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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
2
Mount Airy North Carolina August 20 1928 notice shows subscription rates with one year set at 1 50 and publishing details for J E Johnson and Son publishers. It includes postal classification and second class entry under congressional act of March 8 1872.
Mount Airy failed to arrange accommodations for a Winston-Salem business caravan touring northwest North Carolina in September. The advance party visited Mount Airy hoping for a night stay but lacked hotel space. Elkin offered a 50 room hotel and private homes supplemented the rest. The piece urges better hotel facilities and cooperative hosting to strengthen ties with Winston-Salem and warns against future missed chances. It also notes rising peach prices and a hoot about bootlegger era horse apple brandy amid town gossip.
Severe drought tightens city water and electricity supply. Water levels drop, dams run dry, and power plants operate intermittently. Officials reserve a fire tank, deputies destroy stills, and locals discuss conservation as production slips.
The water and light commission will enforce conservation rules. Howard Paul paid fines for using city water to wash a car, while others faced related penalties including disorderly conduct, larceny, and driving without license. A separate obituary notes Robert Taylor died from a skull fracture after a Sunday auto accident near Antioch Church.
The Culpepper community revival ends with Sunday night services led by Evangelist Burke Culpepper. Nearly fifty thousand have heard his sermons across Mount Airy, with hundreds responding to invitations and many church letters placed in their chosen congregations.
A new addition has been built to the Fowler store on Franklin street in Leonard block with a lime of dry goods to be added to the present line. MP Marshall Fowler left for Lynchburg Virginia to stock the new department.
A church notice lists Pastor B H Millikan at Friends Church and details morning service at 9 00 AM prayer meeting at 8 00 PM on Wednesday with Bible school mentioned in the schedule.
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