| BOONE|
SKETCHES |
By J. C. R.
THE LAW BITETH
Judge John H. Bingham, who for
the past several months has presided
kindly and mercifully over the County
Recorders Court, last week
changed his tactics . . . and what a
change! The popular jurist in pre
vious sessions of his tribunal had
tempered justice with compassion . . .
he'd lectured scores of defendants on
right living and right thinking . .
sentence after sentence, passed on minor
offenders, had been suspended
with a fatherly plea to "go thy way
and sin no more!" But the patience
of Judge Bingham had been strained
by a flock of "repeaters," who disregarded
his warnings and habitually
appeared at the Tuesday morning
sessions of court. Yes, last week judicial
procedure underwent a drastic
change . . . the iaw bared its teeth?
and six stiff road sentences were
meted out to offenders . . . this week
another group was given into the
hands of the Public Works Commission.
L.ike ail good judges, Mr. Bingham
is willing to lend ear to the
overtures of luckless defendants . . .
but those who think they can continually
obscure the vision of His Honor
with the well-known wool of falsepromise
. . . well, they've just got another
"think" coming!
QUESTION AND ANSWER
There's a little eight-year-old girl
tip at our house who's "quite the
berries" at asking questic. I*ast
Jin; u-ui"?' u niu |raitcill jiiiterfuniilias
with a barrage of almost
unanswerable queries . . .
"why is the world round?" "why is
the sky blue?" "where do the angels
dwell?" "what are rocks made
of?" . . . bewildering, perplexing i
queries peculiar to childhood. The I
old man was shifting uneasily in his
chair, trying his best to keep a stiff
upper-lip, when the little girl plied
uuuiuc> vuGi ,
Clans live where God does ?" And ,
before an answer could be formed
in the "fetched haid" of the suffering
papa, a female voice exuded
from the kitchen: "No, honey, and
never will!" ... so that was that!
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS
A simple-sweet little girl of fourteen,
seated in a local "dawg" estaolishment,
blows smoke-rings ceilingward
as she knowingly discusses the
merits of "Camels," "L.ucky Strikes"
and "Chesterfields."
Gangling 'dolester' slinks away
from Reiief Office with "bedamned
if I ask them folks for any more food
orders" unconsciously trickling from
his Hps.
Police officer accompanies local
man to calaboose for umpteenth time
on a charge of public drunkenness,
as Sheriff Howell hauls in his fortyseventh
stil!. And an observer casually
remarks that "the supply apparently
hasn't diminished."
kind-hearted citizen makes round
of business houses soliciting funds for
the sustenance of impoverished family,
while thousands and thousands of
dollars in Federal "relief" funds are
distributed amongst able-bodied menfr.Uc.q
Well-dressed matron of thirty-nine '
summers escorts nineteen-year-old
husband along the streets, as punster ^
soitiy sings "it s June and' January."
Forty or fifty of Professor Dougherty's
A. 3. T. C. girls beseiging postal
employees for "Sunday packages"
from home.
A gentleman reads aloud to a group
of loafers the story of a certain night
club entertainer who executed a gentle
dance on the trap-door of a Louisiana
gallows just before an obliging
executioner t?n uffed out his life . . .
and just then a "wise-popper" 'lows
as if: "That's nothing, I knowed a feller
once that went home to his nottoo-loving
wife at three a. m., whistling
'Don't Tell Your Troubles to
Me'!"
THE BELSHAZZAR INCIDENT
Away back yonder, many hundreds
of years ago, a king of Babylon
. . . one Belshazzar by name . . .
pitched a royal party for hia princea,
their wives and concubines . . . and
wine of ancient vintages flowed freely
from golden vessels; food, the best
that the land afforded, was served to
the revelers in priceless urns of ham- |
mercd silver fetched by the host's
proud forebear from the temple at
Jerusalem; they worshiped the gods
of gold and silver, they praised the
gods of brass and Iron and wood and
stonet . . thev caroused knee-deen l
in immorality, like the pagans they ]
were! And the hand of God' wrote 1
the doom of Babylon and its, arro- i
gant king on the walls of that banquet
chamber. 1
The Forerunner, a journal published
at Somerset, Ky., in the interest of :
direct Chinese missions, and edited
by our old friend Wagner Reese, carried
in a recent issue an article condemning
"Presidential Balls" . . .
branding them as modern "feasts of
Belshazzar," and prophecying dire
events if such "cesspools of iniquity"
continue to be "sponsored" by our
Chief Executive. The editorial, in toto,
follows:
"We read that the President will
again encourage 'Birthday Balls' in
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VOLUME XLVI, NUMBER 33
Hoover Pavs His First 11
Visit to East
Former President Addresses Lincoln
Dinner In New York and
Attends Directors Meeting.
New York. ? Former President
Herbert Hoover (above) came to
New York this week, the first time
since he left the White House in
1933. He was invited to address
the Lincoln Dinner, February 12th.
He also came East to attend a
meeting of the board of directors
of the New York Life Insurance
Company of which he is now a
momhpr
Since the inauguration of President
Roosevelt the Hoovers have
lived quietly at their home in Palo
Alto, Calif.
DAIRYMEETING
IS ANNOUNCED
bright Outlook for Dairy Farming
and Cheese Making Brings
Government Experts to
Cove Creek Saturday.
Ail farmers who are interested in
he dairy business, especially as ap>lied
to the making of cheese, are
isked to gather at the Cove Creek
School next Saturday afternoon at 2
>'clock when officials from State Col- 1
ege as well as the Federal Governnent
will speak on the outlook as regards
this phase of the agricultural
iltuation. Notice of the meeting has
>ee?i received from O. F. McCrary,
listrict agent, and F. R. Farnham,
extension dairyman at State College,
rhe text of the announcement is as
ollows:
Outlook for Dairying Bright
"The outlook at the present time
or dairy farmers producing milk and i
:ream for cheese plants and cream-11
>ries occupies the most favorable po- j
>ition in over four years. Prices now 1
eceived by farmers supplying milk I
o uirec oi uie largest cneese racories
in North Carolina averages 35c
>er pound of butterfat. Prices of
:heese have increased sharply in the
iiot six week, Hm* in large part,, to
ow production.
"Realizing the prevailing favorable
:onditions, we have decided to hold a
nee ting of all farmers who may be
nterested at the Cove Creek Consoldated
School, Sugar Grove, cn Feb-uary
16, 2 o'clock p. m.
"At this meeting the advisability
>f centralizing all milk from the Bearer
Dam, Silverstone and adjoining
nilk producing sections will be discussed.
"Mr. J. A. Arey, in charge of dairy
extension work in Luc State; II. I..
Wilson, cheese manufacturing specialst,
Bureau of Dairying, Washington,
3. C., and C. Allen Grant, cheese plant
operator of Rochester, N. Y., will he
present. Representatives of the Tenlessee
Valley Authority have also
been invited to attend.
"We urge you and your neighbors
to attend this important meeting in
arder to decide if Watauga will go
ahead with revived effort and develop
a great cheese manufacturing "industry
for which this county is nc naturally
adapted. Don't forget the date,
February 16th."
Disposition of Excess
Tobacco Is Explained
XL litis <jeeii ueiermmeu null no ax- [
rangement will be made for the disposition
of any excess Burley tobacco
to manufacturers of tobacco byproducts,
says W. H. Walker, secretary
of the Watauga Tobacco Association,
who further states that those
producers who have completed their
sales should return their cards to the
county office immediately.
Arrangements have been made for
an examination of these cards to ascertain
who have sold their allotted
amount of tobacco. An inspector is
to inspect such forms to witness the
disposition of all tobacco in excess of
the amount permitted. Any method of
disposition of excess tobacco will be
satisfactory which renders the tobacco
unquestionably unfit for sale as
leaf tobacco. However, the disposition
of the excess is strictly a part of the
contract.
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BOONE, WATAUGj
WAR ON BOOTLEG
RIIIM ditto vnr 1u
HUIII 1U10 OUUlill
SALES IN LIGH1
Special Investigator Here Las
Week Checking Up on AI
Who Bought More Than Oni
Hundred Pounds of Sugar. A
Follow-up of Sale Recently
Caused Huge Capture.
Those who go to their fa\*orite gro
eery store and purchase more thai
one hundred pounds of sugar at s
time, are subject to the close scrutiny
of agents of the Federal government
who have just begun an increasing!j
intensive drive against the inanufac
turers of illicit booze, commonl}
known in these parts as "sugar-head.'
This information comes througt
Charles Feltz, special investigator ol
the Department of Justice, who was
in town Friday, taking reports fron
local grocers sis to the volume of ther
sugar sales. Sugar being a principa
ingredient of the local brand of fire
water, the Government has fount
that by checking the sales of largi
quantities of the commodity, and bj
looking into the general character anc
reputation of the buyer of excessiv?
poundage. an excellent lead nn thi
distilling operations of a community
bares itself.
Cuts Down Manufacture
Mr. Feltz states that the Federa
investigators are notified immediate
ly when shipments of sugar go oul
from the refineries, and that the con
signees are required to report hold
ings at intervals all along. He state.*
that due to the new procedure, man
ufacture of whiskey has been cul
down measurably, and points out thai
a capture of 600 gallons of liquor lasl
urp.eit came from the tracing of a sug
ar shipment. So wary have the blockadcrs
become at the diligence of th<
Federal authorities, he says, thai
stills are very hard to find nowadays
Since it requires considerably more
time and skill to distill spirits froir
the pure grain than with sugar, it is
believed that many have desisted al
together However, Mr. Felts thinks
that such liquor as is manufacture*
from now on will likely be "pur<
corn."
APPROPRIATION OF
A. S.T.C. ENLARGED
President Dougherty Learns Local
College Is to Receive ?70,000
This Year as Airainst
$53,000 Last Year.
The Appalachian State Teachers
College will receive $70,000 this yc-as
from the State of North Carolina, foi
expenses incidental to its operation
it was learned Wednesday morning:
the information coming by wire froir
a member of the Appropriations Committee
of the State Legislature to Dr
B. B. Dougherty.
The new allotment of public n.on
ey represents an increase of S17.00C
over last year, when Appalachian received
$53,000.
Gragg Named Receiver
Of Woodcraft Company
W. H. Gragg was named as perma
nent receiver for the Woodcraft Nov
elty Company last week by Judg<
Phillios of the Superior Court, arx
has taken over the conduct of tin
concern.
While Mr. Gragg cannot at presen
give out any information as to th<
future policies of the receivership, In
believes it will be possible for th<
plant to reopen and function to tin
considerable advantage of the wage
earners of this section.
CARL RAG AN PAINFULLY
INJURED EN AUTO CRASF
Carl Ragan received severe cut
about the face, and other sprains an<
bruises when an automobile in whicl
he was riding, and which was drivei
bv Kellev Osborne, collided with i
truck near the S. S. Norris store 01
Tuesday evening. Mr. Osborne wn.
uninjured, but the Ford car was bad
ly damaged.
Blinding lights of an auloniobili
parked on one side of the street pre
vented the driver from seeing a dark
ened truck ;ia ked opposite, Mr. Ra
gan said, and a terrific impact fol
lowed. But for the fact that the auti
was making a low rate of speed, 1
is thought the crash would have un
doubtedly proven fatal.
HOME OF BEECH CREEK MAN
IS DESTROYED ltY FLAME!
John Oaks, resident of the Beecl
Creek section, lost his home and th
entire contents thereof on Tuesday o
last week, when a flame thought t
have originated from a faulty flue
swept through the structure. All fur
nishings, food supplies and clothin,
were destroyed, the loss of which i
estimated at one thousand dollars. N
insurance was in force.
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A COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA,
| Bruno's Fate in
J State and Defense Fini:
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Edward J. Kcilly (above) is pictur
1 ? nt, Richard Bruno Huuptraann, who
trie chair as the slayer of Baby Lindl
t their summations of the evidence T*j
delivered his charge to the jury We
the. jury at noon. Just when a verd
* hut it is believed at Flemington that
the fate of the accused Gcrman-Ame
t
College Studt
Demand Soc
Hundreds of Students Desert the
Classroom in Demonstration
Against Regulations. Parade
J Streets of Town. Official Use
of Blackjack Blamed.
y .JATE BU1JLETLN
At 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon
President Dougherty of the College
\ was in conference with members of
' the Senior Class, looking to a set- j
Cement of the students' grievances.
Although the matter had not been
disposed of as The Democrat goes ,
to press, unofficial information is j
that, students are to be allowed to j
return to their work, and that Dr. ;
, Dougherty is submitting a proposal j
. which would result in some further j
. concessions along social lines. Be- i
lief is that the trouble will be amicably
adjusted this afternoon.
L
Drums beating and banners flying,
several hundred students of Appalachian
State Teachers College paraded
Lhrough the business section of the
I city Tuesday afternoon, as a demonstration
crnuririi* nut. of a strike for
a laxity of social restrictions at the
co-educational institution.
Leaving their classes at noon, the
great majority of the more than nine
hundred students on the campus
r joined in the demand for freer social
conditions, specifically that which
- would allow the men and women to
- sit together at athletic contests and
s to mingle at social functions.
1 The strike was preceded by an out5
burst a. basket ball game Monday
night between the Freshmen of Appat
lachian and Rutherford Junior Col5
lege when a group of men students
5 sat with the women, renionstrations
3 from faculty members failing to diss
lodge them. Rules of the college re
quire the women to sit or. one side of
the gymnasium and the men on the
o tiier.
After the game, some fifty stuI
dents went to the women's dormitories
and are said to have resisted
s when a police officer went to disperse
i them. Page Vannoy, one of the stui
dents, is alleged to have been struck
l with a black-jack wielded by on offii
cer. Afterwards they marched to the
l home of Dean Rankin where they
r, osmtn-Vt*- 4a nKinnt w-.-no 4a 4 V? a
3 IV COV.I1L UUjbVUUllO LV MiV
- social restrictions and there clashed
a second time with the police. At this
? time, students say, officers drew their
- pistols.
Graybeal Announces Walk-out
Harold Graybeal, popular Senior
- and editor of The Appalachian, and
nounced the strike Tuesday at chapel
t period, stating' that men and women
- were demanding to sit together and
mingle at social functions and athletic
meets, that the policeman who
struck Vannoy offer a public apology
S and that no action be taken against
li those participating in the disturbc
ances of Monday evening. Graybeal
f said President Dougherty and Prof,
o J. M. Downum, registrar, were pres:,
ent when the aims of the strikers
- were announced Tuesday. Perhaps 90
g per cent of the students, Graybeal
s states, are backing the strike.
o The parade through the streets of
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THURSDAY, FEB. 14. 1935 _
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i Hands of Jury
ih Their Summations in ^
Kidnap-Murderer. k
cd in a final conference with his ell- ?1
m he is trying to save from the elec>ergh.
The State and defense finished j
icsday evening, and Judge Trenchard
dnes4ay morning, the case going to
let will be returned is problematical, ^
a few hours' deliberation will decide
rican carpenter.
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mts on Strike; \
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A. S. T. C. STUDENT
DIES OF INJURIES
j Robert Reeves, 18-year-old stu- }
dent at Appalachian State Teachers
College* died Monday at a I.enolr.
Hospital, where he was taken
Saturday for treatment for a broken
nec.k.
j Reeves, whose home was near ]
] Mount Airy, suffered a fracture of ,
j the seven!?i vertebrae, as he a!- 1
I tempted to execute some sort of i
tumbling act at the. college gym- j
nasiurn. The injury resulted in
complete paralysis below the
shoulders, it is said, and consciousness
only returned at intervals
prior to his death.
Funeral services were to have
| been conducted Tuesday from the
home of his parents, Coach Stone
and several other of the intimate
i friends of the deceased in this lo!
eality attending.
; Mr. Reeves was in his first
[ year's college woyk hut had
j acquired considerable j>opularity i
I among his fellow students, lie was
| married during the Christmas holidays
to a Mount Airy girl, it is
i said.
Mrs. Moretz Brings
rv r* *1
uown tsig Uray fox]
Mrs. Poly Moretz, resident of the
Rich Mountain section, qualified as
a Nimrod of rare ability last week
when she brought down an extralarge
gray fox with one charge from
a double-barreled shotgun. Mrs. Movets
had heard the noiso of a chase
in which a number of dogs and huntsmen
took part, ancl in going about
her usual work happened to see Reynard
near her home.
Unused to firearms, Mrs. Moretz
succeeded in figuring out how to manipulate
the hammerless weapon,
which was kept in the house, and
brought down the fox with one shot.
When her husband returned home,
she had skinned the animal, and has
sent the pelt away for dressing so that
a fur-piece may be a useful reminder
of her prowess.
Junior Order Will Hold
Meeting February 22nd
Daniel Boone Council, Jr. O. U. A.
M., will hold a meeting with class initiations
Friday, February 22, at 7:30
p. m., a similar kind of meeting being
held in every district in the State
at the same time, celebrating the
birthdav of Georsre Washington At
j the same time the meeting marks the
i end of the fiscal year, and it is stated
! that there will be candidates for inj
itiation at this time. The Junior Hall,
! in the Peoples Bank Building will be
| equipped with a radio at the meeting
I mentioned, in order that members
i may hear an address broadcast from
| national sources of particular interj
est. Local officials especially request !
a full attendance,
i
RAl
ght
SX.50 PER YEAR
rWO ARE CHARGED
IDimi nimm * nir ? rt
Willi BUIUiLAtU AS
SAFE IS LOCATED
ialph Gilley and Grady Hartley
in Jail on Charge of Burglarizing
T. L. Critcher Store.
Safe Found on South Side of
Mountain Where Robbers Had
Failed to Open It.
Ralph Gilley and Grady Hartley,
esidents of the Bamboo section, are
n jail, for trial at Superior Court on
jurglary charges growing out of the
obbery of the T. L?. Critcher store in
:heir home neighborhood two weeks
igo. The. arrests were made after the
sheriffs' office had recovered a large
ron safe which had been taken from
he store building and which remained
inppened.
The safe was found in the neighborhood
of Bailey's Camp on the Lenoir-Blowing
Rook highway, and
Sheriff Tolbert of Caldwell County
notified. He immediately notified
Sheriff Howell at Boone and he went
lo the scene. The safe was considcriblv
battered and some of the fixures
had been knocked off with a
lammer or other instrument.
Contents Intact
Mr Critehei was able to work the
combination and the safe was opened.
\_bout five hundred dollars in money
ind some thousands of dollars in notes,
ind other securities were found in;act.
When the robbery occurred, and the
lafe was taken from the building, Mr.
?ritchcr, who lives nearby, was not
listurbed, and the marauders left no
lues as to their identity other than
he tracks of the motor truck on
vhick they hafFIed away their loot,
since then the Sheriffs* office has
jeer, working incessantly in trying to
cr-atc the. vault, which it was felt
tertaln had been hauled to no great
iistan.ee.
visionsoiance
FOR GOP VICTORY
Speaker at Lincoln Day Dinner
Criticizes New Deal and Forecasts
Change in 1936. Many
Waiaugans Attend.
Congressman Christianson of Minnesota
sounded a note of victory to
the Republicans gathered in Greensboro
Tuesday evening at the Lincoln
Day dinner, as he heaped criticism
upon the New Deal, and asked for a
rallying about the standard of Republicanism
"We can win again in 1036 if we
have a sound and progressive platform,"
the speaker declared, "furnishing
a rallying point for those who do
not wish to go either to Rome or
Moscow, but believe that the neces- .
sary economic readjustment ear* be
reached without compromising with
either Fascism or Communism."
The speaker was roundly cheered
by the enthusiastic assemblage, as
was Baxter Linney, of Boone and Lanoir,
who spoke briefly as chairman
of the Young Republican organisation.
Those attending from Watauga
County include: John W. Hodges,
John W. Hodges Jr., S. C. Eggers,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Russell, J. E.
Holshouser, Roy Keller, W. H. Gragg,
Russell D. Hodges and Clyde R.
Greene.
TWO CASE ARE TRIED
TUESDAY BY RECORDER
Only two cases were heard by
Judge Bingham in Recorders Court
Tuesday. Charles Carroll, charged
with violation of the prohibition laws,
was fined $10 and assessed with the
costs of the action.
Richard Long, arraigned for the
larceny of tires and gasoline, was
charged with the cost and grivc-n a
six months sentence, which was suspended.
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