615 ENROLLED 1 AT COVE CREEK :nc i During First Month ' t School Term Perfect Attendance Roll Cove Creek high and j lory schools enrolled G1C? .students { ftthe first month of the term. | : V'rinc.'paa S. F. Hortcn reports a aUend&iice of 96 4 per i for '.he period. There are 2YS J h -i school pupils and 337 in the ry grades. Following is the perfect attend- I at e record for the first month: First Grade C!ir.t Byc-rs. Robert Earp, Billy j Harmon. Paul Sheppard, Millard j Tr "veil. Helen Deal, Maude Morris, j Ruth Church, AlUe Iiicks. Betty Ma; \ Hers on. Mamie I>3!.s Harmon. Ruth j Is?5?cs, -Merie Johnson. Dora . j Gladys Parker. DoUie Lou j Jack Campbell. Max Fox. j Cavlcch Greene, Curtis Johr.so.i, j Boh'r.y Mast Carson Perry. Johtany . T?? t ? x-*- %-* i i'.-wu, .'tailwuru, jjamon \\ :nebarger. Swond Grade Marie Combs. Iva Jean II arm oil, P.iniine Presneii, Billy Pro/lit, lino- j gene Campbell, Louise Greer, Joyce j Hon. Evelyn Hicks, Sniah John s . Anor M.inton, Elaine Moretz, Nx'.iUc Parker, Joy Ward, Hubert Bingham. Jack. Bingham, D. T. Eic.-wn, Raymond Earp, El wood Henscn. Lonnie Johnson, Jimmic Masl. Jr.. John J. Bingham. I Third Grade Burl Elliott, Willis Farthing, Eu- . gen.? Fox. MaeDonaid Greene, How- j ani Greene, Barrac Hayes, Buster I McGuirc, Richard Miriton, W. T. ; Payne. Jr.. Billy Sheffield. Dean Wil- i son, Clinard Ward, Margie Bradley, ! Alice Byers, Nannie Helen Greene, j Frances Harmon, Lena Mac Isaacs. ] Josephine Main, Betty Jo Miller, Ruby BhulJ, Nell Ward. Fourth Grade Mary Ann Bingham, Raymond Harmon, Louise Parker, Anna Mae! Perry, E. B. Fox, Lena Mae Fletcher, Leo Mast, Robert McGuire, Carline Isaacs, Harriet Collins, Kyle Warren, Lillian Edmisten, Robert Atkins, Sarah Swift, Omer Swift, Mario Baird, Mack Banner, Barbara Sue farthing, Rose Edna Billings. Betty Bingham, Hazel Prcsnell, Virginia Dare Miller. Dean Henson. Tav ior Mast, Blanche Elliott. Edward Campbell, Frances Byers, Taylor Horton, Clara Mae Shepherd, Rom Isaacs, Eat! Norris, Billy Stokes. Paul Greene, .James McConnel! Fifth Grade Judgv Adams, Funnan Billings, Jimmy Billings, Billy Billings, Ted Eller. Claude Harmon, Robt. Hodges. Dean Testnr, Mary Martha Bingham, Josephine Brown, Juanita Greer, Pearl Hayes, Betty Henson, Gertrude Henson, Edna Isaacs, Virginia Ward. Sixth Grade Grace Banner. Faye Greer, Dare Henson, Ruby Hicks, Beuloh Johnson, Louise McConneli, Jewel lifest, Nora Miller, Jewel Perry, Christine Sheffield, Wilmetta Ward, Luther Bingham, Paul Brown, Billit Harmon, Gene Harmon, Marshall Johnsen, F'ari Ward, John Bingham, Gordon Bingham, Howard Coles, Evcrotte Tester, Soplironia Banner, Joyce Collins, Mary Lee Dctson. Doris Fletcher, Juanita Grass, Lor a Greene, Mattie Louise Graham, lva Deane Mast, Clora Morris. Caonnth .1 OCtClllil UlttUC Inrs Byers, Gcraidinc Bingham. Elsie Greene, Louise Greene, Mary Ruth Greene. Helen Hicks, Mildred Hayes, Lola Miller, Virginia Hollers, Dorothy Mast, Carleen Mast. Elizabeth Mast, Betty Jane Proffit, Margie Lee Palmer, Bonita Rominger, Blanche Trivett, Robert Bingham, Billy Greene, Billie Henson, Tom Hartley, J. V, Miller, Fred Perry, Foy Parker, DeRn Swift, Arliss Shuli, Cap Ward, Payne Ward, Lewis Wilson, Ray Harmon. Eighth Grade Bennie Baird, Carrol Baird, Dar-1 i ol Baird, Robert Banner, Mlurl j Buingarner, Carlton Cole, Gilbert! Edminsten, R. D. Edmisten, Doug- j las Glovier, Mack Greene, Dwighl Hayes, Robert Hayes, Thomas Holloway, Joe Horton, Cecil May, Albert Moody, John Presnell, Alfred Rominger, Barton Sutherland, M. L, Warren, Edward Wilson, Ross Wlnebarger, Dexter Yates, Clyde Your.cc, fBerla Snow Aldridfge, Josephine Banner, Annie Bingham, Maxine Bradley, Lennis Brown, Geneval Cannon, Betty Collins, Carolyn Combs, Ethel Cook, Eileen Crocker, Ruth Davis, Annie Lee Eggers, Iva Lee Greene, Nora Hayes, Ivaiee Henson, Ruth Hodges, Louise Isaacs, Louise Lewis, Mrytle Love, Virginia Love, Zadie iucuuiic, cjuii.ii mciiuire, .vi my sue Michael, Rebecca Moore, Theo Oliver, Hattie Perry, Lady Bird Presnell, Mae Rominger, Margaret Stansbury, Mae Belle' Thomas, Ada Townsend, Ella Mac Wallace, Dorothy Welch. Ninth Grade Harold Mlast, John Shepherd, Ephriam Fox. Berl N. Greene, Carl Anderson, Elmer Fox. Gray Presncll, Robert Brooks, Hade Smith, David Love, Lee Watson, Buster Henson, Ronald Rominger, Clay Baird, Blaine Fletcher, Everett May, Henry Johnson, Worth Wilson, Berl Thomas, Ruby Adklns, Elizabeth Bingham, Ruby Bingham, Billie Brown, Marjcrie Baird, Dare Caudill, Virginia Banner, Ella Greer,, Minnie Dare (Continued on page four) m i WAT An In VOL. XLIX. NO. 12 j J 1~' V v } ; i own i sonors ' .oker Tripi^ on Retiffn ; I | | Colivr Triplett, lloone hoy, j! .v : ><* .p his purchase1 hy the One::- tj : 3 Gu:>s For sum said to he In ! of $30,000. has returned to ; Snow and will remain with his roily here during the \yjuQti*r. Young Triplett was honored Thursday afternoon by a parade, headed by the local fire depart- j i nt and participated iii by a number of business men and base- ! ball fans of the cotiairnmitv. The rs carried banners v/eicomin^ i tire diamond st^r, and Triplet^ :e- cordially greeted and congvruled by almost hundreds or i rend: in fhe community and ( county. REVIVAL MEETING AT FIRST BAPTIST !] Rev. Wayne Williams Delivering Sermon? Interest ii? Meeting is Growing The revival meeting at the First < Baptist church is in progress this j week, with Rev. Wayne W. Williams P of Otecn, doing: the preaching;, and ' Miss Giacia Halstead, of Oklahoma s City, giving her famous chalk talks. The crowds arc increasing at each ' service and the interest is growing. 1 The meeting will continue for several ' days. Rev. Mr. Williams is chaplain at ' Oteen World War Veterans hospital : Tills is the greatest hospital of its i kind in the world, with 875 beds for i patients. Chaplain Williams has 1 had some wonderful experiences in dealing with the sick and dying and ' he brings the Gospel of love and hope to human hearts Miss Halstead has given her famous chalk talks in colors to the 1 leading churches of Lhe Southern 1 Baptist convention. It is a rare opportunity for the people of Boone and surrounding country to hear and see an artist skilled in the fine i art of making Jesus and His love 1 real to ear ana eye. Rev. Mr. Canipe, the pastor, announces that the services will continue Tor several days at 3:30 and 7:30 each afternoon and night, and that the people are invited to conic with tile entire family. Something interesting and inviting for each j1 member of the family. WATAUGA FAIR IS most srirrESSFiii. *'* v a ^ v/ v/jui Annual Agricultural Fair at Cove Creek Largely Attended; Many Exhibits The Watauga county agricultural fair held at Sugar Grove September 23, 24 and 25, is said by is sponsors to have been the most successful since the conception of the institution several years ago. The farm and home exhibits were better and more varied than ever before, the livestock show was most outstanding both in number and quality of an mals exhibited, and intense interest was shown by farmers and business men throughout the county. Local farmers are becoming : particularly interested in purebred livestock as evidenced by the large number of thoroughbred animals shown. ' The livestock show as a whole was probably one of the most outstanding exhibits to be presented by any county fair in the state. It was the opinion of several livestock specialists, including Mr. L. I. Case, state extension specialist in animal husbandry, and Mr . Paul Fletcher, state marketing specialist, that the exhibition of Hereford cattle was the largest in the state. A large part of the credit for such an fVPAllppf PfprAfAPrl ohrtttr arnoo frv +Vir> 4-H Club boys of the county. County agents and home demonstration agents from several surrounding counties say that the fair this year was one of the largest and best county fairs in the state, and if interest continues to increase, it is predicted that Watauga county will soon have a fair of which all of Western North Carolina will be proud. A complete ii3t of prize-winners will be published in next week's issue of The Democrat. GREENE INFANT DIES An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wood row Greene, of Meat Camp, died Thursday, and funeral services were conducted from the home by Rev. J. C. Canipe of Boone. Interjment was in the Meat Camp cemeItery. AUG, dependent Weekly Newsp BOONE, WATAUGA COUN BLAINE COFFEY IS ACQUITTED ON MURDER CHARGE Former Representative anil MeJvina Dillinger Gain Freedom From Court in Fatal Shooting; Dillard Coffey Draws ! Ten Years in Pea Blaine Coffey, of Shells fife, twice a representative of Watauga bounty in the legislature, gained his freedom in Judge Will Plcss* Su- i perior court last week, haying bee;; I tic Id in jail here since the spring ! terra on a charge of being ars accomplice in the slaying of Raymond DilJiager. Melvjma Dillinger. wife of ihe 'fain man, who waalso held in rbimection v/itli the shooting, was i 'nsr-'i:;fgcv: by th<> court. v/hiJe I>il- I Goffcy confessed to the second | 'o;zree slaying" of Dillingcr and was | jiveh a term of 10 years in the .state : _ prison. Court, adjourned Friday noon, aft- j ?r completing one of the heaviest. ; lockets of recent years, and follow- ] ng are the judgments, with the exzc-ption of those which were publish- : Hi in The Democrat last week : Conlcy Woodring, manufacturing j vhiskey, 4 months sentence suspen- , led on payment of the. cost. Wade J. Friesland, driving drunk, >75 and the cost. Dan Rimer, Edna Oliver and Dee Adams, larceny; Rimer, 8 honths in jail: Oliver 4 months and Adams 4 months. Tom Bumgarner, violation prohi- j bition laws, 12 months suspended ! sentence of last court term placed j in effect. Defendant was given an idditional 12 months, suspended for five years. F. T. Friday, carrying concealed j tveapon, 60 days on roads. Vern Phillips, larceny, G months suspended on payment of cost. H. D. Breece, "skipping" board bill, prayer for judgment continued for two years on payment of claim. T.onov UT?Arlo ~ i ?? wuo, VAIL 1 y ill6 uuuucaicu weapon, assault with deadly weapon, driving' drunk, disturbing public ! gathering:, ?0 days oil roads; 4 months suspended oil payment or j 5100 (unpaid Wednesday); 12 i] months, suspended 3 years during ; good behavior. Dean Yates, assault with deadly I weapon, carrying concealed weapon, resisting arrest, 8 months on roads. Another 12 months' sentence suspended for 5 years. Sam Woodruff, Virginian, charged with larceny, was sentenced Thurs- . flay to 12 months, the capias to i3sue | after twenty-four hours. Judge Fless gave Che defendant a dollar to help him on his way home. D D. Stanbury, violating prohibition law. 6 months on roads. Claude Payne, manufacturing whiskey. S.'iO and the cost. George Coimett, breaking' and entering. 12 months sentence suspended at last term of court placed in effect. Don Isaacs, forcihle trespass, mistrial. Solicitor took nol pros. Ed Shomnke, driving drunk, 4 | months on roads. Joe Jestes. assault with deadly weapon, fined one dollar. Chas. Walker, Curtis Miller, Roscoe Brown, attempted forgery. 6 months sentence suspended on payment of cost. Marshal Foster, public drunkenness. 30 days suspended on pavmcnt i of $25. Just before the adjournment of I court. Judge Pless signed a decree ! giving Mae Potts a divorce from J. : M. PoTts J Potato Growers For Potato Control Act Watauga county potato growers voted 127 to 1 in favor of having Irish potatoes as a basic commodity crop to be included in the 1938 soil conservation program, in a 'county-wide referendum which closed Saturday. Wayne county, incidentally voted 128 to 2 on the proposal. Says R E A is Lines in Wal Mux C. Wilson, attorney for the j Caldwell Mutual Corporation, has j announced that the rural electri- I fi rati on group would proceed with construction of rural power lines j in Watauga county In the near i future, under a ^uvrnunmt allotment, which is expected to be made shortly. The eo-operativc, established under the REA, expects to build 200 miles of rural power lines in Watauga, it is revealed, citizens aper?Establish^ in th< nr. NORTH CAR^^A, THl' New York Fetes Now York City?Stephen ( \. mend Keliy, HefroH, >(ljnh)gau, Mass., (ri*'ht), who was last wool American Legion. Voters Favoi SeawelFs Ad1 SEAVVELLS TELEGRAM Katcigh, N. C., Sept. 27. VV. H. Gragg, Mayor, Boone, N. C. On account statutory exception from chapter four, ('onsolidato;! Statutes relating to recorder's courts, Boone is not authorized to establish a municipal recorder's court. A. A. F. SEAWEIX, Attorney General, At press time The Democrat learns that there is a wide difference in legal opinion here on the question of the attorney general's advices, and that his office is malting a more comnletc examl nation of the statutes regarding tho establishment of the city recorder's court. It Is stated thut there is a strong likelihood of Mr. Seawcll reversing himself on the question. TOENTOTSBS HERE ON M0NDA1 Several Lots Expected to Be O] fcred for Proposed NewFederal Building Sealed proposals, offering proper! to the government for the new fe< cral building in Boone, will be ppiei ed publicly in the office of Postma lei VV. G. Hartzog next Mor.ti? morning. It is believed that perhaps i many as ten property owners in t) town will offer a building site, a cording to the advertisement post< in the postoffice and published The Democrat today. Mr. Hartzt Will furnish anvone interested making: a bid with the necessai forms. Mrs. Julia Castle Passes on Thursda Mrs. Julia E. Castle. 77-year-o residence of Blowing Rock Route died at the home last Thursda after a long illness. Funeral services were conduct from Friendship Methodist chur on Saturday morning. Rev. \ Woods preaching the sermon, and i tennent was in the neighborii cemetery. Surviving are one son and thr daughters: W. B Castle. Mary Castle, Cordia Castle, and Ar Castle, all of Blowing Rock T* brothers also survive, Watson M? ney. Mountain City, Tenn. and Jo B. Matney, of Matncy, N. C. . J _ - A i u> construe tauga Count: i here* having petitioned the Cali well group for the extension of it linos. several weeks ago. Construction is being rushed, o the Caldwell project as rapidly a possible with a view to energriaun ii'.l the. lines Within CO daj-s. The; are $20 miles of service lines i that county. The co-operative has enterc into a contract with the Duke Pov er CcHupany for current at whok sale rates. u \ , ? m am% m mmmhepmb 2 \ - Eighree \ Eighty-Lij |RSPAY.S. :;;I: y " 1 ; 'i :rn, A elei'tv'-ii putioii -1 . 1 * Towi| Coiirt; verse Opinion . " Attorney General Believes Statute Precludes Establishment ! of Court; Opinion May Be ! Changed, Attorneys Think; Majority of G3 Votes of Over j 300 I More than three hundred 'citizens of the town turned out last Friday to register theii opinion at the ballot box on the city recorders court proposal, and while those seeking to establish the inferior court marked up a majority of 63 votes. Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell has apparently rendered the election null and void by stating that under the statutf Boone is not. authorized to es ' tablish the court. _! j While the city council has no1 ~ j been in session since the receipt o: tile telegram fron\ Raleigh, the in dividual opinions of the members o: fthe board indicate that lliere will b< : no attempt to establish tile court h i the face of the legal opinion Thi matter, however, will be official!; p.; acted upon and read into the min ntes at the regular meeting Frida; ; evening. 1 Sinee ihe recorder's court becam | an issue Severn! weeks ago. it hai -y 1 been freely predicted that only ; 1- handful of ballots would be east, bu a- when election day arrived interes . rapidly developed and the spirite vfctlng in the afternoon reminde onlookers of a political election. Wat j.erragg, mayor of U10 tovV.t, wa is among the first to voice an objec 10 i tion to the proposal and in the Ope c Forum of The Democrat toda "clarifies" his position in the mat "l ter. Many others shared the belie in held by the mayor, but at the last appeared that the weight of publi bl | opinion was on the other side of th ry issue. The act under which the electio was called, it is understood, provide for the establishment of the courl over the state, but an exception i y ; the statute eliminated this count j from participation A number < ,(1 1 people of the town have for soar j | tune believed a lower court with ii ,' creased jurisdiction was necessai ' * and the matter of establishing anotl j er one in the county was recent! taken up with the board of count [r commissioners who refused the r. quest. ^ J Proponents of the court plan sta '? ed that the court was self-financin; ee would subsist on the costs ievif L and that there would be no burde ' on the taxpayers. They further ooi vo Itended thai justice would be facil ' tated and that a more complete ei ^ I forceinent of the law would resul 1 Others believed that directly or i: i directly the taxpayers would fe the burden of the tribunal and citt tthe small superior court dockets i evidence that the court ii not neede ^ Cars Are Demolished In Head-on Collisio i is An automobile occupied by M and Mrs. Bob Norris, Mr. and Mi n Everett Drum, of Hickory, and 01 w ; driven by Mr. Wm. Sherrili, of Trou K : man, collided head-on at the sha: f j pjwoT>_A.lclfl in Jail On Charge of Firing Fatal Shot ?s fir others-in-law Quarxehni: S.H; ,-iirtg Occurred on Yonalilc-.sce fti;;hwn\ Horsel Hodges, 30 years old, ! a resident of the Adarrss eoras nfunify. met instant death Tuesiday after noon when a .shotgun lailesedlv held he -1e law. Spencer ITcnder.sor-, was lived point-blank into the reg on ol the heart, j The tragedy occurred on the Yonsahiossee road in tht Sandy Flat .neighborhood of the county, as Henderson and Hodges wer.' on a squirfel hunting expedition. Such reports as arc available indicate that a standing oar i nched the highway i to the truck in which they w r ! riding ar.d thai Hodges look a shotgun from the vehicle, for the purpose of attacking the occupants of the other machine. He is said to have returned to the truck, stating that he ha?i the. wrong guage shells ifor the weapon, whereupon Henderson states he remonstrated with his kinsman, and tiiey proceeded on their journey. An argument ensued. however, the truck was stopped and, according to the accused, i Hodges advanced upon him with a ;rock taken from the roadway, and | Henderson fired the shot from a 28 iguage shotgun, which entered the ; heart and brought instant death. The load is said to have cut through I the left forearm, as if that member ' :had been in a protecting position I when the shot was fired. | Henderson gave himself up to Chief I of Police Fred Hatiey of Blowing " iRock, who in company with Chief IS. D. Oilis of Boone brought the ^ jprisoner to the county jail. Coroner {Richard Kclley was present at the ' ; scene of the homicide and held an " i inquest, which resulted in Homieri (son's incarceration. r.' * j A* MJtcjrtw itwaj | Funeral services for the deceased arc to be held Wednesday afternoon L from the Oak Grove Baptist church . f near Boone by the pastor, Rev. F. C. - Watts, and interment will be in the L Xline cemetery. 1 Young* Mr. Hodges was a son of 1 Mr and Mrs. James Hodges of Ad jams, and was reared in this comf jmunity. where he was popular with - jmany friends. formerly was env jg-aged in the taxi business in Boone. worked for a long time for the i Wright Liumber Co., here and at the * time of his death was engaged at ' the. Cone Orchards, it is said. t j Sin vicing are the parents, the 1 1 widow and one small child. d j t j Perry Greene Dies At Fleetwood Home n y Perry Greene, 18 years old, a _ nephew of Mr. R. Greene oi .f Boone, died at the home at Fleetit wood, Ashe county. Sunday from inc fahtile paralysis, having been a vice tim of the disease for the past 15 years. n Funeral services were conducted d j Wednesday from the Laurel Springs .s j Baptist church in this county, by n jllev. Mr. Winkler, and interment y | was there, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. jf ; Greene a Item d the funeral. ,e j Surviving- ate the parents, Mr. and ? v- [Mrs. J. C. Greene, three brothers and ' y 1 two sisters: J. C., Herbert and Kerj. mit, Fleetwood: Miss Lucy Greene y and Mrs. Bertie Blackburn of Washy ington. D. G: t jLadv Suffers Injury s- In Automobile Crash id in ? n. Miss Ruby Bryant suffered a j_ broken arm, together with minor injuries, when the automobile in which she was riding turned over on ' che Jefferson highway in the Meat el Camp section Sunday. She was >(1 taken to the Banner Elk hospital for treatment. rl Jesse Walker, who it is claimed was driving the car, was arrested for driving while intoxicated. Mr. Walker, however, it is understood, states jj that he was not at the wheel when ; the accident occurred. Ta MILLER BABY ae An infant, 'the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clint Miller, of Meat Camp, rp succumbed Fiiday. Interment was ,g- in Proffit Grove cemetery. " ' TO SPEAK AT HOMECOSOXG ly Attorney \V. B. Austin of Jefferson will deliver the alumni adutcu id at Appalachian's homecoming October 9, it was learned Wednesday.. fit