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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1934
Page
7
In Greensboro on October 26, a conference session covered lay activities led by Guy B. Phillips of Greensboro as conference lay leader. The program included a report on unifying the various branches of Methodism and a keynote address by Rev. Fred W. Paschal of Burlington as fraternal messenger from the group.
The Southern Quarterly Meeting of Friends will be held at New Hope near Marlboro on Saturday and Sunday starting at 11 oclock tomorrow. Rev. and Mrs. Cyrus Cooper of Ohio are expected to attend. The public is invited to attend.
The Western North Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South held a Friday session at the Methodist Protestant church. Business included adopting the New Year budget totaling 231196 dollars with 110974 general expenses and 120222 conference expenses, plus recommendations on pastors salaries allocations to the children's home and continuing fifth Sunday collections as free will offerings.
The record notes a special appeal for funds in churches and specifies that only churches recognized receive support. It also recommends maintaining the apportionment level nearly constant through the entire quadrennium.
The Literary Digest straw poll shows Frank F. Merriam leading Upton Sinclair by roughly 21-2 to 1 in early returns. Merriam has 42,141 votes (62.70 percent) of 67,208 counted. Sinclair 17,284 (25.72 percent). Haight 7,471 (11.12 percent). Darcy 262 votes.
Walter Lambeth congressman from the eighth North Carolina district will address a Democratic rally Monday at 7 30 o clock at Trinity. Braxton Craven will present him as spokesman for Randolph County Young Democrats. Milen C Dempster the Socialist party standard bearer received 560 votes. Their combined vote is less than one half of one percent of the total tally. The Literary Digest notes these are early returns and final tallies may shift with more votes counted. Nearly 700 000 ballots were mailed across California representing about half the governor race turnout in 1930. The Digest notes Sinclair EPIC candidate status and election day approaching.
Windale Lawson convicted in municipal court for driving drunk after a bicycle crash on Green Street. Officers testified he was not drinking, but Judge Teague fined him $50 plus costs, plus six months driving ban. Also, William H. Stinson and others faced related liquor and public disorder charges with various sentences.
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