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VOLUME XLIII, NUMBER 27.
FEWER WEDDINGS
DURING LAST YEAR
RECORDS REVEAL
Sales of Marriage License at Courl
House RmcK New Low Level During
1031. When 42 Were 62
in 1930. June Lags Behind as
Favorite Month. The Complete
List of Licenses.
The depression which characterized
1931, found its way into Dan Cupid's
mart and there was a notable decrease
in the number applying at the office
of Miss Helen Underdown, Register
of Deeds for marriage licenses, her
records show. 42 couples applied for
the nuptial papers during ' 931; it is
shown, as against G2 in the year 1930.
It also develops that June lagged behind
as the favorite month for the
tying of the conjugal knots, losing
by a sizable number its popularity in
this connection to bleak November,
and making an even break with December.
The complete list of those
securing licenses during 1931, as taken
from Miss Underdown's records,
is as follows:
Jan. 7?Joseph Roberts, Jr. Christianburg,
Ya. and Mildred Bishop,
Christianburg, Va.
Jan. 20?B. F. Wilcox, Blowing
Rock, and Delia McGlamery, Brownwood.
Feb. 12?Thurman Gragg, Shulls
Mills and Lvdia Coffey. Gragg.
Feb. 28?J. M. Harman and Pearl
M. Brown. Beech Creek.
Feb. 28?Claude Mi'nton, Valle
Crucis and Blanche Hayes, Vilas.
March 14?Udus Wilson and iNora
A. Mast, Zionville.
March 18?Raleigh Blackburn and
Helen ilaire, Hopkins.
May 1?Tine Greenwell, Butler and
Elsie Guy, Beech Creek.
May 16?.T. Andrew Morgan, Carv
and Elsie Farthing, Boone.
May 21?Jas. P. Sawyer, Greensboro
and Margaret Shinberger, Norfolk,
Va.
May 30?Dell Greer, Brownwood
and Ruth Main, Zionville, N. C.
June 3?John Howell and Irene
M''Dade, Boone.
June 4?Ralph Askew, Richland?,
and Hatt'e Greer, Blowing Rock.
June 9?B. Frank Williams, Ashe-ville
and Carrie Coffey, Boone.
June 20?Charles M. Holler, Boone
htui Margaret m. bower? jofr?=r5on.
June 25?Russell Her.son, Amanfchft
and Lula Austin, Banner Eik.
July 20?Oliver Barrier and EUs
Hall, Penley.
July 25?Gradon N. Harmon and
Pearl Smithcrmun, Peoria.
July 31,?Root. i>eikei A1 cacuIucr,
Charlotte and Sarah Wheeler, Charlotte.
Aug. 19?F. Merle Dye, WinstonSalem
and Katie Holshouser, Blowing
Rock.
Aug. 23?T. Clyde Church, Purlear
and Virgie Dancey, Wilbnr.
Sept. 11?John Ward anil Tine
Herman, Matney.
Sept. 13?Mason Randolph Muddux,
Kenbridge, Va. and Dorothy
H'.iyOo, Blowing 5o?k
Sept. 12?Lane Idol, and Anna
Watson, Deep Gap.
Oct. 3?.Joseph H. Green and Lucy
Pearson, Blowing Rock.
Oct. 19?Daily Presnoll and Lina
Stines, Rominger.
Oct. 21?Sponccr Rominger and
Ora Hicks, Matney.
Oct. 2-1?Carl Morctz and Hollie
"Miller, Meat Camp.
Oct. 24?Boyd Greene and Bessie
Barnes, Zionville.
Oct. 30?Roy Whittington, Vilas
and Roberta Parker, Sugar Grove,
ji('. Nov. 2?George Smitherman and
Elfa Greene, Peoria.
Nov. 5?Tom Cushing and Elizabeth
Crow, Boone.
Nov. 13?Harrison Townsend, Ban
ner Elk and Mae Townsend, Balm.
Nov. 14?Stanley Ward ar.d Pau
'ine Ward, Shulls Mills.
Nov. 19?Carl McCIellan and Haze'
Wright, Bristol, Va.-Tenn.
Nov. 20?Arlie Hodges and Wilms
tlayes, Vilas.
Nov. 20?Rowland Davis, Sevei
Springs and Blanche Horton, Vilas.
TW. 14?Huston Shearer. Boom
. and Gila Devore, South Carolina.
Dec. 19?Chas. Ford Henson, Am
.antha and Thelma Rosninger, Suga:
- Grove.
Deo. 23?Rowland Hollers, Booni
and Ina Gragg, Boone.
Dec. 23?Ray Swift and Leota No
ris, Reese.
Dec. 28?Robert Yates, Boone, t<
Allie Herman, Valle Crucis.
Tobacco Yields Profit
in One Watauga Cast
Mr. Wade L. Greene of Peoria i
one Watauga farmer who is please
with the outcome of a small ventur
in the raising of hurley tobacco. Mi
Greene told the Democrat Saturda
that he sold $82.00 worth of the wee
from a piece of ground which yielde
in 1929 11 bushels of corn, whic
was worth at that time $11.00. Mi
Greene says that the cost of produi
ing the corn and tobacco was nearl
the same.
Mfftlftiilsy (Ihwufln of North Wi
kesboro, visi ed at the Jim Rivei
home in Boone Saturday evening.
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Sullivan, member of N. Y. State J'
Boxing _ Commission, as be ap- ,
peared just before going to hospital
for a "looking over" after a fall J
from a railroad station platform- 1
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HIGHWAY 28 GETS
ATTENTION FROM |
ST'TE COMMISSION;
t!
Important Highway Has Been Exten- *
ded, and Has Been , Dubbed the ^
"Crest of the Blue Ridge High- ^
way" A New Link in the National
Park-to-Pork Highway System. ^
Traverses Watauga County. ^
The State Highway Commission at
the December meeting extended high- .
way 28, which runs through Ilender- .1
schville, so as to reach from the Ten- 11
nesscc line west of Murphy to Vir- V
ginia, north of Twin Oaks.
The new extension of highway 28 .
follows no 10 from Old Fort to a c
point two miles west of Marion and [
fellows 19 to Woodlawn. From thiu
point to Linvillo No. 194 wilt be el- ^
iir.lnated and 691 to Twin Oaks will s,
be dropped, and No. 26 from Twin },
Oaks to the Virginia line dropped, ^
making one continuous route from a
Virginia to Tennessee, covering a distance
of 338 miles. 1
The assitance of the state highway i
commission has been sought in mak- ^
ing application for a federal number
to cover the entire route, making connection
with li. S. 11 in Virginia and
] Tennessee.
The state highway commission has *
been looking with favor on extension
of this thoroughfare, for some time,
it is learned, and Chambers of Commerce
in the sections traversed nave
boon active in this connection for 11
. the past several months. The route, *
it is stated, holds out great possibilities
from a scenic viewpoint, running *as
it does along the ridgepole of the ?
i Blue Ridge Mountains. Chairman Jeffries
of the state highway commission v
, has suggested that the road be known c
as the Crest of the Blue Ridge High- v
. way- c
The highway will pass through the '
. Fisgah Nntional Forest, as well as *the
Natahala forest in Macon coun- s
[ ty. The route will have the distinction
of having the two highest in- 1
. corporated towns in eastern America x
?Blowing Rock and Highlands. It r
. maintains an altitude of 3500 feet <
between Blowing Rock and Linville '
. and crosses the Blue Ridge Moun- *
rains eleven times over a distance of '
I eight miles between Blowing Rock 5
and Grandfather Mountain.
L Number 28 will be the eastern bor- ?
der line in North Carolina of the '
, new National Park-to Park Highway '
from the point where it enters this 1
? state north of Twin Oaks to Old Fort.
- BANNER ELK WOMEN'S CLUB
r SPREADS HAPPINESS AT XMAS ,
e Many children in the community
were made happy with Christmas j
r stockings filled with candy, nuts and .
K ? Pllr w?
tuja MJT nic uaiuiui uia n uinvi: J I
o Clubs. Also food and clothing were
given to several families. A Christ- '
mas box was sent to Nancy Remsey
who is in the State Hcspital at Raleigh.
% Messrs Charles and Gilbert Lowe
" have returned to their home after
spending Christmas with Miss Alice
? Paynei of Mayack, N. C., who re?
turned witi them to visit Mr. and
c Mrs. R. L *?We.
r- Mrs. J. H. VCtrCanon, Charles and
y Carolyn, have returned from a visit
? to Mrs. T. W. Simpson of Bristol,
jj Tenn.-Va.
" Mrs. J. S. Guignard and son Charr
les have returned after spending the
holidays with Mrs. Anna Jones and
y daughter Elizabeth of Johnson City.
Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Hardin have
returned after spending a. few days
1- during the Christmas holidays with
raj Mrs. Hardin's mother, 1T113, -TV USt'll,
}in Charlotte, N. C. I
wspaper, Devoted to thd
WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH ci
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ffiAD IN ADDRESS;
[0 STUDENTS HERE
/ell Known Tennessee Educator A"
Visitor at Appalachian College and
rir>i;?ar? AddrMtc 011 "Power of In*
flucnce." W^icK is Described as
the Most Powerful Force Known
to Modern Man.
Speaking on the "Power of Ir.flunce'\
Dr. H. J. Dietrich, president
f Milligan College delivered an adress
before the student body at the
Appalachian State Teachers College
ist Thursday.
"More powerful than steam, than
11 the combined forces of our modin
electricity," declared the speaki\
"is this invisible force of influnce.
Even the small thing of a picire,
in one instance for which I can
orsonally vouch, was instrumental
1 changing the whole course ci the
ves of three people. It brought them
> the church, nnd one of them is now
missionary in India, while the other
no are ministers hexe in the United
tates.
"No person, it matters not how
ican \j i hw?? gCGu 13, w V.'lthCUt
h.is great power of influence. And j
fllllil hnliovo tViic r?A?'o?? nf c 11
.. "?<-w ...... vt fc> '
ion inherent in the human race is
Dtiay the most important force with
ihic'n man is in constant contact.
"On one occasion I was waiting at
railroad terminal for a train which
as already 90 minutes late. A man
eside me was swearing by all the
owors that this train had ruined his
ppointmcnts for the day, and from
his our conversation developed. It
ulminated in the agreement?since
was not in the habit of betting?
rat within three minutes I could have
verybody in that crowded terminal
ut on the platform expecting the
rain, without saying a single word,
wo of these minutes I sat through in
ilencc. And then with one glance out
he nearest window, I made a dash
or the door as if that train were aleady
pulling out for the next station,
.ooking back from the platform, I
bund every last man of them crowdig
behind me; and the fellow with
hom ! had made the agreement was
ight at my heels!
"I hope as students and future
lachcrs," said Dr. Dietrich in confusion,
"that yon will oiwo-'tn-talSl
ze the tremendous power of your
tfiuence, and that it may at last rhe
ritten or, every one of your tombtones:
"He Died Climbing.' But I
lso hope that it will not be written
here for the next 90 or 100 years
t least."
IIM GRIMESDIES
IN JOHNSON CITY
tespected Colored Man Succumbs to
Heart Attack. Funeral Services
Here Sunday Afternoon.
Jim Grime?, a forma** colored resident
of Boone, who for the past
wenty years has made his home in
ohnson City, died suddenly in that
own last Friday morning at 8 oTlock.
The body was brought to Boone
ate Friday night and funeral services
.'ere held Sunday morning at tlsc
olored Baptist church, following
rhich the body was interred in a loal
burying ground. The deceased
nan is survived by four young daughers
and eight brothers and sisters,
everal of whom reside in Boone.
Grimes, whose age was around G3,
>ad worked as a teamster during the
vhole of his adult life, and was for
nany years an employee of the late
Captain Tom Coffey. On Friday he
>arne3sed his team to begin his usual
iuties. Complaining of a pain in his
vrist he turned the team over to a
.table boy and told him to drive the
lorses out of the alley way for him.
Stepping aside for the team to pass,
le staggered and fell to the ground.
Medical aid was summoned but life
vas extinct before its arrival.
Jim Grimes was a hard-working
nan. and had perhaps as many
Eriends among the white race as am
ing the folks of his own color. While
his life had been devoted to work oi
3i rough nature, it had been usefully
spent, and Sii passing is deplored
by a large concourse of both white
and colored acquaintances.
INTEREST IN LOCAL CHEVROLE1
BUSINESS SOLD TO MAX HOUCK
Mr. Max Houck, of Boone, has be
come half owner in the garage anc
seles business of the W. R. Chevrolei
Cnmnnnv nf thiq ritr tnf U.o ,nn.i
eration was not made public. Mr
Houck is a dsabled veteran of th<
world war and has made his homi
in this city for several years.
Officials of the local agency, an
nounce a good business since the in
itial showing of the new Chevrolet
rectnly. This model, they say, ha:
won immediate approval, and a mira
ber of them have already been dis
posed of.
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Brendall, Jr
returned Friday from Greensboro am
pviiito in Coo.err. Carolina where
spent the Christmas holidays.
Best Interests of Northwes
f " - -? ,
piOLINA, THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 1
PHOT RED HAKMANj
TELLS OF HAZARDS
IN ETHFRIAI VOID!
Flyer Who is Well Known in Boone
Here on Brief Visii. Lure of Barnstorming
Still Holds Young Licu
tenant. Tells of Hairbreadth EsJ
capes Since Last Visit Here. May
Come Again in Warmer Season.
r Lieutenant "Red" Barman, accompanied
by Mrs. Barman and Jim Con.nelly,
spent several hours in Boone
Monday evening- visiting with friends
made during their extended stay in
the city last summer, with the Good
Will Fliers. The Harmans have spent
the intervening period in Eastern
Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee,
and only two weeks ago hopped
hack into North Carolina. _
Red recounted several hair-raising ,
incidents which he has experienced g
during the past few months while A
piloting the big five-place J-f> Standard
plane. At Paintsvilic, Ky., the
amiable birdman took his ship aloft
to give denizens of those parts a few
cjjills and thrills in the form of barrel
rolls, loops and Irnmeimann turns.
Near the close of hi* hazardous perfoimanee
he put the plane into a "
series of inside loops. Poking his head
out of the cock-pit to see how things
looked, he discovered that one side
of the landing gear had broken loose
from the struts and was laying up
in ine guy wires. A sickening sort of
feeling enveloped Red but he decided
to try and make the best of his)
| predicament, ncaatng duck lor tne
! field, which he described as being j
| about the size of a "shirt-tail," he j
leveled off. brought the ship to the
ground on one wheel and the skid, ;i
held her there as long as he could ^
and when the speed had diminished ^
sufficiently, let rhc crippled side t|
down. The plane did a couple of spins
on the left wing and stopped, rightside-up,
with only a small torn place
in the fuselage. And out popped Red,
fee'ing lots better. ](
Only a few days ago. while flying v
from Chattanooga to Marion, N. C.,
across the Blue Ridge, Harrnan eni
countered a severe storm. A few of (
the "gadgets" on the instrument tj
board which were put there for blind |
flying were out of commission and j ^
the pilot was again in a pickle. AU|
I he could see was the tips of the 11,
wings and a bit of the taii. The al- a
timeter showed that the ship was ^
soaring at an altitude of around seven
thousand feet. The pilot felt his r
craft go into a tail spin, and when
he got it righted he had lost a thou-,
sand feet. The vain was pouring and j j
che propeller became an ?thubst ifiL (
discernible whirl of mist. Another |
tail spin and another thousand feet.J
of altitude lost. Strapped to Red's j
back was his four-year-old parachute j
which has never been jumped. Things ^
looked black for the birdman. Any
moment he might strike a mountain
top. Fifty minutc-3 of blind flying
| had destroyed his sense of balance,
so me made up his mind to bale out c
and apply for membership in the ?
mythical caterpiiiar club. He folded jc
his map, loosed his safety belt, gave i ii
his cleun shirts, Christmas toys and i
other paraphernalia which rested in it
the front cockpit a longing thought ;c
and made preparation for his first is
jump. <Tust then the ship broke a
through the storm, cruising along level
with the mountain tops; so Red 3
remains a novice at the parachute f
game. i
Two hundred and twenty hours ol d
flying time have been added to Har- '
roan's log book since his stay in Boone 1
but no new lines have appeared on
his ruddy cheeks. It just seems that <
he belongs up there flirting with the t
clouds and the elements. He expects
to spend the remainder of the win- v
ter in South Carolina and Georgia ?
and promises to pay Boone another t
visit when warm weather arrives. s
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Improvements Noted on '
the College Gymnasium '
The throngs that annually pack the 1
I gymnasium of the Appalachian State
. Teachers College here during the bns.
ketball season have an added thrill
i awaiting them this year; that is, if
, all the hammering and noise arising
I from that vicinity during the past j
, week can be taken to mean anything.
New iron posts to support the balconies
in order to give greater visibility
have already been installed and
new portable bleachers are expected
here tomorrow, so that they can be
put in place in plenty of time for the
" first scheduled game for the season,
' with Union College Kentucky, here,
t Saturday nightAll
work is expected to be com
pleted by Friday noon, according to
5 workmen who have been engaged in
> xi . J .1; i
- me rsmoaeung. i
JAMES FOSTER DEAD
James E. Foster, of Linville, 47
3 years old, died at Grace Hospital,
s Banner Elk, Sunday after an illness
* with pellagra. Funeral services were
" conducted at Linville Tuesday members
of the Moose order being in
charge and interment was by the
Moretz Funeral Home,
il Surviving Mr. Foster are a widow
7J end siv children and a duiuber of oth
er near relatives. '
)CRA
t North Care ia
- 932.
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Mrs. Cornelia Bricc Pir.chot, e
wife of the Governor of Pennsyi: c
vania, announces that she will be t
a candidate for the place now l.eld f
by tcepresentative Louis i. Mc- j
Fadden. <
HRISTMAS SEAL j
DRIVE LN COUNTY J
NETS 80 DOLLARS;
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cpori ui v^naii uiau iuwmss.s .><?--C
Sal? of Stamps. American Legion j
Auxiliary, With Mrs. Harris as
Chairman, in Charge of Campaign. v
Funds to Be Used to Combat Tu- '
berculosis.
i
Mrs. Stanley Harris, county chair- '
lan for the anti-tuberculosis Christ- ?
ias seal drive, reports the sale of !
ighty dollars worth of the seals dur- 1
lg the brief period preceding the 1
olidays, and it is understood that
sveral substantial contributions were
Icn vupniffifl TKo polo wne rnnHnnL
d through the local American Legion
auxiliary and Mrs. Harris wishes to
lank the canvassing ladies and also
lose who purchased the stamps for
licir generous aid.
Seventy-five per cent cf the money i
aised will be kept in Watauga for; I
>cal relief work, and the remainder) i
'ill be sent to the state organization 11
during the past few years great.:
ood has been accomplished by the <
und and this year's total which is i
tiree times greater than that of any receding
year, is expected to go far <
oward combating the white plague.
I^ast year's campaign netted over
a/onf.y^tiivfrn (jnllars. and nothing but i
super-human effort on the part of :
he ladies during the past month
ould have brought such gratifying
esults. '
MTAOFINTEREST
N ANCIENT RECORD
I ,
'igures on Schools of Long Ago In I
Marked Contrast to PresentDay
Methods of Learning
In looking over the school records
f this county, covering the years past :
Superintendent Smith Hagaman un- :
overs some figures which provide
n teres ting reading.
In the year 1885, there were 22
eachcrs holding first grade certifiates.
1G second grade and nine third
rade. There were 54 white districts
!id five colored;
At that time there was a total of
280 citizens between the ages of
I and 21. with 1871 enrolled in the
chocls. There were 140 colored stulenis.
In the year 1931, comparison
eveals, there were only 140 colored
mpils.
The nvevage price paid white tcach;rs
was $20 per month, while colored
a tors received $16.00.
The average attendance for each
L'ri; f o r-/?hnr*l in 1 RSri w#?q 17- Avpr
ige length of term for whites; 10
veeks; for colored, 8 weeks; Public
ichool property was valued at $3,140;
[. W. Thomas was the County Superintendent
and Thomas J. Coffey
vas the Chairman of the Board of
Education.
Injured by Shot Which
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W OS X" la CU CXL ?\QMI/U
Graham Teague, local young man,
received gunshot wounds while rab5it
hunting near the city with Hurrey
Bunting, also of Boone. The accident
is said to have taken place
ivlien Mr. Bunting raised his gun to
Eire at a rabbit. The shot was fatal
to the cotton tail, but Teague, who
ivas in range of the firearm, also
received a part of the load. Twelve
shot were removed from the injured
man's lower limbs by physicians and
latest advices are that an early recovery
is expected.
Over Six Hundred Tags j
Sold at License Bureau!
? i
Jarnes D. Horton, in charge of the!
local license plate bureau of the Carolina
Motor Club, reports the sale of
a few more than six hundred tags
since his office opened the middle of
December. Many of the tags, have
gone, he says, to adjoining counties,
especially Ashe and Avery, and Watauga
motorists have purchased fewer
than three hundred of the plates.
J1.50 PER YEAR
mrc A DDPCTrn AM
rtfii muiiuiiii; un
COMPLICITY COUNT;
SLAYER AT LARGE
Miucy men r.re Arraigned Before
Justice Hahn on Charges Growiiij
Out of. Fatal Shooting of Thurston
Oliver. Three Are Bound to Court
Bonds of $1,00 Filled. Wallace, the
Alleged Slayer, Eludes Officers.
Forest McGhinnis, McKinley Ward,
Iherman Baird, Lloyd Presnell and
iValter Church, all of the Matney
ection of Watauga county, arrestid
Thursday on warrants charging
:omplicity in the murder of Thurson
Oliver on December 26, were
riven preliminary hearings before
fustier of the Peace Edw. N. Halm
>n last Friday, the trial continuing
intil Saturday noon. The cases as
o Church and Presnell were nol prosid,
but due to a preponderance of
jvidence against McCinnis, Ward ar.d
Baird, the trio was bound to the
spring term of Superior court under
)onds of $1,000 each. Bail was imnediately
given ar.d the men were
eleased.
The case was closely contested and
ong arguments were presented by
)oth sides. The State was represented
>y W. R. Lovill and T. E. Bingham
.vhiie John E. Brown appeared for
i,he accused men.
Ephriam Wallace, who alledgedly
fired the faflal shot is still being
if?v?r*ht by local officer? Th*? char
ges of complicity against the five
men tried Friday grew out of a minor
quarrel which is said to have
taken place earlier in the day of the
tragedy.
Axlie W. Brown Faces
Charge of Contempt
Greensboro News. Jan. 2.?Arlie
IV. Brown, Watauga county resident,
who is alleged to have failed to file
nis schedule of liabilities and assets
in a voluntary proceeding in bankruptcy,
has been cited to appear before
Judge Johnson J. Mayes in federal
court at 10 o'clock on the morning
of January 15thT to show cause
why he should not be adjudged in
eon tempt of court.
Judge Hayes Friday issued an order
for the arrest of Brown on a
charge of contempt of court as a result
of the defendant's failure to appear
before Archie Ellodgc of Winston-Salem,
referee in bankruptcy,
on December 22 as required by law,
(Note?Local physicians state that
Mr. Brown on December 22nd was
confined to his home with an acute
of frOTil VvLlCu l.o
is just recovering.)
Warden Cites Sections
of Game Laws Violated
County Game Warden H. Grady
Farthing ,issues the following timely
statement regarding violations of the
game laws:
The squirrel season closet! on December
31.
It : a violntior. to set dead falls
and those who ate persistently doing
so are going to be prosecuted when
apprehended.
It is u violation of tlio law to huy
fur without a license. If you are n
merchant and buying fur that comes
to your store, ar.d expect to purchase
less than $5C0 worth, you are required
by law to have a $1.00 fur dealers'
license. If you expect to buy
more than $500 worth or peltry you
are required to have a $10.00 county
fur dealers' license. Anyone who
goes out of his place of business and
buys any amount of fur is required
to huy a $10 county fur dealers' license.
Any of the license mentioned will
he furnished you by the County Warden.
Send your name and address
with the money and your license will
be mailed to you.
Wilson Local Chairman
Victory Fund Campaign
Mr. A. D. Wilson of Boone Monday
wired his acceptance of appointment
as head of the Democratic Victory
Fund Drive for- Watauga to C. L.
Shuping, Greensboro, state chairman W'
of the committee, who notified the JT
local man of his selection last week. /
Mr. wiison states that he will be--"
gin at once to make organization
plans in the several townships of the
county, and that all Democrats will
be urged to make at least a small contribution
to the fund which is to be
used in this year's national campaign.
Fu Is are now being solicited in every
section of the United States, it
being the purpose of the national
committee to have as many voters
stockholders in the party a3 is pos'
sibie by the time the campaigns open
late next summer.
enjoys home paper
F. G. Moody, former Wataugan,
resident of St. Paul, Minn. -Writes
as follows: "Herewith check for another
year of 'enjoyment.' I hope you
enjoyed editing the Democrat as
much last year as I enjoyed reading
th?r. this will be vour most
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