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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
THE CAMP GROUND CLEARED

The men of the Boone Chamber of
Commerce spent Monday working on
forest in the town cleaning it off
to be used as a camping ground for
summer tourists who may want to
come for camping trip to this live
little town. The place is very suit
able for the purpose and it is hoped
that these who desire to take a camp
ing trip for the summer will avail
themselves Of this opportunity to eii-
joy a pleasant stay. 1t is the pur-
pcse of Boone to make this a place
of real pleasure to those who may
vlsn to use it. Boone says. "Come
and Welcome"
At the noon hour a most sump-
tuous dinner was spread by the ladies
of the Parent Teachers Association,
whcih, it goes without saying, was
very much enjoyed by ali who par
took thereof After the meal was
served, the ladies to show their in
terest in the work being done, spent
some little time in piling brush and
doing other work on the grounds.
They have the thanks of all for theiG
hearty cooperation.
]. M. DOWNUM.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
MORRISON NAMES GARDENING
WEEK

Raleigh, April Ex-Governor Cam
eron Morrison today designated April
1928 as North Carolina gardening
week in connection with the program
for the gardening campaign.
North Carolina should take the
lead as a state of beautiful and dis
tinctive highways, cities and homes,
because of richness in it's own varie-
ties, shrubs, vines and flowers" C. D.
Mathews, chief of the division of hor-
ticulture, of the extension service,
said.
Each town should adopt some tree
shrub or flower particularly adopt
ed to it's locality and a determined
and united effort to encourage its
planting and use should be made. The
planting of uniform variety of trees
in the city street or the planting of
one good variety of flower in an ex-
tensive manner is possibly the best
advertising town can have.
why HOI LidhS 1NOIGu SdGcllHd
distinctive as the land of the Long
Leaf Pine by planting this tree along
our highways? The lobholly and yell
low pines might be used where the
long leaf variety will not grow.
"The vegetable gardens should be
a continuous one. With careful
planting fresh vegetables may be
served direct from the garden each
day of the year. The spring garden
will consist largely of the salad and
root crops; the summer garden is
made up largely of vegetable fruits
and the edible seeds; the fall garden
of roots, salads and vegetable fruits,
and the winter garden will be COM
posed largely of root and salad crops,
he said.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
TRUSTEES OF A. T. S. MEET

The Trustees of the Appalachian
Training School met at the Coffey
Hotel Monday night and Tuesday
morning. Money matters, pertain
ing to the enlargement of the insti-
tuition were descerned. The power
plant had due consideration. Every
piece is now ordered to repair the old
plant. A new plant of some Kind
will be built.
The model school, the physical
educational building, the improve
rnent of the grounds were authori7-
ed.
The Board was unit as to the
policy of the school. Expressed ap-
prevail of the faculty as whole, and
Inc five departments of the student
body.
The Appalachian Training School
. forward looking-it is 10 be a
real Normal College, with full
couse of two years above a nigh
school,
resident Dotgherty is working
hare, He has big plans for the fu-
cure Of the school. When hebegins
a thing, he never stands back until it
mas been accomplished.
Those presen' were Capt. L. F.
Lo,Gll, E. s. 'Coffey, Adolphus Tay-
lor, T. II. Coffey.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
WHAT GERMANY HAS iAlD

A brief item in the daily nowspa-
pers a few days ago, under a Berlin
date line, stated that the total repa-
rations payments made by G2l many
aggregated $2Q,000,0OO,0O0 The
statement was surprising and doEbt-
less many people who read it thought
that Germany had done remarkably
well to pay that much doney in four
years; and the natural feeling was
that if Germany had paid twenty bil-
lions already there was no good rea
son for pressing that country. But
the statement was German made and
intended to deceive In The New
York Times Charles H. Grasty gives
authoritative figures of the payments
actually made by Germany on repara-
tions account, and shows that the
total is about three billion eight hun
dred millions, and Of this sum only
about one billion cash and deliveries
in kind. The remainder (that is, the
remainder of the three billion eight
hundred millions), which cannot pro-
perly be considered as reparations,
includes restitutions-property taken
by German armies and since returned,
and sequested property abroad, in
cluding German holdings in this coun-
try, most of which will eventually be
returned.
It is absurd Of course ocount as a
part Of the reparations payment the
return Of stolen property and seques-
tired property in allied countries, un.
less the latter was actually accepted
and credited on reparation account
and most of the sequestered German
property in this country, at least, will
be restored to Germany. In reality
then, instead Of paying twenty billior
on reparation account, Germany has
actually paid not quite one and 6
quarter billion dollars. Germany has
not abandoned the common practice
of attempting deception and fraud
The misleading and false statement
from Berlin is evidence, if any were
needed, that Germany intends, if pos
sible, to evade the reparations pay
ments promised. Wherefore there i
more sympathy for France and les
concern as to what that country ma.
do to Germany-Landmark.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
BED-RIDDEN, FAMILY OF NINE
FACES HUNGER IN
YADKIN
By L. J. Hampton

Hamptonville, April 2O.-It isn't
often that plea for material help to
sustain life in the body has been sent
out of Yadkin county, but pitiable
case of a family, sick and afflicted,
without even meat or bread in the
home for the next meal, was yester-
day called to the attention of Sheriff
c. E. Moxley who is leading a cam
paign to eep the wolf from the door
until health is restored
The case was reported by Mail
carrier j. w. Garner. For many
weeks Mr.. and Mrs. John Southern
an dthier family of seven children,
the oldest one 13 years old and the
youngest an infant in arms, have
been battling against the ravages of
a neasies epideinie. The father
and all The children were afflicted,
two or more of them being bedrid-
den at time. All but the mother
suffered from the contagious disease
and the father is just now able to
walk little with, it is feared, symp-
toms of even more terrible malady.
Last week Mr.. Garner furnished
them meat and other foods from his
store without charge. 1t was the first
meat they had had in their home for
several weeks. But this supply is ex-
hauseted and an appeal was made
through Sheriff Moxley for additional
help to keep the family from starva-
tion and want. 1t is stated that not
member of the family excent the
mother is able to even walk about
the house and the mother is kept busy
waiting upon and serving those who
are still bedridden.
A call for donations of money,
food Of any kind to sustain the body
and to furnish nourishment to the all
ing children and father, has been
broadcasted and the press has been
asked to help in the appeal. Any
amount Of food of any kind suitable
Tor the human palate, will be thank
fully accepted by the family, it is
pointed out.
Persons who feel that they want 20
contribute of their means to help
relieve this pitiable situation are ask
cd by Sheriff Moxley to send their
donations of money or food to Tho
mas F. Miller, superintendent Flat
Rock Baptist Sunday school, Hamp.
tonville, N. c., and they may be as
sured that every cent will be used in
Mr.. and Mrs. Southern and thcir
children.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
FORD INTERESTED IN NORTH
CAROLINA ROADS

Raleigh Dispatch. j. R.
Baggett, of Harnett county, came to
Raleigh with a story of Hnery Ford's
interest in railroad running through
North Carolina to the sea and con-
Meeting with coal mines he has ac-
quired in Kentucky. Ford wants a
means of conveying coal to tn ecoast
for supplying steamers and he re-
Gently offered ninety million dollars
for the Virginian railway, the Har-
nett senator reported, expressing GER
tainty that he had received piece of
news that came straight from the
automobile manufacturer.
Mr.. Baggett is interested in a rail.
road project himself, and it was
through the enterprise that he heard
of Ford's interest. His road is the
proposed Carolina Central, route to
run from Ellington to Jacksonville
and Swansboro on the coast; and he
announced maturing plans for actual
construction work.
Common stock to the amount of
$680,000 has already been subscrib-
ed for his project, chartered by the
general assembly in 1911, and twice
that amount will run it through the
110 miles of level country between
Ellington and the coast. Surveyors
are at work now, and next April is
set as the likely time for putting the
construction forces to work.
The Harnet man was up here to
report his news to Governor Morri-
son and inquired as to the advisa-
biiity Of getting the state ship and
water transportation commission to
look into harbor possibilities around
Jacksonville ,and Swansboro. Swans
considered the greatest coaling sta
tion in the world
Ford, according to Mr.. Baggett,
could be brought down here to con-
slider the possibilities Of getting a
railroad through this state. Bag
gett sees wonderful potentialities
in connection with Tam Bowie's
railroad, the line running from High
Point to Aberdeen and mis- now pro-
jeeted railway starting so miles east
OF Aberdeen and ruaseu TO this form
ser site of the Worlds greatesf coal
ing station.
Ford, h pointed out has road
running south from Detroit in the
direction of his Kentucky coal mines.
And road from the mines through
North Carolina to the coast would
give the financier some several hun
dred miles of rails forming a half
moon.
The deal for the purchase of the
Virginian was declined by Mr.. Bag
gett to be depended upon terminal
facilities at Norfolk, Va.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
MISS ESTHER RANSOM DIED
IN HICKORY
DIED

Miss Esther EXum Ransom, daugh.
ter of the late Senator and Mrs Matt
W. Ransom, died suddenly at the SUI
burban home of her brother, Col
Robert Ransom, in the southern part
of the city at l o'clock this morn
ing. Organic heart disease was the
cause.
Saturday and Sunday Miss Ransom
was in apparently good health, and
her brother had no reason to feel
alarmed until late last night. She had
suffered for some time with valvular
heart disease, however, and the end
came suddenly.
Miss Ransom was born in North
ampton county and came to Hickory
in 1878 and resided here and at
Blowing Rock, a section of the coun-
try to which she was devoted. Her
interest in the people of the noun
tains was genuine and helpful. She
knew them all for miles around and
they loved her. In Hickory during
the influenza epidemic in the winter
of 1917-1S Miss Ransom served day
and night and no call found her un-
willing her purse always was ready to
relieve the poor.
Educated at St. Marys, Raleigh
Ogontz College and Patapsco Insti-
tute, Baltimore, and in Mrs. Ervin's
school in New York, Miss Ransom
also was widely travelled, having ac-
companied her parents to Mexico
while the senator was ambassador
there and spent part of her life in
Washington.
She was a member Of the Episco-
pal church.
Miss Ransom is survived by fOul
brothers, ]. E. and P. E. Ransom
Northampton county; Geo. E. Ran
som, Halifax county, and Robert
Ransom, Hickory. A sister-in-law
Mrs. M. W. Ransom, of Littleton
also survives-Hickory Daily Re
cord, 18th.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
Do you take Your County Paper?

he was out of oil. He again landed
safely, replenished his oil tank and
was off again for Washington. He
arrived there day late, but went
on Immediately to New York intend
ing to make up time by returning tc
Washington the same afternoon
Lieut.. Lindell started from New
York just before twilight and 6
strong wind almost Immediately blew
him off his course. He finally founc
himself on the edge of Chesapeake
Bay fighting an outgoing wind. HI
was forced to land, but it was too
dark to see the ground. He final
ly decided to go it blind and LANDED
in a field but Lady Luck had hel
head turned the other way and HI
hit the only tree in the field. Hi
plane crashed and was demolished
but the aviator escaped with a sligh
cut over the eye.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
CHEAP ADVICE

1t does beat all the immense guam
tity and varied assortment of good
CD advice one can gather in any
community, entirely unsolicited, and
we venture to say that if one should
start out with an honest solicitation
for advice, in twenty-four hours he
would have enought gathered to an
swer every purpose in life, if it would
only come up to the guarantee.
And it is observable that advice
comes most freely from thase less
qualified on any given subject. The
man who never tasted liquor can tell
the drunkard just how to quit drink
mig and make man of himself. The
fellow who has never had the thrill
ing experience of holding loving
maiden's hand, can tell exactly how
you can raise a large family and get
along happily with your wife. The
fellow who has never been sick a day
in his life can diagnose your disease
the minute you impart to him you
are "a bit under the weather" The
fellow who can't write his own name
knows just how the schools should be
operated and what should be taught
The fellow who can't repeat the
Lords prayer or the Ten Command
ments knows exactly how to run the
church or how the preachers should
preach. And the fellow that doesn't
know the difference between a print
ing press and cider mill, or whether
you spell bull with a big or small OBJ
can just beat the socks off the editor
publishing a newspaper.
Isn't it ridiculous that all the i'm
mense amount of ego should be
found waiting on every corner to
harass people who are getting along
Of life and tending to their own
| business.
The man who has thoroughly
mastered one profession does not
pretend to know everything. He
knows that to keep up with his own
vocation he has to keep busy learn
ing the new things that are contin-
ually coming before him or he will
loose out, and if you ask him
for information on any subject which
does not come within the scope of his
profession, he will tell you frankly
that he is not posted, and will refer
| To hot Sc
are sick you have a physician visit
you who knows what to do for man
in your condition; you don't send for
a plumber who was never sick day
in hisslife. If you are a hibitual
drunkard and want to quit the pesky
stuff, you can't afford to take the
preachers or Sunday school teachers
advice who don't know the effect of
, hard cider, but rather you should con-
; fer with some one who has been
through the mill and delivered him
: self safely from your same condi-
: ton.
And so it goes on down the line
of life's everyday problems. Men
!, who have drank deep in experience
are the best advisors, but are 10th
in giving advice, fearing their good
intentions will be misconducted
+ and knowing that, after all, expert.
ence is the best and most reliable
teacher.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-04-26
3 MONTHS AND NO FATALITY
IN AIR

ndHIoulS ILL.,, April l4.-NOC a
fatality has been checked against
the air service during the three
months that have elapsed sincr
Major General Mason NJ. ratricl
chief of the United Slater AiS Sc Z
viceissued orders bs She s,ss,s ssssssSssit. Il
officers of Chante. Boiling, Langley,
Michel, McCook and Sellridge
Fields to innaugurate regular sche-
duled flights over a model airway
over the eastern and middle western
states, according to records here.
The model air course takes in New
York, Hampton, Va, Cleveland, To-
ledo, Detroit, Kokomo, Ind, and
Rantoul. Each field dispatches a
plane bi-weekly.
The records show that the first
flights were not all completed on
schedule time, but each trip has
shown an improvement. A trip re-
Gently completed was from Chanute
Field to Dayton, O., to Columbus,
O., back to Dayton, o., to Mounds
vile, W. Va, to Washington to Cum
berland, Mr., to New York, back to
Washington, to Chanute Field. The
distance Moundsville, to Cleveland,
to Detroit to Toledo, back to De-
troit to Kokomo, Ind, and return TO
cover was more than 2,200 miles and
the total actual flying time was %
hours and ten minutes.
While no AVIATOR was killed, yet
the flights were far from devoid of
excitement and hair-breadth escapes.
Major F. L. Martin in recent
trip left Chanute on route which
covered 1900 miles. He was not
furnished with strip maps sing
the entire route, but only for terri
tory a few miles on each side Of the
route. The only landing place be-
tween GAINESVILLE, Ohio and Wash
ington is Moundsville, the remaining
Landscape being almost continuously
dule, Major Martin tried more di-
rect route than that outlined and
almost Immediately ran into a strong
head-wind and dense clouds. He was
blown off his course while flying
over the mountains. After some
time of aimless flying, trying to
obtain his bearings, he suddenly
realized his gas was getting low
his oil was almost gone, and that he
had no place to land. He was rather
high at the time and dropped down
to try for a landing. Just before his
gas gave out he saw a town and re.
cognized it as Moundsville, his origi
nal objective. On landing safely he
found he had only three gallons Of
gasoline left, and had no oil.
Lieutenant Floyd A. Lundel
started the only flight in the three
months that was not carried to {
successful conclusion, but fellow
aviators look upon him as having ;
charmed life. His first mishap OF
his route from Chanute to New Yorl
was when a spark plug went wron.
and he was forced down near Wheel
ing, w. Va. He repaired the damag,
an took off again only to find dens'
clouds confronting him. When h,
had climbed above them he learne,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
8-Hour Day a Success
In Big Steel Plants

Cleveland, O.-The employers have
benefited, is the concensus of opinion
among big independent steel manu-
facturers in the Mahoning valley,
Youngstown, and Cleveland districts
in reporting on the introduction of the
eight-hour day in the steel mills. The
president of the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Co.'s mills states: "The
eight-hour day is here to stay. The
men gained four hours a day and
higher pay per hour, since they now
get ten hours pay for eight hours
work; but the mills have benefited by
very marked increase in the mems
efficiency"
Proof that men can produce more
steel per hour under the eight-hour
day than under the 12-hour shift is
evidenced by practically every steel
plant in this district. Only 20 per
cent more men have had to be added
in order to chop the day one-third, and
in some plants an even smaller pro-
portion. Wasted time and "loafng
jobs" have been largely eliminated in
the reorganization that has followed
the shorter day.
IlOW dIc CIlc SCcel WOIhcIS SpSIlulIlS
the extra hours? Judge Gary said
they would spend it in idleness or
worse. On the contrary, the head of
the industrial department, Y. M. c..
A, in the Mahoning valley district
states that hundreds of steel workers
are enrolling for the first time in Eng
lish classes, and that two-thirds of the
citizenship classes are now composed
Of steel mill workers who are able for
the first time to learn how to become
Americans.
All the steel mills in this district
have already changed or are now
changing to the eight-hour day, ex-
cepting the big plant of the Otis Steel
Co. of Cleveland, owned by a hard
boiled group of investment bankers
and railroad fnanciers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
Boy Accidentally Shot

Harry, the eleven-year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis S. Shoemaker,
1873 Wilwood ave., was accidentally
shot Tuesday afternoon by Clarence
Hummel, aged twelve years, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hummel, 81 Will
wood ave. The Shoemaker boy was
playing in the street when Clarence
came out of the house with a shot
gun, and thinking it unloaded pointed
it at the other boy and pulled the
trigger. The gun was discharged and
about twenty-five shot struck the
body of the victim, one entering the
eye and probably destroyin~ the
sight. With this exception no Serious
damage was done.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
Auto Accident

Sunday evening, a Ford car driven
by Mrs. Joseph Hupp, in which were
also Mrs. Benton Wells, her two
grandchildren, Martha and Betty
Hupp, and another girl, collided with
another machine at the corner of
Eleventh and Granville streets. Most
of the party were more or less in
jured. Mrs. Wells suffered from a
badly sprained back, Mrs. Hupp. was
thrown violently against the steering
wheel, and Martha and Betty were
bruised and cut, but the third girl
was not hurt. The other car in the
mix-up was owned by Harry Swisher
and driven by Raymond Ruble.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23

of the engine until the train was
st"rped. So great was the impact
that the automobile was hurled in
front of a dwelling 100 feet from the
track. The accident is supposed to be
due to the fact that the morning was
dark and foggy and the curtains Of
the car were closed. The engine,
spesding at between sixty and seventy
miles an hour, was derailed and ran
several hundred yards on the ties be-
fore stopped. None of the crew were
injured.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
The Park Bank Xmas Club

The Park National Bank has in
stalled a complete department to
handle the Christmas Savings Club
deposits, which will enable everyone
in the community to provide money
for Christmas next year in an easy
practical way. You can join with any
deposit you wish, from one cent to
any amount you may desire. The Of
ficials will gladly explain the plan to
anyone wishing information. Read
the Christmas Club ad. elsewhere.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
FOUR MEN KILLED AT CROSSING

An automobile containing four Co.
lumbus men out for a days rabbit
shooting, was struck by Pennsylvania
passenger train No. 33 at street
crossing in Frazeysburg at half-past
five o'clock Thursday morning of last
week and all the occupants instantly
killed. The remains of three of the
men were scattered along the track
for several hundred feet, and the body
of the fourth was carried on the pilot
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
THANKSGIVING Dance

The Alpha Pi Fraternity is enter
tanning with a Thanksgiving Dance
Wednesday evening, November 9th,
at the Masonic Temple from 8 till /.
A special dance program will be ar
ranged by an eight piece novelty or
chestra.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
Petit Jury to Meet Monday

The petit jury, which was tenn
porarily excused last Friday, has been
ordered to meet on Monday to con-
slider criminal cases, among them be-
ing that of Desso Nichols who ran
over and killed the adopted son of Mr.
and Mrs. David Griffith last summer
on East Main street, who is charged
with manslaughter.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
Murderers Still at Large

Two weeks ago tomorrow John W..
Foster, B. & o. employe, was killed
in Scott's restaurant by two unknown
men who are still at large. In order
to stimulate activity on the part of
police officers the county commits
sioners have hung up $500 reward
for the arrest and conviction of the
criminals.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
Flowers For THANKSGIVING

Flowers in bewildering profusion
and beauty are shown in Ankele's Ar
cade Flower Shop, at surprisingly
moderate prices. The chrysanthemum
display is especially attractive. Would
it not be a good idea to order those
needed for your Thanksgiving festivi-
ties before the supply has been picked
over?