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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12
Governor Blckett's Pardon Record.

Gov. T. W. Beckett has par.
doned $50 more convicts t h a n
were freed during the admins.
tratien Of his predecessor, Gov.
Locke Craig, and 2O4 more than
Gov. W. w. Kitchin pardoned.
The record of pardons was fur.
nished by the Governors Office
to an inquirer from Apex, who
wanted to know the comparative
number of pardons. During his
four years Of Office Gov. w. w.
Kitchin pardoned $50 prisoners;
Gov. LockesCr pardoned 434;
and Gov. Bickett in the three
years and seven months of his
four year's>term had pardoned
5S4 prisoners.
This record does not include
the paroles. But in the batch of
pardons credited ty Gov. Bick-
att is included those the govern
Or has sought out without re.
quests from outside the prison.
Early in his administration the
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12
CENTRAL OHIO FARMS.

We have sold several farms
within the last few months to
North Carolina people, and we
desire to announce that we will
send to any one interested, our
catalogue free of charge, upon
request for same.
This section. of very fertile
land, is a natural grass and clo-
YER soil, in fact in the limestone
and heavy clay districts, blue
grass an d clover become self
seeded, and just naturally grow
well, all through this section are
fine flowing springs and creeks,
plentiful supply of pure water
the year around. The wonder.
full hay, corn and forage crops,
the silo, the climatic advantages,
the ready markets for farm pro.
ducts within easy reach, these
things mean profit for stockmen
and dairmen.
There are few sections of the
United States where a greater
variety of crops can be grown
and where the danger from fail
ure Is less.
A total crop failure in this coun-
try has never been known. In
this land of promise, with our re.
markable variety Of crops, WE
ARE SAFE.
Write us for the free illustra.
ted and descriptive catalogue
with free list of farm bargains.
Address: r. A. STROUT FARM
AGENCY, Blake V. Mizer, Mgr,
Shelby Building, COSHOCTON,
OHIO.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12

David c. Duggsr.

The subject of this sketch was
born in Watauga county, N. c.,
April 13, 1S49, and departed this
life may 26, l90 >,s.~ 'ipe age
OF 81 years, l monun anu 13 days.
He was married to Miss Mary
Munday Oct. 81, 1869, and they
lived happily together until death
claimed his wife several years
ago. Since then Brother Dugger
lived alone until the last few
months of his life, when his sis
ter came to his home and remain
ed there until his..death. Uncle
Dave" as he was Familiarity call
ed, professed faith in Christ and
joined Brushy Fork Baptis t
charch, and later on moved his
membership to Cove Creek where
he remained.a member until the
constitution ofWillowdale church
when he again moved his mem.
bership, and remained o faithful
member of the same until death.
We, as a church and Sunday
School, miss him, as he was al
ways present, when his health
would permit, and was ever rea.
dy to speak encouraging words,
and so often we have heard him
talk in prayer meeting, in which
he took great delight, and around
our tiresides, of the great be-
yond, and of meeting loved ones
there. But loving voice is hush
ed for awhile. 1t has pleased our
heavenly father to remove him
from us, but we have the blessed
hope that he is at restwith Jesus.
We find it hard to give him up,
as his gentle influence has been
felt by all who knew and loved
him.
We extend our heart felt SYM
pathy to his relatives and friends,
pointing them to Him who shall
wipe all tears away, and bid them
follow His foot steps as he tried
to do.
EMMA HENSON
JULIA MAST, Committee.
MAY SMITH,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12

governor declared that he aimed
to be a friend to the friendless in
prison. On this platform he un-
dertoOk a survey of the State
prison, and with the records of
the prisoners before him he un-
dertook to pardon many whose
cases, he thought, justified it. In
addition, the governor has acted
an the reports of the State board
of parole in a greet many cases.
Along with his platform of
friendship for the friendless the
governor has drawn the line a.
gainst professional pardon seek
ers, maintaining that the applica-
ton of a prisoner would have
weight with him that the formal
petition of a shyster lawyer
could not claim. He adopted the
policy that the prisoner needed
no attorney when presenting bis
crse for pardon. News and Oh.
server.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12
NO 49,.

Misses Hattie and Pearl Bing.
ham, daughters of Dr.. and Mrs.
E. f. Bingham, of Amantha, left
Saturday morning, the former
for Jacksboro, Tenn, where she
f,as take position as teacher of
English in State High School;
the latter for Elizabethton, where
she has enlisted as teacher in the
Central High School of that town.
The young ladies are eminently
qualified as teachers, and their
services are needed here, but
they hardened to the handsome
salaries offered in our sister
State.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12

landscapes. Like every othel
European, who has a good thing
and wishes to reap where he has
sown, he brought the device and
the pictures tn America. But
Gaulnont, the artist had not ia
miliarized himself with the. fam
Gus American temperament. He
had not filmed the fair daughters
Of distant lands. They were in,
cluded neither inthe colorfulAora
nor the graceful fauna Of his a
chieyements. And New York said
TO him: It's pretty enough Il bul
where are the girls. Mon dieu
indeed, Portland Oregonian.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12
Your United States.

IT, you have a right to be prouG
about anything in the world, it is
your country. See what a report
from the Merchants Association
of Greater New York says the
United States is doing.
With only 6 per cent of the pop
ulation of the world and only I
per cent of the land, it produces;
Sixty per cent of the worlds
supply of copper.
Forty per cent of the worlds
supply of lead.
Fifty per cent of the worlds
supply of zinc. Z
Sixty per cent of the worlds
supply of aluminium.
66 per cent Of the worlds sup
- -
ply of oil.
Seventy five per cent of the
worlds supply Of corn. o.
Sixty per cent of the worlds
supply of cotton.
Forty per cent of the worlds
supply of silver.
Fifty.two percent of the worlds
supply of coal.
Forty per cent of the worlds
supply of iron and steel.
Twenty per cent of the worlds
supply of gold.
Eightytive per cent of the
worlds supply of automobiles.
Twenty five per cent of the
worlds supply of wheat, retines
80 per cent of the copper, and op.
crates 40 per cent of the worlds
railroads.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12
An Ambition that Failed, and Why.
(From the Houston Post. J

(rfOH tne houston TOSt.I
Rev. S. j. T. Williams, who is
leaving Houston for other fields,
cherished one great ambition in
his life. For several years, he
worked upon the project, with
every prospect of success, and
then it failed, and failed so glori.
ously that, strange to say, he
and all other citizens of Houston
who are interested in human wei.
fare, were glad.
Rev. Mr.. Williams was super
intendent of the Star of Hope
mission, which was a life-saving
station for the hundreds of dere.
licts who were created in Hous.
tin and who tloated into the city
in the old days.
AS he fed and clothed andhous.
ed these men and saw scores of
them transformed into worthy,
useful citizens, he become fired
with zeal to build a great institu-
tion in Houston for this work. As
he saw the shambling, ragged
wreck Of men salvaged and again
put into service to society, he
was inspired to work night and
day to make this institution of the
maximum service.
He succeeded in enlisting the
sympathy and cooperation of
men of all creeds in the city.
Men who had never given much
Thought to the transforming pow.
er Of the Gospel when practical
ly applied, became his nest en-.
thusiastic supporters, after they
were convinced by the demon.
strations of the mission.
The site had been tentatively
secured and plans were we'll un-
der way for the erection of a large
building with ample equipment,
when the project was abandoned.
The reason?
The city, and then the country
went dry. The mission ran out of
material to work on.
With the saloon out of business
it ceased to produce human der
elicts. Work became plentiful,
and sober men were able to pro-
cure and hold Jobs.
AS the mission ministered al.
most entirely to the victims of
the saloon, when that institution
was abolished, the missions field
was so greatly narrowed that a
man of the energy and ability of
Mr.. Williams found too little to
do, so he took up larger tasks.
In the failure to build the mis-
sion, may be read the changed So
cial and moral conditions in Hous.
ton since the saloon was abolish.
ed. Mr.. Williams failed, only be,
cause his project became unnec.
essary. 1t was the most splen.
did failure Houston ever witness
ed. -
Mr.. Williams did not build the
mission, but he will be long re-
membered as a minister who
demonstrated the power Of ap-
piled Christianity as few other
ministers have had opportunity
to do.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12
PUBLIC SPEAKING

Hon. r. L. Doughton, M. c.,
and Democratic candidate for re-
election to Congress, will speak
in the c. art house in Boone on
Tuesday Of court, September 2,
1920.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12
A DluIns Recompsnse.

y
There is a divine recompenst
in life which operates to main
tain a happy equilibrium contin
ually, were we wise enough tx
understand the adjustment oftht
scales, or the application of the
heavenly system of measure
ment. This is table which we dt
not learn in elementary arithme
tic classes, but which must come
with a growth in vital education
in the larger school of lifeand ex
perience; when we learn to puI
two and two together as we'll as
subtract and divide, not materia
things, but the vague spiritua
things which life uses in teach
ing us our sums.
Wisdom is applied knowledge,
and the wise man is he who has
learned to establish theold prime
pies to the new problems which
come into his life. Of what use is
all the storehouse of philosophy
if we commit it but never learn
the application for the editication
of our own souls.
1t is the part of wisdom to en-.
deavor to keep young in spite OF
the incessant flight of Time. Slir
Optimism into the things t h a
you do for yourself, for you1
neighbor, and your town; there
bby you will be able to catch re.
fiected CLEANS yourself from ev-
erything you do. Try to cultivate
the habit of being cheerful and
happy and see the righteous ness
of everything because of the E.
ternal Goodness back of it all.
The divine recompense in life.
There never yet has come a sor.
row which, if borne bravely, has
not brought one through the val
ley, up on the hilltop, where he
greeted the dawn with smiling
face and said THANK you"t to life
for the benefit of the struggle
There never has been sorrow,
not in the whole wide world, but
some little kindly angel has stood
just beside it, waiting to sprinkle
the silver, shine whenever one is
ready to look at it with cleared
vision. There never has been a
grief but brought with it the
magic power of transforming
tears to pearls if we understood
the use of the power. The sci
ence of the Almighty is not a cru.
ell, harsh, cold system of separa
ting us from happiness, but rath-
err a divine alchemy which turns
all our baser experiences into
golden glory. What if we do not
understand the process? Of what
use is faith if we forfeit the for.
mula. And it is a wonderful for
mula; it brings results, and il
brings you up smiling, no matter
how hard you are hit.
Keep sEiliGg, und gradually
the grin will conquer the crouch.
Some day you will look upon
what the world calls trouble and
say: why, hello, Mister Trouble.
Do you know I've been so bloom.
ing busy being happy | have had
to neglect you forquite a spell.
Somehow you've changed. You're
looking thinner. Well, drop in a.
gain when I'm not so busy being
fhapy. S'long." by this means
you will have Q flicker from the
Small light shining within your
own heart, and you will gather
the travelings ef your optomism
into a garment fit TO cover upand
conceal a.momentary depression.
landscapes. Like every othel
IL 1. 4.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12

FOR SALE: Twelve good Jersey
cows at reasonable prices, ran
ging in age from two to nine
years. If interested see A. G..
z Moody, Blowing Rock, N. G.,
on Mrs. NJ. H. Cones place.
IA 4tc.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1920-08-12
Baltimore Paper Gl,ss The State A.Basst.'

bdltlmVIt TdpbI ulvtS IBs Stdle A'puvS'
Only a little more than 50years
ago North Carolina was desolated
by war, woefully poverty -strick
en-, prostrate under the heel o1
thieving carpet -baggers and ne
groes, supported by Fedora
troops. The State had lost more
men in the war than any other,
its slave property was gone, Con
federate money, virtually the on
" circulating medium, had be-
come worthless; there was little
to sell to secure it, for the able.
bodied men who had been fight.
ing and the negroes were celebra.
ting their freedom by loafing and
talking politics. The outlook was
dreary in the extreme.
In the fiscal year just ended
June 30, North Carolina paid Fed.
eral taxes Of $3.50, ,2o6,0 900, which
was doubtless more than the en-
tire wealth of the State, outside
of land, in 1870.
THE Maryland district, which
includes Delaware and the Dis
trict of Columbia, paid only $780,
752,457, Texas, five times as big
as North Carolina and with about
double the population, paid SOB,
100000. Georgia, called the En-
pire State of the South" paid
$42, ,665, 900, and Tennessee $36,
138,OOO..
The North Carolina figures are
all the more remarkable, because
the State has no large cities, none
in the class Of Baltimore, Wash
ington, New Orleans, Atlanta,
Dallas, Richmond oreven Norfolk
or Savannah. 1t has no big sea.
ports, It's largest town is Wins
ton. Salem, of $4,000 population,
with Charlotte somewhat smaller
and Wilmington, Raleigh and
Asheville considerably so. But
its per capita wealth is larger
than that of any other Southern
State, and it is buying automo-
biles, it is said, at the rate OF $50,-
600, ,000a year. The basis of it's
property is of course tobacco and
cotton, both the growing and the
manufacture; lumber and truck
farming.
North Carolina has the Oldest
State university in America, it's
charter dating from 1889. The
States appropriation for main.
,tenance and building is about
$20O,000. The Alumni Review,
in pointing out it's inadequacy,
says, under the head of f"Gasoline
and Culture.
AT present North Carolina
has 54 cents per inhabitant inves-
ted in university properties =
and $50 per inhabitant invested
in automobiles"
I'm l25 years we have built up
a university plant worth 81, $780,
600. In ten years we have bought
500, 600, 600 worth of motor cars.
I'VE are buying motor cars fas-
ter than any other State in the
union, says the National Automo-
bile Chamber of G Commerce-$50
100000 worth a year. A hundred
and forty thousand dollars worth
a day, including Sunday.
"Weare skyrocketing toward
the top of the automobile column.
We could inst as easily have
5000 as 1850 students here if
only the State would provide the
facilities"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-18
PLANT AT BRONSON IS
PROGRESSING RAPIDLY

Bronson, Aug 1S.-The plant of the
Bronson Manufacturing Company is
going full blast, and the company
will soon be in shape to deliver bas-
kets and other vegetable and fruit
hampers and carriers. The timber
on the lands of EpperGon and Lindsay
is now being removed and at present
some large orders are being filled for
heavy timbers pending the installa-
tion of the machinery and housing
facilities for the intricate crate and
basket machinery. The quarters are
being rapidly erected by Contractors
Thomas wilkerson and D. J. Faircioth
thus affording homes for the laborers
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-18
NEW GERMAN CHANCELLOR
EDUCATED FOR THE CHURCH
(By Associated Press.)

Berlin, Aug. 1S-Constantine Feb
renbach, the new chancellor OF the
German republic, is a Roman Cath
clio member of the Centrist party
He is 6S years old. He was intended
for the church and studied at Frei-
burg University, but abandoned the
ology for the law. and established
himself as an attorney at Freiburg
where he held Several local public
offices, and in 1903 was elected to the
Reichstag.
AS presiding officer of the last
Reichstag and of the National As
sembly in difficult positions. he dis
played the ability of an accomplished
TarIiamentarian. His impartiality
won the respect Of all parties. He Is
Of a pOrtly figure, and is a ready sx-
femporaneous speaker.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-18
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
|N0W APART OF
| UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION
bns Fight for Right to Vote End
ed Today When Lower House
Of Tennessee Legislature Rati-
6es the Resolution Amending
| Nations Organic Law-Women
| viii Help Eelect President.
(By Associated Press

Nashville, Aug. 18.-The ratifica-
bn of the federal suffrage amend
ent was completed today when the
|Eer house of the Tennessee legis.
ture voted to ratify the Susan B.
bthony amendment to the federal
|Dstitution, giving equal rights OF
|frage to the women of America.
The vote in the house was 40 to 46.
be senate had previously ratified
/ resolution by a vote Of 25 to 4.
Speaker Walker in an attempt to
We the action reconsidered, changed
vote from aye to no. and moved
consideration. Walkers change
bde the vote stand 30 to As.
The house then adjourned until to-
brow, when Walker is privileged
ask for the reconsideration of the
|estion.
The ratification Of the amendment
yes seven million women the right
vote at the coming presidential
ection, unless the house rescinds its
kion.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-18
INFANTICIDE INCREASING
IN JAPANESE PROVINCE
(By Associated Press.)

Toxic, Aug. $50 many cases
of infanticide have been recorded in
Chiba prefecture that the authorities
have been greatly disturbed. This
year being the Monkey year In the
japanese calendar, an old supersti-
tuition makes the mothers believe that
children born in that year will meet
with misfortune. Special orders have
been issued by the police that all
prospective mothers should be regis
tered and watched and that the mon
KEY" superstition should be eradicat
ed, whenever possible.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-18
HOUSE SCARCITY
SUBJECT OF TALK
AT NOON MEETING

AT the regular weekly Getting Of
the Membership Council of the Laka.
land Chamber of Commerce. held YEA.
terday at the fremont Hotel. the
housing situation was the chief tonic
OF discussion. 1t was agreed thai
something needed to be done prompt.
ly, II this city hoped to keep abreast
OF the procession of Florida cities.
A committee was appointed by the
council to act with a committee an
pointed by the president of the Ro-
tary club, and make a report at the
meeting of the Rotary Club next
Tuesday. The Chamber of Commerce
committee is composed of Messrs.
Pinch, Swindel and Pickard; the Ro-
tary committee of Messrs. Moore
Collins and Mendenhall.
This joint committee, 1t is under
stood, Is expected not only to investi-
gate the subject, but to present some
tangible plan of action, which will
meet the approval of the business
men of the city, and which can be
put in practice in time to relieve the
stringency in housing failities at an
early date. AS one of the members
expresses 1t, the object is "get quick
action"
So far as is given out no definite
project has been considered yet, but
II is possible that the solution may be
found in a corporation to construct
and sell buildings.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-18
SEVERAL PRISONERS EXAMINED BEFORE
JUDGE BLANTON OF THE COUNTY COURT

er a deeply dug hole in the ground
where can after can reposed, serene
ly unmindful Of any possible danger.
1t is thought Graham had an accom-
plice, and sentence has been reserved.
T. j. Rivers, large man of fore
eign emotional expression, vehem-
emily denied having sold any liquor,
as he was charged with doing, and
zealously proceeded to tell all the
stories he knew. He was asked for a
$500 bond to appear in the December
session Of the county court.
Another young fellow was up for
an alleged robbery. He was an intel
ligent looking young chap, but he
made great effort to confuse the
opposing witnesses, an effort that did
not do much to brighten his cause.
The gentleman who says he was rob-
bed tells thrilling tale of the mid
right hour, when Jimmy (or what
ever his name was) walked up to him
and two other gen'men and "tol nth
to hol ouah handth up And the
story proceeds with the utmost sin
cerity and the most earnest effort to
Tell it right. " The allegation is
continually denied by the alleged rob-
ber, and the alligator respectfully de-
nounced. This gen'man was also
bound over to the county court ses-
sion in December.
Numerous witnesses were on hand
all curiously interested in their wit
ness checks, and perfectly ready and
willing to oblige.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-18
JINX REMAINED
With LAKELAND
IN TUESDAY GAME
lRY Smilpy.l

Two to one in favor of Braden~
town. Yes, that was the result Of
Yesterdays game, and if anyone
should happen to ask you, it was a
real game of ball. 1t was another
hard game to lose, but the fans en-
joyed the game as it was clean and
errorless.
Just a bit of luck would have won
Yesterdays contest, but luck seem,
to be against us; if you don't think
so, just glance back and look at the
twenty games that the Highlanders
lost by one run. Well, what Of it?
We enjoyed the game just the same
and now listen fans, lets do a little
boosting. We all want to see base.
ball in Lakeland next year, so We
can have another crack at the pen
nant and one way to accomplish this
is to 90 out and see them play and
invite our friends to 60 along. It
takes money to run a baseball club
and in order to be financial success,
attendance is absolutely necessary.
The stockholders Of the Lakeland
team do not and never did expect to
reap any return t.. 'eir invest
ment; they are simply backing this
club to keep the good old sport In
this city, and, of course, hope to
break even.
Now, let's all get together and do
some real boosting and come out and
see the Highlanders play Daytona in
a double-header tomorrow afternoon.
Remember all-Lakeland day tomor-
row, and let's make it record crowd,
Come on now, all together.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-18
Polk County Record.)

A number of preliminary hearings
were held before Judge Blanton yes
terday morning. The accused were
all negroes, who had been caught and
brought to trial by number of dep
uty sheriffs around the county. Some
came in overalls, some in much
pressed, wispy serge (all of them like
serge. If you've ever noticed) some
came In tatters and some In Sunday
best.
The first was small oldish man Of
timid presence, who very carefully
and doubtfully, though not hesitant-
ly, plead guilty to the charge of man
ufacturing liquor and "recommen'
himself to de mercy OBJ de coah't. :"
E. Graham, to which name he an
swered really wouldn't have had a
very good chance of making a case
il he hadn't plead guilty anyhow.
Deputy sheriff e. L. Sutton, who had
brought him in, told an interesting
story of the chaps place of business
He, Sutton, smelling a strong odor
of mash, told Graham that he'd have
20 search the place, Graham, with the
utmost complacency replied, ''Yas,
sub, boss, yes. sub, enybody kin such
nah place You jes' go head an such
all you wants to-" Sutton searched,
with the result that a still of some
fifteen gallon capacity was discovered.
The wide planks which formed the
floor had been carefully replaced oy-