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p I w VOL.;u,]NO. 52 BEAUTY CONTEST j AT BLOWING ROCK Winner of Stale Contest to Enter National Competition at Virginia Beach Beauties from every section of NortH Carolina are expected to gamer at Blowing- Rock next Wednesday and appear on the stage of the Yor.ahlossec T1 Yea i re Thursday evening, the winner to receive the title. "Miss North Carolina." in addition to a trip to Virginia Beach. Va.. to enter the national beauty competition. iiupp i? in mowing Hock arranging lor the show for the National Cinema Productions, sponsors oi tiie national contest. Representatives of North Carolina towns ami cities will register the afternoon of the 13th. and after the contest on the evening of the 14thf will be honored at a dance at one of the local hotels. Reservations Cor Miss North Carolina have already been made at Gay Manor hotel, Virginia Reach, Mis. Trnpp says. The contest is under the sponsorship t vf the Blowing Rock Chamber = I of Commerce. j New Hardware Store At Blowing Rock The Farmers Hardware and Sup- ; ply Company has purchased the business at Blowing Rock recently established and which was known as the Hardware ana Electric Company, and was busily engaged Monday in rnov- v nig new merchandise Into the build- v V'g- t I The local hnnUvare concern states ? that ui establishing the branch at c Blowing Koch they are endeavoring b , to g've the j.-'opte cf that town ftrai ? its environs the very best service p<isslble, and that the immense stocks t carried in Boone will tie available in thirty minutes' notice. However, the t 1 . lines at the Blowing Rock stoic will E gc be practically complete. c y JSc. Custer, who has been with the j Hax-dwnr.e *nd Electric Uumpany t since it was founded,-wtlireinainin , > change of the Blowing Hock store. ( Preachers' Meeting Monday Afternoon i The next Riiplist preaeiier3' conference will be held at the Boone Baptist ] church r.ext Monday afternoon. July 1 10, at 2 o'clock, and Rev. E C. Hodges has announced the 1'oitowlng program: Devotional, Rev. Raymond Hen- . drlx. What DUI Jesus Mean About Gain Being Godliness? Rev. Marshal Watson. What Did Jesus Mean When He 6aid, "From Such Turn Away?" Rev. t Roscoe Trivctt. j Who Will Be Responsible For the [ Crowd Deceived at the Judgment? ? Rev. J. C. Canipe. t Is It Enough Just to Ask Lost j People to Confess Christ and Join - the Church? Rev Wiil Cook. a Have We the Same Class of Peo- r pie Today the Scriptures Have Kef- v erence To? Rev W. D. Ashley. r Old Age Pensions r For Many Wataugans , Watauga county's aged, 1,580 of c ttcrn, are receiving pensions averag- e ing $3 per month, according to fig- c ures given out Friday by tile public e assistance division of the state board of charities and public, welfare. The ] county's share in this distribution is $4,320, it i3 reported. At the same time it is indicated that 130 of Watauga county's dependent children are receiving an aver- t age of $4.50 each per month, with % the county's contribution to this j fund being $2,340. ( CREDIT GROUP DIRECTORS f HOLDING MEET AT RESORT i Directors and secretaries of seven t production credit associations in i North and South Carolina, Georgia i and Florida began their annual conference at Mbyview Manor, Blowing ] Rock, Monday morning. The meet- t ing will continue through Wednesday. ' Tlte session opened with talks by 1 R. S. Rogers, director of the Farm < Credit administration: fleoreo 1,. ? Griffith, treasurer of the Production a Credit corporation, and Jack Frost, of the secretarial department of the corporation, ail from Columbia, S. C. Figures submitted to the confer- i once revealed that 18 associations in j the third farm credit administration ; district, composing North Carolina, 1 South Carolina, Georgia and Florida i S have aggregated $12,321,80-1 in loans in the past five years. j rATAl An Independent _____ New La. Governor Baton Rouge, La.?Governor Kurt K. Long, brother of tl?* late Huoy i\ Long, who succeeds to the state's executive office because of the resignation of Governor llichard \V. Leche. The governor saiil he was resigning iKTatisc of poor health. MERCHANTS WILL GATHER MONDAY <eu Officers Arc In Be Name! by Retailers as F.niployees Arc Feted at Banquet The Eoone Merchants A-ssociatioi rill he host to the employees of til* arfons retail establishments at lanquet in the hasement of the Bap ist church Monday evening at 1 fclock, whan Mr. Wiilartl I, Dowel", eeretary e? the State Mcrch'u.ia As relation will deliver an ash ess. Neve officers \v:l! oe elected at t'n< withering and reports of the treasure' lui secretary will tie heard. Prer.i lent Clyde R. Greene will review ihi icccmpli^hmcnts of the associatioi luring the past year, and outline < irogram of activities for the comin{ wclve nv.mthfl. Any si'iggvntiotic" 6! - onstrtictive criticism wiU bo Wei em'ed. All members of the association nn< ls many employees as possible ari irged to attend the annual meeting ?fo le3s tiian fifty persons are ex iccted to attend. MANY VISIT THIS AREA ON FOURTH Slowing Rock Reports Large In flux of Visitors; Boone Has Many Guests Hundreds of people flocked fron he lowlands to the mountains for tin "ourth of July and reports Iron flowing Rock indicate that the hotel und boarding houses had the larges rowds of holiday guests lor manj rears. At the same time Boom ame in for a good share of the. guests md Monday evening ail availabh ooms in the town had been taken vitli a large number of visitors re Paining after the fourth. This entire area was visited b; am on the Fourth, but nevertheless he holidajf crowds seemed to have i ;ood time. All business houses in Boone wer :losed Tuesday and there was a saf md sane observance of independene lay. No disorders have been noted ilia no accidents are reported. Karmer Fires Shotgun On Chicken Thieve! Mr. J. M. Isaacs of Mable, fired hi ihotgun point blank at two men wh< vere raiding his chicken house las Friday night and believes some o he bird .shot might have taken ef ec.L Mr. Isaacs watched his hen hous intil about 11:30, when two mci rtealthily snatched three hens fron he roost. Mr. Tsaacs fired, and th ntruders fled, dropping the chicken n their haste. Or. Friday night before this. Mt Isaacs lost five hens while eight wer aken Friday two weeks previous rhe circumstances establish the be ief that the chicken thieves are cov ?ring a large territory and visi ipecific localities at weekly inter /als. SINGING CONVENTION A singing convention is to be he! it the Oalc Grove Baptist churcl tear Boone next Sunday afternoor starting at 1 o'clock. Classes fror Willow Valley, Union. Brushy Fort Boone Fork and Stony Fork will b present and a good time is antici pated. The general public is invitee LJGA t Weekly Newspaper?Est WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH j WOMAN'S CLUHTtO ! ENTERTAIN FRIDAY Famed Musicia& Will Feature Open House Meeting of the Worth While Club lllrs Dorothy Clark Tonilin, note St. Petersburg'. Fia.. harpist, ant Miss Elizabeth irowbrklgy, national. Vy-known lyric sopia.no, will feature the program at the open-house meeting" of the Worth While Club' to be iieid at the American Legion hul Friday evening. July 7. at 8 o'clock The musical prograf which has been arranged for the meeting is one of the most outstanding event.s thus far promulgated, and all the ladies oi the town are urged to be present. Ai this time, Mrs. Charles H. Cowies ol Wilkesboro. district ciub president will be present, and the Worth While Club is io be eorganized at the "open-house"* session. The reorganized club, it is pointed out, will incorporate four active clubs within the one federaton. and Mrs. John Conway, the president, believes that every woman of the city will find at lca3t one department of particular interest . to her. The new club is to be a civic rather than a social organization and Mrs. Conway expects it to have splendid support in the community. r She feels exoxeptionally fortunate in being able to offer the outstanding musical program which is as follows: ' Oh! English group. Miss Trowbridge: Where the Bee Slicks, Thos. Arne: Unpjr the Greenwood Tree, Thoa A rne; Lo! Mere the Gentle ; Mark, Sir Henry ft. Bishop, i First gn>up, Mjrs. Tomlin: Believe t Me if All Those Endearing Voung . Charms (Irish melody); My Heart r and Thy Sweet Voice; Son gof the Volga Boatmen. German group. Masj3 Trowhrjdge: Ave Maria, Schubert; I hi blsfc lie . Huh. SU?ube?^;*Tcltdich, GsTeg. group, Mrs Tomiirt: Steph. hi Hosier Medley?Way Down TJpon ? the Suwauee River, Mty Old Kentucky x Home, Old -Black Joe; Mighty Like a i Rose, Ncvin. r Miss Trowbridge: Jevftw- Song. (Faust), - Gounod;? One ISpt? Day i Madame Butterfly) Pucclmy Third group," Mrs. Tomlin: A. Japj uneac Sunset, Dcppcr.) : Moonlight n. Sonata, Beethoven. Miss Trowbridge: Jennie With the . Light Brown Hair, Foster; The Last Rose of Summer, Foster; Lullaby, Cyril Scott; My Johaim, Grieg. Address, Mrs. Charles h. Cowles, Wilicesboro. [ Judge Winston To Speak Here Friday Judge R. W, Winston of Chapel J till, will deliver an address on Andrew Johnson aL the college auditorium Friday morning at. 10:30, and the 1 general public is cordially invited to 2 hear the eminent visitor. 1 Judge Winston hits recently com3 pleted a book on the life of Johnson, t the North Carolinian who became the seventeenth President of the United - States, and is recognized as an his3 torical authority. The biography has 3 been adopted as a standard textbook at Harvard University. Mr. Carl Story of Lynn, N. C., was y a visitor m the county over the weeks end. i Beautiful You e ' A Brief Sketch of Thin Romantic and Historic Pioneer Mountain Ko;ul (A tribute from a .summer visitor, 5 George W. Mlasori, Homestead, Fla.) "A thing of beauty is a joy for cwi. Aim so, since lonaniossee 3 Trail is for its entire length of twent ty miles from Blowing Rock to Linf ville, one of the most er.trancingly - beautiful mountain highways in Eastern America, its claim to fame and e .permanent joy to all who travel a thereon, is well-founded, a The road penetrates some of the e most rugged mountain sections of s North Carolina and certainly, the oldest mountain peak in all of North \ America, if not in the world. Grande father Mountain, stands guardian at i. the western end of this most fasci nating nearly mile tiigh scenic high way. t For miles the road rides the very - topmost peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains, affording superb views of distant peaks and deep, exclamationcompelling gorges on either side of d the road. For distances of perhaps ti fifty to sixiy miles north or south of i, the highway at these higli ridge n points, range after range of mountain t, tops like succeeding high waves on a e turbulent sea, are clearly visible, i- At seasons, the sides of these 1. mountains are one vast field of floral DEM( tablished in the Year Eight* CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JULY WILL APPEAR : /Mrs. I)oroth\ OPirli TomiIIii of St r<l harpist, and Miss Elizabeth Tray J will appear in concert at the opcn-h I Ciub Friday tweolng. | BICYCLES ANSWER TO ] STUDENT S PROBLEM 1 j Henry Baggctt, popular student , at Appalachian Gollege, who will i [ be in the next senior class at that ; j institution. needed some cash to j; j tide him over his final school year 1 j and no jobs were available?thai j is, young >Ir. Raggett failed to i find one. X'ndauuted. Raggett re- ' ! called that bicycles, in universal } demand during the jjjij ninrtiis, I had again become a cr.wc over the ? j country, and he bought, not one, 1 j hilt- several. Now Henry is rent- i ing bicycled to stiideiits and others and luis built for himself a lucrative business, the. only trouble be- J i ing that oftentimes his supply of < ! "wheels" is inadequate to the do- ! j maud. Ho is tp> joying splendid l success. Quite fSttift$I.V Ifclggelt fclS ' l>een named business manager of t the college newspsvper during the coming y?M\r. L. j. Honeye.utt Dies Tuesday Afternoon I L. *w>i?e>cutt. 70 year old reab , dent of wStauga township. died at J his home near Shu Us MSlls Tuesday , afternoon, after an illness of several . months.. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock , from the Shuils Mills Baptist church. Rev. IS. D. Butt, episcopal minister, being: in charge of the rites aiid interment was in the nearby cemetery. Su! viving are four sons and four daughters: R L. and C. D, Honeycutt, Boone; Mbse Honeycutt, Butler: Ed Honeycutt, Johnson City; Mrs. Will Cookr Hickory; Mrs. Lee Coffey, Shulls Mills; Mrs. Bili Coffey, Hickory'; Mrs. Henry Coffey. Linville. Mj1. Honeycutt was born in Alexander county and the family moved to J ^ Watauga when he was 12 years old., He was a farmer by occupation, and a good substantial citizen. JOINS ARMY ; John O. Cook, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Cook. Sr., of Boone, was last week accepted by the Lenoir re- cruiting station for enlistment in the , United States army for field artillery at Fort Bragg. , Lahlossee Trail loveliness, as for instance when the-1 Oatawbienses or purple rhododenciendron is in bloom. For sheer { breath-taking beauty there is nothing can quite compare with this springtime and early summer lavish display of natural enchantment ''Knee Deep in June."' along the J j Yonahlossee Trail is the time when) the most resplendent floral views | may lie had. Then indeed is the world seemingly filled with beauty and wonder. With fiaming azaleas, one of nature's flowering masterpieces. laurel and rhododendron all in full flower, the countryside is a veritable mountain wonderland and all seems right with the world. Of course the early spring and fall seasons, too, have their esthetic ap peal to beauty lovers and leave memories in one's mind that, provide many happy recollections long after : this scenic highway trip is over < (Mow that the Yonahlossee Trail road is open to the public and is here <] for al! who will, to freely enjoy and, profit from, one is likely to take as: a matter of fact and all too lightly, i . the establishment and building of this master highway. But it was not so easily accomplished as we shall presently see. Time was. and not so long ago i either, when this entire mountain country was a closed book, except to 1 (Continued on page three) 1' iCRA 3( Eighty-Eight Iras ? *' r HERE FRIDAY 1 I - trk- ; &*. *=? i Kvll f/li'fe li c i. lVtersfourg, Flo.., :*? accioisnpHsh- i ^ kbriagt\ noted lyric soprano, who onsr iHtftiiig of the. Worth While j h DRY LEADER TO 1 SPEAK IN BOONE j 5 Sam Morris of Texas, "Voice of Temperance," Will Be Heard ( . Here duly 12 Sam Morns of Del Rio. Texas, whose Voice of Temperarce broad.- 0 sasts ha it- been heard by million? of radio listeners from coast to coast, r yiU speak in Boone on Wednesday, r>dy 12. at 3 o'clock j Twice each night, during the past 'our winters, Mr. Morris has presented up-to-niirmte radio discussions of j die liquor question over radio sis. Jons XRKN! and X?AW. I 1 Mr. MV.Yi ris is now makoig n ' : 'peaking tour which wy.l tjjS<? him * Jirough a, number of states. 1 Mr. Morris is associate editor of s The National Voice j America's oldest :emperanee newspaper, and comes 1 tery under that publication's aus- 1 ?lces. ? His talk here will deal wit*, intl- v nato behind-the-seene details oi the L nanner in which u. temperance radio 5 trusade is frpnViucted, toid ? deScrip * .ion of the powerful interests Uiat * lavfc bean at work to keep the true * acts about repeal and tlic liquor 1 picstion from reaching the people. KIMBER JOHNSON RITES ARE HELD , Eliza betliton, Tenn.. Citizen Dies E While on Visit to Relatives t Here; Was S3 Years Old I _ c Kimbe.r Johnson, agog 8S, for about ( .0 years a citizen of the RutherkVoo'.l section of Watauga county, t Siod at the Wfetauga Hospital Tuos- ? lay after an illness of only a few i days. Mr. Johnson, who resided at Bilzabethton, Tenn . was on a visit to j ^ relatives and friends in Watauga j when he contracted the fatal illness, j Funeral services were conducted from the M?ount Vernon Baptist \ smirch at 11 o'clock Wednesday. Rev. ; VV. C. Greene being assisted in the j ] rites by Rev. W. K. Harris of Eliza- j . bethton. and interment was in the , cemetery at Brown's Chapel. Dr. B. B. Dougherty, lifelong friend of the deceased, paid striking tribute to the memory of Mr. Johnson during the course of the services Surviving arc five sons and five daughters: W H. Johnson, Polwin. (Continued on page eight) Edwin Mast Is New Chief of Police | Edwin B. Mailt of Boone, has been famed chief of the police department ' f this city, to succeed Mr. Star.cii D. ' Ollis, and has already taken over his new duties. Mr. Ollis will remain on luty for fifteen days assisting Mr. Mast, before accepting another position. The position of county game warfen which Mr. Mast liad held, will not be filled immediately, according to Mr. Grady Farthing, district game protector, who states that the work here will be absorbed by officials in other counties for the time being, unJer a new policy of the state board of conservation and development. PIANO RECITAL Mrs. P. M. Rutherford will appear in a piano concert in the Appalachian College auditorium Satuiday night at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Rutherford : is a member of the faeult5 of Hocka- 1 day College, Dallas. Texas, and is a pianist of note throughout the south, i The public is invited. < T $r.5o"AYEAR MLEYGROUPir NAMED BY C, OF C. -ommiflec to Contact Tobacco Manufacturers in L.ine With Warehouse Movement The board of directors of the loono Chamber Commerce met 'hursilay moraing aha & committee anted, whose duSes will V- to conno* various tobacco manufacturers ith a request that they furnish buy?v for the proposed Boone market, lid at the same time to locate a suitble site for the warehouses. Those narhed on the committee are Icrxry Hamilton, chairman: Wade 5. irown, w. k. Loviil. Dr. H. B. Perry, T rton Doughton, Statesvihe: Charlie i.'iid, Avery county farm agent; R. i Blaloek. Alleghany county agent: ack Shoun and Barton Mount of pjK.'uns., Term. \ member of tne c? mini t tee iron? Asne county will be amed later. 'It has been definitely decided to aiild a warehouse,'* says H. \\". Wii:ox, Chamber of Commerce presient, "and the prospective warehouse, nen have been notified to this elect. Il is pointed out that this narket will handle tbe best grade of urle> in the south, and therefore, is xpected to command the highest haricot prices."' The committee has several sites in iev." which could be used fov the c-sabhshmcnt of the warehouse, and for. Wilcox requests anyone who has i tract of land from two to three .crcs, ciose in. which could be offered t a reasonable price to contact some uen :>er of the aforementioned comriittcc. B. &. L. Asked to Meet At Blowing Rock The North Carolina Building and x>an *>- :>' .!>' has been asked to hold ts 1.040 co?veiitt6-.i at Blowing Keck, he iMvit.'itie'- having be?r, or.beaded he group by W. VI. GiSgSi of Boone, ;eo.rotary of the Watauga Building' ma Loan .Association, who attended he convention at Wrightsville Beach, ast week. O. K. LaRoquc, president if the Home Jjoau Bank of yvansUmIniftm nr? N.iflVotlnU *?? H?iv I uai t?t ? l|,UVIUIjl lOI li?V :onvcuthm to be held in his city ne*tr ear. However, it us felt that since/ he convention usually rotates beween mountain top and seashore re- 7 urts. that Blowing Rock will likely host nexxt year. Postal Receipts Show An Increase Receipts at the Roone postoffice Or the fiscal year ending June 30. as compared with the year ending June' 10, 1938, showed a gain of $1,171.45, r almost eight per pent, according o Post master Wiley G. Hnrtzog. ?or the quarter ending June 30, the jair. was $112.91 over the same quarter in 1938. For the year ending June 30, 1938, he recipts were $15,25(5.96, as igainst $16,42S.4l for the year endng June 30, 1939. WATAUGA BOY WILL ATTEND 4-H CONFERENCE When the annual 4-H" short course s held at IST. C. State College July M-29, Watauga county will probably nave several representatives from imong- its farm boys and girls. One these will be Councill Hcnson of v juvss, who was seiecxea as the outstanding 4-II club boy in the couuty for 1938. The honor carried with it a scholarship to the State College event, given by the Chilean -"Nitrate of Soda educational bureau. The 4-H short course combines education, recreation and inspiration, and offers fains boys and girls an opportunity to exchange ideas, receive the latest information on agricultural and home-snaking developments, and engage in programs of entertainment and games. One of the features of this year's event will be a pageant depicting the 25-year history of 4.I-I club work in North Carolina. R. Harrill, state 4-H club leader, and Miss Frances MbcGregor. assistant state club leader, have selected several county groups to act out in pantomime and song the various phases of the youthtraining organization. THREE SEATED TO DIE IN STATE PRISON FRIDAY Raleigh. July 5.?>North Carolina is scheduled to take the lives of three men Friday in the first triple execution since July 1, 1938. Tlie three men slated to die in the gas chamber Friday arc: Bricey Hammonds, Indian. Robeson county; Alfred Caper, ncgTO, Robeson county; and James Henderson, negro, New Hanover county. Governor Hoey has indicated that 10 reprieve will be granted to any >ne of the three.
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