High Point News and Notes From January 1887
New barber shop opens near J B Robertson. Town clock hoped for Asheboro. Engine reached Thomasville on the railroad. Wrenn Bros. goods selling fast. Temperance meeting planned in Bush Hill. Eleven lots of late Eli Russel property go to auction Feb 28 1887. Miss Jennie Scales marries Henry W Cobb in Greensboro. Dr H C Pitts advertises signs and dentistry. Knight of Labor assembly planned. Fire and crime reports and local business notes fill the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eli Russel
R.F. Dalton
Porter & Dalton
Greensboro
Thomasville Street
Dalton
Snow & Co
Snow & Dalton
High Point
Superior Court of
Guilford County
North Carolina
Anna Russel
Adm
Free Trial of Dr King’s New Discovery at A E Smith Co
The ad announces a limited free trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds at A E Smith Co’s Drug Store. It claims cures for coughs colds consumption asthma bronchitis and throat lung ailments with a note of large bottle pricing and a success story. A second item reports Prof J Willoughby Reade’s death in Norfolk and other local notes including a whisky license tally in Durham county and a shooting in Springfield Kentucky. It ends with a testimonial praising Electric Bitters and a 50 cent bottle at A E Smith Co’s Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoebe Chesley
Paterson, Clay Co
Iowa
A. E. Smith & Co
Phosphate Bag Guarantee Details
A chemical product description states each 200 pound bag contains 10 to 16 pounds of plant usable Phosphoric Acid. The text emphasizes guaranteed content but ends truncated, lacking full specification or usage guidance.
Fertilizer mixtures for Wheat Oats and Grasses
On clay soils with vegetable matter mix 800 1000 lb Lime Phosphate 100 lb Muriate Potash and 2 sacks Salt per acre. For thin land use 1000 lb Lime Phosphate 100 lb cotton seed meal 100 lb ammonia 100 lb Muriate Potash per 2 4 acres. For rye oats use Lime Phosphate and Kainit. oats do well with 1000 lb Lime Phosphate and 400 lb Kainit. Broad cast 600 1000 lb with Kainit on sandy land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluegrass
Kentucky
Also Mentioned on This Page
Enterprise
N. C
Presbyterian Church
J. B. Robertson Shoe Establishment
Asheboro
Thomasville
Silver Valley Railroad
Wrenn Bros
Trinity
W. F. Winile
Charlotte
John H. Tate
Emma Sheally
Danville
M.A. Smith
Weatherly
Jamestown
Bush Hill
James W. Reid
Toronto
Canada
Charles Heitman
Twin City
Kinston
Groome’s
Carolina Central Railroad
Rutherdfordton
Jennie Scales
Gov. Scales
Henry W. Cobb
Callie Futch
Wilmington
11. C. Pitts
A. R. Bowers
Isis
Winston
J. A. Turner
Messrs. Hobbs
New Market
A. B. Sapp
National Bank of High Point
Sample Brown
Andrew Hayworth
Orinoco
Hayworth
Knights of Labor
Cluverius
Bingham
Trinity College
Raleigh
Heitman
Randleman
Fayetteville & Winston Railroad
Modern Tobacco Barn Co
Snow's Barn
State Chronicle
Leach
Express Company
Baltimore
Brooklyn
Reidsville
Piedmont
Star
Statesville
Mooresville
Iredell
Rowan
Cabarrus
Mecklenburg
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley
Bett
North Carolina Midland Railroad
Col
A. B. Andrews
Richmond & Danville
North Carolina Midland
Midland
Agricultural Department
James River
Chapel Hill
J. L. Waldrop
Norfolk
J. Willoughby Reade
EF. W. Moore
Freemason
Durham County
John Farlow & Co
Springfield
Lud Cornish
John Green
Lula
Miss Green
Cornish
G. P. Hall
Jarrell’s
Volina Cordial
Volina
Volina Drug & Chemical CO
Bs. A. Brown
Deep River
A. 8. Idol
Thomas Burns
Gilbert & Barker M R G. Co
Maiden Lane
New York
James P. Clifford
Grand Central Hotel
Asheville
N.C
T.W. Wood & Sons
S. Fourteenth ST
Richmond
R. J. Lindsay & Bro
Gods
Andovercoats
Zeigler Brother
Merriam & Taylor
Burt & Packard
Gourse Boots and Shoes
Dr. H. Clay Pitts
High
BEY” Chice
Superior Court
Court House
Paul Swaim
Morehead Township
Mayre
Chapinel
J. &, Cox, Com
High Point, N. C
Jan. Th
Pharmacists
Ray
M K.callum & Co
L. E. Laws & Daughter
Groomes
Warehouse
Groome
Pennsylvania
Budwess
Bohemian
Odell Building
Comb’s
Greensboro, N
H. A. Simmons
Jarrol’s Hotel
Z. Groom & Son
A.b.smit
Hmrugs
Graves, &c
The
N.C. Phosphate Co
Raleigh, NL
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