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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1927
Page
6
Local report lists a 3 o clock gathering at Johnson street hosted by Mrs Walter Hargett. Community groups hold social events and church activities across Greensboro during the period.
Mrs B C Page and her little daughter return from Lumberton visiting Mrs H E Stacey. Angelita Harrelson leaves for Cherryville after visiting Edna and Jessie Kearns. Dorothy Reitzel returns from Lenoir Rhyne commencement in Hickory. Frank Kearns to return from Randolph Macon Military Institute in Bedford Va. Learners Bible class meets 3:30 with Mrs D V Linthicum led by Mrs J D Green. Mrs V C Royster visits daughters in Asheville. James Manual Price born May 29 to Mr and Mrs H S Price at 414 North Wrenn. Hubert Gilmore announces birth of a nine-pound girl June 1. mother and baby resting well at Guilford General Hospital.
An employee of Gilmers, Incorporated reports Lake Carolina in Oak Ridge is open to the public after checks on bath houses, lighting, and water supply. Sergeant George M. Potter and Roy Whitaker will oversee the season. Brick laying on a new dormitory began today and should be ready by fall term. T. B. Ogburn and family from Sarasota, Florida, are visiting Mrs. T. E. Whitaker.
A High Point group within the American Business club plans Safety Week to educate pedestrians on street crossing. A three member committee H E Johnson R B Welborn and Ivey L Morrison will seek city cooperation and coordinate with Boy Scouts. The campaign aims to promote corner crossings and visible cards on cars without enforcing laws.
Funeral services for Mrs. James J. Griffith of Kernersville were conducted at Kernersville Methodist Church by Rev. Charles P. Cobb and peers. Burial followed in Kernersville Cemetery with active and honorary pallbearers named and floral tributes from church societies.
Mrs. Sophronia Farlow died at her Guilford College residence Monday night. Funeral rites conducted yesterday at 11 o'clock by Rev. Joseph Peele and Rev. Tom Alderman Sykes at Marlboro Friends Church. A quartette sang and numerous relatives attended. Burial followed at the church cemetery with grandsons acting as pallbearers.
Raleigh June 2 AP The state equalization commission will publish its valuations at the next meeting around June 15, though no report is required until 1928 Secretary LeRoy Martin said. The Supreme Court is to hand down decisions on June 10 after completing argument hearings.
A two day conference on supervision to be held at State College July 1 and 2 invites county and city superintendents and principals. Dr. Phillip W. S. Cox of New York University School of Education will lead the event aimed at applying fundamental supervision principles to principal duties.
The Soviet representative in Peking says Vladivostok will close to British shipping and transfers of Lena Gold Mine Railway materials across the Russo Manchurian border will stop. He noted eight in ten Vladivostok vessels are British, but Britain’s foreign office had no confirmation.
Comparative shipments this season net North Carolina farmers about 250000 dollars announced by the department of agriculture. About 1 1/2 million pounds of live birds or 110 cars daily, averaging 22 1/2 cents a pound, are shipped under supervision of agriculture department marketing experts and county agents. Cars are loaded at specific points and farmers are paid cash on the spot, eliminating overhead charges.
In Greensboro on June 2 AP reports the sixth annual tournament of the Women’s Carolinas Golf Association saw Mrs. W Albert Pierce of Charlotte beat Mrs. Frank Ford of Charleston five up and four to play. Edna Hirshinger of Charlotte edged Miss Dean Van Landingham of Charlotte one up. Bernard Cone of Greensboro defeated Mrs. W H Willard of Charlotte two up and one to go.
June 2. John D. Norwood, former North Carolina banker and notable political figure, had not been assigned to a duty today in Atlanta.
Raleigh June 2 The appointment of Mrs Walter C Crowell of Monroe and Mr D Collin Barnes of Murfreesboro as members of the state board of charities and public welfare for term expiring April 1 1933 announced by Governor McLean
The North Carolina high school program growth creates a shortage of adequately trained principals to supervise high school and grammar school activities. T. E. Browne, director of the State College summer school, notes the need as the day centers on high schools. Dr. Henry Highsmith is to give a...
Carlot shipments report 30 beans and 12 lettuce across states with North Carolina leading beans and New Jersey leading lettuce. Potatoes total 356 with North Carolina and South Carolina high counts. Virginia and Texas show smaller totals.
Two young women were found slain today in a field at New Boston near Pittston Pennsylvania. One body was nude while the other was fully clothed according to police reports.
Norwood, once chairman of the North Carolina state Democratic executive committee, begins a three year term at a federal penitentiary for violating the national banking act tied to the 1923 collapse of the Peoples National Bank of Salisbury. He arrived Tuesday with U S Marshal Brownlow Jackson.
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