notes on the news

“Industrial Edition!” spotlight on local business The Watkins Hardware Co. with pic & history Pres. Samuel Watkins, VP AC Zollicoffer, Sec-treas-manager WT Watkins The Ice Factory Thomas & Newcomb, WW Parker, Gus Roth’s Bee Hive Watkins Bros. Co., inc Aug 1909, SW - pres., WT - VP, Sam Jr sec-treas-mgr Samuel Watkins Dept. Store Did this man ever sleep? No, sorry, wrong question, this was back before dudes did their own laundry

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Obituary for W. T. (Will?) Cheatham Jr., who had been in failing health for some time; druggist, postmaster, saved those kids from that train, all around mensch Want ads for horses Joe and Earle Watkins are visiting from Davidson William C. Watkins visiting from Roxboro Miss Lizzie Watkins home from Peace Institute Miss Bessie Watkins home from Peace Institute I’m honestly not sure which is which Captain Jimmie Cooper is on the mend after illness R.

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HUSTLING HENDERSON! glowing writeups of various local business concerns: cotton mills! buggy factories! etc The Croatan Club Seaboard Feed & Milling Co., C. V. Singleton, GM J. B. Watkins - Lumber, sash, doors Daniel & Co. 214-216 S. Garnett

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C. V. Singleton is off on a trip with the lads Miss Gerusha [sic] Whedbee is visiting A Four Footed Turkey in Aurelian Springs To Morehead for a week or two: Rebecca Watkins with some Coopers, Parhams & Perrys Geneva, Rosebud, and Ida May Cheatham travel to Hendersonville to see aunts Jennie and Lizzie. On the way, near Spartanburg, they were in a train accident (no serious injuries) Watkins Hardware is giving away an ice cream freezer to one lucky winner Death of an Excellent Woman, Mrs.

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Lila Wright of Durham is visiting Rebecca Watkins State Medical Boards: 96 new doctors, including a Black doc from Henderson Double Funeral Samuel Watkins & son Alex went on a fishing trip with the guys; after that, to the Retail Merchant’s Association meeting “automobile boys” messrs. Peitz & Cohen Death of a Well-Known & Respected Black Man In Town … is not the original headline Chichester’s Pills! Wedding: Mr. Harley Jefferson & Miss Leila Shannon, plus “a large and fashionable assemblage of interested friends and spectators.

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Miss Mildred Lewis is off to Converse College So is Miss Mary Hufham; she’s going to be teaching Mock Trial held at the Grand Theatre. Everyone’s in it – Rebecca Watkins is a witness. Defendant S. T. Peace, attorney T. T. Hicks, etc. Petitioning the government to pardon Alma Satterwhite (convicted of murder in 1905) – Chas. Satterwhite Buy Humpty-Dumpty Stockings at 15 cents. And you will use no more “cuss words” such as Darn-it.

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Discourse on “sectionalism” and the Jamestown exposition Popular Ladies Contest held by Gholson Jewelers Macy Chavasse won with 469 votes. #8: Rebecca Watkins Statesville: “the shooting season is yet young,” but already a bunch of people have been hurt or killed in gun accidents Homicide in the County (“It was a bad affair but the killing does not seem to have been without provocation”) …Minstrels

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Mrs. Samuel Watkins represents the Ladies’ Home Mission Society and Ladies’ Missionary Union at the Albemarle Presbetery Watkins Hardware has an exclusive contract to sell Gibraltar Paint. The company president is in town doing a demo of the paint’s durability: he built a house, painted it, and will set it on fire May 3rd. A. T. Barnes has Baldwin pianos to sell A bunch of dudes (including a C. B.

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Coming soon to the Grand Theatre: The Clansman Mr. Horton of the Atlanta line went back to work after recovering (mostly) from a rail collision Mrs. W. S. Parker, state UDC president, hostessing at Jamestown Exposition. Mrs. Samuel Watkins is there as well More gross ad copy for ManZan piles remedy Spring store displays are looking great A joke! “Bilkins – Why in the world do you spend so much time in reading bear stories.

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UDC 10th annual convention in Durham. Mrs. Samuel Watkins attends, as does local fave Julian Carr Plans for a Confederate memorial arch in Raleigh were discussed. I hope it’s gone. (I think it is. Side note: one of the recently removed monuments at the Capitol, the Henry Lawson Wyatt Monument, was sculpted by a guy named Gutzon Borglum.) Agreement with the Wilmington paper: enforce the vagrancy law Chew Grape Tobacco!

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