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Newspaper
Wilson News
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1899
Page
5
A Friday night gathering at Mr and Mrs Jno Gardner on Tarboro street hosted many friends of Miss Jerence Gardner. Young people enjoyed games and elocutionary selections with refreshments at 10 then shared in further social amusement and happiness.
The County Commissioners met last week. They increased pauper allowances and added some to the pauper list. B A Scott was ordered paid $10 for ditch work near his lease, to be paid upon completion. J C Pearson elected Superintendent of the County Home for twelve months. Dr E G Moore resigned as County Superintendent of Health. Sheriff Sharp directed to deduct $1000 from Brooks and Cooper stock valuation and investigate listing error. Bonds renewed: W B Barnes Register of Deeds 10000, J D Bardin Clerk of Court 10000, W T Farmer Treasurer 52000, W D P Sharp Sheriff 40000. The Board adjourned after routine business.
There is more catarrh in this section than all other diseases combined and previously deemed incurable. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. claims a constitutional cure, works through the blood and mucous surfaces, with a 100 dollar pledge if it fails. Sold by druggists 75 cents. Family Pills also recommended.
List of unclaimed letters as of December 6 includes Charlie Adams and others such as Willes Avery Hattie Branch WE Harrell Miss Mattie Harrell P Howell Kenney Miss Agness Kenworthy J H Lee John Overby Willie Price Wess Rosster John I Rose Pheaneby Row James Sanders R B Simpson Mystery names appear in the Wilson North Carolina post office clerk record with multiple recipients awaiting pickup.
An ad offers a free bottle of Boschee's German Syrup to any adult with cold or throat and lung troubles who visits Hargrave's Pharmacy. Limit one bottle per person and no freebies to children without parental orders. The notice touts past and ongoing wide success and physician endorsement. Also advertises mountain and Battleboro butter for sale.
The Episcopalians in session at St. Timothy's in Tarboro held a full program with sermons by Rev. T. D. Bratton of St. Mary's Raleigh and Rev. Griffith of Kinston. A business session, Higher Criticism discussion, and multiple services followed, including a missionary address by Rev. Gamble and a Woman's Auxiliary meeting.
A tentative Wilson meeting showed strong interest in maintaining a daily newspaper. A five member committee was appointed to devise ways and means and a stock company with capital two thousand dollars was proposed to start when one thousand is paid in. The group praised THE Daily News and pledged to proceed with plans to continue the paper in Wilson.
The ad insists age need not equal frailty and that most senior illnesses can be avoided by keeping blood pure with S S S. It claims the remedy cleanses waste from the bloodstream, renews strength, and improves appetite, citing Mrs. Sarah Pike and Mr. J W Loving as testimonials of long term health improvement.
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