Local notes from High Point and Greensboro April 1887
Mr T W Welborn buys the Jacob Bodenhammer house and lot. Mayor candidacy for Greensboro is mentioned. Farlow & Co sell a beef retailing for 49. Trinity College presidency terms surface. Bentonsville battle anniversary noted. Rev Frank M Jordan stricken with paralysis. Miss Blanche Armfield and Miss Jennie Ragsdale to graduate Salem Female College. Modern Tobacco Barn Company member Daniel Waters visits. Local industry booms include a bakery and marble works. Reed street named after Capt Harry Reed. Agricultural lectures at Jordan's warehouse. Capt Jake Bodenhammer dies of pneumonia. Municipal ticket for white and colored Knights of Labor listed. Snow & Dalton expand sash and blind factory. W R Richardson buys farming implements for big crops. Moffitt & Bradshaw druggists announce enhancements. Fire truck plea for town. Greensboro Workman editor anecdote. Death of Calvin N McAdoo a Greensboro figure. Williamson family musical in Jarrell's Hall praised.
Community debates night watchman plan for Main Street
The Farmers Institute assigns speakers to homes including Capt. Alexander and Prof. Hodges with townspeople urged to hire a night watchman to patrol Main Street and raise alarms for fires. The measure aims to save property and fund ongoing protection, while local papers dispute misattributions about officials and defend neighborly relations between Greensboro and High Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer's Institute
B. Alexander
Bellevue Hotel
J. D. Hodges
W. P. Pickett
Col. L. L. Polk
C. A. Haniner
Joseph Moore
J. van Lindley
W. H. Ragan
John Dorsett
Joseph Bird
Jno
A. Lindsay
J. L. Wright
J. 8. Ragsdale
S. Perry
Wittkowsky and Baruch Dissolve Partnership in Charlotte
The well known firm Wittkowsky & Baruch will dissolve on May 1 with Baruch taking the retail store and Wittkowsky taking the wholesale operation. The businesses will continue in the same building under new designations H Baruch retail and Wittkowsky wholesale. The partners are noted locally and regionally, with well wishes for their future ventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Chonicle
Wittkowsky & Baruch
Mr. Baruch
Wittkowsky
Messrs Wittkowsky & Baruch
H. Baruch
North Carolina
Charlotte
Free Trial Bottles Spark Huge Trade At Local Drug Store
Moffitt and Bradshaw's drug store reports a general revival of trade driven by free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption. The remedy cures coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and throat and lung diseases. Trial bottle offered free before purchase. full size $1 and large bottle warranted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moffitt & Bradshaw’s
Dr. King
Lime Phosphate: concentrated fertilizer for crops and grasses
Marketing copy touts Lime Phosphate as a dry 200 pound bag containing 10-16 pounds phosphoric acid and 100-120 pounds lime with 4 pounds sulfuric acid and chlorine in tiny amounts. It claims lower water content and avoids excess sulfuric acid, recommending 400 pounds per acre for cotton and corn and 600 pounds for grasses, with mix recipes for Wheat oats rye and pasture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wurat
Kentucky
Notice of Sale of Fight Town Lots in High Point NC
Pursuant to a Guilford Superior Court decree the seller will auction on the premises in High Point on Saturday May 7 1887 the lands of the late Eli Russell divided into fight town lots to settle intestate debts. One third cash with balance at six months and interest. bond and security required and title retained until full payment.
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Superior Court
Guilford County
John Kenneday
High Point
E. V. Swaim
Admr
Superior Court of
North Carolina
Eli Russell
Modern Tobacco Barns Endorsements from Virginia to North Carolina
Letters from farmers W H Snow in Coowan Carr and Wa T Woodley praise the Modern Tobacco Barns for efficiency, fire safety, and high quality curing. They report successful adoption, reduced wood use, and plans to expand in 1887, highlighting widespread interest across eastern North Carolina and Virginia.
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Coowan
N. C
Carr
W. H. Snow
High Point
Chowan
Bright Tobacco Belt
T. Woodley
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Enterprise
N.C
T. W. Welborn
Jacob Bodenhammer
R. R . King
Greensboro
Messrs. Farlow & Co
Crowell
Trinity College
Bentonsville
Frank M. Jordan
Buncombe County
Blanche Armfield
Jennie Ragsdale
Jamestown
Salem Female College
Daniel Waters, Esq
Philadelphia
The
Modern Tobacco Barn Company
Hoover Hill
A. G. Clark
Randolph
Catawba
Pioneer
Cartland
Reed
Capt
Harry Reed
B. F. Jordan
Jordan's Warehouse
Jake B. Bodenhammer
Abbotts Creek
Assemblies Knights of Labor
J.R. Parker
J. H Millis
R. J. Lindsay
A. R. Hammer
Messrs. Snow & Dalton
W. R. Richardson
R. A. Wheeler
Messrs. Moffitt & Bradshaw
Siler City
Calvin N. McAdoo
Guilford
Williamson
Wilson County
Jarrell’s Hall
Raleigh
Baldwin
Barnes & Co
New York
Greensboro North State
North State
Durham Recorder
John H. Watson
Chapel Hill
Thomas H Wade
Texas
Toy
Richmond Dispatch
Gunter
Chatham County
Baxter Gunter
Pittsboro
News and Observer
Carthage
Wilmington
Peter 8. Ney
Marshal Ney
Paris
Ney
Counry
J. M. Securist
Murphy Bulletin
Chattanooga
Welburn Hill
Murphy
Georgia Line
Scales
Sampson County
Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Penitentiary
National Bank
Statesville
Savings Bank
S. B. Alexander
State Board of Agriculture
John Robinson
T. K. Bruner
Salisbury
Alexander
Charlotte Observer
Old Rat
W. A. Coe
Old Kat
Greenesboro
Moffitt & Bradshaw's
M. Jarnecu
Bucklen
Moffitt & Bradshaw
Druc Store
A. E. Smith & CO
Drou
High Point, N. C
Raxing
Cana
Royvan Bakine Powerr Co
Wall
Uperior Court
Adm
David Jordan
Dee’d
Sarah Kenneday
Fisen Point Enterprise
Sarah
Court House
Albert A. Holton
OFIF
Calelum
Bigwh & Hatton
Pharmacists
Colognes
Pimpwest Airline
ROUTH
Richmond & Danville
Baltimore
Washington
Lynchburg
Richmond
Danville
Cloldsboro
Raleigh Durham
Wpallsboro
Salem
Atlanta
Nonnt Tupounn
Hillsboro
Durham
Goldsboro
Sanday
LY. No
Unterprish
High Point, &.C
Bey Inem
Cape Pire
Ewestrom B&betar
Theo Gucks
Sonth Eighth Street
Railadelosus
Anna Russell
Adin’x
D. L. Clark
D. L. Cuark
ME. C. Hienley
Undertaker
High Point, NC
Main Street
B. F. Jordans
News Ferry
Virginia
Sam
Hien Point, N
Sim
Wake County
B. L. Clark
Groome
NC Phosphate Co
Leigh
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