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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1930
Page
2
Johnston High School audience heard L. R. Johnston urge a New Year stocktake of life, comparing progress to climbing a mountain. He advised living each day fully, citing a banker’s motto and Goethe, stressing total commitment to present tasks.
Miss Sedahlia Propst and John Kester formerly of this city now in Shelby will present a radio program on WBT Charlotte tomorrow night between 7 and o clock. Kester is well known here and many local friends will listen to hear him sing.
New Ford Model A showcases a redesigned front with a higher narrower radiator and hood, distinctive fenders, smaller wheels and larger tires, aiming for improved low streamline sweep and overall gain in road presence.
Raleigh dispatch explains that to offset rising county road taxes, counties have expanded road commissions and district offices to distribute pay and influence. The piece argues such structures boost soft jobs, keep taxes high for roads, and calls for 1931 reforms to unify road management and cut county road levies.
High Point Chapter No 70 R A M will meet Friday at 7 30 PM to confer the Mark Master Degree. All members are urged to attend and visitors are welcome.
Glenn Royals, 16, son of Mrs. Ellen Royals of Trinity, died of lockjaw at a local hospital at 10 a.m. He had been injured on Christmas Day when a blank cartridge explosion while playing with a pistol led to his illness. He leaves his mother and grandfather Cyrus Royals of Trinity Route Two. he was a ninth grade student at Trinity High School. Funeral services are set for Friday at 11 a.m. at Hopewell M. E. Church, with Rev. W. R. Kelly officiating. interment will follow at Hopewell Cemetery.
From Lafayette Indiana J L Potter and H L Robertson arrived in Chicago seeking resolution over a disputed property. They bought bullet proof vests, trailed by police to a bank chase, but the episode ended with all forgiven after identities were clarified.
Chicago based anthropologist Charles G Blooah, heir to the Grebo chieftainship, leaves the University of Chicago to return to Liberia as an investigator. He fled 20 years ago and, with missionary aid, studied in the United States while contributing to Grebo language work and Grebo folklore studies.
Colorado Springs residents failed to view the AdAmAn club fireworks atop Pike's Peak for the second year. Fourteen climbers completed the ascent after two days, and observers finally spotted structures through field glasses as preparations were made for the display.
Mrs Wilber Jones Mrs Jesse Harris and Wilber Jones return from a two weeks motor trip to Miami Florida. Miss Treva Ward of Port Huron Michigan formerly of High Point is guest of her sister Mrs C A Best. Miss Ward a registered nurse trained at Bellevue and Columbia Neurology. Miss Billie Hiatt travels to Baltimore to visit uncle Howard Saddler at Roland Park then to Evanston to resume studies at Northwestern University. Miss Margaret Burton of Mebane visits Miss Reich on Edgedale Drive and plans to join Flora MacDonald College studies in Red Springs.
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