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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-09-11

A Message From The Mayor Of Boone,

A Message From The Mayor OF Boone.
Only a short time remains for
the people of Boone to comply
with the sanitation law enacted
by the last Legislature and avoid
the penalties provided under the
law. Every home that is not con-
nected with a water sewerage
system is affected.
Discussing the new law and it's
enforcement Mayor Moore says:
1T is the duty Of every good
citizen to heartily join in the eff
forts beinS made to rid the com.
munity of typhoid fever and sim
liar disease. The health authori-
ties have pointed out the source
of these diseases, and have shown
the method of controlling it.
With such knowledge available
there is no excuse for the pres
ence of a case of typhoid fever,
and it is the plain duy of every
resident to see that he and his
family are protected by having
his own home sanitated.
THE the authorities have
demonstrated that typhoid fever,
diarrhoea, summer complaint"
among the babies, and similar
diseases are excrement bourne
disease. There is no guess work
about this; it has been conclu.
sively proven. 1t therefore fol-
lows, as the healeh authorities
point out, that the proper dispo-
sal of human eXcrement means
the removal of the source of these
diseases. In the face of these adj
mitted facts | do not believe that
there is a man in this town who
will deliberately endanger h c
lives of his own loved ones and
the lives of his neighbors by fail
ing to take the means provided
and advised for safety.
Unfortunately home car
not be connected with q water
sewerage system. But every
! home can, and must, have a sani
tary privy. Self preservation is
the first law of nature. In provi
ding a sanitary privy this natu
raj law, as well as the State law
) will be fulfilled.
Full information of the vari
Gus types of sanitary privies thai
will be approved by the State
Board of Health, which is charg
ed with the duty of enforcing this
| act of tho legislature, may be OBJ
tanned from my Office, or q spec
i'll bulletin will be mailed direct
t) the interested person upon
application to the State Board o
) Health, Raleigh. Sanitary inspcc
: tors epresenting the S tate
Board of Health, will begin theiI
) duties the first of October, an(
I it is time for those of our pcopl;
| who have not already taken ac
tion to get busy.
| THE necessity for full compli
. ance with the law is q double one
, Both q moral and u legal dut.
: rests upon the head of each one
] | believe that all our citizens wi
e see the matter in this light, an
! will act accordingly. 1t will be
i splendid record to have this tow
: rated as one hundred per cen
l. sanitary by the State Board O
l. Heaithth, and it Is a record tina
Y un NAV easily attain -
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-09-11
The Menace Of MIlitarism.

If the war'stops now, wrote a
distinguished son of Watauga in
a private letter in October 1918;
we shall not have received the
Christening that can come only
with suffering, but l believe we
shall have gained in that we shall
not have absorbed the attitude of
the conquered. 1t is one of the
paradoxes of life that the con,
queror tends to become like the
enemy he has conquered, There
is good chance that we may es.
cape such fate this time. In
fact we who are in the prime of
life must see to it that we do es-
cape"
But are we escaping the fate
feared by Professor T? The pc
culiar curse of Germany was mil,
itarism. Have we escaped? Do
we face the future without dan
ger? Let us see. The majority
of the soldiers, it is true, have
had enough of war. mo other
victorious army ever came home
with such a feeling of disgust, "
said one Watauga soldier, a col
lege man. So far, good. But
this is not all. In a remarkable
sermon recently in the Baptist
Church in Boone, Reverend M
A. Adams declared that the ef
feet of the war on the average
soldier has been decidedly evil
The majority come back with
their finer feelings dulled. TIC
use Mr. Adams own words nine
out of every ten returns with
their spiritual lives in eclipse" A
persistent and in large measure
successful effort has been made
he said, to replace in their minds
the Christian with the Mahome
tan philosophy of life. But was
not just such a dullness of the
finer sensibilities, just such {
lack of appreciation of things
spiritual one of the gravest de
fects of the German civilization?
But this is not the worst eff
feet of the war. These young
men are perhaps only bewilder
ed by the counsels of a Christian
ity that is not Christian, stunned
by contact with a world spirit
ually bankrupt. If given achanc,
they will find themselves. GRAY
er dangers confront us. Secre
tary of War Baker, formerly 4;
pacifist, a charter member of th'
league to limit armaments, il
asking Congress for a standing
army of half a million men and
} what is more alarming, for tin
military training of every boy il
the United States.
General Ansell has shown u
the evils of militarism. The off
! GERS of the American army ar
not by nature bad or cruel men
Yet the atrocities committed b.
5 these officers against their mer
as exposed by Ansell and others
2 make one shudder. Thousand
Z of boys have been sentenced
: practically without a trial, tolon,
4 termsof Imprisonment for petit
e violations of military regulations
= And these are not the wors
n crimes that have been committe
e in the name ofmilitary discipline
The army is a relic of the dar
!, ages; it's methods are therefor
n medieval.
d The bill before Congress wa
S prepared by these same media'
y val-minded army officers. II
= passage means the beginnin
). here of the system that destro.
ed Germany. II we want to b
e come like these we have conque
). ed, we have only to sit still.
a we want to make this war indee
the last war, those of us who a
g in the prime of life, the your
o. men and the young women, mu
bestir ourselves. Those wi
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-09-11
School Attendance Law,

The North Carolina Depart.
ment of Education is taking steps
to enlist the cooperation of the
patrons of the public schools in
the enforcement of the compul-
sorry attendance law. 1t seeks
to enlist the aid of those parents
who send their children to schoo,
the first week of the term. To
these will be furnished blanks
which the parents are asked to
fill and return to the teachers,
concerning children in the dis.
trict who are not in school, to the
end that through the cooperation
of the teachers and those par
ents who themselves are from
the first obeying the law, obser-
vance on the part of others may,
in as many cases as possible, be
obtained without resort to dras.
tic measures.
This seems to be a wise and
diplomatic course. Much should
be accomplished through the en-
listment of the cooperation of
those who are in sympathy with
the law and those charged with
the responsibility to enforce it.
The blanks to be distributed to
parents tell what the law is and
what it requires. 1t is explained
that the law requires all children
between the ages of eight and
fourteen years to attend school
for the entire term unless excus
ed by the teacher or the county
board of education for one or
more of the following reasons:
Sickness of the child or sickness
in the family; physical or mental
incapacity: severe weather; dis.
lance of two and a half miles or
more from the school; poverty;
demands of the farm or home.
1t should be borne inmind that
the mere statement of the parent
regarding these excuses cannot
be born under the law. Proyis-
ion is made for the probation off.
GER, who is usually the superin.
tendant of welfare in the various
counties, to make a complete and
thorough investigation of every
case in which a child is out OF
School for any of the above rea
sons, and the decision is left with
the probation officer to alargeeX
tent to- determine the validity OF
the excuse offered for keeping
the child out of school. Common
sense, of course, will be expected
to be exercised by the officer il
tho enforcement of thelaw.. Sim
pie negligence and carelesness
however, on the part of the pa
rents in sending their children
, to school will not be tolerated by
the department..
It is noted that the State law
does not require children be
, tween the ages of six and eigh
to attend school, but the State
Department urges that the chil(
, should begin school at the sixth
year and attend as regularly al
, possible in order that it may Sc
: cure full advantage of the school
Reports from many communi
ties telling of the opening of TIN
I school term indicate that the Law
J. is. being very well complied with
( as crowded conditions and rec
e Ord-breaking attendance are no
ted in many instance. In Char
s lotte the buildings are overcrow
= ded and holding double daily ses
6 sions in some of the schools, par
;. of the children attending in tn
3 morning and a part in the after
= noon seems to be the only pres
T. ent solution. Charlotte Obser,
:. er.
4 The common people long for tn
N end of war, and the common pei
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of the right of any employe to
j)in any labor organization he
likes. 1t will be recalled that the
Charlotte trouble was due to the
company's dismissal of employees
for joining a union.
The lockout in the various fac.
tories in high Point continues.
Both the manufacturers and the
labOrers have issued statements.
The manufacturers contendthat
everything in the relations of
capital and labor in the furniture
city was perfectly lovely until
the outside agitation" struck
the town. But for the foreigners
one infers from this statement,
the laborers would not have
thought of organizing, and the
manufacturers could have con.
tinued torun things their own way
The laborers' statement calls at.
tention to the fact that the trou.
BILE resulted from fact that the
policy of the manufacturers of
dismissing every laborer W h o
had joined the union. Re
suit: The factories are idle, and
the laborers of practically every
industry in High Point are Or
ganized. Six weeks have passed,
and the trouble became acute,
and the end is not in sight.
The President has called a con-
ference between laborand those
who direct labor" This confer
ence will meet between the fifth
and the tenth of October. The
conference is to find a solution of
the various phases of the labor
question on which employers and
employe can unite. 1t is hoped,
we are told, that the conference
may bolt the development of the
idea of social revolution which, it
is feared, is making considerable
headway among the masses.
One of the first instances of
the recognition of the revolution
ary principle of democracy as ap
piled to the manufacturing in
dustry is to be found in the gov
ernment Rock Island arsenal
harness shops. Actual control
of the production activities a
news item from Washington in
forms US including appointment
of foremen and the distribution
of prices to paid workmen has
been turned over to committees
of employs" The new system
has worked so we'll that it is to
be extended to other depart
ments of the Rock Island arse
nal, and probably to all United
States arsenals.
President Wilson is touring the
country, speaking in the interest
of the peace treaty and league O.
nations. The senate continues
to debate The treaty.
The attempt of a mob of white
men to take from Jail and lyncl
anegro, in Knoxville, Tenn, pre-
cipitated a race riot in which
seven persons were killed. Th'
negro who was charged with as
saulting a white woman had beel
removed to another city befor
the mob broke into the Jail.
Robin j. Cooper, a Nashville
Tenn. attorney, who was tried il
1908 for the murder of Unite
States Senator Carmack, wa
murdered Aug. 80. His bod
was found in a creek. Two al
rests have been made in connec
ton with the murder.
Lenoir county will advertis
Immediately 100000 Of it's 81
100000 road bond issue, voted
few months ago.
The town Of Hickory indin
contract work too high, is pr
pairing to lay sidewalks itself.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-09-11
. Ills RATS

and mice that's Rat-Snap, the old
reliable roden: destroyer. Comes in
cakes-no mixing with other food.
Your money back II II fails.
25c size, cake, enough Tor pantry,
kitchen or cellar.
SOC size, cakes, enough for chick
en- house, coops, or small buildings.
81 size, 5 cakes, enough for all farm
aud outbuildings, storage buildings,
or factory buildings. Sold and guar
antecd by L l. Critcher.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-09-11

You can do some things next
week, but some you cannot.
So don't wait, act now!
Insure your house before it
burns. .
Insure your health before you
get sick.
Insure yeur life before you die
for then it is everlastingly toe
late.
| sell the best policies al uni
veral rates.
Gee. r. BLAIR,
Blowing Rock, N. G..
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-28
FARM AND RANCH LANDS.
Nebraska Lands.
MP EAPMEP pFTD MY

MR.. FARMER READ THIS
160-acre Washington county farm: all
fenced hog tight. at least $4,000 worth
OF improvements; IS acres valley pas
ture, 10 acres alfalfa, balance under
pillow; eight miles from lrvington, five
miles from Bennington: price $40 per
acre; terms. $4,000 will carry back on
farm at 81 per cent; with land selling
at $3.50 to $500 this should look cheap
at this figure; also
Three Douglas county farms:
One 210 acres. good set Of buildings.
so acres of level valley land with 80
acres Of blue grass pasture, 10 acres
alfalfa, five acres natural hay meadow.
balance under pillow; all tillable II de-
sired; price $3.50 per acre. ~ miles
ton; this is close to Omaha and is
priced to sell.
100 acres on Military Road. well Inn
proved and on road soon to be paved:
~ miles east of Elk City. four miles
to Bennington; price $s40 per acre;
carry $4,000 back ON this ono; good
so acres. eight miles to Omaha; good
set OF buildings. nice piece Of alfalfa
In high state of cultivation, one OF our
best buys at $3.50; act quick on this.
so acres IA miles north Of Elkhorn.
be farmed: price $685. per acre.
50 Ia beautiful acres. with good val
ley pasture. about eight acres fine ALI
alta; good stand. no waste land, all
tillable II desired; price $s45 per acre.
~ miles to Bennington; carry $4,000 in
March /; very fine set of buildings; Z
splendid buy at this figure.
We can make terms on all Of the
above: call or address
GRAHAM-PETERS REALTY CO.,
500 Omaha Nat. Bank Bldg,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-28
AUTOMOBILES
For Sale.

For Sale.
USED CARS
1890 FORD COUPE. NEW.
1890 BUICK ~. NEW.
1919 STUFF ROADSTER.
1919 CHEVROLET.
1918 HUDSON sPEEDsTER.
1913 COLE 49," 7-PAsSENGER.
CORD TIRES.
y 1918 OVERLAND COUNTRY CLUB.
1918 COLE rs" ROADSTER.
1918 STUFF, PASSENGER.
1918 sTUDEBAKER "s," 7-PAssEN-
GER.
ls1s OAKLAND. 5-PAssENGER
TOURING.
1918 OAKLAND. :-PAssENGER.
CORD TIRES. H.A
1918 MAXWELL. S-PASSENGER.
1918 SAXON "s," PASSENGER.
1918 BUICK "E," So.
1917 BUICK I'D" IS.
1917 CADILLAC MODEL 49," =
PASSENGER.
1917 COLE 49," NEW SEAT COVERS.
1917 OVERLAND COUNTRY CLUB.
1917 PAIGE. >5-PAssENGER.
1917 APPERsoN. 5-PAssENGER.
1917 HuP MODEL an"
1917 HuP MODEL "K"
1915 CHEVROLET TOURING.
1915 BUICK &C." Is TOURING.
1915 SAXON IS" TOURING.
MEEKS AUTO CO.,
Douglas 64Ss. 20g6 Farnam.
OPEN FROM 8 A. NJ. TO P NJ.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-28
THAYER CO..
FARM

Al AOCI1oN
SEPT. %, MONDAY . p. NJ.
On the above date at Drumming, Neb.,
we will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder regardless price the fol-
lowing described real estate: The s. e.
quarter of Section 2. Township 4, Range
8, Thayer county. Nebraska, containing
100 acres more or less according to
government survey, located miles due
west Of Bruning.
Terms Of Sale: Fifteen per ecent Of
the purchase price CASH day Of sale,
purchaser to assume a mortgage Of
$1,000 due May, 1928, bearing interest at
the rate of per cent payable annually.
Remainder of purchase price March l,
1920. when possession will be given.
Good and sufficient abstract of title to-
gether with warranty deed delivered to
purchaser day Of settlement. Improve
ments: Five-room house, barn 1Sx24
room for s head of horses, NOW for 8
tons of hay, hen house, and other out
buildings. Good we'll and windmill; so
acres under pillow, balance pasture All
fenced and cross fenced. Good black
loan soil land lies level For further
information, address Nebraska Realty
Auction Co., Central City. Neb. Mark
Carraher, Auctioneer NJ. A. Larson,
manager; G. B. Middleton. St Paul.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-28
Minnesota Lands.

IMPROVED 2S0-acre farm In Todd coun-
ty. Mimi. buildings consist of seven
room house. barn, granary. corncrib.
windmill. ETC.; 1870 acres under cultiva-
tion, balance used for meadow and
pasture: no waste land; this farm will
produce good crops of corn. oats, clover.
potatoes, etc.: located only a mile from
railroad town: good soil; would make
a good grain or stock farm; price $3.50
per acre.
sCHwAB BROS.
1928 Plymouth Bldg, Minneapolis. MINI.
That surplus piece of furniture
can be turned into cash by = Bee
Want Ad.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-28

IN ORDER to close partnership. we Of
fer the best mixed farming and stock
ranch in Northwest Nebraska. Located
10 miles to railubad town, one-haH mile
20 school and postoffice, also on good
automobile highway. 20 miles to Cor
don, a good town with $500 people.
This ranch Is highly improved and
well fenced. 1t Is the finest watered
ranch you ever inspected: 100 acres al
falfa, 200 acres finest meadow hay, 100
acres now in crop; 1000 acres of this
ranch Is good crop or alfalfa land, bal
ance In fine pasture. This Is Won
derful place for raising hogs at small
cost. Priced for quick sale, $500 per
acre.
VIII carry sixty thousand dollars back
on this ranch for and 10 years, S and
per cent interest. Deal direct with
owners.
REEFS g. NORTON,
PI1r1inpfnp function Ma
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-28
FARM AND RANCH LANDS.
Oklahoma Lands.
NOW LISTEN TO THIS

Just across the Kansas line on the
great Rock Island route. Chicago to FL
Paso, $50 miles southwest of Kansas
City, there's the county seat Of Texas
county, Oklahoma, called Guymon.
twelve years old. with 1000 population.
mostly from the states Of Illinois. Iowa.
Kansas, Missouri. etc, the central states.
Ten miles further down the line there's
the town Of Goodwill with 500 popula.
ton and contains tho State Agricultural
College, which had 100 students last
year, besides the Animal Husbandry
Farm of 500 acres, both Of which are
carried on by the state.
Our 2,240 acres solid combination stock
and grain farm lies four miles from
Goodwill and nine miles from Guymon.
r the county seat. This combination farm
has 500 acres agricultural land and bal
ance pasture, covered with Buffaio.
Gfamma and Blue Stem grasses. but
mostly Buffalo and Gramma. Improve
ments are five miles of new 3-wire fence,
two wells and windmill 100 acres are
in crop this year. There IL In this VI:
cinity good roads and good farms all
around. Abundance OF the very best
water.
A dandy winter wheat country. Price
$500 per acre, half cash and balance
to suit at 81 per cent. ~
For other details call on or write J.
". Carse 40 Bee Building. Omaha Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-28

COLORADO LAND.
$40 acres 230 acres perfect farm,
land In cultivation and more Is good
which can be put in cultivation; por-
ton rolling pasture land with about
seven springs for stock water; fair i'm
provements; price $3.50 per acre, half
cash by March l. located about Y
miles from a live town on the main
line OF the Union Pacific from Denver
to Kansas City; I consider this as
choice as anything that I have had to
offer In my many years In the land
business.
Would be pleased to furnish further
information.
Have a good half section farm, i'm
proved, in Keith county, Nebraska. at
$50 per acre.
c. K. DAVIES, Kearney, Neb.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-10

THE MARKETING AND UNTIL
IZATION OF CUT-OVER LAND
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-10

for $4,000. The property was owned
by DR.. H. j. Smith, of Moscow, who
recently traded his farm neal Julia
eta for it. The place was formerly
owned by T. G. Dowdy and is well
improved place, with good buildings,
a private water system and makes an
ideal home. Mr.. Sweat came west
seeking a location where there were
good schools. He travelled over the
northwest, spent much time about
Spokane and northern Idaho, lived in
Colfax two weeks and came here and
bought and expects to make his home
here and educate his children. The
deal was made by C. H. Patton, of the
Metropolitan Investment company
in the Urquhart building.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-10

supply the people with wood. Idaho
can therefore continue to be as she is
now one of the great lumber states
of the union, as her timber product
will always be in demand by other
states and other countries engaged in
the production of crops other than
timber.
Income from Forest and Farm Land
Compared.
Moreover, the difference in income
from forest land and farm land is not
so much in favor of the latter as is
commonly believed. For example, ac-
cording to Forest Valuation" by
Hilbert Roth, the average income
from six leading farm crops in Ger
many for the years 1909 to 1913 was
$1,000 per acre gross, and $3.50 net.
Turning to the same country for
figures on incomes from forest lands,
we find that the net income realized
from the state forest of Wurttemberg
was $685. in 1909, $500 for Saxony
in 1911, $3.50 for Bavaria in 1909,
and $2.9S for Prussia in 1911. These
figures are the average for large
acreages varying from one-half mil
lion to over six million acres. Thus
it will be zen that the state forest
lands of Wurttemburg and Saxony
are as profitable as the farm lands
in those states, though the forests
occupy the poorer soil The lower in
come derived from the forests of
Bavaria and Prussia is accounted for |
by the fact that the forests occupy
sandy soils Of poor quality, and that
forest management there is less eff
Forestry and National Defense
Do you realize that of all the ma
essential to the prosecution of
warfare, wood is the only one whose
cannot be readily in
or speeded up?
In the war just closed, this country
put on a campaign for food produc-
lion which resulted in unprecedented
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-10

supplies. We were able to increase
the output Of our mines to a point
which met the demands for mineral
products. Our ship building program
brought results unparalleled, and in
the realization of an airplane fleet
was only a little tardy. We were
even able to build up in eighteen
months from raw recruits an army
which proved itself invincible. But
If France had not begun the practice
OF forestry a century or more ago,
the allies would have stood to lose
the war for want of wood; for neither
England 0 Italy had a reserve
timber supply, and the timber of the
T.. S. was unavailable for lack of the
ships to carry it. 1t fell to the lot
Of France, therefore, to supply the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-10
Starts Saturday, July 18th
Just an Inkling, for Many More Await Your Plea.

$500 Rib Union Suits for. ST.
$3.50 Rib Union Suits for. Sd
$3.50 Rib Union Suits .S3.2
Two-piece Rib and ......7