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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
7
Mt Airy News reports April 15 notes include Easter egg hunts at Gilmer spring and Renfro Hill, farmers’ address by Elder G O Key at Pine Ridge schoolhouse, and court term starting at Dobson. Local hires, travels, society visits, and church matters accompany clerks and merchants in Mt Airy and surrounding towns.
The Light Bearers Missionary Society plans an Easter program at Central M E Church next Sunday evening. Children and leaders have organized diligently and the public is invited to attend.
Ae women of Home and Foreign Mission Societies will hold a union prayer meeting in the church ladies' room on Friday at 4 o'clock. The services will be held weekly until the election and are open to all members.
The body of Dudley Creed, about sixty, was found at his home near White Plains with a gunshot wound to the head. He left a wife and two children and is believed to have killed himself in a despondent fit, possibly while deranged. The remains were buried at White Plains.
At nine o clock Thursday evening a private marriage was held at the editor s home officiated by Rev C Haymore uniting Fletcher D Holcomb and Ella Greenwood both well known in the community. The bride is the daughter of the late James Greenwood and the groom a traveling salesman. The couple reside on Pine Street at the former Graves home and are now home to friends.
J Frank Bland Jr toured Siloam selling seven Star Piano Co instruments in about a week. Pianos ranged from 350 to 800 dollars with buyers including Bud Marion Frost Snow Aaron Whitaker Ed Fultz Sum Wail Scott Bros and Thomas Wall. The Grand was bought by Mr. Bud Marion. Bland, twenty one, is praised as bright and accomplished. Mrs. Wesley Brown left for relatives in Madison and Mayodan.
A brief health advertising note urges prompt action at the first sign of stomach trouble. It extols Kodol as a natural digestant that will digest what you eat and claims it relieves dyspepsia indigestion belching gas and nervous headaches. The ad is attributed to J H Gwyn.
The Mount Airy News relocates to the Allred building on Main Street fifty yards south of the former office across from the Post Office. The move provides larger space and a more desirable location.
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