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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1931
Page
6
The Stevens Bible class with Mrs C C Hooks will assemble at her Parkway residence tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. A full attendance is desired by the group.
The article lists upcoming meetings for the Wayside Garden Club, Nonparicl Delian Chapter, and Art Department of the Woman's Club on Tuesday to Wednesday. It also covers Thursday gatherings including the Thursday Contract Club Beta Pi Club Roycroft Junto, and a Sheraton hotel event with High Point College music faculty. It concludes with a detailed Musical Art Club Officers election and a recital program featuring Mrs Edith Moore Sherrod Miss Nancy Myatt Frank Tucker Miss Eleanor Stevens and others.
A report of Memorial Day exercises and veteran graves decorated was given. A box of preserves for the Old Ladies Home at Fayetteville was planned with contributions to Mrs H A Millis. Mrs H N Phillips announced exhibit name requirements for the flower show. An informal tea hosted by Dr and Mrs F R Taylor followed in Johnson street garden. Reidsville garden tours for Piedmont district fund drive will feature several private gardens and a publication about native flora by Dr B W Walls. The final A A U W meeting elected officers and heard a report from Mrs Clyde Milner of Guilford College on the Boston conference.
T Wingate Andrews spent last night and today in Raleigh. Mrs J J McMurray visits Dunn for a week. Mrs R L Waynick goes to Durham for the week. Mrs Richard Reitzel visits her parents in Durham. Miss Sallie Pickett returns from Asheboro. Mrs J H Petty has moved home after hospital operation. Mrs J A Kenneth visits W R McCain in Cord and attends Lee school graduation. Vernon Hoskins and Dorothy join baccalaureate at Oak Ridge. Garden tours draw several Greensboro attendees.
Charlotte May 26 Sarah Elizabeth Motte daughter of E. Motte of Charlotte was awarded a cup at Queens Chicora college for achieving the highest scholastic average among the freshman class.
Ray E. Pickrel of Pickrel Veneer, visiting High Point as Lamar McCallum’s guest, says business is returning but warns against past excess. He compares High Point to thriving California cities, praises Flex-Wood veneer prospects, and notes his interest in its use for interior trimming and panel work.
A robber visited the Woodlawn Laundry in Chicago and demanded money with a gun. He mocked the cost to wash a shirt and insisted the manager, Hilda James, should pay, saying he would have the shirt cleaned elsewhere. He then used a revolver for emphasis and claimed he could have 100 shirts cleaned on the proceeds.
About 300 unemployed Spaniards who stormed the Gallego club evacuated before midnight and quiet returned to Havana as of today.
Howard W. Bridgetts, 29, a clerk, surrendered at police headquarters with his attorney claiming self defense. He had been hiding with a gunshot wound to his left arm after a pistol duel that killed Dr. Joseph T. Loughlin, a Brooklyn surgeon, in Marine Park. He denied a duel and said the wound was for personal safety. Blood stained clothes and a cartridge box were found in his bag.
Norfolk May 26 An enemy fleet of three cruisers and five destroyers stood ready to attack Fort Story and Fortress Monroe as part of annual joint army navy maneuvers defending the Washington Baltimore Norfolk area. Rear Admiral Murfin led the Black Fleet with ships Omaha Cincinnati Milwaukee. Brigadier General Embick directed the defense as Blue army units and naval forces planned counterattacks and recce missions along Cape Henry to Cape Charles.
G C Welch, an automobile salesman, won a 175 dollar verdict as commission on a 3500 dollar car sale from Colonial Motor Company in High Point municipal court during the May civil term re convening. An uncontested divorce decree was granted to Julius S Hammett from Magdalene Hammett on statutory grounds.
A message signed by General Lad islao Santos, Honduran rebel leader, announced his forces seized the port city of Tela on the northern coast Saturday, per revolutionary sympathizers. The report notes Tela as a strategic port in the conflict.
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