Fiddlers Convention Promises Busy Friday May 22
Several events cluster around May 22 including a fiddlers convention in Boone with a two instrument performer and a seven year old, a ball game between Lenoir and Boone as a prelude, and a prohibition meeting at Walnut Grove Institute. Local stock and agricultural notes also appear alongside church services and civic updates from W G Todi to D Jones Cottrell.
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Lenoir
Boone
Walnut Grove Institute
Iady
For Sale Farm and Timber Land Near Town Bryan
Property owner offers real estate on west side of town including two town lots with a well improved second best house. Also two small timber tracts near town. Personal property offered except shotgun. Located in Bryan.
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Bryan
Moris’s Close Call and Dr King’s New Discovery
In spring 1906 Jesse P Moris of Skippers Virginia faced a severe pneumonia scare with a brutal cough. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with immediate help and a full recovery after two and a half bottles, praising it as the best remedy for coughs and lung disease. Sold by all druggists with a Trail bottle free, 50 cents and 1.00.
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Jesse P. Moris
Skippers
Mrs. B. F. Wilcox of McGuire Dies After Long Illness
Mrs. B. F. Wilcox, 31, of McGuire North Carolina, died April 24 1908 after eight years in helplessness leaving husband and two living daughters with two infants predeceased. She joined New River Baptist Church and lived a devoted Christian life. Funeral held April 27 conducted by Elder Hair Fleetwood with scripture from Isaiah 40 31.
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B. F. Wilcox
McGuire, N. C
Spirit Land
Emma
New River
Elder
He Hair
Fleetwood
Inn
Englee
Prohibition Rally Planned by Four Churches in Blue Ridge
Prohibitionists in Blue Ridge town ship unite for a grand rally at Laurel Fork church on Sunday May 24 with Sunday school at 10 am. Rev E D Carroll will preach at 11 am and a dinner on the grounds will follow. In the afternoon speeches songs recitations and addresses by Rev Davis Brendall from Boone and local citizens are expected. Rev Jas Matney aged 80 will speak, and the event aims for the county’s largest temperance rally yet. Messages from Caldwell and Watauga counties urge strong prohibition support ahead of May 26 votes.
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Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge Township
Laurel Fork
D. Carroll
Reve
Davis
Brendall
Boone
Jas. Matney
Caldwell County
Eprron
Watauga County
Watauga
Caldwell
Bargain Offer At Local Store For Silk Quilt Squares
In a curio pitch the shopkeeper promises a free package of silk squares with every one dollar purchase. The ad touts rare bargains and a weekly visit, inviting customers to prove the claim in person.
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The
Watauga Democrat
Rone, N. C
K. M. Green
W. G. Todi
W. C. Coffey
Lenoir Wagon Works
William Moore
Rufus
Watanga
Blackburn Hotel
Marcus Holsclaw
Hendersonville
D. Jones Cottrell
W.R. Savage
Episcopal Church
Deerfield School House
W. A. Gragg
Fiddler’s Convention
John Stanbury
Cove Creek
J. H. Brendall
Powell E. Herman
Howard's Creek
David Greene
Mrs. Greene
Pennsylvania
Marsden Company
Mast
Wade
Forest Grove School House
Williams
Roy Dotson
Charles Iayaman
M. J. Williams
Nath Casort
Linoir
Appalachian Training School
Board of County Commissioners
Court House
Death
Cabstoria
Jeanis
Christ
T. Watson
W. Thomas
Highland Gay
Watauga Saddle Horse Association
Keys Bros
Maryville
Ohio
J. H. Hayes
Highland Gay, JR
Denmark
Massie
Blue Grass Squirrel
King Richard
Powhatan
Vilas
London Staffel Hardware Company
Mountain City
Tennessee
N. B
W. Wright
W. P. Dungas
V. BP
Rambo
Can
J. RK
Walow Merchant & Traders Bank
J. W. Wright
I S., Rambo
R. F. Wright
E. E. Butler
J. S. Donally
H. T. D. Wills
R-E. Dosinely
N. Wills
T. Smythe
J. C. Futler
B. R. Brown
H. B. Wills
Wams Wilson
J. G. Butler
T. H. Sutherland
L. H. Hawkins
W. S. Cole
Wd. Parlier
Sudderth
Blowing Rock
N.C
Wilson
Mitchell County Bank
Elk Park
Branch
Capital and Surplus
Mountain City Furniture Co
Ipposite Court House
Mountain City Furniture Company
Mountain City, Teaness
R. M. Green
Sherwood
California
W. F. Sherwood
Amantha
Cotrell’s
L. Jones Cottrell
R. M. Green Old Stand
Western North Carolina
Harry Baily
N. Mitchel County
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