Improvements to Camp Uwharrie Planned and Expanded
Trustees announce a keeper's hut and lodge will be built at Camp Uwharrie and a keeper will stay on site. The road will be widened to allow easy automobile access. Non scouts will be barred from camp facilities as of the near future. A refinancing plan will launch soon with more stock sold in High Point, Thomasville and Lexington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp
Uwharrie
High Point
Thomasville
Lexington
March Weather Defies Proverb With Snowfall Across North Carolina
March arrived roaring as snow blanketed much of North Carolina. Forecasters warned of sun today but snow continued from morning through afternoon as residents watched the groundhog proverb fall short.
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Washington
North Carolina
Snowy mix hits Augusta as first season flurry falls
A light snow and rain mixture fell in Augusta Georgia today marking the first snowfall of the season. The snowflakes melted on impact, blending with the rain in a brief wintry glaze.
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Augusta
Gun battle on Cowee Mountain ends with arrests and liquor seizure
In Franklin on March 1 a gun battle atop Cowee Mountain near the Macon Jackson line left one man wounded in the leg and another jailed. Deputies pursued two cars carrying whiskey as nearly 100 gallons were seized. Sheriff C L Ingram escaped injury when his cruiser skidded on melting snow during the chase.
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Franklin, Mar
Cowee Mountain
Macon
Jackson County
Asheville
Evans
Dewey Whitaker
L. Ingram
Ingram
Eastern Star Chapter to Present Program Tonight
The High Point Eastern Star chapter will present an interesting program at the Masonic Temple tonight at 8 o'clock. Officials say the program should be very successful. Tickets have been on sale for some time and many have been issued, according to today’s announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Eastern Star Chapter
Masonic Temple
Funeral Services for Billy Edwin Kimsey
Funeral services for Billy Edwin Kimsey were held at his home at 9 o clock with Rev. Herman Stevens officiating. The body was then taken to Thomasville for burial at Unity Cemetery.
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Billy Edwin Kimsey
S. P. Kimsey
Grace Street
Herman Stevens
Green Street Baptist Church
Thomasville
Unity Cemetery
Fire Partially Destroys Enfield School Building
Fire of undetermined origin partially destroyed the Enfield High School building in Halifax county this afternoon. Pupils were moved from the building without injury. Fire crews checked the flames after it started in the basement boiler room and spread to woodwork and beneath the floors. loss estimate unavailable.
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Rocky Mount
Mar
Enfield
Halifax County
Baylor's Former Store Reopens as Howerton's
The ladies ready to wear shop at 150 South Main Street formerly Baylor's reopened this morning under the name Howerton's. Mr and Mrs Jack Howerton now own and manage the business after purchasing last Saturday. A bankruptcy sale began today to clear old stock and will run about one week to ten days.
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South Main Street
Baylor’s
Howerton
Fugitive Chester Coltrane Arrested After Months on the Run
Chester G. Coltrane 29 of Randolph County was captured near here by Deputy Sheriff R L Parker Detective Wimberly and Sheriff C J Palmer. He faces charges of removing mortgaged property in Grand Island Nebraska and will be returned to Nebraska for hearing. Coltrane fled after mortgaged auto theft and evaded authorities from Nebraska to Kansas Arkansas and Maryland before hiding in Guilford and Randolph County. An accomplice who aided the sale was arrested earlier and jailed in Grand Island.
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Chester G. Coletrane
Randolph County
R. L. Parker
Wimberly
C. J. Palmer
Hall County
Nebraska
Grand Island
Neb
Palmer Colrane
Hartsough Motor Company
Nebraska City
Coltrane
Kansas
Arkansas
Baltimore
Noothing
Parker
C. J. Shubert
Randolph
Guilford
Hkandolph County
Everett Hedgecock Farm
Palmer
Former Wilmington Banker Seeks Parole from Governor
Thomas E. Cooper, released from federal penitentiary, asks Governor McLean to grant parole for nearly all eight years of sentences on New Hanover county roads. He received four and two year terms for banking law violations and is currently free on bond awaiting a potential parole decision.
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Wilmington
Mar
Thomas E. Cooper
McLean
New Hanover County
New Hanover Superior Court
Atlanta
Cooper
Potatoes Market Report Chicago March First
Potatoes receipts 94 cars on track. Market first firm for russets. supplies on round whites liberal. Demand moderate. overall market slightly weaker. Wisconsin round whites 175-190 cents, mostly 185. Idaho russets 280-300, mostly 290 cents.
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Chicago
U. S
Wisconsin
Idaho
Market Opens See Mixed Advances On Steel and Dow Components
New York March 1 United States Steel rose a point at the open Beth Steel crossed 51 to a 1925 high Delaware and Hudson gained about 2 percent and Dupont absorbed its $2 dividend while General Motors opened one point higher amid today’s stock market resumption of operations after the advance.
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New York
United States Steel
Beth!chem
Delaware and Hudson
Dupont
General Motors
Cotton market opens steady with firmer Liverpool notes
The New York cotton market opens steady with May at 1440 and October at 1472 as buyers and hedge outlets fix prices. Overnight reports show renewed spot demand in the south and stronger Wall Street interest, with rebounds and some hedge selling absorbed on setbacks.
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New York
Liverpool
Wall Street
Commission House
New. York
Foreign exchange rates steady in New York
Foreign exchanges in New York on March 1 show stable quotations in cents for major currencies. Rates list Britain at 484 3-4 demand with cables 485 1-8, Tokyo at 4893 0-4, Shanghai 62 3-4, and several European and other markets including France 399 3-4 demand, Germany 2369 1-2, Belgium 1390, Poland 1150, Austria 1412 1-2, and Sweden 2669 with various cable readings.
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Foreign Exchange
New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Switzerland
Spain
Greece
Poland
Landing field committee to meet in Kernersville
The Winston-Salem High Point Greensboro air mail landing field committee plans a 3 PM Saturday meeting in Kernersville. Members include Paul Montagne chair, Paul Lindley Grady Bain J E Marsh Jr, and finance head C T Lainback with Hazel Hardin and J P Coz.
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New York
Atlanta
Greensboro
Air Mail
Winston-Salem
High Point
J. E. Marsh, Jr
C. T. Lainback
Hazel Hardin
J. P. Coz
Local Effort Groups Form New Information Committee
The Greensboro Greens formed a committee on information and equipment with C. M. Ketcenun as chairman. A second panel to align local effort with national influences includes W. T. Ritter of Winston-Salem and James A. Gawthrop of Greensboro.
Eleven Jurors Chosen in Finch Case in Lexington
Eleven jurors were chosen by 12:30 in the civil suit against the North Carolina Railroad Co. for $252,000 over the death of Brown Finch, a Thomasville manufacturer. A 40-man Guilford county venire was exhausted, a 10-man supplemental venire ordered, and testimony was expected to begin tomorrow morning as court reconvenes.
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Lexington
Mar
North Carolina Railroad Company
Brown Finch
Thomasville
Guilford County
John Oglesby
Southern Spring Manufacturing to Open New Plant Here
Renovation of the old Slane Hosiery Mill at 22 Mangum avenue is underway to house the Southern Spring Manufacturing company. The firm will produce Dixie spring units for furniture, mattresses, and autos, starting with 75 workers and aiming for April operation. Sales offices will be at 134 West Commerce street. Earl N. Phillips presides, W. S. Ivis is VP, M. J. Rymlad sec, N. E. Spell treasurer, with Rymlad bringing extensive spring industry experience and patents for spring improvements.
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Slane
Mangum Avenue
Southern Spring Manufacturing Company
West Commerce Street
Earl N. Phillips
W. S. Ivis
M. J. Rymlad
N. E. Spell
Spring Products Company
Philadelphia
Kay Manufacturing Company
Brooklyn
Empire Spring Company
National Spring Cushion Company
New York City
Rymlad
High Point to Auction Tomlinson Building April 2 1927
City of High Point will hold a public auction at City Hall at 2 30 p m on April 2 1927 for the Tomlinson Building condemned to widen East Commerce street. Sale is to be cash with a $1000 sum conditioned if the buyer completes the purchase. Auction subject to city council confirmation dated February 25 1927. R L Picket City Manager.
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High Point
Said City
Tomlinson
East Commerce Street
Dore
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March
Georgia
Uot
Carouna
Old North State
E. F. Huffines
Wachovia Bank
Pilot Life Insurance
Conmipany
Greensboro, N. C
Cowes MT
Eastern Star Chapter
Billy Kimsey
Baylor
Chester Coltrane
Mercy
Duco
Colonial Furniture CO
Model
Columbia Phonograph
Frix Piano & Radio Co
Washington St
Nest
Morris Plan Bank
Asia
Morden-Clerk
American Museum of Natural History
Russian Pamirs
Chinese Turkestan
Mongolia
Copton
IELD
Kernersville
Finch Gase
Old Slane
Stamey
Tiecorda
Masic
Belk-Stevens Co
Belding
Stehlis
Honan Pongee
Nice
Pongee
Georgette
R. L. Picket
High Peid
Samuel Johnson
London
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