Local notices highlight community births and visits in Boone
Miss Mildred Jackson spent the week end with friends in Brevard North Carolina. A baby girl named Emma Jean born to Mr and Mrs Dudley Councill. Rupert Little of Conover visiting Boone relatives. Mrs T M Greer return from Bertie County to Boone. Lois Miller and J R Greer wed near Boone. Several locals travel for nursing training and work at nearby towns. Potato vines damaged by frost but overall promising. Veteran Confederates and local officials noted visiting Boone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Jackson
Brevard
N. C
Dudley Councill
Emma Jean
Rupert Little
Conover
Boone
Democrat
June Russell
J L. Grayson
Mountain City
Tenn
T. Milt Greer
Bertie County
J. F. Robbins
Frank Jr
New York
Wildwood Nurseries
Ruby Cook
Harriet Feagan
Columbus
Arledge
Mill Springs
Chappell Wilson
Nashville
Saxon
John Norris
James Moore
New York City
Washington, D. C
The
Pines
W. R. Butler
Betty Butler
Portland
Oregon
Jim Rivers
Frank Critcher
Asheville
E. H. Greer
Lenoir
P. A. Hicks
Messrs
H. A. Davis
E. J. Norris
Enoch Swift
Watauga
N. E. Miller
J. M. Hodges
Addie Adams
White Hall
Alfred Isaacs
Vilas
Jim Brown
Adams
Clyde M. Lipford
Butler, Tenn
Blowing Rock
Linville
Lipford
Butler
Bynum Moore
Lewis Glenn
Rufus Ward
Julia McElyah
Phillips Branch
Rutherwood Fish Hatchery
County Road Commission
Smith Hagaman
Will Farthing
Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Bridge Party Honoring Miss Louise Critcher in Greensboro
Mr and Mrs W Clyde Ritch hosted four tables of bridge at 111 East Hendrix Street Saturday night for guest Miss Louise Critcher of Boone. A salad course followed progressions with prizes awarded: high women prize a compact to Mrs Kenneth Gouedy, men’s prize an ashtray to Seaton Cooper, with consolation prizes to Mrs Seaton Cooper and J J J Cox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Critcher
Greensboro
Seaton Cooper
J. J. J. Cox
Survival rates show gradual drop from first to sixth grade
In 1923 24 one thousand white first graders had 625 reach the second grade and 447 reach the sixth. Survival to later grades is higher after the first drop with 372 of 1 000 not reaching the second. Projections estimate about 18 000 of 116 077 white children will graduate by 1933 34. Catawba County farmers expect a banner production year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
State Department
June 11 1891 Local News Highlights From Ourkarly Filer
Miss Sallie Jurney closes her school due to illness. Roy Cottrell becomes night clerk at Battery Park Hotel Asheville. Robert Gray opens Blowing Rock Hotel. Laurel Creek Township votes down prohibition by about two to one. D D Dougherty returns from Wake Forest College after illness scare. Mrs L L Greene the postmistress remains ill with neuralgia but resumes duties. Elder Hoyle travels through town for Fairview Church circuit meeting. Maggie Boyden family visiting Mrs Councill for the summer. New horse racks near the public square. wagons barred from main street. Street vendors must move off court days. Rev Blankenship and Ham Waters elope, fourteen children left behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elder Hoyle
Fairview
Maggie Boyden
Councill
Blankenship
Wilkes
Meat Camp Church
Ham Waters
Chicago Racketeers Profit Six Million Weekly Says Papers
Chicago newspapers led by the Daily News accuse police and politicians as racketeers profit from beer gambling vice and labor rackets totaling about 5.8 million weekly. They cite 39 unsolved racketeer murders and call for resignations of Police Chief Russell and Deputy Commissioner Stege while Lingle's murder spurs the probe. Police have jailed 1,223 suspects since the killing, mostly released later for lack of charges. A farm report notes 3000 acre yield of oats and vetch in Jones County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lingle
Michigan Boulevard
Daily News
Chicago
Capones
Aiellos
Guiscks
Morans
William Hale
Bill
Thompson
William Russell
John Stege
Arthur F. Albert
Russell
Stege
the News
Daily Illustrated Times
The
Evening American
the Evening Post
Herald and Examiner
Journal of Commerce
the Tribune
Chicago Federation of Churches
Virginia recluse dies after 26 day self starvation
Danville Virginia Frank W. Davis aged recluse recently abandoned a 26 day fast to end his life by starvation. He was found dead in his kitchen with a shotgun near his side and a cord attached to the trigger. Physicians said he had been dead about ten hours, death by own action occurred late Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Frank W. Davis
Davis
Sheriff Announces Corrections in Tax Sale List
A notice states some names were incorrectly inserted in the tax sale list and have been dropped. Others paid but were too late will be removed next week. L. M. Farthing, Sheriff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. M. Farthing
Aged man buried after refusal to eat leads to hospital stay
An elderly man, initially refusing food, was committed to Western State Hospital at Staunton by county authorities, later began eating. He was buried Monday at 3:30 p m in a farm plot after services by Rev. N F Hunt. He had rejected religion yet claimed belief in an omnipotent being. Greene County also reports increased corn acreage and more gardens planted this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Hunt
Christ
Greene County
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Norris
Camp Nimrod Triplett
Councill Cook
Lincolnton Hospital
J. R. Mast
Sugar Grove
Mast
Catawba
Hamp Clawson
W. H. Norris
Ourkarly
Alfred Lingle
W. L Dail
Jones County
Virginian
Cove Creek
H. P. Dougherty
North Carolina
Altime Theatre
Ramon Navarro
Dorothy Jordan
Madrid
Spain
Jack Perrin
Aileen Ray
Paramount
Cottrell Bros
Carolina Theatre
George Sidney and
Charlie Murray
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
H. M. Jeffries
Boone, North Carolina
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