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Mount Airy News in Mount Airy, North Carolina

24 Dec 1908

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Mount Airy News

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Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America

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Dec 24, 1908

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Reelfoot Lake Night Riders Terrorize Gibson County Area

The Reelfoot Lake district in Tennessee, where seven Ty crimes have occurred, is under state force after the murder of Captain Quentin Rankin. Night Riders threaten lawmen and locals while land claims by Harris and associates fuel conflict over ownership of the lake and surrounding shore. Martial law-like measures and troop mobilization followed Rankin’s death as trials loom.

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Reelfoot Lake District Tennessee Quentin Rankin Trenton Gibson County Lake District Reelfoot Lake Sori Decemisil West Tennessee Land Company Captain Rankin Mississippi River W. M. Wilson Obion County Jamey C. Harris Viptonville Ree Harris Doherty North Carolina Souvite Tiptonville Lake County Jwrge Harris West Tennessee Land and Improvement Company Judge Harris J. R. Deason Robert Z. Taylor Lord Waddell Union City Walter Pleasant John Shaw Samburg Harrises Dex Colonel Taylor Waddell Deason Reelfoot Fish Company Burdick, Shaw and Pleasant P. C. Ward Walnut Log Rankin Burdick Shaw and Pleasant Ward Reelfast Fish Company Bardick West Tennessee Waud Company Judge Cooper Rankit John Shay Cooper W. C. Tatum Nashille Reelfoot Obion Lake Dyer Joseph F. Jones Fourteenth Malcolm RK. Patterson Sambury Don Marais Uncle Remus
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Rural telephone service in Union County grows fast

J Z Green from Union County North Carolina writes in Progressive Farmer praising rural telephone exchanges. He notes about two thousand phones across the county with twenty six rural exchanges, many independent and cooperative lines. Farmers gain market access, faster news, social connection, and potential profits via phone based sales and coordination.

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Messrs Union County McKinley Syster Individus Individua Cmehuurgos J. Z. Green Union Co N. C Progressive Farmer
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PROGRAMATORS LAY-LEAR MEETING REPORT 1908 Elkin NC

A detailed schedule for the December 29 30 1908 meeting at Elkin North Carolina outlines sessions on success and failure for the previous year district evangelist work and financial systems. It notes Wednesday December 30 programs include soul winning pastor work and unoccupied territory discussions and closing remarks by the presiding elder. Also included are paragraphs praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and a note on the Elkin Sparta railroad development with Southern Railway Company officials inspecting the line and the state aiding construction.

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Elkin N. C W. M. Bagby E. H. Kochiitzky Z. Paris Financial Systems Rev D. L. Litaker Winston-Salem N. C. Dee Sparta Southern Railway Company H. B. Spencer Mills Southern
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Unfinished Blue Ridge Rail Line Advances Toward Elkin Sparta

The planned Elkin to Sparta railroad line, about eighty miles total, progresses toward completing the first fifteen miles of track across the Blue Ridge. After a year’s work the grade reaches the ridge foot and rails will soon go down, with southeastward extension to Yadkin county and beyond anticipated in 1910.

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Elkin Sparta Blue Ridge Paine of Wilco Beghedh
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Simpson and Marian Firm Dissolved in Surry County

Notice informs the public that the firm of Simpson and Marian in Surry County North Carolina has been dissolved. The business is now by K. L. Simpson as of November 14, 1908, per RK. H. Marian.

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Simpson and Marian Surry County North K. L. Simpson RK. H. Marian
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Chamberlain F. P. Sta Ripley W. Va Gwyn Drug Alleghany John A. Yqun
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