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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1927
Page
6
Raleigh on May 28 report shows among 100 fatal crashes 42 due to speeding, 18 from railroad crossing mis haps, 13 from careless driving. Other causes include pedestrians on highways, weekless driving, intoxicated drivers and blinding lights.
The Mount Airy board orders a June 28 1927 referendum on a school tax of 1.80 per poll and 1 per 100 valuation, with voter registration in Ward 1 and Ward 2 from May 23 to June 18 1927, and notices to be published in the Mount Airy News. The document also records statewide automobile accident figures for the first half of the year with multiple incidents attributed to sleeping drivers.
The Town of Mount Airy issues three separate bond and tax questions for school improvements and debt liquidation. Voters will choose on bonds at up to 50 percent interest as serial or term notes and on a six cent per hundred valuation tax plus eighteen cents per poll to retire debt. Separate ballots per proposal. new registration required. results determined by ward. Mayor W G Sydnor announces, with Sec. F M Poore as treasurer.
The $1,000,000 gift to Columbia University financed by a $60,000 annuity later grew to $1,740,000 with additional insurance payments totaling about $1,040,000 more than received. The donor, Joseph Floriwend Duke de Loubat, died in Paris after supporting European arts and sciences. The gift funded a library in honor of his parents, subject to annuity and tax arrangements.
London. Magistrate Clarke Hall rules against marrying the widow of one’s brother’s son, a forbidden match under the old law. Two men questioned the unions, but the 1987 and 1921 acts do not cover this remote relation, leaving such marriages prohibited.
Murfreesboro Tennessee reports Rev E L Atwood president of Murfreesboro college for young women recounts his 30 years as a minister and notes the only time he included the word obey in marriage vows was at the bride s request. He questions why she asked it and argues marriage today is a partnership with mutual obligations. The modern bride has a mind of her own and does not accept a promise to obey.
Nick Partagnone known as the biggest man in New England was jailed seven months and fined $100 in Superior court for violating the prohibition law. His attorney warned of a needed state appropriation to feed him in jail. He toured with a circus and demonstrated a large appetite on stage. He claims a fair meal is three pounds of spaghetti, two chickens, four lobsters, a loaf of bread and a gallon of wine. He is father of 17 children.
Brooklyn district officer Heinnen Milats is charged with intoxication on duty becoming the first Gret policewoman accused in New York. The case highlights tensions in law enforcement ethics and gender roles within the department.
Under a deed of trust to Surry County Loan and Trust Company as trustee by R L the note for 500 dollars is due. The property will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the Court House Door in Dobson at an announced date.
On June 4, 1927 at 1 P.M. the lands adjoining Weasley Shore and G. S. Cook are offered. The parcel measures about 70 acres more or less and runs along N 5 E 1053 chains to a stake, east with Falk line 10.13 chains, then S 6 W 19.86 chains to Shore’s line, then W 10.193 chains to the beginning. The notice is dated April 30, 1927 and issued by M Lewellyn as Trustee, via A D Folger attorney.
Secretary Mellon approved a new smaller form of paper currency with the first bills expected to circulate in about a year. The size will be reduced by about one and one third inches in length and a quarter inch in width, cutting manufacturing costs by roughly two million dollars annually.
In the Superior Court of Surry County Lula Hicks Moon et al v George Hicks et al a commissioner is appointed to sell by court order. The sale is set for June 7, 1927 at 2 PM on a parcel across Lovill's Creek from Foy Manufacturing Company described as the west side of Lovill's Creek near Pine Street with bounds along Patterson line and creek edge.
The term of sale will be announced on the day of sale to be held in May 1027 with E. C. Bivens serving as Commissioner.
By virtue of a deed of trust for W H Marion J F Allred, trustee announces public auction at the courthouse door on Saturday June 11 1927 at 1 30 PM. Real estate in Surry County North Carolina described by metes and bounds containing about 28 acres more or less, to satisfy the debt secured. May 9 1927 W L Reece, Trustee.
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