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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18
SAMUEL GOMPERS WILL
BE LAID TO REST TODAY
American Federation of Labor Chief
tain Who Died in San Antonio on
Saturday Inferred in New York.

Funeral services for Samuel Com
pers, aged president of the American
Federation of Labor who died in San
Antonio Texas on Saturday, will be
held at the rooms of the Elks Lodge
in New York today at nine. The re-
ligious services will be conducted by
Rabbi Stephen A. Wise, and the eu-
logy will be delivered by James Dun
can first vice president of the Am
erican Federation of Labor.
The religious services in the lodge
rooms will conform to the Elks ritual
while those at the grave in Sleepy
Hollow cemetery, will follow the Ma
sonic ritual.
A large delegation of American
Federation of Labor officials, COM
posed of representatives of the bull
ding trades, metal trades, labor and
railway department, will leave Wash
ington tomorrow Mr.. Frayne said, to
meet the funeral train on its arrival
at Cincinatti Tuesday morning and
accompany the body to the nations
capital. When the train leaves
Washington at midnight Tuesday this
delegation consisting of about 800
persons will accompany it to New
York to attend the funeral.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18

and that this kraut was the best food
he could get for intestinal fermen-
tation.
"A great many people," DR.. Low
cry said, "have intestinal fermenta-
tion which causes many unpleasant
conditions, such as headache, ner-
vousness, hardening of the arteries,
high blood pressure and premature
old age, and l know Of nothing that
gives as good results as the eating
daily of pure Tactic acid kraut, there
fore anything that l can do that will
educate the people to eat this health
full product, l will be glad to do"
DR.. Lowery has high reputation
as a stomach specialist and this word
of commendation from him greatly
heartened the farmers of Watauga
to further efforts in disposing of ther
products. However the marketing
stifl encountered many difficulties
due to the fact that grocers had made
contracts two seasons previous for
their yearly supply. The Watauga
Association was left with lots OF
lxraut on its hands and much cabbage
signed up for the 1924 season.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18

association. The division of horticul-
ture entered in and found that this
was good place to assist in pushing
forward new vegetable growing
industry, so Proof. C. D. Matthews
wisely took some of his funds and
paid the salary of Mr.. Blair until
such time as the association was
financially strdng enough to take
him over.
The association built its factory,
put in the big barrels, cutters and
all other necessary equipment for
making high grade product. Then
the members began to bring in the
cabbage Three hundred and fifty
tons were delivered the frs tseason
The effect was Immediately felt.
Those who had raw cabbage to sell
found the price better and the fac
tory stood ready to consume, at
once, all surplus. So prices were
better than usual for cabbage in
the Boone section in 1928.
Marketing Specialists
But Mr.. Blair and Mr.. Steele
found that instead Of being simply
kraut maker and county agent re-
spectively, they must also become
marketing specialists if the kraut
were to move to the big markets in
large lots. The division of horti
culture could carry the salary of
the maker no longer because the
work had passed the experimental
stage. The fact was proven that
good kraut could be made. The
only difficulty now left was break
ing into the established trade chan
nels and proving that the kraut was
all that the makers claimed it to be.
1t was hard to do.
DIR. ]. R. Lowery, a leading sto-
mach specialist of Raleigh helped
some. He went to the mountains on
a hunting trip, had taste of the
kraut, and came home confirmed ad
dict. In fact he tried to get, some of
his grocer friends to put in eva
tauga Sauer Kraut, Pride of the Blue
Ridge" line. They countered with the
reply that Raleigh claimed to be too
"high brow" for such food. But DR..
Lowery worked on the matter even
writing a letter that sounded like a
testimonial for leading patent med
icine. He pointed out the virtue in
q simple dish like kraut. He said the
food contained Tactic acid, vitamines
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18
CAROLINA STILL HAS HOPE
FOR A NATIONAL PARK
Superior Beauty of States Mountains
and Good Roads to Have Weight
Might Donate the Land.

Raleigh, Dec. 14.-Members of the
delegation which recently visited
Washington in the interest of the ma
tional park which seems by recent
papers to be headed toward Virginia
do not lose hope and there are two
capital circumstances favoring North
Carolina. First place, all Washington
agrees that North Carolina has far
the more beautiful country and in
the second place the state has ts.e
roads.
The Washington authorities gave
the delegation to understand that the
government would expect to receive
the land by donation. Everybody be-
lieves that North Carolina has more
money to put into land than Virgin
ia has and that a North Carolina leg
islature would more quickly meet the
national conditions by purchasing the
real estate and the assembly would
appropriate more generously than
would Virginia and that first great
test could be quickly met.
If the Government will accept a
substitute it will put to the credit
of state the roads which the gov
rnment would be forced to construct
North Carolina has hers and a state
Highway commission which can build
more. These two great conditions can
oe easily met and the hotel visitors
who have read today's news some
what sorrowly think when the state
presents this side the Congress will
take serious thought of it.
There is no Encouragement here
anu North Carolina will fight on. 1t
is believed that the state can get
the land needed very cheaply be-
cause hardly any large tract is made
valuable by thickly populated towns
or even villages. Fact is the country
is very sparsely settled. The state
rather expected the preliminary rec
concentrations though they hurt for
all that.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18
NO PAPER NEXT WEEK

AS has been the custom in this
shop for the past 35 years we
will miss an issue next week, sol
ely for the purpose of relaxing a
bit after a very strenuous years
work. The year just closing was
chock full of work for the Dem
ocrat's small force. The major
part of our business men have
given US loyal support in our eff
forts to make paper in keeping
with the rapid progress made by
the splendi d town in which it is
published. To them we extend
the seasons greetings with many
thanks, and wishing for them one
and all, the continued success they
so richly deserve. For our fifteen
hundred subscribers we wish a
very merry Christmas and happy
and prosperous New Year.
We will be ready for copy the
last of next week and we hope
our correspondents, who have
been so faithful during the year
will snatch enough time from the
joyous season to send in the
Christmas happenings from all
parts OF the county.
With this little explanation we
bid you adieu until January l,
1925, when we will greet you with
determination to give YOU a bet
ter paper than ever before.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18

This is a story of accomplishment.
1t should contain number of ref
erences to George Ross, head of the
state division of markets, to John B.
Steele, county agent for the state
college eltension division in Watau
ga, and to the workers of the horti-
cultural division who saw the posi-
bilities of mountain cabbage and he'll
ped the Blue Ridge Farmers" Aso-
citation of Boone, N. C. to organize
and to begin the manufacturing and
successful marketing of the best
kraut that has ever been placed be-
fore the exacting epicurean.
The commercial production of
kraut in Watauga county began
with the activities of county agent
Steele early in 1928. Mr.. Steele
knew that the cabbage of his noun
tain country had crispness and
flavor that was unexecelled. He
found that his farmers were not
getting the price that they should
get for these cabbage. 1t was a
long haul to market and unless cab
bage are crisp and fresh no matter
how good they might be, the mar
ket would not pay price to JUS
tify the haul. Therefore the cab
bage growers of the section around
Boone had no outlet for their
product.
Cabbage and the Blairs
They did, too, in a small way 1,
For several generations the Blairs
of Boone had made kraut. Those
who moved away sent back to Boone
for such kraut as was "fit to eat"
The kind they bought elsewhere was
not good. It had no flavor, was
lifeless and tasteless. 1t could in
no way compare to the fine kraut
made by the Blairs of Watauga.
So, with the cabbage and the
Blairs, there was no reason, thought
Mr.. Steele, why he could not organ
ize the farmers so that the cabbage
could be manufactured into kraut
with H. Neil Blair as kraut maker,
and thus sell the fine crisp cabbage
as finished manufactured product.
Acting on this thought, the cabbage
growers were organized into the
Blue Ridge Farmers Association with
H. Neil Blair as krautmaker and Jno.
B. Steele as advisor and helper wher-
ever and whenever he could be of
assistance. Ninety growers joined the
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18
The First Christmas Tree

Once time charcoal in with
his wife and children Sometimes there
the tiny home At these times his babies hungry
The the where
cold So cold for days that the Father could
forest and wood to burn charcoal.
The winter that going tell about
this 1t late December. For four had
had nothing but cruel day Every night they
ged in their bed of fir tips to keep
On the fifth day the Father
While he the Mother gathered fir a
She returned with load. While playing,
children stuck branch IN a in of the While
their Mother getting gruc his little
him.
The Father home night and
1t made him remember the day 1t He
his babies the the
They wdeeyed when they crawed into bed that night;
A later the Mother trimmed the ehouse
placed branch the chdrens bed When
what she doing the children remembered the Christmas
begged their
Child. Many neighbors story night
homes decorated with fir tips.
year brought placed
in the home 1t lake the place of the branch which
had always been put near the chidrens bed.
all the folks bringing
Christmas. The spread then the world
Christmas children
of the Father off
they dried fruit each
How happy they Other Fathers know of and
the following Christmas there dried fruit
in the forest peoples homes.
This but the is carried
o this day.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18
SCHOOL CLOSES
NEXT FRIDAY
Students Will Enjoy Holidays Until
January S. Basket Ball Teams Meet
With Various Successes. Other
News from School and Town.

Several basket ball games have
been played recently by the different
teams of the Training School. The
young ladies played the Newland
team at Newland on the 8th with
the score standing 22 to IL in favor
of Boone; on Saturday night the Cove
Creek High School team played
high school team of the Training
School, the Boone boys winning by
22 to Is: On the same night the reg
ular young ladies of the school play
ed East Tennessee ormal at johnson
City and the Tennessee girls beat by
a score of % to g.
The reports for the first quarter
have been sent out. The delay was
caused by some irregularity in the
work of the students and the delay
IN receiving the teachers reports.
The Training School held school
on Monday the 18th as the students
petitioned that school might close for
the holidays on Friday the 18th. Ex-
aminations will be given on Friday.
School will begin again on January
5, 1925.
The heating plant has been anlar-
ged at the Methodist church and the
building is now comfortable in the
coolest weather. The plumbers seem
TO have done fine job on it.
DR.. J. D. Rankin preached at Hen
sons chapel on Sunday morning. The
Rev. Woosley preached at Blowing
Rock in the afternoon and went to
Granite Falls owing to the illness of
his wife, who is spending some time
there with home folks.
Your correspondent, has along with
a large number of other people in the
community, been sick with light at
tack of influenza.
America! America! Murder and
Crime and Recklessnessw Must this
still be thy record as the day ap-
proaches cominemorating the most
sacred event in all history? Awake
to thy nobler task!
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18
Stampeding Treasure Seekers
Stopped by Royal Mounted Police

Stampeders, travelling by automo-
bile, dog teams and afoot to the
Cassiar placer district strike in Bri-
tish Columbia, have been stopped on
the International boundary line north
of Wrangel, Alaska by the royal Ca
madam mounted police and refused
permission to travel to the scene of
operations by way of Stikine, Tel
egraph Greek and the Dease lake
trail until March. The order to head
off the winter rush was issued to
prevent hardships and privations with
out proper provision at Cassiar.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18

1t was imperative that this kraut
be moved. Then George Ross was
appointed chief of the division of
markets and he visited in Watauga.
But first he says 81 had letters from
Steele, the county agent, He wrote
i5raut, and when l saw him he talk
ed kraut. In the presence of the par
" with me, he sampled kraut and
after we had eaten kraut, he insisted
that we drink kraut juice. He gave
US demonstration to show that the
kraut certainly would not harm US
and now he comes along with doc
ument from one of the leading spec
ialists and physicians of the capital
city who insist that most of US would
better off if we ate kraut and that
of all the kraut that he ever tasted
there is none like that made in Wa
tauga.
Strange to say, on my visit to
the village of Boone, | saw kraut in
tubs, in kegs and in cans. | next
met a man whom we agreed upon
as a person who could sell kraut
and he did actually sci every hoop
and can of the kraut that the asso-
citation made during the five weeks
of operation in August and Septem-
Der and he is now selling kraut ahead
of their manufacture for future de-
livery.
"The Watauga kraut organization
is a cooperative enterprise and the
three leading spirits are John Steele
the county agent and a graduate of
the state college; Neal Blair, secre-
tary treasurer OF the association and
professional kraut maker, a trade he
learned from his father; and this Mr.
Betty who sells kraut by talking the
product and cutting a can in the
various grocery stores. For fifteen
years he sold coffee to these same
merchants, and now he sells nothing
but Watauga kraut made from the
cabbage grown In the high altitude
of western North Carolina"
This is rather lengthy statement
from George Ross but it tells very
vividly just how the kraut started
moving in volume from the mountains
1t explains why the Blue Ridge Far
mers association is ready to go a.
head confidently now and sign up
the cabbage growers of the section
to deliver their best heads to the fac
tory in Boone. North Carolina sauer
kraut is on the market, it has proven
its quality and now it proceeds with
help from the division of markets to
make money for the growers. 1t is
really a story of accomplishment.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18

westerly on the Shenandoah Valley
from $500 to $500 feet below and
also commanding a view of the Pied
mont plain stretching easterly to the
Washington monument, which land
mark of our national capital may be
seen on a clear day. Few scenic drivs
in the world could surpass it,"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-12-18

BLONDE BESS OPINES .-...
"When the boss refers to circum-
stances not under his CONTROL just
know he is talking of his wife"
New Britain herald., 1924-10-23
MAN WITH THIRTY
 MILLIONS ID WE'D
P. X. Nidener Will Take Di. 
 Vorcee as Wife

New York, Oct. 23.-Peter A. B. Widener, End, grandson of the owner of the Widener fortune and son of Joseph E. Widener of Elkins Park, Pa, is 10 be married soon to Mrs Frederick G. Peabody, 1t was learned today. Mrs. Peabody has just returned from Reno, where she obtained a divorce.
 Several times in the past. Widen CT has beeh reported as engaged. but each report proved false. His wealth has been estimated Tt sS0,000, 900. He is a brother of Josephine Pan coast Widener, known as Eff" who eloped with Carter Randolps Leidy. Pennsylvania university freshman, in 1920.
 Mrs. Peabody was Miss Gertrude T. Douglas, of Albany, before her marriage about eight years ago to Frederick Griffith Peabody, a meEn- Der Of the shirt and collar manu- featuring firm of Cluett, Peabody & Go. She obtained her divorce on charges of extreme cruelty.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-23
25 Fears Ago Today
 From Paper of That Date

The Woman's club of New Brit ain, organized in 1875, began its 24th season this afternoon, when the club members and the teachers of the public and normal schools gath cred in the First church chapel.
 The sewer commissioners may buy Charles Liegey's farm near Beckley Quarter for use as sewer beds.
 A lively fire Saturday evening was caused when e child of Samuel Greenstein, who lives at 105 Beaver street, upset kerosene lamp. The kitchen was completely gutted and $500 damage done. John Dwyer owns the house. AS the ladder truck responded to the fire, 1t col lided on Main street with carriage drawn by Mir. Gilbert of Berlin. MT. Gilbert was not badly injured.
 Lanterns must be lit tonight be- fore 5:5S.
 About 40 applications for liquor licenses were made this forenoon to County Commissioner Potter in Prosecuting Attorney Kirkham's of- fee, but only three asked for beer licenses. None of those who have package licenses now made applica- tion for any kind of a license.
 The local polo season will open tomorrow evening at the Casino. The new cages have arrived and all is in readiness. There will be a band concert before the game.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-23
PRESIDENTS FINAL SPEECH AND GENERAL APATHY

Being president of the United States and running for reelection has it's advantages in more ways than one.
 The president is scheduled to make a speech on taxation. It will be his last extended address of the cam paign. And in order to make it do the most good arrangements have been made to have 23 radio sta tions broadcast it, so that 1t will be heard from coast to coast by those who care to tune in.
 It is forecasted that the speech will indicate the presidents future policy toward taxation. It is gen. orally believed that the president will not recommend that congress take up taxation at the December short session because its members will be composed Of practically the same gentlemen who rejected the Mellon plan last summer. Should the new congress to be elected show different political complexion it IS believed by persons close to the president that he will favor taking LID taxation questions at later session, probably a special session to be called after March 4. At this session, if it is called, the world court proposal and agricultural re- lief also may be brought up, it is stated.
 The presidents taxation speech over the radio undoubtedly will reach vast concourse of people. It enables the president to read carefully prepared address and reach the largest number of people at the same time. It probably Will be the biggest radio speech of the campaign; but whether speech upon a tentative taxation plan will tend to break the current apathy to any extent is doubtful.
 Before the campaign started great things were expected from the radio. The nation was pictured as consisting of folks who eagerly sat around the receiving sets listening to the candidates propound their views. and interest in the election was expected to be stimulated thereby, Yet old man General Apathy still seems to boss the show
New Britain herald., 1924-10-23
DR. FRANK CRANES DAILY EDITORIAL
Is Life Worth Living?
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

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New Britain herald., 1924-10-23
OIL SUIT TRIAL AND A DOUBTFUL STATE

Opening of the government suit against the Dohcny oil companies which suits allege tllegaities, faisi- ties and frauds, finds Owen J. Rob erts, attorney representing the gov ernment, bringing q resume of the sorrowful tale to the attention oi the public, and the public of Cali fornia particularly, the suits being tried in Los Angeles,
 California is credited with being a doubtful state; at least, all three parties claim an .ascendancy there The oil trials will produce an amount of publicity throughout the state that probably won't help the political outlook of one of the par ties It would have been better to nostpone the trial until after inc election.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-23

the right to operate motor busses instead. An application to this eff feet has been filed with the authorl- ties.
 RGsses e~ the New York streets may be better than street cars, but they won't do much to help dimin- ish traslic problems, It is difficult to see how busses, any more than street cars, can make much speed over the downtown New York streets
 Boston has shown New York how to do 1t, and that was to eliminate the street cars from the downtown section by running them in tunnels or suhways under the strets. Bos- ton could no more tolerate fleets of motor busses on it's downtown streets than 1t could street cars: and in the long run this will be found true also in New York.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-23
CAMPAIGN STRATEGY CENTLRS ON NEW YORK

Campaign strategy" is somo- thing all parties cultivate. How tho managers arrange tho speaking dates and in what states they con. scntrute their chief oratory always plcascs the followers of their own party and usually meets with the criticism Of the others,
 Just now the Republican cam paign managers are thinking hcart- lily over the announced plan of John W, Davis to spend seven days in New York state in q drive which the Democrats ihope will cause the Empire state to give its 45 elcc- loral votes to the Democratic can didate.
 In order ts provide the weeks barrage in New York the Demo- cratic candidate is said to be forced to drop contemplated tour in New England. The electoral vote of all the six New. England states totals A, while the electoral vote of New York alone totals 45. There are a lot of eggs In one basket in New York. and with Davis and Al Smith both on the stump there. not to mention d horde of lesser lights, it is declared that the prospects look good for carrying it,
 Without carrying New York this year, in view of the feared defection of certain western Republican states, it Is believed MT Coolidge cannot win the election in the cleo toral college, There are some par tisan critics and political diagnos- ticians ~ who claim the president cannot win in the electoral college even should he carry the Empire state; but such matter can only be determined by the election it. self.