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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
2
Mount Airy News announces subscription rates for six months at 1.50. The paper is entered as second class matter at Mount Airy post office, N C, with publication tied to the set of Congress in March.
The editor notes a rising dairy sector in the region with farmers turning to dairying and poultry. G C Lovill promoted cream separators and lectures, helping about fifty farmers participate. Some ship cream to Hickory and Winston Salem while others sell milk or butter locally. the trend shifts the area from tobacco toward dairy prosperity.
The will of the late Hon. R. L. Haymore directs the executors to transfer the Willow Street house and lot to Haymore Memorial Baptist Church and the Rawley Avenue house and lot to First Baptist Church. Executors also paid over accumulated rents since his death. Both churches plan to rent the properties for operating expenses, with future options to convert to parsonages, under clear deeds with no conditions.
R. P. Johnson of Wytheville Va president of the Lakes to Florida Highway Association informed Kiwanis that a convict crew is grading Bland County toward Bluefield to connect Wytheville and Bluefield by a first class road Gov Trinkle backs the project and by August 1 a daily bus line from Wytheville to Bluefield is hoped for The Lakes to Florida route links lake region industries with Florida resorts and the Bluefield Mount Airy segment is pushed for tourist traffic
Mayor Sydnor announces city wide effort to improve Main Street by weekly Saturday night sweeping and post closing sidewalk cleaning. Citizens and merchants urged to sweep in front of shops to enhance Sunday morning appearance amid rising tourist and regional visitor traffic.
Local handyman Jim Watson has spent days overseeing the construction of a brick and cement vault in Taylor grave yard on Route 2. He plans an inscription and frames the dedication, saying the job is done, masons paid, and he has little left to worry. Curious locals drive out to view the private tomb he designs for his own remains.
The church session orders a congregational meeting Sunday at eleven oclock to consider calling a pastor. All members are urged to attend.
Judge Lewellyn denounces underage liquor traffic saying 80 percent of bootlegging is run by boys under 25. He warns of road sentences to curb the trade as city jail tops capacity and officers move prisoners to Dobson jail. Young offenders including Ralph Lowe Albert Peters face three year road terms if found in state within five years.
Miss Pearl Bumgardner, a Wilkesboro high school teacher, rushes to her home after her brother, a high school student, is seriously wounded by a lead bullet fired during a school play. The climax intended blanks but a live round caused a stomach wound with uncertain recovery.
Mr and Mrs J D Thompson announce the engagement of their daughter Mary to Carl Lee Simmons. The couple plans to wed in June.
Dr Moir 8S Martin told Mount Airy First Baptist Baraca class that from 1900 to 1910 life expectancy rose by four years and from 1855 to today by 18 years, stressing prevention, cancer and venereal disease risks, and the aim to make bodies fit temples for the Spirit.
R. L. Reece of route 1 employed by Standard Oil with headquarters in Winston-Salem remains a patient at Baptist hospital in that city suffering a nervous breakdown.
Public notice that under a deed of trust dated January 4 1921 and recorded in Book 68 page 215 in Surry County NC the trustee Julian Price will sell at the courthouse door in Greensboro on June 13 1925 at 12 oclock M the described land containing 62.89 acres adjoining J W Sprinkle A Z Phillips and others to discharge the debt. Brooks Parker Smith attorneys Greensboro NC
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