Watauga Democrat notice on mailing and rates
Entered at the Post office at Boone New York as second class mail matter Advertising rates furnished on application.
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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
3
Entered at the Post office at Boone New York as second class mail matter Advertising rates furnished on application.
Ruin needed. Rev Harrison Farthing was in town Monday. Corn planting the order of the day. The warmest May weather with 86 in the shade. Mrs Farthing Edmisten ill but improving. The Summer School at Watauga Academy opens May 18. One half interest in Blowing Rock Hotel furniture to be sold May 31. Mr Hoy Taylor granted license to exhort by the Methodist church. Council and grandchildren returning from winter in Lenoir. Dr Mack Little arrives as new county resident. Poll tax due and risk of disqualification for November vote. Watauga Hustler notes Dems may contend in coming election. Zachariah Adams of Hagam an dies. Officers elected for Boone & Blowing Rock turnpike year.
Notices announce a Superior Court probate action in Watauga County to marshal assets of Benjamin Hartley deceased to satisfy debts. Defendants and heirs named include Hartley and Hartley heirs, James Bartly heirs, Ware fen Baird heirs, Louisa Spears, and others unnamed. Hearing date June 23 1902 at Boone courthouse before the clerk. May 5 1902.
The fragment describes Nell Cropsey’s disappearance near Caldwell and mentions a Miss Childers, with note that Cropsey has not been seen since and searches including water bodies are ongoing. The tone resembles a Democratic editor’s hometown report amid political chatter and calls for endorsement.
At a sale of real estate for taxes by W A Calaway at the court house door in Boone on July 1 1901 the undersigned purchased lands described as a tract in Boone township property of John F Eller tax for 1900 172 dollars. Redemption expires July 1 1902 unless made a deed will be issued. This April 28 1902. Noan Winkler.
W H Calaway former sheriff of Watauga county sold property in Blowing Rock township for 1900 taxes of 3.38 on Joseph and Martha Coche. Redemption expires July 1 1992 and if not redeemed a deed will be issued on April 8 1902.
Look Here Friends offers run for sixty days with low prices on calicoes outings dress casim ers sugar soda coffee and more. They promise the best value in the bounty and invite all to visit for wholesale and retail bargains including shoes hats and pants with high prices paid for wool and cattle. May 8 Skull's Mills.
A letter from A. W. Braca of Boone New York May 5 urges western New York to unite in supporting a candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The writer argues for placing merit above party and politics to honor the bench and the man.
Webb and Miler, proprietors of Wilkesboro MarbleWorks, advertise granite and marble monuments and cemetery monuments with a focus on low prices and satisfaction guaranteed. The notice emphasizes complete service and a beat of style across the cemetery line.
By decree of the Superior Court of Watauga County North Carolina commissioners will sell at public outcry on June 2 1902 between 12 and 2 pm the lands described in the Miller versus Moretz and Grobb case lying on Meat Camp and Elk creeks with bounds including Riddle s Knob Orchard Mountain Horton s Gap Long Hope Creek Laurel Fork and Pine Orchard Mountain containing about 525 acres known as the Steele lands as of April 1 1902.
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