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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
COVE CREEK NEWS ITEMS

Miss Ethel Wilson has gone to the
Johns Hopkins hospital for X-ray
examination and probably an opera
ton. She was accompanied by Mis-
ses Hattie and Ruth Bingham.
Messrs Carl Henson and L. A. Hays
of Kingsport, were visitors here for
a few days last week.
Mr.. Walter Bingham has been sick
for several days and is still unimprov-
ed.
Several of the stu dents of the
High School attended the basket ball
game in Boone on Friday night be-
tween the Appalachian Training
School and Crossnore.
-' The equipment for steam heat is
now being installed in the Cove Greek
Baptist Church. The building is ex.
1ected to be ready for use in 8
short while.
Work is progressing nicely on the
Willowdale Baptist church. The plar
includes four Sunday School rooms
and commodious auditorium.
Mr.. John H. Mast has almost com
pleted the installation of the electri
cal plant. He expects to be able tt
furnish lights by the first Of Febru
ary.
Mr.. A. J. Payne, well known life
Insurance agent is attending the an
nual meeting of his company in Ricl
mond this week.
Rev. Britain pastor of the Meth
odist church visited the school ant
conducted chapel exercises on Frida!
The present enrolment of thu
school is 2SO, 81 of whom are in th'
high school department. The average
attendance has been EXCEPTIONAL.
good.
Mrs. T. @. Mcbride of Washington
College was here for the burial O.
her father Mr.. Finley P. Mast.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
PRIZES CLASSED AS LOTTERY
BY ATTORNEY GENERAL

There has been So much discussion
recently in regard to the limits to
which business man may go in of
ferlng prizes to his customers that
we pass the following from the Sta
tesville Daily along to the merchants
and others who by chance might be
interested.
The Greensboro Merchants Asso-
citation asked Attorney General Man
ming What law, if any, prevents a
merchant from giving a coupon or
ticket with each purchase which en-
titles him to a chance on a prize to
be given away to the holder of the
winning number at the close of the
period of time" and "If the payment
OF $25 license fee in accordance with
section So, revenue act of 1923, ex-
empts him from prosecution" In
answer to this according to dis
patch from Greensboro to the Char
lotte Observer, Judge Manning wrote ::
"The scheme outlined in your letter
is plainly lottery and all lotteries
are forbidden by criminal laws of the
State. No license tax could legiti-
mate this project"
This opinion of Attorney General
Manning ought to be of interest in
every town in the State, Statesville
included, where this plan has been
used 1t is believed that in most
cases where merchants have used
this method of increasing their sales
they were ignorant of it's being a vi
olation of the law An impression
has been that the method was not a
violation of the law but that to ad-
vertise the fact in a newspaper or
in any other medium circulating
through the mails was violation of
the Federal law. Recently there
have been SO many merchants resort
ing to this scheme that merchants
associations and others have been
looking into the legality of it. Judge
Manning's opinion to the Greensboro
Association leaves no doubt as to
what he thinks.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
ITEMS FROM THE
TRAINING SCHOOL
Items of Interest Gathered From
The School and the Town at
Large.

Boone is again in the grip of frig-
Id temperature. The mercury has
stood at four or more below zero.
and the mountain forsts are clothed
in the marvelously beautiful, CONCEAL
ed moisture, a thing of never weary
ing delight
DIR. Friedrich D. Losey, Shakesper-
can reader and lecturer of New
York was with the town and the
Training School the past week for the
fltth annual series of lectures, ap-
pearlng in four numbers: An Inter-
probation and reading of Othello:
The Unity and Solidarity of Human
ity; showing from biology, sociology
commerce and civics that the nation
is not simply an organization, but
also in the truest sense an organism
IN which each community and each
individual has necessary place; and
Benefits Forgot, strong thoughtful
lecture on the beauty and moral quail
lty OF language. Developing Words
worth's idea that language is the in
carnation of thought, the speaker said
Language is the staff of thought"
He convincingly presented the idea
that profanity is not simply moral
but also our intellectual problem:
profanity reveals intellectual poverty
Friday evening there was a double
header basket ball game-Mountain
to 33 in favor of the home team;
Newland vs. Boone Public School
23 to 26 in favor of the visiting
team.
Your correspondent has been sick
in bed for some days, but is up again
1t is almost worth being sick to see
how kind and considerate folks are
So here's sincere appreciation for
each kindness.
A thought a word, a deed so kind
Just how worth while they make the
days,
They lure new courage to the soul
And clear the stones from roughened
ways.
j. M. DOWNUM.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
ENOUGH CARS TO CARRY ALL

There are enough automODlleS IN
the United Safes to carry every
man. woman and child at one time.
With some 13,000,000 cars regis
tered, including busses and trucks,
this would mean only about eight
persons to each auto.
The average price of an auto
bile today-about $75O-brings the
ownership of car within the income
of almost every family. In 1922
more than 100000 cars were man.
ufactured and the 1928 production
was close of 100000. January
1924, sees the automobile industry
the largest in the country.
And writes H. Clifford Brockaw in
the Popular Science Monthly, there
is no such thing as the "best car or
the market. 1t is safe to say tina!
practically every 1924 model is rea.
sonably near in value to the price
set on it.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
100000 LIQUOR
CARGO is SEIZED
Harbor Police and Rumrunner En-
gage in Gun Battle-Six Men Are
Captured.

New York, Jan. 22.-Three thous
and cases of whiskey, gin and cham
payne valued at 100000; an ocean
going tug boat valued at $4,000
and six men were seized early today
by officers of the police boat Manhat
tan after battle in New York har.
Dor that continued up the north riv.
er to the foot of Chambers Street
No one was wounded in the exchange
of shots. Police found that the boat
Capital No. l, had been captured
twice before.
The pistol battle became a hand
to-hand fight after the police board
ed the vessel, but three men who re-
manned on board were overpowered.
OF the six or seven others who jump
ed from the tug and took to their
heels three were captured by Off
GERS who pursued them.
The Manhattan had been patrolling
the lower end of New York bay and
had returned to the harbor. Off
Governors Island, a boat without
lights was discerned in the dark
ness and the answer to a command
to heave to was a volley of shots.
A shot from a machine gun aboard
the police boat failed to stop the
tug and both speeded through the
darkness up the river. The Man
haitian was gaining on her prey when
the Capital pulled in at Chambers
street and her crew attempted their
escape.
The six men were turned over to
federal authorities. No guns were
found aboard her and police believe
they were thrown overheard.
The Capital No. l was seized about
18 months ago when she was known
as the John S. McCann. Recently she
was taken for the second time off
College Point. She is an ocean-go-
ing craft of 15 tons. -.
rs 4. I1-
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH

Sunday School 10 a. m. w. R.
Gragg, Superintendent.
Preaching 1 a. m. and 7 p. m.
B. Y. P. U. at p. m.
Prayer service and choir practice
Z p. m. Wednesday.
Subject of sermon Sunday morning
"Coveteousness."
Next Sunday is also the time for
our quarterly communion.
You are extended cordial invita-
tion to attend these services.
F. M. Higgins lost bunch of keys
with name attached on metal plate
He would appreciate getting them.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
LENOIR-HICKORY CONCRETE
ROAD IN NEXT LETTING

Lenoir News-Topic.
The contract for building the hard
surfaced road between Lenoir and
the Catawba county line will be let
Thursday January 81, according to
announcement given out Friday by
the state highway commission. The
contract for this time will be for 16
miles, terminating at the Catawba
river.
This is the road for which Cald-
we'll county has provided bond is
sue of S200,O00. In providing this
fund in an effort to secure building
of this road at an early date the To-
cal road officials have the understand
ing that it is to be of the best type
of hard surface now being put down
by the State. The type of road is
asphalt with concrete base.
Some question about the location
of the road has come up since high
way engineers made the survey in
the fall The survey favored at that
time followed the old road very
closely from Lenoir to point about
three miles south of Granite Falls
From the Philadelphia school house
below Granite Falls the new survey
led to the right of the present roaG
and followed an easy grade to the
Catawba River. The river was cross
ed at point just below cliffs. From
that point the new survey led bach
into the present road in the edge OF
Hickory.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
WALKS $4,000 MILES
GET AN EDUCATION

Wayne Waters, senior in Cosby
academy, Baptist mountain school,
near Newport, Tenn. has walked 10
miles daily for eight years in order to
complete his course of study, Prof.
R. L. Marshall, principal, announces.
The boy lives five miles from the
school and has walked the distance
twice daily or more than one-half
the distance around the world, in
quest of knowledge. He has made a
good record, rarely missing a class.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24

the king list would put their date
somewehere about 1900 B. C. and
Sumerian history, properly speaking,
could not be carried back much be-
yond 5000 B. C. Tell-El-Obeid has
produced not only the oldest dated
document yet known but contem-
porary record proving the real exis-
tence of these shadowy kings.
"To this remote antiquity belong
the remarkable series of objects of
art which adorned it's walls and have
fortunately survived to the present
day, embedded in the Debris of the
fallen temple, and hermetically seal
ed up below five or six feet of the
hardest mud brick l have ever en-
countered. Chief amongst them are
number of copper reliefs Of cattle,
The animals are represented as lying
lions, but almost in the act to rise.
They are II inches high. and %
inches in length, the bodies beaten
out of thin copper plates, the heads
cast and attached to the necks, the
bodies in low relief, but the heads
turned to the front, stand out boldly
Many Rich Discoveries
Both technically and artistically
the reliefs show a degree of excel
lence which would do credit to any
age, and is quite amazing when ono
considers their actual date. Though
the metal is completely oxydized and
cracked into hundreds of pieces, il
has been possible to remove the fig
ures for the most part in good con
dition. These reliefs formed a friezt
in the facade Of the temple. Another
frieze on a rather smaller scale, wa:
composed of figures Of men and oxer
| carved in white stone and silhouttet
against a background of black paste
the whole framed in copper, ye
another showed birds similarly treat
ed in black and white. One part O.
the building was decorated with cop
per statutes of bulls, little owe
two feet high. One would natural.
suppose, that copper, imported as
had to be, from great distance
was rarity in days when flints wer
in common use; but the wealth il
metal lavished in this little tempt
is astonishing.
"Work is still going on on thi
veritable treasure house of ancien
monuments, and further finds are t
be expected while a great des
should be learned about the styl
of architecture and the Distribute
of armament employed under tn
first dynasty of ~Ur. But already i
a short space we have recovere
J more than the most optimistic woul
have hoped to secure in a season."
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
"WAY DOWN SOUTH"
CIV. A. Watson.)

ida your readers will expect me to
follow the trend of the times and
tell them about the different towns
and cities here.
This article and little write-up will
be about Panama City, which is To-
Gated right on the Gulf of Mexico.
This is the capitol or county seat
of Bay County, so it is a little mecca
for the balance of this county, and
as you all know the citizens in the
mecca expect the balance of her cit
liens to fall down and worship at
her feet-just so-this is how l find
Panama City.
Panama in way is built up by
the general funds Of Bay County,
Il d at the present are building
streets and roads out and all around
through the county.
The most notable buildings here
are the Bay County court house
which is fine one. l believe Flor
ida has put it over on North Caro-
lima in their style of architecture
as their court house looks more on
the model of church the best | can
see and reason it out
The second noted building of this
place is the High School of Panama
City. 1t is very beautiful indeed and
truth. But the most famous and his
torical building | have seen here was
building erected by nephew of
"Old John Brown" of slavery and
Civil War fame. 1t overlooks the
Gulf of Mexico and is in good condi-
tion and order and seems to stand
out like the pyramids of Egypt and
weathers every storm as the years
come and go.
Another feature of this place will
some day be the artistic home of a
rich family who are making artifi-
cial works of all kinds about to set
off the place.
Panama City is just in the making
as she is a newborn city struggling
for supremacy in Bay County which
/ believe she will obtain. Nevertheless
all. the towns around her are moving
right along beside her.
This country for miles around is
called "Satsumaland" which means
it is adapted to the growing of a
new variety of oranges called the
Satsuma orange-a cross of fruit
from Satsuma, Japan, which is Bur-
banked with the native orange, hence
new variety of oranges is the result.
The weather here is tempered by
the gulf stream and is very much
suited for the Satsuma industry, but
listen, the weather reports all around
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and
even western states went down to
zero and some places several degrees
below, but they all say the Satsuma
oranges withstood the sudden change
in temperature.
Of course smudge fires were kept
burning in lots of large groves in or
der to defeat the frost and freezes
from destroying the fruit and trees.
MY next article will be on Mel
Vile and Bay Harbor, which will
come out in an early issue of this
paper.
Mote: l would like for all pro-
gressive citizens of Boone to send
me scenic views and post cards Of
Training School and noted places as
some of the people here want to
come to the Land of the Sky in the
summer.)
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24

The home agents on the staff of
the state College and Department of
Agriculture carried out program
of organized work in 936 communi-
ties, they visited 1887 homes, had
43,319 people to call on them in the
Office during the past year.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24

81 am not strong on arithmetic"
said the COW, "but l can add to the
bank account of the man who owns
me. can subtract from the princi-
pal of his mortgage. I can multiply
his chances for success. l can divide
his cares and worries. I can give
more interest to his work. l can dis.
count his chances for loss"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24

Watauga Passionate Church Directory
Holy Communion. Saturday 2 p.
m. Light brigade, Mrs. Perry Town
send, Superintendent. p. m. Woman
Missionary Socity, Mrs. w. P. Town
snd, president. Sunday School 9:45 a.
m. E. A. Townsend. Superintendent.
II a. m. morning worship, Rev. H.
W. Jeffcoat, pastor.
Mt. Pleasant, 10 a. m. Sunday
School, Jacob Burkett, Supt. Luther
League 2:3O p. m. Light Brigade on
Friday afternoon at p. m. at the
parsonage.
Mt. Zion 10 a. m. Sunday School
VIM. Winebarger Superintendent.
II a. m. Luther League, Ed Look
abill, President.
Grace-Boone--Sunday School 10
a. m. 6:15 Luther League. The pub
lie is cordially invited to these SER
vices.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24

Forty-eight club encampments
and club rallies were held by farm
and home agents in 81 counties last
year. There were 2,819 girls, 1923
boys and 5,617 visitors present on
these occasions.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24

The home agents report that as
a direct result of work done with
young people 20 boys and 53 girls
entered college last year.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24
WITHTHE LOCAL
CHURCHES
METHODIST CHURCH

Sunday School promptly at 10 a.
m. J. B. Steele Superintendent. We
begin on time and quit on time. Last
Sunday we had great school but
we expect a better one.
Preaching at liza. m. and Z p. m.
by the pastor. Help these services
to start on time.
Epworth League at 6:15 p. m.
Wednesday prayer service at p.
m.
1ualconna iS extended to all
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-01-24

A welcome is extended to all.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-03
|kORETz'S CASE WILL. END SOON
He'll Be in Prison Saturday,
 Prosecutor Says

Chicago, Dec. S.-The end of the story of Leo Koretz, promoter for ls years of a Panama oil scheme in which s2,OO0,OOO was invested by friends and relatives, will come be- fore Saturday, which will find him serving a penitentiary sentence, &C., eording to Robert E. Grove, state s attorney.
 The prosecutor planned 10 have Koretz carry out today his announce ed intention to plead guilty to in- dictments charging larceny, larceny by ballee, operation os confidence game and a general charge on all the counts. Hearing of attorneys pleas tomorrow and probable sentence Friday was the remainder of the program. Each charge, upon con- viction would carry a penalty of from one to ten years Imprisonment.
 koretz has finished the tale of his ventures which began when, as a duped investor, he applied methods by which he had been victimized to the time he fled to Halifax, N. &, from where he was brought back this week. In bankruptcy court yesterday he submitted to hours of questioning by attorneys for receiv- CTS of'his estate.
 Not quite one-thrd of the elaine Of his creditors can be paid by the total assets discovered to date, fl was shown by statement filed yes- terday. A deficit of $1,22S,598 was listed between liabilities of $1,763,- 64S,S4 and assets of $534,S49.55,
New Britain herald., 1924-12-03
l6 YEARS OLD, HE
 EATS FIRST PIE
Modern Oliver Twist Homeless
 and Hungry, Found in N. '.

New York, Dec. a.--oliver Twist stepped out of the pages of Dickens last night and walked into a West Side police station. The reincsrna- ton was In the person of William Peters. 1b year old, an orphan who, according to the story he told the police. remembers neither of his parents,ha spent virtually all his life in public institutions and. like his fictlonal counterpart. was the un- willing accomplice of a modern Fa- gan.
 The boy, clad in the uniform of q juvenile asylum, blue with cold and on the point of collapse from ex- posture, was brought to the station house by a patrolman. who said he had picked him up near the 2Srd street ferry. After a collection had been taken up for the lad among the men on duty he was given a hot meal. topped off with two slices of pie. which the waif said was the first he ever had eaten and was then held for the children's society.
 The youth told of lifelong or phanhood in various institutions the monotnoy of which was relieved only by the one adventure of helping a man rob the home of James F. Richardson, a sheriff in Islip, l.. I. This escapade, Peters said, resulted in his capture and confinement ip the asylum from which he had made his escape early this morning. The lad said the boredom of life in the institution had driven him to seek refuge in flight.
 Without cent in his pockets, the boy said he had made his way along country roads down the Hudson and had entered the city by way of Broadway. The night of resplendant limousines filled with expensively gowned women drawing up to thea- ter entrances had 50 entranced him, he explained, that he was obliWous of his own predicament and where abouts until he reached the 23rd street ferry district where he lost his way.
 Tears coursed down Peters cheeks as he recounted his experiences as involuntary dupe for his supposed benefactor, who, he said, obtained his release from the Five Points House, local orphanage, in Octo. Der. 1923, on the strength of fcti- tious references.
 The man took him to Freeport L. T., he said, where he and four other boys, were maltreated and compelled to pick pockets and bur. glarize homes.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-03
Staple Hardware Lines
 Show Much Activity

New York, Dec. 3.-In it's weekly hardware market summary Hard ware Age will say tomorrow:
 Staple hardware lines are very active in the face of the approach of inventory time, This is explained as being due largely to the general feeling that hardware prices may go higher after Jan l, Seasonal items have been moving better since the colder weather set in. Stove goods, sleds, snow goods and kindred win ter items have been selling heavily in the northern half of the country
 Holiday goods continue to move, with indications that the Christmas hardware gift trade will surpass the volume of last year.
 Futures on spring goods, calling for March anl April delivery, arc better than they were at the same time last year.
 "Collections except in the Pitts burgh district are very much i'm proved. Dealers in the farming sec tions report payment received on ac- counts thrco and four years old"
New Britain herald., 1924-12-03
r M (. 4. Athletics

On Thursday evening at 7:SO Dr. F. C. Torkelson, a graduate of the Universal college of Chiropracties at Pittsburgh, Pa, will give lecture 10 the senior and intermediate lead CTS corps, on the spine and it's re- lation to disease.
 Dr. Torkelson is the seventh mem- Der of his family who has followed the profession of chiropractics.
 The following senior leaders will attend the meeting: l.. E. Reaney, Joseph Rogan, Frank Pawlow, R. Loomis, Dr. Hand, Fred Underspan. H. Urban, F, Berquist, H. l.. kutch- CT, John Depaw, H. Hall, K. Ricc,, F. l.. Bacon, G. P. Marsh, II. Duntz, H. Rehm, s. Neverick. The follow ing intermediate leaders will also al tend: R. Varsell, A. Havilick, J. Adams, G. Heinzeman, P. KIopp, L. Bacon and Hiding Bengston.
 After the lecture the corps will adjourn to the gymnasium for. in- formal apparatus work.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-03
Ohio State Opens Up
 Court Season Dec. 9

Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 3.-Ohio State will open its basketball season here December 9 with Ohio Wesley an furnishing the opposition In the inaugural game of a schedule which includes contests with Michigan, H. linois, Indiana, Minnesota, Chicago and Northwestern.
 Led by Captain Jake Cameron, the Buckeyes will take the floor for the opening contest with the same lineup which went through the majority of last seasons games. New candidates for the team include Karow and Hunt of the 1924 football squad who shone as freshman floor stars last year.
 Twelve conference games are scheduled for the varsity, six at home and like number abroad.