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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
3
The Mount Airy column lists a train timetable with arrivals and departures while a string of brief notices reports on local police chief S. A. Hauser and various residents moving, selling farms, or visiting relatives. The items include church revival success, a fatalityless accident, and upcoming entertainment.
By mutual consent the firm of Graves and Folger has been dissolved. Mr. Graves continues as solicitor occupying the office over the Hawk of Mount Airy while J H Folger will occupy office next to R L Heymore. The old firm will receive the title of both parties on Dec 1 1903. S P Graves J H Folger
The Bazaar by the Presbyterian church ladies is held at the Bunker building on Main. The event runs at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and offers Christmas present articles at reasonable costs with music and refreshments to attract attendees.
Harvey Hennis and Miss Sue McGee were secretly married yesterday at 11 30 in the parlor of Central Methodist church parsonage by Rev D Vance Price. They then went to the groom's parents home on Wilson street to begin their life together. Hennis is a clerk at Tayor Drug Store and the bride is the daughter of farmer B M McGee with many friends awaiting her arrival.
On November 24 in Greensboro, W. L. Sheppard wed Daisy Whitaker at the Baptist parsonage with Dr White officiating. The couple traveled to Greensboro and Winston-Salem then on to Richmond Washington and Baltimore before returning to Blue Ridge Inn. Sheppard, a traveling man, plans a Pine Street residence. Whitaker is the daughter of H. G. Whitaker of Pilot Mountain.
The Aborigines Club met last Tuesday at Mrs. Tt. B. McCargo’s Pine Street home. Decorated with holly and candles, the gathering featured a musical and literary program on John Charles McNeill. Lizzie and Alice McCargo served an elegant salad course, fruit cake, and coffee.
J F Cain reports a fox chase on Slate Mountain last Wednesday night with the neighborhood taking part. Four young hounds owned by Deb Shelton Robin Laws Ed Inman and Jim Palmer stayed to the end as the fox started about 9 PM five miles east of town. The chase lasted six hours before the dogs tired and the fox escaped.
Mrs Garnet Fawcett gave a refined Wednesday afternoon reception in honor of the prospective bride Miss Jeannette Trotter. Guests enjoyed a musical program, a word contest, and each attendee received a Japanese bon-bon basket. The dining room featured smilax and white carnations, a four course luncheon was served on hand-painted china, and toasts to the bride were recorded in a hand-painted booklet naming the guests.
An old advertisement touts Ashcraft’s syrup with white pine tar and cherry claimed to cure coughs. It guarantees a money back offer if the remedy does not help.
Stumbled text reveals stray dog notice and local offers. Demoresy Comedy Co. tickets go on sale Saturday at Gwyn Drug Store. An ad for a pair of young muses, Miss Jackson. Mr. Airy L F Hicks of Elkin NC promotes Automatic Harness apparatus for single driving. Contact N G to arrange purchase.
An ad from Christian Bros boasts lower prices and a better showroom than competitors. It claims superior service, louder marketing claims, and urges customers to visit their Piedmont retail location to prove the claims and stay ahead on pricing.
Ashcrafts Price Stock offers the best cigars six for two cents in town. W. E. Jackson and Co advertise a large line of shoes ladies coats furs and low prices. J L Harrison and Co promote bargains on ladies wear hats and more with special discounts and new arrivals.
An advertising notice from Mount Airy North Carolina promoting coal types for stoves and grates including anthracite and cannel coal. It claims hot fires without soot, urges customers to pass drivers only with specific arrangements, and asks for timely orders noting limited immediate fulfillment. The notice is dated November 3 1907 and signed by J D Miniek.
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