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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
7
Local column notes residents discuss poll tax impact on voting rights and civic participation. Other items include new barber shop, Prohibition rally plans at Indian Grove church, market trades, and upcoming school and church events with multiple local figures attending.
Miss Mary Fulton returns to Greensboro Female College after visiting home. Attorney W F Carter leaves for Sanford to see his ill brother. Dr R E Harris of Helena Mont visits his sister Mrs R W Reece. Mrs J D Jenkins returns from Hillsville Va after illness in the family. C D Jarvis arrives from Poughkeepsie N Y to make Greensboro home. Elsie Reeder of Montoursville Pa to visit Creveling family. Lilla Prather goes to Spartanburg S C for Converse College May Musical Festival. Rev C F Fields of Elkin spends night en route from Mt Carmel Baptist church. Dr W S Taylor leaves for Atlanta to attend Southern Railway surgeons meeting, return Saturday. Rev C C Haymore at Gibsonville meetings. W R Bradshaw assists. Mrs Walter Smith of Stuart Va returns from Westfield, leaves with sister-in-law Mrs Robert George for Stuart. Clayton Campbell returns from Winston-Salem where employed. Mr and Mrs L W Hazard depart for High Point after visiting Edith Creasy. Misses Venton and Vera Sawyers visit from Patrick Co Va. S M Hale to Virginia and Tennessee, returns with daughter Clara from Bristol and Mrs J W Dobbins of Kingsport Tenn. Moving picture show attracts crowds. low price ten cents. Democratic Convention May 1 nominates mayor and commissioners. polling places open Thursday night to nominate ward commissioners and appoint delegates. W F Carter, Chairman.
The Interstate Fruit Growers Association will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday May 12 at ten o clock at the home of W J Herring two miles west of the city. Officials from Raleigh will attend and lectur ers will illustrate proper fruit growing. Attendees should bring dinners and spend the day. Also note tax collection by the sheriff after Friday night. Obituary reports the death of John L Joyce son of Mrs Neilie A Taylor of Pilot Mountain. The Barrus couple from Kinston plan to reside on North Main Street and possibly enter local stock dealing. Alex Weaver family of Piney Creek NC plans to move to Washington state.
A Democrat speaker Mr Brooks will address the House Thursday night May 7 at 8 30. He is seen as a strong candidate for Congress and could win if nominated. Supporters urge all Democrats to hear him and affirm his party's policies as the strongest in the field.
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