North Carolina 4-H Short Course Attendance Expected
A record attendance of farm boys and girls is expected at the 4-H club short course to be held at North Carolina State College from August 3. The event will honor outstanding club members in leadership who will join NC representatives at the national 4-H camp and the Springfield training school. Club Leader Harrill notes no enrollment cap and urges selection of members who will bring back actionable guidance to their counties. The program emphasizes rural progress and live-at-home yields, with agents reporting 26,626 members in 981 clubs across 83 counties last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mileen
Tey Beck
North Carolina State College
L. R. Harfill
North Carolina
Springfield
Massachusetts
Harrill
I. O. Schaub
State College
California Man Visits Lexington
Arthur Warner Heitman of Stockton California visits Lexington to see relatives. He is the son of the late R F Heitman longtime Lexington police chief. Heitman left Lexington twenty one years ago for California where he died seventeen years ago. Heitman was born in California and maintains ties to North Carolina where his parents were born and whom he came three thousand miles to visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Arthur Warner Heitman
Stockton
California
R. F. Heitman
Heitman
North Carolina
Davidson Pastor Assists In Revival
Rev. Robert Short of Denton county and pastor of the Methodist Protestant church at Denton assists in a revival meeting in Yadkin county this week. He plans to return to Davidson county to preach at two churches next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Robert Short
Denton
Methodist Protestant Church
Davidson County
Yadkin County
Hair care advice plus local business notices of 1929
An essay extols scalp exercises and changing hair parts for health and vigor, urging readers to brush and tug hair methodically. It closes with corporate notices for Laws of 1929, a non stock firm with founders in Palmyra, Henderson, Baltimore, and Charlotte, and Advance Realty of Charlotte outlining contracting aims with capital details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. B. Everett
Palmyra
L. H. McKay
Henderson
George M. Wallis
Baltimore
Advance Realty Company
Roanoke Island Plans Bigger Virginia Dare Birthday Fest
Roanoke Island hosts a seven day celebration starting August 17 with a birthday party for Virginia Dare on August 18 at Old Fort Raleigh. D B Fearing chairs the Dare county homecoming committee promising a larger event than prior years in Manteo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manteo
Roanoke Island
Wirginia Dare
D. B. Fearing
Dare County
Virginia
Old Fort Raleigh
Virginia Dare
Roanoke Island Homecoming Draws Big Traveler Interest
The Dare County homecoming on Roanoke Island draws about 25 000 visitors with 2000 invitations mailed. A new highway links Manteo to the mainland, enabling 400 to 600 weekly Old Fort Raleigh tourists and May traffic of 5000 cars crossing Roanoke Sound. Senator Cameron Morrison and former Navy secretary Josephus Daniels are slated speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Manteo
Roanoke Island
Cameron Morrison
Charlotte
Josephve Daniels
Raleigh
Dare County
Walter Raleigh
Old Fort Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Nags Head
Mantée
Elizabeth City
Point Harbor
Currituck
Wright
Roanoke Sound
German Crisis Deepens Over War and Peace Debate
On July 8 1917 the Hamburger Fremdenblatt reported a major political crisis in Germany driven by war weariness. It highlighted Mathias Erberger a member of parliament who called for peace without annexations or indemnities and criticized submarine policy and diplomacy that drew the United States into the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Mathias Ereberger
America
Fremdenblatt
Certificates of incorporation filed in North Carolina
The secretary of state records several new corporations including Independent Merchants' Buying Service, Incorporated in Roanoke Rapids to engage in merchandise trade with 10 000 authorized capital and 30 shares subscribed by Roanoke Rapids residents. Edgemont Apartments Company of Asheville to own hotels and residences with 50 000 authorized capital and 11 200 subscribed. Charlotte Marble and Granite Company of Charlotte to deal in granite and marble with 400 shares authorized. Lancaster and Williams, Incorported of North Carolina to conduct general merchandising with 50 000 authorized and 6 000 subscribed. North Carolina Crop Improvement Association, Incorporated of Raleigh organized to advance crop-related provisions under chapter 325.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Independent Merchants’ Buying Service, Incorporated
Roanoke Rapids
W. Lunsford Long
Frank A. Horwitz
J. Winfred Crew, I Jr
Roaffake Rapids
Edgemont Apartments Company
Asheville
D. M. Hodges
H. M. Felder
D. McC. Baker
Charlotte Marble and Granite Company
Charlotte
Frank Sims
Marion McCamy Sims
Grainger Pierce
Lancaster and Williams, Incorporated
North Carolina
W. G. Lancaster
B. F. Williams
Herman Williams
Rocky Mount
North Carolina Crop Improvement Association, Incorporated
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Davidson
Malva
Ed. Thiemann
Hamilton
Ohio
Maple Avenue
Mr. Thiemann
Malva Medicine
Main Drug Co
Main St
High Point Ice and Coal CO
West Broad
Coney Island
New York
Lees
Alicia Hart
NEA
W. T. Health
Lee Heath
F. J. Health
City Hall
W. E. Price
Morrison
Darecom
Roanoke Island Memorial Association
A. B. Andrews
W. D. Pruden
Edenton
R. B. Crane
Joseph Blount Cheshire
Anniver Ersary
Rome
FORD
Michael
Ford Motor Company
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