North Carolina Newspapers

f BOONE SKETCHES By J. C. R. \ ? ANOTHER OLD-TIMER PASSES Gill Grayson, drummer of the ol school who for twenty-odd year packed a satchel through the bills c .North Carolina and Eastern Tenner see, passed away Sunday near th place of his birth at Trade, Tennesse< The death of Gill Grayson, who wa quite as popular in Watauga as 1 his native county of Johnson, recall to the minds of older residents th days of old . . . days when highway were unknown, days when mails wer irregular and telephones were use only in urban communities . . . day when the jovial drummer (or travel log salesman, as he is known today balanced his sample eases on th '* rough counters of rural stores, an gave to an admiring audience o assembled mountaineers the curren news of the outside world. Gill Grayson, Fin Richards, Wii Price, Jim Harmon, lain Hendrickso: and Gus Donnelly . . . representing a many jobbers of hardware, groceries dry goods and fcedstuffs . . . were i few of those drummers who, for year and years, paid regular visits to Man ley Blackburn's general store ii Boone. Part of this number, alonj with Mr. Grayson, have signed thei last orders, carefully packed thei samples, and accepted more expan sive territories yon eide The Rivei And time has been cruel t" the rank of those who gathered about the b:j wood stove of the Blackburn stor . . . who gathered to listen as Gil! Fin, Will, Jim, Lon and Gus, spui their laugh-provoking yarns, gov intelligent opinions on political mat ters, discussed the coming of th "horseless carriage," disseminate! reports surrounding the campaigi fortunes of that other Roosevelt am a man named Bryan . . . cussing thi: and lauding that, agreeing and disa gracing . . . enjoying life. There was Captain Lovill, dearh heloved by a thousand souls, anil Man ley Blackburn, with hi3 heart of puri gold, pouring out pro and con argu ments on sixtecr.-to-onc silver . . while Ed Coffey and Bob Rivers ant Doc Utile ient verbal support to on< -or the other . . . and an occasions chew was taken from a twist of "hill side navy," and the hands of the wal clock beared the zero hour . . . anc Dili Grayson and his travelmg bud dies stretched and yawned and lefl a call for '-'eariy breakfast" . . . good-bye until the following and tmught the oblivion of sleep* tc prepare them for the hard drive or the morrow ... to Will Holtzclaw's Wiley Snerwood's, Newt Mast's, Johr Jones' and on into Tennessee. And somehow we feel mighty sac . . . those of us who recall Boone ir wtu, gu.th, restful, ctjOjtuiC pcutc that preceded the war and normalcy and Huey Dong and the Blue Eagle with its multitudes of alphabetica alliances ... as Gill Grayson, one ol the best of the drummers, is laid tc rest in the soil of his native Ten lieaaGt*. Srim^how thoco Irnlivhte ol the grip, a nigh-extinct race, asso ciate themselves in our minds wiU the crusaders of the middle ages, witl trail-blazing pioneers of early Araer ican history . . . fore-runners of prog ress, the vanguard of twentieth een tury achievement . . . truly deserving of a niche in the temple of fame Without a thought of iireverar.ee, it': quite easy to envision Gill Graysor and his traveling associates of Uii long ago . . . reunited 'way up yondei . . . plodding along the golden high ways of the celestial realm in a jeweled hack, peddling angelic nece.ssi ties to the heavenly hosts . . am assembling as the shadows of even ing lengthen to give their friend3 ol yesteryear an outline of social anc political happenings in remote quar ters of the ethereal empire. RELIEF RUGS! " ' A couple of janes . . . ladies, if you please, who scowllngly accepted the scanty "Hoover dole" and, thus far, have managed to live quite contentedly on the prodigious offerings of F. 1). R. . . . shambled into Milt Greer's Carolina Store the other day. Each bore a parcel filled With oJlowr.'U" - ' ' ? iicsu cuuuvrjr eggs," which they offered for sale, and the merchant, quite obliging, as it were, took good old-fashioned coin from the till and made a smiling trade. An hour or so elapsed, and in came one of the woman with another two dozen "strictly fresh" cackle-berries. Despite a suspicion which lingered in the back of T. Milt's red head, the eggs were traded for . . . and took their places In a convenient basket. Just then an idea struck the groceryman . . . he'd been buying eggs obtained from relief headquarters .. storage eggs of doubtful age . . . eggs that his particular trade didn't 'specially crave . . . eggs passed out by an obliging government to its destitute people! He was as right as a rabbit in all his conclusions! And now he wants Congress to pass a bill prohibiting the. distribution of storage eggs through relief agencies . . . for they are liable to hurt hLs trade! WAT An In ! VOUUMK XLV, NUMBER 30 NiNETY PKR CENT - BliRLEY GROWERS I TO SIGN CONTRACT ? District Extension Agent McCrary 5. Reports Progress In Western Car,s ollna. Many Meetings Held With n Farmers. Baird to Handle Contracts in Watauga and Avery Counties. ^ j CotJnty Agents Helpful. 3 Approximately 90 per cont. of til a e Burtey tobacco growers in Western d North Carolina arc expected to sign 3 acreage reduction contracts in The !" near future, according to O. F. Mc' Crary, district extension agent at e State College, Raleigh a Mr. McCrary, who recently re-j * turned to the Capital city from a trip t to the western part of the State, said that the only thing standing in the! U way of a rapid sign-up is the laclc of {_ a facilities for explaining the contracts s; to the growers. | j Many of the Burlev growers have x less than a quarter-acre ill tobacco a cultivation, he said. He pointed out . that a grower with one-eighth of an ,, acre ill cultivation, producing at an , ? average rate of 900 pounds to the r j acre, would receive approximately ri$2.90 for reducing one-third, or S-1.70 _! if he reduces one-hall. . j While in the Burley section, he held s i a number of county and community ( , ! meetings to explain the contracts to c 11 leading growers. He also assisted the . j county agents Iron out various diffi- i r ^! cu1 ties and authorized agents to help j 2 j growers in counties which have no j e . j agent of tlieir own. ;| Q C. B. Baird, Avery County agent, r 11 will pre lably sign contracts for far1 mers in Mitchell and Watauga coun- { j: ties. E. D. Bowditch, former Clay , 3! County agent now residing in Mit- , I uiuMi, win assist Mr. Baird with the ^ campaign. f BUiLDlMG & LOAN " EARNS HIGH RATE; o Annua! Keporl of Local Institution I Shows Healthy Condition. Stevens ? Says Earning Good and Instlta- ;1 tior. Stands Wei! In Staie. f The Watauga Building and Loan j LTrTltf'r~ earned i*a n?ual dividends during 1933 and was able to ??t psflh;' '5 a contingent reserve fund of 53,300, , it was revealed Monday evening, j l when Public Accountant Stevens ot 0 Lenoir, made his report to the board t of directors. f Mr. Stevens called particular at- ? tention to the excellent manner iri which tiie local association had been ^ cnndnnted and stated that its condi- n iion was highly pleasing and above a the average of building and loan3 in the State. He pointed out that prop orty owned by the Association was j e practically paying its way, und thatl the reserve fund was created from r - I j profits above the usual dividend and j I would take care of any deflation in ' realty values, not at the present au: tieipated. The statement of the Asi sociation is published today. i -j Mill Owners Warned Against Stream Pollution County Game Warden H. Grady j j Farthing stated Tuesday that several j t ' complaints from Watauga sportsmen j ( have been lodged recently against ,1 mill owners in this section who are c allowing sawdust to enter trout wa- c ters. The Department of Conservation and Development is urging strict en- p > forcement of the statute against this d I practice, and Warden Farthing urges t . that offenders take precautionary d measures before it is necessary to cause indictments. v It is pointed out by experts that f du3t from one mill, if allowed to en- c ter a trout stream, will cause the t death of more fish in one season than r an ordinary hatdhery could produce. 8 Hence, conservation officials expect I to use every means possible to rid j streams of this menace. a EXHIBITS ANCIENT ? RECEIPTS FOR TAX J t Mr. W. G. Coffey was exhibiting t at The Democrat office the other j day some tax receipts made out to his grandfather, Caleb Coffey, and yellowed with the ravages of time, c One of the coveted papers was in ? the amount of 24 cents, in full for v taxes of the year 1854, and was s signed by T>- C. Estep as Sheriff. 1 Another bearing the date 1868 was signed by the late Sheriff John Hor- I ton and was for $2.60 (2. Another in 1866, collected by the same sher- ? iff, was for $1."5. Mr. Coffey states that his grandfather was a' large landowner, and that when his taxes t reached the high water mark, he t owned more than 800 acres of land, c Taxes, in those days, he says us- j ually ran something less than one cent an acre. The receipts w'ere i written in long-hand on ordinary I ruled paper, printed forms 1.living i never been adopted in those days. c AUG, dependent Weekly News] BOONE. WATAUGA COB | ???-?j ; j Seeks GovenioKhip J Los Angeles.?Mrs. C. S. Foltz, ; sister of former Senator Shortridge ! of California, announces herself a j candidate for the Republican nomi- j nation for governor of California. \.g.graysonmes at tradesundayi rVell Known Citizen Returned Short] Time Ago from Salt Lake City for Daughter's Funeral. Had Been { Resident of Utah Many Years. A. Gillam Grayson, 72 years old, lied at the home of a nephew, Rcs:oe Grayson, at Trade, Tenn.. Sunday ifterncon, after an intermittent illless of several years. Funeral services are to he conductd Friday afternoon at Mountain City, \ ind interment will he in that com- i nunity. Survivors are the widow and seven children: Mesdames Charles Ward, )rlando, Fla.; Mary Stallings. Pocaello, Idaho: Clara Mitchell, Salt Lake hty; Richard, Edward, Hugh and * tudd Grayson, of Salt Lake City. A ister, Mrs. W. R. Butler of Mountain ?.'ty, also survives. Mr. Grayson was bom in Johnson bounty, Tennessee, a son of the late Jolohel J. W. M. Grayson and. was luite as well known in Watauga as n his native soil. For perhaps twariy years he rode horseback over this noun tain section as finrpw nd gained the acquaintance and 11 Headship of Uie people. About twelve years ago he moved!; o Utah where he was engaged with# i? ? - ov?* I ...... ;> *1 ; he retail grocery business. He re-1' urned to Tennessee three weeks ago j' n account of the death of a daugh- j' er, Mrs. Margaret Mulvnney, and;1 he condition of his health grew grad- j ally worse. Mr. Grayson was educated at the j' Jniversity of Tennessee, a class mate)1 f Senator William CI MoA.loo was! . Presbyterian, a Mason and a Shri- i er. He was held hi high esteem ' hroughout East Tennessee and Westrn North Carolina. iAYDEN BURKE IN [ RACE FOR JUDGE; La.i Iorsville Attorney Announces Ilis Candidacy to Succeed T. Tt. Finley. Action Follows Meeting of Leading Politicians of District. Taylorsville.?J. Hayden Burke of 'aylorsville, outstanding Western N. 3. attorney, Saturday announced thai, te wil! be a candidate for superior, ourt judge in Ibe Seventeenth Judi- j ial District. Judge T. B. Finley of North Wilkes-; ioro is now resident judge of the iistrict, but he has reached the re- j irement age and will not be a can-; idate for re-election. Since Judge Finley announced he .'ould not be a candidate for the ofice again, Mr. Burke's name has ome into prominence as a candidate, tut he declined to make au3' anlouncement until Saturday, following l caucus Friday night, of leading democratic representatives of a maority of the counties in the district, it which resolutions were passed ur;ing him to become a candidate. These resolutions were enthusiasically endorsed by representative nembers of the bar associations of he six counties in the district. Counies in the district are AJexandfer, tvery, Davie, Mitchell, Wilkes and fadkin. Mr. Burke has for years been one if the outstanding attorneys of the State, and his name is often linked vith those of Clyde Hoey of Shelby md James H. Pou of Raleigh as the eaders of the North Carolina bar. This is the first time Mr. Burlce ias sought public office. (TINSON NAMED SUPERVISOR OF SOIL EROSION CAMPAIGN F. H. Stinson, of Banner Elk, has >een appointed supervisor of an exended campaign for the prevention if soil erosion in Avery and Watau;a Counties, conducted by the CWA. One hundred men will be employed n stopping gulleys and providing >roper drainage. In each case pernission of the landowner will be se:ured before commencing operations. ^ DE japer?Established in tin WrY, NORTH CAROLIN A. THUR3I TRAINING CLASSES FOR TEACHERS TO OPEN JANUARY 29 New Fropect Booking to the Kc-er?ptoyment of Touchers in Kniergency Capacities. Applicants Must Be Approved by County Superintendent and Director of Relief. College Does Not Guarantee Positions. Training classes for teachers are to be opened at the Appalachian State Teachers College January 29th, it is announced, and wili continue until February 12th. during which period unemployed teachers wili receive additional tutorage, calculated to place thein in line for emergency employment. All applications for this training, it, is explained, must be approved bv tbe county or city superintendent and by the local director of relief on a regular application blank, which application must be approved by the State Department of Public Instruction. If teachers should present themselves Monday morning without the proper credentials, they may be allowed to stay with the clear understanding that they do so upon their own responsibility and at their own expense unless the application is duly made and approved. *The Appalachian State Teachers College does not guarantee a position at the end of the training period, but it is understood the local relief offices will make an effort to absorb as many of these emergency teachers as possible. Teachers are to be paid at the rate of $12.50 per week and expenses will be about a dollar a day. doughWwsll stay in house Eighth District Representative Punctures Rumors of Other Ambitions By Saying He Will Rim Again. May I^ater Seek Governorship. Washington.?Representativ e Robert L. Doughton of Laurel Springs Friday night disposed of various reports that have been fiirenlnteH in North Carolina that he would be. appointed by the President a member if the u.' S. tunn.wauuunH^nc-tc-l come a candidate for governor, by declaring that he proposed to be a candidate to succeed himself in Congress. Publication in State newspapers for some time that the Ninth District congressman would relinquish his congressional post soon to accept the tariff commission membership, and iiic later statement that he contest for governor, have developed possible candidates in the Ninth District. Among those mentioned is Walter Woodson of Salisbury, Zeb V. Long of Statesville, and Tarn C. Bowie of tVest Jefferson, contingent, of course, upon whether Mr. Doughton will ask for another term in the House. Tc Stay in Congress In his earnest and frank style, Mr. nilllFhtfin cqirt* "The only plan I have is again to be a candidate for Congress. I have had no other. I know nothing about the vacancy or. the tariff commission if one is, to take place, being filled, and have not discussed it with anyone in official circles It has not been offered me, and I do not know whether I could get it if I wanted it. "In regard to the governorship, the nomination does not take place until 1936, and that is too far away for anyone to reckon upon. No one can say definitely what he can do that far away. "Just at this time, I am working day and night in an effort to carry out our President's program. The meetings of the Ways and Means Committee, of which I am chairman, have been continuous and arduous, and requires every moment of my time when I am not serving the people of the district. I am depely sensible of the honors that the people of the district have bestowed upon me, and my duty is fir3t to represent them, which I have earnestly endeavored to do in season and out since I first came here a member of the sixty-second Congress." COVE CREEK WEED BRINGS HIGH PRICE T. II. Williams, of the Cove Creek section. Mondav marketed 7,000 pounds of Burlcy tobacco at Johnson City, Tenn., which brought him an average price of $18.50, or a total of nearly $1,300. One of his crops, which was a part of the 7,000 pounds, was of such excellent quality that the entire crop of approximately 1,000 pounds averaged $30 per hundred. The Johnson City Chronicle stated in a news story Tuesday that Mr. Williams' crop was one of the best marketed in that town this season, showing that good quality tobacco is bringing a good price. MOC t i e<ii i^i^iiteexi ??]ghty-Ei )AY, JANUARY 25, .1933 fppi===p Roosevelt Bride New York.?Miss Grace Green Roosevelt (above), only daughter of Col. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and granddaughter of the fori nier president, "Teddy," is soon to i become the bride of William Mci Millan of Baltimore. TAX PENALTIES ARE ON FEB. 1ST j Wilson Calls Attention to State Law* | Providing One to Knur Per Cent. 1 Penalty for Those delinquent in Tax Payments. County Tax Collector A. D. Wilson I Tuesday called attention to the State | laws regulating the payment ot taxes ! and specifically to the section provid| ing penalties of from one to four per ! cent for Lhoso who postpone payment jof (heir governmental due. During : February, Mr. Wilson says, he must ! add a penalty of one per cent, which increases monthly until May when the , total penalty shall have become four per cent. Of interest Will be sections] i, 5. 0 and 7. Chapter 428, Public j Laws of North Carolina, Session 1931, which provide: 4. After the first day ot' February and on or before the first day of , March next after due and payable, bc adilid to the tax a penalty of one per cent. J 5. After the first day of March | and on or before the first day of April next after due and payable, there ] sha'.l be added to the tax a penalty j of two per cent. C. After the first day of April and on or before, the first day of May next. ' after due and payable, there shall be 1 opporl n penalty of three per cent. 7. After the first day of May and | on or before the first day of June | after due and payable, there shall be ; added a penalty of four per cent. Mr. Wilson reports a fair increase in the rate of tax payments lately l ard insists that citizens make an ex coptional effort to secure their re1 eoipts before the time he is compelled | to invoke the law as to penalties. ?? Nursery School Has Auspicious Ooenine ? - - , -~rpr-K* : The Emergency Nursery School at I the Demonstration School of the coli iege opened Tuesday morning. Janu| nry 23, with an initial attendance of | fourteen. There is already a waiting ilist of eligible children registered, who I will be admitted to the Nursery School just as soon as equipment sufj ficient to care for them can be sei cured. Professor Wilson, director of the Demonstration School, is anxious to hp.ve every child between the ages of four and six years in reach of the ' school enrolled, if it is possible to se| cure equipment and teachers to take | care of them. Mr. Wilson will be glad I to enroll on the waiting- list any child ! who is eligible. It is hoped that it will J he possible to admit a few more into I the N ursery School in a very short . time. The requirement for Nursery School is one teacher for each ten children. So far only one teacher has been assigned to this school. However, a number of the ladies of the town are giving volunteer assistance. Mrs. Tracy Council!, Mrs. Cbappell Wilson, and Mrs. D. J. Whitcner, all of whom hnva Tiorl *? " ' w i-a^wichvc in wording witn pie-school children, gave some time to the Nursery School Tuesday. Others'have offered to give time later in the week. All of this assistance is most highly appreciated by Miss Fawn Watson, who is in charge of the Nursery School. Miss Watson is making every effort to secure a full-time assistant, so that more chlidren may be admitted. She urges all parents of children from four to six to enter them on the waiting list, and sincerely hopes to be able to admit them to the Nursery School soon. The month of November was 11 per cent, less crime-ridden in New York City than November, 1932. RAT ?*** $1.50 FHfi V^AR CWAEMPLOYEES REDUCED TO 15 HOURS PER WEEK Money Runs Short and Workers Cut Down to One-half of Former Shifts Last Iliunday. May Work 24 Hours a Week in Towns of Over 2,509 Population. Future Course of CW'A. Depends on Course of Congress. I Workers or Civil Works Adroinis* 11ration projects in Watauga County I are now working a maximum of tttj teen hours per week, as against the i thirtvjh/inr c'nift been in vogue, according to Mrs. Smith Hagaman, CWA administrator. Last Thursday Mrs. Hagaman received word from Mrs. Thomas CVBerry. CWA administrator for North j Carolina, to the effect that Federal authorities had ascertained the worn was running higher than anticipated, and although the rate of pay was not reduced, the working hours were cut to keep v/ithin the appropriation. I Highway and other crews had been j reorganized under the new system, | and the work is going on uninterI rupted. The action of Congress in supplying additional funds will perI haps decide the future of the program. Mrs. O'Berry's message fol lows: I "The average weekly payroll is In excess of the original estimated weekI ly payrolls. Reduce the hours worked 1 per week on local, state, and federal ' projects to keep within the money available. Effective January 19th, all per diem workers are limited to 24 hours per week in cities over 2,000 population; under 2,500 population and hi open country, the limit is 16 | hours .per week. All clerical, supe"l viaory and professional workers have !a maximum of 30 hours per week with proportionate wage adjustment. | "This does not include administra! tive workers in administrators' offices. All Civil Works Administration and Civil Works Service employees are included. "From this date (January 18th) no name shall be added to any payroll except in actual replacement of 'workers fully terminated and finally paid off." Committee to Hear ..> "'"ic* . If f C/OmpIclifilS IS Op A pnmmUton """ ?' " ?" v>/>u<uti.<.vc uu buuii^iuini'), composed of members of both the local Civil Works Administration and the j National Reemployment Servrae, was | set up Tuesday, pursuant to instrucj tions received from Raleigh. It shall j be the duty of this committee to pass upon any complaints made as | to the execution of the government j program in Watauga County. &oxiie ! such complaints are being forwarded ' from Raleigh, and will be acted upon, j and others may be heard when they j have complaints to offer. Mrs. Wade Vannoy Succumbs Saturday Mi s. Wade E. Vonnoy, 31, o; West j Jefferson, died in a Charlotte hospital | late Saturday afternoon, after an ill; ness of several months with a atom ' ach ailment. The remains were re j turned to Ashe County where burial took place Monday. Survivors include the husband ar.d a small son. Mrs. Vannoy prior to her marriage was Miss Mabel Greene, daughter of the late C'alvin Greene, and received ; her education at State College here, where she made a host of friends, who will hear of her passing with genuine sorrow. Mrs. Thos. Sutherland Dies Tuesday Morning Mrs. Thomas Sutherland, aged more than eighty-five years, died at her home at Sutherland, in Ashe County, Tuesday morning, after an illness of short duration. Funeral services are to be held this (Wednesday) afternoon from the Methodist Church In that community and interment will be in the family graveyard. A number fo friends from Boone and vicinity will be present for the obsequies. Surviving are three sons, John, Til cicn and Charles, of Sutherland, and one daughter, Mrs. Julia Robertson, of Crest on. One of the four children ' who have died was Mrs W. R. Ixivili ! of Boone, who succumbed many years jago. Mrs. Sutherland was the former Mis3 Mollie Grant and was reared near Sbouns, Tenn. She was a member of the Methodist Church and a leading figure in religious and other worthy movements. A kind neighbor, a Christian lady of unusually charitai hie disposition, the life of deceased has been a benediction to the people of this region. Nuts used for candies, fi-ostingH, etc., should be broken instead of chopped. Chopping releases many | small particles that give a cloudy color.