Comer Installed as Surry County School Superintendent
John W. Comer became superintendent after state approval and took office in Dobson. Records moved from Mount Airy. secretary Mrs. Loman Edwards remains. The district plans a property valuation for insurance, redistricting, and a new rule placing all elementary schools under the nearest high school principal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loman Edwards
Mrs. Edwards
State School Commission
Comer
Mount Airy
Pilot Mountain
Elkin
Eldora
Long Hill
Pilot Mountain Salem
Green Hill
Bannertown
Plat Rock
Greensboro Elects August Ballot On 19 Cent Salary Levy
Greensboro school board wins right to hold an August 19 election to approve a 19 cent tax levy to supplement teachers salaries. State cuts of 30 to 50 percent are noted. eight month term upheld. Schedule outlines 1932-33 salaries and proposed raises, with figures to be released by the state, continued on back page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
State
Presiding Elder Undergoes Operation Today
Rev. W. E. Poovey presiding elder of the Mount Airy district in the Western North Carolina Conference enters Martin Memorial Hospital today for an operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Poovey
Mount Airy
N. C
M. EF. Church
South
Martin Memorial Hospital
VANDALS DESTROY BFES ON FANCY GAP ROAD
An unknown arsonist or vandals overturned twenty bee hives and later all fifty colonies at Eli Hinkle’s Fancy Gap roadside apiary. Hinkle, a longtime bee keeper, reported the damage after moving bees from Paney Gap and keeping a watch on the yard, hoping to salvage the honey harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fancy Gap Road
Eli Winesett
Paney Gap Road
Virginia Woods
Hinkle
David
Thomasville
Dave
Fancy Gap
Doctor Paddison Visits Kernereville Relative Return
Dr. John Paddison of Kernereville arrives Friday to visit his mother Mrs. J. R. Paddison and other relatives here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Paddison
Kernereville
J. R. Paddison
Bold daylight hold up of boys shocks North Carolina
Two men and a woman forced Will Link and a friend to drive to the Pancy Gap road and surrender their car after a late afternoon highway ambush near Mount Airy. A liquor purchase tied a suspect to the crime as investigators traced liquor bought en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Link
Mount Airy
Pancy Gap
Whai Link
Lexington
Winston- Salem
Martin Blaylock
Winston-Salem
Young Link
Link
Raymond Lewis
Lovill Heads to Fairmont Tobacco Market Opening
J W Lovill leaves Monday for Fairmont to run a tobacco warehouse for the coming season opening August 15 and continuing to Mount Airy market. He departs earlier than planned to arrange opening sales with Mount Airy connections Gilmer Dobbins Bob Simpson Herman Simpson Ed McKinney and Will Thore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Lovill
Fairmont
Mount Airy
Gilmer Dobbins
Bob and
Herman Simpson
Ed McKinney
Will Thore
Big Wheat and Barley Yield This Season
Dr. Needham of Mount Airy reports record yields from crop threshing. He says J A Tilley’s wheat produced 41 bushels per acre with 42 on the sheets, and Palmer Flippin’s land yielded 128 bushels of barley from 2.5 acres, about 51 bushels per acre. He notes chicken litter and barn manure as valuable fertilizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Needham
Mount Airy
Route 1
J. A. Tilley
Palmer Flippin
Deputy Jess Monday Captures Stolen Car
Two African American suspects were arrested after Mr Connie Snow spotted a car parked roadside near Dobson. Deputy Jess Monday traced the theft from South Carolina to North Carolina and recovered stolen merchandise from the vehicle. The men, recently released from a convict camp near Dobson, were tied to a new theft spree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jess Monday
Connie Snow
Dobson
Snow
Monday
South Carolina
Surry County
Redman Firm Buys Out C. W. Fulton
John L. Redman and associates have acquired the automobile interests of C. W. Fulton including Granite City Motor Co. cars and parts. They lease the old Ford dealers quarters on Dixie street and will operate the Ford dealership there. Redman forms Mount Airy Motor Co. with Lewis Tolbert and Arthur Jones, former Granite City staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Airy Motor Co
Ford
Dixie Street
John L. Redman
C. W
Special Meeting Called At First Baptist Church
Church officials urge every member to attend eleven oclock Sunday services for a Pulpit Committee report and possible pastor call. The church has been pastorless since Dr Jacobs left in June and the meeting may select a successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Pulpit Committee
Jacobs
Officers Seeking Defendants in Mount Airy Assault
Deputy Sheriff Will George hunted for Gid Collins and Elmer Lawson in Mount Airy after a Sunday attempt to run Will Collins from his filling station at Francisco. The pair, wounded by Collins’s gunfire, were treated at Martin Hospital and fled before warrant service could occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will George
Mount Airy
Gid Collins
Elmer Lawson
Martin Hospital
Will Collins
Prancisco
Wil Collins
Mrs George E Marshall Illness Reported at Blue Ridge Hotel
Mrs George E Marshall has been under a physician's care for several days in her room at the Blue Ridge hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Marshall
Blue Ridge Hotel
County Cuts Costs in Economy Drive Yet Faces Tax Shortfall
Surry County commissioners held two budget sessions this week to trim county expenses for the new fiscal year. They debated health board funding, farm agent work, and agricultural teachers, noting state and national cuts strain finances and tax collections lag. Salaries for sheriff, register of deeds, keeper of the county home, and judges were set or adjusted with further changes due next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health Board
Dobson and
Copeland
Hamilton
Raleigh
Health Department
B. F. Folger
Surry County
Rockefeller Foundation
Comer
Recorder's Court
Mount Airy
Tobacco Market Opens Tuesday Following Association Meeting
The Mount Airy tobacco market will open on Tuesday September 26 after a Tobacco Association of the United States meeting. Carrington said the crop this year appears larger but not excessive and warned the farm relief act's impact on prices remains unpredictable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Airy
Tobacco Association of the
Carrington
Agriculture
Great Britain
United States
Georgia
South Carolina
Carolina
Old Belt
North Carolina
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Scouts Hike On July Fourth To Webco Farm Mission
A group of boys scouts led by Scout Master Geo. K. Hale Jr. hiked from Hale's home at 9 A M to the Webco farm on Lovill's creek for a July 4 outing. They followed a trail marked by patrol leaders, swam, played, and returned to Mount Airy by early afternoon. Scouts included Alton Webb Quincy Stimpson Jas Edwards Rex Tilley Geo Sparger OI Junior Stimpson Joe Gwyn Romney Simmons Sandy Simmons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. K. Hale, Jr
A. G. Webb
Lovill’s Creek
Webco Farm
Mr. Hale
Mount Airy
Alton Webb
Quincy Stimpson
Jas. Edwards
Rex Tilley
Geo. Sparger OI
Junior Stimpson
Joe Gwyn
Romney Simmons
Sandy Simmons
Register of Nurses At Turnmyre's Drug Store
Turnmyre's Drug Store inaugurates a nurse registry to aid the community. It will list about 25 city nurses with residences contact details and on duty locations for employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turnmyre’s Drug Store
Turnmyre’s
Lightning Sets Five Grain Stacks Aflame Near Laurel Fork
Lightning struck the stack yard of Tom Bowman near Laurel Fork last week destroying five stacks of rye and wheat. A sudden storm caused dry straw to ignite, turning the entire year's crop into ashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Bowman
Laurel Fork
Also Mentioned on This Page
John W. Comer
Thorities
Prof
Hendren
U. S
BFES
Redman Firm
C. W. Fulton
Stokes
U. S. Tobacco Association
Virginia Beach
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