Deep Gap
The Rocky Point Community Social Club will hold a grand meeting on October 25 in order to raise some funds to advertise the famous Deep Gap section of eastern Watauga. A grand music concert, prize contest to decide who is the most popular lady of the community, and a gold bracelet wrist watch will be given to the one who receives the most votes from her gentlemen friends.
Refreshments will be sold to everyone at a nominal price and every dollar received will do double duty to put famous Deep Gap on the map as the “gateway that leads to Watauga.” We cordially invite everyone to meet us there on this date as it will mean so much for us and our section. We shall look for you there, as this promises to be the biggest event of the whole year as a get-together movement to unite the whole and surrounding country in ties of friendly fellowship that will never die. Boost!
The writer in all of his life never saw as many cars in the Deep Gap section as he saw here last Sunday. The road was so full of them they could hardly pass. People from the different counties were in the number and as travel was heavy a few minor accidents happened to a few of the cars along the road but no one was injured, only a little damage done to the cars in the crash ups. Everyone for miles around flock to the Deep Gap on Sundays to while away the time as this is such an ideal place, and is truly nature’s playground to pleasure seekers.
We are glad to state that several new business enterprise sare under way here and a quick lunch and service station will be built right in the Deep Gap at no distant day. Mr. A.A. Greene is now getting his building material up to start this project of business just as fast as he can. Others are going to build residences, so just keep your eye on this place. It’s growing, growing, right along.
Mr. A.G. Miller has started to rebuild his home on the very spot where his was burned down some time past. Mr. Miller will be the first one in this section to use bark in a home. While it is a new thing to most of us, we hope it will prove very satisfactory as it will be in keeping with the times as others lead; others no doubt will follow. Let’s see.
The writer and Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Wilcox paid Stony Fork a visit last Sunday and visited a short while at the home of Mr. W.E. Greene. “Uncle Elbert” certainly is a man abreast of the times and just as soon as we arrived began to talk freely on the subjects of civic pride, religion, politics and science. He is one of the best posted men we know in his section, and it is always a pleasure to me to meet him. Part of the crowd also visited the home of his son, Mr. Bynum Greene, for a short while, but the writer was absent there.
Mr. B.T. Taylor has an orchard that is a thing of beauty at this season of the year. His big prize beauty apples are smiling at everyone who passes that way. They look so delicious and tempting that one almost wants to stop and do a little trespassing, but there is no need for this as our friend Bob is so generous that this part is not necessary. Bob is living at home and his wonderful orchards of fruit are a little gold mine to him if we can judge by outside appearances.
We are not afraid to exchange opinions with any section of our county but from now on we are never going to blaze a trail of glory by putting Deep Gap above any other favored section in our county by trying flirting with others who try to pull our section down and strive to raise objections, and jealousy is not our heart’s desire or aim. We are working from the inside material and the glory thereof will spread as sunshine on the hills and sparkling dew after night. We think this policy will prove a safeguard as we want to be in full fellowship with the shole county, which is the most favored section in Western North Carolina.
The new railroad line here is pulling freights out right along. This shows how badly we need a passenger train also. If a standard line was here going to another main line, it would be the most paying road we can think of. How longwe will havetowait for this is a conjecture. But some day we hope to see our dreams realized and the county blossom as a rose, as one puts it.
Several years ago a young man, Mr. Lee Greene, bid this section farewell and left a trail that led as far as Alaska and to Europe but settled down in California to make his home. Recently the sad news reached this section that he had died. On investigation it seems that he had made good and had a good amount of this world’s goods and quite a few good investments. His people are looking after this, and we will be glad to state more when we get first hand information on the subject.
From the front page of The Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Oct. 16, 1924
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