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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1930
Page
6
Friends report Mrs. R A Wilson remains very ill at her Carrick Avenue home. Church events include Elizabeth Fry class meeting Sept 2 at 7 30 in the Annex. Several social gatherings feature birthdays and luncheons with local families and ministers attending.
About People Miss Helen Bartlett of Houston Texas is the guest of her brother F J Bartlett and Mrs Bartlett at their Guilford avenue home. Mrs William J McAnally returns home after a few days in Winston Salem. Mr and Mrs O M Loving and son Oliver come back from a vacation at Myrtle Beach and Darlington South Carolina. Mrs Alexander Rankin Jr and her little son Sandy return from Myrtle Beach where they had been staying.
Kansas City reports show hog values and retail pork prices climbing after August due to higher meat costs. Butchers list a 12 percent rise since August 1 for top quality hogs, while pork chops fetch 40 to 45 cents per pound up from 30 to 35. Vendors foresee beer prices increasing with corn fed steer demand.
A special meeting of the committee to secure challenge cup entries for the City Beautiful Flower show will be held tomorrow at 1 30 in the afternoon at the home of Mrs Dan Compton on Steele Street All members are urged to attend. Committee members include Mrs Dan Compton Mrs C E Sheloff Mrs J D Cox Mrs Ralph Parker Vernon McGhee and Rev T A Sykes.
President Hoover and officials will conference at the Rapidan lodge to accelerate the $550 million ten year public building program aimed at drought relief and unemployment. Ferry Heath and John W. Philip accompany Hoover to the mountain retreat for talks on accelerating construction without risking the federal budget, then return to Washington. He will then attend the Baltimore parade of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Ora C. McCain jumps to first in the Miss High Point Popularity Contest with 6 900 votes while seven challengers stay in contention. Margare t Snipes Lela Hoover and Nina English sit at 6 800, with Benvenda Ketchie at 6 700 and Mary Buchanan Bessie Hill Treva Hever at 6 500. The Guilford Randolph Baby Show also runs hot with Little M Ernest Welch leading the boys and Frankie Marie Cecil leading the girls.
Arthur Schafer a young Shelton Washington logger was hanged at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla Washington for the murder of Mr and Mrs Jos Kirk of Dayton Washington nearly two years ago Schafer denied guilt to the end as sheriff and officials carried out the sentence today.
Corrinne and a young man share the drive to a seaside luncheon with flirtatious talk. Corrinne boasts she is married to Harry Becker and schemes in a social intrigue, while the man reveals his sister Julia Jones schemes with married men for romance. He plans to leave after college is reinstated.
Deputy Sheriff T. H. Sullivan and railroad special officer C. C. Lane were jailed for wounding 24 year old Mrs Thelma Wooten when they fired into a passing car near Mobile Alabama. Her brother Emory Whitehurst and friend C O Davis were in the vehicle.
Lane admitted firing at a car claiming the driver tried to run him down and a whiskey jug was thrown from the vehicle. Mrs. Wooten lay with little hope of recovery. A westbound Canadian Pacific train near Pembroke derailed onto the Ottawa River injuring three crewmen, with two possibly dying.
The locomotive of the trans an unspecified train plunges into a river near Pembroke Ontario. Rescue efforts are underway as investigators assess the crash scene and determine causes. No final casualty figures are available in the brief report.
Banks and watch manufacturers in Switzerland have united to organize a credit underwriting group for the timepiece industry. The coalition aims to stabilize lending to watchmakers and coordinate financing strategies amid market fluctuations.
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