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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1924
Page
2
Advertises 6 percent compound interest and tax exemption for monthly investments. Encourages residents to save locally with one dollar per month for 78 months to receive a $100 cash stake, urging residents to keep funds in Watauga County and contact Secretary W. H. Gragg for details.
Rev J P Burke returns from Yanceyville with Mrs Burke who has been ill after two Richmond operations. Box supper at the public school raises 75 dollars to fund a tea room. O L Coffey named next county commissioner. Church dedication planned with extra trains from Johnson City. Foscoe and nearby towns host visitors, sales, and community help amid illnesses and deaths.
Rev H W Jeffcoat preached at the Lutheran church Sunday afternoon. Arthur Miller of Zionville was in Meat Camp Sunday. Mr and Mrs James Bryan and Mr and Mrs Clyde Phillips of Boone visited Willie Proffit Thursday night. Mrs James Ragan of Boone visited sister Mrs Clay Miller. Box supper at the new Methodist church netted 81 50 with Ruth Miller’s box selling for 17. Oak Grove choir sang at Meat Camp Baptist church and singing was unusually good. Residents attended services in Trade Tenn. W H Proffit and wife welcomed a baby. A W Hodgson made a business trip to Ashe and R H Townsend, in charge of Gragg mill, returned to Boone Saturday.
E E Lanpher of the Pittsburgh Water Bureau rejects the idea that fish purify water in reservoirs. He explains bacteria control is not aided by fish and notes that fish reach water mainly as eggs carried by ducks.
Rainy weather aside, local notes report Mrs. Geo Tri Vett’s illness and death after surgery at Boone Hospital with burial at Adams cemetery. Also updates on visits, schooling, church work, lumber hauling, and several farm tips from the State College of Agriculture. Frank Bennett of Anson county reports selling over $2000 of hogs annually due to legume pasture grazing. Ducks in migration noted with egg washing and hatching remarks.
Deep Gap community items report new home lighting venture by Mr Russel Trivett and battery storage plans. Mentions Mr A G Miller ill with a cold and Mr Ben Osborne missing a Rocky Point School House concert. Cecil Miller fills in at Deep Gap Cash Store. Claude Watson returns from surgery at Wilkes Hospital. Update on Mrs Nancy Watson recovering after surgery. Public singing planned for the fifth Sunday in June with local singing classes and a basket lunch. W A Watson seeks rainbow trout stock via the government fish hatchery for Gap Creek with future fishing under supervision.
Birth and death notice for Henry Elmo Hayes infant son of Roby H. Hayes and Bessie Hayes. He was born October 16 1923 and died January 11 1924 at two months and twenty five days. The parents express sorrow and faith in God as they mourn at his grave with a friend and relative sign-off.
A humorous Capper's Weekly piece riffs on pants grammar and usage. It jokes that pants suit men, explores gendered notions, and notes weather effects on design while offering playful aphorisms about making garments and caring for them.
Washington reports that Harvard Observatory photos reveal a distant luminous haze in Sagittarius identified as a new universe. Director Harlow Shapley estimates light travel time of 1,000,000 years, with the cloud measured at six quintillion miles, using a 100 inch telescope.
The University of Pennsylvania catalogues over 800 Babylonian seals translated and classified by Dr. Leon Legrain. The exhibit promises insights into early zoology circa 5000 B C, Elamite painted art predating 8000 B C, and the Akkadian empire around 2700 B C.
Danish inventor Niels W. Aasen announces plans to travel to the United States to offer his mechanized soldiers and superbombs. He envisions underground, remotely controlled weapons capable of releasing bullets and poison gas, with engineers guiding defenses and aviators delivering gas and depth bombs. Radio reports would coordinate explosive underground tiers to halt advancing forces.
Oakland naturalist Otto Emerson reports two fledgling humming birds raised from a few days old died after one caused the other's death by grief. The incident highlights the birds’ apparent emotional response to loss.
Miss Hazel Mathis directs Bethany College commercial students to use phonograph records in each lesson to improve rhythm and uniformity in penmanship. Early results show promise from this classroom method.
Massive mastodon bones discovered near Tucson Arizona are believed to date from the Pliocene era around 500 years ago and have been turned over to the University of Arizona for study.
In Saranac Lake New York a Florida alligator gifted to merchant George H. Saxe stirred trouble when a Thomas cat attacked. The cat’s rival killed the gator, leaving the household pet Paas intact.
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