V VOL XXXIX, NO. 10 County Registrars Are Appointee Boaril of Elections in Session Her Saturday Names Officials to Hold June Primary I Th?? \V utauga county board o lections met at the courthouse her Saturday and set up the machiner; ncident to the Democratic primar; f >n June 2. Chairman Henry J. Har din presided over the meeting, am Alvin Hagarnan, Democratic mem her and John W. Hodges, Republicai member, attended. Appointments made by the. boan Saturday are as follows, the firs -" iiaiucu uciug ifKiiiucrats ana tm last Republican: Boone township?Luther South registrar; Horace Greer and II. L Lyon, judges. Bald Mountain?Willett Millei registrar: Carter Ragan and Watt F. Norris, judges. Beaver Dam township?W. R Vines, registrar; J. Grover Johnsoi and J. S. Snyder, judges. Blue Ridge township ? Floy< Tate, registrar; Marion Coffey ani T Hampton, judges. Blowing Rock township?J. Ailoi Gragg, registrar; Henry E. Coffe; and Grover Robbins, judges. Cove Creek township ? Deai Swift, registrar; J. B. Ilorton am Grover C. Morris. judges. Elk township?!\ G. Carroll, rcg islrar; Clay Hodges and C. f'. Trip lett, judges. Laurel Creek township?Luthe Ward, registrar; Ed. B. Hagamai and Will F. Winkler, judges. Meal Gamp No, 1?Charles G Hodges, registrar; Dell Coffey an< Charlie Lewis, judges. Meat Camp No. 2--L. If. React registrar; Herman McNeil am Wayne Miller, judges. North Fork township Waller C Smith. r^5?isl i-j?r P SWifi ul Ueb\ Wilson, judges. Shaw no chaw township Liny. Welch, registrar; George Ouudil i the above, the i ,.j statement said, "sixty-six delegates s I either pledged, instructed or who | have expressed a preference fori ; some other candidate as a first j I choice: will vote for Mr. Hoover as j , i soon as they are released." * j The statement also listed 01 dele-j I gates as having been selected in; Illinois, 11 in Idaho, 23 in Kansas,) ! 12 in North Dakota and 11 in South; ' Carolina, but ekiimed none of these J j I or Hoover. ;J> The Winners in Illinois Candidates nominated for princi-; pa) :,i'fn'cs in Illinois in "ho recent j 1 primary election: Governor?Republican: Louis Lin-' coin Emerson, secretary of state. j ' : Democrat: Fioyd E. Thompson,j state supreme court justice. Attorney general?Republican : O. j E. Cavlstrom. >| Democrat: Thomas J. Courtney. ! ! U. S. Serial or?Republican: Otis; ] '. Glenn: Democrat: Anton J. kernuik. States attorney cook county (Chi- j * cago) : Republican: John A. Swan-! Democrat: William J. Lindsay. \ Congressman Madden was rehomi ; ! nated over his negro opponent in the! j- Chicago distinct. Smith Gets Washington The Washington Democratic state . convention last Friday night in - j , . strueted its delegation to the na-j j tional convention to cast their l ij .j ballots as a unit for the nomination j 1; of Governor Ai Smith for president, j Councill Will Not Run in 9th Hickory, April 16.?W. B. Coiin-1 ill. former superior court judge j j j who has been boomed as one of the i I major contenders for the Democratic j ! nomination for congress in the ninth! district, announced today that he' J would not enter the race. He leavesj ;: the field to Representative A. L. j ' Bitlwinkle and Solicitor John G. j ' | CarpertEgr of Gastonia, and Rev ' Arthur Talmadgc Abernethy of, Rutherwood college. "1 have beer.1 deliberate in my definite withdrawal; from the race," Judge Couneill said,i "because 1 felt tha t consideration; 1 j teas due those loyal friends through- ] I out the district who have promised; ; me their support." The judge is I advancing ifl years and he does not i feel inclined to undertake the strain | of a personal political campaign, he' i said. His decision against the task' was largely influenced by bis family; and physicians, it was said. Neat to Oppose Weaver in 10th Will Ncal has filed his congres-' | sional notice with the state board of i ! elections to oppose Congressman! I Weaver in the June primary for: representative from the tenth con-; i gressional district. I _ : ! Smith Candidacy Launched in ' New Yora New York, April 17.?The second' (Continued on Page Eight) JGA :wspaper, Devoted to the ME. WATAUGA COUNTY, NOKTff Seawell Is Republican \ Choice For Governor I. G. Greer of Boone Nominated fori Superintendent of Public Instruction; Linney Elector al L^arge j The North Carolina Republican) convention which met at Raleigh: last Wednesday, nominated Herbertf F. Seawell of Carthage for governor,! sent National Committeeman C. A.j Jonas, Revenue Commissioner D. H. Blair and former State Chairman W. | G. Bramhain as the 4big four' toj the Kansas City convention, adopted! a woioiu piattorm and placed a full ticket in the field for all state offices, as follows: For governor-?Herbert F. Seawell, Carthage. Lieutenant governor?W. H. Fisher. Clinton. Secretary of state?Mrs. R. J. Tighe, Buncombe. Attorney general?J. Ray McRary. Lexington. Auditor?John W. Yeager, Ca-! tawba. Treasurer?John H. Johnson,! Wilkesboro. ] Superintendent of public i list rue-j tion?I. G. (ireor, Boone. j Comriiissioner of revenue?Noah! A. Pitts, Morgan ton. Commissioner of labor and printing?I. B. Goslen, Winston-Salem. Insurance commissioner?A. E. Hampton, Brevard. Corporation commissioner?D. J. D. Gregg. Liberty. Commissioner of agriculture.?D. A. Patterson. Scotland. Justices of supreme court?T. J. llarkins, Asheville, and Walter B. Love. Monroe. Presidential electors at large? Frank A. Linney. Boone, and Geo. E. Butler, Clinton. VALLE CRUCIS SCHOOL NEWS Vallc Crucis, April IK.? On the night, of April 1 1. the Junior Aux.vl thn IT-.K. ..I ... iiiv mult v.* woo vnuicii })??:sented a highly instructive and en tovtaining pageant entitled "Children of the World," the object of which was to stimulate interest in missions. "Mother Church/' impersonated by Miss Olive Smith, received the plea for the gospel message I through the children of. r?(/n-ChrLat'ian countries, each child in native costume. These pleas were supplemented by songs and suggestions from American children concerning the duty of helping others to clearer vision, while "America/' supporting the stars and stripes, urged this Christian nation to help extend the rame blessing to others. Tin- stage setting was simple but effective, and all the effects were well planned. Miss Ruthann C. G lough, head of this branch of the Junior Auxiliary, planned and managed the whole affair. assisted by Miss Gudhoim, Miss Edwards, Miss Ricaud and Miss Far- , mer of the faculty, and by the chtldrei\. A special invitation to be present was extended to the Missionary Society of the Valle Cruris Methodist church and was accepted/ many of the members being present. The pageant was witnessed by a iarge audience and surrounding corn-1 munities. | The girls of the school are la-, mentirig the fact that continued rair.s have spoiled their pians for a! long hike and picnic and a trip to.| Blowing Rock. It is hoped, however, | that these arc merely deferred ur.-l til there are longer periods of sun-i shine. | The members of the faculty were | called upon to exercise their sense I of humor and good nature when they recently witnessed a burlesque faculty meeting given by members of the Mary Horner Literary Society in which said teachers had an opportunity to see some of their little man ncrisms and peculiarities held up for public inspection. The part of the principal, Miss Isabel Graves, was enacted by Evdvn Stowe in a manner which brought down the house; Mnrjorie Deal (who took part in the recent oratorical contest at Boone) represented the Kev. James P. Burke in a rather irreverend manner that convulsed those present; other members of the cast gave effective impersonations. Valle Crucis is feeling much elated over its triumph in the recent oratorical contest, Marie Stevenson ot'Florida, winning the five dollar gold piece given for the best oration by a girl. Marie is only 14 years old. and more than held her own against many far older. Marjorie Deal of Georgia, whose showing reflected great credit on the school.', is fifteen, and. rfi?l wfd.il fk.-,*- . . ..... u./ .tcu vnui. uuiiv are convinced that it' a second prize had been given she would have carried it off. Holy Cross church was made beautiful Easter Day by masses of illies coming all the way from Bermuii: These arrived in perfect condition and filled the building with their fragrance. "In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born be-i yond the sea." was their silent mes-J sage. The Easter services were well at-1 tended, some sixty persons receiving] the Holy Communion at the ti:30 a. I BEM( st Interests of Northwes ROUKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, WATAUGA OF ? THE LONG AGO, Happening! of the Town and County ' Thirty-five to Thirty-nine Years! Ago as Chronicled in the Columns of the Watauga Democrat ^ September 5, 1889 ^ ; . The board of education was in J ^ session Monday and Tuesday, butt * j most of the time was occupied in . t.he appointment of school commitI tees and hearing: petitions and re; quests for transfers. If was decided i ? I to hold no county institute this year. 11 I Agreed to allow zhe treasurer two I per cent for handing the school * ; funds. The legislature cut down his _ ! commission from three, to two per v ! cent and gave to the county board, f I the power to reduce it sail lower. 11 | but our board decided to make > o j further reductions. The clerk of rhe | superior court reported 3255 fines ! from last term of court. He report- J1 ed $10 from the spring term, mak- v ing nearly $300 for the school fund.-.. 1 The gross school funds for this year a will be about $4,000. We think v think there will he. 70 or 75 cents * per capita. The large districts will J got more this year, as most of the school funds will be apportioned per J" capita. The board will meet in call session the first Monday in October to apportion. Committees will ' please make their census returns at c once. ^ t: V V t We noticed in the Bar last week ^ three bright, good looking young! * men who are aspirants for legal | * honors, and will apply for licenses in | September. These young men are ' of this county and their names are: J. Ci Fletcher, A. J. Fletcher and K. Spencer Blackburn. \Vc extend to 1 these young gentlemen our best I ? wishes for their success. * J < W. t". and Mrs. Coffey with Miss: Mairc/io 5IV.~. i\n ? vicif -.? J ??' !<. I i WHkcsboro. Mr. Stevens has a foundation of] ] the new jail laid. He is now ready 1 for the brick muiiuns. * * ' * *" Roby Fletcher, Boone Deal and several others who went west last 1 spring, have returned to their homes on Cove Creek. They report the west is not the place they were look ing fo? Hon I. 1,. Greene . writes his * friends that he will soon return to Watauga and that his health has been very bad since he left. * V A I T. A. Critcher will give tree top any person who will build a good I > hoarding house, a one-acre lot at.! < Cook's Gap. Nice situation, beau- ? \ tiful sccrierv and healtbv locality. ^ i The sixth annual session of the f Watauga Sunday School convention | t will convene at Hopewell church, | ? Friday, September lb\ IfiSO. Follow-J lowing will take part in the program:?' Major H. Bingham, Rev. George Ds-1 * borne, Man lev B. Blackburn; \V. It. | I Loviil. 1). F. Mast, J. B. Milk-: . Rev.: -J j 'J. J. Henley, Mrs. L. 8. Henley an i ! Mrs. Ada Hon ton. i , ! " * - h j. Dr. Jeff B. t-ouncill and Miss; r Annie Bingham returned to Salis? s bury Sunday. Dr. Jeff has mnnv; friends in Watauga who are always t glad to see hint. Miss Annie is an L accomplished young lady and has| left many new-made friends in thej mountains. j 11 m. celebration. The children's flow- ' er service, held in the afternoon. * drew out a large crowd. Here the (' children presented their mite boxes " containing their caster offerings for 0 missions, and placed a small bunch '' of flowers in a wooden cross pro- " vided for the purpose, until the ^ whole cross was transformed into a floral one; it was then placed on thej P altar, while the congregation sang' '' appropriate Easter hymns. Some five > children and infants were baptized, i ii Miss Letitia liicaud, of the facul-le ty; Nannie Tester, a day pupil, and 1 :V Edith Arthur, a boarding pupil and a one of the year's prospective gradu- d ates, will present the Holy Cross e church school offering at. Hickory U for the purpose of having the vari- d ous church schools present the united " thank offering of the Morganton si convocation. n On April gSth the Vouiie- Pennies'.^ Service League will give a vaude-jji ville performance in the dining room , a: of the school, the proceeds of which i si entertainment will be given toward j a hymn boards for the church. j d On May 13th, the sixth and seven-1 i: th grades will present a play entitled! 0 "The Rescue of the Princess Win-1 n some." the proceeds to be devoted to! ii giving the pupils an all-day trip tolw Lcr.oir. j T The library of the school is to re- j i'i ccive a gift of $300 for new books, i p Though there there are some 1,500 on volumes available now. these acces-j R sions are much needed and will he i r: gratefully received. j v )CRA t North Carolina 1928 ifonahlossee Read Will rj Become Federal Hi way pacifications Call for Road Thirty Feet Wide From Blowing Rock to Avery County Line | S By RUP.KRT GILLETT Blowing Rock, April is.?The) 'onahlossce Road, famed scenic! ighway of the Crane!father section? rom here to Linville, is being sur-1 ^ eyed according to specifications for! ' "ederal highways, with a view to itsj s eeoming ;? Federal highway some- 11 ime in the future, according to fngineers 111 charge of the surveyne . . v, These specifications call for a I ^ oad thirty feet wide from here to i he Avery county line, and 2vill be started as > >oon as possible after the surveying r completed. The only other un- V completed link of the Black Bean irail in North Carolina, -state highvay No, <'>'! is ramdly being finish ".! between Todd and Boone. The ;t.<>am shovel work has all boon lm| shetl to whore the road joins No. 50, two miles east cf Boone. When | ;hese two roads are finished, North Carolina's section of the St. LawrsYice-fco-Miami highway will have )eeii completed. ,V; ; ( .STATE NEWS BRIEFS The North Cavolina State Dental j ti society, of which Dr. E. 1?. Howie of Raleigh is president, and composed j o vf about a Oil dentists, was in session c ? Charlotte Monday and Tuesday, ; i A hoy, a cigarette and a match I ^ ye re responsible cor flames that se-' ioasly bvtrhccl four children and en langere'ri the lives of Aid others jit i:g die Pink Hill school noav Kinston, J >atm\!av night as they were dressing o v.'r a school play. A spark ignited ?ne child's costume and spread toj A hrei othersl Prompt Work of adult .'1 iverted a disaster. i ' ? The interstate commerce comniis-! h ion <>f Saturday turned down the o ilea of the Piedmont and Northern ailway for permission to extend its a from Spartanburg to Gastonia v ind fiom Charlotte to Wihstoh-Sdem. The commission held that pub- u io convenience and necessity had, I lot been shown to require the con- { 6 truction by the P. & N. of the ex- <1 elision, it is expected that the elec- a vie railroad will carry the case i>- b he United Suites supreme court. North Carolina'a insurance depart-; J*; aental bulletin shows for 1927 a 5 ire loss of $f?S8,719 in the cities of - ^ iurlington, Statesville. Elizabeth ^ /itv, Kinston, Greenville and Shely, and the population or the eight M ; 98,5b7. There were 210 fires: ? a using this damage in these eight ? ities. But for the state at large; !< sth 2,Moo fives, there was a loss of a,7-11,027 in a population of 2,- a 90,000, ;i record which shows ini-1 c rovement but by no moans approx- -y nate perfection. ; H] "Al Smith, if nominated will be , n eked by at least 40 electoral votes,: xv ven if one concludes to him every ! ti tat-e that could possibly be imagined ; L1 s voting for a wet Tammany candia$e}" said F. Scott MeBryde. gen-, t, ral superintendent of the Anti-Sa-t h >on league of America, in an ad- tl ress at Winston-Salem Sunday \ Smith's weakness is that he is tj Lrong in Republican states that can ot possibly be carried by him be- g a use of the large Republican ma-1 hi >rity ami he is weak in states such? \ s Indiana. Kentucky, Ohio, Teimes-j v ?e, Colorado and Oklahoma, where h Democratic victory would he \Y oubtful. While the wets have gone, a jfto states like South Dakota arid j v, iklahoma and by the use of Tamlany methods coerced delegates ito voting for Smith they cannot in popular votes by such tactics.'^' he Tammany Tiger is trying to ;>\ve A1 Smith on the Democratic>a irty by the same false arguments'] 3 those used by the New York wet lepuhlicans to force Nicholas Mur-' ay Butler on the Kansas City con-' n en Hon." j ti T Fr.'E CENTS A COPY filTMoRTroit FAX PAYMENTS hcrifl Musi Furnish Commissioners With List of AJ! Unpaid Taxes on Firtt Monday ir. May, and Sale Will Be Ordered Thereafter Taxpayers have i&ss than two ceks in which to pay their Ifi&T ixes before beincr advertised. The lat.ute provides that tax collectors tust furnish the board of county dminissioners with lists of unpaid ixes on the first Monday in May nd thai the property must be ad Sncisea ior iour weeJcs and sold on ie tirst Monday in June. Sheriff Farthing' stated Monday lOvning that about $105.000 in ixes are still due. but of course rat amount wjfi be considerably rcuced bv the next first Monday. The county commissioners have o alternative in the matter of orering the sale. The law is manda>ry and must be complied with. Section I of Chapter 21M Public aws of North Carolina, 1027 sesion, says: "Sec. C . . Fie (the- sheriff) hall on thfe first Monday iu May reort in full all uncollected taxes for he current yean, and the county ommissioners shall thereupon order ale of all land for taxes where the txes have not been paid to be made n the first Monday in June" . . . Section (i of the same chantei vovides: "'On the first Monday in lily the sheriff or other tax col;acting officer shall make a full and pm oleic sett lenient with the county or ail taxes due the county or its pecial subdivisions/' Sec. i< of the law provides: "Any omity commissioner who shall vote 0 deliver tip? tax list ar.il receipt odki to any sheriff or ta>: collector 01 the succeeding yciiv. when settieiient has not been made as herein irovided of. the taxes i >r the preions year, shall be ?r.dividuall\ bale for the amount of taxes due by he riff or tax co'lhcvdiv^ lOV. SMITH RECEIVES GREAT WELCOME !N WEST CAROLINA Ashevilljs April lib'-Governor Al Smith of New York came to North Carolina today to take a vacation v nit he brought with him an old ubdy smile and a brown derby that mint to more than a few rounds inch the golf courses of thir> vicinity. The smile may be simply the habit if years ami again it may have avisii fi-pin the warmth of the reception hut. was his at every town between Salisbury and here. For it was a ronderfui welcome for a man com- . ng into the enemy's country. From arly dawii at Salisbury where there cere a faithful few to greet him to he full daylight of Bill more plaza I'ith its thousands. North Carolina ?wined to have turned out to greet presidential tour. It was enough o make A; smile and smile he did, cit.Ii all the contagiousness that. has eon his since he became the idol f New York. Bui the brown derby was deiioer tely chosen. With the bright sunny reather and the anticipation of port to come Smith might well have ;orn a pearl grey hat or a light felt, tut instead he selected the brown erby and at Bi It mo re he told his uuiencc why: "Well, so I wouldn't disppoint you, I brought along my t own derby/' Those were the words ith which he opened his talk at .iltmore plaza. Later there may be hose who will say they were the eynote pi his address. At any rate, acation or no vacation. Governor mith is here to win that, part of the :>uth which did not line the Sopthrn railway tracks this morning as 's special car passed through the oothills of North Carolina. The governor hardly converted ny "immortals'" this morning by ie talk he made at Biltmore. Aparontly the governor didn't come >uth to talk, and if talk he must. pparent.lv he was determined to say othing he did this morning, but ith that he spoke in a manner, at activo and entirely apart from the sual run of political gossip First, he explained that he had aveled little during his long and usy career, largely on account of ie strenuous position as governor. Iter talking a few minutes about ie governor's job, he told how he ad been impressed by the welcome iven him and by the concrete roads u had seen through his car window, nd then he ended. *'1 am satisfied m gomg 10 enjoy mysell while I'm ere. I'm pleased and happy to be i your midst. You have given me great welcome. I hope to meet nil all personally before I leave." She: What do you suppose I did hen father tola me you were here? He: Oh. I suppose vov? colored up bit. She: Sir! . ... | Paris designers declare dresses iust cover the knees now. The -nth sometimes hurts. ::/&