End of 1933 Session Near in North Carolina
The North Carolina General Assembly nears adjournment in the 1933 session after a week of pivotal votes. The Revenue Bill and the school machinery measure move toward final passage, with passage expectations and potential local tax implications shaping the remaining days.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
House Committee
Conference ‘Committee
Senate
House
State Board of Equalization
State School Commission
Constitutional Commission
Finals Schedule For Blowing Rock School Graduation Week
The Blowing Rock Consolidated School completes its finals Friday May 12 at 8 pm with seventh grade graduation led by Grover Robbins Jr and others. The high school baccalaureate is Sunday May 14 at 8 pm at the Presbyterian Church. Class Night is Monday May 15 at 8 pm and graduation Tuesday May 16 at 8 pm with Dr. H J Derthick delivering the literary address.
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Dr. Rankin
Sexton Buchannan
Blowing Rock Consolidated School
Merril Gragg
Dorothy Teague
Mae Shore
Doris White
Pauline Greene
Juda Thompson
Eric Storie
Audrey Hartley
H. J. Derthick
Milligan College
Milligan,Tenn
Farthing Awarded Weekly Wages by Industrial Board
North Carolina Industrial Commission directs Raleigh to pay Albert C. Farthing deputy sheriff $17.31 weekly for six weeks plus medical and hospital bills for an injury on September 17, 1932 arising from his employment. Sheriff L. M. Farthing is dismissed as a party defendant. a $20 attorney fee is allowed.
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Raleigh
N. C
Watauga County
American Casualty Company
Albert C. Farthing
North Carolina Industrial Commission
T. A. Wilson
John C. Root
Farthing
L. M. Farthing
Fire Threat Fails To Reach Smithey Store After Poultry House Blaze
A fire from a rear poultry housewood threatened Smithey's mercantile store Monday morning but was confined by firefighters. Outbuildings burned while several fowl escaped unharmed. In Forsyth County alfalfa shows a strong spring stand with fifteen acres reported by T. J. Berath.
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Smithey
Forsyth County
T. J. Berath
Boone High School graduation honors 58 graduates
Commencement exercises at Boone High School drew a full audience as 58 students received diplomas. Rex Hagaman was valedictorian and spoke on past reminiscences and future guidance. Ollie Jean Coffey and Banner Miller delivered citizenship reflections, while Miss Wilcox read the class poem Farewell. The Glee Club performed and Rex Hagaman, Ollie Jean Coffey, and Jean Wilcox were noted for remarkable attendance.
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Boone High School
Muriel Hodgson
J. H. Brendall
Boone Methodist Church
Joe Hardin
Ollie Jean Coffey
Banner Miller
Glee Club
Luigi Denza
Guy H. Hill
Rex Hagaman
Jean Wilcox
Miss Wilcox
Jean Bush
June Bush
Harley Dotson
Dwight Houck
Cove Creek High School Closes with Largest Graduation Class
Saturday marked the close of Cove Creek High School’s most successful year as forty graduates received diplomas in a court scene. Principal S F Horton distributed diplomas to graduates including Robert Anderson Claude Clarke Grady Eller Ray Farthing Wade Fletcher Lonnie Harmon Ralph Henson Bert Henson Oka Henson Edward Love Ford Michael Roy Rominger Bernice Roark Glenn Sherwood Ernest Simms Howard Simpson Byron Stuart Ray Stuart Jack Vaughan Howard Ward Earl Wilson Velma Brown Johnsie Cornell Grace Donnelly Esther Fox Estelle Fox Madge Hagaman Carrie Harmon Myrtle Henson Louise Johnson Bess Lewis Frances Mast Trilla Osborne Mary Emma Phillips Ella Reece Mae Reece Ruth Sherwood Leta Tester Ola Winebarger Ella Ree Winebarger.
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Cove Creek High School
S. F. Horton
Robert Anderson
Claude Clarke
Grady Eller
Ray Farthing
Wade Fletcher
Lonnie Harmon
Ralph Henson
Bert Henson
Oka Henson
Edward Love
Ford Michael
Roy Rominger
Bernice Roark
Glenn Sherwood
Ernest Simms
Howard Simpson
Byron Stuart
Ray Stuart
Jack Vaughan
Howard Ward
Earl Wilson
Velma Brown
Johnsie Cornell
Grace Donnelly
Esther Fox
Estelle Fox
Madge Hagaman
Carrie Harmon
Myrtle Henson
Louise Johnson
Bess Lewis
Frances Mast
Trilla Osborne
Mary Emma Phillips
Ella Dave Reece
Mae Reece
Ruth Sherwood
Leta Tester
Ola Winebarger
Ella ‘Ree Winebarger
Boots and
Dean Rankin
J. D. Rankin
Appalachian State
Clean-Up Week Proclaimed to Beautify Boone Town
Mayor J F Moore issues a May 15 to May 21 general clean-up week urging residents to set out light trash for pickup and to remove heavy junk from properties livestock and poultry to be managed to avoid nuisance. Officials seek cooperative effort to improve cleanliness and sanitation and preserve moral tone.
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Boone
J. F. Moore
Nine Arrested For Participating Sunday Baseball Game
Nine Mabel residents of the Mabel community and members of the neighborhood baseball team were arrested Sunday afternoon as they were about to enter a game with a Hudson nine. Trial is set for Saturday morning before Justice C F Thompson. The group won 16 to 8 in the incident. Warrants were signed by Rev J A McKaughan and served by Sheriff A Y Howell on nine individuals. Attorneys indicate Sunday baseball falls under an old statute allowing a potential fine up to one dollar.
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Mabel
Hudson
C. F. Thompson
J. A. McKaughan
A. Y. Howell
John Church
Ivan Church
Orville Hagaman
Stanley Norris
Jim Burkett
Ralph Critcher
Dick Isaacs
Clint Mast
Charles Combs
Attornees
90 Per Cent Depositors Favor Reorganization Plan of Bank
Watauga County Bank aims to resume normal operations as 80 to 90 percent of stockholders and depositors sign the reorganization agreement. Officials report ongoing efforts, past due notes renewals, and cooperation from all interested parties. A reopening date will depend on Banking Commissioner approval and completion of final details.
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Watauga County Bank
State Commissioner of Banks
G. P. Hagaman
Hood
Sheriff Captures Still Near Wilkes Watauga Line
Sheriff A Y Howell and deputies seized a fifty gallon distillery on Stony Fork near the Wilkes Watauga line and destroyed beer and backings. It was the sixteenth illicit outfit captured in his tenure. In April 46 offenders were jailed for violations of prohibition laws. fifteen more have been jailed this month.
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A. Y. Howell
Stony Fork
Wilkes-Watauga Line
Howell
College Seniors Hear Andrews at Finals Friday
Appalachian State closed its year with an address by Superintendent T Wingate Andrews of High Point to 45 four-year seniors and 77 two-year normal graduates. He warned education must outpace chaos and urged graduates to let high ideas guide their lives.
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High Point
Appalachian State
T. Wingate Andrews
Andrews
Mittie Huskins
Burnsville
N. C
Fawn Watson
Boone Girl Receives Honors at Salem College
In the 1933 34 elections at Salem College Winston Salem Miss Mary Frances Linney daughter of Mrs F A Linney of this city was asked to be assistant advertising manager of The Salemite the weekly college paper She was also selected a member of the Y W C A as one of the committee chairmen and named to the Athletic Council as manager of hiking Miss Linney is a member of the incoming junior class at Moravian College and is extremely popular with her fellow students.
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Salem College
Winston-Salem
Mary Frances Linney
F.A. Linney
Salemite
Linney
Moravian College
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Iowa
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Columbia
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N. Y
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Yale
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Burlington
Josephine Abernethy
Hickory
James A. Glover
Bailey
Herman Heafner
Lincolnton
Winnie Heafner
Virginia Hunt
Edith Preston
Tryon
Elva Shermer
Yadkinville
Myrtle Brandon
Fort Mill
S. C
Willie Kate Briggs
Mars Hill
Ralph Davis
Parlear
Robert Davis
Louise Haigler
Unionville
Mabel Holden
T. R. Hunt
Bostic
Hubert K. Leonhardt
Cherryville
Carrie Mae Lowe
Union Mills
Kate Ballew McLain
Bryson City
Betty Louise Moore
Granite Falls
Ruth Mull
Thomasville
Louise Patton
Marion
Dave Strother
Sugar Grove
Wilhelmina Triplett
B. S
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Mount Ulla
Jones Ashley
Herbert Goins
Joseph Malcolm Laxton
Kings Creek
William Samuel McKinney
Crossnore
Kelly George Miles
Miles
Joseph Paul Miller
Clifton
Charles Norton
Mary Katherine Warlick
Julian C. Yoder
Danville
Mary Grace Bradford
Concord
Sarah E. Cooper
Clemmons
Cleo Virginia Dean
Colfax
Myrtle Harmon
Pauline Mosteller
Bessie Leona Rudisill
Newton
Ethel Mae Yount
Watauga
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Cecil Glenn
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