Local notes from Boone and Avery County
Johnson City guest C A Ellis visits Saturday. Birth announcements include Earl Cook’s child and Y G Norris Jr’s son Robert Doughton. influenza seen mild in Valle Crucis. Christmas tree planned at Court House. Community leaders attend Baptist State Convention. Dr Moose returns from Rowan County. County agents seek to boost seed potatoes cabbage and sauerkraut, with state help to market Blue Ridge produce.
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Steele
Neal Blair
Raleigh
North Carolina
Goodman
State Extension Service
Blue Ridge
Local Students Home For Holidays From College
The following young people of the town are home for the holidays while taking college courses. Anna Blair Anders Trinity Ruth Dotson Florence Eller Meredith Ruth Rankin Winthrop Annie Dougherty Carson and Newman Jas Councill Fred Hodges University of North Carolina.
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Anna Blair Anders
Trinity
Ruth Dotson
Florence Eller
Meredith
Ruth Rankin
Winthrop
Annie Dougherty
Carson
Newman
Messrs
Jas Councill
Fred Hodges
University of North Carolina
Short Course in Agriculture at State College Sets Dates
A two week program at N. C. State College from the eighth to the nineteenth offers courses in fruit growing dairying vegetable gardening poultry raising and related topics. County agents can supply information on the courses and trip costs for interested farmers seeking to improve their practice.
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N. C. State College
Brownwood Merchant Sells Two Thousand Dollars Worth of Turkeys
Brownwood merchant sold nearly $2,000 in cash worth of turkeys on Monday and Tuesday, shipping them to northern markets. One farmer sold 72 head at 36 cents per pound for $313.00. The piece laments loss of local poultry to outside markets as valuable product leaves the state.
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Brownwood
Thomas Watson
Baptist Church Sunday Services and Schedule
Sunday school at 10 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. with the message of the Heavenly Host. Youth and Senior B Y P U at 6 p.m. Church worship at 7 p.m. Prayer service Thursday at 7 p.m. You are invited to attend any or all services.
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Heavenly
B.Y.P. U's
Boone to Get Modern Ice and Cold Storage Plant
Early spring will bring an ice plant to Boone with capacity to meet local needs. Blowing Rock stands to gain from improved ice availability and shorter haul on a better road. A modern cold storage facility will operate alongside the ice plant, marking a valuable town improvement.
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Boone
Blowing Rock
Mrs Shores Operated On For Appendicitis In Boone
Mrs Millard Shores of Middle Fork county underwent an appendicitis operation at Watauga hospital in Boone on Monday. Perry Alders and Bingham performed the operation. The procedure was successful and the patient is resting comfortably.
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James Councill
B. J. Council
Anders
Tate and
Hardin
Banner Elk
Shulls Mills
Millard Shores
Middle Fork
Watauga Hospital
Boone
Perry
Alders
Bingham
Allan L Harmon Dee Dies at Richmond Home
Allan L Harmon former Watauga County resident died December 5 at his son Lionel Harmon's home in Richmond Inn after battling kidney disease all summer. Family gathered as he passed, except his daughter who arrived hours later. Interment followed at a one-city cemetery per his request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan L. Harmon
Watauga County
Lionel Harmon
Richmond
Inn
Boone RB Y P U Fourth Sunday Program
Miss Eula Hodges leads a study on training for church membership and Christ's establishment of the church as a divine institution. The session notes Jesus founded the first church and it is governed by divine laws, distinct from other groups. A Christmas season lesson invites a good crowd at 6 p.m. on Sunday December 24 with visitors welcome.
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Eula Hodges
Christ
Hell
Masons and
Odd Fellows
Applechain Training School Closes Fall Term Today
The fall term of Applechain Training School ends today for holiday vacation. Most students return home to celebrate Christmas. The term was largely attended and possibly one of the most successful in the institution’s history. Spring term opens Wednesday January 4 1923 with many students expected back.
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Applechain— Training School
Bingham Marries Morrell in Boone Ceremony
Mr McCoy Bingham wed Miss Known Morrell of Tennessee at one o clock Monday at the Boone home of Dr R K Bingham. Rev G C Brinkman officiated. Bingham is the late Thomas Bingham’s son and brother of Attorney T E Bingham. Best wishes to the couple.
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R. K. Bingham
Boone
McCoy Bingham
Known Morrell
Tennessee
G. C. Brinkman
Bingham
Thomas Bingham
T. E. Bingham
Silent Night Origin Mystery from Oberndorf Church
The article traces Silent Night to 1818 in Oberndorf South Germany with poem by Joseph Mohr melody by Franz Gruber. It notes early performances with minimal instruments, later Tyrolean singers adding it to repertoire and Leipig printing in 1840. It mentions misattributed composer Haydn and the song's enduring spiritual impact.
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Ludwig Erk
Joseph Mohr
Oberndorf
Tyrol
Leipsic
Joseph Haydn
Gale
Gift of spirited horses to school by Mrs Coble
A donor named Mrs Coble offered two colts to the institution. Railway staff delivered two three or four year old Percheron horses after prepayment of freight. Supt. Roger, Mr. Fisher, and a student retrieved the animals from the station. The school embraced the gift, planning work to break and use the horses.
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Institutio
Southern Railway
Roger
Mr. Fisher
Harding Endorses Cooperative Marketing for Farmers
President Harding voices strong support for farmers cooperative marketing in a letter read at the National Council meeting. He says no movement offers greater aid to relief and long term improvement, urging government aid within reason and urging farmers to organize to enhance effectiveness.
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Harding
Co-Operative Marketing
National Council of Farmers’ Cooperative Marketing Association
Co-Operative Organization of Farmers
Senate
Ernest
Kentucky
Congress
North Carolina Considers Women on Juries
A North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs committee will ask the General Assembly for a declaratory statute making women eligible for juries. The move argues that the term “men” in law and constitution extends to women, with statutory support from C. S. 3049 and older code noting gender inclusive language.
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North Carolina
Legt
North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs
Palmer Jerman
Board of County Commissioners
Recommendation for Prison Reform by North Carolina Committee
Greensboro group proposes a broad penal overhaul including centralized care, mental health evaluation, women offender farm colony, state prison industries, a negro boys training school, and youth offender reform. Plans call for parole upgrades and sanitary, segregated facilities guided by charity boards and health officials.
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Greensboro
A. M
Kate Gurr Johnson
Steiner
T. W. Bickett
Joseph Hyde Pratt
General Assembly
Eni
Caswell
Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School
North Carolina
Bureau of “Medicine and Psychiatry
State Board of Charities and Public Welfare
State Board of Health
Consolidated T
O. K. Barber Shop
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. A. Ellis
Johnson City, Tenn
Earl Cook
Y. G. Norris, Jr
Robert Doughton Birod ‘Norris
W. Y. Perry
Vilas, R.F.D
David F. Greene
Mae Greene
Jhonson City
Valle Crucis
Court House
E. S. Coffey
D. D. Daugherty
L. C. Wilson
F. M. Huggins
Winston- Salem
Coleman Paine
the Democrat
Mattie Tapping
W. H. Anderson
Johnson City
Tenn
Annie Tappings
Endicott
New York
G. K. Moose
The
Boone Drag Co
Rowan County
J. D. Rankin
Appalachian Training School
Abbeville
South Carolina
Smith-Haskell
G. R. Gragg
Elizabethton
Gragg
Watauga
Ohio
Sister County
Avery Land
Hills
T. H. Coffey
E. C. Coffey
Dee
Fall Tern
A.T.S
Bingham-Morrell
Hough
N. L. Mast
L. A. Greene
G. P. Hagaman
W. D. Farthing
Austin E. South
Miss Pearl Hodges
Boones Ngg
Boone Drug Company
Rexall
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