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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1927
Page
6
Community groups schedule afternoon and evening meetings at homes and local venues. Beta Pi, Missionary circles, Learners class, Bible study groups, and American Legion Auxiliary plan gatherings this week with leaders named. Ruth Smith hospitalized in Richmond. various club activities plus social events noted.
The Week of Prayer for World Fellowship set for November 13 to 19 at the YWCA includes a Saturday supper for industrial girl clubs with Miss Helen Vogler as speaker. Mrs Kimball will lead devotions and Win-One club members will present a pageant at Stehli mills. A Sunday vesper is planned and daily services at 2:30. The week closes with a joint meeting of YM and YWCA members, location and speaker to be announced.
Funeral services for William Blake Hinshaw, a popular Pleasant Garden School student, were held yesterday at Marlboro Friends Church with Rev. Robert Melvin and Rev. John Reilly officiating. A large crowd attended. pallbearers were Hinshaw classmates and flower bearers included many local girls. Burial followed in Marlboro Cemetery.
A man questions why certain plays are kept for the dance hall while numerous other plays remain available for use. He notes the abundance of options and seeks justification for the chosen allocation.
Mrs. William Simmons visits her mother Mrs. Fisher in Asheville. Mrs. Farrell Gray returns from Greenville North Carolina after several days away. Mr. and Mrs. Atkins and Miss Judy Prim spend a few days with grandmother Mrs. C. M. Giles.
Tiger Flowers the Georgia Negro and Maxie Rosenbloom of New York face off in a ten round bout at the Olympia Gardens arena in Detroit. Promoters plan to push for a championship match between the winner and Mickey Walker after the fight.
In London on November 9 AP reports the Blue Nile dam issue reappeared in the House of Commons as Parliament reconvened after the summer adjournment. Labour members pressed whether a concession to dam Lake Tsana by an American firm created UK US political friction. Sir Austen Chamberlain stated no such issue existed or was anticipated.
Rocky Mount on November 8 saw a new season high with 613,118 pounds of tobacco sold for 181,862.02 dollars, an average of 29.59 per hundred. The day’s sales lifted total season volume to 23,339,118 pounds despite heavy offerings being blocked.
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