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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1926
Page
12
Margarette Willis Reeve writes on keeping Christmas beyond December 25 and teaching children the spirit of giving and brotherhood. The article notes holiday rituals, then mentions Ruth Clapp and Cleo Franklin as program highlights with Miss Lowe's second grade winning the attendance prize and a closing prayer by Rev. Hensley.
Mechanicsville patrons organized a parent teacher association at the new school building on Tuesday night November 30. Officers elected include President Mrs Sam Best Vice President Mrs Fred Clinard Secretary Mrs John Talbert and Treasurer Miss Ivey Paylor. The group plans monthly meetings and a Christmas bazaar to raise funds for a library.
Pupils of Miss Foust’s first grade led chapel with songs and readings including Silent Night and The Pigeon House. Seventh grade boys performed When Ignorance Is Bliss. T. Plum mer, G. Clinard, and W. Hicks, Jr. chaired a PTA meeting led by Mrs. Hicks with devotions by Rev. Mc Farland.
Rev. Tom Sykes of the Friends church visited Elm Street grammar trade department Friday morning to deliver a Christmas message urging daily imitation of Christ. The school sang Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Silent Night. Thursday’s chapel featured Miss Grantham’s first grade with The Angelus Fe eding Her Birds and a Three Billy Goats Gruff dramatization.
A meeting of grade mothers was held at the school with an opening prayer by M. T. Hicks. The group was organized with Mrs. W. E. Ritten as chairwoman, Mrs. Grady GCutier as assistant, and Mrs. Holton as secretary and treasurer. The first task is selling Red Cross seals.
Speculators split on stock advances led by high priced industrials while cotton hit new seasonal lows. French franc hits near four cents as bankers eye gains. Traders note higher oil shares, stronger copper from dividend hikes, and rail equipment climbs on current business.
Winston Salem reports a Friday auction of 528,296 pounds of tobacco leaf with an average price near 21.17 per hundred and total payout of 111,846.17 dollars. Market holiday timing remains unsettled with December 17 to December 21 discussed. Tobacco Board decision expected soon.
The report states an average market price of 21.64 dollars per hundred, reflecting current trading conditions and value for the commodity in question.
Eskimo women exchange furs for fashionable items as they wear high heeled slippers and silk stockings in a novel Arctic style.
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