Local births and moves mark winter community notes
Born to Mr and Mrs Adolphus Lyons a boy. Frank McGhee seeks work in Winston Salem. W H Wagner and family move to Johnson City for winter. Mrs Hodges and baby return from Winston-Salem visit. Al Hopkins visits from Hill Billy fame. Bush family relocates to Boone to run Standard Filling Station. Eula Hodges and Eric Greer visit Bristol. Mrs Mordecai McKay attends Blowing Rock funeral. Hill Farthing visits Lenoir. Hill improving from illness. D J Cottrell back to work after lumbago. Horton family heads to Miami for winter, expecting spring return. Mrs Charles Lewis seriously ill. daughter Rob Rivers with her. Rev J G Pulliam returns to Santa Maria, Calif. Masonic meeting in Boone. district lecturer incoming. Professor Downam improving. to resume duties. S F Horton sets 260 mile drive Boone Wake Forest in 6 hours. Lovill and others attend James Lovill funeral. future home in Boone. Ed Day relocates from North Wilkesboro to Boone. Christmas drive for Community Chest underway. Ralph G Greer buys Rebecca Boone Tea Room site. to run School Supply Store with expanded plans.
Worth While Club Entertained by Mrs J F Moore
The Worth While Club met at Mrs. J F Moore’s home on Friday November 29. Decorations included potted plants and fall flowers. An earlier mention noted Mrs L L Bingham’s return. A Thanksgiving season program and Christmas tree plans for Friday the 13th at 7 43 p m were made. Mrs Moore and helpers served salad and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Members departed pleased with a very enjoyable gathering.
Mountain City Woman in Critical Illness
Mrs. W. R. Butler of Mountain City Tenn formerly of Boone remains critically ill at home. Her daughter Mrs Jim Rivers had stayed with her over a week and plans to return to Boone unless her mother improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Butler
Mountain City
Tenn
Boone
Jim Rivers
Mrs Hodges Hosts Entre Nous Bridge Club
Mrs. Russell Hodges hosted the Entre Nous Bridge Club at her Main Street home with three tables of players and guests. After the game she and Miss Eula Hodges served a party plate of tuna fish salad sandwiches fruit cake and coffee. Mrs. James Mast won two hand painted vases and Mrs. Oscar Hardin took the linen handkerchief prize.
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Hodges
Russell Hodges
Bridge
Main Street
Eula Hodges
James Mast
Oscar Hardin
Grady Moretz
Grace Blaylock
Eric Greer
Maids and Matrons Club Entertained by Mrs Dean Bingham
Mrs Dean Bingham hosted the Maids and Matrons Club at Critcher Hotel on Wednesday evening November 25. After a business session, bridge continued late. a salad course was served. Decorations and favors reflected Thanksgiving spirit. Guests included Mrs M P Critcher, Louise Critcher, and Mazie Jean Jones. Louise Critcher won high score guest prize. Nell Coffey won high club score. Next meeting set with Nell Coffey on December 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Bingham
Critcher Hotel
Louise Critcher
M. P. Critcher
Mazie Jean Jones
Nell Coffey
Foot of the Rainbow Play by Cove Creek Juniors
The Cove Creek High School Junior Class presents At the Foot of the Rainbow a three act drama on Saturday night December 14. Miss Constance Shoun coaches the cast and W Y Perry performs with Negro songs and stunts. Admission is 35 cents for adults and 20 cents for children, with proceeds benefiting school purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cove Creek High School
Constance Shoun
Watauga
W. Y. Perry
Bounty Announced for Hawks Cats and Crows by Warden
County Game Warden Harrison Baker confirms annual bounty payments on hawks crows and wildcats. Cooper's hawk 25 cents Sharp-shinned hawk 25 cents Crow 15 cents Wildcat 2 dollars. Claimants must submit whole forms or recognizable portions for identification and payment follows proof of slaying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Baker
Prohibition tied to regenerating Christianity in church report
Rev. E L Eaton declares national prohibition a crystallization of regenerating Christianity and urges support to keep the Eighteenth Amendment in the Constitution. He says reform follows religious awakening and notes gains in moral and economic life, including reduced crime and improved race relations. J L Qualls seeks to buy cabbage in Boone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Managers
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and
Methodist Episcopal Church
E. L. Eaton
Dr. Eaton
Department of the American Negro
J. L. Qualls
Lost Shrine pin near Demonstration School area
One inch yellow gold Shrine pin lost Tuesday night between Demonstration School building and the Postoffice. Reward available. return to Carrie E. Spencer at Greene Inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie E. Spencer
Greene Inn
Imboden Booms Damascus City with New House
General J. D. Imboden is building an extensive house that boosts Damascus City. Local notes report arrivals from Philadelphia and health improvements, with hopes for railroads to connect Ashe and Watauga counties and a push to develop mineral wealth. Banner Elk reports birch timber haulage to Elk Park at 20 to 50 dollars per 1000 feet amid timber depletion concerns.
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Democrat
J. D. Imboden
Damascus City
W. B. Councill
George W. Kirk
Philadelphia
L. N. Perkins
West
Tennessee Tomahawk
Mountain City
Mr. Long
Alleghany County
Calvin Long
Ashe County
Ashe
Watauga
Vorhees
Elk Park
Free School in Boone Faces Closure and Substitution
The Boone free school closes tomorrow while Mr. Davis considers teaching a three month subscription school if enrollment justifies it. The writer questions whether the school should be continued given poor roads and limited profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
Davis
Boone Baptist Choir Presents Christmas Cantata The Promised Child
The Boone Baptist Church choir will perform a Christmas cantata The Promised Child for mixed voices solos and choruses on Wednesday December 18 at 7 30 p m The soloists include Mrs Herman Eggers Inez Gragg J F Moore Grace Graybeal A R Smith and J T C Wright with carols and other special music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Baptist Church
Box Supper at Rutherwood Schoolhouse Saturday
A box supper will be held Saturday evening December 14 at 6 30 at the Rutherwood Schoolhouse to raise funds for the school. All are invited and asked to bring a box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutherwood Schoolhouse
Four-H Club Seedlings Gift for North Carolina Projects
Four H Club members in North Carolina are receiving black walnut seedlings from the State Forest Nursery to support their club projects and educational gardening efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Four-H Club
North Carolina
State Forest Nursery
Young farmer opportunities rise in Buncombe County
After forty years of farming G. W. Owenby of Candler Buncombe County says the chance for the young farmer is greater than ever before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Owenby
Candler
Buncombe County
Flat Rock Poultry Farm Posts Modest Wyandotte Profit
W F Bowman of Flat Rock Henderson County reports his flock of 114 White Wyandottes yielded a net profit of 2 51 per bird during the past year delivering a small overall return for the poultry keeper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Bowman
Flat Rock
Henderson County
Six Carteret farmers ship carload of hogs to eastern markets
A car containing 77 fat hogs was shipped to eastern markets by a group of six Carteret County farmers last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carteret County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Adolphus Lyons
North Water Street
Frank McGhee
Winston-Salem
W. H. Wagner
Foscoe
Johnson City
F. H. Hodges
Baby
Mrs. Hodges
al Hopkins
Hill
Billy” Fame
A. H. Bush
Lenoir
Mr. Bush
Bristol
Maddox
Ruth Dotson
Bessie (Mordecai) McKay
Washington, D. C
Blowing Rock
W. P. Pendley
T. Hill Farthing
J. C. Farthing
D. J. Cottrell
H. W. Horton
Miami
Fla
Charles Lewis
Sugar Grove
Rob Rivers
J. G. Pulliam
Watauga Lodge
A. F
A. M
Masonic Hall
J. M. Downam
State Teachers College
S. F. Horton
Wake Forest
Rom Lovill
Binan Lovill
Bower Hodges
Ohio
Bill Lovill
Goldsboro
James Lovill
Ed Day
North Wilkesboro
Day
Lige Hollars
Ralph G. Greer
Rebecca Boone Tea Room
J. A. Williams
Greer
Matney
Cove Creek HS
J. L. Qualls Boone
N. C
Cutex
Kodaks
Schaffer
Caress
Ricard
Hudnut
Boone Baptist Choir
The
Hodges Drug Co
Whitman
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