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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
3
The Methodist Church lists preaching on the first Sunday each month at 11 00 a.m 2 00 p.m and at night with Sunday School at 10 00 a.m Superintendent J F Hanis and Pastor J H Brenpar named Additional Episcopal Church mention appears.
Fresh line of candies at L. L Critcher's and a light chestnut crop. Watauga Lodge 273 meets at the Masonic Hall tomorrow night. Mrs Cynthia Blackbusy improves though bedbound. Mrs J. W. Farthing visits daughter in Morganton. M. F. Critcher leaves Deerfield for North Fork West Va for winter work. Local notices of debts, meals, and visitors fill the column with church, hotel, and family updates. The first snow flurry, a cold wave, and cattle movements mark the week amid rail bond talks and a Grandfather peak guide's death.
A health column warns weak kidneys harm the whole system and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla in tablet form, Sarsatabs. It reports on a Blowing Rock man’s ill child in Jacksonville, Florida, and notes a gardener’s giant sugar beet and a drowning accident near New River, plus a job ad from American Hosiery Mills in Kernersville offering steady mill work and homes.
The Amantha notice advertises a full fall and winter stock with bargains across dress goods overcoats shoes and all kinds of produce. The seller invites shoppers to visit and pay cash, promising the best county stock and high prices for produce, dated October 19.
The Charlotte News notes Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, once famed for bankwrecking, has died after a decline that seems to reflect her past misdeeds. The piece frames her downfall as a moral lesson on the consequences of wrongdoing.
Last Saturday night robbers blew open safes in M B Starnes office and Granite Falls post office. They secured about $760 in total, with no disturbance. The thefts were not discovered until Sunday morning and no clues have been found.
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