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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1931
Page
5
Births for Mary Lou and Faye Nell reported for families Plummer Cole and Kenney. Club and church events fill Sunday with Bible classes, a community sing, a parish supper, and planned garden club programs. Socials include bridge for Mrs Ward, a High Point garden club talk, and a school banquet with theater outing.
On April 27, 1931 at 10 o'clock A M in High Point North Carolina the trustee will sell at Building in the City of High Point the parcel of land described as beginning at a stake on the west side of Hamilton Street 128 feet north of East Russell Street with a chain of lines outlining 192 feet in various directions. The land was conveyed to Building In by deed dated July 14 1927 and recorded July 16 1927 in Book 126. The title has since passed through J E Marsh W Rike H Lee Wyatt and H Isler. This notice is dated March 23 1931 from Carolina Mortgage.
Wednesday schedule lists meetings with Mrs. Parsons at 10 a m and Mrs. Cox at 10 20 p m and others with Mrs. Lewis Heilig Miss M Mungan Mrs Collier Ellis and Mrs. J D Kirkman. Thursday features Entre Nous with Mrs Z Walser and Beta Pi with Mrs Harold Bennett and Sorosis with Mrs J E Kirkman and King of Clubs with Miss Mary Muse and Priscilla Club with Mrs A B Taplin.
Mrs J B Ellis remains quite ill with influenza at her Stanton street home. Mrs Richard Reitzel visits Durham due to her mother Mrs J K Mason's illness. Mrs C F Grissom and Mrs Wade Hampton Curran stay in Charlotte with daughter Miss Clara Grissom, a city school faculty member. Friends of Mrs S A Holloman note her improvement at her daughter Mrs Cc C Robbins' home. Mrs O T Moore returns from Macon Ga after aiding daughter Mrs Stanton, who is ill but now recovered.
Mrs Iris M Colby of Birmingham wins $350 monthly maintenance from her husband C D Colby in a High Point municipal court ruling upheld by a circuit court decree in Alabama. Colby, an interior decorator, had moved to work at J H Adams residence in the Adams estate at Sedgefield and could not be located in Alabama. suit sought back maintenance for Colby’s child as initially granted by the Alabama circuit court.
Hans Timmerman was sentenced to one year in jail for stealing a large batch of shoes. He could not dispose of the footwear as the entire lot was for the left foot, leaving no right shoes to sell.
Fragmented note describes Capuchine as a remedy for colds and aches with quick relief. Mentions availability at drug stores and soda fountains, urging readers to ensure to say Canodins when purchasing.
Harold Smith of Champaign Illinois was sentenced to from one year to life after pleading guilty to taking part in a robbery at the Champaign home of Henry H Harris of Champaign and Boston Mass. Three other members of the quintet are serving sentences. one died from gunshot wounds and Smith had escaped jail before being captured.
Edgar Quick of Tree Top Bottling company sues H. C. Barthmaier for 500 damages after an August Park Way near North Main Street collision. Quick claims Barthmaier drove too fast through a curve, sending his practically new car 30 feet to the curb, leaving it demolished.
The city council held a brief session with Mayor C A York absent due to a Raleigh trip. An adjourned meeting is planned for Thursday to tackle pending matters. City Manager Knox outlined a $100000 borrowing need for the improved fund on April 1 and noted a revenue drop from halted street-improvement collections amid pending legislation. He will confront the Raleigh finance group with notes renewal as a joint request. The body approved final readings including an ordinance on theater parking for venues under 600 seats. Groundwork for Oak Hill and Fairview street schools receives a $280 allocation.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Hunsucker who died at her home on Mangum Avenue were held yesterday afternoon conducted by Rev. J. D. Barnette. A church quartet sang Abide With Me and Shall We Gather at the River. interment followed in Oakwood cemetery.
The American Business Club at the Elwood Hotel proposed revising and codifying city laws and statutes. They want a pamphlet format published at cost and distributed, with the city council petitioned to oversee the update. A committee led by James B. Lovelace will study and present the plan, amid discussion of obsolete and conflicting laws and the need to search council minutes from years past.
Police investigate last night thefts of three boys bicycles valued around 30 dollars. Reported by Clarence Hallifield Irvin Beavers a Western Union messenger and Willis Salmon. Hallifield owned a Red Hawthorne with nickel handlebars valued at 12 Beavers rode a Western Union bicycle with a bucket seat valued at 10. Salmeon states his bicycle was taken near the Sheraton hotel.
The body of Thomas H. Wentz, found in the Everglades west of Homestead, was to be sent to Norristown, Pennsylvania for burial. A coroner's jury ruled his death due to starvation and exposure.
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