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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
2
Subscription rates listed for one year at 1.00 six months 50 cents and three months 25 cents appear in a 1920 issue. Foreign advertising handled by THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Dr L R Bingham of Boone is employed by the State Board of Health for two months to run free dental clinics for Watauga County school children aged six to twelve. He begins September 1st and will visit many schools, conducting care in the school buildings at no charge. The tonsil and adenoid clinic opens August 31 in Boone and runs through September 3. results show widespread dental needs among pupils.
Boone Fork Lumber Company has built a modern two story camp on the Boone Fork ridge between Boone Fork and Moody Mill creeks. The facility includes kitchen dining lobby and second floor rooms for workers with a pipeline fed mountain spring water system. Rev C G McKaraher conducts church services in the lobby. John Grossman of Elizabethton Tenn oversees the time office and payroll.
On Sunday in the court house the former Boone boy Reverend Walter Stanbury will preach as pastor of Grace Street Methodist Church Wilmington NC. On Tuesday Reverend Harold K. Cornish arrives to preach and sing and lead in the meeting. Cornish has preached to large Western North Carolina congregations. Let us pray for more than one hundred conversions.
The three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Brown died at the Dougherty home after a brief illness. Pauline was bright and loved by her family. Funeral services were held at the residence by Revs. J. R. Walker and F. M. Huggins. Eight local citizens served as pallbearers. The family thanks friends for support and sympathy.
The Committee on Public Health will hold its regular monthly meeting at the court house in Boone on Monday August 23 at 2 PM. Invitations are extended.
Get in that check by August 22 to help the Methodist church building fund collection Aug. 4 24. The appeal asks every public spirited citizen in Watangi county to contribute. J R Walker notes the building’s value to Boone could exceed its cost threefold.
By action of the Third Quarterly Conference for the Watau liga Charge closed bids will be received for three weeks on Smiths Chapel Silverstone church property plus pews an organ seventeen gallons of white paint two large cast heaters and one acre of land on which the church stands All bids to J P Morris care NC 3152 to Morris.
A Ford touring car in good running condition offered by H. W. Horton. An adjacent note lists a residence lot in front of Capt. Lovils, Boone, N C, with a very reasonable price.
Store house and lot on the highway about one mile west of Boohe. Good business stand. H. W. Horton.
Lumbermen urged to contact Charles Hartley of Valle Crucis North Carolina for a good cross cut saw filer. This brief notice invites inquiries by mail or phone to secure skilled carpentry support.
North Carolina colony settling in Southern Ohio near Cincinnati. 62 acres on State Pike one mile from a large town, 20 miles from Cincinnati. Modern house, outbuildings, water, fences, and ample stock. Includes team horses cows hogs hay oats corn tomatoes and tractor equipment. Priced at 12000 with terms. Contact William O Hutson 621 Main St Cincinnati Ohio. August 5.
Used vulcanizer in operation at Shulls Mills offered for cash by B. E. Lineback. Repairs casings from 24 to 5 inches and is priced cheaply. 85 4tp.
An advertisement urges saving with safe banks over makeshift “shot bag” methods. It promotes 2 percent on checking balances, 4 percent on certificates, and 5 percent on savings compounded semi annually, plus one and two year paper endorsed by the bank. It promises immediate interest and principal at due date.
R. C. Smythe property on Roan’s Creek offers ninety acres of clear productive land with good yard, house and barn near Butler. H. M. Wagner reports a six room house with two acres in Butler and will be in Butler for a few days to discuss bargains. Call or write for details.
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