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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1925
Page
5
An essay celebrates children making joyful noises as part of growth and learning. It praises percussion toys and simple instruments, notes boundaries with neighbors, and argues music helps emotion and development. It invites readers to write for guidance, copyright 1925 Bell Syndicate.
The Thom ville Chair Company of Thomasville secured a certificate of incorporation from the secretary of state. Authorized capital is 1,000,009 dollars with 1,000 subscriptions by T. J. Finch Charles F. Finch T. A. Finch and Alfred Finch. Home offices will be in Thomasville and the firm will deal in timbers furniture rugs carpets and other household furnishings. Other charters issued include Spivey Spruill Company Edenton real estate 25,000 authorized 16,000 subscribed by P. L. Spruill W. A. Everett H. C. Privott W. Privott and M. R. Spivey. Shur-Kiamp Map Holder Corporation Greensboro 450 shares. William Z. Rothery and Company Incorporated Charlotte general merchandise 5,000 authorized 1,000 subscribed by C. Valuer Addie Valuer and William E. Rothery. Carolina Shay Stores Incorporated Goldsboro 350,000 authorized 22,500 subscribed by Alexander J. Gordon Morris Frankel Aaron Frankel. Hiatt Tire Company High Point 100,000 authorized 6,600 subscribed by J. C. Payne Mrs. Stella Payne and G. G. Chappell.
Washington reports a department of labor update showing a near one percent average rise in food prices in January. Of 35 items up, seven down. Houston leads with seven percent, followed by Memphis and San Francisco at five percent and several others at four or three percent.
Prohibition increases American workmen's efficiency by 20 percent, per Sim and Coventry Ltd. report on 1924 Welsh tinplate market. The finding notes this factor in possible US British tin plate competition. Also: New Orleans cotton opens easier as rains loom, with May, July, and October futures easing from prior close. River sales of 75,000 pieces of print cloth are reported.
New York Feb 20 Inez Hayes Irwin wife of Will Irwin noted writer was awarded first prize in the sixth annual short story contest by the C Henry Memorial commission for 1924. Her story The Spring Flight won the $500 prize for best published short story of the year.
Helsingfors hosts foreign ministers from Latvia Lithuania Estonia and Finland as they seek ways to curb communist agitation and avoid forming an anti Bolshevik bloc while preparing arbitration ties and passport simplifications. Poland favors cooperation with the Soviet government over confrontation. Disarmament to be discussed at next League of Nations session.
Oscoda Michigan February reports the Army Air Service wing air crews completing winter maneuvers and returning to Selfridge Field. Major Thomas G. Lambier states the operation was a complete success as planes demonstrated capability during the exercise.
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