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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
7
Ellis Lundy of Raleigh visits Mt Airy. Numerous residents host relatives from Raleigh Pilot Mountain Salisbury Atlanta and other towns while teachers and students travel for work and studies. Community events include a W C T U meeting and summer school notes at Wake Forest and Duke University with local officials and families visiting and returning from trips.
Revival services at the First Baptist Church draw steady crowds despite a Monday storm. Pastor preaches on Revivals and The Midnight Cry while Mr. Woolslager leads music with his junior choir Wooly's Warbiers.
Miss Louisa Kochtitzky of Agnes Scott College Decatur Ga will spend two months in Europe with a party of students and prospective students. They sail July 1 and return the last of August. She recently graduated in music from Mary Baldwin College Staunton Va and will enter Agnes Scott College in the fall.
The Mount Airy Drug Co. has installed an ice cream cabinet with a sulphur dioxide circulation system that can reach 20 degrees below zero. The automatic unit maintains uniform cream temperature without salting or ice packing, holding 30 gallons along the fountain. It cost nearly a thousand dollars but is expected to save about $250 yearly in ice and salt costs while improving service.
Mr and Mrs T Daber and their child from Marietta Ga arrived to visit Mrs Daber's parents Mr and Mrs J Walter Banner. While driving near Blowing Rock they swerved to avoid a colliding car and struck a sand bank. Their daughter Wanda received a minor forehead wound requiring stitches. The other occupants suffered only bruises and scratches.
A large delegation of Winston-Salem business leaders attended the State Building and Loan Association meeting in the Robt. E. Lee Hotel. Edw M Linville was a principal speaker and was elected vice president. Leon Cash of Winston-Salem was named president. Attendees included Mayor W G Sydner E H Kochitzky J B Sparger and J D Thompsen.
The new Moravian Church on North Main Street has been named Grace Moravian Church and will be known by that name. Services are held in temporary quarters Sundays at eight o'clock. Rev. C. D. Crouch preaches the first and third Sundays at eleven. Next Sunday night Rev. George O. Heath, missionary in Central America, will share experiences. He will lecture at Mt. Bethel and Willow Hill as well.
The Carolina Motor Club announces a new Mount Airy branch with P. R. Tilley as local manager. The Norfleet-Baggs garage on Moore Street houses the headquarters and Tilley will assist members with car licenses and provide support to motorists. The club stresses service to all motorists, member or not, including license plate handling at branch offices.
Miss Minnie Rath Holcomb, a June bride elect, was the charming honoree at a party hosted by her sister Mrs Hugh Holcomb at East Elm Street. Guests used paper parasols with name tags and admired Dorothy Perkins roses and sweetpeas as Bridge was enjoyed at three tables. A cut glass bowl and a silver pickle fork were given, with refreshments served by several hostesses.
A Friday afternoon party honored Miss Minnie Ruth Holcomb who will wed W J McGill of Kings Mountain on June 11. Hostess Mrs Ed Inman arranged three tables of rock with snapdragons and sweetpeas. a salad course followed. Brass trays were presented to Miss Holcomb and to Miss Mary Thompson, another local bride-elect.
Mrs R J Lovill entertained the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club and guests at a morning party in honor of Mrs Mary Thompson who will wed Carl Simmons on June 20. Seven tables competed with prizes going to Mrs C M Whitlock and Miss Elizabeth Merritt. a silver cream ladle was given to the honoree.
Luther Byrd Lester Haynes Robert Smith and Judson Ashby are home from the State University at Chapel Hill for the summer vacation.
The Ridge View public school committee hired J Frank Martin of Mount Airy and Mrs J D Johnson to teach at the school for the coming year. On May 31 Miss Dubose of Elkin spoke on church work at Pine Ridge Presbyterian and organized a Christian Endeavor Society to meet Sundays. Rev John D Smith will preach at Pine Ridge on the second Saturday in June at 11 00 AM and at Jessups Church at 2 00 PM. Silas White and Andrew Jessup of High Point were guests of Wil Matthews last Sunday.
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