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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1931
Page
7
J L White Inc is listed with contact details at Hood Bank Building, office phone 2683 and residence phone 8473. The entry presents a business card style notice without additional context.
Real estate sale notices highlight affordable five and six room homes on Greenway Place East Lexington Avenue West Farriss Avenue North Hamilton Street North Johnson Street and other locations. Homes feature modern amenities hardwood floors garages baths and easy terms with prices ranging from three thousand to five thousand dollars. Amos Realty Co. lists multiple bargains at 301 302 Wachovia Bank Building contact number 4392.
A weary hitchhiker halted at a Ridgeville Maryland miniature golf course late Saturday telling 50 players he would end his life. He stabbed himself three times with a pen knife and collapsed as golfers returned to their game. The man was identified Sunday as Duke Davis, 87, a Baltimore painter.
Three defendants T Y Stone Roy L Southern and Bascom Stone faced charges of assault with a deadly weapon against Myrtle King and two companions James Smith and Sherwood Sorrel. All three cases were dismissed by Judge Lewis E Teague after a lengthy trial session. Bascome Stone received a $50 fine and six month driving ban Bascome Stone was fined for drunken driving Roy Southern was fined $20 for drunken conduct. Several other cases were settled with sentences suspended fines or not guilty verdicts in a lengthy High Point Municipal Court session.
Twelve former Samarcand Manor inmates sentence to prison for attempted arson report no trouble since their midmonth transfer. Warden Honeycutt notes the group, once charged with first degree arson for burning two Samarcand buildings, is housed in safe keeper cells on the death row tier.
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha E. Hunt were held at 11 o clock at Mount View Methodist Church Randolph County. Rev. J. E. Shaw officiated. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
The High Point Boy Scout district council will meet at 7 30 o clock tonight in the office of Uwharrie council president H A Millis. Scout Executive Bunn W Hackney announced the session will cover council matters and the upcoming summer camp.
Atlanta news wires report National Cotton Week launches nationwide to revive business. Disie, the land of cotton, joins towns and stores in celebrations, with windows and ads devoted to cotton goods. Callaway cites wide participation by retailers and trade groups. Governors in ten states proclaimed the week.
A revival series started last night at Hickory Chapel Wesleyan Methodist Church two miles east of the city under Rev. G. F. Settle Meyer of Summerfield. The public is invited to attend these services over the next ten days.
Hollywood actress Dorothy Mackaill announced her engagement to actor Horace Hough and said they would marry once he has enough money. Mackaill planned to depart for Honolulu on a new voyage.
The pope denounced recent anti church violence as fascist youth attacked clerics and property, vowing to invoke the Lateran treaty and concordat. In Rome, Mussolini moved to close Catholic Action clubs, with an estimated 15 000 clubs and 500 000 members affected by the action.
Raleigh report says Frank Nash, assistant attorney general for about 15 years, is expected to be appointed clerk of the state supreme court to take over about July 1. Edward Seawell, who has served eight years as clerk, said his term expired January 12. Seawell noted the court would announce in its own time and calls reports premature.
The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America declared that its 2,000,000 communicants may hold conscientious objections to war and military training without losing citizenship. The general assembly adopted resolutions reaffirming the 1993 stance that bearing arms or combat service cannot be required by conscience or citizenship.
In Sing Sing death house prison, guards found a three and a half inch knife made from a spoon handle hidden in Francis Crowley's stocking during a strip search. Crowley grinned and refused to explain when keeper John O'Connor pulled out the weapon.
Raleigh June 1. Herman Bailey 52 farmer of Barton's Creek township Wake county died at 5 this morning from a self inflicted heart shot with a 45 caliber pistol. Coroner L M Waring reports death by own action with probable bad health motive. Bailey recently received treatment at Duke Hospital and is survived by his widow and 11 children.
The Supreme Court observed a memorial service for former Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Associate Justice Edward Terry Sanford. Attending were members of the bar and officials who read resolutions of regret. copies were sent to their families. The ceremony preceded the court’s last-day business of the term.
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