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w TOL^KOM ABRAMS NAMED TO HEAD LIONS CLUB R. A. Manship Again Secretary; a Review of the Activities of Local Organization Dr. W. Amos Abrams was elected president of the Boone Lions Club for the ensuing year at the regular meeting held at the Daniel Boone hotel Tuesday evening. June 18. He succeeds Richard E. Kellcy. R. A. Manship. Jr., was re-elected secretary -treasurer. In closing one of the best years in the history of the club, and with 3 r.mr,rt , . f IK., -nll.K.: ., I IK- -.1. .1. ? .V fuiv v? *.??> nv.UVII.lCO VI. ? ?-' for the past year. President Kelley welcomed the newly-elected officers to their respective offices. Other officers named for tlie coming year include: C. A. Price, lion lamer: C. H. Trotter, first vicepresident; Jas. H. Councill. second vice-president: Flucie Stewart, third vice-president: Wade F.. Brown, tail twister, and Councill Cooke. Or by Southard and Dr. Robert R. King, directors. Among the successful activities of the past year were the sponsoring of the Avery County Lions Club, sponsoring of the widening and beautifying of the highway connecting Boone and the Blue Ridge Parkway; sponsoring the erection of a confectionary stand in the poslofticc and stocking it with merchandise for a blind lady. Miss Floy Hodges; sponsored the erection of an information booth in front of the postoffice; erection of "traffic" and "school zone" signs at all main intersections and crossing used by school children; co-sponsors of -i "crippled children's" clinic that treated .35 children, and presented a minislrel which bought glasses and corrected the eyes of 43 school children of Watauga county, r i m i T T If TIS inm til r/UALLI HURT 111 FAIL FROM TRUCK J. C. Harmon of Beech Creek, Dies From Injuries Sustained Mondav Afternoon Joseph Carrol! Harmon, resident of the Beech Creek section of Wat auga county, died in the Watauga iiospital Tuesday afternoon from injuries sustained when he fell from a moving truck near Sugar Grove. He was 77 years old. Besides a fractured skull, Mr. Harmon suffered other serious injuries. but the cerebral condition is given as the direct cause of his demise. Funeral services are to be held today from the Windy Gap Baptist church, with Rev. I). M. Edmisien in charge, but the hour for the rites has not been determined. Surviving arc- the widow, Mrs. Lydia Henson Harmon; three sons, . V. C., Floyd and Dewey of Beech Creek; two daughters, Mrs. John Rominger of Sugar Grove, and Mrs. Robert Ward of Beech Creek; a sister, Mrs. John Keller of Sugar Grove. New Legion, Officers Are Elected Friday New officers to serve Watauga ' post, American Legion, were elected , at a meeting held in the Legion hut , Friday evening, June 14. Charles E. Rogers of Boone, was ' re-elected commander; Ed Luttrell, I Shtills Mills, fust vice-commander; T. A. Weaver, Blowing Rock, second j vice-commander: Marshall Brown, . adjutant; Wilson Norris, finance of- j ficer. and Lionel Ward, service of- ' ficer. Delegates to the state Legion con- i yention to be held in High Point J June 22, 23, 24 and 25 were elected as follows: Lionel Ward, Boone; Ed Luttrell, Shulls Mills. Alternat.es are Wilson Norris and Cleve Gross, both of Boone. I Miss Lorraine Carter Named Beauty Queen ! Blowing Rock, June 15.?Lorraine : Carter. 18-year-old brunette, was declared Miss Blowing Rock in a ' beauty contest here last night over 1 a field of 20 contestants. She will i be eligible to enter a state contest 1 to name Miss North Carolina later ' in the summer. ' Runners-up to Miss Carter were Jean Hartley and Jean Ingle. In the junior queen contest, Carolina : Greene, sponsored by the Blowing Rock Drug company, took first place. 1 Barbara Lentz and June Herring were runners-up. The pageant was conducted at the Yonahlossee thea- 1 tre by Miss Ruby Crockett. NCRRIS SAYS ROOSEVELT CANNOT REFUSE 3RD TERM Washington, June 16 ? Senator : Morris of Nebraska, said yesterday he did not believe President Reese- 1 velt could refuse to accept the Democratic presidential nomination. "It is too late now to turn it i down," Norris, a new deal supporter, ] remarked after .9 visit to the White 1 P House. He added however, that he had not discussed the question with ' Mr. Roosevelt. >1 \ feil fgg&MBp rATAl An Independent \ BOONE. WATAUGA CC R. W. Colvard Buys Hodges Tire Company ( West Jefferson Man Takes Over the Management of Established Local Business Mr. R. W. Colvard. well-knowii West Jefferson business man, has closed a deal for the business known as the Hodges Tire Company, an oid established Boone firm, which has been owned and managed by A. Hodges lor the past eight years. The transfer which included the realty as well as the equipment, involved about $25,000. it is said. Mr. Colvard took over the business Tuesday and Mr. Carl Miller of West Jefferson, is in charge. The firm will continue to maintain its modern cuto servicing depot, and carry a complete line of tires, automobile accessories and supplies. BEAUTY CONTEST SPONSORED HERE 'Miss Boone" and "Miss Junior Boone" to Be Selected at Theatre Next Week On Wednesday. Jane 26. the Worthwhile Club will sponsor a beauty contest to select "Miss Boone" and "Miss Junior Boone" at the Appalachian Theatre. Only local girls will be considered, and the entrants will be sponsored by the leading business firms of the city. The contest will be at 7:20. The Worthwhile Club wishes the co-operation of all the merchants, the money to be used for the further beautiftcation of the town and! for the establishment of a playground for the children of the town and county. Next week the list of the firms and sponsors will appear in the lo- | cal newspaper. Baby Contest At the same time it is announced i that a baby contest will be held, in- I fonts as well as children up to eight i years of age being eligible. An en- i trance fee of 50 cents will be 1 charged. This contest will be at 4 p. m. 1 The competition will be under 1 four groups ar.d a prize will be given : !o the winner of each group as foi- | lows: Infants to one year; one year > to three years; three years to five : years, five to eight years. Those i desiring to enter children should i register with one of the following l ladies: Mrs. Cicero Greer, chair- ; man in charge of infants to oneyear group; Mrs. J. E. Holshouser, i one to tliree-years; Mrs. Russell D. j Hodges, three to fiye years; Mrs. W. < 3. Collins, five ro eight years. 1 Mis. John Cartway, president of i the Worthwhile Club, urges all ( mothers in the county who have i babies under eight years of age to i enter them in the contest. > MERCHANTS WILL I GATHER TONIGHT i 11 New Slate of Directors to Be I s Named at Annual Meeting of i J Merchants Association c A. G. Foard, cashier of the Ban* tf Lenoir, and prominent civic lead- t ?r of that city, will deliver the prin- J :ipal address at a banquet meeting \ ?f the Boone Retail Merchants As- s ;ociation to be held at Hotel Wat- i auga Thursday evening, June 20, at t. 1:45 o'clock. 1 A new board of directors will be \ tamed at this gathering, and a com- i plete report of the past year's ac- c iivities of the association will be presented. Revival Services at j Methodist Church ' A series of revival services will c teg in at the Boone Methodist church next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. ^ The services will continue on Sun c lay evening at 8 o'clock and every t svening through the week, accord- c ilig to the pastor, Rev. Paul Town- ? send. t Rev. R. L. Young, pastor of the Slen Alpine Methodist church, will l preach. Mr. Young is known as a J preacher of great power and has oeen consistently successful in renival services. During his ministry he has served at Elmwood and Taylorsville in the Statesville district; Dallas in the Gastonia district, and ( is now in his first year in the pas- j torate at Glen Alpine. All the people of Boone, of all de- ' Humiliations, are extended a cordial j invitation to attend these services, j SINGING CONVENTION ON GRANDFATHER SUNDAY i t A great Penticostal meeting and c [he sixteenth annual tri-state and tri-county singing convention and Sunday school picnic will be held on the beautiful Yonahlossee road at 1 the Alexander McRae place on the 1 fourth Sunday in June. I Mr. J. L. Hartley, chairman of the e event, which draws hundreds of prt>- I pie froth a wide area annually, cor- c dially invites all singing classes in western North Carolina and east Tennessee to be present for the oc- t casion. Si 1 1 . IflHt T^' i,*..- - BBWgh?n?naiv" w-v.' ~SH JGA I Weekly Newspaper?Establ DUNTYT NORTH CAROLINA, THTJ LEADERS AT ] HhBt HirHft tWBt MM W. H. Graqg, secrelary of iho Wal man for the annual meeiing of ihe B view Manor today; center Wheeler Ma Martain Guadian. executive secretary WIDENING0F421 NEAR COMPLETION E Pavement Widened on Seven p,i Miles of Highway East of Town: to Push Landscaping About a year ago the Watauga Democrat proposed that highway US-421 from Boone to Deep Gap be beautified by landscaping the "a roadside, and tile suggestion met I ivith prompt and hearty endorsement by the l.ions Club of Boone, this organization taking the matter ip with the state highway officials, f rrging that the project he under- out taken. J1"'" In response to this request the hat lighway officials made a study/ of. Da the proposition and decided to smwi-' ?,u tor a WPA project for. ihis imd he provement. After a taieful study if Etc vas found that to make a weli-bal- 1 rnccd project it uould ho desirable to widen the existing concrete pave- bet nr.iii iuur leei, MtL'reHy iliaKing U " lac loot wide, v.liich is considered the Ample for two-lane highways. pos The project was approved by ant iVPA and work started late in the Gt>i all of 1939. After a mile of con- Fn: trete' widening had been finished bei *ad weather forced the postpone- stri nent of this phase of the work and the iuring the winter considerable prog- "th ess was made oil landscaping. Willi j he arrival of spring the concrete tho vork v.as resumed and is now com- 0tp tletecl. The highway commission ?)n tas placed a power shove) and ad- tlG] litional trucks on the project to un, upplement the WPA labor and ten ilans to speed up this phase of the nnc vork. thr Mr. James Saunders, highway Df andscape architect, was called in nun after the project was approved me o offer advice 011 landscaping lea- fan ures. He was enthusiastic as to the sen lossibilities and has rendered valu- fajj ible service in planning the work. js ; One of the most encouraging fen- p,ti Aires of the project, according to Mr. \ 1. H. Councill, resident state high- jeai vay engineer, is the splendid re- gar ponse and co-operation of property cot, iwners along the route. Every land jng <wncr thus far contacted has readi- 1 y agreed to give additional right-of- mo vay where needed and to co-operate tea n the preservation of ar.v beautifi- Eer :ation accomplished. ing To Widen Bridge cjg: The highway commission is now anc ponsoring a project for the widen- ren ng of the bridge across New River rom a 20-foot roadway to a 26-foot |* oadway, in order to promote safety. t is expected that this project will lr? onnnwmil nrirt cf>1 vl orl a* *>?*??? "- jLontu a*. (UI tonj 'a,e* It is felt that with the completion " >f the entire project that the value der ft all property adjacent to it will be tur enhanced and that our town and con ounty will liave been provided with tlst ui adequate and attractive connec- anc ion with the Blue Ridge Parkway. anc ing Hickory Firm Gets !c" Paving Contract at Boone Postoffice ? of The public buildings administra- ?rl ion announced Wednesday in Wash- c * ngton that th.e Elliott Building Com- 1'P? lany of Hickory, submitted the low- Vf a St bid?that of $690?for construct- ? ng sidewalks at the Boone postofice Next lowest bidder was F. D. -ewis and Son of Greensboro, with i price of $692, and third lowest 3 vas the bid of S863 submitted Uy .he Theriault Contracting Company IV1 if Philadelphia. OPPOSE WAR Baltimore, June 15?The Southern I iaptist convention adopted a reso- ard ution yesterday urging President the ioosevelt and all others in high gov- Tui irnmental positions to do everything jnfi lossible to keep the United States A iut of the war in Europe. sue det Bones of 2,000 hippopotami, kill- I d by prehistoric hunters, were ate bund in a single cave in Sicily [lea ished in the Year Eight* RSDAY, "JUNE 20. 1940 BUILDING AND LOA ri ^' I auga Building and Loan Associali uilding and Loan League, which < rtin, president of the league, who of the league. iVatauga Suf luilding and ] RA OFGLOOM NOT EW, SAYS DANIELS leigh Editor in Address to [luilding and Loan League, Cites Other Conquests )espitc the European war, the :ook is neither more gloomy nor rc uncertain than other men ,"c faced in other days, Jonathan niels, editor of the Raleigh News i Observer. told the North Cnrca Building and Lean League at ivving Ho.k Tuesday night, ''he cdi'or and author reminded ,t the world has emerged from icath the heel of conquerors?in i t. in the same year (11170) dial North Carolina legislature made siblc the beginning of building { loan associations, Bismarck's rman legions'were overwhelming inee, and North Carolinians were r.g imprisoned under a roconrction governor without trial until chief justice cried in despair, e judiciary is exhausted." 'rom beginnings in times like se. Mr. Daniels said, and through or times of uncertainty and om, building and loan nssociais have gone steadily forward ;il they count their assets m ms of a hundred million dollars 1 thousands of homes constructed ough their wide administration many small savings. But," he said, "your job is not rely guarding money and helping lilies build homes. Tn a real se you are the keepers of the h in your communities and there i safety ahead for the dollar put j savings today." Vheeler Martin of Williamston, gue president, said that the orlization's headquarters at Raleigh istituted a permanent undertak*he league, he said, enjoyed its st successful year in 1939 due to m-work, steady progress, field vice and co-operative advertisA plan to divide the state into ht districts is being worked out 1 should enable the league to der even better service, he said. omecoming Day At Union Church Sunday -bout 300 former citizens and resiits of the Mabel community rcned home Sunday for the hometing day exercises at Union Bapchurch. W. H. Gragg of Boone, 1 Prof. W. L. Winkler of Boone 1 Spring Hope, made the mornaddresses. both bringing excelt messages. Inion choir furnished the singing i a sumptuous dinner was spread the lawn. 'rof. Herman Heffner, principal the Mabel school. Rev. H. J. iene, Rev. J. W. Ashley and N. Harrison were the afternoon akers, each of the gentlemen king splendid talks Mr. Gordon dges' singing class from the J shy Fork church furnished the sic for the afternoon services. Ah 1 a good time, and felt that the r was well spent. other of Richard Olsen Dies in R. I. Jrs. R. A. Olsen, mother of RichOisen of Valle Crucis, died at home in Providence, R. I., last ;sday, according to incomplete ormation reaching The Democrat, heart attack is blamed for the Iden death of Mrs. Olsen. Funeral ails are unavailable, rlr. and Mrs. Olsen left immedilv for Rhode Island when they rned of his mothers death. 3CRA ien E jKty-Eight lN^EETING '' ' I BBHwnlBHMl s <?ySc ^^SH^SKmSBf&ss v&V jgaMflHKKtg ion. and general convention chairdoses a three day session at Mayis presiding at each session; right. >per' Features Loan Meeting Convent ion of Building and Loan League in Session at Mayview Manor; Banquet Tonight is Highspot of Meeting; Many Notables Appear on Three-Day Program The thirty-second annual convention of the North Carolina Building and Loan League, whoch convened at Mayview Manor, Blowing Rock Tuesday morning approaches its climax this (Wednesday) evening with a banquet session at which Watt Grngg, secretary of the Wat auga Building and Loan Association and general convention chairman will act as toastmaster. The banquet this year is knowr ar a "Watauga Supper." due to the fact that Mr. CJragg arranged L have the Mayview management serve only foods produced in Wat auga county. The menu has beer so localized both as to the viands themselves as well as the names they have been given, that there is interest in its contents.: HnnA Ptltniii nrtnln ri/lnr Wall Gragg relish tray, Appalachian consomme, Mayview Manor honeycured ham, Johns River fried chicken with cream gravv. Blowing Rock asparagus, Rebecca Boone beans Watauga saner kraut, Dame! Boone new buttered potatoes, Yonahlosscc Trail salad, Joe Hartley strawberry shortcake. Grandfather Mountain coffee. Rev. Paul Townsend, pastor of the Boone Methodist church, delivers the invocation, and following the smging of "Star Spangled Banngr." Dr. Julian Miller, editor of the Charlotte Observer, widely knowr a- an after-dinner speaker, will address the group. The subject of Dr Miller's address will be "Capitalism and Capitalists." An additional feature of the banduet session will be the presentation of past president's awards and prizes by Frank Hancock, former congressman and member of the Federa! Home Loan Bank board of Washington. Mrs. Annie Sides Beattie will sins several solos during the course oi the banquet, while the music wil be by Frederick's Mayview Manoi orchestra. More than four hundred delegate: front bpilding and loan association: throughout the state are in attend ance at the convention. Initial Session Tuesday The Building and Loan convention got under way Tuesday morning officially, although W. H. Gragg hac arranged an old-fashioned get-together for the delegates Monday evening. The session was more oi less in the form of a get-acquainted gathering, with mountain music square dancing, etc., featuring the evening. Rev. J. C. Canipe, pastor of the Boone Baptist church, said the in vocation at the opening sessior Tuesday morning, while Mayor G C. Robbins was scheduled to delivei (Continued on page two) Leaves Friday For G. O. P. Convention Mr. Russell D. Hodges, local po litical leader, leaves Friday foi Philadelphia, where he will be ii attendance at the Republican na tional convention which convene: Monday. Mr. Hodges and Hobar Morton of Albemarle, are the nintt district delegates. Mr. Hodges states that the Repub licans in the ninth district are rath tr overwhelmingly in favor of Thos E. Dewey for the presidential nonii nation, but sees a growing demanc within the party for Herbert Hoover. The state's delegation is uninstructed. Mr. Hodges will visit relatives ir Washington, D. C, following th< convention and will not return t< Boone lor about two weeks. If? X $1.50 A YEAR p'YUCENSi" 1 SLOT MACHINES TO GET REVENUE I Ministers of City Hold Meeting to Protest Action of City Council: Town Board Meets This Afternoon to Hear Protests; Board Says New Funds are Needed On Tuesday morning Vuc-tc<vn of Boone allowed a number of s!ot machines to be placed in different business houses on a percentage basis, to raise additional revenue, displacing the pin table machines which 1,.,J 1 . - - - * i.<tu uwil operated .'fere tor some time, and the ministers of the city in a special meeting Wednesday morning vigorously; protested the Use of the devices in the town. The ministers contend that the machines r.rc garnb/ing devices and are contrary to the state laws, and following their meeting they demanded a meeting with the city council to discuss the situation. Accordingly the ministers and the town board are to meet together at 2 O'clock this (Wednesday) afternoon. Say It's Revenua Step Members of the city council, when contacted by The Democrat Wednesday morning, insisted that the installation of the machines was in order to provide badly needed aridi 1 tional funds for the city, in order , that improvements and expansion af. the water system might be made, and that other work might be done which could not bo financed except by the levy of an additional real estate tax, or some other form of now revenue. Officials state that the slot machines had been placed ill other i towns in the territory for the same purpose, and that the machines displaced pin table boards, which were being used as illegal devices, and which did not pay the town a por tion of the receipts. They continue that the only thought in taking the step was to prevent additional tax1 ation. ; The situation has been the princi1 I ai topic of conversation about the town today, and much interest ceil-, tors about the outcome of the board session this afternoon. ! i ID ri:\!T \ rL i\nu , Uliuijlll i^LLL' ur RED CROSS FL'NDS ' Contrihulions Continue to Come to Local Chapter as Demands For Aid Increase Some contributions continue to come in to the Watauga chapter, American Red Cross, for the relit ] of suffering in the European w_ar . rones and the county has come close i to the doubling of the original $300 [ quota, says Mrs. E. E. Garbee, chairman, Information from the national headquarters of the organization in; dicates that the quota system has [ been more or less abandoned, and I that the "utmost generosity" of the , American people will be required to n-ioct the grave emergency. Mrs. Garbee states that she has had numerous requests from c.rgnni. rations and individuals seeking to promote entertainments for the benefit of the Red Cross. She ex! plains that the name of the Red ; Cross cannot be used for any such benefit performance except in cases I | where the entire proceeds are turn . ed over to the organization. Following is the list of contribu, tions: | Previously reported $565.54 I Union Baotist Church 5.00 - A. & P. Tea Co 2.50 H. G. Farthing . 5.00 . Mrs. S. L. Perry .. l.OO - Cove Creek S. S 4.40 Rev and Mrs. Townsend 3.00 Mrs. Mary A. Marr 5.00 , Total $592.44 i Good Sale Reported At Livestock Market ' One hundred and sixty-eight head ; of cattle, sheep and hogs were disposed of at the livestock sale here , last Wednesday. Cattle prices were ; steady, while lambs were off 25 to ' 50 cents from the previous week. ' Here are the prices paid: Good lambs S10.70; second lambs, $10.10; choice buck Iambs $9.20; good buck lambs $8.80; small lambs $8.20; good pigs$ 3.50; medium pigs $1.50-82.50: shoats $6.00-$7.00: no choice veal calves; good veal calves 1 $8.00-$9.00; medium veal calves $7.00-$8.00: others according to - grade $4.00-$7.00; no choice stock r calves: good stock calves $23.00l $32.50; good steers $8.80; medium sieurs so.du-91.vv: siock Heifers S30.00-S50.00; good cows, fat $6.00$0 50: medium cows S5.00-S6.00; others S4.00-S5.00; good milk cows S45.00-$55.00; good milk cows $30.00$45.00. , A plan has been worked out whereby the local market can assure the farmers top market value on lambs. There will be plenty of buyers and no mistake will be made in selling your lambs on the local market. Medieval Iceland, inhabited by a J few thousand people, produced literature still famous.
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