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Watauga Democrat

Location

Boone, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jun 03, 1926

Page

6

Local Affairs Roundup Charts Boone Community News

Local items note visits by Ralph Spainhour and Dr. Hodges, plus Prof. Dougherty's recovery and travel by J M Moretz. Speakers at Elk Creek church dedication, Dr. Hillman in town, and Cotton Belt notes. Blowing Rock visitors, new Chevrolet garage building, and ground broken near Standard Oil station. Public services by Rev. Whitman, rising Henson's Chapel church, and wildlife concerns over gray squirrel culling. Highway 69 survey updates and local property deals in Zionville.

Mrs Temple's Telegram Play Presented by Hickory High

Under the Boone Worth While Club the Hickory high school senior class stages Mrs Temple's Telegram at the Pastime Theater Boone Tuesday June 8 at 6 pm. Playful mix ups humor and drama promise a great evening with Mrs E B Menzies directing a cast of graduating seniors. Admission 25 and 35 cents and a night of merriment awaits.

Boone Worth While Club Hickory High School Hickory School Jack Temple Hunter Howard Frank Fuller Robert Longaker Captain Sharpe Henkle Price Wigson Joe Moretz John Brown Louis Bogle Ruth Corpening Dorothy Ruth Seter Elizabeth Williams Brown Jesse Bumgarner

Survey Route Sparks Debate Over Upper and Lower Paths

Commissioners requested a new survey from Elk Creek to Brookside and along the Big Hill via Miller and Barker farms to intersect with 69 at Sands. The plan has provoked a riffle among upper route supporters, while lower-route backers claim practicality.

Sioners Elk Creek Brookside Big Hill Miller Barker Farms Sands

Exports at Wilmington Over Past Ten Years

Merchandise including local domestic and foreign exports and imports moved through Cape Fear river past decade totals 6 347 256 short tons valued at 508 984 879 54 dollars. Figures released by Major Oscar O Kuentz engineer in charge of the district at Wilmington's million dollar custom house.

Wilmington Winston-Salem North Carolina Cape Fear River Oscar O. Kuentz

Village Besieged by Millions of Jelly Fish

Nice region residents face an uninhabitable Cros de-Cagnes as millions of dead jelly fish wash ashore nightly. Authorities struggle to clean the beaches before rotting piles, with burning attempts failing to deter the slick invasion.

Nice French Riviera Cros de-Cagnes

Bemberg Hotel Destroyed in Elizabethton Fire

A Sunday night fire leveled the Bemberg hotel in Elizabethton with an estimated $10,000 loss. The blaze started near midnight and burned through the entire building before firefighters from Elizabethton and the nearby Bemberg plant could save it. The hotel was owned by Mrs. Boyd Richardson of West Jefferson.

Bemberg Hotel Elizabethton Johnson City Bemberg Boyd Richardson West Jefferson

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Ralph Spainhour Morganton Mrs. I. G. Greer Stewart Hodges Kiva, Ky J. M. Hodges B. B. Dougherty J. M. Moretz Lenoir Grover Triplett I. G. Greer Wilkes County Jas. E. Hillman State Department of Education Raleigh Normal School Dr. Robertson Creston Ashe County State Normal Robert Moretz Craughan Herbert Butler Delta, Colorado Carrier Smithport Dor. Butler Butler, Tenn J. A. Sproles Blowing Rock Messrs Coone Benfield Fred Hodges Hess High Point Ballew’s Evans Terre Haute Indiana F. J. Foley Bowers-Moore Bristol Mesdames Emma Moore E. S. Coffey J. S. Winkler Carrie Ruth Coffey Dean Bingham David Greene Gordon Winkler Paul Coffey Wilkes Journal Misses Pearl Bumgarner Divilla Gilliam Gail’ Bumgarner Bryan Gilreath Cecil Carter William Absher R. P. Casey Clinton Smoot Richard Fin Tey Edwin Waugh Worth Morrison William Tate Standard Oil A & B Chevrolet Company Cread Calloway Wataugan Virgil Calloway John Fisch Calvin Weaver Amelia Ohio Mr. Calloway Hickory Vance Howell Columbia University New York Boone Consolidated District Tusday Latham Watauga Hospital Boone Dr. Hillman State Board of Education Normal G. F. Watson South Carolina Zionville Democrat J. Freeman Whitman Christian Advent Church Whitman Mr. Whitman Henson’s Chapel Cove Creek W. G. Hartzog Jordan Triplett Sampson County Sam F. Horton Cove Creek High School Horton Todd Riddles Fork George Green Store The Board of Commis Bemberg Ghotel N. C Drumhead Co Y Greater Baltimore Livingston Globe and Red Rock Brussels Daniel Boone Daniel Boone Heights North Orchard Street South Orchard Street Edw N. Hahn Postoffice Durham Hose Windsor Ues
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