Seventy Enrolled in Glasses for Shop Foremen
Around seventy superintendents and foremen from High Point and Thomasville furniture plants attend special training classes at the Commercial club. Led by J Norman Spawn, sessions run daily with two morning and afternoon foremen classes and evening superintendent meetings. Sponsored by the North Carolina and United States Departments of Education to boost efficiency. The Monday night topic is Keeping Down Cost and most local plant leaders are expected to attend. The current classes wrap up Friday night.
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High Point
Thomasville
Commercial Club
James T. Ryan
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association
J. Norman Spawn
Canton
N. C
Champion Fiber Company
North Carolina Department of Education
United States Department of Education
Spawn
New Training Classes Boost Plant Efficiency
Officials report planned additional classes to improve efficiency in the plants. Attendees express enthusiasm and say they gained valuable knowledge from the program.
Scouts Practice Archery At Local Club Range
Boy Scouts and others may use the club property to lay out an archery range behind the club house with Robert Hubbard assisting learners. A citywide Boy Scout Tournament is planned for late March at the local country club to select participants for the May state tournament, with about fifty boys expected.
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Cluo
Amos
Robert Hubbard
Growth in Uwharrie Council Scouts Surges in Month
The Uwharrie Council records a 30 member rise this month reaching 387 scouts. Troop 26 led with 13 new enrollments to 28. Troop 16 in High Point added six, and Troop 4 added four. Two courts of honor were held and a Thomasville scoutmasters club organized. A new troop is planned for Asheboro and Lexington.
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Uwharrie Council
Gobble
High Point
Scoutmasters Club
Thomasville
Asheboro
Lexington
Troop 1 Holds Regular Weekly Meeting at Presbyterian Hut
Troop 1 conducted its standard weekly gathering at the Presbyterian Hut, continuing its routine activities and schedule for the group.
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Presbyterian
Greatest of all High Point man backs herbal remedy
Mr. D H McGee of 1210 Filbert St High Point endorses Herb Extract formerly Herb Juice after relief from indigestion gas bloating and chronic constipation. He offers to share his experience in person and praises the medicine as a tonic laxative proven beneficial for over a million people. Available at Hart Drug Co Greensboro Fordham's Drug Store.
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D. H. McGee
Filbert St
High Point
N. C
Herb Juice Company
Hart Drug Company
Greensboro
Fordham
South Elim Street
Troop 3 Plans Weekend Hike to Camp Uwharrie
Four troop committeemen attended a First Baptist church meeting where H. G. Owens urged boys to pass more tests. Coe Chenault was initiated amid amusement and a business session planned a hike to Camp Uwharrie staying until Sunday afternoon. Ice cream and cake capped the gathering.
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H. G. Owens
Coe Chenault
Camp Uwharrie
Scout Meeting Report from Troop 4 Meeting
Troop 4 met Friday at 7 30 p m in the scout room with 22 of 25 scouts present. Clyde Williams led the meeting which opened with the scout oath law and pledge. A short game followed by group instruction and a soccer match in the city lot. Patrol leaders planned to move next meeting to the doors due to a flower show at Wesley Memorial church. Betaim Yazell judged and Bascom Loftin nat ure and stars during the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Williams
Wesley Memorial Church
Betaim Yazell
Bascom Loftin Nature
Scout Troops Reorganize and Plan Upgrades in High Point
In Troop 5 twelve of sixteen scouts attended the first post‑school reorganization meeting led by the new scout executive who spoke on troop renewal and expanding scouting in High Point. Troop 7 held its third meeting in a new Episcopal church club room with twelve veterans and several new members. Knot tying and bandaging were practiced while plans to paint the room and add mats boxing gloves and archery gear were announced. Troop 10 started its fall program with eleven scouts, ten present, as patrol leaders demonstrated forest fire prevention and suppression. The week’s top good turns included returning a found purse and aiding an elderly lady.
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High Point
Episcopal Church
Dixon
Bob Whites
Lions
Troop 11 Court of Honor Boosts Expansion Plans
Troop 11 held a court of honor at the Presbyterian hut where 16 scouts attended and new Second Class badges were earned by Howard Vuncan Albert Smith William Smith Be Welborn and Raymond yes. Scoutmaster Brown spoke on expansion and the troop aims to form the city’s largest unit.
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Presbyterian Hut
Howard Vuncan
Albert Smith
William Smith
An Be Welborn
Raymond Yes
Brown
Westminster Choir to Sing at Winston
The Dayton Westminster Choir will perform in the Winston-Salem Auditorium. The piece emphasizes worship and artistry, noting church music makes up two thirds of services and the choir graduates in 1929 will be ministers of music guiding spiritual messages through song.
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Westminster Choir
Winston
Dayton Westminister Choir
Winston-Salem
Dayton Westminister Choir School
Couldn't Use Plane To Reach Barre And Montpelier
Burlington dispatch reports attempts to use an airplane to reach Barre and Montpelier were foiled as the only local plane is in Milton, cut off from the world. Highways railroads and wire service to the towns are crippled. Colonel H Nelson Jackson and J Holmes Jackson brothers of Lieut. (text cut)
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Burlington
Governor Helmister Jackson Seeks Update on Barre Flood Report
Governor Helmister Jackson worked frantically to obtain further news from Barre where the lieutenant governor was reported to have died in the flood, but no confirmation or result was announced.
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Helmister Jackson
Barre
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Porter
William Thorn
East Green Repair
East Green Street
Otis Cardell and
F. E. Sauls
First Baptist Church
Across the Street
Fairview Street
Southern Railway System
Gilmer
Mills Ogeer
Silk
Lace
Fron
Cial
Coats
Elynor
Men’s Union
Ecru
Children’s Union Suits
Children’s Union
West
Navy
Independence
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