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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS As Told by the Papers in the Neighboring Counties. Mcdowell. CALDWELL. Rev. W. H. White Enters Upon His Hew Work The Morganton Dis trict Conference Prof. Ornber Goes to Sweetwater, Tenn. Marion Democrat, July 27th. Mrs. J. A. McDonald is in Dalton, Ga., in attendance up on her son, W. M. McDonald, who is ill with appendicitis. Photographer and Mrs. J. C. Howenstein and son, Rob ert, of Morganton, visited friends here this week. They formerly resided in Marion. Mrs. A. J. Bailey and chil dren left here Tuesday to join Mr. Bailey at Cassatt, S. C, where he has secured an agency on the Seaboard Air Line. Rev. W. H. White and fam ily left here for Mt. Tabor, Union county, S. C, on Tues day, where he will enter upon his duties as pastor of the Presbyterian church thereand at Lochart, 14 miles beyond. Both towns have large cotton mills and aregrowing rapidly, thus ensuring a splendid field for the Rev. Mr. White's labors. Prof, and Mrs. S. F. E. Gruber and daughters, Misses Marie and Annie, and son Steve, left here last Pridav for Sweetwater, Tenn., where they will conduct The Sweet water, the leading hotel of the place. While here they con ducted The Flemming popu larly and successfully. Miss Josephine and Will Gruber will remain here with their sister, Mrs. W. W. Cooper. The sessions of the annual conference of the Morganton district which were held here last week at the Methodist church were concluded Sun day evening. The attendance was very large at each ser vice and business meetingand much interest was shown. The educational rally held Saturday morning was espe cially enjoyable and several able addresses were made by the visiting ministers. During the civil wr, as well as in our late war with Spain, diarrhoea was one of the most troublesome diseases the army had to contend with. In many instance? it became chronic and the old soldiers still suffer from it. Mr. David Taylor of Wind Ridge, Greene Co.. Pa., is one of these. He uses Chamberlain's Colir, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and says he never found anything that would give him such quick relief. It is for sale by W. A. Leslie, Druggist. An Interesting Marriage Watauga's Proposed E. E. Subscription Big Railroad Contracts. Lenoir News, July 27th. License have been issued this week for the marriage of Thos E. Hood to Mary Phillips and George E. Smith to Maggie Miller, all of this county. The picnic of the Presbyter ian Sunday schools along the line of the'e. & N. W.atCliffs last Tuesday was largely at tended and was a most pleas ant occasion. Pred Gray, eleven-year-old son of Mr. Jim Gray, had his hand badly cut by a hand join ter in the furniture factory w yesterday; a part of one finger was amputated by the physi cians. We learn that several big contracts for cross ties have recently been let by the C. & N. W. for widening the gauge of the road and that the con tracts for strengthing and building new the bridges and trestles on the line has been let to a New York firm for $68,000. The work to be done by Jan. 1st., 1901. The prospects of Watauga county voting $60,000 railroad subscription are good. As we understand the proposition the county is perfectly safe in voting the subscription, as ths bonds are not to be issued until the road a standard gauge is running through the county. We hope to see the county roll up abigmajor- ity for the railroad. V A ' a a yune an interesting mar riage was celebrated at the Commercial Hotel in this place i a TIT t i rri last vveanesaav. ine con- tracting parties were Mr. T. R. Richardson and Miss Alice R. Cook, both of New Orleans. As we gather the facts Mr. Richardson has been pressing his suit for some time with some encouragement but had never been able to get the lady's consent until recently. Miss Cook has been spending a month at Blowing Rock with her mother and sister andlast week Mr. Richardson asked by wire if she would marry him if he came to the Rock. The answer was flashed back "come" and the groom elect lost no time in obevinar the short command. Mr. Richardson is a wid ower with eight children, it is said, and a well-to-do business man of New Orleans, and his bride is a strikingly handsome and attractive lady of the same city. They took the south-bound train for their home Wednesday afternoon. Other Caldwell Items. Lenoir Topic, July 25th. Mr. W. W. Scott, of Wash ington, and sister MissPattie, of Hampton, are at their old home in Lenoir for a while. Prof. W. M. Moore will teach at Collettsville the com ing year. They are just com pleting a nice academy and the school will open on the 20th of August. The Dickey Bird has w his pered in our ear that "when the leaves begin to turn," one of Morganton's bright sons, now in Washington, D. C, will lead to the altar a charming young lady residing in a near by county. -Morganton Herald. From all indications the afore said young man "now in Washington" is the identical young man who has been spending the best part of his summer vacation in Lenoir witn tne intent ana purpose to carry away one of her most charming and popular belles. WATAUGA. to a new road. We hav miles of the Western North Carol ina Railroad in the conn, ty and it pays on the old a sessment more than per year in taxes. This win be increased under the new assessment. Very truly, Manly McDowell, Sheriff. LINCOLN. mm mmm mmrm m m now tne uaiiroaa rax worked in Burke County A Letter from Sheriff McDowell. Boone Democrat, July 26th. The railroad proposition now before our people is of more importance to us than county politics. Thomas Hodges and family, of Paris, Texas, are spending some time here visiting rela tives and friends. Mr. Robt. L. Proffit, of Elk township, and some of his neighbors, who wanted all the light they could get on the Kail road Tax matter, so that they could vote intelligently, wrote to Sheriff McDowell, of Burke county, to know the experience of that county with its railroad tax. The follow ing is Sheriff McDowell's re ply: Morganton, N. C, July 11, 19)0. Mr. Robert L. Proffit, Triplett, X. C. Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of June29th which has just come to hand, will say that Burke county voted $50,000 to the W. N. C. R. R. This subscription has been paid in full, and the county is now receiving a little more than one hundred dollars per year in taxes for every mile of the road. The buildimr nf this road has been such a good investment that we are think ing of voting a subscription to another road. Morganton alone has already voted $20, 000 A Steam Threshing Outfit Burned Wheat Crops Destroyed by Fire R. E. Bridge Burned Married. Lincolnton Journal, July 27th. W. H. Rhyne of Howard's Creek township made 128 bushels of wheat on 4 acre. which is the best yield so far reported. A most beautiful weddin was that of Mr. J. La ban Lineberger and Miss Katha rine Wilkie which occurred Wednesday morning. A bridge on the Carolina & North-Western near Cliffs was destroyed by fire on Thursday night of last week. It caught from a coal from the engine. The wheat crop of Andrew Heavner, of Howard's Creek township, about 175 bushels, was set on fire by the engine of a thresher cn Thursday of last week. Only about 50 mi bushels, badly scorched, was saved. Charles Mauney lost about 200 bushels of wheat near Crouse Thursday of last week. The engine of the thresher set fire to the straw, and de stroyed all the unthreshed wheat. About 70 bushels which had already been threshed was saved. A steam threshing on tfit wras burned in the public road near King's Mountain one day last week. As the attendants were eating dinner by the roadside, some cloths on the separator were set on fire by spark from the engine and the whole outfit stroyed. was de- the the aii'l iou QUESTION ANSWERKD. Yes, August Flower still largest sale of any medicine in civilized world. Your mot hen- grandmothers never thousht of anything else for Indigestion or Ril ness. Doctors were scarce, aud the seldom heatd of Appendicitis, Nervou? Prostration or Heart failure, vf They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation "f undigested food, regulate the action " the liver, stimulate the nervau- and organic action of the system, and tht is all they took when feeling dull a:A bad with headaches and other achf You only need a few doses of Greer August Flower, in liquid form. make you satisfied there is not huff serious the matter vith vou. For -nit ; by John Tull.
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