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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
3
Hickory column covers a missing 16 jewel Elgin watch and a reward offer, a farm for sale near Hickory with house and orchard, job classifieds, church and college notes, a wedding reveal, local visits and travel, tax notices, and community happenings with names like Miss Mary Rosbrough and J. W. Blackwelder.
Albert Dula of Lenoir was here Monday. Ed Hammond spends the week in Atlanta. Miss Grace Kirkpatrick left for Montreal Saturday. Mr. Cecil Southerland of Charlotte spent Sunday in the city. Annie Kerr of Mebane is staying at Mrs. B. R. Holden’s. G. R. Hunt and family went to Bridgewater early this week. D. A. Morrison of Statesville was here on business. C. C. Moore of the Charlotte Observer was here Monday. James Shuford has gone to New York on a pleasure trip for a month. Prof. Nunyar, Davenport College musical director, was here Tuesday. Miss Mary Rosbrough expects to go North this week for fall millinery. Miss Gertrude Hall spent Monday night with her brother W. A. Hall. Mrs. W. E. Anderson was in town Monday, returning to Statesville after a visit to Catawba Springs.
Mr W Eolbrook received a telegram from his brother J Me Holbrook reporting their widowed mother in Hunt ersville was dying at home. He and son Winston left on the next train. Later, Mrs Holbrook died at 6 this morning. Campaign subscriptions from now until Jan 1 1909 are being collected for the Democrat at 25 cents.
The scarlet fever claim takes Earl Bumgarner, young son of Mr. Geo Bumgarner, early Monday. The community offers sympathy while recognizing the need to protect others from the contagion amid limited outward acts of comfort.
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