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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1930
Page
6
Mr and Mrs PD M Saunders announce the birth of a daughter Betty Sue on August 1 at their home. The item notes the new arrival and the family's happiness without further details.
Households embrace new paper cups for daily use and picnics. Attractive designs and wide color range make pauper cups and paper plates a time saving, stylish option for supper and gatherings.
The document corrects several errors about the Roosevelt dam, clarifying it spans the Salt River in Arizona rather than the Colorado River and that its primary purpose is irrigation. It also notes inward curving construction against water flow and fixes the spelling of irrigation. The scrambled word PATRIOT is mentioned.
Airmail from here travels to Buenos Aires in three and a half days. Mail leaves at 7 p.m. and reaches the South American city by the afternoon three days later, following a route between San Luis de Senegal and Nata.
France has emerged as the world’s second largest producer of naval stores, signaling a shift in global supply dynamics and impacting regional trade patterns. The designation follows rising output and market demand affecting neighboring producers and buyers.
Miss Mildred Pope entertained with a bridge luncheon at her Fisher Ferry street home in Thomasville. Guests included Miss Margery Thompson of Troy North Carolina and Miss Mary Jane Zollicoffer of Weldon. Prizes went to Miss Julia Brown Jennings and Miss Ethel Mae Boggs. Additional guests and travel plans for local families followed the event.
Miss Helen Hinkle and Miss Annie Hinkle hosted a bridge party on Tuesday afternoon for guest Miss Mary Arden Hauss of Lincolnton and Miss Louisa Kroner of Alma Michigan visiting Mrs. Ralph Hinkle. Five tables played with scores led by Miss Catherine Lambeth and Miss Julia Brown Jennings.
About 65 members gathered August 2 at the Reubens Holmes homestead south of Southmont. Activities included boat riding and a noon picnic with a lawn lunch. A business session followed with talks on lineage. Next reunion planned for Thomasville in August 1931.
Mrs. Charlotte Talley of Danville Virginia visits her niece Mrs. Lee Rice at her home on Fisher Ferry Street.
Mrs Raymond H. Phillips will return Friday after a week at Ocean View Virginia and will spend another week in western North Carolina during the trip.
J. R. Myers and Ralph Wilson are spending a few days at Morehead City, engaging in a brief seaside visit.
Mrs. E. C. Jernigan and her young daughter Suzanne departed on Sunday in a brief hometown item noting their departure time and relation. The snippet provides no destination or purpose beyond the family’s travel.
Mr and Mrs Robert Miller of Spencer visited at the home of Mr and Mrs J Q Miller on West Main Street.
Miss Charlotte Tudor of New York City and Miss Irene Corbin of Roanoke Virginia leave after visiting Mr and Mrs W H Tudor on Lexington Avenue and will visit their uncle George C Tudor.
Miss Alliene Hoover has returned from a brief trip to Wrightsville Beach, concluding her visit and resuming her daily routine.
The Transfiguration is celebrated on August 6 in Greek and Latin rites. A chapel atop Mount Athos hosts a yearly service. Tozer recalls a moonlit vigil with monks, their robes, beards, and the priest in ceremonial vestments.
The North Carolina supreme court plans to issue its next batch of opinions on August 20 despite skipping a typical summer adjournment. The docket includes the Aderholt case from Gastonia linked to Communist strike disorders, plus the chain store tax suit and other revenue cases.
Dialogue snippet shows a father scolding his daughter for an engagement to a mystery suitor. He accuses her of secrecy while she muses on the romance and the suitor’s habit of visiting nightly, hinting at a Bluffton humorist tone.
Sue Clarks faces heartbreak as Jack prepares to leave for the South with his father amid a looming wedding to Barbara. She clings to hope that Jack might still call or visit one last time, while Miles reappears with an evening invitation as time ticks toward departure.
R. F. Comer is named executor of Jasper Loving's last will and testament. Creditors are asked to pay debts and file claims with the executor by the notice deadline to avoid bar of their recovery. The notice is dated June 13, 1923.
North Carolina and South Carolina Kiwanis clubs will send a farmer and a Kiwanian each to a Kiwanis Farm Picnic in Hendersonville on August 23. George R. Ross, director of state-owned farms, announced the gathering to map an agricultural program and outline farmer aid for the coming year.
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