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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
10
The Mount Airy Public Library added 114 new books to its shelves this month per a monthly report by Librarian Mrs. M. Ball. Eight volumes were donated by local citizens, boosting total new acquisitions and ongoing circulation activity.
Mrs. Sarah Katherine Midkiff Weddle of Fancy Gap Route 2 died at Martin Memorial Hospital at 3 30 p m Wednesday aged 80 years eight months from age and heart failure She married A J Weddle in 1876 and was mother of eight with five living She was a Primitive Baptist Church member for forty years Funeral is set for Friday at 2 00 p m Surviving are sons Charlie Pred and Claude Weddle daughters Mrs Lucy Weddle Vasa and Ms Lonnie Eler Capella eight grandchildren twenty great grandchildren and her aged husband
Mr and Mrs Clark Brower return to their Arlington Texas home from an extended northern visit with Mrs J C Hollingsworth Mrs George D Fawcett and other relatives.
Mrs. Edna Alder man of Lakeland Florida becomes Mrs. Robert E. Lee after marrying May 18 at eight in the evening in Hendrix. The couple has ties to the bride’s grandmother who summer’s nearby. a Greensboro News courtesy note accompanies the report.
A two mile high magic carpet ride over Democracity will headline the New York World's Fair opening April 30, 1939. Henry Dreyfuss designs a dramatic sky projection show above the Perisphere and Trylon with colorful lights. The garden city model will be among the largest ever built and depict a full size urban plan.
Mrs. Philip Gossler of New York using a glass bottom boat located a $4,000 diamond brooch lost from a small boat off a yacht in Nassau Bahamas. A diver retrieved the pin twenty five feet below the surface on the ocean floor.
A Hartford survey shows home accidents outnumber auto losses. Over five years home incidents comprised 35 percent of claims while automobile crashes accounted for 23 percent. The insured report highlights risks inside residences.
A woman escaped from Surry Prison Farm on Thursday and authorities and bloodhounds failed to locate her. Officials suspect she headed into Virginia as investigators continue the search. Over 15 women have recently been arrested and ordered to compulsory treatment by the county health department or exile from the state for two years or more.
Miss Bivens daughter of Judge and Mrs E C Bivens is among Mount Airy graduates at Mary Baldwin College. Both have been prominent and won honors during their school years.
Notice of Thusters sale of land by substitute trustee D. Bh. Miatt due to default on a deed of trust from RB. PF. Roles to Man M. Linville dated 1997 with sale set for June 24 1939 at 1 o'clock PM at the First National Bank Mount Airy North Carolina. Land described as Lots 7 and 8 in Block C at Edgefield beginning on Gummit Ave. edge of street with described measurements.
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