Upper Catawba Community News May 12, 1904
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- Upper Catawba Community News May 12, 1904
- Date
- 1904-05-12
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A newspaper article of community news for upper Catawba. It reads,
"UPPER CATAWBA.
Editor Herald: - Business is looking up all along the line in this section. We have almost a town here now, if we could select good men to run it. The telephone system now runs up as far as Mr. T. J. Vandergrift's. They want to put it clear through Main Street, but no more can get on the present line. Some of the citizens are raising a howl, because they cannot knock some of them loose from the present line and get on it themselves.
It seems that some folks think that the world would fail to move if they could not work the throttle. They want to run the railroads, the trains, the electric company, the telephone system, agricultural department, religious affairs, and, if possible, would try to forestall Providence. In fact, and in short, they want the world.
There is one fact that ought not to be, (if it were otherwise our town would build up real fast) and that is that some of the real estate holders are asking $100.00 for lots scarcely big enough to whip a medium-sized {...}, and John Bryant has already made a fence right through Tinker Knob Ave.
We are sorry to note that Mrs. Mary Cunningham, who is eighty-six years old, fell recently and sustained injuries, from which she will hardly recover. Brother Peleg says the oldest person he ever knew was ninety-three years old. We have known at least two, who are dead now, and who attained a greater age, one of them reaching ninety-six years. We also know Mrs. Armstrong, who is still living and active at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.
We think that our law-makers ought to enact a law exempting all men over sixty-five years from capitation tax. The 'Lone Star State' has such a law and is still moving on in prosperity. Why cannot the Old Dominion have it, too?
We greatly enjoyed Miss B. O. Gardner's letter in last week's HERALD and await her next with eager expectations.
When T. J. Vandegrift and B. M. Coffman erect their general mercantile establishment, business is going to hum. Their resources are boundless and they have the pluck, nerve, backbone, and grit to push everything they undertake to its utmost capacity. Tom Twist. - Creator
- The Fincastle Herald
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- The Fincastle Herald
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- Catawba, Roanoke County
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