North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXIX, NO. 50 VOTPiG^ORM^l BILL INTRODUCED 11 First Measure Sponsored by Admin- 1 istration Presented in Senate; Many Bills of Statewide Interest 1 Before Law-makers A compromise Australian ballot.r bill, representing the views of bothj' the extreme Australian ballot advo- :1 rates, led by Senator J. 11. Broaghton of Wake, and the eastern Demi;- 1 crats, represented by Senator T. L.! < Johnson oj Robeson, was introduced 1 in the senate Friday jointly by Sena- 1 tors Broughton and Johnson. j' ine Diu "was reierred to the coin- j mittee bn election la\vsx of which j( Senator Carlisle Higgins of Alle- j ghany, is chairman. The bill will I 1 -gm ; have the support of Governor Gard- * ner and will be known as an admin- 1 istraiioti mcaaiii'v- 4 Tlie bill incorporates all flic essen- 1 tial features of the secret ballot law 1 generally designated as the Auslia- > lian ballot. The bill is not modeled 1 in particular after the law of any other state, the co-authors undertak- ' ing to incorporate the best features } of such laws in effect in most of j * the states of the union. The bill j( provides for the printing of all bal-' lots at public expense and strictly! limits and regulates handling and 1 distribution of ballots. Ample man- ' datory provisions are made insuring ' absolute secrecy in voting. The bill * provides for a well restricted voting! '< arrangement including voting booths \' and forbids inierference with voters 1 and is designed to secure to every 1 voter the right to vote, in private ^ without molestation. The measure provides stiff penalties for failure to comply with its provisions. Personsjl convicted of making imitations of 4 -4diO-.effieial ballot are held guilty of : a misdemeanorr.na arc io- h tenced to a. fine of not less than 1 $100 nor more than $1,000 and pris- ' on sentence of not less than one year 1 at the discretion of the court. r.iecnon oinciais who violate the ' provisions of the law are to be punished by a fine of not let:-, than $hG ' nor more than $200, and jail sen- ' fences of mora than 10 to 90 days. ' Markers who misinform blind or'1 illiterate voters arc liable to a tine oi J not less than $10 nor more then *' \ $100 and jail sentence of 30 days. * Any person who aids or abets i fraud in connection, with any absen- 1 tee vote cast or to be cast, sliuli be : guilty of a felony upon conviction, \' be sentenced ro the penitentiary fori" not less than one or more than five :: years, the iaw provides, 1 Important Bills Bills of state-wide importance i have been placed in the legislative hopper since last Wednesday as fol- 1 lows: ' Wednesday SENATE By Person of Franklin: To abolish : the sa'ary and wage commission, put- = ting its powers and authority ir, the hands of the council of state. By Womble of Forsyth: The bud- ; get revenue bill. i By Clark of Mecklenburg: T o up- ' propriate a total of $(>6,000 Scathe 39th annua! reunion of Confederate veterans, to be held in North Caro- 1 lir?. i By Person of Franklin: To permit)' North Carolina druggists to fill pre- ' scriptions, containing alcohol for 1 medicinal purposes as allowed by the ' Volstead actNo hills were passed in the senate Wednesday. HOUSE By Mull of Cleveland: The revenue act. 9 By Halstead of Camden. To pro- ' vide for equalized maintenance of ' public schools in North Carolina. Halstead of Camden: To enlarge state liiliway - system by taking in j county Toads and increasing tax of , motor fuels. 4| By McNeil of Ashe: To authorize state highway commission to com- ' plete all state highways on the road map of 1921. Thursday -HOUSE By Borne of Guilford: To amend sub-section 4, Sec. 1589 relating to , divorces. By Carr of Duplin: To protect j married women again3t slander of their husbands. By Winston of Bertie: To autho-: rize naming joint legislative committee to consider cutting expenses of government by eliminating and ' consolidating boards, departments and commissions. SENATE 1 By Lawrence of Hertford: To provide ways and means to enable the state to assist in the support of schools by levying 9 three per cent tax on electric current and gas sold by public service coporations, municipal light and power plants excepted, and to tax long distance tcle"phone calls and telegrams. By Person of Franklin.: To repeal] the state primary law. By Blount of Pitt: To provide for| (Continued on Page Five) , A Non-Partisan N? BOONE, 2,000 Volumes Added to Blowing Rock Library Slowing: Rock, Jan. 23?Mrs. Paul IClutz is acting as chairman of a i ommittee to arrange for an oyster1 supper Saturday night to raise moniy to help pay for the 2,000 volumes! idded Saturday to the Blowing Rock! school and community library, i he mpper will be held in the Central | lotel and will be followed by i lance. A good time is promised to all I vho will come to the supper and j lance, as arrangements are being j nade to provide the best of enter-i .ainment. Serving at the tables will! >e Mrs; L E. Story, Miss Sarah Banier. Mrs. Acidie Sale, Miss Hatti: ireer and Mrs. Rupert Gillett. Principal G. 0. Mudge and the ibrarian acted on their own intia- j iye in purchasing the library cf the Soone Fork Institute at Shulls Mills! tr.d took a chance on getting the j lieney later. The townspeople iiri-j nediately came to their support and J f icred to raise the money with the 1 jyster supper. Getting the books from Shulls j dills was a task which last Saturday required the combined efforts oi a :ruck and eight men. Rob Greene j ionated the use of his truck, and | five boys volunteered to go along j ind help with the loading, and es-' pecially with maneuvering the- truck j hrough the mudholes and bogs be-! Aveen here and Shulls Mills. Besides Mr. Greene, Principal Mudge,! ?.iid the librarian, the following boys' iclpcd with the transportation: i Clarence Greene, Donald Greene, j [laves Coffey, Parks Knight and Jay 1 Knight. Because of the thaw of Friday and i Saturday: the road was almost im- j passable. Several times it was ne-: :essary for all the crew to get off! uid push and at one nlace it. was no? 1 cessary to borrow a polo from .a I iieighDoring icjiveanupry ilievrucrsl bodily out of the mud. Tho boys carried rocks from the hillsides and threw them in the ruts us the truck progressed. Among the new books are two encyclopaedias, making a total of "our authoritative "works of this kind: now in the library. A large number jf volumes of reference works in history and other subjects are included, us are - -n large group of isngiish classics ar.d a collection of good fiction. Altogether, this is probably the most valuable addition vet made to the library. With the jther books already on band, this collection gives the Blowing ltock school a library of 2,800 volumes? trie of the largest and most complete possessed by any consolidated-school.; in this part of the state. The library is open to the townspeople on Tuesday and Thursdny evenings and Saturday afternoon front three to five. They may borruw any books that have not been reserved for the use of the high school classes. The 2,000 new volumes are nowbeing accessioned and placed on the shelves. They will probably, be ivailable to borrowers some time .his next week. Work of grading thS Vonahwisee road is vapidly approaching the j Sandy Flat neighborhood, and in that.' viciisi ty, .?;V> ground is i beingj cleared to make way for the new' route, which straightens a number >f sharp curves between Blowing Rock and Sandy Flat. HUMAN SACRIFICE VICTIMS UNEARTHED IN ANCIENT PIT; Philadelphia, .Tan. 2T?A mammoth death pit in which the bodies! if 4 5 victims, sacrificed in accord- j uncc with, ancient Sumorian burial rites, lay amid an amazing wealth of j told, silver and semi-precious stones ! i',,Y, been discovered in one of thej Uhaldecs, home of Abraham, by the joint archaeological expedition if the University of Pennsylvania! museum and the British museum, it I ivas announced today. The death pit is larger than any j found before in the 5,000-year old i cemetery at Ur and although it has ] been only partly cleared it already i has yielded 31 gold head-dresses, in- j laid pendants, wreaths and hair rib- j bons, many silver "combs" and oth- j er ornaments, according to a report | from C. L. Woolcy, director of the1 exposition. Three harps of unusual design and a pair of statues of rams which are made of gold, silver, white shell and lapis lazulle also were found. These statues were described as "two of the most remarkable objects of antiquity that Sumeria has yet produced. In reporting the discovery, Mr. Woolcy said that toe pit should be the introduction to an actual tomb and that the workers were digging down from the modern surface in the hope of finding a tomb beneath ifc. "What a marvelous strain that is!" said the musical genius. "Yqs," said the unapnreciative, "I too feel it. JGA swspaper, Devoted to the WATAUGA. COUUNTY. NORTH OA CITYOF BOONE^S CITED FOR DEFAULT State Auditor Turns Cases of Continued Complaints Over to Solicitors for Action; No Information as to Amount of Local Default /\s tne result ol rontinued complaints for default in principal or interest paymelit~~6h bonds of So. !uda, in Polk county, Boone, in Watauga county, and Kenilworth in Buncombe county. State Auditor Baxter Durham has turned the complaints over to the solicitors of the three judicial districts in which the towns are located for prosecution, according to information made public at the auditors office in Raleigh yesterday. Some years ago delay in pay in or principal and interest on bonds hpenme^so frequent as to embarrass the credit of the entire state and in 1921 and 1923 drastic legislation was passed requiring registration of all bonds with the state auditor, who is required to send notice 30 days before a payment is due and failure to make payment on time was made a criminal offense. Even though the principal or interest is paid the next day, it is pointed out, a default of even one day is regarded as serious in bond circles and the i legislature has made strenuous ef- i forts to yotect the credit of the counties and municipalities of the state, "the overwhelming majority of which pay their indebtedness the day it is due." The largest issue on which Auditor Durham has received a report is or. Carteret county, the re port being that interest due on January \ oh: $l,250k0bo 5 i-i per cent bonds had not been paid, the irmvment due amounting to $32,I 8(>2.50. In the case of~fluv towns"! of Boone and Kenihvorth, the state auditor has no information as to the amount of the defaults j on January 1, but since these , towns have before been reported l in him Xur the .same offense, he has deemed i*. wise to transmit the . cases to the solicitors' of the re| spective districts for appropriate | action. * ' E. E. ELLEJt OPENS PRODUCE HOUSE HERE Mr. IC. E. Ellcr of North Wilkesboro was in town yesterday and completed arrangements for opening a i produce station here. The. business i at present will be operated at the | Harnett Garage irear thc uf.fne | pavement in the eastern limits of I town and Mr. S. M. Norris has been selected as the local manager of the ! concern. An advertisement in this I issue gives the prices which will be ! paid for produce for the week begin| t-ing the 28th. Prices will be ani ;:ouncod rrffih week to week iVIr Rl lor basing them exactly on the prices being paid by him in North Wilkes-, boro,- less actual transportation./:, j Mr. Eiler is the owner of the | "Leading Pouitvy House of North I Carolina," at North VVilkcsboro and some idea of the extent to which bis business has grown in Wilkes is in| dicated by the fact that, during the rGMristma-s oeeedr- his concern. marketed 20;000 turkeys, to say nothing of other poultry, butter, eggs, dried fruit, etc. Watauga fanners have been doing business with Mr. Eller regularly for years and they will welcome the opportunity of receiving his usual good prices for their produce here in Boone and save the long haul down the mountain to North Wilker.boro. At the same I time citizens of Boone are delighted that Mr. Eller has opened a business here. SENATE VOTES DRY MILLIONS The president of the United States has been voted $24,000,000 by the senate to be used in an attempt to more strictly enforce prohibition. The bill remains to be approved by I the house and President Coolidge and if this is forthcoming, the ex-! penditurc of the money is destined: to tall entirely to the lot of Herbert i Haaw* hfcnnco of tho uliArf rmnnin- i ing time of the Coolidge administration. The measure was introduced by Senator Harris of Georgia and passed the upper house by a vote of 50 to 27. The senate also voted an additional $250,000 for presidential investigation of the" illicit liquor j problem. After two weeks of conferences with Republican party leaders, Presidentelect Hoover left Washington Monday for Florida where he will prepare his inaugural address and rest up preparatory tc taking over the duties as the nation's chief ex-! ecutive. Traveling on a special: train, Mr. Hoover arrived in Mi-1 ami Tuesday afternoon. There he was greeted by the governor and uthc? officials and accompanied to the J. C. Penny estate on Belle island where he and Mrs. Hoover are guests. I J . Best Infxre sts of Northv -? ?* ifrt-TNA ' iHJRSDAY. JANUARY gs=y?? ?~ | 7'ow to Mai ( Money BY REAL .(Editor's note?For the next three months The Democrat will pnblish each week the experi'iV'eihces of h \y?jj??i>H .-.-.irc.iv farmer on some aspect of farming which can be made to bring in more profits to the farmer. The articles will contain no , theories?only the actual experiences of farmers in this county. This series of articles is being sponsored by the Watauga Gouhtv Bank in the hope that every farmer in the county might get some ideas on how to -increase his own income and at j: the same time to increase gen[ erally prosperity of the county, 'if a diversification farm PV'feS ducts can increase the average farm income by only $50 a year, ; the buying power of the county will be increased by $100,000.) "Few farmers in this county seer I ter realize the large profits that cai be made through the proper methoi of raising sheep," says W. L. Wink lev, one of the county's most sue cessful sheep raisers. "Trie beaut; of it is that this extra profit can b made through so little extra labo that it docs not in any way inter fere with the other activities of th farm. Almost any farmer in th county can place a few sheep on hi idle grazing land and add ihese e> tra dollars to his income without di minishing in any way his othe ! sources of revenue. It is a pur gain 'By keeping careful records o my sheep, t have found that th woo! will pay the whole cost o keeping and laising the sheep, leai ing the sale price of the lambs s clear profit. This is not theory, bi rictual fact as shown by my record '"The average ewe will produt one lamb a year, and some will pri dhce two. At the very lowest marl j et price, this lamb will bring $: I which, as I explained, is clear profi j If a farmer has fifty ewes, therefor I the very lowest profit he can expee j provided always that he takes th ; proper care of his sheep, is $101 | Certainly such a profit as this is no j to he despised by farmers of tfci I county. Even if he has room to I only a riovi-n ewes, his profit i | nearly SI00. lie raises many olht J crops that requjie much less labe j than sheep with a profit smalic | than that. "Sheep can be raised with less 1: ! bor" arid trouble than any other kin of livestock. The fencing is prat ! tically the only labor involved, fo !the sheep do not need to bo fed cj I cept during the month just befor \ lambing time. During this montl j the ewes are weak and need a ratio j of grain. They should not be ovei j fed, but the should have a goo | substantial ration. At other time I during the year * suppc: | themselves on good grazing land, i I which this county abounds. p ec ._1 i. SI11 y wi oKcr.p thr , makes caring for them easier tha | the eare of other livestock is tha I you can count exactly the time o i lambing. For sheep is exactly 14 i days, and it never varies. You ca keep your records, therefore, an know exactly when to expect you lambs. I kept such a record on year, and one night 1 went out ah brought in nineteen young lamb; which arrived exactly on schedule. "A word of warning need be adc ed about salting. It will not do t nut out rock salt for sheep, becaus Ithey will stand and licit it until thei tongues get sore. Moreover, the; will get too much and then go t water and drink sc. much that yo will have water-logged sheep." "The grazing land should be pasture bordering on a wood. Th sheep are very fond of the grown up grass which is found on most o such lands, and in the woods the. find neriga that sccir. tojerhaye -j medicinal quality for them. My oh servation is that nearly every farme in the county has just such grazini lands bordering on woods. In racs cases, these lands are lying idle whereas they could be made profit able with a fev sheep. "Moreover, sheep are the best o all fertilizers. Land on which shee have grazed has been found to b much richer for crops in a fe\ years than land that has lain fallow "Some farmers object, howevei that sheep rnin the grass lands. Thi is not true, unless the sheep hav been allowed to graze on the Ian during the month of April. It i during this month that our gras gets its start every year, and ther< i fore, the sheep should he kept el ; of it during that month, riney ca . he kept in a pen and fed during the j time. There is another reason fo OCRA /est North Carolina 24, 102'J ke More on the Farm FARMERS i J keeping them up in Apri = , for ciur- \ |ing that month the sheep get rid1 j of most of the worms that have j formed in their stomach?. Keeping j them up during April prevents these ! ; worms from falling on the grass. If I j these precaution? are used, there is | j no danger that the sheep will de-! jstroy the grass lands, r ns an illustration 01 Hie lmprove! ments in sbeep-raising, I shall cite; ; one of my own experiences For | i a long time 1 bought my vanis here j and there without regard to pedigree, but just as an experiment I decided to buy a thoroughbred Hampshire ram. He cost me S71 delivered at Snulis Mills. -My neighbors were astounded. Even my father said I was foolish for paying such a price for a ram, whn 1 could buy one for $15 from my neighbors. "Nevertheless. J went ahead and breu from that ram. The next (spring, not a lamb that I sent to market Weighed less than 128 n: pounds, i brought eight ram Iambs .on a wagon to Boone and offered rj | them for sae at $20 each. When a j few buy ere looked them over, those eight lambs were gone in thirty minj utes at a price of SI2 above the 'n 1 average price of $8. A few days j, j later I brought seven more ram . {lambs to Boone and sold them in an e | hour at the same price. "This shows what can be done by using thoroughbred stock. That is . why we are bringing these Hamp| shire and Shropshire ewes to this county?to shoy the farmers what e 1 can be done with sheep when good ; stock is used. The farmers are re n rsponurtifc r.c.biy, fnalready we have , rtiad to send a hurry order for two ; carloads of ewes, and before long , we shall have allotted ali of the ewes to Watauga farmers. ^ "These ewes are prought from Southern Michigan, where the elimAttJ is practically the some as in Watauga. There is no climate anywhere that surpasses this for sheep J i raising1, because it has cool sum1 ', mors, comparatively mild winters, .'.Land, a long grazing season. (' J "Watauga farmers who lake up ^ I sheep raising need have r.o fear I 1 about the market, because we have , 1 never hail any trouble in getting our ' ] wool and lambs to market. The l* j large companies of the north send : their buyers throughout the cdtih^.trsi hence our wool and lambs get to market "very quickly uifil demand " the best prices. That is one reason 1 we have an advantage with our connection with Mr. Jones-of l.enoir. He l"1 represents otic of the largest buying ; companies, and tlirough him we can ~ i market our products at the higher! " I prices and in the shortest time. "If Watauga farmers will give e sheep raising their serious attanlion, they will find that the profits n i more than pay for-the siasli amount 7 S of tvouble necessary to care ?or the ! sheep. Every farmer knows how a i welcome an extra $50 or $100 or r* j $400 \vill^c' :just tiiwA of year !l | that taxes fall due; When we are ^ j living in one of the ilnest sheep' j ralsTiigv inis, !" i not wisdom to let the opportunity l* of gaining this extra profit pass." 5 j IRON MINE IN ASHE COUNTY " ' MAY BE PUT IN OPERATION <Vj Jefferson, Jan. 20.?J. \V. Ballon r of Grumpier, owner of what is dee clared to be the most valuable iron ^ ore mine in this section, is under?? stood to be negotiating with capitalists for sale of the property and it ' is anticipated that a deal may- he 0 put through which may mean operae tion of the mine. 1 Experts have tair.cd that mily lions of tons of ore is buried in the 0 earth on Mr. Ballou's property. 11 Samples of the ore have been tested and found of highest quality; The a ore has won several prizes, including e first award at the world's fair at - Paris, France, a number of years 1 ago. Lack of transportation has pre y vented development of the property a no until now, but it is expected that - activity will be started at r.c distant r date. ? Ashe county is considered one of t the richest counties in the state in ; mineral deposits but its mines have r been handicapped by remoteness from the market and lack of transf pbrtation facilities. In addition to p rich deposits of iron, copper in large e quantities and some gold have been v found in the county. T. r,! This is our conception of the truly sj human man: a man in whom there ejis a just balance of faculties, a dcatholic sympathy; no brawler, no is | fanatic, no pharisec, not too credu;s 1 lous in hope, not too desperate in s-jpurpose; warm, but not hasty; ardf ont and full of definite power, but n j not tuituir^; around to he pleased it and deceived by every new thing.? tr' Woodrow Wilson. BIG SIM PLEDGED FOR NEW CHURCH . Boone Baptist Congregation Has Subscribed Approximately $20,OOO For Erection of New Edifice; Work to Begin in April hrz Approximately $20,000 in money and land had been subscribed early this week to the fund for building? the- new Uaptist churchy it- was said by W. D. Farthing. chairman of the | finance committee. It is expected | that work on the new structure will start, in April, Mr. Farthing said. Last week the church leaders got 'together and formed an organization | for prosecuting the campaign for the 1 building. So ready was the response | to the appeal for funds that $10,000 had been subscribed by Tuesday aft;vrnoon. In addition, a lot 115 feet deep, fneinir College street, adjacent to the present church building,'\ind 35 jJigfet. facing Main street, was ^(Onatj ed. making the building site 2 00x ! 190. An architect donated the plans, and some building material was donated. bringing the total up to J about $ilu;0W; The present plan calls for the erection of the three-story Sunday | school building in the rear of the present building. As soon as this unit is completed, it will be used for i ..11 t. - ?I ; I coi tnsffcTi pui/posts wniic rne oici building ii? being razed and replaced with a modern structure. The complete plan of the plant has not been finished, but if donations continue at the present rate, Be one will have, a Baptist church i that will compare favorably with any , in this part of the state. ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1927-1928 The department of rural sochtllina, in the current issue of the | University News Letter, gives | showing the assessed valuation fit c:n h county in the stale in 1027, the total tax levy?county and district, ! the count y wide rate and the av erode county and-district;. 'ate, The assessed valuations and the countywide rates are those reported to the commissioner of revenue. The total tax levy in each county was the amount reported to the field work! ers of tin- state tax commission. The average county and district rate was determined by dividing the levy by the valuation. The total amount of county and district, taxes levied in the state in 1927-28 was $45,695,781, and the | assessed vnmaUoir St\;i:t!.<)!1.I 733. Hence the average tax rate on the hundred dollars of property was ;$1.5u, though in only 29 counties I was the average rate as low as this, j There were, however, 32 other ceun| tics which, outside of special districts. had a rate as low as $1.56. In -! 1 counties the average county and district rate was 52.0(1 or more, and ; ;n i - counties the couhly wide rate I alone was at least $2.00. Forsyth county liail tlie lowest total average I rate, fi9 cents, and Clay the highV.'atauga county in 1 '.'27. ranked : -5th amo-g the counties. rne-""asseSsed valuation of property that year heine $9,130,980, the total tax levy SI 10,784. The county vide rate that year was $1.33 .ind the county and I district rale, $1.34. In itU'.S, the ' Watauga county rale \v?sjrcdueod to $1.30 per hundred, so that the | county and special district levies, i Cor the year is about $1.51 per hun!drid INCREASED VALUE OF NORMAL The value of North Carolina's state institutions has more than I doubled in the yast eight years, acj-cording to r'?ds on file in the ; budget bureau office as 'compiled3Sv budget officials. This doubling of valuations is figured on the basis of permanent improvements alone. It , nniriusniig 10 note mar rne Appalachian Stale Neitu&l ,,, Bi?v,ue i i u , iincreased in value 285 per cent. Its valuation in 1921 was $252,700, i while in 1929 it reaches $982,886. I Its appropriations were listed at | $615,000 and funds otherwise received $115,186. One thousand seven hundred and j thirteen persons met violent deaths (in North Carolina during 1928. state I health department officials state in giving out their yearly report. Of this number 251 were homicides. Cause and number of deaths follow; Burns, 278; automobile and rnilroad, 35; automobile accidents, 561; drowning, 146; railroad accidents, 83: homicides. 251; suicides, 281; gunshot accidental, 62; gunshot doubtful, 99; lightning. 16 A IJuroc Jersey hog Weighing ! 1,110 pounds was killed by Herbert Dickson, Wayne county farmer, last i week. After the hog was dressed it weighed 980 pounds and the liver 20 pounds, making 1,000 pounds of J meat.