Local affairs note Christmas closings and town updates
Dr George K Moose returned Monday from Charlotte on a business trip. School adjourned for holidays. Rev F M Huggins left Monday for a Raleigh meeting and expects to return Wednesday. Banks will be closed Christmas day. Measles cases appear in Wyke and Setzer homes. Fred Aldridge is home from Navy service on the Pacific coast. Teague brothers plan a jitney business on depot street. Peoples Bank & Trust Co adds banking-room improvements. Deputy Sheriff Hayes found a moonshine still in Lance's Creek area. Revival at Willowdale Church ends with 24 conversions. Walter Johnsons headed to Baltimore for Johns Hopkins treatment. wife improving. Two turkey trucks pass through town en route to Wilkesboro market. Parsons surveys from Deep Gap to Hodges Gap with good grade. camps move to Valle Crucis and continue to Butler Tenn. Watauga County Bank offers American Almanac Calendars and urges savings accounts.
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F. M. Huggins
State Mission Board
Raleigh
Christmas Shopping and Hunting Trip Report
Mr A J Miller and C C Triplett took a business trip to North Wilkesboro on Friday and bought Christmas goods. The group, including Coy Triplett, hunted at Grandfather Mountain returning with three raccoons and an opossum. Additionally H C Hodges Miss Eliza Wheeler J S Hayes and daughter shopped in Boone on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Miller
C. C. Triplett
North Wilkesboro
Coy Triplett
Mrs. W. A. Thomas III Ailing at Stony Fork Home
Mrs. W. A. Thomas III remains confined to bed at her Stony Fork residence with critical condition after several days of illness. Her husband is away from his Boone store, and a new man now runs the business soliciting trade.
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W. A. Thomas
Stony Fork
Boone
Christmas morn program planned at Mt Pleasant
Local notes show visitors to Dell Coffey and relatives in town. A sacrament was celebrated at Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church with one transfer member. Roads to Boone are muddy and Ford travel is difficult. Thoughts for the week emphasize living a life over a name and positive effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willett Burkett
Clyde Stinson
Dell Coffey
Cora Jeffcoat
Clark’s Creek
Mount Peasant Lutheran Church
Bulah Moretz
Todd
Mt. Pleasant
Winnie Moretz
Col Norris
P. P. Moretz Conover
N. C
Mr. Moretz
R. L. Norris
Cynthia
Ford
Galax Leaves Reflect Modest Beauty Through Seasons
A poem by Mrs. C. C. Creveling extols galax leaves in browns reds and greens as modest and steadfast through winter and summer. It contrasts with holly and mistletoe and urges living with graceful constancy. The piece ends with a county paper subscription note and a visit report about Mr. and Mrs. Colis Parker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Creveling
Yule Tide and the Yule Log
Morganton News-Herald reflects on Yule Tide customs and the yule log. The piece traces origins from Norse and Anglo-Saxon origins, noting candles cakes and dough figures, and explains links to Christmas and pagan rituals later Christianized. It discusses spellings and possible linguistic roots.
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Morganton News-Herald
England
County of
Norfolk
North
Thor
David Did Not Write All of the Psalms
Letter to the editor argues multiple authors contributed to the Psalms. It notes Hebrew Bible titles, with Psalms 90 credited to Moses and other contributors named as Korah, Asaph, Solomon, Ethan, and the Ezrahite. Location cited Elizabethton Tennessee.
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David
Othe
Korah
Asaph
Solomon
Ethan
Herman
Christmas Tree Wood Ho Poem Fragment
A fragmentary verse describes a toymaking wood north of a dream country. It speaks of glittering tinsels and treasures for a well behaved child who travels the road of Be Good to reach the Christmas tree wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dreams
Christmas Tree Wood and a Dec 15 Middle Fork Box Supper
A poem about Christmas fantasy in Tree Wood and Make Believe places contrasts with a real notice of a box supper at the Middle Fork School House on December 15 to raise funds for painting the building. The piece blends holiday verses with the local school event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemonade Lake
Wilbur Nesbit
Middle Fork
The Christmas Child Repeated Holiday Traditions
A reflective poem on Christmas repeating familiar patterns of gift buying and display. It notes tinselled toys, the star on the tree, and shoppers with wan faces, capturing a critic view of festive excess and hollow cheer.
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Wzatauna
George K. Moose
Charlotte
Messrs Wyke
Setzer
Fred Aldridge
J. A. Aldridge
Foscoe
Uncle Sam
Navy
Pacific Coast
Teague Boys
George Teague
Brushy Fork
Depot Street
Floyd Ward
Peoples Bank & Trust Co
George Hayes
Lance
Ed Hodges
A. J. Greene
Willowdale Church
Baptist Church
Walter Johnson
Baltimore
Wilkesboro
Messrs Jno. Greer
Wes Fletcher
Parsons
Appalachian and
Northwestern
R .R
Deep Gap
Hodges Gap
Valle Crucis
Engineering Corps
Butler, Tenn
Watauga County Bank
Savings Department
Triplett News
Joe Wheeler
W. A. Thomas III
W. L. Coffey
Mr. Dell Coffey
GALAX
Colis Parker
Rutherwood
M. D. Miller
M. F. Hofkins
Elizabethton Tenn
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo, Ohio
Ludens
N. L. Mast
L. A. Greene
G. P. Hagaman
W. D. Farthing
Austin E. South
Miss Pearl Hodges
Watauga County
Fair City of
Dolls
Candy Land
Christ
Heaven
Christ Child
Clara McCulley
Kansas Star
North Carolina Weerners
J. B. Miller
J. S. Wellborne
I. E. M. Harman
Register of Deeds
E. M. Harman
State of
North Carolina
Vicks VapoRus
J. H. Winkler
Blowing Rock
Edwards Business College
High Point
J. R. Phillips
Sugar Grove
N.C
E. L. Payne
Richardson Bros
Siler City
Finley P. Hodges
Sands N. C
George A. Bryan
Tutt’s
Tutt
Chamberlain
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