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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
1
The piece urges farmers to fix up barns and houses for winter, improve water supply, kitchen convenience, and home beauty. It stresses dry wood, in-house water, better lighting, ventilation, and a pleasant home environment for children, with a call to provide books, music, and plants to enrich life.
The Cana area endures cold roads as revenue officers seize a still near Cana, arresting Zack aria Payne about 112 miles away. A marriage near Cana is reported, Henry Easter weds Minnie Tolbert with Rev H M Easter officiating. The piece also notes long human-interest observations from Charlotte about farming families and schooling, and.then shifts to a Spokane train robbery and other Diverse items, including opinions on South American opportunities and North Carolina tobacco sales.
The notice details a two day meeting in Elkin North Carolina on December 29 and 30 1908 for program pastors lay leaders and district stewards with sessions on organization success and failure ratings 1909 forward movement evangelist work and financial systems led by Rev W M Bagby Rev Z Paris Rev E Kochiitaky Rev D M Litaker Rev Z Earnhardt W L Dawson Rev T J Houck and Rev D W Price Closing remarks by the presiding elder Also an ad for Liniment from Gwyn Drug Co.
In Washington Georgia a quarrel over employing a colored laborer led to Rev G Forest Tuttle age 50 shot and killed by Warren Bailey age 21. Bailey was struck by an iron wedge hurled during the fight and lies near death with a broken skull while the murdered preacher leaves a large family.
Nicholas F. Alston of New York was telegraphed that Nan Branch of Wilson North Carolina had married Fred Carr, private secretary to Senator Overman, in Richmond. The couple planned a Florida Cuba bridal tour after the ceremony. Alston, left to return to New York, spoke of the heartbreak with resignation. The originally set December 22 wedding date was for Miss Branch.
Pittsboro Record notes George H. Beavers of Matthews Township serves as the star route mail carrier between Siler City and Pittsboro, with his wife delivering rural free mail on route No. 3 from Siler City. The piece asks if another U.S. couple both carry mail. they spend Sunday together at home.
In Westchester county an under sheriff and two special deputies raiding unlicensed saloons crashed their car after misjudging a stone wall, leaving the vehicle wrecked and its occupants seriously injured. The piece notes dangers in raids and cites instances of attackers seeing things post-raid.
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