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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
7
Mount Airy News lists the June 8 1916 train schedule with No 1 and No 3 times including 8:40 am 12:01 pm and 8:30 pm arrivals departures for passenger service on the Moccasin line with Mo time and train numbers.
Mr W C George a University faculty member returns for summer and June peaches go to market. Prof Edgar Turlington from Chapel Hill visits Mt Airy. Mrs W H Long and daughters head to Hendersonville for an operation. New G M C truck bought for music store. two new board members elected to school board. The Mount Airy Betterment Association hosts a reception for mayor and board. Various residents noted returning births travels and community happenings.
Delegates Key T C Bales and Misses Irene Smith Katherine Merritt and Lavin attended the State Christian Endeavor Convention in Charlotte June 2 4. More than 300 delegates gathered as enrollment reached 6000 with missions contributions totaling 5245.50. The convention inspired and highlighted a year of good work and a next meeting tentatively set for High Point.
Mrs George D Fawcett of North Main Street entertained Tuesday afternoon in honor of Mrs Brian Floyd of Spartanburg South Carolina The home blossomed with flowers as guests played progressive book and later shared a salad course and ices Mrs Fawcett again hosted Entre Nous Book Club on Wednesday afternoon.
The Baptist Philatheas and Barraccas race to recruit the most members in a contest running since March's second Sunday. Dr Cullom of Wake Forest College will lecture on trips to the Holy Land with slide views. Philatheas invite nonmembers to join. A Monday church meeting discussed several business matters.
Announcement for a church gathering at Central M E Church with three services daily at 10 a m 3 30 and 7 p m featuring Reverends R M Courtney of West End Winston-Salem and J F Armstrong of Spray praising God and inviting attendance signed Geo D Herman
The Mt Airy community thanks all donors for the annual Confederate Veterans dinner. Special appreciation goes to contributors of automobiles flowers program help and graveside decoration assistance. The Mt Airy Band and Daughters of the Confederacy are recognized for added support.
A general meeting of the Surry County Fair association stockholders is scheduled for Saturday at 3 o clock in the Opera House. All subscribers or prospective subscribers are urged to attend to adopt by laws elect officers purchase grounds fix the fair date and decide other important matters. This meeting is billed as the most important in Surry County.
A Baptist church gathering led by Dr. S M Brown of Kansas City closed last Sunday in this city. Many attendees expressed pleasure with the sermons and praised his abilities, though nonmembers did not attend in large numbers.
John Doby of Kapps Mills offers a small well improved home and farm of 50 acres for sale due to age and ill health. The property lies within half a mile of the school and one mile from Kapps Mills, two and a half miles from Mountain Park school. Interested parties may contact for details.
B W Rogers Real Estate markets residences on Lebanon North Main Pine and Franklin streets and farms for sale. Offers three room houses with large lots near town and easy financing with ten dollars down and ten dollars a month. Also advertises a Woodstock Typewriter for sale and building lots across Piper Gap Road with semiannual 6 percent loans and visits by phone.
By order of the Superior Court of Surry County commissioner will sell at public auction at the Dobson court house on Tuesday June 20 1916 at 1 pm a 41 acre tract on Saddle Mountain Creek. The land known as the Martin Poon land lies near Joseph Thompsons corner with bearings and distances in the deed and is subject to the widow Creasy Thompsons Gower right. A prior 10 percent advance bid has been filed and the sale proceeds go to the estate of Martin Pero.
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