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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
7
The Famous Players Lasky corporation launches a motion picture school for Paramount actors and actresses here. Pupils must maintain 75 percent in class attendance and conduct or face dismissal. Rules urge abstinence from alcohol, late hours, and associations that could bring the profession into disrepute.
London June 19 Queen Alexandra in her late seventies remains highly active engaging with the public. She attended the Cart Horse Parade in Regent's Park a charity concert for disabled soldiers and the Richmond Horse Show all in one day. She limits evening outings and retires early playing patience before bed.
Charlottesville July 7 Emmett Wilkerson 23 says he shot and killed his father W 5S Wilkerson a prominent Gilberts farmer in Albemarle county in defense of his mother Sheriff Smith reports the tale appears corroborated by the neighborhood family physician.
Reports say Joe Pemberton a Black man was taken from Bossier parish jail at Benton by a mob early yesterday and hanged to a tree in Black Bayou swamp two miles from Benton. He had been jailed after the shooting of two Black women Tuesday night.
Mrs J F Allen of Green Springs fought a desperate duel with a blacksnake yesterday in Winchester Virginia. Holding her baby with one arm she swung a hoe with the other and finally hacked the snake in two.
Burlington gears up for Alamance Day with a second annual Mardi Gras featuring a full re enactment of the 1771 battle and a parade of redcoat militia regulators and backwoodsmen. Festivities honor the Alamance movement and liberty era with a queen crowning and the crowd drawn to a pageant of history.
Jackson ville reporters report a tragedy where two year old William Kelly died after swallowing a red devil firecracker. The child, son of Mr and Mrs W B Kelly, fell ill Monday and convulsed Tuesday before passing away Wednesday despite medical care.
Mrs. W. L. Maberry and family express gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and death of their husband and father. They also thank for floral designs.
Axie Simp son a twenty year old student nurse leaped 75 feet from the Tennessee river bridge after a court suspension for disorderly conduct. She was swept ashore by a workman and survived the fall saying she had planned to end her life since Sunday night but her nerve failed.
An old belief links a bright Christmas morning fire to yearly prosperity and a smoldering fire to adversity, suggesting luck depends on how the hearth burns during the holiday.
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