Pioneer Settlers Of High Point Rise Of a Southern City
Miss Isabel Ellison’s Wrenn essay traces High Point’s origin from a 1850s plank road trading hub to a thriving industrial city. It credits early settlers led by William Welch and Martin Hunt Jr and notes railroad growth, manufacturing booms, and civic institutions that shaped a 1923 to 1930 population surge and a strong schooling and religious framework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrenn
Isabel Ellison
Alexander Martin
the Daughters of the American Revolution
High Point
Washington and
Main Streets
William Welch
Main Street
Bethania
Salem G
Fayetteville
Atock
Our City
Ellison
North Carolina Railway
Arthur
Gregg
Deep River
Sewell Farlow
Elwood Hotel
Martin Hunt, Jr
Seborn Perry
W. H. Snow
J. A. Barker
Christ
Grand Rapids
South
United Effort
Whittier
Wesley Memorial
Methodist Protestant
Presbyterian
Green Street
First Baptist Church
Methodist Protestant College
County Hospital Link Is Needed Says Public Welfare Chief
Raleigh June 7 Mrs W T Bost Commissioner of Public Welfare argues county hospital facilities are needed to bridge the gap between the county home and private hospitals. She urges diverting funds from the county home system to build district hospital beds at lower per capita costs. She notes Virginia consolidation of almshouses into district homes and cites cost differences and the need for proper placement of epileptics insane and feeble minded away from county homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bost
North Carolina
Freight safety improvements show railroads trim losses
New York reports that railroads cut loss and damage costs from 96.7 million dollars in 1921 to 37.4 million in 1929. The per car loss dropped from 2.35 to six hundred eighty nine cents, a 61 percent improvement over nine years. Claims filed in 1929 totaled 2,514,578.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Railway Association
State Exam Passed By 172 North Carolina Nurses
In Raleigh on June 7 172 nurses passed the state board examination held April 7 announced by Mrs Z W Conyers secretary of the North Carolina board of nurse examiners. The roster lists nurses by city with many names from Asheville Biltmore Charlotte Concord Durham Fayetteville Greensboro and more. twenty two nurses from other states registered without taking the exam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Rotha Frances Dawkins
Margaret Ford
Roxie Roper
Pearl Whitmire Orr
Rubyette Charmon
Biltmore
Della E. Pritchard
Goldie Pharr
Virginia Gilbert
Flora A. Henson
Burlington
Ethel Josephine Shoes
Violet M. Smith
Charlotte
Sally Ann McNeil
Mary L. Seaford
Lydia L. Weir
Mary A. Warner
Vennie Templeton
Edda E. Bolick
Lou Alice Cox
Ruby M. Galloway
Luby Steele
Alma Rhyne
Mildred A. McGill
Margaret E. Thompson
Aliie Lee Durrenece
Mildred Leona Price
Cleo Kluttz
Annie M. Edwards
Eula W. Safrit
Mabel Evans Bostie
Concord
Bertha Mae Lesler
Durham
Hallie Jerona Miller
Wilma L. Craig
Willie G. Covington
James M. Bell
Doris McKenzie
Clyde Ray
Lillie K. Davis
Ruth McGirt
Lillie M. Brigman
Franklin
Lelia Dryman Gibson
Dorothy Moore
Yastonia
Mildred B. Plyler
Eugenia White
Alice McGinn
Sarah S. Kincaid
Charlotte E. Abernethy
Greensboro
Minnie Pearl Monsees
Sally Lucille Goolsby
Lyda E. Permar
Dona G. Cooper
Edith L. Groves
Goldie L. Bingham
Hattie Hines Permar
Greenville
Ruby G. Burney
Laura F. Morgan
Maggie Norville
Hamlet
Hannah F. Haywood
High Point
Elizabeth L. Booker
Emmma Legrand Chaffin
Margaret Pearl Glenn
Kinston
Ida Lucille Cameron
Ruth E. Webber
Nora Lee
Books of adventures and drills for boys and girls
A catalog of books for youth across genres from history and aviation to mystery and adventure. Notable titles include DRUMS by James Boyd with N C Wyeth illustrations, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mohicans illustrated by Wyeth, and numerous regional author credits across Georgia Maryland New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Porto Rico Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Boyd
N. C. Wyeth
North Carolina
Wyeth
Deuel
Crump
Allen
Lindbergh
Miller
Baylor
Verne
Fyleman
Sally Gabble
Potter
Kilkison
Jane BE Good
Howes
Perkins
Little Dog Toby
Field
O’connor
Duzzause
Trubey Poole
Christine M. Steiner
Georgia
Beulah Jackson
Ruby Edwards Sapp
Maryland
Ruby Mae Maynard
New Jersey
Artie Sue Kerley
New York
Ruth Serena Fitzgerald
Annie Link McGregor
Ohio
Ruby F. Jaredine
Pennsylvania
Mary Lucile Mil
Konjola Claims to End Neuritis and Indigestion
An advertisement features Mrs. D J Cochran of Louisville praising Konjola for relief from indigestion and neuritis after two weeks, noting 32 ingredients and a six to eight bottle course. It lists High Point NC Main No 1 Drug Store and 105 South Main Street as outlets and urges readers to try the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Cochran
Hale Avenue
Louisville
Konjola
High Point
North Carolina
Quilted Coats From Readily Quilted Calicos
Readers can buy calicos and gay chintzes already quilted at a moderate sum to craft delightful coats for sports wear. The ready quilt material offers a convenient option for practical outerwear.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Walt Whitman
High Point Creamery
Mount Airy
Hallie E. Segars
Delia C. Shelton
New Bern
Ruth Killingsworth
Evelyn Hill
Effie Lee Avery
Rowena Gertrude Hill
Oxford
Lorabellene Scoggins
Marie E. Vaughn
Siby A. Davis
Clyde E. Franklin
Alie M. Wilson
Alma J. Miller
Ruby B. Linder
Elizabeth Avant
Hattie Lee Frazier
Thelma Atkins
Pauline Baker
Margaret Inez McCain
Leona Buchanan
Mabel Finch
Lavinia E. Walton
Daisy Lee Smith
Ruth O. Walton
Effie G. Briggs
Lillian A. Davis
Roanoke Rapids
Irma Lee Taylor
Rocky Mount
Harriett E. Copeland
Rosetta Dunn
Ruby L. Coggins
Goldie Lassiter
Margaret O. Biggs
Rutherfordton
Mary Sue Whisnant
Maggie M. Sweatt
Salisbury
Atlie Pearle Preston
Mildred
Beatrice Beck
Lola Lee Paris
Nina M. Steele
Shelby
Gladys Reese Goodwin
Muriel E. Wright
Statesville
Ola Blanche White
Adele E. Overcash
Nancy Holden
Lula V. Fultz
Tarboro
Dorothy Edwards
Wadesboro
Willie B. Pope
Wilmington
Mavis Bone
Sara Baker Duncan
Ha P. Cowan
Katie Smith
Leila Lewis
Wilson
Annie N. Martin
Janie Alice Manning
Nina Winstead
Ruby Viola Cawthorne
Ira Mae Farmer
Mabel W. Ellis
Winston-Salem
Annie K. Smith
Blanche M. Hough
Lillyan Fowler
Laura G. Shore
Fannie Jewell Beard
Martha Jane Ross
Helen Armstrong
Iva J. Burleson
Lavaerna E. Norman
Ilinois
Lelia V. Watterson
Mary Alice Miller
Ora Lee
Porto Rico
Elizabeth Irwin Wright
Tennessee
Alice C. Brown
Willie Hazel Hampton
Gertrude M. Ashe Hannifin
Carolyn
Virginia
Louisa K. McDaniel
Olivia Cowper Raney
Laslie Mae Scott
Florence Rose Wells
West Virginia
Daisy Wallace Derbyshire
High Point Pabl
Dpd. J. Cochran
Excella
National Bellas Hess
S. Main St
Batiste
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