Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-09-17
Blowing Rock Full stFuod for Love-. 9th.
Of Matters Of Loevl Interest.
lBY OLD HuRYGRAPH.l J


The Blowing Rock country is
? fruitful OF romances. 1t is full OF
food for love. The beautiful scene
ry, the magnificent mountain
fora, purling brooks and caress-
ing breezes, the gorgeous sun.
sets, the softness OF the moon
light-all are conducive to love-
making and helps Cupid in his
conquests. Theyoungcouples be-
come enthused and more earn
est; husbands fall in love again
with their wives, and wives with
their husbands. tits indeed a won
derful land; wonderful in grand
eur, and wonderful in beauty; so
close to the heavens that you
can "almost hear the footsteps
Of the angels" A romance has
} been on up here that stretches
from Chicago to Blowing Rock,
and was the center OF attraction
among the summer guests for a
week or more Mr.. Cola Fuller, OF
Chicogo, saw the photograph Of
Miss Izetta Hampton, OF the
Cooks Gap neighborhood, in the
possession Of her sister, who was
!, out west. He became infatuated.
A correspondence ensued, as the
result af which Mr., Fuller came
to the Watauga Inn, in the vii
lage of Blowing Rock, as also did
Miss Hampton, the place they
agreed to meet. They talked the
matter over and dreamed loves
dreams of bliss. AS they talked,
y wooed and cooed, a local rival, a
resident of Blowing Rock, ap-
peared on the scene, and tn e
young lady who is a .comely
mountain lassie, had a strenu-
GUS time in the "course of love-"
al OF those who Glove a lover"
looked on with animated ankle
ty, awaiting her decision, which
she seems to take her time in ma
king. But the end came, as ends
will invariably do. So far she has
chosen neither, as far as outsid-
e,s have been able to learn. She
and her Chicago lover agreed to
talk the matter over again the
next time they met. Both have
returned to their respective
b homes, and left the Blowing
Rockites to discuss their meet
ing from various viewpoints, Gu
pid sits by the blowing rock and
weeps, and the mountain breezes
are blowing a requiem to the ap.
parent love that failed in a pris.
tage Of nuptial VOWS on t h Q
mountains .
There was a very severe thun-
der storm here last Wednesday
afternoon. Mr.. Lutte Nelson. fore
man OF the improvement work
on the Green Park property, was
driving a horse and the storm
caught him on the turnpike, on
the mountain side between Green
! Park and the Blowing Rock Ho-
= tel. The lightning struck a tree
oh the lower side Of the road,
tore that to pieces, leaped 70 the
telephone wires, crossed the road
at that point, and Mr.. Nelson be-
ing under the wire at the time,
the lightning left the wires and
flashed on the horse. Mr.. Nelson
, was stunned and knocked from
the buggy. He was not seriously
hurt. v hen he was able to rise
he found the horse dead. There
was not a scratch on the animal.
It was a fine horse, worth $780,,
and had just been purchased by
Mr.. C. Henkel an hour before
from Mr.. Hughs, a summer resi-.
/, dent from Charleston, sc.
The season at Green Park has
drawn to a successful close. It
has been a splendid season, So
cially and otherwise. Monguests
remained over into September
than ever before in the history Of
the hotel. This is accounted for
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