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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1936
Page
9
A fragment mentions Mrs Rail delivering to Mrs Wallis Simn near Rogers villa and references plans at Cannes involving the Duke of Wind. No clear event or complete details are present.
Jim Brocka, 80, famed for flagging the mall train No. 97 to beg a chew of tobacco, died at the Davidson county home after an auto accident in Rowan county. A local legend, he wandered for decades, shouted phrases to benefactors, and used his savings to buy a grave monument and a church bell.
Several hundred leading American and foreign mathematicians gathered in Durham for the first general session of the annual joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. The five day event is hosted by Duke University and the University of North Carolina with sessions split between Duke and Chapel Hill locations.
Harvey Armstrong 48 died at home on Hilltop street after a six month illness. Born in Lowell he moved to High Point twenty years ago and worked for Sheroff Ice and Coal for eighteen years. He was active in Brooks Memorial M E Church. Survived by wife Alice, daughters Genelle and Helen, seven sons Frank Paul Carl Russell Raymond Harold and David, two sisters Miss Rena Watson and Miss Elizabeth Armstrong, one brother William Armstrong of Martinville VA. Funeral Wednesday 3 PM at Brooks Memorial Church Reverend P J Cook in charge. Interment Lowell Thursday at 10 AM.
Mr and Mrs Claud Lee Hill and Miss Odessa Simpson spent the weekend in Roanoke visiting parents. Mrs Robert Beatty admitted to Burrus Memorial hospital Sunday shows improvement. Mrs Tynie Byrd of New York City visits her brother and sister in law here Mr and Mrs Columbus Ingram H H LeMon has gone to Washington DC for the holidays. Young People s Club to hold New Year party at Mrs Mary McCoy s Alder street home Thursday evening. Octa
The earliest hydrogen balloon launched in 1788 was destroyed when it landed in a field as locals feared it omenied evil. Separate note mentions golf courses at extreme northern and southern latitudes, one near Hudson Bay and another near the Strait of Magellan.
G L Clem Pleasants, taxi and store operator near East Carolina Teachers College, is hospitalized in Pitt General in critical condition after two unidentified men hired for a trip beat him with a hammer and shot him in the eye. He walked to the highway and was aided by a passing motorist. Pleasants, son-in-law of Police Chief George Clark, described the attackers and route. no suspects or car recovered.
Thirteen year old Fred Kestler Jr. in Concord reached into a Korean for Christmas candy, found a revolver and accidentally shot himself. He was taken to a local hospital with injuries not described. The incident is under investigation by local authorities.
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