Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-08-11
NEWS OF WEEK
BLOWING ROC
Plans Being Perfected for
Show; Benefit Fiddlers' G
Was Successful; Social ani
sonal News
By RUPERT GILLETT

Blowing Rock, Aug. 10.-Thefinal
program for the Blowing Rock Horse
Show, which will be ready for publ
cation Thursday, will be the most
elaborate ever carried out in the an
nual event here, it was said Monday
by Miss Elise Booger, chairman of
the committee in charge.
An all-day program has been out
lined; whereas, heretofore, only one
afternoon has been devoted to the
show. Prizes will be given to the
best riders in all classes. An inter-
esting contest for children will be in
cluded. Band music will be provided
throughout the day.
The committee is awaiting word
from former Governor Morrison.
who has been asked for permission to
use his property on Green Hill for
the show.
The proceeds of the show, above
expenses, will be given to the Blow
ing Rock community fund.
Coode Was Not in Police Court
j. S. Goode, Jr., of Hickory, was
not fined for drunkenness here as
was reported last week, said Mayor
Sudderth Monday. The policeman
who gave the reporter the informa-
ton, the mayor said, got Mr.. Goodies
name confused with that of the man
accused.
Fiddlers' Contest
Miss Mabel Cook of Rutherwood
was adjudged the best of the thirty
~fiddlers who took part in the Blow
ing Rock fire departments fiddlers'
convention Friday and Saturday
nights. Miss Cook was awarded a
medal as first prize.
Blowing Rock string band won the
prize for the best performance in its
class. Ralph Story of Blowing Rock
won the banjo prize, Byrd Moore of
Newland the guitar prize, and A. R.
Greene of Boone the prize for the
best buck and wing dancer. In ad-
dition, $100 was divided among the
musicians who took part in the con-
tests. Total receipts were S472.80,
of which $50 was the share of the
fire department.
Rattlesnake Pete Still on Job
Rattlesnake Pete, hunter of snakes
and maker of souvenirs, arrived in
Blowing Rock Wednesday with the
skin of his 963rd rattlesnake. He
had killed fifteen reptiles since his
previous visit, three weeks ago. One
of them, he said, was four and half
feet long.
Pete is going the latter part of this
week to Grandfather mountain on a
snake hunt with the determination to
make his record an even thousand.
He says he has heard of cave on
the mountain reputed to contain a
rattlesnake den
S. A. L. Parlor Car Service
The parlor car bus line operated
ny CHe MOIoI transportation Solli-
pany of the South and making con-
nections with the Seaboard Air Line
at Rutherfordton has started making
regular runs, and a ticket office has
been opened in a local hotel under the
charge of W. T. Pullen, Jr. Tickets
are sold here to all points on the Sea-
board and its connections.
The bus arrives here at $50 p. M
and departs at 1919 a. m, 1t runs ;
from Boone through Blowing Rock,
Montezuma, Crossnore and {
to Rutherfordton.
Pitts Held for Superior Court II
Oscar Pitts, who was arrested sew
eral days ago by Chief of Police l. E.
Story, was bound over to superior
court Monday by Mayor Sudderth on {
a charge of violating the liquor law l
Three pints of liquor were found in {
his possession, Chief Story said.
Read Calendar Incorrectly !
Marshall Foster, who last month
violated probation because he read
the calendar incorrectly and thought
his period of abstinence and sobriety
was ended, found himself again in the ;
tolls of the law Tuesday on charge ;
of drunkenness. This time, Mayor
Sudderth was more lenient and mere
ly fined Foster $40 and costs. When
he violated probation, Foster was sent
to the county Jail for thirty days.
The concert at MAYHEM Manor
Saturday night for the benefit of the
Blowing Rock fire department
brought in total of $6760, said
Chief j. A. PAMELA Tuesday. Miss
Ruth K@ni IN. pianist of the Juilliard
Foundation, St2rLen Gardner, tenor
of Washington, N. c., and Prof. and
Mrs. &. Crt'r of the Appalachian
State Normal school were the enter
rairers