Iboone
I SKETCHES
j I By J. C. R.
T V TEKS OF DISTINCTION!
itfcout disparagement for Watau
ys' 'K-rny-hahded sons of the soil
. th no desire on tJie part of thi
, r:.tr to the socalled bouque
sties domains, and with apo!
- to Watt Beach, et al. . . . w
in nomination for chtmpic;
, i g- xer of Eastern America Mr
Lawrence of Trade. Tennessee
special messenger came a box t<
Democrat office Monday . . r
<- atain.ihg some twenty-fivt
. : Mountain potatoes . . no!
as large as pumpkins, but sure
the great-grandfathers of all ex
i.-_ - 'titers . . smooth, stream:.
' -autiful . . . colossai, gigantic
F -iocmvous: . . . enough of the Vila.
- A. B, C, D. Q. X arid Z in each
f the robust irishmen to rear the
hiiime quintuplets to years of ui\I.
rstrtji'iing. Whether they came
: :n one hill, three hills or five
.icres of Mr. Lawrence's farm just
. nder side the State line . . we can't
neatly state . . . but surely, surely,
there can be none larger 'tv.hct Mant
and Murphy than these Johnson
County 'taters . . . and we thank you,
Mr. Lawrence, world without end, for
y ur thc-ughtfulness.
MARY FRANCES MALTHA
lieath laid bis icy lingers on Mary
Frances Maltha early Monday morning
. . - and the community wherei'i
she resided during a tragically
brief lifetime has been bowed in a
minmatr sorrow. A bright, cheerful
little girl was Mary Frances, with
a most promising future before
her . . . but an insidious malady embraced
her in its greedy tentacles
as the past winter merged with
pring, and, despite painstaking efforts
of those distinguished in the
medical profession, health refused
to return . - . the vital spark gradually
but surely dimmed . . . the
end crime suddenly, just as a Canute
is extinguished by a gust of
wino. nary Frances mis well
known to Boone people . . . she was
popular anions; the students at the
t'K-lI high sehool where she would
have lieeu a junior this year . . .
and the excellent grades she made
remain us lusting testimonials to a
brilliant mind. During the long
days of her illness she played the
part of "good soldier"; she was
patient, considerate, hopeful ... a
"trouper," so to spealt, who kept
her fate turned toward the silver
lining... even an finis wes written:
a mighty good lesson lor grumbling,
grunting human-kind! While
mere words cannot assuage the
stark grief of her bereft porents,
Boone's unstinted sympathy is extended
to Mr. and Mrs, Maltha.
TOURTHEK AGAIN
Veteran? of the famous Hindenburg-iine-busting
Thirtieth Division
gathered in Ashevi'.le Isat week for
their seventh reunion . . . and a number
of Wataugans who sei*ved under
the "Old Hickory" insignia joined in
the enjoyable festivities. With the
horrors and privations of the "great
conflict" all but erased from their
minds, the heroes of 1918 packed up
their troubles and proceeded to have
one heck of a good time They deserved
every minute of it . . .'and was]
it fun. or WAS IT FUN as they met]
dozens of war-time pals, swapped
yams . . . danced and cavorted
about, and??but, wait a second . . .
their missuses may be listenin' . . . and
it just wouldn't do for them to know
what was in that barrel! Maybe we'd
better wish the boys many more happy
reunions . . . and flit away into
less dangerous pastures!
RELIEF A LA MODE
Six hundred and eighty-two families
. . . thirty-five hundred und
ninety seven persons ... or more
than twenty-three per cent of the
entire population of Watauga County,
reeleved aid from Emergency
Rellef headquarters during the
month of August . . . canned meat,
fat-back, money and stuff. These
arc the figures of Mrs. Thomas O'Berry,
director of the dole In North
Carolina . . . and they're right as a
/ rabbit, to be sure! It's mighty hanl
to realize that the alleged panic
left this host of unemployed, destitute,
famished sack-toters In a
land most as fertile as Eden . , .
right in the middle of a harvest
second to none in the memory of
nraii, luring oil''
lnige, beans, pumpkins, corn, rye,
buckwheat . . . hamburger on the
hoof, pork-chops in the, pen . . .
iamb, ram, sheep, mutton, goat and
whistle-pig ranging at large on a
thousand-odd hills . . . plenty for
all and enough left over for a Pentecostal
feast or two . . . the gourd
of a lavish Providence tilted right
over us . . . and the dear old FERE
stiU passing out dollars and dollnis.
dollars In a never-ending stream to
take care of poverty in these hy'ar
mountains!
It's probably the righteous thinf
to do . . . we'd like to think so, a
least . . . but somehow or other, it';
takes a powerful struggle to retail
one's meager "snack" of non-dished
up-without-sweat grub as one ob
serve? a great big, lazy, good-for
nothing bumpkin slinking along th
WAT
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:OLl"iIS XL\'\, Xt'MBER 14
Schoolboy Rowe Will
Attempt to Halt the
Winning Cardinals
Manager Mickey Cochrane of
the Detroit Tigers will send Lynwood
"Schoolboy** Howe, pitching
ace of the American League, lo the
mounu Thursday afternoon in an
effort to halt the St. Louis Cardinals,
who won tie- first game of
the World's Series today (WeilncsI
clay) by an eight to three score,
j Manager Frankic Frisch of the t ar(?ina).s
used Jerome Herman (DlCT.yj
Dean in the initial diamond battle
i while Alvin Crowticr, North Carolina.
tivirfe, was credited with Detroit
loss.
REV CANIPE TO BE
I BAPTIST PASTOR
J Siler City Evangelist Chosen to Take
j Tlace of Rev. P. A. Kicks. Wilt Assume
Pulpit About the First of
November. Able Minister.
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IC., was elected to the pastorate oi
the Bnoae Baptist Church lest Sun
day evening, the services marking
the end of the labors of Rev. P. A.
Hicks, who recently tendered his resignation
U> order to become pastor oi
a church in Beimont, N. C.
Rev. Canipe, with his wife ant
Lfcree children, twill move to Boone
I the first of November. Baptist ministers
ot the county are co-operating
in filling the pulpit, during Uie mouth
of October
The Siler City minister was unanimously
elected to the total pulpit
when the committee repotted him as
available. The committee, composed
;of the deacons of the church, was as
follows: Herman Jiggers, Clyde Greer:,
W. D. Farthing, W. F, Miller, A. I.
Cook. J, A. Williams. J. T. C. Wright
J. C, Farthing, J. I, Qualis, John \V
Hodges, R. F. Coffey and G. P. Hagaman
Representing the women or
the committee were Mrs. J. J. Coffey,
Misses Carolyn Weaver and Lelio
Ayers.
Rev. Canipe is not a stranger tc
j Boone churchmen, having held a
meeting here in 1926. So popular did
he become that instead of conducting
the services for ten days, as pfeviously
arranged, he was persuaded it
continue for three, weeks. Since that
time he has been at Siler City, and
had once before refused a call tc
Boone. He has conducted revivals in
practically all sections of thp State
and is known as one of the mosl
aoie ministers 01 nis cnurcn.
Watauga Boys Leave
For C. C. Cc Camps
Twenty- one boys, representing Watauga's
quota, and six alternates foi
the Civilian Conservation Corps, lefl
Wednesday morning for AshevilU
where they will take preliminary ex
aminations. preparatory to entering
some undesignated C C. Camp in th(
State.
' Those going were; Blaine Hodges
i Omer Sluder, Ciyde Carroll, Harve;
| Gilliam, George Hodges, Edward Sho
make, Frank Johnson, Stouffer Low
ranee, Johnnie Tester. Andrew Cor
nett, Marvin Combs, France Tester
Clate Presnell, Mack Shook, Alber
Shook, Kermit Cornett, Dcnni
Teague, Odis Watson, Claude Testei
Clint Wyatte. Roger Trivett.
The record book also contains in
cubation and brooding record form
and an egg record sheet which shorn
be of great advantage to the pou
tryraen.
street with a couple of cans of "Guv
mint" meat. For his general cusse<
ness has been rewarded by relief ri
tions . . . and it's doubtful whethi
; his truce with the hoe and plow w
t be broken for a decade. The spir
3 of direct Federal relief to an ind
i gent tribe of ne'er-do-wells is be a
- tiitul indeed . . . but in practice, it
i- another big dose of castor oil: May1
- it won't last always . . . maybe we
e better pray that it doesn't.
rAUG
Independent Weekly Nev
BOONE. WATAUGA C
?AW BOARD SET
liP; ACTION WINS
- COUNTY SANCTI01
i
Member Named from finch Ton'
ship ; { Meit*iikt Friday. Coram]
tinners Pass liesolutioii of Appr
vai. I'Iccnguiiing Them as Ofri.i
i Farm Itsjppfi'ntnihos. To Sleet t
October 13th.
; At an enthusiastic meeting of tl
I fartnoije of Watauga County, held i
I the courthouse Friday evening, a
| agricultural boanl composed of r
less than one member from eac
fo-.vr.snip of the county was set up, 1
-act as official representative of ti
f.-rra interests of the county. Th
";oard in turn is called upon to me-,
at the court-house Saturday. Octoix
! 13til, at 2:30 p. m. for the purpose (
i .ompleting organization plans.
I The meeting, ctilled by aelin
j Chairman Wade F lo-.:.-. ?*
J waiS [/IU
cipjauy lor the purpose of receivm
a report from a previously appoints
C'runiittee, looking to the C3tablisl
ment of the county board, wsa pel
vaded with a spirit of helpfulness an
unity which gave encouragement t
th<>3C who have insisted upon concei
j of action where agrarian affairs ai
concerned.
Board Members
Following a discission of the n
port of the committee which wt
composed of Wade E. Brown an
Newton Cook, the following wei
named as members of the agriculti
ral hoard by unanimous approval:
Bald Mountain, \V. M. Howell; Bes
ver Dam. W. W. Wilson, Spencer Wai
ren; Boone, I,. H Holler, Ccnle
Glenn. Henry J. Hardin: Blowin
llock, A C. Moody, Q B. Car.non
Blue Ridge, J. <5. Keller; Cove Creek
' Don Horton. Alfred Thomas, H. I
Cook; Elk. C. C. Triplett, J. P. Cook
. Lsiurel Creek, W. H. Mast, It a Ed
mtsten; Meat, Camp No. 1, Alex Tug
Jma:i, Avery Greene; Meat Camp Nc
2, Henry Beach; North Fork, A. in
Thomas, Frana Me.in; Shawiieebors
R. D. Edmisten, Duke Tester: Ston;
' Fork, H. E. Greene, V. M. Watson
. Watauga, T. C. Baird, Claude Short
Everett Fox.
Commissioners Act A hi
The names of the members of th
r board were presented to the count
eommuisioner3 at their regular meet
I log Monday, and the folbt^faig reao
, liition was passed wlthoujr ~"At
a regular meeting orthe Colin
tv Board of Commissioners of Wa
tauga, held on the first Monday a
October, 1b3?. the following resoiu
lion was passed,
"That WHEREAS the farmers o
Watauga County met at the Court
I! house in Boone. September 6, 11?3j;
an'J passed a motion providing thfl
a committee be appointed to repor
back to the next meeting of the sal
farmers of Watauga County upo
the call of the acting chairman,
"And WHEREAS a meeting wa
t called by Wade E. Brown, actio,
chairman, for September 28. lSf'4, a
7:30 p. m ,
"And WHEREAS the committe
making a repctt on their reoommer
1 dations for members of an agricu
I turai board composed of at least on
member from each township in Wt
tauga County.
"And WHEREAS, after discussioi
' the report of the committee we
: adopted t with throe substitutions
with the request that this board t
' officially approved by the Board <
| County Commissioners for Wataug
* Conntv
; "NOW, THEREFORE, we, ti
members of the Board of Count
Commissioners for Watauga appro-,
and highly recommend the propose
men lo serve- as an agricultural boar
> of Watauga County, t.o act as the o
ficial representatives of the farme:
of Watauga County in such ways ar
manners as under the circumstanci
t they think best ami proper for tl
;! best interests of the general tvelfai
- j of the farmers and citizens of Wi
r I tauga County."
Sydney Moore injured
z In Automobile Cras
Sydney Moore, brother of Mrs.
- W. Teal of Boone, was seriously i
-, jured in an automobile collision whii
t occurred on the Statesviile-Winsto
s Salem highway Thursday aftemoi
, near Mocksville. Youug Moore,
passenger in one of the cars, suffer
a broken jaw, fractured skull a
severe lacerations ori the lower liml
1- ~ ^
g? nv wcis laneii LU ia vv iuaiv.i-oa?
(j | hospital where his condition Mond
l_ | was described as sati3faotory. T
j car was said to have been totally 1
rnolished.
? V r. Moore spent several months
Boone recently, engaged as a cl?
1- in the Boone Department Store, a
i- made many friends locally.
;r Mr. and Mrs. Teal, accompanied
ill Miss Corinne Knight of Biowi
it P.oclt, visited the injured man Sund
li- morning.
u
:'s: A.very County Irish potato grc
be j ers are negotiating with TVA oi
''d j cials to build storage houses for
1 seed to be stored this winter.
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PUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, THURKDA.
i The President's Mother
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tv ISVDK VAStk/ N. Y.?TIio above poj
Mrs. Sara Delano Itooscvclt, was ta ~sd
y birthday. S-vpfceiviber J 1st. The Pre
.A grandchildren attended the Mr :7:
: COMMANDER 0UVE 3
TO ADDRESS LEGION! I
MEMBERS FRIDAY!
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.* | Newf.v-Elerted Head of State Depart- | >1
' j merit to Appear on Program of In- j
staltation Meeting. President-Elect
Shnmwuy of Auxiliary anil Other
e - Notables AJso Expected. Norris to
*' Re. M&CaHed as Local Commander.
OUvc of Lexington, J
mwly-eleeSspf commander' of the P'
- North Carolina Department, Ameri-'01
f can Legion, will be principal speak-j0
"! or at a meeting of Watauga Legion ' T
f i Post No. 130 here next Friday eve-; 3.
I ning. Mr. Olive is looked on as one ' p"
1, j of the State's most distinguished ex- j,.
tj service men, is an orator of great j
1 ability, and his appearance here is t!
looked forward to with pleasure by
organization leaders,
s Other notables to appear on the 5,
g program are: Louis Rateliffe, nationt
al committeeman of Charlotte; F. A. ?
Hutchison, Slate service officer, "...
e Chief Attorney Pate of the Veterans V
I- Ail ministration; Mrs. W. R. Absher. ,'
I I Mx^inlrlnUl- /if K.. Ofnls. T A Mv
i- iiivaiu'Jni vi. uic oi-ur,c) ^ua.- j
e 'lia'ry, of North Wiikesboru; Presi- 1 '*
l- dent-elect Shurr.way of the Auxiliary; ;
Miss Suggs, child welfare officer, and : ^
Miss Adams, Auxiliary secretary.
is Watauga Post's newly elected offi- j'
;) c.ers will he installed by District Com- j a
le mander Aubrey M. Chisholm of Cross- j.
>f nore, while Auxiliary officeix will!
a be inducted into set vice by Mrs. Her- ! .
bert Smitii of Lenoir, district com- j t
le rr.itteewoman. The new officers of j
y the Legion arc: J. W. Norris, com- .>
re mander; Koy T. Haynes, vioc-com- ^
si manner, C. W. Teal, Adjutant; R. G.
d Greer, finance officer; W. C. Greene,
f- chaplain: W L. Cook, Sons of Legion
rs officer; Nile Cook, athletic officer;
id R. J. Kelley, graves registration of-1 c
33 fleer; Licnell Ward, service officer; 1 j
so Spencer Miller, guardianship officer. L
re More than two hundred Legion and I,
a- Auxiliary members are expected atl,
the Friday night meeting, which will .
be featured by special music and a (
big "feed." t
c SPECIAL TERM OF ]
$ COURT ORDERED
an 1
a Governor Sots Aside Period Begin- *
ed ning December 3rd for Civil Term
nd iik Watauga. Judge Clayton Moore j
bs. to Preside. Sixty-odd Cases.
!in
ay Governor Ehringhaus last Saturhe
day called a special term of court for '
le- Watauga County, for trial of civil
cases, beginning December 3id end
in continuing for two weeks. Judge
irk Clayton Moore of Williamstcn has
nd been commissioned to preside over
the term.
by The gubernatorial action came as
ing a result of the petition of all memlay
bers of the Watauga bar, who are
anxious that the civil calendar be
cleared. More than sixty case3 yet
iw- remain on the docket, and Clerk
fit- South believes it is possible to get
the rid of the congestion during the two
weeks.
MOC1
V ear Eighteen Eighty-Eig
T. OCTOBER 4. JSJt
on Her 80th Sirthday j 1
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otrait o't lilt- Presidents mother, j b
11 at her home heir** on her 801 h \ if
icni. ?rahrichiIdre ji anil throe jg3
Bay iuneheqn. Jg}
~fV7 Xil A TAUT A MO !
ymmDUAii^ io:
m RELIEF DURING I
MONTH OF AUGUST!:
!
ra. Thomas O'Berry Releases Report! g
on Relief Administration for Thir ! n
ty-Uay Period. Harnett Has Small- v:
rsf Percentage of Destitution. Av- E
cry- Deads State, With Nearly Olio-! r:
Third of Population on Dole.
Watauga had V>*>7 oeraone, or 23.7
sr cent of theocunty'a population >
1 relief An A'.'gtwtgaeeordiftfc U> re- ',1
>rts from Use office of Mrs. Thorn 83
'Berry, State director, Monday,
hese included Sfii families, totaling
."76 persona, and 21 single residence v
-son;., a total of 6S2 cases, or fair.- .
03 and individuals. The case load ill j
lis county increased 1 6 per pent in "
uguat over the case load in July. .,
it: director's report shews.
North Carolina had 13.2 per cent
1 the State population, or 355,228
ersoiis, on Federal relief rolls dur- 1
lg August, says Mrs O'Berrv. The j'
tat.c had 72,187 families totaling ir
46.759 persons?4.8 persons to the !
imily?on relief rolls, along with 8,-!'
69 single residence persons, or a to-!1
On crrc ~
jj w.otlu tttsccs. ilia i 13, uulxiiks i
nd individuals. This is an increase!'
7 per cent in ease load over July. |
l'.i "out thirteen of the one hundred j
e untie.? showed an increase in ease !
>nd. the report cbfi tinned.
Harnett had :hc smallest percentgo
of its population on relief, 3.3 ]
or cent. Cleveland had only 3.!) per enc
and Beaufort only S.S per cent.!
.very had 32.S per cent, nearly onehird
of its population, on relief;
Irunswick had 31 per cent. Currituck 1
9.2 per cent, Graham 27.9 per cent, !
day 26.9 per cent,
REVIVAL CLOSES
Rev. J. M. Haymore of Atlanta, Ga.
losed a two weeks revival at the
laptist church last Sunday morning
vhich has been pronounced by some
ihurchmen as the most successful
neet.ing held here in many years,
tbcut twenty-five were added to the
Jiurch rolls, including ten by bap-1
ism.
NEWENR0I1MENT
RECORD AT A.S.T.C.
112 Students Now Taking Training at |
Appalachian, an Increase of More
Than Fifty Over Last Year. Credit
Increase to Better Times.
Nine hundred and twelve students
had heen enrolled at the Appalachian
State Teachers College Monday,
breaking an ail-time record for the
regular fall term. The present aggregation
of students is more than
fifty ahead of the same period iast
year, it is said.
Included in the recent registrations
are 300 ruer,, a notable increase in
the percentage of male 3tudents. This
fact, college officials believe, is a result
of generally improved financial
conditions over the country.
No changes nave been made in the
faculty personnel for the fall term.
RAT
Kt
$] .50 PER YtiAK
LEAVER DAM MAN
USES SHOTGUN TO
END HIS OWN LIFE
tyscoo iVJcGlanierv Foiinrt Dead Near
Home. Was Placed Under Bond
I-ast Week By State of Tennessee
for Alleged Staying o! Former Wife.
I5wdy Was to Have Been Esinmied.
Funeml Services Sunday
Bonded to the Stat'' of Tennessee
n the sum of five thousand dollars
o answer charges of killing j fortier
wife, Roscoe McGIamery, aged
1, outdistanced the hand of the law
Saturday morning, when he. sent the
:>ad from a 12-gauge shotgun crashig
through his brain.
The 'W cr.orj^r ? -
O -V.J .rv.Ui.KU III rt 1 Vil'-l iX
hort distance from his home, at
bout seven o'clock in the morning,
nd shortly thereafter a neighborhood
lan found the body. Deputy Coroner
Iliffi McConnell was called to the
ruesome scene, and an inquest reulted
in a suicide verdict.
McGlamery, it is said, had been
rraigned in Johnson County, Tenn.,
n a charge of murder growing out
v the death some time ago of a secnd
wife. He was placed under a fivehousard-dollar
bond, pending the acion
of the State in exhuming the
ody, but it is not known whether or
ot this circumstance caused the sui?'de.
He is reported to have toid lii3
rife Friday evening that if anything
appened to him she might have the
ody buried where she liked. Saturay
morning little was thought of
is expressed intention of going to
ic woods for squirrels, but investialion
followed the early firing of tfie
lot. Death had been instantaneous,
le load from a high velocity shell
lying literally torn away the top
: the skiill.
Mr. McGiamery, it is said, had
jent the most of his life in John>n
County, Tenn., and was net genially
well known in this county. He
id resififtd ii thf> RpflVAr Ham
unity only since last May.
Funeral services were conducted on
unoay at 11 o'clock from the Beaver
'am Baptist Church and interment
as in the cemetery there. Rev. Ed
Lodges of Boone was in charge of the
Ltes.
Surviving is a widow by a third
larriage.
fwo Are Held On
Assault Charges
Worth DIdridgc and Dee Coivard
ere lodged in the county j&i! Sunay
nigh-, to answer chnrgiw of asault
in connection -with serious knife
pounds sustained by Wade Edniisten
n on affray at PetkinsviHe. Prelimnary
hearings have not been held.
Young Edmisteii was slabbed in
.he back and cut across the body,
note than thirty stitches being rcluired
to dress the wounds. Dr. Per y,
the attending physician, however
loes not think that the injuries should
-esult critically. Coivard ;s aisc said
:o have received a scalp injury in
:he altercation.
The fighi occurred, according to
:hc Sheriff's office, near the Cowles
store, and information as to its preuse
cause has not been uncovered.
Miss Maude Powell Is
Candidate for Register
Miss Maude Powell of Blowing
Sock was named last week as Republican
candidate for Register of
Deeds, the place on the ticket having
been left blank at. the convention,
subject to the action of the Executive
Committee.
Miss Powell is well known in this
community, having been connected
with the Bell Telephone Exchange
in Blowing Rock for some time, and
is regarded as a most capable young
lady.
Watauga Vets Attend
Reunion in Asheville
Messrs. M. G. Barnes. I. ion el Ward,
S. ,T. Barnes, A. E. Vannoy and Fred
Winkler, members of the Thirtieth
Division during the World War, returned
from Asheville Sunday evening.
where they attended the three
uay reunion 01 max iamous ngntmg
organization. They reported a mo3t
enjoyable trip, having met many of
the boys with whom they served in
France.
SHERIFF HOWEIX. CAPTURES
FORTY-FIRST BLOCKADE STILL
Assisted by Avery County officers
and local deputies, Sheriff A. Y.
j Howell Saturday morning destroyed
i a large steam distillery and 125 gallons
of beer in the Beech Mountain
section. Wiley Phillips, charged with
operating the outfit, was lodged in
the county jail.
...Saturday morning's seizure constituted
the forty-first illicit outfit destroyed
by Sheriff Howell since ho
sasumed hi3 office December 1st,
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