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V VOLUME 52, NO. 11 SUPFllOR C0UR1 PASSES JUDGMENT* IN MANY CASES Hon. "Wilson War lick Preside Over Fall Term; Abductor of Taxi Driver Get Heav Sentences; Full I.isi of Sen fences Imposed by the Court The fall term of Watauga super io court, convened Monday morning wit Hon. Wilson 'War lick of Newton, pre siding- and as The Democrat wa ready for press, the court was mah iiig rapid progress in the dispositio of a state docket composed of 7 cases Following are the judgments hand vied down up until Wednesday noon Trussed McGinnis, driving drtinl Fined $50 and costs. Cecil Church, violation of prohi bition laws. $50 and the costs. Cecil Bum garner, reckless drlvin and violation of the prohibition law: 12 months on the roads. Cecil Bumgarner, driving drunl 6 months on roads. Graham Teague. violation prohi bition laws. $10 and costs. Robert Lee Hayes, driving drunt $50 and the costs. Kenneth Hardy, Ernest Moody an Dwight Moody. Larceny of 1% ga1 kms of gasoline. 4 months. Sentenc suspended and defendants placed un tier care of A. Y. Ho we'll state proba tion officer. Jule Tate, drunk and di3prderl] One-half the costs. Fklward Love, manufacturing months on roads. Wm. Morgan, possession. 1 months suspended for three year curing good behavior. Oinard Church, violation proh bitiors laws $5$ ami costs. Waiter Patrick, forgery, 6 month on roads. Fred Osborne, violation prohititlo laws. 110 and costs. Goerge.Rhodcg. driving drunk. $5 and costs. Ilenver Norris, driving drunk. $5 arid thee est-:. 1j \v. Timmons, abandonment an non-support. Judgment 3uspende for two years upon payment of $.t per month to the wife of defendant Simon Greene, bastardy. One-hal the costs. Otis Watson, operating aiitomobil after license had lieen revoked. 1 months on the roads. Woodrow Colvard, driving drur.i $50 and the costs. Taylor Morris Stephens, seductioi One-half the costs. Joe and Ellen Wheeler, violatio j-.rohib'tion laws. Mot guilty. Oeilas Dula, violation prohibitio laws. $10 and costs. ' Chas Turner, reckless drivmf Costs. Vernon Ragan, driving dnjnk. $3 and costs. Silas Wheeler and tester Carrol charged with robbery with firearm: Plead guilty to larceny of automobi'.i Carroll sentenced to from 2 to 3 year in state prison; Wheeler 7 to 9 year: C. B. Isenhour. violation prohi bition laws. $100 and costs. Boone Author's New Volume Is On Pres Into The Harbor," the latest wor of fiction of David P. AJlison, wei known local author, which was r< leased in August, has been accepts by Mr. Allison's publishers, W. 1 Krdmann Co.. Grand Rapids, Mich ar.;t the plates are now on the pres Mr. Allison states that this is tt (juickest acceptance he has yi known, only three weeks' time elap ing between the release of the mam script and the date of printing. This volume as well as others < Mr. Allison's books will be on sa at Walker's Jewelry store. LEES-McRAE OPENS WITH FINE ENROLLMEN Banner Elk, Sept. 21?-Classes b gan at Lces-McRae College Thur day morning for the largest numbi of students ever enrolled in the cc lege. The opening chapel exercises we: held Thursday in the college aut torium. Addresses of welcome we made by Edgar H. Tufts, presiden L?eo K. Pritchett, dean and registrs ami the i. v. M. J. Murray, past of the Banner Elk Presbyiterii church. Dr. H. H. Thompson, past of the First Presbyterian church Bristol, and chairman of the board trustees of the Edgar Tufts Mem rial Association, conducted the dev tional and spoke to the assembl students and faculty on "The Seer of True Happiness.'" In addition to the freshmen a seniors enrolled, there is a capaci number of students taking the ni medical secretarial training. iATAl An Independent booneTv ~ : ~ Labor^s Chief j| Heated controversy between John I i- !>. Lewis Committee for Indus- ! trial Organization and the Ainerig" can Federation of Labor was ex>. ported to break out anew on September 26 when the A. F. of I-. ] v. opens its national convention at | I Houston under William Greene, ' i- above, president. R. E. A. DIRECTORS ! ; NAMEDSATURDAY IFive Watauga lis Arc Placed On Board of Directors of the Caldwell Mutual 6 Directors to serve during the comn ing year were elected hv patrons of the Oalewi-u Mutual Corporation at I- i the annua! meeting of stockholders j held in Lenoir Saturday, at which 3 time more thai: 200 rural customers of the co-operative were present, H Five directors were elected to represent Watauga county patrons, 0 while a like number was chosen from Caldwell. Three directors were 0 named from Ashe and two were chosen from Alleghany county to d serve after amendment of the oo,i nnftife ninl nf 0 the extension of lines into the two ; counties by the REA In WashingIf ton. Speeiai guests for the meeting e were Boyd Fisher, director of the 2 division of operations supervision, and Uao Rati of (he organization and education department of the same division. i. Tile new directors by counties are as follows: Caldweil, Airs. C. A. Bbwn man. Alts. Fannie Greer. A. G. Beach, Ft. M. C. Jones and G. W. Sullivan; n Watauga, Clyde Perry, A_ W. Greene, Bert Mast, C. M. Watson and Clarr. ence Newton; .Ashe, G. B. Price, A_ B. Hurt and J. C. Goodman; Alle0 ghany, C. G. Collins and R C. Halsey. 1 Tlie meeting approved the adoption 3. j of an amended constitution and bylaws. s j Officers to serve during the com3 ing year will be elected at a meeti ing heid in Renoir Thursday afternoon. September 22. The period for filing bids on the Watauga project has been extended until September 29. Bids will be reg ceived at Boone. k Amateur Program at !" Cove Creek School d 3. Friday night, September 30, at 8 i o'clock, there will be an amateur prosi. gram in the Cove Creek high school ie building The entries will be divided >t into two groups, the first made up of s- children from two to Iwelve years l- of age, the second twelve years of age and over Any child or person ,ii in tin. vuaiuj maj tiuci 111c pi u le gram will be composed of readings, imitations, stunts, -vocal and instrumental music and tap .dancing. Four cash prizes will be given. X For the adult group there will be two prizes, first prize 55.00, second e- prize, 53.00; for the childcn's group s- first prize 5*2.00 and second prize er 51.00. Three judges will be chosen >1- from outside the county. Anyone wishing to enter this prore gram should see or write either Mrs. !i- John Horton, Mrs. Albert Bingham re or Miss Jennie Love, Sugar Grove, t; N. C., not later than September 28. tr. or Merchants Enjoy in or Outing and Picnic in ?f About forty merchants and their ?" employees observed a half holiday ?" last Thursday v/hen the happy group et-i motored to Backbone Rock, scenic ct spot in southwest Virginia, near Damascus, enjoyed various games and nd partook of a delicious picnic supper ty Practically all the stores of the city sw were closed during the afternoon and a general good time was had by ail JGA J Weekly Newspaper?Estal /ATAUGA COUNTY NORTH CA] NOTED AUTHOR T IS LAID TO RESTj" Kites Held at Banner Elk for Shepherd M. Duggcr, Writer of Mountain Life Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Banner Elk Presbyterian church for Shepherd Monroe Duggcr. S5. na- j tionally known author ot North Caro- j lina mountain life, who died suddenly | of a heart attack Tuesday while vis- j iting a relative at. Matney. Hie rites were in charge of Dr. J. C. Ovens, pastor of the Newland Baptise church. Those speaking dur- J ing the services were Dr. B. 3. j Dougherty, president of Appalachian j College: W. R. I/will of Boone, and < Jo tin H. Bir.gham of Sugar Grove, as j rymtesceu uy tne iaie alienor in in- j structions concerning his funeral, j which were written only a month j ago. "We have lost one of our great ? mountaineers," said Mr. Bingham, j All three described their long asso- ! ciaiion with Mr. Dugger, his kindly j spirit toward others, his love of the j mountains and his literary talent, i j and his pioneering in the field ol' I education and engineering. He was Watauga county's first j superintendent oi schools, and a : teacher for many years. His two \ , best known books, "War Trails cf ! j the Blue Ridge" and "The Balsam ; Groves of the Grandfather MounI tain/7 won for him national fame as 'an authority on the mountain section. He also published ''The Siamese Twins" and a number of smaller articles Visitors te Banner Elk always questioned him for information on the mountains, and he has been Widely quoted in feature stores, editorials, and in literary, column* Said Phillips Russell, the well-known lit- erary critic, in his syndicated column: ~ ! "In ail the mountains there was only | one Shepherd M Dugger. A moun| tain man all his life, he wes the j spokesman of the mountains, wclcom ir.g al! improvements and changes, ! but standing .foursquare fur the in- j he rent virtues of the mountains and I their people/' Surviving hiin are a son. Clarence, j and three .sisters, Mrs. L. P. Culver j of Banner Elk. Mrs. J. R. Lowe of I Pennsylvania, and Mrs. W W. Nor- | man of Johnson City, Tenn. | In his burial instruction*; written i I a month ago. Mr. Dugger included j I his own epitaph which was quoted by iriends at the funeral as follows: '"Farewell friends, I am dead, But still I hear the birds sing, I See the wild flowers, stand with You on the high mountains; I love little children; and >. My wrongs were the result of ig- ^ norance." Handicraft Cabin To Be Open Soon , The board ot' directors of Watauga Handicrafts held a meeting Monday evening at the craft house, a new log cabin structure chinked with mortar and stone, which has been c recently completed, and I ocatcd on the Blowing Rock road opposite the 1 home of Dr. R. K. Bir.gham. Those f present for the meeting were Mayor t Gragg, Kev. J. A.. Yount. Rev. Edwin \ F. Troutrnan, Mir. Cicero Towr>3end t of the Dutch Creek community, and 1 Miss Cora Pear! Jeff coat, together t with the proposed teacher of crafts, t Miss Elizabeth Lord. The board approved the appointment of Miss Lord t as craft instructor and made definite i plans for the immediate opening of 11 the craft house. Miss Lord has had ! special craft training at Campbell j s rt.lt. C* #.k aa1 'O f .o .. -NT f or. 1 I t i ruin ouiwi, oiaoaiuwii, dx. v_.., miu ? I at the Penland School of Handicrafts, ! Penland, N. C. Mr. Howard C. Ford, I also of the Penland school, and for- < mer director of 'Watauga handicrafts, * will assist Miss Lord for the next I few weeks in setting up the new pro- < gram. j The purpose of this undertaking is two-fold, says Miss Jeffcoat. First, | the instruction in various handicrafts I under the supervision of the state de- j partment of education, trade and in- | dustrial division, with the co-opera- j tion of County Superintendent of Education Walker, and the county board of education. Second, the supervision 1 of the production of high class handi- i crafts and their sale. I Instruction will be given at the craft house and a sales room ope- 1 ! rated. Miss Lord is interested in getting in touch with those who are I now doing or wishing instruction in < hand weaving or other hand crafts i She is also interested in those who : : are making handcrafts products for , sale. Anyone in Watauga county I who are iuteresied are invited to call . at the craft house after Monday, ' September 26. Ar. opening day with . I open house is planned for the near . future. ? - _ - 1 Shepherd M. Du^gcr, author of while Visiting in the home of a frier perhaps the last photograph taken c and snitpped anile he WU6 vi-Sitii j>;>rr oi June. Rev. Graham Will | | Return On First j i Rev. Dan Graham, BlmintyUle, i Te;ui? evangelist, who conducted I a most sutfewtfiii evangelistic j campaign here during the summer, | wilt return and preach hi his tabernacle in Boone Saturday even- j iiig, October I, at the conclusion oi the. countv sintrinsr convention. . ' - I I Those iii cluir^o of the arnuiRC- I, inputs arc making arrar.foments | { for seating the tabernacle, and ir |. is expected that iho usual over- |( flow audience will welcome Mr. i Graham. He will remain here for !. the one night only. ! , : j I ;tkkct widening AIRED IN COURT |: fudge YVarlick Refuses to Rc- ] strain City From Widening , Street at Local Hotel Judge Wilson Warlick Monday aftrnoon declined to sign an order 4 vhich would restrain the town of Scone from proceeding with the widnir.g of the principal street of the , own. The proposed improvements j would result in tlie public use of i itout twenty feet of the Daniel | 3oone hotel property, and the court : >rder was sought by the owners of i lie hostelry Following the judicial action, the J :ierk of the court appointed a com- I nitlee composed of W. R. Billings, j xlarion Thomas and I. A. Burngarner, ! disinterested persons, who are to as- i less the damage which in their opin- ! or. would resuit from the raunici- | Dal improvement. It is understood j hat, according to law. either the j :ity or the hotel may appeal to the superior court from the opinion of j Jiese gentlemen, in which event the j controversy would be settled before a j jury. < | rv nn Bi'ii* uver sen million Men Mobilized Rv European Nations London, Sept. 18?An estimated total of more than 10,000,000 men are under arms in Europe prepared to Fight. The figures as given by official or unofficial sources are as fallows: France, 2.000,000; Germany, 1,000,300; Soviet Russia, 2,000,000; Czechoslovakia, 800,000 to 1,000,000; Italy, 450,000, and Great Britain, less than 200,000 with scattered reserves, such as 20,000 troops in Palestine. It was estimated that nations like Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland had enough soldiers in barracks and other places to push the total over the 10,000,000- mark. )CRA1 in Eighty-Eight 2. 1938 auntain Author 1F0L< DEM Preside* tion wit mood,' n continue a number of volumes, who dud eight vi id at Mainej' lust week. This is ? f the. lamented author and jkm-t, F^i'oi tijc with friends in Boone the livt- 1 * Oreer. nominal -- ? - ?- general SREENE SELECTED ss BY REPUBLICANS ~ A.usti l perior Local Hardware Merchant to | y Make Race for il<e Legislature ; ' :v Named By Committee j rn''s ? I sitio.n j Clyde R. Oreer.c, local hardware |, nei-chaat, was nominated as a can- j lidate for the state legislature by :gejl (he Republican executive committee ' w. it a meeting held Tuesday evening, j , rl "In * --ye' efi. wh: the Republicans I f the county moi in roivdnating con. enlion the matter of selecting a canlidate for the assembly was left in ! ' ;Wfe hands o; the committee. Mr. Greene tells The Democrat that j reCt*Jve] ig will direct, a statement to the i bonver^ . oters of Watauga county in the next | ?: issue of the Watauga Democrat cov- i "3" '] r::;g Jiis position on various issues er" confronting the voters. Fie states C03vein Furtner that he believes all the peo ca"e" 1 alt should know the things a candiiate stands for before they elect him Atto: !c public office and that he proposes ?d to to give them this information in a praisin Jefinite way. and th At the convention on August 20. the sta other candidates nominated were: cratic i Jim Bui-kett for clerk of the super- ed wit Lor court; Tom Miller for sheriff; I. fered I A_ Bumgarrier for surveyor; Jason late A Moretz, Stacy Ford and Bert Farth- for ^ in? for county commissioners. JET Q man f Ninth District Meet To Be In Statesville ! taries. . i The ninth congressional district LI meeting is to he held in Statesville September 29. at which time Congressman Robert L. Doughton wiil open his fifteenth campaign for elec- Hen; lion to the national house of re pre- esteem sentatives. section Mr. Doughton will address the period gathering which meets at 10:30 a. m., over s and Hon. Gregg Cherry, chairman of noss. 1 the state Democratic executive com- weeks' mittee. together with Hon V. D. Fun< Guire. chairman of the district com- sUnda mittee, will also speak. Short talks dcnce are to be made by representatives Presb} from each county in the district. Gragg Oftlintv Chairman F/Jtuaix-I "U"oof ?_ -- joins with Mr Doughton in the re- tennei quest that a large number of tVat- Pallbe. augans attend the meeting. Shull, ahet;. TWO MISHAPS OCCUR Sun ON NARROW GAUGE the fe LINE ON SUNDAY Roy C ? ? fey. R Two unusual accidents happened on Coffey an East Tennessee and Western Tayloi Carolina railway excursion Sunday, ire Fa when more than 200 people went on fey ol an outing to Johnson City. two "o On the outgoing trip, Carl Price of Mills, Kannapolis, was leaning out the Elk. window and his head hit a stone. Ma*. Bndly hurt, he was taken to Grace late S Hospital, Banner Elk. for treatment, was r On the return trip, about 14 miles tion, i out of Boone, an axle on one of the est re coaches broke, and the passengers copal: were stranded for an hour or more, that s _? ^ $1.50 A YEAR ;erspeaksS 1 ocrats name m candidates Nominated for LcgislaSouth Again Out for Lsliip; Board of Education rscd: Resolutions Passed nending New Deal emocrats of Watauga county I ill nominating convention y afternoon. listened to adby National Committeeman 'olger of Mount Airy, and ibert L. Doughton, veteran, strict congressman, at the ne nominating candidates for ou& county offices, olger, who is a .candidate for in . the fifth district, delivaddress which inspired the titer ing of Democrats; lauded w Deal administration of it BY9Aklin D. Roosevelt and imparisoii of his ad minis trail those of his Republican sors. Mr. Doughton in jovial iiade brief remarks to the ig. and insisted that the peoVatauga county perhaps had ason for Democratic tendenn those of any other county state. He referred particuthe great teachers college 5 located here, and the work Democratic administration in , to the doors of Wataugans hways, notable among which fcve Ridge Dark way. At the ig of Mr, Dough ton's address, esent arose, out of respect to i who has served tnis district msiy for ihe past twentyjars. ser legislative Nominee ving the addresses, Roby T. e,fator from this district, was ed for the lower house of ihe assembly, after Wade D Boone attorney. lujwi withfrom the race. Dr. W. A. I-iUtheran minister, was the ?sfu! candidate. r> E. Soutii, clerk of the sucourt, for the nast Uvelv& won the nomination over D. Morutz; Sheriff A. J. Flrdmia? easily nomii-ited; Surveyor riiomp'on was without oppots was Coroner Richard K. The board of county comers. composed of KUer Mcoy I. Biliings and Ira Edmis*.s unopposed and won the lion by acclamation, rd of Education Endorsed board of education. J B. Hor. C. Waiker. Chappel Wilson, 'erry ar.d Thos. H. Coffey. Jr., d the endorsement of the tion. A no tiler slate composed W. A. Deatcn, Mrs. Mary Harappel Wilson. Cleve Gross and reeuo, was placed before the tion when nominations were ior. how Deal Praised rney Wade E. Brown presentthe convention a resolution S the national administration, e administration of affairs in ite and county under Demorule. The resolution was passliout dissent, as was one of>y W. R. Lovill, eulogizing the . Dayton Wilson, tax collector ; past four years. Irady Farthing acted as chair0 the convention, while R I. Cleve Gross and Miss Mar1 Miliar were chosen as seere ! ry B. Coffey Dies At Age of 68 .r, ry B Oof fey, well-known and ied resident of the Shulls Mills ?, died last Friday after a of failing" health exending" everal years. The fatal illlowever, was of only three duration, era] services were conducted y afternoon from the late resiRev. C. Cr. MicKsraher of the terian church, and Rev. S. E. , Advent Christian minister, in charge of the rites, and init was in the Coffey cemetery, arers were J. E. Harbin, Komy Goss Teams, George McKaar- -j dvors include the widow, and | ||k? illowing sons and daughters: bffey, Radford, Va.; Glenn Cofoanoke, Va.; a stepson, Paul A. ', Boone; Mrs. Beatrice Fox, -sville; Mrs, Wayne Reid, Gran.lis. One sister, Mrs. Ella Cof- "5 ' Shulls Mills, survives, as do rothres. Lee Coffey, Shulls and Charlie Coffey, Banner Ooffey, who was a son of the imitb Coffey and Mrs. Ooffey, eared in the Shulls Mills secwhere he was held in the high- / ;i gaivi. He was a farmer by oe- ! ^ ov: a::S spent his entire life in
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