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PAGE FOUR The Watauga Deraocra The RIVERS PRINTING OOMPAN Established in 1SAS and Published fc 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivei PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCR1PTON RATES: One Year ? 51-5 Six Months -7 Four Months 5 v Payable in Advance) R. C. RIVERS, Jr., - Publlshe Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Rf spoct. Obituaries, etc., are charge for at the regular advertising rate: Entered at the Postuffice at Boom N. C., as Second Class Mail Mattel THURSDAY, DEC. 30. 1937_ It is with a fool in it of nro found gratitude that The Demo crat wishes its many friends ; happy and prosperous Nev Year. Through your unstintc< support you have enabled us t< constantly expand and to en vision even greater service t< the community and county W< promise you that your newspa per will strive day by day an< week bv week to justify tin faith you have placed in it. N< newspaper has had a fine group of friends?we thank voi sincerely and we? hereby con sign to you subject to your ac ceptanee: One book full of assorlei good wishes: 365 pages of happy and pros perous days; Sewn together with the threai of sweet content; Bound in concentrated apprc cialion: Tooled in the gold of silicon ty, and Wrapped with friendship bor of time and experience. Fireside Philosophy Rv O. M. Dickson A good way not to expose one' religion u> the weather leave it i the church house from one protraol ed meeting till another. "L'ntii the style of 3hoe hee! changes, women certainly can't mak much headway rearing back on the dignity. No one who wants pure waJU should drink below the head of th spring. If the adage. "Every tub stanc on its own bottom" be true, no or should bother about being his ''brotl er's keeper." It's all right for the goats to pa lure with the sheep until the "end, but it's mighty hard on the sheep. Both far-and-near-sighted?a ma who decrys taxes of any kind < dimension, but who wants a liber; share of public funds "doled" out I htm and "kicks like a bay steer" he doesn't get it. A large man is easily lost sigl of in a big crowd, much less small man. If a steer has a "bndie" on rib his is the first thing a catt'e ma sees when he goes to buy the stee If "all work and no play raak< Jack a dull boy," conversely, all pia and no work will certainly make hi no sharper. Our "limb-dwelling" ancestors hs one advantage over us?as the po says (paraphrasing just a little they dwelt on "higher ground." As the length of dresses go "u ward." the price of commodi should go downward. Eve did make a mistake by ea ing the wrong apple, but she par1 allv atoned for it bv refusing to r main a nudist. It's by no means an unpardonat sin to die like I-azaius (in poverty but a decent man doesn't want dog to lick his sores?especially ''cur" dog. A thought for pedagogs?why ; illiterate old alave will raise his h to a lady and go to the back do to ask for bread, but a young bo who has been "schooled" will pu the lady off the sidewalk and tk want her to entertain him in t parlor. According to the Bible, there w be no chemical process by which i the fire can be taken out of t' "hell" that is prepared for ? wicked. ?* r-':-.v's -v.-re'vVV ' ~ - . w 5! TENTH INSTALLMENT n ' . Monty Wallace has iust arrived j !l in California, having broken the : t; ~ East-West croas country airplane ; record. Natalie Wade, nustaken j ?j _ i by him for a newspaper reporter, ' -- - ?tv,., -,.Mnetua nn'mlnt of ; wtivco wkv.iuwj?v.?...... -- . ^ <! j Monty's arrival, anu succeeds ir. ! h ' | securing a trial job with a paper - I in exchange for the story. Natalie j n 0-1 becomes attached to Monty. ()l r- j Although she discovers Monty's I v, - 1 love for her is not sincere, Natalie , admits that she loves him. Site is ! ( = assigned by her paper to report I Monty's activities for publication. | Jimmy Hale, the newspaper's photographer, becomes Natalie's co- f ] worker. I j Natalie discovers that Sunny is | rt j jealous of her friendship with j Monty, and that she is trying: to j g, j prevent them from being alone i jH After driving to a mountain re- ti< j sort with Sunny and Jimmy, Mon- : rc j ty again declares his love for j n( j Natalie. j s; They would be talking, these men. of casual things over their short- : f;, i wave sets while the man she loved \ r.^ went to his doom, for all they knew. over the Atlantic. ~ I When a storm struck their ship vt Li I over the Alleghanies as they headed yi ^ j for the southern rout;' of flight, her cc ^ I last hope of Mont's safety fled. That : j storm would overtake him in mid71: Atlantic It would hurl him down Mi - into the angry ocean. ! H D Her imagination pictured him go-! w sj ing to destruction and she wished Ct : that she might go with him. , | But Jane Marion laughed at her ; R 1 fears when she said something of j t? the sort ; > ''Mont knows what lie's doing. " j r ho declared. "It's a daring thing, , ; but lie is using that storm to cut his j u; flying time on the first leg. It means ^ ' u lii'i WHut lor unit imust tu uii- ; -j way " N Their own ship mounted higher! x jj and higher to escape the fury of j T i the wind. Both pilots stuck to the j n< ; forward cabin. Now and then she " was sure that they were anxious t) about the fate of their rwn plane. h< j But at last she knew that the danger was past. Moonlight shone on I< a rolling sea of clouds beneath at a last and when they made their early morning stop even these clouds had hi . j disappeared. e? It was still early to have word h I from Mont. But it seemed to her n: significant that he had nowhere s] | circled a vessel or shown the great f< white MAC on his under wing aur- p, faces to any person anywhere. | 3| ^ 'Hie night hod been madness and j b now the day flight, over the desert | v stretched before her like 8 terrifying I 31 sentence of imprisonment 's Jimmy had paid her little heed. ; p -1j But he liad hung over Sunny Marion ! s] ; throughout the night and even now i ~ was clinging to her arm as they t Is moved about the hangar grounds | ? ;e after breakfast. j tj ir Jibe Mart'ion had been kindly but, c. | there had been little understanding j ji ir in hint. He wondered apparently1 n le that a mere newspaper writer could j be so much concerned at the out- %i Is come of the flight 10 Father and daughter now moved a i- together toward the tri-inotor and <i Jimmy Hale stood for an instant at ? 3- Natalie's side. s -Keep a stiff upper lip, kid," he y said huskily. "Plcnly worse fliers ji than him have made it easy across ; ir tlie Atlantic." t 11 She thanked hirn for the courage a :o that word gave her and ediinhed with a if him into the cabin of the ship. j j Another stretch of dreary hours, j it | another ami another and at last they a j were dropping down on the home < j port. Natalie wanted to leap and : r., | race to the flight office for word of t in Mont. But she managed to sit still r. till the plane grounded. Then she | ~ :-s walked with the others to the tomiy par.y hangar. j m A couple of young men from the < office came out to meet thern. 1 id "Any word?" she cried out when t et she could not keep silent any longer. < ). She faltered when they shook ; their heads. p-1 tiui wnen tney came close1/ and j ty]said quietly that Mailt was overdue at. the first control station, she gave < it- a little cry and slumped to the i ti- ground. Blackness engulfed her and j fe- she knew no more till the brought i her to in the small office. 1 >le Her eyes, opening, lighted first on i r), Jimmy Hale's white face, a Sunny stood beside him and her j i a 1 face showed genuine alarm. But ] ] thot olormfl ?' I ?T.. ?.-V ?? - * " - ?"?i -v?* vtiuuipn was BUJl J aA there, it seemed, as Natalie struggled ] at to sit up. or "Gosh, kid, you gave us a scare," 1 ck cried Jimmy. '"Don't take it so hard. J sh You know Mont Wallace. He isn't ] en licked yet." i he '1 know," Natalie said softly, "but ] it frightens mc to think of him alone ill out there." 1 U1 Mack HarJon burst into the place ] he then. He seemed as much concerned < he as Jimmy. "What's the matter, i Nat? They told me you passed out." i ?rcamwjwM ATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVI 'Just scared. 1 guess.'' she to! ira. "And tired. Let me get at jpewriter and I'll give you a yarn. "Forget it." Mack hade her. "TuU re day off til! you get into shape But Natalie insisted on writin hat she could, and as she wrot er courage came back. For sh ?und herself writing the story < le millions who waited for wor r the world flier. And the stor as one of prayer and confidence. "If the lift of human hearts ca eep his p'ane aloft." she wroti .hen Mont Wallace is safe." It seemed as she wrote that tlii ust be true, that Mont could no lil and she finished with net rength, to wait for the delaye sws from him. Jimmy had gone on to the offici inny and Jabe Marion had gon mie to rest, leaving behind insLruc ens tliat the first word should b laved to them. But Natalie con! ?t rest. She could not leave th de of the little radio operator wh laaicu over ms snort-wtivB ovi. It wis dark outside the smail ol tie, when at iast the operate iffoiieci suddenly to intense list rat. tnnt scott. what a flight I" th levator shrieked, rattling liis ke; ke mad. -'Morrow ? The secon c.trol. Boy, oil boy'" X at alio was oil her feet, shrieking she grabbed the office telephon ion and yelled the news to hLae anion who bad taken the iat ato.h, while the littto operator pout I details into her cars. "He passed up the first contro roke all records across the AUiir c. Had gas enough left for Mo; >w Wont, straight through ridin 0 taii-wimi." Mock was yelling in turn .at th her end of the line. Someone w? sing another lino, to notify J at arion and Sunny 'Refueling O. K. at Moscow atal'.e shrieked 011 "lies off fc o. !i, taking the northern route hat's Siberia. They can't stop hit >w.'' She banged out another story fc ic early extras ar.d then raced fc raic and bed. Jimmy got "nor on the lino Just b< >re she turned in and his entluia sm nearly matched her ownAfter that she slept. The flight f< ?r was as good as over. She wan 1 to be ready to write the story < is success. It was late when she waked bl re did not lose heart when si >und that Moot was again unr: orted. That day she wrote anotlu lory and even when nothing Its een learned of him that night si cnit home in serene confidence tin access was his. Morning, however, sent her int aide again. She had left word tin lie was to be called when the ropo Mne but there had been no ca "ie telephone told her that nothir lore hail been heard. She lcne iiat he carried gasoline enoueh i Dver two legs of the flight at om " ho chose. But r.ow ho ahon ave been ready for the flight rorno and he couid not make th: rithoiit refueling. Another day passed and auolh nd then it was certain that he wi own somewhere No iiossiWc hoj ould he held out. He was dov omewhere in Siberia as Jimn latteni had hem. Maltern had come through aft remendous hardships. Natalie kne hat if Mont still lived he faced 11 a me difficulties. Somewhere in t' iwfal wilderness of Russia's c .rison colony he was dead or tig! r.g for his life. Tlie girl went under then. S ould not hold up longer. She cou iot battle through her dally sto if tin; search for him. Hack Hnnlon saw it and told h he must take a rest You've been working on yo lcrve," he told her. "You've, got jult for a while. Your job -will tere when you want it. The old m old me this morning But you' rot to get yourself in shape. It's rood trying u> go on." But idleness was almost as tx t seemed, as work. For day3 a stayed in bed but it seemed that s ould not rest. When exhausts Einally claimed her, she would nto a dim consciousness that pose Tor sleep but she would wake tired as before, as little able to thi vr frt fierH* -- ? ?e>? Jimmy Hale called up now a then and told her he would let I know the instant anything v neard but he would not come to i ler. "I can't do it, Nat," he sa 'while ifnnt is missing. If he's right, I'll be up, and if they fi liro dead, I'll stick with you til) t ;nd of time. But I can't come how, kid. Don't ask me." At last she understood what w the matter with Jimmy. He * Hutting up his own fight. He h ier.ied his love for her and E 'ought Ms battle, but he knew would have It all to do over ags 5RY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. ------- _ ?^t?e : <1 if saw her And besides, there j a vi-i:-; sw strange honor in him that ; " would not let him coiric to her while ! f. the"' was a chance that Mont would | be ijack. Perhaps, it was not quite that I oithei It was too much iike wait- j ft iiig for .SPent's death and all that j ,f he might hope it meant to hint, d With Mont alive. Jimmy could : v coine back knowing there was no hope for him With Mont dead, he n might come back with hope. But j ,* not to know was too much for Jim- i my Hale. .. Her heart went out io the boy. | a And then one "day when she was v sitting or. tiie ocean shore frying to ^ get back her strength to tuoel the dread hews she was sure would one , day come, she saw that Jimmy j, walked with Sunny Marion along the rocks above. t> Tile girl seemed lo be a shadow j of herself. Natalie sat up. For ths c | first time il oc-cuncd lo her that 0 j Sunny might he. as hard hit 83 she i Surely the tragedy of uncertainty j _ j ought to have brought them togcth- I r i or before this. .! Sunny was spreading a blanket on j I the rocks and Jimmy left her there j p ] presently without seeing that the y | girl below was Natalie Wade, j j When the boy was gone. Natalie | climbed up to where the golden girl I , I sat staring at the sea I Sunny sprang up at sight of her j ; as rnougn -sue saw a visivii, e j 'Natalie,'" she cried. "Please . ; Natalie. don't come up here. Don't look at me like thai." , j "Don't he silly'" Natalie tried to ! laugh. "You and T ought to get to| j gethrr. It we're going to go crazy ...! over the same man. we might as i well get it off our chests by talklag to each other." Suniiy stood helpless while Nata lie climbed the rook to her side. When the dark girl took her Into ., her arms. Sunny burst into tears. ' Oh. Nat," she cried, with sobs. ^ "1 cheated, ! loved him so. I was ^ tiound you shouldn't have him. You know, 1 think ! was out with him ! that night," jj. j "Let's forget about that,' Mate, j lie begged. 4'X<et's just talk about , I him." 1 ! And so, clinging to each other, j they sat together beside the sea untii ' a madman raced his car along the . i beach and ran screaming to where ' | they sat.. I Jimmy was speechless wher. he . ! reached the two. He was net much l | given to running, though he could ' i run. as he had once demonstrated. ;r , (Continued Next Week) | Fire losses of Great Sri tain and it I Ireland amounted to more than {31S,<KM,000 during the first quarter Idjof 1933. rt J NOTICE OF MOItGAGEE'S SALE j By virtue of the power of sale ? j contained in a certain mortgage deed i executed to the undesigned by O. E. ; | riampcon m:u wire, Blanda Hampton, j?'on the 1th day of April, 1936, to se' cure the sum cf $53.45, said mortgage being recorded in the office of f,u the register of deeds for Watauga county in Book S of Mortgage Deeds Br I or. page 238. and default having 19 j been made in the payment of the j moneys thereby secured, as therein ':11 provided, I will on Monday, January iy 17, 1938, at the courthouse door of Watauga county, at 1 o'clock p. m., er .sell to the highest bidder, for cash, fW the following described real e3tatc, '!0 to wit: r'c Being the O. E. Hampton interest in the J. Hampton estate in Blue '* " Ridge township, Watauga county, North Carolina, and being Dot No. i 7 of the division of said estate, as l!l! shown on a plat of said lands made i by I. A. Buvr.garner, surveyor, which j plat, together with a record of said !CV ! partition proceeding, is on record Ir ! the office of the clerk of the super ur I lor court of Watauga county, tt lo which plat and the registratior ,;e thereof reference is hereby made foi a!1 fuller ami more complete dcscripve lion of same. no t This 14th day of December. 1937 W. S. HAMPTON, fl? 12-16-tc. Mortgagee he 'he - NOTICE g0 North Carolina, Watauga County. To All the Heirs of Sarah Elizabeth as TownseDd. n3j You, and each of you, will tain nolce that a paper writing has beet nd filed in the office of the Clerk o ler the Superior Court for Wataugf raa County, which purports to be th( ,ee nuncupative will of Sarah EitzabcU Townsend; and you, and each of you j<j, are further notified that if you wis! ap to contest the proving and probatin; -qjj of said will that you will appear be be fore the undersigned Clerk, at his or Up fico in Boone, N. C., within 3ij weeks from the date of this notlci ra> or the undersigned will allow th< rns said will to be proven and probated 2^ This 27th day of November, 1937 ad A. E. SOUTH, be Clerk of the Superior Court foi lin Watauga County. 12-2-6] rr FOH BETTER HEALTH ? Bv DR. J. ROSSLYN EARP J; Director. N'tw Mexico Bureau of a Public Health. t i_ a PNEUMONIA = A fever ushered in by a cliill. A pain in the chest or side, or sometimes in the abdomen. A cough which a brings up a rusty color*-.! sputum, d The pulse is rapid, the breathing v rapid, too. and difficult, so that even t. the little muscles on each side of the i: nose may be brought into play. Here c wo have the typical picture of pneu- p numia. that most fatal dLsea.se of j winter and early spring. It is est!- <i mated that there arc from 350.090 to t 375.000 cases in this country every year. Thousands are carried off in the prime of life. J When I was a medical student 1 : was taught that T could do little ] more than to secure for my nation! good nursing, and that was nursing! which would save the patient's | strength sa chat he might husband ; I all his heart's resoum-s for Its cri- j tical struggle. But now there is a serum available against pneumonia caused by pneu- I mocccri, types I, 5. V. 11 and 18 ,! This makes about 85 per cent of ail cases of pneumonia. But if the patient is to get the advantage of this life-saving scrum it must be given early and the serum must be selected according to the type of pneumoccus with which he is infected. .V i committee of the New York Acad- j emy of Medicine reooimmends that I five laboratory teats should every- | where he made available. that free serum should he available to physl- j clans that request it, that adequate j funds should be granted to the department of health for pneumonia control work and for research The carrying out of these recommendations in your community in j the near future may he a matter of I life ar.d death to you or to someone whom you lovc i D. C. Bailey of "Toledo, Yancey ] ! county, produced pioo pounds of I Hurley tobacco on six-tenths of an ! acre and recently sold It for 5300 NOTICE OK SALE Pursuant to power and authority j contained in a certain mortgage deed | dated duly 1, 1927. ar.d executed by j W. J. Wagner and Mira Wagner to i Bonk of Blowing Rock, which mortIgage deed is duly registered in the office of the register of deeds for Watauga county. North Carolina, in | Book 12, at page (56, .securing a ccrI tain note lo the Bunk of Blowing : Rock and default having been made I in the payment of a note secured by j said mortgage deed, and said inert| gaged deed having beer, transferred to .1. E. Wagner, dated June 29, ! 1930, which is duly recorded in the j office of the register of deeds for Watauga county ill Book 4-1. at page 50-1, will offer for sale at: pnhiic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Watauga county at 12 o'clock, noon, on the 5th day of Januaiy, 1938, the following described property: Beginning on a railroad culvert, Harrison Baird's corner, and inns north .33 degrees west with Byrd's line 8 poles and C to a stake; thence north 48 degrees with Byrd's line 4 poies to Taylor street; thence north 46 degrees west 29 poles with Taylor street to Watauga avenue; thence south 50 degrees west 22 poles and 51 with Watauga avenue to a stake; I (Vinnha o.-nif h A f\ t -? rr ?. n 1 Al" wtvuvv. auuut 1W U^oicca CA.1L JIU " I poles Brewer's line to a stake; thence 48 degrees cast with Cook's line 3 poles to a stake; thence south 40 degrees east 9 poles and 9 links to rockiine; thence north 49 degrees east with railroad 40 poles and J.6 links to beginning, containing 2 4-5 acres. This 6th day of December. 1937. 12-9-4C J E. WAGNER. SKIN FAULTS? Bonne Bell : Rx 1006 \ USED AS A CLEANSER WILL | CORRECT THEM Sf?cUI Hew McGUIRE'S BEAUTY SALON Phone 91 r Pat McGuire, Manager DECEMBEtt 30. 1937 Gypsy Marriage Vow All gypsy customs reveal their Teat horror of obligation or estubisbmcnt of any kind. When gypsies eke a marriage vow. they do not iromisc to love till "death do us >Kj iart." Shuddering at such a ball md chain idea, the dusky bride and 1 ffi iridegroom promise only "to sepirate the moment love ceases." ?oncB The undersigned having qualified s the administrator of B. R. Brown, eccascd, this is to notify all persons . ho are indebted to the soid estate e come forward and settle the same mmediateiy, and all persons having ialtus against the said estate will .resent the same for payment or reeetion within 12 months from Uus late or this notice will he plead in ar of its recovery. This IRth day of December, 1937 |l ROSCOB TOM BROWN, ,2-23-Ou Administrator. iost Tennessee & Western North Carolina Mcrtor Transportation Company. Buses leave Boone for Johnson City, Krtoxvllle, Chattanooga, all Alabama and Western States points at 7:30 a.m.; 12:20 p.m.; ar.d 9:05 p.m. [A-ave Boone for Lenoir, Hickory, Statesvllie, Salisbury-. Charlotte. Aahoville, Wilmington and all * South Carolina, Georgia and Florida points at 8:25 a. m.; 1:10 p. in.; and 5:10 n. m. For further Information call bus station?Rhone 15. E. T. A \V. N. C. TRANSPORTATION COMPANY EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as the executor of the will of T L. Crilcher, late of the county of Watauga, state of r<A?.lh.e tut" t" a- --at---- -? tiv! Ul va?\ru<l?, UliO U HI liuiuy it.1 i ' V pi rsons having claims against the estate or the said deceased to prf son' thorn for payment within 12 months of the date hereof, or this notice will be plead in bar of their 1 recovery. All persons indebted to the estate are askwi to make :;? i mediate settlement This December S, IPS7. It. H. VANNOY, Kxecntor. . BOONE DRUG CO. The KEXALL Store RELIABLE PRESCRIPTION ^ SERVICE G. K, MOOSE, Mnnnger [pastime ; THEATRE BOONE, N. C. I "PIoiCK OF GOOD SHOWS" J Program for Week JAN. 3 TO 8 MONDAY. JAN S "LIVE. LOVE AND LEARN" With Robert Montgomery TUESDAY, JAN. 4 "A STAR IS BORN" With i Janet Gaynor and Frederic March i WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5 "EXPENSIVE HUSBANDS" With Beverly Roberts nnd i'atric Knowfes ' ' THURSDAY, JAN. f? "SHE LOVED A FIREMAN" with Dirt Koran ? Ann Sheridan I ? * KID AY, JAN. 7 "ALCATIIAZ ISLAND" With John I.ltcl & Ann Sheridan SATURDAY, JAN. 8 "TWO-GUN LAW" with Charles Storrett OWL SHOW Saturday Night Beginning at 10:3d "THE LIFE OF THE PARTY" with Gene Raymond and Harriot Hill lard 1{ Special Bargain I Matinee, 10c, 15c I Night Shows, 10c and Its. I MATINKKS AT 2:90 * 4*9 NIGHT SHOWS, 7:80 6 9:00 I
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