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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1924
Page
2
Join the Building and Loan stockholders and save monthly for a rainy day. Earn 6 percent compound interest, tax exempt. One dollar a month for 78 months yields 100 dollars in cash. Keep funds local with the Watauga Building and Loan Association. Contact Secretary W. H. Gragg for details.
Henry Belk reports on the Watauga Co operative Cabbage Growing Association in Boone forming an eight thousand dollar venture with eighty farmers. They built a kraut factory, produced one million pounds of cabbage with four hundred thousand sold as grade, sixty tons canned, and set up a high speed process from shredding to sealing in a 10-tank facility.
A summary of regional projects and public finance notes including Cherryville steel observatory Mount Mitchell for fire wardens. New high school building instruction contract in Hamilton and 1500000 dollar paving bonds in Cherryville. County fairgrounds development in Cleveland county and boll weevil control efforts in Hertford county. Salisbury bonds for high school construction and Charlotte building permits totaling 3500000.
Hickory orders modern apparatus for the local fire department while Hendersonville weighs a new road to the city reservoir. Morrison Manufacturing opens a 100000 dollar plant in Statesville for bank, office and store fixtures. Phoenix Utility to build a 250000 dollar sub station in Biscoe. Carolina Oil and Supply plans a Main and Seventh Street service station in Hendersonville. Bessemer City awards 25000 dollar contract for high school addition. Rutherfordton county home to cost 60000 dollars. Charlotte selects a site for a 342500 dollar city hall at Green and Gaston Streets. Rhodhiss presses a three million dollar power project by Southern Power Company. High Point et al. rail line resumes operations after idle period. Boone builds a modern fifty room hotel.
Oklahoma City reports two Texas cow punchers who borrowed a small sum to drill the Glenn pool oil strike now worth about 50 million dollars. Their investor father’s estate tops five million, with Oklahoma taxing part of it at twelve thousand five hundred. Nearby, A G Miller hosts the largest local sale on record in Hickory promotion by I L Lanier & Son, slashing prices on first class goods and groceries, drawing crowds and praise.
Davidson Dept Store announces a July clearance winding down 3000 dollars of odds and ends and broken lots including shirts hats shoes hosiery and dress goods at deep discounts. Two thousand men's dress shirts are split into two sale lots with prices from 59c to 98c.
A sale offer highlights extra heavy fadeless chambray work shirts with large pockets and reinforced seams at 79 cents. Men’s suits priced from 11.95 to 16.95, plus $10 suits and work pants at 1.15. A bold ad line mocks Watauga County and promotes low wholesale-like prices.
Store promotes a July Clearance starting July 1 with unbelievably low prices on short dress lengths and other items. It touts deals like Blue Denim overalls for 1.50 and warns against rubber heel fashion, while weaving in social quips and unrelated tips as marketing color.
A humorous exchange between a customer and a druggist ends with the customer asking for a yellow tablet to write a letter. The joke plays on misunderstanding and wordplay.
A local sale offers numerous odds and ends in shoes from Buster Brown Craddock Terry Endicott Johnson Godman and Star brands. Shoes and oxfords will be displayed on racks and tables and marked in plain figures. Lot 1 value not specified.
Tax collector D. W. Wooten announces sale of real estate at the Boone courthouse door on July 7, 1924, at 11 a.m. to satisfy 1923 city taxes and costs for listed individuals and firms, including Abernethy, Coffey admr, Foster, Harris, Lentz Bros. & Co., Mellon, Ransom heirs, Ward, Service Garage, Elizabeth Anderson, Ira Alexander, Dr. W. E. Simpson, and Rutledge estate.
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