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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
3
Thanksgiving next Thursday and local notices amid winter changes
Thanksgiving is set for next Thursday. County singing at the courthouse tomorrow. A continuing cost sale at Blackburns through December 1. Street lamps out for winter. Main Street sand walk extended to the Methodist parsonage. Various notices include sales, exams for teachers, weather, illness, travel, and local business promotions with details on telegraphist training and stock sales in Abingdon and nearby areas.
Watauga County Sunday School Convention Program
The convention meets at Middle Fork church on the Friday before the fifth Sunday in November 1908. Introductory sermon by Rev. John F. Elter at 11 a.m. Sessions cover object of Sunday School, incentives, reports from schools, doctrine emphasis, reading Baptist literature, and a question box. Speakers include John P. Robbins J. C. Chapel W. F. Reese L. N. Perkins G. W. Robbins W. D. Farthing J. J. T. Reese C. S. Farthing E. F. Jones. Committees A. J. Shull L. C. Wilson Smith Hagaman invite all Sunday School workers and ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watauga County
Middle Fork
John F. Elter
Speakera
John P. Robbins
J. C. Chapel
W. F. Reese
J. J. T. Reese
Farthing
E. F. Jones
Wm. Elrod
D. D. Doughterty
Convention
A. J. Shull
L. C. Wilson
Smith Hagaman
Com
Public school closure praises extend to Johnson County
The Silverton public school will close on the 20th and has been a great success under Prof. Byers and assistant Miss Greer. Jr. Dougherty and wife returned from a visit to relatives in Johnson county Tennessee. D. L. Glenn returns to selling goods. Joseph Green and a Mr. Stout of Johnson county passed through town en route to Wilkes, suspected of seeking apple brandy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byers
Miss Greer
Dougherty
Johnson County
Tenn
D. L. Glenn
Joseph Green
Stout
Wilkes
Moody Locals and News of the Day
Mr Monroe Maltby moved into a new house on the mill property in Moody. Poplar Grove school thrives under Prof Herman and Miss Addie Cook with a Christmas program planned. Ulis Bradley from Limestone Tenn visiting and praising his new home and crops. George Nichols of Blowing Rock visited his father-in-law James Cook. Capt John Duckett of the State Department of Public Instruction died suddenly. longtime North Carolina teacher lauded for dedication. The News and Observer extends condolences to his widow and children. Kid notes Duckett’s past as a Normals teacher in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poplar Grove
Herman
Mise Addie Cook
Ulis Bradley
Limestone
Tenn
Geo. Nichols
Blowing Rock
Jas. Cook
John Duckett
State Department of Public Instruction
North Carolina
News and Observer
Duckett
Farm for Sale Near Bristol Tennessee with New House
Forty acre farm offered near Bristol Tennessee with a brand new house and out-buildings. Includes a fine sprig, proximity to turnpike road, schools, churches, and stores. Write to Dr W Fleenor Holston Valley Tenn for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Tennessee
W. Fleenor
Holston Valley
Tenn
Acknowledgments for Tom Settle and Community Kindness
A Boone Illinois note expresses gratitude for public support during illness and death of a wife, praising Hon. Thomas Settle and local friends for kindness. The message recalls an elderly widow and a child’s hymn author, Burney, who wrote Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, and reflects on memory and solace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Sheridan
J. A. Carney
Gales
Burny
Illinois
Prophecy Mention in Salisbury Post Cited in Campaign
The Salisbury Post quotes a prophecy about a Senate seat currently held by Senator Simmons after March 1913. Harvey W. Waterson, youngest son of Henry Waterson and editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, died after plunging from a nineteenth floor window in a New York City office building. He was 30, a Columbia graduate, and a rising New York lawyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
Senator Simmons
Salisbury
Harvey W. Waterson
Henry Waterson
Louisville Courier Journal
New York City
Columbia University
New York
Pawn brokerete clothing sale in Boone by D Jones Cottrell
An advertisement urges buyers to visit D Jones Cottrell in Boone to inspect a stock of secondhand and new clothing for men women and children at low prices. It promises bargains, up to date shoes from Geo DeWitt, and businesslike service with goods sold on pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B. Blackburn
London Stoffel Hardware Company
Mountain City
Tennessee
N. B
Geo. DeWitt
Boone
D Jones Cottrell
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