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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1888
Page
3
Methodist and Presbyterian schedules and pastors listed with service times Sunday School at 9 am. Friends and Baptist services noted along with 2d and 4th Sunday timings. Also local items on politics, weather, deaths, festivals, and community announcements.
London and New York investors look after mining interests in Moore and Montgomery counties while local church offerings and a Wilmington pulpit vacancy tie into July. City politics stalls a police chief vote as flowers bloom at Hamner’s yard and Friends School at New Garden prepares for graduation. Tradesmen announce new commission house in Washington DC and a High Point Classical Institute closing program with Kemp Battle speaker. Also urged are fresh goods at Cox & Hoskins, a suspicious intruder named Ellis, and a detailed state agricultural report on crops, livestock, and costs for three years old horses and mules.
Rev Z Rush visits town as Mrs Jefferson Davis of La Grange stays with Prof Gannaway. Town tax for confections stands at five dollars each. Jesse Welborn buried his youngest child at Hopewell last Monday. County loyalties split between Alexander and Gilmer. Heavy rains but little damage reported. Trinity ticket praised by local commentators. Local efforts to honor Henry Sechrest with Legion of Honor noted. Rev F L Wood active on circuit. Society medals awarded to Columbian Debaters W J Helms Declaimers W D Lee, Hesperians Debaters M C Thomas, Declaimers J R McCrary. Stores discuss national affairs during the wet spell. focus remains on weather and farming. The notes claim no personality in them, despite weekly reports. The author identifies as a resident but not a citizen of Trinity. Pet photo opportunities with Peterson urged before his departure. Hoffman Farlow & Co promoted for selling butter eggs chickens.
Dr. J. Montague of Winston is nominated by the fifth district prohibition convention and has accepted. Noffman, Farlow & Co. report a fresh stock of candies cakes crackers cigars and tobacco at High Point. Shiloh’s cures offered at Bradshaw's drug store for cough liver complaint and vitamin tonic.
Advertises Shiloh's Vitalizer as a cure for constipation loss of appetite dizziness and all symptoms of dyspepsia priced at 10 and 75 cents per bottle. The claim emphasizes broad digestive relief and affordable pricing for the tonic.
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