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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1927
Page
4
Thursday report shows American Legion Park cleanup progressing with Legion members and volunteers urging town and county residents to contribute labor or funds. leaders express frustration at citizen indifference despite the project providing a civic park. work pauses after Friday until after the Fourth.
The Dearborn Independent criticizes both major parties for weak enforcement of the prohibition law. It notes Republicans and the wet wing of Democrats show ambivalence, with wets prevailing regardless of party. The piece suggests national repudiation would follow if prohibition were as urgent as before.
Mrs. Wilbur W. Hubbard of Chestertown Maryland won the Woman's National Democratic club prize for the best 1928 Democratic slogan. Eight years of Wall street now give Main street a chance serves as the battle cry with judges Daniel C. Roper William B Wilson and Stephen Bonsal scoring entries.
Raleigh reported that motorists may show the new half year license plates before July 1 but cannot replace the old plates until that date. Revenue Commissioner R A Coughton explained the law allows premature display but not premature discard. Slow uptake is blamed on belief new plates could not be used until July 1.
Local affairs note weekly Young Men's club dance at Criteher hotel. Mrs. Grover Triplett of Lenoir visits J. M. Moretz family. Prof. L G Greer to address Berean class on the third Sunday. A. P. Widenhouse and family move to Boone in a new summer home. Lee J. Hampton of Winston-Salem Journal in Boone. District Attorney Linney and Mrs Linney attend Duke commencement for Baxter Linney who will study law in the fall. Miss Wilmetta Green visits from Western Hospita home. Mr. L. N. Perkins, 82, tends corn on his Boone farm and reflects on a long active life.
County Superintendent Smith Hagaman travels to Raleigh this week to secure final approval from the state board of education for building plans and financing of six new school buildings to be erected in the county this year. The sites include Blowing Rock, Cove Creek, Liberty Hill Baird's Creek consolidated, Miller, Boone Fork Whiting consolidated, and Mt Paron.
The American Legion boys plan park improvements on Friday to ready the large park for the Fourth of July celebration. They invite volunteers to help or to send a man, and a meeting on the grounds is scheduled. Prof I G Greer and Mrs Greer will travel to Asheville next Thursday for a lecture at a national Home Economics Clubs convention on North Carolina Folk Lore and later present a Folk Lore program at Kenilworth Inn. A home-made still outfit of about 20 gallon capacity was destroyed near Meat Camp last Tuesday night by Deputy Sheriff D I Greene. no arrests were made. A Mountain City youth, seen at a local dance, was jailed overnight for intoxication and fined. Mrs Arthur White of Shulls Mills was taken to Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte. surgery for gallstones and appendicitis was performed and she is recovering.
A. N. Pullen and company of Raleigh will send a representative and Clerk of the Court A. E. South to audit county department books. The time required is not yet known.
The little Episcopal church in Boone, nearly displaced by street works, has been raised to street level and is undergoing major repairs. The building will be bark sided with a metal roof and restored inside and out. Bishop Lorner and Rev. James P. Burke lead the project among prominent townspeople.
Clerk of the Court Austin E South announced pension checks for fourteen Confederate veterans and 33 widows of veterans in Watauga County. The total distribution tops about $3,000, with eligible recipients urged to call at the courthouse or send for further details.
Local plumber Chas S Stevenson, from the Boone Drug Company building, praises newspaper ads at The Democrat office. He says advertising yields about fifty percent of his business and notes he now reaches customers he previously did not know.
D Councill hosted the Friday Afternoon club on June 10 at her Main Street home. Members enjoyed sewing and conversation, a Lowell life sketch by Mrs. E. S. Coffey, and performances by Mrs. Tracy Councill Mrs. I. G. Greer. A brief business session led to a two course luncheon. Guests included Mrs. O. L. Brown and Mrs. James Rivers. The next meeting was set for June 24 hosted by Mrs. Tracy Councill.
The Farthing family sheltered Don Payne for about five years after he was found homeless. The bright youth studied at school and later attended Berea College Kentucky before enlisting in a branch of the United States army. On Friday of last week his foster family and friends were shocked by his death.
A telegram informed of his death at Fort Thomas Kentucky. He was a favorite of Mrs Farthing who cared for him at home and mourned his loss deeply. He was buried in Kentucky last Saturday.
Enthusiasm builds for the old-time fiddlers convention at the courthouse and theater Friday and Saturday Nights. Proceeds go to the American Legion to help fund the Fourth of July celebration with prizes for varied categories including the ugliest musician oldest buck dancer best lady guitar player youngest boy contestant and more.
The Worth While Club presents Rose Time at the courthouse room on June 16 under Wayne P. Sewell Producing Company of Atlanta. Geraldine Austin directs a home talent cast led by Miss Lucy Moretz and Elmer Rankin with Dr J M Gaither and Prof J T GC Wright in comedy roles. Local youths fill the choruses with instrumental and vocal numbers as elaborate costumes and sets enhance the romance and humor.
The Normal summer session moves smoothly into week two. Fourteen new faculty members bring total teachers to about 100. Students come from eight states including North Carolina leaders Wilkes with 88 and Ashe with 84. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Wyoming, and others are represented. Activities include a Saturday audience program and church talks by Rev P A Hicks, Prof Story, and Prof Norton, plus a Lindbergh Day patriotic observance.
More than a thousand men and women attend the Boone summer school at Appalachian State Normal. Fourteen new teachers were added to handle the influx, bringing the faculty to forty. Students from seventy two of North Carolina’s one hundred counties are represented this season.
The Journal lauds Appalachian State Normal at Boone as a premier summer school with over a thousand enrolled. Students arrive from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee and Wyoming while Missouri is represented in the faculty.
Dr. Frank Crane discusses a human tendency to imagine a grand self image while in crowds. He argues everyone enacts small heroic dramas in private, seeking recognition as a prince incognito when crisis arises. He notes people judge their own game and beauty by ideals, not by real outcomes.
President Coolidge in Hammond Indiana dedicating Wicker Memorial Park urged higher wages for unskilled labor, expansion of education for all, and stronger crime wave control. He promoted progressive domestic ideas earlier as Massachusetts governor including maternity benefits and a forty eight hour law for women and children.
Aged Mr. Jenkins proclaims at ninety nine he never used glasses and prefers to drink from a bottle, boasting with old time bravado.
Health authorities urge using Fly-Tox insecticide to prevent disease linked to flies. The product, developed at the Mellon Institute by Rex Fellowship, is marketed as safe and effective for killing all household insects with simple blue label instructions.
Louis Mazer, first man indicted for the July slaying of Canton editor Don R. Mellett, is sentenced to five to twenty years in the Ohio penitentiary after pleading guilty to manslaughter in exchange for testimony against Floyd E. Streitenberger during the trial.
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