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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1921-03-10
VOL. XxXlI.
"REMINISCENCES.
Personal RseslIsetIons oi q Tip 10 Texas
Ia Pioneer Days, aad Some !nsl'
dents In Gov Boy Life In
the West.
(By L. N. Perkins

The path of the storm was mar.
row, and it did not do a great
amount of damage. 1t was accom-.
panied by heavy rain, but we
were not camping at the time
and we're in the shelter. From
this place we were to 60 to a
days journey to the South into
Van Zant county to look for the
last horses. We started early
the next morning, after the
storm had gone, but a short dis
tance until we came to a stream
Of water that was bridged, but
the bottom was overAowing, so
we waded in, crossed the main
current on the bridge. but soon
were in swimming water and for
half mile or more we waded and
swan until we reached the hills.
We had only gone a few miles un'
til we came to another stream OF
swimming water and no bridge,
but it was not wide and we found
q fallen tree that we crossed on
and drove our horses through
the current. When we arrived at
our stopping place in Van Zant'
we could hear nothing Of the lost
horses, so decided to spend a
couple of days looking for them.
We were unacquainted with the
location of the country, and the
young man where we stopped
would not go with US unless one
of US would plow in the corn for
him. I deided to take the job and
plowed corn two of the hottest
days that l ever worked in a corn
field. At the end of two days we
could get no trace of the horses
and decided they were dead or
had been driven off. So we start
ed next morning on the return
trip, but there was another horse
we were to look for, and we had
to 60 some miles out of our way
to take him. That evening we
came to the East fork of Trinity
river, another large stream. We
found Il toll bridge over the main
current ::of the river but we had
to swim on both sides of t h e
bridge and pay ten cents
each for the privilege. have al.
ways thought that the keeper
should not have charged us the
toll, but he was obstinate and
would not let us pass till we paid
him. He had the advantage of us,
as the timber was thick ON either
side of the river and we had to
keep in the road. He told US it
would probably swim us on the
de we started in but thought we
could 60 through the bottom
with wading, but we had to swim
at intervals for a mile or more
till We came to the foothills. We
found the horse we were looking
for and got back home without
further trouble. We had been on
the trip nearly three weeks, and
when we returned we TO u n d
some folks, my aunt, especially
very uneasy about us, as the cy-
clone had passed only a short
distance south of Fort Worth, de.
molished q little town near Dallas
and killed several people.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1921-03-10
Report of the condition of
the PEOPLES BANK AND TRUST CO.

at Boone, N. c. at the close of busi-
ness Feb. u, 1921:
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts SILT, 754.@
L. s. and Liberty bonds 10000
Furniture and fixtures 2,579.l4
All other real estate owned 100000
Cash IN vault and net amounts
due from Banks, Bankers and
Trust COMPANIES 1888. 65
Checks for clearing 2.e32. AZ
Total S139, 1896
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $20,OO.W
Surplus fund 2,O06.2j
Bills payable 22,WO.m
Deposits subject to check 42,S6..o'
Time certificates of deposit 4l,Bl.9o
Cashiers c'ks outstanding 1000
Due 10 STATE Banks, Bankers,
and Trust Companies 3,lO4. %
Due to Natl Banks 2,O53.3o
tances 5,Ooo.oO
Total Sl39, l49.W
State of North Carolina, county OF
Watauga. |, A. Y. Howell. Cash
ier OF the above named bank, do SOL
emnly swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
AVERY Y. HOWELL, Cashier.
Correct Attest:
IuA I IRiICHEu
G. M. SUDDRETH, Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this lst day Ut March 1871.
A. ". Smith, c. S. c.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1921-03-10
VOLUNTEER AGRICULTU.
RAJ, LIMESTONE will helm

RAJ LIMESTONE will help
your land. We are prepared
to ship to you direct in car lots
minimum car 10 tons) $500 f.
0. b. cars johnson City, Tenn.
If interested write East Tenn.
Limestone Products Co., P. O..
Box q, johnson City, Tenn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1921-03-10
STATEMENT WATAuGA's ROAD COMMITS
SION TO JAN. u, 1921

DEBTS. ...
Bond Issue s2Oo, 900. 90
Notes Issued by County 100000
Notes issued by Road Com
mission 10000
Outstanding Debts 10000
Total $2l7, 10000
CREDITS.
Road Building Equipmt. s 100000
Paid for Blowing Rock
Road $4,000
Low water bridge at State
Line 10000
Painting Bridge at Vale
Crucis 5000
Deposit at Raleigh 10000
One note on hand $1,000
Road Building Cost POP 2,050.m 40
Total s2l7, 10000
MILES OF ROAD BUILT.
State Highway 25 Miles
Meat Camp Road 10 /"
Beaver Dam Road 5 "
Two Roads in Elk 3
Council Gap Road 3
Down Cove Greek l-2"
Roscoe Road 3-4"
Total AZ IA Mi.
Cost per Mile s3,9SO.Oo
Also bought and erected steel bridge
across New River at a cost Of about
$40. 100000. Took old bridge across
New River down, moved to Cove Creek
and erected. These two bridge items
and 4S IA miles of road cost only
1902 ,O5O. 90, or 81, ,9sO.Oo per mile.
The above statement does not in
cludc bridge ordered for Watauga
River, nor small steel bridge across
HOwardS Creek. Neither does it in
clude any material ordered for the
completion of the Boone Trail pro-
iect No. Al.
G. d. TAYLOR,
Chm. Rd. Com.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1921-03-10
The Bank of Boone

at Boone, in the State Of North Caro-
lima, at the close of business Feb. q
1921:
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1921-03-10
Report OF the condition of
the BANK OF GLOWING ROCK

st Blowing Rock in the State ofNorth
Carolina, at the close of business,
Feb. q, 1927:
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

with four ports in the cylinder. thus
communicating with the intake mani
fold. On the exhaust stroke the same
thing takes place. This gives a wide
open manifold, opening by a perfectly
mechanical movement, which means
that the intaking of gases and scav-
enging OF the cylinders is accomplished
perfectly at any speed.
Due to the perfect handling OF gases
coming into and leaving the cylinders a
very high torque at low speeds is
created, giving the engine unusual pull
| ing ability.
Another feature OF note is the fact
that these valves never carbonize and
never need grinding. The rotation of
the valve gives a wipng action on an
oil film, and inasmuch as there is prac-
tically no friction in this wiping action
1t is to be presumed that the valve will
never wear out during the life of the
motor. Each disk is prevented from
chattering on the suction stroke by a
| compression spring. This spring in turn
has its tension offset by a thrust bear
| ing, thus keeping the disk on an even
seat, yet reducing friction to minimum
The valve itself is held to it's driving
shaft by a universal action which takes
up any possible misalignment.
The Ace car is shown in four models,
touring. roadster, brougham and sedan.
at the Hotel Commodore.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

doesn't own car. Anyway, why
shouldn't he? The motor car takes him
off the beaten paths-takes him out into
the open country and shows him the
beauties of nature and permits him to
visit interesting places that he might
otherwise never see What is more, the
motorist goes and comes when he
pleases. He is not dependent upon the
schedules of train or trolley.
The automobile has brought the city
to the country, and vice versa. From
this both have profted socially and
financially. While we have been talking
about good roads. the automobile has
cost of farm produce by reducing the
cost of transportation. Because of motor
cars, farmers have acquired the urban
habit of going after what they want as
soon as they want 1t. No longer do
| they allow their wants to accumulate.
as in the old days.
| The utility of the automobile on the
| farm Is demonstrated in many ways
Farmers who live fifteen to thirty miles
| distant from their market used to con-
sumo an entire day making the round
| trip, and at times, If the day proved
unusually hot, it would be long into
| the night before the tired horses and
men would reach home. To-day farmers
| in these same sections start for the
market early in the morning and are
! back on their farms in a few hours
ready for a days work at something
| else.
The farmer has been quick to realize
| that the automobile increased his eff
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

And, furthermore, when you con-
slider the motor car purely from the
pleasure viewpoint you have a potential
demand of great proportions. Call 1t a
pleasure car" II you will, you must
admit that the automobile has been a
great emancipator. There must be some
time set aside for pleasure in the lives
Of all of us IL we are to maintain our
usefulness in our work. What Is there
that gives more return per dollar spent
in the way of health giving pleasure
than the automobile. 1t takes the family
out of doors and literally jams fresh
air down their throats, and. Furthermore.
1t enables city folks to get out into the
country. where they can get pure air.
Think Of the pleasure it means to the
family living in a crowded city to pack
a tempting lunch and mdsor out into
the country, there to pull up alongside
some wooded glen and, with appetites
whetted by the nvigorating ride in the
clean air and sunshine. enjoy q meal
that would make a spread prepared by
a city restaurateur seem tasteless. And
the whole trip for a family of five would
probably cost less than the railroad fare
to the same spot taking into considera-
ton the actual expense of operating the
car, depreciation included. The small
expense of the trip may justly be
charged to health insurance for the
family.
THE motor car must also be consid-
cred as an important educational factor.
I dare say that the motorist knows
more about the territory surrounding
his town or city than the man who
The New York herald., 1921-01-09
NEW ACE CAR HAS
NOPOPPET VALVES
Instead Uses Rotating Disk
Valve Invented by Fred
M. Guy. .

Does the remarkable new Guy disk
valve motor In the Ace car. manufac-
tured by the Apex Motor Corporation.
Ypsilanti. Mich. solve the years old
riddle Of how to get away from the pop
pet valve? That is the question automo-
tive engineers. dealers and distributors
are going to try to answer in their own
minds by looking under the hood ef this
beautiful car at the Hotel Commodore
ard riding in one of the demonstrators
on the streets of New York.
The poppet valve type of automobile
motor has held sway for many years.
Outside of the sleeve valve, no one has
ever invented a way TO do away with
the springs. Now comes the Guy disk
valve motor. which, according to the
Apex Company. has valves which can
not lag at any motor speed. which never
need grinding, which never get out of
adjustment and which, because of their
remarkable gas handling efficiency.
give the motor an unusual power per-
formance and economy.
The Ace motor Is the result of ten
years of experimental work on the part
Of Fred NJ. Guy, vice-president and
chief engineer of the company. Eigh-
teen months ago the first motor, a four,
had been brought to a state Of perfec-
ton. Since that time the entire concen-
tration of the engineering force has been
directed on the new six, which is now
perfected and ready.
The Ace valves are a series OF disks,
one in the combustion chamber OF each
cylinder. These disks are geared to-
gether In chain from a master gear
driven from the crank shaft by worm
u. II
In the form of a v from the peripher
to the hub of the disk. These shaped
slots In the process of rotation Of the
disk pass over ports which enter int
the intake and exhaust manifolds Of tho
motor. On the intake stroke of tn
motor four slots In the disk registe
The New York herald., 1921-01-09
AUTOMOBILE Is NO
LONGER A LUXURY
Tt Can Now Be Considered
Only an Absolute Necessity,
Says H. A. Biggs.
ny II. A. BIGGs,
Vice President the Studebaker Corpora
ton.

Vyoe-President the StudebGker Corpora
tion.
rs tJlird largest industry In America
-.-and that means in the whole world
did not attain its piaae of eminence by
mere accident or through any seasonal
or faddish demand for the product OF
its great organization.
The automobile, both passenger and
commercial. is an absolute necessity OF
new era. 1t will continue as necessity
until something newer and better takes
its place. However, up to the present
time no one has even an inkling or some-
thing better.
The great majority of the people re-
alize the economic value OF the motor
car. It would be as impossible to con-
ceive of personal and business efficiency
without the automobile to-day as II
would be to conceive OF handiing hou-
orn business without fast express trains,
fast freights, telegraph or long distance
telephones. The motor car has not oniy
become an essential part OF modern ilfe
but Il has been greatly responsible tor
the development of the way we nve ana
do business to-day. 1t has, indeed. made
possible the wonderful business achieve
ments which we accomplish In the
twelve months of the year.
John c. Lonsdale. president of the
National Bank of Commerce. st. Louis
is nationally known In the world OF
finance His opinion, based on cold.
unbiased facts, is worthy of special note.
Mr. Lonsdale has publicly set forth a
financial policy which recognizes the
motor vehicle as a time economy unit.
He says:
This Is an age Of electricity and
gasolene. Distance Is annihilated by
the telegraph and telephone. Business
Is transacted not only nationally but
internationally by wire. Money is trans
ported by telegraphic transfers OF credit.
If 1t is question of hard surfaced
roads and automobiles against the coun-
try worn road and the OK cart In the
rut nobody wants to go back to the
old days If the high cost of living is
q problem and a mans fixed expense
is to be reckoned, we must have n time
saver, whether 1t be the telephone, tele-
graph, the wireless, the automobile or
gasoene propelled surface car. or the
airplane. 1t makes no difference
whether a man is n bricklayer. plumber
or banker: IL his time is worth anything
1t is economy to limit his period of
transportation"
The automobile has ceased to be
luxury. 1t might have been called one
at the start like the airpIane. But the
luxury of yesterday becomes the neces-
sity of to-day. AS Mr.. Lonsdale so
aptly puts 1t: MANY years ago when
our forefathers had wooden doors and
sliding shutters for windows window
glass was considered a luxury only for
the rich. but now 1t is a necessity, even
for the poor. letting sunshine and happi-
n1 Nft,er
within the warmth necessary to home
comfort"
People have built their lives around
the automobile. bought their homes,
selected their vacation camps and their
summer cottages. Businesses have been
developed around the touring car and
truck as the indispensable vehicle.
The New York herald., 1921-01-09

cheney on the farm, affording him means
Of daily visits to his neighboring cities
and forever dispelling the isolation Of
farm life. 1t is no uncommon occur
renee now for neighbors living twenty
or thirty miles apart to exchange eve
ming and Sunday visits, whereas In the
old days of the horse and buggy three
or four visits year were considered a
rare treat and an occasion of more than
passing interest. Children living on
farms may now enjoy the advantages of
the city or consolidated schools. What
Is more important just now. the auto
mobile is accomplishing what about
everything else has failed to do, 1t is
keeping the boys on the farms and
eliminating the desire for exodus to the
city.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-26
GATHER DATA
 ABOUT FISH IN
 NEW AQUARIUM

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 26 (by Associated Press) With the gulf stream pass ing it's door, Miami's new aquarium and biological laboratory containing been opened for gathering scientific and economic data relating to fisher ies and at the same time serve as an educational asset.
 Fifty glass front tanks each with visible area of four feet by six feet, and a number of larger display tanks comprises the equipment. The small. CT containers are arranged along cor riders in the general form of a nal tese cross, with rotunda in the cen ter. One of the display tanks is 36 feet long, 15 fet wide and 10 feet deep, probably the largest of it's kind
 in the world.
 Located on Miami Beach within a few hundred yards of the outlet of Biscayne bay, the tanks are easily kept supplied with fresh sea water. 1 Scientists anl students will . af- 1 forded facilities to study marine liie under the most favorable conditions. Three power cruisers equipped with special live wells for keeping fish comprise the fleet of the aquarium for collecting specimens and carrying i on research work. The waters of i Florida and the Bahma Islands lying from 40 to 15O miles off the Florida coast team with unusual fish and strange marine faunda. These waters will be explored thoroughly.
 The aquarium was established by an association of which James A. Al lison is president, Carl c. Fisher vice. president, and John Oliver La Gorce, secretary and treasurer. The advis, ory committee is composed of Dr. Al exander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; Gilbert Grosvenor, presi- dent of the National Geographic So- ciey; Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secre- tary of the Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Charles H. Townsend, director of the New York aquarium; Henry Fair. field Osborn, president of the New York Geological Society; Dr. Barton w EVermann, president of the Cali fornia Museum of Science; Thomas R. ShiDp, Dr. David Fairchild, agricultur- al explorer; Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, of Indiana university; Dr. E. Lester Jones, director of the U. s. coast and geodetic survey, and other we'll known scientists.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-26

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
 JUNEAU, ALASKA, December 31,
 1920. Serial 04654.
 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT.
 Notice is hereby given that in pur- suance of the Act of Congress ap- proved May 10, 1872, and Acts amend atory thereof, and all subsequent Acts of Congress and the regulations made in pursuance thereof, the ALASKA CONSOLIDATED OIL FIELDS, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Washington, and having it's principal place of business at Seattle, Wash ington, by H. l.. Faulkner, it's duly authorized Attorney in Fact, whose postoffice address is Juneau, Alaska, has made application for a patent for the area embraced within the placer mining claims known as Chilcat Oil Claim No. and Chilcat Oil Claim No. II, contiguous placer mining claims embraced in Mineral Survey No. 1070, Juneau Land Dis trict, situated in the Kayak Record ing District, Third Judicial Division, District of Alaska, and described upon the official plat herewith posted and by ehe plat and field notes on file in the office of the Register and Receiver of the Juneau Land Office, District of Alaska, and which are
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-26
SAYS ''BULL' DURHAM
 IS RUNNING TO FORM

letter to c. G. Jones, of the secret concerning "Bull' Durham, well known in Anchorage, and regular all around good fellow, says the Anchor age Times According to Hanahan's tell-tale letter Bull" had been sail ing under false colOrs here. Always accredited with the usual standard of morals of a gentlman, it is admit ted that even his most intimate friends never considered Bull" lily white nor a Carrie Nation hatchet carrier. Now comes Hanahan, and over his own signature writes that Anchorage's Bull" Durham has ac- cepted the intricate position as secre- tary for the White Squad" under the leadership of Byran of grape juice fame. It is gathered that Bull" has signed on for life, as the letter fur ther states he has booked for a series of lectures on the question of the "Disabuse and ill-effects of hard 1i- quors" with the Kentucky hills as his field for labor.
 Returning to personals Hanahan writes that he now working for the Western Pacific railroad as assistant road master and has headquarters in Los Angeles, where MT. Durham is now visiting.
 Jim adds postscript that "BuIl' is not really working for the anti-liquor interests, but is really walking the straight and narrow" and very much enjoying his vacation in southern Cal ifornia.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-26
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the United States Commissioners Court for the Territory of Alaska. Third Division, Cordova Precinct, at Cordova, in Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of T, w Lynch, Deceased. No. IA. Notice to Creditors.
 Public notice is hereby given, that on the 10th day of January, 1921, the undersigned, Emma Lynch, was duly appointed, and now is, the lawful ad ministratrix of the estate of the above named T. W. Lynch, deceased; and that all persons having claims against sald estate are required to present them within six months from the date Of this notice to said administratrix at the law office of Frank H. Foster. Esquire, her attorney in this matter, at Cordova, in the said Cordova pre- cinct, Third Judicial Division. Terri tory of Alaska, said office being the place for transacting the business of said estate.
 This notice is dated and the date of it's first publication is January il, 1921.
 EMMA LYNCH, Administrative of the estate of T. W.
 Lynch, Deceased. J-11-18-25 F-1-8-15-22,
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-26
RURAL SCHOOL
 IS CHIEF TOPIC
 OF EDUCATORS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (by AsSoc,- ated Press) The great problem in American education-the rural school" will be the first topic considered by the department of superintendence of the National Education Association when it meets at Atlantic City Feb ruary 26 to March 8. Association headquarters here have estimated that 5000 educators will attend this meeting and those of the National So- ciety of Vocational Education, the Ma. tional Council of Education and other departments and allied associations which will also meet in Atlantic City at this time.
 One entire session of the depart ment of superintendence will be given over to the consideration of what the rural schols have accomplished and what steps have been taken to bet ter them. The tentative list of speak, CTS on this topic includes Will C.. Wood, state superintendent of educa- tion in California; w. L. Harding, re- | tiring governor of Iowa; w. c. Bagley of the Teachers college, New York, and Ralph Decker, superintendent of schools in Sussex county, New Jersey,
 How to get better teaching will be another topic at the meeting and ntbor Coeciopc will ha davotad tO ,orOb. lens peculiar to the duties of school superintendents. City, county and state superintendents from all sec tions of the country have been asked to take part in these discussions.
 A number of special addresses are also on the tentative program of the convention. The list of speakers in- cludes Sir Auckland Geddes, ambassa. dor from Great Britain; Representa- tive H, M. Towner of Iowa, who in' troduced in congress the bill to create federal department of education; Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university; Henry Van Dyke of Princeton university; Dr. P, P Claxton, United States commission CT of education, and pr. John H. Fin | ley, commissioner of education for the state of New York. These addresses are to be given at general evening sessions of the department but their subjects have not been announced.