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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1930
Page
9
Elizabeth City dispatch reports Joseph N. Banks 73, a farmer, collapsed and died while selecting a coffin for his wife who had died yesterday at the state hospital in Raleigh.
The stock market regained bullish control after early irregularity as big pool ops lifted many sectors. Vanadium Steel surged to a new high, Houston Oil jumped, and several issues reached new yearly highs while Montgomery-Ward and American Locomotive hit new lows briefly.
Cotton spot in increased demand with lower finishes. American grades lead sales of 5 000 bales including 2 900 American as receipts stay nil. Futures close barely steady with Mar May July Oct Dec and Jan contracts quoted around 8.1 to 8.2.
Butter remains steady as receipts reach 6 039. Creamery butter prices rise with 88 percent to 92 score ranges and first grade 88 to 91 score noted. Cheese markets steady with 160 435 receipts and state whole milk flats holding 18 percent on fresh fancy and 24 26 percent for fancy specials.
Chicago market news reports butter firm receipts 12 612 tubs creamery extras 38 percent standards 38 14 extra firsts 37 38 firsts 33 percent 2 3642 second 31 324 2 eggs easier receipts 40 737 cases extra firsts 25 2542 graded first 24 ordinary firsts 23 2244 storage packed firsts 26 storage packed extras 263.
New York report lists dressed poultry prices with varieties and ranges. Chickens frozen 22 to 34 cents per pound. Fowls fresh 25 to 82 cents. Frozen 24 to 31 cents. Roosters fresh 17 to 24 cents. Turkeys fresh 30 to 33 cents. Frozen 32 to 42 cents.
Funeral services for Nancy Lou Beeson six week old daughter of Mr and Mrs J M Beeson were held yesterday at Old Union Church at 3 pm Rev B Y Gladden of North Park Baptist Church officiated Burial followed in the church cemetery at the home address 913 Grant Street was the scene of the death.
If your table shows white spots apply polishing with kerosene or with oil and turpentine or with oil and alcohol. The method suggests using common solvents to restore finish and disguise opaque marks.
Cotton opened lower as Liverpool sales and a belief that the recent gains were overextended pressured the market. May fell to 15.41 and October to about 15.14, with losses of 29 to 36 points from Saturday’s close. Trading steadied later with modest rallies as cover and trade buying lifted values. May hovered around 15.53 and October near 15.21 at midday.
In New Orleans on March 24 cotton futures opened lower and traded down up to 40 points from Friday's close as labor troubles in Lancashire and weak technicals weighed. By noon prices steadied near the lows with May July and October futures showing declines from the prior close.
Raleigh dispatch says former Virginia Governor Harry Flood Byrd, unable to attend the Jackson Day din ner due to illness, will be invited to the 1931 dinner. Tyre C. Taylor, Young People’s Democratic organizer and ex-officio chairman, lists committee members for the 1931 event.
Raleigh March 24 Democrats in North Carolina will hold biannual state convention on July 3 without Gov. O Max Gardner who plans to join the Council of Governors in Salt Lake City from June 30 for about five days. Gardner recently returned from Annapolis where the governors’ meeting set the convention date. He noted Maryland’s Gov. Ritchie will attend the council and may leave the primary race briefly.
In Whiteville North Carolina March 24 a father and son aviation lesson ended in tragedy. At 800 feet the plane nosedived killing M C Thomasson Jr 20 instantly while his father an experienced pilot sustained serious injuries and was rushed to a Wilmington hospital with both legs broken and possible skull fracture. The commerce department though incomplete in text confirms investigation.
Chicago wheat edged up late after earlier declines as wind and dust storms in Oklahoma and Kansas spurred buying. The U S wheat visible supply fell by 2 309 000 bushels aiding the rally with corn also firming while oats rose and provisions held steady to 15 cents lower.
Gov. Max Gardner will deliver the commencement address at Winston-Salem Teachers College on June 5. Other speakers have not been announced.
Special school bond elections are scheduled for April 29 in the Alamance county districts of E. M. Holt Eli Whitney and Elon as ordered by the county board of commissioners.
A North Carolina druggist creates a multi-ingredient remedy for headaches and nerve pains claiming immediate, complete relief with no depression or after effects. The product named B-C is sold at drugstores and soda fountains for 10¢ and 25¢, promising use within three minutes and guaranteed harmless.
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