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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1932
Page
4
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Frank D. Grist spoke in Boone on Monday evening amid rumors that congressman R L Coughton opposed the soldier bonus measure. He defended Farmer Bob and praised Alleghany’s Doughton for his record in the lower house as the crowd applauded.
The fifth Democratic Senate hopeful Arthur Simmons of Burlington circulates a vote seeking broadside dated June 4. The plea uses only the name Simmons and may mislead voters into associating with Ex Senator Furnifold M. Simmons, prompting criticism of deceptive campaigning tactics.
Winston-Salem Journal argues voters demand clear stances from candidates. The piece condemns demagogic rhetoric and urges plain platforms with specific tax and policy positions to guide an informed electorate.
Norfolk speaker Colonel Henry W. Anderson, part of the Wickersham Commission, cites four obstacles to enforcing the 18th amendment. He argues public opinion, supply and demand forces, federal policing limits, and lack of state cooperation hinder enforcement. Also note Wilkes County farmers form ten improvement clubs to boost profits.
Lincoln Steffens argues education fails to teach unsolved problems in science arts and life and calls for a college course titled The Unknown. He envisions lectures on gravitation economics and philosophy to spark curiosity and humility in graduates who can say I do not know but I believe.
Dr Gaines urges business men to value health over wealth. He cites rushed mornings, skipped meals, long hours, late heavy dinners, and poor sleep as causes of heart failure and cerebral hemorrhage in early middle age, stressing health as vital to life.
Laurens County farm agent C. B. Cannon reports widespread home mixing of fertilizer across South Carolina. A ton of mixed goods and seven tons of raw material sold for home use, with cover crops showing satisfactory growth countywide and turned under.
Sanitary Officer Gordon Battle notes over five thousand arms jabbed as twelve thousand cc of serum were used. Nineteen hundred jabs per week, eight thousand nine hundred eighty inches of needle travel, and an estimate of one hundred twenty five trillion typhoid germs handled during three weeks.
Walt Cook a local businessman reports a campaign against sewer rats along Boone Creek. Over the last two weeks he says he has killed more than twenty five with a .22 rifle and since starting years ago has removed over a hundred of the pests. He notes arsenic and red squill fail but lead poison works.
A passing mention covers a shaken youth told by Dr Hagaman the vaccinating needle hurts just a little when it strikes bone. A prohibitionist advocates for a candidate seen as dry in public but wet in private. A lean hungry man chants a Chinese lullaby to a black kitten. Roosevelt for President buttons are worn by local admirers of the New York governor. A Boone citizen sits by the gutter as three dusky belles monopolize the sidewalk. An inebriated resident pleads for votes in a mock county commissioner race. Two girls wear old fashioned poke bonnets. A potential candidate for county office sighs at hopeful returns from outlying townships. A Frank Grist supporter predicts Caldwell victory in the first primary. A milk cow grazes on the courthouse lawn. A tourist asks directions to Daniel Boone’s cabin amid stockingless women and barefoot children wandering nearby.
A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs John Combs in the Mabel community will be named Franklin Roosevelt Combs. The name reflects local support for Franklin D Roosevelt as a presidential candidate. Madison County farmers have formed a Hereford Association to promote purebred beef cattle.
Mrs. Frank Wike remains very ill with intense suffering while Dr. Toppings has moved to Blowing Rock for the summer. J W Farthing travels to Linville for Linville Improvement work and Councill brothers return from Holly Springs College in Tennessee. Stock removal enforcement and pike survey updates are reported plus a postoffice move in Boone. Captain Lovill departs for Minnesota for a six dollar a day position and crops suffer from May frosts and cold rain.
A four-farmer group in Fountain, Pitt County, fed 75 hogs on 463.5 bushels of corn and earned 53 cents per bushel. Hogs sold from $4.90 to $3.75 per hundredweight, with feed costs totaling $211.08 and gains of 8,421 pounds. The venture yielded a 60 percent return and kept soil plant food value, illustrating profitability of feeding corn to hogs. An auction at Morganton, Burke County, saw 34 purebred Guernsey cattle bring $3,055.
Messrs Jack Massey Sears Roebuck district manager Bill Davis Asheville store Frank T Hicks prominent sportsman Atlanta Asheville Bill Doble Palm Beach Fla John T Cooper Nebraska Dr Ed Adams Asheville guests with Tom Cushing in Boone for a weekend fishing trip Their stay highlighted the area’s appeal as a vacation and fishing center and local support for Watauga as a sportsmen headquarters.
The Watauga County Singing Convention will be held at the court house in Boone on Sunday June 5 beginning at 10 oclock a m. Every church and Sunday school class in Watauga and surrounding counties invited. Come early to obtain seats. N L Harrison Chairman Z T Greene Secretary.
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