Town and County News. . . Local Items of Interest
A car load of soda was unloaded by the fruit growers last Friday and Saturday.
Mr. W.S. Wellborn shipped a car load of cattle from here Saturday. The cattle came from over the mountain.
Ashe Recorder, 11th: Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Worth of Jefferson are the proud parents of a fine baby boy which arrived recently.
The local post of the Travellers Protection Association gave a banquet supper at the Armory last Friday night, Valentine Day.
Mr. J.L. Hemphill has purchased 16 acres of land from Mrs. C.H. Somers, adjoining the property of W.S. Wellborn on Cherry Street in Wilkesboro, and will erect a residence on it a an early date.
Alexander County Superior Court is in session this week and will have probably adjourned by the time this reaches half of our readers. Judge T.B. Finley is presiding and Solicitor Hayes is prosecutor.
The Gordon school will close Friday, February 19th. There are 16 children in this school who have been perfect in attendance for the entire term. Mrs. S.J. Steelman and Miss Bertha Revis are the teachers in the Gordon school.
The Wilkesboro Parent-Teachers held their regular monthly meeting last Thursday afternoon. The fourth grade children, taught by Miss Addie Howell, entertained the association in honor of Lincoln’s birthday, Feb. 12th, in a most pleasing manner.
Mr. G.A. Bumgarner of Wilkesboro, Route1, was in the city last Saturday and upon being questioned stated that he was partial to the White Orpington strain of chickens. That through January from 82 hens he received on an average,43 eggs per day—the first 12 days in February from a flock of 75 hens he received on an average of 48 eggs per day.
The Hustler was mistaken last week in printing that Mr. Mont Jones of Oakwoods had been bitten by a mad dog and for that reason as taking treatment. He had been keeping a dog of his shut up and it died. He sent its head to Raleigh and was informed that it had hydrophobia. He had been feeding the dog and took the treatment as a precaution.
The poultry business is growing at a rapid rate in the county. More poultry houses are being built than ever before. The time has come when our people are beginning to realize that in order to get results from chickens they must be housed and fed properly. Let a henroost in a tree these breezy nights and it takes all the food she eats during the day to keep her from freezing at night. Give her a good warm house with southern exposure and the right kind of feed, and she will clear a handsome profit.
Watauga Democrat: Prof. E. Roscoe Hall, teacher at Montezuma, was in town yesterday. Aside from being a teacher of long experience, he is a poet, ex-newspaper man and for nine years did clerical work in the Wilmington post office, his former home being in that city. He handed the Democrat a little poem entitled “Nature Study,” which you will find in another column. It is so different from the usual run of poems of the “home brew” variety that it is gladly given space. It, in our opinion, would grace any scrap book in the country.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, Feb. 17, 1926
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