BOONE SKETCHES By J, C. R. SPEAKING OF CHEESE Owen Wilson, ambassador extraor dir.ary of the Smithey Chain and in cidentally manager of the loca branch, has an eye for publicity . . particularly that brand dished ou by Watauga's one and only nowspa per. In last week's .Sketch columi appeared a brief?perhaps overdraw; ?ditty concerning five lads who al legedly had walked a dozen or si miles for a few penny bars of candy Brother Wilson, who according ti reliable information does NCI' belonf to the "Tall Story Club," rushed ti The Democrat office immediate)] with a "cheese yarn" freshly unvroum from his trusty typewriter. Here it is without written guarantee. The other day five fellows were standing In front of Snilthey's store > discussing among themselves what thev would lr.IV for dinner, tfinr of Smitheyrs clerks walked out to help them figure out their problem, and suggested to them that they could buy a whole pound '/2 cheese for 5 cents, which they did, having enough for the five of them. There is nothing to this except that these five people came clear from Potter Town to get them a good dinner off'n cheese. So there you are . . . an' we don't know yet whether they got a politic or just a half-pound . . . whether there were free crackers in the "jitney' deal, or if the customers took theii cheese straight. When the authoi turned his copy over to the editor, ai: ! inquisitive bystander, whose ears hac feasted on the yarn, blurted out "that a blankety-blank * * * fairy story!" To which Mr. Wilson replied "So was the candy tale, blah!" Fight it out, boys! AN ORCHID TO YOU, .1 AMES J An elongated Monde . . . hlueeyed, baby-faced, and as swank as a Cot ham night-club hostess . . . took from her little hag a little 1 mirror, dabbed a little rouge on a cute little mouth . . . and carefully arranged a hellishly attractive coiffeur. Curls, as fluffy and nice as you please, ranged hither and yon on milady's head, and waves calculated to cause sea-sickness for a lttlldlllhh#*r ; * ':l1' _ _ . W VUQVU ? * Lilt OHI\" ^ en slrasuLi with exquisite care. A J^-naaain^ lady niuiseti. t? view with _ ^ righteous envy the marvellous efs i feet, and excitedly inquired: "Where ) one earth did you get that marcel > . . . what beauty parlor does your | worn?'7 And the marcelled lady tilted her nose, as she. replied: j "Beauty parlor? Shux! Jim Carter ? done that!" Thus Bonne's "extinguished" artist in burnt clay takes up a more elevated profession! PHySICAL HANDICAPS! A lanky individual, hearing a dejected sort of countenance, made his appearance at the local re-cinploy; nient office the other day . . . and he, like hundreds of others, just had to j have a job. An obliging clerk produced a registration card, took the p applicants name, age. sex and color, j jotting down the answers to dozens of apparently useless questions. The lanky one fidgeted about in his patched brogans as the interrogating official nroc^Ad^H n/tfv? tion, searching his puzzled brain foi coherent replies. "Any physical handicaps?" queried the clerk. And the answer came . . . like the eruption ol a long-dormant volcano: "1 says I has ... a wife, 3ix children, a son-in-law, and there's ancther'n on the way.' Whether he was looking forward tc one of Waiter Winehel's "blessed events" or to the acquisition of another son-in-law, CWA will never know . . . but we hope and pray he .got a position ... or a job, maybe! ONK OF THOSE THINGS! Women love their children, no doubt about it! Little Johnnie has to take his nap in the aftcrjV noon, he's given his cod livor oil In carefully measured doses, he's taken to the good old family doctor every few days . . . his food has to he just right, and he das'nt eat candy or drink soda pop. Mama is taking care of her "future president" and bestowing barrels and barrels of that highly-publicized mother love on his little frame. But when Mama takes a stroli down the avenoo in the midst of u January "blow," she dons a fur coat, pulls on an extra pair of hose, encases her feet in galoshes . . . and stands it very well. But poor Johnnie, toddling along beside her, shivers mightily in his summer sandals and skimpy, scarcely visible socks. Ah, consistency, thou art a jewel! THE EMERGENCY IN WILKES Men working under the CWA hav been employed hauling sand from Cu Creek to be used in street work ii Wilkesboro. No horses are being use to draw the two wagons, and it is ai unusual and amusing spectacle to sc 16 to 17 men to each wagon, som pulling, some pushing, some accom panying the wagons through tb streets.?North Wilkesboro Hustler. WAT An In VOLUME XLV, NUMBER L'f i^l 11 LONDON": Mrs. Nathaniel Mayer |( "Victor Kothsfthildj (above) former J j Barbara Hutchinson of Hastings, is i now the bride of the nephew of Lord j ^ Rothschild and heir to the Roths- j child peerage and famous fortuue. j ' SUMMER RESIDENT , AT ROCK IS DEAD | Mrs. T. b. MeComb Dies at Milledgeville. Gu. at Advanred Age. Had Spent Sinniners at Blowing Rock ? ^ for Forty Years. i I A belated report tells of the death i * in Miilcdgcville, Gs., on Dceemher I 31 of Mrs. T. L. McConin of that city. ! ' at the age of seventy-seven years. 1 (The last illness was of ten days cJu- * | ration. Funeral services were con- 1 j ducted ft om the Baptist Church and 1 I interment was in Uie city cemetery. 1 Mrs. McCombn was loved and cs- 1 I teemed in her home community, and l j hfici a wide circle of friends in Wa- 1 i tauga County having been a resident * ! of Blowing* Rock durina* the summer i months for more than forty years. Survivors in the immediate family include the husband and one daughter, Mrs. W. T. Ilines. Questions and Answers j For Bur ley Growers J Mr. C. F. McCrary, district agent with SI te College, was in the city last week, mingling with farmers and explaining points in the Burlcy Tobacco Adjustment Program, winch is designed to offer Burlcy growers a program that will enable those who accept it to receive more net income from their farms than they would receive if they did not- accent it. For the benefit of those interested in the program, The Democrat will publish weekly a group of questions and answers, prepared by the Department of Agriculture. Question: Who is to put the pro- ] gram into operation? , Answer: Tobacco farmers them- ] selves, through voluntary signed contracts with the Secretary of Agriculture. Question: What is the principal features of the Burley program? Answer: The reduction ot acreage and production in 1934 and again in ' 1935 it" necessary to bring supply into ' : line with consumption. The making of cash payments to those who take 1 part in the program. i Question: When will each of the ' payments be made? ] Answer: The rentai payment will . be made before March 1, 1934, or not j . later than thirty days after the con, tract has been received and accepted | by the Secretary in Washington. The first adjustment payment will be j made as soon as possible after proof lias been submitted by the producer . of reduction in the tobacco acreage j but not later than September 16. 1934. The second adjustment payment will be made as soon as possible qjter proof has been submitted by the . Secretary that the producer has fully performed all terms and conditions of the contract with respect to the 1934 tobacco crop, but not later than June 1, 1935. The deficiency payment of 2 cents per pound will be made at the same time as the second adjustment payment. Question: What is the penalty if a producer receives cash payments and then fails to fill the terms of his con- j tract ? Answer: His contract is cancelled j and the payments must be returned. Question: Will those producers who reduce acreage and production 50% receive greater benefits than those who reduce 33 1-3% ? Answer: Yes, the payments are larger and the savings in cost of production are greater. [, Question: How will the above payj, ments be made? 1 Answbr: All payments will be made n by checks sent from Washington, e Question: To whom will the checks o be made payable ? Answer: To the producer or the e trustee, in case a trustee has been ' named to receive the payments. w ' i AVG dependent Weeis^^vJews BOONE, WXT^TOA COl edatwoodsM BY SHERIFWF WILKES (:0?TY Cscuped Convict Fatally Wojfirted. a& H? Throws Gun on SheriffJfltamers, Watauga Officers Had Trwpl Fugitive lAst Week on JB&bbery Cliarges. Was Escaped' f rows Stit? Prison. Sent from Wataug^: Cottrt. Ed Atwood, 57. an escapecUjfeon vlct, vas fatally wounded Sunday, night itur Patton's Ridge as he Wlvijalslng i shotgun on W. B. Somers. tab sherff of Wilkes County. A load of buckshot from the officer s gun ijbought ilmost instant death to the inaji who >ad vowed that 110 officer wdnjtf take ;iim. The shooting occurred Vn.\r)e k*-.~ ATX? >IUUR9, j.FKiig (/l -11 -1 VHJUWH rmu. I Tom. the house and started up the! till. Sheriff Somers called for At.vood to halt and fired hia shotgun j not the air. The boy came hack and i Vtwood turned, running off a bank) tito the air. The boy came back anil ry and Denver Woods, another son )f Mrs. Woods, followed The sheriff igain called for Atwood to halt after te had followed him info the road. Atvocd then turned around, according' ;o witnesses of the affair, and leveled i shotgun at the sheriff. Sheriff Scmjvo"fu5i! on twpjVfljauge shotgun loaded with buckshfe ind Atwood -rstn?'A*Muf tntWiW befflW' te fell dead, the greater part of the oad entering his left chest. SiUd He Wuuid jt lie Taken Mrs. Woods states that Alwcofi j vas at her home making threats that j i any officers came after him he would go out feet first." Atwood i V.,.. a notorious character and off!-1 ;ors of Wilkes, Ashe and Watauga I .i;uiikiv;9 uau I'ucn OH UlC iUUKUUl IOr jlm for some time. He. is alleged to iave broken into Ellis Woodie's store it Summit, Grady Baker's 3tore at Maple Springs and a Mr. Colvard'a store at Bowie in Ashe County, and E. J. Blackburn's store at Sourwood. An inquest was held late Sunday right and a coroner's jury completely exonerated Sheriff Somers, finding as tbeir verdict that the officer lot only killed while trying to approsend a convicted criminal, but that in killed in defense of his own and Mr. Alexander's lives. Liquor Found on Body On Atwood's body was found a half ! gallon fruit jar full of liquor con- j jealed under his overall bib and a ] pint bottle of whisky in a hip pocket. ] Bwo knives, a razor and a dozen or more shotgun shells were also found in his pockets. Atwood, age about 54, is survived tty his widow and the following chilIren: Will, Tildon and Jessie Atwood, Lenoir; Don Atwood, Vannoy; Ted Atwood, Raleigh: Mr3. Luta Woodring ind Mrs. Moilie Nelson, Blowing Rock; Mrs. Leona Trivette, Boone; also surviving are the following brothers and sisters; G. F Atwood, Troutdale. Va.; Joe Atwood, Dandridge, Tenn.; D. F. Atwood, Mountain City, Tenn.; Mrs. Martha Gwyn, Neva, Tenn anS T" T-T-.ii t .1 ^Kiiua ixau, OUIU13UI1 City, Tenn. Plans for fhe funeral and burial had not been ascertained yesterday. P. C. Winkler Dies At Age of 86 Years P. C. (Dick) Winkler, 86 years old, died January 2 at his home in the Rich Mountain section after an illness arising from the infirmities of his great age. Funeral services were conducted from the home on the 4th by Rev. W. C. Payne, and interment was in the Jont Brown graveyard. Surviving, in the immediate family, is one son, George Winkler. Mr. Winkler died in the section in which he was born and where he had spent his long life. He was known as a good, honest and industrious citizen. Wheat growers belonging to the Burke-Caldwell Association received checks for over a thousand dollars from their association treasurer last week for reducing acreage last fall. | A DE paper?Established in the !NTY, NORTH C-AjtOLJNA. THURSD Z1" WASHINGTON: Alexander Troj here, tho first Russian Ambassador t war days. The Soviet Ambassador Bullitt, U. 8. Ambassador to Russia, i together. Ambassador Bullitt will re More Than $ Saturday As C Quota In Wat , . Fifty-one hundred seventy dollars and eighty-eight cents wsa the total1 payroll for the local Civil Works Ad- i ministration laat Saturday, this sum 1 having been thrown into the chan- j nels of trade by 461 men and women workers under the President's rcr.ov- j ery program. .. This information, together with a j 'Clear outline of the enormous prob i lems confronting local officials, is j contained in a clear-cut statement m?ied tc the pre 3d Tuesday by Mrs. Simith Hag&man, county CJWA Administrator. Mrs. IIagaraan'3 statement follows:" . /VdmHiVrtra tor's Iteport "When the state Director of Relief appointed county directors of relief in October, 1932, no one, not even the State drectors, knew how difficult was the task that was being us- i signed to them All over the State, j directors, pitiably untrained, went [ about ttiis tremendous task, under leadership in Wasiiing'lch and R?-1 leigh who as yet had not arrived at j workable policies. This caused una-1 voidable confusion and delay. But this department of the NitA marched 1 on in spite of difficulties. In this I county, to the already present and I ever increasing difficulties was added j the complication of the closed bank. Over $3,000.00 of emergency relief; money was in tlic bank when the holiday was declared. This money has ' since been released. "Ill November. 1034. the conniv directors of relief were appointed lo- \ cal Civil Works Administrators by the State Civil Works Administrators. This necessitated a reorganization of the whole program with tremendously increased responsibilities. Watauga got going and by December 15th had nearly the full original quota working. (Original quota for Watauga was 381, increased by 25 from State quota for work on A. S. T. C. projects, 13 for sanitary project, 8 for Federal projects, 5 teachers and 29 additional women. Total 461). "The payroll to date is as follows: December 2, 1933 $ 998.07 | December 9, 1933 2,259.83 December 16, 1933 2,888.20 December 23. 1933 3,673.45 December 30, 1933 3,906.18 January 6, 1934 4,666.62 January 13, 1934 5,170.88 Total $23,563.23 "On the different types of construe Cites Fine Results From Democrat Adv. Mr. W. R. Winkler of the local Chevrolet agency inserted in The Democrat a few weeks ago an ad| vertisement calling attention to some used car bargains. Fifteen cars were moved as a direct result, some of which had been stored for as much as six months. Mr. Winkler states that on these seles the commissions he would gladly have paid a salesman would have amounted to more than one hundred dollars. The advertisement cost him six dollars. Therefore, the cars were moved at a saving of a hundred dollars, taking it for granted the salesmen would have been i able to contact the buyers, and we doubt it, for sales were made in three counties. MOC] Year Eighteen Eighty-Eig A.Y, JANUARY IX, 1034 nd From Soviet Russia J i'anovsky, (left) ia now "at home" :o tlic United States since post world was joined at Paris by William C. the two returning te the United States turn to Russia in late February. 5,000 Is Paid; :WA Reaches: tauga County O J I tion a man must be unemployed toj be eligible for CTWA. jobs. On all work i classed as "Women's Projects," which j include clerical, filing:* tench ine:. lunch \ room, sewing janitors, teachers, nur-! acs, etc., either men or women apply-' ing must be eligible for relief. In either case the worker must be a resident of the county. The National Reemployment Office, with Mr. R. S. j Swift as manager, is a Federal proj-1 ect. The object of this office is to1 register and place unemployed ptrsons. When men or women are needed for a CWA job, CWA makes req'.ioltir.n for tho number and type of laborers needed. When tills requisition hu3 bean filled the obligation cf the NHS to CWA ends. 'The Watauga County Civil Works: and Emergency Relief administrative. staff consists of the following: Mrs.; Smith Hagaman, director of relief and j local Civil Works Administrator; Mrs j Maude Carroll, certifying officer; Mr. j W C Greene, disbursing officer; Mr. r Donald Boyden, project supervisee, j Mr. J. B. Steele, case worker; Miss Marguerite Miller, bookkeeper; Mrs.! Lloyd Coleman, interviewer. Each; member of this staff was appointed j from the Raleigh office, and salaries fixed for the specific duties assigned. | These people did not have to be relief cases and did not necessarily have ; to be unemployed at the t ime of their j ' apnointment. In addition to these, we; have a work project for this office. I which furnisher several additional : I workers. Expresses Appreciation "I take this opportunity to express j to those who have worked and are j working' in the Emergency Relief and Civil Works office, my sincere appreciation for the splendid way they are seeing the work through. To the people in the county I want to say that no director in the State has had better co-operation. All over the county, individually and in groups, you have helped put this program across. You have been called upon to do all kinds of difficult tasks and I cannot recall one instance where the work has been hindered by your failure to do your part. j "There are many angles to CWA that we do not understand, but we are doing the best we can to follow orders and changes ill orders. Almost daily we have to ask the Raleigh office the answer to some difficult question or the solution to some problem. I am sure that you are asking (Continued on Page 8) Bob Lovill Suffers Stroke of Paralysis Robert L. Lovill, of Denver, Colo., suffered a stroke of paralysis the first of the week and is now a patient at St. Luke's Hospital, in that city, according to advices coming to a nephew, W. R. Lovill of Boone. The message stated that Mr. Lovfll's speech was affected, but otherwise did not give the extent of the stroke. Mr. Lovill is the youngest brother of the late Captain E. F. Lovill, and has never lived in Boone. He visited here in 1922, however, and became acquainted with many friends of the j family. He has been engaged as ex| press messenger for the American Express Company for more than forty years. Furuier news of his condition will be awaited with much interest locally. RjVT 1' ' "v-1 ."v.oan Approved Approval of a Reconstruction Fir nance Corporation loan is announced from Washington, and assurance bad been given that when this transaction was completed the bank could reopen. Meanwhile, says Mr. Hagaman. Congress has put the Federal Land Bank in position to come to the rescue of the farmers, by allowing them to borrow money at lower rnt^s of interest. Many farmers arc taking advantage of the proposition and are paying their notes with funds thus secured. Many applications have already been made and others are going in daily. Farmers find it good business to take care of their notes this way and it enables them to transfer l*?eir indebtedness at lower interest rates. Others are making a special effort. it is said, payments are being made, and notes put i:i current form. To Open in Good Shape Those who have studied the proposition are inclined to the belief that it wiil be infinitely better for the bank to got in position to icopen by collecting notes rather than by borrowing more money, as the latter course would delay meeting other obligations to depositors, etc. With continued co-operation, it Is said the bank will be in position -k> open in really good shape. Watauga Railroad IF* rrearmg on rrway Tiic iViUiiiUU CotVVTr.arcC UommiS^ slon wfil hold aTr?kriiig 111 WinstonSalem next Friday to determine action on the application of the Wilkes and Western Railway Company which geeks to rebuild its lines from North Wilkcshoro to Darby, a distance of 211 miles. The road was abandoned following the flood of 1916 and was recently bought at. a tax salt by C. S. tenkins, of North Wilkesboro, and the new company has been formed with a capital stock of $200,000. Understanding is that govemnunt iund.t will he sought to revamp the road. The Grandin Railroad, as it used to be known in Watauga County, was built to move the timber on the Elk Creek Lumber Company's domain, Mm! W .1 rihmimn ifc nromrinr visions of connecting North Wilkeshoio and Butler, Tenn., with a rail system. Talk of this kind is now revived, but there is no authentic information that a project of this magnitude is now contemplated. Kindergarten Will Be Opened Next Tuesday A kindergarten will be opened at the Boone Demonstration School on next Tuesday morning, January 23r