Pilot Hosiery Mills Move to Asheboro
The Pilot hosiery mills move from Lexington to Asheboro within 90 days, occupying the Ross brick building on Salisbury street. The plant will install 100 machines initially with room for 300, a dye house and boiler room to be added, and aims to support a payroll of about $150 000 with last year sales near $750 000. The relocation factors include proximity to a box factory and a silk throwing mill.
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Asheboro
Pilot Hosiery
Lexington
Ross
Salisbury Street
Arthur Ross
Cache of Franklin Expedition Canned Meat Found
Searchers uncovered a cache of canned meat planted in the Arctic 77 years earlier by the Sir John Franklin expedition and discovered on September 2 1919 by the Canadian Mounted Police. The meat reportedly tasted as good as fresh.
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Arctic
John Franklin
Canadian Mounted Police
Looks Easy But Isn t Horizon ta Poster
Puzzle style clue list presents a set of crossword like entries with numbered across and down hints including simple words and derived forms. Yesterday s answer is referenced and many terms cover common vocabulary such as cost crescent heart drive and tailing studies.
Lenoir Rhyne announces first and second honor rolls
Hickory February 14 The registrar at Lenoir Rhyne college released the first semester honor rolls with eleven students over 95 in all subjects and 89 on the second roll. Seniors and juniors listed followed by sophomores and freshmen with names and hometowns.
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Enterprise
Hickory
Lenoir Rhyne College
Evelyn Ballentine
Timberville
Aurine Davis
Charleston
S. C
Charles Hickman
Hudson
N. C
Olin Sink
Lexington
Harriet Teufel
Staunton
Nell Hagaman
Helen Kramer
Charlotte
Mary Virginia Cox
Mary Stewart Ivey
William Ridenhour
Lincolnton
Ferdinand Rumke
Bronx
N. Y
Miriam Tuttle
Newton
Sara Aull
Valhalla
D. C
Rebecca Crigler
Madison
Elmer Smyre
Claremont
Joe Moretz
Bernice Mosteller
Emily Sigman
Willie Plank
Kings Mountain
Mabel Deal
Mooresville
Carolyn Hentz
Whitmire
Bess Williams
Granite Falls
Frank Clapp
Helen Flowers
Elizabeth Hardin
Kathleen Fisher
Richfield
Ethel Hocknemeyer
Corrall Huffman
Doris Pope
Cade Shaver
Robert Shelby
Gastonia
H. B. Smith
Cherryville
Wade Yount
Arrestee Demographics Report From Lexington Police
Chief R B Talbert notes January arrests total 117 in Lexington with 62 white men, four white women, 45 negro men, six negro women. Four white men and one white woman had cases dismissed. eight white men, 33 negroes and three negresses held for superior court. Grand larceny tops warrants at 20. 17 intoxication, 15 stolen property, 12 liquor law violations, nine burglary, seven simple assault, six reckless driving. Seven cars stolen, all recovered. ten car thieves captured. Also notes a 70 mile horseback trip by Monroe Jones, aged 89, pioneer of Salmon River country in California to visit his daughter.
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Lexington
M.B
R. B. Talbert
Superior
Monroe Jones
Salmon River
California
Palm Beach society leader tees off into surf on beach
Mrs. James N. Neville, a New York and Philadelphia society figure, sports sun-tan golf attire on a Palm Beach beach and drives her ball into the Atlantic surf as onlookers watch.
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Atlantic Ocean
James N. Neville
New York
Philadelphia
Palm Beach
Fila
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Asheboro 10
Pilot
Wedom
Horizonta
Sample Sale Living
Cut-Rate Furniture Co
East Green Street
Emma Fritz
Lutheran School
Lexington’s Law Breakers
Belk - Stevens Co
Paris
George
Betty Miller
Dexdale
Robinson Bynum
Men’s Knit Union Suits
Pa Lead
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