Baby safe as blaze damages Boone's Hill residence
Firefighters battled a 2 am blaze at the Calvin Queen home on US 52 Boone's Hill after a kerosene lamp overflowed and spilled burning kerosene on a sleeping 19 month old and a 3 year old. The mother awoke to a popping sound and the parents helped evacuate the children before fire units arrived.
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A. L. McAlexander
Bannertown
Queen
Wade
Banner Town
Westfield
Pilot Knob
Leter Hunter
Holly Springs
Mrs Reeves 62 Dies After Brief Illness
Mrs. Reeves died yesterday at Northern Burry Hospital after a brief illness. Born in Burry County to Luther and Lizzie Collins Shelton she is survived by five daughters, one son, twelve grandchildren, six great grandchildren, a brother and several half siblings. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with body at Moody Funeral Home.
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Nettie Reeves
Northern Burry Hospital
Burry County
Luther and
Lizzie Collins Shelton
Robert Johnson
Route 1
Dobson
Dale Bolen
Fancy Gap
James Loften
Mount Airy
Roland Craughn
Route 8
Emerson Collins
Route 4
Troy Reeves
Annadale
Carl Shelton
John Mathews
Ogden
Utah
Carter Mathews
Chester
Virginia Bolden
Sanford
Moody Funeral Home
Fire Destroys Farm Equipment. $15,000 Loss
Fire Chief Mc Alexander said two hundred bushels of corn were saved. Firefighters from Four-Way, Westfield and Pilot Knob aided in the response. The loss to Hunter was estimated at about $15,000.
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Four-Way
Westfield
Pilot Knob
Mc Alexander
Hunter
Funeral rites for Joseph S Spear held today at Alexander-Stevenson
Joseph Samuel Spear 61 of Gwyn Ave Elkin died Wednesday at Baptist Hospital Winston-Salem. Born in North Carolina to William and Mary Spear he was a retired Chatham Manufacturing Co worker and Calvary Baptist Church member. Surviving: wife Elsie Corega Spear two daughters L F E Osborne Winston-Salem and Oscar Jenkins Mount Airy son Samuel E Spear Wilkesboro. Burial Edgewood Baptist Church cemetery near North Wilkesboro.
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Joseph Samuel Spear
Gwyn Ave. Elkin
Alexander-Stevenson
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
William and Mary Spear
Chatham Manufacturing Co
Calvary Baptist Church
Elsie Corega Spear
L. FE. Osborne
Oscar Jenkins
Mount Airy
Samuel E. Spear
Wilkesboro
Edgewood Baptist Church
North
Theatre Employees Feted At Yale Dinner
Mr and Mrs FE Lester Davis and Don hosted 25 employees and friends from Bright Leaf and Mount Airy Drive In Theatres at the Blue Ridge Restaurant. A three course ham dinner was served with Mrs John Davis of this city receiving a red carnation corsage as guest of honor.
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Lester Davis
Don
Bright Leaf
Mount Airy Drive-In
Blue Ridge
Mr. Davis
John Davis
Hawks Given Life Sentence in Virginia Murder Case
Albert Fred Hawks Sr., 50, of Lambsburg, Virginia, pleaded guilty in Carroll County Circuit Court to murdering his wife Virginia Faye Hawks, 47, and son Willie Mack Hawks, 19. He received life terms for both murders and a 20 year sentence for malicious wounding of another son, Albert Fred Hawks Jr., 22.
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Albert Fred Hawks, Sr
Lambsburg
Carrol County
Hawks
Virginia Faye Hawks
Willie Mack Hawks
Ile
Albert Fred Hawks, Jr
Armfield Brothers Win Fire Department Honors at Bannertown
At the Bannertown Fire Department Christmas supper Jack Armfield, a charter member and fire captain, was named Fireman of the Year for outstanding service. His brother Joe Armfield, also a charter member and assistant chief, received the Fire Chief's Award chosen by the chief using a point system.
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Bannertown
Jack Armfield
Joe Armfield
A. L. McAlexander
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DOLUS
SEI
Just
Kitchen Ensemble
Boys’ Permanent Press
Liece
Discount Storts
W. Pine
Thompson
Main St. Mount Airy
Hollingsworth Drug
New Mayberry Mall
Anscomatic
Outete
Cab Cole
Sunbeam
GJ Dozen
Mirr Cockware
Mayberry Mall
North Main ST
DeVilbiss
J. S. Spear
Yale
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