Blue Ridge golf clubs plan summer intertown clash
A three town golf battle is in the works among Linville Roaring Gap and Blowing Rock with August opens and finals to be hosted across their courses. A committee led by Julian Morton Alex Hanes and C V Henkel coordinates the event amid tentative plan details.
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Chapionship
Linville
Blowing Rock
Roaring Gap
Julian Morton
Wilmington
Alex Hanes
Winston-Salem
C. V. Henkel
Statesville
Ballengers
Mr. Reynolds
Miss van Landingham
Blue Ridge
Camp Yonahlessee Holds Fourth of July Camp Fire Program
Camp Yonahlessee opened with larger enrollment than expected drawing participants from North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Tennessee and Pensia. The Fourth of July included horse show a patriotic program and fireworks with visitors including Dorothy and Josephine Courtney Elizabeth Morrison and Margaret Hudson. Regular Saturday night celebrity party and tribal initiation marked the week.
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Mr. Sloan
Nashville
Tenn
Dorothy
Josephine Courtney
Lenoir
Elizabeth Morrison
Margaret Hudson
Salisbury
Hen Fire Sparks Blaze at Barn in Johnson City
In Johnson City Tennessee Gentry Hall's two young sons set feathers on fire to stop a hen from laying. The barn housing a horse and a wheat bin burned causing a loss of five thousand dollars. A volunteer firefighter accidentally turned a hose on Fire Chief Paul Spinnenweber injuring his left eye.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Gentry Hall
Paul Spinnenweber
Legend of the Rock Indian Maid and the Saved Bride
A tribal tale from ancient mountains tells of a beautiful Indian maiden awaiting a wooing brave who returns after moons. Despair drives her to leap from the Rock but a miraculous gust carries her back to her lover, completing the legend.
Blowing Rock golfers set records as charity gift arrives
Dean Van Landingham and M W Reynolds set Blowing Rock course records for women and men during a midweek visit. Miss Van Landingham scored 82 and Reynolds 69 after meeting Mrs. David M. Milton who donated 1000 dollars to the Well Babies Clinic to seed an endowment.
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Dean van Landingham
Charlotte
M. W. Reynolds
Jacksonville
Fla
Blowing Rock
Miss van Landingham
Linville
Richard Ballenger
Reynolds
Well Babies
David M. Milton
New York
Milton
Mary Cabell Warfield
Warfield
Dewey
Early Days in Blowing Rock Recalled
A reader recalls the town's early days mentioning W. M. Morris and his rambling log house with a front porch and rock chimney that hosted summer visitors near the Reeves homestead and the spring providing water.
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Blowing Rock
W. M. Morris
Methodist Church Notes Blowing Rock Hosts Rev Stafford
Rev G R Stafford will lead Blowing Rock Methodist Church July and August after earning a B D from Duke University and an AB from Emory and Henry His Abingdon Va home he will occupy the last cottage in Tom Coffey s row The church adds a 430 to 515 p m vesper service each Sunday Burke County reports 60000 bushels of wheat from 8000 acres this season
Tennessee man claims cure for rheumatism by liniment
Mountain City Tennessee man J T Ray announces Ray’s Rheumatic Liniment as a breakthrough cure for rheumatism neuritis and neuralgia promising relief in 30 minutes to days with a money back guarantee. About 150 people tested it across the region and were said to be astonished by rapid results. A one dollar mail order offer for a big bottle is presented with return mail delivery.
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J. T. Ray
Mountain City
Tenn
Ray
Ray Medicine Company
Early North Carolina boarding houses and summer tourism
The article describes Morris House and Silver Lake lodging for summer boarders in North Carolina, detailing the attic rooms, makeshift sleeping lofts, and modest bathing facilities. It notes high occupancy and special rates, along with visitors and notable patrons, ending with a note on the first regular hotel built for summer tourists around 1885.
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Morris
Vic Clare
Silver Lake
Len Estes
Chetela
J. L. Snyder
Charlotte
Watauga Hotel's Build and Legacy in Village History
The Watauga Hotel stood on central village grounds near the former Watauga Inn site, a two story frame structure with attic space and porches along both levels. It was built by P. P. Claxton, I. N. Corpening and J. G. Finley, opened by Finley and Corpening, and drew patrons from Charlotte plus families like the Carsons and Fries. Colonel L. S. Williams served as clerk for years, sustaining a lucrative business before changes.
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Watauga Hotel
Watauga Inn
P. P. Claxton
I. N. Corpening
J. G. Finley
Finley and Corpening
Claxton
L. S. Williams
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
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