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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1919
Page
8
Fred N. Tate president treasurer and general manager of Continental Furniture company has bought all stockholder interests and is now the sole owner. He left for Grand Rapids Michigan to attend the furniture market and will be away two weeks.
In Freemont Y, December 30, Joseph Huels, a recently returned soldier, killed his sweetheart Miss Eleanor Carroll, nineteen, at her breakfast table after a quarrel two weeks prior, then shot himself.
High Point schools start the second term with coal stocked and optimism for a successful year. Officials praise the fall term, note high grades, and back a proposed High Point township high school with vocational domestic science and gym. Public input will follow. a modern building is hoped within the year.
Deeds recorded at the county courthouse in Greensboro show transfers: J. E. McMilliamy and wife to Charles H. Walton a Kearns Street lot for 225 dollars. Ella Pool to Isaac O. Dennis and wife a Coltrane Street lot for 225 dollars. Collins Horney to John Loflin part of A. M. Rankin lands for 10 dollars and other considerations. UC G. Pope to Nettie Loflin and children a Kennedy Street lot for 125 dollars. Bessie Boze to Thomas L. Jackson and wife Lot 8 in Block 7 on Smith Street for 250 dollars.
Wilbur F. Cannon Colorado’s pure food and drug commissioner summarizes a Denver Express piece arguing pellagra stems from dietary deficiencies. He cites vitamins as unproven yet real, and critiques self rising flour for moisture and reactions that may destroy nutrients, urging caution against flour trusts.
The Air Mail Service tested a synthetic fuel named alsogas on the Washington to New York route from August 4 to September 19. Otto Praeger announced a saving of 3.3 gallons of fuel, noting the fuel is composed of alcohol benzol totael gasoline ether and other additives.
Mile. Henriette Daly better known on stage as Dixie dies in Paris from lockjaw two days after a minor finger prick while opening an oyster. The actress, who spent years in Alabama, was celebrating her return from Marseilles when the accident occurred.
London reports the final cohort of Brownies, young messenger girls in brown dresses issued by authorities, have departed government service. They were admired for their speed and efficiency, considered smarter and quicker than boys during wartime air duties.
Ayer Massachusetts December 30 Army officers of the thirty sixth infantry at Camp Devens have started weekly Tuesday teas and monthly dances at the officers club to lift spirits. Brigadier General and Mrs Henry P McCain support the simple gatherings which have been popular with the troops.
In Pittsburgh on December 20 a city student proposed the motto Dont buy candy your stomach doesnt pay interest for the War Savings Stamp slogan contest. The line reflects wartime thrift and youth participation in national savings effort.
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