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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1931
Page
7
The Hollow Va June 15 Rev C S Kirkpatrick pastor of Central M E Church Mount Airy gave a strong talk at the community league meeting Friday evening. The next meeting is set for Saturday June 27 at 8 00.
Blue Ridge Presbyterian hosts a daily vacation Bible school with forty seven pupils enrolled. A program of songs and pageants by the pupils is set for Sunday evening June 12 at 8 oclock.
Miss Ala Deane Smith hosted a Saturday dinner for Blue Ridge academy 1931 graduates with all seniors except Miss Macie Hiatt attending. Guests included Lottie Epperson Frances Hiatt Lena Clark Agnes King Thomas Beasley George Gallage r Harden Smith. Mrs John Ayers then hosted Elma for a surprise party with about eighty guests for summer school at Radford State Teachers College. The dining room featured daisies and rhododendron with W H Brown and Jim Scales assisting.
R M Inscore purchased a one third interest in the real estate of the late J D Hiatt. The third was bought from L M Hiatt one of the heirs. The holdings include a house and lots in Mount Airy and the home place. The land is suited for fruit growing with several acres in orchard. Inscore, with Glenn Hiatt and Miss Vera Hiatt, will have more acres set in fruit trees.
Miss Sallie Scales and many others visited relatives and traveled for summer programs. Several girls planned study at Harrisonburg and Radford while others visited Roaring Gap and Hillsville. families hosted gatherings as extended kin visited on weekends.
Arthur Brisbane notes Lindbergh intends a risky next day voyage with his wife to Japan and China across the Pacific in a landable watercraft. Mortimer L. Schiff dies of heart disease after a long day of golf signaling limits of strenuous life. European trade frictions, Russian goods, and matches bidding raise questions of morality and business. Iceland shows urban water heat as a model, while a troubled mother in a court case admits killing her disabled child.
A afternoon tea at Mrs. B E Herman's Cherry street home celebrated the wedding of Mrs Earle Herman of Enfield to June 9. Guests included the honoree Mrs Earle Herman and her mother Mrs Frank Branch with a line of attendants. The event featured pink sweetpeas baby’s breath pink tapers and crystal mints in the dining room and roses and larkspur in other rooms.
Local residents share visits and travels across Oteen Sheltons town Hillsville and Washington D C. Notable events include births illness improvements and social gatherings such as a weiner roast at Buck Shoals and a party at Charlie Simmons home.
Reds in Kiangsi province charge government troops amid civilian escape routes. Government guns jam as rebels push through, slaughtering thousands including farmers. Official report claims campaign progress despite the vast casualties and three thousand soldiers involved.
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