Blowing Rock Sees Record Visitor Influx This Summer
The mountain retreat hosts up to about 2,000 visitors amid crowded roads and high occupancy. Mrs. M. Simmons, wife of a senator, tops local social circles at Blowing Rock. An auctioned Leak Wall tract caused a stump to topple during roadway work near Green Park hotel, startling children nearby. The Watauga Conference plans boost county fame with a two day August event led by Lindsau Patterson.
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Watauga Son
Blowing Rock
Leak Wall
Green Park Hotel
Watauga
Thie
Lindsau Patterson
Winston Salem
Moretz Family Ailments And Local Notices In Sands IL
Mrs. P P Moretz bedbound with typhoid shows slow improvement while Mr J P Miller remains gravely ill. Miss Rachel Moretz injured in a fall cannot walk. Rev Carpenter loses a milk cow entangled in a rope. Fred Moretz now routes substitute rural carrier as W8 Houck takes annual vacation. Houck crew breeds the people’s grain and River View School patrons meet for urgent community work.
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P. P. Moretz
J. P. Miller
Misa Rachel Moretz
Rev. Carpenter
Fred Moretz
Houck
River View School
Community gains boost local vegetation and road woes persist
The note praises refreshed crops with corn looking fine and predicts a strong harvest. It recalls Rev. Carmenere relatives visiting on the fourth Sunday in July by wagon and public conveyance, while lamenting bad roads and large rocks hindering travel. A reader requests info on the county’s lamb shipments to inform other counties.
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Carmenere
Becaus
Boone
Lambe
Veg
Farmers Union Meeting Promises Large Turnout in hoc County
The Farmers Union in hoc County schedules a meeting in Boone on Aug 15 1913 at 10 AM with a business session and public discussion. D U Maat and D J Greene lead talks before locals report. A note urges the largest local turnout in county history. Also reported is Florida settlers buying 700 acres near Hillgitt Henderson County to build 200 summer houses and state workers starting the Hickory Not Gap Turnpike project between Asheville and Rutherford aiming for seven months of work to complete seven miles.
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Farmers’ Union
Boone
Fin
D. U Maat
D. J. Greene
Ou County Union
Mh.sands
N. C
Norris
Fla
Hillgitt
Henderson County
Fily Cone Victa
Hickory Not Gap
Asheville
Rutherford
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