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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1932
Page
4
Publication details from The Rivers Printing Company note weekly issues issued on Thursdays. Subscription rates and prepaid terms listed, with notices for cards of thanks resolutions and obituaries at regular ad rates. Poetry entered at Boone Post Office as second class matter. issue dated December 1932.
President Hoover sent a last message to Congress detailing economy measures. He urged a 11 percent pay cut for federal workers, a $30 million cut in appropriations, public works reductions, veterans payments elimination, tax reforms, banking reform, and government department reorganization.
Luther M. Farthing resigns as Sheriff of Watauga County after eight years of service, ending a record long tenure. He is praised as a faithful public servant who prioritized humanity within the bounds of legality and served without party bias, leaving a debt of gratitude to the community.
Speaker Jack Garner led a push to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment but only six votes short of the necessary two thirds marked a failed effort. The issue shifts to a new Congress likely to convene next spring, with ten North Carolina Congressmen among those voting for repeal and the public’s will seen as decisive in democracy.
Monday marked the start of new local leadership as two new commissioners W F Miller and Coy I Bills joined veterans on the board. Sheriff-elect A Y Howell succeeds the ailing T C Baird who withdrew with Baird praised for his county service and Howell urged to win public support.
J C McDiarmid, branch manager of the Carolina Motor Club at North Wilkesboro, says he will help Wataugans with tangled titles and issue new license plates due by January 1. There will be no Boone branch this year. service will be at North Wilkesboro.
The Boone Schools Parent-Teacher Association announces a Saturday food sale at the A and P Store starting at 1 30 p m Proceeds will fund improvements at the Demonstration School with cakes and candies offered to the public.
Local notes recount visits by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith of Linville to Boone and area friends. Mrs. Herbert Butler and daughter visit Boone. G. P. Rhyne of Yale, N C, spends a week with his daughter in Boone Route 2. Mrs. J F Robbins is a Statesville hospital patient recovering from major surgery. Roger McGuire's acute appendicitis required Caldwell Hospital surgery with satisfactory progress. Roy Keplar improves after treatment at Davis Hospital Statesville. husband visited. Dr. C L Rhyne returns from Davis Hospital after head abscess operation and is recovering. T E and Coy Bingham return from Currituck hunting trip with pleasant voyage despite no deer or bear bags.
Miss Doris White entertained a group at the home of Mr and Mrs William White on December 1. A series of interesting card games preceded a salad course coffee and cake. Guests included Margaret and Virginia Luddreth Mae Tester Oma Greene and several others.
The Yonna lessee Chapter of the Delphian Society held an extra meeting at the demonstration school Tuesday to finish a study of painting before Christmas. Mrs. Eggers led with a new question based method using copical outlines to explore Russia's great artists and the two major periods of Russian art.
Miss Julia Marie Is and Thomas Franklin Culler wed at the parents home in Timberlake near Lynchburg Virginia on Saturday December 3. The ceremony was led by N L Loflin of Petersburg in the presence of family and friends. The bride is daughter of G F Is and wife formerly of Watauga County. she is Brooksville High School graduate. The groom is son of A B and wife of Silverstone North Carolina, educated at Cove Creek High School and now with the Campbell County school board in Virginia. They will reside in Timberlake Virginia.
Staple Collins improves after a serious health threat. Rowan Walters travels to San Francisco with family plans to stay through winter. Oma Greene visits Brovirg Rock friend Clea Dula. Walter Jones recovers from a car wreck near his home. Adventist Church remodeling underway with Sunday School rooms planned. Blue Ridge Bible class to suspend meetings until spring due to weather. Ralph Reid of Salisbury visits J. H. Gragg's home. Harold Thompson of Low Gap and Ralph Jennings of Galax attend Dula home weekend. Hill Wright builds a new home at Coffey's Gap.
Mr. R. F. Coffey of Boone was among 400 sportsmen to win a license during the Pisgah National Park open deer season. He is allotted Tuesday and Wednesday next week to hunt. if no deer is bagged, no further chance. Prof. Herman Eggers also won rights and will enter Thursday and Friday.
Revival services are underway at the Blowing Rock Baptist Church with the Rev Ines assisting Pastor P A Hicks. A male quartet from Lower Creek Church entertained at the opening service. Local residents and visitors attended as the community rallied for the event.
The Three Folks Baptist Association W M U met December 1 at the Commercial Hotel in Boone with key organizers J L Qualls D D Dougherty J M Moretz and Whitehead. Speakers included Mrs. Coffey on prayer loyalty service and library topics. A two course luncheon followed with readings by Professor Antonakos of A S T C and local representatives from Cove Creek Browning Rock and Stony Fork.
Reports show students across grades three and five achieving perfect attendance for the third and three months respectively with a few tardies noted. Names listed include Annie Adams Josse Mast Baird Johnsie Brinkley Margaret Caudill Vivian Fox and several others across grades. Agricultural Eighth Grade boys also posted perfect attendance for the period.
The Boone Parent-Teacher Association invites all interested to a meeting at the Demonstration School building on Thursday at 3 o'clock. Attendees will discuss the association’s important work and its goals.
The special civil term of Watauga Superior Court, led by Judge H Hoyle Sink of Lexington, opens December 12 and runs about two weeks to dispose of sixty five cases. A full schedule lists Monday through Thursday dockets with numerous plaintiffs, defendants, and interpleaders across multiple venues and banks.
Legal notices list disputes involving Arlie W. Brown bankruptcy with trustees R H Sutherland and Russell D Hodges and against Scott Swift and Russell D bankruptcy, plus H B Perry Endicott Johnson Corp and J M Sher wood with W F Sherwood and Nannie B Sherwood in various creditor actions.
Paris records show Jules L Vuillaume, Eiffel Tower guardian, proud after a long span without suicides following a Russian Princess jumping from the fifth platform on July 14, 1931. Since 1887 the tower has seen a yearly death by self harm, with forty four years each recording at least one.
Governor Miller orders a 45 day Christmas vacation for the 560 most obedient long term inmates among Alabama's 5460 prisoners. The program runs December 1 to January 15, the largest and longest parole batch in state history with few violations reported.
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