Mac Hoover Faithful Servant Of Snows
Mathew Austin Hoover, a respected Black worker born in 1875, is described as an institution in High Point. He became the Snow Lumber Company’s trusted right hand, serving three generations of Captain Billy Snow and his family since starting at 30 cents a day, amid the firm’s rise from sash and door production to local industry pioneer.
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Mathew Austin Hoover
Hoovers
Randolph
Squire Joe Hoover
Mac’’ Hoover
Mathew Austin
Snow Lumber Company
Snow
Mac
Captain Snow
Billy
Billy Snow
Mr. Snow
Union Army
High Point
Greensboro
North Carolina
Bush Hill
Archdale
East Commerce
Hamilton Streets
Ella
Chronicle
W. P. Ragan
West High Street
Sullivan Place
Bencini
South Main Street
Sam Davis
Albert Miller
Old Presbyterian Church
Ella Hoover
Picketts
Snows
Johnsons
Ragans
Bests
Harris
Wheelers
Daltons
Welborns
Pattie Newlin
Willis Hinton
Jamestown Road
East
Washington Street
Clem Moon
Moontown
Normal School
Sid Bowman
McLeod’s Store
Doc Carr
Had Robbins
Emeline Taylor
Negress
Tall
W. H. Coffin
W. H. Ragan
Hinton
Ida Hinton
Respectful Mac Hoover a pillar of High Point colored community
This profile honors Mathew Austin Hoover and Ella Hinton as longtime High Point leaders. It recalls Mac Hoover rising from mill work to wealth and civic service, his wife Ella, and their role in church, fraternal groups, and local race relations while noting changing times and remaining optimistic.
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High Point
Mac
Mathew Austin Hoover
First Baptist Church
Colored
Royal Arch Chapter of Masons
Odd Fellows Lodge
Captain Snow
Ella Hinton
Willis Hinton
Kivett Road
Ball Park
Em” Willis Hinton
Ella
Asheboro
Paris Actress Defies French Dance Ban In New York Row
Parisian actress Jeanne Aubert arrives in New York to star on Broadway this fall defying a court decree that restrains her from dancing on stage at her husband Col Nelson Morris's wish. The wealthy Chicago packer is opposed to her performing as the law limits her stage activities.
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Jeanne Aubert
New York
France
Col
Nelson Morris
Chicago
Man Injured When Two Bombs Explode In Philadelphia
Two bombs exploded in the basement of the labor institute in central Philadelphia injuring 67 year old Aaron Fleisher, a watchman, who could not identify any suspects or motive. The blasts damaged the basement and shattered windows across the neighborhood during a night with six meetings held at the building.
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Philadelphia
Labor Institute
Pennsylvania Hospital
Aaron Fleisher
German Fish Learn To Read
German fish at a Berlin university learned to read by following colored bags and pulling strings to access their favored food. Researchers then labeled same color bags with alphabet letters and trained the fish to pick the bag with the correct letter, even distinguishing R from B.
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Berlin
Follow Thru to Be Filmed in Technicolor by Paramount
Paramount shoots the golfing comedy Follow Thru in Technicolor. The open golf course setting suits the master color now central to Technicolor, making the production ideal for color cinema.
Undersea Mic Used for Sea God Film Scenes
An undersense microphone placed on the ocean floor records sounds for Paramount Pictures The Sea God. The equipment is being used to capture authentic underwater acoustics off the Pacific floor during production.
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Paramount
Pacific
Duke Alumni Spread Across Twenty Eight Lands
Duke University alumni are now living in 28 foreign countries with the Alumni Register listing a half million miles of reader outreach. Among the farthest north is R. McKinney Patterson of St Johns Newfoundland and the farthest south is Mrs J K Ross in Richmond Australia.
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Duke
Durham
Duke University
Alumni Register
Polar
R. McKinney Patterson
Greer
S. C
St. Johns
Newfoundland
J. K. Ross
Martinsville
Richmond
Australia
United States
Hiroshima
Japan
North Carolina
Virginia
South Carolina
Africa
China
Brazil
Philippines
Belgium
Canada
Panama
France
England
Germany
Spain
Italy
Greece
Egypt
Java
Korea
Turkey
Chile
Venezuela
India
Churches Offer Weekly Services Across City
A compilation of Sunday schools and worship times for multiple churches in the area. First Baptist at North Main lists sermons at 11 am and 8 pm with 7:30 pm B Y P U and midweek prayer. Fairmont Baptist on Thomasville Road posts 11 am and 7:30 pm services. Southside Baptist on Highland Avenue and Station Street notes 9:45 am Sunday school and 11 am 7:30 pm sermons, plus 6:30 pm B Y P U and 7:30 pm Wednesday prayer. Green Street, Mechanicsville, West End, North Park, North Main, Grace Street, First Christian, Church of God, and St. Edward's also provide Sunday school times, morning and evening services, prayer meetings, and Holy Day masses or devotions as listed.
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Fairmont
A. Elfore
A. J. Borland
Green Street
Geo. T. Tunstall
J. D. Barnette
Hoyle Love
North Park Baptist Church
Putnam Avenue
B. H. Watkins
B. Y. Gladden
North Main Baptist Church
W. P. McCarter
Roscoe Clinard
Grace Street Mission
W. L. Hicks
W. E. Hatchett
First Christian Church
Tryon
West Green Streets
L. G. Gardner
J. M. Allred
North Hamilton Street
St. Edward’s
East Green
Park Streets
John P. Manley
Christian Science
North Main Street
New Broadhurst
Local church notices and services overview
The list covers Saint Marys North Main Farriss avenue with Rev H Norwood Bowne and morning service at 11 am and Holy Communion, Christian Science at 11 am and 1 pm, Emmanuel Lutheran with Rev F Conrad and services at 11 am and 7 30 pm, Friends churches with service times and Sunday school details, Archdale and Springfield Friends schedule, Oak Hill Friends at Burton and Hansell streets.
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Episcopal
Religious notices from multiple area churches
A compact listing of church services across town including Methodist Episcopal Wesley Memorial First M P Lebanon M P and several others with Sunday school times, worship hours at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., midweek prayer meetings, Epworth Leagues, and specific pastors and superintendents named. Also notes Salvation Army services and Bible students watchtower program details.
Church Services and Schedules Listed for Local Congregations
Kings Chapel Church of God Apostolic holds Sunday morning 11 o clock service, Sunday school at 1, and evening services at 3 and 7 30 at the corner of Davis and Moon. St Luke's Lutheran led by Rev J E Shufelt with Arthur Parker as Sunday school superintendent offers 11 am service and 12 noon Sunday school, Young People's meeting in the afternoon, and 3 pm service every 2nd and 4th Sunday. St Mark's Methodist under H L Ashe lists 9 30 am Sunday school with W M Holt superintendent, 11 am service with sermon, Epworth League devotional at 7 pm led by T A Brower, and 7 30 pm evening sermon. prayer meeting Wednesdays at 7 30 pm.
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Highland
C. F. Womble
R. L. Proctor
Epworth League
West View
Calvary M. E
F. M. Jones
Salvation Army
S. Main
Clay Streets
John O’beirne
Holiness
Young People’s Legion
Cherry Street
Church of God Apostolic
Davis and
Moon Streets
Arebell Miller
St. Luke's Lutheran
J. E. Shufelt
Arthur Parker
Young People’s Society Meeting
St. Mark's Methodist
H. L. Ashe
W. M. Holt
T. A. Brower
Colored Churches Baptist Mt Zion services and leaders
Colored Churches Baptist Mt Zion on Hulda street lists Sunday school at 10 a.m. with Edgar Leak as superintendent and 11 a.m. preaching. B Y P U at 6 p.m. with Annie Williams president and 7 30 p.m. preaching. Tuesday missionary meeting, Wednesday prayer, Thursday choir practice. Pastor Rev S D Townsend. First Baptist at East Washington and Hobson with Dr F R Mason pastor and S S Whitted superintendent. B Y P U Sundays 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday school 9 30 a.m. B Y P U 6 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesdays 8 p.m.
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First Baptist
North Main Street
A. B. Conrad
A. E. Tate
Baptist
Mt. Zion
Hulda Street
Edgar Leak
P. U
Annie Williams
S. D. Townsend
East
Washington and
Hobson Streets
F. R. Mason
S. S. Whitted
H. M. Kirkpatrick
Zion St Stephen AME Zion Church Services and Meetings
A M E Zion St Stephen Church led by J B A Yelverton with Sunday school at 9 30 a m W B Steele superintendent Christian Endeavor at 6 45 p m Communion first Sunday Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 p m Home Church League third Sunday 3 00 p m Trustees fourth Monday night Women s Memorial AME Church East Washington St Rev L W Easterling pastor
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Welch Memorial M. P
Mangum
Lake Streets
Geo. L. Curry
C. W. Hoover
Christian Endeavor
Lebanon M. P
Edward Suits
J. W. Montgomery
Vera Hedgecock
Christian Enpianist
Deaver
St. Stephen’s A. M. E. Zion
J. B. A. Yelverton
W. B. Steele
Home Church League
Women’s Memorial A. M. E
Washington St
L. W. Easterling
Man in District Has Papers to Say He Is Sane
A factory yard chat recalls a passing man who had once been in a mental home. Some say he looks sane while others wonder, noting he is the only local resident with official papers claiming sanity.
Skyscraper collapse in Angora kills four workers
Angora's seven story concrete apartment building, billed as the city’s tallest, fell when forms were removed. Four workmen died. Faulty cement cited. Meanwhile a British steamship line plans a passenger liner, 1050 feet long and 60 000 tons, to be the world’s largest electrically driven ship once commissioned.
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Falls
Angora
Turkey
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I. Tomaka
Seoul
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Central M. E. Church
Kobe
T. Kugimiya
Toyonaka
G. W. Frank
Ugajima
Mt. Airy
N. C
Kuni Kodama
Hiroshima Girls’ School
I. L. Shaver
Richfield
Four Corners of Earth
Christian
Christ — Corner N. Hamilton
State Streets
J. T. Saunders
J. A. Mizell
Church of God
Asheboro Street
J. R. Reese
Floyd E. MecNeill
Lutheran
Emmanuel Lutheran
F. Conrad
Charles BE. Miler
Luther League
Friends
Main Street
Tom A. Sykes
Horace Hayworth
Brotherhood
Archdale Friends
Reuben J. Payne
Oscar L. Mc Campbell
Springfield
Clara Cox
Young People’s
Doral Richardson
Oak Hill
J. Waldo Woody
Carl Slack
C. E
Methodist Episcopal Wesley Memorial
John W Moore
W. B. McEwen
Epworth
South Main
A. L. Aycock
J. W. Clinard
EF. L. Kirk
A. H Holton
M. P
North Main
Richardson Streets
Cially
Presbyterian First
Charles Haddon Nabers
D. D
Lamar McCallum
Wesleyan Methodist First Wayan Methodist
C. Connor
Newton and
Meadow Streets
Pilgrim
O. L. Ruth
Jesse Jennings
Young People’s Society
Pentecostal
Highland Avenue
J. F. Goins
J. Oham
Saint Paul Holiness Church
Pearson Street
O. C. Crone
K. Shaw
Jane Willoughby
WBT
WPTF
N. Main Street
First Reformed Church
W. R. Shaffer
M. F. Crooks
CG. E
Pvp. i
Calvary Baptist Calvary Baptist Church
vVail
Hilltop Streets
B. L. Humphrey
J. E. Melton
Emmanual Baptist Church
Price and
Leonard Streets
G. W. Buckrham
St. Mark’s
Kings
A. M. E. Zion
Ingre
Midas
Winston-Salem
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