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gin two ijg^sbp I ALL COUNTIES IN f IN. C. CONNECTED WITH HIGHWAYS First Purpose of State's T en-Y earOld Program W*s Achieved Last Week With Opening of New Mantco Road. Roanoke Island, With Its Many Historical Sites, Can Now Be Explored by Tourists. (Elizabeth City Advance) The primary purpose of North Carolina's highway program was achieved just ten years after its adoption when, on Wednesday evening, the asphalt road connecting the Dare County end of the Wright Memorial Bridge across Currituck County with Roanoke Island, was thrown > pen to traffic and an unique oeenn-shore drive added to the scenic highways of the State. By the opening of the new road Manlto, Dare county seat and th? last county capital ir. the Slate to be isolated, has been Jinked with its fellows scattered westward on out to Murphy in Cherokee by a continuous chain of State maintained highways, which carry out the first provision of the Highway Act of .1921, which began. "Tag purpose of this act is to create a State system of highways connecting, first, the several countyseats of the State . . ." The completion and opening last; fall by private enterprise of the; Wright Memorial Bridge, spanning j the three-mile width of Currituckj Sound from Point Harbor to a point two miles above Kitty Hawk, on the Bare County shore, trade possible the construction by the State of the ocean-shore road, extending southward foi*nearly twenty miles within r.f Vi-> * I- U* l-~ * *1. ui tuv lUouruijA pi rdseta Vi UIC I Atlantic Ocean and passing en route' Kill Devil Hill on the summit of which I the Government memorial to the \ "Wright brothers is about to arise.;! the scene of the first mechanicalflight hy man, the Nags Head summer resort, the regularly spaced I*. S. Coast. Guard stations, and on j across the Roanoke Sound bridge to Manteo and Fort Raleigh, the site ofj the Lest Colony on Roanoke island, j Upon crossing the Wright Memo-; rial bridge the road passes first thru j a dense jungle of vegetation, live; oaks, and scrub pine and dogwood , which within two weeks will transform the area into a pageant of white blossoms. Emerging from the woods the road curves southward and for the rest of ils length traverses the white sands of the North Banks, the ocean surf almost continuously in view on the east while at intervals the Svaters of the Albemarle Sound tan be seen to the west of the narrow strip of coastland. The Paul Gamiels Hill Coast Guard ' Station, with its cluster of weather beaten building around it. is passed; soon after leaving the woodland while , | Kill Devil Hill, with its slopes plant-! WAVAWWAWMWW.W, | 1 Kill the Humbug J? CEE the cost chart a r* Ifv nainf cavp? F keeping average house than $4 saving on firs E decay and repair bills This store is headquartei in paint?varnish?enar Farmers & Sup Boone, No: Ied in grass ir. order to anchor us shifting sands in place so as to form a pedestal foe the granite shaft of i the Wright Memorial, is a landmark seen from miles distant. By sharp contrast with the green slopes of Kill Devil are the other sand dunes passed ; ail along the way. their great masses ; of shining white sand moulded and } rippled by the wind which steadily } moves them to leeward year by yeardust to the north of Kill Devil HiJt j is the granite boulder which murks j the. actual site of Wilbur and Or-; ' vide Wright's first successful air5 plane flight, at that time or. the slope of the hill which has moved | about three-quarters of a rr.ile to th! southwest since 1903. After passing within sight of the wrecks of the steamers Carl Gerhard and Paraguay and the schooner Irma, the road reaches the new Kill Devil Hill Soast Guard Station and a few | miles further on passes through the 1 Nags Head summer resort, where the stiip of coast between the Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean narrows down and cottages are evenly divided between ocean and sound j shores. South of the resort is the Nags i Head Coast Guard Station and the ' road extends to make a juncture with I the causeway and bridge across Roanoke Sound to Roanoke Island and into Manteo. While on Roanoke Island the motorist can ride on hardsurfaced roads to the north end of the island where in a natural amphi-theatre in the woods, carpeted with pine needles and reached through memorial gates, is the site of Sir Waiter Raleigh's! Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. The road also extends to the southern tip of the isiand where is the fishing village of Wanchese. from which can be seen across the upper part of the Pamlico Sound, Bodie Island light and the narrow width of Oregon Inlet, the famed fishing ground of Northeastern North Carolina. With the newly opened coast section within two hours ride of Elizabeth City and Norfolk automobile traffic ovet the new road is increas-i ing daily and is expected to reach its culmination next August when; Dare County will hold the second of its h< me-eoming celebrations. Plans are already undei way to entertain large numbers of tourists at that time as well as a large proportion! of the 2,500 or more Dare County citizens who live in other parts of I the country. TEN MILLIONS (N JEWELS j Paris.?Queen Victoria of Spain | is reported to be carrying with her to exile two suitcases full of jewels, j valued possibly as high as $10,000,' 000. If. was reported also that the gold | plate of the royal fami'y was packed I in some of her thirty pieces of luggage. j Her famous jewel collection, rc| garded as the finest a queen over had, also was said to be in her bag| gage, along with her diamond-studded 1 gold crown of state. wwy"AW.wAWwwwvww of Cheap Paint/ I 5 c this store?how qual- ^ >83 on 5-year cost of j painted, as against iess *? t cost of chcap-per-gaJ- / luality paint armor against \ \ ; ? at low five-year cost! J rs for COLOR?anything J ncl?brushes! J 'o5f Chart'. Hardware i ply Co. rth Carolina j THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV j Before Death Bro Speaker Nicholas Longworth is Alice Roosevelt, and daughter, Pauiir before his fatal illness. POSSIBLE NAMEsW NOMINEES FOR 1932 PRESIDENCY HEARD j Democratic Speculation as to Nominee Include Many Such as Qaker, j Ai Smith and Robinscn. R a nomination of Hoover Positive. John W. Davis Predicts Another Wet Demo-j cratic Candidate for IS32 Race, j Washington. D. C.?The lights and shadows of the field on which thj 1 932 struggle for the presidency will take place gradually are being set these days. Although the party conventions! will not bp held for more than a year,* hardly a week passes without a development which may be reflected in the campaign for nomination and election. Through it all. too, runs the realization of practiced observers that the setting might he radically shifted by mvexpected twists. That President Hoover wants and can get a renomination apparently ;L- i--- L:. if jtmi, ic iM-ii ivi ity ins friend;?. He has held his political peace am: the expectation in Washington is that he will continue to do so. for the time at least. Meanwhile, speculation on the Democratic nominee buzzes on and on. The latest elment entering in was the week-end news about Newton D. Baker, indicating- he would do nothing ro win nomination hut would ac-1 cept it if the convention chose liim. |, The Clevelander, secretary of war in i the Wilsbn cabinet, was described as] having shown "great interest in the , party's platform hut no interest in j possible candidates;" Cox and White Likely Simultaneously, from Ohio came reports that Governor While apd for-' mer... Governor Cox. the nominee in 1 1920, were about to join the number ] of other espiranls for the Democratic- [ nomination. Cox has been receiving. ! more notice iincV bis speech before < the hectic Democratic national com-1 mittee meeting just after Congress j ; adjourned. He took more or less of j a middle ground in the/dispute over > j Chairman Raskob's proposals for par-. I uvrv-itiriiuori on praniDiuon and Otrj er topics. i Governor Roosevelt, of New York, j ! long since has been out of the favor ite son class of possible Democratic nominees. Despite his emphasis thatj he is ''giving no consideration or: thought or time to anything exceptthe duties of the goye^prship," moves have been made in widely-separated section? for the organization of "Rbosevelt-for-President" clubs. Opposition to President Hoover within his party has r.ot crystallized into putting yp any candidate against him. Former Senator France, of: Maryland, has announced for the Republican nomination; but Senator Goldsborough expressed the opinion Maryland Republicans favored a Hoover venominaticn. McAdoo Heard in South Democratic Marylanders agait are ; backing Governor Ritchie to head the i party ticket. The State legislature ; endorsed him and clubs in his behalf i also are getting under way in a num! ber of states. Among Southern leaders, the name I of William Gibbs McAdoo is being I heard anew. He is in agreement with! sentiment among them that economic issues and not prohibition should be the basis for the party stand. Another dry. backed by numbers of the prohibitionists in the party is Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, vicepresidential nominee in 1928. He has been prominent in the movement under way among Southern Democrats to head off the platform proposals by Raskob. Prom time to time, the suggestion is heard the Alfred E. Smith be nominated'again. He has refrained from any statement of position, bnt said he would be present at the party convention. Whether he wiil back Governor Roosevelt, who thrice put his name in nomination, may be a deciding factor there. Both are for repeal of prohibition. John W. Davis, nominated in 1924 after the celebrated Smith-McAdoo EE Y BO?N^I, ^C. shown with his wife, the former la. The picture.was taken shortly Carolina in Danger From Tobacco Acreag< Unless the tobacco acreage thi year is drastically reduced, grower will face a dangerous situation thi fall and winter. "Another crop like the one las season when more than 800 rnillio pounds of the flue-cured leaf \va produced, will cause a serious situs tion in our tobacco growing countie and over North Carolina as a whole, says Dean I. O. Schaub. director o the agricultural extension service t State College. "The crop last yea was by far the largest we have ha and another such production piied o that one will mean much lower price; Every person interested in th?i fr tare of farming in North Carolin should use every effort to have th acreage reduced.' The acreage to be planted bot in the established territory and i some new areas will likely be tin ited by the credit which ttie growei can get for buying fertilizer. In great part of the tobacco growin section, there is a decided trend t< wards increasing the acreage and i spite of all warnings, a bigger cro than in 193C will probably be pn duced. TllCSe Who recall ennrHtinnc In> fall when tobacco was going beggin on the floors of warehouses and farn era were crying for relief from lo prices can easily predict what wi happen this fall is the acreage no indicated is planted, says Mr. Schaul He urges growers in all parts of tl State t.o got a plentiful supply < food and feed crops planted, and the if they wish to take a gamblir chance on the tobacco price to % ahead. If enough food and feedstuffs produced to feed every farm fami* this will relieve the situation, sa; .the Dean. ROCKNE CRASH TO COST MILLION IN INSL'RANC Cottonwood Falls, Kan.~-L. 1 Moon, of Kansas City, represent, tive of the Travelers Insurance Cor pany of Hartford, Conn., said Mo tiay the claims against comp^nh carrying policies on Knute Rocki and the seven others killed in a plai crash at Bazaar. Xjm Mov.^ sic would total $1,0U0,000. deadlock, recently predicted an o poiient of the national dry law wou be named again next year. JOHN E. BROWN ATTORNEY AT LAW BOONE, N. C. Offices Postoffice Building Phone 63 Special notices FIRST CLASS HEMSTITCHINGSpecial attention to mail ordei Located at Farmers Hardware Supply Company. Phone 1-J. Ml W. C. Greer. 4-2-4p | Dr. C. B. Baughmzn, Eye, Ea | Note and Throat Sprciaiirt, Eliz [ bethton, Trnn., will be in the offi j of Dr. J. B. Hogaeon in Boone, i the firmt Monday in June for tl practice of hit prof eta ton. BUY CHICKS THAT LIVE?99 p cent, of all chicks we have sold tl season are alive and growing. F a limited time we are offering d: old Barred and White Rocks, R. Reds and White Leghorns at $12. per hundred in lota of 100 or ov at the hatchery. Ten days old stai ed chicks, 15c. Fine hatching eg I at reasonable rates. Wilkes Hate ery. North Wilkesboro, N. C. 3FOR RENT?Six-room house wi bath, in Boone. Close in on hat surface. Mrs. D. F. Brown, La on, N. C. 4-2-4t BHUHHHHHHH , - ... ? -] : More Food Crops, Early Reports Show An expanded acreage in all majorfood and feed crops "was planted last fall and will be continued this spring 1 throughout Noith Carolina, according, to facts gathered from the intensions to plant reports by extension officials at State College. 1 "Analyses of planting intentions gathered from hundreds of progressive farmers indicate that increases! in food and feed crops will range i from a 7 per cent, increase ir> corn! acreage over last year to a 40 per cent, increase in barley acreage,*'! says C. A. Sheffield, assistant direc-j tor at State College. "Wheat planted Hast fail will again reach the normal acreage of 401,000 acres. The wheat crop of 1030 was cut due to unfavor-l able weather during the planting season of 1929. The increase in wheat over last year will amount to about 35 per cent. The Increase in corn acreage for 1929 and 1930 will total about 19 per cent. This increase has come about during the two years of the Jive-at-home campaign." The most phenomena! increase ir? Fl) RELM s s s ] I a e Long, haw the rail a >. maicr n ,p sitnplieit ig Everywhere you go ; ^ performance and relis ill One owner writes? " driving haa covered 59 ,e of weather. It is still ,n Another owner det K in 95 hours over had r ;o and sleet in the moun tire trip." he writes, re cellenllv and no meel | was experienced. Tl douhtedlv saved us f E prairie chicken atruc 3. were traveling at 65 n a" See the nearest tie: n n- demonstration ride in own personal experic le brings you everything car at an unusually lo p. Id low roi *43? i (F. o. b. Detroit, ptuu /n spare fire extra at lota c small down payment, on a the Authorized Ford F, _ Crcdi s. S. (PRICES REDUCED liiec :: ki IVI mrnm ^ $2.00 PER TON, F. < er (la Any ? $4.40 PER TON, F. a^* (la Carload Lets?2 50 er Recent teste made at the Univ ft. contains 96 to 98 per cent, calc j-c carbonate of magnesia sufficiei h- per cer.t. We know of no other i MOUNT B ? ! SKOUNS, - - : '.^nfj?eKK2fflx?BiKSK8H?3Ba a food and feed crop has keen with barley, finds Mr. Sheffield. This crop is r. pood substitute for corn, yields well on poor soils and withstands win- * ter freezes. During the two years of the livc-at-home campaign, barley has been increased by 50 per cent. in acreage. Mr. Sheffield also finds an increase of 13 per cent, in the spring farrowing of pigs. If enough corn is grown to feed these pigs into fat hogs, a ! good profit might be made from the : combination, lie thinks. The increase | in hay, sweet and Irish potatoes, eats. I rye, soybeans and cow peas will also j be unusually good, according to the ieports submitted. I 'Mary, remember that you are j only a servant; I dont' want V?1J I have so much company. Why. you have more callers in a day than I have in a week." "Well, ma'am, perhaps if youM i try to be a little more agreeable you would have as many friends as 1 ! have." I1 Democrat Ads. Provide a Short-Cut to Better Business. 115 II JMLITY aTTTF. FORD fj|| ) | TITDOR SEDAN d use shows le of good ials and g of design pou hear report* of the good ibility of the Ford. -"The Ford Tudor SedanI am ,300 miles through all kinds giving perfect satisfaction." icribes a trip of 3217 mile* oads and through heavy rain tains. "Throughout the eu"the Ford performed extanieal trouble of any kind be shatter-proof glass unrnm serious injury when a k the windshield while we tiles an hour." iler and have him give yon a the Ford. Then, from your :noe, you will know that it you want or need in a motor w price. RD PRICKS right and delivery* Bumpm and oft. loxc run buy a Ford for m xmomiccl monthly term*, through inance Plant of the Universal t Company,) : on AGRICULTURAL ITONE D. B. May mead, Tenn. Quantity) O. B. Boone, N. Car. 3 1-2 Tons Minimum) ersity of Tennessee show that it' ium carbonate, or pure lime?and ot to make the equivalent of 103 lime showing so high a test. ROTHERS TENNESSEE SfiSSBBSI^raEHEHHBHWlKSsfe^^TOSmiWlT
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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