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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1929
Page
6
Mr and Mrs B L Russ announce the birth of a son, James Dillard, on Wednesday, June 5. Numerous social notes follow, including pillow sale previews, club meetings, and church group gatherings across Greensboro area institutions.
The piece notes North Carolina lies on a similar latitude to central Mediterranean countries and praises its climate. It cites the state’s high birth rate, low death rate, and a foreign born population of about 0.3 percent from the last census. It lists diverse native trees from palmettos to firs and mentions the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill founded in 1789 as the oldest state university.
A fragment lists Alice Caldwell Annie Carter Marsh Julia Marsh Louise Sals bury Helen Marsh Margaret Franklin Dorothy Franklin Dor othy Rankin Hazel Shipman Betsy Durland Elizabeth Reitzel Mrs Herman Smith and guest Miss Martha Parker of Asheville Misses Cam Boren Elizabeth Thornton Virginia Moe Clamrock and Elzie Flaharty of
Mrs G E Russell shows improvement after illness. Miss Forest Hastings visits Miss Margaret Allen in Kernersville. Mrs H R Wilder improving after operation at Guilford General Hospital. O C Durland family depart for a week in Morehead City. Dr and Mrs H B Hiatt and Billie Hiatt return from New York state and Canada. Mr and Mrs Clifton L Croker of Elkins and R J Croker of Atlanta visit Mrs W P Ridge on English Street. Treva Barker returns from Fairmont High to summer with her parents T C and Mrs Barker. Rosa Mae Ingram and Lois Hutchens travel to Chimney Rock for camping and summer school at Asheville Normal College.
On the 646th anniversary of the final Gettysburg day North Carolina plans two memorials on a 200 foot site. A group statue by Gutzon Borglum and a ten foot marker honor NC soldiers among the 26 000 Confederate dead. Former Governor A W McLean will present them to the federal government with Governor Gardner attending. Officials will unveil.
Reports say the Soviet government debates experimental buildings with thick reinforced concrete walls and foundations, air tight gas proof rooms on each floor, oxygen tanks for emergencies, underground stories for safety, protective roots to neutralize bombs, and underground highways beneath the structures.
A fortune teller from New York offers palm readings in the city. She claims to read past present and future and reveal love or business matters. She promises to tell when you will marry and your stumbling blocks for $1.00 per palm.
A European chemist has scouted the idea that gas attacks on large cities are overestimated because planes could not carry enough gas to do great damage.
A clothing feature urges owning a Biarritz jacket for summer wear. It notes styles in gay calicoes, quilted silks, linen and cretonne fabrics and adds that one’s hat should match the jacket.
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