w VOL. XLIX. NO. 48 Lamb shipment f TO BE ON JULY 1L County Aiont Announces Dates for Weighing Pooled Lambs; Any Farmer May Join B. W. B. COLLINS (County Farm Agent) We will moke our July shipment of pooled lambs on Friday. July 1. Two sets of graders will be used for this shipment so that we may take up all Thp lamiw in nnA ?low I I Following is a list of the times and g places at which the lambs will be > weighed on July 1: | W. S. Moretz's at 8 a. m. C. D. McNeil's at 9 a. m. I.-. H. Hollars' at 10 a. m. S A. W Greene's at 11 a. m. u W. A. Promt's at 12 m. f A. N. Thomas' at 1:30 p. m. C. B. Recce's at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. W. Y. Farthing's at 4 n. m. - - t?? John Ward's at 5:30 p. m. cer Lee Carender's at 8 a. m. ^ Claude Shores' at 9 a. m v W. W. Mast's at 11 a in. ? Ed Shipley's at 12:30 p. m. W. H. Mast's at 1:30 p. m. Odes Wilson's at 3 p. m. 'TC R. A. Thomas' at 4:30 p. m. * * Any farmers of the county who wish to sell their lambs through the pool may do so. We request that all lambs be at the above mentioned scales on time in order that we may keep up with our weighing schedule. _ ^ W. L- Bryan Property Bust Offered At Auction ^ The W. L. Bryan home place, lo- sesai eateb on King: street, near the Pas- Tndu time theatre, will be offered at auc- topic tioix Wednesday, Jl,ne 29. at the < u vrv.iv. svi'uioiiia:: uuvci liar.rr.erst carried in The Democrat today. Cobt and Penney Brothers, the original Mar; (.win auctioneers will be in charge of secr( the sale Free cash prizes will be in chaii evidence, said purchasers will be and given the privileges of financing J. o their purchases on easy terms. Lain The property is so divided that ingh: there will be five large lot3 fronting boar on the principal street and nir.e on seer; Howard street. This is some of the p0 best business property now available vjjiic in the town, and is so situated on anv King street that full depth base- was ments may be had without the neces- preai sity for excavation. r Blind Lady hc ^v-.- ? a pn ,'^t jriw'Floy Hodges, aqpttind lady of freqi "i" * Boone Route 1, is in charge of a the "stand," which was opened Monday Boor near the Dixie Store, almost oppo- exer< site Smithey's, and candy, cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum and the like I Dei are being sold. The stand is furnished by the state commission for the blind, while the confections, etc., are furnished by ?> the Boone Lions Lions Club, in line coun with the state-wide co-operative ef- year fort of the two organisations to place succ, one blind person in each county upon arM] his or ber own resources. u Miss Virginia Thompson of Boone inter made the first purchase from Miss gu Hodges Monday and business was re- aons ported as quite satisfactory through- Lonr out the day. Miss Hodges is a Max daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert p \n Hodges of Route 1, a graduate of the ?> 3 State School for the Blind at Ra- year: leigh, and is a most talented and jyT popular young lady. from Sher June, Jean Bush wife Receive Licenses Rev. reari Misses Jean and June Bush were j,eld among the 18 successful candidates cs Moines, la.?First of the optents of the President's court realization bill to face a primary t, Senator Guy M. Gillette, reves the returns of his reneminai In high spirits. He defeated kV Deal's candidate, Ropresenta5 O. D. Wearin. iXTILE GROUP NAMES OFFICERS i Annual Conventiou of Tcxile Association Closes at Blowing Rock Saturday owing Rock, June 18?L. J. lworth, of Danville, Va., today ' elected president of the Southern ile Association at the closing on of its 13th annual convention, strlal relations furnished the : lor UK- principal addresses of lay. her cuicei-a named arc joe C. 1 >. Eastc-y, S C.. vice-president; ihali Dilling, Gatslcnia, executive itary; P. B. Parka, Jr., Erwin, ' uinii of the board of governors, ' O. A. Sullivan, of Gaffney, S. C., . Thomas, Spray, J. C Edwards, el Hill, and M. T. Poovey, Rockam, members of the directors' ' d, and B. E. Roay, Charlotte, tary-treasurer. '< day's session of the convention, 1 h had the largest attendance of 1 in the history of the association, " called to order by the retiring ' dent. EM Win M. Holt; the first ker on the program was Dr. H. ' .ondthaier, president of Salem > go, Winston-Salem, who used as i jubject of his address, "Ejnploy- ' (Continued on Page Ehght) ROUGHTON A VISITOR in. J. M. Broughton of Raleigh, eminent attorney whose name is lently used in connection with governorship, was a visitor to ie Tuesday and spoke at chapel iises at AjiK^gS{^^SaggffiBB DEM( Of V- '- - oiv:- .v^.< -^v. New Lexington, Ohio.?The f? 54-year-old mine fire whieh iim 1m>p HI- I " "" ^ | of blast furnaces could bo stopped 1 ^ mud, h;cs met its first test and pri les i j "PROSPERITY" LEAVES; a* "DEPRESSION" FATTENS i es nfj VaUe Crucis, June 23 (Special) as ?The Rev. E. I). Butt, rector of Holy Cross P. E. church and chaplain of Yaile Cruets School for }^r Girls, had until recently a cat to which he gave the name, Prospergj_ ity, "because she was always 'just j around the corner/ so difficult to j ^ find/' Before her complete dis- j ap|*ea ranee, Prosperity gave birth on *? *wo the one white and the other black. The Rev. Mr. ^ Butt named the white ldttcn New 20 Deal, and the black one Depression. Today he axiWiUl?ce*k 'Tm t,a as traoiiioiEuly a Democrat 1 ici an S^scopaluui, but I'm >vil a ling to let t| The bullet struck young Brown in the left eye and presumably ranged ^ into the region of the brain. He was brought at once to the Watauga Hospital, where he succumbed a few ^ hours later without having regained consciousness. Funeral services are to be conductto ed tins (Wednesday) afternoon at 2 o'clock, but the details arc unavail, able, of Mr. Brown was unmarried and is ris survived by the parents, Charles and ' Lucy Walker Brown, two brothers and one sister: Ira. I>ean and Doilie ich Mae Brown. | REV. ATKINS RETURNS Rev. J. K. Atkins and family, who n<* for the past nineteen years have re- ] :re sided at Sewanee, Tenn., have re!rs turned to Watauga, county, and are lt~ making their home on their farm ,Kl near Shulls Mills. Rev. Mr. Atkins, ie' an Episcopal minister, resided at lSa Shulls Mill" from 1907 to 1919, and his many friends in the county are glad that he ha3 decided to re-establish his home here. an ier DECORATION DAY TO BE he OBSERVED MEAT CAMP ra >r- Decoration Day will be observed at re. the Meat Camp Baptist church on 11 the first Sunday in July, with Rev. he J. C. Canipe, of the Boone Baptist church, preaching the annual sermon, to at 2 p. m. Following the discourse, he people of that section will join in cet decorating the graves of deceased kinsmen and neighbors. iisffillilll 3CRA een Eighty-Eight ;ne!;3. nm "" ~~ I-Year Mine Fire ientl authorities' theory that the* n raging with the force of a scon* by fighting it with wide tunnels of jved successful. POSTOFFJCE MAY BE STARTED SOON Contract for Boone's Ne*v Federal Building May Be Lei Before End of Month i Postmaster W. G. Hartzog is in receipt of a letter from Congressman Dough ton's office, in which it is stated that the procurement division of the treasury is very anxious to let the proposed local postoffice, building to contract before June 30, inasmuch as an increase in the cost of building materials is expected, after "in? time. It is also explained tliat the impression gained locally to thr elfoct. thai the appropriation for Ihe local federal structure would expire the 30ih of this month, is untrue. It-is further pointed cut that some difficulty has been experienced in regard tc the title to the property, h'.'t that a "declaration of talcing" Kas been filed, which will expedite the fir.ai transfer of the property. Tliis procedure will require less time, it is stated, Ulan to try to have the abstract perfected. 31-aiNHUUH riCNIC Ti\e reunion and picnic of the Spainhour family is to be held at the fish hatchery on Saturday, according to word coming from Air. J. F. Spainhour of Morganton. Mr. Spainhour states that his daughter, a missionary in China, and her husband have arrived and will be present for the annual event. DRY GATHERINGS ARE SUCCESSFUL Throngs Gather at Various County Churches to Observe Temperance Field Day The county-wide field day for the United Dry Forces was observed in a number of the churches of the town and county last Sunday and reports reaching The Democrat indicate that it was the largest and most en inusiasnc event of the kind in the i history of the local temperance organization. The program fcr the churches was arranged by Rev. M. A. Adams, general field worker for the state dry organization and many local and outside speakers presented the arguments against alcoholic beverages to their audiences. The day's exercises came to a close at 3 o'clock when people from all over the county, two thousand r.r more, came to Boone to hear Rev. Dan Graham deliver a dry discourse at his large tabernacle here. ASHE DEMOCRATS WILL MEET JUNE 25 Democratic nominees for county and state senatorial offices in Ashe will be selected at a county convention to be held in Jefferson on Sat uruay aiiernoon, June 25, according to announcement made by Ira T. Johnston, chairman of the Ashe county Democratic executive committee. It is expected that >W. B. Austin, prominent Ashe attorney, will be the choice of his party for the state senate in this district, which embraces the counties of Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga. roBww^^itnrffiiCEn!^ . ML 1SIk3K81?pH m .1 '$1.50 PER YEAJt AGED MAN MAY BE CRIMINAL SOUGHT FOR MANY YEARS Federal Fingerprint Expert Will Determine Whether or Not Itinerant is Mail Robber Who Escaped Leavenworth 18 Years Ago. An aged man. giving his name as Chas. F. Cook, and claiming South Carolina as the state of hie nnfir.lt > 1 1 J ? -ia?3 nciivn>. ?di JI'Jiu ill the county jail as The Democrat went to press today, pending the arrival of a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who will check his finger prints against those of one John Gideon, who escaped the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, 18 years ago, being sentenced there for life on a maii robbery charge. The su3pect. who gives his age at 63, flatly denies having had a ci-iminal record and states that for the most part he has been engaged in. the woodworking industry. At the time he was apprehended, he says he was following his usual custom of walking about from town to town, looking for odd jobs of most any kind, from the returns of which he might gain a livelihood. He expressed a complete willingness for Chief of Police Oiiis to continue the investigation to his entire satisfaction. John Gideon, states the bulletin from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was a Nebraakan and robbed the mails at Moscow, Idaho, in 1906. He fled Leavenworth March 10.1920. The eighteen-year-old picture of the criminal, which is a par! of the fed- cf&jS? era! placard, was carefully chock at by police officers against the man being detained, and the resemblance in some details is marked. The mouth, ears and general facial features of the two correspond to a. great extent, while certain murks and scars which Gideon bore are not found on Cook. The rvass.1 accent, which was a characteristic of the mall robber, likewise distinguishes the speech of Cook, and a look into his sharp (Continued on page eight) ? j John C. Greene Dies Suddenly on Tuesday Mr. John C. Greene. 70-year-old resident of Zionville R. F. D., died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Smith Woodring, early Tuesday morning, from a sudden illness. Mr. Greene had walked to the Woodring home Monday evening, and is reported to have been in the best of heaJth. His death occurred as the family gathered for breakfast, he having been, ill for only a few minutes. A heart attack is supposed to have been the cause of his demise. Funeral sendees will he conducted, today (Wednesday) from the Zionville Baptist church and interment will be there. Surviving are three sons and three daughters: Tom Greene, who resides in Virginia: Wiillard and Paul Greene of Meat Carrm- WMHnmrtc Joshua Greene, Smith Greene and. Claude Milier, of the Meat Camp section. Funeral Thursday For William Harbin Funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon from the late residence at Amantha postoffice for William Henry Harbin, who died suddenly Tuesday morning' at the age of 70. from what was believed to have been a heart attack. Rev. J. W. Parker of the Methodist church, will be in charge of the riles and interment will be at the Isaacs cemetery. Surviving is the widow, who was formerly Miss Ellen Isaacs, together with three sons and one daughter: W. C. and H. D. Harbin, Tacoraa, Wash.: J- A HarHn