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Newspaper

Watauga Democrat

Location

Boone, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1908

Page

3

Solicitor Linney at Catawba court this week

Local updates note hay harvest progress and good yields while school attendance remains low. Mrs. Fletcher has improved after illness begun Sunday. Mrs. Penn and children returned from Creston Ashe County. Cashier Hagaman visited family on Beaver Dame. J E Hodges offers Kodak services and supplies promptly. Miss Margaret Combs visiting Mast area. Republican County Convention set for Saturday August 1 with official call elsewhere in columns.

J.C. Fletcher J E. Hodges Margaret Combs Mast

Wakefield to Visit Boone and Banner Elk in July

Dr. W H Wakefield of Charlotte will visit Boone at the Critcher House on Friday July 17 and Banner Elk on Saturday July 18. The eye ear nose and throat specialist also fits glasses. The report notes local candidates and social notices among the week’s items with church events and weather details.

W. H. Wakefield Charlotte Boone Critcker House Banner Elk Jennie Matthews A. T.S Critcher Hotel Watauga W. A. Deaton North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Mt. Pleasant Mt. Zion Church Saturn Savage Episcopal Church

Colt Show in Boone Marks Farmers Institute Event

The Coach Horse presents a Colt Show in Boone on August 17 during the Farmers Institute. Spectators may watch 80 entries compete for a best colt prize of 15 dollars awarded by v. E. Shipley.

Coach Horse Boone Farmers’ Institute V. E. Shipley

Word to My Friends on Sheriff Election

A writer requests space to urge friends not to list his name against the Watapga sheriff primary. He praises liberty and urges voting as they always have done, as free citizens.

Flour supply notice from Wa tauga merchants

Home Milling Co announces Thomas H. Coffey as agent in Blowing Rock North Carolina to supply flour at Lenoir prices with 30 cents extra per hundred for hauling. Depot Street Lenoir NC. T. F. Seehorn Manager. 6-4.

Watauga County Thomas H. Coffey Blowing Rock N. C Lenoir Home Milling CO Depot Street, Lenoir, N. C

Elk Park trader seeks rice and butter with cash offers

M F Hopkins of Elk Park New York invites buyers for 5000 pounds of rice and fresh butter at 12 cents per pound cash. He will pack in candy pails or lard tubs, not insisting on cake form. Also offers patent flour at 2 dollars 75 cents per hundred, plus shoes and dry goods with samples mailed to those who inquire. He is eager for trade.

H. A. Deal Amantha Cove Creek Messrs John Bingham Hardy Mast Boone Deal M. F. Hopkins Elk Park N. Y

Meadow Machinery Ad From Valle Crucis NC

Meadow Machinery offers McCormick and Osborne mowers rakes and a full line of repairs on hand. Visit or write W. E. Shipley Valle Crucis North Carolina. No freight. Bring your wagon and get an outfit cheaper than railroad prices.

Stomach troubles warn readers to use Kodol remedy

The notice urges caution during summer stomach issues and promotes Kodol as a universal digestive aid for dyspepsia. It claims the preparation digests all foods, is pleasant to take, and is sold locally by J. M. Hodges.

J. M. Hodges

Appalachian Training School Fall Term Opens September 2

The Appalachian Training School announces the fall term opens September 2 with board ranging from six to eight dollars per month. Free tuition for public school teachers. A new boarding hall for boys is under construction. Summer term is the largest. Faculty expanded for the new session. Further details available from the Secretary of Faculty in Boone, North Carolina.

Councill Babe Boone Mitchell Court Mountain City Mra. Councill Watauga Jefferson Ashe County Secretary of State Roanoke Adtree M Coulter Pues Boone, N.C TNE North Carolina North Car J. 1. Foust Greensboro N. C

Food Stuffs Available In Local Market

Local merchants list flour bacon lard sugar coffee rice and canned goods in stock for community shoppers. Most items shown with standard market prices and varying brands for household needs.

Ladies Dress Goods and Hats at Sherwood’s Amantha

W F Sherwood advertises new ladies white goods including Persian lawn India linens and spring suiting yard wide percal 12 12 cents a yard plus a 35 cent India linen at 25 cents. Also big lot of ladies hats men and boys hats and good foods California peaches prunes apple butter preserves tomatoes corn and peaches. Coffee 15 cents per pound. Visit to compare prices and buy.

California W. F. Sherwood Amantha Marcha

Bargain Bargaining At Cottrell's You Trade For Deals

Advertises Bargain Figures at Cottrell's offering dry goods groceries shoes and rubber goods with promises of savings on every purchase. Claims high butter egg and grain prices and cash exchanges with a souvenir plate offered on a $2 purchase. Located at R. M. Green old stand with L Jones Cottrell as trade advertiser.

N. B L. Jones Cottrell

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