Ex-Congressman R.N. Hackett is seriously ill at Dr. Long’s hospital in Statesville.
Preaching at the Presbyterian church in Wilkesboro Sunday morning at 11 o’clock by Rev. J.H. Carter.
The heating plant in the school building in Wilkesboro was received by the local school authorities yesterday.
Mr. Harve. S. Vannoy was here yesterday. A parole was not received for the Yates woman because of a counter petition to the governor.
Messrs. Jesse and Thomas Greer, Fred and Robert Phillips of Boomer, on a ‘possum hunt last Friday night, caught 11 ‘possums and one coon.
The three-days Chautauqua begins at the Wilkesboro school building next Tuesday the 30th. Buy your season ticket--$1.50 for grown-ups and $1 for children.
Miss Freida Schaefer of Toledo, O., who has been visiting with the Morehouses on Brushy Mt. for the past month left for her home on the early train Tuesday.
Mr. Isaac Baity, Esq., was sufficiently recovered from an automobile accident,--collision with Mr. Odell Church in another auto several days ago—Monday to start south for Salisbury to be gone a few days with a truck load of fine apples.
Watauga Democrat: Mr. H.W. Horton is grading a site for a summer home on the elevation just opposite the Methodist parsonage. Mr. Horton spends the summers here and the winters in Miami, Florida, and is getting the work under way before leaving for the winter.
The body of Mr. Anderson Todd, a former resident of North Wilkesboro, arrived on the noon train here Monday from Winston Salem where he died. He must have been about 50 years old. He had been running a hotel recently. He moved from Troutdale about a year ago to Winston. The burial was here.
Rain began falling in the Wilkesboros last Thursday afternoon between 1 and 2 o’clock Oct. 18th, following a dryness of about six weeks, evenmuch as a shower and this increased until a “running and mud-puddle rain” fell Friday afternoon. Farmers, however, didn’t get enough to soften the harder fields for plowing for small grains.
The local National guard, or about 50 of them, left Saturday afternoon by autos for Hickory where they intended boarding the train for Spruce Pine and went on guard there Monday during the trial of case there this week of the man charged with a horrid crime, who, though threatened with lynching, had not been tried. Major Ed. P. Robinson, Lieut. R.G. Reins went with them. They returned home this morning about 1 o’clock.
Mrs. Mary Williams and son, Mr. Mack Williams of Iredell county, near Harmony, spent Saturday night and Sunday in Wilkesboro with her brother, Mr. Harrison Lewis. On their way home, at the forks of the road at Dan Anderson’s, they came very near having a serious accident when they met a car at the curve, but as it happened no one was hurt and very little damage was done to the cars.
At a congregational meeting of the Presbyterian church in Elkin Sunday a week ago, a call was extended to Rev. J.H. Carter for all of his time instead of the present grouping of the church with Wilkesboro Presbyterian church. “The call will be presented by Messrs. R.J. Barker and E.C. Grier, representing the church, at the fall meeting” (beginning yesterday) “in Orange county.”
Mr. J.D. Hall of Dehart met a painful accident with a Fordson tractor Monday morning about 7:30 when attempting to pack up to get kerosene at his home. In throwing the machine out of gear or trying to, it continued to back and threw him out when it struck the door-steps of the house, landing him between the wheels fracturing his left arm between the elbow and wrist. He came to town and received the doctor’s attention.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, October 24, 1923
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