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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1939
Page
10
Beeson Cyrus Beeson hosts grand opening of Beeson Super Market at 1536 English Street occupying the former West End A P store. Store enlarged to 40 by 80 feet with remodeled front and rear storage, cash and carry operation and modern equipment for customers and friends.
Proprietor A. Beeson announces the opening of Beeson's Super Market, a large modern grocery store at West End. The new market promises era-style shopping in a contemporary format, with Beeson a Ker- native guiding the venture.
A baggageman named Hugh Currie, 60, was killed at Chicago's Union railroad station when a .22 pistol packed in a locked trunk discharged. The weapon fired as Currie lifted the trunk, the bullet piercing the eye after passing through the trunk's wood and metal casing. Owner Daniel C. Power of Lafayette Illinois claimed he did not know the pistol was loaded.
Beeson, a 23 year High Point grocer with six years owning his own business, unveils a larger operation. Assisted by Frank Byrum, Wilson Wiley, J. C. Macey, and Mrs. Mary Dean Lopp, the store promises fresh meats by electric refrigeration, produce, canned goods, and a full grocery line. He aims to retain old customers and attract new in the growing city.
The 1938 annual report of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company shows 65,635 new life policies totaling 233,904,794 and 1,561 life annuities for 6,139,555. Total insurance in force reached 3,895,591,675 with 1,044,541 policies. Admitted assets climbed to 1,233,101,693 including 12,397,827 cash. Bond holdings stood at 644,009,131. mortgages 308,574,268. real estate 48,292,366. policy loans 169,240,787.
Peggy A Huckaby aged 18 months died at a local hospital after a four day illness of pneumonia. The funeral is set for Saturday at 2 30 PM with Rev O L Ruth officiating. She is survived by her parents Rolzie P and Doris Gulledge Huckaby a sister Rebecca Huckaby paternal grandmother Mrs Ira Scruggs Huckaby and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs F W Gulledge of Randleman. Interment will be in Floral Garden Cemetery.
H L Goodloe superintendent of City Memorial hospital in Thomasville is reported improved after a bout with lobar pneumonia. He had been seriously ill since last Saturday and Rueben Graham of Charlotte with the Duke Endowment has assumed his duties during the recovery.
An average driver needs 1,000 feet of road distance and 10 seconds of time to pass the car ahead traveling at 50 miles an hour. At 80 miles, cars require from 450 to 650 feet.
Thomasville report says W. E. Stout, a noted Johnsontown resident, fell on his home steps this morning fracturing a leg. He was taken by ambulance to City Memorial Hospital where doctors described his condition as satisfactory.
Police continued a search for Pierce Spradley, 23, of Cordova Alabama, who is believed to have drowned after tumbling from a rowboat in the bay off Brooklyn. James Walser 28 of Lexington North Carolina said they planned to return to the barge Luther Hooper at midnight but he was delayed.
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance reports assets over 80 million and life sales surpassing 46 million for last year. Julian Price declares 1938 end strongest in company history as directors reelect officers and bonus proposed. Southern ownership and investments dominate 90 percent of assets and 98 percent of policyholders are southern. A separate New York complaint alleges wage hour violations by True Worth Manufacturing in Jesup Georgia.
J. D. Skinner, a civil engineer on the city's hydroelectric project, died this morning in a Winston-Salem hospital after an illness that began December 27. He was a native of South Carolina and alumnus of The Citadel and the University of South Carolina.
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