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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1927
Page
8
A playful column notes a hotel lobby encounter about High Point and a Chamber of Commerce dresser sign. It suggests lighting the sign to boost visibility, hints at advertising value, and mentions local figures and assorted spoof quotes, including Felix the Wildcats mascot and Ruth Elder.
Morning service at Central Friends church features Rev. Tom Alderman Sykes speaking on A Great Quinquennial Gathering about the Five Year meeting of Friends in Richmond Indiana. Attendees include High Point Guilford county people and Friends from across the United States Canada Alaska and other areas.
Willis A. Sutton chief speaker at the Northwestern district session of the North Carolina Education association. He urged principals to be teachers organizers and moral guides while leading 41 elementary schools and 60,000 students in Atlanta. New officers named W B Owens Jr Winston Salem chairman Mrs R E Ranson High Point vice chair Miss Susie Stafford Burlington secretary. Next meeting to be held in Burlington in spring.
Guilford College near Greensboro opens its Lyceum course with John Cooper Powys, English novelist and essayist, presenting The Art of Self Culture on November 1 at 8:00 p m in the college auditorium. He comes highly recommended and will speak to students and visitors free of charge.
The agricultural extension service at State College Raven is distributing blueprints for farm buildings and equipment drawing national interest. Dean T I Schaub notes requests from the University of Michigan engineering school and the Division of Agricultural Engineering at the Bureau of Public Roads. The fireproof tobacco barn plan is especially popular as inquiries mount daily from individuals nationwide.
A brief note describes doing nothing and then choosing to end with a closing gesture. The speaker conveys purposeless activity and a final, quiet conclusion.
A geological survey indicates a new feldspar and mica producing belt in northwestern Wilkes County. Pegmatite and granite exposures along Reddies and Mulberry rivers show promising areas for prospecting with several showings of feldspar and mica near Hall's Mill and north toward North Wilkesboro.
The commerce department weekly report notes improved check payments in the week ended October 22, with wholesale prices flat from the prior week but below last year. Cotton prices remained above year-ago levels, iron and steel down from 1926, and New York stocks well above 1926 while bonds and loans shift.
Petrol output remained high though down from last week. Wheat receipts at primary markets more than double from the prior year. Cattle and hog receipts trailed last year.
North Carolina library volumes rose 66 402 in 1926 27 from 49 399 in 1925 26 as schools colleges and universities show growth. Charlotte leads in tax supported library circulation and volumes while Winston Salem tops in circulation percentage. per capita expenditures vary by group with Asheville highest at 54 cents and Weldon among the largest per capita incomes.
Tit-Bits in London recalls a couple’s dilemma about decision making after marriage. The husband explains he handles major questions while his wife handles minor ones, and after three years they report no major questions arising, reflecting a humorous domestic balance.
Dr. Lloyd T. Wilson presents the second sermon in his series at First Baptist Church tonight at 7 30 on Woman Her Creation and Mission The morning service at 11 features The Revival Most Needed Today with Maude L Davis and Pauline Ausband singing The Lord Is My Shepherd and Florence Evers solo for the night service The series continues Sundays through November and December and the public is invited.
Insurance Commissioner Stacy Wade reports fire losses for the first nine months of 1927 fell by 600,285 compared with the same period in 1926. Total nine month losses reached 4,138,776 from 1,632 fires, while rural districts accounted for 264 fires and 821,453 in losses, with two thirds of the improvement coming from the countryside.
The passage notes a climactic moment where the hero denounces the villain Sir Marmaduke for ruin and personal betrayal. The hero warns the villain with a final caution as the scene peaks in dramatic tension.
Tomorrow marks 25 years since Mann Drug Company opened in its current High Point location. The owners aimed to provide a top quality drug store for the community and the service has continually improved. A branch store was added in the business district under current management.
Raleigh Oct 29 AP The North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development notes ongoing mineral wealth with more than ten million dollars yearly from minerals and many deposits awaiting development. It highlights research into geological formations, prioritizes practical mining, and cites new prospects such as fire proofing face brick and tile from clays and shale.
Denver Oct 29 AP The threat of martial law in Colorado coal fields cooled violence while the I W W strike tightened. Colorado National Guard planes patrolled mining camps in southern Colorado as troops prepared to deploy if Governor Adams orders action.
A London joke collected in Tit Bits describes a man with a hangdog look lamenting unlucky thirteen. He notes thirteen as his unlucky number and quips that twelve jurors plus one judge doom him to trouble.
The High Point School Parent Teachers Association elected officers and formed committees. Officers include Mrs. Gilbert Clark president and Mr. H. R. Williamson vice president. Committees cover constitution by-laws program membership ways and means library and adolescence problems with named chairmen and members.
Mrs T D Newell from Charlotte was guest of honor as Mrs R J Hilker hosted a card party Saturday afternoon in Asheboro. Bridge and rock entertained guests with progressions then prizes awarded to Mrs James Byrne, Mrs G W Hayworth, and Mrs J O Redding. Fall flowers and a fruit salad course with coffee were served.
Mrs H C Woodall entertained a on Cox street Thursday evening with a card party. Mrs Dempsey Barnes won the top bridge score while Miss Florence Gregory captured the top rock score. An elaborate salad course and a dessert followed the games. The home was decorated with fall flowers.
The Friday Afternoon Club gathered at Mrs. K Alexander’s Sunset Avenue home on the name day. Mrs. Ed Crawford and Mrs. Jess Garner led the program with papers on current topics. Several guests attended and tea and sandwiches were served.
The Seventh Denominational District of North Carolina will convene at Mount Pleasant Methodist Protestant church twelve miles from Lexington tomorrow at two. Representatives from each district church are expected. Rev. J Clyde Allman, former Japan missionary, and Mrs. H W Maier of Thomasville will speak.
The description notes a scarf collar on a carmine red chiffon afternoon frock with a deep pleated flounce resembling the insert on the left side of the skirt.
A black crepe coat frock features a cape back and brick red trim. It has uneven revers, fraling cuffs, and a tailored belt detailing the garment.
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