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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1927
Page
8
Hoffman asks Binder about a wife lecture on economy and results. Binder admits quitting smoking. Hairston Williamson watches Niagara Falls with awe as a Swede guide quips about hindering the water.
In a brief exchange, Jack Sargent and Wilcher discuss mud on a car. Wilcher notes the mud is inactive for the moment, while Sargent questions its origin and presence.
Kiwanis Club members will elect officers for 1928 at a Friday night meeting. Dinner will be served at 6 30 at the Blue Ridge Hotel with Charlie Andrew handling the meal before ballots are cast. Nomination blanks were mailed to all members.
It was dusk when Bill Byerly stopped at a roadside filling station and asked for a quart of red oil. The clerk balked and he explained his tail light was out. The second fragment notes a tobacco flea beetle control method using a trap bed to protect young plants.
Johnnie Norman a fourteen year old mountaineer from Blue Ridge country lost his foot after a gun discharge while returning home with a neighbor. Kiwanis Club of Mount Airy funded amputation, paid hospital and prosthetic costs, supplied clothing and books for his brothers, and praised club charity as a standard town effort.
By deed of trust dated November 1 1923 J F Williams and Ada E Williams grant real estate in Rockford Township Surry County to trustee William Graves. Default on $2110 debt prompts public auction December 10 1927 at 1 PM at courthouse door in Dobson for 81 and 14 acres more or less to satisfy principal interest and costs.
The exchange shows Sheriff Hayne refusing a simple ticket change on return from Richmond. He asks for a ticket to Mount Airy, the agent offers Greensboro as a change point, and the sheriff insists on handling his own change immediately.
A courtroom transcript shows Fred Folger making a taunting remark about a witness’s body, saying he could close one eye and pass as a needle. The witness replies that Folger, being a thread, could pass through the eye. The exchange highlights banter during the examination at Dobson Court.
In a light moment, Mayor Sydnor asks how to keep postage stamps from sticking together. Joe Sparger quips a practical reply: buy them one at a time.
Fred Blevins prepares for a life insurance exam when Dr. Mitchell questions his habits and warns against dissipation. Fred hesitates and admits to occasionally chewing gum, revealing a small, nervous, but non serious admission.
A poem line recalls Jim Bray’s bald plate and a family memory from nineteen eighty about a wide plain once a forest with a path used for running. The verse links past and present through a nostalgic speaker and his son.
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