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PAGE TWO NAWC an/I Viawc from Blowing Rock School (Written by the Students) The Senior Class play, "He Was a Gay Senorita," will be given in the school auditorium, Saturday evening, March 23, S o'clock. It is a farce comedy in three acts and has twelve characters. Not only are the situations in this well-constructed play above your wildest imagination, but the dialogue is sparkling and startling. The characters are well selecti'iI nriri fivfolu?apL* i^ H*?intr < 1 n n ?"? on the whole pla3*. You can't afford to miss this comedy. We promise you an evening of splendid entertainment. Special music will be given between acts. The play is directed by Mis. Howard Gragg and Mr. Paul Bingham. SOPHOMORE PARTY The ninth grade gave a party last Thursday night, March 7U?. at the Town Hall. There was a general good time and late in the evening refreshments were served. Those present were the tenth grade. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gragg. Mrs. Gene Story and a few of the high school students from other grades. i GIRLS' BASKET BALL The Blowing Reck girls' basket ball! season closed with a bang. The past | term has been enjoyed very much.j and we are sorry that our basket ball games are over for the year. The re- j suit nf tho ?f>a?{nn fr?1 lr\n 4, Blowing Rock 4: Newland 10, j Blowing Rock 14; Bethel 12. Blowing: j Rock 9; Cranberry 7. Blowing Rock i 12; Tc-uu 12, 21ov,"iti^ uock 1 ?, iicw* i land 19. Blowing Rock 18; Boone 6. j Blowing Rock 61; Jefferson 16, Blowing Rock 13; Todd 12, Blowing Rock t 15; Jefferson 11. Blowing Rock 14:1 Cove Creek 22. Blowing Rock 2; j Croaanore 29, Blowing Rock 23. The total scores for the yea*" are; Frances Pitts 71. Pearl Elrod 48, and AIverta? Greene 97. I I LEGEND OF LOVER'S LEAP j All who have looked upon the? splendor of John's River Valley, as | seen from Lovers' Leap near the town ? of Blowing Rock, have felt the haunt-! ing spirit which is always near. The] beautiful scene is of hazy blue moun-j la ilia and valleys, sleeping peacefully | beneath the rest of the world, and" hold? *1^ * fU>a- VJaorho/! I.nnr.a nf . a boy and a girl. Long ago when Indians alone inhabited America, there settled near the rock called Lover's Ix?ap a tribe of Iroquois Indians. The Cherokees were farther back, but it happened that these two tribes were hostile and immediately the Cherokees. on the war-path, scalped many of the Iroquois and carried their wives away. In the Iroquois camp there was a young brave, Big Rock," who was the Chief's son. In the Cherokee camp the chieftain's beautiful daughter was making preparations to marry Squan to, a brave her lather had chosen for her husband. Tahita did not love Squanto, so she was very unhappy. Tahita met Big Rock one day while at her favorite hideaway, then called "Sunshine and Thunder Rock." After this they iViet often at the rock and fell deeply in love. Big Rock told Tahita that he would ask her lather for j her hand in marriage, and tell his own father of his choice. Tahita agreed. Her father was very angry and told her lover to never again enter the Cherokee camp. Big Rock left after signaling Tahita to meet him at the "Sunshine and Thunder Rock." Big Rock told his father of Tjihita and begged him to consider his wishes and happiness. The chief was enraged that his son; should choose a fmm ?ia _Chcrcl:cc tribe. - He charged Big Rock never to meet Tahita again or he would be sent from the camp. So Tahita and Big Rock met and talked of the eraelness of both fathers. Suddenly Tahita sprang to her feet with a happy light in her eyes. If he cannot be together in life, we can be together in death," she cried. So, locked in each others arms, they went to the Happy Hunting Ground in the peaceful .Johns River Valley. They found happiness in the world beyond, so the legend, goes, and so endeth the lif? Tab**-?- or?^ Big Rock and the legend of Lover's Leap. BOONE BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday, March 17, 1935 Sunday School at 9:45 with classes for ages; 11:00 a. m., worship and sermon, subject, "The Peril of an Empty Life"; 6:30 p. m., Baptist Training Union; 7:30 union services at Methodist Church. Dr. J. C. Owens of the United Dry Forces in Raleigh will be the speaker. His subject will be "Prohibition and Temperance." One of the most faithful Sunday School classes we have is the T. E. L., taught by Miss Nancy Lewis. You can depencr on them. Among the sick that we know at>out this week are: Mrs. Dr. Hodges, Mrs. Len Cook, Mrs. Wyke, Mr. Frank Miller and Mrs. Dallas Cottrell. Others confined to their beds on account of sickness are Mr. Murray Crltcher, Miss Marian Beach and Mr. Ben Councill, who was carried to a Charlotte hospital Tuesday morning. All of these should be remembered in our prayers. The following friends were kind enough to have the pastor and his family out to dinner during the past week: Mrs. Whitehead and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cook, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Eggers. New members coming into our church are Mr. and Mrs. Grubbs and Mr. and Mrs "Roger Greene. J. C. CA^rPE, Pastor. * THRILLING MYSTERY STORY The unusual exploits of the French police are told by H. Ashton-Wolfe, notea criminalogist, in another of his stories of baffling mysteries. One of many features in the American Weekly, issue of March 17, the big magazine which comes regularly with the Baltimore Sunday American Buy your copy from your favorite newsdealer or newsboy. a i)?!?r ii.v* fi unci insiui > Family in No j EDITOR'S NOTE: The Greene family history, the first installment of which follows, was written in the year 1901 by the late Rev. George Greene, missionary to China, and ? was once published in pamphlet form. There is such a large family connection in Watauga county that we believe in presenting the interesting. story we are rendering a , worth-while service. By G. W. GREENE Some centuries ago there lived ii lone of the xniUuie counties of South I ern England a man named Boktor This was not his surname, for sur I names were r.ot then common. Bu 1 there were others of the same nam. land sometimes confusion resulted. A; he lived near the village green, fo: ! the sake of distinction he was calle< jBoxton de Green, that is, Bokton o: the green. The name was afterwards [applied to his children also, and s< [came to be a family name. In procesj 'of time French phrases became lesi popular, the "de" was dropped, anc the name was simply Green. Sometimes an additional ?V* is used ami the name is spelled "Greene," but thi? is a matter of personal preference, anc the name is the same with cithei spelling. Some of the descendants of this first man with the name Green were quite prominent in England. Sir Hen ry Green was Lord Chief Justice. The I mother of Catherine, one of the illfated wives of Henry VIII, was Mauii Green. Sir William Green and his son Sir Michael Green, were knighted the same day by King James I, about the beginning of the seventeenth century. These ail belonged to Northamptonship and Oxfordshire. But there were others, perhaps, of the same family in Wiltshire. From this county, about 163.*), John Greene came to the colony of Massachusetts. But ho was a Quaker and Quakers iv^rn not in thA aaIami- nf Massachusetts. Hence he soon left Massachusetts, and joined Roger WilHawa {n-Rh?vlfl-Jolon?< lUT'l llLn d?Ti scondants were quite prominent in the affairs of the colony, and in later years his descendants have filled a prominent place in the State of Rhode Island: The most prominent of all was General Nathaniel Greene, confessedly second only to Washington amor^ the generals of the Revolution. H? was of the fifth generation from thi? first John Greene. Name Established In New Jersey* Early in the eighteenth century one branch of the family left Rhode Islam arid settled near Brooklyn. They die not tarry here long, but soon passet WATAUGA'DEMOCRAT?EVER ui mc vrici/iiiy rthwest Carolina on to New Jersey. Here the family is very large and many have occupied prominent position. There have been Judges. Governors. Professors in Princeton, and theologians, as well as men prominent in business. BrigadierGeneral F. V. Greene, who was lately with General Merritt at Manila, is of the New Jersey Greenes. On his return from Manila, a few days ago. ho was nromotfd to be Maior-CSon er.il. From New Jersey the Greenes n have moved westward and are now - very numerous in Pennsylvania and i. New York. About the middle of the last cent tury a colony moved from New Jer? sey and settled in Rowan County, s North Carolina. This "Jersey Scttler ment" is now a part of Davidson 1 County and lies near the Yadkin Rivf cr, opposite Salisbury. In this colony , 3 was Jeremiah Greene, with a large ) family of sons and daughters. Later j 3 generations often pronounced the 3; name Jeremy, but in the old records I it is always written Jeremiah. H. E. - McCuIlough, of England, has secured j i ; grants to large tracts of iand in North j ? Carolina, tract No. 9 containing 12,- i 11500 acres, including much of the land j j of the Jersey settlement. Jeremiah ! i Greene bought 541 acres of this tract. | ! j This land is described as lying "on the waters of the At kin or Pec Dee," I j on Potts' Creek. This creek passes near the village of Limvood, within j ! a mile of Jersey Church, and empties j i ' into the Yadkin, not far away. The ; , ; land was bought in 1702. Some years , later when this tract of land was di- ; : vided between his two sons. Richard j j and Isaac, the new deeds were not. j registered, but the names of the new j i owners were written cn the margin of j the page where the old deed was reg- ' i istercd. i Jeremiah Greene seems to have j spent the rest of his days in David'sop, and probably died about the end of the century His son Isaac also j probably remained in the Jersey Set. tlemcnt and is the ancestor of those j who was proD&oiy a younger son of Jeremiah Greene, in 1784 settled in the Forks of the Yadii.kin, and has left in Davie County a 11 large arid honorable progeny. Jeremiah Coiiifcs to Watauga 'j Soon after the war of th> Revolution three sons and two daughters of i Jeremiah Greene left I he .Tprjwj,* Settlement and moved to Watauga, which | was then a part of Wilkes. These ; i three brothers were Richard, Jere1 i :niah and John. They were all then L | married, had large families, children grown and married, ar.d probably 1Y THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. some grandchildren. Their sisters al-11 so wwc married. JCSSSS to L-?"drinell Eggers, ami Sarah to a man named I Wilson. The land to which these emigrants j came was a goodly land. The County ! of Watauga lies on a high table land, j between the Blue Ridge on the east j and the Stone Mountain on the west. ' It was then virgin forest. Daniel j Boo o had passed through the couni ty. and for a tune occupied a cabin I near the site of Boone, some stones i of which can still be seen, but he had not even made a clearing, before he i moved farther westward. The mounj tains and the valleys, the swamps and the plateaus were covered with gigantic oaks, chestnuts, pines and otli ickfoh or trees. some BFvWl,L"i' still remain. What a task to clearj those forests! What a wealth of tim-; her was wasted in preparing these! I lands for cultivation! They cut down ; the great trees, cut them into suita! bie lengths, roiled them into heaps. I and burner! them! The soil is still wonderfully fertile, j and it is probable that at the time of : which we write there was beneath fhe ' j trees a tangled network of the rich-. | est pea-vines covering the whole face ; of the earth. Herds of cattle, sheep an.! hogs, together with forest fires.! have destroyed all this rich verdure. . (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) J CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends j who have been so faithful, loving: ant! j In us P^pv the sickness and! death of a dear wife and mother, of ; a son and brother during the last thirty days May God's richest blessin. :: n . t upon each of you in your trying* hours. I A. G. STORY. CARL STORY. igssr^'-rTgr7i^TTa:^fn* fjy^nKjaflgtfljMMMgr ' Crazy Water! I Crystals | I We have just been B( appointed agents for Hi the famous Crazy B! Water Crystals. 8 NSW PRICKS - $1-00 & 60?. 1 Formerly priroj SI.OI? and $1.50. 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