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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1935
Page
9
A sequence of public sale notices in Guilford County North Carolina details auctions by court order and trustee sales. Multiple properties in Greensboro High Point and surrounding areas are offered for cash with exact plots described, dates set for March 18 1935 and earlier filing dates, property bounds and record references listed.
Raleigh February 15 reports a pro sales tax plan from the anti tax group to the joint finance committee. The package would shift to a property tax on foreign corporations equal to half a percent of assessed value, with the same valuation as net worth for tax-levy purposes. The move would raise foreign corporations to about four times their current share, while domestic firms would face roughly triple their present burden.
Q and A style notes offer home tips on preserving cut flowers by dissolving camphor or charcoal in the vase, removing linen bluing with wood alcohol, and improving kitchen lighting with a side bracket near the stove. The text also discusses corporate franchise tax changes affecting domestic corporations and tax figures under a new levy.
Analysts argue higher levies on corporations resemble a return to the property tax and will face opposition from both foreign and domestic firms. Lawmakers note 1931 figures show a banner year for tobacco and other companies, warning profits have fallen and many firms closed since, making further franchise tax increases potentially disastrous.
Roberta Lee answers common social questions. A debutante should wear white or pale pink blue green or yellow at her coming out party. A man calling should be treated with equal consideration to the other caller. The groom should not pay for bridesmaids flowers as the brides obligation.
Answers to five questions include no single word alright but two words all right Japan means rising sun Mars is the god of war a corduroy road is a log filled roadway across swampy ground and the Copper river is in Alaska.
W L Gordon presents guidance on common word misuses and mispronunciations. Readers are urged to expand vocabulary by mastering one word daily. The lesson defines ordinate as well ordered and methodical, with Chaucer quoted for example.
Guilford County court announces public auctions at noon at the east courthouse door Greensboro for two properties. One involves lots 37 and 38 in Stimpson Place described in Plat Book 6 page 61 with Stimpson avenue frontage. The other covers all of lot 64 and half of lot 63 in North Park addition to High Point described in Plat Book 3 page 79, with Putnam avenue and Johnson street access. Dated February 14, 1935.
Public auction opens at a stake on the easterly side with Guilford County and M. 8. Gallimore L. L. Farlow and Central Bank and Trustet named in the proceedings.
Guilford County va F J Lacey and Emma Lacey sell at public auction starting at Pitt street and College avenue corner. The parcel runs 275 ft east to Pitt street, 223 ft to College avenue, then north 641/2 ft to the start, being Lot 29 in Dr J J Hamlin Development as per Plat Book 5 page 307. Dated February 1935.
A land description notes lot 3 in Block E of Brentwood J.8 Worth Sub division, Guilford County North Carolina. The plat is recorded in the Register of Deeds office in Book , page 49.
A civil action names Guilford County as plaintiff against J A Lindsay and wife Mary Lindsay trading as Lindsay Table Co and C C Earnhardt Trustee in a dispute over the company and related trusteeship. The filing lists multiple parties and asserts claims requiring court resolution.
Under a court order the commissioner will offer for sale at public auction the following parcels: Lots 13 and 14 in Block B Bridges Plat. Lot 12 in Block A with 10 percent extra width and 150 feet depth. Lot 11 has adjacent south side and the map of Bridges lands referenced in the Guilford County Register of Deeds records. The sale is to the highest bidder for cash, subject to prior restrictions.
Guilford County v Amanda Hussey and others. Property described as Lot 29 on Own-A-Home Co. plat Book 5 page 364. Dated February 14 1935. Commissioner to run a boundary description from Flint and Stanton streets to R M Hinshaw and Ward lines.
A case filed in the Cape Court of Guilford County involves Quilford County versus W A Hester and Eunice Hester over lots 12 and 13 in Spring Valley Development No 1. The map is recorded in the county office.
L Z Fisher Jr files a notice concerning Guilford County parcel Lot 45 owned by Guilford County Harris and Ferguson spouses. The map by June Johnston C EB is recorded in Plat Book 5 page 364 in the Guilford County Register of Deeds office.
Guilford County files include Guilford County versus Herman Jackson, Lot 38 of College Height, recorded in Plat Book 4 page 158, describing a 50 by 150 foot parcel. Dated February 14 1935. Also listed are Guilford County versus June J Ingram and wife Clara Ingram Ada Grant and husband Stokeson and B T Hed as.
A court commissioner schedules a sale at noon in the case Guilford County vs Keystone Cabinet Co and P A Thomas. The property adjoins G E Willis land and fronts Prospect Street, with lots 12 13 14 of the S E Willis plat described in Guilford County deeds. Sale subject to court confirmation and cash bid to the high bidder, description referencing the North Carolina Railroad right of way and adjacent parcels.
Guilford County v Gibbs outlines a land boundary description dated March 1 1935. The deed references Jimmie Davis James Blair Davis Lucretia Wright Starr Grant Park and John Cook lines with distances and bearings defining a parcel of about one third acre.
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