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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
3
A fragment notes how summer heat drains energy for conversations and how easy it is to start a chat when the environment is sweltering and ordinary topics loom large. The passage hints at social ease amid heat without detailing specific settings or events.
Street talk frames a quiet town scene with a safe mishap outside Granite Motor, courtroom whispers about justice, night baseball rumors, fishing plans, Jaycee welcomes, local hires and weddings. Light anecdotes mix daily life in Mount Airy.
Westfield residents Mr and Mrs Woodrow Smith hosted guests from D G Smith and others. Decreation services at Mt Lebanon Baptist Church near Hillsville were attended by A M Gates Jr and family. Weeks at Richmond Medical College marked by reunion for Dr A M Gates. Various relatives and friends from Winston-Salem Mount Airy Hillsville Harrisonburg Roanoke and Calloway attended visits and gatherings.
Edgar Light of Patrick County was sentenced by Patrick circuit court to 51 years in the state penitentiary for murder and related assaults. The judge, after waiving a jury, heard the murder and two assault with a deadly weapon charges together. Light received 40 years for murder of Jim Lawson, 10 years for wounding a sister-in-law and unborn child, and 1 year for wounding his mother-in-law. The case involved a longstanding family quarrel and featured court-appointed counsel.
Round Peak residents stay busy with harvest activities after flood damage to land and crops. A benefit cake cutting and dance is planned at Grover Jarrell's on Saturday night June 17 with old time music. Mr Jarrell suffered a back and spine fracture eleven years ago and cannot work but remains cheerful and social with friends. Eddie Galyean and family of Galax Virginia visited Mrs Pred Cockerham last weekend. Opal Mae Jarrell visits Edith Jarrell in Mount Airy this week. D B Barker grows another prize winning hog this year.
In Surry County North Carolina the Superior Court clerk orders publication for a special proceeding to sell real estate of Mrs Cora Gilmer deceased. Heirs at law and interested parties including Dr E E Moore are named and many cannot be located. The Mount Airy News notice runs four weeks urging demurrer or answer by June 24 1939.
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