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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
3
The Watauga Democrat is listed with the Post Office at N. C. as second class mail matter, indicating its mailing status and classification for distribution locally.
Richard M. Greene made a business trip to Hickory last week. John Blair of Banner Elk was in town yesterday. The season of handshakes with the dead approaches, nights remain cool, crops grow fairly well. Dr. Wakefield of Charlotte coming announcement.
Community items recount sales ads and errands in Blowing Rock and nearby Ashe county towns. Notes include J W Horton losing five dollar bills, a planned visit by Rev Kilgo to District Conference, family visits, sales of property, and a request for school book exchanges before July. Weather, church appointments, and local education updates thread through the week’s small town happenings.
Prompt families to buy Chamberlain's Col ic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy before summer. Advertises it as universally admitted to be the most successful medicine for bowel complaints for both children and adults. Sold by M. B. Blackborn.
H J Strickfaden, editor World Herald Fair Haven Washington, testifies his son suffered a severe bout of whooping cough and threatened pneumonia, but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy saved him from several serious croup attacks and brought relief. Sold by M Blackburn.
Senator Pritchard denies supporting Linney over Blackburn for the congressional nomination. The denial frames the race as a contest between two established candidates with Byrd-era party dynamics shaping the field.
Look Here Friends read our price list for sixty days standard calicoes five cents outings ten cents double width dress casimers fifteen to twenty cents per card soda four for ten cents granulated sugar sixteen for one dollar brown sugar seventeen for one dollar two large cakes laundry soap new hats shoes and pants at low prices buy produce at market rates wool paid thirty cents per pound our twelve years in birch oil trade means higher payments for this article fat and poor cattle bought see us to get more for your money.
A historical land record lists multiple owners and heirs with acreages and year markers such as 1900 and 1905. Names include Byers J A, Potter EF, Moretz JA, Jay and Hardin, Brown heirs, Smith Elin's heirs, Miller David heirs, Tomlinson's heirs, Price Jesse's heirs, Ragan Mary, Shawneeha ware C Mrs, Harman M. The entries show acres and relative values for each claimant across scattered plots.
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