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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1927
Page
8
The girls auxiliary of Green Street Baptist church hosts an oyster supper at the church tonight to raise funds. Meals run 5 to 9 PM with public invited.
Mrs Ed Crawford welcomed the Friday Afternoon Club at Sunset Avenue with Edith Wharton readings and a life sketch of Annie Jessup Cannon. Guests included Misses McKenzie Wyche and Wood’s friends with convivial bridge, salads, and Valentine decor.
Dr. Charlotte of St. John's Episcopal Winston-Salem will lead Sunday morning exercises for the High Point Fire men's Bible class. The meeting starts at 9 45 o'clock at the South side Fire station with all city fire department members urged to attend and others welcomed.
Clifton Stout Hornaday aged 33 died last night at his aunt Mrs M J Hornadays residence 320 12 East Washington street after a six year illness He was born May 11 1894 in Randolph county son of George and Clementine Ward Stout His mother died when he was three weeks old He previously worked for High Point Furniture Co He leaves a half brother Robert Stout in the US Navy and a half sister Mrs Leo Shane Funeral services will be held at his aunts home tomorrow at 1 30 pm with Rev John W Moore of Wesley Memorial Methodist Episcopal church officiating Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery.
Dr. N L Everhart of Columbia University and the firm Strayer and Everhardt inspected the new High Point high school. He toured the $700 000 building, praised its beauty and practicality, and noted it as one of the region’s finest for a city of its size. He also helped supervise Salisbury and Winston-Salem high school projects.
Chicago buyers watch domestic winter wheat as crop scare season nears while large 南 supplies from below the equator press prices. Recent quotes show declines up to 12c and advances to 7.5c, with corn steady to 1-4c higher and soybeans mixed. Provisions vary 22c down to 10c up.
Special services will be held at the West End Baptist church tomorrow morning at eleven. The pastor speaks on Woman's Rights, or the Rights of Others. Seats are reserved for men and wives to sit together. Night service topic is A Longing for Christ. Public invited to both services.
Professor Hardy of High Point College will lecture on missions tomorrow night at 7 during the 7 o clock service, sharing the value of missions and work of Christian Endeavor societies. Rev. T B Pierce will preach on Stewardship at 11 this morning, with Sunday school at 9 20 and Endeavor meeting at 6 in the evening.
A long list of senate bills covers fishing in Burke and McDowell counties, governor removal of notaries and justices, relief for Brunswick and Wake residents, Brunswick bonds, western Wake Garner road districts, and workman’s compensation for North Carolina. House actions include Morganton charter amendments and Charlotte bond authority.
The Senate passes the McNary Haugen farm relief bill by a 47 to 39 vote and sends it to the House. President Coolidge seeks favorable consideration from Washington naval treaty powers for further naval craft limitation.
Edwin A. Olson, retiring federal attorney for the northern Illinois district, criticizes local officials for failing to enforce laws and argues this lax enforcement fuels a deplorable crime situation in Chicago.
Harvard students confront police during an arrest attempt for disorderly conduct in Cambridge Massachusetts. More than forty arrests are reported as tensions flare in the campus area.
Police report Harry Gordon, a Rochester butcher, shot and killed two fellow butchers and wounded two more before authorities subdued him. Gordon claimed rivals drove him from his shop and that refusal to back down led to the deadly incident.
A jury in Portland Maine convicts Benjamin S Turner for the murder of James D Hallen, a longtime pursuer of justice after Hallen’s fraud. Turner is sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Geneva based secretariat of the League of Nations expressed profound satisfaction with President Coolidge's plans for reducing naval forces. The message underscored international discord relief and the potential for broader arms limitation under the proposals.
United States Steel chairman Elbert H. Gary told reporters in New York he plans to retire within a year. Nathan L. Miller, former New York governor, is named as the likely successor in an unconfirmed report.
Temporary injunctions bar further arrests against producers of three raided Broadway plays. Chicago Mayor Dever backs cleanup reforms, opposing the disruption caused by protests and seeking professional reformers over spin or shacking tactics.
Mutton fat may be used for cooking if it is combined with twice as much beef or pork fat.
Filmore Hayworth, a well known Springfield citizen, died this morning in a local hospital after a five day pneumonia illness at age 76. He was born near the Springfield Friends church and farmed most of his life. Survived by no close relatives, he was a birthright member of the church. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 30 from the Springfield church with Miss Clara I Cox and Rev Lewis McFarland officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The body remains at Sechrest Funeral Home until the hour of the funeral.
JTTO Wood, identified by fingerprint, is recaptured in Terre Haute Indiana after a January 19 railroad brakeman hold up. He previously escaped multiple times from a North Carolina prison while on death row and has used aliases including Edward Hazer. Indiana and federal authorities pursue charges under the national automobile theft act.
Funeral services for James Lew is Wrenn who died at 110 Bay Street were held at Worthville Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. W B Davis officiating. Burial followed as friends and relatives attended. Pallbearers and flowerbearers were named from local employers and relatives respectively.
Rutherford county citizens mark Abraham Lincoln's birthday as a North Carolinian claim. Lincoln Hill near Bostic hosts a program led by Dr. J C Coggins who argues Rutherford county as Lincoln birthplace. The event includes sermons readings and a barbecue dinner.
Willy Hoppe, world champion at 18.2 balk line billiards, led Welker Cochran of Los Angeles by 1,000 to 705 on the opening day of their three day 1500 point title match in Boston.
The navy reports the safe arrival at Shanghai on Thursday of 258 marines aboard the Pecos tanker. Landing not expected unless American life and property are imperiled.
Funeral services for Coy Monroe Fields infant son of Mr and Mrs Fletcher Fields were held at Spring Hill Methodist Protestant church yesterday afternoon following his death at his parents home in Abbott's Creek township.
Raleigh reports a 40 percent cut in privilege taxes for most stock, bond, and cotton brokers under schedule B. Smaller brokers without leased wires will pay 60 percent of current license taxes. The change aims to correct tax based on city population rather than net income, reducing state revenue by about six thousand dollars annually.
The committee plans to obtain power to compel testimony in impeachment charges against Federal Judge Cooper of the Northern New York district. The move signals active steps in pursuing removal proceedings and gathering evidence from potential witnesses.
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