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w VOLUME XL1. NO. 27. . iri Today and s Tomorrow \ I a \ By FRANK P. STOCK BRIDGE Work Half of a)i the work ilont* in the world is done in the United States, l; says Dr. Thomas Thornton Read, to Professor of Mining in Columbia Un- nc iversity. The average American does #>f thirty times as much work as the m average Chinaman, two and one-half pi times as much as the average Ger- G< man, almost twice* as much as the average Briton- Electrically-powered nz machinery is the answer; each Am- ac erican worker has the equivalent of sh thirty-five slaves at his command, wj who do not have to be fed out of his ke ^:i Y-n i rrv * g ?a Europeans, puzzled by our pros- th perity, have attributed it to Ameri- 5 ca's natural resources. We know bet- sa tor. We do more work. fu Y oung cr Owen D. Young told a Senate com- se mil tee that it will soon be possible for anybody to write a message in 61 his own home or office and have it 'V1 ^ transmitted in his own handwriting instantly, to any point in the world. 5111 All that needs to be done to aecompiish this is a slight extension of ex- J?, sting telegraph facilities. Techni- ;'1 bally it is easyMr. Young's predictions are al- or ways entitled to respectful consider-- j*? 1 11 it?n. He is one of the rare men i who combines great business ability j*1, with a broad and statesmanlike view ,a f public affairs. .As the head *?f the' i nternatioiuil commission which work a (, wl out the plan for the World llank 'n<to handle war reparations payments n> he has a rcputalion in Europe even ?1 arrator than in America. He is a? d.n Democrat; otherwise he would have 8s? been in (he cabinet of President * - - - - noover, who is one of His warmes friends. ! nit j laj Klein l % v Keep an cwfibn Hi*, Julius Klein,jwj Assistant Secretary ?>f Oonnnerce, *Ka } The young tu?vn from California <vhoj W}, has been the center of the business j aj conferences in Washington. Dr. Klein xvc nwa graduate of~1 rie Univerally of J*0f 'California and of Harvard: he stud-! i^d also in Berlin and Paris universi-j j a ties. He knows more about interna-1 IUI tional trade than anyone else in Am-1 ^ x-rica, and what is more important, j j*;t, he understandv men and knows how! j)C to make industrial and business Ida- aCi <*ers pull together. He will go highei j ?t in publie si-rvicu. \ j j,, Barnes Another man to watch is Julius vn< Barnes, head of the Chamber of j domnr.riTe of the U. S. Mr. Barnes] bo has an office in New York but spends j wa ..-mrtcr oif Kjg'fctiTO<v r>? tho- f)onr nf fh,s 1 3TJ Produce Exchange where he has done ! atl more than any other one man or I th< ?roup of men to stabilize the price j :i export grain for the benefit of the j ri\ f American farmer. Mr. Barnes has sej not made a foixune for himself out ily f his wheat operations, which he tfij took over after the war from the tht U. 5?. Food Administration. He has wc vharcred himself with th?* Atib? nf sdv reeinc that American t ain goes ba , where it is needed and that the price pb fair to buyer and seller. fa: Sir. Barnes is one of the Presi- wi dent's most intimate persona) friends T1 [! perhajis the most intimate. His hobby ins s the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, tbi -tchich he believes can be made the most useful costructjve force in Am- th rreran business, and he has the tac- j fa ulty of making big business menJ>e- J CI a lieve him. > cii " ! ij Morrow : I When the international commission j J n naval disarmament which is t<? I p meet in hondon in January finishes { ^ its work, if it does not break up in i a row. one roan whose influence will { A have had a large part in the conc'u 1 J -ions arrived at will be Dwight V7 j hp Morrow. *'Tbe smartest man in the; l' ' ,v ... ! ir>. yyoria ss tnt way ine leairor-in-cmet j ~ * uf a Ncrr YorV daily referred! to him in conversation the other j ao day. j *n Success has not spoiled Mr. Mor j as row or his family. They live in the pleasant but decidedly not "smart" LI suburb of Enprlcwood. N. J. in much the same way as an ordinary family of middle-class Americans. Being a partner of J. P. Morgan. Amhassa- * tiar* tc the rest fbmtnr fromi *>. NTew Jersey, has not impressed Mr. th Morrow with the necessity of keep- M i ing his trousers creased and other- to wise dressing like a bond salesman. One of his daughters is a school-tea- J? i -her; another, as everyone knows, wis married "Slim" Lindbergh. Just plain q B Americans to whom "society" means j m i othirg. P. ce The Lord Mayor of London still 5? in a stage coach, carved and " I gilded and said to have been built ,r 1 in 1757. tc / - X' -- ?' 3 : ATAl A Non-Partisan Ne TOKES MAN KILLS FAMILY OF SEVEN brUtma& Day Tragedy Stirs Whole Section. Take* Own Life After Committing Horrible Crime. One Son Sole Survivor. Becoming suddenly insane. Charles nvson, a farmer of near German-; n. Stokes County, N. C., last-Wed sday afternoon slew his wife, six his seven children and then com- j itted suicide, the tragedy taking ace in and near his home on the! ermantou-Walnut Cove Highway. On Thursday at 12 o'clock the fill chapter of the tragedy was en- j ted at Browdor's Graveyard, a I Sort distance from the scene of the polesnle killing, when seven cas-< its were placed side by side in one1 rge grave, the youngest member of j e family, little Mary Lou, aged: , months, being laid to rest in the 1 me casket with her mother. The nnVfll cnrf?<-?i .'iien.a K.. ..v ... ??*?0 tUlVilUCVI U> UU1I-I eds of people, us the* .tragedy had] eatcd wide interest throughout that-j ction. The slaying, which wiped out ey-: y member <?t the family except, ie youth, Arthur, aged 16. is he-j ived to have occurred between 1 d 2 o'clock Christmas day. The iie survivor. Arthur, left home: ortlv after 12 o'clock, going to j rnianton to do some trading. ?ighbors thing ;i <piaitcr of a Tullemore from the Lawson home re--, rt hearing several shots fired in ;it direction about 1.1" o'clock,<1 also heard Mr. Law son's dogs; i king furiously. About 3 o'clock. Biisha Lawson,! brother of Charles, who was hunt-l r' with a party of friends, stopped the house, and seeing no sign., life approached the side window 1 d upon looking in met a Horrible j jht; Lying on the floor were thef dies of Mrs. I.uvvson, aged 38; Ma-j , 17; James William, 1; and Ray-' >iid, 2 1-2 years old. In its cradle . the lifeless body of Mary Lou, i?d live mouths. The bodies of Ma-; and James William were lying; th their heads near the bureau.: vmond's body, in a pool of blood,' is to the right, the mother's body: the foot of the cradle, in which iv the horribly mangled remains, the hahy .~ Without entering the house, Mr. kvson gave the alarm and soon a: niber of persons had gathered.' eriff Taylor, of Stokes, was not.i-1 d and h nnq Coroner C. J. Helsa , ck hurried to the scone. At first, i-ordihg to parties on the scene, j was thought that perhaps the fa-} 3r and other members of the fam-! . Carrie. Ma; belle and the father, ght be .in the attic of the three-j :>ni house, the stall's leading to the j it from the room in which the! dies were found. l)r Bynum, who | is on the scene shortly after the! rival _of thp officers, went into the ; tie,, but no bodies were found! >re. In the meantime farmers began ar-1 ing with shotguns and started hit ireh of other members of the fam-: . About a quarter of a mile from; e home, in an old tobacco barn, e bodies of Carrie and Maybelle j re found, each having died from!, otgun wounds inflicted in the! cks of the victims. They had beenj iced, as other members of the! mily, in cx-ude Christian fashion, j in arms toided over the breast, ley had apparently fled from the *ane killer and were overtaken at e barn. About a quarter of a mile bevondl in"a~^mmp-oT pines, ihet ther and slayer of his family, larles Lawson. was found, a sui-j ie victim, and near his mangled1 mains a scribbled note: "J did it;' ante no one nut me,'' was found, the pockets of Lawson was found j .era! warehouse receipts for to cco sold during the fail and about ty-five dollars in money. Neighbors of the Lav,-son family? sr i-ibed thera as ha/d-worklr.g^ peo? who. apparently, were happy ill] eir family life. Lawson, the i'aer was said to have been a kind tber. a good provider and a man ove reproach. *A urFEugcuaCTit of,' e mind was given by the coroner j the cause for his horrible act. ZN HAOAMAN ON HONOR ROLL' AT WAKE FOREST COLLEGE; Upon the basis of marks assigned eshmen up to Christmas this fall' Wake Forest College, Robert H. a* c 1 uiiia ?/t., UA iiuiiviMiv, .< , ?. ? . e lead with an average grade of 97. ] r. Burns is a first cousin of our) wnsman, W. O. Robinson, is a mem- j ?r of the debating club of his col-j i;c, auu i> consiaereo s moaei sia-i rnt. AraoAg other members of the Old J old and Black first-year men whose arks, according: to Registrar Grady ) aiterson. are in the highest 10 per' ?nt.~of the class is Len D. Hagaman, n of County Superintendent Smith agaman. of Boone. Young Haga,o-o ^ tn he cAr?Tatulated for bring-! ig this signal distinction to his home iWTl. JGA ;wspaper, Devoted to the IK, WATAUGA COUNTY, NOUTI? ! Charles E. Greene Dies At Bakersville Home Funeral services for Charles E j Greene, assistant United States Dis ! trict Attorney, who died suddenly ai ! his home at Bakersville during i heart attack, was held at the Bak| eravdle Missionary Baptist Church or I Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, witi ! the Rev. J. C. Owen, pastor of the | Mars Hill Baptist Church officiating Biidfll was in the Greene familj cemetery. All churches in Spruce Pine and neighboring towns closeti in order to allow members of thi | congregations to attend the rites. Active pallbearers were Dr. E. A. Gouge, W. C. Berry, M. L. Wilson, J. I. Buchanan, Dr. W. B. Masters, George Dale, J. B. Pennell and D, M. Greene, all of Bakersville. Honorary pallbearers were: K. L. Moore, of Mars Hill; E. F. Watson, Charles Hutchins, G. G. Bailey, James Hyatt, Dover Fouche, and 11. W. Wilson, all of Burnsvilje; James B. Ilensley and Thomas Harkins, of Asheville; S. J. Erwin. of Morganton; Frank Patton, of Morganton; \V. (J: Newland. of Lenoil, G. Fj Washburn, of Marion; Charles H. Jonas, of Lincolntonj; John R. Jones, of Wilkesboio; Judge Johnson J. Hayes, of Greensboro; \Y. H. Barkley. of Charlotte; \V. B. Greene, of Forbes: E. N. Vance and Lb T. Vance of l'luintree; F. J. Clack. Fred Lamliert. of Bakeysville; F. T. Henry, F. 15. Cannon and George W. Greene, of Spruce ''in.. Mr. Greene was formerly a Re-I publican party nominee '"or Congress in the Ninth North Carolina District. He was widely known ?n Western North Carolina and a leader in the councils of his party. Two years ago Mr. Greene was appointed Assistant I*. S. District Attorney. II? formerly served as trial attorney in many important cases in Western North Carolina, and will he remeinhered by many Watauga citizens who cuinq in contact with him during sessions of court in Boone. Mr. Greene was born on a farm near Bukersville on July 27. IS7G. After gradual? tjom ihe BakersvjUc high school in 1K97, he held a position in tin- War Department a'. Washington for some time. He later returned to North Carolina to enter the Wake Forest College law schoot, where he studied during 1900 and 4"0' Irr- 1902 he/was elected clerk of the Mitchell County Superior Court, holding that position until 1H07, when ho look up the practice of law in Bakersvillc. In 1912 he represented the Ninth Congressional District as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago. In 19TG he was a candidate for Congress. He was defeated, though he reduced the Democratic majority from 5,000 to about 2,500 votes. Mr. Greene is survived by hispidoyr, \yho. prior to her marriage, was Miss Blanche Pritchard. a daughtoi of George K. Pritchard, of Bakersville. and a niece of Judge Jeter C. Cmcnarri; three sui^ and a daugh let. Doctor and Companion Almost Frozen in Gale During the blizzard of Monday night, December 23, Dr. J. B. Haganian received a call from the convict camp on the Yonahlossee Road, where one of the prisoners was suffering from pleurisv. Dr. Hagaman, with VI VI ^a,? - - i. ? >1. iiuu^ci ix euiupamoii, sei out in a car to make the hard trip. Near the Daingerfield home in the Coffey's Gap section they stalled in a snowbank. While attempting* to dislodge the automobile, distributor trouble developed and the engine IfUlipV jMBgHWBM Efforts to start the motor proved futile. This was at about 0:30 o'clock Monday evening. Due to the severity 01 the storm, the men were unable to look for shelter, so they were forced to sit in the car until daybreak the next morning, when they were rescued by Russell and Grant Hodges who, becoming alarmed by their absence, had started in search for them. Mr. Hodges suffered a frost-bitten! face, and was confined to his room for three days due to the exposure suffered during the frigid nightDr. ilagaman, while atleudiug to his practice for several days following the ordeal, is now feeling the effects of the cold, and has been a right sick man lor the past four days. Lll ILt OKADY KUriiERT DIES AT HOME ON BOONE'S FORK Little Grady Ruphert, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Carter Ruphert, died at his home in the Boodc's Fork section on Christmas night, mastoiditis causing his death. His snr.ail body was carried back to his birthplace, Matney, for burial- Rev. Watts conducted the funeral services Fridayafternoon at Matney Church. He is survived by a young father and mother, two brothers and two sisters. Little Grady was much loved by his teachers and all his schoolmates during his two years in school. His teacher, schoolmates and many friends extend to the family theii - 8 SSiSKff ?r ?R. I. R. DEM( Best Interests of NortKwe; CAROLINA, TH URS DA V JANUARY 1 100NE ENJOYSFI QUIET CHRISTMAS! t Street* of City Practically Deserted * on Holiday Because of Temperatures. Total Absence of Effects I of Whisky. No Arrests- Made. With mercury hovering" about i throughout the day at uncomfortably ' low temperatures, and a storm of al moist blizzard proportions being exi perionced in the afternoon, residents 1 of the city made it almost unanimous and stayed by their respective fire. sides, enjoying a quiet but happy , Christmas day. The streets were , practically deserted throughout the ; day and with the heavy snowfall and } accompanying wind, those who took their motors from the garages were , soon baffled by the skidding tires' , and piercing cold. Even the members of the police] force were enabled to rest a good i ' part of the time, there being only j minor routine rlutios *?-? ' Vlf ; ixens of the town are proud of the fact that at r.hvistmas time, no man was arrested or subject to arrest in , the city. Furthermore, there was no indication of whisky drinking, one) policeman Having told The Democrat! that he didn't se e a man whom he had reason to suspect had imbibed, even so much as a drink. In view of the ' recollection of some Christmas days I in the years gone by, the people dj'j ! Boo no have good reason to be hap- j j pv over tiie behavior of viti/ens ami i ; visitors during tin past week. Boone Young Lady is Severely Injured Miss Ruth Coffey, of Boone, who r lis connected with the Music Depart-! Jjnenl at the Nomal College,, is at thej I Hospital as a revolt of injuries stist tainedk otonday evening, December j at the Critcher Hbiel, where she j had been ait invited guest at a heli* day party. | Miss Coffey had just arrived at the Kfotel and in attempting to quickly turn to greet a-TiTend, in wme way lost her balance and fell, a broken thigh resulting. Friends of the popu lar young lady throughout this section wern trrievfed ?t tbo Af ???? ;-r *? - ; ? " Vfias I injury, but will be glad to know that) ! at last reports she is showing satio-i j factory imptovmiiem. i RELIGIOUS FANATIC TAKES LIFE ON CHRISTMAS DAY! IMorganton, X. C.?Essie Ross, ni young white woman, committee sub J cide at her home near Morganton j 1 Christmas Day, evidently the victim] lof religious delusions. In a note! i found in a Testament on the bed where the bloody body was found j late Christmas afternoon she had j written. "I waited too late to confess; my sins. The wages of sin is death! and 1 am dying to prove it, to warn! -you to repent and-Le baptised hefov? I it is too late. Farewell to this world." She had evidenttly made the second effort before being able to work successfully the shotgun which she killed herself with, one bullet having gone through the wall of the house and into a tree in the yard. She had used a stick to manipulate the trig ger of the gun, whose muzzle was ? placed against her breast. Miss Ross, possibly thirty years of ? age, lived with her father, John Ross, j near the State Hospital. Both had I been invited out for Christmas din-1 j her and the father had left her alone. I at the home about 11 o'clock to visit I i another daughter, thinking she was; 1 to; go to a neighbors for?jdixiner. Re- j (turning home in the Tate afternoon I he and a son found the body andj two notes which gave conclusive evi- j denee of suicide. One of the notes| was to a young friend to whom she j left her watch. I The father says he had not no-j < ticed any mental aberration in the i I young woman, but others to whom ( she had recently talked on religious! j matters and had begged for their ; j prayers say that they were not great- j lv surprised at her rash act. ' NEWS FROM NEWLAND ! Jack V.'isc, 21, met his death last! j Friday night when he fell through a hole in T. M. Cuthbertson's barn ! loft j Mrs. Margaret Love Hood is spendj ing a few weeks with home folks. Married last Sunday evening, Mr. Hoy McDaniel of Old Fort, N. C. to Miss Loice Keller of this city. Also Mr. Lonnie Taylor of this city j to a Miss Martin of Hickory, " CNo mail from Asheford on Christmas day as 27 had been unable to make its arrival on account of a wrecked box car in front of it. The Baptist Sunday School had a real Christmas tree for the children. The program was fine and everybody seemed to have a real good time. Mr. Sam. (son of T. J.) Ray who married Miss Verdie Daniels some ' months ago, is now housekeeping in Httl? ?OH?** tkp , office of Hon. T. A. Love deceased.' M J EX, 3CRA it Noith Carolina Distilling Outfit Seized j | ] In Beaver Dam Section ~" Sheriff Farthing. accompanied by Deputies Lee Gross and Poly Wyke, braved the frigid temperatures of last Saturday night to search out a j still in the Beaver Dam region and t on their return brought news of the j destruction of a oO-gallon outfit, andj two men. the alleged operators of1 j the illicit plant, as evidence of the iau success attending the chilly venture, da; fttoKys miiiuiits a nit Paul H edges. her were placed in the county jail on a j for charge of manufacturing, but were | fro later released w h e n satisfactory I an( bonds were posted. of The raid was made following up def information which had reached the 0f Sheriff's Office, and the still was lo- pro cated with little difficulty, however j Ass the attendants had undoubtedly quit j t their posts of duty immediately pre- Grt ceding the arrival of the officers. Ha: The latter were aided in a merry ass chase down the mountainside by the fro tracks in the heavy snow and Wil- w?j liams was soon captured, however har Hodges managed to reach Cove Creek gio and baffled the officers for a few for minutes by a disappearing stunt, km Hasty search, however, soon revealed saw him. practically concealed in the chil- Do< ly waters of the creek. Officer Gross as extricated him from his uncomforta- mei ible hideout and the officers, with l?-o their nriSonets?. n/ncoorUvl i?? th.. county seat. i Thi A fifty-gallon oil barrel had been 1 fro fashioned into a still, which with all > orn necessary equipment. was "all set"j ?r? for a Christmas run. About 50 gal-, ?20 Ions of mash was in the fcrmenters, J juuj . vvhiskv is <-"'<! ? tnro.i been found, which was bKely, f v-( dropped as ihe distillery was vacated, aj t?r , pRJ SIX FEUDISTS ARE HELD ! < . IN KENTUCKY KILLING ?.U) j , ho .lucksoh. Ky. -?jjjicsstcr Futcate, :pai? who was taken from the Rreafchjlt J County. Ky., jail Christmas morning] SI7 and shot and beaten, died late Fri-j,Swi day after he had accused six, menj Rre of being the leaders in the latest! nc, shedding of blood by members o. . Ira the Filiate liitd _ Wnt.kins families. _y Five of the men, kinsmen of Clay the Wat kins whom Fugatc shot to deat h niei December IS, came in and suriSfcii-j to dered and were held in $5,000 bond] cat' each shortly before the death of Fu- j n:t.] gate, whose body showed thirteen j til Indlot hol?s. T.hc Wntkins. of Hazard,! def the sixth man named Uy Fugute, j Sto sent word that he would surrender.! :,?r The warrants charged malicious | des shooting and wounding and after Fu-j heii gate's death, G. C. Allen, Common-iron wealth's attorney, prepared to issue: "fe murder warrants. Promt?. uWl 1...- u > ~ r? ilv* ?'"? * u in a show-filled ditch before he was Ii< fouTid, made his statement to the C<yriilepnwcaltlis1 attorney, in pre>once >?i witnesses. Then at its completion said. "My arm's broken so I can't raise it to swear; I'll just J'*,J hold up a finger." * In his affidavit he declared that ll)'' He recugnizeu six of Live iucii surprised S. L. Combs, the jailer, ??S bound him and took his keys, dragged r*?1 Fugate from his cell in his night clothes, heat him with a blackjack,! lm* tramped upon him, shot him and hurled his anparently lifeless body ?!e into a diteh a few miles from lira where dim Butler, a farmer, heard to his groans and prayers. J"*ra Estimates of the jailer and Fugate as to the total number of men ^ in the mob ranged from 30 to 40, . even as high as 100, and Combs said all the men he saw wore masks. nor CRUELTY TO DOC AROUSES 1 PEOPLE OF THREE STATES . toward the person responsible for J ^as sewing: uj> the mouth of a small dog. jn and leaving it to starve a week ago, j continued to mount in the breasts of j residents in all walks of life today.! Eagerness to mete out punishment! caused the total rewords offered toj reach $1,078. ^ ' All day long, the telephones in the offices of the Humane Society of! 101 Missouri, under which the search for \ 3-i? the perpetrator is being made, are j Th? busy. School children pledging their. cef pennies to $100 offers from business j Ue? men are coming in. Telegrams and letters reveal the interest of people wo out-of-town, among them being a $151 the telegraphic pledge from J. R. Robin-i dei son, of Dallas, Texas, and a subscrip- ra? tion of $100 by Arthur M. Cooper, res of Alton, III. res The dog was found by Robert F. j hie Sellar, executive secretary of the so- tha ciety, after a woman had called ask- mil ing it be put out of its misery. Sel- -I Inr in the nnimnl dis- b#n covered a person unskilled in surgery cay had sewed its month shut with eight Ho stitches using a tough twine. The animal had apparently been in that condition for several days. It was painlessly killed. I wil Mr. fc. E. Knapp of Boone has set tra a high record for hog-raising. A pork- ^al er was killed by him recently which so* was fifteen months old and weighed ha1 5S0 pounds. Knann likelv holds the i <*is banner for this season. 1 "=^==^~;=^=^^7^5 EUVl|ED IN CITY ? {iitered Hereford Built Are Jouyht by Watauga Farmers. Plar. he Elimination of Scrub Sire, ind Ready Sale. Farmers from all sections of Waga County came to Booiie Monr, the main attraction being a J .r thorc-ii'^hbrcd Hered bulls, which bad been brought m Southwestern Virginia for sale 1 distribution among the cattlemen this county, this being the first inite step toward the elimination the scrub sire, in keeping with htc gram of the Watauga Livestock ;ociattion. V committee composed of R. T. :er, Arlie Brown, Scott Swift and rrison Baker, members of the local ociation, returned on the 3 9th m Chilhowie, Va., where the bulls <> purchased from Mr. H. L. Ronit, leading stockman of that ren. These gentlemen were selected the mission because of their wide ?\vlc<ige 01 cattle, and those yrho r the animals on the streets of ?ne Monday unanimously agreed to the expertness of their judgnt. The bulls arc of registered line ?1 Hereford stock and ranged in I'm>11 six 1?? piirhtoon Vic jy were sold out to the farmers in n*, of the courthouse Monday aftoqn and there were not enough to uro'ind. The prices ranged from 0 down to $125. the hghest priced ma I having heen a blue ribbon to at the Marion Fair last- f&Mo of the hulls were resold at highprices right on the spot, Messrs. ?l Norris. of Meat Camp, and T. Rami, of Vallc C'rucis. being the chasers. A list of those buying together with the prices 1. follow >: Lilie Brown, $150; Baxter Linnev, 0: Amos Adams, Scott ft. $|50; if. X. Blair, $150; Arlie i?vn. $200; R. T. Greer, $175; ArBrown, $125; Scott Swift, $155; Blown, $125; Fred Yates. $125. >o great has been the demand for HerefdrHs since the initial ship;l came in. that another trip is be made soon in quest of more tie of a similar strain. The movent \vi:l not be allowed to stop unthc herds of Watauga County are inittdir freed from the scrub sire, ekriieh seem to be generally eed on the Hereford as the most irahie type for this region, thev i\yy the fiuBS of beef cattle and/ii sequently the most satisfactory as oilers.1" on. R. L. Doughton Was Boone Visitor Ion. U. L. Doughton, member of igress from this district, spent lrsday night in Boone and the lowing* morning mingled for a rt while with friends in the city*, timing that day to his home "at irel Springs. Ho will be back .at office in Washington by Janfhe veteran Eighth District Con ssman some ume ago announced intentions of being a candidate succeed himself in the next gen1 election, and there has already n considerable speculation as to o his opponent will be, I. G. ;er, of Boone, is being chamned by Republicans of this region . says he does nor seek political lors. t is recalled that while the aghton majority fell short as the ult of unrest in Democratic ranks the last election, ' 'Farmer Bob** never yet failed to lead his ticket Lhis district. INVESTIGATE DEATH OF FORMER BOONE NURSE fohn E. Brown, local attorney, left erne Sunday morning for Golds o where he has been employed in investigation of the death of Miss Eresa Stikes. which occurred reitly following what is said to have n bichloride poisoning. Mr. Brown s ictained by the deceased lady's thei and expects to show that death was not suicide but acciltal, the payment of an accident, iirance policy depending on the ult of the investigation. Reports ching Boone are to the ef feet that bioridc was self-administered, but t the deceased took it through stake." Miss Stykes will be well remetr. ed locally, having served in the >acity of nurse at the . Watauga spital for a long period of time. ATTENTION, LEGION AIRES! Watauga Post. American Legion. 1 meet at their rooms over Cen1 Tire Company next Friday night, mary 3, at 7:30 o'clock. Every dier is urged to be present, as we re some very important things to cuss. SPENCER 311ICEK, Com.
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