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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1936
Page
10
A fragment from John Mebane’s The Ace Of Spades features playful wordplay and a banter about card faces. It references John Harden’sSnapshots column in the Charlotte News and Bill Sharpe’s Off the Record in the Twin City Sentinel with mockery of women’s groups and social chatter.
A columnist urges readers with spare time to seek out the Tobin and Gertz biography of Frank Harris, noting it may be hard to borrow and offering a personal caveat about lending. The tone is advisory and informal.
Fire Chief BE. K. Ingram issued a permit to J. (Pete) Moffitt to construct a brick veneer fire room residence on Ferndale Avenue between Rotary and Florham streets. Estimated cost 3300 dollars with a private garage 250 dollars. Other permits include a reroof for High Point Steam Laundry and room additions and repairs for several addresses in the area.
Frank Sizemore Jr son of Mr and Mrs F J Sizemore of this city has been sent to St Louis Missouri where he will be associated with the National Theater Supply company He is a Duke university graduate and was among 16 college men chosen for a company training course His work in St Louis begins today.
Butter at 11 783 pounds weak with creamery specials 93 score at 34 35 percent and extras 92 at 34 4 percent with other grades around 33 34 percent. Eggs 11 412 pounds unsettled with prices unchanged.
The piece praises a biography about a famed cowhand-dandy editor author known for vivid tales from Frank Harris. It notes Harris as a Munchausen of love and letters, blending truth and fiction, with frank, not prudish, inclinations. The column also comments on police traffic decisions and public reactions.
Dr. J. W. Slate left this afternoon for Richmond Virginia to enter a hospital for treatment He expects to return to High Point in two weeks Sons of the V F W to meet at 7 30 pm at 310 North Main Street all sons of overseas veterans invited to attend
Walter E. Abernethy named by Shelby trustees to succeed B L Smith as superintendent of Shelby City Schools. He has served as high school principal for the past several years.
A preliminary hearing was set today in the death of J. B. Biggerstaff 55 a farmer fatally injured Sunday night while walking along a highway Azlea Hollins Negro was held as the driver of the car for the案 court proceedings
A 16 year old named Kay Honey, a Charlotte ice cream truck driver, was killed yesterday when the vehicle overturned on a highway near Concord. The driver was alone in the truck, and authorities investigated the fatal accident.
A 21 year old Black woman Jennie May Alexander was killed in Concord yesterday when lightning struck a tree and sent a bolt along a clothes line attached to it as she was taking clothes from the line. The incident occurred in Concord with police reporting the deadly fault in the storm. The identification of the deceased is recorded by local authorities.
Greenville police seek three African American prisoners who escaped from the county jail early yesterday. One inmate returned voluntarily while four fled, leaving three still at large.
Records from city tax collector C. N. Alston and county tax supervisor C. N. Field show about 93 percent of 1935 property taxes having been collected.
Dr. P EB Monroce, president, announced the Le noir Rhyne college will start its 1936 37 term on September 8.
Charlotte report identifies the man killed Saturday night by a train at the P N and Southern Railway trestle as Charles Revels, 33, of Kings Mountain. Tattooing on his arm aided the identification.
Charlotte police said officers would bring Sherman Hoffman and William Penning back to Michigan for trial on bank robbery charges. Hoffman and Penning were arrested in Charlotte on Sunday after eluding authorities.
The state local government association offered notes of three cities and two counties for sale. This public sale aims to raise funds for local projects and fiscal needs.
Dixon Jack Frye, 23, lay in a hospital in Hickory in critical condition after diving into three feet of water at a local pool and breaking his neck. He was nearly completely paralyzed.
Pinkney Crow surveys his burned Hickory store for the second time in eight years after a fire caused by lightning. Estimated loss reaches $15,000. the same building had previously been struck by lightning on two occasions.
A coroner's jury ruled Floyd Morris death near Goldston Saturday night unavoidable as he was struck instantly by a truck while stepping into the highway.
Dr. Pat M. Neff president of Baylor University in Waco Texas and former Texas governor spoke to delegates at the Southern Baptist Bible and Christian Life conferences on Texas One Hundred Years Ago.
Lynwood Ezelle of Washington D C lies in Fayetteville hospital with a fractured skull after a Sunday night crash near Red Springs. His wife and daughter, Mrs O Nellie Crouch of Selma and Miss Emma Ezelle of Laurel Hill are also hospitalized with injuries. Mrs Crouch has a broken ankle and dislocated shoulder. The Ezelle car failed to make a curve and left the highway.
In India stone served as the primary material for telegraph poles before iron adoption. Wood proved unsuitable due to vulnerability to white ants.
Mrs J J Haworth dies at her daughter Mrs E W Mellichampe's Helena Arkansas home after declining health. Born Indiana 1858 daughter of Samuel and Lurena Starbuck. Survived by daughters Edith and Mrs Mellichampe, sons Horace and Homer, three brothers, and four grandchildren. Funeral at Central Friends church with Rev Tom A Sykes and Rev H Norwood Bowne. Burial Oakwood Memorial Park.
Funeral services for John H. Walton will be held Wednesday at 10 30 from Springfield Friends church with Miss Clara J. Cox officiating. Interment in the church cemetery. Walton born October 16 1871 in Guilford county was furniture worker. Survived by two sons J W Walton Lonnie Walton and three daughters Vada Earnhart Vertie Lamb Anna Leonard. Body at son J W Walton home since 11 this morning.
The Northern District Lutheran Brotherhood meeting includes Greensboro Burlington Winston Salem Thomasville Lexington and High Point groups. The event at the city lake Wednesday afternoon features brief talks games stunts and swimming as recreational highlights.
Funeral services for G F Vuncannon 83 who died at his daughter's home on Ogden Street were held with a 1 30 pm service at the residence and a 3 pm service at Charlotte Methodist church in Randolph county. Rev O L Ruth of Pilgrim Holiness church officiated. Granddaughters served as flower bearers and pallbearers included A L Wright G O Hayworth B W Marshall Co A Lane L H Mullis D Powers. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
Pittsburgh August 18. Pickets stoned two Standard Steel Spring Company trucks as they left the plant. A brick broke a windshield but no injuries were reported. Edward Maloney said 625 of 700 workers quit, seeking recognition for the Amalgamated Association and wage and hour demands.
An army pilot Second Lieutenant William W. Harding and his mechanic Private Francis Meier were killed when a new pursuit plane from Selfridge Field crashed near Otsego during western Michigan war games. Harding, 25, was from Los Angeles and Meier hailed from Dowagiac, Michigan. The aircraft was one of eighteen involved in the maneuvers.
New York actor and singer Harry Richman left Albuquerque airport at 5 a m in a $100 000 custom transport plane bound for Kansas City en route to New York for a planned trans Atlantic commutation hop with pilot Dick Merrill. He hoped to reach New York by about 4 30 p m.
Greensboro report on High Point municipal court disputes over five per cent of fines and costs. County attorney B Lee Fentress refuses a city claim for 5806.29 for 1927 to 1935, arguing the fund belongs to the county or is not entitled. The matter pivots on legal interpretation of civil versus criminal fines and constitutional appropriation.
The eighth annual Pegram reunion will be at Goshen Methodist Episcopal Church in Stokesdale on Sunday September 6. Services start at 10 45 am followed by a picnic dinner at 12 30 pm and a 2 pm musical program with a featured speaker to conclude the event.
In Wilson on August 18 a court order halted the city’s plan to sell property for delinquent taxes. Superior Court Judge J. Paul Frizzelle issued the restraining order at the petition of T. E. Davis J. B. Batts H. M. Wainwright and others returnable August 31 before Judge H. A. Grady in Nashville. The petition argues the sale ordinance is unconstitutional and that property values and mortgage conditions are distorted by adverse business conditions with taxes payable in the autumn.
Syracuse with Mrs. Alfred E. Smith Jr arguing for alimony and fees cites a diary as showing Edward Smith earned as much as 30000 a month from his New York City law practice between 1928 and 1932.
Herbert R. York of 506 East Commerce street told police he shot at a man trying to enter his rear window last night. He stated he saw a hand at the window and believed his shot hit the intruder, though police found no evidence of a shooting at the scene.
Police records show only one driver cited for speeding in the past 24 hours. The note urges drivers to drive carefully and save a life.
About 100 Clinard family members from surrounding counties gathered at Oak View School for their annual meeting led by Clinard. Officers for next year include chair Clinard, vice chair Clinard, secretary Mrs Hewitt. Rev. A Lincoln Fu delivered the principal address as a picnic dinner followed in the oak grove.
Princess Nina married Denis son of the late Sir A Doyle in a register office ceremony in Wales. The couple tied the knot amid a quiet royal wedding with both families present.
Raymond Payne of Norfolk Virginia died from injuries after a rock hammering incident in Auburn New York. Authorities reported the fatal accident occurred when the tool struck him during work. Payne was likely visiting or residing in Auburn at the time of the incident.
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