Winston-Salem Presbytery will meet at Elkin April 14-15th.
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In the dramatic contest held last Friday night between North Wilkesboro and Winston-Salem at the Orpheum, Winston-Salem won by one vote.
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Henry Reynolds of North Wilkesboro is a live wire, but he ought to be—he is a telephone manipulator. The new Talk Exchange which the Horton Telephone company plans to build here listens well.—Elkin Tribune.
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Mrs. G.A. Nichols of Millers Creek community became speechless last Friday morning about 7 o’clock. Mrs. Nichols is about 63 years of age. She went to feed the hogs that morning as usual and when she returned to the house, she could not speak.
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The E.E. Eller Produce Co. shipped a car load of eggs and a car load of poultry every day during March. This means two car loads every day, and that our people of this section of North Carolina are helping feed the rest of the world.
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Gov. McLean made the following appointment for four-year terms last Wednesday on the board of directors of the State Teachers’ College for Negroes—A.D. Folger, Dobson; J. Gordon Hackett, North Wilkesboro; J.D. Humphreys, Danbury; D.B. McRay, Asheboro, and N.C. Newbold, Raleigh.
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Mrs. Rich Crysel of Reddies River township died Thursday night of last week. She leaves a husband several grown children. She was a sister of Mr. Tom C. Caudill of North Wilkesboro. The funeral was at Union church Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. R.H. Brady, pastor. The deceased was 44 years.
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Elkin Tribune: Within the next few weeks work will be started on a new two-story building on Market street, opposite Hotel Elkin, by the Horton Telephone Company, the estimated cost eing in the neighborhood of $10,000. When completed the building will furnish adequate quarters for the telephone company with additional rooms for office purposes.
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Mr. Hal Stafford of Cabarrus-Mecklenburg county’s line, nephew by marriage of Mrs. Horton Finley, Mr. and Mrs. Will, Miss Julia Finley, Mrs. D.A. Reece, and Theo. Finley continues very seriously ill. Mr. Stafford underwent an operation two months ago at a Charlotte hospital. He visited his cousins, Mr. Chas. M. and Miss May Finley and relatives in the county last summer.
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A number of fine hams were stolen from the store of C.A. Lowe night of March 30th. Thirty or 40 hams must have made a truck load. Chief Policeman Caudill and Mr. Lowe traced the load down the country next day through Iredell into Mecklenburg and meat sold in Mooresville that next day is believed to be some of it, though much covered with pepper and cut up and trimmed, which may prevent identifying the robbers.
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The weather for the past week has been shaking the nerves of people. The freeze and frost last Tuesday night did considerable damage to fruit in this section. The extent of the frost damage cannot yet be estimated in the state, but reports indicate that it is not so bad as was thought at first. If the sandhills can furnish the peaches, and the mountains, the apples, we will have small cause to complain about fruit in North Carolina.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, April 8, 1925
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