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AMERICANS SPENE AN ENORMOUS SUA I?.1R RETRSWTWt! i vu iiuvuiunxiv; P ncl nS Play Rnni. Up O T].; Half a Billion. Over 5,000 Gc Courses in the United States. Tot Retail Sales of Sporting Goo< Comer- to About $250,000,000 Year. Other Statistics. By CALEB JOHNSON flow much the people of the Unit* States spend on recreation, ooboc can figure with any very close a proacV, to accuracy. But. the Unib States Department of Commerce h; just compiled some figure? which i dicate that on amateur sports aloi we spend probably upward of half billion?five hundred million?d< lars r. year. This is net raking into account ai of the profession a' so-called sport such as baseball, boxing exhibitior horse-racing and the like which a more in the nature o t" theatrical e hibitions than of anything which ei properly be tei m< d "sport." I: t! money spent lor admissions t sat affairs were included, as well as t: money won a nil lost in bettii g them,- and there were added ii tj nteicollegiat?- football games and a other events to which people pay a mission though they do "or persoi ally participate in Them, the lot: would run well oyer i thousand mi iiuri d o liars. But the department's figures de: solely with the dollars and ceri spent in amateur sports. the rh:n<: people do themselves for the pleasui they get out of them, such as p.!a: ing golf, fishing, shooting, tenni "baeklot" baseball, swimming and th like. And the figures throw an inte esting light on the habits of the pec - -JL~ -1 T * t: . . . j/itr i?i rse c niceo States as a whole. There are how more than T,00 golf courses in the United State! and if you doiTt think that is a goci man>. Til tell you it more tha there are in all the rest of the v.orl put together! Golf was introduce into America from Scotland less tha fifrv years ago. The first jroif colirs in America is said to have I teen Iai out at Sarasota, Fla., bv a group c young Scotch men whose fathers ha bought half a million meres of Floi ida land for fifty cents an acre c so. ami sent their sons over to sc what tiiey could do with it. Th:i was in the *avl.\ 1 S80bs, but h w? not i:i'-il the late ISO's, less than years age. that, golf beer.me vail popular, and its great vogue has bee a development of the past twent years. When you consider that if, takt about 2UM ;tc. > for a really goo golf course, and a few are crowiie M- in:~" ><# thu.| aero?, we hay urn three-quarters of a nuljio acfi Of land afelM on gamp, at thp kwvoffc es 'tiniaU'. Mo: BHMffMTOiiiiii linn T.CSjj i ;.i bo 6f anv value t .-r.y y.,nsi;tS.:.K uunieei of peon] must be '.\i*hin oa-^y <miauve >;' In euntu: i>; jHipvlaUor!, ami W . '-lye- y.C'.i get to. a .ti:: eitv AkS2nsH vaiua^se ^oiii allti >s. Tha' invest ment in stich land for- golf co first is put b\ the i)ei artmont ?f Con merce at over $70p.00ih0h0. or pre! ty chvse to Sl.OOn an acre. It costs an average of $^l.0'do year to maintain a yoif <;o -rse. Ther is S! ori.OdO.GfM' of our annua! hi .lor sports accounted for' at-once. An that .doesn't count the cost to $1,300 000 ?'||ets of the halls they lose o the clubs they replace, to say. rioth "ng of tile nvjiiey t.hey spend to P'/proper clothing and oilier equipmejj Put thai at j?i00 a year per gbU&i whiehpj; probably low. and you hay a no the i hundred arid fifty millions. The fatal retail sales >f sporttn] goods v*o ne< to a hope ?2r?0.000.l)00 , year. V.ri\ Julius Klein, Assistiirr Sec gvotary of < Vrnn*ei*ec,\ states. Mor than 10.000 salesmen arc employe in selling , sporting goods, draw in; salaries aggregating above ?20,000, 000, V hid- :l?o i a( >ries making sue commodities employ 33.000 workers whose wages rfu to S4O.OOO.O0O ; year. One of the largest items, next t< golf, is: fishing- tackle. Our nations bill for fishing supplies every yea: ? over SS,000,000. Thai is more tha: we paid Russia '"or 'Alaska in 1SG3 Thai is a :<?t of money, compare) with what the average grown niai of tunny had to spend for fishin; tackle when he was a boy. As Presi dent Hoover put. it when he was Sec Kg retary of Commerce: "We have indeed made stupendon progress ir. physical ennimnpnt f? overcome the mysteries of fish. W have moved upward from the nicl but social conditions of the viilov pole with a butcher string 'ine. fixe IPECIAL NOTICES LOST?Between Boone and one mi! out on Bljjwiujj Rock Road, Doui las Battery for Chevrolet trucl Finder return to W. T. Pardee care of Mrs. F. O. Greer. Boom N- C. 5-J5 2t CERTIFIED Sweet Potato plants. S per 1,000, delivered. Nancy Ha and Japanese Reds, Hoc for 10' prepaid delivery. Onion plants, 2? per 100; cabbage plants, 25e pt 100; large size tomato and swe< pepper plants, 10c dozen. HUG F. WEBB, 30 years in the busines. Johnson City, Tenn. 5-15$25.00 REWARD for informatic and conviction of unlicensed me Claiming to ue c-ye specialists, wr. are imposing r?n our mour.tsi counties. Peddling glasses is ui lawful. Dr. A. W. Dula. 5-15-1 Dr. C. B. Baughman, Eye, Ea 5 Nose and Throat Specialist, Johnso City, Tenn., wili be in the office t Dr. J. B. Hagaman in Boone, on tl first Monday in each month for th practice of his profession. 10-17-1 LOST?Near Shulls Mills last wee Walker dog, lemon and white, wit scar on nose. Had collar with nam of H. W. Miller. Finder notify 1 W. Miller, Route 2, Boone. N C. J' '-iM i with hoiks 10 tor a dime, whos. I e5>tn pel ling: lure is one segment ai 1 angleworm and whose incantation i spitting on the bait. We nave ar rived at the hfiuh state of tackle, as sembled from the steel of Pamascu: the bamboos of Siam. the silk o ' of -Rnimicnlr thn nickel?OfilUlds - the leathers of Brazil a?a the silve of Colorado?all compounded b; al mass production at Chicago, 111., am Akron, Ohio. And for magic and in a cantations >ve have progressed to ap plications of cosmetics to artificia flies and to wonders m special cloth ing (for the fisherman 1?to count , j iess varied lures and liniments, am to eailirig a bite a 'strike/ Nor d< 1 need to repeat that fishing is no Jd *ne )1C^ roahV sport, though his in ' captations are more expensive/' r\l Besides tjie makers and seller-- o ^ j sporting goods, the textile weavers ajthc manuiactur ers of clothing, shoe ,j_ makers and otheis gain a great rey j enue trcni the production o? spur . clothes. Each sport cails for !ts ov.: lsj costume. The tennis nlayer and tn< j"'(goiter dress dijif ere/illv arid neither Kjvears the fisherman's rubber boots, tv | Almost all of the games which \v?l ' " play are importations from Europe but there are two of distinctly Amer v* ban origin. One of them is lacrosse ' no: yet as popular as probably wil | become. The first explorers of Nortli ' ; America found the Indians playing Vj j this game, i?? which a leather ball h t.1 J tossed by a racquet shaped sonie' J thin.r like a long-handled dip-net Many northern colleges have lacrosse 'j' ; teams anil there are those who pre " j {Bp that, it v. ill some uuv ?ivitl bnr-c. j ball as an intercollegiate sport, bepL i - auso of its speed and the excite 1 nier.t which it affords spectators. ;s | The other purely American gam* e : i.s basket hall. That was invented ir> the early lS90fs by ah athletic in>m strucior 11? a Middle West V M. C. e A. who wanted a game which the !" boys could play in winter, between the end of the football season am t the beginning of the baseball season ; Basket halt has become the most nop s* ] alar of indoor games, and is freqacntly pla yed out of doors, too. Am; Uj in the past few years explorers ir V Yucatan have discovered that ancient Mayas, that strong race which ha: " vanish?!, front the face ??f the earth Y leaving onlv great stone monument: P 1 and buildings now almost buried ir , the jungle, had a game which lik< ' basket ball, piayed with an in.uia!~ rubBer ball which wafs thrown througl ,l stone circles much as are the basket* j in the modern game. l: DEAR OLD MOTHER AND ME We lived 'ii a cottage, long ago. n . A cottage by the sea, v j Only vwo were living (heir. Jvist d? ar oid mother and me. iS.j p? ffflFmBSrr gone on his last & lt I cruise. ?'i Baddy was off at sea. ?r-^ir "ivvi? c?.:; >o there was . ? ! .Just dear viiii mother ami roe. ~ Thi- home was plain, yet it was irm.njte . living ?t- frotn the sea; ' We wore hanny together, ju>t we pam ' Mv vJieai ojjji mother and mo. * I;: A',. I 'in emJmUbt come to sorrow 01 i :oy. ^ ! And so like a storm at sea, 9 " A shadow passed over the house where lived > -Just dear old mother and me. a ,S|A boatifu 1 boat hove-to, one night, ; | And anchored ofl'-shore at sea. At dawn it sailed and bore away, Mv dear old mother from me. >" i l~ I And now a Joxe-waich each night i !' | keep, ;*Looking toward the sea; I Hoping some day that boat will return, , | With dear old mother for me. ' | But, no! A boat I must build and launch, V, For a cruise on the Crystal Sea. .; A bc.vr.ti.ful voyage to last always, For dear old mother and me. Cj ?Rev. W. R. Savage. & it: Business man; Do you think you !knpw enough to be useful in this office? Boy: Know enough? Wh>, 1 left s i my ia-t place because the boss said .1 j i knew too much. S Welcome Gifts S '':l | Graduate! Z ? ^Congratulate the young wo-U >n A man graduate with a Dusfca 2 n X toiletry ensemble. Give an 10 Qattractive pen set to the Q " young man who seeKs u> J- Vmake his mark. Other worth O ^ Awhile? graduation gifts will A _ X be suggested by a visit to V r' U our store. O '? Q Boone Drug Co. Q * ft Tho^exaMLStore X ? Q BOONE, n. c. 'ft I. Xj|THe WOWtP^jSGEsTcKSNOrL X| 2 OWWCO C^OGST^CsP^J THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EY EB FATHER OF A. H. BUSH DIES n { AT HOME IN CALDWELL -j Mi. \Y. \Y. Bush. 74. father of A. :'. Bush. manager of the Stam: acd JQikstation in Boone, died at his j f* _heme i:: the Bush ^ettlernenl, ~ i>.?.*a? 1 Lenoir, on Saturday. May 10. The j ?' remains V? C-l"c inici i l'U " at" V'OIIIVIS j r Methodist Church Cemetery Suml.tv ; afternoon, Rev. Mr. House, the o > tor. being it; charge of funeral serv- j - ices. Deceased had been a sufferer from j 1 cancer for two years, and his death - was not unexpected. Surviving are ? - the widow, lour sons and one dough- ' i tor. t THE WEATHER Weather report for week ending' May 17. as compiled bv the Co-oporf ative Station. Appalachian State i Teachers College, J. T. C. Wright. - observer: Average maxim ratnre^ ,,; t degrees. i Average minimum temperature. i'.'; 1 degrees. ' Average temperature, 57 degrees. Average daily range in tempera * ture. 17 degrees. Greatest daily range in tempera ture. 25 degrees: date i 7th. Average temperature at G p. ni. j 1 (time of observation), 5G degrees. Highest temperature reached^ 7? r degrees; date 17th. : Lowest temperature reached, 40: degrees; date l!th. Xumber of cloudy days, 1. Number of partly cloudy days, G. Direction of prevailing \v i n d, - soutfiwesL. Reports from all sections of East ern Carolina indicate a scarcity of tobacco plants due to th y weather ami i 1 attacks by the fk-t beetle. I Mr. K. L. King Tells a Wonderful j Story About Rats. Read It. "For months my place was alive i with rate. Losing chickens, eggs, feed. Friend told me to try RATSNAP. 1 did. Somewhat disappointed , at first not seeing many dead rats, hut in a few days didn't see a live one. What were not killed are not around my place. FAT-SNAP sure, does the trick." Three sizes, (15c. > } Sold and caaranlccd by Boom KB Drug Company. Boone: Hodges Drug Company. Boone; l>. !\ Coffey, Blowing Rock. I ho There is on pretty good i will be the oi Camels art smoke pleasu "When you mellow richn silky smooth The fact th rette is a tribi C ? 1930, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Wiajtoa Salrm. N. C. v i Y THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. o Qt?o t-Io frl -tiro * / A UX XXXV/X U X XUX VX ? Y (XX * Boone, North C NOW OFFERING SPECIAL PR HARDV Your attention is called to the (both galvanized and black). Door Sets, Light Fixtures, Wirir terials, Woven Wire Fencing, E Our stock of Bean and Cabbage i on us for your needs in seeds. MASTER PLANT SETTERS I LALri. (About \ now asking foi See the beautiful all-enameled fore you buy that range i nest^reas LY one real reason for smoking and that's reason after all. The ciearette vou selerr in ? ne that can contribute most to your enjoyme : made with that idea in mind?the idea re is what you want in a cigarette, try them you will find a refreshing differen ess of choice tobaccos?a blended harmony ?that makes smoking a delight. lat more millions have chosen Camel than an ite to an honest product, marketed for an hoi AM EL for pleasure a fl MAY 22, l'.'SO J ^ Qiir?r*lx7 jjl -/ y "JfP* j v>v/? arolina ICES ON MANY ITEMS OF YARE! fo'lowing: Screen Wire Screen Hangers, Screen ig Material, Building Ma: Seed is still complete: Call ST SPECIAL PRICE OF vhit the jobber is r t lem) MAJESTIC RANGE be/ou will soon need. I | I .A;-\vy"~ on j :hc long run that genuine . ? ce ? a mild, of fragrance, y other cigalest purpose. ^
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