Sedgefield Inn to Open Wednesday in Piedmont Resort
The Sedgefield Inn official opening is set for Wednesday October 12 with a 6 to 9 pm buffet and 9 pm to 1 am dance. A 106 room English style hotel on Route 10 between this city and Greensboro anchors a week of golf tennis and lawn events culminating in the Sedgefield horse show.
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Sedgefield Inn
Sedgefield Manor
Greensboro
North Carolina
Piedmont Carolina
Sedgefield
Inn
Frank H. Anderson
Continental-Leland Corporation
Nort Carolina
Lake Lure Inn
Nathan Harris
Newark
N. J
England
Walter Kidde Company
New York
Donald Ross
Kirkwood
Travis
Hagen
Jones, Gunn
J. B. Cobb
American Tobacco Company
North Carolina’s Main Street’’—N. Co
Pilot Life Insurance Company
A. W. McAlister
Sedgefield Continental Corporation
Southern Real Estate Company
Irving Park
Sedgefield Country Club
High Point
Route 10
People Busy With Weddings and Travel Across State Lines
Miss Virginia Ashlin has returned from Durham where she attended the marriage of Miss Louise Burlington to Max Bernhart formerly of High Point. Miss Carrie Frances Herring returned from Rocky Mount after a weekend there. Mrs. Conrad Jamieson came back from West Virginia due to her father's illness. Albert L. Freeze and Joe Mizell spent a few days in Hendersonville on business.
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Virginia Ashlin
Durham
Louise Burlington
Max Bernhart
High Point
Carrie Frances Herring
Rocky Mount
Conrad Jamieson
West Virginia
Albert L. Freeze
Joe Mizell
Hendersonville
Officials Pleased With New Bus System In High Point
J H Jennings in charge of the North Carolina Public Service company started the new system after Ches ter Hawkins withdrew his buses. Jennings expects improvements to routes and schedules and already plans tweaks to gain public approval. Officials say the modern buses meet expectations and should reduce past complaints from prominent local business leaders.
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J. H. Jennings
Chester Hawkins
Jennings
Hawkins
High Point
North Carolina Public Service Company
Chicago Livestock Prices Show Gains Across Hogs Cattle
USDA reports October 10 cattle and hog runs in Chicago with hogs 27,000 head and cattle 23,000 head. Hogs steady to 10 cents higher for better grades and sows up 10 to 15 cents with top at 11.00. Cattle with grain fed steers scarce and better grades steady, fat cattle weak, fat stock down, western grassers present, bulk fed steers around 16.60.
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Chicago
Rum Runners Believed to Have Started Fire in Amusement Park
seventeen amusement establishments burned in a $300000 blaze in Revere Beachmont two blocks of attractions were destroyed. Police weighed a rum landing diversion theory while investigators favored a cigaret butt as the likely origin. National Gardens dance hall Pit Palace of Wonders and fourteen other venues were destroyed.
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Revere
Mass
Beachmont
Rum Landing
National Gardens
Palace of Wonders
Kernersville Lions Welcome Saunders Visit
The Kernersville Lions Club led by D. W. Harmon invites the public to hear W. O. Saunders of Elizabeth City address a large Kernersville gathering at the new schoolhouse on the Winston Salem Greensboro highway. The event, with a 6 pm dinner and 8 pm program, draws mayors and dignitaries from Greensboro High Point and Winston-Salem and Saunders, editor of the Elizabeth City Independent, is a noted author and Collier's contributor.
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Winston-Salem
Margaret Hauser
High Point
Katherine Riggans
Southern Pines
Salem
Salem College
Rose Frazier
Durham
Dorothy Frazier
Baden
Margaret Schwartz
Bethlehem
Mary Ardrey Stough
Charlotte
Lillyan Newell
Lakeland
Fla
Margaret Sells
Johnson City
Tenn
Edith Kirkland
Frazier
Miss Riggan
Kernersville
Lions Club of
D. W. Harmon
W. O. Saunders
Elizabeth City
Saunders
Methodist Episcopal Church
Winston-Salem-Greensboro
Lions Club
Methodist Episcopal
Tri-Cities
E. B. Jeffrees
Greensboro
W. A. Davis
Thomas Barbour
Winston- Salem
R. B. Kerner
Kerriesville
Davis
Co. M. Waynick
High Point Enterprise
Logan Porter
Rotary Club
C. W. Perry
Kiwanis Club
G. F. Marshall
Real Estate Board
Walter Murray
Civitan Club
F. L. Conrad
Monarch Club
Leon Cash
Phin Horton
Linville K. Martin
Harry Grimsley
Jeffress
Herbert Ogburn
Jack Stevens
Robert Moseley
Roy C. Millikan
Oak Ridge
T. E. Whitaker
Oak Ridge Institute
E. F. Strickland
H. A. Carroll
Sam F. Vance
Juneir Order of United American Mechanics
Geo. W. Fulp
William Porter
Wm. H. Mann
Albemarle
G. H.hastings
Lions Internatorial
Munn
Hastings
Elizabeth City Independent
Collier’s Weekly
American Magazine
North Carolina
Commission Docket 13494 Cancelled Proceedings Outcome
The commission found no need for further hearings in docket 13494 after carrier and shipper testimony. The finding indicates cancellation would be the action the commission would take if the case were an ordinary suspension. The negative wording does not change the result.
New York Cotton Opens Easy on Liquidation and Weather
The New York cotton market opened easy declining 25 to 35 points as Saturday buyers soured on Liver pool prospects and favorable southern weather. Covering and commission buying emerged around the open with December at 20.85 and March at 21.15, later rallying 15 to 20 points before ending the hour unsettled.
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New York
Liverpool
Commission House
Stolen Mail: Two Robbers Force Bank Messenger to Drive Off
Five pouches of registered mail containing checks totaling over $100,000 were stolen from Frank F. Wilmoth, a Bank of Italy messenger, by two armed robbers. They forced him to drive away after jumping into his car on the way from the Hollywood branch to bank headquarters in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Frank F. Wilmoth
Bank of Italy Messenger
Hollywood
Wilmoth
Wall Street Slips as Industrials and Rails Decline
Renewed selling pressure hits Wall Street with major industrials and rails down 1 to 5 points. United States Steel shows a 47,924 ton drop in unfiled orders, steel common dips below 144 from a high near 160, Bethlehem falls to 54 as dividend hopes fade. Cotton futures slide $3.50 per bale amid weak Liverpool market and favorable crop weather. Several leaders including Case Threshing, Union Carbide, American Water Works, Abitibi Powers, US Cast Iron Pipe, and New York Central fall three to five points.
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Wall Street
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Bethlehem
Liverpool
Union Carbide
American Water Works
Abitibi Powers
United States Cast Iron Pipe
New York Central
Nationalist Government Marks Sixteenth Revolution Anniversary
The Nanking nationalist government observed the sixteenth anniversary of the revolution that ended the Manchu dynasty and founded the republic. The Shanghai foreign office hosted a brilliant reception with Chinese and foreign military and civil dignitaries in attendance. Similar observances were held across nationalist territory.
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Shanghai
Estate of famed turfman Jones valued at 4.8 million
Montfort Jones died at Saratoga on August 12. A probate petition filed in Washington shows an estate valued at 4.8 million dollars and lists three brothers Bernard Jones of Washington Elliott L. Jones and Robert L. Jones of Oklahoma as heirs.
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Washington
Montfort Jones
Saratoga
N. Y
Bernard Jones
Elliott L. and
Robert L. Jones
Oklahoma
Judge stocks new charge after Wilson jury frees man
In Raleigh on October 10, Judge Stock ordered George Dailey held under $200 bond on a new charge of possessing materials used to manufacture intoxicating liquor. Dailey had been acquitted of possessing home brew for sale after police seized 48 bottles at his Leesville Road home in Wilson.
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Raleigh
George Dailey
Wilson
Wake
Stock
Dailey
Leesville Road
Indictments Filed Over 1926 Farm Whipping Cases
Solicitor Brassfield sent to the Wake county grand jury bills of indictments charging assault against Dr. J. R. Hester Beard Poole A. L. Daniels in the alleged 1926 whipping of Will Dean Farmer and against John Butler and Charles Hester Jr in the alleged flogging of Dolly Jones store keeper last December.
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Raleigh
Brassfield
Wake County Grand Jury
J. R. Hester
Beard Poole
A. L. Daniels
Will Dean Farmer
John Butler
Charles Hester, Jr
Dolly” Jones
Futures Open Steady in New Orleans Market
In New Orleans futures opened steady with Oct at 2135, Dec 2125, Jan 2125, March 2149, May 2160 as figures quoted by AP.
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New Orleans
Ates
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S. S. Coe
Burbank Garden Club
Jack Edwards
Carrick Avenue
Walker
J. E. Millis
H. A. Millis
J. J. Farriss
T. C. Walker
Asheboro
Garden Club
High Point Garden Club
Ralph Parker
Emerywood
Dd. A. R
Alexander Martin
North Main Street
Caroline Scott Harrison
Benjamiin Harri
K. C. Denny
W. H. Slane
Eustace Tomkins
Tompkins
Hazel Geilfuss
Spartanburg
S .C
Claude J. Cummins
Home Country Club
Sy Aes
Moffitt’s
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Chicago Livestock
Lion Club
Uality Shoe Store
Beavans’ Daily Store News
Beavans the Ladies Store
Observer
Stack
Pinecroft Inn
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