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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
5
The Pepsi-Cola Bottling Works emphasizes sanitary bottling with a modern plant and preventive cleansing. Bottled drinks include Pepsi-Cola Golden Garter Ginger Ale and other high quality sodas. Proprieter E G Badgett is described as a capable business leader.
Haynes and Company of this city offers liability health accident fire and life insurance. Manager J B Haynes welcomes discussions with interested parties and operates from the McCargo building on Main Street in the heart of the business section. The agency represents Scottish Union and National Insurance Company Eainborough Scotland Virginia Fire Insurance Company Hartford and Aetna Life Insurance Company Hartford. Haynes is a rising local businessman recognized for progress and promise.
Mount Airy’s quarry enterprise, operated by North Carolina Granite Corporation, grew from a 40 acre site into a major regional industry. The Woodroffe family helped found and expand the business, turning Mt Airy into a national name for fine stone and supporting local schools churches and housing with donated stone and low-cost building material.
Sparger Orchard Company, one of the best known orchards in the section, began ten years ago. It cultivates about three red acres with 14,000 peach trees and apple trees. Officers listed include B. President, J. B. Sparger, manager, and M. Sparger asst treasurer.
The Mt Airy area hosts several granite firms including J D Sargent Granite Co and R D Clark Granite Co producing mausoleums and cut stone. Major equipment includes pneumatic drills, rail cranes and own power plants supporting 3500 to 4000 car shipments and 300 to 700 workers seasonal.
An entry notes a banner for an osteopathic physician near 129 Mit. Airy N. with address details and contact line. The fragment emphasizes the building advertisement and telephone reference.
A 1907 established Mount Airy Telephone Company is highlighted as independent yet connected with Bell and rural exchanges. It lists about four hundred subscribers and is run by J. A. Hadley as president, W. F. Carter Jr. as manager, and W. G. Sydnor as secretary treasurer, noting their civic stature and local business ties.
A profile praising J W Johnson for year round outreach to farmers in Surry County. He trains farmers in better farming methods, advises field layout and drainage, judges stock, and promotes stock raising with new blooded animals. His model farm near the city boosts local agriculture and county practice.
Administrator of Sallie McGee’s estate notifies all claimants to present claims by March 16, 1917 or be barred. All debts to the estate must be settled promptly. Dated March 10, 1916.
Review notes Blue Ridge Inn in Mount Airy as popular with commercial travelers. Three story pressed brick hotel with 56 rooms operates on American Plan with rates of two and a half dollars per day. Modern sample rooms added, manager E. T. Fisher previously led Clayton Hotel.
O R Moore offers expert portraiture with artistic quality and fast amateur finishing. Located on Main Street near the post office, Moore's Studio supplies Kodaks, Kodak films, and catalog reproduction photography for commercial uses. Established about ten years ago, Moore has earned a high reputation for quality.
Asheville residents are to be invited to buy 25000 dollars of stock in the National Music Festival of America. Southern Railway may underwrite the remaining half million in authorized capital if the goal is reached. Judge J C Pritchard, president of the company, commented on the plan as discussions with regional leaders continue.
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