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Wai VOLUME LII, NO. 21 24 PA BOONE World's i warehouse built at cost of more1 than $25,000.00 39.000 Square Feet of Floor Space. Exclusive of Driveways; Buyers Sav I'rize Rooms and Facililies Most Complete in Area: Well Lighted and Heated When the chant of the tobacco auctioneer of'iriallv ooens Boonc't new Mountain Burley Warehouse on December 6th. visiting growers from the dark leaf belt will be given opportunity to inspect a building the modern convenience of which is cnid to he second to none in this or surrounding states. Constructed by Ere in and West. Statesville contractors, at a total cost of more than *25.000. the Moon- | tain warehouse is of frame and sheet TENN. TRUCKERS DO NOT NEED N. C. TAGS Tobacco growers in Tennessee j ami Virginia. it is understood !ccatty, have been told that when 1 the7 bring thcit tobacco So Econe with fcurlov. North Carolina authorities will lax them with additional motor licenses. Tills is absolutely untrue, local authorities point out. The controversy over the interstate motor iraiiic was settled, it is undcrs'ood, ssyercl monljis ago. Any truck license good in * She slates of Tennessee or Virginia, it is said, will be good ir. Boone when the tobacco is being trails- ' ForJed to the . local market. metal design, is well-lighted by 2,- I '<36 square feet ?' roof glass, and ! the basement of the- building with i i dimensions of more than 9,000 I. squaw fee.!, has been divided into | two immense prize rooms. These j rooms are equipped with modern j scales, presses and pumps, and will ! . greatly, facilitate the clearance of I tobacco from the main warehouse j floors. Clyde R. Greene, chairman of the building committee which is composed of himself, William R. Lovill. H. Grady Farthing and W. H. Gragg, stales that more than fifty carpenters and helpers worked thirty days on the warehouse, and that every (Continued on page four) GEO. WTROBBINS DIES ON SUNDAY Pioneer Merchant of Shulls ] Mills Section Succumbs Suddenly; Rites Tuesday George Wyatt Robbins, aged 78 j years, pioneer merchant of Shulls ' Milk and for many years prominently identified with the religious and political life of the county, died at the home Sunday evening from a sudden illness. A heart attack was thought to have been responsible for his death. Funeral services were conducted from the Shulls Mills Baptist church i Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Vilas Mir.ton being in charge, and interment was in the neighborhood cemetery. Mr. Robbins is survived by the widow. Mrs. Luna Robbins, and a b daughter. Mrs. Edward Luttrell of Shulls Mills. / Mr. Robbins, who was a native of the Buffalo section of Caldwell county, had resided here the most of his life where he had engaged in the mercantile business for more than 40 years, and was still operating his general store at the time of his death. Ife was prominent in the one) roliflinllC nrfivif.lM f>f J;/VUUV.(U OliU * >-? ??p 'V ? * the county, and for several years served most capably as a member of the board of county commissioners. He was was a member of the I beard of deacons of Shulls Mills | Baptist church, of which he had , been a faithful member for more , than half a century. He was one of j the county's best and most popular j citizens. , ATTEND FOOTBALL GAME j Among those attending the Duke- 1 Carolina football game in Durham < Saturday were: W. H. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Huckins. Len Wilson. I (_ Ernest Sims, Joe Todd, Wendell i Wilson, Miss Jeneva Cooke, Mr. and : Mrs. J. E. Joines, Mr. and Mrs. Milt j Young, Miss Marguerite Miller, Mel- i Tin Burgess and Vernon Robbins. PAUGj An Independent GES TODAY BOONE, WAT 'SNEV * Leading < Typical Wa -^4o43MH!C " ffrmrffflW Great piles of rich, red 50]' growers reaping the material I floor, beginning December 6th. ARTIST TO SUBMIT .NEW MURAL DESIGN FOR BOONE OFFICE Aian Tompkins Consults Local Critics on Theme of Painting: New Design Expected to Portray Pioneer Tradition The mural design for Boone's new postoffice, which caused widespread criticism when called to public attention by a Democrat editoral, 's to be discarded in favor of a painting based on pioneer traditions. Alan Tompkins, author of the tobacco sketch which aroused public ire, spent Friday and Saturday in rv . ? i? ., .j t??i : * .? PUUUt:, L'UIUUllLtl lUeai UlUUi, OlfU ALAN THOMPSON aefore his departure assured interested persons that a new design will be completed within the next tew weeks for submission to Washington authorities. The canvas, he dated, is to have as a central theme the historical legend r.f Haniel Boone, and the finished work will olend the frontier with the modern community of today. In company with Postmaster W. G. Hartzog, Artist Tompkins saw much of the surrounding country, and carried away with him mental pictures of its mountain vistas and its typical people. Good-naiuredly (Continued on page eight.) u -~3T* A JgSI ? SPEC!A Weekly Newspaper?E,s AUGA COUNTY, NORTH C/ If BURS * * * Consumi rehouse Scene i _. ? ?- ??--?^ d . . . eager buyers for domestic ant bounty of a hard year's work. Th jHuge Celebi | Opening Spectacular Parade to Precede Others; Christmas Opening I Rail Climax; Four Bands Ar tain ritv Fniirs (a pA-nneri Saturday, December 2, will co stitute a red-letter day for Booi and tliis entire region, when son several thousands of persons are e peeled to gather in a gigantic ti staie celebration of the opening the burley tobacco market, witne the starting of the Christinas sho ping season, and participate in tl first grand annual tobacco ba which will climax the day's festi\ ties. Mr. W\ H. Gragg, chairman of tl committee on arrangements, stat that while some of the program yet more or less tentative, a gener draft of the schedule of activity indicates the biggest day for Boot in many years. At 10 o'clock, says Mr. Gragg, mile-long parade will form at tl burley warehouse, work its w; through the city from the Nor Water street intersection to the Ba; list church and on to the high scho building, where the platform ente tainment will start at 11 o'cloc The parade will be featured by tl Boone high school band, high scho bands from Mountain City at Spruce Pine, while merriment w be added by Appalachian College troupe of funny clows, in a seri of tumbling acts on a specially co structed float. On another float a genuine toba co auctioneer will conduct his sale while various automobiles carryii uusiness men ana iarmers 01 ti area will be included in the spe tacle. A number of horses are nee rd for the occasion, and it is tl purpose of the committee to ha' a mounted contingent along the li of march. Mr. Gragg will be master of cer monies at the high school and w present Mayor W. R. Lovill, de; of the local bar, who will deliver brief address of welcome. Co gressman Robert L. Dougliton. N Hedrick, tobacco specialist from R leigh. Paul Hardy, lessee of tl warehouse, and various others w speak briefly. County agents fro Ashe, Alleghany, Watauga, Johnso (Continued on page eight) t-> IKET Li r, ?i # L EDITION tablisKed in the Year Egfjat LROLINA, THURSDAY. S*^tM .EYMA Irs * ofTob n the Western Bu d foicic n consumers ... an auctioneer is is the drama of lobacco as it will be U. S. Depnrtr ration Marks Burley Season Speeches by Dough ion, Lovili an J 0 Feature Evening; Grand Tobacco e to Be Featured in Parade; Moim,le n- FIRST LOAD HURLEY BROUGHT TO BOOM F, x- Mr. J. S. Johnson, who resides i- on Mountain Cily Route I, of brought the first load of tobacco ss to the local burley market, arp rivinq here Tuesday night about io 9 o'clock. ') Mr. Johnson secured temporary accommodation for his weed at city hall pending the opening of re the warehouse next day. es The Tennesseean has other is burley he proposes to bring over a! at a later date. PS " STORES AND SHOPS 5 OF CITY SUPERIOR p01 r- Shopping Center of Mountain Region Make Ready For ?j Burley Visitors id ill Boone, the undisputed shoopinc ps center of the mountain counties o! 03 the northwest, is all ready for th< n_ hundreds of visitors who will comr here during the tobacco season, anc on December 2. the Christmas shop^ ping season will be officially start ' ' ed with the most extensive lines 01 ? merchandise ever to be assembled ir _ the city. V In every line of business activity Boone retailers have outdone therr. I*- selves in amassing large lines o: 'p merchandise for the fall and wintei trade, and despite the war in Eu rope, prices have not been seriouslj affected in this area. Most of 1h< stores were fortunate in securini in large quantities of merchandise be a fore advances were reflected on th< h- market, and the savings are gladlj if- being passed on. a- Visitors to the Mountain ware ie house are urged by the business ill men of the town to visit theii or stores, meet the proprietors and thi u, courteous business leaders in thi I most progressive city in the state. feMOC een Eighty-Eight itsER 23, IS3S MET! * * * >acco Sen* irleV Region J O chanting l?s ihvoaliesl notes . . . ; enacted on the local warehouse nent oi Agriculture Photograph FOUNDER OF LOCAL jNEWSPAPER DIES'; rtrmitk a xr a m a nn r>n.! rtmmi m AiiL . J J. F. Spainhour Succumbs After | Period of Declining Health; ! Established Law Office in i Boone in 1887 and Founded Watauga Democrat J. F. Spainhour, aged 89 years, dean of the Morgariton bar, former solicitor of the district and founder of the Watauga Democrat, died at his home Friday morning, following a long period of declining health. Pneumonia, contracted on Wcdnes ?<$&&****" ". v. f J. F. SPAINHOUR r day. was the immediate cause of " his death. Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist church in ' Morganton Saturday morning and , interment was in that city. r Native of Burke County Josenh Felix Spainhour was born in Burke county June 7, 1850, a son s of Michael and Lettie Estes Spainr hour. Educated at Table Rock ; Academy, the University of Illinois i j and Wake Forest College, he taught j (Continued on page four.) fgf:- 1 ; "i ifii' :rat SECTION A?EIGHT PAGES* IEADY * * * * d Buyers BIG THREE AND INDEPENDENTS HERE AT OPENING R. J. Reynolds, Liggett & Myers and American Tobacco Company to Be Represented at Boone Market; Lovill Given Major Credit A full set of buyers, representing leading tobacco manufacturers and independent brokers, will be present on Wednesday, December 6th, when Mountain Bui'ley Market / f: opens its first, season in. Boone. Promoters of the localmarket, who predict the sale of three to five million pounds of tobacco during the opening season in Boone, already have assurances that buycro for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Liggett &. Myers Tobacco TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE FORMED HEBE _ I ;: 7 r&fV/iL?;i'... A Tobacco Board of Trade, composed of Paul Hardy, Herman Wilcox and Walter H. Windopening and closing fcqwts IW the Boons barley market. This board, which held Us first meeting yesterday, will regulate buyers und rptc-jdsiArc who attend sales here dttitiuy.jlBftj coming season. DeterminaiJsfit bonds which will be rerfb6*t?d-td SjWirulBiors has not as yot been made public. I 'limUhnv thr, A tnowir ers ThMnitiirt Company. Austin Tobacco Company and the Jenkins Tobacco Company wilt 'oe on hand when the first pile of leaf is put to the block two weeks lrbrp yesterday. President H. Grady Farthing, of the warehouse corporation, states that this buying unit is similar in scope to those attending larger markets in the Tennessee-Kentucky area. He points out that the buyers corning to Boone will devote live days a week during the season to sales 011 the one warehouse floor, and that farmers can be assured that their product will be handled more rapidly than on markets where bidders divide time between several houses. He also contends, as do others who liave investigated marketing procedure, that lower commissions on the Boone warehouse floor makes this an ideal selling point for growers in adjoining tobacco states. Lcvill Given Major Credit Mayor William H. Lovill of Boone, a friend of many years of W. N. Reynolds, senior member of the Reynolds Company's board of directors, is given large credit for procuring this set or buyers. Backed by Boone's aggressive civic leaders. Mayor Lovill visited the Winston-Salem magnate after (Continued on page four.) BURLEY GROWERS VOTE FOR CONTROL | Wataugans Join With Farmer# in Other Sections in Favor of 1940 Quotas vy ciitiuyci cOjUniy rarmeSs joineo with those of other burley producing sections Tuesday in citing their vote in favor of the AAA 1940 marketing quotas. However, the vote was light, 179 casting their ballots in favor of restricted marketing, and 23 against. The vote by townships was: For Against Beaver Dam 52 Cove Creek ... 43 10 North Folk 11 Watauga 19 2 Laurel Creek 33 7 Boone ?21 6 Totals 179 25 The vote in Watauga last year was overwhelming against the quota system, only 87 voting for the proposal and 547 against. With about 20 per cent of the ballots tabulated throughout the country the vote was 34,083 for quotas and 7,388 against, representing a favorable majority of 82 per cent The affirmative vote of two-thirds of the farmers is necessary to invoke quotas. In North Carolina the vote was 2,460 for quotas and 748 against. A year ago the same farmers rejected quotas by a vote of 2,660 to 5,792.
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