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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
7
Mt Airy NC June 16 1910 trains schedule and brief notices report marriages baptisms illnesses and local travel. itemized items include J M Goard and Ada Peters marriage and several health related trips to Baltimore Greensboro and St Leo s hospital. Confederate Veterans and Royal Arcanum notes plus church and social announcements populate the page.
In a federal case last week Preston Dickens pled guilty to counterfeiting and received a two year prison term. The government failed to prove Sidna Allen linked to the crime though he possessed one of the counterfeit bills. He accompanied Dickens in Winston when the notes circulated but connections could not be established. The government spent fifteen thousand dollars and produced many witnesses. Also noted is a Greensboro marriage of Miss Mamie Banner to Mr. Joseph Gant of Burlington at First Presbyterian Church last night with many local friends in attendance.
Evangelist Black conducts a city revival closing Monday night with broad church cooperation. About a hundred town singers joined the choir, daily afternoon prayer meetings were held, and large nightly crowds attended. Many formerly uninterested residents are expected to join churches, and workers express satisfaction with the results.
Mrs Nancy Craughan died at her Dobson area home Tuesday June 7 at age eighty nine. She was buried in the family graveyard beside her wedding dress shroud, a white linen gown seventy years old. She mothered fifteen children, all survive except two. husband died thirty four years ago. Elder C B Denny conducted the funeral with no fewer than two hundred relatives in attendance.
Ad solicits readers to request a free sample of Allen’s Foot Ease powder for tired swollen feet and a free sample of the Foot-Ease Sanitary Corn Pad. Mentions address for requests in Le Roy New York.
Business notices list 50 to 75 cent white canvas oxfords at W. W. Burke and Queen Quality pumps from Burke. Ashcrafts offers soda ice cream and Velvet chocolate ice cream. J. L. Harrison and Lundy’s promote new lines in millinery, dress goods, wash suits, and ready to wear. Peidmont Produce seeks spring chicks. T. M. Everitt sells ice boxes. H. Schafer rents a Franklin Street dwelling. S. M. Hale stocks tobacco cloth and laces. Joe Davis advertises a gasoline engine.
Having qualified as Admr with the will annexed of 5S. M. Patterson deed, all persons holding claims against said estate are required to present them within 12 months from date or be barred from recovery. Debtors must settle promptly. This May 1910. W. R. Doss, Admr.
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