Local notices and society items from High Point area
Religious services and meetings fill the week with preaching and gatherings. Notables include F A Hubbard displaying tomatoes from Jac D Hedge cock's farm, R Frank Peterson leaving for Thomasville, a Union Sabbath School picnic in High Point, and several townsfolk traveling, moving, or visiting relatives and schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Hubbard
Jac. D. Hedgecock
Union Sabbath School of
High Point
J. W. Holt
Burlington
North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends closes at High Point
The North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends ended Tuesday after a weeklong gathering starting Wednesday. Large crowds, up to eight thousand, filled High Point with orderly conduct and strong devotional sessions, while town accommodations were strained and some slept in halls. Maj. R. A. Ford and Mrs. S. E. Houston of Greensboro wed at Beaufort on June 28 1888. Don’t miss Wilsons Fruit Preservative for good fruit next winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurie Sapp
Jamestown
Danville
M. Bergman
Baltimore
J. A. Hedgecock
Westfield
Indiana
H. W. Reed
Dalton
Col. Boyd
North State
Z. W. Whitehead
Greensboro
J.C. Dinwiddie
Oxford
Presbyterian Church
Callie Tucker
Leola Thom
Denny
Maud Horney
John Donnell
H.C. Bencini
Geo. A. Matton
Morehead City
Francis Leach
Littleton
Ida Alexander
Charley Ragag
Algenon Alexander
William Jarrell
Guilford College
Col. Pryor
J. C. Callum
F. 8. Blair
The
Liberty Academy
North Carolina
R. A. Ford
8. E. Houston
Beaufort
Rumley
Wilsons
Greene Hill
High Point township Democrats organize and delegate list elected
A Democratic meeting in Jarrells Hall elected C F Crutchfield secretary and named delegates including J H Millis Samuel Jordan J W Guier and W G Beadshaw. They instructed votes for Baldwin Sapp and Kirkman for House register of deeds and treasurer. The convention adjourned with members re elected to the township executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Township
Jarrell’s Hall
W. H. Ragan
C. F. Crutchfield
C F Crutchfield
J H Millis
Samuel Jordan
J W Guire
W G Barbeee
R W Davis
W G Beadshaw
R F Dalton
A B Smith
W R Richardson
W J English
J S Campbell
J. B Horney
Alfred Gordon
E D Steele
J A Turner
B F Jordar
F. T. Baldwin
House
W. G. Sapp
Register of Deeds
A. G. Kirkman
W H Ragan
J W Guier
Phosphate Bag Content and Application Guidance
The notes specify phosphate bags of 200 pounds each and two bags per plot. Phosphoric acid content 10 to 16 pounds per bag in readily available form. Recommendations include lime phosphate for cotton and corn at 400 pounds per acre with kainit, or 400 pounds drilled or 600 pounds broadcast per acre for wheat oats and rye, and 600 pounds for grasses with muriate potash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acre
Kentucky
Yxttow Tosacco
Grarzs
J. C. Allred
Trinity Notes from Local Gazette Highlighting People and Properties
Miss Maud Alford visits Trinity staying with Rufus Kearns. Mrs. M. A. McMurray tours Trinity while at Squire Bradshaw's. Joyner place near college for sale with prime building site. Albert Kennedy buries son at Hopewell. Frank English visits from Mt. Olive after 21 years. Frazier hotel sold by Dr M. L. Wood and financiers Finch Harris. Trinity colored team defeats Randleman team by eleven. Prof. Peacock and family move to Greensboro living at college. Township executive committee elected: J J White D C Aldridge J D Crawford W O Craven T J Finch J E Tomlinson. Gun prize tale linked to Trinity. inquiry about Jim Robbins separation. C B Hayworth may run livery stable in Trinity. Local plan to promote quid pro quo via stable hire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyner
College
Randolph County
Albert Kennedy
Millers Mill
Hopewell
Frank English
Mt. Olive
Trinity
Frazier
M. L. Wood
Finch and
Randleman
Trinity Boys
J J White
D C Aldridge
J D Crawford
W O Craven
T J Finch
J E Tomlinson
Greensboro
Randolph
Trinity Township
Jim Robbins
C. B. Hayworth
Photographs and fruit notes from Guilford County
D L Clark offers four large tin types for 50 cents with options in each image and promises fine instantaneous photographs from High Point. He catalogs family groups and enlarging as specialties while noting 1888 as a peak fruit year for Guilford County and joking about leap years. Fresh turnip seed advertised at Dr. Brapshaw's drug store and an ad for Puritan Cough and Consumption Cure at Brown and Matton's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L. Clark
High Point
Guilford County
North State
Brown & Matton’s
Local notices on farms and business changes
Dennis Hall plans a dwelling near Empire Plaid Mills. Hoffman Farlow and Co directs selling chickens and eggs. Guilford county reports chinch bugs harming corn crops in some areas. Isaac Holt moves barber shop to Hayworth's building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Hall
Empire Plaid
Hoffman, Farlow & Co
Guilford County
Isaac Holt
Hayworth’s
Richmond & Danville
Teally, Hoffman, Farlow & CO
Also Mentioned on This Page
Enterprise
High PC Point, N.C
Church Directory
Mernopist
EH Davis
Prespyt Trrtan
P H Dalton
Frimps
Bartist
Llash
C . Fartiss
Yearly Meeting
J.C. Callum
James Palmer
Lindsay
Bellevue
Jarrell’s
Friends Meeting
Wm. L. Reaney
R. Frank Peterson
Thomasville
Peterson
C. A. Hamner
Bride
Hoover Hill
Alamance
C. A. Tickle
McLeansville
Beeson Bros
Statesville
T. Smith Bell
Turnersburg Township
Robert Keller
Cal Allison
J.C. Callam
WantTep
Ayog F
Glapston
J. R. Dwiggins
Stokesdale
Black Mountain
Durham Recorder
Durham
Roland
Gus
Guilford
Vathen
J.C. Allred
N. C
Trinity Notes
C. O. D. Jones
Maud Alford
Rufus Kearns
Peacock
Professor Peacock
Brrapsaw
North State Copper & Gold Mining Company
Lindsay Gold & Copper Mining Company
North State Or & Gold Mining Co
Bergman
Lindsay Gold & Copper Mining Co
Abram Carter
Court House
J. H. Millis
Parker & Welch
Ellison
School & Blank Books
Alfred & Moore’s
Albert x. Tate
Life
Cardantal
Surance
N.C
Tate
Oliver Secor
Streeper St
Orlando
Fla
J. H. Mraas & Co
Palatka, Fla
Lowry & Starr
Bicop Baum Co
Atlanta
FE. Johns
M. A. Smith
H. A. Simmons
Simmons
Hica Port
Landreth’s
High Point, N. C
COX & Hoskins
FE. N. Brower & Co
Liberty
E. N. Brower
H. Alexander
E. N. Brower, H. Alexander
Iker & Wilborn
Falmers
J. R. Parker, J. W. Witporn
Edwin D. Steele
Attorney -At- Law
Enterprise Building
High Point Classical Institute
J. H. Lindsay
Business Artment
W. M. Wagner
Smithder Business College
Richmond
Ss. C. Lindsay
A. ML
N.C. Phosphate Co
Pius den Tis
High
Wrenn Bros
Eee Ak
H. Snow
High Point, Se
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