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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1935
Page
3
Villa Ruiva near Lisbon Portugal earned the label village of long life after only three deaths in the past year. All three were centenarians aged 101 104 and 115 years, marking an unusual spell of longevity in the community.
Summary of year 1934 data shows gains over 1933 across power production railroad freight payrolls farm prices and purchasing power. November metrics indicate continuing uplift with Christmas trade hinting at stronger December results. Executives from GM GE Westinghouse Standard Oil sound cautiously optimistic about 1935 while critiques of New Deal policies appear in some comments.
Raleigh reports officers chased a bandit after a taxi hold up in Cary near Raleigh. Seth Suggs, taxi driver, was robbed of 9.10 at gunpoint and forced from the cab. The bandit fled after crashing the vehicle and firing at pursuing deputies. Police wounded speculation centers on the bandit’s possible injury. Authorities believe they know the suspect’s identity and expect his arrest soon.
Young ostriches begin to trail their parents in the field within 24 hours of hatching, signaling early social and foraging alignment in the species.
Slightly over half of Guilford county's 1934 tax levy has been collected to date, about $539000 of $1045000. Collections this year exceed 1933 levels by roughly $98500, per County Tax Collector D L Donnell. Payments this month will be at par with a penalty to take effect February 1.
Greensboro January 3 Special Fees collected by R H Who register of deeds for Guilford county rose about 60 percent in 1934 from 1933 totals. The office recorded 14 654 95 dollars in fees, compared with 10 157 86 in the prior year, not including marriage licenses and miscellaneous fees. Marriage licenses brought in about 4 000 dollars.
LeRoy Rinehart, a Black man, was arrested in Greensboro on January 2 in connection with the December 26 disappearance of a Black girl from her Stokesdale area home. Esther Bruton, the girl’s mother, said officers allege Rinehart locked the girl in his house and would not let her go. The missing girl was not found at Rinehart’s home at the time of arrest and had not been located by morning. Rinehart maintains his innocence.
John Cooper of Jonesboro Arkansas says a dose of Black-Draught helps him work better and enjoy life again after two nights. He endorses Thedford's Black-Draught.
Commissioners in the December 20 1934 Guilford County Special Proceedings will offer for sale parcels in High Point adjoining Mack Lewallen Alice Thornburg and others. Auction set for February 1935 at 11 am, cash only, with property description including Tract Two and Three and Lots 1 and 3 in Plot No 1 as recorded in Guilford County deeds.
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