Wachovia Bid To Grow Point Bank Highlighted At Dinner
High Point Wachovia Bank and Trust results cited as the best year in the local office with 1922 praised by Col. Fries. A. H. Eller urged careful estate administration, praising High Point’s future as a key site for Wachovia expansion and trust services.
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High Point
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
A. H. Eller
Winston-Salem
Col
F .H. Fries
The
Wachovia
Eller
Chambliss
George Whitaker
Fred Sheetz
Clark Starbuck
Richard Stockton
Willingham
T. S. Morrison
Asheville
Col. Fries
W. C. Idol
Sheraton
Wachovia, Bank and Trust Company
Raleigh
Fries
Pioneer
Rotary backs back to school drive in High Point
High Point Rotary club launches an intensive back-to-school program with weekly talks to high school students beginning next week. Fred Tate chairs the school committee and L. R. Johnston schedules 8 40 a m talks through May with speakers including Joseph Cox Carter Dalton Marsh al J J Parriss Arthur Lyon and others. The effort follows earlier Rotary work that encouraged students to return to study and aims to seed a big fall harvest of progress.
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High Point Rotary Club
International Rotary
Fred Tate
L. R. Johnston
Idocal High School
Rotary
Joseph Cox
Carter Dalton
J. J. Parriss
Death of C Wesley Blair Near High Point
C Wesley Blair aged 62 died this morning about 10 o clock at his home one mile southwest of High Point after a pellagra illness. He was a member of Prospect Methodist Episcopal church and survived by his widow, three sons John Blair Everett and Mack Blair of High Point, four daughters Annie Kennedy Carrie Marshall Lethia Reddick and Ida Blair, and burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery after funeral at the home Sunday 2 30 p m led by Rev T E B Johnson.
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C. Wesley Blair
Pellagra
Prospect Methodist Episcopal Church
High Point
John Blair
Thomasville
Everett
Mack Blair
Nnne Kennedy
Carrie Marshall
Lethia Reddick
Greensboro
Ida Blair
Iowa
T. EB. Johnson
Oakwood Cemetery
Funeral of Miers Issom Set for Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Issom widow of William Issom will be held tomorrow at 3 o clock in the afternoon at the Primitive Baptist church Mechanicsville with interment in the church burial ground She was born December 10 1838 and died after a five weeks illness of pneumonia Surviving are a daughter Mrs Mamie Morton of High Point three sons Sam Issom of Danville J W Issom of Trinity and R T Issom of Chattanooga Town a sister Mrs Eliza Randolph and a brother
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Martha Elizabeth Issom
William Issom
Mendenhall Street
Neese Davis
Primitive Baptist Church
Mechanicsville
Issom
Mamie Morton
High Point
Sam Issom
Danville
J. W. Issom
Trinity
R. T. Issom
Chattanooga
Eliza Randolph
Mysterious fire saves life of man above stables
At about 4 am Mrs. Mary Brown Sullivan woke to a pistol shot and a blaze lighting her brother Chas M Brown’s stables across Lindsay street. The fire killed five horses and four rescued mules, destroyed a Ford coupe, and left Mr Brown injured and the family shaken. Firemen arrived too late to save the outbuildings. Authorities suspect incendiary work. loss estimated near 5000 with little insurance. The unknown shooter who woke Mrs Sullivan is unidentified. This is the third fire in the family’s history.
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Mary Brown
Sullivan
Lindsay Street
Chas
M. Brown
Brown
Guilford General Hospital
Mr. Brown
Commercial Club
Bryan comments on prohibition amid art exhibit controversy
William J. Bryan spoke about Christians opposing prohibition during the arrest of Abraham Baylinson, secretary of an independent artist group in New York, for displaying the painting “Pather, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Andrew Volstead and William H. Anderson stood nearby as Bryan argued the image could prove moral degradation of wet propaganda.
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Miame
Bla
William J. Bryan
Abraham Baylinson
Independent Artist
New York
Pather
Mr. Bryan
Andrew J. Volstead
William H. Anderson
Anti-saloon League
Revival at Springfield church to run through next week
Revival services at Springfield church will continue through next week under Rev. Lewis McFarland. Miss Clara Cox announced two Sunday services and noted no meeting tonight. The revival draws growing interest with daily attendance and engaging Bible lectures.
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Springfield Church
Lewis McFarland
Clara Cox
Springfield
Mr. McFarland
Dinner Dance at the Sheraton a Delighful Social Hit
The Sheraton dinner dance held Friday from 9 to 12 in High Point drew smart set guests and proved a delightful success. Led by hotel management it opened a new series of similar events to come. The O Henry orchestra played in the main dining room and the event was open to the public.
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Sheraton
High Point
O. Henry
United States Receives German Reparations Position
Washington reports Germany’s stance on reparations was delivered by Dr. Dieckhoff but officials said no action is requested. The State Department will not seek mediation or present the note to Paris, and no reply will be issued. Berlin denies rumors of a settlement offer to Paris.
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Washington
State Department
Hans Heirich Dieckhoff
loy@king
Germany
France
Dieckhoff
United States
Paris
Associated Press
Poincare
Berlin
Ruhr
Berlin Denies Fix Sum Reparation Offer Rumor
Berlin foreign office flatly denies that Germany offered forty billion gold marks or any fixed reparations sum. French officials say Poincare will seek direct negotiations with Berlin and reject indirect talks or third party intervention as unfriendly to France.
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France
Berlin
Associated Press
Germany
Health expert outlines factors of good health
Patricia Parmelee, health lecturer from New York and Chicago, spoke at a High Point high school detailing exercise diet and relaxation as core health factors. She announced enrollment for upcoming classes and planned demonstrations in High Point after meetings in Greensboro.
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Patricia Parmeee
New York
Chicago
High Point
Miss Parmelee
Asheville
Susanne Cocroft
Miss Parmelée
North Carolina mills shown as locally owned in study
A South Carolina committee report on industrial conditions cites North Carolina as having many locally owned small cotton mills. It notes these mills reinvest profits, boosting North Carolina textile growth and a reputation for progressiveness linked to a modern revenue system road program and education.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
Thomas G. Mcleod
Georgia
Alabama
North
North Carolina
Institute to be held at First Reformed church Sunday
The Classical Sunday school committee of the North Carolina classis Potomac Synod Reformed Church in the United States presents a Sunday institute at First Reformed church with Dr. Charles Peters of Philadelphia leading group discussions on leadership and church work. Sessions begin 2 PM and 7:30 PM with talks by Rev. H A Fesperman and Rev. J A Leonard. Preceding the 7:30 program a pastors and superintendents conference starts at 7 PM.
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Charles Peters
Philadelphia
First Reformed Church
North Carolina
Potomac Synod Reformed Church
United States
Peters
Synod
H. A. Fesperman
Greensboro
J. A. Leonard
Lexington
Milton Whitener
Hostess Church
Dublin observes St Patrick's Day with dry shops and Gaelic events
In Dublin on St Patrick's Day many pubs close as saloon workers take the day off though pubs stay open as possible. Post office halts deliveries and churches fill with Irish language services. Gaelic league flags fly and shops begin a week of Ireland made goods.
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Hublin
Dublin
Ireland
Gaelic League
Southern Railway buys equipment along its own lines
The Southern Railway announced that most of its new cars and locomotives, costing over 17 million dollars, will be built along its lines. It includes 50 freight and 16 passenger locomotives, 3,070 box cars, 2,865 copper-bottom coal cars, 2,000 gondola coal cars, and 200 stock cars. Locos built in Richmond by ALCO. 1,500 box cars and 1,365 coal cars in Memphis and St Louis by ACF. 2,000 coal cars in Lenoir City by Lenoir Car Works. 570 box cars in Mount Vernon by Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing. 200 stock cars in Anniston by Kilby Car and Foundry Co.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway System
Southern
Richmond
American Locomotive Company
Memphis
St. Louis
American Car and Foundry Company
Lenoir City
Tenn
Lenoir Car Works
Mount Vernon
Ill
Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Company
Anniston
Ala
Kilby Car and Foundry Co
Police Seek Man Who Furnished Gilded Wings
New York police await the appearance of a Bostoniented Mr Marshall a suspected benefactor to Dorothy Kee nan known as Dorothy King as they probe her death in Broadway. Investigators value a small black pocket comb found with her and a scratched off chloroform bottle as key clues while tracing an automobile tire businessman said to be Mr Marshall and possible drug use rumors surround the model.
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New York
Mr. Marshall
Dorothy Keenan
Dorothy King
Broadway
Coughlin
Tonian
Boston
Philadelphia
Keenan
Auditors Tackle North Carolina Finances Amid Calls for Reform
Raleigh dispatch reports state auditors nearing completion on whether a deficit or surplus exists, with conflicting estimates from Governor Morrison and Maxwell. legislators mull a special session to overhaul bookkeeping, while state college trustees push for an agricultural station and better funding.
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Raleigh
Board of Internal Improvements
Morrison
General Assembly
State College
Maxwell
A. W. McLean
State Highway
Bowie
Council of State
Sandhill
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Maud Pettit
James Pettit
Mineola
Long Island
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Billy” Wells
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Bill
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