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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1961
Page
6
Mount Airy tax listers have worked a month listing town and township taxes. Last chances to be listed are June 16 and 17 at Central Warehouse. Various local notices follow, including arrivals, marriages, and society items.
Researchers note that at least 50 essential U.S. crops rely on insect pollination for yields. The finding underscores the importance of maintaining pollinator health amid habitat loss and pesticide use concerns.
Mrs. Tom Crutz and the Mount Airy WCTU express gratitude to the Town Board for rescinding its action on an election for ABC stores. The letter backs the Youth Temperance Council and credits young people for shaping policy in Mount Airy, N C.
Pursuant to a Superior Court order Neal Thompson Sheriff of Surry County will sell at public auction at the County Jail Dobson N C at 1 00 p m on July 5 1961 the described motor vehicle a 1952 Ford pickup truck with motor and serial number FIRZLU 10662 confiscated for violation of prohibition laws This the 12th day of June 1961 June 13 20¢
In Surry County North Carolina a public auction sale of all fixed assets of Little Duffer Inc is announced following a stockholders meeting held at Pilot Mountain on May 5 1961. The notice describes the sale under corporate authority and urges interested bidders to prepare.
J T Harris and J H Templeton, agents for Little Duffer Inc, announce a cash sale of fixed assets at 500 North Main Street Pilot Mountain NC, on the Harris Builders Supply premises. Auction is rain or shine Saturday June 24 1961 at 2 PM with items including fluorescent fixtures, steel gates, golf course traps, railings, carpets, two cash registers, a PA system and many other golf course related items.
Residents and visitors share travel plans and weekend movements across Virginia, North Carolina, and beyond. Notables include Howerton family in Arlington visiting Myrtle Short, Wrights in Atlanta and New York, Andersons at Holden Beach, Turpins at Kure Beach, and multiple trips to Washington and Cleveland. Attendees at a Winsboro wedding and a medical technologists convention in Cleveland are noted along with local family visits and return home timelines.
Elizabeth Craughn Snow 88 of Sacramento died Tuesday after a long illness. Born November 30 1872 in Surry County she was married to John William Snow who died in 1939. Surviving children include Misa Snow and L C Pence plus five sons and two sisters. Funeral at Dover Baptist Church White Plains at 2 30 p m with pallbearers and burial in church cemetery. Body arrived at Jones Funeral Home Mount Airy Monday night.
An important meeting on the proposed Bannertown fire station will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Bannertown School auditorium. The Raritan Club's fire station committee urges community citizens to attend as it may be the last meeting for some time.
The funeral for Cathy Lee Sutphin one year old daughter of Robert Lee and Frances Hooker of Old Fort, formerly of Surry County, was held yesterday at 2 pm at Moody Funeral Home Chapel. The child died Friday at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem after a 10 day illness. Surviving is a sister Barbara Lee Sutphin. Burial followed in the Sutphin family cemetery.
Funeral services for Earl Iredell Hutchens 63 of route 4 Mount Airy are at 2 PM at Moody Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. John Pipkin, the Rev. Winfred Crouse and the Rev. Preston Taylor will preside. Hutchens died Sunday morning at Northern Surry Hospital after a four week illness.
Having qualified as Executor of the estate of William Howard Denny deceased of Surry County North Carolina this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate to exhibit them to the undersigned at Route 1 Box 152 Mount Airy N C on or before June 13 1962 or this notice will be pleaded in tar of recovery Any persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate settlement This 13th of June 1961 CHARLES H VENABLE Executor June 13-20-27 July 4-11-18
A Surry County native, son of Nathan and Martha Hutchens, died leaving wife Hallie Jessup, a daughter Mrs. C. H. Hill of Mount Airy route 4, three grandchildren, two sisters, and several relatives. Pallbearers named Fred, Ed and Jack Hutchens, Tom and James Jessup, Roger Nichols. Burial in Hutchens family cemetery.
Lorita W. Still executrix of W. E. Woodruff estate asks all claimants in Surry County North Carolina to file claims at her Mount Airy home within one year or be barred from recovery. Debts to estate should be paid promptly. This May 9 1961.
Trustee David L Hiatt to sell at public auction on Saturday June 24 1961 at 1 00 P M in front of First National Bank Mount Airy NC the lot described as in Mount Airy Township Surry County with boundaries along Gwynwood Drive and set for residential use only with no house costing less than 6000 00.
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