Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1924-06-12
ROAD WORK B0OlMS.
IN SISTER COUNTY,
Crews Busy on Two Main Caldwell
Highways-Big Educational Meet
ing-Other News of Interest. [

ding is booming mour section at
this time. We can step out on the
| porch and not only hear the pile
driving hammer but see the mixers
of two big bridges in the making.
One of these crosses Lower Greek
and is a part of the Lenoir-Hickory
| (hard surface-to-be) the other eros
ses Zack's Fork and is a part of the
new Lenoir Wilkesboro (highway-to
! oe) Both are situated in the extreme
city limits. The big shovels on both
roads can also be seen and blasting
on all sides is taking place. Surely
there are very few who do not ap-
preciate fully these two big develop
ments.
Mr.. S. F. Horton stopped over
with us Saturday night on his way
to Wake Forest Summer School.
Miss Blanche Horton is spending
the week here and enjoying the Cha
tauqua.
We were indeed sorry to hear of
! the death of Mrs. Rivers. Please ac-
cept our sincere sympathy in your
| deep bereavement.
/ The meeting at tn ecourt house on
Friday the 10th was perhaps one of
the most important held this year for
the betterment of the moral and edu-
cational conditions in this our county
There were man yfrom different com
munities in the county, but not near
ly so many present as should have
been.
Mrs. w. H. Sherril, president of
the County Betterment presided over
the meeting and asked Miss Public
over to lead the devotional which she
did in a beautiful, sincere and mo-
dest way. The Federation song was
used. Mrs. Sherril made the open
ing talk based on the need of i'm
provements in the community. A
round table discussion followed in
which Miss Boyd spoke Of the needs
of homeless children over the coun-
ty also of the need of community
club work.
Miss Steele reported from Yadkin
stating that they were planning to
make quilts for the Patterson School.
Miss Russell of Granite Falls spoke
of the need of good ladies in the
work and close cooperation.
Mrs. Robert Barlow spoke of the
need of home demonstration agent
which would result in the most need
ed canning clubs.
Mrs R. L. Gwyn gave report OF
the State Federation at Raleigh men
tioning the big reception given the
delegates at the Governors mansion.
Also the one at Wake Stone the
home of Josephus Daniels and how ne
received in the absence of his wife
who is away in a hospital.
Then at II the crowning speech
of the morning took place when
Miss Albertson the secretary of the
Parent Teachers Association of this
state made one of the very finest
addresses ever heard in this section.
She explained the mission of the
work. to travel over North Carolina
and try to bring about better coop
Grafton between the school forces and
the parents, that the parents should
seek acquaintance always with the
teachers of their children, should en-
courage and sympathize all that is
possible. That it was the teachers
duty to train the child to be bet
ter citizen, to season every lesson
with a thought of true citizenship,
that the parents should try to get
proper laws enforced for the safe
guarding of the children such as,
stop the selling of cigarettes, stop
the joy riding ,etc. She spoke of the
two evils with that of cheating in the
school room as the most disastrous
of the times.
| She spoke of the future dangers,
! not the Bolshevists or the Reds, but
of the boys and girls who are in
dulging in these things today which
threaten to undermine our civiliza-
tion tomorrow. She spoke of the dam
ger in the fact that eleven states
have passed laws prohibiting the rea-
ding of the Bible in the school room
and brought to mind the fact that
though Greece gave to the world
culture and art, she couldn't stand /;
though Rome contributed law, she
j fell: Palestine gave the one thing