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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1923
Page
5
Local notices report births and marriages in Boone and surrounding towns. Contractors McGhee Bros. & Hodges win the brickwork for a new Baptist church on Cove Creek. Several residents visit kin, travel for work, or shop the Brownwood and Virgil areas. A town lot sale set for July 7 near Howard's Knob promises a crowd.
Rev Walter E Wilson of the Training School will preach at the Baptist church at 11 am next Sunday. Delegates report glowing notes from the B Y P U Convention at High Point and recall the 1910 Durham meeting with 77 present from 34 unions and over 1300 delegates from 1184 unions. Unions exist in Blowing Rock Boone Cove Creek Pleasant Grove Bethel Timber Ridge. Prof I G Greer to lead this week's prayer meeting. Visitors and teachers welcome. Come thou with us and we will do thee good.
County Superintendent Smith Hagaman calls a mandatory Boone Court House Teachers Meeting on Monday July 9 1923 at 10 AM. All teachers planning to teach in Watauga County this year must attend to receive the term schedule before schools begin. The day will count toward the school term.
A church meeting elected S. C. Eggers as President and Eula Hedges as Vice President. Hazel Daniger will lead Bible reading, Herman Wilcox serves as Secretary Treasurer, Elsie Farthing as Corresponding Secretary, Ruth Cottrell as Pianist, with Charlie Younce A L Cook Ruth Dotson Ruth Coffey as group captains.
Mr and Mrs H W Horton return to Boone after wintering in Miami Florida. Walter says there are two real places to live Watauga or Midma. He worked in Florida real estate during winter and reports good business last season.
A brief token of gratitude expresses thanks to all who contributed to a new automobile now in the writer’s possession. The note promises to use the gift wisely for good purposes and acknowledges liberality and confidence from contributors.
Warm rains persist with corn and crops thriving though livestock suffered from recent electric storms. Weddings, birthdays, and a bank housewarming mark social notes as Mrs Clyde Reese and Maud Phill report ailments, and Earp and Lula wed at North Wilkesboro before moving home. Local visitors from Elizabethton, Tenn. are noted.
Arrangements are set for Sunday services through the summer at the Blowing Rock Methodist church. Next Sunday July 1 Rev A D Wilcox pastor of Trinity church Durham will preach morning and evening. Others filling the pulpit will be announced as they come.
The Watan g Bank celebrated the formal opening of its new Surday building with a housewarming. Attendance drew crowds from the area, cigars for men, flowers for all, and music from 3 to 5 PM.
Through Congressman R L Coughton the town of Boone plans an aeroplane display for the Fourth of July despite last year's weather failure. A large crowd is expected, though no formal celebration is noted.
David Jones dug up a pot of old British coins near Somerset Kentucky worth about $48,000. Experts say the treasure was likely hidden by 19th century robbers who used a local stronghold. If no legal claim is filed within a year, Jones may own the find outright.
A Charlotte Observer item cites Rupert Hughes arguing middle age can be conquered with vitality and style. He urges abandoning resigned dress, embracing playful fashion, hair care, and beauty routines to stay engaged, capable, and alive despite age.
The State of North Carolina Halifax County notice states Esther E. Ransom died and GEO. E. Ransom is administrator. Creditors must present claims by June 25, 1924, at Weldon, N C, or be barred. Debts should be paid promptly. The notice bears date June 25, 1923.
On Monday night at a former meeting site, the Masonic installation proceeded with Past Master E. S. Coffey in charge. Worshipful Master R. Gragg led the ceremony as Senior Warden J. T. C. Wright, Junior Warden A. E. South, Treasurer E. G. Farthing, Secretary Russel G. Hodges, Senior Deacon R. C. Rivers Jr. and Junior Deacon Cleve Johnson were among the officers installed. W. D. Farthing served as Chaplain with R. C. Rivers and W. H. Gragg as Stewards and J. D. Council as Tyler.
A nostalgic recollection lists old time practices and norms from decades past. It mentions coffee boiled with an egg, side saddle riding, brass-toed boots and brogans, leeches, Amen from preachers, noon leftovers, neighborly inquiries, Flying Jennies merry go rounds, toothpicks, five cent red liquor, long dresses, broadcast wheat sowing, shoe shining, pot liquor meals, Bellyache terms for illness, quinine in various foods, vermilion hearth paint, cradle rocking, mumble peg, hog killings, and a lasting marriage norm.
Advertisement seeks a first class Black Smith and Garage Man to run a blacksmith shop garage and machinery business immediately. Apply to Thomas W. Hopkins Newland NC Box 51.
F. C. Ward of Vilas North Carolina offers ten dollars for the recovery of a ten month old collie dog taken or strayed from the home last Sunday evening. The dog is dark yellow with a white ring around the neck and white on the head and nose. Contact June 26, 1923 with Ward.
Wholesale plant stock listed includes Porto Rico Nancy Hall potato plants Charleston Wakefield Flat Dutch cabbage plants Baltimore Red Field Beauty tomato plants White Bermuda Onion and Yellow Bermuda Onion plants ready for shipment. Price is $1.00 per 1000 FOB Valdosta daily shipping from Dorris plant Valdosta Ga.
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