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"VOL XXXVIII, NO. 119 jK _____ See Hoover as G. O. P. Presidential Choict Soulherntt-i in Washington Bf liev Commerce Secretary Will Be Nominated A majority ot southerners seei here predict that Secretary Hoove will be the next' -Republican presiden tial nominee, .-ays a Washingtoi ^.Special of August It to the Charlotb Observer. There are several reason for this: I-'irst, the good relief wori he did in the Mississippi river floui region; second, he has eneouragei business organizations in the south ( and third, it is being whispered abou that he is an administration favorite especially with Secretary Mellon, o the treasury department. "Hoover will be popular as a can didate in the south." said a southeri Democratic congressman, "if elect ed president there would be no sec tionalism in the administration o his office." A lot" of Hoover propaganda is be ing circulated, and a bit of it is tha he .vill have the delegates from tb southern states. Irank O. Lowdeu was strong ii the .-outb in 1!>20. He expende; goodly sums in Georgia and othe state-. Testimony before a senafi committee showed that he gave on< party leader in Georgia $!>,000 ti help along the Lowden movement. There is a promi- of a real scram bio in the south but the odds are ot T - the man favored by the leaders of th< present* administration. COVE CREEK HIGH SCHOOI. WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 5Th Sugar Grove. Aug. lONVork on tin iir.v ..ddiiion to the Cove Creek hig! school plant is going forward rapid ly. Poe & Triplett, contractors, o: Lenoir, have the supervision of rhi building and they arc rushing th? work. They expect to have it readj for u.-e bv October 20. Tile fail term of the Cove Creel high school will open September 5 Arrangements will be made to tak( care of ail the work in the old build ing until the new high school build ing is completed. The comity board of educatioi passed a resolution at its last meet ing regarding tuition and transpor ' tation l'ees for high school students who live outside the iocal lax district The tuit'ion fee is $3.00 per term anc tilt transportation fte is als-o Sli.Oi per term payable to the principal i.i r September 5 and .lanuavy 1. In east * any student should not attend thi fu'l eigln months these, foes will bt rf funded. High school text hooks have beer ordered and ?.viii be or, sale the op enir.g day of school. No charges wil be made in text books and student! are urged to provide themselves will second hand books. New books wil be sold for cash only. Parents are urged to start then children the opening day and are invited to come themselves. Further announcement's will b< made before the opening. DEI 1CHTFUL FAMLY REUNION On Saturday of last week at tht beautiful home of District Attorney and Mrs. V. A. l.innry of Boone f reunion of the family of Mr. arid -Mrs William (Boomer) Alatbeson, ox Tay lorsviile, Alexander county, was held Airs, l.inney being one ot the d.iugh tifiS Through many years, this was at annual event at the Murheson home but since the passage of the belovec i parents, the children are to keep their up in the future, this being the firsl i one held since the death of Airs Matheson. Those present" on this most enjoyable occasion were: Mr. and Airs. J A. Jlatheson and Miss Jean Boot! Matheson. of Moore.-ville; Dr. J. P Matheson of Chuilotle; Mrs. H. C Payne, Mary Avers Payne and Misi Ettie Lee Kurd of Bowling Green Ky. The guests remained over Sun day at the Linney residence, leaving for their homes Monday morning. WAGNER REMOVED TO WILKESBORO FOR TRIA1 H. S. Wagner, who ha* been con fined in the Watauga county jai since the spring term of superio court, for the siaying of Earl Mood; and Dexter Bvrd at Shulls Mills la. Christmas day, was moved to Wilkes boro before daylight Monday morn \ng hy Sheriff Farthing. The re moval was ordered by Judge I' A McElroy, who is presiding at thi term of Wilkes supericr court, befor , whom the Wagner case will be trie beginning next' Monday. /ATAl A Non-Partisan Nev* BOONE, INJURIES FATAL TO s ,'REIDSVILLE MAN w j ' Prank Foster Died in Watauga Hospital Monday Night. Following ft | Automobile Accident Sunday r Near Deep Gap i in j ! oil; l j Frank Foster, 25, died at the Watejauga Hospital Monday night at 8 Da s! o'clock, having never regained con-I'mit ^ seiousnc.5.s from injuries received) the. i when an automobile which he was j vva j driving turned over Sunday night J ,9 near Deep Gap. ma t Young Foster, a resident: of Reids 0? f vine, accompanied by Mr George ag: f Hoover of Lexington, had spent the j pIJ5 I week-end at Blowintr Rnr?lr 2|?o"' * --C - 1 Cell _ came io Boone Sunday evening to t visit a little with Mr. Baxter Litiney. tht _ a college friend. Hoover, in whose soi ? automobile they were riding, insisted rCfi i that they return to Blowing Rock he ? and occupy their rooms again that an, . | night. Foster maintained that hcion t j must be at work Monday morning wa > j and offered to drive the car. Accord- (tal I ingly, Mr. Hoover went to sleep in | i j tKd rear of the sedan, not ??eingicri i awakened until the car left the road | cat r just below Depfp Gap. He suffered chj w? minor cuts and bruises while a frac- ma , tured skull proved fatal to the driver. fu) j The car car turned over several co, limes dowr. the mountainside, and it 1 . is believed that the driver, because of \\s] x loss of sleep, had also become semi- j \jr l conseious. tu] Surviving are the parerilV, Mi', and ca| Mrs. W. S. Foster; two sisters, M dames E. B Ware and J. E. Burton. I j ail ?%f Reidsville. and three brothers, \Y. B. Foster of Greensboro, and E. , B. and .1. U. Foster, of Reidsvilie. j E*! ^ Mr. Foster was connected with ihe|s st$te highway commission. [ Relatives arrived Monday :ind ac-j lnl , comp&nied the remains to Reklsville J J , where int'erment will hi made. Seven Murder Cases in wa Wtlkesboro Court j he; The Most Important of Which is the j Hi? Hub Wagner Case, Set for Triad ) 1 Next Monday j chi Wilkes county superior court fori Ho the trial of criminnl eases only, con- bui ' veiled :\t Wilkesboro Monday, with 3 5 Judge P. A. McElroy, of Madison, to ' presiding. Seven murder cases are urc I on the docket in addition to a large poi number of et'her cases, the murder sob | cases being: Hub Wagner, of Wat- i j auga county; Ray Reid and others; Mr 'Clarence larvis, Sam Buttis, William bei *! ie i - L - uKUOTii, .lounsie wnitungton and 1 vis; ^ others, and L. M. Bynum. negro. j mo By agreement of counsel the Wag- ( I urr ease is set for next Monday, Au- ' ed gust 15th, nr.d it is expected that the no* Wa-.Yiuga slayer will be arraigned at of i that time. Thi 1 j ? is I . RAPID EDUCATIONAL , t"' GROWTH IS REVEALED <*? pre Raleigh, Aug. S.?Remarkable | ? growth of North Carolina highj'ouc schools during, the past 15 years isj iiv outlined in the current issue - ofMhe , "State School Facts," just off the) J . i prt;s which gives figures showingjstn: [ j that enrollment lass increased fromj 1 _! 12,470 in .1II10 to 8?:4G3 in 1920 I firs j The number of graduates in that lime ! the ; has increased from Oil) to 11,252. I 1 Aa increase ofvCIS per cent is in-; Met , dieated in the 15-year span. In 19,10 S only 2." per' cent of the total school ise I j enrollment was in high schools, while '1 , in 1925 the high schools claimed 11 Ma per cent', the survey shows The fig- i ures cover all high schools, white ! and negro, urban and rural, private Mil and public. S The School Facts show 542 ac- S j credited high schools, or an average 1 of over five for each county, 479 of Cat them public. Of the number, 453 ave . white and 26 for negroes. In 1915-16, the survey sets forth, j j ' only one pupil out of every six en- 'j , lering nign school in Morth Carolina hon graduated four years later, while the 1925-26 figures show that' approxi- j malely one-half graduated?approxi- ten ? Stately three times as many pupils Mi< proportionately graduated in 1925-26 j . as compared with a decade before. Mr 1 Dai r Charles A. Kent, prominent to- j t baeco manufacturer of Winst'on-Sa- Cl\ leinj dieu Tuesday night. Mr. Kent Mr - was president of the Brown and W'il- i - liamsor. Tobacco Company. hex mo Ina, nine-year-old daughter ot" Mr. s and Mrs. Ira Douglas, Yadkin coun- the e ty residents, was instantly killed ia. rijwhen struck by lightning Monday ' night. I fi? JGA 'spaper, Devoted to the WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH ail Survey for Watauga County A. Davis Now Engaged in Making; dap Containing Mass of information Relative to County I lit United Slates bur.au cf soils, co-opt ration with the North Carin experiment station is making a 5 surv .y of Watauga county. W* A. vis, representing the N. C. experint station is in Boone conducting work, which is now well under y. rhe object of the soil survey is to p and classify the different soils the county and to report their iculVural value and agricultural liabilities. In order to show the loion of the various soils it is ne ?sr.ry to make a complete map of county, showing, in addition to Is, all public and second class ids. houses, churches and s??hooijses, drainages, railroads, villages A towns. Each soil is represented uie map i>y color," hut in such a y as not to obscure the other deis or. the map. A report containing a general desption of the county, giving its lotion, topography, drainage systems, ef towns, transportation facilities, irkefs, climate, agriculture and a II description of soil types will acmpany the map. The results of the survey are pubIted in the bulletin issued by the lited State.-, department of agri iture and are sent free upon applition to any person desiring one. MATNEY MATTERS Matney, Aug. 8.?At present the worth League here has a member p of 100, aval 25 visitors were isent Saturday night, making s a! of 125 present At that time s geant, entitled "Here am X, Send was given. Lillie Uaird, little daughter of Mr. ii Mrs. Henry Baird, is very sick h fever. Misses I.ir.pis and Margaret Hogslit have returned to their home in tier, Temi., after a short visit to ativo-- here. Services were held in the M. E. Jrch hern Sunday by Rev. 1*. '.. rner. i11s text. eyas Are you rying your talent?" fr. Askew made an interesting talk parents at the M. E. ehurch Sal'!ay night, his subject being "lin tance of sending children to opt." Mrs. W. A. Harmon, daughter of s. Bertha liaird, has returned to home in .litusviile, Fia:, after iting her mother here for three nt'hs. An interesting- debate was renderin Matnev school Friday afterill by Mr. Atskew's school children the seventh and eighth grades, e subject was: "Resolved, That it setter to get married than to bene an old maid or bachelor." Sov 1 parent's and other visitors were sent. ,Ir. Walter Church has moved k to his old home. He has been in>r in Elizabelhton, Tcr.n., for last few years, ilr. Le~e Carrender has put J.SOO ill fish in Crab Apple ereek. 'o'lio.viny is the honor roll for the t month of the l!>2fi-27 session <;t Matiiev* school: Jirst yca.lo-T-l.inie Band, Violet Ciuire. Second grade?LeoSIcGuire, LouShook. "hirii grade?Aiine M.-Giiir.nis. rvtn Baird. Delia McGuivc. fourth grade--Dellia Smith, ifth grade?Carrie E'dmisten, lie Edminsten, Itoy Towr.s^nd. ixth grade?Lucy Smith, leventh grade?Phoebe Baird. -ighth grade?Clatv Baird, Lavola render, Hazel Davis. NEWS OF LAUREL CITY ihulls Mills, R. F. D., Aug 10.? [ he Girl Scouts have returned !ie from campibeeause of the rainy ither. diss Fay Danner and others atded the birthday party given by is Nina Mae White Monday night. )on Isaacs and family are visiting . Isaacs' mother, Mrs. \V. C. mer. dr. and Mrs. S. C. Brown and de and Leonard Calloway visited s Alfred Isaacs Saturday night. A" (U Isaacs, of Bristol Toor ,s e on account of the illness of his ther. I. A. Wolf ? of Rurai Hal! visited ' family of J. C. Brown over the t week-oiid. Ma'oel Brown has been quit, ill the pest few days. DEM< Beat Interests of Northw CAROLINA, TlWiRSDAV, AUGUST NE\\SOFWEERffi BLOWING ROCI I Piatt? Befn? Perfected for / ! Show; Benefit Fiddlers' Was Successful; Social an/ *onal New* f By RUPERT GIULE'.TT J' Blowing Rock. Aug. 10.?Thefina! ' program for the Blowing Rock Horse Show*, which will be ready for publication Thursday, viil he the mo it elaborate ever carried out in the an nual event here, it was said Monday by Miss Elise Booger, chairman of the committee in charge. Ar. ail-day program has been outlined; whereas, heretofore, only one I afternoon has been devoted to the show. Prizes will be given to the best riders in all classes. An inter ! esting contest for children will be included. Band music will be provider throughout the day. The committee is awaiting wore from former Governor Morrison who has been asked for permission tc u.-e his property on Green ifiU foi the show. The proceeds, of the show, above , expanses, will be given to rhe Blow . ir.g Rock community fund. Goode Was Not kit Police Court J. S. Goode, JrV, of Hickory, Was not fined for drunkenness here a> was reported last week, said Mnyoi Sudderth Monday. The policemar - who gave the reporter the infortna tioh, the mayor said, got Mr. 'Goode *1 name confused with that of the may accu < i. , Fiddlers' Contest Miss Mabel Cook of Rutherwooc , was adjudged the best of the thirty ' fiddlers who took part in the Blow t iug Rock fire department's fiddlers convention Friday and Saturday ; j nights. Miss Cook was awarded i ; medal as first prise. Blowing Rock string band won tin ! prize for the best performance in its J class, Ralph Story of Blowing Rocl won th. banjo prize, Byrd Moure o: Now land the guitar prize, and A. R I Greene of Boom* t'Ke rvvivo *m- frk.-. best buck and wing dancer. In adj ditiou, $100 was divided among tin: musicians who took part in the contests. Total receipts were $172.SO, of which $00 was the share of the fire department. Rattlesnake Pete Still on 'Job Rattlesnake Pete, hunter of snakes J and maker of souvenirs,. arrived in Blowing Rock Wednesday with the skin of his 363rd rattlesnake. He had killed fifteen reptiles since his previous visit, three weeks ago. One J og them, he said, was four and a half feet long. PeVe i- going the Tatter part of this week to Grandfather mountain on a t snake hunt with the determination to make his record an even thousand. He says he has heard of a cave on fthe mountain reputed to contain a rattlesnake den S. A. L. Parlor Car Service THe parlor car bur line operated I by the Motor Transportation Cons: pany of the South and making connections with t hSeaboard Air Line at Rutherfordton has started making regular runs, and a ticket office has been opened in a local hotel under the charge of \Y. T. Pollen, Jr. Tickets : ars| sold here to aB points on the Seaboard and its connections. ?!fhe bus arrives here at t>:30 p. m and departs at 10:li? a. m. It runs from Hoone through Blowing Rock, IJnvfijK Montezuma, Crossnore and Ashfovd to Untherl'ordton. Pitts Held for Superior Court Oscar I'it'is. who was arrested several days ago by Chief of Polite I. E. \ Story, was bound over to superior 1 court Monday by Mayor Sudderih on ' a charge of violating the liquor lav.' Three pints of liquor were found ir. i his possession, Chief Story said. Read Calendar Incorrectly Marshall Foster, who last month i violated probation because hi read | the calendar incorrectly and thought , his period of abstinence and sobriety | was ended, found himself again in the toils of the iaw Tuesday on a charge of drunkenness. This time, Mayor Suddertb was more lenient and merely fined Foster $10 and costs. When he violated probation, Foster was sent to the county jail for thirty days. The concert nt Mayvicw Manor Saturday night for the benefit of the j Blowing Kock fire department I ovougni in a total ot $07.60, said j Chief J. A. Paneila Tuesday. Misi Roth Ron", -ii pianist of the ,1 uilliard ' Foundation, St.fLtn Gardner, tenor of Washington. N. C-, and Prof, and Airs. I G. Cr?-r of the Appalachiar State Normal school were the entertiv er.s DCRA est North Carolina. 11, ly^T _ .. ,r. { County Superintendent "alks of County Schools ? Hagaman Says Schoois Are Crowded, But Say.-i Teachers Must Not "Pad" Reports V-Mcst of the school? of -tie couni ty have opened their lt'26-27 ses xibn with splendid enrollments. Many of '.he schools are very ranch; 1 crowded, especially ir. the one- and '.two-teacher schools," said County! Superintendent Smith Hasamar. Sat - urdav. "The board of education and I regret very much that there is no possible way to provide money need' ed for more teachers," continued Mr. Hagaman. "The lav. regulates the: number <?f teachers allowed in any school on the basis of trie last year's ' average attendance, that is, two "i teachers this year f>n an average at-1 "i tendance of 40 last year; three teach-j 1 ers on 65, four on 100 and one ad-'. ditional on every o5 additional pu-| ' pils. The state board will not al low any more to go into the budget. I 1 "\V.. ?n ? , ... -*1?_ on . i \ iUllfl lU ICiilftC the * best possible allowance in every school and especially those schools that lost a teacher by reason of fail-: ing clown on attendance last year. | 'The board is exceedingly anxious that every reasonable nt'eaiis be u. ed f to secure the best attendance ever: ; this yea; ; hut in out sea! to make :;it such and every report sha 1 speak 1 the truth. The board has . tion that in a very few instances a - the past the final report' was "pad1 ddd" slightly. No teacher can afford to allow herself to be influenc i to strain the final report in the least ' A teacher must be the soul of honor. "A teachers work is pleasured largely fry her ability t*o arouse such art interest in the comrnunity as will secure a good attendance i ; Highway Official Hears 5, Evidence in Brown Case v.; ^ Alleged Irregularities in Work of Patrolman Thrashed Out Tuesday Before Mr. Kiggs Mr. Kie.cs. of the state highway commission, on Tuesday heard a ' mass of evidence in the case chanting' j W. H. Brown, patrolman on Hlsrh] way No. GO, with various and sundry things, among1 them being drunk K ehhess and 'irregularities in hiway work. Attorney W. R. Lovil- , appeared for Mr. Brown, ana Assistant District Atl rney Ralph Bi ham did the prosecuting. Probably half a hm-d'eii witnesses were summoned. but only part of them were ; examined. Mr. Kiggs staring before * - V? 1 - - - i;:i\ t w a I' -. 1 ijl r.'snmrre.: ttUlT l'.e lig! lua):d ?iou^h cviaonce on which rc. remit'!- a decision. Mr. Brown's friends claim thai it was a case, ot j persecution rather than prosecution for any "ciimt-" committed, and that ,\vhi n Mr. Riggs gives his Hgcision, Brown wili be exonerated on every chat-Re brought against " in:. A stenographer took down the-; evidence- and it is ejected that ft decision will be reached ill a few j iiJavs by the highway official. ANDY MAST ARRESTED ON LIQUOR CHARGE 1 After a chase that extended | across three townships. Deputy Sher iff Poly Wyko on Fridav nioininir of lr.?t wc-tb, chptmcd Aiidy Mast'.' five goilotir of liquor and an auto- ' mobile. Mast's companion. John Baird, escaped. Deputy Wyke and Policeman Ga1! land, of Boone, lay in wait for (lie1 ear, which was reported to he coming- ^' up the mountain from the direction 1 ' of North Wilkesboro with a load of 1 ; minor. At atiput '? o'clock Friday; 1 morning it Was learned that the a!-i legcd rum runners had passed before ' the officers took up their stand on ' ; the highway. Next morning, Mr. ' ! Wyke had some business to attend to j at Sugar Grove, and there saw Mast , and Bainl. The deputy gave chase, i i pursuing the pair for some miles and i ! finally overtaking them. Baird dashed to che woods and escaped, i I but Mast, liquor and Car were I brought to Boone. Greer is still in, ! jail here. I SENATOR SIMMONS IN STATESV1LLE HOSPITAL United States Senator F. M. Simmons, oi New Bern, is at Lor.g's San-. i atorium, Statesville, for a few days' . treatment. ? Statesville Landmark, c August 5th. I PKECE FIVE 'CfeNTS FaxlevyfoT next year $1.33 Substantia! Reduction Made Possible Through Cut of 20 Cents Per $T 10 ValuRtior Fc-r School Purposes At the August meeting r>? the board <>f county commissionei s the tax levy for the fiscal year ending June oO, 1928- was fixed ar. $1.33 on the $100 property valuation, fiscal year, or a reduction of 17 cents on the hundred. The reduction to the taxpayers is made possible through a cut in the school tax* assessment from 70 to 50 cents pel hundred. The commissiono..^ - xxsutiu ik ivri.-v.-rofiA >, to ieyy an emergency fund ??f five cent's on the hundred to take care of the Hub Warier murder trial, which. it is estimated, will cost around $1,500. General Levy The levy for the various county purpose? is appropriated as follows: General county fund $ .1~ Emergency fund - - - -5 Schools 1 50 County roads, interest on bonds, redemption and sinking fund .10 Road maintenance fund 20 Jail bonds, interest-' -3 Total $1.33 Poll Tax General county fund $ .35 ^chdois 1.50 Roads, interest on bonds, redemption and sinking fund.. .79 Rbad maintenance .30 Total .60 JOHNSON COUNTY FAIR AT MT. CITY AUGUST 23. 24. 25 AND 26 Senator E. E. Butler, president of the Johnson County Fair Association say- the stage is ail us* for the moat spectacular encertainmonfe and the lames; e\hiM<io.ns of farm products ever shown, when thr fair ^e(< under way in Mountain City on August 23 rd The Jof.pson county fair has long been considered the gala annual t-vein of eastern Tennessee and Northwestern North Carolina, and this year its sponsors have gone the llniil- to provide entertainment that will suit the whims,Tjf all comers. With the opening of a first class thoroughfate connecting Johnson county with No. 60 at the Carolina line, people who heretofore have stayed at home on account of bad roads, will be ab'te to get' a!' the thrills of fair week without the hazards of a rough and perhaps slippery road. Noteworthy is the fact that in all this Appalachian region, the Johnson county fait is the only organization of its kind that now exists?the others having dropped by the wayside long ago. But this one is an ir.sttlo tion. conducted for the past fifteen years on sound businc.-s princip.es, av.d each year shows an increase of interest and a substantial growth. Various carnival siTrootuvrv n ,- .. been arranged, many of it.en1 fee. of h.ii-fie and ihwomen': depar.mi it uul livestock cktrituiens win be sec hd to vi>r.v. Osi pace eight of f is issue ? it! be found a summary >f the good tilings to be expectvd at the itg event. :. _____ _J h REVIVAL AT MT. PLEASANT LUTHERAN BEGINS AUG. IS A pro, rooted meeting will begin at the Mount Pleasant Lutheran church >n August IS. at 11 a. nr.. r.r.d will loetiirtie throughout the week. The following ministers are exported to ake part in the services: Rev. J. A. fount. Boone; Rev. R. M. Carpenter, lickory; Rev. C. N. Yount, Hickory; 3r. J. L. Morgan. Salisbury; and Rev. N. 11. Yount. Bessemer City. "I have never forged or signed my man's name to a Wilkes school or county note in my life," said Clem Wrenr., cashier of the defunct Bank of Wilkes, Tuesday. This statement was made after a sworn statement by Mr. Wrenn on Monday admitting the forging of names to county and school notes. Mr. Wrenn, confined to his room by sickness; denies having given cut signed statements to his attorneys, assuming responsibility for notes totaling $150,000. Solicitor Johr R. .Tones, however, states that the confession was drawn by Wrenn's lawyers, submitted to. him and when a few minor changes were made, hi3 signature was affixed.
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