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Boone Mercl VOL. LI. N0~N0^5~ EXTRASlisiON OF LEGISLATURE OPENS MONDAY Governor Hoey Calis General Assembly lo Consider WPA Funds for Stale Institutions; Watauga Will Not Be Represented Raleigh. Aug. 2.?Governor Hoey issued a proclamation today ordering the genera! assembly to meet here in special session Monday, August 8, to consider the allocation of slate funds avi ca pa vpiiscu AV IlllpTOVClUC!! t program at North Carolina institutions. Immediately, clerks in the governor's office dispatched telegrams to the legislators who were elected in 1936 and already have served in one special session and in one regular session. Attorney General Harry McMulIan was instructed to draw up a bill authorizing 'ile issuance of bonds, the money from which will he used to supplement WPA funds in the event the contemplated improvement program is approved by the legislature and by federal officials. The amount of the bond issue which the governor will recommend to the lawmakers will be determined by the advisory budget commission, which will meet here Wednesday and Thursday. Heads of institutions will present their requests to the commls : !U at a hearing Wednesday. "The governor said there was a ply for WPA funds. Tile governor's proclamation came as no surprise and administration supporters quickly took steps to see that the "must" measure or measures were passed expeditiously. It was understood that a resolution limiting debate to WPA business would be introduced in both tne house and the i senate a few moments after they are called to order. The special session will be the seventh this century, and probably will mark the first time in the state's history that any group of lawmakers has met in three sessions. The legislators met first in December, 1936, one month after they were elected, in a special session called by former Governor Khringhaus to consider unemployment compensation and IWPA enabling measures. They also met in regular session in January. 1937. At least nine members of the 1937 general assembly will not be present at the special session. For the first time recalled, Watauga county will not be represented in the lower house of the assembly Representative W. Frank Miller of Roone, died last December, and since there is no constitutional provision for replacing a deceased member without an election. Mr. Miller's seat will be vacant at the special session. R T. Greer of Boone, will represent this district on the senate side. WPA STREETWORK IS GOING FORWARD Widening of King Street West of Postoffice First Work Being Undertaken Under Project The Boone street widening project, involving the expenditure of about $40,000 in WPA and municipal funds, got underway Friday, ar.d the first work undertaken is the widening of King street from the new postoffice site west, making the thoroughfare approximately 100 feet wide, including the sidewalks. Since only a small amount of dirt is to be removed a steam/ shovel was not secured, and relief workers are making good headway on the project, under the supervision of Joe Luther. The project calls for the materials necessary for paving the twenty feet being provided, and it is said that just as soon as the dirt can toe moved and the cement and stone delivered, the street and sidewalk will be completed. The work of building a sidewalk on the west side of the street from the Baptist church by the Demonstration school will be done when a shipment of cement arrives, and repairing, and building of other sidewalks in the city will progress rapidly. HARMON REUNION The annual Harmon reunion will be held on the premises of Mr. Aloert Harrr.cn on Cove Creek Sunday. The pubiic is invited to come and bring a basket. iants Associati /ATM An independent Y BOONE, W; Jj Godiva Rides Again | ^ Toddington, Eng.?Miss Mari belle Muller, 19 years old, was forced to a leave a convent school because she s took the part of the lodendLary u lady, rfding in the procession through the Middlesex town. Sov- P eral objectors tried to pull her from e the horse. GRAHAM MEETING I CLOSES SUNDAY: Interest in Revival is Great; s Evangelist Was at Home j1 for Few Days ? t gelistic services tii the big tabernacle until next Sunday evening, .vhich wll! round out eight weeks of the meeting. More than three thousand people have been gathering each evening to hear the evangelist, who returned to I hit. pulpit Tuesday after a few days rest at liis Klountville. Term., home. I During Rev. Mr Graham's absence, tlie preaching was done for the most part by Rev Ted Fix. of Dallas. Texas, young Mr . Abe Aidridge, f ministerial student and evangelistic a helper, having delivered a splendid r' sermon Friday evening. It 5s believed that there have been " something like 700 professions of a faith and recoiisecrations as a result v of the ministry of the Graham evan- '' gelistic party in this county. Services will continue daily up to v and including Sunday evening at 9 P a. m. and 7:45 p. m. c g Bill Mitcham Hurt c In Auto Accident J W. C. Mitcham, Jr., publicity direc-" a tor for Blowing Rock, returned to his c work the middle of last week, after j having been a patient in a Lenoir L hospital for four days following- an ? automobile accident. j Mr. Mitcham's car was said to have ^ been almost demolished as it collided t, with a truck driven by Marshal ? Johnson on the Blowing Rock road j. near Lenoir. Rsamination indicated j that Mr. Mitcham suffered injuries t, to the chest, damage to a lung, a late- j rated leg and cuts and bruises. n The driver of the truck was ar- s rested for reckless driving and was f placed under bond t Rev. Mr. Hiatt In Address To Lions n e Rev. J. S. Hiatt. pastor of the First u Methodist church in Lenoir, was the a speaker at the banquet session of the a Boone Lions Club held at the Daniel t Boone Hotel Tuesday evening. The t meeting was largely attended and Mr. Hiatt, who is a gifted after-dinner speaker, delivered a most enter- t taining address, while different mem- ii hers of the club rounded out the pro- a gram. p p ullu HKi iiKna rnuin " CHARLOTTE MEETING c Chief of Police S. D. Ollis returned p Monday from Charlotte where he had g been in attendance at the Police and a Sheriff's Officers convention. During g Mr. Ollis' absence, Mr. Karl IWarlick, $ veteran Hickory police office- pa- 1 trolled the streets of the city. Mr. 1 Warlick is still here and w>il be on b duty until at least the end of this week, pending decision of the town c board as to whether or not two offi- s cers are to be retained. s p Those who visited for the past t week with Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Church of Mabel, were Mr. and Mrs. ? Lon W. Church of Herrin, HI.; John i E. Church and MJss Thetma Pair of \ St. Louis, Mo., and Mr. and Mrs. r. Church of Butler, Tone. : ! on to Stage JGA . Weekly Newspaper?Eatal ^TAUGA^OUMTY7NORTH CA Watauga county| schools to open .ast day of aug. 'rincipals Conference Will Be Held at Demonstration School August 11; Number of Teachers Are Approved by Educational Body At a meeting of the board of eduation Monday it was determined that le first of the county schools would pen on August. 3l3t. these including hose in the following' districts: ove Creek. Valle CiucLs, Bethel, fa'oel, Penley, Cook, Hradshaw and loo! Springs in Blowing Rock disrJcts. Schools opening on Septemer 1 include those in the Boone Ireun Valley, Deep (Jap districts, nd the Boone colored school. The choo; at Blowing Rock will not open ntil ... ...... aepmnnei vt. The following teachers were aproved: Herbert Walter Way, m&ttl- matics, Boone high school; Rodney , .. Leftwich, industrial arts, Cove Ireek high school; V3nda Whicker, Jnglish teacher and girls" coach at love Creek high school: Mattie Lou larman, elementary grades. Bethel diool; Lavola Carcnder, primary rades, Valley Mountain school. Principals' Conference A principal's conference has been la ted to be held at the Demoiistraion school in Boone Thursday, Augist 11 at. 9 o'clock, and County Surerintendent Walker is anxtous that he principals of all the schools in lt?_i&unty .attend TO BEGIN SEPT. 29 I Vnnual Agricultural Event is [ Arranged: Many Premiums; jl Fine Amusement Schedule * The annual Watauga Agricultural < fair, which is conducted each year t' the Cove Creek high school, will e held September i3 and October 1. .ccording to Mr. George G. Farthing, ead of the department of vocational j. griculture, which sponsors the event, t /hich has grown into a county-wide a restitution. c Mr. Farthing states that premiums t . ill be offered in the following dc- j. artmenls, the name of the person in harge of each department being . iven in each instance: 3aby show, Irs. W. T. Payne; flower show, Mrs. t :nas. L. Lewis, Mrs. N. L. Mast, and c liss KUna Bingham; art department, 0 Irs. J. C. Mast; needlecraft. Misses nnie Mae Sherwood and Miss Con- t tance Shour.; culinary, Miss Blanche , Itokes; home canning, Mr3. S. F ! lorton; home apiary. Miss Jennie j x>ve; farm crops, T. J. Moody; home rchard, T J. Moody; livestock, S. P. a forton; poultry, T. J. Moody; F. F. l. and 4-H Club boys, H. M. Hamil- r on; home economics and 4-H Club 1rls, Mrs Clcta J. Harmon; NTfA t iandicrafts, Miss Clara Simpson; s og show, Mrs. John Horton: ath- t ;tic contests, Lawrence Spavin and lias Pauline Brummit; contests for , ten including hog calling and horse- ? hoe pitching, S. F. Horton; contests or women including rolling pin hrowing and cow-calling', Mrs. John lorton in charge. 1 Extended Prize list This year's prizes in al 1 departnents are better, on the whole than ver before, it is said, and the premiim list will be ready for distribution a bout August 20, copies to be avail- *ble at practically, all the stores of 8 he county. They will also be dis- 1 ributcd through the high schools. a Farm Crops Department One of the leading departments of a he fair, in which prizes have been e ncreased considerably in number c nd in value is the farm crops de artment. This year the following 1 Tizes will be awarded for farm erons * rid home garden display: (l) $10 r ash, 5 tons ground lime and 10 ap- F >Ie trees; (2) $5 in cash, 5 tons C ;round lime, 1 bag fertilizer and 10 n ipple trees; (3) S3 in cash, 5 tons c ;round lime and 10 peach trees; (4) ^ 2 in cash, 3 tons ground lime and 3 0 peach trees; (5) 1 bag fertilizer. t hay fork and 5 peach trees; (6) 1 f' >ag fertilizer and 5 peach trees. Home garden display: (1) $5 in I ash, 1 silver vegetable dish and 500 trawherry plants; (2) $3 in cash. 1 ingle wheel hoe and 300 strawberry ilants; (3) $2 in cash and 200 straw- h icrry plants; (4) 1 bag of fertilizer, r Space for the farm crops and home c ;aiden displays in the fair building 1 s limited, consequently all persons f /ho plan to enter displays should t iot!/y the secretary before the fair, s (Continued on Page Bight) ! a Treasure Jmki DEM< blished in theTear Eighi iHOUNA; THU^5AY7MK Midgets Attend F Blackpool, England.?Herman the former Annie Iineps, 27, bot'l leaving the Church of Sac ret Kea party after their rn;irriuge. The % and the bride 2 inches shorter. Treasure Hu The Boone Merchants Association, ever on the alert to devise new means of attracting visitors to tho town and in an effort to proside an unusual sort- of entertainment during the next tuo weeks, is today callln gattention in a page ad to a 'Treasure Hunt," a novel method of providing the people a fofc of fun when the finish line is Satl'rday evening, August day of this week these prizes will IAME SEASONS ARE CHANGED FOR YEAR \ - * R?- B* wr?f? {uan may n>: ivmea from uec. 15 to Feb. 20; Squirrel Season Opens Sept. 15 Ed Mast. Watauga county game irotector, announces that new comlination hunting and fishing licenses ire now available at convenient lcalitics in the county- and calls attenion to changes in open season for lunting and trapping thi3 year. Chief among the changes made by he department of conservation and levelopraent was the shortening of he quail season, which will be Deember 15 to February 20. Other pen seasons follow. Opossum (with gun or dogs): Ocober 15 to February 15: for trapling, November 1 to February 15. Rabbit: November 20 to February 5. Squirrel: September 15 to Januiry 15. Dove: September 1 to September ;0; December 20 to January 13. Game officials express the opinion hat there will be a more plentiful upply of game this year than during he past several years. ?5,500,00 Available For Scenic Parkway ?-Milo Sector Between Route 421 anil Blowing Rock Will Be Built During Fiscal Year Raleigh, Aug. 1.?Harold L. I ekes, ecretary of the interior, informed Governor Hoey today that J5.500.000 ippropriated by congress for the Blue tidge Parkway had been made avail .ble. Of this sum, $3,500,000 was alotted in the 1939 interior department appropriation act and $2,000,000 was armarked under the second deficieny appropriation act for 1938. The Blue Ridge Parkway construcion program in North Carolina for he fiscal year includes lSVi miles of oad between Route 421 and Blowing Lock, 11 miles between Wagon Road Jap and Tennessee Bald; and ?Y 3-4 a ilea between Oooch Gap and Buck Jreek Gap. The governor said the :ighway and public works commision had obtained and conveyed to he federal government rights-of-way Dr part of the route. tOACHES INFEST SOME SECTIONS OF THE CITY Mr. H. S. Webster of the district ealth office here, states that eockoaches have become numerous in ertain sections of the business area, hose being bothered with the pestierous bugs may secure advices as o how to eradicate them inexpenively and easily by applying to him X the health office nt" Beginning i 3C RA :een Eighty-Eight j. 4, 1938 Vlidget Wedding G QBH Rotter, 28 years old, and Ins bride, ^ i natives of Gernwny, >ure shown ^ rt with memlK'rs of the wedding froom Is 3 feet 10 inches in height, I.U My na nt Instituted! VVI j hi; displayed in the respective win- Tt j dows of the shops, together with hii ! complete information concerning 3h j the method in which they will be hii I divided among Boone shoppers, th i Visitors to Boone the end of the | week are asked to survey the won- yo derful array of valuable and useful th premiums offered, and to find out fo how much fun is going to be had in br I securing them. op ii ai | joyment and profit to the public. |i aMiLS~=L ; CAFE BUSINESS ; Thos. B. Redmond is New Own- ^ cr of Boone Trail Cafe; Mr. Li Farihinsr Takes Varatinn ! ?h ty The Boone Trail Cafe, for more i[l< than fifteen years one of the leading m! cafes of the town, has been sold by c" Mr. T. Hill Farthing, the new owner, Mr. Thomas B. Redmond of this city, Ri having taken over the thriving busi- ' 1 ness Monday of this week. Se Mr. Farthing, who has operated the ^ restaurant for the past twelve years without a vacation, leaves Loday for ^ Lenoir, where he will spend a few ^ days with relatives before proceeding e to the coast, and states that before c CO his return he will visit the Bermudas. Meed for rest and recuperation is ?; given as the principal reason for his disposing of the business. Mr. Farthing has conducted a good cafe and has made many friends here a:Mi ''' among the traveling public who re- 'n gret to see him leave. pu Following his vacation he will con- ar) aider his future business course. ^ Mr. Redmond, who has lived in this \v; city for several years and who lately in, has been engaged in the automo- ok bile business, is carrying out the same type of service which has n made the Boone Trail so popular, and i3 receiving the full co-operation of the former customers of the establishment. BARMEETINGTO s re hei r eriiuv a i/u xxxxxxxs x 11,111rill WJ yo Lawyers of Sixteenth District Will Gather in Boone as chl Guests of Local Barristers ga ho About one hundred attorneys are tr; expected to gather in Boone Friday co evening, where they will hold the annual convention of the Sixteenth District Bar Association. The district comprises Watauga, Caldwell, ^ Burke, Cleveland, Catawba and Lincoln counties. ^ The meeting which is to be held at the Daniel Boone Hotel at 7 o'clock _ ? will he preceded by a concert on the ^ lawn by Gordon Nash and his Boone high school band. At the banquet session iW. R. Lovill of Boone, district president, will preside, while Wade E. Brown, also of Boone, is district secretary. The I principal address will he made hy pn Hon. Justin Miller of Eoone and 191 Washington, and the principal busi- 001 ness to come before the gathering 53, will be the selection of officers for .ha the ensuing year. A convention city S. will also be selected for the next as- sei aembly. tic I - \ugnst 20th r $1.50 A YEAR .0. P. CONVENTION i CALLED TO MEET ATURDAY, AUG. 20 >cal Republicans Will Name; Slate of Candidates for County Offices: One Candidate Has Announced for Office; Democratic Convention Uncalled tt/ll-V. V.Z-, Pftr.MWinor,.-. -* >.*?.* tin. ik(-{/uu?i.aiia vi TY tuaugiijnty called to gather in nominating avention on Saturday, August 20, J with or.e candidate's hat definitein the ring for nomination as sher011 the G. O P. ticket, county polis will soon hit its stride. T. E. Bingham, county chairman the Republican executive commltand Clyde R. Greene, secretary, lesday announced the convention lich is to be held at the courthouse 2 o'clock, on the 20th, at which ne a complete slate of candidate;) r county office and a member of s genera\ will he nomi.ted. Any other business may be ken up which is thought proper to me before the convention. Almost at the same time the call is issued for the convention, Mr. lomas R. Miller of Boone, threw ; hat in the ring as a candidate for eriff on the Republican ticket and ? formal announcement appears in is paper today. Mr. Miller, who \3 an upstanding ung man, is a valued employee of e Smith Transfer Company, and rmerly was associated with his other, Mr. Spencer Miller, in the oration of the Boone Transfer i ^ f.fc oca! Power Unit Steps Up Efficiency A 530,000 WPA project, sponsored Appalachian State Teachers Colje for joint use of the institution d electrical units, has stepped up e efficiency of the New River ght & Power plant until it now inds with 1220 horsepower capset, 830 horsepower more than is be* used at the present time, accorded to figures compiled by electrical gineers. Conclusive figures listing the New ver Light & Power figures with pse resulting from the recent Lafcr with Blowing P.ock's unit, shows at the Northwestern division's canity measures up to 560 horsepow, of which 340 is required: New ver's capacity 960, of which 350 is ing used, thus leaving a potential ad of 830 horsepower at ready mmand should growth find need r this excess power. Building of the power unit to its esent capacity Jias been made poslle through installation of a com;tely new piping system to the gtne units. Whereas the steam ilers lacked power efficiency of lling hot water systems, engines, d heating plant the new set-up uties the exhaust steam to heat hot iter and the buildings, thereby givl full capacity to running of the sctrical units. Cinderilla Rose" Is Well Received "Cinderilla Ro3e," a lively dramic production, was enthusiastically reived by a large audience at the monstration school Tuesday even*. The play was sponsored by the ial Boy Scout troop and the cast is composed altogether from the uth of the community. Mrs. Edgar Cooke, who directed e entertainment, is being highly mmended by both the Scout or inzation and the general public for r splendid accomplishment in lining the players and for her fine -operation with the Scouts. STOLEN CAR IS FOUND A. Chevrolet sedan, the property of \ Kermit Story of Blowing Rock, is taken from near Smithey's store turday evening and was found by lice Officer Warlick near the arthouse Sunday morning at 3:30. :e key had been taken, some wires >sed and other damage of a minor lure done., FARM INCOME DROPS Dash income from the sale of farm xiucts in the first six months of IB is now estimated at $3,084,000,1, or 12 per cent less than the 499,000,000 reported for the first if of 1937, S3ys a report of the "U. bureau of agricultural economics it Julian R. Mann, extension sta
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