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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1930
Page
12
Postoffice in town runs with 15 extra workers as Yuletide mail swells volume. J A Davis notes Christmas cards boost backlog while Saturday's receipts exceed 2100 dollars and today may set a new record. Office may close early for Christmas with packages mailed late facing delays. Local merchants report strong business despite hard times.
The Enterprise announces an outdoor Christmas lighting contest with a 15 dollar prize for first place and 10 dollars for second. Homes across the city display decorations as judges plan to visit Monday night December 29, asking participants to keep lights on until 10 30 p.m. Judges include Roy Smart, Willis Johnson, and T C Johnson. entries accepted until noon that day.
Emmanuel Sunday school will stage a Christmas celebration tomorrow night at 7 oclock featuring a two scene Nativity with Mary Joseph shepherds and wise men. Readers include Rachel Conrad and Donia Bowers with a sunrise service at 7 on Christmas morning. Upkeep of Paris streets for 1931 32 costs 472800.
Reports claim Otto Wood, famed NC escape artist, was seen at Terrace Gardens on the High Point Winston Salem highway around 11 pm Sunday. A Packard with a man matching Wood, a female, and a child reportedly stopped briefly, then drove away. Wood’s prior escape on July 10 and the October 2 outlaw declaration with a $250 reward are recalled.
The Salvation Army reports 43 dollars collected yesterday for its relief fund as two kettles remain at grocery stores through tomorrow night. Adjutant John O Beirne urged customers to have groceries charged to their accounts for donation. The organization also shelters a cold, unemployed couple at 801 South Main, who recall a meal last Christmas before hardship.
City council members meet in the court room this evening. City Manager E M Knox said no unusual or outstanding items are expected for action.
Allen Jay school will reopen Monday December 29 following the Christmas holidays, announced this morning by school officials.
A brief exchange shows a prisoner recalling nine years of confinement while a gentleman notes the war did not last that long. The beggar insists he was not in the war, sparking a terse street conversation.
President Hoover and Governor Gardner sent congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. David Bodenheimer on their diamond wedding anniversary near Abbott's Creek. The couple, married 60 years ago at Squire Motsinger’s home, shared memories with family of five children, 22 grandchildren, and 19 great grandchildren as they prepared for a Christmas Day observance.
Police and Mrs. Kalte’s lawyers pursue J. H. Kalte who took Esther Kalte from their home and may be heading to Chicago. The man faces multiple prior cases for abandonment and non-support with three pending in superior court. Esther was last seen with Kalte at J. C. Penney and Quality Shoe stores after a shopping trip arrangement between the pair.
The Reformed Church The First presents a White Gift Christmas program tonight in a sacred service. The young division offers a pageant The Shepherd Lad's Gift to the King followed by gift presentation and an offering for Nazareth Orphans Home. Treats and decorations in white welcome all children and the public.
The Young Women's Christian Association committees prepared lunches over several days and served them today for the final time this Christmas season. The meals, aimed at working girls and others with little time for lunch, are a yearly charitable tradition.
C G Wilkinson reports a letter from EE Mather of Southern Dairies outlining steps to aid the unemployed. The letter says winter lay offs are common in ice cream, but the company will cooperate to limit losses and offer part time and reassigned work. It directs plants to place workers in Florida resort locations during the season where possible.
A proposed 1931 North Carolina bill would form a liquidating commission to oversee the liquidation of deposit securities held by Asheville and Buncombe county. The panel would include top local business figures and take charge of more than 8 million dollars in assets tied to closed Buncombe banks.
The better grade felt hats are made from shorter hairs of rabbit hare muskrat South American rat beaver and nutria furs. Lining, when used, may be silk or cotton. The signal corps of the United States Army has begun producing sound pictures to instruct officers and enlisted men.
The annual meeting of the stockholders will be held in the Commercial National Bank directors room in High Point North Carolina on Thursday January 22 1931 at 730 p m for electing directors and other business as may come before the meeting C H Ellis secretary
Members of the High Point Bar Association back a movement to create a Guilford County judicial district with sittings of the superior court in High Point and Greensboro. A meeting at the Elwood hotel approved resolutions to set aside the county as a district or arrange for superior court sittings if a single district is denied by the legislature. Thomas Turner Jr presided, with support from Greensboro officials and legislators.
Rev H N Bowne announces a midnight service at Saint Marys Episcopal Church North Main and Farriss Avenue starting 11 30 pm Christmas Eve ending 12 30 am Christmas morning with music and singing a second service follows at 10 30 am Christmas Day the public is invited to attend
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