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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1925
Page
2
One year and six months subscription rates listed as $1.50 with 1 percent tax. The notice also states second class matter entry at Mount Airy post office under the 1872 act.
A town editor advocates two new laws amid fears of child endangerment by cars and dogs. He urges strict penalties for parents allowing street play near driveways and proposes heavy dog taxation to reduce pets in congested neighborhoods.
Col Ball now living in Nashville Georgia reports to friends that after a seven week drought they are experiencing good rains and bright tobacco prospects. He moved with his son C M Ball to Georgia and runs the Georgia Carolina Land Co with offices in Mount Airy under D S Hodge. The firm owns several hundred acres in the Georgia tobacco belt and has imported two expert growers from this county Jake Long and Coleman Chapman who will plant 15 acres each this season.
J Fulton Towe of Cana Virginia shows off a two foot crimson clover sheaf from five acres laid into corn on his Carroll County farm near Fancy Gap. He previously harvested 67 bushels on one prize acre and earned income from cattle milk butter and 30 tons of manure. He teaches school in winter and aims to match larger farms in output.
The city water and light commission bought a new water pump for the Lebanon Hill station. The single unit engine delivers 186 horsepower and six cylinders, pumping 1 000 gallons per minute into the tanks. The station’s combined capacity will rise to 1 800 gallons per minute with the new unit.
Judge Lewellyn disposed the docket in the Recorder's Court on Monday with liquor offenses dominating. Sid Golding was found guilty of selling liquor and jailed for 12 months with bond set for appeal to Dobson court. Other defendants faced fines, jail terms, or restitution for drunkenness theft and reckless driving.
The Charlotte Observer released a Monday May 18 Progress Edition of over 250 pages. The edition consumed about 90,000 tons of paper and was produced as a tribute to the paper and the South, expected to deserve a place in school and public libraries.
Two lawmen and a bootlegger die in a Sunday morning gun battle near Galax after officers attempted to arrest a car driver suspected of liquor transport. Justice of the peace M. G. Combs and alleged bootlegger Joe Delp are killed, Federal officer Frank Dotson is wounded. Delp fired first as officers tried to halt his car. Dotson returns fire, killing Delp. Both widows and two children survive the victims.
Distinguished Masons from Surry and Yadkin counties gather in Mount Air for a district meeting. Grand Master Leon Cash urges lodge consolidation to strengthen education programs led by Educational Secretary W. C. Wicker as Granite Lodge hosts and delegates listen.
The Baraca Class of First Baptist Church invites the public to hear Judge D. W. Bolen of Hillsville Virginia speak next Sunday morning. Known as a forceful Southwest Virginia attorney he will share historical information and insights during the class session in the main church auditorium.
A Hazard Kentucky reader petitions the editor to continue sending The News and includes a donation with heartfelt praise for the editor and staff. The message closes with respect and signoff from Mrs J M P.
The search for J. W. Knight, Oxford jeweler and son in law of Hugh Tilley, continues with no trace since he left Orford last Saturday. He spent Sunday night at Huffine hotel in Greensboro. his room and belongings were found undisturbed, fueling fears of foul play among relatives. Knight previously had a successful jewelry business in Oxford.
J Luther Wood of this city was elected director of the Farmers Cooperative Association from the district including five counties around Surry. He succeeds A S Speer of Boonville. The three state association has 22 directors with terms of one year. North Carolina 12, Virginia 10, South Carolina 2.
G. Nichola left White Plains to attend the Confederate Veterans Reunion in Dallas Texas and will visit the state. He is joined by Miss Lala Marshall and Dewey Marshall who will spend weeks with sister Mrs. T. M. Roberson in Waco. Other Surry Veterans C W Bunker Round Peak and G M Burrus Rockford also join the reunion procession.
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