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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1931
Page
9
Four prominent men and other residents question the Best Citizen cup principle while a committee cites 17 nominees for the 1931 civic service award funded by Publix Kincey theaters. Roy L. Smart defends the award as a public thank you and community gratitude.
Clarence O. Kuester of the Charlotte chamber of commerce told Southern Hotel association members that hotels act as the main link between traveling public and communities. R K Young of High Point chaired group four as E J Bugg of Durham and Harry C. Thompson spoke on hotel problems and policy.
Trade in several city stores shows a rising volume versus two weeks before Christmas last year with shoppers starting earlier. Belk Stevens Schiffmans Wrights and Mann Drug report heavier or rising business while Quality Shoe Cecil's and others hold steady. Toys dolls books and mechanical novelty items adapt with shoppers demanding more realistic dolls and simpler greeting cards gain favor.
The Enterprise notes a correction for Fridays December 11 issue regarding the N H Silver Company ad. Shirt values should read regular 1.50 to 5.00 instead of the former text and dressing gowns priced from 4.50 to 29.50.
A living portrayal of Jesus Christ and Madonnas by old masters drew an emotional audience at the Episcopal church on Friday. Rev D W Allen starred as Christ and the program sponsored by the Woman's club Art Department will be repeated Thursday at First Methodist church with Miss Clara Boyd arranging music. The scenes included Holy Night manger, Madonna and Child, and Christ in Garden of Gethsemane with strong audience applause for Allen's performances and lighting effects.
Funeral services for pioneer High Point resident T Y Hamilton were held at Springfield Friends church with Rev T A Sykes and Rev George T Tunstall officiating. The service featured hymns and tributes to Hamilton’s life and Christian service, with interment in the family plot at the church cemetery.
The divorce action of R. C. Lewellyn, cashier of the Bank of Dobson, against Mrs. Maggie Lewellyn was granted transfer by Judge Lewis B. Teague. The case moves to the superior court of Surry County for trial. Mrs. Lewellyn alleges cruel treatment and a liaison with another unnamed woman, plus coded correspondence.
B. H. Carraway announces receipt of sales tax blanks and urges merchants and others who have not yet filed to submit the required information. The filing deadline was set for midnight December 10, and those lacking submissions are urged to act immediately.
The Junior Order will stage a class initiation in the Trophy Hall Monday at 7 30 PM. Six councils Guilford Mechanicsville High Point Tro phy Ragsdale and Trinity will be represented. Forty two new members will be accepted. Refreshments will be served and all members are urged to attend.
High Point city schools will close for Christmas Friday December 18 and reopen January 4. Enrolment reaches about 8400 with a projected 8500 after the holidays. Teacher pay changes shift to January 1 while a program of health supervision and free textbooks receives praise.
A possum perched on the radio aerial of Mrs. J M Teague at 634 West Green Street briefly cut off reception yesterday. Edwin Willoughby of 121 Taylor Street told Enterprise staff the animal was seen on the pole with front feet on the wire, causing the interference.
Members of the Auxiliary of the Andrew Jackson post of the American Legion will be guests at the regular Legion hall meeting Tuesday night. Forrest H. Shuford, commander, announced a special program with C. M. Waynick in charge. Several important business matters are expected to be discussed.
Salvation Army officials announce Santa Claus will visit the city near Christmas, delivering gifts from a 60 to 65 foot balsam fir erected on North Main street. The tree will be lit by Mayor C Grayson at dusk on December 22 or 23, with lighting coordinated by North Carolina Public Service Company.
Jamestown constable Winfield Davis was fined 154 dollars and costs and allowed to resign without further penalty. Judge Thomas J. Shaw fined him and banned seeking office for six years after a Guilford superior court verdict found him willfully neglecting duty in the 1930 whiskey seizure case. Trial began Thursday with a two hour jury deliberation. Arthur MacDonald of High Point got 90 days for whiskey possession. Mrs L L Davis was imprisoned a year for false pretense tied to relief funds after Vera Leonard's death.
William H. Rowe announces his Red Rowe Heating and Plumbing firm won a Greensboro postoffice project valued around fifty to sixty thousand dollars. The Greensboro job will be managed by Rowe’s company, which has long handled heating and plumbing for UNC expansion and now completes work on the Adante-Millis unit.
Final preparations for the Junior Service League annual Ice Carnival ball at Sedgefield on Friday night are complete. Proceeds will fund the Baby Clinic, with a noted patronage group and a committee led by Mrs Lawrence Matton and Mrs Roland Holton overseeing the event. Tickets are $3 per couple.
City electrical department asks merchants planning decorative Christmas lighting to contact inspectors before installation. Temporary circuits will be approved after inspection, with expert advice available. Unsupervised, unskilled work is unsafe, the inspector warns, stressing safety to avoid fire scares and protect busy stores.
The negro emergency and relief committee of the Board of Public Welfare hosts a community singing at William Penn high school auditorium this afternoon at 3 o clock. A chorus of over a hundred voices from city negro church choirs will perform hymns spirituals and carols with solos duets and quartets. All welcome and a silver offering benefits the Board of Public Welfare relief efforts.
R. D. Penny has purchased the National Dry Cleaners formerly operated by R. H. Ellwanger. Penny announced last night that he will add to the pressing department and create what he believes will be one of the best clothes repairing departments in the city.
Mr E Bean and his wife defended their filling station on Kivett Drive just outside the city from three Negro men attempting a hold up. Police found tracks leading into woods north of the Southern railroad but no further trace. A .38 bullet hole was found near a window and bullets lodged in walls of the house.
Two unmasked youths, about 21 to 23, held up L. B. Tucker at Big 1 Place station near Highway 10 last night. They fled in a gray Chevrolet coach with cash and cigars after ordering drinks. Police pursued but suspects escaped toward Thomasville in a waiting car.
Record of Empty Stocking Fund gifts shows a $150 anonymous joint donation by five men to feed and clothe four children for six months while their mother seeks tuberculosis treatment. Contributions boost by small gifts from A G Dixon and others, with notes of encouragement and extended plans to donate monthly until the target is met.
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