Boone to gain an educational center this summer
The Watauga Democrat reports Boone to host a surge of education with Prof Downum leading Latin, Miss Witherspoon, Miss Alice Wilson, and Miss Okla Dees among others, plus visiting scholars from Carson-Newman and Chicora College. Summer plans include a new trail to Mt Mitchell, a Southern tourism hotel, and renewed academic activity in a climate and scenery praised as ideal.
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Appalachian Training School
Downum
Mise Witherspoon
University of Bbouth Carolina
Chicora College
South Carolina
Alice Wilson
Boston Politechnical Institute
Greensboro Female College
Centenary College
Tenn
Okla Dees
the Normal
Greensboro
Willie Spainhour
Morganton
Spainhour
Columbia University of New York
Boone
Carson-Newman College
Watauga
Tome
Land of the Sky
Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Chartered in North Carolina
A strong company is granted a charter to build The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro with a Blowing Rock branch, planning a million dollar endowment. Deeds to Cone estate were transferred by Mrs. Moses H. Cone, who also funds ten thousand dollars annually for maintenance of the estate, as university commencement plans honor Confederate and Union soldiers with diplomas altered at the ceremony.
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Greensboro
Blowing Rock
Moses H. Cone
Cone
Watauga
Union
Rural mail carrier buys automobile for Union county route
G. W. James, a rural mail carrier in Union county, purchased an automobile to use on his route. On the first trip the machine failed and he had to haul it back to town, seven miles away.
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G. W. James
Union County
Fire destroys plant of Southern Lumber in Nashville
Fire destroyed the plant of the Southern Lumber and Manufacturing Co in Nashville Tennessee Friday night. Loss is estimated at 75000 dollars and is covered by insurance.
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Southern Lumber and Manufacturing Co
Nashville
I'enn
Czar of Russia to visit U S fleet at Croneladt
A Washington dispatch reports the Czar of Russia will visit the United States fleet at Croneladt. He has only once before visited a foreign fleet, in 1901 when he visited the French fleet.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Croneladt
Monument unveiled for King Immanuel II in Rome crowd swells
Nearly a million people witnessed the unveiling on the fourth of a movement to King Immanuel II in Rome. The Woodmen of the World plan to unveil a monument to John M. Julian, who died in Salisbury last fall. A Memphis theater fire caused eighty five thousand dollars in losses. cause unknown. Southern Presbyterian General Assembly to meet in Bristol Tennessee. Taft spoke in Chicago on Canadian reciprocity. New Hanover County funds road improvements totaling two hundred thousand dollars. High Point named as final postal depository in the state. Foley Kidney Pills advertised for backache and kidney ills.
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Immanuel II
Rome
Italy
John M. Julian
Salisbury
Fertilizers for Farmers Call on W.U. for supplies
Farmers urged to obtain high grade fertiliser and acids by calling at W. U. for supplies. The notice emphasizes quality products and directs inquiries to the supplier.
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Od W.U
Card of Thanks for N. W. Glenn
A personal thanks to friends for kindness and sympathy during the prolonged illness and death of N. W. Glenn. The family expresses gratitude and prayer for God’s richest blessings on those who offered support.
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N. W. Glenn
Card of Thanks for Kindness During Sickness and Death
The family expresses heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors who faithfully offered aid during illness death and burial of their wife and mother. They pray the loved ones be surrounded by loving kindness and wish them reward for their help. Wyatt Hayes and family.
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Wyatt
Regional Church Appointments Outline June Schedule
Rev W R Savage releases June service plan with visits to Beaver Creek Todd and Boone on Sundays. Mrs Pendley travels to Lenoir June 1 for hotel business. Summer cottages open including Boughers and Dangerfelds. Linville added to Savage's field. Watauga Son renovated under T H Coffey and Mrs Pendley. Scottish timber land in Haywood and Madison changes hands to Northern Associates of J A Porter for 25 000 acres at about 850 000 to 400 000 dollars, a virgin forest land.
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W. R. Savage
Beaver Creek A.m
P. m
Todd
Boone
A.m
St John’s Pim
W. P. Pendley
Lenoir
Boughers
Dangerfelds
Savage
Linville
Watauga
T. H. Coffey
Haywoodd
Madison
Uptegra Brothers
J. A Porter
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertised as Universal Remedy
An old promotional note touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy claimed to cure catarrh by cleansing blood and mucous surfaces. It asserts a $100 reward for failure to cure and urges readers to send testimonials to F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio.
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Halle
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Tolletto
Farm For Sale Near Elizabethton Tennessee
About 90 acres of clay limestone land one mile east of Elizabethton with 50 acres in grain and corn and a small woodland near the barn. Includes a 4 year old five room dwelling, two barns, poultry houses, a good well at 108 feet, and a pond for stock. Desirable for dairy and poultry near an excellent market. Write or visit Jett Bros, Elizabethton, Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethton
Tenn
Jett Bros
Tennessee
Boundary expansion proposal for Shawneehaw township
At the July board meeting officials will seek to enlarge Shawneehaw township by absorbing small portions of Watauga and Laurel Creek. The proposed boundaries trace along Hanging Rock Elk Ridge Valle Crucis farm H Taylor saw mill Sawmill Ridge Long Mountain Blankenship Ridge Horse-stamp Beech Creek Beech Mountain Avery and Watauga county lines back to the start.
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Board of County Commissioners
Shawneehaw Township
Watauga
Laurel Creek
Hanging Rock
Elk Ridge
Valle Crucis Farm
H. Taylor
Sawmill Ridge
Long Mountain
Blankenship Ridge
Beech Creek
Smart Saw
Beech Mountain
Avery
Watuaga
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