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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1936
Page
3
Bryce Sardiga, noted for winning a 1929 speech writing championship, is cited as a world record holder in words per minute and will join the Parks College merce in the commercial National Bank building on June 1. The source credits Sardiga as author of the textbook Modern Dicta.
A new instructor from Blue Ridge College near Windsor Maryland will teach shorthand and typewriting at Parks College. He brings 11 years of business college teaching experience in Chicago and Cleveland. The hire aims to provide local youths with top training from an experienced educator. He is Indiana born with degrees from Benton College and Central University of Indiana and has done postgraduate work in Chicago and other cities.
Emerson Bennett Idol 77 a prominent local businessman and farmer died at 2 a m at his home on Kernersville route one after illness. Born May 5 1869 in Davidson county he helped lead the community’s commerce and farming. Survived by wife Lula Reid Stafford two sons Alva Ray Idol and Grady Reid Idol a daughter Hassell A Moorefield two brothers A H Idol and C L Idol a grandson and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Thursday at 11 from Abbott's Creek Baptist Church with Rev E F Mumford and Elder J A Fagg officiating. Burial in church cemetery.
Helen Kathleen Moran, 17, daughter of C. C. and Stella Moran, died at home on Kivett drive extension after a two week illness. Born August 1, 1918 in Davidson county, she lived in or near High Point all her life and recently graduated from Union Hill high school. She was active in her senior class and is survived by her parents, sister Ruth Day, brothers C. C. Jr Hugh Howard Hassell Clifton and Ralph Moran, and paternal grandmother.
Citizens gather at Hoey headquarters in the old Eaird building to present claims to Walter H. Woodson appointed by court as referee. Judge John M. Oglesby oversees Randolph County Superior Court as lawsuits seek authority over bonds tied to the Hopkins estate amid debates on issue dates maturity and bond numbers.
Funeral services will be held at 2 30 tomorrow afternoon at the Primitive Baptist church in Mechanicaville. Elders J W Fagee of Winston Salem and J W Tuttle of Stokes county, with Rev J L Bolen of Hickory Wesleyan Methodist church will officiate. Interment follows in the church cemetery.
Ada B Groome died early Monday. Funeral at Groometown Methodist Episcopal Church conducted by Rev G W Vick and Dr W A Lambeth. Choir included J Gurney Briggs J H Allred Dan W Smith with piano by Mrs J Irvin Groome. Nurses from Guilford General Hospital led floral tributes. Groome served as hospital dietitian for 12 years. Nephews Irvin Groome served as pallbearers.
High Point and Greensboro residents including Percy Groome Roy Groome Ernest Groome Gladdy Groome Wallace Freeman and Ralph Davis were interred in the church cemetery following services.
L Palmer, 28, a reservation clerk for Eastern Air Lines, leaped from the twelfth floor window of the Greenleaf building in Charleston and was killed instantly. Coroner J C Madison ruled death by his own action. A note asked a friend to destroy letters and personal effects. Acquaintances said he had been despondent for several years.
O. R. Parker and J. R. Parker, convicted in superior court of stealing three tons of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad rails worth 34.40, noted appeals to the supreme court. The indictment states the rails were taken from an abandoned Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley track on Point.
The article notes the deep sacred status of cows in Hindu culture where even discussing their slaughter for meat is considered defiling. It emphasizes reverence and the cultural weight of cattle in daily life and religious practice.
Dr John M Gandy president of Virginia State College will deliver the William Penn commencement address on Thursday at 8 15 pm in the auditorium. His talk Occupational Opportunities for Negroes focuses on expanding roles for Black graduates. Jessye Baldwin and Gladys Deberry will be speakers at the exercises.
Mrs. Julia Phifer and her family of 1210 Kivett Drive spent the weekend in Mooresville visiting relatives.
Mrs Hattie Parnell of Pearson street thanks everyone who aided her during illness at Burrus Memorial hospital. Criterion club holds first regular meeting May 14 at the home of Mrs L B Haselip 212 Vail street with Mrs Henry Amaker
The Neo Angle bath provides six inches more width at the bottom and the same length as a five and a quarter foot built-in tub. It serves as an ideal shower whether seated or standing, includes a convenient foot bath, and features handy seats in opposite corners. It offers ample room to bathe two children at once.
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