Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-02
NEWS OF A WEEK
AT BLOWING ROCK
Happenings of Interest During Past
Seven Days In and About Fa-
nous Resort Town

! Dlo"iHS Rock, Dec. l.-W L. Will
lis, surveyor for the Bell Telephone
Company, is now engaged in survey
ing lines within the town limits for
Che new telephone exchange, which
Is expected to be in operation early
IN 1927. Wednesday, Mr.. Willis
marked off the line on Boone street
TO the site that is expected to be
chosen for the central office.
This office, it is understood. will
be installed in one of two new cot
tages on Boone street. One is the
Coffey cottage, and the other is a
cottage recently completed farther
from Main street. 1t has not been
decided which of these cottages will
house the central office.
H. H. Shelor, engineer in charge
of the work here, has completed
canvass of the entire town, including
Mayview Park and Green Park. to
estimate the number of subscribers
that the exchange will probably have.
The location of each prospective sub
scriber's house has been marked on
a map of the town in preparation for
running lines through the streets.
Unusual difficulty was encountered
In these estimates, Mr.. Shelor said,
because of the scattered nature of the
town and it's suburbs.
Whether the telephone company
would use the poles of the electric
power company, Mr.. Shelor said, has
not been decided, but, since his
specifications call for poles of a diff
ferent character from the electric
power poles, it is probable that the
telephone company will erect its own
poles
Surveying of the cable line to
Lenolr is almost completed, it was
said. This will give Blowing Rock
direct telephone connection with
Hickory, and thence with the main
lines of the Southern Bell. At the
same time, the InterMountain Tele-
phone Company, with headquarters
at Bristol, Tenn.-Va., has promised
that new line from Boone to Blow
ing Rock will be under construction
by January, and that it will connect
with the Southern Bell line here.
When these two lines are com
pleted, probably by early spring,
Blowing Rock will have telephone
outlets in two directions, and south
ern and southwestern North Carolina
will have direct communication with
southwestern Virginia and northeast
ern Tennessee
Quiet Thanksgiving
Business, schools and all other ac-
tivities in Blowing Rock suspended !
al day last Thursday, while the en-
tire population gave itself over to
The enjoyment of Thanksgiving.
Special Thanksgiving services were
conducted in the Blowing Rock Bap-
r>t church by the pastor, Rev. F. NJ
Higgins, of Boone. The Boone serv-
ices, it is understood, were conduct |
ed by laymen, in the absence of the
pastor.
Pupils Give Elaborate Program
The pupils of the fourth to ninth !
grades of the Blowing Rock school |,
presented a special Thanksgiving pro-
gram at the school Wednesday night
after services at the Rumple Memo
rial Presbyterian church.
The program was unusually elabo-
rate for a school of this size, and
the result showed that both the pu-
pills and teachers had done a great
deal of work on it. The play, "The
Courtship of Myles Standish," was
especially good. Longfellow's poem
was dramatized by Principal A. E.
Mercer, who also trained the pupils
and directed the play. Lucille Cof
fey as Priscilla, Glenn Coffey as
Myles Standish and Paul Foster as
John Alden, interpreted their parts
especially we'll and slowed the result
of hard study and sympathetic un-
derstanding of the characters they
portrayed. Credit is due to all
members of the cast and to their as
sistants for the expeditions manner
in which the scenery was changed
during the play:
The entire program follows:
Reading, Thanksgiving" Dewey
tory.
4. when the Frost is on the Pump
kim" Ola Coffey.
Song, eve Thank You"
Play, "The First THANKSGIVING"
fourth and fifth grades.
Turkey drill, Virginia Sudderth,
Virginia Ceffey, Elizabeth Walters,
Elizabeth Greer. Annie Coffev Cora