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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1943
Page
8
Brookbank Stone Rock Wool Insulating Weather Stripping and Roofing Co offers prompt service estimates. Contact R A Creed Mount Airy NC R 4 by call or postcard for job details.
A compiled list shows numerous men dispatched to Camp Croft in South Carolina on June 11. Names include Glenn Burton Alderman Jack Alfred Robertson Foy Dawson Stonewall Jackson Boyd Forest Melvin Sutphin and others.
Recreation softball standings and games scheduled for next Tuesday. Salvat ion Army vs First Baptist and Combined Churches vs Central Methodist headline the lineup with gym and park times at Rockford Street gym Central Methodist Church Floyd Poore Park and play field. Open to all ages morning programs. night gym attendance limited to high school age. Activities include basketball croquet table tennis dominoes rope climbing horseshoes shot put javelin and discus with upcoming tennis and ping pong tournaments.
William Henry Collins 61 prominent farmer of the Francisco section died Wednesday at 11 A M of heart trouble and ulcers. He was a son of Mr and Mrs William Henry Collins Sr and survived by his widow Lillie Collins two sons William Morris and James Marvin Collins two brothers Fletcher E Collins and John M Collins two sisters Mrs Fannie George and Mrs W F Collins and a foster son Ernest Collins. Funeral was held at the Francisco School Thursday at 3 p m with Elders Watt Tuttle W J Brown and Press Stone officiating.
The Offy Wall Sluggers topped the Lions Club Tail Twisters 16 to 5 at Floyd Poore Park on Wednesday afternoon before about 23 spectators. Combs Johnson Haynes Schmaltz Simmons and manager Brannock led the Sluggers with two hits each including Brannock’s three base hit. Kelly homered for the Tail Twisters.
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