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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14

North Carolina Watanga County. In
the Superior court, before the clerk.
T. L. Bingham and wife Zillie Bing-
ham, Jas. II. Bingham, w. II. Bing-
ham and wife Bessie Bingham, Verta
Hayes and husband Grady Hayes,
Minnie Prcsnell and husband Vanc5
Prcsncll, Coy Bingham, Ralph Bing-
ham, Mary Bingham. Ruth Bingham,
Albert Bingham and Elliot Bingham,
the last three named by their next
friend John r. Brown against Paul
Madron. Ruth Madron, Horace Mad
ron and Ethel Madron.
The defendants in the above entitled
action will take notice that on the -
day of July 1919, Il summons in said
action was issued by O. J.. Coilcy
Clerk of the Superior Court for Wa
;auea County, the plaintiffs asking
for the sale of land Tor partition, il
Watauga county, North Carolina, il
which defendants have an interest
which summons is rcturnable on thu
25Lh day of August 1919. The defcn
dants will also take notice that the,
are required to appear and answer OF
dcmur to the petition OF the plaintiff
at the time and place named for til,
return of the summons, or the relic
demanded will be granted. Thi, 23rt
day of July 1919.
o. L. COFFEY, c. S. c
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
Sheep The Litter.

The Golden Hoof is a mortgage
litter. That this is true is being
proven all over North Carolina
wherever the practice of sheep
raising is being revived, says the
cooperative extension service.
In Davie county Mr.. w. F.
Reece, the county agent, found
the farm of Mr.. S. A. Wood,
ruff one of the most profitable
ventures in sheep yet recorded.
Mr.. Woodruff has always kept
from 90 to 30 head in his flock,
and on the first of this year he
clipped 1, 52l pounds of WOO |
from "a animals, which he sold
for Is cents pound, making a
total of STA. He sold SIG worth
of lambs, realizing in all a total
cash income of $3.50 from his
small ilock. The wool clip easily
pays for all feed and care given
the flock.
Even more profitable was the
flock of Mr.. f, O. Helper, who
had 43 sheep on the first of the
year, and though he only clipped
six pounds of wool per animal
he sold a total of 25S pounds al
Is cents, realizing Sl03.50, or ar
average of $3.50 per animal. This
amount easily takes care of al
feed and care given the flock
Now, as to the profits. He sole
45 lambs at an average of $40 pei
head, making $3.50. Later ht
sold 20 Gull ewes for 5000. Thi.
gave him a total of $3.50 as a clea
profit on handling a small farm
flock this year. and he now ha.
% fine animals to begin the sea
son next spring.
According to the Extension
workers of the State College ant
Departmental Agriculture, thes'
instances prove the argument
which has been long advanced
that sheep raising isprofitable il
} North Carolina: thatthey requir
only a minimum amount, G
care and attention, and that tn
returns are vastly out of propol
ton to the trouble and expens
incurred. Landmark.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
Confsdsrts Reunion.

The Annual Reunion of Camp
Nimrod Triplet, No. 1878, of Wa
tauga county, will be held in
Boone on Thursday and Friday be.
fore the fourth Sunday in Au.
gust, it being the 2lst and 22nd
days of the month, all the old
comrades of 81 to '65 Come, if a.
Bile, and let us have a social reun.
ion, for, In a short time there
will be none to meet. We will all
have passed over the River of
death. There will be program
prepared for the Reunion.
Capt. E. j. NORRIS,
Per w. w. PREsNELL.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
Loss of Appetite.

As a general rule there is moth
ing serious about loss of appe-
tite, and if you skip amealOronly
eat two meals a day for a few
days you will soon have a relish
for your meals when meal time
comes. Bear in mind that at
least five hours should always e.
lapse between meals so as to give
the food ample time to digest
and the stomach a period Of rest
before a second meal is talhn.
Then if you eat no more than you
crave and take a reasonable am
ount of outdoor exercise every
day you will not worry about
your appetite. When the loss OF
appetite is caused by constipa-
tion as is often the case, that
should be corrected at once. A
dose of Chamberlain's Tablets
will do it.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
Well Improved Carter County Farm for
Sale on Easy Terms,

You can buy direct from the under
signed ovn ner $50 acre farm on the
State Line Highway-one and a hall
miles from Elizabcthton, Tenn. with
reasonable cash payment and on long
and easy payments for the balance of
purchase price.
All of farm is high class red lime.
stone land. 100 acres of which is in
clover and grass. Good crop of wheat
and oats just taken off. Nice corn
crop on land at this time. 50 acres OF
this land has been well lined. I'm.
provements consist of new cottage
house and small barn, and place is
watered by same spring as supplies
Elizabethton. This land will grow
blue grass, clover, corn, hay or any
thing you want to plant on it, and you
can buy at the right price.
j. NJ. LACY.
ElizahpthtOn Tenn
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14

j. A. Reed, formerly ofWatau-
ga, now of Eldorado, Kansas, in
remitting for a years subscrip'
ton, writes that last year he re-
allied from half acre Of tomatoes
the sum Of $4,000, and the crop
he is now gathering, from the
same plot promises to yield at
least $4,000 worth of the succu'
lent fruit.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
Former watauga Boy Changes Office In
Nevada.

Mr.. Shober j. Rogers, former
iy of Watauga, has resigned his
position as Register of the Land
Office at Carsen City, Nevada,
and has accepted a position with
the State TaxCommisSion, which
will consume only a part Of his
time. However. he owns a very
remunerative farm near Fallon,
that State, and will live thereon.
The Democrat is glad indeed to
hear of the continued success of
the worthy gentleman.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
Mules For Sale.

I have for sale 4 pairs of fine
young mules, ranging in age
from one to five years old. None
better in the county. If on the
market for good stock. See me,
j. F. BAIRD,
Vale Crhcis, N. G.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
Memorial Services.

There will be preaching and
memorial service at the Haga'
man grave yard on Broshy Fork
on the 4th Sunday in Aug. 1919.
All who have relatives or friends
buried there, who desire to do
50, can come and place flowers
on their graves in loving memory
of them.
W. w. PRESNELL.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
STATE NEWS

Railroad shopmen are on a
strike at Raleigh, Rocky Mount,
Fayetteville Hamlet, Spencer, Po-
mona, Asheville and Newbern.
Judge Pell, of the State Corpo.
ration, announces that the old
telegryh rates will be restored
''as soon as business conditions
adjust themselves"
The increase in cotton mills in
North Carolina for the year end
ing July 81, was by far the grea.
test in the history of the State.
Castor county leads.
The Chicago Herald-Examiner
telegraphed Gov. Beckett h a t
many Chicago negroes are anx-
ious to returned to the South and
Inquired how many North Caro-
lima could absorb. The Governor
replied in substance that North
Carolina is good place for the
negro who wants to work and has
no extravagant political and So
cial aspirations.
After an hour and a half of
heated discussion the Press AS
sociation at it's recent meeting at
Wrightsville Beach hadopted res
olution commencing the covenant
of the league of nations.
The Negro State Hospital at
Goldsboro was damaged by the
recent floods to the amount of
more than $4,000.
The yearly meeting of the
North Carolina Society of Friends
(Quakers) was held at Guilford
College, Aug. Ali.
Measuring worms are destroy
ing the soy bean crop east of Raj.
eigh. Damages far above a quar-.
ter of a million are reported.
Arthur L. Deal of Mooresville
has been appointed to direct the
1920 census for this district.
Effort to place a memorial tab.
let at the entrance to Pisgah for,
est in honor of the late Geo. w.
Vanderbilt will be made during
the fall.
The premium list for the Cald.
we'll County Fair, Oct. 7-.10, are
being distributed.
Lenoir special to Greensboro
News. There are two flower
beds lin town which attract the
attention and admiration of all
lovers of the beautiful, and which
demonstrates the beautifyingf fea
ture of the WOmen's Bettermen'
Association. The president of the
association here, however, calls
attention to the fact that two la
dies who are members of the 10
cal organization are entitled tc
the honor of the work. The flow
er garden on the corner of South
Main and Harper avenue ha.
been looked after exclusively by
Mrs. j. l.. Nelson and the one or
the new post Office lot by Mrs
M. M. Courtney.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14


responsibility for operating and
transportation properties. Then
and then only, will the service
primarily be for the public, not
primarily for profits to specula.
tors and inflators of capital. AS
a means for accomplishing this
end, we ask that that a lease be
granted to a corporation created,
not for profit, but for public ser.
vice. We ask that this corpora.
ton be controlled in it's manage
ment by an equal representation
of the three fundamental inter
ests upon which industry is bas.
ed. The public, operating man.
ayers and wage earners will then
guarantee both the integrity of
the investment required fer the
conduct of the industry and that
return which induces it by in.
vesting to enter the public ser,
vice."
A referendum conducted a.
mong business men by the Uni.
ted States chamber of commerce
shows SO per centofthem against
government ownership.
On the fourth a Dutch steamer
entered the Wilmington harbo1
bringing the first potash from
Europe since 1915. This potash
came from the Alsatian fields
now in the possession of France.
At the meeting of the North
Carolina Bar Association in
Greensboro, the president, E. F.
Aydlett, of Elizabeth City, re.
commended the abolition of re-
corder's courts, the reduction OF
the number of grandjurors to 12,
and of petit jurors to Z, and the
building at Raleigh of a perma
nent meeting place for the asso
citation.
On the fifth a conference of the
commission of Public Welfare
and various employers of chill
dren under fourteen years old
was held in Raleigh, for the pur
pose of formulating rules for the
enforcement of the child labor
law passed by the last Legisla
ture. The State Department O
Education has announced tha
the law, of which the child labor
law is a part, requiring every
child between the ages of eigh
and fourteen years to attent
school for the full length of thu
term in his home district will bt
enforced to the letter.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14

Messrs. Sam r. and W. II. Jur-
ney, of Iredell county, were visi-
tors at the home of their sister,
Mrs. Il. G.. Rivers, over Satur-
day, returning to t h e i rhome
Sunday.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
Summer Complaint in Children

Summer Complaint In Cnlldren.
There is not anything like so
many deaths from this disease
now as before Chamberlain's Col.
ic and Diarrhoea Remedy came
nto such general use. When this
remedy is given with castor oil
as directed and proper care is
taken as to diet. it is safe to say
that fully 80 out of every 100 ca,
scs recover. Mr.. w. G. Campbell
of Butler, Tenn, says. II have
used Chamberlain's Colic, Chole.
ry and diarrhoea Remedy for
summer complaint in children.
1t is far ahead of anything have
ever used for this purpose"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
VOL. XXX.
7 Y E " { ( K.


to discuss the peace treaty and
the league of nations. The proba,
bic final course of the Senate is
indicated in a resolution agreed
upon by group of seven sena.
tors. This resolution favors rat
ifcation with certain reserya-
tions, the chief of which are that
the military or economic forces
of the United States may be used
to carry into effect the League of
Nations only by the action of Con-
gress; that the Monroe Doctrine
is not to be affected by the trea-
ty; that the United States retain
complete jurisdiction overall do.
mestic and political questions re-
lating to it's internal affairs, in
cluding immigration, cOastwise
traffic, commerce, and all other
purely domestic questions"
Congress has again passed a
bill repeating the day light saving
law. 1t now goes tothe President
1t is freely predicted that he will
veto the bill ashe did before when
presented as a rider to the agri-
cultural bill.
A widespread strike of rail
road shopmen has threatened to
demoralize, if not to tie up com
pletely, the railway transporta-
ton of the whole country. The
strikers demand increase in wa
ges to meet the constantly in
creasing cost of living.
The demand of the railway
shopmen has called attention to
the general high cost of living,
and the various departments of
the United States government
have been seeking remedy. I'm
mediate sale, direct to thepeople,
of all surplus army food has been
ordered. The Senate passed a
resolution asking it's banking
committee whether a reduction
in the amount of money in circu.
lation would help. The President
asked the House to give up its
months vacation to consider the
question. Agents of the Depart
ment of Justice are instructed tC
ferrit out hoarders of necessa
ries and profiteers. The director
OF the grain corporation announ
ced that steps would be taken tC
soil -four in car lots in any com
munity ataprice of not more thar
five dollars per hundred. Any
loss in maintaining the guaran
teed price of wheat will be borne
by the government. All this has
already born fruit in sharp de
cline in the price of corn.
But the most far.reaching pro
posal comes from organized la
Dor. In a statement addressed tt
the American public the Railwa.
Brothe rhood of Engineers, fire
men and conductors, and the A
merican Federation of Labor for
mally demand that private capi
tai be retired from the control o
the railroads and that tripar
tite control, composed of the EN-
ployees, the operating manage
ment and the public be formed.
The following paragraphs cor
tain the gist of the proposal:
eve demand that the owner
of capital, who represent onl
financial interest as distinguish
ed from operating brains and er
ergy be retired from manage
ment, receivin g governmer
bonds with fixed interest rt
turn for every honest dollar tina
they have invested in the railwa
industry. We ask that the raj
roads of the United States /
vested in the public; that thos
actually engaged in conductin
that industry, not from wa
street, but from the railroad OF
ces and yards and out on the raj
road lines, shall take charge
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
+. A. LINNEY,
NJ. b. BLACKBURN
|, G., GREER

r. 3. MOORE, Mayor.
The commissioner having let the
contract for the building of the said
side walks, before sale of said bonds
and it being necessary to borrow mon
ey ior said work until said bonds are
sold. the treasurer Is directed and enl-
powered to borrow an amount not ext
cccding 100000 for said work, for 30
days or longer II necessary, not cx'
cceding 90 days from the Watauga
County Bank or elsewhere and have
the towns note executed therefor. On
motion it is ordered by the board that
concrete culvert be constructed by
our contractor across the street at the
branch near the depot and that the
work he done according to the plans
and specifications OF our engineer and
under his supervision. 1t is further
ordered, on motion, that the work on
the side walks begin at the branch
west of Blackbnrns on the south side
of King Street.
1t is further ordered on motion that
the county teams be employed and the
county work force be employed to
do the grading on the streets and side
walks at such places as the engineer
may direct. That rock culvert be
constructed across the street at the
branch below the jail and that said
street be graded by the county road
force, il it can be employed.
1t is further ordered on motion that
a copy OF the resolution above set out
be published in the Watauga Demo-
crat for 30 days. On motion the meet
ing adjourned. This Aug. !, 1919.
F.. A. LINNEY,
M. B. BLACKBURN
/. G. GREER,
Commissioners.
T. B. MOORE, Mayo.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-08-14
NOTICE OF SUMMONS.

Elizabcthton, Tenn.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-03
Peace Room Scenes; The Hun Altitude

France combatsthe world interests of Great Britain, and then, when the mastery has secured in these particular directions, being in position O challenge the United States itself.
 I have the best being in this endeavor the Germans have immediate pros pect of
 President Wilson. sgnatory to the treaty, will go back on his written word suffering under a grave illusion.
 The American delegation in realizes in again predominant.
 Therefore America is Joining with France and Great Britain in defensive alliance It is more than possible that something the lines will be adopted in regard to industry.
 Germany must have Impressed her the of her iniquies. She it soaked into raise armanlents which will menace the peace the world; indeed, she be brought to derstand that the rules of the future world will be for her very much the for other nation.
 allowed under a bolstered sys- tenn of outside finance to endeavor to snow British Industry under which has been seriously affected through the actions of
 I away from the Trianon Palace Hotel Versailles Wednesday and regretful that the first German spokesman addressing Brit in conference, should have displayed demeanor of arrogance
 But we know now hat aims frustrate and ultimately to destroy ami of isolating Britain from the rest of the diplo- matc world.
 My chief purpose today. therefore, urge upon my readers to be their guard against those bad business. We had better leave ged edges to it.
 We have o finish the job may a but it has to be done. It is better that t than that the world should less than a generation hence. be faced another mighty and horrible struggle.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-03
AUSTRIAN REPUBLIC HAS NO RELATION TO HAPSBURG EMPIRE ITS
 SPOKESMAN SAYS TO CONFERENCE

to our people, nor curtail, the inalien- able right of self determination, which the associated powers have all ways proclaimed to be the very aim of their war waged against the Haps- burg and the Hohenzollern monarch ies, a right which our people, conf1d- ing in the principles recognized by the Allied powers, have adopted as a Fundamental basis of their new con- stitution.
 We trust that the worlds com mon sense will not have in view nor will permit our economic ruin. The destruction of the economic unit of the monarchy, the separation of our mountainous country from all its na tional resources has condemned us, the last six months, to privations which are by far exceeding the suf- ferings endured in war time. It was only due to the generous relief ac- ton organized by MT. Hoover, on resolutions passed by the allied pow ers that we have been saved from downright starvation.
 "We know that we had to receive reacc from your hands-from the hands of victors. but we are firmly resolved conscientiously to weigh each and every proposition laid be- fore us and any advice offered by you to us.
 We pray for a decision which will insure for all our national, political and economic existence"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-03
Ccontinued from Page One)

prison for its people. She is. alas, the unfortunate vi,tim of that horrt- bie crime of 191{-u crime committed by the former government, however, and not by the people.
 "On thc other hand, all the sue ceedlng states have in the light of in ternatioual law come into existence after the cessation of hostiiities en- tirely.
 ''Thc German Austrian republic in it's present shape, has never declared war. never carried on a war and, in relation with the western powers, never had the position of a warning power from an international point Of view. And there could be no doubt as to the fact that our republic never was al war with the new national states. On the contrary, in Vienna various commissions appointed by the succeeding states have met to set tie the estate left by the late empire, anf to divide in mutual agreement among themselves all the rights and assets Of this estate.
 We. are before yOu as one of tho parts of the vlnquishcd and fallen empire. We assume our portion of the liabilities growing out of these other relations to the Allied powers. and we are well aware of the Sact that our flute is resting in your hands
 ''Wc hope and believe that the con seiorcc of the world shall not deny
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-03
OFFICIALS VERIFY TRUTH OF
 ARMENIAN GIRL SURVIVORS
 CHARGES OF TURK B.ARBARISIf
Sensational Experience of Only Sur vivor of 5OO,OOO Deported Girls Are Pictured In Auction
 of Souls /

Auction of Souls" which opened last night at the Park theatre has the unusual distinction of having a leading woman who actually enacted the original scenes which the motion picture reproduces. Miss Aurora Mardiganian, the girl who has the leading role, is not a motion picture actress, but was induced to act for the films just what she personally pass ed through in Armenia in 1915.
 Miss Mardiganian's ineXperience before the camera is not apparent in the picture for she holds up her own end as well as any of the regular ac- tors. Perhaps her art is that born of the vivid memory of the horrible scenes through which she passed be- fore escaping from her native land to come to America for further relief.
 She is the daughter of a former prosperous banker at Harpout, and was 13 years old when the war broke out Being a beautiful girl she at- tracted Turkish official who wished to make her his wife, imposing upon her his own religion and the lowly state of Turkish women.
 Her father refused to give her up. When the massacres of the Arme- nians started, carried on by the Turks under a secret agreement with the Germans, the Mohammedans made further efforts to get possession of the girl. After seeing her father, mother, two brothers and three sis ters brutally slain, she entered upon a series of adventures which prove that life may be more exciting than the widest dream of the fictionist-
 She goes through an untold success sion of horrible scenes, escapes from the Turks, is captured by the wild KurdS of the desert, sold as a slave, put in a harem, takes refuge with monks, and at last is saved by the British who sent her to America where she has talked and written of and finally acted out her experiences.
 In Auction of Souls,' which is the story of her narrowing years in Ar menia, every detail of the story fol- lows the actual experiences of Miss Mardiganian, and the report to the United States, of Viscount James Bryce, former English ambassador to the United States, who directed the investigation of the Armenian atroci- ties.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-03
OBITUARY
HARRY H. LANE.

The funeral of Harry H. Lane was held this morning at 10 o'clock from his late home, 121 High street, and at 10?30 o'clock from St. Augustine $ church where a high mass of re- quiem was celebrated by Rev. Joseph Ganley. The church choir sang Schmidt's mass and Miss Mae Flaher- ty sang an Ave Maria" and "Reauti- ful Land On High" was sung by Mrs. Harry You'd. There was a large at tendance and many beautiful flowers. The pallbearers were William Scully, Robert Gibson, Henry McKeon, Hen ry shannon, Sylvester Mccarthy and George Kelly. Interment was in St. MichaePs cemetery. where the com initial service was read by Rev. J. B. NihiI