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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE TALE.

In and by virtue of the power given
me in certain real estate mortg a.t,
executed to the undersigned on the
2nd day of April; 1917, to secure the
payment of the sum of seventy
(s75.00) dollars, with interest on same
from date, by Adolpeus Rupert and
wife Nora Rupert, and which indt bt-
edness is past due, and said n rt-
gage is on the following descrin,d
land, to wit: Being in the county 8 (
Watauga, N. c. Beginning. on
pie on the west bank of Figo,.n
Roost Creek and runs N. 40d. E. IA =
polrs to stake on the west Bank If
said creek in D. M. Shocks line;.
thence S Tod. +. 80 poles with said
line to a stake on top OF the ridse;
thence wit2 the top of said ridge 2 81
dgs. w. l6 piles: thence S. 2o1.
10 poles to a Spanish oak, u. y.
Shocks corner; thence NJ SD. vs..
IL poles and IL links to q STAKE IN j..
D. Shocks line; thence N. 2Od, ~. 50
poles to a small cucumber; teence N.
Tod. W. Is poles to the beginning
and contains fifteen acres more or
less. On Dec. g. 1920. 1t being The
first Monday in said month, will
sell to the highest bidder for cash
above described property at TIC
house door in the town of Boone, n
c., to satisfy said debt, interest and
costs and make deed in fee to III
purchaser as the law directs. Rafer-
encc is made to Book U. Of dc,d
the Registers office of Watausa 'a.-'
ty, North Carolina, for more COM
plete description of said proper J.
This the 26th day OF Oct, 1920,
]. w. HORTON, Mortgage.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25
NO Z.

easy terms, throwing in the fol-
lowing valuable equipment. Two
good horses, two cows, one calf,
two wagons, plOw, harrow etc.
Twenty five acres of this farm
underlaid with 4 #. vein of coal
now opened. Oil lease goesV Z
larm. -"
The above farms are shown b.,
BLAKE V. MlZER, Coshocton,
Ohio; Representing E. A. StrouJ
farm Agency. Largest in the
world. Write him for free Illus
trated booklet of his district.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25
Bed Sprsads Wanted.
The Hand Work Shop, POI

THE Hand Work Shop, Pough-
keepsie, New York, wants nicely
made bed spreads at once in the
following designs. SNOWFALL,
Bird and Tree, Sweet Rriar Rose,
Bowl of Roses, Wandering Vine,
Mountain Lilys Bamboo Briar,
Sunfower, Bow Knot and This
tic, Hickory Leaf and Wild Gu.
cumber. Payments made within
q short time" 1921 Ate.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25

The New Voter.

If the women continue as they
are beginning, they, will soon
know more than their husbands,
not only about the wheels of poll
tics but about what makes the
wheels 60 round and round and
round and run over the jay walk
ing man reformer- I
Woman has always been clev-
err at using whatever happened
to be handy to accomplish t h e
purpose that engages her atten-
tion at the moment. Where a man
pulls a six.shooter or calls out the
reserves to rout the villain, she
foils him with a hat pin. Where
he calls in a plumber and his he'll
per with a wagon-load of tools,
she reaches up into her back
hairAnd performs prodegies OF
plumbing with a blond hair pin
Already she is bending the
current events club and the sew.
ing circle to political uses. TO
her direct mind the way and
wherefore and the mechanism of
voting are the most important OF
current events. She opines that
she will find the heather in poll.
tics needing her attention, If not
her ministrations. She is more
absorbed now in the complexities
of the machine than the obscuri.
ties of Browning.
Having cheered herself hoarse
at one national convention with
out result, she is already plan
ming to go out Of the cheering
business. At the next convention
she intehds to sit in the back
room where the nominating Is
done !,
If you will listen to the new yo,
ter's conversation, you will dis
cover that she not only wants to
know but she wants to do. The
hand that Yields the defensive
hat pin may not shoot at the roar
tires of the machine that tries te
run her down, but is capable OF
throwing tacks in the road. Men
have been telling the politicians
to be good and you'll be happy.
Women will tell them to be good
or you'll be sorry" And she
will use the handiest weapon
She is a practiced wielder of the
hairbrush and the ruler, and she
knows the tender spots. = Satur
day Evening Post,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25
Special Notice 10 Tax Payers.

This is to notify all taxpayers
of Watauga county that I will be
in Boone with the tax books O1
the various townships of thecoun
ty, on Saturday, Nov. 90; Satur
day. Nov. 81, and Saturday, Dec
4, for the purpose of collecting
the taxes for the year 1920. Yor
are cordially invited to be pres
ent on one of these date and lif,
your receipts.
EDGAR YOUNG, Shff.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25
DON'T SUFFER
DON'T SCRATCH

Use Ab-Cline Itch and : -sl.
Ointment and be relieved.
This ointment is highly recc-
mended for all kinds Of skin
trouble, especially Itch, &c
zerna and other forms Of skin
eruptions. Get a box to-Gay
at Boone Drug Go. or if moi
carried BY your druggiss
write direct to Company siE
closing SOC for box.
| lB,cLlAE;, ! cAEAleAL I
| ELKlS q ! ! lssss /, : /
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25

improvement Of the public school
within the last few years, and
the railroad. Boone's Willingness
to tax herself rather heavily for
a school and for a railroad has
taken her from the list Of town
ships with decreasing popula-
lation and has placed her near
those witha normally increasing
population.
If only the people, or the new
board Of county ommissionerS,
could glimpse the vision of-+what
9he county might be! And if
such vision could become conta-
geous and spread to the Board Of
Education to the re.districting
of the county, the building Of
creditable school houses, the pay,
ing of a County Superintendent
for his whole time! Or il some
sort Of civic thunderbolt could
atrike the Appalachian Training
School awaking it to.a conscious
ness of opportunities neglected
and not rendered!
Sincerely,
ROYeM. BROWN.
Chapel Hill N. C.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25
the QUESTION.
Have We Treated the World Squarsly and
Justly.

Have We Treated the World Squaraly and
Justly.
j. M. Downum in Charlotte Observer.
The question has been sugges-
ted as to the real significance of
the result of tfferecent election,
not from humanitarian and eth
ical standpoint. In considering
the question from this side the
fact seems clearly apparent that
In troublous times many are rea.
dy and willing to make all sorts
of sacrificess even to die, for an j
deal or principle for which in the
quietude of practical every day
life they are not willing to live.
When. our boys went to the
camps and over seas the idea that
stirred them on to battle and us
to sacrifice was, "for the good of
the world" We asked nothing
for ourselves but the privilege Of
fighting for and serving human
ity-not for America alone but
for the world. Our boys fought
and many of them died and we
denied ourselves and sacrificed
In various ways that the war we
we're in might be the last. We
stood side by side with our allies
till victory came. We went in the
peace conference with them, and
with them formulated a league of
nations to prevent, to the extent
possible, all future wars.
What now is the result? Where
lido we stand? The other nations
took uslin good faith and many
of them have ratified the peace
terms and accepted the league Of
nations long ago, and we, consid-
.1ered before the war the most
! |peace-loving nation in the world"
Ihave not yet on the second ami.
yersary Of the signing of the ar
mistice ratified the peace terms,
and have apparently repudiated
1.-THE league of nations,
| Have we treated the world
squarely and justly? Can they
ever again look to us with conf.
dence in times of distress? When
we take a sober sensible view Of
the situation and our own atti
| tude as a nation can we have the
respect for ourselves that we
should have? q
These are considerations that
should stir our very souls. Are
we going to desert humanity II
the most distressful times the
world has ever seen and seltishly
live for ourselves alone, caring
not what may happen to the res
! of the world? If this be our spir
it and purpose then the glory O.
America as the unselfish frient
of the distressed and downtrod
den peoples and weaker nations
has departed. Are we going II
allow ourselves to be considered
' 1.-The Stacker nation of the world
Are we going to allow petty poll
tics to hinder US from perform
ing our moral Obligations to thu
world of humanity? If so wha
influence do we expect ever T.
have for the moral and spiritua
upbuilding of the world? Wha
are we going to do about it? W
trust that under the influence Q
the teaching of the Divine Maste
a better and more unselish spil
it may yet prevail than that thu
far manifested in these recen
! days.
i Bed Sprsads Wanted.
Il t'Tha Hand Work Shop. Pourl
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25

DWELLING FOR RENT. As |
am preparing to move away for
\ the winter, I am offering for
rent my residence near the
\ A. z, s.. II. M. Lewis.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25
THREE "FREE NATIONS"
New York World)

day at Geneva for the first meet.
ing of the Assembly of the Lea.
que of Nations have, if Warren
G. Harding is right, committed
the following forms of state sui.
eide.
l They have surrendered their
sovereignty.
2. They have abandoned their
nationality
8. They have destroyed their
Constitutions.
4. They have given themselves
over to a super-government who
can order them into war at the
whim of an alien Council.
That is what Mr.. Harding, dur
ing the campaign, insisted would
happen to the United States if
the covenant of the League of Ma
tions were ratified by the Senate.
That is what Senator Johnson
and all the Battalion of Death
Senators said would happen. Yet
in the teeth of all this Republican
wisdom, forty-two nations that
are members of the League have
gone about theil work. The AS
sembly of the League has been
organized. A President has been
elected. And these nations are
preparing to carry out the pro.
visions of a covenant ito promote
international cooperation and to
achieve international peace and
security"
The United States was not rep
resented at this historic meeting,
because it is not a member of the
League. Neither was Germany
nor Russia, nor Turkey, nor Mex
leo, nor Austria, nor Hungary,
nor Bulgaria represented. These
presumably, are free nations"
that Mr.. Harding talks about.
They have not sacrificed than
sovereignty. They have not bar
tered away their Independence.
They are not in the clutches Of an
e"alien Council.
Yet in spite of these incalcula.
BILE advantages, Germany is desi-,
rous of joining the League, and
ie kept out only by the determi.
nation of the French Govern.
ment that Germany must not be
admitted until the question of re
paration is settled. Bulgaria and
Austria have applied for mem
bership. Hungary has finally
signed the treaty of peace and is
ready to join. Mexico would glad
ly become a member.
Thus the number of really
free nations, the nations that arc
engaged in defending their sa
cred sovereignty and their con
stitutional integrity at all costs
lis reduced to three the United
States, Russia and Turkey. Tur
KEY does not count for much, ant
so the unterrified champions o
undiluted nationalism are Mr.
Harding, Mr.. Lenine and Mr.
Trotzky, with their various Hi
ram Johnsons and Henry Cabbot
Lodges and William Randolph
, Hearsts.
That is the society of nation
: and that the American people vC
ted themselves on Nov. 2. Tha
, is the company they will keep in
{ definitely If thu Harding cam
paign promises. are redeemed
, That Is the association of nation
to which the Republican policy !
: directed. 1t is the distinction {
' the United Ltates today that
q is the only civilized nation thu
is unrepresented at Geneva b
. reason of its own voluntary a.
}, ton. If this country can be prou
J, of the record it can be proud
!, anything.
J. WANTED: Men or women
I take orders among friends al
n neighbors for the genuine qua
anteed hosiery, full line for me
: women and children. Eliminat'
d~;o- W. ,>o,, Sno ~ n n a,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25
BUY OHIO FARMS
North Carolina People Are Buy
Ing Farms Here Similar To
The Following, Which Are
Placed On The Market
For immediate Sale.

NO, 80. 95 ACRES. 100000.
CENTRAL ONO FARM BARGAIN
WITH VALUABLE MINERAL RE-
SOURCES.
When yeu look this prosper
Gus farm over, you will surely
say, Some good bargain" on
good graded road, half mile to
depot, with it's store, church,
school, and post Office; village ad-
vantagcs right at your door; few
minutes by train tocity of $1,000,
30 acres in tillage, 20 acres be-
ing rich, bottom land, growing
numerous crops; balance farm,
spring watered pasture and val.
liable timber; 25 apple trees, al.
so plums, grapes, and berries.
A tive-room painted cottage with
cellar; good water supply, pretty
view of nearby creek where you
will find goood fishing; almost
new basement barn; spring wa
ter for stock, also 20-foot poultry
house, summer kitchin. Twenty
acres of this land is underlayed
with three-foot vein of coal, now
open for operation; oil and gas
lease; nearby oil field in opera
zion. Other business prevents
owner from occupying this farm.
1t is yours at the bargain price
of Sl,750 Terms arranged, and
quick possession. See this bar
gain at once,
No. 11s. 97& ACRES S7,75O.oO.
COAL, on AND GASFARM. ALL
EQUIPMENT; NINE CATTLE In.
CLCDED, ALSO 3 HORSES.
Valuable coal cnder 40 acres OF
this fine farm. Best Of advantag
ns for your family. Farm prod
uc's bring high prices. Pleasant
drive Locit5 OF $1,000 with high
priced markets for farm prod
ucts; half mile to school, cream
cry, store, churches, milk sta
tiOn; mail, milk route and tele
phone at door. Sixty acres ma
chine. worked fields in good cult
vation, clay loan soil, clay sub
soil. This section of Ohio grows
grand crops of corn, wheat ant
other grains; potatoes, vegeta
bles, fruits, berries, and is a lea
ding sheep, hog and stock sec
ton. Spring watered pasture fo1
25 cows, so sheep and A horse
Good wire fences, nice lot 0,
wood, estimated 100000 feet O
timber; apples, plums, cherries
grapes, berries, etc. Good paint
ed 6 room house with slate root
long porch, shaded lawn, and I
line view over a very rich farm
ing section and spring water a
valuable. So foot painted barr
with slate roof; ten COW ties ant
4 horse stalls, hay fork, silo
poultry house, milk house, gar
age, smoke house. A three foo
vein of coal under 40 acres o
this farm, oil and gas lease;
! corking bargain at $3.50. Par
cash, easy terms on balance. Th
following equipment is included
Three good horses, five cows
two good heifers, two bulls, six
teen sheep, ten hogs, fifty hens
complete line of farming tools
implements, machinery, graf
drill, cream separator, harness
: etc. Prosperous owner is buyin
larger farm.
+ No 95. 3SA acres $2,S5(
Coal AND On LEASE FAUI
WITH HORSES, CATTLE, Tools
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-11-25

WANTED: Men or women to
take orders among friends and
neighbors for the genuine guar
anteed hosiery, full line for men,
women and children. Eliminates
darning. We pay 50c, on h D Il j
spare time or $24 o week for full
time. Experience unnecessary
Write international Stocking
Mills, Norristown, Pa. II 4 l0tc.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-08-06
AUTOMOBILE INTERFERES
WITH MAIN ST. WORK
John Smolinski Slightly Hurt by Wey-
bridge Woman's Car

While at his work in the Main street
construction, John Smolinski was
knocked down Wednesday morning by
an automobile driven by Mrs. Louis
Goulette of Weybridge. Mr.. Smoln-
skis injuries were slight, and after two
days of rest, he was back on the job.
Mrs, Goulette, however, sponsored the
doctors fees and remunerated John for
the time lost from the payroll
The accident happened at about l0:30
O'Clock. John, as Mr. Smoinski is
generally known, was removing 4 piece
of joist from the mixing machine that
is being used in the construction of a
new cement road on Main street AS
he bent in pulling out the six by four
plank the car driven by Mrs Goulette
which had entered the narrow section
of the street from the north, came
along without signal and crashed into
the joist in his hands and extending
into the highway for several feet
The man was knocked to the ground
falling on his back Although he con-
tinued to work until noon he was
lOlCtu W IGuldlll dl HIS, uOLuc lIlt lCSl
of the day and summon medical atten-
ton Bruises and a shaking up were
the extent of his injuries. Two days
later he again took up his shovel, ap-
parently none the worse for his mis-
hap.
The accident was the second in which
Mrs Goulette and her Buick figured in
lately. On Sunday, July 25, she lost
control of her car on Pleasant street,
while endeavoring to make the turn in
front of the Addison County Trust
company. Her machine jumped the
curbing and tore through the park, in
and out among the trees in tortuous
fashion, finding an exit near the Epis-
copal church In that accident, while
she escaped collision with any of the
numerous trees, to the wonderment of
the onlookers, she slightly injured her
hand in a manner she was at loss to
ascertain.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-08-06
MIDDLEBURY LOCALS

Mrs. Archie Cook and daughter
Inez, returned Wednesday from a visit
Of several days in Moore's, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Elliott have
moved from Seminary street to the
Dickey house on Thomas street which
they recently purchased.
Clyde Balm and Miss Margarita
Mason Of Washington, D. c., are in
town on a visit to Mr.. Bain's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Homer NJ Balm.
District Deputy Charles F. Rich
of this village has called the annual
district meeting of district No. 3, I.
o. o. F., to be held in Middkbury on
Thursday, October :.
Franklin P. Sears of the Vermont
Printing Co, Brattleboro, is substitu-
ting at the Register office during the
vaca, 'ons Of Nelson A. Seymour and
T. W Bacon Mr.. Sears is a brother
Of third baseman Sears of the Middle
bury Varsity baseball team.
George f. Larned of Kalamazoo,
Mich, and daughter re guests at the
Addison Mr. Larned lived in Middle
bury 81 years ago. He was pleasantly
surprised to find so many Of the "boys"
still alive, and will spend several days
renewing the acquaintanceship of
friends and places
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-08-06
MIDDLEBURY COUPLE LEAVE
TODAY FOR SWEDEN
Mr.. and Mrs Perry H. Merrill Will
Spend the Next Year in Stockholm

Mr. and Mrs. Perry H. Merrill left
Wednesday evening for New York
City. They expect to sail today for
Sweden on the steamer Stravangefjord
Mr. Merrill, who for the past year was
the County Forester, has received a
scholarship from the American Scand-
navian Foundation for the Study of
Forestry at the University of Stock
holm. Mrs. Merrill will teach or work
in the interests of the Young Womens
Christian Union. They will remain in
Sweden for a year
Mr.. Merrill is graduate of the Uni
versity of Syracuse in the class of 1917
He spent two years overseas, first in
an ambulance corps and later as a cap
tain in a detention camp in France
and Germany. Mrs Merrill formerly
Miss Anna Novah, is a graduate of
Middlebury college in the class of 1919.
During the past year she taught Latin
and History in the Bristol High School.
On Tuesday evening a score of col
lege friends of Mrs. Merrill rendered
her a surprise farewell reception at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
F. Novak. She was the recipient of
several gifts of books and steamer let
tiers. Dancing and refreshments were
enjoyed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-08-06
FEDERATION EXPERT
ORGANIZES COUNTY

Addison County, the first of the
New England states to enter the Amer
ican Federation of Farm Bureaus, is
receiving the benefit of its progressive
ness in the expert instruction of Viii
liam E. d. Rummel, special representa-
tive of the national bureau organza-
ton. Mr. Rummel has been sent to
the county to organize the farmers in
accord with the policies that have uni
ted the tillers of the soil in 81 states of
the West He will lecture in every vii
lage in the county, explaining the pur-
poses and advantages of the Fedora
ton with the aim to awaken the
strongest possible interest in the local
Bureau and through that in the ma
tional body. On Monday he spoke in
Leicester on Tuesday in Weybridge
and in New Haven on Wednesday. He
will continue these lectures until he
has made a complete canvass of the
county
Mr. Rummel is a specialist in agri-
cultural matters. For 10 years he has
served as an expert lecturer and or
SdLlLSl' LIS plCoClll WOl NOiASloIS III
the preliminary organization of the
counties in New England that have
voted to Join the larger body.
The American Federation of Farm
Bureaus is nothing else than union
of the county bureaus Although the
organization is still young it has be-
come solidly founded in the Central
West. OF 5000 counties that have the
local societies more than 800 have
joined the national union. The purpose
of the Federation is to influence legis-
lation in favor OF agriculture and the
individual farmer Mr.. Rummels lee
lures form an explanation Of that phase
of the work.
Addison County has been the first
in New England to hear him through
the efforts of E. B. Cornwall, a mem
Der of the executive committee of the
National Federation.