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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1926
Page
7
Mt Airy social column lists visits and guests from Winston Salem Greensboro and Charlotte. Town residents attend commencements and church events while families travel to Wilmington Florida and Virginia for vacations and summer plans. A new baby and hospital updates are noted among locals.
Southern Public Utilities will hold a free cooking school and electric range demonstration at the National Theatre Thursday and Friday from 3 to 6 pm. John Paul Lucas will speak on the utility’s service. Bernice Lowen of Chicago will lead the demonstrations. No sales, but prizes will be awarded at both sessions.
Judge W F Carter of the city returned from Davidson College where he and two others from the class of 1876 took part in the commencement exercises. Seven of the seventeen class members from 1876 are still living. Carter was a Davidson student when Woodrow Wilson attended as a freshman.
Mrs J D Simpson Jr won hostess last Friday with Miss Davilla Gillum of Missouri present. Top score prize a bath powder box. second prize Madeira tray cloth went to Mrs A Baird. Low score received decorated shoe trees. House guests included D F E Hoffman. Refreshments featured frozen fruit, sandwiches, cheese arrows, wafers, pickles, iced tea and mints.
Walter Robertson holds a position with the Chautauqua program in Swarthmore Pennsylvania following a tenure at Guilford. The report notes his ongoing involvement with regional educational and cultural outreach activities.
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