Local affairs in Boone highlight visitors and events
J H Wright of Wilson spent the weekend in Boone. Annie Stanbury, a Wilson teacher, has returned for summer in Boone. Miss Masie Jean Jones hosted the Children's Missionary Society. Attendees hear preaching at the Baptist church and a visit by E S Coffey. A beaver dam obituary notes the death of Mr Empsey Gragg, Civil War veteran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Wright
Wilson
Boone
J. W. Bryan
B. J. Abernethy
Mesdames Rankin
Anders
Will Winkler
Livingston Club
Critcher Hotel
Bill” Lovill
W. R. Lovill
Greensboro
Annie Stanbury
Masie Jean Jones
Children's Missionary Society
Coffey
Empsey Gragg
Beaver Dam
Watauga
J. Young Love
Rich Mountain
George Sherrill
Elizabeth City
G. P. Hagaman
New York
Columbia University
PTA Meeting At Baptist Church Sets June 28
The Parent-Teachers Association met at the Baptist church on Sunday June 13 with talks by Dr. Harpham and Prof. Rankin praised as interesting and instructive. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday June 28 at 8 PM at the same church and every member is urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Baptist Church
Harpham
Rankin
Local notices and social updates from Boone area
Mr Grover Waters returns from Johns Hopkins after a successful appendicitis operation and is doing well. Doctor Coe is back in town after a Florida trip in a flivver. Mail service will run twice daily from Lenoir. George Robbins becomes temporary manager of Preswood's new livery stable. An American Legion supported ice cream supper at the school auditorium Saturday finances Boone celebrations. Eugene Holshouser returns from Bristol Tennessee on business. E Holt and family at the summer retreat. Daily golf course improvements continue at Green Park. Dr Dula the Eye Specialist misses Boone engagement due to flu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J
Uncle Tom) Sullivan
Peaveler
Bristol
Watauga
Edgar Payne
J. M. Payne
Boone
Blanche
John C. Brown
Route 1
Baptist Parsonage
I. M. Hoggins
E. E. Hahn
Gastonia
J. C. Fletcher
Lenoir
Hahn
Grover Waters
John’s Hopkins
Doctor Coe
Florida
George Robbins
Mr. Preswood
American Legion
Boone the 4Th
Eugene Holshouser
Bristol, Tonn
Holt
Green Park
Hospital cornerstone ceremony highlights Shrinedom event
The Shriners crown the Crippled Children's Hospital in San Francisco with a cornerstone laid by Imperial Potentate Ernest A. Cutts. The ceremony opens the 48th Imperial Session drawing about 300,000 Shrines and visitors to the oasis of San Francisco for the organization’s peak historical gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Ernest A. Cutts
May Fire Losses Drop Sharply In State
May fire losses across North Carolina totaled 351,371 dollars from 122 fires, far below April’s 829,585 dollars. Major incidents included Louisburg tobacco priley 66,760 dollars and Charlotte Western Newspaper Union 63,500 dollars. Causes ranged from defective flues to careless handling and gasoline ignition, with ten large fires listed by Commissioner Wade. Elimination of five grade crossings by state roads and railroads for underpasses or overpasses was agreed, with Forest City funded largely by the state. Confederate pension checks totaling half a million dollars were mailed to clerks of court for 1,000 pensioners, with variable quarterly payments and timing around the Richmond reunion.
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May
Wade
Louisburg
Charlotte
Western Newspaper Union
Asheville
Durham
Moore County
Edgecombe County
Davidson County
Winston-Salem
Durham County
Fairmont
State Highway Commission
Southern Railway
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Cary
Ol d ' Fort
Central
Frank Page
Seaboard
W. L. Stanley
Southern
B. Herman
C. D. Mackey
J. L. Litton
Forest City
Page
Corporation
Commisson
Clerlk of Cour
North Carolina
Pension Board
Richmond
Notice of Sale Under Mortgage in Watauga County
By virtue of a mortgage deed executed by E B Stokes and wife Clee Stokes to John Sherrill to secure 1752.83 and default having occurred I will sell to the high bidder for cash on July 3 1922 at the Court House door in Boone NC the described land in Watauga County containing 23 acres more or less Beginning on a stake in Georges Gap and following a chain of lines and corners through Moody’s corner to a public road This June 2 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Michael
Watauga
Asheville
T. J. Sullivan
L. L. Green
Appalachian Training School
American Legions
Boone
Boone Drug Co
Greene & Binghams
John Whittington
Democrat
John
Frank
Grayson
Trade Tenn
E. B. Stokes
Clee Stokes
John Sherrill
Court House
N. C
Watauga County
Jacob Lewis
Notice of Mortgage Sale in Watauga County NC
Notice of mortgage sale by Roy I Haynes and wife Nora Haynes to W L Haynes, dated June 29 1920 to secure 1160.00. Assignee will sell June 22 1922 in Watauga NC land of about 40 acres. Bidding starts at 945 with cash deposit with clerk until raised bid time. Attorneys included.
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W. L. Haynes
Roy I. Haynes
Nora Haynes
Watauga
North Carolina
Pearl Haynes
Roy S. Haynes
Z. T. Greene
Fred Winkler
T. B. Bincham
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Chatauga Democrat
Parent-Teacher Association
Dula
Appalachian Theater
Lucy Bennet
Dorothy Gish
Mack Sennet
Universal
Comedy International
Kodak Films
Kodak
Will C. Walker Butler
Tenness
Bank of
Blowing Rock
Ellis’ Department Store
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