit | to investigate. j Moody's majority over Gpyernoi | Ferguson is 'approximately 100,000, FIVE PERSONS KILLED WHEN CAR PLUNGES DOWN BANK Cleveland, O., July 25.-?Five per ; sous wort*-killed and another seriously 5 ill J urecl when their automobile went ^yer.a 20-foot embankment here ou>ly 1' ttiy. The victims were all resident,* | of Clev lamhMurphv, .iu!y 2a?-Shot dpwh by ; .iohn Crisp, federal prohibitum offi cor. as he stood ih the doorway ol his home. Cecil McClure, 17 year-oh! Tomothi youth, fell with bis mother's arms about him as she clung I'o the gun he hold in his hands, in an effort to prevent bloodshed, accordin to belated reports reaching: here today. Young- McClure died a few hours after the shooting. The shooting, which occurred late Wednesday in a very remote section of Cherokee county, has caused a flood of resentment against the action of the officers to sweep over this section and has increased the indignation felt as a result of the recent shooting affair near Bryson Ciuy in which officers fired upon the chauffeur >: a niominent Georgian. Crisp was arrested and is being held under $a.000 bond. HgSayslJi Runs On grimly forward with hope, believing what we have once seer, and hoping for what we shall see again. Underneath the crowding evidences of the power of evil every man must believe in those eternal and far more potent' cosmic laws of good. Did you once glimpse a great. and beautiful love burning like a shekinah; Howevei* gross may be the present darkness you must believe that the tiro still hums. The track runs on. The soul that will not go forward | until he can see every step of the ' way to the end will advance but little. i Most of the time we must be step| pine out into the dark. I The man who is honest simply bej cause he knows that honesty is the j best policy, and is honest only so long: as it seems the best policy, has a poor quality of honesty; for only that honesty is the best policy which is honest in the dark as well as in the right"; only that man deserves tc bo called honest who is willing to follow the path of honesty even wher it seems to lead into the abyss. None of us can see more than s little way most of the time. Fort.u nate we are if, now and then, w< reach some height where the greai view unfolds. And if, afterwards, th< darkness seems to close in, we can saj to ourselves: "The track runs on." >CRAT hwest North Carolina. | M urd^ The murder of D. R- MeUet," youthful Canton, (O) News publisher, is thought to have been the result of the strenuous vice crusade he carried on in his city. Rewards of $30,000 are offered and search for the murderer is nation wide. DR. CHAPPELL GIVEN OVATION AT ASHEVILLE Ml nister Cleared Last Week of Grave Charges Preaches to Large Congregation AshevUlc'. July 25. ? Hallelujahs . echoed through Central Method:-i church here today when the Hcv \sheley Chappeil returned his pui pit after a suspension of t'. - 'ns and a clerical trial which a,; I him of .- ('! ious chnri;. >. Tuc last svveflii ix hote >i : he hal ivlujah chorus from UandeiV Mei : iah had net died ,v?va\ before the popular pa:$3>r launrhed j?itu his sermon ojjtfUK* subject*. "The Old Rujrm! Cross" .i <^<m^reg;atioi: which packed tin- auditorium ami . ovoili?\V|| into the. vestibule and | yards. Dr. Chappcdl, a . ttlp man, member of a family Jpn^ distinguish- j od in Southern Methodism, avoided any reference to the affair which began wit'h his arrest m Memphis, Ten a.f oil a disorderly conduct chaise and came to a climax with tluLdo- , % claration of 1M ministers at Staiesvilie Tuesday that ho was innocent of immorality, falsehood and attempted bribery Obviously fired and strained andd< the burden of recent experiences. 1 Dr. ('happel! vet: spoke with event vi^or and vocal clarity, parinu with dynamic nervous eneiiry to and fro in his. pulpit as he delivered hi.- 20 minute message. FOUR PEOPLE HURT IN AUTO WRECK ON BOONE TRAIL Two badly hurt and two painfully1 brui: cd v.a the result of an auto- : mobile accident Sunday afternoon wheti a party from Johnson City, i Ton p., wont oyer a 7b-foot embank' mc'iu on the- Boone Trail highway ncai Deep (Jap Sunday afternoon. Kaiiine Diddle is in a Hospital at Johnson city; Jerome Davis, also of Johnson City, suffered a broken arm and bruised face and body, and Miss Tot Burleson and Mrs. Mabel Young also of the Tennessee city. , received painful bruises. The injured \ were brought :<> the. Butme hospital where they were given aid by Dr. ' Perry. It is said that the party in a 'Dodge 1 touring car. ran into a blinding rainstorm and the ear skidded over tin . embankment. turning over three : times and being completely riemolishj eil. Passing motorists rescued the party and relatives arrived in Boone ; Monday to carry them home. . FRIDAY AFTERNOON Cl.UB j The Fridry Afternoon Club was : entertained on July 23 in the beau-j lifui new home of Mrs. Oscar Bar-1 din on Water street. Mrs. Harding! and Mrs. Little being hostesses. The artistic display of a profusion j of many huge sweet pe;.s upon a j background of immaculate walls and'; furniture gave a coior effect most; charming. Add to this the evident t : thought fulness of preparation and i arrangement, we have the setting fori a most pleasant occasion. The humor of the afternoon was j called forth by impromptu speeches! upon subjects distributed by lot. and! i a pleasant touch of rivalry provoked i i by "A Garden Romance." a botani- | cal contest designed to tell the love J l story of a youth and maiden in terms j i of garden flowers. Mrs. B. .T. Coun? cil bore away the honors. Invited guests were Miss Fannie i Star Mitchell, dean of the Greens- j , boro high school; Mrs. Usher, of i Miami, Fla.. and Mrs. Henry Hardi*. - of Boone. j! For a closing pleasure, the guests t: were directed into the dining room i} where the hostesses, assisted by Mrs. :, Turner Hendricks, served a delicious salad course followed by watermelj Ion. P?-: 8MkSbBs i > i five cents a copy RAPID PROGRESS IN THIS SECTION -anj of the Once Powerful Cherokee Rapidly Becoming Garden Spot of North Carolina \ . more ; han one hundred and . \VaUniara County and I Northwestern Carolina was in ?! of the R< d Mar?: ihe :"<?re:-ts were onrhai r:'d l?v the -Ui ha: <i - 1* :n<i:.u-:'ry. nj&t one oared i:?-id ??ivo vi?i. ,jco of \vhit< mar,; the deer. the hear and r bitked in lhe uncharted v. : <}?' and mat club! their prowess against that of the untamed Cherukvv, who. with bow and arrow, provided the wants of bis w:g\vam. Hut changes were in store for this frontier section. The moeeasvr.eci feet of arivfiii nvoivc Qujaaa/-- ?>-..i . nvir JflXJiJding aong the water courses, blazing trails for the equally adventurous white settlers. The sound of the ax and the flintlock foretold the doom which awaited those forest denizensLog cabins were built", small tracts of land were cleared, and civilization began its slow growth. Today the curtain is raised on a r.ew scene. Where once a eonfliet raged between the forces of the wild and the vanguards of. progress, buildrigs of stone and mortar have raised themselves from the earth. The sparkling streams have been harnessed t'o supply power and light for the modern towns and villages which ioi the entire section. 1 > . pari.ment. - which rend Parisian styles in wearing apparel have rcthe ancient trading posts whfre jeans and ihis y. yarn stock' aiid home-marlc hoots were piucared t'o- fhe rv, is wardrobe, jyorib.- t- >m?ioth as marble have buggi built 1 rough tile ernera -1 valley? and aero. > i.he towering hills. Bqr.ks, garages, nioderr. hole);?, churches, stores and factories are to be found broad' a.st in thi- once isolated land. Right near the spot* where Daniel Boone built his cabin of logs and spout several years of hi- adventurous life, is a State school for teachers, equipped in every detail, which each year sends count loss instructors to >11 pari- of the kind. And ;.'odav. tusl the -arm- ?rrtf3w*>_ day, this wonderland thousands of charms for mankind- The trees are just as green as hi days of yore; Hie flowers jus.t as bright and beautiful. and the streams re main clear as crystal. The trails which eekwned ilie f??rch.-ars of tliis rottyly race of mountain jK' ph tov. ird the have given way to the motor road. Thousands of tourists from . iie South, North. Kasl and West each . av view Hie splendors of "Th Land of the Sky." TUe new-comer strands : some lofty peak and is held spell' ? :11< 1 by the landscape which is un folded before him. The hilts in the foreground bejeweled with the native flora, present a scene of varied color; his eyes are lifted and Vie sees the distant hills fade into the tiivqiioase sky. These beauties, coupled with the dreamy romances of early pioneer life which gather about the visitor, lead hini to believe that he surety enjoying a paradise on earth. No artist eriu paint a canvas that will do jusfrv t'o this land; no scribe can reveal its glories; it is without doubt the supreme nia.--.ternieee Of :* Mmskm- Rani< MAN KILLED WHEN LIGHTNING HITS CHURCH. GRANITE FALLS Granite Falls. July 25.?During a heavy electric storm here this afternon St. Matthews Lutheran church was struck by lightning, killing David Hallman, prominent' farmer, and slightly injuring Rev. Paul Sigm&n and several others. The lightning struck the top of the church, running in on the bell cord to which a wire was attached. THE NEWS OF SILVERSTONE Mast. July 28.?Mr. Harrison Greene, who has been in the hospital at Banner Elk. has returned to his home here very much improved, buy stil! going about on crutches. Mr. and Mrs. James H. TToLby. of Concord, have been visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs- A. X. Mast. Mr. Hiram Wilson, who has been ill for almost three months, shows very little change lor the better. Mrs. iva B. Wilson has returned to her home here after a visit to her sister in Lynchburg. Va. A mid-week prayer service has been starter! at Pleasant Grove Baptist church, in which it is hoped that the people of the community will lake a hearty interest. The K. M. Clement farm, one of the finest in this section, was sold at auc~ t Saturday, the purchaser beto* .1* J. C. Miller. ^ev. It. C. Eggers filled his regular appointments at Pleasant Grove last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. E. H. Perry visited relatives and friends at Silverstonc last Sunday.
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