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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
10
A collection of handwritten Santa requests from children noting wishes for toys such as teddy bears trucks dolls and cars and for fruits nuts candies and other modest gifts. Names ages and locations appear among the pleas reflecting a festive Christmas outreach.
A seven year old girl from Copeland writes to Santa asking for a piano a snow suit candies nuts and a reminder for her parents. The note is signed Silvo Simpson and expresses childlike holiday wishes.
A reader named Weldon Needham writes Santa requesting a big wagon with high side boards a Chinese checker board gloves a gun candy nuts and oranges. The note presents a childlike Christmas wish list suitable for a human interest clipping.
A child writes to Santa requesting a cowboy suit a stove shovel nuts oranges candy grapes and tangerines signed Dale Cook requesting Christmas gifts for himself.
A four year old boy named Rob ert Cooke writes to Santa asking for a wagon a toy pistol candy nuts and oranges noting he has been a good boy.
A collection of handwritten requests from children and families listing gifts they hope Santa will bring. Names include Ray Stevens Nora Ann France Agnes Eades Lettie Mae Eades and Lettie Mae notes. requests range from toys to candy and basic comforts reflecting a holiday tradition. Some entries mention ages and school status.
A garbled collection of children letters to Santa requests toys such as a red wagon skates a tea set and a cowboy suit. The notes also mention fruits nuts candy and fruit items while one line references a Gene Austin gun and holster along with a flashlight.
A vintage page collects children's Christmas requests including Bessie McCormick asking for a paper doll book a toy stove a tea set a snow suit and candy Annie McCormick seeks nuts oranges apples peanuts and a new coat Harvey Allen Kidd asks for a cap buster and caps Bobby Joe Needham wants a swing and candy Mary Ann Meedham desires a color book crayons a little stove a doll carriage a ball and fruit An unnamed seven year old asks for a cap.
Pletcher Shelton moves residence to D J Denny's on Pilot Mountain route 1 while Megs Collins moves to Shelton's former home. Marion Chilton and Prof Graham with Mr and Mrs Lloyd Bryant visit Lynchburg and return. W O Bryant visits Mrs R H Melvin in Greensboro on Thanksgiving. Melvin improving after illness in Guilford sanitorium.
Water from the Colorado River moves toward Los Angeles at 276000 gallons a minute entering the aqueduct last Thursday. The 242 mile route crosses deserts and mountains passing 29 tunnels including the 13 mile San Jacinto Tunnel. Distribution to Los Angeles and 12 other cities should finish within months. funded by a $220000000 bond issued in 1932.
A deed of trust dated January 25 1939 by Dewey Bumgardner and wife Maggie Bumgardner in Surry County North Carolina defaults on notes. Trustee K W Lawrence conveys the land by public auction at the courthouse door in Dobson for cash. Property runs along Reeves avenue and Reeves edge line with specific bearings and distances described. Sale to satisfy principal interest and costs. date December 4 1939 with subsequent sale dates noted.
Mount Airy Route 5 December 4 The Home Demonstration Club will meet at Mrs W Jarrells home Monday December 11 at 730 PM A play The Greatest Gift will be presented by club members Read elsewhere in the item that Springs hotel Mr and Mrs Rastus Poore planted trees and shrubbery at their property Also mentions Irene Lambert Esther Reynolds visiting Bill Arder and local families with farm activity including corn shucking and tobacco prep for market
The ad links headaches bad breath biliousness coated tongue and other discomforts to constipation. It claims Black-Draught is a spicy all vegetable intestinal tonic laxative that cleanses gently and tones lazy bowels, urging readers to try it for relief.
A birth is reported to Mr. and Mrs. gical patient George W Hutchison and patient Robert Johnson route 4 are listed among medical cases. Baby Neal Daniel of Lambsburg Virginia is recorded as a surgical patient. Discharges include FP and Eldridge Neil Semones Candis Cook Lacy Hull Ruby Needham Janie Neilson A B Mc Kinney W Reid Gaston Love W F Davis and Will Bowman.
The Women’s Missionary Society of the White Plains Friends Church sponsors an oyster supper and bazaar at 5:45. Oysters and other foods will be sold, with gifts for family and friends at reasonable prices. The society rents the school lunch room for the event.
Notice of sale of land by trustee for T. B. Mays and Grace Mays under a deed dated February 25 1938 and recorded in book authorities.
Legal notice of sale under default to satisfy notes secured by property in Surry County to be held at the courthouse door in Dobson. The deed describes land boundaries along forks of a small branch and maples, with dates and references to records in Book 117, page 79. Sale date November 11, 1939, by trustee WwW. L. Reece.
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