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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1931
Page
6
Readable items include a new skirt shipment in soft French flannels in multiple colors, plus numerous local church and club meetings. Notices list Gene Lamont Bible class, Lottie Holden class, Mary Harper Philothea class, Circle One meeting, and other civic and social gatherings.
Mrs. Joe Pell of Rocky Mount Virginia visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. Charlies F. Long. Miss Ernestine Grant recovers after an operation at High Point hospital. Misses Litaker Von Drehie and Wardell return from Baltimore. Mrs. Clardy of Myrtle Beach visits E A Johnson. Miss Hollis of Greensboro visits Brantley McAdoo. Miss Nancy Carr Terry returns from Spartanburg and finals at Davidson. Miss Kurtz and Milton and Sidney Steinberger visit Irene Gordon in High Point. Mr. and Mrs. Murray travel to New York with stops in Philadelphia and Washington. they will visit Mrs. Margaret L. Summers in Washington. Robert Gold arrives from Chapel Hill for a weekend with his parents, joined by Basil Hall of Macon. They return for university finals. Miss Lillian Lorton, guest of Mrs. Abels, heads home to Tulsa Oklahoma after three weeks of High Point socials. Earl N. Phillips in New York at Warwick Hotel. Miss Rose Askew returns from Guilford college after a year’s study.
The White House said the national debt will rise by 500 million and the treasury deficit to 950 million by year end. Declining tax receipts and extra spending on construction relief and veterans services pressured the treasury. Hoover met with his cabinet and planned cost cuts for the naval establishment at Rapidan Virginia.
Social calendar lists Mid Week Garden Club, Burbank Garden Club, and other meetings across Otteray Hillcrest Parkway and Pickett farm with talks by J W Moore of Sykes Florists. Charming tea at Country club honored Miss Billie Hiatt with a reception line and floral decor.
The Right Rev. Beverly D. Tucker recalls Jefferson Davis before a Richmond audience at St. Pauls Episcopal Church. He shares memories from Davis life, wartime acts, and Davis faith, praising his character, loyalty to country and God, and his treatment by foes.
Evocative reflections on Confederate figures like Lee Jackson and Stuart frame a meditation on faith and sacrifice. The piece notes a fatal shooting by Guard Marvin Neville near a Cary farm where four youths escaped by overpowering a guard. coroner L M Waring did not order an inquest. Prison records list Mickey Kelly of Philadelphia as the father of one detainee.
J N Kelly, 17, of Philadelphia, serving two to five years for larceny, was shot and killed at Cary prison farm near Raleigh while two inmates attempted to escape during a march to a cotton field. The other fugitive, C Jordan alias W C Maguire, was with him.
In Montreat North Carolina on June 3 the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church voted 135 to 105 to end negotiations toward organic union with four other groups while continuing federal union work. A minority report urging continued study was rejected. The assembly plans to finalize sessions today amid remaining reports on church governance.
A brief Tit-Bits item describes a man dreaming of someone, waking, closing the window, and adding an extra blanket to the bed, noting the chilly mood.
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