“Local News” from the Watauga Democrat, Boone, September 1, 1911
--Miss Mattie Horton is visiting relatives in Jefferson.
--Prof. A. Masters of Mitchell county has been in town
several days.
--The board of county commissioners will be in session next
Monday.
--George P. Hagaman, cashier of the bank, visited home folk
on Beaver Dam last Sunday.
--James. W. McGhee is at home from Sparta for a few days
where he has been working on Alleghany’s new court house.
--Sorry to hear that friend Thomas Jones of Sands is
confined to his home suffering from a severe attack of typhoid fever.
--Profs. D.D. and B.B. Dougherty are attending the annual
meeting of the County Superintendents of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this
week.
--I will be in Boone during court week prepared to do your
watch work. Shop at Richard M. Green’s. Give me a call. Silas M. Green,
Jeweler.
--C.C. Farthing, after spending a few days with his parents
in New River, has returned to his work in Virginia, much improved in health.
--The Walnut Grove brass band will give a concert in the
court house in Boone on the night of Sept. 8, 1910. Come out and hear some good
music.
--Owing to the continued dry weather there is still a
considerable amount of hay uncut in Watauga, which is something rather unusual
for Sept. 1.
--Mrs. Emma Setzer of Colletsville, Caldwell county, with
her two little children, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manley Green on
Meat Camp.
--Dr. L.E. Farthing, wife and babe, John Watts, Jr. of
Pittsboro, this state, are visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Farthing,
the doctor’s parents on New River.
--Nelia Folk, colored, received a letter Monday bearing the
sad news that her son, George, who was reared here, had been shot down at some
point in West Virginia without a cause. No further particulars received by us.
--Mrs. Thomas Tugman Jr. died at her home on Meat Camp last
week, leaving twin infants only a few hours old. The little ones, we are told,
are still living and thriving nicely.
--Each member of Boone, Blowing Rock, Snow and Ashlar
Lodges, A.F. & A.M., the owners of the picnic property, is urged by the
secretary to bring or send a basket of lunch to our annual picnic on Sept. 9 as
a very large crowd is expected.
--Presiding Elder Ashe of the colored Methodist church held
quarterly conference in the colored church here last Saturday and Sunday. The
elder is a very good talker indeed, and seems to have the spiritual welfare of
his people at heart.
--Bennett Elliott of Silverstone, who has been in a
Charlotte sanitarium for some time for treatment, passed through town Tuesday
on his return home and we take it that he is permanently cured as he was
carrying a grip through the rain.
--On last Saturday night Mr. Thomas W. Hopkins, formerly of
Elk Park, was married to Miss Lillie, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Greer of Middle Fork. She is a graduate of the A.T.S.; has taken a
course at a business college and is a graduate in stenography and typewriting.
The groom is to be congratulated on winning for himself such a charming bride.
--Hons. Charles H. Cowles and R.L. Doughton, Republican and
Democratic candidates for Congress, will have a joint discussion of the
political issues of the day during the noon recess of court on Tuesday, Sept.
18. As this is probably the only opportunity our people will have to hear the
candidates in joint discussion, we hope the people will, as near as possible,
all turn out and hear them.
--Mr. Calvin Church of Valle Crucis, after several months of
declining health, died at his home last Sunday and was buried with Masonic
Honors on Tuesday. Deceased moved to this county from Wilkes many years ago,
has reared a large family, was a member of the M.E. Church South, and always
took a lively interest in all things looking to the betterment of his community
or the county at large. May he rest well after his long pilgrimage.
--Mr. George McGhinnis, who has been visiting his sons at
Elberton, Wash., since last spring, returned to his home in Watauga a few days
ago. He tells us that his son Nelson, who is dubbed “The wheat king of the
Pelouse section,” gathered 40,000 bushels of the golden grain this year, which
sells readily on the home market at 85 cents per bushel. Rather extensive
farming this when you consider the fact that only seven years ago the young man
left Watauga with barely money enough to pay his way to his present home.
--On last Thursday Sheriff Ragan with Deputy Jesse F.
Robbins, and three citizens of Virgil, swooped down upon the illicit distillery
on the head waters of Elk creek, running at full capacity, but the owners or
operatives of the plant had made good their escape before the officers arrived.
The still was of 50-gallon capacity, and several bushels of beer, besides the
“doubling” that was being run off, was found in the shed, all of which was left
intact, as the officers had no right to destroy the same. The still, worm and
cap, however, all in good condition, were carried a distance of four miles, a
conveyance procured and the same was brought to Boone in the afternoon, and
will be sold by order of the board of county commissioners. The Sheriff has for
several months been trying to locate the still and trip after trip has been
made by him to that section, but he always failed to locate it. This is the
first plant of the kind captured in Watauga for many years.
--On Wednesday of last week four students were expelled from
Rutherford College for attempting to haze a new boy. That is good.
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