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BOONE SKETCHES By j. C, R. THE HOT-DA WO CURSE The Board of Alderman, that much harassed body which guides the destinies c.f our beloved city, has gone the anti-dance ordinance one better and enacted another cut little patch of law. tc-wit: a statute which closes all hash-houses at the hour of midnight. lest such hash-house, or wciner market, be declared a public nuisonc.. a menace to the social order . . . or something. And here is an exact copy of the newly-spawned ordinance which, quite incidentally, is being enforced: ?t is hereby ordered that all places of business, especially "Hot ling Stands,' 'Eating l'laces' and 'Lunch Rooms," be required to close not later than 12:00 o'clock midnight. Being operated from the j hour of midnight to daylight is i hereby declared a nuisance." The- Beard had the best of intentions . . . rhey doubtless had in mind the ill effect of hot cc-ffce and hotter "uawgs" served without restriction to husky truckmen who navigate their produce-laden vehicles along public highways in the hours of darkness . . they had in mind, perhaps, the preservation of graceful feminine contours, soon rendered "squawish" by indulgence in the succulent sausage! May their inspired efforts in t h o "ciose-hot-dawg-stands-by-midnigld" 'campaign elevate the moral standards of Watauga's youth! A few ly,cad vendors of the lowly "dawg" feel that their liberties are being snatched away from them . . . that a local league for the preservation of civil rights should be launched i . . . that it's another case of making laws, the end of which there seems to be not even any. in order to rectify individual derelictions. Bui let 'em rave . . the upper cream of Boone's learned population is ready to concede that a hol.-duwg after midnight is a mighty dangerous annual . . . that lads and laddies shouldn't be jllowed '.o clutter their undersized bribes with such wicked refreshments in the smallish hours'. We're behind the Board and Mayor Tracy Council! one hundred and fifty per cent . . . and look forward with fiendish anticipation to the day when this vicious er.cmv to the digestive I met will have been completely barred from our sublime precincts by a brand-new ordinance! ADVERTISING BOONE The beauties of Boone, the altructiveness of its fair daughters, the generosity of its fathers ar.d mothers, tlie educational advantages offered by its schools, the enterprise of its business men, the progressive methods of its smaii banu of ha id-working industrialists . . . even the charitable instincts and benevolent impulses that dwell in the mountaineer's bosom . . . are being advertised to the big wide world by one Mr. R. E. Clarke, publicity specialist, who was with us . . . but is gone. Mr. Clarke's visit in Boone was au appreciated one ... he knocked the local "setups" for a row of the cutest little houses that Ben Frank Williams ever builded ... he smiled, ne laughed, he guzzled beer with 'em. he boasted tuiiL no i.nrer ireaira taan this ata t man ever glimpse, he actually intimated that he might spend the re- | mainder of his lifetime eight here at the base of Howard's Knob . . . and Boone people listened . . were Intrigued by the seductive stories of tire engaging stranger. To the time of a few hundred dollars, and then some, they aided this Mr. Clarke in the imaginary publication of a beautiful magazine, profusely illustrated, which the promoting wayfarer proposed to distribute throughout the land . > . just because he loved us so. Ihirse strings, tightened securely at the beginning of the current panic, were loosened, dollars of the nineteen hundred vintage were x?*>ured into the lap of the,new-found heriev% factor . . . and dozens and dozens of our dear peepul, who had never before spent so much as a dime in legitimate publicity, succumbed to the Clarke magic. But . . . the . magazine has NOT been published I , . . the printers haven't even re- ! ceived a line of copy ... in truth J and in fact, as intimated above, Mr. I Clarke doesn't stay here any more! j Apparently he has joined the birds on their Southern pilgrimage, and this very minute is trying to find another little hamlet Inhabited by charitable, unsuspecting people . . . the like of which reside In Boone. But surely, surely, in years to come ... as Brother Clarke pursues his doubtful avocation in far-distant places . . he will drop just a few kindly words about our beautiful little city of Boone! As he tramps the pampas of the Middle West, or strolls the shores of the wide Pacific, or lolls beneath coconut palms in tropical jungles, or inhales the aroma of pine and spruce in the "Big Woods," or sips his favorite past-prohibition brew in metropolitan areas . . . surely he will speak tenderly of Boone people . . . especially those who aided (Continued on Page 4) WA1 An li VOLUME XLVI. NUMBER 10 4,241 HEAD RELIEF 1 CATTLE SHIPPEDi INTO THIS AREA ] Shipley Tells of Enormous Influx of Stock froth Arid Regions of Midwest. Is in Charge of Distribution in Fourteen Counties. One Hundred j and Fourteen Car JLoads Have Been Shipped to West defferson. j Four thousand two hundred and i ! forty-one. head of cattle from the | i parched plains of the West have been j j unioaaeo at the Norfolk and Westj cm Railway terminal at West Jef| ferson, and are how grazing in the highland pastures of this region, ac| cording to W. E. Shipley, who with ! Eugene Transou of Alleghany County | is superintending the distribution of the herds in fourteen North Carolina | counties. The huge shipment of cows and I steers and calves, which have made of j the Ashe County metropolis a sort of second Chicago, filled one hundred and fourteen standard cattle cars, and 500 head arc still in transit. Mr. Shipley expects five more carloads at Newton, 8 at Statesville and two at Taylorsvillc. Of the total number of cattle distributed from shipping points in the fourteen counties, 475 are grazing in Watauga County, with 125 more to come from future shipments. Avery received 900: Iredell, 1,500: Alexan- i der, 400: Alleghany, 1,000: Ashe. 1,500: Davie, 400: Surry, 300: Forsyth, 500: Caldwell. 500: Catawba, 800: Rowan, 500: Yadkin, 400; Wilkes, 300. Mr. Shipley states that a great many of the cattle are already in fair condition and that some of them will go to the slaughter houses for canning purposes after two months. Some others will be fed at Government expense throughout the winter, and some may be kept as late as 1936, it being the policy of the administration to dispose of the mature stock as fast- ilii thf*u nrr* cvi*r_ int; the younger ones an opportunity to grow out. Mr Shipley says an arrangement Is pending whereby young government, slock may be swapped lor local mature stock, after the canneries are going. Jefferson May Get Cannery Mr. Shipley says there is a strong ' possibility of West Jefferson being chosen as the location of one of the government canneries where the relief cattle will be processed to the ultimate benefit of the .destitute. The only thing he sees in the way of such an enterprise coming to Ashe County would be the lack of co-operation on the pari of citizens of that territory. Mr. Shipley states that three thousand dollars per week is now being expended in West Jefferson for iabor about the. stock-yards and for local truck hire, and believes that the establishment of the cannery would be a boon to that section. Mr. Shiplc-y is much pleased with the clock-like precision anil speed with which the unloading and exami nation 01 me cattle nas been accomplished and states that recently 10G head were vaccinated with tuberculosis and black leg serum and their cars tagged in ID Tributes. He further states that the system developed leaves absolutely no chance for disease to exist in the stock after it is released on the pastures. Mr. Shipley, who has been recognized as a foremost authority on livestock in Watauga County for twenty-five years, states that contrary to the belief of some, the imported cattle on an average are better-bred stock than r.hat found on the farms of thi3 region. FATHER'S GRAVIS FOUND AFTER FIFTY-YEAR HUNT Rochester, N. Y.-?-After searching j for half a century, Augustus Kauf-; man has at last found his fathers grave. With the aid of old records, he located it near the old Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, S. C., marked by a headstone. The father left here during the Wflp RilHirnan ...leu *v? I ,, ?X wu uwatva Willi Ulf. UlU Ryan's Zouaves. He was serving with this outfit when captured by the Confederates. AIXMAN PAROLED Ivey Allman, convicted at tlie spring term of Watauga Superior Court of driving a car under the influence of liquor and sentenced to serve twelve months on the county reads, has been paroled by Governor J. C. Ehringhaus, according to a report reaching Boone Saturday. Solicitor L. S. Spurling strongly recommended the action, it is said. RECOVERING FROM INJURIES Mr. Richard Greene of the Meat Camp section who suffered a complicated fracture of a leg several months ago when kicked by a horse, has had the plaster cast removed from the injured member, and his friends state that he is expected to be able to walk about the place within a week. ? AUG ^dependent Weekly Newi BOONE, WATAUGA GO Rousseau Winner Over Burke in Primary Fight JULIUS A. ROUSSEAU J. HAYDEN' BURKE PARKWAY ROUTE HKAKl.Mi ON 18TH Postponement Announced from Capital. Ickcs Will Not Hear Cases In Asheville, us First Given Out. Many Will Attend. Secretary Iekes of the Department of the Interior, will preside at the meeting to be held in Washington on September 17th, when the location of the Parkway boulevard will definitely be determined from Blowing Rock to the Smokies. The meeting had formerly been scheduled for Asheville on the 10th. The National Park Service and Bureau of Public Roads will be represented at the hearing, and Governor Ehringhaus, Senators Bailey and Reynolds. Congressman Doughton and others of the Carolina House delegation will be present and insist on the road being routed through to Ashe ville rather than through the Tennessee ejitranee to the Smoky Mountain Park. Tennessee's Congressional delegation will also figure prominently in the hearing. Information is that the North Carolina delegation is yery hopeful that it will be possible to convince Secretary Jckes of the wisdom Gf adopting the Carolina routing. TRIPLETT GAINS DIAMOND SUCCESS l&n of C. C- Trpllett Mak?i .Mark in r'ivie' of Baseball. Now Playing HV.li' Nashville. Helped Win Sliver Cup for Marion Team. H. Coker Triplett, until recently a popular student at Appalachian Slate Teachers College, has gone in for professional basbeal!, and is making good, according to information coming to Tile Democrat the first of the week. Mr. Triplett, who stood high In nfhlftHi* nrhiAUAiYiont Hiirincr Viia fwl lege career, has recently finished a season's play with the Marion, Va., club, and by virtue of his outstanding performances in center field, and his uniformly high batting', average, did a lion's share in securing a silver cup for his team. From Marion Mr. Triplett went with the Southern Association. and reports indicate thai his successes are increasing with the Nashville club. Mr. Triplett is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Triplett of Triplett, and people of Boone and the county are watching his career with unusual in terest, and fully anticipate his fina entry into the major leagues. Mr. J. B. McCoy of North Wilkes boro, lessee of the Daniel Boone Ho tel. was a visitor in town Tuesday. A Dl ipaper?Established in tin unty, north cakoijna, thurj lEAlTOFROIISSEAI IS INCREASED BI ELECTION BOARI State Officials Throw Out <>97 Vote Credited to Wilkes Man and 95 Credited to J. Kayden Burke. Set ond Recount ol Judicial Priniar Results. Alexander County- Ma May Take Case to Courts. 1 j The Stale Board of Elections Fr j doy night cretified J. A. Rousseau < | fit: fho Fic-'vui/M'afsn ?>?"' nec for ji$8ge of the Seventeenth Jl i.'cial District after a lengthy jkyes tigation into protests lodged by . Kayaen Burke of Tavlorsville. The board ?. .1 opted a lengthy wril ten rul-ng deciding the contest e jcic-ship nomination. Seme weeks ag the board visited Wilkes and ASe:s auder counties to study the sccon primary voting lifter having alread investigated conditions which pre vailed at the first primary. Though Burke lodged the com plaint with the board against th nomination of Rousseau, the investi gation which he caused resulted i the Wilkeshoro man gaining th place on the election ballots by a even wider margin of victory tha. the official count had given him. Margin Increased A.fter the second primary, Rous seau was reported as the nomine by -147 votes. Burke, protected an th*' inquiry followed. The electrins board Friday nigh ruled that 697 votes credited to Rous scan and 953 credited to Burke wer void aryl could not be donated. There fore Rousseau got the nomination b 70S instead of 447 votes. Burke Claims Raw Deal J. Haydcn Burke of Taylor.svillc when informed that the board hacertified his opponent as the Demo cratic candidate, declared would consider seriously the ad visa bility of carrying his demand for ; recount of ihe voles in the scene primary to the State courts. Mr. Burke said he understood lir request for a recount could be car ried to the Superior Court end on t the Supreme Court of necessary, one the elections board turned down hi contentions. 'I don't know what course i wii pursue, but I have not been given square deal and this has been don to me in the name of Democracy, asserted the veteran lawyer. "I wi poasider appealing to the courts fo a recount after the elections boar informs me of its action, if it inform rac at all. The elections board pre tended to grant a recount but failei to give it. "Since the second primary 1 hav been told that Mr. Rousseau was tell ing his followers that he had ever; assurance he would get a certifiest from the elections hoard. I Jo no understand this at all." RECORDERS COURT Clint Moretz. arraigned before th Recorder Tuesday on a charge of put lie drunkenness, was acquitted. Russell Warren, charged with ir decent exposure, was required to r< port to the court for six months an prove his good behavior. Mr. Herman, who was to have bee tried for assault with deadly we'apo as a result of an automobile collisio on the Boone Trait Highway wee before last, was yet unable to appeo for trial. REV. A. H. ASKEW IS FREED UNDER BOND OF $5,000.00 Goldsboro, N. C.?Rev. R. H. Askew, 28-year-old four-square evangelist charged with attempted ex tortion for the kidnaping hoax ht perpetrated last month, is free un der $5,000 bond. Askew was jailed August 20tl after confessing he left Goldsbori voluntarily and himself wrote note; to his wife and Aimee Semple Mc * uiiouii, iitau UJ utt; iuu'.~oijuaii gospel movement, demanding $25, 000 ransom for his return. The note to Mrs. McPherson als( contained a threat to blow up An gelus Temple. Federal agents sign ed the warrant charging Askew with attempted extortion. A week prior to his confessior Askew disappeared and after foui days walked into the Nashville Tenn., police station and told a sto ry of having been kidnaped an< held prisoner by three men whi rode him about the country in ai automobile. 1 Bond for the minister was signei Saturday night by his wife, th ' former Miss Hattie Greer of Blow 1 ing Rock, M. L. Jones, J. Z. Hin ! son, Jesse James and Mrs. W. I Pierce. He is to receive preliminar ' hearing September 7th. The minister did not attend serv ices at his tabernacle Sunday, bu sent a message requesting specia - prayers and that his favorite son| "Jesus Never Fails." be sung. i^MOC ie Year Eighteen Eighty-E ;day, sbptbmber a, i9s4 , ^To Revival He ? I>K. .1. SFAmiBOBWILL ?! LAUNCH CAMPAIGI I v | District Meeting in Boone on Satu d j (lay, the iotb, Expected to Draw a Huge Crowd. Watauga County Convention Called. -i State-wide interest is centering U] - on the Ninth District Concession: meeting which is to he held in Boer, or. the afternoon of the 15th, an which Is to be featured by the opor log of Congressman Robert I-. Dough d ton's campaign for re-$lectfon to th rational House of Representatives: i Mr. Doughion's speech is eager! - looked forward to by the politically n minded public as the official opcnoi d of the Congressional campaigns ovc the State, and wiseacres arr wor o deririg if they can gather thread - from the discourse with which t o weave a pattern for the next Gubm e .larortai primary, Mr. Doughton, wli s is dean i>f the North Carolina dob j gaiiori and head of the Ways an li: Means Committee, has been wale! a I touted as the Ilex' Governor. CI05 e j friends of Mr. Doughton, however, bi " j lieve that he will say nothing aboi 11 ! future political ambitions, other tlia r his candidacy for re-election to Coi d j gress. Kis discourse is expected 1 s j bring to the people of this sectio - a concise first-hand story of the Ne1 1 ; Deal as reflected in the acts of tb | iast Congress, e I State Chairman J. W Winbcrr will be present and address the mce y ing briefly and chairmen of the dt c- ferent county organizatoins will I t introduced. Hundreds of visitors ai expected from the other eighL coin ties of the district State Chairman J. Wallace Wii j borne will be present and address ti ' . meeting briefly and chairmen of tl ; different county organizations will 1 j aixroaueea. nuaareas 01 visitors ui l" expected from the other eight com ties of the district. tt Flesent plans call for the openir of the Congressional meeting at 2:( n o'clock in the afternoon, and tent; 11 tive arrangements call for the insta ; lation of loud-speakuig apparatus : * j the court house in order that tJ L1 | overflow audience may hear the p courses from the street. A commi - [tee composed of Jim Rivers, chat ?; man, John E. Combs, Grady Moret Charles Stevenson and \V. R. Lovi ihas been named to arrange detai for the session. Chairman J L. Wilson today issui the official call for the county co: _ vent ion? which will be held at 10 c clock on the same day. COUNTY SCHOOLS OPEN NEXT WEE! Cove Creek and Valle Crucis Ope ings Delayed Until 17th Because o Delay in Securing Buses. Boone School to Open on Tuesday. > Cove Creek and Valle Crucis a the only two schools in the Coun - which will fail to open their doc ! next week, according to County S perintendent Howard Walker, wl 1 explains that these two insTitutio r are not expected to open until t , 17th, due to the fact that the bui - [to serve them have not arrived. 1 j All other schools of the county, be > , hi"'h and elementarv. will onen i>i i Monday, with the exception of Boc which begins Tuesday. i Only, one important change 1 e been made in the school system t year, that of the consolidation of 1 Poplar Grove and Boone schools, 1 students from the former point y ing transported by bus to Boone. Increased yields of about ten bu t els of wheat an acre are reported d Caldwell farmers who top-dres their grain with nitrate of soda t spring. RAT Jglifc *150 PER VTJcAK NOTEDMINISTERTO CONDUCT REVIVAL |AT LOCAL CHURCH ? Sfetfpr. J. M. 'Hayaiore Wilt Open Scries * on Sunday Morning, September IS. , "? Mrs. Guy H. HUX ami Professor J. ^ T. C. Wright to Have Charge, of [ Music. Me|ung Will Kml Pastorate \ of Rev. I*. A. Hicks. iif-. J. M. I Jay more. wi.lely-known | evangelist of Atlanta. Ga., wi!I open : a two-week? revival series 3t Boone j Baptist Church en Sunday morning, ; September 16th. according to an\ ncuncement made Monday by Rev. j P. A. Hicks, pastor. t t.xHi -uci irrviessor ?jT C. Wright will have charge of the music. using both senior and junior choirs. Sermons wlii be delivered each, morning at 11:00 and each evening 3<t 7:30 during the period. Dr. I-Iaymore recently closed a series of meetings at Augusta, Git., in which six hundred and eleven new members were added to the church rolls. He is a native of Mount Airy, and is looked on by local churchmen as one of the most forceful sermonizers in the South. The public is cort dially invited to hear him. j The close of this meeting will mark j the end of Rev. Hicks' pastorate over | the Boone Church, he having been r" | called to Belmont, N. C., after seven 1 j and onc-haJf years here, where he has surrounded himself by a wide circle j of staunch friends. 5! CURRENT TAX LEVY IIS FIXED AT $1.00 j f.bnunissioners Add 5 Cents to Fory i mer Rate to Take Care. of Repairs i.. | on Court iy liuildings. Two School Districts Have Special Levies. ,, i Taxpayers of Watauga County will Is j he required to pay $1.00 on the one 0 hundred dollars property valuation, - it was revealed at the meeting of the (l Board of County Commissioners last ?_ Monday; as against 95 cents levied q for the year 1933. The new budget, v It is explained, was set up with a view to making necessary repairs on the school house, county home and ,i i nthor r?uWln W 1 i4" 4t~ ,, , ?..v. ?uu<iiu^O| uiua wgctan er with the horizontal slash hi valuatioh, made necessary the increase in XI the levy. _ - 'yy^Z n The $1.00 is tc be apportioned to .V the various purposes of the county ie government as follows: General county fund. 15 cents; public health, 5 ie cents: interest and sinking fund. HO t- cents; general school, 15 cents; buildf ir.g repairs, 5 cents, ie | The special school tax in Cove -e Creek Township will be 25 cents, aud i- in Blowing Rock, 20 cents. & Smithcj's Ship Large >? Quantities o? Poultry je Smitbey's Stores report the shipr'" men* of the largest amounts of poultry recently in the history of the es'S tablisluw nt. Mr. Owen Wilson, local 10 manager, states that 20,000 pounds 1* of poultry lias gc-ne to all parts of the country from his establishment 1,1 during- the past few weeks, and that 10 he is still purchasing chickens at the s" rate of about 3.000 pounds per day. " The gienter part of recent shipments, r" he explains, is composed of young Z' fowls. 11 The large potato and poultry stov I age house, with electric potato graders. is now occupied, thus facilitat^ ing the purchase of both produce und r'~ poultry. >'" Dramatic Instruction Is Offered in Schools rr Beginning with the opening of the schools at Cove Creek and Boone, courses in dramatic instruction will be offered, including expression, actn" ing, make-up, directing, stage sccnlf cry and lighting effects. Anyone in the community will be privileged to take these courses, it has been revealed by Mr. Carl W. Dennis, who re will be ir> charge, and who has conducted a dramatic school this summer ,rs at 12 College Street, Boone. u~ Mr. Dennis lias spent several years ao ! in the study and work of dramatics ns I and before coming to Boone, was ue engaged with the Carolina Playmak!SS era at the University of North Carolina. Doubtless many students and others in this section will be glad to ;xt ava,i themselves of the opportuniiue ties offered. ,as LEGION MEETING FRIDAY his :he The regular monthly meeting of :he Watauga Post, American Legion, ^e" and Auxiliary will be held at the Legion Hall on Friday night, September 7th, 8:00 o'clock. Special reports sh- from delegates to the State convenby tion and other business that is highsed ly important to all veterans and his their wives, makes it imperative that all members he present.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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