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^1 c==-=r~7.?;-- ? VOLUME XLI, NO. Jury Chosen for Fall Term Superior Court I The fall term of Watauga superior court will convene on Monday, September 2, with -Judge John M. rwi<.uh*. r,e -> ! | vi vvuvuiu, presiding. Jur-j ut5 for the two Weeks' form has! been drawn as follows: F?r*t Week Bald Mountain?G. C. Ragan. A. T. Barker. Reaver Dam?Donlv Hazaman, Clyde Perry, C. J. Farthing Blowing Rock?T. H. Coffey. Blue Ridge?R. F. Tate. Boone?Will Anderson. Geo. Aus-1 tin. Fred C. Wilson, Walter Winkler.' A. E. Vannoy. Cove Creek?J. L. Wilson, Mar- j vin Thomas, Clark Swift. Elk?John Johnson. Laurel Creek?-Zeb V. Harmon, N.; A. Presnell, Jr., Jack Mast. ^ Meat Camp?Dock Watson, G. G. ^ " Stephens, S. A. Norris, Hoy Norris. Shawneehaw?Duke Tester, M C. Oliver, F. P. Campbell, J. S. Baird. Stonv Fork?D. L. Stan berry, A. 1 G. Moretz, C. D. McNeil, R. L. j Gentry. M. D. Brown. v ? Watauga?Don Shull, S. E. GraggJ F. B. Fox. \V. W. Mast. Second Week It. F. Greene. .John W. Hodges, \ II. L. Hockedy, C. C. Triplet*, Roy i Adams, J. R. Eggers, C. B. Reese,1 Will Wilson. J. E. Young. R. C. Greene, Nate Phillips. Hard Mast,!: Edgar Kdminsten. Alex Band, W. R. j McGuire, \V. F. Winkler, J. R. Trivett, .las. B. Mast. THE HILL BILLIES MAKE THREE-DAY RUN HERE:! i A1 Hopkins, the incomparable originator of the famous Hill Billies, | musical company, arrived in the cit> yesterday and closed a contract with the Pastime Theatre, whereby j his company wiil appear in person in j Boone on Monday, Tuesday and! Wednesday of next week. "The Hill Billies" need no introduction to the people of Watauga county. They | are natives of this section and have j appeared during the summer months j at different, times locally. They come! here this time direct from an en-! gagement with Warner Brothers! where they have produced one talk-. ?y6 p.vv?a:I intu nave contracts tor.! another. For several years they j have heen radio and record artists of; \ the first rank and they bring this i r year varied programs of the best' musical entertainment ever. Six persons make up the company, an advertisemeai tn-iiik-r ken: c giving:, more detailed information as to the ; high quality of their performances. WORTH WHILE CLUB Mrs. W. C. Greer was delightful hostess to the members of the Worth While Club at their regular meeting or. last Friday afternoon. The i guests were ushered into rooms at- j TrafctiveSy decorated with dahlias and gladioli and a short business ses i sion was held. It was voted to! plant flowering shrubbery to the; memory of the late Prof. D. D. I Dougherty. Piano numbers were rendered bv Miss Nell Trivett. and Mrs. j J. M. Moretz spoke briefly on the j "Aim of the Club." It was agreed that the next meeting woul<fflR?QH the form of an outdoor plcmV-witn the husbands of the clubwomen as Special guests were Mrs. C. H. - ' ' 1 H* ,,-U /-t T1 T ^yipsei rtiid AiiS. M;:ton Greer. Refreshments were served consisting^ of punch and a delicious salad course. 'Mrs. Greer was assisted in serving by her small son, Mac. ?? . g V REV. PULLIAM'S APPOINTMENTS' Rev. .1. l?. Putiiam will preach at! the courthouse every night this week, beginning at S o'clock av><l next Sun- j day: morning at 11 o'clock and Sun-< day night at 8 o'clock. If there are further announcements. they will be! ? made Sunday. Next Sunday morn-. ing Mr. Pulliam will devote his scr | mon to an account of some old' fashioned conversions, especially that of George W. Truett, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and pastor for thirty years of the; First Baptist church, Dallas, Texas, j Jir. Pulliam cYnpek nwn*' ! topics to pleach on "Be subject to the powers that he," "The paramount and permanent importance of the gospel ministry," "Some great "meet- I ings whch 1 have passed through and how they came about." : WEST WINS?18 TO 20 In the third baseball game of the series being played between East and West Boone at College ^ Park, the West took the long end of a 18 to 20 score Tuesday afternoon, B giving the Westerners two games to one iui the East. .The fourth game will be played next Tuesday afternoon. Those playing Tuesday were: West?Joe Crawford, H. J. Hardin, A. Quails, .J. D. Horton, C. Watson, Dave Hodges, Heard, A. E. | South, T. E. Bingham. East?A. E. Hamby, G. Winkler,! Hill Hagaman, Lloyd Isaacs, Fred! Hodges, Russel Hodges, Clyde | crreeue, Giatii Mvi'CU, G. Sneklry:' \ one for the East. I > ATAl A Non-Partisan Ne1 BOONE. > SHORT ITEMS OF ! GENERAL NEWS; IS * D__* *?? *- " ? w? * ?i ttcck, fathered From! Ercryrhtre, Cssd*R,aJ Forr Th? ' Busy Reader. . l) 1 Announcement is made in Raleigh n that D. F. Giles of Marion, will be a ? candidate for lieutenant gevmnr of r North Carolina in the next Demo- t cratic primary. Tain C. Bowie of j West Jefferson will not be a candidate for the ofice, it was also an- s nounced. t Washington, Aug 4.?Machinery i for the census tabulation next c spring which is to be the greatest s ever undertaken in the history of the 1 nation was said today by cnsus bu- ! reau officials to be practically com- 1 plote. An army of 100,000 persons 1 will be mobilized to enumerate sta- e tistics of four phases of American life ? population, unemployment, arms and trade distribution. They will be under the direction of 573 s supervisors and will start on April N 1, 1030, their census taking, which is a the loth decennial enumeration of ^ the nation. No appointments of supervisors or enumerators have vet x been announced by the bureau. Jesse Hardlncr ' _ ^ ? viviut, i i. jeur- j old murderer of small children, ' whose crimes horrified the courtry ; more than half a century ago. | Thursday was given an opportunity | to glimpse for the first time the > modern life, in a closely guarded 1 automobile he was whisked froui 5 the Charlesjpwn, Mass., state prison ' where he had spent the last ->4 ! years, to the state farm at Bridge- 1 water, Mass.. a distance of about ?0 x miles, ft was Pomerov's first auto- I mobile trip and probably the first time he ever had seen a machine. * The trip itself would be replete with ' N amazement for the . East Boston j * nwspaper hov. who since no entered the prison in 1878 at the age of IT. i 4 never has stepped outside its con- M fines. 1 ' The Sinn-Russian controversy over j j the Chinese Eastern railway seizure ' ^ in Manchuria had a few encourag- ] ing developments and several threatening aspects, suvs the Associated < Press review of last week's events. ..s Moscow named conditions under j which it would consent to negotiate a settlement which Nanking rejected, j | But meanwhile the foreign affairs- N anministraliusi of .Manchuria went hlithly ahead in its negotiations | j with Russian oficials, establishing a j t neutral 20-mile zone on the border j near mancnuu and arranging for vir- ; x tual resumption of traffic between i the Trans-Siberian and the Chinese Eastern roads. The vest of the hor- i ' tier country produced its usual crop y &T trouble reports. One of these was! t that ^rdn^olians were ^iett5ri^~ready j j to raid Chinese territory. An offi- ( rial call for Siberian reservists to t join the colors was sent out by Rus- a sian military authorities. ! c Washington, Aug. ? I l i.< ponfi- j t dentiy expected that thr Republican i t national committee will he called to : t meet within the next few weeks, i < mainly for the purpose of electing a : 1 national chairman to succeed Dr. 1 Work. Besides, Republicans would : like to get together in tjie near fu- { ture.Tor van '.evc'hanfi^e nf irieiis. and ( to get a line on how the floorer ad- !"' ministration is making out. Some | 1 think Mr. Hoover is not overly pop- j f ular in the country, and that "times" I ' are not what they should be. Busi- j 1 ness in many respects is not so good. I 9 While Republicans would be very I glad to hold a meeting of the nation- j ^ ai committee to consider the good j of the order, the Democrats find | ( themselves in different case. A meci- pr ing of the Democratic commitlee j >voukl inevitably bring on complies- r; Lions. It would be dangerous; it , * would result." >r? n i-micf/%? '= t it is certain that an effort would he 1 made to "dehorse" National Chair- v man Raskob, as Senator S immons i' has e\|>ressed it. ! f Four men were killed and another i j is in a hospital, as the result of a , r subth of death cut by an inoffen- j i sive shipping clerk at Spartanburg, j i S. C? last Thursday, who suddenly a became a raving maniac. Deprived ; . of his hand axe, with which he dealt y death and destruction, T. Earl Rob- ; inson, the clerk was placed in the t Spartanburg county jail, and later a was taken to the insane asylum at f Columbia. Robertson, it is said, had c not been well for some time but c otherwise appeared normal. He sud- ; denly became insane, and began to e slash his co-workers with an axe. c lie was a el^rk in the office of the i J; W. Bell Company, grain and flour i { merchants. His victims were R. H. j Day, sales manager or the Bell com- I pan;; J. L. Bussey, cashier for the j ? company; M. L. Davis, car repairer ; i for the Charleston and Western Car- ! t olina Railway, and Thad Shubert. i car repairer. Dan Dunlap. negro i emnlove of the Bell company, is 1 suffering with a fractured skuii. j-l / ' - =- - - - ----- ... - -JGA. wspaper. Devoted to th< VATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH < digh School Principals )%. -- -r."JBB m? ? ? ^onrerence to meet Here Tiol. K. r. 1 P!aiuuM.r, counfr; uperintendent of schools of Ash* ounty, has made announcement hrough the columns of the Ash* 'ounty News of the High Schoo ^rincipies* conference piicH will h; n session at Boone on Friday, th< Gth of August. The announce lent comes following the action o: )r. B. B. Dougherty, of the Norma 'ollcge,- who extended an invitatiol o the various teachers to come t', Joone. The body of instructors will b< uperinlendcnts and teachers fron he counties of Ashe, Watauga tvery, Mitchell, Caldwell and Yan ev, and prominent figures from thi tate educational department, am neeting is called primarily for lh< lurpose of discussing and adopting mpranged teaching methods intendet o increase interst and promote gen rally a better school system for th> ix counties of western North Caro ina. which will be represented. Dr. J. Henry Highsmith will pre ide at the conference and man; fital questions will be discussed b; ible educational authorities. Ever; uggestion and move will he careful y considered b> the conference rhose ideal is the "Best School Sys em in the United States for Nort! Carolina. TEMS TAKEN FROM TK'E DEMOCRAT O AUG. 7, 189 .John R. Hodges of Middle Can vas in town one day last week. H .hinks the people of Elk will mak nore cqrn this year than they hav n the two preceding years. E. Spencer Blackburn has bougV he Mountain Post of Elk Park an vill begin the publication of a Jit mhlican paper in Jefferson soon. Dr. J. C. Blair of Lenoir was ? own this week. The Dr. made /isit to bis aged mother who is ver o\V with dropsy. O. E. Williamson, wife and chil >f Indianapolis, arrived at th Dryan house last night. They wi emain in town for some time. Prol'. W. M. Francum is in tow .his week and informs us that it unliable he will teach on Beavt )ams beginning September 1. Braxton .lohnson, an aged cjtize if Beaver Dams, died at his hum iome days since, after a long an painfull illness. R. I.. Council! and wife arrived hoi from Tacoma, Wash., Monday. The .vill make Boone their future home. Cm Van nay has moved bi< tolpgriin! nstruments to town and is, with sev fcral other boys, learning telegraph? Mrs. Pink Matheson of Taylor *illo is visiting her aged mother i Watauga who is extremely ill. On the sixth ballot for soiieitoi W. C. New I and was nominated ove i\\ B. Couneill. The ballot stoo nghtyfive and two-fifths for New and ahd~ eighty-four and thres ifths for Co unci 11, Mr. Newland re reiving a majority of four-fifths o t vote. It is charged that Mc Dowel ast twenty-two votes in the conven ion for Newland, when in fact th ounty \yas not entitled to but twen y. If this is a correct slatenwn ?ouncill is the legal nominee. Wil he bretheren please explain? Judg iynum was nominated by acclania ion. Mr. F. M. Richards of Johnsoi aty, traveling salesman for -John P 31 c k e y of B ristbi, is\q ii ite wi 11 ever at the Bryan house. Hi at her has returned but his mothe s still watching at his bedside nun stering to his wants. With her a n ler care and the treatment of oii >opular physician, Dr. R. ('. Reeve? ve hope for him a speedy recovery Hon. John Richardson of Soutl Carolina spent Sunday in our luw n Graf Zeppeiin. mighty Germui nonarch of the air, landed or li?i?r!rnn e/.!l Cn?/I?.. aw.i . 'uinun, VA'lllfHClIU^ Hi hi ill crossing of the Atlantic with n a year. The Graf landed at N'a a! Air Stition, I.aki-hurst, X. J. 'unday evening at 8:48. Last Octo ier the huge dirigible completed it: irst round trip from its base al "riedriehshafen, German, to th< lavy reservation nt Lakehurst, when he naval dirigible Los Angeles ha: ts home. At 5.35 o'clock Sundaj ifternoon a spec", was sighted 1 nilcs away to the last, and half ar lour later the huge silver bag poker ts shining nose into the sunset ovei he field. Maneuvering in salute t( i cheering crowd of almost 100,00( tetsons, the Zeppelin cffsappearei iver the northern horizon and cruis d over New York city before return ng to the reservation where it land d. The landing was accomplisher 15 hours and 19 minutes from thi ime the shin left its base 4.175 miles listant last Wednesday night. John Garland Pollard, stauncl iupporter of the Byrd admimstratioi n Virginia and a loyal Democrat ii he 1928 presidential campaign, wa nominated for governor of Virgini, n Tuesday's Democratic primary rebling his two opponents, G. \V llttpp Dim uvainwll PsgC. I I\>1 I e Best Interests of^" .west CAROLINA, thuksda ** ST S, IS 1NEWS 0F ..EK ic AT BLOvn.i ROCKI ^ Highway Commissioner Doughton In- . ' spects Yonahlos^ce Road and is ^ Pleased With Progress Being < " p Made ?!? Construction Work 1111 5-1 of Blowing Hock, Aug 6?^ A. esl f Doughton, chairman of the state gu 1 highway commi&siori, after r. thor* ough inspection of the entire 22 > miles of the Yonahlossee road. hetween Blowing Rock and Linville, ex- du 2 ? pressed himself a> well pleased with th ft j the progress of construction and be. i lie ves the completion of the road in ca - j Octolier is a reasonable goal in view tit 2 j of the 30 days lost last spring due j T1 1 j to the failure of the contractor. \Y. i b> e I E. Graham. The contract called for 1 15 ? j completion in 150 working days, j th J i which made September the month of j 'n - | completion. ! K ! Mr. Doughton arrived in Blowing M: - Rock Friday, accompanied by C. S. T< Currier, district engineer, of Win ston-Salcm; R. L. Gwyn and T. H. V Broyhill of Lenoir, and Hugh Chat- ^ y nam of Klkin. They were accomY | panied from Blowing Rock by A. B. -1 Cole, engineer in charge of const S struct ion j and Thomas H. Coffey f?f nt i Blowing Rock. The road was close- st h | ly inspected from the point six miles i out of Blowing Rock, where the m | grading shovel shut off traffic to j? ! Linville. He did not say. after in-j 1 0 specting the work, whether anything '1 ould he dene from headquarters! 1 to hasten the work. e! The contract for the strip of road, u L?: through Avery and Caldwell coun-j ^'J 1 ties was let some months ago, bull'1 . during the winter the contractors*. 1 I failed and the bondsmen took over! 1 ' the construction. The J50 working' ' days which the period of construe- j jL; lion was guaranteed not to exceed j .^ 1 September, but due to the failure of i 11 a the contractor and consequent de- j 'V ^ i lays, the date will probably be in 1 j 1 October. , ( ' The road is of strategic importrw:. |j | ance to this sections during the tour- j 11 ] i.st -season and is of importance lo-; i cally to school transportation, being! Ct .n! one of the routes for the Blowing!1.11 ??y Hock school bus. j '5: l! Mr. Doujjhton ieft Blowing Rock! ' | after his inspection trip, gopng j ni " j from here to his home in Sparta, j n j j and thence to his Raleigh office, d ' j rt Over 100 horses had been entered ; r' e j from Kentucky. Virginia, the Carp-1 J5 * linas and Tennessee. two grand j j stands had been erected, over $500 j a* phies were ready for award, the ( ( { judge had arrived from Long island. I u X. V.. arid visitors, riders and conn testants were arriving from the Car-i I olir.a cities and from other states' x * j Wednesday morning in readiness for: ?*, r ihe sixth annual horses how. d j ?? Mrs. Z. M. K oonlz and littie I *}y " oaTighufr of Winston-Salem _are yL- j i t iting Mrs. Koontz's sister, Mrs. J. j'' * Allen Gragg of Blowing Rock this j H ' week. ! ot e THE LITTLE LOG SCHOOL m HOUSE HAS DISAPPEARED | Ia j hi 11 The little log schoolhouse has al- i'o 0 most disappeared jr. North Carolina, . according to the state department of ze public instruction, which issues a th u statement showing that there were i be . only 28 houses of this type during } th ? vili27-28; and ati of these used h s ^rregrb children. | in r| Of this total number .2.1 were in ; A; -j Caswell county and one each in Ala- ' .! mance. Diirhp.ro, Halifax. Person and; r j Vance counties. .! The records for 1927-28 further of | show that there were in use- through A nj out the state 890 yrrraV schoolhouses- hi; .! with Prick construction and -i.85G t.i< i with franip ennstrm?+iir?r. wh?*?Vi wifV? ! ni. i i the '-2*:. ?*?Houses* ; s? grand : 57 j i j total oi" 5,789 rural schoolhouses it', j wi i | use (lin ing: the year. j Co - j Five years ago thee were 7,100 nc - [ schoolhouses used by rural children, ! of . | 424 brick, 042 frame and 04 log-.: ar - 1 Thus wihin five years there has beer, j 77 ? I erected 472 new brick buildings for 1 ho t the rural boys and girls, whereas al i! there has been a net decrease of 1,- gc i 786 frame houses, hi > During the year 1927-28, 176 new wi rural schoolhouses containing 1,079 M I classrooms were erected. These ar i buildings cost slightly more than 1 four million dollars, or an average r of $24,000 each. During the pre- be > ceding year, more than five million m; V dollars were spent in erecting 221 to 1 new rural schoolhouses, and costing T1 - on an average S'JZ.MIU each. ?'J There is a tendency, as seen from 'h - these figures, therefore, for log and I frame constructed buildings to dis- Hi ; appreaT, and or better and larger th ; houses constructed of brick to be I erected in their stead. pc It DANIELS WILL SPEAK AT H nj THE NORMAL FRIDAY A. M. !o r Hon. .Josephus Daniels, editor of to s the News and Cbsf^rver. and former le a secretary of the navy, will deliver ai . an address in the auditorium of the b< . Appalachian State Teachers' College m WWffwWWB at 10 o'clock.. :r / )CRA t North Carolina 20 ollecre to Onen Fall ^ w - - - - ? ; ^ Quarter September 3 Officials at the Normal College j ike announcement v>? the opening the fall quarter on September 3. ^ d coincident with the announceMit a bulletin is issued from the fice ??t the registrar giving inter- ; ting facts and figures as to the two j mmer school sessions. j Nine hundred and six students j me to the Appalachian OfMfige I a ring the two six-weeks sessions M is summer. Of this number 807 wl ire ladies and 09 men. Students me from 72 North Carolina coun?s and 32 counties of other states. ic average radial distance traveled 1 Pl - students coming to Boo"" being ! lo 2 miles. Besides North Carolina, 1 th c following states were represented j eo the student body: Alabama, Cali- j rnia, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, i se aryland, Ohio, South Carolina, i rn jnncsscc, Virginia and West Vir- I to nia. ra _ j ca UCH BUSINESS DONE sa AT FARM CONVENTION ti I fa Raleigh, Aug. 4.?Governor Card-; ca >r's farm program was endorsed, a I th ate-wide plan for agricultural de- b< lopment adopted and a start made ]H promoting the plan for purebred j to op seeds and purebred livestock at j e 27th annual session of the state i jj rmers' convention meeting at State m allege. July 22 to 2fi. p. The work in preparing a state- : hi ide program for agriculture was 1 (Jl id to he the most outstanding piece j C( work done by the convention. At i fj, \e sectional meetings, the delegates j a orked long and hard in sludving I ie needs of the State and the host ct dulion of its agricultural problems. ! th he result of this labor was em- ; idicd in a series of reports made | ip i the lasl. day and adopted by sec- e: ons. These reports will be con- hi _?nsed in a publication of the agri- ai lltura! extension service and pub- I gi died at an early date. ai In the resolutions, the farmers | m tiled for a further study of rural ' ti ixation, encouraged the work of the ! ci id era I farm loan board, endorsed [ W ic county government advisory com- j ai lission. asked again for further ft- j ancial aid in securing an 1 eight-1 u tenths term for public schools, i vi ;commended better research faciii- a; es for agricultural problems, and j j\] ilied for more respect for iaw. The h: .dies also endorsed the governor's 1 a rricultura! program and put for- w Sard Mrs. Jane S. MrKimmon to re- hi gvv TKtiivimr huUUV.* because of her' oi'k. d< ; aT OIL EXPERTS AT BOWIE m Since finding indications of o l in i th ;e vicin.it}- of Bowie. Ashe county, lere has been quite a hii ui" rumor ; 'loaf, but the visit made by real oil j pc rports has added color to the rumor. ; to is said that the land belonirimr to ' fv I. rv= lvc4lcv of th&fc Si&iiiiXt has! en inspected by two experts, one! ora Washington, D. C.. and the j her from Louisville, Ky., \Vao re S >rt their findings very favorable, in j ct they say they have not seen | tter indications anywhere Mian [ und on the lands inspected. It seems that the Ashe couv.ly eivihs are becoming very much enused over the possibilities of ci! ing found in this county, and well ey should be, when one thinks of j e wealth to he had from such an | B1 dusXry as this would j ?he County News. ALEX HAGAMAN DEAD ' Just as we go to press we team of the death of our old friend !Mv., les lex Ragaman. which occurred at M i s home in the Beaver Dam sec -; mt >n at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, j >it 3 demise' being the result ox a joke of paralysis unstained several ?;*>? .eks ago. Bui? services will be >e nd ucled today in the cemetery ist ai Bethel church. In the death ML Mr. Hagaman the county losestother of its best citizens Re wn?LSI ; years of age, public spirited, >nest to a cent, a strong; friend and \ iove all. a consecrated Christian nfcleman, and it eould be said of , m, he died without an enemy. Ajtb idow and several children survive. I da r. Chas. Hagaman of Hickory,! th nong the number. t a West Orange, N. J., Aug. 2?A j vrl speckled 16-year-old boy who finds ly urine biology an interesting hobby wi day was selected as the protege of nomas A. Edison. Chosen first ar it of a field of competitors from pr e 48 states of the union and the Si istrict of Columbia. Wilbur B. jo uston of Seattle, Wash., will spend ar e next four years at the Massa- \ in lusetts Institute of Technology, j ac ? -,? 1 - r ox ms cr.csce, with all mses paid hv the inventor. What co uston answered to each of the sti ng list of questions in the inven- wi r's 'genius" test may never be vi arned as the advisory committee bi inounced that "'in fairness to the B' >ys" none of the answers would be w: ade public. Mr. Edison will keep th tem or. file for future reference. t ct FIVE CENTS A COPT TOCK RAISERS ORGANIZE HERE atauga Livestock Association Organized to Foster Livestock Interest in County; Smith Hag a man Named President The most enthusiastic meeting Id in Boone recently and one that ds fair to be u real harbinger of new* era of prosperity, was held on onday morning in the courthouse ben about a hundred representa ?*e farmers and business men of the unty gathereed together for the lrpose of forming an organization oking to the intensive fostering of e livestock industry throughout tfte untv. Mr. G. P. Hagaman opened the ssion by stating the object of the ec-ting. This he said was primarily develop a greater interest in the lising of purebred beef and dairy ittlc, sheep and poultry and at the me time to increase the produc011 of cabbage, potatoes and other irm products-most adaptable to loll conditions. He also referred to le item of feed, insisting that more ? produced and that livestock should produced in sufficient quantities ' consume the provender. County Superintendent Smith agaman, who presided over the eeting. pointed out that during the ist ten years most of the cattle ive left the eoun.V and that the iqality of those remaining is decidlly lower. He also referred to the ict that Watauga county has half * million dollaiV worth of cars which me one must pay for. and that insiderably more is required to run le county than formerly. He insted that we are not now producg enough to moot these increased cpenditures. Larger Herds ol pureed cattle, greater flocks of sheep id more poultry were cited as the eat debt-lifters of all time. Watiga county is a great livestock area, itural conditions favor this indusy, and with sheep and cattle suffient for the grazing lands available, atauga county should be happy id wealthy. Hey. E. M. Gragg made a short, ilk, further insisting on the deelopnient of the livestock industry, 5 did Dr, K. V>. Perry and others, tit John Fox pointed out that he ui raised sheep continuously over period of thirty years, and had alays hen able to make money from Is flocks. Smith Hugaman was elected nresimt of the Livestock Association, id G. P. Hag a man secietary. and a ogram will be launched to the end ial Watauga county may be made to a great cattle and sheep regionAn executive committee, com>soc! of one member from each wnship. was named as follows: Cove Cveek?-J. B. Honor.. Lou vol ' M. Ward. Watauga- T. i". Band. Shawneehaw- ?Floyd Welsh. Boone?G. P. Hagaman. Meat Camp?Harrison Baker. Stony Fork?A rlie Browu. Elk -Coniey Waters. Blowing Rock-r-Il. T. Greer. Blue Ridge?J. G. Storie. Beaver Dam?Clyde Perry. Bald Mountain?J. L. Miller. North Fork?A. X. Thomas. SHOP CANNON S SON ?-is: uu v HJkJ Washington. A ug. 2?Edward l.ee innon. son of Bishop Cannon, .Jr., the Southern Methodist church, vder in the anti-Srnith campaign in rerinia, has applied to the deparl?ni of commerce for a clerical colon. Hi* application, which, has not yet. er? passed upon, said he was 24 ars old and was qualified as a typor f?>r general clerical work, is a graduate of Duke University. 'AINHOUR WILL OPEN HICKORY STORE TODAY The Spainhour-Sydnor interests ,ve announced the opening of eir new store in Hickory for to.y, Mr. W. R. Spainhour being for e present the manager.of the new isiness. He will be in charge for period of about two months, after 'job time Mr. Stoinback, formcra manager with the Anchor Stores, 11 assume control. The Democrat carried an aninouncement previously as to the irchase of the flaynard store by rainhours. This business had enyed a wide popularity in Hickory, id the new owners will specialize ladies' ready-to-wear, shoes and cessories. With the accession of the Hickory ncern Spainhours now control four ores, as well as having connections ith stores ir Winston-Salem, Danlle, Va., Petersburg, Va., Williamsirg, Va., Hopewell, Va., anil lackstone, Va. The Hickory store . ? ill constitute an important link in e rapidly growing mercantile tain. It I i . .fi d
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