North Carolina Newspapers

BOONE SKETCHES By J. C. Ft, * MONKEY PICTURES Amidst ail the human monkeys and their monkey-shines and monkey bun mess, ?t remains for Lawson Wood Hrtist extraordinary, to display a honest-to-goodness monkey?not the human kind?and show up his fTnc points to the queen's taste. Mr. Wood makes a specialty of these monkey paintings for a favor5 te magazine, and while not particularly hankering after the inside pages, we always feel that the cover page should sell for a dime, instead of the whole business going for a nickel. The current number carries a work of art which the Sketch. Man just can't get off hi3 mind, and since there's nothing much for a column today, just has to tell about it A monkey with the side-whiskers generally attributed to a rural constable, is 3een attempting to lasso a rabbit. One end of the lasso is tied .? oV?r.,.f ! ? -* * " u.v?/u>. AicLuiva ui tne jtsime and the monkey makes himself fast by wrax>ping his tail a couple of times about the short Southern extremity of the bucking beast. Instead of a six-shooter, which cowbrys have commonly at the side, is large ripe banana, crocked in the shape of a pistol. and conveniently located. At this point we go into a sort of convulsion, but when the look of the man-hunter on the mozik's face, and the ridiculously nonchalant expression of the cotton-tail is taken into consideration. we feel kinda paralyzed. A man who can do with the brush what Lawson Wood does, can do more to chase off for a moment than forty-seven legislatures can do to create them. 'Watch out for these extraordinarily funny pictures and don't accuse the Sketch Man of taking pay for this chatter, for there's not a chance of his ever being offered a single lousy penny. fflGHSCHOOLHAS ENROLLED LARGE NUMBER STUDENTS Registration Shows Slight Decrease from Last Year. But. Standards of ... Institution Are Improved, According to Principal Hill. Economy Si ing Strictly Adhered to. New Faculty Members Listed. Boone High School, at the end of the first week of the present session, had enrolled 2G6 pupils. Sixty-one of these were eighth grtf.lers, coming into the-, high school for (he first time, fifteen were from other high schools and entered the mat!'., tenth s.nr? eleventh grade3, while the remainder were members of the high school last year. As compared with last year's enrollment tor the corresponding time, this represents a decrease cf thirty-three pupils. One reason lor this decrease, stales Principal Guy H. Hill, is the fact that only twentyfour pupils came to the institution this time from the Boone elementary school, uthile forty-nine were advanced last year. The faculty this year is composed of Miss Grace Grayheal, Miss Annie Ruth Genr.an, Mis3 Laurie Stewart, Miss Lucille Alired of Rome, Ga.: Miss The'.rna Wilson, Miss Louise Robles of Tampa, Fla., Mr. E. S. Chnstenbury, Mr. Charles Farthing. Mr. Claude Pyatte, Mr. Compton Crook r.f \Tnorrvar IVnn. nr.d Afr CJnv H. MtU; principal To Build Up Standards The Board of Education of Boone school district passed a resolution recently to the effect that they would endeavor to take advantage of the financial reverses in education and continue to build up the standards of the schools as far as possible. To this end they have sought to make the available funds purchase the most that could be purchased. Textbooks have been kept at a minimum in cost and have been handled by the pupils in the high school for high school pupils. Only twenty-four new textbooks have been ordered thus far, while Miss Jennie Coffey has furnished some of the pupils with books Held over from last year's supply. In the matter of supplies for operating the school, the board has caused the record forms and blanks to be mimeographed in the principal's office at a saving of approximately (85.0(1 to the taxpayers. Such supplies as chalk, erasers, brooms, floor oil and the like have been cut to the barest minimum. There are several smaller items of expense which hav? been eliminated from the budget, and yet the schools this year are trying to present as efficient a program as they ever have had in their history. Trained Teaching Staff Principal Hill has the following tc say regarding the selection of th< present faculty: ""With respect to the employment o1 teachers, the board took the posltioi that a demonstration or experimenta school must be manned by technician: who have had superior training an: experience. Teachers Who hold posi tlona in the training schools of Appa lachian State Teachers College mus be prepared by training and expert (Continued on Page 8) 1 VVA'l A No VOLUME XLV, NUMBER 11 !| ^ Sct-s Balanced Budget ~| mm Postmaster Genera! .lames Far j iuji, in auarcssm# the national convention of Young Democratic Clubs of America at Kansas City, sairt repeal of prohibition, now at hand, would lower faxes and make possible a balanced national budget. STROKEIS FATAL TO MRS. HOLLER Well Known Blowing Rock I-adv III a Week after Paralytic Stroke. Funeral at Oak Grove Monday. Lairge Crowd Present. | Mrs. Richard Holler, 56 years old, j died at her Blowing Rock home last | Sunday, after an illness which began with a stroke of paralysis on the preceding Sunday. Consciousness returned to her at intervals after the stroke, hut she never regained the powers or speech. She had been in ill health for many years. Funeral services were conducted on Monday from the Oak Grove Church near Boone by Revs. Bob Shore. Ed Robbins and Sexton Buchanan and interment was at lllr.es gravey?r?i. where most of her family is buried An unusually large crowd gathered to I Jay their respects. From Blowing Rock the procession r.unaberev more than twenty-five automobiles, and Indicated the csiced lr. which Mrs. Holler was held. Surviving urc the husband and nine children: Mclver Holler, Blowing ' Rock; Mis. Claude Teague, Blowing | Rock; Jeff Holler, New River; Mrs. Ethel Coffey, Duke. Julia. Bina, Northa and Gladys Holler, all of whom reside at the parental home. Mrs. Holler will be remembered as the former M!ss Nettie Hayes, daughter of the late George W. Hayes of Boone, was born and reared in this community, and well known by citizens here. She was married to Richard Holler In 1900. and ha3 made her 1 home in the. Blowing Rock section for the past twelve years. She was a consistent member of the Sandy Flat Baptist Church, and until failing health prevented it, took an active part in religious endeavor. She W3S a kindly Christian lady, a faithful wife and mother, and was loved and admired throughout this section. SENATOR BOB REYNOLDS SETS SAIL FOR THE SOVIET Washington.?The problems of the ''recognition of Russia and the control of liquor" have become of "such intense interest" to Senator Reynolds, of North Carolina, that he has decided to go to the seat of these questions and study them from first band observation, according to his rrierids here. With an open mind the Senator sailed last Thursday from New York and he will go into the Soviet Union and observe the doctrines ol' Stalin as they are practiced. He will concentrate his studies around Leningrad, Moscow and Odessa. PYom Russia the Senator will go into Norway. Sweden and Denmark to study the methods of liquor control employed in those countries. Many students of the question have maintained that Denmark has the most perfect system of liquor control in the world, to say nothing of the most perfect agricultural marketing system. After his study of the two questions which are interesting him at the moment, he will return October 31st ' and go straight to North Carolina ' and throw himself into the repeal ' rnmnniirr trhir>h pnHa Mnuomlipr 7th | He hopes to have more to tell the people about liquor control, and more 1 to tell the Senate about the recogni! tion of Russia. He is being accompanied on the c trip by Mrs. Reynolds. 1 1 Mr. Jerry Brewer left Monday foi 3 Knoxville on a business trip. On Hi; 1 return he will be accompanied by Mrs J. D. Rankin, who has been there or " account of the illness of her daugh1 ter, Mrs. P. M. Rutherford, who, ac " cording to last advices, is consider ably improved n>i T T/""1 n-Partisan Newspaper, Dev BOONE, WATAUGA COUNT jJUDGES NAMED TO ~ HOLD PROHIBITION ELECTION LOCALLY Chairman of Election Board Releaacsi Lifit cr Thone Wlio Will Be lr, Charge of Tolls When Repeal In the Issue. Old Registrars to Serve. Only One Day Is Allowed for Registration. R. S. Swift, chairman of the Watauga County Board of Elections, has released a list of the judges which have been selected to serve iu the election of November 7th, when voters of North Carolina will vote on ' the 21st ;iT*U?r?r1nr?AT?*- *- 1 ?v..?mvui, i.v? tut: \^on a vitiation, repealing the Eighteenth, commonly known as the prohibition act. J In accordance with the statute, one | person generally known to be opposed to repeal and one generally known to favor it, together with the registrars who served in the last general election, will constitute the boards in the various precincts. Following is the list of judges named. In each instance the first nahied is chosen for the repealists and the last for the prohibitionists: 1 Bald Mountain: W. S. Davis and VV. t H. McGuire. ; Beaver Dam: Tj. C. Hagaman and i Spencer Warren. Blowing Rock:Grady Greer and W. B. Hartley. 1 Blue P-!'?g?v Sam Tate and George J. Keller. Boone: L. L. Bingham and John W. Hodges. Elk: John Johnson ami C. G. Triplets Cove Creek: C. B. McGdy and Marvin Thomas. Meat Camp No. 1: B. F. Gross a*n\ a: C. C. Lewis. Ji hi; Meat Camp No. 2: Jlra McNeill urifi A: J. Q. Miller. to r.o.ifAi rwi- - * Mhbn. V(il3 DLU9L turn W. f*> ur Winkler. ty North Fork: John O. Potter end ot J. M. May. lit Shawr.eehaw: George W. CautlUl an and W. C. Siaith. , th Stony Fork: W. S. Moretz and Hue- a sell Welborn.i?j'. ' ' ;j|? Sd m Watauga: D. P. VV.ylte and C. ft. jn Garland. V 7 W One Day for Registration Mr. Swift particularly cai? awjiSUtier, tc the previsions of the statute wp an to registration. Tho books will be "!f open only one day, on the second Sat- ;. urday before the election, October 2H. J The registrars will keep the books open Uiat day for tho purpose of registering electors not already regis- ' tered. The Satuiday preceding the election on Tuesday is challenge day, ^ the 3Eme being Satuiday, November * 4th, and the registrars will attend the ^ polling places with their books for . the purpose of ehalieuging the voters on that. day. Absentee voting is prohibited in the prohibition election. There will be two ^ kinds of ballots, a convention baTiot and a delegate ballot. Section 7 of the Repeal Act pro- jj vides that delegates shall be nomuia- tr ted by getting: a petition sighed by >a two per cent, of tile voters in the county according to the vote cast for Governor in the last election and Kle m such petition with the Conniv Board jj, of Election thirty days before tne cc election. Such petitions must ix. f'.led jj wilh the county board by midnight of Saturday. October 7, 1933. to be _ filed in lime. Each petition must 1 3how whether the candidate in for or against repeal. If there are more petitions filed either for or against repeal. then such county is entitled to delegates, then the petitions containing the larger number of signatures, equal to the number of candidates which the county is entitled to have ? on both sides will be accepted and K' placed on the ballot. M N'o Repeal Delegate Named There has been no candidate for j,, repeal delegate named. W. W. Mast of Valle Crucis has been selected by al the drys, but the repealists thus far b( seem to feel no particular urge to get into the campaign. However, the place on the ticket must be filled by October 7th. b( The county dry organization is jj, functioning, and C. A. Upchurch. for- a merly of the Anti-Saloop League" was ^ scheduled for addresses in the county this week. No information of a repeal organization in this county has been brought forth. Jarvia Greene Given ^ i Conditional Freedom ^ Jarvis Greene, Watauga County s resident, convicted in April before the Recorder and sentenced to serve a terra of twelve months on the county roads, was paroled last Friday, executive clemency being granted by the Governor after many recommenda tions had been received, including > those from the trial judge and solic. itor. i S?r. Greene returns home under the - supervision of the Superintendent of - Public Welfare, and under the condi- ] - tion that he remain of good behavior H and engage in gainful employment. i A IJjP otedi to the Best Interest yj SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSD, rT^Z. ^htPjabove photo is not one of DftSgJ iv5n Sfetionai Recovery Administrate, or reviewing a night parade of N?l.\ t Pfj&t to help in his speech making, i Jafteri?. ikldsre Bowie o I Taxes At 1 T&m C. Bowie, Ashe County lawyer idflegislator. particularly known for a ^opposition during the last Genera! jJiplubTy to the snles tax, ran true form Friday evening, when he ade.'Jaod the voters of Watauga CounW the tax situation In general, as 't^ins in the State of North Caroial The auditorium was well filled id? the volume of applause, when e 7'I;icn of the Mountains" reached climax, Indicated that his deliverojL^waa veil received. Tile former tea me here ohwyitatlyiicf th~ Bowie rftf'erred ta' ISe olddayk ; 7~j^i t serious menaces to the balance the family budget and blamed oflia! extravagances for the fact that e citizens of North Carolina are is day having the roofs sold from er their heads to meet the everowing demands of State and counfunctions. Since the State is merethe people, declared the Ashe poltlian, a condition which takes away om the people their own firesides State suicide. Condition in Ashe Reviewed Mr. Bowie told of the condition! htch bad existed in Ashe County, at the people had voted bonds on j emselves until they were luiabie to; .y their taxes. To correct this con-j lion, he said, he passed a oil! j rough the last session of the Login-! ture providing that no further bond-1 indebtedness could be incurred by I s people and that the county com-] issioners should levy a tax within! e ability of the people to pay. Ashe umty folks cannot pay more than 10,000 per year, he stated. "We ex?0 ARE HELD WHE BY PASSING AUTC BLACKBURN TA1 Willard Church and Allen Biacklrn were arraigned in Recorders ourt Tuesday to answer charges owing out of Injuries received by isa Geneva Ray of Todd, who was ruck by an automobile occupied by ie defendants on the highway near :r home last Sunday evening. Miss Ray, it i3 stated, was walking ong the highway on her return nne from church, when she was xuck by the vehicle, and reports dicate that she is in a serious contion, although detailed accounts of ;r injuries could not be secured. So:itor Zimmei-man asked that the isc be continued pending the out>me of the young ladies injuries, he two men are out under bonds of Lpaoo. Spencer Blackburn, brother of one VETS TEA niNn AC ti luio litioi/iiw no l! 'OTES; SEVEN MORE Following in the footsteps of Maine, which voted repeal by a wide margin Monday, Colorado, Maryland and Minnesota on Tuesday registered overwhelming sentiment against the Eighteenth Amendment Old rounded out 29 states which ratify the repeal resolution. Thirty?ix, or only seven more, are needed to end national prohibition. This cannot be done before November liowever, Maryland dished out probably the most overwhelming opposition MOG s of Northwest North Care i V, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933 itioo Uses A Lantern saa?ffi. -V JUKgij | eiies and his famous lantern. Inste&d, ? r, General Hugh S. Johnson, who afadherents at Washington, asked for \ The best that could be supplied was Discusses Vfass Meeting; i pect to give the bond-holders the remainder when other expenses are met," he declared, and added that if the buyers of the bonds wanted to take the matter to court, he would be ' with them." He stated that his procedure had been regarded in certain quarters as repudiation, and in answer to the often-quoted phrase, "the State's credit must be saved." declared that it is infinitely important that the credit of the people be saved. This it i3 proposed to do in j ^ ba. County, _ _ Personal icecord gjj at length upoxij bis efforts hi the last Legislature j ties of the sales E&x, told of hiST worn * in drafting the appropriation bill, and said the newspapers denied him publicity on all matters except those they thought would hurt him. He pleaded for the election of men to! the Legislature who would force reductions in State expenses, in the school system and elsewhere, and suid that solons should be men of honesty and integrity and men who thornselves were taxpayers. Mr. Bowie cited figures to snow the tax bill of the State and said Chat one-sixth of the people are carrying the full load. He further deduced that cn a per family basis, this load the! taxpayers are carrying would amount to six thousand dollars per tax-paying family per year. Mr. Bowie did not refer to the sales tax. particularly often in his address, j but was pleading for fair taxes and! taxes the people could pay through-1 j out the course of his vigorous delivI erance. N GIRL IS STRUCK >MOBILE; SPENCER KEN IN COURTROOM of the defendants, came to attend the trial, and was lodged in the county jail after word had come from Marshal Gragg's office to the effect that he was wanted on a charge of violating the Federal prohibition laws. He will be held, supposedly, until Federal prohibitum laws. He will be held, supposedly, unttl Federal officers arrive. Most of the day Tuesday was consumed hi arguments over the cases of Cline Church. He was finally convicted of stealing a washtub and washboard, but filed notice of appeal to the Superior Court. On a second count, he was charged with the larcenv of a rooster, and iit.lo-ment n'Hi | held open until the next session. | Mrs. Floyd Palmer spent last week j visiting frieiids in Charlotte. HREESTATESCOUNT : NEEDED TO RATIFY to the amendment when Baltimore went eleven to one for repeal, in Western Maryland, 4 to 1, and in the dry citadels of the eastern shove, probably 2 to 1. Rarly counts indicate the majority will be more than 150,000. In Colorado, Denver reports a 6 to t repeal vote, while scattered returns from rural precincts indicates no less than 2 to 1. Idaho and New Mexico will ballot next Tuesday and Virginians go to the polls on October S. RAT ? SI.50 PER YEAR IN R A C0MMiTTEE= TO CANVASS THE TOWN OF BOONE Local Organization Takes Steps to Make City 100 Per Cent Behind the President in Recovery Measure; Mayor ?J. F. Moore Named Chairman and Gordon Winkler, Secretary. Workers to Be Named. The local National Recovery Administration organization, with J. F. Moore as chairman and Gordon Winkler as secretary, has announced that it will put on an intensive campaign, embracing every business and intais try of the town and including \W the workers and employees in line with authority of the national organization. W. R. Lovill, M. B Craven and T. E. Bingham compose the executive committee, and special committees have been appointed to find out just what each concern is doing to co-operate in the NRA program, and also to sign up consumers for their support of the members of the Blue Eagle organisation. Mrs. J. M. Moretz, working through a national ladies' organization, is furnishing a committee for the consumers pledge canvass. The idea of the committee is to make Boone a 2 00% town. A. more detailed plan, including the names of, committee members, will be worked out and published next week. MINTON FUNERAL IS HELD ON FRIDAY E. G. Minton, Well Known Former Boone Citizen, Succumbs in Charlotte Hospital. Rev. E. C. Hodges in Charge, of Obsequies. Funeral services were conducted from the Baptist Church on Friday afternoon for F?rlwarrl CL kin native of this community, who succumbed in a Charlotte hospital on Thursday morning, after a long illRay ;-?-. C. Hodges was in charge of the services and interment wish in ' the. city cemetery. A largo crowd.af friends and. relatives, gathered to pay "t^r ^iu^iJLtD.jia EaeM.orT ot.. os* deceased. Pallbearers were: Oscar M in ton, Freil Minton, John Greene, Bedford Greene, Ralph Hartley and Robert W, Pulliam. Surviving are the widow and one daughter, Mrs. N. B, MeCandler, of Mount Pleasant, N. C.; one sister, Mrs. Joe Hartley, of Hickory; three brothers. Newton of Vilas, Julius of Hickory and Avery of Hickory. Deceased was a native of Watauga County, being the son of the late Richard Mintou. For a number of years lie had made his home at Mt. Pleasant, He was well and favorably known throughout this section and;.: leaves a host of friends and relatives in Watauga County. Rev. Leicester F. Kent To Leave Valle Crucis Rev. Leicester F. Kent, rector of the Valle Crucis School for Girls, has | accepted a call to Trinity Church, Shephardstown, West Virginia. Rev. Mr. Kent will begin his work in the historic parish of Shephardstown the early part of October. He will have the distinction of serving the oldest Episcopal Church in West Virginia, Shepherdstown being the oldest town in that State. Mr. Kent will also be priest in charge of the Episcopal Church at Harper's Ferry, West, Va. In spile of the decrease in appropriation from the General Church Fund and the decrease in endowment funds, the Valle Crucis School has Wm made progress during the four years that Mr. Kent has been in charge. He leaves the school free from debt and in readiness to begin another school year. Prior lu coming to Valle Crucis, Rev. Mr. Kent was archdeacon oX the 3gjB Yukon. While serving in that capa | city, he traveled thousands of miles over the frozen Alaskan country by dogs and sleigh. ELK PARK POSTMASTER SUCCUMBS AT BANNER ELK * L. E. Norman, 50, postmaster at Elk Park, died in Grace Hospital at Banner Elk early Friday morning following an illness of several days, due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Norman lapsed into unconsciousness a few i days before his death and did not rally at any time. . 1 Norman was postmaster of Elk Park for twelve years and early this 1 year had received a reappointment for another term of three years. Fir.al rites were held Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at the Elk Park Methodist Church with Rev. E. C. Price, pastor of the church, official- S ing. Members of the Masonic Older were in charge of the rites at the cemetery. M