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TWO News Items From the State Teachers Colle Two very interesting progr. were given during the oast week, the Llth at the chapel hour Pro soi* and Mrs. Greer gave a very tractive program of folk music \vl was greatly enjoyed by the -tin body, and a number of friends f Western Teachers Coiicge, wi basket ball team came to play college team here, tin* result of wI game was 25 to .*>5 in favor of Appalachian young ladies' team. Wednesday one of the young lac literary societies gave a most in esting Lincoln program. The following letter is being : out bv the students of the Collet "We at the Appalachian S Teachers College are making spc extra curricula activities. By this mean, not that courses of study class work are being neglected even slighted, but that the torn the college life is being greatly flue need by these autside activit Football in its season; basket for young ladies and young men; tive Young Women's and Yu Men's Christian Associations,' c Sunday afternoon; Bible >tu courses, taught by Dr. Chandler Professor Greer every Monday; rious student activities related to local churches, and the inter-ci giate debates. "In basket ball and debating college has been rather distinct year our debaters, both vouner ia. and the young: men's teams won junior college etiuuipionship in ket ball, as did the young: ladies year. This year the record, the incomplete, is very satisfactory. . year our debaters, both young la and OUT&- men. won junior col championships in Sjrprth Carol This year they are hard at Work paring for another round of 1 tests this time with the four-: institutions. The opening debates be with Lenoir-Kihyne College on ril 8th. at Boone, and with \\ Forest College April lath at \\ Forest. "The Christian associations other religious organizations take on renewed activity with opening of the Spring quarter. 1 ruarv 25th. when many new stud will be entered '' GERMANY'S NEW WARSHIP TO BE TERROR OK SI Kiei. Germany.? A 10,OOP-ton ileship which car. outrange and r.U.i! anything on the sea is plat by German naval constructors needs oni\ ailthori'mtion by Reichstag to he built, ll will" i long step ahead of the celebrated ...... - ' Jin.-, i reTtSSviiv now aooin -sii per * completed i:i the shipyard of Deulsehewerke hero. Tho Ersatz Rreussen itself -a siisuie f?u- tho old battleship i son has already obliged other tions to make changes in naval s trillion. though it won't be . olotoil until the autumn of HbR*. its successor on the Kiel ways is rig to -hew further evolution v. will affect all classes of wars afloat. It is expected to ho ovon la which would enable it to outrun vessel which carries gains anyw near its own 1 1 -inch batteries. V it won't, he able to make the s of smaller craft, it would have \ within cringe for so long a time fore they could bring their bath into action that they would be : long before they conic, hecom menace. NOTICE OF LAW EN FORCEM1 All hunters and trappers in tauga County will hereby take nt that the open season for all fur-i: ing animals closed on February 1 Any and all violators of the law er said date w!ii be vigoruosly pi cuted. Fishing licenses for the year 1 can now bo obtained at my of or at the Rhone. Hardware Slort at the office of the Clerk of the perior Court. !t will be absoh necessary to buy your license be attempting to fish, as the reqi ments of law and the duties of office arc binding on all alike, this year will tie one of law enft ment. Further notice is given to ew or operators of saw mills, either ter or steam, that the lav.- provid penalty for allowing sawdust to In the waters of Watauga Cot J. P. Steon. district game wax and myself will i:i the near ft visit every saw mill in the cot '.ng to find no violations after publication of this notice, as must be protected against their c dealing enemy, sawdust. Every son in the county who hereo' has been accustomed to violate game and fish laws will do we heep this notice. HARRISON BAKEF County Game and Fish Wai Two cars of fat hogs shipped Craven County brought the top of ten cents a pound on the Richi market. The Statesville Kiwanis Club i fering $75 in gold as prizes to dell farmers who foiiow balanced terns of farming this year. Joegku^. 1 MAfM A "ULTC WW PlCKfc'P HIS WIFE 6V WEC PAINT AN UPHOLSTERY WANTS TO K.NM WHAT'S UNDER, -THE HOOD BEFORE r!? Bl'VS A CAR. ET ,-.v Si - " ij j ITEMS FROM NEWl.AND U) Mr. and Mis. V. M. Graves ang{*;nounce the arrival of a daughter at r. ! their home. Mr. Graves is Ford deal- w aids 'M at Norland. and since the birth ,,i On e thi' ehilti. be has been unable to j sC f.,s. tell a Ford from a Marmon. at_ The little daughter of Mr. R. A. inch * Shov-r??akei . whose JESsS 9S S9Es9 lent I f'?ned last week, is much improved. u roffi Married on last Saturday. Mr. Clav-J i. lose Shn'ey. sor. of Mr. and Mrs. H. M J . (}u. Shirley, to Miss Rosa Barlow, daughhirh *c'r of Mr. and Mrs. Roe Barlow. the ^ ugbt truck driven by Harold ti Daniels, of Newland. left the highway above the Valid Crucis Mission j? iter- School recently. Luckily, the driver (j was not injured, but the truck was tl badly damaged, sent ^ complete joke was pulled last ,e-* Sunday morning when Mr. A. O. tate Baner slipped into the home of his cial brothei. J. A. Banner, and carried .A ; we several hams owned by the relative! and upstairs and hid them in a barrel. I A ,,,. When Atlas returned home, he began I . 0r to make a search, but found nothing in. but ;? man's track, which he care |T ti?*s: r,l!,v nicasured. and on Monday inov-j ball n,ng early came to town to get a lot I V ae- ,ji search warrants. He met hisj ung brother Atf and began to tell the ach stoi>- Ho received in return all the , v sympathy one brother could show for. and I another. When Atlas discovered guilt T va. in his brother's eye. he asked him to j the bold up his "moccasin." and pulled, olle- oul the measure of the track. When ; T I applied to the shoe, it was a com- ! the pb-W' ',r- Aif then said: "Nov. Hud, J II live. you will go look upstairs in your1 dies ovvn home, 1 dare say you will find! jjk, oil your hams in a barrel.** j T has ' Banner, who has been look ! ia.t i after collections tor Dr. Gossj v ,u?r)i m oonnsoii v iiy 101 some nmc, is; bast -sPen/ling: a few days with homefolks j_ dies "n Ncwlaridg iPHt. For the welfare of Captain Bill j iiiia. ^ M. Fletcher, railroad ageHt pre- here,, hopes the policeman ?>f Boone con- *?viH very careful h examine Uncle /ear Bill's pockets ever.x morning' before win he leaves Boone. Nat says Uncle f\ p. J Bill had a dangerous article in his 'ako' pocket when he stopped at New land j ;,ke Juhctipu last Tuesday moyriing. It. 1.. Gardner, foreman of the j county convicts, is very busy with! will fhe new caterpillar and crew pull-' iru ingr stumps on the $S.000 farm re|?\?h cently purchased by the Board of eats | County Commissioners of Avery. MERCHANTS ARE TOLD TO GET ON SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS BASIS, F.AS; ? Greensboro.? "If you expect toj bat live and compete you've got to he sci-j OUI.kntifiv in your busine -; advertise.! *nod c|ean up youi stores and give the] adtli TH'dplc service." David Ovens told j th<;ilhe several hundred retail merchants >t> ;l and their guests assembled recently | . i in the ballroom of the Ki|6 Cotton i :cnt.'jffP^' :,ir ^he 23rd annual meeting] the Grecn^bo.ro Merchant? A eiation. sub- i M1"' Ovens, who is manager of the,] bus-: 1 R. Ivoy Store in Charlotte, then] i .?talC(i : fiSSrcnS&^E irrir "!rr !u.T.!T?vr.rrr 1 t_ con ptfees within control, too. We sell ..m- MoHvltcS 1,1 .*????: stwe for St. Si.50 Hut sll,d *- ??lhing over or under those ; ,_rn_ nrie,gj:and nothing in between. Snph?ch ,,OSl' you have dresses at Si 4.OS. diins Sl-YST. SHi.Oa, t? 1 7.Oh and at $20.SP, | how i- the wo? hi fan von advertise tfor, tnom witnour g?^tnig~7t]i messed up: j any Vp'ti>ve got to advertise, too. VjR* here ^oend three per cent, of our volume rhiJe *'n :*dvertisirig. You've trot to do that peed am' you've trot to keep your stores ^ :hem A woman of intelligence and * t),._ refinement will not trade in a dis mies hrdevly, dirty store." sunk Wanning to his subject by this time j; a Mr. Ovens told the .ercbants: 4<l managed the first c. ain store in . North Carolina, 25 years ago. We [ ENT did' $tv0,0?J0 worth of business against <. Wa-! bur competitor's $12,000 business * race ofttimes the same merchandise, tear- did it by keeping a clean store, a 5th. .n'ce window displays and advertis- a aft- m?- The chain stoves have done one j ose- thine-, they have made merchants out j c of a lot of us. Oftiimes when there ' 1030 !s ;t dirty, disorderly store, right by j fsce, their side is a store where the own-j or crs could take a post graduate course 'gu_ in modern merchandising. Chain j itelv stores are like fleas on a dog: a cerfov',;! tain amount of chains are good for iire-!ar,v town. They teach us service, my| "Where the public touches busjand! noss )ve have got to have order. >ree- | cleanliness and service. Compare the 1 Standard Oil Company's filling staners ' lions with the old-time service' sta- i wa-' fio^-s ami you have the modern idea j l... .. I of Sevvieo Tlvif'c urlioi u-o'co <> ? ?a I ijoxvlpnt into our business that kind of! inty.; modern service." den, I iture 121,532 N. C. CHILDREN ATTEND, inty. SCHOOLS OF LESS THAN S MOS. the There are 121,532 white boys audi fish girls attending the schools having i leatli less than eight months, it is learned I per- from the current issue of State' [fore School Knots, official publication of the the State Department of Public In- jS 11 to struetion. This number represents 20, per cent, of the total white enrol-1 L, ment in all public schools, and isj rden. , according to the records for the year 1928-29. front It is pointed out by School Facts! price that all of this number are rural boys nond and girls. "In other words," it says, ! "all children living in towns and cit! ics may attend schools operating 8 s of-1 months or longer, whereas only 72.5 Ire-; per cent, of the rural boys and girls | I sys-1 have such an opportunity." School Facts further points out j that all high school children both I rural and city have the advantage of I attending schools running eight | months or longer. The 121,532 chil! dren not having the opportunity of : attending the loager term schools are j rural boys and girls in the elemeni tary schools. I j _ There is also presented in School | j It Facts tables showing uie average J. ; If-ncth fif tnrm ar>/J +U- ? - 1 ? ... >.. ?IIU V1IC lliv-ic?ac III I J rl number of pupils attending Ions: term I, M schools in the several school divi-'jj J . sions. The table giving the average ( length of term shows that city chilH dren have always had the advantage j of schools in session 170 days or more , S since 1900-01. whereas rural chil-jj ? dren attended schools having an av-1 I erage term of 76 days in 1900-01.' I which has increased to 1S1.9 today. 0 ' 1928-29. ^ 1 Improvement is shown from year ; to year, however, in the number of n rural boys and girls attending a longt er school term, points out the depart HIE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT? EYf entai paper, lit 1922-23 only 1 56,50 of these children attended sehools inning eight months or more, herons in 1028-29 twice as many! .>20.1 57 went to the longer term hools. More than 1*600 hens have been !c-od-lcstcd :n Fersyth <*n"?>ty this inter preparatory u> their use as rcedcts. "I can't remember the words of lai new song,*' said the girl, learning from the show. "That makes it easier," answered i er father. "Now all you've got to i o to make home happy is to forget le tune." THE BRIDGE By Frederick Peterson cross the foaming river The old bridge bends its bow; ly father's fathers built it In ages long ago. hey never left the farmstead past which the waters curled, fhy should one eve\ wander When here is all the world? Family, friends and garden. Small fields of rice and tea, he rattle in the meadow. The -bints in stream and tree, he pageant of the seasons As the slow years go by; etween the peaks above us The a/.ure of the sky. he dead they live and linger In each familiar place, fitn kindly thoughts to hearten The children of their race. Says Sargon Brought Back His Health^ JOHN C. SPISNCBR "For the past year 1 have been in yretehed health. Three bottles of >argon put me in wonderful condilon. My appetite is splendid now md my digestion is sound. 1 have gained ten pounds and my strength tas returned in proportion. "I wouldn't be without Sargon if t cost 1 wenty-five dollars a bottle." ?.John C. Spencer. 498 Sixty-third It., West A His. Milwaukee. Wis. Sargon's record of marvelous chievcments is an open book to all, ,nd only those who have used this amous treatment know its real powrs. lioono Drug Co., Agents. - Advertisement. U/U.-.*. \kliii f? licit 9?IH ifiM gmm. do \T t < -J ' v / . . " M When your Children Cry I for It | n?r? - ? L-15 -.v . ' " 1 is -?>iun ?v imutcugie mat. na?n i ward of Castolm! At least five million tomes are never without it. If there are children in your family, there's almost laily need of its comfort. And ain* night may find you vctv thankful there's a x>ttk? in the bouse. Just a few drops, md that colic, or constipation is relieved; ir diarrhea checked. A vegetable proluct; a baby remedy meant for young folks. Oastoria ia about the only thing ?cra have ever heard doctors advise givng to infants. Stronger medicines are iangeroua to a tiny baby, however harmless thay may be to" grown-ups. | 3ood old Caatoria! Remember the name. | md remember to buy it. It may spare ; 70U a sleepless, anxious night. It is 1 tlw&ys ready, always safe to use; in | unergencles, or for everyday ailments, ^ny hour of the day or night that Baby j Jecomei fretful, or restless. Cos tori a was 1 lever more popular with mothers than it '3 today. Every druggist has it. vliv-yg>. !?KjKS535ajW 'V^*>'r'-' ' 9B"v -' -' ?& *} ? :itv TJ1UR.SUAV? BOONE. X. C. All Sizes Gk&5 All Prices m More people ride on Phone Central Tir DISTRIBUTORS FOR W. R. Winkler, Manager LOCAL ! J. H. Winkler, Blowing Rock A. A. Greene I I JfcF :: SELF-S ===i J. & E. Store is a Watauga Coun of this section a truly superior g formly low prices are maintained test sacrifice of quality. The lea< ed goods are carried, no inferior quoted in this space periodically ility to save you money on every ] || 5 VERY SPECIAL- AS 1 Preserves t Regular 1 SLICED PEACHES, No. 2?/2 Cai SLICED PINEAPPLE, No. 2'/2, ana - .11-11 I "1>H IK mmtm, I 1^1 A .. White Swan F r iuui (b^r? I Famous Sparger r-;i'K ??it??? LOOSE PEANUT BUTTER, p< PEANUT BUTTER, 5 pound pa ,, * I-T'liliUAUY 20. 1;. I far will v<ns e vour car?*' / it question to be able to recomiost economical type of Goodyears rticular requirements. THE CAR THIS SPRING? See >airs, used tires, or low-priced new ? THE CAR A WHILE? Discuss seds with us?we'll show you the 11 save you the most money. CHE CAR ANOTHER YEAR OR el's iigure it out together, whether leavy duty All-Weathers, or Douwouid be the proper ticket. real interest here to heip you e trouble-free miles you have me in?talk it over?no obligation! VOl TI.Vli: AM) >IO.\EY . on the excellent quality I . I Thlh&nder 1 ^ 1 loir [triced Here, too!? Goo'lxcar i ir? - lliau on a:iv ot?ior fcitnl 1 for Quick Service *e Company WATAUGA COUNTY Boone, North Carolina. JEALF.RS , Deep Cap. Vilas Service Station, Vilas . Store* II ERVICE :: : === ty institution rendering the people . rocery service in every detail. Uniat all times without even the slighting brands of nationally advertisgoods being tolerated. The prices speak louder than words of our aK. I 3 ur chase. "' I .ONG AS THEY LAST I lonarch Brand. Straw- A P V5 erry amid Raspberry. I nl|9 4 oz. cams Xvv 25c Seller. '? "i" ??? il ii B i, heavy syrup 25c _ > Libby's . . WW , _ - - " lour, 25 lb. 1.25 fa* AF ur, 25 lb %1 111% Guaranteed) Mills Products w*mm??w?? t i B sr pound 18c il $1.00 ???1 ^
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