Court to Close on Thursday Holiday Observed
Court officials announce weekly clerk visits to the county build will occur Friday instead of Thursday due to a court holiday. The Thursday session will be observed as a holiday by the court.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1944
Page
10
Court officials announce weekly clerk visits to the county build will occur Friday instead of Thursday due to a court holiday. The Thursday session will be observed as a holiday by the court.
Tomorrow many city schools and retail businesses close for Thanksgiving while essential war work continues. Banks post offices and government offices shut. Local churches plan services at Central Friends St Mary's Episcopal First Methodist and Christian Science with messages and communion.
Mayor Arnold J. Koonce files $50,000 in damages against John H. Kalte a former city councilman real estate man for libel linked to a March Beacon notarized letter and a June 10 letter to Miss Mary Baker of Reidsville. The suit seeks $15,000 actual and $10,000 punitive for the newspaper statement and $15,000 actual and $10,000 punitive for the Baker letter.
Thomasville prepares two Thanksgiving services with Rev. Karl Koestline and Dr. L B Hayes delivering sermons at Grace Lutheran and Main Street Methodist churches. Offerings from the Union service support Mills Home. local public offices and schools observe the holiday.
Hugh Smart, film representative in the Sixth War Loan campaign, announces remaining seats for the bond premiere An American Romance at Center Theatre tonight at 8. Bond receipts can be swapped at the box office for tickets, and new bonds may be purchased there until showtime for admission to the Technicolor production hailed as an outstanding picture of the year.
Dennis H Hall Sr well known contractor died at his High Point home on Tuesday afternoon after two months illness Born January 5 1862 in Old Salem Forsyth County he moved here about 60 years ago He was a plasterer by early trade later cement contractor and a member of First Presbyterian Church active in civic and fraternal groups He held multiple Masonic and Eastern Star offices and served on the city board of aldermen He was married twice surviving wife Mae Vestal and a large family Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 pm at his home with two ministers officiating and Masonic pallbearers at Oakwood Cemetery burial
In Municipal court this morning local filling station operator Meredith was fined 10 dollars and costs for reckless driving after a clash with city poundmaster Poindexter who testified Meredith’s car sideswiped his. Poindexter was found not guilty of a similar charge. Meredith appealed to Superior court. Also Judge MacRae fined Henry E. Strouther 50 dollars for carrying a concealed weapon and Margaret Davis 90 days in the workhouse for public drunkenness.
Everett T. Bullard 72 of Sophia Rt 1 died just before 3 pm Tuesday after a period of declining health. He was born July 18, 1872 in Sampson County and moved to Sophia 24 years ago from Edgecombe. Survived by wife who died in 1944, son W M Bullard, five daughters, six sisters, and five brothers. Funeral Thursday at Marlboro Friends church with burial in Marlboro cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Gantt hosted about 75 members and guests of the Forty and Eight at a buffet supper in the Arcade building club rooms. The gathering included an informal meeting followed by dancing after the dinner.
An oil stove flared in the kitchen of Mrs Grace Rigell at 909 North Main Street yesterday afternoon. Firemen extinguished the blaze after the alarm at 3 o clock with little damage reported.
Walter Hester chaired the war films division of the Sixth War Loan drive and screened two pictures for the American Business Club at the Sheraton Hotel. We Said We'd Come Back profiled Navy action at Guam and the fleet costs, while The Hidden Army praised American women’s wartime production effort. Vassie Wilson won the attendance prize.
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