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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1916
Page
2
A fragmentary OCR from The Thatanga Democrat shows the paper’s imprint “R.C. Rivers, Proprietor” with a partial date and garbled trailing text. The legible bits place the item as a small town newspaper note from early August 1916, referencing local publishing and printer details.
North Carolina counties respond to flood devastation with local relief efforts. Caldwell Buncombe and Wilkes aid neighbors while Watauga declines outside help, noting no homes ruined yet and labor demand rising. Emphasizes duty to aid others first and prepare for hard year ahead.
Mr Thomas L Critcher chair man of the Boone township Board of Road Supervisors asks all interested citizens to meet at the Boone courthouse next Monday. The group will plan ways and means to repair roads badly damaged by recent rains and aim to set aside at least two road days for urgent work.
Republican governor candidate Hon F A Linney will address Boone residents on political issues at the county court house during the noon hour on Tuesday. T E Bingham chairs the county Republican executive committee. J P Babbington of Taylorsville Mountain Scout obituary.
The note explains rising paper costs from 20 to 60 cents per pound and double freight due to torn lines. It urges prompt payment from those who can afford it to meet growing expenses and ongoing demands, asking readers not to abandon the paper and to settle accounts.
The Federal aid road bill signed July 11 funds 1 million annually for ten years to build and maintain roads and trails within or near National Forests. Projects require state or county cooperation and limit timber and forage value use to 10 percent. Funds repaid via 10 percent annual receipts until advanced amounts are covered. Officials say this enables needed road construction to open inaccessible areas and aid regional development.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Felix Spainhour invite the wedding of their daughter Willie Colin to Nana Garfield Greer. The ceremony will be Thursday afternoon August 10 at 4 o clock at First Baptist Church Morganton North Carolina. Professor Greer is a Watavgan native and Appalachian Training School faculty member. The bride is a cultured young lady well known to many in the community.
Sands R F C reports Mr Burkett now able to move after a long illness. Mail carrier Houck bought a threshing outfit and will thresh grain when weather allows. Sands Mercantile manager Jackson returned home due to a sick baby who reportedly died last Saturday. Floods delayed Mt Pleasant Lutheran Conference, now rescheduled. Rev Yount spoke Sunday morning and Rev Carpenter in the afternoon to a large gathering. A J Ragan suffers blood poisoning on the hand but is improving.
Tax collector J W Hollifield notifies that on Monday Sept 4 1916 at 12 M at the Boone courthouse door real estate unpaid for 1915 taxes will be sold. Listed owners include Ken Atkinson B B Blackwelder W L Boatright J C Coultre J F Cox J A Edmiston C P Lutz W J Palmer Scott H Perky M T Pinkney J F Green N H Martin Mattie Gwyn J B Worth Hl Washburn Wilson Seamen and others.
All charges are very reasonable. Address Secretary of the Faculty Boone North Carolina for details on the opening date of the fourteenth year.
In Watauga Superior Court, creditors including Fau c ette Pearler Shoe Co and J L Crumley & Son seek to join as parties against E W Smith and Bingham entities. Depositions of Roland L Walker, J H Faucette, and J L Crumley scheduled August 25 26 1916 at Fort Wayne Indiana and Bristol Tennessee, before Notary Public C H Allgeier and B S Gore respectively. Attorneys W B Councill J B Councill E S Coffey for plaintiffs.
In the Superior Court before the clerk Judge Mast, under an order in the case John Mast v Clarence Mast et al, a commissioner will sell, on September 4 1916 at the courthouse door Boone NC between 10 am and 2 pm, the 80 acre Laurel Creek tract described by metes bounds, joining Hagaman Sherrill and others, to the highest cash bidder.
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