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IbooneI SKETCHES By J. C, R. ; -= =-11 HKHF. WE ARE! [J A fellow never knows just how he will handle a bear until he meets the gentleman face to face ... and that's a fact. For several weeks the Sketch Man has been reveling in the anticipation of assuming a Federal position ... a position of ] trust,. . . a job in a swivel chair down below the mountains. The day arrived for his divorcement from the atmosphere of the printshop . . . the day for him to cast, aside the implements of a craft which for many years hud provided him with bread and meat and breeches and such. And somehow 1 or other, it just didn't seem to * "click" . . . leaving it all behind i to roam in foreign pastures, to take I up a brand-new routine, to tear into unfamiliar work! So the old * boy suffered a change of heart and J 1 here he Is right back at the old job . . . face fairly-well smeared ] ^ with ink . . . recline off n hnt*?h r?f i hokum to fill the last form . . . stop- j ping occasionally to chat with a ' neighbor . . . listening to the musl- ^ cal click <>1" the linotype's matrices ( as they tell their story . . . having a plumb-good time! And those who enjoy the Sketch Man's harmless ~ eliatter will get an earfol as the t days roll by. lie's grateful to his . friends for their kind hacking in a c successful race for Federal patronage, and the many kind things that a have been said . . . but somehow or J, other, he just couldn't get the printers ink off'n ills fingers ... so here he is! jj GLIMPSES EN UOTJTE A large motor bus roared on g through the night, and its capacity I j; load of "crumpled" passengers shift-' ed wearily in their seats. A talkative ], Philadelphia female, homeward bound t from e tour of the Argentine, poured c out her experiences to a stoutiah \ drummer. A derby-hatted dude rolled c an unlighted cigar in his loose lips j and cast sophisticated glances at a a neat little blonde sketch across the c aisle. A pair of pilgrims, bearing the v undeniable marks and faint garlic ar- 1 oma of sunny Italy, snuggled close c together, man and wife perhaps, and C slipped off to peaceful dreams of p far-off places. A huge black mam h from down Birmingham way, en route c to the alluring haunts of Harlem, d buried his kinky duuie in ilic deep u fur of a swanky coat, yawned loudly V and lapsftth into jL ycverie on-happy y 1 Sum Anf) JAOAIOM .. 1?V.. ? ? ' 1.1?A. - ? m..vJL..i?n U1^4.UI aUU MIKli V browns und pork chops and chitterlings. Bearing his advanced age with F superb dignity a fine old Southern e gentleman upheld his end of a pollti- t. cal argument with a lad of pre-voting years . . . and a baby sobbed and 1 acmttesdy sighed ^and the bus 1; roiled on into the night. A young S lady with large brown eyes, worried V eyes, dragged from the luggage rack 11 a frayed coat and slipped it on the I li smsll body of the sleeply Utile boy r who sat beside her. From a cheap, fc torn hat box she took a dingy blan- i kct, spread it painstakingly on the \ seat, helped the youth to make him-|t self comfortable, took his head in ner' I lap, held him affectionately close . . . t but something had been forgotten! I A few whispered words were passed \ between the mother and child ... a I couple of uncertain glances swept the t coach . . . and then the little fellow c rose lo his knees and addressed a scarcely-audible prayer to the Good Lord . . . "Now I lay me down to r Sleep!" And the talkative lady con- JJ tinned her narrative of strange expe-; ner.ees down below the equator - - -11 and the Birmingham "eight-ball" J dozed away to slumber land . . . and the dreaming dagos continued their , dreams . . . and the bus, bound with Its mixed human cargo to distant cities and towns and villages sped on through the darkness. MEASLES! , A couple of the kids at our bouse ... in fact the only two kids in the whole wide world who call us "dad- , dy" . . . are just about to "recover from measles . . . and for all of which we axe supremely happy. Being rattier unlearned In matters of ] the kind, having been confined with the pesky roalady many, many years ago . . . we employed a medico of undisputed Integrity to examine the little onee ... to give us some sound advice on care and treat- | * - v/uf menu uic uvuvr buiiku amiably into the pimpled face of I patient number one, told her she had the measles and couldn't go to school for quite some time, prescribed the generous use of good cold water as a beverage . . . advised we anxious parents that there was nothing to be alarmed at, that she'd break-out in full bloom when the proper time came, that she should be kept out of the cold for a period, that no medicine was necessary, that measles didn't "go in" tin "they" decided to . . . and the doctor went his way. Bat down In the print shop, where we chase the elusive "scaUion" from morn to twilight . . . our friends gave us the low-down on measles, free of charge. A dear old pal, whose nose bears an accusing radiance, advised plenty and plenty of hot toddy to (Continued on Pago 8) WAT An Im /OLUME XLV, NUMBER 37 KALPHG.HaAM HAS FATAL HEART ATTACK THURSDAY Prominent Young Lawyer and Former Assistant District Attorney Succumbs to Stroke in Raleigh, Where He Was Attending to Legal Business. Able Lawyer and Political Leader. Funeral Saturday. Raiph G. Bingham. 3;i years old, lative Wataugun and former assistuat United States Attorney for the Vestern North Carolina District, as cell a3 a prominent young leader of he Republican party in the Northvestern part of the State, died sudlenly at noon last Thursday in Raeigh, where he had appeared in litigation before the State Supreme The well known and popular young ittorney had accompanied Attorney r. M. Brown to Raleigh Wednesday o argue cases before the Supreme . -ourt and remained over Thursday m other legal business. Following an ' ippearance before the Pardon Coninissioner the two attorneys had relimed to their room to prepare for he homeward journey. Suddenly futching at his breast, Mr. Bingham aid, "Mack, I'm sick," and immediately laid down on the bed. Mr. Binglam was dead before a physician ould arrive, the immediate cause if his demise being given as acute iilation of the heart. Funeral at Cove Creek A brief service in charge of Rev. ic ,-mour Taylor and Rev. CI. W. Robnson was held at the residence in Vilkesboro on Friday afternoon, folswlng which the body was taken to he home of the father-in-law of deeased, W. F. Sherwood, at Sherwood, Vatauga County, and final rites were onCucted from Henson's Chapel lethodlst Church Saturday morning t 11 o'clock. The obsequies were in harge of Rev. G. C. Graham, pastor, rho was assisted by Rev. Seymour hiylor of Wilkcsboro. During the ourse of the service Professor I. G. '.recr of Mills Home, Thomasville, aid eloquent tribute to the life of is deceased friend. An immenBC rowd attended the services, from ifferent sections of Watauga, and lege groups or' ffioiida Oiuue from V likes County. The floral offering ftis unusually impm33ivw-*Brte,rWientr /as in the cemetery near the church Active pallbearers were: Pressley 1. Brown, J. M. Brown, W. B. Somrs. Ab Somers. Oid Wiles. Baxter linney, Ralph Reins and H. C. Kilby.' The honorary pallbearers were: W. s I. Gragg, J. R. Henderson, J. H. Lec- ' :le. P.. B. Pharr. T. R Barber, .T B !' Iheets, W. H. Starr. C. Y. Miiler, J. 1 V. Ncel, Marcus Moore, C. H. Cowles, 1 t. C. Miller, Dave Mink, J. B. Wil- ? iams, A., F. Kilby, Buel Brooks, F. C. ; forester, T M. Foster, Dr. F. C. Hub- 1 lard, J. H. Alexander, George Blev- f ns, D. C. Cadtevens, W. F. Absher, 1 V. O. Blackburn, McKinley Blacklurn Jack Hoots, C. C. Hayes, R. E. ( 'rcvette, George EUedge, E. M.Black>urn, A. S. Cassel, R. M. Brame, O. i\ Eller, Dr. G. T. Mitchell, all of Vilkes County; Dr. G. K. Moose, W. t. Lovill, Russell Hodges, Clyde R. ' Jreene, G. B. Miller, John \V. Hodges, ' if Boone, and I. G. Greer, of Thorn- 1 (Continued on Page 8) ifllTf t o hit inn a i n MlULLo MILLS ItUAD I WAY BE REBUILT iigmund Expresses Belief that Important Thoroughfare Will Be Tnken Up as Regular Project. Manifests Interest in Other local Roads. Mr. Ross Sigmund of Salisbury, a member of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, in an interview wih a representative of The Democrat in Greensboro Friday stated that the road leading from Blowing Rock to Shulls Mills, draining ind surfacing of which was to have been a CWA project, is to become a regularly Highway job, and that, in bis opinion, the important link will be under construction within the near future. He also expresses a desire to bave some work done on the road from Shulls Mills to Foscoe and believes prospects are bright in this 1 connection. As to the T-nuiel C'reek highway, Mr. Sigmund did not believe that the project could be included in the present allotment of Federal aid funds because of its immense cost, but expressed himself favorable to the road which, he believes, would become one of the State's most important arteries. Funds appropriated for the construction of a prison camp near Boone are not yet available, and the official declined to give an opinion as to when construction might be undertaken. Mr. Sigmund is a summer resident of Blowing Rock, knows Watauga and her transportation needs, and is tremendously interested in several road projects which he believes ultimately will go through. AUG, dependent Weekly News] BOONE, WATAUGA COl , i A. H a.! Cleveland, Ohio.?Edison E. Ober- j holtzer, superintendent of the Hou- ' ston (Texas) schools, is the. new president of the National Educational Association. He was born at Patricksburg, Indiana, and is fifty lour years old. MRS. ALDRIDGE IS DEAD AT AGE OF 82 IVell Known Residnit of Foscoe Community Ifnd Hern 111 with Pneumonia for Our Week. Funeral Held Tuesday Afternoon. Mrs. James A. Aldridge, 82-yearfld resident of the Foscoe communty, died at her home there Monday ifternoon after an illness with pneunonia, which had appeared serious or the past week. Funeral services were conducted it. the graveside in Foscoe ce.nclery Tuesday afternoon, in the presence of i large gathering of friends and relitives, Rev. Stout. Christian minis;er, being in charge of the services. Reverends S. E. and E. M. Gragg issisted in the conduct of the last ites. Surviving Is the husband and ten ihildren, six sons and four dauglH ers: John S. Aldrldge of Boone; KeR ley, Kinksport, Tenn., Blaine of Tai :oma. Wash.; Harry of San Juarfj ?alil\; Fred of Norfolk, Va.; L.invl!l& if ITmrnP' ^pc/Juimou T O ap - - - , ??. U| Joone, D. P. Wyke, W. C. Calloway ind W. J. Wagner of Foscoc. All Ut? hildrcu except the two in the- ftr vest were- present foe . -tiXVflfJp. E*wo brothers, Elijah and 6ftn tifeagg if Foscoe, and sisters, Mesdames Pink Joffe.y and Abe Johnson, aiso Burrive. Mrs. Aldridge was the former Miss Sallie Gragg, daughter of the late iolinson Gragg, and had spent her life n this section. She was a devout member of the Christian Church, ana mtil ill health forbade was very acive in religious work. She was much idmired by a wide circle of friends hroughout this section, and was a jood Christian mother and helpful leighbor. Civil Works Employees Now Number Only 212 There are now only 212 workers jn the Civil Works Administration L/ajriuiui 111 Wttiauga V^UUJlLy, 1L Wuo reveald by the local administrator yesterday, the authorized cut of twenty for this week, which goes into effect Friday, bringing the total down to this number. Thirty-five were taken from the rolls last week, and now the employed represent less than fifty per cent, of the original quota. The rule of making the most drastic cuts in agricultural sections is being closely followed by the State administration. Huge Coopei TV A For Moi The Tennessee Valley Authority has selected Watauga, Avery and Mitchell counties in North Carolina in which to work out intensive trials of co-cperative agricultural and industrial activities intended to give the people of this section a better and more abundant standard of living. TiVnm fht* rp?niltu nf thpop intpnnive trial undertakings it is expected to be able to determine kinds of farming and types of industry that may be successfully applied in most of the highland parts of the Tennessee Valley. Such cooperative projects as are being started in these three counties now under the sponsorship of the Tennessee Valley Authority are to be on a strictly self-supporting basis. They are in no sense of the word charities, make-work projects nor in any was crutches to the local communities. Tennessee Valley Authority has furnished through its subsidiary, Tennessee Valley Associated Co-operatives, the basic capital. But the bulk of the funds needed will be obtained locally and through varioiu agencies of the Federal Government especially the Farm Credit Administration. - a de paper?Established in the JNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSI BAPTIST WOMEN j SUPPLY A LARGE j AMOUNT OF FOOD Mills Home Acknowledges Receipt of More than Twenty-six Hundred Dollars Worth of Canned Goods from Members of Three Forks and Stony Fork Associations. List of Contributing Churches Listed. Charity and Children, Baptist publication, has recently made public a list of the contributions from the Three Forks and Stony Fork Associations of Watauga County, in the fnrm nf nonnarl err\r\s1a rlilWwn- fVio noot season, and refers to the campaign conducted by the Baptist women of Watauga as "unprecedented." "It was a beautiful thing that the women of these associations did last fall," says the publication, which adds that the preachers encouraged the enterprises and the laymen assisted in every way. The canned goods were forwarded to Mills Home, Baptist orphanage, and of especial interest is the list of the churches, the amount ar.d value of the contributions which I amounted in dollars and cent3 to S2.658 S5: Antiocli, 19 Vj dozen half-gallon , jars valued at $53.!50; Bethel, 22 dozI en, $66.00: Beaver Dam, 22 dozen. ;S66.00: Bethany, 5 dozen, S15.00; | Blowing Rock, 14 dozen, $42.00; Boone j 14 dozen, 42.00; Brushy Fork, 42>4 j dozen, $126.75; Cool Springs, 19 dozj en. $57.00; Cove Creek, 54 dozen, I $162.00: Forest Grove, 9 dozen. S27.00; Gap Creek, 22dozen, $66.75; Howard's Creek, 15 dozen, $45.00: Insure! Springs, 4 dozen, $12.00; Meat Camp, 33 dozen, $99.00; Middle Fork, 47 1-6 dozen, $141.50; Mount Calvary, 22 1-6 dozen. $67.70, also several quart, jars; Ml. Lebanon. 25 dozen, $75.00; Mount Gllead, 20 dozen, $60.00; Oak Grove, 121 i dozen, $36.75; Pleasant Grove, 82 dozen, $246.00; Poplar Grove, 29 dozen, $67 00; Proffitts Grove, 16 dozen, $48.00; Rich Mountain, 8 1-3 dozen, $25.40; Soutn Fork, 31 dozen, $93.75; Stony Fork, 3214 dozen $97.50; Three Forks, 22 dozen, $66.00; Timbered Ridge, 34 dozen, S102 00; Union, 15 2-3 dozen, $47.00; Willowdale. 18*4 dozen, $56.25: Zlonville, 32 5-6 dozen halves and " 11-12 dozen auarts, ZiOh 21? dozen, $84,00: j riara, 27 dozen, $81.00: Peniey, 13 I uu?cii, ^o?.w; zsocKview, t doscn, $21.00; Watauga, 11 dozen, $33.00: Sandy Flat, 1 dozen, $3.00. i Mrs. Boyderi Honored By Society of Poets Mrs. Donald J. Boyden of Blowing Rock has been unanimously elected to membership in the North Carolina Society of Poets it was learned here yesterday. The Society, which is very exclusive, in thus honoring Mrs. Boyden recognizes her excellent contributions to magazines and also to a number of newspapers. RECORDER'S COURT Following are the cases disposed of in Judge Suddenth's court Tuesday. Charley Greene, larceny; bound to Superior Court. Ham Main, public drunkenness, GO days on roads. Jce Presnell, violating dry laws, not guilty. Tonlr TVtiO.?? T?inlo + !n?v '! ln.rr." " ??" uvvwa -is , v luicvLiiig ui y iawa, wiK" half cost of action. John Kilby, violating prohibition lavs: six months suspended on payj ment of cost. ative Project mtain Region Management of the projects in th< three counties also will be in the hands of local men, subject to the supervision end approval of the officials and experts of the Tennessee Valley Associated Co-operatives. The latter are assisting in working old plans for the projects and in setting up the organization. But the responsibility for the operation of each undertaking will he on local men. To this end, an organization known oa thrfb HfllVlHnn Mftiintoin ^V_Anftv atives is being formed. This organization 'will be affiliated with the Tennessee Valley Associated Co-opera tivcs. It will have various local sub 3idiaries to handle co-operatively different kinds of undertakings. Thes< several subsidiaries will be owned anc controlled by local producers, work era and business interests in co-oper - ation with the parent organization ' Profits will be limited to a fair re , turn on the capital actually investe< in the business. Any additional mar s gin over the cost of doing businea will be returned to those fanners am i others for whom the co-o; erative , are being organized. Three principal activities are bcinj (Continued on Page 8) MOC1 Year Eighteen Eighty-Eig -TW >AY, MARCH 15. Dilling heriff | |J Crown Point, Ind.?Sheriff Lillian Holley, who ruled over the "escape proof" Lake County jail, from | which John Dillinger, notorious kill- i er and bank robber, made his cs- j cape with a wooden pistol he had j whittled out during spare ipoments. j GEOLOGIST READY TO TEST MINERAL Michener Provided with Assistant and Urges Co-operation in Uncovering Prospective Veins. Valuable Formations Already Found. ! Mr. Howard A. Michener, TV A and CWA geologist who for several v/eeks has been stationed at Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, has been provided with an assistant in the person of Mr. David Keppel of Columbia University, and is very anxious to get in touch with landowners who suspect mineral deposits on their property. Mineral examinations can only be made by Mr. Michener in Avery, Wa- ' tauga and that part of Ashe County ; lying south of Copper Knob, it is explained, but since the survey is now supplied with government transportation, the geologists will gladly call mi anyone who desires mineral deposits listed by the government It will be. a great advantage if land owners will partially ope.n up any I mineral outcrops they might have. Mr. Michener has traced fine amphcrous graphite in Avery County, has found high-grade magnetic iron in Avery County, with good prospects '' iir-Beecii taisgHCounty. Asbestos is showing up on the western slope of Rich Mountain in Watauga, and prospects for beryilliurc are noted in" Meat Camp township, along with soapstone, mica and evidences of underlying asbestos. The survey expresses the desire of hearing from those who suspect deposits of magnetic iron on their property, and slates that the presence of this substance may be determined by passing a magnet through some of the powdered ore. !HOME LOANS NOW BEING APPROVED More than Nine Thousand Dollars Have Been Approved. Attorney Wade K. Broun Says. More than Sixty Apply from Watauga. -Loans actually closed amounting to $!),14D.26 in the Home Owners Loan Corporat'on were reported the first of the week by Wade E. Blown, attorney for this territory, who stated further that loans approved ar.d in the final stages amount to $12,748.75. More than sixty applications have been sent in from this county, it is said, and others are being forwarded daily, totalling more than $115,000.00. Mr. Brown urges all those interested in securing loans to take up their present mortgage indebtedness, to make their applications at onoe, ar,d says that two pictures of the home must be included in the application. . The President has recommended to P/i.iorroaa that Hio Hrwtilo ncrxri tn fabo . up mortgages be unconditionally . guaranteed, which will put them on . the level with other government , bonds, and thus increase the demand ; for the securities. Many persons burdened with the fear of losing their homes are tak. ing advantage of the help offered by the Government ar.d it is the wish of ! the President that no deserving home owner lose his or her home because of present financial handicaps. Any further information or help in filling blanks for home loans mot farms) may be had by seeing Wade j E. Brown, Boone. MBS. HII.l. PASSES Mra. James N. Hill, for many years a summer resident of Blowing Rock, died at Greensboro on Tuesday eve1 mng following a brief iilness. Funeral - services will be conducted at Lenoir 3 today, and interment will take place i there. Mrs. Hill during her long resis dence in the mountains surrounded i herself with a host of friends who j j will learn of her passing with sorrow. % RAT ht $1.50 PER Yi.AH MISS WATSON NEW BELIEF AUTHORITY \m HEAD OF CWA Well Known Educational Leader Gets Position Made Vacant by Kesignation of Mrs. Smith Hugaman. which Goes Into Effect Today. Has Been Teacher in County Schools for Eleven Years. Miss Theodosia Watson, of Boone, well known teacher in the county schools and irv the Appalachian College for a number of years, today assumes the directorship of the County Emergency Relief Administration, which automatically carries with it the duties of local CWA Administrator. The announcement of the ap puimment was made Monday from the offices of Mrs. Thomas O'Berry in Raleigh. Mrs. Smith Hagaman, who has held the positions since their incipience, resigned a few days since, and under the terms of her resignation, Miss Watson takes over the office today. No other changes in the personnel of the organization are contemplated, it is said. Mrs. Hagaman will remain at her home in Boone for a few days before joining her husband, who is the newly-appointed head of Baptist Hospital, WinstonnSalem. Well Qualified Miss Watson came to Watauga from Robeson County eleven years ago, since which time she has been constantly engaged in teaching capacities in the schools of the county and in Appalachian College, being a graduate of the latter institution. During ber residence in this county she has been a leader in educational thought and has voluntarily engaged in relief activities in different sections of the county. She made a special study of social welfare work in the Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., and was engaged in such work in that city as well as in Robeson County. She has always been intensely interested in welfare endeavors and it is felt that this, together with her training, makes of her a worthy successor to Mrs. Hagaman. JASON SHERRiLL Well Known Resident of Heaver nam Passes from Pneumonia. Funeral Held Saturday and Interment in Home Neighborhood. Jason Sberrill, 76 years old, and a member of one of the county's most prominent and beat families, died at his home near Reese posloffice, in the Beaver Dam section last. Thursday evening. Mr. Sherrill had been suffering for some time with a weakened condition of the heart, but the immediate cause of death is given as bronchial pneumonia. Funeral services were conducted from the Beaver Dam Baptist Church Saturday morning at the 11 o'clock hour by Rev. Ed Ilodges, pastor, and a large crowd of friends gathered to pay their respects to the memory of deceased. Surviving in the immediate family is one aaugnrer, Miss Ollie Sherrill, who resided with her father. Mr. John Sherril! of Boone is a brother of decensed. Mr. Sherrill was reared in Watauga County, where he. engaged in farming enterprises throughout his iong life. He was a consistent member of the Baptist Church and had contributed a full share to the religious life of his community. He was a good and just man and had a host of friends throughout this section DOWD SUCCEEDS GRAGG AS MARSHAL Boone Man Retires from Government Service After Two Years Tenure. Resident of Sanford Sworn in Before Judge Johnson J. Hayes. William T. Down of Sanford took the oath of office as Marshal for the Middle District of North Carolina before Judge Johnson J. Hayes in Greensboro, and immediately assumed j the duties of the office, together with four newly-appointed deputies. Mr. Dowd, who succeeds W. H. Gragg of Boone, was the choice of Senator Reynolds for the position, and is well known to a number of local people who feel that he is eminently qualified for the high post of duty. Mr. Gragg, who has held office as Marshal for two years, declines to make public his plans for the future at this time, other than to state he has made business connections. He .has been extremely popular in his governmental capacities and has made many friends throughout the district. His method oi conducting the affairs which go with the marokaliship have resulted in favorable citation both at home and from official Washington.