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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1925
Page
8
Mt Airy residents attend visits and trips to Hickory Rural Hall Elkin and Florida. Births include Mary Joe Leitch and a daughter to F E G Smith. Local clubs churches and banks host events and meetings while ongoing social and tax work continues for area residents.
The Baraca Class of the First Baptist Sunday School will host a barbecue next Tuesday night at D. O. Sunderland's home on Ward Gap road. Plans aim to feed 200 guests with J. Sunderland barbecuing the pig. Attendance stood at 138 last Sunday, with 200 the goal for next Sunday.
Sam J Peele a city barber died at Martin Memorial hospital last Thursday after a short illness. Funeral services were held at Haymore Memorial Baptist Church conducted by Revs R M Childress and J H Fulnham. The remains were taken by the Junior Order of which he was a member and burial was at Oakdale cemetery. Survived by wife and two children aged 20 years.
The Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club members were delighted by Mrs John Sobotta as hostess last Thursday afternoon. Mrs Will Hollingsworth, a recent bride, received an attractive guest prize. An appetizing salad course followed the game.
The Josephine Frank Missionary society held a district meeting at the parsonage Monday evening with Misa Mae West as hostess and Mrs Mitchell leading. The program featured a solo by Misa Eleanor Long with Miss West, plus a lesson sketch from The Task Ahead by Mrs 0 H Yakley. Raspberry ice with whipped cream brownies coffee and cream were served during the social hour.
Members who have not paid dues are asked to send them to Miss Alma Sparger the newly appointed treasurer. She will accept payments at the club meeting Friday and will also hold the treasurer's book there. The year is ending and timely dues reduce the treasurer's workload.
Several well known city and county residents are patients at Martin Memorial hospital. Dr Bob Hellingsworth shows improvement after an operation. Miss Alice Homet recovering from appendicitis. Postmaster Eugene Schuyler returned home after serious illness. Mrs BE Martin improving after appendicitis surgery. Phillips Warshaw entertains others from bed with a radio and follows stock markets. N F Alberty of Fairview in serious heart trouble with little hope of improvement. His son being treated for pleurisy. J R McKinney home after a leg injury. Mrs L L Martin hopes to return home soon. L R Sparger recovering from gall bladder operation. R C Brown operated for stomach ulcer. Richard Martin very ill with sleeping sickness. Miss Jessie Wood undergoes serious operation Wednesday.
Mr and Mrs John Matthews have leased the P and H cafeteria and now run the Holcomb apartment house on Pine street They will provide steam heated rooms and meals while Mrs F D Holcomb retains her living rooms and the Matthews family will keep living spaces in the same residence
William Allen Poore aged 73 died Monday afternoon at his daughter Misa Alma Poore’s Oak Street home after a period of illness. He was born in Surry County and lived most of his life in Mount Airy. He belonged to Salem Methodist Church and is survived by his second wife, three daughters Alma Poore O’Neal Vir ginia Poore and Mrs C W O’Neal, four sons F H W W J B Poore and W A Poore of Williamson West Virginia. The funeral was from the home at 1:30 PM Wednesday with Revs G W Williams and E G Davis. Interment followed at New Hope Cemetery south of Mount Airy beside his first wife.
Major Arthur Hopkins divisional commander of the Salvation Army will preach Friday at 7 30 p m at the First Baptist Church. Hopkins has 25 years service and has led training college staff for Salvation Army officers. He recently headed the work in this section and is based in Charlotte. Staff Capt. Smith and Capt. Pickering, also of Charlotte, will accompany him. An open air service on the street will precede the church service.
The bulletin lists Bible school and morning worship with an evening service and a 7:00 p m midweek prayer. The pastor’s Sunday sermons are The Withered Hand and The Man Who Slew A Lion On A Snowy Day. Baptism will be administered at the evening service. Mrs Rule and children return to Roanoke Virginia after winter with her parents.
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