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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1925
Page
7
Residents travel and births reported in Mt Airy area with visitors from Kernersville and Winston Salem. A child born at Martin Memorial hospital. funeral of Lizzie Moore in Stokes county. Dr. Foy L. Perkins relocates to Benson to practice medicine. Marine corps man Eugene Sparger returns from Mare Island. real estate plans in Florida noted.
Miss Lizzie V Moore aged 82 respected Stokes County resident died Tuesday morning at the Moore home in Stokes She taught in Stokes Surry Yadkin and Forsyth and held a life teaching certificate She was a Central Methodist Church member sister of the late Mrs B Y Graves and aunt to Mrs Anne Moore Funeral was at 2 p m Wednesday at the Moore home with Dr Tom Smith officiating
Miss Flossie Burge and John A. Simmons of Mount Airy route 1 united in marriage last Thursday evening at six at the home of Reverend C. O Haymore. The ceremony was witnessed by a few intimate friends. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Emmett Burge and was a rural school teacher. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs W W Simmons and is described as a splendid young man with good business qualifications.
A series of meetings started at Salem Methodist church last Sunday led by Rev. W. J. S. Walker. Next Sunday Rev. A. C. Swafford from Mocksville will assist and stay with the congregation for about ten days.
Mrs S M Hale presided over a W C T U business session with about fifteen members. One new member joined and plans for the new year were laid out followed by refreshments.
Adj. Crispell, Young People's secretary for the North and South Carolina Division of the Salvation Army, will arrive this week to speak at the Army hall on South Street next Monday. The event invites young people to attend.
Rev. E. Gibson Davis announces next Sunday sermons on The Beatitude of the Giver in the morning and Volsteadism or Americanism in the evening. The evening service emphasizes law enforcement and loyalty to prohibition. All are invited to attend both services.
The Mission Study class at Central Methodist meets Thursday with Mrs. F L Smith to study a new book "Of One Blood" by Robert E Spear. Pastor Dr H K Boyer preaches a special sermon to young people at 11 o clock Sunday morning and invites all youths to attend.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Flat Rock Presbyterian church will meet Thursday at 2 30 PM January 15 at the home of Mrs J W Holmes. The sacrament of the Lord s Supper will be administered at the morning service Sunday January 18 at the Flat Rock church. Miss Myrtle Valentine returned to Salem college Winston Salem last week where she is a student. Born to Mr and Mrs Ephraim Midkiff at their home last week a son.
Florence Moore and Brady Coe were married Saturday at 6 PM in the Haymore Memorial Baptist church parsonage with Rev. Childress officiating. The bride and groom are local youth from the Moore and Coe families, both with many friends in the city.
75 000 year old necklace from a Southern French cave woman is in the collection of Frank G Logan vice president of the Art Institute of Chicago. W J Sherwood notes these beads are the oldest known man made objects. Ivory, deer antler and polished stone beads bear crude carvings. Found in La Blanchard Dordogne, they date to the fourth glacial period.
The Woman's Club reports 323.25 raised since May including a Baby show cafeteria and book sales, with 301.25 turned to War Memorial and 717.92 paid on the club lot. Kiwanis leader E M Linville urged joint committees to select a shrub or flower and promote roadside and triangle plantings to beautify Mount Airy, aligning with district federation aims.
O B Webb, Mount Airy plumber, has completed extensive equipment upgrades including steel shelving and an up to date in store display of water and electrical fixtures. The display shows real home connections with tub lavatory kitchen sink and other fixtures. Webb employs 12 to 14 workers and Miss Margaret Leitch serves as assistant bookkeeper stenographer and saleswoman.
The Winston-Salem Kiwanis Club with over a hundred members from local business and industry voted unanimously to urge the legislature to issue bonds to finish North Carolina’s highway system as planned.
The Danbury reporter notes that the grounds around the Stokes County Home will be graded and sown to grass in the spring. The improvement was ordered jointly by the Board of County Commissioners and the Stokes Highway Commission at their Monday meeting.
We are deeply grateful to all those who sustained us during the illness of our daughter Mrs. McCraw and since her death by their sympathy either spoken or expressed by kind deeds. The floral offering from the pupil nurses of the hospital was very much appreciated. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Simmons.
Pay your taxes before February 1 to avoid a penalty on all taxes assessed after that date. By order of the Board of County Commissioners.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion gas and pains. It claims quick relief for biliousness and constipation and notes a low price of 25 cents.
Notice states H R Denny and L J Denny defaulted on a 1923 loan to J B Flinchum. Trustee O E Snow to sell 29.2 acres in Pilot Mountain at Bank of the Mountain on Feb 3 1925 for $1130.25 plus interest, excluding church and graveyard parcels.
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