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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06
An 0Id.fashIoned Worker.

A man has been at work on our
disreputable old back fence late,
ly, replacing the rotted posts,
substituting new 2x4s for those
whose usefulness is purely his
toric and putting in new upright
boards where they are needed.
This man has a regular job down
town and is in a position to re.
pair fences only after 5 o'clock
in the afternoon. At that hour
he appears and works away with
hammer and saw and right good
will until darkness puts an end
to his labors. He is doing an ex-
cellent job and seems to enjoy do
ing it. We never knew a more
cheerful worker, though he has
not time to talk much with gen.
tlemen of sedendary pursuits.
He is ambitious to make all the
money he can and he is getting
ahead in the world by doing ex.
ira work whenever he can fndit.
He seems to us far happier now
and far likelier to be happy inthe
future than if he we're idling a
bout, holding out for 20 cents
more an hour or for a six-hou1
day. Charlotte Observer.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06
Seventh Grade Examination

The following are the students
that passed the county seventh
grade examination:
Eula G. Fletcher, Odell r. Ben
field, Dora A. Shell, Gladys Swift,
Blanche Williams, Alta Ruth Nor
ris, Ona Farthing, Leota Sue
Norris, Hazel Norris, Allen Ash
ley, Maude G ragg, Howard Gragg
James Tugman, Donley Bumgar-
ner, Victor Cooke, Elsie Earth
ing, Gordon Winkler, Verna
Gragg, Ruth Cottrell, Mary Nor
ris; Hoy Norris, Edna Norris,
Pearl Cowles, Stuart Beach, Ad-
die Cotrey, Joe W. Cowles, Mary
o. Triplett, Grady l.. Michael,
Eftie Baird, Alma Texie Davis,
Matte Mae Williams, Earline
Greene, Lee Roark, Lloyd Eggers
Lula Austin, Annie Haynes, Ed
ma Winkler, Coils Austin, Edna
Sheriff., FlorenceGreene, George
Cooke, Naomi Vines, Fonso Tes-
ter, Dixon Rowe, Grady Tester,
Cloy Harmon, James Shipley,
Phil Mast, James Taylor, Cor
don Taylor, Anna Mae Sherwood
Mary Lizzie Horton.
All the above student will re.
ceive a diploma of graduation Of
seventh grade work completed.
These diplomas will be signed by
county superintendent, county
board of education and teacherin
charge of the school that gave
the several examinations. Satur.
day, May the twenty. ninth, is the
date fixed for this graduation
and the awarding of these diplo
mas in Boone. These students
will receive their grades within
the next few days.
WILEY G. HARTZOG.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06
Price Mark Thing Of Past.

How many people enter a store
today and ask the price of the
commodity wanted before they
actually make the purchase?
Isn't the tendency rather to Sc
lect the goods, then hand out a
bill in payment? We are more
concerned now with getting what
we want than in saving in our
purchases. The Raleigh News
and Observer notes that the
price mark has disappeared with
in the past five years, since it is
apparent that the people gener-
ally are notinterested in the price
50 long as they can get what
they want. Speaking of this The
News and Observer says:
There is but one conclusion.
The people are less intent on sa-
wing the pennies by less buying
than they used to be, and it isn't
a good sign. We may argue as
long as we like that it is because
money to buy with is more abun.
dant, but as long as we complain
of high costs it is apparent that
money is not abundant enough
to let it get away from US until
we are sure we have received the
value. The owner Of the big cor.
poration does not bny that way
He will figure over the 10Th of a
cent a pound on a shipment Of
cotton, or ten cents a ton on phos
phate rock, and earn his salary
by getting that ten cents cut II
two if not thrown of, and be hap
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06
Or. N. T. Morphsw Passes.
Marion Progress, q.

Marion Progress, %.
DR., M. f. Morphew, who died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Fred Paxton, in Savannah, Ca,
on last Friday, was brought to
Marion for burial. The funeral
was conducted at the Methodist
church Sunday afternoon and at
tended by a very large number
of friends of deceased. Rev. w.
l.. Hutchinson, assisted by the
other pastors of the town, con.
Quoted the services, the Masons
conducting the services at the
grave.
DR.. Morphew was one of the
most widely known citizens of
Mcdowell county. He came to
this section in young manhood.
He was held in high esteem by
the people of the entire county
for his skill and ability as a doc.
tor. 1t is said that the weather
was never too bad nor the trip
too long for DR.. Morphew.
DR.. Morphew was a man Of
a very kind disposition and loyal
to his friends. He was never
known to refuse aid to any one Of
his friends applying to him for
it.
Mrs. Morphew preceded her
husband to the grave a number
of yeas ago. The couple was
greatly devoted and DR.. Nor
phew had never been quite the
same man since his wife's death.
Besides a host of friends and
distant relatives, DR.. Morphew'is is
survived by two sons, Frank and
Robert, of Marion, and one dau-
ghter, Mrs. Paxton, with whom
he spent his last days. The sym.
pathy of the entire community is
extended to the relatives in their
hour of bereavement.
[Dr. Morphew was for quite a
while a resident of Boone. He
Married Miss Julia Bryan of ou1
town, who died some years ago.
He leaves many friends and rela
tives in Watauga who will hear o.
his death with sorrow. Dem.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06
Magazine Advocates Negro for PrsnIdsnt.

Two important negro move
ments are on in this country,
says H. E. c. Bryan, Washington
correspondent to the Charlotte
Observer. The one has forits pur'
pose the juggling Of delegations
at the Chicago convention and
the other the melting Of the bad
element of the colored race to
raist the whites.
North Carolina, South Carroll
ma, Georgia, Mississippi and Ala
bana negro delegations will 60
to the Republican convention to
make trouble for Hiram Johnson
and other candidates the o. d
guard do not want.
Lots Of money is being used in
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06

the Republican pre'convention
campaign. Every contest like the
one now going on results in two
sets of Republican delegates
from the South. At the present
rate this will be the prize year
for contesting colored delega-
tionS.
The attention of ithe depart
ment of justice has been called to
a very bitter article in the Chal-
lenge magazine, a negro publica-
ton of New Yoak. The editor of
the periodical advocates a negro
for President. He talks about
powder boxes" and asks rs it
a solemn fact that in free Ameri-
ca a black man alone because he
is black must wade in blood to
obtain title to what he has won
by right of franchise?
The department of justice sus-
poets the reds of backing someof
the outbursts Of the Northern
negro. The Challenge Magazine
says: Even the negro is learn
ing the battle hymn ofstruggles.
''Hecondemned Russia once be,
cause he did not quite under
stand. He never knew the truth.
As it creeps out he is Selling it
bit by bit, learning to look on Le-
nine and Trotzky as empire and
civilization builder. Fight on, We
struggling masses; let your prop,
aganda bolts strike every spo
where one black man abides. Ye
white under dog and black must
mount up together"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06
WHAT IS THE
MATTER WITH
THAT CHILD?
WHEN CHILDREN GROW PALEAND
LISTLESS THEIR BL 0OD
MAY BE WEAK
p:pTo:AAASAA MAKES RED DLoop.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS IN LIQUID AND
TABLET FORM BOTH THE SAME
IN MEDICINAL QUALITY

When your child loses color,
acts and talks without spirit and
does not play like other children,
act quickly.
If the condition is not a deep
seated disease but merely due to
poor blood, give Pepto- Mangan.
Guides Pepto. .Mangan is just the
tonic for pale, thinchildren whose
blood needs rebuilding. 1t is a
pleasant tasting, simple combina-
ton of exactly the ingredients
that increase and enrich the
blood.
Beneficial results show almost
at once in brighter eyes, bloom
ing cheeks, a sprightly step and
the whole system made more Wig.
orOus.
Pepto- Mangan Is obtainable in
liquid or tablet form, whichever
proves most convenient. Both
forms possess identical medici-
nal qualities.
There is but one genuine PEP
to. .Mangan and that is Guides.
Ask your druggist for Guides"
and look for the name Guides"
on the package. If it is not there.
it is not Pepto- Mangan. ADV.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06
Food Famine Feared.

| t>ON W. w. ~ O~ANc0
carried to Washington of the pros
poets for decreased food produc-
ton, due to the scarcity of farm
labor. Senator's and members of
the house who have recently re-
Gently returned to the capital,
says Washington dispatch, are
very pessimistic over the food
situation.
Senator Ellison D. Smith, of
South Carolina, who is just back
from a trip through the South,
predicts that the country will
soon be face to face with t h e
most serious food famine in its
history. Thousand and thousands
of acreshitherto given over to the
production of food. stuffs are ly-
ing idle and ,unfurrowed in the
states he visited.
Similar reports have been made
by Senator Cooper, of Kansas,
and Senators from others of the
great food producing states.
Senator Smith declares t h a t
while the amount of farm labor
last year was "a per cent of the
normal, this year it is only y per
cent of normal, and is of an age
and character which are not con-
ducive to the highest productive
ty.
The only remedy, in Senator.
Smiths opinion, is for the manu-
facturers of articles not classed
as necessities to suspend opera
tions for a time and permit the
labor to go back to the farms.
He has found that out of the
thousands of farm boys who went
into the military service during
the war only a small percentage
have gone back to agricultural
labor. The bulk of them have
found in the cities work which
is more attractive and more re-
munerative. If work of this kind
could be dropped for a short per-
iod, Senator Smith believes that
many of the farm boys would 60
back to the country.
Senator Smith intends to ad-
dress the senate on the subject
some day this week. Discussing
the situation today he said:
"I am having tabulated the fig,
ures showing the percentage of
farm boys who went to war and
the percentage W h o returned.
The figures so far are simply
startling. In the states of the
south, which 1 visited, especially
Georgia and South Carolina, not
a furrow has been turned in the
fields which have been depended
on heretofore for big crops.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06

obviously are not obliged to econ
omize can do great deal toward
setting an example which the
less fortunate would be glad to
follow.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06
Doctor Says Liquors Are Not Essential

VvItuI SoyS l'quVIS AiS Nvt ISSe"''a'
DR.. Howard Kelly of Baltimore
appeared before the Legislature
of Delaware and issued the fol-
lowing statement opposing the
move to repeal the Klair law,
which forbids using whiskey in
filling prescriptions:
First, that when I was young
practitioner. alcohol was univer-
sally given in almost all diseases;
that in practically every one of
these it has been finally abandon
ed as routine treatment; that it
was in realty a relic of the bar
barous blood letting age of medi-
cine. Most of the far-sighted
and best men in the profession
declare against it, notably Frank
Billings of Chicago and Charles
Mayo of Rochester, Wis, the lat
ter declaring that the only field
of alcohol today lies in the arts
and sciences. 1t has been pro.
nounced against in the American
Medical Association and whiskey
and brandy have been deleted
from the pharmacopoeia.
Second, that even though USE
full in rare occasional cases, the
dangers of abuse of the privilege
of prescribing these alcoholic po-
tations vastly outweigh any pos
sible problematic good. The per-
mission given by the United
States government of a pint ev-
cry ten days is, in my view, folly
and degrading to the medicalpro-
fession, as this act has no posi-
BILE relation to medical use of al
cohol. The act simply turns doc
tors into bartenders. The abuse
is illustrated by the citation of
one doctor who wrote 1000 whis-
key prescriptions in "a hours.
II insist, therefore, it is bet
ter for the few to suffer than. for
the whole nation to run the sligh-
test risk of losing out in the bat
tie with the greatest national foe,
John Barleycorn.
"One of the leading physicians
present at the hearing declared
that we might just as well pro,
hibit the manufacture and sale of
razors because men sometimes
cut their thrOats with razors. l
replied that if each year 100000
men cuts their throats with ra-
lors, then the gorernment would
rest under the moral obligation
to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of razors.
Third, the Delaware law was
read and it was shown that it ac-
tually allows the prescription of
alchohol. Now, if 80 per cent al.
chohol is diluted to the alchoholic
strength of whiskey or brandy
this drug can then be used ex.
actly as these potables and with
the same psychological effect. II
is the alchoholic content of the
fluid with which the doctors are
concerned in their treatments.
closed with the most earnest pc
titiOn knew how to address to the
medical profession to suffer al
apparent wrong in order to elm
mate this great nationwide ini
guilty, that we might devote our
selve to the higher constructive
problems in medical statesman
ship and in the broad paths o
preventive medicine"
a. l.. "A
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06

count for nothing. Money is too
easy to get Therefore it's too as.
sy to let go.-Concord Times.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-05-06

DIV when he has done it. But to
the average buyer a few cents
The Washington times., 1920-05-11
HAPPENINGS In SOCIETY
Folks Hosts at Dinner-Mrs. Scott Is
Decorated

Boai are receiving congratulations on
the birth OF a daughter, Mathilde. on
saturday, May !. Mr. and Mrs. boal
were married In Paris during the
formers service overseas. He has
beep connected with the American
embassy at Mexico City, and recently
came 20 Washington for duty In the
state Department. Mrs. Bosl was
formerly Mile. de Mention. OF Paris.
Thomas Watt Gregory viii return
to Washington today after spending
month in Texas. and will Join Mrs.
Gregory at the Lafayette Hotel
where they have an apartment They
spent the early part OF the winter
at the Dewey Hotel. moving TO the
Lafayette some weeks ago. Miss Jane
Gregory is now with her mother.
Miss Anna Hsmlin. who returns
from a visit to Boston Sunday eve
ming. has as her guest Miss Tracy
Lyon OF New York. Miss Lyon will
remain with Miss Hamlin for two
or three weeks and will attend the
horse show with her. Mrs Hamlin
will remain In Boston for several
weeks
Hector Ayerza. attachs of the Ar
gentine embassy, has gone to white
sulphur Springs, w. Va for q brief
stay.
Mrs. Margaret Monteiro Berry has
ragut after spending the latter part
Of the winter In North Carolina.
Continued on Page ssvsntesn-)
The Washington times., 1920-05-11

Goods purchased during this week
are subject to the following conditions:
First-No G. 0. DIS.
Second-No goods returnable.
Third-No goods on approval.
Fourth-No goods exchanged.
The Washington times., 1920-05-11
Mrs, yroomnp to Lecture.

Mrs Carl II. Vrooman. wife Of the
former Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture, will deliver special lecture
on her war experiences In France
~ the Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason
House. 1905 Twentieth street north.
most on Friday at p. m. The gem
erai public, as we'll as local members
q, the ID. A. r., are invited to attend.
Mrs yrooman is the guest OF her
mother, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott.
~, opd Mrs. Albert Douglas left
1t morning by motor for New York,
90 viii sail on the Celtic Saturday,
'aL,ng their car with them. Their
nassnort includes England, France,
| "a switzerland, and they expect TO
1 return here in october.
49,. .a Mra PierrA dA LaRArda
The Washington times., 1920-05-11
Profit Sharing Week
Effective Monday, May 10th

and continuing throughout the week we will
hold our Annual Profit-Sharing Event. This
is the one week set apart in the year for the
sole benefit of our Patrons and Employees.
A discount of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
523 Kansas Ave.
Tel. 1891

We have a good list of farms,
suburbans. and city property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
ANTI-CGARET CAMPAIGN
Superintendent Wooster Spreads Prop
uganda Thru State.


uganda Thru State.
The anti-cigaret campaign is being
carried to every district school house
in the state by Miss Lorraine Wooster,
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton. Posters depicting 1.-The seven
stages of the cigaret user have been
sent to all county superintendent in
the state with instructions to post one
in each school room.
The poster shows a youth smoking
cigaret and takes him thru six sue
ceeding stages ending with a skull.
Tobacco injuries the senses of smell
taste. sight. and hearing; stops diges-
ton; causes nervous prostration and
impaired memory; stops the perfect
growth of the body" the poster reads.
With each poster Miss Wooster sent
an abstract of the state cigaret and to-
bacco law with 4--structioins for en-
forcement from Attorney General
Richard J. Hopkins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11

velopment Of Topeka would be about
as follows:
l. The location. extension. correc-
ton and improvement of streets and
trafficways.
2. A system of widening and open
ing various thru streets so as to
relieve traffic congestion, and render
the city more cohesive.
3. The supervision and regulation of
the plating and opening of sub-divi-
sions.
A. Matters of transit and transporta-
ton.
5. Parks. boulevards. Fairgrounds,
community centers. and other recrea-
ton developments.
6. The location and arrangement of
public buildings.
7. Matters of housing and the regu-
lation of height. area and use of
buildings.
8. Districting and coming city as to
use to which property may be put.
9. Location of a union station and
surroundings.
10. Improvement of the river front
and flood protection.
II. Bridges and viaducts.
IL. encouragement of the location
of industrial establishments in desig-
mated districts.
10. Such other improvements as
will be for the betterment of Topeka.
IA. To recommend such state and
municipal legislation as may be neces-
sary to carry out the plans of the
commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
MELAN BRIDGE OPEN AGAIN.
Pavement on South half Smooth
Start on North End Soon.

Melan bridge is once more open for
traffic and it is not likely that it will
have to be closed again for years. The
pavement on the south half is now
smooth, strong contrast to its con-
dition few days ago
The repairing of the north end will
begin soon, but this will not make it
necessary to close the span, according
to w. S. Hancock, street commits
Sionar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
Decide National Golf Title Today.

Ros1vn N. Y. Sept. 11-Francis
Ouimet, of Boston, and Chick Evans
Chicago. met here today to decide the
amateur championship
The weather was threatening but
large crowd gathered for the match.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
Troops Return From Denrer

Camp Funston. Kan, Sept. IL
Troops rushed to Denver during the
street car riots there are back in camp
here today, having returned Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
CapitoI Closes 81. o25 Loans.

Topeka citizens borrowed a lot of
money this week and got it all in one
place. According to John L. Hersh,
assistant secretary of the Capitol
Building & Loan association, his firm
closed loans amounting to $41,025.
Hersh points out that the demand is
unusual and is the heaviest occurring
IN one week for period of several
months.
There are a great many calls for
property on the payment plan" Hersh
says. but there is not much for sale.
A great many of the Santa Fe men
are planning on putting their back pay
into homes and are using it to make
the first payment. There has been a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11

large increase among investors in our
monthly savings account.
The value of real estate is showing
a marked increase rather than a de-
crease" Hersh indicates, 'as was pre-
dicted by lots of prospective buyers
and those who were looking for prop
erty a couple of months ago and were
waiting for reductions, will. if they
buy now, have to pay more. People
ought to buy now instead of putting
it off, for the rent they pay is gone
Homes paid for on the installment
plan will be paid out in ten or twelve
years, and statistics show that the
ordinary individual will have it fully
paid out in from five to eight years,
thus having their rent free there
AFTER
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
Real Estate
Activities In
Capital City
Estate Transactions s156.571.R6.

Real Estate Transactions S156,571.66.
Real estate activity in Topeka in the
last week amounted to $156,571, ac-
cording to George L. Tuer, secretary
of the Topeka Real Estate board
Loans amounting to S95,42166 were
made by mortgage companies and in
dlV1duals. Property amounting to
s40,650 was purchased by Topeka citi-
zens. Farm property sales amounted
to only S2O,50O.
Tuer indicates that the figures given
are those of deals that have been re-
corded. Other incomplete transactions
If reported would probably swell the
grand total.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
Mayor Corvvine Favors City Plan.


Perhaps the greatest single factor
in Topeka real estate that has come
up recently is the effort being made
by Mayor Corwine to interest Topeka
Realtors in backing the city planning
proposition.
At a meeting of the real state board
this week, Mayor CorWine spoke brief
ly making the suggestion that real
estate men should be more interested
in the establishment of a boulevard
system in Topeka and the organiza-
ton of a city planning board than in
any other progressive measures. The
mayor points out that such a board
and its authority would have to be
based on state legislation and that it
would be a good idea to get plans I'M
derway now in order that they may
be definitely placed before the state
legislative body when they next con-
vene.
"City planning is not a new idea"
according to the mayor, at really goes
back to the time of George Washing
ton, when he planned the nations
capital, now destined to become the
worlds most beautiful city. Washing
ton was laid Quit didn't just grow
like most American cities. As a result
of its increasing beauty. healthfulness,
open spaces, parks, boulevards, gar
dens and its wonderful system of wide
streets and diagonal thorofares, the
=
residents who appreciate its many ad-
vantages and conveniences-
''City planning is more than merely
laying out a park and boulevard sys-
tim. 1t contemplates vastly more
than that. It involves the study of
city and its environs by an expert
you might call him a city architect
There are men of wide training and
experience who make city planning
profession. Topeka needs such COM
plete set of plans laid out by a special
list working in conjunction with a body
of its citizens who are level-hea ded
and can look into the future with a
clear vision.
1.-THE cost of city planning is small
compared to the results" Mayor Cor
wine says. ''by adopting a comprehen-
sive and studied city plan worked out
by a commission of unselfish citizens.
say six or eight men, Topeka would
take a step that would mean much for
its future 1t would be joining in with
such progressive cities as st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Dali
las. Oakland, Berkeley, Kansas City,
Denver and others.
Some of the things that a city plan
ming commission would do for the de-