Mount Airy Granite Industry Highlights and Exports
The Mount Airy granite industry covers over 200 acres with 70 acres stripped and inactive. It employs over 750 workers with annual pay rolls approaching $900,000, and outputs more than 3,000 carloads yearly. Quarries supply monuments, mausoleums, curbing, and crushers, with markets in Arlington Memorial Bridge work and regional orders in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Airy
J. D. Sargent Granite Company
North State Granite Company
Arlington Memorial Bridge
Potomac River
Washington, D.C
Danville
Loredo Taft
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Asheville
Notice of Public Sale Under Deed of Trust
Public auction to the highest bidder for 36 acres more or less in Surry County. Deed of trust from John White and wife to Folger as trustee defaults on debt. Sale at courthouse door on Thursday July 7 1927 at 1 P M. See deed recorded in Register of Deeds. June 7 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John White
J. W. White
Charlie Dockery
W. I. White
Johnnie White
Office of the Register of Deeds
Surry County
le A. D. Folger
North Carolina Cities See Bleak Outlook
The present outlook in other North Carolina cities is not promising. It echoes the saying that granite products as well as prophets are without honor in their own country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Build For Fire Safety Urges Fire Chief
Mount Airy fire chief urges public support for the International Association of Fire Chiefs push to cut fire toll in the United States during 1927 Fire Prevention Year. He discusses fire resistant building methods using asbestos roofs and noncombustible sheathing to reduce ignition and spread in wood frame houses. The note ends with a brief fisheries aside stating fish do not sleep, but rest quietly in pools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Airy
International Association of Fire Chiefs
United States
Partment
The
Bureau of Fisheries
Trustee Sale Notice for 1927 Foreclosure on Siske Property
Trustee describes power of sale under trust deed by C B Siske dated May 29 1926 and registered Book 95 page 207. With default on note, sale to highest bidder in front of First National Bank on July 7 1927 at 1 PM. Lands adjoin Frank Nixon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Siske
First National Bank
Frank Nixon
Trust deed description and sale notice from 1927
Legal notice describes a land tract of about 145 acres with detailed metes and bounds from the Nixon road to a creek and river branch. Sale to satisfy a balance due of 3000 dollars plus interest and costs. Dated June 7 1927 and signed by J H Folger as trustee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Elie Ootwonks Nekelly
Heddy Creek
Nixon’s Corner
John Wilmouth
Mitchell's
Nixon Old Road
Nixon Road
Benring
J. H. Folger
Also Mentioned on This Page
William S. Martin
Comeon I
Ofrica
Reathia Edmondson
Williamson, N. Car
Thedford
Surry County Boys
Texas
Ben Jarrell
DaCosta Waltz
South Broadcasters
Holland Puckett
Holcomb
Midkiff
M. F. Patterson
J. E. Ayers
W. F. Beamer
Mary J. Creed
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