JANUARY 21. 1943.
Local Main !
Mrs, L. M. Hampton, of Plymouth
is a visitor in the home of Mrs.;
Jessie McGuire.
Miss Betty EJIis has returned to I
Queens College after spending some j
time at her home here.
Mrs. Robert Wilkins of Asheville,
spent last week-end with her mother,
Mrs. W. R. Gragg.
Mr. s>. u. nggers lelt Tuesday lor
Raleigh, when! he will spend a few
days on business matters.
Mr. Chas. Ray, who is employed
at Fort Bragg, N. C., visited with his
family last week-end.
Mrs. James Greer is speding some
time with a sister, Mrs. Clyde Edmisten
of Watauga Falls. N. C.
Mr. Ed G. Farthing, who is employed
at Virginia Beach, Va., spent
last week with his family here.
Mrs. J. A. Matheson of Taylorsville
has been spending a few days with 1
her sister-in-law, Mrs. F. A. Linney.
Mrs. Wendal Wilson of Elkin spent
last week end at the home of her
parents, Ke and Mrs. A. L. Cooke.
Misses Margaret and Lucille Idol,
left Wednesday to spend a few days
with friends in Columbus, and Fort
nenmng, Cia.
Mr. McD. Wagner and daughter,
Mrs. Ellen Carrol of Brownwood,
were business visitors in town last
Thurdsay.
Mrs. William Rush left Monday
for Coshocton, Ohio, where she will
visit with a sister, Miss Ocie Adams.
Mr. and Mrs. Vaught Mast announce
the birth of a daughter. Linda
Lee, on January 20lh, at the Hagaman
Clinic.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Berry and
daughter, Audrey Ann, of Pulaski,
Ta., spent last week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Ray.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Michael and
son Norman of Bristol, Va., spent the
week-end with Mrs. Michael's mother,
Mrs. Carl D. Byers.
Mrs. Jont Ragan and son, J. D., of
Morganton, were guests over the
week-end of Mr. and Mrs. Avery
Greene, of Boone Route 2.
Mrs. Paul Fox, and Paul, Jr., of
Clayton, Ala., have arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cooke,
where they will visit for several
weeks.
Mrs. Richard E. ICelley returned
to Charleston, S. C., Wednesday, after
spending several days at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Councill
Cooke and Mr. Cooke.
Mr. Walter Thompson, who is employed
on a defense project at Wilmington,
N. C., has been visiting his
parents, Mr. ana Mrs. C. F. Thompson;
Sugar Grove, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. James McNeill, of
Bennettsville, S. C., announce the
birth of a son, on January 6th, who
has been named James Dayton. Mrs.
McNeil was formerly Miss Jean Wilson.
Mrs. J. C. Goodnight, who has been
in declining health for some time, is
a patient at Baptist hospital, Winston-Salem.
She underwent a serious
operation on Monday and is getting
along very well.
Society Notes
Music and Art Club
To Work at Red Cross.
The music and art department of
the Woman's Club will meet at the
Red Cross room Thursday night at
7:30, to fold surgical dressings. All
members are are asked to be present.
Bird Club To Meet
Next Saturday Afternoon.
The bird club will meet Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. A.
W. Davis, at which time there will
be a call for the December bird census.
The goals of the club for the
year will be established.
Home Demonstration Club
To Meet On January 29th.
The Green Valley home demonstration
Club will meet Friday January
29th, at the home of Mrs. Troy
Norris. Every member is requested
to be present. All visitors are welcome.
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McGhee-Coleman
Wedding Is Announced.
Announcement is made of the marriage
of Kathryn Grey McGhee to
R. C. Coleman, Jr., at Conway, S. C.
or) September third, ninety-hundred
arid forty-two.
aus. foreman is a daughter ol
Mrs. Velma Rivers McGhee and a
grand-daughter of the late Robert
C. Rivers, Sr., of this city. She was
educated at Appalachian High School
and Appalachian State Teachers College.
Mr. Coleman is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Coleman of Tabor City,
N. C. He received his education at
Tabor City High School and Oak
Ridge Military Academy.
The young couple will establish
their home in Tabor City.
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ITEMS FROM THE DEMOCRAT
OF JAN. 21, 1904.
Prof. Check is expected here this
week.
Mrs. Smith McBride of Yerger has
been visiting her parents for several
days.
The throng at the Training school
increases as the days go by.
The roads, with the exception of
a little ice, continue good.
Mr. George Day of Virgil, died at
his home last week from an acute
attack of inflamatory rheumatism.
Deputy Sheriff J. W. Miller carried
N. Calaway to the hospital at Morganton
last week.
Quite a crowd attended the E. B.
Miller trial yesterday, but we closed
our forms before the' result was
reached.
Sorry to learn that Mrs. Saliie
Mast of Cove Creek is extremely ill
and that her recovery is at last despaired
of.
Z. V. Mayberry and family wi'l
move to Limestone, Tenn., in the
near future. Mr. Mayberry has
bought a home there.
John F. Hardin left yesterday for
the markets with a bunch of horses j
and mules, the property of T. F. Coffey,
of Manning, S. C.,
Presiding Elder Cook delivered an
able sermon in the Methodist church
here Tuesaay night. He was en route
to his quarterly meeting at Fairview.
A letter from J. P. Councill of
Limestone, Tenn., ordering his paper
to that office, states that he and
family are well pleased with their
new home and surroundings.
Messrs E. G. Farthing and B. R.
Bryan left for Wilmington some days
ago and have both procured positions
on the street car system of that
city.
Detective McAdam, of Birmingham,
Ala., spent Sunday at the
Blackburn Hotel. It will be remembered
that he is the one who worked
up the counterfeiting cases in the
county, and in Johnson county, Tenn
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Vannoy-Storie Wedding
is Solemnized.
Miss Virginia Dare Vannoy was
married to Mr. Jack Storie on Sat-1
urday January 9th, at the home of
Rev. Raymond Hendrix, Rev. Mr.'
Hendrix performing the ceremony.
Mrs. Storie is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Vannoy of Todd.
She received her education at the
Eikland High School. The groom is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Storie
of Boone and he received his educa-|
tion at Apalachian High. He is now
employed at Lenoir.
Enlre Nous Club Meets
At Red Cross Center.
The members of the Entre Nous
Club met last Friday at the Red
Cross surgical dressing room, with
Mrs. G. K. Moose, the hostess.
At 10 o'clock the guests were invited
to the Boone Drug store, where
delicious ice course was served.
Those present were: Mesdames W. j
M. Matheson, D. J. Whitener, R. D.j
Hodges, James Mast, J. E. Holshou-.
ser, Sam Horton, John Horton, Paul
Coffey, Ruth Isaacs, Herman Eggers,
Graydon Eggers, and H. S. Webster.
Grace Hospital To
Start Nurse Classes
Banner Elk, N. C., January 18.?
Grace Hospital at Banner Elk will
start a new class for nurses on February
15 in cooperation with the urgent
need for more graduate nurses
for government service, it has been
announced here by Miss Maye Low,
Superintendent of the hospital's
training school.
The training school meets the requirements
of the North Carolina
State Nurses Association and the
graduates are eligible for Armv. Na
vy and Red Cross nursing when they
have graduated and successfully pased
the North Carolina Board.
The entrance fee has been reduced
from $60.00 to $30.00, which will
furnish each student with the necessary
uniforms and books. The institution
hopes to be able to offer
scholarships soon to deserving young
high school graduates who are not
able to enter otherwise.
The council on recruitment of student
nurses is seeking to enroll 18,000
new students in the spring classes
in schools of nursing, in order
to meet the national quota of 55,000
for the school year?a figure which
may be stepped up to 65,000 by next
year if the war continues.
Nursing is a real front line war
work for women, and young women
with high school educations can prepare
to serve their country and to
relieve suffering humanity by taking
the nurse course for graduate
nurses. Unlike many of our other
vital war workers, there will V?o n I
continuing need for nurses after the
war, both here and abroad.
SODIUM CHLORATE AVAILABLE
Sodium chlorate will be available
for weed eradication in 1943, in sufficient
quantities to care for major
needs without rigid State quotas,
says a joint announcement of the
USD A and the WPB.
VATAUGA DEMOCRAT-EVER
hrEa^kEkn
Mis. M. B. Blacbuhn is confined
to her bed from the effects of a fall
she had last week. The good woman
has the deepest sympathy of all. We
trust that ere long she may be out
again.
I Jesse Farthing of Watauga Falls
has a cow that has triplets, two males
and one female calf. The trio is doing
well.
Rev. L. C. Wilson, who has had in
: his care for some time the Baptist
church at Boone, delivered his farewell
sermon to his flock on Sunday
i night last. His successor has not yet
been elected.
Sheriff Baird came over Monday
j for the first time since his recovery
from an attack of fever. He is still
rather weak and emaciated, but is
looking fairly well, his late serious
illness considered.
Judge Councill and family left for
their home in Hickory Tuesday
Morning. Mis. Councill and children
have been here for a number of
months, and their many friends are
sorry to give them up. The Judge
will return to his circuit in the near
future.
Mr. E. G. Minton tells us that the
reports from his wife who is now a
patient in Billingsley Hospital in
Statesville, are most encouraging.
The operation which she underwent
more than two weeks ago. was a decided
success and she is rapidly recovering.
Now that an Entry Taker has to
be appointed by the County Commissioners,
we think it would be a
graceful act on the part of that body
to tender it to Mrs. H. J. Hardin. She
! is well qualified, thoroughly up to
the duties of the office, and her appointment
would be no mistake.
James Brown opened a subscrip1
tion school at Deerfield Monday, and
we are told that (little) Eli Garner,
who tips the scales at about 240
pounds, has entered the same. Jim
should deal gently with the lad, not
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?/v luugin wuii linn, <mu merely senci
him homo if he misbehaves.
State College Hints
For Homemakers
By RUTH CURRENT
N. C. State College.
Set up a kitchen office?maybe
just a shelf. Include your favorite
cook book, nutrition study material
for daily review, scrap books of
handy things for economy in housekeeping,
a complete file of laundry
and cleaning in formation.
Set up a food budget, list purchases,
and check prices.
Ask your neighbor about her canning
plans. If you do not can on
the same day, you may keep an
eye on her children or prepare her
one-dish meals?she may do the
same for you.
Don't let your tongue run loose.
A kind word in time saves the nine
or ten you use patching things up.
Sit down hard on the stories that
come to your ears?they probably
aren't true anyway.
These are sins of omission?things
you forget to do! Leaving your room
an untidy mess; letting your good
looks slip by rundown heels, strag
giy biacK Mair and spotty clothes;
forgetting to deliver messages, run
errands, or carry out jobs entrusted
to you.
Neglecting to thank people for favors
received; to acknowledge invitations;
to be thoughtful; blithely
and willfully leaving things undone!
It's a crime!
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
GAME THURSDAY NIGHT
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On Thursday night, the Appalachian
High Blue Devils will fneet the
former all-stars of the Boone High
School team. This game will take
place in the high school gymnasium.
The girls' game will start at sefren
o'clock, with the boys' game starting
at eight o' clock. The high school
boys will have their hands full with
the all-stars as they will have such
players as Pete Coffey all-conference
forward; John Bingham. Farthina
Hayes, Paul Hagaman, and many
others. This will be the Boone fans'
last chance to see some of these allstars
in action, as most of them are
leaving for some branch of the armed
forces during the next month.
DATE FOR BUYING FARM
MACHINERY ENDS FEB. 15
The Watauga county farm rationing
committee has set February 15
as the closing date for accepting applications
for new farm machinery
for 1943.
Those expecting to buy new farm
machinery or equipment this year,
will have to file their application
with the county farm machinery ratioing
committee, in the AAA office
prior to February 15, says Mr.
W. W. Mast, committee chairman.
SCARCE
Farmers are scouring the countryside
in Forsyth county in a search
for dairy cattle and feeder pigs, reports
S. R. Mitchener, assistant farm
agent of the N. C. State Extension
Service.
Y THURSDAY- BOONE. N. C.
Watauga
ip-gSy Men With
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Corporal
' Leverne Fox, son cf Mr. and Mrs.
Fjlmore Fox, who is in North Africa
as a paratrooper, has been promoted
to the rank of corporal.
Visits His Mother.
Private William Luther Miller, of
Salt Lake City, Utah, visited his
mother, Mrs. Frank Miller, of Zionville.
and Mr. and Mrs. Leaman Miller
and family of Boone. Private
: Miller is with the air corps.
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In Air Corps
Isaac J. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
jC. G. Lewis of Mabel, is in the air
! crops in New Jersey, where he will
. be for the next hree or four weeks.
His address is: Private Isaac J. Lewis
: 188 T.S.S. Flight B, Atlantic City,
N.J.
In Signal Corps
Jack Grogan, son of Mr. and Mrs.
B. M. Grogan of Boone, and Harold
Mast, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. B.
Mast of Sugar Grove, are in the army
signal corps, and are located at
Winston-Salem.
Goes lo Miami Beach, Fla.
Private Burl W. Thomas, who has
been stationed at Arlington. Va., has
been transferred to Florida. His present
address is: Private Burl W. Thomas,
580th T.S.S. Flight D-l, A. A.
F. T. T. C. - B. T. C. No. 4. Miami
Beach, Florida.
At Advanced Flying School.
Private Ralph K. Harmon, of Sherwood,
N. C., has reported for duty
at the Army Air Forces Advanced
Flying School, Carlsbad, Nov/ Mexico.
Before going to Carlsbad, he
had been stationed at Will Rogers
Field. Oklahoma City. Okla.
Flucie Stewart lo Pacific Fleet.
Information comes lo Boone to the
effect that Lieutenant Flucic Stewart
of this city, former athletic coach
at Appalachian College, and more
recently with the Naval pre-flight
school at Athens, Ga.. has reported j
to the Pacific fleet air command. |
Goes to San Antonio
P. F. C. John W. Thompson, son of |
Mr. and Mi's. C. F. Thompson of|
Sugar Grove, N. C., who has been
in the army for two months, has re-1
ceatlv been transferred from Camp
Lee, Va., where he finished his basic
training, to 2nd Student Bn., San
Antonio Ordnance Center, San Antonio,
Texas.
A brother, Don F. Thompson. IJ.
S. N., who is in active service on a
destroyer has recently been promoted
to S 1-c. He volunteered for service
in June and took his basic train
ing at Norfolk, Va., and Salmons,
Md.
To Graduate in Arizona
U. S. Naval Training School, Tucson,
Ariz. Jan. 18.?Lt. (jg) Frank F.
Smith, 33 of Boone, N. C., is one of
the more than 500 U. S. Naval Reserve
officers graduating from this
indoctrination school about Jan. 11.
Lt. Smith is now concluding an
intensive 60-day course, designed to
acquaint him with Navy life. Officers
receive instruction in seamanship,
ordnance, correspondence, navigation,
naval regulations and customs,
and other allied customs.
Prior to entering the Naval service,
Lieutenant Smith was a project
farm forester at Nacbgdoches,
Texas. He attended Duke and Yale
Universities, obtaining a Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1933, a Master of Forestry
in 1936, and a Master of Arts
in 1938.
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William
H. Smith, Jr., 426 Grand Boulevard,
Boone, N. C.
Soldier Thanks Local Legion Post
| Mr. Ralph G. Greer, commander
Watauga Post, American Legion,
written from Miami, Fla., November
26, 1942:
Gentlemen of Post 130:
Last Thanksgiving day I was fortunate
enough to be one of the soldiers
of the 102nd Cavalry that were
entertained by you with true southern
hospitality. We all enjoyed onr
Thanksgiving dinner that day and
the purpose of this little note is to
let you know that your kindness is
far from forgotten.
The 102nd Cavalry is now overseas
somewhere, and I know that
today many of the boys are reminiscing
over the events of last year
at this time. Let us hope that they
are faring as well as they divt in
Boone
The army is making an officer out
of me down here. I was transferred
into the air corps last August 9. If
all goes well Uncle Sam will have
another second Lieutenant. Incidentally
I was the tall (6' a") blonde sergeant
who ate two helpings of everything
and more hot biscuits than
it would be polite to tell.
The very best of luck to you all,
and again, many, many thanks for
that wonderful Thanksgiving dinner
last year.
Yours,
ALWIN E. PALMEDO.
Letter From Soldier
, Dear Editor and Friends:
After four months of hard study
: and work, 1 have finished my training
at the Army Air Force Technical
i School at Amarillo Field, Texas, and
; received my diploma. At this school
I have learned much about the maintenance
and operation of the Flying
Fortress. The main subjects I have
covered are structures, wing, tail,
flight and engme control, landing,
tail gear, fuselage and equipment,
handling, structural repair, engine
operation, induction sytem. fuel system.
engine maintenance, oxygen
system, heating and ventilation, tubing
repair, motors and generators,
navigation instruments, flight instruments
and inspections. In addition
I have covered many other minor
subjects, so you can easily sec
I have been quite busy.
The B-17-F bombardment airpl.ne
is a mid-wing monoplane of all-metal
aluminum alloy construction.\
Four 1.200 horsepower engines The
overall length of this plane is 74
feet, 8.90 inches, with a wingspread
of 103 feet, 9.38 inches, and 19 feet
1 inch tall. It weighs about 30,000
pounds. It can carry a load of 60,000
pounds, and attains an altitude of
35,000 feet. It has a bomb capacity
of 12.000 pounds. V/her. all tanks are
full it carries 2,518 gallons of fuel,
with 148 gallons of oil. In combat it
carries a crew of eight, consisting of
the pilot, co-pilot, bombadier, navigator,
top and bottom gunner, side
and tail gunners. Gunnery equip- i
ment on this plane consists of three 1
single .50 caliber flexible guns, and I
3 .50 caliber flexible twin guns. The
B-17-F has a top speed of 354 miles!
an hour. The ships cost approximately
one half million dollars each, and
I am proud to be working on a plane;
like this.
I left Amarillo field December 30.
and after spending six days and.
nights on a troop train, arrived here;
Bcone, N. C. Phone 170
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Children 10c: Adults ISc all Day
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in Seattle. Wash., where I will spend
30 days more in advanced training.
I have faith in my country, and
am willing to go all the way in
helping win in this struggle. Take
it easy and keep smiling, and we'll
see to it that they keep flying, and
shortly we'll all come marching
home.
PVT. EARL C. WARD
A. A. F. T. D. Flight 17-16-9
Boeing Aircraft Fct.
6600 Ellis Place.
Seattle. Wash.
A SILENT PRAYER
Lord, bring the spring, and take the
I pain.
: From weary bones of inarching men;
Give them, X thee beseech.
The warm clean rain and
Take hard strain from faces (fight
they must),
But still upturned to Thee in trust.
Ixjrd bring the spring and ease sad
hearts,
So long grown tired of bloody strife
Give them. I thee beseech
Warm soft clouds and sky so clear,
Through which may many fly.
Chart his course clear, to Thee I cry
Ixird bring the spring and teach tired
souls
The way to pray and hope for peace
Give us. I thee beseech,
The will to live and dare.
The strength to keep our faith in
Thee,
To bear our cross up Calvary.
PVT. GRADY M. HODGES
Co. L, Sth Q. M. C. Barracks 781
Camp, Lee, Va.
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for Alarm Clocks and Watches
B. W. STALLfNGS
BUY WAR BONDS REGULARLY
MONDAY TUESDAY
A personal guarantee from the
management that this is one oi
the iunniest pictures ever shown
in Boone.
WANTED
4.000 PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE
BLUES. OR NEED A GOOD
LAUGH. TO SEE?
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entertainment thai I am proud to 1
bring to the people of Boone. Dont 1
Miss a single one. You will enjoy |
them all.
D. J. NORMAN. Manager. 1