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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1901
Page
3
The statement notes second class mail status for The Watauga Domuert in Boone North Carolina and lists subscription rates for one year six months and three months with advertising rates available on request.
Local notes report Will W McGhee and Holselaw’s price moves on candies oranges and groceries, and Watauga Academy to adjourn for holidays. Items cover weather near zero, school shifts, shipper notices, debt collections, and community happenings at Hickory Blowing Rock and Butler Bridge. Names include J Ro Aagaman, Rev Hargett, Newland & Watson, Pat Estes, D Jones Cottrell.
The record lists multiple names with whole and half fees for various county services including road work, jail and lunatic care, medical aid to prisoners, keeping county poor house, blasting material, and furnishing clothing. It notes specific entries for May including board of county commissioners and making tax books proofs, plus juror and surveyor services.
A fragmented ad offers sale of stock of merchandise and lands with land and store to be sold together or separately. The document also contains testimonials for Gooch’s Mexican Syrup, a lengthy list of county expenditures, jurors, and claims data from November 1900 to November 1901, concluding with Clerk J. M. May’s certification.
W H McGhef announces a new grocery store at the J U Plethher store building offering heavy and fancy groceries sugar coffee rice floor staples and tobacco cigars confections and canned goods with full assortments and competitive prices.
A reader testifies that catarrh caused headaches and impaired senses and appetite. They credit God’s Sarsaparilla with curing the condition after five bottles, saying symptoms have not returned since. The ad promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a constitutional tonic and alterative.
Heavy rains Friday night and Saturday caused record flooding in the county. New River rose four feet, logs and hay losses surpass five hundred dollars, Boone and Blowin Rock turnpike ruined with three bridges washed away and more damaged. Road washouts halt access to Winkler's mill as loads are washed away and overall loss is hard to estimate.
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