AUGUST 8. 1D40
HARMON REUNION
IS HELD SUNDAY
Two Hundred Members of Family
and Friends Present; Brief
History of Family
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?_ ?-v...x icunn'ii oi me Marmon
family was hold at the J. Y.
Walker home on last Sunday and
about 200 ancestors and their friends
were present for the happy occasion.
They canie from Bristol. Va.t Butler.
Tenn.: Avery county and Dr. Will
Harmon. 73. of Missouri, was the
oldest member of the family present.
At noon a bountiful dinner was
enjoyed and at 2 o'clock. Rev. D.
M. Edmistcn brought a message
from Matthew 23:6. Rev. George
Trivett made a short talk, or.d the
older guests were presented. Vocal
music was rendered by the Willow
Valley rpiartette. A number of photographs
were taken before the
crowd dispersed.
The Harmon reunion is an annual
affair and will be held Ihe first Sunday
in A.ugust, 1941. at Howard
Harmon'- homo.
Herman History
Mr. Benjamin F. Haiman has compiled
the following history of the
Harman family in Watauga county:
Cutliff Harmar. was one of the
first settlers of Cove Creek. He
came from Randolph county in 1791.
He bought 522 acres of land front
James Gwyn. Cutlifl married Susan
Fouts. and was about 90 years
of age when he died in 1838, his
wife having died several years before,
and he having married Elizabeth
Parker, a widow. He had ten
children by his first marriage: none
by his second. Among his children
were: \latv whe ,n^rpin,i
Baud: Andrew, who married Sahra
Hix; Eli. who married the widow
Rhoda Dyer (born Dugger); Mathew,
who married and moved to Indiana;
Catherine, Who married Eenjsmin
Ward and went west; Rebecca.
who married Frank Adams and
moved to Indiana; Rachel, who married
Holdfcn Davis; Sarah, who mar
ried John Mast. Nancy, who married
Thomas Curtis* Rev D. C Harmon I
was a son of Eli Harman and vv.t
born April 17. 1826. and died December
23. 1904. 1
John Mast and wife, who was Susan
Harman, was buried at the Tay- j
lor burying ground at Valle Cruet ;,
and ho lived where Finley Mast once
lived, while Cutliff Harman lived
where David Ilarman once lived.
Eii Harman also lived where David
Harman once lived He had tour
sons and two daughters, Maiden,
David. Calvin. Wiles, Susan Ha.
man Hatlcy and Emily Harman.
The first Harman reunion was
held :ti the home of David Harman. j
August, 1903. There are not many
living now that attended that reunion.
It may be interesting to the
younger generation to know how
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Liniment
PRESCRIPTIONS
Filling prescriptions is the most
important part of our business.
We employ two full-time experienced
registered druggists who
give careful attention to all prescriptions.
Ours is the oldest
drug store in Watauga county and
the only one owned and operated
by a licensed druggist. When
you have a prescription bring it
to us and you can rest assured
it will be filled only by a competent
licensed druggist just as your
doctor would want it to be.
BOONE DRUG CO.
The KEXALL Store
G. K. MOOSE, Druggist
EASY '
Specials I
Good Radios, real bar
Pianos from
Guitars, Banjos, V
We have everything t
all at loAntiques
of all d
We get in one and twc
We are closing out 01
room Suites, Ne\
Come look our line c
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ROOMS AND AI'AR
Burgess An
Booi
WPA Lr.v
Boston, Mass. ? Miss Eleanor
. Pyne. 'AO, received a man's card by
I mistake and reported for duty on
i a WPA project as a laborer. She
made such an impression when
she appeared in trousers that officials
are endeavoring to secure
a clerical position for her.
many of the Harmans and their companions
have died since. They are
as follows:
Maiden Hannan. Malissa Harm an,
C. D. Harman. Susie Hannah. Emily
Harman. Allen Harman, Lionel Hal man,
David Harman, Elizabeth Harman,
Wiley Harmon. Eli Harman,
Monroe Harman. Albert Herman,
Matt Harman Greene. Marion Harman,
Vicky Harman, Lefate Harman,
L. D. Harman, Rhoda Harman.
S. D. Harman, Calvin Harman.
Nellie Harman. John Harman. Hurley
Harman, James Harman. Qdllps.
Harman. Eugene Harman. Bertha
Harman, Belie Harman Trivctte, Sis
Karmah Cooke, -Julia Harman Woodring.
Wiley Harman, Eileen Harman,
Eli Harman. Alice Harman Woodring,
Bell Harman Farthing. Dora
Harman Farthing, John Hantaan,
Hardy Harman, Walter Harman, Joe
Harman. David Iiarman, Bcfc&fc Harman.
Lou Harman Danner. Nelia
Harman Tester, John Harman, Fied
Harman. Grate Harman, Clyde Harjman,
Lilie Harman. Mabel Harman,
j Arils Harmon. Lena Harman. Died
since last year. John iiarman, Kurley
Harman, L. D. Harman, Joe Harman.
There are only two Harman families
living on Cove Creek at tha
j present, although, many have lived
here previously.
I am the oldest Harman living <>r.
i Cove Creek. Since I remember all
[the Harmons that were at the first
! reunion I thought this would be in|
leresting to the ,-oungev generation
! of Harmans and relatives.
Meat Camp News
Mr. .md Mrs. Ed l.nokabd! and
smajt son. Edison, of Wyco, W. Va .
arc hero visiting their parents. Mr.
and Mrs. William Lookahill.
Mrs. H. S. Jones, who has been
very ill. is improving some, her
friends will be glad to learn.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Dietz of
Hickory, a cre guests of Mrs. Dietz's
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brown.
Sunday.
Mrs. Verne S. Greene was called
to Mountain City Friday to attend
the funeral of her uncle. Mr. Alfred
Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lookahill
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
William Looknbiil.
Mrs. Grover Lewis and children
visited her sister. Mrs. Bessie Cole
of Brownwocd, Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Russell Hamby of Valdese,
was a guest of Mrs. Verne Green?
Friday night, also guest of Mr. and
Mrs. L. 13. Wilson Saturday night.
Miss Jessie Morris was a dinner
guest of Mrs. Bessie Greene Sunday.
Other guests of Mrs. Greene Sunday
were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Greene
and children.
INCOME
Cash farm income from marketings
and government payments in
June amounted to 5531,000,090, as
compared with S533.000.000 in the
usage month of 1939.
rERMS
his Week
gains $7.50 to $20.00
49.00 up
ictrolas very cheap
he home can wish for
w prices
escriptions cheap
> big loads each week.
ur new suites?Bedv
Ranges at cost.
>ver. We have barsverybody.
TMF.NTS FOR RENT
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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?E\r
The Week in
Washington
A RESUMK OF GOVERNMKN- i
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NATIONAL. CAPITAL.
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Washington. Aug. 7.?The whole j
nation is about to get a foretaste of I
what war. or at least preparation for
war, means With almost no appar-1
exit opposition in congress, the out-,
look is that before summer is over,
every male citizen of the United
States between the ages of IS and!
64 will have been registered for
military service. In the same period
or shortly thereafter, every aiJen re
siding in this country -a*til be registered,
so that the police can put
their hands on them at any time.
The estimate is that about three
million aliens will he finger-printed
and otherwise identified. The citizens
of fighting ago will also be
finger-printed, so that if any of
them tries to dodge when his number
is called he can be picked up
and sent to prison or fired, or both.
There will tie about 12 million of
those. Each will get a number.
On October 1. if "no slip occurs in
the present plans, numbers will be
drawn out of a jar. Each number
may be held by several hundred different
men between the ages of 21
ana 30, scattered all over the country.
There will be 400,000 such men
called in the first draft. The numbers
will be published in every corner
of the land, and each man whose
number has been drawn will have
to report, to a designated place for
a year of military training.
Only Single Men
Only single men are to be taken
in this first draft, and 4<kev men" in
essential industries and others who
can give valiu reasons why they
should not go into training will be
cAcnipuxi Kin the idea is to start
400,000 into military service, under
army and national guard officers,
just, as quickly as possible, and keep
them in uniforms for a year. Next
April the plan is to conscript another
400.000 and a year from Octobc000.000
more, and so on.
These men will get quarters, subsistence
and S21 a month wages.
Washington hears that many business
concerns have agreed to keep
employees on their pavrolls through
the training period. The senate
committee put into the new law a
provision that an employer who refuses
to reinstate an employee because
of absence for a year ot military
training shall be considered
guilty of unfair labor practices.
Provision is expected to be made
in another bill, now being drafted,
for the payment by the government
of such items as lite insurance premiums
anu mortgage payments
which a solidcr in training could
hardly bo expected to pay out of
jtis $21 a month.
That is the beginning of the
army's program for an armed land
force of not less than two million
men as quickly as possible.
William Knudson. the industrial
production expert of the national
defense council, reporting to a committee
of congress on the progress
of production ot equipment and
armaments for the new army and
tlie navy, was not so optimistic in
some respects as tiis former employer.
Henry Ford, about the speed
with which fighting airplanes can
be turned out.
Mr. Ford some weeks ago said lie
could turn out a thousand planes a
day. beginning six months after Ingot
the order. Tile British government
lias ordered 72,000 planes in
this country, to be delivered at the
rate ot 3,mil) a month through 194!
and 1012
Mr. Knudsen indicated that to fill
thai order would require the building
of 3 additional plants, if production
were to be kept up for our own
needs, and that it would be the
middle of 1942 before the total production
of military plans, for the
United States and others, could
reach 3.000 a month, as he saw it.
Ev July, 1942, he expects the industry
to be turning out fighting
planes for American use at the rate
of 25,000 a year.
Congress has under consideration,
a bill to amend the neutrality act to
the extent of letting American ships
bring British children under the age
of 10 to this country as "visitors"
for the duration of the war. Many
thousands of such children of all
classes are ready to be sent over,
and homes have been assured for
them. The major question is as to
whether assurances could he had
from Germany and Italy that such
ships, carrying no other passengers
or cargo, would be permitted safe
passage across the Atlantic. There
Is a decided desire in official circles
lo give this as well as other aid
short of war to the British people,
but theie is also a decided distrust
of any assurances which might be
given by the Hitler or Mussolini
governments.
Fear that supplies provided by
the American Red Cross for the relief
of war victims in Europe might
fall into German hands, or had already
done so. was removed by a
statement by Norman H. Davis,
chairman of the Red Cross, that not
a cent of Red Cross funds nor a
single item of supplies had been appropriated
by the German authorities,
although they had ample opportunity
to do so.
According to reports coming back
to Washington, Secretary ot State
Hull found it difficult to convince
the delegates of several Latin-American
nations that serious corsequences
to this hemisphere would inevitably
follow a Nazi victory in Europe
unless all the nations, north and
south, stood together in a united
front against aggression
Mr. Hull's plan was that in the
event of an effort by a European
power to take territorial possession
ERY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C.
WIDOWS WITH DEPENDENTS j<
GET BENEFITS BEFORE THEY 1
REACH 65 YEARS OF AGE j<
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Salisbury. Aug. 6.?Widows of i >
workers who were covered by the 11
federal old ago survivors insurance j l
program do not have to be 6a years '
old in order to get monthly benefit
payments if they have dependent !
children. Louis H. Clement, acting '
manager of the Salisbury social se- t
curity office, serving western North
Carolina, said yesterday.
Mr. Clement pointed out that inquiries
made at the local office show
that a number of young widows of
insured workers, who have dependent
children under 18, have not.
filed applications because of a misunderstanding
of age requirements.
"The age 65 requirement applies I
iu suiiii: n [j'.'s UI i-'Uv 11V' E ig
those of widows with dependent
children." Mr. Clement explained.
"Should a worker die leaving a
widow with young dependent children,
the widow's age is immaterial.
She and the children would be eligible
for payments if hc-i husband had
earned wages of at least $50 in each
of six calendar quartets during the
three years before his death.
"The amount a widow and her
children receive will depend on the
worker's average monthly wages,"
he added. "This determines the
benefit to which the worker would
have been entitled. The widow reof
any part of the Americas, the
combined American nations shall
set up a government to control the
disputed territory, with at least 14
nations represented in that government.
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GUESTS V
THIS PURE R
With frosty bottles of Coca-Got
always ready to provide refreshi
Buy the handy six-lmnlr carl
COCA-CO!.A 1*<
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j AUGUST.
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BUSINESS COMES WHERE
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reives three-fourths of the worker's
senefit. and each child under 18 :s
entitled to one-half." There are. u:
rourse. limits to what one family
nay receiver generally the family
otal for a widow with throe 01
note children comes to twice the
.corker's benefit.
Attainment of age 65 is one of
:he requirements for eligibility in
the case of retired workers themselves.
If the wife of the retired
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tests, Caoels burned
25% slou-er than the
average of the 15 other .
of she laigest-selling
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IURSDAY,
>ur large fall and winter
rices on our large stock
Regular $15.00 Suits, n
Regular $20.00 Suits, r
Regular $22.50 to $30.
Regular $5.00 Pants, r
Regular $4.00 Pants, n
Regular $3.00 Pants, nt
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Su trailer "ensembles", shirts a
values up to $4.95. now
Sport Coats, up to $16.95 values
Sport Coats, up to $12.50 value
Marlboro Shirts, $1.69 values,
(Three for
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mi uw oiuris, your cnoice. nov
Summer Oxfords, whites and
regular $5.00 to S6.50 values, n
S4.00 Values, now
Big lot of new Shirts, up to $1
Regular 35c Holeproof Short S
(4 for SI
Regular 15c to 25c Short Sox, i
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IT IS INVITED AND STAYS WHI
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[worker is 65 or more. Mr. Clement
, continued, she too, is eligible for a
monthly payment, equal io one-half
! of her husband's old age insurance
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SWAP
This year, for the eight months
ending with May the United Slates
I changed places with the United
Kingdom as the most important buy;
or of Argentine wool.
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purchases, we are j
of men's wear ... J|>
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iow $14.95 ^
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low $ 3.95
iow $ 2.95 ^
>w $ 1.95 jj.
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now $7.95 J
now $1.39 jj"
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$1.65 J
two-tones, CO ftf? 12
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. .50, now 97c \ +
ox. now ? 28c 1
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now, pair 10c
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