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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
7
Mount Airy North Carolina June 24 1909 local schedule lists trains with arrivals and departures. Local notes mention Rev S A Wanless Moody Institute preaching and various townspeople buying horses farms and homes. A Masonic lodge plans to install new officers led by W F E Barker as master.
A genuine surprise wedding occurred Sunday afternoon when Baxter Haymore of Wilkesboro wed Hazel Clark in White Plains. Haymore arrived Saturday to visit his father, and the ceremony was kept intimate with a few friends before his return to Wilkesboro. The bride remains at her father’s home near the Quarry until they reunite.
At the bride’s parents home on Franklin street this city a noon ceremony united Miss Lillian Patterson and Mr. E G Robertson of Raleigh. The couple received many gifts, a luncheon followed for about forty guests, and they departed at 1 30 PM for Raleigh to begin married life.
Miss Myrtle Hines and Mr Herbert Foy wed at 10 PM in the bride’s cousin's home on North Main Street. Rev D Vance Price officiated. the couple are noted as popular figures in local society with Mr Foy a leading young business man in Foy Hardware Co. The bride is daughter of the late Rev R B Hines. Colorful society note ends with rural free delivery discussion and North Carolina women’s college notices.
Opening dance of the seal son held Monday night at White Sulphur Springs. A special Mount Airy and Eastern railroad train carried young people from the area. Music by the Eels Band provided for guests.
Mrs. E LD Broadhurst hosted the Sans Souci Club at her Greensboro home today. The engagement of Miss Annie Sparger of Greensboro to Mr Lemue Spencer Steele of Rockingham was announced with a wedding planned for October. Sparger has many friends and relatives in the city who will be interested.
Miss Minnie Haynes gave a Friday evening recital at the Opera House with Miss Creveling on piano and Miss Eliz Lovill as reader. The program was well received and door receipts exceeded forty dollars with about twenty five dollars cleared.
The farmers cut wheat in poor weather and fall behind. W C Bryant visited Pilot Mountain and D A Bryant’s son D A injured a leg, treated by Dr Waltz. C W Marion, R F D carrier, visited his parents on Mt Airy route 4. Messrs Fulk, Benne, Terrill spent a evening with Mr and Mrs Maréh. Success to June 28, 1900. The News.
Bill wins praise as a pretty maid in a June wedding scene. A rosy complexion is highlighted as lasting, with mentions of Rocky Mountain Tea inlay. Ashcraft Drug Co and Taylor Drug Co are cited in the packaging or promotion context.
A promotional line notes forethought saves trouble and urges keeping Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, Remiss Symptom Remedy on hand. Sold by Gwyn Drug.
A flood of storefront notices highlights rentals and goods in Mt. Airy North Carolina. Listings advertise a three room cottage on South Street near Smoot's Bark Shed for rent, clothing and shoe offerings, feathers, corn hoes, and a grain drill sale.
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