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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR lists figures and periods: six months, three months, 1.00, 50, 25. Details are unreadable, no clear entities or events. The item appears as a financial or accounting fragment without identifiable people, places, organizations, dates, or actions.
Births and illnesses appear alongside bank reports and travel notes. Local families welcome a boy to the Linney family while Brannocks report their infant improving. Miss Harman seeks treatment in Boone, and Misses Sienknecht Coffey travel from Vilas via Mountain City. Clergy Brendall schedules services as community members receive word from Le Noir and Mountain City.
Miss Maggie Cook of Silverstone wed R G Vanneya of Watauga and the couple began housekeeping in the home of the groom. Bank stockholders approved painting and furnishings for a neater building. Updates from Cheyenne and Northwest trip plans follow, plus Mast oil well progress with 80 feet drilled.
Notice to Boone township road overseers to repair roads and bridges, clear ditches, remove brush, and report to the board of supervisors by the first Monday in August 1908. Noncompliance will be presented to the grand jury at the August term. dated June 1, 1908, signed J C Ray Secretary of the Board.
Auction notice lists real estate on west side of town including two town lot holdings with improvements and a second best change substantial timber tracts near town. Also offers personal property with all items except a shotgun. Public sale details and contact information implied.
Bank of Blowing Rock in North Carolina closes May 14 1908 with assets including loans and discounts 10916.14 overdrafts 278.75 and cash from banks 823.53. The report shows capital stock 5000 surplus 3.01 time certificates 4214.58 deposits 6493.90 and other items totaling 12229.98 with cashier G M Sudderth posting the sworn statement confirming accuracy.
The Appalachian Training School opens grandly with Mina Finley Miss Howard and Mr Winkler in attendance. Mrs Mary Rutzel and Miss Mildred Atkinson of Eton College will arrive today. The school draws many from Surry Alleghany Ashe Watauga Mitchell Forsyth Sre dell Alexander Wilkes Caldwell Lincoln Sampson and Johnson counties Tennessee. Boarding houses fill rapidly as the student body grows and the school’s scholarship standard improves.
The Watauga Rail Road Co formed last Tuesday with F A Linney as president and B S Coffey as secretary. R L Irvin of Lenoir proposed a plan to lay track from Edgemont to Coffey's Gap and Bogpe, offering rolling stock and operation with 4 percent county returns. Estimated cost runs 20 000 per mile, seventeen miles total, and local committees will seek broader support. Meanwhile a Macadam road from Lenoir to Blowing Rock is planned, and subscriptions for the turnpike are noted.
The county conventions are being pulled daily as Lock Craig leads by 30 votes and Horne may carry the balance of power. Factions Craig and Kitchen clash amid bitterness, with surprising twists possible before the State convention.
Mr Hearst stated he will work to the utmost of his ability for the men whom the Convention of the Independence party selects for nomination, rejecting plans for any immediate endorsement by the Hearst Independent league and dampening supporters hoping for bias in favor of friends of Mr Bryan.
A local circular from R M Green promotes weekly bargains at his store. Customers who spend one dollar will receive a free package of silk squares for quilt work. The note invites readers to visit the store to see the offers and be convinced of the value.
The vendor touts the best line of ladies dress goods including Persian lawn India linens and other white goods. Spring suitings in various shades are offered with yard wide percals at 12 12 cents per yard and India linen priced at 35 cents now 25 cents.
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