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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1924
Page
4
The Watauga Democrat announces a temporary editor will helm the paper during R C Rivers absence. Readers are asked to phone in society and personal items early each week and for local scribes to speed their manuscripts.
An article explains corrugations on soil roads form when rear wheels kick loose surface material causing depressions that grow into rut like waves. A heavy grader followed by a fine loose layer keeps roads drivable, with twice weekly brushing on high traffic routes. A hard surface is urged for long term, despite higher initial costs.
A speaker recalls a woman urging him to go to her father as she realizes he knows the truth about the late father. The poem fragment hints at concealed motives and a life led by the father figure implied by the girl. Buck is mentioned as the speaker or referent.
Veterans Bureau director Frank T. Hines releases clarified factors for computing paid up twenty year endowment insurance under the adjusted compensation act. The bulletin notes the 25 percent increase is already in the factor and should not be added to adjusted service credit before multiplying. Example cites age 33 at issue.
A North Carolina education note laments low high school enrollment and graduation rates. It cites Guilford and Forsyth counties showing only 1.5–3.0 percent in the eleventh grade, argues for more high schools and student motivation, and notes 1923 NC white graduate rate at about 1 percent while urging higher state goals. It ends with a personal obituary and faith reflections.
The record shows home service 180 days and overseas service 100 days. Computations yield an adjusted service credit of 245 dollars and an adjusted service certificate at 615 dollars. The factor at age 33 is 2.513.
In Franklin County Superior Court, Winona Teasley, a Black woman, was tried for the murder of her husband Marvin Teasley. Eyewitnesses testified she shot him with a shotgun and attempted suicide, but the jury acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide. The widow later mourned Marvin Teasley, born April 16, 1901, who died April 17, 1924, trusting in God.
Two men arriving at the penitentiary exchange a joke about sentences. One says he received twenty years for breaking into a store while the other got one week for killing a man. The dialogue ends with the second man announcing he will be hanged next week.
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