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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1934
Page
1
Fifty four boys and girls in caps and gowns receive diplomas at College Auditorium ending high school days. The piece contrasts carefree youth with adult responsibilities and emphasizes character and honesty as true tools for life ahead.
A North Wilkesboro inspired ad urges expressing sentiments like Friendship Love Patriotism through tattoos. It promotes life size tombstone depictions and various symbols such as snakes eagles anchors and guns as body art.
A Monday paper reports researchers have hatched twelve normal infants including test tube twins, with more on the way. Drs Seymour and Koerner lead the program as unmarried women seek motherhood, while the author fears overreliance on science and hopes locals keep traditional living.
A two day health clinic for Boone area children ages four through thirteen will be held in the Demonstration School building. Dr. H B Perry and Dr J B Hagaman will perform tonsil and adenoid removals for 12.50 per child and provide eye exams at reduced rates with glasses at cost plus ten percent. The P T A helps with beds and supplies. Parents are asked to bring two sheets and a pillow case and prepare light suppers the night before.
Joseph T. Linney 50 a Gwaltney Township resident in Alexander County drank carbolic acid Sunday evening ending his life. Ill health and despondency were cited as factors. He attended church and a Stony Point religious gathering earlier, lived alone at the Linney homestead, taught in Alexander and nearby counties, and was known as a literary naturalist. He planned to address the Taylorville Woman's Club on Birds and Trees of North Carolina May 9. He was nephew of the late Colonel R. Z. Linney.
Hon Robert L Doughton rushed to Laurel Springs NC from Washington on news of his mother Mrs Rebecca Doughton grave illness The 96 year old ailing mother suffered a paralytic stroke and despite brief improvement little hope remains for recovery President Roosevelt had felicitated her on a prior anniversary
C E Smathers manager of Rutherwood Hatchery says one million brook brown and rainbow trout are ready for distribution in mountain streams and urges Watauga County residents to file applications now as deliveries are not made and a new hatch won’t occur for a year. He notes hatchery serves nine counties and urges local participation to ensure fair share. TheDemocrat invites visitors to tour the hatchery grounds which offer picnic tables and a welcoming setting for motor parties.
Mr R L Wooten of North Wilkesboro is named manager of the National Re employment Office there to oversee re employment for five counties Wilkes Watauga Ashe Alleghany and Alexander following abolition of county offices The district will maintain no other offices and placements on Public Works projects will be handled through the North Wilkesboro office.
Federal seed loans may be made up until May 15. Mr D M Hale manager of the local seed loan office says the office closing time had been set for last Saturday.
Four members of the Hartley family were in a car when a sawmill felled tree crushed the vehicle near Blowing Rock. Agnes Hartley, 14, died at Caldwell Hospital from a fractured skull after an emergency operation failed. Father Samuel Hartley and siblings Irene, Clara, and Virgil Walser were injured. Agnes was a eighth grade student at Blowing Rock School and granddaughter of former Sheriff J. E. Young. Funeral services were held at the family home with Slowing Rock Presbyterian Church pastor officiating.
Registration books for the June 2 primary are being distributed this week by R. S. Swift, election board chairman, to registrars. The books will be open for new voter registration on two Saturdays after this week. May 26 is challenge day. In Watauga County only one contest is on the ballot with Theodore Cummins opposing Solicitor L. S. Spurling for the Democratic nomination. no Republican contests exist.
Loyal Member Day will be observed at Boone Methodist Episcopal Church South on May 6. Provisions will help members without transport attend Sunday School and church services. Committees on shut ins and transportation and on providing cars are named. Special programs have been prepared and members are urged to attend with friends.
Telegraphic report from Boone details the death of Guy H. West Jr. who died after a passing automobile struck him in Clarksburg West Virginia. A fractured skull is listed as the cause with funeral plans not yet known. He is the son of Mrs. Mary Annie Trivette West and Mr. West, and a grandson of Rev and Mrs W L Trivett. The family and friends here mourn the loss.
More than a dozen high officials of the Junior Order United American Mechanics attend the semi annual district meeting in Boone. Delegates from Avery Mitchell and Watauga counties will gather eight councils for a 3 pm business session at Junior Hall. State Councilor B C Siske headlines the evening at Demonstration School with remarks by Gurney P Hood and W M Shuford.
Buret Presnell of Watauga County, serving three to five years for auto larceny, was recaptured near the old West End Garage after hiding in a truck. Howard Hardin, an escapee from Hudson Prison Camp, was also seized. Sheriff Howell notes twenty seven escapees and other wanted men captured since he took office.
Miss Imogene Norris of Route 2 and James Norris of Boone topped the seventh grade exam across Watauga Ashe and Yadkin counties. Both pupils in Miss Eula Todd's class at Boone graded school earned first and second place with Imogene securing the highest average and James the second.
Rufe Lewis received a 30 year hard labor term in the state prison after pleading to second degree murder in the slaying of Police Chief Hagaman during a Blue Goose raid in Boone. Violet Adams got 2 to 3 years as an accessory after the fact. other defendants received varied road sentences for related crimes.
Ten prisoners sentenced to road terms from Judge Oglesbys court were taken to the Hudson prison camp to begin their terms last Monday. Prison Superintendent Laney will oversee work under the State Highway and Public Works Commission. Rafe Lewis and Violet Adams, to serve in the State penitentiary, will be taken to Raleigh Thursday. Seven others remain in the county jail after the grand jury was dismissed.
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