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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
5
A compact essay by Alicia Hart on beauty emphasizing inner health, temperament, and grooming over fixed facial traits. It argues that one can be beautiful despite minor defects if they sleep well, stay cheerful, and maintain immaculate grooming, and cautions against chronic frowning as aging signs.
A brief to present before the state liquor commission in Wilson was prepared today by representatives from North Carolina's 17 wet counties. The meeting discussed upcoming actions and potential decisions regarding alcohol regulations in the state.
The Atlantic and Yadkin railroad filed with the state utilities commission a petition to abandon its branch line from Stokesdale in Guilford county to Madison in Rockingham county. The company cited lack of business on the line as the reason for the request.
Donnell Gilliam of Tarboro succeeds Senator L. Lee Gravely of Rocky Mount as a member of the state liquor commission. Governor Ehringhaus announced the appointment after Gravely's resignation.
Mrs Lillie Louisa Prior 62 of South Orange New Jersey died suddenly in Selma yesterday while en route to Florida with her husband Walter Prior.
J A Sharpe, editor of The Robesonian, announces the paper will become tri weekly next week, publishing on Monday Wednesday and Friday. The paper traces its founding to 1870.
Coroner D W Diggs reported a newly born white infant found in Lumber River. The body showed signs of being in water for at least a week.
W. B. Edmund of Norfolk Virginia pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for a death and faced sentencing today in the case. The record notes his plea and the pending judgment by the court.
The newly appointed liquor commission held its first public hearing in Raleigh today with subsequent sessions planned in Wilson on Friday and Wilmington on Saturday.
In Kannapolis a year after a mill worker Lew Is Shinn was charged with the murder of Babe and Bradley Medlin the murder trial was continued in superior court yesterday.
The Gastonia city council adopted an ordinance banning bank nights in theaters and the measure took effect today ending a long standing practice in local venues.
Greensboro July 27 Thomas R Foust county superintendent of schools announced three meetings before rural schools reopen on September 14 The principals meeting September 9 in the courthouse assembly room features Dr J Henry Highsmith of Raleigh discussing The New Course of Study The September 10 parent teachers meeting at Jamestown High School chairs Mrs J W Burke and a luncheon will be served The September 11 teachers meeting will be at Proximity School at 10 o’clock.
The article reports 82 appointments to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Two appointees are named on the recommendation of the vice president, highlighting political influence in the selection.
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