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TWO CAMPAIGN OPENED FOR RE-ELECTION PRESID'NT HOOVER! Raymond Benjamin Organises Forces to Support Chief Executive in Coming Campaign. Will Repair Political Fences and Shape Up Preliminary Organization. Personal i Friend of President. Washington.?Organization of the J Hoover forces looking to the renoni-J Ination of the President by the Re-1 publicans next year is under way with I Raymond Benjamin. 01 San Francisco, a personal friend of Mr. Hoover,; taking a prominent role. Benjamin came to Washington last i winter and has established a law office here. He has no direct relation ( with the Republican National Com mittee. However, his recent activity and I conversation with Republican leaders, close to the administration have given these party chieftains the understanding that Benjamin is looking after the political fences of ihe President. Benjamin, a veteran in politics, declined to discuss the subject other . than to say he was interested in politics as a pastime and has no ambitions whatever for public office of any kind for himself. As for his relations with the President. Benjamin concedes he is certainly friendly to Mr. Hoover but he insists his coining to Washington to establish & law office in a building near the Republican National Committee headquarters was of his bwnj volition. | Benjamin came jo the capital Jur- , ing the 192S campaign to assist in the Hoover election campaign. Because of His close relationship with < the Preside, nt his orcsent activity is ; regarded hv Republicans as indicationi ; of an intention on the nr.r of Mr.j Hoover to follow the ago-old custom of standing for a second term. GARDNER TO DELIVER ADDRESS' AT UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Raleigh. N. C.?Governor C. Max ' Gardner has beep invited and has j accepted the imitation to address the Institute of Public Affairs at thel university of orjria .May 1.3th or.. ^Reorganization cf State am!'County/ Government." The members of the i Georgia General Assemhy Yviii alienu. the meeting addressed hy Governor] Gardner in a body. He addressed a similar meeting at the Lnivorsity <}fj | Virginia last summer, -baring non-l ors with Admiral Richard E. .Byrd.j North and Sciith Pole explorer. \fflSksi 1 '! '$1 '/'.J'.' Tom: Tvi lik. to give my fiancee| iilw a surprise for her anniversary pros-' em." ferry: >' Why not tell her what! your income really is?" V.-.W. .v. j: Left this?28 I Kill the Humbug < ; \ CEE the cost chart at f ity paint saves ?2 J keeping average house J than $4 saving on first ? i ' Theqi decay and repair bills Hi J \ This store is headquarter: JI in paint?varnish?enam p I Farmers | jl & Sup] Boone, Nor ^ 5vy.WVAVW.VWW .W.W Negro Farmers Support Live-at-Home Program Negro iariweis in all parts o) North Carolina are placing to sup port the live-atrhciue campaign thi: yea| and w?11 fsirm to make a living: first. "While we have no accurate roc ords of what the negro farmers ata ?loing except in the IS counties vbe.n we have local agents employed. w? do find a commendable attitude u the | art of our colored citizens ii these counties,*' says C. R. Hiidsoi farm demonstration worker at Stati Ool'ege. "There have been 25,77! persons at the 322 meetings held t< explain the live-at-home movement At each of these meetings informa lion was g*ven out as to the possible influence of any large acreage tc cotton and tobacco on prices thi: year. It was also shown tliat crops needed for home .supplies can bt grown at home much cheaper thai they can be purchased." Especially have the colored farm ers been asked to grow an adequate supply of corn, hay, poultry and pork and to have a good garden. Emphasis has been placed on the garden and the results are excellent. In several counties, a survey shows that about every colored farm family has started a garden. In some others, pastures have been planted and arrangements made to secure milk cows. Mr. Hudson says in Alamance County the negro farmers have eggs, poultry arid cream to sell after saving a good supply for home use. In Gates County, more corn, pigs and poultry will be raised than ever before. Irs Harnett county, 20 negro farmers have entered a home garden contest and 1 i a corn contest. In Rowan and Iredell counties, a tremendous acreage has been planted :o lespedeza and in Robeson County, 32 demonstrations in improved corn have been planted. 3UEEN OF SI AM GOES SHOPPING AND HELPS EI^D DEPRESSION New York.?Queen Ranibhai Barni bf Siam now has 55 now pairs, of gloves, 78 pairs of stockings, and 13 pairs of shoe.-, purchased during her shipping trip On Fifth Avenue last week. -pfWjky} Her Maiestv's bill in one store vvas $i>2S. The now gloves ranged in price from $5150 to $10 a "pair. The stdSings are all 1 CO-gauge chiffon. size $, and cost from $1.50 to $7.50 a pah\ The..highest price her Majesty paid for shoes was $27.50 for a pair of custom-made black alligator opera pumps. The others ranged downward to $1-5.50 a pair. She wears size" 3-B. The queen was accompanied on hev shopping trip by Mrs. Wiiiiam .Armour, a friend of Mrs. Ocden Reuh at whose home their majesties lunched. % V.W.V.\WV.%W.VAVAV.^ sif Cheap Paint/ ij this store?how qua!- Ij 83 on 5-year cost of painted, as against less "* cost of chcap-per-gal- jj BEp#''|g| | pp ' lality paint armor against J ? at low five-year cost! J i for COLOR?anything j cl?brushes! 5 ist Chart! 5 Hardware i ply Co. th Carolina j THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV Chart Shows Farmers ^ ' /Sy . \ /? '' I y i A ^^MirrmiiwllWlWlWgw ^ ' Dr. C. J. Galpin, of the Depai i 200.000 more are living in (he countr Letter Writte Epic South i r i By MARY JOHNSTON AVERY h (In Morganton News-Heraid) "Major, tell my father I died with my face to the enemy. I. E. Avery." ; This ffiesiOiro, one* of the most stirring ever written, is displayed \n the HaJi of History, the museum f the North Carolina Historical Commis-1 sion, in Raleigh. It was penned with] the life blood of Colonel Isaac Ervin Avery, of the Sixth Regiment, North Cartoina State Troops, who i was mortally wounded in ths late aft| ornoon of the second Battle of" Geti tysburg His superior officio- having! ! aiready been wounded, Colonel Av-! ery was commanding Hoke's Brigade' in the charge up Cemetery Heights when h. fell. Shot Com his horse and aware that; he was ovinfe far from his comrades. Colonel Avery's first thought was of ; his aged father. Isaac Avery Sr., who lived near Morganton, N. C. The j soldver^ right hand w\*>? imfnlvzed fviTO hi? wound, but, by using hisj left hand, he drew a scrap cf roavse. paper irona hn pocket. Plucking a' a nearby bush, he dipr^d ii into Ins swiftly flowing blood, and scrawled the message, which was addressed to hi? friend. Major Samuel McDowell Tate. The note reached the elder Avery a week after his gal-; >?nt son had heen buried on the bat! tleficlu. Thousands have gazed upon Col-' | one! Avery's "message from the i grave.* and other thousands have re\ ceived a .-my, of inspiration upon ' heaving it recounted in sermons and | stories. i On the occasion of thf* unveiling: | of a statue to Sir Walter Raleigh, ; the Englishman for whom the North j \ Carolina capital was named, Theo-J i d ire Roosevelt, then President of the [ United States, stood before a distir. ' ---aihtoincr iri the Hall of H>s ! lory.' In his big, expressive hands, the ' president. held the little scrap of1 \ yellow, bloodstained paper. Slowly I ' he re a a aloud the almost illegible, : message. His hands trembled, his eyes; '! filled with tears; he became almost! |i speechie.-r with emotion. Then, as i 1 if the little paper were some holy I thing, he passed it to Lord James: Brvce, Britain's minister to the Uuit-; I ed States. j The English minister teatl the pa-j : per, studied It for 2 moment, .and; ' passed 'it bach. I fc'/|"president Roosevelt,";: he said, j we have nothing to compare with1 this in the British Museum." A great hush lei! noon the audi- j ence for a moment, as silence paid; tribute to a courage tha: rose far1 above sectionalism and beyond the! bounds of rations. The two states- J men who stood reading this note saw j oniy a youthful colonel "leading his! men into battle, dashing so far ahead; of them that when he fell, dying, hej found himself alone. They cared not; whether he lived north or south, whether he was horn American nor; English. They knew he lived a scl-i | dier and died a hero. They saw, with-j out being told, that the ink he used' j was his own blood, and his pen some; 1 chance twig that lay in reach of the j | left hand, with which he laboriously j ' wrote: ren my father i died with my face tQ the enemy." The simple little message, read aloud by the American President, burned its way into every pulsing heart. It is a sentence which sums, up all of life's battles in one triumphant, grand Amen. A week after the battle in which Colonel Avery was killed an old Southern gentleman sat alone on the porch of his country home in the Carolina hills, near Morgar.ton. He was thinking of his five boys, out on various battlefields, praying that all was well with them, when his thoughts were broken by a sudden excitement among the negroes. I-ige. the body servant of their young Marse Isaac was approaching! But the cries of joy suddenly were" hushed for I.ige was corning home alone. ( The eld mar; saw the servant at ERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. i Grow in Numbers ^ ? ^ Hi, ! i w Lsfi^i ' A mS> hk w*?' j BP^WMWLf Bk tm 'iJ rf tmcnl of Agriculture, shows that y this year than last. n in Blood tern Heroism about the same time the negroes did, 0.11 d he. too. was straining his eyes for the sight of his great, tall sort and namesake. But the negro was alone. The father shook himself to throw off an anxious thought. He hoped his son had just stopped somewhere on his way home, and was sending his man 011 ahead with a message. He could not know how true it was that the negro was bringing a message from his hoy. As Lige slowly drew nearer the house, there was no mistaking his mission. His hesitating gait, his abject appearance, all too eloquently told the tragic story he was bring in#, when he at last reached the porch., be made a deep bow to lug aped master. Very quietly and aimply he iold how his youfig Marst Jsaao had been killed at Gettysburg The old man "accepted the note whirr bad been found in the. colonel's stil hand; 't v?as mute evidence of tin sti upffle his son had made to brinj comfort to his lonely heart. Then mi boy's sword and watch were go nil) laid upon his knee. The servant stood back, not will VN\(^ ^\\m ,/f m NE GOOD ALL'WE ... MORE i ... MORE ? - AtORf AT LOWE COME IWt SEE T> Centre B i i in? to intrude upon the first nw-l J merits ef his master's sorrow. Afterj\v jwhat seemed an endless silence, Mr. IB Avery looked up as if he had forget- tl ten thai Lige was there. A slow nod p of his head indicated that he was tl now ready to hear the story. st "Old Marse," the man choked. "I did all 1 could for young master. He ni called me to him the night before o: he was killed, and told me :f anything happened to him in the charge the next day, 1 was to bring his VI sword and watch to you. He did look so grand the next day, when he rode | away. But J am sure lie felt he would I never come back for he was so par- m ! ticular about telling me goodbye. e1 ; And then he turned back and called b< to me. saying, 'Remember my orders, R Lige." st "It was late in the afternoon when j uiv imsca^v V.HIHV Iivcuutiiaiters that Marse Isaac had been killed, hi | The battle was still raging. but I n? j staited light out to find him, hoping in ; he had only been wounded. I hunted tl for hours, looking in every direction, dj until night came upon me. I was st ! stumbling around, almost ready to w j give up, when I looked around and a; there he lay, right by me, the moon shilling on his peaceful face and in cl his hand thi? little note thai 1 knew H j was meant for you. L , "Marse Isaac had fallen nearer the M enemy than any other man, Old C Marse. He died leading his soldiers s< right into the face of the guns. Ma li : jor Tate and me buried him there P' | on tS-.e very top of Cemetery Heights. si ? where he had fallen."* it The last command of his. young ci master obeyed, the negro felt that | his life's-work was ended, and he a never wanted to leave the old plan-1 n tat ion. Through the long years that ti followed, his thoughts never wan- ? dered far from his "Marse Isaac," tt ; who had stood 6 foot 2 in his stock- n ing feet, unmatched by any man in a j the section for his physical strength, d '*? ? III III MBMM?WW PRICES REDUCED 01 LIMES $2.00 PER TON, F. O. (In Any Qn $4.40 PER TON, F. C (in Carload Lot, 33 ] Keren) rests made at the Un-.vers contains f?6 to 'J8 per cent, cnlciun ,: carbonate ilf magnesia sufficient I per cent. We know of no other lin MOUNT Bi I SHOUNS, TE gBasBananHHBMMMi i jgM# Mlpi' HS CHEAT HEW THIC. SIEVEH il Tire Coi 1STRIBUTORS FOR WATAUGA COUM W. R. Winkler, Manager oone and Blowing Rock, N. I APRIL 30, 1031 "'People from ail parts of the orld." remarked the curator of the all of History, "have come to read lis message. Besides Roosevelt, residents Taft and Wilson visited hall to see it. Many and many a ;rmon has been preached on it." "1 died with my face to the eneiv." What morH could any son say r any father vish to hear? flNNERS IN CAMEL CONTEST WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON Winston-Salem, X. C.~ -Announce it:iti. v.?i uwiims u? tut* Lamci Uigar:tc $50,000 cash prize contest will p made early in May. officials of . J. Reynolds Tobacco Company a ted Monday. i The contest judges and their staff, ho ha.ve been carefully reading: the ^proximately 1,000,000 entries, anouneed that they are rapidly nearig the completion of their work, and lat within the next week or ten ays they will be able to definitely ;t the dates on which the winners A ill be announced. and prizes warded. The judges are Roy W. Howard. S lairrnan of the board of the Scrippsoward league of newspapers; Ray ong, president of the International [agazine Company and editor of osmopolitan, and Charles Dana Gib)n, the famous artist, who is puhsher of Life Magazine. Thirty-eight rizes will be given for the best ar.vers as to how the new cellophane loisture-proof wrappers on Camel garette packages benefit smokers. The first prize-winner will receive check for $25,000 from R. J. Reyolds Tobacco Company, manufaelrers of Camel cigarettes. Awards f $10,000 and $5,000 will be given ) the second and third winners. The ext five will receive $1,000 each, nd the balance of $5,000 wilt be istributed among thirty winnersi AGRICULTURAL f TONE D HA 3 T u. mdyiiiedu, 1 enn. cantity) ). B. Boone, N. Car. [-2 Tons Minimum) ity of Tennessee show that it 1 eavhonule, or pure lime?and to nmke the erjuivalent of >0:1 le showing so high & test. tOTHERS NNESSEE f 111111 ppwiP-'"^ m w I IMMOVtMiNVf! 'I' mpany TY c.
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