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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1929
Page
10
Mrs. A. J. Hudson of 15 Forsyth Street Thomasville was struck by a Chevrolet coach driven by S. A. Setzer on South Main Street in front of the High Point Overall company. She suffered a scalp cut and was briefly hospitalized before returning home with her husband.
The High Point Medical Society, inactive for years, plans a dinner tonight at 7 in the Sheraton private dining room with about 28 of 32 doctors expected to attend. A business meeting will elect officers and set future goals, with talks on the state workers compensation act and remarks by Dr Dred Peacock and Lawrence C Matton. The same event also covers the pending funeral of local merchant and politician David Tilden Andrews with services likely Thursday at Green Street Baptist Church and burial at Oakwood Cemetery. Miss Mabel Andrews will arrive from Omaha to attend.
A two lecture memory course will be held Thursday and Friday nights in the Sheraton hotel ballroom. Robert H. Nutt and N A Atchison of Washington DC will conduct it. Between 75 and 100 local business men have enrolled for the course.
At the Bank of England foundation dig in London archaeologists uncovered Roman footwear including a shoe bearing an eagle seal. The leather layers remain in fair preservation, estimated at over 2200 years old, with copper rivets binding the pieces.
Parboil sweetbreads and dice with cucumbers. Season with spice and paprika. Stir into gelatine just before it cools for a cool summer salad.
California orange packers are requested to bury culls as a precautionary measure against fruit fly infestation.
City officials announced no charge for private residence garbage removal in the future and said additional equipment will ensure regular calls by garbage trucks. Seven trucks are in operation with one more to be added and two assigned to each of four wards, while business houses retain a small fee. Citizens urged to cut grass and weeds to reduce flies this month and next.
Thirty boys were enlisted in the navy between August 1 and 9 in the two Carolinas as the district quota for the month, chosen from 230 applicants who passed the July physicals. Most are high school graduates with some college, and no one has less than an eighth grade education. Active recruiting will resume the first week in September.
Local Committee 10 meets to finalize plans for the North Carolina State Council of the Junior Order United American Mechanics convention to be held in High Point August 19 20 and 21. The program committee led by J W Sechrest will discuss arrangements at 7 30 p m in Sechrest's downtown office. The main committee includes 16 members from Trophy Guilford High Point and Mechanicsville.
Miss Virginia Carrier, girl reserve secretary of the High Point YWCA, will return tomorrow afternoon from Asheville where she has been on vacation with relatives and friends. She will relieve Miss Irene Yarnall, industrial girls secretary, who leaves Thursday morning for a month in New York City and Maine. During their absence, Miss Carrier will oversee local association activities while Miss Vivian Matson, the general secretary, is at her home in Smith's Center Kansas.
Mrs. E. W. Blackwelder, proprietor, offers daily barbecued meals in an old southern style at 119 North Wrenn Street. Lunch service highlighted by traditional flavors and steady local patronage.
Will Gladden and May Dorsett were bound over for Lexington court after arraignment on charges of destroying an infant buried on May Dorsett’s sister Louise Adderton’s lot. Louise testified Gladden dug at the garden and used a box to cover the grave. Prosecution presented three witnesses. defense offered none.
A continuing hearing before Judge Moore on the bill of particulars in the suit to remove W. A. Davis from the second ward was postponed at the request of Davis’s attorneys until Thursday morning. The judge stated no further delays would be granted.
A luncheon for officials and superintendents of the Southeastern Veneer association is planned for tomorrow at 1 o'clock at the Sheraton hotel. Between 15 and 20 attendees are expected.
Parsley on potatoes and cold meats, crisp lettuce beds, honey dew melon with cherries, and new salads add visual appeal and freshness in hot weather, enhancing meals with color and texture.
A meeting of the High Point City Beautiful judges and awards committee will be held tomorrow at 1 30 PM at the Commercial club to plan the judging of yard and garden contest entries. Chairman A E Tate leads a list including T Wingate Andrews H S Haworth Rev F L Conrad Julius A Greene and others. Over 500 entries have been received this year requiring extensive registration photographing and judging work.
The American Business club will not meet tonight because of a watermelon feast at Blair's Dairy Farm. The regular meeting is moved to tomorrow at 7 PM at High Point Country Club. Over 100 High Point residents are invited, hosted by the Farmers' Community Civic organization.
About 25 to 30 members of the Lend-a-Hood club at Highland cotton mill enjoyed a watermelon feast last night at Camp Otakne the Y W C A camp beyond Trinity. The group traveled to and from the camp in a large mill supplied truck.
Crystal WV resident W M Barger suffered indigestion and a persistent right side pain with sour stomach and headaches. He credits Black Draught with relief after starting with small doses after meals and continuing use, noting lasting improvement and prevention of headaches and constipation. BA-1998
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