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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1932
Page
8
Grace Lutheran Church East Boone invites the public to its third anniversary service on May 22 an all day event with dinner on the ground. Sermon at 11 a m by Dr Cooper United Lutheran Synod missionary. Mrs J A Moretz to deliver a message of special importance.
Mrs. Horace O Neil Dowling of Winston-Salem has leased the entire second floor of the Hahn block and plans to offer board and rooms for tourists teachers and the public next year. Hahn has moved downstairs and Mr Dolph Lyon has shifted to Miller Filling Station East Boone for the summer.
Ensign Mull of the Charlotte Division of the Salvation Army warned the public that several people claiming to be Salvation Army representatives had solicited funds locally. He urged residents to ignore any workers not sent from Charlotte headquarters.
North Wilkesboro T. E. Story will head Wilkesboro school for the eighth consecutive year after a Wilkesboro school board meeting. Patrons welcome the news as his seven years have seen progress and the school grow to double its size since first chosen.
Watauga Post 130 of the American Legion will build a prominent membership board in Boone. Walter C. Greene chairs the committee soliciting ads to cover costs. The board will display Legion meeting dates, a member roll, and a list of those who died in service or were killed in action with advertising spaces along the borders. Electric lights will illuminate the sign at night.
Raleigh reports Commissioner Frank D. Grist of the labor department predicts a first primary win over Senator Morrison with about 150000 votes to Morrison's 110000 and Reynolds 35000 to 50000. He notes Bowie will also receive some votes as he urges voters to restore government to the people.
Watauga Post of the American Legion will host a fiddlers convention this summer. A planning committee of Charles L. Younce Spencer Miller and W. W. Daniels was named with plans to set a July 4 timeframe.
Mr. O. W. Spencer of Salisbury returns to Green Park for the season and will run a small hotel near the former hostelry. Longtime Blowing Rock hotel man, Spencer gains local support and expects liberal patronage.
Owing to a meeting at Henson's Chapel given by the American Legion on the fifth Sunday in May the Three Forks Association will skip its Fifth Sunday meeting. A June meeting will replace the May gathering.
Seattle Reynolds, 20 son of the late tobacco magnate R J Reynolds, arrived by liner from Hongkong on the final leg of a round the world air and water voyage. He began a 12,000 mile flight after shipping his plane from New York to England in December.
Watauga County NC trustee sale for B T Taylor bettie Taylor as security for debts to B B Dougherty Smith Hagaman and L M Farthing. Sale set June 6 1932 at Boone Courthouse between 10 am and 3 pm describes three tracts totaling 126 acres in Stony Fork Township. Proceeds to satisfy the deed of trust obligations with surplus to follow as directed by the deed or law. W R Lovill Trustee dated May 6 1932.
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