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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
7
Mount Airy N C June 13 1918 Miss Annie Folger Dobson and Josephine More Greensboro guests of Mrs Carroll Hill. A stream of visitors and travelers from Winston Salem Greensboro and Oak Ridge appears with several births and family visits across the region.
Miss Julia Prichard presented a music program in the Commercial Club rooms last Monday evening. She featured her pupil Miss Nell Folger in the leading part and plans future entertainments to benefit music lovers and provide practice for her advanced students.
Mr Ora Roberts a popular city salesman runs a small chicken business in Mount Airy. He kept 25 Plymouth Rock hens and sold over 2000 eggs since January at 1 dollar per dozen. Most buyers are residents of Mount Airy. He also raised many chicks and spent about 2 dollars weekly on feed, showing a profitable venture.
In Salem Rev. Tom Pinson holds a summer revival outdoors as the grove is lit with gasoline torches and crowded for evening services. The meetings, over ten days old, attract many from town, with motor trips nightly and multiple professions of faith reported as the revival continues indefinitely.
The Sanitary Plumbing Co installed a complete Pneumatic water and light system in Mr. J. Q. Adams’s home on State Road. Everitt and a crew worked two weeks for about $1,000. Adams, a country merchant and farmer, has a modern residence. Webb of the company expects many more well-to-do citizens to adopt similar systems.
Cruz George, son of Editor T. M. George, received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Chapel Hill last week. The degree, earned through years of study, marks a high achievement in Biology and follows teaching and research efforts. He is currently in the army, stationed in Washington, D. C., assigned to the Medical department.
The Mount Airy circuit holds an all day Sunday school convention at Salem church next Sunday with dinner on the ground in the grove of the ongoing revival. Morning exercises by circuit schools, then addresses by Prof. O. V. Woosley Attorney John Folger and Rev. Geo. D. Herman. The event starts at 10 a.m. and aims to aid Sunday school work.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio declares the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason witnesses the oath dated December 1886. The claim mentions internal use and testimonials by J Cheney & Co.
A sobering item notes that more than three thousand infants die in North Carolina. The piece frames infants as the earths future and urges improvements in pure milk, clean air, play, nutrition, education, and libraries to ease babies early life and secure a better tomorrow.
A courtroom scene in Union Hill New Jersey opens with the examiner asking Enrico Aflaxxi to explain the difference between the powers of the King of England and the President of the United States. The exchange reflects questions on citizenship and civic understanding during naturalization proceedings.
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