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w vol.. XXXIX, NO. 14 f M^BREVmS"" OF 38YEARS AGO Oat* tending Happenings of Boone and Watauga County As Citroniclfd fit the Column; of the Watauga Democrat May 15, 1890 v.oney tsrotners nave lost, a flock { ?i sheep, numbering between iU ami 50 head. Has some fellow drove j the m off and sold them or have! tin been mut toned? * * * Our young: and highly esteemed ; young friend T. I!. (Hard) Taylor, leaves today for Honduras, C. A. May Ins trip be a pleasant one and may his voyage be safe, and prosperity award his effort:-;. * * < The telegraph question has at lastl been settled. At the meeting on last Friday night, the enterprising citizens of Boone, with some very acceptable help from Blowing Rook, raised the full amount required. The line will be. located this week and! vn>? be poled unci wired at once. ; Thy. town commi ssion era have; levied a real estate, tax in Boostej will amount to something like] to he used to improve our *. and sidewalks,. Quite a niimbi r of Watauga's most intelligent young ladies arc at-j lending the institute. Th" state teachers* institute Monday afternoon in the courthouse was opened by Prof. A. K. Alderman. devotional exercises conducted i J the county superintendent, I. W. Thomas, after which Prof. Alderman was. introduced, and explained the b dirt of the institute and gave an iiiie of the week's work, there! being 10 teachers present. Last) night a public debate was hold in the' . unhouse in wluch several gciitlo. 1.11 pinticipateu. The suhjeet discussed wins. "Resolved. That North Carolina should have a compulsory school law." W. M- Krancum championed the affirm.itivam! John H. Bimrharn the negative. Messrs. I). B. Dougherty, I- I-. flouncill and M. j 9. Ulackhurn were J Hum s ami ren-1 o'ered a decision ill favor of the af-j fiimative. J. F. Spainhour made aiij ".hi. t-ipeeeii en the negative. NO MATERIAL CHANGES TO BE j MADE I.N EQUALIZATION JMJNDj Very few materia) changes will he! made in the allotments of the sev-l era! confines from the equalization i fund when the equalization hoard! meets in June, it was said here yes ! terdBy by i)r. B. ii. Dougherty! I member of the hoard and co-author! of the bill establishing the fund. j "Some changes will he made," Dr. Dougherty said, "but they will not be radical. The.v will he only adjustments ol the allotments already made." j In regard to the operation of the fund, during its first year, Dr. Dough< rty said. "'The system has been very satisfactory from all standpoints. Gradually the people of the state nrej being educated as to the reai mean 1 ing and purpose ol" the fund As i ' - " i ? W^R/UIC lliuit' .cXJIUMCl WIS1 IIS, put poses, we shail hoar ioss lom-' i about its operation. ! "The fund will operate more s;u-: isfaotorily the longer it remains in ] force, because with every meeting of! the board, some of the allotments [ are readjusted. Hence, we approach j heaver to absolute fairness every! year." LAYMEN'S MEETING AT BOONE M. E. CHURCH ? Following is a program for the laymen's meeting to be hold in the Boone Methodist church Sunday afternoon. May 20. beginning at 2:30 o'clock. While the meeting is expressly for church and charge lay loaders front the counties of Watauga and Avery, all those who can are invited to attend and hear these important subjects discussed. All tit- church men are invited. The program is as follows: 2:30?Devotional by Hev. O. H. Mosrr. 2:40?Purpose of the meeting, by the chairman. 2:45?"The Methodist Lavman," by W. H. Worth. 3:00?-The lay leader at work, by Rev. Seymour Taylor. 3:30?Reports from charges o.-jw-?importance- 01 organized lay-activities, by F. A. Linney. ; :0O?Benediction. TAXES F.OR 1928 MUST BE LISTED DURING THIS MONTH Under the provisions of the statutes of North Carolina, all property must be listed for taxation for -tie year 1928 during the month of May. says Henry 3. Hardin, county tax supervisor. Mr. Hardin has endeavored to make the listing places in eneh township as convenient as possible and insists that all property owners make out their lists as early as possible in order that the -county expenses in this connection may be lowered. Failure to abide by this order will result in increased costs to property owners. L. R. Gibson, former chief of-"police of High Point, who resigned under fire several weeks a go. was found dead beside his automobile in that city Sunday morning. His death was attributc-d to heart failure. p.... ? - -n. MAI A Nori-Partisan Nev BOONl School Closing at Blowing Rock L 1927-28 Session Carre to Close Fri-| day Night, Whsn 14 Graduates j Received Diplomat; Dr. Dougber-j ty Speaks By RUPERT GlLt.KTT Blpiying: Rock, May 10.?Com-' mencentent exercises of the Blowingi Rock school wore held in the auditorium of the school building Friday! night. The nrosrrniri war-? onnnpH! with the invocation by Rev. c. H.i Moser. Dr. B. II. Dougherty was then introduced by J. T. Miller, chairman of the school board. Dr. Dougherty delivered the commencement address. Then came the class program, as? follows: Welcome, Grayson Stcrv: ! prophecy, Alaude Powell; poem. Doris White; will, Virginia Coffey;j valedu torv, Joe Bolick. County Superintendent Ilagaman ? then presented diplomas to the following graduates: Doris White.1 Edith While. Virginia Coffey, Maude ! Powell, Elizabeth Walters, Dorothy Tongue. Ethel Hollers, Grayson j Story. Joe Bolick. Duke Bolick. Dee Gannon, Sidney Gannon, Karland! Greene and Edward Coffey. All-year Primary School Blowing Bock is : > hav> an allyea! primary sch<"?: doing standard: work throughout the twelve months.} The first smninor session will begin; J line i under the tutorship < ?' Mrs.! Atidie Sale, primary teacher in the' Blowing Rock consolidated school. As far as i< known here, t.hi? is the first all-year primary public! iieliobl, doing approved standard! work, to bo established in North i Carolina It has been begun here! because the winter climate makes U difficult for many small children to! attend school throughout the winter. These may make up their work during the summer. The school w ill also take cave of children of nay summer residents who wish to attend. Mrs. Sale received her training in primary teaching at the Horace Marin school in New York and at the Unlvefsity of North Carolina . Theatre N earing Completion The Carolina theater building i-; rapidly approaching completion, wim < oiilv t)ie interior finishings yet to bo) t done. The theater, it is said by the s owners, will be open some time early in June. Only first iuii pictures oft the better class will be shown, the vnanaxers said. Some vaudeville; may also be shown from time- to time. School PnpiU Have Picnic A large crowd of pupils of the. BloVj'ing Rock high school enjoyed i?j lively picnic Monday at Linville Palls. The crowd left here earlv Monday morning and spent the day climbing to the views and descend-i ing into tho gorge. Dinner was cn-j ioyeri on the cliffs of the lower fails.! On the way home, the crowd stopped; at the reudside and roasted wo mors and toasted murshmnliows before re-: turning to Blowing Rock. ! Those in the party were Ednaj Miller, Lucille C'offoy. Margaret j Subtlerth, Virginia Svidderth. F.liza-i heth Sudderth; Annie Coffey, Maude! Mays, Omer Coffey. Frank Klutz,! 1 Lois Klutz, William LenU. Clennj Coffey. I'aul Foster, Clarence; Greene, Donald Greene, Bynum: Crisp, William ffolshouser, Miss. I'earl Webb, A. E. Mercer, Mv. and! Mrs. Robert Gillctt. and Mrs Silns Nicholson of Winston-Salem. Rocking Yonahlossee in A very Crushed rock is being laid on the Yonahlussce road in Avery county, hui that section is not being widened. It is the understanding here that the load is to he made of standard width only from Blowing. Rock to the Avery county line. Sur-' vey.ors, working from Linyille to-! ward Blowing Rock, had reached the; city limits et Blowing nock lues-] duy. Barked Inn Nearing Completion The Back in) Inn, latest of the ad-' ditions to )'slowing Rock's summerj inns, will be completed in a week, or so and will he opened for gnestsi _ as soon as it can lie furnished. It j ~ will he operated by Mrs. Lou Greene.; I Give Play at Ncwlaod The play "Sunshine," which was: given in Blowing Rock several] weeks ago. was repeated in New-land i Tuesday night by the same cast, j t with sonic changes. The play was! s presented by the Tuesday Afternoon! \ club of Blowing Rock and was under] , the personal direction of Mrs. E. C. a Underdown. i "s School Licks Town ,1 In an exciting ten-inning ganie| ,, last Saturday, the Blowing Kock, c school baseball team defeated the Y town team by a score of ! I to P.! { Although both teams were a little! out of practice, they played good] ball and made some neat plays,] a among which Was a double play by! t the high school team. Bynum Crisp! wnf iKo IA n iroe' Kif k r.?i <. i?< x fn ! left field. The line-ups: ' High school: Donald Greene, rf; Bynum Crisp, c; Clarence Greene, 1 2b; Lawrence Rolick, "b: William 1 Lenta, p; William Holshouser, ss; J Stewart Boliek, cf; Grayson Story, J If; Glenn Coffey, lb. J Town; Fred Mays, cf, Ray, 3b; L. r Ross, ss; Howard Oxentine, e; Munk 1 Ward, lb; G. Lentz, p; Spencer * Greene, 2b; Ed Pitts, rf; Claud Greene and B. K. Jenkins, If. The score by innings: t II. S 000 31.0 140 2?1! I Town Ill 020 220 O- 0 t Birthday Party ( -A large number of boys and girls i were the guests of Bill K Ifttz at a i (Continued on Page Eight) . JGA /spaper. Devoted to the 1 3, WATAUGA COUNTY. NOB / C, Will Be Choice | Dei 5?' Al-FKKi) Alfred himmauuel Smith was liorp !!i December ;!0. isf;:, in an old enpmdm. in Now York City. As it imail boy, he sold newspapers. His lather died when Alfred was only: hirteon years of age, leaving thoj toy's mother and younger sister to' lis cave. He started work in Ins father's, rucking business. Later he tool: a i lob helping one of the men who had j i stall at the Fulton Fish Market, ftill filler he was a lab brer in the' nnpioy of a steam pump company. irt ! 1100 be married Catherine A.j Joan, and their union has i>een j ilessed with five children. in 1908 be was lir t elected to the j Mew York slate assembly. From hen until 11115 he served ill the legslattire for twelve successive terms, during this time he became majority eadev in the assembly. then floor eader of the minority, then .speaker. :fe served on many important com Notable Speakers to be P Legion Gather ii 1 he Watauga post of the American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary will entertain nil ex-service men in the countv at the courthouse Friday nigh? with a program in which some of the most distinguished men in the state (will be speakers. Albert L. Cox. department commander of North Carolina, will speak 011 the subject, "The AuM-rii-aii Legion and Why Every Ex-Service Man Should Join it." If. A. Hutchinson, state service officer, will speak on the exservice man's compensation claim j and the relation of his services to I the ex-service men of Watauga , VORK ON CITY HALL WILL BEGIN BY FIRST OF JUNE Sealed bids were received Saturlay for the construction of the new ity hall. Several local contractors Ubmilted figures on the job and he accepted bid was not announced mtil Tuesday. Air. W. H. Gragg was .warded the contract for the sum of 15.454. Mr: B. H. Moody who is egularly employed by Mr. Gragg as . builder will be the superintendent if construction, while the brick cork will he sub contracted to Mc*hoe Brothers. Actual construction will hn.vir? nc1 0011 as some minor details con l>ej irranged, probably not later than; he first of June. The North Carolina supreme ourt last Wednesday ordered a newrial for Larry Newsome, Wayne :ounty negro, convicted of raurderng 1-1-year-old Benlah Tedder, and entenced by Judge Gi-ady to die in he electric chair. It will he remem>ered that this case was tried on Sunday, because of the intense feeing in Wayni county against the norm. Key. Creasey K. Proctor, pastor of] he First Methodist church of Rocky! ilonnt has heen selected to succeed! he late R. L. Brown as snperinten-! lent of the. Oxford Masonic orphanige. The choice of Or. Proctor was nade by the hoard of trustees some line ago. hut his acceptance was lot received until last week. DEM( Best Interests of Northwes \ROI.INA. THURSDAY, MAY 17. 1 nocracy at Houston? 1 k- smith uiifci o^ra f'Vom Mi;.", |? ,.,, - . : "f Now y,?.k J ' '" ?a:s sWiff ivts tlvctod i.r". 'r ? n aldjfnun ami i'.,' v ' ir of' he w;ts <?looted ' ' .iVov<'?<>>*r, 1H1X, U<1 <rovo, i>oi' of the km! I pire State. He was renominated in Li)20 and defeated by only 74,000 i vctes. ulthcp^h it \s a-i a presidential year, fw-;'f He was again nominated in J ..022, won (he election by receiving i 307,070 voltes, a fiyruve never before attained by any candidate for state or local office anywhere in the United Stales, and has served as governor since that time. All in all, he was elected to the governorship four times by the people of the state nf New York. He is r.otcd for his thorough understanding of tile problems of government and his consistent liberal policy m the field of administrative reforms. <i $8? 'resent at American ig Here Friday Evening county. , Ward Threatt of the postorficc 1 department at Charlotte, will speak-on the subject, *$Vav Oyer There.0 Col. Wade Harris, editor o-f the Charlotte Observer, will speak on I a subject not yet announced; Commander C. Isaacs ivnjmani .i. \y. worm request that j all ex-service men in the county j he present at the meeting as-, they j can loam more about the legion by hearing these addresses than from any other source obtainable in this county The lectures will be open to the public. Music will furnished j by the Boone Band. B. Y. P. U. CONVENTION MET j IN STATESVILLE LAST WEEltj The Boone Baptist church was] well represented at the convention of J the Baptist Voting People's Union of? the west central region of North Carolina, which met at the First Baptist church. Statesville. last Friday evening and which continued through Sunday morning. More than 500 young people attended the sessions of the convention, which embraces that section of the state west of High Point to Morgan ton including Mecklenburg. Rowan. Cleveland, Iredell. Caldwell, Wilkes, Watauga and other counties. At the opening session Friday evening the keynote address of the convention was delivered by Jas. A. i. * e \n i\tiivigiis Matf -sfuretaiy oi? the S. Y. P. TJ. Other speakers j were Mrs. J.?S. l^ambdin of Nashville. Tenn; SI. I.. Jones of Winston- j Sale..., Rev. I.. B. Olive. Raleigh : Rev. fc. K. Gardner of Thomasvillc;| Miss Winnie Rickett of Salisbury. I and Ardian Newton of Lexington.) The concluding address Sunday j morning was delivered by Dr. S. H.j Templeiurin. pastor of Brown Merno- j rial church, Winston-Salem. Among those attending' the convention from the local church were: Misses Ruth Coffey, Ruth Barker, Ruth Benl'ield, Ruth Oottre'i. Pearl Cook. Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Howell, Iiaiph Hagaman, Neil Hartley, Jas. Farthing. Morris Kggers, Gordon Winkler, Air. and Mrs. C. I.. A ounce, and Air. S. G. Kggcrs. )CRA it North Carolina 92-S VV. C. Newland Heads i A. S. N. S. Trustees Succvcds T. H. Coffey, Resigned **! President of Board; G. P. Haga- . man Vice President . The annual meeting of the boardi if trustees of the Appalachian State i Normal was he id in the school office) xi Boone, Friday, May IX. Hon. T. H. Coffey, president of the board, had recently rcsiiSed to become a meiife of the board 01 sgri'iultuvc, and G. P. Hagaman was appointed instead. The Hon. Hugh A Cranor pi" Wilkc-'horo was another new menibei. succeeding1 Mr. Sanders of Charlotte, who died a year ago. Governor \V. < . X. viand was elected president of the board of trustees. G. P. Ha^axhan. vkt mesiupni.{ J. Ml Uainhiiidt, W. C. Nnwiaiid; G.j P. Hagaman y/cre elected executive i committee. It was in Ll'O-'i that W. C. Nev.Tand{ Represented Caldwell comity 111 the.j (egialuf aire. At that time he intro-; du-~ed the bid to establish this col- j lege and engineei'ed it through the! house and the senate, thus establish-] inc. the institution. St is fitting: now! that after Uventy-fiv. years that hi sliould become president of the i hoard uOf trustees. This will be; pleasing to the institution and will me i with onblxc approval of the entile state We arc informed that the trustees had an ail day session on that it was harmo:. ioiis from--be-, pinning t?? end The vacation una at the Apfwi laehian State Normal .School is taken j an with preparation for ;ho summer! school. Applications are o.mirg in daily. There are only a few more rooms in the dot alitoru- t the town, through the Civitan < irs in readiness to take cai:e of ail . sire ? . come. May, l'd28, high, school giaduutes are coming. tide perhaps, to the fact: that this si-in me i (pu.vfev is the last >pport mity i 1 No:th ('avp)ina for. m suring a certificate upon ivciv. weeks suniniei school training. After ibis it will re<st:i>e tiiiri weeks.j Members of the facult; an being kept bury as speakers at ni'-h school commencements. It seems ?hut an increasing number of young men are making annli cation for summer school work in the Normal. due in part, perhaps to the fact, that the school has been unable | fcv the past two or three years to supniy all the calls for men to serve as. school principals. DEMOCRATS OF COUNTY WILL MEET ON JUNE 9 The Dfdsnocvatji convention fori Watauga county will be held in the! courthouse hero on Saturday. June; 9, at cording to the official call issu-j ed hist wiiek by J. i.. Wilson, chair-, man of the county executive com-; motive. The. to.vnshh> primaries will 5?e heUl op. Saturday. May ;2f> at 2j o'clock for the purpose of electing; delegates to the county couypntion/j m the event of failure toliold meetings in any preoinefs, ail Democrats from those prevhtcts who i-ttond the' county convention will be seated asi iii !v crates and entitled <o cast the! vole of the precinct in the conven- | tibn. The convention is to be held for; the purpose, ai\ electing: delegates .t'oj iho :tatv conYOiv,ii>? to be held at: Raleigh on Tuesday, June 12; to; c hoose precinct committees for such] precincts as shall fail to name such bodies al the* precinct meetings, and! i.< transact any and all other husi-, ness thax may come before tin- convention. Watauga county is entitled to 16 J doiovat.es and 16 alternates to the state convention to be hold in Ra-j leigh, and each precinct, is entitled j to one delegate to the county con-: ver.tion for every 25 Democratic! votes cast in the last general dec- \ lion.ANTI-SMITH CANDIDATE FINED FOR DRUNKENNESS Arthur Talmadge Aberhethy, mayor of Rutherford College, and candidate for the nomination for congress against Congressman A. L. Rulwinkle. running on an anti-Smith platform* was up in Rowan county; court at Salisbury Saturday charged! with driving an automobile while un-j dor the influence of liquor. He( pleaded guilty ol* being under the influence of some kind of intoxicants and was fined $100 and barred from operating a ear in Rowan county for three months. Mr. A heme thy stated that he had addressed a large body of citizens in a nearby city the night of April 28, before coming to Salisbury, where nc was arvestea ana that. teelmg la-j tinned he had taken some stimulant j which contained intoxicants. LEES-McRAE FINALS WILL BEGIN SATURDAY NIGHT | The commencement exercises at! Lccs-McRae Institute, Banner F.Ik, wiil begin Saturday evening. May la, with the alumnae banquet, following which .lames P. Gillespie of New York city, will deliver the 'literary: address. The baccalaureate sermon will be! on Sunday morning and the closing exercises on Monday night, at which time ten girls and one hoy will1 graduate from the school and three' nurses from the hospital. , An. unusually large number of visitors arc expected. T FIVE CENTS A COPY POUTICAL EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK Highlights of Political Activity of Both Major Parties Summarized From Recent News Dispatches From Over the Counfrv Hoover Loits Indiana Tabulation of the vote in the. rural sections of Indian in last Tuesday's Indiana preferential primary, gives Senator Thomas E. Watson a majority of approximately 20.000 over Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Curlier return:-* indicated thai Hoover had carried the state, the larger centers of population giving him a substantial lead over the Indiana senator, hut the rural districts overcame this lead with the result that Hoover will not receive the Ho osier state's vote in the Kansas City convention, at least not until they are released by Watson. Simmons For Hull Senator F. M, Simmons. boss of the North Carolina Derwcratxc organization announces that ho will support Jh : h ativ'e < ordeli Hull pi Tennessee toi the nomination for the presidency. Campaij i Expenditures Governor Alfred E. Smith, leading c'ai iidaLe Co? tin Democratic presidential nomination. testified : : before the special senate campaign funds committee. that he had syhril no money and made no elfort; of any hind to further hh cause. "I haven't clor.e a single thing about, th is v .v. ipaigrp eye: it in niv own state," Governs* r Slpith told Senator Si;':v \ : pi .-I'- an, ' heffon, and choi ?? t... promised thi people oi NYovk v.-her. I. \va. inaugurated thai ' would : t o out of the ta. bat i' M.% 1 yme to the affairs state. And. believe me. that take every minute ->i my time." Smith said lc;'w?vv rit* zaiion ouisibe of \ -\v York state, and thai Get t'go Ti. Vbti Namee, public sr ribre commissior-w of New York >ta'JLf. was in charge ?>t that. ilir.vovcr. Mr. Yap. Namee told the Senators that sin-; :;in had been receiyed by the New York ovaanizri tion for thS 'governor, and !f.9|)(|00 had been expended. Herbert Hooyew testifying before | the committee, said he had probably I spent $200 in Ills eumpajacn for the ! presidential oominati'jn. j However, when .Iah.es W.. Wood, | former representative froih l?w;i, : was called before the committee he said thai si eiast .S2*2r?J)0fi bad been j- expended in behaii of the candidacy of Mr. Hoover for the Republican nomination. Good. who recently was appointed directing manager of the campaign of the secretary of commcrce, testified that approximately >: 15,000 had been spent by Hoover's natio7ial headquarters in Washington and by organizations in 14 state?.. K,l S. Yiiliiioarc of Kansas City, treasurer of the campaign organization of Senator Reed, testified that the total receipts by his organiratireo hnd l"iobr? X3K.il'14 imn/tKni; tUn expenditures from hist November first to May :? had u,,en ?31,t96,15. Other candidates or their campaign rnaiiagers have testified to various sums being used in their behalf, ranging from a few dollars up. Utah and Nevada For Smith By unanimous vote the Nevada democratic -tale convention Friday endorsed the candidacy of Governor Alfred lv. Smith for the Democratic nomination for president. Utah also will cast seven of its eight votes for the -New York governor. r 8ir: , V P L' 30 More for Smith Michigan's thirty votes i:i the Democratic national convention at Houston last Wednesday were pledged to Governor Al. Smith as long as liis name is before the convention." Standing of the Candidates Of the 1,089 delegates to the Republican national convention. 870 actually have been selected, leaving 219 still to be chosen, says the Associated Press survey of the politi cal situation. A majority, 54o, is needed to nominate. Of the 1,110: Democratic convention delegates. 771 have been designated anci .>26 remain to be selected. Two-thirds, or 733*2, is required for the nomination. The total after each candidate'sname in the following table represents delegates already selected who are instructed, pledged or cia?mea by him, and not the number conceded to him by opponents. In a number of states claims overlap. two or more candidates claiming the same delegates, and the total of their claims in some instances exceeds the size of the entire delegation. The line-up: Republican Hoover?146, of which 181 are in dispute Lowden ?552, of which 68 are in dispute. Curtis 16. of which 22 are in dispute. Norris?38, of which 16 ^re in dispute. Borah?11. Watson?23. Democrats | Smith?F>59 M>. of which 79 are | in dispute. 1 Reed?l 17. of which 81 are in ! dispute. 1 Poincrene?17. George?28. (Continued on Page Eight) ,
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