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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1931
Page
8
Dr J T Burrus state senator proposed creating a mandatory advisory panel of four to sit with the city council and advise on municipal matters while keeping the elected board size unchanged. He urged enlisting top local business minds to instill strict retrenchment and aid the city’s governance amid past building issues.
Elwood Cox, a trustee of the Duke Endowment fund, will depart for New York tonight to attend the monthly meeting of the Endowment’s trustee board. He plans to return to the city Wednesday night and be present as usual Thursday morning.
Noted Beauty finds an old recipe for Sage and Sulphur hair darkening. The ad claims gray hair vanishes overnight and returns to the exact shade after two or three applications. Easy to use with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur. pay a dollar for a large bottle per the directions.
Three people were injured in a head on collision near here late last night on the Asheboro highway just outside city limits. Victims include Clarence Moffitt 23 Harold Calhoun 28 and Clarence Powell operator of the Texas filling station. Moffitt and Calhoun were taken to High Point hospital for treatment and later released.
George W. Payne longtime resident died after brief illness at 1412 English Street. Funeral conducted at English Street Methodist Protestant church with Rev. G L Reynolds and Rev. D R Williams officiating. Burial at Pleasant Grove church cemetery. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers drawn from Guilford Council No. 23 and English Street M P Church members. Choir performed and soloist Ruth Bonkemeyer sang. Servicios at grave by Guilford Council No. 23 Jr O U A M.
Chief E A McGhee and Detective R R Smith of the High Point police left for Graham to seek custody of three men wanted in High Point for the Lock Knit Hosiery mill robbery on West Green Street. The suspects are H B Land of Martinsville Virginia Walter Daniels of Randolph County and Sydney Vanadore formerly of this city now in Martinsville. All are in Alamance County awaiting trial for similar offenses. A fourth man Fred Williams was arrested last Friday and is jailed on a 1000 bond. The officers were to return late today.
Washington aviators at Bolling Field monitor a baby dirigible as a weather indicator. The craft, 17 feet long and a steel frame with doped fabric, moors on a steel mast and is internally lit at night, visible for miles.
Four High Point men James Russell Robert Grady Joe Horne and William Smothers charged with larceny of over $3 500 worth of evening wraps from the Sheraton hotel bound over to Guilford Superior Court after probable cause was found Judge Lewis E Teague set bonds at 1 250 each E H Lowery was dismissed The case featured lengthy testimony identifying Russell and companions and related hotel witnesses and officials.
Over 70 dollars worth of men’s and women’s hosiery vanished from the Dillon Export and Commission Co. office at 137 South Wrenn Street. W. C. Ferree, manager, reported the theft to police. Detectives Smith and Whitlow and Superintendent M. C. Hoover investigated. no arrests were made. Douglas Davis, holder of several national flying records, is slated as a regular pilot on the Atlanta Miami passenger line.
Mrs. D. W. Elliott of Dayton Street High Point reported a long distance call from her brother Otis B. Folk in Reno Nevada at 4 a.m. yesterday marking the first time she had heard his voice in 11 years. The Reno call was placed at 1 10 a.m. local time.
Wesley Memorial church men plan their first supper meeting of the year in the church basement at 6 30 p m Thursday. More than 200 men and guests will attend a three course chicken dinner served by the Women’s Wesley class. The program features male quartet music and a post dinner speech by Rev G Ray Jordan on The Church Task a Man Sized Job. Reservations urged by Wednesday night.
Lonnie Parrish age 7 died at a local hospital shortly before 10 last night from injuries after being thrown from a balky mule on Saturday near Hedgecock Filling Station on the Winston Salem highway. Parrish was born November 6 1883 in Guilford County son of A V Parrish and Alice Beeson Parrish and formerly with Snow Lumber. Surviving are his widow four daughters Myrtie Sheffield Leona Kennedy Ida Lee Carter and Farnett Parrish a son Leslie Parrish one brother A Parrish Greensboro and one half brother Julius Fagg High Point. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 pm from the Davidson County home with interment in Deep River cemetery.
T C Johnson executive secretary of the High Point Merchants' Association denied this afternoon that the association has endorsed any coupon scheme offering five percent discounts for independent retailers. He said the proposition is outside the association's supervision and it declines to endorse or oppose it. He added the group endorses only gift schemes and advertising media and requires written endorsements for any approval.
Mrs. Lillie Pritchard of Greensboro saw her $10,000 damage suit against the Southern Railway Company concluded in Federal court. The Greensboro accident date was set as September 17, 1928, not in High Point as earlier published in the Enterprise.
A sacred cantata The Crown of Life by Nevin was performed at the Main Street M E Church in Thomasville last night by the Fireside quartet from High Point. The group included Dan W. Smith Clarence Schultheiss Norman Fidler and Frank Tucker with Mies Mae Kirkman as accompanist.
Income tax receipts in the Chicago district for 1930 totaled 227.5 million dollars, down 42 million from 1929, reflecting a decline in revenues and economic activity.
A large crowd attended the funeral for Mrs. Celecta Ann Workman at Cedar Grove Methodist Church Randolph County yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. She died Thursday night at 1409 North Hamilton Street, where the funeral party left from her son Ivey Workman's home after a brief service led by Rev. H. T. Penry of Liberty Baptist Church Southmont. Pallbearers included B. J. May, J. P. Peacock, Carson Peacock, Jones Peacock, Paul Gallimore, and Mrs. Zula Clodfelter. Flowers were arranged by Miss Vallie Peacock and others. Interment followed in the church cemetery family plot.
Judge Salmon W. Gleason of St Charles Minnesota marked his 98th birthday while serving as an active municipal court judge. The long serving jurist continues in his court duties amid a lifelong career in public service.
State Senator J T Burrus blasted the lobby as the cause of defeat for his power tax bill in Raleigh. He proposed a one mill per kilowatt hour tax on electricity to raise 3 to 4 million dollars, boosting wholesale charges and limiting small-user costs. Burrus called the plan good and a protection to small consumers while blaming power company interests for the setback.
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