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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1889
Page
3
The Enterprise notes tax listers start next Wednesday and reports on local visits from E M Armfield and Nelson King at Bellevue. It mentions Dekoration Day, rising egg prices, and rain forecast for good grass and potatoes. It covers commencements for Trinity College and High Point Classical Institute, visits to Miss Hamner and Miss Armfield, and plans for a new High Point Building and Loan Association with $25 000 capital.
A Charlotte Chronicle representative highlights High Point as a major NC manufacturing hub. The piece praises 500 workers in plaid, sash, tobacco and wood product sectors, cites Modern Tobacco Barn inventor Captain W N Snow, Empire Cotton and Plaid Mills expansion, Cox Co spoke and handle factory output, and notes two tobacco plants, railside trade, a flourishing newspaper Exteraisn, and local hotels, banks, and schools. It also reports a murder trial in Newbern and Bishop Lyman’s ecclesiastical activity in the diocese.
Notices urge guards to attend a Saturday evening meeting at the armory on June 4 at 8 o clock to elect officers for the coming year and address other important matters by order of Captain C P Winney.
Notice of incorporation filed in Guilford County North Carolina for The High Point Building and Loan Association with capital stock 300 to 2000 shares at 100 dollars each to operate in NC for 30 years. Witnessed in Greensboro on June 2 1887 by Albert A Holton C S C. Also notice of lost certificate No 4 of Raleigh Savings Bank stock and request for duplicate.
Under a Guilford County Superior Court order, the real estate of John Kenneday deceased will be sold on Saturday June 25 1887 at 1 PM. The 72 acre homestead two miles west of High Point a railway lies with 6 8 acres meadow and 10 15 acres timber. Terms: one third cash, two thirds on credit six months with bond and security interest from date title kept until paid. E V Swaim Adm'r. May 24 1887.
A 19th century fertilizer ad touts Lime Phosphate as a dry, low water content mix. It details application rates for cotton, corn, wheat, oats, grasses, and livestock manure. promotes lime phosphate as superior to sulfuric acid rich blends and cites specific nutrient ratios and mixtures for various crops.
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