Welfare Board urges necessity of home garden effort
The Watauga County Welfare Committee has devised a plan to help families grow gardens and store food for next winter. Local township committees will distribute seeds, assist applicants, and provide gardening guidance through the summer, with seeds arriving via Boone and distributed to district subcommittees. The aim is to keep Watauga Township free from dire want next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. F. Kent
Watauga Welfare Board
The
Democrat
Watauga County
Watauga
Boone
Watauga Township
Shulls Mills
Clark’s Creek
Dutch Creek
New Arrivals in Watauga County Reported
Birth notices from Blowing Rock Vilas and Boone area detail six newborns common to March dates. The Tate and Greer families announce two sons and a son respectively while Steelman Hollar Harmon Lane households report a daughter and a son in Deep Gap Shells Mills Vilas Boone areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watauga
Salmon Tate
Blowing Rock R. F. D
Andy Greer
Vilas
Howard Steelman
Deep Gap
Aud Hollar
Shells Mills
Marshal Harmon
Larry Lane
Boone Route 2
Introduce Bill to Allow Sale of North Carolina Produce
A General Assembly bill would let any person sell fruits and vegetables grown in North Carolina in any city or town with a license fee not exceeding 20 dollars. Another measure would form county pension boards with the Clerk of the Superior Court and three ex Confederate relatives named by the State Auditor. A third bill would pension all Confederate veterans regardless of finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. C
Raleigh
General Assembly
Superior Court
Lees-McRae College installs Phi Theta Kappa chapter
Banner Elk Phi Theta Kappa Beta Tau chapter formally installed at Lees McRae College marking the first such North Carolina chapter. Officers elected include Edith Kesler president and Ruth Perry secretary. The event followed by a banquet and features an in-house orchestra and two one act plays. Pauline Klug departs for Trier to teach English at a German finishing school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Weaver
Lansing
Lees-McRae College
Edgar Tufts
Ruth Tate
Banner Elk
Jackson Dunn
Charlotte Route 6
Bernice Chapman
Atlanta
Margaret Taylor
Faison
Charles Royale
Smithfield
Louise Baker
Gastonia
William Bailey
Roda
Mary Elizabeth Barbee
Durham
Dramatic Club
Trysting Place
Booth Tarkington
Cremona
Francois Coper
North Carolina
East Tennessee
Lees-McRae
Pauline Klug
Trier
Germany
Hohers Tochter School
Miss Klug
Nicholas Klug
America
The
Pinnacles
Klug
Bowie-Cherry Bill Would Share School Expenses
North Carolina school leaders warn that the Bowie Cherry substitute to fund six months at 12450000 or 13450000 will force a near half cut in a year when expenditures total 18625125.40. Gov Ehringhaus asks 12450000, with the six month term and no extended term, while the appropriations committee favored 13450000 plus 600000 for extended term. State funds plus counties and districts total 18.6 million for six months. eight months ran 23.39 million. Education officials urge sticking closer to Ehringhaus figures rather than deeper cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Appropriations Committee
Ehringhaus
General ‘Assembly
United States to weather financial emergency, Pope predicts
Rome report quotes Pope Pious telling Father John J. Burke of Washington that the United States will shortly weather the financial emergency in a capable way
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Pope Pious
John J. Burke
Washington, D. C
National Catholic Welfare Council
United States
Bill Introduced To Change Terms For Superior Court
A North Carolina General Assembly bill proposed by Rep R T Greer would alter Superior Court terms in Avery Watauga Mitchell and Alexander counties. The plan shifts start dates for various terms up to two weeks earlier or later with a July 1 1933 effective date and aims to ease attendance for Northwest Carolina lawyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Avery
Watauga
Mitchell
Alexander
General Assembly
R. T. Greer
Michell
Northwest
Carolina
Inauguration Ceremony to Be Shown at Pastime Theatre
The Pastime Theatre will screen news reels this Thursday and Friday showing the Roosevelt inauguration. The event marks the first local viewing of the national pageant and the transfer of leadership with the new president delivering his inaugural address.
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Roosevelt
Weather Summary for Week at Appalachian State Teachers College
Weather report for the week ending March 18, 1933 from the Cooperative Station at Appalachian State Teachers College. Mean temperatures 62 max 38 min 50 overall 50 with 24 degree daily range and 33 degree peak on the 17th. 6 pm 55. High 72 on the 18th and low 26 on the 16th. Total melting snow precipitation 0.70 inches, 0.31 inches in the 24 hour period on the 15th. Three days with 0.01 inch or more, four clear days, one partly cloudy day, two cloudy days. Thunder dates 14 and 18. Solar halo dates 13 16 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co-operative
Appalachian State Teachers College
Sale of notes for Blowing Rock NC revenue bonds
Sealed bids for five thousand dollar revenue anticipation notes of Blowing Rock North Carolina are due by 10 a m March 29 1933 with bids accepted only at 6 percent interest and payment at maturity. Notes issued March 25 1933 mature September 15 1933 with no option. Bid requires a certified check equal to one half of one percent of face value. Local Government Commission reserves right to reject all bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Local Government Commission of
North Carolina
Raleigh
Blowing Rock
Local Government Commission
W. E. Easterling
National Commander of Legion backs President in crisis
Watauga Democrat reports Louis Johnson national commander of the American Legion urges 10,709 posts and about one million members to back the President’s economies and policy. He offers Legion resources, calls for local post meetings, and repeats loyalty to the nation and duties to disabled veterans amid controversial legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watauga Democrat
Legion
Louis Johnson
American Legion
Congress
United States
American Legionnaire
W. C. Greene
New Mill Installed At State Prison Farm
Raleigh George Ross Pou state prison superintendent announces a new mill at Caledonia Prison farm is ready to supply foods and feeds to the prison and other state institutions. The mill will produce flour self rising plain graham wheat bran shorts and screenings meat bolted and un bolted grits coarse medium or fine corn bran screenings and chops crushed corn on cob oats rye or barley and mixed dairy feeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
George Ross Pou
Caledonia Prison Farm
Mrs Hoover Prefers ory of Hello Grandma
Mrs Herbert Hoover arrived in California with son Herbert Hoover Jr and met his three children who eagerly kissed Grandma. She said she preferred Hello Grandma to the cheers of millions and planned to stay in Southern California before moving on to Palo Alto to ready her house ahead of Mr. Hoover’s arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
Herbert Hoover
California
Washington
Herbert Hoover Jr
Hoover
Palo Alto
Daughter of British lord details runaway chorus girl life
The American Weekly magazine distributes with the Baltimore American features the remarkable experiences of a daughter of a British lord who ran away to become a chorus girl. The piece recounts her adventures and insights into show business and personal conflict during her travels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore American
Newsboy
Dern urged to name Stevens for war post
Henry L. Stevens of North Carolina, former national commander of the American Legion, is backed by his state’s congressional delegation for the assistant Secretary of War post. Representative Abernethy led the delegation in calling on Secretary Dern to consider him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry L. Stevens
North Carolina
American Legion
Abernethy
Dern
Groceries at wholesale with $15 daily earnings offer
A dated recruiting blurb offers wholesale groceries and household supplies with a promise of $15 per day extra. It claims no experience is needed and advertises a supposed New Ford Sedan free to producers, listing Albert Mills at 2305 Monmouth, Cincinnati, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Mills
Monmouth
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ordinance Prohibits Public Dances in Boone Town
At the Boone board meeting on March 17 1933 an ordinance was passed making it unlawful for any person firm or corporation to sponsor a public dance in Boone except hotels hosting bona fide guests without a fee. Violators face a fine of 10 to 25 dollars at the mayor's discretion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Boone
J. M. Moretz
R. L. Clay H. B. Perry
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U. S
Greer
Watauga Court
National Commander OF Legion
State Prison Farm
Mrs. Hoover
Grandma
Smithey’s
Urge Dern
Stevens
War
Archer
Central
Nissen
Farmers Hardware
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