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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1925
Page
2
Frost Landis and Eboka, national advertising representatives, announce offices at 250 Park Ave New York and the People’s Gas building on Michigan Boulevard Chicago.
The excerpt links France and Riffians, notes Congress will discuss evolution, and cites legal uncertainty over ship junking. It highlights North Carolina topics from a peach show at Hamlet to Greensboro High Point road plans. It mentions a Miami hotel project in Hendersonville, tobacco coop cooperation, Governor McLean’s state visits, and a British coal miners strike portending higher prices and coal shortages.
A coroner's jury in New Hanover County found the truck driver not responsible for a boy's death on the Carolina Beach road, blaming glare from headlights of another car. The Wilmington Star questions the jury's handling of the glare issue and urges stricter headlight regulations and driver testing for intelligence and character to improve highway safety.
A columnist argues the evolution controversy draws extremists and distracts from genuine scientific and civic questions. It contrasts two main camps: those favoring state backing of orthodox faith and those advocating strict separation of church and state, noting the Scopes trial and current cases reflect the broader divide and risk clouding leadership.
The Winston-Salem Journal has been sold to Owen Moon of Trenton Times. Editor Santford Martin remains, continuing as editor and an officer of the new control. The paper aims to expand in the northwest region and improve distribution as North Carolina grows, with Moon pledging faith in Winston-Salem and state prospects.
The prohibition bureau attempted a reform but left the old force on payrolls and postponed any real reorganization. The promised shakeup remains indefinite as personnel retain long-standing party ties, with changes unlikely to affect entrenched workers.
Jonathan T Meeker, 72, is to be released from Middlesex county jail in New Brunswick N J after three years for withholding $12 weekly alimony to his wife. The couple’s litigation spans 33 years with both sides loyal yet hostile, and county support backing the man.
Editor notes a large fund of 35 000 dollars aiding 28 institutions. The program, started in 1922 with 5 000 dollars, rises with Scottish and York Rite support to surpass 20 per teacher training student and 10 for women students. Distribution lists ECU, Cullowhee, Appalachian, UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, Davidson and others.
Wingate College and the Masonic loan fund together back public school education. About 40,000 Masons in the state pledge loyal support, actively promoting better schools, administration, and teaching to foster general intelligence and enlightened leadership as the basis for government, moral uplift, and civic righteousness.
Authorities close in on case of an unidentified white man killed during a still raid in Ashpole Swamp twenty two miles south of Lumberton Robeson county. Officers testified the dead man and a partner attempted to flee and Green fired a pistol during the melee. The coroner’s jury ruled the death a bullet wound caused by an unknown assailant. The companion named Bobbie Green before dying.
New York reports a moderately steady demand for cotton fabrics with prices largely unchanged or slightly higher. Wide sheetings rose five percent after discount cuts. print cloths, sheetings, and convertibles held firm. some 4-4 bleached cottons up 1 to 2 cents per yard. ginghams sold in small lots for spring. export trade steady, with good orders for fabrics and rubberizing cotton dusk.
New high records were set as December traded at 25.30 and January at 24.74, up 37 points, near season highs. Dry Texas weather, firmer cables, and better Manchester reports spurred activity as Liverpool and domestic buyers came in. With drought relief still absent in Texas, traders grew confident in government crop figures issued last Thursday.
Rev W M Pike arrives in Liberty and will preach at English Street Methodist Protestant Church this morning at 11 o clock and again tonight at 8 o clock. M L Boswell, Sunday school superintendent, forms a committee to arrange a Sunday school picnic next week with report due today. Baraca and Philathea class met for singing at the superintendent’s home to boost music in Sunday school. refreshments followed.
New York July 25. Stock prices advanced to record highs this week, led by volatile industrial issues gaining 10 to 20 points. A midweek selling pullback was short lived as short covering and bullish sentiment returned, with President Mitchell noting revival conditions and ongoing credit stability.
Mrs. Hugh Parks gave a brilliant reception at Sunset Avenue in honor of bride and groom Mr. and Mrs. Russell Parks. Guests greeted at doors, with a receiving line featuring the Parks and other local couples. The dining room showcased a pink and white ice course, summer flowers, and Japanese lanterns lit the lawn where music and conversation flowed. A later line notes a standout bridge party hosted by Miss Etta Reid Wood, praised as among the season’s most pleasant events.
The hostess and honorees Mrs Russell Parks and Mrs Tom Wiles hosted guests at a bridge party with place cards and a three course luncheon including peach relish salad sherbet and angel cake. Top scores went to Mrs Henry Ingram. Sandhill Cook Books were prizes. Evening was filled with games, candy and ices, and later a salad course. The Woman's club met to plan fall work, with punch and wafers served. A Philathea class picnic honored two new Asheboro arrivals on Caraway mountain. Friday bridge breakfast honored Mrs John Hanmer with prizes for bridge and high score. Summer visits, trips, and birthdays filled other notes.
New York City niece of the twenty-fifth president, former Whit House hostess, Mabel McKinley, resumes a stage career embraced by longing for performance. She cites mood control through activity, social engagement, and movement as key to sustaining artistry and shares thoughts on musical appeal and modern ballads like Pal of My Cradle Days.
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