Chautauqua Week Sets Lineup of National Speakers
The upcoming Chautauqua Week features the South’s best assembly with performers and speakers in New York City. Notables include Marine Band, Frederick Warde, Beulah Buch Quartet, Charles Zeublin, civic improvement expert, Frank Lea Short Players, Totten and Company, magicians Cavery Company, and Edna Crum. U S Senator Robt. Lafollette of Wisconsin headlines on International Peace and the Lessons of War alongside other attractions and acts at the event running June 30 to July 6.
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Chautauqua
Chautauqua Assembly
New York City
Frederick Warde
Beulah Buch
Charles Zeublin
Boston
National Authority On Civic Betterment
Frank Lea
LoZito
M Grace Hall Ribeldaffer
Totten and Company
Cavery Company
Edna Crum
Metropolitan Grand Quartet
Willo Page Lane
United States
Robi. M. Lafollette
Wisconsin
Wood's Crop Special Potatoes for Late Planting
Potatoes planted now mature in fall for winter use or sale. Wood's Seed Potatoes are choice selected seed kept in cold storage to stay vigorous for late planting. Write for Wood's Crop Special with prices and late planting information. Cow Peas Soja Beans Mitte Veteuen Clover etc.
Notice of Public Auction of Mt Airy Land Over Debt
Public sale at cash bid on July 10 1915 to satisfy a debt of 83.27 secured by a deed of trust from H W Brindle and wife Lulie Brindle recorded in Surry County. Two Mt Airy tracts described adjoining Marion Hadley Peele and Rose with street frontage on South Street. Sale proceeds to cover debt interest and costs. June 10 1915.
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H. W. Brindle
Lulie Brindle
Register of Deeds
Surry County
Mt. Airy N. C
Marion
Hadley
J. A. Hadley
Sam Peele
Peele
Mt. Airy
N. C
John Rose
KR. W. Reece
J. Peele
Registur of Deeds
Sury County
Deep Wells Exceeding a Mile in Depth Across North America
The report surveys US wells near McDonald Pennsylvania Derrick City and Slaughter Creek West Virginia among others, noting depths from 5 500 to 7 174 feet. It cites a record 8 600 foot Chinese petroleum well and mentions a Swiss officer’s observations on German military strength and Berlin’s wartime atmosphere.
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Upper Silesia
German Empire
United States
United States Geological Survey
McDonald
Pittsburgh
Medina
New York
Derrick City
McKean County
Bradford
Slaughter Creek
Kanawha County
W. Va
West Elizabeth
Gaines
China
Germany
Berlin
Get Rid of Your Rheumatism Now
A reader from Homer City New York reports relief from rheumatism after using Chamberlain's Liniment. He describes terrible arm pains and shoulder stiffness last spring and credits the liniment with helping his condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
W. A. Lockhard
Homer City
WN. Y
Mt Airy property sale under trust deed
Trustee announces sale of a Main Street Mt Airy lot with improvements. The property, adjoining J. B. Nutt, fronts 100 feet on Main Street and extends about 286 feet. Auction held July 20 1915 at Bank of Mt Airy with terms one fourth cash and balance in 1, 2, and 3 years. RK M Simmons trustee.
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A. Dobson
N.C
Bank of
Mt. Airy
Main Street
J. B. Nutt
RK. M, Simmons
Teutons Total 1,610,000 Prisoners Through June 14
Berlin reports 1,610,000 prisoners captured by German and Austro Hungarian forces up to June 14, with Russians 1,240,000 French 255,060 English 24,000 Belgians 41,000 Serbians 50,000 according to the Bavarian Staats Zeitung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Bavarian
Staats Zeitung
Save
Sale of 60 Acre Willie Cook Land in Westfield Township
By order of the clerk of the superior court of Surry County in the special proceeding A F Haymore as administrator of Willie Cook deceased will sell at the premises on Friday July 16 1915 the 60 acre tract in Westfield Township adjoining John Inman and John Joyce and others allotted to Willie Cook in his father John T Cooks lands. Terms one third cash one third in twelve months balance in eighteen months notes with approved security. This June 16 1915 A F Haymore Commissioner
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Superior Court
Surry County
A. F. Haymore
Willie Cook
Maggie Cook
Westfield Township
John Inman
John Joyce
John T. Cook
The Camel Stomach and Desert Travel
The camel’s stomach has four compartments with water cells that can be opened or closed by strong muscles. When drinking, it fills these cells like a cistern to store water for days. By releasing water slowly over days it can go five or six days without drinking, aiding long desert travel between wells.
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America
Plant Wood’s
T.W. Wood & Sons, Seeds
Richmond, Va
Teutons
the Presbyterian
Earp
Jackson
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