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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
4
The advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. It offers one hundred dollars for any case not cured and notes pills for constipation sold by druggists.
By order of the Superior Court of Surry County a commissioner will sell on July 18 1916 at 2 PM the White Plains town lot west of Mt Airy and Dobson road housing the White Plains Buggy Co shop. Terms: one fourth cash and three equal deferred payments in one two and three years with bonds. Sale for partition. June 16 1916 J H Folger Commissioner.
Qualified as administrator for Nancy E. Shelton deceased all persons owing the estate must pay promptly and save costs and all with claims present them within the time prescribed by law or the notice will be plead in their collection May 10 1916 G L Shelton Administrator.
J M Poore died May 12 1916 at age sixty six at his sister Mrs J L Sparger home after a lingering illness. He worked over twenty years at the Quarry and leaves a brother and three sisters plus three married children. He was a Baptist church member at Hollow Springs. Funeral at Oak Grove church conducted by Revs Arrington and Haymore. A Friend.
A humorous exchange from The Christian Register features a teacher asking for the function of body pores and a child answering they are used to catch cold, highlighting a playful misunderstanding.
Southern Railway will operate the second excursion of the season to Atlantic City New Jersey on Thursday July 6 1916. The special train from Charlotte departs 7 45 p m with day coaches and Pullman sleeping cars. Return is valid on regular trains within 15 days with stopovers at Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington on the return. Fares from listed points include round trip rates with varying prices and a 30 minute stop in Washington for breakfast. Pullman reservations required in advance.
A July 21 letter from Capt. Lewis Morey describes the Carrizal engagement as Mexican forces fired first while U S troopers formed up fearing ambush. Morey and Lieut. Meyers led wounded and unwounded troopers to Pershing with accounts of desert thirst and a night rescue.
In a heavy rainstorm about to disrupt events, about 10,000 residents gathered on the Green before the courthouse to bid farewell to the Forsyth riflemen company C North Carolina Infantry, who left at 8 50 p m for Camp Glenn mobilization.
The First Methodist Sunday school in Hickory conducts a newspaper campaign for members as monthly attendance rises on the past two Sundays. Advertisements in the local daily are attractively written and drawing recruits.
By virtue of a deed of trust dated February 5 1912 Oscar Kirkman and wife secure a $100 debt. The sale to the highest cash bidder at First National Bank Mount Airy occurs July 15 1916 at 1 pm for land in Mt Airy township Surry County described by metes and bounds.
Mrs John A Koentz of Flushing Avenue Astoria credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after two years of illness and back pain. She avoided surgery after reading ads and says she improved from the first bottle and could eat breakfast with her husband again.
A Detroit News letter reveals Governor Peck's joke that he may not die until Democrats elect a president. The Wisconsin figure was known for wearing a red carnation and a tale about a boy Daisy who persuades his father to visit the corner. The story boosted his newspaper by about 80 000 subscribers.
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