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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
3
Local news round up lists upcoming speakers Dixon Doughton Aycock and J W Farthing, fire sale bargains at Green and Blackburn, farm sales and real estate ads, church notices, accidents, petty crime, and community updates from Boone Watauga area with names such as Aycock Farthing Hardin and Jar.
By order of the Board of Election of Watauga county the polling place for Laurel Creek township is changed to John Ward's stem for the 1908 election and thereafter without further notice. This Sept 14, 1908, J M Moniz chairman.
Local column lauds N L Mast for his three new houses and growing mercantile business. Mast Seminary reports a full faculty and sixty pupils enrolled. A maid at Mast awaits a promised talk by Prof B B Dougherty. A piano is due at Mast's home soon. Margaret and Lillie Combs vacationed on Tater Hill and Bald with Watauga professors.
D C Ragan declares self as an independent candidate for sheriff of Watauga County on September 16 1908 promising fair and impartial service to the people of the county.
The case Ridder and others versus Carolina Valley Oil and Gas Co has been filed in Watauga County Superior Court for unpaid labor totaling 1690 dollars. Defendants must appear at the next term starting the third Monday after the first Monday in March 1909 in Boone to answer or demur. date Oct 18, 1908.
A rural listing offers 1084 acres one mile south of Jonesboro Tennessee. The tract includes half timber three springs fences a five room brick house and scenic country setting. Price 3500 dollars with half down balance on purchaser terms. Contact Dun Oenat office Boone NC or J Taylor Route 2 Jonesboro Lenn for details and photograph.
D Jones Cottrell offers fall style pawn-brothers clothing almost new at lower prices and 25 percent cheaper children and men’s wear. He stocks Geo DeWitt shoes, claims updated, new stock and bargains with straightforward business terms and prompt service in Boone.
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