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Outstanding Happenings of We el
Gathered from Everywhere Condensed
for the Busy Reader
Washington, Feb. 11.?J. Q
Merrick was reappointed yesterdaj
as prohibition administrator fur the
district including Virginia. North
Carolina and South Carolina. >- L.
Osten at the same time was named
deputy admi nistrator for the middle
North Carolina district
James Eugene Rankin, prominew
banker, several tluies mayor of Ashe
viUe and chairman of the board oi
county commissioners of Buncombe
died at his home in Ashevtue Sun
day morning. Mr. Rankin \va.- $2
years old and for more than half j
ronton had been one of the out
-tanding figures in Asheville anr
western North Carolina"Rkleigh.
Feb? 1 eigh t-yeai
:ento7iees on the New Hanover county
roads hanging over Thomas E.
'ooper. former Wi-mington bankei
who was convicted of violation of
.In- state habiting laws, tonight '.yen
aim muted to 14 month:- by Goveinoi
McLean The governor announcer
that the commutation wouid result
ir. Cooper leaving- the ? haiugang on
February 20. which vvjil be Mondav
week. The governor said the oommutation
of Cooper means that the
former hanker will net have to leave
the state.
Raleigh, Feb. 12. Apptfmtmenl
of James A. Hartness. now clerk oi
the superior court ox lrc-deil county;
late tonight was announced as thi
new secretary oi* state by Govern*})
Mcl.?.an gollowihg: several eoni'er
:nee> h-s had with dv.egations wlu
hiri> * o appoint i umt rous men
At .tlsv an.;- rime Governor Mel-enr
announced that State Senator Pat
:l. \Yillianis of If.lizabeth Oil* ha<
been appi>iiite(l assistant director oJ
rhb state budget commission, an of
fice newly created by the legisla
*.ure which has noi been filled.
London, Feb. I "J.--The total ip
deaths caused by the gules whi'-r
have swept western Europe and th<
north Aliantic dining the' past few
days vml{;proh?iMy be ;yst fa? shov
>jf 50 when the Tall destruction is
knowr. i; was bfeliewd hoie tonight
Already 25 deaths were reported ii
Scandinavia and nine in Great Brit
iin, with .'vci ideiiVs to shipping jusi
becoming known. Great propertj
iois accompanied lift gales on laud
Not only were houses blowr. dowr
and roofs, carried away, hut ilte tor
rertta) rainfall wihrh arctiRipaiiie?
the high winds in iht. Bgilish Isle;
ist used fresh floods.
High Point, Feb. 12.?A gun battie
winch re-ulted in the wounding
of the chief of police, ore patrolman
and a private citiv.cn, took place
directly in front of the municipal
building hue this afternoon. While
none of ifce trio was seriously wounded,
the c-xehangc of bullets lasted
for several seconds and the men shot
at clu.s* range. The wounded are
U. L. Gibson, chief of police; L. U.
Robbim\ patrolman, and Thorinah
Devinncy, harbor. The battle started
\vhen Devinney, who had been arrested
for an alleged violation of the
prohibition law, was told by J. J.
Garland, who had gone his bond for
$500, that after some consideration,
he had decided to get off his bond,
and turn him over to the police.
Whereupon De.vinney drew his gun
and began shooting. The first two
bullets v ere directed at Garland.
The next two at Chief Gibson and
the next at Robbins.
Fort Myers, Fla., Feb. 11-?Thos.
A. Edison celebrated his eighty-first
birthday at his winter home here
today by eating straw berries for
luncheon, a delicacy not often allowed
him by his wife, participating
for the first Lime in a public observance
of the day and granting his
annual interview to newspapermen.
The crest of the birthday observance
was reached in the afternoon at the
Municipal Recreation park, where.
4,000 school children staged a
community festival in his honor.
There Mr. Edison cut a hugs birthday
cake. lighted by 81 electric
candles, and distributed pieces
among the children and scores of
adult friends who came to pay him
homage. In the interview, which
was held on the lawn of his home
on the Calosahatchee river, the inventor
talked 01 many things while
cameramen ground away to record
the pictures of newspapers and news
reels, but he was reticent on his experiments
with rubber producing
vines here.
W?shiri0"tr.Tv UVh i I?(~\Ue>ort%A
bv an unqualified endorsement fr'wn
John D. Rockefeller. Jr., the sev. :
Teapot Dome committee decided today
to back track to Will H. Hays,
former chairman of the Republican
national committee, in an effort to
pick up a trail it may have missed.
Its search still is confined for the
moment to movements of $3,080,000
in Liberty bonds which represent'the
profits of the Continental Trading
Company of Canada from an oil
transaction in this country that is
the center of the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy
case. Rockefeller, as a witness
today, was unable to throw any
light upon the aspect of the case,
hut at the conclusion of his testimony
the committee was informed
by its own agents that certain of the
SSSlSlnffismSn */'
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missxng: Continental bonds hail been 1
used to pay off debts of the Republican
national committee after the
i Harding campaign of 11*20. The decision
to invite Havs to appear was <
pursuant- to the obtaining: of that in- 3
formation. In a telegram to .Sena- '
tor Nye. however. Mr. Days denied s
knowledge of the existence of the i
Continental 'Leading Company.
London, Feb. a?New -worlds were? '
opened up early this morning when \
faces were flashed across the sea by
television in a way which was never
foresee?,- even by -Jules Verne in all (
his fanciful imagination. For the
I very first time the image of a
woman was sent across despite the
fact that- she left her position in '
t front of the transmitter n few sec_
ond> to glance in a wail mirror to '
I make certain her hair had not hecome
mwsstfd in the excitement.
. Dummy and men's faces had been (
j flashed across in previous tests but ]
. never a woman. John. L. Raird. in.
ventor of the televisor, explained he
i had difficulty in finding a woman '
{ willing1 to attempt to sit still for 20 |
minuter, or Salt an ho in*. Hair* I him;
self wa? the first to sit before the
i transmitter.; Afterward \V. C. Fox '
, of the London Associated Press As- 1
' sociation sat for halt an hour. Reports
came back from the United
Ftates that Fox was 'showing* up
\Vell. Then the woman took her seat
* in front of the seventeen glaring incandescent
lamps of 200 candle
1 power each "I am terribly thrilled."
she said. "The lamp's heat? ,
glare?nothing will bother me?1
? am going through with it." A '
group of people in a darkened cellar
in Harisdale, X. V\. outside New
York, watched the man and woman
in London turn the ir heads and
turn their heads from side to side.
. The images were crude, imperfect.
broken, but they were images never.
theless. Man's vision had spanned
the ocean; trans-Atlantic television
was ; demonstrated reality and one ;
, more great dream of science was on
r the way to eventual complete rea\
i/.atien.
r| .Washington, Feb. hi.?The senat
went on record today, 5G to 2<>
-. in favor of the reitireiheht of. presi- ,
dents after their second terms." liy ;
( this vote the resolution of senator
^ La IVdletjce. Republican of Wisconsin.
declaring this precedent estab- ;
iblu'ii be Wosdvin** I
' . r< - i I :1: s had become "a part of ;
Jour repubbvan system of i?ovoin.
v;i? approved after days of
^ debute revolving about its rmpliea- ,
lion to President Coolidge. The sec,
ond paragraph of the resolution
commf:ttding '"the observance <>: this
p^cedent,- by the president" was ,
, v. ii.Udmwn by Senator La Fulletie !
J after Senator Fess. Republican, of
j Ohio, had moved to strike it out
However. an attempt by Sonatoi
Fess. to word the resolution to apply
only to second *kcleetiyo,? term? ,
was overv/iVelmirigiy rejected, 7ii to $
'). This move which would obvious- ;
]y except President Coolidge from
the scope of the resolution was sup- 1
ported only by Senators Bingham
' and McLean, [Connecticut;; Water ?
man, Colorado, and Fejs and Willis,
! Ohio, Republicans. Administration
1 Republicans had contended that the (
! paragraph reflected upon Mr. Coolidge.
who, they contended might <
still 'accept in good faith" the Re- t
publican nomination. Some Democrats
had assailed the paragraph as ?
not excepting "in good faith" the s
announcement of rhejpresident that r
he did not choose to run. Senator c
La FoUeUe, who said he proposed his
i?uiuuu.i I'C cause. v.naries I). llil-l
lis of grew York "er.d other powerful 0
factors ir< the party" were* seeking-1 c
to draft the president, withdrew the I
paragraph but, he said, "it was ap-j
parent from statements by the ^
friends here that trie president has
not foreclosed his r^n^mihatibn/'
Irate Customer: "You can't fool
me! Do you think I've bought groceries
here for fifteen years for
nothing?1'
Grocer: "I shouldn't be at all
surprised."
A canoe is like a small boy?both
j behove better when j?addled from
j the rear. !
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| A SAFE PLACE
| for your star-spangled
dollars is right here in
the strong vaults of our
RELIABLE BANK
where your savings ace earning interest.
arid ;?1\a/?vcr of w??i- ?
mand when you need them. Our
surplus would have to go, our directors'
fortunes follow, and our
shares become worthless before a
depositor's saved dollar could find
the chili of disaster. Any safer,
spot for your cash than our Bankj j
doesn't exist.
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Bank of Blowing Rock
BLOWING ROCK, N. C.
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fHEf WATA V i; A DEMOCRAT- K\
HINTS ON HATCHING
AND BROODINC CHICKS
ila'.eigui Feb. la.?-I'oulu-y gyb\v_-rs
o.C No'tlt C:: roll -.::i sure now prcparing
for hatfhinjr aw! brooding
hi. soring chicks. To give tiniciv
suggestions about; how this had last
be done. C. T I'arrish. poultry extension
specialist ;.i State Coliege
r.as prepared a ten vc-udensed svur*es
tool.- which will i.-e of interest to
ill growers.
In hatching he suggests:
I. Select large well-formed egg.tba*
are uniform in shape, sire and
:olor.
Select hatching- eggs often in
toi<! weather.
3. Store where temperature." will
stay around JO to 00 degrees,
1. Do not incubate eggs over
ten days old.
5. Locate incubator in cellar
basement or some dark place where
cne sunlight is not directly oil the
machine. Have no draft on the machine.
Provicc plenty oX gtiod veutiiaion.
7. * vol ihc machine after thoroughly
disinfecting the trays and
,h< machine in general.
Rejsrulau at the desired tempo,
.tine before placing eggs in machine.
if. Operate the incubator according
:?> the manufacturer's directions,
Keen an eye on the temperaLuve.
Ho not P't it vary.
11. A greater percent of the
hatch depends on the operator rath
i*r than on the machine, other things
being equal.
12. Turn the eggs at least three
times each day. beginning on the
third day and ending on the morning
:>i ibe 18 th day.
1 Candle the eggs on the 7 th
and 3.4th days, using the infertile
eggs for feed but- hoil for 24 ihjn
utes before feeding to prevent the
spread of bacilary white diar
eh. a.
In brooding. Mr. Punish suggests
1. Harden the chicks by baieh
racking the door of the incubatoi
before moving t<> the brooder.
2. Leave chicks in the incubatoi
one day after hatch i.- over if p?>s
siblel
Have brooder : -tartcd one da\
previous to arrival of chicks. Clot it
so regulated that the temperature
under! the'canopy will be 100 degree;
at six inches from the outside.
1 Dr? f.iiw! ..kw.bo ~.??K
?mot hc.fvio nO or 72 hours. I'm
abdomen must iv flabby or soft. Ins
tore feeding ot bud results will follow.
Uo not crowd the chicks; 8S0 i
enough for any brooder except thi
hoi. water equipment.
Sharp, coarse sand as gtit
should he under the canopy but no:
fine sand.
Supply plenty of -our mill; in a
. entainer where the chicks cannot
ret wet. Do ant use a tin rcccptcle.
S. Feed sparingly the first, week
nit feed often?five times a day.
0 Leave mash before the chicks
lf.tev the first week.
1(1. Reduce the temperature of
he brooder as fast as the comfort
:f the chicks will permit.
11. If the weather permits, get
hieks out in the sunshine at the
snd of the first week.
' 12. Green feed is just as intpcrrmi
as any feed; so give it. from the
tart. This must be finely chopped,
fender clover, chick grass, rye,
pals, rajs: or barley may he used.
Id. Be clean; burn all dead
hieks, ptn off the sick ones; leave
ff a majority of the patent modi;
lilies anil you v ill do well.
N'giS: 'He plays a fair solf game,
locsn't lie?"
Tc-<1: "? es. if you watch him."
One at Night ?
Next day bright
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Thousands of Satisfed
users feel that Way about
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They work naturally
and form no habit.
Pleasant to take, easy
in action, . safe- and
sure.
Good for children as
well as adults.
Boone Drug Co.
The IfexaJtZ Store
L BOONE, N. C. J*
tanee/ Co upstairs fall yon see the
sign K'.cd out/ Follow the corridor
till you .w the sign 'Silence/ then
yell tot him."
)>est Man: "Wasn't it annoying
the way that baby cried all during*
thi ceremony?'*
oi H- nor: "It was dreadful.
When i aui married J shall have engraved
on the invitations, "No babies
expected/'
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CARRY OLD MAIL ROUTEj
; Col- Charles A. Lindbergh willi
carry once more his old route for;
J the L7. S. a.:- mail service, between J
j St. Louis and Chicago, oil .February;
j 20-21. :?:id the mail v.iil be specially
'stamped for th.? trip.
j "'Where is the manager's offi'. v. "
i ''Follow the passage until you
!, come to the sign reading 'No admits
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general hospital? * shouted the jay
walker standing in the middle of
Broadway.
"Stay right where y?n: arc-!" the
j i 'attic cop yelled hack.
Too Sensible
j 4<Vou look like a sensible girl..
} let's get married."
J She: "Nothing doing. Jf'm just as
j sensible as I look." Puppet.
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bile value A
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found on fhe world's finest
policy been better exempliBettcr
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