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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
WASHINGTON WELCOMES
ARTHUR BALFoUR AND PARTY

Greeted at Station by Lansing and
Other oticlals-SoldIers Guard.
WashingtOn.--The American capital
extended simple, but heartfelt vel.
come to the British minister for for.
eign affairs, Arthur Balfour and the
other members OF the British com.
mission which has come to Washing.
It, ito make cooperation easy and ef
fective between those who are striving
with all their power to bring about a
lasting peace by the only means that
can secure 1t, namely successful
war"
There was no music to greet the
visitors, the original plan, including
the presence OF the Marine Band, hav
ing been amended to conform to the
view expressed by President Wilson
and Secretary Lansing that this was
a grave and serious event In American
history, and not to be lightly treated,
or regarded as social affair.
On the Union Station plaza were
gathered some 5000 people waiting
patiently for glimpse at the nation s
guests, restrained at q proper distance
by hundreds Of bluecoated policemen
ond by two troops Of the Second cav.
airy, commanded by Colonel Fenton,
part Of the garrison at nearby Fort
Myer.
Within the station lines had been
drawn Separating the travelling pub
lie from the space at the eastern
end OF the concourse across which
the visiting party was to pass on the
way from the train shed to the presl.
dents room. All Of the police captains
Of the district had been ranged here
In double line az a guard OF honor to
keep back intruders. Two score news
paper men, standing to the east Of the
cOncourse. were the only unofficial per
sons permitted in this section Of the
station. Detectives swarmed every
where through the crowds and at Va
rious angles where any danger might
lurk. Altogether. the precautions TAX
en- to insure the safety Of the nations
visitors exceeded anything ever known
| In the history of the District.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
UNITED STATES WILL MAKE
FIRST BIG WAR LOAN TO
THAT COUNTRY.
DETAILS TO Be GIVEN OUT
Amount Of Loan and Other Matters
Concerning Loan viii Be Made Pub
VIC In Few Days by Secretary
McAdoo.

Washington. - The first American
loan to the Allied Nations will go to
Great Britain.
The amount and other details prob.
ably will be made public by Secretary
McAdoo within q few days.
Whatever the sum. the amount will
be available out OF the proceeds Of
the $4,000, 900 900 bond issue soon to
be offered to the public. Of which
$4,000, 100000 will be loaned to the
Allies.
Announcement to this effect was
made at the treasury department after
q day crowded with conferences be.
tween Secretary McAdoo and Federal
Reserve Board officials and American
bankers and bondholders and official
representatives of Great Britain and
France. Another development was the
announcement that the size Of the first
issue Of bonds authorized under the
$1,000 100000 war finance measure
will depend largely upon the immedi.
ate needs Of the Allies. Reports as
to this have yet to be received In
detail.
The entire $4,000. 100000 Of author
lied bonds will not be offered In one
lump sum, according to present ten
tative plans, but probably will be call
ed for in several installments or issues
BY this course, 1t is believed that
financial disturbances which might re-
suit were the country called upon II
absorb the whole issue at once, will
be averted.
Details as to the amount Of the first
issue, its distribution among the Allies
the character and terms Of the bonds
methods Of disposing Of them, and
other questions will engage the atten
ton OF the treasury department and
Federal Reserve Board officials during
the next ten days.
The first Of these conferences began
with the visit of Lord Cunliffe, Gov
ernor of the Bank Of England, upon
Secretary McAdoo and Governor
Harding Of the Reserve Board. Nego
tiations will be conducted with view
to disposing as rapidly as possible Of
details so that the bond issue may be
offered without delay.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
Biz Saaiterium Proposed.

One of the most elaborate pro-
jects OF the kind ever attempted
by any man in Wilkes county is
being planned by Mr.. r. Don
Laws, editor and publisher OF the
Yellow Jacket at Morav!an Falls.
His plan is to establish a fifty
thousand dollar sanatorium at
that place to be equipped after
the most modern fashion and to
be characterised as a Patriotic
Protestant Sanitorium in con-
tradistinction OF the Catholic 10.
stltutions. Mr.. Laws says t b e
Catholics have q monopoly on
the sanitorium and hospital bus.
mess over the North and West
and that this proposition is the
first thing of the kind ever pro-
posed along the lines suggested.
He says by the time the good
roads are completed across the
mountains, he hopes to see this
proposed institution in active op-
GRAFTON. 1t is through the coop.
GRAFTON OF the quarter OF a mil
lion people who have supported
the Yellow Jacket in Its anti.
Catholic campaign that this pro.
ject will be made possible. 1t is
not proposed that this institu.
tion shall become a competitor,
with local sanitorums and hos.
pitfalls any more than the Yellow
Jacketis q competitor with the
local newspapers. 1t proposes to
look to wider fields and from a.
mong the hundreds ofthousand.
OF people who read the Yellow
Jacket twill draw it's patronage
-.W,lkss Patriot,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
The FIRST Crack At the Submarine.

Just what might be expected
to happen to a German subma.
rine when it should encounter all
armed American ship has hap.
pened. The submarine was sent
bubbling to the bottom. 1t was
an interesting incident and one
OF a kind about which the people
OF the United States has been
waiting to hear. The submarine
was first sighted across the path
of .the ship, which made for it
with the intention Of cutting it
IN two, but the German craft div
ed and came up alongside some
distance off, prepared to send out
the merry torpedo, as German
subs have so often done in t b g
case of helpless ships, but before
the submarine could discharge
the deadly messenger: a neatly
aimed shot from the American
ship knocked her periscope into
splrnters-and the show was over.
The submarine is a vulnerable
object for the gunner. Above the
water it's shell can beeasily shat.
tered. The periscope is O hard
target to hit, but there are fine
marksmen behind the American
guns. men selected with the eye
and the hand for the job, and
once the perlscope is struck, it is
to the submarine what O heart
thrust would be to a human be.
ing. The ability of the armed
ship to to take care of herself has
been OF practical and convincing
demonstration. Charlotte Oh
server.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
SENATE BEGINS WRESTLING
WITH FOOD PROBLEMS.
Hearings BY Agricultural Committee.
Houston Outlines Plans.


Houston Outlines Plans.
observation-disclosures took up the
food problem in public hearings by the
Senate Agricultural Committee, at
which Secretary Houston set forth the
Administration food control program.
At the same time, the Federal Trade
Commission, directed by President
Wilson to investigate with the Agri'
cultural Department the causes of high
food prices, asked all state governors
to send representatives to Washing.
ton April 80, for a conference on state
cooperation in the inquiry. Before
appearing at the commission hearing,
Secretary Houston put his plans be.
fore the heads Of five Of the leading
farmers organizations and received
assurances Of support for any meas.
ures the Government contemplates for
getting a frmer grasp on food pro.
duction and distribution. The farm.
ers' representatives promised even to
give their endorsement to legislation
giving the Government power to fix
maximum and minimum prices In
emergency As Its part In the Govern.
ment's plan, the Department Of Labor
announced that It had undertaken the
mobilization of a million boys through.
out the country as active farm work.
ers for the Summer. An organization
will be formed to be known as the
United States Boys Working Reserve,
Its operations will be directed from
Washington.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03

l take the liberty ofaddressing
this word to the farmers of the
country and to all who work on
the farms. The supreme need OF
our nation and of the nations
with which we are cooperating,
is an abundance Of supplies, and
especially OF foodstuffs. The i'm
portance Of an adequate food
supply, especially for the epresent
year, is superlative. Without a.
bundant food, alike for the ar.
mics and the people now at war.
+ the whole geat enterprise upon
which we are embarked will break
down and fail. The world'sfood
reserves are low. Not only du-
ring the present emergency but
for some time after peace shall
haye come, both our own people
and a large proportion of the
people OF Europe must rely upon
the harvests in America. Upon
the farmers OF this scountry, there
fore, In large measure, rests the
fate OF the war and the fate OF
the nations.
May the nation not count up.
on them to omit no step that
will increase the production OF
their land or that will bring a.
bout the mcst effectual co-opera-
ton in the sale and distribution
of their products? The time liz
ehort. 1t is OF the most impera-
tive Importance that everything
possible be done and done im-
mediately to make sure of large
harvests. I call upon youngand
old alike and upon the able bod
led boys of the land to acceptand
act upon this duty,-to turn in
hosts to the farms and make
certain that no pains and no Ia
Dor is lacking in this great mat
ter.
l particularly appeal to the far
mers of the South to plantabun-
dant foodstuffs as we'll ascOtton.
They can show their patriotism
in no better or more convincing
way than by resisting the great
temptation OF the present price
of cotton and helping upon a
great scale to feed the nation and
the peoples everywhere who are
fighting for their liberties and for
our own. The variety OF their
crops will be the visible measure
of their comprehension of their
national duty.
Woodrow Wilson.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
FOOD CONTROL IS
PUT UP TO SENATE
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF PRO-
DUcTloN AND DISTRIBUTION
IS PROPOSED.
ASKS FOR AN APPROPRIATION
Secretary Houston In Communication
With Senate Asks For $25, 100000
to Put Plan Into operation.-Wants
to Fix Prices.

Washington. - The Governments
program for food control during the
war was put before Congress by Sec.
retary Houston in communication
to the Senate asking power for the
Department Of Agriculture to take
direct supervision of food production
and distribution in the United States
and requesting a $25,OOO,OOO appropri-
alton for putting the plan into opera.
tion.
Authority was asked for the Council
Of National Defense, in an emergency,
to buy and sell foodstuffs and to fix
minimum or maximum prices.
As outlined to the Senate, the Gov.
ernment's plan is first to make com.
plete survey Of the country's food
supply to determine It's ownership and
distribution, then II necessary to
license and control the operations Of
all concerns engaged In the manufac.
ture Of foods or feeds, agricultural
implements and all materials required
for agricultural purposes. Authority
is sought for the Agricultural Depart.
ment to take over and operate the
concerns II It appears at any time that
course Is demanded by the public In.
terest.
Giving the Government power to
deal directly in foodstuffs probably
would make its application unneces
sary, Secretary Houston declared, as
its very existence would tend to keep
conditions normal. Market grades and
classes for farm products, Secretary
Houston said, Is one OF the chief needs
Of the country to insure proper condi
tions in producing and marketing
farm products.
Authority also was asked for the
Department to require Of transporta
ton companies preference for the
movement Of farm machinery, seeds
fertilizers and materials that enter
into the processes of food production
The Department wishes to allow Its
market service division to assist iI
obtaining rerouting Of foodstuffs t
relieve congestion on transportation
lines.
In its plan for an investigation o.
the present food supply, the Agrlcul
tural Department has arranged FOL
the help of the Federal Trade Com
mission. which, with the Department
was directed by President Wilson
early in the year to make an inquiry
to ascertain the amount OF food stock!
and determine II the antitrust law!
have been violated in food produc
tion, storage and distribution. AS sool
as Congress makes the necessary ap
preparation for this specific inquiry
the Trade Commission will proceed.
Some officials believe the Trad'
Commission has enough power t
make unnecessary the use of extreme
legislation in regulating the contro
Of food. although additional power
should be given for an emergency.
Officials OF all Departments ant
divisions OF the Government realiz,
that the facts of the situation exist
Ing must be learned before remedies
can be planned
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP
SUNK, MANY WOUNDED.

London.-The British Hospital ships
Donegal and LanFranc, with many
wounded aboard, have been torpedoed
without warning. They were sunk on
April II. OF those on the Donegal
twenty.nine were wounded men and
twelve of the crew are missing. The
LanFranc carried German wounded az
we'll IA British. OF those aboard
nineteen British and fifteen Germans
are believed to have perished.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
GERMANY TO TORPEDO
ALL HOSPITAL SHIPS.

Paris.--"Contrary to all the rules Of
international law and humanity" says
an official note issued by the govern
ment Monday, April %. "the Germans
have announced that they have decided
that they will torpedo all hospital
ships without warning.
"Under these conditions. the French
government gives notice that German
prisoners will be embarked on thu
vessels" ,.-
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
Clear Away The Waste.

Bowel regularity is the secret
of good health, bright eyes, clear
coulplexions, and DR.. Kings New
Lille Pills are a mild and gentle
laxative that regulates the con.
gested intestines by removing
The accumulated wastes without
gripping. Take a pill before re-
tlring and that heavy head. that
dull spring fever feeling dissa'
pears. At your druggist, 25c.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
OFFICIAL NOTICE OF
SEVERANCE OF RELATIONS

Washington. notification Of
the Turkish government breaking of
diplomatic relations with the United
States was received by the state de.
partment in a dispatch from Ameri.
can Minister Stovall Of Berne, Switz.
erland. The communication came from
G. Cornell Tarler, secretary Of the
American legation at Constantinople,
acting FOR Ambassador Elkus, who is
Ill. It was sent to the American lege
uon at Berne and forwarded.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
Best Remedy ] or Wbooping
Cough.

"Lnst winter when my little
10Y had the vhoopiug cough ]
ave him Chamlerlains Cough
Rpmpiny," writer Mrs. j. b. Rob.
rts, East st. Louis, I'll. "l,
Kept his cough loose and relic
lin of those dreadful cougine
pplls. 1t il the only cough med.
cine | keep IN the house because
| haye the most confidence in it. y
This remedy ia also good fOr
colds and Group.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
BIG BRITISH GUNS
HAMMER GERMAN LINES.

Apparently a big battle Is brewing
along the front between Arras and
Lens, where the British guns are again
hammering the German lines. Except
for this artillery activity and some
gains south Of Loos and between Ar.
ras and st. Quentin, in the region
Of the Havrincourt woods.
Likewise on that part Of the front
held by the French, artillery duels
predominated, being intense between
the Somme and the Cise.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
MANY GERMANS IN THE
COUNTRY ARE BEING WATCHED

Washington. n.-Approximately 5000
German residents Of the United States
are under close surveillance, Depart
ment Of Justice officials announced
because Of their activities In behalf Of
the German Government. The De-
partment's field force Of officers ID
keeping so close q watch upon the
suspects that It would be possible to
arrest virtually every man under sus.
piciQp within "a hours.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
OFFICIAL ROUTE OF
BANKHEAD HIGHWAY

Birmingham, Ala.-The official route
Of the Bankhead Highway from Wash.
ington, d. c., to Little Rock, Ark. will
be seelcted by a pathfnding commit.
tee, which will make the trip In the
next 30 days. the Bankhead Highway
Association In convention here de-
cided. Points to be reached by the
Bankhead Highway include Lynch
burg, Va, Reidsville, Greensboro and
Charlotte, N. c.; Atlanta, Ca. and
Holly Springs, Tenn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03
STEADY PROGRESS BEING
MADE BY THE FRENCH
Driving Back Germans In Scissors ane
Rheims.

Driving back Germans IN Solssons anc
Rheims.
Steady progress is being made BY
French troops in driving back the
Germans in the regions Of Scissors
and Rheims. In a new offensive. the
French also have entered the German
second line In the Argonne forest. Ger
man counter attacks on the Vauclere
plateau, south of Laon, have been re-
iulsed.
Since the beginning Of the French
offensive last Monday, more than 19,
900 Germans have been taken prison
ers. Guns captured exceed 100, moi
including machine guns.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03

Deseltoriness may often be the
mark OF a full head; connection
must proceed from a thoughtful
one.-Danby.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-05-03

FOLEY CA1HARnC TABLETS
The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-19

First publication, Sept. 29.
 Final publication Dec. 8, 1917.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-19

To Yukon Territory. Atn District. Interior AASts'
The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-19
DEPARTMENT OF THE
 INTERIOR
United States Land Office
 Juneau, Alaska.

September 24, 1917. Notice is hereby given that John Rosene, IT,, of Haines Alaska, has filed application under the provi- siohs Of Sec. 23O6, R. s. as as- signee or AngelIotte van Buskirk, widow of John o. Van Buskirk, to mak entry of the land embraced in U. 8. Survey 784, situate near 'Hsines. District Of Alaska, Lat. 590 IA N, Long. 1859 26' w., and mors particularly described as fol- lews. tO"wit:
 BeEtnning at Cor. No. 1, whence U. s. L. M. No. 573 bears s. 240 16' D. 33.46 chs. and Cor. l, Survey 2GS, bears s. S.23 chs. thence N. 10.02 chs. to Cor No. 2, thence D. 1.32 chs. to Cor. No. 6, thence 8. 10.02 chs. to Cor No. 4, thence W. to Cor. No. l, 1.32 chs. the place of begin ming, containing an area of 1.S3 acres. Mag. Var. SO0 45' E., and known az Survey 7S4.
 e. B. WALKER,
 Register. First publication, Sept. 29.
 Final publication Dec. 8, 1917.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-19


 Set all the reporters to manning siege guns. They'd never stop until they got the enemy.
 One of them came up to me on deck in big hurry.
 "Where's the woman who went to France on this transport with you?"
 I'm It," said. I was still wearing my doughhoy uniform. He looked me over a minute, scratched his head and exploded:
 Well, I'll be d-dP
 Finally the officers of the ship tele- phOned the police in Hoboken. They came down In a patrol wagon to get me. A matrOn was with them. They all seemed to be anxious to do any thing for me they could. !.
 had free ride In the police taxicab to the jail. The matron loaned me clothes so could so out in the garb of I woman and buy some of my own. l cried little when Ispeeied off my sol dier uniform. thinking how happy l had been in it-part of the time. Skirts felt awful fTIny and awkward to me. That uniform is going to be locked away in chest and treasured all my life. I'll hand It down to the young Cartcrs--if there ever are any.
 The officers told me the government would take no action against me. They had denoted my husband from cor poral to private and fined him two thirds of one months pay, and they thought that was enough. 1 couldn't convince them he wasn't in on 1t orig Inally, although I tried hard enough.
 What surprised me was that people seemed to think I had done something wonderful. never looked at 1t that way at all. Moving picture concerns, photographers, vaudeville agents and newspapers came to me with all sorts of offers. I never had any experience in business. l lived on a ranch down In Arizona when wasn't at any army post, and couldn't understand what had done to bring myself so much in the lmelight. I can rope a steer with the best of them. but when this New York bunch began to mill was sunk.
 was alone here. knew nobody. Ono of the newspaper mCn suggested that If wanted to get money so could join the Red Cross and go back l ought to accept some of the oilers. That decided me. The money ] make from these articles In the American newspapers will be used for that pur- pose They will give Uncle Sam q Red Cross nurse. passage to some where in France" preferably near Pri- vate (nowJ John Carter, prepaid.
 Now I'm going back to Douglas to see the folks. I'll stop in Kentucky, as my husband ordered, and tell his moth. CT all about what a fine Sammie she has for a son. My own mother will be waiting for me. She never knew was going until l had left. didn't want her to worry. Now she writes:
 If you wanted to be a soldier and fight with your man 1t was all right with us. We're proud of you. You're an honor to the blood, and that has been fighting blood since before the civil war"
 don't know how long this war Is going to last, but if 1t gives me half a chance I'll be 'oUer there" with cross on my arm loohtug for Private John Carter, U. S. I. q hope he's a captain then; he's got 1t 1T him), and looking out for him and tiE boys.
 There'll be some one else I'll be look ing for too-the "I'ookie" who talked too much and tlppe me otf.
 THE EHD
The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-19
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The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-19
cLEANLY WOMAN.
ErronesuaIy ThInks by Securing Her
 Scalp That She CureI DandruR.

Cleanly woman has an erroneous Idea that by securing the scalp, which re- moves the dandrufr scales, she Is curing the dandrunr She may wash her scalp every day. and yet have dandrufr her life long. accompanied by falling hair. too. The only way in the world to cure dandrutS Is to kill the dandrufr germ, and there is no hair preparation that will do that but NeNbro's Herpicide. Herpl- eide by killing the dandruf germ, leaves the hair free to grow as healthy Nature intended. Destroy the cause you remove, the effect. Kill the dan druI germ with Herpicide. Sold by leading druggists. Send I0c. in stamps for sample to The HerpicIde Co.,, Dc" trolt, Mich.
 One Dollar bottle, guaranteed.
 At all Drug StoFSs. Adv.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-19

EnthusiasiA is the power back of every great success. It is inc lime in the backbone of every successful dis coverer, inventor, merchant, agent, salesman or teacher. If you want to succeed-enthuse.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-19

sAN-Tox COUGH DRofs. Admla- istered on sugar. Acts almost h. stantly. The prescription 'oE an eminent physician. Keller Bros The san-Tox Drug Store.