Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-09-30
One Hundrde Watauga Citizens At
tend Meeting in North Wilkesboro
Thursday in Interest of Compile
tion of Boone Trail Highway.
HANES SAYS PROJECT WILL
COST ABOUT $2,5OO, 900
Will Depend on Action of Next Cen
eral Assembly.

Approximately 100 Wataugans
went down to North Wilkesboro last
Thursday to join hands with repre-
sentatives of other counties in North
west North Carolina in the movement
to secure the paving of Highway No.
60-the Boone Trail-from Yadkin-
vile to the Tennessee line. The q
mass meeting was held at the fair
ground and about seven hundred
men and women interested in the
movement were present. That the
citizens attending the mass meeting
ale in earnest was shown by the
unanimous adoption of resolutions
asking the state highway commission
|, to do the work as soon as possible
and askingefor bond issue by the
next general assembly sufficient to
4 complete the present state system of
highways.
The convention also authorized the
aprointment OF ten men to be Sc
, lected from each county on the Boone
rail, from Guilford to the Tennessee
me, to consider ways and means and
act as a permanent committee to
further the project of paving No.
so. The committee will be announc-
ed later. /.
Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkifi, Forsyth
sented. Tennessee and Virginia also
had road enthusiasts there. Watauga
4 won the attendance banner, having
: exactly one hundred citizens there.
, ! P. W. Eshelman, president of the
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis Club,
called The convention to order and
: Rev. Douglas l.. Rights. of Winston
Salem, led in prayer following Which
S a permanent organization was effect
3 ed by the election Of Henry RenlOds
:, as chairman, and ". 7. Ritter and
! Bid Williams as secretaries. Earl
Roser, noted singer of Charlotte,
rendered two popular songs, accom-
panied by Mrs. C. S. Sink on the
: piano.
The first speaker presented was
l Editor Sanford Martin, of the Win
+ ston-Salem Journal, whom Chairman
q Reynolds termed the consistent
friend of Northwestern Carolina"
Mr.. Martin stressed the Importance
= o-,J cold hot
eve have stood on the map long
enough; it is now time to get to
! work on the map. He declared
r that the road program in the
state is just now well under way and
made an eloquent plea for 'the map"
as originally outlined from county
s seat to county-seat, declaring It's pro-
visions as inviolate as those en-
It odied IN tie road statutes adopted
t by the general assembly. - s~.-.~..z =
O For more than five years Mr. Mar
e tin with pen and voice has been
e forcibly avocating highways opening
\ up the ''.tt.cst Provinces and his
IL hearers showed their deep apprecia-
d fion for this brilliant service in the
k applause when he closed his address.
V Mr.. John M. Brown, president OF
II the Winston-Salem Automobile Club,
J. spoke briefly of the Importance of
d the highway from a tourist point OF
d view.
c K. E.. Shore, Of Winston-Salem,
e was the next speaker, pledging the
: support of the states largest city
in the move to pave one of the chief
highways leading into that city.
C. M. Ketchum, of Greensboro,
v told of the work of North Carolinas,
Inc, and said his city endorsed the
n project of paving the Boone Trail.
S d. M. Reece, of Yadkinville, spoke
,t4l for Yadkin county, and urged that the.
e highway be pushed to early compile
tion! Mr.. Reece is one of the origi-
$ nal good roads boosters in his county
It and while he is getting too old to
q WELD pick and shovel he was not
n willing to let up until improved high
S ways penetrate every section Of the
t state He said that the progress now
under way in North Carolina will not
stop until Anglo-Saxon blood is
driven out and Bolshevism reigns su-
preme.
J. Gordon Hackett, spokesman for
:. the Wilkes contingent, said that in
3 1S45' the citizens of northwest North
Carolina, southwestern Virginia and
! eastern Tennessee named a cornrv;s.