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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-01-05
BIG DEVELOPMENT
FOR BLOWING ROCK
Leonard Tufts Interested Iaa nsu nstsi
Alexander Planning InDravsasats
Lenoir News.T .Topic)

There is promise of big devel.
opment at Blowing Rock for the
new year. 1t is reported here
that Leonard Tufts Of Boston,
the man who is responsible tor
the development at sPinehurst
and the surrounding section into
a wOrld.famed winter resort, has
been financially interested at
Blowing Rock in a botel project
to be built during the present
year. The superintendent of.Mr.
Tufts Pinehurst property; spent
several days at Blowing Rock du
ring the past month. The report
here of Mr.. Tufts becoming e.
nancially interested in Blowing
Rock hotel property is accepted
as a promise OF great develop.
ment within the next few sea.
sons. 1t is believed that through
him hundreds Of wealthy men
from the north and east viii also
become interested.
Last year Mr.. W. L Alaxsn'
der had plans drawn for q $50.
room hotel to be built adjoining
the Mayview Club House. The
construction Of the hotel was de.
layed last season. However, &C.
cording to Mr.. Alexander's
friends here, a! the bpildink. will be.
begun at an early date and 1t 10
hoped to have it completed to
take care Of part Of the coming
summers business. The new ho-
tel will have $50 bed rooms, and
every room will have q private
bath. This building will be thor.
oughly modern. The rustic effect
will be carried out in the archi.
lecture, the outside Of the bull.
ding being made Of bark so as to
harmonic with the Club House.
A moving picture theater Is be
ing planned by W. l.. Alexan.
der and j. G. Ballew, a loca a. !
druggist. This theater will be
ready for the coming season.
The theater will be constructed
along the same plan that all Of
the cottages and 0Sb House on
the Mayview property have been
built. Mr.. Alexander also plans
to build several new cottages and
to enlarge the child's hospital,
Work has already begun on the
golf course on the Mayview Park
property. The course Is being
built under the direction Of Rob-
ert Ross, one of the most cele'
brated golf course builders in
the United States. This course
will be, completed and ready for
the next season.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-01-05
NdveftfsinE vyodr~ estsbnsh'

Adveftlsing your estabnsh-
ment is like advertising a brand
of goods, hosiery or soft drink
specially. The customer calls for
the advertised specially. He pat
ronizes the advertised store.
In bad times your business
lis going to follow the signs OF
the times unless you throw an
extra effort in the work and find
the features which can be adser.
tised, then advertise them.
Copyright applied for.)
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-01-05
As SAW II |. ACROSS
$. !: THE MOUNTAINS
(By G.. NJ. N. Parker ]

Like many others living in
Wilkes county; seeing. the holi.
days approaching and hearing
the children talking about hang
ing. ap-Aheir stockings, I had q
strong inclination to put my Jug
insone end 81 q sack, my e KIT
farm neiahbor'ss In the other,
throw II across my plow mare
and steal silently away to Hunt
ing Cresk. Butsince the revenue
officers will no longer allow me
to feturn whistling and singing,
fesling richer than a Rockefeller,
without proving that my jugs
ares filed with. honie.made sor-
ghnm, I persuaded my friend,
G. m. Caudill, popular proprie,
tor of North Wilkesboro's lead
ing hotel, to take me in his little
Ford, bid the hotel crowd good
bye and start to acquaint maself
with conditions across the Blue
Ridge mountains.
With handkerchiefs on the ho.
tel porch still waving high good.
byes. our little Ford SHE'D eau.
tioasly through the automobiles
along the hard paved street, but
when 1T rolled out on the so f t
country pike, smooth as q dusty
Aoqr, it sped off from under the
city smoke like a Kentucky steed
from a long stand in the. stall as
If With ! little more Rockefeller
reifit- would 60 on up and play
nyipg machine.
Itwas now nine o'clock. The
sun was Frightening up from the
haz4 around the horizonand near
ing Rauze.like clouds that moved
moYonless and high. The land.
seal e billowed off east and west
intodistant smoke settling as if
from forest fires, while e 6 h t
miles ahead the Blue Ridge
mountains true to sname tow
cred up in irregular. form to the
sky. The homes clear back to the
sky line were oozing smoke up
from their stone chimneys as If
from covered fires, and the dust
was rising along the many con.
verging roads as if all the coun.
try people were coming to town.
Aud 1they were filling our pike,
In wagons, buggies and automo-
biles- some with baskets ofeggs,
some with buckets of butter,
soms. with crates of poultry,
some, with stove wood, some
with cross ties and some with
lumber; some driving oxen, some
mules and some horses; o m e
with hounds tired from theirpre.
vioussnight's hunts. and
somewith their spruced up wives
and children; some as il TIL ey
owned both sides Of the road
and some bounding off and grab
biug their blair,eyed horses by
the bride as if they wished they
didnE have either. 3r
Nov and thena hardly bride
wise horse, hearing; our honks,
went In four directions at the
same time and never, stopped I'M.
til he cleared the right of-way
As If to equally distribute fright,
occasionally a big truck loaded
with lumber came blundring and
bouncing along, from which oul
Lizzie shot off like a lizard into
the brush or nosed up into the
corner Of the fence.
In The mear.time the noun.
tains, as fif mistakings US o ]
Chri stmas, were changing theil
blue foEgreen, and BY the; The tims
we dArriyed attheir feet they
were so~geously garbed in holly
laureli rhododendron, mountain
spruce ana balsam pines, thru
whichst their silver streams spar
kled for tinsel and their cascades
for oM Ssnta's down theichim
! ney horn. .,,+.,..,..a I, p
Our4oad now became q wind
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-01-05

and along the creeks, most of
them on beautiful lawns und un.
der weeping willow or other e
qually attractive shade.
Whether twas due to the pure
air, the pure water, or both, I
cannot say, but everything that
moved or had a being around
the homes looked peculiarly heal.
thy, healthy and clean. The ducks
and geese padding and squawk.
ing in the brooks and creeks
looked so clean that I don't be.
lieve. they could spslll dirt with a
dictionary: The droves of chick.
ems cackling and Growing on the
hillsides looked 80 clean h q
their roosts must have b e e n
swept and talcum powdered ev.
cry morning. The thoroughbred
catole half doing on the sunny
sides of the haystacks looked SO
clean that one would think they
never stepped off of their carpet
Of grass, and all in com mon, from
the cats summing on the door.
steps to the greatflocks of South
downs contentedly browsing on
the brush high on the hillsides,
appeared to be happy in the be-.
lief that their exemplary lives
would bring them back to Wa.
tauga to live when they died. "
That evening, with the last sun
rays fading from nearby Rich
Mountains highest peak, we
stopped and helloed at the gate
Of an average home, which brout
out a gentleman. whose identity
Ishall not reveal for the reason
that when the Watauga people
read my accusation I want it to
make all of them 20 to asking,
like Judas Tscariot. Lord is it ~
Let it suffice to say that our
request for lodging fell on friend
ly ears, and leaving our Ford
to be chauffeured later in to
q tremendously big barn, we
we're conducted up a concrete
walk and flight Of steps to a
broad veranda and along a hall.
way into a spacious sitting room
warmed with cheerful open
fire blazing up over a great sugar
maple backlog, we'll back around
which leaned three or four cush
ion. seated rockers. A fancy rug
too small for the room, left ex
posed around it a highly polished
sugar maple Aoor, on which the
flickers of the fire were starting
their twilight dances A fluffy
bed sporting a homemade coun
terpane stood back in one cornef
and q combination writing desk
and bookcase in the other. Two
clocks ticked companionably or
the mantel, and four or five mot
toes and oil paintings hung artis
tically around the walls. An old
fashioned fire shovel leaned a.
gainst one jamb, a pair of tongs
against the other, and through
the cracks in the flames leapinf
up over the big backlog I got
glimpse of an old d.fashioned po
rack.
Well above a walnut center ia
BILE strewn with magazines ant
farm journals a golden chandelie1
was awaiting nightfall to burs
into a blaze of electric light
while just inside the door a mar
BILE lavatory with a dipper hang
ing close by, offered sparkling
water gravitated from an icy
spring, for only turning a faucet
AS was this room, so turned
out to be all the others, strict,
modern. And even more tba1
strictly modern was the dininI
room. Its spacious dining tabl
circular in form, had in the cen
ter q kind Of wheel Of fortun
on which was strung chicken
mutton. ham. eggs, kraut, beans
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-01-05

1t made no difference where il
stopped, I had five for one star.
ing me in the face.
l shall not pretend to say that
found all the homes in Watauga
as modern as this one-no; "the
poor We have with you Away and
the poor live in poor houses, but
/ found a higher per cent in what
call sweet homes. than l have
found in any other county in the
state.
What l found true of homes l
found true of schools. Truly,
one reflects the other. In speak.
ing of them L shall not try to
dodge the fact that "as in the
Superintendent so in the schools
Nevertheless I can give Profess.
Hagaman only passing credit for
the high rating Of these. True,
he has been polished through his
life long association with the Wa.
tauga soil. True, he measures
four square to the top Of his call.
ing, and then some. True he
stands in the front ranks of that
sterling type Of manhood that
pillars and pilots every move.
ment that contributes toward a
greater America; but it is not in
any superintendent to begin
where he began and in the brief
period Of six years bring ali the
log schoolhonses but one up to
modern frames or bricks, add
from one to. three teachers to
fully half the schools and raise
the annual school fund from
about $4,000 to near $4,000,
without giving greatest credit to
the school patrons.
In appreciation of his educa.
tional leadership be has been ap.
pointed Superintendent of Pub.
lie WelfaN; and hisestimable wife
county nurse. I suppose they
will later 60 Unto training for
President andVice.P President Of
the United States, but speaking
candidly, the highest honors that
can be conferred upon any man
is the general custodianship of
the youth of his native county.
True, the work is hard and the
responsibilities great, but it is a
field in which I'VE, make all our
great people.
On our way home we again
stopped at the Boone monument
in the. gap crossing the Blue
Ridge, and first taking a fare
we'll look at cloudy.headed old
Grandfather mountain, I turned
and scanned the landscape low
ering off under thickening haze
to the sandy plains and on to the
sea-every inch Of which will ev
er be sweet to me-then admit-
ted that there had been a cross.
ing of names with Jacob and E.
saw, and that the term Lost
Province' ought to be applied tt
the plains country,
Speaking most candidly, it will
be the dawning of a brighter
day when we open our eyes to
the fact that the Southern noun
tains are our American Land Of
Canaan. OF course, I shall not
object to sending them missiona
ries to them, but it will be the
survival of thr fittest when Wa.
tauga sends a few to the fla
country to help US restore oul
boasted though evanescing Sou
thern hospitality" and bring US
to see that if we pattern after
the mountain people we will have
; fewer reasons for wanting to g
to a place like Watauga to live
when we die.
A Good Modelling Material.
II n often very difficult to keep
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-01-05

ergreen boughs I fancied ! saw
the mountain fairies empty
stockings. waiting to be filled.
Finally reaching the top-a
low place lip the sky at q rustic
monument recently erected to
Daniel Boone we stopped and
looked first at the land scape low:
aring away to the land of t h e
long leaf pines and sweet gum
groves, next turned and scanned
what appeared to be the land Of
meadow valleys and chestnut
and sugar maple groves-then
concluded that the monument to
the famous old hunter marks the
gateway into another world; a
world that has been known as
the Lost Province-the Prov.
ince that is locally known as
Watauga, the Watauga to which
civilized America has been asked
to send missionaries to enlighten
the benighted mountain folks.
p. With our Ford dropped from
boiling to family simmering, we
transferred our money to our in.
side pockets, held admiration SER
vices over our recently installed
though not patented device for
locking up our tires, tools and
trinkets, mutually pledged re-
frainment from discussing reli.
gion, politics, moonshine or any
thing else that might diminish
our safety while among the noun.
tain folks, then started on un-
der SUMMER skies, through cooler
breezes, along. clearer streams,
looking for q suitable place to eat
dinner. Twenty minutes pa st
twelve, rounding to the sunny
side of a chestnut grove. warm
shelter from the breeze and wa
ter close by for onr thirsty Ford,
we stopped and took out our
lunch to eat on the ROAD side.
While MI. Caudill was spreading
down o paper napkin and load.
ing it with sandwiches, a X e:s
and pies, three gentlemen and a
shepherd dog, the latter under
the belief that he was the whole
cheese, came driving a drove of
turkeys around the bend. Above
the ka.ouking, the shepherds
barking and the mems shelving
and swaying brushes in the rear,
1 asked them how far it was to
Boone. One of them stopped and
waited until the noises got fur.
ther down the road, then replied
that it was eight miles.
With dinner over, we hummed
on along the new though becom>
ing splendid highway to Boone,
a seemingly unpretentious Ath
ems in an AlpsI where we we're
informed that a ten mile run in
any direction, but more especial
ly a circuitous one by way of the
county high schools, would give
MS a true insight to the physical
financial and social standing OF
the whole county. Choosing the
latter way and choosing Profess.
or Smith Hagaman. County Su
perintendent, to accompany us
and interpret for US their un
written mountain language, W.
hummed on along the Boone
Trail which, though on a good
grade, made us" and "S's" all
the way. .---
The landscape billowed off be.
| fore us in hills of uniform heigh,
to the horizon, on the western
rim of which stood old Grand
father mountain with his head a
bove timber line, smiling dow
as parentally and proudly as
all the hills and mountains In tn
/ Lost Province of Watauga. wer
his children and grandchildren.
The valleys, uniform as thu
hills, we're studded with grea
New-York tribune., 1922-01-30
American Ports

BALTIMORE. Jan 2a-Arrved: Edward
MuncA ,aye. 1Mora' rh1lsde'phis GIN ,r, .o%o ,Mo
Teu. Norway. Willsolo. Los Angeles. etc.
VIA Ncw York. American Star. Novoros.isk
CNARLESTON. s c. Jan ?9-Arrived
New YorlD Lenapc. New York (and pro
coded to Jacksonville) Sailed !. J Drake.
Now York, Cotopaxi. New York.
,..'ic GicAhyESToN. Tex. Jan sN-Arrived
CGer Tampico, Richconcal. New York.
Sailed: Panuco, Tampico.
JACNSONNILLE. Fla. Jan - Arrived
Arapaho". New York. Sailed: Lake Els
nero, Boston; Nantucket, Philadelphia Via
Savannah.
(Br). New YORK. Robert Hopkins. New
York Boston City tBr). New YORK; West
York sailed Erholm oNcr,. s. Johns.
Amelia Port Antonio; Gcorian, Hamburg
via Now York.
PANAMA CANAL, CR1sTOBA1. Jan %
Arrived 18th: steel Exporter Baltimore and
sailed for Seattle, Willhylo. Now York and
sailed for Tacoma. Sailed 2Sth. Minncqua,
New Orleans; San Bruno Br> Boston
lIAIAFAX, : $. Jan Arrived 18Th:
York, Dgby ,Bry. Liverpool ana sailed for
Boston: Bloemfoutein (Br). New York
sH;h, Empress os Scotland 'Br). .Southamp-
,on I.aplsnd 'Br). Antwerp and sailed Tor
'Er), Manchester' 29th. lisgar County
lFr), Liverpool sch Marion L Mason,
Porto Rico.
pl1LApELPHIA. Jan ca Arrived
Plata, etc: commack Boston: ElswicA
Park 'Br>. Caibsr.cn. etc. Sailed Briton,
rortland; Eugene Thayer, Houston
dam Via Baltimore Aspen (Sw) Stock
holm, etc. Via Baltimore: Llnlon, Santa
Marta Camaguey. Havana; II c Tolser.
a .rtv.a " nrlyC,
Vile Indian. Boston.
PORT EADs. la, Jan 2e-.rrived: Bay
;-T.s ~mo, Tnnpigo Msvania. Port Lobos; San
r so Terppo h ompsG s%ea pa4 AS'Tqn9sr o
sia; Blydendijk coo, Rotterdam; Chai-
m,ette, Havana; Eldorado, Seattle: Ri
fstero. New York: Fert GD, Naples; Fuel
oil. Tampico Guantanamo. Cuban ports,
ilarald CDar), Muevitas; Cuba Holmla
holoina 'Brl. Rotterdam: Rajah. Progreso
SURNAME Port Barrios; Truxillo, Tampa
Iacaps Bocas del Toro.
PORTLAND Me. Jan 2a-sailed steph.n
York and Sabine
PORT TAMPA. Fla. Jan es-Arrived
Cuba. Havana kelloskee. Tamplco. Sailed
Honar. Barcelona: Cuba. Havana Via Key
West: NJ g Douglas sydney.
St Louis New York Sailed: Certo GNor}.
Cuba
SAN FRANCISCO Jan 2a--Arrivcd ,sth:
pixie Arrow New York; MoerdiJki (DN.
Boston West Prospect, Manila Via San
PEDRO Mexican, Astoria tor London; Cold
liarbor Portland Me, Pleiades. New Or
ieans' City Of Lincoln. Hull. Sailed 2sth
Colinla tMeA), Salina Cruz: Ecuador New
York Thomas p Beal. New York VIA san
fedro' Caddo, Talara 29th, Dixie Arrow.
llong Kong; Ncponset. New York. Tusca-
lcosa City, Liverpool Via San Pedro
ST JOHN. \ B Jan 29-Arrived cSth:
Penguela BID. Cardiff Sailed eSth:
'runisian (I3r). Glasgow
TAMPA, Fla. Jan 2s-Arrived: Ocmul.
gee. Mobile. ! " RiGss. Fort Myers
New-York tribune., 1922-01-30
Ship Men Aid Orphans
Gain in Armenian and Holv
Land Relief Work

prominent shipping men, represent
ing all branches Of the marine indus
try have been organized to assist !,
america $ part Of aiding the orphans OF
Armenia and the Holy Land. it was an
n0unced yesterday. A. l.. Burbank cf
a. II. Bull & Co.. of 40 Wcs, Strcot
n"ads the committee OF tho marine IN.
dustry that has affiliated itself with
the Near East Relief organization.
associated with Mr.. Burbank are ,ho
10 fo'low'ng: John Riley, of Tho Todd
Shpyards Corporation. 25 Broadwa" u"'
chairman; r. A. Nichol. Oriental Navi'
gst'on Company, 80 Broadway: John
pennington. Phelps Brothers. + Pat'
terry Place; r. McKim, Cunard lines.
j. d. Meehan, Barber lines: Willian,
S'mmons, a Whitehall Street. e G.
norner. Commercial Union of Amer,c .
0tto = Raddeman, Caldwell & Co., 80
hroad Street; j: A. Cook. Marsh & Nc.
Lennon, 80 Maiden Lane; Thomas =
farrell, Lopez. Farrell & DREW "A
Mh'tchall y, Street, and Eugene Mo.an'
Moran nora, lowing Company, u Battery
New-York tribune., 1922-01-30
Miners and Operators
Clash OH Coal Prices
Union Saws Anthracite Produc-
crs Don't Need &l.3O a Ton

controversy between the United
Mine Workers of America and tho Cen
eral Committee OF Anthracitc Opera
tors over what increase in the cost of
anthracite coal would be required to
meet the demands of the hard Goa
miners for wage increases of 81 q day
for day men and 20 per cent on contract
rates developed yesterday in state
morts issued by both organizations.
The operators statement set forth
that granting of the increases would
mean advanced costs to consumers
adding Sl.30 ton in the case Of do
Mestic sizes Of anthracite. and also
would mean less work for the mines.
The miners statement charges the op-
orators with being "badly twisted" in
their figures and declares they have
made substantial progress in profits
during The so-callcd readjustment
period since the war
Prom 1916 to 1919 the mine workers
received 40 per cent increase on con-
tract rates, 5 so day on outside labor
and s. day on inside labor SAYS the
miners statement. "To absorb these
1t required. according to their figures,
an increase Of $1.o9 a ton on the 1916
base
1--WE submit that if it took an in
crease Of sl.59 to absorb 40 per cent
and q S2-a-day increase it shouldn' t
take much mere than one half Of sl.59
TO absorb the present increased dc
mands of 20 per cent and 5 day
hey also quoted The Federal Trade
Commlssmion's report as purportine to
chow that from 1913 so 1918, inclusive
their margin OF profits ton was AZ -lC
cents, and they admit to. day the aver
age margin ls so cents ton profit
hls is mute evidence that the opera
tors have taken no backward step IN
the matter Of profits since 1915"
New-York tribune., 1922-01-30
Col. Roosevelt, Hamilton
Fish and Commanders
Blakcslcc and Wicker
sham to Speak at Dinner
Event Tomorrow at Hotel
Ten Eyck in Albany Is in
Honor of Legionnaire
Members Of Legislature

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Repre-
sentative Hamilton Fish and Past Com
manders Charles G. Blakeslee and Colo
mel C. w Wickersham will bo the
speakers ut dinner tomorrow at tho
Hotel Ten Eyck, Albany, in honor Of
the Iegionnaires who are members OF
the State Legislature and National
Commander Hanford MacNder.
Samuel +. Aronowitz, chairman Of
tn" Legion's state legislative cc:cmit-
mcnts. announced that all details had
been completed. Throughout the day
various state committees will meet and
discuss the work Of the Legion. Mem
delegations will leave this city at $3.50
O'Clock tomorrow morning on the EN-
piro Express
The state executive committee will
rooms in the Hotel Ten Eyck at 2
o'clock.
Other committees will meet as fol
lows:
State legislative committee, Hotel Ton
Eyck. ! r. IN.
civil service committoc I r. IN.
Post and county activities committee :
T. III.
REORGANIZATION committee. , p. m
Finance committee. r. m
hospital alton committee, S D. m
M'nbolship committee. 5 p. IN.
stat" athletic committee D. m
convention program committee r. M
onN"utlon arranEclnentH Com,nittcc
hour not Yet set
state weLfarc committed p M