VOL. XL. NO. .15 SERVICES AT NEW LUTHERAN CHURCH Thursday Evening Dr. Schaeffer of Lenoir-KJhyne College will Speak; Formal Dedication Sunday Morning with Dr. Morgan in Charge Services are in progress at the newly constructed Grace Lutheran hurch every day this week, and will eliminate Sunday morning at 10:30 when the new edifice is to be for National notables will take part in the exercises. Tonight at R o'clock Dr. H. Brent Schaeffer, president of LenoirI Khyne College, will deliver a sermon under the subject, "Belonging to Others.*' Tomorrow evening Dr. J. 1. Morgan, president of the United Lutheran Synod of North Carolina vill preach on "A Growing Church."' K -* on'Saturday evening Mrs. W. F. ; Vvi Morehead of Salem, Va., president | of the Women's Missionary Society, United Lutheran Church in America, is to close the week-day services, 1?ith an address from the subject. "Except the Lord Build the House." Formal dedication will he by Dr. d. L. Morgan on Sunday morning and messages arc to be delivered by the following: Mrs. W. F. Morehead, president Women's Missionary Society, United Lutheran Synod in America, and Mrs. J. F. Crigler, president Women's Missionary Society, United Evangelical Lutheran Synod hi North Carolina. The dedication H-rmon will bp delivered by Dr. F. r\ Fry, secretary home missions. nited Lutheran Church in America, object, "What the Church Stands For." At the evening service, Rev. N. D. Vount. a former pastor, will preach he sermon, using for his subject, "Jesus, the Church Member." MEEKINS CONSIDERING RUNNING FOR SENATE Elizabeth City, May 21.?Judge I. M. Meekins. of the federal court, has made no decision as to whether or not he will be a candidate for election to the United Stales senate on the Republican ticket in opposition to ilie Democratic nominee, hut has the mutter under consideration, a statement made yesterday. ?v.-.i - -Something like a boom tits been \ started in several quarters by his iK jaScftga vrbn look h'm ns the logical standard-bearer for his party. They point to the Republican majority in the last presidential election and to Judge Meekins' stand for righteous enforcement of the Vol'tead act while on the Federal bench as auguries of success of his candidacy. Entry into the senatorial race rrould involve the sacrifice of a lifetime position on the part of Judge Meekins in favor of the uncertainties of a contest fov political preferment, as he says that should he de .'.<]< to run for the olfice he would ,-i'sign his judgeship before entering into any active campaign. FORMER WATAUGAN DIES IN MICHIGAN News reached this office Monday that Mr. Bealcr Mast, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mast oi Valle Crueis, who has long keen a resident oi Madrid, Mo., died at Flint, Michigan, on the 3th instant, where he was visiting. About forty years ago Bealer Mast, a lad of 15 rummers, turned his face to the west ar.d located in Missouri, where he was later married and reared a family of eight children, ail of whom, with their mother, survive. He was 55 years of age, a good citizen, and, during all these years, was never a visitor but twice to his boyhood home on the Watauga. BLAIR'S SHOES HARD TO FILL Washington, May 21. ? Things { went into the air today with respect to the commissionership of revenue, was reported in White House circles. David H. Blnir still hopes to make good his escape from official duties shortly, but the administration is having a hard time in finding the right mar. for the place. Collector Lucas of Louisville apparently had the call, and the president, it was r said, liked his looks. Secretary Mel~ ion has other views. He thinks well of District Attorney Harkins of North Carolina, and also a Tennes' M- T A 1__ l:_ X 1 rnr. Liucas, u> niase mm iwi right about it, was offered the posi' > tion of first assistant postmaster general. This station had no attractions for him. A. C. Alvord, legislative expert of Wisconsin, appeared a iikeiy candidate and Chairman Littleton of the board of tax appeals, whose home is in Tennessee, is also under consideration for the i Old Fashioned ? "Her husband doesn't seem stylish enough to suit her." "No, he embarrassed her terribly asking for old-fashioned shortcake." gssa gggl MM A Non-Partisan Nc* BOONE. \ i_ s " = l Poppy Day Sale To I Be Held on May 25 Maimed and faltering fingers have been busy these past. weeKs in tne? hospital wards and convalescent work 1 v snops wnere 20,UUO of America's World war soldiers are still fighting desperately for life?still fighting | eleven years after the last shot was fired. ^ They have been shaping bright red 0 poppies out of paper and wire?poppies for America to wear on its coat c this coming Memorial day to pay s' tribute to thmtv thnusanHs of young w Americans who have been lying now I eleven years beneath the poppy- j flecked sod of France. ! The custom of wearing a red pop- i py was started in 1918 by Miss I Moena hlichael *of Georgia, then; P serving in the Y. M C. A. overseas' | headquarters staff. Having read i ei | Col. McCrae's poem, "In Flanders] 0 i Fields" she was moved to wear a Ll j poppy in honor of the war dead. Her r< | idea has been taken up and develop- ri i ed by the American Legion Auxiliary a j into a great national program of ^ j commemoration of those who made 0 I the supreme sacrifice, and of giving t3 ! fU/vcn ,..U? 1 - ^ . w vHVJt no were oiVKeii ui " their country's service. ? The manufacture of the poppies ? for Memorial 'Jay. y/as begun last Cl November by the disabled veterans. ' It has been going on ever since in n many parts of the country under the ? P direction of the auxiliary. During K the past winter, from seven to 10 j* million of the little red flowers were ^ made by the disabled men, accord- k ing to estimates made at national ? i headquarters of the auxiliary. For t( many of the veterans, the poppy Cl making has been the sole source of 1* support for themselves and their n families during the winter months. n The American Legion Auxiliary ^ units throughout the nation buy the u little flowers from the veterans for to a small bum for their annual poppy to 1 sale on Memorial Day. The money e S received by the auxiliary from the " sale of the poppies is used t<> carry c on its rehabilitation and child we!- ? fare work. o The Boone unit is planning to j to sell a large number of the little pa- ' c per flowers. Mrs. L.S. Isaacs is chair- j C man of a large committee of auxiJi- j ? ary ladies to look after th.-> work, j ^ and members of the organization i will be on duty Saturday. Don't pass ! 1 im-iti up without buying one. I r, ).? -? r. . - ' . ^ -Iv* WHY MAY 20 OBSERVED AS HOLIDAY (N STATE] u I a, Monday was observed as a legal 1 . holiday in North Carolina in com- j memoration of the signing of the | Mecklenburg Declaration of Jndepen-j ci ! dence at Charlotte May 20, 1775. w | The text of the declaration follows: ^ Resolved, That whosoever directly ! or indirectly abets or in any way, 11 I form or manner countenances the tc | invasion of our rights, as attempted \v ! by the Parliament of Great Britain, v I is an enemy to his country, to Amer- jj j ica and the rights of men. h I Resolved, That we the citizens of si , Mecklenburg county, do hereby dissolve the political bonds which have ic I connected us with the mother coun- ci I try, and absolve ourselves from all f< I allegiance to the British crown, ad- ti ! iuring all political connections with a; a nation that has wantonly trampled j tl on our rights and liberties and in- V humanly shed the innocent blood of it j Americans at Lexington. Resolved, That we do hereby dc- a I clare ourselves a free and indepcn- ni dent people, are and of right ought ei to be a sovereign a.id self-govern- $ ing people, under the power of God v> and- the general congress; to the ei maintenance of which independence, si | ,, i wiruuii} t/icu^i: tu c tl c 11 otner our g; I mutual co-operation, our lives, our a' | fortunes and our most sacred honor. 1 Resolved, That we hereby ordain b; Iand adopt as rules of conduct, all and each of our former law's and the tj : crown of Great Britain cannot be f< considered hereafter as holding any j rights, privileges or immunities u: amongst us. tl Resolved, That all offices, both yi civil and military, in this country, be entitled to exercise the same power ir and authorities as heretofore; that ir every member of this legation shall el henceforth be a civil officer and exercise the power of a justice of the s< peace, union and harmony gnsagthe w country, and use every exertion to1 tl I spread the love of liberty and of h country, until a more general and t< better organized system of govern- ti ment is established. li Resolved, That a copy of these icaviuuons oe iransromea oy ex- ai press to the president of the conti- tl rental congress assembled in Phila- it delphia, to be laid before that rr body. j< ir PRESBYTERIANS PLAN MERGER tl Montreat, May 21.?Union with the United Presbyterian Church in r. North America was approved today | n by the 69th generaL assembly ot the D Presbyterian church in the United ti States and the matter now goes to the presbyteries for their consent. Adoption of the plan of merger was i by a decisive "yes" and "no" vote % t vspaper, Devoted to the VATAUGA COUN"T\ NORTH CP VliPeioiEK URL. 1^5 Eli. COUNTY FARM DEM lilisil 1. I *3 ,ti.. 4-vs h aiau^u wuiitj is v..y ? ? ? erv few counties not hashing: a counv* demonstration agent to push fovard her agricultural interests, and he development of livestock, etc., e ask the question. Does it pay to mploy a county agent? Briefly, we answer, yes, emphatially so. Let us hastily glance at ?me of the disadvantages under hich we labor. An agricultural county without a ounty agent is without contact with s district experiment stations, tate College of Agriculture and the . S. department of agriculture, emloying many thousands of workers jv the benefit of the farmers in ich county, not only standing ready n the instant to furnish informaon of constructive nature in crop ptations and livestock programs, but L-uuy to icspona in an emergency ot ny nature whatever involving rural fe regardless of whether it he an utbreafe of disease in a crop of po-j atoes or beans, a disease in live- j took; rural sanitation and dozens', f other angles from which emer-l encies arise on short notice and a i ounty without an agricultural agent1 out of contact and almost out of sach of this combined agency suported by the taxes of this country, iving its whole and sole time to the] enefit of agriculture. To use an lustration, what would the schools e without a county superintendent? lach school working along according 3 its own pians and aspirations, limpet i ng with each other for iachers, etc., and in a similar manef the county agent is to the farler what the superintendent is to le schools, a guiding hand not only i thir operations but also bringing! > them the very best known pracices in every type of agriculture ndeavor. As to the improvement in the uui*ty Itml- the agfieuiiuiai ageiiiT right produce, there is no manner, f measure to indicate this except 3 say that the south is covered with ounties where at one time were ankrypi from boll weevil and eot>PEN LETTER TO CITIZENS OF WATAUGA COUNTY] Icui?FeUaw. Citizen: >? The Civitan Club Was organized to romote the beat interests of Boone r.d Watauga county. . We are anxius to help. This is purely an agricultural runty. If the farmers are doing ell, the merchants, banks and all usiness will be prosperous. At this me too many farms are mortgaged, >p many of pur citizens are loaded ith debt, loo much property is adertiseri for taxes. We are spendig more than we make. We are eaded for the rocks unless we do imething to change the situation. We are unanimously of the opinio that one of the best things we in do is to get a good farm agent >t the county. All the best counes in the state and nation have gents. The governments pay half leir salaries and all their expenses. '< arc losing help that we are entlcd to have. It will cost the county only $900 year to nave An-agent. This will lake a tax rate of only 1 cent on icli $100 valuation. If a man lists 500, his tax for hiring an agent ould be 5c; $1,500 worth of proprty will be 15c; $G,U00 tax BOc, and i on. The price of one gallon of j asolir.e will more than pay the' ,'erage tax. A good agent can do a great Work | r helping the farmers: 1. Increase the number and quali-i of livestock and raise the feed | >r them. 2. Use clover and lime, make and! 3e more manure. This should save j .e couniy ^^o.uuu 10 ^^U,Ul'U a ear in fertilizer bills. 3. In better truck fanning; gradtg and packing products for tnej larkets; and in finding good markis. The agent will need to study the >ils, the crops and get acquainted ith the folks. V.rc firmly believe lat ir. two or three years he can elp the farmers bring in $200,000 > $300,000 more each year. It may ike more work, but industry is the fe of the country. The business men of the county re willing to help pay the tax while le farmer will get the direct beneWe are sure the county commissioners want to do what the mairity of the citizens want. Talk this matter over with your neighbor gjc rem to figure before decidingPlease write your opinion and lail to the Board of County Comlissioners at once. Ask your neighor to sign with you. Lei us Work sgether to improve our county. Yonr friends, orimTP rriTT a ma* nr T,S DVk/Aia. \J1 V 111 J 11 tllJUW, G. K. Moose, President, A. E. SOUTH, Secretary. Best Interests s* Northwe: ? iROLINA, TllURS ? . MAY 23, 192 C 5 * ftp? 9 * V nna?1 -- r??7 11 M. iTAL/ v/r ONSTRA' JN AGENT w."., r.:! c: morpW*- arid i banks in des>*,rate straits but the ] farmers also and followed by five ; or eight years of work of an aggres- < sive agent, the county is now rocking < along in a high degre of prosperity \ with the introduction of some live- | stock and the growing of some crop < other than cotton, and this prosper!- J ty is measureless in some counties ? to the extent of an increased county , income to the amount of two, three \ or four million dollars per year of ? increased crop and livestock wealth. < Now. Brother Farmers of Wat-1 1 auga county, facts and figures are j j hard things to contend with. In j 1920 there were in North Carolina, i 8,327,100 acres of improved farm } lands and in 1927, under the direc- , tion and management of county ! j agents, we find 9.670,979 acres, a; ] net increase of 1,240.873 in the] , space of seven years with a propor- ) tionate increase of agricultural prod- j ucts. The total income from live- \ stock alone has increased in the < same period from $19,000,000 to ] $100,000,000. The increase in the t yield of hay has been as great if not greater under the direction of a i farm agent. ' < Hut some of our farmers say, we j i produce more Irish potatoes now | ) than the market can take care of. ! ] Listen., every surplus bushel of pota- j j toes produced in this county could ] have been made to yield handsome ( returns if fed intelligently to live- i stock and poultry. But what of the apple industry? ] 1 In perhaps 90 per cent of the or-1 i chards of this county the pruning j I shears and the spraying apparatus is \ never used at all, with detrimental 1 results to the tree and crop of i fruit as well. Let me urgently ap- > peal to you who till the soil, and to all who pay the taxes, let us claim j our due pari of attention and help-; which the agricultural department at! * ?udy? and: jiuip give, and our county officials will heartily co-operate. _ Yours for advancement, J. If. YOUNT. By order of Civitan Club. DR. GAITHER HEADS NOR'IH WESTERN DENTAL SOCIETY | "Wilkes Journal, May 16, J Dr. Jj M. Gaither of Boone was j elected president of the Northwest i North Carolina Dental Society which was organized in the city Tuesday evening'. Other officers arc Dr. J. F. Reece of Lenoir, vice president, and Dr. \V. F. Jones <risk fashion, Jessie Greer being in i :he forefront with her prophecy. | ; Clever gifts were presented in an; sriginal manner by Stella Taylor and | Edgar Brow n, while Geneva Hodges, j in the will, brought down the house j with ridiculous duties and privileges I for next year's class. A feature of j the will was the presentation to the j library of a copy of "Cabbages and I Kings" by O. Henry, to institute the1 r,;T^;^rr* o-j'ift-of-bbokg- l^anHeach i succeeding class. 11111.1. , mn I U! ruoE. S1MMONS FOR SENATE Washington special of May IS to Gr.eenah.orc> Daily News: Word comes to Washington that J. W. Bailey has llnally decided to enter the next ^Jejuucraijc senatorial nr>m*ry. Reports relative "to the aspirations 'arid intentions of Mr. Bailey have been of a conflicting character, but the latest is that he will seek tc defeat | Senatov Simmons, who last year dc-j clined to support the Democratic | national ticket. Those who have provided the spring version of Mr. Bailey's candidacy, explain that the Raleigh man was determined some months ago to enter the senatorial primary of his! party, but later 011 made a change in | his political program and told friends j that he Would seek the nomination as j governor. Mr. Bailey, in 192-1.! sought the gubernatorial nomination j and, without organixation support, j save a personal one, he turned up 1 80,000 \otes, which was always regarded as a noteworthy achieve-1 merit. Now it is said that Mr. Bailey has I yielded to the judgment of those i Democrats who remained loyal dur-: ing the last presidential campaign, 1 and has agreed to enter the senator-> ial primary of his party. The con-; tor,tier, has been Ueaid that the Democratic party in the state must! seek salvation by nominating a man ; who has always been regular in his I political conduct. STATE'S OLDEST PRISONER TO BE FREE THIS WEEK Aunt Nancy Kerly, S3, oldest inmate of the state prison is to return to her home in the mountains of Haywood county this week, according to arrangements of the governor. She has been an inmate of the penitentiary for 10 years, having been icnt there on a charge of shutting a grandchild in a cave and allowing it to starve. She was to have served 30 years. The aged prisoner is almost blind and gray wisps of thin hair blow from underneath the shawl that covers her head. Her step is haltincr and her hodv henf with iv,n. slant stooping of her jflh as a scrub J woman in the hospital. Aunt Nancy had formerly been in the sewing room, making garments for the prispnres, but becoming too feeble for needlework, she was sent to the hospital to scrub the floors. Prison officials will place her on the train when she is freed and she will be met in Asheville by a brother. MARCELLA COOKE FUNERAL Funeral services for Marcclla, 14year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. j Len Cooke, were held Thursday aft-| eraoon from the Baptist church, Rev. P. A. Hicks being in charge of the service. Prof. F.. L. Ball, principal of the Boone High School, made a few remarks and the music was rendered by a choir composed of the Girls Auxiliary of the church. Interment was in the town cemetery. ==? ffltv fay ta ?f ith Blk'il 1 a ,m /m - * - - ? IV Wis. J. V MJfSLA ~X 1U. OF JULY SPEAKER Barbecue Dinner, Parade, Firework* and Athletic Events Will Make Day Memorable in History of the Town and County General Albert L. Cox, prominent Raleigh attorney and an outstanding figure in the World war, has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at the Fourth of July celebration which is being sponsored by the American Legion and co-operating bodies, according to a letter received by Messrs. Dean Swift, H. Grady Farthing and John E. Brown, who composed a committee appointed to secure a speaker. General Cox will be remembered as first having serv ed as colonel with the lloth field artillery, later having: been promoted to the post of brigadier general of the Thirtieth division, to which unit a large percentage of the local solidiery was attached. He and his cohorts played a memborable part iu the history of America's participation in the war, he is an able speaker and will contribute a full share to the success of the eelehratiop. At a meeting of the Legion and Auxiliary last Friday night seventeen committees were appointed to cover every phase of putting the celebration over in approved style. The personnel comes from the American Legion the Legion Auxiliary, the Boone Civitan Club and also includes a number of citizens who are members of neither organization. A call meeting of the committees is to be held Friday evening of this week and it is hoped the full membership will attend in order that definite working plans may be formulated. The appointments are Committed Finance? L. S. Isaacs, chairman; G. P. Magaman, w. if. Gragg, cnas. I.. Younce. Parade?.John E. Combs, chairman ; B. K. Osborne, Tracy Councill. , LiiviiHSIiih?n. r- wituTCe, cnuirEntertainment ?.S, F. Hortor., chairman; Leo B. Vaughn, ills. A. E... South, H. Grady FarUtfjte. -Sne*kvr-~?Deii?dhW'ift. chairman H. Grady Farthing, John E. Blown. Band?L. S. Isaacs, Soencer Miller, C. SI. Bingham. Fireworks?Wilson N'onis, chairmar.; J'. C. McConneli, J. B. Taylor. Publicity?M. W. Beach, chairman; A. E. Harnby, \V. E. Comer, Charles Bingham. Mrs. R. D. Hodges. Carnival?H. G. Earthing, chairman; J. C. McConneli, Lionel Ward. Airplane?E. M. Hodges, chairman, R. C. Rivers, Jr., A. E. South. Greased Pig?-Roey I. Haynes, chairman; C. H Winkler, Fred Athletics?G. N'. Cook, chairman; Pat McGuire, L. III. Bingham, Fred Program?C. S. Stevenson, chairman, J. T. C. Wright, 1. G. Greer, G. K. Moose, Mrs. Tracy Councill. Float?Mis. L. S. Isaacs, chairman; R. C. Rivers, Sr.; Mrs. II. G. rartning, J, A. ?>pro*es. Dinner?Mrs. Smith Hagaman, chairman; D. J. Cottvell, Mrs. S. F. Rorton. Mrs. Rupert Gillett. (''"I'll.?F.. L. Pavne. chairman \V. L. Cook, E. M. Hodges, M. G. Barnes. E. M. Hodges, Troy Morris, Lionel Ward, Jim Ragan. Traffic?R. S. Swift, chairman; J. D. Rankin. L. I.. Ring-ham, H. B. Perry. In addition to the address of General Cox, the tentative program calls for a barbecue dinner, parade, music, fireworks, carnival, airplane, greased pig contest and athletic events and other events that will go to make up a fulL day of pleasure and entertainment. McADOO TO HEAD A:K LINE William G. McAdoo, it has been announced, will be chairman of the board of directors of a new acrothe laws of the state of Delaware as the Southern Skylines, Inc. The transcontinental air-rail service is expected to be operated on a 48 nour scneuuie irom -\w Xork to Los Angeles by way of Philadelphia. Washington, Danville, Atlanta, Birro ingham, Shreveport, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso, Phoenix and San Diego. BOWIE HAS DISASTROUS FIRE West Jefferson Special of May 17 to Greensboro News: The town of Bowie, 11 miles southwest of here, on the Norfolk and Western railroad suffered fire loss of between $10,000 and $20,000 about 3 o'clock this morning when an entire business block was wiped out. A hotel, garage. Cook's store. Walker's store, postoffice and other buildings were destroyed. Origin of the lire is unknown. L. M. Cook was the biggest loser with s; ynSfe"," stock of goods being destroyed.