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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1930
Page
6
A Wednesday evening ice cream supper will be held at Springfield Friends Church. Homemade ice cream and cake will be on sale and the public is invited to attend.
The Philathea class of Calvary M E Church plans a 7 30 PM meeting at Mrs T H Bates 301 Centennial Ave. Christian Endeavors host a watermelon feast at Archdale playground 7 30 PM tonight with travel from area churches. The day features a birthday party for Kenneth Garrett and various social notes from High Point residents and visitors.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie B Smith of Gibson North Carolina announce the marriage of their daughter Eddie Mae Smith to Rudolph T Dillon of High Point North Carolina. The ceremony was performed by Rev J G Wallace in Bennettsville South Carolina on Saturday July 26 with a small gathering. Dillon is the son of Mr and Mrs W J Dillon and works for Pittsburgh Plate Glass in this city. The couple will reside with the groom's parents.
Mrs. W. H. Willard of Charlotte led the qualifying round at Biltmore Forest Country Club with a 92 total after 18 holes, three ahead of Asheville’s Mrs. Murray Wendell. Charlotte’s Mrs. E. C. Griffith ranked third with 102 as half the field finished. Match play begins Wednesday in two flights, with finals set for Saturday.
Wake county board of commissioners objected to bills for jail supplies including candy chewing gum strawberries celery and pure cream at 65 cents a pint. They reserved action next week on more than 1000 dollars in jail supply bills.
Davidson county auditor W. Z. Greer arranged the sale of 145000 dollars in tax anticipation notes. The notes were purchased by W. O. Gay and company.
The county sold short term notes in a sale negotiated by the county auditor and approved by the board of commissioners. High bidders from New York City secured the issue at 4 per cent with a $100 premium, a comparatively low rate for 90 day notes.
Amedeo Obici, longtime peanut magnate with a Suffolk Virginia plant, returns from Italy aboard the Vulcania and says Italians enjoy peanuts but do not elevate them in candy or peanut butter. He notes Virginia and North Carolina peanuts are best and that Italians prefer peanuts in the shell.
James Brown a 10 year old Black boy died after a gunshot wound at Franklinton Christian College for Negroes in Franklinton. He and two companions approached the rear of the principal's residence to water a mule when intruders fired through a door injuring Brown who later died in hospital. Officials believe a housebreaker looting the residence fired the shot.
Texas farmers report armadillos increasingly raid coops for young poultry and eggs, a pest that has developed a taste for poultry supplies and complicates farm protection efforts.
Two couples in Red Wing Minnesota who wed on April Fools Day in 1927 were granted divorces in the same week this year. The unusual timing highlighted by local records notes both marriages and separations occurring decades apart.
In Asheville on July 29 three seeded players reached the North Carolina Open quarterfinals after second round wins. Tench Coxe defeated R H Rogers 6-1 6-1 6-1. James Halverstadt beat Reeves Rutledge 6-0 6-1. Lenoir Wright topped Bobby Beatty 6-1 6-0. Upcoming matches feature Beckman vs Covington, Hines vs Rogers, and Demott vs Rogers.
CHAPEL HILL July 29 Dr Edgar W Knight Professor of Education UNC has published Reports on European Education a study of influential public education forces in the US in the mid 1800s The book examines John Friscom 1819 Victor Bousin 1831 Prussia education and Calvin E Stowe 1837 Ohio report influencing NC and other states
Greensboro July 29 Adolphus G Moore 58 a traveling salesman for two Virginia firms was found dead at his home in front of a mirror with a bullet wound in his right temple The death is ruled a personal safety related incident He is survived by his widow two daughters and a son.
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