Local Notes Highlight Community Happenings and Visits
Commissioners court meets Monday. Gragg breaks ground for Green Heights home. Dr. English to practice at Watauga Hospital next Monday. Carolina Store fixtures near completion. Isaacs travels New York market for fall stock. Walker tours Winston-Salem Greensboro and High Point. McGhee builds brick bungalow on South and Water Streets. Seymour Taylor to preach at Methodist church before conference in Statesville. Annabelle Rivers hosts eighth birthday party. James W. Bryan enforces fishing season closure. Hodgeses report Florida stay planned. embargo concerns. Spainhour involved in fashion show setup. Street family rents Buena Vista cottage. English pheasants multiply. law protects birds. Dr. Farthing opens dental parlors above Moretz store. Brown caught bootlegging. bond set. Sheriff Farthing to file 1925 tax bond. Jail bid postponed to spring. one local bidder. John A. Floyd visits to memorialize father Rev. J. W. Floyd.
Deep Gap On The Map Credited To Col Olds Vision
The Deep Gap booster piece praises Col. Fred A Olds for a favorable write up in the Orphans Friend and its republication in the Democrat. It notes plans to extend Elk Creek Lumber Co rail access across the mountains on the N and W line and the potential for a permanent passenger line to Lenoir from Bowie. A North Wilkesboro real estate agent visited to explore development, while a booster's club promotes Deep Gap as a resort site needing a resort hotel and welcoming tourists and business travelers with Mr A A Greene offering information.
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Fred. A. Olds
Deep Gap
Democrat
Olds
Ashe
Alleghany
Watauga
Consolidated
Olds Literary Society
Col. Olds
Elk Creek Lumber Company
Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co
Lenoir
Bowie
North Wilkesboro
Veni
Vidi
Vici
A.a.'greene
Gateway Road
How Indians Made Sugar From Maple Sap
A historical note describes how Jesuit fathers learned sugar making from Native Americans. Indians tapped maple trees with tomahawks and used spiles to channel sap into beneath vessels, boiling without iron kettles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dearborn
Thomas Conant
Duke Campus Gets New Transit Line for Campus Freight
A new siding from the Southern tracks on the Duke University campus will carry freight to speed construction. Students humorously nickname the line the Transcampus Educational Dispatch Line as cross ties lay on the roadbed ready for operation.
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Durham
North Carolinas
Duke University
Duke
Transcampus Educational Dispatch
Man and the Squizzicumsquee brightens life’s wrecks
In a spiritual reflection, the speaker argues man differs from machines and can improve after ruin. A wrecked life can rise to higher principles, surpassing its past, unlike an auto that cannot return to its first form. The piece extols humanity’s resilient ascent and inner power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wickes Wamboldt
Mad Stones and Superstition in Iredell County
A Winston-Salem Journal piece discusses a North Carolina woman who believes a “mad stone” can cure hydrophobia and other maladies. The article examines the stone’s boosted credence from early cures and the human impulse to seek miraculous explanations despite scientific progress.
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Winston-Salem Journal
Iredell County
God
Card of Thanks and Business Notice
Card of thanks expresses gratitude for kindness during illness and death. Family names B C Johnson R M Greene and family. prayer for comfort. Notice of firm sale states D J Cottrell sold interests in Cottrell and Hagaman to J H Cottrell. all claims and accounts to be paid to J H Cottrell. dated Sept 28 1925. Advertisement urges readers to visit Cottrell's sale.
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Father
B. C. Johnson
R. M. Greene & Family
Cottrell and Hagaman
J. H Cottrell
J. H. Cottrell
Hill Hagaman
Cottrell and
Hagaman
D. J. Cottrell
Water Power Increases 10 Per Cent in Year
The geological survey reports a 951000 horsepower rise in national waterpower last year with 100 horsepower plus plants reaching 10048065 HP. Public utilities accounted for 939000 HP of the gain while manufacturing plants added 12000 HP.
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Washington
United States
Geological Survey
Notice of Administration for G S Smith Estate
G A Green administrator of G S Smith of Watauga County North Carolina calls all creditors to present claims by September 1 1926 or be barred. Debtors urged to settle promptly. This 1st day of October 1925.
Notice to creditors in estate of W L Alexander
Having qualified as administrator of the estate of W L Alexander deceased, late of Watana County North, on or before October 1 1926 or this notice will be plead in that of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This October 1 1925. T H Coffey J H Beall Administrators.
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G. S. Smith
Watauga County
North
Carolina
G. A. Green
W. L. Alexander
Watana County
North Carolina
T. H. Coffey
J. H. Beall
Early Canadian Native Sugar Making From Sap
The passage describes crude sugar production using grooved wood buckets and birch bark vessels. Sap is boiled in a birch bark caldron with heated stones, producing sugar without kettles. Forefathers carried the method to Canada, where settlers later adopted the iron kettle process.
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Conant
Canada
Toy
Lost Conklin fountain pen near Councill and N Finder
A Conklin fountain pen has been lost between Mr. B. J. Councill and the A S N Finder. Please notify the Watauga Democrat or Anna Lou Baird if found.
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Conklin
B. J. Councill’s
A. S. N. Finder
Watauga Democrat
Anna Lou Baird
Notice of Purchase of West End Garage by Eggers Bros
Eggers Bros announce the purchase of the Garage and general repair business formerly run by Alfred Adams known as West End Garage. They state they are not responsible for any obligations of the old firm.
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Alfred Adams
West End
Eggers Bros
Prostate Trouble Ad Promises Quick Relief with Walker Formula
An advertisement targets men with night-time urination and fatigue, claiming Walker's Prostate Specific tablets restore vigor. It offers a free $1 treatment sample from the Walker Institute in Kansas City and urges readers to share the offer with friends.
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Walker
Walker Institute
Gateway Station
Kansas City
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Commissioners Court
J. Russel Gragg
Green Heights
A. W. Smith
North Water Street
A. B. English
Watauga Hospital
L. S. Isaacs
New York
Will C. Walker
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
High Point
J. Frank McGhee
Water Streets
Rivers Home
Seymour Taylor
Methodist Church
Statesville
Annabelle Rivers
R. C. Rivers
James W. Bryan
W. P. Hodges
Florida
Edgar Spainhour
Bill” Spainhour
Spainhour Dry Goods, Co., Inc
Eastern Star
L. D. Loiveaux
Plainfield
N. J
J. C. Farthing
Bater
Tenn
J. M. Moretz
James Brown
Adams
Gross
Brushy Fork
Jim
Brown
John A. Floyd
Boone
Nashville
Rev
J. W. Floyd
Floyd
W. A. Watson
Man and the Squizzicumsquee
Cottrell
THE
Pastime Theatre
AL Wilson
AIR Hawk
Edmund Lowe
William Desmond
Buffalo Bill, JR
Hamilton
Dola
Lemdir
N.C
C. M. Critcher
Teachers’ Meeting
Smith Hagaman
Joseph M. Gaither
Boone Drug Co
J. B. Hagaman
Farmers Hardware & Supply Co
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