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The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
DesUs BEAN CROP
Brings $676 on Tract of Less than
Thirty Acres.

w. F. DeBus, the pioneer farm
er north of town, last week sold
his bean crop to the Holly AL
falfa mill for $675.00. on a
tract of land less than thirty
acres, at the rate of $50 per ton.
The bean is of the brown vari-
ETY. and no attempt was made to
break any previous record with
this crop, but merely represents
Mr.. DeBus' spare moments in the
bean field. Should he use care
and diligence the ensuing year
he may double the above figures.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
DAIRY SESSION DAILY
at Lamar

The State Dairy commission is
making extensive preparation to
make the dairy sessions each
forenoon and afternoon during
the Lamar Farmers week, Feb.
21-26, the most valuable series of
dairy programs that. has ever
been given in the State. Prof. E.
G. Morton, State Dairy commits
sioner, will be present each day
and will have active charge of
the dairy programs. A corps of
institute workers trained in this
special work will be present all
week and will have something
doing every minute in the dairy
sessions.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
Subscribe for The Chieftain

L. M. Appel, the haberdasher.
returned last Thursday from New
York, where he purchased new
stock and incidentally attended to
an important business matter.
Ranges from SIS to $40 at the
Holly Hardware Co.
Mrs. J. P. Linville returned on
Tuesday from Kinsley, Kans.,
where she has been sojourning for
several days.
The Chieftain registered num-
ber of renewals the past week, for
which the editor returns his most
profound thanks.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
OVERLAND AGENT HERE

E. w. Miller of Miller Bros.
garage, Lamar, was down last
Monday in quest of a reliable man
to accept the local agency for the
Overland car, of which they are
district agents. Mr.. Miller says
that the right man has not as yet
been found, but hopes to locate
him thru the column of The
Chieftain.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
PRESBYTElAN SERVICES

FoR SUNDAYf FEBRUARY 10Th.
Morning service and Bible school
at 1870. Preehing by the pastor,
the Rev. W. Is. Wright, on The
Greatest Sermkn Ever Preached" :"
Vocation 1Ay" service in the
evening at 7:1 with special pro-
gram and mlsic. and sermon by
the pastor p "Choosing Life
Work" ALI re very cordially in.
vited to thesaSeryice.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
BURNS AGAIN
Lamar News)

For the second time within three
years, the Baca County Court
house at Springfield, was burned
early Sunday morning and includ-
ed in the destruction was about
$400 worth of the Springfield
Band instruments, six typewrit-
ers, adding machine and miscel-
laneous equipment. The records
contained in the vault are thought
to have been safely preserved.
The fire originated in an unoc-
cupied room in which there had
been no heat since early in the
season, and local parties had been
in the building only a few hours
before the blaze which was dis
covered at three O'Clock Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Richard Bredwell has ar
rived from Chicago, joining Mr..
Bredwell on their fine farm south
west of town. The splendid home
is now about completed, and they
will soon embark in the livestock
business, besides doing general
farming on their 320.acre tract.
Ammunition and guns at the old
price, at the Holly Hardware Co.
General Supt. b. S. Rollins of
the Holly Sugar Co. was Swink
passenger last Wednesday.
VIM. II Smith and John Means
and families left on Sunday for
Oklahoma, where they will reside
in the future.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
COLONIAL BALL

The Woman's Civic club will
give colonial party at the club
rooms next Tuesday afternoon at 3
o'clock, after the regular business
meeting. Every member is re-
quested to come and bring friend
Martha" and George Washing
ton" will be there.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
BUSINESS MEN
PURCHASING
hOLSTEIN COWS

The last issue of Western Farm
Life. a weekly journal published
in Denver by Ex-Governor Am
mons, says that the enterprising
business men of Delta and vicin-
ity are not only going to build a
sugar factory this year, but they
are already laying plans for a
condensed milk factory a little
later.
To get the people interested in
the second enterprise the business
men of the town have hit on
rather novel scheme. While the
whole Western Slope has been
deservedly famous for fine beef
cattle produced in the past, it has
had very few good dairy cows.
1t is now proposed that one
hundred business and profession
al men in the town of Delta shall
each purchase one registered
Holstein cow and take care of her
at his own home. No grade ami
NAL will be allowed.
1t is expected that many of
these cows will have to be pur-
chased in the East. and it is the
intention of the promoters that
nothing but first class stock shall
be purchased. The sires are to
be purchased by the owners col
lectively. AS calves are grown
they will be distributed in the
neighborhood, and in this way it
is believed the farmers will be-
come interested in first-class
dairy stock and sufficient milk
can be secured to establish and
maintain a condensery.
A strong committee has been
organized to arrange the details
and the cows win be purchased
and brought to Delta as soon as
they can. be secured.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
DON'T WORRY

Our standard overalls remain at
the same old price. We have suf-
ficient stock to supply the demands
for months to come.
Byars d Coffin.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
FOR RENT

26 acres under Buffalo ditch, ad.
joining town on the east. Share
rent on favorable terms to capable
and responsible man. Call on or
address owner after Feb. Goth at
Chieftain Office.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
FOR SALE

Centrifugal pump, 81, for sale;
will trade for chickens or buggy !;
also REIMBURSEMENT for sale.
h. VINCENT,
3S.2t Bristol, Colo.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
MEN AND THINGS
IN GENERAL.
IN GEN E RAJ

Doc" Morich of he Holly
pharmacy is the happiest man in
town, being the recipient of one of
the handsomest valentines extant.
altho coming day late. 1t was a
baby girl that Mrs. Morich pre-
sented him on the 18th inst. weigh.
ing seven pounds, and the genial
DOC" is wreathed in smiles.
We learn that the new tinshop
on Santa Fe avenue is hard at
work these days.
MIR. and Mrs. Arthur Burch, re.
siding on their handsome home
south of town, entertained at dinner
on Sunday last the following bevy
of Holly young ladies: Miss Lillian
Eldred, Miss Ida Herde, Miss Irene
johnson and Mrs. M. B. Eldred.
The most complete line of horse
blankets ever in Holly, at the
Holly Hardware Co.
DR.. and Mrs. E. M. Sherman left
Monday for Grinnell, Iowa, ac-
companying the remains of their
mother, Mrs. Anginette Sherman,
who died last week in Long Beach,
Calf.
Captain Hagerman of the famed
Hagerman's band was in town last
Monday, calling on old friends.
Cap" has resigned as assistant
postmaster at Lamar, and together
with Ray Flint, formerly with the
Lamar National bank, has bought
out the Baker general store at
Springfield, where they will be To-
Gated after this month. The
Chieftain wishes the new firm the
greatest success in their new field,
and bespeaks for them bright fu-
ture in the mercantile world.
Ranges and cook stoves, all
prices. at the Holly Hardware Co.
Relative to the non-appearance
of the town accounts in this paper,
The Chieftain will say that they
will be printed as soon as received.
Miss Ruth Christopher, W h o
played a most creditable Center
with the Holly girls basket ball
team last week, became very ill
Immediately after the game and is
now bedfast with tonsilitis.
The Chieftain subscription list
grows daily. We are now striving
for circulation honors.
Joseph Adamek, the jeweler,
made hurried trip to Lamar last
Monday.
Mrs Chester Morgan was the
guest of the Lundgrens at Lamar
on Saturday last.
Sheriff Cal Downing was here
on business last Tuesday.
See the cash price advt. Of W.
j. Pratt & Co. in another column.
1t will interest you.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Moore writes
from Benton, Kan, that they are
as prosperous as ever, and send re-
CARDS to all inquiring friends.
Don't forget the Hawaiians at
the Opera house next Monday
night
On Wednesday morning la s
patrons of the Holly postotfice we're
literally smoked out" the post
office stove apparently refusing to
work when fed on political flap.
doodle. The Curbstone Statesman,
however, has different views. He
states that the clogging of the hue
| Qax~I-~l1,
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
FOR SALE

Forty head coming two-year-old
heifers for sale. Inquire at Chief.
tain office,
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18
REIMBURSEMENT WANTED

l want to buy a smooth relin.
quishment. What have you?
37-2t g. A. PISKHAM.
The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-18

Homestead proofs filings, gen.
eral land Office business transacted.
y. S. Commissioner. Holly.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30
Letter from Mr. ]. c. Whi.tingtun.

Mr.. j. G. Wilmington, OF Myr-
tie Point, Oregon, a Wataugan
of Eye olden time," in rernitting
for his paper writes:
l have just returned from a
trip to Southern California. l
left home on the 4th day of last
November and went by steamer
to San Francisco. We had a very
rough trip down, but l did not
get sea sick as a great many do.
l spent three days on fairgrounds
OF the Panama Exposition ta-
king..ln the sights, which W g re
grand. There was all kinds OF
mineral and agricultural prod
ucts, with all kinds Of machinery
and works OF art, and almost ev-
erything a person could think OF.
After taking in the Fair l pro-
ceeded on to Southern California,
where I spent the winter in the
town OF Pomona, where two OF
my sisters have lived for quite a
number off, ars. l liked the coun-
try pretty we'll but a man would
have to have q lot OF money to
locate there, as land is very high
in that part OF the country, be.
ing worth from one thousand to
fifteen hundred dollars per acre.
The most OF the land is in orch
ards, such as oranges, lemons,
peaches and prunes, consequent.
ly all lands are very high. We
had very bad weather tor that
country this winter. 1t rained
more through January than it
generally does through theentire
season. They had % inches of
rain and 10 inches of it January,
and one snow storm, when en-.
ough fell to make the ground d
white, but it melted off soon af-
ter it fell. In order to protect
their fruit from the frost, t h ey
burn oil in pots under the trees
on cold mornings, the heat OF
which will raise the temperature
several degrees which prevents
the fruit from freezing.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30

In the near future the Blowing
Rock Hotel at Blowing Rock will
be organized into a joint stock
company and active eforu will be
put behind q proposition to de-
velop it into one OF the greatest
resort hotels in the mountains OF
Western North Carolina. A num-
Der OF interested parties held a
meeting at Hickory last week,
however, they have not issued
any statement yet.
MIR. George E. Moore, who for
the past several years has had
charge OF the hotel, was at home
this Meek from Arkansas, where
he has been during the winter
months. Mr.. Moore is closely
connected with the financial side
of this hotel and he says that the
idea in organizing a big stock
company is to get more money
behind the proposition and de-
velop it to it's full capacity. 1t
is probable that q new and mod.
ern hotel building would be built.
A golf course would be built and
everything else thatgoes to make
up modern resortproperty would
be added.
The Blowing Rock Hotel is an
evcellent building as it is sand will
accommodate a great number ol
guests, but the idea is to build q
much larger building and equip
it with all modern conveniences
The new building will be built or
the same site where the old bull
ding now tands.-Lenoir News.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30
Spring Song.

Every sage this scheme indors-
es: Make yourpremises look neat;
cart away the old dead horses,
burn the rubbish and repeat. For
the spring should find our city
rid OF every ugly thing; it will be
q beastly pity, If we disappoint
the spring. In the spring the
world is laundered by the soft,
refreshing showers, and the clean
sing winds are squandered by
Dame Nature at all hours; but
the rainfall and the breezes can't
remove the trash and junk which,
like decomposing cheeses fill the
air with perfume punk. Let us
hustle and abolish everything
that draws the flies; let US clean,
and paint and polish till oul
town delights the eyes. Oh,
ought to sing the lily, when old
winter ups and goes, andl ought
to write some silly bladderdasf
about the rose, but l make my
harpstrings rattle urging folks
to clean their lawns, cart ava,
dead cats and cattle, old tin cam
and demijohns. Walt Mason.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30

"Wonder how he can afford it?"
Ever hear that question asked
as some man whose bank account
is of doubtful proportions was
seen speeding by in an automo-
bile? Hundreds of times, no
doubt. It's probably a fact that
in all communities there are men
who have fallen into the tempta-
tion to buy an automobile who
are not financially able to make
the purchase or to meet the up
keep of the machine. Heretofore
the automobile whether as luxury
or necessity, has been one article
for whose ownership there was
demanded cash payment. When
a man would speak OF his Gear"
it might be put down as q Ger
tainty that he had parted with
the price OF the machine-had
raised the money by hook or
crook. There might have been a
mortgage on his house, bnt there
was none on the machine. And
now we are to have the automo-
bile on the installment plan. At
least, the experiment has been
launched by some makers in the
North. The Observer prefers to
speak of it as an experiment be-
cause it believes it will not 20 be-
yond that point. The plan to
buy an automobile on the IN
stallment plan would offer too
great an inducement for indul-
gence in extravaganza. 1t would
open the way to trouble for a
class little able to resist the temp
tation. 1t looks like an easy
proposition to pay down a sum
Of money and become owner Of a
machine against the simple con.
tingency Of having to surrender
it in case OF failure to make a
payment, but many people, al
ready loaded up with installment
obligations for buildingan loan
assessments, perhaps, or for
household furnishings and other
necessities, would "fall' to it to
their sorrow. The installment
plan for the purchase ofautomo-
bile would be anything butanen
couragement to thrift.-Char-
lotte Observer.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30
Many People Don't Know

A sluggish liver can cause a
person an awful lot of misery.
Spells OF dizziness, headache, con
stipation and billiousness are
sure signs that your liver needs
help. Take DR.. Kings New Life
Pills and zee how they help tone
up the whole system. Fine for
the stomach, too. Aids digestion
purifies the blood and clears the
complexion. Only 25c. at your
Druggist.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30
Severe Cold Quickly Cured.

"On Dec. first | had q severe
cold or attack OF the grip as It
may be. and was nearly down in
he'd" writes o ] Metcalf, Wealth.
erly, Mo. 81 bought two bot.
ties Of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy and it was only a few days
until ! war completely restored
to health. | firmly believe that
Chamberlsin'e Cough Remedy is
one of the very best medicines
and will know what to do when
l have another cold" Obtaina.
BILE everywhere.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30
Now FEELS Entirely Well.

A FL Francis, Z"nlth, Kas., wri-
tes: 81 mad a severe pain in my
hack and could hardly move. l
took about two.thirds of q box
OF Foley Kidney Pillp and now
feel entirely WE'LL" Middle.aged
and Older men and women lnd
these safe pills relieve sleep dis
turbiDg bladder ailments. For
sale by N. B. Blackburn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30

Eugenia Campbell, later Mrs.
Shull of Watauga county, il she
is still living (aud l think she is, }
is her youngest sister, and the
only living member of the imme-
diate Col. Milton Campbell fam
lily Of whom l have any know
ledge.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30

ut may we'll be claimed that
the care OF individual and family
health is first and mostpatriotic
duty OF a citizen. TAFT.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30
The German State Of Mind.
Charleston News and Courier.


Charleston News and Courier.
A staff correspondent OF t b e
New York Times writing from
Berlin sums up 1.-THE feeling OF the
average German in the street ap.
proximately as follows: "He has
a strong desire for peace with
honor and the quicker the bet
ter; a conviction that France and
Russia are practically beaten
and that but for England peace
could be made tomorrow; and a
further conviction that England
alone holds the allied coalition
against Germany together. He
also believes that England is Ger
many's real and only enemy; that
there can be no peace until Eng
land is beaten; that England can
be beaten by ruthless submarine
warfare, and that the Won Tir-
pits plans OF torpedoing all ships
found in English waters is prob
ably the only way of beating
her,"
II that is an accurate summary
of the feeling OF the German mass.
es, some interesting conclusions
are possible. The beliefs outlined
are based, it will be observed, up.
on the promise that France and
Russia are "practically beaten" !"
Suppose it becomes clearly evil
dent IN the near future to t h e
German masses, as we'll as to the
world in general, that France and
Russia are very far from being
beaten. It is not possible that
from this revelation there wonld
ensue in Germany a revulsion OF
feeling certain to be attended by
highly important results?
The revelation may come soon.
France still holds Verdun and
will probably continue to hold it.
If she does, the belief that France
is practically beaten can hardly
persist. The Russian advances in
ASIA Minor and their effect upon
Turkey, together with the re-
sumption OF Russian attacks on
Germany's eastern front, ought
to disabuse the German masses
before very long in regard to the
status OF Russia.
The result of this enlightenment
cannot be foreseen. They Might
not tend towards an early peace:
for while Germany has probably
already reached a point where
she would be willing to accept a
compromise falling far short OF
her initial aims and ambitions,
she is probably still far from the
point where she would accept
terms practically decreeing hez
death as a great power. Never
theless, if events show the Ger.
man people that France and Rus
sia are not beaten aud probably
cannot be beaten, the effect in
Germany cannot but be of tre-
mendous Importance. Victory o.
yer England on the sea would
then be the last chance.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30
VETERINARY SURGERY.

l have been putting much study
on this subject; have received my
diploma, and am now we'll equipped
for the practice Of Veterinary eaf.
gerry In all its branches, and Am tn
only one In the county. oil on or
address me at Villas, N. r. +. d..
g. b. HAYES,
Veterinary Surgeon.
5-17.11.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-03-30
Lest Ws Forget.

uuuoIcIA Aucu piou0 WAAoAA6 "
ries Of articles, and, with the Ed
itor's permission publishing them
in the Watauga Democrat, the ar
ticles commemorating the lives
Of some of the pioneers OF the
county or those who, later on,
helped develop the resources,
whose descendents not only "rise
up and call them blessed" but
have taken up and are carrying
on the work laid down by these
builders Of our country, these
makers OF local history, an ID
though your correspondent reali-
ses the largeness Of the task and
lays no claim to literary merit.
yet does claim to be as good a
friend OF the old community as
any one who has known itfor on
ly a quarter of a acentury and who
has lived within its borders a lit
tie less than a decade and a hall.
Too frequently occurs tn at
when q member Of the communi.
ty takes his departure therefrom,
either to pitch his entamid COM
parative strangers to seek his
fortune among entire strangers
in the far western country, be
drops out Of the life OF the com.
munity in which, perhaps, he had
spent all Of bis younger days, the
old home q silent witness of by.
gone, open.door welcome to the
passing traveller or the centre OF
community uplift and enlighten-
ment, the surrounding country
rapidly rapidly being transform
ed under the seemingly heartless
hand Of progress, meanwhile the
once big man in the old commu-
nifty, dwindling down to the size
Of q little-known hero of ancient
times.
Fortoo often is it 80 with our
friends and one-time lconspicu.
GUS who ''pull up stakes" on
Earth's grassy plains, traverse
the "Valley of the Shadow"
"cross the River Silence" and
"pitch their tents" on the ''sweet
and blessed country, the home Of
Gods elect" And surely it is not
enough to keep green the little
mound in Gods half acre on the
hillside or to replace with fresh
ones the withering flowers upon
that grass mound, nor yet to
erect over the spot where we laid
to rest the tired body OF our
friend, a shaft of stone and, upon
cold marble, in choice language
indelibly carve a sentiment which
Ito the living would mean more
than to the dead" Rather let us,
about the fireside, talk Of absent
ones as if they were upon q jour
ney, prolonged beyond a reason
able time, it is true, but a jour
ney, for all that, with eager ex-
pectation looking forward to our
joining them at some stage OF
the journey, meanwhile keeping
in mind and helping the commu'
nifty to keep in mind the ia c t
that, as the Master said at the
bedside OF a friend "She is not
dead but sleepeth.
Let me close my Introductory
remarks with the beautiful little
poem, copied from a paper, thu
authors name not given, the IT,
tie "Before it is too Late"
II you've tender message
Or loving word to say,
Don't wait till you forget IL,
But whisper It to-day.
We live but In the present.
The future is unknown
The morrow 10 mystery,
To-day 10 our own.
The tender words unspoken.
The letter never sent,
$40 Tho !ong.forgotten message.
The wealth OF love unspent.
For these some hearts are brea king
For these some loved ones wait,
30 show them that you care 10
them,
Before Il 10 too late.