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. \HT\n YY/1J Ar 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. raj, , a shr^\j?3} lrjhmhss r v_-: - i I' g PA TTri L/lUVju i Independent Weekly Newi 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. ;moc 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. D A T1 tvn.1 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