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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
2
A second class main matter notice appears stamped as edited at the Boone post office Iowa. The fragment suggests official postal filing or classification action affecting mail handling or distribution. No further names dates or concrete actions are readable in the fragment.
The Boone town commission on June seventh 1919 adopted an ordinance to issue coupon bonds totaling 10000 for street improvements including sidewalks macadamized streets and bridges. Bonds will bear interest up to 8 percent and be paid over ten years with annual installments. The treasurer was authorized to borrow 1000 for street work at six percent.
Reports from Blowing Rock note Reverend Powell and Reverend Ausins occupying appointments this weekend. Warm weather brings visitors from lowlands to enjoy the climate. Green Park Hotel opened June 2, Blowing Rock Hotel forthcoming. Stringfellow and Foster connected to town life. Neville rents near Reeve’s Drug. Hollifield takes beef market position with W C Craig.
Miss Hattie Parrott of the State Board of Examiners instructed students on securing various certificates on the second day of term. Heys M A Adams and B D Cevoss conducted chapel talks Thursday and Friday. The Summer Term opened with higher enrollment surpassing ten students. Rev W R Cullum of Raleigh spoke to students Saturday and at the Baptist church Sunday about the million dollar education drive. Prof Rankin and others visited Blowing Rock on Sunday and students enjoyed a short outing. The hot weather prompted readers to seek Boone’s cooler air and pleasant mornings.
Mr D Houck and sof, formerly of Watluga and Wauchu la South Frovida, arrived Monday evening in a Ford car after a thousand mile trip. Houck owns a 4 acre farm in a trucking belt and earned around 6,000 from cucumbers this year with fertilizer costs near 1,000. He loves Watanga but says farming here now would not be feasible.
Mrs. Mary Brown of East Boone learns her husband J F Brown died in Buffalo New York hospital while en route home from Montana. Son D A Brown rushed to aid but death occurred before arrival. body shipped to Boone for interment in town cemetery. Survived by children John B W H A L Cook Homer D F Brown. family moved to Boone years ago. community offers condolences.
A wartime advertisement claiming a Ford truck delivered crucial aid to Marines at Belleau Wood is debunked by War Department records. The piece recounts French village Bowresle s captured after fierce fighting in Sept 1918 and a later clarification that neither other truck makers nor their vehicles earned glory. Ford is named in the corrected account.
Ernest C. Bardwell of New York described his strenuous tour with YMCA units at Chateau Thierry on July 22. He noted they entered the village at 10 AM with supplies and worked through the day and night to aid Allied forces as they repelled German counter attacks. The last German prisoners were removed from Chateau Thierry at 8:30 AM the same morning.
The YMCA work expands rapidly in Macedonia with C W Bates directing from Salonica. Centers open in Serbia at Vranja Nish Monastir and other towns and in Belgrade the YMCA operates in a gond building. Percival Whitley aids in Northern Bulgaria while Hard Bradley plants the Triangle in Constantinople.
Advice to tailor diet to age and occupation and keep bowels regular. When overeating or constipated, take one Chamberlain's Tablet to ease the issue.
In Watauga County North Carolina By mortgage deed dated July 25 19 R by A Kay and wife to J I Puckett to secure 300 000 with interest and costs the undersigned will sell at public auction for cash to highest bidder on July 7 at 1 p m at the courthouse door Bodne Laurel Creek township Beech Creek area commencing at a stake Farthing corner of the 40 acre tract running north 1206 poles to a stake in Miller line east with 20 poles to MeghToanis line south two poles to a stake in Farthing line then north to the beginning containing 42 acres more or less one undivided interest in the above tract will be sold at the sale F May 31 J P PUCKETT Mortgagee F A LINNEY Attorney.
A law enacted by the last legislature requires all persons who thresh grain to procure a license from the Register of Deeds of his county. The license and blanks are on hand, and operating a threshing machine without a license is a misdemeanor. W. R. Gragg, Register of Deeds.
Mrs Anna Weedon Armfield wife of C G Armfield died early Friday at her home in Mlin of blood poison. Daughter of Mrs M E Weedon of Blowing Rock she was well remembered in Watauga. Burial was held Saturday in kin.
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