Hannibal Plans Twain Memorial and Park
Hannibal residents mobilize to honor Mark Twain by preserving his home and creating a permanent museum. A movement by the Commercial Club aims to buy the Twain House and Lot, plus a river bluff area known as Lovers Leap, while Missouri considers a $10,000 monument bill. The club would deed riverside property to the city as a perpetual park.
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Hannibal
Mark Twain
Chisen
Commercial Club of
Toone and Lot
Clemens
Hannibel
Mississppi
Missouri
Twains Hannibal
Commercial Club
Hickory highlights from a varied midweek report
Ellis Ludwick from New York arrives in Hickory with Capt. and Mrs. Moth while George Blackwelter departs for Canton to join a racing venture. A Kohangia report from Dr. Fry says the vessel is sound in Florida. A factory fire at Elliott Knitting Mills caused minor charring in the boiler room. no disrupt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis Ludwick
New York
Hickory
Mrs. Moth
Fry
Florida
Catawba County Hen Tribute and Local Notes
Local column laments a poetic tribute to the Catawba county hen comparing it to historic monuments and praising its venerable status among residents. The page also covers Dr. Bryan W. King’s upcoming Lenoir College talk, college notes at Catawba College, church notices, marriages and local personnel moves, with community updates on mills, shops, and students.
Catawba News Notes Many Visitors and Local Notices
March 1 report from Catawba lists visits by Fred Lawrance from Altivista and Natal Reid of Asheville, with numerous family gatherings at Reid and Lawrance homes. Also mentions Miss Lula Ervin to Charlotte for sanitorium treatment and Sherrill family guests from Quincy, Florida. Tax collector notice and a lost item alert appear, detailing 1910 tax due March 20 and a missing 100 foot steel tape measure and leather halter found near Cliff area.
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Catawba
Fred Lawrance
Altivista
R. G
Winnie Reid
Sherrill, Ford
Nat Reid
Asheville
C. A. Reid
Gertie
Abernathy
Charlotte
Lee
Sasa. Abernathy
Jessie Ee
St. James High School
Oscar Sherrill
Quincy
Fla
James H. Sherrill
Sherrill
C. B. Rusty
New
Grippe
Lawrence Manning
Pink Winkler
Lord Decies Marries Miss Vivien Gould in English Elite Union
Lord Decies of the Beresford family, aged over twice his bride’s years, wed Miss Vivien Gould daughter of George J. Gould of Providence. The match links two noted families with Anglo American ties. He served in India and Africa earning the Distinguished Service Order, and his peerage dates to 1812.
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Ashman
Beresfore
Familly
Beresford
Arthur Beresford
Florence Miller
Garsteney F. Miller
Providence
Lord Decles
George J. Gould
England
Miss Gould
India
Africa
Lord Decies
Indi
House of Lords
S L ° Decies
Vivien Gould
Trains in Bankruptcy Sale in Hickory, N C
In the Western District of North Carolina a bankruptcy sale is set for March 25 1911 at the First National Bank steps Hickory. Trustee will sell cash to highest bidder multiple lots on Washington Street and nearby parcels including a dwelling and outbuildings with defined frontages, subject to prior liens not affected by the sale. The sale precedes court confirmation of the bankruptcy, with Mr ART MOS as attorney.
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First Methodist Church
Methodist Sunday School
H. A. Hayes
Hickory
First Methodist Courch
Prof. Hayes
Ent
Orpha
Kng
Lenoir
Bryan W. King
King’s College of Oratory
Pittsburg
Lenoir College
King
Southland
Stone
Haseen
Weaver
George Washington
St. James
Boliek
Virginia
H. A. Boliek
Conover
Charlottesville
Newton Lands and An Co
Perry Sumgarner
J.J. Barringer
E. P. Boliek
Mr. Boliek
Sagzite TisGoy Morets
Sjaamens
Es District Court
Tng
Eka
N.C
First National Bank
Washington Street
Privet
West Street
Washington Rest
Sixth Avenue
Southern Railway
Iest Bulaing Ae ’Iation
N.C. Meese Neecmene Ae
Certificate of Dissolution for Moore Milling Co. 1911
North Carolina Secretary of State dissolves Moore Milling Co. by unanimous stockholder consent filed February 2 1911. Certificate notes dissolution recorded in Catawba County on February 20 1911 by Deputy Clerk R R Moore.
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Moore J. Company
Bose
Hickory
County of Catawba
State of North Carolina
H. L. Moore
I. J. Bryan Grimes
New Carolina
Uaforesaid
Raleigh
J. Bryan Grimes
Attys
North Carolina
CatawBa County
Moore Milling Co
R. R. Moore
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Methodist Church
Nowes
George Blackwelter
Canton
Ne Mre
Elliott Knitting Mills
H.C. Lutz
J. A. Conover
Farmer’s Institute|n
Taylorsville
Camberlain
Peeee
Hickory Book Club
E. L. Shuford
Cavanagh
Hamlin Garland
A. A. Shuford, Jr
C. M. Shuford
Travelers Club
J. L. Murphy
Lake Mooris
L. T. Mann
K.C. Menzies
N. E. Aull
Lillie Hallman
Oak View
Hoffman
Stecher
Sehirey
L. R. Whitener
D. A. U. P. Club
Frank
Rose
Martin
Mary Blount Martin
Greta Wezen
John Verguson
Democra
Charlotte Observer
Washington
Hickory ‘Democrat
Rhode Island
Banks
Isis
Osiris
Adumbla
Homer
Abraham
Noah
Ararat
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward
Beecher
Susser
Shelby
Ivey
Democrat
Ivey Mills
Henry Lewis
Mia
Ed Sherrill
Caldwell County
George Travis
Johnson City
Charlie Tolbert
H.C. Flowers
Drums
Z. Buchanan
Edill
John King
Illinois
B. Stafford
J.C. Viens
Rhodhils
R. Wilkson
Dillon Wilson
Brookford
Ivey Mill
Mr. Hill
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Harve Taylor
Roy Bumgarner
Clara Lingle
West Hickory
Catawba College
W. F. More
Bethany
Womelsdorf
Coll
J. F. Bucknell
Crowell
Corriter
China Grove
J. M. Waggoner
Salisbury
Yount
P. H. Johnson
Cnioaeka
Civic League
Helen Smith
L. C
Nannie Philips
Tor
W. J. Shuford
Burke County
Esquire Adams
H. A. Adams
Presbyterian Church
Covenanters
Junor
Alitehell County
J. A. Harris
South Toe
Swanks
Henry Menzies
Voorheis Garth
Louis Stevenson
Anna Patterson
Guy Lyon
Flint Mich
City
John Robinson
Clinton, Ky
M. C. McBiro
Clinton
P. P. Jones
American Press Association
District Court OF the
United States
Western District OF
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C. & N. W. Railway
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Attener, Art Mos
Department of State
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