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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
3
Preaching on the first Sunday each month at 11 a m and at night with Sunday School at 10 a m on the third Sunday night. Superintendent J F Harpwy and Pastor J H Brenpauy lead. Episcopal Church.
Heavy snowfall Tuesday night disrupts travel while local reports note improving illness in the community. Benj Eller visits town amid worse road conditions. London Stoffel Hardware advertises grass seed. Professors Masters and Brown swap teaching duties due to illness. Wake Forest student A J Green returns home from college to Mabel, and speculation swirls about his future business. A Watauga Bank cashier may buy an adding machine, priced at $2. John C Blair plans to move to Sullivan County Tennessee. A son of Dr Bynum Triplett of Elk Park passes through en route home. 150 pounds of rice prunes offered at 80 cents per pound, plus groceries at low prices from Will W Hols’ clan in Vilas. Public school reopens but wood supply is short. patrons urged to furnish fuel or funds. Capt Lovill reports his father Dr Lovill died in Nevada Missouri at age 95. Notice: debtors must settle by March 15, 1908.
A 1908 collection notes Representative Barilett of Georgia moved to refer the Appalachian park bill to the House judiciary committee for a constitutional ruling. North Carolina’s Hackett questions Congress power to acquire lands for the park, citing Leane 206 US reports. The bill faces likely constitutional hurdles and may fail this session. A J Elwood Cox is named as a potential Republican gubernatorial candidate. A separate mortgage sale notice in Watauga County, North Carolina lists a 1907 deed securing $183 with $60 due, to be bid March 24, 1908, at the courthouse in Boone. Mortgagee Yea Wilson and attorney Fletcher signed.
The Democrat recalls a photo collection from Mrs Richard Green of Cerrillos New Mexico featuring the Old San Miguel Church in Santa Fe. The piece notes its adobe walls and multiple roof repairs since 1545, plus a 750 pound bell cast in 1856. It also mentions a young death in Denton Texas and defends Congressman ER N Hackett for opposing the Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill.
A compact Q and A on U S presidents. Answers include Adams Jefferson Monroe and Polk with notes on dying on the same day and presidents who were assassinated or generals. It lists who became chief executive after others deaths and identifies those involved in the Mexican War and territorial actions.
In Watauga County North Carolina Superior Court case L W Reece versus G T Lethco an execution directs sale of the defendant's real estate. On March 23 1908 at court house door the highest bidder will acquire four land parcels adjoining Ervin Greeny P Sherrill L E Stout and others on Beaver Dam Creek totaling about 254 acres with deeds recorded and $6470 principal plus interest from Feb 16 1906. Sheriff Fob W Rodger announces.
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