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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1889
Page
3
Local notes report weather, school closings, and a church project in High Point. Greensboro bonds pass 862 to 20, and a Greensboro depot struck by lightning starts a blaze. Community events include a High Point public school finale and an Oak Hill schoolhouse program.
Arrangements are made for a Farmers Institute in High Point on Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, 1887. The event promises to be highly instructional for North Carolina farmers with talks from practical men, with accommodations for distant attendees. Dr. D. Reid Parker, Trinity College Warmer's Club president, will chair the institute. speakers, a choir, and program details are being prepared for public release next week. All are invited, especially women, and local organizers aim to make it a valuable gathering.
The narrator describes mixing whisky into dough to lure crows and cause them to become intoxicated. After feeding, the birds are easy to approach and kill with a stick. The author, Nathan T. Reynoups, frames it as a fun, nuisance-eradication method despite moral concerns.
Post office notices list letters remaining uncalled in High Point New York dated April 1 1887. Names include Mansly Angalls John Andres Turner Ash Mrs Mary Blair Mildred Caycombe A D Canada Mr Wm Garringer Mr Willie Gray Mrs Debby Lewis Mrs Barney Livengood Mr W A Loslin Mr Gaston Mears Mr T W Miles Ewan Williams. Uncalled letters will be sent to Dead Letter Office if not collected within thirty days. W C Deny P M.
W D Hoyt & Co of Rome Georgia touts Dr King's New Discovery, Electric Bitters, and Bucklin's Amnica Salve with two years of proven sales and cures including consumption cases. They guarantee satisfaction and sell through Smith & Co. The note also cites Amanda Eubanks of Rome as the wealthiest Black woman in America with a $400,000 tax base, and James Thomas of St. Louis with an $800,000 property assessment for The Lindell barber shop.
High Point residents report astonishing recoveries from consumption after using Dr King s New Discovery for consumption claimed to cure throat and lung diseases. Free trial bottles at Smith Co drug store with large bottles priced at one dollar. Alamance Gleaner notes a new land assessment by the Legislature directing township freeholders to assess property and meet with county commissioners for uniformity by early June.
Promoters urge readers to visit D L Clark's as the place for superior photographs. They claim Clark offers proper fixtures and better pictures than rivals in any style or price, with March 14, 1887 as the referenced date.
Letters from Virginia and North Carolina farmers praise the Modern Tobacco Barn after a year of testing. W. Wilson of Coonan and W. Woodley of High Point report success, efficiency, and reduced wood use, boosting confidence in the barn’s future and its impact on eastern tobacco belts. D. L. Clark also endorses the invention after Wake County experiments.
An advertisement promotes North Carolina Lime Phosphate as a dry 200 pound bag with 10 to 16 pounds Phosphoric Acid and other nutrients. It contrasts with rivals by listing low water content and minimal sulfuric acid, and cites recommended application rates for cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, and grasses, with soils, and with Kainit or Muriate Potash.
Guidance on lime phosphate mixes for wheat rye oats grasses and tobacco. Recommendations include amounts of lime phosphate, cotton seed meal, fish scrap ammoniate sulfate ammonia nitrate soda muriate potash and kainit for different acreage and soil textures. Nurserymen use broadcast applications and localized doses around young trees for soil preparation.
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