Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1928-05-03
Blowing Rock G. of c.
Holds Lively Meeting
Discusses Plans for Distributing Bull
letin and Appoint Committee Look
ing Toward Bautifying Town
By RUPERT GILLETT

ficial publication of the Blowing
Rock Chamber of Commerce, was
the chief subject considered at the
April meeting of that body. The
committee on publication was con-
tinued to consider the preparation of
a succeeding issue to be ready for
in May.
The planting of evergreens along
the parkways between the streets
and the newly-completed sidewalks
was another question considered, and
a committee on Identification of
grounds was charged with this re-
sponsibility. The committee consists
of Rob Greene, chairman; Mrs.
Greene, Spencer Greene, Bynum
Crisp and Bud Bolick.
A cleanup campaign, set for the
week of April %, has been postpon
ed until the succeeding week, be-
cause of continued bad weather,
snow and rain prevailing throughout
the last week of April. The Cham
Der of Commerce will be represented
at the meeting of the town council
next Tuesday, at the suggestion of
Mayor G. M. Sudderth, to assist the
council in working out a plan for
garbage disposal during the summer.
Mayor Sudderth later authorized
the chamber to proceed with the
planting of pines around the stand
pipe on Blowing Rock Hill. The
pines can be had at small cost, and
the labor will be very small. This bit
of Identification, therefore, will be
done at minimum of expense.
Wildwood Nurseries Buys Big Tract
A large tract of land, formerly the
property of the Bank of Blowing
Rock, on the Boone road just below
the Brown place, has been acquired
by the Wildwood Nurseries and will
be cleared and planted in the native
shrubs in which the nursery deals.
Clearing of the land, it was point
ed out by G. C. Robbins, the man
ager, will be task requiring long
time, but eventually he hopes to
have the tract under cultivation, and
thus to make his company one of the
largest, if not the largest, nursery
company in this part of the state.
The company already does an
enormous business, and has orders
annually for plant from all parts of
the country in which mountain
shrubs will grow.
w. U. to Open Offie at Blowing Rock
- An engineer for the Western
Union Telegraph Company arrived
Tuesday and began installing equip
ment for the Blowing Rock office,
which will be in the former quarters
of the town offices in the postoffice
building. The opening date has not
been announced.
9TH and 5th Grades Give Play
A delightful operetta, cover the
Garden WALL" was presented Satur-
day night in the auditorium of the
school by the fourth and fifth grades
under the direction of Miss Louise
Icenhour, teacher in the intermed-
atee department The $14 realized
will be used for the benefit of the
school. The cast was as follows:
Mary Bessie Wooten as Mistress,
Lee Greene as Boy Blue, Arlene
jenkins as Dawn; Blanche Wooten,
Evelyn jenkins, Ruby White, Elsie
Pitts, Asnell Triplett and Wanda
Gragg as Sunbeams; Doss Kellar as
Mr.. Sun. Norman Pitts, Frank
Craig and Voight Knight as Elves;
Irene Jenkins, Vaughn Hartley, May
Teaster, Virdola Walters, Mary
Klutz and Nellie Greene as flowers
Billy Coffey as Bluebird; Hazel
Mays, Ruby Coffey and Dale Hart
ley as butterflies.
Band Will Give Concert
The Blowing Rock Band will give
a concert Saturday night in the au-
ditorium of the school. The pro-
gram will consist of number of
concert pieces, supplemented by
saxophone and concert, solos and
perhaps some other numbers. The
admission will be 10 and 25 cents.
Sophs Honor Juniors
The sophmore class of the high
school last Wednesday evening hon
ored the junior class (Which will be
the first graduating class of the high
schooD at a reception at the school,
Amusing contests and games were
in by all present. The
prizes in the advertising contest was
won by Grayson Story, and in the
"Ask-me-another" contest by Rupert
Gillett.
Refreshments were served by the
boys and girls of the sophomore
class, and the evening was closed
with fifteen rahs given by the Wis
iting boys for the sophomores. Those
present were: Velma Cannon, Penn
Edna Miller, Christine
Johson, Lucille Coffey, Elizabeth
Sudderth, Lucille Reid, Corien
Knight, Beulah Wooten, Bynum
Crisp and William Holshouser, the
guests of honor; Lucy Williams,
Mary Robbins, Mary Robbins, Cora
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