School Leaders Meet at Appalachian State for 1929-30 Planning
Fifty or more high school teachers and county superintendents from Ashe Caldwell Mitchell Watauga Yancey and Avery met at Appalachian State Teachers College to plan for the 1929-30 term. State superintendent A T Allen and high schools supervisor Dr J H Highsmith attended. Dr Aven spoke on state education progress and the conference was led by Dr Highsmith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashe
Caldwell
Michell
Watauga Yancey
Avery
Appalachian State Teachers’ College
A. T. Allen
J. H.tighsmith
North Carolina
Aven
Capel
Dr. Highsmith
Smith Hagaman
Watauga
Steel
Mitchél
J. C. MclIntosh
R. E. L. Plummer
H. E. Teague
D. E. Wilson
Yancy
B. B. Sherry
Normal
Civil Calendar Sets Fall Term Civil Trials List
Fifty three civil cases are scheduled for trial at the fall term of superior court convening Monday September 2 with Judge John M. Oglesby presiding. Trials run September 5 to 11 with first four days for criminal cases. List includes Dorris Wilson v Perry and numerous other civil actions by September 6 7 9 10 dates against banks, firms, individuals and corporations.
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Superior Court
John M. Oglesby
Concord
Presid
Daniel Boone Game Refuge To Open In Edgemont North Carolina
North Carolina will take possession of 14 000 acres of mountain land near Edgemont to develop the Daniel Boone Game Refuge carved from Pisgah National Forest. Deer from Brushy Creek refuge and elk will be introduced as plans for auxiliary refuges expand. Warden J P Stepp announced in Winston Salem with district supervisor C N Nease and district forester W L Nothstein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Edgemont
Daniel Boone
J. P. Stepp
Winston-Salem
the Journal
Pisgah National Forest
R. C. Ray
Mr. Stepp
Burleson
Brushy Creek
Spruce Pine
C. N. Nease
Stepp
Huntsman
Lenoir
W. L. Nothstein
Atford Martin
Asheville
Fayetteville
New Bern
Windsor
Wilmington
Piedmont
Carolinas
Mr. Nothstein
Messrs. Nothstein
Isaac Walton
Steppe
Daniel Boone Game Refuge
Rev Hodges Ends Mt Zion Services With 11 Additions
Reverend Ed Hodges wrapped up a series of services at Mt. Zion church in Wilkes County. He preached with Rev. W D Ashley assisting and announced 11 additions to the church. Hodges also aided Ashley in a revival at Stony Fork, closing Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Hodges
Mt. Zion Church
Wilkes County
W. D. Ashley
Hodges
Ashley
Stony Fork
Spuds Bring Dollar As Potatoes Ship From Johnson County
Two carloads of Irish potatoes have been shipped from here in the past week. Prices hold at $1.00 a bushel as reported by Johnson County News.
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Johnson County News
Lawsuit Docket Briefs From Watauga County and Nearby Courts
Four civil cases listed include Knapp Peoples Bank & Trust Co. versus A. C. Miller and others, L. C. Phillips against Floyd Eggers and H. C. Eggers, and S. R. Brown versus Central Glass Co. Also noted are Watauga County Bank versus R. D. Jennings and Alumni Guild against Joe M. Gaither, with D. V. Winebarger against A. C. Swift and J. S. McBride.
Tax Rate Reduced to 1 20 as Budget of 1930 Approved
County commissioners in call session set the tax rate at 1.20 for 1930, a ten cent cut from last year. The approval covers a $196,931.87 total budget with shifts to school and road funds and notes a school deficit from prior miscalculations and missing boone and blowing rock high schools.
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Board of County Commissioners
North Carolina
Watauga County
Boone
Blowing Rock
Board of Education
General County
Board of Commissioners
Sheriff
Bate
Tavehede
Omos Ey
Ciso
Erie
Glee
TOLST
Health Department
Lovill Urges Rail Line Extension To Boone
W R Lovill spoke to the Civitan Club urging extension of the Norfolk and Western branch from Deep Gap to Boone to boost industrial growth. He said freight tonnage must support the extension, proposing local furniture and manufacturing plants to generate traffic. The matter was referred to the public affairs committee for follow up.
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Boone
Watsauga
W. R. Lovill
Civitan Club
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Deep Gap
Watduga
Lovill
Committee On Public Affairs
Alexander
Los Angeles
Cal
Civitan I. G. Greer
Colonial Hotel
West Jefferson
Jefferson
Three Forks Baptist Association Committee Meeting Proposals
The executive committee at Cove Creek church with full attendance plans resolutions for the August 27 meeting at Shulls Mills. They urge pastors be called without proxy voting, cautions in ordaining ministers, mandatory attendance and tithes, godly living, and ample deacons meeting regularly with pastors for prayerful discussion.
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The
Three Forks Association
Cove Creek Church
Association
Shulls Mills
Civitans Visit Ashe County For Boone Club Event
West Jefferson reports elaborate plans for the Boone Civitan Club meeting at the Colonial Hotel. Prof I G Greer and Boone citizens arranged details while about twenty five members and an equal number of Jefferson businessmen have reservations. A Jefferson Civitan club is hoped to organize from this initial effort.
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West Jefferson
Boone Civitan Club
Colonial
I. G. Greer
Boone
Ashe County
Jeffersons
Jefferson
Death of Texie Bentley Ruled Accidental
Funeral services for Texie Bentley a 12 year old girl from Bowie were held at Adams cemetery near Vilas. She died after a gunshot wound to the chest from a 22 caliber pistol found in a cabin where her family lived. Sheriff Carl Graybeal led a belated inquest finding the child was playing with the pistol and believed cartridges had been removed. No evidence of foul play emerged.
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Texie Bentley
Bowie
Adams Cemetery
Vilas
Gap Creek
Mattie Bentley
Texie
Coy Greer
Carl Graybeal
Greer to Speak at Ashe School Opening
Prof I G Greer of Appalachian State Teachers College will deliver the opening address at Bowie High School on September 8. The school, ten miles from West Jefferson, is among Ashe county’s top rural schools with Prof Troy I Jones as principal and an able faculty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. G. Greer
Appalachian State Teachers’ College
Bowie High School
West Jefferson
Ashe County
Troy I. Jones
Columbia University
New York
sAn_ able corps
Fracas Ends in Homicide Near Watauga Line
Blowing Rock Aug 16 A deadly family feud results in the death of 28 year old Abner Lowdermilk shot in the back by Paris Coffey in the Careys Flat area near the Watauga line. Coffey, claiming self defense, was jailed on a first degree murder charge after witnesses quote the confrontation and a coroner's inquest was ordered. Funeral services were held in the isolated Careys Flat community between Grandfather and Edgemont mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Bledso
Blowing Rock
Abner Lowdermilk
Paris Coffey
Lowdermilk
Carys Flat
Watauga Line
H. D. Lowdermilk
Fred Coffey
Coffey
Vance
Newland
Careys Flat
Grandfather and
Edgemont Mountains
J F Harkleroad Dies in Banner Elk Hospital
J F Harkleroad aged 50 prominent Boone citizen died at Grace Hospital Banner Elk Tuesday night after about three weeks illness an ulcerated stomach contributing factor He had been a patient about a week and was unable to undergo operation He was a Bluff City Tenn native resident in Boone nine years prior connected with lumber business and later with various enterprises He recently worked with the state highway commission in Watauga county remains to Bluff City for interment amid childhood scenes
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J. F. Harkleroad
Boone
Grace Hospital
Banner Elk
Mr. Harkleroad
Bluff City
Tenn
J. A. Sproles
State Highway Commission
Watauga
Foscoe Social Notes Highlight Family Visits and Local Buncombe
Foscoe August 21 Mr and Mrs J L Hamlett and two daughters from Affinity West Virginia are visiting their aunt Mrs W M McCain. Dedication service attended by a large crowd. Rev J A Yount of Boone preached. A party honored Ruth and Edyth Hamlett at Mrs Ralph Story home with music and games. Haymaking underway as Rev E M Gragg and others report stacks ready to winter cattle.
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Foscoe
J. L. Hamlett
Affinity
W. Va
W. M. McCain
Byrd
Pennsylvania
Charles Henson
Amantha
Brinkley
Shulls Mills
J. A. Yount
Boone
Ralph Story
Ruth
Edyth Hamlett
E. M. Gragg
Livestock Meeting Pushes Purebred Bulls Countywide
About fifty farmers from nearly every Watauga county township attended the Livestock Association meeting in the courthouse to review purebred and grade bulls and the 4500 ewes in the county. Reports show 40 purebreds and 55 grade bulls with 4500 ewes, prompting a goal of at least 100 purebred animals and a plan to form a committee to find sources and prices.
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Livestock Association
Watauga County
Beaver Dam
Association
Harrison Baker
R. T. Greer
John Fox
Herbert Stewart
Scott Swift
Blowing Rock High Students Lead State Graduation Evidence
Blowing Rock High School graduates posted the state’s highest regional score in the annual Department of Education results. The class averaged ten points above the state average across all city schools with American history the top subject and French the lowest due to limited prior study. Several members plan college or government service, with Bynum Crisp the sole male graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blowing Rock
N. C
Department of Education
Raleigh
Lucile Reid
North Carolina College For Women
Greensboro
Elizabeth Sudderth
Appalachian State Teachers’ College
Pem Robbins
Edna Miller
Velma Cannon
United States Government Hospital
St. Elizabeth's
Washington, D. C
Bynum Crisp
Glen Coffey
Paul Foster
Lois Klutz
Helen Sudderth
Margaret Sudderth
Ruby Tolbert
Ruby Richards
Mary Robbins
Hazel Blaylock
Feldspar Find Promises Mining Boom at Todd Ashe
Feldspar of high quality has been found at Todd near the Ashe Watauga line. McKinney Brothers of Spruce Pine plan feldspar mining with the first carload already on the tracks awaiting shipment. Local observers expect further development of the Todd mine.
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Jefferson
Ashe
Jeffersons
Todd
Ashe-Watauga
McKinney Brothers
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H. B. Perry
A. W. Brown
W. S. Wellborn
Sank of
C. R. Mciver
Henry S. Duncan
A. Adams
Carrie E. Adams
J. A. Woodie
Abraham Potter
Clarence Pot
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Dane Harmon
Axie Harmon
D. B. Er
Carrie H. Bing
R. K. Bingham
Jennie Genie
I. Fox, Inc
M. R. Wil
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Robert Winkler
Marion Winkler
J. W. Todd
Roey I. Haynes
Prichard-Cobb Motor Co. Union Trust Bank
Ninard Hicks
Hannah (Haney
R. McKay
John Jones
Bessie Jones
Alfred Watson
Claude Smith
H. W. Horton
Mattie J. Greene
Evelyn McLean
Don McLean
Jason Moretz
James Ray
W. M. Transou
Transon Hat Co
R. Monroe Ward
Lewis Presnell
D. G. Moretz
A. G. Miller
D. W. Winebarger
E. R. Osborne
Lizzie Osborne
W. J. Wagner
J. F. Church
Arnold W. Story
Hudson Veneer Co
David Guyn
T. F. Yates
P. M. McGinnis
Coleen Laws
Jeff Laws
H. Turner Mfg. Co
J. E. Norris
E. J. Norris
Ss. J. Barnett
Jennie Bingham
P. H. Hodges
Gdn
B. W. Pendleton
Miller-Moretz Motor Co
W. R. Lovill, Jr
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co
J. F. Mulligan
R. E. Scroggs
J. Walter Wright Lumber Co
J. O. J. Potter
J. H. Younce
Admx
Harley Bomegarner
J. W. Harmon
Martha J. Harmon
M. J. Williams
A. C. Williams
Dessie Williams
Ed. S. Williams
T. H. Coffey
E. S. Coffey
Union Trust Co
J. C. Miller
R. M. Shore
W. R. Winkler
Jas D. Horton
R. R. Madron
W. W. Hines
W. F. Reese
J. W. Moore
Northwestern Engineering Co
W. E. Graham
Aberhart Construction Co
American Hardware & Equipment Co
W. E. Graham and
Aberhart Const. Co
Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co
Sarah E. Elison
Fred Ellison
R. M. Martin
Wallace Motor Co
Gast Manufacturing Co
R. E
Committee
Three Forks Baptist Association
Civitans Will
Bentley
Greer
Ashe School
Avery County
Banner Elk Hospital
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