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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1923
Page
7
The Mount Airy column lists visitors and residents across Salisbury Greensboro and Winston Salem with multiple travels and guests. Names include Brown Folger Snow Wrenn Waltz Hoyt Haynes and more as families move through Greensboro Durham Wake Forest Winston Salem and Martins Memorial hospital stories. A charity event at the Kiwanis and a camping party to Lovill's orchard appear among personal notices.
The Purviss property in this city will be sold at auction next Friday. The Moore avenue site, formerly Haynes boarding house, and the Oak street residence lot have been divided into building parcels. The Moore avenue property is close in and expected to rise in value, while the Oak street property suits business people seeking a convenient location.
The Industrial City Realty and Auction Co of High Point has purchased the Marshall farm near the city and subdivided it into Highland Park. About 200 lots are laid out with 75 to be sold to highest bidders on June 14 as detailed in a large advertisement in this issue.
The First Presbyterian church Sunday school plans a special evening program of music readings and exercises at o oclock. All departments from beginners to adults take part in Foreign Mission day with the theme The Land of the Locked Bible and No Christmas Brazil. The program shows how the Bible can be unlocked and darkness lit. Miss Ludge Burns will sing and other numbers are planned.
In Leaksville township on June 1 L M Shef field lost his pocketbook containing 3000 dollars, checks, and papers while answering a telephone. Three to four people were in the room. they were questioned as authorities seek the thief and offer a liberal reward.
A meeting of the Masonic Temple Co. is set for Friday at 8 o clock in the lodge room. Stockholders and all Masons are urged to attend due to several important matters on the agenda. C Binder secretary.
Springfield Ohio woman Mrs Bessie Warp reports severe sickness headaches and weakness with three prior pregnancies. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during early pregnancy she says headaches reduced appetite improved and a healthy baby girl was born without illness. The medicine is described as strengthening the entire system for expectant mothers.
A delightful meeting of the Young Matrons book club was hosted by Mrs. J. C. Hill last Thursday. Guests included brides Mesdames Oscar Yakley Raymond Smith Joe Haynes Claude Absher Oscar Merritt and Misses Clara Belle Morris Asheboro and Helen May La Grange. Tables of rock were played as peonies snapdragons and roses adorned the room. Hosts and guests enjoyed a salad course with iced tea prepared by Mrs. A. V. West E. G. Smith J. G. Harrison J. H. Allred and W. Fulton assisting.
Three to four hundred more youths in North Carolina can join Citi zens Military Training Camps opening each summer at government expense. No cost to entrants. Obtain application forms from Postmaster G. K. Snow in Mount Airy or Albert L. Cox in Raleigh.
Four Misses Ethel Greenwood Virginia Carter Winona Williams and Lillie Fowler join Wade Hatcher and W B Hale as they prepare to attend the annual Epworth League conference of the Western North Carolina Conference M E Church South in Charlotte May 12 15. The event is described as the greatest Epworth League meeting in the history of the W N C organization.
The text notes that most rheumatism cases are muscular or chronic and need no internal treatment. Cham berlain's Liniment is said to relieve pain and help sleep and rest for those afflicted.
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