Pf VALUE OF GARDEN 1
5 CROPS LN COUNTY
$85,148 Value of Watauga's Gardens?Many
Farmers, However,
Do Not Report.
Vegetables harvested for sale In
1934 totaled 95,684 acres in North
Carolina, according to a special report
of the 1935 Federal Farm Census
released today by Director Wm.
L. Austin of the Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce. The
acreage reported represents an inW
crease of more than one hundred percent
over the 43,901 acres reported
in 1929 and comprised 22,009 acre3
ja of snap or string beans reported on
14.492 farms, 8,518 acres of cabbages
reported on 7,852 farms, 9.619 of
sweet corn reported on 6,317 farms,
5,420 acres of tomatoes reported on
6,655 farms, 20,240 acres of watermelons
reported on 14,533 farms, and
29,378 acres of all other vegetables
(excluding Irish and sweet potatoes)
reported on 18.087 farms. The total
acreage for 1929 included 9,796 acres
of snap or string beans, 3,467 acres
of cabbages, 5,498 acres of sweet
corn, 1,887 acres of tomatoes, and
8,918 acres of watermelons. Duplin. !
Wayne and Sampson, the three lead
ing counties in the acreage of vege- j
tables harvested for sale In 1934. re-1
ported nearly one-fourtli of the total
acreage in the State
Vegetables grown for use on the
larme were valued at 59,631,010, or
an average of 533 per farm reporting,
and were grown on 250,291, or 83 per
cent of all the farms In the State.
Statistics for Ashe, Alleghany, Wa- j
tauga, and Wilkes are as follows:
Ashe: 307 farms reporting 105
acres of beans (snap or string), 766
farms reporting 593 acres of cabbages,
26 farms reporting 3 acres of
corn (sweet), 23 farms reporting 8
acres of tomatoes, 6 farms reporting
1 5 acres of all other vegetables except
Irish and sweet potatoes, 3,633 farms
reporting 5125,033 as value of farm
garden vegcaltbse grown for home
use (exclusive of Irish and sweet!
potatoes).
Alleghany: 122 farma reporting 136 i
acres of beans (snap or string) 203 j
farmers reporting 255 acres of cab-'
bagc, 7 farms reporting 3 acres of
corn (sweet), 3 farms reporting 1
acre of tomatoes, 12 farms reporting
11 acres of ai! other vegetables except
Irish and sweet potatoes, 1,449
farms reporting 550,917 as value of
farm garden vegetables grown for
home use (exclusive of Irish and
sweet potatoes).
- rtJft e. ?! ? ?n
^ rraidugu. lanns reporting 113 I
acres of beari3 (snap or string), 1,215;
farms reporting 1,136 acres of cab- j
bagee, 36' farms reporting lii acres of
? - ctrrn (sweet), 46 farma reporting 81
acree tomatoes, 1 farm reporting 2;
acres of watermelons, 87 farma re-1
porting 74 acres of ail other vegeta-;
bles except Irish and sweet potatoes,
2,211 farms reporting 385.148 as
value of farm garden vegetables
grown for home use (exclusive of
* Irish and sweet potatoes.
Wilkes: 44 farms reporting 27
acres of beans (snap or string), 45
farma reporting 15 acres of cabbagca,
12 fanners reporting 5 acres of corn
>sweet), 00 farms reporting 28 acres
of tomatoes, 32 farms reporting 18
acres of watermelons, 126 farms reporting
Do acres of all other vegetables
except Irish and sweet potatoes,
5,163 farms reporting S116.857
as value ci farm garden vegetables ;
grown for home use (exclusive of.
Irish and sweet potatoes).
TVA Awards Contract
For Road In State
The Tennessee Valley Authority
awarded contract today to the Cordall
Construction Company, Inc., Winchester,
Ky., for the construction' of
the principal access road to Fowler
Bend damsite on the Hiwassee River
in southwestern North Carolina. The
contract amounts to approximately
iv, $177,000.
The contract calls for the clearing,
grading and construction of all structures
for a roadway thirty-one feet
wide from shoulder to shoulder, extending
twelve miles eastward from
the damsite to Turtletown, Tenn. It
is expected that the surfacing of the
highway will be done by the authority's
own forces. The road will follow
a right-of-way varying from 100
to 250 feet In width. The contract includes
also the building of two steel
bridges over Shoal Creek, one sixty
feet long, the other ninety feet.
Hie contractor received ins truefvrvm
fVlcv
i avrjfco IIUJU uio Auuiviicji w piwccu
with the work at once. Work on the j
roadway will be divided into two sections,
the eastern strip betwe" the
damsite and Shoal Creek to be finished
first. Construction time on
this first section is fixed at 120 days,
and on the second section, cetween
I Shoal Creek and Turtle town, on Tennessee
Highway 68, at 180 days.
JOE CULVER DEAD
Meagre information coming to the
Democrat at press time tells of the
death in Butler, Tenn., on Wednesday,
of Joe Culver, former prominent
resident of Watauga county, his demise
being due to a heart attack.
Funeral, it is understood, will be held
in Butler Thursday afternoon. Further
details are not available.
Wilson Norris of Watauga County
purchased a purebred Hampshire ram
from a sheep breeder in Greenville,
Tennessee, last week.
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VOLUME XLVIII, NUMBER A
;_ At ^woseadlte*:
Amid scenes of conflicting emotio
of addresses, the national conve
sions, L?td., founded by Dr. Franc
12. Above is shown Dr. Townsem
center, Heir to the late Huey Lou
Father Charles E. Coughlin, Deti
Union. Below are two of the 1
from states
SAYS LOCAL SCENES
RIVAL SWISS ALPS
Swiss Railway Executive Is Enthusiastic
Over Blue Ridge
Mountains.
Banner Elk.?"We have toured the
United States and looked for a spot
that reminded us most of Switzerland.
We have found It In the Blue
Ridge mountains of North Carolina
around Banner Elk and Blowing
Rock." was the statement made by
F Dossenbach or Deonia, N. J., general
representative of the Swiss Railways
for America and Canada, upor
his arrival at Pinnacle Inn last week
fcr an extended vacation.
With Mr. Dossenbach are his wife
and daughter. They have been coming
to tills section of North Carolina
during the summer for a number oi
.years.
Continuing his statement Mr. ?>os
senb&ch said, "If there were som<
white mountain peaks in the back
ground of the beautiful pasture anc
woodlands, this certainly would be a
second home for us.
"The Blue Ridge mountains, owlnf
to their verdure and farming life, art
much more similar to the mountain:
of Switzerland than the Roekj
Mountains."
Mrs. Harman Passes
At Sugar Grove Home
Sugar Grove, N. C., July 20.--Oi
Friday afternoon, July 24th, the en
iire community was saddened by tin
passing o: our dear, beToved Chris
linn friend, Mrs. Rhoda Ward Har
man. She had lived in this (Wi'.lov
Valley) community, her entire lire
and made friends with ati whom sh<
came in contact.
Mrs. Harman having given nerse!
to Christian living and ail worth whili
endeavors. She accomplished mucl
in her quiet unobtrusive way. Ti
know her was to love her. We ma;
well look back upon her life in he
home, in the community and he
church as one of the beautiful loving
devotion and Christian example
Funeral services were conductei
Sunday morning in Willow Valle;
Baptist church, by Rev, Willie 1
Cook, assisted by Rev. W. C. Payne
The flower girls: Misses Bonni
Ward, Maudell Ward, Hazel Shul!
Anna Lee Shepherd, Mrs. Fred ShuVl
Mrs. Bill Shull; Mrs. Loyd Isaac. Mrs
Spencer Cable, Mrs. Roby Greene
Mrs Charles McCoimel and Mr:
Leonard Ward were her nieces. The,
were loaded with unusual large num
bers of floral tokens from her man
friends who knew her great lova fo
flowers.
The pall-bearers were: Clark Swifl
Howard Simpson, Spencer Cable, Dil
lard Greene, Ronda Norris, Loy
Isaac, Lewis Glenn and Omar Bairc
Interment was in the Ward cemeterj
She leaves to mourn her passin
her husband, Mr. L. D. Harmon, thre
daughters, Mrs. Ham. Maine, Mr
Carl Greene, Mrs. Dwight Edminste
and two sons, George and Osborm
One son. Arlis. proceeded her to th
"the better home" some few year
previous.
Mrs. Harmon was born May i
1875, died at age 61 years 2 month
and 15 days. Mrs. Harman prof esse
faith in Christ and united with Ar
tioch Church at an early age an
lived a devoted Christian to the en<
SANDS COMMUNITY CLUB MEE
The Sands Community Club wi
meet et the club house, July 31s
with Mrs. Howard Foster hostess. .
very interesting program is plannei
Each member is requested to be prei
ent.
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L BOONE, WATAUGA COUN
s National Convention | ]
ns, brought about by a wide variety
intion of the Old Age Revolving Penis
E. Townsend came to a close July ]
d, left, with Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, ,
g Share-Wealth Clubs and right, J
T5it Radio Priest of Social Justice .
2,000 elderly delegates who attended
i far and near.
I1 KARTHIMi RESIGNS
i H.O.L.C. POSITION:
I
Boone Mail Now District Supervisor
for Department Of
Conservation. <
.! Mr. H. Grady Farthing, for the past >
j three years field representative of the i
j Home Owners Loan Corporation, has ]
. resigned his position in order to ac- i
* cept a district supervisorship with :
P the State Department of Conserva- 1
\ tion and Development.
In his new position Mr. Farthing
. will supervise the entire work of the
i Conservation Department in seventeen
counties as follows: Mitchell,
, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Alexander,
?j Watauga, Wilkes, Ashe, Alleghany, ,
. Surry, Yadkin, Stokca, Forsyth, Rocki
ingham, Guilford. Caswell, Alamance. 1
Mr. Farthing will maintain headquar- 1
ters in Winston-Salem. , 1
Mr. Farthing has seen considerable .j
> service with this agency of the state .
. department both in county and disI
trict endeavors, and since he tock a ,
t' position with the H. O. L., C. demands ,
for him to return to the conservation ,
r agency have been incessant. He ere- ,
, atod for nimsclf a fine record of ef- ,
ficicncy in both the public positions.
TENANT PROBLEM
BECOMES SERIOUS
t| l.oc.d Rehabilitation Supervisor Says;
j Half of Farmers Are Tenants. | M
V
The trend from individual owner'
ship to farm tenancy was described
- as one of the major problems of the
- United States by D. Frank Baird of
1 Boone, rehabilitation supervisor of
. tire Resettlement Administration for
Watauga County. Mr. Baird quoted
1 figures complied by the Resettlement
f j Administration showing that nearly
- | half of all farmers in the United
1 i C ( u-f o e o i-a v\ai<
, , "V"
> | "Every agricultural section of the
f country." he said, "has some tenr
ancy." It ranges from around eight
r per cent in the New England states
- to better than forty-five per cent in
parts of the com belt and a High
1 of more than seventy-five per cent
y of all farmers ill some parts of the
' cotton belt."
- The figures of the 1935 census of
e agriculture indicate that farm tenI.
ancy is still increasing all major secI.
tions of the country. Tenancy in
' the states of this region is as follows:
North Carolina, 142,158 tenants, j
gain of 3 per cent since 1930; Vir- i
y ginia, 58,386 tenants, gain of 16 per i
cent since 1930; Kentucky, 103 215
y tenants, gain of 16 per cent since
r 1930: Tennessee, 126,607 tenants,
gain of 11 per cent since 1930; West
t, Virginia, 27,021 tenants, gain of 76
1- per cent since 1930.
d
PHYSICIANS TO GATHER
'g IN BANNER ELK MEETING
e Banner Elk?Physicians in the
' North Caroline State Medical Society
n specializing in internal medicine will
' meet in a post graduate assembly at
e Grace Hospital August 20-21, acconis
ing to announcement made yesterday
uy t-rr. jcv. n. naram, or uanner isik, i
* chairman of the committee oil post
^ graduate study in the society.
d At the assembly papers will be
read by some of the outstanding
d physicians in internal medicine in the
' state. Arrangements have already
been made with prominent physicians
T in nearby states to be here, and oth11
ers of national repute have been askt,
ed to attend.
A. The assembly is especially for phyi.
sicians in western North Carolina,
i- however, it will be open to any who
may wish to attend.
t\ Dr
spaper?Established in tl
TY, NORTH CAROLINA, TIIU
NEWEST UNIT OF
BAPTIST CHURCH
NOW BEING BUILT
Complete Church Plant Will
Have Value of More Than
$80,000?Work On Foundation
for Auolher Unit Started Monday?Finish
In Four Months.
A crew of workmen started Morilay
morning on the footings for the
ast unit of the Boone Baptist Church
dart, and the superintendent of construction,
Mr. J. A. Campbell, plans
:o have the building ready for oceusancy
within four months.
The new unit, which, when competed.
will he an integral part of the
Sunday School plant now being used.
A'ill be 60x80 feet, of straw-colored
brick, and will include basement,
main auditorium and balcony. The
seating of the auditorium will be ap roximateiv
one thousand ami elcdit
Sunday School rooms will be added
Ln the basement. The heating piant
in the present unit of the building,
which is now being used for all the
activities of the church, will take
care of the entire plant, it is said.
The church is being finished with
considerable cooperation from the
3tate mission board, whose policy is
to sponsor thoroughly modern church
plants in all of the educational centers
of the state. The complete
church plant, including the parsonige.
will have a value of more than
?82,000. while the part now under
construction will cost $25,000.
The Baptists of the town are being
congratulated upon their enterprise in
securing the completion of the church
plant, which will be one of the most
nodern and beautiful to be found
mvwhere in this section of the county
Watauga Represented
At State Farm Meet
The following farmers and home
iemonstration club women will represent
Watauga County at the North
Carolina State Farmers' Convention
being held at Slate College Station,
Rateigh, this week: Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Swift, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Snyler
and Mrs. Jelhro Wilson of Reese;
Wrav Wilson. Sucrar Grove: Ernie
rriplett and Howard Edmistcn of
Watney; Tom Wilson and lva Wilson
jf Zionville: Alex Tugman, Boone;
W. S. Miller. Todd and H. E Greene.
Deep Gap.
W. B. Collins. County Agent, accompanied
the above mentioned representatives
to Raleigh.
At this convention farmers and
farm women will be given instruction
on farming and home making by
agricultural leaders in this and other
states.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
AND COACHING SCHOOL
The third annual institute of health
and physical education together with
a coaching school is to be held al
Appalachian College August 10 to 21
according to Mr. E. E. Garbee. direc
tor of Physical Education at the college.
Mr. Garbee explains that the in
stitute of health will continue fron
August 10 to 15, while the coachinE
school will run from the 17tn tc
21st. Registration and room for th(
institute costs $2.50, and a Itki
amount for the coaching school. \vhil<
meal3 may be had at the college cafe
teria for 60 cent3 per day. Bed lin
ens may be rented for 50 cents pe
week or may be brought from home
Gym suits and athletic equipmen
will not be furnished at the college
and there will be no accommodatioi
for children.
The regular physical education fac
ully will be supplemented by Dr
King and others, while the coachini
staff will have added Billy Laval
head coach at Emory and Henry am
several other well known coaches.
Special excursions to various scenii
points are planned for evening en
tertainment.
Further information may be pro
cured by addressing Mr. E. E. Gar
bee, director of Physical Education
or Mr. P. O. (Kidd) Brewer, Direc
tor of Athletics, Appalachian College
Boone, N. C.
MRS. DUNCAN DIES
Mrs. J. C. Duncan, an aunt of Mn
A. S. Harris of Boone, died at he
home in Woburn, Mass., a few day
ago, after an illness with pneumonia
Mrs. Harris was in Woburn at th
time of her relative's demise. Mri
Duncan was 61 years old. Funera
services and interment were in th
Massachusetts city. There are m
immediate survivors.
Mrs. Duncan had visited at th
home of her niece in Boone two year
ago, and had formed many friend
ships in this community.
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he Year Eighteen Eighty-E
BSDAY, JULY 30, 1936.
Brutally Murdered
Helen Clevenger, New York U.
sophomore, who was found murdered
in a hotel room in Asheville,
criminally attacked, shot and stabbed.
Wide search is being made
for the murderer.
I
j WATAUGA COUNTY
i ON DROUGHT LIST
I
Twenty-Eight Counties In North
Carolina Now Designated
Emergency Sections.
Twenty-eight counties in North
Carolina, 10 additional counties in
Georgia, and five more counties in
Kentucky have been officially designated
as emergency drought counties
by the Department of Agriculture
drought committee.
The 43 counties named, the seventh
certification since the designation began
on July 7, brings the list of emergency
drought counties to a total
of 452. This designation is the first
made in North Carolina. Emergency
drought counties in Georgia and Kentucky
now total 58 and 42, respectively.
The North Carolina counties designated
are.
Alleghany, Ashe, Avery. Buncombe,
? Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cherokee,
[ Clay, Cleveland, Gaston, Graham,
Haywood, Henderson, Jacknon, Lincoln,
McDowell. Macon, Madison,
Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford.
Swain. Transylvania. Union,
Watauga and Yancey.
BABIES WILL VIE
r OK FIRST HONORS
Baby Show is Feature of the Blowing
Roel< Community Carnival.
J Tile annual community carnival to
i be held at Blowing Rock on August
14th, at 3:30 P. M . will lie. featured
this year by a Baby Show, according
to Information received by the committee
on carnival arrangements.
, Prizes are to be awarded under two
classifications: For the best baby uni
der 18 months old and for the besl
! baby from 18 months to three years
old.
It is explained that there will he
I no territory restrictions, that the
contest is open to all, and that ai:
i eiltry fee of one dollar is required
Entries must be made no later thai
August 12th with either member ol
i the committee, which includes Mrs
r Gene Story (chairman), Mrs. Wm
J Holshouser, Jr., Mrs. Joe Cannon anc
, Mrs. Don Johnson.
- Program For Baptist
1! Preachers Gathering
ri
| The monthly preachers" nieetini
t.: will be held at the Boone Baptis
Church Monday, August 10th, begin
^ ning at 9 a. nr., and all Baptis
preachers and Deacons of the count;
_ are invited to attend.
At 9:30 the devotional will be le.
r by R. E. Hendrix; 9:45, "The Wor!
* of the Holy Spirit in Selecting a Fas
j tor," Rev. R C. Eg^ers; Discussion
10:15, "How Many Chuches Shouli
E a Pastor Try to Serve at One Time?'
_ J. J. Mathney; (Discussion); 10:4E
'How Should a Church Deal With It
. Active Deacons." Tipton Greene
_ (Discussion); 11:15, Bible Dlscussior
^ J. C. Canipe.
' Watauga Boy Makes
Good In Ohio Cit]
Mr. C. Ray Lawrence, a former stu
>. dent of Cove Creek High School,
r graduate of Mars Hill College, also
s i student of Draughon's Business Col
L. lege at Knoxville, Tennessee, is 1101
e located in Cincinnati, Ohio, with th
i, American Cite and Accident Insui
.1 ance Company. He, having been wit
e the company only eight months, 1
o now leading in sales.
Mr. Lawrence recently announce
e his engagement to Miss Florenc
s Elizabeth Johnson, who is a membt
I- of the Mars Hili College facult;
Mars Hill, N. C.
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Light
-- '=3
$1.30 P?R YEAR
ROGERS OF LOCAL
STOKMRK JAILED
ON CAPmCOUNT
Thornhili and PaiV^Mi Waive
Hearing On Burglary Charge,
Grooving Out of Smithey Store
Robbery ? Supreme Penalty
May Be Sought.
George Thornhili and Manuel Patterson,
said to be residents of Johnson
City. Tenn., are in the county
ibastile as a result of the robbery of
the Smithey Store in Boone last Wed,
nesday night, and since two men were
j using the building for sleeping quar:
tors at the time of the armed entrance,
they are to answer charges
of burglary in the first degree, which
carries the death penalty in North
Carolina.
Entrance was gained to the building
by breaking a glass from a door,
it is said, and loosening the bolt from
the inairlo Rnlnh Wnrlffnc
i Miller, employees of the establish'
mcnt were sleeping In the store at
the time but were not awakened by
the intruders.
Thornhill and Patterson were arrested
near Eiizabethton, Tonn., and
Policeman Wiley Day and Owen Wilson.
store manager, returned with
them from Tennessee. Goods, identified
by Mr. Wilson as belonging to
tiis store, were found in the car, and
inventoried 5100.48. Whether this
constituted the total I033 was not
ascertained by the maangement.
The merchandise retrieved consisted
mostly of cigarettes, chewing gum
and like commodities.
The two who arc accused waived
preliminary hearing and will be tried
at the regular term of Watauga Superior
Court in September. It la understood
that W. R. Lovill has been
retained as counsel for the defense,
while T. E. Bingham and Charles T
Zimmerman arc to assist Solicitor
Spunling in the prosecution.
Family Reunion To Be
Held In State Kansas
Five of the oldest families of Wat??
County, Mast, SliuU. Taylor,
Baird and Horton, will hold their annua!
reunion on August lGth in Scott
County. Kansas.
Mr. J. T. Shull, of Crigston, Kansas,
who informs the Democrat of the
event, dates that relatives and
friends of the different families in
this section are cordially invited to
be present He further advises aJl
to come expecting a good time.
TOURIST INTEREST IN
STATE ON INCREASE
Bruce Btheridge, director of conservation
and development, said Fri;
day reports from every part of the
State indicated there were more tourl
ists in North Carolina now than there
had been in several years.
The ?rector said he was convinced
: from letters and reports he had rei
ocived that the department's new
booklet, "Come to North Carolina,"
! and the new color-map of the highi
way department had played an im~
i portant part in drawing visitors to
. the State.
L ;
r SCHEDULE FOR AUGUST
IN BASEBALL LEAGUE
' Nine games yet remain to be played
Iin the Watauga County League, the
current season ending September 26.
fnr Alioniof Id aa f/.lln,Tra -
August t: Bamboo at Abo, Mable
' at Valle Crucis; August S: Aho at
Blowing Rock, Valle Crucis at BamI
boo; August 15: Blowing Rock at
t Valle Creicis, Bamboo at Mabel; Aug
ust 22: Mabel at Blowing Rock, Valle
t Crucis at Mabel; August 29: Bamboo
V at Blowing Rock, Aho at Mabel
i CATCHES SEA FISH
{ Miss Louise Farthing of Boone,
* caught six mackerel whose weight
' totaled 10 pounds while trolling off
i Wrightsville Beach. It was the young
lady's first deep-sea fishing experi>
cncc. Miss Farthing has been spend3
ing some time at the home of an
: uncle, Dr L. E. Farthing, in Willi
mington . _
VACATION PERIOD ON
FOR ORPHAN KIDDIES
/ Banner Elk.?Vacation time is here
in reality for the children of Grandi
father Orphanage. The annual pea
riod at which they leave Banner Elk
a for two-week vacations has arrived.
I- Each summer every child visits
v some friend for two weeks. With
o each goine to a different nlace. manu
- nights around the fire in the fall are
h filled with yarn swapping,
h The vacation period was started
the Fourth of July when a group at s \
d larger boys made a trip to Lake <!
e James for a week-end's fishing. Bat
r now vacation time is in full swing <3
f, and all are looking forward to their
turn to go.
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