North Carolina Newspapers

^Upi A Non-Partisan Family f volume xxxv. News Items a From lii interesting News Items as Our Correspondents tions of tli 4 Deep Gap Keep your eyes on Deep Gapli "What next? Well the citizens of this j I v* community have made application to j ^ the Grand Secretary of the Stat* for: the establishment of a lodge of 1. 1 O. O. F. or Oddfellows here. We want to build this place up and an ordc-T like the above would he a great thing for our community. We then could have a grand picnic fes 1 tival every year at Deep Gap under the auspices of the order that would ! be worth, coming miles to attend. We hope our good citizens will i help push this thing along and let's,' <rr?t tliirirru irainff ficr ?? onward to this end. It will do good tin many ways. Are you with u>. in the question. I am sure you will be. Mr A. G. Miller says the Oldsmobile sells faster than he can get his allotment of cars, so if you want J an Oldsmobile you bad better get busy with him at once and not be disapointed in delivery. Place your ^ order now is his warning. The Deep Gap Feed Store has opened up with a full line of grain, flour oats chop and feed, and right from the start have been doing a good business in their line. Their prices are right so give them a call f.nd trade some with them when in jieed of anything in their line. They Swill give you a square deal. Say folks! I jot's organize a Musi-1 nts> Booster Club for Deep Cap and | tret oui stum.' folders, pcnna;. ' and boost Deep Gap everywhere. \Yu can meet once in a while and plan for the future along: this line. What do you say? It will pay us big: te do this as Deep Gap is on the map ? and let's make her shine like ?t star, from now on We can do it if we j will only try. We notice that other sections in J the county have come to the front with some nice write ups since Deep Gap blazed the trail. Mr. Watson say; the folks over at Foseoe could be looking for him over any day to look their flower gardens over, but : 1 that the invitation came so late he is afraid the frost has nipped them in the bud and that they are now fal len and fast asleep in dust that will riot return with their tints of glory ifntii next season, and for Shulls, Mills and Meat Camp we acknowledge their beautiful mountains that sweep the blue sky so clear, but after ail our own dear Deep Gap with her rugged peaks on the right and left that point upward .in a chain of' mounds, peaks, and table lands that^ can never be broken without the hand of Gcni and our valley that runs east and west north and south is to be compared as a haven for \ \uonk s?n<l wonru with hn!inv hwrn vv zes that Can the soul. We are eon-' tent with Mother Nature's work but! we are now going ahead with man's j part so Deep Gap still remains: "One, ^ in all for Deep Gap." Let's hear! from other sections on the printed! page Miss Teodocia Watson the principal teacher at Rocky Point was taIt ken suddenly sick last Saturday and was absent from the ice creain social, but her sister and assistant Miss Fawn Watson carried on the work and the social was a success from ^ every standpoint. The ice cream and pies sold fast ^3* and a large crov;d came out. We SB wish to thank everybody that came out and for your interest in this work for a good cause. This shows that we can do things if we try. A large display sign should be erected in Deep Gap so the people from the lowlands would know how rto reaoft tee place, me state mgnway Commission would perhaps do this tor us if we only call on them. Mr. C. M. Watson you do this for us, as you patrol this section of road. Mr. Joe Greer these days seems ^ to be very lonely. He has his eyes set on the Beach, a section of this county. Joe says he will have to go out there if some on edoes not re-; turn very soon. What. Joe ha? in, mind we know not, but by the way j he talks we think he means business which we hope to chronicle later. I -a, ic life Newspaper Published in a: $1.50 Per Year BOONE. _1 8 Reported tral Watauga Reported Each Week by in the Several Secle County Meat Camp Mr. and Mrs. James Miller of Linville are visiting relatives and friends on. Meat Camp. Always glad to see Rev. T. G. Wsliams filled his regulnr apointment at the Methodist church Sunday at 11 a. m. We are indeed glda of the opportunity of hearing his good sermons. Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis and little son of Boone were visitors in the community Sunday. Mr. Clyde WIncborger former writer to the Deocroat has gone to Lenoir where he has secured a position. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Johnson and family of Mast were visitors Sunday at Mrs. M. E. Moretz's, Mr.s. Johnson's sister. The Prof tit Grove Singing Class that wnt to Beaver Dam or. last Sunday report a good time and a fine dinnei thanks to the good people of that section. Mr. W. H. Winnkarger of Lenoir hut formerly of Watauga visited his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Winebarge r on* last Sunday. * * | Sugar Grove The school is going on with a lively boom. One sees much promise in so many eager faces. Let us hope that each and every scholar of them now is on the ladder of success and j that they will climb it to the limit. Harold, the little son of Mr. and I Mrs. V. B. Mast who has been sick j for two weeks is improved. The annual farmers picnic will be held at the school building next Tuesday. Everybody come and bring the most valued thing you have, (not; meaning moonshine.) Born last Sunday night to Mr. and Mrs. .1. T. Mast a lively boy. Jim's "hello" has a tremendous ring in it now. David Mast and A. G. Glenn left here Monday for Chapel Hill where ihey will again resume their studies at the University of North Carolina. The many friends and relatives of Mr. J. R. Mast gave him a sur prise birthday dinner Sunday. It was indeed a feast and the crowd present numbered one hundred. Mr. Hard Mast left Saturday for the Grace Hospital at Banner Elk, where he is taking treatment. He has been in bad health for some time. Miss Hattie Mast of White Hall, Md. is making an extended visit with her brother Mr. John R. Mast. Mr. Jim Moore of North Wilkes-1 Doro was visiting here Saturday. Wei are always glad to have this worthy man in our section. Mr. Watson we enjoy your spicy articles and we admire your boasting spirit as well as that of the Shi:lis Mills and Meat Camp correspondent. But let us be careful when we boost not to arouse any spirit of rivalry. We all live in the World's and we believe Cove Creek isn't one step behind any of the other thriving little communities, although we love to hear these words spoken as they often are by passers-by. Born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Greer a fine baby boy. Both the mother and child are getting along nicely at this writing. Walter is a dealer in automobiles but since the arrival of Walter Jr. he wants to hang around so near that he is losing many sales, but what does he care for business right now? Mr. W. S. Moretz, the potato club member of Deep Gap raised an nice lot of fine ones. He is very much pleased with his success and will receive a good price for them as seed, j Walter is a good farmer as well as business man, and when it comes to anything you will find him on the job. Mr. A. F. Nichols has traded fori a truck and if you have any hauling ' to do he will be. at your service. Hej expects to buy produce in load lots, i Mx*. J. F. Welch and family made t a trip to Valle C'rucis last Sunday,! on a visit to see his brother Mr. Charlie Welch. Frank is a booster for Deep Gap| and possibly has something hid un der his hat that will come forth la..er. nci for Boone and Wataug WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH C/ NEWS ITEMS FROM THE APPALACHIAN SCHOOL son also wont four years to Wake Forest ('ollege, taught some in the j college, took a medical course and I now goes to Ohio Univrsity Mdica' ! College; Prof. Geo. Sherrill who has! been teaching in the Elizabeth City Schools and has spent the summer ii: Columbia University, will retu.nl to the University for the next. year. | These distinguished young men with | a large number of others who have been mentioned before are products of ihis section of the state, showing the work of the school and the wonderful capabilities of the boys and girls of this part of the state who have gone to every part of this and other states as capable and successful workers. Professor Hoy M. Brown a former teat her in the training school and now in the Stat Welfare Work with his frier 1 and co-worker Mr. Samuel M. Leonard, spent Saturday in Boone, attending the county teachers meeting. Te county teachers' meeting was held on Saturday, quite a large number being present. Prof. Green and wiiiiamr, oi tin* scnooi, rroc. Ed-; mondson and Mr. Leonard of Iia-j leigh and others spoke to the teachers. PERTUSSIS CAN BE CURED Many parents still believe that for a child attacked by whooping cough, or pertussis, as the doctors prefer to call it among themselves, there i.-1 practically nothing effective to do. and that the affliction must be endured for weeks and weeks until at last it cures itself. In the past there hasr been reason for this hopelessness, j Whooping cough until very recently was one of "the scandals of medi- j cine" in the sense that medicine was next, to hopeless when confronted by it. This situation has been changed, by the discovery that while several of the respiratory maladies can at least be relieved by the inhalation of properly diluted and administered chlorine gas, for whooping cough, that remedy is promptiy curative in 100 per cent of till cases. This was reported from Washington some months .ago as the result of experimental work done by the Medical Division of the Chemical Warfare Service and the report now is confirmed emphatically by Lieut. Col. H. L. Gilcshrist, head of the Army Medical Corps. He says that a few treatments with chlorine? eleven in the most obstinate cases? put an end to whooping cough, a disease which under any other method of treatment runs on for three or four months. New York's Health Board, acting with commendable promptness, some time ago established and opened two of the new "inhaloria" and the fact should not be ignored bv either doctors or parents anywhere in this vi| cinity. That some of them are ignoring it or have never heard of it, is made obvious by the number of children here and in the suburbs who | are coughing in this most distressing way.?N. V. Times. A PEACEFUL SCENE From the Land of the Clouds (James M. Downum.) A day of beauty rare, On mountain dale and hill, | kieh green on all the lands. The balmy air is still; A sky of truest blue. Is smiling over all, No sound disturbs the scene? 'Tis early peace ful fali. I Do you take your county paper? ?nc Appalachian Training School now in its third week is moving on weil in its work. More students are enrolled at this time than at the samel period of any previous year, nearly, three hundred being present. Many former friends and strangers likewise j seen) deeply interested in the work of the school and its rapid progress i in equipment and development. Rev M. B. Woosley, pastor of the Methodist church in Boone, came down to welcome the new students and to conduct the devotional services at! chapel, Rev. Coob and Jeffcoat, Pastors of the Lutheran church, the former of Hickory and the lalter of the town and county have been conducting a meeting in town and came to the school several days and conducted devotional services. Among those visiting the school were three former graduates, now distinguishing them selves intheir various lines of work. These were Mr. Walter Wiles, who aftr graduation here went to college four years and four years to law school and who is now practicing law in Washington City; Mr. Bynum Wil E a County, the Leader of iROLlNA. THURSDAY SEPTfMB BOONE TO BID FOR NEW ROAD Boone Trail Offered North Wilkes boro also to Seek to Pull the Toui Route That Way. (L. J. Hampton in Winston Journal) Boone.?This town and Nortl Wilkcsboro are going to make a hie ! for the lakes-to-Fiorida highway thai they want to come by the way oi 1 Biuefield. \V. Va.. down the Lee higl: ; way, through the val'ev of Virginia ! to Bristol and then from the twir | towns at. the Virginia Tennessee line I to Mountain City and on up throng! I the Go-go to Boone, trom Boone it is a direct shoot to Winston-Saleir over tin* Boone Trail, and highway no. 20. Elkin to Charlotte, intersects at Brooks' Cross Roads. In the big Hudson sedan of Geo L. Patterson of Concord and accom panicd by Major \\ . A. Foil of Con cord. m-in<*mnl .. u - *T ('. delegation to the BJuefield banquet held last Saturday night, and A. F. Hartsell also of Concord, youi correspondent made the return trif \\ teiday afternoon over the famous , T ee Highway and to Mountain City ] where the night was spent at the Grand Hotel. I The Lee highway is a magnificent j thoroughfare and it traverses some I of the most splendid scenery to be j found anywhere i?i West Virginia, j Virginia or Tennessee. The highway I climbing over Hoiston Mountain and j Iron .Mountain from Bristol to Mouti tain City, is onQ of the greatest pie| ces of engineering in the whole highway system of Tennessee. The road ;s a veritable paradise* of scenery of ] gorgeous mountain type, as one declared, and it is fully improved and I easily negotiated from the* plateau j surrounding Bristol to the top, four I miles away from Mountain City. Major Foil and also Messrs Patterson and Hansel! have traveled exj tensively over the country, but they I wore unanimous in the opinion that j for wonderful scenic beauty the Lee highway i> equal to any in either | Virgii ui. North Carolina or Tenhe| And they wen equally enthu ? , ? *? i mi.- mm 1110 11! 11?1111 vis tas opening up at every turn of the highway from Mountain ('it yto Boon and oil down the Boone trail to North Wilkosboro. The party stopped at the North Carolina line arid gave thanks for the splendid highway that stretched away down the mountain slopes toward Boom; for it was here that the rough traveling was left behind. The stretch from the North Carolina line t Mountain City, lies in a wonderfully beautiful country, but it still . road so common-evn in this state several years ago. Grand hotehvh However Mr. Allen proprietor of the Grand hotel, told the passing visitors that the state is getting ready to undertake the improvement of tiiihighway at an early date. Leaving Rluefield exactly at noon S-iulnv fho ;1 v i iwf l..ici>i-iilv ; arrivedin Bristol at 5:30 o'clock, hav 1 ing made the journey of 105 mile* ; in the intervening: time The first : town or. the route after leaving Blue! field \. is a town of the same name ; in *'old Virginity," distant from thi j former only a few miles. Then began the unfolding of the great grass land farms of the mouii tain valleys. Tazewell, the county seat of Tazewell county was the next place and the party continued on t< Lebanon and Hansonvilie. This high way is hard surfaced the entire way from Biuefield into Bristol. It is no1 as wide as North Carolina roads ol the same type of material, hut it i: easily passable for cars going in op posite directions at any point. How ever the rule is many wrecks on thi: road because of its narrowness, it i: said, and only the most careful driving brought the Concord party thri without a mishap. Leaving Bristol at t*? o'clock, th< start was made up the mountain ant the 40 miles to Mountain City wa: made in one hour and forty five min utes, this time allowing for sever a stops to view the magnificent seen cry. Spending the night at Mountaii city where wholesome country food cooked country style, and served ii abundant proportion, the parly lef ; for Boone at 8 o'clock, arriving hen J today at 9:30 a. m. Circus day came a raining, but do spite the mud the crowds came ou en masse to the Mighty Haag Show K..r oAare \f r 11 nor* hoc- mo.la tK! point on his annual tour of the coun ry and this year his circus offer perhaps more to the followers of th .-aw dust ring than at any other time The show is clean and moral through out and its coming to this town al ways means a gala day for old am ! voung. Mrs. S. C. Eggers is visiting rch ! es and friends in che Suthcrlan | .etion s-i.i- week. ttl0?t V N' -i ^ ' i ?wx ci \ w csici 11 i^urtn v^SiVOi ER 18, 1924. 5 Cts. aCopy REDMON-WINKLER A marriage took place at Lenoir two ago which but few peo| p k- anything a;'<?ut until the i last fc a days. Mr. -wart Whiklei .son of Mr. and Ai; - 1. S. Winklc-r and M-- Hon! or D. K. 'Jmon an attractive young | lady of Statesville were the principals. TV" pastor of the I.enoir Bap. | tint church was the officiating minisi terAir. V\ir?kler is on - of our most f popular young met, ii.d (operates a , transfer business. AI is Kedmon grad i uated li the Appalachian Training , School in the 1922 class, and has ma> ny friends here. ( They will make their home for a while with Mr. and Mr^. W. Ralph , Winkler. . j Community Fair Meeting The patrons of Zion Iliil and ad! I Alllllur . juiomvu) "ivi arm organized - for a community fair to be held at - Zion Hill school house some time this fall. " The officers chosen were. J. R. Trivett, president; 11. A. Ha^aman, t vice president; Henry ilagamaii. Secj ret a ry. The following were appointed com mittee chairmen: E. 15. Hagaman, chairman of field crops; M. A. Ward chairman of orchard and garden; Hula Ward( chairman of pantry dept. Anna Edmisten, chairman of kitchen ' dept: Susie Hagamau, chairman of i sewing dept. l The outlook for a fair at this place J is fine. In fact the community is ex. pccting to have a much larger fair i this year than last year. METHODIST CHURCH Sunday School at 10 a. m. Attendance and interest continues to grow -Join the Sunday School workers Sunday. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 730 p. in by the pastor. Epworth League 7 p. ni. Wednesday prayer service at 7:30 p. in. Choir practice following CELEBRATES NINTH BIRTHDAY Little Miss Itobecca Borton celebrated her plinth birthday at her homo on Grand Boulevard in thei Daniel Boone Park last Saturday af-' ternoon. Her guests were welcomed on the front porch by Misses Louise Critch-j i er and Sarah Lillian Morton, who served delicious fruit punch from a booth on the end of the poieh. In the living room which was decorated in pink and white the children played games ending with a contest in which .Miss Haze! Gragg won the girls' prize and Master lake Hag&man the boy's prize for replacing the amputated donkey's tad nearest where it belongs. The prizes consisted of a bottle of perfume and a pocket knife. Refreshments, ice cream, cake, nuts, were served by Mrs. Morton, itssisieu uy .?irs. omun ami .or;. u. P. Critcher. The decorations includi cd pink and white crepe paper and . a profusion of golden rod, sweet pi as and nasturtiums, and a large cake with the candles which threw a golden glow o v the happy group harmonizing the whole with the dec :orative scheme. i Little Miss Rebecca was made glad! by the many pretty gifts received There were about 36 present. Cove Creek The school opened on Monday morning Sept. sth, under favorableprospects for the most successful J year in its history. The initial en\ roil ment was 230 with 80 of these , fin the high school department, j Several patrons were present for I the opening exercises and several of them made inttresting talks, among ^ them W. F. Sherwood, L?. F. Mast 1. J. L. Glenn, Rev Briitain. Meml j bers of the faculty were also called j on by principal S. F. Horton and : Miss Bandy of the Home Economies , department, Mr. Ellington of the En1 ,1 'VT?. uni .( , v. ii.iii uci'tiiuiiiiu, ixiu vx mc Mathematics department and Mr. j Perry of the History department rei .-ponded with very appropriate re"! marks concerning the plans and the 1 aims for this year's work. The school extends a cordial in71 citation to the people of this community to visit their school and to 1 keep in close touch with the work it is trying to do. Steps are being taken to provide ~ a ball ground away from the school * building, r. I>. F. Horton has leas s ed to the school a plot of ground for s this purpose. Mr. and Mrs. Don J. Horton have s returned from quite an extended vise it to Farrell. Pa. and Cleveland, Ohio Miss Blanche Henson of the Ban~ ner Elk School faculty spent the week end at her home at Vilas. ^ Mr. DeWitt Brown is building a garage and service station on his property near the school buiUimg. On Sunday the relatives and i- friends of Mr.James Mast of Sugai ii 'e .-.r.rrised him with an old ...w ui.iiu Many p.;vp?e as ina.- Established in 1 888 NUMBER 37 YFII fbW irnsn lLiiiUVH I V/ilU j IN LIMELIGHT Driver of Sport Model Flivver Proves tr. be Dry Law Sleuth a* Gigantic Whiskey Raid is Made. i . Three weeks ago. a twenty one year old sp 't, apparently of the I "dead game" variety registered at the CrxtCiiv; Hotel. He was driving a [ "catty" ford roadster, painted a shirt: ing veiiow a. i equipped with all the ! u'tra modern conveniences and apj ph snces which the Ford people in ] their haste forgot to use. } The car bore an AshevilW: license I and other from this nothing was I generally known of the stranger, except that proved hir.nelf to be the best partner the younger boys of the place had ever had. Joy rides, day and night for the pleasure of the local youths were taken in the yellow flivver, and it soon developed that the stranger Mr. Frank Ingram of Asheville, had an insatiable thirst for hooch. He was furnishing the gasoline, the car. the money and the good time in general, so | why shouldn't the boys help him in i his quest of the ardent? They knew not. For days and days a few of 1 them enjoyed his reckless generosity | occasionally being allowed a drink i from one of the containers they had either sold to him or purchased for him, and they likely wished that the "yellow Ford man" might remain in the city forever. But lo. ho who dances must invariably pay the fiddler. Last Wednesday night the stranger went into the "state of "Wilkes" in company with some of bis informants and having purchased -4 gallons of "the corn" proceeded *<> arrest four of the blockndefs and brought them back to Boone ?n company with the local Fed al ollicer Mr. Ralph Bingham and Deputy Sheriff Hayes. This was the beginning of hi? outward operations which necessarily had to he wound up in short order before the news of his identity was broadcast. IT?. m this time eleven arrest> have been made in Watauga for retailing, four Mocfcaders in YV'ilkes and one still destroyed. It is interesting to note thai some of these bootleggers were plying their trade in Boone The round up of the liquor men was under the direction of the town authorities, the plan having been sail ctioned hy l>i strict Attorney F. A. Finney and Solicitor Jonson J. Haves and the whole s* heme was in conjunction with the town, state and fed eral officers, to one of whom Ingram made a report at the midnight hour each night. The Ku Klux K!an was really the instigator of the plan and it was they who furnished the secret service agent. it developed that some of the heaviest liquor drinkers in the tov^n were hoys in the early teens who were wise to the haunts of the moonshiners, and who had been used by the bootleggers on occasions to accompany them on expeditions to keep off the suspicions of the Federal officer. Mr. Ingram say.- he purchased a quart of booze it: the heart of town the day he arrived here even before he had gone to his hotel. All of his purchases were kept in his riom labeled with the came of the seller nr.H 'l"*" 1 c ( uutc imur vn. me saie j until the time fur action had come, I It is not known how many more arj rests will be made before the cam! paign is over. The town authorities. Federal officer, state men. and ail the best citizens of the town are exultant over the work done by youn^, Ingram and all praise is due the law abiding citizens, the Ku Klux Kian and others who had a part in this effort to make Boone and the country at iargu know what bone dry really means. Liquor must go in Boone, in fact it seems to he gone, and everyone interested in prohibition, which includes practically all, is behind the officers in this worthy work. IN THE MAYORS COURT I September 15th H. B. Blackburn, drank, cursing j on street. Fined $15 and cost. H. B. Blackburn, drunk, second ' otFense. $15 and cost. O. S. Greer, drunk and resisting ofj ficei. $25 and cost. BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School 10 a. m. Warship 11 a. m. and 7 :80 p. in. i B. Y. P. U. 6:30 p. m. We extend a cordial wellcome to visitors and others living in M.e comI munity to worship with us. j M iss Lucy Ray, attractive little daughter of Mr. and ? *s. F. M. Ray of Tayloria, Pa. has ;en spending . several days here with her cousin, Miss Pauline McGhee. She left for I her home Friday of iast week. I sentbied or the large lawn and en joyed utv pleasant occasion together. i . M ?^