Town Feals and People Reflect A Growing Community
Fifty years past the town debates building a town hall while the old opera house became a business site. Citizens discuss automobile laws laxness, law and order, and plans for public spaces. Reports note local politics, teachers hired for next year, soldiers heading to Camp Wadsworth, and community notices from insurers and clubs.
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Cit
Bketing
George D. Fawcett
Democrats
Surry
Dobson
Tafi
J. F. Henderson
Robert A. Freeman
W. BD. Haynes
KR. C. Lowelve
P. H. Span
Register of Deeds
M. FP. Patterson
S. T. Flippin
O. N. Swanson
Fred N. Johnson
the News
Boston
Mass
Merchant Marines
Countay City
Elizabeth Merrill
Nisa Batty Slowe
John F. Foy
Jamie Hadigyv
Exina Kelly
Elsie Sparget
Isabell Graves
Lelia Mielver
Dell McCowan
Annie Carrol
Minnie Somers
Lugue Oaks
Max. J. EB. Spaugh
Eva Muarin
Mies Besa Merritt
Mount Airy News publication details
The Mount Airy News is published every Tuesday and Friday at 19 Moore Avenue Mount Airy North Carolina with second class postage. Subscriptions cost $4.00 per year in Surry and surrounding counties and $3.00 per year elsewhere.
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Mount Airy
Moore Avenue
North Carolina
Mount Airs
N.C
Surry
Radio Course Completion At Army Signal School
A trainee completed a radio telegraphy operation course at the Army Southeastern Signal School in Fort Gordon Georgia, marking advancement in military communications training.
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Army Southeastern Signal School
Ft. Gordon, Ga
Display Now Ate Library Mosaic Exhibit Opens
Mount Airy Public Library hosts a mosaic display titled Display Now Ate Library by the late Suecel Wrenn Sr. of Mount Airy. The works use broken bits of glass and bottles to form scenes including a Spanish dancer, with neighborly comments from Ben Graves and family about gathering materials. Lucien Wrenn Jr. is noted as an official connected to Cuba.
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Mount Airy
Ben Graves
Mount Airy Woman Antiques Collection Donated
Mrs Wrenn, founder of Mount Airy Arts and Crafts Guild chapters, built a vast antique collection and library donation. Her efforts supported junior crafts, local art classes, and a planned library display, with books to be given to the library for study and public use.
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Mre Wrenn
Waa
Arta and Crafts Guild
Mount Airy
Les
Active Groupe
Vie
Mra
Wrenn
Ealers
Ziass
Nova Scotia
New Enghind
Johnson Reunion at Veterans Park Sunday Aug 1
The annual Johnson Reunion will be held at Veterans Park on Sunday August 1 at 11 a.m. Organizers invite all to attend and bring a well-filled picnic basket.
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Veterans Park
Gentry Family Burials And Church Notices In County
Fragmentary obituaries and church notices mention Mrs J W Gentry buried and Ros Wilbur Gentry listed with community church ties. Other lines reference Springs Baptist services and a Margareten area event, with dates unclear amid OCR errors.
Mrs Shalrt’s Gospel Sunday Service Notice
Fragmentary obituary notice mentions Mrs Ida of route 1 Mount Sunday Ak Grove Baptist church dedication Friday at hospital. Mentions counties, Jasper, and names Frank Shuet and Mrs. Shalrt’s daughter as survivors.
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Ida
Route 1
Mount Sunday
Grove Baptist Ded Frijny
Hoapital
County
Jasper
Wax & Grove Methodiant
Manuyit
Frank Shuet
Coy White 61 Rites Set Today
Coy White 61 of route 2 Dobson will be laid to rest at 2 o clock at Fairview Baptist Church following a Sunday death at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Elkin He was a farmer and member of Fairview Baptist Church Surviving are his wife Flora Corder White two daughters Cintas Watson and Miva Rohfisan two sons Clifford and Mars White a sister Mrs Veker Soow and six brothers Det White Detoon Claude Willie White Chibert Winnie and Emery White Burial will be in the church cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coy White
Dobson
Fairview Baptist Church
Hugh Chatham
Local Obituary Fragment Sparks Memory Garden Tribute
A clipped obituary fragment lists Lovella Meltone of Springfield and Marion Crhes of Ararat with burial in Skyline Memory Gardens. The text preserves family ties and a quiet memorial note from the Springfield area community.
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Ters
Mra
Lovella -Meltone
Springfield, Vac
Crhes Marion
Ararat
Raralwaa
Skyline Memory Gardens
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Blanche Anderson
Joe Lawrence
Mabel Hutton
Edevar T. Hines
Meta Barrington
Grace Bindey
Margaret Sparger
Monay
Wadsworth
Spartamsbury
S C
Marin Gates
Willam M. Barker
Inoes A. Drauehn
Mudd Chap- Hi
Thomas E. Llewellyn
We Iim
Preston Goins
Robert Whe
Richard ¥ F Linville
Ike FF Yarboro
Welmer Kkiwe
Jesse Prank Jackson Pene
M. Napier
Burene
Whmngrith
Jee A
Essup
Ines A. Johnson
Jesse
Ibn Am
SA Wstek
Wrather- Filton Ins
Mount Aur
Rekd Jackson
J. A. Jackson
Turn
Jackson Brothers
Baltimore
W. &. Muerritt
Hugh
J. D Thompson
Edward Pay
Mitchell River
Bob Phillip
Little Doughbtter
Marie Phillips
Avon
Ohi
WCTU
T. B. McCargo
Mount Airy News
N. €. Press Association
Jane Carroll McRae
Lucien Wrenn, Jr
Cuba
Mrs. Walters
Elk
North Main Street
Mount Airy, N
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BAF AG
Ren
Ck Wubat
Cine Group
Famous Brand
Ormuda
Price
Nvion Ty
Ann Gee
Kroger
Curtis “Ticed
Bologna
California
Johnson
J. W
Coke
Mm. Mag
Thee Deel Ros Wilbur Gentry
Rites
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