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vol. 52. "imo. Ti
JAMEST.G R 0 S f
SUCCUMBS A FT EC
EXTENDED ILLNESS
AVorld War Veteran and Elet
tion Board Member Dies s
Veterans Home; Riles Altent
od by !-arf?e Throng; a Brit
Review of His Life
James T. Gross, aged 45, Worl
War veteran and secretary of lh
wauillgu ctuuii,v fiwuuncj inmiM, uit:
at the Veterans Hospital in Johnso
City, Tenn.. last Friday, where h
had been a patient for about two .an
a half months. m,r. Gioss had neve
enjoyed his usual health since hi
active participation in the Worl
War. and had been in hospitals
number of times
Funeral services were conciliate
from the Oak Grove church, one mil
west of Boone, and near the res
donee of the deceased, Sunday aftei
noon. Rev. G. A Ham by, the pasto
being in chaise of the rites. Re1
W C Greene, chaplain of the Wa1
augu Post American Legion, and Rc^
F. C. Watts, former pastor at Oa
Grove, also participated during th
course of the services. The chure
was completely filled, all availabl
standing room token, and some bur
| dreas of persons stood in the church
yard while the funeral was in prop
ress. Tlie floral offering was beat
t if ul
( Interment was in the Mines grave
yard, members of the Watauga For
of the Amciican Bogicm being i
charge
cmrvivmg" arc uio widow, the foi
!aner MJso Fannie Fletcher, and thru
small daughters: ISiizabcth, Mary j
And IVggy GrXVKB} The aged motho;
MJre I tS Grass. also survives, U
gather with three brolHers and thrc
sisters: Bynum Gross of Catmf
Leo and CJeve Giosa of Boone; Air
B. A. Hodges anrl Mrs F. M. Maltbi
Boone, and Mis. Charles G. Lewis c
i ZioiwilU.
J Born in Stony Fork
iMir. Grx-ss, who was a soil of Ui
(Continual on page eight.)
Parkway Company
Opens Saturda;
The Parkway Company, Boone
new hardware and electrical appl
once store, which is located in tf
old posloffiee building, will he fo
? anally opened fer business Saturda
I morning at 9 o'clock, according t
an announcement carried in the a<
vertising columns of the local new;
paper today
The- quarters have been redecora
ed and new fixtures installed and tl
f stock of merchandise is being place
on the shelves daily. The new stoi
proposes to carry a complete line <
hardware and electrical fixtures ar
appliances, and invites the people <
the territory to inspect the wares c
the opening day.
'..'V.V
Child is Injured
In Auto Acciden
Rebecca Moose, daughter of D
and Airs. G. K. Mjoose, was rig]
' seriously bruised and shocked Satu
day afternoon, when she was struc
by an automobile driven by Mr. Jii
Carter at a point near the Bapti:
church. The Moose child was retun
ing from school with a group of otl
er children and was chased into tl
path of the car as she i\>mped wit
(her playmates. The car was trave
1ng slowly, and the child's injuria
(were not serious.
The accident was unavoidable, it
said, and no blame is attached to M
jj Carter.
I County Library To
Be Closed 3 Day
{Miss Jewel Hagaraan, county
brarian. states that the county
brary will be closed during Monda
Tuesday and Wednesday of ne.
week ,due to the fact that the qua
ters being used in the courthouse w
have to be surrendered so that tJ
grand jury may have a place for i
sessions. The library will open <
Thursday as usual.
! 900 Collegians
Are Now Enrolle
Information coming from the A
palachian College Wednesday mor
ipg indicate that registrations ha
passed the 900 mark, and that sor
students are expected to enter lati
This figure is considerably high
than that of a year ago, and t
average for the fall and winter terr
will likely be higher than at a
past period.
/A.TA1
An Independen
boonet
^ Racket-Busters
Lakeside. Mich.?Thomas K.
Dewey, district, attorney of New
York, and Kepuhliean ^residential
possibility, meets another notaiik
j racket-bus tor?Judge George E. Q
Johnson, former U. S. district at*
torncy of Chicago, who prosecuted
AI Capone, notorial s Chicagu
'' nickctecr.
IV
i JUDGE WINSTON
I GIVES WAR VIEW!
Visitor to Boone Says Cash an
Carry Proposal :? Snare
and Subterfuge
it Judge Robert W. Winston <
ii Chapel Hill, who posses a one of tf
state's most brilliant ml: us, i3 spenc
ir,g some time In Boom and on
e visit to the office of thi local now:
0 paper Saturday, refer ed to ti
r> "cash anil carry" propr sal hi coi
r.cctinn with. the iccvornment'a pol
e oy of iie?:t*rlity i.'-s as snaio and
); subterfuge, and a certoin avenue int
s, another war.
1 Judge Winston said tin t the cat
,r and carry method would result i
America's furnishing food and mun
lions of war to England n id Franc
ie and tlius make of this country the
storehouse and arsenal ''Under th
proposal," he said, "Germany ar
Russia, which have no ships, will I
unable to secure war supplies fro:
this nation. The question is, the
' 'What should be done by congress
The answer is to sell food and snj
s plies to no nation whatever, ml
cash and carry plan is a snare and
K' subterfuge When our president sai
r" ho would do everything short of \vr
y to aid England ho was playing wit
-? fire and precipitating war.''
Judge Winston says congress slioii
s* enact such neutrality legislation :
would make America truly and def
jinny jicuirai. winy .uirougJi ui
10 course docs he see a hope of Amei
k<l ca staying out ol" another world wa
re
* TEACHES IN ASHE
Ml-. C. M Dickson, former princ
pal of the Bethel high school,
,n teaching this year at Healing Sprinj
high school in Ashe county. In h
new position Mr Dickson is able
live at home, and had refused to a
cept a position outside the county :
it this time.
rt Democrat Ad Draws
r- Response From a
m Resident of Manil
St -
Mr. B. W. Stallings, local jewel
er and Boy Scout leader, tells th<
e local newspaper that "Democra
Ji advertising really, does the bnsi
ness on a far-flung scale,'' for In
is has just received a letter from thi
Philippine Islands, as a result of hi:
is advertising the Soap Box Derby ii
r. the county journal, which response
may result in the institution of tin
amateur racing events in Manila.
Mr. B. G. Leake off Manila is thi
subscriber noting the ad and forth
rg with writes Mr. Stallings for mon
information about the derby. Th?
^ letter was dispatched by clippe
plane, and carries a dollar's wortl
of stamps. Mr. Leake says:
y' "The July 27th Issue of the Wat
auga Democrat has just been re
r~ ceived in Manila and we note wit!
interest tiie advertisement on th
last page relative to the 1930 soa,
15 box derby.
>n ''Inasmuch as the writer is th
Cub Scout commissioner for th
American Boy Scouts of the Philip
pines and to the best of our know!
dedge no such event as the soap bo
derby has been put on in Manil:
we would ask yon, in the interns
p. of boyhood, that yon kindly semi u
n- a copy of the official rules an
ve regulations governing this event,
ne "We believe that a similar even
;r. will go over big in Manila and w
er would greatly appreciate any infoi
he illation as to the method of judg
ns ing, length of runways, etc., whic
ay you may give us in order to mak
our first soap box derby a success.
LJGA :
t Weekly Newspaper?Est<
WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH (
GOVf^NORllOEY TO
SPEAK AT ANNUAL
WATAUGA CO. FAIR
Three-Day Program for Wat-'
auga Agricultural Fair is
Made Public. Band Concerts,
Fireworks Athletic Contests.
Other Amusements
Governor Clyde R Hoey is expect jed
to speak at the Watauga Agricul
i lira; r air wnicii opwis su me wjvv :
Creek high school on September 28.
The address of the governor is schedulc-ti
for Friday morning. September
at in o'clock
In announcing the program for the
three-days of the fair, Mr. Ernest
Milliard gives out tile following stute.
mer.t:
"The ninth Wntauga Agricultural
Fair is only two weeks away and evI
ery farmer and home-maker should
t have in mind what they plan to exhibit.
We sincerely hope you will set
aside at least three days in this
month as a thanksgiving season ar.d
show your gratitude by participating
in the fair arid enjoying its varied
^ program of entertainment."
^ Following is the program for the
three day event:
Thursday, Sept. 28
d 1 Entering of exhibits from noon
up to 10 p. m.
2. Baseball game in afternoon.
3. S:00 Free sound movie. This is
a new feature of the fair program
' and Ijotii old and young are urged to
come mere will he rceis on oeei
cattle, poultry, Hogs, sheep and farm
a crops. Also there will be tavo comedy
reels.
Friday. Sept. IM
l. S:O0 to 10:00 a. 111 .?-Enter hi#
of flower exhibits.
(tsonttnued on page eight)
;o '
;i- Railway Directors
Visit Boone Monday
e.
ir A special train carrying officers
is and directors of the Tnnvillc River
id Railway Company came to Koooe
>o Monday and (he group went To BOowm
in# Rock (where they 3pent the night,
n, President Ea:I , General Manager
?' Black well and Secretary Fisher -were
j- Included in the inspection tour, and
le they expressed the hope that busia
ness would improve and that the diswt
continuance of traffic over the narir
vow-gauge might not culminate,
h. At this time. Station Agent H. W.
Wilcox discloses that plans are held
in?; made for the final iconic excuris
sion over the road Sunday, October 1
i- Many lowlanders, it is believeti, will
is want to take the trip during the an
i- iu:iii( wuuu V<UI*VUIUICU iuuojji" ituua
r. attractiveness to the landscape. Further
announcement ?will be made as to
the excursion at a later date.
^ Robert N. Brooks
Dies On Thursday
CRobert
EN. Brooks, 57, well-known
merchant of Sherwood, died at the
? home last Thursday evening, after
an illness of four weeks
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday from the Hen son's Chapel
Methodist church and burial was in
a the cemetery there. The pastor. Rev.
J. W. Parker, and the Rev. E. F.
Troutman, pastor of Grace Lutheran
3 church of Boone, officiating.
I MY. Brooks was a native of Washington
county, Tennessee, but moved
& to Boone several years ago, where
he engaged in the restaurant ousis
ness. Later he moved to Sherwood
n where he had conducted a grocery
q and restaurant business near the
B Cove Creek high school. He was a
well-known and popular citizen.
? Surviving are the widow, the for_
mer Mjss Lillian Bingham of SherB
wood; one son and one daughter,
D Robert Brooks of Sherwood, and Mrs.
r Virgia Cardwell of Elizabcthton,
Tenn. A stepmother. MYs. Brooks, of
Greenville, Tenn., one brother and
two sisters also survive.
Football Tickets
t, Placed Oil Sale
0 Season tickets to all home games
e of the Appalachian State football
' team are on sale at both local drug
I- stores for $2 50 each, which figures
* the same price as students pay for
athletic tikets.
't These tickets are accepted at all
LS home games for both the varsity and
<1 "B" team. The home schedule follows:
't September 30-?Carson-Newman,
e October 14?Western Carolina.
" October 28?King (Homecoming).
November 18?South Georgia,
h September 29?Lccs-McRae, ''B"
:e team.
" November 4?Brevard, "B'> team.
DEM<
iblished in the Year E.igl
pROLlNA, THURSDAY. SEP
GOVERNOR TO
Governor Clyde H. Hoey, w
WatAmgu County Agricultural 1
scheduled for Friday morning,
Poistotfice Closea
At 8 In Order To
Protect Propert
IVblinnstcr W. G. HartW^ informs
the Democrat that the postoffice
is now being dosed to the
(Hiblic at 8 o'clock each evenblt, In
an effort to protect the desks and
other government property in the
public lobby.
The official states that 20 names
liave been penned on gilt portions of
the expensive public desks and
that there are other marks and
characters in abundance. A record
lias been taken of some of the inscriptions,
and identification oi
some of the miscreants has been
effected. Mr. llartzog respectfully
asks that patrons of the office
desist from defacing the postoffic*
property, and in the meantime will
likely turn over the information
of the misconduct to a postal inspector.
A penalty for defacing property
of the federal government in tht
amount of $5,000 is in force, or ir
lieu thereof a five-year prison tern
may be imposed, or both at the
discretion of the court.
CALDWELL Ml !Tl A!
ELECTS OFFICER!
Clyde Perry of Sugar Grove,
New Vice-President of REA
Corporation
G.I Walter Sullivan of Yadkin Va
ley, deputy clerk of the Caldwt
county superior court, was re-elect*
president of the Caldwell .Mutu
Corporation of Caldwell, Ashe. Wh
auga and Alleghany counties, at
other officers were re-named for ai
other year at the annual stockholdei
meeting of the co-ooerative which wi
held in Lenoir Saturday.
Other officers of the corporatic
are: Clyde Peny, Sugar Grove, vici
president: H. E. Beach. Lenoir, se<
retary-treasurer.
Watauga members of the ne
board of directors are: Clarence Nov
ton, Shulls Mills, and Avery Green
Mteat Camp.
BURGESS OPENS NEW
CONSTRUCTION OFFIC
Melvin F. Burgess Constructs
Company has opened a new home o
fice for their construction enterpris
in the Appalachian Theatre buildii
and Mrs. Carrie Williams has be<
added to the staff as bookkeeper. T1
office has been modernly appoint
and is now open.
Mr. Burgess expects to start wo:
within a week on the construction
176 miles of REA electric transmi
1 sion lines in Brunswick and Colui
bus counties, and other contracts a
in prospect.
JCRA
iteen Eighty-Eight
T~~ ' ~i9;w
=7
SjzAK AT FAIR | S
he will be fhe principal speaker at the
fair. Governor Hoey'n address is
September 29, at 10 o'clock
TOBACCO GROUP^ S
r GOES TO DURHAM !
<h
Prospects Still Seem Good For ^
Interesting Additional Buy- ^
ers in Burley Mart a
, A Chamber of*- Com-nicrce commit- d;
toe composed of S. C. Rggers \V R. a;
I I-ovill, Representative R. B Doughj
ton, \V B. Mount, Mr. ll'edrick of the ?
I department of agriculture, went to
[ I Durham today, where they will con- a
! for with Mr. Dowd, vice-president of B
i the American Tobacco Company in
1 I regard to that organization supplying T
buyers to the proposed hurley tobacco
> market in Boone. Governor Hoey, it
i is said, will also intercede at the conI
ference in behalf oi the Wataugans'
proposal r
Meantime subscriptions for stock in
the warehouse are going- forward, ?
with the prospect that all of'the mon- ^
* *?\r r<viiiirixl Ann Vvi i-n Ica.1 Vii>.-. *i-if V* S
i J out the necessity of seeking outside
? capital. ?
i Just what effort the closing of the P
bright leaf markets will have on the 12
_ hurley proposal remains to be seen. 11
The withdrawal of British buyers *L
Lfrom the markets of the old belt re- *
suited in wholesale closing' of ware- f
^ houses, no agreement as to their re- v
V opening having been reached. Soine 1
local opinion tends to the belief that e
burley markets would not necessarily
is be affected on the grounds that {
iburley is little demanded by the British
trade.
i. Dr. Moose Buys
!?[ Drug Store Property .
:d;
?
al | Dr. G K. A!loose became the owner t
t- \ of the interest in the Boone Drug >
Kl' Company held by his late business ^
partner, Mr. J. R. MJcNairy of Lenoir, r
through a deal recently made with. c
rs Mrs. McNairy, and simultaneously a
13 with the transfer of the property, he t
announces a program of general im>n
provements in tlie pharmacy. v
Dr. Mjoose has purchased the new- a
c" est refrigerator type fountain, to re- $
place the one being used, and says j
w that other very great improvements r
will be made in the store. T
e, I
Road To Top of Tater ]
Hill Is Now Open !
E .
Mr. S. C. Eggers tells the Demo- ;
Ml crat that on Monday afternoon he 11
>{- drove his automobile to the summit
es of Tater Hill mountain, the first i
lg time a motor car had ever negotiated
en the road recently graded to the emi- 1
fie nenee. The trip from Boone required <
ed about 35 minutes. !
Mr Kggers states that during the <
rk dry weather the trip can be easily .
of made, and that the highway which I
is- was recently graded will be improved (
n- from time to time. Mr. Jiggers is in 1
re charge of a proposed vast develop- (
merit on Tater Hill. i
r
^ YEAR
IIPERIORCOUR'T
BEGINS MONDAY;
ONE WEEK TERM
bout Seventy-five Cases on
State Docket; Only Two Felonics
to He Tried by Court;
Little I'rospect of Trying But
Few Civil Cases
The September term of VVafcaugar
ipenor court convenes Monday, with
Klge \V. H. Bobbitt ot Charlotte,
esiding, and Solicitor I.. S. SpurlS
of Lenoir, appearing as state
osecutor Th^ tenn is for the trial
both criminal and civil actions and
U! last for only one week.
Clerk of the Court Austin r;. South
ates tliat among the 75 cases on the
8TC ui'^vci, IHti v ui t univ two uidring
the coramission of felonies,
rank Teague of Boone, is being"
dd in jail on a charge of rape, grower
out of an alleged attack upon the
ferson of a young girl of this city,
id Howard .Testes is to be tried for
rgery, The amount being only $25.
!J other cases involve misdemeanors,
station of the prohibition laws bcg"
the most prevalent, Several cases
driving automobiles while intoxi.t.ed
are docketed.
Mr South states that the criminal
eket will likely occupy the attention,
the court <iuring Monday, Tuesday
ui "Wednesday, and that during the
rnaiiuier of the week it is not hewed
that any great headway will
; made toward clearing of the heavy
ivil calendar.
Vilkesboro Students
Enter Boone School
- , . >
Several student;, of tin WlUccsboro
(rh elementary achco' have*sn rod
Uja school ay Boone during tfw
ist several days, sayB the Journal- Nil
atriot. They arc: Misses Mary
harles and Elisabeth Alexander.
aughtors or Mr. and Mrs W\ at.
loxander; MTuis Margaret Venial. Qfjfy"'' * '***'
oughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vasl!
Misses Cicely and MiLrtha Jaws
Dd Bob. Laws, children of Mr. turd
trs Shifter R. Laws, and Nell, BudV
and Jolin Hubbard, children of Mr.
nd Mrs. Julius C. Hubbard. Mrs
lias also entered the A. S. T. C.
nd is talcing special courses to raise
er certificate as a teacher.
The -MRsses Alexander ami Vestal
nd Bob Laws will be seniors in the
k*one high school
Vlany Improvements
At Farmers Hardware
Painters are now busily engaged in
efinishmg l>oth the exterior and the
iterior of the Farmers Hardware &r
Supply Co., and the management of
he popular mercantile establishment
tates that a far-reaching modernizaion
program will be carried out.
'.pecialists, it is said, are making
lans for the re-arrangement of the
irge hardware stocks along the most
lodern and approved lines, and when
he impiovement prog-ram is com leted,
the local store will bo beautiully
and conveniently appointed, and
cill represent the latest word in
modern hardware merchandizing
auipmcnt.
County Residents
Receive $1,932.50
In Aid Payments
Watauga county received a total of
il.932.50 of combined county, state
tnd federal funds in August For disribution
to 292 recipients under the
^orth Carolina public assstance pro
xam. Miss Ada XFcRaoken. field ropesentative
for the slate board of
liarities and public welfare, has been
idvised by Niathan H Yelton, direcor
of public assistance.
To 169 r.cedy aged in the county
vent a total of $1,261.00. giving them
in average grant for the month of
7.46. while 119 dependent children
eceived average grants of $4 80 to
nake a total expenditure for that
>urpose of $571.50.
Yelton's communication to Miss
deltackon showed there were four
vidows of Confederate veterans in
he county drawing old age assistince
payments under the legislative
ict transferring them if eligible to
he public assistance roils.
The widows received a total payTient
of $100, or an average of $25.
State-wide average payments to
leedy old people was $9.58, to depenlent
children $5.91, and to pensioners
525.31. A total of 55.283, persons
iver the state received $463,118.82 in
iugust while for the fiscal year
through August state totals were:
Old age assistance, $635,140.16; aid
to dependent children, $249,194.54;
Oonfederate widows on the public assistance
rolls, $33,221.26.
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