A child at the graded school building choked on a quarter of a dollar Tuesday of last week and came near dying.
Governor McLean last week appointed A. Wayland Cook, a lawyer of Guilford County, to preside at Watauga Court this week.
Mrs. J.C. Smoot’s new residence on Soapsone hill in the north edge of town has had many laborers at work and apparently will soon be completed.
W.A. Ellis of the Oakwoods roads has beat the drought this fall by sowing a turnip patch in swamp land which he says has come up and is growing green.
Watauga court was in session last week, Judge Stack presiding. Solicitor Hayes assisted by Ex-Lieut. Gov. Will C. Newland were at the time of this writing to prosecute in the Wooten case.
An automobile collision occurred on the Oakwoods road Monday in which Mr. Theo. Finley sustained a cut and small fracture on the head. He was taken to the hospital but found not dangerously injured, it is learned Tuesday morning from the head nurse.
Twenty or more cars, including the elegant blue coach of the Robert E. Lee hotel, were in the Wilkerboros last Thursday afternoon on a booster trip from Winston-Salem. They arrived here about the time the dark clouds and rain did, and were welcomed together.
Bricklaying was resumed on N.B. Smithey’s Goodwill Store house last wee—being erected on the corner of 11th and D streets to Reddies River bridge. This building will be a large addition to the two Wilkesboros or North Wilkesboro’s reputation as a distributing point.
R.E. Faw Jr. was here Thursday having come far as home from this side Obids. His machinery is at work digging a well to take the place of springs gone dry, which have heretofore supplied three homes next to each other along the Jumping-off road on the Blue Ridge. After finishing there, he intended beginning on work in Ashe.
A big steel gray concrete mixer arrived on the 4 o’clock freight last Thursday and was unloaded and taken far as the ford between the two towns that night, but the Yadkin being swollen, it could not ross next morning to begin hard-surfacing on the new road east of Wilkesboro. It was to begin pouring last Monday near Dan Anderson’s and work back this way.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1925
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