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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1888
Page
3
Spring attire sightings mark cautious fashion as High Point readies for emerald spring. Promotions show post office growth. roller flouring mill planned at Thomasville. Odd Fellows lodge formed as Repion 63. Street upgrades improve Perry’s Corner road. Beeson Bros announce hardware and tinware plans. Kemp P Battle and W A Blair publish county history book.
A Monday outing to Beesons mill ended with a picnic supper and lively enjoyment. A Davidson county string band serenaded Mr. T. A. Wiles at his warehouse as a token of thanks. Local stores display spring goods and a school prize day at Mr. Hedgecock's Oak Hill school awarded pens and races prizes. The Meth odist church welcomed Easter sermons, flowers, and singing. High Point post office promoted to third class with extended mail hours. Public school plans include side rooms and folding doors for better view of speakers. North State reports road changes, bridge repairs, list takers, and a proposed local option vote deferred to April 13.
Trinity Notes report visits by Hon W M Robbins and Rev W A Sharpe, Easter Monday visits by Thomasville women, and Prof Pegram seeking mineral specimens. A liquor wagon incident ends with robbery by Black residents. a hotel man and a boy heroics story follow. Court, bank, and police matters include Raleigh thieves, compo terms for White and Cross, and local gun and fowl laws. Peterson claims a long running instant process in NC.
A publication containing a personal defense by J. C. Allred denying abuse allegations, a note about a Randolph County knife discovery, rental ad, Fayetteville fair plans, High Point Tobacco Market prices, a tobacco market correction, and an advertisement for Shilow's Catarrh Remedy. The item mixes legal-ethos defense with local listings and market data.
List of letters remaining uncalled for at the High Point N C post office dated April 1 1888 including Dillard Young Link McComb Co HE Cardell J P Kersey John Canaday Douglass Lamb Craitz Rieves Dickson Williams Hall Williams Horney Woodcock Co Hull Mary Yates with note if not milled within two weeks they will be sent to the dead letter office. Also advertisement for dyes and medicines at Bradshaw's drug store and notice of ongoing meeting at the Methodist church extended through next week.
The Sheriff of Guilford County O C Wheeler has paid the state tax of 10303.80 dollars and nearly paid the county school tax of 14000 dollars from last year to the county treasurer.
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