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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
3
Local items report General Green advances slowed by rain while North Carolina affairs including a forthright sheriff tax sales, marriages, illnesses, travel notices, and church events. Notables include Adolphus Wenley ill, Rev. A L Stanford preaching, and Judge Councill's summer court schedule. Community updates cover farming, stock laws, growth in Blowing Rock, and a public Odd Fellows picnic planned for July 4.
Loss of appetite is described as draining vitality and digestion. The remedy promoted is Hood's Sarsaparilla which allegedly improves stomach function, digestion, and the pleasure of eating, with thousands of users claiming it is unmatched for spring appetite loss.
The Mountain City Tomahawk notes a survey has been ordered for amendments to the public road from Dr. Rhea's to the North Carolina line in Johnston County. The paper stresses the road's importance to residents and anticipates necessary improvements.
Burke County News reports Richard Williams traveled from Asheville to Morganton and notes Mr. Silver near Old Fort recently found anthracite coal on his land. Earlier coal discoveries in Caldwell County Buffalo Creek fuel belief that a mountain may hold large anthracite deposits.
A dense OCR tax record lists land parcels in Boone Township Hagaman families and others with 1900 73 acre parcels and many town lots. Entries include Beaver Dams heirs Beaverdams Beach Momanl Beach area and Cove Creek Pougherty properties with acres and costs. Elk Township shows numerous 99 1900 and 100 acre tracts and town lots with taxes. Multiple named individuals and firms appear alongside parcel counts and total tax and cost figures.
A vendor at the old post office building promotes sugar flour rice spices extracts cigars tobacco soaps and laces with stable prices. He advertises high market prices for country produce and invites customers to inspect stock in person.
To our customers and friends we wish to tender our thanks for their past patron age, and ask for even a more liberal share of it in the future, we remain.
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