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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
7
Mount Airy June 29 1911 community roundup covers train schedule moves and local arrivals including Greaves at the Bar Association Lake Toxaway trips by Koehtitzky and Maud Bledsoe's Baltimore return. It notes deaths and illnesses, sermons and weddings, North Carolina Press Association attendance, Laymens Convention remarks, and church social plans at Laurel Moff and Central churches.
The 4th district of North Wilkesboro will host a picnic at Pinnacle North Carolina on Tuesday July 11 1911. Speeches by noted orators and likely an orphans home class will entertain attendees. Special trains from Wilkesboro and Walnut Cove offer reduced rates with proceeds donated to the Orphans Home.
The Good Roads Train of the Southern Railway arrives in Mount Airy on Saturday July 22 at 10 A M providing a free demonstration of road construction and maintenance. Road experts from the U S Department of Agriculture will conduct lectures and demonstrations on improving roads and saving farmers money while equipment powered by electricity is shown. Officials from the Railway Company accompany the train.
For sale items include a National Cash Register computing machine a double tank on can a top spring wagon a good horse and various store fixtures. Also advertised are hats skirts slippers lawn fabrics petticoats and other goods from Marks and Samet J L Harrison and others with offers on refrigerators watches eye glasses and floor coverings.
Turkey eggs 20 cents each Pekin Duck eggs 5 cents Rhode Island Reds eggs 5 cents Guenin eggs 5 cents. Coffee and tea lines added from Chase & Sanborn. For rent houses on Franklin and Pine. See Marks & Lamet sale last week. Walk Over Shoes and Hammocks at W Merritt Co. Ladies underskirts silks at Samet. Glassware and bookcases at Merritt. Harness gear, grain drills, seeds, and sewing notions advertised. Callaway & Jackson and J W Knight referenced for orders and supplies.
Fragmentary classified notice advertising egg pricing for Rhode Island and Guinea eggs, and labor offers for quarry workmen and ginners. Mentions preferences for men with experience, steady long term work, and a Mount Airy location.
The new Walk-Over shoes for spring and summer draw enthusiastic comments from buyers. Prices range 3.50 to 4.50, sold by W. W. Burke. Also note for sale two fine bird pies from Mt. Airy, N C, via F. L. Johnson. An excursion to Salisbury on Saturday July 1 offers round trip 1.50, leaving Mt. Airy at 8 a.m.
Three months rental of first class typewriters offered for three dollars. Rental price may apply to purchase price. Apply to Remington Typewriter Co. at No 307 Wachovia Bank Building Winston N C.
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