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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1954
Page
14
Corrected June 2 1954 listing shows wholesale prices for eggs poultry yard hens dressed and drawn fare cor white yellow corn wheat oats barley with figures indicating current market rates and standard yard postings. Highlighted items include eggs poultry and common grain commodities traded by local merchants and farmers across the region.
Local column records visits and gatherings among Patterson Grove residents. Entries include the Putnam and Hicks families visiting various neighbors, church attendance in Blacksburg, and travels from Morganton to Waco and Bessemer City. Multiple names appear with weekend and Sunday events.
Two city schools, West and East, show cramped conditions with seventh grade classes taught in half- auditoriums. Principal Mrs Joe Thomson oversees a carved out East School classroom, while Central School considers partitioning large gym space to add classrooms for September term.
Mrs Virginia Owens Hamrick announces the opening of Linwood Cake Shop at 711 Linwood Drive. She completed a two week course at Wilton School of Cake Decorating in Chicago and specializes in occasion cakes including weddings births birthdays and anniversaries. Her gold seal achievement came after decorating a $500 cake six feet tall weighing 200 pounds for 750 guests at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago.
The Danforth Medal was presented May 7 to Annie Mobley Dilling and Kenneth Sherrill Spears for leadership and character. Akron Plate Falls received the Bausch & Lomb Honoree Science Medal for high scholarship in science. Also listed are local classified ads for a brick veneer house and a bedroom suite bargain.
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