Saturday, June 27, 2015

Local News from Watauga County, June 9, 1910

“Local News” from the Thursday, June 9, 1910, issue of the Watauga Democrat. The comet mentioned in the column was Halley’s Comet.

Mrs. J.A. Woody of Shulls Mills was a guest at the Blackburn House Monday.

Mrs. Jacob Lewis and daughter of Cove Creek attended the unveiling at Lenoir last week.

The county commissioners were in session Monday and a good crowd was in town on account thereof.

The colored people of Boone are to be congratulated on having purchased for their church a nice bell.

Mrs. A.V. Bennett of Charlotte is with her daughter Mrs. James Winkler for the summer. Miss Verlie Winkler, who for several months has been in Charlotte, has returned home for summer vacation.

Miss Nora South and brother Austin left Monday evening for Hickory where they will visit relatives for a few days.

Mr. Joe Swift and wife have returned to their home at Mt. City, Tenn., after having spent several days with their daughter Mrs. J.M. May.

Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Coffey represented Boone at the unveiling of the Confederate monument in Lenoir Friday, returning Saturday afternoon.

Messrs. James and Don Horton and Mr. D. Horton and family, all of Cove Creek, attended the unveiling of the Confederate monument in Lenoir last Friday and it goes without saying that they had a royal time.

Mr. Dave Norris, who for perhaps 50 years served the public in some capacity, is in very feeble health, which his numerous friends over the county will be sorry to hear indeed.

Regular communication of the Daniel Boone Chapter No. 47, O.E.S., will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m. A full attendance is desired as the meeting is an important one to the order.

Mr. Willard Beach of Wilkesboro, a valued factor in The Chronicle office, is visiting home folks in Boone this week and his many friends are glad to see him. Willard used to hold down a case in the Democrat office, where he is most pleasantly remembered.

Mr. R.C. Rivers, the Democrat’s editor and publisher, is away attending the North Carolina Press Association which is in session at Wrightsville Beach this week, and if this issue of the paper falls very short of what it should be, we trust its friends will throw over it all the mantle of charity.

Mr. Waverly Morrison of Wilkesboro is visiting in town this week.

Oranges, lemons, bananas and a nice line of candies just in at Blackburn’s.

Mr. S.A. Hollar and family of Wilkesboro have been visiting relatives in the western part of the county for the past week.

Mr. Bob Madron of Johnson county, Tenn., has purchased the fine horse from Mr. J.C. Ray for $12,000 and will finish the rest of the season at the regular times and places.

The Company store is offering some extra bargains in men’s summer clothing. It will be to your advantage to examine their line if you wish to buy a summer suit.

Messrs. F.A. Linney and E.S. Coffey returned home from Lenoir Tuesday evening where they had attended the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Watauga Railway company Monday.

Two young sons of Felix Howell of Old Fields township, Ashe county, while at work in the field one day last week, met with an accident that cost one his life and seriously injured the other. A large limb blew off of a tree, falling on them.

Mr. and Mrs. Silas Green and little daughter of Silverstone spent Monday and Tuesday in town the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Greene. They also have as their guest Miss Sallie Dougherty who for some time has been visiting on Cove Creek.

Mrs. D.F. Mast and son, Mr. Claud of Valle Crucis attended the unveiling at Lenoir and were accompanied home by Miss Nora Mast, who had been in Davenport College. Miss Mast was a successful member of the Art class and brings home with her some fine work.

On last Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Weedon of Blowing Rock, the lady friends of Miss Ola Pendley gave her a miscellaneous shower and the many pretty and useful articles received by Miss Pendley attest her popularity.

Miss Ola Pendley and Mr. Herman S. Deal were married yesterday morning at 7 o’clock in the Presbyterian church at Blowing rock, Rev. Edgar Tufts officiating, using the beautiful and impressive ceremony of his church. After the ceremony, the happy couple repaired to the Watauga Inn, the home of the bride, where a delicate and elegant breakfast was served, after which they left immediately for the home of the groom’s father in Alexander county to spend a few days, after which they will be at home at Blowing Rock. Miss Pendley is the popular daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Pendley, and Mr. Deal is an Alexander man who is in the mercantile business at Blowing Rock, where he has made many warm friends. The Democrat throws after then its best old shoe, hoping that life’s pathway may be flower strewn and that the sunshine may ever glitter over it.

Rev. W.R. Savage will hold services and preach next Sunday June 21st in St. John’s church, Watauga River, at 11 o’clock, and in Greer’s school house near Watauga Falls post office at 3 p.m. Everybody welcome.

M.B. Blackburn is agent for the old reliable Hammer Paints and anything you need in paints and oils of any kind he will supply our needs at very close prices. He also has a stock lubricating and spindle oils for any kind of machinery.

For several evenings the comet has not been visible here but reports from Washington say it is yet visible near the equator. It is traveling in a southernly direction and is estimated to be more than 20,000,000 miles from earth.

A Rowan citizen comes forward with a story that he killed a white snake four feet long, which had coal black eyes. Time for the water wagon to back up.—Charlotte News

This snake story doesn’t beat the one below for which the Wilkesboro Chronicle is responsible: There is some excitement over a big snake said to have been seen Saturday in the lower end of the Rousseau bottom. It was the biggest ever seen in this section and had hair on its back two inches long, so those say who saw it. It whipped out several dogs and got away.

Governor Glenn is in New Jersey making a canvass for the negroes—that is for funds for a negro school in Durham. Mr. W.T. Bost, a Durham newspaper man, is his press agent.

On last Friday Alfred Mac-Rae, a member of the junior class at the University, killed himself by taking poison in a boarding house at Chapel Hill. Depression is assigned as the cause He was a grand son of the late Judge Mac-Rae.

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