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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1927
Page
3
A warning that oratory power should serve good ends to educate and uplift, not mislead or corrupt. Corrupt or venal speakers threaten public liberties and morals, harming society. The speaker calls for virtuous rhetoric and responsible leadership to benefit the people.
A local weekly column muses on Ground Hog weather, jokes about storms and sailors, riffs on Anita Loos and George Washington, and urges state traffic reform. It notes the legislature’s auto license calendar change and calls for stricter driver examinations to save lives. It ends with a cheeky headline query about a city storm and a literary reference to Lohengrin.
Numa F. Reid lodge No. 344 A F and A M will hold a meeting tomorrow night at 7 30 at the Masonic Temple on North Main Street for work in the Fellowcraft degree. Interest in local Masonic organizations is high and a large attendance is expected.
In Capper's Weekly a student named Willie complains about untidy essays as the teacher pressures for neater work. The dialogue highlights classroom friction and instructional expectations.
Rev Tom A Sykes will preach twice at Friends church with morning and evening services. Morning topic Jesus and Humility the Gateway to Greatness. Evening topic Is Life Worth Living If So What For. Services include organ preludes hymns prayers and readings.
Raleigh Feb 19 Governor McLean remained in bed with a slight cold but was able to meet reporters to discuss the general assembly. He said his illness is mild and he took to bed on his physician’s advice, not because he believes he is seriously ill.
In Shanghai dated February 19, 1932, Sun Chuanfang’s defeated forces, 40,000 strong from Chekiang, regroup near Hangzhou to contest Shanghai with 6,000 Cantonese forces. Sun plans to reach Shanghai. Chang Tso Ling appeals to Wu Pei Fu for aid as northern and southern armies brace for further clashes along the Yangtze.
The school tax issue enters the final two weeks of the biennial session with debate over statewide levy versus county equalization. Senators Sharp Graham Winston Folger and Maguire have introduced similar bills and Rep Conner and the Waltz Johnson Broughton group push related property tax measures. A note adds that the ocean perch gives birth to live young.
A roundup lists books by Charlton Clemenceau Dowd French Kipling Lindsay Nason Wells and Wylie with notes on themes and readers. Also details burial for Mrs. Creelman in High Point and a Rescue search by coast guardsmen at Forked River for two Army aviators after a crash near Island Beach.
Funeral services for T. C. Farmer who died at his home 424 Centennial Avenue will be conducted from the residence at 3 oclock this afternoon by Rev. Herman T. Stevens and Rev. J. M. Hilliard. Deacons from Green Street Baptist Church will serve as pallbearers. Burial will be in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
A single animal shows immunity to cobra bites, with the mongoose identified as uniquely resistant to such venom. No additional context or data provided.
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