Local People and Visits Highlight Holiday News
Local items list moves to Wilmington for Raymond L Joyce chemist at Hercules Powder Co experiment station with Union Park Garden address. Several Greensboro and Winston Salem residents visit family, attend college, or host relatives over holidays, including students from UNC Greensboro and Pfieffer College, plus Civil War era connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond L. Joyce
Wilmington
Del
Joyce
Hercules Powder Co
Union Park Garden
Harrington Street
Edith Dowell
R. M. Hudgins
Charlotte
OPM
Mary Madison
Sarah Smith
W. C.U. N. C. Greensboro
Matt Smith
Red Cross War Drive Mobilizes County Support
Thurmond Chatham lines up a countywide Red Cross drive with volunteers from Mount Airy Dobson Pilot Mountain and Elkin to fund relief for bombed civilians and troops. Appeals urge immediate contributions to meet the urgent quota and aid operations in the Philippines and Hawaiian Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Elkin
Mr. Chatham
Raymond Smith
Lindsay Holcomb
Joe Jackson
Mount Airy
Oscar Smith
W. M. Matthews
Pilot Mountain
John Llewellyn
Dobson
Charles Haynes
Longap
Philippines
Hawaiian Islands
Chatham
Thurmond Chatham
W. 8. Wolfe
Charles 8 Gates Dies at 83 in Worth Street
Charles Gates of Worth Street died Saturday afternoon aged 83. He married three times Eliza Belton Emily Worrell and Bertha Utt who died last October. Survived by five sons eight daughters 37 grandchildren one brother and one sister. Funeral at Korners Grove Church Monday 2 PM with burial in church graveyard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles 8. Gates
Worth Street
Gates
Eliza Belton
Emily Worrell
Bertha Utt
Clisha
Alfred
Willie
Mark
Isaac Gates
Prince Worrell
Lloyd Crews
Guila Gates
Verlie Gates
Andrew Myers
Avery Porter
Winston- Salem
Tyler Gates
Wash Noonkester
Ararat
Korners Grove
Walter Beasley
Noel Gilbert
Folger Portrait Unveiled At Surry County Bar Memorial
The Surry County Bar honors Alonzo Lon Folger with a portrait presentation. Misses Mock and Polger unveiled the portrait as relatives of the deceased looked on. Judge Carter and others spoke of Folger’s life, leadership, and deep service to the county and state. Resolutions mourn his loss and commend his contributions, to be added to court minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Folge
Johnson
Mary Ann Mock
Mable Lou Polger
Polger
W. F. Carter
W. M. Allen
H. O. Waltz
A. BE. Tilley
A B. Carter
D. L. Hiatt
Ralph Scott
Frank Armstrong
R. A. Preeman
Surry County
A. E. Tilley
A. B. Carter
Alonzo
Lon) Folger
Surry
Pourth
Superior Court
Hawk of Rockingham Recalls Army Maneuvers Visit
Saw Army maneuvers near Rockingham reported Hawks of Rockingham recently visited relatives in this section. He now farms at a new location where maneuvers were extensive. He saw a pontoon bridge across the Peedee river in four hours and witnessed a convoy of horse drawn vehicles moving from 2 30 to 11 A M the next day. Mr Hawks lived near Sulphur Springs before leaving the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sem Hawks
Rockingham
Great Peedee
Hawks
Distant Students Arrive for Holidays from Mere dith College
Misses Sara Jackson Adelaide Bunker Margaret Roberson and Lorraine Chapell students of Mere dith College Raleigh will arrive the last of the week to spend the holidays at their respective homes here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene Bennett
Brooklyn
N. Y
Alma Webb
Christine Webb
Meredith College
Raleigh
A. G. Webb
A. A. Conduff
Duke Conduff
Richmond University
Richmond
Virginia Ward
Winston-Galem
O. B Ward
W. P. Shelton
Locke Webb
Sara Jackson
Adelaide Bunker
Margaret Roberson
Lorraine Chapell
D J Marion Hurt In WPA Truck Crash Near Mount Airy
A WPA truck carrying Carroll County road crew workers left the Wards Gap road and rolled over twelve miles from Mount Airy. D J Marion of route 5 suffered a broken back and was hospitalized at Martin Memorial. Driver J B Jones blamed sun glare for losing control. others received first aid and returned home. All injured men are Carroll County residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Mount Airy
Wards Gap
D. J. Marion
Route 5
Martin Memorial Hospital
J. B. Jones
Carroll County
Galax Declares Dry After Local Liquor Store Closure
Galax Virginia residents voted September 30 to ban alcohol above 3.2 percent. The State ABS store closed at closing time last Friday night, and a funeral wreath appeared on the locked door afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galax
ABC
Deferred men face tougher treatment by draft boards
Washington ordered stricter enforcement with fewer sympathies for business deferrals. Surry County boards report no new calls while Mount Airy plans 15 and Dobson plans 12 men to report to camp on January 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Surry County
Mount Airy Board
Dobson Board
Children Of Confederacy Hold Meeting And Scrapbook Plans
The Col B Y Graves chapter will meet at Mrs P S Rothrock's home Saturday afternoon with visiting college student members Bettie Sue Pruitt and Caroleen Carroll expected. They will send a prize winning scrapbook to Lizzie Lindsay Children's Chapter in Greensboro for display January 10 1942 to inspire others. Members are asked to bring handkerchiefs to be sent to the Confederate Ladies Home in Fayetteville which houses forty one residents. A box of quilt materials was sent recently and the group invites odds and ends of wool thread needles and fabric donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. B. Y. Graves
Children of the Confederacy
P.S. Rothrock
Bettie Sue Pruitt
Caroleen Carroll
Lizzie Lindsay
Greensboro
Payetteville
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Tom Reeves
William McKenney
Washington, D. C
R. J. Lovill
H. D. Rosendal
Buena Vista
Virginia
Totiia
the Mount Airy News
Hudson Coach
R. E. Lawrence
J. Up
Belk's
Ite
Golden Guernsey
Ed Davis Dairy
Belk
Ross. H. L. Badgewt
N. Co
Remington
Marvin Snoddy
Westfield Road
N. C
Route 2
Paul Alfred
White Plains
Orchard St
Annie Haynes
E. R. Bunker
Pine Street
Cherry Street
C. A. Baird
Tfe
Haynes Independent
West Pine Street
Pay Lumber Co
Moody Funeral Home
Davis C. Bunker
Goodyear
Copeland
John H
Lce
Watkins
Johnson’s Furniture
Old Post Office
Taylors Garage
Franklin Street
Southern Welding School
Neynoida Road
Winston-Salem
N.C
Town Tire Service
Sam Hena
Gomale Maye, AW
Charles 8
Folger
Wards
Children of Confederacy
West
Daniel Boone
Joseph
Tad
Lambert Hillyer
Columbia Pictures
Jack Holt
Holt
THE
Secret Service
Ufa
Workmen’s Federal Savings & Loan Association
R. D. George
Sec.Treas
Dr. M. &. Martin
John Sobotta
Wade C. Moody
T. H. Worrell
George W. Sparger, Jr
T. C. Barber
AG. Webb
G. C. Lovill
M. H. Sparger
W. L. Sydner
Joe Hollingsworth
W. M. Lewis
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