Dobson Court Proceedings Reckon Slander Case Verdict
The court on Thursday found Geo Hayes not guilty of slandering Miss Betty Isaacs. Clyde Ray faced an affray linked to a quarry dispute, receiving a $50 fine and $125 damages to an Italian worker after a blow with a hammer. G F Simpson paid $150 for selling two gallons of brandy to a neighbor during a distant offense. A Mount Airy woman jailed four months for stealing clothes from Dr. Mebane’s home. Several cases continued. court adjourned at noon after a telegram announced the judge’s ill wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Hayes
Betty Isaacs
Clyde Ray
Ray Boy
Ray
G. F. Simpson
Eldora Township
Simpson
Mount Airy
W. C. Mebane
H. J. Walker
Club Banquet Highlights A French Dinner and Dance
The Commercial Club held a banquet in the Banner Building with an elegant five course menu prepared by skilled managers. About one hundred guests attended as Williams orchestra provided music and thirty couples danced led by C. D. Prather and Miss Montgomery of New Orleans.
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Banner Building
Williams Orchestra
C. D. Prather
Mrs Watson Dead After Nine Day Pneumonia Fight
Mrs Eliza Beth Watson a respected town matriarch died after a brief illness of pneumonia aged well into her years. She leaves sons Yancey and John Watson and a circle of friends. Her remains were laid beside her husband in the old Methodist graveyard after a funeral at the Presbyterian church conducted by Rev J A Gilmer at 11 oclock Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Watson
Yancey
John Watson
Presbyterian Church
J. A. Gilmer
Card of Thanks From Rev and Mrs Vanew Price
Rev and Mrs D Vanew Price express appreciation for a generous Thanksgiving pounding from people of all denominations last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Vanew Price
Our Furniture Store Rebuilds After Fire
Our Furniture store was destroyed by fire on Monday morning November 28. We have bought a complete stock of new goods and expect to be ready for business in our new showroom on North Main Street next to the Blue Ridge Inn by December 5. New goods saved but damaged by water will go cheap.
Golden Fame and Wedding Ties Mark Australian Nuggets and Florida Union
The article recalls the Blanche Barkley nugget found near Bendigo worth 35000 dollars and the Deason-Oates claim near Moliaque with later fortune for successors. It tells of Oliver Martin's 151 pound chunk in California, then shifts to a Franklin Street wedding in Mississippi where Kate Raiford wed Dr. Lewis Hutchinson of Florida with a Presbyterian ceremony.
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Blanche Barkley
Samuel Napier
Charles
Robert Ambrose
Kingower
Bendigo
Napier
Ambrose
Jiming
Hubbard
John Deason
Richard Oates
Moliaque
Cornwall
England
Ballarat
California
Oliver Martin
Martin
Flower
Cassell
Saturday Journal
Fire destroys home of J. F. Woods near city
A house belonging to Mr. J. F. Woods burned last Friday after starting from the kitchen flue. The roof caught fire quickly and little could be saved from the building, as residents reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Woods
Honor Roll at Long Hill School for October to November
District No. 2 Long Hill Township honors regular attendees across grades one to seven for the period from October 17 to November 11. Names listed include Childress, Towe, Chilton, Denny, Needham, Kinley, Lawson, Fulk, Waroner, Flinchum, Stewart, and others. several students are noted as absent without regular attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Hill Township
Ray Childress
Gabriel Towe
Myrtle Chilton
Sylvester Denny
Elmer Chilton
Mallie Bryant
Maud Bryant
Needham
Nonnie Need
Isaac Denny
Minnie Amn
Robert Flinchum
Siloam News Highlights Local Social Life and Rural Scene
Mrs. N D Marion spent days in Winston on business. Thanksgiving hosted by Mrs Bud Marion with friends and a chocolate finale. Attendees included Mrs J T Herrin Mrs Bertie Maye Woodruff Miss Emma Barker and others. writer extols Siloam’s pastoral charm and contrasts it with city life. Christmas treats are anticipated and farmers head back to tobacco work amid dry weather.
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Bud Marion
J. T. Herrin
Bertie Maye Woodruff
Emma Barker
Airy
Essie Secrest
Unionville
Dewey Herrin
Exsie Secrest
Siloam Public Schools
Rockford
Bertie Mave Woodruff
Virginia
Thos. Herrin
Y. L. Stamey
Roaring River Fonday
Welcome Stranger and Ballarat Nuggets Stirred Australian Gold Rush
A miner discovers the Welcome Stranger nugget weighing two hundredweight sold for about $50 000. Kerr the shepherd finds a two hundredweight nugget yielding 160 pounds of pure gold. Ballarat yields a massive almost hundredweight block worth $46 625. Early finds sparked a global gold rush romance in the fifties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Kerr
Ballarat
Deafness cured only by constitutional remedies says ad
An advertisement from FJ Cheney & Co claims deafness from catarrh can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It offers $100 for any case of deafness caused by catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Also promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy claiming it wards off pneumonia and contains no opium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Fj, Cheney & CO
Toledo
Chamberlain
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Mount Airy News
J. EB. Johnson
Mt. Airy
N. C
Mount Airy, N. C
Dobson Court
Mrs. Watson
Hutchinson
Raiford
W. F. Raiford
Franklin Street
Kate
Lewis Hutchinson
Florida
M. Ellis
John Raiford
Long Hill School
Siloam News
W. L. Stamey
High Point Review
Great Council of
North Carolina
J. Thos. Herrin
Roaring River
High Point
Yadkin
Surry
Siloam
Ashcraft
Ashcraft Drug Company
Eastman Kodaks
van Lindley
Cut Flowers
Candy Rexall
South
Granite City Realty & Trust CO
Mount Airy, N.C
Nissen
F. L. Smith How. CO
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