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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1889
Page
3
Reports from High Point North Carolina include the execution of Clauverius at 12 14 pm and updates on local mills farms and businesses. Notable items cover Trinity College trustees meeting county officials court schedules post offices and market conditions for tobacco and eggs.
The National Bank of High Point reports 1886 year end profits of 245454 with 500 surplus, 162.50 to premium reserve and the rest as undivided profits. Directors re-elected. Armfield becomes president, Sapp vice president, Worth cashier. Also reports death of Rev. Calvin Wiley D D and local railway and social notes with current events and observations.
The week sees introduced measures to restrict child labor under 15, abolish county boards of education, curb personal property exemptions, allow homestead waiver, extend deed registration, create a railway commission, adjust Supreme Court timing, and regulate convict use in Watauga. Other proposals cover taxation, public roads funding, concealed weapons repeal, and railroadcharter extensions.
The Greensboro Workman reports fur and meat buying at Pioneer Warehouse with fur prices near twenty cents per load and a notable sale. It notes miner Wallace Nichols showing gold bars from Tisher Hill Mine and a two thousand dollar bar. Other items include testimonials for Electric Bitters and Dr King’s Discoveries, local bank praise for High Point, a Paris Texas recovery story, state guard salary talk, a Macon wedding, December mint silver totals, and Newton cotton mill payrolls with Christmas bonuses.
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