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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1933
Page
5
Local affairs outline visits and travels of residents, club meetings, hospital updates, and community events in Boone including guests from nearby towns. Social club entertainments feature extensive lists of attendees and prizes. agricultural notes report strong wheat and rye yields in Avery and Watauga counties.
Finley Coffey wife and babe of Lenoir spent days in Boone this week. Dr P C Jurney of Olin Iredell visiting daughter Mrs R C Rivers. Three Forks Association at Gap Creek attended. next year at Cove Creek Church. Rev E J Jones of Gastonia preached in Boone Friday night and at Three Forks Sunday. resting tour. Elder Brooks fare well sermon in courthouse. respected by all. Quarterly Meeting at Boone praised. Elder Barnett preached commendably. Locals from Cove Creek Meat Camp Valle Crucis attended. J L Moretz reports hail on Elk Knob Meat Camp head and Valle Crucis Watauga River larger than fists. corn crop damaged. W L Bryan received letter from uncle Rev Gilson Bryan now in Silver Shoals Ga. at 87 baptized fourteen by immersion. Campaigns open. Senator Ransom and Jarvis to speak at Jackson next Monday. Bower to open canvass at Morganton next week.
Mrs. Grady Farthing led the Livingstone Club gathering on September 4 with Miss Anita Winkler charming the Maids and Matrons Club at the Critcher Hotel. Devotional exercises, discussion on Japan, a card contest, prizes, and refreshments followed as guests joined the program. The next meeting is set for October 1 at Mrs Hendrix’s home.
Rufus L. Patterson a prominent American Tobacco Company official will run a private summer camp for about twenty boys at Patterson Hill north of Norwood Blowing Rock. A tutor will supervise them living in tents with a mess hall and outdoor sports. It will be the third children camp in Blowing Rock joining Camp Yonahlessee for girls and Mrs. Victor N. Camp's day camp.
Meagre press time reports the death of a small child of Mr and Mrs R L Baldwin in Stony Fork. Rev R C Eggers to conduct funeral at Zionville Baptist Church this afternoon with interment in the community. Further details unavailable. A pure bred Holstein calf bought by Mills Home Thomasville to head its herd of 100 cows. Scott cheese plant North Wilkesboro seeks vetch barley and winter oats seed at cost for dairymen planting.
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