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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
4
Mount Airy investors purchase The King Manufacturing Co. plant on Main and Depot streets and reincorporate as Blue Ridge Furniture Manufacturing Co. They overhaul machinery add a dry kiln and start full operations next Monday employing forty to fifty workers. F N Jones will manage production and has 26 years of furniture experience.
Notice states trustee H H Lewellyn will sell at public auction in front of Bennett's Building Mount Airy on June 27 1925 at 1 PM lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 24 25 in Block 7 Mt Aery as recorded in Fire Book 1 page 50 to satisfy a deed of trust securing 9216 dollars with interest and sale costs.
Notice of trustee sale of G W Inberry and wife deed of trust to secure 1000 dollars. Sale June 27 1925 at 1 PM in front of First National Bank Mount Airy. Description references Bowmans and McCrarys lines and Fancy Gap Road. J H Folger trustee.
The Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company claims a strong role in state development. It notes over 14 million invested in NC religious, educational, and business institutions and annual state-wide effects through premiums, loans, and taxes. The firm emphasizes its NC roots and regional impact on churches, schools, farms, and prosperity.
The Rev. Lewis Evans of West Graham Virginia aged over 80 testifies he suffered severe liver distress causing back and side pain. He says taking Black Draught provides quick relief and keeps him well after a dose or two. The product is described as made from medicinal roots and herbs with no mineral drugs and sold everywhere.
A Mount Airy testimonial claims Dean's Pills eased backache and kidney trouble after a Ross Drug Co purchase. W F Simmons, a local stone cutter, credits the stimulant diuretic with regulating secretions and ending nocturnal distress. Product from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY priced 60 cents. An Anti falcon League note follows about church unity and strength.
In North Wilkesboro on Friday night the Ku Klux Klan staged a large demonstration drawing as many as five thousand people. About 120 Klan members in full regalia marched the city streets and lit a fiery cross at the fair grounds. Dr. W L Straub spoke of preserving white supremacy and American liberty while defending the Klan against critics.
In Elkin two miles south of Jonesville a five year old boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robbins, died after a tobacco barn fire. He entered the straw filled structure, possibly with matches, flames trapped him, and though pulled to safety, he died of severe burns.
New York report notes Rev Dr Calem R Stetson warns contests are bound to fail. He states Trinity Church title under Queen Anne grant of 1705 has been held conclusive in every court. The annual report says Trinity parish lacks resources to support chapels and fund replacements and repairs.
On June 16 1925 Edw M Linville trustee acts under authority to sell cash at the Bank of Mount Airy Mount Airy NC to satisfy a debt of 1049 43 principal interest and costs the sale begins July 1 at the corner of J A Cook and S Brown and follows a described route to Raney Gap road then to Sydnor new corners with lines southwest then back to the beginning with deed reference in Sydnor and wife to Bowman book 1 page 153.
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