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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1930
Page
6
Health officials urge nationwide rat and mouse control to curb disease risks. Citizen action recommended to keep premises free of vermin and reduce millions of dollars in annual losses from the pests. A single breeding pair can yield about 350 million offspring in 36 months.
Betty Jo Hart Harris, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hart Harris, is reported to be recovering well from a serious illness. George Robert Johnson, seven, son of Mr and Mrs T C Johnson, sustains a fractured elbow in a fall at home on Sixth Street yesterday evening. Miss Iva Hensley leaves tomorrow for Ridgecrest to attend the Southwide YW A conference June 17 to 27 as a First Baptist church representative. The Womens Wesley class of Wesley Memorial church meets tonight at 7 30 at Mrs Vernon Hoskins home with associate hostesses listed.
Vera Smith spent Sunday in Reidsville with relatives. Talmadge Rochelle Jr is visiting Asheboro with his grandmother Mrs Cox. Dorothy Stevens of Martinsville Va visited Miss Mary Muse on South Main Street. Mr and Mrs Matt Wall and Betty spent the weekend in Charlotte with Mr and Mrs Paul TenHoopen. Mr and Mrs Ben Cooper and son from Statesville called on Mrs Cooper's parents Mr and Mrs Frank Winsk ie. Mrs C B Baxter and Catherine returned home after a week at Reidsville with relatives. Elizabeth Freeze and E W Freeze Jr who sailed abroad recently landed in Plymouth England.
Thomas Gold Jr travels to Chapel Hill for summer school at the University of North Carolina. Mr and Mrs H H Foust and Mrs E M Hill return from Chimney Rock and Asheville after a weekend with relatives. Rev Charles P Coble of Douglas Ga, former pastor of the First Presbyterian, visits High Point before leaving with his wife and children for Douglas.
Asheville leader H. W. Wilson was re elected president of the North Carolina bricklayers union. Dr J C Wessell was exonerated by police after striking Co H Davis age 80 with his car and injuring him. Wir gc NC.
Alva R. Sherrill, a prominent lumber manufacturer aged 55, died at his Tatesville home from heart disease, authorities said.
Greensboro born G John S. Barnes, 74, a founder of the Greensboro Fire Department, died after a long illness in Greensboro. He helped establish the department and served as a key local firefighting figure.
A LEIGH North Carolina AP report says Arthur R. M. Hyde Secretary of Agriculture will join a party to inspect agricultural experiments at Caledonia State Prison Farm on Wednesday.
William S. Ware of Philadelphia, whom the Senate refused to seat as a Pennsylvania senator, is visiting Asheville for a few days.
City officers raided an unoccupied house near the Governor's mansion and seized 500 bottles of home brew along with two 20 gallon vats. The operation, identified by authorities as part of a broader crackdown, yielded the sizable illicit liquor cache.
Washington reports Henry Ford seeks parity in living standards for workers in Europe with American workers earning seven dollars daily in Detroit. The International Labour Office asked the U S Labor Department to quantify costs of food clothing rent and luxuries to translate American wages into European terms.
New York artist Paul Herzel rose from poverty unable to afford a studio to become a leading living sculptor of animal figures. He used Central Park and the Bronz Zoos as his studios and modeled from zoo animals, earning friendships with some fierce beasts that allow him to pet them.
Sidney Fox, just executed for murdering his mother, was cited to appear as a corespondent in a divorce case the day after his death. He avoided the scandal of a divorce suit despite the death sentence.
Enrollment for the first term of the university summer school reached 1791, a new all time high. Director N W Walker said up to 5 pm June 17 the term could reach about 1850 with two days left. The 1928 high was 1752 and 1929 rose to 1650. opening exercises feature Harry W Chase and Frank Graham as former and incoming presidents.
The article highlights a navy blue organdie suit as the season’s must have. It features a flaring skirt, fitted jacket, and a white organdie gilet with a hand drawn vestee collar and four inch sleeves, signaling feminine summer style.
Sarah urges Ted Merryman to seek work with his sister Sue and her brother’s inventive talents. Ted promises to make amends and hopes Sue’s brother might secure a chance with Sarah’s father. The plan hinges on Ted’s move and Sarah’s hopes for love and stability.
Senator Swanson of Virginia presses establishing an air mail and passenger route from Norfolk to Chattanooga via Richmond Roanoke and Bristol. Proposals require regular airway links with 30 mile emergency fields weather reporting beacons and lighting for night service. A later alternative Norfolk to Chattanooga via Raleigh High Point Charlotte Asheville Knoxville is proposed.
Trans oceanic calls between the United States and Europe have risen sharply prompting a rate reduction. The change will save about 450000 dollars annually for users. In 1929 average daily conversations reached fifty, up sixty percent from 1928.
Eugene Germain, serving as consul to Switzerland during Cleveland era, is credited with bringing Casaba melons to the United States, marking a notable agricultural introduction.
In a quiet moment, an elder woman recalls Pottsville gossip as Corrinne wed Harry last night and Sue confesses love for Jack. Sarah Slade steps in to help Sue with her tangled affections amid the snowfall and afternoon tea.
The North Carolina Merchants Association sets its June 17 18 convention at Wrightsville Beach to discuss the chain store issue along with sales taxes cutthroat competition changing conditions and unfounded practices. A. J. Maxwell NC commissioner of revenue will address tax problems and governmental costs. Mayor W H Blair of Wilmington will give the welcome. Dallas Holloman of Raleigh is association president.
Dr Horace M Davis of Baltimore will lecture this week at six extension centers for North Carolina dentists. The series closes with his talk on radiography value in preventive dentistry and as a diagnostic aid. 126 dentists enrolled as classes met in Greenville Raleigh Greensboro Winston-Salem Charlotte and Asheville.
A German court ruled a health certificate may be required before marriage. The decision followed a broken engagement after a young woman refused medical treatment for a chronic cough cited as the cause.
Miss Lake M. Thompson, a 1900s era graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and director of religious education at Oakland M E Church in Philadelphia, declines money making roles to pursue foreign mission work, especially in India.
Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, on turning 69, spoke of dying after singing the last note on stage. She said she would not die before the audience but would step offstage and die out of sight, calling it the most beautiful way to go.
Blair Borger of Nanty Glo is jailed for 491 days after catching 53 trout with 46 undersized. He was fined 485 dollars plus costs he could not pay, in Johnston town, Pennsylvania.
In this thriving town near the Great Dividing Range, the police station has become a florist shop. No arrests have occurred for seven years as the state government assigns three policemen to other duties.
Jim Leslie and Dave uiott lure foxes and two dingoes with a whistle, then shoot them. The pair lie in a thicket at night to trap the animals, resembling a wounded rabbit to distract quarry.
A compact errorgram lists five corrections: Roosevelt not at the Alamo. fountain pen outside the teacher s hand. flower stem belongs in the vase. mismatched trouser lengths. and the scrambled word LAWYER.
Dr Caldwell became famous for his single prescription and now after forty years his Syrup Pepsin remains the world’s most popular laxative. Millions use it for constipation headaches nausea and poor appetite. Made from herbs and pure ingredients it is gentle yet effective for women and children.
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