Rev. Jones filled
his regular appointment in Boone on Sunday.
Mr. A.J. Moretz is
offering for sale under mortgage a steam saw mill and fixtures.
The meeting of Camp
No. 1273 United Confederate Veterans is postponed until May 11.
Miss Minnie Farthing
of New River, who has been at Banner Elk for some time, returned to her home
last week.
Mr. Rudacil Vannoy
and Miss Ida M. Norris, daughter of Mr. Smith Norris, were married at the
residents of the groom at Horton on Tuesday morning.
The stockholders
annual meeting of the Caldwell and Watauga Turnpike Co. will be held at Blowing
Rock on May 8.
It is feared by some
that the fruit crop is seriously damaged by the protracted cold weather; but
many others think that the crop is not hurt.
Reports from the
county of Wilkes are to the effect that much of the land on the river, just
planted in corn, was almost ruined by the high water last week.
Mr. John T. McNeil
and wife of Condiff, Texas, arrived at the home of Mr. Holland Hodges, father
of Mrs. McNeil, this week, and will, we are told, spend the summer in Watauga.
Mr. H.H. Farthing
has applied for a library for Timbered Ridge District under the school law, he
being the first in the county take advantage of its liberal provisions.
Rev. W.R. Bradshaw
of Wilkesboro preaches the annual sermon at Watagua Academy at 11 a.m .
Tomorrow. Mr. T.C. Bowie, who was expected to deliver the address, cannot be
present owing to the extreme illness of his sister.
Our townsman Prof.
W.M. Francum will teach at Silverstone this summer, beginning on Monday, May
13. There is no better teacher in the county than he and that community has
acted wisely in procuring his services.
We are indeed sorry
to hear of the unfortunate condition of friend J.S. Mast of Cove Creek. He is
almost entirely helpless and we are told that his mind is almost dethroned. An
attendant at his bed side is necessary at all times.
The snow measured 10
inches on a level on Howard's Knob Tuesday morning and we are told that snow
drifts to the depth of several feed are in some parts of the county. This is
easily the heaviest snow-fall of the winter.
We are told that
during the freshet last week, the barn of Mr. Quincy McGuire on New River was
lifted from its foundation and nicely carried off on the surging waters.
Fortunately, he succeeded in getting his stock removed before the vessel
sailed.
The Portland Oregon
papers give an account of the trial and conviction of Jas. Greene, late of
Watauga, for the murder of one Benjamin, while under the influence of whiskey.
The jury was only out for a short time and returned a verdict of murder in the
first degree. The attorneys for the defense have asked for an appeal.
A farmer in this
county owns a brood of eight pigs, four of which have no lower jaw. It is
suggested by an anti-stock law man that the little "rooters" had no
use for either mouth or jaw as many of the swinish tribe in Watauga are doomed
to starve under the law he considers so oppressive, and possibly they are not
very unfortunate at last.
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