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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1888
Page
3
The Enterprise lists church services and pastors for Mernopist Presbyerian Friends Baptist Episcopal and other denominations. Rev E H Davis Rev P H Dalton Rev 8 H Thompson Rev W L Reaney lead Sunday worship with Sunday schools at various times.
Bank stockholders set annual meeting for next Tuesday. Anchor Warehouse pumpkin event and seed count tomorrow. Leap Year party at Dr Jones residence last Wednesday night. Y W C T U to meet Jan 7 at 360 oclock. Dr A J Sapp seeks medical treatment in Baltimore. Moffitt and Bradshaw advertise pure goods at low prices. National Bank of High Point declares semi annual dividend of four percent. North bound train delay leads to fatal accident near Greensboro. Pickett & Co buy G P Hall groceries stock and continue at same stand. Local hardware and general merchandise openings and hotel management updates. Postmaster Denny posts stamp sales increase. train mail efficiency noted. December passenger revenue exceeds prior year. tickets issued range 500 and 1000 miles. freight up.
Local residents travel and relocate within the region. A notable squash contest yields 386 seeds with a $2.50 gold prize and seed sales. Hoffman & Farlow advertise produce and fish. The Ragan Millis Co. faces potential dissolution. land offers for factory development at Ingh Point appear, with tax relief promises. A Wilmington couple elopes then returns. a Thomasville wedding ends in dispute. Anchor Warehouse reports strong tobacco averages. Hoffman & Farlow plan growth. city patrons praised for support. John Farlow buys eight hogs from Isaac Farlow.
Miss Mertha Pauline Mendenhall and Mr. Samuel H. Mendenhall wed at the bride’s father's home with J. W. Guyer officiating. The feast overflowed with luxuries as guests enjoyed festive nutting and jokes. Both families from Deep River, N C, are respected Quaker neighbors. Also, Miss Sarah Jane Welborn and Mr. Benjamin F. Montgomery were joined in marriage at the officiating home of J. W. Guyer. Hoffman Farlow’s meats draw crowds while High Point booms and tobacco prices rise at Anchor warehouse, reflecting bustling local life.
The prose notes varied work and life’s rise in the new year. Mrs Temperance Payne, aged 84, died at her home near Orinoco. A health advisory urges women to guard against cold and to use Taylor's Cherokee Remedy for coughs and colds.
The piece reports a Christmas week with a college concert and a Methodist Sunday school cantata, a successful quarterly meeting at the new station, and social gatherings. It notes residents Eldridge and Kindly moving away, a Masonic installation with an oyster supper, and a Leap Year party among the young ladies. An 1888 date and local ads for Hoffman & Farlow and Anchor Warehouse appear along with a post office missing letters list.
An advertisement promotes Lime Phosphate as a dry 200 pound bag fertilizer with 10-16 lb Phosphoric Acid, 23-35 lb Bone Phosphate, 100-120 lb Lime, 1-4 lb Potash, and small amounts of Soda, Sulphuric Acid, Chlorine, Alumina, Iron oxide, and Silica. It contrasts with other fertilizers high in water and sulfuric acid. Uses suggested: 400 lb acre for Cotton and Corn with Kainit. 400 lb drill for Wheat Oats Rye. 600 lb acre for Grasses with Muriate Potash.
On clay soils and organic-rich lands mix 800–1000 lb Lime Phosphate with 100 lb Muriate Potash and 2 sacks salt for one or two acres. For thin land use 1060 lb Lime Phosphate 600 lb cotton-seed meal 100 lb Sulphate Ammonia or Nitrate Soda 100 lb Muriate Potash for two to four acres. Lime Phosphate plus Kainit improves oats and grasses.
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