SHS VOLUME XLIII, NO. 21 I 133 MEMBERSHIPS IN KED CROSS ARE I SECURED LOCALLY jg , Roll Call Chairman Reports Enthusiastic Response to Appeal. Miss Jewell Hagaman Leads With Sixty9k as i r ii ? r? i ivuc mcmucri bnrauca. mowing Rock and Valle Crucis Not Reportfid. School Children Donate. Mrs. Russell D. Hodges, roll call chairman of the American Red Cross from Watauga County, Wednesday morning reported that workers in Boone and surrounding territory have so far reported one hundred and thirty-three memberships and donations iof nearly five dollars. She expects the total number of members enlisted to compare favorably with last year's work, and is loud in her praise of the solendid service rendered by the soliciting ladies. Miss Jewell Hagaman, with sixty-one memberships to her credit, still leads, and is hopeful fy of obtaining several more before the drive ends. Mrs. Wade Wagner, who has charge of the campaign in the | Valle Crucis community, and Mrs. j Grady Tester, of Blowing Rock, have not yet reported. A complete list of [ memberships obtained since last Wed nesday follows: Mrs. Herman Eggers?Miss Edna \ Holsclaw, Clyde Eggers, A. Antonar kos, A. E. Hamby, Miss Maxie Green, | Smitheys' Store, T. Hill Farthing. \Ticc Tow/ill W T I Miss Theodocia Watson, Tom Gushing, Mrs. L. L. Bingham, David F. Greene, Miss Lily B. Hardin, A. D. Wilson, Mrs. Dean Swift, Grady Moretz, E. N. Hahn, L. M. Farthing, J. F. Hardin, Mrs. L. L. Critcher, Mrs. Mrs. Frank A. Linney, Miss Jane Eiiason, Miss Estelle Pye, Miss Gladys Bolt, J. T. Howell, Mrs. J. T. Howell, Miss Eula Todd, Mrs. R. L. Clay, Miss Mildred Richardson, Mrs. D. E. Benfield, R. II. Harman and J. M. Moretz, Mrs. Grace Hardin, and A. R. Smith. Miss Marguerite Miller?Professor 1. G. Greer, Mrs. I. G. Greer, Miss Jennie Todd, Miss Ruth Cottrell, L. G. Jones, Highland Furniture Company, W. R. Spainhour, Mrs. W. R. Spainhour, W. F. Miller, Miss Maude Greene. Miss Louise Critcher?J. A. Sprole, M. P. Critcher, J. L. Wilson and Louise Critcher. Mrs. Stanley Harris (CoTe Creek) ?Stanley Harris, B>?Ity BMt iri, Mrs. Enoch Swift, Mrs. N. L. Mast, Mrs. Maude Spainhour, Gordon Spainhour, Mrs. D. F. Horton, Mrs. Sam Horton, Miss Winnie Thornburg, Mrs. Charles Bingham, Miss Pearle Payne, Miss Anna Mac Sherwood, Mrs. L. M. Hampton. Grade students at the Boone Demonstration school have made donations as follows: Miss Eliason's room, 20c; Miss Pye's room, 23c; Miss Bolt's room, 30c; Mrs. Howell's room, 24c; Mr. Howell's room, 41c; Miss Todd's room, 77c; Miss Day's room, 23c; Miss Bouchelle's room. 37c. I Three Mountaineers Are Placed on All-Star Team Salisbury.?His "Little Six" allstar team was announced Saturday night by Charlie Moran, head coach at Catawba College. Catawba and Appalachian State Teachers College placed three men each. The team folRobinson, Catawba, left end; Ma honey, Appalachian, left tackle; Williams, Elon, left guard; Robinson High Point, center; Sassowitch, Le noir-Rhyne, right guard; Smith, Ap Tialachian, right tackle; Haywood n life's history of the aged, n m Watt Gragg Improves ii- From Arm Fracture re ly, Watt H. Gragg returned Sundaj ie, from the Charlotte Sanatorium when !S" he had been a patient for a wcel id following a severe fracture of th< arm in an automobile accident, Sat st urday night a week ago. The mem ber has been placed in a plaster cast fe and surgeons believe that while thi fy break is a bad one, he will recovei ,ss within a reasonable length of time ed Mrs. Gragg and son, Horton, wen' to Charlotte and accompanied Mr Gragg on the return trip. Watts' friends still maintain tha' i* he is in a winning way in the cam paign for 'appointment as Federa to Marshal in the Middle District, ant m December 6th has been definitely so a3 the date for the meeting of tht 'P executive committee, at which tim, ve the recommendation will be made ed which will govern the appointmen !r- of the official by the President. :s, nt LEN GREER OF TODD IS 5- KILLED BY ACCIDENTAL SHOl re he Todd, N. C.?Len Greer, 38, wa: nd accidentally shot and killed whil< n- bird hunting in a field near Tod( er Saturday morning about 8 o'clock b; Ritter Estepp, his hunting partner He died instantly, Greer and Estepp had gone hunt ing together and were walking along ae only a few feet apart when a cove; ay of birds flew up. As Estepp raise< ah his gun to shoot the gun discharged rd the load striking Greer, who wa: ck about three feet ahead, in the back ail The dead man was the father of fiv< h- children, who, with his wife, survive ed The killing was accidental and no in ne quest was considered necessary. Fu ist neral arrangements had not beei completed Sunday. : Best Interests of Noithwt AROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ( Reveals Origin of Na [ Mrs. Ruth E. Finlcy, forrosr new had lain dormant for many years in h by telling how Sarah Josepha Hale, | President Lincoln to issue the first T4i? ! . WATAUGA SHERIFF! AND DEPUTY FACE CONTEMPT CHARGE f Sheriff. L, M. Farthing and Deputy t pv'Clint Norris Called to Wilkcsboro Wednesday Morning to Answer to i Charges of Contempt of Federal Court. Many Witpwaei Hare Been Summoned to Testify. Sheriff L. M- Farthing and his joilor, W. C. Morris, left this (Wednesday) morning for Wilkesboro, , where they much answer contempt j charges before Judge Johnson Hayes ! in the Middle District Fejera! Court, , now in session. The indictments were brought as a result. Of complaints that i Cecil Criteher, who served a five| months sentence in the Watauga jail, I imposed by the Federal Court, had , been granted undue liberties during > the service cf his sentence. , Deputy Marshal J. M. Eumgarnec [ eamo.np Tuesday and summoned a , number of wtineaws to. girc. evidence , for tfSi Government in the case, and I a number of .witonM??^e^c ^talc^u Work Begins on New Florence Boyd Home | Ground was broken this morning | at the Bridal Veil Falls 011 the Yon-l ahlosseo Read out from Blowing Rack for the erection of the Home tor Crippled Childtcn, instituted by Miss Florence Boyd of Lenoir, and which is designed to take care <>f at least twenty-five otherwise helpless mountain children, who will be trained in | various vocations. Miss Boyd owus 250 acres of land with the building site ' and the plant is expected to be ex: panded through the yean to come. A | truck load of workers with their own tools and dinners came up this morning from Lenoir, and are working in dead earnest on ihe excavating | preparatory to the actual start of ' construction work, and it is expected ( luhl tne sLrar.Lure win De wen toward completion during the winter. The food supplies have been stored away nearby to lake care of the workers, who are volunteering their scrv, ices in increasing numbers and the ' eight children being cared for in CaldIwell hove already been well supplied [ with provisions by the citizens of that * county. The institution will be known [ as the Florence Boyd Home and Vo' cational School for Crippled Children, and so far as is known is the only one of its kind in America. Miss | Boyd still gratefully receives ail food " supplies tendered, as much will he required with which to feed the labor' ing men during the winter months, ' while the building is being con' structed. t METHODIST BAZAAR 1 The ladies of the Boone Methodist 1 Church will held their annual bazaar t at the Blackburn Hotel on Thursday, i afternoon and evening, December 3. ! The sale of fancy work Will begin , at 3:30 o'clock and will continue unt til 10. Beginning at 5 o'clock, oysters, chicken salad, cakes and pies will be served. The public is invited to attend. 5 FOUND GUILTY \ Wiiicesboro, Wednesday afterr noon, 4 o'clock.?Sheriff Lather M. r,v?L: e nr.* - > ? ' eeiaii ui niMHia. tried Derore Judfft Johnson J. Hayes in Federal court today on a ckargs of conJ tempt in connection with liberties r granted Cecil Critdher, a Federal 1 prisoner who seivred a six-months y sentence in the county jail here this 3 year, was found guilty and fined $300. W. Clint N-orris, jailor, was 3 also adjudged guilty of contempt in the same case and fined $200. - J Critchcr was remanded to the Wa-1 tauga County Jail for a period of l| six months, and placed in the cmsI tody of officer*. ist North Carolina 26. 1931 """* r tional Thanksgiving " i rspayer woman, disclosed a fact that cr new book, ''The I it was recovered near Hopewell, Va., three men fleeing. J1.50 PER YEAR EIGHT WATAUGA MEN ARE TRIED FEDERAL COURT vo Sentence* Are Meted Out While "Six Other* Are Placed on Probation. Court Now in Middle of Sec; ond Week, Trying an Overcrowded ! Docket Resulting from Recent ' Raid* of Prohibition Sleuths. Eight Watauga County citizens Save been arraigned before Judge Johnson J. Hayes* Middle District federal Court in Wilkesboro since Monday week ago, when the tribunal met to begin work on one of Lhe largest dockets it "has ever experienced The increased number of eases comes as a result of recent widespread raids on the part of prohibition enforcement officials, it is said, and the court is still in progress Wednesday, with many cases yet to be heard. Eight Wataugans have been tried, but only two sentences have been meted out, the others having been placed on probation. The proceedings of the court, in so far as Watauga is concerned, are as follows: Lee Teague, retailing, sentenced to a terra of three years in Cbilicothe, Ohio. Industrial School. Placed oh probation for a period of five years. Hal Teague, retailing, six months in Watauga County Jail. Frank and Lester Woodring, liquor, 3 years probation. Asa Wolf, liquor, 3 years probation. Turner Greene, retailing, fined $100 and three years probation. Frank Counoill and Earl Miller, charged with retailing, were placed on probation for a period of three years, and prayer for judgment was continued until next term of Federal iw* kux, ???,? ? ww??c art vnv rooc agaiuob jjv?" ill, also charged with retailing. It is understood that those placed on prohation must make monthly tcportB to the probation officer and appear at each term of Federal court and prove their abstenancc from dealing in intoxicating liquors in any way. Watauga Apples Once Prize Winners in Paris a m '* iSPyp*" j?? Mr. Ajbert Mastir. of the Matney community recently sent The Democrat a fine box of apples, .utith. the request tBiit We variety be determined. Mr. Tom Banner of. Sugar Grove positively identifies the apples as the Bughorn, and further explains thai his father, Newton Banner, grows the apples, and many years ago through the courtesy of the late Moses H. Cone, of Blowing Rock and Greensboro, specimens of the fruit were exhibited >n Paris, and carried second prize in the exposition. The apples Mr. Mastin sends in are very large, smooth, and with a pale pinkish striping. Mrs. Rebecca Woodring Dies in Columbia, Mo. Mrs. Rebecca Elrnyra Woodring, former resident of Watauga County, died at the home of Mr. J. N. Shoe maker, in Golumhia, Mo., on November II, at the age of 78 years. She had been ill only about a week. Remains were taken to Garden City, Mo., for burial. Surviving her are six children: J. N. Shoemaker, Columbia, Mo.; Daniel Woodring, Creighton, Mo.; J. T. Woodring, Richards, Mo.; W. J. I Woodring, Council Grove, Kansas; Mrs. Ada Dintman, I,a Junta, Colo.; Mrs. Charles Dougherty, Boone, N. C. Mrs. Woodring had lived in the West for several years and had been at the home of her son for about a [year. She was the widow of John A. | Woodring of this county, having left here shortly after his death. During the greater part of her absence she had lived with her daughter in Colorado. TUESDAT SET APART AS VOLUNTEER SERVICE DAY Tuesday of each week has been set apart by the local Rod Cross as Volunteer Service Day. Those who have clothing that has not heen collected are asked to notify the committee so that they may call on Tuesday. Material may also be delivered direct to Mrs. M. B. Blackburn, who is in charge of the loan closet. On T>,e? 11.- ??- * 1? Auvmajo avj. uir iicav ivw w*reiv? I"" dividuals or organizations who wish to help may come to Mrs. Blackburn's to aid in sorting and working ever this clothing so that it will be ready for immediate use. MRS. FULLER NAMED ADJUTANT OF CAMP NIMROD TR1PLETT Mrs. Selmcr Fuller of Amantha and Mountain City, has been appointed by Captain E. J. Norrls as adjutant for Camp Nimrod Triplett, United Confederate Veterans. Mrs. Fuller is a daughter of Enoch Swift, of Amantha, has for years been active in tVin Donfrlitnro nP i-Vi? ? A'-MS.ilvv.io luc VUIUCUC1JH.JI , and is anxious that veterans who need assistance get in touch with her. Mr and Mrs. Tom Cashing are spending Thanksgiving in WinstonSalem, the guests.'af friends. <8 : . SSa S . .^1 . y + i?