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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19
FARM FOR SALE.

Eighty-seven acres OF good
land one mile east of Elizabeth
ton, Tenn, all in grass. About
six acres small timber; three good
barns; three fowl houses; good
five-room house; some fruit trees.
The farm is well fenced and well
watered, on good road leading
to town. Fine location for dairy
and poultry business, Price $4,-
5OO-one-third cash, balance in
one, two and three years time. II
interested, come and see the place
or write me at once, as some one
will get a great bargain in buy
ing it. 1-s At.
/ H. c. JET.
EL1zABETHToN, Tenn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19
Mrs. Boyd III.

Mrs. A. II. Boyd, who has been
in declining health for several
months, is now critically illat the
home OF her daughterhere. Mrs.
Boyd is the widow of the late
sheriff and her friends
she never had an enemy-will
learn with regret ofherpermanent
decline and critical illness.-Le.
noir Topic.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19

North Carolina, WaCauRa COunty' III
the Superior Court. r A Moretz
vs.. E B Miller and w w Miller.
By virtue OF an execution directed to
the undersigned from the superior
court OF Watauga county, In the a.
hove entitled action / will OH che 2S
day of March 1914 lit being the first
day OF COURT at l o'clock z NJ at the
court house door of said county, sell
to the highest bidder for cash to sat
isfy said execution. all the'right, title
and interest Of the said Z B Miller
and w w Miller have In the following
described real estate to witt Adjoin-
ing the lands OF William Hodge and
Sam Day, and bounded as follows
Beginning on q sourwood on the
Snake Den ridge and runs North 18
poles to stake pointers; then West
20 poles to stake In Millers line: then
North with Miller's line about 103
poles to maple and rock Miller's cor.
ner to the Sam Hodge tract; then
East with Millers line II poles to Mill
er.s oak corner; then q West course
with said line 3 poles to q stake in the
ridge road; then q South course with
said road and Wm, Hodges line 40
poles to stake; then South 20 East
20 poles to stake; then South 4pole.
to a stake; then South about 3S East
38Spoles to chestnut Cal Moretz cor
ner; then South 81 East 80 poles to q
chestnut oak; then South about @
East 10 poles to a dogwpod Reece'
corner, then South 80 West 16 poles t
! q stake Days corner; then North 81
j West with Days line 26 poles to
black gum: then South 81 West 2
poles to black pine; then North 3
West 81 poles to the beginning; col
tanning 50 acres more or less. Thi
Feb 10th, 1914.
Err. EGGERS, Sheriff.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19
Children CRY
FOR FLETChER'S
Q ASTO.RlA
Notice OF Sale.

North Carolina, Watauga County, In
the Superior Court. r A Moretz
90 r. r Miller and w w Miller.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19
Resolutions Of the Executive Committee
Of The n. Can't So.
loon League.

luvu LSSSuS.
Whereas, we believe that a Vir-
ginian has no more right to sell
liquor in North Carolina than a
North Carolinian, and thatitwill
help the Statewide prohibition
fight in Virginia to prohibit the
sale in this State by Virginians;
and,
Whereas, We believe that it is
the duty OF the State to act as a
guardian of the children and
mothers of tile State and for the
geterations to come, and that
under thisguardianship the State
ought to do it's utmost to stop.
fathers from drinking, and,
Whereas, The Baptist State
Convention, the Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
South, and the other churches in
the State have memorialized the
General Assembly of1915 topass
act prohibiting the delivery OF Ii
quor within the State; and,
Whereas, The reports coming
to us from the eight counties
where such prohibitory laws now
operate are that the law is a sue
cess; and,
Whereas. Evidence comes to
us to show that the blind tigers
and liquor drinkers have Joined
hands to destroy the effectiveness
of the Search and Seizure Law
and.
Whereas. There is a great de
mand from allOver the State fol
this legislature; now therefore, b.
it resolved by the Executive Con
mittee OF the North Carolina Ant
Saloon League
1. That we, in harmony will
the action Of the churches abov
referred to, declare ourselves il
favor OF the passage OF an act b,
the next General Assembly t.
prohibit the delivery OF liquor il
our State for beverage purposes
that we request the citizens ofth
State in every voting precinct tt
q call upon their candidates forth
;. General Assembly to declare thel
selves on this question, and W
urge the Christian voters to Sc
to it that such members of TIL
= General Assembly are elected "a
g will stand for this measure.
II 2. That we instruct our Supe
l, intendent to SO organize h
q State and carry this campaig
lc into all the counties as that v
u shall be assured OF the passage
H. this measure by the next Gener
,, Assembly.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19
HORRIBLE BLOTCHEs OF Eczema

HORRIBLE BLoTCHEs OF Eczema
Quickly cured by DR.. Hobson's
Eczema Ointment, c. p. caldwell,
of New Orleans, states: "My doc
tor advised me to try DR.. Hob
sons Eczema Salve. | used three
boxes of Ointmen and t hree
cakes OF DR.. Hobson's Derma-Ze-
ma soap. Today | have not a
spot anywhere on my body and
can say | am cured" 1t will do
the same for you. It's soothing,
healing, antiseptic action will rid
you OF all skin humors, black
heads, pimples, Eczema blotches,
red unsightly sores, and leaves
your ckin clean and healthy. Get
a box today. Guaranteed: All
druggists SOC. orby mail: Pieiffe'
Chemical Co., Philadelphia orSt
Louis.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19

The department Of ASriault.lEe
has issued the following warning
to farmers:
Look out,for the fakir. He has
for the past few weeks been oper-
ating in the central part OF the
State, and has deceived and de-
Traded farmer after farmer, SELL
ing them ordinary seeds from
"a to $6 per bushel that were
not worth more than from 81 to
$3.50 per bushel.
Keep your eye on the fellow who
comes to your home with his new
kind OF seeds for spring or fall
sowing-seed that makes miracu-
lous yields. Ask him to show his
license to sell seeds in North Car
olina. Ii he cannot show the re-
ceipt of the commissioner of Ag-
ricultue for money paid for such
alicense, get his name and address
and send them to us and we will
make an effort to get in touch
with him. 1t will pay you to write
the state department of Agricul-
ture before buying seeds from
these seed peddlers.
Last year these seed fakirs did
much damage in Wilkes and 9th
er counties in that section and
finally the farmers cried out a.
gainst their dirty bushes, but
the cry reached us too late to dc
them any good-it was q case o1
locking the stable after the horse
was stolen.
We have just received a com
=. plaint that these fakirs are in tn
state again, selling seeds fo1
spring sowing at ridiculously
high prices, and we are afte
them, but they may get you be
fore we can get them. Therefore
be on the lookout for them.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19

If Col, Goethals doesn't watch
out one OF his hardest jobs will
be to prevent some misguided
friend from making him a candi-
date for president. Philadelphia
Press.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19

A telephone message was recelv-
ed here last Saturday evening
that Mr.. Ed Clinard, son OF our
countyman, Mr.. F. A. Clinard,
had been killed that day in a
wreck on the Southern Pacific
Railway between Tucson and Yu'
ma, Arizona. Young Mr.. Cli
nard has been in the west fol
several years and was employed
in railroading, probably conduc
tor at the time of his death. Th'
body will be brought to Hickor.
for burial.-IenOir News.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19
STATE AND GENERAL MEMS.

Ot0uS SWvD 0eBssvSsve iUSWVs
Mrs. Rebecqa Goodwin, mother
Of Congressman Goodwin, died at
her home in Dunn, n. c. recentlyf
after a lingering illness, -
A reception was recently given
in Baltimore to Bishop Alpheus
Wilson OF the N. E. Church South,
in honor OF his 80th birthday.
The proprietors Of the Inn at
Altapass, Mitchell County, have
provided for golf links near the
hotel.
A bill has been introduced in
the House Of Representatives to
open up the coal lands Of Alaska
through the leasing system.
Manley Mcdowell, Of Burke, has
been given the appointment OF
Income Tax Agent for North Car
Olina.
Hon. William C. Redfeld Secre-
tary of Commerce in the Wilson
cabinet will deliver the address at
t h 9 University commencement
next June.
DR.. W. w. Yew, the newly ap-
pointed Chinese Ambassador to
Germany, is a christian. He is the
first christian to hold that office.
The first direct shipment offor-
eign wool since the tariff was re-
duced, was received in Boston on
the 9Th from Australia. The car
go was valued at $2,00O,0 900.
A fine lot Of Brlshy Mountain
apples have been shipped to the
Agricultural Exposition now on
at Dallas, Tex.
The Mercantile Bank of Mem.
phis, Tenn, has been closed and
it's president c. Hunter Raine is
in jail charged with misappropri
at more than X OF a million dol
lars.
The battle ship North Dakots
with it's more than 800 officers
and men, is quarintined at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard on account
of the discovery of q case ofdiph
liberia on the vessel.
A site on Summit Mountain
near Asheville, has been selectet
. by the War Department for tn
army camp for. college students
from southwestern States to b
, held next summer, from July ST
to August End.
General John P. Hawkins, [
: s. A., retired, died on the 7th a
his home in Indianapolis, Inc
3 Gen. Hawkins was 50 years ol
n and served through the Civil Wa
8 and in q number of Indian Can
e paigns.
= Ex-Solicitor J. F. Spainhou
l. of Morganton, has been retainf
& as counsel for Clyde c. Clemen
'e who is accused ofmurder atSpa
s tanburg, s. c., where he and II
t. young woman he had wronge
u drowned their illegitimate child
70 The historic Portugees churc
OF Our Lady OF Good Voyager
20 with all her vestments and socl
of vessels, situated in Gloucestt
.. Mass, was destroyed by fire (
~ the. 10th, an over-heated furna
ur the cause.
It. Miss Roberta W.. Wyeth,
cd New York, recently sailed for
or ally because a veterinarian te
an her her pet Mexican dog neede
Jst sea voyage, as it had lung trl
be BILE. Wonder if she woulhaved dc
he so much for a helpless child?
OF pity it would be if the dogsho1
he get ship wrecked and lost!
M
)re
and country things and coun
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19
tlf EDIelllsAl eyIL0ek.
Nevs ana 0bservNr. J,

Nsvs and observer.
The State goes forward in its
work Of giving. educational op-
portunities to all the children.
This year the equalizing fund for
the public schools amounted to
$4O1, ,O15.72 and was so appor-
toned as to increase the mini
mum school term which hashere-
tofore been eighty days, to JOB
$40 days; an increase Of % $40
days:
Ninety counties Of the State
participated in the apportion-
ment OF this fund. Ten counties
were not entitled to share in it,
because their funds were sum-
cient to provide a longer term
than 1O3 $40 days without aid
from the equalizing fund.
Fifty-seven counties OF the State
received aid from the second 1O0,-
600 last year and had a school
term ofonly 90 days ora months.
The school term in every district
in these counties will,be lengthen-
ened % $40 days OF l IA
months by the equalizing fund
this year. The schoolterm in all
the other counties of the State
except ten will be considerably in
creased also.
Every school district will have
a considerably longer term this
year than ever before. The annu-
al salaries OF all good teachers
will be increased 25 to 80 per
cent. The monthly salary of all
good teachers has also been con-
siderably increased, while t h e
number Of teachers, according to
the reports and applicationsfrom
the various counties, has been in
creased 1000, or about 20 per
cent, this indicating acorrepond-
ing increase in the enrolment
and attendance Of school chill
dren on account. OF the compulso.
ry attendance law.
In addition to the heightened
school torn from the appropria'
tion of $4O1, 900 Tin round mum
bers) the school terms of the State
will be furthur heightened by the
$1,000, 900 annually raised by
local taxation in about l 800 10
cal tax districts. The average
school term OF TIE State this yea
therefore, may be reasonably ex
pected to considerably exceed sil
months, as the local tax fund
were not considered in the appor
tionment OF the equalizing fund
being excluded from considera
ton by the law.
The equalizing fund havin
heightened the minimum teri
% $40 days. or TX months, thi
year, in spite Of the large increas
in the number of teachers, nece
STATED by the increased attent
ance, it may be confidently e!
pected, with the natural increa'
in the property and the asses
ment of the property OF the Stat
to be sufficient in the next YET
or two to provide a minimu
term of full six months, exclusi'
OF all local taxes.
In order to participate in Il
equalizing fund every county
the State in which it was nect
sary was required to levy a tt
sufficient to provide a full 10
months term in every distri'
In this way these counties rails
many thousand dollars more
their elementary schools tn
ever before. This year at les
100000 more will probably
extended for lengthening I
terms, increasing the salaries
$ the teachers, and improving
character OF the work Of fthe ele
entary schools than ever bef'
in the history of the State. =
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-02-19

Mr.. F. P. Mast and wife OF Wa
tauga, were here yesterday. Mrs.
Mast was returning from Alber-
marie where she had been to i'll.
struct the principal OF an Indus
trial School at that place in the
art of weaving the nice counter
panes, rugs, etc., for which Mrs
Mast is so noted:-Lenoir News.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-09
S85 FOR FITTON ETCHING
Aisle of Chartres" Brings
Top Price at Sale.

Only 1926 prints were made of the
etching by Hedley Fitton, the contem-
porary English etcher, Of the "Aisle Of
Chartres,' and a signed proof of one
of these, showing the interior of the
cathedral with the stained glass win
dows, brought the top price, $50, last
night at the Anderson Galleries, at the
first session of the sale of the collec-
tons of James Cockcroft and Samuel
=. Tatum.
The next best price, $50, was paid
by s. Rosedale for a mezzotint Of
Simonetta Nespucci, by s. Arlent Ed
wards, who is regarded by many as
tho most noted of contemporary mezzo-
tint engravers and color printers Il is
a signed artists proof after Pollajuolo.
A full length engraving Of Louis
XVIII, seated and wearing his royal
robes, was sold to F. Nader. This is
a proof of the first state, by J. 3.
Massard pere, after Gerard, who was
court painter, and the favorite OF both
Napoleon and Louis XVIII For an
the Enemy's Country" (lion and
mousse, signed artists proof by Her
bert Dicksee. Max Williams gave $40.
The total Of the session was S1,Sl7.
The sale ends this evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-09
TO PROBE NORDICA CASE
Late Singers Husband Or
dered to Give Up Property.

George W. Young, banker and hus-
band Of the late Nine. Lillian Nordica,
the prima donna, was ordered yester-
day by Surrogate Fowler 10 appear in
court on December % and submit 10
examination as to his knowledge of the
whereabouts Of certain effects of his
wife, and also TO deliver TO Leslie j.
Tompkins, temporary administrator If
the singers estate, any Of her property
in his control.
Tompkins said in his application for
the order that Young has stocks, bonds
and money belonging to the estate Of
his wife and that he refused to give
any information to the administrator
or turn over the property. Young IS
contesting the viii Of his wife, and
is trying to probate in Monmouth
County, y. j., prior will made by
Nine. Nordica. In the will on file here
Young does not receive any part Of his
wife's estate, while the instrument Of
fcred for probate IN New Jersey leaves
him the bulk Of her property.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-09
J. C. TATUM ASKS DIVORCE
Cotton Brokers' Family AT
fairs Again Before the Public.

John c. Tatum, cotton broker,
Wise family affairs have been mucn
in the public eye for the last four
years. filed a suit for divorce yester-
day in the Nassau County Supreme
Court. The papers were sealed, but
Tatum gives dates in charges against
his wife. Mrs. Tatum recently was
awarded $3.50 a week and counsel fees
pending the filing Of her husbands
suit.
Mr.. Tatum charges that his wife was
guilty of improper conduct from April
to May il of this year at Man
haitian hotel, a house in Central Park
West, a hotel in Roslyn, Long Island,
and the Tatum home. In a previous
suit brought in the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn the cotton broker named
Jacob Ottman, a provision merchant, of
2lO East 69th ST. Mrs. Tatum, in
counter suit, said that Mrs. Nellie A.
Chalmers, wife Of John d. Chalmers,
Of 900 East 10th St., Brooklyn, came be-
tween her and her husband.
A little more than a year ago Mrs.
Tatum was arrested for assaulting her
younger sister, Miss Katherine Mac
Arthur. at Shaverton. y. y. The charge
was dropped. The Tatums were mar
ried in 1908 and separated last Feb
ruary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-09
CORONERS' OFFICE
PROBE ENDS TO-DAY
Wallstein's Last Witness
on Inquest Methods To
Be DR.. SchultZe.
HELLENSTEIN SAYS
HE WILL NOT RESIGN
Wagner Calls System Obsolete
and Sees Danger in Speedy
Embalming.

Leonard VI. Wallstein, Commissioner
Of Accounts, intends TO conclude his
inquiry into the conduct Of the Coro-
ncrs' Office to-day with the testimony
of Dr.. Otto II. Schultze, coroner's ply
stefan.
Except for a brief examination yes
terday of witnesses from the Brooklyn
Coroners' office, nothing has been
brought out at the public hearings,
which have now been held for month";
regarding the conduct Of the Offices
il other boroughs.
At private hearings some informa-
ton as to the methods followed IN
Brooklyn, The Bronx, Staten Island
and Queens has been brought out. No
attempt will be made, however, 70 eX-
anime into these Offices at the public
hearings. Commissioner Wallsteln De
lieves he has not time enough 70 go
into the matter any more fully.
In Coroner Frank Senior, Of Brook
lyn, who was a witness yesterday,
however, Commissioner Nallsteln
found a stalwart defender Of the ola
system. The Coroner's system was the
proper one, though there were prop
ABLY faults in administration, Dr..
senior sdlus n boipi4IA i4NNANN t'N -i
cial training, the most necessary quar-
ifcations being education and common
sense, he said.
"You agree with Coroner HELEN
stein, them" asked Commissioner
Wallstein.
81 wouldn't agree with Coroner Hell
lenstein at ALL" replied DR.. Senior
quickly. -. c.-
Feinberg, who said that the present
system lent itself to abuses and should
be abolished, do you?"
al don't think Coroner Feinberg was
in earnest when he said that. AZ our
meetings he has always strongly OPP
posed any criticism OF the ,Coroner,s,
office. and | don't think he would
switch around so quickly. or course
sometimes man has very good rea-
son for changing his opinion.
Ernest c. Wagner, the other BROOK
lyn Coroner, read a typewritten state
ment in which he recommended radl-
cal changes in the Coroners oihce'
Some Of the evils he had discovered
and attempted to cure, he said, we're
tic use of embalming fluid by under
takers in such haste as 10 destroy
possible evidences Of crime; favoritlsm
toward certain undertakers and the
custom of charging So or $40 Tor IN
ouisition papers and death ceruhcates.
Coroner Hellenstein denied yester-
day that he had any intention OF re-
signing. "Im going to stick through
TO the end" he said
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-09
THINKS HE WED HER, TOO
Woman Adds Name to Wife
List of Champion Bigamist.

Mrs Martha Mueller, of l05 East Sd
ST., added her name last night to the
list of women married by Karl Van
Wagner, sought by the police of Hobo
ken as the champion bigamist of the
country. This man disappeared from
521 Bloomfield ST., Hoboken, where he
was living with woman he had mar
ricd, when another arrived to claim
him. Since then at least twenty
wives" have offered their assistance to
the police. Otto Klee, neighbor, has
been arrested on suspicion of having
acted as Van Wagner's secretary.
Mrs Mueller says she is sure that
John Mueller, the name of the man
she married, is the real name Of the
man who calls himself Van Wagner
She describes him as short, stout, dark,
usually wearing short mustache, hav-
ing gray eyes, big ears, bad teeth and a
blunt nose Several women married
him and turned over all their savings
to him, she said. When he found she
had no money he deserted her. Mrs.
Mueller and her child make their home
with her mother
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-09
Commissioner, Angered by
Criticism, Says 1t Is
Simply Bunk"
ASSERTS THAT POLICE
ARE MAKING PROGRESS
Mayor Mitchell Denies Friction
Over Appointment of New
Second Deputy.

Yesterday marked the end OF the
second week since Barnet Baff, the
poultryman. was shot 10 death by hired
gunner because Of the trade antago-
nism he had created. Inspector Faurot'
of the Detective Bureau. confined his
statement 20 reporters TO the usual
declaration that progress had Deen
made and that arrests were promised
Commissioner Arthur Woods, who
has temporarily assumed the direction
OF the Detective Bureau in the absence
Of a second deputy commissioner
since the resignation of }. Robert
Rubin, on October /, said he was sat
isfed with the progress made by the
"Wbat progress has been made, com
missioner" asked an inquisitive re-
porter.
"The best piece Of detective work
ever accomplished was only the result
Of continuous effort, the elimination OF
false clews and the thorough investiga-
ton Of every promising solution re
piled Mr.. Woods. II am satisfied that
the police are doing everything in their
power"
"Don't you think the absence of a
directing deputy commissioner has
been felt?" persisted his interrogator'
"How often do have to tell you tel-
lows that | am in charge Of the De-
teetive Bureau in the absence Of a
second deputy?" responded the Com
missioner. 81 know what Is going on,
and am satisfied; this newspaper
criticism is simply bunk"
Mayor Mitchell denied that there had
been any controversy between himself
and Commissioner Woods over the ap-
pointment of a second deputy com
missioner. The Mayor said that 1t was
difficult TO find man fitted TO take
charge Of the bureau and that Woods
was waiting to light upon the right
man."
commissioner Woods has actual
control of his deputies, subject only:
Of course, 20 the general veto power OF
the Mayor" said Mr.. Mitchell. HE has
the widest possible discretion in choos-
ing his ASSISTANTS
The Mayor was informed report
VS. current that the Police Commits
sioner desired 10 appoint his secretary