I BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Childhood
Tuewell's Little Girl
Holland Buys Planes
Rev. Webber Knows
Childhood lasts longer in France
than in America and it is real childhood.
Boys in their teens, writing
letters, call their fathers Cher petit
pappa, "Dear little papa"?imagine
that from an American "prep" school.
Little French girts play innocently
with Toto. their little dog, hardly
knowing that such things us francs
exist, when much older tl'an Assist
ant Secretary Tugwell'a Intelligent
young daughter, Marcia. aged twelve,
who. in partnership with her friends.
Mary Frances Cottrell and Joyce Helmiek.
organized "a laundry for washing
dogs." They advertised: "Small
dogs." They advertised: "Small dogs.
30 cents; middle-sized dogs, 35 cents:
groomed and washed. Dogs not goodnatured
must be sent with muzzles,
ano" we cannot wash large dogs."
Too badv that parental severity
broke up the dog laundry. It had
announced working l-curs "10 a. m.
to 5 p. m., on Saturdays," the studi- j
ous little girls' only holiday, all I
hours after school oil other week- j
days."
What a good example for govern- |
ment enterprises: the little girls real-<
lv meant to work to "groom and j
wash" the dogs, not merely stand J
around and collect the 30 cents.
Plucky little Holland and her wise
queen seem to have decided that the
1914 "war to end all wars" did not
finish its job. Holland went through
the big war safely, selling butter,
cheese, eggs, not disturbed, not making
any bad $10,000,000,000 loans.
Now Holland is buying 13 heavy
bombing planes in Baltimore, spend- j
ing $1,500,000 for the 13 and spend- j
ing many other millions for other
killing machinery.
That means work and wages in
Baltimore; it may mean poison gas
and death lor some of Holland's
neighbors.
Foreign countries read everything
said about them in America; not that
foreign countries care what Americans
think, or attach importance to
American opinion, as such, but
America has money, raw products, |
and governments that arc sometimes I
whimsical, changeable arid boyish. .
Europe.. Asia and Africa watch
with equal interest statements of
Americans that count and more nu
luciuua Americans uiat noat like
feathers in the air.
One simple-minded Russian pointed
with pride to the statement of a
clergyman in our Union Theological
seminary.
That gentleman. Rev. Charles C.
Webber, has a plan for a better government,
not based on the text about
rendering unto Caesar that which is
Caesar's. The big idea is to take
away what is Caesar's.
Eiglit hundred young people were
told by Reverend Webber: "God, who
is not content with things as they
are, is a revolutionary Being, constantly
seeking to make all things
new."
Rev. Webber, "Recognizing this,"
about God being a revolutionist, has
a plan to help God in His efforts;
a plan as simple as A, B, C. Capitalism,
he says, must be abolished. Rev.
Webber wants a planned and planning
social economy in the United States.
Under the Charles C. Webber plan,
people would own and manage such
things as industry and property; no j
money would De spent for war, and
youth would rule.
Those brought up with the oldfashioned
idea of God might ask Rev.
Webber, respectfully: "If God really
is a revolutionary 'constantly seeking
to make all things new,' why does
He not carry out His will and make
all things new' every few minutes?
Can it be thnt He needs the help of
Rev. Webber? Lenin and Stalin got
along without that help."
Alao arises this question: With
capitalism abolished, who would
build the churches, the Unio.t Theological
seminaries, and pay salaries to
Rev. Webbers for reading the mind of
the Divinity?
Dean Swift should have known Rev.
Webber when he wrote his tale of a
tub.
France calls Paris the "aerial port
of Europe," proudly. In America the
still prouder title "Chief Air Traffic
Port of the Whole World" is claimed
by Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego,
Chicago, Cleveland, and with a great
deal of reason by San Francisco and
Oakland, thanks to the magnificent
bay, and to the fact that the greatest
air line, running from America
to Asia, starts from that neighborhood.
REVIVAL MEETING
A revival meeting will begin at the
Three Porks Baptist Church Sunday
and will continue through the week.
The services are to be conducted by
the pastor. Rev. J. C. Canipe. Everybody
welcome.
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VOLUME XLVIII, NUMBER 5.
Drought Stricken Fai
Here are scenes as North Dakota di
lief work in constructing dams to si
Top picture shows former farmers
Lake dam near Bismarck, N. D. C
receiving their pay envelopes from
U. S. Biological Survey. Below. Hai
plctcd this last year and now the s<
tei
^INSURANCE
PAYMENTS HERE
Amount Received I.ast Year In
Boone Would Amount to
$11.50 Per Capita.
Residents of Boone received cash
life insurance payments In 1933
equivalent to $11.03 per capita, according
to an estimate made by The
Lincoln National Life Insurance
Company of Fort Wayne. Indiana.
Total payments to policyowners
and beneficiaries of Boone were $79,000
as reported in the Life Payments
number of The National Underwriter,
Arthur F. Hall, president of The Lincoln
National Life said. This amount
paid here included money paid to living
policyowners as well as paid to
beneficiaries as death claims. In 1935,
life insurance companies put $2,908,653,202
into circulation in the United
States and Canada, or in otiier words,
paid out money at the rate of approximately
1-3 of a million dollars
an hour.
Life insurance payments last year
exceeded the amount spent in the
same period by the Works Progress
Administration by $1,236,258,000. Life
payments for this State in 1935 were
$32,000,000.
NUMBER OF VETERANS IN
ATTENDANCE AT MEET
Quite a number of local World War
veterans attended the state convention
of the American Legion in Asheville
last week, at the close of which
Wiley M. Pickens of Lincolnton was
elected State Commander for the ensuing
year.
Walaugans in attendance included:
Coy I. Billings and wife, Vilas; T. A.
Weaver and wife. Blowing Rock; j
Roey I. Haynes and wife; L. D. Wood-!
ard and wife, C. W. Te^t) and wife;
R. L. Church. T VV. Norris, Lionel
Ward and wife, B. F. Williams, H.
Grady Farthing. Boone; R. L. Gentry,
Laxon. j
Former Countyman
Dies In Northwest
Belated information tells of the
death in Tacoma, Wash., on July 17th
of J. W. Harbin, native Wataugan,
who expired as a direct result of a
paralytic stroke, following an illness
with pneumonia. He was 68 years
old.
Funeral services and interment
were in Tacoma, and none of the details
are available.
Surviving is the widow, the former
Miss Alice Henson of Cove Greek,
and six children.
Mr. Harbin was the son of the late
Bill Harbin of the Cove Creek section
and had resided in Tacoma for
the past 33 years, where he had employment
with the city.
Mr. Richard Wagner, prominent
Stony Fork resident, was a business
visitor in town Tuesday. !
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Independent Weekly New
BOONE. WATAUGA COUN1
rmers Building Dams
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rought-stricken farmers turn to retore
up water tor future dry spells,
starting work as laborers on Long
enter photo, shows farmer-laborers
M. O. Steen, state director of the
ison Lake, near Linton, N. D.. com?urcc
of water for livestock in that
rritory.
FALL FROMTRUCK
RESULTS FATALLY
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Thomas Franklin Culler Dies In
Virginia Accident; Reared
In This County.
Thoma3 Franklin OuUor. 27-yearI
old son of Mr. Benjamin Caller of
the Zionville section, was almost instantly
killed when he fell from a motor
truck near Rustburg, Va . on the
25 th.
Mr. Culler, who worked for the
State Highway Department, was riding
back to his home from work,
i when the driver of the vehicle at|
tempted to pass another truck, ran
j off the pavement and struck a oonj
crete abutment. All the occupants of
| the truck were thrown out, and Mr.
j Culler's death took place within a few
j minutes.
j The funeral services was held at
the Beulali Baptist Church, of which
deceased v/as a member, and burial
took place at Fort Hill burial park.
Surviving is the widow, Mary
Isaacs Culler and the following brothI
ers and sisters: Emmet Culler, Ralph
I Culler, Mrs. Earl Parsons and Mrs.
Ben Grogan, all of near Lynchburg,
! Emory Culler of Afton. Tenn. Ever
ctt Culler and Mrs. Ottle Smith of
Zionville, N. C
Deceased was born in Watauga
County June 13, 1909, and was reared
; in this county. He had made his home
near Lynchburg, Va., however, for the
past eight years. He was known as
an affable young man of industrious
habits, and was a member of one of
the county's most substantial families.
KILLED IN CRASH
OF MOTORCYCLE]
I
i Richard Dyer, Formerly of Vallej
! Crucis Fatally Injured In
State of Washington.
Richard M. Dyer, 22 years old, native
Wataugan and youngest son or
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Dyer of Valle
1 Crucis, died in Mason City, Washington,
July 21st, from injuries received
in the cra; h f a motorcycle he was
riding. The elder Mr. Dyer, in Boone
Friday, had received telegraphic in-j
formation as to the fatal accident, 1
The parents survive as do a number
of brothers and si3ters.
Deceased was reared at Valle Crucis,
but had been in Washington for
the past two years, during part of
which time he had been engaged as
an orchardist in the apple-growing
belt. More recently he had employment
In connection with the construction
of the Coulee Dam. He was well
! known in his native county, where a
large number of friends will receive
j with deep regret the news of his
I tragic passing.
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spaper?Established in th
fY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURS1
DAVE LOOKABDLL
ENDS OWN LIFE
Body of Meat Camp Native Discovered
Suspended From
Rafter of Barn Shed.
The lifeless body of Dave Lookabili.
native Meat Camp citizen, was found
Sunday morning: suspended by a rope
from a rafter of the barn on the
Lookabili farm., three miles from
Abingdon, Virginia It was deduced
from examination of the body that
the suicide had taken place perhaps
the evening before An empty carbolic
acid bottle was found near the
scene of the self-destruction, and belief
was that suicide by poisoning had
been attempted. Ke was 50 years old.
No note or message of any kind |
was left to indicate tho nanco Fr??- '
suicide. Mr Lookabill. it :3 understood,
owned a good plantation in Virginia
and was succeeding well.
The body was returned to Meat
Camp, near Boone. Monday following
funeral services at Abingdon, interment
took place at Hopewell Church.
Deceased was reared in Watauga
county, a son of John Lookabill and
had been engaged in farming in Vir- {
ginia for the pa3t ten years. He had
become very popular in that section, .
and it was said that when news of
the tragedy spread throughout the
area, hundreds of people gathered at
the home to express their sympathies.
Mr. Lookabill was an honorable man,
diligent and successful, and leaves
many friends and a long line of relatives
in Watauga county.
JEFFERSON LADY
KILLED IN CRASH!
Mis. Kathcrine Reeves Duncan
Fatally Injured Near Raleigh
En Route to Beach.
Mrs. (Catherine Reeves Duncan,
member of one of the most prominent
v?cat jcuuiouii lauiuitra, wiu nuicu ;
and four other members of a party |
bound for a week-end at the beach, j
were seriously injured, when their
car overturned three miles west of
Raleigh late Saturday afternoon
Mrs. Duncan, the daughter of a
well-known West Jefferson physician,
and sister to Miss Ruth Reeves, publisher
of the Skyland Post died shortly
after reaching a capital city hospital.
The other members of the
party were taken there for treatment.
The injured:
Mrs. Allen E Grant, 43, Burlingj
ton, serious head injuries; Miss Lama
Taylor, Pilot Mountain, head injuries,
the extent of which had not
been determined; Miss Rosa Lee
Triplett, 29, of Burlington, crushed
pelvis; Jessamine Gant, four-yearold
daughter of Mrs. Gant, head
bruises.
Mrs. Gant's injuries were described
by hospital attaches as serious. a3
were those of Mrs. Triplett
Deputy Clyde Whitaker, who investigated
the accident, said Mrs. I
Gant apparently lost control of the
car which left the road and rolled"
over "three or four times."
A fractured skull and shock were
given as the causes of Mrs. Duncan's
death.
The Dartv was en route to More
head City for a week at the beach |
where they had rented a cottage. j
Redmond Gets Position '
1 Mr. Douglas Redmond, Appalachian
College graduate and for several
I years instructor in the Boone High
I School has accepted the position of
Educational Supervisor for the Civil|
ian Conservation Corps, and left for
Fort Bragg Saturday for preliminary
training, following which he will be
assigned to the supervisorship of'
some CCC camp in this area.
Mr. Redmond, besides his teaching
activities, has been recently connected
with the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. Many friends are congratulating
him upon his preferment.
RECORDER'S COURT
The following cases were disposed
of in Judge John H. Bingham's Recorder's
court Tuesday:
Reese Burkett. drunkenness; onehalf
the costs.
Jones Burkett, reckless driving; $5
j and the cost.
Grover Ward, larceny, $10 and oneI
half the costs.
Jess Greene, forgery; not bound.
Vance McGuire, carrying concealed
weapon; not guilty.
Emory Miller, manufacturing1 whiskey,
$10 and the coat. Robert Miller
and Emmet Miller, not guilty.
J. E. Hicks, carrying concealed
weapon, not g .ilty; drunkennes, $101
and the coats.
Greene Horton, drunkenness, sua- i
pended sentence of 30 days invoked. I
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Year Eighteen Eighty-E^
DAY, AUGUST 6, 1936.
NAMES CHAIRMAN
KEPKBSENTATIVE DOVOUTON
DOUGHTON VISITS
BOONESATURDAY
!
Congressman Announces Ap- j'
pointmcnt of District Chair- 1
man; Campaign to Be Active.
R. C. Propsl, prominent Kannapoiis
business man. has been named
Chairman of the Democratic Congres- .
sional Committee for the ninth district
and wilt be in active command of
the campaign for the re-election of
Congressman Robert L. Doughtor.
The appointment was announced bj'
the State Committee and made upon
the recommendation of Mr. Doughton.
Mr. VV B Austin, one of the leading
Democratic figures of the northwest
and Jefferson attorney is Secretary
of the District organization.
Mr. Dough ton, while in town Saturday,
mixing with friends and view
mg the political situation, stated that
he felt most fortunate in having secured
the services of Mr. Propst as
district chairman, whom he regards
as particularly able as a citizen and
political leader.
The veteran Congressman stated
that a close-knit organization will be
formed throughout his district, and a
most active campaign waged, with
the idea of amassing the largest Democratic
majority ever rolled up iu the
ninth.
Mr. Dough ton went on to Washington
Sunday, where he spent the first
of the week on govenmentai business.
SHERIFF REPORTS
STILL SEIZURES
Howell Makes Report Of Activities;
One Distillery Per Week
Being Taken.
Five moonshine stills and five men
charged with illicit manufacture of
sugar head, have been taken into custody
by Sheriff Howell during the
oast five weeks. Aff.pr ?n oii_nior>?* .
raid five prisoners were brought in
Sunday morning from the Pottertown
section, charged with violation of the
prohibition laws, drunkenness and assault
with deadly weapon.
The sheriff reports an unusually active
week end. Sixteen, he says, were
registered at the "Cross Bar Hotel,"
and several succeeded in making bail.
Five of the prisoners were charged
with assaults with deadly weapons;
three for dry law violations, and the
remainder for public drunkenness.
Last Wednesday a distillery was
seized on the headwaters of Elk below
Bamboo, it being the only plant
of the kind taken in that territory
for about four years. One hundred
and twenty gallons of beer was destroyed
and three men were held.
Sheriff Howell states that sixtyeight
stills have been seized and
thirty-eight men captured in connection
with their operation since he has
been In office.
JOHN GREER INJURED
WHEN FELLED BY TRUCK
Accidentally struck by a backing
irucK, as he pursued his duties of
Highway Maintenance Supervisor,
John Greer of Boone, suffered severe
lacerations of the arms and legs, together
with a fractured rib. The accident
occurred Monday afternoon
and following treatment at the Hagaman
Clinic Mr. Greer was able to return
to hi3 home, where he will spend
a few days recovering from his injuries
before returning to his work.
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ADRIANS WILL
SE&T COUNTYS
BLft TEST F ARM
County Collins Invites
Farmers On Tour to Various
Demonstration Farms In Watauga;
Results of Trip to Determine
Most Successful.
(By \V. R. Collin*. County Agent)
We axe inviting ail the farmers in
Watauga County to join in a tour of
nspection of the demonstration
'arms in -each township to observe the
farm practices carried out by these
farmers and to select the best dem>nstration
farms in each township.
Alien these town3hip inspection tours
ire completed, we will inspect the
jest demonstration farms in each
township, to select the best demonstration
farm in the County. The
farmers who make the township and
county tours will select the best demonstration
farms.
The following is a schedule of the
time and places at which we will
meet to begin these tours:
Blue Ridge Township will meet at
Stacy Ford's farm on Wednesday,
August 12 at 8:00 a. m.; Stony Fork
Township will meet at Deep Gap Post
Office on Wednesday, August 12 at
1:00 p. m.: Meat Camp township will
meet at Green Valley School on
Thursday, August 13 at 8:00 a. m.;
Cald Mountain Township will meet at
Todd, Post Office on Friday, August
14 at 8:00 a m.; Shawneehaw Township
will meet at Matncy School on
Saturday. August 15 at 8:00 a. m.;
Boone Township will meet at the
Courthouse at Boone on Monday,
August 17 at 8:00 a. in,; Beaver Dam
Township will meet at Donly Hagaman's
store on Thursday. August 20
at 8:00 a. m.; Beaver Dam Township
will also meet at Clyde Perry's store
on Friday, August 21, at 8:00 a. m.;
Laurel Greek Township will meet at
Victor Ward's store on Saturday.
August 22 at 8:00 a. 111.; Watauga
Township will meet at Shulls Mil la on
Monday. August 24 at 8:00 a. m.
Brushy Fork watershed demonstration
farmers will meet at Vilas on
Tuesday, August 25 at 8:00 a. iu.
After the best demonstration farmer
has been selected in the different
townships and in the watershed, the
following meetings will be held for
inspecting these demonstration farms
to determine the best demonstration
farm in the county.
We will meet at the courthouse at
Boone on Wednesday, August 26 to
inspect the best demonstration farms
in the eastern half of the county.
We will meet at Cove Creek High
School on Thursday, August 27 to inspect
the best demonstration farms in
the western half of the county.
We hope that a large number of
farmers of Watauga County will avail
themselves of this opportunity to viai*
these demonstration farms in their
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LUYVIUUI4^JtJ ILi 4V4 VV V &i91t UiC 'JUO L U&lll
onstration farms in Watauga County
Earl Blackburn Gets
Serious Knife Wounds
Earl Blackburn is a patient at a
North Wilkesboro hospital, where he
was taken the first of the week suffering
from severe knife wounds, said
to have been inflicted by Dean
Adams, a brother-in-law, as they engaged
in an affray near the home of
Mr. R. S. Swift. The most serious
stab was in the back, it was said, the
incision reaching just below the left
iung. Another less serious wound ts
on the head.
It is believed, that unless complications
develop, Mr. Blackburn should
recover rapidly, although his condition
had been considered critical.
Young Mr. Adams is in jail, it is
reported, without privilege of bail,
pending the outcome of Blackburn's
injureis. The cause of the altercation
has not been learned, and it is
stated that the young men had hitherto
enjoyed amicable relationships.
To Offer Ray Lands
At Public Auction
Mr. S. C. Eggers, local realtor, has
closed a deal whereby he will offer
for sale at public auction at a date
to be decided later, 36 acres of the
farm of Misses Sallie and Lelia Ray,
' extending between the new highway
east of Perkinsvflle and the old road
: down the river. The property will be
divided into SO choice lota, and will
constitute a beautiful addition to the
town.
Mr. Eggers also tells of the sale
of a five-room house In the Stanbury
addition to Mrs. Louise Hodges Aldridge,
while the Stanbury old home
place has been sold by him to Bernard
Dougherty and Rev. O. L.
Brown. In turn, it was rented to
Mr. G. H. Ballards of Falls Church,
Va., for the coming school term.