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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1926
Page
4
A church meditation warns that true discipleship brings suffering and persecution. It contrasts sought ease with the path of Jesus, urging acceptance of hardship as part of faith and asking for strength to bear the cross in love.
The city faces a traffic halt as crushed rock piles at the East Washington street and Southern Railway crossing spill into the roadway, blocking 10 to 12 feet and delaying a farmer for eighteen minutes. Permits for a new filling station worsen congestion. residents urge freight unloading away from the street to keep the artery open for through traffic.
North Carolina real estate men who toured Florida return convinced the old state offers superior living and thriving prospects. They say North Carolina can compare favorably on many points as a place to live and prosper.
A Baptist minister in Concord sues the Raleigh Evening Times over coverage of Mr Pentuff’s claims that evolutionists are ignorant. The controversy centers on his criticism of Darwinism and responses from scientists and educators, including Dr W L Poteat.
Philadelphia prepares a June 12 to 16 exhibition marking 150 years of American independence and the flag’s anniversary. The event includes the Centennial Legion parade with thirteen original states and notes a colorful pageant recalling 1876. The piece covers history, symbols, and the referendum debate on prohibition.
The Hobo College at Chicago has turned loose its graduates for the year proving the program’s duration matches the wanderlust of its attendees.
The piece urges North Carolina to buy Confederate memorial half dollars to fund the Stone Mountain Memorial. It argues the coins will rise in value, stresses state support, and frames the purchase as a civic duty and a financial contribution to the South’s monument project.
Senator Harrison accuses the administration of returning to secret diplomacy and, by some accounts, abandoning diplomacy altogether, signaling concern over foreign policy methods and transparency.
The state prison chaplain laments more than inmates as the sudden death of young Frank Caffey at the University cuts short the promising High Point lad who earned his way into the graduating class through hard work and fine character.
A reflective note on frugality and desire arguing that economies arise from denying immediate wants to secure later perceived needs. It frames restraint as prudent planning shaping personal and broader economic choices.
The paper reports a nationwide poll on the prohibition question conducted with NEA Service and hundreds of daily papers. It explains the referendum aims to measure American opinion on whether it is fitting and proper to enforce prohibition nationwide.
In Chicago a memorial marks Eugene Field, the children's poet, whose ashes rest as a foundation for a shrine of American childhood. The ceremony included the reading of the last verse of Little Boy Blue as Field’s tomb is sealed, celebrating his enduring appeal to boys and girls across generations.
Mrs Noami Hatch Trogdon died at her Liberty Street home after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held at her home with Rev J W Patton of Eton College and Rev J H Brandall of Liberty officiating. Burial followed in Fairview cemetery. She was married 55 years and survived by her husband and four children Estelle Ray H N Steed Paul Kennett and T W Trogdon plus three sisters. A large crowd attended with many floral offerings.
Chicago reports mild to warm conditions with 79 in Houston and 82 in San Antonio sparking heat prostrations. California sees 82 in San Francisco and highs near 70 across the coast while most of the nation stays in the 40s to 60s. Rain moves east from the Great Lakes to the Gulf as showers loom.
South Dakota voters cast ballots in the first spring primary. Key races include U.S. Senator Peter Norbeck versus George J. Danforth for the Republican nomination and Gov. Carl Gunderson against C. E. Downe. Democratic contenders are W. J. Bulow and R. Q. Richards with a party switch noted.
Two sons and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. BR Sedbrook will marry two daughters and a son of Mr. and Mrs. J P Heyle on Easter Sunday in Denver. The families announce the coming weddings and name the engaged pairs.
In ancient Athens the population included about 400000 slaves alongside 100900 free citizens, highlighting the scale of enslaved labor in the city-state.
Miss Mari Anne Martin of Norfolk Va has been hired as librarian for High Point Public Library opening July 1. After a long conference officials announced the agreement and she departed for Norfolk but will report July 1. The project includes new library space on the third floor of the municipal building with shipments of books and furniture from the Library Bureau and NC Library Commission.
Pearl Dorland repudiates yesterday's confession that he killed Roy Lee, 19, saying he was beaten by state police and forced to confess to escape further punishment after his estranged wife admitted intimacy with Lee. The incident occurred in Sandusky on March 23.
Raleigh March 23. A special civil term of superior court for Rutherford county will begin April 12 and run for two weeks. A judge to preside will be named later. The term is at the request of the Rutherford county board of commissioners.
In Charlotte court on March 23 a superior court jury awarded Guy A. Myers fourteen thousand dollars in damages against the A. B. C. Kirk Bus Line of Salisbury and others in a civil suit.
CHICAGO March 23 AP District Attorney Asa Keyes of Los Angeles County California says he is trailing a motion picture actress to solve the 1922 slaying of William Desmond Taylor the motion picture director. He has traveled between New York Boston and Detroit following clues and believes he will find the actress though he withholds her name and details.
The Weather Bureau issued small craft warnings from Cape Hatteras North Carolina to Boston Massachusetts as of today. The advisory cautions mariners about hazardous conditions on the Atlantic coast.
A concise note observes that the finest songsters display sober colored plumage. It emphasizes color restraint and clear plumage as marks of high quality in avian singing talents.
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