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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1925
Page
6
Genuine potato plants from Porto Rico early triumph Pump kin Yam and Jersey sweets offered by r Plant Farms Valdosta Georgia. Prices range 1000 plants for 1.75 to 5000 for 7.50 with first class plants and prompt shipment guaranteed.
Wanted male live energetic salesman for Watkins 150 Household Necessities in Mount Airy. Earn $35-50 weekly with exclusive territory. Write The J R Watkins Company Dept 16 231 Johnson Ave Newark Reid 5 30p Rev R N Childress Pastor Sunday School 9 80 A M Preaching service 10 856 A M E 2 3 60 i stitapane a ie tare Evening preaching service 7 30 P M
Auto license tags for 1925 26 will be printed black on orange with a revised monogram where the C becomes a space under N The 420000 tags are mostly for touring cars with some for trucks and Highway Commission cars Eight full train cars will haul them to Raleigh Revenue Commissioner Doughton expects the supply to exhaust with all tags used the state would collect over six million dollars from auto licenses next year gas tax revenue could total near fifteen million dollars starting July 1.
John McKellar, born 1840 in Furnace Argyllshire Scotland, died May 13 1925 aged nearly 85 after living in Gloucester Massachusetts and Mount Airy for 17 years. Survived by wife four daughters and four sons. Funeral from home conducted by Rev Berry with interment at Oakdale Cemetery. Also notes on local social events and December birthdays in the area.
At J A Kitchen farm near Scotland Neck about a thousand people watched two Muff Dundland Dusters planes dust cotton with calcium arsenate to kill boll weevils. The demonstration included six county agents, state officials, and local chambers, with a 600 pound lime load. The test, conducted by Macon Georgia planes, succeeded and impressed attendees.
Trinity Episcopal Church Services Rev Arthur H Marshall minister Church school each Sunday 10 00 a m Holy communion and sermon each Saturday Sunday 11 00 a m Sermon by pastor each 3rd and 5th Sunday 11 00 a m Sermon by pastor each 2nd and 4th Sunday 7 80 p m
Wheat crops in Forsyth County are heavily damaged by Hessian fly with reports of up to 75 percent loss in some fields. The pest spreads statewide. late fall sowing and warm winters worsen conditions. County agent remains hopeful for oats though fruit crops face smaller yields.
In Winder Georgia Mrs Greene Bowman is jailed charged with killing Guy Thurmond who murdered her husband Dick Bowman last fall in Statham. After failing to indict Thurmond at a preliminary hearing, Bowman confronted him on Statham street and fired, wounding him then shooting him twice more as he fled. He died on the sidewalk ten minutes later.
A deed of trust dated September 15, 1924 by Coleman Chapman leads to a foreclosure auction of 88.1 2 acres on the west bank of Fisch River in Franklin Township. The property borders E T Isaacs Laura Hlevins heirs of C M Booker and is known as the E T McMickle homeplace with metes and bounds in Laura E McMickle to BE McMickle deed dated 1918. Auction at one o'clock P M in front of First National Bank of Airy for cash to the high bidder.
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