Spelling Bee at Academy of Music a Civic League event
A large Friday audience enjoyed Prof. Charles M. Staley leading a spelling bee at the Academy of Music as part of a Civic League program to raise funds for park improvements. Judges and participants from local families and officials spoke and spellbound the crowd with playful mis-spellings and nostalgic tableaux of old sweethearts.
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Chas. M Staley
Hickory
Sta Jey
Webster
Academy of Music
Civic League
Park Impovement
Academy
J. D. Elliott
ExSheriff Blackwelder
J. W. Shuford
W. A. Self
John Cilley
Geo. Hutton
Frank Ingold
Mrr. Banks
Staley
J. S. Moody
J. A. Bowles
Blackwelder
R._L. Fritz
Howard A. Banks
Elliott
M. H. Yount
Apollo
Mr. Yount
Olympus
Gov. Kitchin
Little
Betty
Kate
Blanche
Gainsborough
Yountt
That Dull Feeling After Eating Testimonial
David Freeman of Kempt Nova Scotia praises Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for relieving a heavy dull after meal sensation. He claims the tablets strengthen digestion regulate the liver and bowels and are superior to pills. A sample is available at WS Martins Drug Store.
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Chamberlain
David Freeman
Kempt
Nova Scotia
WS. Martin’s
How Indias Get Strange Names By Rev Murphy
Rev Dr J L Murphy explains Indian name origins with examples from Cherokee mothers naming newborns. The article also celebrates Gordon H Cilley of Philadelphia records and notes on Charlotte Observer writers J Lenoir Chambers and local figures like Zeb G Shelton and W Munday, weaving archival praise with editorial anecdotes.
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J. L. Murphy
Reformed Church
Mr. Murphy
North Carolina
Durham Engineer Waiting On Aldermen For Street Contract
Mr Gilbert C White of Durham holds the city street engineering contract and visited the Hotel Huffry to outline plans. He reports surveys across 9th to 17th streets and Union Square, with 10,000 square yards of cement sidewalks and pavement improvements planned. White favors tar on macadam and cites Tarvia as a tested eight year life surface used in northern cities and parks.
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Gilbert C. White
Durham
Huffry
The
Democrat
Gilbert
Board of Aldermen
9Th Avenue
10Th
15Th
17Th Streets
13Th Avenue
Union Square
Twe
White
Massachusetts
Local State News from Franklin Press and Tragic Incident
Major T B Young of McDowell died on the third instant as reported by his daughter Mrs J Page. The Franklin Press of Macon South is backing William J Sooke for Congress in the tenth district. Mrs Chas M Hawkins, a girl of a few weeks, attempted suicide by laudanum on the night of the sixth after long drinking but was stopped. Hoyle Eddleman Martin, three year old son of Mr and Mrs J W Martin of the Arlington Cotton Mill Gastonia, lost both legs in a freight accident and died within three hours.
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T. B. Young
McDowall
Franklin Press
Macon
Southy
Wm. J. Sooke
Congress
Chas. M. Hawkins
Marion P1
Richmond
Marion
Hoyle Eddleman Martin
J. W. Martin
Arlington
Gastonia
Census reports lower cotton ginned totals for 1909 season
The census bureau on Wednesday reported 8,878,217 running bales of cotton ginned from the 1909 growth to December 1, versus 11,008,661 for 1908. The corrected figure to November 14 is 8,112,199 bales. State totals include Alabama 919,575 Arkansas 513,871 Florida 60,958 Georgia 677,232 Louisiana 237,553 hitting 966860 North Carolina 536,163 Oklahoma 504,826 South Carolina 998,340 Tennessee 206,357 Texas 2,212,319 All other States 49,133. May cotton rose 171 points to 15.39 amid the report.
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Census Bureau
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Hitting
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Four surname birds weave life of Elizabeth Martin
In Lebanon Ohio, Mrs Elizabeth Martin of Paris Kentucky has used four bird surnames through marriages. Born Elizabeth Bird she later became Mrs Bud Martin and Mrs Edward Crow later Mrs William Robin then Mrs David Buzzard. Her story reads like a quirky note on changing names through life.
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Chartoute Observer
Lebanon
Elizabeth Martin
Paris
Eugene Hartsook
Elizabeth Bird
Harrison County
Bud Martin
Round Trip to Rochester Convention Rates Listed
The present issue lists round trip rates to the Rochester New York convention of the student volunteer movement for foreign missions. The gatherings are described as inspirational and uplifting. The Southern offers a Hickory to Rochester round trip rate of 25 dollars 50 cents.
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Rochester, N. Y
Foreign Missions
Hickory
Obituary for Mrs. Carolina Hanna of Hickory and Lenoir
Mrs. Carolina Hanna born December 4 1833 in Gaston county was a devout church member through multiple congregations. She married S Hanna November 28 1860 and died December 7 1907 after a long, faithful life as wife mother and neighbor. Four children and eleven grandchildren survive.
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Carolina Hanna
Gaston County
Caroline Bradley
Methodist Church
S. Hanna
Anna
Associate Reformed Church
Olney Church
Southern Presbyterian
Servants of Christ
Lenoir
Hickory
J. Hanna
Hanna
M. H. Moore
Conover
W. C. Shell
J. W. Hanna
W.S. Smith
Remarkable Penmanship Wins Piano Prize in Contest
Rev P C Wike of Orange New Jersey displayed extraordinary penmanship by fitting 239 words into a dime sized space using a fine pointed pen He wrote the Lord s Prayer three times plus 41 words in the same space He won a $300 piano in a Cran contest by writing Hollet Davis firm name 1057 times in three by four inches
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P. C. Wike
Orange
N. J
P. C. Setzer
Cran
Hollet & Davis
Wike
Balls Creek
Conover
Lutheran Church
Indiana
de Wike
Catawba County
Mines in 1908 Review of Mineral Output in Eastern States
McCaskey's advance Geological Survey chapter reports 1908 mineral production across Maine to Tennessee. Total value 5,152,007 from 105 mines. copper 2,624,278. zinc 2,230,316. gold 259,143. silver 35,070. lead 3,200. Gold chiefly NC, SC, AL, GA. silver mainly TN from Ducktown copper ore. Direct access to full report via Survey Director.
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Geological Survey
United States
H. D. McCaskey
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Ducktown
McCaskey
Washington
Logs From City Pass Through On Way To Norfolk
Two flat car loads of white oak saw logs moved through the city Friday en route to Norfolk likely for ocean transport. Some logs measured about four feet in diameter.
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Norfolk
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