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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-07-15
Governor BIckstt Call Extra Session o1
North Carolina Legislature.
Raleigh Dispatch.

Raleigh Dispatch.
Governor Beckett today called
the General Assembly of North
Carolina to meet in extra session
August 10, toconsider the report
of the state tax commission, sub
mitetd in obedience to the direc.
tion of the legislature at it's 1919
session, and such other matters
as it may see fit to tase up.
Whether the governor is anx.
ious that suffrage come before
the special session is not seen in
the call, since no mention what
ever is made of the issue.
In the event that a resolution
is introduced to ratify the Susan
B. Anthony suffrage amendment
he will recommend ratification.
However, as he has previously
stated what he would do. Should
the lawmakers pass over suf
frage, as they can do if they so
will, there ig nothing that the
governor or any one else can do
for the suffragists.
Inasmuch as ratification by on.
iy one more state is necessary to
make the amendment a part OF
the law of the land, national in
terest attaches to the call of Gov
ernor Beckett far the special ses
sion.
The proclamation of the Gov
ernOr follows:
by and with the advice of the
council of state, |, Thomas Wal
ter Beckett, governor of the state
of North Carolina, in the exercise
of the power conferred upon me
by the constitution and as con
templated by section 3, chapter
"a Of the public laws Of 1919, d'
issue this my proclamation Of
I this extraordinary occasion, con
vening the general assembly il
+ extra session. And | hereby not
: fy and request the senator's an,
: members of the house Of repre-
f sentatives of the general Assem-
bly, of North Carolina to meet i
4 their respective halls in the cap
3 tol in the city Of Raleigh on Tue.
! doy, the tenth day of Angus
I 1920, at II o'clock, for the follow
8 ing specific purposes: +,
nl Il. To prescribe such tax ri
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-07-15
Gourley, Cranbe rry, N. G.

Gourley, Cranberry, N. G.
The bride is the eldest daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. V. B. Bow
ers and is an attractive young Ia
dy of charming personality with
q wide circle of admiring friends.
Mr.. Reese is the we'll known
and popular son of Mr.. E. L..
Reese of jamestown, a promi-
nent Kentucky manufacturer.
After q brief wedding tour Mr..
and Mrs. Reese will be at home
to their many friends at their
home in Jamestown, Ky.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-07-15

TEAM FOR SALE: have o r.
sale a good pair Of we'll trained
logging horses 7 years old and
weighing about 100 lbs. each.
Will sell for cash or on six
months time. G. K. Keller,
Blowing Rock, r. F. d. 8 7 2tp.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-07-15

FOR SALE: I have a farm of 1875
acres for sale, on Meat Camp,
known as the old Soda Hill
Farm. Anyone interested will
do we'll to call on me at once. ].
G. Norris, Sr. 782tp.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-07-15
The Special Session.
Charlotte Observer.

SnhflOute ODSefVef.
Governor Beckett has named
August 10 as the date upon which
lively times are to be inaugurated
down at Raleigh. He has called
the Legislature to meet on the
date in special session for the
purpose of considering the State
Tax Commissions report on re.
valuation of property, which in
itselfis expected to produce more
than "a monotonous session of the
General Assembly. Keen inter.
est centers in the probable action
of the Legislature on the ques.
ton of ratification of the Anthony
woman suffrage amendment. Rat.
itication by one state is now lack.
ing to make the amendment eff.
fective and give the women of the
Nation the right to vote in the
presidential election this Fall,
and the North Carolina Genera
Assembly will be urged by the
National Administration and the
National Democratic party lead
ers to ratify the amendment
Moreover, the Democratic Nat
ional and State platforms urge
ratification, while President Will
son has sent a telegram to the
Governor urging the critical i'm
portance" of action. The Cover
nor has expressed his intention
of recommending to the Legisla
ture at the special session thai
the amendment be ratified.
On the other hand the Reject
ion League has been hard at work
recently in efforts to forestall ia
vorable action on the amendment
and there are evidences of strong
opposition to it on the part of the
voters of the State. While it was
not the suffrage question tina
produced the great majority Civ
en- Senator Overman against hi.
opponent Mr.. Brooks, in the frs
primary, it is doubtless true tina
the suffrage question had some
thing to do with the size of th'
great majority. Notwithstand
ing the fact that the Democratic
State Convention went on recor'
for woman suffrage, it has beel
claimed that the convention wa
decidedly pro.Gardner and tha
the Shelby mans popularity ant
strength as a candidate for Gov
ernOr reached it's zenith at tn
convention. Also it has bee
boldly stated by observers sine
the second primary that it wa
the suffrage question which de
feated Mr.. Garner. The Obsel
=, YER is not endorsing these claim
, by any means; it is only pointin
them out for what they are wort
, as throwing light on the situatio
! in the state with reference to tn
q suffrage question. Mr.. Morriso
; nominated for Governor, is pei
sonany a staunch Opponentof tn
Federal suffrage amendment, an
|, had repeatedly declared his p'
sition, and yet was given a d.
cided majority in the primary.
n 1t is likely that we shall sc
|. some lively fights at Raleigh du
E ing the hot month Of August, an
p the eyes of the nation will be u
on our Legislature:
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-07-15

FOR SALE: Twelve good Jersey
cows at reasonable prices, ran
ging in age from two to nine
years. If interested see A. G.
Moody, Blowing Rock, N. c.,
on Mrs. M. H. Cones place.
II Ate.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-07-15
VOL. XXI.
The Status Of Crops.

Richard Spilane, financial wri,
ter of the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, contributes an interest
ing article to that publication on
the status of American crops at
this time. Mr.. Spilane writes as
follows:
Despite labor disorders, des.
pite high rents, high food costs,
high prices for clothing, raw and
finished materials, despite the
unsettlement that usually attends
a presidential election year and
the slowness with which the Eu-
ropean nations are getting back
to works of peace, the outlook in
the United States is immeasura-
bly, better today than it was a few
months back. Comparatively few
persons appreciate fully what a
remarkable change there has
been in this country recently.
"The change has been on the
farm.
"The farm is the base of all in.
dustry. Poor crops this year
would have been disastrous, par.
ticularly disastrous if added to
the other troubles that have been
the aftermath of war.
'The year opened wretchedly.
The winter had been severe. The
winter wheat crop was bad, sc
bad that a loss of more than 200,
100000 bushels was indicated
There were fears that, owing-tc
labor shortage, the spring wheat
the corn and other cereal crops
would be much smaller than US
ual.
Cotton had one of the worst
if not the worst starts In history
Excessive rains destroyed the
seed Of many of the early plant
ings. A short tap root left thu
remainder of the crop less hardy
than it should be to withstand
the trials of a hot summer. In ev
cry department of the farm i
seems as if the production wa:
to be far below the average.
"A disaster to the Australian
wheat crop made the wheat out
look of the world worse, particu
larly as there is little hope o
Russia being able to export grail
this year.
There has been a marvellous
change in the last few months
The American farmer North
East, South and West has labore'
nobly. Crop reports from all oN
er the country are far better tina
were expected. Spring wheat i
doing we'll. Corn gives big prom
ise. Cotton has made one Of tn
most remarkable improvement
recorded in it's history.
"The crops are not made. Th
harvesting of wheat and corn wi
require far more labor than at tn
present time it seems possible fC
the farmers to obtain without ea1
nest and organized effort.
Cotton has to pass throug
the crucial days of July and A,
gust
but pluck and luck have bee
with the American farmer, fc
lowing a very bad beginning.
they stay with him a little longt
this years farm yield will be CO
siderably bigger than SCENE
possible orprobable few month
ago: :. .,
India has come along with
monster wheat crop-monst
being used in a comparativesen
France, too, has an excellentgra
prospect. Elsewhere in Eurol
the situation is not cheering, al
Australia, instead of exportll
grain, has little more than sui
cient for her own needs. In ia
she may have to import some.
mo country has been favor
more than America. There
reasonable hope now Of a mode
ate size grain crop. That is jc
full, considering how poor the s
not;or oDr,oa rod q few mont
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-07-15
A RIgh.Mindsd Democrat
(WinSton-Salem Journal. }

| w luSJOu-Sdltlll JOuTudl.
The report that Governor Cox,
Democratic nominee for thepres-
idency, is an anti.Wilson Demo
crat seems to have no foundation
in fact. The man who fought
Cox hardest in the Convention
was William Jennings Bryan the
recognized leader of the anti.Ad.
ministration forces. Bryan said
the Ohio Governor was not an en-.
thusiastic champion of the VOL
stead Act and that therefore he
must be wet" Granting that
Mr.. Cox in his attitude toward
the Volestead Act has shown
some slight degree of humidity,
still that does not make him an
anti.Wilson Democrat. Pr e S i.
dent Wilson did more than any
other living man to kill the Vol
stead Act. He vetoed it.
On all the great principles and
issues advocated by the Demo
cratic party James M. Cox is
equally as progressive as Wood
row Wilson. In politics his rec.
ord is very similar to that of the
President. Wilson bursted the
machine in New Jersey and was
elected Governor in normal Re.
publican State. The reforms he
put through in that State landed
him in the White House. Cox
bursted the machine in Ohio,
rock-ribbed Republican Co m :
monwealth, and was elected Gov
ernor, not once but three times.
And he has done equally asmuch
reforming in Ohio as Wilson did
in New Jersey. 1t is significant,
also, that the highest tributepai
to Governor Cox was uttered by
Secretary of War Baker, who is
himself an Ohioan, and who is re.
puted to have been closer to the
President than any other mem
ber of his Cabinet since McAdoc
resigned. Mr.. Baker said:
I'm his three terms as Cover
nor of Ohio, Governor Cox has
demonstrated his greatexecutive
ability and his forward looking
and aggressive democracy. HI
is fearless and high. minded. Dur
ing the war he put all the resour
ces of his Office and his persona
talents into the struggle and his
personal talents into thestrugglt
and stood unwaveringly with
those who were making andkeep
ing America ready to do hel
great task. The nomination will
be received with joy and pride ir
Ohio and the country will find al
aggressive Democrat with a rec
ord of achievement"
The nomination of Governor
Cox has insured two things: Th
next President will come from
Ohio and the next President vii
: for the first time in the histor,
} of the country, be a newspape
| man. Both Cox and Hardin,
came to their present high sta
: tions from the printing Office
Both have been in the newspape
2 game for more than a quarter Q
: a century.
Men who are acquainted i
= Ohio do not hesitate to say ths
Cox's chances of carrying ths
State are much better than Hal
ding's. Cox has beaten the RI
publican machine of which N
Old Guard candidate is a membe
three times and it has been
common saying in Ohio for year
/. that nobody can beat Cox in hi
r own State" He is right now 6
J. the zenith of his popularity. H
. chances of carrying New Jerse,
y New York and Indiana, all ,
y which Wilson lost in 1916, al
u considered particularly brigl
q because Of a tendency in tho.
States to make the paramount
a. =. sue the Volstead Act instead
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mass and which revolve about one an other in so complicated manner that
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border between Virgo and Libra. Its eastward motion over the sky has been growing much less, and on March II will entirely cease; the planet will retrograde, or move westward, from this time until the end of the month. In consequence of this it will rise about Il D. m. on March and so earfysas D. m on March 31
 During the month the distance of Mars will diminish from S1 900, 900 to 6l,000, 900 of miles ond it's brightness will increase from two and one-half times to more than six times the brightness of first magnitude star. It will reach it's least distance from the earth at midnight on April 27, when it will be but 54,000.00o million miles away.
 A comparatively small glass will show the polar cap, and if the seeing is very good. some of the larger fea- lures, such as the Great South Sea, the Hour-Glass Sea and the Lake of the Sun, may be detected, but the wealth of finer details can, of course only seen in very large telescopes. Jupiter and Saturn are in excellent position for observation. Many phe- nomena of the moons of the former planet occur on the evenings of March especially numerous ones may be seen on the nights of March 8, 15, 24 and 31 1 The rings of Saturn are steadily mar rowing, and they now look almost like narrow line. or band. across the planet.
 | On March IS there occurs the rather faint shooting star shower known as the Cepheids. The stars of this shower
 dart outward in all directions from the point in Cepheus marked A in Figure ] l. As there will be no moon in the sky on this date. conditions will be
 unusually favorable for observing this
 shower.
 On March 20, at hours 5s minutes D seconds D. m, (eastern standard time)
 the center of the sun will cross the equator at this time winter will end.
 and spring will begin.
 ERIC DOOLITTLE.
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for this sort of thing that we stand for If you can once make them feel you really want a branch, you may be sure of their loyal help: if you make theni feel you are ready to do your share to in- crease your membership they wfh not fail you
 The Pennsylvania '. P. B.s are urging every state to make enforcement the keynote of it's work for the young people,
 To expend s1 ,0O0O00 in the next five years for the development of the college prohibition movement in every college and university of the world was the pro- gramme adopted by the national conven- ton of the intercollegiate Prohibition As- soeiation at Des Moines recently.
 A world student magazine in several languages, an international college news. service to. educational journals, Lne rur- nishing of expert organizers and specially selected speakers in countries where anti liquor sentiment is already advanced, pro- hibition missionaries to countries where antf-liquor sentiment is small, interna- tLonal oratorical contests, preparation of books and literature and their publiea- tion in many languages.
 The following states have already reached their goal in the great jubflee membership campaign for million mem bers: Florida, North Dakota, South Caro- lima, Iowa, West Virginia, East Washing ton, North Carolina, Connecticut, ken-F lucky. West Virginia. District of Coium- bia South Idaho, Arizona and Nevada.
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THE STARRY SKIES IN MARCH
nr PnoTEss UntversIty PcnnsylYann

In this the last month of winter, the whole heavens are covered with bril- liant stars. Tn the south is Gemini. with the bright Dog Stars below 1t and the golden Capella above. while in the east the bright group Leo Is high up from the ground and rapidly approaching the meridian.
 Tn the west there are the beautiful groups, Taurus and Orion, though In only one month more the former, which Is tbe first of the winter groups to disap- pear will have already begun It's with drawal below the western horizon in the early evening.
 THE MARCH STARS
 Meanwhile, in the east, there are signs thHt the end of winter is at hand, The magnificent reddishyellow Arcturus, that great sun. probably thousands of times larger and brighter than our own sun, has appeared and begun It's slow, upward climb over the heavens the high est point of which 1t will not reach un- tl next June. Tho Water Snake has dragged It's great length from the south eastern horizon ali the way to the merl- 6ian, although this very long oonstella- ton will not entirely emerge from below the ground until next May. And we see the western end of Virgo, the first of the summer consultations just appearing from below the eastern group.
 In the south, but east of the meridian, the attention of the observer will at once be attracted to three bright stars, nearly in straight line and at nearly equal distances from each other The brightest and westernmost of these is the great Jupiter, now fifteen times as bright as a first magnitude star. The easternnost is the far fainter Saturn, only ona-tenth as bright as Jupiter, while the middle one is the bluish star, Regulus. All three of these beautiful ob- jects will well repay study with small telescope. The star has R faint. eighth magnitude companion three minutes away, almost due east of itself. so blue that 1t looks as if steeped in indigo, while the great Jupiter, with it's bright full but more difficult Saturn, with it's system of rings, are among the most fascinating and interesting of all objects in the telescope.
 The possessor of small telescope will find much of interest in this part of the sky. First of all, there is the Beehive, at B, Figure 1, looking to the naked eye as a little filmy cloud, but which is cas- fly seen, even with a very small glass, to be cluster of about 150 small stars with two bright triangles among them. little to the east of Pollux. at c, is one of the most interesting triple stars of the heavens. This is made up of three great suns which appear to be of nearly equal
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Fig 3Three drawings the made at Showing the and positions shadngs by called
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One of the Most Dangerous Things About Any Illness Is the
 Weakened Condition in Which It Leaves You
WHAT YOUR BLOOD NEEDS IS IRON

 The sooner you get your strength back the better, for one spell of sickness predis- poses your system to another, and leaves you so weak that you easily take any other The thing for you to do is to eat plenty of good, nourishing food, get all the fresh air you can, exercise conservatively and take ZIRON Iron Tonic three times day. Your doctor will tell you that this is sound advice and urge you to follow it. In taking ZIRON you are not taking patent or secret remedy, for the ingredients of .ZIRON are printed on the bottle, and have been recommended for years by lead- CTS in the medical profession for just such conditions as those in which ZIRON is in dicated
 All druggists sell ZIRON. Get a bottle today and begin to take it. If the first bot tie doesn't benefit you, the druggist will refund your money.
 Don't delay, Begin today. tzLTsa'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29
". C. T.. U. Actiuities
 "For God, Home and Native Land"

Be just to the toiler.
 Become vital voters.
 Establish social centers.
 Donate drinking fountains.
 Work for world prohibition.
 Pray without ceasines
 At the Massachusetts state w. c. T. U. convention the Y. P. B.'s set 1000 as their membership goal for the year, and presented the following plan for reaching 1t:
 Zach present memter must gain from five to ten new members. Or we may look at it another way, if each of the w.. c. T. U. members of the state (there are 12.OO0) will secure one new Y. P. B. member, we will "go over the top, and Sc far over it will take an airship to bring us down to earth again. To look at the matter in still another way, if every ten w. c. T. U. members win bring into branch work but one new mem. Der we shall still reach our goal and pass it. Will you not go to your loyal W. C. T. U members and tell them you want their help? Do you know some of them are afraid to seek new Y. P. B. members, and afraid to form new branches, for they think you do not care
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29
Shibbo1eth of the Real Turk

From Men and Things As the Turk
 Sees Them" by Herbert Adams Gib-
 bons, in Asia" Magazine.
 Love of baksheesh (gratuities) be- trays the falsely named Turk. Eager ness to do something for you or busi- ness with you is another sign of the mongrel Turk. Some real Anatolian Turks are merchants and sit in the bazaars. But they will not go out of their way to make a sale and they really do not care if you buy or not Often they ignore strangers; some- times they rebuff them When you run up against this type in the ba- zaars, where all the Jews and Gentiles are after your money with an insist ence that we call oriental. It is like a dash of cold water in your face Once in a little open shop saw a rug that attracted me. l started to enter. But the crouched figure on a mat put out long fingered hand, grasped firmly my ankle and removed my foot outside the threshold. I thought there must be some superstition about which foot went first. So I tried the other The same left hand proved again its strength. All the while the merchant did not speak or look up. His right hand was stringing beads and he was smoking nargile. He simply did not want to bother with me. and my shoe told him that I was a franga tEuropean) Later I got to know that old bird and we laughed over stories together. But he never asked me to. buy anything and I did not want to risk his friendship by making second try for the rug. There are other things in life than selling and buying. And much more impor- tant. But the mongrel Turk, like the Christian. doesn't understand this. It isn't in his blood
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1t has even been supposed that their mo- ton Is disturbed by the pull of fourth, and probably dark, unseen member of the system. Even without the fourth body, however, the three suns display In it's most intractable form the Problem of Three Bodies" whose solution is still to be found by mathematicians.
 Above Cancer is Lynx, very faint little constellation, but one very rich in double stars; no fewer than fifty pairs, visible in quite small telescope, occur within it's borders Some of these are very beautiful in coloration For exam pie, the one at D. forming a. nearly equal sided triangle with the two Paws of the Bear, at and H, is made up of two stars of the fourth and seventh magni-
 tudes, respectively of which the brighter
 is white and the fainter is of lilac
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color. It has been suggested that had this star and the one below it in Lynx been added to the Great Bear, th.s animal would have then had four paws instead of only three, as now.
 NEPTUNE AND URANUS.
 During this present month, both of these faint and far-distant planets may easily be found in small telescope, for it happens that there is this month a rather close conjunction of each Of them with one of the brighter planets Thus on March F, at 10 P. M. (Eastern stand ard time). Jupiter will pass Neptune, the fainter planet being then exactly 5S min utes south of the brighter one. If on this evening the observer will first turn his telescope on Jupiter and. carefully bringing this great world exactly to the center of the field. will then turn his telescope 5S minutes south, he will see a greenish object in the center of the field, and this will be the planet Nep- tune.
 In similar way the very bright