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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1932
Page
2
The State Highway Patrol arrested 649 people in November for motor vehicle violations with 582 guilty. Fines and costs totaled 10 947 13 and 279 months penal servitude. Leading charges included drunken driving improp er rights improper licenses reckless driving and speeding.
The Atlantic coast shows a sagging middle and rising ends. Dr William Fitch Cheney Jr of Connecticut Agricultural College reports Portland Maine and Charleston South Carolina rise 7 to 15 inches per century, while Boston New York Atlantic City Philadelphia Baltimore sink 3.5 to 11.5 inches per century. Key West remains stable.
Public notice of sale by substitute trustee D L Hiatt for M T and Mattie Martin to Edw M Linville. Sale at The Bank of Mount Airy on January 19, 1933 at 1 PM for 55 acres more or less adjoining T J Perkins W B Simpson and Wilson Coe. A ten percent deposit required.
Rodney Eatman killed his wife and two young daughters with an axe and then attempted suicide using a public safety item. Coroner reports the killings occurred while the family slept and notes Eatman died from self inflicted wounds. The Batman family had lived in poverty with ill health cited as a motive.
The Right Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire D D bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina died in a Charlotte hospital after a brief illness following admission for an operation. He served 39 years as church head, aided Good Samaritan Hospital and Thompson Orphanage, and founded St. Marys School in Raleigh. He was born in Tarboro March 27 1850 and was twice married with six children from his first marriage.
Advertisement claims Cardul helps women overcome pains and weak conditions by building up resistance to womanly ailments. It suggests existing symptoms disappear as body nourishment improves and urges readers to use Cardul rather than temporary pain pills. Thousands have found relief and can obtain Cardul at the drug store.
Miss Alicia C. Bowler of the Children's Bureau urges a time at home check on adolescents. She suggests parents record actual time their child spends at home for a month using a sheet with clear subheadings. The study could reveal time spent outside home and school, with emphasis on wholesome community influences.
Trustee Dock Stone announces public auction at the Dobson courthouse to sell the Mount Airy Township house and lot described as half an acre, with a prior trust noted, to satisfy unpaid notes. Sale set for January 11, 1933 at 1:00 PM.
Commissioner Bryant Badgett to sell for partition in front of Farmers Bank Pilot Mountain a 129 acre tract in Long Hill Township the Sallie A Bryant dower in the Bryants estate. Sale set after court order with 10 percent cash deposit and remainder upon confirmation. December 19 1932. W R Badgett, Attorney.
In the Middle District of North Carolina I, trustee in bankruptcy for the estate of Gabriel J. Key, will sell at public auction on the Ararat area in Surry County to the highest cash bidder the R. J. Armstrong Mill Site Tract about five acres plus two additional Ararat tracts and a third Old Shop Lot, with detailed course descriptions. The sale also includes the homestead reversionary interests at Ararat Station comprising 22 acres, 4.83 acres, and 113 acres, with deeds referenced in Surry County records.
Mr J H Gillespie of Ararat and Miss Eliza Simmons of Pilot Mountain wed in Hillsville Virginia with only intimate friends present. The notice also lists several Surry County land parcels and deed references as part of a bankruptcy sale under trustee W O Bryant with court approval pending.
Public auction will sell the land in Pilot Mountain Surry County North Carolina described as 21 acres more or less with various boundary courses. The sale is to satisfy the balance of principal interest and costs from a deed of trust dated April 29 1926. The sale is scheduled for December 7 1932 in front of Farmers Bank Pilot Mountain.
The NAACP announced 1932 records show 11 lynchings nationwide down from 14 in 1931. Two victims were white, the rest Black. Walter White called the progress tempered by quasi legal lynchings and mob influence, noting the Scottsboro case as warning. The lynching spirit remains a central law enforcement issue in America.
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