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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
7
Morrison's theatre hosts special 10 percent discount nights Thursday to Saturday for boarding college students. The store promotes new fall styles and suit sales to save money, aiming to attract university customers with the Moretz Whitener Clo branding.
Claremont Female College will open September 17 with a strengthened faculty and building improvements. The program will include Regular College, Preparatory, Business, Musical, Elocution and Art courses, plus a primary department. For information write President W B Duttera at Hickory.
A new cotton mill has been organized at Newton. Stock holders met in the county courthouse last Monday and elected L. H. Phillips president J. E. Fry vice president and H. P. Smith secretary and treasurer. A committee will go to Raleigh for a charter. Erection will begin once a site is chosen.
A forty thousand dollar stock company has been organized to grade and macadamize the turnpike from Lenoir to Blowing Rock. A charter will be secured at once and work rushed to completion. Hickory businessmen are interested. Completion will cut travel time from five to three hours and boost Blowing Rock tourism to compete with Montreat.
The Reformed congregation will hold its annual Harvest Home services next Sunday. It is a Thanksgiving service for the bounty God has bestowed in the harvest. The church will be decorated with grain and fruits and the sermon will be fitting.
Local residents and visitors are named with brief notes on travel, schooling, church activity, and social calls. Mentions include S.M. Clark of Lenoir, Clara Bowles heading to Statesville Female College, Miss Della Best taking a job in Hickory, Dr. C. C. Weaver visiting for Davenport Female College, and Ted Sides beginning studies at Kentucky State College. Further items cover family visits, arrests for false pretenses, prep for college, and local events such as picnics, baptisms, and a Catawba Springs season closing.
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