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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-22
ELSA
BRIDGE PARTY

BRIDGE PARTY
Mrs. John Giese and Mrs. Mel
vim Giese entertained at bridge al
the home OF Mrs. Melvin Giess
Friday evening.
The following guests we're pres
ent: Mr.. and Mrs. Reasonover OF
Edcouch. J. c. Summons Of Ed
couch. Messieurs and Mesdames
Byron Kelley. VIM. George, Mrs. J
Schmidt and Misses Evelyn and
Carolyn Schmidt and Reimets OF
New York.
Mrs. Kelly won high score and
Mrs. George second: Mr.. Sammons
wen high score for the men.
GEORGES ENTERTAIN
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. George en-
tertained with a bridge party in
their home last Monday evening.
The out Of town guests were Mes
sieurs and Mesdames Reasonover OF
Edcouch. Porter Davis Of Weslaco
Byron Kelly, c. d. Adamson. Mes
danes d. Graham. Melvin Giese, j
Stokes and John Giese.
Mrs. Melvin Giese won high score
for the evening.
JOLLY BIDDERS
Honoring Miss Remiels of New
York City the jolly Bidders Bridge
club met at the home Of Mrs. Z. d
Adamson Thursday evening.
Mrs. Melvin Giese won high
score and Mrs. j. Stokes second
nigh.
CIVIC CLUB
Members of the Elsa Civic and
Study club we're entertained at the
home of Mrs. Melvin Giese. with
a valentine party last Wednesday
at three o'clock. at her home. with
Mesdames Marley. Ralph Miller,
0. E. Carlson and NJ. Giese as
hosteSses.
The house was beautifully deco
rated. Several contests were en-
joyed throughout the evening and
prizes awarded. Those winning
prizes for the evening we're Mes
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-22
SAN BENITO
CIRCLE ONE MEETS

CIRCLE ONE MEETS
February II. members OF Circle
One of the First Methodist church
met at the home Of Mrs. J. Z.
Thompson. Study for the after
noon. based upon the fourth. fifth,
sixth. and seventh chapters OF Luke,
was IN charge of Mrs. D.. +. Dunn.
study leader. Mrs. Dunn was as
sisted IN presenting the messages
set forth in these chapters bv Mrs.
r. w. Roberts. Mrs. VIII Shafer.
Mrs. Akex Kerr. Mrs. o. f. Williams,
Mrs. F. W. Burgess. Mrs. O.. r.
Bruce end Mrs. Fred Hartman.
Mrs. Henry PARIS Is chairman Of
the circle. Members Of the circle
voted 10 conduct a rummage sale
Saturday March ,.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-22

Ferry's purcbred Seeds, you buy
inherited quality. Quality is bred
into the seeds. A careful up-breed-
ing of vegetables and flowers has
been going on in the Ferry trial
gardens for 81 years. This means
that the Ferry's Seeds you can plant
today came from parent plants and
grandparent plants thatwere them
selves purebred. Sixty thousand
tests are made annually in the
Ferry gardens for termination.
Thousands of other trials are made
for size, form, color, resistance to
disease. So far as is humanity pos
sible, we determine that every crop
will meet the Ferry standards.
Ferry's Seeds are easy for anna
teurs to make grow we'll, and are
naturally the choice of professional
gardeners. They are fresh for
planting now, at the "store around
the corner" No packet of Ferry's
Seeds is ever carried over by the
dealer for sale the second season.
Send for the Ferry's Seed Annual.
1t is more than a catalog. Address
d. M. Ferry & Co., Dept. H,
Detroit, Michigan.
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CLEANERS CIRCLE

OFTENINEFtN FTNNF
Mrs. Ted Fchrerha~h was hostess
70 the Cleaners Circle OF tho First
Baptist church at her home Tuesday
afternoon. February IL with twenty
members and six rnw members
present. Mrs. II. p. Cooke led the
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Valley Society
Phone z
Phone 2

SATURDAY CALENDAR
Luncheon for Mrs. ]. A. Round
free. state regent Of the ID. A. L.,
Donna.
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CELEBRATE VALENTINE

SATURDAY evening = Valentine
party which gave much pleasure to
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danes w. e. Moore, M. q. IN
ecker. j. a. Liljestrand and j. r.
Galloway. Refreshments were
served.
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MEXICAN DINNER

MEXICAN DINNER
Thursday evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Il. Agar entertained with a
dinner at Sopre las OlaS cafe honor
ing John r. Partridge of San Fran
cisco. I'm appetizing course OF
Mexican foods was served TO several
guests.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-22

BIRTHDAf UINNEh
Mrs. w. p. Smith honored her son
Billie, on the occasion Of his elev-
enth birth6av anniversary Friday
with a delightful dinner party. Gen.
tering the table was a large birth
day cake, glistening white and
topped by eleven candles. Those
nresent were Joe Smith Cecil Little
field. william Key Benson and
Billie Smith.
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All 2 Brownsville Druggists
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
MEEKINS CONSIDERING
RUNNING FOR SENATE

Elizabeth City, May 21.-Judge l.
N. Meekins, of the federal court,
has made no decision as to whether
or not he will be a candidate for
election to the United States senate
on the Republican ticket in opposi-
ton to the Democratic nominee, but
ras the matter under consideration,
ne said in statement made yester-
day.
Something like a boom has been
started in several quarters by his
friends who look upon him as the
logical standard-bearer for his party.
They point to the Republican ma
jority in the last presidential cleo
ts6n and to Judge Meekins' stand for
righteous enforcement of the Vol
stead act while on the Federal bench
as auguries of success of his candi
bacy.
Entry into the senatorial race
would involve the sacrifice of life
time position on the part Of Judge
Meekins in favor of the uncertain
ties of a contest for political prefer
rpent, as he says that should he de-
eide to run for the office he would
resign his judgeship before entering
into any active campaign.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
STATES OLDEST PRISONER
TO BE FREE THIS WEEK

Aunt Nancy Kerly, SO, oldest in
mate of the state prison is to return
to her home in the mountains of
Haywood county this week, accord
ing to arrangements of the governor.
She has been an inmate of the peni-
tentiary for 16 years, having been
sent there on a charge of shutting a
grandchild in a cave and allowing it
to starve. She was to have served
80 years. The aged prisoner is al
most blind and gray wisps of thin
hair blow from underneath the shawl
that covers her head. Her step is
hating and her body bent with con-
slant STOPPING of her job as a scrub
woman in the hospital. Aunt Nancy
had formerly been in the sewing
room, making garments for the pris-
onres, but becoming too feeble for
needlework, she was sent to the hos
pital to scrub the floors. Prison Of
ficials will place her on the train
when she is freed and she will be
met in Asheville by brother.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
Boone High School
Has Final Exercises

The final exercises of the Boone
High School commencement were
held in the college auditorium last
Saturday morning. The address,
delivered by DR.. w. E. Abernethy,
of Rutherford College, was master
ly one. Preceding the address came
the salutatory of '29 by Miss Inez
Gragg, while Miss Nell Trivette,
valedictorian, made the goodbye
speech with feeling and simple ear
nestness The class song concluded
the program. This was sung by 40
seniors, happy from the recent re-
ception of their diplomas, which had
been presented in a particularly ap-
propriate talk by Superintendent
Smith Hagaman. Miss Dot Greer of
Greenville was not present to receive
her diploma.
The commencement honors of the
literary program were as follows:
Debaters, five-dollar gold piece, do
mated by Spainhours', went to Len
Hagaman; Recitater's prize, gold
piece, donated by Mr.. Watt H. Gragg
was won by Rena Hampton; Declaim-
er's prize, gold piece, donated by
Mr.. J. Frank Moore, won by Wen
ton Rankin.
The play on Thursday was well
received by large audience. The
characters played their parts well,
especial praise going to Len Haga-
man in the role of the ''Duc" OF
Duval, heart-smasher and aristocrat-
ic ladies' man. Councill Cooke and
Mary Estes came in for large share
of praise for their work as negro
comedians.
Class day was carried off in
brisk fashion, Jessie Greer being in
the forefront with her prophecy.
Clever gifts were presented in an
original manner by Stella Taylor and
Edgar Brown, while Geneva Hodges,
in the will, brought down the house
with ridiculous duties and privileges
for next years class. A feature of
the will was the presentation to the
library of a copy of "Cabbages and
Kings" by o. Henry, to institute the
custom of gift of books from each
succeeding class.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
BAILEY MAY OPPOSE
SIMMONS FOR SENATE

Washington special of May Is to
Greensboro Daily News: Word comes
TO Washington that j. w. Bailey has
finally decided to enter the next
Democratic senatorial primary. Re-
ports relative to the aspirations and
intentions of Mr.. Bailey have been
of a conflicting character, but the
latest is that he will seek to defeat
Senator Simmons, who last year de-
clined to support the Democratic
national ticket.
Those who have provided the
spring version of Mr.. Bailey's can
didacy, explain that the Raleigh man
was determined some months ago to
enter the senatorial primary of his
party, but later on made a change in
his political program and told friends
that he would seek the nomination as
governor. Mr.. Bailey, in 1924,
sought the gubernatorial nomination
and, without organization support,
save a personal one, he turned up
$4,000 votes, which was always re-
garded as noteworthy achieve
ment.
Now it is said that Mr.. Bailey has
yielded to the judgment of those
Democrats who remained loyal dur
ing the last presidential campaign,
and has agreed to enter the senator
ial primary of his party. The con-
tention has been heard that the
Democratic party in the state must
seek salvation by nominating man
who has always been regular in his
political conduct.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
Poppy Day Sale To
Be Held on May Is

Manned and faltering fingers have
been busy these past weeks in the
hospital wards and conyalescent work
shops where $4,000 of America S
World war soldiers are still fighting
desperately for life-still fighting
eleven years after the last shot was
fired.
They have been shaping bright red
poppies out of paper and wire-pop-
pies for America to wear on it's coat
this coming Memorial day to pay
tribute to those thousands of young
Americans who have been lying now
eleven years beneath the poppy
flecked sod of France.
The custom of wearing a red pop
py was started in 1918 by Miss
Moena Michael of Georgia, then
serving in the Y. NJ. C. A. overseas
headquarters staff. Having read
Col. McCrae's poem, "In Flanders
Fields" she was moved to wear a
poppy in honor of the war dead. Her
idea has been taken up and develop
ed by the American Legion Auxiliary
into a great national program of
commemoration of those who made
the supreme sacrifice, and of giving
aid to those who were broken in
their country's service.
The manufacture of the poppies
for Memorial day was begun last
November by the disabled veterans.
1t has been going on ever since in
many parts of the country under the
direction of the auxiliary. During
the past winter, from seven to 10
million of the little red flowers were
made by the disabled men, accord
ing to estimates made at national
headquarters of the auxiliary. For
many of the veterans, the poppy
making has been the sole source of
support for themselves and their
families during the winter months.
The American Legion Auxiliary
units throughout the nation buy the
little flowers from the veterans for
a small sum for their annual poppy
sale on Memorial Day. The money
received by the auxiliary from the
sale of the poppies is used to carry
on its rehabilitation and child well
fare work.
The Boone unit is planning to
sell large number of the little pa
per flowers. Mrs. LIS. Isaacs is chair
man of large committee of auxili-
ary ladies to look after the work,
and members of the organization
will be on duty Saturday. Don't pass
them up without buying one. .--
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
BLAIR'S SHOES HARD TO FILL.

Washington, May 21. Things
went into the air today with respect
TO the commissionership of revenue,
was reported in White House circles.
David H. Blair still hopes to make
good his escape from official duties
shortly, but the administration is
having hard time in finding the
right man for the place. Collector
Lucas of Louisville apparently had
the call, and the president, it was
said, liked his looks. Secretary Mel
lon has other views. He thinks well
of District Attorney Harkins OF
North Carolina, and also Tennes-
seean. Mr.. Lucas, to make him feel
right about it, was offered the posi-
ton of first assistant postmaster
general. This station had no at
fractions for him. A. C. Alvord,
legislative expert of Wisconsin, ap-
peared likely candidate and Chair
man Littleton of the board of tax ap-
peals, whose home is in Tennessee,
is also under consideration for the
post.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
MINISTER URGES EMPLOYING OF
COUNTY FARM DEMONSTRA' IN AGENT

ton, not or ne merchants and
banks in desperate straits but the
farmers also and followed by five
or eight years of work of an aggres-
sive agent, the county is now rocking
along in a high degre of prosperity
with the introduction of some live
stock and the growing of some crop
other than cotton, and this prosperi-
ty is measureless in some counties
to the extent of an increased county
income to the amount of two, three
or four million dollars per year of
increased crop and livestock wealth.
Now, Brother Farmers of Wat
auga county, facts and figures are
hard things to contend with. In
1920 there were in North Carolina,
S,327,106 acres of improved farm
lands and in 1927, under the direc-
tion and management of county
agents, we find 9,673,979 acres, a
net increase of 1,246,873 in the
space of seven years with proper
tionate increase of agricultural prod
ucts. The total income from live
stock alone has increased in the
same period from $1O,000,000 to
$100,000,00O. The increase in the
yield of hay has been as great if not
greater under the direction of a
farm agent.
But some of our farmers say, we
produce more Irish potatoes now
than the market can take care of.
Listen, every surplus bushel of pota-
toes produced in this county could
have been made to yield handsome
returns if fed intelligently to live
stock and poultry.
But what of the apple industry?
In perhaps 80 per cent of the or
chards of this county the pruning
shears and the spraying apparatus is
never used at all, with detrimental
results to the tree and crop of
fruit as well. Let me urgently ap-
peal to you who till the soil, and to
all who pay the taxes, let us claim
our due part of attention and help
which the agricultural department at
Raleigh stands ready and waiting to
give, and our county officials will
heartily cooperate.
Yours fer advancement,
]. H. YOUNT.
BY order of Civitan Club.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23

AS Watauga county is one of the
very few counties not having a coun-
ty demonstration agent to push for
ward her agricultural interests, and
the development of livestock, etc.,
we ask the question, Does it pay to
employ a county agent?
Briefly, we answer, yes, emphati
cally so. Let us hastily glance at
some of the disadvantages under
which we labor.
An agricultural county without a
county agent is without contact with
its district experiment stations,
State College of Agriculture and the
U. S. department of agriculture, en-
ploying many thousands of workers
for the benefit of the farmers in
each county, not only standing ready
or the instant to furnish informa-
ton of constructive nature in crop
rotations and livestock programs, but
ready to respond in an emergency of
any nature whatever involving rural
outbreak of disease in a crop of po-
tatoes or beans, disease in live
stock; rural sanitation and dozens
of other angles from which emer-
gencies arise on short notice and a
county without an agricultural agent
il out of contact and almost out of
reach of this combined agency sup
ported by the taxes of this country,
giving it's whole and sole time to the
benefit of agriculture. To use an
illustration, what would the schools
be without a county superintendent?
Each school working along according
to its own plans and aspirations,
competing with each other for
teachers, ETC., and in similar man.
ner the county agent is to the far
mer what the superintendent is to
the schools, a guiding hand not only
in thir operations but also bringing
to them the very best known prac-
tices in every type of agriculture
endeavor.
AS to the improvement in the
county that the agricultural agent
might produce, there is no manner
OF measure to indicate this except
to say that the south is covered with
counties where at one time were
bankrupt from boil weevil and cot
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
DR.. GATHER HEADS NORTH
WESTERN DENTAL SOCIETY

Wilkes Journal May 16. .s4a-.
DR.. j. NJ. Gather of Boone was
elected president of the Northwest
North Carolina Dental Society which
was organized in the city Tuesday
evening. Other officers are DR.. j.
F. Reece of Lenoir, vice president,
and DIR. W. F. Jones of this city as
secretary-treasurer.
The organization meeting was
held here Tuesday night and was at
tended by DR.. J. F. Reese, DR.. o. l..
Moore and Dr. w. j. Miller of Le-
noir; DR.. J. NJ. Gather of Boone !;
Drs. W. A. Taylor, w. F. Jones, R..
P. Casey and T. L. White of North
Wilkesboro.
The meeting was called here fol-
lowing preliminary get-together of
the dentists at Boone last Thursday
night. At that time, DR.. Gather was
made temporary chairman.
The Northwest North Carolina
Dental Society has as its prpose ele-
waiting the dental profession and
raising the standards of service. 1t
will also, it is understood, set scale
of prices that will be uniform and at
the same time low.
The following counties have been
included in the final organization
plans: Wilkes, Surry, Allegheny,
Ashe, Watauga, Caldwell and Alex
ander.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
FORMER WATAUGAN
DIES IN MICHIGAN

News reached this office Monday
that Mr.. Bealer Mast. son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Mast of Vale Cru
els, who has long been resident OF
Madrid, Mo-, died at Flint, Michigan,
on the 9th instant, where he was Wis
jting. About forty years ago Bealer
Mast, a lad of Is summers, turned
MS face to the west and located in
Missouri, where he was later married
and reared family of eight chill
dren. all of whom, with their moth
er, survive. He was SIS years of age,
a good citizen, and, during all these
years, was never visitor but twice
to his boyhood home on the Wat
auga.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
WHY MAY 20 rs OBSERVED
AS HOLIDAY IN STATE

Monday was observed as legal
holiday in North Carolina in COM
memoration of the signing of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Indepen-
,dence at Charlotte May 20, 1775.
The text of the declaration follows
Resolved, That whosoever directly
or indirectly abets or in any way,
form or manner countenances the
invasion of our rights, as attempted
by the Parliament of Great Britain,
is an enemy to his country, to Amer
lea and the rights of men.
Resolved, That we the, citizens of
Mecklenburg county, do hereby dis
solve the political bonds which have
connected US with the mother coun-
try, and absolve ourselves from all
allegiance to the British crown, ad-
juring all political connections with
nation that has wantonly trampled
on our rights and liberties and in
humanity shed the innocent blood of
Americans at Lexington.
Resolved, That we do hereby de-
clare ourselves free and indepen-
dent people, are and of right ought
to be sovereign and self-govern-
ing people, under the power of God
and the general congress-; to the
maintenance of which independence,
we solemnly pledge to each other our
mutual cooperation, our lives, our
fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Resolved, That we hereby ordain
and adopt as rules of conduct, all
and each of our former laws and the
crown of Great Britain cannot be
considered hereafter as holding any
rights, privileges or immunities
amongst US.
Resolved, That all offices, both
civil and military, in this country, be
entitled to exercise the same power
and authorities as heretofore; that
every member of this legation shall
henceforth be civil officer and ex-
ercise the power of a justice of the
peace, union and harmony in the
country, and use every exertion to
spread the love Of liberty and of
country, until a more general and
better organized system of govern
ment is established.
Resolved, That copy of these
resolutions be transmitted by ex-
press to the president of the CONT
mental congress assembled in Phila-
delphia, to be laid before that
body.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
SERVICES AT NEW
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Thursday Evening DIR. Schaeffer of
Lenoir-Rhyne College will Speak;
Formal Dedication Sunday Morn
ing with DR.. Morgan in Charge

Services are in progress at the
newly constructed Grace Lutheran
church every day this week, and will
eliminate Sunday morning at 10 80
when the new edifice is to be for
.nally dedicated, when many denomi-
national notables will take part in
the exercises.
Tonight at o'clock DR.. H. Brent
Schaeffer, president of Lenoir-
Rhyme College, will deliver sermon
ander the subject, Belonging to
Others" Tomorrow evening Dr.. j.
L. Morgan, president of the United
Lutheran Synod of North Carolina
@ill preach on "a Growing Church
while on'Saturday evening Mrs. W. F.
Morehead of Salem, Va, president
Of the Women's Missionary Society,
United Lutheran Church in America,
as to close the weekday services,
with an address from the subject
Except the Lord Build the House."
Formal dedication will be by DR..
y. L. Morgan on Sunday morning and
messages are to be delivered by the
following: Mrs. W. F. Morehead,
president Women's Missionary Socie-
ty, United Lutheran Synod in Amer
lea, and Mrs. j. F. Crigler, presi-
dent Women's Missionary Society,
United Evangelical Lutheran Synod
in North Carolina. The dedication
sermon will be delivered by DR.. F.
=. Fry, secretary home missions,
United Lutheran Church in America,
subject, "What the Church Stands
For"
At the evening service, Rev. N. D.
Yount, former pastor, will preach
the sermon, using for his subject,
Jesus, the Church Member"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-05-23
TUNNEY SUED BY DlvoRcEE

Legal papers in a half million dol
lar suit have been filed in the state
of Connecticut wherein Mrs. Kathe-
rine King Fogarty is the plaintiff
and Gene Tunney, boxing champion,
the defendant. The former wife of
John S. Fogarty of Fort Worth,
AYERS that Tunney proposed to her
different times and she agreed to
marry him. She is ready to comply
with the request according to the
complaint, but the retired champion
married another person" To set up
her claim for damages, Mrs. Fogerty
says she suffered such mental shock
because of Tunney's marriage that
she has been under the care of ply
sicians at Fort Worth and New York
ever since due to a nervous con-
dition.