Ford’s cash hoard tops two hundred million in bank
Henry Ford states his cash holdings exceed 121 million with total assets near 185 to 145 million and property worth about 100 million in buildings 100 million in machinery and over 100 million in cash. He compares cash to a flywheel needed to keep operations and notes daily wages of 500 thousand and materials costing 750 thousand. The York/Yonahist region outlines a state takeover plan for the Yonahlassee turnpike to create a mountain highway circuit from Blowing Rock to Linville with 99 year terms and 8 thousand dollars annual state improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ford
Statesville
Russell Sage
Ford
Deel
Candista
Yowawlossee
Charlotte Observer
State Highway Commission
Yonahlassee
Blowing Rock
Linville
Hugh McKay
Hickory
Little Switzerland
Marion
Fifth Sunday Meeting At Boone Baptist Church
Rev L Q Haynes head of Watauga Academy will speak on Christian Education at Boone Baptist Church Fifth Sunday gathering. Meeting opens at 1 PM Saturday and runs through Sunday night with 13 baptisms and 51 additions to the church plus 46 by letter and watch care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Q. Haynes
Watauga Academy
Butler,Tann
Ue Yen
Boone
Bradshaw
Prize Essay Contest At Davidson Department Store
Davidson Department Store announces a ten dollar cash prize contest for writers of 200 to 800 words on topics such as honesty in merchandising, what is a bargain, or why to trade at home. Judges include Mr. R. O. Tivers and two college professors. Submissions due by February 28 with early entries published in Bulletin No. 2 around mid next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davidson Department Store
4 Beat
Ouratore Bulletin
Tivers
Alterview Public School Closes in Meat Camp Township
The six month term at Alterview Public School River view district Meat Camp township closed January 18 1922. Teachers Wade F Norris and J W Byers each with over twelve years experience received praise for efficiency and the pupils delivered strong recitations and declamations. Rev D N Yount gave a well received address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. N. Yount
Lutheran, Church
Riverview
Proess
Z. T. Watson
Brookside, N. C
Year 1921 posts strong church growth and debts in Boone
The Boone area churches show 489 total members after 1921 with 164 sermons preached and 31 baptisms 6 by letter and 2 by restoration. Boone church is debt free with funds for improvements and local campaign totals reach 3515.10 and 5026.62 across all fields. F. M. Huggins signs off urging 1922 gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
Blowing Rock
Cove Creek
Boone Church
F. M. Huggins
Notice of dissolution of Cook Bros. and Co.
The firm of Cook Bros. and Co. at Stony Fork dissolves by mutual consent. All debts of the firm are to be paid to L. M. Cook who has acquired the interest. Dissolution dated January 18, 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson & Aldridge
Foscoe
D. P. Wyke
Cook Bros. and Co
Stony Fork
M. Cook
L. M. Cook
Lost Spanish Doubloon Found Near Critcher Hotel
A gold Spanish doubloon larger than a twenty dollar coin was found near the Critcher Hotel. Finder urged to return it to the Democrat office for a reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Critcher Hotel
Negroes Aided by North Carolina Tuskegee Ala Great Improvement
The thirty first annual Tuskegee Negro conference reports marked progress in Southern rural schools. North Carolina will spend over 1 million dollars this year on building schoolhouses for Negroes, while Mississippi allocates about 800 thousand dollars. Alabama and Louisiana also show good work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Tuskegee
Ala
South
Mississippi
AltbSia
Louisiana
Must Reduce Expenditures Declares UK Budget Policy
Glasgow report states Austen Chamberlain told Scottish Unionists conference that UK expenditures must be cut by 200 million pounds per month to make both ends meet. The plan would ignore any proposed tax reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Scotland
United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain
Gay
Ricketts Farm and Mill Near Elkton For Sale
A 195 acre farm near Elkton Maryland with brick mansion, barn, mill building and a 1 barrel per hour flour mill. Includes turbine water wheel, concrete forebay, head gates and 12 foot fall. Price about $28 000 for farm and mill with option to sell separately. George Rickett R FD Elkton Md.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Elkton
Elk River
Singerly
B & O Railroad
Big Elk Creek
George Rickett R. FD
Farm For Sale Near Butler Tennessee With Buildings
150 acres of good land two miles north of Butler Johnson County Tenn on Pike Road. Three sets of buildings. Could make three small farms. Sale of all or part on favorable terms. Church and school at door. Another farm available but cannot tend both. Address R G Cross Butler Tenn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler
Johnson County
Tenn
Pike Road
R. G. Cross
Butler, Tenn
Mortgage Sale of Real Estate in Watauga County North Carolina
I C Miller, by power of sale in a 1920 mortgage to secure $1,600, will sell on February 16, 1922 at noon at the Boone courthouse door to satisfy the mortgage. The 108 acre tract described by bounds including Judson Wagner, Wagners corner, and W M Shirley lines is offered to the highest bidder for cash. Spurling, attorney for the mortgage, notes the deed of trust dated October 13, 1920 and recorded in Book V, page 550 at the Register of Deeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Hamby
Nancy Hamby
I. C. Miller
Register of Deeds
Watauga County
N. C
Court House
Boone
Judson
W. M. Shirley
Spurling
Farm For Sale Near Watauga River and Butler Tenn
Bargain farm listing describes fifty acres near the Watauga River close to the state line within ten miles of Butler Tennessee and near Beech Creek North Carolina. Forty acres cleared with a timbered portion, a six room painted dwelling a good barn out-buildings and proximity to church and school. Priced at eighty dollars per acre if sold within sixty days. Land reportedly lays well and could yield forty bushels of corn per acre. Terms to suit purchaser dated January 17 2999 by G M Laurance Beeck Ore No 1.1848
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Watauga River
State Line
Butler
Tenn
Beech Creek
G. M
Laurance
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Tye Batanga We Democrat
Rce Rivers
Sditer
Boone NC
Werry Ford
Baptist
Alterview Public School
Okanogan
Union
Mexico City
Europe
Coats
Clarence Ellis
Washington
Matthew Bullock
Canada
Morrison
Berne
Charles
Austria-Hungary
Zita
Madeira
Robert
House
House Appropriations Committee
Veterans’ Bureau
Chillicothe
Ohio
B. R. Stewart
National Legislative Committee of
Disabled American Veterans
Rickett’s
Boone Planing Mill
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