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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

with 514 and Virginia fourth with
328.
North Carolina leads the entire
South in the total number of cot
ton mills, having a total of SOL
mills with 5,530,188 spidles, 49,
900 looms and 1920 knitting ma
chimes. South Carolina has $50 cotton
mills with 5,135,404 spindles, 49,
504 looms and 1,473 knitting ma
chimes. Georgia has 176 cotton mills
with 2,7S8,98S spindles SO 1872 looms
and 6,913 knitting machines.
It may deducted from the fig
ures given that North Carolina in
stalled more than so per cent Of all
the spindles installed in the South
last year. She will install more than
72 per cent of the spindles being in
stalled in the South during this year
She installed 81 pc rcent of the knit.
ting machines installed last year.
1t is remarkable that the toal mum.
Continued on page two)
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08
COMMISSIONERS MEETING POST
PONED UNTIL NEXT MONDAY

On account of the illness of the
chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners, and the failure Of
one of the members, Mr.. James Mil
ier, to be on hand, on account of
weather conditions, the meeting was
postponed until next Monday. On
authority of letter receiver by from
the chairman, and Mr.. Willmorn, the
only member present. If you have
business before the Board, be on
hand next Monday.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08
SAYS CHURCHES SHOULD
INVEST IN ADVERTISING

Every church chould set aside
money to be used for newspaper
advertising, Rev. J. T. Barber,
of the committee on conservation
and advance of the Methodist
Episcopal church, declared in his
address in Chicago last Sunday.
"The church can send its mes
sage in the papers to non-church
goers and to those of its mem
bers detained at home because, of
sickness, business and othercaus-
es," he said.
"The preacher speaks to hum
dreds, while newspapers speak
to thousands and millions.
Church members should assist
editors, but criticism of editors
and editorial policies are HARM
full. The pulpit and press should
pull together and not apart"
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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08
SEVERAL PASSENGERS INJURED
IN WRECK NEAR SUMPTER, S. c.

Sumpter, S. c., Feb. 1-Several
passengers were injured this morning
when Atlantic Coast Line passenger
train No. 35, southbound, collided
head-on with a freight train at Pri-
vateer, nine miles south of here.
G. C. Hnies, Of Florence, S. c., a
mail clerk, was the most seriously in
jured. Most of the other injured were
negroes, who sustained only bruises.
The track was expected to be
cleared early this afternoon. Train
No. 35 is operated between Florence,
S. C. and Augusta, Ga.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08
CONDITIONS ARE
BAD IN GERMANY

An idea of post war conditions in
Germany is CLEANED from letters re-
ceived from distant kinspeople in
Beirthein by Frank Krauss, former
postmaster at Waxhaw. "You will no
doubt be rather astonished to get
letter from here after so many years
of unusual silence" one reads, "but
l have been so lucky to get your ad-
dress only few days ago. am the
widow of your cousin, Wilhelm
Krauss, from Munster. l dare say
family Krauss has probably mention
ed us in letters to you.
81 am sorry to inform you that
my dear husband died quite sudden
ly last year, leaving US and our dear
little girl, Elizabeth (age of 14) be
hind entirely devoid Of all means Of
living. Our two sons, aged 27 and %
years, perished in the awful war.
Our elder son and elder daughter,
striving themselves very hard for
gaining their living, are equally un-
able to support US. So l am often
very hard up, especially as every
thing is so dreadfully expensive.
81 have small monthly allowance
of 400 marks, but this sum is not
even sufficient for week. The worst
of all is that l am often ill of late
and so little able to do hard work
Even my sewing does not bring me
much, as my poor eyes get weaker
and weaker. So you perhaps will un-
derstand and excuse my asking you
if you would kindly send me some
worn-out dresses of your daughters
for my little girl and for myself. "
have a good hand at rearranging and
getting up decently old things for
us, and l ask you, too, to help me
in getting my girl to a good school
of dressmaking by sending me few
dollars so that l should be able to
pay her a place as an apprentice.
"You may be sure that this pecu-
mary help should only serve as an
assistance for the education of my
dear girl. And you may be equally
sure that you are helping persons
worthy to be helped. Please do not
be angry at my asking for help from
you. If our poverty were not grow
ing harder and harder every day,
the prices of the more indispensable
yictuals rising continually, / should
never have allowed myself to writes
to you in this way. ;l4
"You are already long time over
there in your rich happy America.
Let me hope that you have not quite
forgotten your relations in your poor
old Germany.
Mr.. Krauss is of German parent
age, but was born in this country !
Ever since the signing of the armis-
tice he has been sending food and
money to his once well-to-do but
new war-impoverished relations in
the old country.
A glimpse of Christmas in the
old country is given in another let |
ter. AGerman Christmas festival
day, be it ever so humble or poor, is
deeply moving. l wish you could spend
Christmas eve, if it were only one
time, with us in the way we observe
the day. You would never forget it." |
Other extracts read:
"You have doubtless read of the
high cost of living in Germany. 1t
is becoming oppressive. Most any
kind of food is unobtainable except
at excessive prices 1 am
told that life has grown more diff
ficulty even over there in your happy
free land.
"JJnder nresent conditions we fare
i'll, and things will not improve un-
less we obtain large loan from
America
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08
S &,1o CENT STORE

The Davidson Department Store
is making arrangements to add 5,
10 & rs cent department to their
store. They intend to carry ass scom-
plete line as regular city 10c
store. The goods have already been
bought and the opening will be an
nounced shortly.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

Worms won't injure your cabbage
this summer if you know how to
control them. Write the Agricultural
Extension Service, Raleigh for C135.
busting of cabbage and collards to-
control worms"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

A welcome guest in your home,
bringing good reports of the progress
of your friends and your communi-
ty-the home town paper.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

North Carolina was among the first
states to begin tick eradication work
and is about the last to finish the
job.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

Hatch early. The early chicks bring
the pullets that lay the early eggs
and these bring the best prices.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

In the worlds audience hall, the
simple blade of grass sits on the same
carpet with the sunbeams and the
stars of midnight.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

Are you feeding your child tuber-
culosis? 1t might be worth while to
have that dairy herd tested.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-02-08

i Continued on page two)
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01
National Forest Timber for Sa

Sealed bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan, Alaska, up to and including Febru ary 20, 1923, for all the merchant able dead timber standing or, down, and all the live timber marked or designated for. cutting on an area embracing about 60 acres, on the south shore of Mitkof Island about one mile west of Woodpecker Cove, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, estimated to be 100000 feet, B. M. more or less, of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock sawtimber. No bid of less than $1.50 per M feet, B.M. for Sitka Spruce and $1.00 per M feet, B. M., for Western Hemlock will be considered. $500.00 must be deposited with each bid to be ap- piled on the purchase price, refund ed, or retained in part as liquidated damages, according to conditions of sale. The right to reject any or all bids reserved. Before bids are sub- mitted full information concerning the timber, the conditions of sale, and the submission .of bids should be obtained from the Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan, or the District Forester, Juneau, Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01
School Notes
Miss Ruth Lindman Receives a Gregg Teachers
 Certificate

Miss Ruth Lindman, who took up advanced work in Gregg Shorthand and Correspondence at the begin ming of the year, took an examina- tion two weeks ago which lasted two days. Her papers were forwarded to San Francisco and then to Chicago for grades and inspection. Supt. Gross received letter last Tuesday from the manager of the Gregg School stating the Miss Lindman had passed the examination with an av- craze of 96 per cent which entitled her to a Gregg Teachers certificate.
 This test is not only the most thorough but the most difficult ex- animation put out by the Gregg Pub fishing Company, and one that not more than one out of every ten High Schools can claim the honor of hay ing a student pass.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01

It is not often that our friend Stroller" White prints anything in the columns of Strollers Weekly that is not absolutely correct. But like other mortals the Stroller is not infallible. Last week he men tioned Henry Philips of Sitka, as being the only Indian Printer in Alaska. Mr. Philips may possibly be the only Indian in Alaska who is working at the printing business at present. but he is by no means the only Indian in Alaska who possesses a knowledge of the art preservative. P. E. Verney of MetlakatIa is not only an all round printer, but a Linotype operator, having taken a course in the Mergenthaler Linotype school in San Francisco. Louis F. Paul, who left Wrangell for Saxman recently, is a competent hand com positor Stephen Nicholas of Sitka, is typesetter; George Northrop of Wrangell and William L. Paul of Juneau, served apprenticeship at the printing trade at Carlisle, Pa. There are doubtless other Indians in Alaska who have had practical ex- perience as printers after finishing courses in printing at Carlisle or ChamaWa
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01
Paper Mill For
 Thomas Bay

iueTe IS every lnulCdtlOH that actual work will star on the big 1 paper plant at Thomas Bay as early will allow, says the Petersburg Re port. Two crews are now engaged in cruising timber in the Rocky Pass section and the Forestry off cials at Ketchikan are rushing work on one of their boats sa that another crew can be sent out at once.
 Those who are backing the plant have applied for final permit to develop the water power there and this will be granted as soon as the Forest Service has set aside thirty years supply of timber.
 According to word received the Forest Service and the Federal Power Commission have been given substantial evidence that the back CTS are ready to start as soon as the timber supply is assured. It is also understood that the plant is being backed by San Francisco capitalists and newspaper publishers and that approximately 500 men will be working there before the summer is over.
 The following announcement was made recently to the Ketchikan Chronicle by R. A Teller, forest su- peryisor of the Tongass forest.
 That the Hutton, McNear and Dougherty Co.,, representing other prominent capitalists of San Fran cisco, have applied to the federal water power commission in Wash ington for a final water power per nit for the Cascade creek power site in Thomas Bay, was the information given out recently by R. A. Zeller, forest supervisor of the Tongass national forest.
 This company had engineers on the size of the plant would require Investigating the possibilities of the power site and completed ar engagements for the construction of a pulp mill in Thomas Bay this spring
 The federal power commission re- fuses to grant final water power permits until they are assured that the forest service here will give thirty years supply of timber for applicants.
 The total amount of standing pulp timber which the forest service offers for sale to any pulp or paper concern is two billion feet, provided the size of the plan would require that amount This is for the entire term of the contract and would fur nish approximately from sixty to seventy million feet year for plant producing from two hundred to two hundred and fifty tons of pa per day. If proper care is taken in the cutting of the timber, this would furnish a perpetual supply.
 In order to meet this demand the forest service is rushing the work of cruising the timber in the Rocky Pass region. There has been a party at work there for some time and an- other party will be sent there with in the next two weeks to assist in the cruising.
 MT. ZelleE states that this work is so urgent that the forest service here has taken on additional men at their marine station at Gravina Is- land so as to be able to put another of their boats in commission as soon as possible.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED

Mabel Willard celebrated her eleventh birthday this afternoon by giving a party at the Government school. Games were played after which refreshments were served, a big birthday cake occupying the place of honor.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01

The long needed piano for the school arrived last Friday evening on the Northwestern. Monday morning the new piano was the chief topic of conversation. An assembly was held in the afternoon to give it try out. What heavenly bliss to sing to real honest to goodness mu- sic rather thantothe accompaniment of something that sounds like all of mothers cooking utensils.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01
SCHOOL PLAY AND DANCE

A school play and dance will be given February 16. |. Keep this date open and watch for later announce ments.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01

Miss Dodge and Miss Bidwell with the help of some of the pupils, are working on big plans for a program in the near future, the proceeds of which will be applied on the balance of $200 which is still due on the piano.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01

Arrangements are being made for an assembly on Friday of each week and students will be appointed at different times to get up program for these assemblies. The hour for assembly will be announced on the preceding Thursday. Parents al- ways welcomed.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-01

Harold Hofstad entered school Monday
Evening star., 1923-03-11
In Civil Service.

oNE would not think of Mother
~ Goose in connection with Uncle
Sam, but recently when q woman
took to the Civil Service Commission
tho request for her transfer to
different department, the clerk
whose duty It was to pass on such
mattere noticed that her name was
sprat, and he asked. in his most
oficial manner: ANY relation 10
Jack sprat7" Yes" was the ,SSi quiet
answer. hes my II,spssSm.n+ huspand ngm; sbs
continued: His name Is John. but
everybody calls him Jack sprat.
The clerk scrutinized the papers iur-
thor and added. Il suppose you nave
Learns !e ton eat lean She meat rspeS eS
try to live up to our name" IAN
rixht. I'll order this issued" and no
afixed his official OK.
Another woman proved to have the
odd name Of Mrs. Eve Apple.
shs EH.'''1n rsmarIsd: :a "Yes. everybody
smiles at my name. but you know
history sometimes repeats itself"
.'Oniy, In this case" he internosed,
YOU accepted an apple instead OF
A coiored man sought reinstate-
snent a. Q laborer. The papers SHOVE
cd he had been dismissed for inxuh.
ordination. but the department vs1
willing to give him another triak
Taking up tho case, the clerk notic-
cd that his name was mono other
than George Washington. "Oh." he
said. looking up. seems to mo I've
heard Of you before" .Is dat so
sir7" said the other. much surprised.
"rse afraid you's heard they give
mo . bad reputation at the bureau,
str.n ...'-...
Evening star., 1923-03-11

ity Of a race which appears to you
so primitive.
Well, that flaming thing may be
hundreds of years old. It may have
been made by. some. of. the famous
gypsy goldsmiths Of Run1ania. or Bohe-
mia, and the stone may have come from
Ceylon or India 1t may be worth thirty
thousand dollars.
The Bowmans. Of. England, the
Langs and the Larkins possess mar
velous collections. Some Of the corals.
round, big as q mans thumb, twenty
yards in length In the string. have the
color that only great age can give.
Tho only string ever saw that could
equal these was one which the Naha-
rajah Of Baroda had with him when
he visited this country. When in
terviewed him he told me that it was
fully eight thousand years old and
that he had been offered a thousand
pounds for it in Bond street, London.
The Hungarian gypsies have gold
beads which are engraved. every min
ute particle OF them. with tho hgurs
Evening star., 1923-03-11

particular lot, he came to the camp, in
a most offensive manner. and with two
burly and insulting assistants, proceed
ed to go through it with extreme thor
oughness.
Not a corner escaped his attention.
but at the end he disgustedly kicked
a pile OF clothes back into a box and
said that If he had known what poor
trash they were he would never have
given them credit for even the wit
to take anything of value.
livery gypsy during this process
L. had sat perfectly and rather
strangely quiet. Not q word had
been spoken, and none was spoken
until after the ugly strangers were gone.
Then two Of the older women sighed,
and they were given water and told
to lie down. They looked very tired.
The rest of the group slipped out
side, prepared coffee and drank it
There was a subtle air of the letting
down OF a great strain. Yet when
1 tried to say something about this.
even /. who. do humbiy think, am
with averted eyes. i asked no more,
being somewhat breathless myself
And this is the reason why:
Right under the noses of those
avaricious, greedy and corrupt men
(who were only seeking some pre-
text for an accusation), both han
died by them and worn on the hands
and necks Of the women and chill
Evening star., 1923-03-11

YOU look at them they have got on
different garments. These birds can
change color at will and wouldn't
have no trouble getting into Harvard
or anywhere else.
They feed mostly on. shell fish and
Mr.. Allison had recently give them
crawfish which was a fat and healthy
crawfish, when he 1st. met the octo-
pus boys but now they wasn't moth
Ing left OF him only his skeleton.
However he was walking around
like he did not have a care in the
world and person could not help
from wondering why SO many people
pretty near kills themselfs taking off
a couple lbs. by exercise. die: and etc.
when all as they would half to do
would be to spend few minutes
amongst the octopuses and they
would como out looking like Jim
Barnes.
:. :: K <
MR.. ALLISoNS aquarium amt
tS1 like most aquariums where the
same fishes make their homo UT. after
yr. Every spring when the tourists
has went north from Miami Beach
he opens up tho whole works and
leaves all his fishes go free and the
next fall he sends Charley Thompson
Evening star., 1923-03-11

toward whom feel 50 strongly. I
am sure that they can protect them
selves.
" I am also sure. though. that in
time they will allow the scientists,
who are now trying to help them re-
construct their own history, to see
and appraise the marvels that they
possess. Many of the money belts,
for instance. are over 500 years old.
ono piece. usually of either high value
or Of great beauty Of design, being
put on the belt in about twenty-five
years, and tho link that binds 1t being
made by the eldest son OF that gen.
GRAFTON. It is his business to learn
tho goldsmith's trade for the benent
Of tho family jewel box. That is
why most Of the jewelry is so price,
less 1t is handmade and made as
little other jewelry has been fash
ioned for thousands of years.
1t is Of pure gold and the purest
of silver, and both so soft that the
greatest care is required in handling
the pieces. Gold nligree work OF the
Evening star., 1923-03-11

woman, with only the additional guar
dian Of a mongrel dog. Sometimes 1t is
worn in plain sight while people pass 1t
by, never dreaming that 1t can be real.
This treasure is the boarded Jewel
wealth Of the gypsies, Of which the
poorest family has enough to make a
rich American woman proud.
1t is practically unheard OF for any
thief to look into the red wagons or
examine the trinkets that the young
girl in red skirt and a green handker-
chief on her head may wear strung
around her neck or her waist. In the
first place, these do not look real. They
are entirely too big!
I was sitting once by gypsy fire In
a little wood behind st. Louis, where.
during all Of my childhood. I had had
the company of some Bentleys and We'll
lers, the former English and the latter
Hungarian gypsies. Their round, kell
constructed tents were as familiar as
the Eads bridge, and the small truck
farmers who lived nearby used to be-
come very neighborly with them. On
this occasion a girl Of such a family,
Evening star., 1923-03-11
Lardner LaudS Allison:
Knows Fish, He Says

7o the editor: somewheres be-
tween 80 and 60 yrs. ago they
was little boy named Jim
Allison that lived in a town
called Narcellus. Mich. and once. or
twice every yr. his folks took him to
Niles so as he could get a taste of
city life.
In them days Niles was full of won-
derful sights such as the Lardner
boys and etc. but Jim didn't have
eyes for nothing only the fish pond in
Tuttle's yard.
This indeed was a sight to see, as
you take most fish ponds in towns
like Niles and you look at them and
wonder where they got the name fish
pond. but the Tuttle fish pond was full
of fish majority Of who was real
live fish.
Jim used to stand and stare at them
by the hr. and when his folks asked
him what he wanted to be when he
growed up he would always tell them
he wanted to be the proprietor or at
lease the chairman Of a fish pond.
Well they say il you want anything
bad enough you will get 1t so any way
Jim Is now the owner and managing
editor Of of the biggest fish ponds
In the U. S. and thousands of people
Evening star., 1923-03-11

out in the ocean with instructions to
bring back all the different kinds
which they have got labels for.
This man Thompson knows all the
fishes by name and keeps address
book where he can look them up. The
most of them is glad to be caught as
Jim sets a good table and every rm.
Is a rm. with bath.
He also watches out for their health
and entertainment and etc. and when
any Of them complains he don't rest
Like. for inst they was a Logger Head
turtle in the aquarium this winter
that kept acting restless and bored
and snapped at everybody that come
in the aquarium and Jim fed him all
the delicacies which Logger Head
Turtles is supposed to Of been
broughten up on but nothing seemed
to satisfy this particular L. H. Turtle.
So finely Jim got tho idear that 1t
was not the food which L. H. was
complaining about but 1t must be
that he was lonesome or something
so finely Jim invited Reinald Wer-
renrath the barytone to come and
spend q couple Of wks. 1t the aquarium
and Reinald come and went down
stairs to the Logger Head Turtles
cage twice a day. and sung for him
and you would be surprised the way
the turtle Frightened up.
+ *** ....
"Vou have got to know your fish" J"
i says Jim. "A good many aqua
rum keepers might Of figured it
was Just any kind Of singing that the
Logger Head wanted. They might of
called in q Irish tenor and next they
would Of had a dead turtle on their
hands"
How much less misery they would
be IN this world did everybody adopt
Jim's slogan. "You have got to know
your fish."
RING W. LARDNER,
Great Neck. Long Island. March >.