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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1941
Page
3
A full grown gopher snake prowls a midwest farm and is estimated to aggressively control pests by feeding on small creatures nearby. The sighting highlights the role of native snakes in farm pest management and natural thinning of rodent populations.
Guilford sheriff reports recovery of a radio a shotgun and store merchandise taken from C H Hennis store near Groome town on December 31. Two 16 year old boys Billie Lee Straughan Greensboro route 2 and Haywood Jeffries Chatham Va confessed and were arrested by Pittsylvania County authorities. They are held in Virginia to face breaking and entering charges before being returned to Greensboro after trial.
The creature would be worth $40 annually as a pest destroyer and is valued by farmers for its role in controlling a large number of harmful rodents that form its diet.
In Raleigh on January 9, Governor J. M. Broughton outlined 46 recommendations, grouped into 20 major points, aimed at budget balance, tax exemptions for essential food, state employee retirement, stricter liquor controls, education expansion, highway and farm roads, library aid, law enforcement, and cooperation with the federal government, plus a shorter legislative session and other reforms.
Carolinas Screwy News Gazette reports a Hickory sailor in navy uniform told a draft office he wanted to change services because he gets seasick too easily after four years in the navy. He halted en route home to Landrum, S.C. to register within the draft period. Other quirk items follow including a deer collision near Richmond and a hospital return, a snail birth in Hickory, a preacher’s donor match remark, a boy and a dollar restitution tale, a Charleston restaurant soup choice, and a note on the Dead Sea’s depth.
Public sale at Greensboro courthouse on Wednesday January 22 1941 at 12 00 noon for cash. Real estate in High Point Township described as a parcel in Lambeth and Hayworth lines with boundary stones and road center line. Mortgage by J B Bodenhammer and Garnet Bodenhammer to J A Bundy defaulted. executors of J A Bundy deceased are selling as re sale with price raised to meet legal requirements.
In Guilford County North Carolina Pauline Gurley Thornburg sues Lee Roy Thornburg for absolute divorce on two years separation. Defendant must appear at the Clerk of the Municipal Court High Point within thirty days after January 19 1941 and answer or demur. This December 18 1940 Co E Reitzel JP Assistant Clerk. 12 19 26 1 2 9
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