Surry County Agricultural and Stock Fair Planned
The News reports the incorporation of Surry County's first agricultural and stock fair with about 500 stockholders planned. Subscriptions start at $10 per share, max ten shares per citizen, $50,000 authorized capital, and work to begin when $10,000 is raised. A stockholders meeting at Mount Airy Opera House on June 10 will elect officers and set policy and dates.
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Surry County
Opera House
Mount Airy
Carolina
Virginia
Statewide Primary Law Exempts Surry Mecklenberg and Stokes
The document announces a statewide primary law effective in June 1916 with exceptions for county officers in 49 counties including Surry, Mecklenberg and Stokes. It states Surry and Stokes counties are not governed by the primary law for county officers and house representatives, and voters will nominate county officers by county convention.
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Surry County
House of Representatives
Mecklenburg
Surry
Stokes
Stokes County
Congress
RL Nayvrore
Fire at W. E. Jackson store contained to second floor
A small blaze in the large dry goods store of Mr. W. E. Jackson Tuesday night was stopped by a chemical engine after Night Policeman T. D. Hatcher alerted the fire department around ten o clock. Investigators suspect an electric iron left on in the millinery department started the fire, with damage not exceeding three hundred dollars.
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W. E. Jackson
T. D. Hatcher
Prof T Turlington Heads to Montrose for Health
Prof T Turlington left Tuesday morning for Montrose Sanitorium for his health. He was accompanied by his wife to Greensboro. A telegram to Mrs Turlington reported he made the trip successfully and arrived safely in good trim.
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1. T. Turlington
Montrose
Greensboro
Col John Mosby Dies at 82 Former Confederate Raider Consul
Col John S Mosby famed Confederate raider and later U S consul at Hong Kong for seven years died today at age 82. Born December 6 1833 in Powhatan Virginia he led Mosbys Partisan Rangers and captured Gen Stoughton at Fairfax Court House. He later served in government posts and wrote several works.
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Raider
Hong Kong
Virginia
Col. Mosby
Shenandoah Valley
Powhattan County
University of Virginia
Bristol
Mosby
Grant
United States
Rangers
Conlonel
Stuart
Hill Pioneer's Illness Spurs Ultra Fast Sedative Run
James J. Hill, frail in St. Paul on May 28, faced a tense day as doctors weighed sedatives. Louis W. Hill arranged a Chicago sedative via a special 431 mile train, a record speed run of eight hours three minutes, though the sedative was not used.
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St. Paul
Chicago
James Hill
St. Paul, Minn
James J. Hill
Pioneer Railroad
Mr. Hill
Louis W. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
J. J. Hill
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Hill
Burlington
Stokes and Surry Support Hall for State Senate
A Stokes County publication urges Republican voters to back John W. Hall for the 27th Senatorial District on June 3. Hall is a Stokes native and former senator for Stokes and Surry, who did not seek the nomination but consented after urging from supporters.
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Surry County
Stokes
Surry
Stokes County
John W. Hall
Hall
Surry Counties
Senate
Mr. Hall
John G. Fulton
Increase in North Carolina Manufactured Products Over Five Years
North Carolina’s manufactured products value rose from 1909 to 1914 reaching 289 million dollars, up 72.8 million or 33.6 percent. The 1914 count of establishments was 5,567, with average product value per establishment about 655 thousand dollars. Capital invested reached 255.4 million, up 36.7 million or 16.9 percent from 1900.
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North Carolina
Bureau of the Census
Helping The Country Church
The North Carolina religious papers debate the impact of autos on country and city churches. The article notes autos ease Sunday travel to rural churches, potentially boosting country church attendance and wealth while diminishing city church audiences, and foresees better roads and nicer church buildings as a result.
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Charlotte Observer
North Carolina
Country Church
Northern Methodist Church
Bishop Hendricks
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Savannah News
Messenger Boy Delivers Urgent Wire on 40 Mile Ride
Fort Wayne Indiana wire dispatch leads 17 year old Charles Schlegel on a 40 mile round trip to Blufton. He leaves at 6 30 pm with instructions to deliver the message to J C J and return by midnight. The night clerk notes the mission but the recipient had gone to Blufton. Schlegel completes the delivery and returns to the Western Union office before midnight.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Western Union
Charles Schlegel
Blufton Road
Schlegel
Mr. J
Blufton
Brown
Garacia
Schiegel
Luck Has No Place In Poultry Business
A editorial note argues that success in poultry farming stems from strict sanitary practices not luck. It asserts diseases and failures arise from neglect and that neighbors may attribute outcomes to luck rather than systematic care.
Dellinger Announces Candidacy for Labor and Printing
In the Democratic Primary June 3 1916 David P Dellinger of Gaston County declares his bid for Commissioner of Labor and Printing His legislative record from 1909 1913 and 1915 is cited as proof of his commitment to workers and public service
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David P. Dellinger
Gaston County
Dellinger
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Mount Airy News
J. E. Johnson
Col
John Mosby
Washington
John 8S. Mosby
Train
Thomas J. Gibbons
St. Paul Cathedral
Hill Mansion
Helping the Country Church
Luck
Burtorrs Hardware
F. L. Smith
Hdw. Co
Labor and Printing
C. B. Tilley
Mount Airy, N. C
H. B. Rowe, M. D
A. G. Bowman
Main St
W. F. Carter
E. H. Wrenn
Geo. D. Fawcett
Surry County Loan and Trust Company
Sallie McGee
I. W. Barber
Admr
Pepsi-Cola
North Pole
Pepsi-Cola Bottling
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