Local Lumberman Guest on Southern Tour
W. R. Gragg describes a 80 man delegation’s trip with Edward Hines Yellow Pine Co. touring southern mills in Birmingham Bay St. Louis Lumberton and New Orleans. They viewed mills cutting 175 000 and 350 000 feet daily toured a turpentine distillery and naval stores, rode L N Pan American trains and observed vast timber operations across 328 000 acres with 1800 daily mill workers and 105 daily log carloads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Hines Yellow Pine Co
Chicago
Hines
South
Bristol
Chattanooga
Nashville
Birmingham
Montgomery
Mobile
New Orleans
Bay St. Louis
Gulf of Mexico
Kim
Miss
Missouri Southern
Barth
Charlie Hineson
Lumberton
Jackson Square
North Carolina
Mississippi
W. R. Gragg
Jury List for Wa tauga Special Term Civil Trials
The Wa tauga Superior Court announces a special term for civil cases to convene in Boone on Monday June 15 1925 with Judge Harding presiding. The first week jurors include C R Holman E N Norris Charles Winebarger S T Ic enhour B J Councill D L Glenn Alphus Triplett and others. The second week jurors include R F Miller C M Miller Z V Greene A L Triplett W M Coffey and additional names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watauga Superior Court
Boone
Harding
C. R. Holman
E. N. Norris
Charles Winebarger
S. T. Icenhour
B. J. Councill
D. L. Glenn
Alphus Triplett
R. J. Perry
Solomon Eggers
Watauga Fish Hatchery Visit and Local Orchard Yields
A Boone area reporter visits the Watauga Fish Hatchery near Rutherwood, praised for its planning and springs water quality. About 100000 native mountain trout hatched this spring will be released in county streams in May under protection by law. Mr Moretz notes ample apples for his family with potential for year round harvest if properly cared for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Missionary Society
Western North Carolina
Methodist Church
Charlotte
Boone Church
Woman‘s Society
Young Peoples Society
Children’s Society
J. A. Williams
Appalachian’ State Normal
Watauga
Rutherwood
Worth While Club Hosts Audubon Themed Meeting
The Worth While Club met at Mrs. Castle's Buena Vista Heights home on May 1. Guests heard a program on John James Audubon with a life sketch, Audubon Society talk, a reading, and a note of thanks from Mr. Hagaman. The group planned spring flower planting and crowned Mrs. J. M. Morectz the May contest winner with a roses basket. Refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies of the Worth While Club
Robert Castle
D. W. Logan
D. J. Cottrell
Audubon Society
J. M. Morectz
W. H. Gragg
A. . Howell
Burglary hits H W Presnells store at Beech Creek
On Tuesday night April 28 the H W Presnells store was burglarized about one hundred dollars in merchandise stolen. Officers arrested one boy and the other suspect remains at large. Other notes report a sick child improving and local health worries with an insane patient sent for treatment. A church singing is planned at Antioch church on the third Sunday in May.
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Beech Creek
H. W. Presnell
Willie Harman
B. F. Ward
Boone
Morganton
Herman Reese
Fred Edmiston
Matney
Antioch Church
Formal Opening of Magnificent Daniel Boone Hotel Sixteenth
The Daniel Boone Hotel will open on the sixteenth with a stockholders banquet and ball. Designed by C B Kerfoot, the three story brick building sits near Daniel Boone Park above Boone Trail. it offers 60 rooms with private baths, a dining room for 100, a lobby for entertainments, and year round operation on the American plan.
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Daniel Boone Hotel
Nathan Sharp
C. B. Kerfoot
Knoxville
Daniel Boone Park
Howard’s Knob
Blue Ridge Range
Grandfather
Rockies
Blowing Rock
Sharp
Preas
Johnson City
Daniel Boone
Timbered Ridge Locals Farm Work Delayed by Wet Weather
The Timbered Ridge community notes slow farm progress due to cold wet weather with snow in the area last week. Mrs. G. P. Sherrill visited her sister Mrs. Duke Glenn. Miss Lucy Greene wins top honors at Watauga Academy in Butler Tennessee. Mrs. Etta C. Greene attends commencement. local students help prepare a Mothers Day program for the Timbered Ridge school.
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G. P. Sherrill
Duke Glenn
Glenn
George Wilson
Upper
Beaver Dam
Timbered Ridge
Etta C. Greene
Watauga Academy
Butler, Tenn
Lucy Greene
A. E. Brown Literary Society
Laura McGuire
Allie Farthing
Lucy Smitherman
Effa Greene
Timbered Ridge School
Jay
Pilgrimage of 101 Years Ends for Riley Greer
A note on the death of Riley Greer at his Boone area home, as reported in our previous issue. The obituary recalls a long life marked by years of activity, a steady appetite, cheerful disposition, and a lingering tobacco habit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riley Greer
Rilye Grer
Boone
Nathan Sharp Named Manager of New Daniel Boone Hotel
The Charlotte Observer reports Nathan Sharp, a 12 year Charlotte hotel veteran, will manage the Daniel Boone Hotel at Boone. He resigns as Hotel Charlotte chief clerk to move mid month with his wife and daughter Nancy Crane Sharp. The Boone hotel opens with a May 1 stockholders dinner and dance and is led by lessees Coyle and Pogue with A M Street of Huntsville assisting.
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Nathan M. Sharp
Charlotte Observer
Daniel Boone Hotel
Nathan Sharp
Boone
Sharp
Charlotte
Watauga
Nancy Crane Sharp
Stonewall
Mecklenburg
Selwyn
Guilford County
Fayetteville
Daniel Boone
North Carolina
North Carolina Mountains
A. M. Street
Huntsville
Ala
Alabama
Statesville
Messrs Coyle and Pogue
Foscoe News Highlights Springtime Activity and Visits
Foscoe residents plant corn and tend gardens as the season opens. Several visitors drop by including Carrie Miller from Lenoir and relatives of Moravian Falls and Blowing Rock. A guest from Canton Ohio stays with the Coffey family. Local trips to Clark’s Creek inspire sermons and plans for a busy summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foscoe
Grover Robbins
Blowing Rock
Carrie Miller
Lenoir
Walters
Dorothy Pulliam
Floyd Hanks
O. P. Lutz Jr
Sanford Coffey
Canton
Ohio
J. F. Coffey
W. H
McCain
Auto fatalities and injuries in 1924 total 19000 dead 450000 hurt
New York May 38 Automobiles caused 19000 deaths and 450000 injuries in the United States in 1924 per National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters. Daily average 52 dead 5650 injured. The bureau notes a slowing rate of increase and a drop in deaths per 10000 cars from 24 in 1915 to 9.6 in 1924.
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New York
United States
National Bureau of Casualty and Surety
Bureau
Methodist notes urge Home Coming Sunday School and Mother's Day flowers
Sunday School drew 240 attendees with Miss Loven praised for a fine solo. Next Sunday invites all to Home Coming Sunday School with bouquets for the oldest and next oldest attendees. Meetings: church stewards Friday 7 45 p m and preacher Rev Seymour Taylor visits Blowing Rock for the quarter Conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Taylor
North Wilkesboro
Blowing Rock
Brother Taylor
Appalachian State Normal
Boone
Epworth
Wilkesboro
McKaraher Installed as Pastor at Blowing Rock Church
The Rev Chas G McKaraher was installed pastor of the Blowing Rock Presbyterian Church with Rev W C Young of Russellville Tenn presiding and preaching. Other commissioners included Revs McLaughlin Newland Spence Banner Elk and Franklin Crossnore with Elder W S Whiting Shulls Mills. A reception for the couple followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. G. McKaraher
Blowing Rock Presbyterian Church
W. C. Young
Russelville, Tenn
McLaughlin
Newland
Spence
Banner Elk
Franklin
Crossnore
W. S. Whiting
Shulls Mills
Elon College President to Deliver Commencement Address
Dr. W. A. Harper, president of Elon College and noted author and speaker, will give the literary address at Appalachian State Normal School’s commencement on Friday morning May 8 at 11 o’clock. The event offers townspeople a rare chance to hear the distinguished educator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Harper
Elon College
Appalachian State Normal School
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JURY
R. F. Miller
C. M. Miller
Z. V. Greene
A. L. Triplett
W. M. Coffey
T. J. Greer
J. M. Cook
Hill Isaacs
Dan Kluttz
T. F. Yates
O. E. Hayes
James G. Cook
J. W. Fletcher
Arthur Isaacs
J. W. Jackson
H. C. Beach
Nat Glenn
W. N. Story
THE
Appalachian Normal
Methodist Notes
Rev. McKaraher
ELON
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