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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1927
Page
6
The Ladies Auxiliary of Archdale Friends church plans their annual chicken supper and bazaar on October 25. The event will be held at the church and features community fellowship and fundraising activities.
Mr and Mrs Marion Nunn moved yesterday to their new home on Sunset drive. John H Abels and Joseph T Weaver left today for Asheville and other Western North Carolina points. Miss Veda Clodfelter left today for Meredith college after attending her brother s wedding. Mrs James Lyon spends week in Durham. Mrs T J Gold visits Greensboro. Misses Pauline Hicks Donna Bolt and Elizabeth Wall attend High Point College vs Mt Airy Highs game this afternoon.
A monthly report from Dr. T. M. Stanton shows 72 births and 30 deaths in High Point for September. White births dominate with 63. nine births were among the Negro population. The data compare to 26 deaths in August and 36 last September, indicating rising births and falling deaths since 1926. The report lists numerous white births by family names and parents, reflecting local demographics.
Kester Furniture company hosts a weeklong exclusive showing from October 8 to 15 featuring modern repros of early American and English designs. G C Kester touts color driven interiors, two piece living room sets, Corsican walnut finishes, and Southern factory expansion shaping fall trends.
Two state representatives James W. K. McClure Jr. of Asheville and J. S. Holmes travel from Raleigh to Hartford for the annual national foresters meeting. A four day tour includes Yale and Harvard forestry programs and forest stations in New England while discussions touch on establishing a southern forestry school to train region foresters.
A silent drama titled Ann of Ava will be presented in the East Green Street Baptist church social room Friday at 7 39 p m by the church's young people's department. It dramatizes the trials of Burma missionaries with cast including Zana Myers Richard Samuels Chappie Patterson Rue Holder Raymond Ritchie and Mrs H T Stevens. A silver offering will be taken after the show and the public is invited.
In Australia white ants attacked a large farm cart overnight, tearing away all organic parts and leaving only the metal frame and axles. The incident highlights the destructive capability of termites on wooden agricultural equipment.
The High Point college music department presents a faculty concert next Friday night in the college auditorium. Featured are Prof. Dan W. Smith, Miss Novella Mac Intyre, Miss Dorothy St. Claire, and Miss Mary Todd. The program includes vocal numbers, piano and violin solos, and readings. All four have longstanding ties to the college, with St. Claire and Todd added this year. Local and visiting music lovers are expected to attend.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Marr Field, Chattanooga, at 10:30 this morning after arriving from Memphis. The city staged its largest celebration since World War I to greet the famed aviator, the "Viking of the air."
The excerpt notes a belief by Mr. Holmes that the largest tinder reserve lies in the south and that foresters should be southern men familiar with southern conditions.
Austin Peay, former Tennessee governor, buried in Clarksville Tennessee after a major funeral turnout. Thousands attended the state capitol ceremony and the burial in Greenwood cemetery follows a day of public viewing at First Baptist church. The service featured pastors Ryland Knight and Powell with Governor Henry Horton in attendance.
At the capitol yesterday the governor flung a sentence during the Scopes evolution trial associates of the Clarksville bar gathered to pass resolutions and hearing eulogies. The office where Peap prospered in law closed as two miles away a place without dreams had been prepared.
Governor Richards has not received any request to reopen the investigation into the death of Carlos A. Moseley, the Spartanburg insurance man found dead near Cayce last March. Officials reported no foul play and no motive due to lack of robbery or clear evidence, with reports by state constables Rogers and Rector lingering.
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