Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1925-11-19
NEWS FROM THE
VICINITY OF DEEP GAP

OAi Ailo OiilSftl QuIiCS HG lOIcSlS nave
needed protection for years and we
believe Mr.. Cook will max an eff
cient warden.
The school bus of the Consolidated
School of Deep Gap had minor ac-
cident when Mr.. Grant Greene; stu
dent swayed to the road bank and
turned the bus upon its side. He says
that he heard some kind of noise
from the rear and turned his head to
look when the car ran for several
<feet along a ditch line until the front
wheels took start up the bank and
before he could get it under control
it toppled over. No one was hurt ex-
cept Master Ernest Greene, pupil
of the school, who received bruise
and small cut above one of his
eyes. The bus was not damaged ex-
cept some glass windows were bro
ken on the side that fell against the
road. The writer helped raise the bus
and it was a freakish sight to see and
meet the stranded children all along
the road that morning when we went
to the scene Of the little mishap.
News has reached this section of
the death of Rum" Church a we'll
known musician and singer He was
struck dow nat Kannapolis by car
driven by party from Ohio en- route
to Florida. Death was instantaneous,
his neck being broken twice 1t is re-
ported that some thief took the dead
mans automobile and fled just as
soon as he expired. Mr.. Church was
well known man to many Watau-
"gans as he often came over here in
quest of business. He was selling op-
tical goods when killed
The writer has installed radio set
and has been listening in to the war;
ious programs at Chicago, Cincinatti,
Atlanta, Washington and Miami. We
recently heard Secretary of Com
merce Hoover deliver his wonderful
speech on radio from Washington.
The Secretary of Commerce said
4 that there were over six hundred ra-
dio broadcasting stations and more
than twenty five million listeners in
the United States. Radio is only four
years old and getting better every
day. Within the next five years radio
will be so much improved that every
farm home will and should put one
in for the information alone they will
receive.
Deputy Sheriff J. F. Welch and
his assistants Messrs Albert Hampton
and Russell Trivett last week raided
along the Watauga- Wilkes line and
located two illicit stills and destroy
ed about one hundred gallons of malt
beer and sugar. The party divided up
when near the scene of the supposed
operations, Mr.. Welch taking his way
up stream and the others taking
theirs up another with a mountain
as the dividing line between them.
Welch had not been gone for more
than ten minutes when Hampton and
Trivett spied pair of Overalls dam
Cling from some bushes. Hampton
said to Trivett "Be still for think
l see man." Each one stood still in
their tracks waiting for it to move,
but it only seemed to dangle in the
air. They took another peep and saw
a small tin cup hooked to twig on
the bush. By moving around little
they saw the still sitting on the fur
mace filled to the brim with beer,
sugar malt, concentrated lye, etc. At
ter waiting for several hours no one
came to the still to operate, so they
signalled to Deputy Welch to come
on to them as they had found their
prize. The Deputy failed to get their
signals, as he was about mile away
on another stream hot on fresh trail
of much travel and worn by foot
prints.
Hampton and Trivett decided not
to wait any longer and made quick
destruction of the outfit by cutting
~ it down and destroying everything
in the camp. After completing the
" job they started out to locate the
4 Deputy Behold it was then they heard
his signal from the mountain top sig
4 II nifying that he had also found a
prize. They hastened up to the De-
putty to find that his signal was true.
Mr.. Welch had also located cave
with beer, sugar, malt and concen-
trated lye, and hidden still soon to
go on the furnace again. All this
was Immediately destroyed. Deputy
Welch says that if you want him to
get the stills OF destroy them just let
him have true report. These two
plants no doubt were turning out
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