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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1931
Page
5
Jack Oakie presents Sea Lego and Our Gang short Pups Is Pups in a free 10 AM matinee to aid High Point children. Children are asked to bring a discarded toy or gift for Christmas, with all donations going to local children via the High Point fire department.
T Wingate Andrews, superintendent of city schools, will address the High Point Bar Association on Monday evening November 30 at 6 30 in the Elwood hotel private dining room. D H Parsons, president, announced the dinner and business items. Andrews is reputed to be a forceful speaker and will choose a topic of interest to the bar.
The article notes a welfare effort in High Point where firemen will repair and condition facilities while awaiting Christmas packages for children. The Paramount urges donations be left at the theater or called in to 4217 so volunteers can arrange pickup.
Five passenger trains passing through High Point will follow a new Southern Railway schedule beginning at midnight Saturday. Most changes are minor, but No. 136 will arrive at 6:00 a.m. instead of 3:50 a.m., a 2 hour 10 minute shift. Train No. 35 will arrive at 9:20 p.m., earlier by twenty minutes, while No. 36 will alter its Washington connections.
A fire at the Matton Drug Store on North Main street caused major damage, confined largely to the prescription department and rear of the building. Firemen from Companies 1 3 4 and the aerial sprayed the flames, no injuries reported, the store to stay closed for repairs with an opening next week.
A brown leghorn hen named Mrs. Leghorn was trapped under a corn shock for seven days and nights. It was found by Mrs. John W. Thacker of route 2 and released weighing about one pound less, yet in good spirits. Meanwhile, rail service announces revised arrival times for several trains effective Sunday morning.
The report pitches the south as rapidly developing with vast untapped potential. It notes 1929 figures show gross income from southern manufactures mines and farms exceeding 19 billion dollars and a regional wholesale and retail trade totaling over 26.9 billion. It highlights 46.5 thousand manufacturers’ material costs and more than 1 billion in railway and utility expenditures, with annual southern spending exceeding six and a half billion in ongoing capital and materials.
Funeral services for 11 month old Billy Roger Guy of 1419 North Hamilton Street were held at the Wesleyan Methodist parsonage conducted by Rev. E. W. Jones. Interment followed in Oakwood cemetery. pallbearers were A. P. Guyer and L. H. Dunning. A mixed quartet sang Gathering Buds and Safe In the Arms of Jesus with Will Jester solo Beckoning Hands. A large crowd attended.
Mrs. Billie Newsom of 119 Lake Street Wag was arrested this afternoon on alcohol violations after police found six gallons of liquor concealed in a trap at the Newsom home. She was held on a $1,000 bond.
Twin walnuts were added to The Enterprise's nature’s freaks collection by D. L. Anderson of 1403 Bradshaw street. He found the nut on Penny's farm on highway maintenance and development. The piece then shifts to South economics, noting public education spending exceeds 400 billion annually, food and feed outlays near 1 trillion, a 1929 census value of 11.7 billion in manufactured output, 4,000 mines and quarries producing over 1 billion in new wealth yearly, and 8.4 million farms generating over 3 billion in wealth.
In Lenoir North Carolina two men named Johnson and Jones were arrested here after a reported disturbance. Police state the suspects were described as white and Negro respectively and are being held for further questioning.
A man was charged with forgery after Jones attempted to cash a $50 check allegedly written by Johnson at a Lenoir merchant. Investigators allege the document was fraudulent and the incident prompted police involvement and further inquiries.
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