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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1933
Page
5
Local affairs report visitors and health news across Boone and nearby towns. Residents from Charlotte to Sugar Grove visit relatives attend meetings and hospital care, with updates on illnesses, trips, and community events including a Delphian Colonial party and a North Carolina art fund drive.
Mrs. W. W. Mast aided her influenza sick grandsons in Boone. Kutups Club gatherings featured bridge and rummy with candy. Numerous guests including the Mast, Taylor, and Shull families visited, with dinners and conversations on evangelism and college commutes.
Lon W Church former Woolworth manager at Herrin Illinois spent a weekend visiting his father N M Church at Mabel North Carolina who has rheumatism His wife formerly Beatrice Pair of St Louis joined him On returning to Illinois he saw Mr and Mrs Ivan Church in Mountain City Tennessee and his brother in law Link Culver of Butler Tennessee who has been ill for years
A county mass meeting issues a letter urging relief recipients to plan for self sufficiency. It calls for planting crops and securing milk, warns that aid cannot continue, and notes inspections by agencies to verify efforts. Signed by Smith Hagaman Supt Public Welfare and board members.
In a Tuesday game at the College gymnasium Boiling Springs College defeated Lees-McRae College 41 to 37. TheBoiling Springs team showed the edge in a close defensive battle.
The Cove Creek Community Club met at the home economics building as Miss Annie Dougherty presided. Officers elected for the year are Dougherty president Horton vice president Hattie Johnson secretary treasurer. The group reported forty children fed daily at the club lunch room and enjoyed programs on art antiques and gardening with twenty art pictures exhibited and a prize awarded.
February weather report by the cooperative Weather Bureau at Appalachian State Teachers College. Highlights include average highs 46, lows 24, daily range 35, and a greatest range of 41 on the 28th. Notable temps reach 68 on the 24th and a low of 5 below zero on the 9th. Precipitation totals 4.44 inches with 1.27 inches in 24 hours on the 7th. snowfall totals 6 inches, max 3.50 inches on the 4th. Frosts, fog dates, halos, and wind events are listed with specific dates throughout the month.
County authorities thinning hardwoods on Caswell County home farm saved a substantial fuel bill. More than 200 cords of wood were culled from the farm woodland.
The term panic comes from the Marathon battlefield where a small Greek force caused a vast Persian army to flee. The victory was credited to the god Pan who allegedly induced sudden fright, giving rise to the term panic as a description of widespread fear in financial distress.
Marion Nebo Samuel A Hurdt 57 well known snake charmer immune to rattler poison succumbed to gall stone disease after an operation in Marion hospital. Hurdt played with snakes as one would fondle kittens and was bitten many times by venomous rattlers with no serious effects recorded.
For sale a six room brick veneered bungalow with complete bath oak floors newly papered basement concreted on paved street paving paid two blocks from school and church Carr Brothers Johnson City Tennessee selling on easy terms.
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