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VOL. 54, NO. 18
DR. E. K. MLARTY j
SUCCEEDS HIS SON !
AS BOONE PASTOR |
Methodist Church in Boone
Loses Rev. James B. McLarty
to Belmont; Dr. McLarty One
of State's Most Eminent Ministers
Dr. E. K. McLarty, Sr., will be the
pastor of the Boone Methodist
church for the coining year as a result
of the action of the Western
North Carolina conference in Winston-Salem
Friday. Dr. McLarty,
who comes here from a four-year
pastorate of Central church. Concord,
succeeds a son, Rev. James B.
McLarty, in the local pastorate, the,
latter going to Main Street church
in Belmont. Rev. Paul Townsend,
former Boone pastor, leaves the Belmont
church for duty as chaplain in
the United States Navy.
Dr. McLarty is one of the most
< distinguished ministers in North
Carolina Methodism. He received
his bachelor of arts degree from
Trinity College in 1895, and was
awarded a bachelor of divinity degree
from Vanderbilt in 1898. He
was given the honorary degree of
doctor of divinity by Trinity College
in 1914.
1 During his long ministry. Dr. McLarty
has served the most of the
larger churches of the conference,
including central church, Ashevillo;
Tryon Street and Hawthorne Lane
churches, Charlotte; West Market
street, Greensboro; Wesley Memorial.
High Point; Centenary church,
Winston-Salem; First Methodist,
Salisbury; Broad Street, Stalesville;
First Methodist, Hendersonville;
i-emrai cnurcn, oneioy, ami many
others. He was presiding elder of
the Charlotte district for a time,
and had been director of evangelism
for the Western North Carolina
I conference. For 20 years he was
president of the board of missions
of the conference, and is at present
chairman of the commission on
evangelism. Dr. McLarty has often
been a member of the general conAn
eloquent speaker, a profound
student, and a man of deeply spiritual
nature, Dr. McLarty is greatly
beloved wherever he has ministered.
Two of his three sons have followed
him in the ministry, while the other
is a teacher in an institution of
higher learning.
Dr. McLarty has a strong sense of
humor, and the youthfulness of nis
spirit makes him popular with the .
young people of his congregation as '
well as the older ones.
Rev. James B. McLarty, like his 1
father, is an able preacher, was ed- '
rucaiea ai uuxe university, where
he received his A. B. and B. D. degrees,
and since his graduation has
held some of the best churches in '
the conference. His congregation '
here regretted very much his inability
to return to Boone, where he i
was most popular, but considers it- '
self most fortunate in securing the i
services of his eminent father. i
REV. OSBORNE RETURNS i
Rev. M. A. Osborne was returned '
to the pastorate of Watauga charge
at the Western Carolina conference
in Winston-Salem Friday. Mr. Os- 1
borne during his ministry here, fur
nished the leadership which resulted
in lifting the debt from Henson's
Chapel church, and is most popular
with his congregation.
Appreciation Day
Awards Are Made
A number of gifts were received I
last Wednesday at the Appreciation :
Day exercises as follows: i
Ruth Parlier, Boone, $12.50; Park- <
way gift, Mrs. Joe Crawford; Mrs. i
waae lugman, gift from Burgess <
Antique Shop; subscriptions to
I Democrat, Mrs. Ruby Shore, Mrs. <
Belle Winkler, Mr. Ernest Payne. j
Breen Elrod missed a gift of i
$62.50 by being absent, while Jose- i
phine Bradley would have received 1
$12.50, if present.
Interest in the Merchants Asso- i
ciation event is increasing weekly 1
and large crowds are gathering to
share in the gifts. Customers of the
participating merchants should be
sure to be at the city hall each Wednesday
afternoon at 4:30.
All 6% Town Bonds
Are Now Refunded
The last two remaining town
bonds carrying the six per cent in- 1
terest coupons have been exchanged :
for the refunding bonds, according
to Mayor W. H. Gragg. i
Now all outstanding bonds of the
town carry a three per cent inter- i
est rate, which will bo increased in 1
1946 to four per cent.
MAU
dependent Weekly News
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Dr. E. K. McLariy. above, who %
succeeds his son. Rev. James B. LOicn
McLariy. below, as pastor cf the to
Boone Methodist church. Dr. Mc- ?pj
Lariy is expected to arrive in
Boone today, as Rev. Mr. McLariy
leaves for his new work at Mrs.
Belmont. Boone
HONOR MEMORY OF ? *
LATE ATTORNEYS =*
which
n:
? WCVCII1
More Than Three Hundred Gath- As 1
er to Pay Respects to Dc- ^
ceased Leaders ageme
ing ar
More than three hundred men '?Sical
and women gathered at the state
fish hatchery last Friday evening to pects
pay their respects to the memory of sales :
r. E. Bingham and Baxter M. Lin- Witt
ney, deceased members of the local nouncl
festivi
bar, and to participate in a picnic
, ? . openin
dinner following the memorial ex- season
ercises.
The meeting was called by Ken- IColl
neth M. Lmney, president of the _
Watauga County Young Republican OU
21ub, and Mr. Linney made the initial
remarks of the evening. Mayor
W. H. Gragg, close friend of the de:eased
atorneys, paid tribute to their Miss
lives and activities. Others making "*e JU1
brief remarks included: Dr. A. P. *el>e> <
Kephart, Clyde R. Greene, Grover
2. Bobbins, Ivy B. Wilson and Miss
Edna Bingham. Durha
her ili
Merchants and Fun,
r- | Sunda,
c mpLoyees n ave
Annual Meeting
attend
About one hundred merchants, Bustee
Iheir wives and employees gathered Mrs. i
it the state fish hatchery last Thurs- friend;
lay evening, at the annual employ- ed th
;r-employee meeting, participated in 'Alice ,
Tumorous outdoor games and enjoy;d
a fish fry at the dinner hour. e
Softball, horseshoe pitching, crojuet
and racing provided entertain nent
and merriment during the
ifternoon hours, and there were Mr
oany expressions of approval of this t0
Kmo ftf #-vi ilinrt ^ ?" 1 "
ui vKMiig, muui mttjf UC lllitut- pies jL
in annual affair. Heretofore the being ,
imployer-employee gatherings had y,
taken the form of banquets. s(
_ can,
Pastors and Deacons Greeni
To Meet Next Monday treesB!
these
A meeting of the Baptist preach- Thei
ers and deacons will be held Monday of sec
at 2 o'clock, November 3, at the but M
Boone Baptist church, according to have I
an announcement made by Rev. N. of the
M. Greene and Ronda Earp, members
of the committee. The program N1
follows: Mrs.
Representing the Cause, by Rev. was ir
Carl Triplett. freak
How Much We Should Suffer for is nihi
Christ and the World, Rev. Grady botton
Minton. All th
There will be a general discussion, contaii
ga :
pa per-Esta blished
;a county, north card
U) IMPROVED ~T
10M BOONE TO L
FOSCOE SECTION
Job of Road Work Being
ised by People of Shulls
Is and Foscoc Neighbord:
Work Proceeds in Direci
of Yonahlosscc
e highway forces are busily |
I'd in widening and surfacing i
>adway between Boone and J
Mills and Foscoe, and now it
sible to travel from the county
r near Foscoe in about fifteen
es.
route which is being iinprovdown
the Laurel Fork roadie
outlet is greatly appreciatthe
people of Shulls Mills and
ins, who have not hitherto had
lern type of highway. The
it is said, is proceeding beFoscoe
in the direction of the
ilossee highway, and it is bethat
sooner or later this may
e a direct route of travel from ?
into Lunville. I C
way, a mighty good job is benc,
and the folks up the river
ave been more or less isolatsire
to publicly express their
> to Mr. Ilayworth, Mr. Morn
and others of the state
ay department for the splen- S
ad way they are providing.
MAKE PLANS
K HURLEY MART S
01
G
lan to Be Here Next Week C<
Take Preliminary Steps tr
award Opening Market te
re
Ruby Ellis, secretary of the
Merchants Association, states JT
he has been notified by Mr.
Coleman, lessee of the Moun- s!
Burtey Tobacco warehouses ?
that he will be in Boone next
to lay preliminary plans for 31
lening of the market here. 01
is to be around the first of
,ber- ty
isual, the Merchants Associa:nd
other local organizations
<ork together with the man- j0
nt of the market, in publiciz- fe
id promoting Boone as the
hurley marketing center for
IS of thl'fP static anH fhrvOtt
nformed state that the pros- fa
ate good this year for good w
ind high prices. pl
tin a short time definite an- H
;ment will be made as to the n1
Lies which will accompany the m
ig of burley sales here this ai
it;
gl
ege Student
ccumbs in Durham g
Hospital On Friday
Francis Nichols, member of
nior class at Appalachian Collied
at Watts hospital, Dur- ot
last Friday evening. Miss J5'
s was taken immediately to '?
m, following the diagnosis of
Iness as spinal meningitis a P'
prior to her death. CI
aral con;inoe nmrn in
> ?> V .www W11UUV.ICU
y from the Methodist church m
vicinity of the late residence,
m R. F. D. 5, and interment w
i the neighborhood cemetery. bi
ibers of Appalachian faculty ft
ing the rites were Dr. Robert tr
id. Prof. J. A. Williams and ^
-illie Hardin. Three student b;
> of the deceased also attende
funeral: Jean Stirewalt, P
Anthony and Florine Lutz.
md Crop Apples
In Many Varieties di
w
W. W. Gragg of Boone, brings th
Democrat office a box of ap- at
ist picked from the trees and
the second crop to be gathered be
;ar. Among the varieties of th
;cond fruiting are Red Astri- m
Virginia Beauty, Northwest to
ing. Winter Banana and Mai- P:
lush. Mr. Gragg says that the
:ontain quite a number of P
second-crop apples.
e have been numerous reports
ond crops of summer fruits, R
r. Gragg is the first man we to
"leard of having a fresh crop a
winter varieties 01 apples. sa
n<
NE EARS IN ONE HUSK st
Carrie Burkett of R. F. D. 2, m
1 town Tuesday, exhibiting a fe
ear of corn, which in reality w
2 ears grown together at the so
i and contained in one husk, ai
e ears are well formed and w
a good sound grain. di
DEM'
in the Year Eighteen
LIN A. THURSDAY, OCTOBI
Another Huge Def
^ ^ ^ " '
Wiih Hags, speeches, cheers
the $12,000,000 Douglas Aircraft '
cated at Long Beach, Calif., and
the speed the defense program is
day. the first concrete was pour<
the size and capacity of the plan
be turned out.
TOIITHEADS FISH
AND GAME CLUE
portsnien Go On Record as Be
ing Opposed to Removal of
Local Fish Hatchery
Lee H. Stout was named presideiv
the Watauga Fish and Game Clut
a largely attended meeting of th<
ganization held at the Parkwaj
-jmpany Monday evening. Paul A
jffey was named secretary anc
easurer.
The club membei-3 and other in
rested persons attending went or
cord as being 10C per cent oppos1
to the proposed abandonment oi
e state fish hatchery located neai
)one, and the president was in
ructed to communicate with tht
ate department o{ conservation, a;
i the reasons for "the reported step
id at the same time lodge a vigor
is protest against such action.
At the same time other citizen:
id officials in Boone and the coun
are joining in this protest. It i:
tinted out thai this territory i:
itliout industries, a chief attractior
r tourists lies ill trout fishing, anc
liioval of the hatchery would re
:t strongly against tourist trade it
le area. Considerable damagi
ould also result on account of th<
ict that the hatchery grounds
hich have always been used by tht
iblic for picnics and other gather
igs, is the only reccreational spo
this vicinity, that the cost of it:
aintenance is comparatively small
id that it should be preserved ii
s present beautiful setting, for th<
;neral benefit of the entire re
on.
idewalks, Streets
Are Being Repairec
Worlr of rnno irin n V??-?
v??? vi .vj/uini mt oiutwain;
i the south side of King street ha:
;en completed by W. C. Greene
cal building contractor, and th<
nished job represents a great im
ovement. Many blocks of the con
ete were broken by constant freez
g. and all of these have been re
oved and new ones poured.
At the same time the state high
ay commission has placed a a nev
-idge on South Water street neai
ic laundry, and applied surfac<
eatment to the section of Nortl
'ater street, which was destroye(
f the flood last year.
deception For New
Minister Plannec
Dr. E. K. McLarty. new Rlethost
minister for the Boone church
ill be honored at a reception ir
ie church basement next Sundaj
ternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock.
A church loyalty program ha:
:en arranged for this occasion, anc
lere will be a social hour. A1
embers of the church are expectec
be present to welcome the new
istor, and to enjoy the program.
RESIDENT CONSIDERING
ANTI-STRIKE LEGISLATE
Washington, Oct. 28.?Presidem
Dw>cvt:u, wuose uince-voicea piei
John L. Lewis has failed to enc
strike of 53,000 CIO coal miners
iid today that he was eonsiderinf
:w legislation to cope with defensi
rikes in general. The Presiden
ade this disclosure at a press con
rence while on Capitol Hill <
ave of angry feeling producer
iggestions that troops be called ou
id that fersons conducting strike;
ith "intent" to retard defense pro
iction be punished as saboteurs.
OCBJi
i Hundred and Jp/^3
iR 30. 1941
.... Mp
ense Plant Ded*^ ed
>;pg
and the roar of bombers overhead,
'blackout plant" was officially dedi
v/eni into full operation. Typical of
faking was the facl thai on the sazne
id for tho addition that will double
i. Here all types of big planes will
AGED MINISTER
! TAKEN BY DEATH
- Rev. Leonard C Wilson Found
Dead in Bed; Funeral Thursday
"Afternoon
t Rev. Leonard Wilson, one of
> the best known ministers of the
! | Three Forks Baptist Association,
' was found dead in bed at the home
of a son, Mr. W. W. Wilson, in Bea1
ver Dam township Wednesday morning.
Mr. Wilson had been in his
| usual health recently, buf. had comi1
plained some with his heart. When
the aged minister failed to arise for
E breakfast, his son went to the room
and found that he had expired. He
was 82 years old.
' Funeral services are to be held
'Thursday afternoon at Bethel
Baptist church, with the pastor,
Rev. W. D. Ashley, in charge.
Rev. E. J. Farthing will assist in the
1 rites. Burial is to be in the Bethel
' cemetery, with Reins-Sturdivanl
|] Funeral Home taking care of the ar'
i rangements.
I ; Surviving are four sons and one
I daughter: Rev. J. Arthur Wilson,
4 oi.xuey, eiKia.; w. VV. Wilson. Sugar
, Grove: Rev. Clay Wilson, Siloam
j Springs, Ark.; Dr. R. Bynum Wilson,
Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. C. G.
I Cook, Elizabethlon, Tenn.
Rev. Mr. Wilson, who was born
t and reared in Watauga county, was
; a son of Lemuel Wilson, who was
, killed during the Civil War. He had
i been a minister of the Gospel for
; about 50 years, was an able and
- popular preacher, and had been the
pastor of a large number of the
Baptist churches in this county.
1 Showers Break
s Long Drought
3
, On Monday, general showers fell
2 in this section, the first relief from
- a drought of many weeks, and
- while the rainfall wasn't sufficient
- to restore springs and wells to their
- normal flow, it gave hope of adequate
relief before long.
Reports from various sections of
r the county recently indicate a scarr
city of water, springs in many in
stances having gone dry. and wells
i reported as failing. In Boone, howI
ever, the water supply has been
adequate, and city officials have not
found it necessary to curtail use of
the supply, as has been the case in
j many other communities.
Work On Belk-White
Building Progresses
i
' Work of building a large addition
to the rear of the Belk-White store
> building is progressing according to
i schedule, and C -ntrrctor Ed JenII
kins is now on the job. The addil
tion which will be 50x40 feet and
' which will nearly double the floor
space of the store, is already up to
the street level, and a foundation
has been placed for the new steam
T boiler, which will take the place of
1. I *1 ? ? *
l i uiu siuciuer unii. row Deing used.
i ] The addition besides a full base1
ment, will contain a street floor and
,! a mezzanine. The basement walls
: i have been finished, are of stone
; i construction while the remainder ol
t the addition will be of brick. Mr.
- Conway, Belk-White manager, states
i that the enlarged store will permit
1 the opening of other departments
t and relieve the present congestion,
s He expects to occupy the new por.
tion of the building about the first
of the year.
lT
>-Eight
$1.50 A YEAR
PLANSPH(K'EED^
FOR RED CROSS
ROLL CALL DRIVE
i Annual Campaign for American
Hed Cross to Got Under Way
Armistice Day: Watauga's
Quota This Year is Over One
Thousand Members
Plans for the annua] Red Cross
Roll Caal! campaign, which will get
under way Armistice Day. have
been announced by Mrs. W. M.
.Mathesnrv Tho Wattinuo n?..r?c?r
.. V.VUIIVJ
quota this year is well over a thousand
memberships, and every effort
is being made to give every citizen
a chance to participate by enrolling.
The national organization is impressing
the local chapters with the
fact that this is a time of emergency
and that demands on the services
of the groups will be greater
than ever. Committees have already
begun work in special fields, the
various projects and chairmen of the
respective committees being as follows:
Home nursing, Mrs. J. W. Davis;
emergency loan closet, Mrs. Paul A.
Coffey; military and naval welfare,
service, Rev. John Rhea: war relief
. production, Mrs. Mae Miller; disaster
preparedness, R. D. Hodges;
first aid and life saving, Miss Thursa
Steed.
Mrs. E. E. Garbee, chapter chairman,
reports that all committees
have produced remarkable results in
their respective fields.
Mrs. W. M. Matheson, roll call
chairman, reports that already a
large number have volunteered their
services for the campaign. Special
chairmen have been designated as
follows:
Rural territory, Mr. Harry Hamilton;
business district, Mr. W. H.
Gragg; speciaf gifts, Mrs. James H.
Council!; financial, Mr. Rob Rivers;
College roll call, Mrs. Herman R.
Eggers; industrial, Mr. Paul Lavictes;
publicity, Mr. A. Antonakos.
j Late War Bulletins
The Russian armies cf the center
appeared Tuesday night to have considerably
improved their position by
general counter-attacks which were
said in London to have beaten the
Germans back before Moscow as
much as 10 miles, but by all signs
catastrophe was shouldering the
Soviet in the far south.
The southern German forces of
jiviursnai oenn rou nunastedt, already
immense and still being
strengthened, were understood earlier
to have stood within 10 to 15
miles of Rostov on the River Don
and clearly were still advancing, if
only slowly.
Front-line dispatches to Pravda,
the official Communist newspaper,
claimed that the Germans had fallen
to digging defense fortifications
in some sectors of the Moscow front
trenches and tank traps?in an effort
to consolidate advances which
had now been generally halted.
Tuesday brought the most violent
abuse of President Roosevelt for his
Navy Day speech in Germany and
Italy?liar and fool were among the
1 epithets used by authorized sources
in Berlin, while the word liar appeared
in the Italian press?but
comment in Tokyo had a strong
undertone of caution and was not
| nearly so bitter.
Axis forces struggling to maintain
communication lines and supply
bases in North Africa are encountering
mounting difficulties
through frequent naval and air
bombardments by the British. The
Mediterranean fleet in three shellings
between Egyptian border and
the Libyan ports of Tobruk and
Bardia within a week have caused
German plans a severe setback. Axis
heavy artillery, motor transports,
i uuop centers ana DarracKs were
hard hit. Coupled with the attacks
from the sea are steadily increasing
raids by the fleet air arm and the
RAF. The planes concentrate mostly
on supply sources the naval guns
fail to reach.
A "last chance" offer to spare the
lives of 100 French hostages and re
lease war prisoners whose families
turn informer on the assassins of
; two Germans was announced Tuesdy
by Gen. Otto von Stuelpnagel,
commander of the German occupa.
tion forces. Suspension of the "hundred-for-one"
reprisal system for an
indefinite period was ordered by
i Adolf Hitler personally, the general
said, to give France more time to deliver
information on the six assassins.
One hundred French hostages
have been put to death.