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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1928
Page
9
A home buyer needs to move due to business duties and offers a large house for sale at a reduced price. The property includes a living room dining room kitchen breakfast room downstairs, three bedrooms, a bath upstairs, a basement and heating plant. Asking price 7500 with 250 down and 50 monthly payments. The report notes excellent neighborhood proximity to schools and churches.
A local rental list shows multiple houses and apartments with 4 to 9 rooms across streets such as W Ray Farlow Ragan Cassel Green Lindsay Richardson Casle Mendenhall Grace Vernon White Oak and Bridges. Prices range from 15 to 75 dollars monthly and include heat specifics in some items.
Sealed bids for construction of a brick fire station on the north side of East Davis Street between South Main and South Hamilton streets are due at 8:00 o clock April 3 1928. Bids must be in a sealed envelope marked Proposals for Fire Station Construction with a 5 percent certified check. plans available at the Fire Department and mayoral office. The council may reject bids or award contracts in the citys best interest.
The High Point Christian Endeavor union announces a 7 AM Easter sunrise service at the Friends church annex with Rev. Tom Alderman Sykes delivering the message. A joint Crusade with Christ campaign follows Easter, including musical numbers and invitations to Baptist Young People's unions and Epworth Leagues. A citywide mass meeting at the Presbyterian church is set for Thursday night, April 12, with Hewitt F. Cunningham and Stokes S. Rawlins as special guests, preceded by a banquet.
The HLPO Hi-Po published an April 1 edition claiming a balcony collapse, stalled graduations for fifteen seniors, and Al Smith as commencement speaker with O Max Gardner backing Smith's candidacy. None of the stories were true.
The paper catalogs light pieces from campus life including a claimed personal request for a nomination and reports of a laborer injured while mowing. Humor runs through the second April fool edition with notable readability and balanced exaggeration.
The Dutch lifeboat Schutt vaer, en route from London to New York, called at Plymouth but sustained damage to its tails and rigging in a gale in the English Channel.
Advertises McCoy Cod Liver Oil Tablets as weight gain aids for thin men and women. Claims easy digestion and high satisfaction with a guarantee: gain at least 5 pounds after four sixty cent boxes or two one dollar boxes, or return purchase price through the druggist.
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