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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
2
The proclamation by the President calls all males aged 21 to 30 in our borders to register on Tuesday June 5. The Watauga registration board led by Sheriff Moody and others appoints township registrars. registration runs from 7 am to 9 pm and is compulsory with severe penalties for noncompliance.
Citizens urged cooperation to establish a cooperative cheese factory in the New River region. F R Farnham of North Carolina Agriculture will visit Boone to plan location and scope, with stock offered to milk suppliers. One factory serves three to four miles, two factories at least six miles apart. The venture promises profits from milk, cattle, and cheese, with a firm date to be announced. HL Neat Bua.
Sam writes to Mr Rivers praising the May 8 2000 bond approval by a large majority of 449. He lauds Watauga County as scenic and poised to become a leading resort area with a road system and an extended Norfolk and Western Railway to Boone. He visits Boone Blowing Rock and Valle Crucis and wishes to return after roads are completed, signing with high regards.
Lumber hauling dominates activity as crops lag and some corn remains unplanted. Mrs. B C Hagaman is ill. Beaver Dam’s upper cheese factory started last Tuesday. James Eller, Charles Wingberger, and others made trips to Butler Tennessee. Mrs. J M Johnson and G P Hagaman of Boone visited relatives. Mrs. John Combs of Cove Creek spent weekend with Rev J F Eller.
Wool buyers seek wool with prompt response from N. C. Parsons of West Riverside N U. They request immediate contact for prices ratings and available quantity on hand.
Dr Bingham plans a new building on Mrs Reeves lot while J W Hartley backs a restaurant near H C Hayes store Rev John Pulliam passes through en route to Chapel Hill Rev D P Waters delivers a Sunday night sermon to an appreciative audience G L Hodges to preach next Friday night to Sandy Flat residents and again Sunday night in the village T H Coffey shows improvement L ee Crisp returns from High Point Grand Lodge of I O C F and is due home Corn planting increases with local farmers busy planting more corn this year than usual W M F
Notice from Western District of North Carolina states Judge Jas K Boyd adjourned the May term to the second Monday in September 1917. Jurors witnesses and defendants need not attend May term but must appear for the adjourned term on September 11 1917. Order dated May 16 1917 by Deputy Clerk Milton McNeill U S Court.
Nice pair of three year old mules for sale. They are well broken. For prices call any or address W L Coffey Sands N U.
By power of mortgage deed Kare L Winter and J W Long will sell July 2 1917 at Boone court house to highest bidder a 300 acre tract in Blue Ridge township bounded by a chestnut tree landmarks and lines of Joshua Story tracts from 1838 and 1887. Administrator M W Day advertises on May 21 1917.
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