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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1934
Page
5
Raleigh dispatch details Thomas C. Bowie of Ashe County actively courting lawmakers for a bloc to back a 1935 legislative program. The piece predicts a Bowie's plan would push to repeal the sales tax and trim state university funding and other departments, risking bond defaults and reduced school operations.
An ad-promoting “B. C.” headache remedy claims fast three minute relief from inorganic headaches. It notes it is prepared by a registered pharmacist using eight principles and multiple ingredients to shorten relief time and also aids in relief from moebeo fever neuralgia and colds.
Mrs Alice Hill attended a family reunion at the home of her eighty five year old brother Charlie Cheek in Pleasant Hill. Local attendees included Daisy Potter Claud Lee Hill Lena Goins Cordela Ross Sarah Hill Bessie Goldston Mary Foust and others with many relatives from outside visiting. The elderly Mr Cheek was pleased with the gathering.
The Leonard street Fairview street and William Penn Parent Teacher Associations join for their first meeting of the year in the William Penn cafeteria at 7 30 Friday evening. The gathering honors the principals and teachers of three schools.
Observers note a unified bloc opposing a sales tax and other measures and predict the 1935 general assembly could wrap in under the usual 60 days. The main tasks are framing an appropriation bill and a revenue bill to fund state operations.
A vintage ad promotes Creomulsion as the fastest treatment for a child’s cough or cold. It cites mothers turning to the product and claims the formula emulsifies creosote with six other medicinal elements for effective relief.
William Legrand, fatally injured at the Grimes street crossing of the Southern railroad, will be laid to rest in Mt Gilead. He was twenty five, born in Richmond county, lived in High Point four years, and is survived by his father Abner Legrand and several siblings. The body will lie in Hairlip funeral home until 10 am Thursday, then to Mt Gilead for burial.
Federal and local investigators traced a $50,000 ransom paid for a Nashville kidnapping to the Stoll family. Robinson, a former asylum patient now tied to multiple robberies, allegedly received the money through an intermediary and fled with his father aiding questioning.
A regional highway safety plea warns that children playing in streets cause deaths and injuries. It cites 49 780 street play incidents last year with 1 680 deaths and 48 100 injuries and notes 6 000 injuries and 300 deaths from riding on vehicles. Officials urge parents planners and motorists to provide playgrounds and safer routines.
Special agents traced a note naming T. H. Robinson as intermediary in a high profile kidnap. Fingerprints and handwriting matched Robinson Jr. The elder Robinson was later replaced by Mrs Frances Robinson as intermediary, with ransom paid by the Stolls to Mrs. Robinson. Police search broadens, with more arrests anticipated.
John R. Gallimore age eighty three died at his home on route three after a long illness. Survived by his wife three sons Charles Bert and Clay all of Thomasville and three daughters Mrs Henry Snider Trinity route one Mrs A C Kennedy and Mrs Webster Dunning of Thomasville. Also two brothers Frank of Fuller James of Cid and two sisters Mrs Chat Kinley Fuller and Mrs Celia Wall Trinity. Funeral services will be held Thursday at Fairview MEB Church at two oclock with Rev John Cline in charge.
Greensboro hosts the third annual show and field day of the North Carolina Guernery Breeders Association to be held tomorrow. Breeders only entries limited to one animal per class per breeder, announced John A Arey of N C State College.
For the first time in years, English mines are boosting their labor presence as operators expand operations and recruit more workers. This shift signals renewed activity in the country’s coal regions amid uncertain markets and union pressures.
The note states that interment will follow in the English Street M. P. church cemetery, with Rev. C. H. Hill serving as pastor of the English Street M. P. church of High Point.
A 71 year old resident of Rome Kentucky, W J Van Over, says he has used Thedford's Black Draught for about forty years and that his household never goes without it. He notes strong reliance on the remedy in his daily routine.
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