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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1927
Page
15
Notices from multiple pastors outline upcoming services gatherings and events. Items include sermon topics prayer meetings and youth activities across several area churches with dates times and locations listed for parishioners.
Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. with Rev S E Gragg. Loyal Workers meet at 6 50 p m. Prayer meeting Tuesday night. Choir practice Thursday night. Sunday services invite all. Superintendent W R Gragg. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. by Rev P Ardache. Mid week prayer meeting Wednesday 7 p.m. Everyone invited to attend all services.
Pastor J A Yount from St Marks Lutheran lists Bailey s Camp and Grace Lutheran Boone schedule. Holy Communion Church holds services near Clark s Creek on third Sunday. Banner Elk chapel hosts fourth Sunday. Sunday school runs weekly with varied times. public invited.
Pastor Claude H. Moser leads Sunday school at 9:45 with J. D. Rankin as superintendent and various class teachers. Christmas program at 11:00 features a sermon by the pastor.
Trustee John E Brown announces sale of Lots 1 2 3 4 Section A Mont Clement property at the courthouse door in Watauga County on December 23 1927 between 10 a m and 2 p m cash to highest bidder. Recorded deed of trust dated July 24 1926 secures 5414 75 defaulted payments. Map available in the county register of deeds office.
On January 16, 1928 at the courthouse door in Watauga County between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. I will sell two tracts of real estate to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy a deed of trust securing notes endorsed by L H Holler D E Hartley and James Watson for John Johnson who defaulted. Tract One 60 acres the N G Wheeler home tract. Tract Two bordered by N G Wheeler Millard Watson James Wheeler M A Triplett Tom Wheeler D M Wheeler and McKinley Wheeler. The sale is subject to a $800 mortgage to the Federal Land Bank of Columbia and excludes a small previously released tract sold to D M Wheeler. December 12 1927. T E Bingham 012-15-41.
The church invites all members and newcomers to hear the sermon titled Three Important Issues of Life at 7 o clock. Junior and Senior Leagues meet at 6 15 followed by the pastor's sermon. Wednesday mid week prayer service and choir practice also at 7.
The article argues that prohibition did not erase drinking among workers but raised productivity. It cites Professor Herman Feldman and the Dartmouth College findings showing wage-earner output rising since 1920, with rubber tire workers 1539 percent higher in 1925 than 1919, and notes labor bodies opposed prohibition while statistics claim industrial gains.
Beulah Tedder a 14 year old white farm girl was found murdered near her Wayne County home. The state health officer confirmed she died from multiple fatal injuries after her clothing was ripped and her throat cut. Larry Newsome is jailed in Raleigh charged with first degree murder after a bloody knife was found at his home and he claimed to have killed a dog. The grand jury indicted Newsome.
Direct application remedy offered for piles and constipation with a rectal pipe. Claims immediate relief after a 20 day treatment priced at $1.00. Distributed by The Marvel Company P O Box 17 Rutherford New Jersey.
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