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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
6
Surry County Progress Edition highlights S M Hale of Mount Airy a longtime general merchandise dealer on Main Street with two floors of high quality stock. Hale runs a large store supports civic church and fraternal involvement and once served on the Town Commission for the community’s moral and civic progress.
W F Midriff opened a Mount Airy grocery about ten years ago offering heavy and fancy groceries, feeds, and country produce. Cash sales draw lower prices and fewer unpaid-bill costs. Front remodeled for better displays. building and lot owned by Midriff, 141 feet deep. Four courteous employees run an efficient store service with Phone 11% for orders.
A town meeting argues for stronger sanitation and sewer expansion to cut disease and improve life. It urges a vigorous advertising drive to showcase Mt Airy’s climate, water, and soil, and calls for a canning factory, knitting mill, cheap power, and new rail links to attract investment and jobs.
The Gwyn Drug Company runs a first rate Main Street drug store with a modern soda fountain and a wide range of medicines, toilet articles, candy and novelty items. Pharmacist H L Gwyn ensures quality prescriptions while J H Gwyn leads the thriving business near White Sulphur Springs four miles outside Mount Airy.
Chas. W. Davis has operated in this city for fourteen years providing high class toilet fixtures and modern sanitary patterns. His Main street office shows a wide range of products and he specializes in installing and repairing heating systems under his personal supervision.
W W Thomas on Main and Needmore Streets is a popular Mount Airy grocery, established over twelve years. The store offers groceries, produce, table delicacies, and heavy goods with prompt telephone orders and delivery. Thomas, once a stone-cutter, owns a $5,000 home and over $10,000 in local property, reflecting his community standing.
The well known Mount Airy firm Welch and Mitchell runs a large department store with millinery ready to wear hardware shoes groceries notions hats furniture carpets and a second floor devoted to clothing for all ages. G C Welch owns the business and plans to bring in Walter Welch and another partner after inventory. Welch is a leading merchant and influential local figure serving on the Bethel Board Town Commissioner and the County Board of Education with heavy stock in banks.
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