Criminal Cout Al
Dobm Next Wed
N«t ~*ak te mm waak to Bwn
Hi Cmti WXtatek urikm
ae had a liifr Mat, praattoal
•d to tk* SnpraaM Coprt.
Thar* are flw or six mm of Dm
■aaoidor's Caurt of 'tkte'ettT.
«l m jwm for Um tons:
First waak: B E- Butor, W. 1
Wrtgfct, A. M. S-ith, A. C. Sot
Dm Johnsoa, D. R Hoffmaa, 8. 1
, Atkins. T. N. Woodruff, R. V. Brinl
lay, W. D. Hayaaa. lakwt Jmm
bktr Phillip*, D. F. Coofh, D. I
Leva, G. C. Lortli, W. B. Edamd
W. J. Thurmond, Cbwd* Smith, Seal
Cook, t. C. UoUincaworth. B 1
Hinaon. A. R Ckihoo. A. V. Waa
W. W. Harris, B F. Patterson, H. I
Wood. J. W. Coekorham, N. H.-8W
pMa, J. & Bullioftoa, 8. M. Pttpfk
D. & Uwia, N. 0. Nixon, J. W. Dai
la, J. A. Brlatla.
Soeoad weak, T. M. Marsh, W. <
flaawr, Back Bojrsli, T. H. Browi
Jo* a Qwyn, Morris ' . 0. I
Hansor, E. L McGhoo, Walter Mai
« ion. W M Draagha, W. L. Hatch*
A. i. Snow, J. 8. Hods**, A. D. Wo
born. A. E. Craad, J. W. Bad**t
Jo* a. chihoa, a a Bay.
Improving Appoaraac* ok
Mate Straat
Work m started thU week by tt
Southern Public UUlitiea Co. •
work tag over Um transmission Um
on Main street. New polo* are b<
ing eroded and relocated so aa I
carry the line* with the leant numb«
of pok-» on the street*. While ti
warkmen were digging Um bole* Wat
nasday it was pointed out to a I*1
citisens standing by that whore tbei
are now 11 poles lietwoen Oak stre<
and the Council building Um new it
cation will carry the line* on on!
five pole* LmhuIdi Um numbor <
polos on the street and nuking thai
all uniform in slae and height wi
add to the appearance of the stree
At the same time there seems to )
some unneee*'sry pole* on the tek
phone system the rentovsl of whk
would greatly help the street's a|
In some places thee
ara several feat higher tha
and not being of a unlfort
Heighth throw* them out of banana
with the other improvements tha
hers been going on.
Go To TImmmu
Of special interest to Mount All
club woman it the meeting of a
the Federated cluba in tha Sixth Dii
trict at TbomaariUe, Saturday Oc
22. The meeting, which ia aa annui
event, will be held thia year ia tl
Baptist Church with the Thotnai
villa Woman's Club acting aa hai
teas for the eighteen clubs in th
district. Quite a number of worn*
ara planning to attend, and will leai
here ahoot • A. M., arriving at Thou
aaville in time for tha flrat aeeak
at 11 A. M. The luncheon at oj
-o'clock will be carried, out on the "be
lunch" plan, aa ueual.
Mrs. C 8. Morria of Sallabury, U
president of the 8th district, wl
at both morning and afte
isslons, a
-event srOl be the
'President, Mrs.
OaMshnro.
in
that a great deal of !
iaam and gaod will Is derived ther
Airy haa roeafe
n bride* aeroaa Annt rtour,
g I cars colliding i
the bridge nUltat. Ht
■dm for several
toa m the head bat be to .wv
/
H. C. Smith
»)
Mi
Oak street. Toggle
anotht r Mr and tors off iu tin an!
tbU ewNd Um to
Smith's ear.
S
b
F1H
Dr. H. L.
■ton of Mr. Lottto !
Plain*, had a
death whan hi* car >u hit by a
and completely demolished,
r* | o'clock Thunday arming at
»K Dr. Robertson
unronaciou* and the young man wka
*u riding with him wa* thrown
from the car into a field nearby
They *eemad not to have heard the
train or the whistle and the engine
(; (track Dr. Robertson * Ford coupe at
_ the car enrine tSrowine hi* iwmu.
ion through the doot end driving the
ear several yards down Dm track In
front of the train, the doctor though
unconecious warn (till gripping the
wheel when he was taken from the
wreckage, he had no broken bones
but had aerieus evil on the bead and
neck, one of which narrowly missed
the spinal column and caused great
loss of blood. Ho regain conscious
ness Friday morning bat remains in,
a serious condition tn p hospital at
Rutherfordton. If no complications
develop it la thought bo wiH recover
with no lasting results of the aeci
v ■ j
W. S. Martin Moving Family
' ' W. 8. Martin, secretary-'
"I »f the North Carolina Granite Cor
• I xiration who returned to thia city
lj teveral msnthi ago to risams his!
connection with the graatte corpora-'
; tion after withdrawing aad returning ;
_ | to Pennsylvania about a year ago to;
1 live, has bought a home on Wait Etan
i street and U this wank moving back
y hen. Friende of the family wiU be |
II glad to kaow that Mrs. Martin's
h • health has iatproved during her ab
w» from this city.
il
t Hslyiat Oat tko More bant
'"I < In J. D. Smith's advertisemsnt last
h i weak there waa an error that waa ia
" favor of the merchants but Mr. Smith
n | wants it corrected just the same
* I The adv. priced a lot *>f boys' union
'* suits at TS oaaU, when it-was meant
" to read 56c and 96 cents The adver
tisement of this clothing (tore ap
pears again this week with the cor
rected
a
R
r
« J. W. Lawson. a native pt
» County died of heart trouble Oat IB
>* | at Claudville, Va., aged 91 years.
*1 J. & Love
rt;tfce home of ^
Graves, Sunday. The funeral waa
by Elder Jim
Moont Airy to Gain Benefit From
i Advertising of Dnke Power Co.
Reports frmm the hand oAtoaa af
ty Dote f«w Co, ivMn of ths
mMmi fun C*, ud itIM kh
fcioney that to being spent in ad
[ Wtiiwili to the utioa'i leading
The September iseue of "The Pub
lic ferric*," e< Matoigh, to raferrtov
to ths advertising campaign and iU
far raarhlag effect had the follow
ing intonating paragraph. which
brought Mount Airy to the atto*to
heaa and la atiU proclaim■>< tha ad-,
raatogas of the Oarotiaaa to all qw
ton af the United Statea and Cans to
It H> telltnt the ma—htuhj todaa
try that here he will ftod tha haat,
of white American lahor; that here
i« a climate which mahai pneaftU
all-year operation, and all day and
all night work if deal red; that have
tha real aetata aaadad far eootfert
able and cpmmcdiaua location of Ms
plants may ha had at moat mmrtli!
costs; and that hare ha will ftod •
supply of electric power adaqaata tor
all his needs, topwfrbto and at eeets
just aa low aa ha will find anywhere
in tha world. Such claims will per
force weigh mightily with tha man
ufacturing Industry of America and'
that Coastal Carolina, as well aa the
Piedmont will reap benefits there
from.
"Those benefit are already visible.
Note the case of Mount Airy a* one!
example. The Southern Public Utili
ties Company (a part af the Duke
t'ower Company) Just s year ago
purchased the municipally-owned and
opera tod electric power system at
Mount Airy. Within the compass of
that one year, six large new Indus-!
tries have begun operation in Mount
Airj Here they are: *
"The Mount Airy Veneering Com
pen's kmI
Overall
overall*.
humlred MB JUST " /
"In addition to tho «tM; otJm
■ — 1 „ AL.i ^^^nooim l^A^baa 1 ri n fi t a jf 4 m '
•vrpnsM hh mrv qots iucmw ib ;
Mount Airy, since the Souther® Pub
lic UUtttiM began operstioo* tkrt,
K l« stated authoritatively that rir
tunlly all the old
Mkr ' ■■Mi ,
That Kaa baaa notably taw of
North Careknn Granite
o»
the light aitd pom aystem of tint
city. Prior to a year ago, Mount Airy
hud a Mfmliifly utiififtftfy muti*
cipal plant under management of a
mighty food num. Bat tho Moot
Airy plant stood strictly on H» own
bottom; it was Isolated and K had no
rtwrvt to offar. It eootd not ma
meet tka naadi of tha Granite Cor
poration. Than Mount Airy turned
to another source for Its supply of
Itowor. It voted, without a s.nglr dis
sent ink voiee, to join In with "Um
greatest super-power ayatem in tho
world " Moont Airy is now linked
with Now Orleans, with Chicago,
with the big power-producing areas
of Weat. Virginia and with Maade
Shoala—that is one raaaon dount
Airy appeals to ftlk manufac' tiring
industry of America.''
Girl Hu Narrow
Mi*s liertrode Bowman, daughter
of Mr*. N. F. Bowman. of TW Hoi-'
low, Va., narr<«wly aacapod death or
prrmancnl injury Saturday morning
whan she became entangled in the
line* of • passing team on the road
to the Blue Rid«« Academy and «u
dragged for a distance of fifty feet''
before Uie team waa brought to •
atop. The young girl waa wiJirid un
conaciou* and badly braiaed and
skinned though her injuria* are net
aeriou*.
Two young man, Joe Ayer* and
Joe Pack, war* driving a team of
mule* hitched to a wagon down a
long hill at a high rata of speed, ac
cording to the report* of the chil
dren. whan they mat aix children on
their way to achool at the academy.
The children any the driver palled
ihe mule* from side to aide of the
road until they did not know which
side to take ao they divided part go
ing on one aide and part en the oth
er when either intentionally or by ac
cident the lines were thrown oat and
caught the seventeen year old daugh
ter of Mrs. Bowman aroand the
waist dragging bar in the wake of
the teanf until it was m
We are glad to report that 1
Clarice Bowman, who oar laet ta
rtor appendicitis at Watts Hospital^
Durham, is dotn^ aa well as eoold be
County Audit Still I
Gored By Cow U Improv n«
lira tt. V. Boyd who «u gored
by a row at h«r horn* at The Hollow,
VV, about two week* ago and is a
patient at Martin hospital this city
is recovering nicely from her injuria*,
«nd hope* to bo able to return home
!n a few day*.
Supplaate Twherculoeia u Kill
%irJlbrNM^cIrTlk^"
Kaleigh. Oct. 19.—Pneumonia sap
planted tuberculosis as one of Um
three leading killers in North Caro
lina iti 19M, the archive* of Um bo- J
resn of vital statistics of the state
board of health show. Heart Mm—>.
kill in* 8,418, supplanted nephritis as
the leading cauas of death in 19S6.
Nephritis caused ZM& deaths,
pneumonia i,tM, tuberculosis 2,709,
apoplexy MM, violence 2jMl, enter
itis in infante 1.480, sad oncer U»
an.
Increases over IMS were shows in
all these causes of dsath with Um as-:
ceptiona at enteritis sad riolsars, |
which showed slight docraasos
The greatest Im'ieasa wss register ,
ad in deaths from heart diasaae. thia
ailment causing 400 more deatha in
1926 than in 1986. Nephritis, pan
about 100 sack, while the galas **
and apoplexy wars iiagHgtbls.
Closed to tke Public
Sonw Fnm Fowls
Mount Airy cMmm continue to
manifest mock intomt in fin* brad
poultry judging from the price hm
of them are willing to pay for priae
winninc fowls. Recently 4. B. Mid
toff muia a trip to Fairfax, Va.,
where ha I amhsied freia a wall
known breeder a Rhode bland Bed
rooftar, 8 month* old, which cost
him fifty dollar* of Uncle 8am't
com This bird will be kapt la a
pen with eight selected hen* of the
same bread and from the pea Jtan
will ••)] efp far setting porpoaoa,
aad it's coins to ceet |i a sotttag
of M to (at eggs from this' particu
lar outfit. A safe guaraatoe te of
fered however aad a aew settinc la
furnished- at half price where the
hatching falls belew^lO. Km from
this pea will be oa the market about
Dee. 1st, Mr. Midkiff says.
Words mt Appreciation
R U. Newton, af Johnson City,
Tenn.. complains that taking off
trains St and S3 listesi Mount Airy
and Greensboro interferes with the
delivery of his paper causing it to be
delivered on Monday instead of Fri
day. "We enjoy The News aad dis
like for it to be so long isarihing as"
writes Mr. Newton and suggests that
It might help to ask the poetol clerks
to eead north from Greensboro hK
stead of South. '
Joe Phillips in seodiag his renews!
from Mattoax. Vs.. says "I should
very sick in bed bat am a little bet
ter this morntag, the doctor says >
am oat af danger. Mr. Phillips' aid
friends wiD be glad to know he is aa
the read to rseaesry.
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Stol* Offioer Viaka Mother.
te being wad for the heat
at the fsmiltea.