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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1933
Page
7
The notice warns that on July 1 a new 1.03 sales tax will affect furniture purchases. It advises buying before the date or choosing cash to save the tax and notes installment plans may include the tax. Items listed include water coolers porch furniture living room suites lamps rugs cabinets stoves and refrigerators.
THOMASVILLE June 23 Mr and Mrs Walter Newby entertained the Eibera club and guests at Glenana with a two course dinner and a two table bridge. Mrs Alvah Boyles won the ladies prize and Dr O R Hodg in the gentlemen's prize.
Ace of Clubs members gathered Wednesday at Mrs. Paul Hassler’s Kinney wood home for a three table contract session. Mrs. Alvah Boyles topped scores and received a picture frame while Mrs. J. F. Garner earned bath powder as second scorer. Visitor prize went to Mrs. Charles Clegg. Guests included Mrs. G. H. Hurst of Lemon Grove, Cal.
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret L Purdue about 80 who died at her home in South Thomasville on Thursday morning will be conducted this afternoon from Pleasant Grove Methodist church by Rev R L West Baptist pastor. Surviving are one daughter Mrs B Parrish of Thomasville three brothers Brink Hunt of Trinity route one Ensley Hunt of Denton and Bob Hunt of Fullers and three sisters Mrs Janie Davis of Archdale Miss Pollie Hunt of Fullers and Mrs Bashie Floyd of Fullers.
Goldsboro records show deputy sheriff B G Smith completing a correspondence finger printing course. His diploma aided identifications of prisoners including Bruce Hines wanted in Lenoir county on two larceny charges and James Moore sought in Edgecombe for housebreaking and larceny.
Greensboro June 23. An average wage increase of about 10 percent for 500 employees of the Pomona Mills, now under N A Boren as receiver, has been put into effect. The plant runs full schedule but adjustments in hours and shifts will come to comply with the national recovery act.
Thomasville report details Charles Tomlinson boss of a Lexington avenue Texaco being struck with a blackjack by two Black men who tried to rob him but he cried out to his dog. The suspects fled and were later jailed. Tomlinson suffered a head wound and identified one assailant as Callicutt.
In the House of Commons Josiah Wedgwood declared Britons would rather have Franklin Roosevelt as chancellor than Neville Chamberlain. Robert Boothby criticized Chamberlain, urging bold cost cuts to balance the budget, while noting implied doubt over policy. The exchange fueled the budget debate as calls for action intensified.
North Carolina faces far reaching changes from a new federal Industrial Control Act. Commissioner A L Fletcher notes limits to a 40 hour work week and a minimum wage of 10 dollars weekly for the lowest paid, with penalties of at least 500 dollars a day for noncompliance. The act targets mills and textiles, with two 40 hour shifts and a five day week, pending July 1 implementation and a June 27 Washington hearing.
The article notes June offers seasonal produce like new potatoes cantaloupe asparagus spinach green peas and strawberries with picnic supplies such as jellies pickles and olives. It includes Quaker Maid Kitchen menus and a brief political opinion urging Britain to adopt controlled inflation inspired by Roosevelt and a note on fowl dressing losses.
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