Central Academy ad boosts state education hopes
The note highlights Livtrros Female Correce and Central Academy ads, praising educational progress and urging catalog requests. It mentions Prince & Co. shipping light buggies, and quotes on Mr. Skinner’s peanut farming near Halifax with peanuts earlier and finer than nearby farms.
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Sxixser
Dunn
C. W. Er
Skinner
Halifax
Harnett
Chas. Skinner
Town
Halifax County
Passing Throng Notes from Hobgood and Nearby
Local items report visits and travel among residents from Hobgood to Tarboro Battleboro and Enfield. Numerous names, appearances in town, and a sudden editor's death in Enfield Ledger mark community events.
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Converse
Enfield Ledger
West Virginia
Ledger
Enfield
Tarboro and Rocky Mount Visitor Praises Towns
Mr W L Vaughan toured Tarboro and Rocky Mount praising courteous treatment and bustling activity. He notes Tarboro as a model city with sewerage water works and electric lights while Rocky Mount rapidly develops similar systems. The ad ends with a cough remedy pitch for children from ET Whitehead & Co.
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W. L. Vaughan
Tarboro
Rocky Mount
Vaughan
Store Fire in Tillery Destroys W. H. Randolph Co. Stock
Fire last Monday consumed the Tillery storehouse of W. H. Randolph & Co. The stock valued at 13 000 to 15 000 with only 4 500 insurance left Gregory estimates a shortfall of 9 000. Fire started in the west grocery area amid oil. Safe saved. hundreds aided others and a nearby house and woods caught fire. Gregory plans to reopen this week.
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Clotk
W. IL. Randolph & Co
Tillery
Tas Commonwealth
P. C. Gregory
Gregory
Mr. Gregory
Mess. C. W. Gregory
Jack Jones
Ernest Lawrence
State Farm
W. H. Randolph & Co
New Telephone Line Proposed From Scotland Neck to Halifax
Gatotica Telephone Company held a meeting in Scotland Neck to approve a direct metallic line to Halifax and another from Greenville to Kinston for improved service. The move would connect Scotland Neck with Kinston and benefit local residents. Also noted are Vine Hill Female Academy inquiries to Prof. L W Bagley and two local deaths: M Z V Lancaster at 23 and infant Eugene Lewis buried in the Baptist cemetery after services by Rev M L Kesler.
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Gatotica Telephone Company
Scotland Neck
Mess
W.H. Powell
Co. Holderness
W. H. Macnair
Tarboro
Halifax
Greenville
Kinston
Scotland
Neck
L. W. Bagley
Vine Hill Female Academy
Vine Hill
Little Eugene
J. E. Lewis
Baptist
M. L. Kesler
Wedding in Scotland Neck Retold in May 80
Miss Lelia Shields of Scotland Neck has returned home after visiting her sister Mrs. E B Higgs. The item mentions a wedding in Scotland Neck from the Commonwealth May 80 file.
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Mabel Savage
Plymouth
L. B. Lewis
D.A. Lawrence
Weldon
N. Biggs
Annie Lewis
Gastonia
Rosalind Rountree
Greenville
Annie Kitchin
Johnnie Howard
Richmond
Massey Business College
Mary McMahon
Halifax
Jeanette Austin
Tarboro
Rebecca Smith
Sheriff Harris
K. Allsbrook
Mr. Taleot Brewer
Miss Lula
Raleigh
Tuesaday
Lelia Shields
Scotland Neck
E. B. Higgs
Greenville Reflector
Commonwealth
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Tyler
Auburn
N. S
Prince & CO
Neck, N. C
T.amber
Mason Dunn
F. Dunn
W.R. Walston
North Carolina
Scott
J.C. Williford
Eck, i Hardy Hardware Store
N.C
Seth Arnoli
E. T. Whittehead & Co
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Crews
EB IL
Crews & CO
N. C
Eere
Dawson
John Fenner
Crowells, N
Rsios
Roanoke News
Shields
Shielda
Livtrros
Central Academy
W. P. Darden
Misa
Lena Harris
Hobgood
D. M. Prince
Goldsboro
Mr. Kicks
Mize Nonie Wilisford
Mise Leo Harper
Battleboro
Ida Lewis
J. H. Lewis
Mary Smith
Emily Sawyer
Williamston
Littleton
Mary Harrison
Misses Alleé
Laura Bell
E.N. Nelson
A. P. Kitchin
Roxboro
Mrs. K. Allsbrook
Elizabeth Dickens
John D. Biggs
G. H. Daniel
David Hoffman
Washington, D. C
M. M. Nelson
Col
A. L. Smith
Charlotte
Sassell Jordan
Emporia
C. F. Burroughs
Wilson
J. R. Anderson
Aurelian Springs
G. C. Weeks
Thos
Norfleet
Roxobel
W. F. Butterworth
Fannie Phillips
Pauline Shields
Anna Clark
Hamilton
Harry Wall
Clayton
Claude Kitchin
W. H. White
J. A. Kitchin
Ocean View
W.T. Clement
Little
News and Observer
W.B. Harrison
George Green
H. Stewart Lewis
Jackson
Mr. B. ¥. Pettit
Geo. A. Holderness
Mollie Haskett
Susie Knight
Ed Benton
B. F. Pettitt
Soldiers Home
Thos. McGee
Josey
Mies
Durham
A. A. Marshall
Wake Forest
Prof
L. R. Mills
Alma Murchison
D. G. Berry
Olivia
Ayden
Fannie and
Meade Phelps
Miss Gardner
Franklin, Va
Blanche Lawrence
Mary Tillery
J. J. Turner
Margaret Shields
Conetee
E. B. Allsbrook
G. Hoffman
Neemi Pittman
Spring Hill
Effie Cix Weldon
Fannie Harrel
J. E. Wilkerson
Belhaven
J. C. Jones
Northampton County
Castori
Lap
ET Whitehead & Co
H. Randolph & Co
M.Z. V. Lancaster
Homer
Guba
Fscott
Cooper
Cooper's Warehouse
Rocky Moon
Rocky Carolina
Co. C. Cooper
Rocky Moutt
Cotland Neck, N. C
Kitchin & Wilkerson
Proprietors
Vernor
State Library
American University
Raleigh, N. C
Carolina
Debnam-Kins
Military, Literary, Scientific and Commercial School
Debnam
J.C. Horner
M. Hoffman& Bro
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