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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1931
Page
11
The city council was told at a joint conference that unemployment is easing. Of 1,426 registered since November 1, 485 have found work, 940 remain needing aid but should shrink with weather and the new Junior school building opening next month.
Members of the Girls League at the local high school staged an all original program yesterday morning. Frances McCrary read her story Wanted Romance and Mary Drew Dalton shared a poem. Musical numbers included Iris Welch flute, Wilma Rogers violin with Gertrude Clarke and Nancy Myatt piano by Margaret Hedrick and a tap dance by Adelaide Callahan and Annie Mae Bogan. Velva Hayden announced plans for a mothers tea set for February 1.
Italy speeds up its general program of national and municipal public works and improvements. The move aims to boost infrastructure spending, create jobs, and modernize facilities across regions.
The Greensboro High Point council session lasted about 20 minutes with Councilman Parker absent due to illness. Key items were postponed to the next regular meeting while a joint session with Greensboro officials and county commissioners plans consolidation talks on health welfare and tax collection.
Two new monster locomotives began service on an English railway with the names The Girl Guide and The Boy Scout. The naming reflects youth organizations and marks a milestone in the railway’s rolling stock expansion.
Attendance swelled to nearly 300 buyers at the mid winter furniture market as exhibitors report strong early days. Fred Fogle of Fogle Furniture Winston Salem notes lower prices and says the show is already off to a better start than in years. Arrivals include buyers from across North Carolina and Virginia as the market enters its third day of a two week run.
Workmen continue remodeling the R W Younts Grocery at the corner of East Washington and Wrenn streets after a fire damaged the quarters two weeks ago. Manager Paul W Younts said business remains normal with entry on Wrenn Street.
Ben R. Lowe a High Point motor cycle policeman was found guilty of abandonment and non support of his wife Mrs Ruby Morton Lowe. Judgment suspended on payment for wife's support with final judgment set for January 26. Wife testified to an unhappy marriage and Lowe's alleged infidelity.
Bruce H Carraway was back in his office on North Wrean street after five days at home due to influenza. He resides at 315 North Main street and was briefly ill before returning to work.
Wallace Wade new Duke athletics director visited High Point with Mrs Wade arranging to view Tomlinson showrooms on Westigh street. The couple ordered complete furnishings for three Duke campus rooms after lunch with the Durham dealer.
Tomlinson of High Point has received a large furniture order through W. and J. Sloane, Inc. of New York to equip Rockland State Hospital at Orangeburg. The shipment will include pieces from many lines and will fully furnish the new state building under construction in New York.
An ad touts Hill's Cascara Quinine as a scientific formula that targets a cold with two tablets, urging rest of box directions and plenty of water. It claims rapid relief from head and body pains as poisons exit the system and offers a money back guarantee if not effective. It emphasizes low cost and quick transformation to feeling like a new person.
At a well attended Andrew Jackson post meeting in High Point last night a stag supper and entertainment were planned for Tuesday February 3 at 7 o clock in the Sheraton hotel ball room State Commander Don Johnson is slated as speaker and extra lighter entertainment was arranged The post invites all ex service men and ticket sales will be handled by R R Names and ticket outlets will be announced once decided This event is a non profit gathering organized with hotel cooperation for the Legion welfare
Robert Deberry a young white boy was arrested by Plainclothes Officer Ray Nance on a charge of breaking into Hilltop Grocery on Hilltop Street Sunday night January 11 and running off with about 20 dollars worth of merchandise. He was locked in jail in default of bond.
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