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Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14

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Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
Occupation of G

Socrates followed at first -
Of his father, a sculptor. %s
ever his time was spent in 's ~.
place, catechizing all who von', ~. y
He served as a soldier, and 's,a ss.l !
came a member Of the sen..a [
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
Sell Spurious as Canos

Two bird dealers of New Yn
dyed more than 1000 EngI,l
rows yellow and sold them h
dents in the Bronx for Harz ma,
canaries.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14

Ink or mucilage freezes and ,
facturers of these office ald,
watch the weather reports IN !.
before shipping, as they freous,.l
In carload lots.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14

No. RESCUE men who are assist
Ing IN the work of bringing out their
comrades just after coming from the
mine after failure to penetrate the
inner workings.
No. Mouth of entryway or man
way, which with the main portal
forms the only avenue of escape
from the mine. This point is more
than 5000 feet from where the ex-
piosion is supposed to have occurred.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
Changing Work Isn't h

Changing work from cookin.,
ing or house cleaning may k
than staying at one job all dg
isn't resting.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
Cotton From, Austrol;

1t has been predicted that vi.
few years Australia will send
lion bales Of cotton each yesr
used In the Lancashire cotton
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
Road to Fortune

The road to fortune Is compar
unobstructed. Such multitudes
pie are carefully keeping out
way of those who are travelIug
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
Hun1n1ing Birds Do Not

The biological survey says ile
ming birds do not sting. X
their tongues for extractin.
from flowers.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14

I way in the searchings of the inward
chambers of the mine, followed by
those who bring fresh air, water
| line and the means for clearing the
| passageways as they are encounter
| ed.
The search must extend into even
the most remote recesses of the laby-
rinth below ground before it will be
possible to say with certainty that all
is known that might be known about
Utah's greatest tragedy in more than
two decades-one of the worst mine
disasters in the history of western
mining.
While sober judgment holds to the
fatalistic conclusion that every man
caught within the mine is dead and
possibly has been dead for two days
and more, the hope of safety for a
lew at least can not be downed. And |
yet the days results, added to the
efforts made before, have yielded
nothing upon which it is possible to
accurately base such expectation.
AS the funeral car and mail
truck, impressed into the somber
service, have alternated during the
day IN their tragic journeys from
mine to morgue, the town has watch
ed their comings with ever recurrent
fear on the part of nearly everyone
that a member of the family or
friend will be found at the journ-
ey's end.
Yet every time one of these car
rlers of death came hating at the
morgue door the tear-eyed thronp
would press about until men of the
American Legion were enlisted as
guardians to hold the crowd in check.
Thereafter the waiting people hur ,
lied at each new visitation of the
learse to read the growing list of
Identified dead posted in the lobby
# the postoffice near by.
And out on the hillside, almost =
ver the tunnels where lost miners
low lie dead, graves were dug to
'lve them places for their eternal
est.
A possible seventy-five men of
hose buried in the No. 2 mine of u
ne Utah Fuel company at Castle p
ate have chance of being rescued "
1--we, and may be even now waiting
nd aiding their rescuers, according
local officials of the company.
Estimates of the company show es
nat approximately that many men al
ere working near the areas not sus- pl
'ptlole to being readily filled with
as and the probabilities of men es- II
ping from the trap were increased
hen officials of the company ex- nj
AIMED the lay of the ground. tn
Although it is not known who the FRI
en- are or exactly what their num-
T may be it is reported that about CT
rty were working in section C and
at a possible thirty-five were at ine
DIX IN or near the part referred to tbs
section B. ism
Men closely identified with tho
mpany explained that these two Y
'tions are approximately a mile
tance from section A, from which wh
more than forty bodies were tax 9th
up TO late hour Monday night. the
that the sections are much high.
than those in which the men are
ng found dead. II,
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
Chinese Musical Instrum

The Chinese use drums, On
horns, lutes, castanets and
There are three varieties Of /
po-chung, te-chung and pieh.cbr
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
SloUest Drying Colo,

Vandyke brown is one Of b,
est-drying colors known to the I
and should always be nike
plenty of japan drier.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
When One Dodges Qus

When one asks another to q
what he thinks of his work
other lodges. he doesn't app
the work.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
First Meerschaum Ra

The first meerschaum pig
made 200 years ago by a Br
shoemaker, who was a cleTs
carver.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14

Three hundred and fifty y
tons of sugar are used each
the making of candy in The
States.
Shoshone journal., 1924-03-14
Willing to Admit Az

In order to be at her silver
woman is willing to admit D
Ism as young as she used q
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
DAVIS BECOMES BOY
SCOUT IN COLORADO

Denver, Colo.-When John w. Davis,
Democratic presidential candidate,
was in Colorado recent he climbed to
an altitude of $500 feet in the rugged
Rockies to become a member of the
Boy Scouts of America, and remained
there for time as the guest of the
organization. He is now enrolled as
a Boy Scout in good standing Of
Region No. 8, which includes Colorado
At the suggestion of James X. West,
executive director Of the Boy Scouts.
Mr.. Davis spoke to the members of
the conference in session there
Mr.. Davis praised the movement un.
dertaken by the Boy Scouts to bring
voters to the polls at local, state and
national elections
"You can do better work for the
men and women Of this day and fol
the men and women who are to come
after us than to bring those boys to
feel that that is their task in life
and that, young as they are, immature
as they are, the hour for them to
begin has already struck" Mr.. Davis
said.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
"VICTORY VOTE
FOR DAVIS
Democratic Women Start Work
To Get Feminine Voters
TO Polls.

Washington, d. CA drive to reach
the hundreds of thousands of women
voters who have made no political
affiliation and have never cast vote
for president, has been started by the
Democratic National headquarters in
Washington, D. c., under the direction
of Mrs. Halsey w. Wilson, of New
York, who has for two years been di
rector of education and is widely
known as an organizer and director OF
Schools of Democracy.
Mrs. Wilson will conduct the cam
paign, which will be called a Victory
Vote Drive" through the 1000 or more
Democratic Women's Clubs which had
been organized prior to the campaign
The Clubs will in no way compete
for the vote with the regular Demo
cratic organization. but will stand
ready to supplement the organization g
work by seeking to interest the stay.
at-home and Independent woman vote,
Mrs. Wilson pointed out.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
Farm Incomes Shrink;
Living Costs Mount
Agricultural Producers Lose
Fifteen Billions of Capital
Investments During Hard
ing Coolidge Regime, Official
Report Shows.

Washington, d. c. Proof Of the
disastrous effects Of the deflation Of
agricultural prices and values begun
by the Republican Congress in 1920
and continued under the first year OF
the Harding Coolidge administration
from the Department of Agriculture,
over which presides Secretary Wal.
lace, himself Republican and mem.
Der of President Coolidge's cabinet.
The following is an extract from
this report:
GAS means Of gauging how the
agricultural depression affected farm
standards Of living in the four years
since 1919-1920, the departments
points out that in this period whole
sale prices of all commodities declined
only 25 to 80 per cent, retail prices
of p food articles declined only 20 ia
Is per cent. and living costs declined
only 10 to Is per cent, while the
farmers income declined as much az
60 to 70 per cent. The department
also notes that. besides suffering this
great decline in current income, the
farmers experienced deflation Of
property values by which the worth
Of capital investments owned by farm
operators dropped from $4S.500 ,O00, 0OC
20 $33,422 100000. a shrinkage which
would indicate that the farmers share
in the country's total agricultural
property receded from 81 per cent. ia
Sc per cent"
The sane article presents the result
Of a survey made of 10000 owner
operated farms for 1928. showing that
allowing $3.50 for the value of the la
Dor Of the farmer and his family, the
farm showed an average net balance
to the farmer for the year of $270
or 1.5 per cent. on the average value
Of the farm real estate and it's i'm.
provements, return barely sufficient
to pay interest charges" and leaving
practically nothing rs return on the
farmers own capital.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
What Farmers Need
Costs More In 1924
Prices of Agricultural 1mple-
ments Show Large Increases
While Farm Products
Decline or Remain
Stationary.

Washington, d. C-Farmers were
paying higher prices for the neces-
stiles they bought on January Is,
1924, than on the same date Of the
previous year, according to report
of the Department of Agriculture re-
Gently issued. AT the same time ayr
cultural producers were receiving
less for many Of their products last
January than in the same month Of
1923.
In the latest Year Book of the De-
partment of Agriculture (page 1852
appears a table showing prices Of
articles bought by farmers, 1928, and
January Is, 1924" There are So
articles in this list. All but four
teen Of them cost the farmer more
last January than on January Is,
1923. The increases in. 1924 over
the prices in 1928 range from frac-
ton Of l per cent to 10 and Is per
cent.
Four Of the fourteen articles which
were cheaper in January this year
than last were the farmers own prod
lIcts---bacon. beans, -four and linseed
meal.
Agricultural machinery and imple-
ments showed considerable advances
in 1924, when cereal grains were
selling for less money than for long
ime previously. Harrows that cost
S5336 on January Is, 1923, were
priced at $57.74 on January Is,
1924; horse-drawn riding plows that
sold for $3.50 in 1923 were $95 in
in 1924; grain binders were $201.61
in 1923 and $222.81 in 1924. Wagons
increased from $123.26 in 1923 to
$135.6S in 1924; two-horse sulky hay
rakes, from $40.67 to $44.91; 5-foot
mowers. fro, $7439 to $S122; cen
trifugal hand cream separators of
so gallon capacity, from $79:10 to
1851.
The same relative increases are 10
be found throughout the list. Barbed
wire went from $4.87 to $5.19 100
pounds; dairy milk cans GO gal
lons) from $4.85 to IS; binder Irvine
from 13 2-10 cents to 10 Clio cents
a pound; leather horse collars from
$500 to $40 each; rubber boots,
knee length, from $4.2S 10 $4.32;
wire nails from $40 cents TO s 2-10
cents: 2-inch framing lumber from
$37.37 to $37.51 1000 feet; and so
through the list of utensils, furniture,
clOthing etc For examDlo suit
CT clothes that cost. a farmer $25.83
I in 1928 was nearly per cent dearer
in 1924, and socks and overalls were,
respectively, IL and Is per cent
higher.
Republican politicians and news
papers are telling farmers that the
tariff Is an advantage to them. It is
evident, however, that while the
tariff on agricultural products is
practically worthless to the producer
1t Is collectible from him on what
he buys from others in the way of
necessaries.
There is an attempt to prove that
the tariff does not influence the cost
Of agricultural machinery and imple-
ments because these are on the free
list. Farmers are not told that the
iron and steel from which these ma
chimes and implements are manufac-
tured are taxed heavily. This tax
increases the cost of agricultural ma
chinery and implements about $780,
100000 a year.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
TARIFF TAX ON HOMES
Woman Lecturer Says Cost IL $125
For Each FAMILY.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Women are the
purchasing a"onts for all of the 25..
100000 families in the United States,
and rs such they are the heaviest sui
fercrs under the Fordney- Mc Cumber
high protective tariff, according to
Mrs Olive Beldon Lewis. of Indianap.
oils, who has been delivering a series
OF lectures to women on the tariff.
Mrs Lewis points out that the Re.
publican tariff increases the expense
Of every American home by at least
$125 year in extra cost on com.
modities in daily use.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
FARMERS PAY TARIFF
Duty On Steel Costs Them 500, oOo, 600
On Agricultural Implements.

New York.-High protective duties
on steel, and unlawful combinations of
manufacturers and sellers of agricul-
tural machinery and implements have
operated to increase the cost of this
equipment on farms. H. E. Miles,
chairman of the Fair Tariff League, a
protectionist organization, is authority
for the statement that the Republican
tariff makes the "cost Of farm nipple.
ments at least 10 per cent. above
honest protection and likely Is per
cent" He says that this excessive
protection" on steel adds total OF
$100, 100000 year to the prices farm.
ers have to pay for their mach ines
and implements.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
IN THE CHURCHES.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Sunday School and Mems Bible
Class 10 A. M.
Preaching, II A. M. and 7.3O P. M.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday even
ing at 7.3O.
Beaver Dam--Sunday School, 2.3O;
Preaching 3.15.
j. w. LACY, Pastor.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
BAPTIST CHURCH.

BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sunday School at 10 A. M.
by the pastor.
IL A. M. and 800 P. NJ, Preaching
B. Y. P. u, at loop. M.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening
500 o'clock.
Pitts Creek-Sunday School, 2 P
M. Preaching at 8 P. M.
D. w. LITTLETON, Pastor.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
SALEM M. E. CHURCH.

SALEM M. e. CHURCH.
9 A. NJ, Class Meeting.
10 A. NJ, Sunday School and Bible
Class.
II A. M, Preaching by pastor.
7.30 P. M, preaching by pastor
Gas P. M, Epworth League.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday even.
ing, 7.30.
Junior League, Friday from z to g.
r. P. NICHOLS, Pastor.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-10-11
BETHANY M. p. CHURCH.

Sunday School and Adult Bible
Glasses at 10 A. M.
Divine worship and sermon at II
A. M. and P. M.
intermediate and Junior C. E. ser.
vice at z P. M. Prayer service and
short address by the pastor Wednes.
day evening at 8 o'clock.
E. L. BUNCE Minister.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-04-24
WIDOW OF ZEB VANCE DEAD

Asheville, April 22.-Mrs. Zebu-
Ion Baird Vance, widow of North
Cardinals governor during the war
between the states died this after
noon at 3 o'clock at her home near
Black Mountain. after having been
ill for several months. She was born
in Kentucky September "a, 1910.
Deceased was a devoted lover of
the Confederacy, and has always
been active in work connected
with the Confederate veterans and
Daughters of the Confederacy.
While her husband was in the United
States Senate she was active in So
7cial affairs in the capital city.
The body will be laid to rest at
Riverside cemetery here where rests
the body of her distinguished hus-
band
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-04-24
ONE OF BUILDINGS AT THE
PATTERSON SCHOOL BURN

Palmyra, the main building of Pat
terson Industrial School for bows in
Yadkin Valley, was completely de-
stroyed by fire late yesterday after
noon. A nearby granary and scales
house was also burned. Several
times cottages surrounding the main
building caught, but the flames were
extinguished before they made very
much headway. The fire originated
in the laundry adjoining the main
building. When discovered the par
titions in the laundry were mass
of flames. Before help could be Sc
cured the fire had burned through the
roof, and from there it spread to
Palmyra, the main building.
-Lenoir News-Topic 22nd.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-04-24
PIEDMONT FESTIVE,
WBE ON APRIL 29'A
boone's First Travelling Entertainer.
for the Season Will Be Greeted
Enthusiastically.

After the most severe winter of
many years the citizenship of the
town and county, with the coming
OF the warm dry weather are about
to awake with laughter and song.
The Piedmont Chatauqua Festival.
which was booked last fall for this
season will be here to start an en-
gagement on April 29th which will
last until May 3-four good evenings
OF high class entertainment which is
nailed by the natives with much the
zest displayed by the small boy when
the first circus is scheduled to ar
rive and he has visions of tall women.
tat men, clowns, elephants, and the
proverbial red lemonade from time
lmmemorial thought of as a neces-
sary adjunct to the saw dust ring.
The Chatauqua has met with much
favor in this section and has begun
to be considered as an institution.
But unusual interest is being display
ed this year, as the entertainments
now provided are different and even
better than those of the regular Cha
tauqua. The company under whose
auspices the event is arranged halls
from Asheville. North Carolina, and
perhaps because of its being home
institution, many will join in who
otherwise would not. The COMPANY
has procured for this years tours
the best possible talent in the sew
eral lines, and there will be no ANA
teurs. The Programs will consist of
plays, violin, clarionet, accordion,
Readings, old and new songs-at
any rate something good all the time.
These affairs are universally sane
toned by the best of people, in and
out of the church, and we should be
glad to be privileged to have a good
clean moral bit of recreation.
Tic business men of the town of
Boone have made possible the Cha
tauqua and it is earnestly believed
'iie>' viz PCOplS VI CLe IOWII anu COun-
ty will cooperate with them in putting
the thing over in record-breaking
shape.
Tickets will be on sale in ample
time, and at the low price of so and
25 cents for single admissions, or
Sf.50 and rs cents for season tick
cts. Come on boys, let's all take
as near holiday during this period
as possible and have our fun-the
thing is coming let's help out
the men who have been good enough
to make possible this first entertain
ment of the season.
The festival will be held in the
court house in Boone. Remember the
dates-April 29th to May 3rd.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-04-24
News Items as Reported
From Rural Watau6a
Interesting News Items as Reported Each Week by
Our Correspondents in the Several Sec
tions of the County

will stay a while or until her mother
improves in health before she returns
to her studies.
Mr.. Monroe Greene has moved tc
the place he recently purchased on
Gap Creek. Mr.. Greene will be oul
star mail route carrier on the Yuma
Fleetwood route when his term of
service begins July 1st and by his
new place of residence can give the
route his personal attention.
MI A. F. Nichols and family have
moved into their new house recently
built and will make their residence
permanently near the Boone Trail
overlooking the same.
The Sunday School has opened a.
gain for another summer at the Gap
Creek Baptist church.
There was quite lot of motoring
on the Boone Trail Highway last Sun
day. This road seems favorite place
to spin along for diversion and re-
creation now days.
The correspondents of the Watau-
ga Democrat are doing fine, so keep
going on and let's make it the best
paper known.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-04-24
TRIPLETT

Mr.. H. c. Hodges made business
trip to the county home Sunday TAX
ing quite a number of inmates over
there with him.
Miss Dean Hayes and little son vi
SIT Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Wheeler quite
Dften. IN
Mr.. Olen Miller visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Hayes Easter Sunday.
Mr.. Willard Miller is still visiting
ii. c. Hodges.
Mr.. John johnson came home Sun
day to see the home folks.
Mr.. Will Greer enjoyed the vis-
IT of Mr.. Henry Triplett.
Some of our boys came in from
w. Va. We are glad to see them.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-04-24
BLUE RIDGE ITEMS

We are pleased to see so much
pretty weather after such cold win
ter. Though it makes it hard on the
women of the community, as the Eos
zoe people have written of SO many
foxes on the river, the men have gone
fox hunting and the ladies are farm
ing.
We are having good singing at both
churches here. We have singing at
both churches on different hours on
Saturday.
Mrs. Alien Gragg went to the hos
pital last week for examination ag-
ain. Doctor Sheriff. said she was i'm
proving fast. Mrs. Gragg Was ac-
companied by her sister Miss Virgin
ia Dula.
Mrs. D. w. Church went to New
land last week shopping.
MIS-. M. A. Wright has returned
from Hudson after spending the win
ter there. Will likely spend the sum-
mer with her son, D. H. Wright.
Mr.. Com Church was here on bus
mess this week. We hope the good
people will soon come back to this
vicinity.
Mr.. Will Estes was caller al
John A. Gragg's last Sunday.
Mr.. Charlie Coffey and Miss Alma
Collins motored to the Grandfather
last Sunday.
Mr.. Will Berry of this community
is selling out. We hate to give up the
good citizen.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-04-24
KIDDIES ENJOY EASTER EGG
HUNT

The teachers of the Junior and
primary departments of the Metho-
dist Sunday School gave the children
an Easter egg hunt on Monday NOR
ming. The day was sunny and hearts
were light as more than thirty of
these little people ran over the mea-
dow in search of gaily colored eggs
hidden in the grass. The hunt was
followed by games and stories and
jolly good time together, but the eli
max came in the surprise Of gen.
erous ice cream cone for each at the
last. Happiness beamed from every
little face as the children took their
homeward way at noon time.