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PAGE FOUR The Watauga Democrat ! The RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY Established in 188S and Published for I *5 years by the late Robert C. Rivers , PUBLJSUED EVERY THURSDAY | SURSCRIPTON RATES: | One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 FOur Months .50 (Payable in Advance) R. C. RIVERS. Jr . - Publisher j Cards ol Thanks, Resolutions of Re- j pect, Obituaries, etc., are charged for at the regular advertising rates. | I Entered at the Pos toff ice at Boone. N. C.. as Secorvi C3asa Mail Matter. THURSDAY. JU1,Y 28, 193.S WELCOME The Democrat welcomes the ' county superintendents anctj, their families to the community. ; It is indeed a rare privilege for the city to be host to the educational leaders of the state. That your stay here may be enjoyable to the fullest extent is our sincere wish. Borrowed Comment I , THE MFANTNG TO N. i\ OF THE J SCENIC HIGHWAY f Charlotte Observer) North Carolina is stiU largely alsleep as to the ultimate meaning of the building of the scenic highway across the peak of its mountains, and, 1 for that matter, few even so much as crudely realize what is now going on toward the culmination of this project. The asset of this great highway to the state will be turned to dollarsand-cents account in terms of multiple millions once it becomes the nation's No 1 boulevard for pleasure trips by the people est the entire country. The tourist of Am erica is Every year 50.000.000 Americans take vacation trips. 42,000.000 by motor, the rest by rail, ship, plane or bus. Each spends an average of $100 which is divided thus: retail stores 523; transportation twhich includes gas, oil, tires and repairs to car) gels S20; hotels and overnight camps $20: food 521; amusements $8, and the last $6 is deoited to "refreshments." The tourist trade. The Commentator finds, is worth more to Maine than her potatoes: California's Sunkist oranges do not approach its value. Ir Michigan the motor industry alone tops tourists spendings. while Florida could hardly exist without it. To Canada the American visitors?some 1?,000.000 of them yearly?-is worth over twice as much as her entire, gold production. North Carolina's share in this five billion business is estimated this year to represent $50,000,000. And if this is a fair appraisal of what the state is now reaping from | the inflow of tourists tc its mountain and seashore resorts, what may it not become once this beautiful ooulevard fascinates the national imagination and lures ten times as many visitors as now trek into this state of versaile beauties and attractiveness ? TROOP 41 CAMPS OCT On July 10th. Troop 41 spent the night on Grandfather Mountain. We arrived at camp about 3 p. m., and set up our tents and began to prepare our evening meal Hunters' stew was our main dish, with roasted bananas for dessert. After dinner we hiked on top of Grandpap^py's nose where we could fret a beautiful view of the surrounding country. For breakfast we had prunes and eggs on toast. We enjoyed everything or. the trip except the gnats and mosquitoes. This week-end we are planning on another overnight hike All hoys are ready to go?but we don't know where. Scoutmaster E. W. Stailings is making big plans but the camp 3ite is a deep secret. We will leave Boone at 1:30 p. m. Sunday and return at 8:30 a. m. Monday. If you like to swim, be there with your bathing suit. If you like to fish, take your fishing tackle. If you are on a diet, stay away.?Reported. WATCHING LEAF MARKETS Farmers, warehousemen and business men are watching closely the opening of tobacco markets to see the effect of the new AAA program and adverse weather conditions on prices. 'North Carolina farmers will get their first chance to offer this year's crop when the Border Beit warehouses open August 4. A baseball can be thrown from the -pitcher's mound to home plate in | about two-fifths of a second by a speedy pitch re. yjfS W A OPEN FORUM !? I K Readers are Invited to contribute | to this department. Profit may bo j derived from these Setters. Name lc of writer must accompany all man- u. uscript and brevity is urged. ..j et SAYS TOWNSED PLAN WILL J CURL THE NATION S ILLS T' a Editor Watauga Democrat: J It was the writer's pleasure to visit er in your beautiful little city and conn- yj ty on the 3rd and 4 th of July, and yj from my personal observations after j| talking to a number of your citizens, ti I find that recovery is badly needed j< there, as everywhere else X have j< been. v< It seems to m<e; if there ever was P a time . that time is now when the si people of every community and state pi should do something about bringing w back recovery. This can only be done se through legislation. And after pa- fr tiently waiting for more than fifty jd years, depending: upon one or the oth- se er of the two major parties to s?^*e P* as from the machine age. and the ex- r' ploitation of international financiers, ^ who have been controlling our na- ? tiona! congress year after year until today every one is more or less jjiv- -v< ing and acting' under political bond- ;n ige. only a few are in control, and we '1] the citizens of the greatest nation on ^ earth continue to allow the few to .* control everything?. Facing facts, does it not seem ? family to you that we should have j twenty-five million people out of j ^ employment, eighteen million of | 1 which is now living on the taxpayers' j money with a demand, and a market, j for billions of dollars of American j products and service and no money j to buy with? The only answer, and cure for all : w our ills, is found in the Townsend | cc recovery bill, known as H R. 4199. j introduced before the congress of U\ 1937 by Representative Crosby of "I Pennsylvania. When you study it and understand it, you will clearly see how this bill will spread a blanket over all the j'ls of our nation' when it is enacted into law I am the national representative of the Town send Recovery' Plan for North Carolina My headquarters Sincerely yours. I GRANT LOVE. j;Jl Salisbury. N C 1M r. S. For further information ant! Inl literature, inquire of John H. Binp- i ham. So '-ar Grove. \ C |tC SCHOOLS OF THE 1880 s jpl Editor Watauga Democrat: or Having seen the picture of Shepard Monroe Duggar in the 50th an- et niversary issue of The Democrat re w minded me of the first public school in I ever attended, so 1 decided to ten your readers about this r/diool and b\ schor.lhouse. The house in Jphich this tx school was taught was a log house about 16 by 20 feet, situated on the pi bank of Riddles Fork creek, on prop- re erty then owned by Mr. John H. Norris, who now resides in Boone, and 1 g; believe the oldest citizen of your n< town. There was a. rock chimney hi with a large fireplace at the north m end of the house with a small win- tl dew on each side of the chimney. The depr was on the west side ami one t\ log had been removed from the south ei end of thn inrl 5r\ ?!<>?? I:? - - ? - .?..V4 in no pjaut III was a row of window glass SxlO inches. On the inside just undpr hi this glass was a wide board used as h< ?_ writing desk, and all who were fortunate enough to obtain writing a .paper learned to write here, as goose oi quills and poke berries were very c) plentiful in those days. Those not so fortunate as to nave paper used i ui their slate and pencil as they were pi used in those days instead of pen or nt pencil and tablet as riow. The floor was either dirt or slabs. ? Webster's Blueback speller was the ? principal book U3ed by most of the students. There were a few readers and some of the larger students had a grammar and Rays & Davies arithmetic. The school term was then two or two and a half months in duration and taught in the winter. Our teacher kept telling us he was expecting the county superintendent to visit the schooi and asked us to be very good when he came. We were all very anxious to see him as this was the first superintendent Watauga ever had. One day a stranger | came and he proved to be the ex- j peeled superintendent, Shepard M. Dugger. He spent some time at the school talking with the teacher and to the students. It so happened that our teacher could not hear very well and Mr. Ihigger decided it best to dismiss him and procure another teacner to Irniah the school, which he did. Most of the students who attended that school have passed away. Noah Winebarger of Meat Camp, Wade Ragan of Todd, Jonas Winebarger, who resides somewhere in Tennessee, and myself are all the students now living who attended tt>at school as far as I ran recall. Some of those who have passed on are Marshal J^abon Winebarger. W. N. Ragan. Eugene E. Spencer and Thomas C. Blackburn. I fohgot to mention Uie kind of scats we had in this house. . TAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVERY icy weif made from Jog? twelve fifteen inches, ir diameter split >en in the middle and four holes >red in them in which were inserted oCH.lcn pe.es which served as legs, believe this was the last school ever ? be taught in this house There as another schoolhouse near the 3ig Hsil." They were both discard: and a house build midway between lem, known as the "Twisting j emple" schoolhouse, which served as | schoolhouse for many years. I remember the the following teach- 1 s who taught at 'Twisting Temple*': i :isscs Maggie Floyd. Julia Horton. , essrs. J. B. Miiler, I- M. Trivett. | . A. Dobbin, E. Spencer Blackburn, bemas C. Blackburn. Hard Taylor, ;hn H. Bingham. EJugcne Brown. ?hr> C. McEwcn. who havi taught a ?ry succesful school at the old Mt. :oa.sant Lutheran church during the ! immer. was employed to teach the lblic school but he only taught one eek. He came to school on the conri Monday having imbibed too cely of the contents of a littic brown g. so that was the last day of his hool and another teacher was cmoyed. If my memory serves me j ght. it will be 58 years ago this j inter since I attended school in the ' g school house, walking two and a ilf miles morning and evening. Fifty j ars have wrought a great change i the school system of North Caro- j la as well as in many other ways, i By the way. I enjoyed reading Jim j ivers* letter in a recent issue of The j [emocrat. I well remember Boone | ; he described it. T also enjoyed j adirig your 50th anniversary issue ' W. S. MIULER. idd. N C . July 25. 1935. Fireside Philosophy By C. M. Dickson Dignity "exalte#'?for a person j ho has been soaring too high to j ,< 'me to his knees occasionally. i e Worm-catching is just as essential t: i the real existence of a bird as :ote -warbling.'' a -il ** tiu p:eachcr|j vv; p*s 1!-c numbers . [" 1^Jlli:: tno,r r?*'One way to toll le difference between a nightingale id nr. as.-- is by the music they >. lake. , One may be a member of all thejlurches in Ghritcmioir. and stitt go II i the devil. Mi iv faci&V expression is o vly a j I irt of the make-up of a real man I a woman. . |j If all the churches are consolidat- U i and carried into the cities, what J ill become of the poor follow who J a v'es in the sticks?" It looks like everybody's striking, >i it they're hitting nothing but the U >ttom. I Every pei*son shouid have, at least, ide enough to be proud enough tc V spect himself. fl An Irishman bought a duck for a 1! lme-cock. He was told that it had I > spurs and that it would thus be tndicapped. True," said the Irish- I :an, * but it will be as hard as [j junder to trip.*' IJ Morally speaking, there are just I vo roads One upt ?nd the oth- I is down Which one are you go- | s ri It's funny :o hear a fc-'ilow howl U ;fore he is hit, or to see him kick | >fore he is spurred. Certainly no one should object to fl woman's kinking her hair instead [J ' straightening her brain?if she ij looses so to do. | Should the liquor be outlawed the 1 idertakers would have ta raise the ! I ice of caskets or go out of busi- I T >ss. j 1, Since there were no 'beauty par- | CAROLINA | THEATRE \V BIX>W1NG ROCK Pre-senting J "The Rest Sn Motion Pictures" | THURSDAY, JULY 2R Judy Garland A Mickey Kooney in LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY" FRIDAY, JULY 29 Harold Lloyd & Phyllis Welch in "PROFESSOR BEWARE" SATLKUAV, JULY SO i Charles Bk kford & Ann Dvorak in "GANGS OF NEW YOKK" WON. & TPES-, Aug. 1-2 Warner Baxter, Marjorte Weaver in TLL GIVE A MILLION" WEDNESDAY, AUG. S Meivyn Douglas Sc Florence Rice in "FAST COMPANY" I | ^aMsSj3B8SwBPWwMlBiBirTf?ii^^MP THURSDAY?BOONE N. C. SI?? ??rri >rs" in the days of our grandmoth- | ti rs, we wonder how they ever did at- ! a ract enough attention to marry. I li A book of knowledge is a great j o sset in one's home, but a knowledge | A f the book is a still greater one. I It Who would doubt that a woman j 6 as just as much right to eat an' nion for supper as her husband has ! n o chew his "cud" of tobacco just J a terward ? I n ARMERS APPLY MORE LIME TO THEIR SOIL! cars. t Increasing their I linings as a soil- q ui-rding practice under the agricul- a I Sp I JULY CI S Last Ladies' Slips f Sizes 32 to 44. Each S 25c Curtain Material l^arge selection 01 curtain material. Yard 5c Ladies' Shoes Repriced for quick clearance 97cand 81.64 T owels Turkish towels. Each 5c Ladies' Panties Pair 5e I IOOTING THE RAPIDS ~^|p| IJP^ PSf I\W'^ WmA ww*/^SJVjlS> 5c 3t>r04 Htn iral conservation program, farmers pplied 1.600.<K)0 tons of of ground niestonc during the first two years f the program, said E. Y. Floyd, iAA executive officer at State Colige During the 192&-1935 perio<i 00.000 tons were applied. The tonnage used in the region has ot yet been calculated by indlvidu! states, he continued, but prelimi- j ary reports indicate that Tar Heel I ariners increased their limings more! han growers in the other stales. lust the sar.it. North Carolina, armers need ;<> apply much more | heir soil-building goal so they can ualify for the full amount of their gricultural conservation payments. ainhoui LEARANC Three L Sheeting 36-inch. 2 10 10 vard lengths. Yard 4c Spreads Beautiful Chinelle bed spread:;. Double bed size $1.19 Luncheon Cloths 5Cx50 inches. Fast colors. Each 25c Mfn's ,SKfw>? White and two-tone. Jerman's $5.00. now $2-94 and $3.88 {HOUR'S loone's Shopping Center' SiBlSSilS&ISaiSSSi JULY 28, 1938 ] Applying lime and phosphate are , among the recommended practices. Ho pointed out that in an experiment with an untreated pasture. 46 pounds of beef were produced per year by each acre, and at the end of five years only 10 per cent of the desirable grass and legumes remained. Put a limed and phosphatcd pasture produced 128 pounds cf beef per acre per year and after five years 9P per cent of the desirable grasses ami legumes were growing luxuriantly. the pool was 8c cents a pound home weight. ?===*E3=t==n=n?" ' *'s | E SALE I )ays | w. a Men's Suits One rack of suits, $19.75 Ml ^ and $16.75 values, now $10.00 8 ___ ijFull Fashioned Hose 9| While they last, pair w 39c 5 Chatham Sheets n Marked for clearance 97c 8 Ladies' Panties Pair Ml 10c a Prints Fast color dress prints. Yard S! Aa Q ?-?- a ? Inc. a 9 , Mi,
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