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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1930
Page
3
C D Schwartz of the United States Biological Survey advises on mole control using poisoned raisins with strychnine or thallium sulphate, and barium carbonate dough pellets. Persistent use and occasional trapping offer relief. a new trapping bulletin is available free by mail.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad will run a special 37 stop livestock train across Eastern North Carolina in August in cooperation with State College and the State Department of Agriculture. Experts will lecture on beef cattle dairy cattle swine sheep and poultry and marketing methods. The tour starts Selma August 5 and ends Tarboro August 26.
The State School Facts report shows public school libraries now hold 1,153,326 volumes in 1928-29, up from 549,075 in 1923-24, driven by higher per library funding, accreditation requirements, and earlier standards for elementary libraries. Despite more books, total libraries fell from 3,585 to 2,532 due to consolidations. Currituck County leads rural systems with over five books per pupil.
A collection of croquette recipes using carrot puree bound with cream sauce and egg, plus macaroni croquettes with butter and cheese, and fish and shad roe croquettes with milk and nutmeg. Includes steps for boiling, shaping, breading, and frying.
Experts say high quality sweet potatoes bring ready sales while jumboes and culls are rejected. Schmidt notes sandy loam soils yield the best Porto Rico and Nancy Hall types with fertilizer blends of four percent nitrogen eight percent phosphoric acid and eight percent potash. Close planting improves yields. avoid soils with black rot stem rot or wilt. use disease free plants from known sources.
In the Khoper region a Soviet farm city is planned on a 500000 acre collective farm. It will imitate a workers town with apartment blocks and communal facilities. The city targets 44000 adults engaged in the collective farming enterprise and will include a large dairy and two brick factories to combine industrial and agricultural functions.
Advent Christian Rev. S. E. Gragg preaches Sunday School at 9 45 and morning service at 11. First Baptist Rev. P. A. Hicks has Sunday School 9 45 with J. T. C. Wright as superintendent. Worship at 11 in the morning and 8 at night. B Y P A meets at 7 with Brotherhood also at 7. Mid week prayer is Wednesday at 8.
St Marks Bailey s Camp holds preaching on the first Sunday each month at 11 a m Sunday School at 9 45 a m Virgil Bradshaw acting superintendent Grace Boone observes preaching on the second and fourth Sundays and vespers on the first and third Sundays at 8 p m with Sunday School at 9 45 a m Professor George L Sawyer superintendent Luther League meets Sundays at 7 p m Clark s Creek holds preaching on the third Sunday with Sunday School at 9 45 a m Perry Townsend superintendent Public invited J A Yount Pastor
The Rev A Burgess leads Watauga Chapel with services on second and fourth Sundays at 11 a m and first Sunday plus third Sundays at 7 p m Sunday School at 9 45 a m J B Horton superintends Epworth League 6 p m Valle Crucis holds preaching first and third Sundays at 11 a m Sunday School 10 a m J M Shull superintendent Epworth League Wednesdays Blowing Rock preaches second and fourth Sundays 7 30 p m Mabel preaching second and fourth Sundays 3 p m Sunday School 10 a m Mr Moretz superintendent Salem preaches first and third Sundays 3 p m
Pastor Dr O J Chandler leads Sunday School at 9 45 am with J D Rankin as superintendent Preaching at 11 am and 7 pm Epworth League meets 6 15 pm Prayer meeting Wednesday at 1 pm Choir practice Friday 7 pm Read the advertisements.
A National Street and Highway Safety Conference figure cites automobile crashes cost over 850 million dollars in 1929 with 35 060 deaths, up 8 percent from 1928. Nebraska reports 368 fatalities and 123 disabled in 3 636 accidents, most due to driver carelessness.
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