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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1927
Page
3
A collage of light verse and stray notes recalls Friar Tuck the chicken and a playful lyric about a goat born in jest. The text touches on literary scraps, imagined travels, and rail funding debates amid a faded column of reminiscence.
Regular two services will be held today at the First Reformed Church with Rev. Milton Whitener in the pulpit. This morning at 11 o clock he will preach Why I Am a Christian and tonight at 7 30 o clock on Begging Off.
Rev James Bellinger will preach tonight at the Seventh Day Adventist church on King Street near Cloverdale school. The sermon title is a study of the 13th chapter of Revelation. Local note mentions a misquoted line about King Solomon.
Raleigh reports a state plan to protect about 45000 acres from wildfires. C H Flory district forester and local landowners form the Moore County Forest Protection Association near Pinehurst Southern Pines West End and Jackson Springs. Pinehurst Inc has already run a strong forest protection system with a fire truck pumps and wardens. Landowners would fund two cents per acre to extend state and federal protection. a lookout near Pinehurst is planned to link wardens by telephone by mid April. The initiative aims to shield North Carolina's Sandhill forests from devastating fires.
Andover Kansas March 26 Ras tus Bales cannot escape a 100 acre farm he owns after a strange chain of inheritance and transfers. His father left the land to him then it passed to his brother who died and left it to Rastus. Rastus then deeded it to his four sons the youngest died and Rastus, as nearest heir, received a quarters share again.
When Edwin Bayha a Brooklyn undertaker died he left a verse like will disposing of about 100000 dollars. He bequeathed all his earthly goods to his wife and named her executrix with no fixed limits on the gift. The unusual document appears in the news of his death in New York March 26.
The one act play The Red Light by Eleanor Idol for the state championship contest was presented at Chapel Hill last Friday afternoon with two county school plays and Trial by an Asheville high school girl. Cast members Howard Blair Virginia McHiwen Gilbert Bernard Samuel Winslowe and Paul Jenkins received special credit. Prominent producer Nathaniel Edward Reid attended and praised the cast. The club plans to continue its work and will present the play again at the high school auditorium Wednesday at 2 30 PM inviting the public.
The Atlantic Bank and Trust company with locations in Greensboro High Point Salisbury and Burlington will celebrate its seventh anniversary in Greensboro on April 7. A deposit drive aims to add 1 million dollars from April 1 to 7 led by committee members J Norman Wills C W Gold H R Bush K E Prickett and C W Cloninger.
A historical note states that during his full presidency, President Ulysses S. Grant did not deliver a single public address. The claim highlights his quiet stance despite ongoing national events and political pressures of the era.
Green lights on Oxford undergraduates' cars, recently made compulsory by college directors, have proved successful. Only about one percent of cars out after 10 pm belong to students, suggesting many prior complaints were unfounded.
LaPorte Indiana March 26 Eighty thousand frogs sing Edward Chambers to sleep every night He has been a frog farmer for more than 40 years raising them until He keeps thousands of tadpoles and mature frogs on his farm with a nightly chorus shaping his routine and work story.
A man expanded from catching along stream beds at night to creating his own preserve to handle increasing demand for his product. The shift shows how early supply chains adapt as markets grow and pull resources into a dedicated operation.
New York March 26 Thirty years ago Benjamin Titman an 11 year old penniless immigrant from Russia arrived in the city. Now he is a multi millionaire maker of canned eggs used by bakers. He employs two thousand countrymen in nine factories under nine companies. Titman’s life was recently insured for 1 000 000 dollars.
A New York welcome at the docks greeted 17 year old Daniel Rudge from London who arrived with $25000 in master phonograph records. The messenger boys band of 60 played God Save the King while Rudge rested in his cabin.
The only remaining perpetual pension from Britain is an annual payment of $25,000 to the holder of the Nelson earldom.
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