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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1928
Page
11
About 3551 eligible voters registered for the hospital bond election set for July 3. Supporters plan an active ten day campaign while opponents predict a decisive defeat, noting large registrations and local precinct splits with inclinations heavily against the issue.
About 200 attendees are expected as Lutheran Women’s Missionary Clubs 10 gather locally. Several prominent Lutheran speakers have been secured to participate on the program.
The 30th annual North Carolina Christian Endeavor union convention will be held August 3 to 5 at the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro. A. J. Koonce announced arrangements with 1,500 expected registrants and 400 from outside Guilford County. Frederick J. Libby will main address. social banquet planned at the college dining hall. The event features talks by national speakers and local leaders across Greensboro and Charlotte.
The High Point Thomasville highway will be closed to the traveling public tomorrow for widening to 30 feet. Traffic will be diverted by two detours arranged by the state highway commission with alternate routes for west and east bound travel.
Large crowds are expected for the Guilford County Alumni Association dinner at Sedgefield Manor tomorrow at 7 p m. Dr Harry Woodburn Chase and Frank F Graham will speak after the banquet and news reels of the Carolina Virginia game will be shown. The committee urges every local alumnus to attend.
The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the Municipal court ruling awarding L. W. and Irene Flythe of 603 West Lexington Avenue $8,450 for injuries from a November 1926 collision with an Eastern Carolina Coach Co bus at the Hew River underpass near Graham. The case, tried in Greensboro and appealed through Guilford Superior, marked the first local case to reach the state high court. Austin and Turner represented the plaintiffs. Gold and York and Oxford attorney John W. Hester defended the defendants.
Earl Lee, a Lexington man, was held under one thousand dollars bond for the superior court on a charge of attempting to rob a local flour mill safe. He was caught by a mill employee and a policeman with a four foot wrecking bar found nearby. Lee, previously in police court, awaits trial at the criminal court term starting next Monday. Police say he entered the mill through a rear window.
The ladybird beetle is described by the U S department of agriculture as the foe of peach growers. It preys on scale insects aphids and thrips helping protect orchards.
Mrs. Jacob L. Morgan heads the North Carolina society as the Woman's Missionary convention of the Lutheran church of North Carolina is set to meet at Emmanuel church from June 30 to July 3. Nearly 200 delegates are expected with Dr. F. F. Fry of the United Lutheran church in America and Mrs. C. K. Lippard among speakers.
The Lord's Supper will be administered at Emmanuel Lutheran Church tomorrow morning at 11 o clock. The pastor will preach on The Touch Which Jesus Said His Disciples Should Know.
Discovery of a steady water source in Malta ends years of drought hindering industry. Reports say water quality remains stable after continuous pumping, unlike other wells, prompting celebrations.
Col. D. H. Milton returned from the gulf coast and Mexico and reported Houston is prepared for the Democratic National Convention with strong support for Al Smith. He found broad backing among men in trains and hotel lobbies, while several women opposed Smith. Milton toured the convention site and spoke with campaign leaders as hotels planned to handle crowds in Atlanta Mobile Montgomery New Orleans and other cities.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Laffoon will depart Tuesday morning by rail for a west coast vacation visiting Visalia California New Orleans Houston Grand Canyon Los Angeles San Francisco Salt Lake City and Chicago. The well known local printer and his wife previously toured California three years ago and will return after several weeks abroad.
J Elwood Cox president of Commercial National Bank and head of the North Carolina Hoover For President Club says Hoover Curtis would deliver a larger landslide in North Carolina than Coolidge Dawes four years ago. He predicts a Democratic loss and expects Smith to be the Democratic nominee.
Missionary Day will be observed in all departments at Wesley Memorial church with a devotional program highlighting the missionary maintenance fund. Rev. John W. Moodre will preach at 11 on Beneficiaries and Benefactors and again at night on Transformers vs. Conformers. The service features special anthems, organ preludes, and hymns.
A raid era tale recounts 130 gallons of Virginia corn liquor stored in High Point. Roy Saunders drove 26 five gallon cans toward High Point to ease homebrew shortages while George M. Freeland planned ahead. Freeland arrived to find no liquor or driver, prompting pursuit by authorities.
High Point chamber of commerce directors plan a meeting in the Commercial club directors room Tuesday at 7:45 pm. Agenda includes proposed interstate freight rate changes on hosiery and furniture shipments, effective July 1, with petitions seeking rate cancellation and review already filed with Washington authorities.
Miss Martha Anne Kendrick, formerly librarian at Inman Park, Beaumont, Texas, has taken the duties as librarian of the local public library succeeding Miss Marianne Martin who moved to Sweetbriar college in Virginia. Kendrick plans to boost reference use and expand modern fiction as finances allow while noting strong reference works and books on hand. Lucille Pickens, acting librarian, leaves for New York to study at Columbia University.
The Daily Vacation Bible school of Central Friends church opens tomorrow at 8:45 AM in the church annex, sessions run three weeks with three one hour classes daily ending at 11:45 AM. Miss Anna Mendenhall directs youth activities and will supervise.
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