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SwiNUuiTiox Rate ToTiik Wataiga Democrat. 1 copy 1 year 1 " " C "months... 1 " ft mouths. II IK) r.o! 5 Advertising Rates. inch 1 week ' 1 mouth 3 - " 0 " 1 year -oluinii 1 ween... 1 month. " 3 " .. " 6 " ... " 1 year..... t .7 4 O .. 3 .. 5 .. 7 .. 9 .13 ..23 .37. (K) 00 00 .00 50 00 50 00 Entered nt the Postofficent Iioone, N. C, as second-class mail matter. LOCAL NEWS. "Fret not, but trust." Local news hard to get. Great 6now-Htorms in many of the western states. . Horse trading is lively, this cold weather. There a re 231 preachers iti the North Carolina Confer ence. Just received a nice line of shawls, jerseys and wraps at Bryan's. Mr. G. W.Couneill is buy ing up a lot of horses, forthe market. Vance nominated for Sen ntor by acclamation on the 12th. Great enthusiasm. Mr. W. L. Bryan is at tending Newton court this week. Attorney Spaiuhour left lust Monday for Salisbury and High Point, N C. Yesterday morning was perhaps the coldest we have had this winter. Call on Bryan if you are in need of anything in theline of gentlemen's neck-wear t-Mr. James, Winkler now occupies his handsome new residence, one mile east of Boone. We are truly sorry to hear of the severe illness of Mrs. Maggie Boyden of Salis bury. Uev. Mi. Gibson filled his regular appointment at th; Methodist Church, in Boone, last Sunday. An -Edgecombe, farmer shipied over a thousand bar rells of Irish potatoes from fif teen acres James H. Taylor, Esq., of Meat Cauip, threshed sixty bushels ot white- beans on day last week. Many bills have been in troduced in the legislature al ready. Some to repeal, and others to make new laws. ' Ice on Silver lake at Es tes' is thought to be eight or nine inches thick. No' ice famine this year. Jeter Pritchard !made a speech in the legislature, en dorsing the McKinley bill. Skinner replied and 'skinned' Jeter. . The old year leftus wrap ped inanimmaculateshroud. She no w lies buried in the mighty sarcophagus of the past. - - The Methodists of the Co. are much pleased with their new pastor Rev. Mr. Gipson. We hope him a prosperous year in Watauga. The Messrs Marion, two of Surry County's prominent citizens, are visiting their sis ter, Mrs. Capt. Lovill. They did as most visitors to the mountains do, they added one more name to our books and another dollar to our coffer, The wind has been out; "on n glee" for the pant few; days. It succeeded in tear-j ing down apart of thestrong( stockade around the jail. j Ed. Vnnnoy is now in our; office as telegraph ojerator. ! The office will be open for business from 0, a. m., until 5, p. in., (Sundays exempted.) The f itizen published at Jefferson fails to reach us. Has it taken our name from the exchange list, or has it suspended? The latter we pre sume. Rev. E. F. Jones is con ducting a series of meetings at Zionville. So far as we know, he will fill his regu lar monthly appointment in Boone next Sunday. W, R. Lovill and wife leave lor Southerland this week. Will has bought two splendid sorrel horses, two yea ra old each. They are said to be the finest in the Co. Mr .Zfolick who married Anderson Greene's daughter, and son of Marcus Bolick' died of typhoid fever last Monday night, leaving a wife and some children. H e ex tend our sympathies. S. F. Lenoir & Co. are now offering their winter clothing, boots, blankets, uu dT-shirts, gloves and flan nels, at prices that will sell them. Call on them if you want a bargain in any of the above. '-apt. T. J. Coffey started last Monday for Sumpter, South Coroliha; with a fine drove of horses and mules. He will join T. Fin. Coffey who has been in the South for several weeks. We hope them abundant success. The legislature, has pass ed a resolution instructing our Senators and Represen atives, in Congress, to vote for the resolutions, passed by the Farmers Alliance at Ocala, Florida. The repub licans voted against it in the House. Sir Walter Parks who has been in Nevada, arrived . in Boone a few days ago. He looks well and hearty, and is in his same jovial mooo. It is believed that there are some feminine at tractions that brought him back to Watauga. Vk e failed last week to re cord the marriage of Mr. John Hagainan, of Marion, to Miss Polly Adams, of Brushy Fork They were married at the res idence of Mr. John Bendfield. on the 28th of Dec, and star ted at once for their future home in Marion, N. C. One of our cash subscri bers took his name from bur books this week because of a typo we had in our office for a few days past. How sad for a boy so young to have such enemies, but such is his sad case, and all caused by his bad conduct. I. W. Thomas is just back from filling hisappoint ments at Lenoir and Lower Creek, and says the weather in Caldwell is mild compared with Watauga weather. Mr. Thomas is much pleased with his work and people in Cald well. The good people of Lenoir, last Mouday, gave him $19.00 to buy a bell for his church in Lenoir. A plucky young couple, Calvin Shell, aged 18 years, and Miss Yates, of Wilkes, aged 13 years, were married under rather unfavorable cir eumstances a few tlays ago. Calvin went to Wilkes, stole his girl, came here and n pplicd for license, which were refus ed on the account of their age. ('al. being of a ersevering disposition, continued his march thiough mud and ice to sweet Tenn., where they were mode man and wife. A fearful homicide, a few days ago, took place on North Fork, near Tracy Post Office in this rou.;ty. Cicero! Thomas had lust returned t , . IT , , ' i ii ,inupntly, clean ice. He ha from the west, and stalbed , , , his brother Jack through the right lung upon first sight. Jack lived about 30 hours. They were both sons of Jos. Thomas, Neither was drinking. Family troub les are said to have been the cause. Cicero has not been arrested ns yet, and makes no effort to get out of tfie way, bu t talks freely to "ah.v one about the matter. Botfi men are said to be good v. zens. H e regret very 'milch' to have to chronicle these sad occu trances, but such is the effects of poor, fallen, litij' man nature. . vt. , ;: YOUR HOME PAPER. . . Did you ever think what a friend you have in your home payer? If not let's consider' it for a brief space of time and see if it doesn't prove itself to be one of your very best friends. It conies to you once a week in the form of ii long friendly letter. It gives you nil the news relative to your own, as Well .us ihe surr rounding counties. When prosperity smiles on you who rejoices with you and gladly gives it. publicity? .: Your home paper. , When unbid den Death with; noiseless tread, enters your homeland takes perhaps the fairest flower, .:,.whb , sy mpa'tliiesj deeply with you in your bejy ea vemeut, and speaks of .the virtues of the dead in tender, est strains? Your home pa per. Your paper hem's .the wedding bells often, before they ring and because it can't keep a secret, prematurely tells it. When your, fields' are yel low with -magnificent crops of ripening grain and your cribs'are bursting with super fluous, quantities of corn, and your 'meadows dotted with haystacks, standinglike sen tenils,"and your barns are filled with fat horses and your hill-sides,' covered with sleek.! cattle and sheep,- for sale, to whom do'you hasten with the tidings but to the manager of your home pa per? He gives publicity . td it, and you soon find purcha sers for your extra supplies; Your home paper gives' you in a condensed form, the most important current eve tits of the day, both politfc cal and financial. It tells you who of our merchants will sell you tha best and the cheapest goods for the least money, and it tells you where you can get the highest price for your pro duce. Yes we think tha t you see that jour home paper is oae of your best friends, and we think it is the duty of each and every one to help sustain an enterprise that is for the good, of each and every one. Subscriber. . Tne best anodyne and expecto rant for the cure of colds and colds and all throat, lung and bronchial troubles, is, undoubt edly Ayer's cherry Pectoral. Ask yourdruggist for it, and at the same time, for Ayer's Almanac, which isfree to all, Linville Items. . January, 9. In your issue of the 8th, you a-k: "What has berome of our Linville .squill-driver?"' I sent you last e k a communication con cerning Christmas a ff a i r s here, which I fear has miss carried. Yesterday Mr. Rickseeker filled hi icehouse to thebrim wilh nice, clear, and COnSe- I enough now stored for next summer's consumption. ' We are looking for the re turn of Mr. Hugh MacRae, president of the Linville Inv projrement Co., who has leen absent, since before Christmas. ... Mrs. John P. Robbing is o bout to giveup the keeping of tht Linville Inn. . TIM -weather has been un prOpitions for work on the fowls: but; work will be re sumed so qpo.n as it moder ates. ... ;.,v .: Snow has been; gently fall ing since before seven o'clock fand'eoht'inues at 10, a. m., With a' likelihood of coming nil any. : ": J. S. W. " The Watauga. . Sunday sehbol Association, met at Hehsons Chapel Dec 7th 1890. and organized by electing-the following officers, to wit, I. W. Thomas Pres. and Tho. Bingham S?e. Vice President's were elected in each of the townships of Wa tauga as follows: Boone, J. F: 8 p n i n h n r ; Ben ver - Dn m , C. S. Farthing; BlowingRock, Wm. M. Morris; Blue Ridge, Rev. James Matney; , Ball Mountain,-; .W. H. McGnire; Cove Creek; N. L. Mast; Elk, Rily Hodges; Meat Camp, M. B. Blackburn; Lou real Creek, Jdnes.' : Greer; Shawnehaw, Wilfiam ' ' Vuncanon; Stony Ftf.rkvir. E. Greene; IVatau- git; Fjnley Mast. J. J. T. Ree'Rev. Or. W. Osborn aiVd J. ErFinley elected Ex. C(jm, of the county. , ' I ho. Bingham. The ' Electric Railway. JVfr promised our readers last week to say something about the proposed electric rail-way between here and Asheville. It has been impos sible for us to gain much in formation in regard to it fur ther than being assured by parties interested that it cer taiftly would be built, and that work -would begin as soon as the charter can be procured through the Legis lature; There is no doubt but '(the Hoe will be const ruc- teddas the men at . the head of the enterprise are men of ability and mple capital to buUdi it; 7 A! gentleman who us connected with the enter- prise has been in the North ne gotiting ir ; the plant &c vv hijeb jfc is proposed . to : run byr Tatej ipower furnished from BroacJ, river, at a point abou t t wo miles above Chim ney Rock,,,. The line is to be built'and equipped . within -2 years. Rutherford Banner. The weakness and debilitvwhich result from illness may be spee dily overcome by the use of Ayes'a oarsaparula. i his is a sate, but powerful tonic, assists digestion, regulates the liver and kidneys, and ; cleanses the blood of all germS of disease. MEMORY Mln! wmadHnc enrd. Boolrj 1nw4 . in am rediD. Taatimonialt from U ptrt of th giakm. Pmapectu potT rHKK, snt on apnlicatkn to Prof. A. LaiMU W i afcb An. Iw Tort. mm 'saaxjia koiii ,sNM.ona HH pinoqa tin In) -ptpaq oqjs. oiupnqa to 'aaa9 SoipMM HERE WE ABE I -o- ON TOP ! We propw to make it to your interest to trade with us. and in so doing, we give you some articles that are contained in our ENORMOUS STOCK on which we propose to give you unequalled BAKU.WXS BOOTS & SHOES. 550 pairs Boots and Shoes. : In this line we can fit and suit.al.l. The very . best val ues at panic prices. . See our line before buying. -O- Dry Goods. Four thousand, five hun dred yards of Dry Goods. Here you will find the lat est styles and best qualities at un-heard-of prices. Groceries ! Groceries ! ! In this branch "we carry a Fuesh Stock, both staple and fancy at prices lower than the bottom notch. - -o- Hats, Hats. . A nice lot at the very low est prices. Wf can fit any body. Call and examine our stock before buying else where; -o- ' Jeans! jeans ! ! J EANS ! ! ! We have the largest stock in town, which will - be sold at special low pi ices. -o- This department is com plete. We can fit the tall, the short, the lean, and the fat. BOYS CLOTHING! A nice lot which will be sold at a very low figure. : Gent's : Furnishing Goods, Shirts, ' ' Drawers, : , , ".' (-ollars, "". Cuffs, Under ware, ' " Gloves, Hose, Handkerchiefs, . Cravats,. &c. Can suit all in this depart ment. , : o. . In connection with 'my other business I run ai . .. Hotel and Peed STABLE, which we think is equal to any in the county, and we guarantee our prices as low as any in the County Thanking my customers for past favors, I remain Very Respectfully, W.L Bryan. 1890 ! : With its ups and downs is slowly, but surely, wnnmg nrd ns it closes we wish to thank our many customers for their very liberal patron ng", and quote to them some of our leading articles, with the promise that during the remainder of the present year we will give you poods as ehenp as oan be bought on the South ern Markets, un! for the year 1891 We promise, as in the past by ' ' 4 - 0 . Fair Dealings, To merit a Hl)eral shace of the patronage xt our customers in .-Watauga And adjoining counties. . TO MERCHANTS. We wish to call yor especial attention to our enormous stock 0F HARDWARE. You can saveTmoney by tnvingr us vour order for nails, tvre and rolled iron, chains, and, in tact, anything in this line, as we buy them iu large-lots direct Irom the manufactures. DRY GOODS. Consisting of irlannel hurting, Treeott Flannels, I'laid Flannels, Saxony, prints, ' Ginghams, etc., etc. -Ladie'a Dress, . in Henrieta Cloth from 25 cts to . one dollar per yard. All kinds of laces in V'andike points, etc. Shawls and ladie's coats in the latest styles. Large stock of satin and grns- grain ribbon, table linen and oil cloth. Sugar. .,. ... , COffee, , . .. Rice, Oat-meal, Pickles, Bacon, - - Lard, Salt, ' Flour, v Pepper, Spice, in the' greatest abundance, and at priees that will surprise you. ROOTS tTeHOES. 'HOES. In Foot-wear. We Almost, defv competition, as . our stock was purchased before the advance in prices. We 'wish' to nll pstw. . r . " " I ' ial attention to our Tap-sole, Flefch-split.boot, that we claim cannot be beaten in the United States. We also' carry a large and well selected stock of rubber goods, in th latest and most comiortaoie sryies, . - . CLOTHING. . .Come and examihe,ournew and elegant line of Ready-made Cloth ing which was carefully selected as to ptyle, fabric make and fin ish, and you are sure to find any thing you need, and as cheap as the chaptt. - Wca"n fit you in any ; suit, from. Abe smallest loy to the 250 poiii)der. Gent's Furnfehiig Goods. -o- In endless varieties, such as Outing-shirts, Dress-shirts, Under-wear, . Collar. .Cufff, Cravatst Ifose, Hats, "caps, Handerchiefs, ..;'..- Gloves & etc. We cannot be turned down in this line for style or quali' Thanking our friends for a liberal patronage in the past and hoping to merit a larger share in the future, we are most Respectfully, JONES & VANCE Elk Park, Nov., 17, '90. SfiV. B. All orders by mail shall recieve prompt attention- , ,.:.-J.&T.
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