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Watauga Democrat

Location

Boone, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 25, 1916

Page

2

Blowing Rock Breezes and Local Church News

The Blowing Rock community share Sunday Episcopal services and Baptist appointments. Social news notes Mary Nelson Carter Memorial Library, Mrs. Pendley visiting Globe, Bishop Horner at Wa tage Inn, Miss Horner leading the Lees-McRae year, Zeb Buchanan visiting, and attendance at church and school events. Local residents and guests, including Watauga Sun editor John Springs and Jonathan Miller Sr., are mentioned with family milestones and neighborhood movements.

Adams Baptist Church Saturny Warren Blowing Rock Doctor Carter Mary Nelson Carter Main Street W. P. Pendley Marshall Globe John Saunders Bishop Horner Miss Mary Watage Inn Asheville Miss Horner Valle Crucis Zeb Buchanan Hickory Blue Ridge Edgar Tufts Lees-McRae Institute Banners Elk General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church Orlando Florida W. W. Stringfellow Charlotte J. E. Brooks Squire Thos H. Coffey Benjamin Charlie” Patterson Mary Ward Lena Miller Patterson Shulls Mills Jonathan Walters Lula Ward Carrie Miller Jonathan Miller Mra. Walters Mr. Miller Naomi Tugman Howard's Creek Wyatt Hayes W.B. Hardin Jonathon Miller, Sr David Miller

Good Roads for Watauga

A reader notes Watauga County lags in road work while Avery and other counties advance. The writer urges a county road commission, bond issues, and state cooperation, citing recent road bonds and federal highway funding as leverage. Emphasizes leadership, local activism, and a plan to secure financing for a countywide highway system.

The Democrat F. A. Linney Avery County Watauga County Watauga Banner Mountains Banner County the Democrat County Road Commission Tenneage Line Kik Park Elizabethton Tenn Nashville North Carolina Piedmont Blue Ridge United Congress McDowell Forth Davie Iredell Winston-Salem Mocksville Statesville Board of Highway Commissioners State Highway Commission

Taken With Croup in Bearsville Store Report

A letter from merchant M Dayia of Bearsville West Virginia describes a child with croup who bought Foxy and Tar Compound around midnight and recovered by morning. The author notes peculiar letters written during the episode and signs as M B Blackburn.

Troup M 'T Dayia

Riverside Merchants and Farmers Supply Fair Prices

Merchants and Farmers invite shoppers to Riverside for groceries flour corn oats tobacco hardware wagons drills and farming implements fertilizers acid phosphate and rock lime. They stock Cross Ties tan bark lumber and promise attractive prices and high payments for produce, aiming to gain regular customers.

Riverside

Land sale notice for Cove Creek Township property

C J Cottrell as commissioner will sell 2 acres more or less in Cove Creek Township Watauga NC joining Culver Isaacs and McGuire will property at 1 pm on June 5 1916 at the Boone courthouse door. Sale is cash to highest bidder. April 22 1916. C J Cottrell Com.

North Carolina Watauga County J. O. Culver Will Reese I. C. J. Cottrell Cove Creek Township James Isaacs McGuire Will Sp Rerioreoli Court House Boone C. J. Cottrell

Voting place moved to Mt Ephriam school house Elk Township

The Board of Elections orders a change of voting location from the present site to Mt Ephriam school house. Issued April 9 1916 by J M Moretz chair and Joux W. Hovces secretary.

Board of Elections Mt. Ephriam School House J. M. Moretz Joux W. Hovces

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Te Chatauga Democrat R. C. Rivers Sherif Ragan Chile Mackay Atlanta Mordecai Bessie Mordecai Millard Hodge Clark Brown New River Croup Yates Bros Riverside, N. C Cardus Elk Township Reapers McCormick Oliver MB Blacburn Boone, N.C JS Winkler
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