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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1930
Page
6
Notices describe Mrs. M. T. Hicks heading to Chapel Hill for a Parent-Teacher Institute this week and return planned Friday. Mrs Virginia Fraley hosts a bridge for Miss Gertrude Thompson of Salisbury, while Hickory Grove Ladies' Aid announces a lawn party August 21 near Camp Uwharrie.
Ahout People lists guests and visitors including Taz Cox of Asheboro staying with sister Mrs T V Rochelle on East Farris Avenue. Visitors from Jacksonville Florida arrive to see Mrs Charles M Hauser on North Main Street. Charles A Mitchell Jr returns to Charlotte after city visit. Miss Gertrude Thompson of Salisbury visits Miss Virginia Fraley on Ardmore Circle. Benna Avery from Avery County visits cousin Mrs Capus Waynick. The Bevan Anderson Luke Perdue and Florence Outlaw party guests of Miss Outlaw’s sister. Mrs Ralph Peeler hosts Margaret Whitener of Salisbury on Colonial Drive. Frank Dalton is spending time locally.
Pine Bluff Arkansas reports Geo. B. Couch irrigated 125 acres to beat drought. He spent 1900 on equipment. by June 30 the project added 2400 in value. Total crop cost about 5562 for about 7500 bushels, yielding roughly 7500 worth with 2000 profit. Three irrigations provided rainfall-equivalent water.
Three people died when a car failed to round Farnham's corner in North Andover Massachusetts and crashed into a tree. Victims were Edwin G Nash of Cambridge and Mr and Mrs Paul Plummer of Melrose who had wed only weeks ago.
North Carolina forest fire control officials gather August 25 27 at Ridgecrest for a three day conference under the Department of Conservation and Development. State Forester J S Holme and Assistant Forester C H Flory lead talks with U S Forest Service officials and foresters from Virginia Tennessee and South Carolina.
Washington report shows among 1250 plus air corps officers only 18 hold all four flying ratings airplane pilot air observer airship pilot and balloon observer. Sixty percent have more than one rating while 18 officers have no rating.
Pittsburgh man Thomas Walowski, 27, is accused of a scam that used obituary notices to gather orders for tombstones. He allegedly collected down payments and first payments but never delivered the stones.
Showers and cooler weather add optimism to farm talk in western North Carolina. Officers seek Oscar Shuler for a shooting in Ela. Wiggins, 21, in grave condition. Three Negroes helped a motorist fix lights, then confiscated the car. Charles Sluder, indicted for assaulting an eight year old girl, found mentally irresponsible and ordered to state hospital.
A fatal fall from a ladder in North Carolina was ruled an accidental death due to a heart attack that struck 70 year old Joe Lance as he fell, breaking his neck and dying at the scene.
Washington AP reports Shelby, NC posted a 198.9 percent population gain from 1920 to 1930, the highest in the state. Greensboro ranked second with 169.0 percent, and High Point third with 156.7 percent growth according to the latest figures.
In Santiago many University of Chile students grow beards to protest the expulsion of classmates who they demand be reinstated. In New York Wall Street brokers prepare late shifts in Central Park as social events plan a dinner dance with tickets and tape decorations at the Casino tomorrow night.
In Plymouth a merchant claims Lady Heath failed to pay for dresses and has pressed for bankruptcy. Papers were served aboard a liner on Sunday, and officials fear service may be illegal, prompting a possible attempt again in France.
New York figure Edgar Allen sues Peaches Browning seeking the return of gifts given in a vaudeville arrangement. City marshals visited Browning’s apartment and demanded items including two candelabra a cocktail set a copper coffee set a drawing room lamp two book sets blue pajama coat a ring a bridge set twelve gold dishes and a lemonade service. They departed with some articles.
Erin and Shamrock V display the Royal Ulster Yacht Club burgee a blue flag with a gold crown and a red bloody hand. Legend says a sailor cut off a hand and threw it ashore to claim victory in a past race.
New York reports that Lipton offered a night aboard his steam yacht for 15 pence with breakfast to Mayor Walker for a view of the cup races. The mayor deemed it steep, prompting Lipton to cut the price by three pence.
West Point cadets will illuminate their summer camp next Saturday night in a Spanish themed event. The camp will be decorated to evoke a night in Spain with guests in Spanish costumes, following a historic Washington tradition from 1781.
The 1929 output by U S firms in aircraft and parts reached 61,973,079 dollars, a 192.9 percent rise from 1927. The census report counts 65,130 airplanes 176 seaplanes and amphibians and 6,188 parachutes produced.
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