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I OCTOBER 28, 1937 faaleCa 5-Minute Biogr$ Author of "How to Win and Influence Peopi CAFT. ROBERT FALCO.V SCOTT I sfim "Uc Sought the Secrets of the Pole; ( He Found the Secret of God" j 1 know of no story more heroic, ||B| more inspiring, or more tragic than i that of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, j Iuil .v.bunu iiiiHi w iinui Ult" CUUUl Pole. The taie of how Scott anrt l two companions met traffic death on 1 the Ross Ice Barrier still has the i power to sway mankind. I The news of Scott's death reached England on a sunny afternoon in February, 1913. Crocuses were I blooming in Regent Park. England 1 was stunned as nothing else has i I stunned uei since Nelson's death at : Trafalgar. 1 Twenty-two years later. England 1 dedicated a final memorial to Scott < - a polar museum, the first polar museum ill the world. Arctic ex- i piorers from ail over the earth i gathered at its dedication. Across i the front of the buildings runs a I f^Jtin inscription of Robert Scott. It i says: "He sought the secret of the I Fo'.e. He found the secrets of God." : Scott began his tragic dash for 1 the South Pole in the Terra Nova. I and from the moment the ship nos- , ed her way into the icy water of the i Circle, he was beset and bedevilled < by bad luck. Enormous waves battered the : hull. Cargo was swept from the deck. Tons of sea water thundered 1 down into the hold. The boiler fires . were swamped. The pumps were , i clogged. And for days the gallant i i ship rolled helplessly in the trough j: -i?c 01 uic amusning seas. But Scott's bad luck had only beHe brought along' tough little ; vS ponies that had heer. hardened to 1 cold on the frozen tundras of Siberia, but they suffered agonies. They ; floundered helplessly in the powdery 1 snow; they broke their legs in trench- i crou? crevasses and had to be shot, i The dogs too?veteran huskies j I piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliipii OUR ANNl 1 Clcaran WILL BE I | Sat. Oc anu YY Ui tUAlllllUt EE We are offering our e H| merchandise?men's c == of all kinds, shoes for t ?? everything carried in ?= drastically reduced pr 1 ON EACH SATURD jg AN AUCTION SALE 1= will make the price oi = chandise offered. A full line of RCA-Vic = ley Radios kept in st< 1= radio tubes and batte = your tubes tested free Hj Be sure to visit our st == and get your winter s == possible cost. == We carry cook stoves. == all r>n installment- n i a. c. r SUGAR GR IllHlllHlllllHlillllllHIIllllHHIilHIHIllHI HOUSE |gh' HAZARDS Mac Arthur vmqk sphies Friends Tom the Yukon?went wild and lashed bluully over the edges of the jlacier cracks. Then Scott and liis four companions made the final dash for the TOie, alone, Harnessed to a sledge that weighed a thousand pounds. Day after day they slogged over "lelds of rough ice, each man puling, gasping and choking in the thin 'rigid air nine thousand feet above sea level. Yet they did not complain. At he end of the cruelest journey ever jndertaken by man lay victory, lay he mysterious Pole, undisturbed since the siv 'lavs nf creation?the Pole where nothing lives nor itreathes, nor stirs?not even a wanlering gull. And on the fourteenth day they reached the Pole?but only to find consternation and heartbreak. Before them, at the top of a stick, a Lattered piece of cloth flaunted triimpliantly in the bitter wind. A flag?the fiag of Norway! Amundsen. the Norwegian had been diere >efore them?and they realized 'hat after years of preparation, after months of torment, they had been cheated of victory by five short ivceks. Crushed with disappointment they started home. The story of their tragic struggle sack to civilization is an Odyssey if suffering. The stringing blasts coated their features with ice and froze their very beards. They stumbled and fell, and every injury brought them a step nearer death. First, Petty Officer Kvans, the strongest man in the outfit, slipped ind crashed his skull against the ice, and died. Then Captain Oates fell ill. His fpot U'OCA f XTc. 1 . wv ..VI v livioiillticil. 14.V WI11V1 itardly walk. He knew he was holding his companions back. So one night Oates did a godlike thing. He .valked out into a raging blizzard llllllllll!!lll!ll!llllllilllllli!llii!ifli!ii'l| JAL FALL cc Sale I GIN ON t. 30th | i for two weeks ntire line of general |= ind women's clothing = he whole family, and || a high grade store at == ices. == AY we will conduct j= , at which time you == n the good new mer- == :tor Radios, also Cros- = jck. We also carry = ries. You can have = at any time. ?| ore during this sale || ;upplies at the lowest j|j , furniture and radios j=j ayment plan. ?? AAST I OVE, N. C. i ?AW,NAW.MR.HAZAR! gHffVOUlRc TOO FAR OVER, FAR over-your feet TOO CLOSE,TOO CLOSE---REME* Mpr THOSE THINGS, WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER 1 to die in order that others might ' j live. ! i Without heroics, without meio- ; i drama, he calmly announced: "I'm ; I going outside. I may te gone tome j, j time." lie was gone forever. His J 1 fro.'.en body was never found. But , today a monument stands on the ; spot of his disap.peatance, and it j j reads: "Hereabouts died a very gal- { j iant ger.tleir.an." j i' :or.t ar.d his two companions istf gered on "they no longer looked hike men Their noses, their fingers, i j their feet were brittle with cold i And on the nineteenth of February, 1D12, ilftv days after they had ieft the To..;' they pitched camp for the i last time. They had fuel enough to make two cups cf tea apiece, and | encugn rood to keep them aiive for , two more days. They thought they ; were saved?tl;ey were only eleven i miles away from a depot of buried j supplies. With one terrible march j they could make it. Suddenly they were overwhelmed ! with tragedy. Down over the rim of the earth j roared a howling blizzard, a fury of ' wi: :! so fierce, so sharp that it cut j r?i*c5 in th? ice. Jjc crcstvsrc do ! earth could face it and live. Scott I and his men were held prisoners in j tl'.eir tent for eleven days while the , blizzard raged and snarled. Their \ supplies were exhausted. It was the ; end and they knew it. There was a way out?an easy : way out. Tliey had opium, a large i I quantity of opium brought along for I I just such an emergency. A big dose j of that and they could all lie down NOTICE'TO 1 I will be at the following purpose of collecting taxe North Fork N A. E. ELLISON'S STORE A, N. THOMAS' STOKE Meat Camp N G. G. STEVENS' STORE HODGSON'S STORE Bald Mountain TODD Elk Novei TRIPLETT'S STOKE Stony Fork N COOK'S STORE DEEP GAP?MOKETZ'S STORI Blue Ridgie N A HO BRADSHAYV'S STORE Blowing Rock I GREEN'S STORE Watauga No1 COLLINS' STORE Watauga No1 HARBIN'S STORE j \V. \V. MAST'S STORE Shawneehaw ^ TESTER'S STORE Laurel Creek Is ROMINGER Laurel Creek f EDMISTEN'S STORE V. D. WARD'S STORE Beaver Dam Tv PERRY'S STORE i DON HAGAMAN'S STORE Cove Creek N I MABEL?BERT MAST'S STOR . SILVERSTONE?STANBERRY* Cove Creek N W. F. SHERWOOD'S STORE . j A. CLYDE MAST'S STORE We insist that every one pay t! i paying a penalty, which starts | Especially we urge those ! 3937 pay at once and a> [ on personal property and A. D.1R Tax Collector For D.Vj ) JUST A MINUTE NOW, JUS TOO .'MINUTE, WHAT DID I TELL Y< ARE (THAT OL* THUMB BEINb IN L CZ V WITH YOUR SHOULDER?" IB Eft. ? yJTHAT H^AD C Y THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. to pleasant dreams, never to wake I again. But they ignored the drug. They | refvoived ; q face death with the fine j sportsmanship characteristic of old \ England During- the last hour of his life ; Scott wrote a letter to Sir Jarnes 1 Bairie, describing the end. Their' food was goi.e Death was almost j upon then-. Yet Scott writes: "It j would do your heart good if you | could hear us fiii our tent with sing- I ing song? of cheer." :e day eight months later when j .he Antarctic sun shone peacefully | over the gleaming ice, their frozen bodies were found by a searching party. They were buried where they per isneu? buried under a cross made of two skiis lashed together. And over their common grave were written these beautiful words from Tennyson: One equal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time and fate but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, but not to ' yield. Your Credit Is Good at High Land Furniture Company "Everything for the Home" Depot St. Boone, N. C. j Democrat Ads Pay rAXPAYERS places and dates for the s for Watauga County: ovember 3rd 9 to 12 A. M. 1 to 2 P. M. 'ovember 4th 9 to 12 A. M. i io j r. m. November 5th 9 to 12 A. M. mber 5th 1 to 3 P. M. ovember 8th 9 to 12 A. M. 5 I to 3 P. M. ovember 9th 9 to 12 A. M. 1 to 3 P. M. November 10th 9 to 12 A. M. v ember 10t.h 1 to 3 P. M. member 12th 9 tc 12 A. M. 1 to 3 P. M. f ovember 15 th 9 to 12 A. M. f ovember 15th i io j r. m. November 16 th D to 12 A. M. - 1 to 3 P. M. lovember 17th 9 to 12 A. M. X to 3 P. M. ovember 18th E 9 to 12 A. M. S STORE 1 to 3 P. M. ovember 19th 9 to 12 A. M. 1 to 3 P. M. heir 1937 taxes early and avoid accruing February 1st, 1938. . that owe taxes prior to roid the necessity of levy foreclosure on real estate WILSON Watauga County. 31! about! STRAIGHTEN IKE P ! f ARM " OON'T V KEEP \ i U"YE OFF THE BALL iQWN/J ; VtHAT LEFT LE6 NOTICE This is lo certify that on August 26, 1937. I disposed of ray entire interest in the Skyiine Neon Co., of Boone. I am not responsible in any way for any obligations of the said firm after that date. 10-14-4c KIDD BREWER. East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Motor Transportation Company. Buses leave Boone for Johnson City, KnoxvlUe. Chatttanooga, all Alabama. and Western States points at 7:30 a.m.; 12:20 p.m.; and 9:05 p.m. Leave Boone for Lenoir, Hickory, Statesviiie, Salisbury. Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington and all South Carolina, Georgia and Florida points at 3:23 a. m.; 1:10 p. m.; and 5:10 p. m. For further information call baa station?Phone 45. E. T. A \V. N. C. TRANSPORTATION COMPANY NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REA1. ESTATE North Carolina. Watanea Cnuntv i *>y virtue of the pnwpr of sale | contained in a certain deed of trust 'executed to the undersigned trustee ! by Walter Beach and wife, Julicia j Beach, on the 26th day of January, 11935, to secure the payment of the | sum of $900.00, which said deed of ! trust is recorded in the office of the j Register of Deeds for Watauga County in Book 24 of Mortgages, Page 307, and default having been made in the payment of the moneys thereby secured as therein provided, j I will, on the 1st day of November, 11937, at twelve o'clock noon, at the I courthouse door of Watauga County, sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, to-wit: Being Lots Numbers 11. 12, 13. and 14, in Block of the subdivision of the Watauga County School property, sold July 25th. 1925. Deed to lots numbers 11 and 12 being registered in Book 38, page 142; deed to lots numbers 13 and 14 being record?d in Book 42. page 125. of Watauga County Registry of North Carolina. This 1st day of October, 1937. S. C. EGGERS, Trustee. Trivette & Holshouser, Attorneys. 10-7-4c ADVENTURE IS COMING IN THE AMERICAN BOY Readers who like adventure and the lure of far places will find plenty to please them in coming issues of The American Boy Magazine. They'll read, for instance, of seamen and sabotage and Sun Francisco waterfront troubles: of during adventure in the world of pseudosclenee, and of a feud aboard a lunging, rolling battleship. Thev'll read. too. of excitement aboard a transport plane blazing over jungled Mexican mountains, and of stranger planes that are not bound to oartli but swing through the noiselessncss of space. Readers cat follow a young ex-Mbuntie as he searches for elites in the wild northlands, and Tierney, the pie-eating detective, on the trail of city criminals A new feature in The Americar Bny is picture pages that tel stories. Pictures, for instance, thai vividly show a day in the life of e eoasL guardsman, ahd now an Eslci mo husky sled dog docs his work They transmit the thrill of battlinj a hundred pound, watcr-churninf tarpon. Tips on how it's done or. also given pictorially?ranging fron how to run a broken field to how tc be correct in a ballroom. NOTE: Subscription prices o The American Boy will be raised ii the near future. Send vour subscriD | tion order at once to take advant age of the bargain rates now in ef feet: one year at $1.00 or three yean at $2.00. Foreign subscriptions 50' a year extra. Send your name, ad dress and remittance to The Ameri can Boy, 743'J Second Blvd., Detroit Mich. On newstands the price is 15 a copy. THE REINS-STU1 ASSOCIA TELEPHONE 24 PROTECTION F l; ; c7 oe. n i. ** autumn rrt uc >;utl ,11 As I q One to Ten Years Ten to Twenty-nine Years.. Thirty to fifty Years Fifty to Sixty-five Years ~tt~ u and also keep' \KE YOUR\ M,N?rT0 6ARNER ' wS- ) GREATEST JOY FR \ GOLF, ONE MUST __y PAGE SEVEN NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE North Carolina, Watauga. County. By virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage deed executed to the undersigned I Mortgagee by R. J. Hartley and wife, jBculah Hartley, on the 24th day of April, 1933, to secure the payment of ; Use sum of $100.00. which said mortgage deed is recorded in the of1 fice of the Register of Deeds for "Watauga County in Book 8, at page 227, and default having been made iu the payment of the moneys there' by secured as therein provided, I i will, on the 1st day of November. 11937, at twelve o'clock noon, at Uie 'courthouse door of Watauga County, in Boone, N. C., sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, to-wit: Lot No. 7 in the division of the estate of R. K. Hartley, deceased, bounded as follows: Beginning on a large maple, corner of Lot No. 6, and runs south 19 poles to a maple; : then north 63 west 29 poles to a 'stake: then norUi 71'i west 53 poles ]to a stake at the road (with oak pointer); then north 4 east 9 poles I to ? stake, corner of Lot No. 6: {then south 74 east 80(4 poles to the v.~ 1 ^ , ? - _ uvguuucg, winauiiiig i titles, more or Jess. This the 1st day of October. 1937. MRS. BELLE LE FEVERS, Mortgagee. Trivette & Holshouser, | Attorneys. 19-7-4e NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION . | Having qualified as administrator . | of the estate of Oliver Hampton late of Watauga county, state ol . North Carolina, this is to notify ail i persons having- claims against the estate of said deceased to present ; tliem to me within twelve months of the date hereof, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All those indebted to the estate are asked to make immediate settlement. This October 20. 1937. S. C. EGGERS, Administrator, Estate Oliver Hampton, Dec'd. i 10-21-Gc NOTICE OF SUMMONS North Carolina, Watauga County, in the Superior Court; Before the Clerk j Mrs. Myra Ruff Mcbanc vs. Myra I Sloan Mebane and Robert S. j Mebane, Jr.. hcirs-at-law of Rob| ert S. Mebane, Sr. The defendant, Robert S. Mebane, Jr., will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the superior court of Watauga County, North Carolina, to enable the petitioner, Mrs. Myra r Ruff Mebane, to sell certain land on Pinnacle Drive and being Lot No. 45 in Afayview Park, Section A, recorded in Book 25 of Deeds in the Wat auga County Registry, and being Lite identical lot conveyed to Robert S. 1 Mebane, Sr., by \V. L. Alexander and ; wife, deed dated the 21th day of ' August, 1922. recorded in the office 1 of the Register of Deeds for VYat attga County, in Bonk 30, at page 32, and being equivalent to 1393 feet frontage, as tuily set out in the pe tition in this cause, the same being 1 sold to procure money to pay taxes, I keep buildings in repair, and to edut catc and maintain Myrn Sloan Met bane, minor, as well as to protect the life estate of the petitioner as well as this defendant, Mrya Sloan ile; bane, which they have in said iands ; described in the petition, in Blowing 5 Rock, North Carolina, in which the i defendant, Robert S. Mebane, Jr., is > | a remote remainderman, and the de f ho Is required to appear at the ofi fice of the Clerk of the Superior - court of Watauga County hi Boone, - N. C.. on the 9th day of November. - 1937, and answer or demur to the 3 complaint of the plaintiff-petitioner : in said action, or tile plaintiff-peti tioner will apply to the court for the - relief demanded in said petition. This ISth day of October, 1937. e A. E. SOUTH, 10-2l-4c Clerk Superior Court. RD1VANT BURIAL TION, INC. . . . BOONE, N. C. OR THE FAMILY ember . . . Dues Thereafter follows: juarter yearly Benefit lft Alt * r.A AA <p iju.W 20 so 100.00 40 1X>0 100.00 R0 2.40 100.00 3 (*;.'/ ; <p 51 -. sSffifissk
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