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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1929
Page
1
County game warden Mr. Harrison Baker announces closing of trout season on September 1 with enforcement of penalties for after date. Open squirrel season starts September 15. About 75,000 brook trout fingerlings placed in Watauga County waters in August. cooperation urged to protect fish to attract tourists.
Raleigh reports show liquor law violations totaled 5,307 of 16,810 cases tried in North Carolina superior courts across 100 counties during 1928 and 1929 terms. Data from Attorney General D G Brummitt indicates 11,946 convictions, 1,888 acquittals, and 2,883 not pressed, with race and gender breakdowns included.
Bax ter M. Linney of Boone delivers a maiden court speech in Winston Salem. The trial of W M Sparks and three sons ends with a guilty verdict and varied sentences including probation for the father and eldest son Irwin sent to Chillicothe and Hazel to a Federal Boys' School in Washington.
Chapter 309 of the Public Local and ate Laws enacts a county license for canvassers and order takers in Watauga. Any person soliciting by house to house methods for retail or wholesale goods must obtain a fifty dollar license. The act excludes grocery order merchants and takes effect after ratification on March 18, 1929.
Figures from the American Motorists Association show 5 220 000 new passenger cars sold in the 48 states in 1928, with 2 213 000 scrapped. New York led with 304 200, followed by Pennsylvania 222 600 and Ohio 215 000.
About thirty students from Appalachian State Teachers College are to graduate with Hon. Santford Martin delivering the commencement address in Blowing Rock. The program includes processional, choruses, and diplomas. Also reported: a piano recital by Miss Marie Hale and community notes on local business and wildlife developments in Blowing Rock and surrounding counties.
Boone Civitan Club members attend a West Jefferson meeting to establish an Ashe County Civitan chapter. G. P. Hagaman presided. Arthur Cundy spoke on Civitan. J. L. Seegraves was named president with W. G. Cole as secretary. charter date planned for Sept 12. Twenty eight locals reportedly join. The Boone club meets today at 12 45 at the Daniel Boone hotel.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol reports July activity led to 13 183 traffic stops and 9 203 repairs for improper lights. The force aided 447 motorists, logged 6 993 duty hours, and covered 85 706 miles. 87 arrests yielded fines of 1 142 and costs of 826 with 25 road sentences. Nine stolen cars were recovered and 109 overloaded trucks stopped.
Census figures show North Carolina had 1,642 divorces and 22,176 marriages in the year reported. Watauga County had 72 marriages and 10 divorces, a 13.9 percent divorce rate, higher than the state 7.4 and U.S. 16 per 100 marriages. Scotland County tops at 50.0 percent, Camden County at 0.3.
A Yount family reunion was held August 19 at Rev J A Yount's home with about one hundred attending. Rev Mr Yount introduced the event, and Rev Carroll Yount and Dr W A Lutz gave remarks. Guests enjoyed fellowship and a bountiful feast, renewing ties and meeting Boone newcomers.
At Cove Creek Baptist church Dr Gordon announced four young ladies Miss Pearle Payne Miss Earle Payne Miss Bonnie Mc Bride and Miss Doris Mast would depart Wednesday afternoon for Memphis Baptist Hospital to train as nurses. He urged them to serve humanity and endure hardship while the congregation prayed for their undertaking.
Carrie Walters visits Blowing Rock as Will Brewer and sons stay with relatives in Johnson City. Russell Gragg and Boone family spend a week in Foscoe. August 23 Foscoe school grounds host two baseball games. Foscoe beat Valle Crucis 15 to 9 in the first, then lost to Grandfather Mountain 21 to 8 amid rain and fatigue.
Mr and Mrs Chas D Blackman request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Constance W Harrelson to Mr A Greer Glenn on Wednesday morning September 11 1929 at 10 30 First Methodist Church Temple Texas Glenn a native of this county and a prominent high school teacher is tied to Watauga as Harrelson was once a Boone College student.
Joseph Shep kowski, 15, attempted to imitate a parachute jumper in Lorain Ohio. He leaped from a tree and his home made parachute failed causing a broken arm.
The Demonstration grade school will start on September 10 and the high school on September 17. Officials expect unusually large attendance at both institutions this year.
Judge John M. Oglesby will preside over a long Watauga superior court term with over 100 criminal cases from murder to bonds and 53 civil matters. Dewey Ward, jailed June 16, faces arraignment for the slaying of Ralph Eggers with a timber cutter axe after a cherry picking dispute in Beaver Dam country. no solid eye witnesses exist. Ward reportedly confessed after investigators suggested a fall on the axe, with drinking cited as a factor. Ward has not set a defense, while state prosecution is aided by Attorney W. R. Lovill.
Thomas S. Rollins, a longtime Asheville attorney, is floated as a Republican candidate to oppose Senator F. M. Simmons in the coming general election. GOP leaders in central North Carolina pushed the move this week and it has gained broad support across the state.
Elizabeth Hagaman aged 80, mother of County Superintendent Smith Hagaman, died at her Beaver Dam home after a long illness. Born November 29, 1848, she married Hugh Hagaman in 1867 and left seven surviving children: Smith, Boone, Emmett, Nancy, Mrs Roy Dotson, Mrs Ellis Moody, Mrs Will Smith, and Millard. Funeral Monday with Forest Grove Cemetery interment. A beloved Watauga County resident noted for kindness and Christian motherhood.
Harry Meacham 21 of North Wilkesboro, UNC student, drew a pistol during a bridge game in Chapel Hill. He vowed to shoot the next poor hand, dealt himself a useless yarborough, and fatally shot himself in the temple. He died several hours later.
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