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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1932
Page
5
Local notes report many Thanksgiving visits across Boone including Mr. and Mrs. Link and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Taylor, with Boone residents and visiting relatives. A two week Watauga Superior Court term opens December 12 with Judge Hoyle Sink presiding.
Miss Annie Parks returns from visiting Grayson County Virginia. J F Spainhour conducts Linville Improvement Co property sale. Mrs Shell of Boone dies. her elderly husband mourns. Thos Greer store in Moretz Mills broken into. shoes stolen. Uncle Harrison Aldridge traps a large bear on Grandfather. Public discussion on soul immortality set at Shulls Mills December 16 10 a m to which day. M F Banner of Greeneville Tenn organizes Greeneville Mutual Building and Loan Association branch in Blowing Rock. The Baltimore death of Spanish Consul Don Carlos Diaz described.
The club reported on monthly activities including donations of funds and clothing for the needy. A five member committee was appointed to beautify the cemetery and a three person group to coordinate welfare work with the PTA. A school lunch project proposed using milk soup and cocoa for undernourished children with pupil participation in ingredients. A Russian tea concluded the meeting and the December gathering was scheduled at Mrs. Edgar Tufts’.
Miss Nancy Taylor returns home after time with friends in Charlotte. Boone hosts honor Thanksgiving guests Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mast. Local visits include Cove Creek, Lenoir, Patterson School, and Monclair. Displays of bridge, refreshments, birthdays, and a tonsil operation are noted with family and club gatherings.
Beaver Dam residents attended Thanksgiving services at the school led by Rev. Wellington Swift. Miss Mildred Swift visited relatives Asa L. Reese Dean Swift at Cove Creek. Mrs. Lee Swift and Mrs. Lewis Reese organize Red Cross relief clothing donations. A weeklong revival by Rev. Edd Hodges and Rev. R. C. Eggers added three new members. Elbert Farthing visited friends during the meeting.
Miss Pearl Ragan and Mr. Darrel Elrod of Boone Route 1 were married in Mountain City Tennessee last Thursday afternoon. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs A J Ragan, attends Boone High School and is popular with classmates. The groom, son of Mr and Mrs Tyre Elrod, finished Boone High last spring and works in farming with his father. The couple will live on Route 1.
Washington report notes Richard Brevard Russell Jr aged 37 will leave the Georgia governorship December 5 to join the U S Senate as the youngest member, two years younger than La Follette. A campaign luncheon drew cheers as most guests rose to honor him. one elderly woman stayed seated claiming to be his mother.
Dr C B Baughman eye ear nose and throat specialist will be in Dr J B Hagaman's Boone office on the first Monday each month. Also a notice seeking maple and oak logs lists P C Moore at Critcher Hotel Boone N C. Card of thanks from the Lentz family thanks friends for kind services during illness and death of their mother and grandmother.
The families of Mrs. G. W. Hayes and D. C. Howell thank friends for sympathy and acts of kindness during the illnesses and deaths of their husband and father and their son and brother, respectively.
The Lily Dale Home Economics Club at Appalachian State Teachers College held a November 7 gathering in the Philaretian Society hall. New members numbering 39 entered after candlelit entrances, took vows, and accepted the club constitution while Mary Grace Bradford led the ceremony and Miss Dale outlined planned study topics.
A program explored vocations for women and social changes affecting family life, including married women working outside the home, home duties toward school church and state, and laws affecting the home. The session covered architecture and home making from primitive times to today, with tea served by the social committee at its close.
Boone High School junior class presents the play Under Blue Skies this Saturday night December 3 at 8 o clock Admission 10c 15c and 25c Farmers report Alleghany sold 63 head of steers weighing about 850 pounds to Piedmont buyers last week
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