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BWMWBWMMM W ii i VOL. XL. NO. a I SCHOOL BILL IS ' I PASSED BY HOUSE Compromise Measure Carrying Ap- -f propriation o $15.7.50.000 for Stale c Aid During Next Bicnnium Goes fj to Senate for Action u Without a dissenting vote, the * house Friday passed its school bill j > carrying $15,250,000 of state aid for county schools during the next bi- ^ enniurn and then killed its appro- J i priation committee bill giving state tj ^institutions $1,972,000 for permit- () I Mnprif imnrnvnmnnK- di>v>nr? 4-V.r^ - > JMpr.-r" ....J..W1V.VHW uuiiuf^ Hit aaiHC Uj ^period. The school bill, a comprofni.se measure, arrived at after aje .^fhjV'eok of deoate, now goes to the sehThe s^hnnl hill woo pmpnHod in F^hree particulars before final pas- ^ An amendment of Represen- ^ gygBBytive Eaker of Lincoln, Republican, .e vS^rovided that teachers be paid on / same basis as at present and "Would define a school month in the ^ /jneaning of the bill as four weeks, I ? the same as at present. Before the Eaker amendment, the BSSS&ill provided for the payment of ^ yi^^teachers on a calendar month basis, provision that school officials said "itieant u loss of two weeks pay dur- ^ the year to a teacher since the n present, salary scale was retained in SjjgSBS Other amendments adopted were ^ SS^Srcffered bv Moss of Nash and Davis ^J&SEof Hyde. They were of a technical ^ ^^^ giature, clarifying the wording of -t W^ra?.-cn/?f:ank iviihAllf cVi-j no-i r?cr tKo?v 5?_ P^~~ : jBEssp i'lic biii provides two separate twig* equalization funds, one to aid coun- ( ties in the conduct of. six months' SHE schools and the other to aid special tax districts maintaining schools of r longer terms. The six months fund o "would he $0,000,000 (lie first year ^ of the hienmum and $6,250,000 the J aSiftt second year. The special fund woul 1 mn| be $1,500,000 dor each yetfr. j r itSSS? The administration of the fund c Mk y/oyld .Us vested in the state board of , s Kg -."equalization, composed of the direc- r {for of the budget, the superinten- t dent of public instruction and a J , member appointed by the governor r Mj|H? from each congressional district. S Powers of the present hoard would i be increased by the act. It would be .V.iffi empowered to examine the budgets SM/ and supervise the conduct of all jay schools. Refusal to pay vouchers 'fib: from the equalisation fuful to the v iU&f schools if they were not conducted ti ? on a business-like basis would be h -within its powers. v The fund would be ilistributcd to b UfiSf the counties on the basis of a 30- a 'ipB cent tax levy, the board determining n the true property valuation of the o troy county and fixing the amount it j: USE should raise from such a levy. I "As an emergency fund, $300,000 t of the cqualization^fund would be set h 9R aside in reserve. The board of n equalization would have the power h Jto allot to any county a sum up to ti $5,000 from the fund to aid in meet t! tSBB ing any special school emergency h jj^p that, might arise in the county. s Australian Bollot Bill Passes in the House ? Passing the amended Johnson- ? Broughton Australian ballot bill ' Tuesday night by a vote of 92 to 14, J! H ? u J t.' i i.t: * w buc ?oua? muveu tuvvaru tuiupieuu^ ; ^ one of the most important issues be- j B ^fore the 1929 genera! assembly. c c The rules were suspended and the i e 6? bill passed finally without record ti vote. The vote came at 10:30 TuesHL day night after five hours of de- n fg hate. s Five amendments tacked on to the is hill by the house just before passing u make a total of 30 added by the a K house Tuesday, but most of them g K were regarded as strengthening rath- tl er than weakening the measure. The I o bill sunvied a last-minute attack by 1; Chairman Hancock, of the election c laws committee, Cowles, Republican, c of Wilkes, and Lumpkin of Frank- t H ' fin, Democrat. n Ml As the measure, which has already s passed the senate picked up 30 s amendments in the house, it will go t * harlr^hefore the senate for concur- t Hb rence before it becomes law, but as d the house amendments were mostly c H of minor nature, there is nothing in t thetn, it is thought, that can result in anything more serious than call- v ing in a conference committee to t R jon out whatever differences that v Wnoy develop- i H ' ^B rATA A Non-Partisan I . " " ? B?a BOON iVould Eliminate the & County Treasure Under the terms oP house bill Ni 26b, introduced in the legislatur 1st week by Representative R. ( lively of Watauga, the office c ounty treasurer would be aoo".ishe< tie duties of this office devolvin pon the county accountant to a xtent and the funds to be take are nf hy some iocai bank to h esignated later. It will'be recalle hat a similar action was taken soin ears ago, but the plan was nc rorkable in that under the terms c he bill the finances were to hav ecn distributed equally betwee he four banking institutions in th ountv. makinv the vrliemo r too complicated to bo practical. Numbers of the more progressiv ounties of the state have thus take n lmpoiiaiii. function front Lh calms of politics and placed 'ith institutions whose business i i to deal with finances. The pia ; said to work admirably wlie roperlv introduced and ntcdiess t sy the saving effected is uvnsitle: ble. Other measures offered b iepresentative Rivers are as follow: H. B. 12G8. An act relative t he taxation of dogs in Wataug ounty. H. B. 1269: To enable the tru: jes of the Appalachian State Noi lal to make contracts with th i'ntauga Hospital. II. B. 1369: To exempt Worl .ar veterans from the payment i oil tax. Information as to these measure ; meagre, however, The Democrs xpects to publish therm in full < Don as they become available. ;ain in normal enrcllmen The Normal School reports an ei ollment for the regular spring tor f f>30, representing an incrcat ver the same period last year < 10 students. The student, body nade up. says the registrar, of re esentativos from ;>2 North Caroiir ountics and li counties in othi tates, .160 coming from outside adius of 50 miles. The closing < he spring term is announced f< fay 10th at which time the con ncnceinent exercises are to be hel formal Heating Plant Is Valuable Asse Perhaps the most valuable : fell as the most modern addition ' he campus of the Appalachian Stat formal is the central heating plat fhich has recently been complete y R. F. Coffey, building enginee nd which was erected at a cost < lore than 850,000- The building f brick construction and locate ust east of the site of the. o! lougherty mill. It is designed f< he accommodation of. three 201 orse power boilers, one of which off in place and is satisfactory eating five of the main buildings o he campu3, warming the water i he swimming pools and supplyir at water to all the buildings. B iries the greater part of the cookir a the central dining hall is dor nth steam from.this plant. All this is accomplished, explaii Ir. Coffey, through a system < team mains that are carried to cntral p6int of the campus in lrge concrete tunnel, from whic oir.t the radiation is distributed lie individual buildings. The syi em is different from those hcret< ore used in that the steam as ondenses is piped back to the boi r, thus saving the greater part he water. In this same building is housed ew electric unit developing U ame amount of electrical energy : 5 produced at the hydro plant i so on Now River. A switchboai t the auxiliary plant allows the ei ineer to have complete' control c he system- Both plants may t perated simultaneously or separati I as occasion demands. Thus thei an be, no danger of a shortage < urrent until the^mouVit used by tli own and school is considerabl aore than doubled. When there team on the boiler and there is hutdown at the New River plan he change may be made instantly I he auxiliary, and under any coi ition, it is pointed out, the tow ould not be out of power for moi han one hour. Another 200-horsepower boili vill be installed this year, doublir he heating capacit of the plan rhich now-, rates favorably with ar n the state. Newspaper, Devoted to the TS, WATAUGA COIJUNTY, NORTH C (HOOVER, CURTIS I ASSUME HIGH POSTS , Throngs Brave Driving Rain For Hours to Honor New Executive j Splendor Marks Ceremony. R Washington, March 1?The Amern ican people today with solemn ceren m'ony placed Herbert Hoover in the c higest office within their gift?that of president of the United States. e With a pelting, stinging rain fall'l ing, he swore to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States, e kissed a verse in the Bible ami began !! the gravest., duty ever demanded of e him in his life of far flung activity. 1_ And, turning to his inaugural address he made a pledge to enforce c|all laws, including the prohibition n | amendment, to 'he full extent of his e | ability. I' j Into office with this California 11 I engineer and orphaned Quaker went n Charles Curtis, who had risen from n | an Indian reset-vattion to the vice ? | presidency. The two then rode down Ii the historic route from the cupilol to the While House, bareheaded, rain beaten, but smiling their happiness ? | over one of the msot remarkable & j and induring ovations given any . president in recent years. * For nearly four hours the thousands stood in the driving rain wait11 ing- to do honor to the foremost two Americans. They filled the long rows of water soaked stands lining ' the route; they perched upon perilous, slippery ledges of buildings s flanking the street. Dripping winl' dows were filled with peering faces, 13 and roof tops were heavy with humanity. j.! On the capitol plaza, shining with I its watery film, the thousands with water. dripping clothes, saw Mr. m > Hoover kiss a verse in the Bible !e| which sealed his fealty to his coun,f trymeiv. That verse said: "Where is I there is no vision the people perish; p. but he that keepeth the law, happy la is he." ,r And when the solemn ceremony W?S i over they remained defiant cl jf the weather to see the impressive jr {tribute paid to Tie incoming head of a-1 the nation by representatives of ri. nearly every group of American life. The train of events leading- up to the ceremonial installation of the president and vice president began at 10 o'clock in the morning and the two central figures started for the is White House to join President and to Mrs. Coolidge. Mr. Hoover rode te with Mrs. Hoover in a White House ?t automobile from his home on S id street, while Senator Curtis and his r, sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, pro>f ce ded to the executive mansion in in a congressional car. id After a short stay at the White [d House the official party, including >r the President and Mrs. Coolidge de I- (arueu in a raoior cavalcade lor the is capitol. Reaching the capitol, Fresly ident Coolidge and his successor-tori he entered the president's room .on in the senate side, and there awaited g the moment for the induction info e- office of Mr. Curtis. The rain was ig showering the senate skylights when ic the senate finally adjourned and the inaugural partly moved toward the is open-air stand on the plaza for the >f swearing in of Mr. Hoover. Chief a Justice Taft administered the oath a of office to Mr. Hoover on the 20th :h aniiiversary of the day Taft himself :o had taken over the reins of governs ment from Theodore Roosevelt, and 3- a president-elect stcod there until it the few words of obligation made 1- them one president and two former >f presidents. The plaza ceremonies complete, Mr. Coolidge and Mrs. a Coolidge departed for their journey ie homeward, and the procession of ac?s claim was formed. The president in and vice president rode to the White d House ahead of the parade for i- luncheon. As they passed in auto>f mobiles, with tops down, they reie peatedly waved their high top bats e- to the cheering spectators. Half an e hour later the two leading figures in if the events of the day, surrounded le by members of their families, were ly seated in the reviewing stand to reis turn salutes to the thousands who a marched by in honor of a new presto ident. :o The end of the trudging column l- passed a few minutes before five n o'clock. Then President Hoover in e ] vited into the White House the Republican national committee, the ;r members of the new and old cabinet ig and the committees which arranged t. for the inaugural ceremonies. The ly meeting was for the purpose of exchanging greetings. ! Best Intere f g of Northwes :? #' ? AROLINA. THi JAY. MARCH 7, IS j Ho / to Mak Money o ? BY REALf By H NEAL BLAIR I r Having been asked to -write some-j J' I thing for this publication, based on i" my experience in farming, I want to *' say in the outset that I have always tried to get what information I could from agricultural writings i based on experiment station tests, ' and other farmers' operations, and s then make some experiments of my " own to try out the advices that 1 1 had received. As a result of these I e experiences. 1 have decided: 1. That we Watauga, farmers a should diversify our crops to include " all that will show' a reasonable proft. !: 2. That we should be governed in a the selection of these crops by the 11 amount and kind of land that we ! " j have, our location with respect to j ? : getting out to market, our facilities '' Cor reaching and ability to work ] that market, and our ability to ti nance the production. 3. That we should figure the j '* normal cost of producing a certain j' crop, compare this cost with an i1 average return fiom each crop, based on a four or five-year produc-!1 tion, and market, to see if there is : * to be a profit. 4. Rotate crops as much as pos-1 ' sible. ' * 5. For our soil, climate and ; ^ marketing facilities, wc should se- i * lect front a the- following: Cattle, j' sheep and poultry raising, dairying, j growing cabbage, potatoes, apples i ^ and hay for market?and then grain ' for home use if il can be done econ- J | omically. I 6. That we should lime all the ' i j land that we are financially able to ' ; lime, terctuze treeiy?dul study the ' use of fertilizer cracfully?use |j games, and be careful how we apply J stable manure?to get the value 3 : of-'it. 1 s Now, to go back and analyze. We 5 f should diversify because our seasons arc so varied that we sometimes have j? partial or total failures -on one or c more of cur principal crops, and we . are also subject to a price level set 1 by the shippers from other sections c of the United States, where any of our crops are produced on a much ] larger scale than they are here. For example, the potato market this year, As to kind of land, location, etc. | Hill land should be kept in pasture !* as much ?is possible and devoted to |1 (.aiut aim sneep raising?cms co pre- . vent "Wearing and washing away. . Dairying is good business if near a * market for milk. We should bear in mind that sheep can be wintered much more cheaply than cattle, if * we do not havij plenty of other good tendable land on which to produce 1 grain and roughage. As to the market for cattle and sheep, we need ( not have any fear. JBgmitry raising^ truck and fruit growing are especially adapted to the- small farm. In considering these, there is almost al- . ways a good market for nice apples, * and for potatoes if they are grown ^ to show a large average size and are ( graded and packed according to market' regulations. The cabbage market is more limited on account j of crop being so perishable. It is I more necessary to know ahead of t time what you are going to do with a cabbage crop. I figure that cabbage and potatoes are about equal ^ j :r. value per acre under ordinary con- ^ dition3. Either will show a profit o amounting to as much as the gross ^ value of a corn crop. But unless a man knows where his cabbage crop is going to, he had better go into it i. moderately. EgmaJ- h As to the cost of production and ^ estimate of profit I figure rent in land to range from about $4.00 per acre for common old hill pasture to about $20.00 for choice bottom land run in corn or hay. I count $5.00 p.. per acre for preparing ' land for R planting. I count the labor that I c think wili be required per acre to make and horvest a given crop? ^ and I think I know pretty well what j it will take from beginning to end ' for most crops that I grow. I count p j the seed anu fertilizer that I pnposc p to use. Then I count a potato crop ( St 1 75 bushels of iiioiket potatoes per acre at 85c per bushel at borne; ^ p. cabbage crop at 25,00.0 pounds per acre at $5.00 per thousand at home; a corn crop at 10 bushels per acre at $1.25 per bushel and $10 tor 3t North Carolina >29 e More " u the Farm ? Pr> ARMERS o ugh age; a hay crop at 3,000 ^ ounds per acre with one-fourth al>\ved for harvesting and $7.50 per housand in stack for remainder. I ^T~ riink these are fair averages for a . . ei ive-year period. re* As to rotation of crops. Ir. has .* sn? een my experience that no crop hould follow itself immediately j , ithout ^heavy manuring and ferti-|p" vino- ? ? ->-M? ' c b. wuicicuv mu[? necu uiiiet- ^ nt fertilizer elements. For instance, j ^ otatocs need an abundance of potsh; cabbage and corn, an abunadnce ^ f ammonia; ? rve crop an ahundnee of phosphoric acid. Clover nd other legume crops feed on the ^ itrogen of the air and deposit amlonia in the soil to feed other crops, lere is a good rotation: Corn, sown ^ n crimson clover at last hoeing, foi- , owed by cabbage. This gives the J, lover time to get a good growth beore plowing time for cabbage. If ^ iossible, cut cabbage early and sow . ye for grazing and plow for potaoes. Follow potato crop with small ;rain?wheat or rye?because land already prepared?except for 1 arrowing, and has plenty of slit- ' o >lus fertilizer for a small grain crop. ^ Lhert sow grass in spring on small ^ ;rain crop and get a pasture or ^ ncadow turf to turn under again. ^ lowing grass seed on rye or wheat ; ^ n spring, and putting in with a} wo-horse brush is an ideal method. ( The grain crop is running up and j eaving the ground open for the ! ^ uuu^ ju?i. ai ine critical mo- ? nent in the growth of grasps. If corn j s not desired in rotation, use pota- I oes, sown in rye to ho harvested or | dowed for cabbage, then a small i . 1 v t0 rrain crop, sown in clover or hay. | ^ Phis will give you one legume in ^ .Tour rotation, which is a very im- ^ )ortant factor in the maintenance of * pi oil fertility. New, I want to devote another . ^ irticle to my experiences in the usie ] ^ )f legumes, lime, fertilizers, stable I . : w< nanure and the adaptability of dif- j 'erenr types of Jatfd ~to different j T?PS- ! m. Funeral of Mrs. Jessie w> Gragg at Blowing Rock f?, - ini Blowing Rock. March 7?Funeral ^ services, were held at the Baptist J^urch Friday morning for Mrs. Jes- ^ ic Gragg, moth"'- of ,r. N. and Geo. v epi tf. Sudderth of Blowing Rock, and Vfrs. Eddie Brown of Blowing Rock. . ? 5ervices wove conducted by Rev. P. ' t. Hicks! and burial was in the old j j amily cemetery on the Yadkin in j Saldwelj county. Mrs. Gragg was! ine of the oldest residents of this j, eetion. coming here soon after herl" irst marriage to James Sudderth, before which shp.was a Miss Nelson va f Caldwell. Of her large family of ^ hildren, now scattered through sevral states, the following returned or the funeral: Mrs. John Phillips, I Cleveland, O.; Mrs. J. H. Zelltrs, ''* )bcrlin, O.; Mrs. Thomas McLendon, _ irovertown, Ga. Party Returns From Florida Cecil Critcher, A. M. Critcher, u lonald Greene and Jack Greene ave returned from a nine days' trip ' o Florida, timing their trip so as o bo present at the Sharkey Strib- , . ing fight. AH report a fine trip;!'" fr. Critcher is enthusiastic about I he Florida country but declares the [ rfly money he lost on the fight was ' 1 he five dollars he paid to see it. Mrs. Willis Honored Mrs. I). P. Coffey entertained at er home on Fridav from 4 to 6 in , onor of her daughter, Mrs. W. T. j " Villis, whose wedding was recently ] nnounced. The guests gathered around an pen fire, where games and conversion kept a lively tempo until rays appeared bearing salad and ^ andwiches. These were followed by ake and coffee. Mrs. Coffey was ssisted in serving by her daughter, (^ liss Helen Coffey. Guests included Irs. Thos. H. Coffey, Sr., Mrs. Don- A e Id Johnson, Mrs. J. A. Panella, Mrs. ^ lugene Story, Miss Mabel Coffey, j ^ liss Ethel Kolshouser, Mrs. Stuart; lannon and Mrs. Rupert Gillett. jav Mr. and Mrs .Willis will make n0 heir home '-in Charlotte, the city ?>ai iow most accessible to Mr. Willis' ?ork with the Bell Telephv ' Com del (Continued on Page Ei. Ur . ? " = FIVE CENTS A COPY (1ATHER BUREAU NOW RECOGNIZED of Wright Gets Local Station Lilted by U. S.; Interesting Notes About January Weather During: the latter part of Novemr, i 928, through the efforts of ofessors D. I). Dougherty and , J. Wright, t.hi; Appalachian State rmal School set up a local weathstation for the purpose, of taking idings of temperatures, rainfall, jwfall, barometric pressures, di rtion of prevailing winds, and any enomena or other facts about matology that might occur from y to day. On December 1, the al station operator, Prof. J. T. Wright, began, readings of the inuments. These consist of a maxi;r.i ami Jlieimometei of 2 UU" type, a recording thermomey a barometer, a rain guagi and snow guage. The purpose of the iximum thermometei* is to record 2 highest and lowest points reached ih" thermomclcr during any day. tc recording thermometer leaves a trace in red ink on a record sheet the temperatures-at ail times dur ? the day. A person can look at is chart and tell the temperature at y time during: the day that he may sh to know about. These records e kept on file and properly dated as to leave a complete record of e daily temperatures. The barom:r gives the pressure of the atmosere. It also forecasts the weather, person who has been properly initted can -forecast the weather more less acenrutel v about 12 hours in vanee. The rain and snow guage to catch any rain or snow that ay fall. This is measured by a ecial rule made for thai purpose d is then recorded. After the close of pecenjber, the orator sent a report of the month the shite weather bureau. He ir?rmecl them that he would be glad send in these reports monthly if ey desired to have thein. They reicd that they would be glad to ive them. They sent some pamdats about hov/ to read and record. e weather and wrote that they iuld recognize the station as a co erative station of the U. S. weathbureau if certain changes were ide and if readings were given as ey outlined. An application blank is filled out and sent to Raleigh mig in detail a description of the struments and other facts eoncerna: which they desired information. 5? few days ago the state weather veau informed Prof. Wright that e station at Boone was now considcd a U. S. weather bureau coera live station. The reports sent will he recorded in its reports and blished just the same as those am any other station. A few interesting facts about the iaiher during January are given low: Average maximum temperature 50 grees. Average ihifiiuiurri temperature ~2C' grees. Average temperature 38 decrees. Highest temperature during mouth degrees on January 18. I.owest temperature during month degrees on January 3. Average daily range in temperare, from low to high, 24 degrees. Greatest daily range in temperare -57 degrees or.-January 14. Total precipitation 3.55 inches. Greatest precipitation in 24 hours, S5 in bes on January 5. Total snowfall 114 inches. Number of days with .01 ir.ch or ire precipitation. 12. Clear days H, partly cloudy days, cloudy days, 15. Sleet on January 5th and 27th. nirPftioTl <vf nrrkwoilirx* month was west. The Democrat hopes to publish jorts of the local station each inth. LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC SOLD Announcements was made Thnrsf of the purchase of the Lenoir ws-Topic by Johnson Avery, mailing editor of the Hickory Daily cord. Mr. Avery purchased the ws-Topic and plant from a stock mpany, headed by C. H. Hopkins, e consideration was said to have jw> approximately S2 5.000. Mr. ery took charge Friday. The Leir paper has been managed in the st by Fred H. May. There were more than 20,000 stunts in the medical colleges of the lited States last year. -