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TODAY and * 4 *rKj&n FBAMtt PA^yRTTp-^jfi^./ rr gjXKBftt PetgSy^?j4? IMMOUTA1JTY .... step away 1 am glad that a national movement has been started for a mcmor ial to Will Rogers. Vice President Garner is the chairman, with ex-President Hoover, Henry Ford and a long list of other prominent men on the committee. Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, will receive subscriptions. I cannot think of any man in my time, not in public otiice, wno endeared himself to so many millions of people. I saw Will Rogers' last picture the othe- night. "Steamboat 'Round the Bend." I could not believe that he is not still living. One of tile miracles of our times is the power of the motion picture to preserve the illusion of life. It is the next thing to immortality. I am sending my dollar today to Jesse Jones for the Will Rogers memorial. I hope everybody who has ever enjoyed one of his pictures will do the same. ? * * * MOTORS .... and depressions We had a depression in 1907. That was the year in which Henry Ford put out the first low-priced automobile, bringing motoring within the reach of everybody. The automobile industry broke the back of the hard tjmoe Wc had another depression in 1921. That was the year in which instalment sales of cars became general. Once more tnc automobile industry lifted Uie nation out of the hole. This year, 1935, we are coming out of the worst depression in nearly a hundred years. The automobile business is the biggest since 1929. More than 3Vu million cars will have been made and sold befoie the end of the year. For the third time the motor car is the main instrument in restoring prosperity. Other things have helped, of course, but I give automobiles first place. RELIEF .... a liability A short time ago one of my wealthy-friends, who owns a large country estate, asked me to recommend a good house painter. He was going to repaint all of his buildings, a job which would run to several thousand dollars. I told him Ed Pixley was the best painter I knew in our part of the county. "Has he been on relief?" asked my friend. "Tf he nas. I don't want him. I am all through hiring men who have been on relief. They have all become too lazy to be interested in doing rea's work." i I met Ed Pixley in front of the bank that afternoon. He told me that all the family were working at whatever they could find to do, and were managing to scrape along. "We haven't gone on relief yet, and we are not going to," said Ed. 1 told him about my friend. Ed cranked up his old car and started right after the job. He got it. I have heard other employers say me same uiuig urxiut workers wno have been on relief. a ? INDEI'F.NDKNCE spirit I slopped on Forty-second Street, Mew York, the other day, to have my shoes shined. Out of the long row of bootblacks one boy attracted my attention. I got the boy talking. He had come from California, he told me, with his invalid father, who had been offered a job in New York but couldn't hold it. So the boy?he was fourteen or so ?had got himself a shoe-shine kit ana was supporting his father and himself. "Is your father on relief?" I asked. "Not for a minute," he replied. 'I wouldn't let him, even if he wanted to. We're getting along . . . Hey! Here's your change. Mister." I had slipped him a quarter instead of the regulation nickel. "I don't want any money I haven't earned," he said. There is more of that Amerlc; t spirit of independence left than motr folks think. * ? -GRIT still pays I heard the other day, from a friend in Moultrie, Georgia, of an example of pure grit in the face of adversity. An elderly minister, too old and feeble to fill a pulpit any longer, was facing starvation. The mortgage on his little country home was about -o he foreclosed. But neither he nor his aging wife was willing to apply for relief. i The wife took charge of the situation. She persuaded the local banker to lend her $JtO. Forty dollars went for a mule, the rest for seed, equipment and fertilizer for a five-acre toharcn natfli T o of YV? ?% ? ? fK r MWMV oiunui one iniuiicu selling her tobacco. It brought $1,000. The mortgage and the back taxes are paid and something over to live on. She found the road to independence in old age. STATE MISSION PROGRAM Mr. Carl Triplett, Sunday School Director of the Stony Fork Association says a State Mission program will be rendered at Laurel Fork Baptist Church Sunday night. October 13 at 7 o'clock. . Farms in Rockingham county on which no lespedeza was grown four years ago now have from 5 to 26 acres each. WAI An] VOLUME XLVII, NUMBER 15. THREE Y0UIHS(i(T TO DEATH; LETHAL GAS METHOD NEAR Fishing Licenses Bring In Large Sum; Bar Association Meeting. OPINION HANDED DOWN ON GAMBLING DEVICES Other News Brevities As Reported Weekly FrGm the State Capital By Special Don^ocrat Correspondence. i Raleigh. Oct. 3.?Three Madison ! county youths went to their death j Friday in the state's electric chair, j bringing to 159 the number claimed I by that hot seat which will soon give \ ! way to a lethal gas chamber. They { ' were Robert Thomas, 23, Oris Gut - ( I Tor ?n anrl a n^cr.?11 OA ,.,V?rv l' died for the murder of a great uncle of Thomas and Gunter, William Thomas, 75, Madison county merchant. Thomas and Gunter were thin, small and apparently anaemic; Gosnell was a strapping mountaineer, weighing 185 pounds. Thomas and 1 Gunter were penitent: Gosnell was defiant. Neither Gunter nor Gosnell could read or write, but Thomas had reached the grammar grades. A . streak of insanity is said to have been j present for several years in the ? Thomas and Gunter family; Gosnell was said to have actually struck the blow that killed the aged merchant. Appeals were made for clemency r I for the young men, who, it was j claimed, never had a chance in life, j Governor Ehringhaus declined to in- g terfere with the sentence of death. ^ Parents were here to claim the bod- * ies, but had no money or means of getting them back to the mountains for burial. Work is expected to start at once 1 now on the lethal gas chamber as the new means of inflicting the death penalty imposed by the state, and it is expected to be ready for use by t j the latter part of November. Those sentenced to death by electrocution will cause use of the chair until they are all dead, some of the electrocu- c tions overlapping the gassing. After * all so sentenced are out of the way. * then the gas chamber will be used s for death penalties entirely. c s FISH IIATCIIEKIES BENEFIT v Fishing licenses for this calendar j year have already brought in $28,- ^ i 204, or $4,082 more than the $24,112 ]( collected for the entire year 1924, ' and through October 1 the collections were about one-third more than fori the first nine months of last year. ? The increase is due in part to having available daily permits at 00 cents , each for residents and $1.10 for non- I residents, and a larger number of * fishermen buy state-wide rather than county licenses. Many are able, through better economic conditions, to go outside their home counties to ?u:-u - - * I won, wiuuiL requires me state-wide 1 i licenses. The funds are used at fish hatcheries and result in more and better small fish for stocking: streams. SPEAKS TO LAWYERS w William L-. Ransom, New York C City, president of the American Bar f: Association, wli! be the principal a speaker at the one-day meeting of S the N. C. State Bar in Raleigh, Octo(Continued on page 7.) e e REV. SHERWOOD SUPPLIES l' DURING ILLNESS OE PASTOR 11 11 Rev. Arthur Sherwood of Envin, Tenn., will supply for Pastor W. R. Davis at Willowdale Church next 01 Sunday morning. The public is invit- a ed to hear him. u Rev. Mr. Davis, his many friends " will be glad to note, is showing a a rapid recovery from a serious illness " and is now convalescing at his for- 15 mer home in Williston, S. C. SOUTH HOME IS ; RAZED BY FLAME' J Luther South Loses Structure and Furnishings In Saturday Night Blaze. I I a nugb umiic iiuuac, uie property i | of Mr. Luther S. South, located on ] | the road toward Howards Knot), was completely destroyed by fire during the early evening hours Saturday, the loss having been estimated at three G thousand dollars or more, a small a portion of which is said to have been j, covered by insurance. ii The fire, which was thought to fi have originated from a faulty flue, g was well under way when the fire department reached the scene, and d the elevation was such that there was y no gravity water pressure. The house ii was a good one, well constructed and ti completely furnished. A very small r. amount of the furniture was salvaged i is as the flames gained headway. ' n AUG ndependent Weekly Nev BOONE. WAT AUG; DECEASED LEADER Mr. Lindsay Michael, three limes a nieiTiber of fho 0pn/??.ki.. U1 North Carolina from Watauga county, whose death was chronicled in these columns last week. (Photo Curtesy Asheville Citizen.) J. H. PENNELL IS FATALLY INJURED Father of Mrs. Ed. Farthing, of Boone, Is Struck By Passing Auto. James H. Pennell. age 76, a forner member of the Wilkes County 3oard of Education, was fatally inured Saturday afternon when he was struck by a motor car as he walked ilong the Boone Trail Highway three niles west of North Wilkesboro and icar his home. News of the death of the promiient citizen came to a daughter, Mrs. *1 (i. Farthing of Boone, Ttiesciay norning. Mrs. Farthing had gone to he parental home following word of he accident and was on a hurried rip back to Boone when death came. <Jo funeral details are available. According to witnesses to the ac^ dent Mr. Pennell was walking olJ he dirt shoulder of the highway eft he left side y/hen a^at-going-in same a 1 recti on passed another v&hi:le. and swerving off the pavement, struck the aged man. Oscar Owens, the driver of the car, /ho was reported as intoxicated, /as arrested and is being held i:i the Vilkes county jail. Mr. Pennell was mocked a distance of several feet .nd examination revealed a badly rushed leg, with other injuries. His ondition was regarded as extremely ritical from the first. nAnnnmnir rriATv*/^ PURKS1SIY luril OFGATHERING Extension Forestry Specialist Will Be With Farmers at Friday Meeting. The following Forestry meetings rill be held in the county on Friday, Ictober 11: at Mr. Stacy Ford's arm in the Aho Community at 9:U0 . hi.; and at Mr. Hard Mast's farm, ugar Grove, at 2 p. m. Mr. R. W. Graeber, Extension Forstry Specialist, Raleigh, will be preset at these meetings to instruct the irmers in the thinning and care of he farm forests, and now to estiiate the amount of lumber that can e cut from a boundary of timber. The timber resources of Watauga junty are being rapidly depleted nd It will not be a great many years ntil there will be a shortage of timer for building purposes, as well as shortage of firewood on some farms nless something is dona to replenih our present forests. All the farmers in the county are ordially invited by County Agent W. ;. Collins, to come to the Forestry leeting closest their home, bring heir axe, and give a hand in startlg a real forestry demonstratio'n. 'ones Ashley Injured Seriously; In Hospital Press time reports from Johnson City indicate that Mr. Ashley's condition is extremely grave, and members of his family have gone to his bedside. Jones Ashley, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Ashley, of Boone, is reported s being in a serious condition in a ohnson City, Tenn., hospital, followlg injuries received when he fell -om a horse on the southwest Virinia farm of a relative. The accident which occurred Sunay afternoon, is said to have left oung Mr. Ashley unconscious, and iformation Wednesday morning was b the effect that r.o change was oted in his condition. Much anxiety ? felt over the outcome of the young tan's injuries. ysDaoer?Established in tl-> \ COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, WATAUGA MAN IS ALLEGED TO HAVE I STABBED SHERIFF Paul Baker Charged With an Assault on the Sheriff of Caldwell. JAILOR SUFFERS TWO JABS FROM SAME KNIFE Sheriff Tolbert's Condition Following Operation Said to be Serious. Baker Held Pending Outcome of Injuries. J. C. Tolbert, Sheriff of Caldwell county, lies in a hospital stabbed deeply in the left abdomen, and Chief Deputy Felix Parlier is confined with two knife stabs, according to the Lenoir News Topic, the injuries having been received Sunday night, as the two officers arrested Paul Baker, 35-year-old Watauga native. Baker, it was said, was arrested on a charge of drunkenness, being lodged in jail before they drove to the Caldwell hospital for treatment of their injuries. Their alleged assailant is being held in jail, without privilege or bond, pending the outcome of the officers' injuries. Not Critical * Sheriff Tolbert's condition is de-: scribed as serious but not critical. The next 72 hours it is said, will de- ! termine whether complications will arise. Jailor Parlier, stabbed in the i | hack and in the left abdomen, is recovering satisfactorily. ' According to Mr. Parlier. he and the Sheriff received a call to investi-1 gate circumstances surrounding a! ditched truck on the Greasy Creek I road, west of Lenoir. Upon arrival they (qunti Baker and his wife beside the truck and learned that a man by the name of Jerry Greene had left | the vehicle to obtain aid to pull the t truck out of the ditch. As the Sheriff and jailor arrested Baker, says the newspaper report, 1 and" as they were putting him into Sheriff Tolbert's auto, the accused allegedly. whipped out a knife and begad wielding it. The first blow ; I s' ,-uck Sheriff Tolbart in the left ab- j de-ncij, severing the intestines. Jail- j cr Parlier received two wounds, one ' In the back and one in tiie-> abdomen, before he. knew of the Sheriff's injury. Baker was soon overpowered and brought to jail, the officers proceeding to the hospital. They had lost quantities of blood, it was indicated. ! Sheriff Toiberl underwent an operation within a half-hour, and was resting as well as could be expected nt inuf rAn/tp f-o Blowing Rock Case Continued To Nov. 2j A hearing to be held in Newton j Saturday in court proceedings, in- j volving a small piece of privatelyowned land at the entrance of Blow- i ing Rock, was continued by Judge 1 Wilson Warlick to November 2, at which time the hearing will be held i before him at Lenoir. Mrs. J. M. Bernhardt, of Lenoir, owner of the land, is seeking an in-1 junction against the State Department of Conservation and Development to halt proceedings the departMnmt?iiiMM|=iiS3BB. effcrt :tc: "penrto] the public without charge the principal scenic attraction at Blowing ; Rock. PROCLAMATION IS ISSUED BY MAYOR Fire Prevention Week Subject For Declaration by Mayor Gragg. This week having been sot aside by official proclamation of the President of the United States and the ; Governor of North Carolina as Fire Prevention Week, Mayor W. H. J Gragg of Boone, Wednesday issued j the following proclamation: "Whereas, the increasing dcstruc-! tion of property and life by fire is a : matter of the most vital concern, and | that this wanton destruction can be ]. curbed to a large extent by reasonable care of our citizens, and "Whereas, the President of the United States and the Governor of North Carolina having proclaimed fire Prevention Week, now, i "Therefore, I, W. H. Gragg, Mayor of Boone, do hereby proclaim the i week of October 7-11 to be FIRE PREVENTION WEEK with the hope that auring this period or as 30on as possible all existing fire hazards in the city shall be corrected, that all inflammable waste matter and trash be removed, and that our people shall be aroused to the need for greater care along this line. Th? fire department and the city administration earnestly solicits the cooperation of the people of the town in this regard." i| mm i? 11 ,.|i... e Year Fighteetl?>?ighty-E THURSDAY, OCTO^R 10,1935 HEADS LEG^N IDA GRCVi;, la. . . . A royal re- j ception greeted J. Ray -Murphy J (above), iov.-a State Insurance ! Commissioner, upon his arrival I home from the annual American j Legion Convention where he was . elected National Commander. HARTZOG CITES j POSTAL GAINS New Clerkship Created Iror Ex-! panded Business at Boone Post Office. I Receipts at the Boone post office have shown an 18 per cent, increase for the quarter ending: Sept. 30. as compared with the same period last year, according to Postmaster W. G. Hartzog, who announces the addition of a new clerk to help take carc of the expanding postal business. Receipts for the quarter referred to were $3,098 47 in 1934 and $3.655.22 this year, and an auxiliary clerkship held by Mr. Ralph Greene, was made permanent as a result of the 40-hour week requirement and the increased business. Mr. Greene's promotion resulted in theappointrnent of Mr. L. L. Bingham, a former postal employee, as clerk. Mr. Hartzog believes that the large increase in postal receipts can indicate. nothing other than a generally bettered condition of business. While the college accounts for considerable of the postal business, the Postmaster notes that business from that source would only reflect a small gain. CRASH ON BOONE TRAIL KILLS TWO I Wilkes County Women D i e From Automobile-Bus Collision Sunday. Mrs. Edith Canter, age 23, and Miss Wilhelmia Triplett, 29, both of Purlear, Wilkes county, received fatal injuries when the automobile in which they were riding ran head-on into a Greyhound bus between Boone and North Wilkesboro Sunday aftemon. Another occupant of the car and Mrs. Gunters two children escaped uninjured. According to reports of those investigating the crash the car had rounded a curve going west, struck the shoulder of the road, swerved across the road into the left front wheel of the bus which was traveling toward North Wilkesboro. The driver L?i ptered nnder bond pending a hearing and further in yeaugauun. Both the deceased ladies were , prominent in Wilkes county, and Miss Triplett, the daughter of Dr. W. R. Triplett, had a number of relatives in Watauga. MAMMOTH TOMATO Mr. Dean Reese of Reese, has grown the champion tomato so far as the Democrat knows, having left one with the editor last week of a yellow variety which weighed two and a quarter pounds. Mr. A. C. Miller of Matney, brought in seven fine specimens which weighed even seven pounds. NEWPARSONAGE BEINGERECTED Baptist Congregation Constructing Modern New Pastor's Home. Ground ha3 been broken for a modern new structure to be used as the Baptist's pastor's residence, and ac? *- * * ' L.V.U1H5 i-\j <x Signed W1LX1 j Miller & Jenkins. Jefferson eontrac-1 tors, the nine-room residential building will be completed and ready for occupancy in sixty working days. The walls are to be constructed of brick, with full basement, excavation for which ha3 been completed, a stbam heating plant will be installed and the building will be thoroughly modern in every respect. The site of the parsonage is next door to the New Baptist Church Sunday School rooms on College Street. RAT ight $1.50 PER YEAR CONSTRUCTION OF SCENIC PARKWAY WELL UNDER WAY Additional Lettings on North Carolina Side Expected by November 1. $6,000,000 ARE ALLOTTED SCENIC THOROUGHFARE More Than Three-Fourths of Huge Sum to Be Spent in Xorth Carolina Construction. Construction In Sections. Washington, Oct. 10.?The national park service announced iast week a JS6.000.000 construction program for the Shenandoah-Great Smokv moun tains national parkway, with major links planned for North Carolina to cost approximately ?4 500,000 and the remainder held for Virginia sections. The program was announced as President Roosevelt formally approved restoration of the projects 56,000,000 appropriation impounded a year ago for relief purposes. Hillory A. Tolson. assistant director of the park service, said the key links ultimately would fit into the completed parkway to cost approxximatelv $20,000,000. Work Underway In N. C. Construction in North Carolina already is underway, and other sections will be contracted dy early November. Virginia's right of way difficulties were said to be delaying the construction start in the Old Dominion. With the other funds the park service contracted for the first link of the parkway several months ago. It is a stretch of about 10 miles, running south from the Virginia line into North Carolina below Roanoke. Bids on another North Carolina section of 8 miles from Roaring Gap to Air Bellows were advertised a week ago. Advertisement for bids on sections from Air Bellows to Deep Gap, 42 miles, will follow within the next few weeks. Another section will run from Soco Gap to Cherokee, 13 miles, if the Cherokee Indians will grant the required right of way through their reservation. Park officials said they expected still another section between Buck Creek Gap and Bull Gap, near Aaheviile, 31 miles, to be under construction within a few months. Await Deeds Thus far, the park service said, it had received deeds for neither the 200 foot parkway right of way nor the additional scenic basements in Virginia. and construction can not be started without these deeds. Virginia was said tn h<* aumuincr legislative, authorization to condemn land for scer.ie easement, but park service officials said it was possible that they could start construction if the state would convey to the Federal government deeds for the 200 foot right of way with a guarantee from responsible state, authorities that an effort would be made in the General Assembly meeting in January for legislation allowing condemnation of land for scenic easement purposes. The Virginia program, ready to be started as soon as proper deeds are received, includes construction from the southern boundary of the Shenandoah National Park to Rock Fish Gap, thus adding a park way extension to the present skyline drive, for 10 miles to the CharlottesvilleteoR^-\Cc>nlinue.d Jacob Dougherty Dies At Home In Tennessee A phone message early this ( Wednesday) morning, to Mrs. R. M. Greene of Boone, tells of the death of her last surviving uncle, Jacob Dougherty, at Mill Creek, Tenn. Funeral services are to be conducted at Piney Grove Church today at 2 o'clock. Mr. Dougherty was a brother of the late D. B. Dougherty of Boone, and also an uncle of Dr. B. B. Dougherty of Boone. J. T. BAITY SUCCUMBS John Thomas Baity, esteemed citizen and former Mayor of Mocksville. father of Mrs. Wade E. Brown, of Boone, died at his home Saturday following a paralytic stroke several weeks ago. Mrs. Brown had been with him during hi3 entire illness. Funeral services were conducted from the home Monday morning by the Reverends Dodd and Fulghum and interment was in Rose cemetery. Survivors in th> mmediate family include the widow, three daughters Mrs. J. P. Newman of Winston-Salem; Miss Hazel Baity of Mocksville, and Mrs. Wade E. Brown, of Boone. Mr. Baity spent most of his life in the mercantile business in WinstonSalem and Mocksville. In early life he joined the Baptist Church and took great interest in its work, being at the time of his death a mem ber of the Board of Trustee3 of the Mocksvi He Baptist Church. Mr. Baity was known as a quiet, unassuming gentleman, much admired for his integrity and high ideals.