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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1926
Page
5
In Asheboro on November 3, unofficial returns show Democrats carried Randolph County by 250 to 300 votes and swept all local races. U S House candidate W C Hammer won the seventh district by over 6000 votes, while Republicans conceded defeat as daylight broke.
Sylva election officials Walker Breedlove and Jim Bryson exchanged gunfire after a county argument last night. Breedlove was seriously injured and Bryson was believed not seriously hurt.
Under a 1926 deed of trust C. B. Hauser and Genia Hauser authorize sale to settle defaulted notes. John D. Brown and D. C. Macrae, trustees, will sell the No. 112 Ennis Street lot 12, Block 1 West End Heights, at 2:30 PM December 1, 1976 in front of Greensboro’s courthouse to the highest cash bidder.
The Chicago market shows mixed action with poultry receipts totaling 11 cars and various fowl categories listed. Opening gains in some industrial shares were offset by declines in United States Steel and American Smelting, with numerous company stocks and percent changes noted across the market briefing.
Chicago November 3 AP Potatoes receipts 67 cars on tracks 470 total U S shipments 739 sun sacked round whites 250 265 trading slow market dull Wisconsin pool 220 Idaho sacked discounts few sales 256 300 condition dictates price moves fancy shade higher.
The New Orleans cotton market opened easy with Liverpool cables due and prices slipping. December traded to 1251, January 1258, and March 1276, down 19 to 22 points from yesterday as traders cited favorable weather, light frost damage, a strong weekly weather outlook, and a private crop estimate of 18,200,000 bales.
Trading opened with selling by western and northwestern houses weighing on wheat. Lower Liverpool futures and good Argentina and Australia crop prospects added to the downturn. Corn and oats declined modestly while provisions showed a slight rise.
Irregular quotations in cents show Great Britain at 484 1 4, 484 11 16 for cables and 60 day bills 479 15 16. Demand figures include Belgium 1390, Germany 2379, Holland 3997, Norway 2504, Sweden 2669, Denmark 2657, Switzerland 1928, Spain 1515, Poland 1137, Czecho Slovakia 296, and others. Tokyo 4906 1 4, Shanghai 5881, Montreal 100.
Cotton futures opened mixed with declines of about 9 to 15 points in active months as hedging, liquidation, and local selling weighed on prices. Dec through July contracts showed steady to lower opens and a late session net decline of 23 to 25 points, with favorable weather notes and rising acreage estimates shaping trading.
Wall Street opened with narrow trading but oil stocks advanced amid renewed activity and strength. The day followed news of another large crude production increase last week, while motor shares faced heaviness early.
A distinguished citizen, Dr. R. V. Pierce, is praised for remarkable success. The advertisement touts his Golden Medical Discovery as a blood medicine and stomach alterative, claiming it clears skin and improves circulation, with a trial offer of tablets for 10 cents from the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, New York.
Dr C D Thompson spoke on Medicine at the Monarch club luncheon, part of a weekly series where each member discusses his business. Dan R Schroder of The High Point Enterprise spoke on Advertising. Music by an in club orchestra accompanied the Sheraton hotel event.
Copper hull electrolytic and futures at 14. tin steady spot 6975 futures 6637. iron unchanged. lead easy at 800. zinc steady East St Louis spot 725 futures 722 725. antimony spot 1235. Market notes from New York dated November 3.
Ty Cobb resigns as manager of the Detroit Tigers and will be replaced by George Moriarity, a former Tiger third baseman and American League umpire.
Emil Paluzo of Salt Lake City defeated Davie Alman in Reading, Pennsylvania, with the result noted as Philadelphia (10).
Dick Leonard from Savannah stopped Davite Fuentes of Cuba in the fifth round. Young Wallace of New Orleans defeated Roy Potter of Marietta, Ohio.
Mushy Calla, junior welterweight champion from Vernon, scored a knockout over Joe Tiplitz of Philadelphia in a six round bout described by local sport pages as a decisive win for Calla.
Greensboro report says Dave Singleton, a Sedalia Negro, eludes a 20 man posse after fatally shooting Milford S S Johnson, New York tourist, Monday. Local residents report two sightings near his Sedalia home as deputies continue the fruitless chase and tie a later home robbery to the same suspect.
Raleigh reports a sharp rise in whooping cough with 220 cases in the last week of October, part of a crop year cycle. Diphtheria shows a smaller increase at 217 cases, while scarlet fever reaches 99, typhoid 35, smallpox 13, and measles 51. immunization efforts continue nationwide.
Monthly statements to subscribers are being mailed by the High Point chamber of commerce. Executive secretary Frank Sizemore urges pledges to cover monthly operating expenses, praising the method as saving canvassing costs and noting subscribers’ prompt cooperation with the movement.
Dr. J. Frank Norris pastor of Fort Worth First Baptist Church faces a murder trial in Austin for the July killing of Dr. Chipps, a wealthy lumberman. A venue change moved the case from Fort Worth to Travis County courthouse, with trial likely set for January.
Four friends recount hidden Houdini secrets. Leonard Hicks, a hotel operator and longtime friend, says the tricks were disclosed to him, Houdini's brother, and two assistant magicians. Thurston disputes the idea that secrets die with Houdini.
In Manhattan a village dispute emerges as the home districts of Mayor Walker and Sheriff Culkin oppose a move to permit Congress to decide what is intoxicating, highlighting a clash over state versus federal control.
West Point Conn One defeated candidate John Held a cartoonist and Democratic candidate for congress says he is glad he lost noting his wife Margy would have demanded the White House in Washington but now she stays on the farm.
Raleigh dispatch notes broad cooperation among farmers bankers and committees on reducing cotton acreage next year amid low prices. A postponement of the Wednesday meeting allows representation from various groups while North Carolina moves quickly with a finance corporation and cooperative efforts. Bealock says harvest pace matches last year with 3 500 bases received by the grower association.
Carl Bodenheimer was found guilty in Municipal Court this morning on two charges. Judge Ben MacRae imposed a total fine of 35 dollars plus costs. He was fined 25 dollars plus costs for offering resistance to an officer and 10 dollars for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The defendant pleaded not guilty on 9 counts and gave notice of appeal after judgment. She was bound over to Guilford County Superior Court in bonds of 109 dollars for the first case and 50 dollars for the second.
A cartoonish exchange shows a clairvoyant quipping that reading a hand is easier than reading a mind. The dialogue plays on the joke of predicting actions by physical cues, featuring a punchy banter between a sceptic and a seer.
Guilford Superior Court opened with about 60 trials, including 23 from High Point. Judge Shaw presided, replacing Judge Webb to allow stay-at-home days. The term runs through November 10 with several divorces, accident claims, and a notable $40,000 damages suit by Gilbert W. Hoskins against Rev. Thomas Carrick over a 1923 shotgun incident.
The Rev John W Moore will replace Dr E K McLarty as pastor of Wesley Memorial Methodist church and arrive in High Point Saturday with Mrs Moore. He leaves the West End Methodist Episcopal church in Winston-Salem after two years and will move into the East Washington street parsonage. He will preach both morning and night services Sunday, with church members and visitors invited. Moore has two children including a married daughter and a son at Duke University.
Under power of sale in a deed of trust dated October 19 1925 by G W Morgan and Alta Lee Morgan and later assumed, the High Point property 101 Woodberry Avenue lot 21 in Mrs Etta Wood’s plat will be sold at public auction December 1 1926 at 2:00 p m in front of Guilford County Court House Greensboro NC to highest bidder. The sale is subject to a first lien of 2250 by Raleigh Banking Trust Company Metropolitan Life Insurance Company recorded April 14 1925.
Early returns from New York and other states show governor candidates either definitively elected or with commanding leads. Listed winners include Graves in Alabama, Young in California, Adams in Colorado, Trumbull in Connecticut, Hardman in Georgia, Baldridge in Idaho, Hammill in Iowa, Paulen in Kansas, Ritchie in Maryland, Fuller in Massachusetts, Green in Michigan, Carlson in Minnesota, Spaulding in New Hampshire, Smith in New York, Sorlie in North Dakota, Donahey in Ohio, Fisher in Pennsylvania, Pothierer in Rhode Island, Richards in South Carolina, Bulow in South Dakota, Peay in Tennessee, Moody in Texas, Weeks in Vermont, Zimmermann in Wisconsin, and Emerson in Wyoming. In other states electing governors the result remained in doubt early today.
Rufus Shuskey, white youth of this city, was arraigned before Judge Don C. MacRae at the Municipal Court on charges of being drunk and disorderly and of violating the prohibition act. He pleaded guilty to both counts. Fines of 10 dollars and costs and 15 dollars and costs were imposed. Prayer for judgment continued until Friday.
U S Department of Agriculture briefing notes generally favorable weather in the southern states for the week, with heavy rains late week slowing picking and ginning. Frost harmed cotton leaves in North Carolina but spared bolls. tobacco is cut slowly and fruits remain excellent as Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee report varied progress in sowing, harvesting, and crop development.
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