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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1938
Page
7
The Ju High School audience will see the stage play Through tonight at eight o’clock. The production recalls a famed melodrama about a bride-to-be shot by a rejected suitor and a spirit that aids a young couple across generations.
Svendsen 18 and Jean Caron 27 received 30 year terms for the slaying of camp operator J. E. Carraway near Pines. The two former defendants had been convicted of first degree murder after a trial that followed a year ago when they were captured in Canada. Each blamed the other for the fatal beating and robbery.
Thursday evening Mr and Mrs Hedgecock of Ker ne route 1 hosted a social gathering on their lawn with flowers and water setting. After a feast the guests sang old songs led by Misses Nancy and Manning. Attendees included Roy Recto and family, Parker Shoemaker and Marian, W Brewer family, Lois Brookes, Drew Robbins, Billie Buchanan, Manning and John Weed party members from Chase City and South Hill Virginia.
Rev W Perry Crouch secretary of Christian Education for the Ballot State Convention of North Carolina will occupy the pulpit at 11 oclock Sunday at First Baptist Church in the absence of Pastor A B Conrad. Crouch, a native of Alexander County, studied at Lenoir Rhyne and Southwestern Baptist Seminary and has pastored Hollis Oklahoma and Morganton. His sermon title is Insipid Christians.
Funeral services for James Leazer who died at 916 Cherry Street Greensboro were held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Archdale M E Church. Clergy present included Dr J D Williams Rev W T Winslow and Rev R C Kirk. Pallbearers were W T Stone Co L Hill W J Staley Stroud C T Lambeth and Cagie. Interment followed at Mount Vernon cemetery in Randolph County.
The Willing Workers class of the Christian church met at the homes of Mrs. Eli Freeman and Mrs. Grover Crutchfield on High Point street with Mrs. Paul Jarrett presiding. Viola Russell led devotions and Sunday school discussion followed, then unified Lord s Prayer and refreshments. The Sunbeams group of the M P church met at the church with Miss Margaret Whitson presiding. 23 members attended and received candy on leaving. Mrs. W F Mathews and Miss Louise, Sarah Mathews, and Miss Mabel Fox planned a 10 day Canada Niagara Falls trip including the Clayton Mathews wedding. Mr Mathews is the son of Dr and Mrs W F Mathews.
Two games will be played tomorrow afternoon at Willis Park in the Industrial League championship. March Furniture Company meets Triangle Hosiery Mill in the first game at 2 o'clock, and Tom-
Lingson’s will play Oakdale at 4 o clock to settle a three game series that began last Saturday. Triangle and Tomlinson won first. If tomorrow’s results reverse, the deciding game will be held next Saturday. Glenora meets Harris Covington at 3 30 tomorrow at Glenola in Amateur League. Woodmen of the World vs Highland Mills slated for high school grounds.
On June 30, 1926 the United States counted 2107 county agents and 114 assistants. The fraternity agents began their duties in 19.
In Greensboro on August 19 a $500000 suit brought by Julian Price and Julius Cone as guarantors of assets of the Atlantic Bank and Trust Company was compromised in Guilford Superior Court. The settlement allocates $100000 split among Price Cone and bank holders with expenses deducted, reflecting their $600000 guarantee tied to the bank’s 1929 merger and its 1933 liquidation.
Butter trading at 1,426,378 pounds with prices unchanged and current receipts at 19 percent. Fresh graded extra firsts firm at 7,727, while overall prices across grades remain steady with no change in aged or local lots.
Elizabeth City proclaims Orville Wright Day by mayoral decree. The event marks the pioneer aviator’s birthday as the surviving Wright brother turns 67.
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