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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1887
Page
3
The Enterprise notes Archdale High School will open on the 22 inst under Messrs Frazier. It reports community plans for Yearly Meeting, local weddings, tobacco market activity, and town weather, including a playful item about a window kiss prizing restraint during hot weather.
A High Point North Carolina post office notice dated August 1 1887 lists letters remaining uncalled for including J Bell Benjamin Cecil T H Gary 8 C Gill Simon Gray Emma C Green Cyntha Harris J R Hardin Mat Hildens Bettie Jackson R L Lawrance Charity Nance J W Williard Joseph Willard P W Willard If not claimed within thirty days the letters will be sent to the dead letter office.W C Denny P M
Notes by the Way reports farming optimism in Davidson and Randolph areas. Cotton and corn yields are strong with 40 bushels per acre predicted on many bottoms, and a top field showing 175 loads of home made manure. The piece notes a new seminary near completion in Lexington and Wake County commissioners granting 19 beer licenses while denying six applicants.
A citizen urges High Point to build a summer resort with a fish pond and baths, plus drinks and amusements, to attract visitors and benefit locals and livery stables. This note sits among local notices, court juror lists, and corrections about Lexington Seminary and a controversial trespass case.
The Ashboro Courier reports the corn crop near town is destroyed by toads jumping on tassels after lightning bugs. A Raleigh dispatch notes Dr Geo W Blackwell and associates bought the Atlantic Hotel for 18500. Over 1000 dog badges have been sold in Wilmington this season. A scoundrel damaged Naomi Factory looms and a $50 reward was offered for information leading to arrest.
Local drug store reports a surge in trade from distributing free trial bottles of Dr King s New Discovery for consumption. The medicine is advertised as curative for coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and lung diseases with a money back or warranted offer. Also notes Vienna Medal Steam Bakery now run by Will B Whitted delivering fresh bread cakes ice cream and confections.
The National Bank of High Point in Guilford County North Carolina presents its monthly statement for August 1 1887 showing assets including loans and discounts overdrafts U S Bonds and cash items and liabilities with capital stock surplus profits and deposits. Cashier I C W Worth swears the figures are true under oath with notary C F Crurcuriero on August 4 1887 and directors A J Sapp J A Lindsay W H Ragan attest.
W. H. Ragan as administrator of David Jordan deceased will sell the Hunt place a 79 acre tract in Guilford County on Saturday August 27 1887 at 2 pm subject to the life estate of Naomi Jordan widow. Sold as re sale due to a 10 percent bid with one half cash and balance in 90 days by bond with security interest from sale. Includes excepted small lot sold off to G W Smith.
They advertise a variety of new tobacco kinds and Nex Stock. The notice urges selling chickens and eggs to Farlow and Company, who buy by the two horse load or in any quantity.
Raleigh correspondent notes the Supreme Court faces a curious Wake County appeal over an animal cruelty case. A rich, hot-tempered farmer tortured and killed a widow’s chicken, leading to a conviction, a $25 fine, and an appeal. Also reported: a Fayetteville lightning strike wrecked Mrs Johnston’s home, seventeen Georgia North Carolina Railroad convicts escaped from Union County, and a Raleigh boy stands 40 inches tall at 56 pounds. An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a blood purifier and vitality restorer priced 50 cents.
Advertises Nortis Carolina Lime Phosphate fertilizer as 200 pound bags with 10 to 16 pounds phosphoric acid 25 to 35 pounds dene phosphate 100 to 120 pounds lime 1 to 4 pounds potash and minor minerals. Criticizes competitors for water and excess sulfuric acid while offering application rates for cotton corn wheat grasses with kainit muriate potash.
Guidance on lime phosphate based fertilizer blends for wheat oats rye and grass. Details include rates per acre, supplements like cottonseed meal fish scrap and nitrates, and notes on suitability for clay soils, sandy land, and vegetable matter content. Emphasizes lime phosphate as key ingredient and recommends broadcasting or drilling methods.
Yrtrow Tobacco mentions using 1000 pounds lime phosphate 20 bushels fine horse manure ground fish or other ammoniate and 100 pounds high grade sulphate on one or two acres for fruit trees grapes and vines horticulturists stress lime phosphate as a cheap large quantity supply nursery practice broadcast before planting and 5 to 10 pounds per young tree when setting out
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