BOONE
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NO NEED TO WOBRY
"Uncle Dick" Hodges, hale and
hearty at eighty-odd* optimist of the
first rank who laughs at panics arid
depressions and floods and general
uuxmmtion, handed the SkctC.li Man
a little article the other day which
thoroughly outlines the tine old gentleman's
philosophy of living. Here
it is:
Either you are successful or you are
not. If you are successful there is
nothing to worry about. If you are
not successful w %re are only two
tilings to worry about?
Either your health is good or you
arc sick. If your health is good there]
is nothing to worry about. If you |
are sick there are two things to wor-j
ry about?
Either you ".-ill get well?or die. 11 j
you are going to get well there is;
nothing to worry about. If you are j
going to die there are only two things
tr\ wnrrv? nhnrf
Either you are?or are not ?going
to heaven. If you are going to
heaven there is nothing to worry
about.
If you are going to the other place,
you will be so busy shaking hands
with old friends and acquaintances
that?
YOU WON'T HAVE ANY tHING
TO WORRY ABOUT!
ALONG TUE BEATEN PATH
Sweet young thing, with the dust
of the seng patch still clinging to
her feet, struts down the street,
daubing her lips with rouge.
.Mother rpbin teaching "aerial acrobatics'*
to her daring fledgling.
Summer tourist inquiring the way
to Daniel Boone's cabin. (Page Major
Hampton Kieh.)
Ninety-year-old Civil War veteran
tells sixty-year-oid chap he'd "heat
h outen him if he wasn't an old j
man."
Beggar asks for alms, is refused,
says "goodbye, brother, good luck,"
and beats it.
Little boys making mud pies on
the sidewalk.
Poor old married man trying to
"date" a cute little sehoolniarm.
Republican brother refuses beer,
saying: "I didn't vote for it, so lit
domed if 1 drink it!"
Policeman Hill Hagaman, smoking
his pii?*T iw IiC iiwts -through
town in a motorcycle side-car.
[Sophisticated ml99 putting the
"high hat** on an eratwhlle friend.
KEVE.H TO BE FORGOTTEN!
w A couple of friendly little dogs.
Wag- and Trixie by name, had been
living up on our street for several
months. All the children loved them
. . . they would run and play with
B them, laugh with them, share their
childish joys and sorrows. But some
' wretched bnite, who undoubtedly
wears pants and calls himself a man,
decided to kill these harmless little
pets ... so he loaded a couple of
biscuits with poison, tossed the enticing
morsels to Wag and Trixie . . .
5 and now they are gone! The children
wept, as they carried the lifeless bodies
of their canine friends to a vacant
lot for burial. Songs were sung and
simple eulogies paid to Wag and Trlx8ie
as the agaves were filled ... a little
girl said a prayer, and a little
boy's eyes brimmed over with tears.
I No Caesar, no Pompey ever took hi3
departure to the Unknown with greater
ceremony . . . and, besides, their
grief was sincere, for little children
know nothing of hypocrisy and sham.
Several days have passed, but the
children siill remember . . . each afternoon
they place roses and daisies
and violets on the graves of Wag and
Trixie. They have erected markers,
and beautified their "cemetery." They
talk a lot about the dogs . . . and wonder
why it was that someone wanted
to kill them. We wonder, too, but,
' ' ot course, will never know. Anyway,
-welt venture a guess that the "thing"
who killed our friends will not be
half so badly missed when he makes
his miserable demise from earthly
realms as are Wag and Trixie. Let's
not dishonor the memory of these
pets by suggesting that the killer is
so offspring of their mother!
AN EARLY VISITOR
Will Carter of the Green Heights
section of Boone was awakened
from his four-o'clock slumbers Wednesday
morning by the distressed
cackling or shrieks or whatever you
can it, of his poultry flock. Faring
forth with his snotgun, be ghigcriy
approacneu roe iitii-uiniw ... ?nu
what do you think be found?
Crouched In one corner of the bonding
was old Didelphla Virginians
: herself, a rooster's leg firmly
clutched in her teeth. This nocturnal
marsupial of the genus lMdelpfaidoc
(vulgarly called " 'possum")
was detached from the fowl, and
brought Into the clear light, where
examination disclosed that she was
carrying a pouch filled with eight
embryo night prowlers. Mother and
children were taken to a secluded
spot in the hills, where hungry
"houn dawgs" will be seeln' 'em
wheu the frost la on the pumpkin.
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WA1
A Non
VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 51
jwhittlerRaffles Engineers jj
1t
Charles E. Kent, fo Los Angeles, '
gave an exhibition of "engineers" j,
problems In whittled pieces, none of n
which were solved, so inexplicably L
were the different woods linked. r
Kent won't tell bow It's done and g
claims the whittling championship.
WATAUGA MENTO |
ATTEND REUNION :
WILDCAT DIVISION ?
f;
Personnel of Famous World War Unit o
Will Gather ill Winston-Salem on c
July 3rd. Twin City Offers Much b
Entertainment for Visitors. Local t
Veterans Asked to Communicate j r
With Reunion Hwloouartfis. !e
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Watauga members of tlie famous ?
Eighty-first (Wildcat) Division have ii
been invited to attend a reunion of s
Uiat outfit to be held in Winston- ?
Salem, N. C., July 2nd to 5t.h. Tndi- P
cation are that a number of local n
"Wildcats" will attend. a
The reunion will open on Sunday, o
the 2nd, with memorial services in all s
of the churches at 11 a. m., and the;
division memorial services tor the s
honored dead will be held at 3.00 5
p. m. in Reynolds Memorial Audito- c
rium. A smoker will be held in the s
Robert E. Lee Hotel on Sunday night, j11
Monday, July 3, the convention will j t
g^t- under wey with the opening ex-1 ^
ercises at 9:30 a. in. A business scs- *
sion ana unit dinners win b? lioju ...
the afternoon and a benefit ball game, *
between Winston-Salem and WUmuig- c
ton will be held at 7:45 p. m.
The divisional ball and reception z
will be held at the Rober t E. Lee Ho-! i1
tel at 10 p. m. On Tuesday, July 4,
there will he a patriotic lac-etir.g at n
f*:30 a. m.. followed by a general eel- *
ebration of Independence Day in the (5
uilernuuii. The divisional parade and j **
review* will be held at 6 p.m. and a|S
carnival and dance will be held that j
night in one of the large tobacco J
warehouses. On Wednesday, July 5th,
the business sessions of the association
will be held and the reunion will
end with a divisional banquet at the
Robert E. Lee Hotel. e
Watauga members of the division a
who plan to attend are requested to t
write to the reunion headquarters, u
r TT/.trtl \\r; f I (\
I IUUCI L u. X iCt: uuu i, ?* UULUU-Uai^lll,
for full information. a
t
Low Temperatures ?
During Past Week rQ
During the past week mercury |
in Boone ranged between 33 and 80.
the skies were cloudless, and heavy
frosts on two different mornings j
nipped growing crops throughout the
county. Following is the weather report
for that period as compiled by
the Co-operative Station at Appalachian
State Teachers College:
Average maximum temperature, 72 c
degrees.
Average minimum temperature, 50 i
degrees. '
Average temperature, 61 degrees.
Average daily range in temperature,
22 degrees.
Greatest daily range in tempera- t
Lure, 38 degrees; date, 16tfc. e
Average temperature at 6 p. m. ^
(time of observation, 66 degrees. c
Highest temperature reached, 80 r
degrees; date, 11th. -]
Lowest temperature reached, 33 c
degrees; date, 15th. t
Precipitation, none. r
Number of clear days, 5. a
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FOUR SISTERS STUDY TOGETHER
Mesdames Reece Ariedge, William r
Tur.r.cll, Jack Michael, and Miss Ruby ?
Cook, sisters, and the daughters of U
Mr. and Mrs. T. Len Cook of this 11
city, are all enrolled aa students at c
the Teachers Colleke this summer. It t
is Interesting to note that the quar- i
tet study their lessons together and
in one subject attend the same class s
at the same time and under the tu- 1
torsbip of the same professor. t
Farmers of Rowan County have increased
the yield of wheat from two
to three hundred per cent, this year t
by top dressing. On many farms, the 1
top dressing was the only fertilizer l
used on the crop, reports the county i
agent. - <
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BOONE, WATAUGA COUM*
'AILURETO ABSORB]
TAX CONSTITUTES"
A LAW VIOLATION
to Pass General |
Salt's Luvjc on to CousiiUnr. Tax 5s
Not Imposed on Wholesalers or
Jobbers. Accrued Revenues to Be
Paid Monthly. Rules of ?>a\v Will
Be Furn!slie<l by Department.
Raleigh.?Any retail merchant who
tales directly or indirectly that he
/ill absorb the three per cent gen- *
ral sales tax which becomes effecixc
July 1st and that it will not be
dded to the sales price, shall be guil- ,
if Revenue A. J. Maxwell points out
n a statement, just as any retail
merchants violating the rules and regilations
to be issued by the Revenue
lepartment before July 1 will be
nilty of a misdemeanor.
All retail merchants are required
o pass the tax on to the consumer
nder rules and regulations made or
n which merchants may agree, just
0 they do not violate the price-fixig
laws, the object being to pass on
pproximately the three per cent tax
nd not necessarily the exact amount
n each item, he says.
The tax is not imposed on nianu- i
acturers, wholesalers or jobbers, but
a the aggregate sales of all merhants
selling to consumers direct,
ut certain items are exempted from
he tax, if proper record is kept and
eport made of them. The exempt itms
arc adopted list public scTiool
ooks at fixed prices; sales made to
"ederal. State or local governments,
ncluding public welfare and relief
ales; flour, meal, meat, lard, molasC3,
salt, sugar and coffee, but the
lain items as commonly used and
ot including fancy products, cereIs,
canned or jar meats, butter oils =
r fats, syrups, evaporated milks and
ugar, salt or coffee substitutes.
Retail merchants are required to
eciire in advance; a license costing
1 for a year, and pay the three per
ent sales tax accrued in monthly uitallmenta
by the 15th of the next
aonth, unless the monthly tax Ls less
isan 310, wlicfj it may be paid quarterly,
or if less than $10 per quarter,
hen annually. v
Commissioner Maxwell . SaTOMHi t
aui una tax is in aaaiuon to any ^
ther irnnnooH hxr law Ntfltm?
hat gasoline and commercial fertili- c
er, on whicli an inspection tax is s
aid, are exempt from the sales tax. f
Conferences have been held with a
merchants and the roles and regula- a
ions to be issued will be in part on C
u^cslioiis they -make for an cquir- a
ble collection of the tax and to in- r
ore passing it on to the consumer. <
a
state Nurse Gives ^
Course for Midwives *
?
Miss Katherlne Livingstone, Raligh.
State nurse, is in the county 3
rid announces a course in midwifery 11
0 be conducted at different points a
1 the county during the first days v
t July. The meetings, which it is ^
nnounced are for the promotion of *
he welfare and hygiene of maternity F
lid infancy, are to be held annually, *
nd anyone practicing midwifery is ?
equired to attend. Below is the lisv. v
i the places and times of the meetng
and practitioners are requested *
o attend at the most convenient oint:
v
Pnvf* f!rw*lr Wftdnpsdav Julv 5th.
0 a. m., school building.
Bethel, Thursday, July 6, 10 a. in.,
chool building.
Blowing Rock, Friday, July V, 10
.. m., school building.
Boone, Saturday, July 8, 10 a. m.,
ourthouse.
Local Merchants Act
To Save Folks Excise
The sales tax continues to be a live
opic of conversation among retailrs
of Boone, and C. W. Teal, rnana;er
of the Boone Department Store,
arries a full page ad in The Dcmorat
today under the caption, "Prei"ax
Sale." In the announcement is
arried a list of the many items in
he big dry goods ime which are
narked away down, with the further
idvantage'of no tax to pay if purhases
are made now.
Farmers Hardware Company caries
out the same theme in a remarkible
sale of Glass Bake Cooking ware,
white tne Fashion Shop, Spainhour's,
tive-to-Five Store, Smithey3 and Car
tlivva QMroa ore fiffprino- onwiol in- 1
iucements to stimulate summer buyng
The various advertisements today
ihould further convince the people of '
this section the advantages Boone :
jffers as a shopping center.
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ILLNESS FATAL TO BABY 1
Mary E. Watson, 8-months-old and '
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos I
Watson of Deep Gap, died Sunday and 1
funeral services and interment was
in the same neighborhood on Sffon- 1
lay. , i
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roted to the Best Interests
ry, NORTH CAROLINA, THUHSDA
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TO LEAD IN INSTIT
Charles M. Johnson and \V. ?). Ka
Commission; Allen Maxwell, Con?ni
criil Dciir.i& G. Bru nirr.it and Assistii;
who will lead the discussions at the in
next Friday and Saturday. Officials f
vitcd. \V. F. Miller, of the Board of
Zimmerman, solicitor of the Kecorder
the Recorders Court: A. 1>. Wilson, taj
iorney for the town of Boone, will com
Recorder Rid
Board in Si
A civil action wherein the Board j \
4,. .* i*r_< /-*!??..?..I I
't tniuvonuH ui. >. uvuvit,c vvu^vjr nw) he
plaintiff and Earl Ward, resident > ^
if Tennessee, was the defendant, bc-J*
upa'd lie-spotlight in Ciie Tuesdays j v
ess ion of Recorders Court. The s
Soard sought to recover $100 actual i
nd $400 punitive damages as a re- I
ult of the attachment of a Cove t
?reek school bus as it passed through I
strip of Tennessee with a jpa<i bf-U
mpils. The chassis to the vehicle ihe't
property of Messv^ T-.. T Rir.gham t
lid Will Payne of Boone, had been
on traded to the county for the piir>ose
of conveying students of the <
forth Fork section to the Cove Creek i
School. '
The body was furnished by the local i
chool board. It developed that Lou- t
lie Henson of Vilas held a nolo
igainst the owners of the vehicle, a
yhich in turn was traded to Mr. Earl I
Vard of Mountain City. He attached ]
he school bus for the debt as it '
lassed through the edge of his State ]
.ear Trade. The vehicle was loaded
yith children at the time, many of Ii
tfhom, it was charged, had to walk
ong distances, and 13 were said to!
lave been loaded in one Ford car atl;
he peril of life and limb. The bus I
vas taken to Mountain City and held, j i
Young Demo(
To Attend S
A state-wide meeting of the
Young Democratic Voters Club of I
North Carolina Ls to bo held at j
Wright*vtlle Beach on Saturday, Jit- j
iy 8th, and Jim Rivers, chairman of
the Watauga County unit of the organization
is anxious that all those
interested in going from this county
get in touch with htm at once
in order that room reservations may
be taken care of. Watauga County
is entitled to three delegates in the ,
business meeting, but any others |
interested may go said Mr. Rivers.
It is expected that this meeting
will be the most widely attended of
any political meet held in the State
for many years, and officials have
variously estimated the attendance
expected at from SO,000 to 50,000
Senator Robert R. Reynolds is to be
anvvivcc At'i'irr ?-i A *vmrr*?*7?c?
.'USUMS- ro winvu v/fm* ftvnrji?
LARGE COPPER ?1STTIJLEKY
Sheriff A. Y. Howell, accompanied
by a posse of deputies, captured a
sixty-gallon solid copper distillery on
the Beech Mountain early Monday
morning. One hundred and fifty gallons
of what appeared to be corn beer
vas also cut down. The still was practically
now, and apparently had not
been used for more than two rims.
The capture Monday morning was
the eighteenth made by the sheriffs
office since January 1st.
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of Northwest North Cart
1". JUNE 22. 1833
UTE DISCUSSK S
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.sterling, of the l.ocal Government |
issloncr of Revenue; .Attorney Gen- j
it attorney General A. A. Seav.rH. !
istitutc of Government, Chapel Hill, >
rom all counties and towns are InCotinfy
Commissioners; Charles T.
s Court; G. M. Sudaretl), judge of
c collector, and Wade E. Brown, at.iprise
Watauga County's delegation.
les Against
lit Over Bus
vhere the body was recovered by the
MkincImn
Judge Budderth ruled against the
asked were
lot granted. Appeal was taken to the
Superior UOtirt. Charles T. Zimmoi nan,
county attorney, who appeared
or the Board, made it plain in court
hat there was no official disnnsi
ion on the part of the Board to stand
jetwocu citizens tind their debts, but
hat. actual damage had been susained
by reason of the unusual attachment.
Criminal Actions
Clydt? Combs, who was held in the
lounty jail on different charges, and
vho broke jail on March 4th, presumably
in the spirit of a New Deal,
,vaa arraigned, having been reeap:ured
at Mountain City last week. On
charges of assault with a de&clly
A'eapon and violation of the prohibition
laws, the State was unable to
produce witnesses who had moved to
Tennessee, and the oases were nol
prosscd. On the charge of breaking'
jail, he was adjudged guilty and assessed
with the cost.
Bruce Long, of Foscoe. appeared
to answer a charge of transporting
spirituous liquors. Trial was continued
until next Tuesday's term of
20urt.
rrats Asked
itate Meeting!
present and will deliver the keynote
speech of the occasion, which
is expected to be in the nature of
the opening gun in the campaign for
repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
The Senator has not stated
that this will be his subject, but
since his nomination came to him
on a prohibition repeal campaign,
the line of his attack is practically
a foregone conclusion. The entire
Congressional delegation from the
State is expected to bo present.
At this meeting a new State organization
will be set up and offi- |
ccrs elected for the coming two I
years. Special rates are being made ,
at the Seashore Hotel for the gathering,
and the local chairman insists
there must be no delay in gettin^
rftflprvfttinno
CHOIR OF BAPTIST CHURCH
TO GIVE SACRED PROGRAM
The choir of Boone Baptist Church,
under the direction of Mrs. Guy H.
Hill, will give a program of sacred
music in the church auditorium on
Sunday evening at S o'clock. This
program will take the place of the
regular evening service The public
is cordially invited to attend.
Miss Elizabeth Wilson, of Vilas,
spent the past week-end visiting with
friends in Elizabethton, Tenn.
RAT
)lina
?1.50 PER YEAR
FAMOUS ROAD TO
BE COMPLETED IN
THE NEAR FUTURE
YonaWoHSpe Trail, tTnsurpofiKd Scenic
Highn<i,>, Mia-y Now Bebsg Traveled.
Will Be Finished by i'aii. is
l'lanned for Enjoyment of Views.
SI 25,000 Being Spent in Construction.
Teer Has Contract.
The Yonahlossee Road, North Carolina
28, connecting Blowing Rock and
Linville, is now passable but rough
for the last eight and three-quarter
miles which are still under construction.
The twenty-mile trip around the
side of Grandfather Mountain can be
made in approximately fifty minutes.
According to Superintendent Goswick,
the stretch still under construction
will be done by September first.
Negotiations for completing this part
of the road, which is all in Avery
County have been underway for several
years, but because of financial
difficulties the work was held up until
last fall. At that time it was decided
to finance the project with
Federal Emergency Relief funds under
the supervision of the State Highway
Commission.
Work Begun Last September
Construction of the walls, culverts
and bridges began last September and
was completed a month ago. Ordinary
concrete work has been supplanted
with a fine type of rouble masonry
which, says Mr. Goswick. should
rightfully be called a cut-stone job.
This, he says, is directly in line with
the Ii:ghw?y Commission's policy of
preseiving the natural mountain scenery
as the first consideration.
In the case of the Yonahtossee Road
the Commission has gone to great
lengths to carry out this policy. It
has forbidden cutting out any of the
rock cliffs along the side for use in
the roadbed. Very wide spaces have
been left and will be paved along the
sides of the road for pi??nic parties
and others wishing to enjoy the scenery.
.
xtoudbeti 24: Feet Wide
The roadbed proper of the Linville
end; which is nearly all cut into the
?iuc ui ujtunvauiiier Aiguniaui, win
be twenty-four feet wide, while actual
pavement, of traffic-bound macadam.
will be eighteen feet in width,
broadening" cut to about twenty-four
feet on uie curves, curves are to be
banked iWvlvc uijtr hundredths-c? ?.
foot for each foot ill width. Five and
one-quarier miles of macadam have
already been laid. After getting the
larger stone laid and settled over the
entire distance, it will be necessary
according to Mr. Goswick to crush
a layer of tnree-m. h stone into a
one and a half inch size. Part of this
is already being done, lit preparation
for the laying- of the smooth surface,
which is expected to begin August 10.
In the meantime a new section of the
road will be cut from MacRac's store
on into Linville, eliminating the present
sharp curves.
Nello Li. Teer and Company of Durham
are the contractors in charge, a
total of $125,000 will be spent on the
new section of roud, and 150 men are
being employed, working in two shifts
to give employment to the maximum
number.
"Cooge" Potter Dies
From Effects of Fall
R. L. i Coogc) Potter, 35 years old,
of Tamarack, died last. Tnursday. the
result of injuries received when he
fell from a motor truck several days
ago. Funeral services were conducted
from the home Saturday by the Reverend
Blackburn, Baptist minister,
and interment was at the Potter
Graveyard.
t Surviving are the widow and six
children.
Mr. Potter received the fatal injury
as he fell from atop a heavily
loaded truck and struck the surface
of the road. A skull fracture wan the
cause of his death and he had been
unconscious since the accident.
Deceased was a son of John O. J.
Potter, had been engaged in both raerjcantile
and agricultural pursuits and
was favorably known in the county.
Training Camps Will
Open for Some Classes
County Superintendent Smith Ha
Igninaij ima irwjivcu imvih::. [ u me
effect that certain members of the
Citizen's Military Training Camps
| will De taxen this >cm. IteO, White
and Blue trainers only will be taken
at dates to be announced later. Letters
to be sent to trainers will be authority
for them to attend. Red, White
and Blue, are designations understood
by trainers and distinguish different
groups as to length of service.
CHILD HEALTH CIJNIC
The Boone Child Health Clinic will
be held Thursday, June 29th, at 5
p. ni. at Grace Lutheran Church on sJbSB
East Main Street. Parents are asked
to bring their children for a ffec
health examination.
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