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i Iboone I SKETCHES By J. G R. thk fikst yeab ends Franklin D. Roosevelt, President these little old United States, h jus: finished a year in office ... a; a:: account of his stewardship woe reveai to John Q. Public a twelv a-, r.tli of unparalleled achieveme tliree hundred and sixty-five da of b nest-to-God scrapping with t big bad wolf . . . fifty two weeks fruitful experimentation on the ne lifeless carcass of a dearly-belovi gentlemen with candy-striped tro scv= nd seersucker coat and sta banded hat. As the first year of the Rooseve administration slides away into glo i. history, we inadvertently scrati jr. 1 bald spot, and glance baci ward l March 4th, 1933 ... a mist m; nasty day when Hyde Park pride and joy grabbed a handful i Sky with his good right hand ar pledged himself, mind and body, I m>- -inm of rflrnvom? V>frv??i j . . f,* ...... "-'J *? "O-" "tuugi new hope and new heart to millior ant millions of disillusioned peopl The ".augural with its troops of caalrv. its thousands of marching fee its bands, its pageantry, was a bri affair . . . but even before tt new leader had been escorted to tl Writ House, banks were "busting in every nook and corner of the Ian and the financial structure < An.eiica was gravely threatened. Was he frightened f Don't he silly children! lie took the bull b> the horns, declared a bunking holiday, stepped tip to the microphone and addressed his "dear friends anil neighbors." From Krondwuy to tlic Golden Gate, front the Great lathes to the Gulf . . . honker and beggar, rich and poor, tvell-fed and hungry citlieiu stood in rupt attention its the lieu' President formed with them an equitable partnership ... a happy. Joyful partnership, a partnership based on all-but-forgottt'n principles. And the armies of reaction, the sinister hosts of fear, the shock-troops of rebellion . . . dissolved like mists of the morning in tbc light of a New Deal. With an overwhelming majority i i-tjiii nouses 01 me congress, Krankti L'. called an extraordinary session o that august body . . . and he carrle mi his pistol pocket an unabridge copy of platiorm declarations whiel apparently had swept him into th exalted position of Chief Exccutivt A.ra rtsidentB oTTJHcrcShmue'rs' fealr stood with gaping mouths as h "done just what he said, he would . wielding a cudgel that made th "big stick" of Teddy look like an un dersized splinter. Republican Con gressmen and Senntors . . . bulwark of txieii party organization... . line up with F. D. R. like nobody's busi ness,- while Alfred Emanuel Smitl veteran of the War on the Popi shouted of "baloney dollars" and ra iagloriously away from the standard of h-s beloved Democracy. Carte Glass, proponent of the glittering ori failed to concur as gold was relegate to the trash-pile . . . but Idaho's Be rah and Nebraska's Norris and Cal fornia's Johnson put able shoulders t the wheel as the Administration band wagon moved on and on and 01 Conservative Democrats and ReIiublirans shouted "Socialist," and Socialists shouted "Conservative,'' and the man in the streets, the forgotten inan, strutted about like a peacock, full of vim and vigor . . a full-fledged partner in a greal scheme of recovery. Wool trebled in value, cotton soared from five tc eleven cents, expectant mothers ol grunting litters gave their lives bj the millions to double the value ol corn, and the staff of life ascended from the low thrities to better'r eighty cents a bushel. Potatoes am cabbage and mutton and beesxvaj and roots and herbs ijnd lumbei jumped into the limelight . . . al most as important as in days o: yore . . . and millions serted breadlines and r(MH0HW6 gainful employment as Genera x, Johnson cut his eagle loose. Beer came back in an amber floo the Eighteenth Amendment and ti Volstead Act ceased to be . . . chi labor, a national eye-sore, was ba ished by a code . . . tens of thousan of American youths were put to woi ? lorest conservation . . . Keci Ku sia, whiskers and all, was given tl right hand of fellowship. And unlit ited farm credit saved a multitude farm homes from the hammer . . and the Insulls and the Kruegers a] the likes of "em, who for generatio had plagued the financial world, va ished, yea verily they fled to pai unknown as "unhealthy" statut came into being. The AAA and the OOC and t TV A and CWA and the PWA and t ERE . . . dozens and dozens of alph betical combinations . ... were hatch by a resourceful "brain trust." M lions of men and women received ei ployruent on highways and bywa and playgrounds and ditch lines a 'little houses" and in sewing rooi and offices . . . and other millto got madder'n the devil because tb were left on the anxious bench. A the President grinned and the peo] (Continued on Page ?) WA'l Anli I VOLUME XL V. NUMBER 3U - THOMAS LOVE IS I i\ DEAD; A VETERAN Si OF THE CIVIL WAR nt I j Eighty-eight Year Old Confederate! ? j Soldier Passes After lxmg Period 0 i of Declining Health. Funeral Serva*J I ices at Brushy Fork Church by Rev. ? Ashley and Interment Nearby. Wid; ow and Nine Childn i Survive. ,|t| Thomas J. Love. 88 Years old a*?H! r_ j a survivor of the Confederate armies, I died at the home of a son. Mr. D. S. ^ J Love, at Vilas last Saturday, the ira! mediate cause of his death being a .g j paralytic stroke. He had never been ! I altogether well following a former! lcj stroke, more than twelve years ago. i Funeral services were conducted I Sunday afternoon from the Brushy! Fork Baptist Church by Rev. W. D. e Ashley, and interment was at the Ward Cemetery, t, Surviving is the 89-year-old widow 1- and nine children, six boys and three te girls: D. S. Love of Vilas; J. M. of te Springfield. Mo.; J. H . B. C. and T. r" G. Love of Detroit, Mich.; F. M. Love,, id of Virginia; Mrs. W. A. Greer of j )f Neva, Tenn.; Mrs. W. L. Short of1, Plastico, Va., and Mrs. J. P. Wilkin-] son, of Roanoke, Va. An aged broth- j , er. Rev. Joe Love, of Trade, Tenn., j also survives, together with a large i number of grandchildren. An unusual fact is that Mr. Love's j I j death, constituted the first in the im- ] ! i mediate family for a period of fifty-' ? ; nine years. Thomas J. Love was born in the] I Rush Branch section of Beaver Dam; township April 17, 1845. Outside of ; about three years he spent his entire I life in Watauga County, where he I was well known and had a wide cir| cle of friends, who became attached j to him because of his many fine traits of character. For the past 14 years ne naci made his home with a son, D. S. l ove. He enlisted in the Confederate army at Liberty Mills, Orange County, Virn ginia, In 1863. He was with Company E, 37th North Carolina Regiment end j fouifght under L,ec and Jackson. He ..surrendered to Grant's army on Sunj day morning, April 2, 1865, at Appo' matox. He Was tne only one or ine ( veterans who didn't have a wound t.<^ , show for hts Service, hiving gone JJ through the conflict without injury. e PIELDEN BROOKS Ficlden Brooks, 39, a resident ofj . Clifton, N. C., died at the local hos3 pital on February 26th from Pneu-i j monia, and interment was in the farn-j . ily cemetery at Clifton, uie arrangc, merits being in charge of Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home. ,J The rites were conducted by Rev. s Hodge3 and the pall bearers consistr od of the following, all of whom are ?, veterans of the World War: Frank d SHoemake, Fred Welch, James Yates, Fulton Roten, George Richardson and j. John Roe. 0 Mr. Brooks was a veterau of the |S World War and saw active service on j the fields of France. He had been an invalid for some time. Survivors include the widow, two sons and two 1 daughters, Fielden Sherman, James , Howard, Massie Alice and Virginia Elmira. \ MRS. AMOS WARD Mrs. Amos Ward, 72, died at her [ home in the Upper Laurel Creek sec> tion February 2Gth, from an illness r with pellagra. She had been confined r to her bed for twelve months. Rev. f A. T. Watson conducted the funeral I and interment was at the Ward grave i yard. I Four children, Charles and James ? Ward, Mrs. Jane Montgomery and r Sarah Ward survive, all residents of _ Watauga- Mrs. Ward wa3 well known f in her community, where she was reared, and was a member of Anti, och Baptist Church. BETTY RUTH DOWNS # Betty Ruth, infant daughter of Mr. d, and Mrs. Clyde Downs, of Blowing ae Rock, died February 28th, and the id little body was interred in the comn munity cemetery March 1. 33 rsk Joseph H. Norris Passes tie At Home on Route 1 a of Mr. Joseph H. Norri3, 75, died at his home on Boone Route 1 Tuesday of last week, following a long illn3 ness. Funeral services were conductn" ed on Wednesday by his former pas"ts tor. Rev. Leroy Wood, who was aacs sisted by Revs. Charles Taylor and M. L. Smith, and burial took place he in the Norris burying ground neraby. he Surving are the following children: ia- Mrs. Jim Wall, Mrs. Copeland Greene, ed Mrs. Jeff Houck, Henry and Robert il- Norris, all of Watauga, and Arthur an- Norris, of Seattle, Wash. Several ys grandchildren and great-grandchilnd dren also survive. 1113 Mr. Norris had been in declining ,ns health for several years, but had been ey a patient sufferer. He was a kind n<3 neighbor, a good citizen, and his passive ing wUl cause genuine grief amongst a wide circle of friends, ggjgl j&g- v' 'res AUG ldependent Weekly News BOONE, WATAUGA CO' Baseball's Greatest New York. -John J. McGraw (above), 60, called baseball's great est figure, died last week witn his beloved New York Giants as world champions. It was McGraw who picked and developed Manager Bill Terry and turned over to him the management when health failed in 1932. No man was happier than McGraw last fall when the fighting Giants beat Washington for the world title. FOX HUNTERSMUST PURCHASE LICENSE Director Etberidge Cites Caw in Letter to Warden Grady Farthing. Chase May Be Enjoyed at All Times of the Year. Watauga County sportsmen may chase foxes at any time during the year, but must procure licenses before doing so, says R. Bruce Etheriflirh H i rhnlhr At" P.\nco?n*o4 5a? Development. Replying to a letter from H. Grady Farthing, county game warden, Mr. Etheridgc makes the following statement: "You are correct in saying that Section 3?. of the game laws gives authority to run foxes in Watauga County at any and all times during the year. This section, or amendment, to the Stale Game Law, was offered and passed hy the effort of the representatives from Watauga and the other counties referred to in the prov!?e of _aaid section. "However, the SJtatp Game , LgW Wassifles "the fox as a game animal, and therefore, all persons hunting foxes in Watauga County are liable to the hunting license issued by the department. As you knr -, a Watauga County license entitles a hunter to hunt foxes in Watauga County and a State-wide license entitles a person ot hunt foxes in any and all counties in the State. The .proviso in Section 33 authorizing the hunting of foxes in Watauga and other counties in no way invalidates the license requirement mandatorily provided for by the Stale Law. "I shall be glad to give you, or any citizen of your county, any additional information with respect to this matter or any provision of the law with reference to which they are in doubt." Mr. Etheridge's letter sets at rest an argument of long standing between local sportsmen and game wardens. Mr. Farthing asks that those who have not bought their licenses see him at once. Sixty cents is the price, and those who expect to enjoy the sport should pay the fee before doing so. Warden Farthing also announces that his office is paying the following bounties on predatory animals and birds: crows, ISc; hawks, 25c; wildeats, $2.00. TEACHERS MEET NEXT SATURDAY Assemblage Expected at High School Building at 2:30 O'Clock. All Teachers Are Asked to Attend, Whether or Not Schools Out. A county-wide teachers meeting is j to be held next Saturday afternoon at 9-SA n'r>Wb it, little ona!t,\*.i..YYi ... ..-v. ! of th>3 brick building' at Boone High School, it was announced Tuesday by Dr. Guy H. Hill. A very constructive program has bpen arranged, says Dr. Hill, for bott elementary and high school teachers and it is requested that all teachers of the county attend the session, whether or not their schools have closed RECORDER'S COURT The following cases were disposes of by Judge Sudderth in Recorder's Court Tuesday: George Bingham, removing fenci from property, guilty; appealed t< Superior Court. Ralph Critcher, liquor, 12 month suspended, $50 fine and costs. Gus Norris, liquor, 12 months sus ponded, fined $50 and costs. Stouffel Lowrance, liquor, 6 month suspended sentence. Ralph Critcher, cnrrying conceals: weapon, fined $50 and cost. Frank Robbins, violating prohibi tion laws, costs and 29 days in jail. J. C. Brown, violating prohibitio: laws, not guilty. DE paper?Established ?n the JNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSD DEATH REMOVES HEAD OF VALLE CRUCIS SCHOOL Miss Isabel Graves Succumbs to Brief Illness. Was 66 Years Old and Connected with Vallc Crucls Mission for Thirteen Years. Death Ends half Century Career as Teacher. A Sister of Hon. Porter Graves. Miss S. Isabel Graves. 66 years old, principal of the Valle Crucis School at Valle Crucis, died at Duke Hospital, Durham, last Saturday after an illness of about three weeks. Miss Graves had attended the consecration of the Episcopal Bishop in Win- | ston-Salem, and intended to have returned to Valle Crucis immediately. She dec.ded, however, to go to Duke for a course of treatment and had been there since. Information coming to her friends here had been to 'he effect that she was improving splendidly, and no news to the contrary had been received until the death1 message came. The body was taken to Mount Airy, N. C., for interment. Miss Graves was the daughter of the late Judge J. Frank Graves and sister of the Honorable S. Porter Graves of Mount Airy. She was educated at St. Mary's and Peace Institute, Raleigh, and started teaching school at sixteen, conducting a private school in Mount Airy for many years and later serving as tutor in | the public schools. Her death marks the end of 50 years' active educational work. Miss Graves came to Valle Crucis in 1921 as a teacher in the Episcopal School, and at the death of Miss j Horner in 1922, she became co-principcl with Kiss Virginia Uouldin, and in 1926 became the principal, which position she held since that time. Willi her passing, the Episcopal Mission has lost a valued worker and the community a loyal citizen. Those, who went to Mount Airy for the funeral service Sunday were: Misses Letitia Ricaud, Virginia Salley, Jane Darwin, Adelaide Smith, teachers in the Valle Crucis School; Misses Hannah Smith, Edna Hampton, Nina Miller and Gillian Tester, in 111r viiuc v-rucis acnooi; IMi^aoiary Haricu, ^goddaughter Miss Graves; and Mr. Cicero Dyer, janitor at tlie Valle Crucis School Those from the community were Mesdames C. D. Taylor and W. H. Wagner: Messrs. Gilbert Taylor and i Richard Olsen, and Mrs. II. B. Perry j from Boone. '.WMES RAILWAY PLAN REJECTED | Interstate Commerce Commission Rej fuses to Allow Resumption of Service on Watauga and Yadkin River Railway. Washington. D. C.?The Interstate Commerce Commission Friday refused I to authorize the Wilkes and Western I Railway Company to take over and I operate 26 miles of railroad from I North Wilkesboro to Darby, North ' Carolina. The company sought authority to I acquire the line which is a part of j the old Watauga and Yadkin River j Railroad. The railroad has not been used j since 1918, when a flood washed out i bridges and damaged a tunnel, and j the commission's report says the ties have rotted away, and the track has been washed out in 38 places. The road, when in operation, the commission said, never was able tc provide interest on its bonded debt. There is considerable timber in the territory in which the road operated and the commission expressed the be lief that there would not be enougt traffic to warrant operation of the line and said that when service ii II needed it should be provided eithei | by a logging railroad operated by i ' j lumber company or by a branch of the | Southern railway, which traverse! ' nearby territory ' APPEAI-S IN TRESPASS CASE 1 Mrs. Sarah Watson of the Laxor . community appealed from a decisioi i of Edgar Hardin, Esq., last weel when he dismissed Mrs. Joe Wellborn Mrs. Millard Carlton and Shermai Carltou.from charges of trespassing The defendants were alleged to havi walked through a field belonging t< i the plaintiff after it was said to nuv J been posted. Esquire Hardin termer the indictment as frivolous ar.d mali i cious and notice of appeal to Superio J Court was filed. s TO ASSIST INCOME TAXPAYER! M. B. Kibler, deputy commis3ionei - will be at the office of the Cleric o the Court in Boone on March 9th an s 10t.h for the purpose of assisting tax payers in filing their State incom 1 tax returns. Mr. Kibler states tha unmarried persons who had an ir i- come of $1,000 during the year c 1933, and married persons with ir r. comes of $2,000 should file return prior to March 15th. MOC1 V ear Eighteen Eighty-Eig AY. MARCH 8, 1934 vnn-afw.?-toxic urcw, zo lauovej i j was married February 14th. That j I same day hubby "struck" her . . . ! and again the next day he repeated with a more healthy swat. She filed suit for divorce and was freed in 24 hours by Judge LaBuy. lone claims a record. .0. P. CONVENTION IS CALLED TODAY Republicans Will Assemble in Boone j March 24th at 2 O'Clock for Electing County Organization and Delegates to Conventions. I The Republicans of Watauga County are called to meet in the courthouse Saturday. March 24, at 2 o'clock for the purpose of electing a county organization and naming delgates to the congressional and State I conventions. The official call for the G. O. P. assemblage, signed by Chair ! man Russell D. Hodges, appears in The Democrat today. The various precinct chairman are asked to call meetings in their respective precincts Friday, March 23, at 2 p. m. for the purpose of electing delegates to the county convention. The Congressional convention will be held in Taylorsville at 2 o'clock March 30th, at which time the sole business of the assemblage will be the naming of a candidate for Congress in the Ninth District. The State be held *?_- Charlotte April 4th, at which time Republican candidates for Treasurer and Superior Court judges will be named. Watauga County is entitled to 16 delegates to each convention, based on the vote cast in the last Gubema- j torial election. This represents an increase of two, the representation having been 14 heretofore. Carrier Examination For Boone Rural Route: The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an examination to fill tli'; position of rural carrier at Boone, N. C., the examinatian >.-v Ua UAlrl of Ooooo of biun iu uw nciu clL ijumic. ui applications will close on March 23, 1934. The date of examination will be stated on admission cards mai'ed to applicants after the close of receipts of applications, and will be about 15 days after that date. The salary of a 'rural carrier on a standard route of 24 miles served daily except Sunday is $1,500 per annum, with an additional $30 per mile, per annum for each mile or major fraction thereof in excess of 24 miles. The examination will be open ouly i to citizens who are actually domiciled i In the territory of the po3toffice where, the vacancy exists, who have : been actually domiciled there for six i months preceding the closing date for receipt of applications, and who meet ! other requirements set forth in ap, plication form. l i JOHNSON COUNTY DEPUTY ; WAS NOT FATALLY" INJURE!! 5 - Deputy Sheriff J. Lloyd Miller of L Mountain City, Tenn., was not fatal, ly injured in a gun battle Sunday a , week ago, a3 had been previously reported. Information given out by the Johnson County News is to the effect that the officer was shot through the , thigh by one David Alwood,' whom he i was seeking to arrest on charges of c intoxication and accompanying community disturbance. The officer, who 1 was seriously wounded, is a patient at Kings Mountain Hospital at Bris2 tol, Tenn. 3 1 Watauga Veterans' Share Is $185,619.60 r ? Watauga County veterans of the World War would receive payment S of $185,618.60, if Congress should ', pass the bonus bill, which has been fj set as a special order of business d before the House of Representatives for March 12, according to recent e Washington dispatches. The esti.t mated total for the State is ?38,i 801,178.23. In a tabulation of the if estimated distribution by counties, i- it Is shown that Caidwell veterans is would received ?312,915.84 and Wilkes County S442,822.88. fgflp EjBK|K^:^' '<& FIAT ;ht $1.50 PER YfAK LM. FARTHING IS NAMED TO SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENCY Former Sheriff of Watauga County Wins Approval of Board of Education for Post Held by Smith IZagaman for Twenty Years. Will Enter Upon Duties April 1st. Has Been Prominent in County Many Years. . Luther M. Farthing, ioi eight yeais Sheriff of Watauga County and for more than a score of years teacher in the schools of this section, won the approval of the Board of Education Monday for the position of Superintendent of Schools, to succeed Smith Hagaman, resigned. Mr. Hagaraan's resignation was to take effect as of March 31st, he having been named superintendent of the Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem. Mr. Farthing is a son of the late L W. Farthing of Watauga Falls, and was reared and has spent practically his entire life in this county. He received his elementary education at Cove Creek and Zionville schools and graduated in 1895 from Holly Springs College, Butler, Tenn., with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Professor D. D. Dougherty occupied the chairs of Mathematics and Science at the institution at that time, and Mr. Farthing received two gold medals, one for debating and one for having won the highest grades while a student there. After finishing college he made teaching his principal life's work, and did classroom work in Watauga and Ashe counties for more than twenty years. In 1912 he was offered by the Democrats for a scat in the General Assembly and missed his goal by thirtyseven votes in a normally Republican county. He was cashier of the Valle Crucis Bank for nine years, and sheriff of the county for four terms.' Except while holding the positions mentioned, he had taught practically a!! the time since leaving college. ROBT.C. CAMPBELL PASSES IN LENOIR Woll ?? * ? ? - >> uiiubjruLMjii ana iiuuaer of Watauga Courthouse .Succumbs lit Age of 60. Hud Been In Bail Health for Some Time. Robert. C. Campbell, 6D years old, a native of Lenoir, died in that city Friday evening after an illness of more than two years. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon hy Rev. McLean, pastor of the Presbyterian "Churcn, and interment was in Lenoir. Mr. Campbell was a skilled brick mason and engaged himself for many years as a building contractor. He was well known by many Watauga people, having constructed the present county courthouse in 1904. Similar buildings were erected by him in Lenoir and in Avery County, where he and his f3mily made their home for many years. Failing health compelled him to give up his trade many years ago. LOCAL INSU1LVNCK AGENT X'rtTITv: **?TCi'r?kTWC?CJ T\'Cnr> * err. i Frank M. Payne, general agent for the Security Life and Trust Company of Winston-Salem, placed fourth among the agents of that organization in new business written for the month of February, it was learned here Tuesday. I Mr. Payne assumed the local agency on January 15th, and has had a most satisfactory business. He declares that insurance issued by the Security Life and Trust Company during the past months was 98 per cent. gTeater than the business of the corresponding period of last year. PENNSYLVANIA BONUS LAW Mr. R. S. Swift, manager of the National Reemployment Office, states the Pennsylvania is paying its veterans of the Spanish War, Boxer Uprising, Philippine Insurrection or World War, ten dollars for each month or major fraction thereof, if service was longer than sixty days. If perchance there should be a veteran in this territory who went into service as a Pennsylvanian, he should inquire at Mr. Swift's officer for further information. LBN HAGAMAN ON HONOR ROLI. AT WAKE FOllEST 1 Wake Forest.?Watauga County's representative on the first semester honor roll at Wake Forest College is Len D. Hagaman, second year medical man, from Boone. Mr. Hagaman averaged ninety and above on all his class work. It is a special distinction to be listed on the honor roll; it included this time only thirteen per cent of the student body of 800. Wake Forest has just rounded out her first century and is making plans for the centennial celebration in May when the new administration building will be dedicated.