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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
3
The Watauga Democrat notes that advertising rates are available on request. Details not specified in the fragment.
Boone and surrounding towns buzz with political activity as Mesers Bowie and Wellborne campaign the district and Governor Aycock with S. L. Patterson plan speeches next Tuesday. Schools are crowded, roads need repairs, and local chatter covers fires at Blowing Rock, a new republication rumor, and a housing sale. Prominent locals attend meetings while merchants promote fall goods and sales.
Reported withdrawal from the Legislature race by Joan C J Porter. Democratic candidate Theo F Klutz will speak to county voters at 1 PM in Blowing Rock Elk Knob Academy Cove Creek Academy Valle Crucis Fork Stony Point and Ax the county. Klutz is billed as a clean entertaining speaker expected to attract turnout.
A garbled notice mentions a signature on every box of the Laxative Aho remedy and references property exchange in October six miles from Jacksonville with pine apple sheds and 2 600 plate traitin, seeking details from Haron Turner in Berthorpe Compton Guilford England.
Real estate sold under a mortgage deed executed to the State of North Carolina by A J Critcher guardian for A J Bates and minor children. The sale date is November 6, 1902, at the courthouse door in Lenoir between 12 m and 3 p.m. The property lies in Boone Township, Watauga County, and includes the old Jas Brown farm with a lengthy metes and bounds description. The notice notes prior financial judgment of 2539.71 and cites campaign appeals by local figures.
Johnson & Robbins Shall’y Mills advertises a sixty day sale with 5c calicoes 10c yard outings 15 to 20c double width cassimers, 4 lb soda 10c 16 lb sugar 1, granite sugar 1, laundry soap 8c. Hats shoes pants and produce on offer. They claim to give more goods for less money and pay top market prices for wool and cattle. May 8.
A brief ad lists household items and low prices including shoes from 7 cents to 1.75 per pair, men's shirts 25 to 75 cents, ladies linen skirts 50 to 75 cents, infants shoes 50 cents, blacking 5 cents, lead pencils 5 cents, Arbuckle’s coffee 25 cents, kerosene 18 cents per gallon, lard 1.234 cents per pound, flour 2.30 to 3.50 per hundred, dress goods 5 to 5 cents per yard, and other small items.
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