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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1930
Page
6
Mr and Mrs L A Welch announce the birth of a son L Jr on Sunday August 10. The item notes the family addition as a local social item in the community notices column.
In Arkansas and Ohio campaigns, Norris defends his record against Stebbins and Read advances amid anti prohibition notes. Hitchcock faces Callias for the Dem nomination while Robinson battles Campbell amid Klan opposition. Ohio GOP unopposed while Dem primary centers on repealing or moderating prohibition. Oklahoma runoffs hinge on Murray and Buttram with no major Republican contests.
Mrs C L Korner returns to Charlotte from a visit to Mrs C L Bouldin on Johnson street. Mrs John R Peacock arrives back from Mt Airy where she spent the weekend at White Sulphur Springs. Faye Jones of Deep River plans to visit Richmond and Washington area. Ruby Lackey leaves for West Virginia to visit Mrs W T Blankenship. Mr and Mrs W D Gatlin host Mrs FR H Mitchell and Mrs T R Tyndall from Pinehurst, with Mrs Mitchell to return later. Tyndall to stay a few weeks then visit her son in Petersburg VA. Lucile Garland returns from Virginia with Margaret Agnew of Charlottesville as guest for three weeks. Roy M Briles and uncle Elwood Briles of Bartlesville OK visiting. in High Point hosted by aunt Mrs Lelia Farlow. Mr and Mrs Odell Culler return to Winston-Salem after week here with Mr and Mrs P L Cuties. Mrs A Davis returns home after short visit with daughters Estelle Davis, Mrs Gene Garrett, and Mrs W F Clayton. Mrs Clyde Wood underwent tonsil removal at Burrus Clinic and is recovering. Mr and Mrs Ed Kearns return from eastern state trip. guests include Mrs Herbert Bizzell and daughter Susan Lee of Goldsboro. Miss Sarah Martha Holmes spends week in Lexington visiting grandmother Mrs M L Coggins and Mr and Mrs George Coggins.
Last year more than 23.9 million letters were sent to the dead letter office due to missing return addresses on envelopes.
New Danish farm experiments show milk can have fat and water withdrawn, leaving pulpy residue rolled into sheets resembling paper. Special machines roll the substance into thin sheets that become a highly concentrated food. when needed it dissolves in boiling water.
Reports from Davidson county say storms caused heavy damage last week. A hail storm Sunday afternoon hit Arcadia township destroying crops, especially tobacco, in a area over a quarter mile by more than a mile. Farmers W. M. Zimmerman L. E. Ripple J. C. Ripple and W. F. Raper suffered major losses. Hub Everhart lost his barn to lightning in a separate storm.
Dr J L Sowers of Lexington recovers his stolen Chrysler coupe after police find it in Buchan an Georgia. Four men were arrested with the car. two are brought back handcuffed in the rumble seat, one escapes after arriving at the local jail.
Largs Scotland reports its last census undercounted about half of residents leading to a $10,000 state grant shortfall. The current census was conducted on a weekend with inhabitants believed to be home on Sunday.
Delegates at the North Carolina Federation of Labor convention hear speeches on opening day. Edward F. McGrady of the AFL and William Green’s representative preached at a banquet. Paul J. Smith attacked state labor commissioner Frank D. Grist over remarks about agitators and the administration.
In Paris about 60 000 Russian emigrants, 309 replied to a language newspaper ad seeking a couple to live on bananas and tomato juice and walk on all fours. An American hoped to test a “new theory” of physical and moral education by paying $200 monthly and providing living expenses, but the chosen doctor balked at the diet and demanding schedule. A separate item notes Newton G Yoder, 26, and Mary Yoder, 27, marrying in West Liberty, with no relation between the couples’ families existing.
New certificates of incorporation issued by Secretary of State James A Hartness list Arnold Stone Company of Greensboro to deal in stone and concrete specialties with $100 000 authorized capital stock and $5 000 subscribed stock by M A Arnold L L Krippner and Mary Alberta Arnold Chadbourn Drug Store of Chadbourn is incorporated to own and operate a retail drug store with $25 000 authorized capital stock and $1 000 subscribed stock by Dr C F Shelton John Shelton of Chadbourn and Guy L Bailey of Fair Bluff.
The article notes a steady rise in bicycle use across Switzerland with current ratios showing roughly one bike per five residents. It highlights a shift toward cycling as a common transport modality and implies broader mobility changes.
Randers in Jutland shifted its 110 year old town hall to a new site. The building measures 64 feet by 31 feet by 40 feet and was moved six feet on trolleys. The move was so smooth the tower clock kept perfect time.
Lexington August 12 Davidson county is unique in receiving more from the state gasoline tax than needed for road debt service. Last year the allotment was 38500, with road debt 8000 under that. Commissioners may requisition the surplus for road machinery and equipment. a similar surplus is expected this year for road maintenance and rebuilding in the county.
Real tough luck in Kenora Ont as Jim Wryder of East Melick area sees his home burn to the ground after a warning. The next day hail damaged the remnants of his fields with stones as large as a hen's egg.
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