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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1888
Page
3
Local notes report an upcoming auction at the Ragen and Millis property. Various small items and business updates are included, with community notices about missing rings and local dignitaries.
A break in at Wrenn Bros dry goods store last Wednesday night woke owner M. J. Wrenn who found no items missing. Burglars entered through a glass door and vanished before he could return with a posse. Citizens vow to help catch them.
Notes from High Point and surrounding towns report summer visits to Morehead City and New York, with obituaries and religious reflections. The Kansas Chief recounts a 19 year old Edwin Payne’s death and faith, while local notices mention executions commuted to penalties and a Rowan county Prohibition ticket.
Typhographical errors caused misreadings of several items last week. Prof Crowell and Rev Dr Robey spend time in town. Mrs Albright and daughters plan to reopen a boarding house. Rev H N Heitman and wife of Lexington may not move here. Mr Frank Stanback visits his wife in town. Prof Gannaway and wife depart for Virginia. Mrs Nannie Fisher, wife of Cumberland sheriff, visits relatives. Mr Clark Welborn teaches a singing school at Fraziers. Robbin s hotel lot sold to E A Guyer of Jamestown, sale uncertain. A local quarrel over town bargains prompts sharp remarks about public discourse. A local man funded a divorce for a married woman years ago. now she rejects that man and his visits. He now invests in mortgages. For good beef go to Hoffman Farlow and company, recently slaughtering a fine 600 pound steer.
The ninth annual meeting of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association will convene in Goldsboro on Wednesday August 8 1888. Hoffman Farlow and Co announce 10 000 fine cigars available from 2 to 5 cents each. Low aged thirty five of Ossipee Mills died by suicide this week by leaping from a tree.
The firm of FE. N. Brower & Co. of Liberty Randolph County North Carolina dissolves by mutual consent. Mrs. E. N. Brower has purchased H. Alexander's interest and assumes all liabilities, continuing the business at Liberty. July 20, 1888.
On clay or rich soils mix 800–1000 lb Lime Phosphate with 100 lb Muriate Potash and 2 sacks Salt for 1–2 acres. For thin land use 1000 lb Lime Phosphate 800 lb cotton-seed meal fish-scrap ammoniate and 100 lb Muriate Potash for 2–4 acres. Lime Phosphate boosts oats and grasses. broadcast 600–1000 lb with Kainit on sandy land.
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