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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1927
Page
10
The piece notes the Supreme Court ruling that bootleggers pay income tax and pivots to a quip about exterminating potato bugs. It then reflects on human conflict arising from perceived others and quotes a pastor on defensive leadership and a shepherd’s club for protection.
Mount Airy Commissioners order a June 28 1927 election in Ward 1 and Ward 2 to decide a 60 cent tax on property and a $50,000 bond issue for school building improvements. The vote will also decide a 6 cent property tax to retire school debt with separate ballot boxes for each proposal. New voter registration is set May 23 to June 18 1927 with designated registrars and judges in each ward.
Rev. E. Gibson Davis, pastor, outlines Sunday schedule including morning worship at 11 and evening service at 8. Themes: A Book of Remembrance and The Price of the Best. Next Sunday marks the third anniversary of his pastorate. Davis attends Raleigh for the General Mission Board Meeting and Preachers' School at Meredith College.
Miss Jennie Lee of Ridgeway and Rev. Marcus Q. Tuttle of Dobson were married May 26 at the Ridgeway Baptist Church. The ceremony featured a fern and ivy decor, daisies, and music by Miss Arbella Nelson. Rev. Preston Blake performed the ring ceremony as family and friends welcomed the couple.
The ad section highlights activities at First Presbyterian Church with Pastor J C Grier leading service notices and upcoming events.
A health ad promotes Calotabs as a complete system purifier. It claims physicians endorse purification for vitality and health. The ad urges a thorough course, once or twice weekly for several weeks, and offers a family package with directions at drug stores.
Eldora Township Sunday School Institute set for May 12 at 2 00 PM at Hilla Grove Church with speakers on Sunday school work Four churches represented Pine Hill Friends Mount Zion Baptist Hilla Grove Rock Hill Baptist Invites all to attend Billy Sunday Team 18 held at Rock Hill Baptist Church large crowd appreciated the service Loyal Volunteer Band announces evangelistic meetings at Mt Zion Baptist Stantford Methodist Rock Hill Baptist Level Crow Church all Sunday or Saturday nights in June all invite public to attend
A humorous exchange shows a tense traffic stop where an officer orders a stop and a driver replies he wanted to comply but jokes the car did not understand the command. The moment captures the standoff and a lighthearted miscommunication between law enforcement and motorist.
Atlanta June 1 J D Norwood former chairman of the North Carolina state democratic executive committee has arrived at the federal penitentiary to begin a three year term for violation of national banking laws connected to the 1928 Salisbury Peoples National Bank failure. Authorities kept the arrival details private.
The subject, once in Chicago and Florida, faced years of hearings and pleas before a final touch to a widely followed case. Norwood was indicted by the U S district court grand jury in Greensboro in December 1923, months after the collapse of the institution where he chaired the board and held stock.
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