First Nominations for Mount Airy Tobacco Queen
Nominees are introduced as the first entrants in the Mount Airy News Tobacco Queen race. Readers are urged to nominate their own queen by mailing name and address to the Contest Judges at Mount Airy News. Voting details are provided on page two with ballots to be filled for preferred candidates.
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Mount Airy News Tobacco
Mount Airy
Mount Airy Tobacco Territory
Mount Airy Tobacco Queen
Mount Airy News
N. C
County Agent Office Change Planned by Sept 1
The Surry county County Commissioners, after a Dobson meeting with District Farm Agent McCreary, plan a change in the County Agent office no later than September 1. J W Crawford, serving nine years, is expected to resign by that date unless he steps down earlier. Minute-book secrecy persists, but locals say the record calls for Crawford’s resignation on September 1 if he does not resign sooner.
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Surry County
McCreary
Statesville
Dobson
J. W. Crawford
Court House
Crawford
Men to work tobacco curing in Ontario for six weeks
Early Inman and Lacy Moseley, prominent tobacco growers, will depart Monday for Tillotsonburg Ontario to cure tobacco. They expect to stay six weeks and return in time for Mount Airy activities.
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Early Inman
Lacy Moseley
Tillotsonburg
Ontario
Canada
Mount Airy
White Plains woman attends State meeting of Home Demonstration Clubs
Mrs. Roscoe Childress of White Plains travels to Raleigh with Surry County ladies to participate in the State meeting of Home Demonstration Clubs in session this week.
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Roscoe Childress
White Plains
Raleigh
Surry County
Home Demonstration Clubs
Local Merchants Plan Special Dollar Days
Mount Airy prepares for a citywide Dollar Day event next week with extensive advertising and amusements. Merchants invite out of town visitors to enjoy special values and a friendly city atmosphere during the upcoming shopping event.
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Mount Airy
Puzzling Funds Halt Franklin School Project
County officials face a stalled Franklin school addition near Mount Airy after WPA approval and county funds. A $423,000 county note is blocked by the Local Government Commission which says no provision exists for repayment, making the sale illegal.
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Franklin
Mount Airy
Franklin School
WPA
B. F. Folger
Local Government Commission
Raleigh
North Carolina
Yast
New Home Of A Z Store In Hale Building
The Hale Building on Main Street will house the A Z Store after lease and remodeling. Managers plan a September 1 opening with a new stock and larger floor plan including a bargain basement. The Mount Airy store opened three years ago and will move after a large removal sale to clear current inventory.
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Main Street
Hale
R. W. Alderman
Mount Airy
Holding & Huge
I. W. Alderman
Store Manager Alderman Comments On Athi Tin Toon Sane
The fragment notes a store scene with manager Alderman discussing Athi at a Tin Toon Sane location and hints at a near term development or decision. No clear event date or outcome is provided.
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Tin Toon Sane
Alderman
Alligator Traverses 12 Miles From Florida Pond
Residents along Willis Gap road found a long distance wanderer among the mountains. The alligator, one of two from W. E. Merritt's Florida pond on Wards Gap road, was captured and brought to Mount Airy. He may have been headed toward the Atlantic Ocean.
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Willis Gap
Mount Airy
Debated Justice Over Tire Theft in Mount Airy
Sherman Anderson discovered his pickup on East Pine street missing its wheel and tire after a Saturday night theft. The note hints at a playful imagined debate between Mr Andersen and Judge Alley about appropriate punishment for such pranks.
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Mount Airy
Sherman Anderson
J. F. Anderson
Brim
East Pine Street
Mount Air
Court notices posted for highway rebuild from Pine Street to Laurel Bluff
In Dobson a posted survey at the Register's office signals the state’s intent to rebuild the highway from Pine Street to Laurel Bluff. The posting of lands the new route will pass over typically portends an early contract for the project.
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Dobson
Pine Street
Laurel Bluff
Register
Mrs J O Belton Visits Large City with Son from Washington
Mrs J O Belton of this city began her first trip to a major city this week. Her son C G Belton, visiting from Washington, accompanied her and plans to show her the Points of interest in Washington and a stop at the World's Fair in New York City.
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J. O. Belton
C. G. Belton
Washington
New York City
Dobson Grows With New City Boom In Recent Months
A drive from the court square in Dobson shows the capital town widening with new construction along Kapps Mill Road. The town has undergone a building boom in recent months evident to visitors.
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Court Square
Dobson
Kapps Mill
Mount Airy Tobacco Queen election announced
A notice from The News To announces an election in Mount Airy to name a Tobacco Queen. The item references correspondence from Tokuyama Japan dated July 7, 1939, and mentions Judge Felix Alley’s reply to editorials and reactions from W. M. Johnson of Mount Airy regarding Surry County affairs.
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Mount Airy
Mr. Frank
Felix Alley
Matthew D Moore Dies Local Resident at 77
Matthew Dalton Moore a well known Mount Airy resident and former merchant and oil dealer died of a heart attack at his Pine Street home Wednesday afternoon at age 77. He was the son of the late William A. and Rachel Moore and later served as a justice of the peace. His wife Myrtle Speer Moore had died about a year before, and his niece Mrs. BE A Mickey and family lived with him. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon from the chapel of the
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Matthew Dalton
M. D.) Moore
Pine Street
Moore
William A
Rachel Moore
Mount Airy
Myrtle Speer Moore
BE. A. Mickey
Republicans Fill Vacancies On Carroll Co. Ticket
The Carroll County Republican ticket fills vacancies after the deaths of Dexter Goad and C. C. Semones. John Alderman of Hillsville replaces Goad as Commonwealth Attorney and N. E. Semones succeeds Semones as Commissioner of Revenue. In a spring primary Alderman led LeSage 1830 to 660, Semones beat Jett 668.
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Carroll County
Eees Ee
Dexter Goad
C. C. Semones
Goad
Commonwealth
Semones
John Alderman
Hillsville
N. E. Semones
A Son Born In Fifth Generation
Mrs. Sarah G. Haynes, who makes her home with her family, welcomes a fifth generation son born to the household.
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Sarah G. Haynes
Mount Airy to Crown Tobacco Queen for 1939 Opening
The News solicits nominations for a tobacco queen to head Mount Airy’s September 14 market opening. Voters may clip ballots, name candidates, and mail or deliver them to the News office as the market, with four major warehouses, launches one of its largest openings in decades.
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Mount Airy
United States
Nude Nappers Case Leaves Mount Airy Pending
A Mount Airy nude rider case remains unsettled as police report no nude napping incidents this season. A man who attempted to sleep off heat was sentenced to five days in a shady cell to cool off.
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Mount Airy
Major C V Haynes pilots bomber for load record
Major Caleb Vance Haynes of Mount Airy piloted the U S Army's largest bomber to a 31,000 pound load at Dayton Ohio last Sunday reaching 8 200 feet over Wright Field. Co pilot Captain Olds assisted with observers from the United States Bureau of Standards.
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Caleb Vance Haynes
Mount Airy
U. S
Dayton
Ohio
Wright Field
Major Haynes
W. Bd, Olds
William Anyart
Intion
I. W. G. Eimmandae
United States Bureau of Standards
Arthur E Ennis
Ennis
B. H. Arnold
Army Air Corpe
Boeing
Trelkovo
Rustan
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Tony Lassiter
Carol Beasley
Nancy Lewis
Nancy Fulton
State Department
Wate
Newhire
Johnson
R. W. Alder
Tokuyama
Japan
W. M
Mount Airy, N. C
Judge Alley
Grand Jury
eScepe
Hitler
Alley
J. W. Frank
Frank
John F. Frank
North Carolina Granite Corporation
F. L. Smith
J. B. Sparger
Matthew Dalton Moore
Carroll Co
Comonwealth
Mount Airy Tobacco Area
C. V. Haynes
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