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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1933
Page
4
In a January 19 1933 edition the Watauga Democrat notes local and national items with humor and commentary. It mentions McFadden efforts to impeach President Hoover and regional tobacco markets in Johnson City with rising burley prices. Local readers see small farms yielding income as tax time nears.
The Doughton brothers gain prominence as Rufe Doughton heads the North Carolina House Finance Committee and Bob Doughton nears chairing the U S Ways and Means Committee. The article notes their long careers, election wins, and a proud Alleghany County mother who watches Franklin D Roosevelt's rise to the presidency.
Judge Oglesby told Mecklenburg County jurors that a two year attorney general report shows 15 732 cases in state Superior Courts 9 770 white 5 904 negroes 56 Indians 2 corporations with 10 998 convictions including 431 homicide cases. He urged pride in the state s schools churches resources and institutions.
The essay riffs on what Jesus and Lincoln might have thought in moments of humor amid grave tasks. It contrasts Jesus healing at the river with a joke, and Lincoln reading Artemus Ward to a strained Cabinet before unveiling the Emancipation Proclamation. It argues greatness equals accessibility and time unspent on worry.
A satirical piece by W. M. Cook from Boone North Carolina lampoons technocracy and its imagined rules. It mockingly proposes melting words into one term tec not racy and details a total restructuring of the economy and society, including zeroing debts and a national energy tax, with a lunar calendar joke.
The piece contrasts the daily routines of two governors in 1932, noting the city leader favors orange juice and coffee while the country jurist prefers a hearty breakfast. It argues for balanced, productive mornings and a healthier Christian path, urging forward growth rather than dwelling on past or speculative topics.
Judge Oglesby calls for honest, bold action to fight crime and social ills, citing $30,000,000 annual auto accident losses and perceived inequities. He warns against gambling by elites, bank directors lending amid busts, liquor raids on the poor, and unmolested cocktails for the powerful, urging decisive enforcement.
Sugar Grove resident B F Harmon details growing Burley tobacco on less than two acres, costs and yields from multiple plots, and profits after warehouse charges. He argues a Boone warehouse could handle local tobacco to improve profits and cites past sales and losses as context.
In a Boone North Carolina letter J R Hagaman recounts a tale about the Hagaman family cutting box once offered as a memento. He jokes that keeping it would mean living in a barn, a solution he prefers after choosing the barn as the relics new home.
A poem reflecting on the Blue Ridge and the Holy Word. The speaker seeks aid in faith as storm clears and the mountains loom, noting God as creator of stars, man, and mountains and awaiting morning light.
The article discusses living one's own practical Christian life rather than copying others. It notes we cannot live another's life nor imitate another's progress, and warns against over speculating about distant results or future possibilities. It emphasizes personal experience in daily faith.
Boston report notes City Hospital consumes about 8000 pounds of ether annually for medical use, indicating the scale of anesthesia and anesthetic supply practices in the institution.
Cooperative station at Appalachian State Teachers College records weekly weather data. The period shows average max 47, min 25, mean 38 with a 19 degree daily range and a 36 degree max range. Highest 56 on the 10th, lowest 19 on the 14th. Precipitation totals 0.90 inches. 0.68 inches fell in 24 hours on the 9th. Snowfall trace. greatest 24 hour snowfall also trace on the 8th and 9th. Four days with 0.01 inch or more precipitation. four clear, one partly cloudy, two cloudy days. Killing frost on the 14th and a solar halo on the 11th.
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