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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1957
Page
2
The Mount Airy MN newspaper page dated Tuesday June 11 1967 covers local events and notices with community matters and brief items. The issue highlights civic updates and small town news typical of a mid century rural paper.
Mr and Mrs Grover Flynn of Pilot Mountain announce the engagement of their daughter Nancy Ellen to Melvin Neil Kivett son of Mr and Mrs H L Kivett of Pilot Mountain The groom to be is a student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas The wedding is planned for July 26
Revival services are in progress at Bethel Assembly of God Church on Durham Street. Services occur daily at 7 30 p m June 16. Evangelist Rev Rowland of DeGrace Md leads the revival. Pastor Rev Edsel Jones announces.
Miss Dorothy Rice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rice Allen of Buena Vista Road, announces engagement to George William Crone Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. G W Crone Sr. of West First Street. Wedding set for July at First Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem. The bride’s mother is the former Miss Anna Dorothy Rector.
Friday afternoon from three to four o'clock a miscellaneous shower honored Miss Dorothy Yokley bride elect at the Mount Airy Country Club. Hostesses Mrs Edmond Burke and Mrs Thomas Fawcett presented a corsage of pink carnations and stephanotis. About 35 guests, including Yokley’s former first grade pupils, attended. refreshments were served. Yokley will wed Tom H Nicholls Jr of San Tome Venezuela this summer.
The couple Mrs. Nixon and Miss Bregdon wed on June 2 at Starling Avenue Baptist Church Martinsville with Rev Shields Webb officiating. The bride, a Martinsville High School alumna, works at American Finance Company while the groom is a U S Navy member and son of Mrs Dewey L Thacker and the late James Reece Nixon.
Mrs Kute Moseley and Mrs Green F McCraw hosted a miscellaneous shower Friday at eight o'clock for Mrs Mary Carlton the bride elect. The event at Mr and Mrs Jack Thacker's home on South Main featured mixed flower arrangements and a corsage of white carnations with china gifts. Eight guests attended and refreshments included cakes potato chips pickles and colas served with assistance from Mrs Thacker.
The Mount Airy Junior Chamber of Commerce hosted ten Miss Mount Airy Pageant aspirants at a Thursday meeting. Contestants introduced themselves and outlined talents for the pageant to be staged Friday night at the high school auditorium. Miss Dorothy Tyndall, Miss Mount Airy 1957, performed piano pieces and Miss June Good, advisor and former contestant, sang Annie Laurie. Special guest James Grimes of Thomasville, NC Jaycees Third District vice president, was introduced by Vance Cox.
A revival begins Saturday at Joy Light Mission on Highland Drive off Blumont Road and runs through June 23. Speaker David Buster Sechrist leads nightly services at 7 30. Singers and church friends are invited to attend.
Irene Carter Baker and Ivo A. Wortman Jr. wed at Maxton Presbyterian Church in a ring ceremony. The bride, daughter of Dr and Mrs Frank F Baker of Campinas Brazil, wore white nylon tulle. They will live in Delco until September then attend Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone. He is the son of I A Wortman of Delco, a Presbyterian Junior College graduate.
Mrs Cletus Wright of Norfolk Virginia Beach was elected president of the Venture Club of Norfolk and Virginia Beach last week. She is the daughter in law of Mr and Mrs Grover C Wright of Rockford Street. The club is noted for its work with deaf children in the Tidewater area.
Mr and Mrs Richard Rawlings of Dayton Ohio plan to reside on Haymore Street while working for Herman Stone Company They attend Haymore Memorial Baptist Church Cartier Leonard of Omaha Mutual Life Insurance lives in Mitchell Apartments on Willow Street and hails from Winston Salem He is Evangelical and Reform Church affiliated Mr and Mrs John Schroer from Philadelphia reside on Orchard Street and Mr Schroer serves as secretary treasurer of Nichols Construction They are Catholic and have one son
The annual Harbour family reunion will be held Sunday at the Harbour homeplace near Level Cross in Surry County. All relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend.
Miss Emma Ruth Herman of Enfield is visiting her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Herman, staying for a visit with family.
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