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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1888
Page
3
A roundup of news from High Point covers a Brewer stock sale at Archdale, railroad meeting plans, church appointments, weather hints of frost, local building, and town improvements. Notable items include Rev. Dalton at Orange Presbytery Greens boro, a bicycle comment from a country observer, and local election developments with colored voters nominating a slate led by W H Snow and a looming rival ticket.
The Randolph and Guilford counties hold a major railroad meeting at Randleman with about forty leaders. Subscriptions top 25 000 dollars and 5 percent paid, directors named, work to start once a contractor is found, Trinity College also hosts a subscription drive and public road issues are urged.
The item highlights local events and concerns including religious revival at the college led by Rev I L Wood, a hawk killed by Miss Josie Mendenhall, railway talk with High Point committee, and comments on weather harming fruit. It also mentions whisky issues, local merchants R J Lindsay Bro and Peterson Photographs, grape and crop outlooks, and small town notices across several counties.
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