Local notes from Boone and Watauga items
The Watauga Democrat reports on Miss Lucy Moretz visiting Butler Tennessee and relatives in Boone, plus several Boone residents traveling, visiting, and recovering from illness. It notes Rev. Walter A. Stanbury’s mountain trip, a death and funeral for Adam Cook, and local civic moves including forming Watauga Chapter No. 43 of Royal Arch Masons and railroad and highway talks. Capt. Lovill attends a legislative special session with focus on tax rate and women’s suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Cook
C. M. Critcher
Mt. Vernon
Dan Wheeler
Bill Hardin
Sands
Democrat
Watauga
E. F. Lovill
Homicide in Avery County Leaves Police Chief Dead
Zeb Winters, Eli Park police chief, was shot six times on Avery County streets Friday night. Charley Oaks, drunk in town that night and seeking the police, faced arrest after circumstantial evidence pointed to him. Oaks is jailed at Newland awaiting Avery Superior Court for murder trial. Atty. FA Linney represents the defense.
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Zeb Winters
Eli Park
Charley Oaks
Winters
Oaks
Newland
Avery Superior Court
Atty
Linney
Revival Meeting and Local Notices
Revival meeting announced with services at the courthouse on Sundays August 15 and 22 at 11 oclock with JR Walker. For sale notices advertise a Ford Touring Car and a Ford skeeter from Highway Motor Co plus a residence lot in front of Capt. Lovils sold by H W Horton. Beef market open offering fresh cuts from fat young cattle with sanitary handling by J L Qualls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Jr, Walker
Highway Motor Co
Capt. Lovils
H. W. Horton
J.L
Elihu E Phillips Passes After Long Public Service
Elihu E Phillips died June 6 1920 at age 87 11 after a life of service to Ashe County and the church He served in the Confederate army as a sergeant and spent ten years on the county board of commissioners For forty years he was a Baptist deacon at Bethel and Old Fields leaving a widow Alvira Johnston and eight children six surviving with many mourners IRA T JOHNSON
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elihu E. Phillips
Ashe County
Board of Couty Commissioners
Baptist Church
Bethel
Old Fields
Alvira Johnston
Aaron Johnston
Elihu Phillips
Ira T. Johnson
For Sale or Trade Car and Boone Area Store Stand
Advertisement offers a cheap car or truck trade and sale of a store house and lot on highway one mile west of Boone. Good business stand noted by H. W. Horton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
H. W. Horton
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Watauga Democrat
Lucy Moretz
Butler, Tenn
McCoy Moretz
Charlotte
John, H. Norris
E. G. Minton
Statesville
James W. McGhee
Florence Range
Elizabethton
Tenn
Cranberry Hotel
Critcker Hotel
McD. Little
Rowan County
Raleigh
North Carolina
Mr. Ellis
Messrs
James Moore
Ralph Winkler
Arkie Ragan
Bryan Home
Anders
Gastonia Hospital
J. G. Pulliam
Washington, D. C
BE. P. Marshall
Santa Maria
California
L. N. Perkins
Walter A. Stanbury
Wilmington
Stanbury
Ford
L. A. Greene
Board of County Commissioners
Watauga County
Ashevile
Virgil
Wilkes County
State Highway Commission
Greene
Avery County
Watauga Supply CO
Beeaave
Boone, WC
Appalachian Theater
Jesse L. Lasky
Robert Warwick
Great West
Paramount Artcraft
Paramount
Mack-Sennett
Ontario
Boone Hardware Co
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