Mrs. Sarah Perry . . Her Pupil In the death of Mrs. Sarnh Perry the county has loet another of its oldest and moat esteemed citzen*. She waa 99 yean old, and brought the courtesy, neighborliness and charm of a quieter age to mellow and add beauty to the day of the powered wheel. One of the- more cultured ladles of her day, she was a pioneer homemaker of the Beaver Dam section, and excelled In many of the activities of the household. An ex pert weaver and knitter, she continued to employ her talents along this line uhtil about a year before her demise. A first cousin to the late Daniel B. Dougherty, she lived in the Dougherty home in Boone when Dr. Dougherty and his brother, D. D. Dougherty, were chil dren, and had the distinction ot having taught Dr. Dougherty "his letters" and to read, which was likely a source of pride to her in the years ahead. Dr. Dougherty is not certain that Mrs. Perry taught his brother to read, however, and adds, "Dolph was twenty months old er than I, and usually about three years ahead in his books, so maybe she didn't teach him." Toll Gates . . Not A New Issue ? , 0 The proposal to levy a toll charge on motorist* over the Blue Ridge Parkway, which met defeat some time ago, remind* that the toll gate isaue is not a new one in this area. However, so the Democrat said in Oc tober 1916, folks had a different way of dealing with the poles across the road in that day of more positive approach to pub lic problems, and actually did away with the gates. The Democrat said: "The report has reached here thst on last Saturday, toll gates were esected on two of the splendid highways leading wt from Newland, in Avery county. PTHUm ably to collect tribute from the large throng of people who were forced to attend ' / , r ; court in that town this week. "To this move the populace of the tax ridden little county did not readily agree, and at night the gates were demolished by a band of indignant citizens, and a poster was left with this inscription: 'We are pay ing interest on the bonds that constructed this road, and we do not propose to pay toll for the privilege of using it.'" We'd have to agree, though, that the Parkway .toll project was dealt with more adequately. The people stirred themselves before the collection station was set up. And if their temper slays what it ia now, -the government's going to have a hard time of ever enforcing a toll on the "Scenic." To The Teachers: A Welcome The students have come back to Appala chian^ campus, and In number* equal, at least, to any summer school enrollment record thus far established. Interesting is the information that dor mitory space at the College is at a prem ium. All men's rooms have been taken, and there is scant chance for a woman student or a married couple to get housing at this time. Three regular terms are offered this summer, for the first time, and this may account for accelerated Interest in the sum mertime program at the college. A pro gram of ttudy leading to the master's de gree may be completed in these three quartera. The iiimmer achool student body comes from the entire Southeaat. However, 24 states were represented last year, besides the District of Columbia, South America and Puerto Rico. The Democrat enjoys offering a wel come to these teachers and others who constitute at least half aa many people as the normal population of the town. We are glad you are here, hope your sojourn will be pleasant and profitable, and that you will return in future years. Croquet . . Stages A- Comeback Croquet, which blossomed, we've heard, in the gay nineties, as a proper sort of lawn game for both the men and the wo men of the era, and found a recurrence of favor perhaps forty years ago, is again going strong over the land. George Sanders, British Hollywood mo vie star, it seems, has beaten Darryl Zan uck, at what the former calls "one of the few intellectual games played outdoors." Mallets are heavier, and the rules more stringent in the movietown version of the game, which is known as "killer croquet." From a strictly sectional viewpoint, it's incorrect to say that croquet has returned. So far as Watauga county is concerned U never has ventured far away. Used to be that a court was maintained on the east Me of the courthouse where Ab Smith, W. It Gragg, E. S. Coffey, J. C. Fletcher and others, played hours on end. | In later years A. C. Mast and some of his friends organized a croquet group at Su gar Grove, which arouaad all the interest generated in other circles by big league baseball. Then of course Emory Joints' court has been popular for years, a* down afcng the funeral home the enthusiasts of the wooden mallet and the rolling ball aa* - * ? ? - ? I a ?? ? J m nn ?? m Iam/i 44MU11S, DOflTffVCTj IttyCtt bWij I time. Popular thirty-five year* ago, when there were private court* In the town, the tennis enthusiasts moved away, and noth ing more came of the game till it was instituted down at the college in recent timed. Words Of Wisdom * And out of good still to find means of evil. ? Milton. When to mischief mortals bend their wilL How soon they find fit instruments of ill! Bear the ills you have, lest worse befall you. ? Phaedrus. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is often interred with their bones.? Shakespeare. IfT One man's wickedneas may easily be come all men's cure. ? Pubilius Syrus. Time to me thla truth has taught (Tis a treasure worth revealing), Mora offend by want of thought Than from want of feeling. ? Pope. 4 f ? A Stretch's Sketches # By "STRETCH" ROLLINS Some Dayt It Don't Hardly Pay To Get Outa Bed IN MEMORIAM ? The Country Gentleman, alaa, la no more. The magazine, not the termer, most of whom, so far ?s I know, ?till are perfect gentle men. , The Curtis Publishing Com any has announced the sale of the 102-year-old Country Gentleman to farm Journal, Inc., who will merge the mag azine with their own publica tion In the September issue. The news brings on a bit of personal nostalgia. It re calls a summer back in the Thirsty Thirties when the de pression w?? Hoovering over ui. (Ill give equal space for any inide remark! the opposition may care to make.) That rammer, I traveled over South Carolina in a Model A Ford, one Jump ahead of the fi nance company, selliag subscription* to the Cur tia magazines ? C. 0., Saturday Evening Post, and LadMe Home Journal* The Ford was equipped with a chicken coop, hand scales, and a bushel basket If the lady wanted a magazine alfd didn't have the cash. I'd trad* her a subscription for chickens, eggs, turnip*, taters, or any kind of salable (or edi ble) (arm produce. I'd catch the chtekens myself, too. And to . this day, every time I tee a big fat hen around a farmhouse, I find myself wondering how fast she can run, and if she'd Jwing the price of a subscription. Got * big Tom turkey once, that was living on borrowed time, a fugitive from the festive board* of the preceding Christmas. We got to know each other real well. 1 named him Herman, and he affectionately called me "Urk," or "Gobble-Obble * Obble" when he decided to go formal and use my full name. Did YOU ever try to sell a 30-pound turkey in July? 1 finally, and s?dly(i pers^d^ another farmer to take over hi* feed bill by throwing in. a five-year Subscription to the Country Gentle man. - Ah, those were the days, when it was stylish not to have any money. But some days, like today, it didn't hardly pay to get outa bed. SCANTY SKETCHES? Bob Hope said it:*"Ike was enthusiastic about the meeting of the Big Four. He thought the other three were Saead, Hogan, and Middlecoff." (Ill give equal space, etc.) ... Does television make you sick? "Turns ' are now being advertised as a remedy for "TV Stomach." (If you still can't quit the stuff. Join Televiewers Anonymous.) . . . Battery-powered electric wrist watches may load to the develop ment of two-way wrist radios, say* an item. (Science may yet catch up with DicMYaey.) From Early .Democrat Files Sixty Year $ Ago Jum M, IMC. X. Spencer Blackburn of Jefferson spent Mon day in town. We had plenty of frost on Monday morning June 17th. , fc ' The public Is Ipvited to be present at the closing exercises of the Boone High School Friday night la the courthouse. Our attention has been called to a report cur rent ia the State that Judge Timberlake, in stead of having toothache was drank at Boone court. This report is false and in justify to Judge Timberlake we hope the matter win be corrected by the papers that have given currency to the report. Boom township has sixty-five miles of public road* to keep in repair. Under the new law there are ten supervisors elected by the town ship trustees wboee duty it is to work each man four days each year.- If the supervisors do their duty this township can keep the roads in good repair without much tax money, if any. CeL C. A. Cilley of Hickory has been awarded ? gold medal by the War Department for bravery at Chteamaug* Col. Cilly had twe horses shot from1 under him while leading a charge by the Federal troops. Thirty-Nine Year* Ago Joae (Altlt Mrs. Minnie Watson of Lenoir, with her little son Hugh, is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Farthing, where she will spend some weeks. A large gasoline tank has ben put in at the Cottrell sore, and a good supply of the fluid will be kept constantly on hand. A great con venience for Ike traveling public and the local trade. The lambs are now beginning to move from Watauga. The first bunch of 160. owned by Aaoa Adama, passed through yesterday, en route te Todd. The price paid was I* to * cent* per powad, the flock costing the purchaser right at UMI 7v The Mat, tanitary and Inviting -looking Cafe and bottling works being conducted by Mr. John Spencer in Boom, ia quite an addition to our Cards an out announcing the approaching marriage of Dr. Robert B. Garvejr of Beaver Creek and Miss Rose Edna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brown of Blowing Rock. Dr. and Mrs. Mack G. Anders and children of Gastonia, were guesta at the Blair Hotel Mon day night. Mr. Avery Graybeal, an Ashe county boy, who has just completed hia third year in the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, spent Sunday in Boone. Dr. Ronda H. Hardin of Pineviile arrived at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hardin, remaining here until yesterday when he left for his home. Fifteen Year a Ago Jane 20, 1M0. R. W. Colvard, well-known West Jefferson business man, has doeed a deal for the business known aa Hodges ^ire Co., which has been owned and managed by A. E. Hodges for eight years. The transfer involved about $35,000, it is said. Mr. Russell D. Hodges leaves Friday for Phil adelphia, where he will be in attendance at the Republican national convention, which con venes Monday. Mr. Hodges and Hobart Morton of Albemarle, are the ninth district delegates. Tuesday morning the town of Boone allowed ? number of slot machines to be placed in dif ferent busineea houses on a percentage basis, to raise additional revenue, displacing the pin table machines which had been operated here for some time. . . . The ministers of the city in ? special meeting Wednesday, vigorously protested the use of the devices in the town. The min isters contend that the machines are gambling devices and contrary to State laws. . . . The minister* and the town board a*e to meet to gether at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Borrowed Comment i ? , ?; - ..,U - , - . ' v- ,; i f. We've Known It All The Time Jackson (Mm.) State Times "I am amased that to many highway accidenta involve only one car," say* a traffic inglnaar. We MA We've known all along there were plenty U A. fools entirety capable of wrecking can without any help whatsoever. v KING STREE v3l BY ROB FIVERS Bf;?a ? M * SONGBIRDS . . . DODOS, PASSENGER PIGEONS Among the large number* of song birds which we note around the place this spring, some of the old standbys are absent . . , We have plenty of robins, catbirds, brown thrashers, yellow* hammers, sparrows of wide variety, blue jays, cardinals and the like. . , . Fact is,' in spite of the BBs and the cats we have more songsters than for many years. . . . But we don't find the blue birds around the house any more, the Baltimore orioles don't come to see us ef late, and we haven't noted any redwing black birds in the willows along the creek fo? years. . . . Not being a bird-watcher, in the professional sense, these feathered friends of anothe^day may still be sticking around, but not in our bock, yard . . . and perhaps a lot of birds we now have in scant num bers are heading toward extinction, along with the dodo. HE COULD NT EVEN FLY The dodo was a big fellow, big as a goeae, some write., a clumsy useless sort of bmt, who couldn't get off the ground, even with a tail wind. . . . Akin to the pigeon he was helpless in the 'march of early-day pro gress. . . . And his tousin, the passenger pigeon, grace ' ful in flight and countless in number, followed the dodo into extinction in the most merciless wanton slaughter the continent has experienced. THEY CAME TO BOONE, BY MILLIONS Bob Rivers, the elder, has often remarked of the days of his early childhood, when the passenger pigeons would come in with a whir equal to an airplane engine, and settle down In the timber for the night, until the limbs were so heavy with the birds that the trees would be left broken and splintered. . . . 'Course that sounds like a good many pigeons, but in a recent issue of Newsweek magazine, we find more about thf birds. ... Extinct for 40 years, Newsweek sa^, ''for countless centuries their species made up one third of the entire bird population of North America. . . . They were shot down with cannon's grapeshot and encircled in their nests by grass fires, clubbed down from their roosts, and taken alive by the hundreds of thousands to become targets for trapshooters." ... By 1900 the bird had disappeared. SPACE FOB THE NON-SMOKERS With the universal acceptance of cigarettes is all J levels of society, a fellow comes forth with the notion that special lounges should he provided in dining rooms and other public places for thoao who don't engage in j: the burning of the weed. . . . Which might bo a good idea, since some people are sickened when the stalo smoke is thick over the dinner plates. . . . And there, should be a little alcove, where the wheezy pipe or the rank cheroot may bo smoked by the hardier soul*. . . . But it's funny how a reformed cigarette fiend always makes such suggestions, and how the man whose ulcers won't tolerate a toddy any more, is the toughest oppon ent of John Barleycorn. JIM BROWN . ; . AN OLD FRIEND GOES AWAY y. This corner was sad30,000 a year. Here are aome more interesting facta and flgnrss about the White House that have just been reveal ed: ? takes abort ?MOO a year to keep the WWte House pr??arly de co rated with flowers, (mil and plams. Thirty-lour men and women main op the domeitic staff of the White Hodm and do all the house keepia* chore*. Laat year, these 34 pooplo took care of the 828.943 visitor* who toured the White House. This fig ure does not include the Pres ident's daily callers. FOOD. The farmer's share of the money you pay for food la still dropping Out of every dollar apent at the grocery store for food, the farmer gets only 42 cento? the smallest share since 1041. la 1952, farmers were getting 47 coats of each consumer's dollar. Last year they were getting 49 cents. Here's a hint as to who's getting the dollars the farmers uaed to ft 1 From the fall of 1963 to the fall ef 1854 ? whitt farm income was dropping? profits of food pro cessors? after taxes ? rose more than 17 par coat FOWL. Hera's a tip for Demo cratic Party members: if you are planning to invite Democratic Chairman Paul Butler to a rally or dinner meeting, pick some dish other than chicken It swim that the chairman la allergic to fowl. la 1880, oaly 3.2 per cent of North Carolina's farms had elec tricity; now 87 par cent have.