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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1938
Page
2
York April 14 Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co announcing a dividend, part of a nationwide chain of plants and operations. The brief note confirms corporate movement and financial action by the company.
A new dividend of 25 cents per share on common stock is announced, down from 30 cents last February 1 and 50 cents on May 1, 1937. The latest disbursement will be paid May 1 to holders of record April 25.
Raleigh April 14 John D Chalk state game and fish commissioner said the closed seasons on fresh water fish would be suspended Easter Sunday and Monday to accommodate holiday anglers, allowing fishing during the holiday period.
For the first quarter of 1937 aircraft sales increased by 67.9 percent. The dollar volume reached 20,496,517 dollars versus 12,207,574 dollars in the same period of 1936.
Fair conditions across the state with a slight warm up along the southeast coast and far north central areas. Hatteras to Jacksonville winds gentle to moderate and variable. Sandy Hook to Hatteras winds gentle mostly southerly with generally fair weather tonight and Friday.
In Moundsville West Virginia Raymond Styers faces execution on Friday May 18 for killing a woman during a holdup. The article notes superstition aside he believes it is his doom. It also oddly adds a parrot training tip about teaching a bird to talk.
Passion Week services fill Kernersville Moravian church with Good Friday Lovefeast and a cantata Easter Angels. Sunrise service at 6 am Easter morning in the church graveyard, weather permitting. The town band dating to 1891 rehearses for the rites, with five original members still living.
Boy Scouts of Pickett Mills troop 23 met Monday April 4 with plans to visit Camp Uwharrie delayed due to weather. The Quality club and Girl Reserves held events including a Mother and Daughter banquet and a minstrel show program at the Community House. Local residents noted in-person visits from relatives and friends across Winston-Salem and nearby towns.
Charles Stephens published the Dictionarium Historico Geographicum in 1565, regarded as the first modern gazetteer. The work fused geography and history to map places and names for readers of the era.
Three hour Easter services list pastors from First Presbyterian to North Main Street Baptist with prayers and meditations from 12:40 to 3 pm. Sunrise services planned at Salem Moravian Graveyard in Winston-Salem and in local churches. Easter Monday observed with closures. schools off Good Friday and Easter Monday. some factories closed. post office maintains full delivery.
Guilford County transfers list numerous decoupled deeds across High Point and surrounding townships. Transfers include Tilden to J Este Wade on Cross street and multiple parcels on Tate, Albertson, Benbow, Dal ton, East Egbert, Asheboro, and Market streets plus Oak Hill Forest lots. The list shows involved buyers and sellers including banks and church trustees with several two lot or two tract transfers.
Chicago grain prices show May wheat at 84? to 83? with July at 82% and September 82% while May soy beans around 93% with July near 91% and October about 88. Rye steady around 60% and lard and bellies trading in high 8s to low 10s, reflecting a fluctuating futures session.
A famed pipe resented by Napoleon to a line officer was judged to be jewel studded and valued at 7500 dollars in contemporary currency, illustrating the history of prized ceremonial objects and their worth.
Readers are invited to send questions about problems to Marjorie Mansfield care of The Enterprise. Letters will be answered in these columns.
The writer urges the Brunettes to focus on education and to enjoy friendships with several young men. She argues that sampling suitors helps them choose wiser future husbands and compares shopping around for hats to evaluating potential partners.
During the canal's building phase a vast fleet moved earth and rock including 101 steam shovels 307 locomotives 4572 carts and trucks 653 mechanical drills 20 dredgers 47 cranes 72 barges and lighters and more than 100 other earth moving appliances.
As judgment matures and life challenges arise women notice husbands lack desired qualities. Some remain for various reasons while others find marriages on the rocks. Many brokenhearted girls write that they stayed with one man too long and could have found a better partner.
The passage encourages group engagement and self support, urging readers to stay friendly and considerate toward peers. It notes the future is uncertain, advises against envy of others’ partners, and suggests enjoying youth while delaying the search for a husband and home.
Advice urging focus on education and social life while noting that some young men avoid competition and true interest. The passage emphasizes cultivating friendships and educational effort as a duty of youth.
In Fayetteville on April 14 workers at the Central Weaving and Spinning Company walked out after management announced plans to employ some white labor. Picket lines formed overnight with no violence. Manager Max Lefkowitz said whites would not replace Negro workers but would bolster efficiency, and he expected the Negro employees to return once they understood the plan.
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