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> VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 42 DEMOC Officia _ - *3?? , -.m:, '. ; '. '. v V" '. *- -,' 3 fx'j; I C o? TOWNSHIPS | ! < Boom* 8C Bald Mt Beaver Dam Blue Ridge . Blowing Rock . . uove \.?reeK ' Elk . 4. Laurel Creek Meat Camp No. 1 Meat Camp No. 2 ....1 :i North Fork Shawnehaw 1 Stony Fork Watauga 84 TOTAL". . 777 WATAUGA INN RAZED BY FIRE Popular Hotel at Blowing Rock De stroyed by Fire Last Friday; Damage Placed at $20,000 By RUPERT G1LLETT The Watauga Inn, Blowing Rockr onjy year-round hotel,, which wa totally destroyed by fire Friday at i loss of $20,000, will be rebuilt, ac cording to Thomas H. Coffey, one o the owners. ''Although I have no definite plan for rebuilding--" Mr. r.nffnv cnirJ "J is probable that a new structure wil be erected in time for the summei season." The fire started at noon Friday ? and within a few minutes the entiri second flour was burning:, and flames were leaping: forty feet into the ail above the roof. The frame building burned so rapidly that it was only bj last' work and with the greatest dif i . ficulty that the. furnishings were r moved before the flames reachec them. Heroic work on the part ol almost every v it i/.en in town rasultec in saving all of the furnishings with the oxtopiion of some that were broken in throwing them from the second floor windows. Among the first to reach the tin were the; pupils of the iilcrwing Rocl< school. Principal A. E. Mercei placed the younger pupils under one teacher, and then, with the older pupils, buys and girls alike, ho went tc "tfifc fire, and the' boys entered tht building a:id threw the furnishings from the doors and windows, while the girls carried them beyond react oi the^ flames. Postoffic.e employes business men and workers in everj et/.r-c. . ?? a;a thing possible to help prevent the fire from spreading. Happily, nv high wind was blowing, and this kepi other houses from catching. In the absence of an organized fir* department, no effective means was available for extinguishing the fire Al) of the two-inch hose in town wai recuistioned, and a line was run frore the fire plug in front of the hotel tc the cottages surrounding it. Thcst cotages were sprayed with water anc saved, although for a while they wen i ^threatened with destruction. Coala falling on the house of N. C. Greene town councilman; ignited the rocf bat it was quickly extinguished anc did no damage. As the fire started just at noora the dinner table was set, and it was carried to the_ street with the dishe: on it. Workers who entered th< house found two great pans of cori bread, done to a turn, still in th< oven of the kitchen range, but thej did not partake thereof. Dewey Storey, high school boy was one of the first to enter th? burning building and one of the las vv o.MTV TT CIO (JW.IUUKJ WU(/ VII bill foot by broken glass as he threw fur nishings from the ? windows. Othe schoolboys who helped are: Glem Coffey, Paul Foster, Jay Knight Fred Day, Bynum Crisp, Willian Holshouscr, Dee Cannon, Sidne; Cannon. Claud, Greer, Jack Green y Arnold Coffey, Frank Kluttz am fATAl A Non-Partisan Ne BOONE. lATSl 1 Vote of Wat* ylicilor !| Sen?tov Represent. Clerk '] |' 11 1 S ji - i ' ; - ji ' ' ! ~ !l '< ^ ; :v 'i ^ 1 ! ? :: * * c ''t 1 = ^ O I, a ; : ? : d,' cd j; b ca < j < P~54"2! 542 ! 8217~53"5|~]~76IT 5 69 12J 65 121 70 1 i 080; 79. 338: 81 334: ~._!l i t | <so j - Vil Z.OD 1.-17 aurti 1 i' II lj 268 109 278 118 2 29 j 171 28 172 281 1 286 2011 285 i 201 ; 28-'! 2 252 108'. 252 169 256 1 0 23i 30I 23, 29 23. 29 32 81 31 821 35i 51 139 135 139 188 136 136 1 i '! 128 317' 120 321 122 3 0 400 ; 341 398 357 386 335, 4 V . . .. 113206i2^32713fiT129001 j3033i30 DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY IN STATE PLACED AT 100.000 J ___________ Charlotte, Nov. 3.?With the as!" senibiing of return from Tuesday's \ general election in county seats due to start tomorrow, returns today were meager and hard to get?, according s to reports from all sections of the s .st ae. 2 Wih the entire North Carolina congressional delegation of ten Democrats safely returned. United States * ^ Senator Lee S. Overman and the ( Democratic state ticket elected, apa r thy even more marked than on elec- { t tion night descened on officials and j others usually interested in getting in eturns. The Democratic majority, it ( r is indicuted, will run well in excess of 100,000. , A total of 800 out of the 1,734 precincts in the state had been unof- t ? ficially reported tonight for United , States senator, giving Overman 07,r S80 r;n 9ft.1 f.?.. i ? llayos, Republican. The Democratic | j r slate ticket ran about in proportion- j | LOVIN WINS IN AVERY ! Latest, information from Avery I j _ I and Mitchell counties is to the effect L* v!iat Johnson J. Haye.; Carried form- * I er county by 1,80,0 and Mitchell by ; about 1,000. d I. Lovin, Democratic ; ; candidate for the legislature in Avery j ; I was elected by a substantial niuj jority, wit'h the Republicans electing J .' the remainder of the ticket. ASHF. COUNTY DEMOCRATIC * ;; Ashe county elected the entire " . Democratic ticket* by majorities rang, j ing from 700 to 1.100, according to , i information today from West Jef-: v . i ferson. Johnson J. -Ilaves led the* , j Republican ticket*, but Overman is j j sail! .0 have carried the county by 0 . i about 500 majority. . WILKES REPUBLICAN ;j Wilkes county elected a full set . , I of county officers with majorities m ranging up from about 1,000 to ^ j probably over 2,000. Mr. Hayes ^ , reported today that he had carried . the cunty by approximately 2,200. PEAY WINS IN TENNESSEE ** t Governor Austin Peay was re- a elected governor of Tennessee over ,: , | his Republican opponent by a sub- 11 . j stantial majority. o ! SMITH LANDSLIDE IN N. Y. 1 Outside of the county ticket*, in- * ' teres! here centered more in the ^ j result in New York than anywhere else, where Alfred E. Smith, possible Democratic candidate for presi- n ' dent in 1928, was running: for gov- 11 ' ernor of the Empire State for the * fifth time- He was elected by an } ~ overwhelming majority over his Re- 11 publican opponent. Ogden I/. Mills. * ' e ' Successful transplantation of a toe to take the place of a finger- has ^ been accomplished by a New York t surgeon. j s Parks Knight-. r The girls who helped in removing ; r the furniture are: I.ois Kluttz, Mar- v i garet Sudderth, Helen, Sudderth, , Pauline White, Lucile Coffey, Velma :i i Cannon. Beulah Wooten, Christine a V Johnson. Edna Miller, Lucile Reid, r , Elizabeth Sudderth, Luch Williams, v 1 Ethel Cannon and Susie Green. s LJGA ] wspaper, Devotecl to the Be WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CARO Mm uiga County in Sheriff Rej Decdj ( Treasurer j. . ; I [ X ! Z/ U . $ b u - i; jg ? , , :i I g j i ~j Sis < '; a | 5 891 754; 002 719 <512 7!M "560 .is ii i;:ii ei> 121 01 126 83 323 94 335: 82 338 77 hi I j 2ir 252 ; 20j 261 : 23 245 90 195 191 181 2091 ! 20 1 174 65: 419 255 102 27S; 109 261 71 241 178 27 173 27 161 05 293 194 281 202 283; 199 67 247 171 255 174'! 258 167 24 30 24 29 23 28 j 24 78 33 80 31 82 51 81 38 149 128 137 1.581 111 133 23 | 128, 317 127 312 123 322 07; j 342 401 342 396 345. 101 151 j 30341 3010T| 29C0 j 30hlff|"~30C012930 J NEWS OF A WEEK j AT BLOWING ROCK | -> New City Water System Is Nearing | ')C Completion; Street Paving An- | ticipnted; Extension of City j ^l' Limits Bein Discussed I SU Zy RUPERT GILLETT Blowing: Rock. Nov. 3.?Oomple-. ** ion of the last link in state highway j ^ !so. 17, leading from Boone t'o Hick>ry, has been placed under the direc- th ion of W. A. Tuttle, mghway engimi tccr with long experience in build- * North Carolina roads, it has been c,! miiounced. Mr. Tuttle will be resti-I ^ lent engineer in charge of highway tei rpnstTuctioh in this part of the tatc. The work was begun in September an tnder W. B. Smith, of Lenoir, main- 1115 enrnce supervisor, who took charge if the active construction work fiendng the appointment of a permanent *,v 'Osu'.cm engineer. sei oils nine mines oi rone, being 1 milt directly by the state, is the last S" ink in the mountain turnpike taken Pa ?vev by the stats five years ago. The erirpjoet will he completed In time for *'lumniev traffic, Mr. Tutt'le esei- j *?* natcf. j V** Work of widening and resurfacing j icgiiif at the top of the Blue Itidge. Ust outside of Blowing Rock and will I l,? jxtcivd down the mountain to Rich- 1 1S i".1 Hills, where i;? will connect with I . eleven. miles of road already * mpleted by the state; between Blow- j ng Rock rind Lenoir. ,H) A force, of thirty-five men is at fork. They are using pun steam ^ hovel, one air drill, one steam drill nu r.ao cue crushe:. Since this road ffcrs :?11 of the difficulties usually f-,y: ncountered in mountain read build- VV5 J_..I . .? _ ?? ? ha u&y n gmij ,uea;i uj unmitg pita uiust- j rig has been necessary. j *:u The completed road will be 26 ^ eet in width, except at curves, j SiV :herc li wiii vary .'rem 30 to 35 fcet~ i !iie method being #used is described Pn y Mr. Tuitle as an economical daptation of penetration macadam. ? Svo layers of crushed stone, either em parried or blasted, are covered with eai still finer layer, thoroughly crush- <ici d, and then a penetration tar t.Yeat- ag< lent is applied. all This is practically the same meth- wn d as that, used in the road from ass >oone to Blowing Rock, which has of roved notably satisfactory under' firt tc-avy traffic for more than a year, of evival at Baptist Church Rev. J. G. Cnnipc, whose revival ab< ueeting itL the Boone Baptist church It net with such signal success, is con- ma lucting a similar meeting at the t\v< 5:owing Rock Baptist church. Scrv- dei cos are conducted twice daily, at sue hree in the afternoon at 7:30 in the fipf vening. Gcodatfendanne and .enausiastic services are reported. " 00? Street Paving poj It is probable that after the new tio inter supply system is completed hei lere, the sidewalks on the princi- ent to I streets will be paved, according o Ni C. Greene, city councilman in .-.rge oi puDiu". works. of "It may be found," Mr. Greene er aid, "that the expenses of the water jn md sewer systems will pr.vent imncdiat-j work on paving: the side- thf tall;hut this work will be (lone as oon as the town is in a financial po DEM( ;st Interests of North we UNA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER WM i Tuesday's I j; Coroner Surveyor Cc s i I & I ? i ! S ! i as ~ ~ t. I i ii , : s j 813 "SSSTI 809i 549 808 ' 82 84 101 08 1.2*1 (i'J 0 389 79 310 79 338 84 35 240 57 24 8 85 j 4 219 171 215! 179 218 22 112 268! 107 *272. 41 1 41 28: 171 28 170 29 2 280 201 280 200j 278: 27 273 1 19 251 107 j 255* 25 31 23 29 23] ] 29 2 31 82 31 82! j 31 3 130 139 110 120 1301 13 137. 300 125 3201 1301 12 ; 343] 398|| 349; 382jj 353] 34 310712809 [3li512909] 13136 j313 .vlyd contvac s." Water and Sewer System The new water supply mid sewer si em of Blowing Rock, which baa en undo construction since last ly. will probably be completed by e latter part of this week, it was id here by Cyrus C. conItirg engineer! The system built' at a cost of 00,000. will serve the entire town Blowing Rock, and provisions nave en made to extend the sy-.tcm to ay view Park ami to Green Parle, if esc communities are later taken intiu corpora e limits of the "town. \e present city limits include a de with an approximate radius of rce-fourths of a mile from the cesir of the town. To complete the system, nearly yen miles of water pipe were laid, d 12,000 feet* of sewer pipe were stalled. The water system is supplied by e Mayview well, 220 feet deep, deenng 1*0 allons a minute, and a bond well sunk by the town. This -II is 500 feel deep and delivers 50 lions a minute. The reservoir canities include the Mayview conete reservoir of 00,000 gallons, and new steel standpipe of 170,000 lions' capacity, which will be erecton the. Blowing Rock hotel Kill. A pressure of 95 pounds will be lhitaihi'd in the mains in the ccn of Blowing Rock. This pressure made possible by the elevation of c reservoirs. and no pumping will necessary to maintain it. The sewage disposal plant i.^ rotnsed of a septic lank and :i Judge d filter of live type approved by & state board j of health for covnmitios the Size of Blowing Rock. Mr. Babb pointed out ;!.af, aliiffij Blowing Rock has long been defy known as a summer resort, it s been seriously handicapped by k of water arid of sewer system, ic completion of these systems, he id, will mark the greatest step owinc Rock Has vet vaken toward jvi.ding; for summer visitors. Fire Truck Needed The burning of the Watauga Inn] phasizes again the argent need for 1 ly delivery of the fire truck, cried by ihe city some two months 3. Last Friday, during the fire, j of Vhe two-inch hose in town; s requisitioned; but it could not be| .emblcd in time to save any part! the main building, although a| * plug is situated directly in front! the hotel site. The new truck is to be delivered in >ut a month, under the- contract'.! will be an Anierican-La France t chine of the latest design, with j ) 200-gallon chemical tanks, lad-j *s and enough hose to cope with I :h situations as the Watauga Inn The cost of the truck will be $5,}. This amount was raised by >ular subscription, to which donans were made by several promiit summer residents and by benefit ertainments. Extemion of City Limits ?riLn tnc approacning completion the Blowing Rock water and sewsystems, interest has been revived the proposal for the inclusion of lyview Park and Green Park into town limits. All of the residents (Continued on page four) }CRA :st North Carolina. t 192G w\o ? ) Cle tion ! >unty Commissioners ; fi ' _ -,r'\ | ;| I ' ~.K/ 1 % i ? t. ? ' -c ^ i ? ^ ^ ' -r' < i 2: ; 7 791): 544 j 557 543 '? 09 122 122 122 0 310 79 80 79 5 25 212 2 11 2 !2 1 215 174 178! 112 1 105 266 207 267 C. 26 171 174. 174 8; 294, 211 198,194 5I 258 165 168 165 :9| 201 23) 24) 23 1 81 82 82 82 6j 138 111 130 180 lj 118, 319' 330 . II 41 316; 398) 395 392 6 3089(293812949'2899 DEMOCRATS GAIN IN THE NATION ' Seven Senate Seat* L.ost l>y J beans; Ai Smith Wins in Nnw Y ork I | Washinfp.cn. Nov. 4.?With belated returns com njr in from 17 to-. . ** ( Republicans last night ok dismal toll of the election 'ockatrc. They seven seats in the senate and may contra' the upturn < ?' the Pc-xl congress by ly on * vote. . irteen Republican congressmen ! . led. thus reducing their majority :n the house to 30, includthy i.r Fpllelte rebels, and t iscontented ajyriaris from the West. They counted as the most cruel blew's of all the smashing defeats of Sep at *roHuller and Senator Wadsworth in he conspicuous contest's in Massachusetts, and New York. Counting the overwhelming victor ; ies of the wot* roferandu in most of I the states where it was a vital issue ! they saw themselves faced by the i troublesome necessity of taking: a j definite stand for or against prohi! bit.ion. j With Oregon a trifle doubtful but* j but conceded to the Republicans at ' an early hour this evening the make: iip of the next* Senate was found to be a sensational deadlock. It is this: Republicans. 17. Democrats, 47. j Farmer-Labor, t j Vacancy. 1. The vacancy exists in Maine where special election will be held on '.November lo to choose a successor to the late Senator Bert M. Fernald {sturdy Yankee.foe of the World j Court. Hero a Republican is expected to be elected though the Democrat ! chief.s heartened by the sensational j victories of yesterday, may unloose; j their artillery in a desperate battle j j there for control of the Senate. j With the Maine election secure, [ however, the Republicans will be left with only a flimsy, doubtful domina: tion of the Senate in the last two : years of the CooUdge administration : Any momentary fusion of the Demoi erats and the hostile insurgents from S the west will turn it upside down. HAPPENINGS AT VALEE CRUC1S Valle Crucis, Nov. 3.?Mrs. W. D. Clarke has moved fo Lenoir where she will spend the winter with mcmbevs of her family. Mr and Mrs. D. F. Mast returned 1 Friday from the Methodist confer-1 ence ats Gastooia and a visit to Lex-j ington. Last we eh was marked by two j deaths in the vicinity of Valle Crucis, that of Mr. Alfred Townsend, of ! Dul**h Creek, and Mrs. Joel Eggers, | of Clark's Creek. Mrs. Roscoe Caudell returned from the Wataugra hospital Monday, much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Barnhardt, of Lenoir. and Miss Nannie Taylor were visitors in the valley Friday. ?? i P.-T. ASSOCIATION The Parent-Teacher Association will, meet tomorrow (Friday, aftj ernoon at" 3 o'clock at the Demonstra: tion school building. All members j | are urged to be present. nr^ FIVE CENTS A COFY OUNTY k DEMOCRATS WIN ALL OFFICES BUT REGISTER DEEDS Majorities Range from 18 For Clerk to 373 for State Senator; Doughton's Majority 12S The beard of canvassers of Watauga county met at the courthouse at II o'clock this mornuig for the purpose of checking returns from the fourteen precincts in the county. The hoard organized by electing Jack Uorton chairman and I) P. Wyke SOW-eli I'V When the orgahizaiToii was perfected, T. E. Bingham, m behalf of the Republican candidates, presented a petition asking thai the board adjourn until some future date to iri; vpsngate aliened irregularities in the r voting Tuesday. Mark Squires, of Lenoir. ;n behalf of the Democratic : candidates, moved that the canvass i proceed, which motion carried unani1 ;nou>!y. Sheriff Farthing was instructed by the board to send for the registrar.- from Blowing Rock, Elk. Stony Fork and Laurel ('reek, who did not answer when the roll of townships called. The returns from the.-*= townships were soon :n and the count began, which at the time of going to press had not been j completed. The county ticket, how| ever, is presented in detail in the i.table on this page. The official count shows the elec, tion of all Democrats with the exception of the register of deeds. Mrs. Pearl Hartley, incumbent, winning over her opponent by a majority of 103. The lowest majority for any of the candidates was eighteen for Austin E. .South for clerk of the court over A. W. Smith, Republican. Shr-riff Farthing defeated W. Hb Gr^gg tor sheriff by only 24. T. H. Coffey. Democratic candidate for j the legislature, wins over Blaine I Coffey. Republican, by 224, and the I Democratic eommkisioTiers are elected j by majorities ranging above 200. The largest majority given to any | candidate was 374 for T. P. McNeil, | Democratic candidate for senator ill this district. .1. A. Rousseau, Democratic cainli1 date for solicitor in the 1.7th distinct, carried the county 3.33 over iJohn R. Jones, his Republican oppon| cut. The canvassers were not through, with the state ticket at press time, therefore we are unable to give the [ complete official results. t DEATH OF MRS. HAHN Mrs. J. Lee Halm, mother of Edw*. j 2v llahn, of Buuue, ami ?ilrsi J. N. Patton, of Hickory, died Monday i morning at the home of Mrs. Patton, j of diabetis, at' the ago of 81 years. 'Mrs. Ilahn had . far ioyGrfcl smmne.es. j visited her son here, and was ir\ I reasonably fair health until last February, when she contracted flu and { diabetis, her vitality was too weak to . combat* the disease. Funeral ujic ho./t at the home of the daughter, and inI tennem was at Mt. Olive church near Hickory Tuesday at 10 o'clock. RIDDLES' FORK NEWS Lloyd Castle and George Norria went to Lenoir Tuesday. Aaron Stephens, Carl and Wheeler Davis have returned from West Virginia. Willard Norris is below the mountain this week with a load of produce. A CORRECTION Thrn?0'h fin nvpr<if?V\l loe* Democrat announced that Rev. Taylor pastor on the Watauga circuit had been sent there as a "supply" when in fact, he was returned for the third year and he is so popular with his churches that ir would be safe to predict that he will fill out his four years. Since coining to the work he has built one of the two best churches in the county and is considered one of the most able ministers within our borders. "Wanted: Two husky young men for moving buildings.?Ohio paper. "Are you related to her by marriage?" "No; I'm her brother by refusal." I Approximately 120 days a year in I Brazil are not working days, being j either Sundays or holidays. y " y
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