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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1927
Page
6
Mr and Mrs F C Taylor announce the birth of a daughter Joyce Maglee on Saturday November 12. Local society notes include meetings of W C T U Mrs Crowder addresses at 807 Steele St and various garden club events with speakers from Greensboro Emerywood and nearby communities.
Mrs Paul Freeman has returned to her home in Boston after visiting Mrs George Selton and Mr and Mrs W Langdon of 206 Howell Street.
New York Nov 14 The novelist Gertrude Atherton argues in Harper's Bazaar that men are mentally lazy while women are more active and restless. She cites women's progress in the sex emancipation movement and claims men cling to tradition and habit, while women pursue goals more vigorously.
Rocky Mount North Carolina November 14 AP Ben Perdue county prohibition agent and Allen Powell former state agent were to have a preliminary hearing on charges of slaying an unidentified white man found five miles north of Rocky Mount on the Roanoke Rock y Mount road. The officers freed on $5 000 bond said Perdue was robbed of his badge and gun as he rode to his home near Redwood after being held up by two men. Powell aided in pursuing the robbers. The victim is described as about 28 years old and weighing 200 pounds.
Judge Lewis Teague and Archie Myatt preside over the largest local court docket in a single day with over 150 defendants. Most charges are minor, many involve gambling, drunkenness, or traffic violations, as civil terms follow later in the week.
Raleigh reports week ending November 5 saw higher check payments than both prior week and year ago. Wholesale and commodity prices rose, cotton prices led gains while iron and steel lagged year-ago levels. Bank loans up, stock prices firmer, and New York brokers' lending rose. coal, lumber, beehive coke output fell. petroleum slipped but stayed above year earlier levels. Court calendars list several civil cases including A F Burch Co. v Baker et al and Beeson Holw Co. v Calvin Bidg Co. et al.
Willie Greb of Raleigh and Wild Bill Morris of Augusta square off in a ten round feature while 28 rounds of milled bouts are scheduled for Rocky Mount's inaugural boxing event tonight.
The hottest place in the world, Aziza in North Africa, recorded a then record high of 136.4 degrees in 1922. The event is noted as a historic temperature extreme in archival reports.
Linney L. Davis departs tomorrow morning for Richmond Indiana to enter Star Piano Manufacturing for a course in piano tuning and repair.
Dr. W. L. Jackson departed last night for Memphis Tennessee to attend the annual Southern Medical Association convention opening there tomorrow for a three day session.
A 19th century note details a Watersnake Outfit for Milady consisting of a coat hat muff pumps and purse all fashioned from watersnake skin as a complete decorative ensemble.
North Carolina reports a strong agricultural year with diverse crops and solid prices. Corn yields 22.5 bu/acre totaling 52,380,000 bushels, sweet potatoes 113 bu/acre yielding 9,748,000 bushels, and spring fall crops at 7,388,000 bushels. Silage use about 1 percent, most corn for grain. merchantable quality 86 percent.
The New Orleans cotton market opened softer with declines of three to nine points as Liverpool cables weighed on early trades. First-session quotes showed December at 19.93, January 19.96, and March 20.07, down 10 to 15 points from Saturday's close before a rally on October consumption figures. Dec and Jan prices rose to around 20.05 20.10 and March 20.21, but sentiment stayed bearish and prices edged toward the lows again by mid-session.
Fractional gains appeared across a long list of stocks at the market opening. Southern Railway headed the early winners with an advance of 1 1/4 points to a new high, while International Harvester rose about 1 percentage point.
In Cincinnati on November 14 AP reports the trial of George Remus, once a bootleg king and Chicago attorney, begins with his defense arguing he acted under duress after earning more than a million from bootlegging and suspecting his wife Imogene Holmes Remus and another man of stealing his money.
Drug stores account for 30 percent of U S ice cream sales while confectionery stores capture 27.8 percent. The figures indicate drug outlets lead in nationwide ice cream distribution with confectioners close behind.
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