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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1887
Page
2
The Enterprise publishes from its Main Street office with editor Crutchfield. Subscription rates are one dollar per year or sixty cents for six months. The paper is a second class matter at the post office and notes it does not necessarily endorse correspondents unless stated.
Texas feels the heat of prohibition debate while shifting coffee markets send prices up and down. The piece cites Connecticut debt bids, a coffee corner collapse, and wary mood in Edgecombe County after lynching threats. It notes cotton seed oil use, production, and exports, plus a murder arrest in Spartanburg and a planned nine county Sunday school mass meeting in Elizabeth City on July 28.
Governor Bodwell writes to Maine Attorney General and all county attorneys warning of a conspiracy to evade the prohibition by misreading federal revenue rules on liquor in imported packages and urges full enforcement of the law.
North Carolina rail engines between Greensboro and Goldsboro switch from wood to coal for passengers and soon freight, signaling timber scarcity on lines. Timber consumption has been enormous and tobacco speculation rises as farmers expect a partial or poor crop. Wake Forest College adds a new laboratory and hints at another similar building soon.
The column bundles varied items from Guilford county valuation rise and county commissioners meeting to hear complaints and list omissions, North to a Dakota bank joke and Mt. Airy tribute to Maj. Crumpler with a granite monument. A dentist joke closes the verse with a sharp quip about guarantees and pain.
An advertisement extols lung health urging readers to clear airways with Boschee's German Syrup priced at 75 cents a bottle. It promises the remedy works where other treatments fail and notes druggists sell it. Also a brief joke about a boy catching nothing until he returns home to his father.
An 19th century style ad claims a salve and Woolford's Sanitary Lotion cure cuts bruises sores and related eruptions with quick results. It promises money back if not satisfied and lists Brown Matton and others as sellers in High Point and local druggists.
A Tama wood carver recounts a decades long battle with illness starting in 1854. After years of quinine and stimulants he reports severe weight loss, insomnia, tremors, and irritability. A neighbor’s bottle of Kaskine allegedly restores appetite and strength within weeks, with supporting letters from local residents and a sales offer at 31.00 for a bottle or 5.00 for six.
In Harrylee South Carolina near the North Carolina line two women were shot with buckshot by an unknown assailant. Mrs Strickland died about five hours after, Malinda Sibbitt survived with five buckshot wounds. Suspicion falls on Bradley Strickland and a locally reputed woman.
Pursuant to a Guilford Superior Court decree I will resell on the premises in High Point three town lots Nos 6 7 and 9 of the Eli Russell estate on Saturday July 16 1887 with ten percent bids from the May 7 1887 sale. Terms: one third cash and balance at six months with interest bond and security required and title retained until purchase money is paid. Anna Russell Administratrix of Eli Russell June 1877.
Notice in Superior Guilford County Court announces the incorporation of The High Point Building and End Association. The NC company plans small deposits into a savings fund, with capital stock from 300 to 2000 shares at $100 each, to operate in North Carolina for thirty years. Witness Albert A Holton C.C. date June 2 1887.
By virtue of a Real Estate Mortgage to Jeffrey Foster recorded in Guilford County North Carolina, YT Wenners as mortgagee will sell the described property at public auction. The sale of a house and 51 acres in High Point Township, adjoining Sam Jordan, Jack Gannaway, Stanton Mendenhall, and others, to the highest bidder for cash takes place at the Greensboro courthouse on Monday July 18 1857 at 11 oclock a m.
For sale Mrs Harriet Palmer's farms about 24 miles from Jamestown. Two tracts of about 85 acres each, one with an excellent dwelling, barns and improvements, the other with a tenant. Can be sold together or separately. Land suited to general crops, well wooded and watered. Terms by letter to Mrs H Palmer Jamestown or in person on premises.
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