Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-12-26
LOCAL AFFAIRS

It's an old greeting, but still the
py New Year"
Mr. and Mrs. ]. d. Council Jr
have taken apartments in the Jones
building.
Gee! But this icy weather do pinch
after the very pretty weather last
week.
Wedding bells! Yes they are ready
to peal forth in our midst just any
time now, but no announcements
have been made, although the DEM
ocrat may carry some in its next
issue.
The five-months-old daughter of
our townsman, Mr.. George Adams,
died at the home of Mrs. Adams
mother on Meat Camp Friday morn
ing. The little form was laid to rest
Saturday.
Messrs Kenneth Linney of Duke
University; Leo b. Vaughn, Jr., of
the University of North Carolina;
and Messrs Edgar Brown and Bobbie
Hardin of Oak Ridge Institute are
with home folks in Boone for the
holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald j. Boyden
and family, of Blowing Rock, have
gone to Mount Pleasant, S. c., sub
urb of Charleston, for the winter.
Mr. Boyden expects to return to
Blowing Rock for a short visit the
latter part of January.
Among the employees located for
the winter at the Villa Marguerite,
Charleston, S. c., are Margie Coffey
and Ann Green, of Blowing Rock.
Numerous other girls who worked
at Mayview Manor the past summer
are there also with j. l.. Wareham,
head waiter of Mayview Manor for
the past three seasons.
Donald j. Boyden and r. C. Nc
Mahon were in Gastonia visiting Mr..
Boyden's sister when word was re-
ceived of the death of Mrs. w. p.
Pendley. They Immediately started
for Blowing Rock and two hours and
twenty minutes later pulled up in
front of the Watauga Inn. This is
said to be the fastest time ever made
between Gastonia and Blowing Rock.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Turner Hendrix
of Roanoke, Va, are with hor e folks
in Boone for the Christmas holidays.
On their return home they will be
accompanied by Mrs. Hendricks pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. l.. Critcher,
who will spend the remainder of the
winter with them. Their home in
Boone will be unoccupied during their
absence.
The new factory building for the
Woodcraft Novelty Company has
b. en- completed and regular opera
tions discontinued some weeks ago
in order that machinery might be
reset and all placed in readiness for
operations on bigger scale the first
of the year. Manufacturing is ex-
pected to be resumed with full force
of men between the first and fif-
tenth of January.
The Democrat comes out this week
in very much abridged form and
rather irregular in date Half feed
is better than no feed at all--so ac-
cept it as rather a compromise, for il
means just little recreation for the
shop force at Christmas, ere we take
up the burdens of the year 1880.
We expect to greet you again on
Thursday January 2, 1880. In the
meantime, send in all the news as
early as possible for the first edi-
ton of the New Year.
Walter L. Ward, Sugar Grove, r.
F. d., says Mr.. Joe Mast of Vale
Crucis, will have to try it again next
year if he proposes to be the cham
pion .corn-grower of the county. He
adds that this year he raised on three
acres of Cove Creek bottom land,
which had been planted to corn with
no fertilizer of any kind, for nearly
or quite a century, 373 bushels of
corn, or an. average of 81 bushels
per acre. There you are Joe, what
are you going to do about it? 1t
seems that YOU are sliphtlv left