Rich Farming Community Grows From One Family
In 1883 Zachariah Groome bought land northeast of High Point and founded Groometown. His family expanded to 70 grandchildren with many descendants becoming doctors, writers, and farmers. The town moved its highway to the east yet prospered as an agricultural community with well kept homes and notable families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Brown
Rockingham County
Trinity College
North Carolina
Zachariah Groome
Groome
Cicero
Lee
John Freeman
High Point
James Groome
W. L. Jackson
Philip Davis
C. L. Gray
Groometown
Pinkney
the Ramblers
Cicero Groome
Grome
Marvin Grome
J. (. Rast
E. M
J. R. Venable
Edwin, Gladstone
J. A. Groome
Zachariah Grome
Tom
Marvin
John
Will
Annie
Georgia
Belle
Lulu
Lee Groome
John Groome
Safety Awards Presented To Drivers Here
Nineteen drivers of the High Point Railway Express Agency received safe driving awards at the agency’s annual safety meeting. S. J. Snyder hosted, with O. Arthur Kirkman presenting, after remarks by Capt. J. R. Teague and City Manager T. K. Hinson. Fourteen earned the National Safety Fund Safer Drive award for 1948. five received merit cards for safe driving. National awards cover one to eight years. merit cards also span one to eight years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Railway Express
S. J. Snyder
O. Arthur Kirkman
High Point Traffic and Transportation Club
J. R. Teague
High Point Police Department
T. K. Hinson
National Safety Fund
L. O. Head
Railway Express Agency
Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Head
Three Men Held In Firestone Store Theft Case
Police in High Point detained three local men Charles Moore 18 Charles Holmes 22 and James Smith 24 after they confessed to stealing radios tires and auto accessories from the Firestone store on North Main Street. The haul valued about $625 and included items later traced when one were pawned at Nash Jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Firestone
North Main Street
Charles Moore
West Street
Charles Holmes
Olga Street
James Smith
Adler Street
Nash Jewelry Company
Burlington
Clean-Up Week Contest Opens Today in High Point
A city wide beautification drive launches with a before and after Home Beautiful contest. Entries close midnight April 30 with $500 in cash prizes. Smith Studio offers free photos. judges inspect yards and Outdoor Living Rooms next fall. Mayor Earl Phillips backs the effort and urges public support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club
Smith Studio
J. W. van Loan
Co. O. Williard
Chamber
C. C. Haworth
James A. Kidd
High Point Adopts Unique Registration System For City Use
The High Point city elections board ordered a permanent type registration system at a total cost of 1326 dollars with half funded by the city and half by the county. A voting machine trial in one ward is possible this year with machines rented if used. Legislation in Raleigh may let districts be set up without altering precincts or registration HQs, pending a decision to use districts and a single voting place for multiple precincts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
High Point
City Board of Elections
Martin
City Elections Board
General Assembly
T. E Hinson
Everette Morris
Wade Renfrow
Guilford County
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Renfrew
High Point High Plans Own Noncommercial FM Station
High Point high school gains approval to apply for a license to build and operate a low power FM educational station. The project, supported by the school board and local educators, will broadcast within about five miles with potential reach to 15 to 20 miles under favorable conditions. A remote studio will be at the junior high, and Bivins and Caldwell will install the transmitter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point High School
North Carolina
C. F. Carroll
D. P. Whitley
W. A. Tomlinson
P T. A
High Point
Radio Engineering Laboratories
Long Island
N. Y
Bivins and Caldwell
High Point Southeastern
F. M
Bivins
Pemnicon Yearbook Staff Named at High Point High
High Point High School announces the 1950 Pemnicon staff to edit and publish its sixth yearbook. Editor in chief will be Suzanne Slate with Margaret Stamey as associate editor and Betty Jo Snider as business manager following prior editors. Dorothy Hollar, faculty adviser, released the selections after faculty review and student input.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suzanne Slate
Margaret Stamey
Betty Jo Snider
Pemnicon
High Point High School
Dorothy Hollar
Pemican
Miss Slate
R. W. Slate
Rotary Price
Heywood Washburn
Nancy Jo Smith
Dewey Greer
Jaycees Plan Jaycee Jollies For Next March
Jaycee president Bill Lee announced the Jaycee Jollies will be produced again next March. Willard Leathers, who directed this year’s show, has consented to manage the Jollies again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Lee
Chamber of Commerce
Jaycee Jollies
Jaycee
Willard Leathers
Jollies
Special Meeting of Junior Order Mechanicsville Council No 347
A special meeting of the Junior Order Mechanicsville Council No 347 is scheduled for Tuesday night at 7 30. The Pilgrim Four quartet from High Point will provide entertainment and visitors are welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanicsville Council No. 347
Pilgrim Four Quartet of
High Point
Looking Backward highlights from 1929 and 1939 events
A retrospective front page roundup recalls Huey Long facing impeachment in 1929 with rail market volatility, Foch's funeral crowds in Paris, Mexican rebel advances, US UK tax debates after the I'm Alone sinking, a university suspension for cheating, and local court incidents. It also notes 1939 Supreme Court tax ruling and London economic policy discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Huey Long
Wall Street
Paris
Marshal Foch
Chapel of St.Louis
the Invalides
Also Mentioned on This Page
Garden Club
Earl Phillips
Phillips
Election Board
Fred Flagler, JR
Enterprise
Voting Machine
High School
Jaycees
Joe Leslie
Mississippi
Bernadine Schmidt
Marshal
Calles
United States
Great Britain
Aurora
Joseph Deking
Prohibition
University of Tennessee
University
Wright
Mens
Mens Florsheim
Sio Per Parr
Conrad Dages
June Collyer
Rialto Thater
Broadhurst
Jack Holt
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Congress
London
MQRE
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