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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
9
A historical portrait of Surry County from early settlement to modern progress. It covers land wealth, railroads, and population growth, highlights education gains with dramatic school expansion, and notes the Granite City center and Mountains. It also profiles Mount Airy Iron Works and J D Minick as a local industrial figure.
The City Electric Shoe Shop owned by J. Z. Vaughns is one of five small local enterprises. Vaughns uses modern electric machinery and labor saving devices bought for hundreds of dollars to produce high quality leather goods sourced directly from the factory in large lots. He runs a thriving business from a cottage home on Rockford Street and counts many repeat patrons who sustain his success.
John L Banner, native of the county, influential in Mt. Airy and county upbuilding. Former head of Banner Manufacturing for twelve years, now in the coven to escape in the cementary business, produces high quality twilching brick and supplies for the new Court House at Dobson. Renowned for reliability and honesty, serves as City Tax Collector with strong city governance performance. Member of Royal Arcanum, owns a fine Mt. Airy home and a Sand Clay road apple orchard with over two thousand bearing trees.
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