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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1931
Page
2
Dr John H Cook director of summer school for the North Carolina College for Women Greensboro informed Surry County teachers the Dobson session is not held this summer due to insufficient enrollment and reduced appropriations. He hopes a future Dobson program can occur.
The Daily Vacation Bible school started at Blue Ridge Presbyterian church on Monday June 8 with an enrollment of eighteen. It will run for two weeks and feature divisions led by Rev. W F Mellott Miss Catherine Fultz Miss Virginia King Miss Frances Hiatt Ola Deane Smith Mrs B R Mophet and others.
The crops look good for the season but rain is needed badly. Wheat and grain prospects are the best in years. Clayburn Dix of Hazard visits relative G. Tucker. Lum Hiatt and family from West Virginia visit his brother D. V. Hiatt. Rev. D. Fletcher of Mount Airy and Rev. G. A. Tucker travel to The Hollow, Va. for Sunday services.
Trustee Robt A Freeman will sell at the Dobson Courthouse door the Pleasant Hodges lands in Franklin Township Surry County. The 65 acre tract borders Lula Atkinson Charley Ball Joe F Pulk and the Estate of Maggie Oakley with a 1931 sale notice filed in Deed Book 48 page 430. Sale June 1 1931.
Brim notes include Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Needham and others from Pilot Mountain visiting J. F. Mills and family. Virginia Mills spent the weekend with her parents, while Essie Hendrix from Winston-Salem visited her mother. Several local residents and visitors from Bassett and Peters Creek are mentioned in casual weekend and Sunday visits, with illness noted for J. Bud Mills and church activities by Rev. L. T. Edens.
Having qualified as administrator of the estate of B A Irvin deceased this is to notify all persons holding claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned administrator within the time prescribed by law or this notice will be plead in bar of recovery This May 21 1931 The Bank of Mount Airy Admr B A Irvin deceased AS
Farmers in Stewarts Creek report tobacco planting progress and crops wheat and rye look above average. Memorial services and sermons noted at Antioch and Pine Ridge Baptist church. Land sale in Stewarts Creek Township, 117 acres near Mount Airy with court-sale terms, deposits, and resale conditions. Robt. A. Freeman, Commissioner.
Notice of foreclosure of sale of land in Surry County North Carolina. Federal Land Bank of Columbia as plaintiff seeks sale of described lands at public auction at the county courthouse, following a judgment entered May 11 1931 in the superior court. Defendants include J H Haynes and others.
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