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VOLUME XXXVI
ACTIVITIES AT
LOCAL CHURCHES
ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH
r ndav School at 10 a. m.
Pr^u'hinjf service and communion at
iJeren; , i
A'.so services at 7^0 p. m. The
?7-M'es will be conducted f?y Rev. S.
E. tvajcg. Midweek prayer meeting
oj ' ednesday nigh*.
A cordial invitation m*-extended to
s.?ty who will attend any of these
i?rr. . es.
f METHODIST NOTES
?r " > were present at Sunday School
>2^.; >urmay ami inc toiai onennps
i?i ..il purposes amounted to forty
dollars. The offerin was made
wi*"lit any special effort. Three dif
fevent Sunday School specials were
pr? -fitted bv the superintendent and
th Masses did the rest. Liberality is
btu- > commended by Paul, the Aposth
- -.day is the last preaching: Sund.\
before Conference The second
;> li r.uth is the day for Blowing: Rock
th* the pastor leaves the following
To--day for State viiie, where the an
m Conference convenes.
stewards are very busy men
th? day.- They are standing: by the
cfcioh whole heartedly. Let's make
it ?*- easy for them as possible, and
p.i\ the church budget without one
wo? j of complaint. Many blessings
h; come upon us in spite of the
d' .pht ami other conditions.
A class of men known as the Wesley
Bible Class for men with only
present, made their free will
or ring to the Sunday School $10.35
la Sunday. Commendations are in
oi .
(' j mot ion Day was a very inter
#r:*!iv.S? and instructive occasion to the
?**j t- ia*t Sunday. The pageant reprc*m.
-liingr the season? of the your,
w. v arricd out to perfection by the
eh rfii o? the b?urft?rt'X igjwary and
?d jii? :or department*. Miss Annie Stan
b'Jiv and her helpers are to bo confci
:.mlated for their leadership in this
of the departments,
nday School Sunday 9:45 a. m.
F vaching at 11 a. m. and 7 :30 p.
? .
worth l.eapue 6:45.
Wednesday prayer service and choir
pi. -lite .7:1*0 p. m.
welcome is extended to all.
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES
?^nday School 10 ?. m.
}>. Y. P. t'. 6:30 p. m.
'V i^ver .service Wednesday 7:30 p.
|. > extend a cordial welcome to all
re.- -t'iits, students and visitors to attend
these services.
The ladies of the W. M. S. are
having their week of prayer this week
And a!t?o a study course in "Royal
.Service."
The pastor preached at the Baptist
church at Trade. Tenn. last Sunday
afternoon to an appreciative congregation.
Prayer meetings arc being held on
"Tuesday nights preparatory to a seTies
exf meetings which begins Oct.
26th.
? il^et jjh 'keep in mind our meeting
here which begins Oct. 12. We will
have prayer service every night next
Tttrfk in the homes as a preparatior
So. the meeting. Let us make pre pa
ration to attend regularly from th?
start, and let us pray for the meet
dng.
Our town is growing. Are we mak
mg progress spiritually? Are wo do
ing all we can to have a clean town'
That is what we want?a clean town
Blowing Rock
Sunday School 10 a. m.
I "Worship 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
B. V. P. U. 6:30 p. m.
Prayer service Tuesday 7:30 p. n
Church conference Sunday nigl
after service.
fni-uni^ tA m
t attr uiMnuif, iv. ? _
meeting: beginning: Oct- 26th with Bi
Origgs as the preacher. Prayer se
?dces are being held preparatory f?
the meeting. Baptists of Blowii
Rock should wake up arid get bus
They have a big job on hand. L
every member rally to the work.
We hope to have good congregj
tions Sunday. AH arc invited to
with us,
The Watauga Ministerial Assoc
lion will meet Monday morning (J
5 in the ladies parlor of the Met
\disr church. All ministers of the c<
ty are invited to attend and beer
members.
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SI 50 Per Year BOONE.
MORRISON SAYS HE WILL
SUPPORT MAX GARDNER
Raleigh.?Kormer Governor Morri?
-on\s visit to Raleigh recently ieft an
impression on his auditors that hi
o-.cellency desires rather to support
.Max Gardner who was his opponent
.a li>20, than to fight him personally
or by proxy.
There ts a growing suspicion ?nat
he agitation against Gardner by a
few individuals was ill-timed and was
prong at the most unseasonable period
of possible state polii :cs. It tame
so early thai Gardner and his friends
could organize against it, and then
it was personally unfortunate. The
Gardner men have not been fighting
Morrison, the quarrel is between the
ex governor's and the present gover
nor s policies.
Mr. Morrison is not hard on Mr.
Gardner. One gets an impression from
his talk that Governor Morrison great
ly desires to show his friendliness to
Gardner by supporting him in iO-8.
It is entirely probable that such ao
. iviti s as Mr. Morrison engages i?i
will be confined tr? the geneiai a>>em
hly which must enact the legislation
for a progressive state. He would har
.lly confer upon future governors le|
gisiative powers by which they can
ut appropriations and thereby virtually
make them. It is not written
that his former excellency will se? k
#? seperate future governots from
from these great powers which bad!
?eer. denied him. but the Morrison'
campaign of the future will be directed
toward making North Carolina
actually and honestly progressive.
But there seems a good deal K ?
j opposition talk for 1928 than there
has bc?n in the last fortnight. Car.:
didatrs can save themselves trouble
! by getting right.
B. AND L. ASSOCIATIONS IN N.
C. SHOW GAIN OF $14,000,000
I
The building and loan associations
in North Carolina show a gain lust
year of $14,000,000 in assets. They
'oaneii $25,000,000 to build 8,000
home* to hnu>.<* 40.000 itf our eiti
j II.*.
In the past fi Vf years these associations
sho.v a gain 1st assets from
? $21>.000,000 to $70,000,000. This i.-. a
splendid record and one in which we,
should feel much pride.
Hov. ever, when we compare North
Carolina with other states in this par-i
licuiar. we find she falls far short J
j >f the position she should occupy. We
( find hen arc fifteen other state**'
with a greater investment in building
and loan stock. Twelve of these show
i a greater gain in assets in I'd24 and
j three states each show a greater than]
ho total investment irc building andj
I loan in North Carolina. Wo find also
; that twenty states have a larger ia^
vestment per capita than does N?orth
Carolina, and the per capita invest*
j ment of ten of these is more than
i double that of North Carolina.
Of the more than two and a half
! million population in this state only
! 81,47 4 of this number were patrons
- -j? S.
I oi tnese gieai v?i ?uih ?*??*.
j home building-. Of this number prohf
ably HO per cent are either borrow.
jers or anticipate borrowing in the
lj future for the purpose of paying for
: J homes.
, i It is evident therefore that the
.! building and loan associations in
?j North Carolina so far have failed to
. j properly inform the public at large
of the splendid advantages of build_
j mg and loan stock as a medium for
.I the investment of savings of the pe? >
i pie.
i. j No group of financial institutions
' in the state can boast of a cleaner
; record of stability than can our builti
: ing and loan associations, and the
average interest yield on money ir.
^ vested in these associations last yeai
was .05928, or nearly 6 per cent. Ye
I millions of dollars went out of th<
,r[ state in various forms of securities
-o paying not any better return and n
r_; doubt many of them of doubtful val
or uew
It is safe to assume that 90 p*
iVJ cent of our people do not understan
the functions of these institutions an
t this can be overcome only by concei
H-nt-orl <>{Fnrt and iudieious adverti
ke' ing on the part of the building ar
loan associations.
ia- The annua) meeting of the stoc
>ct. holders of the Watauga County Ba:
ho- will be held in the hank building
>un Monday October 5th. at 1:#0 p.
>me All stockholders are requested to
present or send proxy.
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WATAUGA COWTY. NORTH CA
GRUESOME DISCOVERY
MADE AT MORGAN YON
Morganton, September ?Wednesday
morining a patient from the j
.State Hospital who has the freedom
of the grounds and had gone into
a thicket just behind the hospital to-et
a >'.tuirrel trap made a gruesome
discovery. About .'100 yards from'j
the Eno'a toad and on the State
grounds lay a pile of clothes and
born. , outlining a man's form and
several yards from the body was a
skeleton.
Ci??? > et J. B. Riddle was notified
nod summoning a jury made on in
i??t in :.t :>.? Th, r?i-jr. Iia.t
Sen dead for some time and the
v'denc': pointed t?> suicide. Above
th- -pot. whetfe the skeleton lay
was stretched a wire lo which dungf!ed
a fragment of cloth. The coronr's
jury reached th- conclusion that
he man, possibly a patient at the
State Hospital hanged himself and
that the body hung suspended in
the secluded, place, unnoticed until
i dropped from decay.
About seven months ago a potiet:t
by the name ol" McCrary disappear.ai
mysteriously from the Hospital
and until this time nothing had
been heard of him or no trace found
, The theoiy is that the bones and
i clothing discovered represent the ntor
tal remains of McCrary.
Considering tin* length of time
that has elapsed the clothing was
in f?url\ good condition. The blue
of the shirt and the heavy work
shoes were evidence that it was
the body of a farm patient at the
Hospital. In the pockets of the
troupers was change to the amount
s MO.
Tin- remains were placed in a rofli
:i ii. I m t* I. i e i 11 fit i- in< vt iiru .
i hiii *is t hi' if or-pi la! authority's can
make will !>< given decent burial in
the Hospital cemetery.
TELLS OF WONDERFUL
GROWTH OF MIAMI
We are u>ins a paragraph from a
, letter recently received from ~*\ H.
W. Hort?*n ot' Miami, F!a;
"This town has enUr?cd its i?aundnries
so as to take in some territory
that has hinlt up> over the edRUs of
the old corporation, and has more
than douhlcdf its population. We now
have about people, and if
they had tafcmv in Coral Gabies, Miami
Beach an<f f-fiaieatr, si? of which
is really a part of the city, there
would have been another IIMI.lWO pop
itiaiion, and they are cMnhff so fast
r that the railroads cannot haul material
fast enough to- builtfr homes
for them. There is densoarf for ail
the men that can he found, but the
question is getting material fast enough
ami housing tec then*.
CONFEDERATE RESQUFnORS
Confederate reunieu far the year
1925 Can*a ffiiiwod Triplet! Wo. I27*i
We the committee on resolution*
j in behalf c*f thv veterans tender our
! thanks tt> the facrasJty orod students
; of the Aj>j?uluchian State Normal at
! Boone, Sept 24-25, for their tender
j care, keepnar?: and feeding veteran:
( and friend through the reunion
and the cordial invitation to hold tin
j next Reunion by kindness of the
mid School.
E. M. GREPTR
GEORGE ROT EN. Com.
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Our Air Defense Tl
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1 ~ liliil
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1 s" ~i^k ^j|lll y^.'.j
k- I f^jroca vr"g. k , IBW*
nk ; fc
an! The officer* of President Co
j Wasfiington, as they took up
efficient air defense for the l"c
Chairman, Judge Arthur Denis
Morrow of New York; jrwi 3e?*?
ROLINA. THURSDAY OCTOBER
i DR. VANCE'S TRIBUTE VO
WALTER L ALEXANDE
The following tribute to the lat
Walter L Alexander of Blcwinc Hoc
wa.- written by Dr. dames i. V;?mco.
Before turning to my sarraon,
should like to ciaim the privilege c
paying a brief tribute to the nierr
ovv of Walter Alexander, whose >u<
den death during the pa>t week, ha
saddened the hearts of ail lovers g
Bloving Rock.
1 have known Mr. Alexander .one
the days when he first came as
young man to this sky-line count r
1 in earcb of recreation and udve?
ture. From the first this matchless r<
irioti cast its spell on him, and n
man has done more to open the gaU
of these lofty peaks and wide spac<
to the world than he.
i ne was a man, big-hearted,. broa
, visinned, generous, magnetic T
1 -aw what c??uid be done, and he. ha
| a masterly way of putting into r"al
I ty hi.- di "ams and visions. 5Iuj:
<?C what we have around us here i
this famed resort on the roof of tk
world, we owe to his creative visic
and constructive g.-uius.
He was incapable of doing a thsr
i that was small or mean. His nntui
} was big in tolerance and human kin
1 ncs>. There was something about hi
| that drew people toward him and tl
! friends he made he kept.
Blowing Rock and its friends mu
i never cease to cherish the memo
of Walter Alexander. His one wea
ness i would call moiv of a disea
than a transgression. We all kne
the brave fight he made, and tl
. kind God, who measures men, not 1
the goal they reach, but b\ the go
tht-v seek, not by their freedom fro
frailties but by their soul struggle
knows the brave fight Walter Aie
atidcr has made through the years.
Today in this church where he s
a feu Sundays since and worshippt
with us, we would say: Peace to h
ashes! Bl?swil be his memory!
Ami we would like to extend 01
deepest sympathy t?Ki. to his devot<
wite ami precious children, on who
the crushing- s?nrou' of nis trap
j death has fallen like- a bolt out
t cloudless sky.
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COUNCIULM ALL.
The following invitation has be*
vejceived. by friends <at the couple
| town, this week.
Mr and Mrs. David McKee Hall
cv gyn>l the honout of your
presence at the irrnrrt.tge of thei
sister
Miss Margaret Hooker Moore
? tO
Mr. Janu- Hardin Cotsncill
??n Thursday the fifteenth of Oct oh
at eight o'clock, its the eveni
at the Methodist Church
Sylva. Xortht Carolina
BEAUTY
. R. ?utj is oi liu- sou!. -(Vltivi
f :5.
Not chunk.- and stamps ami rot
. :?n sticks and trash, but. grass a
y: trues and shrubs arid flowrse ?H
different!
The Great Creator ha- given
ji numerous wondctful examples
beauty ami the means of produci
.. * ?*Ise them.
r| Don't let trash or weeds rem
where something useful or beauti
should be.-?Health and benuL.v
mand this.
heir Herculean ~l ask
A
olirige's air board. now in session at
theii herculean task of finding an
S. Left to right, they are; Vicron
if Michigan; Chairman Dwight
etary Wm. K Pnrrnd.
wo or
' 1925 3 Cts. aCopf
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* 303 MilcTan How ""
jry fA^moc^CTKj^V t V
k
Lieut Aifnv' Williams, L S
Navy flier, who it* an unofficial test
' ' at New Vorfc last week flew a 20ni'
foot Curtja."* racer at a spee?.l 01
u 103.5 miieo pear ho?ur. Lbe fa?Ui?t
a I ever attained by mem.
s. INTERESTING FACTS FOR WA
x T AUG A DAIRYMEN
at Forty four milk ct\rKieuscr?cs in Wised
eon sin $?:? it! an av.irrjfjv of $2 per
lis hundred pounds for Auijjust milk delivered
to the Cact?Hrt>cs. A cheese faeur
lory in Wuluup' cownt\ paid S'J per
ed hundred pounds foe August milk demi
live red to the fjac&n y.
ric The hutter and cheese class i milk
of price* for i Ho .Vow Vert Hlirfj-j-j
August wihv .iinnwfrr^i as follows
this week by Hitt N'evr York "milk Conference
Hoard an?t the Uairymcnls
[..*agu": Milk tes timer Would not
i" the farmer SI.50 per hundred pounds
Figuring the sknn nriffc and butter
milk at -Or pur hur.^irvd they would
I receive a rota! ? f per hundred
pounds
North ' :i -odnn. cor,unii's 7.0T7,MtU*
pounds ?* ?h,vse per year. Last year
' vi! nvi-L- S*U0?,Hf porrnds ot* choose,
j 't Co?; - per -rrtt I'ssja to produce a
'er! Villon i !?u*k in NYvribt Carolina than
nK '.i ;ibi in \VT _i*r.sir? or New York.
{ ;? th'c ch &?ctofics of North Carolina
car p:i> jitst as much or a lit
tie m<n<' toe 1*91!It delivered to the
factories than she factories of Wis'
onsin >i York. why .should tfic
?te farmt*i> wvfern North Carolina
be willing1 t?* allow all this money tt
'ks cave the stare c*. luist year we paic
id Wisconsin ar*f New York $1.&89;0&]
ov/ for cheese.
When ?ve car? make enough chees?
to supply our state and have ? stir
?f't plus n< ran help to supply- ocErr.
southe.- ; -rates that do not mamzfac
t.ure a poctnrf of cheese.
ain
fol
de" LBCS-McRAE INSTITUTE
HOUSED IN NEW QUARTER
The following is taken from th
current number of "The Pinna 1 ?s
: monthly organ of I,eey-MeP.ae Inst
tute:
On ih moiT.ing ?>f August tw-ntj
I sixth, bee: -McRho inaugurated a nv
I schedule for the session; new, becaus
I ihe school year is to be arrasged lik
| hat of other educational institution
instead > opening, in April and clo
j mgr in December, as? in the past twei
v-one years. This is made possib!
y Do erection of buildings suitab
J v-i Mil. III\rilllL<21li? . i
some of us pioneers in the work vt
remember the days of smoky keroser
lamps, small wood heaters, and vat<
carried from a neighbor's well, *Te>
nessee." with its electric lights, f i
oace heal. and water piped from \}
>asement to all parts of the bniidit
seem? almost palatial. We rejo>e th
the Master gave His servai:*. a visit
of tht development of this work, ai
that friends have made Dt.>sihi. ?>
dm fort ah I** home.
We have already enrolled 116 p
pils :!i of whom are in the Hii
School and 1*2 are in the boar.ti!
department.
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NUMBEif 3}
NEWS FROM THE
NORMAL SCHOOL
j A meetim* of unusual interest to
the State Normal ah<J ?h<? surrounding
counties was the confererfc?> of
' the County Superintendents, Hisjh
School Principals and Ffnjh Scnool
! teachers at the Xormal on Friday
1 the They hehj their conference
| in one of th large recitation rooms
of ch?- A dm i .ustrat i?/ti Building". The
; Count \ Supormtencieats from Ashe,
Avery. Caidwdl. Mitchell and Afieghany
were present. Various tonics
of special interest to hhrh school organize
>? and work wter discussed,
Dr. .J. 11. Highssnlth presiding: an<f
. impressmany vita! intercuts of the
school sysrein. Th outstanding figure
of all w;i - our hci? -talc Sup'rinteiub
A T. Xllen, who when
j the&C m * all in :? !v?dy ?i th* r >s|
tram ?>f th** iargt auditorium ntroj
duced th \ triou* Sn ?< rinter.dvmt.i*
the student body and th-.- Super-ntendents
in zutn presented at President
Doughert' V rcpiest. the Principal*
and Uachers <?t" their respective
counties. Each >f the Superintendents
m.i c;i_- a few appropriate
remark-. About forty were pt\
from th*.- <* cor "tier, A.-dv and Avery
having about a dozen each and smaller
numbers from the other counties*.
and from the interesting: disCU:
. - of the various pha- e- of
high .--chord work i'd by the I've*
Sbrc< Director Hu*h smith. nmny helpful
fact* were hr??ugh? and enlhi-iasm
inspired that * ill" doubt less mean
much*. to the high schools of'this ,-cc!
urnr. All these -a ".* entertained at
! dViniec by the Home Economics D j
partntent.
The tild Confederate Veterans held
tlittir annual meetSlSjer a? the Normal
iui Thursday and Friday and a- us
ua?' '? rre entertained1 by the- Normal
at r.oN'iU Home. At chapel or Thurs
day i:&ov wen* present and grave some
of their old martial music for the
: measure of those presanU.ProSi Greer
gave rim u pleasing; way the address
of welcome to those beloved old men
lines are fasw: growing the
fche.r\? Ikiug: only about a dozen presi
eot. Profs. Dougherty, Itankin and
, M, f-; \\ iHisk-y made a<iure.it*!> to
them* Ld? tbetr meeting.
Thy Xorroal is to bono? these
noble- ttr-r whom r'fco all :?' now
zliiJ. to honor.
DEEP CAP NEWS,
Trie consolidated school af. Q&ep
j ?Jupi b? prugre.-sing n<ce!y. It is given
up hv ail our people that the present
Uuq. bids lair to be the best school
w.c have evei had. CVur good te:a hens
Lo be striving to the limit for
this t-rwd. Everybody is behind thrf
: xrh.joi and this combined makes
. ^Ifcirvgs go.
Mr. Howard Ste^dman brother in
? Law <>i Mr. A. I*. Stiller hofids a p?*
>, siltou at the Dcepi Gap Cash. Store
L- as clerk arid bookkeeper. Howard is
5' a good jovial fellow and has made
many friends since he came here. We
> understand that ho may later make
. his permanent hutne here,
t CJydia. daughter of Mr. ami Mrs.
_ L. .A Watson visiting at the honte
of her parents here. She lives in the
state of Montana, and this is her first
visit hack home in two years or over.
Mr: Danoy. a real estate man frwm
^ N'orth Wilkeshoro has recently been
over in Deep Gap looking oat some
property for a list of prospective
.? clients. He will bo hack in ? few
l_ days on this same mission wc are
told.
The Deep Gap Railway Company
is doing a good business hauling ex"
tra freight from Bowie to this place.
** Business seems to be picking up and
'* this will speed greater things to come
ls Mvss Prlr.( !<: Green, the little blind
girl recently gave a concert and rcu
cua) at the h?nme of Mr. A. F. Nich;
ols. She play- sweetly upon the gui_
I tar and sings the oid time and mod?l
cm songs.
,v i She received a nice collection and
>c! one Rev. K. G. Greer of Fleetwood
L*r, offered to "rive as much as all those
n" who were present and made good his
r" word. He also made the blind prirl
1L'ja present of an Oliver typewriter so
that she could write her work and
at letters to people who were not blind.
Rev. Greer is a very open hearted
man when it comes to gift; to The
11 r blind.
a- Editor Nance of the Northwestern
?h Herald, and 1. D. Stanburv, Clerk of
i?g Court of Jefferson were visitors for
the week end at. Miss l.ouise Hodges*