Local court docket lists 85 trials in Greensboro term
High Point defendants figure among 85 cases docketed for trial this week in Greensboro under Judge John M. Oglesby. About 30 defendants remain in jail awaiting trial. only one murder case, Jack and Floyd Moore, is set for trial. The term closes next week with Judge W F G Harding to take over.
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Greensboro
John M. Oglesby
Cabarrus
Suor
Herman Co. Wilson
Superior Court
Jack
Floyd Moore
Oglesby
12Th Judicial District
W. F. G. Harding
Charlotte
H. L. Koontz
D. Newton Farnell, Jr
W. G. Boon
Gibsonville
Ezekiel Posey
William Pegram
Will Frazier
Jock Webster
O. D. Bavender
Robert Cardwell
S. E. Thompson
Earl McNeill
William Tuttle
H. L. Earnhart
Avery Gibson
David Nicholson
Robert Berron
Jerry Williams
John Brooks
Willie Bennett
Cosby Cameron
John Cameron
Joe Neal
Edgar Leak
Jack Moore
Tom Easley
Clara Tuttle
Paul Jones
Willie Rudd
James Thacker
Zet S. Pratt
Grover Morris
Local A B Club Members Back From National Meeting
High Point A B club members return from Washington after attending the national convention which concluded a three day session. James S. Moffitt Earl Andrews J J McMurray and J H Rountree represented High Point. Charles Langmyre of Detroit named national president and Sam Sims of Washington elected national vice president.
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High Point
The
American Business Club
Washington
James S. Moffitt
Earl Andrews
J. J. McMurray
J. H. Rountree
Charles Langmyre
Detroit
Harold Blankenbiller
Reading
Sam Sims
Hotel Men Name Young as Officer
R. K. Young, manager of the Elwood Hotel and former Group Four president, was elected vice-president representing North Carolina at the Southern Hotel Association annual meeting in Richmond. The meeting drew over 200 hoteliers. West Virginia will host 1933 events.
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North Carolina
Southern Hotel Association
R. K. Young
Elwood
Richmond
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Young
White Sulphur Springs
West Va
West Virginia
W. E. Hackett
Walter F. Paul
Danville
Mr. Young
J. Mason Alexander
Greenville
Earl H. Spence
Greensboro
E. I. Bugg
Durham
Wallington Hardy
Norfolk
W. G. Malone
W. T. Neal
Winston-Salem
Theodore Barrow
Sanford
Lewis A. White
Aiken
I. W. Cagle
Rock Hill
Invitations Sent for Summer Southern Furniture Market
Invitations were sent nationwide to about 6 000 furniture retail dealers to attend the July 25 to August 6 market in an eight to ten story southern exposition building. Nearly a dozen additional manufacturers will display products as contracts for space roll in amid a 20 percent reduction in rental fees for old and new contracts. The Southern Furniture Market Association plans sessions for exhibitors and buyers to discuss improvements and the building may open to the public for a furniture style show. A committee led by Henry A. Foscue outlines entertainment and recreational amenities for visitors at the show with no cost to attending buyers.
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Southern Furniture Market Association
Henry A. Foscue
Foscue
Roland T. Holton
Fletcher Welch
Paul W. Casey
Casey
Safety Patrollers Encampment Opens Tuesday Morning
Fifty five members of the Boys Safety Patrol will gather at eight o'clock Tuesday at city hall to be driven to Camp Uwharrie for a three day free encampment hosted by friends of the movement. Sergeant A P Samuels will accompany the group and supervise with the regular staff. Public is invited to visit camp life Wednesday with parents and friends. A baseball game with a visiting club is set for the afternoon and Chief of Police W G Friddle will umpire.
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Boys Safety Patrol
Camp Uwharrie
A. P. Samuels
Police Department
Samuels
Safety Patrollers
W. G. Friddle
Vacation Bible School Picnic Plans At First Baptist
The Daily Vacation Bible School at First Baptist reports about 100 children aged 4 to 12 enrolled for a week of 9 to 11 45 morning classes. Friday features a city lake picnic and 8 pm closing exercises with a handwork exhibit for parents and friends.
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First Baptist Church
High Point Tops North Carolina Cities in School Attendance
High Point led Charter Group 1 in 1930 31 school attendance with white 95.3 percent and colored 97.5 percent averages. Winston-Salem was second in white attendance, Greensboro tied for second in colored, and other cities followed including Durham Raleigh Charlotte Wilmington and Asheville. Rural Guilford ranked 12th white and 24th colored. Forsyth topped white attendance. Alleghany led colored, with county enrollments detailed.
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High Point
North Carolina
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
T. Wingate Andrews
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Charlotte
Durham
Raleigh
Wilmington
Asheville
Guilford County
Forsyth County
Alleghany County
Detective Wounded in Liquor Raid by Suspect
Detective Ray Nance of the plainclothes division was shot in the right shoulder during a liquor raid at 812 Hilltop avenue. Gaither Sherrill, colored, fled after the ambush and eluded pursuit as officers searched colored sections of the city. Nance and officers rushed to High Point hospital where his condition was described as not serious unless arteries were hit.
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Ray Nance
Plainclothes
Gaither Sherrill
Sherrill
Hilltop Avenue
Nance
Fe Enatinge Fatele
Sam Paet
High Point Hospital
W. L. Dawkins
J. T. Burrus
W. E. Kiger
Dawkins
Steele
Sherrill Place
I. S. Ingram
Municipal Court
Kiger
Naking Sherrill
W. G. Friddle
Friddie
Bogart to Collect Local License Taxes in High Point
State deputy revenue official Bogart will visit High Point June 21 and 22 to collect local Privilege License taxes for 1932–33. Delinquent merchants urged to settle back reports and current taxes to avoid 5 percent per month penalties. Notary service free. penalties accrue starting July 1.
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Co. B. Bogart
T. R. Short
High Point
West Washington Street
Bogart
May Welfare Report Totals 1,258 Aidable Families
The board of public welfare reports 1 258 families received material aid in May with total department cost 2 513 16 and average 5 34 per case. Aid reached 2 177 individuals in 313 white and 213 colored families, with 232 aid recipients having no income.
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Board of Public Welfare
W. C. Hammond
Visiting in State as Brother Falls Ill
Rev. Thomas L. Trott former rector of St. Mary's Episco pal parish in town and now rector of Goliad Texas is in North Carolina visiting his oldest brother Henry Scott Trott who is very ill with paralysis in Wilmington. Trott went to Texas in 1931 from Statesville and voted for Al Smith in 1928. The Wilmington Trott, a Republican figure, is critically ill and was once considered by the President for a port collector appointment.
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Thomas L. Trott
St. Mary’s Episcopal
Goliad, Tex
North Carolina
Henry Scott Trott
Wilmington
Mr. Trott
Texas
Statesville
al Smith
Trott
Hoover
Rev R C Fortune To Address Deaf Here
Rev R C Fortune of Durham will address the deaf and dumb of the city in St Marys parish house this morning at 11 oclock. A cordial invitation to attend the meeting is extended all the deaf and dumb of the community.
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R. C. Fortune
Durham
St. Mary’s
City faces first fiscal year hurdle with limited funds
With under 850000 on hand and 164000 due in interest and bond retirement on July 1 the city seeks early tax payments to gain a 3 percent discount. The debt load includes 77408.75 in interest and 47000 in bond retirement plus 24000 interest on notes and 6000 on locally held notes.
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New York
Confederate vets plan Richmond reunion attendance
A. E. Hammer the only surviving Confederate veteran in High Point and Rev. J. M. Hilliard honorary member join the annual Confederate veterans reunion in Richmond Virginia June 21 to 24. They travel with Irvin Paylor Bascom Hoskins and others from High Point and stay at the Jefferson hotel as Guilford veterans receive donated tickets and funds from local groups.
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A. E. Hammer
High Point
J. M. Hilliard
Richmond
Hammer
Hilliard
Irvin Paylor
Bascom Hoskins
J. B. Kirkman
J. W. Harriss
A. &. Caldwell
J. D. Pell
Jefferson Hotel
Guilford
Virginia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association Meet Set At Sheraton
Finishing touches were completed by local committees for the 53rd annual North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association gathering at the Sheraton Hotel. More than 500 druggists and guests from across the state are due to arrive for the convention starting Tuesday with events Wednesday and Thursday.
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Entertaining Association
North Carolina
North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association
Sheraton Hotel
Convention Plans For State Pharmacy Gathering In June
Elaborate social and professional events are arranged for a three day state pharmacy convention. Activities include receptions dances banquets barbecues tours and theater outings with speakers from Greensboro Des Moines St Louis and Washington. The program features papers on pharmacy topics and legal matters with addresses by Dr. R A McDuffie Dr Anton Hogstad Jr and Mr E C Brokemeier among others. President A Earl Weatherly will preside at the opening session June 21 with officers including Weatherly Webb Hood Hall Beard and other leaders listed.
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Comer Covington Estate
Rockford Road
Tomlinson
High Point
A. Coke Cecil
D. A. Dowdy
Sheraton
A. Earl Weatherly
Greensboro
R. A. McDuffie
Board of Pharmacy
Anton Hogstad, Jr
St. Louis
Pharmacy Week
Cari Weeks
Des Moines
I. W. Rose
Chapel Hill
E. C. Brokemeyer
Washington, D. C
W. G. Crockett
Medical College of Virginia
U.S. P
Association
Mr. Weatherly
Paul Webb
Shelby
J. C. Hood
Kinston
Dowell to speak at High Point Merchants meeting
Wil lard L. Dowell secretary of the North Carolina Merchants Association will address the High Point Merchants Association annual meeting in the Elwood hotel private dining room Tuesday June 28 at 730 pm. D A Dowdy will open the meeting Rev George T Tunstall will give the invocation election officers and refreshments will follow A Coke Cecil will perform magic after the address.
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High Point Merchants’ Association
Elwood
Willard L. Dowell
North Carolina Merchants’ Association
Grace Baker
D. A. Dowdy
High Point Association
George T. Tunstall
Green Street Baptist Church
Dowell
A. Coke Cecil
James Gregory Sentenced in Slaying of His Son
James Gregory received a two to five year sentence in Guilford superior court after being convicted of manslaughter in the July death of his 16 year old son Tyro. He claimed the shotgun discharged unintentionally as he aimed to scare the boy.
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James Gregory
Greensboro
Tyro
T. J. Shaw
Guilford Superior Court
Gregory
Civic Band Concert At City Lake This Afternoon
High Point residents are invited to a 4 p m concert by the Civic band at City Lake. W F Bailey of the parks and playgrounds commission promotes more park programs this summer. The band, led by Lewis L Stookey, includes over 40 musicians and marks the group’s first summer performance.
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High Point
City Lake
High Point Civic Band
W. F. Bailey
City Parks and Playgrounds Commission
Bailey
Civic Band
Lewis L. Stookey
City Schools
Grayson Praises City Lake Band Concert Plan
High Point mayor Dr. C S Grayson commends L L Stookey for a four o clock park concert at City Lake. He hopes public support leads to weekly Sunday afternoon programs and notes the event should inspire appreciation for the musicians. The hour long program includes selections by Holmes, Hayes and Smith with marching overtures and a medley.
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City Lake
C. S. Grayson
High Point
L. L. Stookey
Robinson
Holmes
Central Friends School Opens Vacation Bible School
Central Friends Vacation Bible School opens Monday morning at 8 45 for children aged four to fourteen. A strong faculty includes Misses Rade Poston Ruth Jarrell Iane Lowe and Mrs W T Saunders with Reuben J Payne pastor of Archdale Friends church directing music Miss Charlotte Parker assists and helpers James Parsons Helen Jones Martha Taylor Novella Burton. Children will ride to the playground three afternoons weekly and the two week session ends July 4 urging prompt enrollment.
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Central Friends Vacation Bible School
Rade Poston
Ruth Jarrell
Iane Lowe
W. T. Saunders
Reuben J. Payne
Archdale Friends Church
J.O. Wilkie
James Parsons
Helen Jones
Martha Taylor
Novella Burton
Charlotte Parker
Population doubles in Jonesville with large family
Jonesville Wisconsin reports a dramatic population rise as one family of seventeen people moves in a man his wife and their fifteen children bringing total residents to thirty four in the small village.
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Jonesville
Wis
Wisconsin
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Main Street
Knights of Pythias
American Legion
Merchants’ Association
A. B
Nelfare
T. L. Trott
St. Stephen’s Colored
A. R. Hammer
Rev. J. M. Hilliard
Harry H. Culler
H. H. Culler
South
Hamilton Street
Advanced Flying School
Army Air Corps
Kelly Field
Tex
Air Corps
Regular
WL. Dowell
Merchants
Municipal Park
Grayson
W Ancliffe
Royal Dragons
Eavan Eee
Ks Isetkesceed
Eee
Hayes
Under the Double Eagle
Overture
Central Friends School
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