Contest Ad
at tha MM
V •
of Mrs. Oh. E Marshall
of tlM Woman'. Club; Mr*.
I Cardan Club and D. H.
architect and aoatractor,
ware visited by tka
it was with difficult)
of tha local prima* affarad by
rs. Many af tha diayiay* had
af tha
«# after
vol* af tka comaittaa
MhM tha first local prise to Mrs.
JE. C. Miani, tha aaaond prise to At
aLaW^Mrf IkM to Mn.
to tha local can
Public Utilities Co, for
system. Tha >id|toc af
will ba daao by
P. V. Co, and contest for the a«jf
fttaoa. which ara »1» for tho MQ
cond and $M for tho
to too potiHahan of Dm
and wo desire to oxprass our
atoaora thanks to all who did thrir bit
<• to* effort that had for its prima
ohfoat too baaatifytoc of tha borne,
of too city and implanting deeper in
tha hearts of oar poop is that Christ
nM spirit at frieadekip and goodwill
I all nan.
toonf those who took part in tha
Oato'ior Doeorativs Contest wore Mrs.
M. t. Cartar, Jr., Mrs. B. M. Hollingi- :
Krartk. Mrs. E. C. Bivens, Mrs. E. H.1
■pMltsky, Mrs. John Sobotta, Mrs.'
<3L B. Sholton, Wm. Merritt, H. O.!
W. H. Holcomb, Mrs. E. C.
r, Edw. M. UnviUa. W. W.
, C. M. Whitlock, Mrs. Albert I
J. R. Hinea and W. M.
Hospital Notes
Korkner of Ararat, no
D. E. Nelson of this city,
for treatment at the hoe
will
in a few
U*
N
the
Mr
Woltm
^^he furnace
and Mrs. H. O. WoiU bWw up I
morru ig and the entire
of the bona waa badly damaged wKh
■team and amoka the (Ira caught the
raften in the baaement and the (fare
company wu summoned bat Mr.
Wolti was able to extinguish
«4*se himaelf. ^
A gift of pan-fame waa pnanlad to!
Miss Martin, the honoraa.
At tba refreshment boor a dalirtoa* I
salad evaraa with Russian toa Was
served aad tba favors wara mint hold
ers with artntatara Chriatmas tree and
lighted candle decorations
Jim Jarria Hu C«r Torn Up
New* of Silotm RwidwU
Si loam, Dm. 22—D. V. Hiatt and IJ
nons Harvey and Herman Haitt. and
daughter Miss Myrtle Haitt and Mis*
Elisabeth Lawson have returned from
a trip to the coalfield Motion of Vir
ginia. They motored up the Fancy
Gap road through HUlsvtlle, Abington,
St. Paul and Coeburn. and Waited Mr.
Haitt'* brother,T. H Haitt at Toaa
Creek, Va. Tbeae brother* had Mt
■een fach other, until this vi.it. sine*
Mr. T. B. Haitt left Surry forty year*
ago.
Mrs. W. F Peeie paased away at
her home hate Tuesday Dm. IS after
\being a sufferer for a number of
■ears. She was crippled about fire
wears ago and was alao a suffer from
rT. B. and complications. She ia
survived by her husband, two daugh
ter*, Mt*ae* Minnie and Ethel and four
•on* Sherrill, Trey, Foy and Kelly.
The funeral waa conducted fross the
HiUs Qreve Baptist Church Tueetoy
and the remains Interred in the Hill*
Grove wsleij.
The Hills Grove Sunday school
had thsir annual Christ man entertain
ment and treat at the -ehureh Monday
night.
The funeral of Mrs. Timothy Hill
sa held Tun toy from the Ptee Hill
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Letter From Foreign Miuionary
Wt left Mount Airy on
giving Dm. »
Day. Through tt
and kindaan« of Mr. and Mrs.
W. 9ptrgtr we had t
ffhaakaghring dinner In
b| relatives in Wthot Cora i
changed to the Norfork and Waatarn j
train, our Pullman ear ,
to Cincinnati. Prom Cincinnati to
St. Louis we wad a Pullman chair ear
0h the National Limited fiom Now
York. At the lattar place wa had
time to attend a vitapona movie at
the Mid town Theatre.
On the morning of Dacaadbar 1 wa
breakfasted at Qulncy, III., with Mr.
W. C. Bradley and wife, nee Miaa
Nona Frank. They than drove ua to
Mt. Sterling, 111., a distance of a Utile
over forty milea, where wa visited and I
mat a number of my retativea whose
forbears migrated from Davison |
County, N. C-, to Brown County, 111,
before the Civil War. I occupied the
pulpit of the Mt. Starling Preabyterian
Church the following day at 10:40 A.
M. Qur two days' visit in Illinois
was crowded with intereat and ^
December > found as in
City, Mlaaouri, for a stagof several
hoars. Prom there we Mb the twoi
thousand mi lea to San Francisco la
two nights and ana day in the mum
Pullman ear. After laavtag Ogden,
Utah, oar train ttmii the Great Salt
Lake m the track of the goathraai
Pacific Railway far a distance of
thirty mllea, one at the 1
the distance over forty miles. Groat
Salt Lake la thirty-'
at
With the exception of the Daad
in Palestine, Great Salt Lake la
saltiest body of
It la tweaty-two par eaat salt;
aa flab In It, the ealy life balag a
On aceoaat ot mW
of rainfall Dm buln
We ptutd through Boo, Nevada,
metropolis of the aats, with * |
tion of >1110011 tiMOMli Mt ot the
State Unive ratty, and knows boot to
ti t T large number of
la it* i
In Son Francisco «* had too to
erooa over tho toy to Berkley to vieit
Mra. Frank's aunt, Mra. Valeria
Prather Leater, and her son aad Ua
family. Then wo visited the Univer
sity of California whteh 1mm tho lan
cet attendance in the country. We
viewed the National 8tadium with
■eating capacity of 71,000, complete
aince oar former visit at a coot of;
$1,500,000
We aalled from San Fraaciaeo
the 8. 8. President Taft December 7
at 4 P. M. Rev. W. A. Davia and wife
and other* came on board to vieit us
and bid aa goodbye. Brother Davia
waa for many year* one of oar effi
cient Southern Methodiat miaaioaar
iea in Japan. He la now
eat of oar work for Ja
Korean* in Calforaia.
Rev. L L. Shaver aad family of
North Carolina, aad of
la Japan, aro oa board with aa. Mra.
Shaver U a niece of Mr. Joe Took of
Mount Airy aad lived there beraalf
prior to her father1* death.
All-State Football Players
Arrive In Monnt Airy
Auto Takes Dive
Into Mill Race
Two Young Com»1m Haw Urn
Two young couplet occupying a
coupe had % narrow my« from
drowning jMank; when their coupe
turned orer and landed upeide down
In the mill race at the plant of the
Toy Lumbar and Manufacturing Co.
near Stewart'* creek Just acroee the,
railroad.
The ear wn parked at the
v.rtlsed throochoat Um auu aad
hundreds of ptopl* tn expected to
make the trip to tkto city am Tin*»
to aaa the MccMt football contort at
the mm la the hick school eh»
The Now Year game hu tmw u
hard work of ^M^UnderlaL Md
l»y«l • up port from the citisewe at
Moot Airy. It to one that to i|hl
for by «r«y prcgrntly town ai (ha
fro* mry part af th* atato.
Th. stetoeo players ii|irtk« kn
aa members of tho all-state toaai b
elude Hafer of TaylomtUe, Am
field of Mount Airy, and Pacta* af
Wilson, anda; Creed of Mount Airy,
Smith of Lastagtea and Uttoy at
Concord, tarkloa; Lackey at
villa aad CarKoo of Durham, par4,
Eapey of Hickory, aad Underwood af
Saaferd, centers; Jasoes of Hickory.,
quarterback; Phillipe of WayeeerUle.
Brittaia of Wilmington, Martin af
Hamlet, Smith of taMgfc, aad Stew
art of Mount Airy, hacks.
Thursday aftarnooa ia the home «l
her aunt Mr*. S. A. Conduff on North
Mala street when hrldse «u P«ajr«4
at ••von tables. A Chrtstams >s. >^s
of hath crystals was iiiiiibHiI for
high seors and a handpaintad ha ad
kerchief for low score.
A salad coarse with Rossi sn tea
was serred with lighted candles aa
each plate. Lighted nndh> afao doc
orated the tablea during the refresh
Mias Paige Howard, of Greetubora,
waa aa out-of-towa piist
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