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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1922
Page
6
Chicago readers see a revival of the five cent cigar as shops display multi colored banners and billboards. Merchants note it is the fastest moving item though costs of materials and labor keep quality debated. A salesman says demand remains high as two for a quarter is gone and buyers favor five cent daily smokes.
In Columbus Ohio on Aug 1 Elia O Dell forty five is said to have fought with husband William during cooking. A skillet of hot corn scorched arms causing burns to both. police surgeon treated them before they were jailed. Mrs O Dell claimed she was single after the quarrel ended their marriage amid fights and accusations.
Friends report Mrs. J. M. Floover has returned to her Tate street home after a period of confinement in a local hospital due to illness.
Major Oscar Westover earned a place for the United States in the Gordon Bennett trophy race in Geneva by winning the national elimination in Milwaukee. His balloon traveled the farthest, landing in Quebec, with Westover the sole contestant to land outside the U S. He is 39, a Balloon Observer and Airship Pilot, and has served in multiple army roles, including air service executive.
In Kentucky 650 contracts were signed with the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association during the past week. E M Mansfield led with 161 signed in Adair county while Hardin Larue and Meade counties reported strong turnouts. Albert T Day boosted Madison county signups to 41. Frank C Greene spoke to Taylor county crowds and new contracts followed. Officials praised gains and personal outreach in cooperative marketing efforts.
The Andrew Jackson post of the American Legion will meet next Friday night at about 7 o clock replacing the planned Wednesday session. A combined watermelon feast and meeting will follow at a later announced location. Ex service men in High Point are urged to attend this watermelon feed.
Thirty one Boy Scouts depart for Camp Rotary at High Rock for several days of camping hiking fishing and swimming. The Scouts chief executive left yesterday to prepare the camp for the arrival of the group.
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