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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1889
Page
3
High Point items cover a growing bloom in peach trees and a promising wheat outlook. The bill to amend the city charter passes the House. Local arrests, sales, and church events fill the town page with society notes and upcoming meetings.
The article reports widespread discontent with a local beef supply restriction in High Point and support for issuing $10,000 in bonds to fund the High Point and Randleman railroad. It notes a barn fire at Brown's X Roads linked to a liquor case, and includes minutes from the High Point Guards praising local women and a debate society scheduling a March 10th discussion.
Public notices including a Monday March 7 business meeting order from Captain C P Witzey, post office letters uncalled for list at High Point, and town tax payment deadline March 20. Local commerce ads promote seed sweet potatoes, wood and coffins, flour and mill feed, and cheap portrait photography services.
A Stokes County farmer sold 1400 pounds of tobacco last week and paid his expenses, but still owes 1.30 after overpaying by five dollars. The note comments on tobacco prices and guano. The item cites nearby church growth and a plan to open tobacco factories boosting jobs. A one year old Ayrshire Jersey bull is for sale or service via W G Barner.
A optimistic note praises Electric Bitters as a blood purifier and liver kidney booster, promoting renewed health at 50 cents a bottle. The page also highlights pea fields, Edgecombe Works union plans, odd vitality anecdotes, a Charleston earthquake, treasury bond redemption, and a Burke county postmaster dispute, followed by broad catalog ads from Wittkowsky & Baruch offering fabrics, clothing, and household goods with sample requests averaging high order volume.
Advert says a salve cures cuts bruises sores ulcers and more with money back guarantee. Sold by A. E. Smith & Co at 25 cents a box.
Trade at A. E. Smith & Co Drug Store boomed due to free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption offered to customers. The ad claims cures for coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and lung diseases with trial bottles and a large size at $1. it also promotes Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion for mange and scratches and notes Brown & Matton Druggists High Point and John Farlow & Co buying fur meats and country produce.
The advert describes Lime Phosphate bags of 200 pounds containing 10-16 pounds phosphoric acid 23-35 pounds bone phosphate 100-120 pounds lime 1-4 pounds potash 4 pounds soda sulphuric acid chlorine tiny amounts 12 pounds aluminum oxide iron and soluble silica. It contrasts with competitors by low water content under 3 pounds per bag and minimal sulfuric acid. Suggested use includes 400 pounds per acre for cotton and corn and for wheat oats rye 400 pounds drilled or 600 pounds broadcast, grasses 600 pounds with muriate of potash.
A guide to fertilizer blends for various crops including wheat on clay or rich ground. It lists lime phosphate with muriate potash and salt, or lime phosphate with cotton seed meal and ammoniates, for two to four acres. It notes kainit as a substitute and emphasizes lime phosphate’s value for grasses and orchard trees.
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