Dear Santa and The Real Thing in Granite City
A unsigned "Dear Santa" letter seeks a suitor for a girl reaching twenty-five and promises to help locate the writer. The Real Thing recounts a Granite City lady killer failing to impress a blond on a date, with a prank on his car. Snapshots list local scenes and figures, and The Last Word notes postage concerns and court activity.
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Granite City
Surry
North Main
Short Town Hill
Main
Lebanon Streets
Johnny Geiger
John Dillinger Wilson Barber
Mary Lynn Hennis George
Taylor Park
Lindsey Holcomb
Archie B. Carter
Holcomb
Henry Folger
Lamm
Emporium
Frankie Vaughn
Gene
Alex Whitman
Cooper
Iredell
H. H. Llewelly
Christmas Program at North Main PTA Meeting
The North Main PTA will meet Tuesday evening December 9 at 7 30 in the auditorium. Children from all grades will perform a play titled The First Christmas. Mrs Matt Smith leads the Parent Education Class while Dr R B C Pranklin delivers the post meeting lecture.
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North Main P. T. A
Matt Smith
R. B. C. Pranklin
Bazaar At Mount Airy Mormon Church
The Relief Society of the Mount Airy Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints hosts a bazaar in the church basement at Sheltontown on December 7 at 7 00 PM. Church women have prepared goods and services for Christmas gifts at reasonable prices with proceeds aiding the worthy poor.
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Relief Society of the
Mount Airy
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Sheltontown
Fifteen Percent Of Draftees Unfit For Service
In a U S survey about 15 percent of 14 500 men answering this week s initial summons for a year of military training were rejected for physical deficiencies The rate surprised officials who expected 2 percent and varied from about 10 to 25 percent across corps areas Most recruits were one year volunteers and in the seventh corps area the first quota was entirely volunteers
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Washington
United Press
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Notice of Service of Sum Mon by Publication
Plaintiffs Penny Denson and others seek partition of Benjamin Parris estate in Surry County Superior Court. Defendants Roy Robertson Jessie Robertson Lizzie McCarther Katherine Dodd and heirs of Maggie Bryant and Benjamin Parris are directed to appear at the Clerk's office in Dobson North Carolina within ten days after January 2 1941 to answer the complaint. Justice F T LIs wellyn Clerk.
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North Carolina
Surry County
Penny Denson
Babe Alien
Roy Robertson
Jessie Robertson
Lizzie McCarther
Katherine Dodd
Maggie Bryant
Benjamin Parris
N. Y
Superior Court
Dobson
N. C
F. T. Llswellyn
Barry County
N. D
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Santa
Santa Claus
Ernest Hemingway
Self
H. H. Llewellyn
Recorders Court
James B. Combs
Marion Burke
Marion
Blue Ridge
Olga
Pocahontas
Pea
Haynes Coal Co
Haynes
Promertan
iSoee
N. Main
P.T.A
Mormon Church
Mount Airs, N. C
U.S
Bill Patterson
Richard Hudnut
Houbigant and
Roger & Gallet
Winky
Schrafft’s Candies
Kodaks
the Soda Shop
Packard Bicycles
John H. Midkitt
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