Local News From Boone, N.C., Sept. 28, 1911

“Local News” from the Watauga Democrat, Boone, September 28, 1911

--Attorney Fletcher and wife are attending the Knoxville Exposition this week.

--Capt. E.F. Lovill is attending to some matters of a legal nature in Bristol, Tenn., this week.

--Ralph Hackney of Butler, Tenn., spent Monday night with his cousin, Don Phillips, in Boone.

--E.S. Coffey, Atty., attended a meeting of the stockholders of the defunct Coffey Wagon Shops at Lenoir the first of the week.

--Land posters can be had at the Watauga Job Office in the Democrat building at 10 cents per dozen.

--Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Farthing of Lenoir passed through Boone Sunday afternoon on their return home from a short visit to Mr. Farthing’s parents at Leander.

--Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Councill are attending the Wilkes Fair this week. We notice that Mr. Councill is named as judge on livestock and some other committees.

--Messrs. B.J. Hodges and W.T. Herron, who have spent the summer along the Canadian border working at the carpenter’s trade, have returned to their homes west of Boone.

--Messrs. W.D. Farthing W.R. Gragg have purchased the little farm owned by Mr. G.R. Long one mile west of town. A nice piece of property unoccupied for several years has fallen into good hands.

--After a long illness Mrs. Fin Moody died at her home on Cove Creek Monday afternoon. Deceased was a daughter of Mr. Tilman Adams, and we are told that the was a splendid Christian lady.

--Chestnut and acorn crop in the county is simply immense, and were it so that the hogs could take advantage of the mast it would mean thousands of dollars to the meat growers of Watauga.

--Frost is holding off unusually well this season, and it really seems that everything will mature without even being singed. At this date last year, vegetation was almost as dead as in mid winter, and now even the pastures are fine.

--We are indeed gratified to learn through Mr. A.G. Grason of Mountain City, Tenn., that our uncle, Dr. R.C. Rhea of Shouns, has sufficiently recovered from his most serious illness to be up about the house and entirely rational.

--Friend Jim Harman of Sugar Grove has received the sad intelligence that his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dallas Harman, is very ill in a hospital in the State of Washington and her recovery is hardly expected. Mrs. Harman was a Miss Ingram of Iredell County.

--Mrs. W.T. Blair has been quite sick for several days but is now able to be up again.

--Little Louisa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.P. Critcher, has been very unwell but at this writing is somewhat better.

--Mr. S.M. Clarke who returned from a visit to Blowing Rock last week brought with him some very fine potatoes he bought up there. One, the largest of bunch, weighed 38 ounces and there were many more nearly as large.

--Sheriff Ragan left for Morganton yesterday morning, taking with him Joseph Johnson of Amantha, a lunatic. Mr. Johnson has been somewhat demented and gradually grew worse until his family and friends were forced to send him to the Western Hospital at Morganton for treatment.

--Tyre Elrod, Rural Carrier on Route 1 out of Boone, is now enjoying his annual rest of 15 days on pay. We doubt if there is a more faithful, accommodating and pleasant carrier in the state than he, and we are always glad when these respites form his labors come, for he richly deserves all that he gets and then some.

--Miss Gabriella Blair will begin the public school at Blowing Rock next Monday. She will be assisted by Miss Ruth Reaves of that town. Both ladies are well qualified, the former having had considerable experience in teaching, and the school at the Rock is evidently in good hands for this term.

--At a meeting of several friends and relatives on last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Adams, Mrs. Daniel Bradley was the guest of honor. Mrs. Bradley has been an invalid for 40 years and this is her first visit from home during all these years.

--Glenn Salmons, a graduate of the A.T.S. of the class of 1910-11, left yesterday for Memphis, where he will enter the Dental Department of the University of Tennessee for the study of his chosen profession, and with his bright mind and studious habits it is reasonable to suppose that great success will crown his efforts.

--Dr. Henry B. Perry of Valle Crucis, accompanied by his brother Clyde, left last week for Baltimore where he will undergo an operation for appendicitis in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The many friends of the popular physician hope that the ordeal will be safely passed and that ere long he will be restored to his family in perfect health.

--Miss Lena Hardin of Jefferson, who has been private secretary to Representative Bartlett of Georgia for a number of years in Washington City, has spent the time since the adjournment of Congress with relatives in Watauga and Ashe. The lady is a first cousin of the Prof’s Dougherty of Boone and visited here different times during her stay at Shull’s Mills.

--It is a great pity that our farmers are pouring their cabbage, apples and Irish potatoes into the market at Lenoir in such great quantities just now, and selling them at a price far below what they would bring a little later on. James Mast and Conley Glenn returned from market yesterday morning and told the Democrat that between here and Lenoir they had met 91 wagons loaded with cabbage and apples.

--The Railroad surveyors on the route from Ashe county to Cook’s Gap are steadily making their way up New River, having passed over the farm of the Rev. Asa Brown. With the Watauga Railway Co. proposing to construct a road in the very near future from either Wilkesboro or Lenoir through Cook’s Gap and on to Boone, and this connection possible if not probable, the outlook for old Watauga is getting bright indeed.

--Now here is a baseball game that is worthy of note. On Saturday last the amateur players of the Old Town and East Boone, ranging in age from 10 to 14 years, crossed bats near the Daniel Boone Oak and a lively game ensued. The little batters all did well, and when completed the score stood 8 to 7, in favor of the boys of Boone. The victors were proud of their first achievement on the diamond.