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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1931
Page
5
News brief with multiple society notes and local updates. Thomas Gold Jr is hospitalized at High Point General after an appendectomy. Other items include club meetings at Green Street Baptist and Emerywood, birth announcements, marriage news for Violet Mare Ingram, and various social notices across Thomasville area.
Clerk of the High Point Benieces court notes Mrs. Ingram was educated at North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro and Campbells College.
Ramone S Eaton, a field representative of the American Red Cross division of first aid, arrived this morning to conduct life saving demonstrations at the YMCA pool. A joint event will run tomorrow at 8 o clock after a late train delayed tonight’s men’s session. Baton will assist W F Bailey with city group training.
House appropriations hearings reveal vast aviation spending since 1925 totaling 566 million dollars across air corps subsistence equipment and post housing programs. The discussion targets officers writing for magazines and the broader military expansion plans face senate and house opposition.
The High Point ministers held their first meeting of the new year at 10:30 this morning at Memorial church. Absent members caused the installation of newly elected officers to be postponed to tomorrow. A round table discussion covered outlook for 1931 and church programs. The group anticipated a very favorable year. Ramone S. Eaton of the American Red Cross was unable to attend.
Mrs. Mary Alexander, a Lynchburg licensed pilot, arrived yesterday at the Charles Kenner Flying Field to visit Miss Mary Nicholson, another licensed flyer at the local field. Alexander made the one hour forty minute flight in a moth biplane from Lynchburg.
The earliest concrete road construction in Germany dates to 1890, marking the start of durable paved streets. The development reflected innovations in road engineering and the shift toward modern infrastructure in late 19th century Germany.
Call 2039 to aid in relieving the city’s unemployment by contacting the Emergency Committee for Employment. The office at City Hall basement, with Mrs W E Price or her assistant available to receive calls and locate needed workers.
The article reports on Sunday services in High Point churches, featuring sermons by Rev. A. B. Go and Rev. R. Farmer. It covers themes of life as a sea voyage, recognizing Jesus in varied circumstances, and the call for decisive faith, sanctification, and active church service in 1931 and beyond.
Dr Charles Haddon Nabers at First Presbyterian preached on A New and Untried Road for 1931. He urged turning a page toward renewal, cleaning up souls and communities from alleys to church towers to avoid greater costs of inaction.
Rev G Ray Jordan preached to two large congregations at Wesley Memorial Church. The morning Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was celebrated with the sermon titled Christianity's Cure. A large night congregation gathered at 7:30 to hear the first of four Sunday evening services titled Where Do You Live.
Sunday evening the topic was How Old Are You with large attendance at Church School and League. About 738 attended church school groups and more than thirty joined the League. The talk urged putting away childish things and living by Christ with daily communion and cooperation to bring the Kingdom.
Rev. Tom A. Sykes at Central Friends church urged putting away childish things to become mature in Christ. He linked Paul’s life to modern faith, urged personal responsibility, and urged believers to seek transfiguring power in daily works. He warned against Christian cowardliness and urged resolving to live by faith and works.
The Girl Reserves in the city will start work with the new school term and meet at regular times. A city wide Girls Week is planned for February, an annual event inviting all city girls. The Ocawasin club will meet at 6 30 PM at the Y W C A, with Mr Eaton Red Cross speaker. The Y W C A basketball team trains tonight at 7 30 PM at the Y. Mr Eaton, Red Cross field representative, will speak and demonstrate.
A Tuesday night event at the YMCA will showcase life saving techniques. The instructor will review girls preparing for examinations and accept those seeking to take the Red Cross test. After the demonstration the pool will be open for swimming.
Certificates of incorporation filed in Raleigh list John Askew Company, Incorported, to deal in painters supplies and paint materials and kindred supplies. Authorized stock is $50,000 with $700 subscribed, by John Askew Alton B. Askew and Thomas J. Askew, all of Raleigh.
In 1868 London first tested lights and semaphore devices to regulate road traffic. The experiments introduced a formal approach to controlling movement at intersections and laid groundwork for later signaling systems.
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