Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1928-04-26
TEXAS TRIO TRAVELS 1,733 MILES TO
ATTEND RAYS GOTH ANNIVERSARY
Party, Composed of Dick Hodges,
George w. Workman and Harvey
Bingham Carlton, Arrived in
Boone Tuesday Afternoon


The Texas Trio, composed of Col
R. r. (knoWn in Boone as 'Dick")
Hodges and George W. Wortham,
Paris, Texas and Harvey Bingham
Carlton of Paris and Abilene, Tex,
arrived in Boone Tuesday afternoon
to attend the sixtieth anniversary of
the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Ray of this city. At Asheville they
were joined by Mrs. M. f. Ran
dolph and little daughter, Nina Ray.
The party came in Willys-Knight
car which is appropriately decorated
showing From Abilene, Texas, to
Boone, N. c., to attend the Goth
anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs. j. c.
Ray" and "We've come 1,733 miles"
On the car are pennants bearing the
names of the three senior colleges at
Abilene, Texas, stickers showing the
names of towns through which they
passed, large posters showing "Abi-
lene Texas, the Capital of West
Texas" and other advertising ma
terial added along the journey.
Carlton and Workman are neph-
ews of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray; Mrs. Ran
dolph is the granddaughter of the
Rays, and Boone citizens know that
Dick Hodges is the brother of Mrs.
Ray. Mr.. Wortham married Mrs
Rays niece, Miss Mary Hodges
Carlton, the daughter of Mrs.
Hannah Martisha Hodges Carlton
and Charles Robert (Bob) Carlton,
who studied law in Boone years ago
under Major Bingham, father Of
DR.. r. X. Bingham.
The party left Texas in a caravan
or motorcade of some 1872 cars
which met in a Good Roads conven-
tion at Memphis, Tenn, last Friday
and Saturday, to advertise an all
year-round highway from Broadway,
San Diego, Cal. to Broadway, New
York City. This highways is known
as the "Broadway of America At
Memphis the Texas Trio left the
other cars which returned westward.
On the route here the party was en-
tertained in various cities by mayors
and chambers of commerce. At
Asheville, Mayor Roberts, members
of the city commission and officials
of the Carolina Motor Club enter
tanned them overnight when they
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E.
Randolph, grandchildren of Mr.. and
Mrs. Pay of Boone. The car which
they are driving was new when they
left Texas, and the speedometer now
shows 2.011 miles from Abilene,
d little city of 32,400 population,
located ITO miles due west Of Fort
Worth. Mr.. Carlton is the official
chauffeur and horn tooter. Dick
Hodges is the official guide and hu-
morist and Mr. Workman is the man.
ager and treasurer of the party.
They have had the right-of-way
through city traffic in cities in
which they have visited, free gaso-
line and oil have been given in some
of the west and east Texas towns,
and word was wired ahead as to the
time of their arrival at different
places and ropes were stretched
across the streets to make them stop
and get free luncheons, fish dinners,
sandwiches, drinks and advertising
souvenirs.
Although the trip has already
taken eight days, they are still go
ing, after the anniversary celebra-
tion at the Ray home today From
here they will go to Johnson City,
Tenn, on the narrow gauge railroad
as guests of Dick Hodges. After
that Dick will remain in Boone for
awhile, then going to Florida to
spend next winter. Messrs. Carlton
and Worthham will go to Atlanta,
Ga, Florida, and back west via
Pineola and towns southeast of
Boone. At Atlanta Carlton will be
joined by his wife, whose home was
in that city prior to her marriage
last September, when she and Har-
vey visited the Rays in Boone. This
is Mr.. Wortham's first trip out of
Texas, and he has seen so much that
he is now required to get spectacles
to finish out the trip, 1t is rumored
with some definite authority that
Dick Hodges plans to marry before
going to Florida. The name of the
victim has not yet been furnished
The Democrat, but the reporter
promises to furnish it's readers with
full details as soon as Dick gets con-
sent.