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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1923
Page
2
A 1923 note invites residents of Boone and Watauga County to celebrate the bank’s new building. It praises twenty years of growth from a small local lender to a grand brick and steel edifice, urging community support and unity in greeting the future.
Don Farthing of Route 1 Blowing Rock suffered a bad leg fracture when his truck ran off the road and overturned on an embankment. He was brought back to Blowing Rock and rested Sunday morning, expected to be out of work for several weeks.
The Winston-Salem Journal began a new morning automobile delivery from Winston-Salem to Boone, delivering the paper at 8:30 AM instead of 5:00 PM by mail, marking a notable service enhancement for readers in the northwest region.
Blowing Rock hosts the North Carolina Press Association convention at Mayview Manor Hotel. President Sherill opens talks today with shop discussions and a Vanderbilt address from Biltmore. Lectures by Smith Watson, Hurley Sall y, and Elizabeth City’s QO Saunders frame the program with memorial dies by Daniels and Joyner.
Lilly Bingham nurse at Watauga hospital married Robert N. Brooks formerly of Greenville Tennessee. The ceremony was held in Boone on June 7 at 9 15 PM with Rev. Ed Hodges officiating. Bride wore blue and white and both families live in Cove Creek and Boone.
Mrs Ashley returns from Virginia visit as locals note visitors and residents traveling to camps and trails. Greensboro couple arrives at Camp Yanah lossee with season opening planned around July. Several locals attend B Y P U convention in High Point and others tour mountain resorts drawing summer tourists to Rock and Blowing Rock.
The Boone Garage reports rapid sales of the first car load of Chevrolets within a week of arrival and notes orders are piling in. Another car load will be in soon. Also, a lost notice offers a reward for a thing lost between Greene and Bingham’s and the residence, signed by D. F. Brown of Boone North Carolina.
Mrs F A Linney hosted a Friday Afternoon Club meeting with many guests including Mrs O L Hardin returning for the summer. Attendees were Mrs G C Brinkman Miss Elizabeth Herring and Miss Selma Settle of Charlotte. Two courses of refreshments were served. The next meeting will be hosted by Mrs Smith.
A poem recounts Bonner John and Cathrine Pate as lovers living a double life with Paramoter Kate. Jim Crow hunting corn serves as a moral backdrop. tainted by illicit romance, the verse notes a coming reckoning led by a wary rural town.
A Parent Teacher Association gathering is set for Friday at 2 30 p m at the public school. Prof Hillman and other faculty members will lead an instructive program and parents are urged to attend.
A 15 year old boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Greene of Stony Fork Township, was crushed under a moving truck on the Boone Trail Highway near the Wilkes county line last Thursday. He died at once after the accident. Interment was held on Saturday as the community mourned.
Old Mt. Pleasant Lutheran Church Sands R F D will be dedicated Sunday July 1 Rev J L Morgan Ch D President of the North Carolina Synod will preach the sermon Dr W A Deaton is expected to be present and preach at 2 oclock p m Everybody invited.
The second term at Boone North Carolina's Appalachian Training School begins July 17. Registration is 5 dollars in advance, with board and lodging 27 dollars for six weeks. This state summer school targets teachers under high school grades. Apply for literature.
Rev. L. M. Huggins and Herman Wilcox with Elsie Farthing left town Tuesday for the State B. Y. P. U. convention at High Point and will take an excursion to Thomasville to visit the Baptist orphanage.
Advertising text lists many Mason fruit jars in all sizes and promotes roofing products from Boone Hardware Co. The brief item mirrors a hardware store catalog style and highlights available jars and roofing materials.
Boone report notes Prof. Highsmith secured a PhD at the University and becomes Dr Highsmith. The Training School hosted chapel events with soloists Ruth Rankin and Ruth Wardell, Rev. John M Kelly, and Mrs. Gerald. Summer enrollment reaches 373. students come from 57 NC counties and five other states plus Canada.
Silvertown Cord tires and tubes advertised with a ten percent discount now offered by Boone Hardware Co. in a brief trade notice.
Mr Simon P Shull 85 died at his Cove Creek home Sunday after years of paralysis. Ex Confederate soldier and respected citizen, his funeral Monday night drew many relatives and Masonic Fraternity members honoring him with the magic order. May the grass grow green and the birds sing over his grave.
A compact classified notice lists Crockery ware and flower pots just received at Boone Hardware Co. plus an offer for a well broke four year old horse. Response directed to J. R. Hampton in Blowing Rock North Carolina.
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