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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
3
State postal notice from Watauga Democrat with information on post office Boone routing and transient mail matter rates. Rates listed include one dollar and fifty, twenty five cents. six months and one month advertising rates available on application.
Local news items and small ads include a Racket bargain sale on Oct 15 and 16, requests for a live agent in Watauga to sell butter rights, notices of court and executions, farmer market notes, church and community notices, and brief updates on residents, travels, and local trials. The column also highlights a sermon and a wedding, with health tips and product pitches interspersed.
Wanted twenty teams for lumber haul to Montezuma with good wages. Pay day whenever demanded. Good teams will earn four to six dollars per day. Apply at Montezuma or Banner Elk, Montezuma Lumber Co. June 3, 1906.
Campbell Amusement Co operates a modern moving picture show in the mountain counties. The outfit features machine and string music, life sized illustrated scenes, and over 8000 feet of moving views including Death and Crucifixion of Christ, Great Train Robbery, Battle of San Juan Hill, Around the World in 80 Minutes, and various circus and animal tableaux. Manager A J Campbell advertises posters and dates.
Furniture and coffins are featured with up to date lines including dressers sideboards bedsteads tables and more. The store emphasizes best attention to phone orders and customer satisfaction with mahogany and white coffins in various sizes.
Mr. J. A. Griffin, chief of police, was shot and seriously wounded by Will Bower, a Black employee of Selma Lumber Co. The incident occurred amid tensions at the plant.
The President visited Utah in the West and spoke to the people in a Mormon temple. The address, though given at a religious site, was not religious in nature and emphasized prosperity and patriotism.
In Will sell as a whole or to the highest bidder the 100 acre cultivation property with fine timber near Baw and church and school. The property will go to sale and can be bought at a specific price. For details call or write R. W. Maltby Moony North Carolina.
Advertisement proclaims lower fall and winter prices for pounds and dry goods. The seller boasts being the “Father of the Pounds” in the area, promising substantial savings of 20 to 80 percent, better warmth for children, and cheaper butter and eggs alongside other goods to attract customers.
John H. Bingham as mortgagee announces a power of sale to liquidate the 1908 mortgage debt of 120 009 dollars secured by W H L William and Nora William. The Boone North Carolina land in Cove Creek township near Lands of A P Glenn and G W Moody will be sold at public auction on the first Monday in November between 10 am and 4 pm. The deed is recorded in Book M, page 55.
Attention buyers. examine stock of pawn-broker goods and new clothing for men women and children at about 25 percent below elsewhere. Shoes available Geo DeWitt farmery line described as best value for price with up to date styles. Store emphasizes quick service and bargain department with payments on demand.
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