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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1930
Page
6
The article notes a shift from formal parlor bookcases to open built in shelves in modern living rooms. It describes placement around fireplaces, white painted woodwork, and matching room design from Georgian to Tudor styles, with varnish recommended for durability.
Dr. E. C. Brooks, president of North Carolina State College, outlined the live at home campaign at a Raleigh conference. He urged farmers to produce feed and food for their families and livestock before pursuing money crops, as part of building agricultural independence through 1930. The meeting gathered county farm and home agents, extension specialists, and livestock and agricultural leaders.
Farm agents plan meetings and conferences as the livestock convention draws a significant visitor group to the State college campus. The event, set for Wednesday through Friday, follows their previous occupancy at the Southern Upholstery Co. depot and nearby plant.
Community notices list the Neighborhood Thimble club meeting at Mrs Willard's Farriss street home, the Over the Teacups club with Mrs Charles M Hauser on North Main street, and the Philathea class at First Baptist church with Mrs E Sheloff on Jatewood avenue.
Miss Mat Wall spent the weekend in Charlotte with Mrs. Paul Ten Hoopen. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Topp returned to New York after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Willis H. Slane on Parkway. Mrs. W. D. Gatlin and children returned from Aberdeen and Kinston where they saw relatives. Virginia Gatlin, who was struck by a automobile near Raeford last week, is improving and home. Misses Ruth Weaver and Thel ma Snow and Gither Corder of High Point visited Rockford on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Casey and guest Miss Sarah Horner of Mount Pleasant Pa and Wayne Sullivan spent Monday in Rocky Mount Va with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pell.
Dr. Wallace Carl Riddick dean of the school of engineering State College Raleigh says nearly four decades in teaching and administration confirm scholarship as the best prognostic of post college success. He notes outside activities rise but students who master studies have the best chance. even with other interests high achievement cannot replace scholarship.
A two weeks term of civil court opened this morning with the first two cases tried as divorces. Ruth East was granted a divorce from William N. East and Ida May Wall from J. Henry Wall. The jury recessed for lunch as they debated issues in a business case involving M. H. Shipman and Son versus W. L. Stamey and Son, Stamey Jewelry Co.
J L Pegg of Willowbrook Street and Frank Clement were slightly hurt in an early yesterday accident that also injured Jackie Johnson, a South Carolina girl, in the city.
A brief Tit Bits quip contrasts lending money with trust as a friend asks for five dollars but has only two fifty, prompting a playful line about giving the rest on trust.
Raleigh reports on 48 white first offender inmates aged 16 to 22 at Camp Polk prison farm who learned to read and write in a voluntary night school and mailed their first letters home during Christmas and New Year. Superintendent Pou notes the program’s success and family joy.
Fragmentary balance sheet data lists liabilities and figures including 1,000,060.00 and 75,000.00 with totals around 6,482,579.21 and 570,407.75. Other numbers include 515.71 506,900.00 46,700.00 and 109,024.68.
Private Robert L Wade United States Marine Corps is at home on a furlough visiting his parents Mr and Mrs H E Wade 601 Kennedy Street. He has served two years mostly in the tropics including Cuba Porto Rico Haiti and the Virgin Islands and is presently stationed at Portsmouth Virginia.
Comedic exchange features Mrs Wigs asking about an umbrella and Mr Wiggs replying he left it at home. The punch line lands when rain ends and he tries to close it.
A vintage advertisement promotes Marmola prescription tablets as a natural weight loss method. It claims thinness results from solving weak gland issues without dieting, notes 22 years of usage, and promises a book inside each box explaining action and formula. It urges readers to ask a druggist for a $1 Marmola box.
Lexington reports the Peel er and Dillon shirt factory begins operations this week in a building near the freight yards. Workers are expected to start immediately as the plant enters production.
In San Bernardino California 22 year old Jean Murray faces a grandfather’s will that forbids bobbing hair using cosmetics wearing jewelry or short clothes in return for a $1 000 bequest The case centers on whether the punishment is enforceable and if she will accept the terms or challenge the will.
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