Neighborhood News Updates From Rollins Area
A. Poteet of Henessee adds a front to his store improving capacity and exterior paint. Mrs. Jane Epley enlarges her house with a two story ell replacing the old kitchen. Waters Brothers handle the construction. Rev. Eli Freeman concludes Silver Creek church work with ten baptisms. Bethel conference and camp meeting underway drawing many locals. John C. Landreau and John Baker improving. Epley and Free transport monazite to Shelby cleaner this week.
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A. Poteet
Henessee
Jane Epley
Waters Brothers
Eli Freeman
Silver Creek Churen
Bethel
John C. Landreau
John Baker
Epley
Free
Shelby
Boone County Schools Amid Frosts and Weddings
The county's public schools remain largely in session with seventy white and four colored schools. Five Appalachian Training School girls will enter the State Normal, two to Carson Newman, two men to Trinity, one to the University. Frost occurred every month this year, last on August 23. Apple crop is small. cooking apples fetch 50 cents per bushel. Smallpox cases mostly recovered with five cases on Cove Creek and similar at Banner Elk. Blowing Rock hosts many visitors. Shells Mill Valle Cruces and Banner Elk near capacity. Cupid's August activity lists couples granted to wed, including Clint Morris and Maggie Cottrell, Walter Brown and Octavia Cole, among others.
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State Normal
Carson Newman College
Trinity
University
Cupid
Clint Morris
Maggie Cottrell
Walter Brown
Octavia Cole
B. F. Brown
Alice Walters
J. J Mart
Bessie Bingham
R. H. Church
Mattie Miller
Geo. H. Hayes
Stola Coffey
H. M. Pumgarner
Phebe Walls
Doctor Dr. W A Marler Dies After Long Career In Hickory
Dr W A Marler a longtime Hickory resident and Civil War veteran died at his family home in Yadkin County on the 25th after a career first in medicine then dentistry. Born in Yadkin County he served as a Confederate lieutenant then captain, was wounded once and held at Johnson's Island. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, graduated at Jefferson College, later trained in dentistry at New York Dental College, settled in Hickory in the early 1880s and built a fortune before retiring. He married Sallie Phillips and is survived by two children including the wife of Dr E P Russell of Charlotte. Interment was at Phillips Cemetery near Yadkinville.
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W.a.marler
Yadkin County
Hickory
Dr. Marler
Gettysburg
Johnson's Island
Philadelphia
Jefferson College
New York Dental College
Sallie Phillips
E. P. Russell
Charlotte
Phillips’ Cemetery
Yadkinvill
Heirs of Huffman Sell 80 Acre North of Hickory Farm
Sale of land by the heirs of S A Huffman deceased to purchasers. The farm lies three miles north of Hickory near Mt Olive church with a public road through the plantation. It includes a two story dwelling two barns cribs granaries and a good orchard. About 80 acres. Contact J S Cooks Mt Bethel NC or J P Seabach Hickory NC. Aug 16 1909.
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S. A. Huffman
Huffman
Hickory
Mt. Olive Church
J.S. Cooks
Mt. Bethel
N. C
J. P
South Fork Institute NC First Class Preparatory School
South Fork Institute NC offers a religiously oriented preparatory high school with a girls dormitory under Mrs. C L Stringfield and a boys dormitory run by the principal. Tuition for nine months ranges from 88 75 to 106 75 dollars. Fall term opens August 17, 1909. For more information contact S J Honeycutt, Principal.
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C. L. Stringfield
S. J. Honeycutt
Telegraphy Training Opens Rewarding Careers for Youth
Southern School of Telegraphy in Newnan Georgia advertises quick training for telegraph operators. It promises 4 to 6 months courses, guaranteed positions, and starting wages from 45 to 65 dollars monthly. It highlights healthful Newnan, reasonable tuition, low board, and free catalog by mail.
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South
United States
Newnan
Southern School of Telegraphy
Tox
Georgia
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Cuniel
Seidenberg
Salem Academy
Cove Creek
Banner Elk
Blowing Rock
Shells Mill
Valle Cruces
South Fork Institute
North Carolina
State Normal and Industrial College
North Carolin
J. I. Foust
Greensboro
Castoria
The
Democrat
Sear Para
the Democrat
Saturday Chronicle
Womans Home Journal
Cusehold Journal
Saturday Evening Chronicle
Hearst
United Press
the Farm News
Simmons Publishing Company of
Springfield Ohio
the Womans Home Journal
Household Journal
Floral Life
Waren
Walants
North Tenth St
Bell-Walnut
Martin GO
Hich
Tee Nee Eal
Asheville
McCoy Moretz
Maxwell Automobiles
Maxwell
Southern Automobile Co
Charlotte, N. C
Charleston
Isle of Palms
Sullian’s Island
Ocean
Tre Jones
Toplersville
Statesville
Trail
Ferry Wharf
Sapho
United States Artillery Band Corps
Eugene Morrison
Statesville, N. C
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