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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
3
This mountain children home opened a year ago and has cared for 14 orphans. Over 20 more are awaiting space as eight rooms are added for 16 more children. Electricity is available and water work is coming. Sunday school gifts and individual contributions sustain the home without debt. motto is In the Mountains Of the Mountains For the Mountains. Booar Turts.
The Appalachian Training School will make the summer term a real training school for public school teachers. Attending teachers should become more efficient in the classroom. Address for details to B. B. Dovaverry, Superintendent, sos N.C.
Dr. O. L. Moore announces a June 1 to 5 visit to Blowing Rock for dental work. The notice specifies dates and preparedness to provide dental services during the trip.
On Thursday May 13 1915 Mrs Camiller Miller marked her 80th birthday with 125 relatives at her Stony Fork home. A bountiful dinner followed by tears of joy and a sermon by her son Rev I C Miller on Mothers Home Just Beyond concluded the gathering as grandchildren and kin departed after enjoying fife and drum music.
The Lees-McRae Institute opens with 78 girls in two dormitories and many day pupils. The high school will run from tenth grade through freshman year and college, forming a link between graded schools and colleges. Buildings are lit by electricity and connected to water works. The faculty includes ten teachers plus the principal and resident physician. A safer, saner, and more economical school for ks it would be hard to find. A session ends December 7.
Wotice of Administration waving quaicer ae as administrator 1 of the Lentz deceased to notify all persons holding claims against the estate to present them authenticated in or before the 18th day of May 1886 or this notice will be pleaded in their recovery All indebted to said estate will Please wake imme ee man:ne May 18 1915 Lene A Ta oe
Todd items note four car loads of fertilizer and rising freight. Passenger train soon in service and the t line nears completion as business booms with daily lumber arrivals. McGuire Bros bought tan bark. Mrs. Alex Blackburn improves after illness. Rev. J Norton Adkins held services at St Matthews Church last Sunday.
Administrators inform all having claims against the estate of John H. South, deceased, to present them by May 15, 1916, or be barred. Those owing the estate should come forward for settlement at once. Dated May 12, 1915. M. Triverr, T. E. Bingham, administrators. Attorney.
Notice of mortgage sale under the power in a deed from P. Robbins and Bettie Robbins to T. J. Ray dated March 21, 1910, registered in Watauga NC. The lands on Joe's Fork of Buffalo Creek in Boone to be sold June 7, 1915, for cash. Describes 150 acres, with the Robbins home tract, to satisfy $150 interest and costs. Attorney L. D. Lowe represents the mortgagee.
A printed testimonial from J W Neill of Hickory North Carolina proclaims Dean’s Kidney Pills cured his backache and kidney symptoms. The 1912 statement praises the remedy, noting continued relief and urging readers to ask for Beans Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
Bank invites women to open accounts promising courtesy and consideration for all deposit sizes. Encourages budgeting habits, uses checks for bill payment to provide receipts and correct change with every transaction.
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