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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1931
Page
2
Numa R. Wood, 36, of Thomasville, shot himself in the heart with a shotgun he had taken from his home moments earlier. The tragedy occurred about noon yesterday in the yard where he lived with his father Marcus Wood.
Wood stated he would kill himself and repeated the remark to family members on Sunday. An inquest found death by his own hand using a stick to trigger a gun. He left a wife and four children, with surviving relatives listed, and funeral arrangements set at Pierce's Chapel Primitive Baptist church. Jimmie O Branson died at age one month at 601 East Guilford Street with funeral services held locally.
Raoul Walsh film Women Of All Nations opens at Paramount with Victor McLaglen as Finge and Greta Nissen. A comic scene has Greta painting whiskers on McLaglen and Edmund Lowe reacting with a saucer of milk at luncheon.
Asheville faces High Point tonight at High Street Arena. Admission is 10 and 25 cents.
A lifestyle piece emphasizes foot health with tips on proper shoe wear length stocking fit and alternating shoes. It covers daily washing salt baths gentle toe trimming and use of foot powder to prevent discomfort and ingrown nails, noting summer heat makes foot care especially vital.
MEMPHIS Tenn UP Of the 11 honorees awarded graduates of the University of Tennessee School of Pharmacy this spring Webster Price Dunway Selmer Tenn captured seven He won the faculty medal honor certificate Rhdd medal for materia medica and four other prizes for his research work.
Public auction to the highest cash bidder in front of Greensboro court house at 2 pm on June 30 1931. Property is 408 Parkway High Point Guilford County described as Lot 30 Parkway Plate 4 Page 5 and secured by deed of trust dated July 15 1926 with Atlas Parker and D C MacRae trustees. Atlantic Life Insurance Company noteholder may lean up to 9500 dollars at sale terms announced.
A chart by Col. Leonard P. Ayres shows a eleven year decline in living costs across shelter clothing food and other items with a main line for total cost. The notice then records a public sale under a 1926 deed of trust in Guilford County North Carolina with property described as 1600 East Green Street High Point and a loan not to exceed 5500 dollars to be sold at auction at the Guilford County Courthouse in Greensboro on July 2 1931.
The Atlantic and Yadkin railroad seeks to discontinue all passenger and mail service on its 130 mile route from Sanford to Mount Airy. A state hearing was set by the corporation commission after cities along the line opposed the petition. The road says bus competition causes about $2,000 monthly losses. daily runs exist Mount Airy to Sanford and Sanford to Mount Airy. The Southern currently controls the A and Y.
A violent rain and windstorm in Chicago caused three deaths and several injuries. An instant downpour of one inch in 17 minutes struck after 6 AM, with fatalities including caddy Donald Keller at La Grange Country Club, Lena Haller in a car crash, and Jennie Sheldon from a heart attack during the downpour. Elsie Fenning was seriously hurt in the incident.
Veterinarians from across the state gather in Winston-Salem for the 30th annual meet ing with Dr. W A Hornaday of Greensboro presiding. Dr J T Burrus of High Point addresses the group on veterinary medicine and public health.
In Lexington on June 23 a four week dry spell has left crops, especially corn, stalled and farmers anxious. The drought slows tobacco growth, causing concern among county growers who hope rain will relieve the gloom and sustain yields.
Gerald Lanham a county employee battled an enraged hawk while applying waterproofing tar to the courthouse tower in Miami Florida. The hawk attacked with sharp talons as Lanham defended himself with a tar brush delivering a solar plexus blow. The birds vanished and Lanham declared the contest a draw.
An agricultural note reports farmers in North Carolina achieving as high as 17 percent return on investments in feeding corn to pigs this year. The item appears amid local notices and sports listings at the Play-o-Graph High Street Arena with admission set at 10 and 25 cents. Administratrix Hattie A. Hill seeks claims against the estate of W. E. Hill of Guilford County with May 26, 1932, deadline and immediate debt settlement urged.
Actress Mary Boland says she is over forty and believes women can keep radiant charm with Lux Toilet Soap. The piece promotes Lux as guarding complexion beauty for stage and screen stars across decades.
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